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Singer ditches his plan of officially releasing his acclaimed mixtape
Odd Future‘s Frank Ocean has ditched plans to officially release ‘Nostalgia, Ultra’, the acclaimed mixtape he self-released last year.
Instead of releasing the mixtape, Ocean had pledged to focus his time into the writing and recording of his commercial debut album, which is due out later this year.
Writing on his Tumblr, Frank Ocean said, unequivocally, that “‘Nostalgia, Lite’ is never coming out”. Before asking, “What (do) I look like a year later re-releasing my last album?”
This comes just a few weeks after Ocean claimed that The Eagles‘ Don Henley was threatening to sue him for his track ‘American Wedding’, a reinterpretation of The Eagles classic ‘Hotel California’, which appeared on the ‘Nostalgia, Ultra’ tape.
At the time, Ocean wrote on his blog:
Don Henley is apparently intimidated by my rendition of ‘Hotel California’. He threatened to sue if I perform again. I think it’s fucking awesome
It is unclear whether this alleged confrontation with Henley is behind the shelving of ‘Nostalgia, Ultra’, although Ocean has said he pushed the record aside to that he could stay “icy”.
Frank Ocean appears on three of the tracks on Odd Future’s ‘OF Tape Vol 2’, including a solo track titled ‘White’. To read a full review of the album, pick up the new issue of NME, which is on UK newsstands and available digitally from tomorrow (March 21).
Odd Future will play a handful of tour dates in the UK and Ireland this month. The gigs kick off at Birmingham’s O2 Academy on March 28, and end on April 2 at Dublin’s Olympia.


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Hey Everyone, Ninja here!
I hope you are all enjoying this music jam party, it’s a real good one and about to get better! I just wanted to pop in and post about some new updates that will be coming soon based on the newspaper that dropped today. Let’s take a peek.
Alright here’s a rundown of what we can expect in the coming days:
Tomorrow (May 30th):
- New merch items at the merch tables across the island. Be sure to log on tomorrow and collect these exclusive items and to check back here tomorrow to make sure there’s no more cheats or secret hidden items!
Next Week (June 6th):
- New Penguin style! A new catalog with new items and a new item of the month will be out! Be sure to check back here next week as we will have the full rundown of the entire new catalog and all the new secret items as well.
- A new pin will be hidden as well, if you’re stumped we will always have the hiding spot here on the site for you to come check!
Two Weeks (June 13th):
- New igloo and new furniture catalog will be out and ready to collect! We have no idea what the new theme will be so be sure to check back in two weeks two find all the new igloos, igloo items and all the secret items as well!
- New Igloo music! Every once in a while CPR updates what music you will be able to have in your igloo so make sure to check back in two weeks to see what kind of new music you can jam out to in your igloo!
The newspaper also talks about other things about the music jam like how to form a band and things like that, you can check it out by playing today and reading the newspaper!
That’s all for now everyone! We hope you are enjoying the music jam party as much as we are. Cadence and the Penguin Band have showed up multiple times and have all been tracked by our amazing team on our discord! If you haven’t met them yet, be sure to join our discord by clicking here and you can get updated on mascot’s locations as soon as they log on!
Until next time, Waddle On!
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More than a decade ago, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office began to take the position that the Supreme Court’s decision in Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) applied to law enforcement disciplinary decisions. In Brady itself, the Court had held that the prosecution in a criminal case has an obligation to disclose to a criminal defendant any potentially exculpatory information. The significant development in the Los Angeles area was that the Brady rule began to be applied to disciplinary records.
Mike Stone, the Los Angeles-area police lawyer who has written extensively about Brady trends, has described the implication of the rule as follows: “If a police officer is a material or substantial witness in a criminal case, he or she may be subject to impeachment by the introduction of information that could cause the trier of fact to question the officer’s motives, accuracy, truth, honesty, veracity, integrity or credibility, and therefore, the believability of the officer’s testimony. Any witness, not just a peace officer, is subject to impeachment along these lines.”
Over time, court decisions began to appear that supported the broad interpretation of the Brady rule. Moreover, some decisions held that Brady obligations extend to all members of the “prosecution team,” including the law enforcement agencies, to identify potential “Brady materials.” Some district attorney offices began to maintain “Brady lists” containing the names of officers whose credibility could potentially be subject to challenge.
Most recently, a number of arbitrators have begun to reject termination decisions made by law enforcement agencies based solely on an officer’s presence on a Brady list. These arbitrators – as exemplified by a decision involving the Kansas City Police Department summarized in this newsletter – require an employer to prove not just that an officer has been placed on a Brady list, but also to establish underlying acts of dishonesty that would warrant termination.
In the meantime, the California Legislature decided to address the issue of “Brady lists” head-on. On October 12, 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 313, a law adding a new 3305.5 to the California Public Safety Officers’ Procedural Bill of Rights Act. Under the new law, “a punitive action, or denial of promotion on grounds other than merit, shall not be undertaken by any public agency against any public safety officer solely because that officer’s name has been placed on a Brady list, or that the officer’s name may otherwise be subject to disclosure pursuant to Brady v. Maryland.”
The new law does not prohibit an employer from taking disciplinary action against a public safety officer based on the “underlying acts or omissions for which that officer’s name was placed on a Brady list if the actions taken by the public agency otherwise conform to [the requirements of the Bill of Rights] and to the rules and procedures adopted by the local agency.” The statute also makes clear that “evidence that a public safety officer’s name has been placed on a Brady list, or may otherwise be subject to disclosure pursuant to Brady v. Maryland, shall not be introduced for any purpose in any administrative appeal of a punitive action” except to the extent that the employer proves that the officer “has committed the underlying acts or omissions that will result in a punitive action.”
With SB 313, California becomes the first state to amend its statutory peace officer bill of rights to address Brady issues. Given the pervasiveness with which Brady issues are appearing in disciplinary cases, it can be safely predicted that other states will soon be considering statutes along the lines of SB 313.

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June Kim grew up in Korea till she decided to
come to New York and pursue her dream as a comic book writer/artist.
After graduating School of Visual arts in Manhattan,
she has been working as an editorial and commercial
illustrator. Kim's work has appeared internationally
in publications such as Teen People, Flaunt Magazine, The Insider, and Elle Korea. Although skilled in several different styles, she is most recognized for her work on the debut album cover and music video for the popular rock band JET.
As a cartoonist, she has been published in a few comic anthologies such as New Thing Vol. 2 and Broad Appeal. 12 days, Her first graphic novel published by Tokyopop, was released in November 2006.

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Amazon and BBC team up for French fashion drama, The Collection
James R | On 05, Apr 2016
Amazon and BBC Worldwide have teamed up to produce a new French fashion drama. The Collection, produced by Lookout Point, is an eight-part series, set in the world of French haute couture just after the Second World War.
