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Doing electrical wiring by by yourself could be difficult. This is often specifically so any time you lack the information as well as encounter in electrical things. The detail is you can not do a demo and mistake strategy when dealing with electrical wiring. Issues could expense you a fortune or perhaps your daily life. That may be why in advance of starting up any do-it-yourself electrical repair, you will need to inquire some electrical wiring inquiries only to make certain you recognize what you are undertaking. Another thing about electrical wiring is that wires usually are colour coded. Therefore, it truly is basically easier to know which ones select which. Below would be the most common electrical wiring questions whose solutions generally entail hues to assist you establish just about every particular wire. - House Electrical Wiring
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How do You Wire a Switch?
Considered one of by far the most typical electrical wiring inquiries is regarding how to wire a switch. Although applying switches in your own home is fairly quick, wiring one may not be that uncomplicated for everyone. An ON-OFF switch is definitely quite simple to wire. You'll find different kinds of switches, but for this example, let us say you're putting in a single-pole toggle switch, an extremely frequent swap (along with the most basic).
You will discover three hues of wires inside of a usual single-pole toggle switch: black, white, and green. Splice the black wire in two and join them to the terminal screws - a single on top rated along with the other within the bottom screw of the swap. The white wire serves to be a source of uninterrupted ability and it is typically connected to the light coloured terminal screw (e.g., silver). Join the environmentally friendly wire to your ground screw of the switch.
These steps would frequently be ample to produce a typical switch operate without a problem. Nonetheless, for those who are not self-confident that you choose to can carry out the undertaking thoroughly and securely you improved allow the professionals get it done as a substitute. After all, there's a rationale why this process is one of the most frequent electrical wiring questions questioned by many people.
How do You Wire a Ceiling Fan?
For many rationale, tips on how to wire a ceiling fan is also certainly one of by far the most frequent electrical wiring thoughts. To simplify this activity, you need to use a single switch for your single ceiling fan. To wire the admirer, it can be merely a issue of connecting the black wire on the ceiling fan to your black wire of the swap. When there is a lightweight, the blue wire should be related on the black wire from the change in addition.
How can You Change a Breaker and exactly how Does one Add a Sub Panel?
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You will discover causes why they are quite possibly the most commonly asked electrical wiring thoughts. Just one, a lot of assume it can be easy to try and do, and two, these are definitely the frequent electrical responsibilities in the home. But then you definitely should not set your safety at risk in the purpose to save cash. The stakes could even be substantially increased should you endeavor to save money and do an electrical wiring career without adequate understanding or knowledge.
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Mattison is listed at 6'0 and 200 lbs, and there is talk about him potentially moving to Safety at the college level.
Here is an article about Mattison, and this guy is very high on him. It sounds like a heck of an athlete to say the least.
I guess we will see what happens between now and signing day, but picking up yet another commitment is exciting! Props to Brad for passing this along!

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Yegor took part in the demonstration against election fraud on the 27th of July 2019 in Moscow. Police assaulted the demonstration, and the prosecutor claimed that Yegor assaulted police while attempting to dearrest another demonstrator. In December 2019 he was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
On the 30th of January 2021 Yegor was granted parole by the local court in the Volgograd region, as he had been a model prisoner without a single sanction. However, the prosecutor appealed this decision, and falsified a discliplinary report claiming that Yegor had violated clothing instructions the previous November.
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OUR VIEW — Flood control should be a community-wide responsibility
Throughout American history, there’s been a tension between our country’s libertarian and communitarian instincts. One part of us wants government out of our lives and believes people should succeed or fail solely on their own merits. Another side holds that we have a higher responsibility to act jointly for the common welfare. Generally, we strike a balance. The pioneers who settled the land treasured their independence but banded together in community to cut the roads, clear the forest and drain the swamps.
We’ve been feeling that tension in the Holland area recently as neighbors spar over drainage issues. The heavy rains of 2008 and 2009 inundated hundreds of homes in our area and spurred a flood (no pun intended) of requests for public drains to alleviate the problem. The question is: Who should pay? Only those property owners suffering flooding? All neighbors whose properties drain to the same destination? Or should it be the entire community?
The debate at times has been fierce, particularly in regard to contentious drain proposals in Park Township, where many homeowners have objected to being included in the Park West drainage district and the refusal of a number of key property owners to grant easements for pipes may drive up the cost of the project significantly.
When assessments run into thousands of dollars, we understand the concern about being included in a drainage district. However, some of the rhetoric we’ve heard around our area has verged too far to the let-them-fend-for-themselves side of the debate. We believe ensuring good flood control should be a community responsibility. We don’t believe improvements should solely be the burden of those who were unfortunate enough to buy a house built in the wrong place 40 or 50 years ago.
If any part of our properties are paved, we contribute to runoff and somebody else’s drainage problems. Continued development, particularly on Holland’s historically swampy north side, has eliminated much of the natural landscape that once absorbed and filtered runoff, forcing us to replace them with gutters and pipes. “Urban” land use in the Lake Macatawa watershed doubled from 15.3 percent to 30.6 percent between 1978 and 2005, according to a state hydrological study, while the “imperviousness” of the local landscape rose accordingly.
Further, chronic flooding hurts the tax base of the entire community and property values well beyond the directly affected properties. Reports of widespread flooding the past two years didn’t help anyone’s property values in the western half of Park Township.
Perhaps we would be better off if we considered drains the financial responsibility of the broader community, with costs spread among all the taxpayers in a township rather than just those included in drainage districts. Yes, we would often be paying to solve problems in other people’s neighborhoods, but to us maintaining this infrastructure is part of promoting the community’s general welfare, just as we do when we pay for roads we’ll never drive on or for public schools our families may never use. (Taking on that responsibility would have to come with better government coordination and oversight to prevent drainage problems from developing in the first place.)
We hope all property owners realize that drainage and runoff are complex, community-wide issues and take a little more understanding attitude toward neighbors dealing with water problems. We would all benefit from a little more pulling together and a little less driving apart.

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Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], March 15 (ANI/PNN): Zoga Wellness, a leading provider of health and wellness solutions, has announced the launch of its new yoga and meditation app named Zoga. The Zoga Wellness app offers guided meditation and features the world's largest Asana library with AI-based posture correction feedback in real time.
The Zoga Wellness app offers free access to 500+ yoga courses. Zoga's AI integration works as a "third eye" and alerts users with real time correction if they are performing the asana incorrectly, providing instructions to help them reform their posture. The alert is deactivated as soon as the posture is corrected, giving users a heads-up and allowing them to track their progress over time.
The app also features a meditation section with over 300 free guided meditations. It helps users focus on breathwork and cultivate mindfulness, allowing them to reduce stress, manage anxiety and improve their mental and emotional wellbeing.
"At Zoga, our aim is to bring the practice of ancient India yoga to the forefront and revolutionise the wellness industry," said Nimish Dayalu, CEO & Co-founder of Zoga Wellness. "Each yoga course and guided meditation has been perfected over the last 2.5 years with yoga gurus and meditation masters. We are extremely proud of the final product, which is at par with any premium wellness app, while remaining completely free and without any hidden fees."
Available in both Hindi and English, the Zoga Wellness app is set to be a game changer for the wellness industry. With an easy-to-use interface and range of courses available for beginner and advanced practitioners, the app is designed for anyone looking to adopt a more healthy lifestyle.
The app is now available for download on Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoga.app
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CBS College Sports to Televise Marshall at Rice Football Game|
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IRVING, Texas - CBS College Sports Network has announced that it will televise the conference matchup between Marshall and Rice on Saturday, November 22. Kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. EST at Rice Stadium in Houston. The game is one of the 12-day advance selections that CBS College Sports has for Saturday games in November.
Marshall is currently 3-2 in Conference USA play and 4-5 overall heading into this Saturday's contest against UCF in Huntington. The Thundering Herd has one of the most balanced offensive attacks in the league, led by sophomore RB Darius Marshall (741 yards and five touchdowns) and senior WR Darius Passmore (48 catches for 853 yards and five TDs).
Rice will have this Saturday off and will enter the Marshall contest with a 5-1 league record and 7-3 overall mark. The Owls possess the most prolific scoring duo in NCAA history in senior QB Chase Clement and senior WR Jarett Dillard (48 career touchdowns) as well as this year's FBS leader in receptions in versatile sophomore James Casey (85).
Last year's October meeting in Huntington was the first-ever between the teams. Marshall won that game, 34-21, behind 347 yards of total offense from QB Bernard Morris. Chase Clement threw two touchdowns and ran for another for Rice.


