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What might happen if we tried to make a park together?
We'll be making a park/garden behind MAC over the next year (at least!) and we invite anyone interested to join in.
Let's make a gift to our neighbourhood and the future.
> Donate "waste" materials from home or work that you think we could use
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I heard of this anime film years ago but heard such bad things it put me off, then last week I found a good review on it that mentioned the plot and I thought I’d give it a go. Firstly like many other reviewers I must admit this is probably the craziest Dracula plot ever. It’s based of Tomb of Dracula issues 40-75 and as such there’s a lot going on…
Overall this film is very true to the comic and has a good storyline but it’s too rushed. The visuals in part are faithful to the comic but frequently seem low budget. If you liked Tomb of Dracula I’d definitely recommend this. If you’re looking for a different Dracula film you should enjoy it.
“Darling, I want to tell you about the man I used to be before I became the cursed slave of Satan.”
Also known under the name The Devil’s Daughter, Michele Soavi’s The Sect (1991) is an intricately stitched, cult masterpiece; from a decade not well regarded for its genre output. Soavi himself had already cemented his career as a director of the macabre, with his feature length debut StageFright (1987) and Dèmoni sequel-turned-standalone horror The Church (1989). Indeed, The Sect would also be branded a Dèmoni sequel upon its home video release.
“Satan has chosen his victims. The battle with evil has begun.”
Also known by the appropriate name Cathedral of Demons, Michele Soavi’s 1989 Italian Gothic horror The Church is widely considered as the official sequel to Lamberto Bava’s Demons 2 (1986).
Indeed The Church was originally conceived as Demons 3, but upon Soavi’s insistence the film stands alone. For those of you who intend to purchase the new release from Shameless Screen Entertainment, The Church has no direct thematic link to either Demons (1985) or Demons 2 (1986).
“In this unholy sanctuary you haven’t got a prayer…”
During the videotape format war of the late 1970s and early 1980s, JVC’s VHS would compete for market share against Sony’s Betamax. Betamax was, in theory, the superior recording format but VHS would ultimately emerge as the preeminent home video format in 1986. Consumers could not justify the extra cost of a Betamax VCR, which was often more expensive that the VHS equivalent due to the higher quality construction of Betamax recorders.

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Transportation in Lawrence Manor
Bus routes on Lawrence and Wilson Avenues connect passengers to stations on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line. The Bathurst Street bus travels south to Bathurst station on the Bloor-Danforth subway line.
By taking Bathurst Street south motorists can access Toronto's financial and entertainment districts in twenty-five to thirty minutes. At the north end of this neighbourhood Bathurst Street provides commuters with an on-ramp to Highway 401.


