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Applications Open for Community Service Tax Credit Program
TOPEKA – Governor Laura Kelly today announced that applications are currently being accepted for the Community Service Tax Credit Program (CSP). CSP provides an opportunity for private, non-profit organizations and public health care entities to improve their ability to undertake major capital campaigns for projects involving children and family services, non-governmental crime prevention, youth apprenticeship and youth technical training and health care.
"The Community Service Tax Credit program is an incredible opportunity for nonprofit organizations to create lasting, meaningful changes for people across Kansas," said Governor Laura Kelly. "These tax credits will foster local solutions to local challenges, and they will help improve the quality of life for Kansans now and into the future."
Under this program, the state authorizes nonprofit organizations to offer tax credits to donors making contributions towards approved projects. Proposed projects should be unique or one-time in nature and create a lasting value for charitable organizations. For example, projects might include a capital campaign, major equipment purchase, major renovation, capacity building, etc.
Since 2019, CSP has earmarked $1 million for childcare and early childhood development projects for services to those under the age of 5.
"These tax credits help local nonprofit and healthcare organizations streamline their fundraising efforts, to more effectively improve the health and economic wellbeing of Kansas communities," Lieutenant Governor and Commerce Secretary David Toland said. "We're asking Kansans to tell us about their initiatives, and if they are a good fit for the CSP program, we will provide a significant resource to help bring these projects to fruition across Kansas."
Applicants may request up to $200,000 in tax credits. Applicant organizations in rural areas (less than 15,000 population) are eligible for a 70 percent credit. Applicant organizations in non-rural areas are eligible for a 50 percent credit. The application window is open through April 30, 2022 at kansascommerce.gov/csp. CSP is administered by the Community Development Division of the Department of Commerce. More information on the program, guidelines, and application process may be found online here.
About the Kansas Department of Commerce:
As the state's lead economic development agency, the Kansas Department of Commerce strives to empower individuals, businesses and communities to achieve prosperity in Kansas. Commerce accomplishes its mission by developing relationships with corporations, site location consultants and stakeholders in Kansas, the nation and world. Our strong partnerships allow us to help create an environment for existing Kansas businesses to grow and foster an innovative, competitive landscape for new businesses. Through Commerce's project successes, Kansas in 2021 was awarded Site Selection Magazine's Governor's Cup award, Area Development Magazine's Gold Shovel award and was named Site Selection Magazine's Best Business Climate in the West North Central region of the United States. Find the Department's strategic plan for economic growth here: Kansas Framework for Growth.


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Kompany makes Manchester City transfer decision
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Vincent Kompany has reportedly made Manchester City transfer decision.
His contract is set to expire at the end of this season.
Manchester City defender and skipper Vincent Kompany has made the decision about his stay at the club at the end of the season. His contract is set to expire at the end of the season and it looks unlikely that the Citizens would extend it beyond this season. The player has been down with injury concerns and has missed chunks of this season as well as the last one and might be on the verge of departure from the Etihad Stadium.
Speaking to the media, the veteran Belgian said, "When you've been at a club for such a long time, it's almost like dealing with your family members. You may agree or disagree, but in the end you'll come up with something – and you'll still be family at the end of the day."
He added, "That's how I handle it, so there's no reason to speculate, or talk about anything externally. It will happen in house. I still feel there's 10 years to play for. I wake up every morning motivated. I still compete and try and find a way to convince the manager to put me in the squad."
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Q: Boot a Debian firmware-nonfree netinstall USB device with GRUB2 I have an Apple MacMini Intel running a Debian Stretch (no BIOS-like boot list, just standard GRUB2).
I would like to boot on a USB device to set a fresh new installation, with the latest firmware-nonfree netinstall.
I add a custom entry to the GRUB2 menu like this (on a regular Debian session) :
$ sudo vi /etc/grub.d/40_custom
menuentry "Debian Netinstall (USB)" {
    set root=(hd0)
    linux /debian/install.amd/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb1 ro
    initrd /debian/install.amd/initrd.gz
}

This allow me to run the text mode installer, directly to the language choice, but with a red painted backgroud (not the usual color for this netinstaller).
The problem came after the network config : I need to feed my wlan deice with the b43/* firmwares.
This USB device loaded with this Netinstall image was OK for installing a laptop (iwlwifi* firmware needed) earlier in the week. On a standard BIOS bootlist.
I try some stuff to feed installer with the asked firmwares :

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*using the installer shell to mount /cdrom/firmware/ /lib/firmware/

*using another USB key with the firmware directory of the netinstall image

*using another USB key with the specific files asked (found here)

None of this worked and the installer keep ask for the firmwares...
Questions :

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*How can I feed the installer with the asked files?

*How can I set GRUB2 custom entry to run installer from the begining (the first menu asking for the kind of installation)?

*Why the background is red?

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160803 individuals, 60754 families from file 20190714.ged (14 Jul 2019)
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Lucy Colvin (____ - ____)
Mary Colvin (____ - ____)
Melinda Stone Colvin (7 Jan 1834 - 22 May 1896)
Nina I. Colvin (Mar 1889 - ____)
Peter Colvin (1749 - ____)
Rufus Colvin (____ - ____)
Ruth Colvin (5 May 1780 - 3 Sep 1822)
Samuel Colvin (____ - ____)
Sarah Colvin (1726 - AFT Aug 1768)
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Colwell (____ - ____)
Abigail Colwell (1813 - 1883)
Amey Colwell (1703 - ____)
Amy Colwell (31 May 1731 - 31 Aug 1807)
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Coomer Colwell (17 Jun 1869 - ____)
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Elizabeth Colwell (4 Sep 1706 - 24 Jan 1773)
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Fanny B. Colwell (Apr 1867 - 19 Mar 1924)
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George Arnold Colwell (ABT 1860 - ____)
George D. Colwell (9 Sep 1853 - 18 Feb 1873)
Harley F. Colwell (12 Aug 1849 - 27 Feb 1933)
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Henry Colwell (____ - ____)
Henry J. Colwell (1835 - ____)
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James Colwell (____ - ____)
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John Colwell (12 Jul 1708 - 21 Dec 1792)
John Colwell (Sr.) (23 Jun 1746 - ____)
John Colwell (ABT 1786 - 10 May 1871)
John S. Colwell (ABT 1824 - ____)
Joseph Colwell (Reverend) (18 Dec 1729 - 1761/1762)
Joshua Colwell (21 Jan 1832 - 21 Nov 1898)
Judge Colwell (____ - ____)
Lewis N. Colwell (25 Sep 1872 - ____)
Lucy M. Colwell (ABT 1817 - 19 Mar 1886)
Lydia Colwell (____ - ____)
Lydia Colwell (12 Dec 1732 - AFT 12 Nov 1776)
Lydia Colwell (ABT 1751 - 8 Jan 1842)
Lydia S. Colwell (1813 - 16 Oct 1854)
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Maria Colwell (ABT 1826 - ____)
Martha Colwell (____ - ____)
Martha Colwell (17 May 1734 - 11 Nov 1813)
Mary Elizabeth Colwell (1874 - ____)
Mary Ellen Colwell (ABT 1863 - 5 Feb 1931)
Myra Elizabeth Colwell (1 Sep 1857 - 28 Sep 1945)
Nichole Dawn Colwell (____ - ____)
Raymond P. Colwell (15 Aug 1822 - 19 Oct 1897)
Richard Mason Colwell (____ - ____)
Richard Steere Colwell (17 Mar 1848 - 12 Mar 1918)
Robert Colwell (____ - ____)
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Ludvig Leple, hrvatski bosanskohercegovački bivši nogometaš. Igrao za Željezničar iz Sarajeva. Odigrao jednu sezonu. Sezone 1921./22. Željezničar je igrao u rangu sarajevskog nogometnog podsaveza.

