These mini pavlovas are for a picnic lunch on Saturday as Australia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the WWI battle at Gallipoli. I will attend the dawn service which starts at 4:50am and then I'll have breakfast at the Mooloolaba Surf Club. I've never been to a dawn service before and to do it on the 100th anniversary will be very special.
Services are held at dawn to remember the time of the original landing. Gallipoli was a massive defeat where 8,709 Australians and 2,701 New Zealanders died. When the last British troops left, more than 44,000 had died. I met a soldier a while back and we were talking about ANZAC Day and he said it wasn't so much a defeat as a 'failure to meet their objectives'. I wanted to put my Southern on and say, "Do what??" I chose to stay silent.
Later in the day if the weather is still good, I'm going to meet friends at the beach for a picnic. ANZAC Day honors the anniversary of the landing and first military action by Australians and New Zealanders at Gallipoli in Turkey on April 25th, 1915.
ANZAC Day is much more than remembrance of Gallipoli, it's also the day that the country remembers every service person who served and died in all wars and conflicts. It's a special day for all Australians and New Zealanders, much like Memorial Day in the US where I grew up.
These mini pavlovas are really cute and not too much for a lunch dessert. Pavlovas are soft creamy meringue that's baked until there's a shell-like crust protecting an inner soft meringue. There's always room for pavlova. I chose the this dessert for Saturday because both Australia and New Zealand claim it as their dessert.
I'll bring the pavs, the whipped cream and the fruit and decorate them on the beach. My friend Carla and I tested these out after the photos were shot and both gave them the thumbs up.
These mini pavlovas are perfect for a light dessert.
Add egg whites to bowl of a stand mixer with the balloon whisk attached (you can use a hand mixer as well) and whisk at medium speed until the eggs begin to look foamy.
Add the sugar mixture slowly at medium speed until all is incorporated.
Increase the mixer speed to high and whisk until you can put a little bit of the mixture between your fingers and you don't feel the sugar crystals.
Place mixture in a piping bag or plastic bag with the corner cut and place the tip near the paper and squeeze until you have a small mound. This mixture will make four small mounds.
Then take a knife (I used a palette knife) and flatten the top and make swirls around the sides. The swirls help to keep the meringue upright.
Bake for 30 minutes and then turn the oven off until cool.
When cool, remove from the paper and place on serving plates.
Top with whipped cream, then kiwi fruit and then passion fruit.


