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How to Start Your Own (Successful!) Etsy Shop
Check out these 11 must-do tips for becoming a top seller on Etsy.
By Ellen Sturm Niz
Have a craft you think could sell on Etsy? Whether you want to turn your hobby into a full-time business or just a way to earn some extra cash, here's how to maximize the possibility of turning your online shop into a profitable enterprise.
1. Take advantage of Etsy's seller resources. The company offers a lot of information and tools to help its sellers maximize traffic and sales, from e-mail blasts, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos to its Quick-Start Guide and Etsy Seller Handbook, which is updated twice a week. "Our Seller Handbook is really a one-stop guide for all of your resources for selling on Etsy," says Kimm Alfonso, Director of Seller Development. "You can search for exactly what you need or you can browse by topics."
2. Set pricing that can sustain your business. Trying to decide what to charge for the items in your shop can be daunting, but Alfonso recommends starting high. "Essentially, that's what's going to help you maintain your business for the long term," she says. "With a low price point you might have quick wins in the beginning, but if you're not actually making any money off that price, after a year, you're not going to be in business. Price in a way that is reflective of your brand and that takes into account all of your business costs and materials, as well as time and profit."
3. Take good photographs. "Good photography is number one for getting your work to stand out and someone to click on it," Alfonso says. "Keep it simple and communicate what the product is, go outside and use natural light, and stay away from busy patterned backgrounds, because it can distract from the product," she advises. "If you can, merchandise your product with something that helps communicate scale so buyers don't even have to read [the details] to know exactly what size it is." Etsy also offers photography advice in its Seller Handbook Photography Articles.
4. Launch a full-feeling shop. Starting with at least 10 items will give your shop a finished feel on Etsy, Alfonso says. "You want your shop to feel full, so that when people land on it, they recognize that they are buying from a store," she explains. "If you only have a couple of items, it doesn't really breed confidence in a buyer. Plus, you want to make sure they can stay and shop around."
5. Think like a buyer. "It's often hard for us as makers, designers, or curators to get out of our heads and think like a buyer," admits Alfonso, but that's exactly what you need to do. Alfonso recommends brainstorming everything you would say about your product to build titles, tags, keywords, and product descriptions, and then use the Etsy tools to see what's working and what's not. "I would even ask a friend, 'Would you search for this? How would you describe this?" she says.
6. Develop consistent branding. Branding can sound like a complicated marketing term, but Alfonso says it's really just establishing what sets you apart and telling your story. "Buyers on Etsy and buyers in the world really want to connect with that story of uniqueness," she says.
"I think a lot of people are rooting for us because it's an inspiring story," says Alexandra Ferguson of her eponymous Etsy shop known for its pillows with bold graphic phrases. "Working in the domestic manufacturing space, having our own factory in Brooklyn, growing from a small Etsy shop sewing my own pillows after work in the evening to this being my full-time job for three years and selling 12,000 pillows a year—that's a self-made story that people can relate to and really root for. Working with eco-friendly materials and having a lot of social responsibility is a story that people want to hear these days. It's positive and uplifting."
Ferguson tells her story through the eco-friendly materials she uses, the clean aesthetic of her photographs, and the design and messages of her pillows. "I'm looking for phrases that are part of the common lexicon, so what happens when I get it right is the phrase resonates with the customer," she says. "They are not seeing a pillow, they are seeing a piece of themselves. They're looking at their internal thoughts, like 'Wake Up, Work Out' or 'Call Your Mother.' Our product creates a strong emotional connection with the buyers, which drives a lot of our cult following."
"I know I've done a good job with branding if our products are instantly recognizable," Ferguson says. "A celebrity recently Instagrammed a photo of our 'Best Dad Ever' pillow, and in her comment feed, two of our fans tagged us. They knew right away."
7. Participate in in-person sales opportunities. Despite the fact that you're opening a virtual storefront, there is still something to learn from dealing with customers in person at flea or craft markets or pop-up shops. "Getting feedback directly from customers in real time about color choices, styles, and designs is valuable," Alfonso says. "Because you can quickly make changes on Etsy, you can upload a new style and start seeing results."
8. Make a business plan. "Launching your business and thinking about your long-term success can feel very overwhelming," Alfonso says, "so make sure to identify milestones to keep growing. Set goals you feel you can attain based on how much time and commitment you have."
Christina Lembo of Franny and Franky launched her Etsy business in September 2013 and has let her business plan develop organically, now operating a successful retail and wholesale business for her collections of art prints and stationery. "Wherever I was along the way, I set a long-term goal," Lembo says. "Then I would set milestones I would have to meet for that to happen, and then identify all the tasks that I would have to do to meet those milestones. At one point, my long-term goal was to quit my day job, so one of my milestones was to get into 25 shops. The tasks to get there were making a catalog, finding shops to send the catalog to, and actually sending it out to them."
"Be comfortable with going slowly, and be patient and realistic with yourself," Lembo says. "A lot of people start their Etsy shops on the side and have full-time jobs or family obligations. You don't want to burn yourself out and have this be a source of stress because it's supposed to be a source of satisfaction."
9. Offer a variety of products and price points. If your shop's taking off, start thinking about developing a larger assortment of products that complement each other. A couple of years ago, for example, Alexandra Ferguson expanded her pillow business to add a line of makeup cases made of the same materials and with the same bold graphic phrases. "Our original inspiration was to use the nine inches of fabric left over after cutting the pillows, which was too painful to throw away, but too small to make a pillow out of," Ferguson says. "The other goal was offering something at a different price point for people who were big fans of the line but couldn't spring for a $100 pillow." The makeup cases were an instant success: "Now we sell too many makeup cases to just use our scrap fabric, but that's a nice problem to have."
10. Treat customers right. "People remember amazing customer service," Alfonso says. "Make sure that all of your communication to your buyer—like your shipping and return policies—is very, very clear so that they feel taken care of," Alfonso says. Another way to make an impression with a customer is in your packaging. She adds: "We've got some great articles in the Seller Handbook about creating those wonderful moments in your packaging that help your buyer feel really special upon receiving the item they bought from you."
11. Connect with other Etsy sellers in your area. When Alfonso opened her Etsy shop, Kimmchi, in 2007, she discovered there were a lot of things she didn't know about being a business, so she formed a local Etsy Team of other New York-based sellers. "I realized I couldn't be the only one asking these questions about taxes and business licenses, things that were hyperlocal," she says. The group proved to be an amazing resource, in just three years growing to 200 members who formed a non-profit organization of businesses helping each other.
Ellen Sturm Niz is a New York City-based editor and writer who recently launched her own Etsy shop. Follow her on Twitter and Pinterest.
Ellen Sturm Niz Ellen Sturm Niz is a New York City-based editor and writer who writes about women's lifestyle, home design, DIY projects, food & entertaining, and parenting.
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Shaldon Bridge closed Wednesday 24 October
Shaldon Bridge
Shaldon Bridge will be closed to all vehicles and pedestrians on Wednesday (24 October) from 9.30am until 9pm.
Devon County Council is partially opening the bridge to carry out maintenance work.
In addition, temporary traffic lights will be in operation on Tuesday 23 October and Thursday 25 October to allow painting and greasing work on the structure.
The opening will be partial as no boats are booked in and this will be sufficient to revolve the mechanism and maintain the locking legs.
The diversion will be signed which will be via the A381 Teignmouth Road, A380 South Devon Link Road, B3199 Riviera Way, to A379 Teignmouth Road.
There will be no public access for the duration of the closure.
The bridge is opened every one to two years to ensure it remains functional.
Councillor Stuart Hughes, Devon County Council's Cabinet Member for
Councillor Stuart Hughes
Highway Management, said:
"An Act of Parliament is in place requiring the bridge to remain operational and be kept in working order. It has been many years since the lifting span was raised for commercial reasons.
"The closure on Wednesday could be in place until 9pm but we will do everything possible to reopen the bridge earlier and it is possible that the work will be completed in time for the evening rush hour. In that event we will update the public via social media and through our website.
"We appreciate that this closure will cause some disruption, and we have scheduled the work to take place during the half term break and after the morning rush hour to minimise this and we appreciate your patience and understanding."
Twitter: @DevonCC @DevonAlert Facebook: @OfficialDevonCC Website: https://www.devonnewscentre.info/
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Overnight repairs planned at Shaldon Bridge in January
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At the confluence of the period of racial violence known as Red Summer (1919) and the first Red Scare (1917-1920), Jamaica-born poet and journalist Claude McKay merged black anger with radical politics in his most well-known poem, "If We Must Die."
McKay's sonnet initially appeared in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator, a radical socialist magazine published in New York City from 1918-24 by Max and Crystal Eastman. The fame and impact of "If We Must Die" was such that it was soon reprinted as a rallying cry in other progressive magazines such as the September 1919 issue of The Messenger, available in African American Periodicals, 1825-1995.
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'The Silvas' is a Sri Lankan family based band now performing in the club circuit in Bern, Switzerland. Led by veteran musician and singer Mano Silva, 'The Silvas' is more in to original music than cover versions.�'I moved to Switzerland about twenty years ago and performed with many of the popular Sri Lankan bands in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. It is, I think high time that we create music and songs. We have been singing cover versions for long time and I thought we should start doing on our own' Mano said.
'The Silvas' comprises of Mihiri Sangeetha, Tharaka Benjamin and Mano himself.�Mihiri and Tharaka are Mano's daughter and son, who are now into new generation music scene in Bern.�Their first song 'On My Own' is now out on air in Bern and fast becoming a hit.
The song was composed, arranged and produced by Mano Silva. �The lyrics and vocals of 'On My Own' by Mihiri Sangeetha and the Rap part was done by Tharaka Benjamin.
'My daughter�Komali Upeksha, an original member of the band is not performing with 'The Silvas' at the moment as she is expecting a baby' Mano said. Video directed and produced by Mano Silva and Ridmika.
At present we are working on our next single and will be out soon.'We enjoy doing our own things. Our second single too is almost finished and hoping to release it to air soon' he added�'The Silvas' are planning to tour Sri Lanka by the end of this year.�'Yeah, we are much anticipated on this visit and my children are very keen on performing in Sri Lanka. If the plans work out well for us, we will be in Colombo in December' Mano saidThe Silvas – On My Own, is now available for the public on YouTube.


