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Geothermal system will save Nashville airport over $400K a year
October 22, 2015	0 By Angie Bergenson
Geothermal plates will be used to provide cool lake water for the airport's cooling and irrigation system.
By next summer, the Nashville International Airport will receive water for its cooling and irrigation systems via a geothermal system installed in the former Hoover Quarry, a 43-acre lake that holds stormwater runoff and is located next to the airport. The project is expected to save the airport nearly $430,000 annually in cooling costs for the next 50 years.
Water from the lake will not require energy to be chilled, saving money and improving sustainability.
The Tennessean reported that the future geothermal system will replace the present centralized system that relies on cooling Metro Nashville's potable water in four cooling towers. Since the natural temperature of the lake water is typically between 10 to 20 degrees cooler, at 50 degrees Fahrenheit, it will not need energy to be chilled.
The airport authority's chief engineer Robert Ramsey says that the geothermal system is expected to save the city 30 million gallons of potable water per year and lower electricity costs by 1.3 million kilowatt hours.
The geothermal system is the latest among the airport's sustainability initiatives.
In the coming week, the geothermal plates will be submerged 50 feet beneath the lake. The plates will sit vertically in a row and will form a box-like structure. Approximately 1.6 miles of 20 inch black pipes will transport the cool lake water from the quarry to the airport and back. As the water circulates through the airport system, it will absorb heat and transfer the heated water back to the lake plates, which will once again cool the water.
In addition to the upcoming geothermal plate installation, the airport has engaged in other sustainable practices, such as repurposing and recycling fallen trees and demolished materials. It also recycles concrete from runway projects and recently installed charging stations that are solar powered for electric vehicles.
Commenting on the geothermal cooling system, the vice president of communication for the airport authority, Tom Jurkovich, said that "It's not only sustainable, it takes advantage of an used asset existing here on the property." He added that the "quarry project is really going to be the crown jewel" of the airport's current sustainability efforts.
Planning for the cooling geothermal system project began back in 2008. The project is funded through a $3.6 million federal grant, $5.5 million from the airport and $1.3 million from the Tennessee Aeronautics Department. According to the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, the $10.4 million project is believed to be the largest of its kind in North America.
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Presian I of Bulgaria
Presian (Bulgarian: Пресиян, Персиян, Пресиан) was the Khan of Bulgaria from 836–852. He ruled during an extensive expansion in Macedonia.
Presian I
Пресиян І
Khan of Bulgaria
Presian Inscription, first plate, Archeological Museum, Philippi, Greece.
Malamir
Boris I
Anna, daughter of Presian I
Zvinitsa
2 Conflict with Serbia and Byzantium
3 Honour
5.1 Sources
OriginEdit
The composite picture of the Byzantine sources indicates that Presian I was the son of Zvinitsa (Zbēnitzēs), who was a son of Omurtag. In several older studies Presian is identified with his short-lived predecessor Malamir and it is assumed that this single character survived until the 850s as the direct predecessor of Boris I. This is very unlikely, as Malamir is attested as having been succeeded by his nephew (the son of his brother Zvinitsa), while Boris I was preceded by his father Presian. Zlatarski resolved the problems in the fragmentary sources by determining that Malamir's unnamed nephew and successor was in fact Presian, and Boris I was the latter's son.
The 17th century Volga Bulgar compilation Cäğfär Taríxı, a work of disputed authenticity, represents Birdžihan (i.e., Presian) as the son of Sabanša (i.e., Zvinitsa), which may lend support to the interpretation of his origins now dominant in Bulgarian historiography.[clarification needed]
Conflict with Serbia and ByzantiumEdit
Presian Inscription, sixth plate,
Archeological Museum, Philippi, Greece.
Presian may have been young and inexperienced at the time of his accession, and state affairs may have been dominated by the minister (Kavkhan) Isbul, as under Presian's uncle Malamir. In 837, soon after Presian's accession, the Slavs in the vicinity of Thessalonica rebelled against the Byzantine Empire. Emperor Theophilos sought Bulgarian support in putting down the rebellion, but simultaneously arranged for his fleet to sail through the Danube delta and undertake a clandestine evacuation of some of the Byzantine captives settled in trans-Danubian Bulgaria by Krum and Omurtag.
Bulgaria under Presian
In retaliation Isbul campaigned along the Aegean coasts of Thrace and Macedonia and captured the city of Philippi, where he set up a surviving memorial inscription set up in a local church. Isbul's campaign may have resulted in the establishment of Bulgarian suzerainty over the Slavic tribe of the Smolyani.
Presian's reign coincides with the extension of Bulgarian control over the Slavic tribes in and around Macedonia. It is known that the Serbs and Bulgars lived in peace until Presian invaded Serbian territory in 839, during the last years of Theophilos.[1] Vlastimir, the Knez of Serbia, united several Serbian tribes,[2] and Emperor Theophilos (r. 829–842) granted the Serbs independence;[3] thus, the Serbs acknowledged the nominal overlordship of the Emperor.[1] The annexation of western Macedonia by the Bulgars changed the political situation. Malamir or Presian may have seen a threat in the Serb consolidation, and opted to subjugate them in the midst of the conquest of Slav lands.[1] Another reason might have been that the Byzantines wanted to divert attention in order to cope with the Slav Uprising in the Peloponnese, and so sent the Serbs to instigate the war.[4] Presian[5] invaded Serbian territory in 839. The invasion led to a 3-year war, in which Vlastimir was victorious;[6] Presian was driven out of Serbian territory by Vlastimir's army.[4] In addition to making no territorial gains, Presian suffered heavy losses due to the Serbian tactical advantage in the hills.[7] The war ended with the death of Theophilos in 842, which released Vlastimir from his obligations to the Byzantine Empire.[8]
Presian died in 852, and was succeeded by his son Boris I.
HonourEdit
Presian Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named after Presian I of Bulgaria.
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History of Bulgaria
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^ a b c Bury 2008, p. 372
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^ S. Stanojevic, Историја српскога народа, Belgrade, 1910, p. 46—47
^ a b Известия за българите, p. 42—43
^ Fine 1991, p. 108
^ Runciman 1930, p. 88
^ Houtsma 1993, p. 199
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(primary source), Bahši Iman, Džagfar Tarihy, vol. III, Orenburg 1997.
De Administrando Imperio by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, edited by Gy. Moravcsik and translated by R. J. H. Jenkins, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington D. C., 1993
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Houtsma, M. Th. (1993). E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam 1913–1936. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-08265-4.
Runciman, Steven (1930). A history of the First Bulgarian Empire. London: G. Bell & Sons. Archived from the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
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Australian roots rock and blues legend Jeff Lang has built up a reputation for startlingly original performances, working without a set list, allowing the unique energy of each night to shape the songs. Having previously toured with the likes of Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Lang is coming back to shake up The Peoples Republic for a second time. Lang's 2009 China tour won him a boatload of local fans blown away by his guitar-picking skills and soulful live performance. Now armed with a recently released album, Chimeradour, we should expect nothing less than something epic.
Chimeradour is a spectral and many-faceted sonic journey. A voracious musical explorer, Lang has absorbed and transformed many rich influences in the course of his collaborations with musicians from Mali to Mumbai.


