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More Fun and Fab things to Do While We #StayHome
April 28 2020 – Talya Cayce
On the nth month of quarantine and getting tired of the daily activities of what has become the new same-old, same old? Last month, we shared some ideas of fun and productive things to do while hunkering down. If you haven't seen the list yet, click here.
Below are more fun, fab, and productive activities to experience and enjoy, as well as we can during this time.
Use quarantine time to get in shape and hone your dancing skills. If you've always wanted to learn new dance steps or perfect dance moves you already know, as they say, there's no better time than the present. With the of pluses having the comforts of your own home, no traffic, no worrying of looking sweaty and awkward, and no gym bags to lug around.
There are hundreds of free dancing video lessons online, starting from Youtube to websites such as Learntodance.com and howcast.com/4-dance. If there's a willing partner to learn dancing with, you can pick up new ballroom dancing skills, such as tango and swing!
Indoor work-outs
You might think that you're coming out of this lockdown in the same shape as you went in it. But realistically, there are only two shapes you can come out of this quarantine: ripped from a combination of lack of food choices (closed drive-throughs and restaurants) and regular workouts or several pounds heavier (hello, comfort eating).
For better health and fitness, set up or maintain a home workout routine. You can find easy to learn workouts for beginners online. If you're an advanced exerciser, there are tons of challenging at-home workouts with or without equipment as well. Youtube, Vimeo, and other video streaming sites will be your workout buddy. If you're just starting out, search for 'low impact beginner workout', low impact workouts are easy on the knees and ankle - no jumping.
Want to learn or continue with your yoga practice? Besides the video streaming sites mentioned above, you can try YogaInternational.com for a free 30-day premium membership. MyYogaWorks also offers a free month to new subscribers. Use promo code YOGA to avail.
Take Online Courses
Ever wanted to expand your views on any subject or sharpen existing skills? With everything being ushered by the modern age and nudged by the pandemic into going online, learning is at the forefront of being delivered digitally. Boost your resume by taking online courses. Below are some of the courses made available for free.
With the intent of helping quarantined folks have further ability to stay informed and productive in the world of imaging and optics, Japan-based Nikon corporation is offering free photography and videography online classes in English. https://www.nikonevents.com/us/live/nikon-school-online/
Ivy League school, Harvard University is making available over 55 online courses for anyone who wants to broaden their knowledge. The duration for these courses ranges from one to 15 weeks. View their ongoing course catalog at https://online-learning.harvard.edu/catalog/free.
Find more free online courses made available due to the global #stayhome situation, some courses are being offered by Ivy League schools at https://www.classcentral.com/report/.
Level up Cooking with Chefs
Watch how famous chefs cook during quarantine, and if you have the ingredients, you can cook along with them. At the very least, you can learn cooking tips from these culinary experts. Michelin three-starred Italian Chef, Massimo Bottura, restauranteur of Osteria Francescana has opened his kitchen to the public, well, virtually. He has been sharing easy recipes, the ingredients of which can be found in most homes' refrigerators. His nightly live cooking streams is appropriately named Kitchen Quarantine. Watch him work his magic even with leftovers whipped up into a delicious meal. Follow him on Instragram, @massimobottura.
Rachael Ray's 30 Minute Meals started airing on November 17, 2001 and ceased production by the end of April 2020. But that hasn't stopped her from sharing cooking tips and tricks. Along with her husband, who became the video guy, she went on to make a 52-minute episode on her personal Instagram page. Checkout more Insta-cooking shows on her Instagram and IGTV page, @rachaelray.
When the cruise ship Diamond Princess was hit with the virus outbreak, Jose Andres' nonprofit World Central Kitchen rose to the task of feeding passengers and crew on board. Aside from being involved in feeding the needy, Jose Andres also tasked himself to help homes cook smarter and, of course, yummier with his #RecipesForThePeople project. He shared recipes that everyone can make with what they have in their pantries or can obtain from their local grocery store. Follow @chefjoseandres on Instagram.
If you've ever wanted to write that engaging novel or that enlightening nonfiction, now is the best time to do it. Forced to isolate from society and slow down life's frantic pace, finding the time to sit down and pen your dream book is absolutely possible.
As an inspiration, it is well to note that William Shakespeare wrote plays such as King Lear while in isolation. In 1606, a plague hit London forcing the theatres to close and sending the playwrights and actors to quarantine. Before the year was over, Shakespeare wrote not only King Lear but Antony and Cleopatra, and Macbeth as well.
Writing a book too daunting a task? Try writing a journal. Or writing a couple of paragraphs from writing prompts such as those found on creativewritingprompts.com. Write often to get that creative, literary juices flowing.
Read or Listen
Now is also a good time to read; books that you have long wanted to read or finish the ones you've been meaning to finish reading. However, not all people are willing to sit down and devote time solely to reading.
Enter audiobooks. Imagine learning something new or listening raptly to a riveting mystery or swooning to an enchanting love story while doing the dishes, cleaning the house, or doing any other chore that aren't that fun to do. Watch your productivity shoot up while having fun 'reading'.
Visit Librivoz.org for hundreds of public domain audiobooks for free. OpenCulture is another resource for free audiobooks http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks. Amazon Prime and Audible websites offer a 30-day trial with three free audiobooks.
For the kids or the young at heart, Audible offers a multitude of children's audiobook titles. Although no downloading is allowed, streaming from the website (stories.audible.com/discovery) is available 24/7.
While we're on the subject of listening, guess who you can hear reading Shakespeare sonnets on Twitter? Sir Patrick Stewart! That's right, the classically trained iconic actor of characters Captain Jean Luc Picard and Professor Charles Xavier reads a different sonnet daily. Tune in to his readings on his Twitter account, @SirPatStew.
And there's another celebrity reading to the public, this time reading to kids. Dolly Parton, American country music royalty, reads children's bedtime story once a week. Watch and listen to her story-of-the week, and catch up on previous stories at https://www.youtube.com/user/imaginationlibrary.
Coloring for All Ages
Grab your colored pencils, and just for a few minutes, forget the news. Get immersed in the wonderful world of coloring. You've loved this activity when you were little. Now that you're an adult, you'll find coloring to not only be a fun and a creative outlet, it's also relaxing, even meditating.
Good thing, you don't have to color in Superman, Barbie, or Pokemon drawings (unless you want to), because there's a myriad of adult coloring pages and books available: order coloring books online, print coloring pages from the net for free or download adult coloring apps on your smart device. Visit these websites for free downloadable and printable coloring pages: https://www.bestcoloringpagesforkids.com/category/adult-coloring, https://www.triedandtrueblog.com/coloring-pages/ and https://www.crayola.com/featured/free-coloring-pages/
Instead of getting lost in Youtube or Tiktok, or getting buried under a mountain of worrying news and social media posts, listen to your body and relax. There's only so much a person virtually locked in the house, under community quarantine, doing the same things over and over can take. Your systems might be screaming for a break.
Stress dulls your immunity. De-stress whenever there's a need for it. Meditate, write a gratitude list, do your craft projects, take a relaxing bath, maybe put on a beauty facial mask, and listen to your favorite music.
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Making powdered sugar at home is easy. Use powdered sugar to dust cakes and homemade pastries, and to make icing, frosting and cookies.
Place 2-3 tablespoons of sugar in a spice grinder. Grind the sugar until it turns to fine powder. Store in an airtight container. Use confectioner's sugar to make icings and frostings, and to dust cakes and pastries.


