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It may soon be possible to write like Albert Einstein. Harald Geisler, typographer, and Liz Waterhouse, BA physics, decided to create a font that looked like someone’s real handwriting. They chose to replicate Einstein’s, commenting on their website that '...the choice to start with Albert Einstein’s handwriting was aesthetic and pragmatic'. Mr Geisler also 'hopes that Einstein’s spark of genius might be reflected in his font'.
Geisler began by studying the physicist’s documents and manuscripts for six months in order to fully replicate Einstein’s beautiful and delicate penmanship. He traced his writing using a digital pen to capture and replicate the flow and movement of the lettering. It was challenging because, while traditional font lettering is always the same, handwriting lettering is always different. To replicate the look of actual handwriting Geisler traced over at least four different versions of each letter, so that when paired, the letters combined to create over sixteen different alternatives. As the writer types a mechanism shifts the previous letter, so that it takes on the appearance of handwriting. Mr Geisler names this method polyalphabetic substitution. He also hopes that he can also add some mathematical formula in the style of the font.
In 2013 the pair published their project on Kickstart, hoping to reach a widespread audience. The pair have already surpassed their $15000 goal, and have made $55,577. In 2014 the Einstein Estate accepted the proposal for an Albert Einstein font.
The font can be used on a tablet, ipad, ipod and computer. So, perhaps one day when you are looking for a new style, you may find that beside Times New Roman, Arial, and Cambria, is the Albert Einstein Font.
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Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Reference Model with 6mm Wide Angle and 16mm Telephoto Lens models
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From the construction of buildings to bridges, airports to over-passes, the applications for Portland cement are enormous. So are the requirements of different types of Portland cement. Though the proportion of the various ingredients may vary for different cement manufacturers, the cement manufacturing process at the basic level remains the same.
Different Steps for Portland Cement Manufacturing Process
- Collecting the Ingredients: Lime, silica and alumina are the three basic ingredients of cement. The source of the lime is limestone. Silica is obtained from clay, and alumina is obtained from bauxite.
- Grinding the Ingredients: The ingredients are grinded to make them small enough to pass a sieve of size 200. The grounded ingredients are then mixed homogeneously.
- Making Clinkers: The grinded mixture is then fed into a inclined tubular kiln for roasting. Temperature of this roasting kiln is around 1500 to 1700 degree centigrade. During the process of roasting, Silica, alumina and lime are converted into calcium aluminates. The ingredients take the shape of small lumps called clinker.
- Cooling the Clinkers: The hot clinkers cannot be used directly for the further processing. The clinkers are stored for cooling to a temperature of 50 to 55 degree centigrade.
- Grinding the Clinkers: The clinkers then need to be finely grinded to make cement. While grinding, 2 to 5 percent gypsum to be added. Gypsum retards the setting time of the cement upon mixing it with water.
- Storage and Packing: The cement is then stored in large silos until weighing and packing. Packed cement is then supplied to market.
Portland cement manufacturing is a large scale process. The quality of the final manufactured cement depends upon the proportion of the ingredient and maintaining proper process parameters. To ensure the end quality, a strict quality check is maintained throughout the entire Portland cement manufacturing process.


SOUTH COAST — Although write-in votes won't get tabulated for 20 days, write-in campaigns in the primary mean that some favored candidates will face a challenger in November's election.
State Rep. Caddy McKeown will face Republican write-in challenger Teri Grier in November, and Tamie Kaufman will get to campaign against David Brock Smith in November even though, she says, fellow Republicans shut her out of the primary.
Republican candidate Jessica Kensinger of Brookings, who by last week had already canceled the Facebook event "Free Booze at Jessica's on Election Night," was apparently conceding the election to incumbent Jeff Kruse of Roseburg Tuesday afternoon, posting, "Vote for Jeff Kruse. I am. He is the sweetest and most caring person in the world. He changed my life in so many ways." According to initial returns, Kruse won the primary 83 to 16 percent. He'll face Democrat Timm Rolek of Brookings in November.
Although write-in results won't be available till the election is certified, Tamie Kaufman will almost certainly be the Independent Party candidate for House District 1 in November. She mounted a write-in campaign after, she claimed, a maneuver by incumbent Rep. Wayne Krieger and Curry County Commissioner David Brock Smith denied her a chance to file as a candidate for Krieger's seat. Smith filed to oppose Krieger in the primary, and then Krieger withdrew his own candidacy, leaving Smith unopposed in the primary. Kaufman campaigned to get write-in votes and, if she gets more of those on Independent Party ballots than anyone else, she'll face Smith and Democrat Terry Brayer in the primary. Initial results showed Smith with 94 percent of the Republican vote, with 128 votes written in on Republican ballots and 123 votes on Independent ballots.
In House District 9, no Republican had filed by the deadline to get on the ballot to oppose Democratic incumbent Caddy McKeown. But after the ballots were mailed out, Republican Teri Grier of Coos Bay mounted a write-in campaign. Like Kaufman, Grier needs only to get more votes than any other write-in candidate on the Republican or Independent Party ballot in order to get on the November ballot against McKeown. In initial results, 575 Republicans and 148 Independents had cast write-in votes, as had 86 Democrats, while McKeown got 5,791 Democratic votes.


