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Brookfield GC and senior vice president of legal Claire Bibby, and KWM partner Felicity Savage have worked together for many years. Australasian Lawyer sat down with the pair to find out the secret to maintaining an effective working relationship.


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Facts of Little Richard
|Full Name:||Little Richard|
|Net Worth:||$40 million|
|Height:||5 feet 8 inches (1.73m)|
Little Richard was an American musician, singer, and songwriter whose driving, flamboyant sound helped define the early rock ‘n’ roll era of the 1950s. With his croons, wails, and screams, Little Richard turned songs like “Tutti Frutti” and “Long Tall Sally” into big hits and inspired bands like the Beatles.
How old is Little Richard?
Richard Penniman, the third of 12 children, was born on December 5, 1932, in Macon, Georgia. Bud’s father made a living selling moonshine and didn’t do much to hide his disapproval of his son’s early homosexual tendencies. Richard was ordered to leave his family’s home when he was 13 years old. His relationship with his father was never restored. Richard’s father was murdered when he was 19 years old in a nearby bar. Richard used to sing in church as a child.
Little attended Macon’s Hudson High School. He was not a particularly bright student, but he possessed exceptional musical abilities. Aside from that, Little’s academic achievements are unknown.
Little Richard died of bone cancer on May 9, 2020, at the age of 87, in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He was 87 years old at the time. His son, Danny Jones Penniman, confirmed his father’s death to Rolling Stone.
How much is Little Richard’s net worth?
Long Tall Sally earned Little Richard the Cashbox Triple Crown Award in 1956. Richard was honored with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. In 1994, Little received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
Little has amassed a sizable fortune as a result of his success as a musician. Little Richard’s estimated net worth was $40 million.
Who is Little Richard married to?
Little Richard married Ernestine Campbell in 1959, but they divorced in 1963. He adopted a son who was close to him. He had relationships with both sexes during his adolescence.
When it came to Little’s rumors and controversy, he was not a part of it. Furthermore, Richard preferred to keep a safe distance from rumors and controversy.
How tall is Little Richard?
Richard was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 70 kilograms. Richard also had black eyes and hair. Aside from that, there is no information on Richard’s body measurements.
Career line of Little Richard
- After being kicked out of the house, he joined Dr. Hudson’s Medicine Show before performing at a local nightclub called Tick Tock Club. Ann Johnson, the club’s owner, took him after he told her about his family’s problems.
- Richard began performing for various groups in 1950, including Sugarfoot Sam, Tidy Jolly Steppers, and Broad Follies. During this time, he became well-known as a drag performer.
- Little was influenced by the music of R&B artists Roy Brown and Billy Wright. Zenas Sears assisted him in signing a contract with Camden.
- Every Hour, one of his songs, became popular in Georgia. He did not, however, achieve greater success and left Camden in 1952. In 1953, Little debuted as a vocalist in a group called Tempo Toppers.
- The Specialty Records producer Art Rupe was looking for a pianist singer for a group of musicians. Art chose Richard after listening to his tape. In 1955, he recorded Tutti Frutti, which became a hit and peaked at No. 2 on Billboard’s Rhythm and Blues Best-Sellers chart. Long Tally Sally, one of his songs, peaked at No. 1 on the R&B chart in 1956.
- Following this success, he became a highly sought-after artist for package tours across the United States. He was well-liked by both whites and blacks, and he is credited with bringing the races together through music.
- In 1957, he released his first album, Here’s Little Richard. The album, which featured the hit song Long Tall Sally, peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. It was followed by Little Richard in 1958 and The Fabulous Little Richard in 1959.
- He surprised his fans when he abruptly announced that he had received a sign from God to leave the music industry. He enrolled in Oakwood College to study theology and left Specialty Records in 1959. Little formed the Little Richard Evangelistic Team and began recording gospel music. The group has released three religious albums.
- In the 1960s, he decided to make a comeback in pop music. In 1967, his album The Explosive Little, produced by his friend Larry Williams, failed to chart on Billboard. Furthermore, he failed to make a comeback in rock and roll, and his records were not commercially successful.
- He did, however, make a fantastic comeback as a live artist, performing at casinos and resorts. He became the main attraction at many shows, including the Atlantic City Pop Festival and the Toronto Pop Festival.
- He regained celebrity after his success as a live performer. He also appeared on a number of television shows, including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and The Dick Cavett Show.
- Little became addicted to drugs and alcohol and decided to leave rock and roll music in the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he appeared in a number of films in minor roles. Little Richard died on May 9, 2020, in Tullahoma, Tennessee, from bone cancer.


Radical plans for reshaping the centre of Hinckley have been circulated to hundreds of businesses and other interested parties to get reactions and views.
The futuristic vision of how Hinckley could look in 15 years has been drawn up by consultants as a move towards creating a master plan.
It shows an alternative scheme to the planned Morrisons development, with Brunel Road being retained.
The leisure centre is replaced by a hotel with Queens Park suggested as a possible site for a new leisure centre.
Argents Mead is redeveloped, with homes set among the existing trees, and there is a suggestion of moving St Mary's vicarage.
A potential site for a cinema is earmarked next to the Concordia Theatre, with high-density housing around Stockwell Head.
Courtyards and a glazed arcade are listed as possibilities for revamping the retail area around Castle Street.
Further out, the station forecourt becomes a feature "gate-way" to the town, with a new pedestrian-priority crossing at the junction of Station Road, Southfield Road and Hawley Road.
A shuttle bus link is offered around the whole central area.
About 300 copies of the plan and master-plan proposals have been sent out.
Copies are also available for inspection at the council offices in Argents Mead.


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KRON-TV doesn't sell at auction
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, July 16, 2009
In a sign of the struggles of the media industry, KRON-TV in San Francisco failed to sell at auction this week - even at an estimated asking price of less than a quarter of the $823 million the station sold for in 1999.
The lack of acceptable bids means Young Broadcasting Co., owner of KRON (Channel 4), continues to work on its reorganization plan to emerge from bankruptcy. In the meantime, the banks that hold loans for the company will be the principal shareholders of KRON.
If and when the company comes out of bankruptcy, Young would reassume primary financial control of Channel 4.
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"We will continue to operate and perform as normal," said Brian Greif, KRON general manager. "This development is part of the normal course of Chapter 11 bankruptcy."
Young Broadcasting filed for bankruptcy protection in February. It intends to have a bankruptcy reorganization plan drawn up by September, Greif said.
A spokeswoman for Young declined to comment.
KRON still runs a robust news operation, but after it lost its NBC network affiliation in 2002 it also lost viewers as it turned to infomercials to fill large chunks of airtime.
"If you look back to when it was sold to Young Broadcasting, the idea was it would be a new kind of local station, and obviously people had enthusiasm," said Bob Calo, who teaches broadcasting at the UC Berkeley graduate school of journalism.
"But now - for a station in the fifth-biggest market in the country to go unsold?" Calo said. "That's a real sign things are changing in the business."

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Earlier in the month we officially launched our newest clinical assessment, the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS), at the Division of Clinical Psychology annual conference in London. We hope those of you who attended the conference enjoyed it as much as we did - it was great to see so many of you there.
In the midst of all the conference hustle and bustle, you may not have had a chance to watch our EPS introductory video. Filmed with the EPS core development team, the video talks through the tool and includes a case study showing how it was used to treat PTSD. You can watch the short video here:
The conference also saw the EPS lead author Roger Baker give a symposium alongside his research colleagues entitled Emotional Processing: New developments in medicine, psychology and psychosomatics. The papers presented covered a diverse range of research areas in which the EPS had been used; including psychogenic non-epileptic seizures, postnatal depression, and chronic pain.
If you would like to take a further look at the presentations from the symposium, or if you missed it first time around, the slides are available for you to download here:
Paper 1- The Emotional Processing Scale; a pan-diagnostic assessment of emotional style
Paper 2 - Emotional processing in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and the implications for psychological treatment
Paper 3- Emotional Processing in Childbirth (EPIC) Study: Does poor emotional processing predict the development of postnatal depression
Paper 4 - Chronic pain and emotional processing
Visit the Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) page here.