The series is created, written and executive produced by award-winning showrunner Oliver Goldstick (Ugly Betty, Lipstick Jungle, Pretty Little Liars) and centres on two very different brothers, exposing “the grit behind the glamour and the treachery beneath the trappings of this empire”.
Goldstick heads up an impressive creative team, including Emmy award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh (Penny Dreadful, The Tudors), BAFTA award-winning producer Selwyn Roberts (Parade’s End), production designer Alison Dominitz (Casanova), costume designers Chattoune & Fab (Dheepan) and casting director Rachel Freck (The Go-Between).
In front of the camera, the ensemble is equally impressive, with the cast led by Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons, Kill Your Friends), Mamie Gummer (The Good Wife, Ricki and the Flash), Richard Coyle (Crossbones, Life of Crime, Going Postal) and Alix Poisson (Disparue). The ensemble also includes Frances de la Tour, Jenna Thiam (The Returned) and Irène Jacob.
Goldstick says: “I’m thrilled to be working with this fantastic team. The Collection has been a passion project of mine for years; an entrepreneurial fable set in a pivotal moment in history, where fashion served as the ultimate vehicle for transformation and re-invention. It’s the story of a war-scarred family – upstairs and downstairs – tethered together by its success and its secrets.”
Series Executive Producers include Anne Thomopoulos (Rome, Borgia, Versailles), Pascal Breton (Marseille) for French production partner, Federation Entertainment, and Kate Croft (Murderland).
Lookout Point CEO Simon Vaughan comments: “This is a pioneering partnership structure between BBC Worldwide, Amazon Prime combined with investment from Pinewood and the Welsh Government. World class partners, but working together in entirely new ways. I am very proud of the fact that we are finding new and exciting partnerships to greenlight the best projects.”
“We’re delighted to be bringing such a smart, sophisticated period piece to Amazon Prime members in the UK,” adds Chris Bird, Film & TV Strategy Director, Amazon Video UK. “We aim to bring our customers the best international TV has to offer, and we’re sure our members will enjoy this window into the seemingly glamourous world of Parisian haute couture, perhaps hiding a more sinister undercurrent.”
The project began filming in January, filming in both Wales and France and had its global launch this week at Miptv, at a special event hosted by BBC Worldwide and Lookout Point.


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Tomaso Ferrando, Guest Blogger
Tomaso Ferrando is a Ph.D. candidate in law, and currently a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. This article is a condensed version of a chapter that appears in “Shifting Power: Critical perspectives on emerging economies,” published by the Transnational Institute (August 2014).
The BRICS countries’ relationships with other countries in the South are often said to be distinguishable from those of traditional Northern donors. In particular, it is often claimed that South-South development cooperation does not attach policy conditionalities, provides assistance based on a win-win paradigm, and places emphasis on how to ensure economic sustainability of the receiving country. A closer look at the issue of investing in land abroad, and the use of investment agreements to secure those investments, suggests though that there is much less of a gulf between the practices of governments in North and South than we might like to think.
Data shows that BRICS countries’ investors (public, private, and mixed) play an increasingly crucial role in land investments (except Russia, which remains at the margin of the rush probably due to the amount of available land). Just as the global trend of increased interest and investment in land has led to a surge of land grabbing, BRICS investments have proved no different. There are zones of interest for each country, with a predilection toward neighboring countries (especially in the case of Brazil, South Africa and China) and certain areas of the African continent depending on geographical proximity or linguistic ties.
Grabbing control, not just land
This does not mean that these countries—or even their investors—are necessarily involved in seizing land. Land grabbing is essentially about grabbing control of land and its uses, increasing the power of investors in relation to sometimes vulnerable marginalised communities. BRICS investments in land are ultimately part of “an ongoing and accelerating change in the meaning and use of the land and its associated resources (like water) from small-scale, labor-intensive uses like peasant farming for household consumption and local markets, toward large-scale, capital-intensive, resource-depleting uses such as industrial monocultures, raw material extraction, and large-scale hydropower generation—integrated into a growing infrastructure that link extractive frontiers to metropolitan areas and foreign markets”
Propelled by and supporting this global trend, Indian investors are particularly active in Indonesia, Malaysia and in the eastern part of Africa (especially Ethiopia and Kenya), while Brazilian interests appear to be reduced and limited to Eastern Africa. South African capital is not only crossing the borders of Mozambique, Zambia, and Swaziland,  but also of the Democratic Republic of Congo,  Angola, Benin, Congo and Ethiopia. Finally, according to the available data, China is the most active investor, with more than five million hectares of land accessed in all the continents, with a stronger presence in Southern Asia, Oceania and South America, rather than in Africa. And Brazil and its investors are leading the pack when it comes to land grabbing.
Delocalization of food and energy
Behind this land grab are the diplomatic and legislative strategies adopted by the governments of the BRICS. As global players in need of economic expansion, energy and food, the BRICS are consistently involved in reshaping political, legal, and trade agreements to facilitate investments.
China, India and South Africa have adopted legal reforms that favor the delocalization of food and energy production and support investments overseas. The Indian government, for example, provides support for conventional greenfield foreign direct investments, facilitation of public-private partnerships (PPPs), specific tariff reductions on agricultural goods imported to India and preferred lines of credit (LoC) to partner governments and financial institutions through the Indian Export Import Bank (Exim Bank). The intention of the government, clearly stated in its public announcements, is to avoid investing directly in land abroad to avoid being considered a neo-colonizer, but to obtain the same objective through its actions as a facilitator of foreign land deals, as long as “the private players show interest in this.”
Meanwhile, Beijing’s two-fold “going out” strategy has involved companies such as COFCO (China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Company) acquiring concession rights in Latin America, South East Asia and Africa, to produce food and cash crops as well as Chinese capital aggressively taking over existing agricultural and livestock firms throughout the globe (included in the United States).
Brazil has followed a different policy of seeking to reduce access to Brazilian land by foreign investors, but has encouraged the Brazilian takeover of land overseas.
Laws behind the grab
It is noticeable that South-South investment contracts in land replicate the same content as North-South agreements. One of the most striking elements is their tendency to define land as void and immediately disposable, particularly in the case of Sub-Saharan Africa, along with their tendency to give unlimited access to water to the investors.
Article 3 of the agreement concluded between the India rose producer Karaturi Agro Products Plc. and the Government of Ethiopia, for example, affirms, “The issues addressed include the rights of the lessee to develop the land, build infrastructure, use water from rivers and ground water for irrigation, administer the land personally or through agency, use mechanization that the lessee deems fit, and terminate the contract with at least six months of prior notice” (emphasis added). By controlling water, investors control much more than the land and its production.
