What is 1980彩平台 Office Modernization?
1980彩平台 Office modernization is the initiative to reimagine the entire Office by (1) building a new enterprise IT system designed to be more flexible and easy for users to use, (2) modernizing supporting IT systems, and (3) further ensuring that Office practices and processes are efficient and productive.
Enterprise 1980彩平台 System
One of modernization’s key goals is to develop a new enterprise IT system that integrates and improves all of the Office’s technology systems, which we are calling the Enterprise 1980彩平台 System (ECS). Specifically, the ECS will include the Office’s registration, recordation, public record, and licensing IT systems, among other functions.
The ECS design system will be shared across all applications, giving users a consistent and optimal interface. Additionally, the ECS will include shared platform services, which are central sets of capabilities that support multiple business services (for example, using the same email, payment, authentication, and event systems).
The Office is focused on making sure that the ECS is easy for users to navigate. A user-centered and flexible design, which takes into account streamlined business processes and policies, will provide better access to the Office’s main services.
The Office will create a user-centric, flexible, and modern application to replace the existing registration system. This will include developing both the public-facing functions and the internal Office examination review and correspondence functions. Doing this work expands and improves our services, reduces errors and the need for correspondence, and improves the internal user experience across all Office business units. We anticipate that the registration application development will follow this timeline:
- Fall 2017—begin user outreach for registration claimants.
- Summer 2019—begin user outreach for examiners, supervisors, and managers.
- Fall 2019—begin foundational development of a limited application.
- 1980彩平台—begin development of the reimagined Standard Application question flow:
- Fall 1980彩平台—begin user testing of registration prototype.
- Winter 1980彩平台/21—registration public prototype release 1.
- Spring 2021—registration public prototype release 2.
- 2021—continue iterative development to support the Standard Application and internal system development. Begin prototype development for supplemental registration and preregistration.
The Office will replace the current paper-based, manual recordation services with an automated system that enables web-based submissions and creates an updated workspace for Office staff to review and validate submissions while using a modular design to enable efficient growth, development, and integration of other ECS applications. We anticipate that recordation modernization will follow this timeline:
- Initial pilot released to the public spring 1980彩平台.
- Selected external users review and assess the recordation pilot system.
- Modular design integrates other ECS enterprise solution modules.
- Limited functionality to test new ideas and concepts.
- User feedback incorporated into subsequent pilot releases that will expand functionality.
The Office will replace the existing System of Public Records with a significantly enhanced new portal. The new portal will provide access to more copyright records for both registration and recordation data, enhanced search capabilities, and interfaces for internal and external use. Over time, the Public Records development activities will integrate historical copyright public records into a modernized interface and will use the following timeline:
- Spring 2018—launch Virtual Card Catalog (VCC) proof of concept release 1.
- Summer 2018—launch VCC proof of concept release 2, enhancing search functionality.
- Spring 2019—launch VCC proof of concept release 3, adding more than 24 million card images to complete online card collection.
- Fall 2019—begin digitization of historical record books to allow online access.
- Fall 2019—begin development of a new 1980彩平台 Public Record Pilot to replace the existing online system.
- Fall 1980彩平台—launch 1980彩平台 Public Record Pilot, allowing users to review and assess the system.
The Office is reviewing current licensing processes and assessing whether the Office should make changes and develop new business requirements for an improved system. Planned work includes automating internal workflow and integrating financial processes with the Library’s financial management system. Potential work may include improvements to forms and submission methods. This process will use the following timeline:
- Fall 1980彩平台—begin development of user experience design and initial automated workflow.
Modernizing Supporting IT Systems
The ECS is just one part, albeit a large one, of the Office’s modernization efforts. The Office is also modernizing additional IT services, such as developing a business intelligence tool, updating public information capabilities, and improving tracking of physical materials.
Business intelligence is a capability that allows the Office to see, manipulate, and exploit the data that systems are generating. The Office will build a robust business intelligence (BI) tool that will aid in analyzing Office functions. Use of the BI tool will improve 1980彩平台 Office decision-making and service through analysis from a common, trusted data repository.
The Office’s Public Information Office (PIO) provides support to the public, answering public inquiries on copyright and Office services. Modernization activities will include updating the tools that PIO uses, for example, updating tools to improve analytics and streamline responses. Specifically, updating PIO technologies will include using a high-performing and high-quality, multi-channel customer contact center solution to support the copyright community and improve communications between Office staff and the public.
As the Office transitions to a new storage facility in 2021, it will implement a warehouse management system that optimizes warehouse operations and functionality, promoting timely and reliable services.
Non-IT Office Modernization
Modernization also involves updates to Office processes, organization, and culture.
