2) then these new values are grouped in equal interval classes, each one containing the same number of different rank numbers.
We noticed that the same result can be achieved reclassifying the original values using the geometical interval method.
(Our purpose is to obtain 5 classes with the same number of original values).
But it happens that reclassifying using the geometrical interval, one of the five classes doesn't contain any value.
Is it possible to have the algorithm of the geometrical interval method?


Hobo freelancer working towards a college degree to put food on the table for her non-existent husband and 37 pretend children.
I struggled drawing his dang hat, and it shows.
It's been a little over three years but I have returned for a brief period of time! So if you'd like to get caught up on everything that's been going on, please refer to the latest news post!
That said, let's continue this super old chapter where we left off, yes!
Thank you all so much for your amazing feedback and following along with this series. You guys are super awesome and I hope you will continue to read it despite no longer back on the Smackjeeves.
Hey y'all, sorry for the lack of updates the past couple weeks. Here's a double update to remedy the lost time.
Firstly, I'd like to thank all of the people reading this comic and putting in time to leave comments and feedback. I appreciate it all!
As always, thank you for following along and I'll see you next week!
Ms. Dutchkiss sure loves writing about people.
It's totally a healthy hobby. Really.
This concludes the first part of the Teagirl episode! Next week there will be no update due to dealing with personal matters and school, but we'll get back to the next half on March 30th. See you then!
In which Märchen becomes The Hulk and Hiddenite remains indifferent.
So much has been revealed within the span of a couple pages. One man's unique sleeping preferences is met with another.
For the record (and I don't want to spoil too much here), yes Märchen DOES wear women's lingerie quite a bit. This will not be the last that we see of his loud collection of Victoria's Secrets either.
Sorry for the late posting! I've been preparing some things regarding this comic series. Very exciting things! Well get your excite bikes revved up, because The Shufflers is joining The Hive Works as an affiliate! Within the matter of a few weeks, some great changes will follow; including migration to it's own website.
So until preparations are complete, I will still be updating this page and the Tumblr site. Thank you all for supporting the comic so far! Stay tuned for more news in the near future.
Morning everybody! Hope New Years treated you well. Today's update is the cover art for the new episode of Shufflers! This story will include a new character, more exposure of the world, and some...*saucy* surprises.
I hope you'll enjoy! See y'all next Monday!
Hey everybody! Sorry I'm running late with updates again. This sure has been an insane month with holidays, my birthday, and just personal madness all around. But I did it, and with 19 minutes to spare!
So before we get started into the brand new episode, we're having a small recap bit where our two gents will help get you up to speed and even explain some bits that may have appeared confusing to current and new readers. I will be updating the last two pages within the week to get 'er out of the way in time for the new story. Until then, please enjoy!
Also with that said, WOW! I am amazed at how much reception this comic has gotten within a matter of a week. Thank you all for taking the time to check the comic out and throwing in your comments.
If you really like the comic, I highly urge you to follow along at the comic's main hub; http://shufflerscomic.tumblr.com. This account only serves as a mirror, plus there are extra comics on the main page you won't find here! If you have a Tumblr account, follow along! Your support is super appreciated!
Act 3 will undergo some serious development so there won't be anymore updates for awhile. My goal is to pick by mid to late August. See you all then and have a great summer!
I hate this page. But don't worry it is, almost over!
Coming up next is the worst page ever!
It was difficult trying to get myself to finish the remaining pages of Chapter 2, but I promise this will be concluded in early July!
While I continue updating, I'll be spending my free time developing Chapter 3. I admit the first two were rather hazardous in the planing stage and I'm going to do my best to not repeat past mistakes.
Trust me folks, Chapter 3 is were the real insane gold happens.
Until then, keep on reading!
Sorry for the wait again! Not my best page but I'm doing what I can to get this chapter completed without the quality crashing completely.
This is also that time of the year where finals are around the corner, which means there's a possibility that I may end up skipping a week or two on updating. Might not be the case entirely, but I just wanted to throw it out there for those that still read this.


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Using WHM. But now when I go to y.jkl.com, it shows:
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A: I suspect a "ServerAlias" directive will take care of it in your Apache vhost file: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#serveralias

A: You probably need to add a host header to Apache so that it knows that x.abc.com should also answer for y.jkl.com.

A: If you have access to WHM, you probably have access to Cpanel
Follow these steps to accomplish a redirection from y.jkl.com to x.abc.com

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What's this obsession with getting attendance figures after markets? It's the business of buying and selling content that really counts — not the fact that 13,900 people were there, instead of the necessary 8,000. Because, as the saying goes, two is company; three's a crowd.
This is an official request for the establishment of a "clearing house" for organizers of international film and TV trade shows. The United Nations is famous for establishing clearing houses to coordinate various world events and the entertainment industry should do the same to avoid staging 20 trade events for 84 market days in three months.
We all know the importance and impact of TV commercials on consumers, society and the economy. Then, why doesn't the media critique them as it does movies, TV shows and even restaurants?
The world is literally getting crazier with social media. Now an embarrassing, but socially irrelevant, blunder on television can trigger death threats.
Building on the successful and innovating formula of MIP Cancun, advice for similar, smaller TV markets and for small indie companies attending larger markets.
Norman Horowitz Syndrome: A social and business condition that is beneficial to all concerned, but its value is not yet fully appreciated.
Elegance is defined as something that is unnoticeable, but as an amateur social historian, I tend to notice the unnoticeable — especially the trivial aspects of the TV distribution business.
Perhaps my old age is starting to interfere with me, but I'm wondering what's so special about the good ol' days. Were video cassettes better than today's streaming promos? Were sales trips more enjoyable with operator-assisted international sales calls? Yes, air travel was more civilized, but is that all?


North Charleston, SC (pop. 110,000) hosts a website where citizens can notify the city about issues like potholes or streetlights that are out. It's useful, but not accessible to all residents, given that a fair number don't have Internet or a smartphone. Of course, citizens can call city offices, but they're staffed only on weekdays 8 AM to 5 PM.
In early July, launched test of a chatbot that receives citizen complaints via text from any cell phone (ie, including non-smart ones) and channels them to the appropriate city department. The app is called "Citibot" and was developed by a local startup funded by the city's accelerator business program, with the city as its first customer.
The city believes 98% of the population has a mobile phone. Citibot works 24/7 receiving messages and shooting them to the right people.
As a result, the app goes beyond being a 311 device to take citizen complaints and requests, though it is great at that.
It also allows the city to crowdsource the reporting of issues by its citizens, such as quickly notifying authorities of a fire, accident, roadway hazard, broken water main, illegal parking, or civil disturbance.
In coming weeks, flyers advertising the new service will be posted on 40,000 garbage cans.
People try to "stump" Citibot with issues they report, which is great, because the more issues that come in, the more the chatbot can be fine-tuned.
Grew up in the Pee Dee region of rural South Carolina where he spent a lot of time outside. Majored in history, minored in political science at Lander University ('06). Likes photography and disc golf. Super into the local craft beer scene, per his picture above (recommends: Coast Brewing Co's Kolsch beer).
Moved to Charleston region after college and found the city of North Charleston through a temp agency. Moved up from answering phones in the Mayor's office to secretary, to a newly created public relations role to give the city a presence on social media and work on economic development.
Youngest Rotary Club president in his Rotary district.


