For those who build computers, we often use the term “bottleneck.” Bottlenecks occur when one component of a system is woefully slower than the others. Think of a computer like a chain .. its only as strong as its weakest link.
Bottlenecks can occur in a variety of ways. A common one among gamers is that they often purchase a cheaper processor, and get an oversized graphics card, thinking that the graphics are the most important thing for their super-awesome gaming rig. But they’re just another link in the chain. If the processor is unable to keep up, you’ll find that that expensive graphics card can’t be fully utilized, and therefore is wasted money. What’s required is keeping every component in balance, so that each part is fully utilized 100%.
For the last 10 years or so, a bottleneck has existed within the storage system of modern PCs. You see, hard drives are just slow. Incredibly slow. How slow? In this article on AppScout, they compared the latency (i.e. the time it takes to access) of system memory (RAM) and a hard drive, and translated that to something we understand better: miles per hour. If RAM latency was judged to be the same speed as an F-18 Hornet (approx. Mach 1.5), a hard drive latency was calculated to be the speed of a banana slug (0.007 mph).
Hard drives are a relic of the last century that just need to go away. But they don’t. Why? First and most importantly, they’re cheap. Second, they’re fairly reliable. But finally, nothing better had come along to take their place. Until recently.
Now on the scene are solid-state drives (SSDs). SSDs use flash memory, much like what you see in common USB thumb drives. However, SSDs are much faster than thumb drives, and hold a much larger capacity. The real breakthrough came a few years ago, when both reliable and relatively cheap SSDs came on the market. In every day operations, SSDs are somewhere around 100x faster than hard drives. They also have no moving parts (less to break), and run completely silently. They also produce far less heat than a hard drive. In general use of the computer, once it has an SSD, the computer will just “feel” faster. Bootup times take just a few seconds. You’ll never have to click a program and wait seconds or minutes for something to happen; now it will launch instantly. You’ll never hear the hard drive chugging away at random times, slowing everything to a crawl for no reason. In short, no more bottlenecks.
At this point, the only downside to SSDs are lack of storage space when compared to hard drives. But, that can be overcome by using both.
Speaking from experience, I can say that no modern PC (one made within the last 5 years) should be without a SSD. This includes laptops and desktops. The best strategy to employ on a desktop is to use an SSD to store Windows and all your programs, and a large hard drive to store your documents. On a laptop with only one drive bay, just get an SSD, and get one large enough to hold everything: Windows, programs, and documents. The investment is well worth it.


Christmas cards remain popular 170 years after the first one was sent.
In the digital era, which allows people communicate instantly by social media, text messages, and email, it is surprising to find one tradition that is still going strong, the Christmas card.
The first Christmas card was sent in England in 1843 and became a tradition that has survived 170 years.
Expert Pam Danzinger, president of Unity Marketing, a lead researcher in a study of the greeting card market, says two-thirds of people reported sending Christmas cards last year, which is statistically even with results found in a similar survey done in 2009.
Out of those surveyed in the study, 80 percent stated they would send the same amount of Christmas cards this year while only six percent reporting they would send less cards.
Danzinger says in a statement:
“Though the overall share of consumers who send holiday greetings has been on a steady course since 2008, the types of cards people will send are likely to be quite different this year.”
“What’s really changed in the holiday greeting card market is a growing demand for customized holiday cards where the sender uses their own photo and software tools provided by companies such as Shutterfly, to create a totally personalized greeting card. Young people in particular gravitate toward the customized holiday card market, while the more mature consumers tend to stick with the traditional boxed cards.”
Digital photography and retailers ever increasing options for Christmas cards are helping younger consumers to carry on the tradition in a more personalized manner.
Nowadays, a customer can take a picture, go online, and create a completely customized Christmas card. Some retailers offer one hour pick-up for this service.
Danzinger says based upon survey results, the leading retailers in the market are Shutterfly.com, Hallmark.com, and Snapfish.com.
The first known Christmas card was sent in England, in 1843 and was recently put up on the auction block.
On Saturday, the British auction house Henry Aldridge & Son says an anonymous bidder paid £4,200, or $6,846, for the card, considered to be part of a set of the world’s first Christmas cards.
The black and white greeting card depicts a festive scene with a Victorian family eating and drinking. The message reads: “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You.”
Danzinger says pre-printed Christmas cards have suffered in the digital age:
“Through the research, we found that the sales of individual, preprinted greeting cards dropped sharply, while those of custom greetings rose by an even greater share.”
“Many consumers still believe in the value of a greeting card, but they want those greetings to be directly from their heart, not featuring generic art work and second-rate poetry.”
Will you be sending Christmas cards this year?


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#shesaid :: I can feel my power when I slip it on.. the most gorgeous, love-fueled, world changing power.
#shesaid :: You are a golden goddess, trusting your gut, walking into the light.
#shesaid :: It feels like wearing a hug, arms wide open, wrapped around my soul.
#shesaid :: It's soft and luscious, warmth and comfort and beauty.
#shesaid :: It's like being part of a movement.
#shesaid :: The magic is tangible, like the words will infuse into my heart and forever be a part of who I am and my becoming.
#shesaid :: When I #ilovethislifenow, I am stepping into the circle. When I slip the fleece over my bare skin, I am in the circle. When I see other women loving this life now, we are in the circle.
#shesaid :: It feels like a magic talisman in my pocket. #ilovethislifenow It is the rebel softness I wear upon my skin to guide me through the chapters of this life, reminding me ALL is worthy of celebration. It in the map that guides me home. To myself. It is the soulsigh of a sacred sisterhood.
#shesaid :: A warm reminder to appreciate within confusion. That peace is always there. Blissful and cozy and trusting. The soft and grey reminds me of how I want to feel in my skin. And I do.
#shesaid :: I am part of something so much bigger than I could ever imagine. Come get a warm hug and know you are moving in the direction you want to.
#shesaid :: I am using my voice to carve out this space, using my intention to reclaim what's mine. When I say #ilovethislifenow I am beckoning more of myself forward, summoning the life that I desire from the deep.
#shesaid :: I am cloaked in the softest of love while I'm wearing this gorgeous sweater. It feels like magic, hot cups of delicious coffee and cozy afternoon naps. It is my declaration to the world without having to speak. #ilovethislifenow

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Congratulations to Firm Municipal Client, Lauderdale-By the-Sea for Winning the Environmental Stewardship Award.
The Environmental Stewardship Award focuses on city programs that promote conservation, improve and protect environmental conditions, and/or provide environmental education and outreach programs within a city. The Town of Lauderdale-By-The-Sea’s coastal environmental protection program has two main components: planting sea oats to build up beach-protecting sand dunes, and transplanting staghorn corals to local reefs to create additional underwater habitats. Among other things, this has mitigated beach erosion and improved coastal resiliency to help maintain vital sea turtle habitat.
Member Susan Trevarthen serves as Town Attorney for the Town of Lauderdale-By-the-Sea.


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Mr Hunt was also paying a visit to meet staff and children at Ash Villa School in Greylees later today (Friday) and stopped off to meet newly selected Conservative candidate Dr Caroline Johnson, who actually works under him in the health service as a consultant paediatrician at Peterborough.
Married to a farmer, she lives in nearby Sudbrook and was going out on the campaign trail with Mr Hunt.
Commenting on the current situation with Grantham A and E being temporarily closed at nights for another three months, he said he had met a delegation of people from the area with Grantham and Stamford MP Nick Boles over the matter and understood the difficulties of poor roads causing travel delays to Lincoln A and E and assured it was only a temporary measure: “We are absolutely committed to ensuring that everyone can access the emergency care they need as fast as possible - it isn’t always about having a hospital near you, it is about getting to the right care and sometimes it makes sense to go further if you can get specialist stroke care, for example, but it (Grantham A and E) is a matter for the local trust.”
On the Lincolnshire Health and Care countywide strategic review of services in the county which is suggesting possible centralisation and specialisation of services such as maternity in single centres such as Lincoln and Boston hospitals he said that was up to discussions between local health professionals but wanted to make sure resources were used as efficiently as possible to continue improving care, adding: “Patient safety always comes first and that is something I personally champion. That is a challenge when demand for the health service has gone up and some places may struggle to get the doctors and nurses they need.”

