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The Amazon Tablet's iPad Challenge: Price
Amazon's tablet may surface soon. It will likely be an important new piece of technology. But can it drive its price low enough to grab a slice of Apple's pie?
Almost half of the folks surveyed recently said they'd be tempted into buying an Amazon tablet PC if it were priced below $300. That's a very tricky price point to reach. Meanwhile, all we really know about Amazon's tablet are rumors, hints, and suggestions–but this is typical of the company, and the data is adding up fast, suggesting it's really on its way soon. And now recent information reveals Amazon may actually be battling to make the Kindle Tablet, to guess its name, competitive on one main front: Price.
In a detailed survey of over a thousand U.S. consumers, analysis firm Retrevo attempted to gauge how hungry the market is for a full-featured color-screen version of the Kindle. Assuming Amazon will go for a Fall launch (to mop up holiday season purchases and be out of sync–we assume–with landmark Apple upgrade cycles for the iPad) it's time to ask this question.
According to Retrevo, 31% of respondees would consider buying an Amazon tablet if it were priced below $400, and 48% would be tempted if it were below $300. But a whopping 79% said they'd think about it if it cost less than $250. You may dismiss this as obvious, but you'd be missing the point: $250 is a key price target because it's almost exactly half that of the entry level iPad–the device that's defined this entire market. If Amazon could attain this price, with a cheeky PR campaign along the lines of "For $500 why not buy two, and give one to your husband?" (cue: a blurry shot of an iPad in the distance behind Amazon's gleaming new product) then it really could capture significant sales. Amazon knows this, and it's been driving the price of its e-ink e-reader down–possibly inciting a race-to-the-bottom in its marketspace–almost continually, most recently slicing dollars off by selling ad-supported editions.
As context to these data, Retrevo also asked if the consumers were actually planning to buy a tablet PC this year and found that pretty much everyone said yes, in a stunning proof of the viability of the market. But 50% said they planned to buy an iPad, while only 21% said they wanted an Android unit. And when asked what was the most important feature of the tablet they'd buy, 48% said "low price" (compared to 20% who prefered better features).
This sets a very tricky bar for Amazon to scoot under. But a recent snippet of data from Eastern display makers, who are ramping up production to service Apple, Google, and the other tablet PC pretenders, suggests Amazon may be trying to build a less than full-featured tablet–with one big saving being a touchscreen that's only capable of detecting two finger touches. That's a world away from Apple's sophisticated multi-fingered gestures which enable you to control the iPad's interactivity, and which also allows some very complex touch-based game play. But two fingers is enough to allow a scrolling gesture, pinch to zoom, context-dependent pop-up menus at a click and so on.
And when you consider that such a simple touchscreen would only allow limited numbers of full-featured tablet apps to work properly, then you realize that Amazon could cut costs elsewhere too. A powerful processer? Not needed. A sophisticated graphics unit? Not necessary. Full intertial sensor suite with electronic compass? Not particularly high on the list (but don't rule it out). The result would be a tablet that's low on specifications, but also low on price–and while you may think specs are king, the average Joe Public doesn't necessarily agree (as an example, Apple's been pushing to make detailed specs irrelevant, and do you know what clock speed the current Kindle tablets run at?).
If Amazon delivered a limited function tablet, with compatible apps coralled into a special area of its own Android marketplace, and put its own ad-supported Android-based UI on the top, then sold it all for somewhere around $250, it really could have a hit on its hands. That would be a disinct offering in an increasingly crowded market–and distinct from Apple's full-on iPad experience.
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package com.andreas.restapp.rest;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.junit.Test;

/**
 * @author Andreas Arvidsson
 *
 *
 */
public class KeycloakResourceIT extends BaseRestIT {

    @Override
    public <E> Class<E> getEntityClass() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Override
    public <E> Class<E> getEntityArrayClass() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Test
    public void test() throws Exception {
        HttpUriRequest request = new HttpGet(getUrl("keycloak"));
        HttpResponse response = execute(request);

        assertEquals("GET response code", 200, response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode());

        getEntity(response, JsonNode.class);
    }

}

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North Dakota Chaplains Association
Featured Chaplain
NDCA membership believes that chaplaincy is a calling.
Instead of raising one above another, a worthy chaplain is featured rather than given an award.
Sister Deborah Barry
SMP Health-St. Raphael, Valley City
Featured Chaplain 2023
Sister Debra was born and raised in the small town of Washington, Illinois, near Peoria. She is the oldest of three. Her dad worked for the Caterpillar Tractor Company and her mom was a stay-at-home mom. Both her parents had a deep faith and church was a very important part of their lives which they passed on to their children. Sister Debra attended St. Patrick Catholic Grade School in Washington (IL) where she became acquainted with the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation. After one year at the College at St. Francis in Joliet (IL) Sister Debra realized God was calling her to consider Religious Life.
Pursuing this calling her parents drove her to Valley City (ND) and she entered the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation at Maryvale in 1967. Sister made her vows in 1970 and went on to pursue a Bachelor Degree in Elementary Education with a major in early childhood development from the College of St. Teresa in Winona, MN. Upon finishing her degree Sister returned to Valley City and taught 2nd grade at St. Catherine Catholic School for several years. Her dream of starting a kindergarten became a reality when an anonymous donor gifted money so a kindergarten could be started.
Sister Debra returned to Illinois and taught 1st grade in Princeton. During that year her father died and she moved back to her home town of Washington to be a support for her mother. While in Washington Sister taught 1st grade at St. Patrick Catholic School in the very same classroom where she had been a first grader. After 3 years at St. Patrick, she was asked to return as Vocation Director for the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation and also engage in campus ministry at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. While doing this for 10 wonderful, grace-filled years she also attended Gonzaga University in Spokane (WA) during summers to earn her Master Degree in Religious Studies.
Following her years at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church (UND campus), Sister Debra was asked to serve on the Leadership Team for the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation which she did for 5 years. In 2001 Sister relocated to Fosston (MN) where she was the Pastoral Associate at St. Mary's Catholic Church for 12 years. While on a mini Sabbatical in Texas God nudged her to look into pastoral care in a health care setting which she fulfilled at St. Gabriel's Benedictine Living Center in Bismarck, ND from 2014-2019. From Bismarck, Sister Debra came to SMP Health-St. Raphael in Valley City which is sponsored by the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation Health System in Fargo, ND.
Sister Debra says visiting the residents, bringing them Communion and being with them in their passing has been a very sacred part of her ministry over the last few years. The residents have taught her how precious the gift of life is and to treasure each day as a GIFT from God.
Sister Suzanne Stahl, Religious Leader of the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation, states, "Sister Debra is an excellent listener and is very dedicated to the ministry of the elderly and sick." Administrator Maren Gemar of St. Raphael adds, "Sister Debra shows God's love in her daily life, lives out the mission and encourages others to do the same. She is hardworking, compassionate, intentional and a team player. We are honored to have Sister Debra's heart and service recognized."
Over the years Sister Debra has enjoyed doing counted cross stitch, needlepoint, decorating, cooking and baking. She enjoys being out in nature and breathing in the wonders of God's creation. She is an avid walker and when she cannot walk outside she may be walking the mall or the halls at Maryvale.