Endeca, the leading provider of advanced search and Guided Navigation(SM) solutions, announced today that three of its customers -- eBags, Orvis and Patagonia - took top honors at Catalog Age's fifth annual I.Merchant Awards, held at the 19th Annual Catalog Conference in Chicago, Illinois. eBags (www.ebags.com) and Orvis.com (www.orvis.com) were named co-winners of the Website of the Year, earning gold medal status, with Patagonia.com (www.patagonia.com) securing silver. All three sites are using Endeca InFront(R), the market leading commerce and e-catalog search, navigation and merchandising solution to drive online sales and deliver a superior customer experience.
"Working closely with the world's most successful and innovative retailers, Endeca has continued to enhance and expand Endeca InFront to meet the usability challenges and business requirements unique to e-commerce and customer self-service," said Steve Papa, chairman and CEO of Endeca. "We are honored to play a role in helping Patagonia, Orvis and eBags create a superior online shopping experience, and congratulate their teams on this remarkable achievement."
eBags, Orvis, and Patagonia are widely recognized for their innovative and highly successful catalogs and multi-channel strategies. Seeking to continually raise the bar, each implemented Endeca InFront in the second half of 2003 to improve search, navigation and merchandising on their award-winning sites in time for the peak holiday shopping season - with remarkable results. All three reported record online sales, significantly improved year-over-year conversions rates and dramatic gains in purchases tied directly to site search and dynamic merchandising.
Endeca InFront offers the most advanced, integrated search, navigation, and merchandising environment available online today. With Endeca InFront users are able to find what they are looking for and discover additional results of interest, while retailers benefit from a more robust, customizable, and easily-managed platform that provides the fastest time-to-market with almost instantaneous ROI. Powering the shopping experience and driving sales on more than 100 premier e-commerce storefronts, Endeca InFront is the search, navigation and merchandising solution of choice among the world's most popular retailers.
eBags is the world's leading online provider of fashion and functional luggage, handbags, business cases, backpacks and accessories for all lifestyles. eBags features over 200 brands and 10,000 products from well-known names including Samsonite, kate spade, Victorinox, JanSport, and Nike. The company has sold over 3 million bags since launching March 1999 and has posted eight consecutive profitable quarters. By developing pioneering tools such as the Laptop Finder and the Airline Approved Carry-On Finder and with over 300,000 unbiased customer ratings and testimonials, eBags has taken the guesswork out of bag shopping online. For more information, please visit www.ebags.com.
Orvis, the oldest continuously operated catalog company in the country, has been the premiere outfitter of the distinctive country life-style and sporting traditions since 1856. The company's international headquarters for mail order, retail, and wholesale businesses are in Manchester, Vermont. Find out more by visiting www.orvis.com.
Patagonia, with sales last year of $219M, is known internationally for their commitment to highest quality outdoor apparel as well as environmental responsibility. The company annually commits 1% of net sales, or 10% of pre-tax profits, whichever is greater, to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. Patagonia distributes their clothing through multiple distribution channels including web sales, company-owned retail stores, an award-winning mail order catalog, wholesale dealers, and international locations.
Endeca offers innovative Endeca Search and Guided Navigation(SM) information delivery solutions for companies who need to integrate, discover, and navigate enterprise data to solve the business problems associated with information overload. Endeca technology, a winner of Computerworld's 2003 Innovative Technology Award, is already at work for leading government, financial services, business-to-business and retail organizations like the Library of Congress, In-Q-Tel (CIA), IBM, Barnes & Noble, Putnam Investments, and Arrow Electronics. Endeca solutions empower users to explore and discover relevant relationships in data and find accurate and precise results with unprecedented speed. This search and navigation technology can be applied across a wide-range of enterprise and customer applications including Knowledge Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), customer self-service, analytics, catalogs, directories, and portal integration. Endeca is a privately held company headquartered in Cambridge, MA. Endeca is an IBM Advanced Business Partner. For more information, visit www.endeca.com or contact us at info@endeca.com.
Endeca, Endeca InFront and Endeca Navigation Engine are registered trademarks, Endeca ProFind is a trademark and Guided Navigation is a service mark of Endeca Technologies, Inc. All other product and service names mentioned herein are or may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies or organizations.


It just arrived and its absolutely stunning! The brand new Lowden Guitars Richard Thompson Signature Series Guitar is here. California Cedar over a Master Grade Ziricote back and sides give this powerful acoustic a warmth and clarity that only a Lowden could deliver. Richard Thompson is a legendary singer/songwriter/ guitarist whose partnership with George Lowden has yielded an uncompromising acoustic that can literally do it all.
"It has been my great pleasure to get to know Richard over the years and to enjoy his playing! At Lowden we only consider a signature model for someone who has played our guitars consistently for a long time. Richard has been playing Lowden guitars for many many years and we are honored to introduce this model! Richard chose this wood combination and other specifications because of the really full-bodied loud and clear response of Ziricote and cedar."


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Sale Sharp, Betts Homers, Red Sox Beat Rays
Red Sox closer Craig Kimbrel, left, and Sandy Leon celebrate winning a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field on May 22, 2018 in St Petersburg, Florida. (Mike Ehrmann / Getty Images)
Mookie Betts hit his major league-leading 16th homer, Chris Sale struck out nine in 7 2/3 innings and the Boston Red Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 on Tuesday night.
Willy Adames made his big league debut and hit a solo home run off Sale in his second at-bat. The 22-year-old shortstop went 1 for 4 with three strikeouts. He was acquired from Detroit as part of a three-team trade that sent Rays ace — and current Sale teammate — David Price to the Tigers on July 31, 2014.
Sale (5-1) gave up four hits and walked two. He has allowed three runs or fewer in his first 11 starts, the longest stretch by a Boston pitcher to open a season since Pedro Martinez's 12 in 2001.
Joe Kelly finished the eighth, and Craig Kimbrel got into a bases-loaded jam before getting his 14th save in 16 chances when Mallex Smith grounded into a game-ending forceout on his 32nd pitch of the ninth. Jesus Sucre led off with a single, pinch-hitter Brad Miller doubled with two outs and Rob Refsynder walked.
Betts hit a go-ahead, three-run drive in the third off Jake Faria (3-3), who left two batters later because of a strained left oblique. Faria was replaced with a 1-2 count on Hanley Ramirez by Austin Pruitt, who gave up one run in 5 1/3 innings.
Two hitters following Faria's departure, Wilson Ramos was taken out due to a bruised left hand after Pruitt's 0-2 pitch to Xander Bogaerts bounced and struck the catcher.
Faria allowed three runs and three hits in 2 2/3 innings.
Daniel Robertson's sacrifice fly pulled Tampa Bay to 3-2 in the fifth, and Rafael Devers hit a solo homer in the sixth.
The announced attendance was 10,642, below the Rays' AL-low home average of 14,711. Miami is last in the majors at 10,603.
TRAINER'S ROOM
Red Sox: Asked whether 2B Dustin Pedroia (left knee surgery) could return Friday against Atlanta, manager Alex Cora said "it depends on how he reacts but he's getting close." Pedroia is on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Pawtucket. RHP Hector Velazquez (lower back strain) could be back later this week.
Rays: RHP Nathan Eovaldi (right elbow surgery) could make his final rehab start Wednesday night for Triple-A Durham.
BETTS BALL
Betts has scored a major-league best 49 runs. He has 36 extra-base hits, including six over his last four games.
INFIELD SHORTAGE
Adames took the roster spot of 2B Joey Wendle, who is on paternity leave for the birth of his son. SS Adeiny Hechavarria (strained right hamstring) has not resumed on-field work.
Price (4-4), coming off a complete game victory over Baltimore, goes against Rays RHP Chris Archer (3-3) on Wednesday night. "There will be a little bit of banter, but it's all friendly," Archer said.
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Our Fall 2018 campaign steps from the studio to the stage. In an homage to our hometown's entertainment DNA and the omnipresent spirit of the pursuit of dreams in the city's realms of studio and stage, we step between both dimensions for our Fall 2018 campaign.
Taking inspiration from the iconic ethos of the '90s music scene, an era that saw grunge extend down the West coast from Seattle to California, we captured our stars—real-life couple Elsa Hosk and Tom Daly, and LA-based musical collaborators Rainsford (the daughter of accomplished actor Andie MacDowell) and Twin Shadow—on set at Milk Studios and on location at Zebulon, a legendary music venue that in 2017 relocated from Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood to the East Side of LA.
For the studio shots, we swapped our previously favored stark white background for a dark glossy one, thus capturing the moody underbelly of creatives in their Fall armor; these photos are an introduction and metaphysical continuation of the Zebulon images of LA-based singer/songwriter Rainsford and producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Twin Shadow, shot on 1/2-frame film. They are divided, literally and in format—but philosophically, they are one.
Shot in LA by photographer Magnus Unnar and styled by Karla Welch, the campaign invites you to step on and off stage with musicians at their show, and to intermingle with their fans: an accomplished basketball star turned self-made supermodel and her wellness-driven boyfriend. Collectively, they represent what is fashionable in the present-tense, beyond wardrobe.
The Fall 2018 collection, inspired by the unparalleled and iconic style of the '90s, offers ease of styling, comfort, and a high level of sophistication—all the elements modern-day superhero women crave to strengthen their closet. The collection is delivered in three distinct yet equally lust-worthy super sections: super evening, super fashion, and super color.
Eveningwear-inspired styles launch the collection from day to night, with laser-cut black leather and organza details taking center stage. Fashion-forward styles honor our brand classics, in timely and luxe fall details. Ultra-soft faux fur outerwear is paired with edgy mid-blue and grey denim washes with exposed zippers and button flys. Silver shades anchor the fall colorama, from touches and trims to full pieces: denim with metallic silver hems, a full-length silver duster, and iridescent silver denim.