This is a simple dress to make. I have made a couple for myself and several for my daughters and even one for my niece.
Material for the skirt - Measure around you t-shirt where you plan to sew the skirt on, you will need a length of material ~3 times as long to form the gathers. I used a yard, cut in half and sewn together to make a longer strip of material.
For this dress, I wanted an empire waist, so I came up about eight inches from the bottom of the t-shirt. To get the piece of material 3 times as long as the length around my t-shirt, I cut the yard of material in half. Then I cut the two halves so that when I sewed the two ends together, I had a loop of material ~3 times the length around my t-shirt. I then ironed down the seams.
Next on one end of the loop fold over the edge about 1/4 inch and iron. Then fold over again 1 inch and iron.
Next you need to divide your material in quarters and mark with a pin on the folded edge. Also, mark the two sides of your shirt with a straight pin and the center (front and back of the shirt), thus dividing your shirt in quarters. Since I had sewn two strips of material into one loop, it was easy for me to find the two sides for the pins and then the mid-point front and back for a pin, thus dividing the skirt in quarters.
Line up the side seams of your shirt with the side seams of the material and pin together. Pin at the height you want the skirt part of your dress to be. For this one, I came up about eight inches from the bottom of my t-shirt. Your skirt should be pinned to the shirt in four places now. Working between the pins, make small pleats and pin them down. Continue around the skirt until it is all pleated. Notice, I am pinning to the 'right' side of the t-shirt, not the inside.
Carefully, sew the skirt onto your shirt. Since I came up eight inches from the bottom of my t-shirt, I had to be extra careful to not catch the 'extra' part of my shirt while sewing.
Once it is sewn all the way around, turn inside out and trim off the excess t-shirt.
Next hem the skirt to the length you want. I cut mine at 35 inches and then put a 1 inch hem at the bottom.
Ooops....I made my skirt a little too short...EASY fix! From the excess I trimmed of my skirt, I cut a piece of material 6 inches wide, then folded up to make a 1 inch hem. Then I just sewed this to the bottom of the skirt and I also added a rick-rack trim, so Cute, right?
And here is the finished dress!!!
Here's another one I made for myself out of some vintage material I got in an antique store in West Virginia on a girls weekend. This one is more drop-waist and I also added a pocket with my initial embroidered on it.
And here is my niece wearing the one I made for her to wear in Disney. The skirt is Disney princesses.
And here are my daughter's wearing two I made them for the fall.


Department of Construction HCMC The Department Inspector will transfer the Alibaba Real Estate Joint Stock Company's filings to the Criminal Investigation and Economic Corruption Bureau (C46) of the Ministry of Public Security for consideration and punishment in accordance with the regulations.
Mr. Tran Trong Tuan, Director of Department of Construction. Ho Chi Minh City had a meeting with some departments related to the Alibaba Real Estate Joint Stock Company claimed to be the investor Alibaba West North Cu Chi.
The Inspector of the Department of Construction said that the company would be punished with administrative penalties for violations related to the Housing Law and the Law on Real Estate Business.
"Alibaba Real Estate Joint Stock Company is not an investor, but it has been sold, deposited, so it is wrong." Previously, many inspectors of the Department of Labor invited to work but this company does not come,Mr. Tuan said.
The Director of the Department of Construction. The Department Inspectorate will transfer the file to the Police Department for Economic Crime and Corruption Investigation (C46), Ministry of Public Security to see To consider and handle criminal cases according to regulations.
Previously, as VietnamFinance has informed, on November 21, the People's Committee. HCM has sent to the Association of Real Estate TP. Ho Chi Minh City (HoREA) and related departments to direct the handling of wrongful acts of Alibaba Real Estate Joint Stock Company.
The City's Department of Construction, in collaboration with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tay Bac Urban Management Authority, inspects the operation of Alibaba Northwest Joint Stock Company on the Alibaba project in the North West of Cu Chi and proposed to the People's Committee for treatment. At the same time, request the Cu Chi District People's Committee to grasp the incident, to plan actively to ensure security and order.
On 22 November, the Police Department of Economic Crime and Corruption Investigation (C46) Ministry of Public Security invited representatives of Alibaba Real Estate Joint Stock Company to work around many information projects that the company This is for sale in Cu Chi (HCMC) and Long Thanh (Dong Nai).
Representatives of the company explained that they have worked with the management board of the Northwest urban area and proposed cooperation project investment here. After that, Tay Bac Urban Management Board has submitted the proposal for investment project together with the proposal to implement the investment project for the City People's Committee. HCM.
"The Company only prepares the Alibaba Northwest project for the Ho Chi Minh City project and the reservation for the sales staff to deal with customers. If the customer cancels the transaction, the company will return the money, "said Alibaba Real Estate.
It is known that up to now, the company has received 493 customers, equivalent to a deposit of VND16,626 billion at the Northwest Alibaba project in Cu Chi.
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Artist Spotlight: Yuuki Horiuchi
Yuuki Horiuchi was born in 1990 in Nara, Japan, and lives and works in Tokyo. During her childhood and teenage years, the artist enjoyed reading comic books and watching movies, and still does up to this day. In Japan, comic books are addressed to all age groups and come in many different formats, such as literature, in the shape of novels, as pornography. They can be sources of entertainment or an expressive way of narrating historical facts. Also, the comics and animations whose target are teenage females – named 'Shōjo manga', after the meaning of 'young girl' in Japanese – are deeply related to feminism. The stories and characters in these books are usually influenced by Japan's social and cultural background, and Yuuki understands them as a result of a big whirlpool of destiny.
The artist sees the moment of becoming conscious about death as turning point in her life. She is familiar with both western and eastern philosophers, recently identifying with Baruch Spinoza's Sub specie aeternitatis – «an honorific expression describing what is universally and eternally true, without any reference to or dependence upon the temporal portions of reality». Also interested in matters such as time, past and future, the universe's progression, shamanism and faith, the artist reflects on the circle of life, destiny, coincidence and inevitability. She is aware that human life and the present are fundamentally dependent on external factors, just like the characters in the comic books she reads.
"There was the past, and with it all the past events that happened regardless of my potential choices; there's the present, with happenings that are the result of chances and choices of my own; and there's the future, which remains an open book of uncertainty regarding what may or may not happen. And for me, this is a reminder that I am a fragment of this world and that most of the things are uncontrolled", she describes.
For Yuuki Horiuchi, this is the starting point of her understanding of human life and, consequentially, of her production, which is intrinsically visible in most of her past works. More recently, the artist began pondering the relationship between these different life occurrences, their resulting emotional consequences and the way they are visually depicted in most comic books, often recurring to mnemonics.
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Yuuki Horiuchi became fascinated with how incredibly well portrayed the characters' expressions are – weather expressing happiness, surprise, sadness or anger – and how easily one can comprehend the characters' emotions before one starts reading the actual story. For the artist, it is possible to illustrate meaning through simple graphics. She is currently exploring the importance of shapes and graphic forms as a direct influence in their narratives, from the pages' composition to the speech bubbles included in it. The artist investigates the recurring patterns and symbolisms present in comic books and attempts to bring them into her fine art practice.
Instead of reproducing the standard appearance of a comic book – filled with stories, figurative images and flat colours – the artist reproduces solely the layout of the page using both organic and geometric shapes in shades of gray and blue pastels. These resemble translucent spaces entirely devoid of matter, and the speech bubbles particularly allude to the cosmos. The investigation is done through oil painting, although the artist dares to paint as one would with watercolour. This resemblance of the watercolour technique is even more evident in the artist's paintings on paper, in which the marks dissolve fluently and unpredictably throughout the surface. When working in monochrome, this dissolution can also resemble etching. Yuuki Horiuchi is interested in discovering the different ways of how the audience receives these graphic elements in painting, as more layers are added through the use of brush strokes and fluid mediums.
Yuuki Horiuchi holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the Fine Arts in Tokyo University of the Arts, in Japan, and has also completed an exchange programme at Glasgow School of Art, in United Kingdom. The artist has taken part in many artistic residencies, such as The Central Saint Martins' Associate Studio Programmes (Y-AIR Exchange), in London and Youkobo Art Space (Y-AIR Exchange), in Tokyo, both in 2018. She was awarded a place at the Art Project Ideas 2017 exhibition, in Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan, and Video Field was her last solo exhibition, at Youkobo Art Space, in Tokyo.
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You can see Yuuki Horiuchi's work in the four upcoming shows of round 37.
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I was wondering, how tricky would it be to make the debugger work with single files?
Compiling a single file is no longer a problem, it has been implemented, but allowing that compilation to enable debugging flags would be the tricky thing.
Maybe, just maybe, if there was another "compiler settings" when you're going to compile a single file. We'd get that way "global compiler settings", "global compiler settings per project", "compiler settings per target" and "compiler settings for single file compilation".
Would it not be a bit too much to have all those "global compiler settings"?
The new one would only be "compiler settings for single file compilation", all others already exist, or was any of those removed lately?
May be I have misunderstood.
By "global compiler settings" you mean Settings-->compiler, by "compiler settings per project" Project-->Build options and by "compiler settings per target" Project-->Properties-->Targets, right?
In this case, the addition of "compiler settings for single file compilation" should be a possibility IMHO.
The improved compiler framework (developers only access, if I remeber correctly) will not take into consideration such a case?
Right, that's what I meant.
I don't remember reading about that in there.