The Office will integrate and improve its business processes, resulting in public services that are more user-friendly, flexible, and better able to accommodate future growth. This will include reviewing current business processes and staff responsibilities and recommending new methods and processes to reduce operational costs and improve business efficiencies via business process reengineering. This effort will be continuous throughout the ECS development process and will involve developing requirements for automated workflows and processes as needed and analyzing how these workflows interact with one another across divisions.
With all the various modernization work streams, it is important that the Office find ways to optimize its organizational structure and align personnel resources to the emerging needs that result from implementing the ECS and revised processes. To consider the organization and people aspects of modernization, the Office engaged the Office of Personnel Management’s Human Resources Solutions to perform an organizational analysis, workload assessment, and an associated position classification review.
Change management is a strategic goal of the 1980彩平台 Office, and organizational change management (OCM) provides us with tools to adapt to change. The OCM initiative at the Office involves the development of key change management processes and documents, staff training on change management practices, and strategic coaching on structuring and leading a complex business transformation. Staff training is underway to build an internal capability that supports continuous improvement in using OCM tools.


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|Age:||Five years old|
|Personality:||Kind, though he can sometimes be self-centered|
|Mate, Offspring, Friends, and Siblings|
|Favorite Food:||Anything that isn't sticky|
|Favorite Toy:||Anything feathery|
Pidove is a Normal and Flying type Pokemon of the Unova region. Pidove is a male in this case.
Pidove is first seen with his friend, Lillipup, during the battle with Zoroark and his evil gang of Pokemon. He and Lillipup are about to get crushed by a Druddigon, but Servine, Dewott, Prinplup, Marshtomp, Croconaw, and Emolga are seen protecting the two infants.
Pidove is later seen in the same battle fighting Zoroark's deputy, and Eelektross along with many other young Pokemon.

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A character from Casshern Sins who made her first and only appearance in Casshern Sins #7 - The Woman of the High Tower, Lizbell being the woman mentioned in the title.
A former worker at an abandoned parts factory. When the world fell into ruin, she sought to bring beauty to the desolate planet by building a bell tower and ringing it for all to hear. She is encountered by Casshern near the completion of her tower. She is infatuated with him, but was so determined to fulfill the task that now consumed her, she tried to kill Casshern to take parts from him to complete her precious bell tower. He thwarts her attempt on his life, of course, and scolds her for her selfishness. She seems ashamed of her attempt at murder.
She completes her tower still in time for Casshern to hear it. She seems to be in a state of awe as she rings it, as if unable to believe she finally completed it. The other robots at the factory, however, were not so happy. They are driven into a state of rage by the noise the bell makes and attack her, destroying her bell and throwing her from the tower.
She survives and again meets Casshern, who tells her that he heard her bell and that it brought him hope. She seems pleased with this.
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Watercress pesto with linguine. As I have some extra watercress at the house, I wanted to make something different.
It is a treat when our local store carries it, and I never pass up the opportunity to enjoy it in an old favorite dish or create a new one with it.
Sharp and peppery, the watercress is a great way to enhance any delicious pasta dish. Taking the classic pasta with pesto up a notch.
Homemade pesto is easy to make and takes a minute with your small food processor. Although always made with basil, here is my version with watercress.
In this Article
- What is a watercress?
- What can I do with fresh watercress?
- Do you eat the stems of the watercress?
- Selecting the best watercress
- How to prepare your watercress for cooking?
- What is pesto?
- Here are a few helpful tips for the ingredients needed
- Equipment you will need
- Cooking tips and step-by-step instructions to make this fabulous watercress pesto recipe:
- Can you make this ahead of time?
- Storage instructions and reheating
- If you enjoy this watercress pesto recipe with linguine, look at some of my other recipes!
- Watercress Pesto with Linguine
What is a watercress?
Watercress is a leafy green that grows in natural spring water. It has a very distinctive peppery taste to it.
Known to be one of the oldest leaf vegetables. It proliferates and is a perennial plant native to Europe and Asia.
Rich in potassium is one of the essential minerals in our body.
What can I do with fresh watercress?
Salads may be the obvious choice for fresh watercress. However, as you will discover here, the possibilities are endless.
Soup, sandwiches, sauces, pesto, and dips, are the perfect combination to use your watercress.
Smoothie for a rich vitamin-packed drink. Watercress contains potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc.
Do you eat the stems of the watercress?
The entire plant is edible. Leaves and stalks can be eaten raw or cooked.
The only part discarded is the roots that do not taste good.
Selecting the best watercress
Watercress is related to mustard greens. It grows wild in running water year-round. Look for crisp, dark green leaves without any blemishes.
If you see any flowers, it means the watercress will be bitter.
The watercress leaves must be bright green and not limp.
The season runs from September to May. Usually sold in stores with the hearth still attached in a bundle. This will keep them fresh.
How to prepare your watercress for cooking?
In an enormous container, fill it with cold water and rinse the watercress bundle. Add vinegar to your water to eliminate any tiny bacteria.
