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Strange as it may seem, this article is not about miniature wargaming… exactly.
Sometimes, it makes sense to cast an eye on what's going on in the counter-and-gameboard world, to see if something can be adapted for miniature wargaming or just inspire something new on our tabletops.
Back in 2016, TMP ran an announcement from Wargame Vault about a new sci-fi boardgame:
In a post-nuke irradiated hellscape, mechanized warfare evolves into its ultimate form: nuclear-powered Armored Flying Vehicles. Now, split-second death-duels are fought in the skies over the wastes of North America: from bootleggers to mercenaries, imperial armies to rock 'n' roll warlords, they all want their piece of the pie called Mega-Detroit.
Now, if you've seen my musings on the forum, I've got a number of hovertanks and gravtanks hanging around on my unpainted pile, waiting for me to get some inspiration on exactly what to do with them. This game, with 'super' tanks fighting on a scale where mountain ranges are terrain features, intrigued me, so I bought it, downloaded it, printed it out, cut out the cards, and assembled the counters!
Seeing the printed-out 11"x 17" game map reminded me how constricting boardgames feel compare to miniature games! On the other hand, I realized the square grid could be easily upscaled to larger hexes and a full tabletop.
Floating above the post-nuke ruins and the new industrial Megalopolises, Hover Tanks aren't seriously impeded by the Terrain below them.
– rules, page 7
The only terrain that matters are what the rules call ridges, as they block line of fire. Craters are just there for "flavor." The cities have significance in certain scenarios.
The counters provide ten different vehicles, in both red and blue colors. (According to the background, all factions buy their vehicles from the same arms dealer.) When a vehicle is damaged, its counter can be flipped over to its 'damaged' side.
Facing matters, which means you can get counters 'upside down' to their player (a minor complaint).
Play is card-driven. Each player starts the game with a random deck of Action Cards, and draws four cards for his hand. Players alternate turns, with each turn consisting of activating a tank (to move, fire, move and fire, or go on overwatch), playing an Action Card (which may allow activating additional tanks, or trigger reinforcements), and drawing a new Action Card to his hand.
Heavy tanks can only move straight ahead; lighter tanks can also move diagonal-ahead. Light tanks can turn at no cost, but heavier tanks must use up movement points to turn. As a player moves a tank, he also moves a marker to track how many movement points it has left that turn; movement can be interrupted by firing or being fired upon. Some tanks have a required minimum movement if activated.
When a player has activated a tank, it can fire at any point before, during or after movement with all of its weapons. Weapons have no range limit, but can only fire straight ahead. When targeted, lighter tanks can react by changing their facing; heavier tanks cannot. When combat is resolved, what matters is the type of weapon being used, the defender's armor class, and the defender's facing. A die is rolled, and the result is either a miss, target damaged (flipped to damaged side if not already damaged), or target destroyed. Some weapons can be fired in suppressive mode, which improves the chance to hit but negates the chance of destroying the target. Certain weapon types may result in targets exploding or being immobilized, or may cause the firing tank to recoil; or may get a firing bonus; or may suffer critical failures. A card is drawn from the Kerplow deck to resolve catastrophic damage.
Ramming is also an option, and may occur deliberately, or due to recoil from firing a heavy weapon, or due to being pushed after a previous collision!
Ten scenarios are provided, specifying the forces at start, possible reinforcements, victory conditions, the "empty deck effect" (special rules once either player is out of Action Cards), and any scenario-specific rules.
For our trial game, we played the first scenario – Stuck in the Middle with Ewe – which involves smuggling mutton into Mega-Detroit.
The game play is fast and furious. Ramming was surprisingly useful (and fun!), and several times led to additional collisions… and it wasn't always the smaller tank that suffered the most.
To win this scenario, the smuggling player must make between three and five deliveries to Mega-Detroit. The problem we ran into is that the rules don't specify if a tank can only make one delivery per game, or if the same tank can make deliveries on multiple turns (i.e., how many 'deliveries' does a tank carry?). We decided to limit each tank to one delivery per game, which resulted in the smuggling player losing the game due to bad cards (he never got his reinforcements, so he couldn't make enough deliveries).
Was it a fun game? Yes, except for the ending (which was maybe our fault). What I didn't like was how grid-centric the game was; the way that movement and combat is constrained by the grid makes an interesting game, but also a game that feels abstract and 'gamey'. Collisions are fun, but also are a bit silly, and again emphasize the griddedness of gameplay.
Could the game be converted for play with miniatures? Easily, if you have a gridded tabletop. The only terrain you really need are the ridges (easily made); the cities could just be flat overlays, and the craters don't matter. Since the rules do not allow counters to be stacked, substituting models (from a variety of manufacturers) wouldn't be a problem.
However, while I enjoyed the game, this isn't the hover tank game that I'm searching for; my quest will continue…
As I was writing this article, I noted that this game is not currently available from Wargame Vault, and I don't see it listed on the publisher's website either.
And I know you're wondering… why is Detroit north of Ontario? It's because Mega-Detroit was built where the survivors 'think' Detroit used to be; and New Ontario is an aggressive colonization move by the Canadians.

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Shipment of Arms to Accused Rebeccaite is Intercepted
From the 5 August 1843 Monmouthshire Merlin :
Rebeccaism.
(From our own Reporter.)
Swansea, August 1, 1843 . The town presents a most animated appearance: the usually quiet inhabitants are all on the qui vive: gay military uniforms enliven the streets; grave officials from Downing street are seen chatting in little clusters; the inns are all crowded; bold Dragoons are going round with their billets, and the enlivening military bugle is heard at intervals. Another troop of the 4th Dragoons have arrived, and are to remain for some time. A force of artillery is hourly expected; and indeed, the report is credited in well-informed circles, that ere long there will be nearly a thousand soldiers in Carmarthenshire and Glamorganshire. The service is not uninteresting or unexciting in these picturesque districts at present; but when winter comes on, if Rebecca do not go off her evil ways, it will be worse than private-still hunting in Ireland.
Mr. Maule, solicitor to the Treasury, and his assistant, are at the Mackworth Arms: he is without Jock Campbell this time, who did the Crown business with him in 1839 , at Monmouth.
A meeting of the magistrates has this evening taken place at the Mackworth Arms, at which were present, Mr. Talbot, M.P., Mr. L.W. Dillwyn, Mr. Dl. Llewelyn, Mr. Vivian, M.P., Dr. Hewson, Mr. T.E. Thomas, Mr. John Grove, Rev. J. Collins, Rev. S. Davies, Colonel Jones, and others. Colonel Love and Captain Napier were, we understand, at the conference.
One of the most important and startling events of the week is the seizure of a case of arms: the case contained 12 rifles, and a quantity of bullets, copper caps, &c. This dangerous and alarming consignment was directed to Mr. Griffith Vaughan, landlord of the Pontardulais Inn, Carmarthenshire, one of the persons now out on bail, charged with a participation in the pulling down of the Bwlgoed gate, and the charge against whom is to be heard to-morrow . The Government had intimation of the nature of the importation at the port of Swansea, and "stopt the supplies."
It is currently bruited abroad that Sir James Graham has written a letter, couched in anything but complimentary terms, to the authorities, for not remanding, instead of liberating on bail, the parties brought before them last week.
This great statesman, who wears the robe of office turned inside out, has no just grounds for blaming magistrates who acted constitutionally. The right hon. baronet may, perhaps, like the Castlereagh doctrine of a "vigour beyond the law."
That very disinterested demagogue, Feargus O'Connor, is said to be here, from Merthyr, and it is also said that the men employed in the copper works will "strike" at the forthcoming reduction in wages of 12½ per cent. When I compare the wages of these men, say an average of £1 per week, and in some instances, from £2 to £3, with the starving stipend of the colliers, which is from 4 to 5 shillings per week, with 2 shillings for a boy, I think the copper men are unreasonable; and in the present stagnant state of trade, I deem it probable that the master smelters will not regret the turn-out, should it come, as it is well known to every person conversant with the trade, that they are absolutely losing by every ton of copper now made.
I hear this evening with extreme regret, that instead of setting at once about a redress of grievances in Carmarthenshire, a rate of 3d in the pound is about to be enforced for a rural police. I shall not write about the expediency of the latter measure, but I am quite sure that heavy wrongs promptly call for the former.
Scores of the small farmers and the suffering peasantry are in a deplorable state–
"Need and oppression stare within their eyes,
Contempt and beggary hang upon their backs;
The world is not their friend, nor the world's law."
The War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund has sent out a new appeal to its subscribers. Also: the number of ex-U.S. taxpatriates continues to rise. And: what to do with this inconvenient Rebecca-informer?
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Wales → Rebecca riots (1839–44) → Griffith Vaughan
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Rethinking gender stereotypes: a queer eye to home
Süner Pla Cerda, Sedef
Kaygan, Harun
5T: Gendered Perspective in Design: Turkish and Global Context, (9 - 10 Mayıs 2013)
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Rethinking Islam and liberal democracy: Islamist women in Turkish politics
Ozdalga, E (2005-09-01)
Rethinking citizenship, immigration and refugee admissions from an ethics of immigration perspective
Türkmen, Fulya Felicity; Birler, Reşide Ömür; Department of Political Science and Public Administration (2018)
As the world witnesses the biggest wide scale displacement and mass immigration movement of 21st century, we need to rethink the political theory and ethics of immigration. In this context, it is important that we need to understand and explain the concept of citizenship and its evolution. The questions like How is citizenship defined in the modern state and what is the importance of social contract in this context? How is the status of the non-citizen defined and what are the criteria for new membership? w...
Rethinking the political: Ottoman women as feminist subjects
Yıldız Bağçe, Hülya (Informa UK Limited, 2018-01-01)
This article examines late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Muslim Ottoman women's journals. Drawing attention to the historical and social phenomenon of Ottoman Muslim women's print culture, the author argues that women's writings and activism around these journals functioned as a significant feminist public sphere that built a community of women's discourse. Women's journals established a real community of intellectual women writers and readers who overtly promoted a feminist agenda in the p...
Rethinking digital industrial design: a mandate for virtual workshops and intelligent environments
Şener Pedgley, Bahar (Informa UK Limited, 2007-01-01)
In an era of major technological strides in computer interaction, it is a disappointment industrial designers continue to report that current CAD packages are too rooted in engineering design to be effective in supporting their own creative practices. This paper examines the nature of their dissatisfaction and proposes solutions. A comprehensive observational study of industrial designers' existing CAD and physical modelling activities is reported, from which an evidence base for the specification of improv...
Rethinking Political Resistance and Spatial Appropriation through Gezi Protests
Kuymulu, Mehmet Barış (2015-11-13)
S. Süner Pla Cerda and H. Kaygan, "Rethinking gender stereotypes: a queer eye to home," İzmir, Türkiye, 2013, p. 56, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/72891.