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Q: Use C++ std::hash built-in specialization for plain integer array I have data in form of arrays of 16-bit integers:
uint16_t a[n]

I need a hash function to store such data into an unordered_set. Now the standard library provides a built-in specialization for strings (string, u8string, u16string, ...). What I'm doing is:
std::hash<std::u16string>{}(std::u16string((char16_t*)a, n))

Is there a way to use the underlying hash function without the overhead of creating and destroying a string object, and without implementing an explicit hash algorithm (probably worse than the standard one)?
EDIT: I was thinking of something like a generic hash specialization taking a couple of iterators, but it does not seem to exist.

A: This is precisely what std::basic_string_view is for. There are specialized types as one might expect, one of which is std::u16string_view.
Pass the constructor the pointer and a length. Then you can hash the resulting object.

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The goal of Islamic terrorism has been to encourage a clash of civilizations and sow chaos in the West. Donald Trump and Europe's far right are giving them their victory.
Readers of the German magazine Der Spiegel were greeted last week by a startling image on the front cover – a cartoon showing Donald Trump holding the severed head of the Statue of Liberty. The allusion was clear, likening the chaos caused by Trump to the chaos caused by the so-called Islamic State (IS), whose beheading videos have spread across the internet like a virus.
The cover caused a great deal of consternation, both within Germany and in the United States, even among those opposed to Trump. The new US president is not a terrorist, and to compare his deeds to that of a member of IS would be grotesque. But to interpret the cartoon so literally misses the point: in a very real way, President Trump is bringing to fruition the goal that Islamic terrorists have been working for, whether he realizes it or not.
It took a long time to get here. It was on September 11, 2001 that many in the West first learned of the aims of Islamic terrorism, at that time personified by Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda.
President George W. Bush offered Americans the vague explanation that they had been attacked because the terrorists "hate our freedoms." Experts, however, offered a more detailed explanation: On a practical level, the attacks were meant to drive the US and its allied secular Middle East regimes out of the Islamic world. But on a wider level, the aim was to provoke a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West, resulting in a great confrontation.
But the Bush administration did not give in to the provocation, at least not in that language. Islam was not the enemy, President Bush repeatedly stressed. Although the Bush administration used the 9/11 attack as justification for the invasion of Iraq, which ended up furthering the aims of Islamist radicals in the Middle East, the conflict never looked like a clash of civilizations.
Flash forward 15 years, and it appears bin Laden has at long last gotten his wish. After a brutal decade of low-scale terrorist attacks and the rise of IS, the new US administration has embraced not only the language, but also the policies that bin Laden hoped to provoke the Bush administration into pursuing so many years ago.
The most prominent such policy is the so-called "Muslim ban," Trump's hastily executed order to ban people from seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The specifics of the ban, and the reasoning behind the selection of these seven countries, are still nebulous. But the message behind it is crystal clear: Muslims are inherently dangerous.
Many have called the ban a "gift to IS." The group, as with Al-Qaeda before it, has long sought to convince Muslims around the world that Western governments hate them. The words of the Bush and Obama administrations seemed to run contrary to that message. Now, Trump is verifying the IS claim.
It isn't only the Muslim ban. The views expressed by Trump's cabinet have been heard clearly throughout the Muslim world.
Last year Mike Flynn, Trump's national security adviser, tweeted: "Fear of Muslims is RATIONAL." He told his followers to forward a video arguing that Islam is not a religion but a cult which is intent on the destruction of the West.
The list of this type of language from the new US administration goes on and on, as exhaustively compiled by Politico late last year.
And the comments continue to be echoed by Europe's rising far right, possibly poised for victories in upcoming elections in France and the Netherlands.
Marine Le Pen, who could become the French president in May's election, has said she wants to enact a Trump-style Muslim ban in France that goes even further. Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party could win the highest number of votes in the Dutch election next month, has declared the Koran a "fascist book". "Islam wants to destroy us, and I want to prevent it," he has told Dutch voters.
Europe is now at a crossroads. It can follow Trump's path of provocation, which seems to be leading to the "clash of civilizations" so desired by Islamic terrorists. Or, Europeans can choose to rebuke those who see no future for peace between the world's major religions.
Despite the message that Islamic extremists have been trying to send, the majority of the world's 1.7 billion Muslims do not see the West as an irreconcilable enemy. Trump's actions may change how those unconvinced people see the US. But if voters in Germany, France, and the Netherlands reject the ideology of conflict in the coming months, they may not see Europeans in the same light.