These contracts are also backed increasingly by instruments of international law, in particular, the growing number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) signed by BRICS countries with developing countries. BITs provide investors with broad protection in case of direct and indirect expropriation, changes of the environmental and labor legislations, and even modifications of the tax regime.
China, for example, has concluded BITs with Chad, Costa Rica, Cuba, Laos, Mali, Myanmar/Burma and Ethiopia and many others. Sixty percent of the BITs concluded by China between 2002 and 2007 were with developing countries, mainly African.
Similarly, the intra-regional expansion of South African investments has convinced the Government to conclude BIT-type agreements with Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DCR), Gabon, Guinea, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Namibia, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Different Actors, Similar Patterns
The dominant narrative about the BRICS countries’ approach to development is based upon G77 principles that affirm South-South cooperation, equality, solidarity, mutual development and complementarity. Yet in reality, the proliferation of South-South bilateral investment treaties together with an extraordinary level of capital mobility has merely compounded the global surge of grabbing what used to be a public or common good (land, water, labor and fiscal resources) and progressively privatizing and commodifying it.
The reality of land grabbing by BRICS investors demonstrates that South-South relationships have to be studied more deeply and critically and that the notion of BRICS as an alternative has to be fragmented in its pieces and tested on the ground. In order to do so, we need to re-centre the study of international relations to look beyond states and put people at the heart. Land grabbing is not a matter of names and origins, but rather a result of the ongoing expansion of the capitalist system through what David Harvey calls “accumulation by dispossession.”
 Mwase N. and Y. Yongzheng, Brics’ philosophies for development and their implications for LICs, IMF Working Paper, WP/12/74, March 2012.
 J. Franco, S. Borras Jr., et al., The global land grab: A Primer, Revised edition, TNI Agrarian Justice, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam (2013).
 According to the data collected by GRAIN, Indian corporations are involved in at least twelve agricultural projects in India, ranging between 3,000 to 311,000 hectares.
 Cf Mulenga N., Foreign Farmers Undermine Food Security in Zambia, November 1, 2012.
 GRAIN, Grain Land Grab Jan 2012, GRAIN Barcelona (2012).
 Cf. Commercial farming in the Congo not for the faint-hearted, October 26, 2012.
 Land Matrix 2012.
 Mainly in Indonesia, Laos, Philippines, Pakistan. GRAIN (2012).
 Chinese interests are significantly strong in Australia and New Zealand, where GRAIN (2012) has evidenced at least two agrobusiness projects, one financial and the acquisition of a local farming corporation. The largest agricultural Chinese public corporation, Beidahuang, had concluded a 320,000 ha investment agreement with the governor of the Rio Negro Region, in Argentina, which has been halted by judicial decree, and has also triggered a legislative proposal against foreign access to land.
 Interestingly enough, Brazil is both a target and source countries, as recently evidenced by Borras et al Saturnino M. Borras, Jennifer C. Franco & Chunyu Wang, “The Challenge of Global Governance of Land Grabbing: Changing International Agricultural Context and Competing Political Views and Strategies,” 10 Globalizations 161–179 (2013).
 According to Anand Seth, the deputy director general of the Federation of Indian Export Organisations Ethiopian farm products entering the Indian market are now taxed less than agricultural products originating from India. See R. Rowden, India’s role in the new global farmland grab, 29 Economics Research Foundation.
 The largest single line of credit approved by the Exim Bank so far has gone to Ethiopia — $640 million for a sugar project. See also S. Menon, “Bloodied pulses. Indian plantations bloom in Ethiopia at the cost of the livelihoods and homes of the tribals,” Business Standard, February 16, 2013, New Delhi, India.
 S. Pawar, “Daal not enough? Grow them abroad,” The Telegraph, Calcutta, 5 December 2010.
 A. C. Armony & Julia C. Strauss, “From Going Out (zou chuqu) to Arriving In (desembarco): Constructing a New Field of Inquiry in China–Latin America Interactions,” 209 The China Quarterly 1–17 (2012).
 Although Article 3.3 of the contract affirm that the lessee has the right to use “irrigation water from rivers or ground water respecting present and future environmental and water laws and regulations without any disturbance to the environment with prior permission from responsible federal and regional institutions”, it does not require the direct participation of local communities in the management and allocation of water, giving the state the full monopoly over this fundamental element of life.
 Malik M., 2010, South-South, Bilateral Investment Treaties: The same old story?, IV Annual Forum for Developing Country Investment Negotiators Background Papers New Delhi, October 27-29.
 Harvey, D. 2003, The New Imperialism, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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"Our own king of dance Mc Galaxy has decided to shoot a viral video for his new mad dance song "Komolop Cholop" and this is a taste of what is to come. The song was produced by some of the biggest names in the industry, Shizzi and Uhuru. It's no secret that the star is a mad dancer and has created some of the most popular dance steps, for artists from Sekem to Kukere dance to Skelewu to Sanko and many more. So expect something new and fresh on this one and we sure it will take over again.
The official viral video for this hit single drops in a few days time. Check on it below and share your thoughts.
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Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (WNDR3700)
A fast, easy to use, dual-band wireless router for homes and small offices
- Dual-band operation works very well, fast 5GHz operation, USB port for sharing storage devices, content on USB drives is accessible over the Internet
- Couldn't use USB devices to serve media to our PlayStation 3, Web interface needs a redesign -- enough with the frames already!
The Netgear WNDR3700 is fast, reasonably easy to set up, and stocked with some interesting features. We love the ability to run 5GHz and 2.4GHz networks simultaneously, and the built-in USB function is useful for sharing content locally and across the Internet. All up, it's an above-average wireless router for the home or small office.
Price$ 299.00 (AUD)
Netgear doesn't leave much to the imagination with its product names. Take the Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N Gigabit Router (WNDR3700): its full name lets you know exactly what you're getting. The WNDR3700 doesn't have a modem built into it, so you'll either have to use your existing modem or get a new one to attach to it.
Unlike many wireless routers on the market, the Netgear RangeMax WNDR3700 doesn't have any external antennas, so it looks clean and can't be used to poke anyone in the eye. Instead it has a series of internal antennas that can facilitate wireless networking in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency spectrums. It has physical buttons for implementing the highest possible security setting via WPS (WiFi Protected Setup) or you can use the PIN that's printed at the bottom of the router if your devices don't have physical buttons for WPS.
On the back of the router is a 4-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, a USB port and a power button. A stand ships with the unit, so you can either place it upright or lay it flat on a desk, and the router is also wall-mountable. The front of the WNDR3700 has bright indicator lights and a reflective lip, so you can see the status lights clearly from different angles.