Cut the dirt bundle off and go thru all the leaves to ensure nothing is stuck in between.
If you eat it raw, use the small tender leaves. If you are cooking with it, you can use the whole bundle and not cook it too long.
What is pesto?
Typically a basil sauce originating from Genova, Italy. However, the word “pesto” derives from eh verb “pestare” which means to “crush.”
Therefore, pesto is typically made by crushing the ingredients in either a mortar or a food processor.
Variations from the original pesto abound. You can replace the basil with kale, spinach, arugula, and such as here with watercress.
One common denominator is that any basil replacement must have a tangy, peppery taste.
I enjoy eating fresh vegetables with my pasta.
Nothing more filling and delicious
Here are a few helpful tips for the ingredients needed
Watercress: usually sold in bunches with the soil still attached to it. Remove the dirt by cutting through it. Make sure your leaves are all evenly bright green and upright.
Garlic clove: a small clove complements the taste of the watercress. Adding more to your pesto is ill-advised as it will change the flavor, and the garlic will overpower your dish.
Parmesan Cheese: Finely grated Parmigiano adds another layer to your sauce. You can replace it with pecorino if none is on hand.
Pine nuts: A must! They are one of the key ingredients in the pesto. You can taste them as their flavor will stand out in this dish. Also, replace the pine nuts with walnuts or, better yet, add half of the pine nuts and half of the walnuts. You will enjoy the combination.
Olive oil: I enjoy Olio Santo and Bertolli oils. Both are not too heavy and do not change the flavor of food as some Extra virgin olive oil does. It is lighter in taste and easier to cook with.
Pasta: Linguine, fettuccine, penne, farfalle… I leave it up to you to choose the pasta of your liking. Do cook them al dente, meaning remove them a couple of minutes before thoroughly cooking. You still want to feel a bite when you bite into it.
Heavy cream: The secret arsenal to all pesto, the original Genovese, and here. The cream breaks down the bitterness and gives a softer flavor to your dish.
Equipment you will need
- A food processor is the fastest and easiest way to prepare this dish. You are done with all the ingredients, a few pulses, and voila, you are ready to enjoy it.
- Large pot to cook your pasta. Pasta needs water to boil and swirl around it.
- Use a colander to drain your pasta.
- Tongs or cooking spoons to mix the pasta, butter, and heavy cream.
- Serving plates. If you are preparing this dish for your friends and want them to serve themselves, use a large pasta dish. Otherwise, you can mix everything back in the pot where you just cooked the water and serve it on individual plates.
Cooking tips and step-by-step instructions to make this fabulous watercress pesto recipe:
As you can see, this recipe takes less than 30 minutes to prepare. While the pasta is cooking, you can prepare the pesto.
- Use a large and with high border pasta pot to cook your pasta in it. I am of the “do not break your linguine club.” Therefore I dump the pasta into the roaring boiling water and then mix.
- Clean well the watercress. Little specks of dirt can hide on the bottom leaves. Use a large bowl and do a couple of rinses. They may not be necessary, but you better be safe than have to bite on a speck of dirt.
- The food processor will do it all for you. I like to chop the watercress to facilitate the chopping process. Add all the ingredients and grind until a smooth paste is created.
- When the pasta is al dente, meaning it still has a bite, reserve one cup of water before draining. This water will come in handy if your pasta is too dry. The water contains natural starch and acts as a binding agent.
- No need to dirty another pan; once drained, place the pasta back into the cooking pan, add the butter and heavy cream, and mix well until the butter has melted.
- Reserve a couple of spoonfuls of pesto, add the remainder of the watercress pesto to the pasta, and mix well.
- Top with parmesan shavings.
Can you make this ahead of time?
Yes, you can. The pesto will store well in the refrigerator for up to three days.
Storage instructions and reheating
A glass jar with a tight-fit lid is always my choice. It lasts longer, and there is no odor remaining in the container.
If you use a container with a light-colored plastic lid, beware that the green pesto will stain your cover if it comes into contact.
Storing only the pesto: bring it back to room temperature before adding it to your pasta.
Storing with the pasta: Add the pasta with pesto in a small pan. Add a few tablespoons of water and warm up over medium-low heat. Cover to keep the heat in and for faster warming up. Stir occasionally, and be careful that it does not burn. Add more water and a small dollop of butter if too dry.
- Watercress can be substituted by using basil and making it the original pesto. Kale, as well as spinach.
- Pecorino for the Parmigiano cheese
- Walnuts can substitute pine nuts. Start with a lesser amount and increase it to satisfy your palate.
In regards to pasta, you can choose any type of pasta you wish with this dish. This sauce is thick and rich that it will stick to any pasta you select
If you enjoy this watercress pesto recipe with linguine, look at some of my other recipes!
Equipment and ingredients used to create this recipe.
