I suppose only a cynic would say that Hillary's switching positions around because Montana holds its primary Tuesday, and her position on gun control isn't popular with voters there. Hmmm... good thing I'm a cynic.
UPDATE: When she changed her position, she forgot to tell Chelsea, who was telling folks in Billings that "We also need to do more with gun control. And my mom supports- naturally what she supported in New York. Which is: we have different gun control laws in New York City than we do in upstate New York."
I would like to discuss with Senator Clinton this idea of geographically-delimited rights.
I would tell her that the 2A sould be infringed in places like NYC, DC, and Chicago ... because they really need to control crime more efficiently. From her previous statements, I am sure she would agree.
I would then ask her if the 4A could be infringed in those same places ... because lots of people in neighborhoods there illegally carry guns and drugs, and warrentless seizures would surely help control crime.
I would also ask her if the 13A could be suspended in, say, the rural Mississippi river delta area or CA's San Joaquin Valley ... because the economy is hurting and those farmers down there really need to get work done more efficiently.
This idea that fundamental rights are subject to geographic location is appalling ... and we have a United States Senator who apparently believes it's appropriate!
Great point, Carl. What gets me all riled up is seeing Presidential candidates putting out "Montana Plans", and talking about finding National solutions (or at least engaging in National discussion) about issues that states & localities are much better at resolving, each to their own satisfaction.
The Clintons are both lying sacks of cr*p (and that's not "crop") who will say and do just about anything to get into public office so they can continue feeding at the public trough and secure more self-aggrandizement and power. Hillary has been planning for decades on getting into the highest public office she possibly can. And Bill is a real class act, isn't he? He recently called a writer for Vanity Fair a "scumbag" because he disagreed with something the guy wrote. Wow, such intellectual discourse from Mr. Rhodes Scholar there. The mark of a true leader of men, patriot and statesman.
I cannot wait for Hillary to be relegated to the dust heap of history where she belongs. I really wish they all would just go away. Feh.


Resolving a Case - Advice from Norfolk Personal Injury Attorneys Ed Booth and Randy Appleton talk about the steps that have to be taken before deciding whether to resolve a claim.
Recently, the Virginian Pilot has begun reporting on the possibilities of tropical storms and hurricanes which is typical for the Hampton Roads area at this time of year. As residents of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, the Carolinas and surrounding cities in the Tidewater area, it comes as no surprise that this time of year tends to bring anxiety as we brace for a number of possible weather-related accidents.
In the event of a serious threat, one major problem could be local roadways and congestion coming in and out of the Hampton Roads area. With tunnels such as the HRBT, Monitor-Merrimac, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and the Portsmouth/Norfolk downtown tunnels all within miles of each other, travelers must be cautious of possible accidents during these periods because of increased drivers on the road.
On the Outer Banks of North Carolina, tourist season is the bread and butter for this vacation hotspot. This small chain of islands is also frequently battered by hurricane season, especially in recent years. USA Todayby 2030...it would take 46 hours to clear U.S. 158 and 31 hours to clear U.S. 64 through Columbia, South Carolina."
Any type of backup or accident reported on these tunnels and highways within the surrounding Hampton Roads area could cause backups for miles and major headaches for travelers. Keep your attention on the road and observe road conditions when driving during this time of year. Also it is important to remember that if you have been injured in an auto accident you should always seek legal representation from an experienced personal injury attorney.


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Members of the Youth Group drive the activities. They often include discussions, making dinner for residents of the John Graham Shelter in Vergennes, games, recreational activities, and fundraising for service trip. Often take part in a spring Youth Conference with other Vermont UU Youth Groups. YSOP Service Week trip in spring will be to New York City this year.
Join the CVUUS Youth Group for fun and social action around Middlebury! Youth-driven – often includes community service, discussions, games, outings, and possible service trips every other spring. Meets two to three Sundays per month 4-6 pm in Fenn House, right next to the CVUUS Sanctuary building.


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The 17 Best Manga Drawing Books
If you're looking for the best manga drawing books to buy online, look no further than this compiled list. We've gathered together a selection of books that are sure to please, whether you're looking.
Our Favorite manga drawing books:
The Master Guide to Drawing Anime: How to Draw Original Characters from Simple Templates (Volume 1)
Hart, Christopher (Author)
144 Pages - 07/07/2015 (Publication Date) - Drawing with Christopher Hart (Publisher)
The Complete Guide to Drawing Action Manga: A Step-by-Step Artist's Handbook
shoco (Author)
144 Pages - 09/03/2019 (Publication Date) - Tuttle Publishing (Publisher)
Design Your Own Anime and Manga Characters: Step-by-Step Lessons for Creating and Drawing Unique Characters - Learn Anatomy, Poses, Expressions, Costumes, and More
Choi, TB (Author)
144 Pages - 08/30/2022 (Publication Date) - Rockport Publishers (Publisher)
How to Draw Anime and Manga for Beginners: Learn to Draw Awesome Anime and Manga Characters - A Step-by-Step Drawing Guide for Kids, Teens, and Adults
Shinjuku Press (Author)
How to Draw Manga: Basics and Beyond! (Manga University Presents ... How to Draw Manga)
University, Manga (Author)
192 Pages - 05/24/2019 (Publication Date) - Japanime Co. Ltd. (Publisher)
How to Draw Anime (Includes Anime, Manga and Chibi) Part 1 Drawing Anime Faces
Stevenson, Joseph (Author)
100 Pages - 03/26/2020 (Publication Date) - Golden Valley Press (Publisher)
Manga Artists Copic Marker Coloring Techniques: Learn How To Blend, Mix and Layer Color Like a Pro
SHIN (Author)
144 Pages - 06/15/2021 (Publication Date) - Zakka Workshop (Publisher)
Draw Quick & Easy 50 Eyes: How to Draw Anime Manga Step by Step - Drawing book for Beginners - Cartoon Art Lessons Character Design for Kids, Teens, Adults
Yu, Mei (Author)
110 Pages - 11/08/2022 (Publication Date) - Mei Yu Art Inc. (Publisher)
Manga for the Beginner: Everything you Need to Start Drawing Right Away! (Christopher Hart's Manga for the Beginner)
192 Pages - 08/05/2008 (Publication Date) - Watson-Guptill (Publisher)
The Manga Fashion Bible: The Go-To Guide for Drawing Stylish Outfits and Characters
Draw Fashionable Manga Girls: An Anime Drawing Workbook for Beginners (Draw Manga-Style)
Mizuna Tomomi (Author)
80 Pages - 01/01/2021 (Publication Date) - Zakka Workshop (Publisher)
The Manga Artist's Workbook: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Creating Your Own Characters
Practice models
Cover sheets to protect work
Dynamic poses
Boy and girl teen examples throughout
How to Draw Manga: Mastering Manga Drawings (How to Draw Manga Girls, Eyes, Scenes for Beginners) (How to Draw Manga, Mastering Manga Drawings Book 2)
Harnes, Andrew (Author)
How to Draw Manga Part 1: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Manga Faces for Kids, Teens, and Beginner Artists (How to Draw Anime)
89 Pages - 07/28/2021 (Publication Date) - Sourcebooks (Publisher)
How to Draw Anime & Manga Faces: A Step by Step Drawing Guide for Kids, Teens and Adults
Master Guide to Drawing Anime: 5-Minute Characters: Super-Simple Lessons from the Best-Selling Series (Volume 5)
144 Pages - 11/03/2020 (Publication Date) - Sixth&Spring Books (Publisher)
Funny Drawing Illustrator Comic Book Manga Artist Gift T-Shirt
I stopped drawing to be here awesome design for comic book artists, manga creators, illustrators, and anyone who likes to doodle, or sketch images.
Great gift for art teacher, art professor, art historian, art student or anyone that loves and supports the Arts.
When it comes to buying manga drawing books, there are a few things you need to keep in mind in order to get the best possible deal. The first thing you need to do is set a budget for yourself. Decide how much money you are willing to spend on a book before you start shopping. This will help you narrow down your choices and make sure you don't overspend. Keep in mind that many stores offer discounts for purchasing multiple books at once. So, if you're looking to buy more than one book, it's definitely worth checking the store's discount policy.
Another option to get the best deal on manga drawing books is to wait for sales. Major retailers will often have sales on popular titles a few times per year. By waiting for a sale, you can usually get a book at a significantly lower price than the regular retail price.
Here are a few tips to help you buy the best manga drawing books:
Look for well-reviewed manga drawing books. Checking out what other readers have said about a book can give you a good idea of whether it's worth your time. You can find reviews online or in newspapers and magazines.
Check the price. Sometimes, you can find great deals on new manga drawing books. But be careful of cheaply made books, they might not be worth your money.
By doing all of these things, you can be sure that you're getting the best possible deal on manga drawing books when you shop online.
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People bumped into me with every step.
The architect had intended it.
It was overwhelming my friends.
It was hard for them to breathe.
A stranger tapped my friend's shoulder.
But do not know the way?"
She had only thought about leaving.
Stunned, she accepted the stranger's help.
From Life Is a Non-Stop Event, a book of poetry by Carole Bos.
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This week on INNside the 'Verse, a whole lot of speculation, and a whole lot of procedurally generated discussion!
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Sundance Review: BE WATER Captures A Multi-Faceted Bruce Lee
Sure, he was a legend, but he was also a human being.
By Ed Travis Jan. 27, 2020
It's been a huge year for Bruce Lee.
Between his controversial portrayal in Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, his ass-kicking portrayal in the action-packed Ip Man 4: The Finale, to this documentary, and even to the announced release of four of his films to The Criterion Collection… Bruce Lee just seems to be having a cultural moment. I won't speculate as to exactly why that moment is occurring now, but I'd argue that there's never been a time in my life when Bruce Lee wasn't relevant-- never a time when he wasn't hallowed and whispered about as an absolute legend. If Bruce Lee is on screen, then whatever is happening is electric.
Largely eschewing the legendary aspects of Bruce Lee's life and career, Be Water instead paints a very multi-faceted picture of Bruce Lee, the man. What's fascinating is that, even some 40+ years after his death, Lee's charisma, ambition, good looks, and potent philosophy still come bursting through the screen to almost work against Nguyen's measured and humanizing approach. There were moments, interview clips, quotes, or fight scenes that simply caused my heart to skip a beat and revere the larger-than-life legend I was seeing up on the big screen. Bruce Lee can't be contained!
Fortunately, even having passed away at the tragically young age of 32, his personal life was fascinating, accomplished, and worthy of the documentary treatment. Nguyen should be praised for trusting his instinct here and steering clear of any kind of hero worship or gossip fodder. Also noteworthy is that while many interviews are conducted, the "talking head" style so many docs slavishly adhere to is nowhere to be found. One keeps assuming the film will cut away to Shannon Lee, or Linda Lee Cadwell, or Kareem Abdul-Jabar. But instead we simply hear their voices (with an on screen identifier); visually we remain with whatever archival footage or stills are on screen. In the post-film Q&A, Nguyen addressed this as an intentional choice to put us in the time and place Bruce was in, and not pull us out into the modern day. This proves to be a very effective choice.
Exploring Bruce's childhood, teenage years, married life, parenthood, and career… we're treated to a broad yet thorough exploration of how his experiences and the historical contexts around him shaped and molded him. A few sequences stand out as particularly fascinating and underexplored when his legend is told. Bruce Lee was born in America and then starred in a number of Hong Kong films as a child actor. He was sent back to America at 18 to make his way on his own after a few too many Hong Kong street fights. Working as a waiter and a martial arts instructor, he largely worked his way up from nothing and was married with a kid by the time he was auditioning for Green Hornet at all of 25 years old. When American opportunities proved to be lacking, he quickly starred in (and even directed some) four Hong Kong kung fu films before triumphantly returning to America to star in (and have creative control of) Enter The Dragon. Somewhere in there he founded multiple martial arts schools, created Jeet Kune Do, wrote and studied, and trained and learned from a hodgepodge of Hollywood hoi polloi. Lee's life was just a series of wonders that happened amidst a generation of political upheaval that informed and impacted him.
There's no way to tell the definitive story of Bruce Lee. His life is too large to be pinned down by one documentary. Be Water displays wisdom in what it chooses to highlight and what new nuggets of Lee's story are worth bringing to new audience. Meanwhile, it trusts in the primal charisma of its subject. While his son Brandon's tragic accidental death and the wide array of conspiracies and disrespectful knock offs produced in the wake of Bruce's death are largely avoided, Be Water nevertheless feels as intimate and expansive as a feature length doc probably ever could. Fans of Bruce Lee will almost certainly find much to enjoy here, and it seems inevitable that new fans will also be made.
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Ed has been writing about movies on the internet since 2002. He runs an online film publication called Cinapse and manages the Community Cinema at Mobile Loaves & Fishes' Community First! Village in East Austin, TX. You can frequently find him writing about either action movies or empathy-generating movies, and he's painfully aware of how incongruous that sounds.
The Alamo Drafthouse Sundance 2020 Roundup
By Evan Saathoff, Feb 04, 2020
What we saw and loved at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
Sundance Review: WENDY - Okay NOW Can We Be Done With Peter Pan Movies?
By Evan Saathoff, Jan 28, 2020
Benh Zeitlin's BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD follow up is beautiful but will be divisive.
Sundance Review: PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Is Going To Blow You Away
Holy shit, this movie.


