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Your Ultimate Guide to the Hurricane Gulch Bridge
If you’re planning to hop aboard a Gray Line Alaska rail tour between Anchorage and Denali National Park, prepare yourself to cross the jaw-dropping Hurricane Gulch Bridge, which rises 296 feet above Hurricane Creek. The bridge is a marvel of engineering. As you cross, the train slows to five miles per hour so there is plenty of time to enjoy the view and snap a few photos. Head to the open-air viewing platform for the most incredible views.
Before your train leaves the station, here are a few quick facts and some interesting history about the bridge. Throw a few of these out during your trip to really impress your fellow passengers.
- At 918 feet long and 296 feet high, the bridge is both the longest and the tallest Alaska Railroad bridge. For eight years it was the tallest bridge in the U.S.
- Construction of the arch bridge began early in 1921 and it moved quickly. The fist steel was erected in June and the first passenger train crossed it on August 15 of the same year! The project was difficult and expensive. Both sides were constructed at the same time using an aerial tram crossing the gulch.
- Nearly 1,000 tons of steel went into the arch plus an additional 530 tons were used to construct the approaches.
- On a clear day, passengers can often spot Denali from the train car.
- There is a road bridge with the same name.
Gray Line Alaska offers many tours that cross over the famed bridge. If you want to get in on the action, book one of these rail tours:
Blue Rail Tours pass over Hurricane Gulch Bridge on the route between Talkeetna and Denali. To see this feat of engineering, choose any itinerary that begins in Fairbanks, or choose itineraries that depart from Anchorage and visit Denali National Park.
This trip will take you through Denali National Park and Preserve and to the beautiful waters and glaciers of Prince William Sound. Experience wilderness, history, culture and deluxe accommodations.
Explore Alaska aboard a luxury glass-domed railcar with ample time to explore some of the six million acres of wilderness in Denali. Take part in flighseeing excursions, ATV adventures or fly-fishing tours and enjoy dinner and a show at the Music of Denali Dinner Theater.
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There's a new Mate in town, and we want (actually, need) to have them in our lives. Nope, it's not a figure of the two-legged kind, it's this aluminium ally — known as the X. Aircraft grade 6061 metal crafts the exterior frame, with all-terrain fat tires and full suspension allowing any adventure to be tackled with aplomb. Oh, and did we mention it can be folded for when a little downtime is needed? Exploring has never been so easy.
MATE aluminium electric bike
Aircraft-grade 6061 aluminium
Samsung/LG/Panasonic 48V, 17.5 Ah 250W battery, 9 level power assist with cadence sensor, support up to 32 km/h, L-shaped thumb throttle, Front: LED headlight Rear: taillight w/ brake and L/R indicator function, 750W brushless geared rear hub motor, Smart LCD colour display that shows all data needed, including battery and pedal assist level. Integrated 5V charging port, TEKTRO hydraulic disc levers


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Edward Cabral and his pumpkin artwork takes pumpkin carving to the next level. The artist lives in Chicago and likes to incorporate iconic pop culture visuals in his impressive designs.
With Halloween just around the corner, it means you're probably going to attempt your very own pumpkin carving soon. And when you do, if you're feeling particularly creative then Edward Cabral and the pumpkin artwork he produces would serve as some great inspiration.
The artist doesn't only design pumpkin artwork but also likes to create art using cakes, sandwiches, and ceramics too. "I work a lot in media that cannot be archived," notes Edward Cabral. "Like food and unfired ceramic, because I enjoy watching my work decay."
Much of his pumpkin carving can be seen at the annual Jack-O’-Lantern Spectacular, a Halloween festival in Louisville, Kentucky.
How Edward Cabral Creates His Pumpkin Artwork
Cabral's jack-o'-lanterns are undoubtedly works of art, it's just that his pumpkin artwork uses a squash plant as a canvas with which to compose something that is equal to a painting.
And Edward Cabral toils over his pumpkin carving too, because a single piece can take over six hours to make. Sometimes even longer, he tells Mashable.
The process starts with him finding an image he wants to use, then he has to find the right-sized pumpkin to use as the canvas. Once that is done he draws the design onto the pumpkin, uses paint for the middle tones, then caves out the finer details and highlights various parts.
The results are some of most spectacular pumpkin artworks you're ever likely to see. They include carved scenes from films like Blade Runner, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, along with the moon landing, and classical artworks.
You can check out some below. Head over to the Edward Cabral website or follow him on Instagram for more.
Examples Of Edward Cabral's Cool Pumpkin Carving
Little Shop of Horrors pumpkin for the broadway skit
Trumpkin round 2 is out on the trail
Game of Thrones pumpkin ?
A pumpkin I made last year
Phantom of the Opera pumpkin on the trail
#huntersthompson #batcountry #jackolantern
Here's my American Gothic carved jack o'lantern, on view until it rots (probably by wednesday). . . #pumpkin #pumpkins #pumpkinspice #pumpkinspicelatte #jackolantern #jackolanterns #pumpkincarving #carving #halloween #happyhalloween #foodart #huntgram #Louisville #kentucky #keeplouisvilleweird #502pumpkins #chicagoart #chicagoartist #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #drawing #inktober #inktober2016 #sharpie #grantwood #americangothic #artinstituteofchicago #contemporaryart
My #tiger #jackolantern on the trail last night
My #shakespeare #jackolantern that's already rotted away from a warm rain over the weekend. The theme for this year's show is "The World is a Stage."
MLK jack o'lantern
Blade Runner pumpkin
Final pic of the man on the moon, carved and lit up. Show opens in a few hours!
Man on the moon, carved. Will be lit by tomorrow ?
Obligatory #huntersthompson #jackolantern because I'm in #Louisville
When your pumpkin game is so raw the mayor has it removed from the show... ?

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President Trump announced on Twitter Friday night that his scheduled rally in Tulsa, OK on June 19 will be pushed to the following day "out of respect" for the Juneteenth holiday.
"We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal. Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday," Trump tweeted.
Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas and read the Emancipation Proclamation, marking the end of slavery.
The Trump administration decided to delay the rally at the suggestion of "many of my African American friends and supporters."
"Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this Holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents," Trump wrote. "I have therefore decided to move our rally to Saturday, June 20th, in order to honor their requests."
Trump originally received criticism for holding the rally in Tulsa because the city was the site of a 1921 race massacre in which black residents and businesses were attacked.
Some Democrats even accused the president of intentionally holding the rally in Tulsa on June 19 to goad George Floyd protesters.


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Cboe Wants to Ignore Years of Bungling How It Charged Traders
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-market operator Cboe Global Markets Inc. wants to ignore years of messing up customer billing.
The Chicago-based company, which is one of the three big operators of American equity exchanges, said in a regulatory filing on Tuesday that it discovered in October it had over-billed some traders and under-billed others for years.
Instead of untangling the mess, cutting checks to some and demanding payments from others, Cboe asked the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to revise its rules so it can forget about all the mistakes before July.
It’s easy to empathize with the Cboe accountants who don’t want to go to all the trouble. U.S. stock exchanges are built atop a complicated system of charging fees to some traders and paying out rebates to encourage others to provide liquidity. And, anyway, Cboe says venturing back before July would hurt more of the exchange’s customers than it would help.
“More members owe the Exchange more than a de minimis amount of money than the number of Members the Exchange owes more than de minimis amount of money to,” Cboe said in the filing.
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Eurovision 2015 Australian representative Guy Sebastian has released his new album ‘T.R.U.T.H.’. It’s his ninth studio album and it comes 3 years after its predecessor ‘Conscious’.
A steady stream of singles from the album have been released since November 2018, with the album eventually being confirmed in July this year. The first single ‘Before I Go’ went platinum in Australia and the Netherlands, and the second single ‘Choir’ peaked at number 7 on the Australian Aria chart. ‘Choir’ also won Best Video at the 2019 Aria Awards. ‘Standing with You’ was released in June 2020 and peaked at number 10 on the Aria chart.
The most recent single ‘Love on Display’ was released on 25th September to coincide with the day the album was available for pre-ordered.
In a recent social media post Guy talked about the importance of having the right team around him. For ‘T.R.U.T.H.’ he teamed up with some familiar names from his previous albums, including producer M-Phazes (who has also worked with Madonna, Eminem, and Amy Shark) and song writer Sarah Aarons (who has co-written with Justin Timberlake, Camila Cabello and David Guetta).
He has also teamed up with some new names including David Hodges (from the band Evanescence), and Shungudzo who also features on one of the tracks.
To coincide with the album release, Guy also announced an Australian Tour for November and December 2021. In the announcement he said “By then we should all be safe and cool to congregate, so I can’t wait to get out on the road”. The tour will travel to capital cities and regional centres around the country.
‘T.R.U.T.H. Australian Tour 2021'
Newcastle - November 4
Brisbane - November 5
Gold Coast - November 6
Wollongong - November 10
Sydney - November 12
Bendigo - November 17
Melbourne - November 19
Hobart - November 22
Adelaide - November 24
Perth - November 26
Carins - November 30
Townsville - December 1
To cap off a week of big news, it was also announced this week that Guy was nominated for two Aria Awards. You can see our full coverage of the nominations here.
T.R.U.T.H. is available in physical format (also available with merchandise packs) from Guy’s official website.
It’s also available to download from iTunes, and to stream on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.
Tickets for the upcoming tour are now on sale here.
Also to promote the new album you can catch Guy's documentary 'The Man The Music' on Channel Nine today at 1:30pm AEDT. He will also feature on 'The Project' tonight at 6:30pm AEDT on Channel Ten and on 'Better Homes and Gardens' on Channel Seven at 7:30pm AEDT.