Jennifer: I studied architecture at the University of Texas, Austin. For my last two summers in college I was lucky enough to intern for the late Albert Hadley, where I met and became very close to senior designer, Harry Heissmann. Upon graduating from UT, Mr. Hadley encouraged me to pursue a Masters in the Decorative Arts and suggested I look into the Sotheby's Masters in Fine and Decorative Arts program. In the summer of 2009, between undergrad and grad school, I helped Harry launch his own design firm, Harry Heissmann, Inc., where I would intern throughout grad school and then work upon graduation until March 2013.
Georgie: I studied at Parsons and worked for various designers in Manhattan, Kemble Interiors, Bunny Williams Inc., and Blair Harris Interior Design, in that order. I strongly suggest working for different designers to help evolve your own personal style and to learn as much as possible about how they run their business.
J: I would have to say at age 4, when I decided to "wallpaper" my parents' bedroom with neon construction paper and glue. It was more of a wainscoting as that is about as high as I could reach! But in all seriousness, I thought I wanted to go into fashion design because I was drawn to textiles. Soon after I discovered I loved arranging spaces and realized that interiors was where I wanted to be!
G: I think I always knew that it was what I wanted to do, but was too afraid to admit it. Once I decided to pursue design, enrolled in Parsons and was surrounded by like minded people, I knew I was where I was supposed to be.
How did you know you were ready to strike out on your own, and when did you?
I don't think you ever really know if you're ready to go out on your own. Working in small offices enabled us to see the day-to-day things that need to be done - learning how to actually manage your business is crucial. We clicked right from our first meeting--having the right chemistry and working relationship is everything! We had a few side projects we had developed together, which is ultimately what gave us the confidence to strike out on our own. We knew that if we didn't do it, it would always be a side project, thus J+G opened its doors officially in March 2013.
What advice do you have for others wanting to do the same?
Think it through. We didn't just quit our jobs one day and decide to open shop. It was a year in the making--developing a mission, a business plan, company goals, establishing a brand, etc. It is a big undertaking, but we are lucky to have one another!
We are constantly reaching out to other designers to meet with us for coffee! It can be isolating going off on your own, so we love to get together with other people in the industry to pick their brains! Obviously we look up to the designers we worked for in the past--they taught us everything we know!
What did they teach you that you can't learn in design school?
Trust your eye. This is something that takes time to develop, but we try to get out of the office as much as possible to visit new workrooms and go to exhibits and galleries. It is really about constantly educating ourselves.
What is the most practical knowledge you learned from working for a master designer?
Hands down, proportion and scale. You must understand those in order to have a successful project.
We would describe our aesthetic as traditional design as we see it through our lens - equal parts eclectic and tailored, glamorous and relaxed, bold colors/pattern and subtle textures. It's this unique balance that we strive for in every space.
What is the biggest challenge of being your own boss? Has that evolved from when you began?
The responsibility of running a successful business was daunting. We are the last line of defense so it's all on us! Our confidence has definitely grown over the past year and we have learned how to deal with various situations.
You are very social media savvy, how has that engagement helped you?
We knew from the start that this was going to be huge for us as a young business. Starting out you don't have photographed projects, so it is the best way to convey our taste and aesthetic to the design community and potential clients. Our favorite platform would have to be Instagram.
All sorts of ways, social media and press being one of them, but word-of-mouth is still the most prominent way.
Whose work of the past do you hold in high regard?
Albert Hadley--it is actually our connection to one another...both Harry and Bunny hailed from him!
Where is your inspiration coming from right now?
We are so lucky to live in NYC! We are constantly taking photos of inspiration, whether it be a new restaurant, boutique, workroom, etc. Most recently we were so inspired by all the amazing work coming out of The Alpha Workshops. If you can dream it, they can make it.
What do you think is next regarding trends in color, material and style?
While we don't typically adhere to trends, we are seeing a lot of the monochromatic look--very tone on tone, but with more attention to a variety of textures.
Do you have a favorite fabric pattern or print you return to?
Yes-- Kelly Wearstler for Lee Jofa, Confetti in black/ivory. It's fun, yet tailored and makes everything look fresh. We recovered the seats of a set of antique dining chairs and the client's loved them. When in doubt, confetti it!
Nothing beats soft buttery texture of velvet. The color options and textures are endless. It can be dressed up or dressed down - you just can't go wrong!
Perusing Pinterest or 1stDibs is the most convenient way to get inspired, but we are both very visually minded people. We love John Rosselli and Flair--they do a great job of styling.
What stores and or resources do you shop in the most?
We love helping clients achieve a high-end look within their budget, this means using a high/low mix of pieces. We shop across the board, everything from 1st dibs to vintage/consignment stores. We try not to shop at the same places all the time. We're always looking for new artists and resources.
Where are you eager to do a project?
Right now, specifically? Anywhere warm! We cannot wait for Spring to arrive!
Furniture with classic silhouettes in a New York living room. Ever mindful of key to comfortable seating arrangements, they have a spot to place a drink beside each seat.
The color-accented mix of furniture styles and a touch of pattern to offset the neutral white walls.
The dining room, with Biedermeier chairs and a mid century chandelier. Red vases make a nice centerpiece addition to the dining table when it is not in use.
A red and blue abstract portrait hangs above a console-as-bar.
An interesting gallery art wall anchors the living room in Jennifer's apartment.
A dash of red, black and white pattern and brass make a handsome traditional nailhead-trimmed headboard come to life.
An antique dresser dressed up with a mustard yellow lamp and sunny vintage print.
A colorful tablesetting for a birthday fete features a coral and melon Quadrille print and accents of blue.
Their Avery Boardman scheme includes handmade Christopher Spitzmiller lamps and fresh printed fabrics.
A corner desk with instant library for a client.
Amy Merrick's flower arrangements have an ethereal, otherworldly quality to them. Their free and unbridled-ness make them an instant mood-uplifter. The Brooklyn-based floral artist includes an array of natural elements, also found in the wild, so the unexpected addition of fruit or branches adds a whimsical element. And the way she photographs her creations, the arrangements really take on an Old Master painting still-life quality. I adore her work and think you will too.
A yellow arrangement reads spring.
The containers Amy chooses provide an additional storytelling element.
While checking out some emerging talent out of London, I made a design discovery that stopped me with Stendhal Syndrome. Clare Coleses stunning embroidery defies anything you have ever seen. I have been feeling a "return to pretty" and this surely signals its comeback. Her beautiful, highly detailed sewn wall panels take on a life of their own, while they teem with life-- that of birds, flowers and fauna. Captured with quirky charm, in hand and machine led embroidery, she combines silk threads, vintage wallpaper flowers and leather in scenics that awe. Her artistry with embroidery takes it beyond the surface, with 3D relief, and the panels make them portable to move around at will like a piece of art. She also creates custom installations and fashion collaborations, so far only in England. I love the presence of the artists hand, and how the work takes on a different feel, depending on if it is on a light or dark silk background. Coleses work is extraordinary- I am so taken with her talent. The Brits really know how to move the needle.
On a dark, brooding steely gray silk ground, a classic vase in monochromatic threads holds an ebullient, free-form still life flower arrangement called Dutch Masters. Coles has tremendous skill capturing a hand-drawn quality out of threads.
Vivid tomato red, teal blue and spring green in Tropical Garden take their cue from hand-painted chinoiserie papers.
The movement and realism her work captures is truly astonishing.
Bird on a wire, a chic bird, surrounded by bright blooms.
Miami Deco, inspired by Florida's unique pastel facades, shows flowers strewn about as if blown by a gust of wind.
The applique flowers add such a delightful charm.
Another view of creeping flowers and stems.
In Hollywood Pineapple, she takes a classic symbol of welcome and hospitality and goes glam, with gold leather and palm fronds in flashy colors.
Set against a green silk background, the unusual color pairings and artistry really emerge.


The Region II District Representatives need your help to "End The Trend". Recently, there has been an increase in Truck and Motorcycle thefts in Region II (Northeast and Northwest Austin).
A common mode of entry on Pick Up trucks is using a screw driver or other Device to "punch" the key entry on the door. This takes only a few seconds and allows access to the locking rods. Here a few tips to keep your vehicle from being stolen.
Door locks and ignition keys are called "first layer" anti-theft devices. Of course, every vehicle has them. They offer no deterrent to a determined thief.
Steering wheel locks - metal bars designed to prevent the steering wheel from turning. They do their job, and provide an excellent visual deterrent. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, steering wheel locks decrease the chances of theft by a factor of four.
Steering column collars - steel collars that fit around the steering wheel and prevent a thief from cracking open the ignition. They offer the same benefits as a steering wheel lock.
Audible alarms - triggered by motion or impact sensors. Thieves aren't likely to stick around when they go off.
Theft deterrent decals - an inexpensive way to bluff a thief into thinking that your vehicle is protected by an alarm or other device.
Brake caliper locks for motorcycles.
Metal plate installed behind the handle of the door blocking access to the locking rods.
"Third layer" anti-theft devices include "kill switches" that prevent the flow of electricity to the engine unless a special, hidden switch is activated, and "smart keys", which are computer-coded keys that must be inserted before the vehicle will start.
Finally, "fourth layer" theft devices are electronic transmitters that allow the police to track a vehicle after it is stolen. While not very effective in preventing the original theft, these devices increase the chance of recovery. By the time the car is recovered, of course, it may be stripped or burned.
Other than theft devices, there are several precautions that can be taken to decrease the chances of auto theft.
Engrave the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) of the car on the front and rear windshields (on an edge) and on key engine parts. This will make it difficult for a thief to resell the vehicle or its parts.
Parking in a driveway or parking garage offers some deterrent to theft. Parking a car in a locked garage greatly decreases the chances of overnight theft.
If you must park on the street at night, try to park under a street light or otherwise in a well-lit area.
When parking at shopping malls or motels, try to park near the entrance.
And as always: If you think something is suspicious, it probably is. Call 911 immediately.


