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Just what are Retail Intelligence's methods? Among them is the most basic stock research tool on Wall Street: "channel checks," a vague term that has historically meant anything from counting cars in parking lots to conversations with company suppliers to casual run-ins with customers.


Sage Creek is a free and primitive campground in the Badlands National Park. It is absolutely beautiful and surrounded by grassland. The only amenities are vault toilets-there is no water at the site, but you can fill up at the outside faucet at the visitor center before heading down the road to the campsite. There are 12 miles of gravel roads (some great pull offs along this road for pictures) to get to the site, so low clearance vehicles may want to watch out when it rains. The early morning is awesome at this campsite, its quiet, the sun is rising over the hills and sometimes wildlife can be seen munching away.
The bison frequently roam through this site and I urge all campers to stay a safe distance from the bison as they are wild and unpredictable.
The only complaint I really have about this site, is more of a concern. In recent years there has been a problem with over crowding at the site, for example, more people staying than allowed, people driving and camping outside the designated campgrounds, being loud, crowding other campers, etc. While we were there, we saw a truck barrel over a prairie dog town, parents allowing their children to throw things at the prairie dogs or stick things into the animal's dens and an argument over a campsite. I just hope that those who choose to camp here keep the park rules and the leave no trace principles in mind. This is a beautiful place and a joy to visit the quiet grasslands.


Centrally located in downtown Bangkok, the affordable Adelphi Suites offers comfortable accommodation in central Bangkok at attractive rates, a few meters from the Nana BTS skytrain station and the Sukhumvit MRT underground station, offering easily access to the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre and all major attractions and trendy shopping centers of Bangkok. On-site features at this central Bangkok hotel including daily housekeeping service, 24-hour reception and concierge, business services, wireless Internet connection, the charming Monsoon Café Restaurant and Cocktail Bar, laundry and dry-cleaning services, fully-equipped gym and fitness area, panoramic outdoor swimming pool and private parking with direct access. For an unforgettable Bangkok vacation, the Adelphi Suites is the best hotel choice.


Plastic people: Members of the Artichoke Dance Company will dress in shopping bags to make a statement about pollution and the importance of clean water, for a show on the Gowanus Canal on June 24.
Measured response: Thomas Jay Ryan and Cara Ricketts star in "Measure for Measure," which opens Jan 25 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Fort Greene.
Beyond the pale: Palehound's vocalist Ellen Kempner sings about love and loss at Baby's All Right on June 27.
If you are reading this Friday morning, get moving right now to Brooklyn Eats for some exploratory day-drinking! The showcase of Kings County food and drinks will feature samples from soon-to-open Sunset Park beer company Five Boroughs Brewing Co. and Bushwick's brand-new apple-based whiskey producers Moto Spirits, along with tasty treats from butchers, bakers, and almond butter makers!
10 am–4 pm at the New York Marriott (333 Adams St. between Willoughby and Johnson streets Downtown, www.brooklyneats.com. $10.
A group of death-defying (or at least gonorrhea-defying) dancers will prance across canoes floating on the toxic Gowanus Canal this afternoon, all while dressed in discarded plastic bags. The performance from Artichoke Dance Company is about the importance of clean water, and afterwards you can follow in their footsteps — if you dare— by taking a kayak tour along the Canal.
2 pm at the Gowanus Canal (Promenade at Whole Foods, Third Street between Third Avenue and Bond Street in Gowanus, www.artichokedance.org). Free.
Get thee to a nunnery! Theater for the New City's production of the Shakespearean problem play "Measure for Measure" — which opens tonight — sends the audience through the halls of Mistress Overdone's brothel (a "nunnery" in Elizabethan slang), before emerging to watch a show in which a hypocritical judge lusts for an actual nun. Show up early to navigate the naughty scene.
7:30 pm at Polonsky Shakespeare Center [262 Ashland Pl. between Fulton Street and Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, (212) 229–2819, www.tfana.org]. $85–$120 ($30 students).
Boston indie-rock trio Palehound stops in town tonight with its just-released second album "A Place I'll Always Go." The band's frontwoman Ellen Kempner (pictured) croons confessional lyrics about loss and queer love over a fuzzy guitar and propulsive rhythms that grab onto your ears and don't let go. With opening acts Baked and Petal.
8 pm at Baby's All Right [146 Broadway between Bedford and Driggs avenues in Williamsburg, (718) 599–5800, www.babysallright.com]. $14 ($12 in advance).
It's hot, but you want to be outside. So join Ample Hills owner Brian Smith for the monthly Ice Cream Social and pizza party on the roof of the Gowanus creamery. Participants will take turns on the bicycle-powered ice cream churn, so you can pretend that you've burned off enough calories to indulge in the sundae bar once your dairy delight has hardened.
7 pm at Ample Hills [305 Nevins St. at Union Street in Gowanus, (347) 725-4061, www.amplehills.com]. $35.


Here is my final tip on using vinegar daily that I got from The Alternative Daily. But you can click on the link at the bottom to discover even more wonderful uses of this vinegar.
Not only will your daily teaspoon of ACV promote weight loss, and balance your internal pH, it also does wonders for your lymphatic system. Research suggests that ACV can help to keep allergies at bay due to its ability to cleanse lymph nodes and reduce mucus and sinus congestion. The cherry on top is that its natural antibacterial and antifungal properties prevent sinus infections and the symptoms related to them, thereby making your body a stronghold against allergies.
Keen to experience the goodness of apple cider vinegar? Here's a list of other everyday uses for our good friend ACV.