Watercress Pesto with Linguine
- 1 bunch watercress
- 1 garlic clove
- 4 tablespoons parmesan cheese , + shavings
- ½ cup pine nuts
- ½ cup olive oil
- 1 pound linguine pasta
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Rinse the watercress and remove as many of you can of the thick stems.
- In a food processor, add the watercress, garlic, parmesan cheese, and pine nuts and chop until it becomes a puree. Slowly add the olive oil while the motor is running the food processor. You should have a creamy-thick green sauce
- Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a large, salted pot and cook it to al dente, a couple of minutes before recommended manufacturer cooking time.
- Save 1 cup of the cooking water. Drain the pasta and put it back into the cooking pot.
- Add the butter and heavy cream. Mix well and once the butter is melted, add some of the watercress pesto. Mix well and serve on a pasta plate.
- Add a spoonful of watercress pesto to each dish and top with parmesan cheese shavings.
Giangi’s Kitchen provides nutritional information, but these figures should be considered estimates, as a registered dietician does not calculate them.
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Kimbra rose to fame with the multi-platinum single “Somebody That I Used To Know” in 2011. At the age of 21, Kimbra had become a worldwide sensation and a Grammy Award winner. Kimbra has won several accolades for her euphonious voice and talented songwriting.
With a career that spans over two decades, Kimbra is one of the finest musicians in the industry. Kimbra is famous for her unique style of mixing R&B and Rock with Pop music. Currently, she’s working under one of the biggest labels in the world, Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc.)
On 27th March 1990, Kimbra Lee Johnson was born in Hamilton, New Zealand. Kimbra’s father, Ken Johnson, was working as the head doctor in the student health center of the University of Waikato. Whereas her mother, Chris Johnson, was an orthopedic nurse. Kimbra spent her childhood in Hamilton. For schooling, she was admitted to Hillcrest High School. During her childhood, she was not surrounded by a musical environment. However, she was inclined towards music from an early age. From the age of 10, she started writing songs. Seeing her interest in music, her father bought her a guitar at 12. After that, she was tutored for a few years.
At 14, Kimbra participated in the National Schools’ Musical Competition named Rockquest. It is a well-known annual music competition. Rockquest was the only youth music event for intermediate and high school bands to showcase their talent throughout New Zealand. Kimbra performed at the Rockquest competition with her guitar tutor. Although she had taken no singing lessons, she could grab second place in the renowned competition. After that, Kimbra joined the Hillcrest High Jazz Choir named Scat. She also got the opportunity to sing the national anthem at the Waikato Cup Race in front of 27,000 people who had gathered for the NPC Rugby Union Final. Throughout her school days, she actively participated in school productions. She was academically driven and a talented linguist.
Furthermore, she got the opportunity to be a presenter in a series of segments for the TVNZ kid’s show, What Now? For the piece, she met with the show’s producers, Rikki Morris and Stephen Small. After the meeting, Kimbra recorded her first-ever music video named Smile.
At 16, Kimbra recorded her second single, Simply on my Lips. She was still at school. The music video for the song featured Kimbra with her guitar in a simple yet starkly black and white effect. Joel Kefali directed the video. In the video, Kimbra was wearing a black dress and sitting in the corner of a room with her guitar. The walls of the room acted as a canvas for Joel’s drawings. The video was innovative and aesthetic. As a result, Kimbra won the Best Music Video Award at the Juice TV Awards. Following the success of her second single, she was noticed by Mark Richardson. Mark had previously worked with artists like Jamiroquai and Paula Abdul and had formed an independent label named Forum 5 in Melbourne, Australia. Mark invited Kimbra to Melbourne.
It was difficult for her because she was very close to her father. Even though her parents had always supported her throughout her music career, this decision was also difficult for them. After some time, the three came to one page, and Kimbra decided to move to Melbourne in 2008.
Upon reaching, Kimbra started working towards her debut album. Mark assigned her a team, and with the help of people on the team, she started the intricate task of songwriting. Her writing and singing were deeply influenced by Prince, Nina Simone, and Björk. After months of hard work, in June 2010, Kimbra released her first single under the Forum 5 label Settle Down. She had started writing the track at the age of sixteen. Finally, it was completed with François Tétaz’s input. The single was recognized by Perez Hilton, who featured the song on his website. He compared Kimbra to musical legends like Nina Simone and Björk.
2011-2013 Breakout Performance and Worldwide Recognition
2011 marked the release of Somebody That I Used to Know (a single from the Making Mirrors album featuring Kimbra). The track was released by the Australian music label Eleven Music. It was the second single from Belgian-Australian singer Gotye’s third studio album. The song was released in the UK and US by Universal Music. It topped the charts in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. It also reached the top 10 in more than 30 countries. Moreover, it became a Multi-Platinum song in 10 countries and sold more than 15 million copies worldwide. In 2013, at the 55th Grammy Awards, the song was nominated in two categories. Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. The song lifted the Grammys in both categories and won the Single of the Year, Best Video, and Best Male Artist awards at the ARIA Music Awards.