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What Maisie Knew is new
Julianne Moore is back on screens, playing an abusive mother in What Maisie Knew. Talking about her role, she said: "Her obliviousness to her situation interested me. If she were just kind of an absent and neglectful mother that would be bad, but what she is is worse. She's wildly inconsistent in her behaviour toward the child, which is virtually abusive. It really is. So she spends time with her where she kind of smothers her with attention and love and then she kind of disappears."
The film is adapted from a Henry James novella of the same name, written in 1897. But Alexander Skarsgard, who plays Lincoln in the film, said the story remained relevant today : "That was obviously Victorian England but I think it was Henry James' reaction to what was happening in that society and how people were so self-obsessed and focused on their own careers or their own egos in a way, because this turns into a battle of two egos in a way, where they're so focused on that, they forget their own child."
What Maisie Knew will be released in the UK on 23 August.
The Favourite lives up to its name at European cinema's night of nights
Films tipped to win 2019 European Film Awards
Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola praised as he wins Lumière Award
Vienna Philharmonic marches to its own tune
Gladiator of Auschwitz: New film tells the story of Pole who boxed his way through hell
Comedy without the clichés: Don Pasquale charms Zurich
Not just for kids: 'Cartoon Movie' sees boom in adult animation films
Rod Stewart, his son accused of shoving, punching security guard

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"Destination: Bucharest" - Bellu Cemetery, the open-air museum that keeps alive stories of those who passed away
Although lesser known than the Merry Cemetery in Săpânța, the Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest is a true open-air museum, a landmark on the cultural map of the city. Writers, musicians, actors, academics or people who over time have changed the course of Romania from positions of power have found their eternal rest here. Their names are written on simple wooden crosses or on true works of art with impressive details. It may not be the most obvious option for tourists, but the cemetery will certainly make for an unforgettable visit.
It is shortly after noon when we go out of the subway and the sunlight makes us look away for a moment as we climb the last stairs to exit towards the street. We know that we have to walk a few hundred meters to Bellu Cemetery and we only take few steps before seeing the entrance on the other side of the busy road: a large, white building, with an imposing entrance above which the name "Șerban Vodă Cemetery" is written.
The official name is Șerban Vodă Cemetery, but most call it Bellu. This is where, before 1850, baron Barbu Bellu owned a large orchard with oranges. He donated the land to the state and, here, on the little street then called Șerban Vodă, this cemetery was created. Until then, most people were buried in churchyards, but a new law changed this, so cemeteries started to be set up on the city's outskirts.
We enter the cemetery and head towards the map that lists the most important personalities buried here. A similar map is also found at the other end of the main alley, near the chapel. The Bellu Cemetery covers 28 hectares, and such signs help us find our way around.
First we stop at the grave of Mihai Eminescu, Romania's national poet. It is one of those perfect autumn days, with the sunlight filtered by the trees' thick crowns. You rarely see anyone on the cemetery's alleys. Yet there are many fresh flowers on the national poet's tomb, a sign that people come here no matter the day or season.
Other important writers such as Ion Luca Caragiale, George Coșbuc, Mihail Sadoveanu, George Călinescu and Liviu Rebreanu rest near Eminescu on this alley. The writers' alley can overwhelm you with the greatness of the names and their heritage. It's no wonder that, as we decide to move on, two young people approach, looking for the same great names. They smile when they spot them and head in that direction.
Another special place is the alley of artists, with the burial places of other personalities very loved by Romanians. Among them, Toma Caragiu, Amza Pellea, Gheorghe Dinică, Maria Tănase, Gică Petrescu, Dem Rădulescu and many others.
Funerary monuments, old and new crosses, some blackened by time, others still of a bright white, busts and other sculptures are spread throughout the cemetery. We find modest wooden crosses that blend perfectly with the rusty autumn leaves and tombs that now have shades of grey. We spot monuments that include more colorful elements, green, red or copper-colored. Different sizes and shapes all around us, a strange but charming mix.
Not far from the entrance we find the tomb of Iulia Hașdeu, the brilliant daughter of writer Bogdan Petriceicu Hașdeu, who died of tuberculosis at almost 19 years old. Her tragic destiny makes us stop here for a while, but that's not the only reason. We also know the tomb's story: it is said that Iulia Hașdeu's father built this tomb according to instructions she gave from beyond the grave. Indeed, it stands out: at the top of the monument, where we usually see a cross, two sphinxes hold the world globe on their shoulders, and below there's a clock that seems to have stopped in time. "Stay a little longer" is carved on the tomb.
The cemetery's alleys hide many other stories. One of them is that of Constantin Poroineanu (1843-1908), one of the richest landowners of the time. The story says that, following a love affair in Paris, he had a daughter whom he kept hidden from his wife and son back home. Years later, his son went to Paris to study as well, and there he fell in love and even married the one who would later prove to be his sister. The news was so painful for the two lovers that they decided to take their own lives, followed shortly by their father.
The two young lovers were buried in Bellu next to Constantin Poroineanu. Their funeral monument catches the eye of anyone who passes by: a man on his knees crying at the bedside of a woman. An artistic work of a dark, sad color, signed by the Italian sculptor Raffaello Romanelli.
Some of the largest and most impressive tombs in the Bellu Cemetery bear the signature of famous Romanian architect Ion Mincu. The first one we notice is where the Gheorghieff brothers, both bankers, are buried: a truly imposing architectural monument, with decorations made by sculptor Frederic Storck. The Cantacuzino family mausoleum also bears Ion Mincu's signature and is one of the monuments with the most complex and beautiful details. It is guarded by sculptured knights and bears the family's coat of arms. Autumn colors seem to give it an even greater force.
A mountain peak that tells the tragic story of climber Sophia Mavrodin, the statue of the "lady with the umbrella," the elegant statue of Angela Isvoranu's grave, the busts of the Rosetti family, and the dark sculpture of Doctor Petrini Paul's grave are other monuments that make us stop for a few minutes.
In a quietness that has slowly become normal here, in the middle of such a lively city, we climb stone stairs to see some of the oldest graves. We walk carefully among the monuments and sculptures, as if we fear we might disturb the order of the place. We stop for a few moments in front of small wooden or stone benches, some covered with dry leaves. We continue to walk among the old ivy-covered tombs and statues that fascinate us with their details. There are many things to see here, but also in the Bellu Militar Cemetery that is linked to this one. We decide, on the spot, that we have to return soon.
Named by some "the younger brother of the famous Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris," the Bellu Cemetery is truly impressive. In 2010, it was included on the map of European sights.
To keep in mind
Address: 249 Calea Șerban Vodă Blvd.
The cemetery can be reached by car or by public transport. Buses 116, 141, 232 and 323, as well as several trams such as 7, 11, 19, 25, 1 and 34 stop nearby, and the Eroii Revoluției subway station is only a few hundred meters away.
Opening hours: 08:00 – 17:00.
A guided tour can take about two hours, but those who choose to discover this place alone can spend much more time here.
The mobile phone can be of help during the visit, as there is no detailed information about the monuments or those buried here. A quick search on the Internet can reveal interesting stories, but it is probably best to go with someone who knows Romanian well.
To see nearby: the Bellu Catholic Cemetery, the Jewish Cemetery, Tineretului Park, Carol Park.
This text is part of a project under the program of promoting the touristic heritage "Destination: Bucharest", carried out by the Bucharest City Hall through the Public Monuments and Touristic Heritage Administration (AMPT).
Photos by Kathrin Weident & Irina Marica / Romania-Insider.com for AMPT