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The role of the employer
In a nutshell, candidates work for you and attend our academy at the same time. In partnership with us the apprentice will split their time between working for you, and studying for a degree at King Stage.
Degree apprenticeships are the affordable way for your business to find, retain and develop talented workers, fill skills gaps and boost your company's overall performance. They’re perfect for businesses of all sizes, from small businesses or multinational corporations.
On a degree apprenticeship, learners join university to learn skills they can immediately apply to their work life. They'll hold a full Bachelor’s or Master’s degree upon completion of their apprenticeship. Their classes will take place once a week on day release or do block release, which involves an intensive 4-day week, 3 times a year. They'll have access to our virtual classroom, to study independently.
We have a solid connection with business and industry build by our internship programmes and graduate employment.
This means we are prepared to provide Bachelor's and Master's degree apprenticeships that meet the needs of your business and your workforce. We can also assist you in recruiting talent and filling skills gaps by selecting talented people interested in a degree apprenticeship.
Degree apprenticeships are funded by your apprenticeship levy account or mostly subsidised by government the so they are an inexpensive way to develop your team.
If your organisation’s annual pay bill is over £3 million, you may use your apprenticeship levy funding to pay for Degree or Master's apprenticeships.
Organisations that don't pay the levy:
If your organisation doesn’t pay the apprenticeship levy because its annual pay bill is below £3 million, the Government will subsidise up to 95% of the cost of degree apprenticeships.
If your business has fewer than 50 employees, the Government will cover 100% of the cost if, at the start of the apprenticeship, the degree apprentice is:
Most degree apprenticeship salaries start at £12,000–£18,000 a year. This is set by the employer, but apprentices shall earn at least the minimum wage.
Existing employees will usually continue to earn the same whilst they do a degree apprenticeship.
On top of the financial advantages, there are many other benefits of degree apprenticeships:
Business performance boost; learning on degree apprenticeships is based on real workplace situations, so employees will be contribute to your organisation's performance when they're getting their education.
You can also work with us to develop degree apprenticeship programmes that are tailored to your organisation’s objectives.
If you would like to support a member of your team on a Degree apprenticeship, call us on 020 8694 6165 so we can talk about all necessary details.
Upon confirming that you're prepared to support your employee, we'll ask them to complete an application form so we can decide on their academic and professional suitability for the course.

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We're hoping this column becomes your window into roleplaying design and development—or at least the way we approach these things here at Wizards of the Coast. We'll handle a wide range of topics in weeks to come, from frank discussions about over- or underpowered material, to the design goals of a certain supplement, to what we think are the next big ideas for the Dungeons & Dragons game. All of this comes bundled with a healthy look at the people and events that are roleplaying R&D.
This month, we delve into the creation of the latest gigantic collection of D&D goodies to hit the shelf—the Magic Item Compendium.
Let me start this column off with an ugly confession.
Most magic items in D&D are awful.
I’m not talking about +1 swords or gauntlets of ogre power, mind you. I’m talking about the hundreds upon hundreds of never-used magic items littering sourcebooks throughout the last six-plus years of the game.
Almost every book has a few of these stinkers—and some of them are chock-full. Even the hallowed Dungeon Master’s Guide is no exception; when’s the last time your character thought seriously about shelling out 23,500 gp for a rod of enemy detection, or a whopping fifty-seven thousand gold pieces for a helm of underwater action?
Instead, the majority of a character’s item slots are spent on what I call the “Big Six”:
- Magic weapon
- Magic armor & shield
- Ring of protection
- Cloak of resistance
- Amulet of natural armor
- Ability-score boosters
Throw in a few more common items, such as the bag of holding, boots of striding and springing (though the “springing” part’s wasted on most folks), maybe a metamagic rod or two, a smattering of easily forgotten potions and scrolls, and of course the omnipresent wands of cure light wounds—and you’ve probably covered 80% or more of the average PC’s gear list.
As soon as I learned I’d be working on the Magic Item Compendium, I knew that this was the biggest problem we—meaning the team assigned to concept and organize the book: Steve Schubert, Mike Mearls, and I—had to solve. After all, what’s the point of collecting hundreds of magic items into one big book if nobody’s interested in what we’ve collected?
The pat answer, of course, is that other items just don’t excite players… but that rang false to us. In our hearts, we knew that fun, useful items were out there—heck, even that helm of underwater action can come in handy at the right time—it’s just that characters weren’t buying ‘em… and worse yet, they weren’t keeping ‘em when the DM dropped them into a treasure hoard.
Ultimately, we realized that the greatest factor influencing the likelihood of a particular magic item being used by a character came down to its cost. On its own, this realization isn’t groundbreaking: proper costing is the most important tool any game designer uses. In chess, pawns “cost” less than any other piece (you have eight of them, after all) because they’re the weakest piece. In Monopoly, a hotel on Boardwalk (or Times Square, in the Here & Now edition) costs more money than those on Baltic Avenue because it represents a greater payday when your hapless opponent lands there. In D&D, meteor swarm is a higher-level spell than fireball because it deals more damage to your enemies, and a +4 holy sword costs more gold to purchase than a +5 sword because, on average, it’s more potent in combat.
No, the big deal here was in identifying the various costing mechanisms already in place for magic items. Obviously, an item’s monetary cost serves as the primary decision-making factor for most characters, but market price isn’t the only cost in the game. Actions required to use an item are another huge cost; if you’d rather just attack or cast a spell than activate a magic item in your pack, that means the activation cost is too high. And of course the item’s cost in “body slots” is another big one. The minor cloak of displacement is a sexy item, but then the potential buyer remembers the +5 bonus on saves he’ll be giving up by choosing it over the cloak of resistance. That’s a cost most characters simply can’t afford to pay.
The “Big Six” and other common items don’t fill up character sheets just because folks like the names, but because they’re the most cost effective items in the game. Here are six reasons why that’s true:
- Cheap to Buy. Without question, these items give you the best bang for your buck. With a thousand gold pieces in his pocket, what paladin is going to choose a phylactery of faithfulness or salve of slipperiness over a +1 shield?
- Room to Grow. Most of the "Big Six" items don't need to be replaced in order to improve that slot's payoff. A +1 greatsword becomes a +1 keen greatsword with an investment of 6,000 gp (and the help of a crafter with the appropriate level and spells)—you don't have to sell it off and buy a completely new item. Compare that to replacing your cloak of elvenkind with a minor cloak of displacement—under the existing system you have to completely replace the old item with the new item, which is much less efficient economically.
- No Slot Competition. With few exceptions (cloak of resistance vs. cloak of charisma; gauntlets of ogre power vs. gloves of dexterity), these items don’t fight for space on the character’s body.
- Easy to Understand. All else being equal, options with obvious utility attract more attention than those whose usefulness is more subtle. It’s easy to comprehend the benefits of adding two points of Constitution via an amulet of health—more hit points and +1 on Fortitude saves being the most obvious—but rather more difficult to evaluate how useful the identically priced gloves of arrow snaring might be. That’s a cost in brainpower; a subtle cost to be sure, but nevertheless a potent one.
- No Activation Cost. You don’t need to waste valuable actions in combat activating a suit of +3 full plate armor or a pearl of wisdom. These items let you focus on spending your turn doing what you really want to do—attack the monsters.
- Required to Play. Characters simply can’t compete against their foes without enhancing their attack rolls, Armor Class, and saving throws. Every one of the “Big Six” items directly improve your character’s ability to roll high.
Any collection of old and new magic items would have to find ways to make its contents appealing, even when compared to the uber-efficient Big Six.
But first, we’d have to collect several hundred items.
As an added bonus to this article, we've also included the Magic Item Record Sheet (zipped or unzipped), for your characters. We'll keep this PDF in the Character Sheets section of the website, as a convenient way for you to keep track of your many magic items!
About the Author
Andy Collins works as an RPG developer for Wizards of the Coast R&D. His recent credits include the Magic Item Compendium, Complete Mage, and Complete Scoundrel. He also answers questions every weekday as the official Sage of D&D.

