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The Hotel Knickerbocker on Broadway and 42nd Street.
The Knickerbocker Hotel was built by the legendary millionaire John Jacob Astor the forth (1864-1912) in 1904. It was one of his many hotels in New York City. He built many and would have kept building, but he was on the Titanic and was not one of the survivors.
This was built in the heart of the theater district and home to many great singers and performers. This place was home to the great George M. Cohan (1878-1942) of Broadway fame.
It was also the home to the immortal operatic tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). Another of the greats who lived there was the theatrical producer Charles Frohman (1860-1915). Sadly he would be lost in the Lusitania.
It was a hangout for many in theater. The bar downstairs was famous for not only coming up with the martini cocktail, but for having some of the finest foods ever.
The great operatic Contralto Ernestine Schumann Heink (1861-1936) She was 350 pounds of contralto and often ate her meals in the Knickerbocker. There is a great story about Caruso walking into the restaurant of the Knickerbocker and seeing Heink with a massive steak before her. He yelled "Madamme Heink are you going to eat that steak all alone?" She responded in her German-English, "No, mit potatos!"
Caruso ate most of his meals at the Knickerbocker till he and Cohan were moved out when the building was sold. It was made into an office building and all of its hotel items were moved elsewhere. One of the most famous pieces was moved to another hotel in NYC. But that will be another story.
Caruso sang from his suite in the Knickerbocker to everyone on Broadway to celebrate the end of WWI. I got to meet two people who saw that event. Helen Hayes who was there said it was the highlight of her life. It must have been something!
Today the Knickerbocker building is condos and stores. It has recently been sold, so perhaps by 2020 there will be another hotel Knickerbocker. Just like a century ago.
Remembering my friend Ray Stone on the 65th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima
It was my honor to know Ray. He was a gentleman, singer, actor, and a survivor of the battle of Iwo Jima. Ray rarely talked about the event, but one day over some stingers, he let go of a little bit of his memory. Ray had been born on Dec 6, 1925. His father had a mandolin orchestra and Ray was surrounded with music from his childhood. That would play a part in his later life. But the war interrupted that.
Once Ray turned 18 in December of 1943, his path was like millions of other young men of the time. That was to join the military as the world was at war. He joined the marines in 1944. He then went through the months of indoctrination and basic training. Then he and hundreds of thousands of raw green troops went on their way. Of course none of them knew where they were going. The war in Europe was closing down, but the war in the Pacific was steaming. The Japanese were entrenched on many islands and were known to fight to the last man. So it was known that fighting them would be a living hell.
Ray said that in late 1944 he was on his way to the Pacific. He was transferred from ship to ship. Finally they knew something was up in early 1945, as he and a few hundred other very unlucky souls were loaded onto a large landing craft and sailed across the ocean. There were hundreds of these massive landing crafts that were loaded with soldiers. These ships were all flat bottomed and rode the water terribly. Everyone was seasick on board. This ship and it's very sick passengers were on their way to Iwo Jima.
He said they landed and the front gate opened and all of them were feeling awful. but soon they were under a hail of bullets and everyone of them to a man forgot about being seasick. Now they were in a battle, not only to take this small island, but for their very survival. He said he saw so many of his comrades shot down. As he used to joke years later "They were trying to kill me!" It was no laughing matter as thousands of men on both sides were killed.
He recalled the two flag raising's on the mountains. He said there were big cheers each time. I had never been aware of that till he told me about the flags. The photo I had always known was of the second flag raising. Each was important, but the first flag raising and those who were involved seemed to have been overshadowed by the second. Ray was eventually shot and crawled under a tank and was in great pain. His Sargent told him to get out from there but as he was barking his order he was shot and killed.
Ray was finally taken in and recovered from his wounds. He returned to the marines and even served again as a Drill Sargent in the Korean war. The marine flag always flew at his house.
Ray had a spectacular career after this. He worked on Broadway, toured in Summer stock. Sang with the Easternaires in the Music man all over the country. In later years he married his lovely bride Mickie. It was my pleasure to know and perform with this man for many years.
Mickie told me of a incident that happened in 1995. She and Ray were touring in Washington and Virginia. They were on a bus doing tours. They found themselves in Arlington and in the shadow of the monument honoring the second flag raising of Iwo Jima. Everyone filed by, but Ray, who had never seen it before was transfixed. It had been 50 years since he saw that scene.
The bus driver started honking the horn and yelled out his window "hey get in the bus old man". Mickie glared at the driver and said "Shut up....he was there"
There was just a silence after that, and a feeling of respect. Then Ray got on the bus with the quiet dignity that always was his and was left with his thoughts.
It was my joy to know him many years and learn a lot from him. He was always concerned about Mickie as he knew that she would survive him. But this was not case. Mickie sadly left this world in 2000. Ray existed six more years.
I recall my last conversation with him. I was to meet him in March of 2006. In December of 2005 I called Ray to wish him the best on his 80th birthday. In his typical humor he said to me..."Jack, you want to know something....80 sucks!" We laughed and then he died 2 weeks later. Never got to see him that coming March. But today as I read about Iwo Jima, I think of my friend, and remember.....
Back in the days when we performed together. From left to right Me, Bill Farrazanno (top) John Murray, and Ray
Postage Currency from the Civil War 1862-1863 . All produced in New York City
This early issue was produced in the North (In NYC) during the civil war sometime between August 1862 through May of 1863. They were to use as money and designed to allow people to buy stamps as coinage was scarce at the time.
Fractional Currency notes were produced from August 21, 1862 through February 15, 1876. Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon Chase proposed to authorize postage stamps of some type as a new currency. Congress and President Lincoln approved the Postage Currency Act on July 17, 1862, which authorized an issue of the notes. I will be talking about the first issues not those of the post civil war period.
The first Issues became known as Postage Stamp Currency because they bore facsimiles of the then current 5 and 10 cent postage stamps. Postage Currency (first Issues) were never legal tender but could be exchanged for United States Notes (money) in $5 lots and receivable in payment of all dues to the United States, up to $5.
In the first few months of production, the sheets were perforated like stamps. These sheets were sold to banks and the public in sheets and you could tear off the notes needed with ease. The perforating machine could not keep up with the heavy demand. Therefore, the stamps were printed on plain sheets that were cut with scissors. This made for some badly sized notes.
All of these notes were produced and printed in New York City, at the National Bank Note Company. This company was located at The Merchant's Exchange Building at 55 Wall Street. The building in which they were located still stands.
This style and those of the first production run were changed in 1863 to a more colorful and better designed style to prevent counterfeit designs. As there were many problems with the size and style of these early notes. The one stamp/bill shown here is from that early period and shows Thomas Jefferson on the front on a five cent stamp of the time.
They are a rather odd and rare part of Civil war history and the early days of bill making in the United States, or what was existing of the United States at that time. One of the more unusual styles of a form of currency. And it all happened in New York.
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The other President that was buried in NYC. James Monroe (1758-1831) 5th President of the United States. Removed from NYC's Marble Cemetery in 1858
Today in New York City, there is but one Presidental grave, that of President Grant. But in the past, New York has been the resting place for another President, that is James Monroe. In this article we will share with you in story, the removal of the remains of our 5th President.
Removing the coffin from the vault
Monroe's coffin on display at New York's City hall on July 3, 1858. Before the body was taken to Virginia for burial...It must of had a rather musty smell after being in a vault for 27 years...But there seems to be no mention of it. The smell I guess was not too strong as the inner coffin was switched to a new one. The inner coffin was made of lead, and it was placed inside a new mahogany casket. But he was the only President that was laid out for public view long after his death.
President James Monroe of Virginia. The last President who was a Revolutionary War Vet
New York City's Marble Cemetery. Where Monroe was buried. Monroe was placed in a vault here after his death on July 4th 1831. He was totally broke and so it was with support that he was buried in New York.
In 1858 he was exhumed and moved to Virginia where he rests. His wife and family were reburied in the graveyard near his tomb.
A closer look at his sarcophagus in Virginia.
James Monroe, our fifth President died basically a pauper. He was living with is daughter in New York as his money situation was in terrible shape. He finally died of heart failure on July 4th 1831. 55 years after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and five years after Jefferson and Adams.
His Presidency was known as the "Era of good feeling".In his Presidency was perhaps the greatest Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams who wrote the Monroe Doctrine.
Sadly after his Presidency his money situation grew awful. He sold his home in which his wife was buried and moved to New York with his daughter.
His funeral was of great pomp and he was laid to rest in Marble Cemetery in New York City in the Gouverneur family Vault. There he rested till 1858. When a petition from Virginia was settled and his remains were to be brought to state of his birth and most of his life. His coffin was exhumed and brought to New York's City hall where it was on display for the public to see once again the coffin, not the President. He was then put on to a barge a taken to Virginia.
There were a number of storms and it looked like what was left of Monroe was to be lost...But they made it. It is an odd thing that one of Alexander Hamilton's grand sons was part of the honor guard and was sadly washed over board during one of these storms.
Then in July of 1858 he was interred in a rather bizarre Cast Iron tomb. His wife and family were buried near to him. But his tomb was made for only one. There he rests to this day...Now in company with John Tyler, who would be buried there at Hollywood, but not honored till many years later with a marker for his tomb.
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Original menu for dining in New York's Greenwich Village hot spot ..The Pepper Pot 1929
New York's Greenwich Village was a place to be in the later days of the 1920's. The Pepper Pot was one of those places to see and to be seen.
It was a restaurant, jazz and dance hall. party house, and also a place where the bohemian life of the Village could be enjoyed and expressed.
It was not cheap to dine there, but it was known for its excellent foods and atmosphere. In fact if you look at some of the prices here you will see they were quite high. Most places you could get a sandwich for twenty five cents, here it was fifty or more! It was as I mentioned before the place to be, and the place to have a heck of a good time. Of course this was in the height of prohibition, although things could be found there too to help you along too in your quest for a drink.
This menu is from 1929, just before the crash. It is a wonderful reminder of the days that used to be in old New York. The building still stands ad in a later posting we will show you what the old Pepper Pot looks like now.


