The Duchy of Orpheus is a Xeilian Duchy within the Kingdom of Alesia. The reigning Duke is Klytos Alkeides. We are one of two Xeilian Duchies. Xeilias is a PvP focused group led by Phyllain. We intend to be ready for any threats against the Kingdom.
We will strive to be the best in all areas of gameplay: agriculture, commerce, warfare and other crucial areas are essential to our success, and will be managed efficiently. Military tactics will be honed, equipment will be streamlined, and farming techniques will be developed to create the highest yields for the least amount of grunt work.
During peacetime, all citizens of Orpheus are free to play however they wish, as long as they operate within the law. During a time of war, however, everyone will be fully engaged with the war effort - in whatever area of expertise you choose. Farmers will be feeding the troops, smiths will be forging our weapons, and warriors will be slaughtering our enemies. Refusal to participate is not allowed during wartime, as our survival is at stake.
•There shall be no murder.
•There shall be no theft.
•There shall be no unjust persecution. This includes vigilantism. The only time anyone will be persecuted in the Duchy is when it is clear the individual has committed a crime.
•There shall be no discrimination. This includes race, age, gender, religious and all other forms.
Duke Klytos Alkeides is the leader of Orpheus. Leadership will pass down to his heirs.
Currently, there are only a select few on the Dukes council. The leadership team will remain small until new leaders step up and prove themselves to me and the rest of the council. During pre-launch, prospective leaders can and should participate in other games with the Duchy in order to demonstrate their skills.
The specific biome we get is largely up to chance, at least for the time being. However, we would like to prioritise a region with benefits toward PvP in whatever biome we end up in. Should this not be possible, we will choose whatever region we feel will put us at the greatest advantage. This decision process will be based on location within the kingdom and available resources.
Currently, these biomes stand out to us due to what they bring to the table in terms of resources and natural protection.
Currently, these Tribes stand out due to the biomes they reside in, along with their attributes as a people. Each stands out in some form. Whether that be physical prowess or cunning trickery. They all bring unique gameplay that is sure to provide exciting gameplay.
The military within the Duchy will be led by experienced individuals. The Duchy army will gravitate towards a composition made up by whatever we feel is meta at any given time. The Duchy will do its best to help anyone with gear, but we will only be supplying gear that is proven to be successful. Anyone wishing to go to battle with sub-optimal gear will be required to supply all their own equipment.
While not at war, military personnel will assist in all manners of defence within the Duchy as well as within the Kingdom if called upon. Day to day tasks may also include guarding supply runs, clearing out bandits, or escorting vulnerable citizens.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to go into too much depth on military discussion until further game mechanics are known.
As a Duchy, we will need all sorts of players in order to succeed. We plan on being completely self-sustaining. Our biome will play a massive part in what we can do within the Duchy. However, the basic necessities will always be in demand. We will need people to grow/hunt our food, gather our resources' refine our products, and distribute them all within the Duchy. This is a vital part of our success and will be our main focus when starting out.
Duke Klytos will give assistance to groups focusing on the economics of the Duchy. This will include manpower, building infrastructure, using EP to help build out certain areas, etc.
We believe technology is one of the most important ways to stay a step ahead of the competition. As such, there will be a massive university built within the capital city, along with several universities and schools build in surrounding towns/cities.
The capital of Orpheus will be the great city of Orestias. The current plan is for Orestias to be a stronghold the likes of which the world has never seen. Every commercial and industrial building one could possibly desire will have a place in the city. Orestias will be a beacon of hope to all of those it stands to protect. A symbol of power and beauty.
We will build the greatest city possible from the materials available.
Orestias will be a busy trade hub where all manner of goods can be found. Our merchants will travel across the known world in search of exotic and precious objects to sell in the markets.
Our walls will stand tall should any force try to threaten us. The protection of our citizens is of the utmost importance. Should the city come under siege there will be safe havens within the city to shelter those unable to fight.
Duke Klytos will be purchasing each of the major kits for the Duchy. Military, culture, technology and religion. I feel these kits will further enhance our development in accordance with our goals.
Due to these kits having a large effect on the citizens, Duke Klytos will take suggestions on which way to use these kits into consideration.
The Duchy of Orpheus has pledged allegiance to the Kingdom of Alesia, together we will build the greatest empire Elyria has ever seen.
Orpheus will do everything in our power to protect and maintain the virtues of Alesia and all her citizens.


From Denver Colorado Airport's 2MW solar array to Palau's installation of PV awnings at its airport carpark, it seems that solar arrays are appearing at airports around the world. And not without good reason.
Given that airports need large amounts of land, both for car parking and surrounding runways, they are in many ways an ideal fit for large-scale ground-mounted solar arrays that might otherwise cause land-use and/or aesthetic concerns for the surrounding community.
"Gatwick wanted to do something, but there was lots of nervousness," he added. "So what they felt they'd do is put in 50kW. This has broken the back of those concerns and we can work on a larger system. Hopefully, it will be in place by the end of the year."
Of course besides the land use benefits of airports as sites for solar, there is another major advantage for advocates of the emerging green economy—airports receive millions of visitors each year and in many ways act as a billboard for a country as a whole. Much like this 9MW solar warehouse in New Jersey, by embracing solar technology so visibly, they help to communicate to the world that a new energy paradigm is emerging.
Let's just hope that the aviation industry proves to be serious about cutting emissions too.
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Yahaya Abrahim-Usmen, Ruben Loufimpou and Corey White were sentenced to a total of 44 years. Pic: Metropolitan Police.
Three men have been sentenced for a total of 44 years for a stabbing in Dalston that left a teenage boy partially blind.
The trio, who appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Tuesday, assaulted the teenager outside the 'Chicken Klub' takeaway in Shacklewell Lane on April 4 last year.
The attack left the 15-year-old boy, who has not been named, in need of an operation to remove a knife from his right eye.
Yahaya Ibrahim-Usmen, 24, of Enfield, and Corey White, 23, from Islington both received 16-year sentences. Ruben Loufimpou, 22 of Paragon Road, Hackney was given a 12-year sentence. The three men were all found guilty of grievous bodily harm with intent on November 17 2014.
Police officers arrived on the scene at around 6:20pm on April 4 2014 to find the young boy with serious stab wounds to his face, after a dispute outside the takeaway joint.
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Practice Relating to Rule 135. Children
Section B. Education
New Zealand's Military Manual (1992) provides that belligerents "must ensure the maintenance of [children under 15] and facilitate the exercise of their religion, while their education must as far as possible be entrusted to persons of a similar cultural tradition".
New Zealand, Interim Law of Armed Conflict Manual, DM 112, New Zealand Defence Force, Headquarters, Directorate of Legal Services, Wellington, November 1992, § 1112(1).
The manual further states: "The Occupying Power must take the necessary steps to ensure that children under fifteen separated from their families are not left to their own resources and that proper steps are taken to maintain their education and religious welfare."
With respect to non-international armed conflicts in particular, the manual states that children "are to receive such aid and protection as they require, including an education which makes provision for their religious and moral care".

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There are over 33,000 carers living in Doncaster. Caring for those in need is a major contribution towards health and social care in the borough, and without the help of these compassionate people, services would struggle to deliver the same level of care currently provided.
Without help and support, carers can find themselves struggling with physical and emotional demands, trying to balance their own wellbeing with the needs of those they care for.
Working together, NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group and Doncaster Council want to understand how they can better support carers in the borough, allowing them to do what they do best – care.
The questionnaire, which is just three questions, can be answered by everyone in the town. Your ideas and experiences will directly impact how future services are commissioned and developed.
Running a project (Support 4 Change) which aims to support carers that are affected by someone's substance misuse, helping the carer to live the best lives possible no matter what their loved one chooses. I often find that alongside the trauma, psychological pressure and environmental decline of the carer. There is also an underutilised influence within their social setting; this influence is the carer themselves. Support 4 change looks to encourage and harness this force of nature to change the environment so the substance misuser is stimulated into positive change. This technique is in line with evidence that an individual's social setting influences their behaviour. If anyone is interested in this intervention they can contact me at Doncaster Drug and Alcohol Services.


