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Omiya Park Stadium
(aka "Nack 5 Stadium"
Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture
Omiya Stadium is one of the oldest soccer-only facilities in Japan. It was one of several facilities that was built to host the Tokyo Olympics, where it was used for several early-round soccer matches. Although the stands are rather featureless, with the open banks of bleachers and small press box and roof in the home stands that was typical for that era, it can be a very cozy and intimate venue, especially when filled with fans.
Apart from the fact that it hosted some Olympic matches, during the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Omiya Stadium's big claim to fame is the fact that Maradona played there, when just a boy of 17, in a youth soccer championship match. Many young Japanese players who seek to emulate the Argentine wizard claim that standing on Omiya Stadium's pitch is as much of a thrill as reaching the high school championship match.
Unlike most stadiums build at the same time, Omiya is not a multipurpose facility, but a soccer-only ground with a very cozy atmosphere. Although the stands are rather small and typically austere, the closeness to the pitch makes Omiya Stadium louder and more energetic than most other small venues. Like their cross-town rivals at Urawa, the Omiya Ardija fans can be very raucous and intimidating to opposing teams when in full voice.
Location: Omiya City, Saitama Prefecture Capacity: 12,500
Home Team(s): Omiya Ardija Completed: 1964
Omiya Stadium is located in the middle of Omiya Park, a very attractive city park with one of the most famous shrines in the greater Tokyo area. The stadium is accessible from Omiya Station, on the JR Saikyo train line, and can be reached in an 30 minute walk through downtown Omiya to the park. There is also a bus service that leaves from the main bus stand outside the east exit of Omiya station, on the JR Tohoku line. Get off at the "Soccer Jo Mae" (soccer stadium) bus stop, which is right in front of the stadium . Omiya Shrine is on the way, if you think your team could use some heavenly benevolence.
Alternatively, Omiya Koen (Omiya Park) on the Tobu Nota train line, takes you to within a 15-minute walk of the stadium, and takes you through the center of Omiya Park.
General admission:
Adults Y1,400; Children Y500
"Stand seats" (reserved):
Adults Y2,500; Children Y1,000
"Special seats" reserved:
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Apple's next iPhone won't have the kind of impact on the company's business some hope it might, one analyst told investors in a research note on Tuesday.
Barclays analyst Mark Moskowitz on Tuesday downgraded Apple's stock to equal weight from its previous overweight rating. Moskowitz, who also lowered Apple's price target from $119 a share to $117, said that Apple's next high-end handset, which he calls the iPhone 8, will be unable to overcome existing challenges in the smartphone maker's business.
is rumored to be working on a major new iPhone release this year. While the industry has generally called the rumored device the iPhone 8, Apple has not even announced future smartphone plans, let alone a name for a possible device.
As of this writing, several rumors suggest the iPhone 8 will sit alongside the iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus, which will both offer only minor updates over last year's iPhone 7. The iPhone 8, however, could come with an all-new glass design, a curved screen, and plenty of power under the hood. Apple is also rumored to be considering moving its Touch ID fingerprint sensor to under the glass. The iPhone 8 would celebrate the iPhone's 10th anniversary.
According to Moskowitz, the Street generally believes the iPhone 8 could be a boon for Apple's business and boost year-over-year iPhone shipments by more than 10%. Moskowitz, though, isn't so sure.
While Moskowitz is suspect of the iPhone's future appeal, he does believe Apple has some opportunities to significantly grow in the coming years by investing in India and expanding its Services business, which includes Apple Music. He added that Apple's growth could also come from appealing more to corporate customers and artificial intelligence. But there's one problem: he doesn't think those to make a dent in Apple's business over the next year.
"We do not expect these potential 'what's next?' opportunities to emerge as major needle movers over the next 12 months for Apple's model," wrote Moskowitz.


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Rolf Schilling (* 11. April 1950 in Nordhausen am Harz) ist ein deutscher Dichter und Philosoph.

Leben
Rolf Schilling ist ein Schriftsteller, Lyriker, Essayist und Übersetzer von englischen, französischen und russischen Gedichten. Er lebt heute in Udestedt bei Erfurt. Nach Wehrdienst bei der NVA und Philosophiestudium an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin war er bis 1977 am Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus der Technischen Hochschule in Ilmenau tätig. Seitdem konzentriert er sich auf seine schriftstellerische Tätigkeit. 1981 gründete er den Dichterbund "Holdes Reich". In der DDR wurde keines seiner Bücher verlegt. Publikationen des zu DDR-Zeiten in seinem Heimatdorf Bielen wohnenden Schilling erfolgten durch den befreundeten Schriftsteller und Verleger Uwe Lammla zunächst in einfachen Privatdrucken und ab 1990 in dem eigens dafür gegründeten Arnshaugk Verlag in München, der später in Lammlas Heimatstadt Neustadt an der Orla umsiedelte. Zwischen 1980 und 1987 setzte das Ministerium für Staatssicherheit mehrere IMs auf Schilling an und kam zu dem Ergebnis, er zeige dichterisch ein "überdurchschnittlich hohes Können" und sei politisch für die DDR ungefährlich. Bei Schillings ersten Besuchen in Westdeutschland begleitete ihn seine Lebensgefährtin Sylvia als "Muse", die bei Lesungen und Rezitationen zu seinen Füßen saß. Nach seinen ersten Reisen 1989/90 äußerte er sich allerdings enttäuscht vom westdeutschen Lebensstil, beklagte "die Uniformität des Lebens" und sah "lauter Klischees und große Stupidität" im Denken.

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Stephan Hermlin vermittelte Rolf Schilling Anfang der 1980er Jahre den Briefkontakt zu Ernst Jünger, den er nach dem Mauerfall auch persönlich kennen lernte. Außerdem schrieb er sich mit Fritz Usinger und Oda Schaefer und begegnete nach 1989 auch anderen Künstlern der vorangegangenen Generation wie Arno Breker oder Leni Riefenstahl. Heimo Schwilk besuchte ihn noch zu DDR-Zeiten in Bielen und entdeckte ihn für den Westen; über ihn lernte er Uwe Wolff kennen, der ihn bis heute verehrt. In der gegenwärtigen Kunst- und Kulturszene nimmt Schilling einen eigenwilligen solitären Platz ein: Vom offiziellen Kulturbetrieb weitgehend unbeachtet, ist er seit Jahrzehnten Mittelpunkt eines Kreises von Freunden und Schülern, die ihn aufgrund seiner poetischen Formkunst, der mythisch-archaischen Bezüge seines äußerst artifiziellen Werkes und seiner unabhängigen Lebenshaltung verehren. Zu seinen jüngeren Freunden und Briefpartnern zählen u. a. Joachim Werneburg, Uwe Lammla, der Publizist Werner Bräuninger, der Schriftsteller und langjährige Inhaber des Telesma-Verlags Baal Müller und der Lyriker, Musiker und Grafiker Uwe Nolte. Aus der Freundschaft mit Letzterem resultieren zahlreiche gemeinsam veranstaltete Lesungen, ein viel beachtetes Orplid-Konzert in der Krypta des Leipziger Völkerschlachtdenkmals zu Pfingsten 2006 sowie das von Nolte produzierte Hörbuch "Gesang überm Quell" mit Texten von Rolf Schilling.

Ernst Jünger lobt in den Aufzeichnungen Siebzig verweht die "mythisch-heraldische Haltung" Schillings. Mit Arno Breker, den er kurz vor dessen Tod persönlich traf, entstand das Gemeinschaftswerk "Tage der Götter", das zahlreiche Zeichnungen des Bildhauers schmückt. Breker widmete Schilling auf Anregung seines Editeurs Joe F. Bodenstein (Paris) für die Luxusausgabe der Publikation zusätzlich die signierte Original-Lithographie "Orpheus mit der Harfe", in Erinnerung an Jean Cocteau. Die Buchpremiere mit einer öffentlichen Lesung des Dichters fand 1991 in dem von Brekers Freundeskreis eröffneten Museum Europäische Kunst auf Schloss Nörvenich bei Düren im Rheinland statt. Außer Brekers Museum besuchte Schilling auch dessen Figuren-Atelier.

