The preseason mixtape by RBN (Rich by Nature) is now available on HipHopHead today 20th January 2019 for free downloads and for your soul's nutrition.
The duo of (Super Luey, Ferno Blaze) with the constant features from various artists gives much soul to the project. I can say this is a balanced diet of pure lyrical, spiritual, diverse use of flow and style to your listening pleasure And thought.
This is Rap theology, comprising of 20+ tracks of rap, poetry, worship and truth on display. 2019 has definitely begun with a bang!
The mixtape opens with "run it" by Luey and Blaze, a dope trap track where both emcees talk on how they keep on with the Grace of God which includes a light bridge by Young T.
The next track "you and I" performed by Ferno Blaze incorporates a pop styled Approach with a female voice ad-libbing the chorus.
This Rich by Nature mixtape has too much sense to select from. But the standout tracks include "pull up" a rap dancehall track featuring Johnny Green made for all those who believe in Love the right way. Another is "Jane/John Doe" a slang used to denote those unidentified people who misused their lives in the name of pleasure.
There are many more delicious tracks to speak on. But you need to get the full dose of the tape in order to appreciate true art. Here are links to download each track, enjoy the full measure!


Japanese bread has a unique and intricate history, evolving over time to become an essential part of the Japanese diet. For a country known for its delicious rice, ever wonder how there came to be so many unique and tasty types of bread in Japan? In this article, we will give you a brief history of how bread came to Japan, and how bread and Japanese bakeries have changed over the years into the things many people love and adore today.
Bread first arrived in Japan in 1543, when a Portuguese ship washed ashore carrying with it Christian missionaries, goods, and guns. Afterwards, as the missionaries traveled throughout the land to spread their message, they brought bread with them. There are even historical records of Oda Nobunaga, the famous general and daimyo (feudal era ruler) in power at the time, eating some kind of bread brought by the missionaries. As the National Isolation Edict came to effect in 1587, however, the once-popular bread disappeared along with Japan's open borders.
Let's fast forward through the history of bread in Japan to the Edo Period. With the break out of the Opium War in 1840, bread was mass produced under the instruction of a military science researcher, who thought it to be convenient as a field ration to feed hungry soldiers. With this as a catalyst, people began to eat bread again. With Japan's borders now open to the rest of the world, Japanese bread culture rapidly took root. After the Second World War, at a time Japan was facing food shortages, a large quantity of wheat was delivered to Japan, and bread steadily became a staple in the Japanese diet.
Over time Japanese bread started to get creative. The representative variety created in Japan is anpan (red bean paste bread), invented in 1869 by the founder of the current Kimuraya Main Store. It features a natural yeast made of fermented rice and Koji rice to suit Japanese tastes. In 1900, buns such as jam-pan (jam-filled bread), and cream-pan (cream-filled bread), which were inspired by cream puffs, were produced. In 1972, kare-pan (curry bread), a deep-fried bun with curry inside, appeared. Melon-pan (melon bread), a bun baked with a cookie dough top, and korone, which is a spiral shell shaped bread with its hollow filled with cream, are also popular types of original Japanese bread.
Sekiguchi France-pan is a long-established bakery which has stuck to its original recipe since it made the first classic French bread debut in Japan about 120 years ago. Their most popular product is the baguette. It is thin and crispy on the outside, while soft and fluffy on the inside. Try some baguettes that are unique to Japan, like the Matcha Baguette which has black soybeans and matcha kneaded into the dough, and Goma-France which is a baguette sandwich that uses black sesame cream. Amazingly enough, this bakery sells almost 100 kinds of bread. The store offers 68 seats for on-site eating.
Established in 1957, Aokiya's sandwich buns have captivated people of all ages, without needing to change their original taste. They sell four types of Japanese bread: korokke-pan (croquette bun), menchi-katsu-pan (ground meat cutlet bun), tonkatsu-pan (pork cutlet bun) and hamkatsu-pan (breaded ham cutlet bun). Korokke-pan is the most popular. It uses a simple recipe of mashed potatoes mixed with stir-fried cabbage and carrot, with no meat inside. They exclusively use potatoes made in Hokkaido. It has an addictive taste from the balance of the sweet hot dog bun and the sauce. The bread is substantial with its two croquette fillings as well.
Now that you know a little about the history of bread in Japan, why not try some Japanese bread yourself on your next trip to Tokyo?
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Q: Confusion regarding apostrophe To talk about something or someone, we usually give an apostrophe, like John's pen. If the word ends with s, we say Adams' pen . But what if we are talking of something that ends with an apostrophe s like Jack's (what we sometimes say in short for Jack's home, or Jack's kitchen etc.). How do I use an apostrophe for words like these? (For eg. If I want to say "Jack's house is closed" but I want to write Jack's instead of Jack's house  , How do I manage the apostrophe?)

A: If you're asking about omitting the second "house" from, for example, "My house is open, but Jack's house is closed" then I'd simply omit it: "My house is open, but Jack's is closed."
If, on the other hand, you're asking about nested possessives, as in "My house's roof is brown but Jack's house's roof is gray", and you want to omit the second "house", then you have a problem. Logic dictates "Jack's's is gray" but I can't bring myself to imagine that this is acceptable. I'd advise rephrasing the whole thing to circumvent the problem.

A: Jack's is still the correct way of saying the house belongs to Jack, whether or not you use the word house after it.

"Have you ever been inside the house at 334 Elm Street?"
"Oh yeah, that's Jack's house."

Or,

"Which of those three houses is Jack's?"
"That's Jack's" (pointing to the Cape Cod with the tan shingles).

Two different ways of saying the same thing.

A: The punctuation usage of the possessive apostrophe have evolved according to the whims of the print media.
In the USA : They only use an apostrophe if the word is 2 syllables or more: Thomas' report, Rogers' network.
For 1 syllable words they add an apostrophe plus an "s" – Jones's diary or Chris's meeting.
In the UK : They add an apostrophe plus "s" to make all names possessive: Robert Francis's book.

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Treehouse came about in 1999 when I was living in rural Geddington. I was pretty involved in the Kettering area music scene again - helping run the annual charity festival Sundaze at Rushton Hall School For The Blind - and attending some of the new acoustic nights that were cropping at venues like The Boot, Earls Barton and The Greyhound, Rothwell, meeting loads of new musician friends. I hooked up with Justin Prescott and my old school pal Pete McAlinden and started putting a bit more flesh on the bones of my acoustic songs. We recorded a 5 track EP in Leicester with Kev Reverb on the desk - it was a very positive experience and and we had a good launch for it at O'Malleys in Kettering. We didn't actually do too many gigs in that line up and our best show was supporting Ezio in the main room of Northampton Roadmender. I had always seen the line up a bit like The Waterboys; a kind of flexible acoustic collective centered around my songs.. Guitarist Hakan Ozel featured as an early duo member and we did quite a few gigs in local pubs earning a few quid here and there with a very covers heavy set. Tommy Hall later joined and we gigged alot as a duo with a strong partnership that worked well but we never got to work much on the original material. Eventually Mark Gill and Tim Harrison joined me and Pete and we managed to work on the songs as a band. We gigged a few times in this line up and this sound paved the way for my debut solo album and for Mark and I to start working very closely together for the next few years.


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Farewell, Omnigul farming. Thanks to a new hotfix, Destiny players will no longer be able to repeatedly kill Omnigul for blue loot. Moon wizards, rejoice.
Of course, this doesn't solve the major problem that Rise of the Iron brought to the table. The problem, as anyone who's played Destiny over the past week knows, is that leveling past 340 is a major grind. It's a convoluted process with arbitrary rules (blue engrams are capped at 340, but decrypted blue gear can drop up to 365 for some reason) that can be very, very time-consuming. Making progress in the new raid requires you to be at least 355 or 360, and getting there can be a chore unless you read in-depth FAQs on how to do it.
Players had farmed Omnigul as an easy way to bypass this nonsense (and level far more quickly), but as usual, Bungie is trying to treat the symptom rather than the cause. It's standard Destiny rhythm: Bungie creates a tedious experience, so players find an exploit to get around it. Instead of trying to make the experience less tedious, Bungie simply removes the exploit.
At least there's a bit of good news: Bungie has upped the drop rate of SIVA Offerings (the items that let you trigger the Archon's Forge) and added a guaranteed way to get them. Although you can still only hold one at a time. Because Destiny.


