Mixing and mastering has finally begun 🎚⚡ I can't thank everyone enough for their patience, it's been a long journey since the EP so I owe you guys some epic surprises. Rest assured many are on the way; I am thrilled with how this new music is turning out!
Album awesomeness aside, I am honestly much more proud to formally announce that I am now part of the Rock Against Trafficking family. Human/child trafficking happens to be an issue that resonates with me on a deeply personal level, so the opportunity to raise awareness and save lives through music means more to me than I can put into words. For several months now my partners and I at PennyFly Entertainment have been providing all available resources to their cause in the upcoming promotion of their debut album "Set Them Free" featuring Slash, Fergie, Journey, Santana, and Rob Thomas among others 🤘🏼 The energy around this project is incredible so I can't wait to share more with everyone!
Super stoked to announce my solo-acoustic weekend residencies at two of the finest establishments in Los Angeles! Fridays from 7-9pm you can find me jamming @ the classy LAX Renaissance on airport blvd, behind their gorgeous Yamaha baby grand piano :) Every Saturday I'll continue to perform from 8-10pm at the Manhattan Beach Marriott with breathtaking views just behind me...join us for some amazing food, drinks, and personalized dedications as we spread some musical love around!
Ever since I relocated to Los Angeles over 2 years ago, I embarked on what became a surprisingly exhausting search for the right producer. With the limited recording opportunities I've had as an independent artist, it has been a huge challenge trying to achieve the artistic sound that I feel truly expresses the music I want to create. Not only does PJ have extensive experience creating billboard charting rock, he's also done the same in the pop/hiphop world. For this vision to work, I needed someone who could fuse these genre-defining elements together in a way that made sense with my style as an artist. Somehow, it only took us our first day in the studio to successfully achieve this vision and now we're having an amazing time bringing this project to life!
If you are subscribed to my VIP email list or follow closely on social media, you received a limited-time opportunity to download a collection of demo recordings for several unreleased songs! I couldn't be more thankful for those of you who continue to support the music - you truly are the reason I'm able to continue doing what I love to do :) If you didn't get a chance to get your hands on these, no worries ~ these songs will all be professionally produced & recorded for the upcoming album!
I'm proud to announce the band and I will be headlining Hollywood's "Piano Bar" two nights next month in October (10/13, 10/27). Both shows have us starting @ 11pm and playing two sets this time, which means double the music!! Head over to the Facebook Events page for more details and a full schedule for October - can't wait to see you there!
...Annnnd the fun doesn't end there folks, if you're ever in/around the Sunset Beach area, we're also playing the Pelican Isle on the regular! This place has truly amazing food, drinks, and a gorgeous patio view over the bay. Click "shows" at the top for a full schedule!
Debut show @ Hollywood's "The Piano Bar"
I was beyond stoked to perform Hollywood's Piano Bar with an array of fantastic musicians, namely Vito Gutilla on violin and Jody Stark on cello. It is truly thrilling to perform with live string players of such great caliber, giving such depth and emotion to the music! Some great fans did their best to capture video, but unfortunately the low lighting of the bar was a bit much for phone cameras as well as the audio coming out a bit distorted - Piano Bar's sound system packs an impressive punch :) I'll see what I can arrange concerning professional video/audio recording for future shows here, but until then I guess you'll just have to come see it in person...cheers!
Jett Prescott Music has just been awarded the annual "Best Of" for the solo musician category by worldwide-leading wedding organizations TheKnot & WeddingChannel (XO Group) for the Los Angeles region - book a private performance here!
Thanks to some truly amazing fan support, "Put Me Down in Wine" just hit #1 on TRS247 Radio's "Top10 Indie Countdown" - as a result, the song will receive increased airplay throughout their multi-station network of radio partners, and a full "drop the mic" feature was just published in SpotOn Magazine here! You can listen to my live interview with Cris & Alysia from TRS247 here on SoundCloud ~ and you can listen to the "Top10 Indie Countdown" archive here. Additionally, "Hot Air Balloon" and "Put Me Down in Wine" are now in rotation on the Darryn Yates Show (1380 TheX) and Revolver Underground. Last but not least, "Wine" was also just selected for rotation in GagOrderNetwork's Top40!
Last Sunday, Jett debuted his future headlining single "Melody" to a sold-out audience of fans from all over the globe via StageIT.com. While the single will continue to be played live, it is not set for official release until the accompanying full-length album is complete, which is targeted for release in 2015. Jett is currently focusing on demo recordings for fan favorites "Paper Lion", "Pay No Mind", "This Adventure", and even "Melody" to serve as studio references for the upcoming album's recording sessions - the demo tracks are planned for a limited-time public release exclusively through this website in the coming months!
As the JP fan-base continues to grow, new radio stations become fans themselves. Jett Prescott's "Hot Air Balloon" can now be heard on SiriusXMU's Indie Rock station (channel 35), which you can hear now by clicking play at the bottom of this page. Tomorrow, "Put Me Down in Wine" is set to be featured on Siren 107.3 FM's "Sunday Girl" show in the UK alongside other major artists including Michael Jackson, Bruno Mars, and Miley Cyrus. Not in the UK? Tune in online here.
JP "one of the top 25 new artists of the year"
Music Connection Magazine has just published their year-end 36th anniversary issue this December, naming Jett Prescott one of the top 25 new original artists of the year based on their October music critique of the Jett Prescott EP!
The gallery has seen a major overhaul, so be sure to check out all the new live photos - also including some high-quality visibility into the studio and mastering process of the Jett Prescott EP! Keep an eye out on Twitter & Facebook for some never before seen footage from those sessions!
"Melodic and engaging piano-centric singer/songwriter Jett Prescott, with his crafty, clever material and neo-Brit vocal vibe, will remind some of Elton John. The hooky "Put Me Down in Wine" showcases the artist's bold personality, songwriting skill and stately strings. "Where I Stand" builds drama adeptly and is his strongest vocally."
On a closing note, I have just arrived in the beautiful Los Angeles, California and am lining up shows for the following year - for now I'll be putting all of my focus into recording my first full-length album!
Thanks to the success of "Put Me Down in Wine", Jett Prescott has been selected to be featured on the homepage of music-powered social networking site ReverbNation for the first week of October! Jett Prescott has peaked at #5 in the Los Angeles rankings, and 27th globally on the singer/songwriter charts!
Of course, none of this would be possible without your support as fans, listeners, and sharers - so a very special shoutout to all of you, you know who you are!


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Kenny Lattimore has garnered Grammy, Soul Train, and Stellar Awards nominations as well as the NAACP Image Award for Best New Artist. His nuanced vocals have graced projects by a diverse array of artists, including Musiq Soulchild, Rachelle Ferrell, Nancy Wilson, Brian Culbertson, and Kanye West. The latter sampled Lattimore's "Lately" for the track "I'm in It" from West's No. 1 album Yeezus. Lattimore also created musical magic on iconic movie soundtracks like Love Jones, Best Man and Disney's Lion King II: Simba's Pride. His latest album, Vulnerable, includes the Top 10 hit "Stay on Your Mind." In 2012, Lattimore launched his independent record label, SincereSoul Records, and in 2018, his first nonprofit, the Kenny Lattimore Foundation, which focuses on providing access to creative fine arts for children in disadvantaged communities. The singer continues to tour globally, showcasing his unique creative journey through stunning and diverse set lists.
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Q: How to determine this? For any $6$ coplanar points
$$\left(x_{1}+y_{1},x_{2}+y_{2},x_{3}+y_{3}\right)$$
$$\left(x_{1}+y_{2},x_{2}+y_{1},x_{3}+y_{3}\right)$$
$$\left(x_{1}+y_{3},x_{2}+y_{2},x_{3}+y_{1}\right)$$
$$\left(x_{1}+y_{1},x_{2}+y_{3},x_{3}+y_{2}\right)$$ $$\left(x_{1}+y_{2},x_{2}+y_{3},x_{3}+y_{1}\right)$$
$$\left(x_{1}+y_{3},x_{2}+y_{1},x_{3}+y_{2}\right)$$
how to determine whether the convex hull of these $6$ points contains a point with one coordinate equal to $0$. What are the coordinates of that point?