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Second series of KPL from April 25 - Integration Through Media ....!
SURKHET: The second series of Karnali Premium League (KPL) is taking place from April 25. The Karnali Cricket Academy is organising the championship at Kalunchowk Cricket Ground at Birendranagar.
Academy Chair Jeevan Shahi said that Tribhuvan Army Club, Nepal Police Armed Police Force, Karnali Cricket Academy, Mahendranagar Cricket Academy, Kanchanpur, Laligurans Cricket Academy, Jhapa, Midwest Cricket Club, Banke, and Himalayan Cricket Academy, Kathmandu, would participate in the championship.


Round trip of 27.7 km. (Marneroute) or 24.7 km. passed Wommels and Oosterend. No portages.
The nearest kayak rental place is Kootje bij de Brug, Wolsumerketting 5, 8774 PK Wolsum, tel.: 0515-569908 of 06-22273586.
There is a pier at the cheese museum. Leave the highway A7 at exit 17 and head north towards Wommels. Exit the N359 towards Wommels. The starting place is on your right just across the bridge. There's a small parking place at the kayak pier next to the museum.
From the starting point in Bolsward you go to the right. After the iron turnbridge you turn right. At the next intersection you go straight on. Then after 1.8 km you pass the village Burgwerd. Then after 4.0 km. you pass Wommels. There is a kayak pier at the museum It Tsiispakhús on your right. When the canal bends to the right there is a side canal to the left with a sign "Marneroute" on the bridge. Ignore this, it's meant fot those who do the full route of 27.7 km. in the opposite direction. A little further there is a pier on your left. Take the first side-canal to the right. There are many bends and in Oosterend you come at a T-junction. You turn left and pass the church. There is a small pier at the church. You go under the bridge and straight on to the next T-junction. Here you turn left, and then right again. At the next T-junction you turn right, and a little furhter you turn right again. Then follow the main canal to the right and keep on the main canal to Hidaard. There's no pier at Hidaard, and there's nothing special to see. You keep following the main canal Kloostervaart. Near Bolsward you come at the Bolswarder Trekvaart. Here you turn left towards Bolward. At the iron turn-bridge you turn left again.
From the starting point in Bolsward you go to the right. After a short distance you turn right again. Then at the next intersection you turn left. Follow the canal passed the new houses to the end. Then at the T-junction you turn right on the Kloostervaart. Follow the main canal to Hidaard. At the T-junction you turn right, and at the next T-jucntion you turn left. At the Y-junction you keep right on the main canal. After the canal make a bend to the right you turn left twice. After the next bend to the right you turn left towards Oosterend. Just follow the main canal. After a bridge you come at a church. There is a small pier for visitors to the church. A little further you turn left. At the next intersection you turn right. On the corner you can go to the side. There are benches. You leave Oosterend and at the end of the canal you turn left at the T-junction. After a bridge you see the industrial area on your left. Here you turn right under the wooden bridge. The Kubaardervaart is narrower and there is alot of vegeation (yellow waterlily). Still it's not difficult to pass. You pass Kubaard and at the end of the village you turn left, and then right again. When you come at the wider Lathumervaart you go straight on. After Kubaard there are no kayak piers, ant the first place where you can go to the side is at the bridge under the N359. There is a passage under the bridge made for ice-skaters when the ice is too thin. You can go to the side here, but it's not so pleasant as cars pass by just over your head. A little further you pass the church of Hichtum. After Hichtum there is a camping along the canal. They have small piers for fishing, no kayak pier. At the next intersection you turn right towards Bolsward. Here you turn left under the iron bridge and straight on you return to the starting point.
Wommels. Pier at the cheese museum It Tsiispakhús.
Yellow Waterlily in the Hidaardervaart.
This is a marked route of 27.7 km. A shortcut passed Wommels is 24.7 km.
The Marneslenk was an estuary of the former Middelzee. It came into being around the year 300. In the Middle Ages, this area was diked. The Marneroute goes through the area of this former estuary.
This is the national plant of Friesland. The leaf (pompeblêd) is shown in the flag.


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package org.apache.dubbo.remoting.transport.grizzly;

import org.apache.dubbo.common.URL;
import org.apache.dubbo.common.logger.Logger;
import org.apache.dubbo.common.logger.LoggerFactory;
import org.apache.dubbo.common.utils.NetUtils;
import org.apache.dubbo.remoting.Channel;
import org.apache.dubbo.remoting.ChannelHandler;
import org.apache.dubbo.remoting.RemotingException;
import org.apache.dubbo.remoting.transport.AbstractServer;

import org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.FilterChainBuilder;
import org.glassfish.grizzly.filterchain.TransportFilter;
import org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransport;
import org.glassfish.grizzly.nio.transport.TCPNIOTransportBuilder;
import org.glassfish.grizzly.strategies.SameThreadIOStrategy;
import org.glassfish.grizzly.threadpool.ThreadPoolConfig;

import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import static org.apache.dubbo.common.constants.CommonConstants.DEFAULT_THREADPOOL;
import static org.apache.dubbo.common.constants.CommonConstants.THREADS_KEY;
import static org.apache.dubbo.common.constants.CommonConstants.THREADPOOL_KEY;
import static org.apache.dubbo.common.constants.CommonConstants.DEFAULT_THREADS;

/**
 * GrizzlyServer
 */
public class GrizzlyServer extends AbstractServer {

    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(GrizzlyServer.class);

    private final Map<String, Channel> channels = new ConcurrentHashMap<String, Channel>(); // <ip:port, channel>

    private TCPNIOTransport transport;

    public GrizzlyServer(URL url, ChannelHandler handler) throws RemotingException {
        super(url, handler);
    }