Richtung
Die Gedichte von Rolf Schilling sind vorwiegend von mythologischen Themen inspiriert und im Aufbau metrisch exakt. Er legt größten Wert auf die Strenge der Form und sieht gerade darin den künstlerischen Gehalt seiner Dichtung. Eine Ausstellung zu vergessenen DDR-Literaten im Literaturhaus Berlin 2006 charakterisierte die Arbeit der Gruppe "Holdes Reich" als elitären Versuch, eine "Traum- und Gegenwelt zum herrschenden Verfall" der DDR-Realität herzustellen. Meist fehlen aktuelle politische Bezüge in Schillings Texten. Dennoch wird er politisch seit langem der ostdeutschen rechten Szene zugeordnet und einer faschistischen Ausdrucksform geziehen. So habe er sich bei seinem Auftritt auf einem Konzert von Orplid in Leipzig zum Jahrhundert-Dichter stilisieren lassen und zeichne in seinen Lesebeiträgen die Kontur eines zukünftig edlen, reinen Deutschlands. Der Dichter ist in Schillings Verständnis eine nationale Figur, "denn er lebt von der Sprache und Mythologie seines Volkes". Beobachter der rechten Szene bezeichnen ihn deswegen auch als "völkischen Dichter". Rüdiger Sünner bezieht Schilling hingegen schon wegen seines künstlerischen Niveaus nicht in das von ihm vorgestellte unseriöse Spektrum rechtsgerichteter Esoteriker und neuheidnischer Splittergruppen ein. Zwar suche auch Schilling in deutschen Mythen eine geistige Bindung an das Nationale und befürworte in bestimmten Fällen auch eine hierarchische Ordnung. Dennoch gebe es bei ihm keine heimliche Verklärung und kein Kokettieren mit nationalsozialistischem Gedankengut. Schilling sehe im von ihm thematisierten "Urmythos der Deutschen" auch kein Versprechen politischer Herrschaft oder rassischer Dominanz, sondern ein geistiges Reich, das niemals Realität werden soll, sondern in der Spannung zwischen Ideal und Wirklichkeit, zwischen Traum und Realität verbleibt. Als existenzielle "Grundmächte", die das mythische Dasein bestimmen und durch das Opfer die Überwindung von Zeit und Tod ermöglichen, betrachtet Schilling neben dem Kultus die Liebe, die Kunst und den Krieg. Uwe Wolff, der das Werk Schillings vorbehaltlos bejaht, sieht in ihm in erster Linie den Anarchen, der sich von Reaktionen der Außenwelt radikal abschottet und unbeirrt seinen Weg geht. Stefan George, dessen Dichtung Wolff mit der von Schilling verglichen hatte, habe dagegen immer ein "Meister in der Mitte eines Kreises sein" wollen und sei deshalb persönlich schwer mit Schilling in Bezug zu setzen. Schilling selbst sieht sein Ideal vom "Dichter als Sänger" als "archaischen Traum" weder bei George noch bei Rilke oder Baudelaire verwirklicht, sondern bei dem englischen Skandaldichter A. C. Swinburne, dessen Poems and Ballads (1866) seine dichterische Entwicklung zu DDR-Zeiten begleitet haben.

Textbeispiele
Versform: vierhebiger Trochäus mit Kreuzreim
Irminsul (Auszug)

Nimm der Zeiten Garn und spul
Fäden, die die Norn nicht löst.
Ruf die Schläfer aus dem Pfuhl:
Wo sie dämmern, Traum-entblößt,
Schattet golden Irminsul,
Krone, die du spät erhöhst.

Archaismus: von Schilling so genannter "schlanker Gesang", d. h. schmale Verse in gleichmäßigem Rhythmus und unkompliziertem Reimschema, die in atmosphärischer Dichte und sprachlicher Finesse an Edda-Dichtungen erinnern sollen
Speer-erweckt

Speer-erweckt aus Morgenträumen,
Sei, der nie die Waffen streckt,
Wo sich Drachenhäupter bäumen,
Speer-erweckt.

Neopaganismus: in vielen Gedichten spielt das Thema der untergegangenen germanischen Religion eine Rolle, so auch in der Lieblingsstrophe von Uwe Wolff aus Schillings Questen-Gesang:
Questen-Gesang (1984)

Geschieden du vom Questen-Kranz,
Geschieden du vom Licht:
Wo sind die Götter dieses Lands?
Fahr hin und frage nicht.
Nur wenn dein Mund, gewahr des Banns,
Die Siegel Schweigens bricht,
Hellt noch ein Hauch vom alten Glanz
Dein sinkendes Gesicht.

Werkverzeichnis
 Scharlach und Schwan. Gedichte und Dramen. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1990, ISBN 3-926370-01-7.
 Stunde des Widders. Gedichte. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1990, ISBN 3-926370-02-5.
 Questen-Gesang. Gedichte. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1990, ISBN 3-926370-03-3.
 Kreis der Gestalten. Zwölf Huldigungen. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1990, ISBN 3-926370-04-1.
 Das Holde Reich. Essays zur Symbolik. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1990, ISBN 3-926370-05-X.
 Schwarzer Apollon. Essays zur Symbolik. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1990, ISBN 3-926370-06-8.
 Ein verlassener Garten. Gedichte nach Algernon Charles Swinburne. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1990, ISBN 3-926370-07-6.
 Der Phoenix und die Taube. Aus dem Englischen. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1991, ISBN 3-926370-08-4.
 Tage der Götter. Gedichte und Bilder. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1991, ISBN 3-926370-15-7.
 Die Häupter der Hydra. Gedichte. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1993, ISBN 3-926370-09-2.
 Was der Schatten sprach. Aus dem Französischen und Russischen. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1993, ISBN 3-926370-10-6.
 Eros und Ares. Essays. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1994, ISBN 3-926370-21-1.
 Feuerlilie. Gedichte. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1995, ISBN 3-926370-31-9.
 Halkyon. Gedichte. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1997, ISBN 3-926370-32-7.
 Tagebücher in 4 Bänden: Aus Ariel-Tagen. Refugium (2 Bände). Lebens Mittag. Verlag Arnshaugk, 1997, ISBN 3-926370-26-2.
 Lingaraja. Gedichte aus den Jahren 1997 bis 2011. Telesma-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 3-941094-06-8.
 Im Spiegel der Blitze. Gedichte. Arnshaugk Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-944064-40-6.
 Auf weitestem Feld. Notate zur Dichtung, Kunst, Musik und einigen anderen Dingen. 1992-2018. Arnshaugk Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95930-203-6.

Vertonungen
 Hörbuch "Gesang überm Quell"
 Gedicht "Luzifer", Orplid-CD "Greifenherz"
 Gedicht "Gesang an den Horusfalken", Orplid-CD "Greifenherz"
 Gedicht "Nimm was dir die Götter geben", Fire + Ice-CD "Fractured Man"
 Gedicht "Schwertträger", Halgadom-CD "Äon des Hammers"

Literatur
 Uwe Wolff: Ein Schriftsteller der Inneren Emigration. Zum Werk Rolf Schillings. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 31. Dezember 1990.
 Rüdiger Sünner: "Fährten im Traum-Harz": Der Dichter Rolf Schilling. In: ders.: Schwarze Sonne. Entfesselung und Missbrauch der Mythen in Nationalsozialismus und rechter Esoterik (= Herder-Spektrum, Bd. 5205). Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999, ISBN 3-451-27186-9, S. 276–287.
 Rainer Hackel: Rolf Schilling. Apologie eines verkannten Dichters. Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2017, ISBN 978-3-95948-246-2.
 Rainer Hackel: Der Bruch – Rolf Schilling in Bad Hersfeld in Ärger im Paradies, Verlag Traugott Bautz, Nordhausen 2015, ISBN 978-3-95948-091-8, S. 40–56

Dokumentation
 1992: Zeit der Götter – Regie Lutz Dammbeck, Kamera u. a. Eberhard Geick und Thomas Plenert, Sprecher: Christian Brückner und Otto Sander. In diesem Dokumentarfilm von Lutz Dammbeck wird auch Rolf Schilling vorgestellt, der sein Gedicht "Irminsul" vorträgt.

