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Naj bo Digby vaša naslednja počitniška destinacija! morska hrana, pokrajina, prijazni ljudje... lepo se boste imeli.
Boasting a waterfront location, this Digby property offers an on-site bar and restaurant. A kitchen or kitchenette feature in all rooms. Digby Pines Golf Resort and Spa is 2 km away.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 9
The Digby Pines Golf Resort features an on site Aveda-inspired spa and offers a full buffet breakfast. Guest rooms feature a flat-screen cable TV. Middleton is 1 hours’ drive away.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 8,6
Harmony B&B and Suites is situated in Digby, just 2 minutes' walk from Admiral Digby Museum. This accommodation offers free WiFi. All rooms and suites have cable TV and an en suite bathroom.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 9,1
Located in the town of Digby, this property features a complimentary daily breakfast, free Wi-Fi and a children’s playground.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 7,9
Overlooking Annapolis Basin, Digby, Nova Scotia hotel features on-site dining and an indoor heated pool. Admiral Digby Museum is 4 km away.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 8,4
Located on the shores of the Annapolis basin, this motel boasts panoramic views of the water and free WiFi access. Guests of this Digby property have access to a shared terrace on the water.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 8,7
Bayside Inn is located in on Digby's waterfront. Free WiFi access and a full daily breakfast are both available. Several restaurants can be found within 10 minutes' walk.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 9,2
Continental breakfast is provided at this Digby hostel. Free Wi-Fi is included in all rooms. Bay Ferries Digby Terminal is just 5 km away.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 9,5
Located along the Annapolis Basin in Digby, Nova Scotia, this motel has an on-site restaurant and gift shop. Dockside Whale Watching is 180 metres from the motel. Free WiFi access is available.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 8,4
Povprečna ocena gostov: 9.1
Situated on the waterfront in downtown Digby, this family-owned property offers free WiFi and an on-site restaurant. Local shops can be found within 5 minutes' walk.
“Brilliant views and large apartment - great restaurant below.”
Povprečna ocena gostov: 6.8
The Olde Village Inn is located in Sandy Cove. Free WiFi access is available. Each room here will provide you with a TV. Private bathroom also comes with a shower. Extras include bed linen and a fan.
“Really close to brier island for whale watching! Saved probably saved 25 min travel time. Staff are friendly and helpful! Will stay again.”
Povprečna ocena gostov: 8.6
Set on the waterfront of Annapolis Basin, Come from Away B&B is located in Digby Town. It features a furnished patio with water views, a free daily breakfast and Wi-Fi throughout.
“Beautiful older home, well maintained, many original finishes. Our room was well decorated, good seating space, very comfortable bed and very clean! Excellent breakfast included.”
Povprečna ocena gostov: 8.8
This charming inn is 5 minutes’ walk from the shopping and dining of historic, Central Digby. The inn serves guest a daily, homemade breakfast.
“Nice and spacious room, warm breakfast! The B&B is located within a short walk to Digby's village centre.”
Summers Suites offers accommodation in Digby. Weymouth is 31 km away. Free private parking is available on site. All units have a TV. There is also a dining area and a kitchen equipped with an oven.
Povprečna ocena gostov: 9.2
Boasting panoramic views of the harbour, The Breakers Bed and Breakfast is situated in Digby, Nova Scotia. Free WiFi is available throughout this property. All rooms are air conditioned.
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March 1st, 2014
After a winter residency in good ol’ New Orleans, we have some exciting new projects that we are working on getting out to everyone. We will have two records coming out this summer. The first is called Best of Street, and it is a compilation album of street artists in New Orleans. You can check out the project at www.bestofstreet.com. We also just got finished recording some tracks in Valdosta, Georgia to put out a new album this summer!

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A major safety upgrade to Victoria’s number one country level crossing black spot at Lardners Track in Warragul has been completed, Minister for Public Transport Terry Mulder said. The $2 million level crossing and road intersection upgrade works were completed last weekend with the commissioning of boom barriers and advance automatic warning signs at the notorious level crossing and intersection.
Member for Narracan Gary Blackwood met VicTrack project staff at Lardners Track to tour the completed works, including major improvements to the nearby Drouin-Warragul Road intersection.
“The crossing has been upgraded with the installation of boom barriers and safety fencing, significantly improving safety at the rail crossing,” Mr Mulder said.
“Additionally on Drouin-Warragul Road, new traffic lights and advance automatic warning signs have been installed, delivering enhanced safety measures. The boom barriers, traffic lights and advance automatic warning are co-ordinated to maximise safety and traffic flow.”
“We have kept our promise to the Warragul and Drouin communities to improve safety at the state’s number one country level crossing black spot. The Coalition Government is also keeping our promise to other country communities to accelerate improved level crossing safety across the state.”
Mr Blackwood welcomed the completion of the works, which he said the community would warmly welcome.
“For many years, the Warragul community called for action to fix this risky intersection and today I’m pleased to see the rail and road safety project complete,” Mr Blackwood said.
“I’m pleased to see the Coalition Government delivering on its pre-election commitments and delivering for the Narracan community in spades.”
Mr Blackwood said the area around the crossing and intersection included farms, industry, schools and family homes from nearby expanding Warragul.
“The upgrade works have delivered a much safer route for all motorists crossing into the busy Drouin-Warragul Road and that’s what the Drouin and Warragul communities deserve.”
“Whether people drive a farm tractor, a factory van, the school bus or the family car, they can be assured it’s now a safer rail crossing and intersection,” Mr Blackwood said.
The level crossing and road intersection upgrade works were funded under the Victorian Coalition Government’s Level and Pedestrian Crossing Upgrade Program.
VicTrack managed the solution for the intersection and level crossing from the project’s inception.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA) -- Wednesday evening, all three escalators went out of service at the 19th Street entrance of the Dupont Circle Metro station. The comb plate on the escalator on the far right broke and crews are trying to fix it.
Metro riders had to walk up and down the escalators.
One rider, Mike Darnier, was out of breath when we caught up with him on Wednesday evening. He described the whole ordeal as "tough" and said that the escalators break down far too often. Darnier, who has ridden Metro for 6 years, said that he thought that the escalator problems were getting worse and that they may be due, in part, to funding issues.
Around 10:30 p.m., authorities told us that two of the escalators were back in service around 9 p.m. but the third one was still not working. The third escalator at that entrance was already undergoing planned maintenance, say Metro authorities.

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Hold Fast to Dreams
My dream was always to be a writer and to write children's books. My friend's mom told me in 5th grade, when she came to teach us about careers, that I would never make enough money as a writer and maybe I should think about something else. "What about a teacher?"
I love teaching. However there is some part of me that has always wanted to belong to that community, the family of writers, the people who could tell stories and make you laugh weep cry wonder think. I wanted to bring stories to people who didn’t have them. I wanted to give a voice to those who couldn’t speak. Teaching lets me do this in many ways but I have always held a place in my heart for that spot in that other place that I haven’t been able to belong.
When I started this blog four years ago it was with the idea that my dedication to “the magical world of children’s literature and a dream come true” would set the foundation for my place in the family of writing. I thought for sure this world would recognize the stuff my dreams were made of. They would know that this was always a part of me and what possibly took me so long to get there.
Little things happened. I started going to events, I started asking questions, talking to important people in the world of children’s literature. But the open arms weren’t there. Their embrace of a long lost family member never happened. I was told by an “expert” that all the books I loved were the wrong ones. Clearly I wasn’t thinking enough about what children’s literature really was. I felt like I was in middle school all over again. “You dress like a poor person,” was how they told my I didn’t belong then. “You just don’t know,” is what I’ve been told now.
|Cheers to all the "wrong books"|
Text from Brown Girl Dreaming
Still, I’ve struggled to keep up, like the middle schooler I was back then, doing everything I could to find my place in this world I so deeply wanted to be a part of. I tweet. I blog. I follow. I attend.
This summer, the popular group started posting about a book they all loved. And I thought, “I am going to read THAT book and then they will like me!” So I looked it up. The book hadn’t come out yet but they all had an early released copy. Every day I read another important person talk about this book. They tweeted. They blogged. I felt left out again. I was too poor to read the book ahead of time. So I pre-ordered and awaited its release.
Monday my cat passed away. Thursday I got the call that my time had arrived, my book was available.
|I felt my voice and my heart in these|
words from Brown Girl Dreaming
This morning, I sat and read the whole thing in one sitting. It was everything they said it was. But it was more for me. I may not belong to that group, but I did belong to someone. In the past 16 years as I struggled to find my place among friends, at jobs, in my dreams, Nikolas James Pumpkinhead came with me. I told him my stories, sang him my songs, cried in his orange fluff when my heart broke. In this book I read today, words washed over the new hole in my life and gave it a voice when I haven’t been able to speak. This book started to heal my heart. No group can take that away.
So I may not be a part of the popular group. Your world may not follow my tweets or read my blog. But today I realized I truly don’t give a fuck. I’ll keep reading the wrong books and the right books and keep writing even though it doesn’t make me any money. You may know all the publishers, you may be able to afford to have my favorite authors come visit your students, you may all get advanced copies, but you can’t take the change that happens in my heart whenever I read and whenever I write. That is my new dream come true.
|Me too, Jacqueline and Langston, me too|