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Q: How to fix the amount of bandwidth of iperf in tcp mode? I'm working on some experiments about my master's degree project. I'm studying some load-balancers (I'm not supposed to cite them here) and the aim is to get for each bandwidth the cpu % usage of a load-balncer x.
I'm using iperf to send traffic to these load-balancers in TCP mode but I can not control the bandwidth of iperf in TCP mode, I can not use UDP mode because the said load-balancers does not handle UDP traffic.
I tried using wondershaper tool and tc command but I'm getting strange results and the results do not make sense.
I would be very glad if someone can point me in the right direction to achieve this. Thank you so much.
Is there any possibility to use Scapy to forge packets of a fixed amount of bandwidth, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong in this point.
Thank you so much.

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Now that Ford's sales numbers have been tallied and finalized, it's clear that the year 2016 was one for the books. With a total of 2,614,698 vehicles driven off the lots, the automaker recorded its greatest sales results in a decade; Ford brand sales of 2,502,973 vehicles also lock in the Blue Oval's status as the best-selling brand nationwide for seven years consecutively.
Contributing to the record-breaking numbers were sales of Ford's F-Series trucks, with a total of 820,799 sales that make it both the best-selling pickup in America for 40 years in a row and the best-selling vehicle for 35. Overall U.S. truck sales for Ford - including pickups, heavy trucks and vans - came out at 1,077,006 vehicles. This marks a year-over-year increase of seven percent.
Additionally, sales of 772,667 SUVs gave Ford its best annual performance since the record-breaking year of 2001. The Ford Escape and Edge also posted recognition-worthy sales for the year - 307,069 and 134,588, respectively.
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Home – Fertility Treatments – IVF – Why Should I Do Single Embryo Transfer with IVF?
Dr. Erik Mazur, Houston Fertility Specialists: So, the benefits of transferring one embryo and having one pregnancy at a time is a benefit of a singleton pregnancy over a multiple pregnancy.
We know that multiple pregnancies carry risks both to the mom and to the baby.
So, there are risks to Mom including increased rates of hospitalization, pre-term birth, high blood pressure problems in pregnancy, diabetes in pregnancy.
And then risks to the baby. Oh, increased risk of caesarean delivery. And then risks to the baby, obviously, of premature delivery.
I mean, the biggest risk is premature delivery. That these babies are born before they should be born and babies born pre-term have; there are consequences to that.
So, growth problems, feeding problems, lung, brain development. And severe injury and sometimes death if the baby is born too early.
So, the idea is that a singleton pregnancy has a much lower risk, both to the mom during the pregnancy and then also to the baby, mostly predicated on the length of the pregnancy. So, when that baby's born. Keep that mom pregnant to a full term and you decrease the risks to both the mom and the baby.
Dr. Eric Mazur of Houston Fertility Specialists discusses the benefits of a single embryo transfer with IVF.


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At first I thought this is just a random braindead. Then it turned out to be a player destroying everything he had when left EVE. This turns the moron into a sad moron.
Why? Because in 3 years and 8 months of playing he failed to find a single cause or even a friend to gift his wealth to. While he wasn't the richest man in EVE, his assets weren't trivial either. He could give 70-80B to someone or for something.
I preach anti-sociality and refuse to collect "friends" and still found groups worthy of my donations. If I had to leave EVE due to real life issues, I'd liquidate everything and give it to Chribba to keep donating 6B/week to MoA and pay 6B/week to Marmite for the CFC wardecs. So for 8-10 months the GRR project would continue after my departure.
This event shows the tragedy of socials. They want to get "friends", but their connection to other people they play together is very shallow and never last. Sharing stupid links, jokes and "having fun" doesn't form individual bonds, you are connected to the faceless "bros" crowd. The guys who are today "bros", the next day are in different groups fighting each other. You do remember the "best friends forever" between Goons and TEST, right?
When someone gets to a point where he must stop and think, he realizes that he didn't get a single real friend. This one was so bitter that he rather exploded his wealth than giving it to anyone.
Don't be a sad social moron! Bind yourself to ideas, not to people!
Often, people grow disillusioned with their ideas or ideals, too.
In fact, this is just what might have happened with that guy.
If you quit and set up a trust fund to support GRR for a period of time after you left, it still means that you care about the ideas/ideals that you had, and wish to see them continued.
To put it another way, maybe he just didn't care what happens after he was gone, and wanted a severe break-off.
And you, please, stop trying to fit people into neat little boxes, and ascribe them motivations for what you think they had. In this instance, it would have sufficed to ask why he quit, instead of all this philosophical supposition about friends and ideals. I thought you were more pragmatic than that.
I can't care less what were his feelings. His actions remained the same: destroying everything in a stupid fashion.
Actually eve enemies are often good friends in real life. If you look at any player gathering, people spend quality time together regardless of eve affiliation. Take a look at tweetfleet - everyone is socializing there without looking at who is at war with whom.
As for the guy himself - if he didn't care about his assets going to a better purpose, why should he give it away. He wanted to go out with a bang and he did. He took care of his own entertainment. Why should he care about what happens next in eve? Yet, if he made real friends with someone in game, they'll most likely still be friends. I can't imagine a mature person saying "I don't want to speak to you again because you didn't give me your stuff in a game". That's pretty childish.
It's "I don't want to speak to you again, because you preferred a lolbang event over saving me from paying $1600 on PLEX or ratting 800 hours"
" If I had to leave EVE due to real life issues, I'd liquidate everything and give it to Chribba to keep donating 6B/week to MoA and pay 6B/week to Marmite for the CFC wardecs. So for 8-10 months the GRR project would continue after my departure."
So, it is social for a guy to blow up his stuff when he leaves a game (better than deleting it, which I do), but not social for you to want to remain remembered in a game which you no longer played?
I destroy everything when I leave a game, because I will no longer be using it, I delete my characters as well.
Funny thing is, which guy do you think would be remembered longer in Eve, the one who exploded an expensive ship on his way out, or the one who paid for someones wardecs?
Do you know his name? (without looking up the killboard) I don't. He is just "the moron with the expensive JF loss" to me.
You know my name. So it's safe to guess I'll be remembered more.
If you had actually bothered to find and read the ingame event on the forums you would have noticed that Zhandra was neither sad nor moronic. The person also gave away lots of stuff to friends and even random persons in the thread. He/she simply wanted to grace the community with content on his/her last day. The lucky winner of the loot lottery even went so far as to keep the loot in the cargo bay and accept duels. Of course this is neither sensible nor a very efficient way of distributing stuff. But it's entertaining and games are supposed to entertain.
If any his friend actually asked him for it, he would have given it away. Since no one did, he decided to make an event for the community. He gave some stuff to other people around who asked, and decided what to do with the rest. It's his money and he is the only authority to decide what to do with it. He wanted an entertaining event so he made it. Nothing stupid in that.
Altho I'm not a fan, I would have donated it to the Angel Project. Or Eve Uni. That would have kept new players in the game and produced much more "content" than a single event like that.
"You know my name. So it's safe to guess I'll be remembered more."
If being remembered is your goal, then you're certainly succeeding. Just as notable Criminals, Dictators and so on will be remembered for their contributions.
Being remembered is overrated. Being remembered for things society frowns on. Is that really a thing to be remembered for?
Personally i'd undock the freighter and give people some fun.
Another point: if you were leaving a game, why would you care if people even remember you? You no longer have any ties / interest to the thing you've left. So being remembered is meaningless in the context of Eve.