This tour is the most important and busiest in the area. The glacier is an indescribable spectacle that fills the visitor with wonder and admiration, even from the first sighting several miles away on the road. The drive from El Calafate to the glacier is a succession of lakes, streams, forests and snowy mountains. The contemplation of this natural phenomenon breath away thousands of tourists who come from different parts of the world.
The visit to the glacier demand most of the day, usually starting at El Calafate in the morning and returning in the afternoon.
This glacier is born in the Patagonian Continental Ice-as virtually all the glaciers in the area, and moving slowly like a huge river of ice more than 25 kilometers long into the Icebergs Channel of Lake Argentino. At its mouth, the front of 4 kilometers wide rises over 60 meters above water level and because of its forward motion and compression, often gigantic blocks of ice break off in a crash only comparable to the sound of thunder.
The fame of this glacier is due precisely to the particular behavior of moving forward and back, sometimes completely it closed the passage of water in the canal of the floes, forming a natural dam of ice, then water pressure undermines the glacier to fractured and monumental cause rupture and restores the current lake level to normal. The last time this phenomenon occurred was in February 1988.
The vast extent of this glacier nearly 200 square kilometers, equivalent to the area of the city of Buenos Aires – is an endless pattern of cracks and ridges of ice that displays all the color variations from blue to white.
All year long there are daily organized excursions to the glacier with the leadership of qualified guides, and may include alternative hiking trails in the vicinity of the runway, photo stops at viewpoints along the way, food for lunch or even binoculars for travel, among other services.
According to expectations, available time and budget, there are several options-trekking, lake tours and to learn and enjoy more about this natural wonder.
It comes only by road and from El Calafate, with a total distance of 88 km. The route starts traveling Provincial Route No. 11 that runs along the south shore of Lake Argentino. This first section is traversed by Route which is in very good condition.
The first impression of this tour is the magnificent view of Lake Argentino and snowy mountain ranges peripherals.
After the junction with Route No. 60, at 48 km of the trail leads to the entrance of Glacier National Park, where you pay the entrance fee. As you progress, climate and flora show the transition between steppe and forest andinopatagonico, with cooler and moisture in the air. The road continues along the Brazo Rico of Lake Argentino in the south face of the Magallanes peninsula, into the periphery of Nothofagus forest. Tree species vary with humidity, altitude and proximity to the ice, standing mainly beech, ñire the cohigue and then beech and cherry in the vicinity of the glacier. On the side of the road can also be seen notros (red flowers), caulking bushes (yellow flowers and purple fruit) and Chinese lanterns (yellow parasitic plant). In autumn, leaves turn forests into multiple variations of red.
Six miles before reaching its destination, after an upward curve leads to a lookout with panoramic views of the glacier first known as "The Curve of Sighs." This viewpoint with sufficient space to park the vehicle, is an excellent opportunity to breathe fresh air, watching the magnificent Perito Moreno Glacier and the adjacent hills.
Finally, the road ends at the western tip of the peninsula, where and with feet on the ground and the impressive front of more than five kilometers from the glacier front is entered to the gangways. They are arranged in a circuit of three levels, with stairs and balconies that can appreciate the glacier from different perspectives. An alternative for those who are looking for other views of the north side of Moreno glacier front is the Path of the Coast, which is only performed to the accompaniment of a qualified guide.
To return to El Calafate takes the same path.
It is essential to wear warm clothing and waterproof jacket due to the proximity, or even direct contact with this mass-ice and climate variation in these latitudes.
To enjoy the walks is advisable to wear comfortable shoes, trekking as far as possible.
Glasses and sunscreen filter is necessary to observe glacier safely and protect the skin from exposure to strong UV rays of the sun.
In addition, extra rolls of film, gloves and hat.


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Laos, the country that received the largest bombing in history
We are in Laos, a country in Southeast Asia that borders Burma, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. His name is currently Lao People's Democratic Republic.
This sparsely populated nation witnessed and victimized the greatest bombing known to man, information that went unnoticed thanks to the media and, in the opinion of some, misnamed Vietnam War.
A little history: during the 18th century Laos was a French protectorate and although there were some attempts at independence, this would not come until years later.
During the WWII was occupied by the japanese empire. It was after this occupation and supported by the Vietnamese nationalists that Laos proclaimed its total independence from France although they were still under a monarchical regime.
Later in 1951 a communist independence movement born in North Vietnam and invaded Laos, which resulted in a Civil War.
Later thanks to Geneva agreements From 1955 to 1959, peace reigned in the country and the territory was divided and the forces were even unified, but after this period, the war between the forces of Viet Minh and Pathet Lao (communists) against the forces of royal army of Laoshe continued.
After a brief period in which there was a coalition government, the tensions of the United States with the neighboring country, Vietnam, dragged Laos to the Second Indochina War.
Subsequently, there were some American attempts to use the Lao population against Vietnam in the well-known Operation White Star, in which they trained the royal army of Laos to fight against the communists, always in absolute secrecy.
US operations in Laos with the aim of cutting off supply routes used by the Vietnam army totaled more than half a million. American aviation wreaked havoc between civilians and military without distinction.
More of 2 million tons of bombs were dropped on the country during this war that was silenced by the media by the CIA, since Laos was supposedly conflict neutral, as in other countries in the area that could become communists during 1964 and 1973.
It is currently estimated that there are 80 million unexploded explosives scattered across the country. This means that around 100% of the towns in the province there are artifacts that have not been detonated.
Laos has the dubious honor of still being the country in the world that has suffered the most bombings per inhabitant.
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Imo governorship petition: Group urges CJN to intervene
By Joseph Jibueze On Jun 17, 2013
A civil-society group, Lawyers in Defence of Democracy, has urged the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Aloma Mukhtar, to intervene in the Imo State governorship election petition impasse.
It said it fears "there exists an understanding" to frustrate the respondents to the appeal by making the case drag on till the governor completes the term of the mandate in dispute, after which the case becomes an academic exercise.
"We urge the CJN to take the following steps: give a nearer date to hear and determine the interlocutory appeal; recall the main case from the Court of Appeal since it is purely a constitutional issue that is currently heating up the polity; and change the panel or preside over it herself.
"Without exaggeration, the above steps are the only ways the CJN can demonstrate to Nigerians that the judiciary, which is witnessing a new lease of life, is ready to live above board on this matter," the group said.
The group, an affiliate of the Leadership Watch International (USA), in a June 5 letter by its National Secretary Chimezie Onwu and Adebalogun Sai, expressed worries that the case was being unduly delayed.
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"Already, this appeal before the Supreme Court challenging the joining of Ikedi Ohakim to the case has been on for more than one year.
"If this is added to the fact that the parties will still have to return to the main case, which is already more than one and half years at the Appeal Court in Owerri, it then means the saying that 'justice delayed is justice denied' finds a very eloquent expression in the instant matter," the group said.
The case is seeking to resolve the issue as to whether the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has the powers to conduct a governorship election outside the time-frame stipulated by the constitution.
The plaintiffs also want the court to clarify whether INEC can conduct a "Supplementary Election" as it allegedly did on May 6, 2011 after which Governor Rochas Okorocha was declared winner.
"Needless to say, Nigerians are eager to see this interpretation before the next election, as circumstances that led to the current case may rear their ugly heads again unless Nigerians are properly guided by the judiciary," said the group.
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Q: Connect to an IOS IBAction which is not at a "valid connection destination" I have been spending days to make connection from a button on the storyboard to a new NSObject class in an IOS project. Methods I used in OS X no longer work in IOS.
I have no trouble connection the button to the IBAction on the original UIViewController class. According to the Apple documentation my new class is not a "valid connection destination".
To work around the issue I tried to call the method in the new class from the UIViewController class. I tried notification and delegate schemes, using the posts on Stack Overflow, but could not get them to work.
The closest I came linking to a +method in the target class, such as
+ (void) startToneGenerator
{
    NSLog(@"Arrived in startToneGenerator");
//        [self startPlay:nil];
}

However, from inside that method I can not call the -startPlay in the same class. Because the -StartPlay class is part of an audio unit construct I can not change it to a +starPlay class without breaking the audio unit.
Can anyone point me to some documentation which describes what "valid connection destination" really means, and how to make the attempted connection a valid one.

