Never Give Up: A Hundred Years Ago: An "October" Revolution?
"To the citizens of Russia. The Provisional Government has been deposed.
"State power has passed into the hands of the organ of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, the Military Revolutionary Committee, which heads the Petrograd proletariat and garrison.
"The cause for which the people have fought—namely, the immediate offer of a democratic peace, workers' control over production, and the establishment of Soviet power—has been secured.
"Long live the revolution of soldiers, workers, and peasants!"
So declared a 47 year old recently returned expatriate during an important meeting of representatives of the revolutionary "unions" ("soviets") that were buttressing Russia's "provisional government" that had overthrown the Tsar back in March, a hundred years ago.
The statement that would shape the myth of "the October Revolution" for generations after, however, was something of a myth even as Lenin said it at around 3:00 in the afternoon on that famous day. Ministers of the provisional government remained holed up at the Winter Palace, which was not taken by Lenin's comrades until early the following morning.
The coup that would mark the official entry of Communism into political power—a power that would be wielded despotically and murderously over millions of people within a generation—was still in progress. Nevertheless, Lenin calculated that a statement was necessary in order to seize the moment. He wasn't very picky about things like telling the truth.
In fact, it would take days, weeks, even months to consolidate this bold power grab, and then several years of bloody civil war to make it stick. But eventually Communism would have its Red October, even after Russia's adoption of the Western calendar changed the anniversary date from October 25 (the Julian calendar in use at the time) to November 7 (the date on the Gregorian calendar).
If you were English speaking (or reading) a hundred years ago, no one would have expected you to realize that on the morning of November 8, 1917 history was being made. Suppose you were in London: you would have picked up your copy of The Times or The Daily Telegraph, sipped your tea, and wondered how things were going with the War, what the Irish were up to, or who was going to perform at the Royal Albert Hall the coming weekend.
Oh my, did we have lots going on in the Fall of 1917! This is a grisly page.
Italy was taking a beating from the Germans on its front (columns 1 and 7 are indicating that the Battle of Caporetto was in full swing). The British were making their move in Palestine (this would have been Ottoman territory—the borders of today's Middle East would be carved out from the defeated Turkish Empire after this war). Thus we see the middle column (i.e. column 4).
Meanwhile, column 2 points to the final days of the three month long British and Canadian offensive in Flanders, known to history as the Battle of Passchendaele. At the cost of some half a million casualties, the Western front got pushed back about five miles. Yes, it was more of the usual insanity, but Germany was bleeding faster at this stage of the war, and the Allies were trying to make the most of the sheer attrition factor.
You couldn't be blamed for not realizing that the news in column 5 was the beginning of a big break for the Kaiser and his legions. Few people imagined that it was destined to have so much significance for the future. The headline says "Extremist Rising in Petrograd. State Buildings Seized" (I have added the red highlighter here, for people a hundred years later, to make sure it stands out from all the small print).
But to continue our imaginative supposition: by now you, the English newspaper reader of 1917, would have been used to hearing all sorts of crazy news from Russia since the downfall of the Tsar. How was anyone supposed to keep track of who was in charge and who was rioting? The only thing that seemed to matter was that Russia was still in the war, tying down 50 divisions of Germans (several hundred thousand men) in the East.
Mr. Lenin, however, had a plan to get your attention. Recall the line in his statement about "the immediate offer of a democratic peace." Germany had put Lenin on a train from Switzerland to Russia in April, probably thinking he was mad as a hatter but willing to take him up on his promises to stir up trouble.
Looks pretty "Maximal" to me.
Ultimately they got a lot more trouble than they bargained for, but in November 1917 it was looking like a great deal for the Germans. Being a good Brit, of course, you might have been perplexed by all of this as you chewed your biscuit and read about this faction that called itself the "Maximalists" (or at least this was the translation your paper used for the word Bolsheviks at the time).
On November 8, it wasn't even clear to the London press what the outcome of the "Extremist Rising" was going to be. Though Lenin had already declared the provisional government "deposed," the English press wasn't convinced yet. They may not have even been aware of his brash declaration.
Nevertheless, the special correspondent for the Telegraph had what would prove to be a frightfully accurate awareness of what Lenin and his Bolsheviks represented in those early days of the Communist Revolution. In retrospect, a lot of the horrors of the twentieth century are predicted in his words, not only for Russia but for every place where Communism took hold.


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Three Entrepreneurial UC San Diego Faculty Members To Join National Academy of Inventors
Nicole Steinmetz, who engineers plant-virus-based nanomaterials for human and plant health applications, is among UC San Diego's new inductees to the National Academy of Inventors.
Ioana Patringenaru - ipatrin@ucsd.edu
Katherine Connor - khconnor@ucsd.edu
Debra Bass - dbass@ucsd.edu
UC San Diego's ranks now include 18 fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Three professors have been named 2022 NAI fellows, the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors. The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have demonstrated a spirit of innovation in creating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and the welfare of society.
This year's inductees all hail from the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering: Yu-Hwa Lo, a professor of electrical and computer engineering; Nicole Steinmetz and Joseph Wang, both professors of nanoengineering. They are among 169 inducted into the 2022 class of fellows.
"Last year, UC San Diego became the first and so far, the only University of California campus to establish a chapter of NAI. This year we continue our tradition of innovation excellence with three inductees whose work solves global problems and provides innovative products from atmospheric condition prediction to biodegradable footwear. This is not a coincidence, as research and innovation are part of our core culture of discovery," said Vice Chancellor for Research Corinne Peek-Asa. "Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and Jacobs School Dean Al Pisano are active NAI members, and throughout our campus key leaders support an ecosystem of research and collaboration that addresses today's challenges."
The 2022 NAI fellow class hails from 110 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes worldwide, including 16 from University of California institutions. The cohort collectively holds over 5,000 U.S. patents.
"I'm proud to say that all three UC San Diego professors selected as 2022 National Academy of Inventors Fellows are engineers and inventors for the public good," said Albert P. Pisano, Dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. "Joe Wang, Nicole Steinmetz and Yu-Hwa Lo, congratulations on this well-deserved honor! The way you transform innovations into real-world positive impact offers a window into the fundamental nature of both the Jacobs School of Engineering and UC San Diego overall. Thank you for all you do!"
I'm proud to say that all three UC San Diego professors selected as 2022 National Academy of Inventors Fellows are engineers and inventors for the public good.
Albert P. Pisano, Dean of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Nicole Steinmetz
Steinmetz engineers plant-virus-based nanomaterials for human and plant health applications. She uses chemical biology methods to repurpose plant viruses to yield nanoparticles for applications such as drug delivery, molecular imaging, and next-generation vaccines and immunotherapies targeting cancer, cardiovascular disease, and infectious disease. The research team she leads received a $4.3 million grant this year from the National Institutes of Health for work that uses plant viruses to develop cancer immunotherapies..
Steinmetz is the founding director of the Center for Nano-ImmunoEngineering and co-director of the Center for Engineering in Cancer at UC San Diego. She co-leads the NSF-funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and co-founded Mosaic ImmunoEngineering Inc., a biotechnology startup.
"I am most proud of our patents surrounding the use of a plant virus as cancer immunotherapy and we are driven to bring this technology to human clinical trials," Steinmetz said.
Joseph Wang holds up an example of the wearable sensors from his lab.
Joseph Wang
Wang is an expert in both chemistry and engineering. His research group investigates how nanorobots and wearable sensors could be used to improve human health. Wang's work in nanobioelectronic sensors is enabling research in the field of wearable sensors for applications in medicine, military, security, and preventative health and fitness. The sensors are very much like temporary tattoos — flexible, lightweight and small. His pioneering nanomotors research has led to advanced nanomachines for biomedical and environmental applications.
Wang is the director of the Center for Wearable Sensors at the Jacobs School, which is bringing together top UC San Diego researchers working on sensors, low-power circuits, materials, electrochemistry, bioengineering, wireless network technologies, preventive medicine, and the life sciences. He is one of the world's most highly-cited researchers.
"Some of the more ingenious examples of work by my research group include an integrated microneedle sensor array for continuous monitoring of multiple biomarkers and an oral pill embedded with microrobots for accelerated drug delivery," Wang said. "One fun project was developing a nanoscale cannon for a ballistic drug delivery, which set a Guinness Record for World's Smallest Cannon."
Yu-Hwa Lo
Yu-Hwa Lo, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Jacobs School of Engineering, is recognized as a leader in both the fields of biomedical electronic and optical devices, and nanoscale semiconductor devices.
A co-founder and scientific advisor to biotech company NanoCellect, he uses photonic properties to develop point-of-care devices that can reduce healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes.
For example, Lo's group invented the first bench-top microfluidic fluorescence-activated-cell-sorter, which enabled researchers to better study the characteristics of single-cell populations.
His research expertise in nanoscale semiconductors led to the invention of direct water fusion, a process foundational to the LED lights behind our televisions, phones and traffic lights; and the invention of semiconductor single- photon detectors, which enhance the performance for cell phones, AR/VR, autonomous driving, and medical imaging.
He has published over 500 papers and been awarded 50 patents.
"My research covers and integrates the process of lab-to-market. By working with our talented students, we conceive ideas and create innovative approaches aimed at solving significant and challenging problems facing our industry and society," Lo said. "As an engineering faculty member interested in sciences, technologies, and commercialization, I hope that the lab-to-market approach can offer my students a holistic view and broad training in their education and prepare them to pursue their own career goals after graduation."
My research covers and integrates the process of lab-to-market. By working with our talented students, we conceive ideas and create innovative approaches aimed at solving significant and challenging problems facing our industry and society.
Yu-Hwa Lo, professor of electrical and computer engineering
Creating an Inventive Ecosystem
In the last 10 years, the university has secured more than 850 patents and launched more than 1,000 startups.
"UC San Diego's innovative culture fosters deep engagement with startups, serial entrepreneurs, investors, international collaborators and government agencies to commercialize our research for the benefit of society." said Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Commercialization Paul Roben. "Our success comes from our ability to work seamlessly with the private sector while nurturing and mentoring the next generation of inventors, business owners, leaders and workers — we are driving the regional innovation ecosystem."
NAI fellows (academic inventors and innovators) are inducted into the academy through a formal nomination process, but prospective chapter members can apply locally at any time through UC San Diego's Office of Innovation and Commercialization.
Students have the opportunity to become honorary members with access to NAI-supported mentorship, professional development resources, and events that recognize the value of student inventorship in academia.
Find out more about UC San Diego's NAI Chapter and fill out the online form to apply.