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Rafael Devers, Danny Santana collect 5 RBI each as Red Sox crush Royals, 15-1, to finish off sweep and perfect homestand
Even on short rest, the Red Sox opened up the second half of their season by crushing the Royals, 15-1, at Fenway Park on Thursday afternoon to finish off a four-game sweep of Kansas City while also wrapping up a perfect 7-0 homestand.
With the win, Boston improves to 20 games over .500 for the first time this season at 51-31. They also increase their lead over the Rays, who were idle on Thursday, for first place in the American League East to 3 1/2 games.
Kiké Hernández got the scoring started for the Sox right away, as he led things off against Royals starter Kris Bubic by clubbing his third leadoff home run in the last five days in the first inning.
J.D. Martinez followed suit in the fourth, as he led the inning off with another solo shot — his 17th homer of the season — to give Boston a 2-0 lead.
A two-out walk drawn by Hunter Renfroe and two-out single from Marwin Gonzalez brought Danny Santana to the plate with the chance to do some damage, and the switch-hitter did just that by mashing an opposite field three-run blast into the Red Sox bullpen. Santana's first big fly since late May put his side up by five runs.
The Boston offense put up another four-spot in their half of the fifth against Royals reliever Ervin Santana, with Alex Verdugo, Martinez, and Xander Bogaerts loading the bases with one out, and Rafael Devers plating a pair on a two-run single to center field.
The bases were re-loaded when Gonzalez was issued another free pass, and Santana came through in that spot by placing a softly-hit, 108-foot RBI single to second base that came as a result of the Kansas City infield playing in a shift.
A balk with Connor Wong at the plate brought in another run, and the Red Sox found themselves in possession of a 9-0 lead.
Devers tacked on three more runs on one swing of the bat in the sixth. With two outs and runners on second and third, the left-handed slugger absolutely obliterated a 98 mph sinker from Josh Staumont and sent it flying 426 feet — with an exit velocity of 110.2 mph — over everything in right field for his 20th dinger of the season.
Michael Chavis, pinch-hitting for Hernández, drove in an additional run on a sacrifice fly in the seventh, while Gonzalez and Santana wrapped up productive days at the plate by collecting one more RBI each in the eighth.
All in all, the Red Sox lineup totaled 15 runs on 17 hits on Thursday. Devers went 3-for-5 with a home run, three runs scored, and five RBI to tie a season-high in that department. Gonzalez went 3-for-4 with two runs scored, an RBI, and one walk. And Santana — in his best game in a Sox uniform to date — went 3-for-5 with a double, one run scored, an a season-high five runs driven in.
Eovaldi tosses seven scoreless frames
While the Red Sox were getting stellar production out of their lineup on Thursday, they also got yet another impressive start from Nathan Eovaldi.
Making his 17th start of the season in this one, the right-hander tossed seven scoreless innings while scattering just five hits and zero walks to go along with six strikeouts on the afternoon.
Four of the five hits Eovaldi allowed came within the first three innings. From the top of the fourth up until the middle of the seventh, the flame-throwing righty retired 12 of the last 13 hitters he faced.
Finishing with a final pitch count of 84 (63 strikes), the 31-year-old hurler picked up his team-leading ninth winning decision of the year while also lowering his ERA to 3.41. His next start should come against the Angels in Anaheim next Tuesday.
Andriese gives up shutout bid
In relief of Eovaldi, Matt Andriese came on the for the eighth inning, faced the minimum in the inning thanks to a double play, but was unable to keep the shutout going in the ninth when he served up an RBI double to Jarrod Dyson.
Still, Andriese did stay on until the end, and he saw the Sox' 15-1 victory through to its completion.
Next up: Heading out West
The Red Sox will board a flight to San Francisco later Thursday afternoon and open up a three-game series against the Athletics in Oakland on Friday.
Left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez is slated to get the ball for Boston in the series opener, while right-hander Frankie Montas will be doing the same for Oakland.
First pitch Friday is scheduled for 9:40 p.m. eastern time on NESN.
(Picture of Danny Santana: Boston Red Sox)
Author Brendan CampbellPosted on July 1, 2021 July 1, 2021 Categories Baseball, Sports, UncategorizedTags Baseball, boston, danny santana, mlb, nathan eovaldi, rafael devers, red sox
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State agencies, boards, commissions and employees can access the state's policy on telework. Agencies that do not currently have a formal telework program can also view a template to create their own program.
Appropriately planned and managed, telework is a viable work option that can benefit managers, employees, and customers of the state of California. Telework, which is called "telecommuting" in statute, is an important means by which the state can help reduce air pollution, traffic and parking congestion, and demand for office space.
The Department of General Services (DGS) has statutory authority to coordinate and facilitate the inter-agency exchange of telework information, as well as develop and update policy, procedures, and guidelines to assist agencies in their efforts to implement telework.
It is the policy of the state of California to encourage the use of teleworking as a management work option. Chapter 1389 Statutes of 1990 (AB 2963 – Klehs), adding Sections 14200-14203 to the California Government Code, authorized state agencies, boards, and commissions (agencies) to establish telework programs as an element of transportation management programs. As practiced today, appropriately planned and managed telework is a viable work option that can benefit managers, employees, and customers of the state of California.
A good telework program facilitates temporary limited duty, increases the state's ability to respond to emergencies, amplifies effective use of new technologies within state service, and improves employee morale resulting in increased job effectiveness.
Statute directs agencies to review their work operations and establish telework programs in work areas where they have identified telework as both practical and beneficial.
Agencies participating in the state's telework program are responsible for establishing their own specific program policies and procedures. Telework must be tailored to the particular environment in which it will operate.
The nature of the services the agency provides to the public and others.
The geographic dispersion of the agency.
The level of decentralization of agency management.
Note: Those agencies that have ongoing, but informal, telework programs are encouraged to formalize those programs.
To assist state agencies in creating formal telework programs, the state has created a model program template called the Telework Program Policy and Procedures (2010 Statewide Telework Model Program) that agencies are encouraged to use.
Each agency is responsible for managing and operating its telework program. The generally low additional costs to establish and maintain a telework program will be borne by the agency.
For agencies that do not currently have a formal telework program, this document can be used as a template to create their own program. This model program is designed to help agencies implement a complete, formal program expediently, and meet the requirements of the state and bargaining entities.
Used as a template, this Model Program (policy and procedures) has been vetted with both the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR) and bargaining groups for use by state agencies in creating a Telework Program. Any changes to the template that are not ministerial in nature must be approved by the agency's bargaining groups and CalHR.
1. Read the document "Telework Program Policy and Procedures January 2010." This is your template for your agency's future plan.
2. Using the Search and Replace function in MSWord, insert your agency or department name in the "Telework Program Policy and Procedures Jan. 2010" document, wherever "[Name of State Entity]" occurs (note: include the one set of brackets in the replace). Do the same for your agency or department acronym wherever "[Entity Acronym]" occurs, including the footer. Additionally there are two administrative positions that will need identification and entry onto the form. Note: The second set of remaining brackets ("") will not appear in the print or print preview mode.
3. Have your agency head adopt the document as written.
4. Submit a copy to CalHR.
5. Follow the procedures and policies in the program document.