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In recent years, the national debt has grown to unthinkable levels. The United States is not alone – many governments, businesses, and individuals worldwide have accrued massive debts, borrowing extraordinary amounts of money that must eventually be repaid. Two thousand years ago, our LORD Jesus informed us that no matter how much money we or our government owes, our sin debt to God is still our greatest liability. Because God has forgiven us our debts (Matthew 6:9-13), we must act accordingly in our daily lives.
In the parable of the unmerciful servant (Matthew 18), the king decides to reconcile his accounts with his servants. One man was brought before him who owed ten thousand talents (a fortune), yet the king agreed to cancel out the servant's debt when the servant begged for mercy. Just following his good fortune, this same servant accosted a fellow servant who owed him a hundred denarii, a very small amount. Instead of returning the favor done to him, the unmerciful servant refused to show mercy to others in the same way as mercy was shown to him. When the king learned of his actions, the king ordered him to be tortured and punished.
It's not obvious in this day and age how large a debt the unmerciful servant owed. Ten thousand talents was an enormous amount of money back then, much more than anyone could repay the king. This man had apparently been doing some world-class embezzling or borrowing in order to amass such a debt. He must have been working steadily, day by day and with sincere effort, in order to run up such a tab. It was not the kind of debt one accrues overnight.
To put the debt in perspective, historical documents reveal the total annual revenue collected by the Roman government was about 900 talents. This was the amount of money collected from Judea, Samaria, Idumea, and Galilee. What we see is the ten thousand talents owed the king represented about 11 years of taxation from four provinces. Imagine how the IRS would react if you had absconded with 11 years' worth of tax revenue from four major U.S. states!
In the economy of that time, a talent was worth 6,000 denarii. Given that the average laborer was paid about six denarii a week, it would take him 1,000 weeks or about 20 years to earn even one talent. A debt of 10,000 talents was a staggering amount for a man in his position and would require over a million years to pay off the king if the servant gave him everything he earned. The point Jesus made is that the debt was impossible to pay off; still, the merciful king simply cancelled the debt.
The ungrateful servant then turned around and refused to cancel the debt of his fellow servant, a man who owed him only a small sum. Legally, the ungrateful servant was on solid ground to demand payment, but morally he had no leg to stand on due to the massive debt that had just been forgiven him. This obstinance reflected the condition of his heart and the depths of his ungratefulness.
Jesus is telling us that God has cancelled the enormous debt of our sin against Him. Each of us has a debt against Him so incomprehensibly large that none of us could possibly repay it, even if we could use good deeds as payment. In a similar manner, we could never live long enough to pay off the Earthly rewards God has given us.
It is normal for God to forgive our massive debt to Him. This parable emphasizes how you are called to be normal, just as the king was, and to forgive others freely as we have been freely forgiven. God, through Jesus Christ, has cancelled a debt you could never possibly repay. No debt owed to you will ever compare to the enormous debt you owe God. Yet those who put their faith in Jesus Christ as LORD and Savior are forgiven freely of all sins.
If you are a forgiven child of God by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, you never have a right not to forgive others. The Bible tells us repeatedly that the burden of forgiveness always falls on us. "Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the LORD forgave you." (Colossians 3:13). Be normal and show some forgiveness today.
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raspberry ketone in management of obesity
Raspberry ketone is an ingredient found in raspberries (Rubus idaeus) that may have weight loss potential given preliminary findings in rodents and cell cultures, i.e. prevention of weight gain during a high-fat diet, and enhanced norepinephrine-lipolysis, increased adiponectin expression, and translocation of hormone-sensitive lipase in adipocytes (1,2). A more recent study found that raspberry ketone was protective against non alcoholic fatty liver in rats fed with a high fat diet (3).
raspberry ketone (4-(4-hydroxyphenyl) butan-2-one; RK) is a major aromatic compound of red raspberry (Rubus idaeus)
the structure of RK is similar to the structures of capsaicin and synephrine, compounds known to exert anti-obese actions and alter the lipid metabolism
Evidence for efficacy for weight loss in humans:
Prograde Metabolism (METABO) is a multi-ingredient dietary supplement that contains primarily raspberry ketone, caffeine, capsaicin, garlic, ginger and Citrus aurantium and is suggested to be used in combination with an exercise and nutrition program
in humans, oral ingestion of certain capsaicinoids, (active component of chilli peppers from the genus Capsicum) has been shown to increase energy expenditure, lipolysis and fat oxidation, activate brown adipose tissue and stimulate the systemic release of norepinephrine
bioactive compounds found in the rhizomes of ginger (Zingiber officinale) and garlic (Allium sativum) extracts have been shown to influence many key features of the metabolic syndrome by modulating adipocytokine secretion from adipose tissue, reducing body fat accumulation, decreasing circulating insulin and markers of systemic inflammation in murine and cell culture models, with similar findings emerging from studies in humans
extracts of Citrus aurantium, standardized for p-synephrine and other bioactive amines have been shown to increase resting metabolic rate and enhance weight loss in human clinical trials
in an eight week randomised controlled trial,METABO administration (2 capsules at breakfast and 2 capsules at lunchtime) was a safe and effective adjunct to an eight-week diet and exercise weight loss program by augmenting improvements in body composition, waist and hip girth. Adherence to the eight-week weight loss program also led to beneficial changes in body fat in placebo group (4)
of the 45 subjects who completed the study, significant differences were observed in:
body weight (METABO -2.0% vs. placebo -0.5%, P < 0.01), fat mass (METABO -7.8 vs. placebo -2.8%, P < 0.001), lean mass (METABO +3.4% vs. placebo +0.8%, P < 0.03), waist girth (METABO -2.0% vs. placebo -0.2%, P < 0.0007), hip girth (METABO -1.7% vs. placebo -0.4%, P < 0.003), and energy levels per anchored visual analogue scale (VAS) (METABO +29.3% vs. placebo +5.1%, P < 0.04)
during the first 4 weeks, effects/trends for maintaining elevated serum leptin (P < 0.03) and decreased serum resistin (P < 0.08) in the METABO group vs. placebo were also observed. No changes in systemic hemodynamics, clinical blood chemistries, adverse events, or dietary intake were noted between groups
there is evidence for the prevention of weight gain and protection against development of non-alcoholic fatty liver in rodents fed with a high-fat diet. In humans there is minimal study evidence but the 8 week study using a preparation containing raspberry ketone (METABO) augmented improvements in body composition, waist and hip girth
"...although this research seems to confirm earlier results suggesting that raspberry ketone may offer some protection against obesity, health and nutrition practitioners urge clients to be wary of the newfound popularity of the supplement until more research is available.." (5)
1) Morimoto C, Satoh Y, Hara M, Inoue S, Tsujita T, Okuda H. Anti-obese action of raspberry ketone. Life Sci. 2005;10:194-204.
2) Park KS. Raspberry ketone increases both lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation in 3 T3-L1 adipocytes. Planta Med. 2010;10:1654-1658.
3) Wang L et al. Raspberry ketone protects rats fed high-fat diets against nonalcoholic steatohepatitis J Med Food 2012;15 (5): 495-503
4) Lopez HL et al.Eight weeks of supplementation with a multi-ingredient weight loss product enhances body composition, reduces hip and waist girth, and increases energy levels in overweight men and women. J Int Soc Sports Nutr. 2013 Apr 19;10(1):22. doi: 10.1186/1550-2783-10-22.
5) Peregrin T. Frequently asked questions of the Academy's knowledge center. J Acad Nutr Diet. 2013 Jul;113(7):887-91
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Overweight truck fine of $14k upheld; GPS no excuse
A Pennsylvania appeals court has upheld a $14,000 fine for a trucker who violated overweight laws, not accepting the driver's excuse that has been heard over again.
On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania affirmed a lower court's decision to fine truck driver Na'Ron Emil Akins $14,250 for driving overweight in Hellertown. Akins represented himself in court, making an argument that has become all too familiar in the industry in the 21st century.
Nearly 50,000 pounds overweight
In June 2018, Akins was pulled over by a Hellertown Police Department officer for driving a five-axle tractor-trailer on Northampton Street. A 6-ton weight limit is posted on the street. Truckers are provided with sufficient warnings to turn onto another route via street signs.
At the time, Akins had just picked up a load in Bethlehem, Penn. The load was to be delivered in Texas. Trained to weigh trucks, the officer discovered the truck weighed 61,789 pounds. Akins was nearly 50,000 pounds over the posted limit.
GPS is no excuse
However, one of the exceptions to the overweight laws applies to those making local deliveries. Akins attempted to invoke that exception. In fact, he had documented proof that the load he picked up is considered local. Furthermore, Akins submitted evidence that his GPS instructed him to use Northampton road.
That overweight exception comes with some caveats. Firstly, the pickup must occur on Northampton Street. If not on Northampton, then somewhere that could not reasonably be accessed without driving on that road. Simply using a MapQuest printout, the state was able to prove that Akins' pickup location was a half mile from where he was cited. Additionally, the map revealed Akins had ample opportunity to turn onto a different route.
"Akins' argument that he was following a GPS navigation system does not excuse his failure to follow posted traffic signage, including duly posted signage warning of weight limits on surface streets," the trial court determined.
The appellate court agreed with the trial court's overweight exception analysis.
"Appellant's local pickup did not require him to drive on Northampton Road," the court opined. "Appellant's bill of lading for his Easton Road pickup did not serve as a permit to drive wherever he wanted or wherever his GPS told him to go after making his pickup, with utter disregard for posted weight restrictions. He had an obligation to avoid the restricted road via a reasonable alternative route. He failed to do so."


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Q: Drop asm into an Existing JS Application I got emscripten working, but it generates huge self executing files. Is it possible to make emscripten generate small functions that I want to optimize so I can copy paste them into my existing application easily?
Thanks!

A: I would advise against a copy/paste of some generated function from the inside of the Emscripten-generated output unless you have identified that bandwidth / compiling of the ASM/Javascript in the browser is a limiting factor that affects the performance of the application. Going down that route I suspect makes would make updates full of pain that I would avoid unless necessary.
What I think is better is to use the techniques in the Code Size section of the Emscripten docs
Some of the fairly straightforward ways are:

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*Using NO_FILESYTEM to prod Emscripten to not include some standard libraries (assuming you don't need them).

*Using NO_BROWSER if you can

*Using NO_EXIT_RUNTIME to not include some functions required when exiting.

*Tinkering with the optimization flags, but according to the docs -O2 offers

the smallest and fastest output.