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BET Networks on Thursday took the wraps off its 2015-16 upfront slate, a blend of scripted series and reality shows designed to further strengthen BET's status as the top network for African Americans.
Among the more high-profile newcomers are: "Chasing Destiny," an all-female singing-competition series starring Kelly Rowland (Destiny's Child); "DeSean Jackson: Home Team," an unscripted show about the women who manage the professional and personal affairs of Washington's $24 million wide receiver and return specialist; and "Zoe Moon," a rom-com starring Brandy Norwood as a cosmetics mogul who dives back into the dating pool after divorcing her prizefighter husband.
Ms. Norwood will also suit up for the ninth and final season of BET's "The Game," which premieres Wednesday, June 3. Also coming back for a return engagement is the one-hour Gabrielle Union drama "Being Mary Jane," which was awarded a third season back in February, and Kevin Hart's sendup of reality shows, "Real Husbands of Hollywood," which kicks off its fourth season this fall.
"We continue to give our viewers what they want — high quality content that respects, reflects and elevates them." said Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO, BET Networks, who added that the company has invested in more original programming than at any other time in its 35-year history.
As Michele Thornton, senior VP of ad sales at Centric notes, African-American women boast an aggregate buying power of $260 billion and watch more TV than women from any other ethnic group.
It seems that BET has won the case,brought forth by blogger B Scott. It was apparent that B Scott was given a unique opportunity to be a style correspondent for the BET Awards Red Carpet in June of 2013. Although, guidelines of the dress code was not relayed to BScott, BET who has a large Christian following on Sunday's, removed him of the set and simply asked him to change his attire, to a more conservative suit. Hence, the moment when all the drama began about race and gender came into to play, although BET was giving him a unique opportunity in front of millions of viewers.
Scott has claimed that his original outfit, a flowing tunic, flowing hair, heels and makeup, were all approved by BET in advance. However, after appearing in only one segment of the show, BET pulled Scott from the air and forced him to change to a more masculine outfit.
After filing a lawsuit against the network back in August, things seemed to be moving in Scott's favor when emails from BET's president, Stephen Hill, and his staff showed them making disparaging remarks about Scott's appearance and even trying to cover up the scandal by making him the villain.
But according to TMZ, a judge recently ruled in BET's favor and dismissed Scott's lawsuit. The judge ruled that BET has the First Amendment right to control their shows, including the appearance of their hosts, as they see fit.
"It disheartens me that the message sent today wasn't a message of acceptance, but rather it's acceptable to discriminate against transgender individuals on the basis of their gender identity and expression," Scott told TMZ.
Despite the loss in court, B. Scott's lawyer plans to appeal the case.
MADD FACTOR: Although BET handled the situation, in a less than professional manner with the back and forth emails. It is clear the judge saw what I saw at the event. BScott change of clothing was effective, professional, and reflected the tone of the show. It is a BET production, not BScott production, hence the verdict. WARNING:BET be very careful who you'll hire!


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Thousands of Afghan families flee fighting in former Taliban bastion
* 22,000 Afghan families have fled from their homes to escape fighting in Kandahar
More than 22,000 Afghan families have fled from their homes to escape fighting in the former Taliban bastion of Kandahar, officials said on Sunday, as authorities arrested four suspected insurgents over this week's rocket attack on Kabul.
Since early May, violence has surged across several provinces including in Kandahar after the insurgents launched a sweeping offensive just days after the US-led foreign forces began their final withdrawal.
The Taliban's deadly assault has seen the insurgents capture scores of districts, border crossings and encircle several provincial capitals.
"The fighting has displaced 22,000 families in the past one month in Kandahar," Dost Mohammad Daryab, head of the provincial refugee department, told AFP.
"They have all moved from the volatile districts of the city to safer areas."
Fighting continued on the outskirts of Kandahar city on Sunday.
"The negligence of some security forces, especially the police, has made way for the Taliban to come that close," Lalai Dastageeri, deputy governor of Kandahar province, told AFP.
"We are now trying to organise our security forces."
Local authorities had set up four camps for the displaced people who were estimated to be about 154,000.
Kandahar resident Hafiz Mohammad Akbar said his house had been taken over by the Taliban after he fled.
"They forced us to leave … I am now living with my 20-member family in a compound with no toilet," said Akbar.
Fears of fighting to increase
Residents expressed concerns that the fighting might increase in the days ahead.
"If they really want to fight, they should go to a desert and fight, not destroy the city," said Khan Mohammad, who moved to a camp with his family.
"Even if they win, they can't rule a ghost town."
Kandahar, with its 650,000 inhabitants, is the second-largest city in Afghanistan after Kabul.
The southern province was the epi-centre of the Taliban's regime when they ruled Afghanistan between 1996 to 2001.
Ousted from power in a US-led invasion in 2001 after the September 11 attacks, the Taliban have spearheaded a deadly insurgency that continues to this day.
Their latest offensive launched in early May has seen the group take control of half of the country's about 400 districts.
Earlier this week, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff General Mark Milley said the Taliban appear to have "strategic momentum" on the battlefield.
But global rights group Human Rights Watch said there were reports that the Taliban were committing atrocities against civilians in areas they had captured, including in the town of Spin Boldak near the border with Pakistan they captured earlier this month.
"Taliban leaders have denied responsibility for any abuses, but growing evidence of expulsions, arbitrary detentions, and killings in areas under their control are raising fears among the population," said Patricia Grossman, associate Asia director at HRW said in a statement. The authorities meanwhile announced they had arrested four men they said belonged to the Taliban, accusing them of carrying out this week's rocket attack on Kabul. "A Taliban commander, Momin, along with his three other men, have been arrested. They all belong to the Taliban group," ministry spokesman Mirwais Stanikzai told reporters in a video message.
At least three rockets landed near the palace on Tuesday as President Ashraf Ghani and his top officials performed outdoor prayers to mark the start of Eidul Azha.
The attack was however claimed by the militant Islamic State group.