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A Layton teenager accused of shooting a 19-year-old Sunset man is being charged as an adult in 2nd District Court.
The brunt of death penalty appeal costs fall upon the local government. In Weber County, killer Doug Lovell’s case is costing the county at least $100,000 a year just for his defense.
Robin William Lundin, 28, was formally charged Monday with one count of first-degree felony murder, according to online court documents.
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Spicy Peanut Chicken Skewers
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/3 cup olive oil
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- 6 tablespoons milk, whole - divided
- 5 tablespoons rice vinegar, divided
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1 1/2-inch pieces
- 12 bamboo skewers
- 1/2 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup sambal oelek
- 18 grape tomatoes
- 2 medium yellow squash, very thinly sliced
- 2 medium zucchini, very thinly sliced
- black sesame seeds, for optional garnish
- chopped peanuts, for optional garnish
- lime wedges, for serving, optional
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In small bowl, whisk together garlic, oil, 3 tablespoons soy sauce, 3 tablespoons milk and 1 tablespoon vinegar. Place chicken in large zip-top bag; pour soy sauce mixture over chicken. Seal bag and refrigerate 2 hours or up to overnight. Place skewers in large dish and cover with water. Let stand at least 15 minutes. Meanwhile, in small bowl, whisk together peanut butter, sambal oelek, and remaining 3 tablespoons soy sauce, 3 tablespoons milk and 4 tablespoons rice vinegar.
Preheat grill for direct grilling over medium-high heat. Remove chicken from marinade; discard marinade. Thread chicken pieces onto 6 skewers. Thread tomatoes, squash and zucchini onto remaining 6 skewers.
Transfer chicken skewers to grill. Cook, turning occasionally, 8 to 10 minutes or until internal temperature of chicken reaches 165º F. During last minute of cooking, brush chicken skewers with about half of peanut butter mixture. Transfer skewers to plate; cover with foil and let stand 5 minutes.
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I claim plaidpineapple for a sock monkey for her husband and a set of Jack Skellington ornaments for her brother in law.
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coasters - her decor is very modern with earth tones
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squeaky toys - made out of that faux lambs wool or canvas - Mabel shreds toys like no tomorrow and these fabrics last the longest it seems!
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U.S. Border Patrol Agents working in Texas arrested a previously-deported felon near an immigration checkpoint within the United States.
September 6, 2019, agents assigned to the Ysleta Border Patrol Station in Texas spotted two vehicles attempting to circumvent the immigration checkpoint located at Highway 62/180. After a brief pursuit, Ysleta Station agents stopped both vehicles in order to perform immigration inspections. Seven suspects from both vehicles attempted to flee and six were eventually taken into custody.
During processing at Ysleta Border Patrol Station, agents identified 43-year-old Mario Aristides Rivas-Marquez, a Salvadorian national, as a previously deported felon.
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Sligo Rovers boss Ian Baraclough has expressed his disappointment that his charges didn't get the chance to respond to the challenge of St Patrick's Athletic and Derry City on Saturday night.
St Pat's pulled level on points with the Bit O'Red at the top of the table by beating Shelbourne 3-0 on Friday, while Derry City's defeat of Drogheda moved them to within a point of the leaders.
Sligo were due to face Dundalk in the Showgrounds but the game was called off by referee Rob Rogers 90 minutes before kick-off because of a waterlogged pitch.
"Our preparations were superb, so everyone was very disappointed," said the Sligo manager. "Unfortunately, nothing could be done. The pitch just couldn't cope with the incessant rainfall and it was a very simple call for the referee."
One positive from the postponement for Sligo is that Gavin Peers and David Cawley, who were both due to miss the Dundalk match because of suspension, will miss tonight's EA Sports Cup tie at home to Mervue United instead.
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THE FAI are waiting on reports from the referee and match delegate before deciding whether to take action on the suggestion that Bray Wanderers striker Ismahil Akinade was racially abused by Cork supporters in Friday night's shock victory at Turner's Cross.
Akinade, a teenage striker from Dublin, referred to the incident on Twitter after his team-mate Gary Dempsey made the initial claim.
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LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVERSE by Jeff T. Johnson and Andrew Klobucar is a fascinating deep-dive into the realm of architectural and three-dimensional modelling as a tool for exploring language as a kind of visual media as well as the incorporation and exploration of audio material as a form of art. This observational media form is a kind of digital poetics, in which the viewer is brought into a transcendent and conceptualized space where poetry can be archived, shared, and continuous. The video was designed using AutoCAD, a design platform mainly used for architectural and design purposes to create this visual space as a kind of complex mathematical equation in which information can be inputted without adjustment, or loss of information to the original text. AutoCAD is a design software from software company Autodesk, and the use of this platform for this digital poetic allows this piece to become truly transformative. The video LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVERSE opens with a multi-stream of text, which grows and expands on the screen. Overlapping audio bites begin to play over the shifting text, which creates a kind of dimensional feeling for the viewer and adds to the complexity of this electronic literature form.
This video is only three minutes and forty-seven seconds long, but there is a sense of ordered chaos throughout. While the text is ever-changing, in constant shades of blue, red, grey, and green, the audio plays music and speech in a way that overlaps and yet blends together into one large collective work. Furthermore, the work website for LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVERSE reveals a more interactive space, in which readers can click through varying forms of text, enlarging and shrinking certain words and phrases as they navigate through. See . On this page, it is noted by the authors that "Looking takes longer than reading", and this is a fascinating insight into the ways in which the digital media space in this project is developed with the intention that the way we view and process words and phrases becomes more impactful then the way we read them all together.
With both the video and the worksite at hand, it is easy to see that this particular piece of digital media functions in a new and innovative way. By using design software to create a dynamic and observable space, in which poetry and digital poetics take centre stage, both Johnson and Klobucar have created visually performative language which gives new meaning to the conception of digital poetics, and how we read, compared to how we can observe, poetry and its meaning.
Poetry knows no bounds. In LETTERS FROM THE ARCHIVERSE, Jeff T. Johnson and Andrew Klobucar have created a memory palace of poetry in AutoCAD, a popular computer-aided design platform traditionally used to render engineering schematics and architectural blueprints. A program designed to place points, lines, and curves within the abstract geometry of Cartesian space, AutoCAD also renders text as a series of vectors. Rather than the bitmapped, rasterized text of PhotoShop or Microsoft Word, AutoCAD’s font faces are generated from complex sets of mathematical equations. As such, they can be blown up, stretched out, squashed down, and zoomed in with no information loss. Software that was never intended as a platform for creative writing is pushed, pulled, and prodded into something in between a word processor and a rendering tool--concrete poetry imagined at both macro and micro scales like a literalized version of Marcus Novak’s “liquid architectures in cyberspace.”