text: When the white-haired coroner of Bulgaria's capital died hanging from the jungle gym of a placid city playground, he left behind a series of what his longtime staff considered cryptic clues.These forensic examiners balked at the horror of preparing an autopsy of their former teacher, Stoycho Radanov. At the time of his death at 76 in mid-October, he was still vigorous, presiding over politically radioactive cases that uncovered botched investigative work and a deadly beating by top police officials.Could the death of the coroner be murder? Or was it suicide provoked by the pressures of challenging the system?'We can't say for certain what drove him,' said Stanislav Hristov, head of the forensic department at the Alexandrovska Hospital in Sofia. 'But his clear message was that we always have to fight for the truth.'Exposing corruption is not a battle for the fainthearted in Bulgaria, one of the newest and poorest nations in the European Union where graft has seeped into the fabric of life, tainting everything from sausage-making to highway construction.This month the Bulgarian government is pressing to avert the loss of millions of euros in European subsidies for road-building and agriculture that were frozen after the European Commission concluded the money was vulnerable to fraud, organized white-collar criminal networks and weak financial controls.But there are quiet corners of this country of seven million people where voices rise against corruption, including journalists, two nonprofit organizations, several environmental groups and even some politicians. Many corruption-busters labor in obscurity, methodically gathering information at local nonprofit organizations to expose systemic graft that prompted Transparency International, a nongovernmental global watchdog on corruption, to dub Bulgaria the most corrupt country in the 27-nation EU.Some journalists and researchers have taken their fight public, facing death threats, a home bombing, telephone calls from organized crime figures and even the bone-shattering blows of pipes and hammers. Environmentalists regularly face off against burly private bodyguards, including one who slammed a car door into a demonstrator's head.'Corruption affects the entire population, from clerks in the countryside to senior government officials. Unfortunately, people are becoming apathetic. They accept it as a part of life,' said Ognian Stefanov, who almost a year ago started Frognews, a news Web site funded by Mladen Mutafchiyski, a wealthy Black Sea hotel owner.At age 54, Stefanov winced as he talked, rolling his shoulder in a burst of pain. He was wearing a bright track suit and unlaced sport shoes, but there is no place he can run from his wheelchair parked among brittle autumn leaves outside a Sofia hospital.'Certain people weren't happy with things that we've been writing,' said Stefanov, a journalist for 25 years who was accustomed to ignoring threats. 'We began to expose connections between organized crime and politics, corruption that's obvious to everyone.'There was no warning on the September night that he left the Kiparisite restaurant in Sofia after meeting Evelin Banev, a real estate entrepreneur who is under investigation for money laundering. Stefanov was attacked by four men in black with pipes and hammers, who methodically shattered his most sensitive bones, breaking his elbows and both legs in four places. Banev intervened and suffered a broken nose and concussion.'Certain people just decide they can react anyway they choose,' said Stefanov, who needed eight hours of surgery and remembers that night as a blur of pain. 'The saddest thing is that they can decide anything they want. They are untouchable here.'No one has been arrested, and the co-owner of Frognews, Mutafchiyski, called the police investigation 'pathetic.' But the site's Web traffic has leaped from 40,000 hits to more than 250,000. And Stefanov's second-in-command, Alexander Ivanov, has been working his news beat with two police officers discreetly trailing behind him.Ivanov's new companions arrived after he heard the shrill buzz of his apartment intercom and a crackly, anonymous threat: 'Your beating will be even worse.''It's very hard for journalists in Bulgaria to write about corruption,' Ivanov said, noting that he got his threat on the day a newspaper promoted a coming interview with his boss at his hospital bedside.But with European pressure on Bulgaria to root out graft, anti-corruption crusading has emerged as a fashionable notion and even a sharp political tool. Opposition figures to the Socialist-led coalition government have used corruption charges to undermine rivals, making it hard to determine the difference between pure and murky motives.'The fight against corruption has become a political show,' said Stefan Popov, executive director of RiskMonitor, founded in 2006 and financed by the Open Society Institute in New York and Sofia. 'If everybody is against corruption, it means that nobody is against corruption. Then you can use fighting corruption for your own political purposes.'With eight researchers headed by Popov, RiskMonitor examines money laundering, organized crime and vote-buying where city governments are under siege from criminal networks drawn by the billions in EU subsidies that could flow to Bulgaria through 2013.RiskMonitor also hosts annual summits on Bulgarian organized crime, bringing experts to develop counterstrategies. There has been no backlash, but some anxious board members worry about the safety of the group's ground floor offices.One RiskMonitor researcher is Iva Pushkarova, a lawyer who also heads the Bulgarian Judges Association, which represents more than 900 judges in a judiciary tainted by graft. 'Fighting against corruption is actually fighting for democracy, human rights and rule of law,' said Pushkarova, whose group is developing training programs and ethical codes.Within the Bulgarian legal elite, she said, lawyers are well aware of judges with criminal ties. 'How do we know? They have marriage connections or business ties with organized criminal bosses. They are neighbors. Usually organized crime bosses live in protected territory in compounds and they live in the same area.'Her organization's efforts at higher standards have led to strains. A rival group of about 100 judges started in the last two years. 'They know that the European funds are coming to Bulgaria,' Pushkarova said, 'and a lot will be allocated for projects for judicial reform.'Bulgarians who investigate corruption and organized crime often develop personal strategies to minimize hazards. Tihomir Bezlov, a longtime criminologist with the Center for the Study of Democracy in Sofia, speaks openly on television and radio, betting that a high profile offers protection.Atanas Atanasov, an opposition Parliament member and former counterintelligence chief who has made a political career of exposing corruption, takes a mordant view: 'My grandfather used to say that if you're destined to be kicked by a horse, you're not going to be kicked by a donkey. Someone has to say what's going on.'But the atmosphere is more baffling for outsiders like David Hammerstein, a Spanish lawmaker and European Parliament member from the Green Party who toured Bulgaria to investigate suspect land deals.In May in the mountainous Rila National Park, Hammerstein and a group of Bulgarian environmentalists were confronted by a private security guard in a forest area where a road is being constructed without environmental permits. The guard ordered them out, he said.'Cars arrived full of guys in black leather jackets and they followed us for 40 to 50 kilometers,' Hammerstein said, referring to a distance of about 25 to 30 miles. 'That's very common for people on a local level.'When Hammerstein returned in October, he experienced petty corruption firsthand. A taxi driver from the airport charged him five times the normal fare to reach the city. Hammerstein protested directly to Bulgaria's transportation minister, but got no comfort.For Radanov, who helped found Bulgaria's criminal forensics, questioning authority was the thorniest part of being a coroner. When police said a drug dealer died of a heart attack in custody, Radanov concluded that he was killed with a heavy blow to the head. He also cast aside findings that two teen sisters were raped and battered to death with stones, concluding instead that they were struck by a car. His conclusion last May was that police mistakes destroyed evidence.For two weeks before he died, his colleague Hristov said, Radanov seemed preoccupied. He was facing a potential fine of Euro 25,000, or $31,000, in a defamation lawsuit filed by a professor angered that Radanov questioned her competence in the investigation of the girls' killings. He was worried about selling a country home he built himself to raise money.Radanov left no note, but Hristov said he was sure the coroner planned his clues, including the strange choice of the playground. His body, for instance, should have shown signs of a struggle if he had been dragged below the climbing bars to his death by someone else, Hristov said. But there were no marks, proving to the staff that it was a suicide.On Radanov's hospital desk, Hristov found two titles, the coroner's own autobiography and a book of poetry by a friend, entitled 'Testament.' It was marked at a poem about the struggle of a person walking through storms.'Society did this to him,' mused Hristov, smoking a cigarette by antique wooden bookcases stocked high with medical titles donated by Radanov. 'I don't exclude this as a motive.'His staff has collected money for a marble sculpture on Radanov's grave that will be installed in late November, 40 days after his death. Hristov would like an epitaph inspired by the coroner's clues: 'Always tell the truth.'Author: Doreen Carvajal


