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What to Expect for Sony's Surprise February 20th Presser
Sony pretty much popped out from behind everyone, scaring the shit out of them today, by announcing a surprise press conference for February 20th. They're teasing the future of the PlayStation brand, showing the traditional PlayStation face buttons (cross, circle, square, and triangle), with the date February 20th.
The biggest shocker? Sony is actually keeping their goddamned mouth shut.
Recall back to my Wii U editorial that I published late last year, I called Sony out for their numerous leaks in the past. Just about any piece of hardware (PSPgo comes to mind) or major software (PlayStation Home) is leaked well before Sony's intentional release. They know they fucked up - and was even humble enough to joke about the PSPgo leak during their E3 09 conference - and they're making sure it doesn't happen again.
Some are already pointing out stills from the 45 second teaser, that there may be hidden images of the system itself. Such as the one below, seen at 0:04 in:
Sorry, Polygon, but I'm not seeing it. I see what you're getting at - and it can look like a piece of hardware - but I doubt they're showing it there; watch it in action, and you'll see for yourself.
Now, it's not common for the major companies in the industry to push their hardware announcements outside of the comfort zone of E3, but there have been a few instances. Microsoft unveiled the original Xbox at CES 2000. Nintendo (prematurely) announced the 3DS in March of 2010. The Vita was announced in January of 2011. Some announcements come either at E3 - Wii (then unveiled as the Revolution) and PS3 - or within a month or so of E3 (Xbox 360). Why would Sony hold a major presser for their next home console in February? I can understand for handhelds, such as the 3DS and Vita's case, but home consoles?
I see this as Sony actively preparing - and attempting to steal thunder - for Apple. In recent history, Apple has been using the first quarter of the year to announce new iPads, and those announcements usually come in late February or early March, with a launch shortly after. The gaming industry needs new hardware, and Nintendo's been dragging their feet with the Wii U; when Iwata apologizes for their performance, you know they know they're fucking up. Sony's February announcement could be a kick in the ass for industry, drumming up interest. They did a full unveil of the Vita during their little presser in January 2 years ago, showing up details and games, but holding off on the final name until E3. There was a lot of interest in the little handheld that could leading up to E3.
Sony's learned a lot from the Vita. They know, just like Nintendo, they can't release a handful of games in the first few months, delay anticipated launch-day/window titles, and not have anything on the plate for a library until a year later. Your system needs functionality out of the gate. Rumors are flying of system-locked games, preventing pre-owned games to be played on systems other than the one it was first played on, or them ditching the DualShock controller (please) for something that may draw features from the Vita. It may ditch physical media and go download only. Sure, they sound outright stupid, but knowing Sony, keep an open mind, and don't discourage yourself.
Will Sony announce the PS4/Orbis next month? I say yes. Sony isn't doing this for themselves, but for the gaming industry. Nintendo fired the starting pistol. Sony is (presumably) second out of the gate, and all signs point to E3 2013 for Microsoft to unveil the Xbox 720/Infinite. The industry needs it's customers to be all riled up for new hardware. This is the longest running generation for video game hardware ever, with 8 years in-between the Nintendo DS in 2004 (or 7, if you start with the 360 in 2005), and the Wii U in 2012. Apple refreshes it's hardware 6-12 months, and people go fucking crazy. The newest iPod touch can power games that rival the visual quality of games on the 360. That's insane.
Sales are sluggish. You put a new toy in front of customers, and they piss themselves stupid and swipe their credit card at Best Buy.
Pay attention come mid-February. Sony will blow your fucking mind.
Now, whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, we'll find out in just under three weeks.
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Sometimes you have to be the King to your own castle and handle life when it's thrown at you. Never curl up, never fall fragile 🦁 . .
ANZAC DAY is an example of understanding trauma when we want to understand it. As a nation we are capable of acknowledging the the hurt and sacrifice of the past that has benefited our future. We are a considered a free nation yet we are built off trauma on our own 'protected' soil. I am not trying to take away from ANZAC Day. All trauma should be acknowledged. We just also need to acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander soldiers who fought and survived but were denied entry back into our free country. The soldiers who lay to rest and their souls longing to connect back to Country. We need to acknowledge the trauma of the massacres that happened in our own backyard, the blood and bloodlines, the languages, the traditions, the children, mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers that lay deep in our soil. We must acknowledge all trauma. Equally. We need to remember what was before and what is still happening now. Why do we fight to keep our country free when we let the trauma in to our own institutions. We are capable of acknowledging trauma. We have done, every year on ANZAC Day. We need to be better at understanding the big picture of our country, the past, present and future. We can stop the trauma and heal together. We just need to do better 💕 .
Mundari tribesman with his Ankole Watusi cattle. The Mundari are friendly and enjoy being photographed. The dust and smoke intermingle to create and inimitable atmosphere. We arrived in the late afternoon when the light was soft and warm with long shadows. The tribe have all their wealth in their cattle and there are thousands of them. When young men of the tribe get married the dowry may be as much as 40 cattle. They cover themselves in the ash from their fires to protect against insects.
Etnia Krenak e Pataxó .
I've just finished the most EPIC week in China with the Kāhui Māori Fashion Collective. The lessons, connections and ideas I have gained from this hīkoi exceeded my expectations and I am grateful to have had the opportunity. My mission I set to achieve "is it possible for an emerging designer to travel to China on their own to source fabrics, manufacturers and agents? What are the growth opportunities available to our designers if they do this? What follow up support/ future support will be most beneficial to the Collective and other Maori designers in future? and who can Poutama partner with to provide this?" KIRI NATHAN - you have out done yourself yet again! The information, connections and experience you have shared with this roopu is priceless! You give unconditionally and lead by example. You set high standards for those around you and I was moved to see the roopu working collectively to support one another's aspirations.
A big mihi to @Jason Nathan who's hard work, dedication and support allows Kiri to flourish as she does.
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Two rare conceptual pieces. These were painted to test ideas, concepts and techniques for use in larger pieces. The first concept became "Sand Hills" and the second was a technique test for the unfinished major piece I'm working on at present.
Good Mind Design (GMD) was established in 2013. The artist, Angello Johnson, is a Mohawk from Akwesasne and creates all crafts hand-made.
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Im stoked to share with everyone that @creatures_of_the_wild_unknown and I have teamed up for a sweet new collaboration! This beauty is the first of three different hats Jack Savage from @creatures_of_the_wild_unknown and I have created together, bringing Jack's insane hat making skills and my art side by side for this amazing collaboration. Each of the three different hats we have created all have a really unique and individual feel to them, so keep an eye out for the others we have been busy working on!
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Tasha Hubbard makes history tonight as she becomes the first #Indigenous filmmaker to open Hot Docs!
Tasha's #documentary nipawistamasowin: We Will Stand Up will have its #WorldPremiere at the Hot Docs Cinema tonight with additional screenings taking place this Saturday and next #weekend .
Flight Lieutenant David Williams from the Royal Australian Air Force joined students and staff at Carinity Shalom Christian College in Townsville to commemorate ANZAC Day.
"Esta é a luta da mulherada guerreira" declara uma das representantes de várias etnias presentes no lançamento do filme "Gigantes pela própria natureza" no Memorial dos Povos Indígenas.