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Q: no simple group of order $945$ I need to show that there are no simple groups of order $945$.
I've tried the regular method using the Sylow theorems.
$$|G|=945=3^3\cdot5\cdot7 $$
If $G$ is simple then there should be 7 Sylow-3 groups ; 21 Sylow-5 groups and 15  Sylow-7 groups. Even if they would all intersect trivially, there will still be no contradiction.
Any ideas?

A: If as you say there are 7 Sylow 3-subgroups, then the normalizer $N$ of one of these subgroups has index 7.  If $G$ is simple, then there is an injective permutation representation $G \hookrightarrow S_7$, and so $|G| = 945$ must divide $7!$, but this is not the case.

A: I think every simple group has even order.


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Caroline Overington's fiction and Can You Keep A Secret? A Response
Caroline Overington's fiction polarizes. Some people, having read one of her books, swear off reading more. Others devour each one as it is published and eagerly await the next.
I'm trying to tease out why.
Overington chooses to write about topics which are highly emotive – melodramatic, even – topics which are often sensationalized in the news. Her books deal with murder within families, institutional neglect and abuse, and, most recently, in Can You Keep A Secret?, international adoption. All her books, including the latest, are page-turning, thought-provoking reads.
To illustrate these topics, Overington depicts characters from the working or welfare-dependent classes, ill-educated people, sometimes mentally disturbed; people on the fringes of society who, at best, behave badly, at worst, could be seen as downright evil. When reading about these characters and what they get up to, it can be hard, as a middle-class, educated reader, not to feel voyeuristic and judgemental – and highly manipulated by the author.
Some readers I know are uncomfortable at being put into such a position and stop reading. Others, like me, are fascinated and compelled to go on.
Reading Overington's fiction reminds me of a time I spent watching the Jerry Springer show (which I had to do as part of research for a cultural studies unit I was teaching years ago). On the show, mostly black, working class guests behaved badly for a (mostly, it seemed) white, middle-class audience. As I watched the guests' antics, I knew I was being emotionally manipulated, but I could see viewers' fascination and why, for some, it might even become addictive. While such "bad" behaviour was going on, seemingly in front of my eyes, I could feel just that little bit superior, reassured that my own faults and failings – and there are many – aren't quite as bad as my conscience would suggest. I could feel that much more satisfied that I was okay; at least, I wasn't like them.
The pernicious element about Springer's show was that it purported to be true, that the people used to create the show's spectacles genuinely represent facets of society and actual human behaviour; and the viewing "eye" of the camera and Springer's staging played no part in falsifying reality and in exploiting those guests for dramatic effect.
Not so with Overington, right? After all, she writes fiction.
Well, it's complicated.
In an interview with Sarah Tabitha, Overington writes:
In fiction, I have found a freedom to write what really goes on in society: I can say what I've seen when I've walked into houses where children have been neglected; I can discuss what it might be like to be a child whose brother was murdered by the parents, having to grow up with a mother in jail, and so forth. My readers are clever: they know it's all true. (Source)
Freed from the constraints of libel, Overington sees herself as being able to portray in fiction a clearer representation of human behaviour than she can as a journalist.
That's what I find disturbing – and thought provoking – about her work. If how she depicts humans is "true", what does that say about humanity? Are we really so self-seeking, grasping, venal and deluded as many of her characters appear to be? Is it the novelist's job to expose such behaviour? Satirists from Voltaire, Swift and Twain onwards would no doubt say it is, and that's how I choose to see Overington's writing: as satirical.
Overington, as a journalist, has interviewed many people in distress, both victims and perpetrators of horrific crimes. She has had insights into experiences few of us could imagine – except if you've lived through them, or things similar. Coming at behaviour from the outside, as a viewer, it's easier to get an overview, to simplify into neat packages of good and evil, sane and insane. It's different when you're part of the story. If you were to identify fully with one of the people Overington writes about, it might be harder to parcel off the moral worth of other humans' actions without more ambiguity, subtlety and complexity; harder, one might say, to throw the first stone.
This distinction may well reflect the difference between satirical writing and more literary writing. The satirical writer, like the sensationalist, opts for surface effect, making it easier to hold others up to ridicule; while the literary writer works hard to take us into the minds and hearts of those whom, because of their behaviour and experiences, we might otherwise objectify and reject. The satirical writer distances us from others; the literary writer reminds us of our common humanity.
Right from the start, the style of Overington's Can You Keep A Secret? creates distance.
In the opening section of the novel, Overington uses an omniscient narrator to introduce the main characters: Caitlin, the working class girl from Townsville, and Colby, the stockbroker tourist from New York. As the story progresses the narrative focuses on Caitlin and her desire, by whatever means, to live the American dream and be a "mom", but it's not via the kind of deep, third-person subjective point of view that appears in much contemporary Australian fiction; rather, Overington creates distance by relying on dialogue and action to "show" Caitlin's story: we are never fully invited into her head or to identify with her concerns. For those who feel bogged down by characters' introspection, this stylistic levity is refreshing; it also better enables the reader to form a judgemental view of the main character and her behaviour.
Even when the narrative switches to first person in the middle section of the story, Caitlin's "blog" where she writes of her dream of adopting a child, we experience, along with her blog readers, only the illusion of intimacy: we know, from the prior narrative, Caitlin has kept important details from her readers, so we can't trust what she tells us about herself and her experiences. Again, this makes it easier to judge her in the end.
Overington's style interests me, as does her boldness in writing the "truth" as she sees it. She is unafraid to polarise, to offend, to invite judgement of behaviour she sees as wrong. She has found a way of doing this, of critiquing aspects of society and human behaviour, while telling a page-turning story. With so many things wrong about the world, so much to complain about, such conviction and moral certainty is enviable. Maybe more Australian women writers could follow suit and be more satirical? Except, instead of depicting in a negative light the behaviour of society's most vulnerable and weak, such writers – perhaps even Overington herself – might target those whose venality has a far greater negative impact: the corrupt elites and privileged classes who wield the most power.
Do you agree Overington's writing is satirical? Are there any other Australian women authors whose work could be seen in this light?
Title: Can You Keep A Secret?
Publisher: Random House Australia; imprint: Bantam
A review copy was kindly supplied by the publisher.
This response forms a part of my contribution to the Australian Women Writers Challenge and Aussie Author Challenge. Other books by Overington I've reviewed included No Place Like Home and Sisters of Mercy.
by Elizabeth Lhuede on September 1, 2014 • Permalink
Posted in AWW challenge, Book review, Reflective essay, suspense
Tagged adoption, australian fiction, Caroline Overington, literary fiction, satire, sensationalism
Posted by Elizabeth Lhuede on September 1, 2014
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' A useful reminder that the system is fallible' – Rough Justice: True Crime by Robin Bowles
This is a challenging look at the criminal justice system. At a time when governments have responded to the fear of terrorism with extreme measures, it is a useful reminder that the system is fallible. Julian Burnside QC, quoted on the cover of Rough Justice
I picked up my copy of Rough Justice by Robin Bowles through a discount online bookstore over a year ago and it has been sitting on my shelves waiting for a moment when I had the time and inclination to pick it up. That moment came this week when I tripped and gashed my knee, forcing me to take time off. What better way to recover from an injury than to read. As I'm currently writing a novel which involves crime, the "true crime" genre appeals to me: I welcome any insights I can glean into the workings of police, investigative journalists, prosecutors and defence lawyers, as well as the courts, as background material for my fiction. Rough Justice provides plenty of such insights.
Bowles' book is subtitled "Unanswered Questions from the Australian Courts" and it certainly raises more questions than it answers. It discusses eight cases, three in Victoria, one each in South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales. Some of the cases are well known, including that of Bradley Murdoch, convicted of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio; and of Greg Domaszewicz, who, despite having been acquitted of murdering toddler Jaidyn Leskie, subsequently had a coronial finding against him. Other cases are less well known, at least to me. In each case, the defendants have protested their innocence. Several have been exonerated; others are still fighting for "justice" – or, at least, to clear their names.
But what is "justice"? That's the real unanswered question this book poses.
Bowles looks at the processes behind these cases and reveals grave flaws in the judicial system. Her discussion identifies various points at which an innocent person can be unjustly convicted, including incompetence in how evidence is gathered or interpreted, possible police corruption and coercion of witnesses, bias created in the minds of both witnesses and potential jurors by the media, and flawed judicial proceedings. The problems, she suggests, come from our adversarial system which demands two sides play off against one another; the winner, she implies, is often the side with the deepest pockets. Thus wealth, privilege and class – or the lack of these – ensure not a "fair" trial, but what can be successfully argued in court, a recipe for creating an underclass who risk being incarcerated simply because they are too poor to mount a convincing defence.
Readers of reviews on my blog may know of my ambivalence to the fiction of Caroline Overington. Despite being riveted by Overington's tales, I'm left with an uneasy feeling resulting from a forced encounter with moral ambiguity. I experience something similar when reading Bowles' book. In her efforts to tell two (or more) sides of the story, Bowles, I feel, manipulates me; it's as if I'm being drawn to form one opinion, only for the facts subsequently to be presented in an equally convincing, sometimes opposite way. It's a clever ploy, as it reinforces the book's theme and underlines the problems faced by police, investigators, jurors and judges in deciding what is "true". Often, it appears to come down to, not what is true but what is "believable", and that is restricted by the evidence known or presented at any one time.