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Shortly after it was announced that HBO wouldn’t be going forward with the Game Of Thrones prequel The Longest Night, which took place thousands of years before the events of Game Of Thrones, the network has gone forward with House Of The Dragon, another Game Of Thrones prequel exploring the Targaryen dynasty.
Ordered straight to series, House Of The Dragon is co-created by George R.R. Martin, Ryan Condal, and Miguel Sapochnik. Condal and Sapochnik will serve as co-showrunners, while Sapochnik will direct the pilot and another episode.
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Total Return Futures (TRFs) have become widely accepted alternatives to OTC swaps for implied repo trading. With the launch of a set of new index derivative products based on the FTSE Russell 100 index, including FTSE 100 TRFs, and growing buy side demand for listed alternatives to swaps, Eurex sees potential for further futurisation of traditional OTC trading strategies, according to Stuart Heath, Director, Equity and Index Product Design, Eurex.
Eurex recently launched a package of products in partnership with the FTSE Russell 100, including FTSE 100 Total Return Futures (TRFs), dividend point futures and index futures and options, following demand from their joint customer base. Eurex already lists and clears TRFs and other derivatives on two key European blue-chip benchmarks – Euro STOXX 50 and SMI. It made sense to add a UK blue chip index as an underlying. The set of index derivative products for the FTSE 100 mirrors what is available for the existing index product sets.
Demand for TRFs has risen steadily since the first TRFs on Euro STOXX 50 Futures were launched in 2016. Dealers drove initial demand for TRFs, which is an exchange-listed solution for implicit repo trading and serves as an alternative to OTC total return swaps (TRS).
The previous way of hedging repo exposure with TRS was heavily impacted by capital constraints and there was a shift to the synthetic product using options. It made sense for Eurex to offer index options on the FTSE so that product could be unwound. It then also made sense to round off the product suite by bringing in dividend or index dividend futures as well. Eurex has introduced the whole product suite to facilitate the demand driven on the FTSE TRF.
TRF demand extends from sell side to buy side
While demand for TRFs initially came mostly from the sell side, there has been significant uptake on the buy side as well as firms who recognise the central clearing and margin offset benefits. Regulation has served as a catalyst for banks to promote replacing swaps with futures, and as the last phases of buy-side firms also come into scope for the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR), buy-side firms are actively seeking cleared alternatives to swaps that reduce their margin obligations.
TRFs are still relatively new as a product type, and despite widespread acceptance, there is still much room for growth. Until recently, there was only one European TRF product on the market, and large traditional asset managers might have held back until more such products were available. Now that Eurex offers TRFs on three separate indices, and new listed products have been launched elsewhere on the US S&P index and on Asian benchmark indices, Eurex anticipates that more traditional asset managers will be drawn to TRFs, seeing them as globally valid instruments.
The opportunities for the buy side are becoming clearer. The sell side hedging strategies and alternative risk premium strategies are well known by hedge funds and already adopted. There is now a potential breakout of demand by the broader buy side for the straightforward beta replacement of swaps that are currently traded OTC. TRFs are a dividend neutral product and many firms turned to TRFs in 2020 when the impact of dividend expectations was hit hard by the pandemic. With banks promoting their capabilities in pricing, processing and position management of TRFs, it will make the switch to TRFs easier for buy-side firms when they do get covered by UMR, and they may find they get better prices as well.
Futurisation trend continues
TRFs are just the start. There are many other opportunities for moving what is currently traded OTC into the cleared and listed environment. Futurisation has been an ongoing trend for many years, driven mainly by global regulators looking to minimise the risk of interconnected markets and push products into central clearing. TRFs are the sort of product that enables this.
In terms of equity and equity index derivatives, the market has always been more balanced in terms of OTC versus exchange trading. Far from being disruptive, listing TRFs on equity indices has provided market participants with additional transparency and distribution of the product. Client adoption is key. Most of the big futures dealers have onboarded the product for themselves initially. Incorporating the TRF product into this product set that they can offer the buy side is a relatively small step.
Eurex sees other opportunities for the futurisation of products, where swaps are currently used for no other reason that they are already embedded in firms’ processes. Exchange-traded products will continue to replace OTC products - up to a certain point. Some OTC products are custom designed for particular uses and clients and will remain so. But the futurisation trend will continue so that more and more swap-like products in particular are brought into the listed and cleared space.
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MAYWOOD -- The College of American Pathologists has honored Loyola University Health System pathologist Maria M. Picken, MD, PhD, for her work on the rare disease amyloidosis. Amyloidosis is a potentially fatal disease that occurs when substances called amyloid proteins build up in organs such as the heart, kidneys, liver and spleen. The college awarded Picken its Pathologist Spotlight Service Award in recognition of her dedication to the specialty and for serving as a medical advisor to Amyloidosis Support Groups, Inc. The organization, based in Wood Dale, Il., serves amyloidosis support groups throughout the country.
"Her warm and compassionate manner to help educate patients about this often debilitating disease is inspirational," said Dr. Robert Breckenridge, a member of the college's board of governors. Picken is a professor in the Department of Pathology and director of renal pathology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. She has published 140 research papers. Her subspecialty is kidney disease. She is president-elect of the Renal Pathology Society and a member of the advisory board of the American Society of Nephrology. Amyloidosis is difficult to diagnose. It requires an examination of tissue specimens by a pathologist and a clinical exam by the patient's doctor.
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The Minnesota Vikings won a decisive and long-awaited political victory late Monday when the House passed a public subsidy package for a new stadium, sending the project marching toward final passage at the state Capitol.
The final vote came months of intense lobbying by Gov. Mark Dayton and the team, and produced a relatively easy 73-58 approval in the House.
The stadium project could go to the Senate for a vote as soon as today. After the House and Senate work through their differences, it could be ready for Dayton to sign into law by the end of the week.
Though Vikings owner Zygi Wilf had never explicitly threatened to move the team – and was already committed to play in the existing Metrodome for one more year – Monday’s vote was driven by a sense that the team would leave without a new, taxpayer-supported stadium. The surge to build the stadium, which had been hotly debated across Minnesota, seemed to gain its final momentum after the National Football League commissioner made a personal visit to the state Capitol last month.
For the Vikings, the victory came after years of public polls that showed widespread opposition to using taxpayer money for a new stadium and after the team watched as the Minnesota Twins won approval six years ago for its own publicly-subsidized ballpark.
Monday’s vote culminated a long journey for the team, which in recent years had supported – and then rejected – plans to build a new stadium in Anoka County and more recently in Ramsey County’s Arden Hills. The Arden Hills plan in fact was still viable at the beginning of the year, but lost steam when Dayton said that only a new stadium in Minneapolis could possibly win legislative approval this year.
Before passage in the House late Monday, members approved changing the deal so that the state pays $105 million less and the Vikings' pay $105 million more. It would share revenue from naming rights for the stadium, rather than let the team have all of that money, and would require that the team pay any cost overruns.
"It's only fair that the public have part of that contribution," Rep. Pat Garofalo, R-Farmington, said of naming rights.
The stadium game is still not complete.
The House vote -- the first of at least three more to come if the measure is to become law -- aired out all the long simmering issues over government subsidies for pro-sports palaces.
Those against it complained that it represented misplaced priorities, has an uncertain funding mechanism and helps out a billionaire who doesn't deserve the break.
Those for it said the Vikings are a state asset worth saving, the project would employ job-hungry building trades and would help Minneapolis thrive.
And then there were those who said it is just time just to stop talking and start doing.
"[Time to] get it out of our hair," Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Vernon Center, told colleagues urging a yes vote.