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Posted in Car Loans by Cloe Kaser on April 24, 2016
Huge jump in borrowers requiring car loans
Car scrappage scheme hailed a success, but concerns that it has encouraged consumers to take on more debt.
There has been a sharp increase in the amount of money borrowed on personal loans to purchase cars following the introduction of the government's car scrappage scheme, a report claimed today.
Sainsbury's Finance estimates that the scrappage scheme is directly responsible for a 37 per cent increase in the value of personal loans taken out to purchase cars in the three months immediately after May 18, when the scheme was introduced.
It believes £61.2 million of personal loans a month have been taken out to purchase cars in the UK since May 18, compared with a monthly average of £44.7 million before the introduction of the scrappage scheme. The average amount borrowed was £7,515.
The figures highlight the success of the government scheme, which offers up to £2,000 off the purchase of a new vehicle in exchange for a car at least ten years old. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reported recently that 367,929 new cars were registered in September – an 11.3 per cent increase on the previous year.
However, others express a note of caution. A spokesman for the comparison website Uswitch.com said: "Consumers should be cautious about taking out a loan unnecessarily and getting themselves into more debt. Also, the benefit of scrappage is undermined by huge falls in value of a new car as soon as it is driven off the forecourt."
The spokesman points out that the number of loan deals has decreased by about 37 per cent in the last 12 months, while rates have also increased. Since the start of September, three unsecured personal loan providers, Marks and Spencer, Egg and Alliance and Leicester, have implemented rate hikes of up to 1.2 per cent for new customers.
Some of the cheapest loans are available from the internet only provider, Yourpersonalloan.co.uk which offers a rate of 8 per cent on a typical loan of £5,000 over three years for new customers. Existing customers can get even better rates.
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In terms of overall gaming performance, the AMD Opteron 6282 SE is massively better than the Intel Core i5-4670 3.4GHz when it comes to running the latest games. This also means it will be less likely to bottleneck more powerful GPUs, allowing them to achieve more of their gaming performance potential.
The Core i5-4670 3.4GHz was released less than a year after the Opteron 6282 SE, and so they are likely to have similar levels of support, and similarly optimized performance when running the latest games.
The Opteron 6282 SE has 12 more cores than the Core i5-4670 3.4GHz. 16 cores is probably excessive if you mean to just run the latest games, as games are not yet able to harness this many cores. The cores in the Core i5-4670 3.4GHz is more than enough for gaming purposes. However, if you intend on running a server with the Opteron 6282 SE, it would seem to be a decent choice.
The Opteron 6282 SE and Core i5-4670 3.4GHz are not from the same family of CPUs, so their clock speeds are by no means directly comparable. Bear in mind, then, that while the Core i5-4670 3.4GHz has a 0.8 GHz faster frequency, this is not always an indicator that it will be superior in performance, despite frequency being crucial when trying to avoid GPU bottlenecking. In this case, however, the difference is probably a good indicator that the Opteron 6282 SE is superior.
The Core i5-4670 3.4GHz has a 24 KB bigger L2 cache than the Opteron 6282 SE, but on the other hand, it is the Opteron 6282 SE that has a 16378 MB bigger L3 cache than the Core i5-4670 3.4GHz. In this case, the L2 size is probably what counts, so the Core i5-4670 3.4GHz is likely superior in this area.
The Core i5-4670 3.4GHz has a 56 Watt lower Maximum TDP than the Opteron 6282 SE, and was created with a 10 nm smaller manufacturing technology. What this means is the Core i5-4670 3.4GHz will consume significantly less power and consequently produce less heat, enabling more prolonged computational tasks with fewer adverse effects. This will lower your yearly electricity bill significantly, as well as prevent you from having to invest in extra cooling mechanisms (unless you overclock).
The Core i5-4670 3.4GHz has an on-board GPU, which means that it will be capable of running basic graphics applications (i.e., games) without the need for a dedicated graphics card. The Opteron 6282 SE, however, does not, and you will probably have to look for a dedicated card if you wish to use it at all.
For in-depth GPU comparisons with the Intel HD Graphics 4600 Desktop, click on the following GPU overview comparison icon (visible throughout Game-Debate), and choose a GPU from the list to compare against:
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Opteron is AMD's x86 server and workstation processor line, and was the first processor which supported the AMD64 instruction set architecture (known generically as x86-64). It was released on April 22, 2003 with the SledgeHammer core (K8) and was intended to compete in the server and workstation markets, particularly in the same segment as the Intel Xeon processor. Processors based on the AMD K10 microarchitecture (codenamed Barcelona) were announced on September 10, 2007 featuring a new quad-core configuration. The most-recently released Opteron CPUs are the Piledriver-based Opteron 4300 and 6300 series processors, codenamed "Seoul" and "Abu Dhabi" respectively. Core i5-4670 3.4GHz is a performance CPU based on the 22nm, Haswell architecture.
Among its many features, Turbo Boost and Virtualization are activated.
The processor integrates powerful Graphics called Intel HD Graphics 4600, with 20 Execution Units, initially clocked at 350MHz and that go up to 1200MHz, in Turbo Mode which share the L2 Cache and system RAM with the processor.
Compared to Core i5-3570K there's an overall 6% performance boost. Its performance is exceptionally good and enough for even the most demanding applications.
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Bloomington Indiana is frequently mentioned in the national press as a popular relocation destination as well as a desirable retirement location. This is due in part to the vibrant, high quality of life that includes world-class music, theater, dining, and entertainment, top-notch sports and outdoor recreation experiences, and abundant educational opportunities. Bloomington is truly a cosmopolitan gem in a safe, small city setting. The surrounding area provides plenty of beautiful scenery and opportunities to relax and enjoy nature.
Over the years, G&S Homes has successfully completed numerous custom designed homes for clients living not only out of town, but also out of the country, during all phases of planning and construction. We are highly attentive to our clients' needs, and are in constant contact. Our focus on good communication and quick response puts our clients at ease and assures them that their project will receive our full attention and be managed with professionalism.
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Grade 9 students have now completed the first half of their freshman year! This issue of the counseling newsletter provides information for understanding the scores on the Mid Year Progress report, which will be released Friday, February 1, 2019. We also share tools for time management and homework/project organization, take a quick peek at the importance of enough sleep, and offer information for summer program opportunities.
 Three weeks of winter break have been followed by three action-packed weeks of school in the new year! It is time to take a breath and enjoy Lunar New Year!
Grade 9 students and parents will receive Mid-Year Progress Reports on Friday, February 1st. This report will communicate student achievement on each of the criteria as well as a 1 - 7 working level.
There are several factors to keep in mind when interpreting your child's Mid-Year Progress Report.
This Mid-Year Progress Report will appear on a student's transcript (and be communicated in university applications) as their Mid-Year Progress on the way to their End of Year Working Level. It is a mid-point performance indicator, and students are expected to grow throughout the year. One common myth - students need immaculate transcripts from the beginning of Grade 9. In reality, universities like to see growth in a student throughout high school.
Honor Roll and High Honor Roll are determined at SFS by adding up a student's Working Levels in all of their classes assessed on the 1 - 7 scale (and by adding one bonus point for any student in Grades 9 and 10 taking Math HL).
For Grades 9 and 10, if a student earns 42 points (7 classes on the 1 - 7 scale) or 48 points (8 classes on the 1 - 7 scale) overall, they qualify for Honor Roll. If they earn 45 points (7 classes on the 1 - 7 scale) or 52 points (8 classes on the 1 - 7 scale) they qualify for the distinction of High Honor Roll.
Universities and teachers are aware you cannot compare the 1 - 7 scale with the traditional A - F, or other scales.
For example, a 7 is not equivalent to an A. The 7 is markedly harder to achieve.
We put the IB 1 - 7 scores in context by looking at sections of the IB Diploma Statistical Bulletin.
You can see in the table above that out of the 615,000 subject scores given in the IB DP May 2018 exams, only 7.5% of these scores across all the subjects were a "7." Our students do score well above the world average in their final IB Diploma results (averaging 35 points vs a world average of 30 points), Last year on their IB Diploma exams our students earned a 7 on 12% of their subject scores, a 6 in 37% of their subjects, a 5 in 32% and a 4 in 16%. We hope this information can help to put the IB 1 - 7 scores in context.
As Mid-Year Progress Reports are released, please be sure to read the written descriptions of the Working Level scores on the report itself. Conversations between student and parent should focus on the criteria scores and descriptions. These clearly show the level of work the student is currently demonstrating, and helps student know how to learn and grow in order to earn a higher 1 - 7 score for the End of Year Working Level. The score at the end of the year is not an average of work done throughout the year, but rather communicates their achievement by the end of Grade 9.
Upcoming Parent-Teacher Conferences also provide a great chance to meet for a discussion with your student and their teacher to learn more information about your child's achievement and areas of improvement or needed focus.
Be sure to sign-up when the link goes live on February 11th at 5:00 p.m.
As you receive your mid-year working level reports, it is a good time to reflect on your first semester of high school. What strategies helped you manage your time and workload? What challenges did you face? These are questions you reflected on during your first seminar after winter break. Many of you already use tools to help you manage your time and organize your school work. Is there one that really worked for you during first semester? Is there a new tool you are ready to try?
How much sleep do you need in 9th grade?
Although there are some medical causes for sleepiness, most sleepy teens simply do not get enough sleep. Scientific research shows that to function at your best, you need between 9 hours and 10 hours of sleep every day. This is more sleep than you needed before you were a teenager, and it is more than you will need when you are an adult. Teens need more sleep because they are in a time of very fast physical, intellectual and emotional growth. During sleep, Important connections occur in the brain and other body functions continue to develop.
Lack of sleep can make it hard to get along with your family and friends, hurt your academic performance, and cost you on the court or the field. Sleep is food for the brain.
Remember: A brain that is hungry for sleep will get it, even when you don't expect it (ie. in class).
Complete the Summer Program/School Request Form.
Complete the Counselor Recommendation Questionnaire.
Students can request recommendations for two summer school/programs per year.
SFS does not accept credits or grades earned at any summer school program.
If it is a paper/pdf recommendation, it should be turned into the counselor.
Be advised, recommendations are not given to students/parents.
*Summer Program applications cannot be processed for Freshmen until first semester transcripts are available at the beginning of February.