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Cigarette packets to have standardised packaging
Health warnings will take up more of the packaging surface. PHOTO: MINISTRY OF HEALTH
All tobacco products to have plain packaging, enlarged health warnings
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Cigarette packs and all other tobacco products sold in Singapore must have standardised packaging and enlarged graphic health warnings from July 1 next year, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced in a statement yesterday. The changes will apply to cigarettes, cigarillos, cigars, beedies, ang hoon and other roll-your-own tobacco products.
From next year, the packaging of tobacco products will not be allowed to show logos, colours, images or other promotional information associated with the brand.
Product and brand names will be allowed in a standardised font style and colour.
The minimum size of graphic health warnings depicting the ill effects of smoking, such as gum disease, will be increased to 75 per cent of the packaging surface, up from 50 per cent.
The Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) (Appearance, Packaging and Labelling) Regulations 2019 (SP Regulations) were gazetted yesterday.
MOH first announced the changes - collectively called the SP Measure - on Oct 31 last year. In the statement yesterday, the ministry said it announced the decision after an extensive process of reviewing and evaluating the available international and local studies, research and evidence on the SP Measure, as well as several rounds of public consultations. Similar measures introduced elsewhere were also studied.
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MOH said: "The SP Measure for tobacco products will, in conjunction with other tobacco control measures, contribute to achieving broader tobacco control aims such as discouraging non-smokers from picking up smoking, encouraging smokers to quit and encouraging Singaporeans to adopt a tobacco-free lifestyle, which will ultimately lead to reduced smoking prevalence."
Tobacco products that comply with either the current regulations under the Tobacco (Control of Advertisements and Sale) (Labelling) Regulations 2012 or the SP regulations can be imported, sold or distributed in Singapore in the interim. MOH said the transition period will help tobacco manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers adjust and prepare for the full implementation of the SP Measure.
Those who do not comply after July 1 next year may be liable to a fine of up to $10,000 and a jail term of up to six months, or both.
Those with a prior qualifying conviction will face heavier penalties.
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It's easy to get overwhelmed when you're expecting your first child – there seems to be so much to do and so many things to get ready. Here's our guide to the baby essentials that will really help you through those first few months.
I've always been a fan of lists, so when I was pregnant with my first child I was in my element – I could make lists to my heart's content. There was one list for nursery equipment, another for baby essentials, another for my hospital bag, one detailing meals for the first week home. I could go on.
What I hadn't realised was just how confusing the planning stage can be. Everyone chips in with advice about how many blankets you'll need, whether you should buy a dummy (pacifier), how many nappies (diapers) you'll get through in a day. The lists of all the 'stuff' we had to buy grew in length as my brain became proportionately more muddled with information overload.
So here's a reality check. This isn't an A-Z list of everything you need, but rather a way to simplify things. When you read about the next must-have gadget no new mum can live without, take a deep breath. Remember not everything is a 'need' – some are just 'wants', or 'nice to haves'.
And even if you do find a glaring gap in your baby essentials, it's not the end of the world – the internet, today's shop opening hours and express delivery services mean you won't have to struggle for long.
In the meantime, here's my own pick of must-have items for the first six months, based on my own time served in the new-mum trenches.
It's mandatory to use one of course, but the choice is overwhelming. You can get everything from a basic model to one that cleans up juice spills and converts into your child's first bicycle.
Ok, that might be an exaggeration – but there are so many different options. Some integrate into a whole travel system, while others have modification options that means they'll last until your child is a few years old.
Here's what I found. You want something you can pick up easily during those early months. One in which your child can sleep happily on when you arrive at your destination, rather than being disturbed as you wriggle them out from under the safety straps.
A lovely friend gave me a baby carrier as a gift when my son was born, and I've never thanked her enough for it. Whether you can't put your baby down or simply don't want to, this is perfect for keeping them close while leaving your hands free.
It's also easier than manoeuvring a pram when you're on the top floor of a 14-storey shopping centre car park and for some reason the only way to reach the shops on the ground floor is to switch lifts halfway, climbing a flight of steps and crossing a bridge in the middle. True story.
This one was learned through hard experience. With our first child, we started off with a snazzy 3-in-1 combo – a carrycot that turned into a pram that turned into a pushchair. It was big, heavy, and cumbersome. I hated it.
Then we were introduced to the world of the umbrella stroller…wow. It was lightweight! It didn't take up much room! I could even open and close it with only one hand! It changed my life.
There are different styles depending on age (no, not yours – your child's) so choose one that's suitable and enjoy some relative freedom.
I inherited mine when my grandmother moved house, and it was one of the best things she ever gave me. Nursing pillows are great for their purpose, but one of these is much more versatile.
It helped when I was feeding my kids. It made me more comfortable in those early days when the whole childbirth experience had left me in less than prime physical condition. It supported me at night. As my kids got older and could sit up, it even protected them on either side and behind in case they toppled over. Seriously, they are brilliant.
Just in case nobody's told you, babies leak like nobody's business. They dribble from their mouths, throw up on a regular basis, and there'll be many occasions when even the most industrial-grade nappy will fail to contain the latest explosion.
You might dream of plucking a freshly-laundered muslin square from the pristine pile on the nursery shelf each morning. The reality is, you'll find yourself grabbing frantically at anything close to hand.
You'll need around ten per day, minimum, so do yourself a favour – bulk-buy economy flannels, dishcloths and small towels, and keep one in your pocket and one over your shoulder at all times.
Really, when your baby is small this is pretty much all they need in their wardrobes. They're warm, lightweight, comfortable for your baby and easy to get on and off quickly.
All those colourful, adorable little outfits people buy for new babies are beyond cute, I'm not denying that – but personally, I'd recommend keeping them for special occasions or trips out. For everyday wear during the early months, when your child spends its time eating, sleeping or dribbling, you can't beat a sleepsuit.
If your baby doesn't suffer from colic, you have my congratulations and envy. My son was the most placid baby I've ever met, but he screamed like a banshee for a couple of hours every night. He was inconsolable, in pain, and it was distressing for us.
Then we discovered Infacol. Other brands and formulations are available, so shop around – but this one worked for us and arguably saved my sanity. We never looked back.
Babies run a temperature on a regular basis, and every time you'll wonder whether you should call the doctor, take him or her to the hospital, or give them some infant paracetamol and ride it out. Digital thermometers are wonderful – quick and easy to use, especially if your child is wriggling around. It'll help you decide whether something is seriously wrong.
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You can never have too many pockets to store that eye-watering array of on-the-go baby essentials and, of course, a waterproof version is good. Backpack straps distribute the weight of all those goodies more evenly and help keep you balanced if you're using a baby carrier or pushing a buggy. Throw in a portable changing mat, and you're good to go.


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If we want our children to mature into godly men and women, then we must lead by example.
Our desire as Christian parents is to help our children mature into godly men and women. We want them to believe the Father has a plan for their lives and they're accountable to Him.
I remember teaching my children from a young age about these important truths. I wanted biblical principles to shape their thinking, their choices, and their hearts. After explaining about God's will, I told them they were accountable to the Lord for their behavior—as well as to their mother and me. If kids believe they are accountable only to their parents, then when apart from Mom and Dad, they're likely to think they don't have to answer to anyone.
My children didn't always agree with my decisions, so I taught them to speak to their heavenly Father about it. Over time, they developed the habit of talking with Him. This training became very important in their teenage years. Instead of giving a quick no to some of their requests, I said, "Find out what God wants you to do. Whatever you two agree on, I will accept." I knew this was risky, but I had to trust the Lord and give my children the opportunity to practice what I'd been teaching them throughout their lives—that they're accountable to the Father.
Training in godliness begins before children establish a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. We continue the process by demonstrating righteousness all through life. Children need to know about the Lord's plan for them and their accountability to Him. When we model uprightness, our kids can grow up accountable to a loving Father.


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Victory in tonight's game against the hosts will secure England a place in the semis of the Euro U21 tournament for the first time in four attempts.
In an age of data and video analysis, Boothroyd revealed that an old-fashioned game will be prominent in his half-time routine.
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Q: Probability of picking 6 cards of the same suit and colour I have recently been studying probability by working through a textbook however some of the steps outlined dont entirely make sense to me.
The question: "Six cards are dealt from a well shuffled deck of cards, if all six cards dealt are black what is the probability of all six being from the same suit".
So far I understand that in the deck there are 26 cards black and 26 red and ask such I would expect:
$$nCr = 2 \cdot 13C6 $$
This part I understand as it should result in 6 combinations from 26 cards. The next 2 steps confuses me:
$$2 \cdot \frac{13C6}{52C6}$$
1. Whilst I understand that it is 2*13 cards with six combinations, i do not understand why you must divide by the number of combinations possible in the entire deck....
The next step i also cannot follow:
$$2 \cdot \frac{13C6 }{52C6} \cdot  \frac{52C6 }{26C6}  $$
2. Why must the result of finding the number of combinations of black cards / number of combinations in the entire deck be multiplied by the number of cominbations possible again divided by all combinations of black cards?
Whilst I can understand the pattern and re-use it Im struggling with the logic of why it is done.