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May 15, 2019 joa18pmv 349 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Extinction Rebellion, protest, Sheffield, Sheffield City Council
Extinction Rebellion protesters staged a "die-in" outside the Town Hall, as the newly-formed council began their first meeting.
The activists read poems and sang songs to draw public's attention to the global ecological crisis.
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Nila Yasmin, 45, a psychotherapist and a coordinator of Extinction Rebellion, said: "People have been laying on the ground to represent all kinds of loss of wide diversity."
"This is the extinction we're facing if we don't act now."
Sheffield council declared a climate emergency in February and set the goal of becoming a zero carbon city by 2050, rather than by the IPCC recommended deadline of 2030.
Toby Mallinson, 53, joint branch secretary for Sheffield National Education Union, said: "The government is doing the opposite. From 2015 to 2019, they have scrapped almost all green subsidies, sold green investment banks and promoted fossil fuels through thwacking the new coal mines."
"They are not climate deniers; they are climate liars."
Thousands of people joined the Extinction Rebellion protests in London in April and nearly 1200 were arrested.
Mrs Yasmin added: "Extinction Rebellion has been getting bigger and stronger since the protest in London. This shows that a lot of people are very concerned about these issues, and they want something to be done."
Extinction Rebellion invited Councillor Lewis Dagnall, Cabinet Member of Climate Change at Sheffield City Council, to speak at the demonstration in front of the public.
Councillor Mr Dagnall said: "Labour party national has welcomed the action by extinction rebellion to put this action at the heart of our public debate."
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A powerhouse of prayer: St. Joseph Abbey turns 125
Published on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 20:49 | Written by Peter Finney Jr. | |
The powerful oasis of prayer that is St. Joseph Abbey cannot be underestimated.
For 125 years, Benedictine monks have prayed, formed seminarians and directed retreats in south Louisiana. The 1,200 piney acres near Covington on which they pray and work – a pristine oasis amid suburban sprawl – are a tangible expression of the beauty of God's creation, all at the service of prayer.
"The monastery has been a stable presence of prayer throughout all these years," said Benedictine Abbot Justin Brown of St. Joseph Abbey. "The monks have been praying in southeast Louisiana for 125 years – every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. That's quite an amazing thing. Through that, we've offered not only to the seminary but to many other people a place for spiritual nourishment and retreat."
The Benedictine community will celebrate that rich, spiritual history Oct. 4 with a Mass of Thanksgiving at 11 a.m. in the Abbey church. Archbishop Gregory Aymond, a 1971 graduate of St. Joseph Seminary College, will be the principal celebrant and homilist, and he will be joined by bishops from across Louisiana and Mississippi.
Benedictine abbots
Other distinguished celebrants will be three Benedictine abbots: Archabbot Justin DuVall of St. Meinrad Abbey, from which St. Joseph Abbey was established in 1889; Abbot Hector Sosa Paz of the Abbey of Jesus Christ Crucified in Esquipulas, Guatemala, established by St. Joseph Abbey in 1959; and Abbot Vincent Bataille, the president of the Swiss-American Congregation.
Prayer is the hallmark of any monastery, said Abbot Justin, who has served as abbot since 2001. The monks gather four times each day – at 6 a.m., 7 a.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. – to pray the Divine Office, and they celebrate Mass at 11:15 a.m. Quite often the monks are joined by neighbors who immerse themselves in the monastery's spiritual rhythms.
"We have regulars – both Catholics and Protestants," Abbot Justin said. "The psalms are all from the Bible."
St. Benedict, who lived in the sixth century, called monks to do two things, Abbot Justin said – "to pray and to work within a community."
"Prayer is central to our lives and the most important thing that we do," he said. "But then, so is our work, and the work can take on many different possibilities."
Preparing seminarians
The abbey's primary work is the operation St. Joseph Seminary College, which was the reason the monastery was established in 1889 in a small town near Ponchatoula. Archbishop Francis Janssens asked the Benedictines to establish a monastery and seminary so that native clergy could be raised up.
The monastery moved to its current site in 1902, and following a 1907 fire, a large brick and steel building was constructed in 1908. The abbey church was dedicated in 1932, the same year that Abbot Columban Thuis became abbot. Abbot Columban served for 25 years, followed by Abbot David Melancon from 1957-82. Abbot Patrick Regan was elected in 1982 and served through 2001.
From its establishment, the abbey conducted a six-year program of seminary studies that included four years of high school and the first two years of college. After changes brought about by Vatican II, it converted to a four-year college program in 1964.
The K.C. Abbey Youth Camp opened on the abbey grounds in 1960, and the Abbey Christian Life Center opened for retreats in 1965.
Besides operating the seminary in conjunction with the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the abbey offers retreats, provides priests for parish ministry, operates a Pennies for Bread bakery, makes soap and hand-crafts simple cypress caskets. The abbey also has a cemetery available to the general public.
"The monastic life is a very simple life together," Abbot Justin said. "The emphasis is on 'together' in the community. Unlike other religious, we take a unique vow of 'stability of place.' We stay and live within this community and this monastery all our lives. Each monastery is a family, and that is very much our charism."
The connection to the surrounding community also is important.
"What I hear repeatedly from people is a sense of peace they feel when they cross over the bridge above the Bogue Falaya River, and come onto the abbey property," Abbot Justin said. "Maybe it's leaving a very busy, hectic world and coming to a place where the pace appears to be slower."
Other festivities for the 125th anniversary include an organ concert by Robert Leblanc Oct. 5 at 3 p.m. in the abbey church; the Deo Gratias gala Nov. 1 in Covington; a Schola Cantorum Recital/Lecture by Benedictine Father Aelred Kavanaugh, music director Colby McCurdy and Benedictine Father Seán Duggan Nov. 9 at 3 p.m. in the abbey church; Music da Camera Nov. 30 at 3 p.m. in the abbey church; and closing vespers Jan. 28, 2015.
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Corrupt head teacher and secretary jailed after syphoning £500k from Annie Lennard Primary School
Michelle Hollingsworth drained cash from Annie Lennard Primary in The Oval, Smethwick, for five years
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A corrupt head teacher who fleeced a 'deprived' school of more than half-a-million pounds has been jailed for five and a half years.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard that Michelle Hollingsworth syphoned off cash from Annie Lennard Primary in The Oval, Smethwick, for five years that led to an eye-watering loss of at least £513,000.
The 55-year-old, who had begun her career at the school and had been there for 29 years, was helped by disgraced secretary Deborah Jones, who was jailed for four years and three months.
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Mark Jackson, prosecuting, said for Sandwell Council was forced to pick up the massive bill that could be recovered in the near future using the Proceeds of Crime Act.
And during sentencing – which took place Tuesday, November 26 – Judge Simon Ward said the pair made around 180 visits to boutique stores and on shopping sprees that were funded by school cheques.
Hollingsworth, who lives in a £1million home in Hatherton Park in Cannock, and 57-year-old Jones, from Barrs Road, Cradley Heath, bought everything from expensive designer clothes and antique furniture.
Mr Ward told the court the deceitful duo used money from dodgy deals that saw tradesmen paid for work that was either overpriced or invented.
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Receipts and purchase orders were doctored to make it look as if the goods had been bought from educational suppliers.
Among those to benefit was Hollingsworth's builder husband, Joseph, who cashed in with misleading and false invoices and purchase orders.
Another involved was Andrew Feltham who ran AB Windows and Burntwood Aluminium Systems pocketed cash from fake invoices used for a admitted submitting false invoices and overcharging while receiving more than £200,000 over six years for work, some of which was invented. He will be sentenced at a later date.
Sixty-year-old Stephen Roberts received nearly £16,850 for supplies that were never used.
Nathan Cooper even overcharged by just under £25,000 to supply sports supervision and coaching, which was heavily inflated.
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And Robert McKeown, a partner of one of Hollingsworth's family members, pretended to take on ten jobs at the school in a bid to launder cash through his company.
Michael Dewsbury, 54, who lives next door to the Hollingsworth family, convicted of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, was given a three-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months and ordered to do 120 hours unpaid work and pay £10,000 costs.
Hollingsworth was found guilty of conspiring to defraud with five other people and an attempt to pervert the course of justice by trying to get carpenter McKeown to take all the blame for his involvement in their deal that involved payment for non-existent work.
Delivering his sentence to Hollingsworth, Mr Ward said: "You have been a teacher all your adult life. You are married to Joseph and have adult children who live with you, as does your elderly father.
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"You had a responsibility for finance – setting the budget – working with the school governing body to make sure that best value was obtained for all money allocated to the school.
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"You treated the income of the school as a fund you could use generously for yourself. This isn't a case of dipping into funds – over some six years you were criminally responsible for fraudulently depriving the school of some half a million pounds."
Passing judgment on Jones, Mr Ward continued: "You abused your position of trust and responsibility.
"You also played an enthusiastic role in the shopping trips. You completely falsified documents from start to finish and manipulated the schools financial management system to cover up the fraud. That was sophisticated and took significant planning and oversight on your part."
Full list of sentences:
Michelle Hollingsworth, of Hatherton Park in Cannock, was handed a five years and six month prison sentence.
Joseph Hollingsworth, of Hatherton Park in Cannock, was given a one year jail term.
Deborah Jones, from Barrs Road, Cradley Heath, was slapped with a four years and three months sentence.
Nathan Cooper was handed a 14-month sentence, which was suspended for two years, and made to do 200 hours unpaid work.
Stephen Roberts, aged 60, was hit with a nine-months suspended sentence and ordered to undertake 120 hours of unpaid work.
Michael Dewsbury, aged 53, of Gardeners Cottage, Hatherton, was handed a 18-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and made to do 120 hours of unpaid work.
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I do think that I often need more protein, so I was curious as to whether there was anyway to help your body digest protein. The Body Ecology had some interesting pointers. The Body Ecology had some interesting pointers.... Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme found in pineapple. This enzyme helps in breaking down protein molecules. So if you eat pineapple with high protein diet, it will help in better digestion of protein.
Protein functions in human body. Protein is a nutrient needed by the human body for growth and maintenance. Aside from water, proteins are the most abundant kind of molecules in the body.
"Protein takes more energy for you to digest than refined carbohydrates, and also gives your body a feeling of satiety," says Dr. Hauser. Low-carb diets have been shown to help some people lose weight.
Digestive enzymes help break down large macromolecules found in the foods we eat (carbs, protein and fat) into smaller molecules that our guts are capable of absorbing. Digestive enzymes are split into three classes: proteolytic enzymes that are needed to digest protein, lipases needed to digest fat and amylases needed to digest carbohydrates.