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Yahoo Finance autos reporter Pras Subramanian details Tesla's newest update to its Model 3 and Chevrolet FNR-XE new EV sports sedan.
JARED BLIKRE: Tesla is developing a new version of the Model 3 according to a new report codenamed Highland. The redesign is rumored to bring a number of changes to the electric sedan. Yahoo Finance senior autos reporter Pras Subramanian has more, Pras.
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Yeah, Jared, this is a kind of a much needed update for the Tesla Model 3, which has surprisingly been out since 2017 without an area and update. We've probably seen a couple of things under the skin but nothing major. What Reuters is reporting is that Tesla is going to probably update the exterior styling, potentially the powertrain and battery and likely that touchscreen display that's very popular with customers. And it sort of sets the car apart with the kind of minimalist and digital sort of cockpit there.
One of the things that Tesla will do is reduce costs of building the car by reducing complexity and also using larger cast moldings that we've seen them use in the Model Y, for instance, to kind of reduce number of parts. So you know, Reuters also says that this car might come out in 2023 of Q3, pricing that first in China and then eventually potentially at Fremont here in the United States.
DAVID HOLLERITH: Interesting. And Pras, Chevy unveiled another EV. What can you tell us about it?
PRAS SUBRAMANIAN: Well, this one is going to be in China, Dave. It's the Chevy FNR-XE. It's funny because GM does not have an EV sedan in the States, or one coming as far as we know. But they're going to do it in China because in China, apparently the sedan sort of body type is still very popular there amongst the people there.
It's very sharp-looking car. You can see there both literally and sort of figuratively, right, so really kind of sort of the new design language of Chevy EVs potentially here, looking at this with the FNR-XE. No specs yet, but reports in China suggest it'll come out probably next year. And this is big because 2023 is a big year for GM with regard to this EV onslaught with stuff like the Equinox, the Chevy Silverado EV, and also the Blazer as well.
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Actual: 3-channel video installation accompanying the exhibition "the German Dream" by the artist group PARA on speculative archaeology. Brian Karp edited a 3-channel video installation that was shown as part of the exhibition "The German Dream" at the Grassi Museum Leipzig 2019...
Walhalla 2 is a monument that will have existed. A place that has become conceivable through the tendencies of the present - the speculative archaeology and reappraisal of a possible era. Between September and October, three fake, speculative, archaeological excavations took place in Thuringia, Hamburg and Berlin, where documents, remains, parts of ruins and evidence of a future Walhalla 2 monument were recovered by PARA INTERNATIONAL, an exploration company created specifically for this purpose. These traces and gaps and variants and evidences of a coming history, which becomes more probable with each day, the artists* have preconstructed together and created a work between Landscape Play / Fake Exhibition & immersive Installation. (Text: Sebastian Sistig // PARA).
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Racles, Carmen and Airinei, Anton and Stoica, Iuliana and Ioanid, Aurelia (2010) Silver nanoparticles obtained with a glucose modified siloxane surfactant. Journal of Nanoparticle Research, 12 (6). pp. 2163-2177.
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Silver nanoparticles were obtained in aqueous medium, at room temperature, by redox reactions, with or without glucose, in the presence of a glucose-containing cyclosiloxane. The siloxane surfactant can act as stabilizer when glucose is present in the system, but also as reducing agent and stabilizer when no glucose is added. The kinetics was followed by absorption UV–Vis spectroscopy, and different behaviors were found for the two versions of the redox process: first-order kinetics for the reaction with glucose and a much slower complex reaction with three zero-order steps when no glucose was added. The reactions were also investigated with IR absorption spectroscopy. The resulting nanoparticles were analyzed by dynamic light scattering (DLS), atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) analysis, and transmision electron microscopy (TEM). All data showed evidence for the formation of silver spherical nanoparticles, with an average diameter of 14 nm (reaction with glucose) and 6.5 nm (reaction without glucose), respectively.
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April 20, 2018, 4:14 PM EDT Updated on April 20, 2018, 8:29 PM EDT
PhRMA spent almost $10 million in first three months of 2018