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is a struggling addict whos spent his entire life since Hill House numbing himself in one way or another. Check it out: The Haunting of Hill House is a modern reimagining of Shirley Jacksons legendary novel of the same name, about five siblings who grew up in the most famous haunted house in America. The Haunting of Hill House has been adapted twice before. . But the horrors of Hill House don't come in the form of ghosts or vampires or werewolves. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a haunting; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. Then theres Nell (Victoria Pedretti who has recently begun seeing visions of the disturbing Bent-Neck Girl that haunted her childhood. But its a series that will stick in peoples minds not because of the familiar things it does, but for all the things it dares to do differently.
Not after it begins to get dark. The way certain spirits appear, and the final chase sequence, both strongly echo Stanley Kubricks. Dudley (I don't stay after six. But on a purely visceral level, a monster appearing to a character on a crowded city street just doesnt hold the same kind of visceral punch as it does when they appear in a moody, dilapidated mansion filled with crumbling walls.
The Haunting of Hill House will premiere on Netflix on October 12th. The Haunting of Hill House that are downright terrifying, particularly if watched at home, alone, in a darkened house. Shirley Jacksons, the Haunting of Hill House is one of the most iconic horror stories in the history of the medium. The sound design and execution of a sequence centered on Nell come off like an extended homage to Tobe Hoopers. Castle Rock flirt the frog in the well essay with scares, and, american Horror Story succeeds in upping the weirdness ante every season. Dr Montague (stuffy old scientific type wishing to investigate a haunted house, enlists the aid of Eleanor (shy, retiring type Theodora (flamboyant bohemian type and Luke (handsome upper-class type the heir to the house. The novel suffers from its own pervasive influence, for, as soon as it gets underway, it seemswhether or not you've seen either movie versionwoefully familiar. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. Heck, even, scooby-Doo beat Jackson to the punch by blending one part Gothic tale with one part the Hardy Brothers mystery and adding a dash of cartoony goodness. It is, in addition to being a classic of the genre, an excellent novel.more).


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La praxeología es una metodología que busca estudiar la estructura lógica de la acción humana consciente de forma apriorística.
La praxeología centra su atención en el individuo que actúa (individualismo metodológico), sacando de esta observación axiomas o principios elementales, inmutables e incuestionables, con los cuales analizar el proceso de la acción del humano. El análisis comienza con las apreciaciones y aspiraciones del consumidor, quien supuestamente operaría basándose en su propia (y siempre mudable) escala de valores. Combinando y entrelazando las escalas de valores de todas las personas se generaría el total de la oferta y la demanda económica (valoración subjetiva).

La praxeología toma a la ciencia económica como la aplicación de axiomas lógicos sin los cuales no sería posible la argumentación científica; y rechaza usar los métodos de las ciencias naturales (estudio de regularidades causales) para estudiar las ciencias sociales (estudio del accionar del hombre). En este punto se debate qué es y cómo se obtiene el conocimiento: los defensores de la praxeología la proponen como una alternativa al método de las ciencias naturales ya que consideran que en los acontecimientos sociales no existen parámetros ni constantes, sino que todos son «variables», lo cual hace muy difícil, si no imposible, extraer leyes históricas o realizar predicciones. En cambio, sus detractores consideran a la praxeología como una pseudociencia. El principal argumento que esgrimen es que, mientras que la ciencia parte de observaciones empíricas para luego examinar las causas subyacentes de los fenómenos, la praxeología parte de ciertos axiomas presentados como indudables, sin verificar empíricamente los propios axiomas ni sus implicaciones.

El término «Praxeología» se usó por primera vez en 1608 por el filósofo, físico y teólogo Alemán Clemens Timpler (1563-1624) en su obra Philosophiae practicae systema methodicum, aunque su definición se acredita al pensador francés Alfred Espinas (1844-1922); comúnmente se usa en relación con la obra del economista austríaco Ludwig von Mises y sus seguidores de la Escuela austríaca.

Axiomas praxeológicos
Para la praxeología, las verdades y conclusiones que entretejen específicamente la ciencia económica y, en general, a las ciencias sociales, no son sino derivaciones lógicas de los principios de la acción humana:
 El ser humano actúa.
 El ser humano prefiere unas cosas a otras.
 Recurre a la acción para alcanzar sus siempre mudables, pero en cada momento concretos y específicos, fines.
 El factor tiempo influye en su accionar.
 El incentivo que empuja a una persona a actuar es un cierto malestar por algo.
 Si una persona es perfectamente feliz no actúa, porque ya no desea nada.
 Todas las personas que actúan son infelices.

Estos axiomas praxeológicos se encuentran postulados primeramente en el tratado de economía La acción humana, elaborado por Ludwig von Mises.

