Philadelphia's popular roving beer garden, Parks on Tap, has released its schedule of locations for the coming summer season, to begin on April 24.
The festival, which runs for 23 weeks in total each summer, moves to a new location every Wednesday and stays there for five days — until the following Sunday, when it picks up and moves to a new park. This year, Parks on Tap is kicking off Summer 2019 at Fairmount's Azalea Garden.
The mobile beer garden, which has occurred annually since 2016, is a joint project between Philadelphia Parks and Recreation, Fairmount Park Conservancy, and FCM Hospitality, the restaurant and bar collective behind other popular outdoor venues like Morgan's Pier. A portion of the proceeds raised from the festival will be donated back to the participating parks.
Chef Justin Koenig, of FCM's Craft Hall, is heading up the festival's food and drink offerings this year.
STATUS: Parks on Tap will open on April 24 and run for 23 weeks, every Wednesday through Sunday, until September 29.


Today I am going to take a break from my typical weight loss blog because I am feeling nostalgic about Christmas and Jersey. I got in the mood by watching Springsteen on Broadway. Hearing about his hometown in Freehold made me think of my hometown in Crosswicks. Mine closer to Philly; his closer to New York; but, Jersey all the same!
Relegated to my study, I got a beer; put on my best Springsteen; and decided to write about Christmas and Jersey. Here are four of my favorite Christmas memories from my childhood in Crosswicks, New Jersey! Like the Saturday Live skit from the other week, featured here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WvwX18oMR4 , Christmas memories are better upon reflection and a glass of wine (and some Springsteen).
The Community House Tree. Crosswicks is a historical town where much history happened. Indeed, George Washington launched his famous Christmas time raids on Trenton and crossing the Delaware from his headquarters at the Quaker Community House in Crosswicks. This history is all fine and good but my favorite memory is from personal history. Each Christmas, the citizens of Crosswicks would light up a large Christmas tree on the grounds of the Community House and sing Christmas songs and drink hot apple cider. For that day, the rivalry between the Black Sox and Red Sox baseball teams would be buried by the tree near the baseball field with voices of joy!
Hoping the club doesn't come to your house first! My Dad worked as a Steelworker and Union Vice President at DeLaval. His friends from work and their families formed a group simply called the Club. The Club would make the rounds to each family's house on Christmas. We mostly loved playing with all the kids. Except of course, if you were the first house on the tour. Being the first house on the tour was dreaded because it was when all the kids were really wound up and wanted to play with your new Christmas toys. Wound up kids on Christmas equals broken toys. One sad Christmas, we were the first on the tour. We were excited about our new Evil Knievel motorcycle and track. You would pump the motorcycle with air and it would fly off the track. It was our most prized toy until Jimmy and Kimmey got a hold of it. They pumped it so full of air that Evil and the motorcycle broke after flying a record 10 feet in the air. Much like the real Evil could not jump Snake River canyon, our toy could not make it 10 minutes with the kids from the Club!
Granpop's Christmas train. My Grandpop grew up in the depression, so he was careful with his money. One of his best cost saving ventures was to buy Ribbon Candy after Christmas at quarter price and put it out the next year! He may have saved his pennies when buying candy, but not when taking care of his grandkids. One Christmas, we woke up and were brought downstairs to see a fully decorated Lionel train set in the cellar. The excitement of us kids was reflected in the joy of my Grandpop's face as he passed on his love to a new generation.
from all his excitement at 2 AM . Me and my brother Gary had a ploy to keep David in the room we shared. Still do not know to this day why it worked and fooled him every year. My Dad used to put plastic on our windows during the Winter to keep in the warmth. Besides keeping out the cold, the plastic also fuzzed up the red light on the radio tower about a mile way enough so we could trick David. Each time when he woke up in the night and said "Is it Christmas, yet? Let's wake up Dad and Mom! ", Gary and I would point to the red light and say that Rudolph was still flying. Even with that trick we could only contain him until 5 AM. Then we had to wake Mom and Dad. Dad in order to delay us while he was getting his Polaroid camera would say "Santa is still down here" and make some rustling sounds to keep us at bay. Oh how we sat on pins and needles until he gave us the all clear signal.
Well, I see Wheel of Fortune is finally done! I am going to get back to the real Boss and hear more tales of Jersey from the master. I hoped you enjoyed these!


Pupils in years 8 - 11 return on Wednesday 5 September. Pupils should arrive by 8:45 and go straight to their tutor base. Please note pupils in year 9 will leave at 2:05.
The Gosport and Fareham Multi-Academy Trust (GFM) is now delighted to be joined by Rowner Junior School.
Bay House School and Sixth Form is celebrating another strong set of GCSE results alongside the excellent outcomes achieved in last week's A Level results.
This year sees us maintain last year's record breaking results, with 90% of grades at A*- C and 67% at the highest A*- B grades.
To participate please bring in a donation of £1. The School will close for pupils at 12.30 on Thursday 19 July 2018.
We would like to inform you that we are extending our permission for the pupils to wear either PE kit or normal school uniform until the end of term.
From July 6, pupils will be permitted to wear either normal uniform, or Bay House PE kit. This extension will apply for all of next week.
A European theatre performance by Werdenfels-Gymnasium, Lycée Ozanam and Bay House School. Performances 1 June 2018 and 2 June 2018.


This next story is about a regular customer, his family, and Mexican food.
A regular customer of El Tepeyac, we'll call him Ruben to respect his privacy, came in one day last year and asked if he could pull a few tables together in the dining room as his family and friends would be coming in. Ruben was a morning staple at the restaurant who could be found sitting on a stool at the counter most days. We were glad to accommodate him and his family. As more and more people kept showing up Ruben's wife suggested that they move out to the patio so that they didn't crowd the dining room. Elena responded that they were welcome to stay in the dining room and to not worry about it. As it turned out, Ruben had recently gone to the doctor and had been given 2 weeks to live. Ruben had brought his family together at El Tepeyac for what would be one of his last meals. It was a bittersweet lunch for all, including us.
We love all of our customers. And the regulars who we see almost daily become part of our family. We miss Ruben around the restaurant and hope that he looks down on us with as much love as we still have for him.


No matter which age group you are teaching, it is always good to know the subject better. Our subject is the Bible. If you haven't read the bible fully yet, it's the best time to utilize to read and know it better. We must know also the basic things from the bible like the total books of the bible, correct order of the books etc so we can teach better 2. Walking the talk is more important than taking about the walk!Even if you know what the Bible teaches, if you don't live it in your own life, then you can do much more harm than good by trying to teach it to others. More than listening children learn by seeing. They SEE how we LIVE. They are watching when you don't realize they are, to see if you really believe what you are teaching them, or if you are just wasting their time. If you are not willing to live it yourself, then you shouldn't be teaching it.
Respect your children's time. If they have taken their time out to come to Sunday school, it is our primary duty to take out time to be prepared beforehand. Be on time, to greet your students. Know the Bible story you are going to teach thoroughly, by reading it from the Bible. Don't teach it from memory; take the time to read it, pray about it, and think of how to present the material most effectively. You mostly just have to be very, very familiar with the Bible and what it says. 4. THE BIBLE – That's our subject!
You might grow up in the church and learned the same Bible stories and lessons over and over but never think that the bible stories are stale and that you have to come up with something fresh to teach. Each new generation of children, and even each new generation of Christians, does not know these stories yet. The Bible stories are fresh, new and exciting to a child, or to a new Christian of any age. God's Word is "living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword," (Hebrews 4:12), so you do not have to worry about it being dull. It is relevant in each and every society and time period. If you teach it with enthusiasm, your students will learn the lessons God has to teach them through His Word.
Greet your students by name and treat them kindly. When you teach, be gentle in your rebukes for those who may be less than attentive; when you ask for comments, be careful how you respond when you receive them. Use Scripture to correct when unbiblical questions pop up. Bible is the only real authority. Teaching Sunday School is a tremendous privilege. Make sure you know the Bible and live it in your own life. Be prepared to teach by being very familiar with the material, and be on time. Remember that the Bible is God's Living Word, and is fresh and exciting. After all, "All Scripture is inspired by God, and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness." (2 Timothy 3:16). Get to know and love your students, and you should have a very successful time teaching Sunday School.
Vanaja Uthaiah is a vibrant, fun-loving and passionate Sunday school teachers trainer. She had been heading Evangelism Explosion International for kids as Indian co-ordinator. Currently she is working with Every Home Crusade, India.


