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21st September 2014
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Draft targeted for 2014-09-21
Covers crowdfunding news from 2014-08-26 through 2014-09-21
Collect candidate projects: <NAME>
Nominate projects: <NAME> (others are welcome to chip in a suggestion or two)
Order nominated projects: <NAME>
- Intro: <NAME>
- What Happened: <NAME>
- Still in the Running: <NAME>
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Untold Universe Voxel sandbox MMORPG. Doesn't look like it's gonna make it... (Ends on 5 Oct)
Pathologic Open-world, first-person survival adventure. Almost funded within its first week. (Ends on 7 Oct)
Age of Grit Firefly-inspired RPG. Almost funded. (Ends on 26 Sep)
Duke Grabowski, Mighty Swashbuckler! Point-n-click adventure, from one of the creators of the original Monkey Island. (Ends on 6 Oct)
Speedster's votes for new picks (descending preference): Ironcast, Desolate, Outpost 13, Extrasolar, Go Kinok
muntdefems' votes for new picks (descending preference): Warlocks, CodeSpells, Paradigm, Band Saga, Extrasolar (with desolate as a runner-up)
Madness: Project Nexus 2 Fast-paced run-n-gun shooter. Linux support almost guaranteed. (Ends on Sep 23)
desolate 2D puzzle adventure, with a hand-drawn art style. (Ends on 30 Sep)
Warlocks Multiplayer, 2D pixel-art, action platformer. (Ends on 2 Oct)
Band Saga Music-generated action roguelike. (Ends on 2 Oct)
Poncho Open-world puzzle platformer. Pixel artstyle somewhat similar to FEZ. (Ends on 2 Oct)
Ironcast Turn-based strategy game. 1v1 mech combat using match-tiles mechanics. (Ends on 3 Oct)
Star Traders 2 Turn-based RPG/space trading game. (Ends on 4 Oct)
Outpost 13 Point-n-click adventure/strategy game. You play as a dog/alien simbiotic lifeform. (Ends on 4 Oct)
CodeSpells Spellcrafting sandbox. Already funded. (Ends on 4 Oct)
Judged Court trial simulator. Already funded. (Ends on 4 Oct)
Paradigm Surreal point-n-click adventure game. Linux demo coming soon. (Ends on 6 Oct)
Kraden's Crypt Co-op dungeon crawler, with a peculiar weapon control system. (Ends on 8 Oct)
Extrasolar: Season 2 Innovative exploration game/interactive story played through the web. Season 1 freely available (registration required). (Ends on 9 Oct)
Go Kinok! Go! 2D speedy platformer with some puzzle and adventure elements. Inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog. Linux support confirmed by the creators. (Ends on 13 Oct)
Heroes Never Lose - Less than a grand away from the Linux goal with 23 days left, pretty solid bet it will hit it.
Spacewrights - A tactical sci-fi 2D spaceship simulation game where you explore, build, and create a galactic empire for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS & Android. Looks like it will be an interesting project to follow, and with a small goal it should be reasonably easy to hit. Seems a bit odd that the demo is Windows only though.
Your friendly neighborhood FC team had some keen disappointments this time, with the failure of Kaptain Brawe 2, Fritz, and Script Kiddies. Kaptain Brawe was already the second funding attempt, so the team will be looking for more conventional funding sources rather than gearing up for another crowdfunding attempt. Fritz came in fairly close to the goal, about $3k away not counting the accidental over-pledge that caused the creator to cancel it. A second attempt could easily be successful, if it were attempted. Script Kiddies, on the other hand, needs some effort put into community-building before a relaunch is likely to be successful.
The final failing campaign in this batch of Gems, Major Drip: Case of the Runnies, was cancelled as a lost cause a couple of days before the deadline.
Rising Angels: Fates ended up at 162% of the minimum goal, which translates to funding for the first 3 stretch goals, notably including voice acting.
Ray's the Dead had a very lively run as well, reaching 172% of the base goal for over $50k pledges. This encompasses 4 stretch goals, for example an additional boss fight. Fans of Ray who somehow managed to miss his comeback campaign are invited to preorder with a Humble widget.
Elysian Shadows continues our run of projects that succeeded with a comfortable margin, over $35k above the ambitious $150k base goal. The 16-bit RPG gamers turned up in droves, to the tune of 2282 backers, together raising enough to hit the first stretch goal: bonus events that are unlocked after the first playthrough.
Hard West had a lot of momentum as well, funding half-way through the time period and accumulating an extra $24k during the second half of the campaign. $10k of that stretch goal money is earmarked for work on Mac and Linux ports, which should now get simultaneous release with the windows version!
Stash: No Loot Left Behind was the only close call among this batch of winners, reaching the $50k goal in the final 48 hours with the help of over 120 new backers including some GOL members. Linux gamers with a fondness for role-playing should definitely keep an eye on Stash, which will be an RP-heavy MMO with a fully supported native Linux client.
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Aimanku dating disadvantages of dating a rich man
They have officially split up now and rumours have been swirling that the actress and Nollywood investor, CEO of Ebony Films Seun Egbegbe are involved, and this weekend he shared these very cozy photos on his social media.
I told the person that I don’t act Yoruba movies, that I dance for Fela. I replied the man saying that I thought he does not watch Yoruba movies.My attention and energy are now focused on re-uniting with my work, friends, families and fans. by Aka Ido Many things have been said about popular Nollywood actress, Toyin Aimakhu, but in this Punch Newspaper interview, the actress attempts to clear the air opening up like never before on her life, relationship, career, her pet project and more. Yesterday, the Nollywood actress took to her social media to share the photo of her and her latest man – the actor Daniel Kanayo Daniel, and this has gotten everyone talking.From the clip shared on her page, the actress who recently broke up with Seun Egbegbe is seen sucking on the lips of the latest man, her excitement bringing back the memories of all the times she had shown off her partners. Well, she sure has gotten a very tall, dark and handsome actor who she seems totally taken by, and fans are already apprehensive, especially given the all the drama in her previous relationships.

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- GE Consumer Finance, a unit of General Electric Co.
said Tuesday it will team up with eBay Inc.
and its PayPal Inc. unit to launch the new PayPal Plus credit card. The card will feature a rewards program for PayPal users. The new card is an expansion of the relationship originally created in June 2004 for GE to offer a credit line available to registered PayPal customers, and part of a new multiyear credit agreement in which GE Consumer Finance also plans to launch an eBay branded credit card.

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text: Mugby Junction" is an intriguing composite of tales. it contains one of Dickens' most celebrated ghost tales, "The Signalman," as well as short stories by Charles Collins, Hesbah Stretton, Andrew Halliday, and Amelia Edwards. Arriving at Mugby Junction in an attempt to escape his unhappy past, Barbox Brothers befriends a workman and his invalid daughter. With their help, he sets his sights on discovering which of the seven lines of the junction will most aid him in his journey of escape. In exploring one such line, he meets "the woman he had lost," only to return to Mugby Junction once this has played out. Staying there, and continuing his friendship with the workman and his daughter, he collects the myriad stories he hears tell of at the junction. Charles Dickens is one of England's most important literary figures.