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Córka dziennikarza Eugeniusza Guza. Ukończyła studia germanistyczne na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. W 2007 obroniła na Wydziale Nauk o Ziemi i Kształtowania Środowiska Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego doktorat nauk o Ziemi na podstawie napisanej pod kierunkiem Stanisława Cioka pracy pt. Pogranicze polsko-niemieckie w procesie integracji europejskiej. W pracy naukowej specjalizowała się w geografii społecznej i ekonomicznej. Pracowała jako dziennikarka Polskiego Radia, współpracowała z dwumiesięcznikiem "Europa". Była również korespondentką "Financial Times Deutschland" w Polsce i "Gazety Wyborczej" na Węgrzech. Autorka analiz dla Instytutu Spraw Publicznych, a także publikacji naukowych.

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The author tracks down a former Peace Corps volunteer who murdered a fellow worker in 1976.
The Bohemian Grove is an exclusive, all-male club made up of Presidents, ambassadors, and other world leaders, with a 33 year waiting list for membership. Their booze-soaked annual retreat outside of San Francisco had never been infiltrated—until this story.


You just can't stop humming that tune.
It's an earworm. And you've tried everything to make it stop.
Worse yet, it's a song you heard while watching a foreign film. And you only caught some of the words.
Wouldn't it be great if you could take that earworm and use it to your advantage?
What if the songs you just can't get out of your head could also help you advance in your language studies?
Help is here. And it isn't a set of earplugs for your brain: It's a guide to a half-dozen of the best lyrics sites out there.
You can use these sites to track down those pesky words that you can't quite remember or couldn't quite figure out—the words that will help you better understand the language you're trying to learn.
Believe it or not, you can also use them to keep up with the latest music in your target language and discover new artists you love.
In this post, we'll find out how—but first, let's take a look at how you can make song lyrics part of your language study plan.
Music works its magic in several ways, helping you to learn far more than just a set of lyrics for a single song.
Music engages your learning processes. It's catchy and memorable, which helps you retain what you learn.
If you're learning the words and not just the tune, the music itself will help you remember the lyrics.
Songs help you learn slang and idiomatic expressions. They often use everyday speech to express the writer's feelings on the song's topic.
Since they're generally written for native speakers, they're not glossed the way a textbook or graded reader would be. They bring you into the real, everyday life of the living language.
Song lyrics can be more than just everyday speech, though. Many of them are written in a poetic way, using metaphors and other figurative language to evoke a certain feeling in listeners—whether it's painting a dismal picture of love gone wrong, or lighting up the world with hope.
Knowing what you can learn from songs is all well and good, but how do you get there? Whether you think of a song in another language as a delicious nut with a tough shell that needs to be cracked open or as a sweet, tangy pomegranate with layers of juicy arils inside its waxy, honeycombed interior, the song's lyrics certainly offer more than meets the eye.
All you need are the right tools to dig down deep and enjoy the fruits of your song-harvesting labor.
Below are some suggestions for finding and learning from song lyrics. Some of them, such as doing your own transcription, are a bit more labor-intensive—although they may bring you better reinforcement.
Other options, like finding the official lyrics and translations already done for you online, are huge timesavers. However, you may not retain what you learn quite as well if you jump right into looking up the lyrics.
Try the options that seem the most feasible for you. Just like your own personal playlist, the way you learn from lyrics should be customized to you.
Are you one of those people who likes to try figuring something out for yourself before you read the manual? You might enjoy challenging yourself to see what you already know—and what you can puzzle out—before you look at the answer key.
Try transcribing a song yourself first. Just sit down with a notebook, let the music play and jot down what you hear as best you can.
If you're not sure about something, stop the recording and listen again. It doesn't have to be perfect and it doesn't have to be pretty; there will be a lot of question marks and false starts. You just want to make an honest attempt to use the words you already know and the language skills you have, as this will build your confidence in the language over time.
Once you're satisfied you've gotten the lyrics down as well as you can, attempt to translate your transcribed lyrics.
First, do what you can off the top of your head; then, when you get stumped or want to double-check yourself, reach for the dictionary.
Keep a running log of new words and phrases you learn while translating songs. You can review them from time to time to help you remember them, maybe even making your own lyrical flashcards.
Of course, you won't be completely sure how well you've gotten the lyrics down until you can compare your efforts with the official version.
If the song's artist has a website with a lyrics archive, great! Getting the lyrics directly from the artist is about as official as you can get, and those lyrics will probably be the most correct.
Older artists may not have gone digital with their works. If you went old school and bought a CD, you may have the lyrics in the liner notes, right in the CD booklet.
Coming up empty on getting the official lyrics from the artist? There are many online lyrics repositories that could fit the bill. Aside from the great lyrics sites we'll look at below, MetroLyrics is a solid, well-presented site with lyrics from multilingual artists, as is Genius.
If you choose not to personally transcribe the lyrics, but still want a chance to translate the lyrics for yourself, these are good places to go for just the original words.
Whether you choose to transcribe songs yourself or just to translate the lyrics you found on another source, you'll probably want to check the accuracy of your translation.
Once you have your own translation on hand, you can see how it fared against an online version from a site like LyricsTranslate or AlltheLyrics.com. Both of these sites host lyrics translation forums supporting users who are interested in dozens of languages.
Don't be shy about participating in these forums, whether it's to offer your own services in translation, ask questions or just to be part of the cultural conversation.
And bear in mind that many online translations are done by amateurs, and may not be entirely correct. If something in the online version doesn't seem right to you, it's possible there were transcription or translation errors.
Again, the idea isn't to strive for perfection, but just to enjoy a rich, entertaining language learning resource.
Once you've practiced transcribing and translating a few of your favorite songs, you might be hankering for some new tunes. These six sites, with lyrics for millions of songs and thousands of artists, will introduce you to popular artists and rare gems, all while helping you improve your language skills through learning and translating lyrics.
With curated, interactive video libraries to help you learn languages, FluentU is your go-to source for learning language through music! FluentU takes real-world videos—including lots of music videos but also movie trailers, news, inspiring talks and more—and turns them into personalized language lessons.
You'll find more than just the song lyrics on FluentU: Get fully captioned videos with translations and extra features to help you learn through lyrics… like the exercises, flashcards and quizzes available in FluentU's Quiz Mode.
The great thing about using FluentU as your main lyrics site is that everything is right there in front of you: You can pick a song and immediately start watching the video, and you get to choose whether you see the transcription, translation, both or neither. You can even download a PDF transcription of any video to study offline.
FluentU can recommend more videos for you, based on your previous picks and your language level. Keep yourself challenged and keep the hits coming!
This part of the list will cover dedicated lyrics sites for seven of the most widely-spoken languages out there.
Otherwise, FluentU and LyricsTranslate might pick up where these sites leave off, giving you access to translations and other learning materials.
Alyricso will help you get your fix of C-pop, K-pop and J-pop.
First, you'll see the original lyrics, in Mandarin characters, Hangul or Japanese script.
Scroll down the page to find the Romanization (transliteration of the sounds of the words into the English alphabet).
A few of the songs, especially from the "Featured" section, are glossed in English.
This French music site lets you search for song lyrics by artist and/or title. But it's more than just a lyrics repository—Paroles-Musique keeps you up-to-date with all the latest musical trends, tallying the Top 50 songs of the month (based on the number of visitors to various lyrics pages).
The site also hosts translations of popular songs into French. If you're familiar with the original lyrics, this can be a great exercise: You might try your hand at producing your own version of a translation into French, then check it against the efforts published on the site. Just look for the Traduction (Translation) tab near the top of the page; you can either browse the Top 100 popular translations or search alphabetically for songs that might interest you.
If you're just beginning your French language adventure, the site is available in English to help you navigate. And take a peek at these seven songs, which can help you tackle several facets of French grammar and vocabulary.
Get grooving with the German-language gems on Songtexte! This site not only features the lyrics to oodles of hits, but it'll keep you up to speed with German pop with its front-page News section. Its interactive forum is the place to go to discuss the music of many genres—along with many other music-related and off-topic topics. You can even give your feedback about the website content.
Songtexte shows you the most popular music of the day, displaying the iTunes charts for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and more. You can also enjoy themed, "best-of" listicles, like this list of the 50 best Schlager songs, the 40 loveliest songs for nights around the campfire and the 10 most beautiful friendship songs.
RussMus may not be one of the biggest lyrics sites out there. However, its pages cover a broad scope of music genres.
The Traditional Music section brings you Russian folk songs and "Soviet Classics," plus anthems and children's songs.
Switch over to Modern Russian Music, and you'll see rock, hip-hop, techno and more.
Each major section has a history of the music styles, helping you to put the artists and lyrics into cultural context. The site also gives short artist biographies, so you can learn a bit more about the individual singers and musicians.
The lyrics themselves are shown in the original Russian (or, in some cases, Ukrainian). Many songs have a Romanized transliteration/phoneticization, and there are even links to guitar tabs and song videos in some cases. This small-but-mighty site will get you on the path to learning Russian through song, boldly taking you where "The Volga Boatmen" has never gone before!
Spanish-language lyrics site Musica.com has got the beat, offering not only straight-up lyrics but lyrics paired with music videos for on-the-spot karaoke.
There's a series of articles merging music and culture. Plus, you can test your knowledge of Spanish-language music, artists and culture with these music trivia games.
Here are 10 canciones (songs) to get you started, with tips on learning Spanish through songs.
Find some songs you'll love and give these lyrics sites a shot at helping with the translations.
You'll be humming a happy new tune, and singing along—with the correct words. And you'll even know what they mean!
Michelle Baumgartner is a language nerd who has formally studied seven languages and informally dabbled in at least three others. In addition to geeking out over slender vowels, interrogative particles, and phonemes, Michelle is a freelance content writer and education blogger. Keep up with her latest adventures in language and learning on Twitter.