I used the method suggested in answer 1 in OS X, where it does work, but it no longer works in IOS.
I am restating the code you clarify the problem.
// code in VC

- (IBAction)RunPauseStop:(id)sender
  {
   NSLog(@"arrived in RunPauseSTop");   // OK

   [uToneGenerator testMethod]; // OK
   //  [uToneGenerator startPlay:self]; // crashes
}

// code in uToneGenerator

+ (void) testMethod
{
NSLog(@"arrived in <testMethod>");   // OK
//  [uToneGenerator startPlay:nil];  // crashes
}

- (IBAction)startPlay:(id)sender
{
NSLog(@"arrived in <startPlay>"); // Don't get here
}

The line [uToneGenerator startPlay:nil]; compiles (with a warning) but crashes with:
2012-03-06 13:20:25.509 Tinnitus Tamer IP[863:f803] +[uToneGenerator startPlay:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x6c40
2012-03-06 13:20:25.509 Tinnitus Tamer IP[863:f803] * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '+[uToneGenerator startPlay:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x6c40'
calling from testMethod; compiles but crashes with:
2012-03-06 13:22:31.413 Tinnitus Tamer IP[885:f803] +[uToneGenerator startPlay:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x6c44
2012-03-06 13:22:31.414 Tinnitus Tamer IP[885:f803] * Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '+[uToneGenerator startPlay:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x6c44'
I noted that the error message can not find +[uToneGenerator startPlay:, but the method I am trying to call is -[uToneGenerator startPlay:

uToneGenerator *utg = [[uToneGenerator alloc]init]; works OK. In spite of the compiler warning "NSProject may not respond to 'startPlay'.
Thanks for helping me out. Much appreciated. I really was stuck.

A: You need to call whatever class method you want inside the IBAction method in your VC:
- (IBAction)myButtonPressed:(id)sender {
     [MyClass myClassMethod];
}

A: If you want that code to work you must declare - (IBAction)startPlay:(id)sender with a +. Otherwise you will have to make an instance of your class:
uToneGenerator *utg = [[uToneGenerator alloc]init]; //or whatever you use

and then use that to call your startPlay method:
[utg startPlay:self];

Hope it helps.

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Chris Stapleton and Wife Morgane Celebrate Mother's Day With Arrival of Baby No. 5
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Congratulations go out to Chris Stapleton and his incredible wife, Morgane. The couple has welcomed their newest addition to the family, apparently and appropriately on Mother's Day.
Morgane shared a photo on her Instagram page, that reflects a little hand grasping her finger. There is no pink or blue that traditionally might hint at a gender, just tiny fingers in gold and white jammies.
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She wrote, "The most perfect Mother's day…I wish all you Mama's the happiest of days today!"
The most perfect Mother's day…I wish all you Mama's the happiest of days today! 💛
A post shared by Morgane Stapleton (@morganwithane) on May 12, 2019 at 1:11pm PDT
As Chris and Morgane have respectfully chosen to do in the past, no other details of the baby have been revealed yet. The couple seldom shares details on any of their children. Chris has explained that they are trying their best to keep them out of the spotlight so they can enjoy a normal childhood. In fact, many were surprised when the couple welcomed their twins in early 2018 and Morgane shared details on her social page about their early arrival and an extended stay in the NICU at a Nashville hospital.
"At more than a month early, we had a week long stay in the nicu & the incredible people there kept our boys healthy & happy," Morgane wrote. "Words cannot express our gratitude for you all & what you did for our family. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! ♥♥."
Thank you for all the love! We're so grateful to finally be home with our sweet family. We would like to say a special thank you to all the incredible nurses & doctors at Centennial Women's & Children's Hospital in Nashville. At more than a month early, we had a week long stay in the nicu & the incredible people there kept our boys healthy & happy. Words cannot express our gratitude for you all & what you did for our family. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! ♥♥
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Chris very subtly revealed that they were expecting their fifth child during his acceptance speech at the 2018 CMA Awards. As he thanked his wife and children, he briefly mentioned the one on the way.
"I want to thank my kids who put up with me being gone quite a bit and not getting to be as good of a dad as I would like to be," Chris said in his speech. "Waylon and Ada out there tonight. and the twin boys and the new one on the way, I love you so much."
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In this 24/7 news cycle, it's refreshing that the Stapleton's are opting to keep their family life private. It's equally refreshing and impressive that their fans are allowing them to do that.
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In our more than 20 years of service Forest Hill has established itself as a beacon in the Newark community. Forest Hill continues to provide the best quality care to all those who qualify. We are proud of our exceptionally talented employees, who are unmatched in their overwhelming compassion for their patients. From the moment you enter Forest Hill Healthcare Center, you will know that you have the most competent, proficient, and invested staff at your service.
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Sometimes we discover residents admitted to Forest Hill on a short-term basis would be better served in long-term care. This is not an easy decision for clinicians, residents, and their representatives to make but we consider it a mark of honor that most residents and their representatives ask to be placed in long-term care here at Forest Hill.
Our residents and their representatives recognize the quality of care we provide. Call our admissions office for long-term care placement availability.
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Styrofoam from holiday gifts are unwanted leftovers that can clutter up the house for weeks before being discarded at the curbside.
Now a group that represents restaurant owners and other businesses is calling on New Yorkers to haul their foam leftovers to locations throughout the five boroughs to have it recycled on Saturday.
The group, PS Recycle It, said the goal of what it calls the "first-ever citywide Styrofoam collection event" is to "move" the city "toward a more complete and comprehensive recycling program," said spokeswoman Sarah Gould.
Currently, the city accepts only certain types of Styrofoam with everyday recyclables, such as egg cartons.
In September 2015, a judge struck down a limited ban of fast-food foam containers that had been signed into law by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The judge said the Department of Sanitation should consider ways to keep the materials out of landfills. An appeals court denied City Hall's challenge to the decision.
The city has said a ban, even a limited one, would keep nearly 30,000 tons of polystyrene waste from landfills, waterways and streets. But industry groups have opposed a ban, saying it would impose an economic burden on small businesses because alternative containers are more costly.
The Department of Sanitation didn't respond to a request for comment Friday on whether it is assessing the possibility of expanding the types of Styrofoam materials that can be recycled. It had earlier rejected a proposal for a five-year plan to recycle some Styrofoam.
Bronx — Kinsbridge Armory, 10 W. 195th St.
Brooklyn — Nick's Lobster parking lot, 2777 Flatbush Ave.
Staten Island — Christ Church New Brighton, 76 Franklin Ave.


Well .. I took a break from Evernote and returned hoping that I might be able to finally use more than one Premium account, at the same time on my iOS device. No luck! Evernote for iOS still only supports a single Premium account logged in at a time .. What is it going to take? - OneNote, Twitter, and many other apps do it because they know it means people are paying for MORE THAN ONE account, and they want to support that. EVERNOTE TEAM .. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO ACCESS >1 Premium account at the same time on my iOS device. I'm willing to live with storage and other limitations !!
The costs don't matter to me ... This is my workflow. I can already do this in Trello, all google apps, Slack ... Just not a priority for Evernote team.
It is correct .. I'm even paying Evernote for the most expensive plan x2. Still I want to access both from a single device.
Okay .. I stand by what I said. "I want to access both my Business and Personal accounts. Both of these are actually 'Premium Accounts' so this does nothing for me. " Note that BOTH accounts are separate Premium accounts. I pay for one Premium account for my work stuff, and another Premium account for my personal stuff. So my Feature Request remains open. Evernote 8.0 does not offer a fix for me .. and I suspect many others.
Here are the instructions you point to "Simply long-press 'Account' on the tab bar to switch to another account." No instructions on how to add the 2nd account .. do you have a pointer to those instructions so i can try it?
Sorry .. Does not meet the original intention of this feature request. I want to access both my Business and Personal accounts. Both of these are actually 'Premium Accounts' so this does nothing for me.
This January, this request will officially turn 2. Two (2) years waiting for a fairly popular feature, maybe someday! I'm thinking about doing something special to celebrate the wait. Suggestions welcome.
@RCMears - I'm not sure that's true. Looking at Evernote 7.11, released on Feb. 23, 2016, there is no capability to login to more than one account at a time. What leads you to believe this request has been satisfied? What am I missing? Unless I'm mistaken, we are all still waiting for Evernote to deliver this feature request to the iOS version of the Evernote apps.
Folks, I'm very sad to see that the list of 'filter rules' that comprised my saved search are no longer visible to me in the interface (Lion OS 7.6.2). In previous releases when i clicked on my saved search i would see the filter rules being used, for example: tag:Active, tag:P1:, etc. Now when I click on the saved search it filters my notes but I no longer have access to the original rules being used ... can I have that back? Am I missing it? Can someone help me here or take this User Story as input .. "As a user, I want to see the filter rules being applied when I click on a saved search, so that I can understand the resulting list of notes. I also want the power to edit the list of rules so I can modify and tune existing searching creating new ones. " Help!!


