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Dependency on Programming: Forex buying and selling robots operate based mostly on the programming and instructions supplied to them. Whilst this can be an advantage in phrases of executing trades proficiently, it also indicates that any flaws or problems in the programming can have significant consequences. Even tiny coding mistakes or incorrect knowledge inputs can result in incorrect buying and selling decisions, leading to economic losses.
Restricted Adaptability: Forex trading buying and selling robots are designed to comply with specific strategies or indicators. However, they might struggle to adapt to new industry conditions or adopt substitute trading techniques. This absence of flexibility can be a limitation, specially during times of large volatility or when market place tendencies deviate from the usual styles. Without human intervention, these robots may possibly fail to alter their approaches appropriately.
To summarize, Forex trading investing robots come with inherent dangers and limitations that traders need to consider. The absence of human selection-making, reliance on programming accuracy, and limited adaptability can all influence their efficiency in navigating the complexities of the Foreign exchange industry. Although these robots can offer convenience and automation, it is vital to be aware of their constraints and meticulously evaluate their suitability for person buying and selling ambitions.


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Crossfin, Investec to fund African fintech start-ups
Local investment fund Crossfin has recently concluded a partnership deal with asset management group Investec to fund early-stage African fintech start-ups through Crossfin's angel funding arm, Blue Garnet Investments.
The companies say the partnership aims to identify and fund innovative ideas and driven entrepreneurs who specifically develop solutions that point to the future of financial products and services in Africa.
The Blue Garnet Investments was formed last year after South African-based private equity and venture capital firm Capital Eye and the Multiply Group signed a strategic collaboration that aims to fund aspiring businesses across the continent.
Anton Gaylard, COO of Crossfin, says while Investec and Crossfin prefer to invest in later stage businesses, through Blue Garnet Investments both companies are looking for African fintech start-ups, initially focusing on the Southern African market.
"Through the partnership, Investec provides a team of astute investors and a reputable brand with which to be associated. They also provide access to additional financial services and support for the entrepreneurs we identify.
"Crossfin provides on-the-ground support and operations, capital, a portfolio of referenceable assets that can be leveraged to fast-track the growth of the start-ups, and a team that can provide valuable mentorship. With additional capital, resources and focus, this can only point to a positive future in a growing sector," he explains.
Consumers and businesses today demand innovative, cost-effective technology solutions that help them easily transact, save and invest, whether here or abroad, notes Gaylard.
"The partnership will focus on entrepreneurs who are building solutions that meet the demands of modern consumers and businesses and bring the sector closer to a more inclusive, high-growth future."
Discussing the criteria for funding, Gaylard explains that the fintech start-ups should have a large potential target market, the business should be proven and scalable, and that the opportunity is novel and unique or with little competition.
"It should also be complementary to other businesses within the Crossfin portfolio as that would enable us to 'fast-track' growth and de-risk the opportunity."
The main challenges facing African fintech start-ups, he adds, are access to funding and opportunities to scale into new geographical markets.
"We believe we address both these challenges through our partnership with Investec, and look forward to identifying and supporting the next great African fintech innovations."
The 2017 Finnovating for Africa report found that funding in African tech start-ups has surged 51% to reach $195 million in 2017, compared to figures of same period in 2016.
South Africa, according to the report, is home to 94 of the continent's 301 fintech start-ups, of which 22 focused on some form of lending support.
"With the SME sector projected to become the main driver of employment and economic growth in SA and the rest of the continent, local investors are expected to follow the lead of their international peers and put serious focus on fintech solutions servicing this sector," reveals the report.
KPMG's latest quarterly Pulse of Fintech Report found that in Q4 2017 global investors continued to prioritise investment of fintech companies that focus on the B2B market, including payments platforms, SME lending platforms, and software-as-a-service solutions aimed at making back-office operations more efficient. The report further highlights growing pressure on financial institutions because of increased regulatory reporting and compliance pressures.
According to EcoBank, more than 57% of all mobile money accounts globally can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the African fintech market set to grow from $200 million today to $3 billion by 2020.

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“Reading rocker Smith’s account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it’s hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding.” -- People
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-Second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max’s Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous, the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, a prelude to fame.
Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. She gained recognition in the 1970s for her revolutionary mergence of poetry and rock and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. Her seminal album Horses, bearing Robert Mapplethorpe’s renowned photograph, hasbeen hailed as one of the top one hundred albums of all time. Her books include M Train, Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, and Auguries of Innocence.
MZS.Press is the online arts bookstore founded by author, critic, and filmmaker Matt Zoller Seitz and directed by Judith Carter. It offers new, used, signed, collectible, and rare books on film, TV, music, photography, and the visual arts. The store was launched in 2019 on a different platform and has expanded to incorporate arts books published by MZSPress's private imprint: titles currently include Seitz's The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon and Dreams of Deadwood, about the HBO Western, and Walter Chaw's A Walter Hill Film.
Our deepest wish is to promote, encourage, and distribute work by small presses, academic presses, and individuals. Extraordinary work tends to get swallowed up on giant platforms like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The store's inventory of nearly 1000 volumes is currently in the process of being reconstructed after its relocation from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Dallas, Texas. The titles featured here are personally selected by a group of curators and advisors, including Seitz, Carter, and an array of critics, artists, journalists, educators, publishers, and arts mavens who are known for their ability to suss out what Seitz's jazz musician dad liked to call "the good sh*t."
“Please. Have mercy. I’ve been wearing the same underwear since Tuesday.”
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Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large and film critic of RogerEbert.com; a staff writer for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism. His writing on film and TV has appeared in Sight and Sound, The New York Times, Salon.com, The New Republic and Rolling Stone. Seitz is the founder and original editor of the influential film blog The House Next Door, now a part of Slant Magazine.
Seitz has written, narrated, edited or produced over a hundred hours’ worth of video essays about cinema history and style for The Museum of the Moving Image, Salon.com and Vulture, among other outlets. His five-part 2009 video essay Wes Anderson: The Substance of Style was spun off into the hardcover book The Wes Anderson Collection. This book and its follow-up, The Wes Anderson Collection: Grand Budapest Hotel were New York Times bestsellers.
Other Seitz books include the New York Times bestellers The Sopranos Sessions and Mad Men Carousel; TV (The Book), The Deadwood Bible: A Lie Agreed Upon, and the forthcoming The Wes Anderson Collection: The French Dispatch. He is also an interviewer, moderator, and film programmer who has curated and hosted film and TV presentations for the Museum of the Moving Image, IFC Center, San Francisco's Roxie Cinema, and other venues. He is currently working on a memoir about his marriages and a feature-length documentary about his father, jazz musician and composer Dave Zoller.
His hobbies include exotic dancing, moonwalking, and affixing masking tape labels to every food item in the refrigerator, including eggs. He has the attention span of a gnat.