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The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation has released its annual forecast of the elk population in North America. This state-by-state compilation is a must read for anyone who has an elk tag for this season or is looking for an elk hotspot for the future. Elk used to live across this continent, but, as you can see from the map below, these days you are most likely to find them in the western states and provinces.
A mild winter, spring and summer precipiation and successful habitat conservation are all breeding optimism for the upcoming hunting season for the RMEF. However, wolves are a concern in more than a few sections of elk country. According to the RMEF, elk calf survival rates are now insufficient to sustain herds for the future. The urgent need to control wolf populations is a localized wildlife management crisis now compounded by a recent court decision to return wolves to full federal protections under the Endangered Species Act.
Full story: RMEF’s 2010 Elk Hunting Forecast


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Hopi Indian Chanters
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1926 - 1935
Roles Represented in DAHR: Vocal group
|Company||Matrix No.||Size||First Recording Date||Title||Primary Performer||Description||Role||Audio|
|Victor||BVE-35252||10-in.||3/30/1926||Chant of the snake dance||Hopi Indian Chanters||Male vocal chorus, with drum||Vocal group|
|Victor||BVE-35253||10-in.||3/30/1926||Chant of the eagle dance||Hopi Indian Chanters||Male vocal chorus, with drum||Vocal group|
|Victor||BS-87090||10-in.||1/31/1935||American Indian||Frances Elliott Clark||Instrumental and vocal groups||Vocal group|
|Victor||[Trial 1926-02-17-01]||10-in.||2/17/1926||Chant of the Hopi snake dancers||Hopi Indian Chanters||Vocal chorus||Vocal group|
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Hopi Indian Chanters," accessed October 17, 2021, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/321761.
Hopi Indian Chanters. (2021). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 17, 2021, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/321761.
"Hopi Indian Chanters." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2021. Web. 17 October 2021.
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I visited Prague in Sep 2011. I had been through the Jewish quarters and other places. Near one of bridges , especially near Hanau Pavillion, I saw on a small hill a triangle with RED pointer. Is this some kind of signal?
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- 5 cell plan ?
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Indian Government released various no. of vacancies for SSC CHSL Recruitment for CHSL Posts. This is good news for candidates looking for central govt jobs. SSC CHSL Recruitment Notification is released on 22nd September 2020. The applicant applying for the 12th pass govt job must read the SSC CHSL Recruitment notification before applying. Candidates should have passed 12th or equivalent from a recognized university for applying to these posts of CHSL. Age Limit for these various CHSL posts is 27 years. Eligible and Interested Candidates can apply on or before 15th December 2020.


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Have to look official tomorrow to get our visas renewed so I have a more toned down manicure to show you. Toned down for me, at least. I recently picked up Orly Star Spangled at a Sally's Beauty and man is this the most amazing red. It doesn't really show in the pictures but this one absolutely glows and glimmers. Full of tiny glass flecks, this one really lives up to its name. As I seem incapable of just leaving a mani alone I thought I'd try a shiny/matte french a la Chloe's Nails. I'm really happy with the result! It's just enough to show a different texture without being over the top. This also gave me a chance to try out the Joe Fresh Matte Top Coat I found the other day.
Both of these polishes applied really well, Star Spangled was opaque in two coats despite looking more like a jelly. The matte effect is strong in the top coat too, better than the Nails Inc. one I found a while back.
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Jane specialises in helping others tell their own stories as a mentor, co-writer, and ghostwriter. She also works with those writing in other genres such as fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, romance, crime/thriller and more, as a mentor, editor, and tutor.
Jane is the author of three books, Welcome to the Amazon Club, The Pink Party, and The Golden Pliers: A History of the National Fieldays Fencing Champions 1969 - 2015. She is also the editor of a collection of creative stories written by women living with metastatic breast cancer callled Oysters for Lunch.
Jane's first two books describe her own experience with breast cancer and the journeys of other New Zealand women living with breast cancer. She has worked extensively for breast cancer and cancer-related charities as an administrator, funding application writer, and Blog and web content writer.
Jane lives by the beach on the Hibiscus Coast north of Auckland and works with writers both in workshop format and individually at her writing studio, The Writing Place.
- Adult Fiction
- Adult Non-Fiction
- Autobiography / Memoir
- Feature Articles
- Ghost Writing
- Web Writing
- Freelance Writing
- Ghost Writing
- Manuscript Assessment
- Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
- Public Speaking
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The Pink Party
Jane writes of the joys, fears, and achievements in her own life following her diagnosis of breast cancer and in the lives of two other women, united by the journey they share. The book teaches us about 'life in the moment' - 'the knees-up, hands in the air, champagne-cork-blowing spontaneity of it - and to celebrate every day.'
Welcome to the Amazon Club
This is the story of my first year with breast cancer, from diagnosis to my first 'all clear'. I kept a journal during that time, charting my physical and emotional responses, but also trying to understand what was happening to me. I would like my book to offer the very thing that gets us through the hours and days of a life changing experience ... hope. There is always hope. We all have a remarkable capacity for hope, bravery and strength. Sometimes it takes a traumatic event to make us realise it.
Oysters for Lunch
22 New Zealand women write stories and poems about life with secondary breast cancer. A brave and inspiring collection of creative work, this book offers poignant insights into the dreams, future hopes and everyday challenges of living with cancer and tells that if we want to have oysters for lunch, to have them ... and often.
The Golden Pliers: A history of the National Singles Fencing Champions 1969-2015
The National Farm Fencing Competition held at the annual Fieldays, Mystery Creek, Hamilton, has a rich history of sucess, failure and the rewards of extreme human endeavour. Jane has written the inspirational stories of sixteen past winners of the prestigious 'Golden Pliers' award. These stories offer entertaining stories of commitment, determination and strength, and also provide wonderful snapshots of farming and rural life through the years.

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Performance with Daniel Aschwanden, Herwig Turk and Tanja Gesell: Experimental Set-up No. 1 on May 2-4, 2018
Within the framework of performer Daniel Aschwanden’s one-year cycle DOG_men he teams up with artist Herwig Turk and molecular biologist and artist Tanja Gesell. Together they interrogate various related narratives of the immune system and speculative differences between dogs and humans. What kind of structures become visible when an artistic perspective is brought to bear on scientific aspects of this context? What are the narratives that are behind these systems? To what extent is the communication of research findings about, and hence social relations to, the immune system informed by military concepts and logic? Would changing the terminology lead to changes in perception?
Is it at all possible to get to grips with the complexity of the molecular level using the means of performance? Can the findings of contemporary molecular biology research be embodied and represented in a way that is comprehensible? Might this result in ambiguous and dilettantish statements and portrayals? Or does the dilettante approach offer hidden approaches allowing for new perspectives on scientific terms and on questions of their interpretation? Or does a dilettantish approach possibly contain modes of access, which could give rise to a fresh view of concepts and questions regarding interpretations? Perhaps even produce a knowledge surplus, which too often remains disregarded? And doesn’t the same apply to the views of artistic approaches from a scientific perspective?
At the Institute of Cross-disciplinary Strategies (CDS), Aschwanden, Turk, and Gesell create an experimental set-up for their lecture–performance in which they approach concepts, narrative structures, and representational forms of the immune system through dialogue. They develop a dramaturgy by transforming existing architectural features — booths — into roughly sketched, “image cubicles”, and use them as theatrical “stations”. With the goal of making visible unexpected meanings and contexts in scientific methods and mythologies, the artists draw on a variety of artistic and media approaches.
With their respective artistic and scientific practices the artists produce transversal, poetic connections between everyday observations, scientific findings, and their own interventions. In this work of translation between systems, a lot of material arises between the markers of “lost” and “found” “in translation”.
Daniel Aschwanden, performer, choreographer, curator where art meets the social: performative interventions in urban contexts, hybrid formats of interventions in public spaces in Europe, Asia, Africa, stressing the angle of cultural exchange and communication using a variety of art practices articulating themselves in a wide range of movement/dance -based formats reaching from public spaces to installations and performances in blackboxes and white cubes, relating social to art agendas.
Daniel Aschwanden’s movement and dance biography includes a wide range of experience from movement-based theatre (methods based on Grotowsky) to Butoh dance (working with Min Tanaka’s Mai Juku) and contact improvisation (Mark Tompkins, Lisa Nelson, Nina Martin, and others). He was the founder and director of Vienna’s Bilderwerfer project for dancers with and without special needs creating work and workshops on the basis of danceability-related methods. He regularly practices Tai Chi, and is also influenced by bodywork like Feldenkrais, Reiki, and authentic movement. In recent years he has worked in transdisciplinary collaborations on interventions in urban public space, and in March 2017 he finished his 365 days solo performance project GOLDBERG 365.
Tanja Gesell is a postdoctoral scientist at the Department of Structural and Computational Biology, University of Vienna and a visual artist. She holds master’s degrees in biology and fine arts from the University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, with a major in experimental sculpture and minors in aesthetics, philosophy, and art history. In 2003 Rosemarie Trockel selected her as a Meisterschüler. In 2009, she obtained her PhD in molecular biology at the University of Vienna with a dissertation titled A Phylogenetic Definition of Structure. Before her maternity leave, Tanja Gesell also did research at Harvard University and at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earlier at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK. Her research approach is to use scientific and artistic practice to examine the structural concepts that underlie molecular research. She is cofounder of and lecturer at the new Connectivity Seminar at the University of Vienna. In this seminar connections between various natural science disciplines, the humanities, and the arts are established with regard to the aspect of structure. In addition, she teaches at the FH-Campus University of Applied Science in Bioinformatics, Structure Prediction, and Molecular Design and biomolecular strategies at the University of Applied Arts in the BA study programme Cross Disciplinary Strategies.
Herwig Turk lives and works in Vienna. His projects probe the interconnectivity of the fields of art, technology, and science. At the moment he is an invited artist at the international Immunology Research Project ENLIGHT-TEN. From 2010 to 2013, he was artist in residence at the Instituto da Medicina Molecular (IMM), Lisbon. From 2003 to 2009, Turk worked together with Paulo Pereira, head of the Department of Ophthalmology at IBILI (Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In recent years, his work has been shown at venues such as the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, the Seoul Museum of Art, the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen, the Media Art Laboratory TESLA, the Galerie Georg Kargl in Vienna, and the Transmediale in Berlin, to mention just a few. Herwig Turk was featured in a solo show at the Carinthian Museum of Modern Art (MMKK) in 2016. Since 2014 he works as Senior Artist at the Department of Social Design and the Department of Cross Disciplinary Strategies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Date and time: Wednesday till Friday, May 2-4, 2018, 7:00-9:00 pm
Venue: Department of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Hintere Zollamtsstrasse 17
Seminar Room (4th floor)
The performance is produced in cooperation with brut.