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Pharmacy chains face their first trial in U.S. opioid litigation
Four large pharmacy chains are set to face their first trial over the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic, creating new pressure to reach settlements with state and local governments who accuse them of contributing to the public health crisis.
The Ohio counties of Lake and Trumbull allege that oversight failures at pharmacies run by Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc, CVS Health Corp, Walmart Inc and Giant Eagle Inc led to excessive amounts of opioid pills in their communities.
Lawyers for the counties and companies are set to deliver opening statements on Monday to a federal jury in Cleveland, where thousands of similar lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies, drug distributors and pharmacies are pending.
More than 3,300 cases have been brought largely by state and local governments seeking to hold the companies responsible for an opioid abuse epidemic that U.S. government data shows led to nearly 500,000 overdose deaths from 1999 to 2019.
Rite Aid settles bellwether opioid case with Ohio counties
Rite Aid Corp affiliates have settled claims by two Ohio counties that it contributed to the opioid addiction epidemic, just over a month before the case was set to go to trial.
The pharmacy chain operator and Lake and Trumbull counties disclosed the settlement in a motion filed Wednesday in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio, to sever Rite Aid from the case. They did not reveal terms of the deal, which must be approved by Lake County Commissioners and Trumbull County Commissioners.
U.S. District Judge Dan Polster granted the motion on Thursday.
Johnson & Johnson faces multibillion opioids lawsuit that could upend big pharma
Oklahoma is suing Johnson & Johnson in a multibillion-dollar lawsuit to hold the drug giant responsible for its opioid addiction epidemic.
Day after day, the memos flashing across screens in an Oklahoma courtroom have jarred with the family-friendly public image of Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical giant best known for baby powder and Band-Aid.
In one missive, a sales representative dismissed a doctor's fears that patients might become addicted to the company's opioid painkillers by telling him those who didn't die probably wouldn't get hooked. Another proposes targeting sales of the powerfully addictive drugs at those most at risk: men under 40.
As the state of Oklahoma's multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson has unfolded over the past month, the company has struggled to explain marketing strategies its accusers say dangerously misrepresented the risk of opioid addiction to doctors, manipulated medical research, and helped drive an epidemic that has claimed 400,000 lives over the past two decades.
The prescription opioid epidemic: an update
Since a previous contribution to this journal in 2012,2 the epidemic of opioid abuse has become increasingly frightening and tragic. That contribution focused on the relevance of OxyContin to prescription opioid diversion and abuse, the marketing tactics employed by pharmaceutical companies to promote products, and the associated economic medicalization of substance abuse and addiction. This update details dramatic changes in the epidemic and explores attempts being made to combat the rising opioid overdose death toll. Important legal developments arising from the marketing and distribution of prescription opioids are overviewed. Specifically, the proliferation of legal actions against firms involved in the epidemic has resulted in the consolidation of claims in a multidistrict litigation (MDA). The difficulty of stemming the epidemic through legal avenues shifts attention to recent attempts by regulators to stem the epidemic. The paper concludes with some pessimistic observations about the difficulties of using "harm reduction" solutions to address substance abuse and addiction problems with deep societal roots.
3-Part Series: Prescription Addiction, Big Pharma and the Opioid Epidemic
With the U.S. in the grips of an opioid crisis that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, the role of pharmaceutical manufacturers that made tens of billions of dollars selling the deadly painkillers is coming into focus as litigation and investigations mount.
From as far back as 1911 until the late 1990s, the use of opioids, or narcotics, was limited to very narrow circumstances, such as post-surgical pain and end-of-life care. That's because the medical establishment and regulators were keenly aware of the addictive quality of the drugs and the dangers they posed if misused.
But that all changed when a school of thought started to take over in medicine beginning in the late 1990s, early 2000s. Treating pain became a preeminent priority. Addiction was less of a concern and pain was dubbed the "5th vital sign."


The Master's Programme Euroculture: Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context (Erasmus Mundus) is a full time, four semesters MA degree programme offered by a Consortium of 8 European universities and 4 non-European universities.
The programme addresses the most challenging, interrelated issues Europe is facing today, such as migration patterns, lasting effects of the 2008 financial crisis, the rapidly changing geo-political context, drawbacks of globalisation, xenophobia, populism and most recently the Brexit, containing a mix of all these elements. The programme builds on more than 15 years of experience of coping with topics and concepts such as multiculturalism, political governance, various levels of (cultural) identity politics (European, national and local) and evolving cultural-social-political processes on the basis of a truly innovative, multilingual, interdisciplinary approach, recognised and financially supported by the European Union.
The programme offers a genuine multicultural and international classroom setting at all partner universities as an integral part of its existence. Mandatory mobility between the different consortium universities is a crucial element of the Euroculture programme. Through its international exchange, the MA Programme Euroculture offers the chance to gain experience with different languages, perspectives, and social and cultural practices. All students study in at least two partner institutions.
The programme offers two tracks to its students. The research track is tailored for further developing research skills at any partner university, and is particularly recommended for students with the aim of pursuing a PhD. The professional track consists of a tailored placements in one of the many associated cultural or political institutions.
The University of Deusto focuses particularly on the historical roots of European integration, the current political organisation of European peoples and issues of democratic legitimacy in the European Union, as well as on European values and cultural identity and the construction of European transnational communities. The research seminars focus on EU relations with India and Latin America, and selected students have the option of receiving hands-on research training in the international relations research group.