    @Override
    protected void doOpen() throws Throwable {
        FilterChainBuilder filterChainBuilder = FilterChainBuilder.stateless();
        filterChainBuilder.add(new TransportFilter());

        filterChainBuilder.add(new GrizzlyCodecAdapter(getCodec(), getUrl(), this));
        filterChainBuilder.add(new GrizzlyHandler(getUrl(), this));
        TCPNIOTransportBuilder builder = TCPNIOTransportBuilder.newInstance();
        ThreadPoolConfig config = builder.getWorkerThreadPoolConfig();
        config.setPoolName(SERVER_THREAD_POOL_NAME).setQueueLimit(-1);
        String threadpool = getUrl().getParameter(THREADPOOL_KEY, DEFAULT_THREADPOOL);
        if (DEFAULT_THREADPOOL.equals(threadpool)) {
            int threads = getUrl().getPositiveParameter(THREADS_KEY, DEFAULT_THREADS);
            config.setCorePoolSize(threads).setMaxPoolSize(threads)
                    .setKeepAliveTime(0L, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        } else if ("cached".equals(threadpool)) {
            int threads = getUrl().getPositiveParameter(THREADS_KEY, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
            config.setCorePoolSize(0).setMaxPoolSize(threads)
                    .setKeepAliveTime(60L, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
        } else {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Unsupported threadpool type " + threadpool);
        }
        builder.setKeepAlive(true).setReuseAddress(false)
                .setIOStrategy(SameThreadIOStrategy.getInstance());
        transport = builder.build();
        transport.setProcessor(filterChainBuilder.build());
        transport.bind(getBindAddress());
        transport.start();
    }

    @Override
    protected void doClose() throws Throwable {
        try {
            transport.stop();
        } catch (Throwable e) {
            logger.warn(e.getMessage(), e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public boolean isBound() {
        return !transport.isStopped();
    }

    @Override
    public Collection<Channel> getChannels() {
        return channels.values();
    }

    @Override
    public Channel getChannel(InetSocketAddress remoteAddress) {
        return channels.get(NetUtils.toAddressString(remoteAddress));
    }

    @Override
    public void connected(Channel ch) throws RemotingException {
        channels.put(NetUtils.toAddressString(ch.getRemoteAddress()), ch);
        super.connected(ch);
    }

    @Override
    public void disconnected(Channel ch) throws RemotingException {
        channels.remove(NetUtils.toAddressString(ch.getRemoteAddress()));
        super.disconnected(ch);
    }

}

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Review of Composition in the Age of Austerity, Nancy Welch and Tony Scott, Eds.
This review surveys the edited collection Composition in the Age of Austerity, which works at key intersections of interest to readers of Kairos: the discussion between critical and new materialisms, the debates about economics and digital humanities, and the 2016 election's significance for our future as teachers, scholars, and champions of justice. The navigation bar at the top of each page in this webtext allows for reading in any particular order. The tabs of the navigation bar reflect my own reading across the sections and chapters included in the collection, offering my thinking with and against the premises of both the included works and the volume as a whole.
First published in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, v.22 n.2 (Spring 2018) Kairos.
©2018 David Grant. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Grant, David M., "Review of Composition in the Age of Austerity, Nancy Welch and Tony Scott, Eds." (2018). Faculty Publications. 5.


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Robert de Cotte est un architecte français né en 1656 et mort le  à Passy. Il est l'un des grands architectes français dans la lignée des  : il sera l'élève de Jules Hardouin-Mansart, avant de devenir son beau-frère et son principal collaborateur.

Biographie

Né à Paris, Robert de Cotte fut reçu en 1687 à l'Académie royale d'architecture et devint en 1708 Premier architecte du Roi et directeur de l'Académie. C'est ainsi qu'il achève la chapelle du château de Versailles, inaugurée en 1710. C'est un grand constructeur, consulté par beaucoup d'architectes européens (comme Johann Balthasar Neumann pour la Résidence de Würzburg), mais également un grand décorateur et ses bâtiments furent autant appréciés pour leur style que pour leur aménagement. Il a beaucoup contribué au rayonnement de l'architecture française en Europe, même s'il ne se déplaçait que rarement en dehors de Paris. Une de ses grandes œuvres est le palais des Thurn und Taxis en Allemagne, dont il dessine les plans ; détruit lors de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est reconstruit en 2010.

Décédé à Passy à l'âge de 78 ans, il est porté à l'église Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois pour y être inhumé en présence de ses deux fils Jules-Robert et Jean-Armand.

Famille
Robert de Cotte est marié à Catherine Bodin,
 Jules-Robert de Cotte, seigneur de Château-Gontier, suit les pas de son père comme architecte du roi, intendant des bâtiments, jardins, arts et manufactures, directeur de la monnaie, conseiller amateur à l'Académie royale en 1710.
 Jean-Armand de Cotte est prêtre, docteur de Sorbonne, chanoine de l'église de Paris et abbé de Saint-Seurinet et de Lonlay (actes d'état civil Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois).
 Marie Anne Catherine de Cotte, mariée à Charles Louis Thourou, conseiller du roi, trésorier receveur général et payeur des rentes de l'Hôtel-de-Ville de Paris,
 Louis-François Thourou de Moranzel (né à Paris le -1780), architecte, membre de l'Académie royale d'architecture en 1756<ref>Actes d'état-civil d'artistes français tirés des Archives nationales pour la première fois, , Bulletin de la Société de l'art français,  année, 1875-1878, octobre 1876 (lire en ligne)</ref>. Il est mort en 1780, car son épouse, Marie-Anne Robusse, reçoit cette année-là une pension de  de la Maison du Roi en considération de feu son mari, ancien contrôleur des bâtiments du roi à Fontainebleau.

 Œuvres architecturales
 Pavillon du gouverneur de la machine de Marly ou Château de Madame du Barry à Louveciennes, 1683 ;
 Palais du Tau (Reims), Reims à partir de 1669 ;
 Église Saint-Charles-Borromée, Sedan, 1685 ;
 Hôtel du Lude, à Paris, rue Saint-Dominique (détruit en 1861) ;
 Reconstruction de l'abbaye de Saint-Denis. Il commença par la façade orientale en 1701. Le bâtiment fait partie aujourd'hui de la Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur à Saint-Denis.
 Hôtel d'Estrées,  rue de Grenelle, Paris (1710) ;
 Transformations de l'hôtel de La Vrillière, rue de la Vrillière, Paris, pour le comte de Toulouse (1715) ;
 Contributions à l'hôtel du Maine (1713-16) ;
 Redécoration de la galerie dorée de l'hôtel de Toulouse (1714-1719)
 Le haras du Pin (1715-1730) ;
 Hôtel de Bourbon (1717) ;
 Petit hôtel de Villars (1717-1722), 118, rue de Grenelle à Paris, dépendance du grand hôtel de Villars ;
 Chapelle de l'abbaye-aux-Bois (1718) ;
 Fontaine de la Samaritaine sur le pont Neuf ;
 Château d'eau du Palais-Royal (1719) ;
 Décoration pour le chœur de Notre-Dame à Paris ;
 Hôtel de Brionne, 1734, hôtel particulier à Paris ;
 Château de Bonn ;
 Château de Poppelsdorf à Poppelsdorf ;
 Châteaux Augustusburg et Falkenlust à Brühl ;
 Château de Schleissheim, près de Munich ;
 Plans du château de Rivoli, en Italie ;
 Plans du pavillon de chasse de la Vénerie, près de Turin ;
 Restauration de l'hôtel de ville de Lyon ;
 Aménagement de la place Bellecour ;
 Palais épiscopal de Châlons-en-Champagne (1719-1720), plans du palais qui ne fut jamais terminé ;
 Palais épiscopal de Verdun (1725–1763) ;
 Palais épiscopal de Saverne transformation du château des Rohan en palais épiscopal au début du  ;
 Palais épiscopal de Strasbourg (1728-1741) ;
 Plans de l'hôtel de la Tour d'Aigues, dit de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence (v. 1720).
 Donne les plans de l'église de l'abbaye cistercienne de Prières à Billiers construite de 1716 à 1723 (partiellement détruite)