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Everclear frontman Art Alexakis isn’t afraid to get a bit nostalgic.
The 53-year-old musician and singer-songwriter doesn’t really care when people refer to his annual Summerland tour, which started in 2012 and each year comprises rock acts from the ’90s, as a “throwback fest.” Just as he wasn’t offended when a music journalist from Spin magazine said his hit song “Santa Monica” sounded like he was trying to write “an anthem or a classic rock song” during a 1996 cover story interview.
“I didn’t have a problem with that even remotely then and I still don’t now,” Alexakis said during a phone interview near the end of a tour marking the 20th anniversary of Everclear’s sophomore album, “Sparkle and Fade.”
That record was the band’s first major label release, put out May 23, 1995, via Capitol Records. It helped launch Everclear’s career with the help of tracks like “Heroin Girl” and arguably the most popular hit Alexakis has inked, “Santa Monica.”
“I never ever get tired of playing it,” he said. “I’m so grateful to have a song like that and others, too, like ‘Father of Mine,’ ‘New Life’ and ‘Wonderful’ that really connect with people. Most bands or songwriters don’t even have one of those and I have several. ‘Santa Monica’ was the one that kind of just blew the door open for us.”
The tour stops at the Viper Room in Los Angeles on Tuesday and wraps up at House of Blues Anaheim on Wednesday, just in time for Alexakis to get back to his L.A. pad to be with his family and to brine his famous Thanksgiving turkey.
Though the main focus of these shows has been to present the material from “Sparkle and Fade,” the band has been mixing it up a little to keep the 20-plus song set flowing. Having tried the straightforward run-through of the album during shows in Australia and New Zealand back in April, Alexakis and Co. found that breaking it up into two sides and padding it with hits from the band’s other records as well as material off new album “Black Is the New Black” has been a more audience-friendly approach.
Having to sift back through songs he inked more than two decades ago, some of which had never been performed live, Alexakis said he feels like the old stuff plays out well alongside the material released just this year.
“The new record is a pretty heavy, riffy, hooky record that shows that we’ve always had that sort of punk rock thing going on,” he said. “I’ve always been into heavy, dark riffs like Black Sabbath and Zeppelin. That’s what I grew up with. I always wanted to blend that with punk rock and also certain aspects of singer-songwriter stuff. Sure, we’ve evolved and done a few different things, but that core of just rock sensibility and melodicism is still there and I think that’s connected with me in doing these old songs again.”
Throughout its career, Everclear has experimented with sound, dabbling in pop/synth music and even sprinkling in some very country-leaning, cowpunk-style bits.
“It all kind of just comes from the same place,” he said. “I think with me singing it, it’s always going to sound like Everclear. For better or worse … sometimes it’s been worse.”
A lot has changed for Alexakis since he started the band in the early ’90s. He laughs and sighs as he thinks back to some of his wild, drug-fueled antics. He’s able to look back on it all now with clarity and a sober brain. Orange County has always been good to Everclear, which is why the band tries to schedule a local stop on every tour.
One of its earliest outings landed the group – which had originally formed in Portland, Oregon – in a sweaty, overcrowded Linda’s Doll Hut in Anaheim in 1993, opening for one of local legend Steve Soto’s bands.
“I remember doing a lot of bad things there,” he said with a laugh, though not further incriminating himself. “The bad things are always the most fun … until you’re a dad, then all of that goes away.”
He recalls writing most of the songs from “Sparkle and Fade,” but swears he may have some sort of selective memory as a fan just recently posted a show Everclear played back in 1996 in Philadelphia that he doesn’t totally recollect.
“I was just like, ‘God, where did I get all of that energy from?’” he said. “I was skinny and jumping up and down the whole show. I feel like I really put it out there every time I go onstage now, but it ain’t like that anymore. Oh well, what are ya gonna do? We’re all a bit older now than we were 20 years ago.”
Now Alexakis is “three marriages and two kids down the line from where I was then.”
“The lyrics I write now, they’re from a different perspective, but they still come from the same guy. I have a lot more experience now and I think I have a better sense of humor, especially about myself, than I used to have. I take my work seriously, but I don’t think I take myself as seriously as I used to because that’s just too much baggage to carry around.”
Though he’s consistently working on fresh material, he does enjoy being the curator of the Summerland fest, which this past summer included performances by Toadies, Fuel and American Hi-Fi, and in the past, acts such as Sugar Ray, Lit, Filter, Sponge, Eve 6, Soul Asylum and Gin Blossoms.
“There is completely a sense of nostalgia to Summerland and I don’t have an issue with that, but one of the things that I’ve made a criteria in the past and will continue to do in the future is that these bands have to be real bands,” he said.
“They need to be out there still, making albums and touring, chasing that carrot and have a fire in their bellies. That’s very important to me. I don’t want a bunch of old guys, sitting around, waiting for their checks and playing golf while out on tour just so they can go down memory lane in a golf cart.”
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Sysco Seattle Begins Expansion on Distribution Center
HOUSTON, TX - Sysco is a formidable force in our industry. It seems that every day when I drive to work, I steer around a Sysco truck delivering goods to the multitude of restaurants cropping up in Sacramento. And as foodservice needs go up, Sysco’s footprint rises alongside it. Recently, according to a report from Kent Reporter, the company has made plans to expand its distribution center in Kent, Washington.
The warehouse expansion will include an additional 102,739 square feet, which will accommodate both freezer and cooler space. Permits filed with the city show that there will also be a mechanical room and several loading docks.
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The first juillettists took off without a hitch. The strike against wage cuts for employees of the Aéroports de Paris (ADP) group, manager of the Paris airports of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle and Orly, continued on Saturday July 3 after flight delays the day before. The mobilization of the demonstrators, supervised by the police, however, did not have an impact on air traffic on Saturday, noted an AFP journalist. No disruption was recorded, said an airport source. “Our effort will aim to ensure that the planes are delayed at the most”, assured Augustin de Romanet, CEO of Groupe ADP.
During the morning of Saturday, a hundred employees marched in peace in the parking lots of terminal 2E in Roissy, to the sound of a fanfare and closely supervised by police officers. They were waiting to be joined by another hundred demonstrators gathered elsewhere. Several of them were, however, fined for “obstructing the operation of the airport” and “unjustified presence at the airport”, following a prefectural decree. They were fined 135 euros.
Three unions – Unsa, CGT and CFE-CGC – are calling for a strike until Monday to obtain the withdrawal of an adaptation plan for employment contracts (PACT), which provides for a reduction or elimination of bonuses. In case of refusal, employees risk dismissal. The members of the management “make us look like privileged. I have 1,680 euros of basic salary, so the bonuses are our salary”, explained Yoan S., who refuses to lose until “300 euros” per month. In Orly, negotiations between management and the unions were suspended and must resume Monday.
On the rails, travelers feared disruptions at the start of the week but Unsa-Ferroviaire, CFDT Cheminots and Sud Rail ended up lifting their notice of strike on July 3 and 4 after an agreement with the management of Ouigo, announced Thursday in early afternoon the unions. They had deposited “several strike notices” to ask for more “reconnaissance“for employees and denounced “degraded working conditions”.


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Summary: Director Mel Brooks gives the old horror classic a riotous comic twist in this 1974 comedy. Gene Wilder, who co-authored the screenplay, plays the mad scientist's grandson with an unfortunate penchant for following family tradition. Peter Boyle plays the monster. (PG) (AC,AL,MV)
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CAST : Gene Wilder,Peter Boyle,Madeline Kahn,Marty Feldman,Teri Garr,Cloris Leachman,Kenneth Mars
WRITER : Gene Wilder,Mel Brooks,Mary Shelley
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Collaborations and Releases with Ten C, Private White VC, Gitman Vintage, Reigning Champ, and wings+horns
As the days get longer and the air warms, we bring you a palpable spring palette in lighter, purposeful garments that offer layering potential as fantastic wardrobe additions for the season and beyond. With a standard military-inspired and vintage backbone, this arsenal of styles has a universal utility that will easily translate into coordinated ensembles, substantial in nature. Coming from brands that are manufacturers first, this is a collection of goods made for our Division Road militia who revel in the subtleties of truly special pieces inspired by the classics and made to last.
First, the extraordinary Ten C brings you three staple outerwear styles infused from military originals in their proprietary OJJ fabric that is highly technical and waterproof yet evolves similar to traditional heritage materials like selvedge denim or waxed canvas in that it molds to the body and patinas through prolonged and heavy wear to yield new-classics for an avant-garde army. Pulled from the Private White archives, we have a selection of signature British military-inspired outerwear pieces that bring weather-ready fabrics to stunning fruition in the considered designs of the Ventile Mac, Moleskin Bomber, and a new Revere Field Jacket.
From Gitman, we have a new Division Road collaboration in another exclusive fabrication of a Slub Poplin that's paired with a pair of Japanese Archive Madras fabrics, which will wear in to exude that splendid vintage button-down vibe. Then, we have some bootcamp basics in a subdued Sage and Khaki palette from Reigning Champ's Physical Readiness Training (PRT) capsule collection that are sure to kick you into definitive seasonal style. Finally, wings+horns brings us a small restock on their made in Canada Tokyo Pants that encapsulate their approach of producing modern cuts with heritage details in their unique yet purposeful fabric developments to create new essentials with a sense of the past.

