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title: Lee Martin
summary: Designer, developer
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- designer
- developer
- mac
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### Who are you, and what do you do?

My name is [Lee Martin](http://www.leemartin.com/ "Lee's website."). I'm a developer who has been helping artists market themselves online for over 12 years. In that time, I have been everything from a MySpace profile designer to Dave Grohl's personal nerd to the Experimental Developer (and first US employee) at [SoundCloud][]. I have worked with major labels and indie bands, rockers and rappers and everything in between.

### What hardware do you use?

At the moment I have a 1st generation [MacBook Pro Retina][macbook-pro] which just alerted me that I might need to service the battery. Great. I guess I might own the new MacBook Pro soon? Regardless, I want to go on record to say: Fuck you Apple and your **shitty** wires. I don't think I've owned a single adapter or USB cable for less than 6 months before it became frayed on both ends and threatened to burn my apartment down. Anyway... [iPad Air][ipad-air], [iPhone 6 normal][iphone-6], etc. My [Mighty Mouse][mighty-mouse] died but I think that one was my fault. I bought a new one.

I have some AIAIAI headphones for working at coffee shops but I gave that up this year so I stick to my home's Sonos system to play Drake while I work. I spend a lot of time on paper with my 23 pack of Sharpies. 24? Oh yeah, someone stole my blue. I'll find you motherfucker. Good ass pencils and an ol' Boston vacuum mount to keep them sharp.

### And what software?

I've moved on from [Sublime Text][sublime-text] to [Atom][] because Sublime kept dropping my [CoffeeScript][] formatting. I like to take on bite-sized pieces of all my projects in [CodePen][] first and then bring everything into a [Ruby][]/[Sinatra][] project once I'm confident I can pull it off the bulk of it in a single sprint. I send my clients video demos of projects in progress (which I record with [ScreenFlow][]) so I don't have to fill support requests when they view the website in [IE7][internet-explorer]. [iTerm][iterm2] connects me to the Matrix. I'm a proud member of [Adobe CC][creative-cloud] and have been teaching myself not to hate [Sketch][]. Oh, and I quite like Rogue Amoeba's audio software like [Fission][].

### What would be your dream setup?

Since I'm working from home now I'm likely going to swap this MacBook Pro for a desktop option (maybe [that trash can][mac-pro] or the new [iMac][]) and something much more mobile like a [MacBook Air][macbook-air]. That could be nice. However, if I'm left alone and the right ideas come along, I'm quite happy with my setup at the moment. It works and I can't complain too much. Maybe Apple understands they're just not good at wires and that's why they keep removing ports? Touché.

[atom]: https://atom.io/ "A text editor based on web technology."
[codepen]: https://codepen.io/ "A web playground for front-end developers."
[coffeescript]: https://coffeescript.org/ "A language that compiles into Javascript."
[creative-cloud]: https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html "A subscription service for Adobe's creative suite."
[fission]: https://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/ "A lossless audio editor for the Mac."
[imac]: https://www.apple.com/imac/ "An all-in-one computer."
[internet-explorer]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer "A PC web browser."
[ipad-air]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad_Air "A tablet device."
[iphone-6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_6 "A smartphone."
[iterm2]: https://iterm2.com/ "An alternative terminal application for Mac OS X."
[mac-pro]: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/ "The Intel-based Mac tower computer."
[macbook-air]: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ "A very thin laptop."
[macbook-pro]: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/ "A laptop."
[mighty-mouse]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mighty_Mouse "A wireless mouse."
[ruby]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ "An interpreted scripting language."
[screenflow]: http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm "A screencasting studio for the Mac."
[sinatra]: http://www.sinatrarb.com "A lightweight Ruby web framework."
[sketch]: https://www.sketchapp.com/ "A vector drawing application for Mac OS X."
[soundcloud]: https://soundcloud.com/ "An audio creation and sharing service."
[sublime-text]: http://www.sublimetext.com/ "A coder's text editor."


Jet-lag, fatigue, noisy hallways, unfamiliar settings, and a strange bed when travelling all add up to one thing – a lousy night of sleep. Lack of sleep can make a family vacation miserable, and a business trip unbearable. So, what can you do to offset the distractions and discomfort in order to get the best sleep possible? Consider these five tips to if you're looking to get the best sleep possible when you're away from home.
It may not be practical to bring along your entire set of linens, but you can bring a few items from home to make your hotel room a bit more familiar. Sometime I bring a pillow case, freshly washed in the laundry detergent I am familiar with, the best part is that it is easy to bring along. You'll appreciate having it when you lay your head down at night. Do you sleep with scents? Take along a few of your favorite scented oils. The familiar smells and textures that you bring with you will help you doze off. Some people also like the noise that a fan makes.
After a long day of traveling, it's tempting to spend a couple of hours blowing off steam in the hotel lounge, or enjoying a big meal. Yep I'm guilty of this one, however, if you want to get a good sleep your first night, you'll fare much better having a light meal and skipping the alcohol altogether which I never do, but do as I say and not as I do. Alcohol may take the edge off and help you fall asleep, but you won't get the deep sleep required to feel well rested. A heavy meal may just give you indigestion, and that's certainly not going to help you sleep.
This is especially true if you are crossing more than one time zone. The more quickly you can become acclimated to your time zone the better. Taking daytime naps, or sleeping more than six to eight hours at a time will sabotage your body's attempts to adjust its circadian rhythms. If you want to get adjusted to a new time zone quickly, spend as many daytime hours in the sun as possible.
Whenever possible, book your room away from the noisiest areas of the hotel like the ice and soda machines. Avoid rooms near the pool, rec rooms, or courtyards. These are gathering places, and things are sure to be a little on the loud side and sometimes even cater to private parties that can go late into the night as I experience on my honeymoon in Florida. NOTE: If you are staying in a hotel with a restaurant, bar, or nightclub ask for a room on an upper floor away from all of the action. Finally, a centrally located room is usually far enough away from laundry facilities, vending and ice machines that foot traffic is not a problem. Did I mention staying away from ice machines?
Picture this. It's late at night, you're exhausted, and you've just walked into your hotel room. You drop your suitcases on the floor and collapse onto the bed. You've never felt more comfortable. You make the decision to just fall asleep right then and there, because it feels like you could sleep for hours. Unfortunately, this just isn't the case. This is a classic formula for a restless and sleepless night. Always take a little time to unwind and settle in. Adjust the thermostat and create a little white noise from the furnace or air conditioner or do like my wife and I do bring your own white noise maker, they are compact and fit in a suitcase. Next turn down the bed, and finally change into something comfortable let sleep come naturally.