The number of social media users has been increasing steadily for the previous decade, and it is predicted to reach almost 4.4 billion in the upcoming years. Leading best social networks like Facebook, Instagram, etc., have reshaped the lives of people at large. Not only has it changed how we interact with social networking sites, but it has also influenced how brands approach marketing.
Digital marketers have now found a new platform to connect with and engage their target audience, while businesses use social networking platforms to promote their businesses. Given that Facebook is the most widely used social networking website. It is a challenging task for enterprises to actively maintain their presence on all the leading social networking sites, even if advertisers want to use only a few social network advertising platforms.
This article describes the best social network advertising platform; it is essential to promote any business. For this reason, marketers and brands often turn to social media marketing platforms. Marketers can make their social media marketing more effective and profitable without sacrificing their social lives.
What Is Social Networking Ads?
Social networking ads or social media targeting is promotions served to users on social media platforms. Social networks use user information to serve highly relevant advertisements based on interactions within specific networks. Often, the target needs to align with the audience demographics of social media platforms. Social networking ad platforms can offer huge increases in conversions and sales with a lower cost of acquisition.
Pros and Cons of Social Media Ads
Pros of social media ads-
- Social media is a cost-effective way to promote your services or products.
- Social media ads help to increase brand awareness.
- It can build up brand loyalty, and you may earn the trust of your target audience as you daily communicate and engage with them.
- Social media ads help to boost customer satisfaction.
- Paid social media ads provide quicker results.
Cons of social media ads
- If you want to promote your brand through social media, it takes attention and time. It would help if you researched a lot of content ideas to promote your product or brand effectively.
- Along with positive feedback, you may get negative feedback from others on social media platforms. As we know, we can’t make everyone happy at the same time, so it’s essential to accept negativity along with positivity.
- It might take months or years before you may see results on your ROI (Return on Investment) with social media marketing. Your ROI is not going to come instantly if you are just starting with your social media marketing in Lahore.
What Are The Immediate Benefits Of Social Networking Ads?
Social media networks are open to all and allow businesses to follow their customers’ activities or potential buyers. They help marketers or advertisers be more informed about their target audience, likes, dislikes, and interest to create a better marketing strategy to attract customers.
The benefits of Social networking ads are as follows:
1. Brand awareness
2. Boost revenue
3. Improved search engine optimization
4. Better customer services
5. Retargeting opportunities
What Are The Most Popular Social Network Advertising Platforms?
Please remember that each network has its audience when considering social media advertising. It means that you will want to select a social network where your ideal user is. If you are already active on social media, pay attention to which platforms achieve well and which organic posts get the most interaction to target the best users.
Facebook is the largest social media platform worldwide; this is why Facebook advertising is a popular option. With a wide variety of age, gender, and location demographics, brands can efficiently find their target markets on Facebook.
Your brands can target consumers by location, interests, past activities, employment, and more. It is also a powerful visual platform, making it one of the most reliable advertising options.
Facebook ad options include photos, videos, stories, carousels, and messenger ads. All these may be used to create brand awareness, drive traffic to your website or landing page, go out to customers on a more personal level, and increase conversion rates.
The cost of Facebook ads varies depending on many factors, including the type of audience you wish to target and the budget you set. Advertisers can decide how much to spend on Facebook ads, but commonly speaking, the more you spend on advertisements, the better Facebook’s algorithm will use your money to improve ad performance.
Facebook ads can be one of the best social media ads, and you may choose them without any hesitation.
Instagram advertising is ideal for brands with more visually attractive products. Organic content significantly improves brand awareness, but Instagram ads can link directly to your business website or landing page. It allows for fast and easy access and website engagement. Instagram ads are famous among both extensive and small businesses and are the most commonly used by eCommerce businesses for advertising.
As Instagram is generally used by people ages 18 to 34, you may see the best results by targeting a younger audience. Advertisers can target their ideal audience with options similar to Facebook. Advertisers can also find their audience based on demographics, activities, interests, and more. Advertising options include photos, videos, carousels, and collection ads. You also have the opportunity to post ads to your business organization’s primary Instagram feed, Stories, or IG TV.
Although Facebook owns Instagram, advertisers can manage both Instagram and Facebook ads with Facebook Ads Manager. It authorizes you to view metrics such as click-through rates and other ad interactions across both networks and optimize your spending based on the highest performance. If you choose Instagram ads, you won’t regret them because they are one of the best social media ads.
Twitter has been a famous social media platform since 2006; such as Twitter ads have improved in usage. It is usually used for reading news stories and interacting with the public. Twitter provides two ad options for advertising.
1. Promote Advertisement
Advertisers select a tweet from their timeline to promote using this Twitter advertising option. They can also reach a specific audience by selecting their location or audience in this type of advertising.
2. Twitter Ads
Advertisers may set up marketing campaigns based on their business goals with these objective-based ads.
LinkedIn has an extensive professional user base on social networking platforms and may target users based on their job records and qualifications. Since of this, LinkedIn advertising is the primary goal of B2B audiences.
This social networking platform allows you to personally and directly target users to encourage them to read your content and apply to your posting related to the job or follow you. Running ads on Linkedin can be the most effective idea for your business because this is one of the best social media ads that provide quality leads.
Snapchat ads should be fun and casual as Snapchat is especially popular with millennials and Gen Zers.
It can help increase brand awareness, drive website traffic, and generate leads. Its instant ad creation features make it easy to create your ad campaign in minutes, while advanced ad creation is for more in-depth advertisements.
This social network advertising platform offers several types of advertising methods, such as:
1. Snap ads: These are image or video ad types up to three minutes long. They appear full-screen before or after other content.
2. Story Ads: These ads appear as branded tiles in a user’s Discover feed.
3. Filters: These ads are graphical overlays that can be applied to a user’s Snap profile. Advertisers can create a filter that is related to their business.
4. Lenses: These are similar to filter ads but use AR for more interactive visual effects.
Pinterest is a highly visual platform like Instagram, decorated with whimsical wedding pictures, cooking videos, and fashion reels. However, Pinterest is geared mainly toward women, with a 71% email user base.
Pinterest users intentionally use the platform to search for and buy products. It is one of the ideal social network advertising platforms. Promoted pins blend in with interest beards without interfering with other platforms. One study found that 85% of weekly pinners on Pinterest have made purchases based on pins they saw in brand posts.
Pinterest is especially useful for eCommerce retailers. They have a highly targeted search engine that allows advertisers to advertise their products by promoting their highest-performing pins.
Youtube is the world’s second-biggest search engine and social network, with 2 million active monthly users. It is also known as the largest video-sharing platform worldwide. Video is the preferred medium for content consumption. Therefore, investing in a Youtube marketing strategy can pay off.
Advertisers may not see an immediate financial impact from advertising since Youtube ads are generally not a direct-response strategy. However, if your video ads are clever and create emotional connections with customers, Youtube can be the most far-reaching and effective method to generate positive brand awareness. This is why it is considered one of the best social network advertising platforms.
In addition, more than half of Youtube users use the platform to educate themselves about their interests. That is why you can create a Youtube channel for your business and use it to publish testimonials, interviews, product demonstrations, or behind-the-scenes videos. Research has found that 72% of customers engage more with videos posted by you to learn about a product or service through your videos.
Types Of Social Media Advertisements
There are many methods to use your advertising strategy on social media platforms. The types of social media ads you select depend on your preferred networks and the audience you wish to reach. Below are some examples of the most general types of ads used on social media.
1. Static Image Ads
Images are commonly used in social media advertising since they allow you to show your product or service visually appealingly. Users tend to be attracted to visuals rather than text and will likely be more attracted to image ads.
Picture ads can also include a “Shop Now” button that takes customers directly to your business website for easy checkout. When using picture ads as a marketing strategy, you should ensure that you post high-quality photos and keep ads consistent with your organic content.
2. Video Ads
As with picture ads, video ads are best for visually appealing content. Many people only wish to watch short-term video ads; it means you have a small amount of time to keep people interested in your videos.
Platforms like Facebook and Instagram have the option to create short videos that people can view and interact with fastly while scrolling through their feeds. You may choose video ads on any social media platform(especially Facebook and Instagram) if you want the best social media ads that effectively boost your brand’s identity.
3. Stories Ads
Depending on the ad type and advertising network, Stories ads are full-screen and displayed for a set amount of time. If a picture is used in a Facebook story, it can be viewed for six seconds, while videos can play for up to fifteen seconds for both photos and videos.
These ads often allow users to swipe up to access the advertiser’s website. Stories ads can only be viewed for 24 hours, which advertisers can use to promote short-term deals on products or services. If you choose story ads on any social network advertising platform, you are just a few steps away from achieving your goal.
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Messenger ads are Facebook ads placed in the Chats tab in messenger rather than on users’ news feeds. They are part of the 1:1 interaction a customer has with a hand when communicating with them via messenger. They can be used to start automated conversations with potential customers, directly answer consumer questions, or link users to your website.
Advertising on Social networks is the most influential and different method to reach your target audience and flip them into customers, especially in the eCommerce scenario. No other advertising methods can deliver consistent, measurable leads like social media advertising. Digital marketing experts recommend that business owners strengthen their strategy by understanding social network advertising to advertise successfully.