Izvori

Životopisi, Sarajevo
Hrvatski nogometaši iz Bosne i Hercegovine
Nogometaši FK Željezničara

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Urban Adventure class draws on police, social workers, actors and more to make a complex scenario come to life for Urban Affairs students.
Jim Stelk, a retired detective sergeant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, was a key adviser in the creation of the Urban Adventure class. (Photo by Josh Hawkins/UNLV Creative Services)
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By Pashtana Usufzy
Timothy Shalhoob, a retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sergeant, has seen his share of crime scenes in his 30-year career.
So when he was asked to help direct classes of UNLV students investigate a simulated crime scene and understand the chaos that may ensue, he knew it was an opportunity for him to pass on his knowledge.
"It takes a community's involvement to support the university in educating their students," Shalhoob said. "Experienced subject matter experts allow students to fail and then redirect them and let them come up with solutions to succeed."
Dubbed "Urban Adventure," the course was redesigned to debut this spring semester. The Greenspun College of Urban Affairs prompted students to think about the class in a new way. Students were asked to investigate the links between three crime scenes set up around the college and to examine the social issues connected to the crimes.
Along the way, faculty, staff, and community experts in social work, media, public relations, police work, law, communication, and leadership guided the students. Nearly 50 people have been involved in the course, from development of content to assisting students on-site to the actors and makeup professionals who've brought the scenarios to life.
"On a scale of one to 10, it's a 10. I've never seen a scene recreated like this in any other place in law enforcement in 32 years," Shalhoob said. "This exercise would stump young policemen with five years of experience."
Michele Fuller-Hallauer, manager at Clark County Social Services and the county's continuum of care coordinator, offered students her technical expertise in understanding homelessness issues in an online lecture. One of the crime scenes students explored centered on a shooting involving a victim who appeared to be homeless.
Fuller-Hallauer hoped to offer a window into a societal issue that most students in the course likely haven't experienced firsthand. Her presentation asks students to visualize themselves in the shoes of a homeless individual: What would they do if their safety plan fell through?
"Whether you're a first responder or a journalist or whatever your future role is in the community, even just this one course will help folks have a different view of persons who are experiencing homelessness," Fuller-Hallauer said. "It broadens the worldview of the person who is going through the course."
Retired detective-sergeant Jim Young, a 29-year veteran of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, worked alongside retired police department senior crime analyst Daniel Holstein to develop the scenarios students are exploring this spring.
Young said he witnessed firsthand the positive results of a shift from classroom-intensive training to more hands-on instruction during his time in the police department.
"I had the real-world experience to incorporate the training into the instructional component," he said. "What we're trying to do is balance the realism of the environment with the instructional result."
However, the course is not simply a mystery crime game.
"I really love the idea of students from different disciplines having a cross-section of education," Fuller-Hallauer said. "I think it helps us to broaden the way we respond and react to other people and to a situation as a whole. It really makes us better citizens."
Pashtana Usufzy
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Department of Communication Studies, Department of Criminal Justice, Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies, School of Public Policy and Leadership, School of Social Work, Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
Class Puts Urban Affairs Students at the Scene of the Crime
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Jade Thomas brings her love of the game to the viewers as part of the student-led broadcast program Rebel Report.
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From on-property instruction to dinner theater, the William F. Harrah College of Hospitality is aligning students with the community in novel ways – and taking practical learning to a whole new level.
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UK economy probably shrank for first time in seven yearshttps://indianexpress.com/article/world/u-k-economy-probably-shrank-for-first-time-in-seven-years-brexit-trade-tensions-5822248/
UK economy probably shrank for first time in seven years
The worsening outlook, both at home and overseas, has also left investors and economists rewriting their calls for UK interest rates.
By Bloomberg |	Published: July 9, 2019 2:20:26 pm
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Markets are now almost fully pricing in a rate cut for mid-2020, while the latest survey shows economists don't see a move higher until the second quarter of 2021. (Representational Image)
The UK economy probably shrank for the first time since 2012 in the second quarter, according to Bloomberg's latest survey of economists.
The prediction for a 0.1% contraction marks a downgrade from June, when economists only predicted stagnation. The survey came as retail industry reported another drop in sales and said "the picture is bleak."
Second Quarter Slowdown
Economists predict the UK economy shrank for the first time since 2012.
The latest poll follows a dismal week of reports in the UK, with Purchasing Managers' Indexes showing the dominant services industry barely growing in June, and both construction and manufacturing sectors suffering outright contractions. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney last week warned that global trade tensions, and the growing threat of a no-deal Brexit, had increased downside risks to growth.
Official data this week is forecast by economists to show growth rebounded to 0.3% in May, after a contraction of 0.4% in April. Still, such a reading would mean an expansion of 0.8% was needed in June just to return a flat result for the quarter as a whole, according to Bloomberg calculations.
In a separate report, the British Retail Consortium reported on Tuesday that retail sales fell 1.6% in June from a year earlier on a like-for-like basis. That's worse than the average change in the past 12 months, the lobby group said.
The worsening outlook, both at home and overseas, has also left investors and economists rewriting their calls for UK interest rates. Markets are now almost fully pricing in a rate cut for mid-2020, while the latest survey shows economists don't see a move higher until the second quarter of 2021.
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If you want to feel more motivated to work out, crank up the tunes. Buffer Social reports that listening to music helps the brain override signals of fatigue while completing low and moderate intensity exercise. It helps people push through pain and achieve faster and better results because it helps them use their energy in a highly efficient way.
Choose a Song That Warms You Up.
Select music with a moderate tempo that inspires you. Make sure that it's longer in length. Shoot for a song that is four minutes long or longer to get you moving because that's how long it usually takes to warm up.
Add a Song That Gets You Started.
A moderate to fast paced song helps you set the speed for walking, running or moving on the elliptical. Think of music that really excites you and add it into the playlist.
Include Songs That Pump You Up and Help You Get in the Zone.
Add songs with varying speeds to mimic the natural progression of your workout. You won't want to run the entire time you're on the treadmill. You'll need to warm up and cool down, too.
Don't let the music distract you, though. This is especially important if you're exercising outdoors. You need to be hyper vigilant about your surroundings. You want to be aware of the people around you, as well as the traffic and the weather. This is what keeps you safe while running, jogging, and walking outdoors.
Take note of how your body feels, too. If something hurts, stop. You don't want to risk injury by pushing yourself too hard. Think quality over quantity when working out because the better the workout, the fewer you have to do to achieve positive results.
There's always tomorrow to pick up where you left off. By then, you'll know how well your hand-selected playlist works for you. If it gets you pumped about working out, you've successfully created a good motivational tool that you can use over and over again.
If it doesn't do the trick, start over and see if you can add different songs or change the order of your current playlist to fit your needs. New music comes out every day. Challenge yourself to listen to new musicians, bands, and genres so that you feel inspired all the time to work out.
Now that you've set the tone for your upcoming workouts, you'll be able to achieve your goals quickly and easily. Listening to music that inspires you to be your very best is one way to remain focused and stay on track while exercising. Before you hit the trail or treadmill, make sure you hit play on your phone or MP3 player. It helps motivate you to complete whatever fitness goal you've set for yourself.


