One of the most popular short breaks of the past few years is back again! During this tour to Holland, take in some Dutch classics and some hidden gems. Zaanse Schans is a treasure trove of tradition. Watch as artisans create baked goods and cheese using traditional methods. Pass by authentic local buildings and step inside windmills, many of which still function, to see how they work. Explore more tradition in the pretty fishing village of Volendam, where you can choose to visit a cheese factory. Cruise the Ijsselmeer and rattle through the countryside on a wooden steam train. Take this journey in spring to pass by the colourful blooms of the bulbfields.
From its canals to its world-famous museums and historical centres, Amsterdam is one of the most romantic and beautiful cities in Europe. The city is awash with iconic museums such as the Anne Frank House, the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum. Stroll beside the canals taking in the views or, you can also cycle through the wonderful city parks. A canal cruise allows you to take some fantastic photos while you relax and watch the sights go by. Perhaps enjoy a tour and tasting at the Heineken Experience or visit Gassan Diamonds to admire the beautiful jewellery.
This tour encompasses a myriad of Dutch delights: it really is Holland in a nutshell!
Time permitting, being exploring the area or watch the world go by over a slice of delicious Dutch apple cake!
This morning we drive to Zaanse Schans, a living and working community whose origins date back to the 18th Century. Watch traditional clog and cheese making and visit the historic windmills and buildings. Local charges apply for some attractions. Spend the afternoon in Volendam, a pretty Dutch fishing village where locals dress in traditional costume. There are plenty of tourist shops and restaurants to explore.
This morning we drive across the remarkable Houtribdijk, a 17-mile dike and dam completed in 1975 as part of the Zuiderzee land reclamation project. At Enkhuizen we board the museum ship 'Friesland' for a relaxing cruise on the IJsselmeer to Medemblik. There's free time for lunch in Medemblik before we climb aboard the 'Museumstoomtram', a charming, historic narrow gauge, steamhauled train for the 20km journey through the bulbfields to Hoorn. Wooden carriages creak, wheels sing and steam hisses as you travel through the Dutch countryside. The train stops at stations along the route, each a little museum in its own right, with views of windmills and (in season) the fields of tulips.
Today, we travel to Amsterdam and explore the Dutch capital. The fabulous city offers many possibilities to explore at leisure. Visit Anne Frank's House, the magnificent Rijksmuseum, Gassan Diamonds or the fascinating, interactive Heineken Experience. Or perhaps simply wander the famous tree-lined canals and their preserved 17th century gabled houses. Enjoy an included 1 hour cruise along the city's extensive canals to sight-see from a different perspective. Optional guided walking tours are available.
If time permits, enjoy some final sightseeing before beginning your return journey to the UK.
Excellent hotel located in a green wooded area close to the town of Amersfoort, 25km to the east of Amsterdam. On-site coach parking available. A Greatdays favourite, our groups continue to return to this hotel where the welcome and friendliness of the staff is second-to-none.
Coach – Depart from your local area and travel to Holland by coach. We can arrange short-sea Dover-Calais / Dunkirk ferry crossings or Eurotunnel crossings from Folkestone-Calais. Alternatively, take the overnight ferry from Hull-Zeebrugge / Rotterdam, Newcastle-IJmuiden or Harwich-Hook of Holland.
Train – Take the Eurostar from London, Ashford or Ebbsfleet to Brussels Midi Station and change to travel on to Amsterdam.We can arrange coach transfers from Amsterdam to your hotel. We can arrange local coaching throughout the tour.
Air – Fly direct to Amsterdam from a number of regional UK Airports with low-cost and scheduled carriers. We can arrange transfers to / from your local airport as well as from Amsterdam Airport to your hotel. We can arrange local coaching throughout the tour.


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Q: Cmake, Windows, MinGW, MSYS2 Смотрите.
я живу под виндой, разрабатываю на C++ и при этом я не пользуюсь ни Visual Studio, ни Microsoft'овским компилятором.
До сих пор очень хорошо себя проявлял установленный через MSYS2 пакет WinGW-64 с gcc - шными компилятором и дебаггером. А в качестве редактора - легковесная Visual Studio Code.
Однако, это порождает ряд проблем.
Мне очень тяжело собрать какой нибудь проект, взятый c github.
То, что в убунте делается тремя командами git clone - make - make install для меня выливается в несколько дней поисков и чтения форумов.
Сейчас я пытаюсь сделать следующее:
подавляющее большинство проектов собираются при помощи CMake.
То есть, сначала CMake, а потом уже make и make install
Но CMake, будучи запущенным под Windows, автоматически создает проект типа *.sln - солюшен для Visual Studio.
Я поискал - нашел вот такой вот вопрос-ответ
Но всё равно непонятно, как при запуске CMake сказать ему, чтобы он собирал проект для обычного make. Ну, или хотя бы для чего нибудь, что я могу использовать совместно с gcc.
Подскажите, пожалуйста, как правильно мучить CMake под виндой?
Спасибо.
Дополняю вопрос Мне @Fat-Zer любезно подсказал, что команда должна быть такой:
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" ..
Вот я беру hello world
    #include <iostream>
    int main(int argc, char** argv)
    {
        std::cout << "Hello, World!" << std::endl;
        return 0;
    }

и такого же вида heelo world в смысле cmake: CMakeLists.txt:
    project(HelloWorld)

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)

    add_executable(main main.cpp)

Запускаю cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" .. (во временной вложенной директории), получаю:
    CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "MSYS Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
    CMake Error: CMake was unable to find a build program corresponding to "MSYS Makefiles".  CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM is not set.  You probably need to select a different build tool.
    CMake Error: CMAKE_C_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
    CMake Error: CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
    CMake Error: CMAKE_AR was not found, please set to archive program.
    -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Не могли бы Вы подсказать мне следующие шаги, что нужно сделать, чтобы проект для MSYS собирался?

A: Запуская cmake с явным выбором генератора, как команда cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" .., запускать её нужно в подходящей среде, т.е. в данном случае в шелле msys, или её эмуляции.
Посмотреть требования cmake можно в соответствующем модуле, в данном случае нужно посмотреть файл CMakeMSYSFindMake.cmake в котором имеются инструкции для поиска программы make и где она ищется.

