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Today, the Texas State Quarter Coin remembers the storm that devastated Galveston on September 8, 1900.
The following day, the Spokesman-Review newspaper out of Spokane, Washington printed the following initial and brief reports of the storm damage to the gulf cities on September 8, 1900.
Southern City in Great Danger
Galveston Shut Off from the Outside World.
Gulf Creeping In.
Flood Has Reached the Residence Portion of the City.
Houston is in Distress.
No Lights, Streets Deserted, Tin Roofs on the Ground, Stacks Blown Down.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 8—A hurricane, accompanied by a heavy rain, has been blowing along the Texas coast and for a hundred miles inland today. Galveston is shut off entirely. The last report from Galveston states that the Gulf waters were encroaching rapidly on the beach and that the flood reached into the residence portion of the city for several blocks. The waves were very high and boisterous in the bay and considerable damage was being done to small craft, though the big boats were not in any danger.
Awful Wind at Houston.
Houston, Tex., Sept. 8—Midnight.—The wind is blowing 60 miles an hour in Houston at midnight and great damage is being done to business houses and residences throughout the city. The Associated Press wire is the only one that is working, all other telegraph and telephone business being shut off.
The electric-light plant has been closed down, as the wires became crossed with telephone wires and some persons were shocked, though none was seriously injured. Several great brick and iron stacks have been blown over and tin roofs are as numerous on the ground as on houses. The streets are utterly deserted. So far there have been no casualties.
The storm has spread to the interior, and there is great anxiety in this city. Persons are offering extraordinary sums to the telegraph companies to get messages through to Galveston and other points, but nothing can be done for them. Up to midnight nothing has been heard from Galveston.
Rumor of Great Damage.
New Orleans, Sept. 8.—A special from Houston, Tex., says"
There is an unconfirmed rumor that the hurricane played havoc with the town of Rockport, on the lower coast, and that the great clubhouse built by E. H. R. Green, near there, has been blown away, with loss of life.
Only Galveston Dispatch.
St. Louis, Sept. 8.—A dispatch to the Post-Dispatch from Galveston, Texas, says:
It is storming here now harder than ever known before. The waters of the gulf will be up in the streets of the city if the present blow keeps through the day. The water is very high now.
Low-Lying Parts Are Flooded.
San Antonio, Tex., Sept. 8.—Possibly the last dispatch out of the flooded city of Galveston was received in San Antonio tonight by Jerry Girard, announcing the death of his brother by drowning.
The message left Galveston at 8:50. The entire lower portion of Galveston was then flooded and the people were huddled on higher ground, in the pouring rain, for safety.
Girard's brother was carried out to sea and drowned while endeavoring to rescue a family in a shanty that was being dashed to pieces by the waves.
All Texas Is Worried.
New Orleans, Sept. 8.—A special from Dallas, Tex., says:
All Texas is in the keenest state of doubt and uncertainty tonight concerning the fate of Galveston island and city. It is said that the bridges leading from the mainland to the island have been swept away by the terrible force of the wind and the rolling up of the water in the bay.
The bridges are four in number, three for railroad uses and one, the Galveston county wagon and pedestrian bridge. It seems hardly credible that all these bridges could be swept away without the city suffering great loss.
As feared, the storm devastated Galveston with significant loss of life and property.
In the Lantern Slide Illustrations for the Teaching of Meteorology, published in 1906, Henry J. Cox and J. Paul Goode described the storm, meteorologically and also provided statistics for the loss in lives and property:
The hurricane of September, 1900, is known as the Galveston storm because it wrecked the city of Galveston, Tex.
This storm first appeared on the morning of September 1 in the Windward Islands. It moved slowly in a northwesterly direction.
During September 3 and 4 it was south of Cuba, and by the morning of the 5th had passed over that island. There it began to take a due northerly course, and continued in that direction directly across Key West, and by the evening of September 6 was centered south of Tampa.
Instead of re-curving to the northeast, as these storms usually do, soon after having assumed the northerly direction, its course was changed to slightly north of west into the Gulf of Mexico, and here it was apparently lost for a couple of days, complete observations not being obtainable.
The reason for this abnormal movement can be determined from a study of the weather maps of September 8 and on the dates previous.
While the normal course would have been northeast after reaching Florida, this storm found in its way covering the Atlantic coast an area of high barometer, while the barometer was low over the interior of the United States.
The map of September 8, 1900, 8 P. M., shows graphically this distribution of pressure.
Hurricanes as well as other storms always take the path of least resistance; and this storm was consequently shunted across the Gulf of Mexico to strike the Texan coast at Galveston, only because an area of high pressure stood in its way on the Atlantic coast.
It is probably true that the head of the storm, though lifted high enough to come under the sway of the prevailing westerlies above the neutral plane, as shown by its progress northward as far as Tampa, at this stage fell from the control of the upper winds, and drifted westward down the gradient toward the low area on the Great Plains, reaching Galveston before it again came well within the region of the prevailing westerlies in the upper atmosphere.
The force of the storm was much intensified in its movement across the Gulf of Mexico, the barometer apparently falling rapidly in the center, the minimum reading at Galveston being 28.53 inches at 8.10 P.M., September 8, which was immediately after the observations upon which the chart of that evening is based.
The destruction wrought to the city of Galveston by wind and water was unprecedented; 6,000 lives were lost, 3,636 houses totally destroyed, and the damage to property, including buildings, personal and other property, has been estimated at $30,000,000.
The greatest wind velocity recorded at the Galveston station was 84 miles per hour at 6:15 P. M., at which time the anemometer blew away.
It was estimated that a maximum velocity of 120 miles per hour occurred later.
The storm lost force immediately following the night of September 8.
In fact, it is usual for these hurricanes, after passing over a water surface to the land, to lose energy rapidly and fill up in the center, there being less moisture for the development, and the land surface causes the air currents, rotating around the center, to diminish rapidly through friction.
From the 9th to the 10th it moved from Texas to Oklahoma, still further diminishing in energy and following northward the trough of low barometer.
By the morning of the 11th it had joined forces with the low which had been in the interior for several days, and it appeared again as a well-defined storm over Iowa, the barometer falling rapidly in its front, and the winds increasing within its area.
During the 11th it crossed over the Great Lakes, the winds reaching the force of a hurricane at several stations, and on the morning of the 12th it was passing down the St. Lawrence valley near Quebec, the barometer reading 29.1 inches.
The Texas State Quarter Coin shows with an image of the devastation at 18th and N streets in Galveston, September 1900.


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No embroidery for me for a few months. As usual (yes, I have thrown my shoulder out at least 10 times since 2003, and had one surgery and several ER trips), it was a boring and slightly unbelievable story. I was cleaning the kids' bathtub and tuned the showerhead to clean another part of the wall and my shoulder popped. I didn't fall. It wasn't dramatic. It was just everyday. Still, it's frustrating.
Now I can only type with my left hand. As a programmer, this as you might imagine, is challenging. Further, it means I won't be working on any more stitching for a while. Nothing on paper. No onsies and booties for my pregnant friends and family. Sigh. Perhaps some good ideas will come out of this. We shall see.
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Oh, no! I'm so sorry to hear this. Keep letting yourself heal and piling on the ideas. This way, when your shoulder recovers, you will explode onto paper and fabric. HEAL, girl. Chin up!

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Who has a place where they just always feel calm and happy? Where is it? I have a friend who is always calm and happy under a tree- any tree. I have a "new" and unexpected place. Sitting in my yard, watching my chickens. Even just feeding them and watching brings an intense calm. I think it is because they live a simpler, unassuming, unstressed life that is full of food, friends, and knowing they will be taken care of. We got 3 new hens this week. There is a little bit of stress and work involved in integrating them to our current flock, but we are so happy to have more "friends" living outside. Where is your peaceful place?
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Critics are calling a Trump administration plan for a rapid US force draw down in Afghanistan which involves striking a peace deal with the Taliban a "betrayal".
But administration officials have countered that this is the cost of bringing the some 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan home. Trump "has been pretty clear that he wants to bring the troops home" according to senior officials privy to ongoing negotiations.
The chief controversy behind the US-Taliban peace talks is that any deal will likely rely on the Taliban holding to counterterrorism guarantees, or that it won't attack US coalition forces; however, there's reportedly little in the impending deal which holds the Taliban to guarantees it won't attack Afghan civilians or the national army.
According to CNN:
One source explained that the agreement is seen as paving the way for the US to leave the country without a high number of US casualties in the coming months.
President Trump said he had a "very good meeting in Afghanistan" in a tweet Friday, just after meeting with top national security advisers over the impending peace plan which seeks to end America's longest running war, now approaching two decades.
"Discussions centered around our ongoing negotiations and eventual peace and reconciliation agreement with the Taliban and the government of Afghanistan," a White House press spokesman said of the meeting. "The meeting went very well, and negotiations are proceeding."
"In continued close cooperation with the government of Afghanistan, we remain committed to achieving a comprehensive peace agreement, including a reduction in violence and a cease-fire, ensuring that Afghan soil is never again used to threaten the United States or her allies, and bringing Afghans together to work towards peace," the statement said.
CNN summarizes of the deal that it's "expected to formalize a significant withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan -- from about 15,000 troops to 8,000 or 9,000 troops -- and enshrine official commitments by the Taliban to counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan, according to the multiple sources familiar with the plan."
But there's fear that the Taliban is simply looking to remove the US military from the equation, and that once the US departs, the Taliban will have free reign to attack a greatly weakened Afghan national army.
Spearheading the dialogue has been White House special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has been meeting with Taliban negotiators in Qatar for months, with a desire to strike a final deal by September 1.