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Kid Legacy: The Other Bae music video
It is pretty easy for the listener to figure out Kid Legacy's state of mind as they composed and produced “The Other Bae”. A strong desire to get back to those times when music was hot and groovy, one-piece swimming suits sexy, as much as headbands and moustaches while exchanging some balls on a clay court. All those vintage icons, Kid Legacy has depicted them into a funny and off the wall music video.
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Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
Meta might be the current punching bag, but is its rival a real threat? In a tactic that's commonplace in political spheres, Meta is paying one of the biggest consulting firms in the United States to run a nationwide smear campaign against their rival TikTok. The firm, Targeted Victory, undermined the popular app by portraying it as a danger to American children, amplifying negative coverage and highlighting real concerns about the lack of algorithm transparency. When Facebook is under immense pressure to win back young users, Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell investigate the extent of this campaign and Meta's involvement.
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Apple and Qualcomm settle licensing dispute amid trial’s opening arguments
CNet tells us ~ Consumers are the biggest winners, with Apple’s iPhone likely to get 5G sooner than expected. Late Tuesday, Apple supplier Intel said it’s exiting the 5G smartphone modem business.
Apple and Qualcomm have settled their patent licensing battle, ending a two-year dispute the day after their trial kicked off in San Diego.
The two sides announced the surprise agreement through a joint press release Tuesday at the same time lawyers were presenting their opening arguments in a courthouse in Southern California. Apple and its contract manufacturers had given their statements, and Qualcomm’s head lawyer had nearly finished his remarks when the courtroom buzzed with the unexpected news.
The CEOs of both companies — Apple’s Tim Cook and Qualcomm’s Steve Mollenkopf — were expected to testify. As recently as January, Cook said the iPhone maker wasn’t in talks with Qualcomm.
The settlement marks a big win for Qualcomm, which could have been forced to change its entire business model had it lost to Apple. The agreement is also a victory for consumers, who will once again have access to fast Qualcomm modems in their iPhones. That likely includes Qualcomm’s 5G modems as soon as 2020.
Spy on your smart home with this open source research tool
From TechCrunch c/- Apple News ~ Researchers at Princeton University have built a web app that lets you (and them) spy on your smart home devices to see what they’re up to.
The open source tool, called IoT Inspector, is available for download. (Currently it’s Mac OS only, with a wait list for Windows or Linux.)
In a blog about the effort the researchers write that their aim is to offer a simple tool for consumers to analyse the network traffic of their Internet connected gizmos. The basic idea is to help people see whether devices such as smart speakers or wi-fi enabled robot vacuum cleaners are sharing their data with third parties. (Or indeed how much snitching their gadgets are doing.)
Testing the IoT Inspector tool in their lab the researchers say they found a Chromecast device constantly contacting Google’s servers even when not in active use.
A Geeni smart bulb was also found to be constantly communicating with the cloud — sending/receiving traffic via a URL (tuyaus.com) that’s operated by a China-based company with a platform which controls IoT devices.
There are other ways to track devices like this — such as setting up a wireless hotspot to sniff IoT traffic using a packet analyser like WireShark. But the level of technical expertise required makes them difficult for plenty of consumers.
Whereas the researchers say their web app doesn’t require any special hardware or complicated set-up so it sounds easier than trying to go packet sniffing your devices yourself. (Gizmodo, which got an early look at the tool, describes it as “incredibly easy to install and use”.)
One wrinkle: The web app doesn’t work with Safari; requiring either Firefox or Google Chrome (or a Chromium-based browser) to work.
The main caveat is that the team at Princeton do want to use the gathered data to feed IoT research — so users of the tool will be contributing to efforts to study smart home devices.
Apple holds environment-focused event at Apple Park with Jaden, Will, and Jada Smith
9TO5Mac reports ~ Apple held an event at its Apple Park headquarters today with Will Smith, Jaden Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith. The conversation was moderated by Apple’s VP of environment, policy, and social initiatives.
Tim Cook shared an image of the event on Twitter, saying that “everyone deserves access to quality water.” Jaden Smith founded JUST WATER, an organisation focused on bringing clean water to areas in need, such as Flint, Michigan. JUST WATER is touted as being ethically sourced and comes in a 100 percent paper-based bottle.
Today’s event comes following a string of announcements from Apple regarding its environmental efforts ahead of Earth Day. Last week, Apple announced that it has doubled the number of suppliers committed to running Apple production on 100% renewable energy. Just this morning, the company announced it had quadrupled its iPhone recycling program as well as released its Environmental Responsibility Report.
Apple has held several events at Apple Park recently. Last month, for instance, Octavia Spencer and Nichelle Tramble Spellman joined Lisa Jackson for a conversation about “equality, creativity, and the power within.” The conversations are generally open to Apple employees.
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How To Delete The Contacts That Facebook Uploaded Without Your Permission
Story thanks to lifehacker ~ Facebook’s public image has been taking a beating lately, and things just keep getting worse for the social media platform.
According to a recent report from Business Insider India, Facebook has been uploading info from its users’ email contacts since 2016. Facebook did this “unintentionally” and without warning when users created their accounts for the first time, or when using their email accounts for login confirmation.
This happened for over 1.5 million users, according to Business Insider’s report. Facebook says it will contact the affected users and promised to delete their contact info soon, and has disabled email login confirmations in the meantime.
While it’s good to hear Facebook will correct this soon, it doesn’t necessarily help the company save, well, face after the recent string of serious security blunders.
Luckily, users don’t have to wait around for the company to take action. We’ll show you how to take measures into your own hands and delete any contact info Facebook has inadvertently mined from your email and phone contacts.
How to delete contact information uploaded to Facebook
The first step here is preventative: Do not let any Facebook apps access your email/phone contacts when prompted if you’re installing them for the first time (whether that be the regular Facebook app, Facebook Lite, Messenger, or Messenger Lite). Contact syncing is a built-in feature of these apps, but given how poorly Facebook seems to be handling this type of data, it’s probably wise to keep them out for now.
However, as Business Insider’s piece points out, the accidental data scraping happened without users being warned while creating their accounts and when confirming logins via email. That means that even if you previously denied these app permissions or just don’t use Facebook’s apps in the first place, your data may have been impacted through your email anyway. Here’s how to delete your email and phone contact info via Facebook.com, and how to disable contact syncing in all Facebook and Messenger apps.
Instructions are in the link for Android and iOS devices and in Aussie Mac Zone in Apple News
Samsung just proved why Apple’s always late to the game
ZDNet reports ~ Several Samsung Galaxy Fold review devices seem to have badly malfunctioned. What’s the actual benefit of being first, if you can’t be good?
Apple had just come out with the iPhone X, so its biggest rival had to snort.
It released an ad that boasted how Samsung had, allegedly, been first in just about every phone development over the previous 10 years.
Apple was, apparently a sad, retrograde mimic. Its customers were pathetic, mindless creatures who would never get the girl.
Yet here we are with Samsung facing a potential debacle.
Screens on the Galaxy Fold phones sent to reviewers appear to be more brittle than many NBA players’ egos. There’s even a thin layer of protective film that can be peeled off — and has been.
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, the Korean handset maker says it’s going ahead with the launch of the Fold on April 26.
A Samsung spokesperson made it all seem like a minor snafu, rather than an unfolding disaster: “A limited number of early Galaxy Fold samples were provided to media for review. We have received a few reports regarding the main display on the samples provided. We will thoroughly inspect these units in person to determine the cause of the matter.”
One might understand if it was just one phone. But when several reviewers experience different issues, isn’t this a reason to pause?
iPhone Users Under Attack As iOS Chrome Security Sandbox Fails
A threat known as eGobbler is taking advantage of a vulnerability in the Chrome web browser for iOS to target iPhone users with an exploit that serves up malicious advertising. According to researchers at security vendor Confiant, the malvertising campaign has served up more than 500 million malicious ads since it started ten days ago.
What is malvertising?
Malicious advertising, malvertising for short, is where seemingly legitimate adverts are displayed which actually contain underlying code that redirects users to fraudulent or malicious content. In the case of the eGobbler campaign targeting iOS users, the threat actor has infected legitimate advertising servers which are then used to deliver adverts that redirect the user to a pop-up competition scam window. The payload for the attacker is two-fold as they can earn money from the adverts being displayed as well as using the landing pages to distribute malware or collect user data. eGobbler is the name that has been given to the threat actor, thought to be a well organised criminal group, thanks to the huge volumes of hits that the malicious advertising campaigns it runs achieve. The group has been active for some time and the campaigns it runs are usually only stay active for a couple of days and then go quiet before for a short time before the next wave begins. This pattern of activity has been noted by researchers investigating the ongoing malvertising campaign.
Chrome for iOS, which runs on Webkit rather than using the Chromium engine, incorporates what is known as sandboxing technology that prevents advertising injection code from interacting with other components in a way that might be a security threat. In particular, the Chrome sandbox should prevent malicious adverts from being able to hijack the browser session and launch a pop-up window without any user interaction or to redirect the user to landing pages they are not expecting. Confiant researchers have yet to reveal the precise mechanism by which eGobbler has bypassed the Chrome for iOS sandboxing, in order to give Google time to issue a patch, but say that “the fact that this exploit is able to bypass that need for user interaction should be impossible according to the same-origin policy as it pertains to cross-origin iframes. Furthermore, this completely circumvents the browser’s anti-redirect functionality, as the attacker no longer needs to even spawn a redirect in order to hijack the user session.” The security researcher who uncovered the vulnerability, Eliya Stein, tweets that this “is technically a chrome pop-up blocker bypass, but in a way it’s a sandbox bypass, because it hijacks the session with a pop-up instead of a redirection.”
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So the Shortcuts.app
I have been having an awesome time getting the Shortcuts.app to control iTunes on our Mac mini.
So now Siri can Play, Pause, Play Next Track, Play Previous Track and Delete The Current Track in iTunes.
From both my wife’s and my iPhone.
Also When you say Goodbye it turns off the lights and Pauses the Music.
Also I have a Shortcut that starts the screen saver Screen, which is a collection of Family Photos Old & New
So thanks to Doug & crew from Doug’s Scripts, link in show notes of course, and others from around the web.
With last weeks announcement of Optus eSIM Support for iPhone I contacted Telstra and Vodafone again
Telstra answered with “ I’ll check and get back to you”
Vodafone – no reply
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Jan. 10, 2009
I am snowed in again. It has been an interesting and wonderful winter so far........I've been snowed in three times already and it is only January 10! I have been sitting in my big reading chair with hot coffee enjoying the prairie and the mountains under new snow, watching the birds and thinking about this question; Why did you choose "intentional beauty" for the name of your business? I have been pondering this for a while and I believe that I have an answer for those who have asked! My business is more than 'a business'; it is a way of life; it is how I choose to live. Intentional beauty is my philosophy of life; to "live with intention and to create beauty; to practice embracing what I love and letting go of the rest." When I think about creating beauty I mean in relationships, my surroundings, food, conversations/listening and sharing, being present and understanding/embracing the practice of "allowing". I have been told that I have control issues. I realize that control is usually fear based; from historic stuff, not being good enough, pretty enough, funny enough, talented enough,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,blah blah blah. For years it has been difficult to let old messages go................to be present.................to recognize what is mine and what is not. My practice today is to "allow" and to "let go". This has been tough but I think I am getting the hang of it. It is an on-going practice which I am happy to say feels ok.
I was sharing a lunch with a dear and trusted friend yesterday.............we had an intriguing discussion on personal evolution. I am thrilled, sometimes amazed, that I know someone who understands how change happens and how challenging creating a life of one's design can be and how long it can take! Truth be known [at long last!] this kind of creation is never complete! It, my life, is on-going [at least for now] and that, for me is the beauty of 'creating a life of my design'--Choice,Challenge and Time!
Enjoy your journey, I am enjoying mine!