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Q: Base64 String when decoded to png is cut off with Objective-C I'm converting an image that I retrieved from a URL to base 64 using this code.
NSURL* imageUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
NSData* urlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:imageUrl];
UIImage* uiImage = [UIImage imageWithData: urlData];
NSData* imageData =  UIImagePNGRepresentation(uiImage);
NSData*  base64 = [imageData base64EncodedDataWithOptions:0];
return [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[base64 bytes]];

the image url: https://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?data=somedata&size=220x220&margin=0
the generated base64 image.
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

I figured out the image is only halved because I checked using this tool.
http://codebeautify.org/base64-to-image-converter
Is there anyway I can generate a base64image String that contains the whole image?

A:     NSURL* imageUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?data=somedata&size=220x220&margin=0"];
    NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:imageUrl];
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
    NSString *base64 = [self encodeToBase64String:image];

To convert your image to base64 String use following code:
- (NSString *)encodeToBase64String:(UIImage *)image {
    return [UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) base64EncodedStringWithOptions:NSDataBase64Encoding64CharacterLineLength];
}

That base64 will give you full image. Tested with your given image
Here is base 64 :
  https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6d76e3ad852b4879ab097e6a1b3e68a2

A: In terms of why it's getting cut off, I suspect you're looking at the base64 string in the debugger, which will truncate it. Actually NSLog the string and you'll see it's longer than what you're seeing in the debugger.
A couple of other unrelated observations:

*

*You should not use stringWithUTF8String with [base64 bytes] because the NSData will not be null terminated. If you really needed to convert it to a string, you'd use initWithData rather than stringWithUTF8String:
return [[NSString alloc] initWithData:base64 encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

*As others have pointed out, you can bypass the creation of the NSData of the base64 altogether, and create the string directly:
return [imageData base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0];

*I'm not sure why you're taking the NSData from the server and round tripping it through a UIImage at all. You can theoretically just encode the data from the server directly:
NSURL* imageUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
NSData* urlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:imageUrl];
return [urlData base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0];

The server is already returning you the NSData of a PNG representation. You don't need to do that UIImage and UIImagePNGRepresentation stuff at all. You're actually generating a PNG that is considerably larger than the one the server returned to you.

*I'd advise against using dataWithContentsOfURL, because that's a synchronous network call. You probably should use NSURLSession and change this to be an asynchronous method.

A: To convert your UIImage into base64 string you can use this code.
NSString *base64String =  [UIImagePNGRepresentation(uiImage) base64EncodedStringWithOptions:NSDataBase64Encoding64CharacterLineLength];

Here is the code.
NSURL* imageUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?data=somedata&size=220x220&margin=0"];
NSData* urlData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:imageUrl];
UIImage* uiImage = [UIImage imageWithData: urlData];

NSString *base64String =  [UIImagePNGRepresentation(uiImage) base64EncodedStringWithOptions:NSDataBase64Encoding64CharacterLineLength];

NSLog(@"%@",base64String);

I checked the result string on http://codebeautify.org/base64-to-image-converter
Try it, Hope it helps.