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H. Moser & Cie. debuts the new beautiful and complex Endeavour Concept Minute Repeater Tourbillon Aqua Blue. Available in either a red gold or titanium case and limited to 20 pieces of each, the timepiece features the new HMC 904 flying tourbillon and minute repeater movement. Both models retail for $365,000.
H. Moser & Cie. showcases the new minute repeater movement by revealing the complex chime mechanism for the hours, quarter-hours and minutes on the dial side. The hammers and gongs twirl together with the one-minute flying tourbillon. The chimes (which are placed on one level to preserve the finesse of the piece) had to be curved so as not to interfere with the flying tourbillon. The dial is created from “Grand Feu” enamel in brand-new Aqua Blue on a base with a hammered texture and it doesn’t feature any logos or indices.
The 40 mm diameter case in either red gold or titanium, has been widened in order to accommodate the movement while allowing enough space to create a soundbox. This intensifies the chiming of hours, quarter-hours and minutes by two gongs, onto which fall two hammers that are raised based on information provided by different feeler-spindles.
At six o’clock, the one-minute flying tourbillon can be seen behind a skeletonised bridge. The one-minute flying tourbillon at 6 o’clock, visible through the skeletonized bridge, floats weightlessly above the “Grand Feu” enamel dial. This dial, in a striking shade of aqua blue, showcases an ombré effect achieved by the painstaking hand-placement of four different shades of pigments. A translucent “Grand Feu” enamel dial must be fired twelve times in total to create the signature H. Moser & Cie. fumé effect. This process makes each dial unique.
The timepiece features the HMC 904 hand-wound calibre that can be admired through various skeletonised parts.
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A new location for Christmas in Muskoka paid off big for the popular annual fundraiser.
Organizers report a record $130,000 was raised during the 2019 event, which featured 39 designer Christmas trees loaded with items ranging from sport memorabilia to big-screen TVs.
Since Christmas in Muskoka began nine years ago, approximately $800,000 has been generated for the St. Clair Catholic District school board to help send Grade 7 students from Chatham-Kent and student leaders from Ursuline College Chatham to a leadership camp.
To date, more than 3,500 students have received financial support to attend the Muskoka Woods Camp on Rosseau Lake in the Muskoka region.
“Our move to the Bradley Centre has been a very positive one,” said committee member Gerri Brown in a media release. “Accessible parking, storage and more room to view the spectacular trees has made Christmas in Muskoka a truly fantastic community event for all ages.”


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There are no “Rock Stars” in Headstone 118
By Robin Noll
Jeremy Rohrbach started taking guitar lessons at the age of 9. He was born with a desire for all things musical. Over the years he has been in several bands and musical ventures. He attended Geenville Music College in Illinois and was involved in all types of music from jazz to country to rock. He settled down and taught guitar lessons for years when his wife realized he needed to do more to fulfill the call to music God had placed in his heart at such an early age. She encouraged him to start a band. He wanted it to be a Christian band that rocked so he found some fellow Christians that wanted to play similar types of music but after a few years they all left accept for Mark Lackman. Jeremy and Mark had formed a bond and Mark hung in there. Mark’s goal was to record a CD, at least one. He didn’t want to give up until they had accomplished that goal.
Mark and Jeremy wanted to have a band that would get the message of Christ out to the public through the music they wrote and performed. They weren’t called to be preachers but they both felt the calling to use their music to share their faith. Mark had taken drum lessons at Fred’s Music in Shillington under the teachings of Martin Bradfield from 1989 to 1993. Music was always a part of his life as well and one of the many reasons Jeremy and him were drawn to each other.
In 2000 the band started with the name of Metamorphosis but after a few line up changes they came up with a new name that better explained what both felt about their lives and their music at the time. They wanted to die to their own musical ambitions and glorify Jesus, therefore they changed the name of the band to Headstone 118. Based on Psalm 118: 22 – The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. Dying to self and letting Jesus Christ be the cornerstone of building the band to share their beliefs through the music that God had gifted them with.
Their first goal, as a unit, was to write originals and produce a CD. In 2007 they released their first CD self- titled “Headstone 118” All music and lyrics were written by Jeremy Rohrbach – guitar, vocals, bass and Mark Lackman – drums and backing vocals) except for ‘Direction’ and ‘Fade’, music and lyrics by Mike Fry and Jeremy. It was self-produced and was recorded and mastered by the Ryker Brothers in Muhlenberg.
Later in 2007 Headstone 118 accomplished another goal. They had been searching for a solid bass player that would fit in for quite sometime so they could perform their music live. They had posted a flyer at Zeswitz Music in Reading and in walked Bill Dilks. Bill called for an audition and Jeremy asked how long he had been playing bass, when Bill answered over 30 years Jeremy thought, oh this guy might be a bit old. When they got together for the audition the sound and vibe were spot on and Bill said he felt like he was finally home and Headstone 118 had the bass player they had been seeking. Bill has performed with many musicians over the years but said that getting together with Jeremy and Mark filled that musical void he had and he now feels fulfilled as a musician and enjoys the sounds they create. Jeremy stated that over the years they have all developed a true love and respect for one another and the reason they have been able to stay together as a unit is that there are no “rock stars” in Headstone 118, they are just three simple guys that know what they want to accomplish with their music and know what to do to get it done and with the help and favor of God they know that nothing is impossible.
When going to a Headstone 118 show one will not only hear originals but also covers for they know that people want to hear songs they recognize. Criteria for covers include songs that contain no vulgar language and have a positive message. They do covers such as; “Really Got Me” by Van Halen, “Drift and Die” by Puddle of Mudd, “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder, “Rocky Mountain Way” by Joe Walsh, “Blue On Black” by Kenny Wayne Shepherd, “Kryptonite” by Three Doors Down plus many more. Because of their positive message and being a 3 piece band, they are hired to perform in family friendly venues. They mix in their originals with the covers. They hope that one day people will recognize their originals and request them as well.
In 2012 Headstone 118 realized another goal when they released their second CD entitled “Left Behind”. It was recorded by Viking Camel Studio with Jeremy Simon and mixed and mastered by The Dome Studios. Richard D. Gavalis was the sound engineer with Marc Brand being editing assistant. “Left Behind” has 10 songs that speak volumes. Jeremy pours out his soul and his heart cry through the lyrics and his guitar playing and vocals. Mark keeps a steady and pounding beat and Bill fills in with his excellent bass work. They truly become one as they endeavor to express their deepest thoughts and feelings in the music that they create and deliver to their listening audience.
Jeremy has his children help out on a few songs. “Mckenzie’s Song” has a child’s vocal performed by his daughter Mackenzie Rohrbach and “No Compromise” has children saying the Pledge of Allegiance.
The last song on the CD, “The Abyss” is the reading of the ‘Word of God” put to the intense sounds of Headstone 118. A very interesting combination of words and music that makes one stop and reflect and think. If you’re one who is into the heavier sounds of music with very thoughtful and soul searching lyrics than you should order a CD on line at www.headstone118.com or on Itunes or you can pick up one from any Headstone118 gig. “Left Behind” has received airplay for two of the songs, “I Believe” and “No Compromise” on Y102, 105.7 the X and 101.5 Bob Rocks.
Headstone 118 would like to first and foremost thank their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. “Nothing is possible without you and everything is possible with you.” They thank Christ for bringing the three of them together to write and play music. They thank their families for putting up with their dreams, long hours away from home and giving them the time to create. They also went to send out a BIG thank you to GLS Music (Steve, Lorraine and Greg) in Bernville for their continual support and for all the help they have given over the years.
Headstone 118 is an independent rock band from Reading, PA whose desire is to play music for one and all to enjoy. You can find out more about them by going to www.headstone118.com. You can follow them on Twitter and like them on Facebook. Email them at email@example.com and if you want to talk to Bill about booking the band for benefits, charities, church venues as well as bars they have been received well in all areas, call him at 610-420-9401. I will warn you… they rock hard and they rock heavy with a positive message that will bless you.