Finish describing binary package control fields.
Describe the control file format.
Refer to Debian Policy Manual Chapter 7 for syntax and types of package relationship fields.
This document describes version 1.0 of the format for software source packages.
A source package consists of software source code, a build system, and package metadata. From it is built one or more binary packages, which can be installed into an operating system.
Packages may be configured at build time or at run time for hardware and application platforms.
Overall, this format is designed to be conducive to building packages for a highly flexible embedded operating system. Additionally, source packages in this format are intended to be maintained independently (like packages in Debian and most other GNU/Linux distributions are) rather than in one monolithic software repository (as is the case with most embedded operating system distributions).
It may not be the most efficient or maintainer-friendly format, but this is an innovative first step and may be improved over time.
|   |    Metadata about the binary package.
|    A makefile with target rules to build the binary package(s).
|    A log of changes made to the source package.
|    A list of build-time and run-time configuration files.
|    Metadata about the source package.
|    Information about copyrights and licenses in the source package.
|    contain the string "1.0".
|    Patches to be applied to package sources before building.
|    Upstream source archive (for non-native packages).
Package sources (for native packages).
<source-package-directory> is the directory in which all packaging work is done. There are no constraints on the name of this directory.
<binpkg> is the name of each binary package generated by the source package.
<pkgname> is the name of the source package.
<pkgver> is the upstream source version.
gz for the "gzip" algorithm.
bz2 for the "bzip2" algorithm.
lz for the "LZMA" algorithm.
Z for the "compress" algorithm.
An executable file named build should direct the process of building one or more binary packages from a source package. This file should be a makefile with a target for each binary package (whose name is that of the binary package) and a target for each build stamp (whose name is that of the build stamp file).
A build stamp is a file the existence of which indicates that one or more packages were successfully built. It is located in the package building work area directory, and its name ends in .buildstamp.
In a makefile that directs the building of binary packages, each package target should depend on one build stamp target. Actual building of packages should be done in build stamp targets. After successfully building one or more binary packages, a build stamp target should create its build stamp file in the work area directory.
Some source packages generate multiple binary packages from a single build of the packaged software. In the build makefiles of such source packages, the targets for these binary packages should all depend on the same build stamp target. This is called a split binary package configuration.
Some source packages generate a set of one or more binary packages that is built independently of all other packages. In the build makefiles of such source packages, the target or targets for this set of binary packages should depend on a build stamp on which no other binary package targets depend. This is called a multiple binary package configuration.
Note that both configurations may be used in a single source package.
Changes made to the source package should be explained in the file changelog.
package is the source package name.
version is the source package version number.
maintainer is the name and e-mail address of the package maintainer. This field must follow the syntax of the mailbox symbol of RFC 5322 section 3.4.
date is the date of packaging. This field must follow the syntax of the date-time symbol of RFC 5322 section 3.3.
Between groups of related change entries.
Platform-specific configuration files used by the source package at build time or by the binary package(s) at run time should be listed in the file config.
type is the string buildtime for a file used at build time or runtime for a file used at run time.
source is the path to the file, relative to the platform configuration directory -- either /usr/share/config/PLATFORM/PACKAGE-VERSION or /usr/share/config/PLATFORM/PACKAGE, where PLATFORM is the architcture string denoting an application platform, PACKAGE is the name of the configurable source package, and VERSION is the upstream version of the configurable source package.
destination is the path (file or directory) to which the file should be copied. For a file used at build time, it is a path relative to the package building work area. For a file used at run time, it is an absolute path in the user's filesystem hierarchy.
See Debian Policy Manual section 5.1 for the syntax of control files.
The name of the source package. Source package names may only consist of lowercase Latin letters, digits, plus and minus signs, and periods. Names must be at least two characters long and must start with either a letter or a digit.
<upstream_version> is the version of the original upstream package, if any.
<package_revision> is the version of the distribution packaging. It is optional and should be omitted for native packages. It should be incremented for each uploaded revision of packaging for the same upstream package version. It should be reset for the first uploaded revision of packaging for a new upstream package version.
The name and e-mail address of the package maintainer. This field must follow the syntax of the mailbox symbol in RFC 5322 section 3.4.
A list of packages that must be installed before the package can be built.
The URL of the Web site for the package. Accessible at this site should be origin source code and documentation and/or information. Though the information in this field is machine-usable, the URL must not be surrounded by angle brackets or any other characters.
The name of the binary package. Binary package names may only consist of lowercase Latin letters, digits, plus and minus signs, and periods. Names must be at least two characters long and must start with either a letter or a digit.
A three-tuple binary architecture name to specify that the package can be built for the binary architecture and any application platform.
An application platform architecture name to specify that the package can be built for the application platform and its associated binary architecture.
The string all to specify that the package can be built on any binary architecture and any application platform and can then be installed on binary architectures and/or application platforms other than those on which it is built. This value should be used for packages that provide only architecture- and platform-independent files, such as common shell scripts or data.
The string any to specify that the package can be built for any binary architecture and any application platform. This value should be used for packages that provide architecture- and/or platform-dependent files that can be built and run on any architecture and platform, such as portably-written C programs.
A flag to indicate whether the package is essential for the functioning of a system on which it is installed. If this field is set to yes, opkg will refuse to remove the package except when upgrading it. If this field is set to any other value or is omitted, the package may be removed by a user.
A list of packages that must be installed and configured before the package may itself be configured.
A list of packages that must be installed before the package may itself be installed.
A description of the binary package. This is a multiline field. The first line is a short synopsis, and all following lines are an extended description.


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YG Entertainment Reveals How Much Their Star Producers Made In 2018
One producer had a bigger salary than even Yang Hyun Suk.
According to the business report released by YG Entertainment on March 2, Producer Han Dong Cheol was the highest-paid employee at the company.
Producer Han Dong Cheol's annual salary for 2018 was 900 million KRW ($790,000 USD), which is higher than the annual salary of Yang Hyun Suk, who is also a major shareholder.
Producer Han formerly worked for Mnet and produced some of their most successful programs including Show Me The Money and Produce 101. He transferred to YG Entertainment in 2017 and produced the audition program MIXNINE in 2018.
Meanwhile, the second-highest paid employee at YG Entertainment was Yang Hyun Suk at 840 million KRW ($740,000 USD). While Yang Hyun Suk is often called "chairman" within the company, his only official title is known to be "executive producer".
Former MBC producer Kim Min Jong and Cho Seo Yoon earned 620 million KRW and 690 million KRW respectively with producer Jae Young Jae earning 553 million KRW. Both Kim Min Jong and Jae Young Jae produced Infinite Challenge and Real Men during their time at MBC. Since moving to YG Entertainment, they produced the variety program Do the Right Thing.
The salaries of the star producers at YG Entertainment were revealed according to the Capital Disclosure Act, which requires a company to announce the top 5 employees who earned more than 500 million KRW and their total earnings. They have made further wage negotiations through a separate contract for broadcast content production and additional bonuses have not been added to the revealed earnings.
Source: Bridge Economy


The course goes all the way out to mile... SEVENTY FOUR!!!!
This really is for a great cause so I hope more and more people participate. Just being a part of a global run where everyone (no matter which country they are running in) starts at the same time is amazing!
What did you do to improve your push-up technique?
Are you running/racing the weekend?


