The folk behind this extremely acceptable funny have tactfully baseball batted apart any sort of tips that it could be "an Irish The Hangover ". I recognize what you are actually presuming: they will claim that, wouldn't they? (With apologies to Mandy Rice Davis.).
Director John Butler and his team carry out, nonetheless, possess a factor. Yes, The Stag film follows a person of boys as they behave poorly on a stag weekend. Medicines are taken in. Extreme nakedness occurs. But the film works hard at setting up a much less misogynistic, extra inclusive room than the one taken up through that United States film. Two of the gathering– each named Kevin– form a gay married couple. There is actually an irrefutable heat to the venture. No one makes any type of excuses for Mike Tyson.
The perennially lovely Hugh O'Conor plays a borderline-milquetoast called Fionnan (noticable FinnAWN) that is about to acquire wed to his person partner Ruth (Amy Huberman). Being actually a newish kind of male, Fionnan hesitates to attend any type of stag film party. But Davin (Andrew Scott), his , inevitably urges him to yield as well as they create bushes of Wicklow.
The prospective fly in the ointment is Compunction's crazy sibling (participated in through Peter McDonald, additionally co-writer), who expresses joy under the soubriquet The Device. Various tries are actually made to evade the nutter, yet he at some point tracks them up to their very first tavern.
The characterisation is actually sometimes a little irregular. Having actually created that Fionnan is heavily anxious of lifestyle, the film-makers pressure credulity by possessing him enthusiastically consume a button of delirium. Generally, however, the actors successfully flesh out sly comic constructs along with much balance. McDonald deals with The Maker along with specific excitement and infuses a possibly nauseous character with credible mankind.
It barely needs to be pointed out that, after encountering a few plot changes, the characters get to a variety of understandings just before the picture's ultimate victorious singalong. That is actually as it should be actually. This is actually an unapologetically traditional Stag film that should play effectively significantly past these shores. That dissatisfied, imprecise comparison along with The Hangover will, more than likely, perform it just really good.


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import flash.swf.tags.DefineTag;
import flash.swf.tags.DefineText;
import flash.swf.types.GlyphEntry;
import flash.swf.types.Matrix;
import flash.swf.types.Rect;
import flash.swf.types.TextRecord;
import flash.swf.SwfConstants;
import flash.swf.SwfUtils;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * This class is used to construct a DefineText SWF tag from a list of
 * FontBuilders.
 *         <p/>
 *         Modified by s. gong
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public class TextBuilder
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{
    public TextBuilder(int code)
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     * @param fontBuilder FontBuilder
     * @param height double
     * @param text String
     * @param color Color
     * @param xOffset int
     * @param yOffset int
     * @throws IOException
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            if ((line == null) || (line.length() == 0))
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            TextRecord tr = getStyleRecord(fontBuilder, height, color, xOffset,
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            chars = line.toCharArray();
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                char c = chars[i];
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                // that the advance value can be mapped from the font's logical scale to the
                // text's physical scale.
                GlyphEntry ge = (GlyphEntry)fontBuilder.getGlyph(c).clone();
                ge.advance = (int)((ge.advance / 1024f) * tr.height);
                tr.entries[i] = ge;
                w += ge.advance;
            }
            if (w > t_width)
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            tag.records.add(tr);
            yCount++;
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        t_height = yCount * height;

        double x1 = 0;
        double y1 = 0;
        double x2 = x1 + t_width;
        double y2 = y1 + t_height;
        x1 = x1 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        x2 = x2 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        y1 = y1 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        y2 = y2 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        /**
         *  If the values are greater than Max_value, then
         *  the results are not to be trusted.
         */
        if (x1 > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
            x1 = 0;
        if (x2 > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
            x2 = 0;
        if (y1 > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
            y1 = 0;
        if (y2 > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
            y2 = 0;

        tag.bounds = new Rect((int)x1, (int)x2, (int)y1, (int)y2);
    }

    /**
     * Description:  This version is the same as the straight add function
     * The difference is that we use java layout class to
     * calculate the bounding box.
     *
     * @param fontBuilder FontBuilder
     * @param height      double
     * @param text        String
     * @param color       Color
     * @param xOffset     int
     * @param yOffset     int
     * @param bounds      Rectangle2D
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public void addWithLayout(FontBuilder fontBuilder, double height, String text,
                              Color color, int xOffset, int yOffset, Rectangle2D bounds) throws IOException
    {
        fontBuilders.add(fontBuilder);

        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(text));
        String line;
        char[] chars;
        int yCount = 0;
        while (true)
        {
            line = reader.readLine();
            // Make sure we don't create empty TextRecords
            // A empty textRecord will crash Flash Player. Player Bug #102948
            if ((line == null) || (line.length() == 0))
                break;
            TextRecord tr = getStyleRecord(fontBuilder, height, color, xOffset, (int)(yOffset + yCount * height * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL));

            chars = line.toCharArray();
            tr.entries = new GlyphEntry[chars.length];
            for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++)
            {
                char c = chars[i];
                GlyphEntry ge = (GlyphEntry)fontBuilder.getGlyph(c).clone();
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         *
         *  So we stay away from the getMinx, getMinxY methods, and also
         *  double check everything here.
         *
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        double y1 = bounds.getY();
        double rect_width = bounds.getWidth();
        double rect_height = bounds.getHeight();
        double x2 = x1 + rect_width;
        double y2 = y1 + rect_height;
        x1 = x1 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        x2 = x2 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        y1 = y1 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        y2 = y2 * SwfConstants.TWIPS_PER_PIXEL;
        /**
         *  If the values are greater than Max_value, then
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        if (x2 > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
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        if (y1 > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
            y1 = 0;
        if (y2 > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
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        tag.bounds = new Rect((int)x1, (int)x2, (int)y1, (int)y2);
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    private TextRecord getStyleRecord(FontBuilder fontBuilder, double height,
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    {
        TextRecord tr = new TextRecord();
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        {
            tr.setFont(fontBuilder.tag);
            tr.setHeight(SwfUtils.toTwips(height));
        }

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        {
            int c = SwfUtils.colorToInt(color);
            tr.setColor(c);
        }

        if (xOffset > 0)
        {
            tr.setX(xOffset);
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        if (yOffset > 0)
        {
            tr.setY(yOffset);
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        return tr;
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    private DefineText tag;
    private List<FontBuilder> fontBuilders;
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December Events in 4K: Introducing 4K High Dynamic Range (HDR)!
Watch a variety of documentaries, travel shows, original series, and more all in stunning 4K resolution.
1Limited programming available. To watch NBA or NHL in 4K HDR, 4K HDR compatible equipment, minimum programming (XTRA Package or higher), 4K account authorization and professional installation required. If 4K TV does not support HDR, games will be viewable in standard 4K. Other conditions apply.2The Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Vegas Golden Knights 4K HDR telecast and simulcast on NHL Network will be blacked out in the Pittsburgh and Las Vegas regions. The regular telecast of the game will be available in both team's markets on the local RSNs.3NBA games on NBA TV, from NBA TV, the league's 24-hour television network jointly managed by the NBA and Turner Sports.
4Limited programming available. To watch SNY content in 4K HDR, 4K HDR compatible equipment, minimum programming package (PREMIERE Package or higher), 4K account authorization and professional installation required. If 4K TV does not support HDR, games will be viewable in standard 4K. Other conditions apply.
5Limited programming available. To watch AXS TV and HGTV content in 4K HDR, 4K HDR compatible equipment, minimum programming package (SELECT Package or higher), 4K account authorization and professional installation required. If 4K TV does not support HDR, games will be viewable in standard 4K. Other conditions apply.
1Requires a Genie HD DVR (model HR54 or later) and a DIRECTV 4K Ready TV, or a 4K TV connected to a 4K Genie Mini. (Additional & Advanced Receiver fees apply.) 4K account authorization and professional installation required. Visit directv.com/4K for details.