The curtain has closed on Macworld 2011. This was my first Expo, and Macworld (the website/magazine) was kind enough to bring me out to help cover the event.
I already wrote up the lessons learned at my first Expo, and am still mentally processing from a whirlwind three days of Apple-related goodness.
Dan Moren made an astute observation during the Wrap Up event today, pointing out that there are no other trade shows or conferences like this one. Even with Apple no longer participating at Macworld, the event still attracts hundreds of companies, big and small, all linked solely by selling products somehow tied to the Apple ecosystem. That iPad and iPhone accessory and app makers are welcomed to participate—and do so in droves—is somewhat remarkable. The only thing that links the products on display at Macworld is that they connect to Apple products.
There's no Microsoft Expo and no Dell Expo that mirrors what goes on here.
CES features booths from every major electronics company—save Apple, of course. And regular consumers aren't allowed into CES at all, as Jon Seff pointed out on Macworld.com today.
I certainly had fun at my first Expo, though I had no shortage of writing work to do for Macworld.com while I was here.
I hope that the iMacworld app only, you know, improves over time. It could benefit from a complete makeover, and better views to show everything happening each day. I found it tough to know about all the presentations happening at a given time, and was surprised about that.
The Wi-Fi on the second floor was excellent, and appreciated. I understand the challenges with first floor Wi-Fi that would be available to all Expo-goers, but a man can dream.
AT&T's ability to provide a strong 3G signal throughout the conference impressed me.
For a three day event to offer identical lunch options three days in a row seems a little sketchy.
Finally, and I don't have a perfect solution yet—though I bet it involves the redone iMacworld app of my dreams—Macworld needs to make it easier to find booths. Booths that get lumped into pavilions (the Indie Mac Developers, the Mobile App Devs) are impossible to navigate during peak times, with throngs of Expo-goers clogging every pathway. Trying to circle around a small table with three separate vendors as you try to find the one you're after, when the table itself is crowded with people, is decidedly unpleasant.
So in sum: A great first Expo (which should still be called Expo, because just calling it Macworld is weird), with room for easily-attainable improvement.


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SOON…Conference proceedings: U.S. DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE – 240
After the presentation, the collection will be available on AAWH website.
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription (in english and in armenian)
Albert Stepanyan, Lilit Minasyan
Us Declaration of Independence: “The Pursuit of Happiness” (In the perspective of Ideas of Aristotle and Cicero)
An Old Question: What is revolutionary about the American Revolution?
The American Declaration of Independence as a Synthesis of Revolutionary and Conservative ideas
Reconsidering our Understanding of Representative Democracy. Does the Preamble of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Serve as a Platform for that?
Robert J. Allison
The American Revolution and a Candid World
The Revision of Intra-Societal Consensus in the United States and the Experience of Ancient Rome: between progress and regress (in armenian)
US Declaration of Independence and Snare of Glory: Heeding to an Early Modern Dialogue
U.S. as the Third Rome. Ideas, Heritage and Symbolism
American viewpoint of New World Order. Woodrow Wilson (in armenian)
Edmund Burke’s View of History: Conservatism as a Historical Concept (in armenian)

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Director and Co-writer Sarah Cathcart
Co-writer and performer Nicola Fearn
Designer Louise McCarthy
Composer Kim Baston
Perfomer/Cultural Consultant Samantha Chalmers
Dramaturg Hannie Rayson
Lighting Designer Brad Voss
Puppet and Model Maker Sophie Buttner
“…Tracy is a creative and poignant production with two strong actors who bring home to the audience what it was like to survive a devastating cyclone.”
Denise Carter, The Sun, Cairns
By Sarah Cathcart and Nicola Fearn
With stories by Yanyuwa woman Hilda Muir
Story Consultant Samantha Chalmers
Two girls. A crime. A cyclone.
An English schoolgirl arrives in Darwin on the eve of Cyclone Tracy. An Aboriginal girl is rounded up and walked into town after a tribal spearing.
In a story of bankruptcy, murder and betrayal, Business Unusual creates an evocative and powerful piece of story-telling that combines physicality, puppetry and mask with original music.
Tracy is based on the extraordinary family stories of Samantha Chalmers, Nicola Fearn and survivors of Cyclone Tracy.
Set in Darwin, Borroloola, and Devon in the UK, Tracy tells the story of two young girls leading very different lives who suffer displacement and loss twice over and find themselves in the centre of the most frightening storm ever to hit the coast of Australia.
Business Unusual’s Artistic Director, Nicky Fearn, is cast in an autobiographical role, which depicts her idyllic life in rural England brought to an abrupt halt by a life-changing event that causes the family to flee England for Australia. They arrive in Darwin only months before the cyclone Tracy hits.
Meanwhile Darwin dancer Samantha Chalmers brings the story of her grandmother Hilda Muir to life, telling the intriguing story of her journey to Darwin from Borroloola after a murder takes place on her traditional homelands. She grows up in Kahlin Compound, home for the stolen generation, and finds herself disconnected from her people and destined for a life in Darwin until Tracy comes and shatters her very existence.
Director Sarah Cathcart saw the seeds of this play when she was in Darwin working on the production of The Pearler. “Hearing the stories of Nicky’s arrival in Darwin and finding out about Samantha’s grandmother just spoke volumes to me in terms of drama,” she said. “Seeing how well they worked together on stage, I just thought there has got to be a show in this, and Cyclone Tracy hasn’t been done in theatre.”
After three years in development, this harrowing story of loss and survival is a powerful tribute to all those who lived through Tracy. Focussing as it does, on the intimate stories of two girls growing up amidst very different forms of chaos, the play attempts to answer the question of how a place becomes a home. It’s about finding a foothold and adapting to the aftermath of disaster.
This production brings together the best of local talent combined with the skills of top level national theatre practitioners including Designer Louise McCarthy, Composer Kim Baston, Puppet Maker Sophie Buttner and acting as dramaturge, the well-known playwright Hannie Rayson.
Darwin season and QLD and NT tour. 2008
Co-Production with Darwin Theatre Company


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Adam Bryant Chittenden
Chittenden began taking classes in photography as an undergraduate at University of Maine and was instantly inspired to employ the camera's ability to unveil the intricate beauty of the natural world. Using his photographs of natural elements, he creates collaged digital artwork that transports viewers into dreamlike worlds and writes short stories to further explore the spiritual and physical dimensions of life. His images have been featured in a variety of exhibitions around the US. Here, you'll find his books and prints available.
Chittenden's new book The Kooya Stone is an adventure through a dream–scape of narrative photomontages
©2014 Adam Bryant Chittenden


