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In early 1965, Tom Wolfe noticed a book on the shelves of Ken Kesey's house in La Honda, California, which had become a gathering place for the young, mostly affluent hippies whom the journalist had dubbed "the Beautiful People." In Kesey's living room, "a curious little library" was growing, as Wolfe recounts in typically hyperbolic fashion in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test:
Books of science fiction and other mysterious things, and you could pick up almost any of these books and find strange vibrations. The whole thing here is so much like…this book on Kesey's shelf, Robert Heinlein's novel, Stranger in a Strange Land. It is bewildering. It is as if Heinlein and the Pranksters were bound together by some inexplicable acausal connecting bond. This is a novel about a Martian who comes to earth, a true Superhero, in fact…raised by infinitely superior beings, the Martians. Beings on other plants are always infinitely superior in science fiction novels. Anyway, around him gathers a mystic brotherhood, based on a mysterious ceremony known as water-sharing. They live in—La Honda! At Kesey's! Their place is called the Nest. Their life transcends all the usual earthly games of status, sex, and money. No one who once shares water and partakes of life in the Nest ever cares about such banal competitions again. There is a pot of money inside the front door, provided by the Superhero…Everything is totally out front in the Nest—no secrets, no guilt, no jealousies, no putting anyone down for anything.
He closes with a string of quotations from the character Jubal Harshaw, who had affinities to Wolfe himself, including the skeptical but grudgingly admiring line: "Ain't nobody here but [just] us gods."
One member of Kesey's circle who undoubtedly read the novel was Stewart Brand, my hero, who pops up in Wolfe's book as an "Indian freak" and later founded The Whole Earth Catalog, which became famous for a similar declaration of intent: "We are as gods and might as well get good at it." (As I retype it now, it's that one italicized word that strikes me the most, as if Brand were preemptively replying to Wolfe and his other detractors.) Much later, in the celebrated essay "We Owe it All to the Hippies," Brand writes:
We all read Robert Heinlein's epic Stranger in a Strange Land as well as his libertarian screed-novel, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. Hippies and nerds alike reveled in Heinlein's contempt for centralized authority. To this day, computer scientists and technicians are almost universally science-fiction fans. And ever since the 1950s, for reasons that are unclear to me, science fiction has been almost universally libertarian in outlook.
Heinlein and his circle don't figure prominently in the Catalog, in which the work of fiction that receives the most attention is Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. But Brand later recommended the Foundation trilogy as part of the Manual for Civilization collection at the Long Now Foundation, which may have been a subtle hint to its true intentions. In the Foundation series, after all, the writing of the Encyclopedia Galactica is an elaborate mislead, a pretext to build an organization that will ultimately be turned to other ends. An even better excuse might be the construction and maintenance of an enormous clock designed to last for ten thousand years—an idea that is obviously too farfetched for fiction. In an interview, Brand's friend Kevin Kelly protested too much: "We're not trying to be Hari Seldon from Isaac Asimov's Foundation." Yeah, right.
Brand himself was only tangentially inspired by science fiction, and his primarily exposure to it was evidently through the remarkable people with whom he surrounded himself. In his book The Media Lab, which was published in 1988, Brand asks the roboticist Marvin Minsky why he's so interested in science fiction writers, and he quotes from the answer at length:
Well, I think of them as thinkers. They try to figure out the consequences and implications of things in as thoughtful a way as possible. A couple of hundred years from now, maybe Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful. Whenever Pohl or Asimov writes something, I regard it as extremely urgent to read it right away. They might have a new idea. Asimov has been working for forty years on this problem: if you can make an intelligent machine, what kind of relations will it have with people? How do you negotiate when their thinking is so different? The science fiction writers think about what it means to think.
Along with Asimov and Pohl, Brand notes, the other writers whom Minsky studied closely included Arthur C. Clarke, Heinlein, Gregory Benford, James P. Hogan, John W. Campbell, and H.G. Wells. "If Minsky had his way," Brand writes, "there would always be a visiting science fiction writer in resident at the Media Lab." In practice, that's more or less how it worked out—Campbell was a frequent visitor, as was Asimov, who said that Minsky was one of the handful of people, along with Carl Sagan, whom he acknowledged as being more intelligent than he was.
To be honest, I doubt that Asimov and Pohl will ever be remembered as "the important philosophers of the twentieth century," although if they might have a better shot if you replace "philosophers" with "futurologists." It seems a reasonably safe bet that the Three Laws of Robotics, which Campbell casually tossed out in his office for Asimov to develop, will be remembered longer than the vast majority of the work being produced by the philosophy departments of that era. But even for Kesey, Brand, and all the rest, the relationship was less about influence than about simple proximity. When Wolfe speaks of "an acausal connecting bond" between Heinlein and the Merry Pranksters, he's consciously echoing the subtitle of Carl Jung's Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle, which may be the best way to think about it. During moments of peak cultural intensity, ideas are simultaneously developed by different communities in ways that may only occasionally intersect. (On April 6, 1962, for instance, Asimov wrote to Campbell to recommend that he investigate the video game Spacewar, which had been developed just two months earlier at MIT. Campbell spent the next decade trying to get an article on it for Analog, which Albert W. Kuhfeld finally wrote up for the July 1971 issue. A year later, Brand wrote a piece about it for Rolling Stone.) And Brand himself was keenly aware of the costs of such separation. In The Media Lab, he writes:
Somewhere in my education I was misled to believe that science fiction and science fact must be kept rigorously separate. In practice they are so blurred together they are practically one intellectual activity, although the results are published differently, one kind of journal for careful scientific reporting, another kind for wicked speculation.
In 1960, Campbell tried to tear down those barriers in a single audacious move, when he changed the title of his magazine from Astounding to Analog Science Fact & Fiction. For most of his career, Brand has been doing the same thing, only far more quietly. But I have a hunch that his approach may be the one that succeeds.
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When your own ideas seem inadequate, imagine someone better at this, and try to do what that person would do.
—Marvin Minsky, The Emotion Machine
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Children of the Lens
During World War II, as the use of radar became widespread in battle, the U.S. Navy introduced the Combat Information Center, a shipboard tactical room with maps, consoles, and screens of the kind that we've all seen in television and the movies. At the time, though, it was like something out of science fiction, and in fact, back in 1939, E.E. "Doc" Smith had described a very similar display in the serial Gray Lensman:
Red lights are fleets already in motion…Greens are fleets still at their bases. Ambers are the planets the greens took off from…The white star is us, the Directrix. That violet cross way over there is Jalte's planet, our first objective. The pink comets are our free planets, their tails showing their intrinsic velocities.
After the war, in a letter dated June 11, 1947, the editor John W. Campbell told Smith that the similarity was more than just a coincidence. Claiming to have been approached "unofficially, and in confidence" by a naval officer who played an important role in developing the C.I.C., Campbell said:
The entire setup was taken specifically, directly, and consciously from the Directrix. In your story, you reached the situation the Navy was in—more communications channels than integration techniques to handle it. You proposed such an integrating technique, and proved how advantageous it could be…Sitting in Michigan, some years before Pearl Harbor, you played a large share in the greatest and most decisive naval action of the recent war!
Unfortunately, this wasn't true. The naval officer in question, Cal Laning, was indeed a science fiction fan—he was close friends with Robert A. Heinlein—but any resemblance to the Directrix was coincidental, or, at best, an instance of convergence as fiction and reality addressed the same set of problems. (An excellent analysis of the situation can be found in Ed Wysocki's very useful book An Astounding War.)
If Campbell was tempted to overstate Smith's influence, this isn't surprising—the editor was disappointed that science fiction hadn't played the role that he had envisioned for it in the war, and this wasn't the first or last time that he would gently exaggerate it. Fifteen years later, however, Smith's fiction had a profound impact on a very different field. In 1962, Steve Russell of M.I.T. developed Spacewar, the first video game to be played on more than one computer, with two spaceships dueling with torpedoes in the gravity well of a star. In an article for Rolling Stone written by my hero Stewart Brand, Russell recalled:
We had this brand new PDP-1…It was the first minicomputer, ridiculously inexpensive for its time. And it was just sitting there. It had a console typewriter that worked right, which was rare, and a paper tape reader and a cathode ray tube display…Somebody had built some little pattern-generating programs which made interesting patterns like a kaleidoscope. Not a very good demonstration. Here was this display that could do all sorts of good things! So we started talking about it, figuring what would be interesting displays. We decided that probably you could make a two-dimensional maneuvering sort of thing, and decided that naturally the obvious thing to do was spaceships…
I had just finished reading Doc Smith's Lensman series. He was some sort of scientist but he wrote this really dashing brand of science fiction. The details were very good and it had an excellent pace. His heroes had a strong tendency to get pursued by the villain across the galaxy and have to invent their way out of their problem while they were being pursued. That sort of action was the thing that suggested Spacewar. He had some very glowing descriptions of spaceship encounters and space fleet maneuvers.
The "somebody" whom he mentions was Marvin Minsky, another science fiction fan, and Russell's collaborator Martin Graetz elsewhere cited Smith's earlier Skylark series as an influence on the game.
But the really strange thing is that Campbell, who had been eager to claim credit for Smith when it came to the C.I.C., never made this connection in print, at least not as far as I know, although he was hugely interested in Spacewar. In the July 1971 issue of Analog, he published an article on the game by Albert W. Kuhfeld, who had developed a variation of it at the University of Minnesota. Campbell wrote in his introductory note:
For nearly a dozen years I've been trying to get an article on the remarkable educational game invented at M.I.T. It's a great game, involving genuine skill in solving velocity and angular relation problems—but I'm afraid it will never be widely popular. The playing "board" costs about a quarter of a megabuck!
Taken literally, the statement "nearly a dozen years" implies that the editor heard about Spacewar before it existed, but the evidence legitimately implies that he learned of it almost at once. Kuhfeld writes: "Although it uses a computer to handle orbital mechanics, physicists and mathematicians have no great playing advantage—John Campbell's seventeen-year-old daughter beat her M.I.T. student-instructor on her third try—and thereafter." Campbell's daughter was born in 1945, which squares nicely with a visit around the time of the game's first appearance. It isn't implausible that Campbell would have seen and heard about it immediately—he had been close to the computer labs at Harvard and M.I.T. since the early fifties, and he made a point of dropping by once a year. If the Lensman series, the last three installments of which he published, had really been an influence on Spacewar, it seems inconceivable that nobody would have told him. For some reason, however, Campbell, who cheerfully promoted the genre's impact on everything from the atomic bomb to the moon landing, didn't seize the opportunity to do the same for video games, in an article that he badly wanted to publish. (In a letter to the manufacturers of the PDP-1, whom he had approached unsuccessfully for a writeup, he wrote: "I've tried for years to get a story on Spacewar, and I've repeatedly had people promise one…and not deliver.")
So why didn't he talk about it? The obvious answer is that he didn't realize that Spacewar, which he thought would "never be widely popular," was anything more than a curiosity, and if he had lived for another decade—he died just a few months after the article came out—he would have pushed the genre's connection to video games as insistently as he did anything else. But there might have been another factor at play. For clues, we can turn to the article in Rolling Stone, in which Brand visited the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory with Annie Leibovitz, which is something that I wish I could have seen. Brand opens with the statement that computers are coming to the people, and he adds: "That's good news, maybe the best since psychedelics." It's a revealing comparison, and it indicates the extent to which the computing movement was moving away from everything that Campbell represented. A description of the group's offices at Stanford includes a detail that, if Campbell had read it, would only have added insult to injury:
Posters and announcements against the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon, computer printout photos of girlfriends…and signs on every door in Tolkien's elvish Fëanorian script—the director's office is Imladris, the coffee room The Prancing Pony, the computer room Mordor. There's a lot of hair on those technicians, and nobody seems to be telling them where to scurry.
In the decade since the editor first encountered Spacewar, a lot had changed, and Campbell might have been reluctant to take much credit for it. The Analog article, which Brand mentions, saw the game as a way to teach people about orbital mechanics; Rolling Stone recognized it as a leading indicator of a development that was about to change the world. And even if he had lived, there might not have been room for Campbell. As Brand concludes:
Spacewar as a parable is almost too pat. It was the illegitimate child of the marrying of computers and graphic displays. It was part of no one's grand scheme. It served no grand theory. It was the enthusiasm of irresponsible youngsters. It was disreputably competitive…It was an administrative headache. It was merely delightful.
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There is a not uncommon phenomenon—sometimes called mystical experience—from which a person emerges with the conviction that some unsolvable problem (like the purpose of existence) has been completely explained; one can't remember quite how, only that it was answered so well as to leave no doubt at all. This, I venture, reflects some mental mechanism (perhaps one of last resort) that, in a state of particularly severe turmoil or distress, can short-circuit the entire intellectual process—by creating the illusion that the problem has been settled.
—Marvin Minsky, "Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious"
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If you like somebody's work, just go and see them. However, don't ask for their autograph. A lot of people come and ask me for my autograph—and it's creepy. What I did is read everything they published first, and [corrected] them. That's what they really want. Every smart person wants to be corrected, not admired.
—Marvin Minsky, in a lecture at M.I.T.
The initial sketch
What do we do when things are hard to describe? We start by sketching out the roughest shapes to serves as scaffolds for the rest; it does not matter very much if some of those forms turn out partially wrong. Next, draw details to give these skeletons more lifelike flesh. Last, in the final filling-in, discard whatever first ideas no longer fit…Until you've seen some of the rest, you can't make sense of any part.
—Marvin Minsky