If you're a parent then I'd say it's quite a safe assumption that you've heard of the Julia Donaldson book, The Gruffalo. With its catchy rhymes, colourful characters and good humour it is no wonder that it has captured the hearts and imaginations of children around the world. It was one of the very first books I bought when I knew I was expecting my little boy and we all fell under the story's spell. The kid loves it when I do the voices of the different animals and although he can't read yet, I know he appreciates the vivid illustrations from Axel Scheffler.
Now The Gruffalo Experience has arrived in Milton Keynes and when I was asked if our family would like to steal a sneak peek before it opened to the public, we of course, couldn't say no.
All that I knew prior to arriving was that it is in Middleton Hall in the centre:mk and The Gruffalo Experience promises a walk through and interactive journey into the deep dark wood.
From the outside the space looks like a giant white inflatable bouncy castle but once inside, you get transformed into the pages of the storybook. The way they have used the space and effects used to create the feeling of you being in the story are fab but all totally in keeping with the original book. There's no interpretations or disappointment, thankfully.
The staff are friendly and energetic as they take on the role as your guide through the wood. I think they engaged really well with children of all ages. I was a little worried that my son was going to be too young to appreciate the experience. At only 20 months he was the youngest there but that didn't stop him from being captivated by the characters and the storytelling, so even if you've got children under the age of three I think this is a lovely thing to experience as a family and you can take a pushchair inside too. For older children there is lots of opportunity for participation and learning what it's like to be one of the characters from the book.
The Gruffalo Experience is open at the centre:mk from 19 March – 10 April 2016.


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Q: H2 DB in Spring Boot Hibernate does not generate Db Schema I want my Spring Application to autogenerate the DB schema and tables...
I've read some Q&A to this topic and I've set my DB URL to:

H2DataSource.setUrl("jdbc:h2:mem:tmp.db;INIT=CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT
  EXISTS GPSTRACKER");

and I've annotated my Entities like:

@Entity
  @Table(name="tblGps", schema= "GPSTRACKER")

but the db schema is still not created.
Here is my log output.  Hibernate is trying to create the tables, but can't find the schema!
What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions?
Log Output
2015-04-20 22:29:38.211  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.hibernate.jpa.internal.util.LogHelper  : HHH000204: Processing PersistenceUnitInfo [
    name: default
    ...]
2015-04-20 22:29:38.356  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.Version                    : HHH000412: Hibernate Core {4.3.8.Final}
2015-04-20 22:29:38.360  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.cfg.Environment            : HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
2015-04-20 22:29:38.362  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.cfg.Environment            : HHH000021: Bytecode provider name : javassist
2015-04-20 22:29:38.745  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.hibernate.annotations.common.Version   : HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {4.0.5.Final}
2015-04-20 22:29:38.899  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect            : HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.H2Dialect
2015-04-20 22:29:39.202  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] o.h.h.i.ast.ASTQueryTranslatorFactory    : HHH000397: Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
2015-04-20 22:29:39.795  INFO 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport  : HHH000227: Running hbm2ddl schema export
2015-04-20 22:29:39.801 ERROR 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport  : HHH000389: Unsuccessful: drop table GPSTRACKER.tbl_gps if exists
2015-04-20 22:29:39.801 ERROR 7056 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport  : Schema "GPSTRACKER" nicht gefunden
Schema "GPSTRACKER" not found; SQL statement:
drop table GPSTRACKER.tbl_gps if exists [90079-185]

EntityManagerFactory
@Bean
    public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() {

        HibernateJpaVendorAdapter vendorAdapter = new HibernateJpaVendorAdapter();
        vendorAdapter.setGenerateDdl(true);
        vendorAdapter.setShowSql(true);
        vendorAdapter.setDatabasePlatform(MyAppSettings.getDbPlattform());

        HibernateJpaDialect jpd = new HibernateJpaDialect();
        LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean factory = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();

        factory.setJpaDialect(jpd);
        factory.setJpaVendorAdapter(vendorAdapter);
        factory.setPackagesToScan(MyAppSettings.packagesToScan);
        factory.setDataSource(MyDataSource());

        return factory.getObject();
    }

DataSource
DriverManagerDataSource H2DataSource = new DriverManagerDataSource();
                H2DataSource.setDriverClassName("org.h2.Driver");
                H2DataSource.setUrl("jdbc:h2:mem:tmp.db;INIT=CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS GPSTRACKER");

                H2DataSource.setUsername("sa");
                H2DataSource.setPassword("");

@pvgoddijn i can't remember exactly, and i can't find the code right now. But I guess it was that I needed to return LocalEntityManagerFactory instead of EntityManagerFactory... or sth like that. good luck! maybe i can find the code the next days...