You marriage-minded players will be happy to hear more improvements are on the way.
This will be the game's first appearance on a Sony console.
You'll never see a man eat so many chicken wings.
Check out all the ways you'll be battling it out with your team opponents.
Let this homage to the Ocarina of Time tune lull you to sleep.
Today the game reaches a tremendous sales milestone.
And so is Pac-Man and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Have some more America with your America. Goes great with a side of America.
The ongoing drama takes a litigious turn with this lawsuit aimed at the critic.
It's like Uncharted gameplay meets Dead Island environments, from the first person perspective.


Greenwich Police Captain Mark Kordick.
GREENWICH — There was no comment from police headquarters Monday on a report that Capt. Mark Kordick has been placed on leave.
"We do not comment on employee-personnel issues," said police Capt. Kraig Gray.
According to a report aired this weekend, citing anonymous sources in town government, Kordick was taking part in a meeting on the town's retirement board of which he is a member. His behavior during the meeting led to letters of complaint, according to the report, leading to disciplinary action last week.
Kordick could not be reached for comment.
Kordick has courted controversy before, facing official scrutiny for his actions involving town residents and police colleagues.
In 2015, he was put on paid administrative leave, and an investigator was brought in by the town administration. Town officials did not disclose the details, citing personnel regulations, other than to state that Kordick had been placed on leave for a few weeks at the end of the year.
Kordick had been under review for his role in following the activities of a local political activist, Arthur "Cort" Wrotnowski, and sending out emails on the official police account to the school administration.
Wrotnowski was holding a meeting to criticize the Common Core education requirements in the summer of 2015 and placed fliers at a town parking lot. Kordick sent an email to former School Superintendent William McKersie about the event and later followed up with another email describing the event. That action led to an inquiry by town leaders that determined that his actions were improper. The administration required Kordick to attend counseling and undertake additional education.
Kordick was also involved in litigation involving a police supervisor, Pamela Gustovich, who alleged she was subjected to harassment and a hostile work environment while serving as a police captain. A judge allowed Kordick to be sued separately, as distinct from the town administration and the police department.
Court papers filed in the case described an alleged incident in January of 2014. According to the lawsuit, "Captain Kordick became enraged at (Gustovich). He kept banging his hands and cellphone on the table, and he grabbed the bottom of his chair and began to jump up and down while grunting like an animal through gritted teeth and leaning towards plaintiff." The suit also contended that Kordick engaged in other activities that were seen by Gustovich as hostile and unprofessional.
In 2016, the town administration negotiated a settlement to the Gustovich case, which was pending in federal court.
The deal to end the lawsuit against the town paid Gustovich a little over a year's salary, $143,000, to defray legal costs she incurred in the case. The town also agreed to set aside funds to make up a shortfall in her expected retirement savings.
Beside being the head of the detective unit, and being active in the police department's technology infrastructure, Kordick has been working on the town's troubled parking-enforcement division. A clerk was charged with taking funds from the money paid to the town in fines and permits in 2017, and auditors found sub-standard procedures in handling cash and payments.


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Hey Nintendo: I want Tingle's Balloon Fight!
OK, this is old, old news, but since I just broke the great news earlier today that Nintendo is (hopefully) releasing the Tingle RPG in the U.S. later this year, I think it's worthwhile to bring this up again.
In a few months (April, to be exact), Ninty will be making available to die-hard fans (through its Club Nintendo members) a little game called Tingle's Balloon Fight. All that has been released so far is the name, the release date and the box art. Savvy fanboys like myself, however, can pretty easily suss out that the game will be an update of the old NES classic, Balloon Fight (itself an update of the arcade hit, Joust).
Considering Nintendo's fan club is pretty much nonexistent (and that's being nice to Nintendo), and Tingle's lack of popularity on this side of the pond, I kind of doubt we'll be seeing the game at our local EB Games anytime soon.
Here's an idea for Nintendo to ponder, though: why couldn't Ninty offer the game as a free download (from their site, from their in-store kiosks or from the Wii) for those of us who plunk down our hard-earned cash on the Tingle RPG? I think that's a brilliant idea! If only the folks at Nintendo (or anyone else for that matter) actually read this blog...
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Super Mario Bros. serenade
Square must be wrapping up FFXII: Revenant Wings
Could Katamari clone take a chomp out of the DS?
"Giraffetastic" shooter may be coming soon to XBLA...
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Possible Super Paper Mario box art
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A really gay game coming soon to the Wii VC

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Perspectives on Ocular Adnexal Surgeries.
Prognostic factors in Uveal Melanoma.
Ways to improve (visual) outcome in corneal transplantation, corneal pathology and astigmatism.
A Histochemical and Molecular Approach.
Genetic abnormalities in uveal melanoma.
Age-related maculopathy: a genetic and epidemiological approach.
Genetic epidemiologic studies on age-related maculopathy.


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Expo Coop. Árvore @ Fundação M. A. da Mota (parte 2)
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artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3 million at Sotheby's
An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3 million at Sotheby's.
Banksy's iconic Girl With Balloon (2006) attracted feverish bidding in the room and on the phones, racing past its high estimate of £300,000 to hammer at £860,000, or just over £1 million ($1.3 million) with fees. As the gavel slammed, a siren rang out through the salesroom and everyone stood stunned as the Banksy canvas slid through the frame that it was contained in and emerged underneath—but shredded.
It seems that the art world's biggest prankster concocted a scheme in which his work would get destroyed as soon as it was sold. The spray painted work of the girl with a red balloon, acquired directly from the artist, came in what the catalogue called "the artist's frame"—a frame that was oddly thick for such a small work of street art.
A source at Sotheby's, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that the Banksy camp had insisted on securing an unusually high number of seats for the sale. Some onlookers reported seeing one of these people with a device in his hand after the shredding happened, and that he was detained by security as he tried to leave.
"We have not experienced a work spontaneously shredding after it sells for a million pounds," Sotheby's Europe head of Contemporary Art, Alex Branczik said at the press conference.
He absolutely denied any knowledge that such an act was coming.
"We got Banksy'd," he said.
Nate Freeman
Oct 5, 2018 at 8:32 pm, via Artsy
artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling fo...


Depending on your imaging method some clients may not show up on your WSUS console, and refuse to check for updates. Since starting my new job I've seen this occur on machines which have been imaged with a non-sysprepped image. I quickly whipped up a script to reset some settings and forcing the machine to contact your WSUS server and retrieve a new Client Id and thus show up in your console.
'Set reg value for SUSClientIdReset for checking against later.
Run that on the effected machine with Admin Rights and the client will eventually appear in your WSUS Console.
As for the cause, the master image was joined to the domain and tested. During that time received group policy settings which included WSUS and contacted the server settings it's clientId.