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"Abby Wasserman: Mixed-media Constructions" Essay by Allison M. Moore, Ph.D.
Exhibit Essay by Allison M. Moore, Ph.D.
In 2003, a year after her solo watercolor show in O'Hanlon Gallery, Abby Wasserman turned toward three dimensional art, making wall reliefs and sculptures as assemblages of found and gathered natural materials imbued with personal connections. Recent works continue a lifelong interest in autobiography and family biographies in an abstract mode, bringing a new aesthetic in her work influenced by her interest in Zen Buddhism, in which practice she has been involved for nearly a decade.
Abby has always been fascinated with Japanese culture. Growing up in Mill Valley, she was surrounded by her mother's Japanese tansu and porcelain, which influenced her striking assemblages of found and upcycled materials. Her sculptures and wall reliefs suggest ideas of balance, musicality and harmony. Abby lived abroad with her first husband and young sons in countries where she was not fluent in the local language, including Turkey and Nigeria, although she learned well enough to communicate daily expediencies and pleasantries. She uses fragments of Japanese calligraphy decoratively in numerous works, such as Bird Zendo, to suggest the mysteries contained in an unfamiliar language that is beautifully written. Calligraphy that appears in Shrine I and Her Whole Life Flashes Before Her Eyes was salvaged from a Japanese lantern belonging to her husband Potter's family, who lived several years in post-war Japan.
A number of works play with balance through asymmetry in the inner space of the circle, or use the circle as an element in a larger composition. The embroidery hoop is often the starting point for her works. The hoop's slight wooden frame and circular shape bring to mind the enso, or Zen circle drawing, offering a sense of unity and wholeness that Abby complicates, sometimes through visual fragmentation of the circle, as in Dharma Ladder, and sometimes through additions that create patterns with negative space, such as in Homage to Dogen Zenji (a tribute to the Zen philosopher-poet) and California Blue Bar Clock. A strong maternal ethos also pervades these works, as Abby is also a mother and grandmother. Harmony through asymmetry, an original ideal of De Stijl modernism, seems relevant to motherhood and to a long and rich, fulfilling life.
Abby is attracted to Japanese art because of its perfectionism and high element of craft, yet she is especially drawn to the Japanese concept of wabi sabi, an aesthetic of imperfection and transience that permeates many of her works, expressed through fragile materials such as a rodent skull, wicker, horsehair, willow twigs, pine needles, feathers, shells, and in Bird Ryokan, a bird's nest. Her use of wishbones suggests chance and also the eminently human circumstance of hope or optimism, choices not made or paths dangling and perhaps not taken. Homey materials such as buttons and thread spools add domestic flare to work that often seems about the difficulties of communication as well as overcoming those difficulties through an abstract yet ultimately harmonious composition. Mirrors are placed to reflect parts of a composition back on itself, or to bring the viewer inside for a passing moment.
Abby's art seems to imagine the infusion of Japan on California culture. She is highly interested in Plains Indian cultures, which she originally learned about from her maternal grandfather's studies. She also acknowledges the importance to her of sculptor Martin Puryear and of Noah Purifoy, with whom she became friendly in the 1990s when she worked at the Oakland Museum. Recent works incorporate bright color and musical notes, the former influenced by Frank Stella, the latter by her involvement in classical music. Most importantly, perhaps, was her life-long close relationship to the California sculptor and ceramic artist Mary Lindheim, a close friend of Abby's parents, who actively modeled the role of a fearless woman artist and incorporated patterns of stones into her late wall reliefs. Abby's War Machine, an assemblage of wood, straw and glass that addresses the victims of war, is dedicated to Lindheim, an anti-war activist.
Another freestanding piece, Radio Waves, highlights Abby's incorporation of change and flexibility into her artworks. Created some four years ago and painted for this exhibit, its bright copper grille, radiating different lengths of twigs, its "mouth" a bit awry, suggests the importance of radio in Abby's childhood, and its recent re-incorporation in the sense of podcasts. Like that older technology recently reactivated, Abby's artworks play in the space between past and present modes, inviting the viewer to look closely and appreciate careful transitions between color and texture, negative space and form, while appreciating the overall work as they protrude gracefully from the wall like shrine symbols or hanging prayer forms.
Allison M. Moore is an art historian based in Tampa, Florida.
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Former head of NOPD's pedophile unit arrested for failing to register as sex offender
By Kimberly Curth | July 25, 2019 at 6:36 PM CDT - Updated July 25 at 6:36 PM
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) -Disturbing new details about the former head of the NOPD's pedophile unit. Troopers arrested Stanley Burkhardt Wednesday for failing to register as a sex offender.
Burkhardt has been the subject of numerous FOX 8 investigations. We have interviewed two men, including Richard Windmann, who say the former sex crimes detective sexually abused them decades ago.
According to court documents, Burkhardt was arrested Wednesday because he was making disturbing comments associated with pictures of young boys taken and posted by other users on the photo sharing website Flickr. He's also accused of adding 117 pictures of young boys to his favorites list under an email account and Flickr user name he did register with authorities as part of his sex offender status.
"All this time this guy, this monster, has had access to our children in New Orleans and that should have never ever happened in the first place," said alleged victim Richard Windmann.
According to the court documents, Burkhardt commented under a picture of a shirtless young boy saying, "Long legged laddie looking for luv." Under another picture of a young male doing a handstand, Burkhardt reportedly posted, "Another way to attract bead throwers attention." Followed by "Hmmm he looks familiar" and "I had hundreds of wonderful Mardi Gras kids shots, but sadly hurricane washed em away." Another post under Burkhardt's user name said,"Boys in their unguarded moments are essentially sensual." Those messages were posted between May and June of this year.
"That really gives you a window into Stanley Burkhardt's mind, he's not cured, there is no cure for what he has and the only thing we can do to keep our children safe is keep him in jail," said Windmann.
Court documents also reveal Burkhardt was employed at Harrah's Casino in New Orleans from May 14th until the end of June of this year. Those documents say even though he was hired, Harrah's was still in the process of doing his background investigation. And, during that investigation, it was discovered he was a registered sex offender. He was suspended from work on July 1.
Documents also say Burkhardt appeared to hide the fact he was a sex offender. According to the documents, the copy of his driver's license that he provided to Harrah's during the hiring process did not reflect the required sex offender stamp as required by law. It appeared to be altered or scratched off so it would not be visible.
"I'm especially grateful to the Louisiana State Police for keeping this guy under a microscope and yeah Stanley that's been happening, there's a lot of people that have been watching you and I'm determined as are a lot of other people that this isn't going to happen again," said Windmann.
Court documents say Burkhardt was found to be in violation of several aspects of the Louisiana Sex Offender registration law including not disclosing he was a sex offender or child predator as part of his profile associated with his Flickr account.
Burkhardt was given a $10,000 bond for Wednesday's arrest. It appears he is now out of jail, as he did not show up when his name was searched his name on the Orleans Parish jail website. He was convicted of numerous sex crimes in the 80′s and 90′s.
The NOPD has confirmed that it is investigating a sexual assault allegation against Burkhardt dating back to the 70′s'. Windmann has said he is the victim in that case.
Kimberly Curth
It has been Kimberly's life-long dream to be a reporter in New Orleans. Before arriving at Fox 8, Kimberly worked as an investigative reporter for WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee. She is an Emmy award -winning investigative reporter. Her investigations have made a difference in Nashville and beyond.
Even with Who Dats all around, businesses in the French Quarter say they haven't seen the usual black and gold frenzy as years prior, especially compared to past playoff runs.
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Tunga: Tríade Trindade
For the first time ever, Pinacoteca São Paulo – the art museum of the State Secretariat of Culture – hosts Tríade Trindade (2001), a work by the artist Tunga, originally from Pernambuco. The piece was acquired in 2016 through Pinacoteca's Patrons Program. It will be displayed in the Octógono starting February 24. The assembly is based on the first presentation of the work, during the artist's retrospective at Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, France, in 2001, where the piece was colored by red lights. The exhibition is sponsored by Iguatemi São Paulo.
Tríade Trindade contains the symbolic and energetic charges that particularize Tunga's production. Both by its physical constitution – a structure composed of metal and magnets, five meters high and weighing four tons – and by the representations of braids, hairdresser, bells, cauldron, cudgel, pitchers, bowls and other container-like objects. Parts that have organic forms in common and, more than that, are allusive to the human body; parts that are "linked," i.e., are connected by magnetism, interlacing, coupling, and then are dispersed, scattered through space," explains José Augusto Ribeiro, the show's curator.
The exhibition also represents an homage by the museum to the artist, on the eve of the two-year anniversary of his death, on June 6, 2016. Tríade Trindade remains on view through June 04, 2018, on the first floor of Pina Luz – Praça da Luz, 02. Admission is open Wednesday through Monday from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, and visitors are allowed to remain until 6:00 pm. Tickets cost R$ 6 (full price) and R$ 3 (half-price for students, seniors, etc.). Admission is free-of-charge for children under 10 and adults over 60. On Saturdays, admission is free for all visitors. Pina Luz is located next to the Luz Station of the CPTM.
More about the Octógono Project
Created in 2003, the "Octagon Contemporary Art" project occupies an important space in the museum, which presents contemporary art production in line with the Pinacoteca's collection. Over these 15 years, the project presented around 40 site-specific exhibits by Brazilian and foreign artists. Including Carlito Carvalhosa, Artur Lescher, João Loureiro, Rubens Mano, Joana Vasconcelos, Alexandre Estrela, Laerte Ramos, Antoni Abad, José Spaniol, among others.
More about the Pinacoteca's Contemporary Art Patrons Program
An unprecedented program when it was created in 2012, today it gathers roughly 80 couples from civil society who support and encourage the activities of the São Paulo Pinacoteca, whose donations are earmarked for acquisitions of works of contemporary Brazilian art for the museum. Since its founding, 34 works have been purchased, including the first video of Pina's collection, acquired in 2012 ("Duas Margens (2003–2012)" by Carla Zaccacgnini) as well as the first performance piece, acquired in 2014 ("O Nome (2010–2014)" by Maurício Ianês).
More about Tunga
Antonio José de Barros Carvalho e Mello Mourão, known on the contemporary art scene as "Tunga" (Palmares, Pernambuco, 1952 – Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2016), learned about Brazilian modernism at a very early age. He began his career in the early 1970s, at a time when he concentrated his efforts in the field of drawing and sculpture. In the late 1970s, the artist turned to making three-dimensional pieces and installations. He uses chains, lamps, electrical wires and insulating materials, such as felt and rubber, associated with investigations of several areas of knowledge, such as literature, philosophy, biology, and drama. The elements are well cared for formally, and have elegant design. Tunga seeks strong relationships among different materials.
In 1990, he received the Brasília Award for Fine Arts, and in 1991, the Mário Pedrosa Award from the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA) for his work "Preliminares do Palíndromo Incesto." Between 1989 and 1990, he expanded his presence on the international circuit, with individual shows in London, Chicago, Glasgow, and Toronto. In 1994, he took part at the 22nd Biennial of São Paulo and the 10th Biennial of Havana, Cuba.


Scott C. Ratzan is a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Barry R. Bloom is a professor of public health and former dean at the Harvard School of Public Health. Lawrence O. Gostin is the O'Neill professor of global health law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. Jonathan Fielding is a distinguished professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a distinguished professor of pediatrics at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
In the year 2000, the United States essentially claimed victory against childhood diseases, eliminating measles and making the prevalence of other childhood diseases, such as mumps, extremely rare. Today, we are losing.
Eleven states have reported measles cases, and a checkerboard of communities across the United States lack the necessary vaccine coverage needed to maintain the threshold herd immunity of about 96 percent — when vaccination of a substantial portion of a population protects everyone. The costs in human and financial terms are enormous.
The rise in such cases is not due to more virulent strains or resistant viruses. Rather, society suffers from the success of anti-vaccine advocates who pushed "vaccine hesitancy and refusal" and issued unrelenting demonization, disinformation and demagoguery against immunizations. Social media is infected with viral messaging from bots and trolls that masquerade as legitimate information outlets but instead stoke illegitimate fear of vaccines.
The crisis has reached a tipping point, forcing Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to warn recently that states are "going to force the hand of the federal health agencies." As leaders in public health, we agree. It's time for policymakers — especially those at the federal level — to respond decisively to this threat and protect the health of our children by eliminating broad nonmedical exemptions to vaccination mandates.
The medical and public-health community has overwhelming scientific evidence that demonstrates the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Yet parents today can easily go to Google to find discredited anti-vaxxer pediatricians or find solace among anti-vaxxer "friends" in Facebook groups full of misinformation. Other culprits include mainstream websites and some pediatricians who publicly cast doubt on vaccine safety. The World Health Organization now lists "vaccine hesitancy" as a top-10 global health threat, joining others such as antimicrobial resistance, Ebola, air pollution and climate change.
Yet, federal law is virtually silent on childhood vaccinations. Although every state has school immunization requirements, cavernous gaps exist through generous exemptions. All states, appropriately, allow medical exemptions, but 47 states (excluding California, Mississippi and West Virginia) permit religious exemptions, and 17 states allow exemptions for philosophical or "conscience" reasons.
After experiencing a devastating measles outbreak that began in late 2014, California entirely eliminated nonmedical exemptions. Following the law's passage, the state experienced a major increase in vaccination rates, with a precipitous drop in measles and other outbreaks.
But most states have failed to respond in a similar way, and it would be irresponsible to wait as outbreaks expanded with severe consequences for our children.
First, the federal government should immediately initiate a comprehensive communication "Safe Vaccinations for a Healthy America" campaign. Such an effort would improve our nation's public health by delivering information about vaccine benefits and risks in plain language from sources we trust (not just health advocates but also athletes, celebrities, etc.).
Second, the federal government should work with states to eliminate all nonmedical exemptions, following the lead of California and the evidence-based health outcomes.
Third, for those states that fail to comply, the federal government should condition certain Medicaid or public-health funding on states eliminating nonmedical exemptions. The Constitution allows the federal government to use its spending power to entice states to comply with national public health norms, as long as there is no coercion.
Finally, the government should encourage major social network organizations to screen out false anti-vaccine messages that promote childhood disease, just as they do for sexually explicit, violent and threatening messages.
Anti-vaxxers will object to such a vigorous campaign and will likely argue that it interferes with parental rights. But they are wrong. Children are not able to make their own decisions, and no parent has the right to place their child, or other children, at risk of serious harm. Federal policymakers have a responsibility to protect those children who have been put at risk whenever a parent claims the "right" to refuse vaccination.
Bethany Mandel: Darla Shine doesn't get it. Childhood illnesses of old are no joke.