A: When creating your datasource, you need to set the hbm2ddl.auto property in order for the database to be created/updated on startup.
    Properties properties = new Properties();
    properties.put("hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto", "update");
    H2DataSource.setConnectionProperties(properties);

You could also set the property in your hibernate.cfg.xml file
Other possible values are: validate | update | create | create-drop
Additional information about this and other properties can be found at: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/session-configuration.html#configuration-optional

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MICROFICTIONS solo show...
I'm very excited to be having a solo show, MICROFICTIONS, at the newly opened A|AH|D Gallery at the University of Notre Dame in conjunction with the &Now Festival of Innovative Writing. The exhibition will feature a selection of paintings on panel from the past five years as well as a brand new vinyl text installation. The show runs October 1-November 13, 2018.
I'm particularly excited that the exhibition is part of the &Now Festival happening at Notre Dame October 5-7, 2018. &Now is a biennial literary festival known for presenting innovative writing, thinking about writing, and interdisciplinary explorations such as new poetics, performances, narrative, critical, electronic and multimedia projects. In addition to presenting new work, its book fair, panels and readings foster conversation about past, present, and future literary concerns and movements.
Now in its fifteenth year, &Now 2018 is the latest iteration of a festival that travels to a different region every two years, and has been hosted in the past by: the University of Notre Dame (2004), Lake Forest College (2006), Chapman University (2007), the University at Buffalo (2009), UC San Diego (2011), Université de la Sorbonne, Paris (2012), the University of Colorado at Boulder (2013), and California Institute of the Arts (2015).
Past feature readers have included: M. NourbeSe Philip, Lydia Davis, William Gass, Shelly Jackson, Ishmael Reed, Nathaniel Mackey, Lynne Tillman, Percival Everett, Robert Coover, and many others.
More information about the festival is available at: https://www.andnow2018.com/
More information about the A|AH|D Gallery is available at: https://artdept.nd.edu/student-resources/creative-spaces/arts-on-campus/a-ah-d-gallery/
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Now represented by Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles... MICROFICTIONS solo exhibition opens... MICROFICTIONS solo show...part of &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing... Jason Lahr: Head Glitch at Aron Packer Projects, Chicago, IL... Head Glitch solo show early warning...in April... ART/WORK revised edition and studio happenings.... C'est la vie...9.2017 Electric Funeral solo exhibition at The Painting Center, NYC...


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An effective blog provides many benefits to its owners including better communication, increased traffic, and brand recognition. When a person is deciding what platform to build their blog on, they need to put several things into consideration. The right platform should offer flexibility, efficiency, and be maintainable. Furthermore, it should allow the blog's administrator to have user accounts and join small groups as well. If a business owner or any other person is in need of such robust features, then they should go for Drupal hosting. Drupal is great content management system with a wide range of modules that can be added to any blog to make it easy for readers to find the content that they are interested in and allow readers to engage with the content and the site administrators. Here are some of the best Drupal modules that any site builder can choose from depending on their needs.
Taxonomy is a core Drupal module that helps site builders to organize their content and make it easy for readers to find it. They use it to create vocabularies. Within these vocabularies, site builders specify certain terms and "tag" their content by these specified terms. The result of this work is that they can organize their blog content in a meaningful way to enable readers to find the information they are looking for with greater ease.
Pathauto also helps people to organize their content for easy access by readers. This module automatically generates URL/path aliases for a wide variety of content without requiring its builder to specify the path aliases manually. These aliases are based upon a "partner" system that makes use of strokes. Site builders can easily change these strokes.
Since Pathauto assigns URLs automatically upon page creation, it saves site administrators a lot of time. Those URL structures also provide essential context clues to search engines and readers, which makes it possible for them to understand the organizational structure of any blog content.
Most site builders use this module to filter and display content by author, subject, type, and much more. Views module is also leveraged by modules such as blocker and display suite to develop creative page layouts.
Disqus allows readers to engage with the site owner. If the builder of a site uses the first three modules but ignores Disqus, the blog may not be viable. It is like marketing a product but allowing engagement with potential clients.
Though commenting is a module that is also built into Drupal, Disqus has more advantages that it for site builders. Disqus is a commenting engine that is very easy to use and allows readers to comment on blog posts. It is the most popular commenting engine on the web today and provides an incredibly low barrier to entry.
Disqus provides logins via Disqus, Google accounts, Facebook, and Twitter. An additional advantage it has over Drupal's core commenting engine is that many people use it in numerous high profile, non-Drupal blogs such as Tumblr, Blogger, and WordPress with great ease. This means readers who engage with the site owner are most likely already familiar with the interface of Disqus.
Social Media module also makes it easy to share blog content. Since social sharing is arguably the best way to promote any content on the Internet, it enables the site builder to engage with very many people within a very short time.
This module helps integrate blogs with social media sites like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. Further, it provides a centralized system for managing social media profile information as well as widgets such as social media share and follow buttons.
One of the very encouraging things about this module is that it comes with an extremely intuitive setup wizard that allows the site owner to quickly add their profiles and choose the sharing buttons that they want.
Similar Entries help to keep readers on the blog site. This module provides lists of links to site content related to the current node a reader is viewing. It can display links either as part of custom reviews or in standard blocks. MySQL's FULLTEXT locates similar content and rates it.
Radioactivity is another Drupal module that keeps readers on the site. Just like the Similar Entries, it can be integrated with Views to create views of blocks for content depending on the popularity of that content. This module ensures that blog posts receiving attention as defined by Rules float to the top of the list. Inactive ones, on the other hand, float to the bottom of the list and ultimately fall off.
If a developer intends to earn revenue from ads through their blog site, they cannot ignore AdSense. This module is the easiest way to earn maximum revenue from online traffic that comes to their site. After integrating it on their blog, they need to set up, administer, and configure AdSense Advertising, and they are ready to go.
Also, if the site developer has created the blog for affiliate marketing purposes, this module can be of great help to them. They just need to integrate EarnHighWay in their blog site to select goods, create the necessary pages, setup payment gateways, and be fully set for effective affiliate marketing.
This module is an ultimate solution for taking care of eCommerce needs through CMS. With the help of Drupal Commerce, an administrator can create many product categories and displays and continue to manage both order and the payment procedures in an efficient way. This module is customizable and extensible, and that can help administrators to keep their sites fully up-to-date with the constantly changing economic and social needs of people.
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Q: Python Process Multiple Files As an example, let's say we have 3 CSV files with millions of lines per file:
file_1.csv contains 10 million lines
file_2.csv contains 2.5 million lines
file_3.csv contains 7.1 million lines

I understand that I could use Python's multiprocessing library and process each file in a separate process using one thread per process.
Another idea would be to process each file in a separate process, like above, but within each process have multiple threads working on chunks of the file. For example:
Process 1
  file_1.csv being processed
  thread 1 is processing the first 1 million lines
  thread 2 is processing the second 1 million lines
  etc…
  combine thread results

… and so on for process 2 and 3.
So, my question is, what is the fastest way to process these files?

A: Using threads to process parts of the file will not improve performance at all (assuming you're using CPython), because of the Global Interpreter Lock. Only one thread can run Python bytecode at a time, so anytime your threads need do something other than blocking I/O, only one thread can actually run concurrently. So you end up essentially processing the file sequentially, only with additional overhead caused by switching between the threads.
So, of the two options you came up with, the former will perform better. However, you could potentially improve performance further if you have more than 3 CPU cores on your system, by splitting the files so that every available core on your system is processing a chunk of a file in its own process (and therefore avoiding the GIL). The best way to do that is dependent on what kind of processing you're doing to each csv file. Are you putting data from the csv into a data structure in memory? Doing some kind of calculation on each line?, etc.