When You Live… What's the Point?
…what is the purpose of life…?
Is it to find success or for everyone to look up to you? Is it for them to see, 'how Christian' and 'righteous' you are…? Or how successful you are? Or is it to enjoy life and get what you dream about – like that dream job, the happy nuclear family, great finances and lots of friends that think you're pretty cool…?
God has created us with the one purpose of having fellowship with us – that in our relationships with Him we would be willing to sacrifice EVERYTHING for him…. But we must sacrifice from a willing heart because we love Him.
God's way of thinking is completely opposite ours: If we sacrifice our money for Him, He blesses it to make it more than sufficient – even if you are really poor. If, instead, you cling to the last penny you have, you can be sure it won't be enough.
If you relax in your job AND use it in honor of God (not for the sake of your own success), he blesses it manifold and opens new doors to you, but if you cling to what you have and forget God in the process, or maybe beg God in your fear that he would let you keep your job, etc., then your focus is wrong, and you lose the blessings you might have found in the job.
If you cling in your own strength to you family as it is, it will go haywire,, but if you let God shape it according to His heart, the unity and cohesiveness of the family will increase.
God's word is clear: If you hold onto what you have, you will lose it. If you say to God…. Lord, what you have given me is just borrowed – I will give it back to you…. And then let go of it and let God shape it, even though it may not be what you want – then He blesses it.
Remember… It is NOT about what YOU want or don't want. It is about FAITH and TRUST in God to follow God's will… And if you live a life with God, and you check your gut, you know what God's will is – then you know what Jesus would have done, if He were you…. So, listen to the Holy Spirit, give Jesus EVERYTHING – even when you may not want to, but maybe know deep inside, what is right… and trust in Him, because you CAN'T do it on your own.
Remember that in and of yourself, you are nothing, but in Him you are EVERYTHING. And if you want to be and remain in him, then give Him EVERYTHING… Especially where it hurts and when you really don't want to, because then He turns it into a blessing….!!!


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Улица Артёма Айдинова — улица в Вахитовском районе Казани, в историческом районе Армянской слободы. Протяжённость улицы около полукилометра. Она начинается от улицы Марселя Салимжанова и озера Нижний Кабан, пересекает улицы Спартаковскую, Островского, Петербургскую, Старообрядческую и заканчивается на пересечении с Щербаковским переулком.

История

Ранее называлась Поперечно-Георгиевская, Кабанная. В 1965 году переименована в честь комсомольца-дружинника Артёма Айдинова, погибшего в схватке с преступниками.

Известные объекты
По нечётной стороне расположен Парк Тысячелетия; по чётной стороне — центр подготовки IT-специалистов «Школа 21», Баскет-холл. На доме № 32 по улице Петербургской расположена мемориальная плита в честь Артёма Айдинова. На пересечении с Петербургской улицей расположена площадь с фонтанами и ротондой. На пересечении с улицей Островского находятся Храм Воздвижения Святого Креста и автобусная остановка «Улица Артёма Айдинова».

Все здания и сооружения, расположенные близ улицы Артёма Айдинова, имеют нумерацию по другим улицам — Спартаковской, Петербургской, Островского.

Примечания

Ссылки

Артёма Айдинова
Артёма Айдинова

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Beautiful manor villa in the town of San Juan de Alicante, Alicante. This magnificent property has an area of 414m2 with three bedrooms, three bathrooms, fitted kitchen, living room and a large terrace on the top floor. All rooms are spacious, bright and with a high quality finish. It is located in an exclusive urbanization with communal pool only a few minutes from the beach. Ideal for large families, for lovers of life outside the capital, or as second residence for use and enjoyment vacacional.Garaje 100 m2.


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Cristispira is a genus of bacteria of the spirochete phylum. They are known as large spirochetes. They are characterized by the host species in which they reside. They are known as harmless parasites of freshwater and marine molluscs and gastropods. They have unusually large number of periplasmic flagella.

Morphology
They are differentiated from other spirochetes by the presence of a crestlike structure called the crista. Their cell bodies are flexible. The cell diameter is 28 to 120 micrometers. They are actively motile.

See also
 List of bacterial orders
 List of bacteria genera

References

Spirochaetes
Bacteria genera


Sitting in her living room in Hyde Park, Rosey Puloka makes her hands into fists, signifying anger. She starts pounding her fists on her legs in a steady motion, adding force and speed, then decreasing them until the movement slows and her fists release the tension and anger that had built up inside.
Puloka, 29, often uses such movements as a way to let inmates release their anger. Puloka is a dance movement therapist and counselor with Salina & Associates and, for the past nine months, she has been working at the Sheriff Women's Justice Program at Cook County Jail.
Puloka was an artist-in-residence in Taiwan at the Taipei Artist Village in 2010. As a part of the program, she volunteered with the Dance and Disabled Project, where doctors and dancers joined forces to use movement as a therapy tool for adults with developmental disabilities.
Puloka said she wanted to include more social activism and therapy in her life.
Back in the United States, Puloka started working with adolescent girls in a rehabilitation program and then discovered dance movement therapy on the internet. "I was like, oh my god, these are my two worlds coming together," she said.
Puloka started working at the Cook County Jail in an apprenticeship position while she was completing her master's degree in dance movement therapy at Columbia College Chicago.
After graduating, Puloka stayed at the jail to do more in-depth work. She currently works with individuals as well as groups that focus on issues like addiction, anger and violence, and women seeking safety.
Anne-Marie Lindquist works as a mental health clinician at the Cook County Jail. Lindquist knew Puloka when she started her apprenticeship at the jail, and started working with her in March of 2016 when Puloka became a full-time employee.
"I've seen her take on a lot of new challenges, like having to kind of go beyond her focus in just dance movement therapy, and very gracefully so… with objectivity and her best judgement," Lindquist said.
Puloka said helping her very first client, identified as "S" for confidentiality purposes, was one of her most proud accomplishments. Puloka said S had a history of trauma, torturing things, and was a drug user.
Puloka said S didn't think there was anything good or worthy about herself, so S started to ask people and write down their answers about what all was great about her.
Puloka and S then took all of the sayings and made them into an art project, painting them on paper on the walls of a small office.
After that final session, S was discharged.
Heather MacLaren, a dance movement therapist who went through schooling with Puloka, said Puloka values authenticity and community.
Puloka said there is no certain way to do dance movement therapy, and that what she does often depends on the group or individual she is working with. "There is one [group] right now, they already feel very safe with each other and so they're able to just go straight into the hard stuff really quickly," Puloka said.
However, some groups aren't as comfortable with each other.
After the election, Puloka said everyone in her groups, as well as herself, was upset. She focused on helping people talk through how they felt.
Puloka also uses her dance movement therapy background outside of jail. For over a year, she has been holding yoga sessions at her apartment in Hyde Park. "The space has turned into like 'this is your space to just be whatever you need to be and heal however you need to heal,'" Puloka said.
Watch a video here to learn more about Puloka's yoga sessions.