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Microsoft Access Database Development
Create IT is a software developer with experience developing, maintaining, and migrating Microsoft Access database solutions based in Blenheim, New Zealand.
What is Microsoft Access?
Microsoft Access is a relational database system developed by Microsoft for Windows and included with Most Microsoft 365 subscriptions and Office Professional or higher perpetual licenses. It offers rapid application development with reporting, data entry, and querying tools. It integrates well with the rest of the Office suite, and can access data from a variety of sources. It integrates particularly well with Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Azure Database.
What is Access good for?
Access on its own is useful for single or limited multi-user databases where tight integration with Office is required, and where development costs are moderate. Access solutions provide much greater data integrity than storing everything in an Excel spreadsheet, however they can still readily export data to Excel for analysis. Access can be a good option for small businesses, particularly sole traders who may spend a lot of time on the road and may not have access to reliable internet connections required for cloud based databases. Access can also be used as a front end to enterprise grade SQL Server or SQL Azure databases, where SQL takes care of data integrity, security, and performance, while Access takes care of data entry and reporting.
When is Access not suitable?
Access only runs on Windows, so if you need database access on Macs, iOS, Android or Linux, it is not suitable as a solution. Acess databases doesn't scale well with multiple concurrent users, and lacks security features, however these issues can be resolved by migrating the back end data to SQL Server or SQL Azure. Another problem that a SQL backend can help resolve is lots of Access databases with critical data scattered around a corporate network with no security or backup strategy.
How can Create IT help with Microsoft Access?
Create IT can help with all issues associated with Access databases.
- Evaluate whether Access is an appropriate platform for your data.
- Create data models in Access.
- Migrate existing data from spreadsheets or other sources to Access.
- Develop Access applications.
- Migrate Access data to SQL Server or SQL Azure (or mySQL).
- Migrate Access applications to ASP.Net web apps.
- Maintain existing Access applications.
Contact Create IT now for an obligation free chat about your Microsoft Access requirements


Doma United head coach, Akinade Onigbinde, has attributed his team’s poor run to the absence of key players.
The Savannah Tigers have struggled since the start of the second stanza.
Doma United dropped to the eighth position on the Nigeria Premier Football League table following a 2-0 loss to Bayelsa United on Wednesday.
Onigbinde also attributed the defeat to his team’s profligacy in front of goal.
Doma United is winless in the last three games in the NPFL.
They will face Sporting Lagos next in a Match Day 23 fixture at the Pantami Stadium on Tuesday.


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GM to close Grand Blanc tooling plant in June
The Detroit NewsFriday 18th January, 2013
General Motors Co. said it will close a tooling systems plant in Grand Blanc by the end of June.Managers at the Grand Blanc North American Tooling Center - formerly known as the Weld Tool Center - gave the news to employees Thursday.GM said it would transfer operations to other GM facilities in the U.S. with "considerable cost savings."The 1.7-million-square-foot plant on 312 acres employs 343 people, including 315 hourly workers. It builds tooli...

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The biggest urban area in Spain‘s green northwest Galicia region, Vigo offers balmy temperatures year round; friendly, welcoming people; and a raft of cool stuff to do, from fascinating sightseeing to its spectacular Cíes Island beaches offshore (where whale spotting is common all year round) to a rockin’ nightlife.
Both on the sightseeing and nightlife fronts (as well as dining, of course), the main hub is the historic Cidade Vella (Old Town), whose narrow streets are often alive with young people (especially on weekends, of course), thanks to its university with more than 21,000 students.
There’s a nice city beach in Vigo, as well, a short bus ride from city centre. The Praia de Samil has its own lovely setting, with a view out toward the Cíes Islands, and is the perfect place to enjoy the local lusco e fusco (Galician for twilight), say over an ice cream or a glass of wine at the Cafetería di San Remo, as the orange sun sinks below the Atlantic horizon.
Now that summer’s here, the scene ramps up, with one of the highlights of the season coming in August (this year, the 11th through 13th). O Marisquiño is an open-air urban-culture festival that takes place on the port, along Paseo de las Avenidas, the Transatlantic Wharf, and the venerable Royal Sailing Club and its Espigón pier. It features three days of music, food, exhibitions, and extreme sports, with more than ten competitions including three world championships, the World Cup Skateboarding Street, the World Cup Skateboarding Miniramp, and the Dirt FMB World Tour. And guess what? Totally free of charge. Good times…
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How to promote an album release
Engage your fans on Twitter when releasing new music.
Your freshest tracks are dropping today -- but do your fans know about them? Twitter lets you tease album releases and give your listeners the lowdown on your latest music, helping to build excitement and drive downloads.
Share your excitement and anticipation about a new album with fans.
A simple text-based Tweet is still an incredibly powerful and efficient way to update fans about your creative process.
Announce the release date of your next album or single.
Break news – and get media pick-up – by using Twitter to exclusively announce when your new music will be dropping.
Promote the hashtag for your new album.
This is a great way to encourage fans to have a conversation about your new release.
Give fans a peek of the new album’s artwork.
When sharing ways to purchase your album, include the album cover artwork. It is a great way to insert your new album into your fan’s timeline.
Let fans know your new album has dropped.
When the big day arrives, share the good news with the world. This is an excellent time to do something special for your fans -- like creating a video compilation that offers clues on what to expect from the full album.
Use Twitter threads to reveal more information about your new release.
Prior to the release of the album, use threads to reveal the track listing along with background information on each song (the inspiration, influences, stories from the studio, or other behind-the-scenes factoids). If you’re going on tour, share video clips from behind the scenes in a thread.
Pro tip: Tweet the tracklisting on the same day that album pre-sale goes live; include a link to your preferred digital service provider.
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Survey fans on their favorite songs.
Ask your fans to pick their favorite songs by creating a poll.
Host a Twitter Q&A on release day.
Answer your fans’ questions about the new album by hosting a Q&A on Twitter.

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Oral history interview with Jean and Susan from the larger collection Second World War and Irish Women (see Related Materials). Jean was born in Scotland and was as a housewife during the Second World War. Susan was born in Gorey, Co. Wexford and worked as medical social worker during the war.

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About Joey Gilmore
Joey Gilmore’s career has spanned 40 years with performances throughout the United States and Europe. Joey is a true Blues and R & B master who incorporates new and varied styles in his music performing original compositions mixed with traditional standards in his high energy live show. His tenor/baritone vocals belt out tunes with a loss abandon reminiscent of Blues Legends from the 1940’s and 1950’s. This Bluesman’s major influences are apparent without sacrificing his unique style. Artists Joey has shared the stage with include James Brown, Etta James, Bobby Bland, Little Milton, Johnny Taylor and numerous others.
The Disco Biscuits confirmed details of their New Year’s Run 2019 which will be the final concerts held at the PlayStation Theater in New York City.
The New Deal started rolling out Fall 2019 and Winter 2020 tour dates.
Phish issued a statement regarding the camping, parking and vending restrictions now in place at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park due to a plague outbreak.
Zero will return to the Bay Area for a performance in honor of the band’s 35th anniversary this fall.
The Del McCoury Band welcomed guitarist Billy Strings for a pair of songs on Friday at the Whimmydiddle Country Music Festival in Hamilton, Ohio.


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Among the various weakening techniques of inferior oblique muscle overaction, the most commonly used techniques include myectomy, recession, and anterior transposition. Anterior transposition and myectomy were compared to evaluate the surgical results in inferior oblique overaction.20 children with bilateral +3 overacting inferior oblique muscles underwent a prospective randomised study by which the anterior transposition procedure in one eye was compared with the myectomy procedure in the other eye.Postoperative follow up averaged 2 years. The success rates in two surgical procedures were 85% for the anterior transposition and 25% for the myectomy (standard of success was based on zero inferior oblique overaction). In only one case did the anterior transposition tend to limit the elevation of the eye in the midline, adduction, and abduction. Anterior transposition produced hypotropia at the primary position in only one case. Most eyes that underwent myectomy (75%) showed apparent residual overaction.The anterior transposition appeared to be more effective in eliminating the overaction of inferior oblique muscle than the myectomy.