Estructura lógica
Mises intentó encontrar la raíz conceptual de la economía. Como otros economistas clásicos, rechazaba observar el mundo real; diciendo que los actores humanos eran demasiado complejos como para reducirlos a sus componentes y demasiado conscientes de sí mismos como para no alterar su comportamiento al saberse observados. Por eso los praxeologistas afirmaban que la observación científica de la acción humana (o su extrapolación a partir de datos históricos) sufriría siempre de la contaminación por factores pasados por alto.

Para contrarrestar la naturaleza subjetiva de los resultados del análisis histórico y estadístico, von Mises propuso el estudio de la «estructura lógica» de la acción humana. Hoy en día el estudio científico del comportamiento es llamado ciencia cognitiva, pero durante la vida de Mises no existían los modernos avances en neurología sobre los cuales se basa esta rama de la ciencia.

En administración se plantea la indisolubilidad de las relaciones de la praxeología con otras tres disciplinas filosóficas, a saber: la epistemología, la axiología y la ontología, como una metodología para comprender el comportamiento del ser humano en las organizaciones.

Satisfacción
De la praxeología Mises derivó la idea de que cada acto consciente del ser humano tiene como meta la mejora del nivel de satisfacción de la persona. Tuvo especial cuidado en señalar que la praxeología no se ocupa de la definición individual de lo que es la satisfacción, sino solo el modo en el que el individuo la busca: la forma en que la persona incrementa su satisfacción eliminando una fuente de descontento. Ya que el futuro es incierto, toda acción es especulativa.

Racionalidad
El hombre de acción debe tener al menos una fuente de desagrado que crea poder eliminar; en caso contrario, no podría actuar.

Cabe aclarar que esta racionalidad se refiere a la capacidad de actuar de acuerdo a un fin, esto es, conforme a su escala subjetiva de valores. En otras palabras: el hombre puede cambiar sus valoraciones y después de cambiarlas, cambia su actitud; esto puede parecer ilógico a un observador externo, pero es completamente lógico para el que actúa.

Ordinalidad
Otra conclusión a la que llegó von Mises fue que las decisiones se toman en modo ordinal: es imposible llevar a cabo más de una acción al mismo tiempo, ya que la mente consciente solo es capaz de procesar una decisión a la vez, aun cuando estas decisiones se tomen en rápida secuencia, pareciendo simultáneas. Así, el individuo actuará según sus prioridades: removerá primero la fuente de su mayor descontento para ir progresivamente revaluando su situación e identificando consiguientemente la mayor fuente de descontento. Por lo tanto, su segunda meta siempre será menos importante que la primera, y así sucesivamente. Y de este modo, su satisfacción por cada meta subsecuente alcanzada será menor que las que obtuvo de metas más apremiantes. Esta es la regla de la utilidad marginal decreciente.

La praxeometría es un campo del saber que posibilita la construcción de tests a partir del proceso consciente, racional y deliberado de los seres humanos, para identificar su tipo de comportamiento desde la lógica de la acción humana (praxis). Se basa en métodos estadísticos que garantizan su validez y confiabilidad, y toma como referencia la praxeología (Mises, 1949). El único instrumento praxiométrico reportado es el denominado HAT (Human Action's Test).

Véase también
 Catalaxia
 La acción humana
 Psicología

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Praxeología: Ciencia y método por Martin Olveyra
 Praxeología: La metodología de la economía austriaca por Murray Rothbard (1976). Instituto Mises.
 Praxeología: El método de la economía por Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Escuela austriaca
Conceptos marginales
Filosofía por tema

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"15min walk from JR Tokushima St. Free pick up service from nearby Tokushima St. hotel, Tokushima St., Awatomida St.. Nikenya St. and Sako St. Please let the shop know."
You can search for a car rental plan of Tokushima Bisan from the following area. You can select a pick-up site into a search box at the upper right and search for a car rental plan.


One of the laws of being rubbish at blogging is that pretty much every other post has to be a pitiful set of excuses about why you've not posted anything recently, and that you'll get back to it soon, for serious this time you guys, etc.
Except that, this time, I'm not doing that. You know why? Because my excuses are AWESOME.
Try this one on for size: I got married.
And then, after that, I went on honeymoon. To Borneo. For 3 weeks.
I'm planning (hah!) to do a few posts on my trip, but for now I'll leave you with a few photos from the first national park we stayed in, Sarawak's rather amazing Bako NP.
Big spider, chomping on something that was also quite big.
Tiny jumping spider eating a wasp.
I'm pretty glad I invested in a new camera before going away – it was an incredible place to visit.
As for now, I'm gearing up to head off to Lisbon for ESEB 2013 – my poster is waiting to be printed, so now I just have to send begging emails to really smart people in the hope that I can get them to stand near me and I can gain knowledge from them via osmosis (or talking to them, whichever feels less weird at the time).


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Liver Patients, Families, and Medical Professionals Walk to End Liver Disease
Liver Life Walks return in person this summer
The American Liver Foundation (ALF) will host its annual Liver Life Walk beginning on Saturday, May 7, 2022. There will be 11 in-person walks across the country and one virtual walk.
Nearly 100 million people in the U.S. are affected by liver disease. Liver Life Walk has been a signature event of the American Liver Foundation (ALF) since 1999. It allows people affected by liver disease to come together to raise awareness and funds. It also gives them the opportunity to support each other in a festive and inspiring environment. Funds raised through the Liver Life Walk allow ALF to provide valuable resources to liver patients and their families. Together, we are moving closer to a world without liver disease.
"If you have ever been touched by liver disease, we invite you to join," said Lorraine Stiehl, Chief Executive Officer of American Liver Foundation (ALF). "American Liver Foundation continued Liver Life Walks virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But following local guidelines, we are proud to announce in-person walks are returning and we couldn't be more excited to connect with our patients, families and supporters in person this year."
Liver Life Walks currently have 11 confirmed locations, from Seacoast, New Hampshire to Salt Lake City, Utah starting on May 7 until October 22, 2022. ALF will also host a Virtual Walk for those unable to attend this Fall.
"I have participated in every Liver Life Walk since the first one in 1999," said Barbara Pitts, 2022 National LIVEr Life Walk Champion. "If I was too sick, I collected donations. If there wasn't a walk in DC, I held my own walk and got friends to do a 5k with me. I want to do everything I can to raise money for research and education. I have an incredible group of friends who support me emotionally and spiritually and as far as the walk goes, they're always there with donations."
Find a walk near you and start fundraising at liverlifewalk.org.
Your health and safety continue to be our number one priority. American Liver Foundation (ALF) staff, board of directors and healthcare advisors are closely monitoring the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. ALF will follow all local, state and federal guidelines. Absent any guidelines to the contrary, for ALF events held indoors or outdoors we recommend, but do not require, participants to wear masks and be appropriately vaccinated and boosted to best protect our patient population. If a change to the current event or program needs to be made, we will provide participants with detailed information on those changes regarding our COVID-19 safety policies.
Please Note: An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. COVID-19 is an extremely contagious disease that can lead to severe illness and death. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people with underlying medical conditions and older adults are especially vulnerable and need to take the appropriate recommended steps and precautions to prevent infection.
By attending an ALF in-person event, you acknowledge and voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19.
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This training film, made for the West Sussex Home Guard, shows the wrong and the right way of dealing with Nazi spies. Two Home Guard men, still wearing LDV armbands, are approached by a shifty-looking man, who pulls a gun on them. In the second version, the Home Guard are better prepared and arrest the spy. Next a car approaches a checkpoint and again a concealed spy shoots at the sentries. In the second version the driver is ordered out of the car and the spy is found and arrested.
During the Battle of France in May 1940, Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, announced in a radio broadcast, the formation of a Local Defence Volunteer force. He called for civilian men between 17 and 65 who wished to defend their country to enrol at their local police station. Eden's appeal was so successful that by July about 1.5 million men had signed up. Churchill felt that the name of the force contributed to low morale and discipline issues and ordered that it be officially changed, on the 22nd July, to Home Guard. By then 1 million LDV armbands had already been produced and these can be seen worn by the Home Guard members appearing in this film.