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Salinger (2013)
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Himself
Edward Norton as Himself
John Cusack as Himself
Tom Wolfe as Himself
Martin Sheen as Himself
Gore Vidal as Himself
Shane Salerno
| Odie Henderson
J.D. Salinger wanted to be left alone. This is why he moved to the mountains of New Hampshire, built himself a writing bunker, and disappeared from mainstream society. The notion of him being a "recluse" was dismantled every time people in the town of Cornish saw him eating at a restaurant, or going to the post office, or doing the things we private citizens do every day. His desire for solitude was not unusual for a writer; unlike singers or actors, writers do not need a captive audience to create. He wanted his work to speak for itself, without his intervention. It wasn't as if he, like most celebrities, screamed for privacy while appearing in public dressed in an outfit made of live puppies and Brylcreem. He drew no attention to himself in public. It's safe to say Salinger meant it when he said "leave me alone."
And yet he was stalked by his fans, people who thought "The Catcher in the Rye" gave them license to harass and aggravate a man who just wanted to be left alone. Making matters worse, his most famous work was used as justification by more than one person with murder on his mind. One would think that even the hardest-hearted person might feel some guilt over that, and burrow himself deeper into self-appointed celebrity exile. But even if that were not the case, perhaps Salinger was tired of the public's constant need to discuss his only novel, and their clamoring for more of the same. After all, his philosophy was not to publish everything he wrote.
A talking head in the new documentary, "Salinger," implies that J.D. Salinger played the Howard Hughes game because it made him even more famous. It's a very cynical idea, and one of the many things in this film that made my skin crawl. Full disclosure demands that I state I was not a fan of "The Catcher in the Rye" when I read it 30 years ago, so I fail to grasp why so many people wanted to talk to its author or identified with Holden Caulfield. But I do understand and identify with Salinger's refusal to betray his solitary desires. I'm a programmer and a writer; you can't get more hermetic than that. The public thinks it is owed every personal request by those who entertain them, as evidenced by the recent Dave Chappelle flap in Connecticut. I admire Salinger for thumbing his nose at this notion.
This is why I think "Salinger" is the ultimate invasion of its subject's privacy.
The stalkerish vibe starts with its opening sequence of a photographer scoping out a post office in the hopes of getting a picture of J.D. Salinger. It then alternates between being an intolerable document of fawning fandom and a creepy parade of people who were willing to hunt Salinger down in the hopes of getting answers to their psychological issues. Their identification with Holden Caulfield is so deep that they assume his creator is omnipotent. Director Shane Salerno shows his hand early, so you immediately know what to expect during the interminable 129 minute running time. Intercut with the story of the photographer on stakeout is another talking head who proclaims that Salinger's writing was "ordained by God." Is this woman for real?
A story told late in "Salinger" highlights what bothers me so much about this film. One of the interviewed subjects tells a story of his meeting with Salinger. He waited at a crossroads outside of the author's house, and when the author appeared, engaged him in conversation. Salinger first asks "are you getting psychiatric treatment?" then in exasperation says "I'm a fiction writer. I don't have the answers to your problems. Go away!" The guy responds to this by writing Salinger a letter he intends to post on a tree outside the property. The letter explains in detail how "disappointed" the guy is: "I drove all this way and you treated me like this?" Salinger, to his credit, takes the letter.
This movie is like that guy. It's a relentless assault on a man who wished to be left alone.
Now, every documentary is in love with, or has hatred for, its subject. The good ones know how to be objective, or at least fake a sense of objectivity. Even if you love Salinger and accept him as your Personal Savior, you'll be aggravated by how Salerno clubs you over the head with this material. The music in "Salinger" is so bombastic it makes Hans Zimmer's "Inception" chords sound as dainty as "Minuet in G." The score playing over the film's big "revelations" about Salinger's upcoming released work is hilariously loud and self-important, as if these revelations hadn't been leaked on the Internet months ago. There is actual Holocaust and World War II imagery in "Salinger." It is used to give an idea of the atrocities Salinger saw during WWII, but there is so much of it that it becomes exploitative.
"Salinger" does manage to drum up a little interest during the section on Mark Chapman and the others who used "The Catcher in the Rye" as an excuse for murder. Chapman shot John Lennon on December 8, 1980. Three and a half months later, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan. And in 1989, Robert John Bardo murdered actress Rebecca Schaeffer on her doorstep. All three cited "The Catcher in the Rye" as some form of personal philosophy. Playwright John Guare states that "if three people used something I wrote in this fashion, I'd be very troubled by it." This is an interesting point, but like the others that dilute the awe with which "Salinger" holds its subject, it is quickly forgotten.
"Salinger" tells us almost nothing we don't already know. What little that is new or revelatory is quickly dispatched in favor of playing up the subject's "mystery," and the responses of fan after fan. I doubt Salinger would have been amused by this, especially considering his own feelings about celebrity and fame, given life by his most famous character. Yet these fans all sit there glassy-eyed, talking about how much "The Catcher in the Rye" meant to them. If only Holden Caulfield could see them. I'm sure you know what he would have called them, and this movie.
Dear Mr. Watterson
by Odie Henderson
Herb & Dorothy 50x50
Thumbnails 9/15/2013


Katherine is a senior BFA in Dance Science and Human Food Nutrition at the University of Wyoming. Upon graduation she plans to become a registered dietitian and work with athletes, including dancers to develop healthy lifestyle which optimize performance. Meanwhile, she has participated in many shows and projects both at UW and Casper College, where she received her AA in Dance Performance. Most recently, Katherine performed at the American College Dance Festival Gala in Eugene, Oregon. Katherine also participates in dance outreach and is currently a member of Dance in Unlikely Places, a small touring company based out of Laramie, whose mission is to take concert dance to rural and outdoor areas in Wyoming. Katherine has been a dance educator for eight years and embraces a student-oriented class which honors both the small stories of the student and the larger story of dance tradition. "To teach is more than showing movement; it is about responding and reciprocating a passion for dance with a community," Katherine says.


After countless hours of reading manuals, schematics and myst documentation, Mike Bales and the Santa Barbara Hackerspace crew were able to successfully assemble and power up the behemoth Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that was donated to the Space by Santa Barbara Infrared. This puts the SB Hackerspace into a small exclusive group of maker spaces which have electron microscopes for use by members and the public.
The SEM has all the trappings of 1990's complexity with multiple vacuum chambers, pumps, crystals, archaic x86 computers, CRTs and floppy drive image export. It takes an impressive 3 hours for the SEM to fully boot up, reach high vacuum and be ready for use! The SB Hackerspace has plans to convert the output to live HDMI feed for video and push-button image capture.
Because the SEM uses electromagnets and electrons rather than lenses and light, there is a much greater degree of magnification available. This electron microscope can produce very clear, sharp images all the way up to an astounding 300,000x magnification!


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The Columbia Chronicle
CFAC
News of student deaths a necessity
By Editorial Board
Quinn Kyles, a sophomore radio major, died in a tragic car accident in Indiana on Dec. 22, 2014, according to a Dec. 24 Chicago Tribune article. The college did not announce Kyles' death until the afternoon of Jan. 8, and the announcement only notified the Radio Department of the student's death, not the Columbia community at large. The announcement was short and simple, with little said of Kyles.
Regardless of whether the campus was closed, Columbia's administration dropped the ball. Columbia, a college that prides itself in its diverse and vibrant community, lost a student, and the minimal efforts made by the college's administration speak to the necessity of a published, public student death policy.
Dozens of links to student death policies from colleges across the country are easily accessible online. Search the words "death" or "suicide" in Columbia's Residence Life or student handbook and few references are found. Death, suicide and depression are glossed over—or ignored completely—in publications that are meant to guide students through college life.
Many things occur behind the scenes when a student dies, and the administration works closely with the family of the deceased to determine what information should be disseminated, but not having a public policy or procedure for administration to consistently adhere to can leave students in the dark when one of their peers has died.
Counseling services and the extension of counseling hours should be a priority when announcing a student death. As a group, students should determine whether counselors should visit with their class rather than leaving it up to the discretion of the faculty. Grief affects everyone differently, but having a structured support system provided by the school could help unite the college, especially since death can be so isolating.
According to the American Public Health Association's 2011 study titled "Leading causes of mortality among American college students at 4-year institutions," suicide and vehicular accidents are the two leading causes of death among 18–24-year-olds in college. Although student deaths are rare—the study says for every 100,000 students there are six to seven deaths—these deaths should never be treated lightly.
It is not for the college to decide who may or may not care about the death of a fellow student. Each student death should be treated with professionalism, respect and tact. Students should not find out that the person they sat next to in "Writing & Rhetoric I" has died from outside news sources.
Columbia's administration has an obligation to the college community to publish clearly outlined policies and procedures in the event of the death of a student, whether the death occurs on or off campus. The number of friends a student had, the grades a student had or even the department the student was in should not affect the timeliness or content of an announcement of their death. Sensitivity to the family's wishes should be the top priority, but to pick and choose how and what information is given to the student body is negligent. No student's death should be treated differently than another student's death. The Columbia community should be made aware of every current student's death because no loss should go unrecognized.
columbia chornicle
student death
The contradictions of Warhol: more than pop and color
The Chronicle's 2020 restaurant guide to Chicago
Dean candidates discuss their vision for the School of Fine and Performing Arts
Q&A: The nicest 'Mean Girl' there is, Mariah Rose Faith as Regina George
STAFF PLAYLISTS
Editorial: Exclusivity in the education system harms students
Editorial: The case against Remington Arms Company is an avenue for gun reform
Editorial: Characteristics for a successful new police superintendent
Editorial: If Katie Hill goes, so should Donald Trump
Editorial: You eat the donuts, you do the time
Editorial: The Venus symbol goes, genderless inclusion stays
Editorial: Recognition features show Google's true face
Editorial: Protests keep complacency from going extinct
Editorial: Veganism is not a punchline
EDITORIAL: Stop masquerading your hate as religion
WCRX
FrequencyTV
Echo Magazine
Chicago Talks
Austin Talks


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Drum lessons and Pro Tools lessons in the Santa Clarita Valley area to students of all ages and styles. Grooves, fills, drum charts, sight reading, rudiments, transcription, learn to play your favorite songs, learn how to come up with your own drum parts, improvisation. Anything you need to know about the drums, I can teach you. Learn to play drums on a professional acoustic drum set. My qualifications: B.F.A. in World Music/Percussion from Cal Arts, Many years of touring, session, and performance experience, won "Best Drummer" at The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
Toured with Jesus Christ Super Star, Tommy, Evita, subbed for We Will Rock You, and played for many musicals like RENT, A Chorus Line, Annie, The Wedding Singer, Les Mis.
I have extensive teaching experience, recording experience both as a drummer and as an engineer, and a lot of performance experience playing the smallest clubs to the largest arenas and theaters playing for many different projects and styles.