[Ed; Gee, wonder what kind of They're expecting in return.]
Group sought to stop legislation to help generic companies
The drug industry set several quarterly records for lobbying spending in the first three months of 2018 as it faced pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration and lawmakers on drug pricing, generic medicines and trade.
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PhRMA lobbied against legislation to stop drugmakers from denying generic-drug companies the ability to study their products to bring low-cost competition to market. At one point, the measure was close to being included in budget legislation passed by Congress in February.
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The biggest and best news, however, is that all Deadly Gladiator Arena gear have had their rating requirements have been reduced by 100, making it easier to obtain by a huge margin. This means that the highest rating required to obtain all pieces of Season 5 gear is 2050, which still requires reasonable success in Arenas, but should be much easier to obtain.
One of the problems with high rating requirements is that players always hit an artificial ceiling -- it's almost impossible to advance past a certain point unless you have a considerable pool of opponents within the same rating range. At a certain point, players will get longer and longer queue times as the matching system fails to find a suitable opponent. Point gains will also become smaller, losses will result in steeper ratings drops, and eventually it simply becomes a waste of time trying to wait for a game so progression through ratings always ends at a certain point no matter how good you are. In fact, the better you do, the faster you'll run out of opponents to fight and get points from. Even Serennia's Death Knight took several weeks to hit Arena Master. It takes some time for the rest of the player base to catch up.
Another problem with Arena design is the point cap. As noted in a forum thread, players acquiring over 1k points a week will accrue enough points to almost buy the 4,500 point Deadly Gladiator weapons, but will have to waste points on the last week because the cap is at 5,000. Ghostcrawler said that the cap will likely be raised, although there is no official word on it yet. Hopefully it shows up as a hotfix or with the patch today. The rating requirement reduction in Patch 3.0.8 addresses this problem obliquely by allowing players to spend their Arena points sooner but doesn't solve the problem for players already at high ratings.
There's a similar problem with Honor for Battlegrounds PvP. The cap hasn't been raised beyond the 75,000, so any player continuously playing Battlegrounds or world PvP at or nearing the Honor cap will be forced to spend his or her points. That there are enough items to purchase isn't the problem, the problem is that players are forced to purchase something just so Honor past 75,000 isn't wasted. Marks of Honor are also capped at 100, and because Level 80 PvP gear only requires Honor, the Marks must be turned in for even more Honor through For Great Honor or Concerted Efforts. In contrast, players can accumulate as many Emblems of Heroism or Valor as they want, as there is no known limit for them.
Blizzard's idea of a solution for this is to provide more things to spend on. In Patch 3.0.8, players will be able purchase Greater Inscription of the Gladiator, a shoulder enchant that grants 30 Stamina and 15 Resilience to a shoulder slot item, for 10,000 Honor points. It's nice and probably buys some time for players until they can get Sons of Hodir inscriptions, but it doesn't solve the problem of players who already have all the Honor items they can buy and are already at cap.
The archaic Honor system needs to be revised to keep up with the times. Players shouldn't feel penalized for continuing to play the Battlegrounds. Wintergrasp Marks of Honor can be stacked to 1,000 in Patch 3.0.8, and players can only play that every 2.5 hours. Why not lift or raise the cap for other Battleground Marks of Honor? It would have been easy enough to give updated versions of the PvP potions, at least.
The only other change in Battlegrounds PvP is some buffs to vehicles and cannons in Strand of the Ancients, and the move of the seaforium charges nearer to the graveyards, allowing players to pick up the explosives as soon as they rezz. The Battleground has a bigger issue which wasn't addressed, and that's the fact that Alliance always start the game on offense. This is the mislabeled Alliance "advantage". It's not an advantage in any strategic sense, it's just that when two teams of equal skill are put in the same scenario, the Alliance will take a shorter time to win because they set the pace. Speaking of timers, the Storm the Beach Achievement is broken. We'll see if Patch 3.0.8 fixes this, although there's nothing about it on the notes, undocumented or otherwise.