Netgear supplies a CD-ROM with the WNDR3700 that makes it very easy to set up the router. It goes through all the disconnections and connections that you have to make, and in which order. Once everything is connected, it verifies communications with the router and allows you to complete your Internet connection and wireless networking settings. If you already know how to set up a wireless router, then you can just log in to its Web interface. While the RangeMax WNDR3700 may look slick on the outside, its Web interface is ugly and a little too busy.
The Web interface uses the same layout as previous Netgear routers.
It's the same Web interface that Netgear has used for years, and it still relies on frames. The far right frame has definitions of the terms that are present in the middle of the screen (the part of the screen where you actually change the settings), while the far left frame contains the navigation menu. The top frame has the router's name and language setting, and it is a waste of space. If you try to access the Web interface from a netbook with a 600-line vertical resolution, you'll have to do a lot of scrolling.
We had no problems getting the WNDR3700 up and running with our iiNet connection; all we had to do was enter our login details. Because the WNDR3700 doesn't have a built-in modem, you can use either an ADSL2+ modem or a cable modem.
Wireless networking and security
The dual-band wireless functionality of the WNDR3700 is its most impressive feature. It allows you to run both 2.4GHz 802.11n and 5GHz 802.11n wireless bands simultaneously. This way, you can dedicate one network to streaming videos and online gaming while using the other network for file transfers and Internet usage. The speed and distance of the 5GHz band was much better than the 2.4GHz band, as there was less interference. File transfers from a server to a Centrino 2 notebook (with an Intel WiFi Link 5100 adapter) averaged 3.41 megabytes per second (MBps) and the network connection speed fluctuated between 39 and 65 megabits per second (Mbps).
Using the 5GHz band, the same file transfer averaged 7.09MBps. You can see that this is a vast speed improvement over the 2.4GHz band, and we recommend using 5GHz as much as possible if your adapters and devices support it. You can set up networks and use both bands simultaneously, which is what makes the WNDR3700 so great. For example, if you were to use the only the 2.4GHz band to stream movies and conduct file transfers, the video stream would stutter (as it did in our tests). You could get around this by using the 2.4GHz band just for video streaming and the 5GHz band just for file transfers. When we did this in our tests, the video playing over the 2.4GHz band didn't stutter, and the file transfer over the 5GHz band maintained its 7.09MBps transfer rate.
The 5GHz band also offers a boost in performance over longer distances. From a distance of 15m away from the router, we achieved a transfer rate of 4.46MBps using the 5GHz band and 2.86MBps using the 2.4GHz band.
You have to set up both networks with different names, and each network can have its own security level (up to WPA/WPA2, TKIP and AES) and a different password. Additionally, you can set up guest access for both types of networks — letting users access the Internet, but not the local area network.
The USB port on the WNDR3700 can be used to attach an external hard drive or a USB key. You can then access files on the drive from any computer on your network, or even from a computer on the Internet. The router gives you the IP address that you need to use in order to view the contents of the attached device over the Internet (this address will change periodically), and Internet access is not enabled by default. If you choose to enable Internet access, be sure to also enable password protection. You can't select a specific password for the attached USB device — it uses the same password as the router. For this reason, it's imperative to change the password of the router when you set it up.
One thing that was disappointing about this feature was its limited media streaming capability. There is a media server feature, but we could only use it with PCs and notebooks — our PlayStation 3 couldn't see it.
Nevertheless, the implementation of the USB storage port on the WNDR3700 is much better than we've seen from some other routers on the market, such as Belkin N+ Wireless Storage Router (F5D8235au4).
We were able to achieve good speeds when transferring files from a 16GB Toshiba USB key; over the 5GHz network, we achieved an average speed of 5.23MBps, while over the 2.4GHz network the speed averaged 3.04MBps. (These speeds were recorded on a notebook with an Intel WiFi Link 5100 wireless adapter.)
Apart from dual-band operation and the USB port, you get built-in quality of service (QoS) for prioritising Internet traffic, an SPI firewall, keyword and port filtering, and there is even a traffic meter. The traffic meter works by knowing how much quota you have, and when your reset date is. It can then warn you if you're about to go over your quota. However, there is no way to add separate peak and off-peak limits, which is a bummer for Australians since many ISPs have separate quotas. You're better off using a dedicated usage monitor for your ISP instead.
The included traffic meter is fine if you want to take a look at how much you've downloaded during a particular period, but a meter designed for your ISP should be used for greater accuracy.
We absolutely love the dual-band operation of the RangeMax WNDR3700 and it's much better than previous dual-band products we've seen from Netgear, such as the Netgear RangeMax Duo Wireless N Router (WNDR3300). It worked very well during our tests and achieved good speeds in an environment cluttered with 2.4GHz access points. It should definitely be considered if you live in a large apartment block and want more reliable and faster wireless networking performance, as long as your other devices support 5GHz operation.
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The Aquarius Eco Ship concept design is the result of a comprehensive study project which focused on optimising the design of a large ocean going ship such as a bulk carrier or oil tanker to harness the power of the wind & sun by using Aquarius MRE. This study was started by Eco Marine Power Co. Ltd (EMP) in May 2011 and has attracted world-wide interest.
The centre piece of the Aquarius Eco Ship is the Aquarius MRE (Marine Renewable Energy) - an innovative and patented fuel saving and emission reduction system that incorporates a variety of elements including solar panels, energy storage modules, a computer control systems and an advanced rigid sail design.
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The Aquarius Eco Ship is a low emission & green shipping focused solution which has been designed to be highly flexible and configurable so that the concept can be applied to most ship sizes and types. Applications for the system include bulkers, oil tankers, survey ships, passenger ferries, cruise ships, Ro-Ro ships, car carriers & even unmanned surface vessels.
In addition to Aquarius MRE, a future Aquarius Eco Ship would be fitted with other fuel saving measures such as an advanced electrical propulsion system, air lubrication, an optimised hull design and waste heat recovery technologies. Fuel cell technology could also be incorporated into the design.
This combination of technologies could lead to fuel savings of 40% or more and also dramatically reduce the emission of noxious gases such as Sulphur Oxides (SOx) & Nitrogen Oxides (NOx). In addition the use of renewable energy would reduce the vessels carbon footprint.
An Aquarius Eco Ship could include up to 1 MWP or more of solar power and enough energy storage modules so that the ship would not need to use auxiliary diesel generators whilst in port, This would enable the ship to operate emissions free when alongside. The energy storage modules could be charged via the solar panels, by the ships main generators or from shore power when available.
Both the Aquarius Eco Ship and Aquarius MRE have been designed to take into account the reality of operating rigid sails on ocean going ships and include a range of safety features. The rigid sails for example can be lowered and stored when not in use or during emergencies.
