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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Dogwood Arts and Attack Monkey Productions have announced the full weekend schedule for the 2017 Rhythm N' Blooms Music Festival, Knoxville's largest music festival, April 7-9 taking place in Downtown Knoxville's Historic Old City along Jackson Ave. and other Old City venues.
Part of the festival's mission is to celebrate the crossroads of Knoxville's varied music history by showcasing popular national acts alongside the finest musicians theregion has to offer.
Here is information about the latest additions to the lineup:
Kevin Hyfantis
With a decade of songwriting experience, Kevin Hyfantis has finally found a lyrical voice. After years of touring as a keyboardist and member of both The Black Cadillacs and The Dirty Guv'nahs he currently takes on one of the primary songwriting roles as a cofounder of Electric Darling. Along with the writing mandate came another challenge in the form of a switch to guitar. "I never really liked being stuck behind a piano and I always found myself picking up the other guys' guitars at sound checks. For me, it's just more fun to play and I'm always excited to discover something new." Although the songs for Electric Darling are more focused, guitar driven rock n roll, he continues to write a range of other material. While most of his time these days is spent writing and banging away on an electric guitar he still finds time to play the occasional acoustic venue and share his story with lyrics and melodies.
Travis Bigwood
Travis Bigwood is a folk singer-songwriter from Knoxville, TN. He embraces the tradition of southern story telling through his writing and uses his country guitar style picking and voice to act out the scenes for the audience.
Black Atticus/ Sir Woods Brother
Joseph Woods is Black Atticus. Black Atticus is Sir Woods Brother. They likes soul music, beat drops, and rhymes that make sense to the rhythm of sound and life. sometimes they says poetry. sometimes they sing. sometimes they gets voted the Mercury 2016 Hip Hop artist of the year. and other times, they just choose to ignore that pesky little engine light like everyone else, but this time...they're playing better beats. they're reaching into spirit. he's speaking louder now...cause he's anxious to share the noise; come listen.
Daniel Miller
Daniel Miller is a singer-songwriter with a penchant for centering his music on locales that inspire him: "My goal is to take a region that I love and write songs about that place. My focus isn't on limiting a record to fit into a specific bin on a store shelf; it's to tell a story. So, while I've been labeled an 'Alt-Country' or 'Americana' artist, I don't let that influence or limit whatever project I'm working on at the moment."
Daniel's most recent album, 'East Tennessee' (May 2015), has been described as a love letter to the region where he was raised. Joining Daniel on the album are members of his touring band (The High Life), as well as Grammy award-winning members of Chris Stapleton's band, Waylon Jennings' band, and Jamey Johnson's band, among others. The same group of musicians will join Daniel as he begins work on his new album (title TBD) with a release planned for Spring 2017.
Daniel's songs have received rotation on several Country and Americana radio stations across the United States and internationally on BBC 6. He has had the opportunity to open for various national touring acts including: Jamey Johnson, Dick Dale, The Old 97's, The Lone Bellow, The Black Lillies, American Aquarium, Mic Harrison, Scott Miller, The Mavericks, Lukas Nelson, Sunny Sweeney and Lady Antebellum; in some of America's most beloved performance venues.
Jubal is the Americana-folk coalescence of Taylor Kress & Bonnie Simmons based in Knoxville, Tennessee. With two voices and a guitar, Jubal works with simplicity to create an intricate and emotional sound.
Taylor and Bonnie both grew up in the Knoxville area and experimented with musical flavors throughout their youth. Bonnie, with a deep-seeded exposure to old-time, gospel, blues, and traditional folk of the region, and Taylor with an innate love for history, lyricism, and alternative sounds. Jubal showcases their contrasting influences and backgrounds with strong harmonies and varying writing styles. Their voices joined for the first time on 89.9 WDVX's Blue Plate Special in Knoxville, Tennessee, and their musical chemistry was obvious right from the start.
Their debut album, Bloodroot, was released in August 2015. The self-recorded album was tracked in a late 18th century cabin. It showcases their stripped-down, simplistic side and highlights their rich harmonies and songwriting style.
Jubal's sophomore album will be released in the spring of 2017 and was recorded in Austin, TX. While Jubal's second album will display higher quality recording and production, it will still embody the intimacy they were able to achieve with Bloodroot.
Jubal has been joined in recent performances by upright bass player Matt Nelson (formerly of Cereus Bright) and lead guitarist Eric Griffin (of Guy Marshall). These pieces have added another dimension to Jubal's already unique brand of folk-americana. Elements of these additions will be present on Jubal's upcoming release.
In addition to the Blue Plate Special, Jubal has performed on WDVX's Tennessee Shines and Six O'Clock Swerve weekly radio series and was honored to be one of the first acts to perform at the new Knoxville venue Modern Studio. Jubal has had a full last year playing venues, breweries, and festivals in the region including Louie Bluie Festival, Mountain Makins Festival, Emory Place Block Party, Secret City Festival, and Vestival. Jubal plans to tour extensively in support of their second album and are excited to share their new music with the rest of the southeast region.
Knox County Jug Stompers
Hailing from the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, the Knox County Jug Stompers produce a curious and exciting blend of old-time string band, country blues, and jug band genres. What started out as friends jamming and sharing their love for jug and string band music quickly developed into a foot stompin' full-fledged jug band extravaganza. The past five years the group has performed at or appeared on: The International Biscuit Festival Songwriting Competition(winners of 2013, 2014, and 2015), , Food Network's show Extra Virgin Americana, WDVX's Blue Plate Special, Red Barn Radio Show, Dollywood's BBQ and Bluegrass, Museum of Appalachia's Fall Homecoming, Muddy Roots Fest, A Simple Life Magazine's
Days of the Pioneer Antique Festival, Paint Rock Valley Old Timey Craft and Bluegrass Festival, Sugarlands Distillery (Gatlinburg, TN), Boyd's Jig and Reel (Knoxville, TN), and was featured on a Bogangle's Biscuits commercial.
Pale Root
Knoxville-based Americana duo, Pale Root was born out of the collaboration of songwriters Aaron Freeman and Jordan Burris. Together the two craft tales influenced by their admiration of traditional folk, country, bluegrass as well as modern folk and Americana. They explore the subjects of love, loss, religion and redemption as well as the journeys that bind these themes together.
Pale Root's debut album features 10 original compositions and was named one of the best local releases by Knoxville Music Warehouse.
Night Colors
Night Colors [formerly known as Hazel] is a trio composed of producer, songwriter, and vocalist Elijah Cruise alongside his sister, vocalist, Hannah Cruise and drummer, Cale Bramer. The band uses layered harmonies over minimalistic soundscapes to create an immersive and chilling listening experience. Hazel was named as a top band to watch by Blank Newspaper. Their debut single "Shadow" (February 25th) is a tasteful mixture of folk harmonies and 80s synth pop highlighting the struggles of feeling powerless in bad relationships. Hazel's first EP is set to release Summer 2017.
Will Carter
Will Carter is a horse of a different color. Having spent most of his twenties as a sideman and in-demand studio musician, Carter found himself performing with artists such as Jackson Browne, Ashley Campbell, Avicii, Erick Baker, and dozens more. The Tennessee multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer has finally let his own voice be heard on his debut album, "Half Past Heartbreak."
Thrift Store Cowboys
Thrift Store Cowboys fourth studio album Light-Fighter (out October 12) could be called their post-arson period, as Daniel Fluitt and band wrote the record after a stranger torched their gear and merchandise-filled trailer parked next to Fluitt's bedroom, nearly taking his life. Produced by Craig Schumacher (Calexico, Neko Case, Iron and Wine) Light-Fighter's indie rock shapeshifts through ambient and Gothic western music for songs that touch on death, loss, fear, redemption, the Spanish Civil War and West Texas ghost stories. All buoyed by soaring violin, draped against bottom-ended guitar and pedal steel sounds that spaghetti western composer Ennio Morricone might envy.