Kinda sounds like me at the dentist.
It's a good thing that his dentist researched about your son's condition right before you arrived. I see that the dentist (Charleston, SC) is very responsible and handy with special conditions like your son's. I remember my brother Ariel, he is special as well, we used to trick him with some calcium candies at his dentist's clinic just to get him to lay on dentist's chair.
friend you as soon as doable.


Cancer is tricky to understand, prevent and treat in a system perverted by a coercive medical cartel, backed by the state, intellectual property laws and restrictions on what treatments can be used or experimented with.
To Prevent The Cancer Diagnosis, You Should….
All my experience watching people "get" and overcome cancer can be boiled down into one sentence: What we put in our mouth causes and reverses all degenerative diseases. All of them can be avoided and overcome by correcting what we put in our mouth (just another way of saying the same thing).
In this 2h long video Dr. Day reveals the true causes for our diseases and gives the astonishing answers on how to get well living a healthy lifestlye and eating natural food thus improving our immune system. In addition, she exposes the disastrous side effects of the drugs used to treat these disorders. Discover the cause of your disease and find out how to get well. Dr. Lorraine Day herself developed severe advanced cancer and almost died – which became her supreme motivating factor for finding out how to get well. She recovered by natural methods, without chemotherapy, radiation or mutilating surgery. In the process of her research, she discovered that there are known causes for virtually every disease, even though this is never taught to doctors in medical school.
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Q: For what values of p does this series converge $$\sum_{k=1}^∞\frac{k}{\sqrt{4+k^p}}$$
I've already tried the integral test but failed to find a primitive, and also check if $$\lim_{n\to∞}an=0$$
But not totally satisfied with the result

A: The series $\sum\limits^{\infty}_{k=1}\frac{1}{k^{s}}$ converges if and only if $s>1$.
In your case note that $4+k^{p} > k^{p}$, so since $\sqrt{}:[0,\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ is monotonic also
$$ \sum\limits^{\infty}_{k=1}\frac{k}{\sqrt{4+k^p}} \leq \sum\limits^{\infty}_{k=1}\frac{k}{\sqrt{k^{p}}} = \sum\limits^{\infty}_{k=1}k^{1-\frac{p}{2}}. $$
Therefore the series converges iff $\frac{p}{2}-1>1$, so if and only if $p>4$.

A: Let $p >0$. $\frac 1 {\sqrt 2  k^{p/2 -1}} \leq  \frac k  {\sqrt {4+ k^p}} \leq \frac 1 { k^{p/2 -1}}$ for $k$ sufficiently large. Comparing with $\sum \frac 1 { k^{p/2 -1}}$ we see that the series converges iff $p >4$. I leave the case $p \leq 0$ to you.