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Shoppers hang on to cash in run-up to Christmas
Scottish like-for-like retail sales, which take into account stores opening or expanding, fell by 0.5 per cent in October, slowing from the 0.8 per cent drop during September.
October’s total sales grew by 2.1 per cent, accelerating from the previous month’s 1.8 per cent increase.
Fiona Moriarty, pictured right, director of the Scottish Retail Consortium, which compiled the data, said: “These figures show there’s all to play for as Christmas approaches. It’s reassuring to see a partial pick-up in growth after a disappointing slowdown in the previous month, but it’s clear many households are still feeling the squeeze and keen to keep some money aside for seasonal spending.
“Retailers will be hoping this very tentative boost gains some momentum as many of us start thinking about making some headway on our Christmas lists.”
David McCorquodale, head of retail at accountancy firm KPMG, added: “October was a cautious month on the Scottish high streets, with honours even between the consumer and retailer.
“With little more than six weeks until Christmas, retailers’ festive campaigns are now in full swing. They need the weather to cool and confidence to burgeon to encourage shoppers to spend and give Christmas 2013 that much-needed feel-good factor.
“I remain cautiously optimistic and feel the level of discounting may be less than in previous seasons – time will tell if the retailer will hold firm for margin or give way with bargains.”


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Books by Sarah Waters
NPR stories about Sarah Waters
Author Sarah Waters doesn't believe in ghosts in real life, but that didn't stop her from setting her new novel, The Little Stranger, in a crumbling Warwickshire manor house where mysterious spirits cause havoc.
Although her past works have focused on lesbian themes, class anxiety is the animating force behind Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, a chilling and psychologically layered haunted-house story set in the aftermath of World War II.
Sarah Waters' novel is told from 1947 backward, and it has much of what we expect of war-time Londoners: bravery, fear and sometimes heroism. But there's more: many of the characters are lesbians.

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Human resources managers are having a hard time integrating the organizational cultures of merging companies, a multi-industry survey found.
Sixty-nine percent in a Hewitt Associates poll involving 218 big U.S. companies, including six in the rapidly consolidating financial services industry, said that was the "top challenge" in mergers.
Next on the list was keeping employees focused, followed by integrating their benefits.
Corporate integration was taking longer and costing more than expected, the executives said.
"The tightness of the job market makes these issues more important now," said Allen Steinberg, coordinator of the mergers and acquisitions team at Lincolnshire, Ill.-based Hewitt. "The people part of the transactions is becoming more important."
Not only more important, but a sensitive topic-because of fears of shaking up employees or tipping off competitors. "It's like touching fire," said Steve Leyden, a spokesman for Bank of New York, one of the six financial services companies in the survey.
The other four were Wachovia Corp., SouthTrust Bank, National Commerce Bancorp., Bank United of Houston, and American Express Financial Advisors.
Each of the 218 companies surveyed had more than 1,000 employees, and 74% of the companies had been involved in one or more business combinations in the previous two years. Some of the problems they experienced:
Timing. Organizations generally underestimated the time and resources needed to integrate a merged enterprise. The actual time to required averaged nine and a half months, not the eight expected.
Employee communication. About 44% of human resource managers in mergers said their companies did not devote enough resources to employee communication programs; 43% said such programs were implemented too late to be very effective.
In addition, 39% said senior management devoted little attention to employee communications. They said confused employees were less productive and less likely to remain with the company.
Unanticipated costs. More than 75% of the executives surveyed said they encountered them, including costs associated with consolidating employee benefit plans, executive compensation costs, and higher compliance costs.
When asked to identify crucial factors in integration, 57% of the human resource directors cited employee communication. Communicating early, often, and honestly is essential to success, they said.
"The minute you announce a merger, the first thing that hits your employees is what is going to happen to them," said Jean Davis, director of human resources at Wachovia, in an interview with American Banker. "That immediately gets reflected to the customer, so the ability to communicate is very important."
When Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wachovia bought two Virginia banking companies last year, it developed a merger-specific newsletter meant to address employee questions and concerns. The company also held a series of employee meetings around Virginia.
After communication, the next most important factors in merger integration are employee benefits and then compensation, the human resources executives told Hewitt.
And half said that merging human resources programs more quickly would reduce employee uncertainty and make many other aspects of corporate integration easier.
"The complexity associated with mergers is growing," said Wachovia's Ms. Davis. "Mergers begin and end with the people; the success of a merger is so dependent upon the way human beings get integrated."


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Dubai prosecutors urge public to report abuse as maid is arrested for beating five-year-old boy
Filipino faces court over assault in gated community
A maid has been arrested and accused of physically assaulting a five-year-old boy over a period of time at the gated community where they lived.
The Filipino allegedly slapped and pinched the child and hit him in between his legs with a stick.
One of the assaults took place after the boy dropped her phone, an official said.
Senior public prosecutor Ahmad Al Attar said that the incident came to light in the first week of January when a neighbour spotted an instance of violence.
“The mother works in Abu Dhabi but lives in Dubai. She had tried to call her maid, who didn't answer because at that exact moment she was hitting the child," he said.
"When the neighbour saw the child being assaulted, she took him away and informed the mother of the abuse upon her return."
He added that the maid, who worked for the family for eight months, did not attempt to hide the punishment she gave out.
A medical report confirmed the child suffered bruises on different parts of his body. Mr Al Attar added that when he interviewed the child, he had seen almost green bruises on his body.
The prosecutor said a number of other women from the neighbourhood in Bur Dubai informed the mother that they had also seen as the maid beat the child, but had not reported it.
A social worker’s report stated that the child developed a state of shame from being hit publicly. He also had nightmares about the woman, it was claimed.
“I wonder how people could see a child being beaten and not do something," Mr Al Attar said in reference to the length of time it took to report the hitting.
"As per law, it's mandatory for anyone one who witnesses a child being subjected to any form of abuse to report it to the authorities, including if it was a parent who was abusing the child."
He urged members of the public to speak up if they witness an incident that looks like it may be abuse.
Updated: January 31, 2018 06:19 PM