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Are Alternative Investments Right for You?
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We’ve been gunkholing around Long Island for the past few weeks, not venturing too far away since the weather has been unsettled. Even with internet access, one of the problems in the “out islands” can be finding weather radar or good satellite loop coverage for the area you are in. The Bahamas doesn’t appear to have its own weather radar, at least we can’t find it, and the NOAA coverage for Florida seems to end right where we are.
While everyone was expecting the next front to blow through today, someone came on the net (spoke up on a common radio frequency) and suggested going to the following website for a good radar picture: www.insmet.cu; INSMET – Instituto de Meteorologia de la Republica de Cuba
Do they even have computers there?
They sure do, and we should have known better and thought to check some of their very useful resources available since we’re actually closer to Cuba here than Florida. We’ve discussed that if we venture further south in the Jumentos or Ragged Islands, whether we might just do the final 60 miles to Cuba to say we have done it.
The website has a very good radar loop that covers right where we are located (in the red circle) and beyond. It also provides links to other useful weather information on the net.
Technology has certainly made things (like translating your newly discovered Cuban radar site) much easier!

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Vintage Louisiana Souvenir Plate Decor
An original vintage souvenir from the 1970's, this porcelain plate features 22kt gold trim and showcases some of the Pelican States finest attractions!
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What’s better than one Sonic cartoon? Two Sonic cartoons? How about THREE Sonic the Hedgehog cartoons! It’s time to once again to showcase three of our most popular toons starring Mr. Sonic Hedgehog: Sonic’s Metal Nightmare, Sonic Game Over, and Enter The Sonicverse!
There’s a general theme in each mini Sonic movie – including our Sonic song – Sonic vs Eggman (or Robotnik, if you're of a certain vintage). So, sit back, relax, and watch Sonic the Hedgehog do Sonic the Hedgehog things in SONIC CARTOON COLLECTION (Volume 2).
Sonic: Enter The Sonicverse
Concept and Produced by Ben Michael and Tom Jenkins
Music written, composed and performed by The Kevin Bennett
Storyboards & Animatic by Liam Mckeown
Rough Animation by Billy B Crinion, Jesus Ache, Bimmling & Liam Mckeown
Clean Up by Hugo McCrea (@dustyhugs), DZ-Aladan (@DZAladan), Billy B Crinion, Jesus Ache, Bimmling, Jacques Theron & Liam McKeown
Colour by EpicFaceFist, Kevin Stolle, Ryan Hammond, Bimmling, Jesus Ache, Jacques Theron, Liam McKeown & Billy B Crinion
Backgrounds by Eric Oleander (https://twitter.com/eric_oleander)
Additional Backgrounds by Liam McKeown
VFX, Edit and Compositing by Jason Alan Dewey
Sonic: Game Over?
Produced by Tom Jenkins & Ben Michael
Written and Animated by Pegbarians
Voice of Robotnik by Alex Walker Smith
Voice of Svitlana Volkov by Eileen 'EileMonty' Montgomery
Edit, sound design and music edited by Jason Alan Dewey
Music Composed by Alex Walker Smith
Sonic's Metal Nightmare
Produced by Tom Jenkins and Ben Michael
Animated and Storyboarded by Daniel Arruda Massa - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUW1dnh8TypsrTNIIdJ9sw
Written by Ben Michael and Tom Shreeve
Additional material by Florian Walraven
Voice of Sonic by Blake Swift
Voice of Tails and Amy by Eileen 'EileMonty' Montgomery
Voice of Knuckles, Metal Sonic and Doctor Robotnik by Alex Walker Smith
Additional Animation by Liam McKeown
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Congress on Friday started protests against petrol price hike in Bengaluru and different components of the State beneath the banner “100 not out.”
Meanwhile, Home and Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Basavaraj Bommai deplored the bodily protest throughout COVID-19 lockdown and described Congress leaders as “habitual offenders.”
“Protests against price rise can be conducted in different ways, including social media,” he stated.
KPCC president D.Ok. Shivakumar, Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, senior leaders R.V. Deshpande and Dinesh Gundu Rao and legislators participated within the stir in entrance of petrol bunks in Bengaluru and raised slogans against the BJP authorities on the Centre.
Congress has determined to carry protests against gas price hike from June 11 to fifteen at 5,000 petrol bunks.
Mr. Shivakumar instructed mediapersons that petrol costs had been hiked 48 instances since January 2021.


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Means of escaping life aren’t always accessible and sometimes all you have is your phone. Check out 10 of the free personal growth apps approved for Empaths to help you collect yourself.Read More
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It may be easy to get stuck in a static phase of your life where you feel like you aren’t changing. Do you find yourself feeling like you are falling behind in your life goals? The first step is to formulate strong personal growth objectives and everything else will fall into place.Read More
yourself in need of motivation to achieve your goals? Try out these eight inspiring personal growth journaling prompts for highly sensitive people. Your journal and your mind await.Read More
Life can get very busy and highly sensitive people may forget to prioritize their health. Both mentally and physically putting themselves on the proverbial back burner. Get back on track with this guide made to help you be a healthy highly sensitive person.Read More
Coming up with fun date ideas for the highly sensitive person that won’t include a stressful environment can take hours of planning. You should check out these seven fun date ideas for the highly sensitive person.Read More
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Empaths tend to be very sensitive towards the emotions and feelings of others around them. These select guided meditations for grounding Empaths are each no more than 10-15 minutes long and are 100% free. Find the time in your day to ground yourself, cleanse the mind, and release the negative energy that might be affecting you as an Empath.Read More
Empaths often find themselves becoming mentally exhausted due to the emotions constantly surrounding them. Others’ negative feelings can have a drastic effect on these highly sensitive people. Although sometimes difficult to navigate, these tips will help you maintain positive mental health as an empath.Read More
Knowing the true difference between having ADHD and being an HSP is more confusing than one might think. There is some overlapping in symptoms or personality traits, but there still remains a clear distinction when discussing both conditions.Read More
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- How to Get Out of Your Mind and Listen to What Your Body is Telling You
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- Conversations With Your Higher Self: How to Make More Aligned Decisions
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Architecture Tour of Japan
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Our tour includes the top six destinations in Japan, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Mount Fuji and Hiroshima. Japan in autumn is more than just spectacular colour, it’s full of intrigue, with fascinating variety and a land of contrasts. We will visit not only significant modern and contemporary work in Japan but also traditional architecture, all with outstanding landscape design.
Timeless and traditional design has been the leading inspiration for the modernists worldwide through the influence of Japanese design principles. So following the success of several Travelrite tours of the USA we will visit a few of Frank Lloyd Wright’s projects outside of America. Japanese architects have now won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture seven times since 1979 with four being in this past decade. We will not only focus on eminent Japanese architect, Tadao Ando, but also view exciting projects of ten other significant, internationally acclaimed architects. The best, most popular sites from our guest feedback of our 2014 tour are included plus 25 more memorable contemporary buildings and priceless temples.
We are delighted that Yasuko, our wonderful and knowledgeable tour guide from 2014, who also arranged many memorable authentic Japanese lunches, will also be joining our team to make this the ‘tour of a lifetime’.
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Our tour travels west to east after beginning in vibrant San Francisco to see the very
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to Phoenix, Milwaukee, Madison, Chicago, Columbus, Niagara Falls and New York.
We pride ourselves in achieving a high percentage of return guests and whilst some
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This guided tour, provided a unique opportunity for architects and those interested in visiting the great modern and contemporary buildings of the 20th and 21st century in the USA. The tour includes the most outstanding top sixteen Frank Lloyd Wright buildings.. Whilst Wright was a powerful influence on the Twentieth Century and its architecture, we also parallel the study of Wright with major projects of 10 significant contemporary architects designated by the American Institute of Architects.