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Graduation Guidelines - International Baccalaureate
Look for more information from the CDE Office of Gifted Education. Information is excerpted from the IB website.
Find out more: IB Programmes
The International Baccalaureate® (IB) offers a continuum of international education. The programmes encourage both personal and academic achievement, challenging students to excel in their studies and in their personal development.
IB exams align with college level curriculum developed by the International Baccalaureate Organization at authorized high schools. Exams, mainly essay, are taken after completing a course.
Certificate of Completion: Students may take an individual IB course and exam.
Diploma Program: Two year course for students in 11th and 12th grades. Students must take at least three higher level exams out of six (scores range from 1-7 highest).
The International Baccalaureate® (IB) Diploma Programme (DP) uses both internally and externally assessed components to assess student performance. For most courses, written examinations at the end of the DP form the basis of the assessment. This is because these examinations have high levels of objectivity and reliability. Externally assessed coursework, completed by students over an extended period under authenticated teacher supervision, forms part of the assessment for several programme areas, including the theory of knowledge (TOK) essay and the extended essay (EE).
In most subjects, students also complete in-school assessment tasks. These are either externally assessed or marked by teachers and then moderated by the IB.
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The IB is different from other curricula because it:
encourages students to think critically and challenge what they are told
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encourages students to consider both their local and international environment.
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During the authorization process, schools will pay an application fee when they submit their application for candidacy and a yearly candidate fee once they have become a candidate school.
Districts are encouraged to apply for the Accelerated College Opportunity Exam Fee Grant Program, which is intended to pay all or a portion of International Baccalaureate exam fees on behalf of eligible students.
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Finance ⋮ Gaming
Stadia Launches Tomorrow as Google Officially Enters the Video Game Market
By Rohail Saleem
From banking to health services, Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) keeps expanding its footprint across more and more industries. Well, come Tuesday, the tech giant is all set to disrupt the $130 billion global video gaming market with the much-anticipated launch of Stadia, a platform that allows users to play video games on a plethora of devices by connecting to Google's state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure – where the physical rendering of games takes place – coupled with the utilization of streaming technology.
Stadia's ethos and features
Google's Stadia is equipped with Intel's server-grade CPU, a GPU based on AMD's Vega, 16 GBs of shared HBM2 memory, and an SSD. These specs allow the platform to stream games at 4K resolution and a frame rate of 60 FPS coupled with HDR and 5.1 surround sound support. Google claims that Stadia offers a theoretical computing power of 10.7 teraflops, thereby, exceeding the aggregate computing power of PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X. Moreover, Google also plans to upgrade its datacenter hardware to eventually provide support for gaming at 8K resolution and 120 FPS.
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In a Sunday tweet, Google's Stadia head Phill Harrison announced an expansion of the launch-day titles to 22 from the 12 announced earlier. Readers can browse through the exhaustive list of these titles here and read further details here.
One of the most important requirements for the platform is the availability of a fast and stable internet connection. According to Google, a 10 MBPS internet connection will allow 720p gaming at 60 FPS. Similarly, a 20 MBPS connection allows gaming at a resolution of 1080p along with support for HDR and 5.1 surround sound. For best possible experience, however, Google recommends a 35 MBPS internet connection. It should be noted that a 35 MBPS connection, required for 4K gaming with HDR, will consume 1 TB of data in about 65 hours, according to ExtremeTech.
Stadia comes with two plans: Stadia Base (the free version) and Stadia Pro. For $9.99 per month, Stadia Pro facilitates 4K gaming at 60 FPS and 5.1 surround sound. Users will also be able to avail regular free games and exclusive discounts. The free version caps resolution at 1080p and won't be available until 2020.
Google's competition
A key benefit of cloud-based gaming is the enormous scale it offers. While Nintendo's Switch managed to sell 1.5 million units during its opening weekend in 2017, Google points to a potential customer base consisting of hundreds of millions of users and, that too, from day one: "We are very confident we can reach the widest audience," said Stadia's head Phil Harrison. This, for obvious reasons, forms a key incentive for developers such as Ubisoft (EPA:UBI), whose titles – Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Just Dance 2020 – are among Stadia's launch catalogue.
There are only three companies in the world that possess the datacenter infrastructure required to offer cloud-based game streaming – Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Google. Despite persistent rumors, Amazon is yet to announce its game streaming service. This leaves Microsoft's xCloud as the only viable competitor to Stadia even though it is currently in beta and not expected to launch until 2020. It should be noted though that, as per Microsoft's admission, the platform's servers are literally running Xbox One S hardware which, in turn, makes this service a glorified cloud-based version of Xbox. The wide gamut of gaming titles, however, remains the strength of the xCloud service with as many as 50 titles supported at launch next year. Moreover, Xbox executives have already confirmed that all Xbox titles currently in development will be automatically supported by xCloud.
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A recent EY survey of more than 200 executives in the video gaming industry found more than two-thirds agreed that cloud-based games would be the "dominant form" of gaming in five years. Many, however, expected their development and infrastructure costs to go up as a result.
Google, with a trailing 12-month free cash flow of $28 billion, certainly has the resources to deploy the required cash for the launch and development of Stadia. Additionally, as per Phil Harrison, "Google is making a very long-term investment here."
Another challenge that Google faces is the lack of support from an established console division. As opposed to Sony's (TYO:6758) PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox, Google will not be able to rely on an established console user base to bolster Stadia's prospects during the launch and the initial teething period. Even though Google operates one of the world's largest marketplaces for games through the Android app store, the tenor of that market is fundamentally different to that of the console world. Piers Harding-Rolls, games analyst at IHS Screen Digest, noted that "They [Google] don't have the content and they don't have an existing [console] business to hinge off. The console companies are very well positioned during this transition period because they can cater to all audiences."
In order to counter this, Google is offering innovative features that go beyond the console experience. For example, users will be able to join a game simply by clicking its ongoing YouTube video stream.
In the recently reported financial results for the third quarter of 2019, Google earned a total revenue of $40.5 billion. The tech giant's stock price is up by a healthy 26.45 percent year-to-date with a market capitalization of $903.70 billion. Due to the momentous nature of Stadia's launch tomorrow, investors should expect a marked increase in trading volume relative to the 3-month average volume of 1.31 million shares.
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CES 2021's coolest gadgets: Rollable phones, giant TVs, $16,000 bathtub and more
BroadVision teams for integration software
Personalized e-business software maker BroadVision on Tuesday announced the availability of the BroadVision B2B Gateway, based on integration software built by WebMethods. The jointly developed product ties together data from back-end systems--such as enteprise resource planning, customer relationship management and supply-chain management applications--to Web sites. The company also announced that its longtime customer Xerox has selected the B2B Gateway product to allow its customers and trading partners to have real-time access to information stored in back-end systems of Xerox and its business partners. By providing access to its systems, the company is automating purchase-order management, order fulfillment and credit checks, among other processes. Pricing for the new product was not released.
Personalized e-business software maker BroadVision on Tuesday announced the availability of the BroadVision B2B Gateway, based on integration software built by WebMethods.
The jointly developed product ties together data from back-end systems--such as enteprise resource planning, customer relationship management and supply-chain management applications--to Web sites. The company also announced that its longtime customer Xerox has selected the B2B Gateway product to allow its customers and trading partners to have real-time access to information stored in back-end systems of Xerox and its business partners. By providing access to its systems, the company is automating purchase-order management, order fulfillment and credit checks, among other processes. Pricing for the new product was not released.
Discuss: BroadVision teams for integration software


The gated community of Piedmont in Haymarket, Virginia offers foreclosure buyers wonderful opportunities to purchase properties right next to the private Piedmont Club and golf course. While the collapse of the U.S. housing market has been devastating for many, Piedmont foreclosures offer opportunity for people to break into the market and realize equity as the market swings back up again.
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Piedmont foreclosures can be single family detached homes or townhomes. While Piedmont homes can range from the $300s to over $1 million, those looking for foreclosures have a good chance of getting a bargain, sometimes thousands less than the home's original market value.
If you're considering a Piedmont foreclosure, remember that the nature of the neighborhood is such that the money you spend on any needed repairs or renovations will be amply repaid, as this is a desirable neighborhood, not in the least because of the Tom Fazio-designed championship golf course. The private Piedmont club also contains tennis courts, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, fitness facilities and a restaurant.
Piedmont foreclosure homes are a great place for the family home owner. The high value of foreclosures in Piedmont is partly because of the great appeal they hold for a wide variety of home seekers – there are plenty of family-friendly activities at the Piedmont Athletic Club and The Piedmont Link, Piedmont's residential newsletter, has many helpful articles about family activities in the Piedmont/Haymarket area and lists of upcoming events suitable for the whole family.
If you're considering a foreclosure home in Piedmont, you will definitely benefit from professional advice. The procedures for buying a foreclosure are different than a standard real estate transaction. Someone who is familiar with Virginia law concerning foreclosure homes and the paperwork and procedures will definitely help you in your quest to purchase a Piedmont foreclosure.
Contact Northern Virginia REALTOR®, Carolyn Capalbo, to arrange a tour of foreclosure homes in Piedmont VA, or to get more information about foreclosures in the Washington Metropolitan area.