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The rigid sails used by the Aquarius Eco Ship form part of Eco Marine Power's EnergySail technology. This renewable energy sail platform allows for a variety of energy sources to be used and managed via the same system. Solar panels & wind power devices can be mounted on the rigid sails or elsewhere on the ship in a variety of configurations.
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The Aquarius Eco Ship is another example of how Eco Marine Power is developing designs to move shipping towards a more sustainable future.
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The Reserve Bank will conduct open market operations to purchase government bonds worth Rs 8,000 crore on August 30 to ease liquidity in the market.
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The Reserve Bank on Monday sold short-term bonds worth Rs 22,000 crore to check volatility in the forex market by sucking out liquidity.
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In order to absorb excess liquidity, the Reserve Bank has pegged the quantum of intervention through Market Stabilisation Scheme (MSS) at Rs 50,000 crore.
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Monitoring water flow into the complex in the summer months, as well as in the winter, is very important. Should a problem occur at one of the well sites, it must be diagnosed and resolved as quickly as possible. To ensure an adequate supply of water, Rainbow Farms determined that remote monitoring was required to monitor the critical water output from four different well sites which are spaced approximately ¼ mile apart on the 640 acre complex.
Ultrasonic clamp-on flow meters were installed on each of the four wells. The ultrasonic flow meter's ability to clamp onto various pipe sizes and materials plus its Ethernet connection, provided the means to send real-time flow data over a wireless network directly into the control room. David Bryson, Production Supervisor at Rainbow Farms notes that “Each of the twenty-five poultry houses have low-pressure alarms, so having the ability to remotely view the actual flow rates being produced from all of the four wells helps me determine very quickly which well is not working correctly or offline.” A clamp-on hybrid ultrasonic flow meter has the ability to remotely monitor multiple pipe applications via Ethernet, measure various fluids, and pre-save multiple configurations for fast and easy installations.
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The series of events that kept me away from blogging last week made me realize how much blogging means to me. Running a blog sometimes takes a life of its own, and like all other things in life, needs to be prioritized.
In retrospect, I feel that the greatest advantage blogging has to offer is the process of self-discovery. It’s a remarkable way to realize stuff about yourself. It’s also an excellent opportunity to make new friends and to build a contact network. There is a whole world out there just waiting to be discovered.
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Classic novel of four generations of a German family.
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Jesuit priest John Dear is an extraordinary apostle of peace, but even more impressively a man of deep and transformative prayer. "A man of prayer will get more done in a year than another in all his life" (Louis Lallement, S.J.). John Dear's prayer life ushers forth in the work of peacemaking. His almost two dozen books and thousands of articles and talks make him a Jesuit marathon man, constantly going anywhere and everywhere as he serves the non-violent Jesus he so loves, proclaims and imitates.
Since the early 1980s, Dear been everywhere on the front lines of the struggle for Faith and Justice in our times, from numerous jail cells to the offices of the Pentagon; he has also met and befriended everyone from Martin Sheen and Jackson Browne to unknown campesinos and inner city residents. John knew well the martyred Jesuits of El Salvador, and is on a first name basis with Mairead Corrigan of Northern Ireland, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, and virtually every other leader of contemporary peace movements. His mentors, famous peace activist brothers Phil Berrigan and Dan Berrigan, S.J., are the prophets he emulates as he blazes new trails of peace and justice.
One memorable day in Rome he met and gave John Paul II one of the twenty books he's written on peace, went on to meet with Peter Hans Kolvenbach, S.J, the then Superior General of the Jesuits who strongly supported and endorsed his work, and later chatted with his buddy Mother Teresa. St. Ignatius never had a day like that!
Dear's autobiography is not your typical activist's memoir. As interesting to me as his descriptions of his time in jail and the multitude of journeys to places as diverse as Duke University, Palestine, Central America, Northern Ireland, Iraq, San Francisco, Richmond VA and Springer NM, Ground Zero for months after Sept. 11, 2001, is his chronicling of his fascinating inner journey and struggle to allow his heart and soul to be formed and fashioned by the ever challenging reality of his deep and abiding relationship to Jesus.
As a young undergrad at Duke, Dear struggled with questions of faith. Through much prayer, dozens of books, and the witness of some genuine Christians, he came to the realization that transformed his life. "Finally I saw it. God existed. Not only because Joe said it and Mother Seton lived it; God's existence was made plain through the life of Jesus. I finally understood the universe has a purpose, the human race has value, and my own life has meaning."
Dear took God very seriously and soon received a sign that revealed to him his life's specific mission: to call for peace in a bruised and battered world, a human community torn apart by ignorance, hatred and war. He joined the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, and immersed himself in the transformative and challenging spirituality of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Society's founder. Through daily prayer, annual eight day retreats, and two 30 day silent retreats, Dear was formed more and more into a prayerful peacemaker striving to rid our world and his own heart of all that is contrary to the teachings of Christ made manifest in the sermon on the mount (Matt 5; Luke 6).
Years into Jesuit life, several years after ordination, John delved even more deeply into the depths of transformative, Ignatian spirituality. During his second 30 day silent retreat, praying five hours a day, he came to a deeper realization of the central truth of his life. "I discovered something of Jesus' perfect non-violence, his willingness to forgive."
Contemplating Jesus on the cross, Dear "watched in wonder as Jesus choose not retaliation of flight but perfect, non-violent love. ... He devoted one last breath to an intercession for clemency: 'Forgive them, they know not what they do'." John Dear realized once again, "that my own heart was the only place to start if I truly wanted a non-violent world". He recalled the words of Billy Neal Moore, a death row inmate he had met several years earlier, who laid down the challenge, before John and before us all, to search our own hearts and forgive anyone who has done us wrong.
Having traversed the same program of Jesuit formation as has John Dear, I stand in awe and admiration of all he has done and accomplished. He has traveled tirelessly, served months and months in jail, and preached peace before hundreds of thousands. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He is simply one of the great Jesuits of this era.
A Persistent Peace is a great read, written in a disarmingly straight forward and conversational style. Long on personal narrative and reflection, Dear spares us the fire and brimstone of some condemnatory activists' off putting rhetoric. Dear's autobiography is a testament to what can happen when a person plunges into the fascinating challenge the gospels place before us. When the power of the Lord takes up a person's generous offering of self to the mission and meaning of the reign of God, sometimes a life like John Dear's is lived. Our world is a better place for the gift of such a life.

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This set of 35 books is ideal for children of ages 4 years and above. The books have colourful illustrations, age-appropriate vocabulary and stories to effectively engage children. The books focus on simple phonics concepts like short vowels, consonant blends and digraphs which develop their reading and build vocabulary.