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I have Rheumatoid Arthritis, an auto immune disease that can be very devastating. For me I have been Blessed because mine isn’t really as bad as some others. For that I am so grateful. You see many don’t realize exactly what this disease really is and what is does to the body, the mind and to the spirit so let me tell you a little bit about me and how I deal with this disease.
Thank God from me, I have to say my pain can sometimes be subtle, just a little aggravating twinge here or there but mostly in my hand, my right hand actually and from there to my right foot. That’s actually how my journey with this disease started. Little did I know it would be a lifelong journey for me. Anyway, my pain isn’t as bad as some that I see on the forums that I’m lucky enough to be a part of and blog for and I have to say when I hear how much some of them suffer and how debilitating their pain is, I really realize just how Blessed I am to not be at place with my disease as they are with theirs. Still I feel their pain emotionally for them because I am able to visualize exactly how they feel because the pain that I do feel is a pain like no other but nothing like theirs.
My journey with this disease hasn’t been a bad one but I have had my bad days. Like I said, I am in no ways at my worst with RA, that’s what we call it for short for those of you who don’t know the lingo. The worst can cause one to have more than debilitating pain, be confined to a wheelchair, have deformities and a host of other issues that are life threatening so that is why I will say again that I am Blessed. Still feeling what I do with this disease makes me realize just how much worst it can be. I have my bad days where the pain can be constant and all that I can do is just rub my hand to try to relieve the pain knowing that won’t work but it somehow makes it comforting. But there’s nothing worse than having your feet hurt and having a problem trying to walk. I had that experience and it was my first and I can only hope it is my last but I honestly don’t think that it will be. You see as I said earlier, my right hand and right foot was my first indicator but so far I’ve moved on to both feet and just a little with my left hand. I guess I’m one of those unconventional ones. Well you have to understand RA to understand what that means. It typically affects both sides of the body the same but I’m just a little different.
One big problem we have with this disease is understanding which causes us to have to deal with this alone instead of having those around you helping you to make it through the tough times. There are times we feel so isolated because of the fact we have run out of ways to explain exactly what we’re going through and even when we do, it’s not accepted as the truth. I do not have this problem with those in my life, even though I must admit sometimes when I am feeling bad and with this disease there are many times, I find that I don’t always say when I’m sick. I refuse to admit the truth because I feel like I’m saying the same thing all of the time and I feel people get tired of hearing it or they feel just maybe I’m not telling the truth. It is a shame though when you feel this way especially when your disease is chronic and that means it’s an always disease. You see this too is one of the struggles we face having Rheumatoid Arthritis. I blog for myself as well as other sufferers for understanding which brings with it support but understanding is one of the hardest things that we battle next to our disease itself.
Going to Kaiser Emergency Medicine for unexplained headaches which I believe is caused by my neck issues and shoulder issues but feeling the pain pounding in your head and trying to ignore it isn’t going to last very long and it doesn’t make it go away. For 4 weeks I did ignore it but ended up there and given plenty of meds which really helped but you’re left with the hope that the headache doesn’t come back. These are the things that many don’t understand about this disease and how unexpected things can change for you so quickly. Things aren’t as simple as you see on the commercials showing how you take your medicines for Rheumatoid Arthritis and all is well. That is so far from the truth. You still go through a lot while taking meds and this is what I deal with along with all of the other people suffering from this disease. The truth is our disease is one that we hate and hate having.
So as I deal with this disease, my medication, while still learning what I should and should not do I am sometimes overwhelmed and truly at a loss. At a loss not because I am so sick but just having this disease and what comes with it. I have to have infusions every 6 months which last 4-5 hours and that’s very tiring, hoping that it works and not have to get another medicine, worrying about my immune system, etc. I know it’s a lot but I know it could be worse. God has Blessed me and I know this but He knows that we get overwhelmed sometimes. The good thing about it, He helps me through it every time. I have my moments and I have made it through first with His Grace and the love of my family. Thank God for my family.
This disease is a vicious one that has attacked many people and in many ways. I will keep blogging to hopefully make others aware of its devastation. I just wanted to share a little bit of my story and so I did. I hope it opens a few eyes to our plight.
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Health, the economy and food safety are to be the key themes of this year’s Federation of Bakers conference.
Hosted by broadcast journalist and presenter Ben Thompson and including keynote speaker Dr Clive Black of Shore Capital Markets (pictured above), the conference will be held on Wednesday 23 May at One Great George Street, London. It will include a networking lunch and post-conference drinks reception.
The focus of the conference is on three areas: bakery and the health agenda, including work by Public Health England on salt, sugar and calorie reduction, wholegrain and fortification of bakery products; market and economic update, including a look at the challenges and opportunities of Brexit for the food manufacturing industry; food safety and sustainability in the bakery sector, including acrylamide mitigation, dust sensitisation, food waste and single-use plastics.
“The annual conference is a great opportunity for the wider industry to get together and reflect on the events and developments of the last year and discuss some of the challenges that lie ahead,” said Federation of Bakers director Gordon Polson.
“Once again, we are putting together a great line-up of experts from across the industry, who will be able to share their invaluable knowledge and expertise.”
- Dr Alison Tedstone, Public Health England
- Professor Paul Sharp, King’s College London
- Dr Jan-Willem Van der Kamp, Healthgrain Forum
- Ian Wright, Food and Drink Federation
- Matthew Verity, Kantar Worldpanel UK
- Moira Howie, Waitrose
- Dr Clive Black, Shore Capital Markets
- Peter Worsey, WRAP
- Mervin Poole, Heygates Mills
- Giles Hyder, Health & Safety Executive
The event is being held in association with headline sponsor AB Mauri and Baker Perkins, Bühler, Lesaffre, Kwik Lok and Zeelandia.


Inequality across the education system is rising, official figures show
- Government figures show that inequality between children in care and their peers is rising in reading, writing, and maths;
- The inequality gap for those finishing compulsory education has grown by a quarter since 2013;
- The number of care leavers who are not in employment, education, or training, has risen by a quarter since 2010
Government figures show that inequality across the education system is rising, with the most vulnerable children the worst affected, as the Secretary of State for Education prepares to make his first speech on social mobility.
The attainment gap between children in care and their peers has been rising in Key Stage One since 2010. In maths the attainment gap has risen from 23 percent to 29, an increase of over a quarter. In reading the gap has grown from 23 percent to 25, and in writing from 27 to 29.
The proportion of care leavers who are not in education, employment, or training (“NEET”) has also risen substantially since 2010. In 2010 32 percent of care leavers were NEETs, but by 2017 this has increased to 40 percent, a rise of a quarter since 2010.
Wider inequality has also increased, with the Department for Education’s own statistics showing that the inequality gap in achieving a level 2 qualification by 19 has risen since 2013. In 2013 the gap stood at 16.3 percent, but by 2017 it had risen to 20.1 percent, another increase of around a quarter.
The figures showing the stark and rising inequality between the most vulnerable children and their peers are revealed as Damian Hinds, the Education Secretary, prepares to make his first speech on social mobility.
Commenting, Angela Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education, said:
“These damning figures show that under this government inequality in our schools is rising; despite all their rhetoric on social mobility the Tories are simply entrenching inequality.
“The measure of our education system should be the support that it offers to the most vulnerable children, and the steps we take to level the playing field between them and their more affluent peers. Quite simply, the Conservatives are failing this test.
“The next Labour government will invest in a National Education Service, giving every child the support they need and the opportunity to succeed, in a country for the many, not the few.”


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All the latest news, ideas, and opinions from Denver's Independent Literary Center: lighthousewriters.org
One of the things I like most about Lighthouse is that a community of writers is also a community of readers. If you carry a book into a Lighthouse event or meeting, someone will surely ask you about it or tell you what they thought of it or announce that it’s among the many books they plan to read next. My reading list expands exponentially every time I have even a casual encounter with members of Lighthouse. Case in point, reading Andrea’s blog post yesterday has me rushing out to get the Jessica Treadway collection, Please Come Back To Me. (I hear it’s sensational!)
Something I’ve learned by discussing reading preferences with fellow Lighthouse workshoppers is that many writers have strict rules about the kinds of books they read while they are writing. I know novelists who stick to non-fiction when they are in the middle of a manuscript, especially during that crucial first draft. I know memoirists who wouldn’t dare pick up the latest Mary Karr while unspooling their own story. I get it. Why take the chance that someone else’s voice will influence you? Why invite comparison, even if the only one comparing anything is you?
It’s probably smart to set some boundaries, but boundaries aren’t really my strong point. You see, I write fiction, almost always novel-length fiction. And I read novels, lots and lots of novels. Oh, sure, I occasionally pick up a short story collection or memoir, but I’m happiest when I’m wading through a long, complicated, completely fictional story. Ever since I discovered “chapter books” in elementary school, I’ve been hooked on the novel. I can’t imagine weaning myself off novels for a few weeks, much less the year or more it takes me to write a halfway coherent draft of my own novel. Recently, however, I made the rare decision to check out a couple of non-fiction books from the library: Bright-Sided by Barbara Ehrenreich and When Everything Changed by Gail Collins. Reading these books led me to some surprising insights about a current manuscript and even sent me back to a piece I thought I’d abandoned for good. As a result, I’ve been writing more and I’m feeling pretty good about the words on the page. I don’t know if it was the subject matter or the change of genre that spurred this latest burst of output, but I’ll take inspiration wherever I can find it.
I have no intention of putting down my novels for good or even for very long. The new Franzen is beckoning, after all. However, I do believe that reading outside my usual comfort zone has proved beneficial for my writing. So I think I’ll take a cue from some of my Lighthouse cohorts and read more books that are nothing like the one I’m writing. Heck, I may just dive into a collection of poetry next. Recommendations welcome.