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'We will be a Rs 5 billion company by 2008' : Atul Goel - E-City Ventures CEO
His is a tale that is not just about multiplexes. E-City Investments and Holdings chief Atul Goel is hooking up a film exhibition, distribution and digital delivery business.
At the centre of this game is the multiplex business. Fun Multiplex Pvt Ltd is on a massive scale up exercise, planning to ramp up from 23 screens to 150 by FY08 while acquiring 100 single screens to gain a pan-India presence.
E-City Digital Cinemas will deliver movies to theatres via satellite as well as hard disk in a format that operates on low margins but is profitable. Being part of the Essel group, it will use the Essel Shyam facility at Noida near Delhi which is also utilised by Zee for uplinking its channels.
Goel recently got IL&FS to invest Rs 1 billion for a 26 per cent stake in E-City Entertainment, the hived off entity that handles real estate development. His next big target: a combined turnover of Rs 5 billion by FY08.
In conversation with Indiantelevision.com's Sibabrata Das & Bijoy AK, Goel unveils the expansion plans he has chalked out for E-City.
Why did you decide to hive off the multiplex and real estate businesses into separate companies?
Are you in the hunt for an investor in the multiplex business as well?
What makes you project such a fast rate of growth in two years?
Do you see revenue growth also coming from increase in ticket rates?
Multiplex operators are in a build up phase and Inox has even taken the acquisition route in Kolkata to enhance its pan-India presence. How are you planning to scale up your operations?
Multiplex operators have been made to pay more for premium film content by Yash Raj Films (YRF). When YRF asked for an increase in revenue share for the Aamir Khan blockbuster Fanaa, you took a hard stance. What made you compromise later?
Has YRF, with a lineup of Hindi blockbusters like Fanaa, Krrish and Kabhie Alvida Na Kehna, started a trend where film content distributors would push for higher revenue shares from multiplex operators?
Are you in any such alliance with a big distributor?
Have you taken a cautious approach in the film distribution business?
Have you closed down your content syndication business?
What are the expansion plans for E-City Entertainment after IL&FS has taken a stake in it?
How are you funding these properties?
When is E-City Digital Cinemas starting satellite delivery of movies to cinema theatres?
How many theatres will have the digital system?
So will E-City Holdings go for an initial public offering (IPO) or will the different entities have separate listings?


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I saw this idea come through on Facebook and thought, "I can do this!" The hardest part was finding an ice cube tray at Wal-Mart. I didn't own one. We buy our ice as I don't like using our city water for drinking or for making ice.
Materials needed: strawberries, chocolate almond bark, ice cube tray
1. Clean and rinse strawberries. If large, cut in half.
2. Melt chocolate almond bark.
3. Spoon a little almond bark into each of the ice cube tray cube molds (what do you call these anyway?)
4. Place a strawberry in each "mold" and press into the chocolate.
5. Fill the rest of the "mold" with more chocolate.
6. Put in freezer (or refrigerator) until chocolate hardens. I prefer freezer. It's faster.
7. Enjoy.


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DETROIT – It looks like many new college graduates lack the basic interviewing skills to make sure they land that first job. Human resource executives told USA Today they are seeing some behavior that would be shocking to previous generations of job seekers.
For example, younger job candidates might text or take personal calls during an interview. Some dress too casually, bring their parents on interviews, and there's even one story of a woman bring her cat to a job interview.
"It's behavior that may be completely appropriate outside the interview," Jaime Fall, vice president of the HR Policy Association, told USA Today. "The interview is still a traditional environment."
Fall and other executives say surprising quirks have become more common in the last three years. They say the bad interviewing skills can cost some graduates jobs they might have been offered.
The problem doesn't end with the interview process. About half of the HR experts surveyed say some graduates struggle to be professional during their first year on the job. That number is up from 40% of executives just a year ago in 2012, according to a recent survey by the Center for Professional Excellence at York College of Pennsylvania.
To see the whole USA Today article, follow this link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/04/28/college-grads-job-interviews/2113505/
Related: Five tips for job fairs
You found the job of your dreams at a job fair website and wonder what the next step should be.
CJ Eason from JobFairGiant.com has these five tips for job seekers.
1. If the websites of job fair producers offer the option, search for jobs in advance, to target the most promising, participating employers. Read the employers' profiles if available, to help you answer the classic question, "Why do you want to work for us?"
2. Plan to take at least 25 crisp resumes to a job fair, 40 or so if it's a huge event. (The job fair might have copy facilities for free or a small fee, which is nice if you run out. But don't count on it ahead of time.)
3. Before a job fair, prepare to interview on the spot, summary style in a few minutes or less. In other words, be prepared to quickly sell your skills, talents and experiences.
4. Visit your targeted employers first with resume in hand, and spend some "quality time" with each. But, remember that they have many more job seekers waiting, so don't try to hog all their time or be offended if they cut it short. Once you've hit all of your targets, "shop" other employers' booths and do some networking.
5. Collect business cards or contact info as you go, and do follow up within 24-48 hours with a thank-you letter to each of the representatives with whom you spoke.


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HPLC Detectors Information
High performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) detectors pass a beam of light through a column effluent as the fluid passes through a low-volume flow cell. Variations in light intensity are recorded and a chromatograph is generated. HPLC detectors use several detection methods. Ultraviolet (UV) detectors measure the ability of a sample to absorb light at one or more wavelengths. Light scattering detectors nebulize the effluent, vaporize the solvent, and then detect droplets in a light scattering cell. Electrochemical detectors measure the current from the oxidation/reduction reaction of an analyte at a suitable electrode. Radiochemical detectors use tritium or carbon-14 to detect the fluorescence associated with beta-particle ionization. Mass spectroscopy detectors ionize a sample and use a mass analyzer to detect the ion current. Nuclear magnetic resonance detectors irradiate nuclei that are placed between the poles of a strong magnet. The radiation is absorbed, the parallel nuclei enter a higher energy state, and each atom produces a spectra specific to its location and chemical composition. Some HPLC detectors measure the change in the refractive index of the column effluent passing through the flow cell. Others detect the fluorescence that occurs when compounds are excited by shorter wavelength energy and emit higher wavelength radiation.
Important specifications for HPLC detectors include dynamic range, detector wavelength, response time, flow cell volume and flow cell rate. Dynamic range allows for the quantification of unknown samples using a multi-point calibration curve. It indicates when the peak area is directly proportional to the solute amount so that, for example, doubling the solute amount results in a doubling of peak area. Detector wavelength indicates the emission wavelength. Response time is the amount of time between a solute's entry into an HPLC detector and the generation of a chromatogram. Flow cell volume and flow cell rate are measurements of capacity and efficiency, respectively. Maximum pressure rating is another important specification to consider when searching for HPLC detectors.
HPLC detectors vary in terms of general features, display options, and interface options. General features include self-calibration, self-test diagnostics, data storage, and programmability. Devices with a built-in chromatograph and application software are commonly available. Some HPLC detectors are suitable for extreme temperatures. Others output an analog voltage, analog current, frequency, or pulse. Examples include amplitude modulation (AM), frequency modulation (FM), pulse width modulation (PWN), sine waves and pulse trains. Analog devices usually include an analog meter and a front panel with switches and knobs. Digital devices often provide a serial or parallel computer interface and a video display. Serial protocols include universal serial bus (UBS), RS232, RS422, and RS485.