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The 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award Finalists
After 10 months of reading, we are ready to announce the 5 finalists for the 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award, first awarded in 2009. This award honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.
Drumroll, please!
Because You'll Never Meet Me written by Leah Thomas, published by Bloomsbury Children's Books
Ollie is allergic to electricity and lives in isolation with his mother. Moritz was born with no eyes, has a pacemaker, and is bullied at school. They become pen pals and unlikely friends as they learn more about one another.
Conviction written by Kelly Loy Gilbert, published by Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Braden is firm in his convictions; he trusts his father, believes deeply in God, and is dedicated to a future playing baseball. His faith, truth, and justice are tested when his father is accused of murder.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda written by Becky Albertalli, published by Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
On the brink of coming out, Simon's plans are derailed by a scheming classmate who learns about Simon's email exchanges with a mysterious boy that Simon may just be falling in love with.
The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly written by Stephanie Oakes, published by Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers
After spending most of her life in the Kevinian Cult, Minnow loses her family, her freedom, and her hands. Now Minnow is behind bars, recounting her life in the cult and facing what really happened the night the camp burned down, leaving the Prophet dead.
The Weight of Feathers written by Anna-Marie McLemore, published by Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Lace and Cluck are from rival performing families. The troupes only cross paths once a year, but tensions mount and fights break out. When tragedy strikes during a performance, fate thrusts them together and the star-crossed pair are forced to deal with their families' feuding past.
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John "Sloop" Biederman
John "Sloop" Biederman's fate as a writer was sealed early, through encouragement from his parents and teachers. In grade school, he wrote old-time "radio" plays and won an Earth Day poetry contest in the late '70s. (The blue spruce "sapling" prize now towers by his former family home in Ringwood, Ill.) His folks spurred his budding humorist through their favorite classics, from Laurel and Hardy to "Pink Panther" movies. Moved by authors including Poe, Tolkien and Twain, in junior high he crafted Dungeons & Dragons adventures and figured he'd grow up to be a humorous sci-fi/fantasy novelist. In high school, Sloop was an award-winning humor columnist/editor and picked journalism as (ahem) a practical career.
Sloop chased rock star dreams from his teens through three semesters at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) in the '80s. When rampant partying prompted his folks to yank the money, he moved home for a Multi-Year Funk and grunt jobs, pitching sci-fi/fantasy to magazines, earning feedback and a first unpaid "sale" (poetry), though the rag failed before publication. He moved to Chicago in 1991 and founded the first of two writers' groups. Members loved his Floyd Pinkerton, from a one-off sci-fi story, so much they even wrote their own Floyd tales!
Sloop landed in alcohol rehab and was screwed-up worse by its religiosity. Pitching Gauntlet Magazine on a 12 Steps critique (later published), he snagged his first paid story (1993), analyzing a then media circus involving child's birthday party stripper. Rehab became his first novel's theme ('Hab: The Other Side of Rehab, 1993; reedited and published on Smashwords in 2013). He returned to journalism school (Columbia College Chicago) in 1994, wrote a humor column for the school's Chronicle, rose to editor-in-chief and interned at MAD Magazine. Dismayed at the Internet's effects on writing careers, Sloop indulged new creative directions.
Sloop hit poetry readings socially and his humor verse landed paid gigs (Chicago Cultural Center, etc.). On graduating (1997), he founded a poetry scene rag, Tunnel Rat, which buried him in debt but landed him as editor of Chicago Artists' News. In 1999, for the 10th National Poetry Slam, he hosted the Limerick Slam, founding DailyLimerick.net to plug it. ("News Limericks" and humor.) He met the woman who'd one day become his ex-wife, who moved him to California, where he worked at the L.A. Daily News, freelanced (San Fran Chronicle, MAD, etc.) and plied stand-up and comic verse at the Laugh Factory, Comedy Store, etc.
Sloop hated L.A., so returned home, bolstered clips with theater (CenterstageChicago.com) and sports (The Heckler) and scored his sweetest gig, News Limericks for the Chicago Tribune's RedEye. When RedEye axed freelance, he placed "The News of Our Time--In Rhyme" at Continental Features. As writing income waned, Sloop translated stage experience into emceeing and acting gigs (TV, ads, indie films), even stumbling into directing/producing a theater troupe (Family Shoe Players) and a regular gig playing a tour bus gangster for Untouchable Tours.
The Great Recession/Internet tag team launched Sloop's second Multi-Year Funk. While pleased he'd reinvented himself creatively, with his lifelong identity as a writer, he was now identity-challenged. After his parents' deaths (2012 and 2014), he reclaimed his original identity by reworking the original Pinkerton tale into Drunk Space Driving in the Twenty-First Century, prelude to the novel series The Cosmic Misadventures of Floyd Pinkerton, Space Crock.
Drunk Space Driving in the 21st Century (or Prelude to the Cosmic Misadventures of Floyd Pinkerton, Space Crock)
(Available as free ebook download at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/JohnSloopBiederman)The story opens in the year 2091 with hard drinking, cigar smoking Floyd Pinkerton spiraling out of control in an unknown planet's atmosphere. Through flashbacks, readers learn that Floyd stole the craft (the Blue Maiden) from his employer on Jupiter's moon, Ganymede--running away from a broken relationship and unsatisfying life. Tailed by the Sun System Sheriff, he hurriedly executes a "jump" through space (using astrogation to travel large distances) and lands smack into the Place That Should Not Be's (his name for the planet) atmosphere. The Maiden crashes to the surface. He's unable to budge the craft and, not mechanically inclined, thus stuck. Fully loaded for weeks with rations, booze and stogies, for a while he drinks, engages in shenanigans and wallows in his fate before turning on a distress beacon (praying to not attract "authority types") and, via ship computers, assessing the planet outside--a low-gravity ice world. He finally ventures out to explore after hearing a large "crash," his suit outfitted with a PCAH (Personal Consumption Airlock Helmet, allowing one to drink, smoke, etc.). He finds that another craft has crashed to the surface, an alien-looking, banana-shaped model. Could he be the first human to encounter alien life?... Turns out the craft was piloted by an old Earth nemesis of his, Bob Tripeman, who claims he obtained it from an insect-like alien race, the Zzurkwins, which Floyd highly doubts. Deciding that "Cruizy Suzy" (Bob's name for the banana-shaped ship) is the only one fixable, Bob gets to work, mooching booze and smokes while taking his sweet time and continually rehashing/exaggerating an Earth-based event back in high school where Bob "saved" Floyd's life. (Floyd crashed a ground car into a snowy ditch and was stuck. Walking to find help, Bob picked him up and proceeded, for weeks, to milk his "saving" Floyd by mooching booze, smokes and more.) They also share general memories of their childhoods on Earth, now an overpopulated world wherein America has been overtaken by the Crescent Jihad, a militant Islamic group that simply walked in and conquered, with most U.S. citizen zombified by smart devices and even Smart Brain Chips (SBCs). Eventually, they launch Suzy back into space, where they are soon attacked by Zzurkwins, who actually board, wanting their craft back (Bob's explanation of the turn of events is suspect and short on details). What's more, Tri-World authorities (Earth, Luna and Mars, the Sun System bodies with appreciable human colonization) make radio contact, wanting them both to turn themselves in! Floyd and Bob attempt to lose their pursuers by piloting an escape pod (large enough to hold most of their supplies) into a nearby asteroid belt, landing upon a large 'roid that happens to house an observatory. Via computers controlling multiple telescopes, they discern the Zzurkwin home planet nearby within the system along with, having little choice, their next destination, a habitable moon of the Zzurkwins' world curiously populated by…human beings? Just before embarking upon this next leg of their on-the-lam vacation, they stumble upon a remote, real-time feed of a familiar planet--and witness a rather dire fate for their beloved Mother Earth! This book serves as a prelude to a novel series, The Cosmic Misadventures of Floyd Pinkerton, Space Crock.
Hab: The Other Side of Rehab
The Complete Daily Limerick (1999-2000)
Community Service Award, from Red Path Theater (Chicago), for my poetry scene publication, Tunnel Rat (1998).
Time Out Chicago profiled my campaing, through my DailyLimerick.net, to bring back the Chicago Bears Cheerleaders, 2007.
News Limerick contributor (from my DailyLimerick.net), occasional and recurring, WGN Morning News (Chicago)