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A beautiful blend of iridescent hues spread throughout the wide array of works. The concepts of the works embrace and manifest myriad aspects of life as seen/experienced and eventually recreated in their medium of expression by talented artists.
The paintings by artist Sravan Kumar are lyrical and extremely poetic in their essence. The artist creates a harmonious abode for his men and women who seem to be caught in a moment of pleasant trance. On the other hand, there are abstract paintings by Vijay Dhore that instantly get the well-deserved attention from the viewers. The mature treatment of the surface subtly unveils a dramatic play of colour that enthrals. The artist makes no attempt to define the elements he paints with details, he allows the colour and texture to naturally build their own character and strengths. A lot of times the paintings seem to reinstate natural elements, but their ambiguity is unanimously maintained throughout the series of works as the artist refrains himself from making them obvious and they remain in a pleasantly concealed stance. They often seem to be in the process of taking shape to change and evolve into another form.
Yet another very interesting work by artist Madhu Kuruva depicts a group of men in the middle of a discussion. It is perhaps the perspective from where the artist seems to have painted them that accentuates the allegorical strengths of the painting. The partially revealed and partially concealed surroundings are figurative and abstract at the same time. The dramatic light source maintained in the painting cannot be missed.
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Article By : Auptimo (Systems for Gait & motion analysis)
With an injury rate of 2.35 per 1000 in the adult population (de Jonge et all, 2011), the Achilles tendon is one of the most commonly injured tendons, especially in athletes involved in running and jumping sports/activities (Kvist, 1994) (Wilson, 2005)
As per studies, the loading on the Achilles tendon during running increases to 12 times the body weight. This is much higher as compared to walking (upto 3.5 times body weight), or cycling (close to body weight) (Komi, et al., 1992). Such loading rates when combined with improper running biomechanics can be detrimental to Midportion Achilles Tendinopathy issues in runners.
A gait analysis, whether observational or through a video based system, is an excellent way to identify any biomechanical faults in the runner. A biomechanical fault can be as a result of either a physical limitation in the body or a technical error in the running form.
In this blog, we will discuss various biomechanical faults that are associate with excessive loading on the Achilles tendon.
BIOMECHANICAL FAULTS ASSOCIATED WITH INCREASED ACHILLES LOADING
FOOT STRIKE PATTERN
Running with a rear footstrike pattern is considered to load the Achilles tendon less than running with a forefoot-strike pattern (Komi, et al., 1992). As per recent studies, running with a midfoot- or forefoot-strike pattern, as opposed to a rearfoot-strike pattern, added an additional load of 48 times body weight for each mile (1.6 km) run. (Almonroeder, et al., 2013)
ASSESSMENT OF FOOT STRIKE PATTERN
Foot strike pattern can be determined by measuring the foot inclination angle.
The foot inclination angle is the angle between the running surface and the sole of the runner’s shoe and allows for the determination of foot-strike pattern.
|Heel Strike||Rearfoot strike||Midfoot strike||Forefoot strike|
|(Landing on the posterior aspect of their heel)||(Landing on the anterior aspect of the heel, with FIA <10 degrees)||(Rearfoot & forefoot making contact nearly simultaneously, with FIA near 0°)||(Forefoot landing with FIA <0 degrees)|
Within the context of return to sport, to control for overall loading, a runner who runs with a forefoot-strike pattern would not be allowed to run as far as a runner with a rearfoot-strike pattern. (SILBERNAGEL & CROSSLEY, 2015)
Overstriding is found in 60-70% of amateur runners and is associated with the runner extending the knee excessively at Initial Contact. Although this strategy increases performance by increasing stride length, it compromises shock absorption & increases braking forces on the body.
A systematic review found that a high breaking force during running may be a risk factor for Achilles tendinopathy. (Lorimer & Hume, 2014)
Typical overstriders hugely benefit from cadence retraining, a method that promotes shorter and faster steps instead of longer steps.
This ensures the same performance and reduces the excessive load on hamstring.
Refer to this link by Stanford Health for some drills.
ASSESSMENT OF OVERSTRIDING
Overstriding can be picked up when reviewing the video taken in the sagittal plane.
The term simply means that the runner is landing excessively ahead of the center of mass of the body (COM can be approximated at the center of the pelvis). Doing this often increases the stride length of the runner, hence the name ‘overstriding’. (Souza, 2016 )
Recent studies have linked excessive subtalar eversion with excessive Midportion Achilles Tendinopathy. In a study comparing running mechanics of runners with Achilles Mid-Portion Tendinopathy with healthy runners, The Achilles Tendinopathy Group displayed significantly greater sub-talar joint eversion displacement during mid-stance of the running gait. (Ryan M, 2009)
Exercise programs for arch strengthening etc along with foot orthotics can be helpful in reducing excessive calcaneal eversion and reducing the load on Achilles tendon loading.
ASSESSMENT OF SUBTALAR EVERSION
Subtalar eversion can be assessed by measuring the rearfoot angle in the posterior view. Rearfoot angle is defined by the midline of the heel relative to the midline of the lower leg.
Any running gait analysis software like GaitON can be used to do a comprehensive running analysis of the runner. All you need is the software and the slow motion video feature of your mobile phone to start.
EXERCISE AS A TREATMENT
Exercise therapy is consistently supported with the highest level of evidence, and eccentric exercise is the most investigated type of exercise therapy. (Kingma, et al., 2007) It is recommended to initially treat all patients with exercise therapy for at least 3 months prior to considering other treatment options. (Alfredson, 2003).
Mentioned below is a progressive Achilles tendon–loading strengthening program that promotes exercise once daily and uses concentric/eccentric exercises.
- Komi, P., Fukashiro, S. & Järvinen, M., 1992. Biomechanical loading of Achilles tendon during normal locomotion. Clin Sports Med..
9. SILBERNAGEL, K. G. & CROSSLEY, K. M., 2015. A Proposed Return-to-Sport Program for Patients With Midportion Achilles Tendinopathy: Rationale and Implementation. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy.
10. Silbernagel, K., Thomeé, R., Eriksson, B. & Karlsson, J., 2007. Continued sports activity, using a pain-monitoring model, during rehabilitation in patients with Achilles tendinopathy: a randomized controlled study. Am J Sports Med..

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Another fused glass technique I first learned from Tanya is pattern bars. Actually she taught several types of pattern bars. The original fused glass piece we made in class has several techniques including: pattern bars, flash glass, and powder printing. This blog I’m only going to focus on fused glass pattern bars. Here are some of the pattern bars I made and I’ll go through each one. Basically you make a pattern bar then you cut it up and incorporate it into other pieces.
In class Tanya taught us the pattern bar on the left (this is the piece that has flash glass, powder, and pattern bar). I made a pattern bar very similar, but instead of using individual slices like I did in the original dish I put two of them together, which is really cool.
The dish on the left is another of the fused glass pattern bars we did in class, it’s called flow bar. When I got home I made the one on the right. I loved it I especially liked how I cut the edges to show off the flows.
The new fused glass flow bar I made is amazing, the only problem is I don’t know which side I like better. When I made it I didn’t put enough of the stacks of glass in so I had to add some to the top. On the left you can see the extra stacks and some extra glass. The piece on the right is the bottom, so you can see the flow better. I just don’t know which side I like best. Instead of making a dish I may get a display and so that both sides can be seen. I just wish ya’ll could see it in person, it’s one of my favorite pieces ever!
After class I liked the pattern bars so much I made some new ones. I think that pattern bars really add to a fused glass piece.
For this blog I thought I’d make some new pattern blogs. The first one is the stripe construction with a pattern bar and the second one has a texture as well as the pattern bar. The third one is actually an obtuse triangle. It’s a fascinating piece I put two of the triangles together then surrounded it by black and clear glass. It’s a great piece. That’s what I life best about pattern bars, they can be incorporated into other things. The 4th one is a pattrnbar on top of a beautiful lilac streaky glass.
I also made another pattern bar but the shelf broke (picture left), but when I cut it up it’s truly amazing. I used it in the 4th piece above. I also made several cabochons, I like them all they look like stones. The red ones are from the obtuse triangle. In the forth group I combined several of the pattern bars to make new pieces.
I also made a couple other fused glass pattern bars. The one on the left is pretty interesting, I did it like it like jaws. The one on the right is a pot melt surrounded by black and white iridized glass. I need to do some coldworking but it’s beautiful. I’m not sure what I’ll do with it. The potmelt is transparent so I may make it into a tower or sconce.
I hope you enjoy these fabulous fused glass pattern bars as much as I do. As you can see by the first picture I have plenty more of the pattern bars to cut up and include in other fused glass pieces. I’ll keep ya’ll posted!
If you would like to see more of my fused glass work please refer to my website Elegant Fused Glass by Karen.If you get a chance, check out all my sites, Fused Glass by Karen, My Etsy store, my Art fire Store, my Pinterest, and Elegant Fused Glass by Karen youtube.If you would like to stay abreast of what I’m up-to and learn a little more about jewelry, check out our newsletter. It is published the last day of each month.