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These are the world's first pictures of the new Victory Vision; a bike that its American manufacturer claims is going to revolutionise the touring market.
By merging classic American style (with the chrome V-twin engine proudly displayed at the centrepiece) with the fresher lines of European tourers, like BMW's K1200LT.
Even the grey/silver colour schemes ape BMW's executive-looking touring bikes.
Victory has unveiled two variations of its new tourer: the Vision Street and the Vision Tour. Both are aimed at the serious touring market, however, the emphasis of the Tour is targeted at two-up, long-distance travel whereas the Street is aimed more specifically at the solo traveller who occasionally takes a friend out for a spin.
The Victory Vision has six-speed transmission with an overdrive for relaxed motorway cruising – perfect for ticking off the miles on long stretches of straight road in comfort.
The 23 litre tank is large enough for a tank range of over 200 miles – a must for those looking at crossing continents without having to divert for fuel every hour.
Also, there's plenty of room for luggage with the Vision Tour promising over 110 litres of storage from its built-in panniers.
Currently no weight has been announced but judging by the chrome, the fairing and the 1,634cc V-twin it will probably tip the scales by at least 300kg.
The Vision gets twin, three-piston calliper 300mm front discs to bring the colossal bulk of this super tourer to a standstill. The rear brake gets a single disc with twin-piston callipers.
Victory had been promising the Vision would get one of the lowest seat heights in the touring market.
The confirmed figure is 26.5 inches (67.3cm) which only just undercuts the Harley-Davidson Road King at 26.6 inches (67.5cm).
It might not sound like much but seat height figures can be as important in the cruiser marketplace as peak horse power figures are to superbike riders.
All creature comforts have been considered and the bikes can be factory fitted with a stereo and MP3 player and GPS navigation.
The Vision is also likely to come with optional ABS and heated grips and seats; expect to see a comprehensive list of optional accessories by the time the bike is released.
No UK prices have been confirmed but the first bikes are expected in the UK in Autumn 2007.
MCN expects the bike will cost at least £16,000.
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A committee organizing a simultaneous toast of Awamori with 10,000 people is calling for people to participate to the toast at 20:00 on Wednesday (Nov. 2).
Consumption of awamori has been on downward trend for years and the committee was organized by the industry to familiarize people with the liquor. So far more than 60 pubs, bars, restaurants and shops on Okinawa, and restaurants and private groups from Kanagawa, Saitama, and Osaka prefectures have signed up to participate. Miyuki Tomoyose, the Awamori Queen of 2016, is going to drink a toast at Yataimura on Kokusai Street in Makishi, Naha City with hundreds of people expected to participate.
Shipments of Awamori have been decreasing for eleven consecutive years, and volunteers who are enthusiastic about Awamori and representatives of Awamori makers, bars and restaurants have organized the event. They held the first similar event on Sep. 4th, which is named the day of Kusu (aged Awamori), and they are planning to have the second one to time with Nov. 1st that is named the Awamori Day.
Organizers have created a facebook group called "Awamori Kanpai" where participants are invited to post photos of them toasting in order to allow event organizers to calculate the total number.
The committee is planning to call for participation of Uchinanchu (people living overseas who have their roots in Okinawa) in the future.


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Philosophical aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which explores issues having to do with art, beauty, and related phenomena. Philosophers have often been skeptical about the place of empirical investigation in aesthetics. However, in recent years many philosophical aestheticians have turned to cognitive science to enrich their understanding of their subject matter. Cognitive scientists have, in turn, been inspired by work in philosophical aesthetics. This essay focuses on a representative subset of the areas in which there has been fruitful dialogue between philosophical aestheticians and cognitive scientists. We start with some general topics in philosophical aesthetics—the definition of art and the epistemic status of aesthetic judgments. We then move on to discussing research concerning the roles that imagination and perception play in our aesthetic engagement. We conclude with a discussion of the emerging field of experimental philosophical aesthetics.
(c) 2017, Wiley. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Meskin, AR, Robson, J, Ichino, A et al. (2 more authors) (2017) Philosophical Aesthetics and Cognitive Science. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science , which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1445. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.


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Inditex Names Óscar García Maceiras CEO, Marta Ortega Chairwoman
By DPA
Spanish fashion retailer Industria de Diseño Textil SA (IDEXF.PK) or Inditex announced Tuesday that its Board of Directors appointed Óscar García Maceiras, up to now General Counsel and Secretary of the Board, as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect.
Further, Marta Ortega Pérez has been appointed as Chairwoman of the Group, as a proprietary director, effective as from April 1, 2022.
Further, José Arnau Sierra remains as Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors.
With this, the company said its Board completes the generational handover process initiated in 2011 with the replacement of Amancio Ortega as Chairman of Inditex.
The appointments will be presented for ratification at the next Annual General Meeting.
García Maceiras succeeds Carlos Crespo, Chief Executive Officer of the Group since July 2019, who has been appointed Chief Operating Officer (Managing Director of Operations, Sustainable and Digital Transformation) of Inditex.
Ortega Pérez succeeds Pablo Isla, who has been Deputy Chairman and CEO since 2005 and, from 2011, as Executive Chairman. Isla will continue as Executive Chairman until March 31.
Javier Monteoliva, Head of Legal of Inditex and Deputy Secretary of the Board of Directors until now, has been appointed General Counsel and Secretary of the Board.
In Spain, Inditex shares were trading at 28.49 euros, down 4 percent.(DPA)


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I Am also grateful for the chance to celebrate with some special treats with my friends at work today for our last day together until January.
I Am grateful as well for the chance to celebrate with some special treats with my friends at CSLNJ tonight at our annual holiday party.
I Am grateful further for the great pleasure of knowing Mr. Brian Allen Washington. Brian was one of the most sweetest, kindest, generous people you would ever meet, and his influence on me was life-changing. Just a few months ago, we were discussing plans to get together for a drink. I can't now… but I know my life is forever changed by having him in it.
Finally I Am grateful for the love and support I have in my life to guide me through the rough times.


ELO Part 2's self-titled debut contains nothing closely resembling progressive rock, but it's actually not that bad of an album when you compare it with the likes of Balance of Power, Secret Messages, Discovery, and Xanadu. In fact, I would say that it is lyrically and musically better than those albums. So, it's not Jeff Lynne at the helm. I'd say big deal, since Lynne had not really done anything remarkable since he moved the group away from its early progressive rock leanings. Instead we're left with a group of Jeff Lynne-wannabes, and although unoriginal in such an approach, it did breathe new life into the ELO pop sound, hearkening back to the days of Out of the Blue and producing something more energetic than anything the group had made in over a decade.
Bev Bevan was behind this ELO spin-off. Bevan actually thought there was more life to ELO and approached Lynne about doing another album in 1988. Lynne wasn't interested, Bevan went ahead anyway, they went to court, then they settled, and Bevan started ELO Part 2. Bevan brought in string conductor Louis Clark with the intention of putting the orchestra back into ELO, giving that "O" the meaning it had had so many years ago. Bevan also brought in Eric Troyer (for the lighter side of Jeff Lynne), Pete Haycock (to replace Lynne's mediocrity on the guitar with a real guitarist), and Phil Bates (for the harder side of Jeff Lynne). Bevan even loosened up on the drums, occasionally inserting short drum rolls (almost unheard of in Lynne's ELO), and even co-wrote some songs (also unheard of in Lynne's ELO). The end product was a sort of "what if ELO had gone a different route after 1977." Well, this is what they would have sounded like in 1991 if they had (without Lynne of course).
Not only did Bevan bring the classic ELO sound back, he also gave it a little bite. The guitar work on this album is harder on some songs than the usual ELO affairs, possibly resulting from influences he may have picked up during his Black Sabbath tour. That's not saying the whole album is like that. They still have their sappy numbers which will always be present on any ELO album after their progressive experimentations of the early 1970s.
A decent pop rock album, well worth the attention of ELO fans, only if you can be open-minded to a Lynne-less ELO. Otherwise, due to the lack of progressive rock on this album, two stars seems appropriate. Three and a half if this were on a "Pop Rock Archives."