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Meizu launched the m2 Note earlier this month and we have already brought to you the unboxing, photo gallery of the device and a review is in the pipeline as well. Now it seems that its little brother, the m2 is gearing up for its launch at the end of the month as well.
Amongst the high spec devices launched by Sony, the M2 emerged as the device aimed at the mid range segment. The phone that has a design language decidedly similar to the flagship Z2. The front of the phone has a large 4.8 inch display that has a resolution of 540×960 pixels. First impressions with the hardware definitely left a positive impression as we quite liked the solid construction. The device is predominantly made of glossy plastic which is quite fingerprint prone. Continue reading “Sony Xperia M2 Hands On, Photo Gallery”
The guys on the CyanogenMod team look to be working hard as they have released the M2 version which is for the second month. CyanogenMod has announced that they will be releasing stable version of CM10 every month. The updates have already started rolling for devices like Galaxy Nexus, galaxy S3 and S2.
Micromax M2 is a new Dual SIM Music Phone from Micromax . The device does come in some attractive packing as we spotted at a store recently. The music is powered by a Yahama amplifier which also supports SRS WOW HD for playback. A highlight in the touch sensitive music wheel which lets you control the music playback without having to go into the menu.

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born on 11/8/1954 in Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Steve Nelson (vibraphonist)
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Steve Nelson (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American vibraphonist, and has been a member of Dave Holland's Quintet and Big Band for over a decade. He graduated from Rutgers University with both Master's and Bachelor's degrees in music, and his teaching activities have included a position at Princeton University. He has appeared at concerts and festivals worldwide and has made recordings as the leader of his own group. As a resident of the New York area he has performed and recorded with many musicians, including Kenny Barron, Bobby Watson, Mulgrew Miller, David "Fathead" Newman, Johnny Griffin and Jackie McLean.
His most recent recording as leader is Sound-Effect (2007), featuring pianist Mulgrew Miller, Peter Washington on bass, and Lewis Nash on drums.
|2007||Sound-Effect||High Note||Quartet, with Mulgrew Miller (piano), Peter Washington (bass), Lewis Nash (drums)|
|2004||Fuller Nelson||Sunny Side||As Full Nelson|
|1999||New Beginnings||TCB Music||Quartet, with Mulgrew Miller (piano), Peter Washington (bass), Kenny Washington (drums)|
|1989||Live Session: Volume 1||Red Records||Quintet, with Bobby Watson (alto sax), Donald Brown (piano), Curtis Lundy (bass), Victor Lewis (drums); in concert|
|1989||Live Session: Volume 2||Red Records||As Live Session: Volume 1|
|1989||Full Nelson||Sunny Side||Trio, with Kirk Lightsey (piano), Ray Drummond (bass)|
|198789||Communications||Criss Cross||Quartet, with Mulgrew Miller (piano), Ray Drummond (bass), Tony Reedus (drums)|
With Jonny King
- Notes from the Underground (1996, Enja Records)
With Arkadia Jazz All Stars
- Thank You, Joe!
With Dave Holland
- Dream of the Elders (1995, ECM)
- Points of View (1997, ECM)
- Prime Directive (1998, ECM)
- Not for Nothin' (2000, ECM)
- What Goes Around (2002, ECM)
- Extended Play: Live at Birdland (2003, ECM)
- Overtime (2005, Dare2)
- Critical Mass (2006, Dare2)
- Pathways (2010, Dare2)
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Posner, influence, prestige, citation rates, invocation rates, superstar, depreciation, judges, empirical research
Some judges have a disproportionate influence over the American judiciary; existing research has shown Judge Richard Posner is one of those judges. Our goal was to identify and determine how Judge Posner’s influence has changed over time. To measure and track his influence, we collected and compared citation and invocation data from three distinct time frames. While these measurements are imperfect, they can help illustrate the level of influence and prestige Judge Posner enjoys. The existing literature led us to expect Judge Posner’s early citation rates to be low. After several years on the bench, the citation rates for each opinion should rise dramatically. By contrast, Judge Posner’s citation rates are exceptionally high from the outset while more recent opinions actually have lower citation rates.
Ryan P. Thompson & Christopher C. McCurdy, The Power of Posner: A Study of Prestige and Influence in the Federal Judiciary (2010)


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This listing is for one horse sculpture.
The horse is number 814 in the horse series. Handcrafted by Lindsey Epstein.
7.5" tall x 8.25" long x 2.75" wide
This horse is handmade completely from clay. After forming the horse, it was carefully dried and fired to over 1900°F. The rainbow marble pattern was painted onto the horse and sealed with museum quality resin. After many attempts, I have not been able to re-create this pattern. Truly one of a kind! This is one of my top 10 favorite horses ever created!
There is a wire in the head and tail, but the horse is hollow. This horse is free-standing. Each one is handmade so there are never two alike.


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New cards from Raging Surf shown off on Pokémon Champions League stream - Jirachi, Medical Energy, plus full arts of Gimmighoul, Gholdengo ex and Rika
Shortly after the end of the live stream, an additional video was uploaded to the Pokémon Trading Card Game's official Japanese YouTube channel giving an overview of the cards.
Translations and images for all cards revealed today can be found in the table below. Regular art versions of the full art cards shown today can also be found on the Bulbapedia page for the Raging Surf subset.
|Card #||Card Image||Translation|
|SV3a 042/062||Jirachi HP: 70 |
Ability: Stellar Veil
Your benched Pokémon can't receive damage counters from effects of attacks from your opponent's Basic Pokémon
Search your deck for up to 2 basic Energy cards, reveal them, and put them into your hand. Then, shuffle your deck.
|SV3a 062/062||Medical Energy|
As loong as this card is attached to a Pokémon, it provides Energy.
When you attach this card from your hand to 1 of your Pokémon, heal 30 damage from that Pokémon.
|SV3a 068/062||Gimmighoul HP: 70 |
Consecutive Coin Throw 20x
Flip a coin until you get tails. This attack does 20 damage for each heads.
|SV3a 087/062||Gholdengo ex HP: 260 |
Ability: Bonus Coin
Once during your turn, you may draw a card. If this Pokémon is in the Active Spot, you may draw 1 more card.
Make It Rain 50x
Discard any number of Basic Energy cards from your hand. This attack does 50 damage for each card you discarded in this way.
Look at the top 4 cards of your deck and put 2 of them into your hand. Shuffle the other cards and put them on the bottom of your deck.

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RED GREEN SHOW
Tuesdays @ 10p and 10:30p
"The Red Green Show" is a unique half-hour comedy series targeted at family audiences. Its purpose is to entertain and to provide an escape from the pressures of urban living.
Set way up north at the infamous Possum Lodge, The Red Green Show is a hilarious insight into men, their dreams, and their obsessions. It's a show for anyone who thinks God created man to give the rest of the world something to laugh at!
Steve Smith plays the acerbic, dry-witted Red Green, lodge leader and host of the show that takes special aim at the yet unexplored humorous side of the male ego and other inflatables. Pat McKenna plays Harold, Red's techno-geek nephew, and Rick Green (no relation to Red) is the klutzy naturalist Bill. Each week they pass the time bonding, adventuring, entrepreneuring and basically keeping the eight-year-old in them alive and well.
Regular segments include "Handyman's Corner," which highlights Red's philosophy: "If women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy." Using the handyman's secret weapon "duct tape," Red demonstrates innovative and useful construction tips on everything from turning a refrigerator into a dishwasher, to converting a hot water tank into a mini-submarine.
Since experiencing the great outdoors is a big part of what makes a man a man, Possum Lodge's resident naturalist, Bill, presents a hilarious segment appropriately call "Adventures With Bill." Narrated by Red and shot in black and white, Red and Bill teach viewers about nature. Presented in a slapstick style, Bill usually ends up falling in a lake, or off a cliff, but is always eager for the next adventure.
"The Experts" features a panel of Possum Lodge members who deal with viewer mail and those three little words that men find impossible to say..."I Don't Know." Red also serenades his audience with twisted (yet manly) campfire songs and reads environmentally-Green poetry in The Winter of our Discount Tent.
The New Red Green Show stars: Steve Smith, Pat McKenna, and Rick Green. Regular lodge members include: Gordon Pinsent, Ian Thomas and Peter Keleghan. Check out Red Green online or on the Internet Movie Database.
Hindsight is 20-20
Eleven years before the first episode of The Red Green Show, Red Green Steve Smith made his first television debut during a two-minute guest appearance on a 1979 variety show. Red Green: Hindsight Is 20/20 looks back at the 25 years following that appearance, and takes pains to recount Green's knack for wreaking havoc on what are supposed to be the most flawless of plans. A variety of Possum Lodge regulars show up to reminisce about Red's most memorable moments, and never-before-seen Red Green footage filmed before the series aired on television is also featured.