This post shows you how to overcome the problems with installing the Dialogue forum package in your Umbraco site.
Click button to finish installation.
Publish the forum and all of it's children.
When you have done this, do another build and try to go to the forum.
Do another build, you should now be able to go to the forum page.


According to Fendi, life is all about using the whole box of crayons. The Italian brand just launched a viral campaign promoting their new collection of small leather goods.
They created a funny video and pushed it into the world wide web, instead of going for the traditional print advertising campaigns in fashion magazines. The target group of these less expensive designer items are young women and how better to reach out to these via a vibrant emotional campaign in their natural habitat: the web.
Unfortunately Fendi did miss some huge opportunities by not making the video easily shareable from their website and having no direct link to an eCommerce experience.
Just recently, Louis Vuitton also went viral with a video promoting the Mini Icons collection.
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Julian Huppert
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Huppert welcomes decision to scrap UKBA for poor performance
27 March, 2013 1 Comment
MP Julian Huppert, who has been working to highlight the failings of the UK Border Agency, has welcomed the news that it is to be scrapped for its poor performance.
Julian, a member of the Parliamentary Home Affairs Select Committee which released a damning report on the agency's under-performance and incorrect figures on the backlog of asylum cases, said the decision was "long overdue".
"The UKBA's atrocious performance has been allowed to go on for far too long," he said. "For years we have been given incorrect figures on asylum cases and people are waiting up to 10 years for their cases to be heard.
"I regularly have people coming to my surgery and contacting my office to say they are in limbo waiting for the UKBA to act on their case. At the same time, we have highly skilled and talented people, who we need for this country, waiting months to get visas to enter. And we have families claiming political asylum unable to get on with their lives because they have been languishing for years without a decision.
"This lack of control and total inefficiency is disastrous for those people caught in the system and totally unacceptable for the country. It strangles businesses, stifles science, research and education, as well as the damaging effects it has on our economy and reputation as a whole.
"I hope now that we can get a grip on this situation and sort out this whole affair quickly and efficiently so that people can get their cases resolved and we can see some faith restored in our immigration system. The public deserve an organisation that lets the right people in, and stops the wrong people coming in. UKBA has failed both these tasks.
Julian raised the issue on Monday (March 25) in the House of Commons when Immigration Minister, Mark Harper acknowledged that the UKBA's figures were "not good".
Julian told him that only 18 per cent of applications for Tier 1 visas – those relating to applicants with exceptional talent, entrepreneurs and highly skilled workers – were processed within four weeks.
"Does he agree that we cannot have a coherent, fair and credible immigration system when the agency is performing so atrociously?" he said.
Mr Harper said that by the end of this month, the UKBA would be making decisions on Tier 1 visas and others "within the service standards that it sets out to customers, and which they have a right to expect".
And yesterday Home Secretary, Theresa May announced that the UKBA would be scrapped and the foreign visa system and immigration law enforcement brought back into the Home Office as two separate organisations.
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It's been three months since Sbahle Mpisane's horrific car accident. The Fitness Bunnie was in a car crash in Durban back in August this year.
Speaking to Isolezwe, her father, Sbu Mpisane, said her daughter is recovering under doctors' supervision. "If someone suffers fractures like that, it takes three to six months to recover."
The businessman told the publication that Sbahle's recovery is going through different stages. "The first stage was to save her life and to heal her wounds, because she had severe injuries."
Since the accident, the family has only shared one video of Sbahle in hospital. In the clip, which was posted by her brother on social media, Sbahle told thanked friends and family members for supporting her, and also wished her parents a happy anniversary.
The video was taken down after receiving backlash from the public, and her family.
The support she's ben receiving from fans and celebrities has been great. One person who's stood by her is her boyfriend Itumeleng Khune. The Kaizer Chiefs and Bafana Bafana football star has shared quite a few messages to her queen on his social media pages.


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El Lop, també conegut com a Lopnor o Lopnur és una llengua parlada a Lop, Xinjiang, Xina. La llengua és parlada per aproximadament 25.000 persones.

Classificació
El lop pertany a la branca Karluk, dins de les llengües turqueses, juntament amb l'Uyghur i l'Uzbek. El seu estat com a llengua diferenciada de l'Uyghur és discutit. Tot i que té algunes característiques que el diferencien de l'Uyghur estàndard, és considerat per alguns lingüistes com un dels seus dialectes.

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Llengües d'Àsia
Cultura de la Xina
Xinjiang

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SCHUBERTH variant, originally Austrian - Ulbricht - product.
"This would appear to be a UN marked Austrian Ulbricht's Wwe, Schwanenstadt, a Schuberth variant.
The first composite helmet issued to Austrian Rural Police in limited numbers. Probably some supplied to Slovakia."
The same type as shown by Dave Powers above.
"No marking of any kind in the helmet, however there is some residual blue paint which may indicate it had been used on a UN mission and then returned to normal daily use."
"Liner is very similar to that used on this Austrian-made helmet trialled by the Netherlands."
A cloth cover appears to have been fixed on using the liner bolts - the same characteristic appears on the other example shown below. The covers seem to have been torn off rather than carefully removed.
This does not appear to be a well-made product - the ribber rims of the shells are not completely secure as is obvious with this one.
Note the Slovak cross of Lorraine on this example.
The model number 'PASR 3' appears to be written on with ball-pen rather than printed.
A similar label with the same annotation appears in the other example shown below.
Another example, in rather better condition.
The two helmets are essentially the same, but the colour and texture of some elements of the chinstrap rig and liner cradle are different in each. In-service replacement?
With thanks to Piotr Koziel.


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Q: Append hint with autotrace I'm doing a direct-path insert which executes successfully. When I try to autotrace the execution, I get the ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel.
SQL> insert into emp_big select * from emp_big_temp;

411843 rows created.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.89

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
Plan hash value: 3203427748

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Id  | Operation                | Name         | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|   0 | INSERT STATEMENT         |              |   357K|    45M|  1164   (1)| 00:00:14 |
|   1 |  LOAD TABLE CONVENTIONAL | EMP_BIG      |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   TABLE ACCESS FULL      | EMP_BIG_TEMP |   357K|    45M|  1164   (1)| 00:00:14 |
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note
-----
   - dynamic sampling used for this statement (level=2)

Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
         15  recursive calls
      31909  db block gets
      12829  consistent gets
          0  physical reads
   34685216  redo size
        845  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        802  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          3  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          1  sorts (memory)
          0  sorts (disk)
     411843  rows processed

SQL> rollback;

Rollback complete.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.18
SQL>
SQL> insert /*+ append */ into emp_big select * from emp_big_temp;

411843 rows created.

Elapsed: 00:00:00.18

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
ERROR:
ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel

SP2-0612: Error generating AUTOTRACE EXPLAIN report

Statistics
----------------------------------------------------------
          0  recursive calls
       4438  db block gets
       4283  consistent gets
          0  physical reads
       7648  redo size
        829  bytes sent via SQL*Net to client
        816  bytes received via SQL*Net from client
          3  SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
          1  sorts (memory)
          0  sorts (disk)
     411843  rows processed

Questions:

*

*Table emp_big has degree of parallelism set to 1, according to select table_name, degree from user_tables. Why does Oracle force parallel insert?

*Why does using autotrace trace cause ORA-12838?

A: Answer to the original output:
This is not caused by autotrace. You will get the same error even without autotrace, just by repeating the same direct path insert. Issue a commit after the first insert.
This is a documented restriction: ORA-12700 to ORA-19400

ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel
Cause: Within the same transaction, an attempt was made to add read or
modification statements on a table after it had been modified in
parallel or with direct load. This is not permitted.
Action: Rewrite
the transaction, or break it up into two transactions: one containing
the initial modification and the second containing the parallel
modification operation.