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The Iron Horde's invasion of Azeroth is imminent. Jump back into action today! Pre-purchase Warlords of Draenor and get a level 90 character boost to use in-game now.
Founder of Geek Ireland and proud to be part of an awesome community. I'm a huge fan of online gaming, mainly League of Legends & World of Warcraft. My favourite content to consume en-mass is Sci-Fi like Star Trek and Star Wars. All hail Netflix!

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I have large data IERs (greater than 20 Mb) and none of the IERs go through? Why?
IERs of very large sizes can be dropped due to various reasons including:
a. Reassembly timeouts: If the time taken by the complete IER to reach the destination is more than the reassembly timer the queue is flushed
b. Buffer overflows: For IERs of such large sizes the queues at various interfaces may overflow causing packet drops.
c. Low processing speeds: If the IP processing speeds are low the servicing of the IP datagrams may be slower causing reassembly timeouts on the destination host.
d. Transport layer: If the transport layer protocol is not reliable (e.g. UDP) or has limit on the size of the application layer packets it can handle, this may also be responsible for the drops at transport layer. In case of the application layer in JCSS the size limitation of the transport layer is handled by segmenting the application layer packets.


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The group draw for the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil will take place on Friday at the Brazilian resort town of Costa do Sauipe. The 32 countries that qualified will be divided into eight groups.
Broadly speaking, each group will feature one team from each of four pots that were announced Wednesday, although there is an exception this year as there are seven teams in Pot 2 and nine in Pot 4.
The first pot features the eight top seeds, or the top seven teams according to FIFA's world rankings in October plus host Brazil. These are, in ranking order, world No. 1 Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay and Switzerland.
Pot 2 features five African countries -- Algeria, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria -- and two South American teams that did not earn the top seeds, Chile and Ecuador.
Pot 3 is made up of four Asian countries -- Australia, Iran, Japan and Korea -- plus four countries from the North, Central America and Caribbean zone -- Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico and the U.S.
Those European teams that did not receive the top seeds -- Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, England, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Russia -- comprise Pot 4.
Since the number of countries in each pot varies slightly, FIFA said it will select one European team at random from Pot 4 and move it to Pot 2 before the official draw on Friday.
FIFA ensures that all the continents are fairly represented in each group with the exception of Europe, as up to two teams from the continent can be grouped together.
Korea is hoping to avoid an unlucky draw that would see it grouped with two strong European sides plus a South American team.

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I hope someday
You get to look
In the mirror
You are the fulfilment of your dreams
You are the prayers answered
You are all you needed
To feel complete.
Academia life is turning my head into a mushy pile, my only reprieve is poetry books. I want to read more poetry books about self love. It's so calming. I love it.
Author should have given in the blurb a clear/ accurate description of what people are actually getting.
I noticed that the author already edited the description to add: "This is How It Starts is a collection of poetry and illustrations about heart aches, self-love and second love."
Nice tuning in to readers.
*Giving this book a second chance*
Meeting you is like
Checking a list I didn’t know I had
Like unearthing a treasure,
Feeling the universe expand
I was nothing but
A mere mortal, all flesh and bone
You were some kind of magic
But here’s the best part:
Not at all made up,
And you liked me just as much.
This is How It Starts is a beautiful poetry collection about second love, the beauty and the downfall of it, and about self-love. As a fan of Dawn Lanuza’s first poetry collection The Last Time I'll Write About You I have to say that I thought this second collection was even better than the first. It managed to move me in ways the first one didn’t manage to accomplish and I’m so glad I got the chance to read it (thank you so much, Sue, for allowing me to borrow it). I have three favorite poems in this collection: choose your weapon, to your future and when i said nice to meet you, i meant. These three show the wide range of topics and poems this collection has to offer but they also made me really fall in love with the written words on the page in front of me.
choose your weapon
We’ve all been trained to be tough
To survive this world but
I hope you remain soft with your heart.
If you come across someone cruel,
The way they treat you is often a reflection of how they treat themselves.
If you are looking for a poetry collection about love that is tender, sweet and brutally honest at the same time then give this one a go. This is How It Starts really is worth all the praise and deserves to be a part of your poetry book collection.
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The poetry was simply written, sparse with any exciting imagery and that was what I missed here.

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There are three Trustees of Trust Funds who are elected by popular vote of the town, each one serving for three years on staggered terms. The current Trustees are listed above.
The Trustees report to the NH Attorney General's office and are fully independent of the Selectmen. The legal role of the Trustees is to manage (make deposits, maintain investments, and issue disbursements) the many funds that are held in reserve by the town.
These include bequests that have been given to the town for specific purposes (such as maintaining the Jackson Falls) as well as funds that have been set aside by Warrant Articles at voted on at Town Meeting; to accrue for future expenses or purchases (such as the police cruiser).
They also manage funds related to the Jackson School District, the Jackson Library, the Old Library Committee and the Jackson Water Precinct. A full listing of all of the funds can be found in the annual town report.
The Trustees generally meet formally just once each year in late December to review the past year's activities and decide on a course for the coming year. Currently, the files and records of the Trustees are kept by the Treasurer, Helene Matesky.

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Thom Browne x Colette capsule collection is now available on Farfetch
It's been a little under three months since Colette announced that it will officially close this December, but fans of the renowned French store can rejoice that business will be carried out as usual (until December 20, that is). Last week, it was reported that American designer Thom Browne is currently taking up a monthlong residency at the Parisian concept store, with Chanel next in line for November. But if you can't make it to the French capital in time for the installation this month, fret not—you can now score merch from an exclusive capsule collection designed by Thome Browne on fashion retailer platform Farfetch.
In conjunction with the store takeover, Browne has collaborated with Colette on a lineup made of men's and women's pieces made of reinvented bestsellers and collectible runway pieces. You can expect his signature imagery and stripe motif emblazoned over shirts, polo shirts and trousers—all in a muted grey colour palette coupled with fun references of Browne's favourite inspiration, his dachshund Hector. Our favourites include a patchworked blazer with a gold insignia of Hector with a matching laurel wreath, a long-sleeved dress made of grids of varying checks, and a sporty bomber jacket with Browne's signature stripe pattern decked over the front. Below, check out all 17 pieces from the collection that you can shop on Farfetch.com:
Thom Browne x Colette is available on Farfetch.com.