Weblinks

 Internet-Präsenz von Rolf Schilling
 Würdigung zum 60. Geburtstag in der Jungen Freiheit

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Literatur (21. Jahrhundert)
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Übersetzer ins Deutsche
Übersetzer aus dem Englischen
Übersetzer aus dem Französischen
Übersetzer aus dem Russischen
Deutscher
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The captain of fast-sinking Tintri has abandoned ship, just three months after he came aboard as a lifesaver.
Tintri CEO Thomas Barton, 54, informed the board of his decision on Monday, according to a securities filing. Tintri did not elaborate on the reason for Barton's departure, but said it was not due to a "disagreement" or matters pertaining to Tintri's operations.
Shares of Tintri sank nearly 25% on the news, closing Tuesday trading at a new low of 19 cents a share. A new Tintri CEO has not been named, and it may soon be a moot point, given the vendor's ongoing struggles to acquire new funding, repay debt and retain customers. Tintri officials did not respond to interview requests.
Tintri was unable to make a timely earnings report last quarter, and its shares have been trading under the $1 price minimum needed to retain listing on Nasdaq. Under Nasdaq rules, such companies have 180 days to reestablish the share-price requirement, but it's not likely Tintri will be around to worry about it.
When it revealed preliminary earnings last week, Tintri said it lacks "sufficient liquidity" to continue operations beyond June 30. That date is the one-year anniversary of Tintri's initial public offering, a move it undertook to stay afloat financially following years of heavy losses and a drop in venture funding.
Going public has not panned out according to plan. In the same earnings report, Tintri publicly acknowledged for the first time that "existing and potential customers and suppliers have expressed concerns regarding the company's financial condition."
According to the filing, Tintri owes $15.4 million in principal outstanding for a line of credit with Silicon Valley Bank and $50 million related to a credit facility with TriplePoint Capital LLC. Another $25 million of junior debt is tied to subordinated notes, bringing Tintri's indebtedness to $90.4 million. Against that, Tintri has about $42.5 million in aggregate cash and cash equivalents.
Barton is the second Tintri CEO in four months to resign. He took over for Ken Klein, who left the job in March after five years at the helm.
Launched in 2008, Tintri initially marketed its all-flash storage for VMware shops. The company since has transitioned to hybrid and all-flash cloud arrays for hyper-scale environments. Although its technology has received high marks for scale and manageability, Tintri has struggled to sell enough storage to outrun a succession of quarterly losses.
Barton officially started as Tintri CEO on April 2 at a salary of $400,000, with the opportunity to earn $250,000 in performance-based cash bonuses. He added the title of interim CFO in May.
Industry observers considered Barton a good choice, given his background in both enterprise storage and venture investment. Barton joined Tintri from Broken Arrow Venture Capital, a Los Gatos, Calif., firm where he had been a founding partner since 2007.
From 2002 to 2007, Barton was president and CEO of Rackable Systems, a maker of x86 storage servers. Rackable Systems was acquired by Silicon Graphics International after Barton had left the company, and the technology became part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise after it acquired SGI in 2016.
Regardless of how he baited the hook this time, Barton apparently was unable to get investors to bite. Rather than fish from the side, Barton decided to make landfall, leaving Tintri even further adrift at sea.


A major fire at a mine caused significant damage to various structural members of a dredger, however the severity of this damage was unknown. The client required a quick method to determine if the steel members had sustained critical or superficial damage.
HRL was engaged by the client and deployed CrackSizer®, its innovative electromagnetic inspection method, used primarily to detect and size surface breaking defects in power station components. In this case however, HRL leveraged this electromagnetic capability to function as a rapid hardness detection tool. Scans of the suspect members effectively identified where the real damage had occurred, versus superficial surface coating damage. Using a portable hardness tester, HRL then verified the drop in hardness, which corresponds to a loss of material strength.
Though the principal function of CrackSizer® is to identify and size crack defects, HRL was able to expand its capabilities by utilising its scanning signal to identify changes in the microstructure and material properties of metals. This inspection method reduced site preparation time and minimised access requirements, significantly reducing the outage time required. As a result of the comprehensive CrackSizer® testing done by HRL, the client only had to replace the critically-damaged members, saving them substantial material and labour costs.


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The members of the organization, who are business leaders and young Cuban-American professionals living in the United States, asked the US Executive to update and restore the 2016 Presidential Policy Directive entitled United States-Cuba Normalization, approved by President Barack Obama.
The organization, self-defined as a non-profit and non-partisan entity, called on the president and his advisers to generate 'the political space necessary for Congress to lift the unilateral sanctions,' imposed for almost six decades on Cuba.
The document's authors advice the Biden administration to modify Washington's traditional policy of 'regime change' – rejected by the Cuban authorities – aimed at overthrow the Government of Havana.
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Italian interior and industrial designer Giancarlo Piretti was born in 1940 in Bologna. He obtained his teaching degree in drawing at the Art Institute of Bologna (dates unknown), and continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna in 1960. From 1963 until 1970, he taught interior design at the Art Institute of Bologna.
Sometime in the 1960s, Piretti also joined Italian design company Castelli as an interior designer, creating home furniture and office furnishings. During his twelve years at Castelli, Piretti obtained numerous industrial patents for his designs, which were mostly chairs. Piretti's work for Castelli garnered the company an international reputation in furniture design. His most well-known design is the plastic folding Plia Chair (1968), which has sold over seven million copies since 1969 and is still in production. It won the BIO 5 distinction and the SMAU prize at the Ljubljana Biennial in 1971, Germany's Gute Form prize in 1973, and can be found in permanent collections in various museums world-wide, including Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia and the United States. In 1969 the complementary Plia Table was equally well-received in design circles, these revolutionary designs measured just 5 cm in depth when folded, a marvel in the 1960s.
In the late-1970s, Piretti worked with Argentine architect-designer Emilio Ambasz (b. 1943) on several award-winning designs, including the two ergonomic seating systems Vertebra (1975, winner of the Smau Industrial Design Award in 1979) and Dorsal (1981). From 1984 to 1986 Piretti worked for Castilia, a firm that was part of the Castelli group, that specialized in the production of home furniture characterized by functional and aesthetic systems.
In 1988, Piretti revealed The Piretti Collection in Chicago, which included over 50 different office chairs and seating styles. It is still manufactured by various licensees around the world. The collection, which has won several prizes including the UBD, the ASID, the Compasso d'Oro and the G-Mark, was designed to respond to the specific needs of each individual user. In 1997, the collection reached the milestone of one million chairs sold. Today, they have sold more than two-and-a-half million pieces from the collection.
Other well-known design include the DCS 106 Stacking Chair (1965); Plona Lounge Chair (1969); Alky Chair (1970s); Plantone Folding Desk (1970); Plano (1971, Gold Medal IBD); Planto Coat Rack (1972); the System 61 modular sofa system (1973); Xylon Chair (1992, two G Mark Awards 1994); and the Torsion Seating Collection (1995-6, G Mark Award 1997).
Today, Piretti lives and works in Bologna with his son, designer Alessandro Piretti.
Italian design company Castelli began dates from 1877 when Ettore Castelli founded a small workshop in Bologna. In 1939, the firm was renamed Anonima Castelli and began producing modern office furniture for which the brand is best known on the vintage market. It is recognized as one of the foremost manufacturers of Italian design of the 20th century and as the producer of the iconic Plia Chair.
In the 1960s, Giancarlo Piretti (born in Bologna in 1940) joined Castelli as an interior designer. During his twelve years at Castelli, Piretti obtained numerous industrial patents and designed many now iconic models, primarily in seating design. Piretti was instrumental in establishing Castelli's international reputation, being the creator of the brand's most successful and well known designs. Undoubtedly a design classic, Piretti's plastic folding Plia Chair (1968) was exhibited at the Fiera del Mobile fair in Milan in 1967. The chair, which has sold over four million units since 1969, won the BIO 5 award at the Ljubljana Biennial in 1971, Germany's Gute Form prize in 1973 and can be found in permanent collections of museums in Austria, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and the United States.
Piretti's most famous designs for Castelli include the DCS 106 Stacking Chair (1965), Plona Lounge Chair (1969), Alky Chair (c. 1970), Plantone Folding Desk (1970), Plano (1971, Gold Medal IBD), Planto Coat Rack (1972), and the modular System 61 Sofa (1973)
In the late-1970s, Piretti worked with Argentinian architect-designer Emilio Ambasz (b. 1943), and the pair created the two ergonomic seating systems Vertebra (1979, winner of the Smau Industrial Design Award) and Dorsal (1981) for Castelli.
Although Castelli's legacy is often defined by its partnership with Piretti, the brand has produced work by many other talented designers including Claudio Bellini, Rodolfo Bonetto, Michele De Lucchi, Hans Ell, Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas, Gino Gamberini, Nilo Gioacchini, Enzo Mari, Charles Pollock, F.A. Porsche, Mario Ruiz, and Richard Sapper. Important designs include Sapper's Nine to Five Desk (1986, winner of a Compasso d'Oro); Pollock's Penelope Chair (1982); Porsche's Executive Office Series (1989); and Ruiz' K22 Program (2005).
Castelli received four Compasso d'Oro Awards between 1981 and 1991.
In 1992, Castelli became part of the Haworth Group. Today, Castelli specializes in producing environmentally friendly and sustainable products.
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Tragedy Struck At US Primary School As Gunman Kills Four, Injures 10
Tragedy struck at US Primary School as gunman kills four people and injured 10 others including children.
The mass shooter, wearing a green camouflage, armed with three guns went around randomly picking targets as he fired from his vehicle before he was shot and killed by police.
The primary school in Rancho Tehama, North California
Witnesses near the school in Rancho Tehama, Northern California said they heard between 90 to 100 gunshots amid the chaos which left 10 injured.
According to witnesses, the shooting spree began from a home before moving on to the school where several victims were hit as shots were fired into classroom windows. All four who died were adults.
An aerial view of the scene after the shooting spree
A local resident, Brian Flint, whose roommate was killed by the shooter, his neighbor, described him as 'crazy's and that he had been firing lots of bullets and have warned the authorities of his volatile behavior.
The motive for the killing still remains a mystery.
A witness, Could Ferreira, was dropping off his daughter at the small school when he heard gunshots and mistaking it for firecrackers. He said he saw the school secretary run out and shout at children to get inside because someone was shooting.
Mr Ferreira told reporters that he ran into a classroom with 14 other pupils as they hid as bullets cane in through the window and hit a boy in the chest and foot.
Local hospital officials said three people were transported by ground ambulances and one person, a six-year-old boy , was airlifted in a helicopter.
Before the suspect was located, police advised local residents to stay in their homes.
In response to Rancho Tehama shooting, the US Vice President, Mike Pence, wrote on twitter:
"Saddened to hear of the shooting in N. California, the loss of life & injuries, including innocent children. We commend the effort of courageous law enforcement. We'll continue to monitor the situation & provide federal support, as we pray for comfort & healing for all impacted."
This is all so disturbing. We are yet to get over the Texas shooting which left 26 people dead and now having to deal with this.
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Seresteiro das Noites é o nono álbum de estúdio do cantor Amado Batista. É o primeiro álbum do artista gravado pela BMG, antiga RCA. Gravado e lançado em 1985, vendeu mais de 1 milhão e meio de discos.