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Lewisham Ladywell Temporary Housing
In January 2015, Lewisham Council unveiled plans for an innovative and flexible housing development devised in collaboration with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP). The development is a response to the ongoing demand for housing in the Borough, exploring a short-term use for the site of the former Ladywell Leisure Centre building, which was demolished in 2014.
The project creates a deployable, 2,000 m2 development using a volumetric construction method that provides high-quality, energy-efficient accommodation. The system can be built faster and cheaper than traditional methods, and the finished structure is fully-demountable, meaning it can be used over a number of years in different locations.
Residential units provide homes for local people in housing need, whilst ground-floor non-residential units are available for community and business use. All units exceed the current space standard requirements by 10%, helping the Council meet an existing shortfall in high-quality temporary and two-bed accommodation.
Ivan Harbour, Partner at RSHP, said the project: " ..offers a blueprint to meet a wide range of urban housing needs. By delivering well-designed, flexible and sustainable accommodation using a quick and cost-effective volumetric technology, we hope to change the way we think about house building in the future."
Sir Steve Bullock, Mayor of Lewisham, said: "This scheme may offer a solution to an all too common problem that plagues many development sites, which often sit unused while complex regeneration plans are put together. When we have thousands of people on our housing waiting list and are paying out for expensive bed and breakfast stays - that is a terrible waste. We are also showing with this partnership with Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners that we can achieve real quality and value for money."
On 7 July 2016, the project won the Mayor's Prize and the Temporary building category at the New London Architecture awards.
The scheme was formally launched on 14 July 2016, when Bullock described it as a "...great example of how we can use innovation to respond to this very real and growing challenge."
Ivan Harbour added, "This type of development can go up to 13 storeys and our only real constraint is the volume you can get on the back of a truck and get round the country. By using offsite construction you can can ship all the material and assemble it locally. It's all about the flexibility of people."
In February 2017, PLACE/Ladywell was Highly Commended in the 2017 London Planning Awards in the category 'Best new place to live'. The prize was collected by Lewisham Cabinet Member for Housing, Damien Egan.
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RSHP move to Leadenhall Building.
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CD of the Day - "Grover Washington, Jr.: All The King's Horses"
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Grover Washington, Jr.: "All The King's Horses" (Kudu/Verve) 1973/2008
Originally recorded in May and June, 1972, it was Grover's second LP for Creed Taylor's Kudu label, the follow-up to "Inner City Blues". Creed decided to repeat the same formula and most of the same musicians (except Idris Muhammad, who couldn't do the date and was replaced by Billy Cobham and Bernard Purdie) of the previous album. It worked well, becoming a #1 album in the Billboard Jazz Chart. It also reached the Black (#20) and Pop (#111) albums charts in the same magazine. Now, "All The King's Horses" re-appears on Verve's "Originals" series, with the digipak cover reproducing the original Bob Ciano artwork, even keeping the original catalog number Kudu 07 in the CD front cover. The master Pete Turner did Grover's photos.
The program, cut at Van Gelder Studios, includes nice covers of hits by the two main pop-soul-r&b singers of the time: Aretha Franklin (who had penned the title track for her Grammy-winning album "Young, Gifted & Black) and Roberta Flack ("No Tears, In The End," from the "Killing Me Softly" LP, and "Where Is The Love?", from the first "Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway" date).
Both of Flack's hits had been co-written by bassist William "Bill" Salter and percussionist Ralph MacDonald, who played congas on Grover's versions; Airto took care of the other percussion instruments. "Where Is The Love?" is one of the album highlights, including what guitarist Eric Gale considered his best solo ever. Instead of developing one of those blues-inflected solos he was famous for, Gale opted for a bop-oriented phrasing. "In the middle of the solo, Creed Taylor started to speak in the mike directly to my earphone: 'play the blues, Eric, play the blues". But I pretended I wasn't listening and kept the direction I wanted," Gale once told me. "It was the last track to be recorded and there was no time to record another take, because Van Gelder had another client waiting to enter the studio. Creed would need to book another 6-hour studio session just to re-record my solo, so he left it there."
Other great tracks are Bob James' challenging arrangement of Billie Holiday's hit "Lover Man" (good solos by Grover on alto sax, David Spinozza on electric guitar and by my friend Marvin Stamm on flugelhorn), and Bob's inspired adaptation of a theme by English composer Henry Purcell (1658-1695), retitled "Love Song 1700," featuring Gene Bertoncini on acoustic guitar, Bob on harpsichord and a string trio comprised of David Nadien on violin, Emanuel Vardi on viola and George Ricci on cello.
The less attractive moments are the jazz ballad standard "Body and Soul" (thanks to a truncated editing and an abrupt fade-out) and Bill Withers' laidback tune "Lean on Me".
Besides all the aforementioned musicians, the all-star cast also includes Richard Tee (organ), Ron Carter (bass), Gordon Edwards (electric bass on "No Tears" only), Cornell Dupree (guitar), Pepper Adams (baritone sax) and multi-reed instrumentalist George Marge, who plays flutes, alto sax, English horn & oboe. And Bob James plays Fender Rhodes too, of course.
This new remastering, by Kevin Reeves, is far superior to the previous CD issues.
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41st Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Announced
"The Hancock Project" live, tonight, in NY
Your calls are needed in Pennsylvania
Diana Krall & Toquinho
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Keith Jarrett Trio live, tonight
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"Jazz Rock" released today in Germany!
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Last Call: this weekend
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NU Online News Service, Nov. 15, 12:10 p.m. -- Wachovia Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has purchased Crawford, Slevin & Hicks Inc., Sparks, Md., a group ...
By Staff Writer | November 15, 2001 at 07:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Nov. 15, 12:10 p.m. – Wachovia Corp., Charlotte, N.C., has purchased Crawford, Slevin & Hicks Inc., Sparks, Md., a group health insurance broker that generates $16 million in annual premium revenue.
Wachovia says the acquisition should help it increase sales in the Washington, Maryland and northern Virginia markets, expanding the business of an agency that Wachovia already owns in Tysons Corner, Va.
The new Wachovia Corp. was formed Sept. 1, from the merger of the former First Union Corp., Charlotte, and Wachovia Corp., Winston-Salem, N.C.
The CS&H deal will increase the total combined revenue of the Wachovia Insurance Services unit to about $150 million.
The agency will be one of the 15 biggest insurance insurance brokers in the United States, Wachovia says.