A: Label the points in the given order as $p_1,...,p_6$. Then the convex hull consists of the expressions $ap_1+bp_2+cp_3+dp_4+ep_5+fp_6$ where $a+b+c+d+e+f=1$ and each of $a,...,f$ is nonnegative. Suppose we set the first of the three coordinates to $0$. Since the sum of $a,...,f$ is $1$ this gives the equation
$$x_1 + (a+d)y_1+(b+e)y_2+(c+f)y_3=0.\tag{1}$$ I'll just look at the case $x_1>0$ since otherwise it should be similar. EDIT: It turns out I never use $x_1>0$ so this restriction may be dropped.
Now note that except for the $x_1$ on the left of (1), the rest is just the convex hull (on the real line) of the three points $y_1,y_2,y_3$. Assuming without loss that $y_1\le y_2 \le y_3$, this hull is the closed interval $[y_1,y_3].$ Hence equation (1) has a solution iff $x_1+y_1 \le 0 \le x_1+y_3.$ Assuming this holds, we only need "use" the points $y_1,y_3$ to solve it, that is, we may set $b=e=0$ and continue to solve.
Then if $s=a+d,t=c+f$ we want to solve $y_1s+y_3t=-x$ where $s+t=1$ and $s,t\ge 0.$ Doing this gives
$$s=\frac{x_1+y_3}{y_3-y_1}$$
and $t=1-s.$ Note that the numerator here is nonnegative because of our (necessary) assumption $x_1+y_1 \le 0 \le x_1+y_3,$ while the denominator is positive unless some of the $y_k$ coincide, a separate case that may have to be done. [EDIT: The only way $y_3-y_1=0$ is when all the $y_k$ are equal, say to $k$, in which case equation (1) becomes simply $x_1+k=0$, where the common values of the $y_k$ make that part of the sum equal to $k$. In this case no matter what choices are made for the coefficients $a,...,f$ there will be $x=0$ in the hull iff $x_1+k=0$, and if so all points of the hull have $x=0$] Also note that the numerator of $t=1-s$ is $-(x_1+y_1)$, again nonnegative because of the above necessary assumption. For specific values for $a,d,c,f$ we may choose any so that their sums are $s$ and $t$, e.g. $a=s,c=t,d=f=0.$

A: The six listed points are at $(x_1,x_2,x_3)+(y_{\sigma(1)},y_{\sigma(2)},y_{\sigma(3)})$, where $\sigma$ ranges over the group $S_3$ of all permutations of the set $\{1,2,3\}$. Thus all the points as well as their convex hull lies on the plane $x+y+z=\sum_{i=1}^3(x_i+y_i)$. This plane has a normal vector $\vec{n}=(1,1,1)$.
Write $t=(y_1+y_2+y_3)/3$, and $d_i=y_i-t$, $i=1,2,3.$ Without loss of generality (we are permuting the $y$:s anyway) we can assume that $y_1\le y_2\le y_3$, or equivalently that $d_1\le d_2\le d_3$. Furthermore, we note that by design $d_1+d_2+d_3=0$, so barring the case that they are all equal to zero, their signs differ. The centroid of the hexagon is at the point
$$
P=(p_1,p_2,p_3)=(x_1+t,x_2+t,x_3+t).
$$
Existence: Determining whether there are points on the hexagon such that their first coordinate vanishes is easy. The smalles value of the first coordinate on any of the points (shared by two points actually) is $x_1+y_1$ and the largest (again shared by two points) is $x_1+y_3$. By convexity, these are also the minimum (resp. maximum) value of the first coordinate on the hexagon. So if the numbers $x_1+y_1$ and $x_1+y_3$ share the same sign, then the first coordinate never vanishes on the hexagon. In all the other cases (obviouly including those where the minimum or maximum is equal to zero) there will be such points.
The existence of points, where the second (resp. the third) coordinate vanishes can similarly be decided by studying the signs of $x_2+y_1$ and $x_2+y_3$ (resp. $x_3+y_1$ and $x_3+y_3$).
Finding the points: It is easy to find one point with a vanishing coordinate (if the existence check reveals that it exists). For example, if $x_1+y_1<0<x_1+y_3$ we find one such point on the line segment connecting e.g. the vertices $(x_1+y_1,x_2+y_2,x_3+y_3)$ and $(x_1+y_3,x_2+y_2,x_3+y_1)$. Similarly for the other coordinates.
BUT, the set of points with a single coordinate vanishing forms a plane. It is possible that such a plane just grazes the hexagon at one of the vertices. More typically the plane and hexagon intersect along a line segment. In that case the end points of that line segment are on those edges of the hexagon whose end points have a change of sign in the coordinate of interest. Identifying those edges would be easy, if we were given the vertices of the hexagon in, say, counterclockwise order. An algorithm for doing that is probably well known in computer graphics. If you can't find anything I can try and cook up something. Essentially the remaining task is equivalent to 3D-clipping the hexagon (hopefully a useful buzzword).

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BAY2LA: KEEPING FULL VISION ARTISTS CONNECTED!
Oakland native and Vision's Kids alum Tommy Nguyen joins the Los Angeles cast of "A Hot Night In The Valley."
Even though his dance trip to Ghana, West Africa ended with a flight into San Francisco's SFO on Thursday night, Actor/dancer/musician Tommy Nguyen was on the set in LA Friday morning ready to work. A standout Vison's Kids performer from 2009- 2011 and a star dancer at and graduate of Oakland's Laney College, Tommy has brought his talents to Hollywood and is continuing his education as a Theatre Arts Major at California State University at Long Beach.
Full Vision's New Media Arts Academy is bringing many old and new friends together - from Los Angeles to The Bay Area and beyond. Oakland born/Sacramento comedian/actor/writer/producer BT Kingsley picks up where he left off on his own feature "She Wins," in a guest starring role in "A Hot Night In The Valley." Stylist/Costume designer and Oakland native Ferriss Mason joins the crew for her third outing with the production team. Make up Artist/actress/dancer and Oakland native Khira Thomas also joins the crew for her third outing with the producers. Oakland to Burbank transplant, comedian'writer/producer/comedian Keu Reyes joins our illustrious cast in a pivotal guest role in the film. Bay2LA is committed to keeping California arts connected and keeping the collaborative flame lit for our artists.


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Tetrastichus sculpturatus är en stekelart som beskrevs av James Waterston 1915. Tetrastichus sculpturatus ingår i släktet Tetrastichus och familjen finglanssteklar.

Artens utbredningsområde är Uganda. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Once an industrial area, in recent years the area has been completely regenerated. Decaying wharves and Victorian warehouses have been reimagined as luxury contemporary living and workspaces. Now culture lovers will be spoilt for choice in an area with such a vibrant arts scene, with Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the Tate Modern and the Southbank Centre, which is home to the Royal National Theatre and the British Film Institute. The area is buzzing with festivals throughout the year, with something for all to enjoy.
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The area is ideally situated within Zone 1, with a range of easily accessible transport options including tube, bus, train and water. It is also only a short walk from the City and West End.