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By: Devin Fussa
During the 2017-2018 school year, the Heritage High School student parking lot will see the implementation of a new policy. Past years required students to register for parking by purchasing a pass during the Summer for $170. Instead, the Heritage administration has decided that students will no longer hold reserved parking spots, but will now simply park where there is space available. When students arrive in the mornings, they will be allowed to park in whatever spot they see fit, preferably based on ease of location. Students will no longer hold reserved spots. The same applies to transitions between lunch. An anonymous member of the Heritage High School administration gave the following statement: “Our school will make any changes necessary to improve student education, which in this case, includes allowing students to arrive at school quicker and more conveniently. Although the policy may seem slightly chaotic at first, we believe the situation will figure itself out.” Because of the newfound freedom granted by this policy, permission to park in the student lot will now be raised to a price of $350. With the additional funds given from the increased parking prices, the school hopes to give more funds to the football program. The school will monitor this new policy in the coming year, and decide whether this should become a long-standing rule.


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|This is the last instalment of my interview with McCarthy from January 1982, The first parts are published elsewhere on this blog.|
RL. You once said that the Group was ‘supposed to be the history of the loss of faith in progress.’ Were you out to shatter female illusions, particularly in marriage as an institution that could be liberalised in some way?
MM. No. The Group was conceived essentially as a comic novel. Apart from Lakey, none of the girls are very bright and I was interested in satirising the way each of them embraces the New Deal era, in fashions, domestic appliances, ideas, sex and so on. The girls are meant to be funny, especially in the way they parrot the progressive opinions of their husbands or boyfriends, and I wanted to show how their often rather naïve expectations are ultimately confounded.
RL. From what political standpoint?
MM. From the left, but not with any great seriousness. I was more interested in describing the girls’ gullibility and self-deception than anything else. That their attitudes hadn’t really changed from their mothers’ was, for me, one of the most comic aspects of the book. Kay was the real power in ‘The Group’ and her death was meant to represent the end of that whole liberal-progressive era in American life.
RL. Were you surprised by the success of The Group?
RL. Why do you think it was so popular?
MM. Sex! Initially I thought it would be banned – but, as it turned out, only Ireland and one state in Australia outlawed it. I think sexual attitudes had changed just enough for it to be published. Part of its popularity was word of mouth, particularly mothers and daughters recommending it to each other; and the first steps of the women’s movement also helped, I think.
And it was on that intriguing note – that the success of her most famous novel may have been due, at least in part, to its striking a common chord (or cause?) with the beginnings of the feminist resurgence – that she called time on our discussion.
It’s tempting for me to speculate on the possible effect such a revelation might have had on McCarthy’s standing, had it been expanded and made more public at the time. Could it have signalled a new phase in the dialogue between McCarthy and feminists? Would that have led to a more explicit acknowledgement of common ground or shared values? Who knows – it might have. As it turned out, the only people to hear about my encounter with MM were fellow students at a seminar for Marion Shaw’s ‘Women in Literature’ module at Hull University, and, of course, Dr John, who suggested the names of a few literary journals that might be interested in publishing my account. However, it was around this time that I became more involved in anti-racist politics andless with academia, my interest in scholarship fading so quickly that this meeting with one of 20th century America’s literary giants was almost forgotten. Until now, of course.
Thirty years on and the literary landscape has changed considerably, but in thinking about McCarthy’s significance to contemporary readers, it’s interesting to note that, although she may have denied feminism during her lifetime, some academics on the left have begun to re-assess her status as a figure of growing importance in the history of feminist literature. In ‘Labor and Desire: Women’s Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America’, Paula Rabinowitz questions the idea that feminism was silenced in the 1930s and 40s and views ‘The Company She Keeps’ as a ‘pivotal’ novel, which not only ‘constructs a narrative of female class consciousness out of the woman’s body’ but ‘narrates class as a fundamentally gendered construct and gender as a fundamentally classed one’, which is, more or less, what I was trying to say back in 1982, I think.

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GCSEN congratulates Len Green, one of our long-time advisors and friends, on his admission to the Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs at Babson College for 2021.
According to Babson's website, "Since its inception, the academy has recognized and honored entrepreneurs who have contributed significantly to the development of free enterprise throughout the world...Collectively, the 110 members of the academy* have created millions of jobs and improved societies around the world."
GCSEN's 4P mission of Entrepreneurship for People, Planet, Profit, and Place was crafted during Founder/President Mike Caslin's Fast Track MBA and faculty time at Babson. Similarly, the Academy's honorees"have capitalized on the need for change, accepted the associated risk and responsibility, and made an impact on the world. The energy and innovation embodied by these individuals will be appreciated and applauded for many generations to come."
Mr. Green has advised and supported GCSEN since its inception to today, to date with nearly 1,000 4P Social Entrepreneurs in its network, and we support him and his longstanding career, building and growing world-changing enterprises, and giving back by teaching others about the power of entrepreneurship. Len Green deserves this honor and we believe he's just getting started! Congratulations!
*Other Academy honorees include:
Roger Enrico ’65, H’86, Former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc.; Former Executive Chairman of DreamWorks
Eric Johnson ’72, P’08, President and CEO of Baldwin Richardson Foods
Mary Wells Lawrence H’72, Founding President of Wells, Rich, Greene
Lewis E. Lehrman H’81, Founder of L.E. Lehrman & Co.
Frederic C. Hamilton ’48, H’98, P’82, Former Chairman of The Hamilton Companies LLC
Richard J. Egan P’89, Co-founder of EMC Corporation
Abraham D. Gosman P’88, Founder of The Meditrust Companies
Robert Davis MBA’85, General Partner, Highland Capital Partners; Founder, Former President and CEO at Lycos Inc.
Robert M. Rosenberg H’97, P’94, Former CEO of Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin Robbins
Robert K. Kraft H’02, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of The Kraft Group
Geoff Molson MBA’96, Owner, President & CEO of Montreal Canadiens
C. Dean Metropoulos ’67, MBA’68, Chairman and CEO of Metropoulos & Co
Ray A. Kroc, Founding Chairman of McDonald's Corporation
Soichiro Honda, Founder of Honda Motor Car Company Ltd.
Berry Gordy, Founder of Motown Records