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Typhoon Soulik hits eastern China
More than 500,000 people evacuated and 5,500 soldiers deployed as Fujian and Zhejiang provinces brace for heavy rains.
Published On 14 Jul 201314 Jul 2013
Eastern China is bracing for torrential downpours from Typhoon Soulik which has already forced the evacuation of 500,000 people after killing two in Taiwan.
The China Meteorological Administration said on Sunday that the typhoon lashed coastal Fujian province packing gusts of 118kmph when it made landfall "but had weakened to a tropical depression as it moved inland".
According to the AFP news agency, about 5,500 soldiers have been deployed for relief and rescue work if needed in Fujian and neighbouring Zhejiang areas where more than 500,000 people have been moved to safer areas.
While Soulik wrought havoc in Taiwan, tearing roofs from homes, triggering landslides that blocked roads and leading to the cancellation of 350 flights, its impact on eastern China was less severe.
No deaths or injuries were reported, the official Xinhua news agency said, adding almost 31,000 ships were called back to port and 20 flights cancelled.
The torrential rains have swelled rivers beyond warning levels in some areas, and waves up to nine-metres-high pounded sea defences in Ningde city.
In Taiwan, two people were killed and 104 others injured by the storm, with one town reporting widespread landslides and floodwaters a storey high. One person was reported missing.
The storm was set to dump up to 18 centimetres of rain on parts of eastern China over 24 hours as it moved further inland, forecasters said.
Officials are calculating the cost of the storm, with the Zhejiang city of Wenzhou alone facing a direct economic loss of $34m, the agency said.
Large swaths of the country has already been hit by downpours even as the death toll from a rain-triggered landslide in southwest Sichuan province rose to 43 late on Saturday after more bodies were retrieved.
Source: News Agencies


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Q: Multiple Group By with condition in MongoDB I have the fields, group_id, category, account, sku and revenue. I want to do an aggregation where the revenue is grouped by the group_id, category, sku and account separately and in sku there will be two divisions, one where there is a comma and one where there isn't. How do I do this?
For example, if my data is
[
  {
    "group_id": "ABC",
    "category": "test",
    "account": "abc1",
    "sku": "grre,qrvf",
    "revenue": 100,
  },
  {
    "group_id": "ABC2",
    "category": "test",
    "account": "abc",
    "sku": "grre,qrvf",
    "revenue": 100,
  },
  {
    "group_id": "ABC3",
    "category": "test2",
    "account": "abc2",
    "sku": "qwe",
    "revenue": 100,
  },
  {
    "group_id": "ABC",
    "category": "test2",
    "account": "abc",
    "sku": "qwe",
    "revenue": 100,
  },
  {
    "group_id": "ABC2",
    "category": "test3",
    "account": "abc2",
    "sku": "asd,fgh",
    "revenue": 100,
  },
  {
    "group_id": "ABC",
    "category": "test3",
    "account": "abc",
    "sku": "asd,fgh",
    "revenue": 100,
  },
  {
    "group_id": "ABC3",
    "category": "test",
    "account": "abc2",
    "sku": "grre,qrvf",
    "revenue": 100,
  }
]

then the result should be like
[
  {groups: [{group_id: "ABC", "revenue": 300}, {group_id: "ABC2", "revenue": 200}, {group_id: "ABC3", "revenue": 200}]},
  {categories: [{category: "test", "revenue": 300}, {category: "test2", "revenue": 200}, {category: "test3", "revenue": 200}]},
  {accounts: [{account: "abc", "revenue": 300}, {account: "abc2", "revenue": 100}, {account: "abc3", "revenue": 300}]},
  {skus: [{single: [{sku: "qwe", revenue: 100}, {sku: "iou", revenue: 100}]}, {multi: [{sku: "grre,qrvf", revenue: 300}, {sku: "asd,fgh", revenue: 200}]}]},
]

A: You can use $facet to run multiple aggregations separately in one round-trip and $indexOfBytes to split skus:
db.collection.aggregate([
    {
        $facet: {
            group: [ { $group: { _id: "$group_id", revenue: { $sum: "$revenue" } } }, { $project: { _id: 0, group: "$_id", revenue: 1 } } ],
            categories: [ { $group: { _id: "$category", revenue: { $sum: "$revenue" } } }, { $project: { _id: 0, category: "$_id", revenue: 1 } } ],
            accounts: [ { $group: { _id: "$account", revenue: { $sum: "$revenue" } } }, { $project: { _id: 0, account: "$_id", revenue: 1 } } ],
            skus: [
                {  $group: { _id: "$sku", revenue: { $sum: "$revenue" } } },
                {  $group: { _id: null, aggregates: { $push: { sku: "$_id", revenue: "$revenue" } } } },
                {  $project: {
                    _id: 0,
                    single: { $filter: { input: "$aggregates", cond: { $eq: [ { $indexOfBytes: [ "$$this.sku", "," ] }, -1 ] } } },
                    multi: { $filter: { input: "$aggregates", cond: { $ne: [ { $indexOfBytes: [ "$$this.sku", "," ] }, -1 ] } } },
                },
                }
            ],
        }
    }
])

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The American Dialect Society voted last week to dub #hashtag the Word of the Year for 2012.
When I first heard that news, I winced. The word seems too trendy and tech-focused. I know a lot of people who have never used Twitter and never plan to use Twitter. Do they even know that a #hashtag is what you use to give your Twitter message a subject line?
But I realized #hashtag was an inspired choice when I read Allan Metcalf's description of how the word was selected in his "Lingua Franca" blog for The Chronicle of Higher Education. After voting on the top words in several categories, the linguists settled on #hashtag over marriage equality as the most "significant or signifying" term of 2012, Metcalf wrote.
I dipped into Twitter last year (with mixed results, as I explained in my last post); at first, I was a bit intimidated by this stream of short messages sent from people I had never met and never expected to meet. It felt like I was catching snatches of conversation on a bus with no context, and I wasn't sure how to make sense of it all.
Then I learned to look for the #hashtag, which often provided the clues I needed to place the tweet into a category or conversation stream. Something like the Dewey Decimal system for tweets. A #hashtag could serve as a straightforward summary (#amwriting) or offer inspirational insight (#OnBecomingFearless) or provide a twist of sarcasm (#1stWorldProblems).
As more people got used to communicating in 140 characters, they began to realize that the #hashtag concept could be useful far beyond the Twitter field. People started categorizing their posts on other social media sites with a #hashtag, just to help clarify their tone or categorize their remarks. The word—and the concept—spread to TV sitcoms and cable news shows and eventually into the language of ordinary people who have never peeked into a Twitter feed.
As I was thinking about why #hashtag had become such a significant term in our language, I realized that the concept could become a great tool for writers.
No one is going to mistake most Twitter posts for great literature, but practicing the art of the #hashtag could help a lot of writers locate the heart and soul of their message. I often work with writers who have written hundreds or thousands of words but are still not quite sure what they most want to say. They have so many ideas floating around and are so anxious to capture all those ideas that they don't realize their stream of words will hit a reader like a blast from a fire hose.
I think writers in any medium could find it valuable to practice the art of #hashtag. Next time you're stuck on a difficult passage or wondering what comes next, spend a few minutes trying to create the perfect #hashtag for what you're writing. Can you sum up your article, chapter, essay, poem, or novel in a word or two?
Give it a shot; you may be surprised at the results. When you can #hashtag your work, you may find it easier to hack a path for your readers to follow through the jungle of words in your head.


OK - I got a batch of 2-color transfers from a plaec taht makes custom screen printed transfers. White and pink, they will be printed on black, and there is a half-tone in the pink. I printed a bunch on T-shirts and they look great. I just started on the sweatshirts and they look like cr@p. half of the pink dots don't even stick to the shirt. Anybody got suggestions?
Thanks Simply Sign.n I posted that a while ago, the transfers went in the circular file some time ago. Still - I never really got this figured, so can you tell me more about this pwder? I read somewhere that traditional heat transfers only have a garanteed shelf life of about a year - even though they usually last much longer. That wasn't the problem tho, these were new. Thanks again.
Sorry I'm late to the party here, but my 2 cents relates to the type of fabric the sweatshirts were made from. Most of the time sweatshirts are some sort of a blend, so they would need different time and temperature setting. The company who you got the transfer from should be able to give you exact specification for each type of garment those transfers should work on.
THnks AM - I had a comversation with my supplier a couple weks ago. It was about a different job, he said taht I needed to make some changes for sweats. BUT he also said it was the weave of the swetshirt taht probably caused the halftones not to stick on that other job. he said the weave was course neough to swallow the dots and they didn't stick.


The dissemination of low carbon technologies (LCTs) will continue to play a crucial role to meeting the targets under the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda. Yet, despite a wide range of activities and initiatives to promote the dissemination of LCTs, finding the missing links between the various facets of effective technology dissemination model remains elusive.
IGES has undertaken a stakeholders' matchmaking model as an innovative model to promote LCTs dissemination. This is the proceeding of the session which aims to share the findings so far from the activities conducted in India, Thailand and Vietnam to promote the dissemination of Japanese LCTs in these countries. It also gathers experts and practitioners from developed and developing countries, working across research institutes, government and the private sector to solicit their views on those findings in particular and on how to make the stakeholders' matchmaking model more operational and effective to promote the dissemination of LCTs in general.
The date/time of the session will also mark the open to the public of a website initiated by IGES-TERI to facilitate and accelerate the Japan-India stakeholders'matchmaking in order to promote Japanese LCTs in India.


I am an experienced writer, editor and blogger – and a full-time Mom. I have a Masters in Business Administration and a Diploma in Training and Development and I put my education to good use writing, editing and blogging on a variety of topics for a diverse clientele.
After a hectic 15-year career in sales, marketing and training, she began working from home in 2004 as a writer, editor and blogger – and a full-time Mom. She puts her education to good use writing, editing and blogging on a variety of topics for a diverse clientele. This includes writing website content, ebooks, press releases, directory articles, reviews, management ecourses, business blogs and just about anything related to the written word. She loves her work.
On really busy days her time off is restricted to playing with her dust bunnies and celebrating the little things. She loves coffee, people, cooking, books, writing, photography, travel and social media – and showing her diabetes who's boss.