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Professors-in-residence are UGA College of Education faculty who work 50 percent of their time in Clarke County schools supporting College of Education students through a combination of teaching on-site courses and supervising students doing field work. At the same time, they also support Clarke County School District teachers and administrators through professional learning and school-based projects.
The Professional Development School district has three professors-in-residence who serve district-wide and five who are school-based.
Jennifer Elkins, associate professor in the School of Social Work, became a district-wide professor-in-residence in fall 2018. Her work focuses on professional learning for CCSD school social workers related to race, equity, other sociocultural dimensions, and trauma informed care to build their capacity to lead social justice initiatives in schools.
Sonia Janis, clinical associate professor in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, became a district-wide professor-in-residence in fall 2017 after serving as the professor-in-residence at Cedar Shoals High School for three years. She now works with social studies teachers at three middle schools and two high schools. She supports her UGA social studies teacher candidates in classrooms as they lead small-group and collaborative projects, such as the Social Studies Fair, with students throughout the school district. She also mentors secondary social studies teachers who mentor her teacher candidates, and she partners with Laura Ambrose, the district's social studies curriculum coordinator, to provide professional learning.
Michael Robinson, associate professor in the School of Social Work, became a district-wide professor-in-residence in fall 2018. His work focuses on professional learning for CCSD school social workers related to race, equity, other sociocultural dimensions, and trauma informed care to build their capacity to lead social justice initiatives in schools.
Richard O. Welsh, assistant professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration and Policy, has been a district-wide professor-in-residence with a focus on educational policy, equity, and school discipline since January 2018. He supports the district in data analysis and policy formulation and implementation around equity issues. He is leading a mixed-methods research project on the contributors to the disparities in disciplinary outcomes in the district with particular focus the interactions between teachers and school leaders.
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70 years ago today
The National Convention (Labrador) Act, 1946
S.N. 1946, No. 29
An Act relating to the Election of a Representative to the National Convention for the Electoral District of Labrador.
[19th July, 1946]
Be it enacted by the Governor, by and with the advice of the Commission of Government, as follows:
1. In respect of the election of a representative to the National Convention under the National Convention Act, 1946, (hereinafter referred to as the said Act) for the electoral district of Labrador (hereinafter referred to as the said district) the provisions of this Act shall apply together with such provisions of the said Act as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.
2.--(1) A person eligible for nomination as a candidate for the said district shall be deemed to have been validly nominated if there shall, within the period between the date of the Proclamation mentioned in Section 3 of this Act and the expiry of the time for nomination set by Section 25 of the said Act, have been delivered to the Returning Officer copies of the following documents:
(a) a document signed with his own hand by such person stating his full name his address and occupation and his desire to be nominated as a candidate for election to the National Convention; and
(b)a document signed with their own hands by at least five electors of the said district certifying that to their knowledge such person is an ordinary and bona fide resident of the said district and is qualified to become a candidate for the said district.
(2) The documents provided for under subsection (1) shall be delivered to the person in charge of a telegraph office within the period in the said subsection mentioned for telegraphic transmission to the Returning Officer.
(3) Nothing in this section contained shall affect the validity of nominations made in accordance with the provisions of Sections 26, 27, 28 and 29 of the said Act.
3.--(1) The Governor in Commission shall, by Proclamation, fix the day and place of nomination for the said district and constitute in the said district polling centres and may designate a ship as the polling station for any or all of the said centres: Provided that the Deputy Returning Officer may establish the polling station in a building at any polling centre.
(2) The Proclamation issued under this section shall fix the day and hours of polling in each of the polling centres of the said district and may fix different days and different hours in the same day for polling in different centres and may direct postponement of the poll in any or all polling centres until such time after arrival of the ship at polling centres as the Deputy Returning Officer may decide.
(3) The provisions of sections 19 and 23 and subsections (1) of section 54 of the said Act shall not apply in respect of the election in the said district.
4.--(1) The Chief Electoral Officer shall appoint one or more deputy returning officers and poll clerks for all the polling divisions of the said district.
Appointments made under this section and oaths taken by persons appointed shall be in the form prescribed by Sections 16 and 17 of the said Act with such modifications as the Chief Electoral Officer may deem desirable to render them applicable.
5. There shall be a separate ballot box for each polling centre and immediately after the close of the poll in each such centre the deputy returning office shall follow the procedure prescribed in subsections (6) and (8) of Section 67 of the said Act and upon receipt by the Returning Officer of all ballot boxes for the said district he shall proceed to count the votes in accordance with the procedure for counting provided in the said Section 67 and the provisions of Sections 68 and 69 of the said Act shall, in so far as they are capable of application, apply to such count and the declaration of election.
6. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 46 of the said Act conferring voting qualifications upon certain persons in a district in which they have been resident for two months immediately preceding the day of polling, any person who is not ordinarily and bona fide resident in the said district on the day of polling in the polling division in which he seeks to vote shall not be eligible to vote in the said district.
7. The forms in the Second Schedule of the said Act shall, with necessary alterations to render them applicable, be used where such use is necessary.
8. This Act may be cited as the National Convention (Labrador) Act, 1946.

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[Q1] Pre-credits video reminds us of the packed card with Pete Dunne defending the UK Championship against Tyler Bate, and Sanity defending the Tag Team Championship against Undisputed Era's Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly.
In other NXT news, Hideo Itami made his main roster debut on Monday, though it is up for debate if being sent to 205 Live is either "main roster" or a "promotion" from NXT. It depends on how serious WWE is about 205 Live at this point; moving some big names like Finn Balor there will go a long way to making it a higher status show.
Eric Young and Killian Dain come out. No sign of Nikki Cross or Alexander Wolfe. Next out are Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly. Adam Cole is absent as well. Proper NXT formal introductions with the darkened ring and spotlight.
Young is isolated out of the break. Dain is reaching for a tag even though Young is across the ring. Slingshot senton picks up a two count for Fish. Leg sweep to Young lets O'Reilly cover for two. Young tries to fight off the turnbuckle but eats a knee on a double axe handle attempt.
[Q2] Young looks for a tag but O'Reilly gets to Fish. Fish cheap shots Dain, enraging Dain. The ref gets busy with Dain so Fish and O'Reilly double team Young illegally. Dain finally gets the tag and takes out Fish and O'Reilly at the same time. Dain uses Fish to hurt O'Reilly, two count. Young finally recovers, tag. Young powerbombs O'Reilly, Dain takes Fish out of the equation, but Adam Cole trips Young up when it sets up the top rope elbow. O'Reilly takes advatnage for a nearfall, Cross finally appears from the side and destroys Adam Cole. The refs are plenty hands-on with Cross hauling her off. Chaos at ringside, with Dain and Young bothering with Cole, which lets Fish and O'Reilly double team Young for the win.
WINNERS: Undisputed Era at 12:53. Weak match on the whole. Undisputed Era looks super weak. Adam Cole got his tail handed to him by a woman who is half his height yet more muscular than him, Fish and O'Reilly needed Young and Dain to be foolish enough to let Cole divert their attention. This is such a tired formula, this is exactly what Sanity was doing a year ago or whatever, and it was old then.
The Roderick Strong video has a new edit, including recent events. Tonight he faces Lars Sullivan in the final qualifying match to earn a ticket to the Fatal Four Way to determine the #1 contender status (wow, that's a mouthful).
Outside with Heavy Machinery as they discuss the food they want to eat. They come across a white Maserati. Otis Dozovic tries to deadlift it, but Tino Sabbatelli and Riddick Moss come out. Apparently they call it "our baby". They tell Heavy Machinery that with some hard work, they could earn one too. They start yammering, and Dozovic wants to fight right now.
Recap of the Sonya Deville – Ruby Riott feud.
"Earlier this week" with Deville. They acknowledge her main roster debut. She says she will beat Ember Moon next week. Deville points out that Moon never beat her, and beat Riott because of Deville's ankle lock on Riott. Apparently it is a championship match.
Video package on Lars Sullivan.
[Q3] Recap of Aleister Black beating Adam Cole last week.
Strong charges Sullivan as soon as the bell hits, Sullivan weathers in, then clubs Strong in the head when he looks for a backbreaker. Clothesline just flips Strong over and ends the offense. Sullivan starts to pick Strong apart. Sullivan picks Strong up and throws him halfway across the ring like he is passing a basketball. Strong kicks at Sullivan from the mat, hits the ropes gets caught with a bearhug. Strong is fading out to the bearhug. He boxes Sullivan's ears to get free, then hits a drop kick out of the corner. More kicks startle Sullivan. Strong dodges a charging kick and Sullivan gets ties up in the ropes. Strong manags to knock Sullivan out of the ring but Sullivan lands on his feet, gets to the apron, and catches Strong on the apron, knocks him down. Sullivan to the top, Strong hits a suplerplex and it is good for only one with a huge kickout. Sullivan is infuriated. Strong lands an Olympic Slam for two, Sullivan actually looks like he is challenged. High knee in the corner, Sullivan fends off an Olympic Slam, popup power slam, Freak Accident.
WINNER: Lars Sullivan at 5:36. Sullivan went over in relatively short order, but Strong got in lots of hard, beleivable offense. Strong looks good for lasting so long against the strongly-booked Sullivan and presenting so much fight, Sullivan got the win over a solid veteran to continue his climb to the top. Sullivan looks very credible as an entrant in the Fatal Four Way, though WWE booking formula is to never give the big man in the match the win.
Last week "Street Talk" with Street Profits. Last last time, they pull someone from the crowd outside FSU and have him talk them up.
[Q4] Backstage interview with Tyler Bate. I think he must have listened to our podcast last week, because he has trimmed up that mustache and bear a bit and has gone to a less scraggly look. He also isn't wearing his Mustache Mountain ring gear. Pete Dunne does everything right as a heel, yet gets big cheers on his entrance. He may be smaller, but he has the same gravitas as Samoa Joe, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Brock Lesnar, where it doesn't matter what they do, they are such an unstoppable force of nature you want to cheer for them.
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This match is starting very late in the episode. Dunne immediately moves to the join manipulation on the mat. Bate gets his feet under him to reverse and settles into a wristlock. Pacing is for a fifteen minute match with less than 10 minutes left on the clock. Dunne wraps Bate's head in his legs. Bate slips out and lands on his feet and waves at Dunne. Lockup, Dune manages to step on Bate's hand while locking a wristlock, transition to a surfboard of sorts. Bate slips out. These two are just so good on the mat. Dunne tortures Bate on the mat, even grabbing the nose. Keylock, cover for two, another cover for two, Bate bridges, Dunne jumps on him for two, then again. Bate bridges a third time, Dunne jumps off and kicks him. Dunne hides in the ropes to anger Bate, smirks, then twists Bate's ankle. Bate starts to slip out, Dunne cartwheels, Bate kips up. Dunne gets surprised by Bop & Bang for two. Bate grabs an ankle, Dunne gets to the ropes and lands an ugly forearm off the break. Bate gets a knee up in the corner, knee strike to the jaw, flying European uppercut sends Dunne outside. Dunne has a big forearm on the outside, then stops Bate's hand on the steps. Bate returns it. Suplex from Dunne off the stairs to the floor, unique, painful looking spot. Dunne rolls into the ring. Dunne starts to humiliate Bate in the ring with paintbrushes and weak kicks, then puts a side chinlock on. Bate gets to the ropes, Dunne kicks his arm. Bate tries to fight off the mat, Bate grabs his face and hits him, then goes back to the fingers. Dunne stomps Bate's fingers, the ref gives Bate room to pull his fingers back into place. Dunne continues to rip on the fingers, another stomp the hand in a keylock. Dunne shrugs like it is no big deal. The ref needs to keep Dunne away from Bate.
Bate with kicks to fight off the mat, Dunne puts him in a headlock and blasts his face with a right. Bate is bleeding from the ear, tells Dunne to bring it, hits an exploder suplex then flexes his fingers. Bate is such a Zayn-level red meat babyface, and Dunne is a Kevin Owens heel. Bate with amazine offense, standing SSP, deadlift belly-to-back gets Dunne two. You can build an entire promotion off of these two, and their combined age is something like 45. Bate wants the Tyler Driver 97, Dunne slips down, locks in a triangle. Dunne is close to being pinned while holding the triangle, Bate gets up, deadlifts Bate, powerbomb, Dunne refuses to release the hold. Bate deadlifts Dunne again, moves to the ropes and catapults him into the ropes to get Dunne off of him.
[Q5 – Overrun] Ranallo tells us that he are going into an overrun. Airplane spin from Bate. Then he reverses it. This is like watching Daniel Bryan fight Daniel Bryan. Weird, Izzy is in the front row facing the hard camera, instead of her traditional spot on the corner of the ramp. Cover, Dunne kicks out and crawls to the ropes, looking queasy. Dunne on the apron, Bate looks for an exploder suplex off the middle rope and over the top rope, hits it, crawl to a cover, nearfall. They move to a test of strength of the mat, Dunne gets to his feet and just kicks the suffing out of Bate while holding the hands, Bate gets to his feet and does the same. Dunne looks like he is knocked out under the kicks, comes alive, Bitter End from nowhere, Bate kicks out! Has anyone kicked out of the Bitter End before?
Huge back and forth sequence and they reset on the mat. They trade strikes from their knees, then their feet, massive crazy swing knocks Dunne down, but Bate is on the mat grabbing his hand. Dunne rolls under the ropes to the apron, so does Bate. Dunne seems to beg off onthe apron, wants to try Bang and Bop, Bate has him first. Rolling kick from Bate knocks Dunne down, but Bate falls outside. Dunne rolls in the ring, Bate crawls to him, then heads to the top. Dunne is on his feet, Bate flies and eats a big fist, X-PLex into powerbomb, Bate kicks out again!
Dunne's lip is bleeding, he is near tears. Bate is outside, Dunne tries throwing him in the ring, Bate hits the ropes with his head, bounces back and knocks Dunne down. Dunne is down outside, Bate is in the ring, ref has a count going, huge top rope dive to break the count, throws Dunne i, Tyler Driver 97, kickout just at three. We are over the twenty minute mark now and this match should be a top contender for Match of the Year.
Bate heads up top again, corkscrew dive, much of it misses Dunne, nearfall. Bate thinks superplex, Dunne lands on his feet, Bitter End again, that is it.
WINNER: Pete Dunne at 22:44. It has been a very, very long time since I liked a match this much. Perhaps the last time was when Dunne beat Bate for the title about a year ago. These two are just so good, and the chemistry they show with each other is crazy. The comparison to Owens – Zayn is super apt, considering how many times these two have faced each other both on and off screen. I would definitely take this as my Match of the Year pick.
FINAL REAX: An okay tag team title match, the very strong Sullivan vs. Strong match, and the insanely good Dunne vs. Bate match made this one of the best NXT episodes of the year. The Bate vs. Dunne is "must watch" for any wrestling fan.


