* Its original completion target was 2009 and since then it has missed multiple deadlines.
* A sum of Rs 6,400 crore has been spent on the expressway project and 3,846 acres of land was acquired at a cost of Rs 2,788 crore.
* The width of the median at this stretch has been kept at 8 km. Similarly, the Manesar Palwal stretch is over 52 km long and it has 32 underpasses/agricultural vehicular underpass, three intersections and four toll plazas.
* The design speed of this expressway is 120 kmph for light vehicles and 100 kmph for heavy ones.
* Two rows of shrubs will be planted in the median. Apart from this, two rows, on each side, of trees like neem, arjun, and sheesham would be planted near the extreme end of row.
* Drip irrigation system would be adopted for the median plantation to conserve and save water. Fountains, historical and cultural monuments have been made at various locations to improve the aesthetic look of the expressway.
* One ambulance, one crane and one police patrol vehicle with a helpline number have been stationed in every 20 km for speedy response in case of accidents or emergencies.
* Delhi Western Peripheral Expressway was proposed in 2003.
* The project was awarded to KMP Expressways Ltd. a Special Purpose Vehicle of DS Constructions, Madhucon Projects and Apollo Enterprises in 2005. The initial total cost of the project was Rs. 1915 crore.
* According to concession agreement signed between HSIIDC and KMP expressways in Jan 2005, the project was set to be completed in June 2009.
* The project missed its initial deadline, availed multiple extensions.
* In June 2012, in a multi-party meeting between Haryana and Delhi governments as well as the developer a revised deadline of May 2013 was fixed.
* Due to delay in construction, HSIIDC decided to penalise the company in April 2012 after which the dispute went to courts and the project was stalled.
* Later the lenders led by IDBI bank, served the concessionaire KMP Expressways with a substitution notice due to its continued defaults in the performance of its financial and other obligations.
* Subsequently, the then Congress-led government of the state which had also awarded the contract decided to terminate the contract and pay KMP Expressways and lenders Rs 1,300 crore as a termination payment.
* In 2014, the project was revived. It was also decided to upgrade the expressway to a six-lane expressway.
* On April 5, 2016, the 53-km stretch between Manesar and Palwal was opened for public use.
* November 19, 2018: Expressway being opened.


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by Lee Garbutt on November 16, 2012
Preordered a Wii U? Can't decide if you want to get Nintendo's new console? Allow GodisaGeek.com to help you reached an informed decision with our Wii U guide!
There are two reasons why the 30th November is important to European gamers. Firstly, Nintendo's newest console, the Wii U is released. Secondly, the Wii U's release hails the beginning of the next console generation.
Even though we are weeks away from release, there are many things we still don't know about the system. However, we're here to inform you of everything we do know. There's a lot of information to run through, so let's get things started.
The Console:
We know that the Wii U will be Nintendo's first HD system; that is to say, it supports a resolution of up to 1080p. In terms of video output, the system can be connected to your television via Standard Definition cables (Composite and RGB) and High Definition methods such as Component and HDMI 1.4 (it's interesting to note that version 1.4 of the HDMI cable specification supports 3D displays, it remains to be seen whether Nintendo will take advantage of this at a later date). The system supports 6-channel (5.1 surround) audio via the same HDMI cable, although there doesn't appear to be any other method of multi-channel audio output; so there's no separate optical or coax digital audio option.
In terms of power, the Wii U is based around an IBM-developed Power Architecture with a multi-core processor, and an AMD Radeon graphics processor. Unfortunately neither Nintendo, IBM nor AMD have released the numbers. Needless to say, it will probably be less powerful than Sony and Microsoft's next consoles, but it's worth remembering that the Wii U will need to have enough power to run both a 1080p television display and the 854 x 480 resolution display on up to two Wii U GamePads, so it's not going to be a slouch in terms of power, but whether it has enough horsepower to last the generation remains to be seen.
There are two versions of the Wii U available at launch. The Basic Pack, which includes:
White Wii U with 8GB of internal storage
1 x Wii U GamePad
1 x Wii U Stylus
1 x Wii U AC Adaptor
1 x Wii U GamePad AC Adaptor
1 x 1.5 metre HDMI cable
The Premium Pack contains the following:
Black Wii U with 32GB of internal storage
1 x Wii U GamePad Stand
1 x Wii U GamePad Cradle
1 x Wii Sensor Bar
Nintendoland Game
It's worth noting that both consoles are backwards compatible with Wii games, but those with the Basic Pack will need to purchase a new Wii Sensor Bar, or use one from an existing Wii.
The Basic Pack currently has an RRP of £249.99, while the Premium Pack has an RRP of £299.99.
Controllers & Peripherals:
If you hadn't noticed already, the big innovation with the Wii U is the all-new GamePad tablet controller. While offering a button configuration similar to modern consoles, the big draw is its touchscreen display. A resistive, single-touch display (like the Nintendo DS and 3DS systems) it will display content at a resolution of 854 x 480.
The Wii U will also make use of a more conventional Wii U Pro Controller, a pad remarkably similar to that of the Xbox 360, only with the face buttons and right analog stick positions reversed. Hopefully, it should get more use than the original Wii's Classic Controller, and should provide developers with a more standard configuration for their games.
Of course, let's not forget that the Wii U is backwards compatible with most, if not all original Wii peripherals such as the Wii remotes (more specifically the MotionPlus flavoured remotes), Wii Fit Balance Board, and original Classic Controllers. Even some of the new Wii U games support these control methods, a boon for those who already own the Wii.
For those who are running out of storage space, Nintendo have kindly enabled Wii U owners to be able to connect USB hard drives to the system. Disks up to two terabytes (2TB) are supported, and although externally powered drives are recommended, hard drives powered by a USB connection can be used with a USB Y cable (similar to this). In this configuration, two USB ports on the Wii U are used; one for data and the other to provide power to the hard drive.
The following games have been confirmed by Nintendo as being available on the Wii U's release date of 30th November:
Nintendoland
ZombiU
New Super Mario Bros. U
Mass Effect™ 3: Special Edition
Nano Assault Neo
Trine 2: Director's Cut
Toki Tori 2
The following games will be released in the "Launch Window" of between the start of December, 2012 and end of March, 2013:
007 Legends
Skylanders Giants
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two
Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Tank! Tank! Tank!
Family Party: 30 Great Games Obstacle Arcade
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
Sing Party
LEGO City: Undercover
Game & Wario
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper
Assassin's Creed III
Just Dance 4
Marvel Avengers Battle for Earth
Rabbids Land
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Game Party Champions
Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition
Transferring Date From Wii To Wii U
Those of you with Wii consoles already might want to transfer your Wii data to your shiny new Wii U console, but in true Nintendo style it's not exactly simple to do and you'll need both consoles present and connected to the internet. You'll need to insert an SD Card with a minimum of 512MB of free space into your Wii U and load a "System Transfer" utility. This will install something on the SD Card. When it's done, you must insert the same SD Card into your Wii, and download a System Transfer application from the Wii Shop Channel.
Once you've installed the System Transfer application onto your Wii and have run it, it will download all of your content onto the SD Card, so it can then be reinserted into your Wii U and complete the transfer. The transferred data will be removed from the Wii as part of the move, and you'll now be able to access it from the Wii U.
GodisaGeek.com Preview Coverage:
Earlier this year, I was very lucky to get extensive hand-on time with the Wii U console and most of its launch and demo titles. You can read all about my experiences in the following articles:
Nintendoland Preview
Wii U Third-Party Titles Preview
Wii U Preview: Ubisoft Hands-On
Wii U First Party Preview
Wii U Misc Games Round-up
Wii U Preview – Hardware Impressions & Summary
And that's it for now, any questions – feel free to add them via the comment section below. You can expect a whole heap of Wii U reviews here in the coming weeks and months, so keep your browsers locked on GodisaGeek.com!
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I'm a UK-based writer with a passion for gaming that spans over 2 decades. For years I've been interested in the history of video games and as a result I have quite the collection of console hardware, not to mention a brain bursting with gaming trivia and knowledge. I've been a part of the GodisaGeek family since 2011, writing, talking and doing videos throughout that time.
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One of the must stops down the east coast of Australia is Fraser Island, the largest sand island in the world. Not wanting to miss out, we took a one day 4 wheel drive trip.
The truck picked us up and took the ferry over to the island. Right away, we struck gold and saw a wild dingo!
The jeep took us over to the island on a ferry, and then down the beach until we got to Lake MacKenzie, a lake that is fed only by an underground aquifer and rain. It was absolutely wonderful to swim in, especially after swimming in salt water. It has the same silica based sand as on whitehaven beach. We spent some time swimming and lying on the silica beach before heading to the rainforst. We were amazed that trees so tall could grow right out of the sand! Next we headed to the wreck of the Maheno, a ship that sunk offshore in 1935.
After washing ashore, the still intact ship was used as a location for weddings and other parties before WWII, when the Australian air force used as a target for bombing drills. Now it is half destroyed and all rusted out, and a stop on all standard tours. It was fascinating.
On the way back we stopped for a swim in a small creek halfway down the island. This was my favourite part of the trip. The current in shady stream was so strong that you could let it push you, and we had a few races with the other people on our tour. The water was amazingly pure and clean.
Before we headed back to Airlie, we stopped and did something that I had previously sworn I would never do, but more on that later.