I was able to easily log my team onto the Visitor Management System of one of your clients and utilize the self service induction facility. We were able to complete the induction at a time that suited us best, saving cost and increasing productivity on the day. Great system, easy and simple to use.
We; as a business have experienced great communication and service whilst dealing with the Beacon team. Speed to market, Overall follow up and Cost Savings have been the core areas of interest.
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This advanced search of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's grants database allows exploration of our grantmaking history since 1969.
Medicine and Population
Presidential Initiatives
Amount to
Years to
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Country ArgentinaAustraliaAustriaAzerbaijanBelgiumBermudaBoliviaBrazilCameroonCanadaChileChinaColombiaCosta RicaCzech RepublicDenmarkDominican RepublicEcuadorEgyptEl SalvadorEstoniaEthiopiaFinlandFranceGeorgiaGermanyGhanaGreeceGuatemalaHungaryIcelandIrelandItalyKenyaKyrgyz RepublicLatviaLebanonMalaysiaMexicoNetherlandsNew ZealandNigeriaNorwayPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalRepublic of ArmeniaRussiaSenegalSingaporeSlovakiaSouth AfricaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTanzaniaThailandThe NetherlandsTurkeyUgandaUkraineUnited KingdomUnited StatesUruguayUzbekistanVatican CityVenezuelaWalesWest IndiesZimbabwe
41 Grants awarded for $16,799,300
Amherst College Andrew W. Mellon Fund 06/18/74 $500,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College College and University Art Museum Program Phase II: Spendable 12/17/08 $500,000 Amherst, MA, United States Arts and Cultural Heritage
Amherst College Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship 12/07/17 $500,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Transforming Residential Liberal Education for a New Population of Students 12/10/15 $1,500,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Training and Professional Development 09/24/09 $44,000 Amherst, MA, United States Scholarly Communications
Amherst College Faculty-Student Research 09/13/12 $724,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Cataloging Special Collections [Folger] 06/15/07 $692,000 Amherst, MA, United States Scholarly Communications
Amherst College The Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Access Initiative 09/13/12 $586,000 Amherst, MA, United States Scholarly Communications
Amherst College Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Asset Platform II 09/11/17 $1,055,000 Amherst, MA, United States Scholarly Communications
Amherst College Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Asset Platform 06/13/16 $344,000 Amherst, MA, United States Scholarly Communications
Amherst College Folger Shakespeare Library Collaborative Research Projects 06/01/17 $1,500,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Folger Shakespeare Library Post-Doctoral Fellowships 12/15/06 $400,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Cultivating Effective Citizens: A Public Scholarship Project 03/06/19 $250,000 Amherst, MA, United States Other
Amherst College Hopscotch: A Cultural Review 08/25/00 $15,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Faculty Retirement 12/11/07 $860,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Folger Digital Folio of Renaissance Drama for the 21st Century - Planning Phase 03/05/12 $41,000 Amherst, MA, United States Scholarly Communications
Amherst College Hewlett-Mellon Program 10/02/85 $125,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Foreign Languages Program 06/14/88 $300,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College New President 10/01/04 $50,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College New President 05/31/12 $100,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Postdoctoral Fellowships 09/15/00 $500,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Postdoctoral Fellowships - Liberal Arts Colleges 03/17/97 $415,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
Amherst College Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment 06/17/05 $1,500,000 Amherst, MA, United States Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities
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Vice Admiral Kenneth Whitesell
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Mr. Bryan Scurry
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Captain Todd "Chimi" Cimicata
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Commanding Officer, Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 40
Commander Matthew D. Boyce, a native of Spokane, Washington, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2005 where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He was designated a naval aviator in 2007. Additionally, he holds a Master of Arts in Defense and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Belgrade.
Commander Boyce's operational sea duty assignments include the "Sea Knights" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron TWO TWO (HSC-22) as a junior officer and again at HSC-22 for his department head tour, serving as safety and operations officer. He deployed aboard USS BATAAN (LHD 5) in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM and USS FREEDOM (LCS 1) in support of RIMPAC 2010. He served as helicopter detachment officer-in-charge (OIC) aboard USNS ROBERT E. PEARY (T-AKE 5) in support of Exercise JOINT WARRIOR 2017 and USS WASP (LHD 1) in support of Defense Support of Civilian Authorities (DSCA) relief operations in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico in addition to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Operations (HADR) on the island of Dominica following Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Commander Boyce's shore assignments include the "Fleet Angels" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron TWO (HSC-2) as a Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) Instructor Pilot where he deployed aboard USS SAN ANTONIO (LPD 17) for DSCA relief efforts following Hurricane Sandy, Flag Aide to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations Warfare Systems (OPNAV N9), and 2019 Olmsted Scholar at the University of Belgrade in Belgrade, Serbia.
Selected for operational aviation command, he reported to Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Wing located in San Diego, California in August 2021 for transition to the CMV-22B Osprey and to Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron FOUR ZERO in March 2022 as the first Commanding Officer.
Commander Boyce has accumulated over 2,100 flight hours. His awards include the Navy Commendation Medal (three awards), Navy Achievement Medal, and various other personal, unit, and service awards.
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We had a snowball fight in Central Park this afternoon. Early afternoon, and the turnout might have been a bit better if we decided to do it a bit later in the day, but the idea was to have it early enough so that the sun would still be floating high in the sky when we were all soaked to the bone cold and freezing and covered in snow and searching out hot chocolate.
The most interesting thing thus far about this snowball fight, other than the fact that most of those in attendance were also photo enthusiasts of some sort and as such had brought along various photo capturing apparatuses, was that at least two people have made mention of the fact that the snowball fight was in fact organized via the online invitation organizer Evite.com. The reasoning behind the Evite was simple enough: we thought it was going to be funny. Or actually, I thought it was going to be funny. I assumed that others thought it was going to be funny as well. Also, ease of organizing an invite list. What I hadn't counted on was the fact that people were going to start to comment on the non-spontaneous nature of an organized snowball fight, especially one organized via email.
The truth is that these days, there really is no such thing as going to your neighbor's house, telling them to pull on snow pants, boots and a hat and run outside to throw snowballs at each other and build forts. Or rather, not unless you are already out with said friends, but that's a completely different beast anyway. The reality is that your closest friends do not live next door to you any more, or even down the block from you, and if you want to get a group together, there is planning, re-planning, and then a couple of reschedules along the way.
Even when I was working from home with a flexible schedule and nothing but time in the world to kill, it was rare that a friend would ever just "drop by," announced or barely so, to hang out or grab a bite to eat. It's not something that is done by adults living in large metropolitan areas, both due to the inconvenience of cities being generally quite large and the added inconvenience of "full-time employment."
Despite all of this, however, almost a dozen people turned out for a fairly (one day notice!) impromptu event wherein snow was tossed and egos and noses were bruised in about eight inches of newly fallen city park snow.
And that, my friends, is the definition of a successful weekend.


Secret Superstar 7th Day (Wednesday) Collection Early Trends. Steady.
Secret Superstar is showing steady collection now after a significant drop on Monday. Film is showing near similar occupancy on Wednesday (7th day) in comparison to Tuesday as early trends for the day is coming in.
Secret Superstar opened to around 15-17% occupancy in Morning shows on day 7. After that film showed limited growth in Noon to register occupancy of around 20%. Film picked up well in Evening shows and as per latest registering occupancy of around 30-35%.
Early trends suggest, Secret Superstar 7th day collection is heading towards 2.5 crore nett mark. These are very early estimates from limited samples and actual may vary. Also, Night shows and major interiors reports are awaited for the day.
It's better than jab harry met sejal.


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An ordinary day turns into a life-changing adventure for a young couple who just wanted to have breakfast .