For the first time, Air Force F-35A Joint Strike Fighters have dropped bombs during training, the Air Force announced, marking a key milestone in the path toward combat readiness. Airmen from the 388th and 419th fighter wings dropped the laser-guided bombs at Hill Air Force Base in Utah last week. “This is significant because we’re building the confidence of our pilots by actually dropping something off the airplane instead of simulating weapon employment,” Lt. Col. George Watkins said in an Air Force statement. It’s the first time such bombs had been launched with jets designed to deploy after so-called initial operational capacity. IOC is declared when the planes are deemed ready for combat. The first F-35s – a Marine squadron was declared ready for combat last August. That first IOC was initially scheduled to be declared operational in 2012, but that target date was delayed after a series of setbacks. The F-35 program’s current price tag is $400 billion and is expected to cost $1 trillion over its entire life. Related story: Are F-35s fit for combat? The Pengaton doesn’t know The F-35’s aviation technology ranks among the most sophisticated in the world – designed to conduct air-to-air combat, air-to-ground strikes, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. It’s also designed to allow pilots to immediately share data with one another and their commanders; it can penetrate enemy territory without being detected by radar; and its specialized helmet display gives pilots a 360-degree view of their surroundings. The F-35 is also known as the Joint Strike Fighter because it’s intended for use by the Navy, the Marine Corps and 10 foreign countries, in addition to the Air Force. Better in a dogfight: F-35 or F-16? Speaking of other nations that fly the F-35, Norway’s Air Force has been flying these planes. The Aviationist has republished excerpts from an article by Norwegian Air Force pilot Maj. Morten “Dolby” Hanche – who has flown the F-35. Hanche – the Aviationist reports – also is a very experienced F-16 fighter pilot and instructor in the U.S. at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. He compares air-to-air combat exercises in an F-35 and an F-16 – the plane the F-35 will replace. “…the F-35 makes it easier for me to maintain the offensive role, and it provides me more opportunities to effectively employ weapons at my opponent,” he writes. Defensively, in the air, Hanche wrote that “the F-35 can actually slow down quicker than you´d be able to emergency brake your car.” He also said the “F-35 shakes quite a bit at high g-loadings and at high angles of attack.” You can read more here. This latest inside info about the F-35 comes after last summer’s article in War is Boring, which published excerpts of a test pilot’s leaked report alleging that the F-35 was “at a distinct energy disadvantage” in a mock dogfight. The account said the plane was unable to turn quickly enough to engage the F-16. Lockheed Martin, the F-35’s manufacturer, said War is Boring’s presentation of the pilot’s report was incomplete, insisting the aircraft used during this test was not equipped with the software, weapons system or stealth coating that make up today’s production-ready F-35s.


The agency wants to provide high-capacity services for troops on the battlefield.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency kicked off an $18.3 million project last Thursday to develop radio systems that operate at fiber optic network speeds -- 100 gigabits per second -- to provide high capacity backbone networks for deployed forces. The agency wants to adapt technology used by cellular carriers and the latest version of the Wi-Fi standard.
DARPA envisions housing the broadband system on a high-altitude platform that operates at 60,000 feet with a planned transmission range of 62 miles for air-to-ground links and 124 miles for air-to-air links.
DARPA wants to tap the highest radio frequency or millimeter wave band, which runs from 30 to 300 GHz (just below the infrared light spectrum). The band supports broadband service over short distances but delivers poor performance in clouds or rain as the raindrops are the size of the small radio waves and impede transmissions.
The Pentagon’s research agency also wants to use a technique called spatial multiplexing, which transmits independent and separately encoded data signals from multiple antennas, known as multiple-input and multiple-output, in the latest version of the Wi-Fi standard, 802.11, to boost throughput.
Cellular carriers use millimeter wave band equipment for “backhaul” from tower sites to a central location. Companies such as E-Band Communications Corp. of San Diego manufacture equipment that today provides throughput of 1.25 gigabits per second in the 70-80 GHz band.
In the first phase of its high speed radio project, DARPA said it wants researchers to develop a system that can beam data at a rate of 25 gigabits per second over a single millimeter wave data stream and antenna with a 6-mile range. The second phase calls for the use of MIMO technology with two and then four antennas and streams to boost throughput to 100 gigabits over a 31-mile range.
Researchers need to develop novel 10 to 50 watt radio amplifiers and signal processing techniques to support high data rates. DARPA wants to install the system on military aircraft, and said bidders will need to develop conformal antennas that fit on the aircraft.
Saul Umbrasas, senior vice president of marketing and business development at E-Band Communications, said that DARPA has a steep challenge to develop a 100 gigabit per second system in the millimeter wave band, and called the project more an exercise “in theory rather than reality.”
Umbrasas said that at best, commercial firms will be able to develop millimeter wave radios that operate at data rates between 10 and 20 gigabits per second.
Proposals are due March 30.


MODERN METHODS OF BUNDLE ADJUSTMENT ON THE GPU
Keywords: Bundle adjustment, structure from motion, optimization, GPU computing
Abstract. The task to compute 3D reconstructions from large amounts of data has become an active field of research within the last years. Based on an initial estimate provided by structure from motion, bundle adjustment seeks to find a solution that is optimal for all cameras and 3D points. The corresponding nonlinear optimization problem is usually solved by the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm combined with conjugate gradient descent. While many adaptations and extensions to the classical bundle adjustment approach have been proposed, only few works consider the acceleration potentials of GPU systems. This paper elaborates the possibilities of time and space savings when fitting the implementation strategy to the terms and requirements of realizing a bundler on heterogeneous CPUGPU systems. Instead of focusing on the standard approach of Levenberg-Marquardt optimization alone, nonlinear conjugate gradient descent and alternating resection-intersection are studied as two alternatives. The experiments show that in particular alternating resection-intersection reaches low error rates very fast, but converges to larger error rates than Levenberg-Marquardt. PBA, as one of the current state-of-the-art bundlers, converges slower in 50 % of the test cases and needs 1.5-2 times more memory than the Levenberg- Marquardt implementation.


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EATING YOUR DAYLILIES
Daylilies are easy to grow,
and bloom most of the early summer.
Yellow and orange flowers are seen
in most home gardens these hot muggy days.
Did you know these handsome flowers
are completely edible, and
a colorful addition to your summer salad?
Both the buds and flowers can be used raw,
or stuffed and baked for a side dish.
Just make sure the lilies you use
are daylilies (and not asiatic lilies).
(The ones shown above are daylilies.)
(NOTE: They are toxic to cats.)

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The electronica/brass band hybrid queen faces the quick-fire question machine
So a remix album, eh?
“There was something uncanny that happened when creating the ‘Mary Casio’ album, it was as if by creating it as a character, the music didn’t feel like mine. I adore the end result, but after the release it felt like perfect open source material for others to play with. It’s not often you get the free reign with a colliery brass band, so everyone was really up for creating their own space journeys.”
Are you a fan of the remix in general?
“I’ve found lots of new music that way. Good ones always send me on a journey to explore the original, to see what’s making it work… I feel like a detective dissecting things.”
It’s tricky to put your finger on the appeal of remixes of familiar songs. That must go double if you made those tracks in the first place?
“They become soaked into your brain and it’s hard to see past the version you love! I like to take risks though and the original ‘Journey To Cassiopeia’ felt like it should be shared and explored much like its original story.”
How did you go about choosing remixers?
“This all started because Arvo Party asked if he could do a remix ast autumn and I loved what he came back with.”
They are all independent producers and artists. How important is the whole independence thing for you?
“Massively important. I feel creatively free and in control and although there’s a lot of hard work outside of creating music, the positives are hugely rewarding when it works. I make music to make more music.”
But if Sony came along waving their chequebook…
“Ha! Well I don’t think a major label would have funded me to create and release a synth/colliery brass band album to start with… but they could licence it for sure! Being independent means my team and I have control, we can choose what to release and when, there’s a wonderful network of artists out there and we all help and encourage each other. ‘Particles In Space’ was a way to support and bring attention to some of those artists who I think are captivating.”
Did the remixers all have free reign, or were there rules, like DO NOT MESS WITH MY MUSIC!
“Everyone knew to begin with that their intergalactic path would be a divergent journey to Mary Casio’s, so the rules were simply play with it and make it your own.”
Is it interesting to hear how others interpret your work?
“Yes, I collaborate a lot but this approach, letting go, feeling a little distant yet totally absorbing, was breathtaking.”
Did you worry that you’d not like some of the mixes?
“Of course, a tiny bit, but ultimately I trust the artists involved and knew they wouldn’t send anything that they didn’t want out there.”
Are there any particular favourites here?
“Like birthing seven children, I love them all no matter what individual personality they have. This collection seems to cater for every mood.”