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Advancing Anesthesia Technology for High Risk Patients
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Purpose: Disseminating extraordinary scientific advances to the widest community of experts within the discipline of anaesthesiology. Goal Adopting anaesthesia practices in the rapidly changing and developing practice of surgical and nonsurgical medicine challenges anaesthesiologists to choose the most adequate and safe treatment on an individual patient basis. The goal of this special issue is to develop clinician-scientists who will be leaders in the field of anaesthesia research. This program will provide multidisciplinary research to help develop individuals with the skills and expertise to explore research problems relevant to 1. Anaesthesiology 2. Anaesthetic pharmacology 3. Systems neurobiology 4. Toxicology 5. Critical care 6. Pain and pain management. The goal is to provide better results on hypothesis-driven laboratory or clinical research. Summary: In this Special Issue entitled Advancing Anaesthesia Technology for High Risk Patients, we propose concerning relevant topics of anaesthesia, intensive care, emergency care, and pain therapy in patients with clinically significant co-morbidities shall help anaesthesiologists and intensivists to come to the most appropriate treatment of their patients in daily clinical practice. In the Journal of Anaesthesia & Clinical Research, all types of Original Research, Review, Case Studies, Commentaries, Clinical Images, etc. accepted for this special issue. Results: These findings would conceptually advance anaesthesia technology and promote more studies, including clinical investigation, and ultimately lead to safer anaesthesia care and better outcomes for high risk patients.

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text: A new report on broadband Internet usage that surveyed 50,000 households reveals all demographic groups are using more broadband but disparities among particular groups continue to exist, according to the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Among the findings: 64 percent of households have broadband access compared with 51 percent in October 2007. Lagging behind in broadband use are low-income households, seniors, minorities, the less-educated and the unemployed. And 30 percent of all Americans surveyed do not use the Internet in any location. The research was commissioned by the NTIA and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in October 2009. Access the full report here (PDF).

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Bamboo rice is the traditional food for the people of the Li Nationality, who live mainly in Hainan Province. They made the rice when they are about to travel to a distant place, or go hunting and treat the guests.
The making process of the bamboo rice is very easy. First, prepare the materials like bamboo tubes, Shanlan rice (a special kind of upland rice in Hainan, it is also known as "fragrant rice"), and some special ingredients. Second, wash the bamboo tubes and rice, then put the rice into the bamboo tubes, and add in the right amount of water. Third, take some banana leaves to seal the two ends of the bamboo tubes, then put the bamboo tubes with rice inside on the charcoal fire and wait till it is ready.
When the rice is ready, you can take it out and remove the leaves, then take a knife to cut the bamboo tube into two halves from one end to the other end. When you are going to enjoy the fragrant rice, it is much more interesting to go with some Li style Shanlan liquor.

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Alphasonics was founded in 1993 by managing director David Jones and sells ‘ultrasonic’ cleaning systems to customers across the world – its new US operation will be in Virginia. Tony McDonough reports
A Liverpool firm which sells its ‘ultrasonic’ cleaning systems worldwide has secured a £75,000 loan to open a base in the US.
Alphasonics was founded in 1993 by managing director David Jones and its new US operation will be located in Virginia.
Ultrasonic cleaning is a process that uses ultrasound and cleaning solvent or water to clean items.
The firm secured the loan via the Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF) Microfinance Fund, part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund.
Alphasonics has gained a worldwide reputation for its products and know-how and has developed a number of products that can be tailored to suit almost any cleaning requirement in numerous sectors.
The business currently has more than 2,200 customers across the globe, with customers including Heidelberg, Amcor and more recently negotiations have taken place with an NHS Trust.
Although the company has enjoyed significant success exporting their products worldwide, it currently only has a small market share in the US, hence the requirement of a sales office.
Sales and marketing manager, Chris Jones, will be relocating to Virginia, to drive activity, marketing and sales for the business.
Duncan McCann from MC Vanguard assisted David Jones throughout the process, including management accounts, assisting to update the business plan and creating the financial projection documents which were used to secure the funding.
David Jones said: “It has been clear to us for several years that unless we actually had feet on the ground in the US, we were never going to gain a foothold.
“So, it made very clear sense to us to approach MSIF once again to assist us with the cost of this set up.”
MSIF investment manager, Andy Jones, added: “I’ve seen Alphasonics go from strength to strength over the years, so I’m really excited to see them develop even further into America with this funding.”


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The Denver premiere of the hit, Off-Broadway musical revue, I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, opens June 29 at the Garner Galleria Theatre, following two days of previews. The Mile High staging of Joe DiPietro's breezy look at marriage, dating and modern mating is directed by Ray Roderick and features a resident cast that includes Mark Devine, Jordan Leigh Gurner, Elizabeth Rose, Gina Schuh-Turner, Klint J. Rudolph and Melinda Wilson.
The engagement is open-ended and is part of the Denver Center Attractions subscription series. Tickets are $29-$34.
For information, call (303) 893-4100 or (800) 641-1222.
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CO Jetendra Srivastava informed that SIT will start working very soon.
According to SSP Ajay Kumar Mishra, the SIT has been formed and it is being headed by Circle Officer, Kalyanpur Circle, Jetendra Srivastava. The SIT also has five other members, four of which are of sub-inspector rank and one of inspector rank official.
ESA’s (European Space Agency) Herschel space observatory has discovered water vapour around Ceres, the first unambiguous detection of water vapour around an object in the asteroid belt, according to an announcement by the space agency on Thursday.
The process of conferring the country's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna on batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was initiated on the first day of his farewell 200th cricket Test on November 14 last and the announcement made two days later, according to an RTI reply.
North Central Railway has achieved a milestone by winning the first prize in National Energy Conservation Award 2013 amongst all the 17 Zonal Railways.
Mumbai Magicians' marquee player, skipper Glenn Turner, obviously has a subtle sense of humour. Asked to sum up their performance in the league, the Australian said: "We made some of the rival goalkeepers look absolutely brilliant."
When politicians take office they swear by the Constitution, but before long they are swearing at it.
The 1st Brewhouse was the first microbrewery to open in Pune a few years ago.
Margao-based Hornbill Productions, along with Graphic Books Goa group, is planning to produce the first graphic anthology in Konkani.
H M Desai, vice-chancellor of Dharamsinh Desai University in Nadiad, has been elected as the president of the Association of Indian University (AIU).
In a move to make school children aware about the constitution of the country a constitution awareness examination was conducted in the city on Wednesday. Hundreds of students from around 50 schools of the city participated in it. The programme was organised by Shree Sadguru Dutt Dharmik Avem Parmarthik.
Karnataka high court on Wednesday constituted a seven member special monitoring committee headed by U Umesh, Additional Chief Secretary.The committee will monitor all corrective actions to be taken by authorities in relation to Zone -III of Tippagondanahalli reservoir (TGR)catchment area.