A: It is possible, but not well documented yet: you can use the --separate-asm flag. See
https://gist.github.com/wycats/4845049dcf0f6571387a
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Writing the second Act - Screenwriting Journey
Screenwriting Journey
Meet Hywel
Writing the second Act
The second act is the most difficult to write. It is the place where we are most likely to get stuck and give up, and the place where readers are most likely to get bored and drift off. Why? Because it's 50 pages or more, and it's less clear what we are supposed to do with it.
The first act is relatively easy. We've got lots of setup, we've got a wonderful inciting incident, we've got the reaction to that incident and we've got the first big moment in our story. We've nearly always got more than enough to fill up 25-30 pages. Our only challenge with the first act is keeping it to 25 pages.
Then we get to the second act and suddenly it feels like the well has run dry. 50 pages! We've got to fill 50 pages with stuff. How do we do that?
So we start padding scenes out a bit, hoping to fill in some space. We start creating scenes that we don't feel are completely necessary, but at least that's three pages more. We add in a whole sequence that only follows a single subplot, but that's seven pages. The 50 pages is flying by now, but none of it has anything to do with our movie.
It's all because we haven't properly planned our obstacles and the protagonist's solution to those obstacles. And I promise you, that is all a great second Act is—obstacles and solutions. That's it.
Don't believe me? Let's look at the most critically and audience acclaimed movie of recent Hollywood—The Shawshank Redemption. There are only three movies that score over 9/10 on IMDB. The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2, and The Shawshank Redemption. And Shawshank is number 1 on the all-time movies list. That's a pretty lofty place to be for a movie that basically bombed on release. It was perfectly well received by critics but it made less than $30m in US theaters. Its entire popularity was discovered on video (remember those?) and DVD.
It is not what anyone would consider a high concept movie. It's not "Hollywood" by most traditional standards. It is a historical drama, and quite a dark one at that. I always find it fascinating how many women love the movie since it holds no facet that anyone would usually expect a female audience to love. Would Lifetime have commissioned it? I doubt it. But love it they do, more than their male counterparts in my experience.
So let's look at the second Act and see why it holds such a place in people's hearts.
A good second Act is made up of 3-5 obstacles for the protagonist to overcome, with each obstacle being increasingly more challenging. I'm sure some of you think that this is far too simplistic. And it is. In a good way. This is an area where we want to start with simple and build our own version of complicated.
The Shawshank Redemption is about Andy Dufresne, who is sentenced to life in Shawshank prison in the 1940's for a crime he may or may not have committed.
His goal from the moment he arrives at Shawshank is very simple—to survive.
Obstacle number one:
His first obstacle is to fit in and find his place in the prison.
He makes it through his first night without being the one to cry, but gets off to a rocky start with the other prisoners by insulting them with a question about the prisoner who died the night before. This makes him an outsider.
His solution to finding his place within the prison population is to introduce himself to "the man who can get things". This is Red. What starts as a simple transaction for a rock hammer becomes a friendship of sorts, and this gets Andy in with a group and offers support within the population.
Obstacle number one is solved.
Obstacle number two:
His second obstacle is "the sisters"; a vicious group of men, led by Bogs, who take a fancy to Andy and are bent on rape, or giving Andy a beating if he resists.
This goes on for a few years. Andy fights them off when he can but is regularly raped and beaten.
Andy does solve this problem for himself but the solution is unexpected. Whilst tarring the roof of a building Andy overhears Captain Hadley speaking of an inheritance, and his anger at having to pay taxes on the inheritance. Andy approaches Hadley with a way to keep the whole amount, almost getting himself thrown off the roof in the process. But when the scheme works Andy is given protection by the guards, and Hadley beats Bogs nearly to death. After that, the sisters never touch him again.
Obstacle number two is solved.
Obstacle number three:
The third obstacle is to have a purpose in life so that he can stay sane.
This is ignited primarily by the death of Brooks Hatlen. Andy realizes that without a purpose he will end up just like Brooks. Now in favor with the guards and the warden as their own financial wizard, Andy decides to try and do up the prison library by writing to the state senate and asking for funds. The warden even offers to mail the letters for him.
Andy writes a letter a week until they finally send him some money and books. After which he writes two letter a week until they give him an annual fund to get him off their back. He uses the money to build a beautiful prison library (dedicated to Brooks Hatlen) that gives him purpose within the prison.
Obstacle number 3 is solved.
Obstacle number four:
His fourth obstacle comes when a new prisoner, Tommy, tells the tale of man who admitted to committing the crime for which Andy is serving time. We now know that is Andy is innocent "…like for real innocent."
Andy can't stay here knowing that his chance to get out is right there in front of him. He approaches the warden to help him make this new evidence known and get a new trial, but Andy is too valuable to the warden to be let out. Andy is funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars of illegal money through the prison. The warden not only refuses but sends Andy to the hole for two months for his insolence.
While Andy is in solitary, the warden has Tommy shot, claiming that he was trying to escape.
This is Andy's lowest moment and the end of Act 2. Andy is furthest from his goal. Being in prison as an innocent man is one thing, but in prison as a provably innocent man with no one to listen is too much.
Andy is let out of solitary and goes back to his job administrating the warden's illegal deals, but he is a broken man. Maybe he will not survive after all.
That night we believe that he might have actually ended his journey and killed himself (the death moment). He acquired rope from a fellow prisoner, and in the morning there is a ruckus when Andy doesn't come out of his cell.
However, he is not dead. He is missing. As the warden and Hadley struggle for an explanation, the warden throws a rock at a poster hanging in Andy's cell. Hearing the rock drop away he pulls the poster off the wall to reveal an enormous man sized hole in the thick concrete wall.
Andy has escaped.
Obstacle number five:
It turns out that Andy's fifth obstacle has been going on for the twenty years that he has been in the prison and neither we, nor anyone else in the prison, were aware of it. His fifth obstacle was the physical obstacle in the way of his escape. A solid wall of concrete. And every night he has been digging it away with his rock hammer and every day he has been dropping the rock in the prison yard.
With his escape, obstacle number five is solved.
But the fourth obstacle is still not completely solved. Escaping is half the solution, but it would not completely solve his obstacle of the injustice meted out by those in authority to keep an innocent man locked up and murder a young inmate.
So Andy doesn't just escape. He steals all the warden's ill-gotten $370,000. He also sends the ledgers and other evidence of the illegal dealings to the local newspaper.
Hadley is arrested and Warden Norton puts a gun in his mouth. Total comeuppance for all involved.
Obstacle number four is solved.
Five obstacles, each one more difficult than the last. Five solutions, each one ingenious, unexpected and completely logical, which build to the conclusion that we always wanted on a route we couldn't possibly have imagined.
That's a second act. Do that.
And I'm not being obtuse. Perfection of story and structure like this comes from the knowledge that all good stories have a simple structure of obstacle and solution at their heart. Using this structure, we build original and inventive solutions to obstacles that are surprising, hilarious or terrifying.
Sit down and think about films that you admire. Films that never feel slow or labored, no matter how long the second act may be. What are the obstacles that the protagonist faces and what solutions do they create?
There's no need to make it difficult for ourselves by trying to get clever and break the rules. Stick to the rules but do it really, really well by planning out our obstacles and solutions. This will give us the momentum we need when we inevitably get stuck in the middle of writing our second act.
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I just got done reading Kristi Eckberg's question to Debby (Attention Debby Tabb I need your help) and I just have to say to you Debby, how very supportive, polite and generous you are with helping people.
I always take the time to read threads that you comment on because I know I'm gonna learn something and I appreciate how you never put anyone down for their question. And even though your so busy you will still encourage people to contact you personally to give further assistance. You seemed to be a genuinly nice person.
I'll second that! -- I was thinking of posting this exact message, so thanks for beating me to it, Deborah!
Sometimes I read a thread and I think, "Where's Debby? I want to know what Debby thinks about this" because I've come to trust her advice and she doesn't make you feel like you're an idiot just because you're trying to learn.
After being a fly on the wall of the Studio Lighting thread since I joined BP, I felt like I "knew" Debby even though she had no clue I existed (does that qualify as some kind of stalker?! ha!) So when I decided to get new lights for my home studio, the obvious thing to do was to email Debby for help.
That same day, she called me and treated me like I was an old friend, spending 90 minutes on the phone with me, getting to know what I like to do and helping me pick out the best product that I could afford. She is funny, engaging, and sincere. On top of that, she placed the order for me the next morning and got them to me in record time!
Sharon 's Gallery I totally agree! I'm glad she's here in case I ever need her :)!
I have to admit, she does have good advice. One heck of a sense of humor, too.
I agree, although I don't have bucks or space for studio lighting - I often 'lurk' on her threads :) I've also had other info and tips from her, and also enjoy her sense of humour and sharp wit. Debby, I actually don't know where you find time to have a business, run a home, be a wife, mother, lover etc AND spend so much time on BP - let us know the secret.
I am so over whelmed! You guys have me cring.
I am on my way to bed, my flight is at 6:20 am but I wanted to check in on some things and saw this post.
THANK YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH FOR ALL THESE KIND WORDS.
Today you will never know how much they mean.
Though, you must know- I get so very much from all of you!
I love my work and more then that , I love watching others get "turned on" by light and posing, then watching you all make a business that adds to your families. Wow thats just icing on this beautiful layer cake we all have here.
Deborah L., Thank you for such a sweet post, you and everyone of you have really helped me through a hard day.
Please know you have my graditude as well for all the happiness you bring me and for allowing me to take a part in some of your successes.
I wish you all sweet dreams.
Oh Debby, quit being so modest.
i din't know people still did cringing?
ah to affiliate?but I would say yes.nice to know you debby.
the old I would like to share my knowledge in such an unselfish manner.thought that was gone.
I am proud to know you.i never saw an I in your posts.never a me?
so I jest,but with pride to have known the likes.
congratulations debby on being a person.
i should add a disclaimer?
ok,subject to change without notice.