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Minnesota residents with chronic pain can now purchase medical marijuana with ease now that the state has opened its doors to those with pain that is not alleviated by traditional drugs or therapies. Starting Aug. 1 those who have been ailing from intractable pain and approved by official physicians will be allowed to purchase marijuana oil, pills, vaporized liquid or oil and any other method (excluding smoking) approved by the commissioner.
The year-old medical marijuana program is one of the strictest in the country and opening the program to those with pain as an alternative to prescription medication is making a lot of Minnesota residents happy. Take 3-year-old Elisa McCann, who was born with a rare genetic condition, epidermolysis bullosa, which causes her skin to blister and tear. Her mother has been fed up with the morphine she has been given at this point and would like medical marijuana as an alternative to it.
“If you put a child on morphine when they’re 3, what are you going to do by the time they’re 6?” Gabriella McCann told the Star Tribune.
The 32 surgeries and painkillers have taken a toll on Elisa’s body at such a young age that her mother was desperate for an alternative but didn’t get approved until today. Cannabis oil is one of the alternatives to her taxing pain and can be used to swallow in drops or rubbed on her skin to speed up the healing process.
Some patients have had a hard time qualifying due to doctors, clinics or health systems opting not to certify even with some of the nine serious medical conditions, which includes Cancer and HIV/AIDS. This all changed when Health Commissioner Ed Ehlinger kicked the doors open after hearing about the gut-wrenching stories from those with pain.
The medical marijuana program for Minnesotans has only approved 1,827 patients so far and by opening up the program state officials believe it will help bring prices down and relieve prescription opioid usage and overdoses, which killed 336 in Minnesota last year not to mention musical legend Prince earlier this year.
Now that Elisa has been approved her mother mentioned that she can finally discuss proper dosages with Elisa’s doctors in hopes of alleviating the pain. “It’s hurting right here,” she said, patting a spot just above her knee. Her mother rubbed the spot gently.


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LSD: The Opera: Psychedelics Hit the Stage
Millions of words have been written about LSD and countless songs carry a debt to the oft-demonized hallucinogen. It even lends its name to a whole genre of popular music, acid rock, but there's never been an opera devoted to it. Until now.
Earlier this year, LSD: The Opera opened with a partial performance at the Wallis Annenberg Theater in Beverly Hills in February. That was followed by a pair of performances at the Schindler House in Los Angeles of a scene featuring Timothy Leary and Mary Pinchot Meyer (JFK's murdered mistress) in April, and a performance of five scenes at the REDCAT Theater in downtown Los Angeles in June.
The piece is still a work in progress—only about a third of it has been written—and it seeks not so much to replicate the LSD experience as to tell the history of the culture-warping psychedelic. The characters include LSD itself, played by three female sopranos (Love, Sex and Death), as well as acid icons Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary and LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann, among others.
Scenes written so far include one on Hofmann and his initial accidental discovery of the drug, one on the CIA and its secret LSD experiments in the MK Ultra program, one on Huxley's first psychedelic experience—a mescaline trip described in The Doors of Perception—and one on Leary's siren call to "tune in, turn on, and drop out." Guggenheim fellow Anne LeBaron composed the music and contributed to the libretto, along with Gerd Stern and Ed Rosenfeld.
The score may not replicate the acid experience, but it certainly creates a psychedelic ambiance, thanks in large part to its reliance on American composer Harry Parch's instruments, a collection of Western and non-Western instruments tuned with 43 tones to the octave, and quite capable of shifting listeners' perspective and perception with its fluid manipulation of tuning systems. The result is ethereal and melodic, full of unexpected sounds and microtones that seem to come from another planet.
Anne LeBaron is "an unusually inventive composer," according to the New Yorker, having created an opera about New Orleans voodoo practitioner Marie Laveau, "one-woman cyborg opera" (Sucktion) in which the line between a housewife and vacuum cleaner gets blurred, and an autobiographical monodrama about paranormal goings on in her own home, among other works. Her inventiveness is on full display in LSD: The Opera. Not only the Parchian instrumentation and intonation, but also her use of LSD the character is especially interesting. She (in the form of the three sopranos) bicycles home with Hofmann after his famous first trip, and she escapes from the clutches of the CIA, where she is exploited and abused, into the hungry hands and minds of Leary, Ram Dass and their ilk, bringing the psychedelic revolution into mass consciousness.
We leave you with two videos, the first an introductory interview with LeBaron interspersed with tones from the opera, and the second a scene from the opera itself. Talk about high culture.

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I Just Need Some Space
Its not you,
its just me..
I thought you were the problem but it turns out that it was me.
So listen to what i have to say.
I love you baby, mwa-hugs and kisses, forget them hkoes and forget them bkitches.....
You dont never bring no drama to the game,
and my drama dont be scaring you away.
You dont never talk to much,
exactly just enough,
you know how, when, where and what to say.
my nanme is Ryann and i love that boy Allen
He has a smile thats indenial, and he's so cute.
He might be the one for me, i love you baby.
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Comments about this poem (I Just Need Some Space by Ryann Holland )
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- Algernon Charles Swinburne
(March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
(27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953)
(16 August 1920 – 9 March 1994)
(12 July 1904 – 23 September 1973)
(January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931)
Rainer Maria Rilke
(4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926)
Edgar Allan Poe
(19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849)
(3rd April 19sixty)
- Invictus, William Ernest Henley
- No Man Is An Island, John Donne
- If You Forget Me, Pablo Neruda
- Alone, Edgar Allan Poe
- A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas
- The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
- Winter Solstice, Anonymous


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New York City's office market rebounded in the third quarter from a year earlier, though leasing remained below levels seen before the rise of remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic, and higher interest rates and a strong dollar dampened new investment in the sector. Office leasing volume rose 27.6% to 9.23 million square feet, the strongest quarterly gain since the end of 2019 – a gangbuster year for leasing in New York, according to Colliers International Group Inc. "We're still hearing of large pending deals," said Frank Wallach, executive managing director of New York research at Colliers, adding that leases in the works for months typically close by year's end.
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Datrinti strikes again! On Tuesday, the digital artist shared his own concept art of what Robert Pattinson could look like in the Batsuit, and how he’s done the same for the notorious Catwoman.
Once again, Datrinti offers an amazing take on a character from The Batman. The look is reminiscent of the Batman: The Telltale Series Catwoman, as it takes on a grounded design, while also staying true to the character’s portrayal in the comics. While we have seen parts of Robert Pattinson’s Batman suit, we have seen nothing of Zoë Kravitz’s outfit. The suit Datrinti envisioned could very well be close to what Matt Reeves is shooting for, as it seems he’s trying to capture the middle ground between modern aesthetic and comics-accurate depiction.
With Robert Pattinson’s Batsuit reveal on Vimeo earlier this month, Matt Reeves is just getting started. There’s a plethora of costumes to unveil, not just Catwoman’s; Paul Dano’s Riddler and Colin Farrell’s Penguin come to mind. One thing’s for sure—the buzz around this film has grown in the past week, and as we learn more of The Batman, excitement will continue to build. With awesome concept art like this, fans can only begin to imagine what the movie has in store.
The Batman hits theaters June 25, 2021, and will star Robert Pattinson as Batman and Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman, with Matt Reeves to direct. Make sure to check out Datrinti’s Instagram for more amazing, original art.