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[GDC 2017] Flaregames will be releasing Zombie Gunship Survival onto Android in May 2017
On Mar 01, 2017 9:33 pm, by AndrewH
Flaregames, along with Limbic, have announced the next installment into their Zombie Gunship franchise of games called Zombie Gunship Survival. In this game you will be taking the gunner seat aboard a heavily-armed AC-130 aircraft with the goal of decimating all the zombies you come across that are on the ground.
More Pokemon are coming to Pokemon GO this year
In more Pokemon GO news, Niantic CEO John Hanke did an interview with Spain's El Periodico, Hanke expanded on yesterday's news regarding the three major updates that are slated for 2017. Unlike yesterday's announcement which didn't have much more in the way of detail about the future plans of Pokemon GO, the interview ended up with a fair amount of details.
Manipulate gravity to complete levels in Gravity Ball, now out on Google Play
On Mar 01, 2017 7:35 pm, by Ryan Ballard
Released by Upside Down Bird, Gravity Ball is a new platform/puzzler for the Android Platform. In this game, players will be tasked with navigating the eponymous Gravity Ball toward the warp, found at the end of each level. Each of these levels is set within a poly influenced mine field of sorts, visually speaking, and players will need to use a set of abilities to properly handle the gaps in platforms, and do so in the proper order.
Mabinogi Duel gets a new content update that features a collaboration with BlazBlue
Nexon's TCG title Mabinogi Duel is getting another content update and this time it features a collaboration with another franchise, that being BlazBlue. The new update will feature 24 new cards and dialog which is based off of the original storyline of the arcade game BlazBlue.
Shaggy Mane Studios will release their first game, Dangerous Diver, onto Android this Summer
Indie developer going by the name of Shaggy Mane Studios will be releasing their first game this Summer onto Android called Dangerous Diver. This particular game is a neat little physics based diving game where you'll be controlling your character, who is a diver (as in someone who jumps off diving boards), trying to pull of the best dives possible.
The next Hearthstone expansion is called Journey To Un'Goro
On Mar 01, 2017 12:40 am, by AndrewH
Blizzard has announced what the next expansion will be for their popular cross-platform TCG title Hearthstone, and it will be called Journey To Un'Goro. If you are, or were, a player of World of Warcraft, you will already be familiar with the Un'Goro location, which was filled with dinosaurs and other fun furry playful creatures out to kill you.
[Update: Game Released] Dave the Knight, an RPG/dungeon crawler coming soon to Google Play
On Feb 28, 2017 11:27 pm, by Naail Zahid
Malaysian based developer, X Conique, will be launching their newest title, Dave the Knight, on Google play soon. The game, which features graphics resembling flash-based web browser titles, is currently out in Beta for those curious enough to test it out.
Upgrade your fleet of starfighters for real-time combat in Star Combat Heroes
On Feb 28, 2017 10:32 pm, by Ryan Ballard
Released by Gaijin Distribution, Star Conflict Heroes is a new combat and fleet management sim that's now available on Android. In this game, players will assume the role of captain of a ship named the Scotland, that hunts for salvage after a battle is completed.
Pokemon GO has three big updates planned for 2017 already
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While we are covering GDC 2017, Mobile World Congress 2017 in currently underway at the same time over in Barcelona, and for some reason Niantic Labs is there talking about future plans of Pokemon GO. These plans include three, already planned, big updates.
[GDC 2017] Developers can now hold more obvious sales and other Google Play improvements
Today during GDC 2017 Google went over a couple of new features that will be beneficial for both developers and consumers when using Google Play. The most obvious change, which will be visible in each Google Play listing, is a strikethrough price when an application or game goes on sale. This is in order to make it more obvious to consumers when a game or app is on sale, instead of having to rely on a developer posting it in the game's description. There will also be a little note that sale when the sale will be ending.