2018 was obviously a turbulent year. Not that I was a very active blogger, but those times I actually posted something… it wasn't very a bright input, in any way.
I've been struggling with motivation, love, self esteem and blah, blah, blah.
I don't really want to focus that much on the bad stuff, or manifest that negativity into written words. The fact that my sad musings are excruciatingly embarrassing for me to read now, is partly the reason for my change of course.
I find myself thinking increasingly about how my thoughts, all-consuming as they often feel, actually matter very little.
It's like waiting for a phone call from a romantic interest. As your head fills with worry about being undesirable and vague speculations about whether the belated caller experienced an accident, the person in question might very well be sleeping.
Giving into negative thinking leads to unhappiness, while positive thoughts pave the way to self-delusion and disappointment.
So I'm trying to think as little as possible. Stopping my train of thought as soon as I realize I unintentionally boarded it, I instead decide to do something which brings me satisfaction.
Light and carefree, that's how I would like 2019 to be.
It has everything to do with this blog. Enough of tragic words. I'm still as moody and conflicted as most people, but I really want to focus on something else. The plan is to count my blessings and give every one the appreciation they deserve.
Traveling to a new place is always exciting, even more so when you're arriving in the middle of the night with no one coming to pick you up.
Fortunately I'm not entirely on my own. I'm traveling with wonderful Caroline, my best friend and partner when it comes to exotic adventures. She is actually the main reason for why we are going to Kenya. Caroline is writing a master paper about how Kenya has prohibited plastic bags – while I just tag along. I've never been to Africa or seen a giraffe before, and I desperately needed a vacation. Deciding to join Carol was easy.
And this is how we came to be at Jomo Kenyatta Int. Airport at 02:00 AM.
(No photos from these moments, because I really didn't feel like packing up my camera).
You can imagine we were somewhat stressed concerning how to get to Nairobi city. It turned out the the airport is prepared for travelers like us. In some 15 minutes we got ourselves Kenyan SIM cards, local money and a taxi to the apartment where we are staying for the next couple of days.
Check out all the elephants on the cash! I wonder what other money pictures they have over here!
I'm guessing this little story is about how you shouldn't worry, especially when your sole reason for worrying is that you don't know any better, or lack knowledge or experience.
There are times when I am extremely happy with my job.
Last week has been full of those wonerful moments. Because…..
I got to cover FINNMARKSLØPET!
Basically, it's the longest sled dog race in Europe.
1100 km of ice and snow..
I shot all these photos working for NRK. You can find our coverage of the event on the internet and on TV.


Friend and editorial photographer Tāne Coffin was called in to capture these New Zealand natives tying the knot and the Whakamarama property on which they said I do was idyllic. Unpredictable weather almost dampened their wedding day but luckily the rain cleared just in time for the ceremony, leaving the surrounding gardens looking lush.
The couple coined 'bohemian black tie' when it came to the theme, and we think it's the perfect description for their chic outdoor affair. A stretch marquee, vintage lounge settings, scattered rugs and cushions and custom trestle tables by Louisana Lucy made for quite the garden party.
Though they had so many loved ones in the crowd, there was one little face that stood out to Kelly and Josh – their precious baby girl, Sunny! "It was so special having our daughter present." Kelly tells us. "Seeing her in the front row while her parents promised to be one another's forever really meant the world to us. My heart nearly exploded when we were announced as 'The Mullers' and Sunny reached her arms out to her Papa as he picked her up into his arms." Tissue anyone?
Somehow Kelly managed to combine sensibility and style, wearing white, strappy Kurt Geiger block heels (perfect for the soggy lawn event) and all we can say is SHOE GAME STRONG.
Glam side-parted waves were the way to go for this bride, however with the humidity, rain and wind, Kelly wishes she had done a little more, "I wanted to look like me and not feel too 'bridal' but by the end of the night I felt a little 'underdone'. I have very straight hair naturally and it wasn't the best day weather wise!" We think she still looks babin'!
Josh and the boys kept things classic in black 000Topman suits, black bow-ties and crisp white shirts. Tan H by Hudson shoes set the groom apart and Kelly's gift of The Horse watch finished his look.
Not wanting to spend a fortune on flowers, the couple decided to source greenery from the property itself and the owner (a family friend) was happy to help. Foliage runners lined the tables, along with mason jars and Ecoya candles.