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Top 5 Creative Logo Design Trends For 2022
We are gonna discuss some new logo design trends which you can use for your logo to look trendy.
2022 Logo Design Trends
Retro rubber hose logos
Perhaps the rubber hose style is making a comeback because it's only been around for approximately a century. Or perhaps it's because this design lends itself to characters, and character logos are a method to make firms seem more approachable and human. In any event, the rubber hose logos of 2022 are colorful, in contrast to the old-fashioned black-and-white cartoons.
Blurred logos
The words on a logo should be readable, right?
As designers experiment with blur effects to highlight fluidity and movement rather than concentrating purely on readability in 2022, that will be of much lower priority.
Only the letter edges might be obscured, making the word's primary structure visible. Alternatively, you could include a legibly printed version of the brand name with the blurred logo so that the reader can fully comprehend your brand identification.
It's very compelling and unforgettable to create a blur effect for your logo, and it embraces the opportunity to include animation.
There are other types of distortion that we'll see a lot more of in 2022 logo design trends in addition to blurred logos. In order to create a sense of limitlessness and infinite space, designers are also experimenting with stretched and continuous letters. These logos, as you can see, have curves. Some of them resemble spaghetti strands that are begging to be twirled around your fork. Others just expand one or two letters while leaving the others the same size, drawing attention to those stretched letters for emphasis.
You'll often note that the pronunciation of the logo title puts vocal focus on the same letter or sound when a logo emphasizes one letter by stretching or distorting it. Alternately, you might reshape letters in a logo to represent the main offering of the brand.
McBling
We've already discussed 2000s nostalgia on the blog. When we discussed the aughts aesthetic last, we debated whether it was too soon to start using it in designs. The answer is now obvious: without a doubt not! Look at the fashion, which Evan Collins initially named "McBling" in 2006:
What then is McBling? It is an aesthetic that embraces and emphasizes the stylistic characteristics of the 2000s, more precisely, roughly from 2003 to 2008. The obsessive celebrity adoration, the introduction of Twitter, and societal obsessions with the color pink, diamonds, and gothic fonts serve as a mixed bag of contrasts to capture the highs and lows of that era.
The 2000s are being reexamined by designers and creatives of all stripes now that we are firmly established in the third decade of the twenty-first century. If we aren't watching documentaries about Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, we are binge-watching throwback television shows and movies.
Following and innovating in this maximalist aesthetics era, design is paying homage to its emo culture, extravagant shows of riches, and of course, bling.
Scribbles and sketches
While some logo designers incorporate motifs from earlier decades to play on simpler times, others take a different approach to their nostalgia: unstable, wobbly, childish artwork:
Expect to see more scribbles in 2022. As opposed to the cleaner, more "manufactured" logos you've seen in the last several years, expect to see more logos that have that raw, unfinished appearance. This fashion is unpolished yet refined and straightforward. And simplicity is just what the doctor ordered for a world that's ready to declutter and let go of all the weights from the past as it looks toward a more promising future.
Q should fashion designers adopt trends?
Design trends are ever-evolving. A crucial skill for designers to have is the ability to follow and use them. The best designers study and comprehend current design trends in order to improve their work. Though some designers pay more attention to emerging trends than others.
Q Why does logo design matter so much now?
As a result of the fact that it attracts attention, leaves a lasting impression, forms the basis of your brand identity, is memorable, distinguishes you from competitors, encourages brand loyalty, and is accepted by your target audience.
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Mr Gavin Robertson
MB ChB, FRCS (Gen), MD
Gavin Robertson was appointed as a Consultant Surgeon in Leicester in 1999. Having qualified in 1984 he then trained in Centres across the world for 15 years. He developed an expertise in Laparoscopic/keyhole surgery from its inception in 1993.
Since his Consultant appointment, he has built a busy private practice over more than 20 years. The majority of the patients he now sees come to him with problems with gallstones or hernias where his laparoscopic expertise allows prompt minimally invasive treatment.
During his Consultant career, he has performed over 6000 laparoscopic cholecystectomies with no bile duct injuries to date (National figures suggest an expected rate of around 0.5%). He has a regular weekly endoscopy list, treating people with bile duct gallstones, requiring complex interventions.
With an experience of over 6500 hernia repairs, he regularly performs not only groin hernia repairs but also more complex incisional and other abdominal wall repairs.
Other interests include the endoscopic diagnosis and surgical management of acid reflux disease, appendicectomy and the investigation of abdominal pain.
Other interests include the endoscopic diagnosis and surgical management of acid reflux disease.
Services offered at The Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital include;
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for gallstones
Laparoscopic hernia repairs (inguinal, incisional, umbilical and ventral)
Laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery
Consultations, investigation and treatment of abdominal pain
Laparoscopic Appendicectomy
While based in Leicester , his busy private practice now attracts patient from across the East Midlands including Nottingham, Lincoln, Grantham, Coventry, Warwick, Rugby, Northampton, Kettering and Derby.
Most of Gavin's spare time is spent with his wife, Claire and three teenage children - Sophie, Charlie and Joe. In his occasional free moments he manages to get to the gym in an effort to combat the ravages of age. He also enjoys waterskiing and windsurfing.
Treatments and tests offered by Mr Gavin Robertson at Nuffield Health
Laparoscopic groin hernia repair
Open surgery groin hernia repair
Diagnostic endoscopy
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal)
Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder removal)
Locations Mr Gavin Robertson works with
Scraptoft Lane, Leicester, LE5 1HY
has over 50 original papers in peer reviewed journals on pancreatic islet transplantation, the treatment of inoperable liver tumours and laparoscopic gallbladder and hernia surgery.
In addition, he has published a variety of book chapters and review articles on these subjects, including co-authoring the chapter on Abdominal Wall and Groin hernias in the 5th edition of the world-renowned Kirk's General Surgical Operations textbook.
He has presented extensively at National and International meetings and co-runs the National Leicester Hernia course 3 times a year, teaching advanced techniques to other Surgeons.
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
Elected to the Council of the Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain Ireland
Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
British Society of Gastroenterologists
Association of Upper GI Surgeons
Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland
Consultant Hepatobiliary and Laparoscopic Surgeon, Nuffield Health Leicester Hospital
Consultant Laparoscopic / HPB surgeon at the Leicester General Hospital
Insurers Mr Gavin Robertson works with
Mr Gavin Robertson works with the following private medical insurance providers:
Childsure
ESMI
HealthFund
InterGlobal
Medical Care Direct
SecureHealth
Universal Provident
Mr Gavin Robertson does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.
Mr Gavin Robertson does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.
Mr Gavin Robertson does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.