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THE END OF AMERICAN WORLD ORDER?
OCCASIONALLY THE London Review of Books baffles me with (its understandable) focus on British matters. It reminds me of "Fog Shrouds Channel; Continent Isolated." Most times, though, I find the LRB to be entertaining, informative, and especially articulate in its use of our English language.
Exemplary of this is Adam Tooze's article "Is This the End of the American Century?" in London Review of Books, April 4, 2019. Adam Tooze is a British historian who is Professor at New York City's Columbia University and Director of the European Institute. Not to hold it against him, Tooze is grandson of British civil servant (and recruiter of Soviet spys) Arthur Wynn.
Here are tidbits gleaned from Tooze's LRB article.
Views on Trump. Tooze writes, "The idea that Trump is a wrecker of the American-led world order rests on three claims. First, he is manifestly unfit for high office. That such a man can be elected president of the United States reveals a deep degeneration of American political culture and permanently damages the country's credibility. Second, his capricious and crude pursuit of 'America first' has weakened America's alliances and instigated a departure from globalisation based on free trade. Finally, he has triggered this crisis at a moment when China poses an unprecedented challenge to Western-led globalisation."
China's Challenge. "China alone," Tooze writes, "was responsible for a doubling of global steel and aluminimum capacity in the first decade of the 21st century. Its huge investment in R&D transformed it from a 'third world' importer of Western technology into a leading global force in 5G."
However, Tooze observes, "What the globalists did not understand was the lesson of Tiananmen Square. China would integrate, but on its own terms. That could be ignored in 1989 when China's economy accounted for only 4 percent of global GDP; now that figure is close to 20 percent."
The U.S./Russian Experience Doesn't Apply. In the early 1980s, the U.S. "deployed economic and political pressure to break what was perceived to be a menacing phase of Soviet expansion in the 1970s," Tooze notes.
Today, though, Tooze writes, "U.S. business is entangled with China to an immeasurably greater degree than it ever was with the Soviet Union…. look no further than Apple's supply chain in East Asia. Almost all its iPhones are assembled there. Apple is an extreme case. But it is not alone. GM currently sells more cars in China than it does in the U.S."
Other Automotive Matters. Tooze writes of NAFTA and USMCA, the revised United States Mexico Canada Agreement: "To escape tariffs, 40 percent of any vehicle produced in Mexico must have been manufactured by workers earning $16 an hour, well above the U.S. minimum wage [$7.25] and seven times the average manufacturing wage in Mexico."
"The auto industry," Tooze notes, "was at the heart of the NAFTA renegotiation and it is the critical element in simmering U.S.-EU trade tensions too…. The use of Section 232 to investigate car imports from Germany as a threat to American national security is absurd."
A terrorist threat on the streets of New York City? Image from businessinsider.com.
"That said," Tooze writes, "Trump's obsession with the prevalence of German limousines in swanky parts of New York does highlight another painful imbalance in transatlantic relations: the persistent European trade surplus. Of course America contributes to this imbalance with its disinhibited fiscal policy: the better off Americans feel, the more likely they are to buy German cars."
The U.S. Dollar's International Role and our Fed. Tooze says, "The dollar's role in global finance didn't just survive the crisis of 2008: It was reinforced by it. As the world's banks gasped for dollar liquidity, the Federal Reserve transformed itself into a global lender of last resort."
The seal of the United States Federal Reserve System. Its Board of Governors is in Washington, D.C.; 12 Federal Reserve Banks are located in major cities around the country.
"Needless to say," Tooze observes, "Trump is no respecter of the Fed's 'independence.' When it began tightening interest rates in 2018 he pushed back aggressively. (As a man who knows a thing or two about debt, he prefers borrowing rates to be low.)"
Tooze calls it a buggy; we'd call it a cart. Image from jilldennison.com.
The Golf Buggy Analogy. Summing up matters, Tooze writes, "As of today, two years into the Trump presidency, it is a gross exaggeration to talk of an end to the American world order. The two pillars of its global power—military and financial—are still firmly in place. What has ended is any claim on the part of American democracy to provide a political model."
Tooze offers a Trumpian image: "If America's president mounted on a golf buggy is a suitably ludicrous emblem of our current moment, the danger is that it suggests far too pastoral a scenario: American power trundling to retirement across manicured lawns."
The USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN 78.
"Imagine instead," Tooze concludes, "the president and his buggy careening around the five-acre flight deck of a $13 billion, Ford-class, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier engaged in 'dynamic force deployment' to the South China Sea."
Or the Persian Gulf. ds
2 comments on "THE END OF AMERICAN WORLD ORDER?"
Gordon Craig
Denis, thank you for this column….I fear these days we are in the very real free fall of a coup-de-tat that is ignoring the U.S. Consitution and its powers of review and bringing to account the Rule of Law, Procedure and Consequences between the Executive and Legislative Branches of government. Meanwhile this Fool of a President invents a crisis in the Mid-East like any tin horn dictator to give his cause the trappings of a national purpose and rally round the flag. Every young person I meet I am doing my part to awaken them to what is going on and hopefully to vote us out of this mess.
simanaitissays
Agreed. His ICE on/off strategy is in a similar vein: Make an outrageous threat, then back away "on humanitarian grounds," then expect his base to applaud his compassion. I ain't biting.
This entry was posted on June 22, 2019 by simanaitissays in And Furthermore... and tagged "Is This the End of the American Century?" Adam Tooze "London Review of Books", Apple supply chain in East Asia, China's challenge to Western world order, German cars threat to U.S. security??, GM sells more cars in China than in the U.S., NAFTA USMCA = U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, three reasons why Trump is wrecker of American-led world order, Trump golf "buggy" careering around aircraft carrier flight deck, Trump knows a thing or two about debt.
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DJHS certainly 'house that Ginger built'
Ginger Jacobs' middle name should have been "History."
She took a lot of it with her when she died June 16, but she left even more behind, because she was the founder of the Dallas Jewish Historical Society.
As she used to tell it, when our community started its trek northward, she stopped in her tracks at the sight of old South Dallas demolitions and exclaimed, "That's my history they're tearing down!" Her passion, her mission, became its preservation.
I first became involved in Ginger's "baby" when it occupied a small room behind the JCC's old first-floor library. There was a desk, a chair and a filing cabinet, not much else. Now it's still in the J, but as a full-scale operation, with a director, an archivist, state-of-the-art storage for papers and artifacts. That baby has grown up to be one of the agencies under our Federation's umbrella. And Ginger was with it all the way.
She was a physical education instructor when a young man with the same profession arrived in Dallas, the sole survivor of a large Polish family decimated by the Nazis. He didn't speak much English then, but he told me that on first seeing Ginger, his reaction was "That's my girl!"
And she was! They married, had four children (son Mark followed his mother's lead and served himself as president of the DJHS), and the family expanded to include four grandchildren and two great-grands. Ginger wrote her own book about Jewish education in the old South Dallas days, then helped husband Mike compile his recollections of Triumph over Tragedy, and accompanied him everywhere while he spoke in many places, here and across oceans, to spread the good word. As Ginger left a permanent mark on a community institution, so did Mike: He was a founder of the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance. He passed away just two years before her.