First, the White House's poor performance and organisation mens the US has given up, for now at least, any chance of securing concessions related to longer-term problems. Its obsession with half-baked thinking about the causes and consequences of the trade deficit means that it is ignoring or neglecting bona fide concerns that the auto, semiconductor, and tech industries have about doing business with and in China and having their IP acquired, plagiarised or stolen. But it doesn't look as thought he White House has the competence to deal with this in a smart and effective way. Not now, anyway.
Second, there has been a woeful ignorance about the things that matter to trade balances anyway, namely the excess of investment (including the fiscal deficit) over savings in the US, and the deeply entrenched manufacturing trade surplus in China, along with the nation's low manufacturing import propensity, itself the result in large measure of government policies. There will never be a satisfactory resolution of the Sino-US trade imbalance until grown-ups are prepared to talk about these things properly.


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Return the first Graph object that is associated with this Question. Use method Graphs to obtain a list of Graphs if there is more than one for this question. Creates a new Graph object if there is no Graph object for this question yet.
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Philadelphia's Queen Of Jeans Satirize 1960's Girl Groups With 'U R My Guy'
Zac Gelfand 03.07.18 1 year ago
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Only a few weeks after we premiered the excellent video for "More To Love," Philadelphia quartet Queen Of Jeans are back with another preview of their upcoming debut album, Dig Yourself. Placed smack in the middle of the record, "U R My Guy" was born thematically out of the tendency to categorize Queen Of Jeans as reminiscent of 1960's girl groups, immediately tokenizing their sound and pushing the band into a corner.
With "U R My Guy," the band elected to write to the girl group stereotype, but to take it to the extreme until it became a satire, the goal being to showcase the modernized sound of Queen Of Jeans as vocalist/guitarist Miriam Devora's lyrics play around with gender norms.
"We wrote this song as satire about those 60s girl groups that, while we are certainly influenced by musically, are often very problematic in their messages towards women," the band explained in a statement. "We wanted to flip the script and write a song in that genre that empowers women instead." Check out the excellent "U R My Guy" below.
Dig Yourself is out 3/30 on Topshelf Records, and is available to pre-order here. A hometown album release show is scheduled for 3/31, with a stacked bill also featuring Katie Ellen and Harmony Woods.
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Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate reacts with carbon dioxide to produce 3-keto-2-carboxyarabinitol 1,5-bisphosphate as the first step in the biochemical process of carbon fixation. It needs an enzyme to do this (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, or RuBisCO) and lots of ATP (adenosine triphosphate, produced by photosynthesis). Here I ask what the nature of the uncatalysed transition state is, and hence the task that might be facing the catalyst in reducing the activation barrier to that of a facile thermal reaction. I present my process in the order it was done‡.
I thought I would launch the 2012 edition of this blog by writing about shared space. If you have not come across it before, it is (to quote Wikipedia), "an urban design concept aimed at integrated use of public spaces." The BBC here in the UK ran a feature on it recently, and prominent in examples of shared space in the UK was Exhibition Road. I note this here on the blog since it is about 100m from my office.


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It's a week before Christmas...do you know where your soldiers are?
We'll start this morning as we always do, with the latest casualty figures courtesy of Antiwar.com:
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03):	3895
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 3755
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03):	3434
Since Handover (6/29/04):	3036
Since Election (1/31/05):	2457
Other Coalition Troops: 307
US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 473
We find this morning's cost of war standing at:
$ 478, 037, 000, 000 .00
As this year winds to a close, let's take a brief look in the rear-view mirror. According to our friends at IAVA, some key legislation has been moving forward thanks to the efforts of many of us who took the time to harass our elected representatives. The 2008 NDAA contains a number of initiatives to improve veteran's care...
The Senate and the House of Representatives have agreed on a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2008, and its provisions make this bill one of the single biggest advances on veterans' issues in years.
Here are some of the highlights, on issues that you have helped to make a national priority:
* Extension of VA Health Care Eligibility: After discharge, today's veterans had only two years to seek VA care or risk losing access for good. But many service-connected conditions can worsen over time, or take more than two years to become obvious - including Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Thanks to the NDAA, today's veterans now have 5 years to seek care from the VA.
* Pre- and Post-deployment Screenings for Traumatic Brain Injury: The care provided for those suffering from the signature wound of the Iraq war is still woefully inadequate, and this is a big step in the right direction. Pre- and post-deployment screenings will ensure that service members with TBIs will get the treatment and rehabilitation they need.
* Servicemembers Family Medical Leave Act: The families of those caring for severely wounded troops were previously given only three months of job protection. As a result, many spouses and other family members at Walter Reed and other military hospitals have lost their jobs while caring for their injured husband, wife, son or daughter. The NDAA expands job protections to 26 weeks.
Other items include the removal of a restriction on the VA from reaching out to veterans who need care, major improvements to the GI Bill for Reservists and members of the National Guard, increased assistance for Iraqi interpreters who have worked with our troops on the ground in Iraq, and a 3.5% pay raise for the members of our Armed Forces. Three of the advances made in this bill were items on our 2007 Legislative Agenda, and two were 'IAVA Legislative Priorities'.
By now, you've heard that our dear allies, the Brits, have turned back Basra to the control of the local authority. While this is clearly progress, let's take a look and see how they did.
Britain has failed to meet its own targets for reducing violent conflict in Iraq, a government performance report said Monday - a day after British troops handed over control of the final Iraqi province under their command. A Defense Ministry review said Britain's military has not done enough to reduce the impact of violence on civilian lives in the country.
It also offered a cautious assessment of the capacity of Iraq's army and police, despite the fact Britain handed off responsibilities for security across southern Iraq to local forces on Sunday, with officials insisting they were ready to take on the task.
Minister of State for the Armed Forces Bob Ainsworth told the BBC on Monday that Britain had handed over the region to "a confident Iraqi security force who believe they are up to the job." But the ministry's autumn performance review was less enthusiastic.
"Coalition efforts have contributed to some improvement in the capacity of Iraqi security forces, though the army remains significantly more effective than the police and concerns about sectarian bias and militia influence remain," the report said.
It gave Britain's progress at halting violent conflict and potential sources of conflict the lowest possible rating, classified as "not on course."
"Violence and instability continue to be a problem in some parts of the country, weakening efforts and political reconciliation," said the report, published on Monday.
Britain's remaining 4,500 troops will fall to 2,500 from spring, after officials formally agreed Sunday to switch the focus of the UK mission from combat to training and economic recovery.
"Our aim is to see an Iraq run by Iraqis for all Iraqis," British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said at the handover ceremony Sunday.
A day after Britain's large pullout from southern Iraq, insurgents killed at least 15 people across the country, including 11 in the restive province of Diyala north of Baghdad, security officials said.
Points to ponder, for sure. I'vo got to get a pot of coffee on.
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National Society of Film Critics at 50: Rohmer's Moral Tale, Claire's Knee, Won the 1971 Best Picture
French title: Le Genou de Claire
The fifth movie in his series of Six Moral Tales, Eric Rohmer's Claire's Knee is a subtle, delicately structured feature about erotic desire, verbal and visual pleasure, and obsession, expressed as much though words as through intimate gestures and looks.
It's also the movie that put him on the map internationally, especially in the U.S., where the film was a huge critical and commercial success.
Claire's Knee won the 1971 Best Picture from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics (established in 1966 to counter the more middlebrow, New York Film Critics Circle).
Grounded in a specific time, Inter-title cards inform the viewers of the dates, June 29 to July 29, which are displayed before the events are visually shown.
Vacationing at Lake Annecy before his wedding, career diplomat Jérôme Montcharvain (Jean-Claude Brialy) accidentally meets up with his personal friend, the novelist Aurora (Aurora Cornu). Through Aurora, he meets Aurora's landlady, Madame Walter (Michele Monell), and Laura (Beatrice Romand), Walter's youngest teenage daughter.
Laura has immediate crush on Jérôme, and after taking a hike in the mountains together, she confesses of being "a little in love of" Jérôme.
Days later, Laura's attractive older half-sister Claire (Laurence de Monaghan) arrives. Upon seeing Claire's knee on a ladder, Jerome is longing to touch it, but manages to control his temptation.
During a boat trip on the lake, Jérôme and Claire seek shelter in a hut from an approaching storm. Jérôme tells Claire that he saw her boyfriend Gilles with another girl.
The upset Claire begins to cry, and Jérôme, while consoling her, finally pulls courage and expressed his repressed desire, placing his hand on her knee.
Claire's Knee was Rohmer's second film in color, based on his belief that "the presence of the lake and the mountains is stronger in color than in black and white. It is a film I couldn't imagine in black and white. The color green seems to me essential in that film."
Critical Status:
The film received the Louis Delluc Prize for Best French film of the year, and the 1971 Prix Méliès.
It was named Best Film by the National Society of Film Critics and Best Foreign Film by the National Board of Review. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes.
Jean-Claude Brialy as Jérôme Montcharvin, the diplomat
Aurora Cornu as Aurora, the novelist
Béatrice Romand as Laura, the younger half-sister
Laurence de Monaghan as Claire, the elder half-sister
Michèle Montel as Madame Walter, mother to Laura and Claire
Gérard Falconetti as Gilles
Fabrice Luchini as Vincent
Rohmer, Eric: Seminal French Director, Dies at 89
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I was extremely fortunate enough to have the opportunity to interview Rennie Harris as part of the 2015 Bates Dance Festival.
My photographic work has been published in Dance Studio Life Magazine HERE.
Three of my images promoting Ellen Bromberg's installation project Glyph were published in the Salt Lake Tribune HERE.