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3's are wild: Heat set record from deep, top Magic 116-113
Miami Heat forward Duncan Robinson (55) looks for an opening past Orlando Magic guard Evan Fournier during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
(ASSOCIATED PRESS)
By TIM REYNOLDSAP Basketball Writer
MIAMI —
It took a record-setting night from 3-point range for the Miami Heat to beat the Orlando Magic.
Duncan Robinson scored 27 points, all of them coming from beyond the arc, and the Heat hit a franchise-record 22 3-pointers in their 116-113 win over the Magic on Wednesday night.
Goran Dragic scored 25 points and added nine assists, Kelly Olynyk scored 16 on a perfect shooting night and Jimmy Butler finished with 12 points, eight assists and seven rebounds as Miami won its fourth straight.
The previous record for Heat 3-pointers was 21, set April 5, 2017, at Charlotte. The 22 3-pointers made also tied the most allowed in a game by Orlando.
"My teammates encouraged me to shoot. The coaching staff encourages me to shoot," Robinson said. "So I just went out and tried to be aggressive."
Terrence Ross had season-highs of 35 points and eight 3-pointers for the Magic, who have dropped three straight yet remain in the No. 8 spot in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
The game became just the second in NBA regular-season history where two players made at least eight 3-pointers. The other: Jan. 5, 2019, when Stephen Curry made 10 for Golden State and Buddy Hield made eight for Sacramento. It has also happened once in a playoff game, when Draymond Green and Damian Lillard both made eight in a Golden State-Portland matchup on May 7, 2016.
Nikola Vucevic scored 22 points and grabbed 16 rebounds for the Magic, while Evan Fournier finished with 17.
"The biggest factor in that game was totally on me," Magic coach Steve Clifford said. "We just didn't have a good Option B for Duncan Robinson until halftime. We made adjustments at halftime. Our guys did a good job, but that was the difference in the game."
Even after the 3-point barrage by Miami, Orlando still had a chance at the end.
Down three with 6.2 seconds left after the Heat took the last foul they had left to give, the Magic went to Aaron Gordon — who got a good look at a 3-pointer from the right corner. It hit the rim, the Heat controlled the rebound and time expired.
Robinson missed his first shot, a 3-pointer from the left corner. His next seven were all 3s, and all connected. He was 7 for 8 from distance in the opening 24 minutes, becoming the first player in the NBA to have two first halves with at least seven 3s this season — he had eight in the first half against Cleveland on Nov. 20.
"Some of those 3s they made were hard shots and sometimes that happens," Vucevic said. "I thought defensively we were better. There are some mistakes that we didn't take care of."
The Heat needed all Robinson had, because the Magic weren't going away.
Orlando was down by as many as 15 midway through the second quarter, then used a 13-2 run over a stretch of 2:55 late in the half to get right back into things. Miami's lead was down to 60-55 at the break and the Heat led 88-84 after a back-and-forth third quarter that featured 10 lead changes.
Magic: Wednesday was the start of a four-game road swing for Orlando, the longest trip left on its schedule. The Magic play 10 of their final 17 games at home. ... James Ennis III started one game out of the 30 he played in Miami as a member of the Heat. He has now started two of the four he's played in Miami as an opponent.
Heat: Robinson's streak of games with at least one 3-pointer is now at 47, two shy of matching Rafer Alston's Heat record. He has made multiple 3s in 45 of those 47 games. ... Olynyk was 5 for 5 from the field, 3 for 3 from 3-point range and over his last five games is shooting 19 for 25 from the field, including a staggering 13 for 15 from 3-point range. He's averaging 11.6 points in just under 16 minutes per game in that stretch.
SAD MEMORY
Wednesday marked exactly 30 years since Loyola Marymount's Hank Gathers collapsed and died on the court in a game against Portland — a moment where Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, then a guard for Portland, was on the court and just a few feet away from the high-scoring star. Spoelstra has spoken of that day, that moment, many times. "That's going to be etched in my memory until the end," Spoelstra said.
STATE TITLE
Miami won the season series 3-1, the first time in the last four years and the 15th time in 31 years overall that the Heat could claim in-state bragging rights. Orlando has won the season series nine times, and the clubs have split the other seven. "This is our state," Heat center Meyers Leonard tweeted postgame.
Magic: Visit Minnesota on Friday.
Heat: Visit New Orleans on Friday.
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In 2017 at re:Invent, AWS previewed a Kubernetes-based container service. Now six months later, the Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is generally available. It joins a crowded space of managed Kubernetes cloud services, each offering different functionality and deployment locations.
In a blog post about the release of EKS, Amazon's Jeff Barr says that EKS "simplifies the process of building, securing, operating, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters, and brings the benefits of container-based computing to organizations that want to focus on building applications instead of setting up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch." EKS manages the Kubernetes control plane nodes, while it's up to the user to build and manage the worker nodes. The control plane is made up of the API server and etcd database. These managed nodes operate in a highly-available fashion across multiple AWS Availability Zones. For worker nodes, AWS provides CloudFormation templates to provision the servers, and instructions for joining those servers to a cluster.
Available in two regions at the moment—US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon)—EKS has built-in integrations with other AWS services. This includes integration with: Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles for credentials, all three load balancer types for routing, Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for cluster storage, Route 53 for DNS, and more. AWS charges customers $0.20 per hour for the EKS control plane, plus the regular charges incurred for EC2 (worker) instances, storage, and load balancing.
A recent survey showed that 57% of all companies running Kubernetes choose AWS as their host. This may be one reason why EKS launched alongside a compelling list of partners. Hashicorp announced Terraform support for building clusters. New Relic spelled out how they help monitor EKS clusters. GitLab shared how their app deployment and management capabilities now work with EKS. And Tigera shared their EKS networking support via Project Calico.
Amazon EKS is one of many Kubernetes-based cloud services available in the market. Google Cloud offers up the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), which has been available since November 2014. Microsoft made the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) generally available on June 13th. Other public cloud providers like Oracle and DigitalOcean offer Kubernetes services as well. Add that to multi-cloud software products like Red Hat OpenShift and Pivotal Container Service, and companies have their pick of places to orchestrate containers.
The Kubernetes services from the "Big Three" public cloud providers aren't identical. EKS doesn't provision worker nodes, while GKE and AKS do. Both GKE and AKS manage upgrades, while EKS does not. GKE is offered in all sixteen Google Cloud regions, AKS launched in nine regions, and Amazon EKS is available in two regions. The team at Replicated put together a table that compared these three offerings.
In the blog post about the announcement, Barr mentioned that Amazon EKS will be expanding to additional regions, and add many new features throughout the rest of the year.
Very nice news. Amazon should offer some form of free trial access to this new service and a brief getting started tutorial to understand principal Kubernetes concepts and a couple of mockup services to watch a whole K8 cluster in action.


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As with headshots, far too often, actors in a rush to get things going, will hastily jump into action, proclaiming, "I need a reel!" They then ask around for a 'demo shooter,' compare some prices and schedule a shoot. The date arrives and they head into the shoot with some sort of vague idea of what they want (or should have) – or, they have no idea at all, expecting the shooter to make it all happen for them.
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The Alabama Cooperative Extension Systems New Non-Traditional Urban Unit, at Alabama A&M University, operates the Agribition Center. The facility boasts a unique combination of facilities and services that provides opportunities to enhance the School's academic programs by providing hands-on experiences for students majoring in Animal Science, Agribusiness, Nutrition and Hospitality Management, and other program areas. The Cooperative Extension System, and other campus and community agencies also use the Agribition Center to meet their outreach program goals and objectives.
The multipurpose facility is located on 42 acres and can be rented for various public activities such as, dog agility and obedience trials, horse shows, expositions, rodeos, craft fairs, livestock shows, class reunions, meetings, receptions, and much more. The design and intent of the Agribition Center is to be versatile enough to hold almost any type of event. The limitation is a person's imagination.
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A weekly newsletter is emailed to parents via Schoolcomms every Wednesday. Other letters about particular events such as consultation evenings and Christmas concerts are sent home in the same way. All letters home are also available on the school website.
If you move house, change telephone numbers, or change emergency contact names or telephone numbers, please inform the school office as soon as possible so that our records are up to date.
At the beginning of each school year we hold a "Meet the Team" meeting for each year group so that parents can meet all the staff who are working with their children. At these meetings we also discuss the organisation and routines for that particular year group.
In October, February and July, you are invited to visit the school and discuss your children's progress with class teachers and, if required, with the Headteacher.
In July we hold an "Open Afternoon" for parents to spend time looking around our school with their children as hosts. Each Friday morning, the parents of the children from the class leading that Assembly are invited to attend.
If particular problems arise during the course of the year, you are encouraged to come and discuss them with Class Teachers, one of our Assistant Headteachers, our Deputy Headteacher or the Headteacher at any time by appointment.


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The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT) is a public, multi-campus college in Trinidad and Tobago, established in 2000.

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Universities in Trinidad and Tobago
2000 establishments in Trinidad and Tobago

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Grey's Anatomy (Bilingual Cover) (PC)
PC Game New
Director: Jonas Åkerlund
Actors: Brittany Murphy, Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari, Mickey Rourke, Patrick Fugit
Rating: Teens
From the publisher/developer Ubisoft comes the first video game adaptation of one of televisions most popular showsGrey s Anatomy. Immerse yourself in the world of Grey s Anatomy: The Video Game for PC as Seattle Grace Hospital is struck by one of the worst crises in the hospital s history. The fate of the hospital, its staff, and its patients is in your hands.
Written with the TV show s producers and writers:
A completely new and authentic Grey s Anatomy story.
Play as the stars: See Seattle Grace Hospital through the eyes of all the Grey s Anatomy TV show characters.
Influence the storyline: Influence character dialogue and make critical decisions that affect relationships and the outcome of the hospital crisis.
Perform multi-step surgeries: Innovative gameplay takes advantage of the Wii Remote, DS stylus, and PC mouse.
Accessible gameplay: User-friendly interface appeals to casual gamers.