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This case shows how online games can grow awareness and audience while engaging your target and reinforcing brand values. Napapijri, part of the VF Group, hired Duffy Agency to help them use social media more strategically in an effort to accelerate brand awareness and develop their online audience.
Duffy Agency began a program of regular content and social media marketing activity. It was punctuated by two major digital campaigns each year timed around the launch of their Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter collections. The SEARCH PARTY campaign was one such campaign. It was run across 14 countries and centered around an online game that Duffy Agency developed for the brand.
The premise of the game was that, during the last photo shoot in Iceland, the crew left three bags of clothing behind by mistake. Players were asked to create a SEARCH PARTY with their Facebook friends and, over a three-week period, use an interactive map to find each of the three bags, based on clues provided. The person who was first to locate a bag would win the bag it and its contents. And, one of the winners would also win a trip for four to Iceland.
We used the game as a focal point of a broader promotional campaign that included search and social advertising, email marketing, traditional public relations, as well as video promotion. The entire game concept and app design were all created to ensure maximum sharing and thus brand awareness, while reinforcing brand values. For instance, players got one guess per day for free, but could earn up to 5 more guesses by inviting Facebook friends to join their search party.
The game was hosted on its own microsite but was completely integrated with Facebook functionality and user experience. Players could access the game from a tab on Napapijri's Facebook page and use Facebook's sharing and messaging services to invite friends.
New Facebook followers
Visitors to the game
Increase in the rate
of newsletter signups
Increase in global audience
In our first 12-months managing Napapijri's social presence Duffy Agency has more than quadrupled Napapijri's online audience and increased the rate of growth of their audience by 300%.


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I saw my psychiatrist on Friday. A doc I like and appreciate and can tell that he cares. (Most important factor to me)
We talked again about me feeling depressed, lost, sad, anxious. He went through a list of meds with at least 30 names on it, and I've been on almost all of them. This is a regular appointment for me, discussing any options, usually no new ones, for helping the depression and anxiety I struggle with.
But this appointment was different.
He mentioned a newer drug that's come out and asked if I'd been on it. Amazingly enough, I've never been on it. Now I am trying this new med, started on Saturday, and I feel a bit of hope.
Maybe it won't help at all, but wouldn't it be great if it DID help? Even to still struggle with depression, but with breaks from the stranglehold it has on my soul. If it just quiets the suicidal impulses. Just helping one of the struggles with my mental health, maybe I could breathe more. Trust more. Be More Heidi.
I am beginning a new dance with an unfamiliar drug. I hope to sing through the rain, rather than having it bog me down and drown me.
Singing In the Rain
I saw my psychiatrist on Friday. A doc I like and appreciate and can tell that he cares. (Most important factor to me)


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By the narrowest of margins, I can say that my momentum strategy has produced eight consecutive months of positive performance. My equity curve was essentially flat in June with a change in value of 0.02%. As volatility remains low in most asset classes, the annualized volatility of my equity chart was less than 10% for all of June.
A performance metric that my strategy has a high value for is the gain to pain ratio. A value above 2 is considered to be exceptional. That ratio is usually calculated over the previous three or five years and since my strategy has less than two years history it really is too early to make a judgement of the gain to pain ratio for it.
My largest holding for July is the gold ETF GLD which I haven't held since last October.


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We continue in 1 JOHN with chapter 3. Within 1 JOHN, we have the basis for what it means to be a Christian.
We also continue the challenge of reading the book of 1 JOHN 5 times over the 5 weeks of this series. Also, to memorize 1 JOHN 5:13.
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In the last few years, there's been an interesting shift in the music industry – not just among consumers, but also among artists. Albums are being made at an almost alarming rate and the equipment needed has become very affordable – it's all become very democratized. Albums are being released as MP3's online, and thus reaching a lot more people than ever before. One would think that for us recording engineers this was a good thing. And in some cases it is, but not always. As a matter of fact, a similar thing has happened (albeit much faster) in the music industry as has happened in the food industry. The norm has become fast food.. made without nutrients, without soul and without heart. The idea that making an album should be an investment (time and money) is a thing of the past. Since it's possible to make an album inexpensively, then.. shouldn't I do it .. by myself? Well, no. Not entirely. In the past (and thankfully still today, to some degree) albums were made by a team of people. Not necessarily a large team, but a team nonetheless. And parts of this team were somewhat invisible to the artist. This included studio managers, runners, assistants, engineers – and producers. So, when the artist makes the new record, by himself this time (why not? he downloaded all the necessary software, so piece of cake, right?) he's taking on the role of several people – usually without knowing it. In some cases this is fine. He can most certainly help himself to the fridge or make a run to the corner for beers. But when it comes to the craft of making an album, there are some roles the artist is not so good at filling. Producer / engineer immediately comes to mind – and I won't even get into things like file management, labeling, backups, and the organizational skills 99% of artists lack (of course… otherwise they'd be shitty artists). Most artists will produce at least one of their albums by themselves, and nowadays a lot of them will even record most or all of them too. I can think of two artists that self-produced successfully: Prince and Stevie Wonder. And even they had spectacular failures mixed in with their landmark albums. Point being, there is something to be said for experience, and that certain skill-set. In my case, surely something must have rubbed off, during the making of those 100 or so albums I've been a part of.
One thing that almost always comes up, when i talk to artists about making records, is their perceived 'lack of quality' of MP3's as a format for (their) music. Meanwhile, 2 days later they are telling me they won't be needing my services for mixing, because they found a guy that will mix the record for free: "Can't beat that, can you?" they ask. Well, um, if you mean 'price-wise' then NO.. but if you mean 'quality-wise' i'll bet you my car the answer is YES I can beat that. No contest. But musicians today (a lot of them) don't have the same respect as they used to. They don't have the same respect for the music. They don't have the same respect for themselves, and not for the craft… my craft. I don't want to sound arrogant here (ok, maybe i do) but it's not about the downloaded software or the vintage gear, as much as it is about the guy turning the knobs where the difference lies. So, when the artist is says: "And of course i'll do vinyl, because having 'only' MP3 downloads doesn't do the album justice" I can't help but grin. This is the same album you just announced 10 mins ago you were going to have Bellbottom-Marvin in Echo Park mix on his laptop for free! I'm sorry, but i'm afraid the vinyl release isn't going to help you, my friend. It's still going to sound like crap.
MP3's are a delivery format, no different than an 8track, cassette or vinyl, and they all have their place. For me, when i jog, i don't care much for carrying a cd player with me. When i'm on a plane, not so interested in bringing 25 records with me, and a record player. So i use MP3's. The fit nicely on my laptop, on my iPod and in an email, to my clients. But when i want to listen to an album, i'll pull the cd out from the shelf, put it on my stereo and listen, as i read the liner notes. Different intention, than listening to music while jogging. Not interchangeable and one is not better than the other. Hot dogs and filet mignon, that's all. I don't think I'd want a hot dog on Thanksgiving of Christmas, and I'm sure I don't want a steak in my hot dog bun at the ballpark.
A friend / colleague of mine just finished producing an album by a fairly well known french artist, and the artist gave an interview online about the album and the process of making it. And, in his defense, I'm sure his intension was to give praise.. but I got an entirely different slant from the article. He was talking about the small budget he had to make the record and how he was discussing this with the producer. "I understand it's small, but not only do I want to make a very special album, without compromise, but i also want it to be a double album" (I'm paraphrasing here). And then he went on to say how "everyone did it for next to nothing" and the string players "did it for free, and didn't even get credit on the album, because of the union" etc etc. (I know this union rule, and it's BS.. but that's another story). So, for me, instead of reading praise, I read "I have this sense of entitlement, this need to make an artistic statement, and this producer is a good producer because he knows a lot of people that will work for free". Strange development indeed. Of course I am reading heavily into what's being said here, but it's my interpretation nonetheless, and there is some truth to it, I'm sure. So, guess who is going to be calling this producer and the string players and the rest of the musicians that played on the album for his next record? The guy with the big budget or the small budget? Exactly.
And this is the dilemma. There's always a guy with a laptop that will do it for free. Always a band that will give the album away for free – thanks for setting the tone on that one, Radiohead (fuckers). And this devalues what we do for a living. And since the general public is quite happy with fast food, with music without heart or soul, Laptop Guy stays busy and the rest of us have to pedal twice as fast to cover the same ground.
Problem is, when we should be moving faster (mixing, for example) the material handed over is getting worse. More square pegs in round holes, because Laptop Guy has never made a real record, with real musicians playing songs with real arrangements. So, where in the past i'd mix records in two days, now i'm struggling to mix a song a day – since most of what i do is apply bandaids. I mixed Solomon Burke's album in two days, and won a Grammy for it. Two hrs per mix. Because I recorded it myself, so there were no square pegs. Now, when artists come to me and say: "Just do kind of a quick mix on this album" they've just showed me their cards. Volunteered that they have no idea what they're talking about. Red flag! I can't mix a song any faster, just because I am getting paid less for it. That would mean I was adding to the fast food problem. I built my own studio for this very reason. I had to stop mixing in commercial studios, because they needed their daily fee, and if I was to get the gig, it meant 30 mins per mix for me ("one day of studio time is all we can afford"). Guess how much time the record company allocated for mixing of the next record I did for them after that Solomon Burke record? Yep, two days again. Even after I busted my balls mixing it, and won them a Grammy. Oh, and by the way, get this: on that second record (Bettye Lavette), they couldn't even get it together enough to send in the paperwork in time for a Grammy nomination (even if it was considered a shoe-in), they were so busy being great at saving money… Christ!!!
So what's the bottom line here? The solution? Well, for me, it's about finding ways to stay creative. To find the positive about the internet / MP3 revolution. Finding ways to be a part of making the records, from the beginning (here). A lot of people can and will hear the music we do work on, so keep doin' it. It's up to us as engineers / mixers to keep the bar high. Knowing that a well recorded and well mixed record will transcend any format. So for all you guys worrying about vinyl vs MP3 for your album .. it's only a small piece of the puzzle. And trust me.. much smaller than a good producer or engineer.
So cough it up and show some respect. You are not entitled. Talented (in most cases), but not entitled.