I'm also made uneasy by the subtext about class, derived by way of language. In looking for information about these cases online, I came across a thread on a website where people (the "public") were giving their opinions on the Jaidyn Leskie murder. One commentator mentioned how so many of these sensational cases involve communities where people have names that are spelled with "yn", instead of (presumably upper-class) names like "Jeremy". This (somewhat bizarre) comment made me think. Both Favel Parrett in Past the Shallows and Tara June Winch in Swallow the Air write about poor, uneducated protagonists; but both authors depict these protagonists' worlds using language which is richly poetic. The authors' beautiful prose has the effect of dignifying the poverty and tragedy of their characters' lives. Both Bowles and Overington, by contrast, use plain language – a "journalistic" style – combined with, at times, the idioms consistent with the class, background and education of the people they write about; this plainness – and, at times, crudeness – does nothing to disguise the poverty of these people's lives and values. As readers, we're forced into an uncomfortable position. Are we meant to judge or empathise with these people? Do we stand above, or do we consider "them" to be our equals?
Bowles weighs down, in my view, on the side of empathy for the defendants, not because she demonstrates their innocence or virtue, but because she shows how these people – guilty or innocent – are equally screwed by the system. At the same time, she shows how they're equally capable of screwing the system in return – and so is she. At one point, she describes how Denis Tanner, a man who was found by a coroner to have shot his sister-in-law, had an entirely separate charge of assault brought against him. Bowles writes:
At one point, he was charged with whacking a photojournalist in the testicles with his heavy briefcase as he left the coroner's court. He was acquitted because a visit by the Magistrate's Court to the scene of the alleged 'crime' showed that the police witness who said he saw the whole thing couldn't have seen anything from his office because of a tree outside his window. They didn't ask me, though. I saw everything! (161)
What did Bowles see? She doesn't state. But "everything" could hardly be "nothing". It's hard to escape the conclusion that, for Bowles, in this instance at least, seeming impartiality and actual complicity are one and the same thing. It could be a metaphor for the equally fraught nature of the Australian justice system. Perhaps it was intended to be.
Author: Robin Bowles
Title: Rough Justice: Unanswered Questions from the Australian Courts
Publisher: The Five Mile Press
This review counts towards both the Australian Women Writers Challenge 2014 and the 2014 Aussie Author Challenge.
by Elizabeth Lhuede on February 6, 2014 • Permalink
Posted in Aussie Author Challenge, AWW challenge, Book review, crime, nonfiction, Reflective essay
Tagged adversarial system, Australian judicial system, Bradley Murdoch, Caroline Overington, Greg Domaszewicz, injustice, Jaidyn Leskie, Peter Falconia, Robin Bowles, Rough Justice, true crime
Posted by Elizabeth Lhuede on February 6, 2014
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What's troubling about Sisters of Mercy – and why it's worth reading
While reading Caroline Overington's latest novel, Sisters of Mercy, I was reminded of Jonathan Swift's famous 18th-century essay which depicted one solution to Ireland's poverty: eating Catholic babies. I'm not sure I ever found the essay funny, and I'm not sure it was intended to be. But I remember reading that Swift was a very angry man. That's the feeling I got from Sisters of Mercy.
Caroline Overington is either angry at a broken system or angry, full stop.
My guess from reading her novels is that Overington's angry about welfare cheats, dole bludgers, gamblers, addicts, alcoholics, bleeding heart liberals, social workers and bureaucrats. She hates hypocrisy, political correctness and self-serving spin. She wants to tell it as it is, without bullshit, and part of her anger is directed at people who should get off their arses and work, bureaucrats who should take responsibility for their failures, governments who should stop enabling victim mentality and start implementing policies that force people to accept responsibility for their own lives, no matter what trauma, hardship, abuse and neglect they suffered in childhood. My suspicion is that she sees this as the only healthy, sane alternative to a welfare state that breeds resentment among hard-working, salt-of-the-earth types who pay taxes, and well-meaning but misguided policies which create life- and initiative-sapping dependency among victims.
Reading Sisters of Mercy I found myself getting angry, too, but not, I think, about the same things as Overington. Rather, I found myself angry at her portrayal of characters in the novel, especially the central female character, Sally Narelle Delaney, known as "Snow", at the way Overington manipulated my sympathies and made me withdraw my compassion for an essentially damaged – and damaging – figure.
Snow, the central "character" of the story, is a trained nurse who finds herself in charge of a house full of handicapped children – or "handi-capable" as Overington's PC characters are reported to say. So cold and detached from reality is Snow, she appears to have no conscience; more, she lacks the barest insight into the heinousness of her own behaviour. Her lack of empathy is psychopathic, and all the more chilling as she sees the people she houses, not as victims, but rather as a responsibility she takes seriously, people whom she looks after with the utmost care – if we are to believe the tale Snow tells of herself through her self-justifying letters to the journalist, Fawcett, the other main figure in the novel. I say "figure" rather than "character" because he is never more than a mouthpiece for Snow, a vehicle for her story to come to light. But is Snow any more of a character? Or is she more a vehicle for Overington's scorn?
There are reasons to doubt Snow is a true character. This isn't a flaw in the novel, but rather an indication of the complexity of the narrative structure: the letters to Fawcett are the only way we get to know Snow – a narrative device, incidentally, typical of Swift's 18th-century period – and there's evidence that the self-portrait can't be trusted, since Fawcett catches her out in a lie. Snow – along with her motivations and the truth, perhaps, of her missing sister – remains essentially unknowable. Therefore the reader can't really feel empathy for her, the lack of which quality leads to Snow's gravest crimes.
So what is so troubling about Sisters of Mercy? It isn't just that Snow herself is so unsympathetic. Recently I wrote that I'd like to see more portrayals of women behaving badly in fiction written by Australian women; and the portrait Overington sketches of Snow is certainly that. So what made me so uncomfortable?
It's a question of tone.
Years ago, as an undergraduate, I was taught a definition of tone as "the attitude of the writer to her subject matter and the feeling conveyed to the reader". That's the trouble I had with Sisters of Mercy: I couldn't work out whether Overington's scathing portrayal was meant to be satirical – even blackly humorous – or taken seriously.
If Sisters of Mercy is satire, it holds up to ridicule the bureaucrats who enabled Snow and her partner to milk the system, and portrays Snow herself as a kind of nightmare embodiment of the consequences of all those well-meaning, politically correct, bureaucratic decisions. But from what position are we as readers invited to judge? I personally know little of how to avoid abuses of the welfare system or to deal with the problems of looking after the disabled, government funding, and the consequences of neglectful childhoods, trauma and abuse. So who am I – are we – to ridicule those who try to solve these problems?
I also found it difficult to know the limits of Overington's attack.
In Sisters of Mercy, Overington portrays a character deliberately contrasting to Snow, her older sister, Agnes who was taken away from her parents as a baby during the Second World War and raised in an orphanage. Agnes is shown to have grown up to be more well-adjusted than Snow who, by contrast, was born into wedlock to flawed parents. It might be a stretch to say that this contrast suggests Overington is critical of the Government for its apology to the "Forgotten Generation" of English child migrants, and it would certainly be a stretch from there to imagine that she sees the Government's apology to the Stolen Generations as a useless exercise in political correctness, but somehow, I am left feeling that this may be exactly what Overington thinks. And I'm left feeling angry because I don't get a strong sense that she has any real solutions, only derision.
But I don't mind being angry.
I'd rather be provoked into thought than lulled into a false sense of self-satisfaction. That's why I'll be recommending Sisters of Mercy to my book group. This novel will polarise opinion, but the topics it raises are worth arguing about.
In a week when the so-called Left of Australian politics established a policy to excise the Australian continent from the Australian migration zone, Australia needs satire – and we need angry, engaged people. We also need disturbing, challenging, disconcerting and uncomfortable novels written by women. We need diversity of opinion. Only by opening up these difficult subjects to scrutiny will we be able to acknowledge the truth of what our government policies are doing in our names, and perhaps avoid the national fictions that we're advocating human rights when – as Overington might well maintain about the very different situation depicted in Sisters of Mercy – it's about funding or, worse, pandering to the lowest common denominator of ignorant and self-serving public opinion.
Thanks to Random House for the review copy. This review counts as Book 10/12 of my Aussie Authors Challenge and is part of my ongoing contribution to the Australian Women Writers 2012 Challenge. It has already been reviewed by Shelleyrae at Bookdout, and Shelleyrae has an interview of Overington and a book give-away here (closes November 11, 2012).
Random House/Bantam 2012
by Elizabeth Lhuede on November 3, 2012 • Permalink
Tagged anger, Caroline Overington, human-rights, politics, satire, Sisters of Mercy, unsympathetic characters, welfare cheats
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A person's school years are often very influential on the rest of his life. It is during these years that a child will grow into adolescence, then into his teenage years. During this time, a person will often further develop his personality, make and break friendships, and decide what he wants to do for the rest of his life.
School, however, can also be a very stressful time in a person's life. Students today have to worry about getting good test scores, completing copious amounts of homework on time, excelling in extracurricular activities, and getting along with their peers. Being pulled in so many directions and having this much on their plates can be very overwhelming for just about anyone, regardless of their age.
Depending on his/her experiences, a person's school years might be either the best years of his life, or the worst.
School counseling, however, is a type of counseling that focuses on helping students make the best of their schooling. Professionals in this field are typically referred to as either school counselors or guidance counselors. They work with several different students over the course of a school year, and help them with a variety of different problems, from bullying, behavioral issues to exam fear.
Besides, it has been observed that a pupil needs a wise and sympathetic person to whom he can talk about his personal problems, a person who can give a patient hearing to his problems and assist him to solve his problems. The counseling session provides this opportunity to the pupils to talk about his problems and develop insight into the possible solutions to his problems.
The counseling wing of Azaan International School (CBSE affiliated school in Hyderabad) is indeed a "retreat" to the students wherein they are provided the kind of help they require in their growing years so that they can cherish their time in the school.