This Supergirl review contains spoilers.
Supergirl Season 4 Episode 19
In an episode directed by David Harewood (J’onn J’onzz), Supergirl returns to some of the promise that we’ve been missing this season.
It’s been hard not to compare the way Supergirl handles its immigration storyline with the way Roswell, NM, a much newer show with less backstory to draw on, manages to pack so much more nuance and depth into their interpretation on the same network. But if there’s an episode this season that has redeemed my faith in what Supergirl can achieve, it’s this one.
The inclusion of Kelly Olsen, James’s sister, has been a welcome one. She has made him a more well-rounded character and has provided much-needed outlet for Alex beyond her relationship with Kara and her troubled work situation. It was wonderful to see the word “triggered” used correctly for once, and even better to see Alex hold space for Kelly. Alex’s comparison of the two as caregivers who neglect themselves made it easy to feel like we’ve known Kelly for longer than we have.
Kelly and James’s journey to uncover what really happened at their father’s funeral was much stronger material than Brainy simply informing everyone that they were wrong about their memories, a schtick that’s wearing thin. I know Brainy provides the mind palace construction, but the more we see him reach toward struggling with real human emotion, the more frustrating it is when he falls back toward calculations and, frankly, cowardice.
James’s powers seem thoroughly Kryptonion. I don’t know that he needed them, but it will be interesting to see how Lockwood and his ilk handle the idea of a human who gains powers. Will they try to co-opt him again or replicate what happened? Or, as this episode seemed to indicate, merely treat him as a hostile force? Judging by Lydia’s injury and possible death, I’m guessing Lockwood, who seemed to be hiding before James arrived, will be doubling down on his beliefs. I’m intrigued by the idea that it might continue to send his son in the opposite direction, and I hope we see more of that process, rather than just a quick escalation.
It was good to see Lena work through her anger toward Kara, which turned out to be anger and shame at herself that she was projecting. These two work best when they’re open and honest and work together, a thematic message that recurs in this episode, reinforced by Dreamer’s interview and Brainy verbally processing it. For just a minute, I was foolish enough to let myself think Kara was going to reveal herself as Supergirl on TV, since she’s someone who lives a double life as both a human and an alien. The Dreamer interview was lovely, if a little shallow and goofy, but the longer Supergirl stalls on letting its star be open and honest about who she is, the harder it is to seem true to that theme.
Nia and Kara both learned that there’s a difference between intervening in the short term and making longterm change, a valuable lesson. I hope future episodes tease out what, exactly, Nia has learned as a result of her unique position as someone who occupies both human and alien culture. It’s great for her to be a symbol, but I’d love to see her struggle with what that means, and learn how to go beyond a shallow reading of that symbolism. I hope, too, that someday Lena lets her know just how much she inspired her to act. And I can’t leave out the delightful fact that she likes, “Nerdy boys who think too much,” to which Brainy responded, “What does love feel like?”
It was great to see Kara using good old fashioned investigative reporting skills, and finally putting together the pieces that James gathered before he was shot. Another highlight was the way that this episode paid off Franklin, an alien who has long worked at CatCo in a bit part. In the past we’ve seen a fellow CatCo employee harass him for being an alien, and now he’s being targeted by Lockwood’s roving bands of Deputies. Adding Edna, his sister who works at AmerTech, brings forward another side
It’s always fun to see Kara use her powers on the sly, and this episode is no exception. She blows her ice breath to keep herself and Edna from being discovered, and to non-lethally stop Lockwood’s men from apprehending Dreamer. Never one to put aside her mission, she stops a criminal with a well-place elbow of steel. There’s a sweet moment when she exclaims to a bewildered Franklin, “you saved me!”
For now, J’onn is done his quest. Edna is willing to go on record. Next stop: Kaznia!
“Oh, my. You’re leaking”
I love Kara doing cape tricks with her pea coat
“As a wise woman once said, fear sucks, so let’s kick fears ass”


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Karen Gillan is a Scottish actress, voice actress, director, screenwriter and model. She is best known for her roles as Amy Pond, the 11th Doctor's companion in the BBC series "Doctor Who" and the alien cyborg Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In addition, she appeared as Martha in "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle." She also works as a writer and director. Her first featured film in both roles was "The Party's Just Beginning."
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A Suitable Boy is now a major 2020 BBC TV series, and one of the BBC's 100 novels that shaped our world. The award-winning BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Vikram Seth's masterpiece 'The drama highlight of the year...this sumptuous production, wonderfully atmospheric, written with pace and performed, by an all-Indian cast, quite superbly. The novel may be vast but I was convinced by this version right from the start. Magnificent drama' - Radio Times A Suitable Boy is Vikram Seth's epic love story set in India. Funny and tragic, with engaging, brilliantly-observed characters, it is as close as you can get to Dickens for the twentieth century. The story unfolds through four...read more