Do you have beautifully remodeled kitchen cabinets but a lackluster floor? Maybe your subfloor suffered water damage or squeaks a lot in certain places. It is possible to change out areas of your subfloor without removing your kitchen cabinets, but it must be done very carefully and probably with professional guidance.
The subfloor is the flat, sturdy surface that lays on top of joists and supports the flooring that you can see. This type of layering makes it easy to replace the visible floor if you would like a different style or if the top layer becomes damaged and needs replacing.
The subfloor is very important since it supports the other layers of flooring, as well as everything in your house such as the people in your family when they walk on it, your furniture, and structural parts of your house like built in cabinets. The subfloor can become damaged by water or other reasons and may warp. It will continually affect the flooring above it, causing carpets to mold or fracturing tiles and must be replaced. Replacing the subflooring is a lot of work and you should consult with a professional unless you are knowledgeable about how to handle this issue.
Use a tool that makes flush cuts such as a multitool fitted with appropriate blades. A wood cutting blade with serrated teeth will slice quickly and easily through the material, particularly since a subfloor is usually only ¾ inch thick. Multitool blades usually feature limited cutting depths so you will be able to cut in a way that it is flush with the base of the cabinets. You can then remove the subfloor material.
You need to be careful not to cut directly through the floor joist since this will make for a more intensive repair. Use a flashlight or work light for easier visibility on the floor. Also, be sure to protect your hands with work gloves, wear eye protection, and a dust mask. If you are only replacing sections of damaged subfloor, use a circular saw to remove square sections of the subfloor and replace those. While your cabinets have been left intact, it is essential to check the locations of possible wiring or plumbing before attempting to remove sections of subfloor.


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Q: What is difference between Mix_Init and Mix_OpenAudio SDL? I saw many tutorial of SDL_mixer but none of them are used Mix_Init function. I saw this Mix_Init function on the documentation page
https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/docs/SDL_mixer.html
The tutorials are only used the function called Mix_OpenAudio for initialize SDL_mixer.
My question is that Is if I call the function Mix_OpenAudio, it automatically call the function Mix_Init or there is no need to call the function Mix_Init.
Is Mix_Init function is only some type of checker function.

A: Check the documentation at https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/docs/SDL_mixer_9.html :

Initialize by loading support as indicated by the flags, or at least
return success if support is already loaded. You may call this
multiple times, which will actually require you to call Mix_Quit just
once to clean up. You may call this function with a 0 to retrieve
whether support was built-in or not loaded yet.

If you need support for compressed audio formats like flac, mp3, ogg vorbis - you need to call this function with list of formats you need. I'll result in loading required code to decompress that formats, if it isn't built into SDL_mixer. If you only use WAV you may omit Mix_Init call.

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La mà de guido es una editorial de música de Barcelona fundada en 1984 por el compositor Llorenç Balsach, nacido en Sabadell en 1953. El nombre "La mà de guido" ("la mano de Guido") proviene del sistema mnemotécnico en forma de mano que supuestamente utilizaba el monje Guido de Arezzo para enseñar música: la mano guidoniana.

El programa informático de los orígenes

En realidad, la actividad originaria de la empresa fue la creación de un programa informático (La mà de guido Music Setting System) para la realización de partituras por ordenador. Este software ganó en 1984 el premio Simolog al mejor programa informático (Fundación Citema-SIMO) y se presentó internacionalmente en el año 1986 en la Feria Musical de Fráncfort (Frankfurt Musik Messe), y se convirtió así en uno de los tres primeros programas profesionales utilizados a nivel mundial por las editoriales de música de todo el mundo (los otros dos eran, por aquellos años, el americano SCORE y el alemán Amadeus). Durante los primeros años, la empresa se dedicó a la mejora de este programa (incluyendo una versión MIDI: La mà de guido Score Performance System) y a realizar el servicio de tipografía musical para editoriales.

Como editorial

En 1988, La mà de guido inició sus propias publicaciones musicales centrándose en obras de compositores catalanes de todas las épocas, obras que en su mayoría veían la luz por primera vez. La editorial ha publicado desde entonces obras que permanecían inéditas de autores del siglo XVIII como Francesc Valls, Josep Pla, Francisco Marinero, Josep Fàbrega y Anselmo Viola; de compositores del siglo XIX como Ramón Carnicer i Batlle, Pedro Tintorer, Antoni Nogués, Juan Bautista Pujol, Felipe Pedrell y Josep Rodoreda; de la primera mitad del siglo XX como Enric Morera, Jaume Pahissa, Cristòfor Taltabull, Joan Massià, Agustín Borgunyó, Eduard Toldrà, Manuel Blancafort, Ricard Lamote de Grignon, Frederic Mompou y Joaquim Homs; y también una larga lista de compositores actuales como José Galeote, David Esterri, Miguel Castro Santafé, Anna Cazurra, Antoni Tolmos i Tena, Ramón Andreu entre otros.

Grabaciones

En 1995, con la intención de plasmar sonoramente sus ediciones impresas, La mà de guido inició sus ediciones discográficas, y pronto se especializó en la recuperación del legado musical ibérico, con primeras grabaciones de compositores como Francesc Valls, Juan Bautista Comes, Joan Cererols, Pedro Rabassa, Alonso Lobo, Pedro Tintorer, Eduard Toldrà, Juan Manén, Ricard Lamote de Grignon y un largo etcétera.

Un año y medio después, en 1996, para dar cabida también a un repertorio musical misceláneo más amplio e internacional, y también para hacer una colección de música actual, la empresa creó el sello Ars Harmonica.

En el 2004, La mà de guido inició una línea discográfica de recuperación de registros históricos de intérpretes españoles gracias a la que pueden oírse grabaciones restauradas de intérpretes como Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Malats, Frank Marshall, Eduard Toldrà, Pau Casals, Juan Manén y Joan Massià.

Cifras de la producción hasta mediados del 2010

Desde sus inicios hasta la publicación de este artículo (junio del 2010), la editorial ha publicado unas 330 partituras y unos 300 CD.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio de la editorial La má de guido

 Sobre la revista Computer Music Journal

 Sitio de la revista Computer Music Journal

Editoriales de música de España
Discográficas de España
Empresas de software de España
La mà de guido


My Goal in the next 3-6 years is to academically maintain an B+ grade point average through the entire school year.Although football is my favorite hobby; My future Academically will always be first priority. After having experienced the 2018 youth pro bowl event, I wish to continue attending through my youth football experience. Over the next year I would like to build my leadership characteristics allowing me to better guide myself as well as my peers. In the following two years I expect to be a captain for our team and a sought out leader for the Organization.
In the 2018 season I wish to greatly improve my technique at my position by committing 30minute technical workouts before every practice as I believe this will not only improve my focus before practice but also allow my growth mentally to expand daily. I will Have perfect attendance not only during the 2018 football season but thought the rest of the academic school year. I will help lead my team to a state championship this year like last year by working diligently at my craft. I plan to attend all fundraiser opportunities for my organization so the potential for growth in the origination can increase.
I am a very courageous, Fun,Outgoing, leader of my peers. I always compete at my highest level and continue to strive the best I can be. I love to learn as well as continue to better my flaws and inconsistencies both on and off the field.


Prague at night – Tasting the World – On the road, with stuffed hand luggage and face. Camera in my hand.
Prague at night – a little bit different than during the day, but still (or maybe even more?) beautiful.
The colours are mostly gone, except for tones of white, yellow, orange and grey. The contrast and shades now play the main part. Main part in a film called Prague at night.
Here are two contrasting views from Vyšehrad – one towards the well known panorama of Hradčany with the Prague castle and Petřín hill, in colour. One towards the modern quarter of Pankrác with its high-rise building, in black-and-white.
The following locations are well known, I am sure you will recognize them – the Old Town square, the Charles Bridge, the St Vitus Cathedral and the stairs leading from the Prague castle down to the Nerudova street.
The newly refurbished National Museum at the top of the Wenceslas square also looks great at night – see here.
Next week I will hopefully get to see some Christmas markets, so I will have a chance to take some more photos of Prague at night. These photos are actually from last winter.
Pingback: Inside the St Vitus Cathedral – Tasting the World – On the road, with stuffed hand luggage and face. Camera in my hand.
My partner and I went to Prague during the winter back in 2016. The place was stunning it looked like a fairy tale kingdom with all its old buildings. Also appreciated the strong supply of mulled wine being sold everywhere! Lovely pictures, I miss the place.