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Intel Building $5 Billion, 14nm Fabrication Plant in Arizona
Despite the fact that seventy-five percent of Intel's CPU sales come from outside of the United States these days, the chip giant fabricates that same amount inside the U.S. To help with that effort, Intel is constructing Fab 42, a new 14nm plant, in Arizona.
The new facility, which is expected to cost Intel more than $5 billion over the course of its construction, will create thousands of construction and manufacturing jobs as its built and comes online.
Although construction will begin sometime this summer, the fabrication plan isn't expected to fully come online until 2013. When it does, Intel will use it to construct chips on a 14nm manufacturing process.
That means that each CPU will possess transistors as small as 14nm – or a little over one six thousandth the width of a human hair.
Shrinking transistors and CPUs is one way companies can reduce power draw, and send some of their clock speeds skyrocketing.


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Subject: Physics (Newtonian Mechanics)
A billiard ball (solid sphere of radius R) is struck such that at t = 0, it is strictly slipping with velocity v0. At some time t, it grows to roll without slipping. The coefficient of dynamic friction between the ball and the table is mu_k. a) Draw a free body diagram of all the forces acting on the billiard ball at t = 0. b) At what time t does the ball strictly roll? c) At what distance d from its initial position does this strict rolling occur?
a) Force of gravity acting down from center of mass, Normal force acting up from surface of the table, Force of friction acting in direction opposite motion from point of tangentiality between table and ball. b) t = v0/((7/2)*g*mu_k) c) d = (2*(v0)^2)/(49*mu_k*g)
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A skydiver of mass m = 40 kg jumps out of a stationary helicopter at an elevation of H = 5 km. Air resistance of magnitude F = k*v acts on the skydiver during the descent, where v is the skydivers instantaneous velocity. a) Draw a free body diagram of forces acting on the skydiver. b) Write, but do not solve, a differential equation expressing the skydiver's motion. c) What is the skydiver's terminal velocity? d) Evaluate the differential equation from part b to find the skydiver's speed as a function of time. e) Calculate the skydiver's elevation as a function of time.
a) Force F applied upward, Force mg applied downward b) m(dv/dt) = mg - kv c) v = (mg)/k (occurs when dv/dt = a = 0) d) v(t) = (mg/k)(1 - exp(-kt/m)) (separation of variables to isolate dv and dt and integrate) e) x(t) = (mg/k)(t + (m/k)exp(-kt/m)) (integrate v(t)dt)
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In December 2015, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket became the first to land its first stage on Earth after launch. Prior, all stage 1 rockets fell into the Atlantic Ocean, never to be recovered. To land successfully, the first stage had to be equipped with liquid rocket fuel capable of igniting both remotely and on command. The Falcon 9 liquid rocket engine and fuel weighs 5,000 kg and is capable of producing 75 kN of thrust. The engine is remotely set to fire for 60 seconds: a) What is the rocket's acceleration upward after ignition? b) What is the rocket's height h at the moment its engines stop firing? c) What is the rocket's maximum height H? d) What velocity vf should the rocket experience at the moment of landing? Why?
a) a = 5.19 m/s^2 (Newton's law in y direction) b) h= 9.342 km [ y(t) = .5*a*t^2 ] c) H = 14.28 km (H = h + delta_h, use conservation of energy to find delta_h after engine stops and add to h to find H, delta_h = v^2/2g) d) vf should equal 0 at landing so that the rocket experiences no impact force upon landing
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Yep, this is my 1,500th post on this blog. That's a whole lotta bytes. Hard to believe I'm that gabby. Harder to believe that two-thirds of a million page views, either, or the 2,000 per day hits I'm getting
I'm naturally gabby.
It quiets the little voices in my head.
I can't let this sterling occasion go by without a quote from a famous person, so here it is, courtesy of GuyK at Charming, Just Charming:
"No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single." - H.L. Mencken
Say goodnight, Rivrdog.
Goodnight, Rivrdog.
No! I can't go yet, not without posting a memorial photo, in honor of the departed Acidman, who hated cats (or said he did, I'll bet he's pickin' & grinnin" with St. Peter right now and has a fluffy kitty sitting on his lap):
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Formed in 2012, ULI's Redevelopment and Reuse Council is one of the most recent additions to the Institute's product councils. Members discuss the increased importance of redevelopment and reuse, useful tools for these kinds of projects, the roles of public/private partnerships and anchor institutions, and other trends.
Why form a separate council dedicated to redevelopment and reuse?
Jeff Kingsbury: In the United States, land has been developed at a rate of roughly three times [the rate of] population growth. The average American uses about five times more land than he or she did 40 years ago. The market also [played] a role as we came out of the recession: new-construction rates slowed to a crawl in most markets, which depressed the pricing of existing real estate. In most cities, these factors created a favorable market for retrofitting and reuse, opening up opportunities for folks who weren't previously engaged in such activities.
Krista Sprenger: When you consider the aging building stock in the United States from a redevelopment and reuse perspective, the opportunity is staggering. The real estate industry is finally starting to focus on operating buildings more efficiently and cost-effectively. A lot of that has to do with the recession. People are also recognizing the connection between health and productivity. How can we not just make buildings cost less to operate, but also retrofit them to help people be more productive and healthy?
Doug McCoach: There's a social imperative and an environmental imperative to make unproductive sites more useful. And there's economic value, because with redevelopment sites, the infrastructure is already in place, and typically they're already tied into transportation networks. We have all these beautiful locations—waterfronts and downtowns—which offer things you just don't find in a cornfield. So when you redevelop these sites, the result is more engaging and interesting places than would be possible with greenfield development.
What tools for redevelopment and reuse are particularly helpful?
William Lashbrook: The traditional tool is tax increment financing [TIF], in those states that have authorized it. It's a great way to bootstrap something, and most lenders treat TIF as an equity source. But you need to have a governmental entity that can make some decisions regarding land, whether it's disposing of land or helping to get it rezoned. A lot of cities are trying to look at property that has been vacant, or gone fallow, or is now past due for taxes. You need an entity that has enough power and authority to make something happen, a public/private partnership that a developer and a bank can deal with in confidence that they'll be able to perform and deliver. Newark's economic development corporation, Brick City Development Corporation, is a great example, and it's had a lot of success.
Kingsbury: The federal historic tax credits and new markets tax credits are examples of the government taking on an appropriate role in effecting positive change in communities, and they've yielded a pretty significant benefit for the amount of dollars that have been invested. For example, the United States has granted about $21 billion in historic tax credits, and that has leveraged about five times that amount in private capital—about $109 billion. That's a pretty good return on investment. Further, rehabilitation activity from the historic tax credits has generated 2.41 million new jobs. And the demand for new markets tax credits far exceeds the allocations available.
Sprenger: Within the retrofit space, we've had energy service company [ESCO] project financing, which has provided capital solutions for municipalities, universities, hospitals, schools, and federal agencies to improve energy efficiency without having to pay upfront capital costs. The ESCO guarantees savings for a certain period of time and is paid back from the savings in energy costs. The problem is that electricity in some states can be as low as 3 cents a kilowatt-hour, and in others, 35-plus cents a kilowatt-hour. The next evolution is to find ways to provide financing that's not tied to energy savings.
McCoach: This is a casual response to a serious question, but you can't overrate the importance of a great slice of pizza. I can't tell you how many neighborhood revitalizations have been sparked by getting a pizza shop in place. Take Baltimore's North Avenue area, which saw its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s and then went downhill. About a dozen years ago, an art college bought and renovated a firehouse on the street, and the area started to become an artists' haven, and then a pizza restaurant opened up, and that brought in bands, and suddenly you've got a theater opening up and some galleries. There are stories like this all around.
What kinds of public/private partnerships have worked well for redevelopment/reuse?
Sprenger: One example is the Military Housing Privatization Initiative. The U.S. Department of Defense had an aging stock of homes to maintain, so it decided to form 50-year partnerships with the private sector in which Lend Lease and other private companies became responsible for refurbishing existing housing stock, building new homes, and then operating them for 50 years. We are doing the same now with hotels on army bases, where Lend Lease is building or refurbishing 11,600 hotel rooms on 39 military installations.
Kingsbury: The Great Recession forced the public sector to retreat on issues of urban redevelopment. Yet in cities like Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, and New Orleans, public and private foundations are responding to fill that gap in creative ways. Philanthropic organizations are seeing their role as going beyond funding amenities and capacity-building to taking on roles in property acquisition or taking equity positions in difficult deals. They are leveraging their reputations to attract other stakeholders to the projects. One of the best examples of that is the Kresge Foundation in Detroit and its role in the success and revitalization of midtown Detroit.
What role can anchor institutions like universities and health care providers have in spurring redevelopment?
McCoach: A redevelopment project that we're involved in—the mixed-use Gibbons Commons on the southwest side of Baltimore—is a great example. It's a 32-acre [13 ha] site that was a Catholic boys' high school. The Archdiocese of Baltimore surplused the property in 2010, and the adjacent St. Agnes Hospital purchased it. The plan is to maintain the health care–related, infrastructure-heavy functions on the hospital's existing campus and offload peripheral functions onto this new campus. They have pulled in nongovernmental organizations and nonprofits to help build a development team that focuses on the social mission. The affordable housing development arm of Bon Secours Hospital will be building workforce housing on the site, and Catholic Charities of Baltimore is considering reuse of one of the school facilities to create affordable housing for grandparents raising their grandchildren.
Kingsbury: A lot of the nation's hospital stock was built in the 1950s and 1960s. Those locations were once suburban but now are really urban and present infill opportunities or have the potential to be repositioned. We've been working with a health care system in Fort Wayne, Indiana—Parkview Health—which has a 1950s-era hospital that was designed for an inpatient care model. But these days, the emphasis is more on outpatient care. So we were tasked with looking at how to reposition that campus and came up with the idea of focusing on some key areas of emerging clinical need, including senior care, behavioral health, and rehabilitation. We've been able to attract other health care providers and educational institutions to purchase or lease space from the hospital. It's becoming a campus of mission-aligned partners.
Lashbrook: One thing about anchor institutions is that when universities and health care providers are looking at their facilities and land use, they may not be considering what the city or the town or the surrounding area is looking for. For example, when a university buys a site, it leaves the tax base. So there are examples of municipalities collaborating with anchor institutions on redevelopment, but generally the municipality itself would have to be driving that effort.
What kinds of challenges or solutions are unique to waterfront redevelopment?
McCoach: The rise of sea levels is starting to hit home. We've got one project in the Northeast where a five-foot-deep [1.5 m] clean-fill cap is required as a part of the mediation plan; but as it turns out, to rise above the projected flood point, we had to use seven feet [2 m] of fill. That raises interesting questions. Should the owner fill the seven feet and capture the value so he or she can resell it? Does the cap need to be protected, since it's anticipated to be submerged? These are issues we will be addressing more with waterfront sites.
Lashbrook: In any redevelopment near waterfronts, or in areas susceptible to flooding, we need to be prepared to deal with larger volumes of water than we anticipated in the past. We may need to think about building structures that are going to perform differently. I was on ULI's Hurricane Sandy advisory panel last summer in New York, and one of the things we postulated was that there should be different land use overlay zones to encourage shifting investment from high-risk areas, where there isn't a way to defend the infrastructure from flooding, to less vulnerable ones. But there could also be buildings designed to withstand flooding on the lower floors without the foundation being undermined or the upper floors being affected. The lower levels, which are at risk of flooding and are intended to be sacrificial, could still be leased to tenants who understand and accept the risks.
What other trends do you see?
Sprenger: Commercial office buildings offer a lot of potential for redevelopment, especially in our central business districts. The recession taught us that 20 percent of those buildings could be vacant at any time. Instead of creating more single-use property types, we need to reimagine these—what I call vertical brownfields—as a mixed-use offering. The opportunity is there to create complete communities within those central business districts that are now ghost towns on the weekends. Also, we aren't going to be so tethered to our offices in the future. So what happens when we start reducing people's need for office space by 30 or 50 percent? We're going to have lots of good buildings open for reuse.
McCoach: As warehouses continue to evolve, and the buildings require more flexible design standards and greater ceiling heights, an entire generation of warehouses built before 1995 has become obsolete. Do you tear them down? They become a bit of a nuisance for the local jurisdictions. They don't command the rents they used to, so there is an emerging opportunity for reuse.
Lashbrook: At the Regional Plan Association annual meeting earlier this year in New Jersey, there was a presentation on the way Providence, Rhode Island, brought back the river in downtown, which had been essentially covered over for a long time, and put in a riverwalk. They have an event called WaterFire, with bonfires on the river in the evenings, performances, art—it's like a giant party down by the water. There were also presentations on similar regenerations in Detroit and Cincinnati. In every one of the cases, all of the initial work started out as a plan for structures, for types of real estate. But what really caused each of these efforts to be successful was connecting the plan to the way people would use the place. Making places successful is not just about connecting people with nature, but connecting people with people.
Ron Nyren is a freelance architecture and urban planning writer based in the San Francisco Bay area.