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This study compared general weight concerns (Drive for Thinness, Body Dissatisfaction, and Cognitive Restraint) and smoking-specific weight concerns among adult African American and Caucasian women and men smokers enrolled in a smoking cessation clinical trial. Participants were 119 African Americans (73 female) and 182 Caucasians (90 female). Results revealed that general weight concerns were higher in Caucasians versus African Americans, and in women compared with men but there were no race by sex interactions. Drive for Thinness and Body Dissatisfaction was higher in women compared with men, and Cognitive Restraint was highest in Caucasian women. Finally, smoking-specific weight concerns were higher in Caucasian women than both Caucasian and African American men, with African American women intermediate. Results indicate that while Caucasian women preparing to quit smoking exhibited the highest levels of concern about weight, smoking-specific weight concerns, and certain sub-components of general weight concerns were also prevalent among African Americans and Caucasians. Future research is needed to elucidate how race and sex differences in weight concerns may impact smoking cessation.
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013
For 13 years now I have been decorating a large church for Christmas services
with over 3,500 people attending.
I remember the first time I ever attended a Christmas service after leaving the cult.
It was sensory overload. It was visually and audibly stunning.
Glorious music, choirs, magnificent grand processions,
Rabbi's reading Hebrew scripture, the Gospel stories, and so much more.
That strange, unexplainable event that occurred over 2,013 years is filled with mystery, awe and wonder. What ever may have happened in that cave centuries ago has had an impact thousands of years latter that cannot be ignored. I revel in the mystery of an event that cannot be rationally explained. I don't want or need pat answers like the Church of God has for everything. The unexplainable cannot be explained no matter how many COG leaders claim to have all the answers.
May the unexplainable mysteries continue to disturb and attract you
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jamovi is more than a stats program, it’s a community of stats developers writing specialized modules. Inside jamovi you have access to these modules from the jamovi library; a public space or ‘app store’ where you can download modules important to your work.
Below are a list of modules available from the jamovi library. You can download them from here and sideload them into jamovi, but its easier if you access the jamovi library from inside jamovi itself. You can access the jamovi library inside jamovi through the Modules menu.
Note that the modules available for download below, for macOS and windows, will only work in the 2.3 series of jamovi.
Allows you to produce several types of explorative plots such as scatter plots and pareto charts. You can find it under the 'Exploration' menu.
Rj - Editor to run R code inside jamovi2.0.6
Provides an editor allowing you to enter R code, and analyse your data using R inside jamovi.
jpower: Power Analysis for Common Research Designs0.1.2
Richard D. Morey and Ravi Selker
Power analysis for common research designs
General Analyses for Linear Models in jamovi2.6.6
A suite for estimation of linear models, such as the general linear model, linear mixed model, generalized linear models and generalized mixed models. For ech family, models can be estimated with categorical and/or continuous variables, with options to facilitate estimation of interactions, simple slopes, simple effects, post-hoc tests, contrast analysis and visualization of the results.
Marcello Gallucci and Sebastian Jentschke
Structural Equation Models based on lavaan
Advanced Mediation Models1.0.5
A suite for the estimation of mediational models, including multiple mediators, and conditional mediation
jsq - Bayesian Methods1.2.0
The JASP Team, Damian Dropmann, Ravi Selker, and Jonathon Love
A suite of Bayesian statistical methods, including t-tests, ANOVAs, linear models, and contingency tables. These tests are a port of the Bayesian analyses from the JASP statistical software (see jasp-stats.org for more information).
This module allows you to do simple mediation and moderation analysis.
Effect Sizes and Confidence Intervals for R and Jamovi0.9.4
Robert J Calin-Jageman
This module is for estimation, providing analyses that focus on effect sizes, uncertainty, and synthesis. This module is designed for ease of use and provides high-quality visualizations that emphasize effect sizes and uncertainty.
Currently, all analyses are frequentist, returning confidence intervals.
This is an alpha release. Please submit feedback, bug reports, and feature requests via the links provided here: https://thenewstatistics.com/itns/esci/jesci/. 0.9.4 ----
* Updating analyses to build graphs from data directly; should eliminate problems occuring on OSx and some Chromebooks
* Additional update to try to fix estimate correlation of OSx. Hopefully fixed this time.
* Updated estimate correlation to hopefully prevent crashes on OSx - Thanks to JLove's suggested code
* Split estimate means into descriptives and estimate means
* Fixed a bug for Mdiff where cohen's d didn't take the conf.level argument
Generates summary plots for your survey data.
Meta-Analysis for JAMOVI1.2.3
W. Kyle Hamilton
An interface for Jamovi and the R package Metafor
Path Analysis based on lavaan
Walrus - Robust Statistical Methods1.0.2
Jonathon Love and Patrick Mair
A toolbox of common robust statistical tests, including robust descriptives, robust t-tests, and robust ANOVA. Walrus is based on the WRS2 package by Patrick Mair, which is in turn based on the scripts and work of Rand Wilcox. These analyses are described in depth in the book Introduction to Robust Estimation & Hypothesis Testing.
Two one-sided tests (TOST) procedures to test equivalence for t-tests and correlations. More information.
Alberto Alvarez-Iglesias and Jonathon Love
Survival Module of ClinicoPath for jamovi0.0.2.05
Analysis for Clinicopathological Research Survival Module of ClinicoPath for jamovi ClinicoPath help researchers to generate natural language summaries of their dataset, generate cross tables with statistical tests, and survival analysis with survival tables, survival plots, and natural language summaries.
Marcello Gallucci and Andrea Zagaria
Jamovi module for instrumental variables two stages regresssion
Flexplot - Graphically Based Data Analysis0.7.2
The flexplot suite is a graphically-based set of tools for doing data analysis. Flexplot allows users to specify a formula and the software automatically choses what sort of graphic to present. glinmod allows linear modeling and, like flexplot, chooses an appropriate graphic to present alongside the statistical
Wrapper for ggstatsplot0.0.2.02
A wrapper for ggstatsplot: jjstatsplot help researchers to generate plots in jamovi based on ggstatsplot package.
Correlations suite for jamovi3.6.2
This module is a tool for calculating correlations such as Pearson, Partial, Tetrachoric, Polychoric, Spearman, Intraclass correlation, Bootstrap agreement, Multilevel correlation, Concordance correlation, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Correlation structure, and allows users to produce Gaussian Graphical Model and Partial plot.
Item Response Theory4.7.4
This module includes item distractor analysis, item and person Statistics, Model fit, Differential Item Functioning, Wright Map, Expected Scores Curve,and Item Characteristic Curves for DIF using MML estimation of the Rasch measurement model.
Rasch Mixture, LCA, and Test Equating Analysis5.2.2
This module allows users to conduct Latent class analysis, Latent Profile Analysis, Rasch model,Linear Logisitic Test Model, Linear and Equipercentile Equating, and Rasch mixture model including model information,fit statistics,and bootstrap item fit.
This module allows users to analyze k-means and hierarchical clustering,Correspondence Analysis, Multiple Factor Analysis, Factor analysis of mixed data, Discriminant Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Univariate time series, and various visualization results.
Latent Class Analysis for jamovi2.0.0
This module allows users to conduct LCA, Multiple group LCA, and Multilevel LCA based on glca R package.
Wolfgang Lenhard and Alexandra Lenhard
Conventional and regression-based continuous norming methods for psychometric, biometric and medical test construction. Percentiles and norm scores are estimated via inverse normal transformation and modeled via Taylor polynomials. The continuous method reduces the necessary sample size, closes gaps between and within the norm groups and decreases error variance in the norm data.
moretests - Adds more tests to the jamovi analyses0.9.5
Jonathon Love and Victor Moreno
Adds additional normality tests (Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Anderson-Darling) and homogeneity of variances (Bartlett's) to the jamovi t-tests, One-way ANOVA, ANOVA, ANCOVA and linear Regression
distrACTION - Quantiles and Probabilities of Continuous and Discrete Distributions1.1.1
Boris Mayer, Michael Rihs, and Cameron Redsell-Montgomerie
A tool for calculating and plotting probabilities and quantiles (cumulative and central) for a number of continuous and discrete distributions.
Simple simulations to help students visualize first lessons in probability: how and when binomial distribution approximates normal and how Law of big numbers and Central Limit Theorem work. Students can visualize correlations of different sizes and grasp important concepts when testing hypotheses.
This tool will help you to find an appropriate statistical method given your research question and the measurement level of your data.
Flexible and Robust Agreement and Reliability Analyses0.0.2
Aaron R. Caldwell
Agreement and Reliability Analyses for nested designs.
ufs: tools for confidence intervals and other tricks0.3.1
The ufs module makes functions from the eponymous R package available in jamovi. These include functions for computing confidence intervals for effect sizes, computing the required sample size for estimating an effect size with a confidence interval of a given width, producing diamond plots, creating a multiple response table, and to do some basic operations such as (dis)attenuate effect size estimates.
Tools for Behavior Change Researchers and Professionals0.2.2
Gjalt-Jorn Peters, Rik Crutzen, and Stefan Gruijters
This Jamovi module contains specialised analyses and visualisation tools for research in and application of behavior change science. These facilitate conducting determinant studies (for example, using confidence interval-based estimation of relevance, CIBER, or CIBERlite plots), systematically developing, reporting, and analysing interventions (for example, using acyclic behavior change diagrams or ABCDs), reporting about intervention effectiveness (using the Numbers Needed for Change), and computing the required sample size (using the Meaningful Change Definition). This package is especially useful for researchers in the field of behavior change or health psychology and to behavior change professionals such as intervention developers and prevention workers.
A comprehensive range of facilities to perform umbrella reviews with stratification of the evidence. This module accomplishes this aim by building on three core functions that: (i) automatically perform all required calculations in an umbrella review (including but not limited to pairwise meta-analyses), (ii) stratify evidence according to various classification criteria, and (iii) generate a visual representation of the results.
Randomize common experimental designs0.4.0
Randomize balanced single factor or full factorial experiments using Completely Randomized, Randomized Complete Block, or Latin Square designs. Generate plot maps, plot lists, and design property tables. Restore a particular randomization by seed. Prepare for randomization by making each factor name a column header in jamovi's spreadsheet, with levels of that factor listed below.
Descriptives Functions for Clinicopathological Research0.0.2.05
Descriptives Functions for Clinicopathological Research Descriptive functions from ClinicoPath jamovi module. ClinicoPath help researchers to generate natural language summaries of their dataset, generate cross tables with statistical tests, and survival analysis with survival tables, survival plots, and natural language summaries.
Functions for Medical Decision in ClinicoPath jamovi Module0.0.2.07
This module contains functions for interobserver and intraobserver reliability
and decision tests (sensitivity, specificity, PPV, NPV).
Power analyses are available.
Psychometrics & Post-Data Analysis1.0.5
A suite designed to enable the performance of post-data analyses in pyschometric research.
Analysis of data from Q-methodology0.9.0
Thomas Leblay, Juliette Victoire, and Sébastien Lê
This module allows you to analyze Q-methodology data, the French way. Enjoy.
Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis1.0.0
Thomas Leblay, Fiona Tuffin, Maxime Saland, and Sébastien Lê
This module allows you to perform multivariate exploratory analyses the French way. In other words, you will be able to add supplementary information for a better understanding of your results. Three main methods have been implemented: Principal Component Analysis, Correspondence Analysis and Multiple Correspondence Analysis. You can also get an automatic description of a variable based on the other variables of the dataset (categorical/quantitative). Results are obtained thanks to the FactoMineR package. These analyses are described in the MEDA website.
Sensory Evaluation Data Analysis1.0.0
Thomas Leblay, Fiona Tuffin, Thomas Vincent, Maëlle Beaudinet, Maxime Saland, and Sébastien Lê
This module allows you to analyze two types of perception data. A first one, when stimuli are described according to a fixed list of sensory attributes (QDA data, for instance). A second one, when stimuli are described freely (Napping and sorting data). Results are obtained thanks to the SensoMineR package.
Bland-Altman Method Comparison0.5.1
This module provides Bland-Altman method comparison analysis, and is also available as an R package from CRAN
Jonathon Love, Damian Dropmann, and Ravi Selker
A simple module which makes the analyses from the stats package (included with R) useable from jamovi. This module is ideal for teaching and learning R (when run in 'syntax mode') as it demonstrates the syntax for some basic but common R analyses.
Parallel Use of Statistical Packages in Teaching0.1.3
When teaching statistics, it can often be desirable to uncouple the content from specific software packages. To ease such efforts, the Rosetta Stats book allows comparing analyses in different packages. This module is the companion to the Rosetta Stats book, containing the example datasets used in the book and eventually aiming to provide functions that produce output that is similar to output from other statistical packages, thereby facilitating 'software-agnostic' teaching of statistics.
There's a time for work and there's a time for play. Step into the jamovi Arcade to leave your sorrows behind and relax for a while. Play games such as hangman and blackjack and find out whether you have got what it takes to be the next covfefe?