The Lubbock based sextet, which includes Fluitt, Colt Miller, Clint Miller, Cory Ames, Kris Killingsworth, and Amanda Shires on fiddle and vocals, have been touring together for a decade after meeting at the musical South Plains College. They are neither of the typical Texas-based types of bands – a country-rock mélange or strictly indie rock. As Buddy Magazine points out, "Thrift Store Cowboys' feel is more, for a lack of better description, gypsy desert music - the free sound of spacey, heat-induced delirium…a sure, confident sound backed by thoughtful vision." Schumacher produced their 2007 release, Lay Low While Crawling or Creeping, of which Austin Sound said, "the album is to country music what Jim Jarmusch's film Deadman was to the western."
"Probably one of the most uplifting songs I've ever written in my life," says Fluitt of the billowing lead track "One Gentle Inch to Nine Violent Miles," about "that moment that you stop staring at the ground in strife and disbelief." It's followed by "Bright Fire," a jangley roots rocker. But the western spirit starts creeping in with the felon-charged "7s and 9s" and then significantly on the haunting "Scary Weeds," penned and sung by Amanda Shires, who started as a sidewoman at the age of 16 with the legendary Texas Playboys and released her own solo album West Cross Timbers last year. She also contributes the begging and beautiful "Lean Into the Sway."
As for ghost stories, Fluitt wrote the epic "Nothing" about a division of Buffalo Soldiers in the late 1880s, in pursuit of attacking Comanches, who knowingly led them in disorienting circles around a buffalo-grassed and treeless flatland to die of thirst. Fluitt interestingly "takes this story as a call and response, between a dead soldier and his wife, showing the tribulations each had, him on the plains, and her at their house. Both were left with nothing."
Fluitt also explores the Spanish Civil War via a character from The Cypresses Believe in God, by Jose Maria Gironella for the song "You Can't See The Light." "In the book, 'Caesar' who was studying to be a priest, was imprisoned by the Anarchists, and in strange twists, he was executed instead of rescued. This was the first song of a concept album I hope to write about the trilogy of books."
Thrift Store Cowboys have been slogging out consistent touring with growing audiences for 10 years, but historically most young bands implode at year three, crammed in a smelly van together. This band makes it because they "keep growing and changing musically," says Fluitt. True too, they initially and wrongly got lumped in with the Texas country-rockish bands that essentially write the same songs over and over again, but ducked that subset pretty quickly. They met Schumacher while playing with DeVotchKa, says Fluitt, and did both Light-Fighter and Lay Low While Crawling and Creeping at the heralded Wave Lab Studio in Tucson.
For the new record, "we tried to capture the dynamics of our live shows." As well the band up until now, has been doing everything 100% themselves -- and for this record they are working with TopSpin, as well as indie distribution and marketing. "It's like getting to the top of a mountain and finding a 300-foot wall, you gotta throw a rope over to help you get to the other side," says Fluitt. Thrift Store Cowboys kick off a month-long tour on West Coast in September, and will be on the road all year in support of Light-Fighter.
Daje Morris
She's a wandering poet, and a truth-telling, story-seeking singer-songwriter. She is often found toeing the lines between introversion, extroversion, and shamelessness. She is deeply devoted to exposing beauty in all of its messy and inarticulate forms.
In late Summer of 2015 she began recording her first solo EP, The Bloom Project, that was released in the Spring of 2016. She finished her first five-city tour at the end of Summer of 2016 and intends to tour again in 2017. Her style is a subtly soulful approach to Americana and Folk. Her influences include Regina Spektor, The Weepies, Corinne Bailey Rae, and Billie Holiday. Her music can be found on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, and Google Play.
As a poet, she performed with 5th Woman, a team of poets who write, teach and speak on the souls of women and their diverse expressions in culture (Spring, 2016). She is now working alongside 5th Woman as a writer, contributor, and sometimes mentor to younger poets in the Greater Knoxville area. Her poetry influences include Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, Donte Collins, and Sarah Kay.
Other additions to the lineup, not in the Knoxville Music Coalition category:
Andrew Leahey & The Homestead
Part-time Nashvillian, part-time Knoxvillian, and full-time rock & roll frontman, Andrew Leahey made his Rhythm N Blooms debut in 2015. One year later, Andrew Leahey & the Homestead released their label debut, Skyline in Central Time, whose lead single -- the WDVX-approved "Little in Love" -- received a first-round Grammy nomination. Rooted in the anthemic, melody-driven music of Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, Leahey and company have earned enthusiastic praise from songwriting idols like Ryan Adams, as well as magazines like Rolling Stone, Billboard, and The Boston Globe.
Ruby Amanfu + Steelism A special Rhythm N' Blooms collaboration!
AMANFU: Whether on Beyonce's new album Lemonade, or singing her own songs, Ghana-born and Nashville-based singer/songwriter Ruby Amanfu's voice is one you only have to hear once to remember forever. Not an artist to be pegged, Amanfu's musical style knows no boundaries. After attending Berklee College of Music, Amanfu found herself in Scandinavia and London, where she released her first solo album, Smoke & Honey (Polydor/Murlyn/Interscope) in 2003, whose chart-topping single "Sugah" reached #3 on Billboard's air play charts. After an extended period overseas, Ruby returned home to Nashville and focused her attention on songwriting. Her songs have been cut by a variety of acts both in America and Europe including Kelly Clarkson, Lene Nystrom, Sanne Salomonsen, Rachael Lampa, and The Duhks. She also became part of the critically acclaimed duo, Sam & Ruby w/ Sam Brooker. In 2007, Amanfu earned Grammy recognition for "Heaven's My Home" by way of the Canadian band, The Duhks, which she co-wrote with Katie Herzig. The following year, Sam & Ruby's own recording of the song was also featured in a pivotal scene in the much-anticipated film adaptation of the New York Times' best-seller, "The Secret Life of Bees," while Sam & Ruby's Rykodisc-released 2009 album, The Here & The Now was named the #1 Album of the Year by the Associated Press. Amanfu has always been inspired by the art of collaboration. Most recently, her powerful vocals infused Beyonce's track, "Don't Hurt Yourself" from the album, Lemonade. She has also lent her vocals to Jack White, most recognizably on his debut single, "Love Interruption" as well as throughout both of his solo albums, Blunderbuss and Lazaretto. Recordings of Ruby with such other artists as Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes), Sara Bareilles, Ben Folds and Hozier can be heard throughout the airwaves and on YouTube. For Amanfu's most recent solo album, Standing Still (August 28, 2015; Thirty Tigers/Rival & Co.) she put the pen mostly to rest and instead interpreted songs of other writers ranging from Brandi Carlile to Woody Guthrie to Kanye West As a performer, Amanfu has traveled far and wide, from Rockefeller Plaza in New York City appearing twice on Saturday Night Live, to Fuji Rock Festival in Tokyo, Japan. Five record deals and two publishing deals later, Ruby is enjoying creative freedom as she prepares for the release of her next solo album, co-written and produced by Ryan Adams. She is ever inspired and grateful for the abundant opportunities she has been given to continue to create and inspire through music. In her down time, Ruby is an aspiring chef.
STEELISM: Guitarist, Jeremy Fetzer, hailing from Canton, OH, and pedal steel player, Spencer Cullum, from Essex, England first met while touring the U.K. with Nashville songstress, Caitlin Rose. Quickly realizing they were cut from the same cloth, bonding over a shared love for classic film score composers like Ennio Morricone and '60s instrumental acts like Booker T. and the M.G.s, The Ventures and Pete Drake, the duo formed Steelism while writing between sound checks. In September 2014, Steelism released their debut full length, 615 to FAME, which was met with critical acclaim from outlets like NPR, Rolling Stone Country and more. The record, featuring ten original instrumentals and one cover, became a calling card for the band's versatile yet distinct sound that opened up new collaborative opportunities for both Fetzer and Cullum as individuals and for Steelism as an entity.