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Prof Raymond Dwek
Glycobiology: helping proteins to fold and cells to communicate
Raymond Dwek is director of the Oxford Glycobiology Institute. Raymond is interested in how the glycans – chains of sugar molecules – that decorate many of our proteins are important in biology. Like proteins, glycans are complex and varied, but unlike proteins they have many branches. This makes finding the structure of glycans very challenging. By adapting techniques from chemistry, Raymond has developed new methods to unlock the secrets of how glycans are made and how they function.
Research in the Oxford Glycobiology Institute has helped to understand how glycoproteins fold, how glycoproteins work in our immune system and how they are important in viral disease. This ‘blue skies’ research has laid the foundations for using glycobiology to develop new antiviral drugs. Viruses are a major public health concern: over two billion people have been, or are, infected with Hepatitis B virus (HBV); 200 million people are infected with Hepatitis C virus (HCV), and over 40 million are infected with HIV. Each of these viruses needs properly folded glycoproteins for them to be infectious.
Iminosugar drugs that disrupt the folding of these glycoproteins are being investigated as antiviral drugs in the Oxford Antiviral Drug Discovery Unit. One iminosugar called NB-DNJ, was pioneered by the Oxford Glycobiology Institute and is effective against HCV, HBV, and HIV in laboratory experiments. Current work in the Antiviral Drug Discovery Unit is developing new iminosugars for the clinic.
Iminosugars can also inhibit glycolipid production. This has led to the development of a drug for Gaucher Disease which has been approved worldwide.

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Includes eleven letters from Lieutenant F. W. (Wesley) Gleason Jr., U.S.C.G.R. (United States Coast Guard Reserve), aboard the USS Arthur Middleton, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gleason, in New Orleans, Louisiana, during World War II.
This is a collection of eleven letters from Lt. F. W. (Wesley) Gleason, Jr., U.S.C.G.R. (United States Coast Guard Reserve), aboard the U.S.S. Arthur Middleton, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Gleason, in New Orleans, Louisiana, during World War II.
Copies of Glickman's plays, musicals, and television scripts, as well as clippings.
Civil War diary of a soldier in the First Alabama Infantry who was born in New York and later lived in Auburn, Alabama, before moving to Chelsea, Massachusetts.
A letter to Lee Godsey of Columbus, Ohio, from Rodie of Cleveland, Ohio, about their recent visit.
Genealogy and family history of this C.S.S. Alabama sailor
Letter from Goethals, former chief engineer of the Panama Canal and civil governor of the Panama Canal Zone, to O.M. Carter regarding Carter's return to the "service."
The collection contains three letters to Goff in Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota, giving general news of family and discussing farming.
Letter dated 28 April 1837, from Tuscaloosa, to her sister, Mary Wyckoff, discussing Louisa's move to Tuscaloosa, the failure of her husband to visit Mary while in New York, and fashions.
The collection consists of documents generated or received by Charles Goode Gomillion while working as a professor at Tuskegee Institute and serving with the Tuskegee Civic Association. The bulk of the records date between 1945 and 1995; with some dated as early as 1928. They include correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles, pamphlets and other miscellaneous documents. The records are potentially valuable to those interested in researching a history of sociological thought regarding the lives of rural Southern African Americans, the history of Tuskegee Civic Association, gerrymandering, or the Civil Rights Movement.
Contains one letterbook, which includes the autobiography of James Lockhart Goodloe, a Tennessee lawyer.
A postcard from A.T. Goodloe to a fellow C.S.A. veteran, Lieut. A.F. Evans on August 22, 1910.
The ledger contains L.W. Goodman's account of annual farm expenses and income in Sulphur Springs, Indiana.
Hotel register from 11 July 1889 through 31 January 1890 of this Scottsville, Virginia.
This collection contains letters from Walter Goodman in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to his sweetheart, Corinne Acklen, in Hunstville, Alabama, with hopes to see her soon.
Brief narrative and collection of notes related to Alabama secession written by politician Albert Taylor Goodwyn in 1916
Correspondence, writings, teaching materials, and musical compositions of this former faculty member of the University of Alabama.
The papers include materials from the Gorgas and Gayle families, predominantly the papers of Josiah Gorgas, his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas, her parents John Gayle and Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, her brother Richard Haynsworth Gayle, and the Gorgas' children Jessie , Mary Gayle, Maria Bayne, and Richard Haynsworth. The papers of Josiah Gorgas include his personal correspondence to his wife Amelia Gayle Gorgas (1853-1880), to their son William Crawford Gorgas (1868-1880), to others (1842-1875), from Jefferson Davis (1868-1879), and from others (1839-1878); his diary, scrapbook, and sketches from his European travels (1845-1846) and from his military service during the Mexican War (1846); his 1857-1878 diary; his correspondence and writings concerning his work as Chief of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau (1860-1864); a few items pertaining to his presidency of the Brierfield Iron Works (1867); and materials relating to his vice-chancellorship of the University of the South (1868-1878). The papers of Amelia Gayle Gorgas include her personal correspondence to her husband Josiah Gorgas (1858-1876), to their son William Crawford Gorgas (1868-1907), to their daughter-in-law Marie (Mrs. William Crawford) Gorgas (1900-1906), to others (1841-1907), from various individuals expressing condolence at the death of Josiah Gorgas (1883), and from various individuals (1862-1907); her account of the evacuation of Richmond during the Civil War; three scrapbooks; and memorials to her. John Gayle's papers include his correspondence (1832-1838), a typescript of state papers relating to Creek Indian affairs (1832-1834) while he was Governor of Alabama, and pictures of himself and Francis Scott Key, who visited the Gayles in 1833. Sarah Haynsworth Gayle's papers include her personal correspondence to her husband John Gayle (1819-1835), to her relatives in South Carolina (1823-1833), and to her friend Mrs. Mary Peck in Greensboro, Alabama (1833-1834); and her journal (1827-1835) describing her family's life in frontier Alabama. There are also correspondence and materials pertaining to other Gayle and Gorgas family members, including Richard Haynsworth Gayle's diary (1856-1865), which describes his voyage from Mobile around Cape Horn to Genoa, Italy; the diary (1876-1888) of Josiah Gorgas' brother Solomon Atkinson Gorgas; Maria Bayne Gorgas' letters to family members from Europe (1892-1905) where she was nurse-companion to Mary Leroy King of Newport, Rhode Island; the Gorgas family Bible and the Gayle family Bible; and genealogical materials concerning the Gorgas, Gayle, Atkinson, and Rittenhouse families.
Correspondence, diaries, writings, and other material of this Alabama native who eradicated yellow fever from the Panama Canal Zone and served as Surgeon General of the U.S. Army.
Two typescript copies of an 1868 memoirs written by early Tuscaloosa resident of French ancestry, whose family were Natchez, Mississippi pioneers.