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Action Heroine Cheer Fruits – Episode 1
By: Vrai Kaiser | July 8, 2017 | 1 Comment
What's it about? The "local heroine fighter" of a certain city became popular and a national star. Because of this, "local heroines" debuted in various other places, and their action live events became a hit trend nationally. In Hinano City, high school girl Misaki Shirogane and other girls become local heroines (at the urging of Misaki's aunt, the prefectural governor) and vow to produce action live events.
For three years I've mourned the ending of Samurai Flamenco and its creators' decision to torch their own house following the series' abysmal sales. And at long last that series has returned to me under a new name, with all its heroic enthusiasm and queer attraction intact: Action Heroine Cheer Fruits!
I'm joking, but I'm also kind of not. This premiere captures the same magic of fandom that SamFlam's early run did, focusing not on heroes per se but on the people inspired by them. It captures the glee of sharing something you love and of using that passion to make others happy, and the mood is downright infectious. It doesn't matter that their childhood hero totally flaked, because the love and ownership of the concept transcends the people who made it. It's a beautifully optimistic snapshot of fandom. It's also pretty clear that Mikan has a major crush on An, though I'm not sure if the show will do anything with it.
It helps that the story remains largely focused on our two heroines, both of whom are immensely likable. They don't really know each other before Mikan asks for An's help, but they bond quickly in that uniquely teenage way that's fueled by a shared passion. The tone of the show never winks at us or asks us to find their ambitions foolish; when the episode climaxes with stage choreography and costumes and sets made of cardboard boxes, the writing has thoroughly enmeshed you in a desire to see them succeed.
The episode takes a little while to get going, starting with an extended show-within-a-show focus on the heroine Kamidaio before shifting abruptly to what appears to be a grounded real world. There's also a transitional point of fairly important exposition which is totally muddy as to whether it's meant to refer to the show-in-the-show or the real world (it's the latter). The art is bright and cheerful if not always stellar—we've got a serious case of side-mouth going on here—but the action scenes are well choreographed and shot with high energy.
It's also heartening to see girls involved in such passionate fandom about a powerful female hero, creating things for other girls to enjoy. There are a lot of flying kicks in short skirts, but other than a weird boob joke and an unseen panty shot during a montage that's mostly about Mikan getting flustered, it also forgoes fetishizing its characters and treats them like dorky teens rather than objects of the male gaze.
Though they start from the same emotional place, Cheer Fruits seems more inclined to follow in the steps of Sakura Quest's slice-of-life style than SamFlam's ever more audacious weirdness. There are several characters floating around the fringe of the premiere who don't really get to do much, and a subplot about revitalizing the community that only connects with the "let's put on a show!" plot at the very end of the episode. The preview also promises the idea of yet more characters introduced in fairly quick succession, so it seems this might balloon into an ensemble cast-type show rather quickly.
If it can keep up its heartfelt enthusiasm, juggle the rest of its cast with the same emotional honesty that An and Mikan share here, and actually do something with the chemistry between our two leads, this might turn out to be a really special spot of sunshine in a mostly lackluster season.
Action Heroine Cheer Fruits
GAMERS! – Episode 1
Given how hit or miss club shows can be, combined with the infamously toxic atmosphere that is actual gaming culture, the show had an uphill battle ahead of it. But skin my flesh and call me a newb if I didn't walk away endeared.
A Centaur's Life – Episode 1
Y'know that moment where Charlie Brown runs toward the football and Lucy pulls it away, like a boot stomping on a human face forever? This episode was that for me.