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Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Robert was a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. He received his J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, and his B.S. from Syracuse University. He is admitted to practice in California and New York.


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Our Killorglin Riders Edward "The Rock" Casey and Brendan O'Sullivan were in action today in the A3 Tommy Sheehan Memorial event in Carrick-on-Suir today. The lads rode very well and were in the thick of the action all day they finished comfortably in the bunch. Another race in the legs for the lads before the Des Hanlon in Carlow on Sunday. Thank to Sean Rowe for the photos.


I wanted to share with you some recent photographs I took while flying across the country to visit Rachel. Many of the pictures don't seem like pictures of land, more like textures or maybe even baked cookies on a sheet. What do you see?
I am thinking of sending this one in to Southwest, actually. I love the way it came out. You can see the horizon-line starting the sunrise. The sun is over the plane on the right, as though it's over my shoulder.
I love this. It looks like waves or something.
Somewhere between Colorado/Utah. Looks like the moon.
Fuzzy horizon (actually think this goes with the first shot, just without the airplane wing).
I've always wondered, do the squares down there form by roads, or just natural contours of the land?
Clouds? Snow? Water? All of the above?
This looks unlike land, to me; maybe a map? Frosted cookies?
More sugar-frosted brownies. You can see those lines I mentioned above much more clearly in this image. Map lines? Aliens? Roads? Elephants?
I have always loved planes. This is the back-end of the jets on the wing.
More mountains. Haze in the air as the sun cuts across it.
Much less snow here. Utah, methinks. The plane wing is more shadowed, I think we changed direction and are headed a little more northwest.
Forest with the line of snow.
There's just almost a rainbow in the right side of the picture. Weird how the camera interacts with the double-pane glass of the airplane window.
Almost looks like clouds, but I think that's actually snow. Interesting, since the snow indicates elevation but the whole ground looks like it's mountains of the same height.
This looks like meringue, no?
This is me playing around with the "effects" on my phone. This one is the vignette setting.
Looks like cloud froth, but is actually snow.
This looks like ocean waves, but is actually mountains, valleys, and some cloud formation.
More meringue. Anyone getting hungry for pie?
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I see a landscape I don't know. I took photos from a plane three weeks ago and the view looked nothing like this. Not nearly as clear either.
I'm thinking topography/geography, hills mountains, waterways and snow, lots of snow and how like you to to show yourself in the knitting shot.
A thoroughly enjoyable viewing of shadows and light. I can't pick one as a favorite, not yet, need to look again. Thanks, Noony!
Ooh. I'd love to see your plane shots too. Even if they're not as clear, I'm curious. What does the landscape of Australia look like?
It's just amazing to me that camera phones produce such quality. Of course, the artistic operator has a lot to do with that. 🙂 As for what I garner from the images, I'm reminded of the world globes I liked as a kid for their topographically textured surfaces. Thanks for sharing!


Think you're addicted to dark, smooth, and sweet? You're not alone.
Chocolate is a feel-good food.
You know how it goes: You're sitting at your desk or on the couch, and you suddenly get a craving for something chocolate. From past experience, you know that if you don't satisfy the craving, it will soon consume you and you won't be able to think about anything else until you get what you want.
So why fight it? Food cravings aren't fully understood, but there are certainly psychological benefits to "giving in," as long as you don't overdo it. The types of foods we tend to crave can lift our spirits, calm our nerves and stabilize our moods. That's something health foods ordinarily don't do as well. Rare is the report that women (or men, for that matter) have cravings for stir-fried tofu or a steamed artichoke!
Entire books have been written about the subject of women and chocolate cravings, surveys have shown that chocolate is the most craved food among American women, and researchers have found that comfort foods like chocolate can supply nutrients that keep a woman's hormonal system functioning properly and brain chemicals in balance.
Premenstrual cravings are common in women and, physiologically, we know that levels of the "feel good" brain chemical serotonin are low at this stage of the cycle. Chocolate and other fatty, carbohydrate-rich foods trigger the production of more serotonin. Researchers also say that indulging in sweet and fatty foods also triggers the release of endorphins, brain chemicals that help you feel calm. Endorphins are responsible for the "high" you might feel when you exercise vigorously, fall in love or eat chocolate.
If you frequently indulge in chocolate but are also in control of your weight and health, that doesn't sound like a problem. But if your chocolate cravings are out of control, causing you to overindulge, there may be cause for concern. Cravings become a problem if they lead you to overeat on a regular basis. If you are an emotional eater, and your cravings lead to binge eating or weight gain, you might try to control them.
You can try to distract yourself until the urge goes away, but that doesn't work for everyone or every time you get a craving. Exercise releases the same "feel good" brain chemicals as chocolate, so you could run to the gym, but that's not always convenient. If your cravings are due to real hunger, you might be able to reduce their frequency by making sure you eat three full, balanced, meals every day within four hours of each other and supplementing your meals with planned snacks. Consistently eating in this traditional way ensures you get enough calories evenly spaced throughout the day so you don't get hungry and helps your blood sugar levels remain steady.
A recent study published by psychologists at McGill University in Montreal, focusing on mindfulness techniques and chocolate cravings, found that the mindfulness skill most effective at reducing cravings is one known as disidentification. Disidentification involves observing yourself from something of a distance, more objectively, as others would observe you, and without judgment. You simply observe the facts, and instead of telling yourself "I am stressed (sad, lonely, angry) " you say to yourself, "I feel stressed" (sad, lonely, angry). The idea is to recognize that you are not defined by your feelings, you simply have feelings that are just one small part of who you are. And while you, the person, stay the same, your feelings are fleeting; they will pass.
With mindfulness training that focuses on disidentification, you learn to stop identifying yourself by your feelings. You learn to separate who you are as a person from how you feel. And by mastering this technique, you may be able to stop feeding your feelings.
Mindfulness techniques such as disidentification can be taught by a mental health professional, spiritual guide, certified dietitian/nutritionist, or even a yoga teacher or athletic coach with proper training. Look for someone who models mindfulness in his or her own life, is a good teacher, and is a good match for you on a personal level; if possible, get a referral from someone you trust. Mindfulness techniques take time and require patience both to learn and to teach.
I'm a careful eater because I like my figure, but if I have an urge for sweets I drink room-temperature water. It helps a lot!
Want to curb your binge eating this winter? Try a different conversation with yourself!