War on poverty has failed; why not try these ideas instead?
Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson first declared it, the American war on poverty seems to be dominated by two extremes.
On one side are those who see the war as a success because public spending has led to the poor having relatively decent living conditions. What we need, they would say, is much more federal spending.
Which, even if it were a good idea (it's not), wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in an ISIS compound of getting through Congress.
On the other side is the private sector, which has set up a thriving payday lending industry that is quick to tout its ability to loan poor people just enough to make it to their next meager paycheck. If they can't repay the loan at interest rates of 500 percent or more, they can always borrow more.
Surely, there must be a third way.
We're living life in the breach these days, as in the Home Depot credit card breach, the Target breach and the Neiman Marcus breach, etc.
Of course, this is usually followed by a bit of self-conscious laughter. I mean, everyone knows that's impossible, right? Who carries cash these days?
Well, Millennials do, apparently, and it eventually could screw up the entire economy.
Think you have young people figured out? Let's take a test. What percentage of Millennials, the roughly 18-29 age category, would you guess does not own a credit card?
Anheuser-Busch, one of the NFL's most lucrative sponsors, couldn't tsk-tsk enough this week, issuing a statement saying it was "increasingly concerned" with the way the league is treating domestic violence.
It was enough to make you forget that what the company peddles is often at least a factor in crimes, domestic or otherwise, misty-eyed tributes to heroes, majestic horses and cute puppy dogs notwithstanding.
It was enough to make you forget about recent studies that accuse the beer and alcohol industries of directing advertising to teenagers.
It also was enough to put you in awe of the power of marketing.
Twitter can occasionally come up with pearls of wisdom, leading to hope for the thesis that a building full of monkeys at typewriters might at some point produce Shakespeare.
A lot of us apparently feel as if we woke up recently with Cheese Whiz coming out of our noses.
We've heard a lot lately about the unfairness of the nation's corporate tax structure. Burger King's talk of merging with Canada's Tim Horton, part of a strategy to move the burger corporation away from high taxes in the United States, initiated some of that discussion.
If millions of customers were robbed at gunpoint every time they entered a particular store, people would stay away. Even if a place got a reputation as a hangout for pickpockets, it wouldn't last long.
But today we have the equivalent of a situation in which thieves secretly gain the ability to steal from customers who enter a business, then decide much later which ones will become victims. Somehow, the economy keeps moving, but it's getting scary out there.
I can think of only a few jobs in this world I wouldn't want under any circumstances. Doing public relations for the tobacco industry is one. Being Kim Jong-Un's barber? No thanks, although whoever does it now could use some help.
And while I love health care workers, blood makes me squeamish.
But high on the list also is the job of United States Postmaster General. There is a lot of bleeding involved with that one, too.
The raid could have gone so wrong.
When a Bluffdale man, who has asked to remain anonymous, figured out that someone had pulled a prank on his video-game-playing wife by summoning a SWAT team to their home, he decided to come outside with his hands up, hoping to explain everything.
Freeze that image in your mind, then put yourself in the shoes of the officers in full protective gear, guns drawn. The call was from someone claiming to have killed his mother and to be holding others hostage.


We enjoyed sunset on the sea from Sapphire Apt. balcony. Excellent apt.
We had excellent vacation in St. Lucia with beautiful beaches and breat- taking mountains. We enjoyed sunset on the sea from Sapphire Apt. balcony. Excellent apt. with everything you need in the kitchen. Very comfortable A.C and T.V and internet work perfect.
Janus is a perfect host, he and his team made us feel at home.


…And in that home, as she paces its many rooms, filling them with this and that, rearranging the furniture willy nilly, throwing the occasional dance party, losing the vacuum and forgetting to do laundry on a regular basis, investigating what she's lost under piles of dust and junk left behind by others, she will somehow stumble into the hiding place of that one need even greater than a home of her own—a voice of her own.
Over the weekend I came up with the perfect plan for getting some exercise into my life. Three days/week I'm up at 5-5:30 so I can pray and journal before I head to my standing breakfast meetings. So I figured it would be easy peasy to get up at the same time on the days I don't have meetings and use the extra time to exercise. The alarm went off at 5:30 and I promptly turned it off and set the timer on my phone so I could have 30 minutes more sleep. At 6:00 I set the timer for another 30 minutes. There's a possibility that there was yet another 30-minute reset but I can't quite remember. What do know is that when I finally got out of bed I had left myself no time to exercise and barely enough time to journal before I had to shower and get ready for my day.
As I was thinking about how I could get myself out of bed to go write poetry with a friend two days but couldn't get up to exercise, I thought, "It's because you're lazy." Which I'm not. And I realized as I started to think more about it that "It's because you're lazy" was my short-cut, easy answer. Tagging myself with a this-explains-everything adjective was an elegant way of short-circuiting any deep thinking about my resistance to exercise.
I'm absolutely positively not a morning person. And the fact that I can get out of bed to pray for at least 30 minutes and then journal for at least 30 minutes before getting in the shower is a major miracle. So I think trying to add another 30-60 minutes to that prep time was overburdening the self-talk system I have in place to get me out of bed so I could do the first two.
And while that partially explains my reluctance to answer, if I make myself push deeper, there's actually something else at play. I've been there, done that. I've successfully lost weight by watching my food intake and exercising so many times and ended right back in the same overweight place so many times that I've run out of ways to make myself believe this time will turn out any differently. There is the possibility I will finally figure out how to maintain a healthier weight and exercise regimen this time, but when it comes probability—to borrow from a popular movie franchise—the odds are so not in my favor. It's not just a physical effort to get myself out of bed in the morning to exercise, it's an emotional one of the Sisyphean variety.
But is not actually the moral of this particular story. I'm actually more interested in the names I call myself—lazy, spoiled, selfish—so I can get out of drilling down to the scary subterranean parts of myself where my motivation for doing or not doing X, Y, or Z actually lurks. It's easier and vastly more comfortable to fall back on even the most unflattering characterizations of myself rather than have to deep dive into the ish that's really going on. It's easier to believe and reinforce the stories I've always told myself at the point of failure than it is to try and understand the reasons for that failure cause one reason begets another reason which begets another reason until I'm excavating a whole effing cavern of neurosis or grief or fear or whatever that I've never explore before. I know you're expecting a rah rah ending, but come on, that ish gets old. This would probably be a good point to remember that practice what you preach is not a bad goal to work toward. Sigh.
…Have I compared myself to others or tried to "keep up with Joneses" today? Have I given myself a moment just to daydream? Have I had a moment of gratitude for all that I have? Have I stopped contemplating all that I lack for at least a little while? Have I truly, madly, deeply lived today?
And one more question: have I really seen myself today? If you asked me what I looked like as a girl, I would say I was always fat. But if you look at pictures of me from that time, I'm not waifish, but I'm still fairly slender. Narrow shoulders, small breasts, a tiny waist, flat stomach, and hips that flare more like eggplants than the watermelons I lug around these days. In other words, I was somewhat curvy but I was far from fat. But I'd been made to feel ugly often enough by my parents during those days, and in those days once I hit junior year of college and really did start to gain weight, that the story I tell myself is that I was always fat, always the ugly sister.
I wonder what effect it would have had on my issues with overeating and body image and self-esteem if I'd had a clear picture of myself to begin with. Or if the narrative I was told about myself focused more on my strengths–intelligence, humor, leadership skill, ability to work on a team, empathy–than on the things I wasn't so good at, or that I had to work a little harder at.
We all carry around a narrative about ourselves. Some of it we make ourselves but a great deal of the story we tell about ourselves has been–consciously and unconsciously, explicitly and implicitly–told to us by other people. In the ideal situation, the distance between what we tell ourselves about ourselves and what other people tell us about ourselves is minimal. (Let's face it: we can't be purely objective about ourselves, and possibly we can't be purely objective about others either.) But in a case like mine that distance is Grand Canyon-sized. I've learned to get a truer picture of myself by, despite what Public Enemy says, learning to believe my hype.
But I still need to check in. To look around the actual evidence of my life and see what it reveals about who I am. True, it reveals that I'm a lousy housekeeper, but if I look at what I've accomplished in my 9-5 and with my poetry, and if I look at the quality of the people in my life and the quality of sustained relationships I have, it affirms that every time that old narrative starts running in my head–I'm lazy, not worthy of love, not good enough, voiceless, blah blah blah–I've got exactly the proof I need to shut it down. I just need to remember to ask the question before I get too far down the rabbit hole of that old story.
1. Maybe I'm going about it all wrong. Maybe I should be trying to live fully in the curves and lumps, folds and flab of this body. What if I should stop trying to be less than? What if it is this fullness of flesh that makes the rest–intelligence, humor, compassion, kindness–possible?
2. Which part of me is the part you can't possibly love? Or like? Or whisper your desire to? What part of me should I cut off to be the right shape and size for you to love?
3. No one loves a person's thinness, do they?
4. They say the average size of the American woman is a size 14. I have always read that statistic as if I should be that woman. It's impossible to believe that I'm not just any woman. This body right now is my average. The body I inevitably shape-shift back to. It is the thin me that is not average, that is abnormal.
5. No one doesn't love a person because of their fatness, do they?
6. Yesterday I probably weighed 230 pounds. Yesterday I walked down the street and felt beautiful. You might say you don't believe either is true. Which statement is it worse for you to not believe?
7. Fat and failure are assonant. Fat and failure are not synonymous. Fat and failure are relative. I need to claim my meaning not yours.
8. It is possible that I fear not what you think of my ownership of this body but what might happen if I truly owned this body? If I poked and prodded and probed it for what it could do. If I could no longer pretend this body means the same thing as impossible.
9. Is my body smarter than I am? Is it impossible for me to be thin outside because I'm not thin inside? I mean because I'm fecund. Because I'm always in bloom. Is this fat the only way my body knows to show me who I truly am?