The »Hüttentechnische Vereinigung der Deutschen Glasindustrie e.V.« (HVG) is an association of glass manufacturers or suppliers to the glass industry.
HVG, the research association of the German glass industry, carries out investigations into the field of glass and offers services to glassworks. HVG's objectives are to further develop knowledge of the material glass and to transfer the findings to industrial practice.
The »Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaft e. V.« (DGG) is an organisation open to all persons who deal with technology, physics and chemistry in the field of glass as well as glass art and history.
As a mediator between science and industrial practice, DGG organizes annual meetings as well technical committee sessions on defined topics. The results of these events are published in the »European Journal of Glass Science and Technology« and the German-language »dgg journal«, respectively.
The specialized DGG library supports not only the scientific activities of HVG and DGG, but also those of any person interested in the field of glass.
The DGG is a founder member of the »International Commission on Glass« (ICG) (established in 1933) as well as the »European Society of Glass Science and Technology« (ESG) founded in 1989.
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Oh, if only the nation elected its prime minister at Glastonbury, eh? Or by any form of popular acclamation. Yesterday was (probably) the last night of Ramadan, and my plan was to go to my local mosque, Finsbury Park, where three days ago a racist driving a white van had rammed into worshippers, killing one man and seriously injuring several. It's a social centre in our part of Islington and they were having a multi-faith commemoration and iftar. I had to go and join what was a popular Islington event.
The crowd was impressive (several hundred, I reckon about three quarters Muslims) and diverse. On the bus down I met Maggie, who with a team was bringing down boxes of flowers in pots to hand to worshippers- a gift from a local 'healing centre'. The Stop the War Campaign could have taken lessons from the brevity of the ceremony, where about twelve speakers from different faith and community groups, from the council and the police(!) spoke strongly for about two minutes each on the value of our community and the mosque within it; and of unity and tolerance. An audiologist from UCLH found me a seat – thanks for that.
It was all over in about half an hour, and we went on to prayers and the iftar. On a personal note I was lucky to meet up with Cassy Paris whose testimony on the Calais jungle when it was still new two years ago moved me to get involved. (See no. 142 of this blog for a fuller account.) It was a good evening.
recorded who was then ruler of Britain, though King Arthur seems a good bet, and he got the job by pulling a sword out of a stone. Which could be a way of dealing with contested elections. And he had, of course, no ambition to lay any claim to Scotland or Ireland. But the symbolism of the Round Table seems to echo that of the EU. Many a knight probably complained about the way in which building standards were being imposed on his castles.
In lieu of a print poem, I've been reduced to what's maybe commoner these days: a Youtube poem, featuring Jude Cowan Montague's Gaza poem 'The Messengers' in Resonance FM's iconic Borough studio. Not strictly related to anything I've been discussing, it relates to a general despair about the events around us.
I've never had the gall to post a song by the Incredible String Band, whose outlook seemed to coincide so closely with mine about fifty years ago. So here, if you don't know what they sound like (or even if you do) is 'Kooeeoaddi There' – Glastonbury many years before its time.
Which could mean all sorts of things, of course (one thinks of Oliver Twist); I'm today, on the anniversary of her death, thinking of Jo Cox: 'we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us'. How much more time do I have left to think these thoughts? Why don't I have more friends to collaborate with me and stop me writing so much nonsense, as I so often do?
Indeed, we're even more divided than before, as is shown by the reactions to the Grenfell Tower fire: between those who are angry and appalled and those who are – for whatever reason – indifferent. Between those who understand that deregulation and corporate capitalism have created a culture in which is's legitimate for the writers on the Mail and the Sun to attack safety regulations and support cutbacks in fire services routinely - and that this culture is potentially lethal – and those who go along with the attacks and cutbacks.
I've seen half a dozen clips on twitter, and I'm sure it's a fraction of the total, many distressed, angry, even breaking down; I think of Akala, of David Lammy (both friends of fire victims, and it's not a coincidence). On any statistical test, the majority of dead are black, immigrants, marginalised; the owners and their spokesmen are white and well-off. The election gave us a chance to overcome this division, by putting a reasonably diversified bunch of people into government. But the rulers are determined to cling on to power, by making deals with far-right Irish racists; it's how the system works, particularly when the signs are that an election tomorrow would bring in a thumping Labour majority.
We have still to be patient; it's the tactic of the poor; angry, not submissive, but patient, believing that we are capable of victory. The rulers, the one percent, are much more defensive than they were a year ago even.
I was at a Momentum meeting in Wood Green this evening (that's more than usually irrelevant). The mood was not uniformly optimistic, as one might have expected: 'We are young, we have Jeremy, we won the election, who can stop us?' As you might indeed expect in these days when disasters seem daily to pile on one another, it was a coupling of recent victory with a more sober assessment of the dangers ahead. It seems right. Have I posted 'Komm, Hoffnung'? I think I have, even recently. It bears repeating.
all down to the same mean-spirited (but very profitable) neoliberal culture which has prevailed for years, and is still central to our government. I appeal to you, citizens, let us give one more push and get these rotten apples in the rubbish heap of history, where they belong!
Gutted is the usual term for what I was, to find that I'd just missed Aphty's last gig for some time – and that in CamdenTown on Tuesday; I could easily have got to it. I'd set my sights on a different offering, compositions by the well-known (but not to me) composer Tansy Davies who specialises among much else in dead modernist settings of translated troubadour ballads. The link will (should?) get you to 'Troubairitz' which is precisely that. A small crowd of enthusiasts sat, many on the floor (not me) and waited through some longish periods of drumming and stuff; between the real event, which was a series of recent and not-so-recent Davies offerings. Before heading off into the sticky Dalston Ramadan night.
Much earlier, of course, Arthur Brown of the Crazy World attended the Universities of London and Reading and studied philosophy and law, but he gravitated to music instead, forming his first band, Blues and Brown, while at Reading and produced his number 1 single 'Fire', which is where we came in. None of his studies – even law? – led him to speculate, as he should – on the profitability of fire.
Aren't we in one! Among the hundreds of comments, posts, tweets, I've been wading through since That Election, I was particularly struck by Russell Brand's observation that Mr Corbyn was thought to be unsuited for the post of Prime Minister because he has an allotment and makes his own jam. The making of jam, then, becomes (I mused) a metaphor for governance; and I recalled the gardeners in Richard II who discuss the parallels between ruling and gardening (pruning, weeding, chopping off heads of unruly citizens and that). Similarly as a one-time jam-maker I recall that the activity requires not strength and stability, much less forcefulness and aggression; but a good deal of patience and watchfulness -to stop it from burning and keep picking out the stones, if any. And it is with these qualities that the Labour team have built up their position from certain losers to sitting on the farcical knife-edge where we now find ourselves.
So what? So Theresa's attempt to make this country's government coagulate are failing in front of a whole roomful of Euro-guests. If only she, like Richard II, had learned the basic domestic skills which, it seems, JC has and is ridiculed for having. While Theresa is ridiculed for a host of other defects, and is in her turn called names which J.K.Rowling rightly finds offensive.
In a recent video I saw, the character complains of being stuck in traffic. To be met with the riposte: 'You're not stuck in traffic. You are traffic.' Which is rather where we are.
We might just settle for making Lebanese dried fig jam, Lebanon being notoriously a synonym for strength and stability.
What can I say! I've rarely been at a point which has so clearly typified old Antonio's saying about pessimism of the intellect coupled with optimism of the will. I feel I'm constantly having to correct the foolish assumptions of my friends, or even my foes, that Labour will – or might – win the election. The chances of this are quite extraordinarily slender, and no number of heartwarming vids of Corbyn rallies to audiences of thousands. or Clean Bandit songs, will move us from the unlikely to the just possible. In this blog's view, the best we can hope for is a) a hung parliament plus b) an agreement between the non-right-wing parties that they will form a pseudo-government and get some of the decent things done which we want to see done. At the very least, NOT do some of the horrible things they would do if they were Tories. I know, don't I know, of the evil decisions Jack Straw made when he was Home Secretary. I only pray that if Diane Abbott or someone else in the non-Tory camp gets they job, they won't make similar decisions; they'll move to end detention, close down Yarl's Wood, start accepting Dubs children and so on. Is it too much?
To achieve which, you all have to vote, and get your friends to vote, for whichever non-Tory stands a decent chance of winning. I personally have no patience with this 'no pacts' mantra. Do you want to lose? As long as we're stuck with FPTP we have to play by its rules. I'm elated by the image of thousands of people who believe that we only need all the young to vote (and all the old do what?). I don't believe it. We need everyone who's getting screwed by the current government (i.e. the masses) to vote it out.
A couple of months ago many of my friends and relations believed that Corbyn was finished. I didn't, and I was right; he's done an amazing job. But not being finished isn't the same thing as winning.
Get out and vote Labour (or Scot Nat or Green in the appropriate places); and get this evil government out.
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Chi Cheng Dead: Deftones bassist dies at the age of 42
Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who has been in a semi-conscious state since a 2008 car accident, died early Saturday morning at the age of 42, a family statement announced.
In a statement posted on the fan site Oneloveforchi.com, Chi Cheng's family writes that the musician was taken to the emergency room where he died at 3 a.m.
"He left this world with me singing songs he liked in his ear," wrote Jeanne Marie Cheng, or "Mom J" for short.
Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno confirmed Chi Cheng's passing on his Facebook page.
Chi Cheng suffered major injuries and was left in a coma following a November 2008 car crash in Santa Clara, California. The bassist was driving with his sister when they collided with another car, sending his vehicle rolling. He was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle. His sister was wearing hers, and only sustained minor injuries.
Deftones bassist Chi Cheng, who has been in a semi-conscious state since a 2008 car accident, died early Saturday morning at the age of 42
"Chi is one of the strongest people I know, and I'm praying that his strength will get him through this," Chino Moreno said at the time on the Deftones' blog.
In the years since, Chi Cheng had been making slow but steady progress in his recovery. In 2009 it was reported that he was no longer in a coma but in a semi-conscious state. In 2010, doctors said the former bassist was "showing signs of improved neuro function". Recently Chi Cheng regained limited ability to move his legs on command.
Most updates regarding Chi Cheng since his accident have come through the Oneloveforchi site, which was started by fan Gina Blackmore. The site, which is currently down likely due to increased traffic, has raised money for Chi Cheng's medical expenses and the bassist's family regularly posts messages there.
Chi Cheng co-founded Deftones in the late 1980s with fellow Sacramentoans Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter and Abe Cunningham. He was an integral part of the nu-metal band's success, performing on their first five albums, released between 1994 and 2006. Commercially the group peaked in 2000 with the platinum-selling White Pony, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and contained the hit Change (In the House of Flies). A self-titled follow-up in 2003 debuted at No. 2.
In late 2008, Deftones were putting the finishing touches on the next full-length album, titled Eros.
Following Chi Cheng's accident, Deftones ultimately decided to shelve the project and later recruited Sergio Vega, formerly of Quicksand, to play bass. They have released two albums since.
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Norman R. Smith
Norman R. Smith Yonkers - Norman R. Smith, 89, a lifelong Yonkers resident, died on Monday May 6, 2019 at St. John's Riverside Hospital. He was born on August 15, 1929 to Nelson and Margaret Kleis Smith in Yonkers where he was raised and educated, graduating from Gorton High School in 1947. Norman then joined Refined Syrups & Sugars in Yonkers, where he worked in Purchasing for 30 years. He retired in 2004 after serving as a purchasing director at Kama Corporation in Avenel, NJ. Norm was a parishioner of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and was a member of the Yonkers Male Glee Club and the Sacred Heart Christmas Choir, and was a former member of the Yonkers Lions Club. He enjoyed singing, playing golf and spending time with his family. On May 2, 1959, he married the love of his life Maureen Tompkins in Christ the King Church. They recently celebrated sixty years of marriage. Mrs. Smith survives and lives in Yonkers. Norm graduated from Manhattan College's Evening Division with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1970. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Robert Smith (Mary Clare) of River Edge, NJ and three daughters, Mary Ellen Jones (Stephen) of Glastonbury, CT, Catherine Connolly (Brian) of Mahopac, and Patricia Smith of Seattle, WA. He was lovingly known as "Pop Pop" to his seven grandchildren, Emily, Brendan, Molly, Erin, Michael, Sean and Caroline, and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by two brothers, Harold and Warren Smith. Visiting hours will be at Whalen & Ball Funeral Home on Thursday at 2-4pm and 7-9pm. Funeral Service will be held in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church on Friday, May 10th at 10am. Interment will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery. Donations in his memory may be made to either St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Pl., Memphis, TN 38105 or the charity of your choice. Whalen & Ball Funeral Home 168 Park Ave. Yonkers, N.Y. 10703 (914) 965-5488 www.whalenandballfh.com
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Reptile rescuers and keen aficionados Adam and Ryder Firstenburg and Lisa Harrap are urging Cannington residents to stay safe, but not be scared. Photograph — Aaron Van Rongen.
It's not too necessary for Cannington residents to check their toilets for snakes in summer, but maybe that should change.
After all, as a somewhat viral video attests, no one is especially safe.
Perth Hills Reptile Removal owner Adam Firstenburg was called out to a Cannington property last week, where a relatively young Dugite was found hiding behind a small toilet in the corner of the owner's bathroom.
Mr Firstenburg said finding a snake in inner-city Cannington was not too common, but was likely going to be an increasing concern.
"We usually don't get too many callouts to this area, we're based more towards the hills so that's where we operate mostly," he said.
"But with more people moving into the area and the hotter summers, it's inevitable they're going to spread out and start popping out in more people's backyards.
But Mr Firstenburg, a passionate reptile and snake collector and breeder, said no one should be too terrified if they do find one in their house.
"Australian snakes are very misunderstood, probably one of the most misunderstood groups of animals we have," he said.
"There's all this information, whether it's from movies or whatever, that says these snakes are dangerous and aggressive, that they will attack you on sight.
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Iranian Society of Clinical Oncology
Iranian Society of Clinical Oncology (ISCO) is a professional organization of over 350 registered clinical oncologists dedicated to excellence in patient care, education, research, and administration in oncology. In late 60s, a number of clinical oncologists who had been trained in UK returned to the country and for the first time, started treating solid tumors by chemotherapy and radiotherapy. After some years of practice, those UK-trained oncologists along with other specialists in radiology and medical physics including Dr Afshari, Dr Shahrad, Dr Mortazavi, Dr Dehshiri, Dr Ghandi, Dr Amin, Dr Homayounfar and Dr Ghaffari started to train residents in the field of clinical oncology. Later on, they decided to found a specialized society in the field of clinical oncology, and it was by their effort that ISCO was founded in 1977 in Tehran, the capital city of Iran.
The Society held monthly meetings, but due to the small number of members, was quite inactive till early 80s. In 1984, by joining more members, it was hoped that the society had entered a new era, but unfortunately that time was concurrent with the height of the war that Iraqis had imposed on Iran, and the society was inactive till 1990. At that time, the society re-established, however, it was not fully active due to unstable social conditions caused by war. In late 90s following improving the economic and social conditions in the country, and by increasing the number of graduates in the field of clinical oncology, ISCO re-started its activities with well-defined programs, and with the main goal of elevating the standards of education, research and patient care in the field of clinical oncology according to the international standards. Therefore, the modern clinical oncology era started in Iran in early 2000s, and since then, by joining more than 170 new members, it has played an important role in treating and controlling cancer in Iran. ISCO organizes an annual national clinical oncology congress, in which distinguished Iranian and international guest speakers present the latest updates in oncology. Furthermore, each year, ISCO organizes several seminars and meetings on various topics in the fields of cancer prevention and treatment. The Society also supports local oncology meetings held in other cities of the country and the participation of its members in different international congresses of oncology.
Board members of ISCO
President of ISCO
Yasha Makhdomi.MD
Secratary of ISCO
Ali Motlagh.MD
Vice Chairman of ISCO
Hojatoallah Shahbazian.MD
Ahmad Mafi.MD
Ali Yaghobi Joybari.MD
MohamadrezaBarzgar Tahamtan.MD
Pourya Adeli.MD
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Here are events of November 11 that made Nusli Wadia sue Tatas
Chairman of Wadia Group of companies and an independent director of three Tata Group companies namely Tata Steel, Tata Motors and Tata Chemicals, Nusli Wadia, has filed a defamation suit against Ratan Tata and Tata Sons.
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The independent director has filed the case under Section 500 and 109 of the IPC that charges the accused with imprisonment of up to two years and a fine or both.
The prime accused in the case are Tata Sons, Ratan Tata, Ajay Gopikisan Piramal, Amit Ranbir Chandra, Ishaat Hussain, Nitin Nohria, Ranendra Sen, Vijay Singh, Venu Srinivasan, Ralf Speth, N. Chandrasekaran and F. N. Subedar.
In the defamation complaint, Wadia said that he first learnt that Tata Sons had issued the Special Notice seeking his removal as a director from the Board of Tata Steel Ltd on November 11.
"Shortly thereafter, at the meeting of the Board of Directors of Tata Steel Ltd. held on 11th November 2016, the Company Secretary informed the Board that Tata Sons, the principal shareholder, had in terms of Section 169 of the Companies Act, 2013 requested the Board of Tata Steel Ltd. to convene an EGM for the purpose of considering resolutions for the removal of Mr. Mistry and Mr. Nusli Wadia directors," the complaint read.
On 10th November 2016, the Independent Directors of Tata Chemicals Ltd. met to review the impact on the company of the removal of Mr. Cyrus P. Mistry as Chairman of Tata Sons and the intense media hype surrounding the same, it said.
After due deliberation, all the Independent Directors unanimously affirmed their confidence in the Board, its Chairman and the management in the conduct of Tata Chemicals Ltd.'s business.
Within hours of the Tata Chemicals Board meeting, the Board of Directors of Tata Sons & its Directors through a circular resolution, inter alia, resolved to submit a requisition to Tata Steel, Tata Motors and Tata Chemicals for convening an EGM of their shareholders for the purpose of passing resolutions for the removal of the Mr. Nusli Wadia and Mr. Cyrus P. Mistry as Directors of the Three Operating Companies.
Since then, Mistry has resigned from boards of all Tata Group companies and Wadia has removed from boards of Tata Steel and Tata Motors as shareholders voted in support of resolution for his removal.
At the meeting of the Independent Directors of Tata Steel Ltd. held on November 11, 2016, Mr. Nusli Wadia first learnt that Tata Sons had issued the Special Notice seeking his removal as a director from the Board of Tata Steel Ltd, it said.
Shortly thereafter, at the meeting of the Board of Directors of Tata Steel Ltd. held on 11th November 2016, the Company Secretary informed the Board that Tata Sons, the principal shareholder, had in terms of Section 169 of the Companies Act, 2013 requested the Board of Tata Steel Ltd. to convene an EGM for the purpose of considering resolutions for the removal of Mr. Mistry and Mr. Nusli Wadia directors.
On 11th November 2016, Wadia received three separate e-mails from Tata Steel, Tata Chemicals and Tata Motors, forwarding the Special Notices issued by Tata Sons to them.
"Upon receiving the e-mails and the Complainant going through the same carefully, it became apparent to the Complainant that in addition to the Tata Steel Special Notice, Tata Sons as a shareholder of Tata Chemicals Ltd. and Tata Motors Ltd., at the behest and instance of the Board of Directors of Tata Sons (excluding Cyrus Mistry and Farida Khambatta), had also called upon the Board of Tata Chemicals Ltd. and Tata Motors Ltd., to requisition, under the provisions of Section 169 of the Companies Act, 2013, an EGM, to, inter alia, remove the Complainant as a director of the said companies," the complaint said.
The present Complaint is filed because the Complainant (Wadia) has been defamed by all Tata Sons and its entire board, the complaint read.
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A Commander-in-Chief & His Lieutenant
By Kori Schake
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The president was underwhelming at West Point. On one of the gravest strategic issues of our time, the golden orator of our political scene labored through his compulsories to make the case for why we should win a war that if we lose will invigorate the jihadist cause, put untenable pressure on the governments of Pakistan and India (to say nothing of the tragedy for Afghanistan), potentially put al-Qaeda in possession of nuclear weapons, and increase the risk of future attacks on our homeland. It was not a performance that will give heart to Afghans, countries in the region whose security depends on our success, or allies with forces committed to this fight. Or, I suspect, persuade many Americans who do not already support his policy.
Most striking was the dramatic mismatch between the dire consequences of failure and the very limited means the president intends to bring to bear. The goals he has established for Afghanistan cannot be achieved in the time frame he committed to begin withdrawing troops in. Afghanistan fell 2,000 recruits short last month alone in meeting its current goal of 134,000 soldiers and 83,000 police. The president's new approach envisions producing additional Afghan forces superior in quantity and quality to the present. That is wildly unrealistic.
To emphasize in the same breath the importance of increased forces and the necessity of removing them in eighteen months will badly diminish the positive effect those troops are intended to have. The point of counterinsurgency approach is to protect the population so that they participate in security efforts and change the political dynamic of the war. The president was silent on what he will do if his objectives are not achieved.
As in Iraq, the president doesn't have an exit strategy, he has an exit timeline. He did not outline the positive conditions that must be met for our withdrawal to proceed. He did not provide a vision of an Afghanistan that is capable of achieving what we need for our country to be secure. He provided an absolute withdrawal date that will encourage our enemies to game the timeline, and discourage our friends from helping.
He brushed lightly over election fraud in Afghanistan, saying that despite it, a government was formed "consistent with the country's laws and constitution." I'm not sure what that even means, but I am sure it will give encouragement to despots that the president of the United States is legitimating fraudulent elections by such contorted logic.
Toward the end of his speech, the president spoke of "might and moral suasion," which turn out to be the only tools of American power three months of additional review. We still don't have a strategy for Afghanistan. We only have a military strategy for Afghanistan. Where was the "dramatic increase in our civilian effort" the president promised in March? There were literally no political, economic, agricultural, judicial, drug enforcement, or educational programs included in the president's speech. When he spoke briefly of non-military matters, it was only to press for reforms of the Karzai government.
And the president asked for no effort from the 99 percent of Americans who are not in our military. We are still not a country at war, we are a military at war.
On a personal note, it made ring hollow the president's claims to virtue in the extended duration of his second Afghanistan review in ten months to see a former student of mine at West Point, Lt. Dan Berschinski in the audience. He is now a double amputee, having suffered his wounds on patrol in Afghanistan during the months the president was methodically considering his options.
The president kept 68,000 soldiers and Marines in harm's way while he pondered whether it merited his political capital to pay the ticket price of his grand rhetoric about this good war, this war of necessity, that had been scandalously under-resourced. Afghanistan remains all of those things, even after the president's "new" new Afghan strategy.
– Kori Schake is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and an Associate Professor at West Point. She was director for defense strategy on the NSC and deputy director of policy Planning at State.
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If a business had a security dog and retired it, can they just adopt it out to someone themselves, or is there some government entity they have to go through.
Not sure about security dogs but I have a relative that is a K-9 officer. His dog is on the verge of retirement and I know his family will be adopting/keeping the dog.
Let me know if info on police dogs would be helpful and I can message him.
as Lizbeth said, here it's standard for the officer who handled the dog to have the first option of adopting him. Most of the dogs retire this way. The same for sniffer/drug dogs. After all, if you have spent 10 years or more of your life with a dog then you usually want to keep him. I've known a couple of people who worked the dog unit and they kept their dogs after the dogs retired, they said they couldn't imagine them not keeping them as the dog was used to them and might find it difficult to settle in a new home with a new person at that age.
I don't know what is standard for things like guidedogs, but I worked with one girl who was in the process of retiring her dog and getting a new, younger dog. She was keeping the other dog though, despite offers to rehome him. She said he had earned his retirement and that he owed her nothing.
If you mean a dog owned by a private security company, then the company could make whatever policy they want. That policy would be driven by liability concerns.
There was also a soldier who was killed in action, and his parents adopted his K-9 dog.
Great answers, thanks. Yes, I'm thinking more about a private company and security dogs. Believe that would simplify things given it is backstory.
It depends on the firm and the dogs. Many retire with their primary handlers, if they have one, or are rehomed. If the dogs are felt to be too aggressive or "vicious", they are put to sleep. One large private firm made the news this past year for putting a large number of dogs to sleep when they liquidated (http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/5036149.Security_firm_slammed_for_putting_down_hea lthy_dogs/). They claimed they rehomed all they could and the rest were unsuitable for public life.
I would think that a big factor is the company's definition of, and use of, 'security dog'. If the dog in question has spent a career doing routine patrols, leashed to a handler, and never been trained to be aggressive, he'd be very adopable and rehomeable. If the dog has been trained to be aggressive and left to prowl warehouses and building sites at night, you'd be taking a chance on moving him to civilian life. Even moreso if you give him to strangers who won't understand his previous life, and what might set him off.
This might well be the unfortunate case with the Enfield dogs. In an ideal world, no healthy dog would be euthanized, but in reality, there are just some risks that are too great.
A dog that is private property can be rehomed however the owner sees fit.