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It’s only January, but I doubt that I’ll read a better novel this year than Rachel Cusk’s “Transit.’’ Cusk writes in a cut-glass style that is elegant, austere, and disciplined — an important word in a novel about gaining control over the self and fate. Yet this cool, balanced style is used to describe the hottest of feelings and the most destabilizing of experiences: moments of transit — getting divorced, renovating a house — the movement from one life to another.
Indeed, the deepest pleasure to be found in reading “Transit’’ comes from this friction between its Apollonian form and Dionysian feeling. At one point, the narrator, a British writer named Faye, recalls the moment her marriage began to fracture: “I remembered the pressing feeling of reality, just under the surface of things, like a secret I was struggling to contain.” Reading “Transit’’ is like this: You begin to feel that reality, all that we ordinarily blind ourselves to, is pressing itself into awareness.
Faye also narrated Cusk’s splendid previous novel, “Outline,’’ the first installment in a planned trilogy with “Transit’’ being the second. In that book, Faye is teaching a summer writing course in Athens and proclaims that she has “come to believe more and more in the virtues of passivity, and of living a life as unmarked by self-will as possible.”
Cusk found a brilliant structural analogue for this life of passivity, this desire to extinguish desire. The novel describes 10 encounters Faye has with acquaintances and strangers in Greece. In each, Faye doesn’t say much. Rather, she listens attentively but distantly as others tell her about their lives: their loves, their deaths, their recriminations against themselves and, more often, against others. Insofar as we get Faye’s story — she’s divorced; she’s a mother of two young sons; she used to live in the English countryside but has since moved to London to start anew — we get it through her responses to others’ stories. Faye’s name is only mentioned once; she’s a ghostly presence throughout. In T. S. Eliot’s famous phrase, she has achieved “a continual extinction of personality.”
“Transit’’ uses a similar construction. Again, Faye’s name is mentioned a single time. Again, exterior action is subdued. Faye gets her shabby house in London renovated; she has run-ins with her hellish downstairs neighbors; there’s a quiet hint at future love. But not much else happens.
And again, we read about Faye listening to others — to an ex-boyfriend telling her about losing a beloved dog, to the Albanian foreman working on her house telling her about his experiences as an immigrant. Listening to one story, Faye muses that it “seemed to invite only two responses — either to become absorbed or to walk away.” Cusk has mastered a third response: an attuned listening that maintains distance between speaker and listener. “Transit’’ continues to offer what Faye in “Outline’’ called “anti-description”: As others talk and Faye listens, “she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank.”
In one of the best sections, Faye takes part in a panel discussion at a book festival. The first, foppish writer wears a “luxurious navy suit and mauve silk cravat,” delighting the audience with tales of childhood trauma and witty literary banter: “Point of view, he said, is like those couples who cut the sofa in two when they get divorced: there’s no sofa any more, but at least you can call it fair.” The second writer, proudly shabby in his dress and ostentatiously ugly in his prose, holds forth on his desire to remove “the screen of fiction” and, Knausgaard-like, present the monotonous world untransformed. As for Faye, this is all we get: “I read aloud what I had written. When I had finished I folded the papers and put them back in my bag, while the audience applauded.”
So what distinguishes “Transit’’ from “Outline’’? In a certain sense, not much. The style is similar (and similarly marvelous), as is the lack of obvious narrative drama, as is the attention to the gap between the chaos of our lives and the neat stories we tell about them. But Faye is more of a presence in this novel than in the last. She’s still an outline, but she’s a clearer one. She listens with more skepticism to those around her, and she also talks back more (though still not much). She begins to see that “what I called fate was merely the reverberation of [the] will” of other, stronger-willed people; she declares her desire to possess such a will herself.
This change from passivity to activity isn’t yet complete, or even close to it. On the final page, Faye writes, “I felt change far beneath me, moving deep beneath the surface of things, like the plates of the earth blindly moving in their black traces.” At this midpoint in Cusk’s series, Faye remains in transit. But under the beautifully composed surface, the plates of Faye’s self are shifting.
By Rachel Cusk,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
260 pp., $26
Anthony Domestico, an assistant professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY, has a book on poetry and theology forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.


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Most of us have hobbies— On weekends or days off we spend some of these spare hours because we have fun and also as a way to cope with stress.
While we don’t think about it as a means to earn money, some of them can be a potential stream of income if you really need money.
Here’s a list of 12 common lucrative hobbies that make money, whether it’s through freelancing, becoming an affiliate, building an audience, or starting a business.
If you have a green thumb, consider yourself lucky. Gardening has seen a spike in popularity as people spend more time at home during the pandemic.
It’s a hobby that can make you happier, healthier, and perhaps even richer. Data shows that millennials spent $13 billion on plants in a single year just in the US alone.
A good example is the success of Leaf & Clay Succulents seller which either for a one-time purchase or on a subscription basis.
You can also sell products to help your customers indulge in their own gardening hobbies. Technology seller ēdn introduced an indoor garden to their product line.