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I've been on a tear lately where I travel to expensive islands, get initially shell-shocked by food prices, then wonder if I've made a critical mistake in choosing my destination.
First Maui, then New Zealand, and now it's happened with Iceland.
Within hours of landing in Iceland, I was not only freezing in my jeans, but I had dropped $30 on untoasted bread topped with razor-thin salmon slices and hard-boiled eggs, paired with grocery store yogurt cups.
I worried for my wallet.
If you know me, you know I don't accept trip retail prices at face value. If I couldn't find ways to save on this Iceland trip, I honestly wouldn't have gone at all. And would I be able to live up to my name if I couldn't figure out how to get the expensive thing for less?
While Iceland is difficult to travel hack, I saw it as a challenge and still found some non-obvious ways to save almost half off our trip.
Want to just see how much we spent? Click to jump to the TLDR version.
How Expensive Is Iceland, Really?
A banh mi sandwich that cost $15.
For perspective, in NYC an expensive banh mi sandwich costs about $7. Where you live it might cost half that. So if you live in a low-cost of living place, be prepared for not only out-of-this-world landscapes, but some equally otherworldly food prices. Even at the grocery store where I expected cost savings, a dozen eggs cost about $9.
If you had dreams of looking like a cute ski bunny in one of those Icelandic wool sweaters, well, you might want to think again. I saw them for sale for $180 at a flea market, and even higher prices at a legit gift shop.
I passed by a secondhand shop and checked a price for a used fair isle sweater. It was still $80.
Research what to pack ahead of time (especially the weather) so you don't end up paying too much for clothes in Iceland. Here's my post on what I brought.
There were two unopened bottles of wine in our Airbnb, which my husband and I almost opened. Until we saw the sign. It read: "If you open these wines, please leave $15 to replace with a new one." If the Airbnb owner was trying to recoup money for these wines, clearly they're hard to get. Later we found out that you can only buy alcohol at a few designated liquor stores, which were out of the way, and buying beer out costs about $10 minimum. The best bet is to pick up alcohol from the duty-free section when you land at the airport.
Random girl in my waterfall pic!
One big reason why we chose Iceland is because we thought it was a good fit for families–I'd be traveling with my husband and his son. The flights are manageable at less than 6 hours from the East Coast, there are wide open spaces for running around and impromptu adventures, and the Icelandic pastime of hanging out in outdoor heated pools was something everyone could do.
Choosing the destination itself ended up being the extent of our planning.
I got too distracted with other trips to even think about a real itinerary with multiple hotel bookings and day-by-day schedules. As a last-ditch effort I brought an Iceland travel book on the plane, but instead I watched "Avengers: Infinity Wars" and "Black Panther" (both of which I loved).
Planning on the fly, it is.
Because we failed to plan this trip, we stationed ourselves in Reyjkavik, rented a car, and did day-trips from there. We were definitely limited by how much driving we could do in a day without losing our minds.
Tip: Next time, I would plan the lodging ahead of time and drive Ring Road, which is exactly how it sounds. It's the road that takes you around the outer rim of entire country, so we would have stayed in a different town every few nights.
The theme for our trip was enjoying the natural beauty of Iceland: admiring volcanic landscapes, getting up close and personal with waterfalls and black-sand beaches, and taking advantage of natural hot springs and outdoor pools.
As for money, per usual, I don't keep budgets for vacations. We spend what we spend, and deal with the consequences later.
Where I had lacked the planning chops for the activities, I made up for in how I was going to pay for all this stuff.
Part of the reason why I'm so blasé about the actual trip spending is because I take the time to plan the money part upfront, which helps save thousands of dollars.
Saving money on trips isn't that much different from saving money in your everyday life. The most effective ways to save money are by focusing on the big wins: cutting costs on housing, transportation and food.
Lots of people will save money in Iceland by choosing to camp. I would love to try camping! But we've never really camped before, and it doesn't seem smart to start up a new hobby that requires survival skills in a foreign country.
And the usual travel hacking strategies wouldn't work well in Iceland. Airlines make you hand over too many points to redeem for flights to Iceland, hotel points are useless when those hotel chains have barely got a footprint there, and how exactly do you save on food besides stocking up on ramen from the grocery stores?
Cash-back cards that let you redeem points for statement credits.
General travel rewards cards that let you redeem points multiple ways: transferring them to partner airlines or hotel programs, booking travel through the card's own portal, or for statement credits.
When deciding which cards to sign up for, look for ones that offer a generous sign-up bonus, like 50,000 points plus.
The annual fee for this card is steep, $450, but I've been able to redeem points for over $2,500 worth of flights just this year. A less-expensive alternative to this card is the Chase Sapphire Preferred (affiliate link), which has a $95 annual fee, but earns the same 50,000 sign-up bonus. Note that using Preferred points for travel is valued at 1.25 cents per point, which is less than the Reserve's 1.5 cents per point.
A while back I had my husband sign up for the Capital One Venture card for the 50,000 points. I knew we'd use it for travel…at some point. I just didn't know when. We ended up using this card to shave off a few hundred dollars off the car rental. An alternative to the Venture card is the Barclays Arrival Card. It offers a 60,000 points sign-up bonus, a $600 value, but you have to spend $5,000 within three months and the $89 annual fee is not waived the first year.
I always have a cash-back credit card in the rotation, because they're so simple to redeem and can use the points for a statement credit on basically anything. I knew that we'd be spending a lot of money on food in Iceland, so I earmarked this card for all grocery and restaurant costs.
I didn't want to deal with figuring out rules for discount airlines like WOW Airlines, so we paid a little bit more to fly United. Plus, we could each earn 5,200 United miles from the flight distance, which might come in handy in the future. The roundtrip flights we chose from NYC to Reykjavik cost $463.13 per person.
I checked Award Hacker to see how many points I'd need to avoid paying out of pocket. The lowest amount of airline miles I could redeem for this trip was 40,000 per ticket using Japan Airlines miles, but I knew I could get a better deal. I paid for the United flights using Chase Sapphire Reserve points through their travel portal for 1.5 cents per dollar. Each ticket cost me 29,534 points, so 88,602 total for the three tickets and exactly $0 out of pocket.
The first thing to know about Iceland lodging is that you have to book things fast. There are 350,000 people who live in Iceland, and 4.4 million tourists who visited last year. The number of tourists visiting every year is rising at alarming rates. Look, I'm not a math genius, but considering how sparse Iceland is, one could deduce that there might be stiff competition for hotel rooms and Airbnbs.
The Airbnb I was initially looking at got swooped up by the time I went to reserve it, so that was a reality check. Mind you, we booked our Airbnb four months in advance, and even then the pickings were slim. For six nights we paid $1,389.37. We definitely could have saved money by staying in a cheaper apartment, but because we didn't pay for the flights, saving money on lodging wasn't a huge priority.
Side note: It was sobering to notice that everyone I saw going into our apartment building was a tourist. Were there any locals who lived there at all? It's something to think about–how your role as a tourist affects the local economy.
We love the freedom of being able to do whatever we want when we want, so we rented a car the entire time instead of booking tours.
I booked a car months in advance for $612. Then I discovered Autoslash, which tracks your reservation and e-mails you if it finds a better deal. I kept getting deals for Europcar, which I had never heard of, but had terrible reviews online. But two weeks before the trip Autoslash sent me a deal with Hertz for $328. Hey, that's a big difference! So I cancelled the old existing reservation and booked the cheaper one.
But those savings didn't last.
Because I had PTSD from a painful car rental experience, I made an emotional decision at the car rental counter: we not only bought Hertz's daily car rental insurance, but we also added in gravel insurance on top of that. These insurance add-ons brought out car rental cost up to $604.91. If we hadn't sprung for the insurance, the car rental would have cost about $350. In retrospect, I think using Chase Sapphire's credit card for primary insurance like we normally do would have been fine, but my logic was overshadowed by a previous bad experience.
When we first drove past a gas station, I thought gas prices in Iceland seemed similar to the US, about $2.66 per gallon. Nevermind. It's $2.66 per LITER. Four liters equals a gallon. We spent $178 on gas.
Then there are costs to get to and from our NYC airport, which always bum me out since we don't live super close to any of the three airports here. The time of day for getting a Lyft definitely makes a difference, because at 6pm on a Wednesday it cost about $96, but in the opposite direction at 3pm on a Wednesday it cost $54. For that first ride, we probably would have been better off using a cab, which charges you by distance. Per usual, total costs to get to and from the airport were cringe-y: $168.39.
I've exaggerated the food costs earlier, because I want to set expectations. The easiest way to overspend in Iceland is to not pay attention to food costs. Which is what we kind of did.
We thought since we were mostly buying food at grocery stores that we had free reign to pretend like we're on that show Supermarket Sweep.
But the cost savings were cancelled out because we bought expensive grocery store food that doesn't fill you up, like pre-made sushi. I saw my husband pick up two packs of sushi as a meal for $25 and I redirected him immediately. We never seemed to leave the grocery store without spending at least $50, which covered about two meals for the three of us.
Despite your best efforts, sometimes you can't help but eat out if you've been sightseeing all day and there are literally three food options where you are. The tab for a sit-down meal was usually around $50 for lunch and $70 for dinner.
The ethnic foods I like to eat happen to be expensive in Iceland. I've mentioned the banh mi costs already, but we got foiled even when we looked up "budget-friendly" meals online one night. We went to one of the suggestions, Noodle Station, where a big bowl of pho cost $14.30.
Then there was the Vacation FOMO dilemma: should we go out for at least one fancy meal? Across the street from our Airbnb was a highly-rated restaurant offering three-course menus for about $80 dollars.
Would I regret not trying the lamb here, at least? But at the same time I worried that if we spent $80 per person on a three-course meal, I'd probably end up regretting it. We weren't in Iceland to be foodies, but to sightsee. There are very few meals that are memorable, so I had to remember how disappointed I've been at restaurants to keep myself in check. It's not like I'm never going to travel for foodie purposes, but to me, Iceland isn't the destination for that.
The one food purchase I feel bad about is spending $70 on three pizzas. In terms of ingredients, pizzas are already massively overpriced, and I could have bought a seafood soup for the same price, which I would have enjoyed more and requires more effort to make.
All in all, we spent $688.36 on groceries, food out, and meals at the airport. All of it was pretty mediocre, except for the one burger from Kaffi Krus that my husband deemed "the best burger he's ever had his entire life." Considering that I estimated food costs would be $800, I'm pleasantly surprised here. And man it felt good to erase most of these costs with my Bank of America credit card points .
For us, activities are where the savings magic usually happens. We like scenery. Scenery costs hardly anything at all. Iceland has lots of it. We spent $38.31 on activities total. That's all you need to know.
All of our activity money went to swimming in a local pool a few times, plus couple dollars here and there for parking at some sights.
Neither one of us felt strongly about the Blue Lagoon, so we skipped it. Since Iceland is a hub of geothermal activity, there was no shortage of natural hot springs that cost $0.
Other than that, we drove around and took pictures of the landscape. One place I wished we had visited was the Westman Islands, which is off the south coast. The island seemed super cute and more like old-school Iceland. Reykjavik was nice to explore for a day, but I'm a city dweller, so when I vacation, I like rural.
The other area I wish we got to explore more was the Snaefellsnes peninsula. I love hanging out in adorable towns, just soaking up the atmosphere. The Snaefellsnes peninsula is supposed to look different from the rest of Iceland (like golden beaches instead of black sand), but we didn't get a chance to drive around the entire peninsula and confirm that ourselves.
Six days in Iceland cost us $2,218.39 for three people, or $739.46 per person. Considering that we weren't 100% frugal the entire time, I'm happy with those numbers.
Look for flexible rewards credit cards that let you redeem points for out-of-pocket expenses.
Consider going with a bigger group. For example, if my husband and I were seriously budget-hunting, we could had gone with another couple and HALVED our Airbnb and transportation costs. If you're easy going, this is a huge money win.
Visit in the off-season. We visited in the summer, which is Iceland's high season, but in the winter there's less demand and things are less expensive.
Keep eating out to a minimum. Book lodgings with a kitchen so you can cook meals at home. Also, Iceland has Costco. If you have a Costco membership, bring the card with you.
If you want to drink, after arriving in Iceland, don't forget to stock up on alcohol from the airport.
If showing up with a tent isn't your bag, and you don't want to plan, a good compromise is to rent a campervan. Not only do you solve two logistical problems in one go (transportation AND lodging), but you'll save some money in the process. Plus, think of all the sights you'd get to have all to yourself by camping out in the parking lot and being there well before the busloads of tourists arrive.
Is Iceland on your bucket list, or do the costs totally scare you away? How do you typically handle car rental insurance?