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Organized Jewry was behind hounding and blackballing of Glenn Beck from Fox News
Jewish Federation Gave Over $1 Million to Anti-Glenn Beck Group
(Commentary) -- by Alana Goodman --
Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ), the George Soros-funded activist group that recently made headlines for its high-profile war against Fox News host Glenn Beck, has received over $1 million from the UJA-Federation of New York since 2008.
Over the past three years at least seven Federation grants have been awarded to the JFSJ, ranging from $75,000 to $219,000. Some of that money has gone toward JFSJ's Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. But, according to Federation spokesperson Samantha Kessler, the bulk of the funding has gone toward the group's "Congregational-based Community Organizing" programs.
"Congressional-based Community Organizing" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like – Chicago-style community organizing, except in the synagogue. According to the Federation website, the JFSJ program was designed to "develop strong and effective social-justice networks in up to eight Manhattan synagogues."
In an email, Kessler explained that the goal was to "strengthen synagogues by building meaningful relationships among their members, attracting additional Jews and Jewish families to congregational life, and developing more robust leadership for synagogues." The Federation felt that the JFSJ "had a proven model for congregation-based community organizing that provided a unique way to accomplish this."
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In June 2013,Terry and I met for the first time at Digbeth Bus Station, Birmingham, as joint winners of the Geoff Stevens Poetry Prize (Indigo Dreams) and on the eve of launching our big collections.
I'd come from Melbourne, Australia. He'd come from Preston, Lancs, although he told me later he was born in Brum, a few streets away from out launch pad. I'd been at teachers' college with a recent honorary degree from Brum Uni so all a bit of an uncanny coincidence. I hated Brum in my youth-a shithole of a city, all concrete and horrible accent.The day Terry showed me the new Brum I was brought to my knees. I loved it.
We'd been emailing our hopes and fears for months organising out joint launch at the Oldbury Rep. By the time we met I felt like I'd known Terry all my life. We met again in Bristol, my home town, in June this year, the day after Banksy's latest was posted in Bristol Museum. We had a great day when I got to appreciate and love my city for the very first time. Terry is the kindest and funniest poet at a time when humour is at a premium in the poetry world. On the eve of launching my second collection and remembering our joint win of the Geoff Stevens prize, I am very happy indeed to bring you the wit and wonderful whimsy of Terry, friend and co-poet.
or when she'll be back.
But here's a few clues.
when you're off to fight in the wars.
was taught as a precaution.
and it's not TLC from a blonde.
it's only a few months.
she just won't get it.
left when I left her alone.
and she did, does, live in Hammersmith.
in the Dead Sea Poems.
about that Al Gore film.
Terry Quinn born in Birmingham and is now living in Preston, UK, has travelled widely through the UK, Europe and the Middle East. A former engineer he is the author of 'Away' and 'The Amen of Knowledge' (published as joint winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize; Indigo Dreams). In 2014 he was one of the winning entrants to the Royal Academy's Ekphrasis poetry competition, the Guernsey International Poetry Festival competition and the BBC Proms Poetry Competition. He co-presents the Arts Scene Show on Preston fm. He follows Birmingham City Football Club.
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but it doesn't seem to work. If I do the line by hand via an xterm window, it does work.
Background: I'm doing this to try to map some of the ATI Remote Wonder keys that don't do anything by defualt to send keystrokes to MythTV. I found the keys being sent with xev, made a list and put it in .xmodmaprc (because I thought it would auto-load that way). As I said above, if I run the line manually, it works fine. I'd like to get it to run when I start up my machine.
I wrote a little script to use different xmodmaps with my ATI remote depending on whether I am watching recordings, watching DVD's or videos, or running xmame or another program. In case it might help you, the thread is here.
The key mappings in /home/mythtv/.Xmodmap_ati_mythtv should be set to things that make sense to you.


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"Therapy" is a song by American singer T-Pain that features rapper Kanye West, which is from Pain's third studio album, Three Ringz (2008).

Background
The track wasn't the first of T-Pain and Kanye's work together, since West featured Pain on his 2007 single "Good Life". Around two weeks after the release of the album which features "Therapy", West released his fourth studio album 808s & Heartbreak, which T-Pain believes was influenced by him.

Commercial performance
On November 29, 2008, the song debuted and peaked at number 6 on the US Bubbling Under Hot 100 and number 74 on the Digital Songs chart. This made it the only non-single from Three Ringz to enter any Billboard chart.