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Oct 22 Newsletter – What can MANSAG do for me?
Title: What can MANSAG do for me?
Welcome to this edition of the MANSAG Newsletter.
One of the questions I get asked all the time when I speak to another Nigerian medical or other healthcare professional about joining MANSAG is: “What has
MANSAG done for me?” Over the years, I have thought about this question and I would like to share my reflections.
Our Nigerian community is incredibly diverse and resourceful. We have Nigerians in various leadership roles in the NHS, leading researchers, entrepreneurs, actors, authors, lifestyle coaches, mentors, and so on. We are the 5th largest immigrant
group in the UK, and I feel certain that we can do much better to create an organisation that matches the full scale of our human, social and intellectual capitals.
The Black community and organ donation. What about it?
Recently, I was having a conversation with a barber in Cheetham Hill about my charity work and organ donation campaign. I was caught off guard when he asked me a question about what is lacking in Nigeria and Africa as a whole regarding organ donation. This conversation made me realise that organ donation is a mystery for many people from Nigeria and Africa generally.
Nobody in the African and/or Caribbean community talks about their ill-health. It’s a taboo subject. Before my health problems began, I never would have thought that I would be the one travelling around the UK, speaking to small and large crowds about organ donation.
Sometimes I compare my life now to Saul in the Bible, who persecuted the disciples but later became a convert himself. It takes me back to how my own journey started.

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Coronavirus puts significant strain on hospitals, but some of that burden has been lifted at Los Angeles Community Hospital in east LA. The hospital has been the recipient of dozens of donations to both the hospital and to its nurses and staff working during the crisis.
“We thank all our community partners and friends who helped to make it a bit easier and safer for our staff on the front lines”, said Keith Levy, hospital administrator.
Los Angeles Community Hospital has received numerous donations from community members and other businesses, including:
Los Angeles Community Hospital also gave to its community by donating more than $500 of supplies of milk, bread, eggs, toilet paper and water to residential care are and assisted living facilities, who are experiencing grocery store quantity limitations and supply-chain disruption.
Many restaurants and businesses continue to donate lunches and breakfast to the hospitals’ nurses, doctors and staff making personal sacrifices to care for the east Los Angeles community.
Donors who partnered with area restaurants to provide meals to staff, include:
In addition, Mihn Ta, a nuclear med supplier, donated churros for the entire staff, assisted by staff member Jenny Diaz who donated energy drinks.
To make a donation of PPE, medical supplies or restaurant meals, call (323) 945-2912 or email Keith.Levy@AltaHospitals.com.
See a complete list of needed supplies.

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PATRIOTS Basketball Club have confirmed that Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Gasana will be part of their squad at the upcoming qualifiers for the inaugural Basketball Africa League (BAL) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
The week-long preliminary qualifiers are due October 15-20 in the Tanzania’s coastal city.
There’s a reunion incoming for our BAL East Division games as Gasana Kenny joins familiar faces he teamed up with at the National Basketball team games.— Patriots BBC (@PatriotsBBC) October 9, 2019
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2. CITY OILERS BBC ??
3. JKT BBC ??
4. HAWASSA BBC ??
5. DYNAMO BBC ??
6. BRAVE HEARTS BBC ?? pic.twitter.com/xNAiMWDGq7
Three-time Rwandan champions Patriots are Rwanda’s sole representatives in the continental competition following their successful league title defence last month.
Gasana, 34, arrived in the country Tuesday night, and he is expected to join the team’s training this evening.
Speaking to Times Sport on Wednesday, the club’s Vice President, Thierry Nzaramba, said that the deal with the American-born Rwanda international is to help Patriots during the BAL Qualifiers with a possibility of staying on for the 2019/2020 season.
“We have agreed with him (Gasana) that he will be part of the team in BAL Qualifiers before we can think of discussing a contract for next season,” Nzaramba told this publication.
In the qualifiers, Patriots have been placed in Group D along with Hawassa from Ethiopia, City Oilers from Uganda, JKT from Tanzania, Brave Hearts from Malawi and Dynamo of Burundi.
“He is a good player – experienced and highly talented – that we would love to keep, but right now we are only focused on good performance in Dar es Salaam.”
The star shooting guard joins Patriots at a time when he has been largely linked with a move to Rwanda Energy Group over the last two months.
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New Jersey-based artist Sue Beatrice of All Natural Arts repurposes the tiny parts of old timepieces into antique pocket watches, to assemble intricately detailed sculptures.
In her series entitled ‘Pocketwatch Pendants’, she makes steampunk-esque, magical-looking sculptures of animals and other mythical creatures with ‘clockwork’ precision.
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Before you start install you need to get new foam (seat buns) and burlap material. Do not use old stuff. It has already had fatigue and you will be disappointed on how it sits. When you remove the old hog rings be sure to keep the metal rods within old upholstry as you will need to reinsert these into new material. They are what create the sculpture on the seat. There are similiar rods in the seat and the ones you reinsert must be hog ringed to the seat ones. I use the 1/8 inch diameter straight pull body dent puller to reach in and hook the rod in the upholstry and pull it up to the seat rod where I have a buddy hog ring it. It is great to have help on this reupholstry. Lay your new stuff out and let it warm up prior to install.
I have done a set of 70 std and 70 Mach1 now and YES you are able to do it with a little patience and time.
I did mine last year and they came out great! It was frustrating and hurt my hands, but it's very doable. I would agree about getting new buns and burlap. I have a tip sheet that I put together from posts on here and some digital pics of my own and some tools that I made to help if you would like. Let me know. Good luck!
What he said /forums/images/icons/smile.gif Plus you might as well clean up the seat frame. Remove rust ect... and repaint it. I highly recommend getting new seat buns if you already do not have them. You do not want to do the job twice.
I'd agree with all the other posts so far. One resource I found valuable was Art Trantafello's (sp?) book on Mustang interior restoration. I read through that a few times before doing the job, and it came out pretty good.
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Do it yourself. Take your time & remember how it came apart & just reverse the process to reinstall., If you have a poloroid or a digital camera take pics & you have something to refer to on reassembley.
Here's my shortcut, that I did, but have never seen this shortcut documented any where other than my own posts on the VMF (pats self on back). It will save you at least an hour per seat (probably more) and you will utter 90% less 4 letter words:
The seat backs are easy enough, it's the bases that are the time consuming, frustrating as hell part. When doing the bases ... put the wires into the seat cover and then hog ring the covers to the seat bun. Your hog rings will go in from the bottom side of the bun. Once the seat cover is hog-ringed to the bun, THEN set the bun onto the frame and hog ring the bun to the frame.
I've done 3 interiors now, 3 1/2 if you count in the fact that one of my seats broke and and I had to move my cover over to another seat. The last 2 seats (and the repair of the broken one) where done this way, and it cut the time from approximately 6 hours per seat down to about an hour per seat.
Good luck ... as with any thing, the more you do it, the easier it becomes.


A public hearing for the Planning and Zoning comprehensive plan, in the works for about a year according to director Lyle Weber, was held at the June 26 Board of Commissioner’s meeting.
The hearing was held just after three metrological towers were approved just outside of Tobias. The towers are being built by APEX Clean Energy in order to gather wind pattern data in hopes that a wind farm may be built within Saline County.
Seven residents of Saline or Lancaster counties urged the board to consider and reexamine the part Saline would play, with the wind farm being built less than a mile outside of the county lines. Those residents include Pam Wakeman and Ken Tesar of Lancaster and Dave and Jackyn Bishop of Saline County, Jack Sukovaty of Saline County, Dennis Broz of Saline County and Larry Brydl of Saline County.
“It’s going to affect a lot of people in Saline County in many ways,” Tesar said.
Some of those ways include increase in traffic, population and safety regulations and concerns.
The wind farm is set to be located at 13350 W. Wittstruck Road, owned by Randy Essink of Cortland, who applied for the permit.
The board also heard concerns from Saline County residents about the potential wind farm and towers within county limits.
Requests were heard for the regulations of an increased distance for the wind towers with a suggested distance regulation at anywhere from 1,400 feet to half a mile.
The approved regulated distance had been adjusted from 1,000 to 1,200 feet previously.
“We want to make sure that Saline County is at the forefront of new development in the county but also preserving your prime agricultural land,” Keith Carl, community planner at Hanna-Keelan Associates based in Lincoln, said during the hearing.
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The Island (1980)
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In the gun store, Justin mentions that one of the guns is the type that Dirty Harry used.
When Justin enters Windsor's home he says it looks like Lex Luthor's place in Superman.
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There is something very wrong in our city when a 16-year-old, seeing the deadly toll of gun violence all around him, writes about his life plans and ends with “if I make it to 21.”
There is something even more wrong when that 16-year-old is gunned down in the city’s showcase downtown park, allegedly by another teen, a 17-year-old.
The weekend murder of Seandell Holliday in Millennium Park is one of a recent spate of downtown shootings. Gun violence in the affluent and tourist-driven part of the city is just the latest example of the violence that touches every corner of Chicago.
Quick fixes, like Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s latest curfew restrictions for minors, won’t work to curb that violence among young people, research shows.
Change will only come with a multi-faceted approach: more effective gun regulation and long-term prevention that focuses on jobs, education, mental health counseling and violence intervention.