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Young patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital had a very special visitor this week when The Prince of Wales toured the wards.
His Royal Highness chatted to children being treated for cancer and epilepsy at the London hospital, known as Gosh, and spent time in its complementary therapy suite.
The Prince, who is due to become a grandfather for the first time this summer, particularly enjoyed being in the hospital’s playrooms.
He pulled up a child-sized chair to chat to epilepsy patient Katie Tuffin, who was only admitted to the ward yesterday.
On being handed a tub of Play-Doh, The Prince took out the green dough and promptly got to work rolling it out with a grooved rolling pin.
Eight-year-old Katie said she was impressed with the royal visitor – even though her mother, Emma, revealed that her daughter had initially thought Prince William was to be the special guest.
The Prince, wearing a dark blue suit and striped shirt, seemed all too aware of the mess that can be made when Katie told him that her five-year-old brother, Oliver, mixes up the Play-Doh colours.
“You get annoyed by that, do you?” he asked her. “Does he grind it into the carpet?”
When Katie admitted that the siblings “sometimes” fight, The Prince gave a wry smile and said: “It tends to happen, doesn’t it.”
Mrs Tuffin, from Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, said she was impressed with The Prince’s knowledge of epilepsy after he asked if her daughter was on a ketogenic diet, sometimes used to help those with the condition.
“I must admit I was surprised he was aware of that,” she said. “He seems quite clued up on things.”
Katie’s verdict of the royal visitor was that he was “kind, friendly and good at Play-Doh”.
It was not the first visit to Gosh for The Prince of Wales, who was treated there for appendicitis when he was a boy.
His sons, The Duke of Cambridge, was treated there after being hit in the head with a golf club in 1991.
Professor Helen Cross, holder of the title Prince of Wales’s Chair for Childhood Epilepsy, said: "It was a privilege to meet The Prince again and show him first-hand how neurology patients are benefiting from vastly improved facilities within the new clinical building and, most particularly, here at Europe’s foremost referral centre for epilepsy.
“The Prince is very interested in our epilepsy service and how we can continue to improve outcomes for patients with this condition.”
Gosh Chief Executive Jan Filochowski, who showed The Prince around the hospital, said: "We were delighted that The Prince of Wales was able to visit Great Ormond Street Hospital and meet so many of our patients and the staff that care for them.
“It was fantastic to have the opportunity to show him round our hospital and in particular showcase our new state-of-the-art neurology ward where some of the UK’s most complex epilepsy patients are looked after by the biggest neurosciences team in the country.”
The Prince was Patron of the Wishing Well Appeal, launched in 1987 to raise money for the hospital’s redevelopment, and his last visit before today was in 2006, to see a newly-opened wing.
Read the full account of the visit here.

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Summer holidays are all about the beach. This is the simple principle that defines the design of this 5 bedroom villa. Situated at the south coast of Mykonos, right next to the popular beach of Platys Gialos, Blanc is a luxurious beach house that perfectly reflects island living.
The décor is quiet and cosy to create a relaxing atmosphere and accentuate the views. Natural materials such as wood and stone and architectural details such as a kitchen half-carved into the rock are employed to integrate the house to its surroundings. The bedrooms are meticulously minimal, devoid of ornamentation and clutter, paying a tribute to simplicity as the ultimate form of sophistication and letting the eye wonder to the sea’s mesmerising blue.
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According to Reuters/NAN, two out of eight cases tested in an outbreak of deadly fever in the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were positive for the Ebola virus. But are said to be different from the strands of the virus in West Africa. The UN’s World Health Organization also announced that one of its health experts, an epidemiologist, had been infected while working in Sierra Leone.
Also on Sunday, Britain’s first Ebola patient, a male nurse who also contracted the disease in Sierra Leone, was evacuated to London. The sobering news of Ebola’s spread came as UN officials pledged to step up efforts against the lethal tropical virus, which has infected more than 2,600 and killed 1,427, according to figures released Friday.
In Kinshasa, Congolese Health Minister Felix Kabange Numbi said that two of eight samples taken from victims of a mystery fever had tested positive for Ebola.
“The results are positive. The Ebola virus is confirmed in DRC,” Kabange told AFP.
Speaking later on public television, he said the confirmation marked the seventh outbreak of Ebola in DR Congo, where the virus was first identified in 1976 near the Ebola River. But he said the two new cases had “no link to [the epidemic] raging in West Africa” and were different strains from one another.

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Reuters | Sat Sep 17, 2011
Ukraine PM says EU’s Tymoshenko stance "immoral"
YALTA, Ukraine, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The European Union’s threat to scrap planned free trade and association agreements with Ukraine if it jails former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is immoral, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said on Saturday.
European diplomats said this week the EU wanted to see Tymoshenko, who is under arrest and on trial over abuse-of-office charges that she says are politically motivated, free and politically active.
Otherwise, they said, EU members could refuse to ratify the free trade and political association agreements that the two sides hope to initial in December.
"Such global, serious issues as Ukraine’s European integration ... are so important that linking them to a particular trial is not just incorrect but immoral," Azarov told reporters in the Ukrainian Black Sea resort of Yalta.
EU enlargement and neighbourhood policy commissioner Stefan Fule said this week he had received assurances that Ukraine would find a solution to the Tymoshenko case by reclassifying her alleged offence as one that is not a felony.
Azarov declined to comment on whether that would happen but said he was optimistic about planned deals with the European Union.
"I am convinced that commonsense will prevail in our relations and that the free trade agreement and the association agreement will be signed," he said.
Tymoshenko, 50, the fiercest political opponent of President Viktor Yanukovich, is accused of illegally forcing state energy firm Naftogaz into the 2009 gas deal with Russia’s Gazprom .
She has dismissed all charges as a political vendetta by Yanukovich who beat her narrowly in a 2010 presidential election. (Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; editing by Elizabeth Piper)