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The ability to predict endothelial cell migration rates may aid in the design of biomaterials that endothelialize following implantation. However, the complexity of the signaling response to migration-promoting stimuli such as sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) makes such predictions quite challenging. A number of signaling pathways impact S1Pmediated cell migration, including the Akt and Src pathways, which both affect activation of the small GTPase Rac. Rac activation promotes the formation of lamellipodia, and thus should be intimately linked to cell migration rates. In immortalized endothelial cells, expression of proteins that inhibit Akt, Src, and Rac (PTEN, CSK, and β2-chimaerin, respectively) was decreased usingRNAinterference, resulting in increases in the basal level of activation of Akt, Src, and Rac. Cells were scrape-wounded and stimulated with 1 μM S1P. The timecourse of Akt, Src, and Rac activation was followed over 2 h in the perturbed cells, while migration into the scrape wound was measured over 6 h. Rac activation at 120 min post-stimulation was highly correlated with the mean migration rate of cells, but only in cells stimulated with S1P. Using partial least squares regression, the migration rate of cells into the scrapewound was found to be highly correlated with the magnitude of the early Akt peak (e.g., 5-15 min post-stimulation). These results demonstrated that biochemical measurements might be useful in predicting rates of endothelial cell migration.
- Endothelial cell
- Partial least squares regression