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Information About Changes to the Traffic Lanes on Central Street
If you have travelled on Central Street lately you may have noticed the nearly complete installation of changes to the road layout to better accommodate cyclists and to help encourage reduced vehicle speeds. These changes are part of a pilot program to improve safety for cyclists and all other users of the road. The project is still underway as the signage and the entire scope of planned paint markings have not been installed yet. Below is an overview of the project and a link to the plans.
The Town of Acton is working on a pilot program through our Complete Street initiative in response to challenges along Central Street. Our Complete Streets policy focuses on developing a connected, integrated public infrastructure that serves all street users. The 2.2 mile section of Central Street between Main and Elm Streets connects South Acton to the West Acton Town Center. Along those 2.2 miles, the street rises and falls with the terrain, making it difficult for people riding bikes uphill to travel at a comfortable speed with faster-moving vehicles. Previously, no bicycle facilities were provided along Central Street. This project adds bike lanes in the uphill sections of the street, also called "climbing lanes," to provide people biking in the travel lanes with a dedicated space to climb the hills. The travel lanes in the downhill direction will have shared lane markings to reinforce the shared nature of the lanes to drivers. The bike symbols and signage are expected to be completed soon.
Complete Streets are designed and operated to provide safety and accessibility for all the users of our streets, trails and transit systems, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders, motorists, commercial vehicles, and emergency vehicles and for people of all ages and of all abilities. Complete Streets principles contribute toward the safety, health, economic viability, and quality of life in a community by providing accessible and efficient connections between home, school, work, recreation and retail destinations. Complete Streets can also reduce the Town's carbon footprint and contribute to a more sustainable built environment. The purpose of the Town of Acton's Complete Streets Policy, therefore, is to accommodate all street users by creating a street network that meets the needs of individuals utilizing a variety of transportation modes.
For more information, please visit out Complete Street page (https://www.acton-ma.gov/582/Complete-Streets-Program )
Any questions or comments may be sent to the Town Manager's Office manager@actonma.gov
Complete Street page
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I would like to thank the nomination committee members at the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) in selecting me to the short list of candidates for the 2017-2018 Board of Regents election. The Board of Regents is responsible for setting membership standards that promote professionalism and ensure the future of the organization as a whole. Certified Fraud Examiners (CFEs) will have an opportunity to vote during the election period between November 1 and December 31, 2016. Information about the voting process will be available in an upcoming edition of Fraud Magazine (November/December).
I would consider it an honor to have the opportunity to provide a voice and direction for the global membership while serving where needed. As you review this year's nominees, if you feel I would be a worthy Regent I would greatly appreciate your support and endorsement.
Bell successfully led the design and implementation of the initial global anti-fraud program for a European public conglomerate. She then pioneered the first comprehensive microfinance fraud risk management program for another firm, which covered 22 post/active conflict developing countries in the greater Middle East, Eurasia, Latin America and Africa. Both initiatives encompassed governance, fraud awareness training, fraud risk assessments, data analysis, investigations and communication strategies.
Bell is a former board president of the Charlotte ACFE Chapter. She's active in the domestic and international anti-fraud communities by speaking at conferences and delivering specialized training. She says that she also produces a video podcast series — FraudCast — that connects anti-fraud thought leaders to more than 3,600 global followers. Wherever she's traveled, Bell says she's been consistently inspired by the passion of local fraud fighters. These experiences motivated her to return alone to Afghanistan this past year to help advance its anti-fraud field.
Thank you for a fun and exciting day at the studio. I'm incredibly grateful to you both for your artistry in transforming the brainiac into a butterfly.


The crew of the Buffalo Skies are on a scavenger mission and get unwelcome company.
The crew of the Fire Deer give them trouble.
The simple story is told quite well and is certainly good enough to capture the viewer's attention, with the notable exception of a few distracting pop culture references (see the title). Sound and cinematography well done. Effects ranging from extensive masking and green-screening to facial animation are found in nearly every shot and quite well done as well. And yet, it's tough to really take a liking to this film because it's missing the one thing that viewers watch a brickfilm to see: moving bricks. Animation of the bricks themselves is practically non-existent (by my count, only seven shots in the entire six-minute running time), as the film relies instead on its numerous effects and some clever camera angles to maintain viewer interest. It gets by, I suppose, but I could understand if less ardent science fiction fans decide to pass this one by.


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San Pablo City, Laguna
"City of Seven Lakes"
Surrounded by the seven lakes of San Pablo, Lake Sampaloc; Lake Palakpakin; Lake Bunot; Lakes Pandin and Yambo; Lake Muhikap and Lake Calibato, San Pablo City is considered as City of Seven Lakes.
San Pablo City, together with the four large barrios, was a part of the Sampaloc. When the Spaniards came, around 1571 under the troops of CAptain Juan de Salcedo, Sampaloc was converted into parish and became a municipality in 1647 and was remaned "San Pablo de Los Montes" to horo their patron Saint Paul the First Hermit. However in 1576, it was placed under the jurisdiction of Batangas province but was returned to Laguna in 1883.
The pople of San Pablo continued to work not only for their city's progress but also for their independence from the province of Laguna, all hoping to be an independent city. It was until May 7, 1940 that the San Pablo was converted into an independent city signed by President Manuel L. Quezon.
The city was inaugurated on March 30, 1941, with Dr. Potenciano Malvar, a former governor of Laguna, as the city mayor appointed by president Manuel L. Quezon. Succeeding him 1941 as an appointed mayor was Dr. Manuel Quisumbing, in turn followed by Tomas D. Dizon in 1943 as an appointed mayor. The succeeding mayors were elected after 1955.
Population/ Language/ Area
By land area, San Pablo City is the largest in the province of Laguna. By population, it ranks fifth within the province. San Pablo City has a total population of 248,890 as of 2010 and a total land area of the city reaches up to 197.60 km2 (76.29 sq mi).
The city's main product is coconut. The city is also known for its buko pie where the coconut used to make these are mainly products of the city.
San Pablo City is home to showrooms, marketing, and parts/servicing centers of Honda Cars Laguna; Ford San Pablo; Isuzu San Pablo; Hyundai San Pablo; Mitsubishi (SFM) San Pablo; Nissan Southwoods-San Pablo; and Toyota San Pablo.
With coconut industry that continues to flourish in the city, it is never too late to invest a business that is related to it.
Villa Escudero Plantations – 800 hectares (2,000 acres) of working coconut plantation and hacienda located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of the city of San Pablo, Laguna province on the border with Quezon province in the Philippines. Since 1981, the plantation has opened its doors as a resort offering village tours, museum tour, food and accommodations. It has developed a worldwide reputation as a focal point to experience Philippine culture and history in a beautiful rural setting.
Lake Sampaloc – nearly half of the lake's depth has a shallow depression at the lake's bottom, indicating its volcanic origin. The lake is located behind San Pablo city hall and is dotted with fishpens and small cottages built on stilts.
Lake Pandin and Yambo – Pandin Lake is considered oligotrophic because of the abundant plant and fish life while Yambo Lake is like Pandin Lake which is also suitable for swimming, outings, and picnics.
Celebrations and Festivals
Coco Festival – The festival consists of Street dancing, float parade, street concerts, nightly programs before the city fiesta and some other important events like the yearly "Mutya at Lakan ng San Pablo".


Get Astronomical with an Indoor Star Show!
Help your young scientist celebrate the wonders of the night sky in the comfort of your own home.
Pair a planetarium visit with this fun art project that mimics the look of far-off galaxies.
Your child will be delighted to learn about and gaze upon his favorite constellations with this set of stellar homemade placemats!