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ON MAY 9TH, 2020, Sophia Salingaros (@sophiasalingaros), New York-based Bharatanatyam and ballet dancer, who works during the day as a consultant for healthcare companies, went home to San Antonio, Texas, to visit her parents and work for a few weeks. As she spent time at her childhood home, one summer afternoon, she rummaged through her closet and was surprised at the number of Bharatanatyam costumes she owned. “I thought it’d be fun to shoot a video of me performing one jathi but wearing eight different costumes,” she says of the video that had her dancing to a jathi by Madurai Muralidharan. The video went on to garner more than 34,000 views on Instagram.
“When we—my father, who was my videographer and I—wrapped the shoot three hours later,” Salingaros recalls, “the sun had come down and the position of the light had altered.” The next day, Salingaros shifted gears from her Bharatanatyam costume, and wore an editor’s suit to create a 57-second video. The caption for the post read: ‘Re-wearing the costume reminded me how much I miss the stage; it’s as if my favourite identity has been put on pause.’ The post soon had 280 comments from fans, followers, and friends.
The live stage may have had to pause—momentarily, and rather abruptly—but Indian classical performing artists, millennials in particular, from across genres and countries, have used the time to their advantage, creating and building for themselves distinct brands that sparkle with unique narratives characteristic of their identities as dancers and the worlds they inhabit.
In the foyer of a large gated community, in Bengaluru’s IT hub, Bharatanatyam dancer, Pratibha Kini (@pratibha_kini), has, since January 2020 been religiously uploading one video per week on fitness and its impact on her journey as a dancer. “You see, it’s no secret that every industry has its own politics,” says 28-year-old Kini, an engineer who works in IT. “For a budding artist like me, to get an opportunity to perform isn’t exactly easy. Last year, I decided to take matters into my own hands, and start my own YouTube channel where I had the possibility of creating valuable content that was beneficial to the community.”
I don’t ever post for the sake of it. When an idea occurs, I see it through creatively and ensure it positions me as how I’d like people to think of me—as a versatile dancer,” says Simran Sivakumar, dancer
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Kini naturally turned inwards; to what she knew best. She was lithe, strong, consistent with her workouts at a CrossFit gym close to home; she enjoyed lifting and had accrued the many benefits of a long-standing relationship with nutrition and fitness. With over 50 videos now, which tell of her practice and performance, fitness hacks, and a slew of videos on a range of topics relevant to dancers (such as whether to dance or not when you are on your period), Kini has grown her following significantly—YouTube (28.5K), Instagram (16K)—over the year. “I literally started from scratch, but it has been a very gratifying journey,” she says, “filled with so many learnings. Above all, it’s fantastic to have been able to access dancers from across the world, build trust with them, and in a sense, create for myself, an audience of my own without having to depend on anyone for it.”
In Hyderabad, speaking on behalf of the Aayana Dance Company (@aayanadance), Manognya Krishna Balaraju, its co-founder, admits that their online presence reflects the ethos of the company—“the stimulus to dance is often in the things that are around us; we find joy in telling a story through dance”. As a genre-bending dance company—Bharatanatyam, hip-hop, Indian contemporary dance—and using the language of improv, Aayana’s repertoire, especially on social media, has often been triggered by an artistic impulse to create an audience that is not necessarily used to consuming dance.
“It’s a blessing,” says Balaraju, of the brand’s wide and eclectic following— 56.2K on Instagram—“because it allows us the freedom to create work on things that we are utterly fascinated with.” Harry Potter, for instance. Foraying into Instagram Reels in October last year, Aayana Dance Company created The Hogwarts Reel where the five principal dancers jived—classical and free style—to a song. The reel garnered 4 million views for a caption that read, ‘We solemnly swear we are upto no good. Thank you, Instagram for everything you make possible.’
With great following, comes great responsibility. “You bet,” says Balaraju, “It’s overwhelming to be at the receiving end of so much love.” In the Bay Area, in Sunnyvale, Nitya Narasimhan (@nittuwit) says that what began as an act of sharing her dance with a larger universe, and in a manner that was real and vulnerable, has blossomed into her gathering a large and loyal Instagram family. Last year, in June, Nitya conducted workshops that raised funds and supported two not-for-profit organisations across India and North America. Narasimhan says she began engaging with social media almost naturally. “When I moved to the US six years ago, it became a way for me to be accountable to myself in the context of my dance,” she says, “In hindsight, I think people resonated with the fact that I was sharing a piece of myself through my practice.” The warmth of Nitya’s handle is not merely the yoga and dance videos she shares but also her dog, Kulfi, “a piece of [her] heart”, who has acquired near-celebrity status.
In Chennai, taking a break from a day-long shoot for Chennai-based photographer, Amar Ramesh’s Natya series, 23-year-old Simran Sivakumar (@simran.sivakumar), a graduate of Visual Communication, whose Instagram page has 96K followers says, “One’s following is not everything; content is really the queen.” That realisation—right from the start, has meant Sivakumar is conscious about constantly creating and sharing work that has a quality of “innovation” about it. “I’m always asking myself this question, ‘how am I standing out with everything that I’m sharing on social media?’”
On March 21st last year, just as the country went into a lockdown, Sivakumar started her quarantine series. She draped herself in a light blue saree, sat by a window in her home overlooking the empty streets, played one of her favourite songs—the iconic ‘Yamunai Aatrile’ from Thalapathi—and did a 59 seconds abhinaya piece that added another layer of expression to the song. The video quickly received 1,31,042 views and 436 comments.
An artist who seamlessly straddles genres—Bharatanatyam, Western dance, Bollywood—Sivakumar is conscientious both about quality and intent of content. “I don’t ever post for the sake of it,” she says, “I like to go with the flow. When an idea occurs, I see it through creatively and ensure it positions me exactly as how I’d like for people to think of me—as a versatile dancer.”
In December, last year, to mark the Tamil month of Margazhi, Dallas-based physician and Kuchipudi dancer, Pranamya Suri (@pranamyasuri) curated the Malyada series, a virtual celebration of Andal’s Thiruppavai, a set of Tamil devotional hymns. Stemming from her passion for the Thiruppavai and an opportunity to collaborate with like-minded artists, this month-long series that saw the coming together of dance, music and dialogue, helped make the content of the text, “universally accessible”. The impact of the series was more than mere numbers, as Suri admits. “We asked television channels if they could broadcast one episode a day. A whole host of people who don’t necessarily engage with the classical arts watched it and wanted to either start dancing or initiate their children into the world of the arts.”
Personally, for Suri, the series gave her visibility. “You see, owing to my medical training, I haven’t been able to perform in India for a really long time now. The series got me eyeballs especially amongst arts organisers, festival curators, dance enthusiasts and other young dancers whose arts I love and admire,” she says.