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Metal Sucks The Ghost Inside Were In A Horrific Bus Crash, Need Your... Photo Caption Contest: Win Two Crowbar Records on 180-Gram...
The Ghost Inside Were In A Horrific Bus Crash, Need Your Help
November 20th, 2015 at 10:00am
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California metalcore band The Ghost Inside were involved in a truly horrible bus crash yesterday outside of El Paso, TX.
The band's bus collided head-on with an eighteen wheeler, causing the death of their bus driver, Gregory Hoke, 31, and the truck's driver, Steven Cunningham, 61. Drummer Andrew Tkaczyk, guitarist Zach Johnson, and singer Jonathan Vigil all received serious injuries and were airlifted to University Medical Center, where they are in critical condition. Bassist Jim Riley and touring guitarist Chris Davis both received serious injuries, but are apparently listed as stable.
Our good friend Brian Storm has launched a GoFundMe page so that fans can help the cover medical bills, equipment costs, and Hoke's funeral expenses. Go here to donate.
Plenty of people has already helped out the band, but few as much as Bring Me The Horizon, who made a donation of ten large earlier today:
Look, we obvious give BMTH a ton of shit, but I gotta applaud them here. These days, so many musicians are too protective of their own bank accounts to help out another band the way those dudes just have. Hats off to them.
Everyone here at MetalSucks sends our heartfelt condolences and best wishes to everyone in The Ghost Inside and their loved ones.
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A MCP (Module Configuration & Programming) Diagnostic Engineer is required with knowledge of Electrical and Powertrain vehicle systems and architectures.
This company based in Basildon requires a MCP Diagnostic Engineer with experience working with an Electrical or Powertrain diagnostics environment for a new contract role.
Use of Vector toolsets like CANAlyser, DET Tool or suitable CAN Bus equivalent.
Excellent, demonstrable, interpersonal, project management and communication skills.
Good knowledge of CAN Bus networks in vehicle systems and diagnostic messaging philosophy.
Graduates will be accepted, particularly with an Automotive background.
If you have any questions about the MCP Diagnostic Engineer role or would like to apply, please contact Tina Field at Jonathan Lee Recruitment on 01268 889259.


Izydaisy is again here with engineer jobs. But this section is particular for IT people so hire students or employees or join the company if you want to go to the computer department.
IT people are everywhere as their demand is growing in this digital world so it doesn't matter if you are running a bank, there is also an IT department, right? Then why are you upset? Hire computer engineer from here, and let him or her handle the technical part. Likewise, in every institute & company, there is a technical department. Am I right? If yes, then post information technology jobs in India & hire the experts.
Have you completed Information Technology or any course related to computer, but facing difficulty to find a relevant job? We understand that the computer plays a vital role in our file and thus, there are numerous people who are computer engineers. As a result, competition is growing, and it will become a competitive market in the near future. That's why Izydaisy is here to present all types of companies, colleges & coaching institutes who are looking for talented and dynamic students and experienced peoples. So hurry up, and crack the interview!!


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Front for the Rebirth of Poland also translated as the Front for a Reborn Poland () was a clandestine anti-Fascist organization formed in 1941 in occupied Poland during World War II, by a group of secular Catholics of Warsaw led by Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Father Edmund Krauze. The Front upheld Christian ideals of the prewar Catholic Action movements existing in the Polish Second Republic as part of the cross national European groupings of lay Catholics.

History
The Front for a Reborn Poland (FOP) published its own publication called Prawda (The Truth), edited by Witold Bieńkowski who took active part in the organization of Żegota in the autumn of 1942. He was put in charge of the Jewish and prisoner sections of Żegota in February 1943 on behalf of the Delegatura. The editor-in-chief was novelist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka who, until then, co-edited another underground paper called Polska Żyje (Poland Lives) already since the invasion of Poland in 1939. Kossak-Szczucka, code-name 'Weronika', published her famous "Protest" in The Truth publication in the summer of 1942. Both Bieńkowski and Kossak-Szczucka as well as Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz worked in Żegota as representatives from the Front for a Reborn Poland (FOP).

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We want all Americans to be safe from gun violence. The first step is to create the conditions for productive discussions around this issue, one where common sense prevails and those with divergent viewpoints can find new ways to collaborate and move forward around common goals.
Gun violence is one of the most challenging public health and equity issues in American society. The gun lobby has spent decades building a powerful, vocal constituency of gun owners and manufacturers, leading to political sclerosis, inaction and delay among elected officials. But we see tremendous potential for common sense reform in a diverse set of stakeholders and supporters with new perspectives on gun violence and the harm it causes in communities nationwide.
Kendeda's Gun Violence Prevention program seeks to unite unexpected partners around replicable strategies for long-term change, building on creative community-led efforts to find new, productive pathways toward a less violent society. We want to test new violence prevention strategies and convene critical community conversations in order to promote behavior change and advance policy reform. We want to invest in storytelling that moves beyond tragedy reporting and other traditional frames to focus instead on points of agreement, creative solutions, and models of progress. And we want to support emerging leaders and new voices working at the intersection of gun violence prevention, criminal justice reform, racial equity, and poverty.
Communities most directly affected by gun violence possess the voice and power they need to help solve the problem in lasting ways that are aligned with their values.
Productive discussions about reducing gun violence take place in states and local communities nationwide; these dialogues are marked by rational, common sense discourse in which unexpected allies align around shared interests in, and strategies for, reducing avoidable firearms related deaths.
This new civil discourse is shaped and driven by a cohort of nontraditional and highly effective strategists, organizers and community leaders.
Replicable and scalable strategies for reducing gun violence and keeping guns out of the wrong hands can be identified and amplified nationwide.