 Généalogie simplifiée

 Notes et références

 Annexes
 Sources et bibliographie
 Michel Gallet, Les architectes parisiens du  siècle. Dictionnaire biographique et critique, , Éditions Mengès, Paris, 1995
 Bernard Oudin, Dictionnaire des architectes, , Seghers, Paris, 1994
 Gérard Rousset-Charny, Cotte Robert de (1656-1735), , dans Dictionnaire des architectes, Encyclopædia Universalis et Albin Michel, Paris, 1999
 Le fonds de dessins et de manuscrits de Robert de Cotte est au département des estampes et de la photographie Bibliothèque nationale de France. François Fossier en a fait l'inventaire dans la base de données BN-Opale+.
 Fossier (François), Les dessins du fonds Robert de Cotte de la Bibliothèque nationale de France : architecture et décor. - Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France ; Rome : École française de Rome, 1997 (61-Alençon : Impr. alençonnaise). -  : ill. en noir et en coul. ; . - (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome ; ).
 Le Franc (Erwann), "Une œuvre oubliée de Robert de Cotte en Bretagne: l'abbaye cistercienne Notre Dame de Prières à Billiers", Bulletin et mémoires de la Société polymathique du Morbihan", tome CXXXVIII, 2012,
 Charles Ponsonailhe, La maison de Robert de Cotte, , Réunion des sociétés savantes des départements à la Sorbonne. Section des beaux-arts, Ministère de l'instruction publique, 1901 (lire en ligne)
 Louis de Grandmaison, Essai d'armorial des artistes français. Lettres de noblesse. Preuves pour l'Ordre de Saint-Michel, , Réunion des sociétés savantes des départements à la Sorbonne. Section des beaux-arts, Ministère de l'instruction publique, 1903,  session (lire en ligne)
 Pierre Marcel, Inventaire des papiers manuscrits du cabinet de Robert de Cotte, premier architecte du roi, 1656-1735, et de Jules-Robert de Cotte, 1683-1767, conservés à la Bibliothèque nationale'', Honoré Champion éditeur, Paris, 1906 (lire en ligne)

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Three Oriental Sketches, Op. 42, No. 2
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Sample Set: The Armley Schulze
Arthur Bird (23 July 1856 – 22 December 1923) was an American composer, for many years resident in Germany. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied in Europe and spent a year at Weimar with Franz Liszt. He composed a symphony, 3 orchestral suites; some works for wind instruments alone; some music for the ballet, and chamber music. He also composed for the harmonium.
Bird died in Berlin in 1923.
I did the "Second Oriental Sketch" on a whim, and I thought that it came out pretty well, so, here it is. :-) To be completely honest, I'm not sure if this for the organ or transcribed for the organ from a piano piece.
I don't believe that Bird was himself an organist, but the editor, Archer Gibson, was a very important one.
Archer Gibson (1875-1952) was instructor in organ and composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music (the school I attended), and served as organist and choir-master of the First Presbyterian Church of Baltimore. He was also well-known as a composer.
In 1901, Archer Gibson was appointed as choir-master and organist of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City, and served in this post for eight years. He was a fellow of the AGO exam, and was chairman of the Guild's first committee on console standardization.
In his time Archer Gibson ranked as one of the leading organists in the USA. During the first decades of the 20th century, when it was fashionable for millionaires to have organs in their homes, Gibson's unique talent made him indispensable to the VERY RICH, and he was paid by the hour, earning in the tens of thousands! ;-)
This piece is an interesting one, and sounds well on the Schulze. It's "eastern" to be sure, but you will need to decide to what degree you "feel the Orient" in this one!
All-in-all, I'd say this is a pretty "groovy piece," and I dedicate this to BaroqueDMX, who is a pretty groovy guy!
I hope you like it, Jim! :-)
The score is attached below, as well as photos of Arthur Bird, & two of Archer Gibson.
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With the lyrics to a song written, but no musical ability to accompany them, an alternative solution was conceived. A track was put together using samples of kitchen utensils, vocals were recorded, and Dead Kid Harvester was born.
Dead Kid Harvester is a solo avant-garde/experimental/noise artist with a complete disregard for any form of music convention such as harmony or tempo. The primary instruments used are vocals and kitchen utensils. The life of a song typically begins with the lyrics, written with no consideration for rhythm or beat. Dead Kid Harvester takes influences ranging from doom metal to drone, industrial and old school punk, and polarizes them into an industrial cacophony of noise. Recorded samples and segments are combined haphazardly into songs, with frequent use of pitch shift and time stretch effects.
Dead Kid Harvester was founded in Porirua, New Zealand in December 2000, later moving to Auckland. The name Dead Kid Harvester is a combination of two nicknames acquired at high school, and is no less off-putting than the music itself. The preferred lyrical themes are insanity, horror and philosophy. Dead Kid Harvester makes use of both jarring and subtle variations between channels to invoke uneasiness and disarray.
In 2018, after nearly ten years of recording and procrastination, the debut full-length album The First Sign Of Madness was finally completed.
Features an interpretation of an Into Orbit track.
Features song White Coats and Strangled Throats.
Features songs Puberty, Stubborn Cupboard.
Metal on Utensil is a remix of Metal on Metal by Doug Sharp.
"You can hear some bad stuff, true. I mean, my favorite horrible band is Dead Kid Harvester, a guy out of New Zealand who plays kitchen utensils. It's the worst stuff on the planet."