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Hutchinson to build new North American HQ
Kirk Pinho
Crain's Detroit Business Report
Construction on the new building would begin in May and be complete in June 2018
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.—A new $8 million headquarters building for Hutchinson North America is planned for the Oakland Technology Park in Auburn Hills.
Planning commissioners unanimously recommended approval of the site plan for the 60,500-sq.-ft. project on about 5.5 acres. It goes before City Council on April 24.
The company, a subsidiary of France-based energy giant Total S.A., is expected to house about 225 employees in the new building, according to the city.
A post on a the city's website says Hutchinson has five divisions in North America, with four focusing on the automotive industry and another on the defense and aerospace industries. The company produces anti-vibration, belt drive, fluid management and precision sealing systems, as well as body sealing.
Messages left with Hutchinson were not returned.
Construction would begin next month and be complete in June 2018, according to a planning commission document. The project is planned for Cross Creek Parkway, between University Drive and High Meadow Circle.
The developer is Southfield-based General Development Co. LLC, which jointly owns Oakland Technology Park with Farmington Hills-based Friedman Integrated Real Estate Solutions LLC.
Hutchinson will lease the building from General Development, which will own it.
"We are happy an Auburn Hills company of this stature has chosen to stay in Auburn Hills," said Ethan Weisman, business development manager for General Development.
Oakland Technology Park has attracted companies including Faurecia North America Inc., Atlas Copco North America Inc. and Hirotec America Inc. for new buildings. The joint venture between General Development and Friedman has more than 200 acres, while another portion has about 800 acres owned by FCA US L.L.C., Johnson Controls Inc. and Delphi Automotive plc.
Hutchinson has space at 1060 Centre Road. It has had a presence in Auburn Hills since 2000.
Farmington Hills-based GAV & Associates Inc. is the project architect.


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"Varmt igen" featured on Jöback's live DVD
Written by Jud on December 3, 2004 to Misc.
STOCKHOLM - The Gessle-penned song "Varmt igen" – released for the first time on Peter Jöback's album "Jag kommer hem igen till jul" in 2002, and later included on Per's "Mazarin" album – is featured on Jöback's new live DVD "Jag kommer hem igen till jul - live från Cirkus." His performance was recorded last December at the Cirkus theatre in Stockholm.
Besides "Varmt igen", the DVD – which is out now – features various tracks from Jöback's album, such as the duet with Eva Dahlgren "Jag tror på dig", and classic Christmas songs like "Ave Maria" and "O Helga Natt" ("O Holy Night"); as well as a "Disney Medley."
Peter Jöback's official website
Eva Dahlgren website
kibkalo said on December 3, 2004 21:22:
Hehe I liked his play of "Varmt igen" in Skansen.
Anyone can copy it?
Jud (moderator) said on December 3, 2004 21:30:
I like this song a lot, thinking of getting the dvd ;)
roxlad said on December 3, 2004 21:40:
I already bought it! I love his xmas album, anybody has the Skansen performance? VI is a song I adore!
patolucas said on December 3, 2004 22:23:
Peter has a very good voice,i'll buy the DVD surely
purplemedusa said on December 3, 2004 22:52:
So where can i sample some of his music...? I'm rather curious - esp the English stuff!! (Lord and I'm gonna have to be picky & ask for a download location that has files in .zip format; I guess that's alot to ask)
@purple, he's got a great voice! I don't really know his English albums yet but seen as it's xmas I suggest you listen to 'Jag kommer hem igen till jul'. It's a gr8 CD full of traditional xmas songs. It would be great if he also did an English Christmas album (I keep on hoping).
so now I know what to order together with the "All about you" single ;)
Edit: Ordered... will let you know when I get it :)
LaMan said on December 4, 2004 10:27:
His English albums are so and so :)
AURYTE said on December 4, 2004 21:42:
It seems it's worthwhile listening...
@kibkalo you've got mail!
@kibkalo, I can't manage to e-mail you! I get an error message. My e-mail address is [email protected]
roxlad, I haven't got any!
Plz try to mail akibkalo#mail.ru (place @ instead of #)
@kibkalo, done it!
just to comment on this. I got the DVD and watched it.. great concert! Peter has an amazing voice and he's a great artist, very funny Disney medley :D Varmt igen is also nice, this song is like it's been written for him, HE sings it great :P


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Matthew Sweet is an official hero of this blog for his books Inventing the Victorians and Shepperton Babylon. The former argues that the Victorians were a great deal less Victorian than we now imagine and the latter shows that the idea that British films are cosy and twee is nonsense.*
Today's Observer Magazine has a feature by him, drawn from his new book The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels:
On 17 July 1945, in a room at Claridge's hotel, the rules of cartography went into abeyance. England receded to the four walls of suite 212 and Yugoslavia – a country that has since disappeared from the map – rushed to fill the space. On a bed borrowed from the London Clinic, a 24 year-old woman lay in the agonies of labour – and as far as she, her husband and Winston Churchill were concerned, the baby who was born that day, Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, took his first breath on Yugoslav territory. Just to make sure, there was a box of earth under the bed.
Wikipedia brings the story up to date:
Alexander first came to Yugoslavia in 1991. He actively worked with the democratic opposition against the regime of Slobodan Milošević and moved to Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milošević was deposed in 2000. In March 2001 Yugoslavian citizenship was finally restored to him by the government.
Today he lives in a former royal palace in Belgrade and campaigns for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Serbia.
Anyway, I enjoyed Sweet's earlier books so much that I shall have to buy a copy of the West End Front.
* I am indebted to another of this blog's heroes, the children's writer Malcolm Saville, for teaching me the former/latter construction. Perhaps he was overfond of it, but I thought it very grown up.
Labels: London, Malcolm Saville, Matthew Sweet


Apple butter is a thick, dark brown preserve made from apples, spices, sugar and cider.
Though its name sounds like it is very fattening, it is low in fat and a wise choice for topping toast, muffins and breads.
Jerusalem artichokes The root is a rich source of vitamin B and iron as well as being low in calories. It is high in the starch inulin, which is different from the usual starches and sugars found in tubers, so it can be eaten freely by diabetics.


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Q: Update in a join with sub-query UPDATE item t

INNER JOIN ( SELECT
               item_name,
               MAX( item_keyword ) AS item_keyword
             FROM item
             WHERE ca_id2  = '2010'
             GROUP BY item_name
           ) s ON t.item_name = s.item_name

SET t.item_keyword = s.item_keyword

WHERE t.ca_id2 ='3010'

The error is:

1064 - You have an error in your SQL syntax.  Check the manual that
  corresponds to your MySQL    server version for the right syntax to
  use near 'SELECT item_name, max(item_keyword) AS item_keyword
       FROM item

MySQL version 4.0.22 What is the reason for the failure?

A: I tried to construct your query based on
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/06/23/how-to-select-from-an-update-target-in-mysql/
UPDATE item t

SET t.item_keyword =
      ( SELECT MAX( i.item_keyword ) AS item_keyword
          FROM ( SELECT item_keyword, item_name, cd_id2 FROM item ) AS i
         WHERE t.item_name = i.item_name
           AND i.cd_id2  = '2010'
      GROUP BY i.item_name
      )

WHERE t.ca_id2 ='3010'

Or you can try this version too
UPDATE item t

INNER JOIN ( SELECT item_keyword, item_name, cd_id2 FROM item ) AS i

SET t.item_keyword =
      ( SELECT MAX( i.item_keyword ) AS item_keyword
          FROM i
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           AND i.cd_id2  = '2010'
      GROUP BY i.item_name
      )

WHERE t.ca_id2 ='3010'

Sorry, I don't have MySQL 4 around, so you have to test the above queries.
Other readings:

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*http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/update.html

*http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/rewriting-subqueries.html
If the above queries don't work, you can try using a temporary table instead of the subselect:
http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/13ccb/1
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE s
   SELECT item_name,
          MAX( item_keyword ) AS item_keyword
    FROM  item
    WHERE cd_id2  = '2010'
      AND item.item_name IN ( SELECT item_name FROM item WHERE item.ca_id2='3010')
GROUP BY item_name;

UPDATE item t
INNER JOIN s ON t.item_name = s.item_name
SET t.item_keyword = s.item_keyword
WHERE t.ca_id2 ='3010';

DROP TEMPORARY TABLE s;