Bryant Park will soon have a stylish new neighbor, as Equinox Bryant Park is poised to open this spring. For 20 years, Equinox has presented exquisite health clubs that promote fitness and well-being. Now those who work or live near Bryant Park can join their own neighborhood branch.
The main tenant of the The CUBES, Equinox occupies 30,000 sq. ft. of space on three levels. There will be four studios (strength and cardio, cycling, Pilates, and yoga), a spa, a creative juice bar, and The Shop. Located at the junction of office towers housing major corporate, entertainment, and fashion companies, the new club is tailored for professionals seeking excellent service, innovative fitness programming, and restorative wellness treatments.
Just walking into Equinox will be an experience, as the glass cube acts as a lantern for the neighborhood, and a dramatic central stairway connects the three floors canvassed with concrete, bronze, and walnut details. The street-level entrance offers views of bustling 42nd Street and also of Bryant Park, and as you descend into the club you'll be transported into a completely different environment.
Equity Office, which owns the gleaming MetLife Building at 1095 Avenue of the Americas, built the The CUBES glass retail boxes to complete a suite of properties which also includes a pedestrian plaza. The glass boxes transverse the block from 42nd to 41st Street, making the address of Bryant Park Equinox 125 W. 41st Street.
The Membership Office, located on the ground floor at 1095 Avenue of the Americas, is now open and if you act soon, you can take advantage of special introductory rates. Visit in person, call 212-299-0562, or click here for complete information.
Through this long and cold winter, poetry fans have been warmed by the free Word for Word Winter Poetry Series. Sessions are held indoors at Kinokuniya Bookstore, located at 1073 Avenue of the Americas.
Stock up now on $5 adult t-shirts from Bryant Park Shop, for a limited-time only.
Looking back on a successful winter season that included skating, shopping, and dining.
Fashion forward footwear designer increases stake on 34th Street.


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Pre-royal wedding hotel named best place for afternoon tea
April 10, 2013 - 12:04 BST hellomagazine.com The Goring Hotel, where Kate Middleton stayed the night before her wedding to Prince William, has been named the best place in London to enjoy afternoon tea
The Goring Hotel first came to the world's attention when Kate Middleton checked in ahead of her wedding to Prince William in 2011, accompanied by the rest of the Middleton family.
And now the family-owned establishment in esteemed Belgravia, which boasts 69 luxurious bedrooms, has been named the best place to have afternoon tea in London. The accolade was awarded by the Tea Guild and presented on Tuesday.
The Goring, which offers one of the few al fresco afternoon teas in the capital, so impressed the award's judges that it achieved a near perfect score. The hotel was praised for its 'excellent selection' of teas which accompany delicate finger sandwiches, traditional scones and hand-crafted patisseries.
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Its quintessentially English entrance was seen by an estimated two billion when we got the first glimpse of Kate's breathtaking wedding dress as she emerged from the hotel. Kate stepped down the marble steps to a waiting car, on her way to become the Duchess of Cambridge in the magnificent royal wedding on 29 April, 2011.
Since then the five star hotel has gone from strength to strength. In January of this year it received the royal seal of approval, having been sent a 'Royal Warrant of appointment to HM The Queen for Hospitality Services', and has now got the cherry on top with the Tea Guild award.
Head of The Tea Guild Irene Gorman described afternoon tea at the Goring hotel as a truly special experience. "The elegant surroundings and faultless presentation make it a memorable occasion aided by friendly, efficient and knowledgeable staff. It is easy to understand why this leading establishment attracts so many, of all ages, to take afternoon tea."
The hotel's 'elegant surroundings', along with its prime location just a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace, would have been contributing factors to the choice of residence ahead of Kate's wedding.
The Duchess of Cambridge is believed to have stayed in the Royal Suite on the top floor on her last night as a single lady. With spectacular city views, the suite boasts two bedrooms and bathrooms, plus a dining and sitting room. The top-floor spot would have made for a real royal setting for Kate, her mum Carole and younger sister and bridesmaid Pippa.
Since its doors opened The Goring has sought to offer only the finest. Built in 1910 by present owner Jeremy Goring's great grandfather, it was the world's first hotel with en suite facilities and central heating in every bedroom.
Suites, such as Kate's, include luxuries like a dark-wood four-poster bed with a pop-up television at the end. A truly exquisite blend of homeliness and luxurious grandeur is evoked by the antique furniture, silk finish, china, glass and silver that adorn the rooms.
Royal guests had enjoyed the hotel's services long before William and Kate's wedding. During the Queen's Coronation, the hotel was used as another wing of the Palace, taking in royal guests from around the world. The Queen Mother was also a regular at The Goring and it was the location for her last public appearance.
Traditional afternoon tea at The Goring costs £37.50 per person
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Top pick: incredible swimming pools with spectacular vistas
George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin honeymoon in same Seychelles resort chosen by William and Kate


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Actually, I don't even need to ask. According to Mr de Ropp nearly all of us are playing a game outwith the Master Game.
But in the process that leaves gaping hole in our lives, which lives under the rubric, Who am I? or some such variation. It's more than a question though: it's a sense always that something's missing, be that inner peace, bliss-consciousness or a deeper, soul-felt meaning.
I know you'll think this message repetitive — it's as much for me as is for you poor reader — but it would be more than remiss of me to abandon a topic simply because: (a) very few people seem interested in the subject (liberation et. al.); or (b) the code is nearly impossible to crack.
Let me take things back a bit — to the beginning. If you're anything like me, you were conditioned to believe that life was meant to be lived out according to a set a rules that were predicated almost exclusively on the capitalist model. It's even more basic than this; namely, we're still living according to the rules of the Industrial Revolution where most people go to work for a Boss (a gatekeeper by any other name…!), work hard for a meagre return (and I don't mean in purely economic terms but the way we develop as human beings) and die without ever finding out who we are — work, the cold uneventful type synonymous with the Industrial Revolution, sees to that.
Of course, the capitalist model does provide a return which abets material wealth which abets episodic happiness which abets putting off asking difficult, life-affirming questions, and that's fine for most people providing they can keep with the programme. But, in case you hadn't noticed, we've now experienced a low growth economy for six or more years, we're nearing or have reached peak stuff and the world's ecosystem is falling apart, meaning, unless we're stupid, that even with great gobs of money to continue with our pursuit of the dream life, we won't be able to enjoy it without a planet to support and sustain the billions of people that inhabit it.
I know, I know, it's all very depressing, and let's face it neither you nor me nor a few million(?) activists are going to make a big or any difference when the Hog in Trough game (see again the Master Game by Mr de Ropp for a proper explanation of this) is being played so ardently by so many people.
Possibly, but if we're willing to invest at least some of energies in the Master Game, it may well be that we understand the interconnectedness of all and everything and in the process not only will we carve out more time for liberation (or some such variant, i.e. being the best version of you) but we'll see in the process that we need everyone and everything to sustain us, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Yes it seems hard to conceive right now — soul work is rarely easy — but even if the apogee of life was a multitude of self-realised humans, it wouldn't be much good without a planet to support us all.
Stop putting off the question Who am I? — one thing I can tell you, and thank you to the Three Principles for again shining a light on this: thought is not reality; but your thoughts make your reality (see the work of Sydney Banks).


A new episode of A Mind For Fitness Podcast is now up. In this episode I talk to Christian Evens about how he lost 187 pounds in just 10 months! Also we talk about why its ok and to take vanity pictures and why the scale can be your friend!