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Growing Heritage Grains in Texas
I live in the Blackland Prairie region of Texas and am interested in growing some heritage wheat, including "Turkey Red," "Red Fife," and spelt, as well as rye and oats, all for human consumption (and in particular, bread making), and all without the use of chemicals. I'd like to find more information on growing these grains in Texas, and I'm wondering if you have any. Here are some of my questions:
- What are the required growing conditions for these grains?
- Do you know of any farmers currently growing these grains in Texas, and could I get their contact information?
- Can you direct me to any publications on trials with these grains that have taken place in Texas or in a similar growing region?
- What kinds of problems might one encounter in growing these grains, for example, pests or diseases?
Thank you for your time and help!
McLennan County Texas
I dont know of anyone in this area growing wheat as you refer to it in this area. Much of our wheat grown locally is hard red winter wheat and some soft wheat of which much of it is used for human consumption. In fact we normally have approximately 40,000 acres of wheat grown in McLennan County. These wheat fields are produced by utilizing seed treatments to protect the seed from fungal disease and insect pressure. There are many fungal diseases such as septoria, glume blotch, stripe rust, etc that all negatively affect wheat yield. Each year our wheat crops are victims to constant insect pressure from green bugs, aphids, grasshoppers, armyworms and many more insects. All of these also negatively affect wheat yield.
I conduct result demonstrations with hard red winter wheat varieties, soft wheat varieties and oats each year. The growing season is from mid November to now.....to Mid June. There are multiple sources of variety trials such as http://varietytesting.tamu.edu/
If you click on the "small grains" website http://varietytesting.tamu.edu/wheat/index.htm it list multiple pages that can answer some of your questions.
Farmers could not afford to grow grain in this part of Texas without the use of herbicides, fertilizer, fungicide, insecticide, etc. Their yield/production would be so low they would not be able to be in business.
We do not grow "rye" in this area. We do have ryegrass which is different and is used for livestock grazing.
Thank you for your quick and thorough response to my questions.

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This presentation will explore preliminary findings from a study examining the experiences of pregnant women who smoke and who have agreed to be referred to local NHS Stop Smoking Services to help them to quit smoking. The study is examining the facilitators and barriers to a successful quit attempt and the various components of service provision which help pregnant women to quit smoking. The research is being carried out in three areas in the South West of England comparing the elements of provision and the experiences of women receiving NHS Stop Smoking support in each of these areas. One of the research sites is piloting a scheme which provides vouchers for CO validated (carbon monoxide test) abstinence as an incentive to encourage quitting, and this scheme will be compared with NHS Stop Smoking support for pregnant smokers in two other research sites. Qualitative in-depth interviews are being conducted with pregnant women, midwives and specialist stop smoking advisers. It is hoped that this study will provide useful qualitative data that will enhance ongoing service monitoring and inform future service provision for pregnant women.
|Translated title of the contribution||Women’s and midwives’ perceptions of services and financial incentives for smoking cessation in the South West of England|
|Title of host publication||2010 UK National Smoking Cessation Conference, Glasgow|
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Milling machine was working on bridge at time of collapse; no serious injuries in painful reminder of I-35W disaster
A bridge in Nobles County is closed to traffic following a partial collapse that occurred while a contractor was working on the bridge deck.
The County State Aid Highway 1 bridge, which extends over Elk Creek near the town of Brewster, was being prepared for bituminous overlay Tuesday when a section of the span gave way under an 80,000-pound milling machine.
“They were milling the bituminous surface off the bridge deck to get it ready for the bituminous overlay,” Nobles County Engineer Steve Schnieder said. “They had milled off the entire surface” and were making a final run when the failure happened.
The machine operator escaped without serious injury and no one else was hurt. The operator managed to jump off the machine onto a portion of the bridge deck that stayed intact, Schnieder said.
He was sent to the doctor as a precautionary measure.
“He may have jammed his knee a little, but I talked to him after it happened and he was out walking around,” Schnieder said.
Tom Johnson, president of Lakeville-based MidState Reclamation & Trucking, said the machine operator was “a little sore this morning, but he jumped and landed flat-footed” and is “very fortunate.”
He said his company was under contract to remove three inches of concrete off the top of the bridge.
Even though there were no injuries, the incident offered a painful flashback to the deadly Interstate 35W bridge collapse of August 2007.
Tim Worke, director of the Associated General Contractors of Minnesota’s highway division, said the most recent failure once again underscores the need for more infrastructure investment.
“It is obvious to me that more work needs to be done to address our ongoing and ever-present infrastructure investment deficit,” Worke said.
Worke said the contractor was “performing the work outlined in the contract and under the supervision and inspection from the owner.”
Johnson agreed that there’s an obvious need to look at “take a look at our infrastructure,” but he avoided a negative tone as he talked about the incident.
“We want to be very cautious,” he said. “The county has been very good. There has been no finger-pointing. Let’s get the facts before we make any statements.”
Failure being investigated
Schnieder said it’s still not clear why the failure happened.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the milling machine was still perched on top of a caved-in portion of the bridge, angling toward the creek below.
The contractor is awaiting the arrival of a crane that’s large enough to remove the machine, Schnieder said. After the machine and bridge debris are removed investigators will take a closer look at the damage.
The failed portion of the 40-foot-wide bridge is about nine feet wide and 50-feet long, Schneider said.
The bridge was built in 1974 and was at about the halfway point of its estimated useful life, he said. It was on a two-year inspection cycle with the county’s bridge inspector, and was up for inspection this fall.
However, a consultant hired by the Minnesota Department of Transportation inspected the span this past summer and was scheduled to issue a report this fall, according to Schneider.
The bridge was being inspected to determine its fitness to carry trucks with heavier loads in a more concentrated area, according to Schnieder.
State bridge inspectors were having a look at the damage, he said, and they will be talking to the consultant in an effort to determine why the failure happened.
One possible cause was deterioration in an outer piling, he noted. But the bottom line is “we really don’t have any definitive answer” yet.
Depending on the condition of the rest of the bridge, it may be possible to reopen the span to limited traffic at some point with a temporary barrier around the portion that collapsed, Schnieder said.
Jim Naumann, city clerk for the city of Brewster, said the bridge saw heavy use from school buses and truck traffic going in and out of the fertilizer plant and soy bean plant in town.
The bridge’s closure will affect “mostly the schools and the farmers,” he said. “They are going to have to go east or west a few miles to catch other roads. … The main thing is no one got hurt or injured, from what I understand.”S