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Hartford Holding No-Appointment COVID Vaccine Clinics for Residents
Published April 6, 2021 • Updated on April 6, 2021 at 4:29 pm
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The City of Hartford is holding two no-appointment, walk-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics this week for Hartford residents who are 18 years old and older.
The first clinic was Tuesday at the Swift Factory in the North End. The second will be on Wednesday at the Free Center.
Note: These clinics are for Hartford residents only who are 18 and up. You must show a photo ID or a piece of mail that is less than 90 days old and has a Hartford address. Walk-ups are welcome and no appointments are needed.
At an event at the Swift Factory Tuesday, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said these walk-up clinics are now a priority for the city.
"A big part of our effort to get our community vaccinated is to remove every barrier, to make it as easy as possible," Bronin explained.
City health officials also noted that all Hartford residents will be able to get a vaccine, regardless of immigration status.
The mayor also announced that the city is partnering with Harriott Home Health Services to vaccine those who are homebound. Right now the partnership is vaccinating about 80 people a week, though the goal is to reach 100 vaccinations at week.
City officials said vaccine hesitancy is still a concern. They urged those taking a "wait-and-see" approach not to wait, but to get vaccinated before the spread of variants can hinder the effort.
COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic at Swift Factory
Swift Factory is located at 10 Love Lane in Hartford and the clinic is outside, in front of the Swift Factory.
The clinic began at 2 p.m. and ends at 6:30 p.m., or when vaccines run out. Bronin said there are 250 Johnson & Johnson doses available through the event.
COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic at Free Center Wednesday
The second will be on Wednesday at the Free Center.
Free Center is at 460 New Britain Ave. in Hartford and the clinic is indoors.
Both clinics begin at 2 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m., or when vaccines run out.
City officials said each clinic will vaccinate 200 residents. Residents will be given appointments for other clinics if they aren't able to be vaccinated.
A third walk-up clinic is expected this week as well.
"Our first walk-up clinic last week was a huge success, and we have more opportunities this week for hundreds of residents to get vaccinated without any appointment, right in their neighborhood," Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said in a statement."
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People 16 years old and up are now eligible for a coronavirus vaccine in Connecticut and you might not get an appointment right away, but you can find one. The keys to finding one are to check several different websites and to keep checking through the day.
As of 10 a.m. on Wednesday, March 31, the Vaccine Administration Management System opened for registration for all Connecticut residents 16 and older.
Tips to Get a COVID-19 Vaccine Appointment in Connecticut
Several healthcare providers, pharmacies and the Centers for Disease Control have different websites that allow you to book an appointment. Check several of them rather than just one. See below for links of providers in Connecticut.
Many systems will automatically search for clinics within five or 10 miles of your zip code. Expand your search area to find more locations.
Be persistent.
Even if a website says no appointments are available, check to see if something was added recently because the site might not have updated to reveal that more appointments are available.
Keep checking back through the day because appointments do open up.
Find a slot that works for you, and book your appointment.
State officials encourage you to keep checking back for newer and sooner appointments but ask that you please remember to cancel the old appointment to free that space up as soon as possible for others who need it.
Check your city or town website to see if there is a waitlist.
AstraZeneca says its coronavirus vaccine developed with the University of Oxford was found to be safe and effective in trials conducted in the U.S., Peru and Chile.
Who Can Get a COVID-19 Vaccine in Connecticut
The state started the vaccine rollout in mid-December by vaccinating healthcare personnel, long-term care facility residents and medical first responders.
As of mid-January, Connecticut residents 75 and older have been able to sign up for an appointment and get a vaccine.
Connecticut residents 55 and older can sign up and get an appointment.
Pre-K-12 Teachers, paraprofessionals, custodial staff, food service providers, school bus drivers and childcare providers as well as in-school administrative staff. This group does not include individuals who are not required to work on-site in a school.
Note: Pre-K-12 school staff and teachers, and professional child care providers will be eligible for the vaccine.
People 45 to 55
People 16 and up
Note:To get a vaccine in Connecticut, you must either live or work in the state. If you typically visit a provider here but do not live or work in Connecticut, you are not eligible and must get vaccinated in your home state.
How to Get an Appointment for a COVID-19 Vaccine in Connecticut
By phone: Call Connecticut's Vaccine Appointment Assist Line at 877-918-2224, seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for scheduling at select sites.
Online: Schedule a COVID-19 vaccination appointment in VAMS, the Vaccine Administration Management System.
Fill out the form to let the Department of Public health know you are interested in creating an account in VAMS. If you are currently eligible to receive the vaccine then you should receive an email from VAMS to complete your registration within 12 hours. Click here to create an account.
Check for an email from no-reply@mail.vams.cdc.gov. Click on the link in the email and create your account. You will be prompted to retrieve a code that will be emailed to you. You will need to create a password and store it in a safe place.
If you forgot your password, the "forgot password" link on the login page can only be used if you have created a password as part of your VAMS registration.
Complete your VAMS registration.
The first question that will be asked in VAMS is "Have you already registered as a vaccine recipient with VAMS?" The answer to this question is "No."
Questions with a red asterisk are mandatory.
Insurance information does not need to be entered.
You will be prompted to share some additional information about yourself.
In order for VAMS to recognize your option chosen for race, click on your choice in the box on the left and click the right-pointing arrow to move your choice to the box on the right.
Use your zip code to search for clinics near you in VAMS.
The system will automatically search for clinics within a 10-mile radius of your zip code, but you may choose up to 100 miles from the dropdown menu, which might provide more clinic locations in your search results.
You might need to check multiple clinic locations to find an available appointment. Find a slot that works for you, and book your appointment.
You can find a location near you here.
Providers With Their Own Vaccine Sign-Ups
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center: To schedule your COVID-19 vaccination call Cornell Scott Hill Health Center at 203-503-3000.
Hamden Board of Education Building (Gymnasium), 60 Putnam Ave., Hamden. By appointment only: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
226 Dixwell Ave., New Haven. By appointment only: Tuesdays and Thursdays: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wilson Branch Library: 303 Washington Ave., New Haven. By appointment only: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Della Pietra Pharmacy in Waterbury. By appointment, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to noon and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Call 203-754-0181 for more information.
Middlesex Health
Nutmeg Pharmacy
UCONN Health
Stamford Health
CVS locations within some Target stores will offer vaccines to people who are eligible.
Visit CVS.com to check your eligibility and see if there's a participating location near you.
Walgreens: Access the scheduler here.
Walmart. Click here to schedule your vaccine
Set up appointments here, or call 833-ASK-YNHH
Cornell Scott Hill Health Center
Set up appointments here or call 203-503-3000
Fair Haven Community Health Care
Set up an appointment here or call 203-871-4179