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Jean Miele
The Vintage Series: Scientific Inquiries
Jean Miele likes to explore the borderlands between fiction and reality. His personal interest in perception, spirituality and mysticism have inspired and informed his artwork since the mid-1980s. Drawing on 19th & 20th century ideals and employing both modern and ancient techniques, Miele strives to create strong, quiet photographs, intended to remind us that moments of perfection are possible – in photography, and in our lives.
Miele's work has appeared in thousands of publications, including recent articles in "Fotografi," Norway's premiere photo magazine, and "Spot," the Houston Center for Photography's journal. His prints have been exhibited internationally and acquired by collectors worldwide. Solo shows include "The Vintage Series: Scientific Inquiries;" "Classical Landscape Photography and the Digital Darkroom"; "Seeing Is Believing"; and "Vestiges of Industry."
Based in New York City, Miele's work encompasses exhibitions, commissioned work for clients, and a busy teaching schedule of workshops and seminars that demystify digital technique and empower students to realize their own photographic vision.
"The Vintage Series: Scientific Inquiries" is a portfolio of photomontages relating to the history of science, mysticism, theology, cartography, cosmology and photography. The work explores the idea that these are intertwined disciplines, and all arise from the fundamental human need to ask: "Who are we, and what is our place in the universe?"
To that end, the deliberately small scale of these images, deceptively ambiguous navigational aids, and barely legible text reflect the way answers to the questions that are most important to us are always just slightly beyond our grasp. No matter how advanced the methods or technology we bring to bear, "facts," scientific and otherwise, inevitably change over time. Ironically, counterintuitively, the seeming outward precision of these images hides an underlying, and perhaps greater, exploratory – or divinational – function. Defining the seen, the known, the possible, implies a line of demarcation. By delineating terra firma, we provide access to terra incognita.
The ICELAND work:
I had always heard Iceland was the land of Fire and Ice. What took me by surprise was the wind – and the waves. The south wind and the ocean both travel for more than 4000 miles uninterrupted between Antarctica and the southern coast of Iceland. They make landfall with breathtaking, almost ferocious intensity in and around the little town of Vik i Mýrdal. At 6°.25N 19°1'W, Vik is very nearly Iceland's southernmost point. Windswept and starkly beautiful, southern Iceland is steeped in history and inhabited by Spirits of Place. It's special. Iceland made me feel calm, and connected to All There Is. I spent a few unforgettable days there in May 2009, early spring, visiting the home of giants, where the elemental forces that shape the world live.
About the Process
Each hand-embossed digital photomontage in this series melds my own photographs with historical artifacts: ancient manuscripts, maps, star charts, ships' logs, NASA photographs, and 19th century glass plates. This work explores the question of who we are, historically, spiritually, and perceptually: Do we create our own reality? Does magic exist? Is "truth" a matter of perception?
The processes used to make this work are a form of photographic alchemy: the fusion of wet-plate collodion edges with digital photographs, backed with a 19th-century-style studio stamp is a loving embrace of our photographic heritage in its entirety – and "combination printing," as Henry Peach Robinson called it in the 1850s, surmounts all limitations of time and place, and provides an elegant means by which to transform the world.


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'Zombieland: Dumbbell Tap' is as Brain Dead as the Flesh Eating Ghouls on the Screen
Movie Review: Zombieland: Double Tap Click play above to listen to the review. R | 1h 39min Director: Ruben Fleischer Stars: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone by Jason Koenigsberg Ten years […]
Movie Review: Zombieland: Double Tap
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Director: Ruben Fleischer
Stars: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone
Ten years ago Zombieland (2009) premiered and was a breath of fresh air. A smart, self-aware comedy in a horror sub-genre that had been very popular that decade. It did not add much to the genre other than being a zombie movie where almost nobody dies. Even in the lighthearted zombie flicks, they rack up a huge body count and some of the main characters do not survive at the end. Now ten years later a sequel has been made that is hollow, unnecessary and lacks the social commentary and metaphysical bite of the previous film. The best aspect of Zombieland: Double Tap is that you can tell the cast and crew really like working together. It was probably done as an excuse for them to all hang out again while getting paid for it, something that Seth Rogen and his pals all have made a living out of. The content is actually beneath all the principle actors. Since the Zombieland Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg have gone on to see their star power grow and earned Oscar nominations and Emma Stone has become a huge star and even won a Best Actress Oscar for La La Land (2016). Only Oscar nominated actress and former child star Abigail Breslin is less bankable now than she was ten years ago. This may have been done as a favor for director Ruben Fleischer but this is the fourth time that Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg have worked together and beyond those two, you can see the camaraderie on the screen between everyone. If only they picked a sharper script to all collaborate on, something that challenged them as actors and not something they could sleepwalk through.
Zombieland: Double Tap does get off to a promising start by having some fun with the Columbia Pictures logo but then the first shot of a cold, snowy building from overheard is accompanied by some lazy and obnoxious Jesse Eisenberg narration thanking the audience for selecting this movie as their choice of zombie entertainment. From there, Zombieland: Double Tap just gets progressively more uninspired with each scene. They use a Metallica song early over the opening credits just like the first film did. The plot is almost a Xerox of the 2009 film with the girls fleeing and the guys want to find them. Zombieland: Double Tap is practically the same as the previous film but where that one felt fresh and unique, this one is stale and borderline rotten in some parts. It keeps referencing the first movie and repeats a lot of the same jokes, this time it is just dull and painfully unfunny.
New addition Zoey Deutch is fun when she first appears but then overdoes it with her blonde bimbo part. The blame for that should be placed on the director more than the actress for not realizing how annoying she actually is. It is doubtful that anyone could have made a good movie out of this unoriginal screenplay. The convenient writing allows everyone to be paired up with a significant other and it relies on lame jokes about geography and rules that did not even get a chuckle from the full audience at the screening I saw. People do die in Zombieland: Double Tap, whereas only Bill Murray (who does make a cameo) died in the first one. But the deaths here are primarily inconsequential and serve as plot devices for certain characters to end up romantically linked by the end. Despite all of the gore and killing on display Zombieland: Double Tap is a harmless and unoffensive endeavor that can be enjoyed by hardcore fans of Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and that is about all it has going for it.
Skip Zombieland: Double Tap and just watch the first one. Some films are fine with unnecessary sequels that serve no purpose other than a cash grab and excuse for rich people to get paid for hanging out with each other.
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Villa Roar News April 20, 2019 April 20, 2019 1 Minute
DEAN SMITH paid tribute to his history-making team after their ninth successive league win.
Villa's 2-0 victory at Bolton equalled a record that has stood since 1910 – and another win on Monday against Millwall would give them the all-time best.
That would see the record books rewritten. But in among all of this is the fact that Villa have come from nowhere to put together a run which is effectively promotion form at just the right stage of the season.
It can still go wrong for Villa of course and Smith knows that all too well.
But for now, there are few signs of the promotion bandwagon grinding to a halt.
Smith knows records are not enough when it comes to climbing back into the Premier League.
But he took time to savour the moment after Villa's landmark win.
Smith told the club's official website: "I'm incredibly proud for the players. They're in the history books now.
"I said on Wednesday at the press conference that our ultimate ambition is to get into the Play-Offs and get promoted. That has to be the overriding factor.
"But the lads have got themselves a record. We have a tough game against Millwall now where we have to try and break the record.
"It'll be great to go and do that.
"But credit to the players. The way they're playing, they're full of endeavour, energy and they look like they trust each other to go out and put a performance in for each other."
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I posted earlier today a mind-map of a few verses from Deuteronomy but before that my last CPx specific post was on the great commission, as seen in Matthew's Gospel.
From it, we learned that our mandate is to go forth, making disciples of every nation, baptizing them in the name of the trinity and teaching them to obey all of God's commandments. This brings up an important topic of conversation: that of transformation.
Social justice is a hot topic right now. There are folks in the states disparaging the idea at every opportunity that they can. Their are others that make Jesus and the Bible solely about it (a social gospel that removes the sting of evil and the need of a savior). Both are quite wrong — Justice (I'm stepping back now because I think the "social" piece is an unnecessary adjective) is quite important to the heart of God — we see that in God's design of His society, in the words He speaks through the prophets, and in the action and ministry of Jesus but it's not the main thing. If we take Jesus' Words seriously we see that discipling nations is the main thing.
And it's quite profound to look at discipleship and it's possible results. At its initiation, repentance is sought out. This is an active re-orienting of one's life around the ethic of the Kingdom of God by renouncing and walking away from work sown in the kingdom of the world. This, specifically through the conviction and work of the Holy Spirit now present in their life, leads to a regeneration of the inner man (which should produce change in the outer man) and a character that looks much more like Jesus and less like the world. This reformation leads to the renewal of hearts and minds — they are shaped specifically by God — and the end result is a transformation that has changed everything.
This is the idea at least. Through all of this, though, we must act justly, as Jesus did — we heal the sick, we comfort the broken hearted, we clothe the naked, we proclaim and seek release for the captive, we announce jubilee, and teach those around us to do the same — and ultimately place our hope in the transformative power of the Gospel to completely change communities. We see it happen throughout Acts (The end of Acts 2 speaks powerfully to me regarding this) and we see glimpses of it happening in the communities we work in. We should never underestimate the power of the Gospel to radically transform communities united for it. And perhaps its a bonus but as Micah says, hearts radically transformed by God will be oriented around justice and mercy.