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To my Eabametoong Brothers of Bushtown…
September 20, 2014 / charlesderekfox
To the Northeast of Thunder Bay, somewhere between here and the shores of Hudson Bay lies a quiet, desolate, yet majestic and scenic piece of land. It, like many of the communities and trap lines in the North sits between a bed of rivers, lakes, swamps and muskeg. Eabametoong, also known as Fort Hope First Nation is another treasure of Canada's landscape I recently got to visit for my first time.
For many years I played hockey against the Atlookan and O'Keese boys, although rivals on the ice, we always remained good friends off of it, a respect for one another and relationship similar to that of brothers. After my meetings were done, which was my purpose for being there, my brothers from another mother took the time to gather up their gear, fuel up their boats and drive me to their traditional territory of Bushtown, hoping to see a moose along the way.
When we arrived at Bushtown it was through a narrow river that had the shape of an S and to both sides of me were tall weeds, a perfect place for moose to feed and they have on more than one occasion, according to my driver, Kurt Atlookan. He says to me, last year Leo (his brother) and him missed a huge bull there as he was crossing. He laughed as he shook his head, I could tell he was thinking how the hell did I miss that moose?! Any hunter could share a similar story of the one that got away.
Bushtown is historic in all of its elements with many of its log cabins still standing and teepee shaped smokers used for smoking moose meat and fish and if your senses are in tune with the land you could almost see the families gathered around the fire, the smell of campfire bannock as they sing songs of prayer asking for safety of their hunters and thanking the creator for the land beneath them, while appreciating the fresh air and water around them.
A pair of old skates hang from the tree and Derek Atlookan says to me those are my skates and this river is where we played hockey everyday. The Atlookans you see are very good hockey players, besides hunting and fishing, hockey is the thing they most love to do. Many battles have been won and lost against them on the ice, but from those battles and rivalries, friendships were formed, which brought me to their land that day and an excitement from all of us that I was visiting a place so sacred to them.
Kurt takes me around the cabins telling me stories of their childhood, one of how they used to jump through the fires and get in trouble by their parents, or the day his uncles and father went hunting taking all the rifles with them while moose walked into their camp and all they could do is sit and watch them play. He told me about the previous winter, in which two moose crossed the river when they all jumped on the skidoo and his brother Leo jumped in the sled usually attached to the back of it. However, the sled was not attached this time and by the time they realized he was not on it they were halfway to the moose, so their brother Leo missed out on that one. Kurt says to me he was still sitting in it ready to go when they came back, he chuckled looking up in the sky, realizing this will be a story told for many years.
Bushtown is the source of many of these stories, a place where many laughs and memories were created and shared, a place of many cups of tea, somewhere they could sit by the fire every fall season and overlook the bays surrounding them to see if the moose had come out to provide meat for them or hunt geese every spring or fish for an abundance of walleye every summer. Kurt continues to tell me many stories in his Oji-Cree dialect, a beautiful tone of humor and language unique to his people and land. His stories were many, the laughs many more, ones that are his to share with whom he chooses, grateful he chose to share them with me that day.
As I sat and watched the brothers build another log cabin with a mixture of hockey, hunting and Northern humor, in which one made fun of the other, our laughs never stopped; a relationship with each other and the land that is similar, almost identical to that of my family, jokes sometimes directed at me at my expense, in which I was reassured of why I love my people so much.
My Atlookan brothers love the land just as much as any person in the North does and in them I could see the warrior traits of their Ancestors, graceful smiles and offers of friendship, but fierce protectors of their land, which gave me the sense that the future our people and land is in good hands as they look to me provide protection using my legal knowledge and I look to them to provide protection in traditional knowledge. A good working relationship I say. An invitation to come moose hunting for a long weekend has been extended to me, one I will not pass up. Until then, take care Bushtown brothers….
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I Actually Let him Go Out In That.
Lately the little man has been fighting me for some more independence. Last night when we went to the store I "let" him win. In truth after a long day of fighting with him over everything I didn't have the energy to battle any more. Hence the snowman head piece, turtle pants, fire truck wellies (or welly because he is only wearing one) and mis-matched socks. Yes, I actually let him go out in that.
Needless to say he got quite a few looks and laughs.


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Manuela María Cambronero de Lana Peña (c. 1820 – c. 1854) was a Spanish writer.

Career
Born in A Coruña around 1820, little is known about Cambronero's life. Her father tragically disappeared, her brother was mentally ill, and Manuela and her husband Lorenzo Caballero suffered from serious ailments. She lived in Cádiz and Valladolid.

In Valladolid she premiered her play Sáfira, with great public success, as it was published in the Revista de Teatro (Theater Magazine). The young author, who was 20 years old, was also advised to make the last two acts into a single one.

She contributed to the magazine Galicia: Revista Universal de este Reino, published in A Coruña from 1860 to 1865. Her poems were written in Castilian Spanish rather than Galician. In one entitled A la Coruña, she continues the fashion of exalting her homeland, describing the landscape in a pleasant and nostalgic way. It is verse with a Costumbrist theme, with the meter and rhyme typical of erudite poetry. Her work also appeared in 1862's Álbum de la Caridad, along with that of poets such as Rosalía de Castro.

She was the first Latin American woman to publish a novel in Venezuela, as a folletín of the Diario de Avisos between March and April 1853.

Hermandad Lírica
She was part of the group called Hermandad Lírica (Lyrical Sisterhood), along with poets such as  – with whom she maintained an intense epistolary relationship – Vicenta García Miranda, Carolina Coronado, , and . She published in El Pensil del Bello Sexo, a supplement to the magazine El Genio, directed by Victor Balaguer, which is considered the first anthology of Spanish women writers.

Works
 Sáfira (Valladolid, 1842), a historical drama in five acts that deals with the love affair between a Muslim woman, Sáfira, and a Christian, Don Manrique
 El Ramillete: Inés (1846), novella
 Días de convalecencia (A Coruña, Domingo Puja, 1852), collection of poems and novellas

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1850s deaths
19th-century Spanish dramatists and playwrights
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Die Jugend-Olympiamannschaft aus Burundi für die II. Olympischen Jugend-Sommerspiele vom 16. bis 28. August 2014 in Nanjing (Volksrepublik China) bestand aus acht Athleten.

Athleten nach Sportarten

Beachvolleyball
Jungen
Bosco Ndayishimiye
Fiston Niyongabo
 31. Platz

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Tennis
Jungen
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 Doppel: 1. Runde (mit Lloyd Harris )
 Mixed: 1. Runde (mit Lesedi Jacobs )

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Übersicht der Athleten in der Olympedia