What is the difference between classes and groups?
Classes are used to manage your students and subscription.
Groups allow you to organize students from classes to form smaller sets.
Classes can be subscribed. Subscriptions cannot be assigned to groups.
Students can only be in one class. They can be in multiple groups.
Classes are limited to 39 spaces. Groups are unlimited.
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Digital Economics 06 Oct 2016
BBVA Ambassadors: Mario Alexander Acuña, more than digitalization
Mario Alexander Acuña of BBVA Colombia likes to keep things simple, so much so that he made a series of recommendations to improve the Risk Committee. Little did he know that he would be put in charge of leading a key digitization process.
Up until a little less than a year ago, nobody aspired to be the secretary of the BBVA Colombia Risk Committee. Massive amounts of paper, managing agendas, coordinating presentations, and taking the minutes for the meetings made this a labor-intensive administrative job. However, it's a critical function, given that key risk decisions are made at these meetings. One day, it was Mario Acuña's turn to be secretary. That experience led him to make some suggestions that he thought would simplify the process.
At one presentation, he learned about a tool that could make it a lot easier to perform the secretary's duties by streamlining all that information in a digital format. "We got in touch with the team that had developed the tool, but we realized that it wouldn't meet all our needs," he explains. However, Mario found a way to tweak the current solution: "We discussed the possibility of implementing it in Colombia, but with a few added features. That's when we started to work with the people in Spain."
The first challenge was to have the technical knowledge necessary to explain what he wanted the tool to do. "I'm not an expert in technology. It was a challenge because we had to tell the team in Spain what we wanted the tool to do." Even so, Mario emphasized that "you don't need to be an expert in technology to carry out a digital transformation process. To lead a project like this one, you only have to define the specifications to establish agile and effective processes. You also have to set the milestones. The developer has to know what you need as a user so he can produce the tool you're looking for."
"Sometimes, you can't appreciate this work in the front office, because the users are the employees in the corporate center. However, these decisions come from the branches and have an impact on them.
It wasn't an easy project. Transitioning people from an analog world to a digital environment has some thorny complications. "The hardest part is overcoming people's resistance to change; you have to convince the organization to switch from a well-established process to a new one. Tools always have to be tweaked after they're implemented. Furthermore, your workload doubles at first because during the testing phase you have to do both processes at the same time."
He thinks it was worth the trouble. "In August, it will be one year since we started using the tool. Even though there are a lot of things we could improve, it was a hit and the final users really like it."
Mario thinks we should simplify other processes. "The bank is focused on digitization. And it's worth taking risks to push the organization in that direction. I think it's important for all of us to make a contribution, no matter how small."
"The hardest part is overcoming people's resistance to change; you have to convince the organizationto switch from a well-established process to a new one.
Name: Mario Alexander Acuña
Position: Head of Policy – Risks department [BBVA Colombia]
Function: Contribute value
Hobby: Bike riding
Dream: To grow and create value for society
A PROJECT
The digitization of the Risk Committees wasn't only a digital project in terms of implementing the tool itself.
For example, the team in Colombia collaborated with the development team in Spain digitally. "We only held one meeting and a videoconference," Mario said. "The rest was done via email, chats, and telephone." Mario says that was "one of the keys to the project's success." This method sharply reduced the development time: "In just eight months, we went from defining the specs to implementing and testing the tool."
The users were also trained digitally. "When we started to show people how to use the tool, we realized that we could also take advantage of technology to train the employees, too. We used Google Hangouts so the analysts could receive their training at their workstations. That was great. We held training classes in groups of ten, with total interaction among the participants."
They have even adapted the room where the committee meetings are held, "so the transactions can be projected on to a screen and each member can see it on their tablet or smartphone, or follow the presentation directly."
CHALLENGE AND SOLUTION
When considering the project, Mario knew he needed two things: connectivity and online document management. "Before this, the analysts submitted their proposals through a shared drive. But that didn't work very well, and someone could even delete one of the transactions by mistake. We also needed all the members of the committee to have access to the documents." Up to that point, the only way to share the documents on the transactions submitted to the committee was on paper, which meant "making eight or nine copies for each transaction. The secretary also had to keep a copy."
BBVA ambassadors: Milovan Dragañac, "Al toque" collaboration
The concept of teamwork is so ingrained in companies and organizations that practically no one dares to question it. Milovan Dragañac [BBVA Peru] thinks there is a better way.
Now, all the proposals are loaded on the digital tool, which the committee members and the analysts can access. The tool also backs up the transactions, which means the secretary no longer has to do it.
This makes things easier for the Risk Committee, and it also has an indirect impact on the business. "Sometimes, you can't appreciate this work in the front office, because the users are the employees in the corporate center," Mario said. "However, these decisions come from the branches and have an impact on them. The decision-making process is much more agile now than it was before."
Mario points out how serendipitous it is that a series of recommendations he made some time ago has ended up being his responsibility. This project is more than just a simple digitization process: it has turned out to be a "digital revolution" at BBVA Colombia.
Business economics and corporate information
Computer studies, sciences and development
Labour, consumption and social welfare
BBVA ambassadors: Luis Carrasco, ability to react
He has worked at BBVA for 17 years and has spent a decade abroad, living out of a suitcase. Even though he has participated in numerous projects in various regions, and even continents, he says his job is to "be transparent."
BBVA ambassadors: Amelia Aguilar. Customers, soy milk, butterflies and students
What connects a customer who is about to lose two million Mexican pesos (nearly 100,000 euros), soy milk, butterflies, and children who immigrate to the United States? One person. Her name is Amelia Aguilar and she is the manager of a BBVA Bancomer branch in Puebla, Mexico.