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Current Bundesliga league leader will be involved in a local derby against Nurnberg on Saturday and although they're separated pretty far in the table, Bayern coach, Jupp Heynckes isn't expecting an easy game for his side.
Bayern Munich head coach Jupp Heynckes is expecting a tough battle against Nurnberg this weekend, despite Dieter Hecking's men current position in the league table.
Heynckes said that although Nurnberg are currently sitting in 15th place, but in the derby against Bayern, Die Legende will always give their all on the pitch.
Borussia Dortmund head coach Jurgen Klopp said that he isn't worried with the latest statement coming from one of his players, Ivan Perisic, who revealed his disappointment to the press in recent interview.
Among many international friendly fixtures this Wednesday, one that should caught many attention would be Holland's meeting against Germany in Amsterdam.
Germany will be without several important names such as Bastian Schweinsteiger, Miroslav Klose, Toni Kroos and Mesut Ozil.
Holland will host Germany in an important international friendly this midweek and Dutch players are looking forward for that clash, which can test the team's improvement under new coach, Louis Van Gaal.
German's intense attention on young players have been growing in the past few years and this positive development excites the national team manager, Oliver Bierhoff.
Bierhoff gave Schalke's Lewis Holtby as the latest talent who broke through from the Under 21 side into Germany senior team, showing the consistency and communication between coaches.
Bundesliga defending champion Borussia Dortmund will be aiming to make up some ground in their title defense as they face bottom side Augsburg this Saturday.
Coming into the weekend clash after a positive display in the Champions League, Dortmund tactician, Jurgen Klopp is hoping his team can grab a win against Augsburg.
After a pretty successful Champions League tie against Real Madrid in midweek, Borussia Dortmund are set to compete in the league again as they will face Augsburg on Saturday.
Dormund coach's Jurgen Klopp believes that his team are in a good form at the moment, but he urged his players not to underestimate Augsburg, despite Markus Weinzierl's men are sitting in the bottom of Bundesliga table.
Bayern Munich trashed Lille 6-1 in the Champions League, giving the Bavarian an important three points that gets them much closer into the knock out stages.
Bayern players were delighted with their big win as skipper Phillipe Lahm said that the big win once again proved their quality in the competition.
Borussia Dortmund grabbed a positive result on their travel to Madrid, after holding the Spanish champions into a 2-2 draw at Santiago Bernebau. However, Dortmund tactician, Jurgen Klopp was caught in two mind with the result as he felt they could've came away with all three points.
Arsenal will be looking for some revenge when they travel to Germany and face Schalke in match day four of the Champions League on Tuesday and former player from both sides, Jens Lehmann, believes that things might be different this time around.
Bayern Munich immediately bounce back from their first defeat in Bundesliga last weekend with a convincing 3-0 victory over Hamburg on Saturday.
Bayern's head coach Jupp Heynckes was delighted with the win and performance that his players showed against Hamburg.
Things are heating up in Bundesliga especially since Bayern Munich suffered their first league defeat this season against Bayer Leverkusen last weekend.
This week, the Bavarian will be looking to bounce back as they travel to Hamburg, it won't be an easy game but Bayern's head coach, Jupp Heynckes is confident that his side will bring home all three points.
Schalke have been having a flying start to their season, but their head coach Huub Stevens urged that judgements for his side should only be made by the end of campaign.
Stevens acknowledged that his team are doing well at the moment, but they're still not in a place that the tactician wants them to be.
Borussia Dortmund have been Bundesliga's defending champions for the past two seasons, but this time of year things might change with Bayern Munich looking dominate at the start of the 2012/2013 season.
Bayern Munich's first league defeat against Leverkusen on Sunday didn't only bring joy to Sami Hyypia's men as Borussia Dortmund's tactician, Jurgen Klopp was among one of those enjoying Bayern's negative result.


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The Mentorship Programme enables postdoctoral researchers at the University of Konstanz to invite renowned scholars in their field to Konstanz for a few days as mentors, and to consolidate the cooperation by in turn visiting their mentor.
The Mentorship winners are: Michael L. Smith (Dept. of Biology) who invites Tim Landgraf (“Collective Intelligence and Biorobotics”-Lab, FU Berlin, Germany); Morgane Nouvian (Dept. of Biology) who invites Prof. Alison R. Mercer (University of Otago, New Zealand); and Giulia Fabrini (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics) who invites Tommaso Lorenzo (University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK).
We congratulate the Mentorship winners and welcome them as new Associated Fellows of the Zukunftskolleg.
The Independent Research Grant aims to promote independent research by researchers at the University of Konstanz who are in the early stages of their postdoctoral work. In particular, applications are encouraged for support in establishing promising contacts to researchers from other universities and in carrying out preliminary projects intended to lead to an independent application for third-party funding.
The winners are: Samuel Carleial (Dept. of Psychology), M. Eugenia Delgado (Dept. of Biology), and Yanjie Liu (Dept. of Biology).
The calls for both support measures are still open until 23 May. For more information see: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/support-measures/mentorship/


Sony software updating TVs for HDR Compatibility
the X91C, X90C, X85C and S85C Series in-line for an upgrade
Sony has just announced that it is bringing High Dynamic Range (HDR) compatibility to more of its 4K Ultra HD televisions.
In addition to the previously announced X94C and X93C series, Sony is also adding HDR compatibility to the X91C, X90C, X85C and S85C series via a network update. Sony is working with streaming video providers such as Amazon Video to bring customers movies and TV shows in HDR.
"Sony is pleased to be expanding HDR compatibility for our 4K Ultra HD televisions. Sony has always been a leader in HDR, from our HDR-enabled professional cameras, to Sony Pictures produced and edited HDR content, to our expanded line of HDR compatible TVs, only Sony can bring you the full HDR viewing experience from the lens to the living room.” said Motoi Kawamura, General Manager for TV Product Planning and Marketing in Europe.
Sony’s X-tended Dynamic Range technology in the X94C and X93C series enhances the viewing experience of HDR and non-HDR content with deeper blacks and brighter whites. The X-tended Dynamic Range feature in the Sony X93C provides up to twice the brightness range, while the X94C’s X-tended Dynamic Range PRO offers up to three times the brightness range.
There have been no dates for the update given out yet but I hope they hurry up as there’s an X85 here on our review bench at the moment!
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The seychelles Essay
The Seychelles is a group of small islands located in the Indian Ocean northeast of and about 1.600 km east of Kenya. It’s an archipelago of 155 tropical islands, some granite and some coral. The majority of which are small and uninhabited. The landmass is only 457 km², but the islands are spread over an area of 1374 km. About 90% of the population of 82.500 lives on Mahé, 9% on Praslin and La Digue. Around a third of the land area is the island of Mahé and a further third the atoll of Aldabra.
As the islands of the Seychelles had no indigenous population, the current Seychellois are composed of immigrants, mostly of French, African, Indian, and Chinese descent. At different times in its history, people of African, European and Asian origin have come to Seychelles, bringing with them their distinct traditions and customs and contributing to the way of life and to the vibrant Seychellois culture. One can see these influences at work throughout the domains of local art, cuisine, music, dance and architecture. The architectural design of some of the grand old houses with their steep roofs are representative of a style adapted for comfortable living in the tropics that displays influences from Seychelles’ French and British colonial heritage. Modern architecture attempts to assimilate traditional styles with practical features designed to capture the island breezes. Creole music and dance have their roots in African, Malagasy and European cultures with rhythms traditionally accompanied by simple drums and string instruments which, today, include such recent imports as the violin and guitar.
The official languages of Seychelles are French and English along with a French-based Creole. The Seychellois lead a very simple life. Life in the Seychelles islands is characterized by majestic seascapes, unparalleled beauty and temperate weather. These are just some of the many factors that make this nation such a sought-after paradise for holidaymakers and investors alike. In addition to immaculate white sands and welcoming waters, this spectacular country is also home to a vibrant diversity of cultures. With its breath-taking combination of sights and sounds, this cosmopolitan destination is a feast for the senses and provides the perfect setting for an exotic island retreat. For those who dream about relaxing in comfort and luxury, the Seychelles islands provide countless opportunities for rest and tranquility. Additionally, this idyllic nation caters for discerning thrill-seekers who travel the globe in search of incomparable diving and sailing opportunities. When it comes to accommodation, Seychelles boasts some of the finest island getaways on the market.
The Seychelles weather is temperate – although the islands tend to experience a lot of rain between November and January – with calm transition periods that allow for clear visibility for deep-sea divers throughout the year. The Seychelles climate is indicative of tropical islands close to the equator in that they often experience brief showers followed by warm and pleasant sunshine. Seychelles beaches provide comfortable and sunny island vacation spots, even in the humid months between December and April. As most of the islands are located outside of the cyclone belt, high winds are rare, while southeast trade winds blow regularly between the months of May and November. As a result, these islands are pleasant beach holiday destinations no matter what time of the year you choose to visit. It doesn’t matter which island within the Seychelles you choose, one thing is assured, the warm welcome you will receive from the local people. Feel free to stop and get to know the locals, you will be amazed how friendly everybody is, and you will wish you could stay longer.