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"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." (Romans 8:3, 4)
God condemned sin in the flesh, not merely by pronouncing against it but by living in it yet never sinning. By doing so Christ condemned sin in our flesh showing that we have no excuse for sinning. By His victory over temptation in our sinful flesh He also became our example as to how we might have victory over temptation. Christ united His Divinity with our sinful human nature and thus became the perfect Mediator between God and mankind that needs saving.
"The nature of God, whose law had been transgressed, and THE NATURE OF ADAM THE TRANSGRESSOR, meet in Jesus, the Son of God, and the Son of man." E.G. White, Manuscript 141, 1901.
"It was in the order of God that Christ should take upon himself the FORM AND NATURE OF FALLEN MAN, that he might be made perfect through suffering, and himself endure the strength of Satan's temptations, that he might the better know how to succor those who should be tempted." E.G. White, Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, 12-31-72.
"Though He had no taint of sin upon His character, yet He condescended to connect our fallen human nature with His divinity. By thus taking humanity, He honored humanity. Having taken our fallen nature, he showed what it might become, by accepting the ample provision He has made for it, and by becoming partaker of the divine nature." Letter 81, 1896. 3SM 134
"He took upon Him OUR SINFUL NATURE."
E.G. White, Signs of the Times, 7-30-02.
Think of Christ's humiliation. He TOOK upon himself FALLEN, SUFFERING HUMAN NATURE, DEGRADED AND DEFILED BY SIN. He took our sorrows, bearing our grief and shame. He endured all the temptations wherewith man is beset. He united humanity with divinity: a divine spirit dwelt in a temple of flesh. He united himself with the temple. "The Word was MADE FLESH, and dwelt among us," because by so doing he could ASSOCIATE WITH THE SINFUL, sorrowing sons and daughters of Adam." E.G. White, The Youth's Instructor, 12-20-00.
"Notwithstanding that the sins of a guilty world were laid upon Christ, notwithstanding the humiliation of taking upon Himself OUR FALLEN NATURE, the voice from heaven declared Him to be the Son of the Eternal."
Desire of Ages 112.
"HIS HUMAN NATURE WAS created; it did not even possess the angelic powers. IT WAS HUMAN, IDENTICAL WITH OUR OWN...He would redeem Adam's disgraceful failure and fall, in OUR own HUMANITY."
E.G. White, Selected Messages Book 3.
"The Spirit was given Him without measure; for His mission on earth demanded this. Christ's life represents a perfect manhood. Just that which you may be, He was in human nature. He took our infirmities. He was not only made flesh, but He was made in the likeness of sinful flesh. His divine attributes were withheld from relieving His soul anguish or His bodily pains" Letter 106, 1896 (5BC 1124).
Christ's sinlessness is unquestioned
That Christ in human nature lived a life of sinlessness is unquestioned. He never sinned by thought or action. He was holy and pure, undefiled from conception to grave. His infinite perfection of character has never been equaled by any other nor indeed can be.
"In him is no sin." 1John 3:5.
"Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth." 1Pet 2:22.
Jesus asked His enemies, "Which of you convinceth me of sin?" John 8:46.
Christ lived a life of sinlessness in our fallen human nature and thereby condemned sin in the flesh, in our flesh. Christ proved that our nature is no excuse for sinning and that obedience to God's law is possible even in our fallen nature:
"He [Christ] came with such a heredity to share our sorrows and temptations, and to give us the EXAMPLE OF A SINLESS LIFE." E.G. White, Desire of Ages, p49.
"He sent His Son to this world to bear the penalty of sin, and to SHOW MAN HOW TO LIVE A SINLESS LIFE." E.G. White, Reflecting Christ, p37.
"He came to this world and lived a sinless life, that in His power His people might also live LIVES OF SINLESSNESS." E.G. White, Review and Herald , April 1, 1902
"He placed us on vantage ground, where we could live pure, SINLESS LIVES." E.G. White, Signs of the Times , June 17, 1903.
"Every one who by faith obeys God's commandments, will reach the condition of SINLESSNESS in which Adam lived before his transgression." E.G. White, Signs of the Times , July 23, 1902.
The only way that Christ could demonstrate how, we in our sinful nature, might live sinless lives is by living a sinless life in our sinful nature.
Very painful.. Right.. Its like A W Tozer put it, I think it was him.. He said its because our self is like a fleshy veil that must be torn away.. So OF COURSE its going to be painful.. It is flesh ripping.. But it must be done in order to obtain the most Holy place before the very God of heaven..
I used my own words, and his idea.. But it just struck me very forcefully, the idea of our selfish nature being ripped like a membrane, tearing it away, as IN a birth, almost!! It is INCREDIBLY fascinating to study what He's done for us, IN REALITY.. And also to come to know more of what we NEED to know for preparedness!!
I want to be ready..
Does this mean that he was both human and divine??
What do you mean leslie? Give me your thoughts. Tell me what you think and support it by the word and SOP. Lets investigate.
Paul well according to the Bible it says God cannot be tempted.
Jas 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
So, then if he had any form of divine then he will still be God although human as well.
The devil tempted him how can that be possible
Paul no I do not believe it was a play I believe he really was tempted but he could not have been divine only human in order to be tempted of the devil.
His name means God with us, either God is a lier or God did walk the earth for 30 years in the flesh. Jesus said before Abraham was, I am. If he was not divine then he was a lier and not God. And yet we know that he accepted worship, if he was not divine then how can you worship him?
Ezra I understand what you are saying but what I am asking is if he had also divinity in him when he came can that be the reason why he never sinned even though he was tempted of the devil.
Because I am thinking (and I could be very wrong) that he had to be very much human alone and not sin even though tempted of the devil as an example for us that we humans can also through him overcome sin.
But if he was divine then it seems to me (again i could be very wrong) that it is a fact that not that he "did not sin" but he "could not sin" because he was God.
I hope you understanding what I saying
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Sensing a Calgary bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games is about to die, some Canadian athletes have mobilized to keep it alive.
About 50 active and retired athletes held a news conference Friday at Canada Olympic Park urging city council not to quit on a bid before all the facts are known and the financial picture is clear.
Many of them were Olympians and Paralympians from Calgary, or who moved to Calgary, and built their careers on the legacy of the 1988 Winter Olympics in the city.
They're organizing a campaign of letters, texts and social media messages to councillors in advance of the vote.
"Keep exploring the bid and not just shut it down before there's more information," two-time Olympic speedskater Gilmore Junio pleaded.
Councillors are expected to vote early next week on whether to continue work on a potential bid. A slate of recommendations that kept a bid on the table barely passed last month with an 8-6 vote.
The Alberta and Canadian governments have committed to financially supporting a bid corporation. A bid is estimated to cost $30-million.
The provincial government wants Calgary to hold a plebiscite measuring interest in hosting another Winter Games.
But some city councillors are frustrated by what they say is a lack of information and clarity around the process.
A city bid project team took over the work of the Calgary Bid Exploration Committee, which estimated the cost of the games at $4.6-billion.
The International Olympic Committee said in January it would give US$925-million to the 2026 host city.
The IOC's deadline to submit a bid is January 2019. The winning city will be announced in September 2019.
Calgary has already spent $6-million investigating and analyzing what a bid might look like.
"The city has already said they're interested in the games," former luger Jeff Christie pointed out. "They've committed resources to it and the whole picture hasn't been presented yet.
"Council is confused. I get it. Let's not be confused and just stop. Let's finish the process, understand and see if this is an economically responsible games to potentially bid for."
Mark Tewksbury, an Olympic gold medallist in swimming now on the Canadian Olympic Committee's board of directors, says it's important let a bid corporation, with money from other levels of government, do its work.
"Allow external money to come into this exploration, allow it to become a bid corporation, take it out of the hands of city councillors with some leadership that can be 100 per cent committed to exploring this and getting back with the answer of if it makes sense or not," Tewksbury said.
Calgary's Chamber of Commerce chimed in Friday saying the business community wants to go further down the road of exploring a bid.
"Businesses and all Calgarians deserve the right to see the outcome of a rigorous analysis, to weigh the pros, cons, costs and benefits of a potential Olympic bid," the chamber said in a statement.
The COC asked city council to let citizens have a say via a plebiscite.
"It's an opportunity that could shape a vision for Calgary, Alberta, and Canada for generations," president Tricia Smith said in a statement.
"Even if there are understandable concerns about undertaking such a project, we're having a conversation well worth having.
"We are confident that the city councillors will provide the citizens of Calgary the chance to decide that vision by proceeding with a plebiscite."
Canadians who either train full time in the Calgary area, or who have used the facilities for competition or training camps in their careers, won a combined 39 of 57 medals at the recent Olympic and Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang South Korea, according to the Canadian Sport Institute Calgary.
Mark Arendz moved from Charlottetown to Canmore, Alta., several years ago to train at the Nordic Centre that is one of the 1988 legacies.
He won six medals in biathlon and cross-country skiing, including a gold, at the Pyeongchang Paralympics.
"What I'm hoping council will do is stay in this game and find out everything about it and listen to the legacy that does come from a games," Arendz said.