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How Alliance's Stephen Farry won North Down
The deputy leader of Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance party succeeds independent unionist Sylvia Hermon.
By Ailbhe Rea
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"If Sylvia was running, she would've romped this street," laughed Stephen Farry, the deputy leader of Northern Ireland's cross-community Alliance party, as he knocked on doors on a residential street in Bangor on a cold December evening . "She's doing better than I am tonight," he joked.
That was several weeks ago. The Sylvia in question is Lady Hermon, the highly regarded and much-liked former independent unionist MP for North Down. Farry, as of last night, is her successor. He is only the second Alliance politician to be elected to Westminster in the party's 49-year history.
When Hermon announced her surprise retirement in November, she left a key electoral battleground wide open. Since 2010 she had served as an independent MP for the constituency, after resigning from the UUP in protest at the party's alliance with the Conservatives. As an independent unionist, she was pro-Remain, pro-backstop, progressive and pro-union. She was a lone Northern Irish Remainer voice in the 2017 parliament, alongside the ten DUP MPs in the House of Commons. The seat became very much hers, with no neat party associations: it was "Lady Sylvia's seat", as I heard time and again on my visit, while voters described themselves as "Sylvia voters" or "Lady Hermon supporters".
"I would hope that we would take the largest share of Sylvia's vote," Farry told me of those 16,000 former Hermon voters who were looking for a new electoral home. "Even though she was a unionist, and we're not a unionist party, as such, we are representing similar values in terms of being pro-European, pro-Good Friday Agreement, inclusive, progressive. A lot of our voters in previous general elections would have tactically voted for her."
This assessment would prove entirely correct. From the outset, this was understood to be a battle between Alliance and the DUP, which came just over 1,200 votes behind Hermon in 2017. The DUP candidate, Alex Easton, hoped to maintain his 15,000 votes while the Hermon vote split between Alliance, the moderate unionist UUP and the Northern Irish Conservatives.
It wasn't always clear how that Hermon vote would split. There is a saying in Northern Ireland that North Down, on the coast less than half an hour's drive from Belfast, is divided between "the yachts and the have-yachts". It is made up largely of seaside towns, and has come to be defined by the many large houses with sea views that hug its coastline (Van Morrison owns one). Indeed, when knocking on doors with the local Northern Irish Conservative candidate, "I'll see you down at the [yacht] club on Sunday," was a common refrain.
North Down is affluent, and decidedly unionist: nationalist parties typically take less than 2 per cent of the vote here. (The SDLP, Greens and Sinn Fein stood aside for Farry here as the only pro-Remain candidate, although their share of the votes in North Down was small.) But the area also has pockets of deprivation and, lurking beneath the surface, a loyalist paramilitary presence. As with most paramilitary activity in Northern Ireland, this amounts to straightforward criminal gangs trading in illegal drugs and using violence to control their markets, under the label of loyalism or republicanism: in North Down it is the UDA. It is against this backdrop of yachts, big houses, firm unionism and the distant menace of loyalist paramilitaries that the cross-community Alliance candidate triumphed.
Farry's framing of the race was simple. "Here in North Down this will be a well-framed Remain vs Leave choice, in that I'm the strongest Remain option and the DUP represent Leave," he told me. The seat voted to Remain, and that was Farry's obvious point of overlap with Hermon. But in a strongly unionist seat like North Down, the obvious point of difference with Hermon looked as if it might stand in Farry's way.
Against the backdrop of a perceived threat to the union due to the checks between GB and NI that would result from Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, voters in North Down were told by the UUP, NI Conservatives and DUP to back a candidate who would stand up for the union, arguing that that candidate couldn't be Farry. "Stephen Farry claims Sylvia Hermon has been a strong voice for Remain in the House of Commons," wrote the local UUP candidate, Alan Chambers, on Twitter during the campaign. "She was, but more important for the unionist voters in North Down (81 per cent in last Westminster election), Sylvia always spoke up for the Union." The DUP, meanwhile, made the case that it was simply the strongest unionist option in North Down with an already sizeable presence in Westminster.
On doorsteps, some voters were open about the discomfort of voting for a non-unionist candidate. (Alliance is neither unionist or nationalist, but aims to assert people's right to identify as "neither".) "I've never voted Alliance before," one said with a pained expression. "My sister says I would let the side down by voting Alliance," said another. One woman, speaking to the Conservative candidate, confessed she thought it just wouldn't be right to elect a non-unionist for North Down.
On the doorsteps, too, it was difficult to tell how Farry was doing. A jolly man with a soft touch when chatting with voters, he was reliably received with a warm smile of recognition (he is a regular guest on BBC NI political programmes) as he nimbly informed people he hoped to be the best person to step into Hermon's shoes, "even though her shoes would never quite fit!"
Certainly, many former Hermon voters told him that he would have their vote, and an even bigger number seemed open to the idea, but many more said they would need to "have a sit down with the leaflets". An even larger portion of those he canvassed smiled politely but kept their voting intention entirely private: North Down is a popular part of Northern Ireland for ex-police officers to retire in privacy and anonymity.
Even by Farry's own admission, Brexit was not the key issue coming up on doorsteps, nor the DUP's record in Westminster, or Boris Johnson's Brexit deal. Rather, it was the combined frustration with the local assembly deadlock (Stormont has been suspended since January 2017) and the crisis in the local NHS. The potential harm of Brexit is still "abstract" to many people, he said while canvassing that night, but the breakdown in the health service is already happening.
That day saw the first of the current strikes, which are ongoing, by Northern Ireland's nurses as they press for pay parity with healthcare staff in the rest of the UK and a resolution to what they describe as "unsafe" staffing levels in Northern Irish hospitals. This came up on almost every doorstep: frustration at the Stormont deadlock, sympathy with the nurses and worry about cancelled operations. In July, the Nuffield Trust found that one in every 16 patients in Northern Ireland remains on a waiting list for a year or more, and in November more than 300,000 people were waiting for consultant appointments. Farry mainly just listened to voters' concerns about the health service, and agreed.
None of the parties here had planned their election strategy around the NHS, however. The health service is a devolved matter and the crisis largely a function of the lack of leadership from a dormant Stormont. But on the doorsteps, voters were unanimous in their frustration and the need for a functioning executive. While they tended not to say who they blamed for the deadlock, Farry's opinion was that voters see it as the fault of the DUP and Sinn Fein. The local NHS crisis therefore created a strange phenomenon in that while it was clearly very important, there was no clear indicator of how it would shape the end result. It still isn't clear whether Farry's victory was caused by or increased by the issue.
When I met with Farry's rival, the DUP's Alex Easton, I had a sense that the odds might not fall in Farry's favour. Easton informed me he had been out canvassing since the day the election was called (Alliance waited until Hermon announced her retirement) and had knocked on 28,000 doors: almost every home in the constituency, almost unheard of during a campaign. When we met during my visit, Easton brought with him a DUP colleague, a local councillor, Wesley Irvine. His face was familiar, I realised: it appeared in papers across the UK when, in 2017, he was accused of having attended a UDA meeting in North Down and of circulating DUP election material there. (He has always insisted the event was a "flute band meeting".) Easton was also criticised in 2016 for writing a letter of recommendation for an alleged UDA commander to take on a post at a charity, describing him as "outstanding". When we met, Easton emphasised that he just liked helping people out. He was the one who sorted out issues on the estates, who knew the local community, he said.
In the end, however, the voters of North Down broke in favour of Farry, electing him with 18,358 to the DUP's 15,390. In Sylvia Hermon, the voters of North Down had a progressive, pro-Remain, unionist MP. In electing Farry they have shown that her unionism was not the priority for these voters, and that the progressive and pro-Remain elements were more influential than anyone expected.
Ailbhe Rea is political correspondent at the New Statesman.
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Q: Relation between Strong Forces and Binding Energy The definition of Strong Force is the force that binds the quarks into the protons and neutrons, and spills over around each proton and neutron and is an attractive one.
And Binding Energy is the energy that must be put into a nucleus in order to break it apart. or the energy given out when a nucleus forms from nucleons.
If some mass of nucleons converted to energy when nucleus is formed to hold the nucleons. and the Strong Force is the force that binds the quarks into the protons and neutrons.
CAN WE RELATE THESE TO concept TOGETHER?