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It's dueling lawsuits as Lorillard Tobacco Co. last week made good on its threat and sued the American Legacy Foundation, contending an anti-tobacco ad about dog urine and other foundation ads violated the accord between tobacco makers and state attorneys general that created the foundation. Lorillard's suit, filed in Greensboro, N.C., asked for a ruling that Legacy ads from Havas Advertising's Arnold Worldwide Partners, Boston, and MDC Corp.-backed Crispin Porter Bogusky, Miami, violated the agreement. Legacy earlier filed its own suit in Delaware court seeking to have its ads declared valid. Lorillard notified the foundation a month ago of its intent to sue. The foundation filed its own suit in Delaware seeking a declaratory judgement that Lorillard couldn't sue it because the foundation never signed the agreement or, failing that, that its ads were legal. AdAge.com QwikFIND aan19z
Top people to shift at `People'
Martha Nelson is a person who needs People, and lucky for her, People needs her, too. On Feb. 21, Time Inc. announced Ms. Nelson will take over the People managing editor slot effective April 1. She replaces Carol Wallace, 52, who will become an editor at large at the company and consult on international projects. Ms. Nelson, 49, was managing editor of In Style since its 1994 launch and was previously an assistant managing editor at People; Ms. Wallace held her position at People since April 1997. The 3.7 million-circulation weekly generates more profits for Time Inc. than any other single title. Ms. Nelson will be replaced at In Style by Executive Editor, Charla Lawhon, 45. QwikFIND aan22z
I'm Bill Ford, buy a Ford
Ford division, the biggest vehicle unit of Ford Motor Co., turned to Chairman-CEO Bill Ford to be the brand's new pitchman. Mr. Ford appears in four 60-second spots that break nationally today. Ford's sport-utility "no boundaries" tag expands to the new umbrella theme. The division's script "Ford" Blue Oval is "really our identity and if we plan to succeed as a company we need to get the Blue Oval shining again," Mr. Ford said. Consumer research showed Ford wasn't doing enough to tout its nearly century-old heritage. WPP Group's J. Walter Thompson, Detroit, sifted through tons of archived black-and-white footage to use with modern color footage of employees and vehicles. Ford declined to discuss spending, but the effort, which will expand to specific models, is expected to get at least a $100 million media buy this year. QwikFIND aan19y
Whither Jupiter? NetRatings a no-go
The collapse last week of NetRatings' $71 million acquisition of Jupiter Media Metrix puts intense pressure on Jupiter, once the kingpin of the Web media analysis category. The Federal Trade Commission put the kibosh on the deal, which hinged on a $25 million loan NetRatings was to make in order to keep Jupiter running during the merger process. NetRatings has $320 million on hand and won't rule out other partnerships, alliances or acquisitions, according to Sean Kaldor, VP-principal analyst. Jupiter has secured consultant Robertson Stephens to explore options that include raising cash and divesting of businesses. Jupiter Media Metrix saw its stock fall 77% last week to 26 cents as of Feb. 21, giving it a market cap of just $9 million; VNU-controlled NetRatings' stock closed at $13.30, giving it a market cap of $440 million. QwikFIND aan19w
Lingonberries for Crispin
Swedish home-furnishing giant Ikea, Plymouth Meeting, Pa., which introduced meatballs and lingonberries to the American masses, has a long history of cutting-edge advertising. But the challenge now for Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Miami, named last week as the agency of record for Ikea's $50 million account, is to develop and implement a strategy to back Ikea's plan to bolster its U.S. presence. "We are looking at a period of unprecedented expansion in North America," said Christian Mathieu, external marketing manager, Ikea USA/Canada. "Our marketing strategy demands clarity and focus while breaking conventions of both media and message." Ikea plans to expand to more than 50 U.S. stores over the next 10 years. It has more than 160 stores in 31 countries. Interpublic Group of Cos.' Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, which had the account for less than a year, declined to defend. QwikFIND aan20t
Carl Portale, 63, Hachette Filipacchi Media's senior VP-group publishing director, Elle, will retire. No replacement was named. ... Emmperative, the Procter & Gamble Co. and Accenture venture to sell P&G's marketing process secrets, laid off 80% of its staff as it switches from a Web-based system to software to address client concerns about security. QwikFIND aan20a....White Rain Co., Danbury, Conn., acquired U.S. rights to premium-priced Te Tao, a line of hair and body care products developed by Kuan, London.


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Scheduled for an August 4 launch, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe was fitted with a state-of-the-art heat shield less than two weeks ago, according to a July 5 statement published on the space agency’s website.
In a way, it was a reinstallation of the shield, as it was temporarily attached to the probe for testing purposes at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland, in 2017
Called the Thermal Protection Unit (TPU), the heat shield measures eight feet in diameter and is designed to protect everything that lies within its umbra – the shadow it casts on the probe.
As Parker zips around the sun within 4 million miles of its fiery surface – the space equivalent of touching distance, you can say – the temperatures the TPU will have to withstand to protect the spacecraft will reach 1,370 degrees Celsius (2,500 degrees Fahrenheit).
NASA describes the 160-pound TPU as a heat shield “made up of two panels of superheated carbon-carbon composite sandwiching a lightweight 4.5-inch-thick carbon foam core.”
Also, the side that will be exposed to all that heat has been “sprayed with a specially formulated white coating to reflect as much of the Sun’s energy away from the spacecraft as possible.”
Not bigger than a small car, Parker will be launched in space atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket from Space Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, after which it will begin its three-month-long journey to the sun’s corona.
Traveling at speeds of up to 435,000 miles per hour (700,000 km/h) through the corona, the instrument-loaded probe will orbit the sun 24 times, collecting important scientific data and beaming it back to earth, as early as December.
Data such as 3-D images, electric and magnetic field recordings, and high-energy particle catalogs will go a long way in helping scientists better understand the workings of the sun and its corona.
It will enable scientists to safeguard spacecraft, astronauts, and sensitive ground equipment through improved space weather forecast, and more, in times to come.
All that data “is going to answer a lot of questions that we couldn’t answer in any other way,” says Craig DeForest, a heliophysicist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
“There’s been a tremendous amount of anticipation,” DeForest, who is not involved in the mission in any capacity, added.
“A mission 60 years in the making, Parker Solar Probe will make a historic journey to the Sun’s corona, a region of the solar atmosphere,” read the NASA statement.
“With the help of its revolutionary heat shield, now permanently attached to the spacecraft in preparation for its August 2018 launch, the spacecraft’s orbit will carry it to within 4 million miles of the Sun’s fiercely hot surface, where it will collect unprecedented data about the inner workings of the corona.”
Part of NASA’s LWS (Living with a Star) program, the Parker Solar Probe will, basically, explore those facets and characteristics of the sun that are directly related to our planet, influencing life and society.
While the LWS is managed by Goddard for the Heliophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., the Parker Solar Probe program is overseen by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, on behalf of NASA.
After Parker has completed its 24-orbit mission around the sun, it is expected to have some leftover fuel to continue along for some time, until it is unable to fire its thrusters that keep the shielded side towards the sun, says project scientist Nicola Fox, who’s also a heliophysicist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
With its unprotected part exposed to the merciless heat and radiation, Parker will start disintegrating into large pieces, which will get increasingly smaller until there’s nothing left but dust across the sun’s corona.
NASA has invited members of the media at the Astrotech Space Operations payload processing facility in Titusville, Florida, on July 13, to not only view and photograph the amazing Parker Solar Probe but also meet with project and program officials for any queries they might have, ahead of mission launch next month.
Not to be left out of the race, European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its own sunward-bound Solar Orbiter sometime in 2020, which will beam direct images of the sun’s poles.
Combining the data from the two spacecraft, providing different perspectives of the sun, will enable scientists to understand “how the solar wind varies at different latitudes,” says NASA.