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It may not fit all versions and all years, so please pay attention to the size/shape of this unit and your original radio to see if they have the same size/shape. Latest WinCE 6.0 version system. Built-in GPS navigation, and you can listen to the music or the radio while in GPS navigation. 7 inch 800480 Digital High Definition TFT LCD touch screen. DVD playback compatible with CD/MP3/VCD/MPEG4(DIVX)/WMA/JPEG. SD/MMC card and USB-reader support MP3, MP4, DIVX, JPEG and WMA playback. Original 2-Zone function, the back display screen can connect DVD/USB/SD/TV/RADIO functions while the host display show different contents. Support RDS radio Radio Data Services in Europe. Built-in Analog TV tuner by default, auto select NTSC, PAL or SECAM. Support Steering Wheel Control function.
Built-in 4x60W audio amplifier, digital audio output. 5.1-channel digital audio (SPDIF) output Subwoofer audio output available.
1 Route audio/video input, 2 Route audio/video output. Adjustable parameters can be memorized automatically, and resume back to the default value. Auto rear viewing function, make the backup camera work automatically when the car is in reverse.
Background wallpaper can be customized to your own picture. 3D Flash Graphical User Interface, the background wallpaper can be customized to your own picture.
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Bitcoin And Its Working?
Blockchain Technology, BUSINESS
A blockchain-based peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, Dash (DASH), was split off of Bitcoin to provide quicker transactions to consumers than bitcoin could deliver at the time. Dash is a mashup of words that refer to digital currency. It is a cryptocurrency built on the decentralized peer-to-peer network known as the Dash network. It, like many other digital currencies, is intended to enable online payments that are quick, simple, and cheap without the need to go through the conventional banking system.
Dash was created in 2014 by its creator, Evan Duffield, a fork of the Bitcoin project, and it has since gained widespread acceptance. This cryptocurrency has many characteristics with Bitcoin and other prominent cryptocurrencies, such as decentralization and cryptographic security. However, there are some noticeable distinctions, such as the speed with which it operates. If you want to learn about bitcoin and to start trading with cryptocurrency, you should use this app, like news trader app.
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Its InstantSend function, which allows for immediate confirmation of transactions, is the most noteworthy feature of the Dash cryptocurrency. A specific number of blocks must elapse before a transaction can be validated in most currencies. Transactions involving cryptocurrencies are often completed in 15 minutes to an hour, depending on their complexity.
Dash was formerly known as Xcoin when first introduced in January 2014, but it was soon rebranded as Darkcoin. Darkcoin was renamed Dash in March of this year. Dash was developed as a fork of Bitcoin, which means it copied Bitcoin's existing code and improved it by solving the problems that users were experiencing with Bitcoin at the time of its creation. While several other cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, also provide instantaneously verified transactions, not all restrict access to these transactions after they have been completed. Consider the case of a buyer who acquires items from a vendor and then pays money to the seller. The buyer can make another purchase with funds that should have been limited in the first place if the system verifies a payment but does not restrict the amount of money being spent.
On the other hand, the Dash network makes use of what are known as "masternodes." To guarantee that the blockchain technology is ready to execute all transactions, these master nodes serve as a second support layer. As soon as the master nodes determine that funds are legitimate for a specific transaction, they lock them down within one to two seconds, thereby preventing that money from being spent again until the confirmation of the current transaction is received. This is how the masternodes decrease transaction time while ensuring that the Dash network remains secure, healthy, and effectively operational. They protect user data while processing and facilitating quick and confidential transactions for the benefit of the user.
Dash employs a coinjoin mixing method known as PrivateSend (formerly known as DarkSend) to ensure that the transactions carried out by its users remain anonymous. Coinjoin combines the transactions of many participants into a single transaction rather than separating them into individual transactions.
A collaboration between Dash and the web-based platform Wall of Coins was announced earlier this year. Wall of Coins is a peer-to-peer network that enables users to purchase and sell Dash with cash using their bank accounts. The move also creates a new channel for consumers to buy and sell bitcoin through established financial service companies like Wells Fargo, MoneyGram and Chase, and Western Union and Western Union. Many prominent wallet providers, like blockchain.info, have also introduced support for the Dash cryptocurrency.
Bitcoins, like the majority of cryptocurrencies, are produced via a process known as mining, in which people utilize computers to solve complex math problems to earn them. A new block of Dash is added to the blockchain for every issue successfully solved by a participant. Dash currencies are created via a method known as Proof of Work (PoW) mining, in which computer processors are used to solving arithmetic problems specified by the X11 hashing algorithm to generate new coins. Dash's creator created the algorithm to decrease the power and allow for a more equitable distribution of the cryptocurrency.
Bitcoins may be purchased on any cryptocurrency trading site that accepts bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. Dash may be bought on several popular cryptocurrency exchanges, including Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance, among others.