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Many people who have stopped their substance use question the need to go back over all the things that either happened to them or they did to themselves and others, and express the belief that the past should remain in the past thinking that they have learned their lesson and can simply be different now that they are aware of how harmful drinking and using (or whatever behavior they had been addicted to) had become. This idea precludes the role the unconscious mind and especially the habitual reactions and automated thoughts and behaviors that all of us have to varying degrees, play in our current view and reaction to life in the present, as well as how difficult it is to, as Einstein is credited as saying, "use that which is broken to fix itself."
Even if we were able to be fully aware of our ideas and habitual thought patterns, we are not able to use that intellectual knowledge to change the actual emotions that we experienced from all the events of our life, which have been repressed, and which contribute to the addict's negative self-image as seen in the dis-eased psyche. Without a searching and fearless effort on the part of the recovering addict, intellectual identification of the patterns of thought and behavior may become apparent, but no real change can or will take place. The reason for this is found in the depth of the anchoring of the old belief system. Much of what happens to us as we grow up happens not so much on an intellectual level, as on a deep emotional level. When we are hurt as children, especially those profound instances when our whole world is shaken, whatever beliefs we take away from those instances (about ourselves, others, and the world at large), are anchored at an incredibly deep level by very powerful emotions. Even when the events are less traumatic in nature, as children we are so much more open emotionally that our conscious memory of the events might be lost, but the emotional cell memory stays with us for life. No matter how much intellectual effort we put into changing our belief system(s), unless we release those emotions and re-anchor a new belief system with equally powerful feelings and emotions, no permanent change is likely. If we look at the beliefs as a balloon and the emotions as one of the big lead washers that hold the balloon to the ground, it's easy to see this idea in practical terms. No matter how much I think about letting the balloon go, it is only by removing the washer that the balloon can float away. The inventory process stirs up all the old emotions in order to help clear them away. Through the taking of pen to paper, many addicts talk about feeling as if they are reliving the incidents as they are writing them out.
While there are many formats for writing an inventory from the columns described in the AA Big Book to various guidebooks including those provided by organizations like Hazelden, I prefer to simply have people write out an autobiography with a chronological framework only to help when the person stops and starts, but I advise the individual to put in whatever comes up no matter if it fits into the chronology or not, and I inform them that the only way to do it wrong is to consciously leave something off that had come up.
It is very important through the fourth step process, that if you as a clinician are working the steps with your client, that you make yourself available for possible extra sessions, as well as aiding the client in setting up additional support systems in order to help the client avoid becoming overwhelmed by all the old emotions. An important and effective tool in this is to instruct the individual to always end the writing by bringing themselves back into the present moment. It will also be important for you the clinician, to help the client keep the fourth and fifth steps separate. The client may get into procrastinating on the writing because of fears about reading the inventory. The clinician should reinforce that the client should complete the inventory and then can make a decision about reading it to you or someone else of their choice.


Here at AIA Narragansett we've just heard of two interesting events that are free and open to the public that we would like to share.
On Wednesday, 11 September 2013, Field Dirt: Insider Stories and Results from Brown's 2013 Archaeological Field Seasons will feature talks by Susan E. Alcock, Sheila Bonde, John F. Cherry, Omur Harmansah, Felipe Rojas, Andrew Scherer, and Peter van Dommelen on their archaeological fieldwork this summer in Jordan, France, Montserrat, Turkey, Mexico, and Italy.
On Tuesday, 24 September 2013, the 34th William F. Church Memorial Lecture will take place at the Salomon Center on the Brown University campus in room 001.
John Brewer (Eli and Edye Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology) will give a talk entitled "Vesuvius and Pompeii: travel, tourism, science and the imagination in the early nineteenth century". A small reception will follow the lecture.


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7 Tips for Playing NBA 2K22 You Should Know
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After receiving a lot of criticism in the NBA 2K21 series, 2K improved every feature in NBA 2K22 to make it easier for basketball fans to enjoy. With better graphics, smoother gameplay, and improvements to the MyCareer mode, making this game is a crowd favorite.
Improved several features in NBA 2K22, making the game more difficult and interesting. Players must stay alert during the game. Fortunately, in this article, you will be given some tips to play NBA 2K22 like a pro player. Read more!
Here are 7 tips for playing NBA 2K22
Learn how to jump shot properly
The foul mechanics have been slightly revamped in the NBA 2K22 series. Players may have a bit of a problem completing more jump shots or jump shots, as over time the game has been revamped almost to the original state.
The speed of the jump shot can be changed if the player has difficulty completing even one shot. It also depends on the experience and character of the player. However, if you have a lot of difficulties slow down the jump shot speed to 3/4 of the original.
Survival transition
Defending in transition is the most important aspect of the game, especially if players are piling up a lot in the middle of the field. When all players concentrate in the middle of the field, it makes it easier for opposing players to counterattack through open areas on the touchline.
Players must be in the correct position according to their respective tasks. Each point guard position, they will be in the center position of the field and assist in the transition. While players who have good shots must be in front and often shoot.
Manage aspects of player life in MyCareer
In NBA 2K22, MyCareer mode has been improved like a true story, with lots of customization options. Players can reach the level of basketball superstars and even design their own homes to match their aesthetics. In addition, there is the option of investing in becoming an entrepreneur and understanding how to work with sponsors.
Players will have complete control over the lives of their characters and must ensure that the decisions they make on the pitch are not affected by decisions off the pitch. If not, the player may experience a career decline.
Players must spread out or open spaces
Make sure that every player who holds the ball, they must spread or opens space in order to become a solid team. If the point guard has possession of the ball and doesn't see his teammates spread out, it will reduce their options in the game.
Maximizing each attack pattern, with more players opening up space, so that the opponent's concentration will be disturbed. That will make it easier to make points, by taking advantage of the opponent's mistakes.
Closing the opposing player's space
If a team is not carrying the ball, all team players must guard one opponent. Keep them very tight their movement, and do not leave any open space. With that, the opposing player holding the ball will feel confused because the space is limited. They will be pushed out of your defense area and make their own mistakes.
Consciousness survives
Awareness of survival in NBA 2K22 is a must, as the defense mechanism has been changed from the previous one. Communication is key as players tend to let go of their area. Players must guard or block an opponent's attack while waiting for a teammate to fill another space. This will also make it possible to stop the opponent's attack.
Always monitor the progress of player ratings
Like other modern sports simulators, NBA 2K22 also has live updates. With this update, real-world rankings and statistics change based on real-world performance. This rating may drop when a player leaves the team or is injured.
NBA 2K22 players must always monitor so that when playing they perform well. If you don't know, it will risk the team's game. Players with low ratings will often lose the ball and not maximize it.
Those are some tips for playing NBA 2K22. In the latest series, this game emphasizes more in the real form, so that players will feel the atmosphere of the match real.
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On The Fly: Strong APR Scores At UConn
By Jeff Otterbein
The UConn men's basketball, field hockey, men's tennis, women's tennis and men's golf teams were honored on Wednesday with NCAA Public Recognition Awards for academic performance. Teams are recognized for posting Academic Progress Rate scores that are in the top 10 percent of their sport. Official APR scores will be released Wednesday. The latest scores cover a four-year period from 2012-13 to 2015-16, during which the men's basketball team won a national title and field hockey won two. ... Classic Empire is the early favorite in the Kentucky Derby but leaving from the No. 14 post does not help if history holds true. The last winner from there: Carry Back, the favorite in 1961. This year's Derby appears to have no lock, much the same as former Courant sports editor Bill Lee thought in '61 when he wrote: "The 87th running of the Kentucky Derby appears almost as wide open as a boxer's chin." Carry Back went on to also win the Preakness that year but not the Belmont. NBC starts its coverage Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Post time is 6:34 p.m. Four hours of pregame leading up to about a two-minute race. Don't start on the mint juleps too early.
Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott and QB Dak Prescott led in player merchandise and products sales, according to the NFL Players Association. Elliott also led the league in rushing as a rookie; Prescott was offensive rookie of the year. This stuff is no drop in the bucket. The NFLPA says retail sales exceeded $1.6 billion during the year. ... "Woman hit by stray bullet during Cardinals game," was the headline. The bullet apparently came from outside the stadium. ... Once that Celtics-Wizards game went to OT Tuesday night, was there any doubt the Celtics would win? Isaiah Thomas outscored Washington 9-5 in OT and had 53 for the game. A Celtics-Cavaliers series is coming soon. ... As a kid in the state in the '60s, the Toby Kimball-Wes Bialosuknia combination in the 1964-65 season was something special, as was that whole UConn men's basketball team that finished 23-3. Kimball averaged 19.8 points and 21 rebounds. No typo there ... 21 rebounds. Bialosuknia averaged 21.3 points. Both have died, yet people of a certain age will remember them for a long time.
jotterbein@courant.com