SONORA PASS is a humorous action packed murder mystery taking place in Montreal, Vermont, California and Central America. Members of a band hold a reunion for their friends and fans. Following a wildly successful reunion party, the singer in the band is found dead. Private Investigator Jonah follows a trail leading to a troubled revolutionary past in Central America.
An intriguing debut graphic novel, Sonora Pass proves a genuine gem with author Jaime Olmos and illustrator Kevin Nichols pulling out all the stops to deliver a corker of a story. Boasting an eclectic cast of characters and a ton of intrigue the art seems effortless with each chapter unfolding in a straight forward artistically uncluttered style that's easy to follow. And though there is lots of dialogue none of it feels belaboured with Nicholls succinctly matching expressions, movements and gestures to Olmos' words, but does it work as a murder mystery? The short answer is yes, and a compelling one to boot with Olmos ensuring it doesn't become over simplified. The plot is nicely nuanced with no infuriating loose threads, the dialogue is sharp, the humour well pitched and between them, Olmos and Nichols do well to capture the progression of their characters. From emotions, to physical reactions they not only solicit an emotive response, readers don't have to use their imagination to immerse themselves in a scene. They simply have to absorb the images and words to be part of an extraordinary novel.
Wholly original and an utterly entertaining read, Sonora Pass is, by any definition, an accomplished debut and a must read for fans of the genre. It is recommended without reservation.
A Graphic Novel You Will Want To Talk About!
Born (under a good sign) in Mexico City.
Came out to the US of A in 1967 to study physics.
Got undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physics and Nuclear Engineering from MIT.
Settled eventually in sunny San Diego in 1982.
Worked as a Nuclear Engineer at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station for thirty some years.
Started to work on the SONORA PASS graphic novel in 2014.
Mexico, New England, California and Montreal.
I am a (decent) piano player and love hiking the California eastern sierras with my wonderful wife Terrie.


Can Spouses Qualify for Medicare Supplement Plans on Partners Work Record?
Why do you choose Medicare supplement plans for you?
Are you looking for Medicare, here it is. You can avail Medicare benefits with Traditional Medicare. Having Traditional Medicare or Medicare Advantage plans such as PPO or HMO means, the government will pay for the benefits of Medicare. Medicare Advantage Plans are also referred to as MA Plans or Part C. They are available from the private companies that are Medicare approved. The fact is that Medicare covers the benefits by paying these companies, so that you receive the benefits.
Go to to also learn about other Medigap plans.
Joining Medicare Advantage plans means the plan provides Part A Medicare covering the hospital insurance and the coverage with Part B Medicare is the medical insurance. Medicare Advantage plans are completely different from the Medigap or Medicare supplement plans policy.
HMO or the Health Maintenance Organization plans-Here you can go to doctors, hospital or the health care providers as per the network in the plan. Only during emergency or urgent situations, you can seek other doctor's assistance. Of course, you are allowed to go for tests or visit specialists with referrals from your primary care doctor.
PPO or Preferred Provider Organization plans- Here , you pay less on using the health care providers, hospitals and doctors as per the plan's network. Paying more is on using hospitals, doctors or specialists outside the network.
PFFS or Private Fee for Service plans- Here it is same as any Traditional Medicare that allows you to visit any health care provider, doctor or hospital, if they accept the payment terms as per the plan. The plan ascertains the amount to be paid and verifies how much to pay for the care.
SNPs- Special Needs plans- Here it is concentrated for specific group of people to provide health care specialized, similar to people having Medicaid and Medicare, both or have serious medical conditions or are in a nursing home.
You are in the Medicare program.
You have Part A and B coverage as per the plan.
You have the protections and right of Medicare.
Your costs out-of your wallet are much lower and so it is cost-effective.
Medicare Advantage Plans may be joined in case you are suffering with pre-existing conditions such as ESRD.
Joining this plan is possible only at certain times, that is getting enrolled is only once a year.
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The 2015 Rafael Nadal tennis season officially began on 5 January 2015 with the start of the 2015 Qatar Open.

Year in detail

Australian Open Series

Qatar Open
Nadal began the year as the defending champion at the Qatar Open. However, he lost in the first round, suffering a shocking three set defeat to world number 127 Michael Berrer. He won the doubles title with Juan Mónaco.

Australian Open
Nadal opened his 2015 Australian Open by defeating Mikhail Youzhny in straight sets. In the second round, he prevailed in a tough five-setter against American Tim Smyczek, despite being visibly unwell at times during the match. He then beat Dudi Sela and Kevin Anderson in straight sets to advance to his 28th career Grand Slam quarterfinal. He was defeated there by Tomáš Berdych, thus ending his 17-match win streak against the Czech. This resulted in Berdych becoming only the second player to defeat all four members of the Big Four at a Grand Slam, after Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

South American clay court season

Rio Open
Nadal reached the semifinals of the Rio Open after defeating Thomaz Bellucci, Pablo Carreño Busta and Pablo Cuevas. However, he lost to Fabio Fognini in three sets in the semifinals, despite winning the first set and being a break up in the second. This was the first loss in his career against the Italian.