A: If $A=\{\text{all six being from the same suit}\}$ and $B=\{\text{all six cards dealt are black}\}$, then you need to calculate conditional probability
$$\tag{1}\label{1}
\mathbb P(A\mid B)=\dfrac{\mathbb P(A\cap B)}{\mathbb P(B)}.
$$
The right hand side is the definition of conditional probability.
To calculate $\mathbb P(B)$, one should divide the number of combinations of six black cards $\binom{26}{6}$ to the number of all possible conbinations of six cards from the whole deck $\binom{52}{6}$:
$$\mathbb P(B)=\dfrac{\binom{26}{6}}{\binom{52}{6}}.$$
The event $A\cap B$ means that six cards are black and have the same suit. There are two possibilities to have the same suit: six cards from clubs or spades. Both cases have $\binom{13}{6}$ combinations. Probability of $A\cap B$ is then the ratio
$$
\mathbb P(A\cap B)=\dfrac{\binom{13}{6}+\binom{13}{6}}{\binom{52}{6}}.
$$
And substitute both $\mathbb P(A\cap B)$ and $\mathbb P(B)$ into (\ref{1}), get the solution that you found in a textbook.
You see from this solution that the desired probability can be obtained simply as a ratio of total number of combinations of six cards from clubs or spades and the number of combinations of six black cards:
$$
\mathbb P(A\mid B) = \dfrac{2\binom{13}{6}}{\binom{26}{6}}.
$$

A: The question can be rephrased as: what is the probability that all six cards are the same suit, given that they're all black.
Let $S$ be the event that all the cards are the same suit, and $B$ be the event that they're all black. Provided that $P(B) > 0$, we have
$$P(S \mid B) = \frac{P(B \mid S)P(S)}{P(B)}.$$
If all of the cards are the same suit, they're either all red or all black (each case equally likely), so $P(B \mid S)$ is just $1/2$.
The probability that they're all the same suit is (the number of same-suited hands) divided by (the number of total hands possible), or
$$\frac{4\binom{13}{6}}{\binom{52}{6}}.$$
The probability that all six cards are black is (the number of all-black hands) divided by (the number of total hands possible), or
$$\frac{\binom{26}{6}}{\binom{52}{6}}.$$
Putting these facts together, we have
$$P(S \mid B) = \left(\frac{1}{2}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{4\binom{13}{6}}{\binom{52}{6}}\right) \cdot \left(\frac{\binom{52}{6}}{\binom{26}{6}}\right),$$
which simplifies to the answer you mentioned.


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Cannabis commission backs giving minority groups exclusive access to delivery licenses in Massachusetts
Updated Apr 29, 2019; Posted Apr 29, 2019
(AP Photo/Noah Berger, File)AP
By Boston Business Journal
Massachusetts cannabis regulators gave initial support to providing minority groups with at least two years of exclusivity on marijuana delivery licenses.
At a hearing on Friday, the Cannabis Control Commission voted 4-1 to adopt proposed regulations overseeing the new license type.
As part of the policy, the commission said it will restrict delivery licenses to economic empowerment applicants who have been certified by the state as hailing from an area harmed by drug prosecutions, or people who are going through the state's social equity program, which seeks to provide training to small marijuana businesses with a focus on people disproportionately affected by the U.S. war on drugs.
Commissioner Jennifer Flanagan, who was the lone vote against the policy, cited public safety concerns surrounding the delivery of marijuana.
The proposed policy will be formatted into a draft regulation that will go through a public comment period before a final commission vote later this year.
The two-year exclusivity won't go into effect right away, commissioners said, but would likely commence after the social equity program was well underway. Commissioners would also reevaluate the exclusivity at the end of the 24 months to decide if it should open the licenses to all applicants or continue for only minority groups for a longer period of time.
"I have a concern that if we do a flat 24 months that people aren't able to get it done," said Commissioner Kay Doyle.
The license offered will be for delivery only, and will require that drivers return any undelivered product to the marijuana shop or dispensary at the end of the day. Transportation companies will be allowed to deliver product purchased from multiple shops and dispensaries.
Commissioners said they would review delivery contracts to ensure dispensaries and shops contracting with delivery companies won't be able to control the delivery companies.
Commissioners also voted to limit deliveries: Delivery would be available only to people who live in towns where marijuana delivery companies are licensed, or live in towns that allow retail marijuana establishments. "It accounts for the existence of bans that continue to be in place in Massachusetts and keeps into consideration that other jurisdictions that allow delivery," Commissioner Britte McBride said, noting that 24 cities in California have already filed a lawsuit against regional delivery policies in that state.
Transportation licenses have drawn intense interest as a potential way to broaden diversity in the marijuana industry, given the low capital requirements necessary for a license. Commission Chairman Steven Hoffman said he received over 3,000 emails on the topic.
But under the regulations debated Friday, the licenses won't come without costs. Applicants will have to acquire a commercial vehicle, have multiple lock boxes for product and money, have delivery agents wear body cameras, have two individuals in a vehicle at a time, have GPS monitoring, and have commercial vehicle insurance.
Commissioner Shaleen Title voted against several of the conditions, including the requirement of a commercial vehicle, needing two individuals in a vehicle, and body cameras. "I'd never support (body cameras)," Title said. "When a person is in their home, they have a right to privacy."
Title recommended the state undertake a calculation of what it would cost an applicant for such a license.
This article was originally published by the Boston Business Journal.


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Q: Reducing MathJax size I'd like to use MathJax on my website, which has a limited webspace and should not have cross-site requests (privacy, load times). But the whole MathJax tool is 50+ MB. Do I really need everything from it? I already deleted docs and test because this is not needed on the server, but they were only some KB.
What parts of the whole MathJax toolset do I really need to have it work? I assume I can also delete the unpacked folder (15+ MB)? What else do I not need to save space? What are the essentials to have MathJax run?

A: Here's a comprehensive guide from their documentation:
https://github.com/mathjax/MathJax-docs/wiki/Guide%3A-reducing-size-of-a-mathjax-installation
They end up with a 1.7MB library size, 700KB after GZIP compression. Of course the amount you'll be able to trim out depends on your specific project requirements.