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This statement sets out Heathrow Truck Centre Limited's actions to understand all potential modern
slavery risks related to its business and to put in place steps that are aimed at ensuring that there is
no slavery or human trafficking in its own business and its supply chains. This statement relates to
actions and activities during the financial year 1 October 2018 to 30 September 2019.
As part of the Transport Services sector, the organisation recognises it has a responsibility to take a
robust approach to slavery and human trafficking. The organisation is absolutely committed to
preventing slavery and human trafficking in its corporate activities, and to ensuring its supply chains
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This statement covers the activities of Heathrow Truck Centre Limited and its subsidiary companies
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a privately owned company under the Ballyvesey Holdings Limited parent company. The HTC
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The organisation operates in the United Kingdom.
We internally review our supply chain to evaluate human trafficking risks and slavery risks and we
conduct supplier audits which review all aspects of the supply chain including safety, human
trafficking, child labour and other legal requirements.
We have embraced the Stronger Together Programme across our sites, and support the work being
done to reduce forced labour and human trafficking in the UK. Our HR Teams have been trained in
the exploitation of human labour. Employees and agency staff have received training in the Stronger
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Responsibility for the organisation's anti-slavery initiatives is as follows:
Policies: Human Resources Department
Risk assessments: Group H&S & Management Team
Investigations: Group Head of Finance & Group HR Manager
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The organisation operates the following policies that describe its approach to the identification of
modern slavery risks and steps to be taken to prevent slavery and human trafficking in its
Whistleblowing policy - The organisation encourages all its workers, customers and other business partners to report any concerns related to the direct activities, or the supply chains of, the organisation. This includes any circumstances that may give rise to an enhanced risk of slavery or human trafficking. The organisation's whistleblowing procedure is designed to make it easy for workers to make disclosures, without fear of retaliation. Employees, customers or others who have concerns can contact James Darragh on 07876741023.
Employee code of conduct The organisation's code makes clear to employees the actions and behaviour expected of them when representing the organisation. The organisation strives to maintain the highest standards of employee conduct and ethical behaviour when operating abroad and managing its supply chain.
Supplier code of conduct The organisation is committed to ensuring that its suppliers adhere to the highest standards of ethics. Suppliers are required to demonstrate that they provide safe working conditions where necessary, treat workers with dignity and respect, and act ethically and within the law in their use of labour. The organisation works with suppliers to ensure that they meet the standards of the code and improve their worker's working conditions. However, serious violations of the organisation's supplier code of conduct will lead to the termination of the business relationship.
Recruitment policy The organisation uses only specified, reputable employment agencies to source labour and always verifies the practices of any new agency it is using before accepting workers from that agency.
The organisation undertakes due diligence when considering taking on new suppliers, and regularly
reviews its existing suppliers. The organisation's due diligence and reviews include:
mapping the supply chain broadly to assess particular product or geographical risks ofmodern slavery and human trafficking
evaluating the modern slavery and human trafficking risks of each new supplier
reviewing on a regular basis all aspects of the supply chain based on the supply chain mapping
conducting supplier audits or assessments which have a greater degree of focus on slavery and human trafficking where general risks are identified;
taking steps to improve substandard suppliers' practices, including providing advice to suppliers and requiring them to implement action plans;
participating in collaborative initiatives focused on human rights in general, and slavery and human trafficking in particular as evidenced by our participation in "Stronger Together" initiatives;
invoking sanctions against suppliers that fail to improve their performance in line with an action plan or seriously violate our supplier code of conduct, including the termination of the business relationship.
The organisation has reviewed its key performance indicators in light of the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. As a result, the organisation is:
requiring all staff working in procurement and HR to have completed training on modern slavery;
developing a system for supply chain verification, whereby the organisation evaluates potential suppliers before they enter the supply chain; and reviewing its existing supply chains, whereby the organisation evaluates all existing suppliers.
The organisation's modern slavery training covers:
our business's procurement practices, which influence supply chain conditions and which should therefore be designed to prevent purchases at unrealistically low prices, the use of labour engaged on unrealistically low wages or wages below a country's national minimum wage, or the provision of products by an unrealistic deadline;
how to assess the risk of slavery and human trafficking in relation to various aspects of the business, including resources and support available;
how to identify the signs of slavery and human trafficking;
what initial steps should be taken if slavery or human trafficking is suspected;
how to escalate potential slavery or human trafficking issues to the relevant parties within
the organisation;
what external help is available, for example through Stronger Together;
what steps the organisation should take if suppliers or contractors do not implement anti-slavery policies in high-risk scenarios, including their removal from the organisation's supply chains.
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As well as training specific staff, the organisation has raised awareness of modern slavery issues by
utilising the Stronger Together portfolio of resources across the organisation's premises:
In addition, posters have been distributed to explain to staff:
the basic principles of the Modern Slavery Act 2015;
how employers can identify and prevent slavery and human trafficking;
what employees can do to flag up potential slavery or human trafficking issues to the relevant parties within the organisation; and
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SCCA National News
SCCA Foundation Announces F1 Sweepstakes
The SCCA Foundation wants to send you and a friend to the United States Grand Prix. This year's Formula 1 Pirelli 2018 United States Grand Prix takes place at Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas, October 19-21.
In addition to the pair of tickets, the prize package also includes: VIP suite access, F3/F4 paddock and pit lane access, team gear, an invite to the F3/F4 Champions Award Banquet, and $5000 in cash for travel and lodging. Ticket sales end on Sept 4, 2018. The winner will be picked on September 5, 2018, during the Tire Rack SCCA Solo National Championship awards banquet. Sweepstakes tickets for this trip can be purchased at: WinFormula1trip.org.
About the SCCA Foundation:
The SCCA Foundation is the charitable arm of the Sports Car Club of America. www.sccafoundation.org The Foundation's programs are as follows:
- Saving the Lives of Teen Drivers: Through the Tire Rack Street Survival program, the SCCA Foundation and local SCCA Regions host day-long skills training programs to help teen drivers learn how to avoid and deal with emergency car handling situations on the street. This program reaches hundreds of teen drivers each year and continues to grow thanks to your financial support.
- Preserving the History of American Motorsport: The Foundation funds the preservation work taking place at the SCCA Archives at the International Motor Racing Research Center in Watkins Glen, NY. The SCCA Archives contains the history of the SCCA, all the types of events it has sanctioned, and member and car histories since the inception of the SCCA.
- Encouraging Future Automotive Passion: The Foundation provides support and prizes for the national Formula SAE competitions held in Michigan and Nebraska each year, to encourage the automotive and race engineers of tomorrow.
- Women on Track: The Foundation helps to fund and manage the Wendi Allen Scholarship program that recognizes and encourages increased participation in autocross and Region leadership positions by women across the country.
SCCA Welcoming Statement
TOPEKA, Kan. (July 3, 2018) -- To better express core concepts that drive the Sports Car Club of America®, an updated Welcoming Environment Statement has been drafted.
Efforts to craft the statement began earlier this year, and the Board of Directors approved the new statement in May. It is the hope that this new declaration will henceforth be noted in event Supplemental Regulations and find a home at Region websites or in publications to remind everyone of standards the Club strives to maintain.
The updated statement reads as follows:
The Mission of the SCCA® is to fuel a safe, fun and exciting motorsports experience for automotive enthusiasts. The Club's Vision is to be the preferred motorsports community in the United States, built on fun, shared passion and access to an exhilarating motorsports experience. In all its activities, the SCCA seeks to foster an atmosphere that encourages living the Values of the SCCA, which include:
Excellence: The Spirit of a Competitor
Service: The Heart of a Volunteer
Passion: The Attitude of an Enthusiast
Team: The Art of Working Together
Experience: The Act of Wowing our Community
Stewardship: The Mindset of an Owner
The SCCA strives to ensure ALL participants at its events and activities enjoy a welcoming environment.
The SCCA supports equality of opportunity and treatment for all participants, and will make every effort to maintain an environment that is free of harassment, discrimination and any behavior that interferes with a safe, fun and exciting experience.
A commitment to a welcoming environment and the SCCA Values is expected of all members and attendees, including drivers, workers, crew, guests, staff, contractors and exhibitors, and other participants at SCCA activities, sessions and social events when representing the SCCA in print or electronic media.
SCCA President & CEO Mike Cobb said, "As a member-based organization that is approaching its 75th Anniversary, it is important for us to grow and evolve to better serve motorsports enthusiasts while leveraging the core DNA of the Club.
And while the spirit of competition is essential to this Club at its core, it's also important to understand we are all members serving one another with the aim of delivering a great motorsports experience.
"Our new welcoming language is simply an extension of our updated Mission and Vision and is intended to remind us that we are indeed a community of individuals who all love having fun with cars," Cobb continued, "and it is the duty of all SCCA members -- staff, leadership, officials, members, etc. -- to deliver an environment and an experience that is welcoming to all who choose to participate."
An expanded definition of Club Values has been created for SCCA employees and now resides in the Employee Handbook to serve as a guide for those serving members and those who serve the members.
These concepts build on core competencies SCCA President & CEO Mike Cobb introduced during the 2018 National Convention in Las Vegas. An expanded version of SCCA Values are provided below to also serve as a guide for Region leaders, volunteers, workers, event organizers and participants.
2019 SCCA National Convention Dates and Location
TOPEKA, Kan. (May 31, 2018) – For 2019, the annual SCCA National Convention will return January 17-19 to South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
This year's National Convention will be very special as its theme is "Celebrating Our Legacy, Building Our Future" and serves as the official start of the Club's 75th Anniversary celebration.
The Convention will again be a familiar format that encompasses leadership development and skills training for Club members. Details on times and a full schedule will be announced later this year.
But as usual, the Annual Meeting and welcome reception will be held Thursday, followed by two days of training.
Various fun social activities will certainly be included, too. The SCCA Hall of Fame and Awards banquet on Saturday night then caps festivities.
Organizers are also seeking additional topics and presenters for Convention leadership and training sessions. Those who believe they have subjects of interest can submit a presentation proposal at https://www.scca.com/pages/speaker-application. Presentations are usually done in one-hour blocks. Longer presentations are allowed under rare circumstances. The submission deadline is June 15, 2018, for presentation proposals.
More information about the 2019 SCCA National Convention and special lodging packages will be made available at https://www.scca.com/pages/nationalconvention in the coming months.
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This page offers the most recent news releases from SCCA's national office.