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Caine’s Mutiny (Caine Riordan Book 4), by Charles E. Gannon 6.7 (out of 10)
New York 2140, by Kim Stanley Robinson 8.2
The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin 9.0
Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz 8.5
Caine’s Mutiny, the fourth book in Gannon’s Caine Riordan series, shares a lot of the strengths and flaws of the previous novels. In this entry, Caine and his team travel incognito to a Hkh’Rkh colony planet to investigate reports of renegade Terrans engaging in deadly raids on the population. The truth about the raiding parties unmasks a centuries old conspiracy that threatens the future of the Convocation. Gannon’s compulsive need to explain every possible detail and nuance of every thought, action and decision is a both blessing and a curse: sometimes insightful and revealing, but often just tedious and murky, like he’s talking himself in circles. His affection for the particulars of military strategy, for example, drag out the second half of this very long book almost interminably. Still, even if Gannon’s eccentricities frustrate as often as they charm, the series’ interstellar political machinations pack the usual punch, and its galaxy-trekking tableau is good for some old school thrills.
Robinson’s epic of the Big Apple – post-climate catastrophe – follows multiple characters living in the same high-rise building. The various storylines converge around the search for two missing residents who may hold the answer to why a real estate group is suddenly trying to buy out the other residents and take over the building. Like all of Robinson’s novels, New York 2140 is peppered with political and economic lectures – some interesting, some tedious. The most transparent flaw in all of Robinson’s fiction is his tendency to engineer his stories to mold whatever message he wants to impart to the reader, and this novel is par for the course (he seems to be aware of this – at one point one of the characters actually points it out). Robinson is also a gifted prose writer and intuitive humanist, and New York 2140 features some of his fleshiest and most sympathetic characters, as well as some of his most thrilling sequences. This novel is worth investing your time, especially if you share some of the same interests as the author.
In my review for The Obelisk Gate, I wrote that it felt more like the first half of a novel, so I am not surprised that The Stone Sky feels like the second half of that novel. I think I might have preferred if Jemisin had simply released these last to books as a single volume, so I didn’t feel so much like I had to wait a year to read the rest of a book. Some of The Stone Sky feels padded, and in particular the chapters that deal with the origin of the stone eaters could have been saved for a companion novella. Ultimately though, Essun’s journey as a broken woman in a broken world is one of the most compelling in all of fantasy literature, and the conclusion to that journey – where she makes her final stand to repair both the woman and the world – is magnificent.
Autonomous is the excellent debut novel from lauded science journalist Annalee Newitz. Set in the year 2144, Jack makes her living pirating pharmaceuticals to help people who can’t afford life-saving medication. To pay the bills, she also pirates drugs like Zacuity, a kind of legal speed that is supposed to help people focus at work. She discovers too late that Zaxy, the makers of Zacuity, failed to disclose evidence of potentially deadly side effects that are magnified in people using her pirated version of the drug. Knowing that big pharma will send the authorities to hunt her down, she has precious little time to both find a fix for Zacuity and reveal the truth about Zaxy’s malfeasance. Meanwhile, the cops assigned to find her, Eliasz and his new robot partner Paladin, find themselves succumbing to the normally repressed sexual tension that ripples through the usual buddy-cop flick, as they mow down everyone who stands in their path to Jack.
The world-building alone elevates Autonomous to near-classic status, right down to the details of how semi-autonomous AI interact. The relationship between Eliasz and Paladin is certainly the most entertaining of the two main plot threads; their assumptions (or lack therof, in Paladin’s case) about their sexuality are fertile ground for both satire and pathos, which Newitz mines to great effect, even if the action scenes are a little over the top. Jack’s story sags a bit after a terrific start – the midpoint of the novel is wrought with an excess of melancholy flashbacks and moral hand-wringing. Newitz does stick the landing though, as the convergence of their stories makes for a satisfying conclusion.

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Priority application deadline (siblings of current students and children of Rashi faculty / staff and alumni): November 18, 2020
Admissions application deadline: Sunday, January 31, 2021
Returning families financial aid deadline: Friday, December 4, 2020
New families' financial aid deadline: Monday, February 8, 2021
Admissions decisions: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
New families enrollment deadline: April 9, 2021
We do accept off-cycle applications after the Jan. 31, 2021 deadline; however, you will receive an admissions decision after April 15.


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This sticky sweet date cake will be your new favourite bake
Pit and chop the dates before heating in a saucepan with 250ml/1 cup water. Bring to the boil and then mash with a potato masher
Add baking soda, stir in and set aside for around 20 minutes to cool
Whisk 225g/1 cup butter with ½ cup/100g brown and granulated sugar until light and fluffy
Add in 1 egg at a time, beating each one in before adding the next
Add 1tsp vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom and clove and mix until well combined before adding the dates, flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt and whisk well
Grease a cake tin and pour in the mixture, smooth over to release air bubbles and bake for 40-45 minutes at 350ºF/180ºC
To make the caramel sauce, combine ½ cup/112g butter with heavy whipping cream, 1tsp vanilla, a pinch of salt and ½ cup/100g brown sugar in a saucepan and simmer for around 10 minutes until smooth and not grainy. Cool, pour over the cake and enjoy!


text: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between fat taste sensitivity, food intake and diet quality in 41 male adults, aged 19-54 years, without any eating disorders. Food consumption in five consecutive days was recorded to evaluate food intake, and diet quality was assessed by Health Dietary Indicator-2015. Fat taste thresholds were evaluated with 3-Alternative Forced Choice Methodology. The mean fat taste threshold of the hypersensitive and hyposensitive individuals were 1.48 +/- 0.30 mM and 7.87 +/- 0.61 mM, respectively. Hypersensitive individuals had lower energy, dietary fat, monounsaturated fatty acid, polyunsaturated fatty acid intake and energy rate from dietary fat (p<0.05). Health Dietary Indicator-2015 score was higher in hypersensitives than hyposensitives (p<0.05). Body weight, body mass index and waist circumference were lower in hypersensitive individuals (p<0.05). These findings show that fat taste sensitivity plays an important role in food intake and diet quality in individuals without eating disorders.


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Aoife Cooke Fitness and Massage Therapy
Aoife is a qualified massage therapist and is continuing in her studies currently to become a Neuromuscular Therapist.
She is a well accomplished runner and took part in the Tokyo Olympics in the Marathon in 2021 and continues to run at a high level. She has years of experience in the fitness industry working as a Personal Trainer, Pilates Teacher and Running Coach.
Offering massage therapy session now in Glanmire Therapy Clinic
- Full body massage
- Deep tissue massage
-Back neck and shoulder massage
-Lower body massage