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A Fulton Market Office Building that Actually Won't Change the Neighborhood
Posted by Editor on June 18, 2019
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Fulton West to Transform West Fulton Site
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When is new construction not new construction? When someone sees fit to take an existing structure, and transform it into something new. Such is the case with Fulton West. Developer Sterling Bay is taking over an existing parking structure at 1330 West Fulton Street in West Town and turning it into a nine-story, 290,000-square-foot office building. Designed by Grant Uhlir, a principal and co[managing director at Gensler's...
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A West Loop community meeting devoid of naysayers is about as rare as an 8 p.m. Saturday reservation at Girl & The Goat. But that was the case Tuesday evening when Convexity Properties asked West Loopers for their blessing on a rezoning proposal. The property in question is a musty old three-story building at 832-856 West Fulton Market. Convexity is pursing a zoning change to allow 18,000 square feet of retail at ground level...
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The twin tanks bearing the images of happy geese are your first hint that something is brewing inside 1800 West Fulton Street. The aroma of hops confirms it. This is the home of Goose Island Beer Company (1800 West Fulton Street). The West Town brewery has called the building home since 1995. Little has changed inside over the years—the staff still churns out premium craft beer and ships it far and wide. Even after being gobbled by a...
Meatpacking District Warehouse Tower Quickly Becoming a Chic Loft Office Building
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Fulton Market in the West Loop is a street of contrasts. Food processing plants sit alongside art galleries and exclusive, trendy restaurants. The Chicago meatpacking hub will soon have an attractive new component between Carpenter and Morgan Streets: the 1K Fulton project, developed by Sterling Bay Properties. 1K Fulton (1000 West Fulton Street) is a commercial/retail mixed use project that's using the old Fulton Market Cold Storage...


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Home Local New route for trail to Pillars and Carpenter Rock in National Park
New route for trail to Pillars and Carpenter Rock in National Park
PRESS RELEASE – ST. PAUL, Antigua and Barbuda – 29th, August, 2022 The National Parks Authority (NPA) would like
to inform the public of a diversion in the trail system within the Nelson's Dockyard National Park (NDNP).
An alternate route is now available for hikers and nature lovers to get to Pillars of Hercules and the beautiful Mermaid Gardens. The traditional route runs through private property which has since been fenced. Several trails run through the scenic National Park and have become quite popular overtime.
The National Park is able to make use of available options whenever circumstances like this arise.
Trails to our favorite scenic spots are still very much accessible from the Horseshoe Battery trail along the coast leading to the Pillars of Hercules. The trail continues up the hill to Fort Charlotte and follows the usual path thereafter. The NPA assures the public that trail access to all of the best known spots in this area of the National Park such as Pillars of Hercules, Fort Charlotte, Carpenter Rock/Mermaid Gardens, has not been denied and remains accessible for everyone's leisure and enjoyment.
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Taxpayer Investment Leads New Drug Discoveries
Mar 2020 |	Business & Industry |	Government & Politics |	Health
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Ekaterina Cleary
Lead Data Analyst, Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University
Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Bentley University
Research Fellow, Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University
Andrew Acevedo
Program Manager in Strategic Alliances, Mass General Research Institute
Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at Bentley University
Fred Ledley
Professor of Natural & Applied Sciences and Management, Bentley University
Director, Center for Integration of Science and Industry, at Bentley University
New research points to critical role of public funding in drug discoveries and development for the last decade
This research is focused on examining the role of the public sector as an early investor in biopharmaceutical discovery and development. In the United States, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary source of funding for basic biomedical research designed to elucidate fundamental mechanisms of biology, health, and disease. This research is expected to establish the scientific foundation for the discovery and development of new biopharmaceutical products. This interim report reviews the linear model of innovation underlying these expectations, and evidence for the effectiveness of this pathway. We also describe new data demonstrating that every new drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the decade from 2010-2019 was associated with basic science funded by the NIH.
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Trauma, Post Trauma Stress (PTS), Stress & Shock Counselling Psychotherapy Support.
Every person suffers a trauma at some point in life. Early childhood or developmental traumas may or may not be long forgotten. However they are certainly still alive, impacting everyday life.
Trauma results when you experience excessive stress that overwhelms your emotional, psychological or physical ability to cope.
What may be traumatic for you may barely affect another person or not affect them in the same way.
Have you ever considered counselling as a means of getting to the root cause of your difficulties? Trauma and Stress a part of the normal cycle of life.
Emotional trauma may exist in the absence of any physical trauma, many times the two go hand-in-hand. If you are experiencing prolonged or recurring periods of Recurring Trauma or PTS, there is help and support available.
Everybody may experiences a trauma at some stage in their life. However, a potentially life threatening traumatic shock or event that becomes overpowering and continues to be experienced long after the event is recognized as Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) or (PTSD).
Seeking help through counselling will enable you to explore your internal difficulties and real life situations. This process can enable you to discover your existing inner resources and help you to build the awareness to make meaningful choices so as to live a more satisfying life.
Counselling 4 U offers a warm, empathetic, safe, confidential and professional environment, where your story can be heard.Trauma Counselling & Therapy can help you explore issues that may be troubling for you and you can begin to develop healthier and more fulfilling and healthy ways of coping and living.
Trauma is an extremely subjective and personal experience. While physical trauma leave wounds like the loss of a limb or a gunshot wound, the shock to the body will heal over time. However, the person is left with the emotional wounds and the consequent repercussions. The impact of Psychological trauma may be long lasting, and when unresolved, can result in greater devastation than the original event.
Many people experience a 'critical incident' or a 'traumatic event' at some stage in their life. A critical incident is a relatively sudden and unexpected and overwhelming event which is outside the range of usual human experience. Examples may include being involved in an accident, being mugged, assaulted, raped or being witness to the murder or injury of another person, being subjected to sustained forms of physical, psychological and or sexual abuse. Worldwide traumatic events include war, floods, plane crashes, tsunamis and other such disasters. Sometimes a trauma may be experienced vicariously or indirectly, as a bystander or witness to an event or where friends or family are victims.
If you have experienced a shock or a trauma that continues to have a negative impact on the quality of your life, after what might be considered a reasonable time, then it is wise to seek the assistance of counselling. Seeking help is the next step.
Common responses to the stress of critical incidents or traumatic events may affect all areas of one's life the EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIORAL, PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL.
• Feeling numb, detached or disassociated from others.
• Lack of confidence in areas which were previously deemed to be un-challenging.
If you have experienced a shock or trauma that continues to have a negative impact on the quality of your life, or that of your partner, family and friends, then it is wise to seek the assistance of counselling. There are no issue too big or too small.