The good news is that Aaron Bohrod's mural in the Madison Public Library is saved, restored as a centerpiece of the remodeled central facility, slated to reopen Sept. 21.
The bad news is that University of Wisconsin-Madison is poised to demolish Bohrod's historic studio, "Farm Place." It's one of the oldest buildings on campus.
In 1936 the UW College of Agriculture began a unique program of sponsoring artists. Ag dean Chris Christensen believed that a rural arts program was necessary for well-rounded citizenry. John Steuart Curry served from 1936 until his death in 1946. He was the first artist in residence at any university in the world. Bohrod replaced him in 1948, retiring in 1973. Both painted, lectured and worked with students and farmers throughout Wisconsin.
In 1965 Bohrod created a mural of 17 animals for Madison's Central Library, spanning the width of the children's section. To protect it during remodeling, a small building with its own climate control was essentially built around the painting, similar to what the Minneapolis-based Midwest Art Conservation Center created to protect Curry murals in the UW's recently remodeled biochemistry building. The firm also preserved and restored the Bohrod mural. Work concluded the week of May 13.
"First we documented it in high-resolution photography," says Joan Gorman, the center's senior paintings conservator. Custom-made cotton swabs were created for cleansing. Grime accumulated since the 1960s has been removed.
Lighting has been improved, and the floor has been raised 15 inches, allowing patrons a better view in a new gathering area. Gorman suspects that patrons who never noticed the mural before will be amazed.
Bohrod's modest Farm Place studio, next to the Stock Pavilion, was built in 1868 and, with the nearby horse barn, is the last survivor of an early cluster of wood-frame buildings on the agriculture campus, including the nation's first dairy school. The studio is slated for demolition as early as 2014, for expansion of adjacent Babcock Hall, built in 1951.
"At this point we have no plans to relocate the old house," says Gary Brown, UW director of campus planning.
"This is kind of sad," says daughter Georgi Bohrod Gordon, of San Diego. Madison son Neil Bohrod calls himself stoic, resigned to others' progress.
Some say Farm Place is worthy of preservation for its long history alone.
"This house has been a small but vibrant fixture of the university for 145 years," says Anne Katz, executive director of Arts Wisconsin, a nonprofit advocacy group. "It's served so many different facets of the Wisconsin Idea, from agriculture to arts to environment. I hope the university's leaders will find a way to honor and preserve the building's history as part of the UW's legacy for the future."
Farm Place was the last design of architect August Kutzbock, primary designer of Madison's second Capitol and the Gates of Heaven synagogue preserved in James Madison Park. He committed suicide during Farm Place's construction; his ghost is said to haunt Picnic Point, where he drowned himself.


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OPINION AND ANALYSIS | 06-04-2019 07:58
Why Mauricio Macri could win the election
Opinion polls show the president conserving positive ratings of over 30 percent, in the midst of these gloomy months, and that indicates that there is an electorate out there which evidently does not vote just with their pockets.
Gustavo González
Presidente y CEO de Editorial Perfil. En Twitter: @gonzalezenzona
A populist Mauricio Macri. | Pablo Temes
President Mauricio Macri has every reason to fear losing the next elections – he would not be in his right mind if he did not. How could he be sure of winning after four years culminating in the highest levels of poverty, crisis and inflation since 2001?
If it were just the economy, he would be staring defeat in the face. Luckily for him, that is probably not the only thing which makes his potential voters tick.
Firstly, a Cambiemos voter is not simply a Cambiemos voter. They are people with sometimes overlapping but also conflicting interests, who defend certain values according to their age or where they live.
It's a social alliance which is much more complex than those underlying Peronism or (far more) Radicalism, housing conservatives and progressives, pious traditionalists and new age militants, those for and against abortion, individuals with strong purchasing-power and slum-dwellers. A multi-class alliance where the economic results do not affect everybody equally and where Macri is not always judged by his unfulfilled promises.
Because in their eyes there were also promises (tacit or explicit) which he kept. For example, such voters are just as convinced as their Kirchnerite counterparts that the government is behind the advances in the corruption cases aimed at Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
It makes no difference that Macri never tires of repeating that this is untrue – a majority are sure that the judges and prosecutors tread the government line and that the president is pushing these investigations. For Kirchnerites that is one more reason not to vote for him, while for anti-Kirchnerites it is a key factor in justifying an anti-corruption vote.
Others interpret as an achievement the 'manners' of officials who do not yell, nor deliver ringing speeches endlessly, nor attack journalists. They are middle-class and upper middle-class sectors who believe that a friendly respect for the institutions should be the norm, but that in this country it is a virtue. They are the same people who hail opening up to the world, the G20 success, the criticisms against Nicolás Maduro and the recognition of Juan Guaidó as president of Venezuela. Or those who applaud the harsh barrages of Security Minister Patricia Bullrich in her media crusade against crime and drugtrafficking.
Those are values which the gross domestic product does not measure but which mark the growth of a society for many people. The government says that it is precisely the sectors most receptive of such policies which are most affected by the crisis.
According to calculations, the poorest can better endure the crisis thanks to the social welfare plans, a well-oiled government network of containment in low-income neighbourhoods and the benefits from some public works which have improved their standard of living.
Meanwhile, Macri is not expecting too much from businessmen and those at the top of the social pyramid. Today he is feeling betrayed by those who did not support his "profound transformation" as they should have done, he maintains. But he is equally convinced that when the time comes to vote, they will remember what Kirchnerism meant and not be fooled by "false prophets" like Roberto Lavagna.
To one and all he proposes his "This time for real" plan, urging them to believe that now the economic and institutional foundations for sustained growth are being laid. He will tell them that relative prices have been corrected after the devaluation, as can be noted in a positive balance of trade and a lower fiscal deficit. He will talk about the deregulation of the aviation market, the success of the low-cost airlines, the boom in domestic tourism, the Vaca Muerta shale phenomenon, the halt in the rising interest rates in the United States, the momentum from Brazil and the ideological shift in the region. In the final analysis, the fear of losing, due to the results of the economic GDP, will lead to a bid to mitigate this with arguments pointing to growth in the social GDP and the promise, yet again, of a better future.
That the opinion polls show the president conserving positive ratings of over 30 percent, in the midst of these gloomy months, indicates that there is an electorate out there which evidently does not vote just with their pockets and the latest exchange rate for the dollar.
The doubt is how long this faith can resist pockets and the dollar being strained every week.
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There is no single approach to defining vulnerability in children. In some cases, 'vulnerable' is used to define key groups of children, such as looked after children and young carers (both covered in specific chapters in this update). In others, vulnerable is used to define children at risk of harm and neglect. There are many factors which have a negative impact on a child and increase their vulnerability, for example, poverty.
National research published in 2013 found that adverse childhood experiences (ACE) are strongly related to adverse behavioural, health and social outcomes in the UK population. Compared to those with no ACEs the study found that individuals with more than four ACEs were more likely smoke, drink heavily, be in custody and be morbidly obese. They also had a greater risk of poor educational and employment outcomes, low mental wellbeing and life satisfaction, recent violence involvement, recent hospital inpatient hospital care and chronic health conditions.
Poverty is usually considered to be an economic issue, however, it has a direct impact on health, well-being and quality of life. Poverty can be inter-generational in families and can affect future generations of adults who may be more likely to suffer poor health, poor educational outcomes and be at risk of unemployment.
On average throughout the UK, nearly one in six (16%) children are classified as being below the poverty line before housing costs, while one in four (25%) are in poverty once housing costs have been deducted from their income.
In Warwickshire, there were 15,315 children considered to be living in poverty in 2011. This equates to 14% of all children and is considerably below the national and regional equivalent figures of 20% and 23% respectively.
Although Warwickshire has low overall levels of child poverty, small localised pockets with relatively high levels exist. These areas show up on a multitude of indicators linked to different aspects of child poverty. In Warwickshire, the distribution of child poverty is complex. The largest concentrations are entrenched in the County's largest urban areas, particularly Nuneaton and to a lesser extent Rugby and Bedworth. However, these concentrations are combined with spatially dispersed pockets in the rural south and north. Whilst the levels of poverty in rural areas are not as concentrated as those in Warwickshire's towns, when aggregated the total numbers are not insignificant. An added complication is that households experiencing child poverty issues in more rural areas may encounter further difficulty in accessing support services due to their relatively more isolated location.
The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) 2015 is a nationally acknowledged measure that combines a number of indicators chosen to cover a range of economic, social and housing issues, into a single deprivation score for small areas, known as Lower Super Output Areas (LSOA).
Warwickshire is comprised of 339 LSOAs, of which 18 (5%) fall into the 20% most deprived in England and seven LSOAs (2%) fall into the top 10% most deprived nationally. Five of the areas in Warwickshire which fall into the top 10% most deprived nationally are located in Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough, one in North Warwickshire Borough and one in Warwick District.
The latest small area population estimates (ONS mid-2013) suggest that there are approximately 7,717 children aged 0-18 years living in the 20 areas in Warwickshire which fall into the 20% most deprived nationally.
More detail on vulnerable children is available in the Helping Vulnerable Children JSNA Needs Assessment which was published in 2015.