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ESA Prepares to Land Probe on Titan
By Peter B. de Selding
This map illustrates the planned imaging coverage for the NASA Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer aboard ESA's Huygens probe during its descent toward Titan's surface on Jan. 14, 2005. The colored lines mark the observation area as the probe descends. The yellow dot is the planned landing zone. (Image credit: NASA/JPL.)
LIVE webcast of the final Huygens mission briefing began at 11 a.m. EST CLICK
If successful, the 705-pound (320-kilogram) Huygens will be the most distant human-made object ever to land on an alien world. It's set to reach Titan early Jan. 14 EST.
ESA mission scientists and managers reported the probe on target and primed for its rendezvous during a last status briefing before the Titan descent held today at the space agency's spacecraft operations center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
The mission manager for Europe's Huygens descent probe is part of a European team that has been working for 20 years on an event that will last no more than two hours on Jan. 14.
But Jean-Pierre Lebreton, the manager, said at a press briefing here at the ESA's ESOC mission control center that he is not nervous.
"I am confident we are going to live something very special tomorrow," Lebreton said.
The Huygens probe is expected to be awakened by an internal signal to be switched on at 11:42 p.m. EST (4:42 a.m. Jan. 14 GMT). NASA's Cassini satellite, from which Huygens separated in late December, will then orient itself toward Titan to prepare to pick up Huygens data.
By 4:05 a.m. EST (0905 GMT) Huygens is expected to arrive a Titan. It will not be until four hours later, at 8:59 a.m. EST (1359 GMT), that Cassini will orient its antenna toward Earth to send Huygens data.
An initial indication that Huygens entered Titan's atmosphere and deployed its primary parachute may be available from a signal picked up by the large Greenbank antenna in West Virginia at 5:30 a.m. EST (1030 GMT). But Lebreton said it will likely be not before 10:13 a.m. EST (1513 GMT) before scientists receive, via Cassini, the first of several data files indicating that Huygens had made the expected observations as it descends through Titan's atmosphere.
"It's a little satisfying to have been working on this from the beginning," said astronomer Martin Tomasko, of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, in an earlier interview. "To be able to answer the questions we asked six or seven years ago, obviously it feels wonderful."
Tomasko, who is currently in Darmstadt and participated in the press briefing, leads the international team monitoring Huygens' only optical instrument - the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR).
Mysterious moon
Titan's mystery has long taunted astronomers hoping to understand the Saturnian satellite, the only moon in the Solar System with its own, thick atmosphere. Flush with nitrogen and at least 6 percent methane, Titan's hazy atmosphere is laden with organic compounds and researchers aren't sure what to expect when the surface comes into view.
"One of the major objectives with our camera is to understand the nature of the surface," Tomasko told SPACE.com. "Will we have drainage channels, or methane snow? Mission scientists are also unsure whether Huygens will land on a solid surface or a methane lake.
"It's really tantalizing, like looking through a veil," Tomasko said.
Cassini released the spring-loaded Huygens on Dec. 25, 2004. ESA officials studying Cassini's telemetry during the release maneuver said NASA's Saturn orbiter gave Huygens a good start for its solo flight. The ballistic probe should slam into Titan's atmosphere at about 13,500 miles an hour (22,000 kilometers an hour), deploy its parachute and begin observing the moon before touching down on the surface.
The process is entirely automated, with Huygens expected to broadcast its data to Cassini for later playback to Earth-based researchers.
"We really won't know anything until Cassini turns back toward Earth," Standley said, adding that during Huygens' descent, the Saturn orbiter will be facing toward Titan to receive the lander's data. "We're going to be playing that data back 16 times to be sure we get it all."
The $3.3 billion Cassini-Huygens mission launched in 1997 and reached the Saturn system in June 2004. The mission is a joint effort by NASA, ESA and the Italian Space Agency.
Space News Staff Writer Peter de Selding reported from ESA's ESOC mission control center in Darmstadt, Germany.
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US-backed Venezuelan opposition leader, Juan Guaido, came to Caracas seeking to be arrested, but the provocation failed and he ended up being guarded by police from an angry mob, investigative journalist Max Blumenthal told RT.
"It's ironic to see government security forces actually protecting Guaido, a figure who is calling for the government to be toppled and attempting to fragment the security services from within," Blumenthal, editor of the Grayzone Project, said, commenting on the video recently uploaded to social media.
The clip showed people in the working-class neighborhood of El Valle in Caracas hurling insults and trying to make their way to a black SUV, which was reportedly transporting Guaido to a rally. Only the police officers, loyal to President Nicolas Maduro, were there to protect the opposition figure.
"It's also ironic because we constantly hear about Venezuela as some kind of ruthless Communist dictatorship. But here you have a situation that will certainly not be tolerated in the US or other countries, like Russia, China or Germany… What kind of dictatorship is this? Well, apparently it's not a very effective one," the journalist said.
President Maduro is, of course, not without blame, as "mistakes were made by the government… but now they're in a position when the US is trying to prevent them from getting out of the hyperinflation… and preventing them from importing food and medicine," the journalist explained.
The harsh sanctions imposed by the Trump administration on Venezuela constitute "financial terrorism and it's an attack on everyone, regardless of their political affiliation. I think Venezuelans recognized that," and therefore have no desire to back Washington's man, Guaido, Blumenthal believes.
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Our easy to install pocket door systems are available for both single and double door situations. The rigid framing system is supplied pre-assembled and is suitable for use with stud and plasterboard.
To create a double pocket door you will need to purchase two single pocket door systems and a double leaf conversion kit. Easy to assemble without any modifications, the conversion kit includes a double top rail and two spacers to assist when fitting.
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American Cruise Lines' newest ship, American Constellation, will be heading to the West Coast in 2018. The decision came as a result of increased demand for American's popular Southeast Alaska, Alaska Inside Passage, and Puget Sound itineraries. American Constellation began its inaugural season in May of this year and is currently serving a number of American's East Coast cruises.
The addition of the 175 passenger ship will more than double American Cruise Lines' capacity in the Pacific Northwest and add 18 cruises to the 2018 season. The new addition will allow an expanded schedule in Alaska aboard American Constellation, while enabling American Spirit to operate the company's popular Puget Sound & San Juan Islands itinerary through July and August of 2018. This will be the first time American has ever offered summer cruises in Puget Sound.
While expanding its existing schedule, American Cruise Lines has also added a brand new itinerary, the Grand Puget Sound, for the 2018 cruise season. This 11-day round-trip out of Seattle will travel to some of the most popular destinations in the Pacific Northwest, including a number of ports not often accessed by larger cruise ships, such as Olympia and Tacoma.
Before heading west, American Constellation will spend the remainder of 2017 on the East Coast serving American's Grand New England, Hudson River, Grand Historic South, and Historic South cruises. New for 2018, American Constitution will be taking over these itineraries.