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Apr 2nd 2012 By: Chris Sims Since Mass Effect 3 was released a few weeks ago, there's been a lot of controversy over how the game ends. Some fans have advocated storming BioWare's headquarters with torches and pitchforks, others have praised it for daring to embrace color-coding as a storytelling tool, but no matter what side of the debate you're on, there's one thing we can all agree about: Mass Effect would be way better if Commander Shepard grabbed a guitar and rocked the Reapers to death at a battle of the bands. Fortunately, that's exactly what happens in IGN's April Fool's Day prank this year, a trailer for an '80s-style Mass Effect cartoon that doesn't actually exist! As excited as I am for the Paragon Lost , the upcoming animated feature starring Freddie Prinze Jr.


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Whiskey Jack Presents Stories & Songs of Stompin' Tom
We've been working for quite some time to make this happen..thanks to David for the invitation to perform here. This is the perfect music for the fans in Margaretsville. When I was with Tom on his East Coast tours, we didn't often get to play in the smaller towns. This will be a real treat for us.


Yesterday we reported a story that seemed almost unbelievable. Supposedly, the Heart Rate sensor on the Apple Watch could have its functionality negatively impacted by the presence of a tattoo on your skin underneath the watch. There's even a video presentation of the problem which we have shown above.
It turns out this isn't some weird voodoo magic, and has actually been confirmed by Apple themselves. They recently updated their Apple Watch landing page and included a description of the problem. Here's what they said,
Apple also shared several other things which could affect the performance of the heart rate sensor. You can read all about it in the source link below. What do you think? Will this problem keep you from purchasing the Apple Watch?
Source: Your heart rate. What it means and where on Apple Watch you ll find it. - Apple Support


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NONFICTION MONDAY: Guts & Glory: The American Civil War by Ben Thompson
Tremendous battles, dangerous operations, fearless spies, and legendary heroes from America's deadliest conflict!
From courageous cavalry rides deep into enemy territory to harrowing covert missions undertaken by spies and soldiers, the events of the American Civil War were filled with daring figures and amazing feats. This exhilarating overview covers the biggest battles as well as captivating lesser-known moments to entertain kids with unbelievable (and totally true) tales of one of America's most fascinating conflicts.
History buff, Civil War reenactor, and popular blogger Ben Thompson uses his extensive knowledge and vivid storytelling style to bring the Civil War to life in this first book in a thrilling new series featuring incredible people, events, and civilizations. Get ready to learn just how awesome history can be!
I have some mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand it has tremendous young reader appeal but on the other hand there were a few statements that I felt were misleading though not technically wrong. On the one hand the list of resources the author read and used at the end was tremendous, some specific references on certain information would have been nice. And while I enjoyed the author's rather snarky, sarcastic tone, I wonder if all children will pick up on it, especially the references to things that did not exist during the Civil War, which could easily confuse some child readers. That tone also seemed to make light of the seriousness of battle.
The author has done a nice job of choosing topics and events that carry a lot of interest. I found myself compelled to keep reading to find out what else the author had to say. I even learned some things, which for a Civil War reader like myself says a lot. The numerous sidebars provide information about topics related to each chapter giving additional information and background. For each major battle, statistics related to the number of soldiers involved and the casualties inflicted as well as who is considered to have 'won' the battle are included.
While I didn't read anything that was technically incorrect (at least as far as I know) there were several places (at least three that I counted) where things were phrased in such a way as to be misleading. For example, on page 55 the author says, "On November 7, 1917, Communist supporters of Vladimir Lenin stormed the palace of Tsar Nicholas II, killing the Russian emperor and his entire family and beginning a civil war that would spread across the country." While technically that is correct, the Russian emperor and his family were at the SUMMER PALACE when the revolution first began, and while they were killed it wasn't until months later. So, technically correct but misleading. A reference to 'Mormon separatists' on page 41 is also misleading in that the Mormons moved to what later became the state of Utah in order to avoid ongoing religious persecution and not to establish a separate country makes this misleading.
The illustrations add a nice touch but like most illustrations of battles they involve a good deal of supposition on the part of the illustrator because we have few if any actual battle photographs from the Civil War, though quite a few of the aftermath. But the pictures definitely add to the appeal of the book.
Overall, an engaging book that child readers fascinated by the Civil War are bound to enjoy, but I recommend it with reservations.


The transfer window shuts at 5pm on August 8 and Premier League clubs need to have their incoming business sorted by then.
After the deadline they will have to wait until January to make any additions to their squad, although they can still sell players to European sides.
The window has blown hot and cold so far with Aston Villa the biggest Premier League spenders while Real Madrid have made the biggest moves on the continent.
However things are ramping up with deadline day in sight and there are a number of deals that could go through this week.
Harry Maguire to Manchester United
Manchester United are believed to have made a breakthrough over the £80m signing of Harry Maguire.
The centre-back is keen to leave Leicester with United and Manchester City thought to be interested.
But United are now in pole position and could wrap up a transfer in the coming days.
Maguire would become the most expensive centre-back in history, overtaking Virgil van Dijk, and would likely see United need to sell.
Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo would be in danger although Eric Bailly has admirers.
Gareth Bale to… someone
Zinedine Zidane claimed a deal for Gareth Bale to leave Real Madrid was close but it appears only clubs in China are willing to put a deal in front of him.
The four-time Champions League winner is being forced out and may have to settle for a move to Asia to salvage his career.
While it is believed he would prefer a move back to England no one has come forward with a deal.
Bale’s exorbitant wages are a stumbling block for Tottenham, while Manchester United are looking at younger players and Chelsea are banned from signings.
PSG may be another option but that would deal would depend on Neymar, who seems to want to return to Barcelona.
William Saliba to Arsenal
William Saliba is set for a medical at Arsenal this week ahead of his £27m transfer.
But the young centre back is set to return to Ligue 1 on loan for a year.
Unai Emery is keen to bring the youngster to the Emirates and has now accepted the wishes of Saint-Etienne by allowing him to return.
Saliba though is believed to be a long-term prospect who will enhance the Gunners’ defence.
Laurent Koscielny to Rennes
Laurent Koscielny is set to quit Arsenal for Rennes and RMC Sport claim he has agreed terms of a move.
The Arsenal defender refused to go to the States on a pre-season tour and has left Emery in something of a defensive crises.
Koscielny has one year left on his Arsenal deal and had been offered a new one but is now trying to force a move away.
Pedro Obiang to Sassuolo
West Ham midfielder Pedro Obiang is set to join Sassuolo for £7.2m, according to Sky Sports.
Obiang did not feature in the Hammers’ last pre season match against Newcastle and is expected to arrive in Italy in the coming days to complete his move.