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Silo Is My Inner Guide
Jose Maria Constantini May 12, 2012 Testimony
In 1997 I became seriously ill. I had been going through a very oppressive situation and ended up in intensive care.
Many different elements conspired against me – a sense of pressure because of my economic situation, failure to take myself into consideration, feeling contradiction because I wasn't doing things that made me grow, etc.
I was taken urgently to the Rivadavia Hospital after several days in which I had felt like I was suffocating, with a very high fever, very weak and without vitality.
In a few hours I was in intensive care, about to be intubated, hooked up to an artificial respirator and put into a state of pharmacological coma, because of a pulmonary infection called pneumocystis carinii, within my general condition of being HIV positive.
I have a fuzzy memory of my couple Lea and Tito de Casa, who had come to see me there. To encourage me, Tito was talking to me about Silo's last talk, in which he said "the human being is an enchained god…" and I remember having said to him that that's how I felt at that moment, but that I would break my chains and that god would come out on top and defeat those bugs that were devouring my life!
My situation was very distressing. My defenses were very low, and the doctors kept giving the worst view, according to which they said there was no hope, only one in thousands managed to recover.
Considering the evidence, the doctors and my friends began to prepare Lea for the obvious outcome.
But far from accepting this, she skewered a doctor, saying that since I was alive they had to do everything possible to save me. This doctor replied negatively that this does happen every so often and that yesterday in fact she had had a patient who had died.
So it was that Lea and two friends with whom we were spreading Silo's doctrine set themselves to studying what the virus was doing in the body, trying to figure out how my body was translating my internal state, what could be done from that point of view to counteract that and help me recover.
The my defenses were low, they needed to strengthen them by generating situations that would help in that.
Lea called on a Siloist, a friend we had known for years, and whom we respected very much as a person. She told him about my situation, and said they were reading me the guided experience "The Protector of Life," because they felt intuitively that there was something that I was not integrating, some dissatisfaction with my body, some situation that was not integrated.
He came to see me in intensive care. I was already sedated and "unconscious," but when he spoke to me (Lea told me later), his voice rang out, echoing in that place, as if the Guide were speaking.
"José Maria, listen to me!" he said, and I woke up.
He asked Lea to leave us alone for a few moments, and I remember that he spoke to me with great affection and called on me firmly to resist.
"I will be seeing Negro," he told me. "He is coming to Buenos Aires very soon for a meeting, and I will tell him how you are. Do you think you can hold on?"
"Yes," was my answer… and I closed my eyes to sink back into that world in which I had been pharmacologically submerged.
When he left the room he commented that it seemed to him from my frown (like when one is preoccupied) that I was certainly trying to resolve something in my head, and that the best thing would be to try to have me move down into my heart, to register things from there.
Lea began calling people with whom I might have had some kind of relationship problem, so they would visit me and speak to me in my ear to reconcile those situations. At the same time in the corridor they were doing experiences with the force, and more and more friends came to join them, to ask for the situation that was consuming me to be turned around. Some of them also read me the experience.
Meanwhile, I don't know how to explain it, or in what space it was happening, but things were happening to me internally. It was like being awake in a dream world, very much like those dreams in which situations are recreated from daily life in order to discharge or transfer energetic charges that have accumulated or have gotten stuck in certain memories, and seeking to transfer them to more dis-tensing images.
Of the many things that happened to me that I became aware of after several months talking and connecting threads with my couple or friends, I want to briefly relate these two.
Still in that state of vigilic dreaming, I suddenly see Negro pass by through the door to the Intensive Care unit. He gives me a conspiratorial smile.
He looks at me, winks, and disappears down the hallway.
I hear the nurse on duty say:
"Señor, you can't be here now, it's after hours…"
And then I hear Negro's voice, but with a country accent:
"Yes, yes, I'm just looking for a friend who is here…"
"Well, ok, but only a few minutes, no more!" I hear the nurse answer.
I see Negro enter the room with a funny gesture and he stands at the foot of my bed and says to me, "How's it going, how are you José Maria, are you tired? Do you want to do an experience with the force?"
"Yes, Negro, I'm not tired, let's do an experience with the force," was my answer.
Immediately and with a big smile Negro literally put his hands inside my chest and formed a sphere of light that surrounded my heart. He began turning it, making it go faster and faster as if spinning it on its axis.
At that moment a powerful energy began to circulate through my whole body, very intense and gratifying, very benevolent. I felt it acting indomitably in every cell, as if they had plugged me in to a generator.
All the while, he told me jokes and said funny things that I don't remember now, but everything was in a kind, humorous tone of great affectivity.
Every now and then he would ask me if I was tired, if I wanted to stop, and I would answer no, I'm fine, let's continue.
After repeating this several times over a long period, at one moment he asked me, "Jose Maria, do you want to live?"
"Yeeeessss, Negro!" was my heartfelt answer. "I feel like I still have a lot to do."
Then he removed his hands from my chest and told me: "That's it!"
He winked at me with a conspiratorial eye, smiled, softly said goodbye, and disappeared through the door.
Some time later as I was talking with Lea, reconstructing the experience and trying to integrate and interrelate what had happened, she told me that one day the nurse on duty had asked her if she could stay longer than the schedule allowed in order to soothe me, because I had been very restless and had been speaking as if someone with me. The gadgets I was hooked up to were going crazy, the needles kept moving in an altered way.
Several months after that encounter, that remained very strongly engraved in my consciousness, as if I had really experienced in the waking state everything that happened, I met that friend who had called on me to resist, and after saying how overjoyed we were to see each other and how well I was feeling, I told him about that episode.
He smiled, looked at me and said that has he had told me he would, at one point during Silo's visit to Buenos Aires, he took him aside and told him about the situation I was going through, and immediately Negro nodded and remained silent for some time, as if he were concentrating on something, as if for that brief period of time "he was no longer there" but was "somewhere else."
After that interlude, Negro told him, "Very well, let's continue!"
The second situation I experienced with "Negro's intervention" happened a few days after the episode I have just described.
The days passed and my recovery was exponential. My defenses grew incredibly, the doctors and my couple and friends were weeping with emotion as they talked about it, and the doctors said, "It's a miracle, we don't know what you are doing, but keep doing it, it's obvious that it's working, we know very little about the human mind."
I was still in intensive care and my body had gotten very weak, I had no strength even to move my arms, and I could not speak and make myself understood without difficulty, because they had given me a tracheotomy.
This merits a brief commentary: at the time they did the tracheotomy, the doctors told Lea that I wouldn't have the same voice. Lea told them I liked being talking on the media and the doctors told her I would have to forget that, because this kind of procedure affects the vocal chords.
Today my voice is intact and I think it's even better, so much so that I was able to do a series of TV programs for three years called Silo's Message, completely normally. I also attribute this to the great protection of my guide and master Silo.
And in relation to things that happened later…
And continuing this story, Lea came to see me, and I was waiting for her visit anxiously, because I wanted to tell her many things, but that was impossible for me, I could'nt write, because of my weakness, and I had the tracheotomy. I made the decision to recover as quickly as possible.
Then one day in the accompanied solitude of that intensive care unit, I looked at a bottle of mieral water on my bedside stand, and little by little, with great effort (the long hospitalization had weakened my body) I began to reach for it, and began by just lifting it and holding it. It seemed terribly heavy but I didn't stop trying and I kept daring myself to go a little further.
Until one morning the doctor came in my room for his routine daily visit, and found me lifting and setting down the bottle with complete agility, as if I were doing gymnasitce, and with a triumphant smile on my face.
It was then that he decided that they could move me to a regular hospital room.
In that room I shared the space with other people and the attention wasn't as personalized, and because of how bloody the treatment had been, my body and my consciousness began to demonstrate signs of weariness and anxiety.
I couldn't sleep, or rest, and the fluorescent light that was never turned of seemed like a torture lamp. I began to be invaded by a sensation of suffocation and fear. It was like returning to a state of darkness in which I heard inner voices that contradicted my feelings. I thought I was going crazy. This continued for several days, and I began to think about my death and all kinds of negative thoughts. I couldn't get unstuck from this state that made me more and more uneasy.
Suddenly and when I was already at the end of my psychic and physical rope, Negro appeared on a brilliantly colored TV screen facing me at the foot of my bed.
Then he told me with great kindness, "Jose Maria, do not follow the path of the negative. That is a tendency you must abandon and transform. Follow the path of the positive."
To leave that state I had to choose, and make the effort to take the luminous path.
Then I felt a very powerful sensation of calm and relaxation, and immediately when I set my head in this direction, that whole sensation that had been bothering me and weighing on me disappeared instantaneously. It vanished and that first night I was able to rest deeply.
Jose Maria Constantini
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Silo es mi guia interno →