Answer to the new output, after edit:
Ok, so you have a rollback, and you started a new transaction. In this case, autotrace really is the culprit, indirectly. The above rule still applies, and as the above description says, even a read reference will cause the above error. If autotrace is enabled, it implicitly runs something like this (after your original statement was finished):
EXPLAIN PLAN SET STATEMENT_ID='PLUSxxxxxx' FOR insert /*+ append */ into emp_big select * from emp_big_temp;
You can easily confirm this by enabling the errorstack trace for the error 12838 (it is fine in a sandbox environment for this short demo, but this is not how I would do this on a real database):
alter system set events '12838 trace name errorstack level 3';
If I run this now:
SQL> create table t1 as select * from dba_objects where 1=2;

Table created.

SQL> alter system set events '12838 trace name errorstack level 3';

System altered.

SQL> set autotrace on
SQL> insert /*+ append */ into t1 select * from dba_objects;

20079 rows created.

Execution Plan
----------------------------------------------------------
ERROR:
ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel

I will find the error and a trace file in the alert log. The trace file contains this:
dbkedDefDump(): Starting a non-incident diagnostic dump (flags=0x0, level=3, mask=0x0)
----- Error Stack Dump -----
ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel
----- Current SQL Statement for this session (sql_id=5x12x8czsd3t9) -----
EXPLAIN PLAN SET STATEMENT_ID='PLUS730007' FOR insert /*+ append */ into t1 select * from dba_objects

And that is what causes the error, because it is still the same transaction. You can test it even without autotrace:
SQL> rollback;

Rollback complete.

SQL> set autotrace off
SQL> insert /*+ append */ into t1 select * from dba_objects;

20079 rows created.

SQL> explain plan for insert /*+ append */ into t1 select * from dba_objects;
explain plan for insert /*+ append */ into t1 select * from dba_objects
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel

SQL> select count(*) from t1;
select count(*) from t1
                     *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12838: cannot read/modify an object after modifying it in parallel

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Q: Create custom folder based on user input(folder choice dialog) using Advanced Installer 12.4.2 My application needs to use some files(both read and write operation included) which must be located in particular folders. If I place those folders in my applications root directory, I get run time errors as unless the user is an administrator, he/she can not write in  "c:\blah\blah..." But I don't know how to create folder by prompting the user to provide a location other than "c:\ " How can this be done while using advanced installer Enterprise type project. Please help. Thanks in advance.

A: Can't say how to do that with installer, but you can use AppData folder to store your application files.


A disorderly Brexit would frustrate cross-border activity whilst undermining an institutionalised culture within the EU which prioritises environmental policy, according to Nigel Haigh, honorary fellow and former director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP).
In Ireland, the worst effects of a no deal "disaster" would be seen in its inability to effectively conduct all-island activity, including environmental management. Indeed, Haigh repeatedly states that north-south cooperation has long been underpinned by EU rules and funding, highlighting the essential nature of cross-border trade.
"NGOs on both sides of the border have reminded us that the island of Ireland comprises a single biogeographical unit, with the two countries sharing geology, landscapes, flora and fauna; there are a number of issues which need to be handled cooperatively. This will be much more difficult if legislation diverges, and EU money is no longer available to support cross border projects in the North, including nature protection on invasive species, cross border river districts and climate change action," says Haigh.
The policy expert continues his analysis of the single market, claiming that it "goes well beyond requiring no tariffs and uniform standards for products". According to Haigh, it also seeks a level playing field in other ways. "Norway, for example, has to stay aligned with nearly all EU environmental laws to be part of the single market. The Chequers white paper only conceded that some food and standards must be aligned, without saying which. it is likely the EU will insist that other standards are also met, including industrial emissions and air and water quality standards," he suggests.
The discussion moves on to the subject of governance post-Brexit, as Haigh outlines the potential ramifications of Britain's departure from the EU on environmental policy in Northern Ireland and beyond: "In the UK, environmental policy is largely devolved to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Until now, they have been held together by overarching EU legislation. Northern Ireland could go in a very different direction from England. There will be an extra element here due to the need to work with the Republic," says Haigh. "After Brexit, it will need a common rulebook that goes far beyond the proposals outlined in Chequers," he adds.
Ireland's position as a "single biogeographical unit" highlights the importance of cross-border trade and the all-island economy, according to Haigh.
According to Haigh, Brexit will undermine an institutionalised culture within the EU in which environmental policy is central, claims Haigh. "The UK's departure will only diminish that. One possibility is a more aspirational but less practical EU, the other possibility is a post-Brexit deregulated British government eager to secure trade deals with other countries having a chilling effect on the EU, which would not want to be undercut by an economically important offshore neighbour. That pressure could lead the EU to trim back its environmental ambitions.


IPD Explorer Post #392 was formed in 1997 to offer young adults, between the ages of 14 and 21, the opportunity to learn about law enforcement as a career option. Police officers and parent/adult volunteers supervise the Explorers. The Post meets every Monday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. during the year. It provides experiences to help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults.
Former IPD Officer Tony Scaglione was integral in starting the program. Officers Christine Barksdale and Greg Firman, who were both assigned to the Neighborhood Policing Unit, were also involved in scheduling events and providing classroom instruction. Post members take part in the Department's "ride-along program" with on duty police officers following patrol operations training. Explorers also learn firearms safety, courtroom procedures, and much more. Officer Scaglione Officer Barksdale, and Officer Firman assumed other duties and in the fall of 2009 the program ceased operations.
In the spring of 2015 the IPD Explorers Post program was revitalized. Officer Richard Niemi and Officer Michaela Conrad supervise and administer the program. The Explorers provide assistance with traffic control during special events and at accident scenes, as well as crime prevention events assisting with fingerprinting children and distributing information. They also assist officers on patrol by obtaining information from witnesses and victims, and receive CPR and First Aid training.
Members raise funds throughout the year to pay for expenses including attendance of the National Conference.
The Ithaca Police Department in cooperation with the Ithaca City School District and the Rotary Club of Ithaca have implemented D.A.R.E., an exciting approach to preventing substance use among school children.
D.A.R.E. is a substance use prevention education program designed to equip elementary school children with skills for resisting peer pressure to experiment with tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. This unique program uses uniformed law enforcement officers to teach a formal curriculum to students in a classroom setting. D.A.R.E. gives special attention to the 5th grade to prepare students for entry into junior high and high school, where they are most likely to encounter pressure to use drugs.
The Ithaca Police Department is deeply committed to the D.A.R.E. program and currently has 1 full time officer teaching D.A.R.E. in Ithaca's schools.
To find out more about D.A.R.E. in general, please visit D.A.R.E. America.


sprouting weeds in spring. photo by me.
last week a tiny idea popped into my mind and i quickly jotted it down, as i always do, thinking it might be something worth expanding on for a short little blog post.
i thought my thoughts on the topic were complete, yet the more i considered the idea, the more questions arose. the more questions i pondered, the more insight i gained — but the more insight i gained, the more my original thoughts became obsolete.
today, a full week later, my sparse, five word concept has somehow transformed into an entire chapter in my upcoming book. things i've never before thought of have somehow unravelled into a much more complex understanding.
sometimes you just need to be patient and sit with things, and not rush the process.
you need to take the time to water your thoughts with proper intention, introspection and analysis.
you need to let the seeds of your imagination germinate and sprout into whatever it is they want to become.


Others are familiar with his "red" series of photographs and installations, where the artist focuses on wasted architecture and problematic sites by simply enlighten the areas with red spotlights. This resulted in the book RED 1999-2010 released by the gallery in 2010. The latest project – Red Domestic Death – pictures a ruined house in Western Sahara destroyed by Moroccan fighter planes in early 2010, and will be included in this show.


I have been a busy girl the past two days! Yesterday I posted the club layouts for November, so if you haven't seen them, scroll on down. Today I worked on the November card class and was so happy to also finish them! I used many ideas that I learned at the Regional Celebration. Little things that you may not even notice, but that truly make life as a paper crafter easier!
So this is my card class. It is on Sunday, November 20th from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm. You can come any time during those hours to make your cards. I think these will take about 60 to 90 minutes to complete. Everything is pre-cut and ready to go. You just need to bring scissors, tape runner, glue dots, and pop dots. The cost is 5 cards for $5.00.
Let me know if you are interested in buying this class long distance. I charge $7.00 for the class when I mail it to you. The extra $2.00 covers shipping costs. They come pre-stamped and all the pieces are in the cards so that you can easily put them together. I like putting them together while I am watching television.
I hope you all are having a good week! I don't say this enough, but I truly appreciate when you visit my blog. I read each and every comment, and I smile with each one. It means the world to me that you spend time here! I noticed today that I am getting close to 400 followers. Watch for some blog candy within the next week or so. It's almost my third blog-aversary (wow, I can't believe how much I love this bloggy thing!), so I think I'll celebrate these two milestones together!
What a fabulous group of cards Brenda!
Great looking group of cards!
These are a fantastic set of cards Brenda! And what a SUPER price!!!
These cards are just stunning, Brenda!