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Authors are requested to submit short papers outlining the relevance and the originality of their works until the
submission deadline at 2019-March-31
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their research work at the Conference by 30 minutes oral presentations.
- You are invited to submit 2-page short papers to WAVES 2019.
- A maximum of 2 papers per registered presenting author is allowed.
- Submissions must be in camera ready PDF format.
- Please strictly follow the formatting instruction in the provided LaTeX template.
- Submit your abstract.
- Notification of acceptance will be given by 2019-May-15.
- Table of registration fees.
- Pay registration fee via ConfTool.


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ALL4 at the Environmental Federation of Oklahoma Conference
Posted: November 4th, 2019Authors: Frank D.
With conference season in full “swing”, just as the baseball season is coming to a close, ALL4 has been hitting the road and attending conferences. On October 8-9, 2019 ALL4 attended the Environmental Federation of Oklahoma (EFO) Conference held in Oklahoma City, OK. In Oklahoma, there has been legislative activity impacting various media, including air, waste, and water. This year’s EFO Conference underscored regulatory updates. Through this blog, my intent is to share a summary of some important topics discussed and the key takeaways from each of those topics.
Specifically, as it relates to air quality the following four topics were highlighted:
- Oklahoma’s Environmental, Health, And Safety Audit Privilege Act
- Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
- Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) Regulatory Interpretation
Oklahoma’s Environmental, Health, And Safety Audit Privilege Act
Hot off the press! Oklahoma’s Environmental, Health, And Safety Audit Privilege Act (abbreviated hereafter as the Act) became effective on November 1, 2019. See the complete Bill information on the Oklahoma State Legislature’s website: here. The Act, which was heavily inspired by a similar program implemented by the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ), creates a level of immunity for companies from administrative and civil penalties by conducting a voluntary audit. In order for a successful audit, a four-step process must be followed, including:  the submission of a Notice of Audit (NOA),  the submission of Disclosure of Violations (DOV)  the submission of an extension request (if needed) and  the submission of the Conclusion of Audit. A good resource for you to evaluate your facility’s environmental compliance to uncover potential unknown environmental liabilities without the concern for actions is by conducting an audit in accordance with the Act. If you need help conducting an audit or have questions about Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality’s (ODEQ’s) procedure reach out to us. ALL4 has assisted our clients in TX commence, execute and complete audits under TCEQ’s Environmental, Health, And Safety Audit Privilege Act, on which ODEQ has based their Act. We can leverage our experience with TCEQ’s Environmental, Health, And Safety Audit Privilege Act to support audits within Oklahoma.
As our very own Kristen Aune eloquently explained in her blog, Sticky Situation: What You Should Know About PFAS, PFAS is center stage on both a Federal and State level. To cater to the rising need for PFAS education, an entire two-and-a-half-hour session was dedicated to discussing potential regulatory nuances and testing requirements associated with PFAS. Topics ranging from a general overview of the risks, uses, sources and exposures of PFAS to a summary of ODEQ’s evolving approach towards addressing PFAS and their acknowledgment of how difficult it can be to sample and create field and laboratory testing programs. While there was a lot of buzz around PFAS at the EFO Conference, there still remains a significant amount of uncertainty associated with these compounds. Stay tuned for updates from our team. If you have additional questions, reach out to our team at email@example.com.
CEMS Regulatory Interpretation
Our very own Eric Swisher has been instrumental in working alongside Oklahoma industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and ODEQ on a very interesting issue regarding the interpretation of CEMS monitor downtime. While I won’t delve into fine details, this topic illustrates an example of how ALL4 is continuing to shape environmental responsibility throughout the U.S., I will share the conclusion. Essentially where things landed is following approximately a two-year process, on June 13, 2019 U.S. EPA withdrew a Regulatory Interpretation that would have changed the way hourly averages were evaluated as it relates to CEMS data. If you’d like to understand more background details of the interpretation and its potential implication’s check our one of Eric’s original presentations located here.
Be sure to stop by our booth next year at the 29th annual EFO Conference to be held in Tulsa, OK. In the meantime be sure to reach out to me if you have any additional questions or comments about the conference or our work within Oklahoma at firstname.lastname@example.org or 281-933-5246 x302.