Prior to the release of 615 to FAME, Steelism had already backed Wanda Jackson, Jonny Fritz, Rayland Baxter, Andrew Combs and others together. Since then, they've appeared on NPR's Mountain Stage and played major festivals including Austin City Limits & Hangout Fest. Additionally, they performed as the house band for the inaugural celebration announcing the establishment of NPR's World Cafe Nashville as well as American Songwriter's 30th Anniversary Party.
Since November, they've been in the studio working on the follow up to 615 to FAME which is expected to be released later this year.
Appalachian Hippie Poet
The Appalachian Hippie Poet, AKA Bill Alexander, and Berry Basket Bill, writes and performs a unique brand of poetry. His words are born from mountain, bottle and heart and he delivers each poem from memory with passion and expression.
THREE-DAY FESTIVAL PASSES are on sale now; $75 each and VIP weekend passes are $190, plus fees. Visit rhythmnbloomsfest.com to purchase passes and to get more Festival information. These prices will increase at 12:01 am on April 7, so purchase early!
Web: www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com
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Rhythm N' Blooms Music Festival is presented by Yee-Haw Brewing Co. and produced in partnership by Dogwood Arts and Attack Monkey Productions. Additional sponsorship support comes from ORNL Federal Credit Union, Visit Knoxville, Boyd's Jig & Reel, Sugarlands Distilling Company and Pilot-Flying J. Rhythm N' Blooms Music Festival is entering its eighth year and continues to grow each year. For more information, visit www.rhythmnbloomsfest.com.
About Yee-Haw Brewing Co.: Founded in July 2015, Yee-Haw Brewing Co. is a production brewery and taproom located in a historic railroad depot in downtown Johnson City, TN. Yee-Haw focuses on brewing approachable and drinkable ales and lagers that celebrate good times and good company. With their passion for using only top-quality ingredients, and their impeccable approach to quality control, Yee-Haw Brewing Co. is growing quickly throughout the Southeast.
About Dogwood Arts: Dogwood Arts, presented by ORNL Federal Credit Union, is a 501(c)3 organization with a mission to promote and celebrate our region's art, culture, and natural beauty. For more information on Dogwood Arts, visit www.dogwoodarts.com or call (865) 637-4561.
About Attack Monkey Productions: Founded in 2009, Attack Monkey Productions is a full-service entertainment company specializing in event production and artist management. Attack Monkey Productions seeks out the things that are cool and brings them straight to you. From music to moonshine, the traditional to the avant-garde, AMP specializes in the development and promotion of unique, high quality brands and experiences. For more information, visit www.attackmonkey.net.
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22 June: 'Old dogs for new tricks-The use of salbutamol to regenerate skin, reducing skin wound fibrosis/scars' - Professor Christine Pullar
'Old dogs for new tricks-The use of salbutamol to regenerate skin, reducing skin wound fibrosis/scars'
Professor Christine Pullar, MCB
This lecture was held on Thursday 22 June 2017, 12pm, FKMLT in Henry Wellcome Building.
Lecture synopsis
One hundred and ten million primary surgical incisions occur globally every year, with those made in areas of high tension particularly prone to scarring. Scarring is the result of the natural process of wound repair, generated by excessive cell behaviour in the healing wound. Depending on the body location, wound scars can be emotionally (face) and physically (joint) debilitating.
This is especially true for some patients who suffer significant darkening (hyperpigmentation) of the skin at the site of damage, making any injury particularly traumatic. In addition, the care of wound scars places a heavy financial burden on healthcare systems worldwide. An effective scar prevention treatment would benefit the millions of patients with skin injury, enhancing the patient's health and quality of life. There are currently no proven treatments available to prevent wound scarring.
Salbutamol (Sal) is a safe and well-tolerated pharmaceutical, which has been a mainstay of asthma therapy in the UK since 1968. Research in the Pullar lab has shown that Sal can modulate wound repair processes. Uniquely, when Sal is applied to a skin wound site, it alters the way the wound heals, curbing excessive cell behaviour and moving the healing process away from scarring and towards normal skin regeneration.
The global scar treatment market has been estimated to be valued at US$ 12,607M and this is forecast to grow exponentially. Pullar's intention is to deliver a clinical and cost-effective solution that supports reimbursement through the NHS or equivalent International public Healthcare Systems. UoL has a robust commercialization plan and exit strategy in place and has a portfolio of licensing partners with interest in the portfolio.
In addition to the benefit to patients, this treatment would also benefit surgeons and the NHS. Patients would heal better, leave hospital sooner and require less scar revision surgery, which would provide significant cost savings.
Christine graduated with a B.Sc. (hons) in Cell Biology and Biochemistry from the University of York and a PhD in Molecular Immunology from the University of Sheffield. Her case PhD was supported by DPC (Diagnostic Products Corp.) in the field of Allergy Diagnostics, with her patent-protected work generating a diagnostic ELISA test for allergy screening. Christine continued her work in this field for 2 years at Hoffman La Roche in Nutley NJ USA and then moved to University of Oxford to work on the mechanisms underpinning heart transplant rejection in the lab of Professor Kathryn Wood. After 2 years she moved to California and worked as the Senior Biologist in a start up company, Surgica Corp., developing coatings to extend the life of stents. After a year, Christine moved back to academia and accepted a post at the University of California Davis to work on wound healing mechanisms. Within 18 months Christine was awarded an NIH early career award and started to work on the role of beta-adrenergic receptors in wound repair.
In Oct 2006, Christine accepted a lectureship at the University of Leicester where she established her lab developing treatments to heal chronic wounds and prevent/reduce wound scarring. Within 10 years, she was promoted to Senior Lecturer and most recently, Professor, supported by the success of her skin scar prevention programme which is supported by two granted patent families and has raised in excess of £3 million of research funding from The British Skin Foundation, Medicare, The Wellcome Trust and the MRC. Christine is also the CMBSP Impact and Enterprise Academic Lead.
Her patented anti-scar treatment, salbutamol, has passed all pre-clinical safety assessments and will enter the first in human clinical trial in October 2017.


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Being more thick, a duvet can be made use of as a blanket along with a Wrinkle Free Sateen Sheets, thereby, making it unneeded to make use of other bedding layers under it. However, a comforter is simply a kind of blanket that provides restricted insulation and can not replace the need for extra layers of bedding.
A down comforter can be made warmer in two ways. Higher fill power or more weight. Much better bed comforters provide optimal heat with the least weight. These bed comforters have high fill power down. Luxuryexcel in offering the highest value in fill power, thread count, cleanliness, and weight. There are several kinds of down commonly used in comforters. In order of quality they are duck feathers worst, duck feathers and down, goose feathers and down, and goose down best.
One of the most renowneded luxury bedding designs is goose feather filled bedding which a great deal of people will swear is the nicest way to rest. However that is typically because they havent yet uncovered silk filled duvets which can go a step further when it concerns getting a good and comfy nights' sleep.
Understanding a down comforter can also help somebody thinking about buying one to pick just how much to invest and exactly what kind to go with. Comforters come in lots of various sizes and cover materials, along with costs. As an example, an incredibly high-quality variation filled with the very best sort of down can run over $1000, which isnt economical, to tell the fact.
3 Reasons Changing Sheets Is Ineffective
Do you deal with allergies? Many individuals find that they dislike the goose or duck feathers of a down comforter. If you are you might assume that utilizing comforters is not an alternative for you as numerous of them are fulled of goose or duck down feathers. You might not be more wrong! There are a wide variety of alternative down comforters on the market these days for any size bed. Therefore an alternative down comforter can be the answer for you so, do not let those allergies discourage you, cuddle up in a healthy way with an alternative down comforter.
Are searching for great, quality comforters? These resilient and appealing bedding products are also called duvets. They resemble quilts. Nevertheless, these covers are fulled of insulating product. There are numerous choices for filling product. You can get numerous sorts of construction, too. Below are things to consider about acquiring a quality duvet or comforter.