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Whose Hype are You Going to Believe?: How Not to Evaluate the ISIL Threat to the U.S.
African Union Mission in Somalia, Al Shabaab, Iraq, ISIL, Somalia, Syria
On Friday, Peter Bergen and David Sterman wrote an article for CNN Opinion entitled, "ISIS Threat to U.S. Mostly Hype." (Bergen is also CNN's national security analyst.) The authors correctly show that U.S. officials have at times inflated the threat that ISIL poses to the American homeland. Defense Secretary Hagel, for example, exaggerated the number of Americans fighting with ISIL (he said 100), which the Pentagon soon corrected (100 is the total of Americans fighting for any of the groups in Syria). But Bergen and Sterman also make a major misstep where they expend most of their analytic attention: They tell their readers not to worry as much about the threat of Americans fighting with ISIL, because several more Americans fought with Al-Shabaab in Somalia since 2006 and never carried out a terrorist attack on the US homeland.
The comparison with Al-Shabaab is fundamentally flawed. [See my debate on Twitter with Peter Singer on this topic.]
Why is the comparison with Al-Shabaab a false one? In this post, I discuss four factors.
(1) ISIL as a unified organization has openly vowed to attack the United States;
(2) ISIL has engaged in targeted killing of Americans;
(3) The United States is directly in armed conflict with ISIL;
(4) ISIL's revenue stream is greater than any other terrorist group in the world.
Each of these factors is obviously critical to evaluating the ISIL threat, including the threat posed by Americans joining them in the fight. Bergen and Sterman do not discuss any of these factors. Yet none of these factors are the same for Al-Shabaab over the years that Americans joined that organization.
(Note: Bergen and Sterman analyze only American citizens joining ISIL, and do not also include Europeans who can enter the United States without a visa.)
Before getting into a bit more detail, it's important to note that analysis of the ISIL threat to the United States can cut in different directions in terms of its policy implications. On the one hand, if the threat to the U.S. from Americans joining ISIL is low-grade it undermines the administration's justification for continuing and expanding operations against ISIL in Iraq or launching into Syria. On the other hand, if the threat to the U.S. from Americans joining ISIL is high—e.g., due to blowback for our taking the fight to ISIL—that's a reason to consider minimizing or retracting U.S. military operations. The important point is not to let one's preferred policy outcomes pollute the empirical analysis. Conclusions about the threat of Americans joining ISIL cuts both ways.
Let's turn to the four factors—and the considerable differences between ISIL and Al-Shabaab.
1. ISIL vows to attack the United States and target Americans
On August 19, 2014, ISIL reportedly "warned the United States it will attack Americans 'in any place' if the raids hit its militants" (Reuters). The statement accompanied a video of an American beheaded during the US occupation of Iraq (more below on ISIL's predecessor, Al Qaeda in Iraq, carrying out such beheadings of Americans). The statement also read: "we will drown you all in blood."
In an interview with VICE Media before US airstrikes began, ISIL's Press Officer said, "I say to America, that the Islamic Caliphate has been established. And we will not stop. Don't be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq. We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House." (Caution: Other media outlets have exaggerated that statement by excluding the reference to American ground troops, which might make it a conditional threat.)
In its final email sent before killing Jamey's Foley, ISIL said (emphasis in original):
"We have left you alone since your disgraceful defeat in Iraq. We did not interfere in your country or attack your citizens while they were safe in their homes despite our capability to do so!
Today our swords are unsheathed towards you, GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENS ALIKE! AND WE WILL NOT STOP UNTILL WE QUENCH OUR THIRST FOR YOUR BLOOD.
You do not spare our weak, elderly, women or children so we will NOT spare yours!
You and your citizens will pay the price of your bombings!"
These statements should be understood in the context of earlier ones by ISIL leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, after he assumed leadership of the group in 2010 when it was under the name "Al Qaeda in Iraq" (AQI). In 2012, Baghdadi stated his intent to attack inside the United States: "Soon you will witness them in the heart of your homeland, as our war with you has just begun, and so await them." And this: "The Mujahideen have departed to pursue your fleeing army, and they have sworn to make you face more severe punishments than those dealt to you by Osama (bin Laden)."
At that time (July 2012), the LA Times (Brian Bennett) reported, that "the militant organization that was once the scourge of the U.S. military campaign in Iraq … has set its sights on launching attacks in the United States, intelligence officials said. … several associates of the group have been arrested in the U.S. and Canada in the last two years, said American officials, a sign that the organization has tried to establish a network in North America."
Admittedly, the AQI period was context dependent. That is, AQI's threat to Americans involved a response to US forces inside Iraq. And, similarly the more recent statements by ISIL were also in reaction to the U.S. military fighting inside Iraq. But that's part of the point. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. Any reasonable threat assessment of ISIL needs to take into account current conditions, in which the US has engaged them directly in the fight (see also #3 below).
How does this compare to Al-Shabab? The group, including parts of its leadership, have long been divided over whether to direct hostilities toward the United States and the West. And, indeed, the leadership was far less inclined to take any fight to Americans at the time US citizens started joining Al-Shabaab (see this synopsis of revelations in Dan Klaidman's book).
2. ISIL attacks on Americans
This factor is most obvious. ISIL has recently killed two American journalists. In another piece for CNN last month, Bergen and Sterman acknowledged that "ISIS' predecessor, al Qaeda in Iraq … did bomb three American hotels in Jordan in 2005." AQI also beheaded other Americans in Iraq during that period.
What about Al-Shabaab? There are no comparable cases of attacking American targets.
3. The United States is in armed conflict with ISIL
The United States is now engaged directly in an armed conflict with ISIL, having launched well over 130 airstrikes. In contrast, the administration has very carefully avoided engaging directly in a conflict with Al-Shabaab. We have targeted only those members with a dual membership in AQ central. I discuss this distinction in a post–"Targeting Al-Shabaab's Godane is not the same as targeting Al-Shabaab"–which also summarizes posts by other Just Security editors and recent testimony by the Defense Department's General Counsel. Indeed, the administration has never publicly claimed legal authority to fight Al-Shabaab.
The US policy and legal decision to avoid attacking Al-Shabaab directly has meant that US forces have not gone after infrastructure or weaponry, command and control centers, foot soldiers, and the like. Other governments and institutions—such as Kenya and the African Union (backed up by the UN Security Council)—are more the face of the conflict with Al-Shabaab. The United States has simply not taken the fight to Al-Shabaab in anything that compares, in law or policy, to the direct armed conflict in which we are engaged with ISIL.
In short: right now, what you're seeing with ISIL – that's what it looks like when the U.S. engages in an armed conflict and is going after a group. This is a difference in kind as well as magnitude.
Admittedly the U.S. targeting of AQ members in Somalia over the past several years (see the Long War Journal's list of strikes) has been sporadic but, indeed, significant. Those occurrences, however, also show the lines that we have not crossed. And those lines make a considerable difference when it comes to threats assessments of blowback.
4. ISIL's revenue stream is greater than any other terrorist group in the world
Finally, any analysis of the threat of Americans (and Europeans) joining ISIL compared to Al-Shabaab surely should take into account the material resources of the two organizations. According to all reports ISIL is the most highly funded terrorist organization in the world, reaping several million dollars from oil revenues alone each week. To be sure, Al-Shabaab has ranked highly in the past among the world's most well-funded terrorist outfits. But the ability of ISIL to project force against US targets is surely far stronger than Al-Shabaab's along this dimension.
One might support or oppose expansive US military operations against ISIL. Regardless of that position, it is best to reach the conclusion with a realistic assessment of the empirics of the ISIL threat. (I have, for example, previously drawn attention to perspectives that suggest US and UK officials have exaggerated the ISIL threat.) I appreciate Bergen and Sterman's suggesting ways to analyze the risk. Their comparison to Al-Shabaab, however, can help us identify the true scope of the ISIL threat only when these other factors are admitted into the equation.
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Julie Mack Trio at Beth El Gala
Saturday, January 7 @ 7:00PM — 10:00PM Sat, Jan 7 @ 7:00PM — 10:00PM
Congregation Beth El, Bethesda, MD
Julie Mack Trio adds the jazz to Beth El's annual Gala, this year celebrating its 70th Anniversary!
Julie Mack & Encantada at Marx Cafe
Friday, December 30, 2022 @ 10:00PM — Saturday, December 31, 2022 @ 12:00AM Fri, Dec 30, 2022 @ 10:00PM — Sat, Dec 31, 2022 @ 12:00AM
Marx Cafe, 3203 Mt Pleasant St NW, Washington, DC
Encantada Trio brings Brazilian jazz vibes to Marx Cafe, for a great hang the night before New Year's Eve!
Julie Mack Duo - Private Event