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Entertainment, #Relatable Tweets Topped Thailand's Twitter in 2019
BANGKOK — If you were an active Thai Twitter user in 2019, you already know who Bambam, Peck, and Lisa are, so this article is a non-news for you.
For the Thai Twitterverse-uninitiated, Thais used Twitter in 2019 to talk about their favorite artists, both local and Korean. They also like to share beautiful photos of nature, discuss personal experiences, follow along with current events, and trade beauty tips, according to stats released by Twitter's Thailand PR team, Infinity Communications on Tuesday.
The most liked tweet of the entire year was by Kunpimook Bhuwakul, better known as BamBam of Got7 K-pop band, and showed a photo of his fans lighting up the Impact Muang Thong Thani stadium during the Kcon 2019 concert on Sept. 28. The tweet currently has more than 155,000 likes.
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Green Lights Still Shine pic.twitter.com/mRu4eGHCPP
— BamBam (@BamBam1A) September 28, 2019
A photo of an April sunset, looking like three images Photoshopped together posted by @nnxnknxe was the top-retweeted tweet of the year, with more than 133,800 retweets.
ฟ้าที้ร้านวันนี้ เหมือนเอารูปภาพ 3 รูป มาเรียงต่อกัน pic.twitter.com/ZIRx1tI3k8
— (@nnxnknxe) April 17, 2019
The tweet that prompted the most discussion was by @TheSmilingHut and asked, "What was your most memorable culture shock upon moving overseas?"
Some of the replies included copious "thank yous" in the US, saying hello to the bus driver in New Zealand, movie theater intermissions in India, and Rwanda's plastic bag ban.
เมื่อไปอยู่ต่างประเทศ Culture shock ที่น่าจดจำที่สุด ของคุณคือ?
— เพิงหมาแหงน (@TheSmilingHut) November 6, 2019
All top 10 most-used hashtags were about entertainment, with four of the top about Thai singers: Palitchoke "Peck" Ayanaputra, known as#PeckPalitchoke, BamBam , Lalisa Manoban or Lisa Blackpink, and BNK48.
Also making the list was #OffGun for the "Off Gun Fun Night" TV show, #SingtoPrachaya for the actor Prachaya Ruangroj, #KristPerawat for the actor Perawat Sangpotirat, and Cherprang Areekul of BNK48.
Bambam, Peck, and Krist were Perawat were also the top three most tweeted-about entertainment accounts in Thailand.
The most tweeted-about accounts overall, however, were not stars: top three spots @Sfkkfs_, @Suzu17, and @Yoxrgravity tweeted wide-ranging tweets about K-pop, beauty, and news, as well as emotional sentiments, random musings, and even social commentary.
Twitter hashtag use also spiked during major events of the year, such as the #Coronation, #ThailandElection2019, #Songkran, and #ASEANSummit. Beauty and makeup lovers gathered around the #HowtoPerfect hashtag, while high schoolers posted about the convoluted system and costs of pre-university tests at #Dek62.
Finally, the most-used emojis:
Brian Hyland, Peggy March To Seal Bangkok With a Kiss This Dec.
BANGKOK — American legendary teen idols Brian Hyland and Peggy March will swing the capital with their sixties bubblegum pop this Dec.
The duo will take the stage together for the first time in Bangkok on Dec. 21 at Thailand Cultural Center.
Born in 1943, Brian Hyland was a musical prodigy whose comical hit "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" soared to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Chart in 1962 – when he was only at the age of 16. Two years later, his ballard "Sealed with a Kiss" reached the third rank on both the American and UK Singles Charts. His songs are still heard occasionally by young listeners in movies and TV shows nowadays.
Joining him in tune will be Peggy March, who is best known for her single "I Will Follow Him," released in 1963. Although critics often remembered her as a one-hit wonder, her stardom continued to shine outside the US throughout the 1970s with German songs like "Mit 17 hat man noch Träume" and "Romeo und Julia."
Tickets are on sale now starting from 800 to 2,500 baht via ThaiTicketMajor.
Calvin Harris, Zedd, and Skrillex To Lead This Year's 808 Fest
BANGKOK — Big-name DJs like Calvin Harris, Zedd, and Skrillex are coming to drop lots of beats for EDM fans at an annual music festival this Dec.
Returning for its seventh year, the 808 Festival can still keep its excitement as it announced Wednesday the first lineup that includes Scottish DJ-producer Calvin Harris, who will perform in the capital for the first time and is known for electronic smash-hits like "Summer," "My Way," and "Feel So Close.
Joining the party will be American DJ-singer Skrillex, who is arguably one of the greatest pioneers of dubstep music. Debuted in 2004, it takes him over the course of 15 years to sweep eight Grammy Awards along his way with ear-kicking tracks like "Bangarang," "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites," and "Where Are Ü Now."
Russian-German DJ-producer Zedd will also take the decks. Although he is best recognized for his electro house music like "Clarity" and "Stay the Night," the reportedly classical-trained musician also draws elements of classical and dubstep into his works like "Stache."
The three-day music festival will run from Dec. 6 to Dec. 8 at BITEC Bangna. Tickets are on sale now for 3,345 baht via Ticketmelon. Attendees must be 20 and up.
'OneRepublic' Will Be 'Counting Stars' in Bangkok This Oct.
BANGKOK — American pop-rock band OneRepublic is coming to lead this year's Spotify on Stage in Oct.
One Republic's second time in the capital is part of a gig hosted by music streaming service Spotify at BITEC Bangna on Oct. 16. Tickets are on sale online for 1,400 baht. A free Spotify account is required to buy tickets.
Best known for their hits like "Counting Stars," "Secrets," and "Apologize," the sextet, founded in 2002, consists of vocalist Ryan Tedder (who has written songs for other artists such as Adele and Maroon 5), guitarists Zack Filkins and Drew Brown, bassist Brent Kutzle, drummer Eddie Fisher, and keyboardist Brian Willett.
OneRepublic rose to fame from a MySpace blog. Their 2007 debut album "Dreaming Out Loud," soared to the top ten in charts across several countries. The single "Apologize" was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2009. Their latest album, "Human," is expected to be released this November.
The concert will be joined by Thai rapper F.Hero and K-pop boy band Stray Kids.
F.Hero Ft. P-Hot, YOUNGOHM, FYMME – "เสือสิ้นลาย" (Stripeless Tiger)
Stray Kids – "My Pace"
'Bring Me the Horizon' to Sing their 'Mantra' in Bangkok This Nov.
BANGKOK — British rock band Bring Me the Horizon are coming to tear up their guitars in Bangkok this Nov.
After lead vocalist Oliver Sykes accidentally leaked details of the gig on his Instagram a few days earlier, The Very Company officially announced Thursday that the band will perform at Show DC Arena on Nov. 13. Tickets start at 2,500 baht and will be available online from Oct. 3.
For the second time in the capital, following a visit in 2014, the British metalcore group will strum a string of acclaimed tracks, including their latest release "Amo" (2019), and "That's the Spirit" (2015).
The quintet, which consists of Sykes, guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls, and keyboardist Jordan Fish, was founded in 2004. They debuted their first album "Count Your Blessings" two years later in 2006. Though their debut was met with contempt from critics, their second album "Sucide Season," released in 2008, shifted to an eclectic style that appealed to listeners.
Rising to fame from a MySpace blog, the band's fifth album "That's the Spirit," released in 2015, led Bring Me the Horizon to become a household name among rock fans. One of their hits, "Mantra," was nominated for Best Rock Song at the 2019 Grammy Awards.
Orchestra to Enchant Thais With 'Harry Potter' Film Scores
NAKHON PATHOM — Eighteen years after Harry Potter picked up his first wand from Ollivanders on screen, the conductor of a national orchestra will raise their baton to guide Potterheads through Hogwarts this Nov.
Take your Harry Potter geekiness to new heights (even though you've seen the films dozens of times already) when the Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra performs scores from "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" on Nov. 23 and 24 at Prince Mahidol Hall inside Mahidol University, Salaya.
Tickets will be sold online from Sept. 21, with prices starting from 900 to 4,000 baht.
The concert is part of a world tour organized by virtual media group CineConcerts and Warner Bros. Pictures that has brought John Williams' compositions, including the earworm "Hedwig's Theme," to 48 countries since 2016.
During the show, the orchestra will play some of the 18 scores from the film while it's projected onto a 40-foot screen. The ensemble will be conducted by John Josensky.
A note for Muggles: the film follows an orphan boy who discovers that he is a wizard and begins his wizardry education at Hogwarts school. He meets two other students – Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger – who he befriends.
The trio discovers a dark secret about one of their teachers, while Harry learns more about his tragic past.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds to Land in Bangkok This Nov.
BANGKOK — More nineties nostalgia will hit Bangkok when Oasis singer-guitarist Noel Gallagher performs in a solo concert this Nov.
The Very Company announced that Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds will perform in an outdoor concert at Live Park on Nov. 30, after his younger brother and former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher came to rock the capital last year. Tickets start at 3,600 baht and will be available online from Sept. 22.
The gig will be the first time the High Flying Birds take flight to Bangkok, while Oasis visited the capital nearly two decades ago in 2001.
Noel Gallagher served as the lead guitarist and songwriter for Oasis alongside his younger brother Liam Gallagher, Paul Arthurs, Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll, until the band's dissolution in 2009.
He then formed his own band, the High Flying Birds, with former Oasis guitarist Gem Archer, pianist Mike Rowe, drummer Chris Sharrock, and The Zutons bassist Russell Pritchard. They debuted their first single, "The Death of You and Me," in 2011 before releasing a full self-titled album later in the year, which included hits like "If I Had a Gun…," "AKA… What a Life!," and "Dream On."
'Green Day' To Rock Bangkok Next March
BANGKOK — Get ready for a throwback to the nineties: American punk rock band Green Day is returning to Bangkok next year.
The band's official website announced on Tuesday the concert date as March 11, 2020 and the venue as Impact Arena. Ticket details are scheduled to be listed on Sept. 20.
The concert will be the band's third tour to the capital, following visits in 1996 and 2010. The Bangkok gig will be their second stop in Asia after Singapore in a tour to promote their latest album "Father of All…," which is expected to be released in February 2020.
On the day of the announcement, the band also dropped the title track "Father of All…" to tease fans.
Although Green Day is embarking across the globe in the Hella Mega tour with two other rock bands, Weezer and Fall Out Boy, only Green Day will play in Bangkok.
The five-time Grammy award-winning band was founded in 1986, rising to fame in 1994 following the debut of their third album "Dookie," which features hits like "Welcome to Paradise" and "When I Come Around." For casual listeners, tracks such as "21 Guns," "Wake Me Up When September Ends," and "American Idiot" should be familiar.
Over the course of three decades, Green Day has made 12 albums which have sold more than 85 million records worldwide.
'Lukas Graham' To Play First Live Gig in Bangkok
BANGKOK — Danish pop-soul band Lukas Graham will embark on its first concert in Thailand this September.
The band will perform on September 28 at GMM Muang Thai Live House inside CentralWorld. Tickets will be sold online from August 30 via The Concert, with prices starting from 1,800 to 2,300 baht.
The Bangkok gig will be Lukas Graham's first stop in Asia in a tour to promote their latest album "3 (The Purple Album)." Concertgoers should expect renditions of hits such as "Love Someone" and "Not a Damn Thing Changed."
The band consists of lead vocalist Lukas Forchhammer, drummer Mark Falgren, and bassist Magnus Larsson. Their popularity grew from a series of homespun videos starting in 2011, before their biggest hit, "7 Years," earned them international recognition and even Grammy nominations in 2015.
In February, the band gave a surprise performance on I Can See Your Voice Thailand.
'Mumford & Sons' Land November for First Bangkok Concert
BANGKOK — British folk-rock band Mumford & Sons will perform in their first gig in Bangkok this November.
The quartet will perform on November 21 at GMM Muang Thai Live House inside CentralWorld. Tickets will be sold online starting August 31 via Thai TicketMajor, though prices have yet to be revealed.
Concertgoers should expect renditions from their latest album "Delta," released in 2018, as well as previous hits such as "The Cave" and "Little Lion Man."
The Grammy award-winning band was founded in 2007, rising to fame in 2009 following the debut of their first album "Sigh No More," which peaked second in the Billboard 200. Their second album, "Babel," released in 2013, earned them two Grammy awards for Album of the Year and Best Music Film (for the documentary "Big Easy Express" in which the band featured.)
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"Architecture is not about beauty; it is about presence." These words, pinned to the wall as inspiration by local architecture students, along with a citation suggesting that this is something they've heard from their studio teacher, make me uneasy.
However, there is also something really wrong with the idea of presence as having an overwhelming surplus of value over beauty. The obvious place to start is the general devaluation of beauty as feminine, something transitory or supplied via artifice or superficial. Beauty was not always like that in the popular imagination, but ever since Burke and the idea of the sublime, that sort of powerful and scary appeal to our emotions, beauty has been left to play the role of domestic servant (see JRR Tolkien on the Ents and their missing wives). Beauty is something we add as designers for the sake of an audience, perhaps, and thus there is always the suspicion that it is in some way extra or untrue, something that can't be integrated into the core of a design.
Presence, by contrast, sounds very salt of the earth. "I was just standing here being completely well-adjusted and feeling nobly at ease with myself," says the building, unassumingly shouldering its way into the sunlight past all its merely pretty neighbors. For overachievers: think also about all these uses and meanings of light. Presence allegedly relies on nobody, although I am pained to think how something could really be present with nobody at all to be present to. Is it something I could do for myself on the cheap when I am feeling down?
Presence is a kind of aspirational universal, so to speak. We hope the design does all our talking for us in a way that is both mute and compelling. It is charismatic, charisma being the acceptably masculine form of personal attractiveness. Presence reaches out and seizes you but plays it cool at the same time. Just standing there, no biggie. Presence, as the teacher and his studio were using it in this case, is an ahistorical and secular form of "holy ground"—traditionally the location for encounter with the gods, but now just for your encounter with the architecture. If beauty becomes a culturally-bound social or ideological construction, then presence is the appealingly strong but silent type that, were this a movie, would save the day through hard work and innate goodness. Well, we imagine it would, at least. Or it would at least save this one project we're working on right now.
To be sure, presence is ultimately no less a cultural construction than beauty. And it is not mystically independent of its audience any more than that movie action hero is. To be present is to be present to someone, but without the vulnerability of admitting to wanting that relationship. The architect wants the client (or the student wants the teacher) to love her or him through the proxy of the building, but with some plausible deniability built in, because desperation ain't pretty. So when you tell me that architecture is not about beauty, what I should be hearing is that you greatly prefer your portfolio photographs with no people in them.
Concepts: why do we even have them?