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Plant fibres as ice cream stabilisers
Neville, Michelle E (2017) Plant fibres as ice cream stabilisers. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Over recent decades, the push in consumer trends towards the production of clean label, functionalised foods has resulted in food manufacturers looking towards plant fibres as a source of alternative stabilisers. Not only can plant fibres be considered as sustainable ingredients but they are also able to, due to the functional properties that they possess, allow the food manufacturer to meet the functional foods demand. Plant fibres were assessed as an alternative source of ice cream stabilisers. Firstly, a selection of plant fibres of different plant origin where characterised and their functional properties in suspension were determined to identify which plant fibres provided the most potential as ice cream stabilisers. These fibres were then incorporated into ice cream formulations and it was found that their addition had no impact on the correct microstructure formation.
Heat shock is the process whereby ice cream is stored in inappropriate temperature conditions or experiences breaks in the frozen-chain. Such drastic changes in temperature can alter the microstructure of ice cream reducing the sensory quality. Hydrocolloids are added to ice cream formulations to prevent such sensory deteriorations and for plant fibres to be a suitable source of alternative stabilisers they too must be able to prevent such deteriorations. It was found that the ability to control ice recrystallisation was dependent on the water binding capacity of the fibre, which in turn was related to the total fibre content. However, under heat shock conditions, this ability to control the rate of ice recrystallisation was largely dependent on the freeze-thaw stability of the fibre. It was found, in comparison to a hydrocolloid stabilised sample, that plant fibres have no impact on the rate of ice cream meltdown, nor the final mass loss, but could inhibit the time to first drip due to the ability of plant fibres to behave as 'sponges', absorbing the water from melting ice and hindering the rate of drainage by the formation of a fibrous network with the matrix phase. Higher apparent viscosities were also associated with improved meltdown properties. However, when plant fibres were co-stabilised with guar gum at the concentrations studied, improvements in the meltdown properties and control over microstructural deteriorations were observed but samples became undesirably over texturised.
Sensory analysis was performed to determine the impact of plant fibres on the sensory perception of ice cream as well as the ability of plant fibres to retain sensory quality under heat shock conditions. It was found that plant fibres impart a powdery and mouth drying sensation due to the presence of insoluble fibre particles. Plant fibres of a high enough total fibre content were also found to be able to impart the correct mouthfeel properties in ice cream. Under heat shock conditions, it was found that the more freeze-thaw stable fibres were able to control increases in the iciness perception. However, plant fibres were not found to be able to control the sensory changes that are related to the structure of air, as cryo-Scanning Electron Microscopy imaging identified that plant fibres behave as anti-foams in ice cream formulations under temperature cycling conditions.
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Cincinnati City Council just voted 7-1 for an ordinance that would outlaw discrimination based on natural hair texture and style. Discrimination of this kind most commonly affects Black women. (Photo: Christina Morillo via Pexels)
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Cincinnati Votes for Ordinance Against Natural Hair Discrimination
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City council members in Cincinnati voted to pass an ordinance outlawing discrimination based on natural hair texture and style.
The ordinance passed with a vote of 7-1, with Councilman Jeff Pastor absent. Amy Murray was the lone "no" vote. She claims protections against hair discrimination should already be assumed to be covered in the laws the city has against racial discrimination. However, the wording of this ordinance acknowledges the racialized nature of discrimination based on hairstyle and texture and the significance of hairstyle in many Black people's cultural identities.
Councilman Chris Seelbach, a white man, pushed the city to add specific natural hair protections to the city's existing anti-discrimination law. He has been an activist for LGBTQ rights in the city and took up the cause of supporting natural hair after Kamara Douglas, community affairs director in his office, told him her story. She had been forced to treat her hair or wear weaves at previous jobs, which left her hair damaged and unhealthy, The Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Legislation documents state that there are "negative, lingering, cultural biases that frequently favor hairstyles and hair types that more closely resemble Eurocentric hair types and hair styles."
Former City Councilwoman Alicia Reece, a Black woman, was the youngest person elected to the city council in 1999 and during her campaign, she wore her hair in braids. For her choice to wear the protective hairstyle, she said, she faced hateful comments about her appearance. She praised Seelbach for pushing this new ordinance.
Under the ordinance, the city will investigate any complaints about discrimination regarding hair. The offender could face up to $1,000 in fines — $100 a day — until the discriminatory behavior is fixed.
Cincinnati is the second city in the country to pass such an ordinance, after New York, which made hair discrimination illegal in February. California became the first state to specifically ban discrimination based on natural hair texture. It passed the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) in July.
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With more activism supporting Black men and women embracing their natural hair — including styles like bantu knots, braids and dreadlocks — there have still been some high-profile cases of natural hair discrimination across the country over the past few months.
In December, a New Jersey high school wrestling referee was caught on camera forcing a Black student to have his dreadlocks cut or forfeit the match. The boy humiliatingly had his locks sheared in front of a crowd but went on to win the match. Last month, the referee was suspended for two years due to his racist behavior.
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Recently, a Black sixth-grader at the Immanuel Christian School in Virginia reported being pinned down by three white boys at recess who insulted her hair and cut off several of her dreadlocks.
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Though the advocates celebrated the new Cincinnati ordinance, Deborah Davis with the African American Chamber of Commerce said she found it upsetting a law was needed to prevent such discrimination, according to WCPO Cincinnati.
"What's sad to me is that we have to have an ordinance to say that it's acceptable for us to wear our hair in our natural state," she said.
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First TransPennine Express is a new train company set to offer a fast, frequent and superior experience. Our vision for the new First TransPennine Express franchise is to re-vitalise and redevelop First TransPennine Express, making it the preferred mode of transport for our customers in the North of England.
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Carl Phillips Chooses Duy Doan as 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Winner for We Play a Game
by Yale University Press on Mar 6, 2017 • 3:16 pm	No Comments
Yale University Press is pleased to announce a winner in the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. The judge, prize-winning and critically acclaimed poet Carl Phillips, has chosen Duy Doan's manuscript, We Play a Game.
Series judge Carl Phillips says: "If games figure in Duy Doan's We Play a Game, they do so much more seriously, and resonantly, than the title alone suggests. For game here can mean as well the strategies for weathering those parts of society that threaten identity itself, at the level of gender (in all its fluidity), or race, of family as history and tradition – of language, too, and our expectations for it. Wide-ranging in subject, Doan's poems include boxing, tongue twisters, hedgehogs, Billie Holiday, soccer and, hardly least of all, a Vietnamese heritage that butts up against an American upbringing in ways at once comic, estranging, off-kiltering. Doan negotiates the distance between surviving and thriving, and offers here his own form of meditation on, ultimately, childhood, history, culture – who we are, and how – refusing all along to romanticize any of it."
Yale University Press will publish We Play a Game in April 2018. The manuscript is Phillips's seventh selection as judge and the 112th volume in the series. Carl Phillips's sixth selection, Airea D. Matthews's Simulacra will be published by Yale University Press on March 28, 2017.
Duy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet from Texas. A Kundiman fellow, he received his MFA in poetry from Boston University. His poems have appeared in Slate, The Cortland Review, Best Emerging Poets: Stay Thirsty Magazine, Amethyst Arsenic, and elsewhere. A recipient of awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Club Foundation, Duy has taught at Boston University, Lesley University, and the Boston Conservatory. He is the director of the Favorite Poem Project, which celebrates the role of poetry in the lives of Americans. He lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Awarded since 1919 by Yale University Press, the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the most prominent new American poets by bringing the work of these artists to the attention of the larger public. Earlier winners of the prize include such talents as Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Jack Gilbert, Jean Valentine and Robert Hass. It is the longest-running poetry prize in the United States.
Yale University Press will also continue its partnership with The James Merrill House. Winners of the Series will receive one of the five writing fellowships offered at The James Merrill House in Stonington, CT. The fellowship provides a furnished living space and daily access to James Merrill's apartment for a writer in search of a quiet setting to complete a project of literary or academic merit.
For more information or a photo of Duy Doan for publication, please contact Alden Ferro, Publicist, 203.432.0909, alden.ferro@yale.edu.
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Q: Recognize textview in another class defined in the same Activity - Android I have a class called Main that extends Activity. In this class I have defined another class that extends thread. I want to set text in a textView from a method of the myThread class. I have debugged my programme but when I want to set the text in the textview it says that the source is not found.
Here is my code. I hope you will understand better what I want to explain.
This happens when I click a button. This is from my onCreate function in the Main class.
  b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View arg0) {
            pd = ProgressDialog.show(Main.this, "", "Downloading Data...", true, false);
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            mThread.start();