The garage is the perfect place for a workshop. As the types of activities you get up to in a workshop are likely to cause mess and noise, your home garage is the ideal place to have it as it is separate from the rest of the house. Whether you want a workshop for wood work, metal work, engine work or DIY, you will treasure your time in your personal garage workshop.
Garages are more useful than cellars as they often provide more ventilation; you can simply open your garage door to let in fresh air and the sunshine. If you don't want to use the whole garage for your workshop, you can set up a workshop area and keep room for storing your car, bike or anything you are keeping there in storage. Purchasing a work bench on wheels means that your workshop can be mobile and convenient.
Your workshop should be created the way you want it, and it should fit your needs, after all, you will be the one using it! What you do with your garage will depend on your budget, space and preferences, but for some, creating a workshop will be as simple as clearing out the clutter and putting up a workbench.
It is important to have a lot of light in your workshop to prevent injuries while working in the dark. If you have windows, this should let in a lot of light in the day time, along with keeping the room warm, but if not, you should light the garage with a combination of overhead and desk lighting. Use a desk lamp that can be moved around so you can shine the light into particular areas for work.
Ventilation is very important for your workshop as fumes from varnishes, stains and other products can be harmful and can compromise the air. Sawdust can also be a nuisance and make it uncomfortable to breath. To combat this, you should keep windows and doors open when you are doing anything like sanding or sawing. Keep a couple of portable fans nearby to create a breeze. You can also invest in a dust collector to collect dust from your tools like table saws.
You will obviously need a workbench for your workshop. You can purchase these from many outlets, but you may wish to build one yourself to save money. Many project books, magazines and websites have plans for creating a workbench.
You can arrange your tools however you want, and what you decide to purchase will depend on what you are using your workshop for. Try not to buy unnecessary tools as this will cost extra money and take up room. It is far better to pay more for a premium product than to buy many budget tools. Some of the things you will need to purchase to make your workshop are lamps, portable fans, shelves or racks for storage, a table saw, a jointer, a bin nearby to collect scraps and rubbish, stationary, a drill and glue. There are many other things you could purchase for your workshop, as mentioned earlier, it all depends on you!
We hope you enjoy your homemade garage workshop and find the time for your hobbies. Speaking to a garage door company before you build any garage could also help to incorporate a workshop into the initial design.


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Arizona Attorney General Civil Rights Division
Submitted by jlpnolan on Sat, 06/26/2010 - 13:30
The mission of the Civil Rights Division of the Arizona Attorney General's Office is to enforce civil rights laws, increase public awareness of civil rights, provide dispute resolution services, and offer community services throughout the State.
The Division's major duty is to enforce state and federal statutes that prohibit discrimination in employment, voting, public accommodations, disability and housing by investigating and litigating civil rights complaints. In addition, the Division provides conflict resolution services and mediation programs statewide, including many court and agency programs.
The Division not only is responsive to complaints it receives, but actively addresses discriminatory activity by providing education awareness. It also conducts surveys and inquiries in efforts to eliminate discrimination and publishes reports to highlight civil rights issues in the State.
The Division has both administrative and enforcement functions. Its staff is comprised of lawyers, compliance officers, program coordinators, support personnel, volunteer mediators and interns. For further inquiry, please do not hesitate to contact the Division offices in Phoenix or Tucson.
Persons who believe they have been discriminated against should contact the Attorney General's Office:
1275 West Washington St.
602.542.5002 (TDD)
877.624.8090 (toll free TDD)
civilrightsinfo@azag.gov
Civil Rights Complaint Form Tucson Office
400 West Congress, Suite S215
Arizona Attorney General Civil Rights Division - Phoenix
85007 Pheonix , AZ
Arizona US
Arizona Attorney General Civil Rights Division - Tuscon
400 West Congress Suite S215
85701 Tuscon , AZ


It's a common belief that the main challenge for every business, especially a small one, is to attract customers and present the product in the most favorable light. However, to retain these previously acquired customers might become the biggest challenge for your team.
Most companies are well informed about the problem with gaining new clients, while they tend to forget about clear user retention strategy.
Customer churn — or in simple words, the loss of customers, — is probably the biggest enemy of every business.
And that's evident, as the customers always play major part in product's success.
To prevent the loss of clients, you'd better understand the motivation behind customer churn. Here are some insights on the reasons why this loss could happen.
That might be the most obvious reason why customers are not eager to use your application. According to Oracle's study, almost 9 in 10 customers have abandoned a business because of a previous poor experience.
You have to agree — you'll appreciate figunique, personal and engaging attitude from the business side. It's proven that more than 80 percent of consumers will pay more for a better customer experience. Today rich emotions are worth a lot of money.
In the time of sophisticated technologies, customer service becomes more than person-to-person — mature asynchronous, virtual communication strategy is a must for every business.
The сustomer is a key to any business. A satisfied customer is a key to success in this business. Therefore, you'd better focus on Customer-Centered Marketing and get to know exactly what your users need right now. For this, you can organize focus groups, run a keyword search and social listening.
You always need to hear out your customers' requests and their feedback to stay in trend and adapt to the present situation. Communication with clients is a milestone.
In order not to lose your clients, you are to satisfy your user's appetite with an explanation why they definitely need to use your application.
There should be a clear understanding of how to use the app and how it can benefit them in their everyday life. The user should not feel lost while using your product: guide them during their first sessions so that they are not left alone with their smartphones.
There is a wise phrase that the churn seeds are usually planted early — meaning that you'd probably better rethink onboarding not to lose your clients at the early stages.
In our digital era, advertising and smart marketing campaigns are important. However, the quality of the product itself still plays the key role in user retention.
Just think - no matter how great your ads on the Internet or offline are, even if users like them at first, later poor quality app will most likely scare them off.
Do your users have enough interest and motivation to stay with your app? Can you hold their attention with your app's value or some extra perks?
Give it a thorough thought — consider retargeting, special events and offers inside your app — like we do on Aprofita by running special cash-back campaigns to the entire user base or a selected target group. Remember — if users sense your willingness to keep them — they'll stick around.
The reasons for user churn may vary a lot, so you need to analyze the problem according to your own inputs. Analyze your value proposition, the quality of your app and most importantly user experience throughout the entire app. This will help you cure not the symptoms, but the illness itself.
And remember — churn, like disease — is easier prevented than treated.


A traveler putting on a $100Thousand gemstone-and-gold encrusted Cartier watch left his luxury watch behind just like a ball of lint after passing via a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint and Newark Airport terminal. Fortunately for who owns the timepiece which costs greater than the majority of us earn each year, the TSA stored it within the lost and located until its owner approached them.
A TSA officer constitutes a visit each checkpoint daily to gather the found products and produce these to a main location where they're cataloged and stored under lock and type in about determining the proprietors. TSA's goal would be to reunite vacationers using their lost products.
Real estate entrepreneur demonstrated he possessed the timepiece by supplying photos showing him putting on the timepiece.
Update: The TSA states, "The gold gemstone watch was acquired in the TSA Newark Lost &lifier Found Office today at approximately noon. The guy who selected up stated he was intending to fly to Japan tonight to personally provide the watch to the owner. He was very grateful that the TSA officer switched it in in the checkpoint and told the TSA authorities in the Lost &lifier Found Office the watch have been customized and it was a 1-of-a-kind."
'Pillsbury Dunkables Contortion' is a Pillsbury commercial.
The Magpie on the Gallows is an oil on wood panel of 1568 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.