We can't thank Liz enough for her invaluable help and support, be it by e-mail, phone or in person in Oia. Without Liz, things just would have not gone as well as they did. Our big day - the 12th of September - was simply fabulous for us. Perfect weather, a friendly photographer taking magnificent photos, a very nice and timely master of ceremonies, sublime setting, champagne, music, all the administrative paperwork. All that was thanks to Liz.
Nous tenons à remercier Liz pour sa précieuse aide, sa présence que ce soit par mail, téléphone ou physique à Oïa.
Sans Liz, beaucoup de chose n'aurait pas pu être effectuées.
Ce jour du 12 septembre a été en tout point, pour nous fabuleux.
Méteo parfaite, photographe sympa avec de magnifiques photos, le célébrant très gentil, ponctuel, terrasse magnifique, champagne, musique, papiers administratifs... Tout cela grâce à Liz.
Since the very start (more than six months ago...). Liz was right there with us by e-mail and responded immediately to all our questions, commnets and concerns. And the fact that Liz speaks French was very reassuring.
Depuis le début (plus de 6 mois), Liz a été toujours présente par mail en répondant immédiatement à nos demandes, remarques, interrogations. De plus, Liz parle français ce qui est très rassurant.
The whole day was well planned, with no detail overlooked and not a single hitch. Everything was PERFECT.
La journée était très bien préparée, aucun manque, aucune erreur. Tout était PARFAIT.
If you are wondering who to go to - wait no more - Liz is THE person to work with.
N'hésitez plus si vous avez le moindre doute, Liz est la PERSONNE qu'il vous faut.
The Magic of our Wedding.
It was a dream coming true!
After more than 5 wedding agencies checked, hundreds of quotation emails, weeks looking for any sign and testimonials which could guarantee we could cross the world from Brazil to Greece I found my fairy godmother: LIZ TILLEY.
I called Liz from Brazil and everything was nice and easy.
She had all the details under control, talking to me by skype or email anytime any day and supported us in each one of the last final arrangements with no pressure.
The day we landed in Santorini there was no power or water in the island, only rain. I was freaking out, but after I met Liz personally the clouds started to leave the sky, she had everything under control, supported us in each one of the last final arrangements with no pressure.
The hair and make-up stylist was the best, photographer and video professionals supported us with huge patience and creativity, the ceremonialist was kind and informal as we asked for it. And the sun was beautifully shining.
It was just perfect. I would recommend Liz to everyone. We review the photos all the time and each time we feel again the magic of that awesome day.
We contacted Liz over a year in advance of setting our wedding date, even before we had made a final decision about whether or not to get married in Santorini. On reflection this was the best decision we could have made.
From the moment we first contacted Liz, she put our minds totally at ease, she was available to answer any questions we had both via email and over the telephone and no question seemed too much for her.
When it came down to organising our dates, Liz made it very easy for us – obviously we had to wait for flights to become available and subsequently had to change the date to fit in with our travel arrangements.
Liz was able to recommend hotels for our party of 21, and even though we eventually organised our accommodation ourselves it was very nice to know that we had that support there if need be.
With the date fast approaching we were in constant contact (email, telephone, skype) to discuss our needs and arrangements. Liz was able to talk us through the paperwork with 3 months to go and organised the English to Greek translation for us. We had the option of a few locations for the ceremony, but by far the best was the terrace overlooking the Caldera, the view was stunning and the location was perfect. The only draw back was the very steep steps down to the terrace. Liz was able to recommend many lovely restaurants for our meal following the ceremony and we eventually chose one that suited us just perfectly. With just a few weeks to go I was able to change my mind about some things and add it others, and again Liz was great with a very indecisive and nervous "bride to be".
On our arrival in Santorini Liz came to meet us at our hotel to discuss our final arrangements. It was fantastic to finally meet her in person after so long. On the day Liz stayed with us throughout and made sure everything ran smoothly for us. Following the ceremony we had asked for a drinks reception and this was served on the terrace which was lovely. We were then taken to have some photographs taken, leaving our family and friends to enjoy the sunset with a glass of bubbly. We returned to the restaurant where our "party" was waiting for us and we all enjoyed a lovely meal with drinks into the night.
We got married on the 20.06.12, using wedding planner Liz Tilley. This is my review of her, based on my experiences.
I got in touch with Liz just under a year ago, using her website www.wed-designs.com. Liz contacted me right back, and we've had literally hundreds of mails going back and forth for almost a year. She has always been quick in her responses and right away shown a personal side of herself, which has made me feel at ease.
We arrived in Santorini on the night of the 15. June, and she showed up at our hotel on the 16th, and every day after that. She took us to see the site of the ceremony and ask how we would like the set-up, and then she took us to the taverna where we would have the reception, to meet with the owner and make sure we were all on the same page. She m***ged to work around all of the last minute changes elegantly, and when I got a cold a couple of days before the wedding, she brought some remedies over to our hotel. I had ordered some place-card holders that never arrived, so Liz went out and picked volcanic rocks herself, to put on the place-cards, which incidentally worked out much better than the stupid place-card holders would have!
Our wedding had around 20 guests, we brought our own cd's from home which the restaurant played in order. We had the ceremony at the Agia Irini villas, which was just beautiful, and the reception at the Iris restaurant close to Oia. It was very windy that day, and the restaurant was an outside one, so it was a little chilly late at night. However the food and service at the restaurant was just ***, so no harm done!
Liz organised a cake, which was *** - chocolate cream filling, and pink bougainvilleas on top (my theme).
All in all, a great day, which we will remember with a smile for the rest of our lives, and made very easy and pleasurable by Liz Tilley. I do not hesitate to recommend her to another bride.
On July 31, we were married in Santorini. Much to my surprise I knew nothing about my new husbands plans. I thought we were just taking a planned trip to Greece. With the help from Liza - from www.wed-designs.com. My husband planned the perfect sunset wedding(dress included) When planning a destination wedding you really do need a person who knows what you need to make everything happen. Liza was the person for us. Thank you Liza and we would recommend you to anyone. Thank you for making our day the happiest!
John and Nuala Monday, 02 January 2012 | U.K.
"Thank you Liza and thanks again for everything for the wedding! We have such fantastic memories which we will treasure forever. Thank you for all your help, we couldn't have done it without you. We will be in touch when we get that next visit to the island sorted!
Take care, Nuala and John UK.
My husband and I got married a couple months ago 2011, in the beautiful village of Oia in Santorini and we wanted to share some of our experiences working with Liz as our wedding planner in case anyone out there is in the need of one.
We met Liz (info@wed-designs.com; www.wed-designs.com; mobile: 30 6948012734) almost exactly a year prior to our wedding during a trip to Greece. We had sent a few emails in our first couple days there hoping to see if anyone would have the time to discuss potentially having a wedding there in the following year. Liz was one of the first to email us back and met us the very next to show us all the "'prime" locations to get married. Her energy and warmth was immediately felt and we had a wonderful day (actually ended up picking a potential spot to get married as well as a hotel for everyone to stay in) AND ended up splitting a bottle of wine to end the day. Throughout the year Liz was very easy to contact and we felt was available to answer any questions we had. As we live in New York, there was no opportunity to go back to Oia before the wedding, but luckily since Liz lives in Oia, she had easy access to local vendors which was very helpful. On pricing, once we shared our budget Liz made a very large effort to stay within those realms, never forcing us to make uncomfortable pricing decisions.
We arrived a week before the wedding and Liz was there to meet us the very the next day. We felt that she was available 100% the whole week to accommodate us and our family and friends (40+ people from the US and C***da). Liz helped arrange a girl's boating trip, the Rehearsal Dinner, and of course the big day. We felt that Liz was very honest with us, and able to deliver on every aspect that she promised.
If you would like more details please feel free to email us! Thanks and good luck!
Brett and Ashley Sunday, 10 July 2011 | Texas U.S.
"As the groom, I never thought I would find myself getting married in Santorini, much less planning the wedding. I cannot bestow enough compliments upon Liza and her mastery of the perfect event... we had three that week, all at different venues. Liza tactfully handled everything from airport transfers to flying the band in from Athens and she made the process simple, seamless and fun. We were an uncommon event for the island; bringing 80 people, 6000 miles, to a gorgeous wedding in the Mediterranean; and Liza artfully picked up on and produced our every desire. Not only did she surpass my expectations, but she created my wife's dream wedding!! You know the party was a hit when the reception went until sunrise and people continue to thank you for inviting them to Santorini."


Take the oranges and cut away the orange part of the skin. You can leave the white pith on, or not, depending on how much you like the taste of it. Drop the peeled oranges into a high-speed blender (if you don't have a VitaMix, make sure you remove any orange seeds). Toss in a few handfuls of cashews (start off with just a little, and add more as needed to obtain pudding consistency), agave or dates, salt, and vanilla bean. Blend until smooth (if it's too watery, add more cashews--too firm, add another orange).
Scoop the pudding out and chill for half an hour (if you can wait that long!). This is a super easy dish that is extremely delicous. I've made it in the past and served it over fresh blueberries and bananas (I called it orange creme at that time). Yum!
If you don't have enough cashews (that was my case), or you don't like to consume a lot of them, add dried raw coconut flakes as a thickener! That's what I did and it was even more amazing than with just the cashews in it! It tasted a lot more tropical and fresh!
looks good i emailed it to my mom have any recipies with whole wheat elbow pasta ?
Destiny, You will LOVE this orange pudding because I know you love fruit so much! As for the whole wheat pasta, I don't eat pasta. However, since you love sweet bell peppers, a good topping would be lightly stir-fried bell peppers (or raw, if you like them that way!) with some garlic, olive oil, salt, and maybe some Italian seasonings. Ooh! And a few fresh tomatoes would be good, too! Experiment until you like the taste of what you are creating and then write it down! You'll be your own personal chef if you keep trying new things on your own!


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Edie Brickell & New Bohemians - Chicago 2006 (Internet Archive)
From the Internet Archive this is Edie Brickell and New Bohemians Live at Martyr's, Chicago, Illinois back on 25 October 2006.
For those unfamiliar with the band we are can learn the following from Wikipedia (assuming it is accurate and that can be a big assumption) - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians is an alternative rock jam band that originated in Dallas, Texas in the mid-1980's. The band is best known for their 1988 hit "What I Am" from the album Shooting Rubber bands at the Stars.
Their music contains elements of rock, folk, blues, and jazz. Following the release of their 1990 second album Ghost of a Dog, lead singer Edie Brickell married singer-songwriter Paul Simon after leaving the band. In 2006 they launched a new web site and released a new album Stranger Things. In recent years, the New Bohemians have released compilations and a live album and have recorded new material. In the mid-1990's Brickell, Bush and Withrow reunited as The Slip. In 2006 the current members reunited to record and tour with the release of Stranger Things.
Recording Details: Source: AKG 483 (fob) > V3 > MT2496 (16/44.1), Stand on front left corner of the SBD. Transfer: Tracking done in CD Wave.
Sound Quality: High quality audience.
01 Stranger Things
02 Wear You Down
03 The Wheel
05 No Dinero
06 Lover Take Me
07 Spanish Style Guitar
08 Ghost of a Dog
09 Strings of Love
01 Buffalo Ghost
02 10,000 Angels
04 Love Like We Do
05 Long Lost Friend
06 Improv
07 What I Am
08 Circle
01 Funny Thing
02 Beat the Time
03 Dead Flowers
04 You Never Call Me Anymore
05 Little Miss S
06 Air of December
08 Elephants & Ants
09 Mainline Cherry
10 Forgiven
Comments: This recording is available for download on the Internet Archive in FLAC, MP3 and OGG VORBIS formats HERE.
Band Official Website: HERE.
Stream Below:
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians


We've heard many stories of dogs protecting children or saving a family member from some sort of danger. But how do we explain the dog's motivation to do so?
If you haven't watched it yet, this video shows the sickening moment of a dog getting hit and run over by several cars on a highway. Although not one single person stops to help this poor dog, another dog, who I can only assume was its traveling buddy, dashes over to the badly injured pooch and at great peril to himself, with tons of dispassionate steel hurtling by, proceeds to drag his friend to the side of the highway and out of harms way.
The bravery of this dog cannot be underestimated. We know what cars are, but to a dog, they are alien, incomprehensible and terrifying especially when they are headed right towards you. For this dog to run directly towards dozens of speeding automobiles, it took will, courage and determination. But aren't these solely human characteristics? So what exactly made this heroic dog do what he did? Aren't animals just animals?
We've heard many stories of dogs protecting children or saving a family member from some sort of danger. But how do we explain the dog's motivation to do so? And what should we make of animals that behave in extraordinary ways towards other species like the crow that adopts a baby kitten and protects and watches over her? Or the lioness who chooses to befriend a baby antelope rather than feed upon him? These animals seem to be displaying distinctively human attributes of compassion, kindness and well, humanity.
Many animals mate for life, nurture and care for their young, create bonds with other animals and people, and have as strong a desire to survive as we do. We can build bombs, cut down entire forests at will, go shopping, create mountains of garbage, sing karaoke, and run in place for hours on a treadmill but I'm not so sure that the things we do, our activities, our choices and the lives we lead are necessarily more significant or essential than an animal's. In point of fact, the animals often make contributions that equal our own. They pull carts and lead the blind, they carry us on their backs and protect us (often from each other), they warm us and worry us. We are partners on this planet.
I don't mean to dismiss or demean the amazing and beautiful things us humans have accomplished. We make art, music and poetry. We can heal the sick and cure diseases. We can explore, learn, and grow emotionally and spiritually. But we have to admit, we can be devilishly destructive too. For every wonderful thing we do, we often do an equally terrible thing. Out of fear, out of greed, out of jealousy. And we all pay the price. The animals are often unwilling participants in our human drama, but just because we can lord it over the animal kingdom doesn't mean we should.
So the next time we think, so what? It's just a dog. Please remember the scruffy little hero in this video, risking life and limb because he cared about his friend. What other explanation is there for what we can witness with our own eyes? Is it possible to honor, respect and appreciate the lives of animals like we do (or should) our own?
Someone in the comments section where this poignant video was first posted (on HuffPost) quoted Byron's musings of his own dog. I think it is apropos for most of the magnificent creatures whom we share this planet with!
"Beauty without vanity, strength without violence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices."


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Fresh virus outbreak hampers Thai domestic air travel
By TIN Media | Asean News Published 1 week ago on 12 January 2021
THAILAND :
The second wave of Covid-19 has put the brakes on the recent budding recovery in air travel demand in Thailand, with domestic air travel plunging by 60 percent since the start of 2021, reported the Bangkok Post.
That figure was drawn from 20 airports, which are under the purview of the Department of Airports (DoA) nationwide, said the report, quoting Apirat Chaiwongnoi, acting director-general of the department.
The number of domestic passengers passing through the 20 airports also dropped from an average of 30,000 a day before the New Year to 12,000, he said.
After the long New Year weekend, the number of daily flights operated into and out of the 20 airports was down 40 percent to 100 on average, compared to the 160 flights on average pre-holiday.
Airlines have scaled back their flights in the face of declining demand, with some asking the DoA to extend remedial measures, including landing fee discounts, which expired on December 31, according to the report. Apirat said discussions to support the sector will take place soon, it added.
The report also quoted a source from the Transport Ministry as saying that heavy cancellations of flights had begun to be lodged with authorities from January 6.


Can't forget JP Patches, Brakeman Bill, Stan Boreson, and Captain Kangaroo. JP is finally retiring due to health issue.
right on cindy !!! me too !!!!
Looking forward to Hippiefest tour and playing with Mark Farner, Gary Wright, Rick Derringer, and the Rascals! Hope to see you there. Dates now posted on our tour schedule.


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Q: Is it appropriate to use GLMM for the dataset I have I am interested in determining the influence of biotic (initial height) and abiotic (light, canopy, soil moisture content, soil nutrients, rainfall, and temperature) factors in the absolute height-growth of a particular plant species. The absolute height-growth(AHG, in cm), the response variable, is just the difference between the plant height in November (last census) and the plant height in September (first census). I have set up plots in three study sites-- in low (n=5), middle (n=5), and high (n=6) elevations. I was thinking of using the plots as the random effect and the rest of the predictors as fixed effects. However, I only have one value for available soil phosphorus and potassium regardless of the elevation. The dataset can be found here: Dataset
Is it appropriate to use glmm for this dataset? If not, what are my options?

A: With only a single value of soil phosphorus and potassium for all cases, you can't find any relationship between them and your outcome.
You have a similar problem with Light and Canopy. Each of the 3 Elevations only has a single value for each of those predictors. So you can't separate out Elevation from Light or Canopy in the model. You can only choose 1 of them; if you try to use more than 1 the software will just choose 1 on its own. I suppose the Elevation will be the safest choice.
It's not a good idea to model a change score like AHG as an outcome with the baseline height as a predictor. See this page. The change is necessarily related to the baseline. Model the final height instead, which you can easily calculate from your data.
You currently have plot numbers 1 though 5 or 6 for each of the Elevations. If you just use the current plot numbers for your random effect labels, there's a risk that the software will assume you have the same plot repeated at each elevation. You will avoid troubles if you give each plot a unique label (like H1 through H6, L1 through L5, M1 through M5). Then you can use those unique plot labels for your random effects.
A "GLMM" is a "generalized linear mixed model." The "generalized" part means that you are modeling some function of the outcome against the predictor variables. You might be able to use a standard linear model similar to ordinary least squares, but keeping a random effect (lmer() function in R). That's just a "LMM" (linear mixed model).
You also have a wide range of Initial.height values. You have to think about how you think that final height might change as a function of initial height. Sometimes a log transform of the height values works well. That would model the mean of the logs of the final values. Or you could use a generalized model with a gaussian family and a log link to model the log of the means of the final values. With a continuous predictor it's often a good idea to model it flexibly, like with a spline, instead of assuming a strict linear association with outcome.
Then you must decide what combinations of the predictors you want to model. For example, if you think that the effect of a predictor (like Initial.height) might depend on Elevation, include an interaction between that predictor and Initial.height.

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IMAX Corporation (NYSE:IMAX) and World Media Holding Inc., a leading media company in the Middle East, today announced an agreement for two new IMAX®theatres. The theatres will be operated by World Media Holding subsidiary CinemaCity and will be added to new multiplexes in Abu Dhabi's Mushrif Mall and at the ZERO 6 Mall in Sharjah - the first IMAX theatre in the UAE's third-largest city. Today's deal brings World Media Holding's IMAX commitment to three theatres, with an IMAX theatre contracted to open in Doha, Qatar.
"Our existing theatres in the Middle East have performed exceptionally well with per-screen averages of over $1 million, up more than 16 percent year-to-date versus last year. We believe these strong results are serving as a catalyst for growth in the region, where we have signed seven theatre deals this year compared to two in 2014," said IMAX CEO Richard L. Gelfond. "I am optimistic about our prospects in the Middle East and, together with valued partners such as World Media Holding, look forward to expanding our footprint in this underpenetrated market."
"We are proud to align ourselves with the IMAX brand, which is becoming increasingly popular among moviegoers in the Middle East," said Hammad Atassi, CEO World Media Holding Inc. "IMAX is the most advanced cinema format in the world. By adding additional IMAX theatres to our circuit we are gaining a key competitive advantage we are confident will help strengthen our business and delight our guests."
About World Media Holding, Inc.
World Media Holding through its subsidiaries operating in the Middle East and Europe is one of the leading Entertainment companies in the Region. The company is currently adding 5 new Multiplexes with 60 new screens in 3 different countries and is currently in discussions to add 3 more to its already existing network. With the opening of the projects in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, World Media Holding will be operating 11Cinema locations with 107 screens and over 16,000 seats in the Middle East.


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Q: Android image upload not getting to PHP script I'm trying to upload an image from Android to a PHP server.
Here is my upload code:
public static void uploadFile(final String imagePath){

    HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(SERVER);

    try {
        File imageFile = new File(imagePath);

        httpClient.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.USER_AGENT, System.getProperty("http.agent"));

        MultipartEntityBuilder entity = MultipartEntityBuilder.create();

        entity.setMode(HttpMultipartMode.BROWSER_COMPATIBLE);
        entity.addPart("image", new FileBody(imageFile));

        httpPost.setEntity(entity.build());
        HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

        HttpEntity resEntity = response.getEntity();

        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(resEntity.getContent(), "UTF-8"));
        String sResponse;
        StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder();

        while ((sResponse = reader.readLine()) != null) {
            s = s.append(sResponse);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Here is my PHP code for handling the upload:
<?php
    echo "FILES - ";
    var_dump($_FILES);
    echo " REQUEST - ";
    var_dump($_REQUEST);

    $file_path = "images";

    $file_path = $file_path . basename($_FILES['image']['name']);

    if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'], $file_path)) {
        echo "success";
    } else{
        echo "fail";
    }
?>

I'm getting 200 responses from the page, but the $_FILES and $_REQUEST variables are both empty. It seems that the image file is not making it to the script, and I have no idea why. I'm doing it right according to all the tutorials I've found.
The images I'm uploading are ~180kb
Any ideas?