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Blog > The 24 Best Chicago Experiences
The 24 Best Chicago Experiences
Welcome to "The Windy City." With more than 3 million residents, Chicago is the third most populous city in the U.S., and known for the great winds that blow off the nearby southwestern shores of Lake Michigan. At the same time, Chicago events, which attract more than 35 million leisure travelers each year, are second to none when it comes to exciting, absorbing and even provocative tourism experiences. For instance, Chicago was the first city in the world to use a Ferris wheel to attract visitors. Today, the 150-foot tall Ferris wheel at the famed Navy Pier attracts more than 10 million visitors each year, and the Chicago Chamber of Commerce states it is the most visited landmark in the Midwest.
In addition to riding this popular Ferris wheel to check out all this metropolis has to offer, there is 24 best Chicago experiences that the city's travel and tourism department thinks are a must for anyone visiting the city for either the first time or a return visit
When it comes to the best things to do in Chicago, the jury is still out because many residents say "it all depends on what you like to do." For example, the tourists who enjoy shopping for trendy and upscale merchandise usually visit Chicago's famed "Magnificent Mile and State Street." The street literally features thousands of shops and restaurants against the backdrop of the city's massive architectural marvels.
The first best place to experience the real Chicago is the Chicago Cultural Center that serves as the city's "Visitor Information Center" and headquarters for finding out what is currently happening in and around Chicago. The center once served as the historic Chicago Public Library, and is a must for photography fans with its 19th century exhibit halls and serene art galleries.
Tiffany Dome
The city's visitor center is near "Preston Bradley Hall," where visitors can look in awe at a massive 38-foot Tiffany glass dome that reflects the colors of the rainbow year round. Also, there are numerous online testimonials from happy tourists who say they took some "wonderful photos" under the Tiffany dome.
A walk down the "magnificent mile" – that features lots and lots of trendy upscale stores, restaurants and interesting bars and pubs — is also a great place to begin a visit to this spirited town. In turn, this downtown area of Chicago also features State Street and top landmarks such as the Chicago Water Tower.
Millennium & Grant Park
Chicago visitors and locals often comment online about visiting the amazing Millennium and Grant Park. This energetic region of the city features the popular Art Institute of Chicago and the wondrous Buckingham Fountain.
While visiting Millennium Park, do not miss taking photographs and a nice break to relax and watch all the people go by at the calm and peaceful reflective "Cloud Gate" sculpture. This clever work of art by the British artist Anish Kapoor is also considered to be the centerpiece of the famed AT&T Plaza that is also part of Millennium Park.
While visiting and hanging out at Millennium Park, be sure to enjoy the legendary ice rink that is packed with locals and visitors during the winter tourist season; while the area around the ice rink features interesting cafes and outdoor restaurants that are the place to be on a spring or summer evening in the city. In addition, this popular park features the annual "Taste of Chicago" festival during the spring season.
Crown Fountain
The Crown Fountain, that has been featured in hundreds of Hollywood films and television shows, is also located near Millennium Park. The Crown Fountain is said to be simply stunning during the evening hours when two massive glass sculptures display high-tech visual effects that include fascinating images of people's faces from the great American melting pot, that is Chicago.
Concert fans will head to the city's famous stainless steel band shell at the "Jay Pritzker Pavilion," that is the site of the annual Grant Park Music Festival concert series. In fact, President Barack Obama, who hails from Chicago, has said he always enjoyed spending a lively evening at this festival that attracts musicians and arts from across the nation and worldwide. In addition, there are a number of buildings behind the pavilion's stage that serves as an indoor concert venue for the Harris Theater for Music and Dance. This is the concert hot spot in Chicago for the city's Music of the Baroque.
The fun place in town to take the kids is the Navy Pier located on the city's free and easy Streeterville. This section of Chicago is known for its many fine and casual restaurants, museums, entertainment auditoriums and retail stores. Of course, this is also where visitors can ride the famed Chicago Ferris wheel.
Museum Campus
Another "not-to-be-missed" tourism center in the city is the Museum Campus, that includes a lovely 10-acre lakefront park on Lake Michigan and three of Chicago's top museums: the Field Museum of Natural History, the Alder Planetarium & Astronomy Museum and the engrossing Shedd Aquarium.
The Museum Campus region of town also features bright and beautiful Grant Park, Buckingham Fountain and the much celebrated Art Institute of Chicago.
University of Chicago Oriental Institute
Also, the lakefront region of Chicago is the place to check out the University of Chicago Oriental Institute that houses the exclusive collection of Middle Eastern and ancient Egyptian sculptures and artifacts.
The other top museums includes the DuSable Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Chicago History Museum, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Polish Museum of America, the Pritzker Military Library, the Museum of Broadcast Communications, the Chicago Architecture Foundation and the massive Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. In turn, the Museum of Science and Industry features a fascinating exhibit of Air Force and NASA technology spinoffs, and exhibits from around the world.
Chicago Cuisine
Chicago cuisine is a tourism attraction by itself, states the city's chamber of commerce. For instance, Chicago claims that its deep-dish pizza called "Chicago-style pizza" is reason enough to visit the city. In addition, there is the Chicago-style hot do that is a big, long Vienna beef hotdog that is loaded down by street vendors with lots of big dill pickle spears, tomatoes, pickled hot peppers and lots of other good stuff on a S. Rosen poppy seed bun that is mmm good!
Chicago Italian Beef Sandwich
The other must have taste of Chicago fast food treat is the Chicago Italian beef sandwich that features very thin slice beef that is served on a crusty Italian roll and topped with lots of sweet Italian sausage and lots of sweet and sour hot peppers. The local fast food treats can be found all around the city, with food charts and trendy cafes and restaurants serving this popular sandwich.
Maxwell Street Polish
A visit to the Windy City would not be complete without trying the famed Maxwell Street Polish. This local fast food is composed of both grilled and deep-friend Polish kielbasa sausage. It is served on a big and soft hot dog roll and topped with hot peppers, lots of local mustard and grilled onions that fall off the bun as you walk and eat this yummy concoction. In addition, to enjoying some Chicago Polish foods, there are also German and Chinese food regions around the city in the many ethnic neighborhoods that are clearly marked. For instance, there is a "German Festival," and an "Irish Festival," and a food styled festival for most of the Chicago's many nationalities that can be enjoyed and visited by tourists year round.
Chicago is also known as the best sports city in the U.S. As such, there are some must see places in town that are historically linked to American sporting history. For instance, Chicago is home to the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox professional baseball teams. Cub's fans can watch the team play in Wrigley Field, while White Sox fans can catch a ballgame in the south side of town at U.S. Cellular Field. The famed National Football League team, the "Chicago Bears" can be seen during the fall and winter months at the massive home field known as Soldier Field.
The city's municipal parkland features more than 8,000 acres distributed throughout the metropolis where people can sit and walk for free; while enjoying nature and the old Chicago neighborhoods.
Cook County Forest Preserves
Nature lovers can also enjoy more green spaces in the city when checking out the Cook County Forest Preserves. This massive network of big, wide open spaces is a great green area to enjoy natural wetlands, streams, lakes, deep forest and lakes.
Chicago is known as a world center of higher education. In fact, the city's many top universities date back to the mid-19th century with top universities to visit in Chicago including The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Loyola University Chicago and DePaul University. There are also some 40 other major colleges and universities within the city that offer all sorts of interesting art, music and entertainment events for visitors.
Harpo Studios
Because the Chicago metro area is one of the largest media markets in the U.S. and North America, there are tourists who want to see Oprah Winfrey's "Harpo Studios," and dozens of other top American TV shows when visiting the city.
Chicago is also viewed as a Hollywood and film friendly town with dozens of films being shot throughout the city on a regular basis. Visitors often comment online about running into top movie stars and celebrities when visiting downtown Chicago near where the two major daily newspapers are headquartered.
Public Transportation Systems
The people who enjoy visiting Chicago often talk about having fun getting about town on the highly efficient and convenient Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) public transportation systems that includes the famed "L" or elevated subway system. Visitors also enjoy the regional train and bus system that allows for easy travel around town without the worry of renting a car
Gershwin Tunnel
O'Hare International Airport that features the stunning "Gershwin Tunnel" located between concourses C and B in Terminal 1. The tunnel made of reflecting glass that has been featured in dozens of science fiction and adventures movies and TV shows. Kids say the tunnel is awesome, and a must for visitors either arriving or departing Chicago from the world's second busiest airport.
In general, Chicago is considered to be the seat of true American tourism with some of the best visitor experiences anywhere.
Overall, the "24 Best Chicago Experiences" all involve interacting with the people of this proud city that is sometimes called Chicagoland. Also, since Chicago was incorporated as a city back in 1837, tourists soon learn that the city is all about its proud history as a true melting pot for people and cultures from around the world. The city is also strategically located between the Mississippi river hub and the Great Lakes, and thus making this "Windy City" a truly fantastic place to visit in America today.