Argentina Open
Nadal played in the ATP Buenos Aires tournament, in Argentina, reaching the final without losing a set. He won his first singles title of 2015 and his 46th career clay-court title with a straight-sets victory over Juan Mónaco.

The March Masters

Indian Wells Masters
Nadal reached the quarterfinals of the Indian Wells Masters after beating his first three opponents in straight sets. However, his run was ended by Milos Raonic who beat him in three tight sets after Nadal squandered three match points in the second set tiebreak.

Miami Open
He next competed at the Miami Open, hoping to reach the final for the fifth time and win the tournament for the first time. He had a bye in the first round and proceeded by beating Nicolás Almagro in straight sets but he lost to Fernando Verdasco in the next round in three sets, failing to reach the fourth round of the Miami Open for the first time since 2006 (absent in 2013).

European clay court season

Monte-Carlo Masters
Nadal began his favourite part of the season in the clay courts of Monte-Carlo. After a first round bye, he defeated Lucas Pouille in a straight sets match before working hard to pass through big-serving John Isner in three tough sets to book his quarterfinal spot. He defeated David Ferrer in another tight, three set match to proceed to the semifinals, and record his first win over a top 10 player since the final of the 2014 French Open. However, he was defeated by world No.1 Novak Djokovic in the semifinals in straight sets.

Barcelona Open
Nadal received a bye in the first round of the 2015 Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell and faced Nicolás Almagro in the second round, completing his revenge for his only loss in Barcelona last year to him by beating him in straight sets. However, he was upset by Fabio Fognini in the next round in straight sets for the second time in the year. The loss made Fognini become the fifth man to beat Nadal on clay more than once after Gastón Gaudio, Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, and David Ferrer. He also became the second man to beat Nadal on clay twice in a row in the same year after Djokovic in 2011.

Madrid Open
After a first round bye, Nadal had wins over Steve Johnson and Simone Bolelli, each in two sets. He faced Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals and also dispatched him in straight sets.  In the semifinals, Nadal had a two set win over Tomáš Berdych to reach his seventh Madrid Open final and 41st Masters 1000 final. He lost to Andy Murray in the final in straight sets. The loss saw Nadal drop out of the Top 5 for the first time since 2005, falling to No. 7.

Italian Open
Nadal was granted a first round bye and faced qualifier Marsel İlhan, dominating him in straight sets. He next faced the big-serving John Isner again in the third round and defeated him in straight sets to advance to the quarterfinals. He was taken down by Stan Wawrinka in the quarterfinals in straight sets, squandering a 6–2 lead in the first set tiebreak and four set points, marking the first time since 2008 that he did not reach the final at the tournament. This also marked the first time since 2004 that Nadal failed to win a single European clay court title before the French Open.

French Open
Nadal opened his campaign for a 10th French Open title by facing off against wildcard Quentin Halys, beating him in straight sets. He then defeated compatriot Nicolás Almagro and Andrey Kuznetsov, again both in straight sets. In the fourth round he defeated Jack Sock in four sets, but eventually lost to Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals. The loss ended Nadal's 5 year winning streak at Roland Garros and was just his second loss ever at the tournament. This loss also marked the first time since 2004 that Nadal failed to win at least one of the first two Grand Slam events of the season. As a result, his ranking dropped to No. 10 in the ATP singles ranking, his lowest ranking since April 2005.

The grass season

Stuttgart Open
Nadal opened his  grass-court season campaign by participating in the Stuttgart Open and survived his first match against Marcos Baghdatis by beating him in three tight sets. He next faces Bernard Tomic and booked his semifinal spot by beating him in another three tight sets. Nadal reached his first grass-court tournament final since reaching the 2011 Wimbledon final by beating Gaël Monfils in straight sets. Nadal won his third Stuttgart title and first grass-court title for the first time since winning the 2010 Wimbledon Championships by beating Viktor Troicki in straight sets in the final. It was only his 2nd title of 2015.

Queen's Club Championships
Nadal played at the Queen's Club for the first time since 2011 as the fifth seed. He was knocked out in the first round by Alexandr Dolgopolov, who had previously beaten him at the 2014 BNP Paribas Open.

Wimbledon
Nadal played at the 2015 Wimbledon as tenth seed. After beating Thomaz Bellucci in the first round in straight sets, he was eliminated in the second round in four sets by Dustin Brown. By winning, Brown became the first ever qualifier to ever beat Nadal at a Grand Slam.

US Open Series

German Open

Nadal decided to participate in the German Open for the first time since he defeated Roger Federer in the 2008 final in this tournament. He faced a tough opponent, Fernando Verdasco, in the first round but managed to defeat him in three sets. He next faced Jiří Veselý and easily dispatched him in straight sets followed by another straightforward quarterfinal victory against Pablo Cuevas to set a semifinal encounter with Andreas Seppi, which he won again in straight sets. Nadal extended his streak of winning at least one European clay-court title every year since winning in 2004 by beating Fabio Fognini in the Hamburg final in straight sets.

Canadian Open

Nadal opened his hard-court season campaign in Canada where he had won the title 3 times. He faced Sergiy Stakhovsky as his first opponent and defeated him in straight sets. He beat Mikhail Youzhny in the third round and advanced to QF, where he  lost to Kei Nishikori in straight sets. This marked the first time in eight meetings that he lost a match against the Japanese player.

Cincinnati Masters

Nadal participated in the Cincinnati Masters the following week, hoping to repeat his 2013 feat by winning this tournament. He opened his campaign against Frenchman Jérémy Chardy and successfully defeated the Rogers Cup semi-finalist in straight sets to book his third round clash with compatriot Feliciano López, which he lost in three sets.

US Open

In the final major of the season, Nadal once again faced Fognini, and again was defeated by the player from Italy, losing in the third round. In that match, Nadal won the first two sets, and previously had been 151–0 in Grand Slam matches that he led two sets to love(0). However, Fognini still defeated Nadal in five sets. The upset loss ended Nadal's record 10-year streak of winning at least one major, and leaving him one year short of the record 11-year streak of reaching at least one major final (shared by Lendl and Sampras). This remained the only time he had lost a Grand Slam tournament singles match after starting with a 2-0 lead until the quarterfinals of the 2021 Australian Open where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Asian Fall & Indoor Hard Court Season

Davis Cup

Nadal and many of his Spanish compatriots made a comeback to the Spanish Davis Cup team after the captain of the Spanish Davis Cup team, Gala Leon, was fired due to several critics and rebellions from the Spanish tennis players like Nadal and Ferrer. Spain was now at the Europe Africa Zone due to several consecutive losses. Spain meets Denmark in the 1st round play-offs and easily defeated Denmark with a dominant 5–0 score with Rafa winning in both doubles and singles. He won against Mikael Torpegaard in straight sets.

China Open

Nadal started the Asian Fall by participating in the China Open where he managed to reach the quarterfinals after beating home hope Wu Di and Vasek Pospisil both in straight sets. He survived a quarterfinal test against Jack Sock after comebacking from a set down to set a fifth meeting this year with his nemesis Fabio Fognini. He succeeded in exacting revenge against Fognini by beating him in straight sets to reach his first hard-court tournament final for more than a year. Nadal lost to World No.1 Novak Djokovic in the final 2-6, 2-6.

Shanghai Masters

Nadal received a first round bye into this ATP Masters 1000 event and faced Ivo Karlović in the second round.  Nadal won the first set 7-5 after initially trailing 3-5 but Karlovic forced the second set to a decider which he won 6-7(4).  After 2 hours and 44 minutes, Nadal prevailed in the third and final set decider 7-6(4) and won the match. Nadal then avenged his Indian Wells quarterfinals lost against Milos Raonic by beating him in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals. He defeated World No.4 and 2015 French Open Champion Stan Wawrinka in straight sets to reach his first semifinal of a Masters 1000 hard-court tournament in more than a year and with this win, Nadal qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals. Despite sporting an 8-3 head-to-head winning record against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga,  Nadal fell to the Frenchman in the semi-finals in three sets 4–6, 6–0, 5–7.