A: This was a problem with my server. I switched to using a different sub-domain of my server, and it's working perfectly now.


Users can sync their personal work schedule to their Google calendar through HotSchedules. This way all of your important information is in one place!
Log into your HotSchedules account.
Hover over the Settings tab.
Click the Link to my Google Calendar button located in the left panel.
Choose OK to confirm that you want to send HotSchedules shift information to your Google account.
You will be redirected to Google to log into your account and elect to Allow Access again.
The email address you chose will now appear in the Calendar section.
Note: If you are not redirected to Google to confirm this process, you may need to check your pop up blocker settings.
If you ever need to disconnect your email address return to this page and click the Remove button.
Users also have the ability to sync their schedule information to the calendar on their mobile phone device.
Log into your mobile application.
Open the side navigation menu and choose Settings.
Once you are on the settings page, click Preferences.
From preferences, select Calendar Sync.
To enabled the calendar sync, use the slider. If it is green that means it has been enabled.
Bring back the calendar sync! Where has this option gone?
Was the issue that William reported above ever resolved? I also have the same issue where my schedule shows up in my linked google calendar an hour prior to my actual scheduled time. I have confirmed the time zone in my google calendar to be in Central time zone where i reside.
Thank you for contacting Customer Care! I was able to find your account by searching your email address. I was able to determine the site for the Chili's in Fort Walton Beach was set to the eastern time zone rather than the central time zone.
I verified that the site should be in central and made the change. Please check your google calendar to see if this updated your times to the correct time. If it does not please unsync and resync your HotSchedules account to your google calendar.
Whenever I try to link my google calendar I hit ok then it doesn't do anything?
This option is no longer listed?! I used this feature heavily, is this something that's being taken out or has it just not been fixed in recent updates?
Saphia, read the "Note" section: If you are not redirected to Google to confirm this process, you may need to check your pop up blocker settings.
That fixed the issue for me.
Hallo! Has this feature been removed? or is it being restricted by my admin?
> I am using Chrome browser on a Mac all w/ current updates.
> Login>Settings>Personal looks nothing like the support article and has no button to link calendar.
Please advise. Thanks! I work two jobs and go to school so this feature is critical.


It happened Monday afternoon at Airline and I-220 westbound.
Bossier City Police Officers were dispatched to a two-vehicle crash Monday afternoon around 1:49 p.m., that claimed the life of a passenger.
53-year-old David Sigle of Mooringsport, was driving a red Ford Focus northbound in the turning lane on Airline Drive towards I-220 westbound. According to witnesses, Sigle ran a red light and was struck by an oncoming white Lincoln Aviator that was southbound on Airline Drive.
The front seat passenger of the Ford Focus, 73-year-old Kathryn Johnson of Mooringsport, was pronounced dead on the scene.
Sigle was cited for disregarding the traffic control signal. No impairment is suspected in the crash.


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Hello, June! School is still in session for me. I find myself needing more grab and go materials this time of year because of all the testing, special events, and just general chaos going on. I created some task cards that can quickly be used during any session - all year round!
Put on your sunglasses and head over to my blog to download your copy!


A ticking metronome. Looping with alpha matte included.
Orchestra leader hands. The swinging hands and baton of the conductor of an orchestra. Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance with visible gestures. The conductor unifies performers, sets the tempo.
Moving background chessboard pattern in perspective, black and white geometric design.
Close up on artist strumming 4 string guitar as strings vibrate.
Side view of three small bowls filled with different liquids. Part of a science exhibit to showcase the different temperature change tempo of different liquids.
Animation of futuristic and high tech mechanism with light and rotation details with tubes, abstract machine background.


'Bedside Manners' : A man and his sister-in-law out on a drive together stop in a rural location, only to be set upon by masked robbers, and in their attempt to escape they crash their car. The pair try to keep their rendezvous a secret, but when they and one of their attackers all arrive separately at the ED, it doesn't take long for keen trainee doctor Lily to uncover the link between the patients.
Meanwhile, Dixie helps a feisty elderly woman who is in serious pain after being knocked over by a cyclist.


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Yuka Saso Wins Big And Made History At The U.S Women's Open
By Bianca Padilla
Saso became the first Filipino to win a major golf tournament.
Yuka Saso made history this June 6 when she beat Japan's Nasa Hataoka in a play-off to win the Women's US Open. After her accepting the trophy of her win, Saso also earned an LPGA Tour card that comes with a five-year exemption as a major winner. "To all my friends and fans back in the Philippines and Japan: I'm really thankful. I hope I can keep this going," Saso said after her historic win.
YUKA MAGIC! 🇵🇭
At 19 years, 11 months, 17 days old, Yuka Saso joined World @GolfHallofFame member and 7x major winner Inbee Park as the youngest champion in #USWomensOpen history – to the day.
— U.S. Women's Open (USGA) (@uswomensopen) June 7, 2021
Saso became the youngest winner of the event together with South Korea's Inbee Park—both of them won the US Women's Open at 19, years, 11 months and 17 days. Aside from that, Saso became the first Filipino to win one of golf's major championships. Here are some details you may not know about this rising sports star:
She's Both Filipino and Japanese
Yuka Saso is a dual citizen of the Philippines and Japan. Saso was born on June 20, 2001 to Filipino and Japanese parents Fritzie and Masazuka in San Ildefonso, Philippines. She dedicated her win to her parents. She said, "I'd like to thank my family. I wouldn't be here without them."
She Started Young(er)
Since she couldn't speak Japanese and didn't have any friends at the time, her father Masakazu Saso would bring her to the golf course. She spent her time playing and watching golf videos that's why at age 9 she was sure of what she wanted to be—a professional golfer like four-time men's major champion Rory Mcllroy.
Yuka Saso. Photo from Golf Channel.
Her father saw a bright future for his kid in the field of sports so he brought Yuka back to the Philippines to pursue her dream of becoming a professional golf player. Her hard work starts to pay off as she won two gold medals for the country at the 2018 Asian Games, one in the individual event and another in the team event. Eventually, she turn pro in 2019, after earning her Japan LPGA card.
"My dream was to be World No 1 and win a US Women's Open," she said. "But I wasn't thinking that I would really hold this trophy this week."
She's a Major Golf Fan
She's not only earned a trophy, but also the attention of her inspiration. McIlroy expressed his support to Yuka in his Instragram saying, "Great playing the last few days, Yuka Saso. Go finish it out today and get that trophy". Saso thanked McIlroy, the player who inspired her start in golf, after her win.
"Rory mentioned me on Instagram and said, 'Get that trophy.' And I did, so 'Thank you, Rory,'" she said. McIlroy was not done there, tweeting: "Everyone's going to be watching Yuka Saso swing videos on YouTube now."
Everyone's going to be watching Yuka Saso swing videos on YouTube now. Congratulations! 🏆 https://t.co/oyKoFHgjz1
— Rory McIlroy (@McIlroyRory) June 7, 2021
She Loves K-Pop—and Daniel Padilla
Yuka Saso, just like any other teen her age is a fan of many pop culture icons. According to Yuka, music, movies, and Rory McIlroy are helping her get through these challenging times. She said in her interview that she's a fan of some K-Pop groups and this one local actor, she says, "I like TWICE, Blackpink, Sam Smith, Daniel Padilla, he looks really good, I like him!"
She Wants More Kids to Play Golf
As an ambassador of the game, Saso also wants golf to become more popular in her country like basketball. She would love to see kids have an easier access to playing golf.
The first Filipino 🇵🇭 #USWomensOpen champion!
🇵🇭 Mabuhay Yuka Saso! Ang bagong kampeon ng US Women's Open! 🇵🇭
She said, "In the Philippines there's a lot of young players who want to play golf but they don't have enough money, they couldn't afford to play in the tournament so they can't go. But if we can all support them then maybe they can all go and experience an international tournament."
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