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Spark reports lower sales and profits
New Zealand telco Spark has seen its profits fall 12.7 percent on back of a 2.7 percent decline in revenue.
By Rob O'Neill | February 18, 2015 -- 19:45 GMT (11:45 PST) | Topic: Telcos
New Zealand telecommunications retailer Spark has reported lower sales and profits for its half year to December 31.
Profit from ordinary activities declined 0.7 percent to NZ$145 million, while sales were down 2.7 percent to NZ$1.78 billion for the half year. Profit attributable to shareholders, however, was down 12.7 percent.
Spark managing director Simon Moutter.
Spark reported progress in key markets with aggressive pricing and new brands. In mobile, it gained 108,000 new connections, up 5.4 percent since June 30, 2014.
Spark also lifted its broadband connections, though not enough to increase its market share. It added 5,000 new connections in the half, to total 674,000.
IT services were a bright spot. Revenue rose 6.9 percent from Spark Digital and investments in cloud computing such as Revera and Appserv, and in new and expanded datacentres.
Capital expenditure was up 53 percent, including a NZ$158 million investment in the government's 700MHz spectrum auction.
Spark said the results demonstrate that it is continuing to deliver against the milestones set out in its long-term growth strategy.
"More than two years ago, we made the decision to build our business around a digital services future inspired by the needs of our customers in a rapidly changing world," chairman Mark Verbiest said in a statement.
"At the time, we outlined a two-phase approach: first, resetting the business by stabilising revenue and margins and reducing costs; and subsequently, moving to create value by driving market revenue and margin growth, with continuing improvement in unit costs."
He said the first half of the 2015 financial year saw Spark "remaining on-plan" as it nears the end of this first phase.
"The decline in core retail product revenues evident in recent reporting periods, due to lower demand for legacy and fixed voice services and sharp declines in broadband pricing, showed further signs of moderating, while underlying net earnings from operations were flat compared with the corresponding period in the previous financial year," he said.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) from continuing operations were down 3.5 percent, including the impact of the one-off cost of Spark's rebrand from Telecom New Zealand and reorganisation costs.
Managing director Simon Moutter said the results reflected the repositioning of the company.
"There has been sustained growth in good quality mobile connections, up another 108,000 in the period since 30 June 2014, as Spark New Zealand continues to close the gap on the competition," he said.
"Total mobile revenues grew by 2.4 percent; however, the market remains very competitive, particularly in the business segment where revenues have actually declined on the back of continuing price reductions and data bundle expansion."
Moutter said that while broadband share declined slightly, gains were made in broadband revenue and profitability as it focused its efforts on enticing higher-value customers with new products such as its video-streaming service Lightbox.
Expenses from continuing operations were cut 2.4 percent to NZ$1.36 billion, which Spark said reflected the benefits of its transformation program.
CFO Jolie Hodson said 200 more people will be leaving the business in January and February.
"An emphasis on delivering a range of additional services that consumers value, such as Spotify, Lightbox, nationwide Wi-Fi, Socialiser, and many others, has enabled the Spark New Zealand brand to build differentiation positions in mobile and broadband," Moutter said.
Previous guidance -- for low single-digit growth in EBITDA and low single-digit decline in revenue -- stood, subject to a final Commerce Commission decision on the potential backdating of network operator Chorus's input charges, Moutter said.
The board declared a half-year dividend of 9 cents per share.
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Notional valuations are often required to value an asset or business interest to support or assist in the negotiation of a matter between non arm's length parties. Examples include transactions between shareholders or related parties, transactions for taxation and corporate reorganization, to support transfer pricing and for matrimonial purposes.
Fair value for financial reporting purposes. Notional valuations are often required to establish the value of intangible assets, such as brand names, trademarks, and customer or supplier contracts. The valuation of the individual assets is needed in order to allocate the purchase price on a business acquisition and required for financial disclosure purposes. Valuations are also needed to assess the fair value of business segments for purposes of goodwill impairment testing, also required for financial reporting purposes.
Corporate finance and transaction-based activities. Assignments often include valuation of the business or asset, due diligence and transaction support in respect of financings, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, management buy-outs, buy/sell agreements, initial public offerings and the preparation of analyst reports and studies.
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Vitbrynad bergtyrann (Ochthoeca leucophrys) är en fågel i familjen tyranner inom ordningen tättingar.

Utseende
Vitbrynad bergtyrann är en liten tyrann med rätt lång stjärt som den ofta vippar uppåt. Kombinationen av tydligt vitt ögonbrynsstreck och genomgående grå fjäderdräkt är karakteristisk.

Utbredning och systematik
Vitbrynad bergtyrann förekommer i Anderna från norra Peru till nordvästra Argentina. Den delas in i sex underarter med följande utbredning:
 Ochthoeca leucophrys dissors – förekommer i norra Peru (övre Marañóndalen)
 Ochthoeca leucophrys interior – förekommer i Anderna i centrala Peru (Huánuco och Pasco)
 Ochthoeca leucophrys urubambae – förekommer i Anderna i södra Peru (Junín till nordöstra Ayacucho och Cusco)
 Ochthoeca leucophrys leucometopa – förekommer i Andernas västsluttning i Peru (Ancash) till nordvästra Chile
 Ochthoeca leucophrys leucophrys – förekommer i Anderna i västra Bolivia
 Ochthoeca leucophrys tucumana – förekommer i Anderna i nordvästra Argentina (Salta till San Juan)

Levvadssätt
Vitbrynad bergtyrann hittas i öppna och halvöppna buskmarker i Anderna. Den påträffas ofta i klippiga dalar och raviner, men även vid odlingsterasser i och kring byar. Fågeln ses vanligen enstaka eller i par, sittande tystlåtet lågt i buskage, varifrån den faller ner på marken för att fånga byten.

Status
Arten har ett stort utbredningsområde och beståndet anses stabilt. Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN listar den därför som livskraftig (LC).