Unlike Suri, who admits she hardly engaged with social media pre-pandemic, full-time dancers like Chennai-based Kavya Muralidaran are crafting for themselves narratives that help enhance their presence on social media. Three years ago, following a degree in Visual Communication, Muralidaran started a YouTube channel of her own called VivRtti Dance Company. Literally meaning revolution, VivRtti has 44k subscribers and has earned for the dancer, not merely a distinct identity but also a global following. “It has helped me build for myself, a community that participates and supports me in my journey as a dancer,” the 21-year-old Muralidaran says. Her social media engagement has translated into a hundred students from across continents and time zones who learn dance from her.
It’s fantastic to have been able to access dancers from across the world, build trust with them, and create for myself an audience of my own without having to depend on anyone for it,” says Pratibha Kini, dancer
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Muralidaran also believes in collaborations and pushes the envelope with cutting-edge performances. The year of the pandemic also seeded her dream project, Gandiva, a Chennai-based Classical Contemporary fusion band created by her and artists, Sai Vignesh and Navin Shanker that arrived on social media this January. Fusing dance and music, the band re-envisages traditional pieces from the classical repertoire and makes them accessible for a modern audience. Shiva Tandav, the first track, has since its release, crossed 290K+ hits on YouTube and 2.5 million views on Instagram.
But these dancers are also aware of the ephemeral nature and perils of social media. Salingaros recognises the many roles that dancers have had to assume because of the pressure to be seen and heard, virtually. “These videos have become the bane of our existence,” she says, “We’ve had to fit our dance into a social media format and while it’s easy to count popularity based on that, it’s also easy to fall into this trap of likes and comments.” Narasimhan admits that in the year of the pandemic, she has engaged with social media much less than she normally does. “It felt overwhelming, if I have to be honest,” says Narasimhan, “it seemed like the content the audience wanted to engage with had become too commercial for my liking. The rawness of sharing has faded because social media has become the only way for artists to share their work, which is a boon no doubt but, personally, I’d prefer a balance of both.”
Even as artists grapple with social media dilemmas while showcasing interesting and experimental work that helps carve identities of their own, it’s worth remembering Suri’s words, “No denying how crucial social media is to networking in the arts, I keep reminding myself, every now and then, that the arts itself is greater than the individual.”


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NEWINGTON, CT -- Gabriel Couture, a goaltender for the Connecticut Chiefs, has committed to Bryn Athyn College for the fall of 2019. Couture joined the Chiefs in late October, and won six games over the course of the year for Connecticut. Couture turned heads across the league, while making over 30 saves in 13 different games throughout the season.
"From the moment Gabriel arrived he brought a seriousness, work ethic, and desire to grow as a goaltender, that was contagious throughout our organization," said Chiefs head coach and general manager Kevin Cunningham. "He is a young man who loves the game and is willing to work to earn his opportunities. His play on the ice was excellent, but his impact on the Chiefs, his teammates and me personally has been equally outstanding. I am extremely proud of Gabriel and very excited for him and his family that he will get to continue his education and hockey career at Bryn Athyn, where I believe he will have a tremendous four-year experience and make a significant impact on the Lions’ program.”
As Cunningham mentioned, Couture made his impact felt immediately upon his arrival in Newington. The '98 native of Canada got my comfortable as the season progressed, and now he's looking forward to seeing what he can do at the next level.
"I knew that Bryn Athyn would be a good fit for me nearly right away," said Couture. "I loved the coaching staff from the get-go because of their ambitions for the coming years. It is a very young program with a ton of good young players, so I think the team has a lot of potential. I look forward to helping the program grow and playing a part in the continued establishment of a winning culture. I would also like to thank the Connecticut Chiefs for giving me the opportunity to showcase my talents this season. From the owners to the coaching staff to my teammates and the team’s support staff, everyone has been great to me and I know that I would not be heading to Bryn Athyn in the fall without all of them."
Learn more about the Connecticut Chiefs on the team's official website, and check out the full 2018-19 NCAA commitment list.
BOSTON, MA -- The First Round of the Eastern Hockey League (EHL) playoffs has come and gone, with all four series being decided in just two games apiece. While they will go in the books as "sweeps", each matchup was challenging for the four teams that advanced to the Second Round.
DENNIS, MA -- Ariel Kapulkin, a forward for the Seahawks Hockey Club, has committed to the Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT) for the fall of 2019. The '98 native of Ramat Gan, Israel just finished his second season in the Eastern Hockey League (EHL), and his first full year with the Seahawks. In 71 career games in the EHL, Kapulkin scored seven goals and dished out 21 assists.
"Ariel had a very big summer in development and showed he is always looking to get better," said Seahawks head coach and general manager Bill Zaniboni. "His determination to never settle showed in his numbers this season; last year producing 3 points at the EHL level, and this year tallying 25 points before seeing his season cut short. To see a player take the summer and make sure they are accountable is a big part of the maturity and readiness for college hockey, and seeing Ariel in training camp this year we knew he was going to be a college player."
As Zaniboni mentioned, Kapulkin saw his season end sooner than he had hoped, with an injury that kept him out of the lineup for the team's First Round series with the Boston Jr. Rangers. Despite missing the postseason, the veteran forward made a huge jump this year, and he's ready for the next level.
"I am very excited to be joining the Wentworth Institute of Technology as a student and athlete," said Kapulkin. "I have finally earned an opportunity to play NCAA hockey and I am very thankful that the coaching staff at WIT has offered that to me. I would like to thank Coach Zaniboni and the entire Seahawks Hockey program for everything they have done for me over the past two seasons. I want to thank my teammates for believing in me as a player and a teammate. I want to send a special thank you to my family, as without their constant support throughout my hockey career, this would have not been possible. Lastly I would like to thank the EHL for developing me as a player and giving the players of the league a chance to showcase their skills in front of all the college coaches on a daily basis."
Kapulkin is the second player to commit to join the Leopards next season, joining Matt Ernster of the New Hampshire Avalanche, who made the same decision back in early February. Prior to this year, Wentworth had committed 15 total EHL players in the first five seasons of the league.
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— Once a rising star, Utah’s sophomore quarterback Travis Wilson doesn’t look the same these days.
— A strong column from the Arizona Daily Star’s Greg Hansen, on the Wildcats’ loss to UCLA.
— After a stint at Louisiana-Monroe, Arizona State defensive back Robert Nelson is living the dream in Tempe.
— Does the Pac-12 need an injury report? Seattle Times columnist Bud Withers says yes, citing the status of Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota. Continue reading “Pac-12 links: Utah quarterback Travis Wilson struggling” »


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Our modern world has continued to add degrees of separation between the consumers in our society and the agricultural resources that sustain us. It is therefore significant and yet not entirely unsurprising that an active artist today should choose to delve so attentively and deeply into a study of nature, seeking to portray in detail what we all know well, but don’t see so closely or as regularly as perhaps we should.