Joel Leyden, the executive director of Vaccineangel.com, had advice for anyone trying to book an appointment with CVS and said you're first going to see no appointments available. But if you click on another state, like Alabama, you fill out all the questions in Alabama and then you go to the bottom of the page and you put in Connecticut and you might see 30 to 40 pharmacies that are offering the vaccines.
Cities and Towns Helping With COVID-19 Vaccine Sign-ups
In addition to signing up through VAMS, the state vaccine line, a provider and pharmacy, some cities and towns have additional sign-up methods or phone lines to call for help.
Bethel: Residents 65+ can pre-register online here: https://www.bethel-ct.gov/content/117/478/20695.aspx
Residents who do not use a computer can register through the Bethel Vaccine Infoline at 203-794-8523.
Seniors can also call the Bethel Senior Center at 203-794-8593 for help registering. The 75+ age groups will continue to be the first priority, but the town will move immediately to the 65+ group as quickly as supplies allow.
Branford: Branford has clinics every Wednesday at the Community House Gymnasium by appointment only. Eligible individuals must be registered in VAMS to schedule an appointment. Individuals who do not have computer access can call the Canoe Brook Senior Center COVID Vaccine Hotline at 203-315-0685 for assistance. If you need assistance, call the Canoe Brook Senior Center or the First Selectman's Office at 203-315-0620.
Bridgeport: Call the Senior Center Help Line, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 203-576-7993.
Bridgewater: Bridgewater is taking COVID-19 vaccination pre-registration for people 55 and up. Click here.
Bristol: The Bristol Burlington Health District and the Bristol Senior Center are holding vaccine clinics for people 75 and up every Wednesday at the Bristol Senior Center. Appointments are required.
If you are eligible, call the Bristol Senior Center weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. at 860-584-7895 to sign up for a time slot.
Check with your physician to make sure you are a good candidate to receive the vaccine.
Canaan: If you need further information on COVID Vaccines or help on how to get one, contact Theresa Snyder Graney at socialservices@canaanfallsvillage.org or call 860-824-9855.
Colebrook: Colebrook is helping some residents register for the COVID-19 vaccine. If you need assistance or know of an older friend/neighbor/relative that needs assistance, call the Selectman's office at 860-379-3359 Ext. 201.
Danbury: Residents who do not email can click here for help.
Fairfield: Fairfield's COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center is 203-256-3082 to help eligible vaccine recipients. The call center will be open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Voicemails will be returned when calls come in outside the operating hours.
Farmington: If you have a friend or loved one who does not use the internet and you are unable to assist them, call Farmington Community Services at 860-675-2390. Staff can help residents create accounts, locate sites and schedule appointments.
Haddam: Seniors who need assistance with the registration process for a COVID-19 vaccine, call Jessica at Haddam Senior & Social Services at (860) 345-4621or email socialservices@haddam.org between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. to make your appointment.
Hartford: Fill out a COVID-19 Vaccine Interest form here.
Madison: The Town of Madison is collecting information from residents age 65 and up who would like to be notified when the COVID-19 vaccine is available. By registering, the town can update you as information becomes available. Click here. If you are having difficulty using the online form, call the Madison Senior Center at (203) 245-5627 for assistance.
Middlefield: Residents can call Sue D'Orvilliers at 860-349-7121.
Middletown: Middletown has created a waitlist for eligible residents.
Naugatuck: The Naugatuck Valley Health District is administering the Moderna vaccine. Residents in need of scheduling help can call 203-881-3255, extension 108.
New Canaan: New Canaan residents over age 55 may register to be vaccinated at Lapham Center over the next few weeks. Click here for the voluntary vaccination sign up https://forms.gle/9SF2Pmnn8sVDhyfS8 and on the Covid-19 page of the Town's website. If you already completed the form you do not need to complete it again. The Health Department will call you when they have an appointment available for you. New Canaan seniors over age 65 may also register for vaccination appointments at other area clinics.
New Haven. If you have questions about a vaccine or need to cancel an appointment, e-mail NHVax@newhavenct.gov.
Norwalk: Residents who wish to receive email or text updates regarding the COVID-19 vaccine from the City can now sign up at norwalkct.org/vaccineupdate. Residents can enter their email address and/or cell phone number to be alerted of changing news, updates, and vaccine eligibility.
Old Lyme: The Town of Old Lyme is assisting residents ages 65 and who need assistance arranging an appointment to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. If you or your loved ones are having difficulty registering, call (860) 572-6246.
Redding: Redding residents 45 and older can pre-register her.
Ridgefield: Call the Department of Social Services at: 203-431-2777 or Founders Hall at 203-431-7000 or the Town Helpline at 203-431-2718.
Waterbury: You can schedule an appointment directly with the Waterbury Department of Public Health by calling 3-1-1.
West Hartford: West Hartford: Residents who have questions about obtaining a COVID vaccine can call West Hartford's Information Line at 860-561-6998, Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Residents cannot register for the vaccine through the Information Line. The service is intended to provide guidance and information regarding the vaccination process.
Westport: Human Services staff does not have access to the VAMS portal and cannot register on a resident's behalf. However, residents may contact (203) 341-1050 or (203) 341-5037 or humansrv@westportct.gov for additional assistance, as needed.
Windsor Locks: Windsor Locks Offers COVID Vaccine Hotline: 860 654-8979
Woodbury: Pomperaug District Department of Health, serving Southbury, Woodbury, and Oxford, holds vaccine clinics by appointment only. Click here for information.
Click here for an appointment.
People without internet access can call 203-264-9616, extension 7 to make an appointment. The phone lines will be very busy.
Woodstock: Woodstock residents 65 and over who want assistance making an appointment for a COVID vaccine may call Su Connor, Agent for the Elderly, at 860-974-1705.
What to Do If You Are Having Trouble Signing Up?
Call the United Way Vaccine Assistance Line at 877-918-2224 https://uwc.211ct.org/vaccine/
Join the New York/Connecticut Vaccine Hunters and Angels Facebook Group. This is a group of volunteers who help people find COVID-19 vaccine appointments.
Ask a family member who has time to check throughout the day to check on openings.
What Coronavirus Vaccines is Connecticut Getting?
For CT residents 16 and up.
The recommended time between doses: 21 days
For CT residents 18 and up
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With three coronavirus vaccines now approved in the U.S., learn the difference between them.
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Announced earlier today, Chinese mining company and wallet provider HaoBTC has officially launched a bitcoin exchange.
The company is based in Beijing, and sent out a tweet earlier to kick off their launch. Exchange users can buy and sell bitcoins by funding their accounts with bank transfers in Chinese Yuan (CNY).
The exchange offers basic buy and sell features along with an open orders book and charts. HaoBTC also already has a multisig wallet which is integrated as part of the exchange platform. At this time there doesn't appear to be any advanced trading features, but since it just launched today it's possible in the future there will be more features added.
Below is a screen capture of the open order book, where there isn't much volume on the exchange at this time. HaoBTC does charge a buy and sell bitcoin fee of 0.2%, and also a bitcoin withdrawal fee of 0.0005 BTC per transaction; CNY and BTC deposits are free.
"There is a lot of mining that goes on in China. However, I caution you: do not read too much into the high trading volumes. China has decent high volumes but unfortunately two of my competition exchanges – I never like saying this – but they are artificially inflating their volumes through the technique of wash trades.
Lee said Okcoin and Huobi are known for inflating trading volumes artificially, basically selling from left hand to the right hand. Lee's exchange BTCC has also been accused of wash trading in the past as well. With the launch of HaoBTC's exchange, the jury is still out on how well it will be received and used by the Chinese bitcoin community.