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More than 2,100 students will graduate from ANU at the mid-year award conferral ceremonies this week.
More than 1,270 will take part in the graduation ceremonies at Llewellyn Hall from Wednesday, while a further 834 students will graduate in absentia.
"This is a wonderful time of year on campus," said Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young AO.
"There is nothing more rewarding for the University community than seeing our graduates and their families celebrating graduations.
"On behalf of the University, I congratulate the new graduates for their achievements.
"I wish each of our newest alumni the very best for their next adventure, and assure each of them they are always welcome at their alma mater."
ANU will also confer an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters on eminent social anthropologist Dame Marilyn Strathern on Thursday 16 July.
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The Fandom Post is reporting that Crunchyroll will be simulcasting the Secret Society Eagle Talon: Golden Spell anime during the Fall 2020 anime season. As of this writing, a premiere date for the anime has not been announced. However, it was announced that it will be available in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
Secret Society Eagle Talon: Golden Spell is described as:
The Eagle Talon organization successfully discovers the ancient “Golden Spell,” which allows one to control people’s will with a single word. However, the spell and the program that is developing it are stolen.
Animated at DLE, FROGMAN handles everything with the production outside of the music.
Secret Society Eagle Talon: Golden Spell is scheduled to premiere in Japan on October 4, 2020.
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Once a byword for struggle against apartheid, Soweto is now firmly on the tourist trail. As it celebrates its centenary, Gwyn Topham visits the townships
23 September 2004
Of all the places to get a sense of deja vu, Soweto would have been unlikely to top my list. And yet the landscape here felt oddly familiar, presumably from faint memories of old TV news footage.
At the Baragwanath taxi rank, the teeming transport hub for a sea of minibuses that ply the roads to Johannesburg, we met up with Soweto resident David Mulovhedzi, who was able to explain just why we might well have seen these streets before. As we drove on, he pointed out the locations of terrible recent history: schools whose pupils were gunned down in the 1976 uprising; hostels from where the secret police-funded Inkatha attacked ANC supporters to destabilise the emerging political consensus. We also passed Desmond Tutu’s church – a focal point for resistance to apartheid in the days when gatherings were otherwise banned.
Mulovhedzi’s life here has been marked by faith and music: he is now director of the Soweto Gospel Choir, currently touring Britain. They are an exhilarating face of a Soweto whose image has been transformed in the 10 years since the first free elections: from a place that few outsiders would want to visit, into South Africa’s number one tourist attraction.
How far things have changed will be underlined next month as Soweto celebrates its centenary, with events planned including the unveiling of a walk-of-fame style boulevard commemorating figures from the years when Soweto was a byword for struggle against the apartheid regime.
The centenary dates from the initial forced relocation of black workers who had come to work in the gold mines of Johannesburg. These early slum dwellings in Klipsruit were joined by many more when apartheid was brought into being; the name Soweto, an abbreviation of South Western Townships, was officially designated in 1963, although the word township barely conveys that it is home to an estimated 3 million people.
Even now that tourists are commonplace, visiting Soweto is an experience beyond the usual sightseeing. Most still tend to stay in Johannesburg rather than in the township itself, but there is an increasing quantity and quality of B&B accommodation (see below). Local tourism associations are campaigning to persuade visitors to “get off the bus”, to spend more time and money in restaurants and shops.
Guided tours remain the current norm though; there are few obvious landmarks. One you can hardly avoid seeing when driving in is the Orlando Power Station, itself a potent symbol of change. Its now disused twin cooling towers, which once pumped pollution over the townships while supplying electricity only to white suburbs, were last year decorated with huge, colourful murals.
Some historical sites already form a well-established trail, in the better-off Sowetan suburb of Orlando West, starting with the Hector Pietersen memorial. This monument is named after a 13-year-old victim of a police bullet in the 1976 schools uprising; in what became an iconic image of apartheid’s repression, another pupil was photographed carrying away his body. The accompanying museum is an essential place to visit for some eye-opening recent history.
From here it’s a short drive to Vilakazi Street, famously home to two Nobel Prize winners. While Archbishop Tutu lives here still, Nelson Mandela spent just 11 days after release in his small bungalow before deciding to escape the ensuing commotion.
Mandela’s meagre dwelling is open for tours, though it’s hard to cram more than a few people in at once. Most of the walls are now given over to photos and tributes: among the countless honorary degrees are Sugar Ray Leonard’s champion’s belt (Mandela himself was a keen boxer) and a formal apology from the state of Michigan for the CIA’s involvement in his persecution. Only the bedroom still retains the look of a home, with an eye-catching bedspread made of jackal furs, as befitted a man who was born, after all, a Xhosa prince. By the window is an oddly touching line-up of footwear, the Hi-Tec trainers he padded around in his early days of freedom dwarfed by ex-wife Winnie’s army boots.
Outside in the bright sunshine, it feels like any suburban road – almost a Ramsay St, but with more illustrious neighbours. Good restaurants have opened on the street – we stopped at Sakhumzi’s for drinks and ate excellent traditional African food at the lively Nambitha in the evening – and a nearby “shebeen” turned out to be almost disappointingly un-edgy. At the welcoming Dodi’s Joint, smokers are banished to the Lung Physiotherapy Room out the back.
In this relatively wealthy strip, you could almost be unaware of the poverty that still exists all around, were it not for a few entrepreneurial children begging (“Welcome to Soweto. Please make a donation,” asked one). But we saw another side of life in the townships when we joined the gospel choir on a visit to Sizanani, a project set up to help Soweto’s growing number of Aids orphans. It struggles to help nearly 200 children just in the immediate area, with many others on a waiting list. Dudu, at 14, is one of the oldest, and relies on it as a haven in the day where she can study and have lunch and supper. “They’re like a mum and dad,” she said, “everything’s here.”
The visit of the choir – bringing food parcels as well as songs – made it briefly something of a party atmosphere. Beyond this oasis of care though, Sizanani’s workers said, many of these children were looking after even younger siblings, in situations that often left them open to horrific abuse from adults elsewhere.
Such places aren’t necessarily on a tourist itinerary in any country; but despite the progress made in the decade or so since apartheid was abolished, the inequalities in much of South Africa are glaring; if race is no longer a legal division, the economic divisions are obvious. A great place to get a handle on the nation’s past, and to understand how places like Soweto came to be, is the excellent and harrowing Apartheid Museum. (This aside, the city of Johannesburg itself can – notoriously – be a less than enticing prospect. But there are places even beyond the rich guarded enclaves of Sandton that feel a bit more atmospheric and fun. Newtown’s Gramadoelas restaurant does excellent South African cuisine, with the Market Theatre and Kippies Jazz Bar a few doors down.)
The history gives a bit of bite to the country’s cultural events too. We travelled south to Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape for the annual National Arts Festival (and its fringe), 10 days of various performances every July. Like a scaled-down Edinburgh, this small university town also plays host to a fair number of student productions and atrocious stand-ups among the gems – but there’s perhaps more fascination in watching a nation warily re-enacting and redefining itself than in the slicker shows of Edinburgh. Here, there was plenty of resonance in prison chronicles and even light reworkings of Zulu folk tales.
We also watched some more literal histories, such as a play retelling the Soweto students’ revolt. It was astonishing to think that the laws, repression and cruelty it depicted were so recent; equally astonishing that the fury isn’t greater, especially when you can still walk out of the theatre today and see the townships on the hill away from Grahamstown’s well-off centre. In a Soweto bar, Greg, a local guide, told me: “Given what happened in the apartheid era, you might expect people to be angry with white men, but we have moved on, buried the hatchet.” It was a remarkably generous assessment – one that might have been inspired by Mandela’s own policy of extreme forgiveness and reconciliation – even if you wonder how many people truly feel that way. While more and more foreign visitors reach Soweto, few white South Africans, by most accounts, have made the journey.


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I'm trying to update my profile but when I enter my company post code it fails. Apparently my post code "appears to be invalid".
My postcode is GY1 3HB. Which is definately valid in Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Could the postcode field be changed to accept this?
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works for me - at which point are you receiving that message?
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Are you putting that space in there between the 1 and 3 or is that just a typo in this message? If the former, you might try it without the space....?
For the record, if you enter this postcode into Google Maps, it doesn't bring up a result but suggests GY1 1 or GY1 2. Is the site a reasonably new address? Looks like it's only been around since 2006. Could be an old pcode database that Spice and Google are using for lookup?
Just tried a couple more things.
If I set my country to United Kingdom then it accepts a Guernsey postcode (with or without a space), but if I set the country back to Guernsey then it doesn't work.
Unfortunately Guernsey isn't in the United Kingdom. As you can see with my profile, the flag associated with Guernsey is correct so SW must support that area. Must just need a tweak to the web site.


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We know that climate change is here and it’s affecting Mississauga.
The City of Mississauga is committed to decreasing our carbon footprint and preparing the community for the effects of a changing climate. The recently released draft Climate Change Action Plan is our ambitious, yet practical, plan to do that.
The weather around the world is changing and we are seeing changing climates, rising temperatures, increased precipitation and more frequent weather events.
In 2017 and 2019, we have had record high water levels in Lake Ontario. We are certainly feeling these impacts locally including increased seasonal flooding, extreme rainfall, ice storms, and some of the hottest summers on record.
More than half of the world’s carbon emissions originate in cities and urban areas and cities are facing the increasing costs of adapting to the impacts of climate change.
As a City, Mississauga is committed to doing its part towards securing a better future and transforming into a low carbon and resilient carbon city. Taking steps towards this goal will be achieved through actions taken not only by the City, but also by the wider community including residents, business owners, and visitors.
I know some of you may think that no matter what the City does, it won’t make a difference in the grand scheme of the global climate change picture. But we as a Council know that we have an obligation to reduce the carbon footprint of our operations and services. We have an opportunity to improve local air quality and become more resilient when extreme weather hits. (As I write this, there is a massive snow storm hitting the Prairies dumping 60+ cm of snow at the end of September.)
Our Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) presents a way forward over the next ten years, providing an incremental process to take action, measure progress, adjust to changing conditions, and continue to build towards the ultimate 30-year vision.
In the coming weeks, the City will be seeking public feedback and finalize the CCAP for approval.
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· Convert the entire corporate and transit fleet (and equipment) to zero emissions (e.g.
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As with any major initiative, there is a substantial cost to implementing the Climate Change Action Plan. Initial estimates for the first 10 years of the plan, based on current technology, is more than $450 million. This is mainly for capital funding and is not currently contained in our ten year capital forecast which means in the coming years, we have very tough choices to make.
There is a cost to making these changes, and there are also costs in taking no action.
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Minor league baseball doesn't usually get our attention unless something crazy happens, and that's exactly what happened Thursday night.
The Round Rock Express (located in Texas) scored an insane 26 runs against the Las Vegas Aviators. The funny thing is Las Vegas didn't even play that poorly. The Aviators put up 11 runs of their own, but it obviously wasn't enough as the Express put up a score you typically see in a football game.
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So, with so many runs scored in this baseball game we thought it'd be fun to look at some of the ridiculous numbers that were put up.
Every batter scored a run
You might read that stat and think that only applies to the Express, but no. Everyone on the Aviators scored a run as well. There were 20 batters with at least one at-bat and every single one of them scored at least one run. Of those 20, eight of them scored two runs or more.
Taylor Jones was a perfect 5-for-5
We mentioned already that every batter scored at least one run, but Express first baseman Taylor Jones led the way with five runs. In fact, he went a perfect 5-for-5 at the plate, with six RBIs. He had seven total plate appearances, which included two walks.
We also should make mention of the Aviators' Franklin Barreto, who also went 5-for-5 at the plate. He hit two home runs, had four RBIs and scored three runs.
Norge Ruiz allowed seven runs in 0.0 innings
Officially, Aviators pitcher Norge Ruiz pitched in 0.0 innings. But he did face seven batters, and allowed seven earned runs while giving up five hits and walking two. His poor outing contributed to an incredible 13-run inning in the seventh, which took this game to a completely different level.
Ruiz wasn't alone in his struggles, though. The two Aviators pitchers before him had already given up 10 earned runs. And of the six pitchers the Aviators used in the game, all of them allowed at least one earned run.
There were nine home runs in the game
The combined record for two teams hitting home runs in a single MLB game is 12, so these teams weren't too far off.
Kyle Tucker, the fifth overall pick in the 2015 draft, hit a pair of homers, giving him 20 on the season. Nick Tanielu and the Aviators' Barreto also hit a pair of homers. Taylor Jones, Eric Campbell and Cameron Rupp each hit one.
There were 90 total at-bats
- Players with 4+ at-bats: 17
- Players with 5+ at-bats: 9
- Players with 6+ at-bats: 4
- Players with 7 at-bats: 3
According to Baseball Almanac, the record for at-bats during a nine-inning game is eight, held by 18 different players. We almost got there in this game, as three different players had seven. Overall, there were 103 plate appearances in this game.