In 2014, after the Grammy Awards, Kimbra decided to move to Los Angeles, CA. She rented a house near a farm to work on her second studio album, The Golden Echo. Many celebrities collaborated with Kimbra on the album, including Mark Foster and John Legend. Warner Bros. Records released the album in August 2014. The album peaked at number 5 on the Australian and NZ Albums Chart. The following year, after the success of her second album, she went on a 12-show US tour in November.
2017 marked the release of Kimbra’s first single from her third studio album Primal Heart. The song was titled Everybody Knows. It was co-produced by Nelly Furtado. The following year, she released three more singles from the album before making the album public. Finally, on 20th April 2018, Kimbra released her third studio album. The album garnered pretty positive reviews. In 2019, Kimbra made her big-screen debut with Daffodils alongside Rose McIver and George Mason. During the pandemic, Kimbra launched an online course for music, followed by her appearance on TVNZ’s Pop Stars as the lead expert and mentor. Currently, she’s working on her fourth studio album.
Struggles After Success
In May 2022, Kimbra opened up about her struggles with depression, anxiety, and panic attacks. She shared her feelings through a post on Instagram. Kimbra revealed that she has been fighting long episodes of depression and anxiety, and sometimes it’s difficult for her to even get out of bed. She expressed how difficult it is to find the truth because so many people look up to her. She emphasized the importance of speaking up about mental illnesses and health issues.
How old is Kimbra?
Kimbra is 32 years old as of now.
Where is Kimbra from?
Kimbra is from New Zealand.
Is Kimbra married?
No, Kimbra is unmarried.


text: Health and safety are important factors in today’s life. Most of studies show that consuming the chicken that has anti biotic caused different diseases like digestive vessel cancer. Attention to controlled use of antibiotics can play a key role in society health which considered in the production of green chicken. Planning for increasing the production of mentioned chicken needs the investigation of consumers’ WTP. So, using double bound contingent valuation method and logit model, present study estimates consumers’ WTP for green chicken in Rasht city. Among the explanatory variables applied in logit model, income and education level had positive and significant effects on WTP for green chicken. Results revealed that average WTP for a kg of green chicken equals to 37279 Rials, and because this WTP does not compensate the production costs, government protection such as Green subsidy should be considered in order to expand green products consumption in Iran.

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Full Job Title: Respiratory Therapist
Job Number: 1710433
Location: Tinton Falls, NJ
Date Posted: 1-13-2017
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Tinton Falls seeks a full time Respiratory Therapist to work in our 60 bed hospital located just off GSP exit 105. The RT will work three 12 hour shifts, including every other weekend and rotating holidays.
HealthSouth Tinton Falls is Joint Commission accredited with 6 disease specific certifications in Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Stroke Rehabilitation, Parkinson's Rehabilitation, Hip Fracture Rehabilitation.
The Respiratory Therapist provides respiratory therapy treatment and patient care according to hospital, state, professional and federal regulations and guidelines. In additions, the position creates an environment and culture that enables the hospital to fulfill its mission by providing patient centered care and treatment in a safe manner.
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The federal government needs to start funding public transport, the industry lobby says as it releases a report showing the area around a new Sydney rail line has grown faster than the rest of the city.
The opening of the Epping to Chatswood line in 2009 helped spark a surge in activity in the Macquarie Park area, the report commissioned by the Tourism and Transport Forum says.
"This report shows for the first time the additional economic growth that public transport infrastructure delivers and means the debate over public transport funding is no longer ideological, it is economic," said Margy Osmond, the chief executive of the forum, which commissioned PricewaterhouseCoopers to study the opening of the Epping to Chatswood line.
Ms Osmond's report is being used by the transport industry to call on the federal government to change its policy on transport investment. Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the federal government would not fund urban public transport, but would fund urban motorways and other big road projects.
The state government, which is committed to numerous rail projects in Sydney, has welcomed this stance for the clarity it provides.
But Ms Osmond said the federal government should reconsider its position, because of the economic stimulus public transport projects can trigger.
The analysis of the opening of the Epping to Chatswood line, which in 2009 was the first major rail line to open in Sydney for two decades, shows the area around the Macquarie Park station had an extra 1.56-2.44 per cent economic growth a year after opening, even amid the global financial crisis.
Jobs growth around the rail line also grew faster than the rest of the city.
"These findings align with other case studies in the report, such as the impact of the opening of the City Loop in Melbourne and the Docklands Light Rail in London," Ms Osmond said.
The NSW government has said it would close the Epping to Chatswood line for up to seven months to extend it to Rouse Hill and the north-west rail link.
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070 Shake, also known as Danielle Balbuena, is a rapper and singer hailing from New Jersey. With a unique style that blends elements of hip-hop, rock, and alternative music, Shake has quickly become one of the most exciting up-and-coming artists in the world.