In a crowded pub in a busy spaceport, an angry bartender was mixing drinks with two of his six hands. From time to time, he glared with his single eye at a tall figure with a long scarf and an even longer face. The man had come in hours ago, demanding something called "ginger pop." When the bartender said he had no idea what ginger pop was, the man had stomped over to an empty table, produced a bottle of amber liquid from his pocket, and had been sitting and sulking there ever since.
Abruptly, the man stood, leaving the empty bottle on the table, and approached the bartender again. "You know, you remind me of an ambassador I once knew. Wore a cape and became alarmed very easily." The man leaned towards the bartender. "Do you alarm very easily? I thought so. His name was Alpha Centauri, and he was friends with someone I used to know. Have you ever been to South Croydon? No, I don't suppose you have, have you? You really should stock ginger pop you know. Are you going to stand here all day talking? I have places to go, people to see. Only don't know who they are yet. Good-bye."
The bartender blinked in relief as the man turned and walked away. Some lifeforms, he thought, just shouldn't be allowed out in public.
The Doctor strode down the corridor, ignoring the other pedestrians who were forced to scatter out of his path. Ahead of him he saw his TARDIS, the tall blue box which had been his only home for centuries.
He stopped in front of the ship, pausing to breathe on one of the frosted windows, and buff it with his scarf. He took the spade-shaped key from where it hung around his neck and unlocked the door.
He stepped inside and was back in the dark wood and stained glass of the current console room, which was filled by the quiet hum of the TARDIS. He moved around the six sided console, flicking switches and turning knobs in an intricate pattern as he began to lay in the coordinates for his next destination. Which was where?
The Doctor stopped, leaned on the console, and sighed quietly. "It's just you and me, old girl," he muttered to the ship. "Perhaps we could just pop in and visit Sarah Jane. . . " No, it was no good. Knowing the TARDIS, he'd probably get the wrong decade and find Sarah was in her eighties, and had forgotten who he was.
Come to think of it, he suddenly wasn't sure if he'd actually dropped her off in South Croydon at all. "I'm sure I got the planet right, at any rate." He paused. "Well, probably."
Speaking of Earth, why not? He wouldn't go looking for Sarah, but a nice constitutional would do him good. And if he just happened to run into her again, well, where was the harm in that? He needed someone to impress with his brilliance, after all.
The TARDIS was a wonderful ship, and had stood by him for a good many centuries, but her roundels and ubiquitous hum was just no replacement for a good look of confused awe from a young assistant.
Yes. Earth it was then. 1970s, perhaps. Or maybe the 1980s. But where, exactly? Ahh. Hyde Park would be just the place. He could go fishing on the Serpentine. "Right." He clapped his hands together and burst into a sudden flurry of movement, circling the console, energetically manipulating the controls.
Outside, the light on top of the ancient Police Box began to flash, accompanied by a loud grating noise. Gradually, the TARDIS faded from sight, leaving an empty space behind.
This story is intended to fit between the Deadly Assassin and Face of Evil from the original series.
TARDIS and Doctor Who copyright the BBC, no infringement intended.
This page was first created on Wednesday, May 10, 2006.


My Pi is now running the latest opensuse (dec 2013), it was done much the same as i would a NOOBS, using XP, and I have moved the partitions around as well.
I have a boot, swap, root and home on a 16 gig card.
So I am here on my Pi and typing away using Firefox.
Still a lot to understand about all this.
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Well that all went wrong.
So I redid the SD card and tried again, and that has all gone wrong.
Since I have been using SuSE from version 6.0 I hoped to be able to have my Pi and eat it arf arf.
Looks like I am going back to NOOBS.
johndough wrote: Well that all went wrong.
Well myself are still NOT use the OSS JePOS made Images , just due an simple reason : it required to resize the dos part to stubidly resize it from 200MB to 199MB to get it stable.
I am still use bernhards Widemans Images.
I used Bernhard Weideman's latest image.
All command line to start - but clear and easy directions were found. Zypper in a bunch of stuff and all worked, mostly. One issue with an external SDD drive - covered in a different thread. But I'm pretty sure that this problem is not the OS, but the firmware updates.


You know you've "made it" when strangers take the time and effort to fabricate wild tales that you've died and been replaced by a clone. This is what's happened to Canadian musician Avril Lavigne, and some fans are citing pieces of Avril Lavigne conspiracy theory "evidence" to "prove" she was allegedly replaced by doppelgänger named Melissa Vandella, an actress who bares a striking resemblance to Lavigne.
The rumors started when a website dubbed Avril Esté Morta, which translates to Avril Is Dead, surfaced several years ago. The site apparently created the hoax to demonstrate just how easy it is to get people to believe most anything on the internet. And, that's exactly what happened. Fans with too much time on their hands, who most likely spent too many hours marathoning cult clone show Orphan Black, helped spread the rumor even though the website posted a disclaimer that the claim that Lavigne was dead was not true, according to an article on Heavy.
After reaching a fever pitch in 2015 when BuzzFeed writer Ryan Broderick published photos from the blog that suggested the current Lavigne is an imposter, the rumors subsided — until now. The theory was resuscitated over the weekend through a viral Lavigne-is-dead Twitter thread. And, here are 10 pieces of Avril Lavigne conspiracy-theory "evidence" people are citing to convince you Lavigne is a clone.
Lavigne began performing in her teens, and released her first album Let Go in 2002 when she was just 18. Let Go was a skate-punk mash up, and a clear product of the post-grunge music landscape of the early 2000s. By 2014 Lavigne's music style had evolved, as one's style typically does over the course of a career, and in the years from your teens to your 30s. But, for some, this is evidence that Lavigne is a clone. "Okay, yes, obviously you can change your genre of music but like ... just saying," @givenchyass wrote on Twitter.
The viral Twitter thread also claims that Lavigne could not deal with the pressure of being followed by paparazzi, so her management team hired actress Melissa Vandella to walk around Los Angeles as Lavigne, and divert attention from the camera-shy singer.
This theory is actually the premise of the Star Wars movie The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones in which Queen Amidala has her handmaiden Sabé be her decoy to keep her safe. While the photos of Lavigne do look a little different, this is primarily due to her makeup and hairstyle changing, and not because she was replaced with Vandella.
OK, how many of you look exactly the same since the day you were born? I am one of those people who does (save for a few unfortunate hairstyles), but I know I am in the minority. Most people's appearance evolves and changes over the course of their life, especially as they transition from teenagers into adults. Conspiracy theorists claim that Lavigne's jaw looks different in several photos.
There are myriad plausible explanations for this. The first being that Lavigne grew up, and as you get older you lose your "baby fat." The second explanation is makeup. I know I have used highlighter and bronzer to accent my jawline and cheekbones. Since Lavigne likely had a team of makeup artists working on her look for these pictures, it's normal for her to appear different.
The third reason these photos do not prove that Lavigne is a clone is lighting. Being photographed is an art, and good photographers know how to use lights to get the angle and shot that they want. Finally, there's a little something called Photoshop that can change the way images look by altering aspects of a subject's appearance.
"Secret messages" being sent to fans through songs is not a new concept in the conspiracy theory realm. When a similar conspiracy theory that former Beatle Paul McCartney died in a car accident in 1967 began making the rounds in 1969, fans began dissecting the Beatle's lyrics for clues that McCartney was actually a clone.
Similarly, fans dissected Lavigne's lyrics from her 2004 album, and cited songs "My Happy Ending" and "Nobody's Home" as proof that the singer was saying goodbye to fans. One Twitter user even said, "She really tried to tell us." If you believe this version than Lavigne could not have possibly died in a skiing accident as one theory speculates. A goodbye album would indicate that she knew she was going to die, and let's not go down that rabbit hole.
Apparently you're never allowed to change your style. With the exception of Stevie Nicks, most musicians change the way they dress over the years. In her late teens Lavigne was clearly more into the skate-punk look, but later began wearing dresses.
In my late teens I wore bellbottom corduroys, felt clogs, and oversized t-shirts. I can assure you I would not be caught dead in this outfit today, but that doesn't mean I have been replaced by a clone. There are many explanations for Lavigne's evolving style, including changing tastes, and recommendations from her stylist.
Some conspiracy theorists have pointed out that Lavigne's face looks different. Honestly, I really don't see it. I can name 10 celebrities off the top of my head whose faces really do look different, and most people would cite plastic surgery as the reason versus being replaced by a clone.
If there are subtle changes to Lavigne's face they are also easily explained by her skincare regimen, aging, and photography angles.
The change in the appearance of Lavigne's skin is one reason some fans are buying into the theory. If you have fair skin, chances are you've had a mole or two removed to protect yourself from skin cancer.
Lavigne is indeed a fair-skinned woman, and it's totally possible her freckles and moles look different because she chose to spend less time in the sun, which makes freckles fade (take it from me, I have experienced this first hand), and/or she had moles removed by her doctor. If she spent more time in the sun before being photographed, this could heighten the appearance of freckles and make them stand out more than usual in pictures.
The difference in Lavigne's handwriting over the course of the years in another piece of evidence believers are pointing to in the effort to prove Lavigne is an imposter. I'm no handwriting expert, but if you really can't sleep at night because you think Lavigne is not really Lavigne you can hire a handwriting expert to compare the samples above. Personally, think they look pretty much the same, and everyone writes sloppy when they're in a hurry.
Apparently Lavigne's Canadian accent was noticeable in her earlier work — honestly, I never heard it. However, you will notice that most musicians do not have any sort of accent when they sing. If Lavigne was demonstrating an accent in her music early on, I suspect handlers advised her to drop it to make the music appeal to a wider audience.
The real proof that Lavigne is indeed Vandella lies in her choice of romantic partners, according to some conspiracy theorists. Fans speculate that Lavigne would never marry someone from the band Nickelback because she actually hates their music, so obviously Lavigne must really be Vandella since she married Chad Kroeger.
In general, the only time anyone gets away with passing for someone else in on a soap opera when they replace a long-running character with a new actor and you hear that voice, "The part of blah blah is now being played by blah blah." In the soap opera world you buy into this because you want to keep watching the show. In real life taking over someone's identity is pretty difficult to do. There is even a Netflix documentary called The Imposter where a man in his 20s assumed the identity of a teenage boy. The imposter was caught and sent to prison.
Similarly, a money-hungry manager replaced the band Fleetwood Mac with a copycat band in the '60s when the real Fleetwood Mac canceled a U.S. tour. Rather than lose the money, the manager hired a clone band to perform as the actual band. The real Fleetwood Mac sued the manager, and the band, and won.
In today's digital world, getting away with replacing a public figure with a clone would be almost impossible to pull off, but that won't stop conspiracy theorists from buying into the hype. I guess everyone needs a hobby.