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The great munition feat, 1914-1918
by George A.B. Dewar
London : Constable, 1921.
- "This book is restricted to the problem of war industry and its organization at home. It only touches incidentally, or where unavoidable, on military matters."--Foreword.


Surface wear describes the process of material loss when two surfaces come into contact with each other. It has significant economic, social and health consequences - just think of the fine particles emitted by moving vehicles. What's more, it can be observed at all levels, from the nanoscale up to the scale of tectonic faults, with the formation of gouge. There are several wear mechanisms, yet the adhesive type is most common. It takes place when two surfaces - such as two pieces of the same metal - rub against one another and adhere.
One of the parameters that influence the wear mechanism is surface roughness. A better understanding of how surface roughness changes during the wear process would improve our control over this mechanism. This could lead to significant reductions in energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and costs.
Researchers at EPFL's Computational Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LSMS) have taken an important step in this direction. They have digitally simulated how surface roughness changes over time, and their results are in line with experimental results.
What sets their simulations apart is their duration: using a method developed at EPFL, the LSMS researchers were able to simulate these mechanisms over an extended period of time. In other words, they managed to capture the entire process - from the initial geometry to the final fractal geometry. Their findings were published on 8 March in Nature Communications.
This study is the LSMS researchers' third on adhesive wear. Their first study - published in 2016 in Nature Communications - used digital simulations to describe how the process of adhesive wear produced fine particles. In 2017, taking their simulations further, they came out with a second study, appearing this time in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, demonstrating that it was possible to predict the volume, shape and size of these particles.
Scientists are still far from fully understanding the physics underlying wear, and engineers must still carry out ad hoc experiments for each situation. What is known, however, is that worn surfaces display a characteristic fractal morphology, called self-affine, that has some fundamental properties regardless of the material and the scale. The origins of this self-affine morphology are still unknown.
Little work has been done on how surface roughness changes over time - and it has been mostly experimental. One limitation of experiments is that, because of the debris that forms, it is not easy to monitor how surface morphology changes during the rubbing process. The researchers overcame this problem through their digital simulations, which provide a constant stream of data.
Powerful digital simulations
"We used high-performance computer simulations to track the change in surface morphology in 2D materials," says Enrico Milanese, a PhD student at the LSMS. "In our simulations, we observed that contact between two surfaces always generates a wear debris particle. That particle is then forced to roll between the two surfaces, wearing them down. This led us to conclude that wear debris must be present for the surfaces to develop their characteristic self-affine roughness."
In the future, the LSMS researchers hope to explore the origins of adhesive wear by applying their simulation approach to 3D models of materials that are of interest to industry.
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Scientists at the University Würzburg and University Hospital of Würzburg found that megakaryocytes act as “bouncers” and thus modulate bone marrow niche properties and cell migration dynamics. The study was published in July in the Journal “Haematologica”.
Hematopoiesis is the process of forming blood cells, which occurs predominantly in the bone marrow. The bone marrow produces all types of blood cells: red...
For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a quantum phenomenon best? A team of researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Harvard University in the United States has now successfully deployed artificial neural networks for image analysis of quantum systems.
Is that a dog or a cat? Such a classification is a prime example of machine learning: artificial neural networks can be trained to analyze images by looking...
An international research group led by scientists from the University of Bayreuth has produced a previously unknown material: Rhenium nitride pernitride. Thanks to combining properties that were previously considered incompatible, it looks set to become highly attractive for technological applications. Indeed, it is a super-hard metallic conductor that can withstand extremely high pressures like a diamond. A process now developed in Bayreuth opens up the possibility of producing rhenium nitride pernitride and other technologically interesting materials in sufficiently large quantity for their properties characterisation. The new findings are presented in "Nature Communications".
The possibility of finding a compound that was metallically conductive, super-hard, and ultra-incompressible was long considered unlikely in science. It was...
An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has built platinum nanoparticles for catalysis in fuel cells: The new size-optimized catalysts are twice as good as the best process commercially available today.
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ZTE should be unveiled at the MWC two new devices: the Grand ZTE Memo and ZTE Mozilla!
ZTE Memo Grand is a cousin of ZTE Grand S announced at MWC, and will features a 5.7 inch touchscreen with a resolution 720p, a quad-core processor Snapdragon S4 Pro clocked at 1.7Ghz and a 13 megapixel camera sensor , all under Android 4.1.2.
ZTE Mozilla is the new Chinese manufacturer since this will be the first smartphone runs Firefox OS! No details for the moment on this device.
Pantech is making a 1080p mobile displays and quad-core S4 Pro processors like they’re going out of style, as Pantech is now rumored to be working on a FullHD smartphone of its own.
Everyone is keen to catch-up to HTC’s DNA smartphone, which was unveiled last month as the first in what will likely be a new wave of smartphones with 1080p screens. With the likes of Samsung, Sony, and LG undoubtedly cooking up a response, several smaller manufacturers have also jumped in with impressive offerings of their own, including the Oppo Find 5 and ZTE Nubia Z5.
Besides the 1080p display of unconfirmed diagonal (5 inch might be a good guess) and quad-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, the Pantech Vega IM-A860 is expected to feature an Adreno 320 GPU and run on Android 4.1.1. No word yet on how much storage or RAM will be included, as well as what type of battery will power it all.
The Vega IM-A860 is expected to hit retail in early 2013, likely as Pantech’s next flagship smartphone.
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HTC’s Butterfly, the droid with the 5″ 1080p screen, started off in Japan, moved to the US and has now finally gone international. It keeps the same cool specs as the country-specific versions, including the high-res S-LCD3 and the Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset.
But instead of telling you about it, it’s easier to show it with this video ad for the HTC Butterfly.
See? HTC is living up to its “Quietly brilliant” slogan and subtly tells you about the Butterfly’s burst shot capabilities, wireless TV out and face recognition. The ad also shows the phone is splash resistant, which is true for the Japanese version (the J Butterfly), but the specs of the international version make no mention of this.
The HTC J Butterfly, world first 5-inch 1080p Full HD display-packing, has now a promo video, this monster of a smartphone is exclusive for the Japanese carrier AU/KDDI for the time being.
The ad focus on the 1080p display in question, Here goes the video itself.
KDDI has unveiled the HTC J Butterfly (HTL21) in Japan and it is the first production smartphone to have a 1080p display.
The HTC J Butterfly has : 5.0-inch, Super LCD3 display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, which gives it a pixel density of the astonishing 440 ppi. The display is quite big but at 143 x 71 x 9.1 mm, the J butterfly is only slightly bigger than the One X (134.4 x 69.9 x 8.9 mm) and at 140g weighs just 10g more.
Under the hood of the HTC J butterfly, you have a quad-core Qualcomm APQ8064 Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5GHz with 2GB of RAM. It has 16GB internal storage, microSDHC expansion.
On the back is an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording and on frontal 2 megapixel camera. The smartphone supports 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 (LE), NFC, LTE and CDMA/GSM/UMTS/GPRS radios, and the phone is dust and waterproof (IPX5). Strangely, for a phone with such specs, the battery is only 2,020mAh.
Finally, the HTC J Butterfly will ship with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean out of the box.
The HTC J butterfly is set to release in Japan on AU/KDDI in December. The phone will be sold in three colors: red, black and white.
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Pantech announced the Vega R3 is phablet to come join the Samsung Galaxy Note II and LG Optimus Vu market, a market that we see it grows a bit after bit.
The phoneblet features a 5.3-inch Natural IPS Pro LCD screen of 720p resolution and Qualcomm’s monster Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset.
Pantech is the latest company to develop a dislike for bezels and the Vega R3 features “Zero Bezel Tech”. It keeps the phone compact and “provides optimum grip for a typical Korean hand.” The phoneblet is 9.95mm thick and weighs 169g.
The Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset is one of the headline-grabbing features of the Pantech Vega R3. It packs four Krait CPU cores clocked at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM and Adreno 320 GPU. It should readily tackle Samsung Galaxy Note II and LG Optimus Vu.
There are only two other mobile devices that use the S4 Pro chipset – the LG Optimus G and the Xiaomi Mi-Two.
The camera on the back of the Vega R3 does 13MP stills and features “Best Face” functionality – the now familiar Scalado-like approach of taking multiple shots and combining the best facial expression for each person into a single photo.
The phoneblet also packs extensive connectivity features – LTE, NFC, Wi-Fi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 4.0. There’s a microSD card to expand the built-in memory.
The battery that powers the chipset and the big screen is a 2,600mAh “super battery pack”, which promises 14 hours and 30 minutes of talk time. Charging the battery back up will be pretty quick too, with the 2A charger – it takes about 100 minutes according to Pantech. It’s a 2 port charger too, so you can plug in the phone along with a spare battery.
The Pantech Vega R3 is available through the three South Korean carriers starting today. It’s launching with Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich but a Jelly Bean update is in the cards too.
Source : Android Authority
The Optimus G is one of the most awaiting LG’s flagship, and one the most enhanced features on the Optimus G, that the Korean firm found it innovative and that we’re going to talk a bit on it (Lg talks about it on the video down below), is the 13MP sensor.
But first lets do a breakdown on the features side, the Optimus G runs on the Qualcomm APQ8064 processor, which is the quad-core version of the MSM8960 we saw on the HTC One S and several other phones. It also features a new Adreno 320 GPU, which is said to be significantly more powerful.
First off, the Optimus G will be sold in both 8MP and 13MP varieties depending on the region. Secondly, the camera module was built by LG Innotek, for what that’s worth. The 13MP sensor is backside illuminated with a total size of 1/3.06″ and an estimated pixel size of 1.1 microns per pixel (those are some really tiny pixels there).
Further more features will include a 2GB of RAM, a a 4.7-inch 1280×768 IPS display, 720p True HD IPS display, 13MP camera, 2,100mAh battery and Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich on top of all.