Beware The Scam Over Wrinkle Free Sateen Sheets
Try taking a look at discount designer Wrinkle Free Sateen Sheets for your home. There are a number of various areas you could be able to find it. When you see the word discount, it does not imply that the product is made from inferior products. In many cases, the bedding is of a very good quality and has actually been minimized in price because the pattern or color could longer be available or is being changed. This makes them really budget-friendly.
It's Only About Sheets Naturally!
The most popular luxury bed linens that are available on the marketplace today are sheets. Despite the fact that this could not seem like luxury, these sheets provide an unparalled level of elegance and convenience. The means that you can mention to if sheets are luxurious or not is by the thread matter. Simply puts, the greater the thread matter, the more pricey and luxurious your sheets are going to be. Lots of people feel that a 400 thread matter is where luxury starts.
Let's consider the color. We typically do not wish to clash with exactly what is in the space. This indicates either matching the existing colors or going neutral, as in off white. If you wish to use your favorite color, then perhaps you will choose that clashing is okay. Clashing could not be a problem, but unforeseen clashing typically is, so try to assume this through before you buy.
Exactly how can one turn this room into a lovely welcoming haven? Extremely easily, begin with brand-new bed linens, and it will not take much effort at all. Comforters, sheets, pillow cases, dust ruffles, duvet covers are wonderful areas to begin. The simple altering of a bed skirt and accent pillows can make quite a difference.
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It need not be tough to discover reduced Wrinkle Free Sateen Sheets online. If you know exactly what you desire, you should be able to discover bedroom furnishings and luxury bedding at costs that you can quickly manage by utilizing the Internet to shop.
First of all, purple has long been connected to VIP and the aristocracy. The reason being to the reality that nobleman and other royal people previously used to wear purple all the time. You can quickly picture the king with a crimson cape, a purple robe, and sitting on the purple throne. Undoubtedly, the color crimson is absolutely a royal color, and this has advantages for you. Making use of crimson low-cost bedding sets can provide you far more confidence if you're the kind of individual who is really timid. You'll require a big quantity of confidence to be able to guideline a country, and it is the exact same if you are the real full of the house. Having even more confidence may likewise assist you to rest much better, without fear for that concerns of the next day.


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"In the middle of the present struggle to keep interaction complexity in check, as artifact complexity continues to rise and the technical possibilities to interact multiply, the notion of interface is scrutinized. First, a limited number of previous interpretations or thought styles of the notion are identified and discussed. This serves as a framework for an analysis of the current situation with regard to complexity, control, and interaction, leading to a realization of the crucial role of surface in contemporary understanding of interaction. The potential of faceless interaction, interaction that transcends traditional reliance on surfaces, is then examined and discussed, liberating possibilities as well as complicating effects, and dangers are pointed out, ending with a sketch of a possibly emerging new thought style."
I am quite proud of this article. And I hope that a lot of people will read it and critique it, and maybe build on the ideas we have developed.
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Janlert, L-E., & Stolterman, E. (2015). Faceless Interaction - a conceptual examination of the notion of interface: past, present and future. In Human-Computer Interaction, Vol 30, Issue. 6.


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Common Mobile Display Technologies You Should Know
When you're comparing different mobile devices, whether they're phones, tablets, e-readers, or laptops, one of the differentiating features can be the display technology. But do you know the difference between OLED and AMOLED? What about LCD and e-ink? This guide will get you up to speed.
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and Retina
Liquid crystal is a fascinating substance that has molecular properties of both liquids and solids — the application of an electrical current affects those properties, allowing more or less light to pass through a particular pixel, creating a gray scale.
In a full-color display, each pixel has three sub-pixels: one with a red filter, one with green, and one with blue. To create colors, different levels of light are passed through each sub-pixel. If you look really closely at an LCD screen, you can often pick out the sub-pixels, as in this image:
Apple's Retina technology How Does The Apple Retina Display Work? [MakeUseOf Explains] These days, people are crazy about the Apple Retina Display. Supposedly, it does wonders! A completely non-pixelated screen? Who would have ever thought?! However, many questions loom the supposedly revolutionary technological advancement. Is it really... Read More is a specific type of LCD called an in-place switching (IPS) LCD. This technology offers wider viewing angles and lower power consumption. The Retina label is applied when the pixel density is higher than can be distinguished by the human eye.
Obviously, to create light behind the color filters of an LCD screen, a backlight is needed. This is usually created using small fluorescent tubes and a reflector that scatters the light evenly through the pixels on the screen. Because of the large backlights in LCDs, blacks tend to be relatively bright, making for less contrast. LCDs also use more power than LED-based screens, are more affected by viewing angle, and occasionally suffer from dead pixels (though dead pixels can be fixed How To Find & Fix Bad Pixels On Your LCD Screen Bad pixels often occur on brand new screens. Since a single bad pixel can become a great annoyance once you know it's there, any new display with a warranty on it should be checked for... Read More ).
However, LCD production cost is still notably lower than many other options, meaning it's easier to get a high-quality screen without breaking the bank. And even though it's been around for a long time, you can still get really great screens, like those included in the iPhone 5 iPhone 5 Review and Giveaway On 21 September 2012, people all over the world queued up for the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone -- the iPhone 5. The iPhone 5 is the fastest, largest, thinnest and lightest... Read More , iPad Air, and Nexus 5 Google Nexus 5 Review and Giveaway Approximately a year after Google released the Nexus 4, the company behind Android has come out with its successor -- the Nexus 5. Read More .
Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED)
LEDs are tiny devices that emit light of a single color, determined by the material used to create the diode. In traditional LEDs, metals like aluminum gallium arsenide (red), aluminum gallium indium phosphide (green), and zinc selenide (blue) are used.
There are a number of advantages to LEDs LCD vs. LED Monitors: What's the Difference? The differences between LCD and LED displays are subtle, which can make it difficult to decide: LCD or LED monitor? Read More : they use less power than LCDs, they're smaller and lighter, and each pixel is individually lit, making for much deeper blacks than a back-lit LCD.
Traditional LEDs, however, are too large to be used to create small displays; they may be used on the mega-screens you see in stadiums and in digital advertising, but you won't see them in your cell phone display.
OLEDS, unlike LEDs, use carbon-based substances to create light instead of base metals. The molecular difference isn't what's important here, though — the advantage of OLEDs over LEDs is that they're significantly smaller, meaning they can be used to create mobile displays at high resolutions. They're so small, in fact, that they can actually be applied to materials by an inkjet printer or screen printing.
Because each pixel is individually lit, and there's no large backlight, OLEDs offer significantly better blacks than LCD screens, and they're also superior in terms of power consumption. Their very small size make them lighter, as well.
However, OLEDs are generally quite expensive in comparison to LCDs, and blue diodes tend to degrade faster than other colors, leaving OLED screens with color-balance issues after many hours of use.
You can find an OLED screen on the LG G Flex and the Samsung Galaxy Round [Broken URL Removed].
Active-Matrix OLED (AMOLED)
While OLEDs are more power-efficient than LCD screens, manufacturers of mobile devices are always looking for ways to increase the battery life of their devices, and adding an active matrix to OLED technology is one of the ways they can do this.
An active matrix is a thin-film transistor that's integrated with the OLED matrix. This might sound complicated and technical, but the takeaway is simple: the circuitry for lighting the LEDs is more closely integrated with the LEDs themselves, reducing the amount of power that's needed to operate the display. This leads to better battery life in your device. They also have faster refresh rates (what is a refresh rate? What Is Refresh Rate? Read More ), making them good for watching video.
Many Samsung products, including the Galaxy S5, sport Super AMOLED screens What Are the Best New Galaxy S5 Features? What are some of these amazing features, and even better, how can you get them on your existing phone? Read More , which integrate the touchscreen technology into the AMOLED display, allowing for an even thinner and lighter screen.