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This is my little cave of greenery ; I like to hide there to watch what’s happening in the garden. But during the holidays, Claire and Momo went to real caves, much larger: the Vallorbe Caves.
7 million years ago, tectonic movements folded the terrain to form the mountains of the Jura, and the sea that covered the region withdrew definitively. A river meanders above and below ground : the Orbe. Over the millennia, it shaped, with the surface waters, the incredible architecture of the caves.
In 1893, diver Pfund descended into the source to a depth of about ten meters, but he noticed that the vast gallery continued much further. On September 12, 1964, speleologist and diver Christian Giurumello discovered the caves during a dive in a siphon already explored several times. The caves opened to the public in 1974, and since 1992 offer a permanent exhibition of minerals from all over the world, the «Treasure of the Fairies».
The tour lasts about an hour and a half and leads to a huge room where a game of music and light dramatically stages this natural cathedral. From here, the route continues towards the exit via a slightly different path that ends with the exhibition of the treasure of the fairies.
Well, I hope you enjoyed the visit !
PIXIE : Back to school was today, and everything went well. Claire can tell us that it’s not carnival, we don’t believe a word of it : teachers are all masked !
ZORRO : She was so absorbed in preparing for this new school year that she forgot my birthday : on August 15, I turned 8 !
For this time, I don’t blame her : after all, this is her first back to school as principal, she had the right to be a little distracted. But this should not be repeated !
It’s been very hot in the last few weeks, and we’ve been content with quiet activities, such as synchronized bathing, for example.
Pixie tried to find some coolness in the vegetable garden, but it was finally inside that it was the freshest.
Our humans have combined the useful with the pleasant : they have gone to fetch some coolness at the Maison Cailler, the chocolate factory located in Broc, in Gruyère, in the canton of Fribourg. Claire and Momo discovered the fascinating history of chocolate and observed with interest the whole process of its manufacture from A to Z. Not only was it fresh in the factory, but they could also taste different chocolates more delicious than each other !
And you, where have you found a little coolness these days ?

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Only one condition: You move it
A free house is being given away on Craigslist by Concordia religion professor Jacqueline Bussie.
The only catch is whoever gets the house must pay to move it to a new location.
Last fall, the home was put up for sale when its owner moved into an assisted living facility. Bussie and her husband, who live next door, decided to purchase the home after it began attracting attention from buyers interested in demolishing it and building a new home on the lot.
The prospect of demolishing the home upset residents of its neighborhood, which is part of a historic overlay district. It would have been the third home on its street to be torn down and replaced in less than two years.
“To have that many new builds in just a couple of blocks in just a couple years is setting a dangerous precedent,” Bussie said. “When you move into a historic neighborhood, you move there because you love the old character homes.”
Adding to the potential loss is that the home was built by prominent Fargo architect A.J. O’Shea in 1900, and is noted in the National Registry of Historic Places.
After the neighborhood was unable to determine a way to keep the home from being sold and torn down, Bussie and her husband decided to make an offer themselves, which was accepted.
The home’s foundation has grown lopsided over the years, which means it will need to be torn down if no one is found to move it to another location. Bussie is optimistic about finding a mover.
“Tons of people in this area move homes because of the flood(s),” Bussie said.
Bussie also hopes moving the home can take care of another concern in her neighborhood, specifically the disappearance of “green space,” meaning areas of undeveloped land including yards and boulevards.
According to Bussie, current trends in homebuilding tend to make for houses that take up most of the lot, which leaves little room for trees or other vegetation. Bussie has gotten permission from the city to turn the house’s lot into a green space for the neighborhood.
“I thought I saw a way to solve two problems here,” Bussie said. “If I could give away that house for free and provide a green space, everybody would win.”
Students enrolled in Bussie’s “Liberation Theology and Social Justice” course, sophomores Robyn Adams, Rosina Halverson-Studer, Wes Kimball and Madison Lindquist, recently heard about the house and decided they want to help.
The students are hoping to turn Bussie’s house into their final project for the course which focuses on the interaction between faith and service work. One of the project’s options is to complete a service project they design and implement on their own.
Though the four of them have yet to turn in a formal proposal for the project, they have met several times to work on it and received Bussie’s OK. They hope to partner with a local organization that can afford to move the house somewhere and use it to benefit the community.
“We want to make sure that whatever the house is used for, it’s serving the community in some way,” Kimball said, “whether it’s a homeless shelter, a transitional housing kind of unit, things like that.”
Organizations the students are looking into working with include Habitat for Humanity and Fargo’s Rape and Abuse Crisis Center, and they are also contacting Native American reservations. Ultimately, Bussie will have the final say with whom they partner since it is her house.
Though Adams, Halverson-Studer, Kimball and Lindquist ultimately hope to be graded for some aspect of their project (such a grade would probably come from a presentation reflecting upon the work rather than from the service work itself), they are not too concerned with getting an “A.”
“Honestly, the fact that it’s a final project doesn’t matter that much,” Adams said. “What’s important is what we’re doing.”
In the event that no mover can be found and the home must be demolished, Bussie and her husband intend to make sure the home’s parts can be reused.
“If you do a slower, more costly deconstruction,” Bussie said, “you can take everything and give lots of it away to places like Habitat for Humanity.”
Bussie is pleased that her students are so eager to work on moving the house.
“It’s really beautiful because (working in the community) is what our whole class is based on, and they’re already trying to do that,” Bussie said. “I hope they’re the ones who find the house a home.”
Austin Gerth is a member of Concordia’s class of 2016. He edits the Opinion section. He has worked variously as a pizza cook, night-time dishwasher, caterer and water park attendant. He is a writing major, having determined through his experiences in the working world that he is ill-suited to manual labor. He enjoys ginger ale and no longer owns a poodle. He also writes for The COBBlog, and contributes freelance writing to MPR.


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Everyone has their own definition of “home.”
Home is not necessarily the place you were born or the place where you spent any particular part of your life. Home is where you made your favorite moments; where you felt the most comfort and peace.
My parents came to this country roughly 39 years ago; a decision that wasn’t easy, but was the right one. Over the years they built their home here with blood, sweat, and tears—the home they love. Coming to a new country didn’t mean leaving behind their traditions or memories, but it did mean seeking and discovering opportunities to bring their culture and traditions to an unfamiliar setting.
It wasn’t easy traveling to a strange land with different ideas and norms, but they did it anyway. Despite the stereotypes they faced and their lack of opportunity due to a language barrier, they worked tirelessly to create a home for themselves in a place that held more promise than where they previously lived.
Not knowing English was only the first hurdle they overcame. It was more difficult to find work without English fluency, but that never slowed their determination. My parents persistence led them to paid work every day of their lives. They only broke their streaks as their age finally caught up with them. My dad began as a dishwasher at a restaurant. Eventually, he open a restaurant of his own. My mom cleaned offices until she secured a job at a factory with better hours. This allowed her to spend time at the home she and my father made, raising me and my siblings.
Home is not the structure that shelters you or the items you furnish and fill it with. Home is people, memories, and the effort you put into both. My parents built a place where we created memories together; a place where we retreated when life had us down; a place where we laughed in the kitchen for hours over plates piled high with so much food that we were full for days—a place that was always safe.
My parents were born in another country and may always be looked at as foreigners, but this country, this state, this town, this house—this is their home.