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Kill The Critic!
by Stage Presence Players
Aug. 26 - Sep. 02 (2015)
Trevor Stanton is an impulsive young actor about to make his Broadway debut. There's just one problem: Bertram Finch, New York City's most powerful theatre critic. Bertram has never liked Trevor's work, and it's guaranteed that the infamous Barracuda of Broadway will use the occasion to pen a scathing, career-destroying review.
The solution is obvious. Trevor kidnaps Bertram and plans to hide him in his dressing room until the next day, preventing the critic from writing his review. But when Bertram begs for a drink, Trevor accidentally switches the bottle of rat poison in which his boozing co-star Jack keeps his scotch with a real bottle of rat poison.
By the time Trevor realizes his mistake, it's too late. Tortured groans emanate from the wardrobe where Trevor has stashed his victim, and as a parade of outrageous characters make their way to his dressing room, Trevor must take increasingly desperate measures to hide his horrible deed.
Trevor soon finds himself proposing marriage to not one but two women. First to accept is his girlfriend Melanie, the ditzy daughter of a wealthy exterminator, who unwittingly gets a cheap prop ring instead of the real one Trevor meant to give her. Sylvia, a cougarish diva who happens to be Jack's girlfriend, is just as eager to accept Trevor's proposal, and she ends up with the real ring Trevor was holding onto for Jack and which Jack had planned to give her.
Melanie's father Tony "The Tiger" shows up, and when Trevor lays eyes on the brawny, pinstripe-suited brute, he realizes exactly what kind of "exterminator" the man is. Tony gives Trevor an ultimatum, demanding that he replace his daughter's ring with a real and very expensive one before the night is through.
A pair of bumbling cops arrive to question Trevor about Bertram's mysterious disappearance. Before long, the hapless corpse is revealed to all, and in the ensuing chaos, it takes more than a gun to subdue Trevor. It takes a masterfully-handled frying pan.
Only then does Bertram prove to be the greatest actor of them all...
Urgent- We are looking for a male actor(or a female that can play a convincing male actor!)age range of 20s-50s for our current play, the Texas Premiere of "Kill the Critic" by Todd Wallinger. This is a comedy and the part is to play an "actor" that likes his scotch. We have already started practice we just had an actor that over committed himself and had to leave. Our practices are tues/thurs 7pm-9pm and Sat 3-5pm. And we will have 3 public performances of this play, Sept 24th-26th and our full dress rehearsal at my grandma's assisted living center on Sat. Sept 19th. Please contact me here or email me at firstname.lastname@example.org asap if interested! This is in the Austin, TX area. Thanks!


Marathon Petroleum Corp. reported a small pipeline leak that led to emissions Tuesday morning at its Galveston Bay refinery in Texas.
“The [gasoline-making] Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit #3 experienced a pin hole leak on transfer line,” the refinery said in a statement to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. “Operations isolated the piping and stopped the leak.”
The emissions that followed, including some 500 pounds of propane, began Tuesday morning and were expected to end later in the morning, the refinery said.
The 459,000-barrel-a-day Galveston Bay refinery is located in Texas City, off the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel.


text: Catarina M. Trigo has a MSc in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Universidade de Lisboa since 2020. Currently, she is a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Joana Miranda (FCT fellowship 2021.09328.BD). Her PhD work aims at exploring the regenerative potential of mesenchymal stem cells-derived secretome to modulate neuroinflammatory pathologies, including to reduce the neurological sequelae associated with COVID-19. Since the beginning of her PhD, Catarina has already five conference abstracts, one oral communication and one poster. She is a student member of the Portuguese Society for Stem Cells and Cell Therapies (SPCE-TC) and of Portuguese Society of Pharmacology (SPF).

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David Bowie became an icon some four decades ago, and at that point, he probably could have packed it up and spent the remainder of his career resting on well-deserved laurels. Instead, he's continued to create (to much acclaim) and today, on the glam rocker's 69th birthday, he celebrated the occasion by releasing his 25th album, Blackstar.
You can track Bowie’s long and storied career on a new website called "What Did David Bowie Do at Your Age?" (in short, the answer is: more than you). Enter in your age to compare the superstar's life achievements with your own and prepare to feel very unaccomplished. “This page is to celebrate David Bowie, and remind us to get out of our comfort zone and start doing sh*t,” the site reads.
Of course, it’s unrealistic to compare yourself with a musical visionary—a fact that website co-developer Duy Nguyen acknowledged on Twitter. (“I realized how depressed I’m making everyone feel ... sorry ya’ll haha,” he tweeted.) Nevertheless, it’s humbling—and hilarious—to track Bowie’s evolution. And as the singer himself has pointed out, “The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.” Easy for you to say, Ziggy.

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After 10 years of residing in the Park Towers on West Loop South, the Houston Business Journal is moving deeper into the heart of the Galleria next month.
HBJ will move to 5444 Westheimer Road by Nov. 5. The space will be an open layout that allows different departments of the HBJ to work closely together. UK-based BG Group Plc and Houston-based Southern Union Co. vacated the facility in late 2011, which opened up 280,000 square feet of space for lease. In January, Houston-based Tanglewood Property spent $15 million to renovate the 380,000-square-foot office building, which opened in 1980.
HBJ Publisher John Beddow decided to make the move to better utilize the new 11,000-square-foot space.
“The lease was up, the rates were going up,” Beddow said. “The Park Towers was a great location for us but due to the economics, I decided it was a good time to shop around.”
Beddow did not disclose how much the company would save in rent.
“One of the nice side effects of the move is being able to save more money,” he said. “The new office will give HBJ a more modern space and keep us in the hub of Houston commerce.”
HBJ will bring its furniture from the current office over to the new location, Beddow said. HBJ was represented in the move by Jones Lang Lasalle, while CBRE Inc. handled the leasing for the building. HBJ is part of American City Business Journals, based in Charlotte, N.C.