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In the first instance(1992-4) I had a bad feeling about some people around me and when I left the area to go to Sydney for a second opinion.
I acted on an intuition to cut my ties with everyone, mainly because there were good people too who would have been hassled to get information out of them and I didn't want them hassled.
And here I was lucky that the doctors threw their hands in the air and said "nothing we can do" because this allowed my body to retain its strength and not suffer the assault of surgery or surgeries. Their main problem was that the cancer was in both lungs so they saw me as a lost case.
But they also diagnosed type 2 diabetes, which in my case was as a result of the stress associated with the cancer.
In the second instance some 10 years later (April 2004), some people asked some strange requests and then went on to harass me. I did not appreciate anything. I thought I just had the misfortune of getting sick again). Then when I got out of bed to make myself some coffee I looked out of my window and saw one of them violating my property and trampling on a tree seedling. I put on a jacket, because I had been sweating and feeling very sick, and went out side and confronted him.
He tried to fob me off but I got a good resolution to the issue (after all it was my property and he had no legal rights). I was very surprised that by the end of the argument I realized I didn't feel so bad and by the time I walked back inside my house from the street (a distance of about 50 meters) I was feeling completely well.
This experience made me realize that I didn't have the flu as well as cancer in the oesophagus but that it was all the same problem. They were flu-like symptoms and part of the cancer. I knew then that the lump would disappear and over then next 2-3 weeks or so it did disappear and I had again been able to swallow all my food without problem.
Later that year in November I was again hassled over different issues and again developed cancer, ovarian as in the first cancer. This time however I knew the issues involved and I also had a lot of information that I was now able to apply. This is information my husband had given me about how toxic people operate, about their foul games. So I was able to do a scientific study.
I used insight meditation to investigate what was happening in my body and I used a diary to record the events and the thoughts. I watched the cancer metastasize to the bowel and grow to the size of a golf ball.
I began to see a bigger picture. This helped me to deliberately effect spontaneous remission in mid February, 2005 and the cancer was gone in about 1 week.
And it also game me the means by which I could overcome subsequent attacks (bowel, ovarian, oesophageal, bone, pancreatic of the beta cells, skin, lung cancers).
And there were more attacks after this with attempts at brain and spectacularly heart cancer, which is rare and which I know some corrupt /toxic doctors were again involved as in some of the previous occasions.
They failed because once a person understands the means they don't get caught up in the deception anymore. The body won't react as to try and defend itself when the person knows it just a cheat.
And I might say that I have spoken to some oncologists about this and none can give me any answer, let alone a satisfactory answer about many of the key issues in cancer, eg that the immune system is needed for metastasis to take place. Most of my discussion have been with doctors on sites where you pay some money and ask various doctors/ specialists questions. They won't publish my question & answer sessions so I can't give you any link to them.
However here is one blog of two cancer doctor/scientists, who both treat patients and who are involved in cancer research. Here is the link: https://biologicallyactive.wordpress…-fight-cancer/
and you will see that their reply was feeble and when I pressed them further they have not at least as yet replied. My last response to them was back in late November 2015. But in fairness to them, they are bound by the medical guidelines, which they must follow.