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Is Nigeria Entering 2020 With the Toxic Baggage of 2019 Or Not?
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The credit for the line of thinking behind this piece must go to the late Prof Akin Fadahunsi. Sometimes in 1995 at one of the methodology workshops on the book, Identity Transformation and Identity Politics Under Structural Adjustment in Nigeria edited by Prof Attahiru Jega, Fadahunsi asked if any Nigerian academic had ever interviewed any of Nigeria's military rulers with particular reference to what they know about what Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes and the theorists of the state and of Elite Rule had said. Apart from the late Dr Bala Jubril who interviewed General Babangida for his thesis on the media and how the IBB regime consolidated power, nobody has done that, with Babangida or any other military ruler.
Of the theories and theorists Fadahunsi mentioned, the elite theorists is most applicable to where Nigeria is today in relation to whether the elite know about that argument vis-à-vis the level of elite incoherence that accounts for what has been called the domestic disaster in Nigeria's make-up. The domestic disaster contradicts Nigeria's noble and glorious global exertions. As a Nigerian diplomat put it at a public lecture recently, Nigeria is about the only country in the world that would send her armed forces to another country, suppress a militia and hand over the troubled country to the United Nations.
There are many countries in the international system that can do such but nearly none does that without strings attached. Yet, doing that more than once is the ultimate signifier of Nigeria as a force for good on a global scale. It makes Nigeria a paradox – a great global player but a domestic disaster in the sense in which the one and only Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has most clearly conceptualised it. In his arguably most blunt public speech ever, Obasanjo said among others, that Nigeria is "a country perpetually potentially great, almost permanently in crisis, regularly threatened with disintegration, prolongingly devoid of democracy, and economically plundered and mismanaged, forever talking about democracy but forever retreating from democracy".
Sometimes, this disaster attracts pity and genuine solidarity. At other times, it attracts exclusion such as the removal of her from the list of the countries that makes up the G-20 because some people wondered if a country that cannot manage itself at home can be expected to add value to the club of those to manage the world.
Empirically, Nigeria has been a hopelessly divided country. It has always been a succession of one narrative of domination or the other, from ethnic to religious to regional and even generational. But, until the recent turn in the vehemence of such narratives of domination, notably by General Danjuma, General Ogomudia and as echoed by columnists, intellectuals and preachers, it had been such that most people who have worked in any Government House anywhere in Nigeria, for instance, would take each round of such articulation with a pinch of salt. It is because what most of the elite say in the headlines are not supported by the degree of interaction across religious and ethnic divides. And Government Houses are the most concentrated spaces to witness that contradiction. But that is a different claim based on lived experience. It is not a good reason to ignore or suppress recent narratives of inter-group relations overflowing across the country. By all means, let the ethnic emotions and feelings of exclusion, of being submerged, of hegemony, flow. Let all such claims be heard.
Prof Akinyemi is a model 'intellectual of statecraft' going by his 'Farewell to Policy' testament but he doesn't talk much again
One level of the fragmentation
The assumption is that there are patriotic 'intellectuals of statecraft' in the think tanks, the military, the bureaucracy and so on with commitment and capacity to mould protest narratives into models of inclusivist national self. But that is where the question comes up from: does Nigeria have a national elite that has that collective self-consciousness? In other words, is it not safe to conclude that the power elite in Nigeria is lacking in self-understanding?
That self-understanding is what the elite theorists sketched out. It must be borne in mind right away that although the elite theorists were writing to attack Marxism. So, it is a perfect case of every theory being for some purpose.
Basically, these philosophers, three of them, were saying that the few rule because they, in fact, rule. They argue that it true that history is the graveyard of aristocracies because revolutions deal with the ruling power elite but that what happens is that, a new set of elite arises, phoenix like, from each graveyard. According to them, it is such that whether we are talking of the English, French, American, Russian, Chinese, Cuban or South African revolutions, a new set of elite arose in the aftermath "to eternalize the cycle of domination". So, in their own words, no matter whether the economy remains capitalist or becomes the plaything of equalitarian leveler, there will always be a ruling class and therefore exploitation.
General T. T Danjuma, the signifier of a more recent and completely different level of the fragmentation
Yet, another dimension of the fragmentation -that of two former Heads of State
Although they were certainly posing a decidedly conservative argument just to attack Marxism, it is also true they formulated their theory based on study of actually existing communist parties and the structure of power therein. So, in a way, they were not wind bagging although they only studied European communist parties. The universalism of their claim can, therefore, be challenged on that account. The theory of 'circulation of elite' has, however, been difficult to contest. Even if a revolution were to take place today, the new guys in town would have classmates, friends and WhatsApp chat groups from the old guard.
The way PDP chieftains jumped into APC train before and after their victory in 2015 is also instructive even as theirs has nothing to do with a revolution. That shifting cultivation attitude to politics is not all opportunism but confirmation of 'circulation of elite' aspect of the elite theory of power. They went to same category of schools, use slangs exclusive to them, enjoy shared values in terms of pleasure, leisure, family life, marriage patterns and so. So, they have a constitutive interest that enables them to reach consensus on divisive issues. They have to reach consensus or they risk losing the benefits of being in power, not with the masses casting revolutionary glances at them and with equalitarian agitators in communist or national liberation parties.
Going by this analysis, there is fragmentation of the elite only because they lack the merit that enables elite in other climes to sort out their disagreements without the masses knowing. It is not in their interest for the masses to know because the masses aspire to overthrow them from the power and privileges they now enjoy. Is it the case that they are so sure they have so successfully conscientised the masses along ethno-religious lines that they do not have to look over their shoulders? Or, is it the case that they are confident they have neutralized or absorbed genuine radicals that they do not have to bother? Can anyone be sure of anything in a fast flowing world?
In that context, what is the guarantee that 2020 will be any different from 2019 as long as the differences are irreconcilable, thus making Nigeria where the where the best may be impossible and the worst is even to be feared? That is a recasting of the colonial idiom that referred to Nigeria as where the best may be impossible but the worst never happens!
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A teary-eyed SF lashes out at the Rajapaksas … claims National Cricketer tried to bribe him before Jan. polls
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Democratic Party Leader Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has alleged that a national cricketer had requested him to switch his allegiance to the then President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the run-up to the January presidential election.
In a live political programme aired over Hiru on Monday night, Fonseka claimed that he had been offered a range of things, including 100 acres of land to quit the UNP-led alliance which backed common presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena.
The war winning commander declared that he wouldn't have abandoned his struggle against the Rajapaksas under any circumstance.
Field Marshal Fonseka refrained from naming the cricketer. The Sinha Regiment veteran claimed that an organisation comprising Buddhist monks supportive of President Rajapaksa's re-election campaign had also wanted him to quit the Opposition campaign.
Responding to a query, Fonseka asserted that their rapidly deteriorating political environment had prompted the Rajapaksas seek his help. Fonseka revealed his wife, Anoma had received a large number of text messages seeking rapprochement between him and Rajapaksa. A teary-eyed
Fonseka Fonseka said that he would never forgive the Rajapaksas for destroying his life. Recollecting harassment meted out to him and his family, he alleged his daughter's marriage, too, had been ruined and irrevocable damaged caused to them. Fonseka alleged that his wife had been harassed and humiliated on many occasions.
When one of the three interviewers pointed out that he wouldn't have had the opportunity to command the army if not for the Rajapaksas, Fonseka asserted that the Rajapaksa government couldn't have achieved its military objectives without having him as the Commander of the army. Although the then President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga had chosen Maj. Gen. Shantha Kottegoda over him to be the commander of the army, President Kumaratunga had issued a specific circular to pave the way for him to continue in the rank of Maj. General until he could take over the army, Fonseka asserted.
One-time Chief of Defence Staff said that he was shocked and dismayed that the vast majority of the electorate continued to have faith in two major political parties, namely the UNP and SLFP, though they continued to field rogues at elections. Their supporters behaved as if they had been drugged, Fonseka said, adding that he was disappointed at the Democratic Party's defeat at the recently concluded general election. "My party expected at least four or five seats," Fonseka said, revealing that he hadn't been able sleep for about two days in the wake of the humiliating defeat.
The Democratic Party failed to secure at least one seat. Asked whether the UNP and the SLFP had offered to accommodate him through the National List or he asked to be included, Fonseka answered in the negative. Fonseka emphasised that his effort was to bring about a significant change in the political arena. The war veteran said that he could have easily secured a powerful Cabinet portfolio by contesting the general election on the UNP ticket. Instead, the Democratic Party had felt the need to go it alone, Fonseka said while blaming the electorate for not being able to realise the urgent need to change the political environment.
Asked whether his tough approach had driven some of his supporters to desert him, Fonseka said that key members of major political parties, too, switched their allegiance to rival political parties on numerous occasions. Fonseka recalled 17 UNPers led by the then Deputy Leader of the party, Karu Jayasuriya joining President Rajapaksa. The Field Marshal said that both Tiran Alles and Arjuna Ranatunga left him after having entered parliament in April 2010 on the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) ticket. Under Fonseka's leadership, the JVP, too, contested on the DNA ticket. The grouping managed to secure seven seats, including two National List slots. Having experienced severe difficulties while being in the DNA, Alles reached an understanding with the Rajapaksas, Fonseka said. Arjuna Ranatunga, who had been the deputy leader of the DNA had parted company in the wake of Fonseka visiting UNP Kalutara District MP Palitha Thewarapperuma.
Fonseka said: "I felt beholden to Palitha because he regularly visited me at Welikada, where I was held. But Ranatunga visited me once in four months. On one occasion, he accompanied other Opposition members of parliament. I promised Palitha to visit his electorate immediately after my release. But, Arjuna felt that would be disadvantageous to him because he too represented Kalutara."
Fonseka lashed out at former DNA MP Jayantha Ketagoda as well as DNA Western Provincial Council member Susil Kindelpitiya for seeking personal benefit at the expense of the party. Fonseka accused Ketagoda of receiving a range of benefits from the previous government for undermining the Democratic Party.
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BCMML – NW Giants upset OK Rockets in QFs
Posted on March 13th, 2017 in regular season
There was one big upset in the BC Major Midget League quarter final playoffs last weekend, as #6 ranked North West Giants upset #3 Okanagan Rockets in two games straight, on the road.
The other games when more or less as anticipated, with the top seeds winning all three series.
#1 Cariboo Cougars took care of business vs #8 Kootenay Ice in two straight, 5-1 and 3-0 at home. Kudos to the Ice who were making their first ever appearance in the playoffs.
#2 North East Chiefs dispatched the #7 Valley West Hawks, 5-3 and 5-0. The Chiefs opened a 4-0 lead after two in game 1 Friday night, then held on as the Hawks rolled for three. An empty netter closed it it out 5-3.
In game two Saturday, the Chiefs opened with one in the first, and then added four in the third, to finish the scoring and move on to round two.
As expected, the #4 vs #5 match up was a little closer, but in the end it was another sweep as the Greater Vancouver Canadians took down the #5 Fraser Valley Thunderbirds; 3-2 and 6-3.
Game 1 was a heartbreaker for the T-Birds, who lead 2-0 with two minutes to go, only to see the lead vanish as GVC forced OT. GVC's Michael Araki-Young then got the winner.
In game two, GVC got off to a 2-0 start after one, and then stretched it to 5-1 after two, with the shots 22-14 GVC. Each team scored once in the third to finish it off 6-2.
In the big upset series, the Giants went into Kelowna Friday night as a major underdog, but were firing on all cylinders in both games, coming out on top 5-4 and 5-1.
In Game 1 the Giants opened a 4-0 lead after the first and then made it 5-0 early in the second, before the Rockets finally came back with three to make a game of it, 5-4 with ten minutes left. The Giants then held on for the win. Giants goaltender Jessie Makaj was huge, facing 52 shots. Giants put 25 on the Rockets net.
In game two Saturday, the Giants opened a 3-0 lead by the middle of the second, before the Rockets notched one with 7:17 left. But the Giants would capitalize on the powerplay before the period ended to take a 4-1 lead into the final frame. An empty netter closed out an otherwise scoreless third, to finish it 5-1 Giants.
Semi-Finals start next weekend.
#1 Cariboo host #6 North West Giants, a rematch of last year's semi final. Game 1, Friday, March 17, 3:15. Game 2: Saturday, March 18, 3:15, game 3 Sunday 9:45 am if necessary.
#2 NE Chiefs vs #4 Greater Vancouver Canadians, at Pourier Sport & Leisure Complex, Coquitlam, 7:00 pm, March 17.
Eliminated:
#3 Okanagan Rockets
#5 Fraser Valley Thunderbirds.
#7 Valley West Hawks
#8 Kootenay Ice