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Rapper Cassper Nyovest has finally dropped the much-anticipated Tito Mboweni video and shut down rumours that it would be a waste of time and money.
The rapper announced on Wednesday that the video for his latest single Tito Mboweni will drop on Thursday morning. He probably knew it was going to be good as he was seen in his Twitter post doing a pre-celebration dance.
— Abuti Fill Up (@CassperNyovest) March 29, 2017
The visuals for the track were on point as the video features the likes of Queen Twerk, a social media sensation who topped the trends list last year after a video of her and her boyfriend in an intimate moment went viral.
In addition, Nadia Nakai, Carpo More and Riky Rick also appeared in the video. Of course, the visuals wouldn’t be complete without the flashy cars, mansions, expensive booze and bundles of cash.
Generally, it’s safe to say that the Tito Mboweni video is all kinds of hot.
As expected, the video attracted mixed feelings from the public. While some praised the visuals dubbing it dope, some others said it’s only cool when it’s on mute.
On the other hand, iFani rated the video with a thumbs up. Notably, the musician had predicted that the visuals for the track will be trash just like the audio.
However, he had to swallow his pride alongside the humble pie after watching the video.
Last week, iFani faced the wrath of Twitter when he tweeted that shooting the Tito Mboweni visuals would be a waste of money. He also advised fans to go download Nasty C’s Hell Naw instead of Cassper’s latest track.
Notwithstanding his predictions, iFani is now saying that the video is “hot”. But, trust Twitter not to let him off the hook that easily. Thus, Cassper’s fans are having a field day taking shots at iFani with a string of memes.
Here are some of the memes;
— lee ann♡♡ (@RaselabeAnna) March 30, 2017
— prayer_official (@thipla_bash) March 30, 2017
— Mr Magnificent (@TheMGRapper) March 30, 2017


Art is very beautiful and it takes a person of a certain caliber to understand and appreciate beautiful art. I guess for us to understand why others appreciate art over others we need to realise that visual sensitivity is an attribute that’s not shared equally across the population. It’s also not training that is equally available across the population.
One lady has captivated the eyes of many art lovers after she made this post.👇🏾
The lady's lovely paintings were praised by many on social media. Others felt inspired by the lady, one guy even went on to say, "The artist is also a work of art."
One thing l know is that art is essentially an expression of an emotion. A painting, a drawing or an essay, trigger certain emotions in people. Depending on how strongly they feel that emotion, the better are the chances of people appreciating that art.
However, in some cases a person might not feel any emotion due to the lack of understanding what the art is trying to express. In such cases, people just dismiss it saying its not a good piece of art, they might also say this if the emotion triggered isn’t strong enough.
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Mike Trout and Bryce Harper Reach Career Milestones
Two of the best young players in baseball reached milestones on August 7th. Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels hit his 1000th career hit and Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals belted his 150th home run.
In Anaheim, Trout celebrated his 26th birthday by hitting a double down the left field line in the fourth inning off of Baltimore’s Dylan Bundy for career hit Number 1000. He kept the celebration going by hitting a home run later in the game. Trout has been in the majors for six years and incredibly, has hit home runs four times on his birthday. The Orioles went on to win 6-2 thanks to a grand slam by Manny Machado, spoiling the party.
In Washington, Harper launched his 150th career home run, a solo shot off Miami’s Odrisamer Despaigne as the Nationals defeated the Marlins 3-2. Harper became the 14th player in major league history to hit his 150th homer before his 25th birthday.


WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said there is no evidence to support allegations that elements of Pakistan’s premier intelligence agency had any collusion with militants. In an interview with US media, the PM said that the Inter Services Intelligence contained no pockets of Taliban sympathy. “I’m pretty sure about it,” he stated in response to a question, adding the issue over allegations would be addressed and resolved.
The prime minister reiterated Pakistan’s firm commitment to fighting terrorism and emphasized, “The best way to combat the Taliban and al- Qaeda is through extensive education and economic aid.” “The root cause of the problem in the tribal areas and Afghanistan is poverty,” he said, adding militants exploit the poor for their own benefit. In addition to economic development Gilani said, intelligence sharing is key to solving the problems in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region.-SANA


Birdman: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, accompanied by live drumming from Antonio Sanchez, Sydney Festival, State Theatre 16 January 2016
“A drummer should always be a musician”.
When starting his career Antonio Sanchez had a goal to be “One of the best drummers in the world” he chose jazz as his genre where he said “I can express myself the freest.” He has certainly reached his goal, being a four time Grammy Award winner. Sanchez is considered by many critics and musicians alike as one of the most prominent drummers, bandleaders and composers of his generation.
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu wanted improvised, organic music as the score for his film Birdman. The vitality of the score screams New York, where jazz is part of the culture underpinning everyday life and the very essence of the city. The drumming emphasises the flawed and very human characters in the movie, with the music mirroring their self doubt and inner turmoils with its uneven rhythms which fill one with a sense of anticipation and anxiety. It seems a perfect match for the continuous filming style used to create Birdman.
In his live score screening Sanchez remains true to the integrity of the original movie score. The performance is indeed so seamless that at times you forget there is a musician on stage. Sanchez takes his philosophy of a drummer being a musician, as component of the band to his film role whereby he becomes part of the internal rhythm of the film.
It is only really at the end of the movie as the credits are rolling that one is able to experience a teaser of Sanchez the drummer, which of course leaves one wanting more.
Birdman won 4 Oscars in 2015 including Best Feature Film and Best Director. Controversially the film score was disqualified from the Academy awards, despite being acknowledged as an integral element of the movie.
In depth interview from DP/30, talking about the creation of the score.
Apart from the movie Sanchez has an incredibly busy creative life, as both a band leader, composer and band member for artists such as Pat Metheny.
For more information visit his website.