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Permanent or Portable? This is a distinction that decides much about your bench choice: Is it to remain stationary or must it fold, roll, or otherwise make itself scarce between jobs? Large, heavy benches are more stable and, in general, more adaptable to different jobs (sometimes several at once). But the bigger the bench, the more hassle involved with stowing it.
One aspect of the Windsor Design that is hit or miss is the vice. Notice we have to use the singular when describing it because this is the first workbench that we have reviewed which features only one vice. To make matters more frustrating, the vice cannot be repositioned along the bench. That said, the vice does at least have the largest capacity out of any we reviewed. At 7” capacity, the Windsor Design vice can secure any size workpiece you may have.
Timberframing is a traditional technique for building large and small structures using only wooden joinery. Prized for its structural integrity and beauty, as well as reliance on hand skills, timberframing is regaining popularity in modern applications. We will start with an overview of the different styles and aesthetics involved, and move into the specific tools that are used to lay out and cut the strong joints. Each student gets guided practice time making sample joints. We will all work together to make a small structure that can be raised on the final day of class.
I decided to finish the top with a number of coats of Danish oil, followed by a coat of wax. I applied the first coat of oil in the usual manner, making sure to cover the edges, and down the holes. I applied a coat oil to the top side of the shelf, as well. Wipe it on, let it sit wet for half-an-hour, then rub it off. Wait a day or two, add a second coat, and then again for a third.
The Classic Workbench is constructed entirely with in-compression-for-eternity drawbored mortise and tenons. It's as solid as humans can make it, short of growing a tree in the shape of a bench. The bench arrives at your shop completely assembled and ready to use. It doesn't knock down. The bench is built to the highest standards of traditional German craftsmanship in the utopian village of Amana Iowa. Our collaboration with the craftsmen in Amana, along with our experience in traditional workholding has yielded a workbench that is truly heirloom quality, but offered at what we think is a very reasonable price. We consider our flagship Split-Top Roubo as nearing the pinnacle of bench design (if there is such a thing) but we wanted to offer an essential bench built to high standards--an approachable but bulletproof tool for passionate enthusiasts of all levels, but especially intended for those just getting into the craft. Our principal bench maker has been steeped in the craft at the Amana Furniture Shop for nearly 50 years. Needless to say, a century and a half of woodworking tradition in Amana directly back to 19th century Germany speaks for itself. Many of the Amana craftsmen are multi-generational woodworkers.
After you have all the holes clean, set things up for your glue-up. You want everything on-hand before you start - drill, driver bit, glue, roller or whatever you're going to spread the glue with, and four clamps for the corners. You'll need a flat surface to do the glue-up on - I used my hollow core door on top my bench base - and another somewhat-flat surface to put the other panel on. My folding table was still holding my oak countertop, which makes a great flat surface, but I want to make sure I didn't drip glue on it so I covered it with some painters plastic that was left over from the last bedroom we painted.
Yea I had a friend who went the HD route and in after putting new braces up for the roof and an extra layer of plywood on the floor he gave up the fight and tore it down. We ended up building twice the shed that was 100 times more sturdy for less than he had invested in the first one. I would go any route that is the opposite way of HD or Lowes. Learn from this guy.
If the holes of the first jaw are in the proper position, drill holes in the same locations on the other jaw. I lined the drilled jaw on top of the undrilled jaw, clamped things down, and then drilled about 1/4" into the undrilled jaw, to mark the location. Then I removed the drilled jaw and drilled out the marked locations the same way I did the first.
This is probably one the easiest woodworking projects you will find here. Although easy, a doormat is an equally important and useful item for households. As you can see in the image below, you will only need some 2X2 wooden boards and rope to build a simple doormat. This doormat is mostly useful for outdoor and porch. It will easily remove all the mud from your shoes with just one wipe. It is also very easy to clean and looks fabulous even if it is dirty.
The projects in this course follow a natural progression of skills, techniques and tools. Some of the early student-made tools are, in fact, used to help make the next tool or bench fixture in the series. You are supported in the building of these projects with step-by-step outlines, knock-down examples and continuing, one-on-one consultations with the faculty. Periodic evaluations of your progress with a specific faculty-mentor help keep you on track.
Constructed with the classic craftsmanship that Grey’s Woodworks is known for, our beautiful sheds come in a variety of styles, sizes and colors. We will help you design a shed to match your surroundings and meet your needs. Select from our pine tongue and groove, duratemp T1-11, or vinyl sidings and arrange doors and windows to your liking. All of our sheds are handcrafted in modern workshops. Not only does a shed from Grey’s Woodworks provide much needed storage space for your mower, snow blower or bike, but it also makes for an attractive addition to your property.
Our stationary equipment runs the complete range from heavy-duty industrial machines, to inexpensive home shop type of tooling so that each student can compare and contrast the range and versatility of equipment at a wide variety of price points. We spend time on what makes a good machine good, an adequate one adequate, and a lousy machine worthless. We have no commercial sponsors and will share our opinions based on our experiences regarding the quality of one manufacturer over another. There is no better place to kick the tires on a variety of equipment than at our shop.
Prices, promotions, styles, and availability may vary. Our local stores do not honor online pricing. Prices and availability of products and services are subject to change without notice. Errors will be corrected where discovered, and Lowe's reserves the right to revoke any stated offer and to correct any errors, inaccuracies or omissions including after an order has been submitted.
Build a shed yourself and use it as "on the job training." Those straw built sheds are rinky dink. The people who throw them together are even more sketchy than the finished product. You will be tearing it apart and hauling it out within a few years. Or end up having to reinforce the building with more braces and another layer of flooring. Thats my 99 cents. Its not hard to build a shed especially one of that size. Cowboy up and give it a shot.
Over the years, the editors at The Family Handyman have built nearly a hundred bookcases. From all that experience, we’ve learned that the best building tricks are shortcuts that avoid complex steps. So whether you’re a beginning builder or a veteran, these bookcase and shelf building tips will lead to beautiful results with less time and effort. Get the bookcase and shelf tips.
Glue up the trim on the end, first. Do a dry fit, first, then as you take it apart lay everything where you can easily reach it as you put it back together again, after adding the glue. To help keep the edge piece aligned, I clamped a pair of hardboard scraps at each end. I used the piece of doubled MDF I'd cut off the end as a cawl, to help spread the pressure of the clamps. Squeeze some glue into a small bowl, and use a disposable brush. As you clamp down, position the trim just a little bit proud of the top surface.
Having done all this, I'm not sure I'd do it this way again. It might well be faster to layout the positions with compass and straightedge directly onto the top. Either way, you'll want to use a scribe rather than a pencil. Scribe lines are hard to see, and impossible to photograph, but the scribe and compass points click into them, allowing a precision that pencils simply cannot match.
Once you have all the clamps on, take off the scraps of hardboard. You can clean up the glue squeezeout with a damp rag.. When the glue is dry, trim down the strip flush with the panel using a router and a flush-trim bit. Then cut off the ends of the strip with a flush-cut saw, and clean up with a block plane, an edge scraper, or a sanding block. Leaving the ends in place while you route the edge helps support the router.
Foundations of Woodworking runs every fall (September - December) and winter (January-March). The application process for each session opens 9 months in advance of the course start date. Applications will be considered for registration in the order in which they are received. There is no fee for applying. Accepted applicants will be invited to register. We ask for a deposit of $200 at the time of registration to ensure your place in the class.
A shed is a great project to earn your sawdust legs on. It is just some very basic carpentry skills. You could build the whole thing with a circular saw, hammer, utility knife, pencil, and tape rule. Find a friend or relative that has some decent skills to help. You could do it in a weekend. Keep the size on a four foot increment to minimize wastee. I would recommend a 12 x 12 or a 12 x 16 if you can. If you don't want to cut any rafters (which is really a simple process), you can order small triangle shaped trusses for the roof from your local lumberyard. If you are using T1-11 for the sides, get the real plywood based stuff, no waferboard. Same thing for the floor, use plywood (treated if you like). Cedar for the trim, not pine. The visqueen underneath is a good idea. Insulate the walls inside to help temper temperature swings. Build overhanges into the roof all the way around, 12" is nice. These really are a fun project. You can add a small window with a flower box underneath to make it look a little homey too.

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Thomas J. Brown
Thomas Brown has taught Civil War history at the University of South Carolina since 1996. He is the author of Dorothea Dix, New England Reformer (Harvard University Press, 1998), co-editor of Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (University of Massachusetts Press, 2001), and editor of Remixing the Civil War: Meditations on the Sesquicentennial (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011).
Book Title: Civil War Canon: Sites of Confederate Memory in South Carolina
A Selection of the History Book Club, Military Book Club, Scientific American Book Club, and Book-of-the-Month Club 2
In this expansive history of South Carolina’s commemoration of the Civil War era, Thomas Brown uses the lens of place to examine the ways that landmarks of Confederate memory have helped white southerners negotiate their shifting political, social, and economic positions. By looking at prominent sites such as Fort Sumter, Charleston’s Magnolia Cemetery, and the South Carolina statehouse, Brown reveals a dynamic pattern of contestation and change. He highlights transformations of gender norms and establishes a fresh perspective on race in Civil War remembrance by emphasizing the fluidity of racial identity within the politics of white supremacy.
Despite the conservative ideology that connects these sites, Brown argues that the Confederate canon of memory has adapted to address varied challenges of modernity from the war’s end to the present, when enthusiasts turn to fantasy to renew a faded myth while children of the civil rights era look for a usable Confederate past. In surveying a rich, controversial, and sometimes even comical cultural landscape, Brown illuminates the workings of collective memory sustained by engagement with the particularity of place.