A: This is working perfectly
UIImage *img = [UIImage imageNamed:@"QRcode.png"];
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Band's history
Label & management
Simple Plan Foundation
TOUR & ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Fan communities
PROJECTS & OTHER
Covers by Simple Plan
Versions of Summer Paradise
Female singers of Jet Lag
Famous personalities about SP
Actors from music videos
Fan stories
Fan tattoos
SIMPLE PLAN IN PRAGUE
SIMPLEPLAN.CZ
History of SimplePlan.cz
SimplePlan.cz interviews
Past layouts
Icons and logo
Contact the band
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[Note: the bios that are marked with an asterisk (*) have been written down and sent in by (rather tipsy) crew members themselves [some of them, at least]. So keep in mind that 0-100% of this information may be fake. But they were too good not to share. So there you go. Thanks, boys.]
DANNY VANCE
Who is it? Danny is Simple Plan's tour manager.
Where can he be found? This British fella first joined the Simple Plan tour on the first headlining tour in Europe in 2016, where he managed all three bands – The Bottom Line, Ghost Town and Simple Plan at the same time. He then returned for the second European tour in May 2016, where he "only" managed The Bottom Line and Simple Plan. In 2017 is back once more, but this time tour managing Simple Plan outside Europe as well – and it looks like he is back for good.
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SIM KLUGERMAN *
Who is it? Sim is Simple Plan's merch manager.
Where can he be found? Sim can be found all over taking care of the band and counting shirts. Sim believes in one universal truth: wherever the wind blows he shall be. He puts the Sim in Simple. Sim has previously toured with Simple Plan a number of times in the past, but is officially a part of the crew since 2010. For a period of time, he was also Simple Plan's tour manager and photographer.
CHADY AWAD *
Who is it? Chady is Simple Plan's personal photographer, videographer and meet&greet manager.
Where can he be found? Chady can be found running all over stage getting the perfect shot showcasing the band's true talents and art. Chady was born to an Oil Prince in Saudi Arabia. After a fight with his father the King over what is better, Pop Tarts in the toaster or freezer? Chady quickly escaped the wretched household he found himself in finding refuge in Montreal. Today he is a master photographer and master linguist speaking more than 11 languages including Navajo which he studies every day in his bunk… alone. Chady started touring with Simple Plan in 2012 – since then, he's been in charge of photography and meet&greets.
FRANK JOLY *
Who is it? Frank is Simple Plan's FOH tech [sound engineer]
Where can he be found? He can be found at FOH mixing the live sound for the show. Frank came from a simple upbringing: he was raised on a farm – a tabacco farm to be exact. He has never smoked but loves the smell. Frank is training to become an Olympic speed walker and will be competing in the 2020 olympics for Canada.
DIDIER LACHANCE *
Who is it? Simple Plan's light tech. He takes care of the entire light show. Including strobes which he loves sooo much.
Where can he be found? He can be found at Front of House with his best friend Frank Joly. Often doing light cues with his nose. His abilities and skills are unparalleled. He is known as Canada's greatest light tech. This has been confirmed by Canada's leader Justin Trudeau who LaChance can often be found enjoying lunch with at the Prime Minister's house in Ottawa. Didier is a great guy and is always happy even when he's sad.
CHRIS ADOLPH
Who is it? Seb's and Pierre's guitar tech and Chuck's drum tech
Where can he be found? He can be seen on the stage, taking care of the guitars and drums. He first joined the Simple Plan crew in spring 2017.
Other important people around Simple Plan
PATRICK LANGLOIS
Who is it? former webmaster of the official site / videographer / photographer / fashion designer / model / co-owner of Role Model Clothing / Man Of The Hour show co-host
Where could you have seen him? Patrick made cameos in a number of Simple Plan music videos and as a very close friend to the members o Simple Plan was known by the fans as the "6th member of Simple Plan". He was also in charge of the "A Big Package For You" DVD, which even feature one whole 'chapter' about him and from 2006 also co-hosts the Man Of The Hour show alongside Sebastien. He has not toured with Simple Plan since 2009. Patrick has since then established a career of a popular TV and radio host in Canada.
Who is it? Simple Plan manager (co-owns Coalition Entertainment Management)
Where could you have seen him? You could see Eric for example in the DVD: ABPFY, where he says "Jeff is very hairy". He is also on lots of pictures with SP.
He said about SP: "This band works so hard. In all my years in the business, I've not known a band to work as hard at their own careers."
FRED "BARNIK" JEROME
Who is it? Simple Plan's graphic designer
Where could you have seen him? You may recall his design work from pretty much anything Simple Plan have ever released: CDs, posters, book or their merchandise. Fred also appeared in a few MOTH episodes (as Fred "The Cheese Guy") and also used to design for Role Model Clothing.
FRANK BORIN
Who is it? music video, advertising and film director
Where could you have seen him? Frank is a very close friend to the members of Simple Plan. Mainly because he directed a lot of Simple Plan's music videos (I'd Do Anything, Addicted, I'm Just A Kid, Don't Wanna Think About You, When I'm Gone, Jet Lag) in the past. You could see him in the "Making of's" of these videos and you could also hear him in one episode of the Man Of the Hour show, when Sebastien and Patrick called him up. Besides Simple Plan, Frank has directed music videos for other successful artists, such as Red Hot Chilli Peppers or 5 Seconds Of Summer.
ANDY KARP
Who is it? vicepresident of A&R for Lava/Atlantic
Where could you have seen him? You could see Andy nearly on the beginning of the DVD: ABPFY where he amateurishly sings "Addicted" by Simple Plan.
He said about SP: "SP that's interesting, because the drummer actually called me up about three years ago pretending to be his manager. He sent me some demos and we started to talk and developed a little bit of a relationship."
TOM CHENEY
Who is it? founder, CEO and co-owner of the Idobi radio
Where could you have seen him? Tom helped Sebastien and Patrick with their show Man Of The Hour, which airs on Idobi radio. As of right now, he co-owns Idobi radio alongside Chuck and Seb from Simple Plan, Joel Madden from Good Charlotte and Eddie Barella.
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Love Island set to return in 2021 as casting for series 7 begins
The show has been off air since February due to the pandemic
Love Island could be making a return to our screens this year after it emerged that producers have begun casting for the hit show.
The reality series has been off air since its first winter season ended in February, coming to a close just before the coronavirus pandemic struck in March.
However, the show's casting website is now inviting applications for contestants to appear in the seventh series.
Love Island's Amber Gill wows fans as she loses over a stone in six weeks
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ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall told the newspaper it's how 24 of 30 Islanders in the summer 2019 series were cast.
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While a return to our screens in January is unlikely amid current lockdown restrictions, fans are hopeful the show may return in summer 2021.
Love Island's 2019 winner Amber Gill recently wowed followers with her stunning transformation. The TV star shared her weight loss journey with her 2.7 million followers, and we can't get over her hard work.
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Amber shared a before and after picture online, and although she looked great before, her determination definitely paid off, in more ways than just physically.
The celeb opened up on how losing over a stone in six weeks has made her feel so much better mentally:
'Guys, look at this… I lost my lockdown weight! I'm so proud of my little transformation I didn't really intend on losing a load of weight just wanted to start feeling better.
'By no means do I think I was 'fat' but I wasn't being as healthy and mindful as usual and right now I feel so much better within myself.
'I used to think that line lose a stone in six weeks was all lies, but that's exactly what I did... And a little bit extra.'