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By Nolen Nychay
The Main Street Festival of Gallatin, Tenn., celebrates its 16th anniversary this October, keeping community traditions alive with local music and homemade food and craft vendors. Last year, the event drew more than 25,000 visitors looking to enjoy the rustic charm that the small communities of Tennessee pride themselves on.
The Greater Gallatin Inc. nonprofit organization hosts the annual festival to stimulate local businesses. The Tennessee Main Street Program, a statewide resource for communities revitalizing their downtowns, aims to preserve the authenticity of such small towns through their new “Ignite Downtown Economic Action” Initiative. “We’re excited about the potential of this new initiative to set realistic, economically prudent goals for Tennessee’s culturally unique towns,” says Todd Morgan of the Tennessee Main Street Program.
Launching this April, the IDEA Initiative will be a one-year program designed to help 27 Tennessee Main Street towns identify areas of economic opportunity. Economic development experts will visit each town, including mountain communities such as Bristol and Kingsport, to identify what most effectively attracts visitors and how that might be expanded. Afterwards, small business owners, city officials and local residents can gather for a public workshop to hear these expert opinions and offer their own suggestions for improvement. A final report with recommendations will be presented to each town hall to use for future projects.
By Emmalee Zupo
This past year marked the fourth most successful period for land conservation by the Virginia Outdoors Foundation — a state agency responsible for preserving open space and areas of cultural significance.
Nonprofit organizations such as New River Land Trust, based in Blacksburg, Va., have been helping local landowners place their properties into permanent conservation under the stewardship of VOF. The 56,697 acres of land protected from development in 2013 included more than 900 acres added to the state’s New River Trail State Park.*
Conserved properties also included historical landmarks such as the Shot Tower Historical State Park in Wythe County, Va., which protects one of the only remaining shot towers in the United States — and the remnants of what was once a major industry for the state. Shot towers are tall buildings that were used to create lead shot for firearms by dropping molten lead from a height of 150 feet into water, where the lead was then cooled.
John Eustis, executive director of the New River Land Trust, attributes the success of this past year to strong outreach efforts. “We couldn’t do our work without the support of our community,” Eustis says. “Thanks should always be given to those landowners and those community members who support conservation.”
*CORRECTION: The print version of this article incorrectly stated that 900 miles were added to the New River Trail scenic route. We regret the error.
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SEATTLE (AP) -- Ichiro Suzuki was asked whether there's any
Japanese expression comparable to the American superstition that
strange things happen when there's a full moon.
"No, we don't say that," Suzuki said through a translator,
He didn't have to say it because his manager did.
Suzuki and Randy Winn each tripled and finished with three hits,
three RBI and three runs scored as the Seattle Mariners beat the
Toronto Blue Jays 13-6 in a wild back-and-forth contest Wednesday
"It wasn't one of the crisper-played games, even though there
were no errors. I don't know what to say about it. ... You're
looking for a full moon out there," Seattle manager Bob Melvin
The Mariners were subdued afterward, even after a big night for
the top of Seattle's order. Bret Boone drove in three runs to boost
his season total to 95 -- third-best in the American League.
Seattle had 17 hits, including 13 singles, and capitalized on 10
walks by five Toronto pitchers. The Mariners stretched their AL
West lead over Oakland to four games after the Athletics lost at
home to Boston.
"We swung the bats well," Melvin said. "Not that it wasn't
good -- it just wasn't the greatest tempo for a game.
Julio Mateo (3-0) got the victory after relieving starter Ryan
Franklin with two outs in the fourth. Mateo pitched 3 1-3 innings,
allowing one hit and striking out four.
"Mateo came in and did what he's done all year, and he got
rewarded for it," Melvin said.
Suzuki was as good as ever, scattering his singles and speeding
around the bases for a sixth-inning triple.
"It's almost as if he looks out there and sees where he wants
to hit the ball based on where you're playing," Toronto manager
Carlos Tosca said. "It is one of the most amazing things I've ever
Winn did exactly the same thing, spraying three singles and
sprinting around the bases for his first-inning triple.
"You get those guys going around the bases, and they're fun to
watch," Melvin said.
It was back-and-forth through the middle innings, but the
Mariners went ahead for good at 9-6 by scoring four runs in the
fifth off lefty Jason Kershner (0-2), the third Toronto pitcher.
Mariners closer Kazuhiro Sasaki, who came off the disabled list
Tuesday after missing two months with cracked ribs, was cheered
when he took the mound in the eighth and retired the side in order.
"I was just having fun," Sasaki said through a translator.
"When I left the bullpen to go to the mound, that's when the
cheers started and it hit me. I started to get nervous."
Things looked great for Franklin after the Mariners gave him a
5-0 lead through three innings. But the Blue Jays opened the fourth
with six straight hits, taking a 6-5 lead on a three-run homer to
left by Reed Johnson.
The Mariners led 2-0 after Suzuki's leadoff single and Winn's
triple to left-center. Boone grounded out, driving in Winn. Rey
Sanchez made it 4-0 in the third, driving in two runs with a
bases-loaded single. Suzuki added a sacrifice fly to give the
Mariners a 5-0 lead.
Mike Cameron, who made a great catch at the wall in the
second, left as a precaution after hitting into a double play to
end the fifth. McLemore left after the sixth. Both had strained
groins and will be re-evaluated Thursday. ... Bordick singled in
the fourth, extending the longest current hitting streak in the AL
to 20 games. It's the longest run of Bordick's career. ... Toronto
starter Corey Thurman pitched 2 1-3 innings, allowing six hits and
four walks. It was his fourth career start.