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Of course, your house must have some type of paint on it already if you're living in it. But what condition is the paint in? A home painting company can perform the important work of replacing your exterior paint. Here are a few common problems that can show in your paint and their likely causes, as well as what can be done to fix these problems.
Alligatoring: Reptile-like scales start to appear in your exterior paint. If your home exterior was painted with an oil-based product, alligatoring can occur as it ages, especially as temperatures fluctuate from hot to cold.
Blistering: Bubbles that appear to form under the paint. This is likely the result of prolonged exposure to moisture or interior moisture leaking out.
Chalking: Fine powder or dust appears to form on top of your paint. This can be caused by the use of interior paint outdoors, which is not appropriate, or if an alkyd-based coating was used in an area that gets full sun.
Cracking: Cracks that show in the paint, causing pieces of hardened paint to fall off. This is usually caused by poor house painting, using thin paint, or painting over too many layers of color without priming.
Fading: Color that appears to fade, lighten, or otherwise change. This is caused by direct hot sunlight, and the use of exterior paint that is not UV resistant. Certain colors, like orange and yellow, are also vulnerable to fading in the sunlight.
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Starting Tuesday, a California company called Bullet Button will begin selling devices that modify what will soon be illegal assault weapons so that they are in compliance with the new laws, one of which bans "bullet-buttons," a device that allows a user to dislodge a magazine quickly and reload. The idea is to make it more difficult for a shooter to reload their weapon, which anti-gun activists argue would save lives during a mass-shooting or terrorist attack like the December shooting spree in San Bernardino that claimed the lives of 14 people and left 24 others injured.
Bullet Button has devices for several different guns, including AR-15s, AK-47s, and Beretta handguns. In a video the company posted to YouTube on Friday, Bullet Button inventor Darin Prince demonstrates how to install the device to make what would otherwise be an illegal firearm compliant with the new law. The device allows a person to reload nearly as quickly as with the now-banned magazine locking devices they are replacing but includes the additional step of opening the receiver to reload. The YouTube video has amassed over 227,000 views at the time of publication on Tuesday afternoon.
Bullet Button did not immediately respond to Vocativ's request for comment.
The National Rifle Association has vehemently opposed California's new laws, saying they were rushed through the state legislature following the San Bernardino attack.
Brown said the laws are necessary to enhance safety.
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Where are the Carib languages spoken?
These languages are spoken over a vast area in the northern part of South America. There are speakers of Carib languages all over the Amazon Basin, from the mouth of the Amazon in Brazil all the way to the Andean foothills of Colombia, and along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts in countries such as Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, and French Guyana. Some Carib languages use to be spoken in the Lesser Antilles islands but they have been extinct since the beginning of the 20th Century.
The Carib language family counts between 25 and 28 languages, depending on sources.
We hereby follow Derbyshire's classification (1999).
There is no consensus regarding the inner classification of the Carib languages, mainly due to a lack of data on some of these languages.
The linguistic proximity of some of them makes it difficult to establish a definite number of languages: between 25 and 30, depending on sources.
For instance, Arekuana, Akawaio, and Patamona are sometimes identified as one and only language called Pemon.
Are the Carib languages endangered?
Yes, all the Carib languages appear to be endangered, but it is difficult to make reliable estimates of the population figures or vitality of these languages.
Carijona and Matipu are about to disappear, according to the UNESCO.
Mapoyo and Akuriyo only count a few speakers left, according to the SIL. They are possibly already extinct.
We were unable to find reliable data on many of these languages, yet certainty remains that most of them are threatened to some degree, and that many of them will probably disappear within the next decades.
Derbyshire, D. (1999) "Carib" in R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, (eds) The Amazonian languages, Cambridge University Press.