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State to kill second wolf pack after more cattle deaths
Saturday, August 26, 2017 3:54pm
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By Lynda V. Mapes / The Seattle Times
State wildlife officials say they will kill a second Washington wolf pack this year to protect livestock.
Justin Hedrick, an owner of the Diamond M Ranch, said Friday night his family's cattle operation has lost at least nine calves so far this summer to wolves, including the Sherman Pack. The family leases federal grazing allotments in the Colville National Forest and operates one of the largest cattle operations in the state.
It is the third time the state has killed wolves to protect the Diamond M's livestock, beginning with the Wedge Pack in 2012 and the Profanity Peak pack last summer.
"It's the third pack, but the ninth year we have been going through this," Hedrick said.
The state Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Friday night it would target the Sherman Pack for lethal removal until the pack changes its behavior and stops killing cattle. Wildlife agents will use a combination of traps, and shooting from the ground and a helicopter, said Donny Martorello, wolf policy lead for the state.
The department also targeted the Smackout pack this summer to protect a different rancher's cattle. Two wolves have been killed in that pack so far and the state continues to monitor the situation.
The return of the wolf to Washington after local extinction in the 1930s was first documented in Washington in 2008. The wolves are naturally migrating here following their reintroduction at Yellowstone National Park. But so far the wolves remain mostly bunched up in the northeast corner of the state, where many livestock grazing allotments on public land are located. Ranchers have borne the burden of the return of the wolf, in increased cost and worry.
"The ear tag and a tail switch is all that's left, a bunch of tiny bone chips," Hedrick said of the calf remains after a wolf kill. "You hear all the time 'You people need to have your cattle in smaller pastures to protect them.' Well, they are running everywhere," he said of wolves in mountainous, forested landscapes of the lands where his family and others raise cattle and sheep. "Nobody is safe from it, and they gotta eat," he said of the wolf packs.
Even with eight range riders touring through the Diamond M allotments the wolves have killed and injured cattle. The landscape is a rugged, rough forest stretch of mountainous country in the Colville National Forest.
The best answer to the wolf problem, some ranchers say, is sheriff's deputies to respond when needed, Hedrick said. "We need local control by people who understand the culture and custom and economics of local communities."
He also wished for a return to the use of leg-hold traps and dogs to hunt predators — both removed by citizen initiatives in Washington.
"We don't raise the cattle to feed wolves. We raise them to feed the heart of America."
The department is charged with control and management of the state's wildlife, while the U.S. Forest Service runs the grazing allotments, setting the terms for use. Grazing has been permitted in the Colville National Forest for more than 100 years.
Martorello said the department would kill wolves in the Sherman Pack until they change their behavior and stop preying on livestock.
Martorello said the producers (which he did not name) involved with both the Smackout and Sherman packs have done all that is expected of them to prevent conflict with wolves.
Taking aim at another pack infuriated wolf advocates. "No wolves should be killed," said Brooks Fahy of Predator Defense. "This is public land, and it is our view that if you have livestock on public land you are responsible for taking care of it. This is ridiculous.
"Until we get livestock off public lands we won't have free ranging packs of wolves. You can't have enough range riders out here. It's all the same, wolves end up dead, it's every year, and this is just the beginning."
Washington is home to 20 packs of wolves and the wolf population is increasing by about 30 percent per year. Most packs overlap with livestock in Washington, but very few conflicts actually occur. Only six cattle were killed by wolves in Washington last year, making it a rare cause of death on the range.
Yet every death hurts, whether of a calf for a rancher or a wolf for wildlife advocates.
"This is painful," said Mitch Friedman of Conservation Northwest, which supports and has helped craft the state's policy. He remains optimistic for coexistence of wolves and ranchers in Washington, which is the goal of the state's conservation policy. "We are doing it right and we are doing it way better than anybody else," Friedman said.
He took notice of the third time around for the Diamond M operation. "It's hard to miss the coincidence," Friedman said.
"If every year the sore spot is the same family, something needs to change," Friedman said.
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Converting shipping containers into buildings ideally utilizes those which are pre-insulated. The insulated containers have been designed for transporting perishable goods and foods. The insulation is a compact mineral wool; and without metal or wood studs, there are no cold bridges.
Shipping container architecture has been used by everyone from homeowners, mixed-use developers, and even big companies like Starbucks and Pumpa. Just like building blocks, the combinations are as infinate as the imagination. Check out some great designs on the Second Eden Studio website.


August 17, 2016 Schneider headed to Immaculata Immaculata school officials announced on Wednesday that Kevin Schneider has been named the third head coach in Immaculata baseball history.
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January 24, 2013 Torresani new Immaculata head coach Immaculata announced today that Elizabethtown grad Bryan Torresani has been named the head coach of the Mighty Macs' baseball program.