Truth: most pastors place way too much stock in the response they receive on their messages, etc. You would think that, especially as a pastor/teacher matures with some ministry years under their belt, that they would be impervious to the Monday morning blues, but…not so. It's a little bit embarrassing to admit that few professionals live on the emotional waves' edge of people's opinions more than pastors. Maybe politicians…or barbers.
Well, without exploring that less than gratifying thought any further, let me tell you that, aside from my talk last Sunday, the experience at church was awesome for me. My morning began with some hot coffee and breakfast in the room where Common Grounds meets. I love the oatmeal with fruit and raisin brown bread toast. To see people sitting around enjoying breakfast together while at the same time digging into the Word is a very cool thing, especially when I think of people who live in places where doing stuff like that could land you in prison.
I also hung out in the foyer for 20 minutes or so, and as I watched my friends showing off their new grand son, I was struck with the power of faith being passed from one generation to another. When I hear Colton or Cailyn shout "Grandpa!" and feel their arms wrap around my leg, I think about all the reasons I want them to grow up in an environment like this. It's what God intended I think.
When the service got going it was in the context of Darren, the worship leader, sharing how the sunshine that day reminded him of how he felt when he first came to faith…as though the skies of his life were suddenly clear. He said that the sense of relief he felt today, that winter was over and spring was here, made him remember how awesome it felt to experience the sensation of knowing everything was new in his life because of Christ. It made me feel like singing…so I did. Those moments every Sunday where I put the cares of life aside and focus on the greatness of God are like drops of water to a thirsty soul, and every week it seems like the Lord lifts up a phrase or a thought from one of those songs and drives it deep into my heart. Often, it feels like God's voice speaking personally to me.
As Emily prayed, it felt beautifully the opposite…like her words were helping me speak personally to God. The Bible says that the Spirit helps us and shows us what to pray, and there have been so many times when the prayers spoken in the service seemed to powerfully and mysteriously read me like a book. That too, is a constant reminder that the Lord is in this place, and whether I'm praying along with someone else, or singing the words on the screen, every week it feels like God is reaching down to me as I reach my faith toward Him. Weird that such a personal encounter can happen in such a public and corporate place. Weird…and beautiful.
The coolest thing though, was when Tamie came up front and shared what she felt compelled to speak. It was a confession of sorts, and it betrayed such a sense of humility and gratitude for how God had helped and blessed her that no one could miss the sense of God's presence and power. It took courage to do this I'm sure, but my, how the Lord used that simple act to remind us how important it is to be submissive and repentant before the Lord.
The morning wrapped up with an awesome conversation with a great young man who was feeling overwhelmed with some challenges he was facing, and as I in my 60's sat talking with him in his 20's, I thought how neat it was to know that we are all in this together…all struggling to walk out our faith and hold on to Jesus. God reminded me of some veteran believers who spoke in to my life when I was where he is now. Seems what goes around comes around.
Sorry to be telling so many stories, but trust me, they all happened that one morning last week…at church. I felt blessed, used, spoken to, moved and challenged. I left with an appetite for more, and a prayer for the many people I know who miss God's good stuff every week. And, oh yes, I left with a big bag of homemade chocolate chip cookies someone baked for me too. Think I'm coming back next week!
Join World Hope Canada at the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo in support of their Spring Capping Program, a fundraising effort to provide clean drinking water to the people in D.R. Congo. Travel by motor coach to Halifax; pick up points in Sussex, Petitcodiac, and Moncton. Cost: $110. To book tickets please contact Kerry Allison: 433-2589 or 567-4443 or visit worldhope.ca.