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Seresteiro das Noites
Grande Cantor
Venha Até Aqui
Bailinhos
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Procurando Alguém
Um Peixe Ou Uma Criança
Quem Será?
Perdão Meu Amor
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There are two doors that open to us when we read the Lotus Sutra. The first door is that of history, the events we experience and what we can see and know in our own lifetimes. The second door is that of ultimate reality, which goes beyond time and space. Everything—all phenomena—participates in these two dimensions. When we look at a wave on the surface of the ocean, we can see the form of the wave and we locate the wave in space and time. Looking at a wave from the perspective of the historical dimension, it seems to have a beginning and an end, a birth and a death.
We, too, are subject to these notions. When we look from the historical dimension we see that we are subject to being and nonbeing. We are born but later on we will die. We have a beginning and an end. We have come from somewhere and we will go somewhere-that is the historical dimension.
At the same time, all beings and things also belong to the ultimate dimension, the dimension of reality that is not subject to notions of space and time, birth and death, coming and going. A wave is a wave, but at the same time it is water. The wave does not have to die in order to become water; it is already water right in the present moment. To talk about a wave, we need these notions: the wave arises and passes away; it comes from somewhere or has gone somewhere; the wave has a beginning and an end; it is high or low, more or less beautiful than other waves; the wave is subject to birth and death. But none of these distinctions can be applied to the wave in its ultimate dimension as water. In fact, you cannot separate the wave from its ultimate dimension.
Even though we are used to seeing everything in terms of the historical dimension, we can touch the ultimate dimension. So our practice is to become like a wave—while living the life of a wave in the historical dimension, we realize that we are also water and live the life of water. That is the essence of the practice. Because if you know your true nature of no coming, no going, no being, no nonbeing, no birth, no death, then you will have no fear and can dwell in the ultimate dimension, nirvana, right here and now. When you dwell in your true nature, you are already dwelling in nirvana.


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CHRISTINA VANTZOU is an artist, musician, and composer. She was born in Kansas City, studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore (1997-2001) and moved to Brussels in 2003 where she currently resides. Christina is known for her work with THE DEAD TEXAN (kranky) as well as in a variety of creative mediums including video, drawing, and animation. After various collaborations and a short tenure as a touring member of SPARKLEHORSE in the summer of 2007, Christina began composing the music for this album. She worked in isolation over a three year period using synthesizers, samples, and her voice. Then, a long distance collaboration with MINNA CHOI, director of MAGIK*MAGIK ORCHESTRA transformed the sprawling 45 minute single track into a score for a 7-piece orchestra, resulting in a two day recording session with Magik*Magik at TIny Telephone studios in San Francisco. The album was finally mixed in Brussels with production assistance from ADAM BRYANBAUM WILTZIE (STARS OF THE LID). While these works certainly orbit in the same musical galaxy as those of Stars of the Lid and The Dead Texan, Vantzou's compositions are more grounded and concerned with the terrestrial as opposed to the extra-terrestrial symphonies of the former, and are full symphonic movements as opposed to the shorter pop structures of the latter. These works also draw parallels to a number of late 20th century composers who concentrated on layering the string sections of orchestras while steering clear of bombastic brass and percussion elements. What becomes immediately apparent upon listening is that Christina Vantzou is a powerful new voice in contemporary neo-classical composition. (STREET DATE - 10/25/2011)
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<?php namespace Vi\Display\Table;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Support\Renderable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\View\Factory;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Routing\UrlGenerator;
use Stringy\StaticStringy as Stringy;

// @todo add actions for rows
// @todo add header and footer section

class TabularPresenter implements Renderable {

	/**
	 * The key used to specify ascending sorting
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	public static $sortAscending = 'ascending';

	/**
	 * The key used to specify descending sorting
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	public static $sortDescending = 'descending';

	/**
	 * The view factory instance
	 *
	 * @var \Illuminate\Contracts\View\Factory
	 */
	protected $viewFactory;

	/**
	 * The Url Generator instance
	 *
	 * @var \Illuminate\Contracts\Routing\UrlGenerator
	 */
	protected $url;

	/**
	 * The items to loop over
	 *
	 * @var array
	 */
	protected $items = [];

	/**
	 * The columns to loop over
	 *
	 * @var array<string>
	 */
	protected $columns = [];

	/**
	 * The sortable columns
	 *
	 * @var array<string>
	 */
	protected $sortableColumns = [];

	/**
	 * The view to render the table with
	 *
	 * @var array<string>
	 */
	protected $view = 'vi::support.table';

	public function __construct( Factory $view, UrlGenerator $url )
	{
		$this->viewFactory = $view;
		$this->url = $url;
	}

	/////// GETTERS + SETTERS ///////

	/**
	 * Set the presenter's items
	 *
	 * @param array $items
	 */
	public function setItems( $items )
	{
		$this->items = $items;
		return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the items to show
	 *
	 * @return array
	 */
	public function items()
	{
		return $this->items;
	}

	/**
	 * Set the columns to display
	 *
	 * @param array<string> $items
	 */
	public function setColumns( $columns )
	{
		$this->columns = $columns;
		return $this;
	}

	/**
	 * Set the columns to display
	 *
	 * @param array<string> $items
	 */
	public function columns()
	{
		return $this->columns;
	}

	/**
	 * Set the columns to display
	 *
	 * @param array<string> $items
	 */
	public function setSortable( $sortable )
	{
		$this->sortable = $sortable;
		return $this;
	}

	/////// RENDER ///////

	/**
	 * Render the table
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function render()
	{
		return $this->viewFactory->make($this->view)
			->with( 'presenter', $this )
			->render();
	}