The Elora Poetry Centre is a wonderful example of people opening their home to share poetry, music and food. Hosts Daniel Bratton and Carol Williams moved an 1832 log cabin (the Beaver House) to their property near the Elora Gorge Conservation area and eventually realized their vision of making it a venue to bring poets and poetry aficionados together.
On September 27th, while Elora was all abuzz with Culture Days activities and the Elora-Fergus Studio Tour, the Elora Poetry Centre offered an evening of poetry readings (Jerry Prager, Morvern McNie, Daniel Kolos), finishing with a performance by Muddy York (Anne Lederman & Ian Bell).
These performances were part of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, an initiative happening in over 650 locations around the world, " a demonstration/celebration to promote peace and sustainability and to call for serious social, environmental and political change". While we relaxed, enjoying the poetry and the beautiful surroundings, our host Daniel reminded us that, on this day, some readings would be taking place in cultures where it was challenging and even dangerous to hold such an event.
With this in mind I hope everyone gets out to enjoy the abundance of local cultural offerings this fall!


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HC Sets Compliance Deadlines for Revised Software Requirements
Software manufacturers whose products fall under Health Canada's medical device classification system have until February or September 2011 to comply with new requirements set forth by the regulator.
According to HC clarifications announced December 3, 2010, software developed to view medical-related images or data is to be assigned Class I classification according to Rule 12 of Canada's Medical Device Regulations. Software involving imaging, data manipulation, measurements or identification capabilities now falls under Class II classification based on Regulations Rule 10 (1).
In terms of compliance with HC's new guidelines, medical device software manufacturers will need to adhere to Section 9 of the Regulations. Class I software manufacturers must ensure compliance by February 1, 2011; Class II manufacturers must ensure compliance and obtain licenses by September 1, 2011.
Bottom line: The new HC requirements present a more consistent approach to medical device classification in Canada, and should present no significant operational burdens for affected software manufacturers in terms of compliance.
Swedish Regulators Publish Guidance on Software as a Medical Device
Sweden's medical device market regulator, the Medical Products Agency (MPA), has issued expanded guidance on how the European Commission plans to address software used as medical devices.
The Swedish guidelines follow a revision to Medical Device Directive 2007/47/EC announced in January 2012, MEDDEV 2.1/6, which addressed stand-alone healthcare software falling into the EU's medical device regulatory framework.
HC Extends Premarket Review E-Submission Program to Class III Devices
Starting November 1, 2011, Health Canada will extend a pilot program requiring both p
HC Plans Wider Use of Foreign Reviews in Device Licensing Process
Health Canada has published


The AAUW of North Carolina Policy Statement, the policies and procedures that extend the bylaws, was last revised in October 2009. That means it is out of date with significant changes in both the national and state bylaws. An effort started in the fall of 2013 to bring it up to date. This page documents the status of that effort as of March 2015.
NOTE: The discussion at the 2014 annual meeting included a suggestion that this document be renamed to something like "Operational Handbook" to clarify that it was documenting procedures more than setting policy.
What other blocks could be added? STEM? Fundraising?
Information on coalitions which AAUW NC has joined.
The source files for the above PDFs (either DOC or – for the diagram – PPT) are in the AAUW NC DropBox folder. Contact the state president for access.


Jupiter XXVI: Isonoe is on its way, which I'm looking forward to. Of all the magazines I've read, Jupiter most closely matches my taste in stories.
Also out this week is the latest issue of Estronomicon, described this time as being darker than usual.
Go, read, and enjoy yourself!


Find out more about the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Applied Behaviour Analysis at Capilano University.
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Reference materials such as handbooks, manuals and encyclopedias provide overviews of topics, background information, quick facts, and references to further works. The library subscribes to a large online collection of reference resources called Credo - check out the Autism Topic Page, for example, where you'll find background information and a collection of articles and entries from reference texts as well as searches in the library catalogue and relevant databases. In our collection you'll also find print and digital copies of reference works such as those listed below - all included in the library catalogue.


3 June NY Times news analysis - With Korea as Model, U.S. Ponders Long Role in Iraq (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/washington/03assess.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin) by David Sanger.
For the first time, the Bush administration is beginning publicly to discuss basing American troops in Iraq for years, even decades to come, a subject so fraught with political landmines that officials are tiptoeing around the inevitable questions about what the United States' long-term mission would be there.
Iraq after 2008 (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19099768/site/newsweek/page/0/). Michael Hirsh, Newsweek. 7 June.
In fact Bush has no intention of going back to Baker-Hamilton, says a senior White House official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the record. Sure, he's paying a lot more lip service to its recommendations, partly in an effort to gain new bipartisan consensus on Capitol Hill after the White House's successful effort to thwart a Democrat-led withdrawal plan. But one of the central recommendations of the Baker-Hamilton report called for a dramatic consolidation of the U.S. presence onto a handful of large bases like Balad. There, U.S. air units and special ops would mainly focus on killing Al Qaeda and leave the Iraqis more or less to their own devices.
A long-term presence at Balad is still part of the plan—it always was—but the White House official told NEWSWEEK this week that the Baker-Hamilton panel misunderstood the mission. "What Baker-Hamilton didn't get right is the military feasibility of doing anti-Al Qaeda missions based primarily on special forces operations," he told me. "That isn't feasible because Al Qaeda is so entrenched in the population." When the National Intelligence Estimate "gamed this out," he said, it concluded that sectarian violence was now so out of control that to allow Shiite reprisals to occur while the Americans remained hunkered down on their bases would only fuel support among the Sunnis for Al Qaeda, which would grow even more entrenched. Hence the surge's effort to rein in Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and other chief culprits.
10 June Washington Post - Military Envisions Longer Stay in Iraq (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060901464.html?hpid=topnews) by Tom Ricks.
Does the small wars council see Korea as a model? Stabilizing a front along the DMZ is one thing, refereeing a combination civil war and proxy war with no front is another. Looking for a historical analogy is natural to explain what we are doing, Korea just doesn't seem to stand out as an example.
Doesn't this policy beg the obvious question: Unless they can rebuild support in Congress and the electorate ahead of the 2008 elections for the current presence, much less a decades long presence, just how do they think this can be politically sustained?
Anybody heard what the reaction of the Iraqi government is to this? They get a vote, too.
I think part of the problem is that people are always trying to figure out what war this is and what year it is.
Iraq is not Vietnam, Nazi Germany, or Korea, it is Iraq.
This is not 1914, 1939, or 1972 its 2007.
Comparisons can only go to far and I think comparing Iraq to Korea is not a great one.
How many troops has the US lost in Korea after '53?
Besides, Korea has only now taken over the majority of their own defense (thanks to forced military service), and according to what I have heard they still need a lot of American assistance in terms of high tech weapons and some other things.
I doubt America wants to be in Iraq for +50 years.


The paper describes a research methodology that can be adopted for estimating the Biot coefficient for a low permeability rock that has a heterogeneous internal fabric. Experimental techniques that address the requirements for a representative volume element can be combined with theoretical developments for multiphasic elastic materials to develop bounds for the Biot coefficient. The theoretical developments are used to estimate the Biot coefficient for a heterogeneous argillaceous limestone.
The work described in this paper was supported by research grants awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Ontario.