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Australia reprieved – now it must prove it can care for the Reef
May 29, 2015 7.56am EDT
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, The University of Queensland
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg
Director, Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland
Professor Hoegh-Guldberg undertakes research on coral reef ecosystems and their response to rapid environmental change, which is supported primarily by the Australian Research Council (Canberra), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Washington, D.C.), Catlin re-insurance Group (London), and Great Barrier Reef Foundation (Brisbane). He did not receive salary for writing this article.
University of Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.
Australia has persuaded UNESCO it has a plan to save the Great Barrier Reef - now the policies and funds must materialise. AAP Image/Tourism and Events Queensland
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee has decided not to add the Great Barrier Reef to the List of World Heritage in Danger, for now at least. In a draft decision released ahead of its annual meeting next month, it has welcomed Australia's plan to save the Reef, but also demanded a progress report on its policies by the end of 2016, as well as a full update on the Reef's conservation status by December 2019.
The move draws a temporary line underneath an issue that has loomed large for the past three years, bringing Australia's stewardship of the Reef uncomfortably into the international spotlight.
During that time there has been copious input from scientists, politicians and campaigners, discussing threats such as climate change, dredging, pollution, shipping, and even the fate of the barramundi on our plates. It has got people talking all over the planet about whether or not the Australian and Queensland governments really care enough about one of the most recognisable symbols of Australia.
Not everyone has agreed with one another. As debated extensively on The Conversation and elsewhere, experts have advocated both for and against the idea of listing the Reef as endangered.
On one hand, the evidence is impossible to doubt that the Great Barrier Reef is in danger. Half of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef have disappeared since 1985, and the destruction of coastal habitat by rapid port development and other activities has been plain to see. On the other hand, the recent ramping up of remedies by both federal and state governments shows that our leaders clearly want to honour the promises made when the Great Barrier Reef was first listed as World Heritage in 1981.
Has UNESCO made the right call?
I have previously argued that a decision to list the Great Barrier Reef as endangered would be premature. So UNESCO's decision makes a lot of sense to me, for several reasons.
The first is that the decline of the Great Barrier Reef began as much as 100 years ago, and hence is not something that the government can turn around overnight. It requires a concerted, non-political process that recognises and aggressively solves the problems of pollution, sediments, and unsustainable fishing.
Given that we have not had an effective process for some time (water quality, for instance, has been an issue for decades; it didn't just pop up in the past couple of years), it would seem counterproductive to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger" at a time when federal and state governments are finally beginning to take clear actions in response to the issue. It will take time to rethink coastal agriculture, fix eroded gullies, and address issues such as coastal herbicide and pesticide use.
The second reason is that the response of ecosystems to these policy changes will necessarily be complex and slow. As coral populations hopefully rebound, seagrasses regrow, and threatened populations such as dugong being to recover, we will need to make careful long-term observations before we know if the actions taken now have been effective.
Short-term international manoeuvring won't save the Great Barrier Reef. We need to think beyond politics and recognise that safeguarding the Reef will require a long-term commitment by Australia as a nation, not just a political process.
The third and final reason is that it would be rather perverse for UNESCO to ignore Australia's clear intention to take this issue seriously. Given the effort that successive state and federal governments have made to avert an "in danger" listing, what incentive would remain if the listing was made anyway? It would hardly help to motivate future governments to fight the uphill battle of getting the listing removed again.
There is no doubt that federal environment minister Greg Hunt and his Queensland state counterpart Steven Miles will both be sighing with relief that the prospect of an "in danger" listing has been staved off for another five years. This is great for Australia and for the many people who believe that re-listing the reef as "in danger" would have been the wrong step to take at this time.
But the real work starts now. It's time to vindicate UNESCO's decision by showing that the Reef is truly being protected.
There are encouraging signs. The Queensland government has successfully introduced the Ports Bill, which restricts port development in Queensland to four so-called Priority Port Development Areas, and has restricted dredging for port facilities outside these areas for the next 10 years.
Meanwhile the federal government has banned port developers from dumping dredge spoil in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and both federal and state governments have committed to a long-term sustainability plan that acknowledges the major challenges from coastal development, pollution, and (in a somewhat less satisfactory way) climate change.
This is all well and good. But as pointed out before, the devil is in the detail. While still in process, much of these commitments still need to be legislated, and without legislation they are no more than hot air. We must also trust our science (and not private opinion), and ensure that we take real actions with a measurable outcome that safeguards the Reef.
It is also absolutely essential that loopholes, such as those within the Ports Bill, are removed so that we never again find ourselves engaging in activities that are ultimately at odds with the long-term future of the Great Barrier Reef. As it stands now, for example, the Ports Bill only prohibits "significant" port development. However, what is classified as "significant" is not defined by the Bill and is, at this point of time, entirely arbitrary. These problems need to be fixed if Australia's apparent sincerity about solving the problems is to be believed.
Let's hope that in 2020, when UNESCO assesses the progress that has been made, Australia passes with flying colours as a nation that has successfully turned around one of its most significant environmental problems.
Great Barrier Reef Threats series
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List of World Heritage in Danger
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A juvenile Plectropomus leopardus from the Whitsundays. David Williamson/James Cook University
No-take marine areas help fishers (and fish) far more than we thought
Wildfire damage in Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage property, January 2016. Dan Broun
From Shark Bay seagrass to Stone Age Scotland, we can now assess climate risks to World Heritage
Tourists are experiencing 'Reef grief'. Matt Curnock
'Sadness, disgust, anger': fear for the Great Barrier Reef made climate change feel urgent
USA vs Spain in a 2019 friendly. EPA/MANUEL LORENZO
Women's World Cup: extra time to reflect on the broader injustices women and girls face

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In an effort to lay special emphasis on building communication and oratory skills of our students of grades 4 and 5, an Elocution Competition was recently organized at Presidium, Faridabad. In this competition, various topics such as preservation of water, deforestation, my favourite famous personality and nature, were covered. The children participated enthusiastically in the competition and delivered their speeches confidently. The program tested various aspects of language, like pronunciation, accent, diction, knowledge, body language and other facial expressions and gestures. Overall, the competition proved extremely enlightening and informative for the young Presidians!


In this lesson, we will learn how to determine the rank of a matrix by transforming it to its row echelon form then counting the nonzero rows.
What is the rank of the matrix ( 0 0 ) ?
Find the rank of the matrix  2 2 4 4 4 8  .
Find the rank of the given matrix.
Find the rank of the following matrix.
If 𝐴 is an 𝑛 × 𝑛 matrix of rank 𝑝 < 𝑛 ,then what is the dimension of the null-space of 𝐴 .
Find the rank of the matrix  2 2 − 2 0 − 5 8 2 1 2 1  .
Find the rank of the matrix  1 0 5 4 5 0 2 5 2 0  .
What is the rank of the matrix  7 0 0  ?
What is the rank of the matrix ( 8 0 0 ) ?