	/////// SORTING ///////

	/**
	 * Generate a link to sort the content by the given column
	 *
	 * @todo  - test for default sorting
	 * @todo  - test query makes sense - ie currently column => direction. maybe
	 * sort => column and direction => direction?
	 *
	 * @param  string $column
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function sortingLink( $column )
	{
		$direction = $this->url->getRequest()->query->get($column) == static::$sortDescending ?
			static::$sortAscending : static::$sortDescending;

		return $this->url->current() . '?' . http_build_query([$column => $direction]);
	}

	/**
	 * Get the class for the sortable direction
	 *
	 * @param  string $column
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function sortDirectionClass( $column )
	{
		$direction = $this->url->getRequest()->query->get($column);

		return in_array($direction, [static::$sortAscending, static::$sortDescending]) ?
			$direction : null;
	}

	/**
	 * Determine if the given column is sortable
	 *
	 * @param  string  $column
	 * @return boolean
	 */
	public function isSortable( $column )
	{
		return in_array($this->sortableColumns, $column);
	}

	/////// FORMATTERS ///////

	/**
	 * Get the header text for the given field.
	 *
	 * It will look for defined methods in the format `formatColumnHeader()`,
	 * where `Column` is the studly name of the column.
	 *
	 * If no custom methods are used, it will convert the column name to a human
	 * readable string.
	 *
	 * @param  string $column
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function formatHeader( $column )
	{
		$method = 'format' . studly_case($column) . 'Header';

		return method_exists($this, $method)
			$this->{$method}() :
			ucwords( Stringy::humanize( snake_case($column) ) );
	}

	/**
	 * Get the field value for an item.
	 *
	 * It will look for defined methods in the format
	 * `formatColumnField($item)`, where `Column` is the studly name of the
	 * column.
	 *
	 * If there is a custom method for the field, that will be returned,
	 * unescaped. By default, it will attempt to get the property off the model,
	 * and escape it.
	 *
	 * @param  mixed  $item
	 * @param  string $column
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function formatField( $item, $column )
	{
		$method = 'format' . studly_case($column) . 'Field';

		return method_exists($this, $method) ?
			$this->{$method}($item) :
			$this->escape( $item->{$column} );
	}

	/////// HELPERS ///////

	/**
	 * Escape the given content
	 *
	 * @param  string $value
	 * @return string
	 */
	protected function escape( $value )
	{
		return e( $value );
	}

}


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Q: Questions about torsion of a curve in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and analogues of torsion in higher dimensions Suppose we have a curve $\alpha(s) : I \to \mathbb{R}^3$ parametrized by arc-length that has nowhere-vanishing second derivative, so that we are able to define the torsion $\tau(s)$ for every $s \in I$. It is clear to me that one can deform a curve in a way that can change the curvature by large amounts while keeping $\tau = 0$ everywhere. I think that it is possible to deform a curve in a way that we can vary torsion while keeping curvature fixed. I was wondering if anybody could give me a nice example of this.
My second question involves extending the idea of torsion. As far as I understand, torsion measures the planarity of a curve. For a curve that is embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$ is there a quantity indicating how far the curve is from being embedded in $\mathbb{R}^{n-1}$, and is this even useful?

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I think that it is possible to deform a curve in a way that we can vary torsion while keeping curvature fixed. I was wondering if anybody could give me a nice example of this.

Arguably the simplest class of examples are those for which the curvature $\kappa$ and torsion $\tau$ are constants for each curve in the family. Any such curve is a helix (including the degenerate case of zero torsion, which gives a circle) and can be parameterized by
$$\alpha(t) := (r \cos t, r \sin t, bt)$$
for some parameters $r$ (the radius of the unique cylinder containing the image of the helix) and $b$ (a quantity which controls the component velocity in the direction of the axis of that cylinder). (Computing gives that $||\alpha'(t)||^2 = \sqrt{r^2 + b^2}$, and in particular $\alpha$ is a constant-speed parameterization, so it's no trouble to write down an arc length parameterization.) Now, direct computation gives that the curvature $\kappa$ and torsion $\tau$ of $\alpha$ are
$$\kappa(t) = \frac{r}{r^2 + b^2} \qquad \text{and} \qquad \tau(t) = \frac{b}{r^2 + b^2}.$$
So, to produce a family of helices $\color{#bf0000}{\alpha_m(t)}$ with constant prescribed curvature $\kappa$ and varying torsion $\tau$, we need only pick (nonconstant) functions $r(m), b(m)$ that satisfy $$\kappa = \frac{r(m)}{r(m)^2 + b(m)^2}$$ for any prescribed constant $\kappa > 0$. Rearranging shows that this equation defines a circle
$$\left(r - \frac{1}{2 \kappa}\right)^2 + b^2 = \left(\frac{1}{2 \kappa} \right)^2$$
in $rb$-space, and we can produce explicit functions $r(m), b(m)$ by parameterizing this circle (or more precisely, this circle less the point $(r, b) = (0, 0)$). The usual rational parameterization of the unit circle, for example, leads to the solution
\begin{align}
r(m) := \frac{1}{(1 + m^2) \kappa} \\
b(m) := \frac{m}{(1 + m^2) \kappa}
\end{align}
and hence to the parameterized family of helices defined by
$$\color{#bf0000}{\alpha_m(t) = \left(\frac{\cos t}{(1 + m^2) \kappa}, \frac{\sin t}{(1 + m^2) \kappa}, \frac{m t}{(1 + m^2) \kappa}\right)}.$$ Substituting this parameterization in the above formulas for $\kappa$ and $\tau$ reveals that
$$m = \frac{\tau}{\kappa};$$
in particular, when $\kappa = 1$ the parameter $m$ is nothing more than the torsion $\tau$ itself.
This animation shows how $\color{#bf0000}{\alpha_m}$ (with $\kappa = 1$) varies with prescribed torsion $\tau$.

This was generated by the following Maple code:
with(plots):
stau := [cos(t) / (tau^2 + 1), sin(t) / (tau^2 + 1), tau * t / (1 + tau^2)];
opts := color=black, numpoints = 400:
animate(spacecurve, [stau, t = -64..64, opts], tau = -4..4, view = [-2..2, -2..2, -8..8], scaling = constrained, frames = 192, axes = none);

One can generalize this example wildly, by the way, as given any functions $\kappa(s)$, $\tau(s)$ (say, with $\kappa > 0$) parameterized by arc length there is a curve with curvature $\kappa(s)$ and torsion $\tau(s)$, and this curve is unique up to Euclidean motions, though actually solving for such a curve requires integrating a differential equation.

For a curve that is embedded in $\Bbb R^n$ is there a quantity indicating how far the curve is from being embedded in $\Bbb R^n$, and is this even useful?

Yes, there are higher-order analogues of torsion for Euclidean spaces $\Bbb R^n$, $n > 3$. Recall that in in $\Bbb R^3$ (1) one can always choose (at least for curves with nonvanishing curvature) a unique adapted orthonormal frame $({\bf T}, {\bf N}, {\bf B})$ along a given smooth curve, and (2) derivatives of  the curvature and torsion satisfy
$$\begin{pmatrix} {\bf T} \\ {\bf N} \\ {\bf B} \end{pmatrix}' = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & \kappa & 0 \\ -\kappa & 0 & \tau \\ 0 & -\tau & 0\end{pmatrix}\begin{pmatrix} {\bf T} \\ {\bf N} \\ {\bf B} \end{pmatrix}.$$ (Here, $'$ denotes differentiation w.r.t. an arc length parameter.) Similarly, in $\Bbb R^4$, for sufficiently generic curves one can choose a unique adapted orthonormal frame $({\bf T}, {\bf N}, {\bf B}, \color{#0000ff}{{\bf U}})$ (here $\color{#0000ff}{{\bf U}}$ is sometimes called, predictably, the trinormal), and such a curve has three curvature quantities, $\kappa, \tau, \color{#00bf00}{\upsilon}$, and these satisfy
$$\begin{pmatrix} {\bf T} \\ {\bf N} \\ {\bf B} \\ \color{#0000ff}{{\bf U}} \end{pmatrix}' = \begin{pmatrix} 0 & \kappa & 0 & 0\\ -\kappa & 0 & \tau & 0 \\ 0 & -\tau & 0 & \color{#00bf00}{\upsilon} \\ 0 & 0 & -\color{#00bf00}{\upsilon} & 0\end{pmatrix}\begin{pmatrix} {\bf T} \\ {\bf N} \\ {\bf B} \\ \color{#0000ff}{{\bf U}} \end{pmatrix}.$$ As you guessed, $\color{#00bf00}{\upsilon}$ measures the failure of the curve to be contained in the hyperplane $\langle {\bf T}, {\bf N}, {\bf B} \rangle$ to the appropriate order. (Preserving the analogy with the $3$-dimensional case, the triple $(\kappa, \tau, \color{#00bf00}{\upsilon})$ is a complete set of invariants for a generic curve in $\Bbb R^4$, in that their values generically determine a curve uniquely up to Euclidean motions.) The analogous statements for higher dimensions are the generalizations from the $\Bbb R^3$ and $\Bbb R^4$ cases that you'd guess; in particular generic curves in $\Bbb R^n$ have, and are generically determined by, $n - 1$ curvature functions. (Note that this general pattern captures the $2$-dimensional case, too, in which there is only a single invariant, just the usual (signed) curvature.)