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TEHRAN, 12 Aug. (IPS) As the new Iranian President is reported to present his cabinet next week, serious cracks start to show in the façade on the ruling conservatives, with the former president Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani criticizing openly hard line Ansar Hezbollah for having accused past Iranian governments of “not being Islamic”.
“Those who make such statements are ignorant, do not understand anything and are not good Muslims”, the Chairman of the Expediency Council told worshippers during the traditional Friday prayers, referring to a long statement by the Ansar urging Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to “revert” to “real Islamic values ignored by precedent governments”, meaning those of Hojjatoleslam Mohammad Khatami and Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Those who make such statements are ignorant, do not understand anything and are not good Muslims
Alongside the Ansar Hezbollah, a semi militia organization controlled by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, the Secretary of the powerful Council of the Guardians, some other ultra-Islamic groups have also made similar demands from Mr. Ahmadinejad, a faithful Muslim in the line of Ayatollah Ali Khameneh’i, the orthodox leader of the Islamic Republic.
“Sometime, a few hypocrites who were also present in the household of the prophet try to give bad name and image to the majority of Muslims”, the former president who was defeated at the last presidential elections at the hands of Mr. Ahmadinejad charged.
Entitled “New time and new responsibilities”, the Ansar Hezbollah said in its statement: ”Wounded revisionists and hypocrites who were defeated by Mr. Ahmadinejad and had their dens in the past governments during 16 years can make a comeback to revenge the humiliation they suffered, therefore, they must be dealt with by true soldiers of Islam”.
“These people claim Islam was not the religion of past governments. Actually, one can doubt if they are working for the interest of Islam or the enemies of Islam. What they do is a betrayal of the Islamic revolution and its ideals and servants”, Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani responded.
Besides Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani, several other known hard line conservative figures also criticized the Ansar for their harsh statement.
Wounded hypocrites defeated by Mr. Ahmadinejad can make a comeback to revenge the humiliation they suffered.
According to Iranian political analysts, the charges by the Ansar and the counter-charges from Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani shows the difficulties Mr. Ahmadinezjad would face in the domestic front, while, on the international scene, he was handed over the “explosive” nuclear problem. ENDS CONSERVATIVES DIVIDED 12805

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Manookian was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and began his musical training at age of four. At age 12 Manookian wrote a piano concerto, by 14 he had won his first piano competition and by age 15 had written a violin concerto and a symphony. At age 16, his early flute concerto was premiered with him as conductor.
A recipient of numerous commissions, Manookian has been awarded prizes in international composition competitions, such as the Composition Competition of the World Piano Teachers Association, Frederick Delius, Composers Guild and the Barlow Endowment. His compositions have been performed internationally by important symphony orchestras, ensembles, and soloists. Additionally, his works have been published by Warner Brothers Publications and CPP/Belwin, and have been commercially recorded by Albany Records, 4-Tay, MMC, Azica, and Tantara Records.
As a conductor, Manookian has stood as Music Director of the Theatre Orchestra of Tucumán (Argentina), Intermountain Classical Orchestra (USA), Summer-Arts Orchestra (USA), Westminter Chamber Orchestra (USA), Utah Youth Symphony (USA), and served as Artistic Director of the Oratorio Society of Utah (USA).