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Nick Maiorano is the founder of online dating site, Percodate. A lover of banter and humans, he writes about Survivor for Rob Has a Website.
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Survivor: When Should You Tell The Truth?
Nick Maiorano March 31, 2014
March 31, 2014 - After watching Tony, and other players, tell the truth at such poor moments, the following should come as no surprise. Survivor wouldn't work if players had to tell the truth. It'd be more of a sport and less of a game. Which leads me to something incredibly straight forward... When should you tell the truth? When it benefits you.
Survivor: Lets Get This Out Of The Way
March 24, 2014 - A person may do something you wouldn't normally do, but that doesn't mean they're unpredictable. It means they're different from you. Your unwillingness or inability to predict their behavior has nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with you.
Survivor: Ask Yourself This
Confessional of the night: "She had me swear on my badge, which that doesn't mean anything to me, swearing on my badge. 'Cause I'm here to lie, cheat and steal. I'm here to drag peoples' dreams through the mud so I can fulfill mine. That's what I'm here for. Whatever I have to do, I'm […]
Survivor: The Main Reason
Confessional of the night: "The rain is gnarly, treacherous, breezy. It's pouring. It's terrible. But uh, this is what Survivor's all about, baby! Hopefully, uh, it'll die down here shortly. If not, it's gonna be a long night. Woo!" – Woo There are plenty of reasons why this season has been fantastic. At the top […]
Survivor: What The Game Tells Us
Nick Maiorano March 3, 2014
Confessional of the night: "Today is definitely beautiful on the beautiful tribe. But there's a lot of people playing dumb out here and I'm onto it. Alexis is just being the flirt out here. Just kind of like, you know, definitely all about her sexuality and always in her panties. Kind of like, you know, […]
New Blogger – New Perspective on the Survivor 28 Cast
Nick Maiorano January 29, 2014
Beloved Survivor: Why They Were Cast Everyone's cast for a reason. Whether it's a good or bad reason doesn't matter. You think a million dollars is on the line? Tell that to President of CBS Entertainment, Nina Tassler, and she'd laugh in your face. Actually, she's too keen to laugh in a fool's face. She'd […]


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The all-in-one revolution continues, as Lenovo follows Dell, HP, Samsung, and Toshiba in announcing a new desktop that packs its components into its display. Starting at $699, the 325 is affordably priced and sports a 20-inch screen.
Of course, it's that affordable because the base model lacks the multi-touch capabilities of many of its competitors. You can add the touchscreen feature, but the Lenovo Website doesn't specify how much such an extra costs. Other specs of the base model include the AMD Fusion E450 processor, 8GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, DVD burner, Mobility Radeon 6310 integrated graphics, and built-in Wi-Fi and webcam.
Other options that Lenovo lists but don't seem currently available are a built-in TV tuner and USB 3.0 port. You do get an HDMI output standard to connect the C325 to a larger screen like an HDTV. The 1,600x900 20-inch display also rotates from -5° to 25° to make use of Lenovo's IdeaTouch package of touch-screen-friendly apps (if you get a touch-screen-enabled model).
If you're in the market for an all-in-one desktop, which features are you most interested in? Let us know in the Talkback section.


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Q: combination of heuristic and cost based approach in Query optimization I am trying hard to understand How can these cost estimation techniques be combined with the heuristic rules during query optimization by the DBMS and the effect this has on reducing the workload of a Database? Someone who knows kindly explain. Thanks

A: In my experience, the "cost-based optimization" usually comes up with the same results as some good heuristics.  Here are some of my heuristics:  http://mysql.rjweb.org/doc.php/index_cookbook_mysql  It includes discussions into now to peek into EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON, Optimizer trace, and Handler counts.
The Optimizer uses the costs, not heuristics.  I use my heuristics, not costs, except for what the Handlers give me.

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Source: (2003) Paper presented at a Public Forum, Restorative Justice: Humanizing Justice, Restorative Justice Week 2003, Ottawa, Canada, November 19. The Church Council on Justice and Corrections. Downloaded 14 January 2005.
Restorative Justice Week is a week dedicated to education about and advancement of restorative justice among churches and the public in general. Michel Dunn presented this paper at a public forum entitled "Restorative justice: Humanizing justice" during Restorative Justice Week 2003, held in Ottawa, Canada, November 19. According to Dunn, while restorative justice as a term is a relatively new concept in Canada, it is in fact an approach to wrongdoing that is much older. Aboriginal people have used this kind of approach for a long time. Dunn goes on to point out that restorative justice has even been applied for a long time to deal with the most serious crime of all – murder. He illustrates this using his own life as example. When he was younger, Dunn killed his law partner, a crime for which he was convicted and incarcerated. In this paper he recounts his journey back from that darkness through the restorative efforts of a number of people visiting him in jail.
Paper presented at a Public Forum, Restorative Justice: Humanizing Justice, Restorative Justice Week 2003, Ottawa, Canada, November 19. The Church Council on Justice and Corrections. Downloaded 14 January 2005.


Raphael Group Limited (RGL) is one of the leading food grains processors and distributors in Tanzania. The business started as a partnership in 1995 and was incorporated as a Limited Liability company in 2010. The core business activities of RGL include processing and selling of more than four grain products; Rice- 50% of the business, Beans-20%, Groundnuts- 20%, Sunflower cooking oil and other cereal grains- 10%. RGL's head offices are in Uyole area, Mbeya in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania.
With investment from FoodTrade ESA, the project Raphael Group Bean Marketing Center (RGBMC) aims to setup a centralized marketing centre for the highly demanded bean varieties grown in the Southern Highlands region. This centre will be supported by mini aggregation centres situated at the bean producers' locations. The marketing centre will be 100% owned by the RGL Company, while the mini-aggregation centres will be co-owned by RGL and the bean producer groups. This project is unique because it sets an aggregation system which is partly owned by the farmers. By making farmers part of the village warehouse owners, the project is giving them opportunity to increase their income through revenue generated by the warehouses. The warehouses will generate revenue from the sale of beans. During off-season, the warehouses will be used to store other grains like maize and rice. The storage fees received from the people leasing the space in the warehouses to store grains will be another source of income to the farmers.