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General Motors Company (GM): Could It Fall to Third in the World?
GM hopes the all-new 2014 Chevy Silverado will boost its global sales tally — but the company is still in danger of falling behind rivals. Photo credit: General Motors Company (NYSE:GM).
Could General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) – for decades, the world's top-selling car company – actually fall to third place soon?
It's not impossible. General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) held the global sales crown as recently as 2011, but lost it to Toyota Motor Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:TM) last year. That wasn't a surprise: Toyota was on a roll after a couple of years of troubles, and GM lost market share in the U.S. while it was waiting for new products.
Toyota and GM have traded the lead back and forth for several years. But now there's a third contender for the global crown. With a quarter of 2013 already in the books, it's running close behind General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) – closer than executives at General Motors would probably like.
That company is Volkswagen, the German giant that has ridden a strong presence in China to the top tier of the global sales charts. Now, VW has ambitions of grabbing the crown for itself before long.
GM's 3.6% increase in global sales kept it ahead of VW by about 90,000 vehicles in the first quarter. But VW has closed the gap significantly over the last couple of years – and it may well pass General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) soon.
VW has said repeatedly that it aims to be the world's largest-selling automaker by 2018. It has already made tremendous progress: Mostly a regional player for a long time, VW got to the China auto party early, and built a huge presence by choosing the right local partners and following a savvy product strategy.
GM leads VW in overall sales in China, but about half of GM's China sales are low-margin commercial vans. VW's share of the passenger-vehicle market is bigger: 19.5% to 10% for GM last year. And its profits were substantially bigger, too, in China and elsewhere: VW's pre-tax profit in 2012 was $15 billion, best in the world. General Motors Company (NYSE:GM)'s? $7.9 billion, less than Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F)'s .
Why is VW so profitable? First of all, it has a novel approach to product development that allows for significant cost savings, increasing profit margins on each car sold. Second, it has a strong luxury brand in Audi, which has become China's top-selling luxury brand with almost 30% of the market. Luxury cars are significantly more profitable than mainstream models.
While VW has set its sights on the global sales lead, GM CEO Dan Akerson has said that he's not focused on the sales crown now. Instead, he aims to make General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) the world's most profitable automaker.


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Which mod do you like the best?
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My vote go to Marcos Viegas with Mega Box!!!!
Congratulations my friend!!! Go win!
ASPHIAX's mod for me, for the sheer quantity of effort, mess involved and the size of the damned thing.
An easy choice for me this month. 700d by ColdzeroTeam.
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This 700D is an amazing case... and this moded version is truly astonishing ... Congratulations!
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700D for me. That red/black looks amazing!
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Hey everyone, we're back! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays! These passed 2 weeks have been very slow for us. We had to deal with family, kids, and business, which is usually not that hard, but this year it was hard to keep ourselves away from business which kind of screwed with our focus and really made things crawl along. That's not to say that we have nothing to show!
We've been gaining ground on Iron Grid, which is the official name of the card minigame. Ricky returned to design the card templates and the game's logo.
We've got platinum purple, gold, silver, and bronze ranks for the cards.
Here is the actual logo so you can get a close up of it. The theme of the game is sort of like an all out battle arena. Besides the basic DR cards, it will include crossover characters from other great indie games as well as characters from other games that we'll be working on down the line!
Soon, we'll know for sure whether we will be adding platforming to the game. I hope so, I think it will add a very dynamic and unique angle to our puzzles. We spoke about it in one of our streams and said if it wasn't right then we wouldn't add it. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Lately I've been working on some code, fixing compatibility issues as well as other things. I'm currently working on the equipment menu since that's been broken for a while now. I broke it while trying to fix it a while ago 😀 Since I've been working on code, that means that I am still stuck in Annox Desert Village, so I'll probably be getting back to that and finishing it once I finish that pesky equipment problem.
Tyrell is still working on battlers. He's about to move on to updating Sinara's battler so the styles and quality are kept up. It's not much work to do upgrades, so it shouldn't take long. He should have something to show you on her in the next update.
We have a delay in the battle system's progress. It is going a little slower than we expected. Holidays called before he could finish, unfortunately. We are expecting it to be finished this month.
Mark also had a setback with the music due to personal problems, but he's still working on it. He is getting music to us as fast as he can with great quality. He has informed me that he has a facebook page set up for his music. Demon's Revenge isn't the only thing he works on! Go on over and check it out at https://www.facebook.com/mmckeich and don't forget to give it a like! He's got some freebies up there too so download and enjoy!
So with all of that said, I'll be ending this update. I know it was short and not much was shown for eye candy, but just know that more is coming your way!


DOMINIC HARMAN ILLUSTRATION: WEIRD AND WONDERFUL CREATURES!
I am excited to show you some character designs I have been working on. I really enjoyed creating these weird and wonderful critters. Most of these started off in pencil on paper then was coloured on the Mac. One started off as an acrylic sketch. I am feverishly creating more whenever I get the chance so keep your eyes peeled for more fabulously fun creations!


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Q: Custom prometheus metrics in http4s In http4s docs there is an example of adding /metrics endpoint to the routes provided by Http4s:
https://http4s.org/v0.21/middleware/
All of them are predefined by the library, but I was wondering if there is a possibility of adding custom metrics, but I could not find any information about it.
Does anyone know anything about it?


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Blood-Spattered Bride: Ready or Not is Flawed But Fun
A premise so wild and ridiculous, but nearly impossible to hate
by Forest Taylor
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F. Scott Fitzgerald once said that the rich "are different from you and me," and I think the makers of the new horror/thriller/comedy Ready or Not had that quote firmly in mind when they made their film. Ready or Not takes its completely silly premise and runs with it in such wild and ridiculous ways that it becomes nearly impossible to hate.
It's Grace's (Samara Weaving) wedding day and she is about to be married to Alex Le Domas (Mark O'Brien), the heir to the Le Domas board game empire. Everything seems perfect until night falls and Grace is told that she must partake in a family tradition of playing a game for the night. Grace soon finds herself playing hide and seek against this bizarre family and what she thought was a fun little game is soon revealed to be something far more deadly.
It sounds like a horror premise, but Ready or Not plays much more like a dark comedy. With cheesy one-liners and performances that are just the right amount of hammy, the film clearly has its tongue firmly in cheek. There are some plot contrivances and some character motivations don't make a lot of sense near the end, but it doesn't matter because everything is building up to an absolutely bonkers ending. The finale is so disgustingly over-the-top that any flaws the movie had are immediately forgiven. I don't want to spoil too much, so just let this film take you on its twisted, demented journey. — Forest Taylor
Directed by: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett // Written by: Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy // Starring: Samara Weaving, Mark O'Brien, Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Nicky Guadagni, Melanie Scrofano, Kristian Bruun, Elyse Levesque, John Ralston, and Andie MacDowell // 95 minutes // Rated R
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The Top 5 Films in a Very Bizarre Movie Year
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How we consumed film may have changed forever
The Whole World is Watching: The Trial of the Chicago 7 is Too Conventional for Its Own Good
New Aaron Sorkin courtroom scenes can't handle the truth
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STATION!!!: Bill & Ted Face the Music is Both Excellent and Bogus
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Back to the Start: Tenet is a Clever Idea That Lacks Humanity