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When I mention that my daughter plays Internet computer games, you may look at me with something akin to consternation while smiling indulgently, trying to be non-judgmental in an Oprah Winfrey inspired way.
Being in Silicon Valley, it's no wonder that our household has caught on to the benefits of computer-based learning. The fact that our daughter is 3 years of age, and the perception that adult Internet entertainment has a bad reputation may justly fuel your concern. Perhaps our recent reading of "Everything Bad is Good for You" by Steven Johnson eased my husband and my apprehensions about new media. Although truth be told, my bleeding-edge-technology-leader husband needed no easing. And now that my daughter is learning at a good clip, I've come to be a big proponent of learning through educational Internet and computer games.
Take patience. A young mind needs longer to learn than an adult who is already well versed in subjects like the alphabet and has forgotten how long it took to learn. The computer, power failures aside, can repeat a lesson unflaggingly without the exasperation a regular adult (i.e. I myself) would feel. A computer is more adept at going at the player's pace and focus. Unlike a human who may see the need to conclude a segment or syllabus within an allotted time frame, the computer doesn't rush the player.
Personal cheerleader. Often her virtual games start with "Lets get started!" and at the conclusion of unsuccessful attempts she hears a cheery, 'Try again!" So much so, our little one seems to augment her "gung ho"spirit with an unflagging 'Try again!" and a hearty "Lets get started!" gusto to her real world tasks and games she devises when she interacts with us. Independent analysis of a situation. Once she is on a kiddie-safe site, my daughter is free to explore the many games and learning tools available. She is justly proud of her efforts and jubilant when she figures out how to play or what is required of a game. These fun tasks take on the likes of stacking up enough props for a wolf to climb up and reach food, or maneuvering a trampoline to bounce falling animals back into a tree.
Spelling her name. Although my daughter is able to spend a fair bit of time on the computer, we restrict her use by installing her own user account and securing it with a password. This password was her name. But within months she learned to spell and key in her own five character name carefully. We have changed the password. In the meantime, knowing the characters to her name has spurred her on to commit the characters with marker pen to paper. She has so far been able to fashion 3 of the 5 letters.
There are a couple of especially useful abilities that my daughter picked up through consistently playing on the computer. Importantly, she is developing an enviable familiarity with new media that will prove essential in her generation, one that has not known a time without computers.
The other ability she exhibited recently was the beginning of a discourse in her mind about her environment. At the beginning of this year, she asked me, "Mommy, is this real?" indicating her chair, and then pointing to the tangerine tree outside, "Is the tree real?" Having experienced a virtual, animated environment, it seems like my daughter is trying to disentangle her reality and the virtual world. Of course it is questionable if her attempts are at the same depth as Plato's contemplations.
It's a good thing she hasn't asked me this recently since I haven't fully made sense of reality, especially, a reality with an ever increasing virtual playground.
The writer has a fine arts degree. A part-time jewelry designer, she has spent the last three years in close observation and documentation of a Post-Millennial.
The internet ones I know are for learning to read and pre-school level. For older kids there are educational games available on CD like for music theory or non-violent entertaining games like Monopoly are also available.
What sort of PC games or internet sites are suitable for a 11-yr boy?
Great observation and writing. Enjoy the moments with your lovely baby. They grow very fast. Please keep it up.