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Omnichannel initiatives revealed by Macy's
Macy's has revealed intended changes to combine its in-store and digital merchandising marketing teams.
Macy's plans to add 150 employees to its San Francisco digital operation center and around 1500 at an Oklahoma fulfillment center.
It will reduce its in-store staff, open two new stores and close 14 stores. All these changes will also have an effect on Bloomingdale's.
These massive changes are a clear indication of the effect of omnichannel sales in department stores.
Macy's has stated that these plans are being done in a bid to remain ahead of the customer whilst they shop across different platforms and channels.
Its plan is to get rid of activities that are redundant and improve its response to market demand.
It plans to improve and increase fulfillment from its 800 plus Macy's and Bloomingdale's stores, along with its direct-to-consumer centers across five states.
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World – renowned physician Dr. Richard G. Pestell joins the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute
DOYLESTOWN, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–World-renowned cancer physician scientist Richard G. Pestell, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute to establish and serve as president of the Pennsylvania Cancer and Regenerative Medicine Research Center (PCARM). Seven additional faculty with their staff and students also will be joining the new center.
Pestell's research in cell cycle, prostate cancer, oncology and stem cells is highly cited; he is ranked first in the world by Google scholar citations in cell cycle and prostate cancer, and second in the world for oncology. Pestell is funded by more than $1 million each year in grant support from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the Falk Foundation.
"Dr. Pestell's recruitment will go a long way toward helping us achieve our goal of finding a cure for diseases associated with hepatitis B," said Timothy Block, Ph.D., president of the Hepatitis B Foundation and its Baruch S. Blumberg Institute, and the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, where both are headquartered. "His research complements the work conducted at the Blumberg Institute, which was established in 2003 by the Hepatitis B Foundation to find a cure for hepatitis B and liver cancer."
Pestell previously was Director of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and Executive Vice President at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Under his tenure, the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center received renewed National Cancer Institute funding and designation.
In addition to leading PCARM at the Blumberg Institute, Pestell will oversee ProstaGene, one of the biotechnology companies he founded. ProstaGene has patented discoveries for cancer metastasis therapies and a highly predictive genetic test for prostate cancer outcome. The company is being moved to the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, a biotech incubator managed and owned by the Blumberg Institute and Hepatitis B Foundation; 35 other start-up life science companies also are housed at the center.
"The interface between cancer, stem cells, and regeneration is at an historic moment. Creating a culture in which biotechnology companies are a vehicle to unlock value is key to bringing benefits rapidly to our patients," said Pestell. "The Blumberg Institute, under its president, Dr. Timothy Block, has a remarkable track record of success in developing companies that rapidly translate urgently needed medical discoveries into clinical practice."
Pestell has published more than 600 works and is the most frequently cited scientist in his fields of cell-cycle and prostate cancer. He serves as an advisor and reviewer for a number of domestic and international research centers, including NCI cancer centers. He is the recipient of numerous national and international awards and recognitions, including election as Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The arrival of Pestell and his research team comes at an opportune time, as the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center, located in Bucks County, proceeds with plans to break ground for a $10.6 million expansion. The project will add 50,000 square feet of additional space, including at least 40 offices, 18 laboratories, a new auditorium, a new cafeteria and 100 parking spaces.
About the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute: The Baruch S. Blumberg Institute is an independent, nonprofit research institute established in 2003 by the Hepatitis B Foundation to conduct discovery research and nurture translational biotechnology in an environment conducive to interaction, collaboration and focus. It was renamed in 2013 to honor Baruch S. Blumberg, who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus and co-founded the Hepatitis B Foundation. To learn more, visit www.blumberginstitute.org.
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Maryland assistant faces prostitution-related charges
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP)Maryland assistant basketball coach Bruce Shingler faces charges of procuring or soliciting prostitution or assignation, according to online court records.
The school said Wednesday that Shingler was suspended 30 days for "a violation of his employment agreement" – and the athletic department would not comment further.
According to court records, Shingler has a trial date of Feb. 28 in Maryland District Court. The incident date listed for the two charges is Oct. 14, 2021.
The 40-year-old Shingler, a Maryland native, is in his first season on the Terrapins' staff. He previously spent five seasons as an assistant at South Carolina. He has also been an assistant at Towson and Morgan State, and he was an administrative assistant at Kansas State.
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Explainer: how does the sea 'disappear' when a hurricane passes by?
Written by Darrell Strauss, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
You may have seen the media images of bays and coastlines along Hurricane Irma's track, in which the ocean has eerily "disappeared", leaving locals amazed and wildlife stranded. What exactly was happening?
These coastlines were experiencing a "negative storm surge" – one in which the storm pushes water away from the land, rather than towards it.
Read more: Irma and Harvey: very different storms, but both affected by climate change
Most people are familiar with the idea that the sea is not at the same level everywhere at the same time. It is an uneven surface, pulled around by gravity, such as the tidal effects of the Moon and Sun. This is why we see tides rise and fall at any given location.
At the same time, Earth's atmosphere has regions where the air pressure is higher or lower than average, in ever-shifting patterns as weather systems move around. Areas of high atmospheric pressure actually push down on the ocean surface, lowering sea level, while low pressure allows the sea to rise slightly.
This is known as the "inverse barometer effect". Roughly speaking, a 1 hectopascal change in atmospheric pressure (the global average pressure is 1,010hPa) causes the sea level to move by 1cm.
When a low-pressure system forms over warm tropical oceans under the right conditions, it can intensify to become a tropical depression, then a tropical storm, and ultimately a tropical cyclone – known as a hurricane in the North Atlantic or a typhoon in the northwest Pacific.
As this process unfolds, the atmospheric pressure drops ever lower and wind strength increases, because the pressure difference with surrounding areas causes more air to flow towards the storm.
In the northern hemisphere tropical cyclones rotate anticlockwise and officially become hurricanes once they reach a maximum sustained wind speed of around 120km per hour. If sustained wind speeds reach 178km per hour the storm is classed as a major hurricane.
Surging waters
A "normal" storm surge happens when a tropical cyclone reaches shallow coastal waters. In places where the wind is blowing onshore, water is pushed up against the land. At the same time the cyclone's incredibly low air pressure allows the water to rise higher than normal. On top of all this, the high waves whipped up by the wind mean that even more water inundates the coast.
The anticlockwise rotation of Atlantic hurricanes means that the storm's northern side produces winds blowing from the east, and its southern side brings westerly winds. In the case of Hurricane Irma, which tracked almost directly up the Florida panhandle, this meant that as it approached, the east coast of the Florida peninsula experienced easterly onshore winds and suffered a storm surge that caused severe inundation and flooding in areas such as Miami.
The negative surge
In contrast, these same easterly winds had the opposite effect on Florida's west coast (the Gulf Coast), where water was pushed offshore, leading to a negative storm surge. This was most pronounced in areas such as Fort Myers and Tampa Bay, which normally has a relatively low tide range of less than 1m.
The negative surge developed over a period of about 12 hours and resulted in a water level up to 1.5m below the predicted low tide level. Combined with the fact that the sea is shallow in these areas anyway, it looked as if the sea had simply disappeared.
Read more: Predicting disaster: better hurricane forecasts buy vital time for residents.
As tropical cyclones rapidly lose energy when moving over land, the unusually low water level was expected to rapidly rise, which prompted authorities to issue a flash flood warning to alert onlookers to the potential danger. The negative surge was replaced by a storm surge of a similar magnitude within about 6 hours at Fort Myers and 12 hours later at Tampa Bay.
Rising waters are the deadliest aspect of hurricanes – even more than the ferocious winds. So while it may be tempting to explore the uncovered seabed, it's certainly not wise to be there when the sea comes rushing back.
Authors: Darrell Strauss, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University
Read more http://theconversation.com/explainer-how-does-the-sea-disappear-when-a-hurricane-passes-by-83877
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Two men to go on trial for Limerick murders
THE trial is due to begin later today of two men who are accused of murdering two people in Southill last year.
Thomas Stewart, aged 28, of The Cedars, Briarfield, Castletroy and Patrick O'Brien, aged 32, of Golf Links Road in Castletroy are accused of murdering Breda Waters and Des Kelly at O' Malley Park, Southill on January 9, 2011.
Mother-of-three Ms Waters, 28, who was from St Mary's Park, and Mr Kelly, 24, died after they were shot at Mr Kelly's home in the early hours of the morning.
Yesterday, at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin, both men formally entered not guilty pleas when they were arraigned by the court registrar.
A just was selected and the prosecution is due to open its case at courtroom number 19 at the Criminal Courts of Justice complex this morning.
The jury is expected to hear evidence from a large number of residents from O'Malley Park as well as from dozens of gardai who were involved in the murder investigation.
The trial is being heard before Mr Justice George Birmingham
To keep up-to-date, follow the Limerick Leader on Twitter.


Kocowisch's ode to the beauty of mathematical shapes is completed with a collection of pendant jewelry. Inspired by the duality of both the simplicity and the complexity of mathematical wireframes, The Tetra pendant is a mathematical marvel to the eye. A classic shape reinvented, the pendant embodies timeless elegance and is a refined mix of industrial minimalism and sophisticated feminism. As simple as a shape can be, its wireframe plays tricks on the eye, making it either complex or simple when viewed from different angles. The pendant can be worn on the chest or as a 'choker', depending on your mood, style or the event. Its airy design will always leave a sophisticated impression.
The Tetra pendant is made using the 'lost wax casting process'. A 3D printed positive model in wax is covered in a ceramic coating, which is then heated to melt the wax, leaving a hollow mould to be filled with molten brass.
The pendants are available in four different finishes: 18K gold plated, 14K rose gold plated, 18K gold and pure silver.