But Dallas probably knows Ginger best for her tours. A phenomenal guide, she took busloads of people on trips, sponsored by the Society or other community groups, talking about Dallas sites of historic Jewish importance. Even when she was pointing out places where demolition had been total, she had a way of bringing what used to be there back to life.
And now, others who've worked with her will pick up where Ginger left off. She will live on as the tours live on, because the Jacobs family has requested that memorials be made to something very specific, and very special: The Ginger Chesnick Jacobs Historical Tour and Outreach Fund. Of course! Where else, what else, could better perpetuate her memory? This will be a wonderful combination of a concrete remembrance in the form of a much-requested community service.
For your information: Ginger was not this feisty woman's given first name, although she never went by anything else. She started life as Jenny, but was a firebrand at such an early age that her family began calling her Ginger, and it stuck. So future historical tours will be forever associated with the spicy name of the prescient woman who saw things changing, and although she couldn't do anything to stop the tearing-down of buildings she had known and loved in her growing-up years, she did what any born historian would do: found a way to preserve them. Certainly not in brick and mortar, but in mind and memory. Forever.
If you'd like to arrange a bus tour for a group, or take one yourself, please contact the Dallas Jewish Historical Society for possibilities. Call 214-239-7120. Better yet, visit the Society in its headquarters on the first floor of the Aaron Family Jewish Community Center, 7900 Northaven Road, and see for yourself the legacy Ginger Jacobs has left behind. Best of all: make a donation to that new fund in her name, for a lasting contribution to the important work of the historic "House that Ginger Built."
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PSYCHOLOGY IN THE LANDSCAPE
May 18, 2011 in "PROSPECT-REFUGE", "PSYCHOLOGY"
In 1977 J.J. Gibson wrote of "the Theory of Affordances." Essentially what this means as it relates to landscape design is that humans see "affordances" in the landscape – what a scene or object offers. We react to a scene based upon what these objects or scenes offer as far as the individual is concerned. Perception is viewed as not merely dealing with information about the environment, but it's possibilities as far as human interaction and purposes are concerned.
Later on, Rachel Kaplan and Stephen Kaplan (Professors at University of Michigan) theorized on people interaction with their environments. "Humans react to the visual environment in essential two interrelated ways: the two dimensional pattern, as if the environment in front of them were a flat picture and the three dimensional pattern of space that unfolds before them.1"
They like the visual array to a photograph, the pattern of information with it, the shades of grey, simplicity of scene/detail and how it "makes sense" to the viewer. The pattern of information on the surface of a photograph can be easier or harder to organize.
Complexity reflects how much is going on in a scene, how much is there to look at, how rich and diverse the aesthetics/elements are.
George Seurat, Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte 1884
Coherence reflects the simplicity, organizational components of a scene, that which makes it easier to comprehend, it should all "fit together." In other words, "something that draws one's attention within the scene should turn out to be an important object, a boundary between regions or some other significant property.2"
Hieronymus Bosch, Garden of Earthly Delights 1503-4
Research evidence also begins to suggest that the capacity of working memory for most people to hold approximately is five chunks/groupings of information in their working memory at any one time. Kaplan therefore propose that dividing a scene into five major areas or groupings makes it easier or more appealing, comfortable in terms of coherence for the viewer of the scene.
Because landscapes are essentially three dimensional when viewed, but four dimensional with the addition of "time", people interpret a landscape whether viewed or experienced as three-dimensional. In Jay Appleton's "Prospect-Refuge theory" there are "implications both in terms of informational opportunities and informational dangers." Gathering these opportunities, having some comfort level with them is what leads to another component called Mystery. Mystery in this context is all about surprise and the promise/attraction assumed within the scene of new information. What encourages us to discover more. A scene that is partially obscured by foliage, a path that is tempting to follow but you're not sure where it leads. "A scene high in mystery is one in which one could learn more if one were to proceed further into the scene." "Mystery evokes curiosity. What it evokes is not a blank state of mind but what might be coming next."3
W. Eugene Smith, The Walk to Paradise 1946
Appleton stresses safety in Prospect-Refuge theory. Kaplan takes it one step further in his last component to one that "makes sense" or is legible. "Legibility entails a promise or a prediction.4" It allows the viewer to assume a way to navigate through the space and out of it, an organization of the ground plane. With a sense of depth and well-defined space, smooth textures and elements well distributed, the viewer is comfortable moving within the space.
Concepts to ponder when designing space.
Preference Matrix by Kaplan above.
1. The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective: Rachel & Stephen Kaplan, University of Cambridge 1989
2. Ibid
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Nano Dimension's stock has quadrupled in 2 days on heavy volume
Published: May 20, 2020 at 12:22 p.m. ET
Tomi Kilgore
3D printing company's large share offering prices at deep discount
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Shares of Nano Dimensions Ltd. slipped in volatile trading Wednesday, after a more-than four-fold rocket ride in the prior session, as the 3D printing company's large equity offering priced at a substantial discount.
The U.S.-listed stock NNDM, +5.15% fell 3.1% in midday trading, after being down as much as 10.6% and up as much as 43.8% in intraday trading. Volume swelled to 106.7 million shares.
On Tuesday, the stock had blasted 341.7% higher on massive volume of 331.9 million shares — the full-day average was just 1.7 million shares — after the company and Germany's Hensoldt announced a new way to use 3D printing to assemble high-performance electronics components. The gain and volume were easily one-day records for the stock, which began trading in mid-2015.
Wednesday's gain came despite the company announcing a registered direct offering of 17.95 million American Depositary Shares (ADS), which represented 67% of the shares outstanding, priced at $2.00 per ADS. That price was 41.2% below Tuesday's closing price of $3.40.
The gross proceeds from the offering were $35.9 million. Although that is a lot less than the proceeds would have been at Tuesday's closing price, they were $22.1 million more than what they would have been if the offering priced at Monday's closing price of 77 cents.
FactSet, MarketWatch
The company said it plans to use the net proceeds for working capital and for other general corporate purposes. The closing of the offering is expected to take place on May 22.
The stock's historic rally comes after a steady decline over the past five years, which led to the need to execute a 1-for-10 reverse stock split in October 2019 to regain compliance with Nasdaq listing standards.
And in December 2019, the company announced new leadership, as "veteran turnaround executive" Yoav Stern was named chief executive, to succeed co-Founder Amid Dror, who was moved to the role of customer success officer reporting to Stern.
The company also named Ofir Baharav as its new chairman to replace the retiring Avi Reichental.
Before this week, the previous record one-day blip up in the stock's chart was a 101.4% surge on 4.6 million shares on June 11, 2018, when the company announced it achieved U.S. Government Certified Vendor Status, which allows the company to do business with government agencies. The company also announced a second purchase of a 3D printed electronic system by a "top 10, defense company."
The stock has now climbed 30% year to date, but has still lost 43% over the past 12 months. In comparison, the Tel Aviv 125 Index TA100, -1.01% has slipped 1.8% over the past year while the S&P 500 index SPX, +0.25% has gained 4.9%.
Investors are reeling from a shocking set of results late Thursday from Intel, whose shares were set to tumble 10% at the start of trading on Friday.
Tomi Kilgore is MarketWatch's deputy investing and corporate news editor and is based in New York. You can follow him on Twitter @TomiKilgore.