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This healthy kids printable post was sponsored by Dole Mixations.
New school year = fresh start. Please tell me that's true. We had a rough one last year, and I have a brand new plan to head back to school in the happiest, healthiest way possible.
So here's what I did: I sat them down and told them that we are about to start a new adventure, and it's going to be our best yet. But in order to stay happy and healthy in first grade (and preschool, to loop in the little one) we have to focus on 1.) eating good food to fuel our bodies and our brains, and 2.) getting good sleep so our bodies can feel good, stay strong and grow. And if we do both of those things, it will be much easier to be happy throughout the day, follow rules and be kind to our family and friends.
In a nutshell, we developed a new back to school motto: Good sleep. Good food. Good mood.
Good sleep. Good food. Good mood. Try it. It just might work for you, too! To make it easier, I created a couple of fun printables that can be framed, put into a lunchbox, or simply hung on the fridge to keep self-care and good habits top of mind.
Click the blue links below to print them out for your kids, too.
With long, busy school days and lots of soccer practice, walking the walk when it comes to "good food" can be tough. We have our share of pizza nights, but all in all, we stick with lots of whole foods, fruits, veggies and lean meats. The fruit always goes over best, so we eat a lot of it, but there are times when fresh just isn't ideal.
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I would definitely dig into the Pineapple Mango first. What a great combination….
pineapple mango blend sounds good!
Love the pineapple – mango . . just got into that combination.
I really want to try the pineapple mango!
Apple/Raspberry would be my first try.
I would dig into an apple strawberry first.
We'd love to try the Apple Strawberry and the Pineapple Mango first!
Apple Raspberry would be my favorite DOLE Fixations flavor.
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I can't wait to try these. My kids love fruit and it will be a great new lunch box snack or after school snack!
Love this printable! I often write sweet notes on the cup lids. They are perfect for that!
I'd dig into pineapple mango first.
I think pineapple peach apple sounds delicious.
Pineapple mango, two of my favs!
I would try the Apple Raspberry.
Apple rasberry gets my vote.


I'm preparing to do some animation for my film project, and am determined to improve my DIY animation skills. I've made a few animations in my life, using objects, my own face, and an overhead projector. All have worked, but have required MANY hours of correcting images frame-by-frame because of my unsteady set-up and mediocre lighting skills. Don't get me wrong- I'm a big fan of the homemade aesthetic. But, I'm not a big fan of sitting in front of the computer hours on end correcting mistakes that I could have avoided with a little more research.
That said, I've been plowing through the internet world of DIY animation tutorials, and have found some useful tips!!
2) The lighting. I'm tired of having bad lighting for my animations. I've used clamp lights, but not had the best of luck. One problem I've had with them is that they move, and every time that happens the lighting in the animation changes.
Apparently this same lamp has been recommended to turn into a DIY webcam mount, a mic stand AND a speaker mounts as well. Pretty handy!
3) The cut-out animation technique. There's plenty of tutorials out there, but I found Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show to be the most helpful so far. His explanations are simple, funny, and acknowledge the desire to make things as easy as possible. Plus, the animations are awesome.
–Storyboard (I was lazy to do this at first for my film pro0ject, but I'm SO GLAD I did. It's an incredibly useful structure or jumping off point from which you can explore and elaborate on in the moment of making).
Storyboard example 1 from my film project, "Red Blob Massacre"
Storyboard example 2 from "Red Blob Massacre"
–A stop-motion editing program ('frame catcher'). I was lucky to get Dragon Stop Motion for a student price through my university, and am glad I did. It's very helpful. Before, I was attempting to edit one photo at a time into Final Cut Pro, which is the editing software I work with. Not a good idea. I know there are free versions out there as well- definitely helpful.
–Video editing software. As I mentioned above, I use Final Cut Pro. Would like to give After Effects a shot someday, but for now I'll work with what I'm used to. One new program at a time… Plus, I like the homemade look a bit better. After Effects already starts to get fancy. I'm sure I might change my mind once I figured the thing out, though.
–Sound. Any animation is good with good sound. If it doesn't look good, add some sound to it and it just might. Sound brings things to life. It accentuates the important moments. It adds the mood. For me, editing the sound in is just as fun as editing the animation. But, editing sound is a whole other topic, and one that I will not go further into at this time.
And thanks for reading :).
This entry was posted in animation, animation techniques, Art, cut-out animation, DIY, stop motion animation and tagged animation, animation techniques, art, cut-out animation, DIY on January 9, 2012 by emiliajavanica.


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4 Tips to Master Golf Promotions
By Brendan Menapace
Pitchfix Twister 3 Pins with Logo Ball Marker from EMT
The snow is melted. The weather is getting warmer. And with that, the lines at the first tee box are getting longer. That's right—it's golf season once again, and promotional products distributors should be looking at this market as a huge opportunity. Here are some ideas on how to score big (or low, if you're going by golf rules) with golf-related promotions.
1. Look at what's new
There always are new and innovative products in the golf industry. Putters start looking more like spaceships, pros start wearing high-top golf shoes and there are plenty of new gadgets. Steve Weinstein, president of EMT, Indianapolis, said that one of the most popular new items that he's seen not only looks good, but it does the greenskeepers a favor too. "We have a new divot tool that's called the Twister," Weinstein said. "It uses a unique action to fix divots. Rather than using a fork-type technology, which is usually the most popular, this uses pins that actually lift the divot from underneath and avoid tearing up the roots of the grass. It's preferred by greenskeepers and country clubs, and it's getting an awful lot of press in the golf industry."
Ryan DeGrand, vice president of sales for Pro Am Golf, St. Louis, said that many golfers are looking toward new technology that looks good and helps them out on the course. "[This item] basically is a watch that can be logoed, and it's called Teelink," DeGrand said. "It's got all these different golf courses that you load into this watch. And as you play the course, it tells you the distances from the ball to the hole. It's unique and different, and we thought it was an exciting item for us."
2. Look at what works
In addition to hot new items, there are plenty of staple products that every golfer can use on the green. Think golf balls, tees, ball markers and caps.
However, DeGrand said that distributors shouldn't just limit themselves to these items. "For us, it's always golf balls that are always very popular, but we really push hard to try to sell our customers other things besides golf balls," he said.
He added that giving clients the option of ordering one single item, like a golf bag, can encourage more business as well. "The big fear all these years is, 'Hey, I'd love to get these in the program, but I'd hate to have to do six golf bags. What happens if I only sell four out of six?'" DeGrand continued. "That's been a big advantage for us—giving our customers the opportunity to only get one bag. Our big push over the last four to six years is really going out to our customer base and telling them how we can do minimums of one with golf bags and golf shirts."
3. Look where you're selling
Although we would have loved to have been out on the golf course these last couple months, the weather just didn't allow for it in a lot of places. Weinstein said that distributors have to be smart about selling their golf items to clients who can actually use them. "In San Diego, the golf business is big all year round," he said. "In Maine, the season is kind of short. We're in the Midwest. We generally see orders April and May through October."
There are plenty of uses for golf items off the course, though, and DeGrand said that distributors can look for clients that can use golf products, but aren't necessarily a golf course or country club. "It could be a hotel or be in one of those conference rooms or ballrooms," he said. "Don't think it just has to be at a golf course or a driving range. We have the ability to bring in hitting bays and hitting nets with high technology to do a driver fitting or do a putter fitting at these hotels and events. We're really pushing events hard in the last three to five years, and have had success by thinking outside the box with things that aren't just on a golf course."
4. Look for more
Once you've made a deal to provide branded golf balls and golf bags to a country club or hotel, the deal doesn't have to be over. Weinstein said that golf products allow distributors perfect opportunities to build even more onto their sales. "I think that it's one of the most fertile markets for add-on sales," he said. "When somebody calls a distributor looking for balls, there's usually another order to be had there for hat clips, tees or something of that nature. So, if you become familiar with the products that apply to the market and how they relate, add-on selling becomes a pretty successful effort in the golf market."
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Manchester City Library will be holding a $10 Bag Book Sale on January 27, 2018 (Saturday), from 10 AM to 1 PM. The sale will take place in the Winchell Room on the lower level of the Main Library (405 Pine Street).
Bring average size grocery bags and fill them up with the many, many available books, audio CDs, DVDs, musical CDs and older musical scores. There will be over 10,000 items to choose from at this sale, for children, young adults and adults. You pay only $10 per average grocery size bag, as you leave the sales area.
Have a tight budget or need a new supply of reading material for the next snowstorm? Check out what is being offered at this sale, for there is something for just about anybody. We have books on all types of non-fiction subjects and fiction genres, such as mystery, science fiction, adventure, romance, history, biography, cookbooks, religion, art, crafts, social sciences, sports, literature, foreign languages, science and many other subjects. In addition, we have large print books, mostly fiction.
All proceeds go to projects and programs at Manchester City Library.
Point of contact for the sale is Eileen Reddy, who can be reached at ereddy@manchesternh.gov or by phone at 624-6550.