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People are at the heart of Commonwealth Care Alliance's mission. With more than 40k members relying on the not-for-profit organization for their healthcare needs, the enterprise debuted an employee experience platform designed to arm team members with the tools necessary to provide an unparalleled standard of care.
Unily has worked with customers from all verticals to develop unique digital experiences that transform communication, collaboration, engagement and productivity. Every project we take on is another opportunity to demonstrate both the power and agility of our platform.
Informa is an international business intelligence, publishing and events company. With 7,500 colleagues working in one of five business divisions, in locations from Sydney to São Paulo, the goal was to create a new digital workspace that would increase collaboration, improve the flow of communication and bring people together.
As a global design firm, Stantec required a platform that would unite employees and become a cultural lynchpin. The Canada-based enterprise envisioned an internal newsroom where employees would interact with company news and contribute to a collaborative culture. Unily brought this vision to life and kicked-off a digital workplace journey.
British Airways is the UK's largest international airline and one of the world's leading global premium carriers. Operating one of the most extensive international scheduled airline route networks, BA carries almost 40 million customers a year to more than 70 different countries.


The BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards
is an annual award ceremony held in the United Kingdom that celebrates the best of music and acting. Its hosted by BBC Radio 1.
Demi Lovato appeared at the award show, performing her single Confident.
Demi Lovato - Confident (Radio 1's Teen Awards 2015)


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Hilary Joyce Boyle (25 October 1899 – 21 October 1988) was a journalist, broadcaster, and activist.
Born Hilary Joyce Thompson on 25 October 1899 in London, she was the second child of Winifred Helen Thompson (née Hopkins) and Gerald Alexander Thompson, vicar of St Gregory's church, Canterbury, and canon of Canterbury Cathedral. Boyle received her education in an all girls school in South London. In 1921 she married a British Army officer, Lt-Col. Charles Leofric Boyle and through his postings spent time in Ireland, Jamaica, Malta and India between 1925 and 1935.
Boyle moved back to England from India and subsequently settled in Ireland. She separated from her husband in 1935 and they finally divorced in 1950 and her husband married again. They had four daughters and eventually she was estranged from them also. She lived in Ballsbridge and later Cabinteely for most of her life in Ireland.
Boyle became a Roman Catholic but later left it to join the Communist Party of Ireland. She was involved in a number of activist activities including the Dublin Housing Action Committee and the anti-Vietnam-war campaign. She ensured that she marched both north and south of the border on various protests. She was involved in the Irish anti-apartheid movement and homeless work.
Boyle also wrote for the Woman's Way magazine as a gardening editor as well as various other articles. She also wrote to the Irish Times letters page and for Radio Éireann's Sunday miscellany. Boyle was a guest of the Late Late Show more than once. Boyle wrote Every Common Bush. A Book of Flower Legends for Children which was published in 1947. Boyle died on 21 October 1988 in the Arras retirement home, Bray.

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I enjoy bowling, board games, card games, dining out, going for a walk or staying in. I am shy at first till you get to know me lol.
I am sincere, open, caring and loving with a g.s.o.h.
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A dog has gone viral for his unusual method of showing love for his doggy sibling.
Although he is twice the size of his sister Tallulah, the adorable Archie is constantly sitting on top of her when he wants to shower her with affection.
Photos of the pair cuddling up together were shared on Facebook by their human Jennifer Tyler from New York, with the post racking up more than 12,000 likes so far, as well as thousands of comments from people in awe of their connection.
Archie, a two-year-old Can Corso, has been planting his bum on top of Tallulah since they first met.
Jennifer and her husband have four dogs in total; they got Archie when he was eight weeks old, and also look after his adoptive siblings Bruce and Annie.
Tallulah is the newest member of the family and was adopted three years ago from a local rescue shelter.
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The penning trap electron gun for the KATRIN experiment
Author(s)Trowbridge, Sarah Nicole
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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The KArlsruhe TRitium Neutrino experiment (KATRIN) is currently in under construction, with plans to be activated in 2010. The experiment will measure the energy of electrons recoiling from the three body beta decay of Tritium (Hydrogen with two neutrons) in order to obtain the mass of the neutrino. The experiment will be sensitive down to 0.2ev/c2. My thesis focuses on the one of the calibration sources for this experiment: the Penning trap electron gun. This calibration source will use ion storage techniques usually used in high resolution mass spectroscopy to store and excite electrons to a known energy and then release them with a user-controlled angular distribution. These electrons will then travel through the experimental apparatus and be detected as if they were electrons from events in the experiment, thus providing valuable information on the response of the detector. In this thesis, I performed simulations in a windows-based ion flight package to measure the characteristic frequencies of an ion caught in the trap as well as to study the response of the system to driving by microwaves. I also worked on testing of the first two prototypes of the electron gun itself, concentrating on transitioning from a thermionic electron source to a photoelectric electron source.
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-62).
DepartmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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NAC is the biggest enemy of the arts – Maiko Zulu
By Staff Reporter
Musician Miko Zulu has accused the National Arts Council (NAC) of being at the helm of inciting divisions and confusions in the arts, particularly in the music industry.
And Maiko says he finds it fun that the president advised artists not to politicise the industry claiming, “it is more political than any political party”.
In a Facebook post on his wall, Maiko accused the Council of having a negative organisational attitude compared to the previous Mumba Kapumba led administration which was promising.
“A forensic audit of the council, from the time Mumba Kapumpa left needs to be carried out. This will help us to see if things that killed the Ngoma and Mosi awards will not resurface. The whole relevance of the NAC and the Ministry of Tourism and Arts is in question because over the years, artists built the industry with their own, sweat, blood and tears with little help from these bodies” he says.
Maiko accuses the Council for only organising cultural groups to go and dance at the airport, dissolving associations and issuing licences to foreign promoters at the expense of arts development.
“One just needs to analyse the beneficiaries of the few NAC supported projects and certain bootlicking associations that sit on the Council to understand how the association has been operating. NAC has been painting a wrong picture of the arts when they sit with government leaders and wanting to dictate how certain associations like ZAM should be run and who should lead them,” he said.
He said it was nice to see pictures of musicians and other artists posing with the republican president Edgar Lungu last week, with everybody looking attractive and fashionable.
“The only thing I didn’t find attractive though, was the shadow of the National Arts Council, who in my opinion and organisational experience have been the greatest enemy of the arts. Seeing NAC peddling misinformation in front of the president and artists like an absentee father is similar to seeing a picture of Chishimba Kambwili on ZNBC main news with a caption “President ‘E’ Lungu,” he said.
He urged the authorities to amend the 1994 NAC Act and have the whole system of affiliating arts associations revised stating that “we cannot have a council whose larger chunk of its budget goes to administrative costs and salaries/allowances and not to the development of the arts and artists”.