Fitting for a library that doubles as a work of art, Jerome Library will unveil a new piece at its celebration of the 50th anniversary.
The program will start at 4 p.m. Friday. There'll be short presentations on the history of the library as well as a presentation by Librarian Amy Fry on the mural. Then a piece by sculptor and book artist Vince Koloski, that draws inspiration from those murals, will be unveiled.
The eight-story tall building with six floors of abstract art running up both the west and east faces first opened in 1967. Dean of University Libraries Sara Bushong said she's been assured by the artist Donald Drumm that the designs have no hidden meaning.
Bushong said that at the time, students "either loved it or thought it was the most atrocious thing they'd ever seen." Now it's hard to imagine campus without it.
While the mural has been a constant landmark on campus over the past 50 years the services within it have evolved.
When it was built it was devoted mostly to stacks of books. Now every one of its floors have been repurposed, sometimes several times over, Bushong said.
The change is most evident on the first floor. "The goal is to have the first floor to be a very student services focused," she said.
The library has about 450,000 visitors a year, that's students, faculty, community member, and tour groups.
The library went up in the midst of a university building boom. With its step down entrance and the dramatic murals, it was intended to add contrast to the flat landscape, Bushong said. Like any 50-year-old structure it has shown its age. The battle against leaks has been ongoing since 1967. Recent work on the roof over the first floor has solved problems on the first floor, though areas around the base of the tower, still cause leaks on the second level.
And the library was not constructed with the ensuing digital age in mind. Bushong said that internet service is available throughout the building, but on some corners of the first floor cell phone service is spotty.
That's meant a steady program of work on the building's intricate inner workings.
Bushong, who grew up in Bradner, remembers the building in its early years. Her father, Nick Ezzone, did graduate work at BGSU, and she would sometimes come to campus and visit the library with him. She earned her bachelor's degree in music education at BGSU from 1976-1980 and remembers the building not having changed much.
When she and her husband, Brian Bushong, returned to the area in 1983 so he could join the Tower Brass, she had a hard time finding a full-time teaching job, so she applied at the university and was hired in the curriculum resources library. She has worked in the library since except for a few years when she worked as a school librarian in Perrysburg. She earned a master's degree in education at BGSU and then her Master of Library Science from Kent State.
Bushong became dean in 2010.
She's overseen a rapid change in the university's offerings. Now a student will come to the library with computer, textbook, and a library book. The library has been a central player in addressing concerns about the cost of textbooks.
Students and faculty can tap into the library's electronic resources even if they are on the other side of the globe. "You can access them anytime, anywhere," Bushong said.
OhioLink and EBSCO offer an array of databases that carries students from pre-K through graduate studies. Ohio is a leader in in this, Bushong said. "I don't think there's any other state that has that great expanse of educational electronic content.


Decreasing Worldwide: In the recent paper "A global crisis for seagrass ecosystems", the authors state that reports of seagrass loss worldwide have increased almost tenfold over the last 40 years (Orth et al. 2006). They indicate that this is the result of a multitude of coastal human population pressures including pollution, physical disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change. They point out that: "there is a critical need for a targeted global conservation effort...". As far as we are concerned, anything that we can do to slow or reverse local losses will benefit the marine environment.
Decreasing Locally: It is clear that Long Island has lost much of the eelgrass coverage from the earliest aerial photos taken in 1930 resulting from acute die-offs (e.g., the "wasting disease" and the "brown tide") as well as general declines in water quality throughout the 20th century. More recently, we have found that long-term monitoring within the Peconic Estuary indicates that there has been a general decline in eelgrass coverage over the last decade. Although the rate of loss varies between the sites monitored, the net result is a decrease in eelgrass. Unfortunately, monitoring efforts in Long Island Sound and in the South Shore Estuary have only just been initiated recently, so little is known about the long-term trends of these estuaries.
Natural Recovery is Slow: The rate of natural eelgrass recovery can be VERY slow. We have found that eelgrass meadows on Long Island have rates of rhizome expansion comparable to the global average for Zostera marina, which is approximately 26 cm/yr (Marbá and Duarte 1998). Using this rate and assuming conditions return to optimal for eelgrass growth, it would take over 100 years for a square foot of eelgrass to increase coverage to 1 acre through rhizome expansion alone, which is one means of proliferation for the species. Infilling by seedlings can increase this rate, but it still would take decades to create a single acre naturally. For cases where entire meadows have been lost, natural recruitment of seeds from nearby meadows is the only means of recolonization, and this relies heavily on chance and could take hundreds of years to take place. At this rate, even with improvements in conservation and management, eelgrass will not be able to make a significant return to local waters during our lifetimes. This is where restoration comes in!


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3 accused of murder after Minnesota man's body found in WVA
October 17, 2019 GMT
WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities in West Virginia say three people have now been charged with murder after the remains of a Minnesota man were found in McDowell County.
News outlets report 31-year-old Amanda Michelle Naylor McClure, 32-year-old Anna Marie Choudhry and 55-year-old Larry Paul McClure Sr. were charged with murder and conspiracy in the death of John Thomas McGuire. Choudhry and Amanda McClure were initially charged with concealment of a deceased human body. Larry McClure was originally arrested for failing to register as a sex offender.
West Virginia State Police Trooper K.M. Saddler says the three related suspects knew McGuire. He says they planned McGuire's killing and "willfully concealed the remains" in a shallow grave at Larry McClure's residence.
A motive for the slaying wasn't immediately released.


In April 2011, the United States Special Forces descended on Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist group al-Qaida's, hideout. The ensuing raid killed bin Laden after over a decade of living in hiding and directing attacks through his followers. So who knew where he was located?
According to Kalev Leetaru, a researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an analysis of public news articles about bin Laden pinpointed his location within 200 kilometers in diameter. In a very real sense, one of the world's most secretive hiding places may have ultimately revealed itself from the mosaic of individual data points. Each journalist had an opinion about the location, and all opinions together formed a true answer. The catch here: no survey was conducted, and no journalist was actually asked where they thought Osama was hiding. They revealed their opinions on bin Laden's whereabouts through their articles. This is the power of public and unstructured data.
Most likely, the US forces did not rely on crowdsourced wisdom like this. We know today that US governement agencies like the NSA are tapping into all kinds of different data sources, from spying on the phones of top-level politicians to tapping into everyone's communications through email providers. However, the principle is the same: actionable intelligence was derived from the aggregation of individual, and in this case, seemingly random, data points.
Herein lies the promise of what we call big data. It has become one of the trendiest digital buzzwords of the new millenium. It involves gathering business intelligence from the heretofore forbidden territory of data sets that are too large to curate or maintain as databases, often encompassing terabytes or even petabytes of information.
The text is part of the INTRO chapter from Ask – Measure – Learn.
This entry was posted in Blog, Data Noise, Promise of Data on June 18, 2014 by Lutz Finger.


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In-Quest jest belgijskim zespołem grającym technical death metal. Są znani z futurystycznych tekstów piosenek, związanych głównie z technologią i apokalipsą.