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Since 1999 employed at the Department of Social Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy (previously the Institute of Philosophy), University of Warsaw. Currently he is the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at University of Warsaw and the Chair of the Department of Social Philosophy. His doctoral thesis on the primacy of the practical reason in Kant and Fichte's philosophy, written under the supervision of Professor Marek J. Siemek, defended in 2004, published in 2007, was awarded with the Prize of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. Postdoctoral degree at the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Warsaw in 2016, attained on the basis of his book Anerkennung als Verpflichtung (Königshausen&Neumann, Würzburg 2015). Multiple scholarships of Polish and German scientific foundations: 2000/2001 – DAAD Scholarship in Tübingen, Germany; 2002/2003 – Foundation for Polish Science Scholarship; 2006/2008 Aleksander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.Prizewinner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – the prize involved a research stay (2015/2016) at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and a close collaboration with Professor Axel Honneth. Kloc-Konkołowicz is also the Head of the Research Centre for German Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Warsaw University, where he organizes Polish-German and Polish-Austrian symposia, scientific conferences, and lectures of renowned German and Austrian philosophers. He is author of three monographs and over 50 articles and contributions in Polish, German, and English, mainly in German and Polish scientific journals and collected volumes. His main research interests include: Social Philosophy, Theory of Recognition, classical German Philosophy (Kant, Fichte, Hegel) and contemporary philosophy of the German language area.
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Utah Blaze Arena Football
I talk all the time about how much I love Utah because there are SO MANY different things to do. Usually I'm referring to the variety of outdoor adventures from north to south, east to west. Today, though, I want to turn inwards to one of the equally numerous indoor activities we have available here in our great state.
Utah's indoor sports arenas are not a place I usually find myself, but after recently winning tickets from Tightwad in Utah I decided to give it a try. My family absolutely loved it! I'd definitely recommend giving it a try!
Before jumping into your first arena football experience, though, let me share a few of my observations:
1. It is going to be VERY VERY LOUD! Even with less than half the seats filled in the Energy Solutions Arena, the combination of fan cheers, actual game sounds, and obnoxious noisemakers is deafening. If you're going to be taking little kids, please remember to bring them some earplugs (and it wouldn't be a bad idea to take some for yourself).
2. All that noise isn't a bad thing-as a fan, even in the cheap seats, you really feel part of the action! As a first-timer we didn't understand many things that were happening on the field, but we could see it all and it kept us entertained and intrigued. Every play and every hit happens right in front of you and you can't help but get on your feet and scream!
3. It's a very fast-moving game and the fans are definitely part of it. The ball soars the length of the field with every kick and the players return it just about as quickly. This was the first event I've ever attended and thought the $100 seats would be worth it. Footballs, officials, and players alike constantly come flying over the wall to land in a lucky spectators lap. And the activities happening on the field during the timeouts are fun to watch as well.
So, arena football-probably a new idea to a lot of people, but a definite must-try and addition to all the fabulous things we already know there are to do outside our own front door!
The Utah Blaze Arena Football team plays at Energy Solutions Arena in downtown Salt Lake City. There is plenty of parking in the area and a TRAX station stop directly outside the arena doors (Arena stop).
Tickets range from $10-$100 and are available online or at the ESA box office. Schedules and more ticket information can be found on the Blaze website as well.
And if you want a primer before you go, check out Arena Football 101.
*This giveaway is now closed*
The Giveaway!!!
I have 2 tickets left over from our night at the game and want to pass them on for one of you to enjoy!
Giveaway Item: 2 Utah Blaze Arena Football tickets
$15 seat section
Good for any home game through July 13, 2012
To enter: Simply leave a comment below telling me you want to win.
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Giveaway Rules: Giveaway ends Saturday, April 28, 2012 5:00pm.
Open to Utah residents only. Tickets will only be mailed to a Utah address.
Winner chosen through random.org and will be notified via email.
Will have 48 hours to respond before new winner is chosen.
Paige April 28, 2012 at 12:09 PM
I want to win :-)
I follow @gfc
Victoria April 28, 2012 at 1:26 PM
I want to win soooooo bad!
Oh, and my email is victoriamae83@yahoo.com
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I would like to win
I've never been and would love to win!
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my family just moved to utah and we havent been to a game yet so would love to win
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The Berkman Center is pleased to share that Berkman Fellow Hal Roberts and Steven J. Murdoch of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory have edited a collection of papers on Internet Censorship and Control that are now available online as an open access collection at https://cyber.harvard.edu/pubrelease/internet-control/.
They write, "The Internet is and has always been a space where participants battle for control. The two core protocols that define the Internet – TCP and IP – are both designed to allow separate networks to connect to each other easily, so that networks that differ not only in hardware implementation (wired vs. satellite vs. radio networks) but also in their politics of control (consumer vs. research vs. military networks) can interoperate easily. It is a feature of the Internet, not a bug, that China – with its extensive, explicit censorship infrastructure – can interact with the rest of the Internet.
In the following collection, published as an open access collection here and as well in a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing, we present five peer reviewed papers on the topic of Internet censorship and control. The topics of the papers include a broad look at information controls, censorship of microblogs in China, new modes of online censorship, the balance of power in Internet governance, and control in the certificate authority model. These papers make it clear that there is no global consensus on what mechanisms of control are best suited for managing conflicts on the Internet, just as there is none for other fields of human endeavour. That said, there is optimism that with vigilance and continuing efforts to maintain transparency the Internet can stay as a force for increasing freedom than a tool for more efficient repression."
Introduction to Special Issue on Internet Censorship and Control by Steven J. Murdoch and Hal Roberts.
Not by Technical Means Alone: The Multidisciplinary Challenge of Studying Information Controls by Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Ronald J. Deibert, and Adam Senft.
Assessing Censorship on Microblogs in China: Discriminatory Keyword Analysis and Impact Evaluation of the 'Real Name Registration' Policy by King-wa Fu, Chung-hong Chan and Michael Chau.
Censorship V3.1 by Derek E. Bambauer.
Anarchy, State, or Utopia? Checks and Balances of Power in Internet Governance by Christopher M. Riley.
Trust Darknet: Control and Compromise in the Internet's Certificate Authority Model by Steven B. Roosa and Stephen Schultze.
For more information about this collection, please contact Hal Roberts (hroberts /at/ cyber.harvard.edu) or Steven Murdoch (steven.murdoch /at/ cl.cam.ac.uk).
Berkman wishes to congratulate Hal and Steven, as well as the papers' authors - many of them Berkman alum and long-time Berkman collaborators - on the release of this important work, and for their extra efforts to make the papers Open Access.
This collection is a great complement to related research at the Berkman Center, some of which involved these same authors. Please visit our OpenNet Initiative, Internet Monitor, Internet Robustness pages.