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Guys here a tutorial how to create an audio spectrum in adobe after effects. Having status as a sovereign nation including exchanging ambassadors acceptance of passports membership in international organizations.
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As bob dylan said to live outside the law you must be honest the same thought holds true for forming a micronation. Create a nation according to your political ideals and care for its people. You can meet your parents.
A monocle guide reveals all you need to make a happy vibrant and successful nation. Decide how serious you are about this project. Let monocle be your guide.
You may want to create a micronation as a fun hobby with like minded individuals. Nationstates is a nation simulation game. Or you may take this endeavor quite seriously with the hopes of achieving independence for your nation.
You can recall them as wearing a certain dress or uttering a certain phrase. Strauss broke down efforts to start a new country into five different categories in his book how to start your own country. To make your own rules you must follow established rules and conventions.
Forced to make grueling political decisions you are truly in charge in politics war. How to make a nation. Violent segregationists recently discovered undiscovered tribe sackers and salvagers like minded isolationists plucky malnourished pioneers ethnic cleansing refugees diplomatic homeland wranglers civil bloodbath survivors long suffering but still optimistic pilgrims.
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Many patients who have been given the non-descript diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) routinely notice that eating healthy foods such as many different types of vegetables and fruits, causes an increase in their symptoms - abdominal bloating, abdominal discomfort, burping, flatulence, heartburn, nausea, and poor quality bowel movements. Whole grains, although not considered healthy for many people, also seem to cause an increase in these symptoms.
Stress is defined as an acute threat to the homeostasis (balance) of an organism. It may be classified as real (physical, such as pain) or perceived (psychological, such as work deadline) and posed by events in the outside world or from within. Our nervous system is unable to differentiate the stress of trying to pay bills following the loss of a job, dealing with a death in the family or trying the balance the many commitments of work and family life. The physiological response for all the scenarios is the same. Stress, evokes adaptive responses that serve to defend the stability of the internal environment and ensure our survival.
Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a relatively new diagnosis. Over the past 15 years, it has gained acceptance in the medical community and there has been a large amount of research done regarding SIBO and its associated conditions. Perhaps the most well researched condition associated with SIBO is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
Research from 2003 showed that 84% of IBS patients showed an abnormal result on the lactulose breath test (LBT). That means 84% of patients diagnosed with IBS also tested positive for SIBO.
Statistics show that 15 to 20% of North Americans have the label of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Studies have shown that up to 84% of people given the label of IBS will test positive for SIBO. When you treat the SIBO, the prototypical IBS symptoms subside long term. For over a decade now, research and clinical experience has shown SIBO to be, by far, the #1 root cause of IBS symptoms. Therefore, if 1 in 5 people in North America have an "IBS picture" then almost 1 in 5 people have SIBO.
We are often asked by patients regarding the types of SIBO testing available, and which one is best. Different labs offer 2 and 3 hour breath test kits, but they are not equal.