There is something special about the beanies. They have an interesting and edgy look of their own – no matter how you wear it or which color it is. Here, we have presented lime green colored beanies. It not just brightens up your overall appearance, it will also add some light to your character as well.
We believe neon lovers will surely find it very interesting. To get it highlighted, team it up with black leather jacket.
So, whether you are going at a party, or for a casual outing, these lime green beanies will surely help to keep your style in place.


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Q: how can I set the size of a directional light in Three.JS? I've added a directional light to my scene, but it doesn't show all the shadow. The shadow gets cut off, just like when the FOV of a spotlight is too small.
When I enable the shadowCameraVisible, i see that my light is like a big box which shows the shadow (which makes sense). The question is: how can I make this 'box' bigger?

A: Found it! Turns out the shadowcamera has left, right, top and bottom properties:
light.shadowCameraLeft = -3000;
light.shadowCameraRight = 3000;
light.shadowCameraTop = 3500;
light.shadowCameraBottom = -3000;

If you get pixelized shadows, it means your shadow map (read: memory) is not big enough. Experiment which is the lowest map you need, because this seems to be expensive. Example:
 light.shadow.mapSize.x = 2048
 light.shadow.mapSize.y = 2048


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Brandon Miller may refer to:

Sports
Brandon Miller (American football) (born 1986), American football defensive end
Brandon Miller (basketball, born 1979), American basketball coach and former player
Brandon Miller (basketball, born 2002), American basketball player
Brandon Miller (lacrosse) (born 1979), Canadian lacrosse goaltender
Brandon Miller (racing driver) (born 1981), American auto racing driver
Brandon Miller (runner) (born 2003), American athlete
Brandon Miller (soccer) (born 1989), American soccer goalkeeper
Brandon Nozaki Miller, American motorcyclist and software developer

Others
Brandon Miller (musician) (born 1990), American singer-songwriter
Brandon Nozaki Miller, American software developer and motorcyclist

See also
Branden Miller, actor and comedian
Brendon Miller, American pornographic actor


This giftable set includes a bottle of the bitters featured throughout Jerry Thomas's "How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion" and a gorgeous hardcover bitters guide.
Take home a piece of cocktail bitters history with this very giftable set from Dr. Adam Elmegirab.
The two-piece set includes one (1) bottle of Dr. Adam Elmegirab's Boker's Bitters and one (1) copy of Dr. Adam Elmegirab's meticulously researched Book of Bitters, which tells the "the bitter and twisted history of one of the cocktail world's most fascinating ingredients."
Dr. Adam Elmegirab's Boker's Bitters are formulated to approximate the original Boker's Bitters recipe from the 1800s. Back then, Boker's Bitters were considered the finest of all cocktail bitters. They were also the preferred brand of Professor Jerry Thomas, author of the guide "How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion" and the most famous bartender of his day.
To come up with his historically accurate Boker's representation, Elmegirab tested original samples, referenced historical medical guides, and unearthed a series of counterfeit recipes dating as far back as 1853. The resulting bitters feature a blend of orange peel, green cardamom, catechu, quassia bark, and cloves, with wood and eucalyptus on the nose, coffee and orange on the palate, and an intensely bitter finish.
Also included in the set is Elmegirab's gorgeous hardcover bitters guide, which walks you through bitters' rich history--from the promotion of "elixirs" by snake-oil salesmen to the birth of the cocktail and its 19th-century heyday, the subsequent industry crash following Prohibition, and the renaissance of bitters as an essential part of the contemporary bartender's tool kit.
As well as the history, Elmegirab outlines each of the key botanicals that go into bitters and explains the science of taste and flavor. In fascinating detail, he describes how each characteristic can be deployed for maximum impact and summarizes the key techniques for making great cocktails.
Most importantly, the book offers 50 cocktail recipes created by Elmegirab and some of the world's leading bartenders. These exceptional drinks showcase the different characteristics of bitters and how they can be employed to refine the drinking experience.
Dr. Adam Elmegirab's Book of Bitters & Boker's Bitters Set is essential to any well-stocked cocktail library and makes an excellent gift for professional bartenders as well as home cocktail enthusiasts.
Boker's were famously the preferred brand of Professor Jerry Thomas, and were featured throughout his book "How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion," now recognized as the World's first bartender's guide.


What do current prayer teachings say about our picture of God. Are they all biblical? All use similar terms. Do the terms mean the same when used by different teachers? What is Spiritual Warfare prayer? These questions and others are addressed in our essays, studies, and selections from Ellen White.
Varied Prayer Beliefs. An essay by Bille Burdick introducing the wide range of thought regarding prayer in today's world.
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El Puntazo is a warm dance studio in the heart of Barcelona, with a retro style and an unmistakable and inspiring Tango flavour.
A place full of history, which has accompained the career of many dancers from different generations and disciplines, today it is born again mainly as a Tango studio.
A place where dance is built with patience and dedication, as in the "old school" way, now enriched with up-to-date knowledge.
C. / Casanova, 3 • Esc. Izq. Ent 9 • 08011 Barcelona.
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Worrying cannot effect positive change or growth. It will not change the future.
WE HAVE SO MANY WORRIES. We worry about money, yet we know that money is only a tool, a means to an end. What we really want is happiness, a bit of security in our lives, some modicum of joy. Happiness, security, and joy are inner states. They are free; money cannot purchase them. Worry is merely a habit—and a negative, unpleasant habit at that. Worry will not change anything, nor will it bring you those things that you really need and desire. And money will not bring you happiness. I have treated many extremely wealthy people in my psychotherapy practice, and many of them have been miserable and unhappy. Money is a neutral thing, neither good nor bad. What you do with money creates its value.
We worry about success and failure, yet we cannot really define these concepts. Is a poor person who is happy and who has wonderful, loving relationships a failure? Is a rich person who has terrible relationships and no love in his life a success? Our cultures have defined success and failure for us, and the definitions have been deficient. So what is the point in worry about success?
We worry too much about what other people think of us—about their opinions, judgments, and criticisms. Yet their opinions are based on the same cultural values as those measuring money and defining success. Once again, we are worrying about nothing.
All other apprehensions fall into the same paradigm. Worrying cannot effect positive change or growth. It will not change the future. Planning for the future is useful, but worrying is not. This is a useless habit, a conditioned response we have acquired from our parents, our teachers, and our communities. Intellectually we all know this, but old habits are difficult to break. If we could only stop worrying so much, how much happier we all would be! We would experience much less stress in our lives.
The irony is that, when observed from a more detached perspective, this type of stress is an illusion. It is not real. We create it ourselves. And we all know this.
Events or perceptions that have the capacity to induce stress reactions in us are subjective and relative. An occurrence that traumatizes you may not affect me at all, or vice versa. An event that caused you considerable stress last year may hardly register this year, because your attitude or perspective may have changed in that period of time. You may even enjoy the experience this time around or perceive it as an exciting challenge rather than a threat, trauma, or stressor. It is quite simply all in the eye of the beholder. Our free will determines our reaction to these events. Will we react with fear, or with confidence and optimism? The choice is ours to make: stress or confidence, fear or love, anxiety or inner peace.
This article by Brian Weiss originally appears in healyourlife.com For more articles by Brian, CLICK HERE.
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