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Start the festive season on the right note with the York Chamber Ensemble on December 3, 7:30pm at St. Paul's, Newmarket. Featuring local musicians Stephen Fox on saxophone and Kelly Kaddatz on french horn, Maestro Michael Berec leads the ensemble in a performance of works by Vaughan-Williams, Manfredini, Glazunov, Humperdinck and your favourite holiday tunes! We anticipate a full house – […]
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From the King of Baroque to the King of Tango Nuevo, composers have been experimenting with this musical form throughout the centuries. Join York Chamber Ensemble on Sat Oct 22, 7:30pm St. Paul's Anglican, Newmarket, in a performance of works by Bach, Mozart, Holst and Piazzolla exploring the Art of Fugue. Order tickets online!
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In the province of British Columbia in Canada, a regional district is an administrative subdivision of the province that consists of a geographic region with specific boundaries and  governmental authority.  there were 28 regional districts in the province.

History
Regional districts came into being as an order of government in 1965 with the enactment of amendments to the Municipal Act. Until the creation of regional districts, the only local form of government in British Columbia was incorporated municipalities, and services in areas outside municipal boundaries had to be sought from the province or through improvement districts.

Government structure
Similar to counties in other parts of Canada, regional districts serve only to provide municipal services as the local government in areas not incorporated into a municipality, and in certain regional affairs of shared concern between residents of unincorporated areas and those in the municipalities such as a stakeholder role in regional planning. In those predominantly rural areas, regional districts provide services such as land use planning, building inspection, solid-waste management, and some responsibility for community fire protection.

Most land nominally within a regional district is under the control of the provincial government, or in the case of national parks and offshore waters, the federal government. Indian reserves located within the boundaries of regional districts are likewise excluded from their jurisdiction and infrastructure, and there are varying levels of collaboration between First Nations governments and regional district boards.

Regional districts are governed by boards of directly and indirectly elected directors. Municipalities appoint directors to represent their populations (usually the mayors), while residents of unincorporated areas (which are grouped into electoral areas) elect directors directly. The votes of directors from municipalities generally count more than the votes of directors from electoral areas, and larger municipalities have more votes than smaller ones. For example, both North Saanich and Metchosin appoint one director to the Capital Regional District board of directors, but the vote of North Saanich's director counts three times as much as the vote of Metchosin's appointee.

See also
List of municipalities in British Columbia

References

Types of administrative division

Census divisions of Canada

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I've had an extremely sensitive stomach my entire life. To the point I had to stop eating at restaurants as they always made me feel ill. Whether it was poor produce or gluten or unhygienic kitchens, every doc I went to had a different story for why I had digestion issues. They tried antibiotics, steroids, the whole lot. Some things made me feel better, but I never turned the corner to actually being well again. I could only have a strict diet of food that I would prepare for myself and even then my stomach and guts never felt right. Then I found this product and it's given me freedom with food I never thought I would have. I can eat at restaurants with friends and not have to leave early because I felt sick. I feel better in my clothes because I'm not bloated all the time. It really has been a miracle for me and I feel safe again with food knowing that I can always have a few sips of the juice to make me feel better. You never know where the answers will come from, but when something works it just works. And this product just plain and simple works!
Here is my biggest issue. I want to try this, but I was concerned about how a product can work for both constipation and diarrhea. It has two products that stimulate the colon — Black Walnut and Aloe Vera — and yet it claims that it also helps with diarrhea. Won't these two ingredients make that problem worse? I emailed the company to ask about this, and they basically told me they couldn't tell me how it works but that it just does and with the money back guarantee, I should take a chance on it. That's not really an answer, so I wrote back asking if there was someone else I could speak to who could answer my question. They said that the FDA has very strict rules on what claims they could make, so they couldn't really tell me. Well, if you look at their page, all it does is make claims about what the product can do for people. I'm not asking for claims; I'm asking about how the product works. As someone who suffers from digestive issues, I really feel it's a basic question to ask how a product will alleviate it when it has two ingredients that can potentially make that problem worse.
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Seems I can't buy this product and I live in Australia ?


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A Panacea
By Emlyn Lewis Last updated Feb 1, 2022 1
If you're a Paceline listener, much of what I'm about to say will sound familiar to you. It's an immodest proposal, one that puts the bicycle at the center of a lot of different issues. And of course, it's the sort of thing a lifelong cyclist would write. As I think about where we are collectively, though, I struggle to understand how the bike is NOT the solution, how it is NOT central to our thinking about the way forward.
First, at the end of two years of global pandemic, our mental health is a shambles. Anxiety and depression are rampant. Cycling is a non-invasive treatment for these conditions. Obviously, some people will find riding a bike anxiety-inducing, but for the most part, people who rides bikes will feel less anxious and less depressed.
Second, we all had our hopes raised, as lockdowns swept the land, that the pandemic might abate the worst contributors to global warming. There were sporadic articles and studies that made this case. Less driving is better, etc., etc. And people were riding bikes more. Demand for bikes skyrocketed. People were out and about. However, I think it's safe to say that as things opened back up, driving and traffic also returned, maybe not quite to pre-pandemic levels, but we certainly went backwards in terms of car-related air pollution. The bike, of course, is one strong solution for that problem.
If we can legalize and prescribe this, we can certainly prescribe bike rides. Someone dig up Peter Tosh.
Third, there is inequality. The haves have and the have nots, well, it's right there in the name. Bicycle transportation gives low income people access to work, to recreation, to health, to all sorts of opportunities that they might not have because they don't have a car, or public transportation doesn't serve these specific needs, which brings me to…
Fourth, public transportation is in perennial crisis. Cities struggle to fund it properly. Fares are going up and up, and trains and buses struggle to meet all our needs for moving around our cities. It's important, but maybe we want more from it than it can give. Even, public/private partnerships that have put city bikes on the street miss that last mile of convenience and opportunity for people that only comes from having their own bike.
Having said all that, and understanding that I'm preaching, I hope, to the choir, it seems painfully obvious to me that we need a national public health campaign to promote cycling and an easy to access tax-rebate for people to invest in cycling for themselves. They've done this in the UK with massive success. In fact, across Europe these kinds of incentives are already working to get more people out of cars and onto bikes.
Cycling is such a powerful solution to so many of our biggest problems right now, that I feel really confused about why we don't have any sort of campaign to shift the national consciousness toward cycling transportation.
And look, I'm as cynical as anyone. I understand the challenges, logistically, financially and culturally. I get it. We're a car culture. We don't spend money on healthcare. We are fiercely opposed to being told what to do. But just as public health campaigns (and tax policy) massively reduced the number of people who smoke cigarettes, the case for promoting cycling is so straightforwardly easy to make, the mind boggles that we've sat by and done nothing.
Instead of begging you to subscribe (which you should definitely do), today I'm just going to ask that you share something from TCI with someone you think might like it. Because the more the merrier.
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Robot fell in love with cycling watching the older neighborhood kids ride wheelies down the street. It was the early '70s, and Evel Knievel was jumping motorcycles over buses. Everything seemed possible. From that moment, the die was cast (iacta alia est).
He studied philosophy in college, of course he did. That's what idealists do, romantics, kids who think there must be a better way. At the same time, bikes were carrying him everywhere, delivering all of life's gifts and surprises. Occasionally he crashed and didn't mind.
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Emlyn Lewis says 12 months ago
Is it totally uncool to comment on your own post? Here's just a little more grist for this particular mill:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/04/public-transit-car-crash-deaths-us


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County executive wants to dump Rams name from street
CLAYTON — The NFL's Rams are long gone from St. Louis, and a top elected official wants to get rid of a street name that honors the team.
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page says he will ask the County Council on Friday to pass legislation changing the name of the street that runs adjacent to the team's former practice facility. The street was dubbed Rams way in 1996. Page, a Democrat, wants to change it to Athletic Way.
Rams owner Stan Kroenke moved his team to Los Angeles in 2016. The Rams played at the domed stadium in downtown St. Louis during their time in Missouri, but practiced and had offices at the facility in west St. Louis County owned by the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority.