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Boston-born singer-songwriter Madelyn Paquette was ten years old when her passion for storytelling set her trajectory. Inspired by songwriters like James Taylor and Taylor Swift, Madelyn crafts songs filled with introspection, clever wordplay and vivid emotion, prompting instant connection with her listeners. Her music captivates fans with themes of home, love and self-discovery, reflecting a young woman's entrance into adulthood. She applies an evolving lens on relatable topics, allowing her to share changing perspectives and personal growth. Madelyn has earned many songwriting honors, recently a BMI Foundation Scholarship recipient and Grand Prize winner in the 2021 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. For the last four years, Madelyn has lived in Manhattan taking the stage at many beloved venues from the Cutting Room to Radio City Music Hall. In 2022, she graduated with honors from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Recorded Music. She currently lives in Nashville pursuing music full-time.
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Cobi van Tonder
Cobi is an interdisciplinary artist who has presented over 40 works worldwide, including concerts and exhibitions in Japan, Korea, USA, Ireland, UK, Germany, South Africa and Greece. Her innovative art/science hybrid projects involve the creation of new technological interfaces or software to enable artistic ideas. She explores diverse avenues of listening as art-making space that she describes as 'expanded listening'. Works include interactive musical experiences such as sensor enabled gumboot dance (Ephemeral Gumboots); sensor enabled Bluetooth skateboards with a Max/MSP gesture recognition system that map skateboard moves to musical gestures (Skatesonic); network connected live acoustic spaces (Audio Tunnel & The Persistence of Sound) and infrasound music experienced through lying down on a bed (Infrasoundbed). The most recent works revolve around microtonal drone music that explore difference tones and beating patterns (Gala and Mutation II), sonic illusions (Fata Morgana for female choir and computer), and recursive layers of convolution reverb in Goodbye Anthill (2018) for voice and computer to expand the textural qualities of the drone. A large section of her PhD thesis was dedicated to spatiality in sound as well as the use of acoustics as a prominent musical parameter.
Working with the acoustics of actual heritage spaces, lends a focused context and purpose to the music that she feels is often missing in electronic music. Cobi has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the University of York and will be based in the Department of Theatre, Film and Television (TFTV) from 2020-2022 with her project ACOUSTIC ATLAS - Cultivating the Capacity to Listen. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.
She completed a PhD in Music Composition at the Digital Arts & Humanities Program of Trinity College, Dublin, an MFA Art Practice degree at Stanford, USA; and a BHons in Music in History and Society (Musicology) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Van Tonder has also produced commercially for cinema, television, radio, and mobile media before commencing academic studies.
From an early age, I realised how thin a layer the conceptions of 'reality' and 'self' are and that beauty occurs in sensing the inherent structures that makeup objects/occurrences/patterns and the unexpected, rather than things themselves. Thus a recurring obsession to pay attention to how the invisible (larger structure) is revealed in the experience of movement. Movement in terms of colour, form, texture, density, and space. Vibrations, reflections, iterations, shifts, transformations, and process.
My Ph.D. was on plastic continuity in Microtonal music. Strongly influenced by the work and philosophy of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, I took his ideas about the experience of movement in terms of colour, form, texture and space via methods of abstraction, and applied them to my compositional framework. For this I created a system of generating and storing tunings in Max/MSP; a multi-channel router app and tuner that I could use for real-time tuning of microtonal values to midi plus pitch-bend values for use with synthesizers as well as a method to store and display in real-time micro-tonal frequency values.
The main focus of my final MFA Masters project 'The Audio Tunnel' was, in turn, a literal take on spatial audio: rooms, each with microphone and loudspeaker, were daisy-chained in a directional live audio tunnel via the use of a Supercollider Patch, JackTrip, Jamlinks (audio network units) and a Max Router Patch - each individual space, was a node and able to receive audio from another node through the internet and play it into the space through a loudspeaker, record the reverberations and other ambient sounds of the environment and send it back over the internet to the next similar device. The tunnel was live and interactive: the participant becomes the transmitter and is transmitted/ displaced (in sound) in many actual places in fractions of milliseconds. A recursive eavesdropping became possible in this unseen territory. Live sound travels from location to location, reverberating in each space. A borderless territory designed for listening.
In general, projects range from music in the traditional sense: electronic or instrumental as well as synthesis, field recording, installations, interactive projects, sensory enclosures or objects, and video.
Material consists of lines and curves, auditory illusions, pitch fields, waves, pulses, flickering morphologies, glows, and slow transformations. This material originates from focusing on the internal properties of sounds, for example, the use of microtonal intervals that are clustered to produce beating patterns, third tones, and unique colors. Macro forms are determined by this material and range from drone to simplistic, repetitive gestures. The final approach is a focus on the experience of sound in and as space: attention to artificial acoustics as a prominent part of the material and overall texture.
My influences range over a vast field, notably Abstract Expressionist Painting, Japanese Zen Gardens, 'surface' ideas in electronic music, extreme duration, and immersion in Drone music, continuity, ordered dissonance – microtonal worlds, audio physical experience of sound and acoustics, spatial audio.
Sound Art Works explore ideas about existence, identity, translation, architecture, spatiality (specifically in sound, acoustics and sound perception), networked sound installation as a means to recombinant sound space, audio/other sensory hybrid experiences such as audio/visual, audio/tactile (the audio physical experience of sound) and audio/light, sensory deprivation/absence of sensory input as material.
I am also fascinated by new technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and ideas about consciousness and inspired by Science Fiction.
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Ben Larsen: 'Seeds' [Song Premiere]
Vortex Music Magazine
Celebrate the release of his debut solo recordat The Secret Society on November 30!
by Skylor Powell
The Secret Society [CLOSED]
"I'm going to put these hands together, gonna grow these seeds," Ben Larsen sings on "Seeds," the song that closes out his fruitful new release Turn. The first solo album from this seasoned local artist is a beautiful compilation of soulful songs, sewn together with soothing, mysterious strings and timeless lyrics that showcase the growing pains and rewards of change.
Though Larsen began playing gigs in Portland nearly a decade ago in the Brazilian band Na Mesa, music has been a guiding force in his life since he picked up the clarinet at 8 years old. Born in Connecticut, his mom filled his childhood home with the sounds of her voice singing to the piano. After a quick trip around the world—living in Indonesia through the bulk of high school—Larsen found himself here in Portland in 2006, to study music at Lewis & Clark College. And so, he became a part of our precious music scene. Since then, Larsen has been writing songs with romantic, profound lyrics accompanied by the mandolin or guitar. His presence came to prominence in The Giraffe Dodgers and Crow and the Canyon.
Celebrate the release of Ben Larsen's 'Turn' at The Secret Society on November 30"All these songs were written over the course of the last couple years and were informed by the last five or so years before that," Larsen tells. "A period of a lot of ups and downs and a ton of personal growth."