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I highly recommend watching or reading A Monster Calls before reading this review.
“Pain Demands to be Felt”
This story, is not a cancer story. It doesn’t chronical the beautiful and tragic last days of a cancer patient who loves her family, wants the best for her son, and is trying to bury the past to live her last days to the fullest. This story isn’t about her, it isn’t about a monster either. It’s about the Truth. It’s about the deepest most despicable parts of our hearts, that sometimes reveal to us our true desires, no matter how ugly they can be.
In the words of John Green’s beautiful little cancer novel, The Fault in Our Stars, Green narrates the short and tragic life of Hazel Grace in the way most cancer movies play out. They’re colorful, sad, and end tragically with some little life tale that says “their life meant something.” We love cancer flicks for a good cry, to empathize with our loved ones or friends, or even to cope with our own situations. My Sister’s Keeper is another cancer movie I love because cute little Abigail Breslin sues her family for the rights to her own body, it’s hilariously morbid and always got me crying, but it had basically the same plot as the Fault in Our Stars. I love both movies, but there’s something eerily human, and quite revealing about the little known movie from December 2016, A Monster Calls.
I stumbled across the trailer for a monster calls and I was fascinated by the three story tall Groot played by Liam Neeson, I was fascinated by the color in the art, and the emotion in the young newcomer who plays Connor O’mally. I couldn’t wait for the movie to come out so I bought the book. I don’t read much, but I’m trying to pick up more books, and somehow, this book sucked me in! I finished it in three days and was crying all the way through! One thing that was mind-numbingly frustrating through the whole book was the fact that every single character Connor speaks to, his grandmother, his dad, his teachers, even the Monster, refuse to say the word “Cancer”. You know that’s what she has! Just say it! You feel the boy’s frustration at being treated like a child who just doesn’t understand what his mother is going through.
The trailer had a poignant line which helpfully sums up Connor’s predicament. “A boy too old to be a kid. Too young to be a man.” This boy has been saddled with all the chores of the house and feel obligated to take care of his mother even though it isn’t his responsibility. When faced with the monster, he immediately drowns his fear in protectiveness the moment his mother is threatened. He’d throw down his life for her, even though his mother is dying. With no opportunity left in him to be a child, he starts acting out. Not in a way that makes him seem like a bratty kid, but recognizably relatable.
Take a deep breath, and let this pain be felt.
Connor is dying to be punished. He begs for it in school. His teacher walks by him when he is wearing headphones during a test. Rather than setting him straight, the teacher asks how he’s doing. And no one ever tells Connor outright, they just treat him different, like he’s special. He’s bullied for it. And while the childish part of him doesn’t understand why everyone feels the need to ask him if he’s okay, the adult side whispers to him when he tries to sleep, firing up his protective nature. He hides that adult understanding in destructiveness. Batting down trashcans, throwing about his things, until finally, everything spirals out of control.
I’ve read many interviews with the writer of A Monster Calls, and he says that the entire story was written around one point. A boy, coming out of a trance in which he had been protecting his mother, to find he has destroyed his grandmother’s sitting room. That idea was so powerful, and the scene in both the book and the movie puts me in shock! It is powerful! And somehow, this movie was overlooked, and overshadowed by another movie from December 2016, Rogue One. Felicity Jones’ performance in A Monster Calls was gentle, realistic, and kind. She lied to her boy to make him more comfortable, letting him believe she was going to survive when the audience clearly knows she isn’t. Whereas, Jones’ performance in Rogue One was bland, pointless, and destructive to the Star Wars saga as a whole. She’s a perfectly good actress, but I have a lot of anger that she was not recognized for the power of her role in A Monster Calls.
“Speak the Truth”
The Monster’s role in the book and the movie is a sort of imaginary friend that Connor immediately believes is there to help his mother fight cancer, when he doesn’t realize that the Monster is there to save him. Connor is baffled that he would ever need saving, and this finally delves into a dark, very powerful theme in the book, a lesson everyone should learn. This movie is a solid PG-13. Not the lewd, sneaky curse words, with a little violence scattered in, this movie is the PG-13 movie you need to show your 13 year old. It teaches an incredibly mature lesson that only someone in that age rage could fully stomach. It whispers the words of John Green that “Pain demands to be felt”. Pain is not a beautiful thing, it’s quite ugly. Pain is rarely physical, pain is felt especially powerfully by 13 year olds who are growing too fast to know what to do, and they easily break or are confounded when troubles come.
Connor is forced by the Monster to “speak the truth”, to tell the truth about how he’s feeling and Connor firmly believes his truth, will kill him. Before it comes out, the audience is left in awe of this child’s performance, screaming and crying because he can’t bear to speak the simple words: “I want it to be over” in his heart, even though he knows it’s wrong, and it feels awful to even think, the darkest part of his heart tells him everything will be easier once she’s gone, so he wishes it would end sooner. Connor blames himself for wishing death on his mother, believing that it why she’s dying. This powerful game of self-manipulation in the mindset of this 13-year-old breeds a lie that the Monster has come to save him from.
“It doesn’t matter what you think, only what you do”
The lesson of this movie that I want to share with everyone I can is an incredibly Biblical message. In the Gospel, Jesus says that even if you hate your brother it would be like you have murdered him, warning us of just how high our Lord’s standards are. But there is a wonderful promise. The seven deadly sins like hatred, lust, and greed are not sins by themselves, but they breed sin. So if you let yourself feel hatred, it may lead you to harm someone. But here’s the promise, the feeling itself is not a sin!
“Pain demands to be felt”
- Do not be afraid to let those horrible emotions quell inside you! Let yourself feel any hate, loss, rejection, disappointment, anger, greed! Let out those emotions, they won’t do you any good all bundled up inside!
“Speak the truth”
- Let someone know how you feel. Someone you trust, who loves you and will accept you no matter what you have to say. As a Christian, go to Jesus in prayer, speak to him openly and give those feelings up to God because he can handle him. Go to a parent, a close friend, or a mentor, but know that God is always there to listen and will always love you. This is always the hardest step, but it’s very necessary.
“It doesn’t matter what you think, only what you do”
- After much prayer and consideration, you must decide what to do. Decide if you must act, or if you should let things take their course. Decide to forgive and let go, or if you must confront. It’s alright to have negative emotions, it’s alright to hate something, or be angry, but what you do about those feelings is the most important thing to take from A Monster Calls.
Final thoughts and updates
Thank for joining my this Thursday, I’m still trying to keep posts regular, and let me know what you think I should do next. I’ve hit a little delay in the editing process of FH, but it has caused me to pick up speed in writing DoS, since last Thursday I have written out three whole chapters, and gotten to major arcs in the story, with a little humor here in there.
I’m thinking about recruiting a couple beta readers for FH, it would require comprehensive reading, filling out a questionnaire for each segment, and some editing skills to catch minor mistakes. I’m looking for about 6, so email me if you’re interested. My email can be found on my “about” page or on my Instagram.
My goals for this next week are pretty intense. I want to slow my pace on writing DoS to do some much needed illustrations. I started the cover for TS:Restoration and I have a pretty solid concept that I just need to get out, and I also have a couple character studies planned for the main characters of the first few Shadows books. I’ll start with Mark, but I want to do Ocie, Sil, Emilie, and Irwin, with sketches, character bios, and random facts.
Stay tuned, I’ve got a lot more stuff coming!