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Tips and Tricks for Planning College Station Weddings
Every wedding is as unique as the couple they're intended to celebrate. Maybe it's rustic yet elegant. Maybe it's clean and contemporary. Maybe it's a black tie affair, the women in pearls and the men in bowties and cufflinks. Or maybe it's bathed in maroon and white everything, an Aggie wedding through and through. Either way, the wedding should be indicative of the couple--a representation of who they are that's strong enough to speak for them if they have yet to enter the room.
As magical as these ceremonies and receptions can be, though, planning one isn't always as enchanting. Hiring a wedding planner is a good first (and often instinctual) step for any newly engaged couple, but no one can blame the bride or groom for wanting to keep their own finger on the pulse of the party. Event spaces and their wedding planning partners in crime usually have the big picture covered, but it often takes an extra special touch to ensure every detail is as personalized as possible.
Rather than dive right into the wedding planning deep end, brides and grooms-to-be are better off getting their feet wet with the tried and true must-dos from the people who've been there before. Brush up on the wedding planning tips and tricks every bride and groom will need to bring their dream wedding to life while avoiding the chaos of learning on-the-go.
The next best thing to a bride and groom doing everything themselves is knowing who's doing what, when, and why. There aren't enough hours in the day or cells in the brain to keep track of every detail, but that doesn't mean the couple won't want to have oversight on everything from floral arrangements to napkin colors. Apps designed for wedding planning will make this all the easier--and spare even the busiest couple the stress of inconsistent communication or details gone awry.
Consider apps like iWedding Deluxe, which includes a To-Do list, budget tracker, and vendor info, or download Appy Couple, a one-stop wedding planning shop for managing RSVP's and making last minute tweaks to seating arrangements. Pair these with simpler tools, like Wedding Countdown, which cut through the clutter to remind busy couples of what really matters: the "I do."
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The best apps will help brides and grooms get a hold of the big picture, but what about the details? The must-haves at any wedding are unique to the bride and groom, yet when it comes to these more personalized touches, it's easy to focus so intently on the forest that the trees become an afterthought. Brides and grooms should take a moment before the wedding frenzy begins to decide on one to three truly important elements without which their wedding wouldn't feel like "theirs."
Maybe it's finding the perfect live band. Maybe it's hand-crafting the bouquets and floral centerpieces. Maybe it's asking a close friend to sing a song as the bride makes her way down the aisle. Whatever those musts are, identify them, write them down, and shape the rest of the wedding around those details to protect the genuine sentiments behind the celebration.
Tie the Knot Somewhere Meaningful
Impactful wedding venues make a statement, encouraging conversation among guests or inspiring the party's best dance moves even before the drinks have been poured. That's why a wedding worth raving about is as much about the venue as it is about the couple. Select a venue that's both meaningful to the bride and groom and an appropriate size for the guest list.
An Aggie bride and groom might get married at College Station wedding venues near the place they fell in love. An outdoorsy couple might tie the knot beneath a vibrant canopy of trees. A city-minded couple might spend their special day in a hole-in-the-wall near their favorite busy block. Either way, a venue that's true to the couple and comfortable for even the craziest cousins is sure to be a winner for the bride, groom, and guests alike.
Take Time to Slow Down
For all the time and effort a bride and groom will spend planning a wedding, they'll scarcely spend the blink of an eye enjoying it. From the pre-ceremony hair and makeup to the special songs, vows, flashing cameras, and misty-eyed well wishes, it's easy for what should be a simple celebration to turn into a whirlwind.
Brides and grooms should make a point to lean into the still moments, the moments in which they can revel in the love they share and the good wishes showered upon them by their guests. Go for a walk, find a quiet corner, or even instate a "safe word" for when it's time to take a break. Weddings are celebrations, but they're also memories. Brides and grooms would be wise not to miss them.
Planning a wedding can be a test of willpower. The many easily-missed details are enough to leave even the most even-keeled couples pulling their hair out. It's easy to get lost in the chaos, but the brides and grooms who can stay organized and keep their eye on what truly matters will find their way to the alter all the better for it. Wedding planning begins with love, and it will end that way too. The rest is just icing on the cake.
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As well as hearing about what happened several decades ago, you'll hear about what's coming up in VK6 Land in the near future. Yep you guessed it, this week we're a veritable time machine.
But there's no time like the present, and today is HARGFest day, so if you hadn't thought about going to HargFest, jump on your bike and make your way to Gladys Road, Lesmurdie, because that's where the action is today.


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Thomas Vinterberg (ur. 19 maja 1969 w Kopenhadze) – duński reżyser, scenarzysta i producent filmowy.

Życiorys
Zasłynął tym, że wraz z Larsem von Trierem napisał manifest ruchu Dogma 95. Vinterberg był twórcą pierwszego filmu z certyfikatem tego manifestu - Festen (1998). Obraz ten zdobył Nagrodę Specjalną Jury na 51. MFF w Cannes.

Zaprzyjaźniony z amerykańskim zespołem Metallica.

Przewodniczył jury sekcji "Cinéfondation" na 52. MFF w Cannes (1999) oraz jury sekcji "Un Certain Regard" na 66. MFF w Cannes (2013).

Linki zewnętrzne

Duńscy producenci filmowi
Duńscy reżyserzy filmowi
Duńscy scenarzyści
Laureaci Europejskiej Nagrody Filmowej dla najlepszego reżysera
Laureaci Europejskiej Nagrody Filmowej dla najlepszego scenarzysty
Laureaci Europejskiej Nagrody Filmowej Za Osiągnięcia w Światowej Kinematografii
Ludzie urodzeni w Kopenhadze
Urodzeni w 1969


The Oslo Biennial has revealed details for its first edition, which aims to depart, in more ways than one, from the traditional every-two-years-style format for biennials. Curated by Eva González-Sancho Bodero and Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk, the exhibition will be called osloBIENNALEN.
The first edition will open on May 25 of this year and run into 2024. A representative for the biennial said that the opening date of the exhibition's second edition has not yet been decided, though, at the earliest, it would not take place until 2025.
The result of a research initiative called Oslo Pilot, the first osloBIENNALEN will focus on placing artworks in public spaces, rather than inside museums. Some 26 projects will be unveiled over the course of 2019, with more to be announced over the coming years.


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Miluki  ()  is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Ełk, within Ełk County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