The Pastarito restaurant, now having in the Bahrain City Centre, Durrat Al-Bahrain and The Dubai Mall, are the only 'true' Italian restaurant within the Kingdom, being the only franchise of an Italian-based restaurant group. It brings to the island a fusion of two cuisine styles for which Italy is synonymous, pasta and pizza. This combination of these traditional dishes reflects the joyous and carnival culture that epitomizes group gatherings.
The result is a menu that underscores the desire for eating to be an experience rather than merely a necessary function, the menu is categorized into seven segments, there are appetizers, salads, pasta, risotto, pizza, steaks and desserts as well as a kids menu.
A key feature of the menu is the ability to mix and match pasta and sauces. Any selection of the eight types of pasta — including tagliatelle, fusilli, penne, linguine and spaghetti — can be combined with any of the 20 sauces available. Many customers will often combine sauces, such as arrabbiata and alfredo, to create unique combinations tailored to individual palattes.
There is a wide range of pizza options — from a margherita to a napoli to a carnivora — and the risotto dishes include combinations of chicken and seafood. The menu also includes three signature steak choices; filetto au funghi, entrecote alla pete verde and pollo alla peimontese.
Those looking for a lighter meal can select from the sandwiches made with ciabatta bread; the capriccioso comes with turkey ham, a green salad, feshly sliced tomatoes and cheddar cheese, while the tirolose includes air-cured beef from Italy, a rocket salad, pickles and cheddar cheese.
Other choices include the club sandwich, the Pastarito sandwich — Milano salami, fresh salad and mushrooms together with parmesan, cheddar and mozzarella cheese — and a chicken-based pesto e pollo. For dessert, try the house specialty, Botta di Vita; a mouthwatering mixture of mascarpone cheese and nutella chocolate freshly baked in a calzone-style. Included on the menu are lunch specials priced at a special price. A prominent feature of the restaurant is the ambiance. There is the open kitchen, the spacious seating plan and a combination of colours and decorations that reflects the distinctive appearance of a Pastarito outlet.


Hibernal portrait. White ink and colored fine liners on black paper. Painting by Romanian artist Rosu-Gutman Daniel. Rosu-Gutman Danịel is a talented innovative artist, besides it takes him up to several months to create one painting. Every line is made with white ink, individually colored (a few times). Bucharest based artist Rosu-Gutman Daniel paints landscapes in the style of impressionism and pointillism. At the same time he has his own unique style. He shares his art on deviantart website. Romanian painter Rosu-Gutman Daniel was born March 27, 1981.


Based on education in connection with local society and welfare fields and the extension of such education, we foster the best Christian social workers who will play a pivotal role in improving welfare in local societies. On graduation, you can work as a leader or an expert at various private social welfare organizations or facilities, churches, and state organizations of the central and local governments. As Christians, those who graduate from this Department are expected to move into society via this Graduate School, as social workers with international competitiveness based on calling and devotion.
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BT Group plc (BT) has announced that, further to its statement on 24 November 2014, it has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Deutsche Telekom and Orange in relation to BT's possible acquisition of all of their UK mobile business, EE. The period of exclusivity will last several weeks allowing BT to complete its due diligence and for negotiations on a definitive agreement to be concluded.
The proposed acquisition would enable BT to accelerate its existing mobility strategy whereby customers will benefit from innovative, seamless services that combine the power of fibre broadband, wi-fi and 4G.
The key headline terms, which are non-binding, include a purchase price of £12.5 billion (€15.7 billion) for EE on a debt/cash free basis. The consideration for EE will be payable as a combination of cash and new BT ordinary shares issued to both Deutsche Telekom and Orange. Following the transaction, Deutsche Telekom would hold a 12% stake in BT and would be entitled to appoint one member of the BT Board of Directors. Orange would hold a 4% stake in BT.


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Toward a Unified Metaphysical Understanding: Computational Metaphysics, Consciousness and Systemic Evolution
Computational Metaphysics, Consciousness and Systemic Evolution
This is a brief discussion that touches on Turing machines, neural networks, universal computation, system theory, system matrix notation, cosmic consciousness, individual consciousness, systemic evolution and holistic science.
I previously mentioned the mathematics and its computational implementation that arose from my metaphysical research in the article IT Revolution. Here I'll discuss how this fits in with system theory, consciousness, metaphysics and the evolution of systems from particles to civilisation, but first I'll begin by saying a little more about the mathematical / computational process by describing a simple way of thinking about it in terms of Turing machines and neural networks - it is computationally equivalent to a massively parallel network of neurons but we can work towards it by thinking about Turing machines. Let me explain in 4 steps:
Step 1: Simple Turing Machine
Consider a simple Turing machine T1 that has a tape of passive elements that can store data that can be written or read. There is also an active head that can step along the tape and read the data from the passive elements. The head has an internal state and it reads the input data from one element and in combination with its internal state it maps the input state into an output state that it writes to the tape and may also change internal state. Different input/output mappings and state transition mappings result in different algorithms. This simple scheme can give rise to a universal computational process that can implement any computable algorithm where a 2:5 Turing machine is the simplest known universal Turing machine with 2 internal states and 5 distinct data values.
Step 2: Complex Turing Machine
Now consider a Turing machine T2 that doesn't step along the tape and read the passive elements one at a time, but instead it can read in the entire tape as a single input. But it can only write to a single element. This is equivalent to a Turing machine with a single passive element that has a large number of data values. E.g. consider a tape with 8 binary elements, instead of reading single bits one at a time it can read a single 8 bit value so instead of 8 elements with 2 values it is one element with 2^8=256 values. T2 can read in this one value and in combination with its internal state it maps this to a single output value within the range 0-255 in which only one of the bits is allowed to change and the rest remain unchanged.
Step 3: Single Neuron
Now consider a Turing machine T3 where its internal state isn't separate from the tape but is instead stored in one of the data elements so one element, say the first, represents the internal state of the head and the rest represents the input data. We'll call the first element here an active element because it is associated with the active head. So T3 can read in the entire tape which includes both its internal state and the input data. This is then transformed into an output state but the only element that it can change is its active element that represents its internal state and the remaining data remains unchanged. This is purely an observer of the passive elements, it cannot change them, it can only observe the passive data and set its internal state accordingly. On its own this is not a very universal computational process but is a simple model of a neuron. If this was all there was the passive data would never change and the observer would repeatedly observe the same input data and only its internal state could change. Hence a single neuron is not very useful.
Step 4: Neural Network
Now consider the case of a neural network where every tape element is an active element with an associated head. Each head reads in the entire tape and the n'th head treats the n'th element as its internal state and the other elements as its input data. Each head reads in the entire data that includes the input data and its internal state, then it changes state and writes this to its active element leaving the rest of the tape unchanged. In this case each element of the tape is the internal state of an observer or neuron and each neuron is observing the entire tape. Because each element is the internal state of a neuron and each neuron can change its internal state the tape elements can continue to change so the input data that each neuron is observing keeps changing. Because of this the internal state of each neuron keeps changing and the changes lead to further changes and so on.
Every neuron can potentially interact with every other neuron so there is potentially no distance between them but they don't need to be this interconnected. For example, a particular neuron may only pay attention to particular neurons or it may give more weight to some than others, and there may be only a particular group of other neurons that pay attention to its state. This creates a complex but localised network of interactions or information channels that binds certain neurons into functional groups. Some paths may open out to other neurons for input and output and others may form closed loops. These functional groups act as systems and as the interactions evolve the systems integrate and disintegrate as sub-systems form into super-systems and super-systems decay back into their sub-systems. Thus a neural network is a "general system" simulator or a systemic universal computational process.
A Computational Mind
This computational process effectively creates a closed massively parallel neural network where the state of the tape represents the internal state of every neuron in that network or the holistic state of the network. Different initial internal states, neuronal interconnection patterns and state transition mappings result in different computational processes. The state of the neural network can be called a "state of mind" and each state of mind flows into other states of mind as the configuration evolves. This scheme can easily be implemented using extended matrix algebra that liberates it from being constrained to linear systems. In the extended scheme called system matrix notation (SMN) any linear or non-linear computational process can be implemented. Refer to Finite Discrete Information Systems to see how this is done.
The network is completely closed, where the network state is the state of the virtual universe, which is like a dream state within the mind of a cosmic consciousness. The neurons implement primitive systems, these are indivisible systems that interact and can integrate to form compound systems that are functional groups of neurons. These can further interact and integrate to form higher levels of systems and thus the virtual universe takes on a system theoretic structure with systems within systems within systems. The entire neural network is the largest functional group of neurons and it comprises the system that can be called the universe. Within this virtual universe every system can potentially interact with every other system so there is no intrinsic distance between them but as they form into functional groups and certain signals need to travel through a network of systems in order to pass between particular systems the concept of separation or distance arises. A regular metric can create any kind of dimensional space (e.g. 3D space) and non-regular interaction patterns can create other kinds of fractional dimensional or non-dimensional spaces (e.g. the internet).
Individual Consciousness
In the case of individual virtual systems these are functional groups within the universal network so they are not entirely closed. Each virtual system is a sub-network within the universal network so each system is a microcosm of the cosmos. The main difference is that they are open systems that have an internal network that opens onto the wider network and they interact with other sub-networks within the universal network. Whilst the cosmic network is closed and there is only an inner space, the virtual systems experience having an inner and an outer space. Within these sub-networks some neurons can be observing inputs that open outward from the sub-network, which then stimulate the sub-network to respond and evolve according to its nature. Some elements or neuronal states can also be observed by other networks and can thus be used as outputs to influence external systems. The inputs are sensory inputs into a computational mind and the outputs are actions driven by the computational mind. In this way the mind can evolve or contemplate within its own internal space or it can experience sensory inputs and respond with output 'actions'.
Systems can be primarily contemplative with a large portion of their sub-network devoted to internal processing or they can be primarily reflexive with a large portion of their sub-network devoted to translating from input to output. If they are primarily contemplative they can process their inputs deeply and form complex internal spaces of awareness, imagination, knowledge and so on. If they are primarily reflexive they respond in simplistic ways to their inputs with little internal reflection.
Perception and Reality
When systems perceive through their senses they are embedded in the information stream so the perceived systems appear to be objects in space where the objects are tightly interacting systems or functional groups of neurons and the spatial distance between them arises from the interaction separation of the systems where the information must flow through a network of intervening systems in order to be conveyed. But underlying this every system is directly connected to every other system and there is no distance between anything. At the level of the information flow things don't appear as objects in space, instead there is a vast flux of information streaming in every direction and interconnecting everything at every level.
As the virtual system evolves from simple systems toward more complex systems there are a large number of low-level systems that are highly reflexive to the point of being automatons. These are just cognitive-feed-through components that can are connected together and programmed to elicit standardised reflexive behaviours. However the higher level systems are fewer in number and they are more contemplative and able to process and cognise information more deeply and are thus able to engage in more complex and variable behaviours.
In the virtual universe the simplest systems are the most reflexive and the higher level systems are more contemplative, but with each system level they also tend from reflexive to contemplative. As they reach a level of internal complexity they breach a threshold where they are able to engage in more complex communication and integration and at this point they integrate to form a higher systemic level of systems. This is called a meta-system transition.
Systemic Evolution
In the following example I will use many common labels such as particle, membrane, cell, etc but remember that these are just perceptual analogies for what are actually virtual systemic structures or dynamic functional groups of neurons within the cosmic reality generative neural network. They are dream objects within the cosmic consciousness and not 'material' objects in space. But when perceived by systems through their senses and interpreted using a materialistic paradigm they are thought to be material objects in space.
The lowest level systems such as particles have almost zero contemplative capacity and are almost entirely reflexive but these integrate to form atoms and molecules. At the level of bio-molecular structures the systems are complex enough to be able to integrate to form an entirely new level of systems called cells. These prokaryotes are simple membranes with a DNA-RNA-protein cycle and they persisted for billions of years as a single cellular ecosystem. Then the eukaryotes formed which are an outer membrane with inner sub-membranes allowing for a more complex internal processing so they are thus more contemplative. Very quickly they produced an entirely new level of systems called multi-cellular organisms. These formed ecosystems where the lower level systems are bacteria, insects and plants, which support more complex systems such as tigers, elephants, dolphins and humans that are much fewer in number and have much greater contemplative capacity and less reflexive behaviour.
Humans have developed far greater contemplative capacity than other animals and we have thereby integrated to form an entirely new level of systems called organisations, or tribes, societies, corporations, nations and civilisations. And the process of systemic creation continues, but all the systems are still just virtual systems or dream systems within the cosmic consciousness. There is still just the same neural network but its configuration or network state is evolving.
Other related discussions here at NCN:
The Gaian-Ego Hypothesis
The Scientific Case Against Materialism
IT Revolution
Systems Analysis of Economic Social Engineering
The Mystic Meaning of Original Sin
More articles follow on from these going into other related aspects (see the bottom of each page). All these issues are connected because they are all configurations and behaviours within the one cosmic network. We perceive things as separate and form separate discourses for them such as physics, psychology, spirituality, politics, economics and so on, but everything arises from the one unified source and everything can be conceived of as virtual systems interacting within a cosmic consciousness. This understanding is the basis of holistic science.
There is also more detailed information on my website System Theoretic Metaphysics of Reality.
Category: System Matrix Notation Tags: awakening, holistic science, smn, technology
Other entries tagged as "holistic science"
2013-11-26: Quantum Mechanics, Naïve Realism, Scientific Realism, Abstraction and Reality
2013-11-24: Reformulation of the Virtual Reality Hypothesis
2012-05-08: Questions regarding information and process
2012-05-02: Computational Paradigm 101
2012-05-01: Summary of the main 'products' of my research
Other entries tagged as "smn"
2012-05-31: What is the relationship between processes and systems?
2011-03-13: A system's perspective on open-source social operating systems
2011-03-06: Processual Metaphysics
2011-02-25: Decoherence and the Quantum Sentience Paradox
Other entries tagged as "technology"
2010-07-31: Innovation Yantra
2008-05-10: Universal System Integrator
2008-05-04: System Oriented Modelling Paradigm - Brainstorming notes 03
2008-04-30: Travelling on Air
2008-04-25: System Oriented Modelling Paradigm
2007-09-06: A Major Energy Revolution Brewing
2007-07-24: What exactly is SMN and how does it connect with other technologies?
Other entries in System Matrix Notation
2009-09-01: Simulacrum Definition
2009-01-11: Consciousness, Self, World, Virtual Reality and Liberation
2008-07-21: Naïve Realism, Empirical Science and Transcendent Science
2008-06-15: Hiranyagarbha
2008-06-15: Computational Metaphysics and Vedic Metaphysics
2008-06-09: What Terms Best Describe My Metaphysical Work?
2008-05-14: Core terms for the Information System Paradigm
2008-05-07: What is a system and why should we care to know?