Saturday, December 3, 2022 @ 6:30PM Sat, Dec 3, 2022 @ 6:30PM
Julie Mack Quartet at Mr. Henry's
Thursday, December 1, 2022 @ 7:30PM — 10:30PM Thu, Dec 1, 2022 @ 7:30PM — 10:30PM
Mr. Henry's, 601 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC
Julie returns to the iconic Mr. Henry's on Capitol Hill to headline a barn-burning show with featured guest vocalist Tibyron Quinn! $15 cover and food/drink. With Harry Appelman (p), David Jernigan (b) and Angel Bethea (d).
Tribute to the Beatles
Mr. Henry's, 601 Pennsylvania Ave, SE, Washington, DC 20003
Private Event: Julie Mack & Encantada
Friday, May 27, 2022 @ 7:00PM Fri, May 27, 2022 @ 7:00PM
Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
Julie Mack & Encantada play for a private event outdoors at a Capitol Hill home
The Music of Burt Bachrach
Thursday, May 12, 2022 @ 7:00PM Thu, May 12, 2022 @ 7:00PM
Julie Mack & Encantada at Rockville Arts Festival
Sunday, May 8, 2022 @ 12:30PM — 2:30PM Sun, May 8, 2022 @ 12:30PM — 2:30PM
Rockville Town Center, Rockville, MD
Julie Mack & Encantada returns to the Rockville Arts Festival! Visit and shop at the artists' booths, enjoy delicious food and samba to Brazilian & U.S. jazz with Encantada.
Julie Mack & Geovane Santos Duo
Saturday, April 2, 2022 @ 6:00PM — 9:00PM (CDT, UTC-05) Sat, Apr 2, 2022 @ 6:00PM — 9:00PM (CDT, UTC-05)
Live Oak Cafe, 8140 Oak St., New Orleans, LA
Brazilian jazz duo with guitarist Geovane Santos for dinner, in New Orleans!
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 Tue, Mar 15, 2022
Heading to Blue House Productions in Silver Spring to begin recording my second jazz & Brazilian CD with my quintet!
Tribute to Backstreet Studios
Saturday, March 5, 2022 @ 7:30PM (EST, UTC-05) Sat, Mar 5, 2022 @ 7:30PM (EST, UTC-05)
Singing with other amazing jazz recording artists who've made albums at Wayne Wilentz's Backstreet Studios! With Wayne Wilentz Trio.
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Julie Mack with Rob Patrick & Band
Saturday, February 5, 2022 @ 7:00PM — Saturday, February 26, 2022 @ 11:00PM Sat, Feb 5, 2022 @ 7:00PM — Sat, Feb 26, 2022 @ 11:00PM
Normandie Farm, 10710 Falls Road, Potomac, MD
Julie sings as featured guest vocalist at singer Rob Patrick's show at Margery's Lounge, Normandie Farm Restaurant, Potomac. With Wade Beach (piano), David Jernigan (bass), Fred Goodman (sax) and Alan Dale (drums).
Recording session - Anders Lundegard Project
Thursday, February 3, 2022 Thu, Feb 3, 2022
Backstreet Studios
All day recording session at Backstreet Studios to provide vocals for Anders Lundegard's jazz compositions
Christmas Dinner Jazz Trio
Saturday, December 25, 2021 @ 6:00PM — 9:00PM Sat, Dec 25, 2021 @ 6:00PM — 9:00PM
Bourbon Boulevard, Chantilly, VA
Singing with Eugenio Ibarz (bass) & Alejandro Villareal (guitar) for Christmas Dinner at this restaurant serving steak and more in Chantilly.
Christmas Eve Jazz Trio
Friday, December 24, 2021 @ 6:00PM — 9:00PM Fri, Dec 24, 2021 @ 6:00PM — 9:00PM
Singing with Eugenio Ibarz (bass) and Alejandro Villareal (guitar) for Christmas Eve dinner at this restaurant serving steak and more in Chantilly
Sunday, December 5, 2021 @ 6:00PM Sun, Dec 5, 2021 @ 6:00PM
Hummingbird Inn, 14 N. Aurora Street, Easton, MD
Julie Mack / David Jernigan Duo performs seasonal jazz favorites in beautiful Easton, to benefit the Talbot Interfaith Shelter
Julie Mack Trio - Private Event
Sunday, October 24, 2021 @ 4:00PM Sun, Oct 24, 2021 @ 4:00PM
"After Ate" Jazz - featured vocalist with Anders Lundegard Group
Friday, October 22, 2021 @ 8:00PM Fri, Oct 22, 2021 @ 8:00PM
The Lyceum, Alexandria, VA
Featured vocalist with Anders Lundegard (saxophone) and an amazing band (Wayne Wilentz, piano, Jon Steele, bass), singing U.S. & Brazilian jazz standards & Anders' originals onstage at the beautiful, historic Lyceum in Old Town.
Julie's "Dream"-Themed Listening Hour
Thursday, October 14, 2021 @ 12:30PM Thu, Oct 14, 2021 @ 12:30PM
My inner DJ and scholar emerges as I curate a listening hour of an eclectic range of music and text loosely emanating from the theme of "dreams" -- for Ayelet Rose Gottlieb's Orchard of Pomegranates Patreon group.
PorchFest Adams-Morgan
Saturday, October 2, 2021 @ 2:00PM Sat, Oct 2, 2021 @ 2:00PM
Mintwood Place, Washington, DC
Bossa nova with David Rosenblatt on guitar at the wonderful restaurant Mintwood Place for PorchFest, in the heart of Adams-Morgan!
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Startups	• 29 Jan 2015
Belyve will make you a sexy website for R1000 a pop
By Jacques Coetzee: Staff Reporter
Read nextAre seesaws and bean bags really Standard Bank's answer to innovation?
Like most startups, Belyve was born out of a frustration of the status quo. Its creator Kolobe Kgwathla started making websites in order to afford his school fees while studying law.
"I studied law but had a strong passion for software development and design. I soon realised that there was a major opportunity worth taking, and ended up first doing freelance web development before setting out to start Belyve," he says.
"The business took off but I still felt that even though websites were a need, they are usually not as accessible to the general public because of the costs," Kgwathla tells us.
Now, the company creates an average of about 30 new websites a month. Most of them are for local businesses but a lot of Belyve's clients are also from Angola and Nigeria. It currently has three permanent staff members together with the odd few interns every now and then.
Kgwathla explains that he wanted to come up with a web building model that simplified the process and made it accessible to virtually anyone running or starting a business.
"Unlike web development agencies and freelancers, Belyve's novel production line ensures the best website for your business to be live within 42 hours at fraction of the cost," Kgwathla promises.
The model thus works as follows: customers pick a website that fits their agenda, fill in a form, process payment, and your responsive site will be live within the next two days. The process will put back R1 000. And if you're keen to have your domain hosted, Belyve will charge you an extra base fee of R115 per year.
As you'll find at your local furniture or hardware store, the site features an array of swatches, each representing a unique template from Corporate, Startup, Freelance to Medical, Architecture and Events. This is very appealing for the eye and speaks to your non-techie in a way that won't necessary scare you off.
Building websites is difficult. It takes time, money and skills. Perhaps more importantly is the fact that the process is foreign to people. "There is a gap however in that for most businesses, especially startups, a website can be one of the biggest expenses," he explains.
Kgwathla goes on, arguing that the entry level to getting your personal site is far too difficult. "These studios and freelancers are likely to charge much more and take much longer to deliver. Drag and drop site builders are good too, but that also means the consumer needs to end up investing a few of their own hours into figuring out the platform and building a proper site," he says.
"A lot of small business and entrepreneurs know the importance of having a website for their business," he says. Some examples include Hawk Media's page which is a retail radio network in Uganda, and Fizio — a money transfer service based in Cape Town.
The company notes that its biggest challenge has been changing people's perception about the costs and complexities associated with building a new site:
In this age, one of the primary needs for any business is a website. The website is the first thing that people see about your business. Belyve wants to change the world by bringing the best websites to the masses, enabling entrepreneurs from anywhere in the world to build other parts of their business while they have a dedicated team at Belyve that takes care of all their web needs.
Some of its competitors include US web design giant Wix.com and possibly local players such as MyVigo and WooThemes.
Belyve's model allows it to expand around the globe regardless of its operating headquarters, but it plans to corner the South African and greater regional market. After that: Asia.
Jacques Coetzee: Staff Reporter
Jacques grew up in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He also studied International Relations (BA) at Stellenbosch University with an interest in innovation and initiatives and how they could contribute to the benefit of society. I have always been interested in both politics and development and started becoming more and more intrigued with how technological development could contribute to society. He loves arts and more specifically the art of writing. His interests in writing and journalism grew more over the last few years with a keen focus on current trends in technological innovation and social development. He is currently teaching English as a second language in South Korea and looking to further his interests and education in writing
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Two bulldog puppies with spina bifida received a stem cell treatment at UC Davis in California meaning they can now run, walk and play.
The puppy siblings Darla and Spanky were treated with a therapy developed to help preserve lower-limb function in children with spina bifida, according to a UC Davis news release.
The puppies were transported from Southern California Bulldog Rescue to the UC Davis Veterinary hospital when they were 10 weeks old because spina bifida made it impossible for them to control their back-ends.
Spina bifida occurs when spinal tissue improperly fuses in utero causing cognitive, mobility, urinary and bowel disabilities.
Approximately 1,500 to 2,000 children in the U.S. are born with the condition each year.
Dogs with the birth defect are typically euthanized as puppies because they have little control of their hindquarters.
An adorable video shows Darla and Spanky showing off their ability to walk, run and play after their post-surgery checkup at four months old.
They were the first dogs to receive the treatment, this time using canine instead of human placenta-derived cells.
'The initial results of the surgery are promising, as far as hind limb control,' veterinary neurosurgeon Beverly Sturges said in the release.