The Damascus sky lights up with missile fire as the US launches an attack on Syria targeting different parts of the capital early Saturday, April 14, 2018.
The United States, Britain, and France, conducted "precision strikes" on Syria on Friday, in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack that reportedly killed dozens in the rebel-held town of Douma.
The Pentagon said the strikes hit three targets believed to have been involved in creating chemical weapons.
The US military said the strikes "destroyed" Him Shinshar's chemical weapons storage facility, and damaged the chemical weapons bunker.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said "nothing is certain" when asked whether he believed the strikes would deter Syrian President Bashar Assad from using chemical weapons again.
"It was done on targets that we believed were selected to hurt the chemical weapons program. We confined it to the chemical weapons-type targets," he said.
BEFORE: The Him Shinshar chemical weapons bunker on April 13, 2018.
AFTER: The Him Shinshar chemical weapons bunker on April 14, 2018.
BEFORE: The Him Shinshar chemical weapons storage site on April 13, 2018.
AFTER: The Him Shinshar chemical weapons storage site on April 14, 2018.
BEFORE: The Barzah Research and Development Center on April 13, 2018.
AFTER: The Barzah Research and Development Center on April 14, 2018.
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A Seleção Cubana de Handebol Masculino é a representante de Cuba nas competições oficiais internacionais de Andebol. Para tal ela é regida pela Federação Cubana de Handebol, que é filiada à Federação Internacional de Andebol desde 1974.

Títulos
 Campeonato Pan-Americano (8): 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1994, 1996 e 1998
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Being a Social Media Manager can be stressful - you need to juggle staying on top of trends, whilst creating a longer term strategy. There are so many different tasks to be done - how can you squeeze them all into a 12 hour day? Being successful in your role requires structure, so here is a plan to that will assist you in making your social media marketing a success.
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Our objectives are to eliminate bacteria common in processing/packaging facilities by applying a super-repellent antimicrobial coating on various surfaces (including equipment, interior wall, ceiling, drain, storage tank, etc.) in the facility. The nanostructured coating can effectively repel most of the bacteria, and kill the rest that manage to adhere to the surfaces in the facility to ensure food safety. Our goals are two-fold: (1) to synthesize and characterize super-repellent antimicrobial polymeric coatings, (2) to examine the antimicrobial properties and establish structure/property relationships for these coatings. In our targeted super-repellent antimicrobial coatings, the antimicrobial moieties (quaternary ammonium groups) will be covalently bonded to the polymer matrix, preventing them from leaching out into food. The outputs of this project include: (A) Activities: (1) Preparation and characterization of smooth antimicrobial coatings, (2) Preparation and characterization of nanostructured, super-repellent antimicrobial coatings, (3) Preparation and characterization of mechanically robust, super-repellent antimicrobial coatings, (4) Antimicrobial tests, with the aim at understanding the mechanism of antimicrobial actions (killing and/or repelling of bacteria), (5) Mentoring a graduate student. (B) Events: Reporting project findings, when appropriate, in relevant conferences and symposia. (C) Products: Potential patent applications, Peer-reviewed journal publications.
Super-repellent antimicrobial coatings to ensure food safety, USDA, 12/2010 – 11/2013, $347,500 (transferred to Georgia Southern).


KNOWCO is the matching platform for academics & businesses.
Next to the platform, we offer a Magazine and Podcast on innovation and collaboration.
We are Jara Pascual and Ingrid van Gilst and we founded KNOWCO in November 2017.
For the past 15 years, we have been working with academics and business executives. The potential of academic thought leadership is amazing and truly inspiring, but the process of finding the right people and arranging an agreement for cross-sector collaboration is consistently, painstakingly slow. It's frustrating to see so much potential, ambition, and goodwill end up stranded in an administrative paperwork limbo.
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KNOWCO, our online matchmaking platform, connects business leaders with academics who can specifically address their business challenges. We provide a seamless service for the entire project timeline: a fast search and booking process as well as a smart activity and innovation dashboard to track project progress and completion all in one place.
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Q: Dynamics CRM Web API Auth Error on Web Resource When loading a Dynamics CRM form with a HTML web resource I get the below error from the Chrome browser console.

https://xxxx.api.crm6.dynamics.com/api/data/v8.2/<custom entity>. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'https://.crm6.dynamics.com' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 401.

<script type="text/javascript">

 var clientUrl = "https://xxxx.api.crm6.dynamics.com/api/data/v8.2/"

 function GetAccounts() {
    var url = clientUrl + "accounts"

    $.ajax({
        method: "GET",
        url: url,
        async: false,
        beforeSend: getAccountsBeforeSendCallback,
        fail: getAccountsFailCallback,
        done: getSavingGoalsDoneCallback,
        success: getAccountsSuccessCallback
    });
}

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    debugger
    jqXHR.setRequestHeader("OData-MaxVersion", "4.0");
    jqXHR.setRequestHeader("OData-Version", "4.0");
    jqXHR.setRequestHeader("Accept", "application/json");
    jqXHR.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=utf-8");
}
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A: It seems you're doing a request to another domain. Are you sure your clientUrl is on same domain?
var clientUrl = "https://xxxx.api.crm6.dynamics.com/api/data/v8.2/";
var rightUrl = window.Xrm.Page.context.getClientUrl() + "/api/data/v8.2";
if (clientUrl !== rightUrl) {
    console.log("You will get the 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' error!");
}

A lot of people have trouble with the $.ajax and XmlHttpRequest stuff. Luckily there are libraries, which will take care for this. Example of crm-sdk, which will do same as your code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="CRMSDK.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var WebAPI = window.CRMSDK.WebAPI;
    WebAPI.retrieveMultiple("account").then(function (data) {
        getAccountsSuccessCallback(data); //this is your method.
    });
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The MIT Press Launches MIT Press Direct on the Silverchair Platform
New platform offers Libraries DRM-free access to the ebook catalog of the MIT Press, across all disciplines.
January 22, 2019 –The MIT Press (MITP) and Silverchair today announced the launch of MIT Press Direct, a new product built on the Silverchair Platform that facilitates discovery and access to MIT Press's distinguished collection of ebook content.
Known for iconic design, rigorous scholarship, and creative technology, the MIT Press is a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, and the arts. MIT Press Direct offers a cost-effective and easy-to-use way for libraries to offer MIT Press ebooks to their patrons.
Access to the press's available ebooks, regardless of discipline, on a single unified platform for the first time—a "one-stop shop" for humanities, science, technology, and social sciences titles.
Options include the "complete" collection, with nearly 3,000 backlist ebooks with approximately 150 new titles added each year, or subject-specific collections. Subject collections available at launch include economics, environmental science, philosophy, and science, technology, and society.
Access to the frontlist comes with term access to the entire backfile for the duration of the year.
DRM-free ebooks with chapter-level access for unlimited simultaneous users. This means that users can print, read online, and download at the chapter level.
MARC and KBART records for easy data ingestion and COUNTER usage reports.
Tiered pricing based on FTE and budget, with no ongoing maintenance fees.
"The MIT Press is committed to innovation, both in terms of what we publish and how we publish," said Amy Brand, director of the MIT Press. "With the launch of MIT Press Direct, we can now provide direct access to thousands of new and classic MIT Press titles through a platform that is accessible, sustainable, and independent, under terms that are consistent with our values as a university-based publisher."
MIT Press Direct will make nearly 3,000 ebooks available by the end of 2019, offering a broad range of books from its front- and backlist, including significant works in arts, architecture, biomedical sciences, business, cognitive science, cultural studies, design, digital humanities and new media, economics, education, energy, engineering, environmental science, evolution, game studies, humanities, information science, linguistics, machine learning and AI, neuroscience, and social sciences.
"MIT Press Direct is an elegant, responsive, full-feature ebook site that advances the fields to which the Press has contributed over the last 50 years," said Terry Ehling, director of strategic initiatives at the MIT Press. "Delivering our high-value scholarly ebook content to a global community of scholars is a priority for us, and having this content live on the Silverchair Platform furthers that goal."
A key factor in the Press's selection of Silverchair as a partner was the need for a flexible platform that can accommodate diverse book formats, ranging from highly technical titles with LaTeX mathematical computations to heavily illustrated art and architecture volumes.
"It has been a pleasure working alongside the MIT Press in developing a platform for their renowned ebook collection, one that highlights their commitment to exceptional design and the advancement of research," said Thane Kerner, Silverchair CEO. "The MIT Press joins a cohort of other distinguished university presses on a platform that is designed to support the changing and expanding needs of their users."
MIT Press Direct is now available to institutional subscribers and trials are available. For more information, including pricing, please visit the MIT Press Direct website.
Media contact:Jessica Pellien, pellien@mit.edu