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Apart from user experience, website speed also impacts search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Search engines like Google consider website speed as a ranking factor when determining search results. A slow website is likely to receive lower search engine rankings, resulting in reduced visibility and organic traffic. East Maitland businesses should prioritize optimizing their website’s speed to improve their SEO performance and gain a competitive edge in the digital landscape.
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Website speed plays a crucial role in user experience. Studies have shown that visitors tend to abandon a website if it takes more than a few seconds to load. Slow-loading websites frustrate users and diminish their engagement, leading to increased bounce rates and lower conversion rates. East Maitland businesses must recognize the correlation between website speed and user satisfaction, as a seamless and responsive browsing experience is vital for attracting and retaining customers.
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My name is Dan Bucci, and I am a runner from Houston, Texas. I started running when I was 23 years old in 2006 after putting on some weight after getting my first job and eating like a fool. At first, I started walking 1 mile a day after work, this evolved into a jog, and then 3 mile runs. By the summer of 2007 I was running 40 miles a week and decided it’d be fun to run a marathon. My life changed one day in mid-October when I crossed the finish line of the Atlantic City Marathon in 3:52. Since that day I have run 50+ more marathons or ultras and have lowered my marathon time by 60 minutes (2:52:55 PR). I have become fairly “competitive” in small local events and have notched up 5 marathon wins and one ultra win in the last 2 years as well as many podium finishes. In 2016, I completed my first 50 miler in 7:04 and a 3rd place overall finish. I do this all while running with almost nothing on my feet as I am a firm believer in the benefits of minimalist running. Recently I have gotten more into trail running, and have just joined up with the Trail Racing Over Texas Team (Team TROT) for the 2016 season. I am excited for this opportunity and all the good that comes along with it, including some wonderful sponsorships.
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You can make it! Look at Darude. He’s the man behind Sandstorm - trance anthem, internet meme, and the biggest selling vinyl single of 2000. He’s got three Finnish Grammys in his trophy cabinet, and a debut album that clocked up 800,000 sales.
Before all that, though, he was just little old Ville Virtanen - a wannabe producer with a glint in his eye and a CD-R tucked under his arm.
Luckily that CD-R (featuring an early version of Sandstorm) found its way into the hands of national dance music icon Jaakko Salovaara, aka JS16, in August of 1999.
On hearing the youngster’s ludicrously infectious blend of euphoric trance riffs and pulsating beats, he called the number scrawled on the front and immediately signed him to his new label, 16 Inch Records. From there, he swiftly took him under his wing, mentoring him in the studio, developing his ideas, and nurturing his talents.
“I was so wet behind the ears, but Jaakko showed me the ropes,” says Darude. “And within two days we had Sandstorm and a few other tracks finished and bounced down to DAT.”
On release, Sandstorm surged up charts across the globe, causing a clamour for new material. Luckily the pair had bunkered down in Jaakko’s studio, and had the bulk of what would become the full-length album Before The Storm in rude shape.
“Our purpose was to make great dance music,” Darude remembers. “But we had to follow the success of Sandstorm. The process did feel quite rushed but we took it one track at a time.”
The resulting album succeeded in quashing the public’s thirst for more Sandstorm-esque tracks, while exploring hjard house, electro, breakbeat and trance.
“It’s an important album for me. It has the first track I was ever signed with on, and it was also the first full project that I ever did.
“Credit where credit is due, though. Jaakko Salovaara was the one who, so to say, ‘found me’. Within a week or two, I went from being a part-time worker and a student to a professional musician.”
Darude there: proving there’s hope for us all. Here, he takes us through Before The Storm, track by track.
“Why name it Sandstorm? It’s quite a boring story. We had a blank piece of paper and started filling it with names we thought were cool. Then we looked at the Roland JP-8080 and the sound that we used as a pad was called ‘Sandstorm’.
“The first version I made of this originally had a different name. I’ll never play anyone that version [laughs]. It had a vocal that I’d done myself. It was called Back In The Time, or something like that. I was humming or chanting on top of it.
“It’s hard to know the total sales this song had. The first year, I think Sandstorm sold about two million copies. I think it was the most sold vinyl of 2000. Then it went on to sell four million, or more, after we reissued it in 2006.”
“Burning, composition-wise, is more Jaakko’s doing than mine. All the sessions were done together, but he’s the mastermind with the chords, definitely, on this one.
“The vocal is by a guy called Rummy Nanji. I met him in Finland, but he’d been in the music business for a while. Jaakko and me had this melodic idea and needed a vocal, so we had him come over and work on it. I’m not sure where the lyrics came from, but they just came out of him. We recorded a couple of takes of him and it just added really nicely to the instrumental of the track.
“Burning uses a lot of the same basic drum loops from elsewhere on the album, and the same arpeggiated basslines and stuff. The kick in the tune is from the 909, which was a real one, and an interesting thing to work with because I’d only seen those as software plugins.”
Feel The Beat
“I went to Jaakko’s studio and he was playing with this arpeggiated sound, but couldn’t get any further and was going to trash it. I asked if I could take it, and began working on the samples in the same way and bpm that I had been working on with Sandstorm, and it just came together.
“As we were making this, Sandstorm wasn’t a big international success, but it felt natural to continue that vibe across; but when it was released I received criticism from people who said, ‘You’ve just tried to make a copycat record’. I understand where that comes from, but it wasn’t like that because we had no idea that Sandstorm would have such success when we were making Feel The Beat. We just had the same tools in the studio and the same vibe going on.”
Out of Control
“Time went by a little bit before we started making Out Of Control, so there was a conscious decision to not use the same kind of underlying drum loops as the earlier stuff.
“I wanted a percussion vibe on it - the groove here relies on that. We wanted to change up the normal straight-up hi-hat pattern too. I think it’s about 137bpm, as well, which added a new flavour.
“The first version was an instrumental, but then we added Tammy Marie and called it Out Of Control (Back For More). That was a good move, commercially. We were worried it might be too cheesy, but I think it hit a really good market. I get asked for this track a lot when I DJ.”
Touch Me Feel Me
“Besides the chords, overall slow vibe of the track, and the arpeggiated melody of the piano that comes in later, what I really like about this track is the actual vocal bit - it’s really cool.
“We used the Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler, and added a female vocal sample that goes, ‘Touch me, feel me’ really quickly. When you put it in the sampler and create a tiny loop, then lock the loop length and assign it to a mod wheel, then scan through the vocal, it lets you advance slowly like a DJ CD player.
“I’d never seen that ever before. I was so excited when Jaakko showed me that. The Ensoniq ASR-10 sampler was the only way to do that back then.”
Calm Before The Storm
“This was a track I made in my kitchenette studio in my apartment one day in 1999, before I made Sandstorm. I started it around noon and ended up bouncing the final version down around 11pm or midnight, and took it to a club where my DJ buddy played it there.
“For the album, we redid it like we did Sandstorm. Jaakko took the main guitar part, the main melody, and developed it further so it became more sophisticated with the chords than mine.
“One thing I’m really regretting right now is that back then we’d made a really cool chillout version of the track and all I have left is one crappy quality bounce of it and the project file doesn’t exist any more.”
Let The Music Take Control
“This was my track initially, as well, but it was just half a track, with Acidic 303 sounds that I made in ReBirth, the Propellerhead software. Then, in Jaakko’s studio, we redid the 303 parts with a JP-8080 - it had a rather nice 303-sounding patch. Then we sampled my 303s from the first version.
“I really liked the breakbeat part, as I’d loved that style of Jaakko’s music and was so happy that I was able to get some of that in one of my tracks.
“There's also a ‘woo-woo’ train horn sound in there that comes from the JV-1080. It was a preset sound that was kind of like a joke, but it’s there to make people smile.”
Drums Of New York
“Jaakko was a already a great DJ back then, and was always following trends and sounds from places like New York. Although this is quite fast, driving and progressive, some of the tribally stuff that we used triggered the name of the track, Drums Of New York.
“What’s interesting about the track right now is that the original is 142bpm, and now that I’m revisiting them to play in some of my sets, I’m having to edit the speed down.
“It’s hard for me to play them as they are, as they're so fast and a different style to what I play these days. I found that taking Drums Of New York down one semitone brings it to about 134bpm, and that’s almost playable to me.”
“My friend Toni Lähde, aka Luzid, is on the rap here. We had a crew called Mindmachine and this is one of the tracks we did together. Originally it was 134bpm and lighter sounding.
“The drums on this and Drums Of New York are like a sister and a brother - the bass is the same. They are like split personalities of the same track. Drums Of New York is the hard banger, then The Flow is a more melodic take on that with the bassline. It’s interesting now that when you listen to it, one track ends and the other track starts, and similar stuff comes back in. I kinda like how we did that. I’m not sure if there was a big thought process behind it, but it works.”
Sandstorm (JS16 Remix)
“Jaakko’s JS16 Remix is quite different. It’s more laid-back. It’s not as relentless. I’m not sure if he realised it at the time, but if you listen back to it, it’s in the same key of E Minor still, but he gives it different chords, and it ends up very close to Robert Miles’ Children’s chord progression. It doesn’t have anything else the same, but the chords are quite similar. I’m not sure if it was conscious. Jaakko isn’t someone who’d copy anything like that on purpose. If you timestretch Children you could probably fit those two on top of each other.
“Jaakko’s remix is also different as he was way more conservative with the main lead of Sandstorm as well. He wanted to make a distinction between his mix and mine.”
Feel The Beat (JS16 Dark Mix)
“The Dark Mix is probably the mix that I have played the most in my sets over the years. Right at the start I needed to play the original mix, but as things started to settle as I started to DJ more, I turned to this. Before that, I was doing more live sets. I started playing an edit of the Dark Mix because it was more banging.
“I loved the bassline that he’d created for it, too. It was typical Jaakko for me at that point. We had this so-called single version, and he just wanted to be like, ‘Screw everything. I wanna do what I wanna do’, and on purpose did a darker and more banging version.
“It’s interesting to talk about the first album, because I was so wet behind the ears, so there are not many things on the album that have a message, or thought-out direction. Everything just kind of happened as we were working on it.”
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“The long-term energy future of America is not going to be written in fossil fuels,” declared John Kerry last April. President Biden recently appointed the former Secretary of State to a top position in his climate cabinet - United States Special Presidential Envoy for Climate. Joe Biden did not start his campaign as the “climate candidate.” But as he starts his second month as president, he is looking at everything through a climate lens – from jobs and infrastructure to international diplomacy, public health, and social justice.
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I think I first learned about this little house in Anna Benn and Rosamund Bartlett’s book Literary Russia: A Guide. It’s a wonderful travel tool if you want to walk up and down Russia’s streets doing what I do in this blog – hunt for cool cultural connections between the world in which we live and a world that once existed. I’ve had these photos lying around for awhile, waiting for an impulse to put them up (you don’t make posts just to make posts – you do it when you’re compelled). Well, I found the reason yesterday. As I was wandering the grounds of one of my favorite places outside of Moscow – Anton Chekhov’s Melikhovo estate museum – I ran into a woman I began to chat with. Turned out it was Anna Benn. How’s that for a cool coincidence? Hence, my Leo Tolstoy photos taken at 34 Sivtsev Vrazhek quickly raced up the waiting list to the top.
Benn and Bartlett inform us that Tolstoy arrived at this tiny little house for an extended stay in 1850. He came up from his huge estate at Yasnaya Polyana. He was 22 years old. I pick up their narrative verbatim:
“[Tolstoy] had left Kazan University in the middle of his course, his agricultural and educational experiments at Yasnaya Polyana had not led anywhere, and he now came to Moscow to play cards, go into high society and find someone to marry. He was also beginning to read a great deal, however, particularly the writings of Sterne and Rousseau, and it was while he was living here that he made his first attempts at writing fiction. The house makes a fictional appearance in War and Peace: it is where Nikolay Rostov and his mother and Sonya move after the French invasion of Moscow. Tolstoy stayed here until April 1851, when he set off for the Caucasus with his brother.”
A walking tour website in Russian tells very much the same story, but with some nice, added details. Here we learn that Tolstoy arrived at this home with “five windows” on Dec. 5, 1850, which actually indicates that Tolstoy spent little more than four months here. Let me quote further from the site:
“Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya [Tolstoy’s wife] later jotted down Lev Nikolaevich’s words about how he took up the pen: ‘He had the notion of describing something for the first time when he lived in Moscow. Having read Sterne’s Sentimental Voyage, excited and entranced by this reading, he sat down one day by a window and, after giving it some thought, he looked at everything that was happening on the street.’ ‘There goes a street policeman on his beat. Who is he? What is his life like? Now there goes a carriage – who is in it and where are they going, what are they thinking of? And who lives in that house, what kind of inner life do they have? How interesting it would be to describe all that…’ Thus arose the idea for ‘Stories of Yesterday,’ Tolstoy’s first tale which augured much for the history of world literature.”
Ah, but which of the five windows? (There are actually six these days, so one must assume that the left side of the building was added after Tolstoy lived there.) Now we’ll have people lining up at these windows peering in to try to imagine Tolstoy peering back out.
(For the record, Russian Wikipedia tells us that the first story Tolstoy wrote here was “Tales from Gypsy Life.”)
In fact, this little house’s role in War and Peace is just about as thin as paper. It appears once in Epilogue One, Chapter Five; while the street on which it is located – Sivtsev Vrazhek – is mentioned one other time, in Book Eight, Chapter One (using the usual chapter numbering in English, not Russian).
The street’s first appearance (without the house) actually throws us back to Sofya Tolstaya’s little tale about young Tolstoy looking out his window. One can’t help but wonder if Tolstoy, as he wrote this little chunk of his greatest novel (yes, it’s better than Anna Karenina, regardless of what U.S. TV talk show hosts may claim), wasn’t thinking back to the impressions he had that first time he sat down by the window to look at the world outside and describe it. Here is the text offered in a dubious translation on the internet:
“In Moscow as soon as he [Pierre] entered his huge house in which the faded and fading princesses still lived, with its enormous retinue; as soon as, driving through the town, he saw the Iberian shrine, with innumerable tapers burning before the golden settings of the icons, the Kremlin Square with its snow undisturbed by vehicles, the sledgedrivers and hovels of the Sivtsek Vrazhok [sic], those old Muscovites who desired nothing, hurried nowhere, and were ending their days leisurely, when he saw those old Moscow ladies, the Moscow balls and the English Club, he felt himself at home in a quiet haven. In Moscow he felt at peace, at home, warm and dirty as in an old dressing-gown.”
The second and final appearance of Sivtsev Vrazhek comes as the novel winds down, everyone’s great hopes for the future have given way to reality, and the former future “star” Nikolai (Nicholas) Rostov is seriously downsizing his dreams. Again, I provide the excerpt by way of a questionable internet translation of the novel:
“Not one of the plans Nicholas tried succeeded… He could not rejoin the army, where he would have been made colonel at the next vacancy, for his mother now clung to him as her one hold on life; and so despite his reluctance to remain in Moscow among people who had known him before , and despite his abhorrence of the civil service, he accepted a post in Moscow in that service, doffed the uniform of which he was so fond, and moved with his mother and Sonya to a small house on the [sic] Sivtsev Vrazhek.”
So, this small house which bore witness to Leo Tolstoy’s first inclination to write, serves in his imagination many years later as the end of the line for Nikolai Rostov and his family. Isn’t that like a writer to turn the beginning into an end?
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I attempted a literary tour in Moscow, but as it was August a lot of places were closed! I’ll know again…