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Jon Anderson of Yes
From the lake in "Roundabout" to Sister Bluebird in "Starship Trooper," Jon talks about how nature and spirituality play into his lyrics for Yes.
This mysterious and wildly eclectic singer/songwriter talks about some of his most memorable songs and collaborations.
Max Cavalera of Soulfly (ex-Sepultura)
The Brazilian rocker sees pictures in his riffs. When he came up with one of his gnarliest songs, there was a riot going on.
Richie McDonald of Lonestar
Richie talks about the impact of "Amazed," and how his 4-year-old son inspired another Lonestar hit.


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Scott Disick is taking the time to honor Kourtney Kardashian, his ex, and the mother of his three children. The 37-year-old businessman used his Instagram Stories over the weekend to celebrate the reality star’s 42nd birthday.
“Happy birthday to the best mom a boy could ask for and more!” Scott captioned a family photo with Kourtney and their three children, Mason, 11, Penelope, 8, and Reign, 6.
The post came after Kourtney’s current boyfriend Travis Barker shared a post with many PDAs in honor of their special day.
“YES ** THE KING LOVES YOU! 🖤 YOU ARE A BLESSING TO THIS WORLD,” Travis captioned a series of photos of him kissing Kourtney and even a video of her sucking her thumb. “HAPPY BIRTHDAY @kourtneykardash.”
The couple have grown more and more serious since they first bonded in January.
The Blink-182 drummer recently had Kourtney’s name engraved on his chest.
“This is the happiest Kourtney has been in a long time and her family is delighted for her,” a source told ET of the couple earlier this month. “Kourtney and Travis’ kids get along really well and they all have a lot of fun together. Kourtney has been trying to keep their relationship as private as possible on social media, but they both feel great and they’re cute together.”
Meanwhile, there have been some awkward moments between Scott and Kourtney in the last season of keeping up with the Kardashians. On last week’s episode, Scott brought up the topic of marrying his ex in front of his entire family.
“I feel ambushed right now,” he shared with Scott and his sisters in the episode.
While Kourtney has moved on with Travis, Scott has also moved on with 19-year-old model Amelia Gray Hamlin.


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NOTE: See also the post below this one which features my photo on the cover of a professional journal. It isn't Life but still very exciting for me!
The Nudes of Pan Yuliang(1899–1977) was a Chinese painter born Zhang Yuliang. Sold to a brothel as a child after the death of her parents, she was raised to become a prostitute. She attracted the attention of Pan Zanhua a wealthy official, who bought her freedom and married her as a second wife. She began painting, eventually traveling to Paris to study, where she won some acclaim. Her paintings of nude models violated cultural norms in China and generated much controversy. She was forced to move to France to pursue her work. She remained there until her death in 1977.
Pan Yuliang Self-Portrait


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To build or not to build? That remains the question as the Culpeper Town Council during its Nov. 10 meeting delayed deciding whether to grant a developer’s requested rezoning that would make way for 310 housing units in the East Fairfax Magisterial District.
If granted, the rezoning would allow for the construction of 135 single-family detached units and 175 attached dwelling units on a nearly 60-acre parcel that is located south of the Highpoint Subdivision off Laurel Street Extended.
Councilman Jon Russell said the nearby Highpoint neighborhood is a “tragic circus” of parking, where people use garages for storage while trucks and trailers are lined up in the road. If parking is added right down the road, he expressed fears that Highpoint residents would begin to fill those spaces.
While the topic was broached of requiring the development to issue parking permits to its residents, Councilman Keith Price suggested waiting to see if there is a problem before such a measure is taken. Ultimately, he added, that should be a decision made by the future homeowner’s association.
The impact such a development would have on the school system was Councilwoman Meaghan Taylor’s primary concern. While it was claimed during the meeting that the development would bring in 200 students into the school system, she doubted that number and said it will likely be more.
Stephen Plescow, one of the developers, countered that such a development would likely attract a significant number of older couples without children.
During a public hearing, resident Courtney D’Avilar said this development would attract young people with kids. Noting how quickly the town has grown, he expressed concerns regarding the development’s potential impact on schools and the police force. He stressed that the town needs to grow in a sustainable manner.
Two residents, Fred Sapp and Alex Valle, said that developers should invest more in the community by helping downtrodden neighborhoods.
“If you want to build a neighborhood, you need to fix a neighborhood,” Sapp said.
Plescow pointed to several road improvements that the developers have offered, adding that he lives in the county and is not a “carpetbagger” looking to take advantage of anyone.
Since the proposed development will have a long-lasting impact on the community, Russell suggested sending the matter to a committee. All other council members except Pranas Rimeikis agreed, so the request will be further discussed by town officials before a vote is cast.