Shake first gained attention with her appearances on tracks by fellow New Jersey rapper Ralphy River. She has found fans in The 1975 and appeared on Kanye West’s 2018 album Ye. Her standout verse on the song Ghost Town helped cement her as a rising star.
In 2020, Shake released her debut album, Modus Vivendi to critical acclaim. The album features introspective lyrics and moody, atmospheric instrumentals, showcasing Shake’s ability to craft deeply personal and emotionally resonant music. The album was hailed as one of the best releases of the year and helped establish Shake as an undeniable talent.

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Updated at 6:05 p.m. ET
After the White House agreed to share information on its drone policies, the Senate Intelligence Committee today approved of John Brennan's nomination to serve as CIA director by a vote of 12 to 3.
Brennan's nomination now moves to the full Senate, where Republicans are expected to attempt to block it with a filibuster.
Republicans plan on trying to block the nomination primarily because of lingering questions over the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Brennan, President Obama's counterterrorism adviser and a 25-year CIA veteran, also faces questions over his position on torture. The White House, meanwhile, insists it is going to great lengths to answer senators' questions.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairman of the committee, said that the committee was finally able to approve of the nomination today after the White House agreed to give the committee access to all opinions from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel related to the targeted killings of American citizens. With access to those documents, as well as the additional details related to the Benghazi attacks that the administration is giving the committee, Feinstein said Brennan should be confirmed as CIA director.
"It was unfortunate these issues delayed the process, but I am confident that they have been resolved," she said in a statement.
Feinstein said later she expects Brennan to get the 60 votes of support needed to break a filibuster. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said he was one of the three committee members to vote against Brennan today. However, he added, "I don't intend to encourage a filibuster of Mr. Brennan, I think it will run its normal course and he will probably be confirmed."
Still, the administration's use of drones is still a matter of serious controversy tied to Brennan's nomination. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., had promised to hold up Brennan's nomination until he received answers on whether the U.S. could hit a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil with a drone strike. Brennan and Attorney General Eric Holder finally responded to his queries this week.
Holder refused to rule out the possibility of a strike on U.S. soil, which Paul said was "more than troubling." And while Brennan responded that the CIA could not authorize such an operation, Paul noted that Brennan failed to answer several other questions he had.
Meanwhile, other senators who are not on the Intelligence Committee are also pressing for more information on the Benghazi attacks. Sunday o, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., vowed to "stop" Brennan's confirmation until they received more details about the White House's handling of the Benghazi attack.
"John and I are hell-bent on making sure the American people understand this debacle called Benghazi," Graham said.
McCain also said on "Face the Nation" that in addition to questions on Benghazi, "I have some questions about torture."
During a tense hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee last month,that he raised "personal objections" to "some agency colleagues" while he was at the CIA about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding. He said he did not officially object to the use of those tactics because he was not at the time in the chain of command at the CIA. He insisted, however, that he considers waterboarding "reprehensible" and would not use the method if confirmed as CIA director.
On the Senate floor yesterday, Reid dismissed the GOP concerns as political theater.
"At a time when America faces so many threats abroad, it's crucial we have a talented and dedicated individuals like John Brennan leading our most prominent intelligence agency," he said. "Yet Republicans have, again and again, injected politics into the confirmation process - both when considering judicial nominees and, most recently, when considering Cabinet nominees."

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Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Wednesday announced the appointment of Randolph Legg as its U.S. President.
He succeeds Everett Hoekstra, who retired in December.
Legg will remain head of the Company’s U.S. commercial business while serving as president.
Legg held various commercial leadership roles in Boehringer Ingelheim’s Human Pharmaceutical division before moving to its Animal Health business in 2019 to lead the U.S. Pets Commercial team.
He is based at the U.S. headquarters of Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health in Duluth, Georgia.
Hoekstra retired after holding a variety of leadership roles at Boehringer Ingelheim.
As president of Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health in the U.S. for the last two years, he oversaw the final integration activities after Boehringer Ingelheim acquired Merial in 2017 to become the world’s second-largest animal health company.
Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health also is transitioning a key global manufacturing role from its global headquarters in Ingelheim, Germany, to the United States.
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Captain America: Civil War is still a few months out, but a lucky few have already seen some early cuts of the film. Sebastian Stan, who plays Winter Solider, is among that small group, and he has nothing but good things to say.
In an interview with Collider, Sebastian Stan was asked if he'd seen the film already. He has viewed an early cut, and as you can see in the video, was quite enthusiastic about what we he saw.
“I sat there and basically there was a bowl of candy and fruit and gum in front of me and then there were sparkling waters and I basically sat on the edge of my couch the entire time and ate through the entire bowl of candy. I was overly stimulated with this movie, which I’m so proud to be in because everyone is f****** awesome in it. Everyone is f****** fantastic. I walked out of it speechless, and I worked on the movie and I was there! I walked out of there and I had back pain from leaning.”