Devin Gaviria’s Rooster Study presents us with portraits of chickens and roosters. These are creatures that our society subsists on every day, and yet, if you’re not a farmer, or you don’t keep a chicken coop at home, you might not interact with frequently. Gaviria’s hyper-detailed portraits force the viewer to admire these animals in a new light.
Born in Queens, New York and a native of Cooperstown, Gaviria earned his Bachelors of Arts in Game Art and Animation from the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona. The artist learned color theory, composition, anatomy, perspective, and value studies while studying the art of 3D modeling in a computer. He has taken these skills and seamlessly transferred them back into the age-old medium of canvas painting; Gaviria has chosen a subject that is as primal and far removed as one can be from the computing instruments that he learned to work in.
Gaviria works with acrylics, layering the entire canvas in color and allowing the paint to dry in stages. Each work is composed in seven to ten such sessions. The attention to and refinement of detail used in creating these portraits, results in works that seek to accurately capture the color and light of the natural world.
When asked “why chickens?” the artist responded: “Just a curiosity; but as I did more of them I found there was something special about them. They have a lot more character than I think people realize and I wanted to express that,”
Logos Rising, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Curmudgeon, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Empress, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Rainbow Rooster, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Oskuro, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Colonel, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Orange Rooster, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in.
Little Chick 1, Acrylic on canvas, 6 x 6 in.
Little Chick 2, Acrylic on canvas, 6 x 6 in.
Brother Chicks, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 in.
Light, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 30 in.
Shadow, Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 30 in.
The Rooster, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 in.


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Personalised Embroidered White Unicorn Baby Blankie Comforter Cubbies
This cute Unicorn comforter is part of the Cubbies' Blankies range.
Personalising this cute comforter with a child's name and/or date of birth is the perfect gift and something that they will keep and treasure for ever. We also have the white unicorn soft toy which you could send together as one gift.
If you have a specific thread colour you would like us to use please do get in touch and we will try to accommodate that, if not we will pick threads we believe work with the Cubbies' colours.
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Concierge please! Madame micebook loves Hard Rock Hotels, but now it is time to Reverb…
Fans of Hard Rock, take note. There’s a new musical pretender in town. But this no rival, there will be no mic wrangling here. Reverb describes itself as the hotel for the modern music lover ‘looking to experience new beats, new culture and the next best thing.’
Madame micebook will be making a beeline for Atlanta for the debut of the new 200-room Reverb by Hard Rock, which promises to deliver cocktails, beats and the best sleep.
Based by the Mercedes-Benz Stadium (host to the Super Bowl this Sunday), the property aims to tap in to fans in town for a show or game, with the rooftop bar offering a great vantage point to kick off a big night with a few sundowners.
The communal spaces will create the perfect place to socialise, like Constant Grind Coffee and Bar, which serves guests’ favourite French press in the morning and a curated selection of wines and spirits at night. Guests can also experience live musical performances, share ideas in the large co-working space, MEET, and get pumped at the multi-functional work-out space
Groups looking for an epic party experience should book the Roadie room, which features three queen bunk beds, two bathrooms, ample space for entertaining and best of all, in-suite karaoke. Party on!
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DoD Gets a Look at “Self-Healing” Capabilities for More Resilient SATCOM Connectivity on the Move September 15, 2020 SATCOM false If you happened to be near Frederick, Maryland in July of this year, you may have noticed a Hummer traversing the highway, emblazoned with a Hughes logo on the side and sporting satellite antennas on the roof-top. What may have looked like a scene for a new movie, was actually a test of the latest game-changing technology from Hughes. The Hughes Defense and Intelligence Systems Division (DISD) conducted live demonstrations for the Department of Defense (DoD) of the advanced satellite communications (SATCOM) capabilities made possible by our Flexible Modem Interface (FMI) and Enterprise Management and Control (EMC) technologies. That day’s mission simulated how small terminals designed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can intelligently roam over wide areas, employing a self-healing network switching between diverse satellite networks to avoid transmission disruption and maintain connectivity. In this case, switching occurred between the EchoStar 9 and EchoStar 105 Ku-band satellites. This latest demonstration is associated with the multi-million dollar U.S. Space Force (USF) Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) contract, which is focused on producing an EMC (mission planning with integrated situational awareness) and FMI-enabled Aero Terminal prototype for satellite communications. Comprising the small aero terminal is a Hughes software-defined HM400 modem and a GetSat Ku-band aero antenna using a video sensor. The self-healing terminal switches between the HM400 software-defined waveform and the ComTech DMD-2050E running the DoD EBEM waveform. Artificial Intelligence (AI) rules-engine technology uses situational data to make autonomous decisions about the terminal’s use of diverse resources. This includes the operational environment, mission plans, potential satellite access issues, and mission priority based on available services, enabling the FMI to change its configuration in near real-time. The AI-equipped autonomous terminal management agent software chooses the most appropriate modem, satellite and service provider to meet the terminal’s connectivity needs at any given time. The EMC capability also generates full PACE (primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency) plans for the missions using a similar AI rules-engine based innovation. The July demonstration verified that if a degraded or disrupted transmission occurs, automated terminal management and control will use alternate networks to “self-heal” connections – ultimately leading to greater resiliency and enhanced interoperability across military and commercial SATCOM networks. Achieving such self-healing capabilities, within full PACE mission planning, is critical for DoD, since its current SATCOM network users must manually change communications elements if their original operational configuration does not work—whether due to interference, poor antenna angles or directional pointing, or an inability to reach a specified satellite. Often, this renders users unable to communicate, in some cases for weeks or months at a time. “This demonstration helped the DoD understand the significant progress being made to deliver high resilience and interoperability across their communications networks using software-based automation with Artificial Intelligence and agile development,” said Dr. Rajeev Gopal, vice president, Advanced Programs, Hughes DISD. “Our military users saw firsthand how enabling a flexible interoperable architecture can improve upon existing, stove-piped networks.” Attendees also saw that the solution helps to reduce the time it takes to get satellite access up and running. Where some teams must wait days and months to get communications, the Hughes solution can be up and running in minutes. Since DoD spends multi-billions of dollars each year to acquire and maintain their wideband satellite communications – and given communications are essential to mission readiness – innovative solutions like this are a significant step toward meeting the needs of dynamic warfighter operations. Hughes has been demonstrating a variety of FMI and EMC technologies for the DoD since 2018, all in support of more resilient, efficient, and cost-effective SATCOM military networks. Click here to learn more. 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