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The flavor really was delicious. However, the annato seeds were very difficult to find and I live in New Mexico with lots of Spanish markets. I finally got them online. Then grinding them up with the other spices was even more difficult. They are like rocks!!! The next time, and there will be a next time, I will have my friend who has an industrial grinder grind the annato seeds and I will either lower the oven temperature or cook for less time get a moister result.
overall, this is a great recipe with rice or tortillas. however, you must bear in mind three things with this recipe. first, you must marinate the pork with the sauce for at least six hours. second, when roasting in the oven, line the bottom of the pan with foil or otherwise, the juice will burn onto the pan. lastly, philosophically, you must attempt to create a pit with a roast pan by sealing it.


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Friday 9th September
For All Eternity (Album Launch)
Bury The Kings
Doors 8:00pm / $12+bf Presale (HERE) / $15 Door
For All Eternity are bringing their signature melody-laced brutality to venues across Australia this September for the first time in three years. A mainstay of the Australian Heavy Music touring circuit in 2012-2014, playing alongside the likes of The Devil Wears Prada, Parkway Drive, The Amity Affliction, In Hearts Wake, and many others. Mid 2014 saw For All Eternity absent from stages across the country. Vocalist Shane Carroll shed light on this absence in an interview with HEAVY Music Magazine in January 2016. “We were on so many tours that we oversaturated ourselves”, Carroll explained. "When we started, a bunch of industry people told us that we’d have to tour relentlessly to get anywhere, so we did exactly that and it just left us burnt out. So we decided to take a different approach.” For All Eternity’s new outlook has seen fresh and exciting successes. Last year the band released their sophomore album on esteemed US-based heavy music label, Facedown Records. The album entitled Metanoia was a massive success in the US market, accruing the second highest first week sales in Facedown Records' nineteen-year history for a debut record. The band also made waves on the Billboard charts, with the record landing at #21 on the Heatseekers Chart & #33 on the Hard Music Chart; no easy feat for a band on the other side of the planet with no prior label release. Songs like ‘Break Of Dawn’, 'Further From Hate' & title track ‘Metanoia' will be performed live for the first time in Australia since the release of the new record. This concise 4-show run will see a fresh For All Eternity returning to their roots, bringing crushing riffs and soaring melodies to intimate venues, certain to be thick with intensity and ferocity. Accompanying FAE will be Sydney newcomers Of Divinity, who have been making their mark with an undeniable work ethic, clinical precision and class musicianship. These will be packed, intimate shows not to be missed by the diehard fan or the casual observer.


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This Haida Wolf Bracelet is hand carved in sterling silver by Carmen Goertzen from the Haida Nation.
The Wolf Symbol represents loyalty, strong family ties, good communication, education, understanding, and intelligence. Of all land animals, the Wolf has the strongest supernatural powers and is the most accomplished hunter.
Find more information about and examples of The Wolf Northwest Coast First Nations symbol.
The bracelet is 1 inch wide and a little over 6 1/2 inches long.
The price includes shipping to the USA and Canada.


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How To Minimise The Risk of a Viral Infection
There are a number of simple things that you can do that will improve your overall health and minimise your risk of getting a viral infection. All indications are that people with a reasonably healthy immune system will not suffer heavy symptoms from the current outbreak, if they show any at all.
Practice Good Hygiene
At this stage you probably don't need to be told to thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water. That's a given. If you're out and about try to avoid touching things as much as possible - hand rails or anything that is a shared surface, so to speak. Importantly, avoid touching your face. Viruses can enter the body through the nose, mouth and even the eyes. So, don't rub your eyes. Always wash your hands after you've been out in public. Always wash your hands before you eat!
Any poison will weaken the body's defenses and that includes alcohol and tobacco. If you're a smoker you probably won't quit just because of this article, but maybe you could at least cut back for the time being. Limit your alcohol intake to place less of a stress on the body.
Increased stress will decrease your body's ability to defend itself. So how do you do that with all the media hype? I suggest limiting your exposure to the media. Regardless of the situation the media will always seek to make it seem worse than it actually is.
The body needs a good night's sleep to perform it's repair functions. Also, not being well slept does leave you more exposed to illness as it does have a detrimental effect on the body's immune system.
Allow yourself some exposure to the sun every day, as long as it's available and not overcast. Sunshine is the absolute best source of vitamin D, one of the best nutrients for the body's immunity.
Limit your intake of sugar as much as possible. Sugar only weakens the immune system. It inhibits the performance of white blood cells. Avoid soft drinks, fruit juice (unless it's freshly squeezed orange juice, which is a good source of vitamin C) and lollies (obviously).
Make sure you're getting enough fruit and vegetables in your daily meals. These are your natural sources of nutrients, vitamins and minerals. Also, it wouldn't hurt to supplement the most important vitamins and minerals for immune health. These are Vitamins D, C, E , Selenium and Zinc.


Lawrence city commissioners are ready to create a new task force aimed at attracting more retirees to the community.
Commissioners at their weekly meeting on Tuesday agreed to create a Retirees Attraction Task Force. The group would have 12 members, including a city commissioner and a county commissioner. The city and county commissions each would appoint five members to serve on the group.
City Commissioner Hugh Carter said he envisions the task force would develop a set of recommendations on how the community could better position itself to attract members 50-plus age set.
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce’s Senior Council urged the city to move ahead with the project. That group prepared a report that suggested attracting retirees could provide a boon to the economy through new property and sales tax collections and through greater charitable giving.


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The Rogue of Islay Isle, by Heather McCollum is a fascinating historical romance, which is set in the Scottish highlands in the 1500s.
As the new chief of the MacDonald Clan, Cullen Duffie is determined to properly lead his family and clan, yet his plans are altered when an unknown woman is found along the shoreline. Due to several injuries, Madeleine (also known as Rose) is unable to speak at first and also is suffering from amnesia. As her memory slowly returns, Madeleine remembers the horrors of her past and the danger she brings to her new clan, yet Cullen continues to proclaim his protection for her.
As the story continues, Cullen and Madeleine are forced to deal their attraction amidst danger from outside forces, as well as meddling relatives, his roguish history, her unknown past, and a not-so-secret stairway leading to main chamber at Dunyvaig Castle.
The Rogue of Islay Isle is geared towards those who enjoy reading humorous historical romances. Since it's the third book in the Highland Isles series, it's recommended to start with the first book, yet it's not necessary to read the books in order.
Note: I received this book from NetGalley, which is a program designed for bloggers to write book reviews in exchange for books, yet the opinions expressed in this review are my own.


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Besoa – Furniture store corporate design
Agency: Chal-Tec, Client: Besoa
Besoa is one of Chal-Tec’s brand that sells modern furniture designed in Berlin.
The idea behind the logo is the process of furnituring, rearranging elements in space.
Additionally I designed the look and feel of their online store .

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