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Man who lost leg in Haitian quake to show off dancing skills in Celebrate Israel Parade
By Christina Carrega-Woodby
Trapped for three days last year in the rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, all George Exantus could think about was doing the salsa on a brightly-lit stage.
For him, dancing was life or death, and even after being rescued and having his right leg amputated below the knee, Exantus dreamed of the day he'd be back in step.
With the help of a team of Israeli doctors, Exantus received a state-of-the-art prosthetic and months of intense rehabilitation.
Now, Exantus is not only able to dance again. He looks like he hasn't missed a beat.
The miracle dancer will show off his skills in New York Sunday at Manhattan's annual Celebrate Israel Parade.
After the event, Exantus will dance in a concert in Central Park, the culminating twist on his road to recovery.
"The will to dance is what kept my spirits up," Exantus told the Post. "I did not think I would live to see another day. The whole experience was scary and frantic. By the grace of God am I only here today."
The catastrophic, 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed 220,000 people and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless Jan. 12, toppled Exantus' apartment building, and pinned the dancer's feet and left hand under cement blocks for three days.
"I was praying a lot to be rescued," Exantus said. "I slept. I was very hot, very sweaty. I had a feeling I was going to die."
Exantus' prayers were answered when friends found him and dug him out.
But the damage had already been done. His right leg had been crushed so severely that it had to be amputated just below his knee.
His left leg wasn't much better. Exantus, 28, had a deep wound in his heel and had tendon damage that made it difficult for him to bend his toes.
Then, there was severe nerve damage to his left hand.
"He couldn't straighten his fingers, his wrist or his elbow," said Tzaki Siev-Ner, the Israeli surgeon who treated Exantus. "It was actually a useless limb."
A friend of Exantus happened to be a manager at a Port-au-Prince Hotel where the Israeli doctors were staying.
Exantus was fitted for a prosthesis to replace the leg that he lost. But unless Exantus had the other problems treated, he would barely have been able to hold a crutch.
To repair the arm's nerve damage and restore Exantus "good leg," Exantus was flown to Israel by a group associated with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which was providing relief assistance to earthquake victims.
There, he also got the intense rehabilitation and the $20,000 prosthesis he needed to get him back on the dance floor.
"Eight months after the operation I started dancing again," said Exantus, a champion salsa dancer before the earthquake.
Siev-Ner and his team of doctors treated hundreds of earthquake victims, but Exantus is their best story of success.
"It is hard work," Siev-Ner said. "It doesn't finish with operation. It doesn't finish with good prosthesis. Everything is important. But the most important thing is very hard daily training."
The proof isn't in Exantus' wide smile, but in a popular video that's making the rounds of YouTube.
In it Exantus, in a staged show, walks on stage with crutches and asks a young woman to dance. Then he straps on his new leg, tosses the crutches aside and shimmies and kicks like he just won "Dancing With the Stars."
"Beyond his own success and return to life and dancing, I'm sure he's giving hope to many others like him," Siev-Ner said. "He's a role model."
Exantus said he never gave up hope.
"It hurt me deeply to experience the loss of my leg," Exantus said. "It's something too difficult to explain. But I knew I was going to dance again."
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JUDGE ANNA VON REITZ: DOMICILE -- THE GOVERNING ISSUE
JUDGE ANA VON REITZ
Domicile -- The Governing Issue
By Anna Von Reitz
We have been held -- incorrectly -- under "municipal law". And what is "municipal law"? It is otherwise described as "private international law". Of course, we discovered this and other fun facts some time ago on the road --- as Cat Stevens put it -- "to find out", but beyond the names and labels, what does that imply?
A state is governed by public international law --- or is supposed to be; a commercial corporation, however, is governed under private international law.
I make a distinction here between commercial corporations which are chartered by states, and international trade organizations which are not chartered and truly privately held unincorporated entities.
Prior to this I have observed that "unincorporated" indicates "sovereign" entities and political status, and that it is entirely possible to be "corporate" without being "incorporated".
So, in a nutshell, what the vermin have done is to grant us all a franchise -- like a Dairy Queen franchise -- to operate under our NAMES for their benefit. This franchise is kept in a perpetual state of subjugation to their private municipal law by their presumption of guardianship over it, and periodically, these franchises are bankrupted for the convenience and profit of the parent organizations.
Our lawful Trade Names, also known as our "Good Names" and "Christian Names" have thus been infringed upon and have been abused via legal chicanery and transported into the jurisdiction of municipal (private international law) by fraudulent actions undertaken by the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration and more recently by actions undertaken by the Obama Administration.
Whereas FDR mischaracterized us as Cestui Que Vie Estate Trusts, Obama has mischaracterized us as Public Transmitting Utilities. And in both cases nothing is deserved but a firm and resounding, "No way in Hell." from the American Public.
How to put an end to this pernicious deceit and fraud and victimization? There are many issues to address, but by far, the most potent (and for them, unanswerable) issue is the issue of domicile. Where do you choose to live? And therefore, under what form of law do you live?
You do have a choice. You have to have a choice guaranteed to you, for any of this to be legal in any sense of the word.
That is why the Expatriation Act was passed by the Rump Congress back in July of 1868 the day before they published their deceitfully disguised Articles of Incorporation as "The United States of America, Inc." --- a Scottish Commercial Corporation --- as "The Constitution of the United States of America".
The main pillar of their deceit has been the presumption that you "voluntarily" chose to live and function as a British Citizen, merely "residing" here for the purpose of providing "essential government services".
If they and their presumptions were to be believed, nearly all of the American population voluntarily went to work for the Queen and the UK --- sans a paycheck or any actual work assignments, of course.
All of this concerns only them and their deceits and their internal issues and workings and multiple bankruptcies. We are, in fact and in truth, not part of their baileywick at all --- they are in fact, part our our baileywick when they come ashore on American soil.
So how have they contrived to rob generations of Americans of the value of their material and intellectual and labor assets?
By making a false claim of domicile. They signed you up as "citizens" of their version of "United States" when you were a baby in your cradle. And they have used this falsified public record against you all the days of your lives to make your subject to both municipal and territorial law, instead of the Public Law of your actual state and country.
Thanks to their fraud, deceit, and Gross Breach of Trust, you now have to make a choice --- will you be recognized as an American, free men and women owed all the rights, benefits, and property assets of your heritage, or will you continue to let these Euro-trash con artists continue to feed off of you and your country like leeches?
Obviously, you need to change the falsified public records by returning the Birth Certificates to their Sources and by making the declaration of domicile (or as they spelled it back then, "domicil") and expatriating from their foreign jurisdiction back to the jurisdiction of your birthright.
We have made this Declaration of Domicile part of the Certificate of Assumed Name process, but you must all become aware of the importance of this issue of declaring your domicile as "land and soil" of Georgia, Maine, Texas, etc. -- and enabled to bring it forward properly in court.
What advantage does a proper declaration of domicile provide you?
It means you have to be tried under the Public Law, not private international commercial law. It means that there is no such thing as a "thought crime" or a "victimless crime" or a "statutory infringement". It means that you retain the full roster of trial options set forth in Blackstone's Commentaries, including "Trial by Record"--- which, if you have done your homework, will more than adequately prove that you are an American and that you are properly domiciled on the land and soil of your birth state.
That cuts you free of their municipal law, and it also demands that instead of being treated under their territorial law, you are owed The Law of Peace from their military courts, as a Third Party Civilian Non-Combatant having nothing to do with their internecine power struggles and con games.
If you have not actually and factually harmed someone who is bringing complaint or stolen or damaged someone else's property by your direct actions for which a complaining party appears --- there is no case, no prevailing law, and no presumable jurisdiction for THEM to operate it.
You, therefore, have the option of declaring yourself free of their enslavement and their false claims, and merely have to become aware enough of the issues to do so and defend yourself and your assets accordingly.
Here, courtesy a friend to the cause, is the controlling British law summation from Foreign and Domestic Law -- a Concise Treatise on Private International Jurisprudence, by John Alderson Foote:
"The 'right of expatriation' is not, perhaps, the happiest of phrases, but it is manifest that the feudal theory of indissoluble allegiance had become an anachronism, and a Royal Commission was appointed in May 1868 to inquire into the English laws of naturalisation and allegiance generally."
"As to domicil for testamentary purposes, or with relation to succession to personal property on intestacy, the law has been considerably modified …"
"British subjects dying in a foreign country shall be deemed for all purposes of testate or intestate succession as to movables to retain the domicil they possessed at the time of going to reside in such foreign country, unless they have resided in such foreign country for a year at least, and shall have made a formal and public written declaration of an intention to become domiciled there."
"Domicil being a question of fact, it is not competent for individual States to enact restrictions upon, or facilities for, its acquisition ; and such enactments should not, in the tribunals of other States, obtain recognition."
"The principle that laws are commands addressed to persons, which has been referred to above,(«) renders it important to consider what entities come within that term."
"With regard to any particular municipal law, a foreign State must be regarded as occupying a position closely analogous to that of a foreign corporation ; the personality of the latter being conferred upon it by its own municipal law, while that of the former is created by the public law of nations."
"Foreign States, or bodies politic created by international law, occupy a position analogous to that of foreign corporations. In the case of monarchical governments, the Sovereign may be regarded as a corporation sole, representing the State; in the case of democratic or republican governments, the State itself, under its international name or style, as a body politic, may be regarded as a corporation aggregate."
"Neither a personal Sovereign nor a body politic (or State) may be sued in an English Court, unless the privilege of sovereignty has been waived, expressly or impliedly, by voluntary submission to the jurisdiction or otherwise."
Bring their BIRTH CERTIFICATE to court and lay it down on a copy of The Holy Bible and on top of that, lay down your Expatriation of your identical NAME from their domicile and back to the land and soil of your birth state. Add the Certificate of Assumed Name on top of that---- and stare the Judge in the eye.
You, as an American, are owed the full faith and credit provided by every municipal and territorial corporation on Earth. You, as a British Territorial or Municipal "Citizen" are a slave and are owed nothing at all, not even common decency.
DUN & BRADSTREET - with Comments by 'S' ---
U.S. UNDER MARTIAL LAW SINCE THE CIVIL WAR !
JUDGE ANNA VON REITZ: WHO OR WHAT IS IN CONTROL OF THE 'FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'?
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Actor / Singer
Best Known As:
The pop superstar singer of "Material Girl"
Name at birth: Madonna Louise Ciccone
Madonna used a mixture of talent, pulchritude and relentless self-promotion to become one of the most popular recording artists of the late 20th century. Born Madonna Ciccone and raised in a Catholic family in Michigan, she went to the University of Michigan before dropping out to move to New York City in 1978. She released her self-titled first album in 1983 in the guise of a streetwise pop ragamuffin, and over time she kept one step ahead of the game by jumping from persona to persona: dance club queen, balladeer, cowgirl, channeler of the Mysterious East, and aging Dietrich-style vamp. Over the years she released a string of hit albums, including Like a Virgin (1984, with the hit single "Material Girl" giving her a new nickname), Ray of Light (1998), Music (2000), American Life (2003), Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005) and Hard Candy (released in 2008, the year she turned 50). She has also acted in over a dozen movies, including Dick Tracy (1990, with Warren Beatty) and A League of Their Own (1992, with Rosie O'Donnell). No stranger to controversy, Madonna has long been a favorite of the tabloids on topics ranging from her racy videos and TV appearances to her sometimes-mystical religious beliefs to her marriages to actor Sean Penn (1985-89) and filmmaker Guy Ritchie (they married in 2000, and divorced in 2008). Her daughter Lourdes was born in October of 1996, fathered by Madonna's personal trainer, Carlos Leon. In August of 2000 Madonna and Ritchie had a son, Rocco. In October of 2006 they adopted a a motherless 13-month-old child, David Banda, from the African country of Malawi. She adopted a second child from Malawi, Chifundo "Mercy" James, in 2009. In 2014, the Guinness Book of World Records named Madonna the "best-selling female recording artist of all time," saying that she had sold more than 300 million albums in her career. Guinness also noted that "Madonna's earnings of $125 m (£82 m) for the period from June 2012 to June 2013 were the highest annual earnings ever for a female pop star."
Madonna performed at halftime of the 2012 Super Bowl… She attended the University of Michigan on a dance scholarship… Her daughter Lourdes is named for the site where Bernadette Soubirous saw visions of the Virgin Mary… A fall from a horse in 2005 left Madonna with a broken collarbone and three cracked ribs.
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