References

Miluki


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MUMS FAVOURITE
Sasha Theunissen – Vocals
Brooke Squire – Bass
Nick Ursida – Guitar
Maarlee De Jong – Guitar
Jordy Theunissen – Drums
I will always bang on about if you are going to a show then make sure you get there for all the support acts because that is where you will find the future of the music scene. What I wasn't expecting is for the support act to absolutely floor me. Adelaide's Mums Favourites may well soon be everyone's favourites. With a sound and style that belies their age this band is on my 'one to watch' list.
Hey guys thanks for taking the time to road trip for a chat! How did Mums Favourite come to be?
Sasha: We formed in high school, it was Nick, Brooke and I. Maarlee went to the same school, but he joined later. We were playing at Mass, assemblies and stuff, it wasn't really our groove, especially when the first song we wrote was all about the devil!!!! We have just been kicking at it, writing songs. We did some recordings and that is how we got our first two songs out. People seemed to like it and kept asking us to play so here we are.
Brooke: We have been busy.
You guys have such a unique sound. The first time we saw you guys play Sascha opened her mouth, and we were all like holy shit. The four guys that were with me are all musos and they were blown away.
Jordy: That's what everyone says about Sascha's vocals.
How did you guys all get into music?
Nick: I've been playing brass since I was in primary school. During high school I picked a bunch more instruments and that's when we started playing music together. Maarlee and I are mostly self-taught.
Sasha: I think we had to make a band for an assessment at school, it wasn't this band there was only a few of us. Some people dropped out and others came in and then we kind of just stuck with it. We asked Maarlee if he wanted to be in it as well because he is so good on the guitar. Then Jordy joined as our drummer.
Brooke: Your mum is pretty musical; you guys were sort of raised around music.
Jordy: I've been playing drums since I was 10 years old.
Brooke: I did piano in primary school and then when I started high school I decided I wanted to play music again and I chose the bass. I thought it was pretty cool.
What would you call the style of music that you play?
Sasha: I don't know. There's blues in there, there's rock.
Jordy: Each song is so different.
Brooke: When we played at the Metro we went up to the bar after the gig and the guy behind the bar said it was a bit like 90's grunge. Like Alice in Chains. We've never had that one before, but we will take it.
Do you write a lot?
Sascha: We just finished a new song today. It's been a slow process and trying to find our sound. And to be happy with our sound. It's hard when there is no one around that sounds like us. When we play gigs we stick out so much. We played a gig at the Uni Bar the other week and it was a punk/metal show. It was fun, it was one of my favourite gigs.
Jordy: It was probably the best gig I have played with you guys so far.
Brooke: It makes us hard to follow sometimes because the audience might get a bit of a shock when we start to play.
The audience were definitely into what you were playing at the Fat Controller.
Sasha: With us and Mum Thinks Blue the thing that stands out to me the most in our similarities is that Austin and I don't sing in Australian accents. We don't play with a lot of bands that don't sing with the accent.
Which again makes you stand out. I think regardless you guys are going to stand out.
Brooke: Sasha has the voice; we may as well use it.
I know my mate was floored when you sang. Very old school blues/jazz sounding.
Jordy: It's definitely of that era. If you closed your eyes you would think you were back there.
Sasha: I get so many Janis Joplin comments. Personally I don't hear it.
I think it's the way you move onstage as well.
With such a unique sound you obviously draw from a lot of different influences.
Nick: I don't really have artist that influence me. I kind of just listen to a lot of complex music, like a lot of sounds of guitar, brass and stuff like that. That's what inspires me when I write.
Maarlee: At the moment it's Pink Floyd.
Sasha: For me it's Led Zeppelin. Arctic Monkeys are a massive influence for us. At the moment for me personally I have been getting into 70's rock. So that is what is influencing me and then I am influencing these guys!
Brooke: I don't know. I listen to Sasha! She will bring something in and say you have to listen to this; you should play something like this! I'm just like okay. We are influenced by the lyrics that Sasha writes. When we first start writing a song and the vibe that Sasha and Nick start creating will decide how I think the bass line should sound.
Jordy: Definitely Dave Grohl when he used to drum, Matt Helders from Arctic Monkeys. I listen to a lot of old 70's and 80's funk so a lot of that has crept into my style.
You obviously write together as a group?
Jordy: Yeah somehow this weird medley fits together.
Sasha: We also write a lot of our songs in Minor keys and other bands don't tend to, no shame or anything but they just write in Major chords.
Brooke: I guess our time signature as well. The song we just finished writing has a ¾ chorus and Red Room has a 6/8. So we have a couple of songs that are not just 4/4.
Nick: Trying to keep it more interesting.
It works. Like I said we just sat there floored when we saw you guys the other week.
Sasha: It tends to be, not the older, but the more mature, experienced people who get what we are doing.
Brooke: We played at the Metro and the dinner service was still going. There was a bunch of older people sitting there. Before the gig they came up and started talking to us about our music. Afterwards they came up and were like you guys are so good.
Aspirations for who you would like to play with?
Brooke: Its hard when you have your own sound, its hard to figure out where you sit. I feel like we are in-between genres. Arctic Monkeys are a big one for us.
Sasha: When we saw them live two or three years ago it was so good. I'd love to be able to even meet them. Brooke and I are pretty big on female/non-male musician's so we would definitely like to start playing with more diverse line-ups. We were on a line-up awhile back and out of all the bands Brooke, myself and our old drummer were the only females. It's empowering to be one of the three but it's also really disappointing.
I know some places now won't book shows unless there is female representation in at least one band which is good to see.
Sasha: At the Fat Controller they have Lisa and that is really inspiring for me because I am studying to be a sound engineer. It's good to have her there as a role model.
There are plenty of accomplished female role models in the industry.
Sasha: I don't really know who we would like to play with but as long as there are other females.
Brooke: Like sometimes people will comment that its cool that we have a female singer and bass player. Yeah it is but why are you so surprised! We are just musicians.
Sasha: I think the worse thing is that sometimes we are considered the token females. Kind of like of we need a female band on the line-up. Why can't we just be another band on the line-up.
Brooke: It's a bit lonely sometimes when you are standing around. Like even your course Sasha.
Sasha: Yeah I'm the only female in my course.
So do you guys record your own music?
Brooke: When we did the first two songs we did them at Mixmasters Productions and we are going to go back there soon to record some more.
How did you get your name?
Jordy: Here's a bit of trivia for you.
Sasha: We played at Jordy's 19th birthday party in our backyard.
Brooke: We had only done two proper gigs I think.
Sasha: We were fresh. We didn't have a name. That night it was raining, and our dogs were all wet, so we called ourselves Soggy Dog. The guests were like we need something to chant so we picked that!!!
Haha that's good.
Jordy: That's a great band name.
Sasha: Nooo!! I didn't like it.
Brooke: We were sitting in the kitchen in our break and talking about having to come up with a better name because we had been arguing the whole night about it. We were like the bands going to break up before we've even started (laughs). As a joke we were tossing around Mums Favourites and that is what stuck.
Sasha: At the time Nick was his mums favourite! We just stuck with it and its not a name we can ever really grow out of. Everyone has a mum.
Brooke: There's a few Mum bands around, they kind of all just popped up. We first saw Mum Friends back in 2019 at the Towns Christmas show.
Sasha: We get confused with them all the time. People have come up to us at gigs and said oh you are the girls from Mum Friends. Nope Mums Favourite! We did a radio interview, and we took in an unreleased song, the radio show is one where you can play your song and they give you their thoughts, we did it with Mum Friends and even then people got us mixed up.
It's so exciting to see the influx of young bands in Adelaide.
Brooke: We played The Climate Strike with Witch Hunt, That was a good gig it was pretty much an all-female line-up. Hey Harriot played too.
Jordy: It was literally just us three boys and the two boys from Harriot.
Brooke: We have played with Lucy; they are a new band with four females.
Sasha: It was a really good female representation. I think our favourite female band is Pelvis, I'm not sure if you have heard of them.
They played a gig in the parklands a few weeks back that I went to.
Brooke: They played with us at our headline show at Jive.
Sasha: Maisie played with us that night too, they are a psychedelic band.
Brooke: They were awesome.
Sasha: And Pelvis. I fucking love them.
The new generation of musicians coming out of Adelaide are of such a high quality and if you haven't had a chance to see or hear Mums Favourites, or the other bands that the guys have named I highly suggest you get do.
https://www.facebook.com/mumsfavouriteband
https://www.instagram.com/mumsfavourite_/
https://linktr.ee/mumsfavouriteband
SPRING LOADED – GRINSPOON
KASTIELL


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package com.crawljax.core;

import static org.hamcrest.collection.IsCollectionWithSize.hasSize;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.ClassRule;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.experimental.categories.Category;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.crawljax.browser.EmbeddedBrowser;
import com.crawljax.core.configuration.CrawlSpecification;
import com.crawljax.core.configuration.CrawljaxConfiguration;
import com.crawljax.core.state.StateVertex;
import com.crawljax.forms.FormHandler;
import com.crawljax.test.BrowserTest;
import com.crawljax.test.RunWithWebServer;

@Category(BrowserTest.class)
public class CandidateElementExtractorTest {

	private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory
	        .getLogger(CandidateElementExtractorTest.class);
	private static final StateVertex DUMMY_STATE = new StateVertex("DUMMY", "");

	@ClassRule
	public static final RunWithWebServer DEMO_SITE_SERVER = new RunWithWebServer("/demo-site");

	private CrawljaxController controller;
	private Crawler crawler;

	@After
	public void shutDown() {
		controller.getBrowserPool().shutdown();
	}

	@Test
	public void testExtract() throws InterruptedException, CrawljaxException,
	        ConfigurationException {
		CrawlSpecification spec =
		        new CrawlSpecification(DEMO_SITE_SERVER.getSiteUrl().toExternalForm());
		spec.click("a");
		setupCrawler(spec);

		FormHandler formHandler =
		        new FormHandler(crawler.getBrowser(), controller.getConfigurationReader()
		                .getInputSpecification(), true);

		CandidateElementExtractor extractor =
		        new CandidateElementExtractor(controller.getElementChecker(),
		                crawler.getBrowser(), formHandler, controller.getConfigurationReader());

		List<CandidateElement> candidates = extractor.extract(DUMMY_STATE);

		assertNotNull(candidates);
		assertEquals(15, candidates.size());

	}

	private void setupCrawler(CrawlSpecification spec) throws ConfigurationException,
	        InterruptedException {
		CrawljaxConfiguration config = new CrawljaxConfiguration();
		config.setCrawlSpecification(spec);
		controller = new CrawljaxController(config);
		crawler = new CEETCrawler(controller);

		//crawler.goToInitialURL();
		crawler.goToInitialURLNew();
		spec.setClickOnce(true);