Jabreal Muhammad only sees sunlight a few days a week. Most of his time is spent indoors, in the sprawling Calipatria State Prison in Northern California, where he is 12 years into a life sentence for a murder he says he didn’t commit. Muhammad, or Big TC as he’s known to people on both sides of the prison’s electrified “death fence,” is one of 2 million incarcerated Americans, tens of thousands of whom may have been wrongfully convicted, according to data cited by the Innocence Project. Though TC’s last appeal was rejected in 2008, his case earned some public interest thanks to a campaign launched by his older brother, the singer Ty Dolla $ign.
Ty’s 2015 debut solo album was called Free TC; its standout track, the eight-minute “Miracle / Wherever,” features a silken, repentant, surprisingly buoyant verse from TC. The cameo was culled from his extensive catalogue of jailhouse recordings, which he’s released as videos on YouTube and as a series of mixtapes with his cellmate D. Loc. TC has recorded and disseminated dozens of rough-hewn, beautiful prison gospel songs and freestyles, with themes like perseverance and self-betterment at their core.
TC says the source of his clear-eyed optimism is Islam, which he began practicing early in his sentence and in which he has become something of a scholar. Islam has one of the world’s highest rates of conversion, and its equality-and-mercy-premised doctrine is especially attractive to prisoners; the percentage of Muslims in the federal prison population is 14 times larger than that of the rest of the country, according to data from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Census Bureau. In a phone call from Calipatria, TC explained how finding faith saved his life.
What’s a typical day like for you?
A typical day is: wake up, pray fajr, and clean up the cage. We’ll have breakfast early in the morning, like around 7. I’ll go out and get a nasty-ass plate, come back and eat it in the cell. Some days we have yard where we get to go outside, like at school. You go out there and run and do whatever you gotta do and come back and just be caged up. That’s it. On Tuesdays, we get to go to the masjid and on Fridays, of course, for jumaa. It’s like a chapel, where all the different faiths go; when it’s our time, we put the prayer rugs down and turn it into a masjid.
How did you first come to Islam?
My dad came home one day and, I guess he’d just went to a meeting or lecture, and he was going in the refrigerator, the cabinets, snatching anything that he thought might’ve had some pork in it. He told my mom, “Don’t ever feed my kids anything like this. It’s haram. We been lied to. Islam is the truth. God is one. We don’t believe in shirk [idolatry].” And I’m just a little kid like, “Alright, whatever dad says makes sense to me.” Then my parents broke up and we never had any real lessons. But he had planted that seed in my ear.
Once I got locked up, I had nothing but time to study. When I was in [the L.A. county jail], we used to have a chaplain, a Christian lady. She got me a Quran. And I used to talk to her and ask all kinds of questions. Then when I got to prison, I got around a whole gang of other brothers — imams from the street. My first five years in prison, I used to study for, like, eight hours a day. I was only 19 when I came to jail, so I was like, I’m supposed to be in university right now. I wanna make it to where I’m studying as much as the people on the street are studying.
As an inmate, do you get treated differently for being Muslim?
Of course. A lot of police’ll be American soldiers, like they just left from killing Muslims [overseas]. So when they come here and see us, they walk around like, “Damn Muslims!” They don’t like what we stand for and what we represent. Being in the masjid brings everybody together under the banner of the deen. Dudes can be Crips or Bloods or wherever we from, but then once we get to the masjid, we’re Muslim. This dude, he could be a Blood but he’s my best friend because he’s a Muslim. And that is a threat to them. They’re like, “What’s going on? All the Muslims are grouping together.” And then there’s all the Islamophobia in the media, which they listen to and read, so they’re scared anyway.
When you’re not in the masjid, do those outside world structures come back?
This is still prison politics. Everybody has their tribes. Wherever you come from, that’s who you fall up under in here. There isn’t nobody that’s just alone. So if there’s a brother that’s a Muslim that comes from a different background, like a Blood background or something, I can’t support him if I see him in a fight. I can’t help him. That’s on him. And he can’t help me, because that’ll be crossing up other homies that aren’t [Muslim].
It seems like it would be difficult to see a brother in distress and know that you can’t step in to protect him.
Of course. But I understand the bigger picture so I can’t sacrifice everybody just for what I feel. That’s the main thing that I really hate about prison: no one is in control of our [own] lives or our destiny or our tomorrow. Right now, I’m sitting here talking to you and a guy can just start getting stabbed up outside my cell. And I don’t even know what it’s about — it could be that he’s on drugs or he owes money or he did this or he did that. But based on me being black, I have to support anybody that’s black. Based on me coming from a Crip background, I have to support anybody who’s a Crip. We all have to support one another whether we like it or not. If a brother gets into it with a Hispanic and they start to fight, it’s gonna be an all-out war. And the police are gonna start shooting.
I’ve always struggled with my own faith because when I look around and see people suffering, I have a hard time reconciling that with a God that’s supposed to be benevolent and merciful.
When we look at it like that, we’re looking at it on a small, personal, selfish perspective. We’re not really looking at it on the scale of Allah and how He sees things. Really, when we go through certain things, it’s a blessing for us. If I wasn’t right here, if I didn’t go through everything I went through, I coulda died young. I coulda went straight to the hellfire from the things that I was out there doing as a kid. But then we get another chance. It could be like, “Why would you put me through this? Oh Allah, I didn’t even do it. How could you do this to me?” But then He’ll say, “If I didn’t do this to you, you’d be surely condemned. So go ahead and take this slap on the wrist, compared to the hellfire, and this should get you through.” I have to take this as a part of the plan. I make decisions but Allah is the best of planners.
“Dudes can be Crips or Bloods or wherever we from, but then once we get to the masjid, we’re Muslim.”
Do you ever get angry?
Of course. Every day, probably. The frustration builds but that’s what we have salat for. The deen is set up so we can always bounce back. I can wake up pressured but by the time I make wudu and the call to azaan, my anxiety comes down a little bit. By the time I come out of salat, man, I got a different perspective. Then I go out and go through things and start to snap, but then it’s time for dhuhr. Like you said, our faith wavers, but as long as we are always staying in remembrance of our Lord and always trying to strive for better, then success is guaranteed to the believer. I’mma just focus on that rather than the worst of this shit.
Have you been able to introduce anyone else to Islam?
Absolutely. All my bros. They see everything that it’s done for me. They go, “I remember he was wild, look at him now. How are you like that?” And I go, “Alhamdullilah, the deen.” In the masjid, I studied a lot to where I now teach certain classes. So I take young brothers and young bangers and I’m like, “Yo, come let me teach you salat.” And then in the midst of me teaching salat, I’m gonna teach them the whole deen as much as I can. I’m always giving advice. Even with our music, people send me messages all the time, like, “Oh, I’m so inspired. I wanna learn. Can you help me? I’m thinking about converting.” My whole family is leaning towards the deen. If they’re not already on it, then they identify with it, based on how they’ve seen my evolution. Like, my brother, I’ll tell him all the time, “Man, you gotta let that drink go. You always smoking weed. Try to restrain from as much haram as you can.” I try to put everybody on that will listen. Even you.
How tough is it to maintain your relationships with your family and loved ones on the outside?
Man, if you can get a cell phone, it makes everything way easier. Consistent visits, that makes things way easier. But most of the time that I’ve been in prison, it hasn’t been easy. I’ve been years from having been able to talk to my folks. I’ve been in prisons where we’ll just be on lockdown — no phone, no food, no nothing — for a long time. We’ll just be sitting in the cells and then when we come out, another riot happens, more violence, go right back on lockdown. Come out, more violence. It never ends in here.
Can the sociopolitical cycles of violence that have landed so many black men in prison ever be broken?
Man. Can it be broken? I can’t see it. It can be broken within your own self, as individuals, but on a larger scale, only Allah can change it. We in prison. This is a billion-dollar industry. They make so much money off of us being in jail that of course they want to keep us in jail. However their pockets can stay on, or however they can maintain the establishment that they stand on, that’s all they really care about. Always, there’s people who are fighting to keep things the same and there’s people that are fighting for change. And then even the people that are fighting for change, they still have their motives
How important has Islam been in getting you through the past 12 years?
It’s been the defining thing. The deen has gotten me through. In a place like this, you’re surrounded by savages. All the people on the news, all the people who committed the most heinous crimes, all the worst things that’ve happened in California — these are the people that’s here. So that type of environment and community has you in a state of mind of [being] on edge anyway. The deen is the balance. The deen is what can make or break you.