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59th Filmfare Awards 2014
Best Film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Best Actor Farhan Akhtar for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Best Actress Deepika Padukone for Goliyon Ki Rasleela RamLeela
Best Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Best Story Subhash Kapoor for Jolly LLB
Best Lyrics Prasoon Joshi for "Zinda" of "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag"
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Jeb Bush came to the Veterans of Foreign Wars post to talk about veterans' affairs but two words hung over the town hall event in a Denver suburb Tuesday: anchor babies.
That's the loaded term that Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has used to refer to U.S.-born children of people who come to the country illegally. The babies have automatic U.S. citizenship under the first section of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, something that Trump and other foes of high immigration levels decry.
As Bush has detailed his position — supporting birthright citizenship but concerned about the "birth tourism" industry that flies predominantly wealthy Asian mothers to the U.S. for childbirth — he's been questioned more than the reality show star. In response to a query at the town hall, Bush showed his frustration.
Last week, after Bush used the term "anchor babies" to say he was concerned about some possible abuses of birthright citizenship, he came under fire from the left. On Monday, Bush said he was talking about some "Asian people" rather than the vast majority of immigrants having children in the U.S. That drew another round of criticism from Democrats.
The size of the "birth tourism" business is unknown. The Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think-tank that favors greater restrictions on immigration, has estimated that about 40,000 babies are born to birth tourists, most of whom legally enter the country, annually.
Still, Democrats continued to hammer Bush for the statements, indicating that the party considers him a more likely eventual Republican nominee than Trump, despite the real estate mogul's lead in the polls. In a hastily organized conference call Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., did not mention Trump but called on Bush to apologize to Asian Americans.
Bush's own strong ties to immigrant communities — he speaks fluent Spanish — threatens Democrats' edge with Hispanics and Asians.
In Colorado, many of the several dozen people at the town hall asked Bush about immigration. One asked him to describe the difference between his stance and Trump's, a contrast Bush has been increasingly trying to make. "Mr. Trump believes you can just round people up," said Bush, calling that idea contrary to American values and not "practical." Bush favors a path to legal status for many of the people in the country illegally.
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RIP Oliver Postgate 1925-2008
The Smallfilms Treasury
Buy Stuff - History - The Dragons' Friendly Society - Smallfilms at Work - Fan Stuff - Oliver Postgate's Autobiography
Help - If you have any Smallfilms material, please mail me
Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were two overgrown boys called Oliver and Peter.
And Peter lived on a farm.
It was a rather unusual farm because it didn't grow any crops and there were no sheep or cows, but it was the home of Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, the Clangers and of course Bagpuss.
And there they made the most beautiful, the most brilliant, funny old Small Films in the whole wide world or so we like to think.
A brief history of Smallfilms and the films they produced.
Here are some photos of Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin at work.
The Dragons' Friendly Society
A new society has been formed to help maintain and promote the wealth of works produced Smallfilms. Named after the society of dragons in the saga of Noggin the Nog, their first act is to produce a new set of Noggin material - a video, a book and a set of postcards.
Visit them at the Dragons' Friendly Society site
Noggin the Nog
In the Lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale...
So began each of the Sagas of Noggin the Nog, in which the crown of Noggin, Prince of the Nogs is sought by his wicked uncle Nogbad the Bad who devises evil plots to threaten the safety of the kingdom, and sometimes the world, in order to force Noggin to give up his crown. In each saga Nogbad pursues his plot to the very brink of success, but at the last moment his purposes are foiled by some unexpected piece of luck, cleverness or lack of attention on the part of the Nogs.
Visit my Noggin the Nog site
Neil Jones's Northlands site
Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was.
And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor.
So began, in 1959, the first episode of the first series of a set of television films which were to become part of the mainstream of Children's television for the next thirty years.
Visit my Ivor the Engine site
Once upon a time, Not so long ago, there was a little girl and her name was Emily. And she had a shop.
It was a rather unusual shop because it didn't sell anything.
You see, everything in that shop was a thing that somebody had once lost, and Emily had found, and brought home to Bagpuss.
Emily's cat Bagpuss.
The most important.
The most beautiful.
The most magical.
Saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world.
Visit my Bagpuss site
Alternatively, try Catnip's Bagpuss Homage Page
If you want more in depth analysis/codswallop, you should head for Jill's Sociopolitical Analysis and the Bagpuss FAQ, and you can also pose questions to the world's best educated bookend when you Ask Yaffle.
Everyone remembers the Clangers, the whistling knitted animals that lived on a small moon.
They lived a peaceful life, salvaging junk from space to build machines, and making friends with all the strange creatures that came to visit them.
Find out everything there is to know at John Fletcher's Clangers site
If you're really keen, you can even buy some collectable Clangers
Pogles Wood is the story of woodland folk who lived "deep in the middle of a wood" in a tree with a magic bean plant. Pogles Wood was a Smallfilms Production, originally shown by the BBC between 1964 and 1968.
Find out more at Heff's Pogles Wood site or Jenny's Pogles Wood Page
Pingwings were small penguin like creatures that lived under the junk, under the bunks and trunks, swings and things at the back of a barn...
Pingwings was shown on ITV in the early '60s.
Visit my Pingwings site


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DARKSPEED ~ 10TH NOVEMBER 2015
INSPIRATION MONDAY ~ A prompt response for "INSPIRATION MONDAY:" ~ DARKSPEED
DARKSPEED
"The infinitely powerful speed of dark, is a new super speed, that exceeds the speed of light, by many aeons-per-supersecond. The elusive dark matter that surrounds us all is moving so fast, that our eyes are unable to focus on the entity at all." Prof. Barnes, the chief scientist was addressing the team of brave cybernauts who were risking everything, to travel through space using the new medium of darkspeed.
Captain Johnson was intrigued by the vehicle he was required to take charge of, and how much extra training the crew would require before they took control.
"How do I power up a ship that is running on an invisible medium?" He enquired.
"The fuel powering is automatic, once the robotic fuel systems key into the dark matter, the propulsion is automatically fired up, and entirely controllable by pulling a plug and switching off the motors." replied the Professor, "Landing the ship on the reserve conventional motors, is much like operating a normal spaceship." The Professor replied.
"How do we key into the dark matter to take off again, when we are ready to come home?" asked Jim Green, the chief engineer.
"Ah! Thats easy." continued the Professor, with a grin "You just insert the plug again, once the system is connected up, the power re-continues to flow."
After many weeks of intensive training for the crew, with the boffins finalising the details of the revolutionary new craft. The lift-off countdown began, 10-9-8-7-6-------1-Zero.
One hour later the spaceship landed in a remote desert in the middle of Africa. The watching world was stunned and the spaceship was soon surrounded by cautious troops.
Suddenly the trapdoor was released, and six very youthful looking cybernauts came down the steps.
At the debriefing, which lasted for days, it became obvious that the crew were under the impression they had been away from home for years, and their intelligence levels had spiralled beyond belief. Their youthful appearance was astonishing, and the adventures they related were enough to fill many books.
Six months down the line the spaceship vanished from the high security quarantine area where the authorities had been examining it for viral invaders. The original crew were missing and the search was on for the almost instantaneous return of the missing spaceship.
The new era of darkspeed, darkmatter travel, was underway........


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(1974, directed by Mel Brooks, starring Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, and Madeline Kahn. PG) A classic Mel Brooks film starring the late Gene Wilder as the grandson of the infamous mad scientist Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein. The young neurosurgeon tries to distance himself from his grandfather's work but upon inheriting his estate and discovering his journals the young Frankenstein tries his hand at reanimating a dead body.