Investment bank and asset management firm Needham & Company has released a report that concludes that bitcoin is currently undervalued by 58% based on today's price.
The report values bitcoin at $655, compared to about $412 today and advises that investors buy shares in the Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), a vehicle for speculators to invest in bitcoin without actually buying and holding the asset.
Spencer Bogart, author of the report and Needham's newly appointed equity research associate in charge of bitcoin and blockchain, said that the report is a vote of confidence in an emerging technology many have questioned as a stable store of value.
Currently, there is $74bn worth of gold held in exchange-traded funds (ETFs) around the world, according to the numbers used in the report. Of bitcoin's market cap of $6.3bn, Bogart estimates roughly 75%, or $4.8bn consists of money being treated as an investment.
That's 6% of the value of gold ETFs, the report said, a number which the investment bank predicts could increase 25% by 2020.
Bogart used the percentage of bitcoins currently being held as an investment and compared it to investment in gold ETFs to calculate the estimated value of $655.
In June 2015, investment firm Wedbush published it own report, predicting bitcoin's price would increase to $600 over the 12-month period following its release.
Compared to Needham's report which valued GBTC at $62, Wedbush put the number at a comparable $60 per share.
According to Bogart, one factor that has lead to such a large difference between the current listed price of bitcoin and the price of bitcoin Needham projects is the rise in popularity of non-bitcoin blockchains using variations of the technology on which bitcoin is built.
While companies like Overstock's tØ are building top-level networks that ride on top of the bitcoin blockchain, other startups are building on new blockchains. Of late, Ethereum, a blockchain with the promise to decentralize more than just the exchange of value is being widely experimented with by major institutions, though they are using a permissioned version of its distributed ledger.
Most recently, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), announced it would build a blockchain proof of concept in partnership with Digital Asset holdings. But as experimentation continues, Bogart continues to believe bitcoin will play a central role.
"We think there's a strong possibility that bitcoin will be the nucleus of security for all these blockchains," he said.
The second section of the report focuses not on bitcoin but on the Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTCQX: GBTC), a product of Grayscale Investments designed to address investor concerns over investing in bitcoin.
Founded by investor Barry Silbert and launched in mid-2015, the GBTC requires a minimum investment of $25,000.
Investment shares in the trust are worth approximately one-tenth of a bitcoin in an effort to directly tie them to the cryptocurrency's value. As of 31st December, there were 1,476,500 shares issued and outstanding, according to the company's annual report. Grayscale currently manages $62.6m via the GBTC.
A representative of Grayscale told CoinDesk the company does not respond to third-party reports.
Disclaimer: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Grayscale.