If you've ever used a Kindle Kindle Paperwhite Review & Giveaway The Kindle Paperwhite is Amazon's current flagship reader, and one that we've been wanting to review and give away for quite some time. If you already own a Kindle or a different eReader, you may... Read More , Nook, or Kobo Kobo Aura HD eReader Review and Giveaway Despite Amazon's dominance of the eReader market, some competitors manage to keep their heads above water, and one of these strugglers is Kobo. With an impressive line of five different eReaders, its own bookstore, and... Read More , you've seen e-ink. The distinctive grayscale look stands out in a market saturated with bright display technologies.
E-ink works by applying an electric charge to hundreds of thousands of tiny cells on a page—the charge causes tiny pigmented chips to rise to the surface or fall away from it, and by applying the correct charges throughout the page, patterns can be created, forming text on the page.
There a number of significant advantages to e-ink displays The Best Four E-Paper Displays Coming To Your Smartphone and Tablet Looking for months of reading time from your smartphone or tablet? E-paper display technology may soon satisfy your needs. Read More : they're very easy on the eyes, as they lack a harsh backlight; they're easily readable in direct sunlight, just like paper; and they're very energy efficient, as they only draw power when the display is being updated (this is why your Kindle lasts so long on a single charge).
At the moment, grayscale e-ink is the norm, but a number of companies are racing to bring a color e-ink screen to major market release.
While e-readers are the primary beneficiaries of e-ink technology, a couple phones have used it, like the Motorola F3 and the Samsung Alias 2. You'll also see them on small devices like keyfobs that display access codes, and even on a Lexar USB stick.
Future Display Technologies
Display technology is advancing, and we're likely to benefit from new tech in the near future. I mentioned the fact that OLEDs can be used to create flexible displays, and this has been on display at the E3 convention in recent years. Don't be surprised if your next cell phone has a semi-flexible screen.
Another interesting application of OLEDs is the transparent OLED (TOLED) technology that powers the Samsung Smart Window (below) and this transparent laptop from 2010.
Quantum-dot LEDs are an interesting technology that looks to have a lot of potential, as well—they're pitched by NanoSys as a way for LCD manufacturers to compete with OLEDs. A quantum dot is a "light-emitting semiconductor nanocrystal" that is very bright, long-lasting, and allows for a huge range of colors.
And, of course, we'll all be looking forward to full-color e-ink. Kyobo's Mirasol e-reader had the technology, but was discontinued shortly after launch due to stiff competition and low demand. The Hanvon C18 is one of the current models, though it's hard to get hold of outside of China.
While it's difficult to predict what we'll see next, it's safe to say that stronger, lighter, brighter, and more flexible displays are on the way. What kind of display are you using at the moment? Are you looking to switch to another type? What are you most excited to see coming up? Share your thoughts below!
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Van Lines$500 REWARD!!!** Esquire Products
Thieves in OUR Bothell Community (212th
ST SW, area)!
Remote Control (R/C)
Hydroplanes (43" Long x 23" Wide) Not easy to hide!
Someone locally knows about the theft of these boats!!! $500 REWARD for
return**!! Call,
or TEXT to claim the reward!!! (Theft date, late Friday March
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Call: (425) 488-1313 TEXT:
(425) 830-8137 (anonymous tips accepted, and eligible for reward!!!
This is not a Police contact #)
The owner of these Hydroplanes, Kirk, has been racing R/C
Scale Hydroplanes for more than 18 years and would help anyone that asked him. He is currently a board member of one, and
participant in both of the large, Northwest 1/8th scale R/C clubs. Additionally,
he is connected to the Hydroplane And Raceboat Museum in Kent (HARM). Our NAMBA affiliation guarantees that this
flier will be distributed NATIONWIDE and THROUGHOUT CANADA. There are tens of thousands of people that
this flier will be distributed to electronically. And from there, it will be shared with
friends of those friends. These boats will never see the water in
the United States or Canada, never be pawned, never be sold, without someone
being arrested and charged!!!
The best option right now is for the thieves to return these boats
anonymously, and collect this reward.
Soon, this reward will be retracted, and full charges will be
pursued. The thieves do not have the
motors, the radio gear, or any other components to make these boats
functional… RETURN THESE BOATS TODAY, by setting them beside the house you
took them from, and then make contact as shown above. By any method, leave contact information, and
the reward will be paid with no questions asked,
but only for a few days after this flier is distributed… Additionally, know, many of Kirks friends
will be going door to door soon, to inform the local community with this
information, and searching for these Hydroplanes!
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
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Can't believe anyone would steal scale boats. Has this been resolved? It would be sad if not.ReplyDelete
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NEW Patient Policies (Effective January 2016)
1. Cancellation/No Show Policy for Doctor Appointment
We understand that there are times when you must miss an appointment due to emergencies or obligations for work or family. However, when you do not call to cancel an appointment, you may be preventing another patient from getting much needed treatment. Conversely, the situation may arise where another patient fails to cancel and we are unable to schedule you for a visit, due to a seemingly "full" appointment schedule. Cancelled appointments/ no shows are a major financial burden for this and every medical practice and cannot be tolerated. If an appointment is not cancelled at least (1) business days in advance, you will be charged a fifty dollar ($50) fee; this will not be covered by your insurance company. Chronic cancellations/no shows will result in the patient being discharged from the practice.
2. Scheduled Appointments
We understand that delays can happen, however, we must try to keep other patients and physicians on time. If a patient is 15 minutes or more past their scheduled time, we reserve the right to reschedule the appointment to another day or move the appointment to a later time slot on the same day if the doctor's schedule allows.
3.Cancellation/ No Show Policy for Surgery
Due to the large block of time needed for surgery, last minute cancellations can cause problems and added expenses for the office. If surgery is not cancelled at least 10 days in advance, you will be charged a seventy-five dollar ($75) fee; this fee will not be covered by your insurance company.
4. Account Balances
We will require that patients with self-pay balances bring their account balance to zero ($0) prior to receiving further services by our practice. Patients who have questions about their bills, or who would like to discuss a payment plan option, may call and ask to speak with a business office representative with whom they can review their account.
Here at Virginia Beach Eye Center, each pair of eyeglasses is custom made to order, and we are happy to service all of our products as well as guarantee their quality and workmanship.
VBEC provides a limited warranty that protects against manufacturing defects in
products associated with normal wearing conditions. Accidental breakage, abuse,
or loss is not covered by this warranty.
Warranties are only in effect for the duration offered by the manufacturer, and are not extendable, beginning at the time of the original order.
The customer must return the eyewear to Virginia Beach Eye Center within 60 days of receipt for a 50% refund of the purchase price, or a one-time 100% in store credit with proof of purchase. The 100% store credit will expire one (1) year from the date of issue.
Glasses returned after the 60 day warranty period will NOT be refunded in any amount. A full refund will not be offered because these are custom made eyeglasses for your prescription and other specifications, and it is not possible for them to be returned to the
The eyeglasses must be returned in the original hard case, and must be in "as new" condition, unscratched and unbroken with lenses in their original frames.
Doctor Changes and Non-Adapts:
Virginia Beach Eye Center will honor a one-time Rx change made by the doctor up to sixty (60) days following the original order. Subsequent changes will incur additional charges.
In the event that the customer does not adapt to a pair of prescription progressive eyeglasses within sixty (60) days, VBEC will remake the glasses (one time only) into a standard bifocal at no additional charge to the customer. No refund will be given for the price difference in materials.
Warranty Limitations:
Please note that warranties are available only as the manufacturer policies permit, VBEC does not have the ability to make exceptions or changes to manufacturer warranties.
Please contact our Optical Manager at 757-412-4733 with any questions or concerns that you have regarding your new frames!


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If you live in Ohio or Michigan, spring weather has one setting: wonky. On Monday, the temps will be in the 40s and you might see snow. On the following day, it could be 70 degrees and you're eating popsicles in your backyard. I think this area is where the term "Spring Fever" was coined because we're all feeling it.
It's not just kids that are feeling the itch for summertime fun; parents are feeling it, too, and we need winter relief just as bad as our kids. It's time to break free from the madness of fluctuating temps and head to Castaway Bay in Sandusky, Ohio!