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Miss World Canada, Anastasia Lin, Wins a Leo Award for her Stunning Performance in The Bleeding Edge
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Anastasia Lin, Controversial Miss World Canada, Wins Best Actress at the Leo Awards, Western Canada's most Prestigious Film Gala
The reigning Miss World Canada who was prevented from competing in China at the 2015 pageant final, is now a Best Actress winner thanks to her performance in The Bleeding Edge, a feature length thriller from Vancouver's Peabody Award-winning director Leon Lee about prisoners of conscience in China. The 2016 Leo Awards are BC's highest film accolade, the ceremony was held on June 5th at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver.
Anastasia Lin accepted the 2016 Leo Award for Best Female Lead Performance in a TV Movie by honouring the victims of forced organ harvesting in China, a subject which is brought to light in the film. The Bleeding Edge, which is based on true events, sees Lin play a Falun Gong practitioner who is imprisoned for her spiritual beliefs and subjected to human rights atrocities in a labour camp. The role was dear to her heart:
"I feel like I'm receiving this award on behalf of the incredible cast and crew of the Bleeding Edge, they each made tremendous sacrifice to be in the production." She said, "I also want to thank the victims of this human rights abuse, who I interviewed for this film. They opened up their scars to show me the most profound fear and most incredible courage human beings can possess."
Anastasia Lin made global headlines in 2015 when she was prevented from competing in the Miss World beauty pageant in China because of her outspoken political views condemning the communist government. She refuses to be silenced and continues to push boundaries and speak up against human rights abuse in her native country.
"Her passion and courage is unrivalled which is brought to life in her stunning performance." says director Leon Lee, "We hope The Bleeding Edge continues to bring awareness and hope for the victims of these terrible crimes."
The Bleeding Edge is Lin's first leading role since being barred from the Miss World final, and her first win for best actress. The film will be released across Canada later this year by Flying Cloud Productions and was recently the recipient of the 2016 Gabriel Award for Best Film.
The Leo Awards were founded in 1999 by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British Columbia, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to celebrate and promote the achievements of the British Columbia film and television industry.
DATE June 6, 2016 CATEGORY News
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FLYING CLOUD PRODUCTIONS presents a film by LEON LEE "THE BLEEDING EDGE" JAY CLIFT ANASTASIA LIN TONY BAI and JAMES YI music by DARYL BENNETT co-produced by CHUNYU ZHANG line producer BRENTON SPENCER edited by MARK LEMMON production designer ANDY AMOROSO costume designer KATHI MOORE director of photography BRENTON SPENCER CSC produced by LEON LEE executive producer JASON LOFTUS written by LEON LEE and DREW PARKER directed by LEON LEE
© 2023 The Bleeding Edge. flying cloud productions


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"Every day of my administration, we are taking power out of Washington, D.C., and returning it to the American people, where it belongs," President Donald Trump said at the NRA lobbying arm's national gathering. | Scott Olson/Getty Images
Trump claims 'bad apples' are being ousted after Mueller team's 'coup' attempt
President Donald Trump used a speech to the NRA's lobbying arm Friday to rail against unnamed "bad apples" at the Justice Department and boast that he "caught" former officials in an attempted coup.
At the group's annual gathering, Trump asserted — without mentioning the department by name — that by weeding out officials at DOJ he was fulfilling his 2016 campaign promise to "drain the swamp."
"Every day of my administration, we are taking power out of Washington, D.C., and returning it to the American people, where it belongs," he told the friendly audience in Indianapolis. "And you see it now better than ever. With all of the resignations of bad apples. They are bad apples. They try for a coup, it didn't work out so well."
He went on, joking: "And I did not need a gun for that one, did I?"
Trump has taken to this framing of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation following the release of his findings that turned up no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to collude and did not reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice.
Some of Trump's defenders have increasingly embraced the loaded term more recently, bolstered by Attorney General William Barr's declaration to Congress earlier this month that there might have been "spying" on Trump's 2016 campaign. Trump addressed the issue during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Thursday night.
Trump says U.S. 'will never ratify' arms trade treaty
Hannity repeated speculation that had begun bubbling in conservative media that the FBI had been looking to infiltrate Trump's transition team, based on a letter two GOP senators sent to Barr inquiring about texts from former Mueller investigators Lisa Page and Peter Stzrok, who were ousted after their opposition to candidate Trump was revealed.
On Friday, Trump expressed shock that it "all was taking place at the highest levels in Washington, D.C."
"You've been watching, you've been seeing," he said. "You have been looking at things you would not have believed possible in our country. Corruption at the highest levels — a disgrace. Spying, surveillance, trying for an overthrow, and we caught them. We caught them. Who would have thought in our country?"
Still, he told the audience to cheers, "America's future has never been brighter, yet Democrats have never been angrier, especially now that their collusion delusion has been exposed to the world as a complete and total fraud."


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This is exciting news! I have always been extremely impressed with the service from Co-op Electrical and would not go anywhere else to buy electrical items.
I didn't know they sold electrical !!!
Why food stores don't have the url for this online only business displayed prominently in them is a mystery to me. Surely Dishwashers (top trumps style) by the dishwasher tablets, ovens by the ready meals, fridges by the alcohol beverages???
What is the point of owning £1 of a business if it never advertises to the already converted????
O.k I'll elaborate another way: when senior (years served) staff in my local food are unaware we sell and deliver Fridge Freezers nationwide/London. I think we have a problem….


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Brett Kavanaugh Sworn In To Supreme Court
Brett Kavanaugh Sworn In As Supreme Court Justice In Private Ceremony
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Photo: Fred Schilling/US SUPREME COURT/HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock.
Following his confirmation late Saturday afternoon, Brett Kavanaugh has been sworn in as a Justice on the Supreme Court in a private ceremony. Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy administered the judicial oath in front of Kavanaugh's family in the Justices' Conference Room of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, U.S. shortly after the his confirmation passed the Senate.
Kavanaugh was confirmed by a narrow vote of 50 to 48. He is a historically unpopular Supreme Court nominee.
The contentious vote was repeatedly interrupted by protesters who shouted as various members of the Senate attempted to cast their vote. As many as 50 people were reportedly arrested for interrupting the vote.
"If they think we will be silenced by a bunch of patriarchal men screaming order to take our rights away, they have another thing coming" said Winnie Wong, senior advisor to the Women's March, who was in the Senate gallery during the vote. "Our time of behaving is long over. Justice Kavanaugh better get used to protests and disruptions, because he is going to have us fighting every step of the way for the rest of his time on the bench. Shame on everyone who supported him. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and millions of strong American women are ready to mobilize more than any time in history."
Kavanaugh is alleged to have committed sexual assault, attempted rape, exposing himself, and thrusting his penis in someone's face without consent. He has denied the allegations.
Brett Kavanaugh Has Been Sworn In To The Supreme Court
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Q: Difference results from QGIS project on fly and gdalwarp for EPSG:4326 of Sentinel 2 UTM zone 32? I always thought QGIS and gdalwarp should return same result for projecting a 2D Sentinel 2 image (e.g: T32UQD_20200421T102021_TCI_60m.jp2) from UTM 32 to EPSG:4326.
What I did was:

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*Open the .jp2 in QGis 2.14.9 with 'Enable on the fly CRS transformation'.

*Warp the .jp2 to geotiff by gdalwarp:
gdalwarp T32UQD_20200421T102021_TCI_60m.jp2 -t_srs EPSG:4326 4.warped.tiff
But the output results from them look different significantly (on the left hand side with QGIS it looks rotated and on the right hand side with gdalwarp it looks aligned).

So, what should be the correct result?
gdalinfo T32UQD_20200421T102021_TCI_60m.jp2

Size is 1830, 1830
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["WGS 84 / UTM zone 32N",
    GEOGCS["WGS 84",
        DATUM["WGS_1984",
            SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
                AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
        AXIS["Latitude",NORTH],
        AXIS["Longitude",EAST],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]],
    PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",9],
    PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",500000],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
    UNIT["metre",1,
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","9001"]],
    AXIS["Easting",EAST],
    AXIS["Northing",NORTH],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","32632"]]
Origin = (699960.000000000000000,5900040.000000000000000)
Pixel Size = (60.000000000000000,-60.000000000000000)
Image Structure Metadata:
  INTERLEAVE=PIXEL
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (  699960.000, 5900040.000) ( 11d59'40.71"E, 53d12'43.17"N)
Lower Left  (  699960.000, 5790240.000) ( 11d55'40.15"E, 52d13'34.41"N)
Upper Right (  809760.000, 5900040.000) ( 13d38' 3.06"E, 53d 9'33.92"N)
Lower Right (  809760.000, 5790240.000) ( 13d31'51.72"E, 52d10'31.74"N)
Center      (  754860.000, 5845140.000) ( 12d46'18.91"E, 52d41'45.89"N)

and warped by gdalwarp: 4.warped.tiff
Size is 2383, 1447
Coordinate System is:
GEOGCS["WGS 84",
    DATUM["WGS_1984",
        SPHEROID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
            AUTHORITY["EPSG","7030"]],
        AUTHORITY["EPSG","6326"]],
    PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
    UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
    AUTHORITY["EPSG","4326"]]
Origin = (11.927820031375013,53.211992871316582)
Pixel Size = (0.000716123003772,-0.000716123003772)
Metadata:
  AREA_OR_POINT=Area
Image Structure Metadata:
  INTERLEAVE=PIXEL
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (  11.9278200,  53.2119929) ( 11d55'40.15"E, 53d12'43.17"N)
Lower Left  (  11.9278200,  52.1757629) ( 11d55'40.15"E, 52d10'32.75"N)
Upper Right (  13.6343411,  53.2119929) ( 13d38' 3.63"E, 53d12'43.17"N)
Lower Right (  13.6343411,  52.1757629) ( 13d38' 3.63"E, 52d10'32.75"N)
Center      (  12.7810806,  52.6938779) ( 12d46'51.89"E, 52d41'37.96"N)