A: You are confusing the nuclear force
  with the strong force in the fundamental forces of elementary particles, one of the four fundamental forces of nature.
When the quarks got bound into the protons and neutrons the strong force was not completely neutralized, there are spill over forces which are still attractive

The nuclear forceis a residual effect of the more fundamental strong force, or strong interaction. The strong interaction is the attractive force that binds the elementary particles called quarks together to form the nucleons (protons and neutrons) themselves. This more powerful force is mediated by particles called gluons. Gluons hold quarks together with a force like that of electric charge, but of far greater strength. Quarks, gluons and their dynamics are mostly confined within nucleons, but residual influences extend slightly beyond nucleon boundaries to give rise to the nuclear force.

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Sometimes, the nuclear force is called the residual strong force, in contrast to the strong interactions which arise from QCD. This phrasing arose during the 1970s when QCD was being established. Before that time, the strong nuclear force referred to the inter-nucleon potential. After the verification of the quark model, strong interaction has come to mean QCD.

When a nucleus is formed, it is formed because of the attractive spill over forces and some energy is lost( the binding energy) either in photons or in alpha or beta decays before stability is reached .


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La principauté épiscopale de Bressanone (en ) ou l'évêché de Brixen (en ) fut un État du Saint-Empire romain germanique. Les princes-évêques, qui relevaient du ducs de Bavière, obtinrent l'immédiateté impériale comme seigneurs temporels de la principauté épiscopale (Hochstift) vers l'an 1027. Leur siège était la cathédrale de Bressanone (Brixen) dans la vallée de l'Isarco de l'actuel Tyrol du Sud.

Cet État a existé pendant presque , jusqu'au Recès d'Empire en 1803. Les frontières de la principauté, le Hochstift, et du diocèse de Brixen, fondé au  à Säben, ne coïncidaient pas.

Histoire

Le siège épiscopal de Säben près de Klausen (Chiusa) existait jusqu'à environ l'année 960; il faisait partie du premier duché de Bavière et était suffragant de l'archidiocèse de Salzbourg. Le , le roi Louis IV de Germanie fit don du domaine de Prichsna, étant propriété de sa mère Oda, à l'évêque Zacharie. Ce manoir, devenu Brixen, deviendra le siège de l'évêché.

Les évêques avaient pu en 1004 déjà s'assurer d'importants droits du comtes dans la vallée de l'Isarco (Velthurns) et dans le val Pusteria (Bruneck), conférés par le roi Henri II. C'est en l'an 1027 que naît la principauté épiscopale : c'est à cette date que Conrad II le Salique sépare des territoires du duché de Bavière pour les donner à l'évêque Hartwig de Brixen. En cadre de leur politique italienne, les souverains du Saint-Empire ont s'assurés ainsi un sauf-conduit à travers les Alpes. En 1179, l'évêché acquit le droit d'émettre sa monnaie ainsi que le droit de péage par l'empereur Frédéric Barberousse.

Les évêques faisaient partie du collège des princes ecclésiastiques à la Diète d'Empire. Toutefois, Brixen était une petite seigneurie qui a été mis sous une pression de plus en plus forte de la part des comtes de Tyrol voisins. Lors de la diète à Cologne en 1512, la principauté épiscopale rejoint le Cercle d'Autriche. Le Recès d'Empire de 1803 mit un terme au pouvoir temporel. Après le Congrès de Vienne en 1815, le territoire échut au comté princier de Tyrol, a ce temps un pays de l'empire d'Autriche.

Notes et références

Article connexe
 Liste des anciens États italiens

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Histoire du Trentin-Haut-Adige
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The last major brewer in Brazil with mainly brazilian investors, comments on rumors to become the next target of international brewing group eyeing the growing brazilian beer market. The group produces brands like "Crystal", "Itaipava", "Local" mainly in the federal states of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and the sales reach out to the south east and midwest of the country. According to the director of marketing and market relations of Petropolis, Douglas Costa, the company has no interest in being the next takeover target." "The group's president, Walter Faria, not thinking of selling or merging now," says Costa. He explains the strategic goal to be a national supplier of beer, to be reached by 2018. "The goal is to become national."
"We are starting the distribution of our brands in Manaus this month," said the executive, which is already present in the North in Acre and Rondonia. In the Northeast, a region that is among the priorities of AmBev and Schincariol, Petropolis keeps a distributor in Bahia, but with lackluster volume. "Certainly, our next factory will open in the Northeast," said Costa, without setting dates.
According to the executive, it would be necessary to add at least another five to the current four factories for the company to reach a national presence. Today the group works with 130 distributors in the country, reaching about 400 000 outlets, which secure a market share of 10.1% of the Brazilian beer market.
Petropolis ranks third among the brazilian beer producers, following absolute leader Ambev (ABInbev) and Schincariol (currently being taken over by Kirin). Petropolis remains ahead of Heineken Brazil, who owns the Kaiser brand.
Since the consumption in the United States and Europe is declining or stagnant, it is expected that Petr?polis call even more attention going forward.


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Vet's Intricate Op to Remove Air Gun Pellet From Stricken Jack Russell
A Parson Russell's four months of inactivity and sleepiness was finally explained when expert West Midlands vets discovered the beloved pet had been shot.
Three-year-old Hunter was examined here at West Midlands Referrals (WMR), where X-rays taken revealed the dog had been hit by two air gun pellets, one of which was lodged dangerously close to his spine.
WMR veterinary surgeon Stuart Brown took charge of the case and performed intricate surgery to remove the pellet and ensure there was no permanent damage to the injured pet.
Stuart explained: "Hunter was referred to us after he had become reluctant to move over a three to four-month period. He was inclined to sleep a lot, refused to walk and had completely lost his mojo.
"Radiographs were obtained with Hunter under general anaesthesia which revealed two air gun pellets, one close to the base of his tail and, more worryingly, one adjacent to his spine in his lower back.
"The first one was palpable on rectal examination but was mobile and was not near to any important structures, so I judged that it was not concerning and so it was left.
"However, it was absolutely necessary to remove the other pellet, as it was so close to a vital nerve root which was important for the sensory and motor function of Hunter's corresponding back leg.
"We believed the pellet was already responsible for irritating the nerve as Hunter moved and was causing him significant discomfort, so it needed to come out to avoid any further impact.
"Surgery to safely recover the pellet was challenging, though, because of its proximity to the nerve root and the spine.
"We needed to retract the surrounding muscles, allowing me to visualise the nerve and preserve it as I worked to locate and remove the pellet.
"Surgery took around 50 minutes. We had good images of the affected area, so we knew precisely where to locate the pellet. We just needed to take obvious care in removing it safely.
"The operation went very well and Hunter was almost instantly improved following surgery and has subsequently returned to being a very happy, active young dog."
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I've mentioned before my profound appreciation for New Orleans Saints tight end Benjamin Watson. I love this brother and admire his willingness to speak out on things that are close to his heart, and that are close to God's heart too, including racial justice and value of the unborn. At times this makes him unpopular with others, but he's continued to boldly share about these issues.
He's also the author of two books: Under Our Skin, a book on racial issues, which I highly recommend; and his book on fatherhood, The New Dad's Playbook. He also posts frequently on Facebook.
So how do we stay the course to finish the life God has given us? I believe the missing ingredient in the lives of countless Christians today is motivation. Given our false assumption that what we do in this life won't have eternal consequences—apart from our decision to place our trust in Christ for salvation—it's no wonder we're unmotivated to follow God's directions regarding money and possessions, giving, or anything else. Will it really make a difference? According to the Bible, it will make a tremendous difference! The doctrine of eternal rewards for our obedience is the neglected key to unlocking our motivation.
Moses "regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because…" Stop right there. Because why? Now read the rest: "because he was looking ahead to his reward" (Hebrews 11:26). Motivated by long-term reward, he chose short-term disgrace. Not because he wanted disgrace, but because he wanted reward!
The apostle Paul was unashamedly motivated by the prospect of eternal reward right until the day he died. As Ben shared above, at the very end of his life, knowing he was about to be executed under Nero, Paul said, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith" (2 Timothy 4:7). He went on to say, "Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day—and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing" (v. 8).
To Paul, gaining Christ made everything else seem comparatively worthless (Philippians 3:7-11). But part of gaining Christ was looking forward to eternal reward, Christ's stamp of approval on his faithful service while on earth. This prospect of eternal reward from his Master's hand was Paul's consuming motivation throughout his life (1 Corinthians 9:24-27) and his greatest anticipation at his death.
Read more about eternal rewards in Randy's book The Law of Rewards.
 I am indebted here to some insights on reward shared by Bruce Wilkinson in a one-day gathering for Christian leaders at Western Seminary in 1987.