At Castaway Bay, it's always a tropical 82 degrees year 'round! There's fun for everyone, from a toddler's tide pool to a wave pool, from the Pineapple Pipeline to the Tropical Twister. And that's just in the waterpark! You can purchase a day pass for Castaway Bay's waterpark, or decide to spend the night or a weekend with your family at their hotel. Or, maybe stay a whole week for the ultimate staycation!
Dine On Site At Castaway Bay's Restaurants
Whether it's pizza, ice cream, or the best chicken wings this side of the Mississippi, Castaway Bay has enough restaurant choices to make everyone in your family happy – even the picky eaters!
- Big Daddy's Snack Shack – located in the water park and features pizza, wings and breadsticks, hot dogs, warm pretzels with cheese, fresh made deli sandwiches, nachos with cheese, salads, soft serve ice cream, cookies, beer, soft drinks and ICEE frozen drinks.
- Ebb & Eddy's – this is our favorite place to go in the morning for coffee and quick service breakfast items deli wraps and more. They even feature Starbucks coffee and beer service!
- Woody's Chart Room adjoins Ebb & Eddy's and features a 50″ LCD TV that shows the latest sports action along with 3 other TVs which makes a a great spot to enjoy a snack or play a game with the family.
- Mango Mike's provides a breakfast buffet featuring fresh fruit, freshly-baked pastries, scrambled eggs, cold cereals, hash browns, pancakes, french toast, biscuits and gravy along with breakfast favorites.
- Quaker Steak & Lube offers families award-winning ribs & burgers, tempting street foods plus Best Wings USA in your choice of 25 signature sauces are available. If the weather is nice, make sure to ask for outside patio seating!
- Not in the mood to leave your room? You can always order room service! Service includes breakfast, sandwiches, salads, kids meals and wine service.
Stay In The Castaway Bay Resort
When we go to Castaway Bay, we want our stay to feel more like a vacation so we usually stay overnight. The rooms and suites there a private deck or balcony in most rooms, a flat screen television, free wireless internet, a microwave, a mini-refrigerator and coffee maker. If you're bringing a large group, be sure to ask for adjoining rooms!
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Sundown Ultra Marathon - 100km!!!
No no no.... I'm not going to run 100km ultra marathon. Not yet because I don't have enough time to train. However, I have a wonderful friend Juliana Ali who will be running Sundown 100km Ultra Marathon on 25th June 2011 for a charity!!! She's an accomplished triathlete, she did many races including Ironman Langkawi. However, this is her first ever ultra marathon. It is as tough as Ironman... maybe tougher... I don't know, but I'm pretty sure she will be suffered :P
Here, I would like to call all my friends out there to support her in effort to collect donation for Earthquake & Tsunami victims in Japan. She's working with the Malaysian Red Crescent Society as her official NGO partner for this charity event. Details about the donation can be found in her blog http://missjewelz.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/sundown-ultramarathon-2011-and-running-it-for-charity/
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University Dorms Leave Landlines Behind
Following a trend that has been building for several years, some university dorms are ditching landline phones as cellphones become more popular.
The University of Virginia removed about 3,850 telephones from residence halls over the summer, the school said this week. The school's housing department will save $500,000 a year by not providing telephone service, officials said, adding that AT&T (T), T-Mobile and Verizon (VZ) had funded improvements in coverage on campus.
"Students may still request a land-line telephone, but I don't anticipate that a lot will," said chief housing officer Mark Doherty in a statement. "Over the past several years, land-line use has decreased a lot."


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Presdisposition to common heart disease 'passed on from father to son'
A common heart disease which kills thousands each year may be passed genetically from father to son, according to a study led by the University of Leicester.
A paper published in medical journal The Lancet today shows that the Y chromosome, a part of DNA present only in men, plays a role in the inheritance of coronary artery disease (CAD).
The study, called Inheritance of coronary artery disease in men: an analysis of the role of the Y chromosome, was led by researchers at the University's Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and Department of Genetics. The research took four years to complete and was primarily funded by the British Heart Foundation.
It was also supported by the National Institute for Health Research, LEW Cart Charitable Fund, National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, the European Union, and the Wellcome Trust.
Coronary artery disease is the name given to the narrowing of blood vessels delivering blood to the heart, meaning that not enough oxygen can reach it. This can lead to angina symptoms, such as constriction of the chest, and heart attacks.
The British Heart Foundation found that coronary artery disease, also known as coronary heart disease, caused 88,236 deaths in 2008 in the United Kingdom, with 49,665 deaths among men and 38,571 among women.
The team at the University of Leicester analysed DNA from over 3,000 men from British Heart Foundation Family Heart Study (BHF-FHS) and the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study (WOSCOPS).
They found that 90 per cent of British Y chromosomes belong to one of two major groups named haplogroup I and haplogroup R1b1b2.
The risk of coronary artery disease among men who carry a Y chromosome from haplogroup I is 50 per cent higher than other men, and the risk is independent of traditional risk factors such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and smoking.
The researchers believe the increased risk is down to the haplogroup I's influence on the immune system and inflammation how our bodies respond to infections.
Principal investigator Dr Maciej Tomaszewski, a clinical senior lecturer at the University's Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, said: "We are very excited about these findings as they put the Y chromosome on the map of genetic susceptibility to coronary artery disease. We wish to further analyse the human Y chromosome to find specific genes and variants that drive this association.
"The major novelty of these findings is that the human Y chromosome appears to play a role in the cardiovascular system beyond its traditionally perceived determination of male sex.
"The University of Leicester has been at the forefront of genetic research for many years. The success of this study builds up on excellence of support for genetic studies in the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and the Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit."
The project also included researchers from King's College, London, the University of Glasgow, the University of Leeds, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, the University of Cambridge, the University of Ballarat and the Garvan Institute for Medical Research in Australia, the University of Lübeck and the University of Regensburg in Germany and the Marie Curie University and Medical School in Paris, France.
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KALAMAZOO, MI -- The Western Michigan University Bookstore will be closing at the end of the month to become the new home for the WMU Office of Sustainability.
The store is emptying its shelves and is having a clearance sale, selling most of its merchandise at a 75 percent off discount except for electronics, diploma frames and graduation regalia.
Some 25 people were in the store around lunchtime Tuesday, stocking up on WMU shirts, sweaters and other merchandise.
The University Bookstore will be open until noon Saturday, June 30, to handle commencement needs. The facility will be emptied the following week and turned over to the Office of Sustainability for some remodeling.
"I'm bummed out," said Sarah Hertler, a WMU senior. "Apparently, I can't rent books for the fall."
The store no longer sells textbooks and WMU has another student bookstore in the basement of the Bernhard Center, which will not be closing.
WMU purchased the $1 million facility last July and bought the business for $980,000. The agreement included a three-year lease of a 4,560-square-foot warehouse at 4155 S. Ninth Street to handle the online portion of the business.
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Otolaryngology is the branch of medicine that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat; and head and neck disorders. The full name of the specialty is Otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. Practitioners are called Otolaryngologists-head and neck surgeons, or sometimes Otorhinolaryngologists (ORL). A somewhat outdated, but nevertheless commonly used, term for this specialty is ENT (ear nose and throat).
Otolaryngologists are medical doctors who complete at least five years of surgical residency training (one year in general surgery, four years in otolaryngology - head and neck surgery). Following residency training, some otolaryngologists elect to complete advanced subspecialty fellowships which are usually one or two years in duration. As with all medical fellowships, acceptance is highly competitive.
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Marcella is eighteen and lives in a Texas suburb so quiet that it sometimes seems like a ghost town. She downloaded TikTok last fall, after seeing TikTok videos that had been posted on YouTube and Instagram. They were strange and hilarious and reminded her of Vine, the discontinued platform that teen-agers once used for uploading anarchic six-second videos that played on a loop. She opened TikTok, and it began showing her an endless scroll of videos, most of them fifteen seconds or less. She watched the ones she liked a few times before moving on, and double-tapped her favorites, to "like" them. TikTok was learning what she wanted. It showed her more absurd comic sketches and supercuts of people painting murals, and fewer videos in which girls made fun of other girls for their looks.