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B REVIEWS B+ Review Contemporary Romance
Review – It's In His Kiss by Jill Shalvis
Post author By MinnChica
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Publisher: Forever
Publish Date: August 26th
How I got this book: NetGalley
ONE KISS CAN LAST FOREVER
Becca Thorpe has uprooted her life and escaped to the beach. Now's her chance to get away from city living, throw caution to the ocean winds, and live in the moment. Especially if the moment includes the deliciously sexy surfer she meets shortly after arriving in Lucky Harbor. Something about the dark intensity of Sam's eyes and the thrill she gets at his touch convinces her to stay awhile.
Boatbuilder and investment genius Sam Brody is a self-made man who knows how dangerous it can be to mix business and pleasure. But he can't resist offering Becca a job just to hear her laugh and have her near. Yet when her brother comes to town asking for help, will he tempt her back to her glamorous life in the city? Or do Sam and little Lucky Harbor have a chance to win Becca's heart?
*Blurb from Goodreads*
I'm such a huge fan of the Lucky Harbor series, so anytime Shalvis releases a new book, I'm eager to pick it up and read it straight through. This was no exception.
Becca has come to Lucky Harbor with one goal, to get out of the crazy life she was living, and find some balance for her own life. She rents a tiny little studio, and while the space isn't all that great, the view of sexy surfer guy next door makes up for it. Sam is intense and a little moody, but something about him keeps Becca coming back for more.
Sam isn't looking for a relationship, but everytime Becca crosses his path, he can't resist the attraction between them. But Sam doesn't want to get involved with someone who isn't willing to stick around Lucky Harbor for the long haul, so he keeps a part of himself back, even after Becca begins to lay down roots.
I have to admit, I'm pretty darned excited about this new group of heroes. I loved Sam and his friends, and thought they were all such fun and sexy heroes. Their relationship with one another was so strong, and I loved the bonds they had made over the years. While I frequently love reading about books with strong female friendships between heroines, it's also refreshing to read about heroes that value the brotherhood bonds they've built over time.
I thought Becca was a great character. Having dealt with her brother's issues her entire life, she finally reached the point where enough was enough and is stepping out on her own. I loved the way she took her independence and ran with it, but also had little quirks like refusing to kill spiders on her own. 🙂 It was a cute aspect of her personality, and made me love her all the more. I desperately wanted her to succeed on her own, but watching as she started getting more and more involved in the Lucky Harbor community was a treat. Seeing her deal with people allowing her the freedom to be on her own, but also supporting her in every way possible was such fun to read.
The things that poor Sam went through growing up were heartbreaking. I could understand completely why he hard a hard time letting people into his life, but also thought he had enough exposure to healthy families and relationships that maybe he wouldn't have been so jaded. His little freak outs over his father and developing relationship with Becca were both hilarious and sad, and I wished that he would have been able to reach out with his emotions sooner than he did.
The romance between Becca and Sam was great. I loved their first meeting, and the way that they handled the chemistry between them. Once Becca accepted the job as their office manager, I loved the way they had to figure out and change their interactions. I thought they were very mature in handling their romance, and adored them as a couple. They might be one of my Lucky Harbor favorites. 🙂
All in all, Shalvis has another winner on her hands with this series. The new group of heroes are to die for sexy, and I can't wait to find out more and more about them. I'm anxious to continue with this series, and love the humor and heat that Shalvis brings with each installment.
I give It's In His Kiss a B+
Tags B Review, Contemporary Romance
By MinnChica
MinnChica can usually be found with her nose in a book (or nook), and can ALWAYS find a few minutes to read: stuck at a red light, sitting in the doctors office, on her lunch break. She's so addicted to reading that her family frequently threatens to host an intervention. Currently MinnChica is devouring every romance book she can get her hands on, especially ones that feature 'friends to lovers' stories. Some of her favorite authors currently are Ilona Andrews, Jill Myles, Meljean Brook, Nalini Singh and Susan Mallery.
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Subjectivity and cultural adjustment in mathematics education: a response to Wolff-Michael Roth
Brown, Tony (2012) Subjectivity and cultural adjustment in mathematics education: a response to Wolff-Michael Roth. Educational studies in mathematics, 80 (3). pp. 475-490. ISSN 1573-0816
In this volume, Wolff-Michael Roth provides a critical but partial reading of Tony Brown's book Mathematics Education and Subjectivity. The reading contrasts Brown's approach with Roth's own conception of subjectivity as derived from the work of Vygotsky, in which Roth aims to "reunite" psychology and sociology. Brown's book, however, focuses on how discourses in mathematics education shape subjective action within a Lacanian model that circumnavigates both "psychology" and "sociology". From that platform, this paper responds to Roth through problematising the idea of the individual as a subjective entity in relation to the two perspectives, with some consideration of corporeality and of how the Symbolic encounters the Real. The paper argues for a Lacanian conception of subjectivity for mathematics education comprising a response to a social demand borne of an ever-changing symbolic order that defines our constitution and our space for action. The paper concludes by considering an attitude to the production of research objects in mathematics education research that resists the normalisation of assumptions as to how humans encounter mathematics.
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Springer Netherlands
Faculties > Health and Education
https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/237915
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Hands on: LiquidText 3.0.11 changes how you annotate documents on the iPad
By Mike Wuerthele and William Gallagher
Saturday, August 05, 2017, 10:35 pm PT (01:35 am ET)
It's hard to go back to an more ordinary PDF annotator after using LiquidText, but it is not the ultimate PDF tool for the iPad.
We'd be doing you and LiquidText a disservice if we just called it a PDF editor but at its heart, that is what it is. It's so much more than that, though, that the PDF element seems almost incidental. LiquidText 3.0.11 for iOS is about gathering ideas and making something useful out of them.
You can do regular PDF work in it. Just as you might with Adobe Acrobat or PDFpen, you can create PDFs and edit them to at least some degree. You can annotate them, too, and that's where LiquidText starts to show its muscle.
It handles PDFs of course but also Word and PowerPoint files. Open one of these in LiquidText on your iPad and it first turns it into a PDF. So if you just wanted to convert that Word document into one, you've just done it.
By far the app's most striking feature, though, is how you can pinch to collapse parts of your document. It makes a PDF act like an outline except rather than levels that you elect to see or hide, you pinch your fingers together and it squishes up everything in between.
Say you're writing a screenplay and you feel a character isn't working out. Find their first scene, excerpt that by just dragging the text to the work space, and keep referring to it as you read through their other scenes.
That workspace can as big as you want it to, and it shrinks as much as you care to pinch it. Collate lots of elements on it or just the one: whatever you need to get your ideas moving around in your head.
This pinching, this squeezing of lines is a little startling at first: it looks like there's a problem with your iPad's screen. Yet once you've found and used it, you keep coming back to it.
If you're more of a corporate type and have to deal with pie charts, excerpt one the same way. Circle it, drag it out to the workspace and keep it there. Annotate it with handwritten notes. It's easier to scribble a line over your document and then handwrite on the workspace but you can also choose to create text boxes that you then drag around.
Drag together two elements on your workspace and they connect. Drag three, four or as many as you like and they all connect into one blob-like element.
It's like you've got a messy desk with notes strewn and random lines doodled between them —except it's a regulated mess and the lines are never random. LiquidText makes you feel like you've got a paper document that you can crumple, tear bits out, doodle all over and in every other way fold, spindle, and mangle it while you work to make the best thing you can.
Yes, Adobe Acrobat and PDFpen can do the boring stuff but LiquidText can be engrossing. There's just this irony that an exquisitely gorgeous app lets you make such horrible messes of your documents in the interest of data access and editing.
But, what you do with that document afterwards? LiquidText files are really intended just for you, and to be a working document rather than something you prepare to send on to other people. You can share your LiquidText work over email and what your recipient gets depends on whether they've got LiquidText too.
If they have, then they get your scribbles in all their glory. If they haven't, they get a PDF with a range of options regarding how much get to see or your working notes.
Means to an end, not the end itself
It'd be good to see LiquidText accept more types of documents and it'd be handy to at least refer to them on your iPhone.
LiquidText is not meant to be a PDF editor per se, you won't use it to create much. It's really for reading and doing intensive annotations and edits. Nonetheless, the way it does that makes you wish every PDF reader app with annotation features worked the same way.
We talked about sharing documents. It may not be a major hassle, as the app as it's free to download. If you're only ever going to read someone else's LiquidText documents, it's all you need.
But, to work on documents of more than a single page, you can buy the $4.99 multi-document in-app purchase. To get that plus all of the editing features, there's the Pro version which is a $19.99 in-app purchase.
Try out the free version but skip the multi-document edition and go straight to the full version of LiquidText 3.0.11.
It's an iPad-only app and though it doesn't require an Apple Pencil, you'll want one to get the most out of LiquidText.
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Peach State Roofing, Inc., places a high emphasis on a "team attitude". From the Founder and President down to our newest employees, we always encourage and stress the importance of working together to obtain the greatest outcome.
With currently over 50 project managers as well as numerous estimation teams, sales and marketing forces, and our valued administrative departments, Peach State Roofing strives to be a valued partner to any client.


Ingredients: 61% milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, WHOLE MILK powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier (E 322 / SOYA lectins), natural vanilla flavor), 35% sweet licorice (sugar, WHEAT FLOUR, invert sugar, water, glucose syrup, cocoa butter, salt, liquorice, treacle; cocoa mass, hardened palm kernel oil, emulsifier (E 322, sunflower and soy lecithins, E 492), ammonium chloride, dye (E 153), chili powder 2% (Habanero), WHOLE MILK powder, SKIMMED MILK powder, anise oil, flavoring, vanillin), 1% liquorice powder. May contain traces of nuts and peanuts.
Ingredients: 61% milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, WHOLE MILK powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier (E 322 / SOYA lectins), natural vanilla flavor), 35% sweet licorice (sugar, WHEAT FLOUR, invert sugar, water, glucose syrup, cocoa butter, salt, liquorice, treacle; cocoa mass, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, emulsifiers (E 322 sunflower and SOYA lectins, E 492), ammonium chloride, coloring agent (E 153), chili powder 2% (Carolina Reaper), WHOLE MILK powder, SKIMMED MILK powder, anise, aroma, vanillin), 1% licorice powder. May contain traces of nuts and peanuts.
Ingredients: 63% milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, WHOLE MILK powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier (E 322 / SOYA lectins), natural vanilla flavor), 32% sweet licorice (sugar, WHEAT FLOUR, invert sugar, water, glucose syrup, cocoa butter, salt, liquorice, treacle; cocoa mass, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, emulsifiers (E 322 sunflower and E322, E 492), ammonium chloride, coloring agent (E 153), chili powder 1%, WHOLE MILK powder, SKIMMED MILK powder, anise, aroma, vanillin), 1% licorice powder. May contain traces of nuts and peanuts.
Ingredients: 61% milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, WHOLE MILK powder, cocoa mass, emulsifier (E 322 / SOYA lectins), natural vanilla flavor), 35% sweet licorice (sugar, WHEAT FLOUR, invert sugar, water, glucose syrup, cocoa butter, salt, liquorice, treacle; cocoa mass, hardened palm kernel oil, emulsifier (E 322, sunflower and soy lecithins, E 492), ammonium chloride, dye (E 153), chilli powder, 1% (Habanero), WHOLE MILK powder, SKIMMED MILK powder, anise oil, flavoring, vanillin), 1% liquorice powder. May contain traces of nuts and peanuts.