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Marine environmental change in literary non-fiction / public science writing
Thursday 2015-11-19, 12:30 - 13:30
Lecturer: Susanna Lidström
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French Geography and a Humanist Articulation of Environment until Braudel's La Méditerranée
Saturday 2015-11-21, 13:30 - 15:30
Lecturer: Sverker Sörlin
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Tony Abbott's new government has no dedicated science minister – the first time Australia's been without one since 1931. Instead, some areas of science, including the CSIRO, will become the responsibility of the Minister for Industry, Ian MacFarlane. While top scientists are reserving judgement on the decision until its effects become clear, the move does imply that the new government sees science as no more than a blunt tool for building things and making profit – a worrying trend that's certainly not limited to Australia.
But by having no science minister at all, we may have dodged a much bigger bullet. One of the main candidates for the position of Science Minister was MP Dennis Jensen, a PhD-holding climate change denier from Western Australia. He's been vocally on the warpath against any kind of climate action, citing the 'entirely reasonable' arguments of Lord Monckton as examples of why he holds these beliefs.
He's right, of course. Scientific truth neither relies on consensus nor authority. But the main arguments for global warming aren't based on the fact there's a consensus of opinion. They're based on verification by experiment – the ultimate arbiter of scientific truth. The fact that a consensus then arises amongst qualified scientists who have examined that data is then a legitimate reason for the public to listen.
Dr Jensen could have included another fact about science in his list: that it's an open endeavour. Anyone can examine the evidence. And if you're interested in doing that yourself, and want to check up on the validity of statements made by climate deniers like Monckton, Tony Abbott or, yes, Dennis Jensen, head over to the excellent site Skeptical Science, where John Cook provides point-by-point rebuttals of statements by many main offenders together with the scientific evidence that contradicts each one.
Unfortunately, Dr Jensen isn't as outspoken about the importance of openness in science as he is about the nature of consensus and authority. He didn't speak out when, on its very first day in power, his incoming government closed down the Climate Commission – which existed to inform the public about climate science in an unbiased way.
Dr Jensen has reminded us that science doesn't rely on authority for its truth. Now he needs to remember that having a PhD in science doesn't confer respect from other scientists, or the public. To get that, he needs to act based on facts.
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Scooby, a 7 year old black Labrador, is a very special companion to Samantha having entered her life at a very difficult time. Since the age of 17 Samantha has needed brain surgery each year to remove excess fluid from her brain, a condition called Arnold Chiari Malformation. After one particularly difficult surgery Sam was feeling very low, and she was advised that a dog may help find solace and companionship. Scooby didn't disappoint, and the two became fast friends, together every day. Scooby has been there for Sam day in day out when she needed him most.
However, Scooby has come to Fitzpatrick Referrals because he had become more and more lame with a lot of pain in his elbows due to a condition called Elbow Dysplasia. The family had exhausted all non-surgical options using drugs and physiotherapy to help Scooby but Sam knew he was still in pain every day. Scooby is the centre of Sam's world and due to her own complex surgical history she already had a lot of knowledge regarding the potential risks and complications.
Professor Noel Fitzpatrick examines Scooby to assess the extent of the damage in his elbows using advanced CT scan imaging and arthroscopy, which is a tiny camera that can go inside his elbow joints. The outcome was worse than they hoped for. Scooby was affected by severe cartilage erosion affecting both elbows. Noel felt that partial elbow replacements for both of his elbows was the option most likely to succeed because the extent of the damage was so severe.
The inner half of the cartilage lining of Scooby's elbows has completely worn away, causing painful bone-on-bone grinding whenever he walks. Noel replaces the inner half of the first of Scooby's elbow joints using metal and plastic implants that are embedded into the bone leaving a smooth and pain-free joint surface. It is an intense operation and highly invasive, but Scooby is such a good boy, he bears it well and his recovery is smooth.
A few weeks later, Scooby has the same procedure performed on the second elbow. However while he is on his road to his recovery, Samantha also has to have surgery again. Together they could both recover in each other's company, comforting each other all the way.


How does the Ceiling work?
Put a roof over your price with the Ceiling: a surefire way to access the lows of the wholesale market while still getting the benefits of fixed rates. Set every quarter and flexible with your individual business needs, the Ceiling sets a peak price in accordance with market activity, ensuring you'll never pay more than you need to.
Set every quarter and flexible with your business needs, the Ceiling sets a peak price in accordance with market activity, ensuring you'll never pay more than you need to.
Every quarter, a base Ceiling is calculated at 120% of the market fixed rate – you'll be notified of what it is 10 business days before the start of the quarter. We set both a peak and off-peak Ceiling to make sure you get the best rate possible.
Over the quarter, you'll continue running your business, letting the Ceiling work its magic. At the start of the new quarter, you'll get a new Ceiling based on what the market is doing.
Prices vary throughout the year, with demand increasing in summer. The Ceiling protects you from these major fluctuations by setting a peak price. Rather than a fixed rate, your cost is calculated by multiplying your usage by the market price every half hour. This is called your load weighted average, and is the figure you see in your bill at the end of the month.
Typically, at the end of most quarters, wholesale prices won't hit your Ceiling – but if your average price for the quarter does exceed the Ceiling, we'll look at how your business compares to the market, and adjust it based on your Price Efficiency Factor, which is calculated by comparing your average spend with the market average. This means the Ceiling is customisable for your business' specific needs.
Mark-up on market prices, applied to your load weighted average price across the agreement.
0.6c/kWh peak and 0.4c/kWh off-peak fee, giving you access to the Ceiling.
Regulated losses costs – this is standard procedure for retailers.
Daily service charge, covering the cost of billing and other operating costs.


Just like with the Tied at Shoulder variation, you can tie a Semi Double Hammock with a slip knot!
This variation is small, but it can be really comfortable. The slip knot makes the carry easy to adjust and it sits more evenly on your chest.
This carry uses a base -3 or longer, just like the double knot version. I am using a base -3 for me and Jack.
It starts like a basic Double Hammock. Wrap off center, baby up, makr seat, longer tail under arm for torso pass, and sling pass.
Bring the longer tail under your arm and cross it over the shorter tail in front.
Starting from the outside, bring it behind and through the shorter tail, looping it around back to the center of your chest. Let the tail hang down, towards the center of your chest after the loop.
Repeat the loop again, longer tail over the shorter. Loop it from the outside, under the shorter tail and through. However, this time bring the end of the tail through center of the loop. Then pull the rest of the tail through. For a Slip Knot refresher, see Tied at Shoulder Variation.
This knot is adjustable, so position it comfortably in the corsage position and feed any slack out the shorter tail.
This is a wonderful adjustable variation. I like it for a hiking because it is easy to retightened as we bounce around on the trail. Like with the double knot version, this is not seat popper friendly. And it could be leaner friendly if you put the sling pass on baby's leaning side.
Good luck with those slip knots!


Monrovia artist Susan Delaney practices the sophisticated ancient technique of lost-wax casting.
At the top of an exceedingly long and winding dirt road in Monrovia is a secluded artist's retreat where Susan Delaney practices the sophisticated ancient technique of lost-wax casting. Also termed glass casting, cire perdue (lost wax in French) and more currently kiln casting, it involves creating a finished glass piece through use of wax and plaster molds and molten glass. The process features an intricate series of steps beginning with sculpting a wax image, then making a plaster mold around it, melting out the wax, placing the mold upside down into a kiln and melting glass into the void. Pieces often stay in the kiln for days in order to go through the various temperatures needed to melt, anneal and finish the piece. The resulting creation has a somewhat milky or cloudy tone with soft, delicate and ethereal features.
Delaney, a retired Frederick County kindergarten teacher, most recently at Green Valley Elementary, has been an artist most of her life. Fascination with glass began when she was about 18 and started creating stained glass windows and lamps. She acquired a kiln 20 years ago and began melting glass, eventually arriving at the lost-wax casting and later fusing processes.
"When my daughter was born, I realized I needed a regular income—a real job," Delaney said. "I liked being around little children." She had been studying music, but she went on to earn her teaching degree. "Teaching young children meant I could still do art and music," she added.
Delaney is also an accomplished classical and jazz guitarist. Up until nine years ago, she and her husband, a painter and metal artist, entertained other artists and friends with art and music shows in their wooded hilltop home. The amazing, museum-like house is filled with stunning art, musical instruments and CDs and is quite an unexpected discovery against the rather stark rural surroundings. Teaching full-time, Delaney had summers and weekends free to work on her twin passions.
Several years ago, the house next door was abandoned and went to auction, and she and her husband bought it. The home now houses her studio.
"The cost of lost-wax casting pieces is pretty much cost prohibitive," Delaney explained. "It takes many hours of work with carving molds, melting and calculating the amount of glass necessary. Kiln hours can be up to 30 and the mold is a one-time use." Getting the firing temperature correct is a challenge—one has to have the experience with temperature and how glass behaves to get it right. The work is done in the kiln to ensure a constant temperature and keep the glass fluid. Pieces anneal at 900 degrees for four to five hours. "I enjoy doing it—it's very beautiful and I like the end result," Delaney said.
Recently she has been doing more fused glass, which is much more forgiving. She also works with powdered glass in her pieces.
Delaney devotes about half of her time to art and half to music. She performs with several groups—notably one in Baltimore and one with members from Frederick. Individually and with the groups, she plays at weddings, private events and Sunday brunches.
She does not show much anymore. "I like being in my studio. It takes a lot of time to prepare. I have a lot of stuff now and am thinking of making a gallery space," she said. The upcoming project will allow her to showcase her work in one venue and also invite artist friends to show theirs.
Delaney said that a friend refers to her studio as '"my playhouse—I put on music and play with wax." Her current project is casting and fusing tiles for a new bathroom shower area.