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Saxon aiming to release new studio album in January 2018
The Metal Voice recently interviewed Saxon's frontman Bill Byford and guitarist Doug Scarratt at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles, and asked them about details of Saxon's upcoming studio album.
Byford replied: "On the next album we are going to do a duet with somebody, maybe, that's quite hardcore with us. We have recorded 7 songs already, we are actually got 3 more songs and going to write 3 -4 more. I finished the vocals before we came on tour. We rent a studio while we are at the festivals, a week of studio. It will be produced by Andy Sneep. He has gone off to do Judas Priest while we are here and when we get back in September will continue, it will be out 2018, maybe January? I have done some about lyrics about Nosferatu the Bram Stoker thing (Vampire Count Orlok) a very dark song and I am also doing a Motorhead song called "They Played Rock And Roll.""
Sleaze Roxx stated the following in its review of Saxon's previous studio album Battering Ram: "This whole album is filled with fantastic guitar riffs and gun blazing solos. For example, "Destroyer," "Hard and Fast," and "Stand Your Ground" each all start with a great riff and you are sucked in right away. I could not help but to rock out! They have that BIG guitar sound with two guitars playing together that makes this music so powerful. "Three Sheets To the Wind" ends Battering Ram with what is sure to be a classic drinking song among friends. This is what a rock album is supposed to sound like!"
The Metal Voice's interview with Saxon's frontman Bill Byford and guitarist Doug Scarratt:
Saxon Biff Byford Interview- New Album Details, Duet, Nosferatu song, Lemmys death- by Neil Turbin
For Canada's The Metal Voice former singer of Anthrax Neil Turbin (Deathriders, Bleed the Hunger) caught up Saxon's front man Biff Byford and guitarist Doug …


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Household objects are perfect to create colorful prints on a rainy day, or any day just for fun. Rummage around and see what interesting items you can find.
Cover your work area with recycled newspaper. Use a piece of construction paper or a recycled board as a base. If you use a board, paint it first with Crayola® Washable Kid's Paint and Brushes. Dry.
With adult permission, select a variety of objects that can either be recycled or washed after being used with tempera paint, such as thread spools, foam produce trays, or a bath puff.
Fold a paper towel into quarters, and place it on the bottom of a recycled foam produce tray. Pour a small amount of paint onto the paper towel.
Press an object into the paint. You only need enough paint to coat the object, not so much it drips off.
Press the object onto the painted board or colored paper. Use even pressure to ensure a good print. Make a visually pleasing arrangement of prints on the colored surface.
When the paint has dried, use Crayola Glitter Glue to decorate the final print.
This book of pocket pages is just waiting to be filled with your souvenirs, photos, notes, and other treasures.