A: I don't see anything wrong here. Gdalwarp creates a new raster with cellsize in units of the target CRS sampling from the original raster values as needed, while OTF reprojection just squeezes the original raster to the new CRS without recalculating cell values.
You see the difference in the corner coordinates. The gdalwarp output is a rectangle in the target CRS, while the source raster is a rectangle in the source CRS.

A: To elaborate on @AndreJ's answer, which correctly said that this is entirely expected: It is also a good illustration of what "on the fly" means. The original UTM32N raster remains the same, the pixel corner locations remain the same. It's just that their coordinates are on the fly translated to WGS84.
As you can see from the gdalinfo output, the two rasters have different numbers of rows and columns. The UTM32N one has square pixels in UTM32N, measured in meters (60x60m), and each pixel has the same area. These will look like distorted rectangles when represented in WGS84. Conversely, the reprojected (warped) raster in WGS84 has square pixels in degrees. These look square in WGS84, but wouldn't be square when measured in meters. Their area varies.
The warping was done so as to roughly preserve, I think, pixel area. The visual differences between the raster values are from resampling.
QGIS and gdalwarp should produce the same result if you ask them to do the same thing (ie, produce the same warped raster - not just the same target CRS, but the same origin, pixel size, and resampling method. But not when they are doing different things.


Hello Monday, here you are again.
A new weeks begins. And from now on I'm going to begin it with Gratefulness.
Yes indeedy, from now on The Grateful Project will live on once a week right here on my blog.
I will share a round-up of all the things I'm Grateful for. You can share yours too if you want to.
Now for my very own gratefuls. Quite a bunch of them, really.
As I've said before, the more you look for the blessings in your life, the more you find.
Sticking with the "housework" theme, I am also incredibly grateful for our young neighbour, Rebecca, who comes in twice a week and CLEANS.Most of all, I am grateful that my own effort and ingenuity is paying for the cleaning. Oh Yes: my invitations are selling on Etsy to fund my cleaner. So I am also very grateful for good sales - and that I don't need to be guilty about having a cleaner because I am funding it myself, and therefore, in my own way, I am accomplishing a clean house.
I am grateful that Dash's injury was nothing serious. Just some deep bruising, no broken bones no ligaments torn. Meanwhile Dash is grateful that they gave him crutches, and a day off school. And when we called in at school to show off his crutches pick up the other kids, he was a hero. They sat him on a "throne" and the teacher said how much they had all missed him in class that day. He felt really special and wanted. A nice feeling, for any kid.
I am grateful for good friends who send great books. Miriam sent me The Happiness Project! I am looking forward to sinking my teeth into it as soon as I finish wading through Middle Earth. Thankyou Miriam!
And finally. I am grateful for everyone who contributed to my nephew Joel's fundraising campaign. I am also grateful that we have sold 4 out of 5 items on TradeMe (including our dear wee Triang trike and trailer. So many memories)... so that all help get Joel to a total of USD$7,800 (around NZD$10,000).
So many other things to be grateful for, but this post is long enough already.
If perchance you happened to write a grateful post anytime since The Grateful Project started, I'd love you to link it up below. Or use the #thegratefulproject hashtag on instagram (and twitter).


5- The Problem of Procrastination and Self-Control Why We Can't Make Ourselves Do What We Want to Do?
Here again one of the most important points covered in this book, Procrastination. Or in other words, why we can't make ourselves do what we want to do? What is holding us? Why the American scene suffered the biggest decline in the personal savings rate since the Great Depression? Why do we lose the fight against procrastination so frequently? Maybe the following experiment could tell us few answers about this.
In one semester, Ariely decided to give it a try with a cool experiment that might study the effect of procrastination on his students. He had 3 classes that were assigned to him that semester, students from each class has to submit 3 papers that will massively contribute to the final grade. As part of the experiment, he decided to give each class different deadlines. The First class — let's call it Class A — have been told to choose their deadlines for the 3 papers. In other words, each student from class A needs to pick up a deadline for each paper by himself/herself, however, each student will be penalized if he/she failed to deliver it on the specified timing. The second class — Class B — were given the freedom to hand over papers any time they find suitable for them until the end of the semester. While the last class, Class C — were given sharp deadlines by Ariely to submit their papers. The result of that experiment was that Class C got the best grades despite the rigid deadlines they were put in, Class B with the worst grades, and Class A in the middle between them.
not everyone understands their tendency to procrastinate, and even those who do recognize their tendency to procrastinate may not understand their problem completely. Yes, people may set deadlines for themselves, but not necessarily the deadlines that are best for getting the best performance.
Reflecting such behavior on our day to day activities, we found people all the time struggling with diet, Doctor appointments, saving money …. etc. For the money-saving example, in fact, the author discussed a cool credit card idea. Imagine we have self-controlled credit cards that we can set in advance the amount we need to spend in each category over a period of time. For example, Cardholders could fix their limit for groceries at $200 a week and their entertainment spending at $60 a month, and not allow any spending on candy between two and five PM … etc. As sound as it looks like this idea was, however, people from the banking industry whom the author talked to didn't give any interest in such idea, maybe after all this could harm their money making a strategy.
What's the bottom line? We have problems with self-control, related to immediate and delayed gratification — no doubt there. But each of the problems we face has potential self-control mechanisms, as well. If we can't save from our paycheck, we can take advantage of our employer's automatic deduction option; if we don't have the will to exercise regularly alone, we can make an appointment to exercise in the company of our friends. These are the tools that we can commit to in advance, and they may help us be the kind of people we want to be.
6- The High Price of Ownership Why We Overvalue What We Have?
The Placebo Effect, Why a 50-Cent Aspirin Can Do What a Penny Aspirin Can't?
If you were living in 1950 and had chest pain, your cardiologist might well have suggested a procedure for angina pectoris called internal mammary artery ligation. In this operation, the patient is anesthetized, the chest is opened at the sternum, and the internal mammary artery is tied off. Voilà! Pressure to the pericardiophrenic arteries is raised, blood flow to the myocardium is improved, and everyone goes home happy.
That was one of the most successful operations back in its times. However, in 1955, a cardiologist in Seattle, Leonard Cobb, and a few colleagues became suspicious. They questioned the efficacy of the procedure and decided to put the theory back in the test. Cobb decided to perform the operation of half of his patients and fake it on the other half. The result was quite impressive. Both patients who did the real procedure and the fake one reported immediate relief from their chest pain. In both groups, the relief lasted about three months — and then complaints about chest pain returned. In the same time, electrocardiograms showed same findings on patients with the real operation as well as on those with the placebo one.
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Choline is increased in pre-lesional normal appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis.
OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to determine if the resonance intensity of choline-containing compounds (Cho) measured using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was increased in pre-lesional normal appearing white matter (NAWM) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) relative to NAWM that remained stable in subsequent scans. BACKGROUND: The Cho peak in MR spectra is associated with membrane phospholipids and increases in acute MS plaques, possibly even before the appearance of MRI-visible MS lesions. METHODS: Three combined proton MRI and MRS imaging examinations of the corpus callosum and adjacent periventricular white matter were performed on 12 MS patients at intervals of 6 months. Proton density (PD) images were visually matched across 3 time points and the lesion volume in each voxel of the volume of interest was determined. The voxels were subdivided into four groups based on the presence or absence of lesion at baseline and change or no change in lesion volume on the subsequent scan. RESULTS: We found a significantly higher baseline Cho/Creatine (Cr) ratio in NAWM voxels that displayed MRI visible lesions 6 months later than NAWM voxels that remained unchanged (1.57 +/- 0.30 and 1.37 +/- 0.33, respectively, p < 0.001). The 12-month interval data revealed similar pre-lesional elevated Cho/Cr, (1.51 +/- 0.29 versus 1.39 +/- 0.32, p = 0.009). Voxels that contained lesion at baseline and increased in lesion volume at 6 months also showed a significantly higher Cho/Cr ratio than those whose lesion volume did not change (1.60 +/- 0.32 and 1.49 +/- 0.36, respectively, p = 0.043). CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study are consistent with focal pre-lesional myelin membrane pathology in the NAWM at least 12 months before lesions become visible on conventional MRI. This could reflect altered myelin chemistry or the presence of inflammation as seen in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis.
Titolo: Choline is increased in pre-lesional normal appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis.
Citazione: Tartaglia, M.c., Narayanan, S., DE STEFANO, N., Arnaoutelis, R., Antel, S.b., Francis, S.j., et al. (2002). Choline is increased in pre-lesional normal appearing white matter in multiple sclerosis. JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, 249(10), 1382-1390.