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Push Button is: Chris Uhde - vocals, guitar, composer, etc. Backing Push Button: Cora Jane West - vocals, keyboards; Shannon Marshall - guitar, backing vocals; Bubba McDonald - bass A slew of friends - drums As indie rock continues to ride high with it's hip interpretation and distillation of the late-'70s and early-'80s New Wave sound, the college rock mecca of Athens, GA finds itself hosting a new band, Push Button, that is ready to join in the current post-modern-pop-music conversation. Fronted and formed by singer-guitarist Chris Uhde, Push Button was initially conceived as more of a new style of songs than a practical band as Uhde sought to write and hone a collection of material that didn't seem to fit his other music projects, neither the playful punk dirge of Annaray nor the '60s garage rock of Flight 19. 'People knew I had that underlying pop streak in me,' explains the 28-year-old Uhde. 'In the other bands I was playing in, it was jokingly known as the pop project Uhde always talked about but could never con people into doing. Eventually I decided that maybe it's something that I should just take the time and do on my own, just to get these other ideas out of my head.' After completing work on Annaray's self-titled second album in 2003 -- a record produced by a pair of the band's' local friends, David Schools (Widespread Panic) and David Barbe (Mercyland, Sugar) -- Uhde felt his attention shifting more and more to this 'other' kind of style that he was now ready to play. 'I really loved what [Matt Sharp] did with that first Rentals record,' Uhde says, 'I thought it was cool how that one guy did everything, and I had never quite heard anything pieced together like that before.' For Uhde, who first played music in his teen years as a drummer, then switched over and learned guitar, it was a simple decision to 'go it alone' for these indie pop songs. Armed with scores of Push song ideas, Uhde loaded up on computer software, turned a spare room in his house into a recording studio and rolled the tapes on the songs that would become the band's debut album, Close to Final. The results are a stunning confectionery of pop pastiche and indie rock that fits quite comfortably in an iPod mix of The Cars, The Pixies, The Killers, Arcade Fire, The Raveonettes and the Dandy Warhols. 'I just kind of went for it,' Uhde says. 'By home recording this album, I spent a little bit of money and was able to spend as much time as I wanted on it, as I wanted to do it. If I wanted to work on it at three in the morning, I could, no problem. With the set-up being right there in my house, I could really spread out and work on it rather than pack it up and try to bring it all somewhere. And then the songs came so fast I knew it was the right thing for this project.' 'The first two songs got knocked out in two weeks,' Uhde recalls, 'then I think I did three songs in the next week and a half. After that it kind of settled out to about a song a week. But it wasn't that steady. There'd be a week where I'd go without anything, and then the next week I'd have two songs.' 'After 'Time Well Spent,' the first song, they were written as they were being recorded. It was that fast. Usually, I'd start with two or three scratch tracks with basic guitar, drums and a vocal. Then I'd figure out the melody and I'd start over from there completely with the drums and map it out. Then go back in and put all the guitars, the keyboards, the bass and then finish it out.' Recorded in a mere six weeks -- and using only one mic -- Uhde found himself with a collection of 17 songs, 13 of which made the final cut on Close to Final. Despite having worked so closely on the crystalline pop purity that encases the album, Uhde was quite unsure if the songs were actually any good -- and found himself circulating copies of the record amongst friends to make sure he hadn't gotten amped up into a fake, sugar-coated high. 'I recorded all these songs in one small room,' Uhde offers, 'so I didn't have the proper perspective on it. I thought it might be one the worst things ever, really. That's why I had to circulate it out, almost to make sure it wasn't bad. I thought it could go either way, but it was hard to tell in my own head. It just made me nervous.' There was another reason Uhde wanted to get the Push Button disc pressed into his musician friend's hands: With the record done, he now needed a band. After a few amusingly unsuccessful attempts at securing potential bandmates via a 'Musician-seeking-Musicians' ad in a local arts paper, Uhde eventually let the music do the talking, and recruiting, for Push Button. 'I kept changing the ad and got no calls,' Uhde says, 'or got responses that were way off-base with what I wanted. I mean, they were American Idol-type screamers. No, thank you. It was really beginning to irritate me, because I knew this was not the time to be wasting on this project. So, I went down to the bar for a weekend of drinking and gave out some copies of the CD to my friends and said, 'Guys and gals, I need people to play with.'' The first person to join Uhde in Push Button was singer-keyboardist Cora Jane West, a 22-year-old Salt Lake City, Utah-transplant who moved to Athens in 2003, funding the trip with the sale of her Roland Juno 60 keyboard. As with most artists and performers in the Athens scene, West quickly landed a straight job in the service industry as a bartender, a gig that brought her into constant contact with a wealth of local band and musicians, including Uhde. 'I knew I had to have the female vocalist,' Uhde says of making the Push Button band. 'These songs wouldn't work without that mix of the male-female voices. And Cora, at first, was just going to pass along the disc to a few friends she knew who could sing and play keyboards, which was what I wanted. I went back a few days later to see if she'd heard anything from her friends and she stepped up.' 'Uhde let me borrow a copy of the disc,' West recalls, 'and after hearing it, I decided that this might actually be something I'd want to do. So, I went over to Chris' house one afternoon to see if I sounded right with the recordings that he already had. He pretty much had everything done, and was adding on with overdubs. It was very intimidating, because while I've been playing piano since I was seven, I've never played on anything that was recorded.' 'He basically turned me loose, placed some headphones on me and said, 'Let's go,' and we did it. I was worried about the first song we did, 'See You Again.' but he seemed to like it. I was pretty nervous, because I'd seen Annaray and heard the disc and knew it was good. After we played together that once, it was done. He said, 'So, what are you doing this Friday? When should we have our first band practice?'' After West, Uhde tapped a bandmate and friend from Annaray, Bubba McDonald, to assume the bass-playing duties in Push Button. 'I told him that I had this killer singer,' Uhde says, 'and this new set of songs and it's getting ready to go. We'd been playing together for so long in Annaray that I knew it'd be easy stuff for him to do. Of course, it was. He came in and nailed it.' 'Chris had talked to me about Pushbutton while we were working on Annaray,' says the 26-year-old McDonald. 'He was feeding me the songs as he was finishing them, so I have about six different versions of the album. Every week there were more songs added on. 'I did another few,' he'd go. Oh, all right. The songs were so good, it was easy to say, 'Yeah.'' Like Uhde, McDonald admits to getting a kick out of playing the brand of indie pop evidenced throughout Close to Final, a record whose songs are a distinct departure from McDonald's work in the angular punk of Annaray and the even heavier rock of his other band, Brown Frown. 'No, the change is good,' McDonald offers. 'It's never bad, really. It's just that we've played in a band together for almost five years, and in that project everybody has something to say about the songs. For this, he wrote the songs and we're coming on and helping him play them. It's a different role, at first.' With McDonald and West on board the Push Button express, Uhde's next step was to land a lead guitarist for the band. Not surprisingly, a random encounter at a downtown eatery turned Uhde onto Shannon Marshall, a 32-year old vet of the Athens punk scene who had just put his most recent band, 3 O'Clock Sandbox, on indefinite hiatus while he focused on a stripped-down solo effort, 47. 'Uhde came into the restaurant where I work,' Marshall says, 'and we just started talking about music, bands and home recording, which I was really getting into. Next thing I know he's asking me if I know any guitar players who might be interested in the new group he was putting together.' 'I was a little hesitant at first and I had never played just lead guitar in a band. Then I saw Uhde again a couple of days later and after thinking about it I said, 'You know, I could kind of play lead in a New Order-type of thing, if that's what you're looking for.' Turns out that was exactly the kind of style he was looking for in Push Button.' 'Shannon had been playing primarily as a rhythm guitarist,' Uhde adds, 'just like me. And he attacks his parts completely differently than most lead guitarists I've worked with. When you add in the fact that he can sing, too, it was practically a done deal. We immediately went and rehearsed a few songs together and it was a done deal.' With four members of Push Button now firmly in place, Uhde began searching out for the final piece for the band, the drummer. During the recording sessions for Close to Final, it was Uhde himself who either played the drums on a track or sequenced and programmed the drum loops. Of course, there was no way he could pull such double duty in the live incarnation of Push Button. Landing a permanent drummer for Push Button, however, quickly became a daunting task for Uhde. 'The problem I ran into is that all of the good drummers in Athens already had two or three projects going on, and would have other band commitments that would put them out of the loop for weeks at a time. So, I realized that it might be best to bring in a couple of guys and let them share the duties.' Among those Push Button has enlisted thus far include Steve Scarborough of Maserati, Jim Wilson of Mother Jackson, and Uhde and McDonald's Annaray bandmate, Lamar Flowers, all of whom will rotate manning the drum riser for Push Button over the next months as the band gets it's live legs beneath it. 'The live show is the harder part,' Uhde explains. 'I found out that recording the album was actually really easy, but re-creating it was an entirely different monster. Luckily, with the caliber of musicians we've got, they can take the songs and make them their own. They're bringing in their influences, too, and it's making the end songs even stronger and deeper.' 'But we're trying to do almost two different things. Our ideal goal is that you would listen to the recording and think, hey, that's a good recording, and then you would go see the live show and go, OK, that was a cool live show, but they're different things. I don't want to play the songs exactly the way they were originally recorded. I want something that has a lot of different angles to be enjoyed.' Though they are currently banging around the songs during rehearsals this summer, Push Button is slated to make it's live debut with some local shows in mid-August. If those concerts pan out, the band has tentative plans to release Close to Final in October and then head out to California for a round of dates with a Los Angeles outfit, Also. 'Right now, we've been working on the dynamics of the live show,' Uhde says, 'testing what works well, what can be stripped down to it's basics and what needs the full-on band sound to make the transition from the record to the stage.' 'But it's been amazing so far. In the last year, I've managed to record an album's worth of songs and assemble a proper band -- which now has a life of it's own -- comprised of these amazing players. As a musician, you can't ask for much more than that.'


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CircleLink Health LLC, announces winning the Gold medal for innovation from The Connecticut Quality Improvement Award Partnership, Inc., Connecticut’s Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award. Innovative mHealth company uses mobile phones to help patients manage their chronic conditions.
CircleLink Health’s innovation award was for the use of Mobile Health (mhealth) to target underserved diabetic populations in California (Medi-Cal) Medicaid patients and use mobile phones to improve patient’s diabetes control as measured by their HbA1C. Our team developed sophisticated software that captured a diabetic care plan that reflected current best practices in diabetes care to interact with a patient’s cell phone. The interactive program used cloud based technology to automatically manage and intervene in key aspects of a patients diabetes care. A key feature of our system includes an outreach and engagement module allowing the provider to use the portal to communicate directly with the patients through their cell phones. This technology is highly scalable and offers a low-cost and sustainable way to manage diabetes.