Never let it be said he doesn't suffer for his job, as now he is riddled with a sugar high and back pain because of Civil War. On a serious note though, the buzz has been overwhelmingly positive about the film, though the rest of us will just have to wait till it releases on May 6th to see if the buzz is warranted.


Google may end up in ‘Patent War II’
According to the IT industry on Sunday, Apple decided to call Andy Rubin, vice president of Google, to testify in the second patent suit starting March 31 in San Jose District Court in California.
Rubin is the founder of Android, which designed and manufactured the mobile operating system (OS). He is also known to have worked at Apple for two years, at Microsoft for two years and at Google for eight years.
Apple is calling on Rubin as a witness to determine the similarities between Google’s Android OS installed in Samsung smartphones and Apple’s iOS.
“Apple’s attorney will investigate whether Rubin has used Apple’s iOS as a reference or guide and eventually claim that Samsung’s Galaxy copied Apple’s iPhone,” said an IT industry source.
The trial of the first case, which Apple filed in April 2011, ended on March 6 as the court awarded the iPhone maker $929 million in damages relating to six patents. The court decided that Samsung had violated Apple’s user interface.
However, Samsung’s infringement was not recognized anywhere else in the world.
In the second litigation, Apple claims Samsung infringed on five functions: data tapping, which identifies specific data to process; unified search; data synchronizing between PCs and smartphones; the unlock by sliding function; and automatic word completion.
However, these functions were not developed by Samsung but are included in Google’s Android OS. Furthermore, Samsung and Google signed a cross-licensing agreement in January.
It will be nearly impossible for Google not to get involved in Apple’s attack on Android. Google’s Vice President of Engineering Hiroshi Lockheimer and Google’s software engineer will be called to testify for Samsung.
After all, Apple began the second patent litigation with the purpose of attacking the whole Android camp.
Apple founder Steve Jobs expressed extreme disapproval of Android during his lifetime.
In his biography released in 2011, Jobs even said he would engage in thermonuclear war if it was to destroy Android.
Apple is requesting $40 in royalties for each Samsung smartphone. In the first patent litigation trial, the award was set at $7.14 in royalties per device.
The patent litigations ahead will likely be a repeat of the tedious process seen in the previous litigations.
Although the verdict of the first litigation came in three years, Samsung and Apple both challenged the ruling in U.S. appeals court on the same day. In addition, they expanded the litigation to the second round.
It means that it might take a few more years to see the final conclusion. However, there is a possibility both sides could make agreements during the patent war.
“Apple and Samsung could cease litigation at any time when they both decide there is no more benefit from the lawsuit, as the flagship products of the market are moving from smartphones to cars and health care products,” said a source at a mobile communications company.
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The next chapter in Peter Parker’s journey as the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, trying to take a vacation…
Thwips into theaters July 5th, 2019
Color me unsurprised, but The CW has ordered up a pilot for a Batwoman series starring Ruby Rose (Orange Is the New Black) after the character appeared in the most recent Arrowverse crossover event. David Nutter, who directed the pilot episode of sibling show The Flash, will direct with a script from Caroline Dries (Smallville, The Vampire Diaries).
This would make the first openly gay lead series character in a live-action superhero series. Batwoman/Kate Kane (Rose) appeared in the three part “Elseworlds” crossover event spread across Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl, helping Gotham as a highly-trained street fighter but must face her own demons before she’s willing to take on the mantle of hero.
Dries, Nutter, Berlanti Productions’ Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and former DC Entertainment president Geoff Johns will executive produce.
Legendary comic creator Stan Lee, who created Marvel Comics with Jack Kirby in 1961 and launched Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four, The Avengers, Black Panther and many many more, passed away early today, according to TMZ. He was 95.
In failing health in recent years he still did his best to meet with the fans, even coming to Boston Comic Con in 2017 not long after the passing of his wife, Joan. Questions surfaced more recently, however, about his managers and allegations of elder abuse, which more recently seemed to be resolved.
It is with great sadness that we mourn the godfather of the current cinematic era. Tears will be shed when we see his final cameo. Excelsior!
Steve Ditko, a comic book artist who co-created with Stan Lee the characters of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange, passed away. He was found in his apartment in New York on June 29th. He was 90.
He started out studying under Batman artist Jerry Robinson at the Cartoonists And Illustrators School in New York City, and in 1953 he went to work for Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. He created the character of Captain Atom in 1960 for Charlton Comics. He also drew for Atlas Comics (which became Marvel Comics in 1961), where he worked with Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. He left Marvel in 1966 and went back to Charlton, later DC Comics, returning to Marvel in 1979, and retired in 1998.