The University of Greenwich offers the best of both worlds – city and country. The main university campus is on the doorstep of London, but with the best of Kent not far away. Our two London campuses are Avery Hill, in the district of Eltham, and Greenwich, in the Royal Borough. Medway Campus is in Chatham Maritime, Kent.
University of Greenwich draws on over 100 years of experience as educators, and on the rich heritage of our local area. For centuries Greenwich has been recognised as an international hub of discovery, exploration and industry. This forms the impressive backdrop and inspiration for our forward-looking innovative research and education. We expect our students to aim high, and work hard to develop not just subject knowledge, but intellectual curiosity and the confidence to tackle challenging issues. We place great store in ensuring that our graduates can seek out new opportunities, generate novel ideas, and be effective in the world of work.
We undertake world-leading research, with talented staff working on everything from the development of the River Thames and Kent coastline to combating sleeping sickness in Africa. Our facilities are excellent too and the envy of many in the country. We have a wide and varied range of programmes covering subjects from architecture and construction to science and pharmacy. We adapt rapidly to modern circumstances and the ever-changing world in which we live. Together, we're making a better university, a university fit for the 21st century and the needs of modern research, education and society in general.
The School is diverse and vibrant, with over 1,400 students studying at the Medway Campus in Chatham Maritime, which benefits from continuous investment in facilities. The School offers programmes across a range of areas, from environmental science, geography, GIS and Remote Sensing, through to nutrition, sports science, biomedical science, pharmaceutical science and chemistry.
We employ the very latest learning and assessment techniques, provide pastoral care to ensure students achieve their goals, and deliver academic and professional programmes supported by research and scholarship.
We have some of the most sophisticated instrumentation and most modern facilities in the UK, including a £1.5 million chemistry laboratory. Most of our programmes are accredited or recognised by relevant professional bodies.
The School undertakes internationally renowned research funded by industry, national research councils and the EU. Research areas are closely linked to our teaching portfolio; our recent funding successes have supported the development of novel analytical techniques, the creation of new drug delivery systems and the investigation of environmental issues such as the production and use of biofuels, as well as sustainable fisheries management in the English Channel.


Faster, more efficient personalised services. That's what the public want. And that's what we made sure our client – a large Government department – delivered.
'Access to Work' helps people with a disability or long-term health condition to keep working. But old technology and systems were making it slow and expensive. Customers found it hard to access the telephone-based service and get the support they needed.
Collaborating with the client to set the vision for the service, we created a road-map to deliver it and an agile team to build it.
User interviews and design prototypes helped us establish and refine exactly what was needed. We also tracked how and when people accessed the service so we could develop helpful new functions.
We built tools to analyse user data, segmenting users in real-time so we could better scrutinise their behaviour and adapt the service accordingly.
By modelling how transactions worked and what they cost, we found ways to make workers more effective.
We didn't just set out to optimise the digital channel. We also aimed to improve how the service operated overall.
One of the department's first digital services for the public, 'Access to Work' allows thousands of users to access the service when and where they choose.
Within a month of the service going live, the number of customers applying for support had risen by 40%.
Customers can now get the support they need quicker and with fewer delays. And the more people use the digital service, the more the department saves. Each digital transaction costs 20% less than non-digital channels.
Support is now tailored to each individual.


MPI is intrinsically a linear and shift-invariant (LSI) system as described in x-space theory [3,4] assuming perfect signal acquisition and that the imaging equation can be written as a convolution in realspace. However, the received MPI signal is corrupted by a direct feedthrough signal from the excitation source at the drive frequency, which is 106 times larger than the nanoparticle signal. Hardware filtering is required to suppress the feedthroughsignalbutalso inevitably removes this frequency component from the particle signal. This signal loss in the received particle signalbreaks the LSI propertiesof x-space MPI. This study will investigate the impact of losing the fundamental frequency component in the image domain and propose an algorithm to recover the lost information. Finally, experimental results demonstrate that LSI propertiescan be restored after applying a simple and robust baseline recovery algorithm.


Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is based on the idea that emotions and behaviour are determined by thinking and suggests that this can affect our physical and psychological wellbeing. The approach focuses on thoughts, emotions, physical feelings and actions, and teaches clients how each one can have an effect on the other.
Furthermore, monitoring emotional upset and identifying its triggers, CBT can identify negative thought processes and unhelpful beliefs, weigh up the evidence for these and replace them with more realistic ideas.
In this way CBT aims to alleviate distress. CBT can be helpful for a number of issues and has been shown to be especially helpful in cases of stress, anxiety, depression and phobias.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy suggests that the way we think affects how we act and feel. People can interpret the same event in many different ways leading to a variety of emotional and behavioural responses.
Some of these can be helpful and some not. CBT involves examining any unhelpful thought patters and exploring how they can affect our emotions and actions.
This can then help us to change how we think, which in turn makes us feel better. Whilst this kind of therapy can involve looking at past experiences in our lives, it primarily focuses on ways to improve our psychological wellbeing now.
The theory of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy proposes that negative thoughts and beliefs play a significant role in the development and maintenance of conditions such as depression, anxiety or low self esteem.
Therefore being able to challenge these beliefs by weighing up the evidence for and against them can assist a person in reducing their distress and enhancing their ability to cope in everyday life situations.
Typically a course of CBT tends to last between 6 weeks and 6 months, though if incorporated with other forms of therapy this may differ.
CBT can be hugely beneficial in cases of depression and anxiety. It is also used for a range of other conditions including low self esteem, family and relationship problems, addiction and eating disorders.
CBT is not about 'looking on the brighter side'. It is about learning specific strategies to think more realistically about life. These strategies are collectively known as 'cognitive restructing'.
CBT works on the principle that negative beliefs need to be 'tested' to determine whether they are accurate. Often, these thoughts are irrational misconceptions that we may hold about ourselves, others and the world around us, commonly known as 'cognitive distortions'.
These may serve to maintain an unrealistic and unhelpful belief system, which can affect us in many areas of life. Once recognised, these distortions are then replaced with alternative interpretations that are more realistic and factually based. In doing so, people are able to think about life situations in a more helpful and constructive manner, thereby coping better with the day to day challenges they face and learning to better manage how they react and respond in given circumstances.
As part of this process, your therapist may ask you to keep a weekly diary or written record of your thoughts, emotions and actions throughout therapy.
For CBT to be most effective, it is important to regularly practice and refine the strategies and techniques you acquire. The benefit of this is that the skills remain with you once therapy has ended and can be useful in the future.


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Home news Seoul to ban gatherings of more than four as COVID deaths increase
Seoul to ban gatherings of more than four as COVID deaths increase
Seoul, South Korea's capital as well as its surrounding areas have reportedly banned gatherings of 4 or more people over the holidays of Christmas and New Year after the country recorded its highest daily death count from the novel coronavirus December 21st, 2020.
The national government has been resisting calls to enforce a strict national lockdown, however the governments of Incheon City, Gyeonggi Province, and Seoul have ordered unparalleled restrictions on gatherings starting from 23rd December to 3rd January.
Seo Jung-hyup, acting mayor of Seoul stated that they would not be able to overcome the present crisis without decreasing cluster infections that are widely spreading via private gatherings with colleagues, friends, and families.
The prohibition on gatherings applies to both outdoor and indoor functions, excluding weddings and funerals. At present, gatherings of more than 9 people are banned for these two events.
The province and the two cities combined account for nearly half of the 51 million inhabitants of South Korea.
According to data provided by local government, in Seoul, restaurants as well as similar gathering places accounted for nearly 41.4% of cluster infections over the previous four weeks, following 16.9% from offices, about 15.5% from places of worship, as well as 12.3% from nursing homes and medical facilities.
Meanwhile, on Friday, the police raided places allegedly violating the social distancing norms put in place, charging about 35 people.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency stated that on Sunday there were 24 more deaths, bringing South Korea's total to 698.
According to the city's data, as of Sunday, there were just 4 free ICU remaining across the greater Seoul region. The government has further ordered private hospitals to free up nearly 300 beds for COVID-19 patients and has also assigned approximately $4.5 million to the facilities as compensation.
Overall, the country has reported nearly 50,591 cases ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Source credit: https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-southkorea/south-koreas-capital-to-ban-gatherings-larger-than-four-as-coronavirus-deaths-rise-idUSKBN28V07D