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Students gain insight into the main issues regarding the Russian economy. They are trained to apply insights from political economy and economics to the context of the Russian economy. Students also develop research skills through a number of written assignments.
Resit: witten exam. Weekly assignments can be compensated.
Yes. Readings and course information will be made available through Blackboard. Blackboard will also be used for group communication.
Journal articles and book chapters. All readings will be made available to students through Blackboard.


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2017 was the 60th anniversary of the death of a woman whose career of more than 50 years produced a body of work that can be seen in more than 300 churches in Devon and Cornwall.
Jesus and (far right) Judith at St Peter and St Paul, Ermington. Photo by Grant Elliott.
The late Victorian era saw a period of church restoration and renovation across the whole of the country, including a flourishing of woodcarving. Within Devon, three woodcarvers' names are particularly distinguished. Harry Hems, Herbert Read and Violet Pinwill are all now recognised for outstanding contributions to local woodcarving in the second half of the 19th century.
Harry Hems arrived in Exeter in 1866. He was not only a gifted carver but also a very successful businessman. At one time he employed over 80 craftsmen and his business, the Ecclesiastical Art Works, became a worldwide enterprise. Herbert Read, a former employee of Harry Hems, set up his own business, the Saint Sidwell Art Works, also in Exeter, in 1892.
Violet Pinwill was the third force in woodcarving in Devon. Based in Ermington and then Plymouth, she and her sisters carried out work across Devon and deep into Cornwall. Her success is all the more remarkable, given the status of women in Victorian society.
St Peter and St Paul, in Ermington, Devon, has a body of Violet Pinwill's woodcarving stretching across the whole of her working life. She was born in 1874, and her first woodcarving in the church dates back to 1890, when she was just 17 years old. Her final piece of woodcarving in the church is the second-world-war memorial plaque, after 1945, carved when she was 71 years old. Violet Pinwill died in 1957, and 2017 marked the 60th anniversary of the death of this remarkable woman.
In 1880 the Reverend Edmund Pinwill moved from Lincoln and became Rector to Ermington. He raised sufficient funds to restore the church under the guidance of the architect EH Sedding. The restoration was complete in 1889. While the restoration works were under way, Mrs Pinwill engaged the workmen to teach her seven daughters woodcarving. Subsequently, three of the Pinwill sisters, Mary Rashleigh, Annie Ethel and Violet Alice, became professional woodcarvers.
Mary Rashleigh appears to have been the initial driving force. The sisters set up a woodcarving company called Rashleigh Pinwill and Company, and moved to Plymouth in about 1893. Fortunately, the business was continuously patronised by EH Sedding, who commissioned woodcarving from the sisters for his church projects.
The sisters' partnership did not last for long. In 1900 Mary married and she subsequently retired from the business. Later, in 1908, Annie moved to Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, and took up a woodcarving career there. This left Violet in charge of the Plymouth woodcarving business, which she continued up to the age of 82.
She was widely known in the West Country and there are more than 300 churches in Devon and Cornwall with examples of her work, even after accounting for the loss of much of her woodcarving in Plymouth, destroyed during the bombing of the early 1940s. As well as new commissions, she also undertook restoration of ancient woodwork, and was in demand for carving regimental and ships' coats of arms.
According to her obituary in The Times in 1957, Alice Pinwill was modest and unassuming, carried out her extensive business without a secretary, and never owned a car. She was a devout Christian and dedicated her craft to celebrating God's work.
A memorial plaque in the Lady Chapel of the church of St Peter and St Paul, Ermington, reads: 'Remember before God Violet Alice Pinwill… She studied to show herself approved unto God a workman that needth not to be ashamed. She walked humbly with her God all the days of her life.'
The pulpit at Ermington is possibly Violet Pinwill's first piece of woodcarving in the church. It is an octagon in plan with woodcarving panels on six sides, the other two sides remaining open for access. According to the local congregation, the angel faces at the base of the pulpit are based on the faces of the Pinwill sisters themselves. The first panel shows St Peter healing a child at Samatia. The second shows the Pentecost. The third shows Jesus giving the keys of the kingdom of heaven to St Peter. The fourth shows the conversion of St Paul. The fifth is of St Paul healing a man lame from birth at Lystra. The sixth shows St Peter and St Paul together, giving their defence before King Agrippa.
The panels are interspersed with religious figures. The first figure is Judith from the Book of Deuteronomy. The second is St Lawrence, who was burnt to death over a gridiron. The third is of St Peter, holding the keys to heaven. The fourth is of Jesus himself, with his arms outspread and welcoming. The fifth figure is of St Paul, who was martyred in Rome, and being a Roman citizen was entitled to be executed by beheading. The sixth figure is of Moses with the Ten Commandments. The seventh figure is St Mary Magdalene, recognisable by her long, flowing hair, with which she washed Jesus feet at the Last Supper.
The reredos is Violet Pinwill's grandest piece of wood carving in the church. It has an upper portion featuring carvings of the annunciation, the crucifixion and the descent from the cross. Between these scenes are seated the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. All of this is surmounted by the figure of the risen Christ. The lower section houses a large alabaster panel of the Nativity. The panel echoes the work of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, who was commissioned to paint two monumental paintings for the chancel of the Church of St John the Apostle, Torquay, in 1887.
The first painting is 'The Nativity', in which Mary reclines protectively around the infant Jesus while Joseph looks on. To the left are three angels bearing the symbols of the Passion and the Crucifixion. The inscription at the top of the painting is in Latin, which translated reads: 'Because of the misery of the poor and the groaning of the needy, now I will arise, saith the Lord'.
The second painting is 'The King and the Shepherd'. The painting combines the voyages of the magi and the shepherds to Bethlehem. Angels have been introduced to lead each traveller by the hand on their journey. In this painting the Latin inscription translated reads: 'Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us'.
The paintings suggest that Jesus came for the poor and the needy, and they suggest equality, in the face of divinity, between the wealthy king and the humble peasant. In her alabaster panel Violet Pinwill combines all these images from both the Burne-Jones paintings. The panel avoids a realistic approach and captures the romantic dream-like quality of the Burne-Jones paintings.
The simple first-world-war memorial with Christ on the Cross was carved to commemorate the men of the parish who died in the war. The symbolism of Christ suffering on the cross focuses on the compassionate and humanitarian aspects of Christianity. A small plaque has been added below to commemorate those who died in the second world war.
This article originally appeared in IHBC's Context 152, published in November 2017. It was written by Grant Elliott, an associate architect at LHC Architecture, who is involved with heritage projects, including voluntary restoration work at St Peter and St Paul, Ermington.
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This tutorial will walk you through the process of setting up and rendering images in V-Ray for Maya with DR (Distributed Rendering).
Sometimes rendering an image is a fast and simple process. Other times, rendering a good quality image can take quite a bit of time. This is why breaking up the task of rendering over multiple computers can be helpful for completing long renders much faster. In this tutorial, we go over setting up and using Distributed Rendering (DR) to utilize other computers on a network (normally referred to as a render farm) to complete a rendered image faster. The workstation/computer used to start a DR job in Maya is referred to as the render client and the computers on the network that are sent rendering tasks are known as render servers or render slaves.
The render client starts the rendering process in Maya, then divides the frame into small regions (called buckets), and tasks rendering these regions to available render servers. The servers calculate their part of the task and then send the finished data back to the client for assembly. Then, the servers request additional tasks to render next, until the entire image is completed and the client has assembled all the image data back together for the full image. If the DR job is a sequence of frames, then this process is repeated until all frames for the job are completed.
Similar to the process to get V-Ray for Maya installed on your workstation, you'll need to install V-Ray for Maya on any computers to which you wish to distribute your render jobs. But instead of the Full install option, the Standalone only option works if you only plan to use that machine as a render slave only.
Make sure to use the same version installer as the workstation from which you plan to render. This helps ensure that the V-Ray Core is the same version used on all servers, and prevent any mismatch of supported features. V-Ray standalone can also be used on a render machine that doesn't have Maya installed.
If you want to make your render nodes ready to render DR jobs anytime they are online, it is recommended to register the V-Ray render slave application as a service, which can be done at the end of the installation process.
If you choose not to enable the Register V-Ray render slave as a service checkbox, registering V-Ray render slave as a service may be done later. Otherwise, you can run the render slave application manually whenever you wish to use that computer for distributed rendering.
Next, make sure your license setup is correct, by either installing the online license server on your computer, or by connecting to a license server on your network. Each render server will need access to a V-Ray Render Node license. This process is made easy with the V-Ray Online Licensing System by loading http://localhost:30304/#/ (or use the IP address of the computer running the licensing system, with the port 30304). For more details on this process, please see the Changing your License Settings page in the Set up your V-Ray License section.
Important to note from the image above is the number of Render Node licenses that are Free.
Now that everything is set and ready to go, we need to get the additional computers to start listening for render jobs on the network. Run the V-Ray Render Slave application that is installed with V-Ray for Maya: Launch V-Ray render slave on all desired render machines. This is found in the Start Menu if using Windows as shown in the image below.
For Linux and Mac OS X, the vrayslave command is used and can be found at /usr/autodesk/maya20nn/vray/bin/ and /Applications/Autodesk/maya20xx/vray/bin/.
The executable is a shortcut linked to the vray.exe file with additional flags added to start the render server and open the correct communication port. This manual start process is great if you don't want the computer to render in slave mode all the time. However, you'll have to remember to turn it on every time the computer starts up and you need it to render.
If you don't want to do this manually every time, simply register the slave as a service either through the installation process or by registering the V-Ray render slave application as a service through the OS.
Cross-platform render jobs are possible with V-Ray. For example, you can start a rendering from a Windows machine, and distribute to any combination of render servers running on Linux, Mac OS X and/or Windows to join the rendering job, as long as they are running their respective render slave application. Any OS can originate arender as the render client, or receive a render job as a render slave.
Alternatively, render servers can be started by running the vray -server command from V-Ray Standalone in a command prompt.
While it's not necessary to check that your render slaves are running properly, vraydr_check is a useful tool if there's a problem with communication among them.
The proper syntax for vraydr_check is from the path C:\Program Files\Chaos Group\V-Ray\Maya 20yy for x64\bin (where 20yy is the version of Maya for which V-Ray is installed), run vraydr_check -host=ip (or computer name) -port=#####. An example is: vraydr_check -host=techdocs04 -port=20207. If the computer is running the render slave, the Status comes back as ready and the version of V-Ray is displayed.
The location of the vraydr_check executable is found at /usr/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Maya 20nn -x64/bin for the Linux OS, and at /Applications/ChaosGroup/V-Ray/Maya 20nn -x64 for the Mac OS X. For more information on using the vraydr_check tool, please see the Distributed rendering page.
V-Ray does not need any additional files or directory sharing set up to perform DR. However, if your Maya project is using additional bitmaps or assets, you may wish to locate everything on a shared location on your network. If not, you need to use the Transfer missing assets option, so that all the render slaves will have copies of the project assets transferred to them, before rendering can begin. For efficiency, enable Use cached assets to avoid re-transferring an already copied asset for the next rendering (more details on those options below).
A shared location can be a folder or drive on your workstation with sharing permissions enabled, or it can be on a network server. What's important is that all the computers rendering the scene have access to the project location and can load any required assets. Furthermore, if using mapped network drives in Windows, make sure the same drive letter is used on the workstation and all render slaves to ensure access to the same shared location, unless you are using UNC paths for scene assets.
Once you have your scene in Maya ready to render, turn on Use distributed rendering from the Settings tab of the Maya Render Settings window.
Let's first start with the Settings... button to make sure the nodes are set up in our Maya session.
Enter the name or IP address of the render slaves into the Server name or IP address box in the upper left text box of the Distributed rendering settings window. The default port should be 20207. You can include a description, which is helpful if using IP addresses to help remind you which slave is which.
In case you entered server names instead of IP addresses, you will need to click Resolve servers to convert those entries from names to IP addresses, ensuring that your render client will be able to properly communicate with those machines. This step is not required if you have already entered IP addresses for all your render servers in this list.
Close the window and return to the Render Settings window. The rest of the settings below are optional depending on how you want to render (or work while rendering).
If you prefer to offload the rendering to all the render slaves and leave the resources on your computer more available for other tasks, disable Use local machine, so that your workstation will not help with the rendering process.
If you are using image textures, HDRI files, vray proxy objects or any other kind of external assets, consider enabling Transfer missing assets. This makes local copies on your slaves to ensure that they have access to the project's assets. This can also be used when your project is not saved in a shared location on a network. You can also Use cached assets if you think you need to render more jobs from the same project, and don't want to have to transfer project files every time you render. Cache limits can be set based on time or size to keep the cached assets from piling up and taking up too much hard drive space on the slave machines. However, the commonly preferred workflow is to keep the project and its assets stored on a shared network drive so that renders can take place without having to wait for transfers.
For more details on the render settings for DR, please see the Distributed Rendering Settings page.
The DR Bucket Render Element is a useful pass to add to your renders when using DR and the Bucket Sampler. This element provides useful information to pinpoint potential issues on specific render servers by providing details on which buckets were completed by certain machines on the farm.
When cancelling a DR job, it may take some time for the render servers to finish working, and so they might not be immediately available for another render.
You can add and remove render servers at any time during the rendering itself. Keep in mind that when using the Progressive Sampler, only adding render servers during rendering is supported.