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There are zero one-bedroom or two-bedroom rental apartments in Kelowna that are affordable for workers earning the minimum wage, a damning new report has found.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives claims in its study that someone working full-time for the lowest legal wage in Canada can afford a one-bedroom rental in only 9% of 795 neighbourhoods it focused on.
That figure falls to 3% when looking at two-bedroom apartments.
The report defines “affordable” rent as 30% or less of a renter’s pre-tax income, the same cut-off used by the federal government.
Kelowna is one of 23 cities featured in the report to have zero affordable apartments.
The other British Columbian cities that fall into that ignominious category are Vancouver and Victoria.
With a minimum wage of $13.85 an hour as of June 1, 2019, the report shows that Kelowna’s lowest-paid residents would have to work for 61 hours a week to afford a one-bedroom apartment.
To afford a two-bedroom apartment, they would have to work for 75 hours.
The hourly wage required for a Kelowna worker to afford a one-bedroom apartment is $19.29, the report shows, while to afford a two-bedroom apartment the figure is $23.87.
Roughly one-third of households, or 4.7 million, are renters and they are often low-income earners, or young adults, or newcomers to Canada.
Average rents, adjusted for inflation, have increased since the early 1990s as construction of traditional apartments declined in favour of homes and then condominiums, study author David Macdonald said.
In the 1970s, he said, it wasn’t uncommon to see 100,000 new, purpose-built rental units being constructed each year, “which is an incredible amount of new rental housing being put into the market.”
While there has been some uptick in rental construction over the last decade — mostly in the luxury rental market, Macdonald said — the Liberals hope to use billions in federal funding to help finance more than 100,000 new rental units.
At the rate that money is being committed to projects, the study estimates most units won’t come open until the late 2020s.
Combining provincial and federal commitments, the study projects an average of 15,400 new rental units annually, well below the number the country saw decades ago when the population was smaller.
“The Canada Housing Benefit is a good short-term solution as we wait 10 years for the rental housing market to build up and then hopefully increase vacancy rates and also stabilize rents,” Macdonald said.
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Artwork is a form of art that has been used for thousands of years. In fact, it has become so popular among artists and art lovers that you can find an abundance of paintings in the market today. And with the prevalence of these paintings, the competition in selling your artworks is also getting stiffer. So how do you make your artwork more attractive?
With these painting tips for an attractive artwork, you can be on your way to selling your artworks easily.
Step 1: Start With a Plan
You have to come up with a plan first before you start painting. You have to ask yourself what kind of theme or scene that you will depict in your artwork. This will help you determine which colors and paints that you need to buy so that you can finish your work on time. It also gives you an idea in looking for the best tools and brushes that will serve your purpose more effectively.
Step 2: Choose the Right Tools
When it comes to choosing the right tools for your artworks, it is important to know what the tools are for and how they can help in making your artwork more attractive than ever before. You should choose quality paintbrushes because they are made from natural bristles and synthetic bristles as well as from animal hair
Art is a very subjective area. Everyone has his own taste and that’s why it’s impossible to give one specific advice on how to make your art more attractive. I can only tell you what I personally like and what works for me.
You may want to read my related article “How to make your artworks sell”: https://myartspace.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/how-to-make-your-artworks-sell/
There are some steps that may help you get a better idea on how to make your artworks attractive: 1. Decide what kind of art you want to create, namely realistic or abstract, realistic, abstract or impressionistic? 2. Choose the most appealing subject for your artwork, like a portrait, landscape or still life? 3. Select an appropriate style for the subject you have chosen, such as realistic or impressionistic? 4. Think of an appropriate color palette for your artwork and experiment with different shades and hues until you find the best ones for it? 5. Experiment with different mediums before choosing one that is the best option for this specific artwork of yours? 6. Make sure that all elements in your work are in harmony with each other and match the style of the piece
The best way to make your paintings attractive is to be attractive yourself. So shed those pounds and start jogging if you want people to think you’re an artist.
If you are an artist, you may not think of yourself as attractive, but try looking at yourself from the outside. Do you see someone who should be painting? If so, then paint! This is the most important consideration. If you are – or want to be – a painter and you are not painting, then that fact already makes your paintings less attractive.
The space of a painting is one of the most important parts of it. It determines the focus, the scale, and the sense of depth.
What are some tips to make your space more attractive? Here are a few things to keep in mind when you’re working on space.
Consider negative space: Negative space is just as important as positive space. The difference between the two is that negative space is empty, while positive space has something in it. If your painting has negative space, consider adding objects to fill it up.
Keep perspective in mind: In order to create depth and distance, you need to consider the size and distance of objects in relation to each other. You can do this by using overlapping objects or placing objects at different distances from one another.
“My art is a mix of emotions and my view of the world, mixed with my life experiences. I want to show people what they can’t see, or perhaps they are afraid to see.”
“I am not interested in memorizing the anatomy books, but I am interested in how I can make my eyes tell the story better.”
“The painting process for me is about being able to share something special with someone else.”
“I have a goal that when I am finished with a painting that it makes you feel free and happy.”
“When I create a painting, it’s like having an out of body experience. It’s like being transported into another dimension.”
“Think outside the box. Be original. It’s good to be different from everyone else.”
“Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something because you’re a woman.”
Once you have made a decision to buy an art piece, then it is time to start searching for one that you like. If you are involved in the art world, then you will find that there is plenty of art available to purchase.
The first thing that you need to do is make sure that the painting you choose has enough room on it so that you can add your own touches or make changes to it later on. You may want to paint on top of it or even use its shape and colours as inspiration for a future piece of work.
When looking for a painting, try and select one without awkward details in the background of the painting. You want something that will look great hanging on your wall as well as from far away. The last thing you want is for something in your painting to jump out at you when you are not expecting it.
Tone and colours
The colours should represent all the different times of day. You want bright colours for daytime scenes and dimmer ones for evening ones. Make sure too, that there is plenty of contrast between warm and cold colours so that the painting looks realistic and inviting.”
Art is the representation of the concept of a thing, not the thing itself. Art tends to be appreciated for its own sake, and artists tend to be appreciated for their ability to create art. In other words, art is appreciated for its own sake.
In this sense of appreciation, it doesn’t matter what subject matter you choose as long as you do it well. Even if your subject matter is yourself, that doesn’t mean that your art can’t be well done. You might have difficulty finding an audience for self-portraits, but you can still make them.
Artists tend to be appreciated for their ability to create art. That is where the money comes from, and that is why people want to attend your show or read your book or look at your sculpture or whatever else you are doing. If you are good enough at creating art to get someone’s attention, they will pay you money to keep looking at it or listening to it or whatever else you are doing. If you aren’t good enough at creating art to do this, then no one will pay you money for your artwork and no one will know who you are.
If all this sounds self-evident, that’s because it is true by definition. I’m going to

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A woman was banned from a drugstore and threatened to be charged with trespassing if she returned after she said she used her purse as a shopping cart.
The incident occurred at about 10:50 a.m. Nov. 5 at CVS, 23800 West Road.
According to a police report, a store manager watched as the woman placed makeup and some hair care products inside her purse as she moved through the aisle.
The report said she moved on to another area and began looking at more items when she was approached by store security and management.
She was asked if she has merchandise in her purse and the woman told them she did have items from the store in her purse.
She was taken to a nearby office and held until police arrived.
When questioned by police the woman explained the “misunderstanding.”
According to the report, the woman said instead of picking up a basket and placing her items there, she simply used her purse as a basket and put eight items in there while she waited for her prescription to be filled.
An officer explained to her that most customers do not place unpurchased items in a purse.
The manager did not buy the woman’s explanation and accused her of trying to steal the merchandise.
Police explained to the woman that management does not want her to return to the store and if she does she will be cited for trespassing.
The items were returned to the store.
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Here is perhaps my favourite ferment to date… I use it on egg-fried rice, quirky fridge-foraged salads, or as a simple condiment to so many things. I’ve included it in a recent recipe for Great British Chefs where I’ve paired it with charred miso aubergine, some tahini dressing and dukka - culturally a little confused perhaps, but flavour-wise a knock-out. Find the recipe here.
1kg kohlrabi, peeled and finely diced (Do not throw out the base of the kohlrabi!)
20g flakey sea salt
60g ginger, peeled
30g garlic, peeled
1 red chilli, deseeded
40g fish sauce
Preheat the oven to 140 degrees.
Rinse your Kilner jars well and then place in the oven until they have dried completely (to disinfect). Remember to remove the rubber seals first.
Place the diced kohlrabi in a large mixing bowl.
Blend all the other ingredients in a high power blender to make a smooth paste. This will be the marinade in which to submerge and ferment the kohlrabi.
Mix the kimchi paste with the kohlrabi.
Pack this tightly into the jar (now cooled), making sure that all the kohlrabi is submerged below the water line. This is important as below the water the environment is ideal for lactic acid bacteria to grow, above the water line mould can grow too and compromise the ferment.
If needs be, trim the base of the kohlrabi to fit in the neck of the jar, to form a bung. When the lid is closed this will put pressure on the diced kohlrabi and keep everything submerged. Rinse it well first!
Place the jar on a small plate, and leave at room temperature and out of direct sunlight for 1 week.
Burp the jar each day, to release the carbon dioxide that is given off during fermentation.
If you prefer a stronger fermented flavour you can leave it at room temperature for another few days.
Once the texture and flavour are to your liking, place the jar in the fridge where fermentation will slow down and it will last for several months.