Swiss Indoors

Nadal participated in the Swiss Indoors ATP 500 at Basel and survived a scare in the first round against Lukáš Rosol by beating him in a comeback three-setter where Rosol was 2 points away from winning at the 2nd set at 5-4 on his own serve. In Nadal's next match against Grigor Dimitrov, Rafa battled back from a break down in the final set to defeat Dimitrov 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the Swiss Indoors quarter-finals. Nadal came back from a set and a break down to surpass big-serving Croatian Marin Čilić in three sets. Nadal reached the second final in a hard-court tournament of the season when he beat Frenchman Richard Gasquet in straight sets to set his first meeting for almost 2 years with long-time rival Roger Federer. However, in his first final at the Swiss Indoor, Nadal lost 3-6, 7-5, 3-6 to Federer.

Paris Masters

Nadal, seeded 7th, received a bye into the Round of 32 of the Paris Masters in Paris, France.  Rafa rolled into the Round of 16 with a 6-2, 6-2 win, his 2nd in back-to-back weeks, over Lukáš Rosol, the 66th-ranked Czech, in just over an hour. Nadal then took on the big hitting South African Kevin Anderson and made another comeback from a set down and 5-6 down in the second set tie-break, saving a match point and closing out the match by breaking twice in the third set. Nadal faced world No.4 Stan Wawrinka in the quarterfinals and despite pushing both sets to a tiebreaker, Rafa lost the match 6–7(8–10), 6–7(7–9).

ATP World Tour Finals

Rafael Nadal was seeded fifth in the 2015 ATP World Tour Finals in London and was drawn in the Ilie Năstase Group alongside Andy Murray, David Ferrer and Stan Wawrinka. He first played against Wawrinka and successfully crushed his nemesis in straight sets. Nadal continued his blistering resurgence of form by dominating a fellow Big Four, Murray, in straight sets to claim a semifinal spot in the ATP Finals. He then beat Ferrer in three sets, advancing to the semifinals with three wins. But he then lost to Novak Djokovic in straight sets.

All matches

Singles matches

Doubles matches

Tournament schedule

Singles schedule
Nadal's 2015 singles tournament schedule is as follows:
(Bolded letter indicates better or same result at the tournament)

1 The symbol (i) = indoors means that the respective tournament will be held indoors.

2 The ATP numbers between brackets = non-countable tournaments.

Yearly records

Head-to-head matchups
Rafael Nadal has a  match win–loss record in the 2015 season. His record against players who were part of the ATP rankings Top Ten at the time of their meetings was . The following list is ordered by number of wins:
(Bolded number marks a top 10 player at the time of match, Italic means top 30)

Finals

Singles: 6 (3–3)

Doubles: 1 (1–0)

Earnings

Bold font denotes tournament win

See also
 2015 ATP World Tour
 2015 Novak Djokovic tennis season
 2015 Roger Federer tennis season
 2015 Andy Murray tennis season
 2015 Stan Wawrinka tennis season

References

External links

ATP tour profile

2015 Rafael Nadal tennis season
Nadal
Nadal tennis season

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Principal Adam Gehlhar (ND '17) has holistic goals for students at Jamestown High School: "I want them all to find their purpose and to learn how to use their minds well." He received North Dakota's 2017-18 Milken Educator Award on November 21, 2017.
Adam Gehlhar (ND '17): I was completely shocked and a bit overcome with emotion. Education is something all of us put our heart and soul into, and recognition is not something we strive for. I was surprised, grateful, honored and humbled all at the same time.
Adam: Some of the most meaningful congratulations came from students. A few mentioned specific things I helped them achieve as young learners and leaders. Since this is only my second year at this school, several of them have had questions about my previous work in West Fargo. Of course I also had a handful ask what I would be doing with the money.
Adam: My mom was a speech pathologist at an elementary school so education always seemed like a good option. When I went to college my first year I wasn't sure what I wanted but decided to take an introductory education course. I had an amazing teacher in the intro course but still wanted to explore other areas.
I was also a member of the North Dakota Army National Guard—our first deployment to Iraq was a very formative experience, to say the least. This experience gave me a deeper sense of faith and purpose. I wanted to do something to improve the lives of others. It was then that I became truly committed to preparing the next generations for life and work.
Adam: I have been fortunate to serve with so many great leaders. I had amazing teacher preparation and master's programs in Education Leadership at North Dakota State University. I learned a lot from the leadership and my peers in the Army National Guard. My greatest role models have been my parents.
Adam: I ended up being deployed a second time just before my student teaching, so I entered the workforce a little later than most. I was blessed with an opportunity to envision school from the ground up in my first year of teaching. A new middle school program had just started that was focused on holistic STEM education. I was so fortunate to have an awesome interdisciplinary team to work with and also had the blessing of 1:1 student devices, no textbook, and basically a lot of pressure to innovate.
We were trained in design-focused learning (like project-based learning, but with a focus on design and transdisciplinary STEM education). This gave me a really innovative platform and a unique lens to guide my students towards mastery of our standards. We also were very committed to the whole child and worked to make sure all our students were growing socially, emotionally, physically and academically. It was a ton of work, but I had a supportive wife and family, and I loved every minute of it.
6. What are students most likely to remember about their time in your school?
Adam: Some of my favorite memories in West Fargo were visiting with students several years after I taught them. They remembered our projects; they remembered how they felt empowered and challenged. As an administrator I have a much broader lens and my interactions with students are both direct, in our day-to-day activities, and through the hands and hearts of other educators. I hope students will remember our relationships and that I want them all to find their purpose and to learn how to use their minds well.
7. What's your biggest challenge at your school?
Adam: Jamestown High School is a great place to work and learn. We have a few areas in which we are continuing to develop capacity: Professional Learning Communities, assessment practices, student agency and mindsets, personalization and engagement strategies. Going forward, I think my biggest challenge will be communication of the structural changes we need to ensure we can realize the full potential of the best practices. Specifically, we will need to explore schedules and relationship structures that can better support equity and access, and a 21st-century definition of learning for all learners.
Adam: I asked the Milken Family Foundation to donate 20% ($5,000) of the Award to my school to support innovative proposals from educators. Some of our teachers have already proposed starting up a student store and other enterprises that can give our students valuable employment experience. Of the remaining $20,000, I will be donating 10% to my church. Another 30% will be set aside for taxes. The remaining $12,000 will be put towards a future doctorate, my children's 529 college savings plans, and a small family vacation.
Adam: I always encourage students to consider education and talk to them about the experiences I have had as an educator. If we had more time I would ask them to define their "why." If your "why" for education comes from a sense of purpose and a desire for a rewarding and fulfilling life of contribution, then this is the job for you.
Adam: Success is feeling like you have made someone's life better by giving your best.


For all organizations IT infrastructure backup is critical. Typically, the arrangement of datacenters does not put enough emphasis on this critical need. We will evaluate your datacenter and backup infrastructure and design an action plan to modernize it and bring it into conformance with your organizations objectives.
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The 1993 Saskatchewan Roughriders season was the 79th season in the club's 83rd year of existence. The team finished in 3rd place in the Canadian Football League's West Division with an 11–7 record.

Notably, the 1993 Roughriders became the first team to lose to an American-based CFL team following their week 4 loss to the expansion Sacramento Gold Miners. The team had played the Gold Miners on the road with just three days of rest and would win 10 of their next 14 games following that loss. The Roughriders qualified for the playoffs, but lost the West Semi-Final game to the Edmonton Eskimos.