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Apple users who had not enabled the two-factor authentication have fallen victim to phishing scams. Apple has stated, the incident has led to a rise in “false and fraudulent refund claims trying to take advantage of this incident.”
Earlier thhis month, following an internal investigation Apple stated, it had uncovered a “small number of our users’ accounts were accessed through phishing scams where two-factor authentication was not enabled”.
Following the disclosure, a Chinese consumer body criticized the U.S. company over the data security issue which affected a number of consumers in China who claimed to have suffered financial losses due to their Apple IDs being stolen.
Apple has disclosed, the phishing attack has led to a rise in “false and fraudulent refund claims trying to take advantage of this incident.”
In a statement placed on its website, the China Consumer Association said, Apple should compensate consumers in full.
“Apple should not shift the blame, play down its own safety issues and divert consumers’ attention,” reads the statement from the China Consumer Association.
Last week, Chinese mobile payment platform Alipay stated hackers had taken an unknown amount of money from user accounts using stolen Apple Ids; the issue has remained unresolved despite consumers reaching out to Apple.
“We regret the inconvenience caused to our customers by these phishing scams,” said Apple a statement. “We are proactively identifying suspicious activities and reaching out to affected customers. We strongly advise all users to enable two-factor authentication, which prevents unauthorized access to their accounts.”
Apple’s statement went on to add, it was communicating with “relevant consumer agencies and listening to customer feedback about those changes”.