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A travesty of this article, headed (I cringe as I type) 'All That Jazz', appeared in City Life, Manchester Evening News, 23.7.10. This is the unexpurgated text, and a more accurate representation of the author's views.
Every good festival has its own identity. So it is with Manchester Jazz Festival. The 15th MJF, like the first, back in 1996, is strong on individuality. The policy of the MJF promoters (Steve Mead and Mick Waterfield) is inclusive enough to embrace Zimbabwean songster Papa Miles (St Ann's Square, Sunday 25, 1pm) and Goldfrapp-wannabe Rodina (Festival Pavilion, Tuesday 27, 8pm). Traditionalists and mainstreamers might grumble, but the Festival reinstates the definition of jazz as "the sound of surprise".
As ever, the programme mixes homegrown talents with players of national and international renown. Local tortoises often compare favourably with celebrity hares.
Of course, the distinction between tortoise and hare is sometimes subtle. Gwilym Simcock - playing with UK/US supergroup Simcock/Walker/Swallow/Nussbaum (RNCM, Tuesday 27, 7.30pm) - and Jim Hart, playing with NY trumpeter Ralph Alessi (Festival Pavilion, Friday 23, 7.30pm), met and started playing together when both were students at Chetham's School of Music (circa '94-'96).
"I love Manchester. It's one of my favourite places," says Hart, a vibes-player of blinding momentum. "I always said I would go back, if things didn't work out in London, but I seem to have got stuck."
And Arun Ghosh's appearance, co-starring with the Asaf Sirkis Trio (BOTW, Thursday 29, 9pm), is virtually a homecoming for the charismatic clarinet-player. Ghosh, "conceived in Calcutta and bred in Bolton", is currently making waves in London with his unique brand of Mancunian Indo-jazz.
"It needed to be done," says Ghosh, of his move to London, "to get a fresh outlook. But I learned everything I needed to learn while I was in Manchester." He identifies a specific Manchester aesthetic: "The main thing is that sense of wanting the music to be accessible. If you're going to go on-stage and play, you have to believe in what you're doing, and say it with conviction."
Arun's fervour is communicated not only through his clarinet, which is stately and joyous, but through his body language (sashay and sway as much as swagger). Ghosh has been known to transport a rowdy crowd at Matt and Phred's to an altogether loftier place. His attack is gentle yet rigorous, and his simple tunes - often revolving around an Indian-style twelve-beat cycle - grow in detail, complexity and intensity until even the most inattentive onlooker is compelled to listen. "Yeah I think Man United had played that night," says Ghosh, reminded of the occasion. "I feel we can win people over, if I have the right people with me, because we believe in what we're doing."
The right people for the MJF gig are Manchester rhythm team Myke Wilson and Sylvan Richardson, Corey Mwamba - a whirlwind on vibraphone - from Derby, and London saxophonist Idris Rahman ("you hear Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry weave lines in and out of each other, and that's something we're doing a lot," says Ghosh). More than an ex-pat, Arun Ghosh is an ambassador for Manchester.
His erstwhile sparring partner, saxophonist Nat Birchall, shares half the bill (BOTW, Friday 23, 8.30pm) with Marshall Allen, a mainstay of the Sun Ra Arkestra. "I'm honoured to be playing the same night as Marshall Allen," says Birchall. "He's one of my all-time favourite players."
Birchall is one jazz musician who stayed. "I don't have much experience of jazz anywhere other than Manchester," he admits. His music draws on the gentle side of John Coltrane for inspiration. The new album, Guiding Spirit, is rapturously lyrical, and too beautiful not to be spiritual, with an urgency that keeps it from being merely pretty.
The realities of the jazz life haven't altogether dispelled Birchall's sense of high purpose. "Once you're determined to follow a certain route, you're got to make the best of it. Sometimes you're lucky to be with like-minded players. Other times you're working in adverse conditions, but you carry on and do it anyway. I always try to put everything into it, and play with soul and feeling."
Not as overt as the Coltrane influence, Birchall's first love is ska/reggae. Armed with this knowledge, Guiding Spirit takes on an entirely new light. Pioneering JA hornmen Tommy McCook and Cedric Brooks had a direct, uncluttered eloquence that feeds directly into Birchall's style. Similarly, the harmonically simple themes and hypnotic basslines are retentions from a golden age of Jamaican music. It seems that the secret of finding one's own voice is to wait, however long, for your influences to crystallise. In Birchall, the formative passions of the youthful reggae fan are mysteriously reconfigured in the mature musician. "A saxophone player's sound is largely determined by the sound we have in our heads," he says. "I'm getting to the stage where I can say the music is 'pure', in the sense that it manifests itself through me, without my conscious mind affecting the outcome."
Other prophets without honour include Neil Yates, whose Surroundings (St Ann's Church, Saturday 31, 7pm), a commission from MJF, is a piece for full orchestra with a starring role for St Ann's Church itself. With the instruments scattered around for antiphonal effect, the building, with its unique acoustic and sacred ambience, is the star turn of Surroundings.
Pianist John Ellis is versatile enough to handle any musical situation - here he's accompanying Zimbabwean Papa Miles - but he is also a composer, a producer (the owner of Limefield Studio) and a charter member of the Odbod Collective, a top-notch group of Manchester creatives. Other Odbods include Zoe Chiotis, a slinky siren with spellbinding ways (St Ann's Square, Saturday 31, 5pm), and her stylistic opposite: the extraordinary Rioghnach Connolly, whose voice is so soulful that it seems older than her physical age by about three hundred years. The splendour of Riognach Connolly, a transplant to Manchester from her native Ireland, can only be hinted at here, so do see her with her band, Honeyfeet (Matt and Phred's, Friday 23, 10pm) or in a new group with Stuart McCallum (Matt and Phred's, Tuesday 27, 10pm).
Guitarist McCallum, by the way, has blazed a quietly innovative trail with his loops, samples and pedals, and is so inherently Mancunian that London jazz critic John Fordham once mistook him for a Big Issue seller. He can also be seen with improvising trio Baylis/Howard/McCallum (Festival Pavilion, Friday 30, 12.30pm) and, later the same day, in a solo set alongside The Golden Age of Steam and trioVD (Festival Pavilion, 8pm). McCallum, a true homegrown guitar hero, might be the hardest working man in Manchester show-business.
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Good to find you here Mike, and thanks for the enjoyable read as always.


← What if…my band's first album.
The way I hear it, the guy has gone to live among a pack of wolves. When he does he loses the taste for judging right from wrong and instead turns to instinct and obedience to God. Instead of being concerned with judging those around him, he wants to live the best life possible and obey God. Maybe I'm totally wrong on the meaning of this lyric, but I find it so beautiful.
If you haven't noticed, lately I've really been stuck on the habit that I see in the lives of myself and others to judge other people constantly. I don't know if I'm trying to find a cure or just understand it better so that I can live better. It just seems that at some point during each day I observe, partake, or ponder on the idea of judging. Immediately words of Jesus teachings flood my head that speak to how judging is not healthy or wise.
Still over and over it seems to me that "religious" people are the ones that are the quickest and best at judging others. It seems that many people are far more concerned about whether or not someone else is making a mistake than working on correcting the mistakes in their own lives. I'm constantly reminded that if I really want to effect change, I need to be the change I want to see. Still so many want to shove things in someone else's face instead of showing the mercy that we would like to receive. It's almost like we feel like we don't deserve mercy so we never give it to anyone else. We don't think that others will be forgiving of our mistakes so we don't forgive others. I am so thankful that those that love me don't shove my mistakes in my face all the time. In fact, those that care about me usually show me the most love when I mess up. They remind me that I am not my mistakes and that it is possible to grow and leave them in past. I've found that their love in the face of my imperfections is what motivates me to move beyond my faults to a better way.
The choice is always there to judge or love.
Judging is a very interesting topic. I agree that the ugly side of judging is not clarity and can be catty and harsh and bring out our ugliest selves. However, I do wonder if we should have another word for what is sometimes called 'judging'. For instance, if I see a couple relating in a way that I find distasteful, I will go over in my mind or with my friends how I think that couple (as an example) might relate in a more mature manner. What I'm ultimately doing is reflecting myself in what i see and trying to help define me by stating what I would do differently. Our society says that in so doing we should put that couple down – the 'judging' part. What we can realize is that it's ok to decide how we think we might handle their situation differently and we can also leave space for those people to be where they are. Does that make sense?