Is it Safe to Give Birth at Night in New York? | The Pagan Law Firm, P.C.
Is it Safe to Give Birth at Night in New York?
While the study did not determine the cause of the increased risk, it did suggest that factors such as physician fatigue, decreased staffing, and the lack of senior or more experienced obstetricians present at the hospital during nighttime hours could be potential reasons for the increased risk.
If you deliver naturally then you cannot control when you give birth. You cannot avoid giving birth at night if the baby decides that it is time to be born, and you cannot control a doctor's medical malpractice.
However, you can control what comes next. You can consult with a New York birth injury attorney about what happened during your child's delivery. You can call an experienced New York birth injury lawyer at 1-800-PAGAN-911, regardless of the time of day that your child was born, and get the help that you need for your child's future.
*Source: Wu YW, Pham TN, Danielsen B, et al. Nighttime delivery and risk of neonatal encephalopathy. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2011;204:37.e1-6.
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Weight loss can be achieved by a balanced combination of planned diet and regular exercise & workout.
The type of diet that will suit you depends on your current weight, body type etc.
Also please consult your doctor in case you have an ailment like diabetes, asthma etc.


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Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critics
New Musical Express (NME)
'Jesus Is Born' serves as a gateway into gospel and a fittingly festive listen for this time of year. Praise be.
There is very little club to be found on Jesus Is Born—it is a pure gospel album. One of the most radical elements of the album is what's absent: Kanye's voice. Instead, he's assembled a massive choir to channel his Christian message in a joyous, all-consuming wave of sound.
Regardless of your level of faith or denomination, the 19-track album is accessible enough from a craft and sanctified standpoint. Whether it's for interpolations of Kanye tracks like "Fade," with "Follow Me – Faith" — itself a gospelized riff off the classic house track by Aly-Us — or for a new take on "Ultralight Beam," off 2016's The Life of Pablo, there's a lot here to vibe off of.
Jesus Is Born - as a stand-alone album - is pretty neat.
Generally favorable reviews- based on 21 Ratings
kermie_the_frog
Pretty sweet pure gospel record. I think people are forgetting that this is not exactly a Kanye album, more of a choral album from his choir.
Noxbits
The album has a lot of emotion and it's a great piece of gospel music, great for beginners.
Kyle_Peake
Great album, gospel production is awesome on here. Just suffers from being too lengthy and a lack of vocals from West, with those additions IGreat album, gospel production is awesome on here. Just suffers from being too lengthy and a lack of vocals from West, with those additions I may very well give this a 10!!!… Full Review »


The Whirlpool GMF 9522/IX Absolute Built-In Gas Hob in Stainless Steel has 5 burners in 3 different sizes including a crown wok burner to suit your cooking needs. The iXelium coating maintains the original shine for longer which makes the oven highly resistant to scratches and much easier to clean. Cast iron pan supports also offer a safe platform for pots and pans to sit on when cooking. Front controls make using the appliance safe and easy, preventing the need to reposition when operation or stretching over hot surfaces. The Whirlpool GMF 7522/IX Absolute Gas Hob with features for your convenience and a stylish finish to complete any kitchen.


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Withstands splashes, but not suitable for swimming.
Best gift for your lovely girl.


The distance between Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Auckland City, New Zealand is approximately 12,918 km or 8,027 mi.
To reach Winnipeg, Manitoba in this distance one would set out from Auckland City bearing 45.8° or NE and follow the great circles arc to approach Winnipeg, Manitoba bearing 63° or ENE .
Winnipeg, Manitoba has a warm summer continental/ hemiboreal climate with no dry season (Dfb) whereas Auckland City has a marine west coast climate (Cfb).
Winnipeg, Manitoba is in or near the cool temperate steppe biome whereas Auckland City is in or near the warm temperate dry forest biome.
Total annual precipitation averages 615.8 mm (24.2 in) less which is equivalent to 615.8 l/m² (15.11 US gal/ft²) or 6,158,000 l/ha (658,331 US gal/ac) less. About 4/9 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 12.3° lower in Winnipeg, Manitoba than in Auckland City.
The table shows values for Winnipeg, Manitoba relative to Auckland City. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Auckland City vs Winnipeg, Manitoba.


Staying in Bukit Batok will take you through Singapore's most unique landscapes; the distinctive formations of Little Guilin and Bukit Batok Nature Park have been backdrop to many local period dramas and selfies alike.
Bukit Batok used to be an area with blasts of quarrying activity commonly heard in the area in the post-war years. Since then, nature has taken over the old mining sites, flourishing alongside the developments that have transformed the area into a self-sufficient residential town.
Westmall, located beside Bukit Batok MRT, is a comprehensive heartland mall with anchor tenants such as Bukit Batok Public Library, Cathay Cineplex and Cold Storage. Residents in the area enjoyed the community vibe of the mall, without having to experience the crowd that occurs in other suburban malls.
If one wishes to purchase items from high street brands or department stores, JEM and Westgate are just one MRT stop away at Jurong East, touted to be second Orchard Road of Singapore.
Does Bukit Batok Properties Perform Well ?
Above data patterns of 99-year leasehold condominiums in three different neighbourhoods – namely Bukit Batok (in blue), Bukit Panjang (in orange) and Jurong (in brown – inclusive of both Jurong West and Jurong East), focusing on per square foot (PSF) pricing of 99-year leasehold condominiums that had received their temporary occupation permit after year 2000 with percentage rise comparing from 2011 to 3Q 2018.
According to 99.co Research Reports, 99-year leasehold condominiums in Bukit Batok performed remarkably well – appreciating by 50.53 per cent across an eight-year period. The same property segment in Jurong registered gains of 16.6 per cent while its Bukit Panjang counterparts increased only slightly by 4.94 per cent.
So comparing to few different districts in the West, private property in Bukit Batok fare better in comparison with its neighbours.
2018 is looking like the year that the Singapore property market's long-awaited turnaround finally gains traction. With the aggressive biddings of government land sales (GLS) and en-bloc sales in 2017, there's significant increase in number of new condominium developments coming up for launch in 2018.
This post will be updated now and then as new information arises on the progress of these condominiums/ apartments. Please Kindly bookmarked it or WhatsApp Us to register interest, so we can update you the market in timely manner.
Contact us for a free consultation if you're interested in any of these new launch condominiums and apartments.
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Should I Use My Logo or My Headshot for my Profile Picture?
I have seen so many variations of this question asked on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn that I can't even count anymore. And I've seen just as many reasons from other small business people explaining why they use their logo (or a stock photo) instead of a great headshot.
I recently started using my logo and I feel my page now has a more professional look.
My logo speaks to my style more than any image of me would.
I feel that if I use a photo of myself on my business page it will make it look like a personal page.
I wasn't sure if I should advertise myself, or my brand?
My face really isn't important and it doesn't represent my business.
The short story is that none of these reasons are wrong, and it's your business, so you can do whatever you want with your marketing materials. But I really think that you have to at least consider the fact that most people want to do business with other people, not with brands.
Tweet This: People do business with other people, not with brands!
Even if you run a business that has other employees (or that is not directly named after you), you are still the face of that business when people are learning about it online. People don't want to do business with a brand or a logo, they want to know the names and the faces of the individuals that will be providing them the products and services that they need.
You really should allow your potential clients to "meet you" before they ever have the opportunity to meet you in person and shake your hand. You can do that by using a great picture of you (and your staff) on your website and on any social media profiles that relate to your business.