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Q: WCF Transaction Scope SQL insert table lock I have two services talking to two different Data-stores (i.e SQL).  I am using transactionscope:
eg:
using(TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope())
{
    service1.InsertUser(user);//Insert to SQL Service 1 table User
    service2.SavePayment(payment);//Save payment SQL Service 2 table payment
    scope.Complete();
}

Service1 is locking the table (User) until the transaction is completed making subsequent transactions with that table sequential.  Is there a way to overcome the lock, so can have more than one concurrent calls to the SQL service1 table while the above code is executing?
I would appreciate any input.
Thanks in Advance.
Lihnid

A: I would guess that you may have triggers on your user or payment table that update the other one.
The most likely scenario is that your save call probably does some selects, which you cannot do in the same proc where you are inserting.  This causes too much locking.  Determine if you need to insert with a separate call to the db, using a new transactionscope inside and suppress option, removing the select from the transaction.  I know your select would have the nolock, but it appears to be ignored in sql 2005 vs older versions.  I've had this same problem.
Make all your calls as simple as possible.


From what I gather, many agree that Ken make a fine mandolin, and I have no reason to disagree. However, the post is starting to sound like a commercial, IMHO. I realize there is a fine line between enthusiasm and "selling"........in fact, successful salesmanship often blurs those lines.
I'm not sure what you were expecting from a topic entitled "Silverangel praise" I don't mean any disrespect, Jeff.
I'll add to it. I have an '07 A model that I believe once belonged to Orrico. It has a nice full sound with lots of bass and I like it very much. It is also a snug fit in the case because of the unusually shaped headstock.
Well, my original intent, which I guess I failed at, due in part to my heading, was to perhaps draw people out who have and enjoy their out of the mainstream brands. Did you pay attention to the early Ruhland threads? Guy comes out of the woodwork with some apparently fine mandolins. But it was also to praise what I feel is a great builder. Why do I think that?
2. The mandolin I have, the only one I've played, is fine in it's own right if you like it's sound.
I have access to stores that carry a lot of well known and highly regarded mandolins. None are significantly "better" beyond what subjective preference would dictate. So do I want you to try one when Ken Ratcliff, it's maker offers to send you one with no money up front, so you can see for yourself? Emphatically yes, unless you like a bright mandolin with a gloss finish.
Word of mouth is the best sales pitch ever. Do I want a Collings MF Classic? Yess. Ellis? Yes, Gibson F5?, yes. So do I want to sell you on SA? Yes. I want everyone on this forum to die broke with a dozen mandolins, one a Silverangel.
"He died broke with a dozen mandolins" is going on my tombstone!
To some earlier posters, the only way to earn name recognition is to get people saying the name. Ask a harshly phrased question and don't be surprised by a harshly phrased response. "Who's Ken? The builder?" would have been just fine.
And I also think this thread is perfectly appropriate — where else can you try out a high-end brand-new mandolin shipped to your door for free? Even if that's the only difference between purchasing a Silverangel and any other boutique brand, so be it.
Mine is a Cedar topped Econo A, with a mildly distress "old violin" finish with satin varnish.... it's simply awesome IMHO.
The sound is dark, bassy and deep, definitely favoring the bass range over the mids or highs. I just started using a BC CT55 and it actually brightens it up a little which is really nice! It performed outstandingly at my local jam last night, for sure.
Mine is obscure and a fine instrument. It's an Olympia OM6-SW. It equals my friend's Gibson F9 in volume, albeit without the characteristic "bark" but I was using light strings. I'll have another go at him when I put mediums on it. This is an all solid wood instrument made by Young Chang, the famous grand piano maker who also made guitars for Fender in the 70's. They were made for Young Chang's former subsidiary, Tacoma Guitar, in the early 2000's. When Fender stopped selling them a few years after it bought Tacoma the OM6-SW (name changed to "Orpheum") carried a list price of $1284. And it sounds like a $1000+ mandolin.
I bought this on ebay for $240 shipped. A month ago I saw another on Craigslist, not as pristine as mine, which was offered to me for $325. When I take it to Dusty Strings and play it against the $3000 to $5000 mandolins it is clearly not as good. It does however hang with the under $3000 instruments very well. If you get a chance folks, try one of these.
I have a lot of affection for it as I also have a solid wood Olympia Parlor, acquired years ago, which also kicks a$$, is indistinguishable from the Tacoma parlors which go for over $1000 used. I bought mine for $200 and it is serial number 00001. I know this is the first one ever built because the serial numbers on these only go into the thirties. My Olympia Mandolin is serial number 0002 but this is preceded by a batch number so I have no way to know if it was the second ever made, but it's still fun.
Well, my original intent, which I guess I failed at, due in part to my heading, was to perhaps draw people out who have and enjoy their out of the mainstream brands.


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Q: Decode QR code image using zxing library in Android In my application I'm using the zxing library for QR decoding QR code images stored in the Android device. I would like to know how to convert Bitmap to BinaryImage to be decoded. I have found similar questions but none could solve my problem. Please help.

A: Look in the project code, but under androidtest/. There's a class called RGBLuminanceSource that does this.

A: This is the way:
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Nerve Signal Interference Removal (NSIR) Technologies is a privately funded research organization that is making the attempt to spearhead very real, and badly needed, change inside the chiropractic institution. Although the founder of Nerve Signal Interference Removal's (NSIR's) philosophical ideals and essential methods was a chiropractor, the new art is a major break from chiropractic.
The spinal column is the central focus of Chiropractic. This fact is both historical and modern.
NSIR does not focus on the spinal column, but instead understands that the real function of the spine is to compensate for, and adapt to, an unlevel pelvis or improperly balanced head. These two conditions are the essential basic causative agents that create the so-called abnormal functioning of the spine.
Dr. Craton proved that this joint actually had twice as many joint surfaces as was thought to exist. This discovery is extremely important and laid the initial groundwork for how to place the head to a perfect articulation on the atlas. This method goes to the root cause of why the body will fail to adapt to it's environment, and when done responsibly has proven time and again that chiropractic, osteopathy, and even physical therapy are severely lacking in scientific reasoning ... not to mention the allopathic model.
In 1991 I first approached the then future Board of Chiropractic Examiners President in Oklahoma. At the time, all it took for him to request that I perform the work in order to benefit HIS health, was to know that I was Craton's granddaughter and had learned Craton's work. He had been suffering from both a subluxated, or partially dislocated, head and pelvis. He had already been to his colleagues in an effort to secure any lasting relief from his condition and no such relief could be found. I treated him approximately three times and he no longer suffered from the condition that Chiropractic had previously failed in.
Quite frankly, this is no surprise since Chiropractic focuses on the spinal column as a cause. The problem wasn't in the spine at all. The problem was in the joints directly above and below the spine.
Today, about 80 percent of our population has a problem in either one or both of the joints directly above or below the spinal column. And instead of Chiropractic being willing to correctly learn what they should already know, and then utilize this research as they themselves have demanded for their own benefit, they have put up a ridiculous argument that Craton's research IS chiropractic in order to control the availability of this invaluable art. And quite frankly, they do not intend that the public would grow wise enough to demand the pure form of Craton's research.
It has been reported to me that some doctors who have made the attempt to copy Craton's methods have been able to stop even "Parkinson's" dead in it's tracks. Other well-known and equally debilitating "conditions" that respond to Craton's superior research are "Fibromyalgia", and "Multiple Sclerosis", to name a few. The problem in regard to a plagiarized version of Craton's research is, that usually a chiropractor who will engage in this plagiarized version of Craton's work cannot actually duplicate scientifically Craton's success rate. Craton's research performed as Craton would perform it has not failed, not even once.
Dr. Craton's work deserves to compete in its true form. For me to allow for anything less, is to stand idly by while an entire profession commits the act of theft upon the very people they purport to cure and save.
You may support the effort to keep Craton's unique research and methods alive and recognized as the perfect standard that they are. Our hope is that Chiropractic will finally admit that Palmer, the founder of Chiropractic, was mistaken, and that Craton is the standard by which to measure what the people deserve.
1) Craton, E.F. (1985). Cranial vertebral junction autopsy. Today's Chiropractic: 14 (4), 29-30.
2) Craton, E.F. (1985). Cranial - vertebral junction autopsy. The Texas Journal of Chiropractic: October, 21-22.
This page was first posted on January 27, 2007 and last revised on May 5, 2015.
Copyright © 2006 - 2015 by Tammy Joy Kennedy. All rights reserved.