Numerous human bite marks on the body of an Asheville-area 4-year-old child found beaten to death led investigators to request dental impressions of his accused killer, according to search warrants returned today. William Godfrey Hedden is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Trenton Scott.
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By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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Numerous studies have shown that this drink saves lives.
This is the drink was also readily available and inexpensive ingredients -. Lemon and baking soda
This combination of lemon and baking soda is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy when it comes to destroy cancer.
– 240 milliliters of water filtered
– 1 teaspoon baking soda
– juice a lemon
Method of preparation:
mix all ingredients and drink the resulting mixture. Make sure you consume on an empty stomach.
consume this mixture of at least three times a day.
What hides this remedy?
is simple. pharmaceutical industry does not benefit from healthy people. , The pharmaceutical industry gets, no longer exist billions of dollars.
lemon been shown to possess anti-cancer properties. This fruit creates strong alkaline environment in the body in which cysts and tumors can not survive.
cysts and tumors feed ingredients that create an acidic environment in the body, and as long as the body is acidic, the tumor may grow. But once the flow of acidity in the body stops tumor has no food and stagnates. This is why baking soda combined with lemon is an exceptional fighter against cancer -. Because its effect is mostly alkaline
What affects the acidity in the body and the appearance of cancer?
When it comes to heartburn, food affects the body and the appearance of cancer more. Today, unlike two decades ago, people eat foods that contribute to the acidity in the body so that the appearance of this disease is surprising.
What you should avoid?
– Refined sugar
Refined sugar is the worst. It contains proteins, fats, vitamins or minerals. Refined sugar contains refined carbohydrates, which leads to damaging the pancreas. Its pH is 2.1.
– All types of meat, animal products – milk, cheese, sour cream, yogurt, etc.
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– Alcohol, bread, butter, all canned processed foods containing industrial preservatives, artificial colors, flavors, stabilizers , etc.
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President Donald Trump will not attend the White House correspondents’ dinner this year. the Washington Post reports.
Trump announced his decision on Twitter late Saturday afternoon. The dinner is scheduled for April 29.
He tweeted: I will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner this year. Please wish everyone well and have a great evening!


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February saw pig meat production decline
Following industry’s concerns about pig supplies Defra data shows that in February production went below 800,000. Figures have not been below this level since May 2020.
In February 2023 the number of clean pigs slaughtered was 762,000, the lowest recorded mothly figure since May 2014. Throughputs declined by 11% compared with January and down 17% year-on-year.
AHDB reported that sow and boar kill also fell 11% in February compared to January with numbers totalling 16,200 head. This is the lowest monthly number recorded since October 2021 and 25% below the 5-year average for February. Although the breeding herd contracted in June (AHDB said it was still waiting for the latest UK December population figures) monthly kill figures for sows and boars have averaged 19,300 head (Jul22-Jan23). The lower kill in February may indicate that some producers are beginning to hold onto breeding stock to tentatively rebuild their herds.
The industry continues to wait for the Supply Chain Review from Defra.


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The Homelessness and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program’s 2019-2021 Strategic Plan identified three strategic goals that the program has been actively working towards - one of which is to identify/create safe and lawful places for people to sleep. In 2017-2018, we had conducted a full site analysis where we reviewed all City-owned property for the purposes of creating more alternative shelters and came to find that only a small percentage of land in Portland (~3%) is suitable for hosting an alternative shelter or tiny house village. Most parcels identified were ruled out due to problematic zoning issues. As a result, we have been working in partnership with the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS), the Bureau of Development Services (BDS), the Portland Housing Bureau (PHB), and the Joint Office of Homeless Services (JOHS) on a code change project called the Shelter to Housing Continuum Project. The intent of this project is to create more flexibility in the zoning code as it relates to siting shelter and, more specifically, outdoor shelters or alternative safe spaces for people experiencing homelessness to be.
The Shelter to Housing Continuum Project, if fully passed, will create more flexibility in siting alternative shelters but there are still challenges associated with the idea. For example, we have found that it is never as simple as just providing land and space for people to be. One important aspect is the spaces must be transitional. In order for this to happen we need to partner with service providers who can actively manage the space. It is necessary to assist individuals living onsite and help them navigate services and remove any barriers folks might have preventing them from getting fully housed. There is also a need for the City to provide basic services and there is a need for the spaces to be safe and secure.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic we quickly pivoted to create three new outdoor emergency shelters in March and April of 2020. The community dubbed them C3PO or, “Creating Conscious Communities with People Outside.” Each sites hosts 33-36 platforms for tents and the City provides a range of equipment and supplies to support the needs of individuals onsite. The City also provides a meal program serving three meals a day, seven days a week in partnership with non-profits and volunteer groups within the community. These sites were managed by JOIN who helped to create a foundation for stability and are now managed in partnership with Right to Dream Too (R2Dtoo).
The City continues to actively work with the Joint Office of Homeless Services (JOHS) on expanding shelter models (including alternative shelter models or safe spaces for people to be) and we are proud of the work that JOHS has been doing to transform our shelter system to meet the diverse range of needs we are seeing on the streets of Portland.
For more information related to the current range of models regarding alternative shelters in Portland, please visit this blog: https://www.portland.gov/omf/news/2020/7/24/questions-community-has-city-considered-alternative-shelters-people-experiencing.
To see a map of the distribution of shelters in Portland, please visit: https://multco.us/joint-office-homeless-services/distribution-shelters.

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For the past week, President-Elect Donald Trump's picks to fill out his cabinet have been getting grilled by senate democrats on Capitol Hill.
Last night it was potential Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' turn, and amid questions pertaining to gun violence in schools and children with disabilities, came a tangentially relevant question from Senator Al Franken.
After summarizing the horrors of conversion therapy, stressing that it's been widely discredited, can cause depression, anxiety, drug use, homelessness and suicide in LGBTQ youth, and reminding DeVos that she and her family have given more than $10 million to Focus on the Family, an organization that embraces the draconian method, Senator Franken simply asked: "Mrs. DeVos, do you still believe in conversion therapy?"
"I've never believed in that," DeVos said. "First of all, let me say I fully embrace equality and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free from discrimination." But DeVos' claims are at odds with her history, where she and her family have supported anti-LGBTQ organizations.
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I designed, built, and installed this amazing disappearing workbench many many years ago when I first moved in to this house. I figure there might be someone out there who might be able to use this design for their own workbenches. First, lets look at the photos, then I’ll try to describe the design.
You can see in the photos that there is a hinge on each leg of the workbench and also there are hinges along the back wall. So you just lift up the legs and the whole workbench swings down and against the wall and out of your way! Pretty cool, huh? I don’t have photos of the bench folded down because I rarely, if ever, actually fold mine down. I usually have too much stuff stored on top of it and also underneath it, so it’s not too convenient for me to fold mine down.
Basically, I created a box the size of the workbench top out of 2×4’s. Then I nailed some plywood to the box, then nailed a second piece of plywood just to make the top of the workbench extra tough. Then I mounted a 2×4 to the concrete block wall using some large heavy duty cement anchors and then connected the workbench top to the wall mounted 2×4 using heavy duty door hinges.
You can see in the second photo that I had to double up the box frame 2×4’s in the area where the legs are mounted to the box frame. The legs are mounted to this doubled up area using the same hinges. That’s about it. If I left out any important details, just email me using the link at the bottom of the page or reply to this blog entry and I will answer either way.
Update: September 2012
Here are finally some more photos of the workbench design, including what it looks like when it is folded down. I hope these photos show you how simple and awesome this workbench design is.