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Q: DELETE Runs Longer than SELECT The DELETE query below runs way longer than the very same SELECT statement. For comparison, the SELECT query runs for 1 minute and the DELETE query runs for over 5 minutes and actually times out. Why does this happen and how can I prevent this?
SELECT QUERY (1 MINUTE)
SELECT
    *
FROM
    company
WHERE
    symbol IN (SELECT
            `hd`.`symbol` AS `symbol`
        FROM
            (`stockton`.`historical_data` `hd`
            JOIN (SELECT
                MAX(`stockton`.`historical_data`.`histDate`) AS `maxhd`
            FROM
                `stockton`.`historical_data`) `m`)
        GROUP BY `hd`.`symbol` , `m`.`maxhd`
        HAVING (MAX(`hd`.`histDate`) < (NOW() - INTERVAL 7 DAY)));

DELETE QUERY (5+ MINUTES)
DELETE
FROM
    company
WHERE
    symbol IN (SELECT
            `hd`.`symbol` AS `symbol`
        FROM
            (`stockton`.`historical_data` `hd`
            JOIN (SELECT
                MAX(`stockton`.`historical_data`.`histDate`) AS `maxhd`
            FROM
                `stockton`.`historical_data`) `m`)
        GROUP BY `hd`.`symbol` , `m`.`maxhd`
        HAVING (MAX(`hd`.`histDate`) < (NOW() - INTERVAL 7 DAY)));

A: Improvement: You may want to change your query to calculate Date = Now - 7 days in your programming language instead of calculating in query itself.
Delete taking more time: Delete generally will take more time and if you will google you will find out that you're not alone. Reason being that Delete is an expensive operation compared to Select because Delete requires following:
1) Compare the record with your condition
2) Delete from table
3) Remove references from one or more indexes created on the table
4) may or may not update table's meta-data depending on the engine
while Select is:
1) Compare the record with your condition or if condition is using Index then use the index
2) Return the resulted value
Considering that you have larger table, you might have larger indexes and it will take time in manipulation compared to just select.
But you can try suggested improvement and should see some improvements in time.

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Muncie Girls is a British punk rock band formed in Exeter in 2010. It is made up of Lande Hekt (bass, rhythm guitar, vocals), Dean McMullen (lead guitar), and Luke Ellis (drums). They have several releases, including two full-length albums From Caplan to Belsize (2016) and Fixed Ideals (2018), on hometown label Specialist Subject Records and have toured internationally.

History
Lande Hekt and Dean McMullen formed Muncie Girls in 2010 while attending Exeter College. They played their first gigs at the Cavern Club, their local rock venue, and became very involved in the underground DIY Punk scene. The band put on their own shows, as well as fundraising events, and Hekt started a music workshop for women under the name 'School of Frock'. Ellis joined in 2012, solidifying the lineup.

After releasing two EPs on hometown label Specialist Subject Records in 2012 and 2013, the label released their debut album From Caplan To Belsize on 4 March 2016, recorded at The Ranch in Southampton. The title of the album is a reference to 'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath. It references the two asylums the book's protagonist is kept in, and is used to represent the idea of the album being a journey.

The album was received well including 5/5 reviews in Kerrang!, Upset and 9/10 in Rock Sound. The band was also nominated for 'Best British Newcomer' at the Kerrang! Awards 2016.

Following the album, the band toured internationally including support slots with Taking Back Sunday, Frank Iero (of My Chemical Romance), Los Campesinos!, The Wonder Years, and Such Gold. They played Glastonbury Festival and appeared with Billy Bragg on the Left Field Stage as well as Reading and Leeds Festivals, Groezrock and SXSW.

On 13 June 2018 the band announced their second LP Fixed Ideals (another Plath reference, this time a line from the poem "To Eva") with a video for lead single "Picture of Health". Hekt described the new collection as some of the most personal songs she'd written, with a diverse range of influences, such as The Replacements, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Popguns and The Pastels. The album was released on 31 August 2018.

On 15 November 2019 Hekt self-released her first solo record, Gigantic Disappointment, to positive reviews. A full-length follow up, Going to Hell, was released 22 January 2021 on Get Better Records

On 14 January 2022 McMullen released his first solo single, Clouds Hold Up The Sun on Fierce Panda Records.

Discography

Albums
From Caplan To Belsize - Specialist Subject Records (UK) / Uncle M Music (EU) / Animal Style Records (US) 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2016)
Fixed Ideals - Specialist Subject Records (UK) / Buzz Records (Canada) / Lost Boy (AUS) 12" LP, CD, MP3 (2018)

EPS
Revolution Summer - Specialist Subject Records, 12" EP, CD, MP3 (2012)
Sleepless - Specialist Subject Records, 12" EP, CD, MP3 (2013)
B-Sides the Point- Specialist Subject Records, 12" EP, MP3 (2020)

Split Releases
Split with Great Cynics - Specialist Subject Records, 12" EP, MP3 (2014)
Split with Sandlotkids - Uncle M Music, 7", MP3 (2013)
Split with The Hard Aches - Anchorhead Records, 7" (2017) - "Respect" from From Caplan to Belsize released as B-side single.

Singles
Picture of Health - Specialist Subject Records, 7", MP3 (2018)

References

External links
 Official Website
 Muncie Girls Spotify
 Specialist Subject Records

Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom
Musical groups established in 2010
English indie rock groups
English punk rock groups
Specialist Subject Records artists
2010 establishments in England


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Relax this Thanksgiving by taking the family to the Paddlewheeler Creole Queen's Thanksgiving Celebration on the Mississippi River. Skip the stress of cooking a full meal and leave it to the Creole Queen. Enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner feast with all the fixings, sides, and sweets. This being New Orleans you know we gotta have a little lagniappe, found here as a live jazz band will add a little spice to the Thanksgiving experience as the boat sails down the river.


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Tickets are now on sale for Elvis Week 2022 at Graceland
Elvis Week runs August 9 through 17, 2022, at Graceland in Whitehaven. Both Priscilla Presley and Jerry Schilling will be on hand.
Published: 12:23 PM CST March 10, 2022
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Tickets are on sale now for this year's Elvis Week events in Memphis, marking the 45th anniversary of the passing of the King of Rock and Roll.
Elvis Week runs August 9 through 17, 2022, at Graceland in Whitehaven. Both Priscilla Presley and Jerry Schilling will be on hand, each hosting an exclusive personal tour of Elvis' home in Memphis.
Organizers said Priscilla will also appear at the Elvis Presley in Concert event on August 16th and Conversations on Elvis on August 15th, as well as an exclusive cocktail party on the Graceland lawn on the 17th.
The annual candlelight vigil is set to Monday, August 15th, at Graceland's front gate.
There will also se the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, and a The Ultimate Return – a live concert featuring 10 past Tribute Artist winners.
To find more on other events, tickets, and packages, CLICK HERE.
Elvis Week tickets are on sale now! Join us Aug 9-17 for an unforgettable week of concerts, panels, tributes and more - all honoring the life and legacy of #ElvisPresley! pic.twitter.com/xeF6Eo6Tmj
— Graceland (@VisitGraceland) March 10, 2022
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Hi everyone. Time for one more card for the CAS Christmas challenge - Deer.
We are also celebrating our first birthday at CAS Christmas with some prizes for the winning entry and also a random draw prize.
I smooshed brushos onto vellum for my background. Once dry, I glued the vellum onto a piece of white card stock to keep it flat. I ran it through my embosser with a Snowflake embossing folder ... upside-down, so I have a debossed design. I love the satiny look the vellum gives to the background.
Mounted this sweet framed deer scene die from Poppy Stamps over my background and popped the panel on my card base. The sentiment is stamped in Salty Ocean distress ink.
Since I watercoloured on vellum, I'm adding the above card to the CAS Watercolour challenge.
Both CAS Christmas and CAS Watercolour challenges will be open for a few more days. Come join us!
Stunning background, Loll. I love how you water-coloured and embossed it, beautiful!
Oh WOW! How I love that icy background with the debossed snowflakes. What a fabulous effect, Loll! The playful deer are the perfect die cut for this. I can't help but keep looking back at the Brusho on vellum and now will have to try that!
Oh my gosh, your background is GORGEOUS, Loll! Love thos sweet little deer, too...such a beautiful Christmas card!
Love that colored and embossed vellum, Loll! And those little deer and frame are so sweet!
Such sweet little deer - they look lovely against the snowflake-debossed beautiful blue background.
so pretty and so peaceful feeling...great idea to run it through with the eb folder.
Oh Loll, you never disappoint with your fantastic cards. The embossing on vellum looks beautiful and made a gorgeous card. Another thing to try!
Amazing Brusho background--absolutely gorgeous, Loll!
Those deer are so sweet, Loll, and that background is amazing. Almost like northern lights.
Wow, Loll that background is just so gorgeous and it really showcases your sweet deer.
Your snowy scene is so pretty colored on vellum, the added textural touch of the dry embossing takes it to another level. Lovely.
This is so sweet, Loll! Vellum + Brusho + Embossing = Totally Inspiring! I'd love to try this technique. The little deer playing each other are so cute. The depth of the debossing makes the snowflakes stand out even with the vibrant Brusho colors. Fantastic effect!