It's time to start planting your vegetable and flower gardens around your home. Once the frost-free dates have passed you are free and clear to start planting all your annuals and other delicate flowers. Remember to water everything, especially any plants that were recently transplanted.
Pinch off the first set of blossoms of your blooming flowers. Believe it or not, this will encourage better rooting and blooms on annuals later in the season. In addition, it will also encourage growth from inner stems and allow the flower to fill out more fully throughout the year.
Make sure that you are keeping a watering schedule to ensure that plants are getting the water they need throughout the season. In addition to watering, start to apply fertilizers to your landscape, both your lawn and plantings. Applying a fresh coat of mulch to your landscape will help hold in moisture. Consider adding 1-2 inches of fresh mulch this spring and it will last you through the summer.
Now is the time to start maintaining your lawn to keep the weeds out before they start to spread. Carefully follow label instructions to apply broad leaf weed control before weeds start to produce flowers and seed. Prevent pests and various fungus from attacking your plants, shrubs, and tress by applying sprays now.
The cold is finally on it's way out! Enjoy the warmth and enjoy your landscape by bringing out its natural beauty. If you are interested in adding on or creating a new landscape, give us a call at 585 872 2790 or contact Gary directly at [email protected].
I'm trying to redo the landscaping in my yard this spring. Thanks for the tips about pinching off the first set of blossoms of flowering plants as this will cause better rooting. I'll have to see about contacting a landscaping company to help me redesign the yard around my flowers.
Sarah, we are glad to have helped. Please don't hesitate to give us a call, we would love to help you further if you need it.


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Побег симподиального типа. Псевдобульбы слабо развиты, яйцевидные 1,5-2,5 × 1-1,5 см, полностью скрытые ножнами 3-4 (до 6) листьев. Корни мясистые, длинные.

Соцветия базальные, вертикальные, 15-67 см длиной, 3-9 (реже 13) цветочных кистей.

Цветки не вянут 2-3 недели, сильно и приятно ароматные, 3-5 см в диаметре. Лепестки и чашелистики соломенно-жёлтые с зелёным с 5-7 в разной степени выраженными продольными жилками красного или красно-коричневого цвета. На лепестках часто имеются красно-коричневые пятнышки и центральная жилка выражена более явно. Губа бледно-жёлтая, зелёная, иногда белая с красно-коричневыми жилками и пятнами.

Произрастают как эпифиты или литофиты на открытых мшистых скалах с очень маленькими псевдобульбами, окружёнными листовыми основами.

Вид распространён в Южном Центральном Китае, Ассаме, Бангладеш, восточных Гималаях, Индии, Непале, Шри-Ланке, Андаманских островах, Мьянме, Таиланде, Лаосе, Камбодже, Вьетнаме, Малайзии, Яве и Суматре, в вечнозеленых, полулистопадных и листопадных лесах и саванных лесистых местностях на высоте до 1100 метров над уровнем моря.