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This paper generalizes the work of Kendall [Electron. Comm. Probab. 9 (2004) 140–151], which showed that perfect simulation, in the form of dominated coupling from the past, is always possible (although not necessarily practical) for geometrically ergodic Markov chains. Here, we consider the more general situation of positive recurrent chains and explore when it is possible to produce such a simulation algorithm for these chains. We introduce a class of chains which we name tame, for which we show that perfect simulation is possible.
"Perfect simulation for a class of positive recurrent Markov chains." Ann. Appl. Probab. 17 (3) 781 - 808, June 2007. https://doi.org/10.1214/105051607000000032


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This month, Nicola Benedetti makes her orchestral debut with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for a UK concert tour with conductor Marin Alsop. The all-Beethoven programme can be heard first in Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre (3 February) with additional concerts in London (4 February), Birmingham (6 February), Basingstoke (8 February) and Saffron-Walden (9 February).
Nicola and the orchestra will then travel to the US for further performances in Costa Mesa (12 February), Santa Barbara (13 February), Oakland (14 February) and Rochester (16 February). The tour will end with Nicola’s debut performance at the Abu Dhabi Music Festival on 19 February.
These concerts are a chance to hear a new arrangement of the cadenza to Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, one which Nicola wrote with close friend and pianist Petr Limonov after much historical research. In this arrangement, you will hear a blend of direct quotation from Beethoven’s piano version of the cadenza as well as new composition by the duo, referencing the original thematic material and harmonic structure, to result in an authentic yet daring finale.
In his programme notes for the performances, Petr says: “Working on the cadenza together with Nicola has been a fascinating journey, which started about three months ago. We were immediately confronted with a unique set of compositional and structural problems. Beethoven himself only wrote a cadenza for a piano version of this concerto (op. 61a), and he approached it in a truly revolutionary way by incorporating timpani part into the texture, turning his cadenza into a dialogue between the pianist and the timpanist. However, to our mind, previous attempts to transcribe Beethoven’s bravura broken octaves and chromatic scales for violin in a literal way sounded too forceful for the otherwise lyrical and inward-looking nature of the piece. As Nicola was researching Beethoven’s autographs, drafts, and first editions, looking for possible clues in his other, perhaps discarded, ideas, it gradually became clear that we needed to rewrite the cadenza, being true to Beethoven’s spirit, but not necessarily the letter.”
View US and Abu Dhabi tour details
3 February 2018: Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, UK
4 February 2018: Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
6 February 2018: Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK
8 February 2018: The Anvil, Basingstoke, UK
9 February 2018: Saffron Hall, Saffron-Walden, UK
12 February 2018: Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa, CA
13 February 2018: Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA
14 February 2018: Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA
16 February 2018: Kodak Hall, Rochester, NY
19 February 2018: Emirates Palace Auditorium, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.


The City Council would need to pass a bill to permit the housing and additional building density, Greenberg said. Such a bill has not been introduced, he said, but Thursday's presentation was an early step in the approval process.
Boitnott said she is worried about what impact the addition of so much development will have on other parts of the city, including Fells Point and the central business district.
"I'd like to see some of this energy moving to downtown," she told the review panel.
Benn, an architect who worked on an earlier master plan for Harbor Point but has not been involved with the design of the revised plan, said he would like see more development along the Charles Street corridor, where his office is located.
"I wish there was a balancing act going on," he said. "It's nice to have the activity at Harbor Point, but how can we dovetail that with other parts of the city that seem to be stranded? The question is tying it all back into the city so it helps everybody."
Thomas Stosur, director of planning for Baltimore, said he believes the master plan is "moving in a good direction."
Laurie Schwartz, president of the Waterfront Partnership, said she thinks the addition of housing will help give the community a stronger "sense of place" than if it were primarily shops and offices. She said she also likes that a third of the land — nine of the 27 acres — is being reserved for some form of open space.
Plans included a field large enough to play lacrosse, a long and narrow public space comparable to one of the four quadrants of Mount Vernon Place, an amphitheater that would step down to the water's edge, and an area reminiscent of the Spanish Steps in Rome.
"What shouldn't be underestimated is the amount of land devoted to open space and greenery," Schwartz said. "I think it will be a huge contribution to the quality of life along the waterfront."


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Abu Dhabi will commission a 1,500 MW power plant in 2011. Building of the Shuwaihat-2 power plant will be followed up with the construction of a 1,600 MW power plant in the same area towards the end of 2011. The second power plant will reportedly cost around US$1.5 billion to build, and bids for the project are already being evaluated.
Middle east countries are embarking on a massive power and electricity investment programme over the next five years to significantly expand the region's power generation and secure stable power supplies for the future.
Three Turkish companies have been awarded important contracts in Iraq to install 20 gas-powered turbines in three power generating stations, the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announced recently.
The recent Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit held in Abu Dhabi laid out an action plan for Gulf countries to combat water scarcity and diversify energy resource.
ABB was awarded a contract valued at US$39 million from the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) to improve the efficiency of power transmission and distribution in the country?s Eastern Province, according to a company statement.