Electric Zoo, the annual Labor Day Weekend festival held on Randall's Island in New York, recently made news waves with the release of the PSA that all ticket-buyers must watch before attending the event. We touch on the video here, and you can view it yourself and decide if it enlightened you or not. In light of recent news, one major takeaway from the video was the token "guy who ODs." As the sweat builds up on the forehead and neck, one question we had was, where was the water to hydrate him? He won't be finding it in the crowd this year at Electric Zoo, we'll tell you that. Why? Because Electric Zoo has listed Camelbaks/hydration paks (even if empty) on its list of banned items for the festival this year.
We have all been there before. You're in the crowd watching or waiting to see your favorite artist. You are just one person in a sea of thousands and thousands (more than 110,000 people at Electric Zoo 2012 to be exact) who attend each event. Some have been standing around you for hours in that exact same spot, others are fresh in the pile of people and holding onto the one thing that will make or break an experience: a bottle of water purchased on site. From my past experiences, I have been a little more timid to ask someone for a sip from their bottle of water, since it's valuable and in very short supply in the middle of the crowd, but if I turned to someone with a camelbak and asked for a quick sip, I would always get a "go ahead." It's not PLUR, it's common, human decency.
It's so easy to jump to conclusions with drugs and camelbaks being linked, but what about the dangerous combination of alcohol (supplied at festivals) and the rising heat? There have been no movements to ban alcohol any time soon, so we cannot use the potential for attendees to put Molly in these bags of water, or whatever it is people use as crutches in arguments these days, anymore.
In order to get the most accurate information for this article, I looked up the weather last year for EZoo and those three days had a high of 88 and a low of 84 during the day…with camelbaks allowed. We know that extra precautions are going to take place this year since the passing of two attendees in 2013, but with temperatures reaching the mid 80's again this year, not having the proper access to water will only end in more bad news.
After a festival these days, news outlets clamor for one thing come Monday: how many people died? It's warped, but it gets hits and the outcome is always the same: let's blame drugs, and usually, drugs are involved. But what about the other statistic that doesn't end in the word "dead?" After the overdose of a man at a Mad Decent Block Party this year, the headlines read: "2 DEAD FROM SUSPECTED OVERDOSES". If you went through the entire article, you would learn that 20 people were also taken to the hospital, with emphasis on "it appears that many of the cases are drug-related," I wouldn't doubt that some other instances were due to dehydration, but you won't hear about that in the news story and there won't be a toxicology report to reference. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that drugs that escalate a heart rate (MDMA, cocaine, methylone) plus hard dancing PLUS the heat do not equal a good time. And festivals should do their part as organizers to make sure that if camelbaks aren't allowed, then there should be proper refill stations for water bottles. Seems logical, right? Except that's not usually the case.
I'll break it down real quick: you can bring a camelbak to Ultra, Coachella, TL & TW, LIC and Insomniac Events. They are not allowed at HARD Summer or this year's Electric Zoo New York. Point blank, you can always count on an Insomniac event to have free water refill stations. If you bring an empty water bottle when you arrive, that is allowed in and then you can fill up as much as you want, camelbak included. Volunteers normally man the water stations at an Insomniac event and the outcome is a win-win. Since there are multiple hoses, the line moves fast and the possibility of missing an act isn't stressed. Spring Weekend and Disco Donnie's Sunset Music Festival used the same method for water distribution in 2014.
There are no dedicated water refill stations anywhere at Tomorrowland. Maybe when it's a balmy 75ºF this isn't so important, but with temps reaching a humid 90s this past weekend, it was ludicrous. Designated "fresh points," adjacent to the odious toilets, hosted tables with communal bottles of body spray (which, based on the general fragrance of the crowd, was a pale substitute for deodorant) and sinks, meant to double as hand washing and potable water stations.
TomorrowWorld was no different. After having exchanged my actual money for their "tokens", I grabbed my eight water bottles (a very expensive purchase, since water bottles from the bar could cost up to $8 and from a vendor $4) and headed to the front of the stage because I knew if I didn't stock up then, I would be out of luck. This goes into my next point, organizers should be using the security to help out with hydrating the crowd. I saw this being done at this year's Mad Decent Block Party kickoff show in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. On both sides of the stage, near the speakers, were two 24-packs of water bottles. They were used by security at the front of the stage to hand out to the adventurous concertgoers who stuck it out and refused to move due to losing their prime location. These attendees should be rewarded, not hindered, and they were.
A water fountain that was pre-installed in the venue location does not constitute as a "refillable water station." It just doesn't. But some event organizers are content with these conditions. It doesn't seem like a smart move to take so much care this year to make sure that EZoo will go off with better results, and ban a major piece of the positive puzzle. Realisitically, if you ran out of water from a bottle in the middle of the crowd and decided that leaving to fill up would be the safer alternative, it could take awhile to even get out of the mass of people around you. There are so many variables, that we implore Made Event (presenters of EZoo) to put camelbaks back on the approved items list and look at the bigger outcome at hand if access to water is difficult.
Update 2: This is the supposed 2014 festival site map from EZoo's website…with one less water station from last year AND placed in very illogical locations.
Update 3: Artists and other influencers in the electronic genre have spoken out about the banned items.
Right so they're gradually banning stuff at raves in America what are they ? and why ? and surely it's for a good reason no?


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Hooked on the Classics, in Oak Park
List Price: $1.048 million
The Property: From its green tile roof to the frieze over the front windows and entry, this Oak Park house offers a classic welcome. Its Mediterranean exterior speaks of the 1930s, but inside, where the grace of that era is still intact in the large rooms, walnut doors, and vintage features, the home has been entirely updated in the past eight years—that is, since the interior designer Amy Calain moved in…
By Dennis Rodkin
For a closer look at the house, launch the photo gallery »
The Property: From its green tile roof to the frieze over the front windows and entry, this Oak Park house offers a classic welcome. Its Mediterranean exterior speaks of the 1930s, but inside, where the grace of that era is still intact in the large rooms, walnut doors, and vintage features, the home has been entirely updated in the past eight years—that is, since the interior designer Amy Calain moved in.
"You can tell the home was originally built for entertaining," says Patsy Bonniwell, the agent for the home, "and the updating has just made it better for that." The living and dining rooms have crown moldings, big windows, and generous proportions. A stellar kitchen and a family room that were both remodeled down to the studs by Calain complement those rooms.
You will see in our video that these main rooms, as well as the broad main hallway and staircase, are exquisite, but that the kitchen is a standout. Handsome custom cabinetry—some of it smartly concealing the refrigerators, microwave oven, and dishwasher—surrounds the room, and the silver trough sink is a good, unusual companion for the stainless steel appliances.
On the second floor are four bedrooms and three baths, among them a master bath outfitted with a glass booth shower and a mirrored wall of cabinets that help the bath straddle the line between antique and contemporary. Next door, the master bedroom is very big and sunny, with a pretty view across the street to the vast lawns of Taylor Park. At the back of the bedroom floor is a large flat rooftop space over the family room that could be developed into a terrace or additional indoor space, such as a second-floor family room.
The basement has a big family room and office area, as well as a laundry room I envy. Behind the house is a small, formal garden organized into lounging and dining spaces, as well as a three-car garage.
While Calain did a lot of visually pleasing updates and decorating, she also tended to the practicalities. She installed air conditioning, but perhaps more important, she had interior storm windows custom-designed to preserve the look of the exterior while also dramatically reducing the wintertime heat loss and year-round drafts associated with the old metal-frame windows. In all, Bonniwell says, "this house is in extraordinarily good condition."
Price Points: Calain bought the house in 2003 for $885,000. Factoring in the ample sum she spent on updating the house, Calian's asking price is "considerably" below her total investment, Bonniwell says (though she would not divulge that amount). The house originally went on the market in September listed at $1.098 million.
Listing Agent: Patsy Bonniwell of Better Homes and Gardens Gloor Realty; 708-845-0396 or pbonniwell@gloor.com.


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Q: Why shouldn't I encapsulate some entity framework setup in a small abstract base class? I'm working with Entity Framework 4.0 and I've structured an abstract base class like this
 public abstract class RepositoryBase : IDisposable
{
    protected MyContext context;

    protected RepositoryBase ()
    {
        context = new MyContext();
        context.ContextOptions.LazyLoadingEnabled = true;
        context.CommandTimeout = int.MaxValue;
    }

    public virtual int Save()
    {
        return context.SaveChanges();
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        context.Dispose();
    }

    ~RepositoryBase()
    {
        Dispose();
    }
}

But I'm getting increasingly nervous because I've never seen anyone doing this.  I'm doing this in a web app and creating/disposing my objects on every request (not getting into any issues with the lack of thread safety/ static variables)
I'm still creating a new ObjectContext VERY often but avoid having to attach/detach entities if if I have a class encapsulating the state of several entities.
My question : Why not just allow the ObjectContext live for the lifetime of classes which derive a class like this?
None of these objects are being put into the session or anything like that so what's the anti-pattern here?
Also, I've looked into being able to mock my ObjectContext.  I'm not convinced it's better than an in-memory database with Integration tests (Not that I still couldn't do it with a an abstract base class like this--but I'm not interested in this for this post)

A: As it stands right now your wrapper does not seem to be very useful because it really doesn't do much (unless you omitted code). I mean there's nothing wrong with it, but I wouldn't see the point if all it does is save. I think what you're looking for here is called a repository pattern, which is a good thing to layer on top of EF4 in most cases. If you google for "repository pattern entity framework" you'll find quite a few examples of how to implement the pattern, including full-fledged examples with generic typing (for working with concrete EF entity types) and whatnot. This is a good, simple start.