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Oireachtas committee reiterates call to introduce sunset clause on losses
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AIB is one of the institutions that could fare the worst if the PAC's plans for a sunset clause on losses is introduced. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times
Encouraging domestic and EU ownership of Irish property is among an Oireachtas committee's suggestions for dealing with the "unacceptable level of risk" the Irish economy is bearing in relation to corporation tax receipts.
The Public Accounts Committee has also proposed restricting losses that can be carried forward for tax purposes and analysing the scale of double taxation relief. The recommendations are contained in a report that followed a review carried out by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) of the factors contributing to the volatile and highly concentrated nature of corporation tax receipts.
PAC chairman, Seán Fleming, said the report draws attention "to the highly concentrated nature of corporation tax receipts".
"The PAC finds that this represents an unacceptable level of risk to the sustainability of the corporation tax regime and calls on the Department of Finance to carry out a review of the corporation tax system and bring forward proposals to address the risks associated with its highly concentrated nature," Mr Fleming said.
The State's corporation tax revenues are heavily dependent on a small number of large companies: in 2016 for example, 37 per cent of receipts were paid by the top 10 taxpayers, while 70 per cent of receipts were paid by the top 100 taxpayers. Moreover, effective tax rates can be low. Thirteen out of the 100 companies with the highest taxable income, for example, had an effective tax rate of less than 1 per cent due to the use of tax credits and reliefs such as double taxation relief. A recent report from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council found that the departure of one large Irish multinational could cut tax revenues by about €276 million a year.
To counter this concentration risk, the committee made a number of recommendations, including getting a breakdown on losses carried forward by companies.
While it is understood that some €214 billion in losses were carried forward at end-2016, Revenue was unable to give a breakdown on the proportion of actual trading losses and unused capital allowances.
The financial and insurance sector accounted for the largest proportion of losses carried forward in 2015, at more than 50 per cent of the total, with some €124 billion. It was followed by administration and support services (€38 billion) and IT (€10.5 billion).
As such, the PAC wants Revenue to carry out an age analysis and put in place procedures to analyse losses carried forward in order to identify those relating to trading losses and those relating to unused capital allowances.
As previously suggested, the committee also wants the department to consider the introduction of a 10-year time limit or sunset clause and/or other restrictions in respect of losses carried forward.
"The introduction of some restrictions on losses forward would have the effect of increasing corporation tax receipts on an annual basis," Mr Fleming said.
Such a move would follow some international trends; Canada has introduced a 20-year limit, while the Netherlands has a nine-year limit and Switzerland a seven-year limit.
It is understood that the introduction of such a clause could hit State-controlled AIB and Permanent TSB the hardest, but the committee accepts this, noting that such a clause "could reduce the value of the State's investment in certain institutions".
The committee also wants a detailed analysis of double taxation relief, which reduced corporation tax receipts by €948 million in 2015.
"The Department of Finance should ensure mechanisms are in place to verify any claims for double taxation relief made in Ireland by companies that are non-resident in Ireland," Mr Fleming said.
The research and development tax credit, which allows companies, typically multinationals, to reduce their tax bills, was also looked at, with the cost of the credit to the exchequer increasing by 171 per cent in the five years to 2015, while the number of claimants increased by 46 per cent. The cost of the R&D tax credit in 2016 was €674 million.
The PAC also raised concerns that the high percentage of Irish property now owned by non-Irish and non-EU institutions, who came into Ireland and acquired property after the crash, "poses a risk to Ireland's tax base". As such, it wants the department to carry out a review of the Real Estate Investment Trust (Reit) regime to "ensure that domestic and EU ownership is being encouraged appropriately".
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Grab a cup of coffee at the coffee bar. This prominent bar is designed to look like a shipping container as Seattle is a port city.
For lunch, stop by the Pike Place Market – or if you don't want to take the 20-minute walk, the lunchroom themed like the famous market.
Get work done in one of the communal workspaces, conference rooms, or at your desk (next four pictures).
Stop by the beercade to play a game or two during your break.
Once the day is done, relax by taking in a view of from the rooftop patio.
Enjoy the Seattle office tour? Go vote for Qualtrics as the GeekWire Geekiest Office Space using this link.
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Despite confidence having hit rock bottom, Spain midfielder Cesc Fabregas says that the Spain national team are very confident about bringing the European Championship trophy back home for a third consecutive time.
Spain have won the Euros for the last two times and they were regarded as a major dominant force in world football before the World Cup 2014. The World Cup in Brazil, though, destroyed the confidence of the Spanish national team. It was not the same team that had dominated the three major tournaments that preceded the World Cup 2014.
The influx of new players like Diego Costa did not work as planned. It has left the national team with severe low confidence for the first time in almost a decade. It appears that the national team are going through the same syndrome that they suffered for several decades before ending the trophy drought with the Euro 2008. Fabregas says that there is a good feeling within the camp and he is confident of achieving success. Even though the national team suffered a disappointing loss against Georgia only a few days ago, Fabregas says that the team has not played a lot of significance on the result as it was nearly a game to improve the fitness just ahead of the tournament.
"There's a good feeling in the camp. I see everyone with a lot of hunger and will to do something big. Between all of us, we need to take a step forward and bring the cup where it belongs for a third straight time.I don't see a clear favourite but I don't give importance to that.It doesn't matter if we are favourites. We have to face the games with the maximum seriousness because everyone wants to beat Spain. We have to give our best," said Fabregas.