As the saying goes, the struggle is real when it comes to letting go of love. "Time, she'll rob you of everything," Larsen sings on "Time." Creativity, however, is something he's been able to hold onto through the highs and lows of the last three years that influenced this album. Larsen artistically shapes the fear of change and grief into a beauty that we all, as listeners, can relate to and heal with. He sprinkles in hope and the value of connection throughout the album, which kindly offer us an important reminder: All that we need will come around in its own time. Larsen created a visual masterpiece to further showcase the importance of finding peace in acceptance—watch the music video for the album's lead single "Turn" below.
With 11 songs engineered by Justin Phelps and co-produced with his bandmate Gavin Duffy, Larsen describes the process as a "cool journey of discovery." A myriad of artists accompanied them at The Hallowed Halls as they recorded during the first half of 2018, including Tyler Thompson of Fruition on drums, Tony Furtado on banjo, Paul Brainard on pedal steel, and Laura T. Lewis and Leigh Jones (of Five Letter Word) on vocals. From dynamic sounds of building suspense in "Your Voice's Sound" to uplifting, reflective pieces like "Wind That Sweeps Your Pine," every song is a unique experience that keeps your ears ever curious for more.
Listen to album closer "Seeds" below plus watch the title track's video. And if you can't wait to pick up your copy of 'Turn' at the record release show on Friday, November 30 at The Secret Society, you can get it online starting on November 27!
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The Americana sextet emanate a warm familiarity on their third LP 'Hard Luck Sound,' making the kind of music that feels like hanging with old friends. Out now, enjoy some superb cinematography...
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With a love for broken Casio keyboards, Supertandad's new self-recorded EP is a bedroom, dream pop delight for fans of Beach House, Youth Lagoon and The xx.
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After years of being told she was losing her mind, Kendall Core lives to spread awareness of this underdiagnosed disease and will continue to do so on May 12 at Holocene alongside fellow...
Scenes from Night One of Portland's Folk Festival feat. Anna Tivel, Jeffrey Martin, Ezra Bell, Haley Johnsen, Cedar Teeth, MAITA, Glitterfox, Nick Delffs, Ben Larsen and Tara Velarde at Crystal Ballroom on Jan. 10, 2020
Photos by Ryan Alexander
Scenes from Night One of Portland's Folk Festival feat. Tara Velarde, Ben Larsen, Nick Delffs, Glitterfox, MAITA, Cedar Teeth, Haley Johnsen and Ezra Bell at Crystal Ballroom on Jan. 10, 2020
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Border Control Agents Completely CLEARED Of 'Whipping' Migrant Charges
Biden promised the agents would "pay" for what they did
PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images
In news almost completely ignored by the corporate media, border agents who were accused of 'whipping' Haitian migrants last year have been completely cleared of all charges.
Fox News was the only network to cover the development.
After playing a clip of the head of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas vowing back in September 2021 to get the investigation wrapped up in days, anchor Bret Baier stated "we are just getting to the back end of this investigation where the guys are not being punished… and remember how much coverage was given to that moment."
Analyst Brit Hume responded "Right and you know at first it looked bad. And the explanation was available within a matter of 24 or 48 hours. It didn't stop President Biden from coming out and saying these border agents were going to pay."
Hume continued, that Biden "has been notably silent on this since and now we know probably was inevitable that they have been cleared of doing anything wrong there. They were using their reigns to deal with the horses."
"This is another example of the administration on the border and border issues. They slow-walk these issues because I think in the end they believe that their constituents in the Democratic Party want these migrants to come and come by the hundreds of thousands," Hume concluded.
As we reported at the time, Democrats and leftists in the media spread the fake claims in order to distract from the unfolding crisis on the border.
Even the photographer who took the images chimed in and stated that no 'whipping' took place.
"Some of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses," Paul Ratje said, adding "I've never seen them whip anyone… He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you're looking at the picture."
After even CNN's Jake Tapper admitted the insinuation that Border Patrol agents 'whipped' migrants was "patently false," and that pictures of the incident were grossly taken out of context, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declared that it didn't matter and that the administration's reaction to the incident would not change.
.@PressSec says that the distinction between whipping immigrants and using horse reins does not change the circumstances regarding the investigation and disciplining of border patrol agents.
"Our reaction to the photos has not changed." pic.twitter.com/a6eAHF7N24
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 27, 2021
Border agents involved in the incident were suspended, while their colleagues were forced to undergo woke re-education training, all because they were trying to do their jobs properly.
Multicultural Sweden Suffers Massive Riots
Washington Post Writer: Solve Inflation With MORE Immigration
Louis C.K. is an Idiot
Deranged comments on Joe Rogan podcast.
Louis CK thinks the solution to America's border crisis is to just "let everybody pour in" because white Americans deserve it.
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Based Ukrainian Refugee Causes Offense
Not a fan of England's diversity.
Left-wing broadcaster Channel 4 interviewed a Ukrainian refugee who said she moved out of Birmingham, England's second city, because she was "afraid" of living in the city as she expected more white people to be there.
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Video: Immigration Reform Head Says "Biden Administration Are Co-conspirators With The Drug Cartels"
"Democrats are invested in trying to reengineer the electorate through mass illegal immigration"
Federation for American Immigration Reform President Dan Stein charged Wednesday that the Democrats are purposefully flooding the country with illegal immigrants in order to change the political electorate and keep themselves in power for the next half a century.
Appearing on Fox News, Stein urged "This is happening on purpose. The Biden Administration are co-conspirators with the cartels, who are operating with impunity all across America now."
"We have no interior enforcement, no immigration law enforcement, obviously criminal aliens are being released en mass in part because there is no criminal detention," Stein continued.
"They are paroling in people under phoney asylum claims by the millions, and incentivising cartels to keep smuggling people in," he added.
Stein labeled new Arizona governor Katie Hobbs a "smuggler", adding that "she's operating like a travel agency to bring people in and send them all over the country, it's happening for a reason and to expect the Biden Administration to voluntarily change course when they want this to happen is ridiculous."
"The Republicans in Congress need to do more than just hold hearings, more than oversight, they need to tell the Department of Homeland Security 'you cannot continue business as usual, you are breaking the law, violating it, making up new immigration laws as you go," Stein proclaimed.
He further charged that "Democrats are invested in trying to reengineer the electorate through mass illegal immigration, they try to retain one party leadership for fifty years, they don't give a darn about what's happening at the border, they don't care about Fentanyl deaths, they don't care about illegal immigration. They are rewarding it, incentivising it and doing everything they can to promote it."
"How can you possibly expect Democrats to turn around and do something different?" Stein asserted, adding "They're playing a long game here, and the American people need to understand our country is being destroyed."
Stein's comments come in the wake of fresh figures released by the Customs and Border Protection Agency revealing that a record amount of illegal crossings were recorded in December 2022, with 17 individuals on the terrorism watchlist apprehended.
The numbers, released Friday, show that 251,487 illegal immigrants crossed the border in December, the highest monthly total in history.
CBP Figures Show Highest Monthly Total Of Illegal Crossings EVER Recorded
Meanwhile, amid Democratic calls for a blanket amnesty, a survey has highlighted that only fourteen percent of Americans agree that citizenship should be granted to those have have entered illegally.
Poll: Only 14% Of Americans Agree With Amnesty For Illegals


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