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Wire at work — introducing teams beta
End-to-end encrypted communication has taken a big step forward in the last two years with many consumer apps introducing it to hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Wire was one of the first to launch encrypted calls in late 2014, and the first one to launch full end-to-end encryption, working across multiple devices, for all communication, back in March 2016.
Work-related communication tools, however, have been lagging behind. None of the popular options use secure communications, secured by end-to-end encryption, leaving the content of chats, files and calls open to access by service providers, and to exploits by hackers who can compromise the servers and get ahold of these details.
It's time for businesses to upgrade the security of their communication!
Today, we're launching teams (beta) to bring end-to-end encrypted chats, file sharing and calls to businesses everywhere.
More and more businesses and international organizations have started using Wire for work since we launched end-to-end encryption. Teams make it easy to organize work groups and related conversations.
Businesses affected by the EU's upcoming GDPR rules benefit from end-to-end encryption, as it automatically protects the data they share with the team from third party access.
Set up your team now at teams.wire.com.
Wire compared with other business communication solutions
Secure = end-to-end encrypted
Work/life balance — personal and work chats in one app
You can now log in to Wire with multiple accounts — for example, one for work and one for personal conversations. Think of it like using the same mail client to access email from different accounts.
This brings all your conversations into one app, while keeping them neatly separated. In the future, you'll be able to switch off notifications for each account, so you can turn off alerts from work chats over the weekend, for example.
A separate account for each team member allows team owners to control who has access to the conversations, with less manual work when new people join or leave the team.
Team members may have two distinct accounts with different names and profile pictures for work and personal contacts.
Working with guests
Most organizations regularly collaborate with partners, consultants, suppliers and other people that are not part of the team. But in many business communication tools, access is an all-or-nothing proposition. In Wire, it's easy to invite and add guests to project chats without giving them full team member status.
Work in progress — this is a beta release
We've ironed out the major issues, but this is still a beta release, so a few hiccups may occur. A few things to note…
The 30-day free trial will start for beta testers at the public launch later this year.
The iOS app does not yet support multiple accounts. If you don't use Wire for personal conversations, you can go ahead and log in with your work account. But if you're already using Wire for personal communication, please wait a bit until iOS gets support for multiple accounts.
Team members will be invisible inside the team until they accept the invitation to join. They will have access to the chat history from the moment they're added to each conversation.
Members of a team can search for all Wire users, but users with a personal account cannot yet search for team accounts.
If you have questions or feedback, please have a look at the FAQs or send us a report via the support contact form.
Ready to use Wire for work? Set up your team now!


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The answer is simple math.
A literary agent get anywhere from 25 to 100 submissions each and every day.
The agent themselves has to represent each work to publishers. Just as it takes the author time to send out their manuscript and cover letters, so too will it take the agent time to try to sell each work to publishers.
Maybe they can take on one or two new projects, if that, a week. If they get 200 submissions in a week, but they can only take two on to promote, that's the simple answer: they must reject 198 submissions and they can accept two.
At first I was really bothered by this notion that I needed to be able to describe my book in less than twenty words to pitch it to an agent.
Then I heard an agent speak at Willamette Writers Con. The agent's job is to take the book and pitch it to publishers. They have a minute or two on the phone with the publisher. They need to be able to describe it in just a few words, and then leave time for questions.
If the publisher wants it, they'll need to pitch the book to distributors, book stores, and readers. If the publisher can't put a twenty word blurb on the back that describes the book, then it won't sell.
So if you, the author, can't come up with a twenty word pitch, how can you expect the agent or the publisher to do it?
Once I realized all of that, my resistance to the short pitch evaporated.
Thanks, William! Good points – clean, common sense encouragement.
@ William – This is a useful article on publishing. Thank you for the information on the subject. The brief article serves to further educate the reader on the subject of finding an agent and getting published.


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Marcus Ong, MD
Senior Consultant and Clinician Scientist
Singapore General Hospital
Professor Marcus Ong a Senior Consultant and Clinician Scientist, at the Department of Emergency Medicine in Singapore General Hospital. Professor & Director of Health Services and Systems Research (HSSR), Duke-NUS Medical School. Director, Health Services Research Center (HSRC), Singhealth Services. Prof Ong also serves as Medical Director, Unit for Prehospital Emergency Care (UPEC) and Senior Consultant, Ministry of Health, Hospital Services Division. He is also Chairman, Pan Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study (PAROS). Vice Chair (Research), Emergency Medicine Academic Clinical Program.
Prof Ong's research studies focus predominantly on pre-hospital emergency care (PEC), health services research, and medical devices. Prof Ong has initiated and led landmark studies regarding OHCA and other PEC issues in Singapore. His research has addressed issues such as out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), improving ambulance deployment, acute myocardial infarction care and emergency care. PEC is the provision of emergency medical care in a pre- or out-of-hospital setting, to an acutely ill or injured patient.
Prof Ong has been awarded multiple national research grants such the NMRC Senior clinician-scientist grants, SingHealth Foundation grant, MOH Health Services Research grant, etc. He has accumulated over $32 million in research grants for his studies, which include geospatial diseases mapping, clinical drug trials, resuscitation and cardiovascular sciences, pre-hospital emergency care, and biomedical engineering. He is the Principal Investigator for an international, multi-centres cohort study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest across the Asia-Pacific. Prof Ong has published close to 200 papers in both local and international peer-reviewed journals, such as Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, Resuscitation, Annals of Emergency Medicine, etc. Many of papers are published in the highest impact medical journals such as the Lancet and JAMA.
Prof Ong has also patented inventions using Heart Rate Variability for risk prediction of acutely ill patients and cooling solutions for therapeutic hypothermia. The technology is currently being developed into bedside triage devices that can help in risk stratification of critically ill patients and he is Scientific Advisor for Global Healthcare, a start-up company providing medical cooling solutions.
Presentation(s):
Cardiac Arrest Response System Optimization….NeXT Generation!


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Through its research on climate change, WorldFish intends to provide new knowledge on how to make fisheries and aquaculture systems more resilient, securing a better future for the people that depend on them.
Climate changes can impact fisheries and aquaculture directly, by influencing production quantities and efficiency, or indirectly, by influencing the market price of fish or the costs of goods and services required by the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. We therefore address mitigation and adaptation of climate change across four domains:
Analyzing vulnerabilities of fishery systems in regions, countries and communities. New vulnerability indices are used to understand how climate change will affect ecosystems and the capacity of fisheries and their dependent communities to adapt to such impacts. The results provide a foundation for innovation in management and governance.
Within vulnerable systems, assessing who and what is most vulnerable, the sources of vulnerability, and the modes of impact. We identify practical ways fishers can reduce vulnerability and increase resilience to the effects of climate change, with a focus on the higher-risk fishery systems.
Developing and testing SSF interventions to increase adaptive capacity at regional, national and local scales to enable fishers to better manage external opportunities and threats, WorldFish will research and help implement new management systems that emphasize building resilience and adaptive capacity.
Researching aquaculture technologies to reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity. To overcome the negative impacts and harness the new opportunities presented by climate change, research will focus on developing technological innovations such as resilient fish production traits, integrated farming systems, marine fishmeal replacements and novel aquafeed ingredients as climate-smart aquaculture solutions.
Program impact by 2022
WorldFish's contribution to the SDGs
As an international non-profit research organization committed to reducing poverty and hunger, WorldFish seeks to maximize the health, social and economic impact of our work.
Enable sustainable increases in livelihoods from aquaculture production without creating adverse socio-economic or environmental impacts.
Increase the availability, access and consumption of nutrient-rich, safe fish, especially for women of reproductive age, infants and young children.
Secure and enhance the contribution of small-scale fisheries (SSF) to poverty reduction and food security in priority geographies.
How can youth be engaged in fisheries and aquaculture value chains, and how can they help diffuse innovative ideas and knowledge within households?
How can enabling women's access to productive assets and resources help boost agricultural production and reduce poverty and hunger?
How will climate change affect fisheries and aquaculture in developing countries, and how can adaptive capacity be built?
Fish farmers' perceptions, impacts and adaptation on/of/to climate change in Africa (The case of Egypt and Nigeria)
Increasing social-ecological resilience within small-scale agriculture in conflict-affected Guatemala
Post-disaster rehabiliatation teaches resilience in Bangladesh
Enhancing climate resilience of aquatic-agriculture systems in Bangladesh