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Newfound Transparency in Iowa [...someday]
I'm a little slow out of the starting gate with this one, but it seems that one of the major criticisms of the Iowa Democratic caucuses -- that the actual vote totals are kept secret -- has quietly disappeared into the cornfields. The purpose of this post is to bring attention to that change, and raise the questions of how and why it came about. [Update 1/14/08, 8 am: In fact, it seems that this problem has not yet been addressed. See update at the end. Can one be slow out of the starting gate and jump the gun??]
Let me first define three terms I'll need to talk about this topic clearly:
RAW VOTE The number of caucusgoers who cast a vote for each candidate at the beginning of the caucus (in the first round of voting).
REALIGNED VOTE The number of caucusgoers who cast a vote for each candidate at the end of the caucus (after eliminating non-viable candidates, and when all is said and done).
DELEGATE COUNT The number of delegates to the state convention each candidate has earned at the end of caucus night.
Previously, the Iowa Democratic Party released only the last of these three numbers to the media. So, if you look at the CNN caucus results page for 2004, you'll see that Kerry won 1,128 State Delegates, or 38%, compared to Edwards's 957, or 32%. There's a note attached to those figures, reading
"Instead of releasing caucus vote totals, the Iowa Democratic Party releases a total indicating the number of delegates to the state convention each candidate will receive."
Why would that matter? Well, since the number of delegates per precinct is not determined by population (but by a formula involving turnout in the last two elections), it means that a candidate could, in principle, come in first in the delegate count without getting the most realigned votes. You could basically win the caucuses but lose the popular vote... and no one would ever know.
The Iowa Democratic Party has been criticized harshly for this lack of transparency. For instance, Saletan and Schiller wrote in Slate, under the header "Why you'll never know who won Iowa":
On caucus night, the Iowa Democratic Party will release the delegate count. Here's when the party will release the raw vote count and the realigned vote count: Never. The party won't compile or even record them, except as a temporary step in most precincts so that the caucus chair can determine how many delegates each candidate gets. The party doesn't want raw votes compiled and released, because it wants the caucuses to be a collaborative activity [...] but if you want to know how many voters stood up for John Edwards, you're out of luck.
That was four years ago. Just four weeks ago, the same complaint was filed by Cranberg, Strentz and Roberts in the NY Times op-ed "Iowa's Undemocratic Caucuses":
The percentage broadcast on the networks and reported in the newspapers is the candidate's share of the 2,500 delegates the party apportions across Iowa's 99 counties, based on Democratic voter turnout in each of the 1,784 precincts in the two most recent general elections. So, the turnout for a candidate in a precinct caucus could be huge, yet the candidate's share of the delegate pie could be quite small — if that precinct had low voter turnout in 2004 and 2006.
The authors seem, to me, to confound the raw vote and the realigned vote in their piece, but as I read it they are saying that neither the raw nor the realigned vote is released -- only the delegate count (you might want to click the link to see if you read it the same way).
So I was all set to get royally cheesed about this lack of transparency, and Iowa's gall in insisting it maintain its first-in-the-nation status while the state Democratic party wouldn't even open its books to ensure the kind of fair vote accounting that Democrats have been campaigning for nationwide. And just as I fired up my snarkblaster to smother those poor Iowans in a deluge of withering blog-posting, I discovered a curious thing:
The 2008 vote totals are online.
That link is to an Excel file published by the Gazette on one of their caucus coverage web pages (it's the first link on that page). Admittedly, it contains only the realigned vote, not the raw vote (which would have been nice to see), but the numbers add to 250,005, so it seems they would have to be an actual head-count, not just delegate numbers. The percentages are the same as the ones reported that night, so it would seem the media quietly (and perhaps without even being aware of it) switched from reporting the Iowa delegate count in previous years to reporting the realigned vote count this year.
[Update 1/14/08, 8 am, continued: Caucus turnout was about 240,000. There are 2,500 state delegates. It appears that the Gazette may have followed the Associated Press in simpy multiplying state delegates by 100 (to eliminate fractions, I guess) which coincidentally came out pretty close to real turnout. Bottom line is, we still only know the delegate counts, not the popular vote. And you can bottle up the next paragraph and save it -- I hope -- for 2012.]
If that's the case, I want to commend Iowa Democrats on a well-deserved move toward open election reporting. I also want to suggest that they should have gotten more recognition for this move -- particularly by those who have criticized them in the past -- than they did.
But most importantly, I'd like to know how and why this change occurred, especially since it happened so quietly (to me, anyway). When did it happen? Who pushed for it? Why this year?
I've written to two of the NYT op-ed authors asking if they know what happened, and they have not yet replied (in fairness, I wrote under this pseudonym and from a yahoo address, so I could have easily been spam-filtered or otherwise screened out as a crank). This weekend, I wrote to the Gazette and the Iowa Democratic Party asking the same questions. I'll let you know if I hear anything... and, if anyone out there knows more, please post it in the comments.
January 13, 2008 at 20:41 in 2008 Presidential Election, Contributor--emptypockets | Permalink
emptypockets,
why the secrecy? Just call them on the phone, and don't mention your screename.
My precinct's final tally was 33 Obama, (1 delegate), 31 Edwards (1 delegate), 18 Clinton, 4 Biden. As a long-time caucus-goer, I reminded the chair to note the raw vote, but I didn't actually witness whether it was phoned in. I believe the raw vote was Obama 29, Edwards 27, Clinton 18, Richardson 5, Biden 4, Kucinich 3. The Richardson and Kucinich groups both split up among Obama and Edwards (no prearrangement was apparent), and the others stayed put. FWIW
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Calan Horse Sanctuary is the vision of a dream to save the horses nobody wants
By Rebecca Carmody Updated Sat 10 Mar 2018, 10:54 AM AEDT
Alan Gent's study includes photos of every horse and animal that has come to live at Calan Horse Sanctuary.
ABC News: Rebecca Carmody
Alan Gent didn't know his purpose in life until he retired and bought his granddaughter a horse named Rebel. That sparked a passion to save these loving creatures from the knackery, and restore the "soft and bright" look to their eyes.
Photo The horses at Calan Horse Sanctuary were headed for a grim fate before Alan Gent stepped in.
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Alan Gent didn't discover his real purpose in life until after he retired and bought his granddaughter a horse named "Rebel".
One horse quickly became two when he was asked to take in another horse, "Irish", who was found under a tree looking like "a bag of bones" with cuts and scratches from head to tail.
That was in 2005. There has since been no let up in requests for the ex-builder to provide refuge to abused, neglected and unwanted horses, who would otherwise be sent to the knackery or simply abandoned.
Now 79, Mr Gent has dedicated his twilight years to giving horses the life he believes they deserve, after years of relentless training, competitions and breeding.
Photo Alan Gent has devoted his life to the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Photo Owner Alan Gent cares for more than 20 horses on his property in the town of Highbury in Western Australia.
He's turned his 40-hectare property in Highbury, in WA's Wheatbelt, into a horse sanctuary, where he devotes his time and energy working to transform their eyes from what he describes as "dull, depressed and lifeless" to ones that are "soft and bright".
Restoring the horses to good health is his first priority, then his efforts shift to restoring their self-esteem.
"My mission here is to give animals a life they deserve, if it's possible," Mr Gent said.
"It's not easy going but someone's got to do it.
"We have never met a horse we felt didn't deserve the highest regard and care, which we gladly and freely give.
"We've had 203 requests for help and I've only been able to take 27 horses in total.
"Every time I say no, I feel I've pointed my thumb down and condemned them because you don't know where they are."
Photo Alan Gent has dedicated his life to saving the lives of horses.
The moment horse stewards dread
There are currently 23 horses living at the Calan Horse Sanctuary which, apart from small donations, is funded out of Mr Gent's pension and retirement savings.
They include Honner, a rescued horse with one eye; Tex, who suffers from fistulous withers, a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the back; and Mae Lee, who is blind in one eye and who developed "fish hooks" in her mouth due to a lack of dental care.
Photo Rescued horse Mae-Lee at the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Photo Alan Gent with one of his rescued horses, Honner.
Photo Rescued horse Tex at the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Recounting their stories of hardship and remembering those he's had to bury can bring Mr Gent to tears.
Cobber was an ex-galloper who "graced his property" in 2013 but who was put down in 2017.
Mr Gent still can't talk about Cobber's passing, but wrote about it on his website.
"On the 7/5/2017 it became evident to me that dear Cobber's end was drawing close. I kept a watchful eye on him and by 1:00pm of the day, he could not turn and move to the right and forward, and with much effort, he could only slowly edge himself to the left.
"What I have found so heartbreaking and infinitely sad is the moment all compassionate and caring horse stewards dread more than anything else in the world — having gained the trust of an innocent animal and then having to end its life by your own hands.
"I approached Cobber with my rifle and connected his right ear to his left eye and vice versa with a mark, all items he had never seen before, yet he continued to place his trust in me. Then, I had to pull the trigger.
"This lovely, 510 kilogram living creature, crashed to the ground and those once-lovely brown liquid eyes gazed at me no more.
"I was torn apart and I will never ever be the same, nor will I ever forget him.
Photo Alan Gent works at the Calan Horse Sanctuary with his dog Kaylee for company.
"He gave all of us so much joy and now when we spend time with his close companion, Digger, the spirit of Cobber will be with us just like the spirits of Topaz, Lawson, and Koda.
"Maybe the sight of whirling dust and clouds of dirt and the sound of thundering hoofbeats is you and the boys letting us know you're all right."
Mr Gent concedes his devotion to his horses has morphed into an obsession.
He has the names of his first thirteen horses tattooed on his arms and, when time permits, he plans on getting seventeen more inked on.
He walls are adorned with photographs of every animal that's moved in.
Photo Alan Gent has his arms tattooed with the names of horses that have come to live at Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Photo Alan Gent's study includes photos of every horse and animal that has come to live at Calan Horse Sanctuary.
A 24/7 job
Looking after his horses is a herculean job, which for Mr Gent — who lives alone on the property — starts each day about 4am.
His days are filled preparing feeds to suit individual dietary requirements, cleaning stables of manure, replenishing drinking water, grooming, trimming hooves and booking veterinarian appointments.
Photo A whiteboard tracks the feeding schedule at the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Photo Feed prepared in a stable for horses at the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
If there are no horses needing to be nursed through the night, Mr Gent hits the sack at 7.45pm.
He acknowledges he couldn't do it without the help of Helen and Azzurra Coles, who travel half an hour from their home in Wagin four times a week to lend a hand, something they have done for more than five years.
The mother and daughter help with the early morning feed and clean up, and want for nothing in return.
Photo Helen Coles, a mother from Wagin, volunteers 20 hours a week at Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Photo Azzurah Coles, a 19-year-old from Wagin, help cares for the horses.
They say the horses pay them in kind, with their love and friendship and life lessons — one of them being patience.
Helen Coles said while Mr Gent was "absolutely amazing", he'd had a few close calls with the horses over the years and she worried about him being alone.
"We worry about him because he's on his own and we do worry about him if he's out on the paddock and if something goes wrong, there's no one here to give him a hand," she said.
"Definitely if we could be here every day 24/7, we would."
It's not just horses to which Mr Gent provides refuge.
His family includes two Shetland ponies named Gypsy and Tonto, two alpacas named Ricardo and Carlos, six sheep and Kaylee the dog, who his constant companion.
Photo Shetland ponies Gypsy and Tonto at the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Photo Alpacas Ricardo and Carlos at the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Photo Sheep share the property with the rescued horses.
Photo Kaylee, who helps his owner Alan Gent at the Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Not slowing down
Far from slowing down, Mr Gent said he planned to build more stables so he could offer refuge to more horses in need.
"I'd like to be able to rearrange the paddocks, I'd like to build more stables, I'd like to bring in more horses, I'd like to even improve possibly their care," he said.
Photo Alan Gent has grand plans for Calan Horse Sanctuary.
Another worry is the ever rising cost of feeding his horses and paying for veterinarians and dental care.
Mr Gent has a GoFundMe page and said while he was grateful for every donation he received, he spent his entire pension on his horses and dipped into his savings to make up any shortfall.
Eventually, he'd like to employ Helen and Azzurra Coles as paid stable hands at Calan Horse Sanctuary.
"Everything I've received so far, I've really appreciated, really really appreciated," he said.
"Some people who are not well off have made a small sacrifice and some children have sent me five dollars from their money box — fantastic.
"I don't like banging the drum too much because I just don't like doing it."
"I am making arrangements for when I do pass on, that things will move on, but it is a worry."
For more information on the Calan Horse Sanctuary visit http://calan.cavalletti.com.au
To donate to the project, visit https://www.gofundme.com/calanhorsesanctuary
Posted Sat 10 Mar 2018, 9:32 AM AEDT


When Wes turned 3 a few months ago, Chris and I decided to gave him a balance bike, a two-wheel bike without pedal, after hearing all the rave reviews about how it helps kids to learn balance so later on they can ride the regular two-wheel bike in a matter of seconds.
Before that he used to ride on his trike which he's already overgrown.
It took him a while to get used to riding the balance bike. In the beginning he kept going back to his old trike until we donated it, then he got no other option besides learning to use the new bike.
In a matter of a few days, he mastered it and could ride so fast and so well that we decided to do the same for Max. Instead of buying another balance bike, we took out the training wheels and the pedals of his bike so he could learn balance too.
I waited until we saw the result before posting this review.
a. Does it really work? Yes, it does.
b. Which one do we get? We get this one but our humble opinion, even the cheaper ones like this would work as well or better yet if you already have one with training wheels like Max's, then all you need to do is taking off the training wheels and the pedals.
c. If we can go back; would we buy it again? No. we would buy regular bike and take off the pedals. Just for your information, some metal part of the pedals can't be taken off so we had to use duck tape to keep it from hurting his feet.