Offseason

CFL Draft

Preseason

Regular season

Season Standings

Season schedule

Postseason

Schedule

Awards and records
 CFL's Most Outstanding Defensive Player Award – Jearld Baylis (DT)

1993 CFL All-Stars

Offence
 SB – Ray Elgaard

Defence
 DT – Jearld Baylis
 CB – Barry Wilburn
 DS – Glen Suitor

Special teams
 K – Dave Ridgway

1993 Western All-Stars

Offence
 SB – Ray Elgaard
 WR – Don Narcisse

Defence
 DT – Jearld Baylis
 CB – Barry Wilburn
 DS – Glen Suitor

Special teams
 K – Dave Ridgway

References

Saskatchewan Roughriders seasons
1993 Canadian Football League season by team
1993 in Saskatchewan


Rapper M.I Abaga has stated that he never wanted to be a rapper. In an interview he had in Jos, the Choc City boss said all he ever wanted was to be able to feed and take care of his family.
"As long as I can feed myself, take care of my family and be happy, I'm a very private person. I never wanted to be the most popular. Getting older as an artiste, you need to start thinking about things that are more important.
Though the pressure has been much on me, I've never been depressed. It's okay to try and not get it right. It's okay not to have the best car or watch. It okay if don't fly private. Don't put pressure on yourself. Happiness comes first; every other thing should be secondary" he said.
M.I Abaga who is currently venturing into the movie industry stated that he doesn't believe acting is for everyone.
"I want to approach it from a production standpoint. I've long been a fan of movies but I don't want to enter as an actor. I want to find talented directors, writers and support them with my skill set. We have an exciting script and it's going to be a movie that everyone would want to watch" he explained.