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IN THE FIRST month of the new police helicopter provision alone, there were three incidents when air support was not available according to data unearthed by Plaid Cymru.
In early January, following the retirement of the police helicopter, Dyfed-Powys Police made fourteen requests for air support. Two of these resulted in a helicopter responding and on three occasions there was no response for what was described as ‘other reasons’ by a recent media release from the Police and Crime Commissioner’s office. However, Plaid Cymru launched a blistering attack on Police and Crime Commissioner Christopher Salmon, after their Freedom of Information request showed that the requests for air support were refused due to no assets being available, insufficient flying time to be able to attend and due to NPAS already being committed in Gwent.
The Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office released the combined figures for January and February, meaning that it is impossible to analyse how many requests were cancelled due to bad weather, or the incident being resolved by officers on the ground. A Plaid Cymru source told The Herald that while no information concerning response times had been provided, it was likely that a proportion of incidents had been resolved on the ground because it had taken ‘much longer’ for air support to be despatched. Reference was also made in the Police and Crime Commissioner’s statement to a ‘counter-terrorism exercise in Milford Haven’ as one of the incidents where the NPAS helicopter attended.
The only comparable incident mentioned in January/February was a preplanned combined-forces training exercise at the Port of Pembroke on January 7. If this was the exercise referred to, it would mean that an NPAS helicopter attended one out of thirteen unscheduled incidents. Last year the Police and Crime Commissioner, Christopher Salmon, signed up the local police force to a centralised National Police Air Service (NPAS) – a move which saw the dedicated helicopter for Dyfed-Powys scrapped on January 1 this year. Commissioner Salmon had justified his support for a centralised service as a way to save money and to have more resources available to the force.
He hailed the benefits of a 24-hour service despite Dyfed-Powys only needing helicopter support ‘after hours’ just 13 times in four years – a point raised by local MP Jonathan Edwards in a Westminster Hall debate. Mr Salmon recently reiterated the benefits of the 24-hour service, stating that: “Air cover is there 24 hours every day of the year where previously we had just 12 hours a day.” However, in January, the NPAS helicopter responded to one out of six requests for assistance made between 8pm and 8am. The former Principal Crime and Intelligence Analyst for Dyfed Powys Police and Plaid Cymru’s candidate for Police Commissioner in May’s election, Dafydd Llywelyn, launched a ruthless attack on Commissioner Salmon. He said the concerns raised by Plaid Cymru during the campaign led by Jonathan Edwards MP have been realised within weeks of our dedicated helicopter being scrapped.
Dafydd Llywelyn said: “Let’s be under no illusion – this revelation is damning. With the current air support service hailed by Police Commissioner Salmon, Dyfed-Powys force and the residents it serves are receiving a worse service than the one we had before he took office. “As Plaid Cymru warned throughout last year, our force and our communities are playing second-fiddle to the needs of more urban Wales. Now we have confirmation that resources have been refused to our force because they are either busy elsewhere or because it would take too long to get to us. “In its first month 86% of requests for air support were not honoured. 83% of requests for air support after 8pm were not honoured. Christopher Salmon staked his reputation on a 24-hour service which we now know hardly exists. “We’re being told that some air support has been stood down because officers on the ground have resolved the situation. This suggests response times are increasing significantly. I’m also being told that front line officers know that air support is now less likely to be available and are not minded to put in requests.
That is deeply worrying indeed. “The information speaks for itself. By selling-off our dedicated helicopter and failing to oppose the centralisation agenda of his Conservative party colleagues, Christopher Salmon has failed the people of Dyfed-Powys and their police force.” Member of Parliament Jonathan Edwards led the campaign to helicopter. Last week he received a Grassroots Diplomat Award nomination for his campaign. Commenting on the lack of air support he said: “When it comes to police air support there is no joy whatsoever in being proved right. Every concern I raised in Parliament regarding resources not being available has been realised within the first four weeks of the service. “For the Police Commissioner to issue a press statement last week claiming the air service was ‘delivering’ is an absolute disgrace. It was nothing more than an attempt to mask the abject failure and damning results of his party’s centralisation agenda. He should make a public apology for his disingenuous statement.
“Christopher Salmon has presided over a catalogue of failures. If Dyfed Powys residents want a Police Commissioner that is going to stand up for their services they need to elect Dafydd Llywelyn on May 5.” Current Commissioner Christopher Salmon has already agreed to sell-off the Dyfed-Powys helicopter. Plaid Cymru officials say they have since submitted a further request for information on police air support throughout the month of February, and will continue to seek information for every month in order to expose the record of failure of the new service agreed by Christopher Salmon. Last week, following the release of the January/February figures, Mr Salmon said: “In January last year our own helicopter was out of action 10 days for maintenance. Other than during bad weather, as was the case with the previous service, I’m pleased that figures show the new arrangement is meeting our needs so far. “I am keeping a close eye on it to ensure that it delivers what we need. “It costs us £275,000 less too, with further savings of £75,000 from April this year.
I am determined to put that towards frontline officers to keep people safe.” Data for January 2015 shows that out of 24 requests for air assistance, 10 were attended. However, given that the Dyfed- Powys helicopter was out of action for 10 days for repairs, it is unclear which forces responded to the calls. The Herald asked Mr Salmon whether, given that over a comparative period only two calls were attended, whether the service was ‘meeting the needs’ of Dyfed-Powys residents. In his response, Mr Salmon prioritised the savings made possible by the new arrangement: “We now have 24-hour helicopter coverage for £275,000 less,” he said. “That money has helped me put more officers on our rural beats for more hours of every day. “Crime and antisocial behaviour have fallen further and faster in Dyfed-Powys than anywhere else in Wales. “Our rural areas are safer than ever.
“At two months old, this air service is still new. It is too early to say definitively how NPAS is performing but so far it appears to be meeting our needs. The Chief Constable and I will keep a very close eye on it to make sure it does.” The difference between the two statements, issued a week apart, is notable. In the first, Mr Salmon claimed the figures showed that ‘the new arrangement is meeting our needs so far.’ In the second, the Police and Crime Commissioner backtracked somewhat, claiming that it was ‘too early to say’ how the service was performing, but it ‘appears’ to be meeting the needs of Dyfed- Powys. As Mr Salmon belatedly said, a full analysis of the efficacy of the NPAS provision will take more than two months to develop. What is certain, however, is that the service will be u nder close scrutiny from all directions, especially with the approach of the Police and Crime Commissioner elections.
Alerts issued ahead of Storm Brian
NATURAL RESOURCE WALES (NRW) is warning people that parts of the Welsh coast could see localised flooding as Storm Brian combines with high tides this evening and tomorrow.
The conditions could cause a storm surge, which in some areas could lead to overtopping of sea defences. Current predictions show that the worst affected areas are likely to be along exposed sections of the west coast of Wales from Southern Gwynedd to Llantwit Major.
High tides in these locations are expected to peak between 6am and 11am tomorrow (Oct 21).
NRW has already issued a number of flood alerts for the west coast, and is likely to issue flood warnings for Aberystwyth and Newgale later today. Further alerts or warnings for other areas will be issued as necessary.
24/7 Emergency response workers from NRW will be out at key areas of the coast over the next couple of day to monitor the high tides and condition of its sea flood defences.
NRW has also contacted its partner agencies such as local councils and the emergency services to ensure that appropriate responses are in place should the need arise.
Richard Hancox, from Natural Resources Wales said: “Conditions across the coastline are likely to be extremely dangerous this weekend and we urge people to stay clear, and avoid visiting the coast during this time.
“We know people are tempted to try and take photos of these storms, but it really isn’t worth putting your life at risk. Sea spray and flood water can knock you off your feet easier than you might think, and the large waves can send debris flying onto shore.
“If anyone is concerned about the risk of flooding to their home, please check to see if flood warnings are available in your area, and visit our website for advice on how best to prepare.”
Flood alerts and flood warnings are updated on the Natural Resources Wales website every 15 minutes.
Information and updates are also available by calling Floodline on 0345 988 1188. People can also register for free flood warnings either by calling the Floodline number or at NRW’s website.
Major bequests for Aber research
TWO major legacies to support postgraduate research have been announced at Aberystwyth University’s Founders’ Day held in the Old College on October 13.
The University revealed that Eleanor and David James had donated £2m to the institution where they both worked for 35 years, while former student Margaret Wooloff has bequeathed £400,000.
Both bequests will be used to fund postgraduate research at the University, in line with the wishes of the benefactors.
The legacies were announced as part of the University’s now annual Founders’ event, which echoes the celebrations held in the town back in October 1872 when the first students arrived at Old College.
The Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University, Professor Elizabeth Treasure, said: “It is extremely fitting that these very special bequests have been the focal point of this year’s Founders’ Day event. They remind us how the University has been supported since its early beginnings by the generosity of the people of Wales and the wider world.
“Eleanor and David James, and Margaret Wooloff all dedicated their lives to the furtherance of knowledge and their valuable contributions to education in Wales will live on in their legacies. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude.”
The Director of Development and Alumni Relations at Aberystwyth University, Louise Jagger, said: “There is a very strong bond between the University and our family of alumni across the world. Eleanor and David James and Margaret Wooloff were all active members of the Old Students’ Association during their lives and we are immensely grateful to them for their support over the years. Their generous legacies will now enable the scholars of the future to pursue their particular fields of expertise and undertake research with impact, which is integral to our mission as a leading University.”
Members of the local community joined staff and students at the Old College to mark Founders’ Day.
The guest speaker at the event was Ceredigion MP Ben Lake who said: “The story of how Aberystwyth University – or the University College of Wales as it was originally called – is one in which we can all take pride as a nation. Driven by the vision of its founders, the dream of establishing a college with University status in Wales was made possible thanks to the generosity of ordinary people. The roots and foundations of the University reflect our values in Wales and it is vitally important that we commemorate and celebrate this very special heritage.
“May I take this opportunity to congratulate Aberystwyth on being named recently as the University of the Year for Teaching Quality by the Good University Guide – a well deserved accolade which is testament to the dedication of all its staff.”
In July 2017, the Heritage Lottery Fund announced that it had earmarked £10.5m for ambitious plans to redevelop Old College in time for the University’s 150th anniversary in 2022.
Driving Wales to international skills success
AS SKILLS CHAMPION for Wales, Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion principal Barry Liles is at the forefront of aspiring young people to develop high quality, world-class skills.
The vehicle used to drive this ambition are skills competitions, which are held on a Welsh, UK and international level.
Competitions in Wales begin with regional Welsh Government supported competitions which are events that culminate to find Wales’ top competitors who progress to take part in UKSkills national and WorldSkills international events.
This year, 36 competitors from the UK are competing at WorldSkills Abu Dhabi, four of which are from Wales, two of which represent Coleg Sir Gâr, which is an impressive percentage of UK representation. These competitors have undergone a rigorous training process by WorldSkills UK, supported by training providers and employers.
Coleg Sir Gâr students have been selected for Team UK since 2009 when carpentry student Cliff Williams made the team in 2009 competing in WorldSkills Calgary. He was followed by web designer David Bowen who competed for in WorldSkills London, 2011. Carpenter Gareth Jones won gold in EuroSkills in 2012 followed by Simon McCall and Eleni Constantinou who won two silvers at EuroSkills in 2014 for hairdressing and carpentry with Eleni progressing to represent the UK and Coleg Sir Gâr in hairdressing at WorldSkills, Sao Paulo in 2015.
Last year, the college was ranked joint third place in the UK for its medal success in the Skills Show – the UK final, for achieving three golds, one silver and one bronze award. The show, held at Birmingham’s NEC every year, brings together medal winners from all nations to compete and showcase their skills and to hopefully continue their journey to the international arena, representing the UK in Worldskills which brings over 50 competing countries together and is likened to the Olympic games.
Barry Liles, Skills Champion for Wales said: “To have an impact on the economy and raise Wales and UK’s GVA, we must raise the skills of the UK population and we’re trying to do this from a young age and we’re significantly targeting industries that are important to Wales’ economy.
“The anticipated result is hoped to impact on young people and help them raise their ambitions and to find highly skilled work.”
In Wales, to help achieve this ambition, is a Welsh-Government funded project called Inspiring Skills Excellence (ISE), which is providing a supportive infrastructure to enable competitors from Wales to achieve success at national and international level.
“Much of our work is supporting competitors across Wales in their participation, training and mentoring to help them achieve excellence in skills relevant to economic growth and delivering medal winning success at national and international competitions,” said Paul Evans, ISE pan-coordinator for Wales.
“Using state of the art equipment we also engage with schools, providing hands-on and exciting experiences for young people to raise awareness of careers and the pathways available to them.”
Barry Liles added: “Being Skills Champion for Wales is a long-held ambition perhaps because I came from a vocational engineering background, I am very passionate about it.
“Industry skills are vital in our economy and I don’t want Wales to be left behind, in fact in the last seven years we have helped drive the nation forward to being one of the leading and successful nations in UK skills competitions.”
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