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Column | From Where I Stand
Wisdom stands the test of time over rules that come and go
by Joan Chittister
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Grieving family members hold a mock funeral in the Brooklyn borough of New York City Oct. 18 to protest Gov. Andrew Cuomo's coronavirus restrictions that they say led to the deaths of their loved ones in nursing homes. In early October, Cuomo ordered more restrictions in certain Brooklyn ZIP codes he labeled "hot zones" because of a spike in COVID-19 cases. (CNS/Reuters/Jeenah Moon)
The world runs on two dimensions: first, on facts — and not facts. And second, on wisdom. Facts — and not facts — we have in abundance. Wisdom, not so much.
Wisdom is what has been tried and tested through time. It is life evaluated in the kiln of experience and so has been found true, over and over again. As in, "haste makes waste" or "let sleeping dogs lie." But stories, with more finesse, more depth than a proverb can provide in a sentence, the stories we pass along across generations, test our own spiritual values and ideals.
The monastic tradition is a veritable treasure house of stories, of wisdom literature.
In this what, I hope, is the post-insanity age of politics in the United States, I thought it might be refreshing to see what the desert monastics might be able to teach us, too, about how to live wisely in the face of such confusion.
Desert monastics in Egypt lived alone as hermits, but many of them lived in "neighborhoods" of huts and caves like small villages. As they committed themselves to lives of contemplation, simplicity and spiritual practices, they also saw life up close and personal. They lived alongside other monastics, and thousands of people came out to the desert for spiritual direction from them. Out of that reflection and experience came a collection of spiritual stories and a new kind of spiritual direction.
Monastic elders in Christianity, like the Zen masters in Buddhism, gave vignettes to novices and lay seekers to apply to their own fledgling spiritual lives. They are, I think, as meaningful to us in our attempts to live well now as they were to these villages of monastics centuries ago.
One of my favorite desert stories, for instance, is this one:
Once the rule was made in Scetis [one of these monastic outposts in Egypt] that the monks there should fast for the entire week before Easter. During this week, however, some brothers came from Egypt to see Abba Moses [who was renowned for his wisdom] and he made a modest meal for them. Seeing the smoke, the neighbors said to the priests of the church of that place: "Look, Moses has broken the rule and is cooking food at his place." Then the priests said: "When he comes out, we will talk to him." When the Sabbath came, the priests, who knew Abba Moses' great way of life, said to him in public: "Oh, Abba Moses, you did break the commandment made by people, but you have firmly kept the commandment of God."
The conundrum is this: Where is wisdom here?
Here in one little pod of people rests the soul of the human race. There are rule makers, rule seekers, rule breakers, judges and priests in every group of human beings everywhere. Just as they were in Scetis. The real moral question is which one of them is really right: the monastics who wrote a rule about fasting; the monk who broke the rule; the judges who criticized the fact that one man had abandoned the rule; the travelers who ignored the rule; or the priests who saw it all happen and did nothing.
Each of them has a case to consider.
Without the rule makers, we can't possibly have the "law and order" we say we want. These people decide what's important for the common good and try to spread that responsibility around. Notice that in the midst of this pandemic the medical community tried to protect the common good for us by prescribing masking, social distancing and the size of group gatherings.
Even some state governors ignored the proscription on the grounds that their states had been founded on a kind of laissez faire "freedom" and so citizens could not be required to protect themselves — or anyone else either. Individuals everywhere argued that they, too, were "free" and above having to meet any public safety orders. Some states simply preferred to live it out, like the common cold, except that thousands of them didn't make it.
The president of the United States, sworn to protect the country, not only derided masks but ignored the very thought of common good by his own political rallies. He disregarded the need for national leadership, let alone the thought of citizens' obligations to one another. So, in the end, we didn't miss "law and order." We abandoned it consciously. Smugly.
What that kind of morality does to our lives now — and in the future — will have consequences that false freedom cannot cure. Or to put it differently: Just think about the resistance to masking. Notice any effects of that?
Without the rule seekers — the people who value the guidance and organization that rules bring to a community — we would live in dangerous disorder: No red lights, no stop signs, no baby seats for cars, no compulsory education, no fishing licenses, no fair share of community taxes for community needs like roads and schools and hospitals. It will change society mightily. If it produces any society at all.
The problem here is that the rules can get to be more important than the ruled.
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Monastic elders in Christianity, like the Zen masters in Buddhism, gave vignettes to novices and lay seekers to apply to their own fledgling spiritual lives. (Unsplash/Neonbrand)
Which brings us to the rule breakers. Every smart politician knows that a rule imposed, outside of emergency situations, without testing its degree of public acceptance will eventually be ignored. It can also become an invitation to revolt. Only narcissistic authoritarians attempt to lead by force. Everybody else knows that it will only be a matter of time before "rules proclaimed for rules' sake" either fall into disuse or, just as likely, are overthrown.
The classic example of laws making themselves is one that dictated that college landscapers were to lay cement pathways from one doorway to another between the university's new dormitories to preserve the well-manicured lawns around them. By the end of every summer, the area's straight cement walkways lay still untouched. Instead, it was the diagonal grass paths worn down to sod by the footsteps of the students themselves that were being used. After that, college landscapers waited for the students to decide which way they were going to walk from one building to another, then they poured the cement.
Which brings us to judges who criticize public development without taking circumstances into consideration. We have to know if the rule being broken is truly life-giving or simply makes a higher law of life impossible to obey.
And here, of course, is where Abba Moses shows all of us that no rule is moral that makes real morality impossible. To leave his guests unfed because some people thought that fasting would be a good way to prove their sanctity was a most unsanctimonious choice.
The philosophical question then is which of these positions is most live-giving at this time: Rule making or rule breaking? Each of these has its place. The moral response requires that we decide which is most life-giving at any given time.
From where I stand, Abba Moses knew what the Congress of this time too often fails to realize. It is not the budgetary rule keeping which is determining our stimulus package that will measure our sanctity. Wisdom demands, in fact, that the civic order break the budgetary rules which are enabling some to wallow in their "freedom" while others are starved by freedoms that are death-dealing.
In this case, the priest, the keeper of the moral order rather than the institutional system, knows that the heart of God trembles over rules made to keep some of us secure while the rest of us — the ones whose resources have run out — lie face down in the dust of what was once their jobs, their houses, their food, their families and their lives.
Come, oh wisdom, and give us light.
[Joan Chittister is a Benedictine sister of Erie, Pennsylvania.]
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The labour of the human hand and brain, applied to the natural wealth of the world is the only source of wealth. Even gold has to be wrested from the earth, separated from rock and base elements and refined to purity.
Labour Day Parade Toronto
Those who dominate society and claim ownership of its bounty still require workers to turn the potential wealth into actual things of value. Whether it is recognized or not, without the skills of Labour, none can be rich. The dependence of the rich on Labour to maintain their life styles of over-consumption and hoarding has been a constant worry to them and though their brains may play little role in production, the wealthy have worked overtime thinking of ways to increase the wealth extracted from each worker, to reduce the amount each worker receives and to make sure ideas of democracy and equality do not take root in working people.
Every era has gone through a period of concentration of wealth. In Ancient Rome, the big land owners took over the common lands being farmed by independent small farmers and assembled huge estates. At first, the displaced small farmers worked as day labourers for wages. Soon wealthy Romans displaced the citizens who worked their land for wages with slaves taken by conquest, over whom they had the power of life and death.
Canadian Labour's Demand
No wages needed be paid as the, once proud, dispossessed Roman citizens were forced into a wretched life in the cities. The Urban poor were used by ambitious politicians as mobs to pressure opponents and to provide the soldiers for the never ending wars. Reduced to taking the dole (grain rations), the proles (urban poor) became pawns in the machinations of the political elite.
Only the essential skilled workers such as shoemakers, leather workers, cart drivers and ships captains, organized in collegia or guilds managed to maintain some control of their lives. These guilds were not trade unions in the way we know them but they were mutual support societies who could negotiate terms such as wages and political rights. In the later Roman Empire, when obligations to the state in labour and taxes became onerous, members of the bread bakers' guild, for example, were exempt. But, by Imperial Decree, they were locked in from birth to be bread bakers and could not leave the trade.
Roman Tomb of Eurysaces of the Bakers Guild
In the countryside, the treatment of slaves led to several large revolts, culminating in the uprising led by Spartacus. Fielding an army of over a hundred thousand escaped slaves, Spartacus defeated many Roman armies but he only sought return the ex-slaves to their foreign homes. He never attempted to destroy the Roman slave state. Eventually trapped after the army had split, all the slaves involved were killed in battle or by crucifixion. With the establishment of the Roman Empire by Augustus Caesar, the Roman state maintained large standing armies and no further slave revolts were possible.
Wool Workers Guild
In the Middle Ages, slavery was converted to serfdom, where the peasants were tied to the land of their feudal lord. Only in the Guilds did craftsmen retain some rights, but it must be noted most Guilds were for the merchant classes and not the skilled trades. These Commercial Guilds evolved to become municipal government. The Guild master had absolute control over Guild members and Guilds cannot be compared with a modern democratic Union.
Iron Workers Guild
With the coming of the Industrial Age, the old feudal structures were swept away. The newly freed serfs flooded into the cities to feed the voracious factories which consumed human lives as much as resources to produce their product. It was in that crucible, that our modern Unions were born.
The Skilled Tradesmen banded together to improve their conditions and to challenge the bosses' stranglehold on politics.
While American Unions generally refused to enter politics in the 19th century, in Canada Trades and Labour Councils often fielded candidates to advocate Labour Demands such as the nine, and then eight hour day.
Voting rights were restricted to male property owners until the First World War, but many Journeymen did own their homes. Though Labour candidates rarely won, the establishment parties saw the support they drew and would adopt planks from the Labour platform to gain their vote in the next election. In this way many of the greatest advances in Canadian society have been achieved this way. From the Eight Hour Day to Medicare, establishment parties have introduced these measures to court the Labour vote.
Tilco Strike
The right to join a Union or bargain collectively was not always recognized. the first Unions were considered organized crime, evil syndicates preying on their hard pressed employers. Even after the political right to organize was won, through all manner of threat, intimidation, courts and police, the owners did all they could to frustrate the workers and their Unions. It was not until after the Second World War Unions in Canada finally won the recognition and the membership to become a leading force in society. The Ford strike in Windsor and the hard fought struggles at Stelco in Hamilton finally tipped the balance and Union membership as a percentage of the workforce reached its peak in the 1980s at 38%.
Since then, though the total number of members has increased, Union density, as a percentage of the total labour force, has declined to slightly below 30%. Public sector employees make up a large block, as private sector Union rates have slipped.
A large part of the decline in private sector unions is a result of the shifting of production overseas to exploit cheap, non-union labour internationally and so curb the influence of workers' organizations at home.
This is the point we find ourselves at today. We are not losing members to de-certification but every plant closure takes another big block of members and throws them into the street.
The influence and prestige of Unions in BC remains high and every employer knows if he treats his employees poorly, a Union will organize his operations. For this reason, many non-union employers pay at, or higher, than Union rates. It is not the cost of higher wages but loss of total control they fear. When an employer can no longer hire and fire as he pleases, when workers have dignity and the backing of their fellow Unionist, the game is never the same.
And so we come to the quandary of modern Unions. Canadian Unions have, in the most part, done a good job of representing their Members, getting better wages and working conditions, curbing the arbitrary power of the owners and gaining the workers respect. But as our membership base shrinks, our Unions are having trouble continuing to finance the service the Members need and deserve.
Non-union employees do not always see the need of Union Membership as they enjoy a portion of the benefits Unions have won. And threats and intimidation are still practised by many employers in response of a Union drive.
Our Machinist Union in BC has lost members due to the economic trouble of the last few years, nothing like the losses of our American brothers but the strain is still there. Your District has resources to carry us over this rough patch but unless we bring in new blood, the Machinists in BC will be diminished to the detriment of current Members and BC as a whole.
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As our traditional types of businesses are generally either Union or paying near Union rates, the Machinists in Canada are looking to non-traditional sectors desperately in need of Union solidarity. In Ontario, our Union has been signing up the people who transport patients between hospitals. In BC, we need to talk to our neighbours and friends to see who needs our support.
Your District prioritizes organizing. Though we will concentrate on our traditional industries, for the future of our Union, we are going to places and talking to people we never considered before.