When you watch a video on TikTok, you can tap a button on the screen to respond with your own video, scored to the same soundtrack. Another tap calls up a suite of editing tools, including a timer that makes it easy to film yourself. Videos become memes that you can imitate, or riff on, rapidly multiplying much the way the Ice Bucket Challenge proliferated on Facebook five years ago.
Marcella was lying on her bed looking at TikTok on a Thursday evening when she began seeing video after video set to a clip of the song "Pretty Boy Swag," by Soulja Boy. In each one, a person would look into the camera as if it were a mirror, and then, just as the song's beat dropped, the camera would cut to a shot of the person's doppelgänger. It worked like a punch line. A guy with packing tape over his nose became Voldemort. A girl smeared gold paint on her face, put on a yellow hoodie, and turned into an Oscar statue. Marcella propped her phone on her desk and set the TikTok timer. Her video took around twenty minutes to make, and is thirteen seconds long. She enters the frame in a white button-down, her hair dark and wavy. She adjusts her collar, checks her reflection, looks upward, and—the beat drops—she's Anne Frank.
Marcella's friends knew about TikTok, but almost none of them were on it. She didn't think that anyone would see what she'd made. Pretty quickly, though, her video began getting hundreds of likes, thousands, tens of thousands. People started sharing it on Instagram. On YouTube, the Swedish vlogger PewDiePie, who has more than a hundred million subscribers, posted a video mocking the media for suggesting that TikTok had a "Nazi problem"—Vice had found various accounts promoting white-supremacist slogans—then showed Marcella's video, laughed, and said, "Never mind, actually, this does not help the case I was trying to make." (PewDiePie has been criticized for employing anti-Semitic imagery in his videos, though his fans insist that his work is satire.) Marcella started to get direct messages on TikTok and Instagram, some of which called her anti-Semitic. One accused her of promoting Nazism. She deleted the video.
In February, a friend texted me a YouTube rip of Marcella's TikTok. I was alone with my phone at my desk on a week night, and when I watched the video I screamed. It was terrifyingly funny, like a well-timed electric shock. It also made me feel very old. I'd seen other TikToks, mostly on Twitter, and my primary impression was that young people were churning through images and sounds at warp speed, repurposing reality into ironic, bite-size content. Kids were clearly better than adults at whatever it was TikTok was for—"I haven't seen one piece of content on there made by an adult that's normal and good," Jack Wagner, a "popular Instagram memer," told The Atlantic last fall—though they weren't the only ones using the platform. Arnold Schwarzenegger was on TikTok, riding a minibike and chasing a miniature pony. Drag queens were on TikTok, opera singers were on TikTok, the Washington Post was on TikTok, dogs I follow on Instagram were on TikTok. Most important, the self-made celebrities of Generation Z were on TikTok, a cohort of people in their teens and early twenties who have spent a decade filming themselves through a front-facing camera and meticulously honing their understanding of what their peers will respond to and what they will ignore.
I sent an e-mail to Marcella. (That's her middle name.) She's from a military family, and likes to stay up late listening to music and writing. Marcella is Jewish, and she and her brothers were homeschooled. Not long before she made her video, her family had stopped at a base to renew their military I.D.s. One of her brothers glanced at her new I.D. and joked, accurately, that she looked like Anne Frank.
In correspondence, Marcella was as earnest and thoughtful as her video had seemed flip. She understood that it could seem offensive out of context—a context that was invisible to nearly everyone who saw it—and she was sanguine about the angry messages that she'd received. TikTok, like the rest of the world, was a mixed bag, she thought, with bad ideas, and cruelty, and embarrassment, but also with so much creative potential. Its ironic sensibility was perfectly suited for people her age, and so was its industrial-strength ability to turn non-famous people into famous ones—even if only temporarily, even if only in a minor way. Marcella had accepted her brush with Internet fame as an odd thrill, and not an entirely foreign one: her generation had grown up on YouTube, she noted, watching ordinary kids become millionaires by turning on laptop cameras in their bedrooms and talking about stuff they like. The videos that I'd been seeing, chaotic and sincere and nihilistic and very short, were the natural expressions of kids who'd had smartphones since they were in middle school, or elementary school. TikTok, Marcella explained, was a simple reaction to, and an absurdist escape from, "the mass amounts of media we are exposed to every living day."
TikTok has been downloaded more than a billion times since its launch, in 2017, and reportedly has more monthly users than Twitter or Snapchat. Like those apps, it's free, and peppered with advertising. I downloaded TikTok in May, adding its neon-shaded music-note logo to the array of app icons on my phone. TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, which, in recent years, has invested heavily and made major advances in artificial intelligence. After a three-billion-dollar investment from the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, last fall, ByteDance was valued at more than seventy-five billion dollars, the highest valuation for any startup in the world.
I opened the app, and saw a three-foot-tall woman making her microwave door squeak to the melody of "Yeah!," by Usher, and then a dental hygienist and her patient dancing to "Baby Shark." A teen-age girl blew up a bunch of balloons that spelled "PUSSY" to the tune of a jazz song from the beloved soundtrack of the anime series "Cowboy Bebop." Young white people lip-synched to audio of nonwhite people in ways that ranged from innocently racist to overtly racist. A kid sprayed shaving cream into a Croc and stepped into it so that shaving cream squirted out of the holes in the Croc. In five minutes, the app had sandblasted my cognitive matter with twenty TikToks that had the legibility and logic of a narcoleptic dream.
TikTok is available in a hundred and fifty markets. Its videos are typically built around music, so language tends not to pose a significant barrier, and few of the videos have anything to do with the news, so they don't easily become dated. The company is reportedly focussing its growth efforts on the U.S., Japan, and India, which is its biggest market—smartphone use in the country has swelled, and TikTok now has two hundred million users there. ByteDance often hacks its way into a market, aggressively courting influencers on other social-media networks and spending huge amounts on advertising, much of which runs on competing platforms. Connie Chan, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, told me that investors normally look for "organic growth" in social apps; ByteDance has been innovative, she said, in its ability and willingness to spend its way to big numbers. One former TikTok employee I spoke to was troubled by the company's methods: "On Instagram, they'd run ads with clickbaity images—an open, gashed wound, or an overtly sexy image of a young teen girl—and it wouldn't matter if Instagram users flagged the images as long as the ad got a lot of engagement first."


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San-Diego-based Rio SEO has launched a new suite to augment their existing SEO automation tools. After aqcuiring Meteor Solutions in November, Rio SEO wasted no time integrating the newly acquired Social Audience Marketing Suite into the Rio SEO tools.
The combined suite of software, now renamed to Rio SEO Social Media Suite, includes three products that assist with large-scale, social-sharing campaign analysis, as well as social advertising initiatives and digital-influencer activation programs.
"Rio SEO is all about providing digital advertisers and search marketers with the tools they need to help their brands get discovered," said CEO Russ Mann. "The combination of well-orchestrated search marketing and social media strategies supported by advanced software tools to help execute at scale is what separates great content and discovery marketers from also-rans."
Less than a year old, Rio SEO lauched last April from parent company Covario. Prior to integrating the Meteor Solutions social media tools, Rio SEO already had one of the leading SEO automation software tools.
Recently praised by Forrester Research, the SEO tools helped automate website optimization and keyword discovery. The Rio SEO tools were the first in the industry to be patented for organic search reporting and SEO change tracking.
No doubt this launch will be talked about at Covario's INFLECTIONPoint conference taking place next week.