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There's a gent that lives not far from me by the name of Jim Bonaminio. I've never met him, but he's something of a minor celebrity. He's appeared on Good Morning America and NPR and all sorts of outlets. He's certainly a celebrity in the local market, and gets mentioned pretty regularly on the local news.
Back in the early 1970s, he sold produce out of the back of his pick-up truck in an empty parking lot. He did well enough that, after several years, he was able to buy a small plot of land and erect a more permanent structure. By which I mean some two-by-fours supporting a plastic corrugated roof. After several years of doing that, he built an actual building. That expanded and got added on to. By the time I first heard about and walked through in the late 1990s, the store interior was about 3 acres. Now, it's about 6 and 1/2 acres. Inside.
He sells much more than produce these days. In fact, it's by far the largest grocery store I've ever seen. He has whole sections devoted to different countries, importing foodstuffs from Mexico, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, China, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and a host of other countries. The last time I was there, I bought spicy Indian ketchup, frozen Filipino lumpias, a Japanese coconut drink and several bottles of root beer from different American microbreweries I had never heard of. The guy stocks just about everything edible that can legally be bought/sold in the U.S.
And, if that weren't enough, the store is also peppered with animatronic figures. Mostly bought from a Chuck E. Cheese that went under, but he's also got several General Mills cereal mascots, an anthropomorphic can of Campbell's soup and some less animated, but still quite chatty, Robin Hood characters.
I've taken out-of-town guests there on occasion and we always spend 3-4 hours in the store. It's just really frickin' huge with lots and lots to see. And believe me when I say that I'm seriously under-playing things here. There's no way I could really give you a true sense of what you're getting into when you walk into this place.
Here's the thing, though. He's celebrated as one of the folks who "made it." That's great that he did, but the reason we continue to celebrate him is because THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. That American Dream of becoming a great success through hard work and determination is largely a myth. Comicdom is rife with examples.
There are, of course, the notable examples of older creators getting screwed out their due. Siegel and Shuster, Bill Finger, Marty Nodell, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, the list goes on and on. Even those who didn't get completely shafted -- guys like Bob Kane and Will Eisner -- weren't leading exorbitant or lavish lifestyles. They made a living, but not a whole lot more. Stan Lee is probably the only one who might be able to make a claim success along those lines.
More recent creators that might be considered successful aren't exactly rolling in dough, either. Robert Crumb lives a pretty modest life in France and Jeff Smith remains near his childhood home in Ohio. Wendy and Richard Pini always seem to be doing well, but again, we're not talking vast commercial empire here either. Todd McFarlane is about the only other comic creator I can think of that can claim the kind of success that's idealized in the "American Dream."
That's nothing to say for the thousands of professional comic creators who worked incessantly on their projects, did excellent work on them, only to be largely ignored. Now, granted, the crop of 20-something folks out there now really haven't had a chance to become wildly successful, and you could make the same argument about many 30-somethings as well. But in the past several decades since comics as we know them were invented, and the thousands and thousands of people who worked on them during that time, that we might only point to two individuals who were able to turn comics into the "American Dream" says to me that it's not very rooted in reality. It says to me that there's either something inherently wrong with that ideal and/or that we live in a society that, contrary to popular belief, does not support true entrepreneurialism. Which is not to say that you can't start your own business; just that your new start-up has a great many barriers placed in front of it to prevent it from becoming "American Dream" level successful.
It's worth celebrating those individuals, like Bonaminio and McFarlane, who are able to somehow sneak through the cracks and become successes despite themselves. (And in both those cases, I really do mean despite themselves. Listen to them speak, and you'll wonder how they were able to keep their checkbooks balanced before they were able to pay someone to do it.) But it's also necessary to recognize that their successes are exceptionally, exceptionally rare, patriotic dogma to the contrary.
I've heard of this place more than once, "Jungle Jim's" or something like that, isn't it? I know it was in the "Weird Ohio" book.
Anyway, many commendable observations here. It's particularly funny that you point to Todd McFarlane, not only because 1) he's actually Canadian but 2) statistically speaking, a Canuck would actually have better odds of upward social mobility staying north of the border these days.
Fact is, one doesn't need to be a "decline and fall" pessimist to think that the "rags to riches" or even "rags to comfortably middle class" dream has been getting more dreamy and less real in America. It has, going back quite some time before the recession.
But apparently this is an unpleasant and uncomfortable subject for most. So the Panglossian bromide that the free market gives everyone exactly what he or she deserves hangs around instead. Yep yep.
Jungle Jim's is correct. Didn't realize I hadn't actually mentioned it by name.
Actually, McFarlane being Canadian only heightens his example with regard to the myth. The story being that even an immigrant coming to this country has a shot at the big time. Plays into the "tired, huddled masses" bit even more.
And, dude, MAJOR points for "Panglossian bromide." I'll admit to having to consult a dictionary for that, but it's a brilliant phrase with some impressively nuanced implied meanings. Love it!


A group of investors, led by US-based banking giant Goldman Sachs, invested $ 25 million in a blockchain-based payment initiative, Veem.
Taking advantage of "digital notebook" technology to increase the payment efficiency of small businesses, Veem stated in a press release, that they have completed an investment tour where GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), Trend Forward Capital, Extol Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Pantera Capital participated.
According to Forbes, Goldman Sachs invested in the name of "Principal Strategic Investment Group" so we can't really say it is a "Goldman Sachs" investment. Rana Yared, the executive director of Goldman Sachs, will also be the only observer to be included in the board of directors of Veem without the authority to vote.
Veem plans to invest this last investment in integrating new partners into the system and providing services to "prevent money laundering and identify customers".
Currently serving over 80,000 small businesses in 96 countries, Veem uses Bitcoin to match customers' bank accounts with vendors.
In August, Goldman Sachs led a $ 32 million B-series investment tour for Axoni, a corporate-based blockchain-based startup.
Goldman Sachs CFO Martin Chaves, who attended the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco last week, said in his statement that he has to describe the reports on them dropping their action on cryptocurrency exchange as "fake news".
Chavez who said "I never thought I'd hear myself actually use this term, but I'd really have to describe that as fake news." also mentioned that they are researching the best ways for Bitcoin - Fiat transactions and that their clients specifically request this.