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Q: how to config to run php 7 in nginx.config magento2 root? I have multi magento site in centos 7 use nginx server?

www/magento2
www/magento1

Now i server run php 5.6.I want site www/magento2 run php7 so i installed php7 with code:

yum install scl-utils
yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install http://rpms.remirepo.net/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm
yum install php70
yum install php70-php-mysqlnd
yum install php70-php-curl
yum install php70-php-simplexml
yum install php70-php-devel php70-php-gd php70-php-json php70-php-mcrypt php70-php-mbstring php70-php-opcache php70-php-pear php70-php-pecl-apcu php70-php-pecl-geoip php70-php-pecl-imagick php70-php-pecl-json-post php70-php-pecl-memcache php70-php-pecl-xmldiff php70-php-pecl-zip php70-php-pspell php70-php-soap php70-php-tidy php70-php-xml php70-php-xmlrpc
After installed php7 success
Now i don't now config nginx.config in root/magento2, this code file
## Example configuration:
# upstream fastcgi_backend {
#    # use tcp connection
#    # server  127.0.0.1:9000;
#    # or socket
#    server   unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
# }
# server {
#    listen 80;
#    server_name mage.dev;
#    set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/magento2;
#    include /vagrant/magento2/nginx.conf.sample;
# }
#
## Optional override of deployment mode. We recommend you use the
## command 'bin/magento deploy:mode:set' to switch modes instead.
##
## set $MAGE_MODE default; # or production or developer
##
## If you set MAGE_MODE in server config, you must pass the variable into the
## PHP entry point blocks, which are indicated below. You can pass
## it in using:
##
## fastcgi_param  MAGE_MODE $MAGE_MODE;
##
## In production mode, you should uncomment the 'expires' directive in the /static/ location block

root $MAGE_ROOT/pub;

index index.php;
autoindex off;
charset UTF-8;
error_page 404 403 = /errors/404.php;
#add_header "X-UA-Compatible" "IE=Edge";

# PHP entry point for setup application
location ~* ^/setup($|/) {
    root $MAGE_ROOT;
    location ~ ^/setup/index.php {
        fastcgi_pass   fastcgi_backend;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    location ~ ^/setup/(?!pub/). {
        deny all;
    }

    location ~ ^/setup/pub/ {
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    }
}

# PHP entry point for update application
location ~* ^/update($|/) {
    root $MAGE_ROOT;

    location ~ ^/update/index.php {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(/update/index.php)(/.+)$;
        fastcgi_pass   fastcgi_backend;
        fastcgi_index  index.php;
        fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        fastcgi_param  PATH_INFO        $fastcgi_path_info;
        include        fastcgi_params;
    }

    # Deny everything but index.php
    location ~ ^/update/(?!pub/). {
        deny all;
    }

    location ~ ^/update/pub/ {
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    }
}

location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

location /pub/ {
    location ~ ^/pub/media/(downloadable|customer|import|theme_customization/.*\.xml) {
        deny all;
    }
    alias $MAGE_ROOT/pub/;
    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
}

location /static/ {
    # Uncomment the following line in production mode
    # expires max;

    # Remove signature of the static files that is used to overcome the browser cache
    location ~ ^/static/version {
        rewrite ^/static/(version\d*/)?(.*)$ /static/$2 last;
    }

    location ~* \.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg|js|css|swf|eot|ttf|otf|woff|woff2)$ {
        add_header Cache-Control "public";
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
        expires +1y;

        if (!-f $request_filename) {
            rewrite ^/static/(version\d*/)?(.*)$ /static.php?resource=$2 last;
        }
    }
    location ~* \.(zip|gz|gzip|bz2|csv|xml)$ {
        add_header Cache-Control "no-store";
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
        expires    off;

        if (!-f $request_filename) {
           rewrite ^/static/(version\d*/)?(.*)$ /static.php?resource=$2 last;
        }
    }
    if (!-f $request_filename) {
        rewrite ^/static/(version\d*/)?(.*)$ /static.php?resource=$2 last;
    }
    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
}

location /media/ {
    try_files $uri $uri/ /get.php?$args;

    location ~ ^/media/theme_customization/.*\.xml {
        deny all;
    }

    location ~* \.(ico|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|svg|js|css|swf|eot|ttf|otf|woff|woff2)$ {
        add_header Cache-Control "public";
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
        expires +1y;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /get.php?$args;
    }
    location ~* \.(zip|gz|gzip|bz2|csv|xml)$ {
        add_header Cache-Control "no-store";
        add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
        expires    off;
        try_files $uri $uri/ /get.php?$args;
    }
    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
}

location /media/customer/ {
    deny all;
}

location /media/downloadable/ {
    deny all;
}

location /media/import/ {
    deny all;
}

# PHP entry point for main application
location ~ (index|get|static|report|404|503)\.php$ {
    try_files $uri =404;
    fastcgi_pass   fastcgi_backend;
    fastcgi_buffers 1024 4k;

    fastcgi_param  PHP_FLAG  "session.auto_start=off \n suhosin.session.cryptua=off";
    fastcgi_param  PHP_VALUE "memory_limit=768M \n max_execution_time=600";
    fastcgi_read_timeout 600s;
    fastcgi_connect_timeout 600s;

    fastcgi_index  index.php;
    fastcgi_param  SCRIPT_FILENAME  $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
    include        fastcgi_params;
}

gzip on;
gzip_disable "msie6";

gzip_comp_level 6;
gzip_min_length 1100;
gzip_buffers 16 8k;
gzip_proxied any;
gzip_types
    text/plain
    text/css
    text/js
    text/xml
    text/javascript
    application/javascript
    application/x-javascript
    application/json
    application/xml
    application/xml+rss
    image/svg+xml;
gzip_vary on;

# Banned locations (only reached if the earlier PHP entry point regexes don't match)
location ~* (\.php$|\.htaccess$|\.git) {
    deny all;
}

Thanks advance!!

A: you need to know your connection endpoint for php7, like port or socket name.
this is your main php-fpm config file:
/etc/opt/remi/php70/php-fpm.conf

this is your pool config file:
/etc/opt/remi/php70/php-fpm.d/www.conf

open this file and change:
pool name: [www] to [www2]
port: listen 127.0.0.1:9000 to listen 127.0.0.1:9001
also user and group name for magento 2 files owner.
and the last one change in nginx config:
## Example configuration:
# upstream fastcgi_backend {
#    # use tcp connection
#    # server  127.0.0.1:9000;
#    # or socket
#    server   unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
# }

to
## Example configuration:
 upstream fastcgi_backend {
    server  127.0.0.1:9001;
 }

restart nginx and php70-php-fpm  services
in case you need php.ini files:
php70 --ini

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Monique Asks Fans to Boycott Netflix for Gender & Color Bias
amy schumer, chris rock, color bias, comedy, dave chappelle, entertainment, equality, film, gender bias, mo'nique, negotiations, netflix, news
#BOYCOTT#NETFLIX FOR #COLORBIAS AND #GENDERBIAS. PLEASE STAND WITH ME. I LOVE US.
A post shared by Mo'nique (@therealmoworldwide) on Jan 19, 2018 at 5:54am PST
Everyone should be pretty familiar with the fact that Fresh & Local ATL is not a place for gossip or trendy pop-culture news, but being that we're all about empowering young entertainers and emerging business people, we feel it's important to at least address the fact that comedian Mo'nique is asking her fans to boycott Netflix. In a recently released video (seen above), she says that the executives at Netflix offered her a $500,000 deal to release a new comedy special through their platform. She compared the figures of the offer to other comedians that are partnering with Netflix (Amy Schumer - $13 million, Dave Chappelle & Chris Rock - $20 million).
When Mo'nique asked the executives why there was such a striking difference in the offer, given her resume, they allegedly said they're not going off of resumes and that they believe her particular special will generate around the margin of the half-million they put on the table.
Let's just call out the obvious: Netflix is definitely lying if they're claiming not to be going off of their resumes. It's not hard to see that there may be a different level of demand in the comedy community when it comes to the ongoing and recent success of Amy Schumer and the likes of Dave Chappelle & Chris Rock as well. They've all been pretty active since shifting into the social media era and in the cases of Chappelle and Rock - they're consistently in demand by their large core of fans.
We're not here to downplay Mo'nique though and can certainly understand her frustrations if she feels as though she's being low-balled by one of the most lucrative platforms on the scene right now. Let us know your thoughts; do you think this is the result of color and/or gender bias? And furthermore, who will be cancelling their Netflix account in support of the comedy icon?


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Q: text split problem I have a program which scans trough a textbox1 text and displays all words from textbox1 which are more than n letters long in textbox2. Here's the complete code:
Private Function filterWords(ByVal minLenght As Short, ByVal input As String) As List(Of String)
        Dim strInput() As String = input.Split(" ")
        Dim strList As New List(Of String)
        strList = strInput.ToList()

        For Each word In strInput
            If word.Length < minLenght Then
                strList.Remove(word)
            End If
        Next
        Return strList
    End Function

    Private Sub textbox1_TextChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Controls.TextChangedEventArgs) Handles textbox1.TextChanged
        textbox2.Text = ""
        Dim strOut As New List(Of String)

        strOut = filterWords(4, textbox1.Text)

        For Each w In strOut
            textbox2.Text += w & " "
        Next
    End Sub

If you for example type a b c d then it will not show anything in textbox2, but if you type a then press enter and then b, it will show both of them. What should I write to avoid this?