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If the singing or acting gigs ever dry up, Jennifer Lopez could most certainly take up carpet slaying full-time.
The dazzling diva lived up to her billing last night at the 2017 People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
Looking like an award herself, the 47-year-old took home an honour for her NBC show ‘Shades Of Blue.’
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The absolute sandman, Volume 1
DC Comics, Nov 24, 2006 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 612 pages
One of the most highly acclaimed comics series of all time, the New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman's visionary Sandman received Eisner awards, an unprecedented World Fantasy Award, and countless others. Now Gaiman's addictive, literate series is re-presented in the popular "Absolute" format: the first twenty issues are presented in an oversized leather-bound slipcase, featuring digitally recoloured artwork as well as a rare Gaiman script. This is an essential collection for any Sandman fan, or indeed any serious comics fan! So prepare to rejoin the world of Dream of the Endless, as he steps from fantasy to nightmare in the quest to regain his stolen power...
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With a stay at Pension Eden in Naganohara, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Karuizawa Toy Kingdom and Karuizawa Snow Park. The front desk is staffed during limited hours. Free self parking is available onsite.
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Pension Eden is located at 1988-400 Kitakaruizawa, 3.4 miles from the center of Naganohara. Taiheiyo Club Karuizawa Resort is the closest landmark to Pension Eden.
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Never let it be said that J.J. Abrams doesn’t go out of his way for Star Trek fans. During the holidays the director learned through a series of communications over Reddit and Twitter about a dying man’s wish to see Star Trek Into Darkness, which doesn’t open until May 17th, and took the trouble to make it happen. Last week on Reddit, a user named Ideeeyut described how a friend Daniel, who has leukemia and other serious health issues, wanted to see the movie — and even made it to a theater hoping to see a special 9-minute IMAX preview only to find out the theater wasn’t showing the footage that screened in some but not all locations playing The Hobbit. Fearing that time was running short, Daniel’s friend took to Reddit seeking help to find a way for Daniel to see the movie, according to a chain of events reported on CNET. Trek and geek blogs picked up the Reddit item, and a Reddit user named Kiggsworthy came across the item on TrekMovie and tweeted it to Abrams and others working on the movie. Events accelerated to warp 10 and Abrams phoned Daniel to screen the full but unfinished movie. Via Ideeyut on Reddit, Daniel’s wife said “We saw it, and we enjoyed it immensely as a film and as a gesture.” She described Abrams’ act as a “heartfelt message of giving” that was especially touching.
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Can You Survive The Crashing Season?
A smartphone is your best companion today. It is more than just a phone with which you can text and call. The configurations on modern day smartphones are equivalent to some of the laptops in the market. This gives an opportunity to developers to utilize these specifications and develop high end games and applications. Gaming industry in particular has developed over the years for mobile phones, and with games like Pokemon Go, the scenario has been completely transformed. Another game which is feature rich and gaining popularity is Crashing Season.
Crashing Season is a closed runner game with some rich 3D graphics and intriguing gameplay. You get a chance to step in to shoes of various animals and as the name suggests, crash into your enemies, i.e. hunters and other obstacles to complete your objectives. There are various animals you can select as you move forward in the game. There are various objectives in a particular level, for example, you are expected to survive hunters firing stones from their stone guns for a certain amount of time, or gain health, or use your animal abilities in the gameplay. Completing each objective gives you coins and diamonds, which are used for unlocking new characters in the game. You have other animals like moose, crocodile etc. Each of them have their own peculiarities which help you get through the levels. Initially, the stages are easy and lets you get a grip on the game. But the difficulty increases gradually.
The gameplay is fairly simple and gets you addicted to it pretty soon. Graphics as well, are sort of low polygon based and gives a retro feel to the whole game. There are different levels, across different environments which gives you a chance to explore different moves specific to different animals. The controls are pretty simple too. All you have to do is maneuver your animal left or right depending upon the situation and the animals themselves crash to hunters or any other obstacles. You get to use animal abilities when the action icon is enabled after regular intervals. The different environments in the game makes sure it does not get monotonous and there are always new levels to explore. You have Arctic environment which is fairly different than most of the environments in the game.
The game has in-app purchases as well, which helps you get through the levels quickly by unlocking characters and boosts with real money. Boosts are special powers that you can use to slow the game down or hypnotize opponents. You do, however, need to reach a certain XP level for those purchases. You can also play this game online and team up against bosses to defeat them or play against someone to compete in completing goals. Overall, the unique presentation, detailed graphics and addictive gameplay has certainly made this game really popular on the Play Store. Do checkout the game and let us know how you find it in the comments section below.
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Most musicians require a fair amount of gentle coaxing before an interviewer can dive into the juicy personal stuff. In Damon Gough’s case, all it takes is “hello” and he’s off, voluntarily spilling his innermost thoughts and anxieties.
“I just want to be happy, for a start. I don’t want to conquer the world anymore with music.”
“I’m pretty used to Zoom. I do my therapy this way,” he says, settling into a seat in front of a computer in his South Manchester home. For the next seven minutes, the singer-songwriter better known as Badly Drawn Boy doesn’t pause for breath as he discusses love, heartbreak, overcoming depression, finding happiness, the merits of speaking to therapists (and journalists) via video conferencing, Brexit, the EU referendum, collective amnesia and the election of Boris Johnson.
“We’re straight into it here, aren’t we?” he says upon realising a question has yet to be asked. “Is that all right with you?”
The reason for our chat is the release of Banana Skin Shoes, Gough’s brilliant new album, which marks his return after almost a decade away. During that time, there’s been plenty of live shows, including a well-received tour to mark the 15th anniversary of his celebrated debut album, The Hour of Bewilderbeast, but no new music since 2012’s Being Flynn, the soundtrack to a largely unseen Robert De Niro film.
The reasons behind Gough’s prolonged absence are many and varied, but a key one is his split from the mother of his two grown up children, Clare, who inspired most of Bewilderbeast. After their relationship ended in 2011, Gough spent several years struggling to get his life back on track. He credits the help of his therapist, “giving up the booze” and meeting his new partner, Leanne, with giving him the desire to once again start writing and recording new songs.
“It’s a cliché but true that stuff you learn most in life comes out of hard times,” he reflects from his home studio, decorated with pictures of The Beatles, stage props, photos and an array of musical instruments.
“When things are coasting along and going well you don’t tend to learn as much. As much as the last several years have been tough, I feel like I’ve got a lot more out of them. I know what I want and don’t want from life. I just want to be happy, for a start. I don’t want to conquer the world anymore with music. I just want to be appreciated on a level that’s appropriate and fulfilling.”
Rewind back 20 years and Gough wasn’t just coasting along – he was flying high as one of Britain’s brightest new music stars. The roots of his career date back to a chance encounter with DJ Andy Votel in a Manchester bar. Together, they started a record label, which they named Twisted Nerve, and released the first in a succession of critically acclaimed Badly Drawn Boy EPs in 1997.
“We got the first EP made in America and shipped over. Taking the 7in vinyl out of the box for the first time was a moment I’ll never forget,” the Bolton-raised singer excitedly recalls.
The Hour of Bewilderbeast, a shimmering blend of tender folk songs, romantic piano ballads and luminescent lo-fi pop, followed in the summer of 2000 and beat Coldplay, Leftfield and Doves to that year’s Mercury Prize, elevating Gough and his trademark woolly hat to national fame. His next album, a soundtrack to the hit Hugh Grant romantic comedy About A Boy, brought further commercial success. Ditto 2002’s Have You Fed The Fish? Sadly, his golden period was not to last and despite occasional flashes of brilliance subsequent records were met with a more lukewarm reception. The fact that Being Flynn failed to get a theatrical release in the UK symbolises Gough’s fading fortunes around the time he stepped back from making music. Next thing he knew, five years had passed and he was still no closer to starting a new LP.
“The pressure was building to do something. I started to think people are going to expect an amazing record because I’d been away so long that I must be making some masterpiece.” He worried about how he was ever going to fulfil people’s expectations. “The past three years of making this record have felt close to how it did making the debut. I genuinely felt like I had something to prove again.”
Banana Skin Shoes funnels that pent-up ambition into 14 songs that recapture the magical charm and warmth of his best work. It’s also the most colourful and upbeat album he’s made, marrying vaulting pop melodies with shuffling lo-fi beats, pastoral strings and triumphant horns, while making respectful nods to everyone from Beck to Chicago to his lifelong hero Bruce Springsteen. Dig beneath the Technicolor surface, however, and glimpses of Gough’s darker, melancholy side emerge.
“The subjects I’m dealing with are often quite depressing,” he admits, pointing to I’m Not Sure What It Is as a deceptively upbeat song inspired by his own mental health struggles. “I realised I had depression going back years, but I hadn’t acknowledged it or labelled it. It wasn’t denial. I just didn’t know.”
Gough, who turned 50 in October and became a father for the third time in 2017, says his joke working title for the album was A Pocket Guide To A Midlife Crisis and hopes that listeners will take comfort from his heart-on-sleeve outpourings. “I wanted [the songs] to not feel like they’re morbid or defeatist, but be like: ‘This is all right. I can deal with this.’ There’s so many people struggling in the last several years. I didn’t want to be another casualty. I want to laugh at these problems, if I can, and I’m getting to a place where I can.”
The title Banana Skin Shoes is a playful admission of both his personal failures and the failures of wider society in recent years, he explains, describing lead single Is This A Dream? as a mildly political “comical take on the craziness of the world”.
“The songs are meant to send positive messages to help people through these tricky times we’re living in,” he says, nervously fiddling with the long grey locks of hair that peek out from beneath his ever-present headgear (yes, he wears a woolly hat in interviews too. He even wore it on his wedding day).