Wow, time does fly! I was honored to be invited to join the Watercooler Blog Hop for it's 3rd Anniversary. I was one of the original blog hoppers for that very first Watercooler Blog Hop and we are all back celebrating our three years of "hopping" together. We have all moved in different directions from that very first hop, however, one thing is consistent, our customers love seeing different styles of cards and projects which a blog hop provides.
My first project is an Anniversary card, using Stampin' Up!'s One Wild Ride stamp set and Banners for You stamp set.. This is my first time using this set and I loved how my idea for this card came together. Being a Stampin' Up! demonstrator can be "one wild ride", however, as the inside says "life's a journey enjoy the ride". So let us celebrate all demonstrators sharing their talent on blog hops.
Tip: Glue the Banner onto scrap of Basic Black Cardstock and hand cut the border.
My next project features one of the stamp sets that has survived since being introduced in 2013, Stampin' Up!'s Wetlands! It is very vesatile and can be used for any type of card, I love it. For this card I will give basic directions that you can use on most bendi (or bendy) cards.
1. Stamp background on 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" neutral cardstock.
2. Sponge background to create sky, water, sand, etc.
3. Using your background as a guide, decide and then stamp the foreground pieces that you will trim to create the 3-D scene.
5. Create your tab by using a ruler to draw a line 1/2" from the end opposite the 1/2" score line. Make sure the tab is tapered a little to make it easier to insert. Erase pencil marks.
6. Adhere side pieces to card back.
7. Figure out how much bend you want on the middle piece, hold it in place and mark where your slit needs to be cut. Open up piece and cut slit and check size. Remember you can always make the slit longer, you can't make it shorter.
8. Repeat with other piece marking where the slit will go on the bend of the middle piece and mark with pencil. Open and cut slit.
My last card features a CASE of a card of Bev Q.'s card from the original blog hop.
I hope you enjoyed my projects. If you need any of the supplies to recreate my cards, I will be glad to place your order.
Jean, so glad you joined us! I think my favorite is your One Wild Ride anniversary card with all the fabulous copper embossing. Or maybe, it's the sweet Wetlands bendi card with all its detail. Or maybe, well you get the idea – theyr'e all great!
Jean, I love that you used One Wild Ride. That's a stamp set that is on my wish list – and your card will be going into my CASE file. It's a perfect match with the Copper EP. So happy to have you be part of this Anniversary Blog Hop. This is such a wonderful group of people!
Really love the bendi card. It looks really hard to do, but you've done a fantastic job with it. Also I like the copper on the anniversary card.
Jean you've created three wonderful projects for this 3rd Anniversary celebration. It's so great to have you join in. Wow that Wild Ride is such a great card and I love how you've added in the Copper embossing. Can't wait to get me a jar of that! I love how you've incorporated the stamp sets into your Bendi card, very creative and your CASE card is perfect!
Jean, it's been a while since you've stamped with us and, seeing your projects, I am reminded of your wonderful creativity. That first project, the Anniversary card, gives the One Wild Ride set an elegance I had not guessed it could possess. What a clever idea, to use those banners and all that gorgeous copper embossing (my new favourite embossing powder). Your bendi Wetlands card—simply beautiful. I have the instructions for the bendi but have yet to make one. Your card is pushing me to make that fold my next project.
Jean, I love all 3 of your projects – but the anniversary card has to be my favourite! The Copper embossing powder really makes this card a 'wow'. I like how you cut around the bird shapes for the 'bendy' parts of the bendy card, and your CASE card is adorable! I'm so glad that you were able to join us again, for this special 3rd anniversary hop.
Jean, I'm so glad you joined the hop and shared your beautiful cards. I just pulled the Wild Ride set out yesterday to use for the first time. You have inspired me to try the copper embossing powder with it. I haven't tried the bendie card yet, and again inspire me to do so. What a sweet CASE!