A: That really depends on how you define a word. Your current implementation defines that a space donates the end of a word. You define this by only passing the space to input.Split. If you also want to define that a period (.) ends a word, add it: input.Split(" .").
If you want to make a word end on a new line, add it: input.Split(" ." & Environment.NewLine.ToString()).
An alternative approach would be to use regular expressions, maybe like so:
Private Function filterWords(ByVal minLength As Short, ByVal input As String) _
    As List(Of String)

    Dim strList As New List(Of String)
    Dim wordMatches = Regex.Matches(input, "\w+").Cast(Of Match)
    For Each wordMatch In wordMatches
        If wordMatch.Value.Length >= minLength Then
            strList.Add(wordMatch.Value)
        End If
    Next
    Return strList

End Function


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I want to be honest with myself and not hide my own laziness and weakness in perspective of the future rereading of these notes.
The whole day I could observe the variety of gray clouds above geometry of housing area. It went to the right verge of the window as well as rare planes flying somewhere from the nearest airport. My sketches were put on the bed in order to be observed, and pencils were at the table to use them directly. I did draw the sketches, yes. But the more frequent move was the escape. It took different forms like watching book reviews, refreshing Instagram, reading the university sites, making tea, eating dried fruits, going to the kitchen to fry the lunch. After the midday, I went to the idea of "just listening" the film which led me to Virginia Woolf's writing – "The hours".
After the midday, I went to the idea of "just listening" the film which led me to Virginia Woolf's writing – "The hours". Maybe, my vision changed by the influence of constant watching the classic, but it seemed me so scarce and hard to understand that couldn't believe I liked it years ago.
In a word, the whole day I tried to avoid working on the mastery in a proper way. But the truth is that I must do this and there is no other way but actually working on it. It reminds me the way I successfully avoided some tasks on the book art course; I had them done as quickly as possible in the most concentrated condition (which is the effort, not the mood to wait). So I need to have this done, it's decided.
Perhaps, I can sound pathetically, but I suppose I need to come back to the idea of the essence of life. It means the understanding of every single day as a part of your own life. Nobody procrastinates in dreams, but everybody achieves. Isn't it simple? What is great and exciting for me to achieve during this seven weeks? The answer is certainly not "have watched all book reviews on YouTube" or be in touch with every picture on Instagram. Sometimes I really want to turn them off and leave only the Anki-droid and Dictionary. As I understood I totally cannot accept the work on somebody, I need to be responsible and independent. (the bad side of which is inconsistency and uncertainty) I need to feel my own control over my own life.
This day went bumpy. I woke up early and did morning routine quietly. The room and walls were cold and distant. In front of the lift doors I tried to smile and be OK in general. But as you could read after the last post I wasn't generally OK. My desire to go to the institute alone didn't happen and the whole road I discussed the French culture with Nastya Titova. But my energy was different from what it had been at summer or earlier. I'm a bit aggressive and harsh. It's not the wished condition of openness and amity.
After the inspiring talk about French culinary we went to the cinema hall to watch our program film. Those were Eisenstain's and Pudovkin's pictures about the revolution. My head was splitting because of the storm inside. I was considering about basics of my life, desires, strengths and inclinations on the background of the real state. I brought out nothing from that terrible session of brain storming but headache and one strong point. This strong point was about thing that I had been planning to do since the last years of the college, nothing new.
After the view I crawled to the canteen where the plate of soap and some salad were my only companions at the table (there's so little space for all of us at the only one table). Upstairs there were the stirring students with their plein air pictures. I hesitated where to go and feebly asked the senior student girl where we are to be. I realized myself being weak and not confident (so strange for me).
That was a lesson of cinema history at the grey shabby class of the art department floor. Such a difference from evening class at the third floor (white screen, many seats and variety of students). As the morning was not productive, that lesson was idle too. I diverted to my deep-rooted reflections very often and couldn't make out the names or dates. Such a shame to be like that!
Later I didn't have any desire to be cut at the Mastery. No desire to talk about my project on Chekhov or any other stuff at all. But I was actively drawing the explication and when I sited by the masters there was no trouble. The second master was even amazed with my plans and wondered if I'm going to make the makets so fast. And my fast explication was admitted too as well as the whole process. Such an easiness. I'm OK. I have ideas and interest in the technical side of the production. Interest in production and filming.
Twilight at the autumn road. Bright electric light of white and orange. Wet yellow leaves at the plain asphalt.


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1868-1940 French Edouard Vuillard Galleries Jean-Edouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saone-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father\'s death, in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to continue his education. In the Lycee Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard\'s future brother in law), Maurice Denis, musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Veber and Lugne-Poe. On Roussel\'s advice he refused a military career and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Pierre Bonnard. In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycee Condorcet and joined his closest friend Roussel at the studio of painter Diogene Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training. Related Paintings of Edouard Vuillard :. | Weil lady and her children | Flower of Annette | Vial home after lunch | The mother s hair grown | Breakfast |
German Expressionist Painter and Sculptor, 1880-1938 was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brucke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a breakdown and was discharged. In 1933, his work was branded as "degenerate" by the Nazis and in 1937 over 600 of his works were sold or destroyed. In 1938 he committed suicide. In 1913, the first public showing of Kirchner's work took place at the Armory Show, which was also the first major display of modern art in America. In 1921, U.S. museums began to acquire his work and did so increasingly thereafter. His first solo show was at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1937. In 1992, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, held a monographic show, using its existing collection; a major international loan exhibition took place in 2003. In November 2006 at Christie's, Kirchner's Street Scene, Berlin (1913) fetched $38 million, a record for the artist.
SALZILLO, Francisco
Spanish sculptor (b. 1707, Murcia, d. 1783, Murcia). Spanish sculptor of Italian descent. He was trained by his father, Nicol Salzillo (1672-1727), a Neapolitan sculptor who had settled in Murcia, whose first documented work is dated 1700. Francisco also studied with the Jesuits and was taught drawing and sculpture by the cleric and painter Manuel Senchez ( fl 1731-9). He entered the Dominican Order in Murcia as a novice but left to take charge of his father's studio at the latter's death in 1727. Francisco was assisted by his brothers, Juan Antonio Salzillo and Patricio Salzillo, a priest, and by his sister, Ines Salzillo, who specialized in painting carved religious statues. In 1746 Francisco married Juana Vallejo Martenez, and in 1755 he was appointed escultor y modelista by the municipal government (ayuntamiento) and Inspector to the Inquisition for painting and sculpture in Murcia. In 1763 he established an academy
SWANEVELT, Herman van
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1600-1655 Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher, active in France and Italy. His first signed and dated works are two views of Paris dated 1623 (Brunswick, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.). He was in Rome from 1629 to 1641. His earliest dated painting there is an Old Testament Scene (1630; The Hague, Mus. Bredius; see fig.), a compositional formula that he often used, with some variations, in Rome. A flat, low foreground is closed on the left by a house and a tree; on the right is a distant hilly scene; and groups of figures are disposed horizontally. This design, derived from Cornelis van Poelenburch, is well suited to van Swanevelt's many landscapes with biblical and mythological subjects. The large tree extending beyond the frame gives a monumental touch to the composition.


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Young musicians unite for Jazz Fest
Band Jazz Lemurs (from left) Haein Shin (17), on guitar, James Monaghan (16), saxophone, Jezrah Cooper (17), drums, Jack McKenzie (17), trombone, Daniel Wells (17), saxophone, and Alex Thomson (16), bass guitar, ahead of the ILT Jazz Fest.SECONDARY school pupils from throughout the southern region will get the opportunity to put their jazz skills to the test tomorrow night.
SECONDARY school pupils from throughout the southern region will get the opportunity to put their jazz skills to the test tomorrow night.
The ILT Jazz Fest will include bands from secondary schools in Southland and Central Otago.
Itinerant music teacher Ross Ogilvy said about 10 bands would perform during the festival this year.
The festival was started by musician and music teacher Alastair Monteath in the early 1990s, he said.
It provided a platform for pupils learning jazz to perform in front of an audience and have the opportunity to win prizes, while also covering some NCEA requirements.
The bands would get to perform three pieces, including this year's test piece Ladybird
"They all have to perform a test piece in whatever way they want to do it, they rearrange it to suit."
A lot of the other material would be standards, which come from the jazz fake book, he said.
"There's hundreds, or thousands, to choose from. So that gives them a bare bones chart with a melody and chords, and their job is then to make something come of it."
Ogilvy said it was a chance for pupils to showcase their improvisation skills in a non-pressured environment.
"It's a good avenue for them to improvise… It's just good for them to get out and do it, because the hardest thing is to just go up there and make a solo up on the spot."
The event was not for profit, with funds from the door charge going towards the pupils' prizes, Ogilvy said.
There were four monetary prizes up for grabs – first, second and third band, and best test piece.
Certificates would also be awarded for best solo, with each instrument having its own field.
Ogilvy has heard many talented young pupils perform at the event over the years, and some had carried on their studies at tertiary level.
He said he had been able to invite some of those former pupils back as judges, which was also a good way for current pupils to see what they can go on to.
ILT Jazz Fest, Ascot Park Hotel, Friday, October 19, 7pm. Door sales $10 adults, $5 pupils.
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