Członkowie
 Mike Löfberg - wokal
 Gert Monden - perkusja
 Douglas Verhoeven - gitara
 Joël Decoster - gitara basowa
 Valéry Bottin - gitara rytmiczna (tylko na koncertach)

Dyskografia
 The Comatose Quandaries (2005)
 Epileptic (2004)
 Destination : Pyroclasm EP(2003)
 Operation : Citadel (1999)
 Extrusion : Battlehymns (1997)
 Xylad Valox (demo) (1995)

Linki zewnętrzne
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A special NIA court here Monday directed that a copy of photographs and videos pertaining to the 2008 Malegoan blast be provided to Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit, who is one of the accused in the case.
A special NIA court here Monday directed that a copy of photographs and videos pertaining to the 2008 Malegoan blast be provided to Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit, who is one of the accused in the case. Purohit, in an application filed last week, had asked the special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court to give him copies of photographs and videos related to the incident to prepare his defence.
During the argument on Monday, the prosecution objected to his plea, saying no other accused had asked for these documents and that this was a delay tactic.
However, special judge V S Padalkar directed the court registrar to provide a copy of the photographs and videos of the incident to Purohit.
The matter was then adjourned till November 21.
The photographs and videos are part of the charge sheets submitted by the prosecution in the case.
The special court had on October 30 framed terror charges against Purohit, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur and five other accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, setting the stage for their trial to commence.
On September 29, 2008, six people were killed and over 100 injured when an explosive device strapped on a motorcycle went off near a mosque in Malegaon, a town in Maharashtra's Nashik district and located about 200 km from Mumbai.


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In designing the interior of our home, we are given many different choices when it comes to color and materials.
Whatever is our choice has a great impact on how the space will look like and it will create the aura of the space.
Have you felt the difference of a room with all white colors and another with some bold feature in it?
You have to take this into consideration when choosing colors and materials for your home.
Do you know what the commonly used palette in a residential interior is?
Yes, your guess is right. It's neutral colors. Many homeowners prefer this since it creates a warm and relaxing aura. But of course, you can also see some bright accents around the home.
With that, we are going to show you some modern kitchens that made use of black, white and wood in it. You will definitely love this list since all the kitchens are really beautiful!
Seen here is a large minimalist galley eat-in kitchen. It has a lovely combination of finishes just like how it added wood in the middle of the black cabinets. Light wood flooring balances the look.
For this minimalist kitchen design, it used flat-panel cabinets which looks good with the stainless steel appliances and wooden features. Notice that the ceiling and walls are white.
This bright and open kitchen is surrounded by glass windows around it. There are also folding doors that allow access to the outdoor area. The kitchen island adds a luxurious appeal to the space.
Look at how wood is being integrated into this kitchen. Notice how beautiful wood looks on the island and cabinets. The string of light in the cabinet also adds beauty to the area. In fact, it is very eye-catching!
The stone slab backsplash is one feature that made it look attractive. Notice also that glass is used at one side of the kitchen which brings natural light into the space.
This kitchen has an industrial feel because of its concrete walls. But it looks nice with the wooden cabinets and the black wall hung cabinets. Of course, it is the white colors here that made it bright.
Granite countertops and wooden flat-panel cabinets give this space a luxurious appeal. The lights in the kitchen bring a subtle traditional touch to the area.
A modern galley kitchen with light wood floor and dark wood cabinets. What I like here is the wooden kitchen table attached to the island.
This kitchen has a modern mix of natural wood and laminate finish for kitchen diner. Because of its open layout, it is bright and airy.
This minimalist galley kitchen has flat-panel cabinets and marble countertops. Although its primary color is white, it also has black colors in it.
The open kitchen is at the center of the living space and forms the hub of family life. The island is made from granite and oak which invites people to gather.
The contrast of black and white looks really nice here. Who would think that black cabinets can actually look great in a home?
This modern kitchen has curves on its island and it also used glass not just for the island but even for the range hood.
Aside from the black cabinets, what made this kitchen more attractive is the wooden table which breaks the contrast of the walls and cabinets.
Adding a wooden top to the kitchen island is a great idea. It looks good with the black features here and the white backsplash. The patterns from the dining area's area rug also adds appeal to the space.
The goal for the kitchen was to create a dramatic and urban space in a rural setting. And it is obvious that they were able to achieve this.
Marble countertops and backsplash looks great with the black cabinets in this kitchen. Notice also that it used dark wooden flooring which leads to the outdoor area.
A mid-sized minimalist L-shaped eat-in kitchen which features a mix of wood, white and black kitchen cabinets. Feel free to check out how wood and white looks like in the kitchen.
I love the soft and dramatic feel of this kitchen which we can get from the light wood cabinets and that fluffy area rug. It won't hurt to add a black cabinet in the kitchen too!
For a more compact look, you can also have a kitchen like this one with black cabinets on one side and a white island.
The natural appeal of wood could really have a great impact in any space. It looks good whatever you pair it with. You have seen how wood complimented with the black and white colors of the kitchens above. Notice also that the usage of said color and material varies depending on the size and shape of the kitchen. But in whatever way they use it, it still looks really nice. You can also check out kitchens with black and wood palette that we have featured before. For sure, you will love that list too!


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Our new programme, Rwanda's Returnees is coming up next on BBC radio 4. The arts are flourishing in Rwanda. This richness in theatre, literature, dance, film and photography has been made possible by exiled Rwandan artists who moved back home after the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Many of them were born overseas. Their parents fled the start of ethnic violence that began 60 years ago in 1959. They came back to build a new home: both literally and creatively.
Dr Zoe Norridge speaks to returnee artists who grew up in Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Belgium, the UK and France to discover what it was that drew and continues to draw those in the diaspora back. Why did they leave the places where they grew up for a country with such a difficult history? And what contribution have these artists made to rebuilding both the arts and the nation?
Transmission date Thursday 3 October 2019
Produced by Philippa Geering
An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4


According to a recent article on PRNewswire.com, the sales of power and hand tools in this country are expected to expand by about 4.8 percent each year through 2016. The grand total for annual sales is predicted to reach about 13.1 billion dollars that year. Manufacturing power and hand tools is a big business led by major players such as Milwaukee, Bosch, Makita, and Porter-Cable.
While a large percentage of the power tools sold each year go to professional contractors, DIYers are buying their fair share. I know that a part of my monthly budget goes toward helping keep several tool manufacturers afloat. My philosophy has always been that there's no such thing as a power tool that I don't need -- it's sure to be used at least once in a while.
The crowded tool aisles at Lowes and Home Depot every weekend are proof enough that I'm not the only homeowner who follows that line of thinking. If the DIY trend continues at its current pace, tool manufacturers may be seeing that 13.1 billion mark in their rear-view mirrors well before 2016.
But when it comes right down to it, what power tools do you really need for home improvement projects? While it's nice to have specialty tools for whatever might pop up, there are several that should be able get you through just about any DIY project.
Circular saw. If you've ever cut a lot of dimensional lumber with a handsaw, you're well aware of how much time the power models can save on projects. Whether you're doing framing, interior trim, or putting up a deck, a circular saw is just about a must-have DIY power tool. When shopping for a saw, look for a model with an electric brake - the blade stops spinning when you release the trigger.
Cordless drill. Cordless tools have come a long way since their early days. Back then you practically needed a helper to carry all the batteries required to get through a job. New models are light weight, easy to use, and a fully charged Lithium-Ion battery can provide enough power for just about any project.
Jigsaw. When it comes to delicate or shaped cuts, it's hard to beat the convenience of a jigsaw. They're also handy for making cut-outs in sheetrock or wood for electrical boxes, plumbing cleanouts, or any other item that needs a hole. Mine gets as much use as my circular saw during DIY projects.
While every experienced DIYer has their favorites, these three power tools are the ones I consider most important for my typical home improvement projects.
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