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Toward the end of April, the changelog for a Good Lock update hinted that we'd be getting a new module called Routine +. The name suggested that it would be linked to Bixby Routines, and that assumption was correct. Routine + is now available and brings tonnes of experimental new features to Bixby. Read More
Battery saver can be crucial for eking out those last few minutes of screen time before you can make it to a charger, but the implementation in Android 9 Pie and earlier is a little crude; you could only set it to turn on at a specific percent remaining. In Android Q, you have the option to base it around your routine. Read More
Google revealed that its Assistant Routines would be integrated into the Clock app just a couple of days ago, giving you information like the day's weather, your upcoming calendar, and other configurable settings after the alarm is dismissed. At the time, we were told the feature would be rolling out this week, and Google seems to have just barely made that cutoff. Google Assistant Routine integration into the Clock app is now live. Read More
It hasn't been 2 months since Google Assistant dominated half the conversation at CES (with Alexa taking the other half) and now it's back again with more announcements and new things for MWC. After Google's teaser that new Android One and Go phones are coming at MWC next week, now we have a new announcement from the Google Assistant team and it's a big one. Some would call it a worldwide one.
First is the news that Google Assistant will be spreading to more languages and locales. From the current 8 languages, it will reach 30 by the end of the year and thus cover 95% of all eligible Android phones worldwide. Read More
Sometimes developers strike (figurative) gold. They send an app submission just when you're thinking that you need to find an app that does the exact same thing, and it's Presidents Day so your plate is otherwise empty and you can try it out. Such is the case with Chrono List. But let's back up.
For a few days now, I have been thinking how silly it is that I have to keep staring at my treadmill's timer to figure out when to switch speeds during my runs. See, some days I go for a gradual speed increase over 5' intervals, and other days I do a HIIT of 1' intense runs and 2' walks. I Read More


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With Sundance in full swing in Park City, I got to sit down with Juno Temple and Chris Zylka to talk about their work in Gregg Araki’s Kaboom (watch my interview with Araki here). Premiering January 21st in limited release and nationwide on VOD (Video on Demand), Kaboom is a ” thriller/comedy telling the story of Smith (Thomas Dekker), an ambisexual 18 year-old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic seaside Southern California town.” The film also stars Haley Bennett, Rozane Mesquida, James Duval, and Andy Fischer-Price. If you’re a fan of Nowhere, The Doom Generation and Totally F*cked Up, you definitely want to check out Kaboom.
During the interview, Temple and Zylka talked about how they’d describe Kaboom to friends, how the film captures that first love energy, how they got involved in the film, the nudity, the differences from the script to what ended up on screen, their reaction to the very honest “lessons in giving head” scene, and what they have coming up. For all you Spider-Man fans, Zylka plays Flash Thompson in the reboot. Hit the jump to watch:
Before going any further, you should definitely watch the trailer for Kaboom here. And here’s the full synopsis:
Kaboom is a thriller/comedy telling the story of Smith (Thomas Dekker from Heros) an ambisexual 18 year old college freshman who stumbles upon a monstrous conspiracy in a seemingly idyllic seaside Southern California town.
Smith’s everyday life in the dorms – hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor – all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.
Tripping on some hallucinogenic cookies he ate at a party, Smith is convinced he’s witnessed the gruesome murder of an enigmatic Red Haired Girl who has been haunting his dreams. What he discovers as he tries to find out the truth leads him deeper and deeper into a mystery that will forever change not only the course of his young life but the destiny of the entire world.
Juno Temple and Chris Zylka
- How they describe the film to their friends. A film about “teenagers discovering their sexuality and a cult that wants to end the world.”
- 1:25 – Talk about how the film captures that “first-love” energy that teenagers encounter. How everyone can relate to the feelings explored in the film.
- 3:30 – How the initial meetings with director Gregg Araki went discussing the nudity involved. Talk about how the nudity in the film is necessary to the scene.
- 5:30 – Talk about the current state of nudity on film in the industry and how studios are reluctant to portray sex honestly.
- 5:46 – Zylka talks about coming from Ohio to LA, the culture shock and how doing things that scare him the most make him a better actor.
- 6:43 – Talk about the difference between the script and the actual film. How the script was more graphic in its sexuality than the finished film.
- 7:30 – Talk about their reaction to reading the very honest “lessons in giving head” scene.
- 9:05 – The two talk about what projects they have coming up. Zylka talks about currently working on the Spider-Man reboot. Temple talks about her film Little Birds that’s screening in-competition at Sundance.


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- The opening ceremony was omitted for the first time in TI’s history
- Fans criticized Valve for this other production qualities
- The event’s prize pool is less than half that of last year’s TI
Dota 2 fans are not happy that Valve decided to skip the over-decade-long tradition and not have an opening ceremony for this year’s The International.
Valve Omits TI11 Opening Ceremony
Dota 2’s The International is the biggest tournament not just in the franchise, but in esports as a whole. And with over a decade since its first iteration, the tournament has created and sustained several traditions that fans adore and expect to see every year. However, this year’s The International 11 seems to be missing something very important, and fans are not happy about it.
From the very first TI tournament in Cologne, Germany, in 2011, Valve has always opened the event with a grandiose ceremony. This hyped fans for the upcoming battles and was considered as important of a part of the event as the grand finals. Eveamidof the Covid-19 pandemic, Valve still created a spectacular opening ceremony.
So it should come as no one’s surprise when fans were disgruntled when this year’s TI event did not include any kind of opening celebration. Fans were eager to see what Valve had prepared, followed by an opening speech by non-other than the company’s president Gabe Newell before the start of the first match. But they were unpleasantly surprised when Valve missed to do this for the first time in its history.
Fans Are Not Happy
It’s not known why Valve decided to skip the traditional opening ceremony this year but fans are already complaining about it on social forums. “Imagine going to SG, paying a lot of money to be able to sit in an uncomfortable chair to watch games that you can watch better online. RIP TI,” wrote one fan under a Reddit post discussing the matter.
“Where is a separate Draft Panel? Where is Game Analysis by Purge? Mann what is this shit. And I only noticed ONE SCREEN in the entire arena, I feel bad for the people attending the event,” wrote another fan regarding the bad placement of the giant screen that was used to play videos of old TI events.
“I fucking stayed up for this shit man. All I wanted to see was my best friend Gabriel Newell welcome me (personally) to The International. Seriously though, not even a tiny opening ceremony?” wrote another fan.
Although this year has seen entertaining matches, Valve has still been criticized for the way it’s running things. One clear example of this is the low TI11 prize pool compared to previous years. Since the prize pool is directly funded by the Dota 2 battle pass, this year’s TI11 prize pool is lower than the previous year for the first time in its history. This is because many fans were dissatisfied with what the battle pass offered and simply chose to not buy it. For comparison, in 2021, the prize pool was just over $40 million, while this year it’s estimated at around $17 million.
There is still hope there will be something like an opening ceremony ahead of the Finals Week, but the reputation damage has already been done.


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6 generic graphic organizers for use with 8th Grade RL 2 theme and central idea practice. All digital files to make a copy and have your own Google Drawing. You can assign and edit for stories as needed.
Graphic organizers for 8th grade practice on RL 6 (point of view and dramatic irony). There are 6 files. 2 for each level of the standard (partially proficient, proficient, and highly proficient.) This is for use with the story The Tell Tale Heart.


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