                 }
    });

This is myThread class.
            class MyThread extends Thread {
            @Override
            public void run(){

                 String result=Main.this.parse();
                 TextView tv=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView5);
                 tv.setText(result);
                 Main.this.pd.dismiss();
            }
        }

The result String is a string that is resturned by a function that is defined in my Main class. I have verified and the result is OK. The programme stops when I reach the line
       tv.setText(result);

The odd thing is that it doesn't have any errors at line
        TextView tv=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView5);

Thank you for any help given! :D
       @Override
       public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
       super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       setContentView(R.layout.main);
       setRequestedOrientation (ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT);

    tv=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView5);
    Button b=(Button) findViewById(R.id.button1);
    final EditText et1=(EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
    b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View arg0) {
            pd = ProgressDialog.show(Main.this, "", "Downloading Data...", true, false);
            Log.d("asinc","inainte d downloadtask");
            // Start a new thread that will download all the data
            MyThread mThread = new MyThread();
            mThread.start();
            //parse();
                 }
    });

A: try to set in your main class into the onCreate()
private TextView tv; //declare as global so you can used into the subclass or into the methods

onCreate(){
   tv=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView5);
}

and then used into the thread

A: Maybe I miss soomething, but why you access UI components from non-main thread? As far as I understand UI is not thread safe; and so I would suggest use AsyncTask instead of Thread. In that case you can place your main proessing code into doInBackground method and all the UI component access into onPostExecute (onPostExecute is called from main thread after the end of task execution).


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A £1million competition has been launched to help decarbonise offshore oil and gas production.
The competition, managed by the Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), is designed to advance the widespread electrification of offshore installations on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), which are powered by gas or diesel.
Organisers are looking for studies (technical, engineering, and/or commercial) that will bring electrification projects a step closer to reality.
The winning ideas will be allocated a share of the £1m prize fund, to complete the proposed work by 31st March 2022.
Power generation accounts for around two thirds of oil and gas production emissions. It is anticipated that powering installations using electricity either from a cable to the shore or from a nearby windfarm, could lead to 2-3Mtpa CO2 emissions reductions, which is equivalent to the annual carbon emissions from households in a city the size of Liverpool.
In addition, the resulting power demand from offshore oil and gas electrification could potentially support up to 4 gigawatts of new offshore windpower capacity.
OGA Chief Executive Dr Andy Samuel said: "Electrification of oil and gas installations is a vital part of industry's licence to operate and to meet its North Sea Transition Deal emissions reduction targets. This is also a big opportunity for industry to support offshore wind expansion, with lasting infrastructure that will provide benefits beyond oil and gas, long into the future."
This competition follows the government's commitment in the North Sea Transition Deal to support funding for early-stage offshore electrification studies by end 2021. Key results from the studies will be published for others to benefit from and build on the ideas generated.
Energy & Climate Change Minister Greg Hands said: "Through our landmark North Sea Transition Deal, we are supporting the UK's oil and gas industry in the transition to a lower carbon future. This £1 million investment for electrification projects demonstrates how we are delivering on these commitments, enabling the industry to develop the infrastructure it needs to decarbonise North Sea production.
"Not only will this help the oil and gas sector to reduce their emissions, this can also support new offshore wind capacity to help grow the UK's offshore wind sector, supporting the shift to green technology and renewable energy in the UK."
The OGA has been actively progressing electrification opportunities in areas including the Central North Sea and West of Shetland: bringing operators together; hosting workshops with the power sector; and pressing operators for more pace on project delivery.
Platform electrification is a key component of the OGA's vision for an integrated energy basin. The OGA's Energy Integration Report found that the UK Continental Shelf could (through a mix of platform electrification, carbon capture and storage, offshore wind and hydrogen) absorb up to 60% of the UK's entire CO2 abatement needed to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Collaboration opportunities between the oil and gas and windpower sectors are increasingly being recognised by industry and government, as in the recent launch of the INTOG (Innovation and Targeted Oil and Gas decarbonisation) consultation by the Scottish Government).


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Why did you decide to attend UW-Madison? I chose the University of Wisconsin-Madison because of my passion for the dairy cow. I fell in love with the dairy industry by following around my four older brothers and father on the farm. Once they grew up, they all attended UW-Madison majoring in Dairy Science. I heard first-hand about the university and the world renowned Dairy Science program. When it came time for me to go to college, I knew there was only one place and one major for me. I am so thankful to have grown up on a dairy farm so that I could find my passion. I'm grateful for the choice I made because I am absolutely loving every part of UW-Madison and the Dairy Science major.
What has been your most memorable college experience? My most memorable college experience is outside of the classroom. The most memorable experiences are the people I meet in the clubs that I have joined. When I started college, I became a member of the Association of Women in Agriculture, Badger Dairy Club, Collegiate Farm Bureau, Collegiate Judging Team, and National Agri-Marketing Association. These clubs allowed me to meet and grow strong relationships with peers that led to memories and experiences that will last a lifetime.
What has been your favorite course? I don't have a favorite class, but I enjoy the classes that are very hands-on and applicable to real life situations. For example, I like to learn in the classroom then have a lab where I can apply what I just learned.
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Developed 80A, 350W power transistor for automotive and railway use.
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