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Prasanna Nair is an Indian-born doctor working in the United States. She works in primary health care with a specialty in pediatric endocrinology

Biography
Nair is originally from India and completed her medical training at Lady Hardinge Medical College in Delhi. In 1960 she moved to Maryland, USA and began her medical residency in pediatrics at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Nair passed the American Board of Pediatrics in 1965. In 1970 she became a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. In 1982 Nair received her masters degree in public health from the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She is certified in pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics and her Maryland State Medical License was active until 2017.

Nair's work has been focused on helping and caring for children and adolescents, specifically infants of mothers with HIV/AIDS or substance use disorders. She has also spent time advocating for the education and commitment of medical students to advance the field of pediatric medicine. In 1970 Nair founded the Special Parent Infant Care and Enrichment (SPICE) clinic. The SPICE clinic endeavors to care for infants of HIV positive mothers at the University of Maryland. The SPICE clinic also refers mothers with drug dependencies to treatment programs. This project not only serves an at-risk population of children but also provides very important research and experience to the field of pediatric medicine. Dr. Nair worked as the director of the Community Pediatric Center from 1975 to 1985. The Community Pediatric Center was a federal project at the University of Maryland for children and youth and provided health care to inner city and low-income family children who would otherwise not have access to primary health care. From 1985 through 2000 she directed the Junior Year Pediatric Clerkship at the University of Maryland while working as an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Nair has served on numerous committees directed towards advocacy and research for children, particularly at-risk children, including children from low-income families, or children whose parents have HIV/AIDS or substance abuse disorders.

Nair is a co-investigator on the "Following Urban Teens: Unique and Resilient at Every Step" (FUTURES) project at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The FUTURES project is a longitudinal study that is being funded by the National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA). The FUTURES project  followed 296 infants born at the University of Maryland Hospital. During the first two years of the children's lives, families participated in a randomized controlled home intervention. After that, researchers met with children and their caregivers twice a year until the children were 10 years old. During the visits data was collected on children's cognitive, behavioral, social, and psychological development. The data collected provided insights into how children who experience risk and protective factors develop over time. The data collection phase is complete and the data is being analyzed to determine the effects of prenatal substance exposure and social risk factors on the neurocognitive and social development of teenagers from low-income, urban environments. Now that the original participants are adolescents, the FUTURES project is currently assessing the effects of early childhood experiences such as substance exposure, environmental adversity, placement stability, and other factors related to resilience on adolescent development in collaboration with NIDA.

Publications

Most of Nair's published research seeks to illuminate the medical history of HIV infection and transmission in children born to HIV infected mothers. Some of her publications include :

 Black, Maureen M., Linda F. Gerson, Claire A. B. Freeland, Prasanna Nair, John S. Rubin, Jacqueline J. Hutcheson. 1988."Language Screening for Infants Prone to Otitis Media." Journal of Pediatric Psychology 13, no. 3 (1988): 423–33.
 Nair, Prasanna, Maureen M Black, John P Ackerman, Maureen E Schuler, and Virginia A Keane. 2008. "Children's Cognitive-Behavioral Functioning at Age 6 and 7: Prenatal Drug Exposure and Caregiving Environment." Ambulatory Pediatrics 8 (3): 154–62. Children's Cognitive-Behavioral Functioning at Age 6 and 7: Prenatal Drug Exposure and Caregiving Environment.
 Nair, Prasanna, Maureen E Schuler, Maureen M Black, Laurie Kettinger, and Donna Harrington. 2003. "Cumulative Environmental Risk in Substance Abusing Women: Early Intervention, Parenting Stress, Child Abuse Potential and Child Development." Child Abuse & Neglect 27 (9): 997–1017. Cumulative environmental risk in substance abusing women: early intervention, parenting stress, child abuse potential and child development.

Recognition
Nair has received multiple awards for her work in pediatric medicine. Some of these awards include a 1985 recognition of service award from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, a certificate of appreciation as a member of the National Institute of Drug Abuse in 1998, commendation of her service in 1985 from the Baltimore City Commission of Health, and induction into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2008. December 6 has been designated Prasanna Nair Day in Baltimore by Mayor Donald Schaefer.