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Our introduction to Panama City began with the wrong GPS point entered for our hostel. This was after a six-hour driving day. By the time we arrived at the El Machico Hostel we had driven around the general area about a dozen times attempting to navigate the one-way streets of the Marbella neighborhood of Panama City. City drivers were aggressive and impatient. Taxi drivers were reckless at best. The sound of honking horns was constant. To say that driving in Panama City has its challenges only scratches the surface of the disorganized, chaotic maze of navigating its streets. This was the first time we had encountered truly rude and enraged drivers thus far on our Pan-American journey. Woah. We were definitely in need of a cool bed, a bite to eat, and a lengthy shower to wash off the grime, exhaust, and chaos.
Panama City is in one word, a dichotomy. It is definitely a city of contrast. Skyscrapers and brand new buildings are going up constantly, while others nearby remain decrepit and seemingly uninhabitable. Very rarely will you see a sidewalk, and crossing the street is like a potentially lethal game of Frogger. It generally smells, but then there are heavily air-conditioned high-end malls littering the city streets. Manholes are often uncovered (as people steel the covers to sell for scrap), but there is constant upkeep on the causeway – weed-eating, mowing, landscaping. It feels like a city in transition, more or less attempting to deal with the old and the new, and the influx of people from all over the globe arriving in search of new possibilities or a secure place to live.
Casco Viejo, the declared UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a perfect example of the contrast of the city. The neighborhood is filled with new and beautifully restored buildings and churches, cafes, top-notch restaurants and hidden clubs. Dispersed between these buildings are buildings of the past that have been left vacant and waiting for what will most likely be an expensive remodel.
What really made our stay special was the generosity and kindness of the people we met. The staff at the El Machico Hostel were friendly, helpful, and pleasant to be around. They always had a smile for us, or an inquiry about how we were, how we slept that night, or how the process of shipping our truck was going. Most of them were Venezuelan, and we would make many Venezuelan friends during our time in Panama City.
The entire crew from Cruiserheads Panama and their families treated us like old friends. Cesar, Luis and Jorge took us to the Miraflores Locks to see the canal and Cesar welcomed us into his home for a BBQ.
Luis and Daniella spent their Sunday driving us around town pointing out the various neighborhoods, places to dine, and gave us an insight into daily life in Panama. They introduced us to the amazing local Venezuelan food and we swooned over the empanadas with cheese, beans, plantains and chicken (empanadas de papallon), Venezuelan coffee con leche, papelon con limon, and some sweets at the popular Athanasiou Bakery. We spent a great evening with them in Casco Viejo where we ate ceviche and drank mojitos and beer at the local brewery, La Rana Dorada. Greg and Mariela took us out for pizza in Casco Viejo and welcomed us to the nighttime scene while we wandered around the cobbled streets and stopped to listen to live salsa music in the square.
It is hard to say thank you to those who treat you like family when you are on the road. It just doesn't sum up how special those moments are when they take time out of their busy day to share their life, food and culture with you. So to all of our friends in Panama City we say MUCHAS GRACIAS and chuuuuuuzo, time for some horse empanadas!
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Despite these wonderful things and the lovely people we met, we were itching to get to South America. As every day passed in Panama City we were more and more eager to start the journey that we have thought about, dreamt about, and looked forward to for so long. So we reluctantly handed over our keys, crossed our fingers that our truck made it into a shipping container safely, and we will meet up with it in Cartagena after its journey across the sea. Colombia, here we come!


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You're not going to hear any complaints from Nick Shore as his tenure with the Maple Leafs unfolds.
Shore would love to be in the lineup every night, and though that could wind up happening, the veteran centre is being patient as coach Mike Babcock comes to a decision on his fourth line.
"It's hard, but at the same time, this team has a lot of depth, and that's a good thing," Shore said on Saturday night in Detroit after the Leafs beat the Red Wings 5-2 at Little Caesars Arena. "When you're not in, you just work and wait for your opportunities and try to make the most of them when you are."
We would imagine that Babcock will use the same fourth line — Shore, Frederik Gauthier and Dmytro Timashov — when the Leafs play host to the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday at Scotiabank Arena. There's no point in breaking it up, not after the determined way the trio played against the Wings as the Leafs broke a three-game losing streak to improve to 3-2-1.
That would mean Jason Spezza and Nic Petan would sit again after watching from the press box in Detroit. Babcock used that pair in back-to-back games last week before going with Shore and Timashov on Saturday.
Gauthier, quicker than he has been at any previous point in his NHL career, has been the mainstay on the line.
Babcock has said he would need approximately 10 games to settle on his roster, while keeping in mind that more changes will come when winger Zach Hyman (knee) and defenceman Travis Dermott (shoulder) return from their respective injuries, likely some time later this month.
Timashov has made great strides after apprenticing the past three seasons with the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League.
"It's a real good league and it's hard to be good in that league," Babcock said. "Some guys that are good in that league, it doesn't transfer to the National Hockey League. The guys who can skate and process information, it normally transfers and, in his case, it looks like it has."
The Leafs had the day off on Sunday, no doubt getting their fill of turkey or whatever meal the sports science staff deemed edible for Thanksgiving. The Leafs will practise on Monday before the game against the Wild kicks off a back-to-back set, with the second match coming on Wednesday night in Washington against the Capitals … Frederik Andersen could sympathize with Wings goalie Jimmy Howard, who lost a race for the puck with Leafs' Ilya Mikheyev late in the second period, resulting in the rookie winger's second goal. "It's tough, especially going out that way (toward the blue line), when you're in a bit of no-man's land," Andersen said. "Mickey was coming really fast and I don't know if (Howard) was expecting that down there. Really good play to get to that puck first and it was a huge goal for us." … Never mind the poor effort against Tampa last Thursday, resulting in a 7-3 loss: The Leafs, of course, would much rather use the effort against Detroit as a springboard into their three games this week, which ends with a visit by the Boston Bruins on Saturday. "It came down to working harder," defenceman Jake Muzzin said. "We came out with the right attitude, we had a good start. I know (Detroit) got one early, but I thought we did most of the work in the first period, I think we did a good job. We focused on our start, went from there and I think we did a good job the full 60."


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One of the interesting features of BI EE is its ability to bring up different Business Model columns for a single Presentation Layer column based on different user logins. For example, say if you are creating the following report (all columns point to presentation layer columns),
you can specify which column in the BM/Physical layer should be used for the query in the place of GEOGRAPHY Presentation column (CEO's can see region level data. Manager's can see country level data etc), based on a user login. This can be done by using a simple function called as IndexCol. Before moving on to the syntax of this function lets try to understand what we are trying to do in the example below. Our aim is to create a report like the one below.
Now, whenever the user Region logs in, he must get a report containing the AMOUNT for all the regions (GEOGRAPHY_LEVEL will get the data from the column REGION_NAME) like the one below.
And, whenever the user Country logs in, for the same report he must get the data containing the AMOUNT for all the countries( GEOGRAPHY_LEVEL will get the data from the column COUNTRY_NAME ) like the one below.
Now lets look at the IndexCol function which forms the basis of what we are trying to do. Syntax of this function is
SYNTAX: IndexCol( integer literal, expr1, expr2, … )
Integer Literal can take integral values like 0,1,2 etc and
expr can have different BM Columns.
What this function basically does is, it dynamically chooses different columns based on the Integer Literal value. Lets consider the example below
In the above function, the INDEXCOL function looks for the LEVEL session variable. If the value of this variable is 0, it will choose the REGION_NAME column. If the value is 1 then it will choose the COUNTRY_NAME column. So, to implement the above example, we shall create a simple table in the database which would have 2 columns as shown below
And lets populate it with the username values and the corresponding integer literal values. So, our idea is to populate the LEVEL variable from a init block. So, the user Region, when he logs in will set LEVEL to 0 and hence the REGION_NAME column will be used in the report. Similarly for user Country, when he logs, the variable will be set to 1 and hence the COUNTRY_NAME column will be chosen.
The LevelInit init block will set the LEVEL variable as shown below.
Once this is done, your report should reflect the 2 columns based on the user who has logged in.
As user Region
As user Country
The above is not the best of examples. But this should atleast give an idea of what IndexCol can do.