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With the win, Jacksonville State finds itself in a second-place tie with Austin Peay in the Ohio Valley Conference. The Gamecocks and the Governors are 10-3 after Austin Peay was tipped 73-71 by Murray State Thursday. Murray State and Belmont share first place at 11-2.
The Gamecocks (18-8) launched a 10-0 run less than a minute into the game to lead 10-2 and never looked back. Hunter scored four points in the run and Ty Hudson six on back-to-back 3-pointers. Hudson finished with 13 points for Jacksonville State, which led by as many as 22.
Jr. Clay scored eight straight points to bring Tennessee Tech as close as 65-57 with less than a minute to go. He led the Golden Eagles (7-19, 3-10) with 17 points -- 15 after halftime -- and five assists.
Auburn blows past Kansas 89-75 to reach Sweet 16
Bruce Pearl's Auburn rebuilding project took a massive leap.
Brown goes on a 3-point spree in Auburn's easy win
Bryce Brown knocks down seven triples in a 25-point performance of Auburn's 89-75 victory over Kansas.
Down goes Villanova, Kansas, and here comes Zion vs. Tacko
The NCAA tournament on Saturday had prolific scoring performances and the elimination of proud programs. What will Sunday's games bring?


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Cents Dev Squad beaten by Skolars B team
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St Albans Centurions Development Squad were beaten 30-16 by London Skolars B Team at White Hart Lane on Saturday.
The Cents travelled with six first teamers and 11 development players in the side. The idea behind the development squads is that the more experienced players play on the pitch for short periods of time, helping and advising players new to rugby league through the game.
London Skolars played the same system, although being a professional club, they had more A team players in their squad and were led by ex Superleague player and current first team coach Joe Mbu.
The game was played in glorious sunshine with both teams playing free-flowing rugby. The Skolars got onto the score sheet first, scoring two converted tries in the ninth and 16th minutes, followed by a try in the 23rd minute.
It was during one of these moves that Centurions team captain Sam Norris broke his arm and had to be taken to hospital. But, rather than heads going down, the Cents began putting more and more pressure on the London team which culminated in James Jaundrell, playing his very first game for St Albans, powering down the wing to score an unconverted try in the corner. The end of the first half saw the home team leading 16-4.
The second half started well for the St Albans boys as Phil Shire crashed over in the corner to score an unconverted try five minutes after the restart.
Although Cents were in charge for most of the period after kick off, with new boys Sam Bucknall and Tabards Harry Trude playing great rugby, Skolars, with the help of their A team players, got back into the game and scored three tries.
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However, the last ten minutes were all St Albans. First of all Jaundrell got his second try of the game after breaking two tackles, followed by Josh Lawrence, unstoppable from fifteen yards out, crossing for St Albans. Both tries were unconverted. Cents were also held up on or over the line on two other occasions.
Centurions’ director of rugby David Stevens said: “This Merit League is all about bringing on boys new to our game. Today we had a squad with 11 development players facing a professional rugby team’s development squad that also comprised an ex Superleague player and quite a few of their A team players.
“I don’t think they did too badly at all against opponents like that. After the game the team were not downhearted, they really enjoyed this run out, and apart from Sam Norris broken arm, we had a good day at the office.”
The Cents are not playing in the league next week as they are taking part in the Brighton 9’s Rugby League festival.

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No one looks less like Seth Rogen than Seth Rogen without a beard!
Seth is appearing in new Hulu series Pam & Tommy, and fans are having a hard time recognizing the actor in new photos shared from the set.
Comments on Instagram include, "That's a different person I swear," and “I didn’t recognise you lol.”
We've been trying to figure out exactly WHY Seth looks so different in these pics. Is the angle? His weight loss? Yes, the beard is gone, but he's done that before and looked exactly the same:
Rogen’s character in Pam & Tommy is Rand Gauthier, the man who stole Anderson and Lee’s sex tape after he’d been hired to do work on Lee’s home.
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Ugly Heroes – Pay Attention
Mandala Vol. 2: Today’s Mathematics, ” Includes Contributions From Murs, Oddisee, Apollo Brown, Rapper Big Pooh, Jamall Bufford, Fredro Starr, Audible Doctor, Gensu Dean, Ugly Heroes, Wise Intelligent, Blacastan Georgia Anne Muldrow, yU & More. today we get the audio for the Ugly Heroes cut from album titled “Pay Attention”. “Mandala Vol. 2: Today’s Mathematics, will be released January 28th.