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I am run around as if with rope, imagine being all tied up,
unable to go anywhere but it's fine. The tiny person says
she is a ghost haunting me and I believe it when
in the middle of the night I get up for seltzer and cannot
quiet my mind of terrible happenings. Put the thought
on a boat and push it toward the horizon line, they say.
Wave now as it floats away. Or there's a box to pack and ship.
I move through the motions, an unforgettable dance, though
it never really works. I wake feeling I am no good but
for my gentleness, my tendency to lie right down
where I am and make a home of it. My debts blink
around me like lightning bugs, but it's not that time of year.
Time becomes boxed and labeled. You tell me
you want to live forever, chewing on ice.
Tokihiro Sato. Shirakami #5, 2008. Archival inkjet print. © The Artist. Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NY.
On the ugly white couch I am crying with the sun
over me like a father burning all his Cubs memorabilia
in the driveway after yet another loss. The thing about not drinking is —
and then a gimlet in my grip. They say to visualize depression as a plate,
broken. Ripped-up bill. Ash. I mean, I want to. I want to
mark my next dissolving on the calendar. Break it down.
Are the parts of me younger or timid or taking control?
She asks me to tell her more about the thoughts and there's nothing
bloody there, so I don't have to lie. It's enough to say the tulips
turned like an ankle. To try to phrase it as a gift. There aren't maps
for how blocks of light move past me locally. I grow used to feeling
like silk, a single strand. What is my work when sometimes
my hand doesn't feel like my hand? As if
I could believe it was someone else touching me.
Anna Meister is author of the chapbook Nothing Granted (dancing girl press) & holds an MFA in poetry from New York University. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Tinderbox, |tap| magazine, Kenyon Review, & elsewhere. Anna lives in Des Moines, IA & at www.anna-meister.com.
Tokihiro Sato was born in 1957 in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Trained as a sculptor, he has been using photography since the late 1980s to express his ideas about light and space. In his best-known series, Photo Respiration, tiny points of light or illuminated lines record his movements through space. Using a large-format camera set on a tripod and timed for exposures that may last from one to three hours, he moves quickly through the described space. When shooting in daylight, he flashes a mirror at the sun. At night, or indoors, he uses a flashlight. The resulting photographs capture exquisitely detailed scenes punctuated by pinpoints or linear patterns of light that depict the artist's presence but not his image. For more than thirty years, Sato has exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the world. His photographs are in the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan; the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography; and many other important institutions.


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I use Family Tree Maker. I created a fact for "unrelated individual" and then I colored all those individuals and saved the list. I update the list regularly by running the filter and coloring the new individuals. This way I always know which individuals are on NOT YET my blood relatives and I don't run the risk of mistaking individuals especially since the first names are so often the same.
Very clever! That's an excellent approach. I'm about to have a 3-day weekend during which I plan to get all the disconnected people tagged.
NOTE: I'm examining my list of individuals in my tree sorted by relationship. It turns out that complex relationships are being labelled as UNKNOWN by Family Tree Analyzer. One such complex relationship is "mother-in-law of 1st cousin of husband of" me. So, go through your list and find and label those who really are unrelated to you.
Another way to find those unrelated people in your family tree, if you have Family Tree Maker, is the kinship report.
You said.... After some research, you may decide to remove some unrelated people from your family tree....... but I would think they need to be "somewhere" so they don't end up back on the tree as maybe's..... I have a file called "not blood".
That's a really good point. I do keep a folder of documents for "possible relatives". I do think I'd prefer to keep families in my tree with my big blue NO RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED image attached to them.