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Introduction: Larger Top for Table Saw
An old kitchen table top or hearty plywood.
A low quality table saw.
Door knob drill bit, or any size large enough to use as a starting hole for your jig saw bit.
Fine tip marker
4 3 inch screws with nuts and washers.
Some fans to aid drying time
Step 1: Step 1
Purchased a table saw from Home Depot an had a few problems with the quality of the cut I was getting. Never uniform cuts, and rarely straight. Saw online where others were having the same problem and this is my resolution...
Step 2: Step 2:
In my garage I had an old kitchen table. Solid sturdy top. So I used the top from it to modify my table saw.
Step 3: Step 3
I decided to not mount the top to the main surface, but rather to the sides of the table saw. Doing this keeps the table saw intact and functional if I decide to remove my modification later
Step 4: Step 4
*** you need to be aware that doing this will cause you to lose some depth of cut. In my case, I lost 1".
I had to take measurements and use my jig saw to make a cut where the saw blade would come through. I started my cutout with a door knob bit to allow room to maneuver my jig saw.
Step 5: Step 5
I used yellow, and a little green to put down an initial finish. This was originally because it was the spray paint that I had left over from other projects. I later discovered that it worked out great because when I marked the table in 1" increments, the marks were easily seen. My particular table adjusts to a 45 degree angle. I made an additional set of lines(in red) to account for the altered position of the blade. This step is highly recommended.
Step 6: Step 6: Finishing
My last step was simply several coats of lacquer. This is done over my measured lines and will aid in keeping them from wearing as well as make wood slide easier during cutting. This is my first posting to instructables so if you have feedback (good/bad) please let me know and thanks!
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I love customizing my tools to make them more useable! Keep up the great work and welcome to the community!
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Thanks. I'm working on a poplar nightstand at the moment. I'll be sure to post when I'm complete.


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SpaceKnow explains that it analyzed 90 days of satellite data in the area of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipeline explosion. The data comes from both free and commercial sources and is analyzed in an automated way by artificial intelligence, which allowed to discover data that should contribute to the investigation of what has all the elements of sabotage.
SpaceKnow explains that it drew polygons around the area of the explosions of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea. The smallest with an area of 400 square meters was plotted just above the area of the explosion, while other adjacent areas focused the machine learning model on monitoring several square kilometers.
The mystery of the explosion of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines soon elucidated?
Looking closely at what happened in the area of the explosion the researchers discovered 25 vessels potentially linked to the explosions. But of this total, only two boats had deactivated their transponder. Safety equipment that is essential to navigate safely in the area.
A particularly suspicious action: “We have detected dark ships, in other words boats of a significant size, which have passed through the area […] these boats had their transponders turned off which means there is no data on their trajectory, and they were trying to hide their location from the eyes of the world”explains Jerry Javornicky, CEO of SpaceKnow.
International law requires all ships of a certain size to carry an active transponder. This allows in particular to transmit the name of the boat, its location, the direction and the speed of the ship among other information. The transponder is essential safety equipment to avoid collisions at sea.
And it is even more so in the area of the Baltic Sea where the explosion of the pipelines took place – because a large number of ships are constantly traversing the area. A ship without a transponder or with its transponder switched off is therefore always suspicious, because there is not really a legitimate reason to deactivate this device, especially in such a dangerous area.
The only ships that are used to this practice are linked to illegal activities, such as fishing outside the authorized perimeter, or trafficking in drugs, human beings, etc. As Otto Tabuns director of the foundation for security in the Baltic Sea quoted by Wired points out: “it is unusual to deactivate the transponder unless the ships were operating on a covert military mission or aiming at clandestine targets, as the Baltic Sea is one of the most frequented seas for commercial vessels”.
The SpaceKnow data has been communicated to NATO, which refuses to comment for the time being. Several investigations are currently trying to determine the causes of the explosion of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines which brutally reduced the European supply of Russian gas. NATO is content for the moment to claim that the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines is the result of an act of sabotage, while Russia claims that the explosions are the result of a secret operation carried out by Great Britain.


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It's my take on what's happened for me, and more importantly, what has not (yet?) happened in the five years since I graduated from the Stonecoast MFA program, and why both matter.
I hope it instigates some thoughtful questions for writers anywhere along the MFA trajectory--before, during, upon completion and several years out.
In part, the post reads:
Some of the mile markers I had originally set for myself upon graduation—maybe overly hopeful, surely overly confident—simply fell away. Others got moved further into the future. Most are in a constant state of revision. Getting from one point to the next was, is, taking longer than I liked. But as one year sloughed into the next, and X hadn’t happened on schedule, I watched myself respond with less of the judgment that is my initial self-critical reflex. Instead: 'Oh, not now? Okay, next year will be fine too. Or the next.'
So, some days, I don’t mind at all.
I’m not lazy or apathetic, but understanding that what seemed so clear to me in 2008 was an illusion, has been freeing, until suddenly, it isn’t. Like one day last month...You can read the entire post here.
What about you? Did you complete an MFA program several years ago, and looked back? I'd love to hear, in comments.

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