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I saw this cartoon in the Financial Times yesterday morning, and couldn't agree with it more…
The story, is along the lines of a blog that I did not too long ago entitled "Hoping for Audacity". While reading some of the comments on Mr. Crook's blog page, I was glad to see I'm not the only one asking … Where is the audacious, 'yes we can' leader we elected?
I do not believe it is an insult to ask," Mr. President, what are you afraid of?" or "what are you waiting for?" I believe in fact it's the prudent thing to do because he may just be thinking that if he holds out for just a little bit more, then maybe the GOP will just fall in line and do as he pleases..
The problem here is… that will never happen.
The GOP would rather turn on it's own than step one foot into the bipartisan arena and that is because of is this newly emerging 'religious-like' dogma code the GOP are living by these days. It's been slow to take shape, but it's become undeniable that the GOP followers see their party as a type of religion and their leaders as some kinds of prophets or disciples to be worshiped at all costs. You only have to look at Mark Sanford to see what it is I'm talking about.
Since when do Republicans endorse abandoning their post, turning off their cell phones,lying to their aids and leaving their state without a leader for a few days while going out and getting their love on in another country with their mistress, who their wife had told them they couldn't visit all of the 8 times they asked if they could visit?
I seem to remember not too long ago the outrage wasn't that Clinton had sex with that woman (wink-wink), but it was that he did it while in the Oval office and while being on the phone with members of Congress. 'What kind of leader would do such a thing' was demanded and 'he should be run out of town for it' seemed to be the reply. Well, who would have known that had Bill just left his secret service detail,wife,child,phone, office and gone missing in Argentina for a week with Monica.. we could have save bundles of time and energy.
The contortion one has to accomplish to justify Sanford's actions are only mimicked in religion. I am surprised that Bill Maher hasn't picked up on this yet. This, need to excuse everything at all cost because any dent in the dogma may bring it all down upon them.
What Sanford did was wrong. The reason he did it, to have a quickie, is not the issue.. atleast not for the Democrats. Their only reason for even bringing up the affair is because it's too great an irony that the 'righteous' and 'moral' party is once again caught with their pants down, so great in fact that it just can't be ignored. But, that is not the meat of the issue in the questions surrounding whether he should resign or not. OF course he should resign! He went missing for 5 days without a care in the world as to what happened to the state he was governing. I can see not wanting his wife to know where he was, but he didn't even tell his aids or turn his phone on just in case something happened that he needed to be reachable for.
There is no question that he should resign, not for his affair.. but for his going AWOL. The bizarre part isn't in thinking that, it's in watching someone justify why his excuse for the adultery is the reason why he should not resign for leaving his job. Sure King David fell, but number one, he's not King David and number 2, he's not being asked to step down because he can't be trusted to keep it in his pants, he's being asked to step down because he can't be trusted to govern. Sanford and not so bizarrely, Rush, used the excuse that he had just come off a hard defeat in trying to fight President Obama's socialist march through South Carolina and he needed the rest. Well… what is going to happen after the next stressful time? Is Sanford going to pretend he and one of his children have been car-jacked when he actually just ran off to Disney World?
There is something in the GOP these days that not only fears coming out against one of their own when that person is absolutely and on every level, wrong.. but when there are some that do come out against the holy see, they are excommunicated for their dissent.
The party of the religious has itself turned into a religion that must not be disputed, doubted or diverged from.
If those in their own party can't compete with this without fear of being tossed out, how can President Obama think he can accomplish any bipartisan achievements? The simple truth of it is, he can't. But that's why he was elected with such a majority and given all the congressional tools he needed to accomplish his vision. We the people wanted certain policies enacted or changed. We hoped to finally be able to say "Yes we did" but someone forget to tell the President this and it's time someone reminds Superman that he doesn't have to duck when the gun is thrown at him.
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Following a first-half foot injury during Perth Glory's match against Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday, scans have revealed a ligament rupture to Sam Kerr's left foot, ruling her out of the remaining Westfield W-League season.
The Perth Glory captain and Westfield Matildas star attacker collapsed to the ground in the 20th minute of the first half, after a non-contact injury.
An initial assessment suggested the injury was not serious but X-rays on Tuesday on Kerr's foot revealed a significant rupture, which will sideline her for at least three months.
"To say that I'm bitterly disappointed is an understatement. I worked hard after undergoing surgery to my left knee at the end of last season and now this happens" she said.
"I'm thankful however, that it's happened now and I have every chance to recover in time for the Rio Olympic qualifiers in March."
"I would like to wish my teammates all the best for the remainder of the season and hope they take the positive energy from Sunday's win into the rest of the season," she said.
Glory coach Bobby Despotovski wished Kerr a speedy recovery and said he'd be on the lookout for a replacement striker.
"First of all my heart goes out to Sam. I can't believe this has happened to her but knowing the fighter that she is, she will bounce back. We'll sit down and assess our options over the coming days and see if we can recruit a replacement striker," he said.
Kerr has scored one goal this season, and has appeared in four of the five W-League matches for the Glory.


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January 23, 1989, Section A, Page 12Buy Reprints
On a rain-swept street corner in this grimy mill town, just steps from a heroin shooting gallery, David Purchase gives out clean syringes in exchange for dirty ones - 13,000 needles in all since he set up his folding table five months ago.
''How does this work?'' a toothless addict asked this week, suspicion in his eyes, as he approached the table heaped with condoms, bottles of bleach and alcohol swabs, some of the other tools of AIDS prevention.
''You give me an old one, I give you a sterile one, and it keeps your butt alive,'' said Mr. Purchase, who also offered a fistful of condoms and a bit of bilingual advice on avoiding sexual transmission of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
''No guante, no amante; no glove, no love,'' Mr. Purchase called out as the man headed down Commerce Street, past rescue missions, pawn shops and the places where the poor sell their blood. A Pioneer Program
Mr. Purchase's one-man war against AIDS was the nation's only needle-exchange program when it began here in August, in the community south of Seattle that has 63 AIDS cases and 3,000 intravenous drug users. New York City, home to 18,000 AIDS cases and 200,000 addicts, now also dispenses uncontaminated syringes, but the Tacoma exchange remains more successful and less contentious.
The more modest exchange in New York City, which began in November, has been hobbled by the outcry of law-enforcement officials and some politicians, who say it promotes drug abuse, and by neighborhood groups that succeeded in confining the project to a Government office in Lower Manhattan. The New York program has dispensed 76 needles to 56 addicts, compared with hundreds served here each week.
''It's not user-friendly,'' Mr. Purchase said of the New York program. ''You have to give them what they want, where they want it.'' Mr. Purchase takes a position shared by Stephen C. Joseph, the New York City Commissioner of Health, who has so far lost the battle for street distribution.
Similar programs have been blocked in Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston, and one in Portland has been delayed by insurance difficulties. Needle-exchange programs elsewhere, including one in San Francisco, have not been seriously considered, in part because of the prospect of community debate. Not Afraid to Be Wrong
Mr. Purchase, a 49-year-old drug counselor currently disabled from a motorcycle accident, finds that argument insidious. He says needle-exchanges have been stalled by ''ignorance, politics and moral fascism.'' Mr. Purchase says that, if he is wrong that the exchange slows the spread of AIDS by taking dirty needles out of circulation, he will just ''look foolish.'' But if those blocking such programs are wrong, ''their children will be dead.''
Health officials around the country, who are closely following the program here, say Tacoma's effort is extraordinary because it took shape with virtually no civic upheavel. They credit this to the enlightened attitudes of the Pacific Northwest, the relative leniency of county drug paraphernalia laws, the absence of racial rhetoric in local political debate and the way Mr. Purchase began his crusade with gradual Government participation.
Terry Reid, the manager of AIDS and substance abuse programs for the county Health Department, said it was much easier to ''focus on AIDS prevention when you don't have 10,000 cases, or 2,000 cases, or even 500 cases'' that require medical care. Mr. Purchase said the inexorable march of the AIDS virus, which reached the Northwest later than it did other regions, allowed people here to ''see our future if we didn't do something.''
''In a sense, other people have died to give us that advantage,'' he said. Support From the Police
When Mr. Purchase set up shop, he was without official Government sanction or financial backing and, he said, prepared to go to jail for 90 days for the misdeamenor offense of possessing drug paraphernalia. But right from the start, he was supported by the Police Chief, Ray Fjetland, who suspended enforcement of the syringe law.
''Conventional law enforcement hasn't helped the AIDS problem,'' said Mark K. Mann, a police spokesman. ''Before you put the clamps on somebody trying to help, you better have an alternative. We didn't.''
Mr. Purchase also worked closely with the county Health Department, which sent staff members to survey his needle-exchange regulars in anticipation of a department presentation to the Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health, an elected body that sets policy. But at this stage, the county had no official stake in the program.
Meanwhile, he experimented with ways of engaging his clients, most of them typical inner-city addicts, with stringy hair, pallid complexions and hard eyes. Mr. Purchase will trade as many as 10 needles at a time, all the while handing out cookies and mittens. Sensitive to Politics
The department's early survey data, based on 66 people, indicated that trading needles did not create new addicts and did reduce needle sharing. But the presentation to the board was delayed until after the November election.
That sort of delicacy, experts around the country say, is typical of a health department that has invested lots of time in educating elected officials. The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health also recently approved a condom advertising campaign of the kind that has caused uproars elsewhere.
Two weeks ago, the board voted to put Mr. Purchase on salary and pay for the supplies that had cost almost $5,000, part from his own pocket and part from donations. The program is budgeted for $43,165 a year. There are no plans to move Mr. Purchase indoors, as requested by a few area merchants, but he will soon have a van.
One of the most telling arguments for the board, members said, was the cost of needle exchange versus medical care. ''Assume it costs $40,000 for each person with AIDS,'' Mr. Purchase said. ''All I have to do is prevent infection in .91 citizens, and the county breaks even. I'm sure I did that today.''
Mr. Purchase has lately become a celebrity here. But what he likes more are the thanks of drug users. ''Before I go to bed at night, I ask myself if I did something useful today,'' Mr. Purchase said. ''The answer is always yes.''