Great news folks, CMS is now officially complete. Stick a fork in it, it's done.
Perhaps I'm reading too much here, but this tweet just came across my desk.
If you're not familiar with Bryan Ruby, he tirelessly covers the CMS technology landscape on the CMS Report. From Alfresco to Zope, he channels a mountain of information about the industry.
So, I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm going to call it. The CMS is feature complete.
Timestamp: June 10, 2010, 11:22 am Eastern Daylight Time.
Everything that could be built has been built. Every feature that could be imagined has been bolted on. Every vendor has achieved #leader status. We've seen the last gratuitous press release. The final track has been laid on this grand and epic journey from static web pages to full on Web Experience Management excellence.
Now, what to do with the rest of the day?
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In this tutorial, we will explain how to install TensorFlow with Anaconda. You will learn how to use TensorFlow with Jupyter. Jupyter is a notebook viewer.
TensorFlow supports computations across multiple CPUs and GPUs. It means that the computations can be distributed across devices to improve the speed of the training. With parallelization, you don't need to wait for weeks to obtain the results of training algorithms.
TensorFlow with GPU support: For faster computation, you can use this version of TensorFlow. This version makes sense only if you need strong computational capacity.
During this tutorial, the basic version of TensorFlow is sufficient.
Note: TensorFlow does not provides GPU support on MacOS.
To run Tensorflow with Jupyter, you need to create an environment within Anaconda. It means you will install Ipython, Jupyter, and TensorFlow in an appropriate folder inside our machine. On top of this, you will add one essential library for data science: "Pandas". The Pandas library helps to manipulate a data frame.
Download Anaconda version 4.3.1 (for Python 3.6) for the appropriate system.
The first step you need to do is to locate the path of Anaconda. You will create a new conda environment that includes the necessaries libraries you will use during the tutorials about TensorFlow.
We are interested to know the name of the folder where Anaconda is installed because we want to create our new environment inside this path. For instance, in the picture above, Anaconda is installed in the Admin folder. For you, it can the same, i.e. Admin or the user's name.
In the next, we will set the working directory from c:\ to Anaconda3.
You will need to create a new folder inside Anaconda which will contains Ipython, Jupyter and TensorFlow. A quick way to install libraries and software is to write a yml file.
You need to specify the working directory where you want to create the yml file. As said before, it will be located inside Anaconda.
The Terminal sets the default working directory to Users/USERNAME. As you can see in the figure below, the path of anaconda3 and the working directory are identical. In MacOS, the latest folder is shown before the $. The Terminal will install all the libraries in this working directory.
If the path on the text editor does not match the working directory, you can change it by writing cd PATH in the Terminal. PATH is the path you pasted in the text editor. Don't forget to wrap the PATH with 'PATH'. This action will change the working directory to PATH.
You can create the yml file inside the new working directory. The file will install the dependencies you need to run TensorFlow. Copy and paste this code into the Terminal.
You are ready to edit the yml file. You can paste the following code in the Terminal to edit the file. MacOS user can use vim to edit the yml file.
Note: The file is case and intend sensitive. 2 spaces are required after each intend.
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Press esc followed by :q! to quite the edit mode.
Windows does not have vim program, so the Notepad is enough to complete this step.
It will open the notepad, you can edit the file from here.
Note: For Windows users, the new environment is created inside the current user directory.
It takes times. It will take around 1.1gb of space in your hard disk.
We are almost done. You have now 2 conda environments. You created an isolated conda environment with the libraries you will use during the tutorials. This is a recommended practice because each machine learning project requires different libraries. When the project is over, you can remove or not this environment.
You can check all dependencies are in the same environment. This is important because it allows Python to use Jupyter and TensorFlow from the same environment. If you don't see the three of them located in the same folder, you need to start all over again.
Optional: You can check for update.
As you can see, you now have two Python environments. The main one and the newly created on i.e. hello-tf. The main conda environment does not have tensorFlow installed only hello-tf. From the picture, python, jupyter and ipython are installed in the same environment. It means, you can use TensorFlow with a Jupyter Notebook.
This part is the same for both OS.
You can open TensorFlow with Jupyter.
Note: The new notebook is automatically saved inside the working directory.
Inside the notebook, you can import TensorFlow with the tf alias. Click to run. A new cell is created below.
Let's write your first code with TensorFlow.
A new tensor is created. Congratulation. You successfully install TensorFlow with Jupyter on your Machine.
You can delete the file named Untitled.ipynb inside Jupyer.
You are redirected to the log out page.
Select the terminal or Anaconda prompt and run twice ctr+c.
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JRD To Attend Armageddon Pulp Culture Expo
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Linuxelf writes: John Rhys-Davies makes a welcome return to New Zealand as a special guest. all three days of the upcoming tenth anniversary expo. Currently best known for his role as GIMLI THE DWARF in the hit trilogy of Lord of the Rings, John studied at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and in addition to his distinguished theatre work – Othello, Macbeth and Falstaff – has taken leading roles in many movies among them Victor/Victoria, The Living Daylights, King Solomon's Mines and the 1992 remake of Conan Doyle's The Lost World in which he starred as Professor Challenger.
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Battle of Britain: Which is better – the Lakes or the Peaks?
Which is better: the Peaks or the Lakes? Credit: istock
Helen Pickles, Destination Expert
Stephen McClarence, Travel writer
18 March 2019 • 4:24pm
Helen Pickles
Stephen McClarence
In the wake of a disastrous week in politics, we here at Telegraph Travel have decided that it's time to answer the really important questions people have about Britain: where you should holiday if planning a break on home soil.
Over the coming months, we'll be asking our experts to defend their territory as we pit two popular places that our readers often struggle to choose between against one another – starting with the Lake District and the Peak District.
For the Lakes – Helen Pickles
An upbringing of wet caravanning holidays in the Lake District ensures there's little the area can throw at me that I haven't experienced, both good and bad: soggy sandwiches on a mist-shrouded fell-top; traffic-jams going up Borrowdale; heart-in-mouth moments driving over the 1-in-3 Hardknott Pass; crisp autumn mornings of searingly blue skies; or the menace and the majesty of Wasdale. Yet I never tire of it, even when it's lashing with rain - which it frequently is. I still thrill at the first glimpse of Blencathra from the A66 or the sight of an ancient wooden boat chugging across Derwentwater, just as it did in my childhood.
What makes it so special? Partly it's the fact that it packs so much variety into such a small area – only 40 by 36 miles – partly it's the undeniable beauty, whether a lonely tarn or panorama of mountain-tops. But mainly it's the simple timelessness of those craggy fells: solid, reassuring, always and – this is fanciful, I know – seemingly pleased to see me. It was here that my dear Dad introduced me to hill-walking, and taught me to appreciate the dangers as well as the exhilaration of being in the fells.
For the Peaks – Stephen McClarence
As a young woman, my mother thought nothing of lacing up her walking boots for a 25-mile Sunday hike in the Peak District. My grandfather, after all, was a founding member of the Clarion Ramblers, one of the North's most celebrated walking groups. So it was probably inevitable that, living in Sheffield a couple of miles from the Peak District border, I should spend most free weekends out on the hills.
Stanage Edge is a great inland cliff Credit: Getty
Recently, my wife and I drove to Stanage Edge, a great inland cliff four miles from our home. On a bright Spring morning, a silver mist swathed a vast panorama of snow-brushed hills and moorland. People travel thousands of miles to see landscapes only half as inspiring as this. As a songwriting friend once wrote: "Just being here makes you feel better."
The Peak District was the country's first National Park and this year marks the 70th anniversary of the parliamentary act that brought it into being. With a celebration rally being held at Winnats Pass on April 27, there's no better time to explore the Peaks.
Lakes vs Peaks
What are the highlights for walkers?
The great fell-walker, Alfred Wainwright, identified 214 fells over 1,000 feet so that should keep any list-ticker busy for several years. They range from the iconic peaks of Scafell Pike, Great Gable and Helvellyn, all of which can be testing – Striding Edge on the latter is not for the faint-hearted – to gentler (but equally rewarding in terms of views) fells such as Cat Bells and Gummer's How.
It's not all about height: Tarn Hows is a deservedly-famed beauty spot of tarn and woodland; the wooded walk along the River Derwent in craggy Borrowdale is charming; while, for peace and tranquil lake views, it's hard to beat the circuit around Ennerdale Water.
Edale, the village at the southern end of the 268-mile Pennine Way, was recently declared Britain's most popular starting point for walks by Ordnance Survey (Fairholmes, near Ladybower, came second). Looming over Edale is Kinder Scout, a sometimes daunting top-of-the-world moorland plateau where mists can suddenly come down, disorientating walkers. Take a compass.
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Further south, Eyam Moor offers a range of exhilarating circular walks, some taking in the 17th-century "plague village" of Eyam. Undemanding walks radiate from Longnor, a sturdy stone village with some of the atmosphere of the Brontes' Haworth (without the daytrippers). Dovedale is a perennially popular day-out and The Roaches, rugged rock outcrops near the Buxton-Leek road, offer dramatic views.
What's beyond the rocks and mountains?
With all that maddeningly gorgeous scenery the Lake District has long attracted artists, poets and writers. Wordsworth was fortunate enough to be born here and his houses (in Cockermouth, Grasmere and Rydal) have assorted possessions including his skating boots and writing chair. Victorian art critic John Ruskin's house, Brantwood, overlooking Coniston Water has staggering views, a fine art collection and cascading gardens.
Coniston Water is best seen from above Credit: istock
Few people can resist the charms of Hill Top, children's author Beatrix Potter's house near Hawkshead, where you can spot scenes illustrated in her books.
Of the area's several great houses – including the still lived-in Muncaster Castle – Blackwell is a magnificent example of the Arts and Crafts style.
Buxton's annual festival, strong on opera, adds an extra string to the bow of this elegant spa town, home to the highest market place in England. Its fine architecture is equalled by a pair of stately homes – crowd-pulling Chatsworth and more homely Haddon Hall.
Chatsworth is 'Britain's best loved stately home' and features in several period drama films including Pride and Prejudice. It overlooks the River Derwent in a parkland landscape by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, cupped by Peak District hills and moors. It's all pristine gardens outside and awe-inspiring historic treasures inside.
Britain's best loved stately home Credit: istock
The Peak District is packed with interesting churches – ranging from imposing Tideswell, known as the "Cathedral of the Peak", to the smaller and more out-of-the-way Fenny Bentley (near Ashbourne), with its curious shrouded tomb.
What about wildlife?
The two joys of the Lake District's wildlife – deer, kestrels and badgers aside – are red squirrels and ospreys. Dodd Wood and Whinlatter Forest Park, either side of Bassenthwaite Lake, are good spotting grounds for both – though you need to be quick and quiet to spot squirrels.
The migratory ospreys, with their curved beaks and up to five-foot wingspans, have been returning here each spring since 2001 after a gap of 150 years (usually producing a chick or two) and it's pure excitement to watch them fly and fish in the lake from one of the viewing platforms.
The Peak District is a haven for wildlife – most obviously birds. The keening cry of moorland curlews is a thrilling sound; the twisting, tumbling flight of lapwings an equally thrilling sight.
See if you can spot Squirrel Nutkin in the Lakes Credit: istock
The Dark Peak's beautiful moorlands and blanket bogs of sphagnum moss are not only internationally important for birds but are are also home to distinctive mammals like the rarely seen mountain hares whose fur turns white in winter and I've been lucky enough to see running across Bleaklow. Ring ouzels and bilberry bumblebees are equally elusive.
Anything for the more active traveller?
In the country's newest National Park you can rock-climb, abseil, go canyoning, even dangle over sheer rock-face drops on a Via Ferrata at Honister Slate Mine.
Meanwhile, the water promises numerous ways to get a natural high – from rowing boats and sail-boats to stand-up paddle-boards and canoes. For something more sedate, take to one of the lake cruise-boats. Criss-crossing four of the lakes – Windermere, Coniston Water, Ullswater and Derwentwater – these are a near-perfect way of experiencing the area's seductive charms: water, fell-views and peaceful serenity.
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A ride on the ridiculously cute Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, all shiny brass, steam and poop-pooping engine, is unadulterated joy, whatever your age.
There's everything from cycling, mountain biking, caving, angling and gliding on offer in the Peaks. Climbing is a massive draw at Stanage Edge, with crowds of enthusiasts clinging to its rock face at weekends. Go Ape, the Yeaveley Estate and Wild Park Derbyshire offer everything from quad biking and ziplining to shooting and quad biking.
The village of Hathersage is full of Bronte connections while its churchyard contains what's reputedly the grave of Robin Hood's Little John. Just up the road, Castleton, nestling beneath gaunt Peveril Castle, is a honeypot village notable for its "show caves" or caverns. The other big honeypot is Bakewell, famed for its puddings.
Keswick's Pencil Museum includes the world's longest pencil; the soon-to-open Windermere Jetty Museum promises both a working conservation boatyard as well as rare steam-powered boats; and you can taste Cumbrian-produced gin, vodka and whisky in behind-the-scene tours at the Lakes Distillery, near Bassenthwaite Lake.
The Windermere Jetty, Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories will soon reopen on the shores of the famous lake Credit: istock
Proud of your marmalade-making skills? Enter your best jar in Dalemain House's marmalade festival. Other annual events include literary and jazz events at Keswick's Theatre-by-the-Lake, the impressive nine-stage Kendal Calling music festival (featuring the Manic Street Preachers, Leftfield and Tom Jones in 2019), plus old-fashioned country shows such as the Grasmere Lakeland Sports and Show.
Matlock Bath, on the edge of the Peak District, is known as "the Switzerland of Derbyshire". In a deep limestone gorge, it has cliffs, crags and cable cars to the Heights of Abraham, a hilltop park 1,111 feet above sea level.
Over the summer months Peak District villages hold welldressing celebrations – weeklong festivities include the ancient tradition of producing special outdoor pictures made of flower petals and other natural materials pressed onto clay. Many of the villages hold fell races during their 'Wakes Week' and in June there can be at least one a week.
Is one easier to get to than the other?
The M6 borders the eastern fringes while Oxenholme, on the west-coast mainline between London Euston and Glasgow, connects to Windermere and Kendal via its branch line. Soon you will be able to fly from London, Belfast or Dublin to Carlisle Lake District Airport.
The Hope Valley railway line has stops at villages between Sheffield and Manchester, and there are branch lines to Buxton and Matlock. Many villages are served by bus, though services can be somewhat irregular.
Buxton is worth a stop Credit: istock
I suppose they both have good places to stay too?
Options range from walkers' pubs and gastro pubs to boutique B&Bs, family-friendly and luxury hotels. For luxury, you can't beat The Samling, while Another Place is a pricey but pretty perfect option for families. If you're off walking, it's hard to beat the Wasdale Head Inn, while foodies will revel in the dishes on offer at Forest Side.
The Cavendish Hotel is a classy country house hotel on the Chatsworth estate, while The George (george-hotel.net) at Hathersage is a cosy and characterful former coaching inn. Alstonefield Manor is an elegant Georgian manor house near Dovedale that's hard to beat, while those that favour self-catering should opt for Bleak House and Bleak House Cottage (bleakhousecottage.com), near Longnor.
Join the debate. Which do you prefer – the Lakes or the Peaks?
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