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In India, the Sanskrit word 'Kavi' is generally accepted as denoting a poet, but the word, correctly interpreted, does not mean a person who, having been endowed with high powers of imagination and expression, is purely and simply a writer in verse, it means a seer, an enlightened and wise person, And Rabindra Nath Tagore was much more than a mere versifier having high powers of imagination and expression; he was a 'Kavi' in the strictest sense of the term. Gitanjali is a collection of hundred and odd poems and songs from his Bengali work mainly 'Gitanjali', 'Naivedya', 'Kheya' and 'Gitimalya' transcreated by the poet himself that thrilled the whole world and won him the coveted Noble prize.
Best Poems Of Rabindranath Tagore From Gitanjali
It is the first poem from the collection of poems "Gitanjali" by Rabindranath Tagore.
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure, this frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life.
This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new.
At the immortal touch of thy hands, my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
thy infinite gifts come to me only on these very small hands of mine. Ages pass, and still thou pourest, and still, there is room to fill.
Rabindranath Tagore believes that God pervades the whole of the human existence and man is nothing but an instrument in the hands of God, a servant whose duty it is to carry out the commands of his master. The human body is like a frail of a vessel which God empties again and again and then fills it ever with fresh life. Man dies and takes birth in another shape. In this way, human life is constantly renewed. this shows Tagore's faith in the Hindu doctrine of transmigration.
He compares his body to a flute, made of reeds. God is the musician and He plays upon it everywhere, over the hill, as well as, in valleys. He always plays new and fresh melodies. Tagore believes it is under divine inspiration that he is always able to sing fresh and new songs. As God is everywhere and in every object of Nature, he gets His inspiration everywhere and sings over hills and dales.
Whenever God touches his soul with His immortal hand I.e. whenever He inspires him, he sings with immense joy, forgetting his own physical limitations. He loses his identity in his union of man and God, the eternal soul gets absorbed in Infinite.
God's bounty knows no limit. His gifts are numerous and He has scattered them everywhere for ages. But the human soul is too little to enjoy in full abundance and profusion of divine bliss. again human soul is compared to a little child, whose hands are too small to hold the gifts which his parents offer to him. God has been bestowing His gifts upon His slaves for ages and still, His blessings are not exhausted. God's gifts are endless.
when thou commandest me
When thou commandest me to sing it seems that my
heart would break with pride;
and I look to thy face,
and tears come to my eyes.
All that is harsh and dissonant in my life melts
into one sweet harmony-and my adoration spreads
wings like a glad bird on its flight across the sea.
I know thou takest pleasure in my singing. I know
that only as a singer I come before thy presence.
I touch by the edge of the far-spreading wing of
my song, thy feet which I could never aspire to reach.
Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and
call thee friend, who art my lord.
Introduction: There are a hundred and three poems in Tagore's poetic collection entitled the Gitanjali. This is the second song by Gitanjali. From the point of view of the theme, the poems are divided into several groups. The first group (1-7) deals with the vastness and immensity of God's love and His gifts and intimate relationship of love, existing between God and the poet.
Rabindranath Tagore says that he sings only when God commands him to do so whenever he gets inspiration from God. his heart is overflowed with joy and he feels a sort of pride on being inspired by God It is because of the immense joy that tears flow down his eyes. In such moments of inspiration . his soul is one with the divine and he feels that he is face to face with God. his creator. Thus, the passage gives an account of the mystic bliss, that illuminates his being as he sings in praise of God.
The poet admits that his soul is not absolutely pure. there is much discordant, ugly, foul and wicked in his soul, but when he gets divine inspiration. his soul is purified of that wickedness. The divine inspiration overcomes the discordant or jarring element, his soul is exalted and peace descends upon him. All that is ugly, wicked and undesirable is dissolved into peace and harmony and in this exalted state, his heart is overflowed with the feeling of devotion and submission. He gets new vigour and energy. Like a glad bird, he spreads his wings to sing in praise and adoration of God. When a bird gets fresh energy, it spreads its wing to fly across the sea. Similarly, under the divine inspiration, his soul strives to seek a union with God, his creator.
The poet also feels that God is delighted, whenever he sings in His praise. It is only as a singer or a sincere devotee that God loves him the best i.e. whenever he sings, in praise of God, in a state of oblivion and self-denial, he is closer to his Creator. The poet feels that harmony of discordant notes is the basis of the song and such harmony is also the basis of God's creation. A musician brings order out of disorder, just as God Himself imposed law and order on chaos, a welter of warring elements, this is how the creation took place. This creation is the music of God. Thus, according to the poet, music is the only means through which he can reach God and his soul becomes one with God. It is a mystic experience, which only inspired singers can have.
The poet says with utter humility that even under the state of divine inspiration, he cannot have the full glimpse of his Creator. His only hope is to touch his feet with the outspread wings of his soul. Divine inspiration fills his heart with immense joy and he feels elevated spiritually, and he forgets that he is a humble slave of God. He considers that he is a friend of God for the mystic experience removes the veil between the two.
I know not how thou singest, my master!
I know not how thou singest, my master! I ever listen in silent amazement.
The light of thy music illumines the world. The life-breath of thy music runs from sky to sky.
The holy stream of thy music breaks through all stony obstacles and rushes on.
My heart longs to join in thy song but vainly struggles for a voice. I would speak, but speech breaks not into song, and I cry out baffled.
Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!
In this poem, God is presented as a master musician. The poet listens to the sweet music of this master musician, who is also his Maker. He listens to His music with amazement. His music illuminates the world. He enlivens it from sky to sky by the life-breath of his song. His music flows swiftly like a holy stream and removes all obstacles that come in the way. Even the stones are moved by divine music.
The poet longs to sing in the manner of God. He wants to join Him in his singing. But he is unable to do so. His voice fails him and he cannot speak or sing. All his efforts go in vain. He gets bewildered and cries out in extreme dismay. The poet aspires to become one with God, but he cannot do so, because he is entrapped in this world of Maya, which is the endless music of God. The sweet harmony of God's music is constantly sounded through the universe and the poet is held captive by it. He listens to it with the utmost joy and fails to set himself free from its meshes.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free where the world has not broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
This is lyric number thirty-five in Tagore's Gitanjali. It is different from the rest of the previous poems. Most of the previous lyrics deal with the spiritual love, but this is a political lyric and was included in Gitanjali from one of Tagore's Bengali works return much earlier. It is regarded as one of the most popular and effective lyrics of Tagore.
It is an inspirational poem by Rabindranath Tagore In it, he prays for the spiritual emancipation of his country.
Rabindranath Tagore wants his countrymen to be fearless. They should be bestowed with such virtues as may enable them to live a respectable life. Education should be imparted to his country free of cost. There should be no division of caste, creed or nationality. There should be unity in his country and it should be free from petty disputes. Love should be the basis of there mutual relationship and people should always be making endless efforts to achieve perfection in every and justice for the sake of dead habit. In other words, they should be dynamic. They should be broad-minded and their mind should always be busy in thinking new and noble thoughts. The poet praise to god to make his country such heaven of freedom where people may have opportunities of their full spiritual and intellectual development.
Deliverance is not for me in renunciation.
I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine of various colors and fragrance, filling this earthen vessel to the brim.
My world will light its hundred different lamps with thy flame
and place them before the altar of thy temple.
No, I will never shut the doors of my senses.
The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.
Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy,
and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.
Introduction to the poem
According to popular belief and conception, a mystic is he, who renounces the world and shuns the pleasures of the senses. but Rabindranath Tagore is not this type of mystic poet. He neither renunciates the world nor does he shun the pleasures of senses.
According to the poet, the actual deliverance or rescue is not in abandoning the world and its activities. the poet feels the pleasure of deliverance is in a thousand bonds of delight. These thousand bounds of delight are the various duties, which man has to discharge in this world for the true joy and delight lies in discharging the duties, which have been assigned to the man in this world.
According to the poet, human life is like an earthen pot or tumbler which God fills up again and again with the wine of different colours and tastes and not to drink this wine would be the height of ingratitude. This scented and tasty wine are the various duties, which man has to discharge in each day of his life. The poet wishes to express his devotion and gratitude to God by lightning a hundred lamps by His inspiration on His altar. In other words, the poet wants to show his devotion and gratitude to God by writing songs in His, praise under divine inspiration.
God has created this beautiful world for the joy and pleasure of man and it is man's duty to enjoy the various pleasures with which God has blessed him in abundance. And a true devotee of God is he, who enjoys the pleasure of senses because this sensuous delight is the expression of the pleasure that God takes in the creation of the various objects of this world.
But this does not mean that the poet teaches a life of sensuous pleasure. Sensual delight should be sublimated and spiritualized. All that is gross and ignoble in worldly pleasures should be transformed into an expression of pure love. This transformation is possible only when a man uses all his powers and abilities in the service of his fellow beings. The true joy lies in the service of Mankind.
Thus it is that thy joy in me so full.
Thus, it is that thou hast come down to me.
O thou lord of all heavens, where would be thy love
If I were not?
Thou hast taken me as thy partner of all this wealth.
In my heart is the endless play of thy delight.
In my life, thy will is ever taking shape.
And for this, thou, who art the King of kings hast decked thyself in beauty to captivate my heart. And for this, thy love loses itself
in the love of thy lover, and there art thou seen in the perfect union of
Introduction: In this poem, Rabindranath Tagore lays stress on the essential truth that the love of the beloved would be meaningless without the lover and beauty would lose its value if there is none to admire and appreciate it.
There is deep love between God-lover and the poet-beloved. The poet's beloved's heart is full of the love of the divine lover. In this way, God-the divine lover has come down from His high throne to the poet beloved. The poet-beloved says to his divine lover where would be his lover if he were not there? hence, God, the lover is as much in need of man's love as man is in need of God's love.
The poet beloved says to his divine love that He has made him His partner in the act of creation and he feels in his heart the endless play of thy delight. God's will is being realized through the medium of man.
It is for this that the God-lover has decked Himself with various beautiful objects of nature so that He may captivate the heart of the poet beloved. And, it is for this, that His love gets mingled with man's love and this union of the two lovers is the perfection of love. Such love of man and God is the highest and the noblest love. This union of the human and the divine is the perfection of love and God longs for it as much as a man does.
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