Yoga in every expression has been the glue for my healing.
Being a health nut, and an active yoga & fitness instructor, I never fathomed that cancer could happen to me. But then, it did.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in August 2012. Yes, this journey has taught me a lot about myself. I am so grateful for everyone around me and their support. I feel stronger than ever before. Feeling really blessed to have state-of-the-art support and treatment facilities at the Jewish General Hospital's Segal Cancer Center.
This August 24-45, the Pharmaprix(MD) Weekend to End Women's Cancers™ 60-kilometer walk will be my opportunity to give back and to admire the many people affected by cancer either directly or indirectly.


This year we are inviting you to come with your family. We have a dedicated nanny to look after your kids, while you and your partner taking dance classes during the day and going out to the clubs at night. Your kids will be playing games, hanging out with local kids, taking dancing lessons if they would like. It will be an amazing experience for them too!
Each Cuba Baila traveller will have their own local dance partner, so your non-salsa friends can join the tour to learn at their own pace.
Accommodation at Casa Particulars, authentic experiences such as the Santeria religious party and participation in local cultural events as they happen.
Experience Havana and Cuba's UNESCO World Heritage city of Trinidad.
Transport, accommodation, interpreters, day-to-day support, and your host, Yarima, all included!
You will see Cuba's premier bands, fabulous dance performances, great clubs where you will dance every night on tour!
Itinerary Notes: While we will attempt to operate our tours as closely to our itineraries as possible, conditions often change from one day to the next, and minor tour modifications may be necessary with no advance notice.
Interpreters and day-to-day support, and of course, your bilingual host, Yarima!
At CubaBaila, our aim is to give you an authentic Cuban experience, living and breathing the essence of Cuba, it's people, it's history, and it's culture. This will be an experience that you will never forget. The joyful exuberance of the Cuban spirit is intoxicating and infectious, you will feel different, more alive than ever before. This is part of what makes Cuba unique!
With CubaBaila, you will learn to feel the Cuban rhythm in your body. As part of the tours, you will be taught at a Cuban dance troupe's dance studio in Havana by the troupe's professional dancers and teachers, an array of Cuban dances including Salsa, Son, Rueda de Casino, Mambo, Cha Cha Cha, Rumba, Afro-Cuban, reggaeton and more. We have designed the classes so you each have a partner assigned to you which means you can be a beginner or advanced dancer and learn at your own pace. You will have numerous opportunities during the tour to show off your new moves at Cuba's 'Discotecas' and live music venues.
The cost of each tour is around $1,515 AUD plus 500 CUC to be paid on arrival in Havana Airport.
The 500 CUC covers the land component of the tour. This is collected at the airport in Havana by Yarima or your CubaBaila tour guide.
To secure your spot on a tour, you will need to place a non-refundable deposit $750AUD. All tours are to be paid in full no later than 56 days prior to their start.
The earlier you book your flight to Cuba the better the price, so don't delay. Yarima can assist you with advice about flights when you book a tour.
Cuba Baila Tours has been offering History, Music & Dance tours to Cuba since 2013. All tours are fully escorted and offer a bilingual tour host. We specialize in small tours so travellers can enjoy a more intimate experience in Cuba. Our booking office is based in Sydney and facilitates your bookings with us!
I have just spent 3 amazing weeks in Cuba on Yarima's December 2017 tour and had such a great experience I'm already planning to return! It was a very well organised tour with Yarima and the wonderful CubaBaila team (xxooxx!) ensuring everyone was looked after and having a great time. The casas were great and the families were very hospitable everywhere we stayed. The hardest part of the trip (apart from leaving) was having the energy to enjoy all the great venues and live music every night!!! The dance classes were brilliant. I did a week of ladies styling, which was unbelieveable for improving body movement with each of us receiving lots of personal attention.


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FCC proposes text support for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Jon Fingas — Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
ByJon Fingas
The FCC wants to make it easier to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for those who can't (or prefer not to) call. Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed an order that would let people text 988 to reach the Lifeline. Carriers would have to automatically route texts to 988 to the Lifeline's full number (1-800-273-8255) no later than July 16th, 2022. Providers would have to support every messaging format the Lifeline can handle, and the FCC would explore the possibility of texting the Veterans Crisis Line.The move would not only accommodate younger people more familiar with texting, but would make the Lifeline more accessible to people with disabilities, according to the FCC. The regulator also suggested this would offer a "certain level of anonymity" for people who aren't comfortable with phone conversations. The FCC will hold a vote on the proposal at its November 18th meeting.The Lifeline already supports online chats through the web. As Rosenworcel explained, however, this is a bid to "meet [people] where they are" and give them a choice in a moment of crisis. Americans would have more opportunities to get help, and might be more inclined to get that help in the first place.In the U.S., the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. Crisis Text Line can be reached by texting HOME to 741741 (US), 686868 (Canada), or 85258 (UK).
The FCC wants to make it easier to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline for those who can't (or prefer not to) call. Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has proposed an order that would let people text 988 to reach the Lifeline. Carriers would have to automatically route texts to 988 to the Lifeline's full number (1-800-273-8255) no later than July 16th, 2022. Providers would have to support every messaging format the Lifeline can handle, and the FCC would explore the possibility of texting the Veterans Crisis Line.
The move would not only accommodate younger people more familiar with texting, but would make the Lifeline more accessible to people with disabilities, according to the FCC. The regulator also suggested this would offer a "certain level of anonymity" for people who aren't comfortable with phone conversations. The FCC will hold a vote on the proposal at its November 18th meeting.
The Lifeline already supports online chats through the web. As Rosenworcel explained, however, this is a bid to "meet [people] where they are" and give them a choice in a moment of crisis. Americans would have more opportunities to get help, and might be more inclined to get that help in the first place.
In the U.S., the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. Crisis Text Line can be reached by texting HOME to 741741 (US), 686868 (Canada), or 85258 (UK).
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Cal/OSHA Issues $1.75 Million Fine in Valero Refinery Death
By Guy Burdick, EHS Daily Advisor May 27, 2022 Enforcement and Inspection
On May 19, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) announced a combined $1,753,375 in fines for the Valero Refinery of Benicia and 3 of its contractors following an investigation into the confined space death of a 35-year-old worker. On November 12, 2021, a worker lost consciousness after descending into a regenerator overflow […]
Infographic: Welding and Cutting Safety
By Grace Hatfield, EHS Daily Advisor Apr 22, 2022 Back to Basics
There are many different hazards that welders face in a number of different industries. OSHA has clear guidelines for safety during welding, cutting, and brazing to help protect workers who face potential fires, explosions, accidental contact, contamination, and breathing hazards. Here's what you need to know about welding and cutting safety. Check out our Back to […]
Back to Basics: Welding and Cutting Safety
Back to Basics is a weekly feature that highlights important but possibly overlooked information that any EHS professional should know. This week, we examine OSHA's requirements for welding and cutting safety. There are many different hazards that welders face in a number of different industries. OSHA has clear guidelines for safety during welding, cutting, and […]
Ask the Expert: Protection From Fumes When Cutting Stainless Steel
By EHS Daily Advisor Staff Nov 17, 2021 Ask the Expert
In our latest installment of Ask the Expert, brought to you by the team of industry experts at EHS Hero®, we look at a recent question from a subscriber asking whether an N95 or N99 mask protects the user from fumes when cutting stainless steel. See what the experts had to say. Q: Does an […]
Welding Fume Now Considered a Known Carcinogen
By Guy Burdick, EHS Daily Advisor Jun 28, 2019 Injuries and Illness
If you employ welders, they may be at risk for lung cancer, regardless of the metals they weld. However, researchers have yet to compile all the information employers need on exposure limits and hazard controls.
Hot Tips for Improving Welding Safety
By Guest Contributor Apr 1, 2019 Welding Cutting and Brazing Sponsored By MSA Safety
Welding — one of the OSHA-defined "hot work" activities — is a major task in many industries. You'll find it performed in manufacturing, fabrication, and repair work. In fact, anywhere two or more materials must be joined together, welding will likely be present.
Protect workers from the 5 most common hazards of MIG welding
By Jennifer Busick Nov 27, 2014 Welding Cutting and Brazing
A 48-year-old shipyard welder was welding on a barge that was undergoing renovation, working from an elevating work platform. A pinhole leak developed in the hydraulic lines on the lift, and the escaping hydraulic oil was ignited by sparks from the welding operation. The worker was taken to a burn unit, but later died.
Identify the 5 most common MIG welding hazards
Whether you're a large, heavy equipment manufacturer with a stable of experienced welders or a small job shop where welding equipment is used infrequently, odds are you use the same type of equipment: a metal inert gas (MIG) welder.