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without talking about Callbacks and Error handling.
useful when we write Node.js applications?
How is error handling done in Node applications?
Let's talk briefly about these in this lecture.
What do we mean by first-class functions?
Is that a function can be treated just like any other variable.
parameters inside function calls to other functions.
called from another Node module in order to get some work accomplished.
Then look at how this is very useful in supporting callbacks in Node.js.
What we mean by Closures?
you understand how closure works.
automatically gets access to the variables that are declared in the outer function.
the values of the variables within that outer function.
very effectively used when we use Callbacks in Node applications.
specify a computation as a set of steps to be done one after another.
followed by computation two, and computation three.
the long running computation is completed before it gets executed.
be done which is defined by computation three.
or the long running computation to complete before it is executed.
or the long running computation.
will be delayed because of no reason of it's own, right?
Instead is delayed because of something that precedes it in the sequence of computation.
then computation two can be executed when the long running computation is finished.
right after computation one finishes.
being stuck behind the long running computation, and computation two.
I/O bound computation to be done.
can be sent to it as a Callback.
a Callback and then given off to the long running computation.
then it'll call back the function that is enclosed inside the callback.
in rearranging the computation within our Node applications.
very useful when we look at the way Node.js itself runs.
Node.js is organized into a single threaded event loop.
picks up requests as they come in and execute it one after another.
will be enclosed inside a Callback.
and then services them one at a time.
or long running processing that can be done independently behind the scenes.
is that the event loop is arranged in a sequence of phases.
and then finally, the close callbacks phase.
Now, some details about what is done in each of these phases is listed to the right side.
executed after an I/O request will be handled by the I/O callbacks queue.
and the Node.js event loop picks up requests from each of these queues, and handles them.
The, idle, prepare, is meant for internal use by Node.js.
the requests coming in from outside.
The close callback phase handles any socket closures that need to be handled, and so on.
all these details if we need to really write a Node.js application.
it is essential for understanding how our Node application works.
of how the Node.js event loop is handled.
understand the Node applications and how they work for the moment.
documentation which explains about the event loop in more detail.
and how errors can be handled inside a Node application.