Gough never sits down and sets out to write a song about a given subject. “I have to allow it to come through my system and somehow find its way out… it comes through the music.” He recalls hearing an interview with Don McLean where the American Pie singer described being a songwriter as a constant nightmare, plagued by endless nagging ideas.
“That’s the burden you learn to live with,” agrees Gough. “I love writing songs. The best part of my job is the creation of a new idea. The rest of it – the finishing of ideas, trying to produce songs to be the best they can be, promoting, even the touring sometimes – is tough. But any time I sit at the piano or pick up my guitar, that little spark is the most enjoyable bit. It doesn’t last very long, but that’s what keeps you going.”
As our conversation nears its close, talk returns to coronavirus and the impact lockdown is having on daily life. “I fear for people’s livelihoods and their mental health,” says Gough, who admits to feeling torn about promoting an album at a time when people are suffering. “My therapist has, again, helped me with these mental tussles. I just want to do what’s right and if people want to hear the music, I want them to be able to hear it. As long as your intentions are good, then nobody can pull you up about what you’re doing.”
Looking ahead, he’s optimistic that something positive can ultimately come out of the pandemic.
“There is a new world around the corner. I’m hopeful that the world has got some goodness left in it that we can squeeze out. The opportunity is there for a lot of us that have been frustrated that our efforts haven’t really amounted to much to make proper changes. Grasp the opportunity that this quiet time is giving us, properly rise up and do something, and not keep listening to the crap that politicians come out with.”
Whatever happens next, Gough takes comfort from the fact that no problem or challenge, regardless of how insurmountable they appear at the time, is too large to overcome. Reflecting on how his experiences over the past 10 years, good as well as bad, have changed him, he says that he’s become a better person as a result.
“I feel mentally stronger than ever and my outlook is brighter is than ever. Even before coronavirus, I had reached a point in life where I understand that happiness is paramount. For all the things I’ve been through – the knockbacks, the break-up with Clare, giving up the booze, other things along the way – you learn from them. You’re lucky in life if you’ve not experienced crap to deal with. Now I just want to achieve happiness, and I’m pretty close to it.”
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1. Outside the opening track Blackstar (which is actually one of Bowie best ever song he ever written), it completely lack of vocal hooks.
2. This is groove based music and as I have established on Music Babble. Beethoven 7th Symphony rendered that genre obsolete :)
Those two weakness really by rights should have made me denounced this album as unlistenable garbage as which I was leaning towards prior to this relisten outside of the opening track BUT......
a) While my post-Beethoven personality I's against groove based music as a matter of principles. The Pre-Beethoven persona that had some tolerability towards groove based music recognises that the key to well-written groove based music isn't the groove itself but the surrounding instruments. A repetitive groove + variable, dense atmospheric texture can create music that is simultaneously hypnotic but interesting, varied and not monotnoous or boring . This is how Can Tago Mago managed to make the groove based genre work. Luckily David Bowie managed to a lesser extent succed as well.
b) While the vocal melodies are quite underwritten and showcase David Bowie career spanning weakness of being an inconsistent songwriter, the saxophone and to the lesser extent the guitar players compensates by creating some memorable soloing. Without the saxophone player the Dollars Day would be a pretty underwhelming underwritten ballad, however the saxophone soloes add a much needed tunefulnessto the song. Same with the saxophone and guitar player in "I Can't Give Everything Away"
c) There is an emotional weight and intensity to the songs. For example the build up to the saxophone soloing at "íTis a Pity She Was a #####". The songs do have an emotional arc to them and there are builds up and climaxes to them.
So what should have really been an awful album by the weakness I mention turns out to be pretty good and interesting album.
Track By Track Highlights/Lowlights
Blackstar - One of Bowie best ever songs. THe way the creepiy opening section breaks into this soulful heavenly midsection is glorious. IT's also by far the most tuneful moment of the entire album.
íTis a Pity She Was a ##### - Essentially pop/rock music version of Miles Davis On The Corner (along wiht National Anthem by Radiohead although the jazz elements are more integrated in this song while with Radiohead it was more with the climaz). Jazzy krautrock.I probably prefer Radiohead's attempt of this more but this is a decent alternative. I enjoyed all the saxophone interludes and the cacophone at the end. Although I have to say, this song is completely tuneless but I managed to enjoyed it for it's atmospheric elements despite that fact. Decent song - could have been great with better vocal melodies but ultimately I'll give it an overall pass mark.
Lazarus - I don't care much for groove based music in general but I do admit the groove underpinning the song by the funky bass, ascending distorted guitar and the descending saxophone line does work. However despite it being a pretty groove, when I was listening to this song, I was really almost about to say the groove wear out it's welcome until, a) David Bowie started to add some intensity and desperation to his vocal lines in the middle of the song creating a buildup in intensity b) That intensity was release with the saxophone solo at the end of the song. Those two elements made me give the song a thumbs up.
Sue (or in a Season of Crime) - Ughr, I suspect my reaction to this song is similar to people's reaction to "Let's Get Funky". Really really ugly music with really really ugly riff. However the worst thing about it is that it's mood is relentless, there is no variation in intensity in the song. It sustaines it's ugliness the entire song with no respite (unlike the opening track Blackstar).
Girl Loves Me - Double ughrr - This song is atrocious. Bowie singing out of tune to a crappy simple bass line. I have no idea. I'm far less forgiving to this song.
Dollars Day - This really could have been one of Bowie greatest songs if Bowie vocal melodies were a bit better. As it is though we have some pretty piano, nice guitars and a great saxophone solo marred by mediocre vocal melodies. Still I like the unexpected chord changes in the "I'm trying to/dying to" section andI'll give the song a thumbs up due to the saxophone solo. Also good transition to the final track
I Canít Give Everything Away - Good song - I'll give a slightly pass mark on the vocal melodies. It is on the simple side and it does repeat too much but it's moderately catchy and I like the vocal leap to the chorus. I would say the quality and repetitive nature of the vocal hooks would be enough for a 2-3 minute song but not a 5 minute song. However what brings this song over the line is that I enjoy the underlying synth backing and harmonica call back and most importantly the saxophone solo and the chaotic guitar playing at the end that gives a nice cacophony ending so that when the rhythm section suddenly stops leaving the heavenly synth chord. It creates this atmosphere of the chaos of life leading to the peaceful white light of death. It's a nice ending of an album.
Overall I'll say it's a quite good album. However my dogmatic bias of judging music means that I could never ever think it's a great album. However I could kinda see how someone who doesn't have a dogmatic dislike for groove based music and doesn't require an album to have quality tuneful melodies could worship this album especially since it is quite an emotional capstone to a career.
so I don't love the album but I can kinda see how someone could love it when I try to judge things outside my own standards.
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Spiritual Life and Wholeness
The Center seeks to develop cutting-edge opportunities for exploring whole person care and spiritual health, both academically and personally, in the lives of those involved in providing health care. Through the use of various media such as internet television, web-based educational opportunities, and the genre of narrative found in many disciplines, the Center pursues various avenues to communicate the study and experience of whole person care and spiritual health to a variety of interest groups.
In Memoriam of Dr. Wil Alexander
The Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness announces with great sadness the passing of our founding director, Dr. Wilber Alexander, who quietly passed away Wednesday, November 16. Dr. Alexander founded the Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness in 1996 (with Dr. Carla Gober-Park as his Associate Director who became Director in 2005) with the goal of developing the art and science of whole person care, a concept he introduced to the Loma Linda University Health campus in 1973.
Through the years, Wil’s impact has been far-reaching and steadfast, even attending rounds up until the last months of his life. At 95 years old, Wil never wavered in his call to ensure that all health caregivers and students understood the power of connecting to the patient’s whole story. His legacy lives on in the lives of those he taught and through the Center he lovingly founded. The word, “innerweave” was one of his favorite words because it captured how he “wove” together the various strands of medicine and healthcare, using Family Medicine as the clinical setting where ideas were tested. Recently, the Center ensured that Wil’s legacy would forever be documented through a film on Wil’s life and work called A Certain Kind of Light. The film details Wil’s work and how others on campus are continuing to teach whole person care to the next generation of caregivers. His legacy has been further established by the CLEAR Whole Person Care Model, a model based on the power of story to change lives. Wil lived his life according to the phrase, “Soli Deo Gloria” (To God be the Glory). He was also known for asking those whom he encountered, “What are you famous for?”
We are confident that for Wil’s life, the answer would be, “To care for the whole story.” Make a donation in memory of Dr. Alexander here.
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This 37-minute documentary tells the history of whole person care on Loma Linda’s campus through the life and work of Dr. Wil Alexander. Learn more...
Here at the Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness, we believe that whole-person care is at the forefront of providing optimal health care. The center opened its doors with the vision of expanding the integration of spirituality and wholeness in health care through the avenues of research, education, and service.
A Certain Kind of Light is a short form documentary film produced by Loma Linda University Health’s Center for Spiritual Life and Wholeness. This film explores the transformative power of story that provides the foundation of whole person care.
Told through the life of Dr. Wil Alexander, the audience watches him embody the value of story in relation to health and illness. You are invited to share in this experience and start a conversation about the power of story in your hospital, school, faith-based organization or community. Join us at our premiere screening, January 8, 2016 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Loma Linda University Church. Learn more...
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