The Legal Services Global Market Briefing Report covers market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends and strategies for this market.
The USA was the largest country in the legal services market in 2016, accounting for about $290 billion or 45% of the global market. The UK was the second largest market, accounting for about $45 billion or 7% of the global market. Germany was the third largest market, accounting for about $25 billion or 4% of the global market. France accounted for about 3.5% and $20 billion, while Japan accounted for 0.5% of the global legal services market.
The purchase patterns of customers seeking legal services is evolving continuously and customers are becoming more willing to purchase legal services from non-traditional companies. Companies are willing to purchase legal services from non-traditional firms that offers a range of professional services. For instance, according to a survey by Deloitte about 52% of in-house departments are considering buying legal services from non-traditional law firms.


The INNODB_TABLESTATS table provides a view of low-level status information about InnoDB tables. This data is used by the MySQL optimizer to calculate which index to use when querying an InnoDB table. This information is derived from in-memory data structures rather than data stored on disk. There is no corresponding internal InnoDB system table.
An identifier representing the table for which statistics are available; the same value as INNODB_TABLES.TABLE_ID.
The name of the table; the same value as INNODB_TABLES.NAME.


There are regular Character Meet and Greet sessions in Toon Lagoon, either along Comic Strip Lane or in front of the Pandemonium amphitheater. The characters, naturally, are your funny paper favorites like Popeye and Olive Oyl, Beetle Bailey, and Woody Woodpecker. During busier periods, these events may be called out on the 2-Park map.
Perhaps the best is a trick photo involving Marmaduke, that playful Great Dane. You'll find it on the facade of Blondie's restaurant (see below), and a nearby sign tells you exactly how to set up the shot.
If you turn to the right at Me Ship, The Olive and follow the path over the raging rapids of the Bilge-Rat Barges ride, you'll find yourself in a delightful snarl of walkways along the Great Inland Sea, another of the park's wonderful get-away-from-it-all spots.


The application process is completed online. Register to take required exams at the website for New York State Teacher Certification Exams (NYSTCE).
Official transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended (showing a minimum of 24 credits in English literature with a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 and a minimum GPA in English of 3.0).
Proof of any existing teaching license.
A personal statement about English teaching and how that personal view motivates you to teach English in secondary level schools.
A personal statement about English teaching and how that personal view motivates you to be an English teacher in secondary level schools.
Official transcripts from every post-secondary institution attended.
Only undergraduate applicants who meet the following minimum entrance requirements will be considered.
Minimum overall GPA of 2.75.
Minimum GPA in English of 3.0.
Completion of a minimum of 18 credits in the English major.


A well-planned book has a much higher chance of success than a book that has not been properly planned. Before you even start writing you should make some notes about what you want the book to be about, what kinds of materials it should cover, and what order it will cover those materials in.
Before you start writing anything, your book should have a definition. What is the target audience? The scope? The depth? What language is the book going to use. All books on this project, English Wikibooks, need to be written in English. However, authors have some control over whether they want to use British or American English in their books. Once a book has decided on a dialect, all the pages in that book should use that dialect to help keep the book unified. Some authors may even choose to use a different subset of English, such as e-prime or BE-850. This is something the author should decide before writing.
Create an outline for your book, either here on Wikibooks, or on paper, or even in your head. Trust us when we say that the more planning you do now, the better your book will be in the future. Having to restructure a book later is typically a long and difficult process involving page moves and lots of editing to fix links. Try your hardest to do things right the first time, and the effort will pay off.
The authors of a particular wikibook often describe the structure they prefer in a local manual of style.
In this structure, every page is one level away from the main page of the book. This makes links easier between pages, but it means that every page in your book must have a unique page name.
All pages belong to a chapter, and page names only need to be unique to the chapter, not the entire book. This is a good logical way to structure a book, but maintaining chapter pages can be tedious, and links need to be longer, which some editors might not like.
Developing books do not emerge fully-formed and in a perfect book shape. The process for creating a book can cause a book to take many forms which are not in themselves acceptable here at Wikibooks. However, so long as progress is continuous, various stages of books can not only be accepted here in the short-term, but also can be beneficial tools to book authors.
Books are large projects, and it is generally not conceivable that an author will be able to write, to completion, one page at a time in a linear fashion. In fact, it should be assumed that most authors are only transient members here at Wikibooks, and that they could abandon their work here at any time.
Notice that intermediate forms are not considered stable or even acceptable books. If a book in an intermediate form is long abandoned, it runs a high risk of being deleted. Stubs are relatively well tolerated on Wikibooks, and a large portion of our community will resist deleting them unless they are in particularly bad shape. Macropedias are against policy, and unless a transwiki will significantly improve content at Wikipedia (which is unlikely), macropedias can be quickly deleted. Course-like books are better-tolerated than macropedias are, but they still run the risk of being transwikied to wikiversity if you don't pay close attention to them.
In short, bending some of our rules about content and structure can help a book to grow rapidly. However, these broken rules are not acceptable in the long-term. So long as a book is being actively edited and the authors realize that it needs to improve its form and structure in time, the editors at Wikibooks will be tolerant of it.
Below we will talk about various intermediate forms, and how to grow them into proper policy-compliant books.
Provide an organizational framework (named headings, for instance) to help show where information should go.
Stubs that do not contain this information are likely to be more of a hindrance then a help to future authors, and should likely be deleted.
Add more content, like in a content dump or import it like in a macropedia.
Add more structure, by creating an outline.
A content dump is where a large amount of material is added to a page in a disorganized way. This is great to grow the size of a book quickly, but the content will need to be organized, ordered, and smoothed out if it's going to stay at Wikibooks for long. Many books using this method become monolithic: lots of material on a single large page. To grow these books, they should be separated into subpages, given a proper table of contents, and organized properly.
Outlines are not necessarily stubs because they do not need to contain any content. Outlines are a great way to plan and prepare a book, but a free-standing outline that has been long-abandoned by its original authors is generally not helpful or valuable. Outlines are good to get one author started. They are bad to get new authors interested. If you write an outline and aren't around to work on it, it will probably be deleted.
The outline phase of a book should be brief. Outlines should quickly be filled with at least a base amount of content so that future authors and editors have some raw material to work with. Editors need content to fix and mold into shape. Authors need clear indicators where content should be located and improved.
To grow an outline, content should be added to each page in the list explaining what the page should cover. Then, each page can expand individually, following the given guidelines.
Pages at Wikibooks can be seeded with articles imported from Wikipedia. This can be a great way to take existing information on a topic, and grow the book quickly using existing free material. Macropedias need to be extensively de-formatted (dewikified) before future authors can begin to contribute book-like content in a meaningful way. This is because Wikipedia often uses a much more dense formatting style than Wikibooks does.
To grow a macropedia, you need to remove Wikipedia-only formatting and templates, and start converting the material into an instructional narrative.
During the progression of a school course, information can be written into the book as it is received in the class. Things like lecture notes, reading notes, assignments and their solutions, and other information received through a course can be uploaded as they are learned. Course-like materials do not need to be de-formatted like wikipedia articles need to be, but they often need to be restructured, organized, and edited extensively.
To grow a course-like book, material needs to be expanded beyond simple notes into narrative prose. It also needs to be organized into a logical way, since many classes do not always proceed through subject matter in a linear fashion.
A step up from an outline is a link list. Link lists are collections of links to other books, other wikis (such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, or Wikisource), or other places where information about the subject can be obtained. Link lists can be helpful in organizing resources and finding places to import raw material from, but they are also very dangerous. Link lists, "Link farms" or directories are a violation of policy, and they likely will be deleted if they do not evolve quickly. If you would like to maintain a list of resources for your own use, it is typically better to do it in your own userspace where many such content policies do not apply.
To grow a link list, go to each link, gather information from there, and bring it to Wikibooks. Once you've brought the necessary information here (such as in a content dump) you can delete the list, move it into a citation, or add it to a separate bibliography page.
One of the easiest ways to keep all the pages in a book linked together, and also to maintain a unified style between pages, is to use templates. Some common templates are those at the top of the page (a page header template) and those at the bottom of the page (a page footer). These templates typically provide a link back to the table of contents, and frequently also contain links to the previous page and the next page.