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The Board of Regents has approved a new professional pilot bachelor's degree program at the University of New Orleans.
The Louisiana Board of Regents has approved a new professional pilot bachelor of science program at the University of New Orleans. The program, which still requires approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), will prepare students for a career in the field of aviation.
The program will be conducted in collaboration with New Orleans Aerial Tours & Flight Training, which is located at the Lakefront Airport, a five-minute drive from the UNO campus. The University will take the lead on certifying the faculty while New Orleans Aerial Tours & Flight Training will provide the technical instruction.
The professional pilot program will be accredited by the Federal Aviation Administration and will blend flight training with rigorous academic study that will provide a foundation for a career in the aviation industry. During the 120 credit-hour program, students will engage in technology-enhanced classrooms, as well as actual flight training. Students who complete the program will meet FAA commercial and private pilot standards, with instrument and multi-engine ratings.
A predicted global growth in aviation and the decrease in the number of trainees, both civilian and military, are creating a looming shortage of pilots, Williams said. In Louisiana, the 10-year growth projection for commercial pilots is 320 jobs with an annual total of 80 openings per year from jobs in the occupation and as a result of retirement or turnover.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual salary for commercial pilots in 2016 was $86,260.
The University will begin accepting applications only after the degree program has been approved by SACS, the University's regional accrediting body.


Today is World Cancer Day, and at Martin Walker Law we would like to use this time to raise awareness about some issues the medical industry creates for those with cancer. World Cancer day is a day to empower the world to show support for those with cancer as well as encourage personal action in everyone to fight for improvement. One way that we would like to participate in this is to raise awareness for when doctors fail to diagnose cancer in their patients. This mistake is more costly than any amount of money because it usually costs someone their life or the life of their loved one. According to recent research from 2016, failure to diagnose properly accounted for 34 percent of all medical malpractice payouts that year. Doctors who fail to perform the required tests for finding cancer in its early stages could very well be engaging in medical malpractice. If a patient is not diagnosed by their doctor early enough it could mean that they will then have to go through a tremendous amount of chemotherapy or other harsh medications in order to combat the disease. If the doctor had successfully diagnosed cancer in the early stages then the patient would have not had to suffer through such harsh of a treatment process.
Expensive medical procedures may be necessary.
The patient passes away in a matter of a few short months.
The patient may die weeks after the doctor diagnoses cancer.
The patient's cancer could be highly contagious and spread throughout the body at a rapid rate.
This is why it's important for early detection tests to be administered to patients often when they are under their doctors care. Cancer is a very serious illness and should never be discounted when a patient is complaining of symptoms that resemble in any way those of cancer.
The American Cancer Society has some suggestions for avoiding cancer in 2019.


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Balancing Leather Goods and Sustainability in the Andes
Greg Krupa's wild idea started with a wild animal. A vicuña, to be precise. Herds of these alpaca ancestors roam the mountains of Ecuador, where Krupa, BA '11 (political science), has lived off and on since 2007. The outdoors enthusiast often spots these long-necked, llama-like mammals on climbing expeditions.
On one such trip four years ago, Krupa couldn't sleep. "I was cold and uncomfortable, even though I was wearing all this really expensive gear," he says. "I started thinking about the vicuñas and their fine wool fur and how they sleep easily at high altitude."
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As Krupa shivered in his nylon sleeping bag and polyester sweater, he realized that synthetic materials weren't keeping him warm. Wouldn't it be nice, he mused, to wear a sweater of vicuña fur? Wouldn't it also be great if that sweater could be made locally, and in a way that isn't toxic to workers and the environment?
"I laid there for hours, wondering why there wasn't a company making outdoor apparel using natural elements abundant in South America," Krupa says. "There's a gap in the market."
Krupa is closing this gap through his new company, Alta Andina, a maker of lifestyle leather products such as valet trays, coasters, and cardholders. Eventually, he plans to expand into gear for the outdoor enthusiast—leather gloves lined with vicuña fur, for example.
Alta Andina's founders—Krupa, David Gamburd, BA '11 (planning, public policy and management) and their friend, Ryan Hood, a graduate of Willamette University—started small to keep their environmental and ethical values at the forefront. This means partnering with local tanneries and manufacturers, as well as using natural materials and environmentally sound production practices.
Krupa and Gamburd met at the UO in 2010, in a planning and public policy course on justice and urban revitalization.
"Greg and I were vocal in discussions and had strong opinions," Gamburd says. "We felt invested in our education because we wanted to make the world a better place."
They became closer that summer while canvassing for the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG), a consumer advocacy group that supports the environment, public health, and economic security.
These topics resonate deeply for Krupa and Gamburd.
Krupa, who grew up in the Chicago suburbs, felt adrift as a student at the University of Kansas. "I had a very narrow view, which was basically 'me, myself, and I,'" he says. That perspective changed in 2007, after his older brother, David, invited him to Guatemala to work with his nonprofit, the Range of Motion Project (ROMP), which provides prosthetic care to amputees from underserved populations.
Interacting with people who lacked money for food—much less a prosthetic arm or leg—was humbling. Krupa could no longer ignore global inequities.
"Since then," Krupa says, "I've been focused on public health and environmentalism."
Lured to the UO by his love of the outdoors, Krupa earned his degree and then returned to Guatemala to continue helping marginalized communities there and in South America, in various ways. Among them: Novulis, a mobile dental health company that Krupa founded in 2015 to partner with employers in serving low-income workers and their families in remote areas of Ecuador.
Like Krupa, Gamburd was introduced to global issues through family. Growing up in the Bay Area, he enjoyed frequent outings to state parks and family conversations about the environment. "I remember asking my mom to buy Lunchables," Gamburd says; she refused, explaining that the plastic packaging was wasteful and the food wasn't healthy.
The UO was the perfect place for Gamburd to explore his environmental ethos and his passion came through in creative ways. When submitting a research paper on the Great Pacific garbage patch, the vortex of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, he affixed trash—straws and wrappers—to the folder enclosing his essay.
Krupa and Gamburd founded Alta Andina in 2017 with a can-do attitude and a focus on environmental stewardship and social entrepreneurship.
Leather goods might not seem like a logical choice for a company with those values, but Alta Andina hopes to educate customers about the toxic global leather industry while protecting the environment. Worldwide, 90 percent of leather goods are tanned using a toxic chemical called chromium, which can cause respiratory and skin ailments for workers. Chromium also leaks into waterways near tanneries, damaging the environment.
Alta Andina leather is tanned with environmentally friendly tannins drawn from Argentinian, Ecuadorian, and Brazilian trees. The cattle hides used for their leather come from the Colombian meat industry—"an otherwise wasted product," Gamburd says—and Alta Andina doesn't work with ranchers whose operations contribute to deforestation.
The global leather industry leaves a large carbon footprint. A hide might originate in Brazil before bouncing to Bangladesh for tanning, to China for manufacturing, and finally to the US for retail. Alta Andina shortens this route through its Andean supply chain, keeping those steps within South America until the goods are shipped to the US.
The company's commitment to the environment also includes conservation and accessibility efforts across the region.
Alta Andina, ROMP, and the Ecuadorian Ministry of the Environment recently signed an agreement to build the world's highest-altitude, self-guided trail accessible to people with physical and mental disabilities. Located along the continental divide in Cayambe Coca National Park, 14,000 feet above sea level, this quarter-mile trail scheduled to open in 2020 will feature auditory devices, signs in braille, and an elevated walkway.
"The trail's theme is adaptation," Krupa says. "The trail will draw parallels between animals and plants that have unique adaptations because they live so far above sea level, with humans who make adaptations when they lose a limb or their sight."
The trail will also enable hikers to witness what's happening environmentally as the planet warms. "Snow-capped mountains are less snow-capped now," Krupa says.
Which brings us back to the mountain-dwelling vicuña. One day, Krupa believes Alta Andina will deliver on its vision to make products with the fur of vicuñas and other animals; the team is developing partnerships and products including scarves, blankets, and apparel.
"This early part of the company is our training wheels," Krupa says. "We are working in a very patient and responsible manner toward being the first-ever outdoor lifestyle company with products that are 100 percent natural or recycled and come exclusively from South America."
The trail, if you will, is long. But Krupa is characteristically optimistic, drawing inspiration from the words of John Lewis, the politician and civil rights leader. "If not us now," he paraphrases,"then who?"
—By Kelsey Schagemann
Kelsey Schagemann is a freelance writer and editor in Chicago.
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Lot 122 - 1976 Ferrari 308GTB Vetroresina
One of only 154 Right Hand Drive UK Delivered Cars
ESTIMATE ££135,000- ££150,000
The Spirit of Motoring, Ascot October 2015
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308GTB Vetroresina
Officially introduced at the Paris Salon in October 1975, the 308 GTB's styling was created by Pininfarina. The stunning two seat coachwork was all new, but incorporated all of the old magic by blending aspects of the Dino 206/246 with the later 365 GT4/BB. Reminiscent of the Boxer was the dihedral groove at bumper level splitting top and bottom, the plunging nose and the sail panels reaching back to meet a shallower spoiler, while the conical side air intakes and recessed concave rear window were familiar from the Dino.
The 308 GTB employed a tubular steel chassis with independent coil spring/wishbone suspension front and rear, complimented by anti-roll bars, adjustable dampers and powerful disc brakes. At its heart was a Formula One derived, all alloy, four camshaft 3.0 litre V8 engine, allied to a transversely mounted five-speed gearbox.
The very first 308 GTBs produced, until the end of 1976, were the fastest and best handling thanks to a fibreglass body that weighed substantially less than the steel coachwork which replaced it. These first cars also featured race-bred dry sump lubrication which again was replaced after a short period in favour of the less expensive wet sump.
Rolling off the Ferrari production line in 1976, this rare fibreglass, dry sump car; (the only ones given Group 4 homologation for competition) chassis 19611, was delivered new to the UK and is one of a small handful of UK delivered cars with only 154 produced. The vendor informs us the car is in excellent condition in every respect and comes with a significant history file containing its original book pack/wallet, lots of original Ferrari Maranello correspondence and a large amount of invoices and receipts and comes with its original spare wheel and jack.
The GTB Vetroresina is the most desirable version of Ferrari's iconic 308 and with this being a genuine UK delivered right hand drive example making it particularly rare. A highly collectable and fine example of an early production 308 and a fantastic investment opportunity.