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San Holo Biography
For San Holo, everything is personal. Every note is a story and each lyric a memory, a hyper-real exploration of purpose, emotion and shared experience. The Dutch producer lives in his own space, crafting a world of beauty and sentiment between the build-and-drop bombast of Post-EDM and the intimate musings of ambient post-rock.
Coming up as a future bass producer in the Soundcloud era, San's unique style and honest approach to songwriting has earned him a loyal following that supported his independent debut album, cementing the artist as a star in a league all his own, while earning the praise of critics and peers from rock icons like Rivers Cuomo to producers such as Porter Robinson.
Whether playing a sold-out show at The Shrine, a massive crowd at Coachella or headlining at Red Rocks Amphitheater, every San Holo show feels like an intimate experience. His fans are fiercely loyal, singing along to each song, some of them tattoo'd with his lyrics, and many of them decorating their social handles with echoes of his "stay vibrant" philosophy.
"I don't care if I play for 300 people or 5,000, as long as the people there understand what I'm trying to do," he says. "Every song of mine is a personal experience, feeling or moment in my life. It feels like a piece of myself and when people are touched by my music, it feels like they understand a little bit of me. In the end, we all just want to connect to each other. That's what true success means to me."
Born Sander van Dijck, his catalog reads like a diary. Falling in love with punk and alt-rock, he learned to play the guitar and make noise of his own. His teenage years were spent hopping from band to band, and he even studied guitar at Rotterdam's Codarts University of the Arts. Ironically, this was also where he was first introduced to digital production software.
Fascinated by the freedom that creating electronic music offered, he realized he didn't need a full band to bring his exact vision to life. Like many producers of his age, his success started with remixes, and in 2014, his bright-synth trap edits of Outkast, 50 Cent and Nelly, released in a series called "Don't Touch The Classics," caught the eye of bloggers and DJs. His rework of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode" exploded on Soundcloud, amassing more than 234 million views on YouTube to date.
Hidden in that track's euphoric breakdown were the candy-colored beginnings of the San Holo sound. Tinker-toy keyboards, joyful claps and wistful nostalgia swirled into something even stronger on 2015 single "We Rise," but it was the hopeful ache and dynamic ecstasy of 2016's "Light" that solidified San as an international star. With more than 172 million Spotify streams, the hit was initially self-released on his newly-founded label bitbird, setting a successful foundation for signees Taska Black, DROELOE and others to build upon while taking San to festival stages around the world.
By 2017, San Holo was regarded as a bastion of the future bass movement. The only problem was, "future bass" as a genre had gone stale. Uninspired by formulaic structures and plastic-pop crossovers, he dug deep into his soul and bet on himself.
"I've gotten offers from major labels and I've tried to make a hit for the radio audience, but it doesn't come naturally," he says. "I don't like pursuing that at all, and I just realized I got where I am by doing what I love, which is making songs based on my personal experiences that people can connect to."
His 2018 debut LP album1 was a risky and compelling exploration of intersectional sounds. Blending clear electric guitar with trap 808s, indie-pop melodies with explosive bass drops and organic, analog recordings with electronic sheen, album1 shone a light on San's artistic soul. He even found the courage to pen deeply-personal lyrics and lay down his own vocals, alongside thoughtful collaborations with Bipolar Sunshine, James Vincent McMorrow, and more.
San and his team held fast in their vision, choosing to self release on bitbird, funding the project from writing to recording and touring entirely in-house. The bet paid off as listeners around the world connected with San's honest and earnest messaging. album1 debuted on the Billboard Dance/Electronics Album chart at No. 7 and topped the iTunes Electronic Charts in the US, Canada and other countries.
San brought the album to life with an electrifying world tour that mixed live production, vocals and guitar work, bringing the album's ethereal organics to new heights. The year-long world tour hit 75 dates across Asia, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and North America, selling 100,000 tickets in NA alone. Fans sold out venues from Los Angeles to New York City, including The Shrine, Terminal 5, and the Fox Theatre. There were festival spots at Coachella, EDC, Lollapalooza and more, while the tour culminated in a headline show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
In the end, album1 won Best Dance Album at The Netherlands' Edison Pop awards and Best Electronic Album at the International Dance Music Awards.
"I feel so naive that I was so insecure about that," San says of mixing guitars with his electronic sound. "People like electronic sounds mixed with real instruments. People understand it. It was such a scary thing back then for me cause it was so different from my previous work, but now I feel like that indie-meets-EDM sonic has really become my thing."
He bared his soul to the world, and fans responded in kind. It's a relationship best encapsulated in San's "stay vibrant" movement, a concept that asks for honesty with oneself and others, to check in with yourself and your friends about how you're really doing in triumphant or trying times.
"When you ask someone, 'are you okay?' we're always expecting 'yes, I'm good' or 'no,'" San says. "What if we can express that in a percentage? Like 'I'm 70 percent okay." That's so much more accurate than saying 'I'm good, thank you.' That's what 'up-arrow percentage' is; realistic optimism. EDM was dominated by positive vibes only, but that's not realistic. It's ups and downs, and stay vibrant is a new way to express that."
Birthed during his headline performance at EDC Las Vegas, the up-arrow percentages has been adopted by fans and constantly updated in Twitter handles and social media bios. It's a sign of San following and a lifestyle choice to be in touch with your inner world and feelings. It also translated to a collection of original tracks shared to DSPs called the "stay vibrant collection."
By the end of 2019, San was ready to embark on a sophomore album. Once more, he booked an airbnb in Los Angeles, but this time, he came with a confidence in his lo-fi-maximalism and indie success.
If album1 was about making a home in the grand scheme of electronic music, bb u ok? is about living in it. Coming in at an astounding 20 tracks, it's a message of pure creative confidence. Somehow even more honest and forthcoming, it explores existential questions of love, hope, loneliness and social expectations while building toward even more organic soundscapes and full-band compositions.
More than anything, bb u ok? is about connections - the connections between people and music, people and each other, people and themselves. There's a softness and intimacy to the project, and that whispered closeness comes to life in the hand-written notes of the album's design. It's San's love letter to his listeners, his friends and the moments of wonder.
Honing in on nostalgia as an inspiration, San and his collaborators recorded much of the album on vintage audio equipment. They sang into cell phones to create texture and left whatever passing cars, chirping birds, or barking dogs might have bled into each recording. It takes on more of a DIY skate-punk vibe, reminiscent of San's high school days. It's a little rough around the edges, each of those frays representative of a real moment and feeling.
"I cannot play those songs without thinking about that time, and the way I felt," he says. "The way the airbnb looked, the late night writing sessions in the garden, the friends that came over, It's all very vivid for me."
album1 pioneered a post-EDM sound, blurring the lines between festival anthems and lo-fi bedroom ballads. On bb u ok?, San further explores this intersection by mixing more analog instruments and equipment into his electronic sound. He fleshes out his band with collaborations, from album1 returnees Bipolar Sunshine and The Nicholas, to long-time heroes of San's including Illinois indie rockers American Football and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo.
It's exciting and validating, further encouraging San on his journey to create a sound and genre all his own that bridges his influences of indie, post-rock and EDM while speaking to the bigger feeling that brings us all together.
"That's the big thing that moves me," he says, "The ungraspable nature of things that are just so much bigger. When you have a connection with someone, a friend or maybe a partner, there's a connection and there's a certain energy going back and forth between you and this other person. You don't know what it is, but you know, it's there, and I feel like trying to capture that feeling in words is just not going to do that feeling justice. I feel like maybe, sometimes, music does."
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I have been shooting weddings at Glencorse House for few years now and every wedding that I shoot there fills me with excitement and joy! This was was no exception! A simply beautiful day in summer of Danielle & Mark had everything of a perfect relaxed Glencorse wedding, they even had a ice cream van for some refreshment. A perfect way to spend another Saturday with my camera and beautiful people. There is many favourite photos from this wedding but here are the one that I love the most!