		Thread.sleep(400);
	}

	@Test
	public void testExtractExclude() throws Exception {
		CrawlSpecification spec =
		        new CrawlSpecification(DEMO_SITE_SERVER.getSiteUrl().toExternalForm());
		spec.click("a");
		spec.dontClick("div").withAttribute("id", "menubar");

		setupCrawler(spec);

		FormHandler formHandler =
		        new FormHandler(crawler.getBrowser(), controller.getConfigurationReader()
		                .getInputSpecification(), true);
		CandidateElementExtractor extractor =
		        new CandidateElementExtractor(controller.getElementChecker(),
		                crawler.getBrowser(), formHandler, controller.getConfigurationReader());

		List<CandidateElement> candidates = extractor.extract(DUMMY_STATE);

		assertNotNull(candidates);
		assertThat(candidates, hasSize(11));

	}

	@Test
	public void testExtractIframeContents() throws Exception {
		RunWithWebServer server = new RunWithWebServer("/site");
		server.before();
		CrawlSpecification spec =
		        new CrawlSpecification(server.getSiteUrl() + "iframe/");
		spec.click("a");
		setupCrawler(spec);

		FormHandler formHandler =
		        new FormHandler(crawler.getBrowser(), controller.getConfigurationReader()
		                .getInputSpecification(), true);
		CandidateElementExtractor extractor =
		        new CandidateElementExtractor(controller.getElementChecker(),
		                crawler.getBrowser(), formHandler, controller.getConfigurationReader());

		List<CandidateElement> candidates = extractor.extract(DUMMY_STATE);

		for (CandidateElement e : candidates) {
			LOG.debug("candidate: " + e.getUniqueString());
		}

		server.after();

		assertNotNull(extractor);
		assertNotNull(candidates);
		assertThat(candidates, hasSize(9));

	}

	/**
	 * Internal mock-up crawler retrieving its browser.
	 *
	 * @author Stefan Lenselink <slenselink@google.com>
	 */
	private static class CEETCrawler extends InitialCrawler {
		private EmbeddedBrowser browser;

		/**
		 * @param mother
		 */
		public CEETCrawler(CrawljaxController mother) {
			super(mother);
			try {
				browser = mother.getBrowserPool().requestBrowser();
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}

		@Override
		public EmbeddedBrowser getBrowser() {
			return browser;
		}

	}

}

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For all you Neoquest II addicts out there, this article is dedicated to you. Those determined, strong willed souls who dedicate the vast amount of their time on Neopets clicking, and clicking, and clicking some more – all in the name of the game. You may be wondering, but why do you do it? Let me give you a brief (yes, brief) but thorough background of the game using some nifty questions and answers to help me out.
Neoquest II is a click and play game, which can be enjoyed by users of dialup, broadband and cable alike. It involves you controlling several characters by determining which skills you allocate them, which monsters you fight and so forth.
And what a fine question this is! I must find out who submitted it.. Oh wait, that was me! Moving right along. If you are a newbie to Neoquest II, you might have started playing for several reasons. 1) You wanted an extra shiny trophy for your lookup. 2) You heard you could get three wonderful avatars from playing the game. 3) You are wondering what all the fuss is about, and why the game has its own section on the Neoboards.
Can you win prizes from it?
Yes, you can! There is always a random prize at the end of the game. Upon completing the game, you will find one of four marvelous (sometimes) prizes waiting for you in your inventory, as well as a nice monetary prize also.
Tell me more about these prizes! Ohemgee!
There are three modes to Neoquest II.
Normal mode – where you must begin. Here, you make your way through the game, learning the tips and tricks to help you through, you get your spiffy avatar and hopefully trophy and of course, your prize. Here, your prize may be one of the following: Velms Healing Potion, Talinias Whittling Knife, Rohanes Armour Polish or Mipsys Charm Bracelet.
Evil mode – what follows. Here, the game is just the same, with the difference being that the monsters and bosses have slightly higher hit points. Once again, with practice this will become as easy as pie and you will soon find yourself rewarded again with a random prize. Evil mode prizes include: Tooth of Terask, Halo of Devilpuss, Scuzzys Comb or the prestigious Ramtors Spellbook.
InSaNe mode – not for the fainthearted. This mode of Neoquest II is TOUGH. Sure, the game stays the same, the monsters and bosses continue to get stronger but in InSaNe mode, your safety net is taken right out from under you. If you die here, it's sayonara kiddo. No more restarting where you left off, it's goodbye Rohane and friends. But, if you persevere and are cautious, one of these could be yours: Sword of Apocalypse, Wand of Reality, Bow of Destiny, Staff of Righteous Fury.
I could go on and on, but I won't. This isn't a Neoquest II how-to guide, after all. Perhaps that could be my next article! *ponders* Any-who, for now, the most important thing is that you keep on reading – you wouldn't want to miss the whole point of this article, now, would you?
Aha! Just what I was waiting for.
This article will be understood most likely by fellow Neopians like myself, who find themselves sitting at all hours of the morning, playing Neoquest II. For those individuals who have made their way through Normal, Evil and InSaNe modes and find themselves wanting more. So, what does one do when they have been awarded their highly coveted InSaNe prize, and can't receive any more prizes at that level? Replay Evil mode, of course! The beauty about Neoquest II in Evil mode is that you can play it as many times as you like and still be awarded your 30,000 NP prize as well as your random game prize. It seems fantastic, doesn't it?
Why is the Tooth so bad, you might ask quickly, even though questions and answers have finished. Well, let's have a look at the approximate value of the Neoquest II Evil mode prizes.
Ramtors Spellbook - Around 800k, depending on war status.
Scuzzys Comb – Approximately 600k, give or take the timing.
Halo of Devilpuss – A fairly easy to sell weapon valued around 200k.
Tooth of Terask – Priceless.
Priceless!? Hardly! The Tooth of Terask is currently the only buyable prize in Evil mode. It sells for around 30,000 Neopoints. How did it get that way? Who knows! It might be that its Battledome prowess is less intimidating than the other prizes. It might be that Terask the 2nd has so many teeth that one just isn't interesting anymore. Whatever the cause, receiving a Tooth of Terask for a prize is not a cause for celebration.
Which brings us to the main (and hopefully entertaining) section of this article - 10 things: What to do with a Tooth of Terask.
10. Sell your Tooth of Terask on Mystery Island a la the famous Cub Tooth. The Tiki man may not be too happy about this, so make sure you have invented a story about Terask being a part of an ancient tribal dragon camp whose stories still haunt Mystery Island to this day. That way, he'll be sure to invite you to join his franchise – the business gains could be massive!
7. Weave your Tooth of Terask onto a piece of strong twine, followed by a gem of some sort, and then another Tooth. Continue this pattern until you reach the end, and you will soon find yourself the owner of a brand new collar for your Kadoatie! No doubt that this will ensure little Snookums is fed well before those other whiny Kadoaties!
6. Use your Tooth of Terask as a fine quill. All you will need is your Tooth, some ink (may I suggest Berry?) and some writing paper. Folks Neopia-wide will be envious of your razor sharp accuracy and penmanship!
5. This is a great trip for party-goers out there. Turn your Tooth of Terask upside down, so that its point faces skyward. Then, grab yourself a few Usuki Hula Hoops and you have a fine ring toss game ready to go! You can also use several of your Tooth of Terask prizes if you would prefer having a multi-player competition! Good luck!
4. Use your Tooth of Terask to create some interestingly tricky courses in Tyrannian Mini Golf. Just imagine the possibilities your next game could produce – when the ball hits those sharp teeth there is no knowing which direction it will fly in! Please make sure your course is designed for older Neopians only.
3. Turn your Tooth of Terask into a handy can-opener! Have you ever had one of those stubborn Achyfi cans that just refuses to open? I know I have! Whip out your trusty Tooth, make a few sharp pokes and before you know it, you will be enjoying your ice cold beverage, all thanks to – you guessed it! Your Tooth of Terask!
2. Tack your Tooth of Terask onto a rectangular piece of wood with strong glue. Continue making a border around the edges with more and more teeth, and when you have finished chisel the words DO NOT ENTER. A sure-fire way to keep strangers from entering your Neohome.
1. Congratulations! You have made it this far, and are no doubt waiting anxiously to find out what the number one thing to do with your Tooth of Terask is! And the answer? Simply throw it in your Safety Deposit Box and hope that next time you will have some more luck.
Seriously, if you have beaten Neoquest II several times, you deserve to be applauded. Whatever your prize, be proud of your achievements! Happy game playing and monster-battling!


SEARCHLIGHT, noun. A light source that projects a bright beam of light in any direction.
SEARCHLIGHT, noun. The light from the above source.
SEARCHLIGHT, noun. A light source with reflectors that projects a beam of light in a particular direction.