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Wood commences new operating partner contract for SAGE system and Beryl pipeline
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Wood has commenced a multi-million dollar, evergreen contract to act as operating partner of the Scottish Area Gas Evacuation (SAGE) system and Beryl pipeline, on behalf of Ancala Midstream Acquisitions Limited (Ancala Midstream).
Wood will manage the day-to-day operation of the SAGE system, which transports gas through the 323 kilometre SAGE pipeline between the northern part of the Central North Sea to the SAGE terminal at St Fergus, north of Aberdeen, where it is processed on behalf of North Sea gas producers.
The contract follows Ancala Midstream's acquisition of Apache North Sea's interest in the assets.
Robin Watson, Wood's chief executive said: "We are delighted to be working with Ancala Midstream on these major pieces of infrastructure. This contract strengthens our operating partner portfolio in the UKCS and our commitment is to leverage our broad capabilities, differentiated expertise and innovative solutions to deliver safely and efficiently.
"We have established a close partnership with Ancala Midstream, using our four decades of North Sea experience to support the smooth and successful transition of asset ownership and operatorship, and we welcome the St Fergus-based team to Wood today."
Wood is also operating partner for the Central Area Transmission System (also known as CATS) under an up to 10 year, $250m contract, awarded in 2015 by CATS Management Limited; a wholly owned subsidiary of Antin Infrastructure Partners.
Wood is a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets. We operate in more than 60 countries, employing around 55,000 people, with revenues of over $11 billion. We provide performance-driven solutions throughout the asset life-cycle, from concept to decommissioning across a broad range of industrial markets including the upstream, midstream and downstream oil & gas, chemicals, environment and infrastructure, power & process, clean energy, mining and general industrial sectors. We strive to be the best technical services company to work with, work for and invest in.
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AIRMAR Technology Corporation is pleased to announce the introduction of the new M563, a dual-band CHIRP-ready broadband transducer designed for research and survey applications. "The M563 is an ideal solution for OEMs with frequency agile sounders or CHIRP capable sounders for use in shallow and coastal survey applications," stated John Bauchat, Senior Business Development Engineer. "In addition to offering customers technology that enhances the performance of existing sounders, AIRMAR's innovation supports the development of new sounder technology," Bauchat added. The M563's compact size and affordable cost makes this transducer a low-cost/high-value performance enhancement.
The acoustic performance of AIRMAR's broadband piezoceramic transducers include extremely low-ringing and excellent sensitivity, resulting in optimal system performance including sharp, crisp acoustic pulses for improved clarity, resolution, and measurement accuracy. The M563's two broadband arrays deliver superior performance throughout low and high-frequency bands allowing operation at discrete frequencies, broadband CHIRP or coded waveforms. The unit is available with a low-band frequency range of 25 kHz to 45 kHz and high-band options of either 80 kHz to 130 kHz, 130 kHz, 130 kHz to 210 kHz, or 160 kHz to 260 kHz.
The M563 transducer's quality construction coupled with advanced features such as Transducer ID® and a high-precision temperature probe provide customers with additional value that is not available from competitors.
AIRMAR's exclusive Transducer ID® technology allows the M563 to provide important data to the echosounder including transducer model, functions, frequency, power rating, beam pattern, impedance, and more. With this technology, the echosounder can configure itself to the transducer to optimize performance. The result is superior detection of targets, bottom composition, and contour over a wide range of conditions. Transducer ID® also offers OEMs self-diagnostic, troubleshooting, and feedback capabilities.
The unit includes a high precision temperature probe that provides accurate temperature readings that can quickly detect small fluctuations in sea temperature.


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Parallel scientific computing and optimization [electronic resource] : advances and applications / by Raimondas Čiegis ... [et al.].
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Privacy-respecting intrusion detection / by Ulrich Flegel.
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Hybrid intelligent systems : analysis and design / Oscar Castillo ... [et al.] (eds.).
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Analog-baseband architectures and circuits for multistandard and low-voltage wireless transceive / Pui-In Mak, Seng-Pan U, Rui Paulo Martins.
by U, Seng-Pan | Martins, Rui Paulo | Mak, Pui-in.
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Formal models of operating systems kernels / Iain D. Craig.
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Ryan is an entrepreneur and former trader at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, who has consulted for hedge funds and family offices. Prior to joining VCapital, Ryan was a Venture Associate for DreamIt Ventures, an East Coast based venture capital firm, where he actively screened companies for their accelerator program. He has also been a frequent mentor for engineering students at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago as well as for members of 1871 (a Chicago-based incubator with over 400 early stage, tech startups). Ryan co-founded Beyond Barriers Therapeutics, Inc., which won the National Institutes of Health Neuro Startup Challenge and recently completed the National Science Foundation's I-Corps program. They are currently in pre-clinical trials with their therapeutic. Ryan is also the founder of RK Inventions, LLC, a startup focused on identifying alternative solutions to everyday problems. With three patents and several more pending, he has sold products worldwide and has installed a new product at Johns Hopkins Hospital to reduce hospital-acquired infections.
Ryan earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MBA from the University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business. Ryan and his inventions have been featured on WGN-TV and in numerous publications, and he has been interviewed on NBC for one of his proudest achievements: winning a Rock-Paper-Scissors competition. He also volunteers for Impact Teen Drivers.


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Home » Art » Tracey Moffatt – My Horizon | Australian Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale 2017
Tracey Moffatt – My Horizon | Australian Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale 2017
Place: Venezia, Country: Italy
Text by Riccardo Bianchini
All photos © Inexhibit, 2017
Commissioner: Australia Council for the Arts
Curator: Natalie King
Featured artist: Tracey Moffatt
By RICCARDO BIANCHINI - 2017-08-23
The Australian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2017; photo © Inexhibit
Tracey Moffatt – My Horizon. Australian Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2017
At the 57th International Art exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the pavilion of Australia presents a solo exhibition of Tracey Moffatt (b. 1960, Brisbane).
Entitled My Horizon and curated by Natalie King, the exhibition features two series of large-scale photographs, and two videos by the artist, well-known for her works which combine reality and fiction into carefully studied and highly personal creations, often inspired by film imagery, particularly those of the classical Hollywood's era, Surrealist cinema, and Italian Neorealismo.
The first photographic series, entitled Body Remembers, comprises ten photographs which portrait, in an old-fashioned sepia style, a woman (played by Moffatt herself) visiting an old house surrounded by ruins. The pictures depict dream-like scenes which evoke the mysterious images of Magritte and Buñuel, and instil subtle doubts and questions in the observer.
Is it the house in which the woman once lived? Is it a vision of the future? Is it the depiction of a moment of change?
Moffatt doesn't give us an answer, it is up to us and to our imagination to find one, if any.
Compared to the first, Passage, the second photo suite, is equally mysterious, yet vividly colored. Moffatt depicts here a group of characters – a mother, a baby, a policeman, and a slim hat-wearing figure, she calls "the middleman" – who, in turn, interact with one another into twelve scenes inspired to some extent by the aesthetics of the 1940s film noir.
The exhibition also features two videos, each two minutes long.
Virgil focuses on the tragedy of mass-migration of refugees reaching Australia from the third word by combining crude clips from news footage with picture of Hollywood stars, such as Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Christie.
The second video, entitled The white ghosts sailed in, is a fictional film documentary allegedly made in 1788 by Australian Indigenous people depicting Sydney Harbor with a film camera prototype discarded by Captain Cook.
Venice Art Biennale 2017, Australian Pavilion, Tracey Moffatt's My Horizon, installation view; photo © Inexhibit
Venice Art Biennale 2017, Australian Pavilion, Tracey Moffatt, Body Remembers, series of 10 large-scale photographs; photos © Inexhibit
Venice Art Biennale 2017, Australian Pavilion, Tracey Moffatt, Virgil, 2-minute video with sound, photo © Inexhibit
Venice Art Biennale 2017, Australian Pavilion, Tracey Moffatt, Passage, series of 12 large-scale photographs; photos © Inexhibit
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