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Investigation of the effect of hedonic shopping value on discounted product purchasing
Sinan Çavuşoğlu (Department of Business Administration, Bingol University , Bingol, Turkey)
Bülent Demirağ (Department of Marketing, Gaziantep University , Gaziantep, Turkey)
Yakup Durmaz (Department of Marketing, Hasan Kalyoncu University Faculty of Economics Administrative and Social Sciences , Gaziantep, Turkey)
Review of International Business and Strategy
Article publication date: 21 September 2020
Issue publication date: 13 September 2021
This paper aims to determine the effects of hedonic shopping value on discounted product purchasing intention.
Design Methodology Approach
The population of the research consists of consumers who have wanted to benefit from "Magnificent Friday" campaigns or similar campaigns of big shopping malls in Gaziantep between the November 15, 2019 and the December 31, 2019. Out of non-probability sampling methods, convenience sampling method was used in this research. Sample number was determined as 425. To test the hypotheses, Smart partial least squares 3 statistics program was used, and the evaluation of the hypotheses was conducted by using the bootstrapping technique.
Analyses show that innovation (β = 0.150, p < 0.001), entertainment (β = 0.192, p < 0.001), praise from others (β = 0.234, p < 0.001), escaping reality (β = 0.274, p < 0.001) and social interaction (β = 0.183, p < 0.001) dimensions of hedonic shopping value positively affect discounted product purchasing intention. Accordingly, H1, H2, H3, H4 and H5 were accepted.
Research Limitations Implications
Because the research has time, cost, accessibility and control limitations, the whole population was not reached. The research was only carried out on the data collected from 425 consumers in Gaziantep who benefited from or want to benefit from Magnificent Friday campaign or similar campaigns.
During discount season when shopping activities are more intense, consumers tend to focus more on the entertainment value and suitability. Because consumers see these seasons as seasons to buy gifts, their interests in and purchasing intention toward products and shops increase. During discount seasons such as Magnificent Friday or New Year's, businesses may take advantage of consumers who have a tendency for hedonic shopping.
Originality Value
This research studied the effect of hedonic shopping value on purchasing intention and contributed to the literature in this aspect. There have been no studies in national literature hat studied hedonic shopping with such an extent, and there have also been no studies focusing on Magnificent Friday campaigns. For this reason, this research is original in these aspects and thought to contribute to the literature.
Purchase intention
Hedonic shopping value
Çavuşoğlu, S., Demirağ, B. and Durmaz, Y. (2021), "Investigation of the effect of hedonic shopping value on discounted product purchasing", Review of International Business and Strategy, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp. 317-338. https://doi.org/10.1108/RIBS-04-2020-0034
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For decades, conservatives have attempted to portray the Social Security system as being "in crisis" or on the verge of bankruptcy, despite the fact that it is one of the most popular and economically stable government programs in history. The media barrage has had an effect: many people have a vague sense that Social Security can't be relied on, even though it is a bedrock program that provides 100 percent of its own funding. Part of the reason conservative think tanks and the wealthy people who fund them are able to pull off this media smoke screen is that complex economic programs can be difficult to understand.
Michael Goodwin has done us the great service of making economic subjects a little easier to grasp. Goodwin is the author of Economix: How the Economy Works (And Doesn't Work) in Words and Pictures, a comic-book style guide to the economy. The book is a cartoon guide to the history of economics, with an emphasis on how economic policies affect people in the real world. I recommend it highly. When we citizens educate ourselves, we are better equipped to resist policies that are not in our interests.
Goodwin has also published a free comic on Social Security. Although the guide focuses on retirement insurance, much of the information is also applicable to Social Security disability insurance. Goodwin explains the modern history of Social Security, making clear that although conservatives profess to be concerned about Social Security running out of money, in reality Social Security is more stable than the rest of the government, and has been used to prop it up for years, to our detriment.
Fortunately, citizens are smarter than politicians give them credit for. When then-President George W. Bush attempted to sell the American people on the privatization of Social Security, a lot of smart economists had theories to back him up. However, they ran into a brick wall of public opposition. The public, especially seniors, just didn't buy the conservatives' theory that putting Social Security funds into the stock market was a good idea. Now, with the economic collapse that came at the end of Bush's Presidency, we know that privatizing Social Security would have been disastrous. The public was right and conservative economists were wrong. Goodwin's work is one more tool citizens have in their tool belt to stay educated and alert, so that we can protect ourselves against attacks on Social Security.


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Traditional stir fried Chinese bitter melon recipe made with beef and a homemade black bean sauce made from scratch.
Bitter melon – you either love it or you hate it. If you love it, keep reading – this recipe will be right up your alley! 🙂 …and if you're curious then give it a try (just do it in a smaller batch to see if you like it). Either way, this is definitely going to be an acquired taste.
For this bitter melon recipe, I stayed close to the traditional way of serving it because it hits close to home and brings a lot of nostalgia eating it this way. (I am sure most Asians can relate to this, since at one point of our life we were probably forced to eat this at the dinner table for it's nutritional benefits).
The black bean sauce compliments the beef very well (and it works equally well with chicken as well) and the sauce masks some of the bitter flavor from the melon as well which is great because bitter melon itself doesn't really have much of a flavor except bitter and 'green'. 😉 So for anyone who is looking for a classic Chinese bitter melon recipe – this one's for you!
For this recipe bitter melon recipe, you can find most things from your local grocery store, however bitter melon, fermented black beans and oyster sauce might be trickier to find and will most likely be found at an Asian grocery store.
Fermented black beans are not the same as the black beans you find in grocery stores. Fermented black beans are softer and fermented and very salty – as oppose to the common dried hard black beans which are typically used in soups and stews. If you are curious about it, you can read more about it on my post about 'Fermented Black Beans'.
You can usually find bitter melon at an Asian grocery store or Indian grocery store. Bitter melon from an Asian grocery store will be different looking than the ones you find at an Indian grocery store but will have very similar flavor. I write more in detail of the differences in my 'Bitter Melon' post if you are curious to learn more about it, but to simplify this post, when you are shopping for bitter melon, look for un-bruised, firm ones.
To prepare bitter melon, cut it in half length wise and scoop out all the seeds and spongy encasing with the spoon. Once the bitter melon has been cleaned out, you can slice it up. I find it taste less bitter when you slice them thinner, so I like to cut mine 1/4 inch thick.
To remove more of the bitterness, you can pre-boil it in hot water quickly as well. Try not to boil it for more than 1 minute (I like to boil it for about 30 seconds), the longer you boil it the mushier the melon will be and it can potentially fall apart during the stir frying stage.
You can also skip pre-boiling the bitter melon and use it as-is right after you slice it up. The outcome in the final dish will be a firmer bitter melon texture with a bit of a crunch but it will be slightly more bitter. The bonus to doing this is it keeps all the nutrients since you won't be losing in by boiling it.
After boiling it for 30 seconds, I quickly threw it into a very cold ice bath to stop the cooking process to retain the texture. To simplify it, you can also just run it under cold tap water in a strainer after it has been boiled.
Making homemade black bean sauce is a lot easier than you think, the hardest part is probably finding fermented black beans. Keep in mind that the fermented black beans are not the same as the dried black beans you find at the grocery store, and if you are having a hard time finding it locally, your best bet would be finding it online – don't worry these have a very high shelf life from the high salt content.
To make the homemade black bean sauce, I find quickly soaking the fermented black beans to give it a little moisture helps before smushing them with a back of a spoon (or you can chop them up with a knife).
Once you have the smushing out of the way, you just combine it with the rest of the sauce ingredients (soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, water, garlic and sesame oil) and you're good to go. At this point it will still look watery, you will still need the corn starch slurry to thicken it at the very end.
A traditional stir-fried Chinese bitter melon recipe made with beef and a homemade black bean sauce made from scratch.
Combine the marinade ingredients into bowl with the beef and mix it together. Set it aside for later.
In a bowl, gently rinse the fermented black beans for a few seconds to soften it a bit more and to rinse out some of the salt.
On a cutting board, smush the beans up with the back of a spoon (or finely chop it with a knife) and add it back to the bowl.
In a separate bowl, mix the corn starch and water (the water must be cold) and set aside for the very end. We will use the corn starch slurry to thicken the sauce.
Fill a pot up with water and set it on the stove and wait for it to boil.
Once the water is boiling, add the bitter melon in and cook it for 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Drain and run the bitter melon under cold water in a strainer or throw it in a ice bath to stop the cooking process.
Once the bitter melon is cool, set it in a strainer/colander and set it aside.
Add in the bitter melon and cook it for 1-2 minutes. If you didn't boil it, cook it for 1-2 minutes more.
To retain more nutrients from the bitter melon, you can skip pre-boiling the bitter melon and directly cook it in the frying pan with the sauce. The bitter melon will be more bitter and have a bit more raw veggie crunch.
I hated bitter melon with a passion when I was a kid. It must have been 20 years since I last ate it. Your bitter melon with black bean sauce looks really delicious!
major nostalgia (: my grandma would put this in soup all the time, but i haven't had it with black bean sauce before!
You selected my favourite dish Bitter Melon with black bean sauce, I really do love this dish, simple ingredients, almost each Asian kitchen has these. Eat bitter melon is very good to your health especially when one has acne. The bitter enzyme is powerful has proved to use for medication in some sort. I do like your cooking tips and analysis such as the ways of pre-boiling vs boiling , very detailed oriented, instructions, you don't jump directly into cooking. That make you do a lot of work.
I really do enjoy your cooking blog, Joyce.