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Scottish Fabians launched in spring 2012 as the left came to terms with the challenge posed by the SNP and the independence referendum
Scottish Fabians is a self-governing section of the Fabian Society, the UK's only democratic, members-led think tank. Founded in 1884, the Society is at the forefront of developing political ideas and public policy on the left. Scottish Fabians are affiliated to the Scottish Labour Party.
Twenty years on from devolution, it is essential that Scotland has dedicated and independent public policy organisations to ensure the health of our democracy and policy making to improve outcomes for our citizens. With dedicated resource in Scotland and a board embedded in Scottish political and public life the Scottish Fabians have a huge part to play in shaping the future of progressive Scotland
The scale of the challenge for the left in Scotland demands rigorous debate and radical ideas. Scottish Fabians hope to provide a space for that debate to happen.
We organise events and conferences around Scotland, all designed to provoke debate and allow a free exchange of views. We have also published a range of ideas, both in the form of traditional Fabians printed pamphlets and as online blogs and articles.
Find out more about our Executive Committee members
If you would like to find out more or be involved please email our National Manager katherine.sangster@fabians.org.uk


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We live in a crazy world. Doubt it? Here's an example.
This weekend the news has been full of stories from the 'snowmageddon' on the east coast of the USA (because just calling it 'very heavy snowfall' isn't anything like as exciting, right?). Two feet of snow falling in just a few hours, closing airports and freeways and causing state governors to declare a state of emergency while making one Washington panda very very happy. You can see how much I've picked up, and I wasn't particularly paying attention…
A couple of hours in, and the rolling news was – naturally – looking for a fresh angle on the story, some new titbit for the viewers at home to savour from the comfort of their living rooms. So they found a woman in Baltimore who works with homeless people, and asked her how her charity was coping with this extreme weather – I don't think any of us were surprised to learn it added to their workload, but this wasn't meant to be cutting-edge investigative journalism, it was just five minutes of filler on TV. And at some point the charity worker was asked how many people her charity helped. 2,600 she replied. There were families, there were old people, there were kids. 2,600 of them. And the conversation moved on.
But let's just rewind a minute, forget about the snow, and look at what wasn't considered worthy of headlines. What didn't even raise a flicker of concern. Which is that every day, in just one city in one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, there are 2,600 homeless people reliant on charity just to get by. Come rain, come shine, come two feet of snow. Families, old people, kids. With nowhere to live, and in need of soup kitchens and shelters to make it from one day to the next, in a society awash with money, which positively worships wealth.
There's something profoundly wrong with this picture. But then it's a crazy world.
Imagine a world which wasn't.
Imagine a world where a person of wealth and substance, a modern-day Croesus, a – for the sake of argument, let's say a Donald Trump – halted his campaign for power and glory, and his gospel of hatred and fear, and declared he'd thought about those homeless people, and how just a fraction of his $4.5billion fortune could help them.* Imagine a world where it occurred to him that this might be a noble and worthwhile use of his money, one which would – arguably – provide him with a greater legacy than building yet another exclusive golf course no-one will ever see. Imagine a world where he got up behind the podium at one of his rallies and announced to his supporters he was going to use his wealth to help the poorest in his country…. Go on, give it a go.
Not easy, is it? Now tell me it isn't a crazy world.
* If Trump did this, even I might be tempted to vote for him. Although, in honesty, it's not that likely.
And he'd still have to do something about the hair.


Our church's association has a week-long youth camp for young people during the summer. The campground is between Ramsey and Vandalia on Rt. 51. Cost is $45 if registered early (by June 15) and $55 the first day of camp. If you are interested in going, our church provides a partial scholarship to each child. Don't let the cost stop anyone's interest though, because there are individuals that will also contribute to the rest if needed. If you would like a camp registration form, see Pastor Chris!


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Главная База знаний "Allbest" Иностранные языки и языкознание Territorial varieties of English pronunciation - подобные работы
Territorial varieties of English pronunciation
The historical background of the spread of English and different varieties of the language. Differences between British English and other accents and to distinguish their peculiarities. Lexical, phonological, grammar differences of the English language.
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21. The history of English
Historical background of the History of English. Assimilative Vowel Changes: Breaking and Diphthongisation. Old English phonetics and grammar. Morphological classification of nouns. Evolution of the grammatical system. Personal and possessive pronouns.
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22. History of the English language expansion in the world
History of the English language, its causes and global distribution. His role in global communication between peoples and as a major business. Comparison of British and American dialects. Proof of the importance of their various teaching for pupils.
23. Evolution and functioning of French borrowings in the English vocabulary in the field of fashion, food, clothes
The role of English language in a global world. The historical background, main periods of borrowings in the Middle and Modern English language. The functioning of French borrowings in the field of fashion, food, clothes in Middle and Modern English.
24. The teaching knowlege test
Practical English Usage by Michael Swan. English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy The book is intended for students of intermediate level. They both are useful for studying language. Active voice, Passive voice, Future forms and Past continuous.
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25. Australian English: main characteristics
Specific character of English language. Words of Australian Aboriginal origin. Colloquialisms in dictionaries and language guides. The Australian idioms, substitutions, abbreviations and comparisons. English in different fields (food and drink, sport).
26. Distribution of English
Spread in the world of English as a native and first spoken. The origins of the English from the invading Germanic tribes in Britain in the 5th century and up today, the change in pronunciation. English-speaking countries of the world; American English.
27. Changes and specimens of the English language
Consideration on concrete examples of features of gramatical additions of the offer during various times, beginning from 19 centuries and going deep into historical sources of origin of English language (the Anglo-Saxon period of King Alfred board).
28. French Borrowings in the Modern English Language
The oldest words borrowed from French. Unique domination of widespread languages in a certain epoch. French-English bilinguism. English is now the most widespread of the word's languages. The French Language in England. Influence on English phrasing.
29. The Usage of English and American Idioms
American history reflected in idioms. Structure of Idioms. Differences and usage in American English and British English. Influence of the American English on the world of idioms. Main differences in usage. English idioms and their usage in everyday life.
30. English Speaking Countries
Why English language so the expanded language in the world. The English countries of conversation are located in various parts of the world and differ in the different ways. Each country has own customs of history, tradition, and own national holidays.
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Made of an SPF blocking stylish sports fabric, the Candillo protects you from harmful UV rays and has a mesh panel built in under the arms to help you remain cool when needed.
The front of the shirt has a 1/3 zip up to the neck and a pearl button closes the built in cotton collar.