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This past week the South African government showed utter disregard for its international legal obligations and rule of law when it reportedly assisted the escape from its territory of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, who is also wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.
Al-Bashir was attending the 25th African Union Summit in Johannesburg when the Southern African Litigation Centre (SALC) submitted an urgent application following the ICC's order that he be arrested upon landing in the country in light of the 2009 and 2010 arrest warrants issued against him. It was then when Judge Hans Fabricius, from the Pretoria High Court, issued an interim order preventing the Sudanese President from leaving South Africa, pending a decision of the court. The Judge even ordered that the Department of Home Affairs ensure that all points of entry and exit be informed that Al-Bashir would not be allowed to leave until the application by SALC was concluded: "In my view it is clear when an investigation under the ICC Act is requested, and a reasonable basis exists for doing an investigation, political considerations or diplomatic initiatives are not relevant", he said. The Judge's view is in line with what the ICC made clear, that is, that diplomatic immunity does not apply to heads of state, and goes against the SA Government's request last Friday for an exemption from its obligations to arrest Al-Bashir on the grounds that he enjoys immunity from prosecution as he was attending an AU Summit.
This SA Government's position was also categorically rejected last Saturday in an order issued by one ICC Judge, Cuno Tarfusser, who maintained that "there is no ambiguity in the law and that the Republic of South Africa is under the obligation to arrest and surrender to the Court Omar Al-Bashir". Lastly, several media outlets reported that South Africa's Ambassador to The Netherlands Bruce Koloane had been told over the weekend that "the immunities granted to Omar Al-Bashir under international law and attached to his position as Head of State have been implicitly waived by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) by resolution 1593 (2005) referring the situation in Darfur, Sudan, to the Prosecutor of the Court and that the Republic of South Africa cannot invoke any other decisions, including that of the African Union, providing for any obligation to the contrary."
While this was all taking place during what was a very active weekend for international criminal law practitioners and diplomats, key actors in the field issued statements that made their positions on the matter very clear. These included the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said that "The ICC warrant for the arrest of Bashir must be implemented by countries who have signed up to The Hague Court's statute"; and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid, who said that "The member states must show this leadership too. It is of deep concern to me, and my Office, when court orders are issued by the ICC in respect of the serving head of state of Sudan, and State Parties to the Rome Statute openly flout them." Leading NGOs such as Human Rights Watch also expressed concern for what was occurring and issued media statements calling on Al-Bashir's arrest and for SA's commitment to the rule of law to not be broken. Last but not least, the ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda expressed: "I am looking forward to President Bashir to be arrested and sent to the ICC. This is the correct thing to do. This is the legal thing to do."
However, and unfortunately, while the local High Court was hearing the legal arguments over the SALC application to force the SA authorities to arrest Al-Bashir, his plane took off from a military base. And it is safe to assume that he simply would not have been able to do so without assistance and enabling by the SA authorities. This needs to be investigated and if this assumption proves right, then it is clear that there was contempt of a court order and that serious explanations will need to be given by the proper authorities to the Judge. In fact, the court has since demanded an explanation of why the Sudanese president was allowed to leave the territory, and the government has said that it intends to comply with this order within a week. What could happen in addition to this, at the international level, is that the ICC issues a non-compliance notice for South Africa and transmits it to the UNSC reinstating that full cooperation with the ICC is a prerequisite for the Court's effective functioning. But similar complaints in the past have largely been ignored and have had very little impact.
And so the lack of action on the part of the SA Government is bad in itself for what it means in terms of implications for its rule of law, respect for judicial institutions and the credibility of the Government in the eyes of its people who can no longer have faith in the basic principle that no one is above the law. But it is not just a disappointment over how SA handled the matter. Rather, it is the lack of responsible action that directly affects the thousands of victims of the Darfur conflict who, when they had a possibility at seeing Al-Bashir face justice in The Hague, they saw that chance evaporate in mere hours. And SA, having itself dealt with the horror of a legacy of human rights abuses and apartheid, could and should have done better.
The lack of enforcement of the arrest warrants against Al-Bashir is indeed disappointing but the existence of the domestic court order is a welcome development in the context of the fight against impunity. Aside from setting an important precedent, Al-Bashir had to leave suddenly expanding his almost-ban to travel abroad fearing arrest and/or further embarrassment. One also wonders what he would face if he were to return to South Africa in the future.
And so what happened in Johannesburg this past week did not weaken the ICC in my view; on the contrary, it put Bashir, an alleged war criminal, on the spotlight again. And the strong condemnation that South Africa received for its actions, most surprisingly perhaps from African countries, could be interpreted as well as support for the Court in its battle to finally hear Bashir's case after his transfer to The Hague. The ICC did not lose credibility, South Africa did.


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The purpose of the Seed Grants are to provide funding for pilot research that will enable UMS faculty/professional staff from all disciplines and ranks to strengthen research, commercialization and economic development activities. UMS faculty and staff from all disciplines and ranks to strengthen research, commercialization, and economic development activities that support Maine businesses and industries critical to the state’s economy. A related goal for seed funds is to better position research groups to be more competitive in obtaining future funding, whether it be federal, state, commercial or private. Proposals may be in either MEIF or non-MEIF topic areas. Collaborative and interdisciplinary proposals, which include two or more campuses and/or external partners are highly encouraged.
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At a groundbreaking time in history when women all over the world are being encouraged to be louder, PepsiCo’s Doritos are making chips to keep them quieter.
According to an article by TIME, Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo, told Freakonomics Radio that the company is creating a chip that’s made exclusively for women.
The idea for women’s Doritos materialized because, according to Nooyi, women “don’t like to crunch too loudly in public. And they don’t lick their fingers generously and they don’t like to pour the little broken pieces and the flavor into their mouth.”
Furthermore, the new women’s chip bags will be designed to fit better into purses because “women love to carry a snack in their purse”, according to Nooyi.
In a backwards effort to try and include more women to snack, PepsiCo has ultimately ostracized their target audience. Nooyi’s backhandedly sexist comments have left a bad taste in the mouths of women, and they’ve taken to social media to express their confusion and bewilderment.
This is all I’m gonna say about “Lady Doritos”: 1. Stop telling women in every conceivable goddamn way to be silent. 2. In my experience, it isn’t female companions I’ve ever had to ask to stop chewing chips with their mouths open so I can hear the bloody TV.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) February 6, 2018
Thank god because my fragile, feminine, woman jaw just about breaks every time I have a normal dorito. By the time I finish a bag, I’ve already been to the hospital 17 times for a shattered lady mandible! It hurts my girlish dainty hands to type this out, but thank you Doritos! https://t.co/sJJ2HsCWYJ
— em 🌿 (@uhhmmily) February 5, 2018
I am woman hear me crunch on my fucking Doritos!
— Sissyknits (@sissyknits) February 6, 2018
Of course, Doritos has tried to smooth over the controversy with their weak tweet below:
We already have Doritos for women — they’re called Doritos, and they’re loved by millions.
— Doritos (@Doritos) February 6, 2018
However, it’s important to note that Nooyi’s Dorito comments aren’t the first time the powerful business woman has acted contentiously or made remarks that reek of sexism.
In April 2017, Pepsi’s highly controversial ad starring Kendall Jenner was pulled after backlash on social media. The ad, which showed Jenner handing a police officer a can of Pepsi to create peace and unity, was accused of appropriating and trivializing the Black Lives Matter movement all at once, and was regarded as tone-deaf.
Nooyi came under fire again in August 2017 when she did not step down from President Trump’s business advisory council after his nonchalant stance after white supremacist violence in Virginia. The public was left stunned by Nooyi’s choice to not immediately leave her position on the advisory council, especially because Pepsi has a long standing public portrayal of supposed unification and diversity. It was even more curious considering Trump himself has had his fair share of sexist controversies that have gone public.
Furthermore, in an interview with Fortune from September 2017, Nooyi made the following comment when asked about what advice she’d give women who were entering the workforce today:
For women, know your journey is going to be tougher because you have so many other priorities to worry about. Today people would argue that men have the same priorities. Yes, but women were born with an extra gene that makes us worry about those things just a little bit more. I don’t know why—societal or genetic—but we worry about the family, the husband, evening’s dinner, yesterday morning’s breakfast, aging parents.
Whether or not the issues she notes are legitimate worries isn’t the point. The issue is that Nooyi seems to already have a predisposed notion that women aren’t equal with men and need to worry about household problems more than them.
Women are capable of prioritizing their professional work, just like how men are equally capable of worrying about their family and home life as well. It’s difficult to see how different her statement is compared to the popular sexist belief that “women are too hysterical or emotional.” And additionally, if it is a societal issue, isn’t that what we’re trying to tackle at this very moment in history?
At the end of the day, food is food, and it’s made for anybody and everybody. How a female CEO of a worldwide, billion dollar company thought it would be ok to market gendered chips is beyond concerning, and it really makes us wonder what other ludicrous ideas brands will come up with to separate men and women in the future.