money and how to manage it to benefit everyone.
so that he can prove that he is capable of making a future for his family.
happiness. Walter has dreams. Dreams he most likely got from his father.
society. She thinks that money is not something that makes a family happy.
family and keeps her faith in them.
to speak on that again.
and work in somebody's kitchen. Yeah, you tell me then.
Walter's own dreams for his son to show Walter what is best for the family.
Mama tries to teach Walter that money can not solve all of their problems.
person you want, even if that is a servant.
together when she thought Walter that money doesn't buy happiness.


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We meet at the office at 8am. We plan to pick up the stuff we need, and get on the road fairly early. We are driving to California; firstly to Sherman Oaks, a suburb of North L.A., to do some tech work, and then to San Diego, to officiate the Spring Quads (4-player teams) Tournament. We load the stuff in the Ultrazone truck. "Stuff" includes the truck's back seat. The truck is large and blocky, an overgrown station wagon; but the back seats are an engineer's joy. Like origami, they fold this way and that, forming a flat cargo bay or two rows of bench seating, or even coming out of the truck entirely, to be stored in the Cow Room.
Our plans for a quick getaway are foiled by Sam, the boss, who wants Mark to produce a three dimensional floor plan of the Alhambra arena for some nefarious scheme or other; and wants me to completely rearrange his email. Then we truck on back to my place and pick up my bag containing all my essentials for a three day trip. (Socks, toiletries, IR sniffer, T-shirts, spare laser gun, shorts, screwdrivers, Jolt cola, pliers, juggling balls; all the usual stuff.)
On to the west side of town, to drop the posters showing the tournament fixtures off at the laminators, pick up the trophies, put gas in the truck, pick up the posters, and go back to the site where we're meeting the freeloaders who are catching a lift with us. They cheer as we pull into the parking lot, a mere two hours behind schedule. We call Sherman Oaks' voice mail to let it know that we'll be late; and I do the quickest tech support of my life, with Gene, the manager of the Vegas site.
Gene: Doug, can you take a look at our printers? Me: Nope. Bye.
We set off into the desert. Inside the truck there is much discussion of Zone, paintball, and life in general. Outside the truck there is just desert.
The traffic on the road is a little different from what I might have expected. It contains a lot of cars, but also a large number of trucks, carrying all manner of things, including scrap paper, timber, pipes, cars, even entire houses, cut in half, loaded onto the truck, and just driven away. There are also a lot of RV's, "recreational vehicles" - a cross between a caravan and a bus, a complete lifestyle on wheels. Many of them come complete with garage: a towing hitch on the back to convert a car into a tender.
After an hour or so of driving, we come across a couple of casinos, just sitting, one either side of the road, in the middle of the desert. It is explained to me that this is because we have nearly reached the state line, and Californians driving into Nevada want to be able to gamble as soon as they enter the state, rather than having to drive all the way to Vegas. We cross the state line, containing the least effective border check I have ever seen: "Are you carrying any fresh produce? On you go." They don't even wait for you to answer the question; they just assume you're going to say no, whether you're actually carrying any fruit or not.
A couple more hours of driving, and we approach the important bits of California. You can tell you're getting closer to L.A., because (a) it's greener; (b) there are mountains; and (c) you can barely see them through the haze. Part of the haze is dust off the desert; much of it is probably smog.
California is, as seen from afar, almost a mythical land. It's where everyone who's anyone wants to be; it's what everyone wants to be. On TV and in literature, we see the world that is California, in a thousand tiny ways: palm trees, highways, convertibles, beautiful women. In soap operas and movies, Hollywood is telling us, this is where you want to be. This is who you want to be.
We drive past little bits of pop culture made real: U-Haul trailers, Macy's, Ventura Boulevard, El Camino Real. Towards the denser parts of L.A. on a variety of freeways, we pass by amusement parks, TV studios, four-level freeway interchanges, a graveyard complete with billboard advertising its services, and random clusterings of palm trees with thin, wavy trunks; that remind me of truffula trees. There are also many eucalyptus trees here, and this reminds me a little of home. I watch them through the window.
Eventually we reach the Sherman Oaks site. My job here is to fix the members' terminal, which has been down for weeks. It has evaded all our efforts at repair, including shipping the whole assemblage to Vegas, where it worked fine. I'm a little apprehensive, because I know that I've already tried everything I can think of to fix this thing, and it hasn't worked. All I can do is try the same stuff in person, instead of down the phone, and see what happens.
We go in, lugging boxes of equipment up the escalators, past the customers, into the office. I meet Duval, the technician who I've been working with on the phone to try and fix this thing.
Most of my work is done on the Zone PC, hidden in a cupboard under the front counter where the staff are working, and on the members' terminal itself, balanced atop a wall overlooking a table where a birthday is in progress. I must work on these computers while the centre is open and full of customers, and I have to work on the Zone PC while the staff are using it to sell and run games.
First, I try the second members' terminal, which we shipped here when the first one didn't work. I find it had a bad adapter, and get it working fairly easily. This gives me a lot of confidence for working on the real members' terminal, because I know I have a fall-back position. I mess around with the multimeter for a bit, and find some strange values on the DC plug pack driving the 232-to-422 converter. It turns out that this plug pack is plugged into a bad power outlet on a power board. Like every other component in the system, this plug pack had been tested twice; but each time it was plugged into a different, more accessible, power point. When I move the plug pack to a good outlet, the members' terminal comes up just fine.
Having proved my status as a master technician, I can relax, and play a game in the arena before we leave.
Then it's back in the truck, and on to San Diego.
The freeways continue, seemingly without end. As we travel south towards San D, near the Mexican border, we see a sign by the side of the road depicting a family: father, mother and daughter; running. The meaning of this iconic black-silhouette-on-yellow sign is clear: "Caution: illegal immigrants crossing freeway."
Eventually, we find our exit, curving away to the right. The San Diego site is only a hop, skip and jump from the end of the freeway: after all, in California, if you can't get there on the freeway, it's not worth going.
I've been to this site once before; Mark hasn't. We pull the truck up onto the sidewalk at the front of the site. There are a few dozen roleplayers slouching around the tables on the patio. We haul equipment into the site (spare PC's, tech tools, poster showing tournament fixtures, etc.).
There are twelve teams of four players each entered, with players from Las Vegas, Portland, San Diego and Sherman Oaks. Each game contains three teams.
The tournament runs 'til 5am or so. It then eventuates that Mark has forgotten which hotel he booked us into, when he called ahead from Vegas. We cruise around Hotel Circle for a while, fail to figure it out, and book into a "HoJo": a Howard Johnson.
Mark has an appointment at noon with TDI, the people who make the poster printer he uses to produce marketing material for sites; so that they can show him all their latest stuff. He drops me at the site, and I slouch around. I've got several tech things to do to the site while I'm here, but it's spring break, and customers are trickling in the door just fast enough that I can't do any of them. I mostly sit around dropping quarters in a Puzzle Bobble machine (except that it's called Bust-A- Move in the U.S., a name so unmemorable that people just call it "you know, the bubble game"), and reading. By the time Mark returns at 5pm, I have inhaled an entire computer manual, and read half an SF novel.
We go to eat at Denny's, a franchise restaurant. (Everything's a franchise in the U.S.) As we walk in the door there are a small number of people lined up, waiting to be seated. The last 24 hours' intense immersion in Zone and the lack of sleep conspire to force me to solve the shot; and as we step inside, my brain immediately tells me where I should aim my laser gun to deactivate the person at the head of the queue.
We go back to our hotel to get a bit more rest before tonight's tournament. We get lost on the way, and lose enough time that we only get to lie down for about an hour before we have to head back to the site.
Tonight instead of helping referee, I am actually competing. The turnout for the solos is considerably smaller than for last night's quads, and there are only fifteen contestants. The first round consists of four games each containing all fifteen players. I place twelfth overall, and am happy with that.
We get to bed at about 3am. I have to get up at 9am, so as to get to the site with time to do all the various technical things that need doing there before they open at noon. Mark gets to sleep in 'til noon; checkout time.
We hang out at the site for a couple more hours, waiting for Slick, who we are giving a ride back to Vegas. We play a couple of "left shoulder" games, where all the rest of the players play normally, and those few of us who really know what we're doing compete to see who can shoot the most left shoulders. It's difficult: you have to stop and think about which shoulder is the left, and you have to aim a little high so that you don't accidentally get your target's chest with the same shot. It's also a lot of fun.
The drive back to Vegas takes eight hours. Mark, who has had more sleep than me, does the driving. We arrive back in Vegas, drop off Slick, go to Mark's place, where I drop him off, and I drive home.