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Well, until she died, came back, forgot most of her life and discovered that she's the prize in a game of tug-of-war between the warring factions of Heaven and Hell. Lesson for the day? Never say "It can't get worse." It will.
Rachael, instead of deciding what skirt to wear, what she's going to do about her biology final, and whether or not she'll learn to accept the love of her forever-best-friend Jesse, instead gets to be tortured by demons, discover the truth of her parentage while being locked in an insane asylum and watch the veil that keeps our reality from the assorted afterlives be torn asunder. That's before we bring in the avenging death angel who loves her almost against his will, the current leader of Hell's armies who has some scores to settle, a manipulative, talented and blind artist who also happens to be a Prophet and the previous Angel of Death, who's got her own plans for everyone involved. It gets very convoluted, very quickly. And Rachael used to think keeping track of which popular chick was dating what hot jock was difficult...
Overall, I have to say I enjoyed the ride. I've got a few quibbles, but there are things to like here. Going down the list, premise comes first; the hostile semi-truce between the angels and the demons, all of them living together in (im)perfect harmony, was a fresh take on things, especially since God and the Devil are never directly involved. Sure, we have stand-ins for the top slots (in the form of Job and Raphael), but I always prefer a visible character with discernable motivation to an invisible "because I said so" sort. Gives us the opportunity to wonder if that's what the big players really want, or if it's just the agenda their minions are pursuing when they're not looking, and I've always enjoyed a bit of ambiguity.
Second; there's hardly any clear good or bad guys. One of my favorite shows is Supernatural and a large part of that was always that the angels can be bigger dicks than anyone, and the demons don't always have completely evil, inimical plans. The Rift echoes that, with several "half-breeds" fighting for the "good guys," angels (fallen, avenging or otherwise) who are more duplicitous and vile than the "monsters" they're fighting against, and fallen angels and dead souls who are actually trying to help.
Third: The last quarter of the book. Up to this point, it's following most of the standard romance tropes (or appears to be...) with angels and demons tossed in the mix. Most of it is presented in first-person (from Rachael's POV) with the "standard" confusion over her feelings and aversion to violence and conflict between her beaus (exacerbated by her amnesia and the manipulations they - and nearly every one else - commit against her.) That's all well and fine, for a certain audience. I am not that audience. Thankfully, the author kept me going with snarky dialogue and the occasional drenching with blood and torture.
SPOILERS FOLLOW. YOU WERE WARNED.
Then you're hit with the war. The real war. We are taken - quite rudely, I might add - out of Rachael's head, and have to view her more objectively as we are shown that she's not just some clumsy, self-loathing little teenager. Further, she doesn't become a strong and independent woman as the usual romance stereotypes would dictate.
She becomes a monster. A manipulative, heartless, bloodthirsty monster. And the author sells it, with great vigor. To be fair, it's not entirely Rachael's fault... she is only the monster that circumstances and certain individuals have made her become. She can't really be held responsible for her actions, and even when she can, there is a good reason for it; this gives a certain amount of sympathy towards her. But she is still a force of hate and destruction, unleashed on an unsuspecting world. I like it. XD
Then there's the war itself, with constant descriptions of the carnage from all angles (since we are free from being stuck in Rachael's head for this part), and gave an excellent depiction of a chaotic, crowded field as we followed most of our principal characters towards the endgame.
Last: The end. Well, except the last couple pages (and I'll get to that in a minute.) There's some interesting revelations to be found here; some predictable, some not so, but all of them suitably priming the reader for more (which sadly, we don't have yet.) Rachael's final decision and the consequences - as well as why she did it, as opposed to why she says she did - is a suckerpunch that has been set up almost from the beginning, so doesn't have the "I did it because... hey look, a penny!" randomness of some work's "twists," but the seeds were well-hidden and thus don't scream "Hey, this is how it's going to go down!" the whole time. Definite bonus points for that.
Now that part everybody hates. The bad stuff. I know, I know. But they have to be said.
First: I know I do this all the time - and I'm sure I'm guilty of the same offenses - but the language and grammar has some issues. A bit of punctuation clean up, a few adjustments to odd word choices, and this would become a non-issue. It's not totally out of control, though; it's certainly still readable and doesn't feel like the author was reaching for a thesaurus at random every five minutes, so not too much of a complaint.
Second: Dialogue. This was a little inconsistent; there are some amusing quotes to be found here, and there are times where it flows quite well. But a lot of the dialogue felt stilted and forced, with too much exposition and formal speech. This could just be my personal tic. Most of the characters feel as though they lack a unique "voice," or they don't always seem to have it. Several segments (especially later on, when more characters are speaking) had me rereading a page multiple times as I had to "recast" the scene so the correct characters were saying the correct things. I understand that not everyone needs or should have their own style - random grunt B only used in scene 83 for two lines doesn't need to be fleshed out completely, obviously - nor do I think every bit of text between quotes needs to be done phonetically or be riddled with weird terms and slang, but I do tend to enjoy it more when I can tell who's speaking without needing a "x said" after each line or needing to go up and count alternating lines.
Third: The last couple of pages. There's nothing explicitly wrong with the epilogue, per se. I just didn't feel it was necessary. Having an unknown voice pipe up and start telling us what amounts to a mixed recap/foreshadowing just felt a little forced to me. The last page before that (where a certain individual sits, gloats and schemes) would have been just fine as the stop point, in my opinion, with enough reasons for me to want whatever comes next. A certain plot element regarding Rachael and her future was clear to me without this unknown narrator beating me over the head with it. But that could just be me.
Overall, I enjoyed it immensely, and would say that anyone who wants to see angels and demons killing each other, who wants a different spin on the typical paranormal romance style (and honestly, I'd hesitate to call this one "romance," really; it has romantic elements, certainly, but unlike other works that will not be named, it has an actual plot, of which the love story is only an aspect of), or who enjoys their female characters to be more than the stereotypical "herp derp, I'm such a klutz!" or "I am woman, hear me roar" types should check it out.
Now, to tell you a little bit about the story.
Rachael Taylor attempts to commit suicide at the beginning of this novel, and succeeds, but it seems something or someone of a higher power out there doesn't want her to go just yet, since she makes a miraculous recovery and ends up in the hospital. The bad news, she has no recollection of why she got there, how she got there, or who she is. This is aggravating to anyone in that situation, right?
Well, how about if everyone was trying to keep you from remembering. Or at least telling you that you had to remember for yourself?
Rachael goes on a reluctant hunt to find out what has happened to her to make her want to welcome death so easily, but what she ends up finding out will not necessarily make her happy. In fact, she might wish she was still clueless.
Because the truth of the matter is, her life is involved in something much, much bigger than herself. And I mean GIGANTIC!!
So, after being sent to an asylum by her bleep of a mother, weirder things start to happen to her. Things involving people with glowing red eyes, guardian angels, and a strange woman named Elizabeth.
Can she handle the destiny that will soon be handed to her? Or will something happen to deter that destiny from becoming reality?
Again must gush about this book. I love it. It gets faster as you read farther and farther into the book, and I must admit that I read it in a day.
Totally recommended for anyone who loves books with angels and demons as the main characters.
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Although the author is clearly a fan of FDR, his flaws, weaknesses and mistakes are not ignored, minimized or sugar coated. As a result, the book is both informative and thought provoking, presenting the reader with context, balance, objectivity and insight.
Don't let your preconceived opinion of FDR prevent you from reading the excellent book!!!!!
Hailed by William Shirer as “the definitive book on Roosevelt in the war years,” and by bestselling author Barbara Tuchman as “engrossing, informative, endlessly readable,” The Soldier of Freedom is a moving profile of a leader gifted with rare political talent in an era of extraordinary challenges, sacrifices, heroism, and hardship.
In "Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom," Burns brilliantly encapsulates the wartime presidency of FDR: how he at first met the dual challenge of keeping the United States out of World War II, while at the same time legally making aid to the beleaguered Allies available; and then, once the U.S. entered the war, how he managed to keep the Allied war effort moving toward the ultimate goal of victory over the Axis powers. Burns portrays FDR as a man divided between his principles and ideals on one hand, and his need to take a pragmatic approach to the war on the other. FDR is seen squarely placed at the center of worldwide historical events of the 1940s.
Throughout this outstanding book, which was published in 1970 and won both the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for history and the 1971 National Book Award for History and Biography, Burns' scholarly research is impeccable and interpretations of history are flawless. His prose is elegant, fast-paced, and highly readable. Most highly recommended.

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Yesterday, the Trudeau Liberals arrived in Edmonton announcing a plan to buy us off with our own money.
“The Prime Minister believes handing our own money back to us will make us forget all his efforts to shut down our oil and gas industry,” said Peace River–Westlock MP Arnold Viersen.
“As soon as I was elected I started questioning Prime Minister Trudeau’s Cabinet about the problems their policies began creating for our oil and gas industry. After three years, they’ve finally admitted that there is a problem but their so-called ‘solution’ is not what Alberta is asking for. They refuse to listen and this announcement shows how out of touch they really are.”
Canada needs a federal government that champions its oil and gas industry, just like it does the auto sector.
“External forces are putting pressure on the auto sector while an internal force, specifically the federal Liberal Government, is unfairly targeting our oil and gas producers. Parents are losing their jobs, families are losing their homes, businesses are going bankrupt and communities are struggling. Justin Trudeau could fix this problem without taxpayer dollars by changing direction and repealing his no-more-pipelines Bill C-69.”