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“Kafka is an open source stream processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It is widely used in data buffering, asynchronous communication, collecting logs, and system decoupling. Compared with other common messaging systems, Kafka has outstanding performance in terms of high throughput and low latency while guaranteeing most of the functional features. This article is different from other articles about the use or implementation of Kafka. It just talks about what “black technology” Kafka uses to make it have such outstanding performance in terms of performance.
Kafka is an open source stream processing platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation. It is widely used in data buffering, asynchronous communication, collecting logs, and system decoupling. Compared with other common messaging systems, Kafka has outstanding performance in terms of high throughput and low latency while guaranteeing most of the functional features. This article is different from other articles about the use or implementation of Kafka. It just talks about what “black technology” Kafka uses to make it have such outstanding performance in terms of performance.
Messages are written to disk sequentially
Most of the disks are still mechanical structures (SSDs are not within the scope of discussion). If messages are written to disks in a random manner, they need to be addressed in the manner of cylinders, heads, and sectors. Addressing is a “mechanical action” “It’s also the most time-consuming. In order to increase the speed of reading and writing hard disks, Kafka uses sequential I/O.
Figure 1 Kafka sequential IO
In the above figure, each partition is a file, and each message is appended to the partition, which is a sequential write to the disk, so the efficiency is very high. This method has a flaw-there is no way to delete data, so Kafka will not delete data, it will retain all the data, each consumer (Consumer) has an offset for each topic to indicate Which piece of data has been read?
Regarding the performance of disk sequential read and write and random read and write, a set of official Kafka test data (Raid-5, 7200rpm) is quoted:
Sequence I/O: 600MB/s
Random I/O: 100KB/s
Therefore, by only doing Sequence I/O, Kafka has greatly improved its performance.
Consider a scenario where a web program reads the content of a file and transmits it to the network. The core code implemented is as follows:
Figure 2 Ordinary read method
Although there are only two calls, it has undergone 4 copies, including 2 cpu copy, and multiple context switches between user mode and kernel mode, which will increase the burden on the cpu, and zero copy is to solve this low effect.
One way to reduce the number of copies is to call mmap() instead of read():
The application program calls mmap(), the data on the disk will be copied to the kernel buffer through DMA, and then the operating system will share this kernel buffer with the application, so there is no need to copy the contents of the kernel buffer to user space . The application program then calls write(), and the operating system directly copies the contents of the kernel buffer to the socket buffer, and finally sends the data to the network card.
Figure 3 mmap method
Using mmap can reduce one cpu copy, but it will also encounter some traps. When your program maps a file, but when the file is truncated by another process, the write system call will be SIGBUS because of accessing illegal addresses. The signal is terminated. Usually, it can be solved by establishing a signal processing program for the SIGBUS signal or using file leasing, so I won’t repeat it here.
Starting from version 2.1 of the kernel, Linux introduced sendfile to simplify operations
Figure 4 sendfile method
The sendfile() method causes the DMA engine to copy the content of the file to a read buffer (DMA copy), then the kernel copies the data to the socket buffer (cpu copy) and finally to the network card (DMA copy). Using sendfile not only reduces the data copy The number of times, also reduces the context switch, data transfer always only occurs in the kernel space
Talking about this, sendfile needs at least one cpu copy, so can this step be omitted? In order to eliminate all data duplication done by the kernel, we need a network interface that supports gather operations. At the same time, in kernel version 2.4, the socket buffer descriptor has also been modified to meet the zero-copy requirements. This method not only reduces multiple context switches, but also completely cancels the cpu copy.
Figure 5 sendfile method (DMA gather)
The sendfile system call uses the DMA engine to copy the content of the file to the kernel buffer, and then adds the buffer descriptor with file location and length information to the socket buffer. This step does not copy the data in the kernel to the socket buffer. In, the DMA engine will copy the data in the kernel buffer to the protocol engine, avoiding the last CPU copy.
Zero copy technology is very common, and the transferTo and transferFrom methods of JAVA are Zero Copy.


By Nashra Ahmed:
Not long ago, my uncle and aunt had come all the way from Lucknow to pay us a visit here in Delhi. We had a small gathering at an uncle’s house and amidst the light gossiping and fun talk, all of a sudden, somebody raised a topic on gender equality in today’s generation.
Whoa! I thought finally I could give my opinions and speak on this. But the thoughts of my aunt and even my own mother, whom I always considered to be very liberal just forced me to stay mum; still. They said that nowadays so many divorce cases are being witnessed only on the grounds that the wife is earning more or is far more successful than her husband. And even if the couple is perfectly fine with it, the society won’t let them accept it.
I was like, really? The society is made up of narrow minded people like us, who ourselves cannot accept the fact that women have the capability to work outside home and successfully support the family in financial terms and the husband too can take care of the house properly. It’s all in our heads and not anywhere outside. It seems like there is a heavy book of codes based on which the society works! Till when will we keep blaming the society, when it’s our own minds that require the necessary programming?
On seeing our surroundings, we have just accepted the fact that no matter how successful a girl becomes, it’s her duty to pick up that tray of cups kept on the table and take it to the kitchen without instructions. This is not a natural instinct. It’s all about upbringing. A girl in a middle class family is being taught as soon as she is about 10-years-old or so that she should ask the guests whether they need water or tea. And that they should go ahead to make it and serve them. This is to be followed by taking the cups to the kitchen if servants are not around.
On seeing that, young boys tend to start believing that no matter what, in no case is this a boy’s duty. This all starts from a very young age, be it boys or girls. And there is also another side to it. Some say that homemakers are ‘innocent’ and are incapable of doing anything other than the usual household chores. It might completely be her decision to take care of her family and be meaningful to society in her own way.
We shouldn’t stereotype either women or men.


Dates: 07/09/2021 – 08/01/2021
Time: Friday films begin at 7 p.m., and Sunday showings are at 2 p.m.
Location: Alabama Theatre
For more information: alabamatheatre.com
After a tough year for the historic Alabama Theatre, we’re so excited to see the beloved Summer Film Series return. Grab the family and head to one of Birmingham’s most iconic theaters to enjoy a classic favorite, including Grease, The Princess Bride, Singin’ in the Rain, and more. Admission to each movie is $10. Friday films begin at 7 p.m., and Sunday showings are at 2 p.m.


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Google Officially Introduces Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), Tailors It For Tablet Use
The new version of the operating system was introduced alongside of the new Android Market Website, which also opened up today. Android 3.0 has been "completely redesigned," with interactive notifications and widgets, improved multi-tasking, and the latest and greatest Google Mobile services optimized for tablets. That's an important clarification. There had been rumors for some time now that Android 3.0 would be tailored for tablets, and that is indeed the case. This also is important for potential tablet buyers; if you're in the market for an Android 2.2 tablet (like the Galaxy Tab), we'd now recommend holding off until Honeycomb takes the stage. Tablets aren't cheap, and you'd probably rather have one with a version of Android that is specifically built to work well on larger, touch-based displays.
Google also took the opportunity to showcase 17 beta apps for Honeycomb, including software from Quickoffice, TouchType, Time Magazine, Zynga, Weatherbug and Google Body. The company is promising more details at MWC later this month in Spain, and hopefully a whole slew of Android 3.0 devices will be there on display. The future of Android has arrived; now, will Apple raise the ante once more if/when they introduce a new iPhone this summer? Got to love that competition!


LAHORE:Inspector General Police Punjab Dr Usman Anwar has said that the health welfare of the police force is the first priority, for which measures will be continued on a priority basis with the effective use of available resources.
The IG Punjab has released more than Rs3.8 million in connection with the ongoing measures for the health welfare of the force.According to the details, on the instructions of IG Punjab Dr
Usman Anwar, for medical expenditure, funds have been released to officers and personnel of various districts, including Lahore.Constable Tariq Mehmood of Lahore Police, who lost his leg in a traffic accident, was given Rs0.3 million for treatment.
Naseem Bibi, wife of Shaheed Constable Khadim Hussain, was given Rs250,000 for backbone treatment, driver constable Muhammad Abbas was given Rs200,000 for eye surgery, while the remaining amount was given to 17 other police officials for treatment of various ailments.
The committee chaired by Additional IG Welfare Muhammad Riaz Nazir Gada had sent the above-mentioned cases to IG Punjab for release of funds. IGP said that the well-known consultant doctors in the Police Welfare Hospital Qila Gujjar Singh were providing the best treatment facilities to the police personnel and their families on a daily basis.
Agreements have been inked with the best cancer, liver and kidney treatment hospitals, including Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute. DrUsman Anwar added that after the health screening of the entire force, vaccination and treatment are continuing without interruption in all the districts of the province.


Thursday, March 11, 6:30 – 8:30 PM
Worcester Technical High School
1 Skyline Drive, Worcester
The meeting will include information about the project and the different bridge types being evaluated as part of the federal and state environmental assessment process. The project team and MassDOT will also summarize comments received to date, answer questions, and gather public comment on the design alternatives.
The Kenneth F. Burns Memorial Bridge project is part of Governor Deval Patrick's historic eight-year, $3 billion Accelerated Bridge Program to repair or replace structurally-deficient bridges across the Commonwealth.
If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Stephanie Boundy, 617-973-8049 or Stephanie.Boundy@state.ma.us. Learn more about the Accelerated Bridge Program.
Fore River Bridge Project Milestone posted on Jul 29
The Fore River Bridge Replacement Project in Quincy-Weymouth continues during the summer of 2014 with installation of the permanent bridge components along with a new milestone: arrival of the new bridge steel sections. The view above shows the progress made at the Quincy tower location. …Continue Reading Fore River Bridge Project Milestone
Green Line Extension: Public Meeting July 31 posted on Jul 28
A City of Somerville and MBTA Green Line Extension Public Meeting regarding Medford Street Bridge construction has been scheduled for the following: Thursday, July 31, 6:00pm, Public Safety Building, 220 Washington Street, Somerville. Green Line Extension construction is underway and will involve periodic traffic impacts …Continue Reading Green Line Extension: Public Meeting July 31
MBTA: New WiFi System Announced posted on Jul 24
Under a new license agreement signed today by MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott, a state-of-the-art WiFi system will be installed throughout the MBTA’s sprawling network of fourteen Commuter Rail lines. At no cost to the MBTA or its customers, inMOTION Wireless, Inc. will build a …Continue Reading MBTA: New WiFi System Announced


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