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Thanks everyone! I am planning on coming out with a tutorial on the Tron Light Cycle video complete with a Base Project File for download. It is done with the Particle Sim, so it is all procedural. All you have to do is Keyframe the Cycle Position Point and the Particle Sim does the rest!
Not sure how I missed this. Looks great.... even the noise just takes me back
......and forgive me for being forward, but when might this tutorial be up? I only ask as I am in the middle of my own TRON sequence for my movie, and would LOVE to use those light trails
Legendary! Thanks mate!
@WedgeOz I'm sure @FilmSensei's project will be helpful, but I'm surprised you haven't cracked this yet. You guys are both working from the discussion in your TRON test thread. :-)
Jay, they really did come out fantastically.
Haha...truth to tell, I haven't even tried to "crack it" lately, as I've been working on other scenes (which didn't require the light trails). Thankfully I took the easy way out and waited for Jay's input....lol. Saved me lots of time and head scratching
Well after much trial and error (and my first REAL project using Hitfilm Pro 12), after using Hitfilm Ultimate for so long, I slowly and surely produced some light trails . Now that my head is completely wrapped around how to make them, tomorrow I'll start storyboarding my shots for my film.
I think I mentioned earlier on my other thread, these Particle trails are going to be absolutely perfect, quicker, simpler and easier for all the wide angled shots (where there are multiple trails), yet I might still use planes for the extreme close ups (where I'm featuring my actors).
Dang! This really is fun stuff!! Thanks for everyone's input. This will drastically reduce the time it will take me to make this scene!! Cheers!
Looking forward to seeing it
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Thanks for the tutorial your keeping the thread rolling with hitfilm content
I did a Podcast with @FerraFilms that has been released on his YouTube Channel. Check it out!
Other podcasts on his channel include Justin Barrett (@CleverTagline), Javert Valbarr (@JavertValbarr), VFX artist Tom Cowles, and actor Todd Bruno!
@FilmSensei ,Oh man this is cool. Watching on the tube.
Handbrake converting , and screen capture fps... priceless info. Thanks.
Excellent podcast. It's really interesting to hear how other people (especially from here) got into doing what they do, their approach and mindset.
I've listened to those previous podcasts and Ferra Films does get some really good guests. I asked how he managed it and he said "I ask"
P.S. I stood in line for A New Hope... a really clear memory. I walked out the cinema with my eyes shut trying to 'force feel' my way back to my dad's car.
P.P.S Thanks for the mention
@DafterThings @Spydurhank ...and I mentioned you both!
I tried to give a shout out to everyone I could think of while we were talking!
Thank you for the much appreciated mention. The process of how you make and complete your tuts is awesome. Thanks for sharing that. It will help me a ton.
No wonder you're so good at tuts, you were a Karate instructor for like... ever!
@spydurhank Thanks. I appreciate it. Maybe someday I should do a tutorial on how I do my tutorials!
Like I said in the podcast, I wouldn't recommend to anyone to do it like I do. My process is backward indeed, but it does make it feel more like a real, "live class" lesson. The hardest part is to be disciplined enough not to ramble!
The reason I get so much from your tutorials is the way you engage the audience and take people along with you.
Also you often verbalise my own thoughts and questions as I have them.
@FilmSensei you probably should do a tut on doing your tuts. I've tried three approaches and find what's best for me is a bullet point outline (but a lot of bullet points ..), then just speaking off the cuff, where @JavertValbarr scripts as he dry runs, records/edits audio, then redoes mouse to his recordings. Some tutorial creators just go off the top of their heads, which is annoying when they realize 5 min later they missed a step. Anyway, how one approaches that is interesting.
Oddly enough some audience got MAD Javert does his final edit in Premiere and I use Vegas!
@DafterThings Thanks for your kind words, that means a lot!
@Triem23 I say whatever tool you are most comfortable using and gets a high quality job done is the right tool! I use HitFilm for everything, but I am most comfortable using it over anything else, so it's the best tool for me.
You sir are correct. I need more focus so I can think linearly. I appreciate everything that I learn from you and everyone here on the forums.
@FilmSensei Great interview, sir. I'm not a podcast listener but I found it very interesting. When you were talking about seeing Star Wars for the first time it made me feel old though when I realized I'm 10 years older than you. BTW, Mia Sara was in Legend not Mia Farrow... Just throwing that out there.
@tddavis Dang! I knew I was wrong about that when I said it! Thanks for the correction. The other movie I was trying to think of with Tom Cruise in it was "Taps" (with George C. Scott and Timothy Hutton).


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Good Morning, afternoon or evening – I hope you all are enjoying your mid – week, I know I most certainly am, before I get going and talk to you all about what's up and what you want to know, I'm not a bad person, I don't think anyone is a bad person I believe things happen that change our perspective and tilt our mind, I was hurt lately by someone who, meant something to me, lived a life time in two weeks and now it's time to bring him to his knees, sorry you asked for what's to come and the most delicious part of it all, it only will take three phone calls, and I won't tell a single lie. I'm going today to talk to my second advertising firm to pitch my project – I'm so excited for this, I know at this point you'd be like what are you talking about? and that's a good thing to be honest! You will know when I need you to know! But I do owe the city of Toronto a massive thank you, also the United States.
NARS has become kind of a controversial brand since they became un-cruelty free sadly, to sell within China you have to be able to test on animals which is sad, since the pull NARS has not tested on a single animal just wanted to reach fans on a global scale which said be true isn't such a bad thing! Just look who their parent company is, couldn't have come to a shock to many when the news dropped.
There is two collections I open this morning so I decided to play around with the colors, and give you my opinion of spring and summer with NARS and the smart choices they made under your nose! The NARS Orgasm collection is ecstatically please, the shade is universally flattering across the board so to have a lot options there when it comes to formula is just smart. For them to lead with the OG Naomi Campbell kind of speaks to the legacy of Orgasm and NARS did something very smart revamping the same shade into a new collection rather then pour out another meh collection!
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My top products from the NARS AFTER GLOW COLLECTION would be the Endless Orgasm Palette, NARS is well known for their shades, and well known for their artistry, the shades are curated together beautifully in a way that I haven't seen NARS packing before – the shadows are like butter and blend together wonderfully, I love the pop of dusty orange within the palette, I also would be foolish to not mention the palette is for eyes, face and lips which comes to be with a lot of NARS lately.
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The NARS lip balm in shade orgasm is actually perfect if you're pale as I am, and you kind of start to loose that lip shade you can lightly tap this over top bringing your lips back to lip and keeping them protected and healthy at the same time.
The summer lights palette from NARS is a personal favourite when they add in contour and or some highlight with your eyeshadows and they never fail when it comes to the summer, if you're seating or go swimming they fit perfect in your bag if you need to touch up, I they always have been transfer and waterproof.
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