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The World's Smallest Bible Thrown in the Biggest Man-Made Hole
Cecilia Parsberg
In April, 2000 when I first visited South Africa I met Jabulani Dube. He worked at a bookbindery. I asked him what it means to be a rasta and we ended up having a long discussion about religion. He also told me he grew up in Kimberley, a society founded on the Bore's diamond trading and that one of the mines is the biggest in the world. I replied saying that the smallest bible in the world is in Stensele church in Sweden. I asked him if he could make a copy of it. After a long conversation we agreed that this copy of The smallest bible in the world should be unwritten because it's about 'writing it every day in one's actions'. He and his little daughter followed me to Kimberley. I rented a small airplane and dropped the bible in the hole.
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Cecilia Parsberg lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a visual artist who works with relational art works. She is educated (painting) at Valand Academy of Fine Arts, Göteborg University, with a post grad Diploma from Dundee University in Electronic Imaging. Back home 1993 she was recruited as developer of the educational programme in digital media for artists at Valand Academy of Fine Arts, Göteborg University. Where she also then taught for several years.
1999-2002 she was Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå University, Sweden. For two periods between 2000-2002 she was guest professor at Fine Arts Dep Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa. She has frequently, for a number of years, been conducting workshops at Art Academies throughout Sweden, Norway and USA, initiating processes dealing with art and activism as well as relational art practice. In January 2007 she certified as a trainer in Radical collaboration. Currently she is also on the continuation of the film: "A heart from Jenin" for The Museum of World Culture 2008. The first version together with an installation was shown iat BildMuseet i Umeå.
She continues researching ways of collaborating and developing strategies for art and civic entrepreneurship. During the autumn 2006, she exhibited "Postcards from South Africa" at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, a permanent installation in Rinkeby; the film "The holy land" with Maj Wechselman, which had it's premiere at Gothenburg International Film Festival in January 2006, She was further more in the travelling exhibition "Konstfeminism" ; Since three years, she is connected to the network Bwanaclub / Clandestino.
Throughout the nineties her work dealt with power and sexuality, how power structures permeate our daily lives. Her gaze changed from the outsider to the participating: the image exist between us, the task of the artist is to "activate the image". The theoretical concept The Action was articulated through five art works in South Africa, during three years. Images are created in the encounter with the other, the relationships create the society, the art works are created in societal processes. Cecilia argues that the artist in this way acts in a political sphere.
De levnadshungriga
Sometimes, things you don't say are a part of a lie.
ICE, a tale
Tendres Adolescents
A wall is a wall is a wall is a wall


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One of the first posts I ever wrote was THE PANTRY. No great pictures, but some very fun links to setting up and organizing a little nook … and a few words on how this tiny larder got us through the very lean days.
LOVE the wire baskets on the top shelves!
Where can one get those?
This is a beautiful redo! Did you buy or make the wee little chalkboard labels? I'd love to see instructions or where to buy info. Maybe you posted this and I don't know where to find it – in that case just a hint would suffice. Thanks!
I like it! I actually have exact baskets you have on the bottom row for my whole pantry. My biggest question is how to label them. As of now, they still have no labels, because I want them to be perfect or not at all LOL. I'd love to know where you found the chalkboard labels as well!


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Q: Reciproc of the Lindemann theorem and the arc cosine of the golden ratio Via the Lindemann theorem it is easy to prove that the cosine of any rational multiple of $\pi$ is an algebraic number; however its contrapositive only tells us that the arc cosine of an algebraic number is a transcendental number, not necessarily linearly dependent from $\pi$ over the rationals.
I ask, then, is it true via any other theorem? Is there a nice counterexample?
I came to this question specifically as I've found in my research an angle $\theta$ such that $$\cos\theta = \frac{\sqrt{5}-1}{2} =: \varphi^{-1},$$ and I wanted to find out if $\theta$ has any nice representation, such as a rational multiple of $\pi$.

A: No. As a concrete counterexample, $\cos^{-1}(0.6)$ is not a rational multiple of $\pi$.
$\cos^{-1}(0.6)$ is a rational multiple of $\pi$ if and only if $0.6+0.8i$ is a root of unity. But if $(0.6+0.8i)^n = 1$ then $(3+4i)^n$ must be real. And this is impossible because $(3+4i)^n \equiv 3+4i \pmod 5$ for all $n\ge 1$

A: No.
As Henning said, $\cos^{-1} \alpha$ is a rational multiple of $\pi$ if and only if $z = \alpha+i\sqrt{1-\alpha^2}$ is a root of unity. Note that as a sum of algebraic numbers, $z$ is itself an algebraic number; and to find out for which $F \in \mathbb{Q}[x]$ is true that $F(z)=0$ we only need the resolvent $F(z) = \rho(q(y),p(z-x))$, where $q \in \mathbb{Q}[y]$ is the polynomial for which $q(\alpha)=0$, and $p\in\mathbb{Q}[x]$ is the polynomial for which $p(i\sqrt{1-\alpha^2})=0$.
But using this answer we can easily decide whether $z$ is a root of unity:
An algebraic $z$ of modulus one is a root of unity if and only if its (irreducible) $F$ is a cyclotomic polynomial. Let $N = \deg F$; there are finitely many cyclotomic polynomials $\Phi_M$ such that $\deg\Phi_M = \varphi(M) = N$, where $\varphi$ is Euler's totient function, so we only need to compare them.
For example, in the case of $z = 3/5 + i4/5$, $F(x) = x^2-\frac{6}{5}x+1$, which can never be a cyclotomic polynomial, since they have only integer coefficients, as roots of unity are algebraic integers.
In the case of $\varphi^{-1}$, $F(x) = x^4 + 2x^3 - 2x^2 + 2x + 1$, which we can compare to the $4$ cyclotomic polynomials of degree $4$ and see that it matches none, so $\cos^{-1}(\varphi^{-1})$ is not a rational multiple of $\pi$.