Stan Lee, who was hospitalized on Wednesday for an irregular heartbeat, was released from Cedars Sanai hospital yesterday and reports that he is “feeling great”.
“All I really want to do is tell you that I’m feeling great,” Lee told KABC via Skype. “I’m glad I spent that evening in the hospital. It did me a lot of good, now I’m home and looking for new trouble we get in to. You know, the usual…I figured that a little check up wouldn’t be bad for me. And in fact it turned out to be pretty good, it got me a lot of publicity. I didn’t realize the whole world worried if I was in the hospital of not.”
We do, Generalissimo.
The 95-year-old creator of so many comic book characters that have become central to the biggest blockbusters of recent years, has kept on the go with a seeming non-stop run of convention appearances.
The Flash’s longtime ally Elongated Man – a.k.a. Ralph Dibny – will be joining the team on the CW’s The Flash this season as a recurring character, played by Hartley Sawyer (Glory Daze, Miss 2059).
Elongated Man has the ability to stretch his body to extremes. In the comics he gained this ability by refining a drink that was popular among the contortionists he admired. Presumably in the show it will be related in some way to the accident at Star Labs – in fact, he was named in the first season as one of the people presumed dead from the accident.
Marvel Entertainment released the full trailer for Thor: Ragnarok last night during the Marvel panel, and our friends at Inside The Magic have a nice summary video of the panel…you can see both below!
Remember that lawsuit filed almost two years ago which claimed that Marvel Studios ripped off elements from a comic called Radix for their modern take on Iron Man? Well, it hasn’t gone away just yet – it’s just transformed.
Early last year the court in Massachusetts denied the case based on jurisdiction, but the plaintiffs, brothers Ben and Ray Lai, owners of Horizon Comics Productions, refiled on April 4th, 2016 in New York. On Monday, U.s District Court Judge J. Paul Oetken issued a ruling on Marvel’s motion to dismiss the suit, dismissing portions of the complaint but allowing others to proceed.
In the ruling, Judge Oetken notes that several parts of the complaint revolve around elements that Marvel called “unprotectable” under copyright, and the court agreed. A “highly mechanized suit of armor” was one, as it was too vague, as was the “three point landing” pose that was common between a poster for Iron Man 3 and some Radix promotional artwork. The pose, frankly, is so utterly common it’s now a cliché and is even referred to as “scènes à faire” or an obligatory scene in the ruling, and despite the plaintiffs assertions that Iron Man originally wore spandex and minimal armor, he wore power armor well before Radix existed, and even when he first debuted in 1963. As those elements are unprotectable, they cannot be considered as part of the test for “substantial similarity” for the case.
Some elements, however, may be protectable in comparing the images, notably things like hairstyles, style of the suit, the use of blue lights in the suit, etc. and Judge Oetken will allow the complaint to proceed “in part”. However, with what seems to remain in the complaint to press on, it still looks like an uphill battle that got even steeper for the plaintiffs.
After almost 13 years in Hollywood purgatory, a feature film based on J. Michael Straczynski’s maxi-series comic Rising Stars may finally move forward.
We last heard about a movie based on the comic in 2003, when we learned that everything was on hold due to a dispute between writer JMS and Top Cow Productions, the comic producer, over rewrites that possibly violated WGA rules (and common courtesy) and radically changed the story, and even halted the production of the comic, with the final 3 issues not being released for a couple years.
Now it seems that things are on the movie again with MGM optioning the rights for a feature film, with JMS writing a new script and Atlas Entertainment’s Alex Gartner and Richard Suckle producing, along with JMS under his Studio JMS shingle.
Rising Stars is the story about 113 people born after the appearance of a mysterious comet. These people, dubbed “Specials”, are born with unique abilities. The story explores how society reacts to the Specials, and the Specials to society – and themselves.
LNL Partners, whose proprietary Cinematic Graphic Novels™ was introduced this past summer with William Shatner’s Man O’ War, has launched a special William Shatner imprint entitled Shatner Singularity. In addition to publishing works authored by William Shatner in LNL’s Cinematic Graphic Novel™ format, Shatner Singularity will also offer the latest graphic novel from comic book legend Stan Lee and his company POW! Entertainment.
The specific individual titles from William Shatner and Stan Lee will be revealed during a much-anticipated panel presentation featuring the two pop culture giants to be held at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo on Sunday, November 1 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
“We are thrilled to unveil the Shatner Singularity imprint and its debut releases from William Shatner and Stan Lee at Stan Lee’s Comikaze Expo. The team at LNL Partners has enjoyed the privilege of working directly with these two legendary industry icons to deliver to fans worldwide Cinematic Graphic Novels, a new and innovative way to enjoy comic book entertainment. Publishing Stan Lee and his newest literary work under the imprint adds yet another level of tremendous excitement to the Shatner Singularity brand,” said Mariano Nicieza, LNL Partners Co-Owner.
“With its Cinematic Graphic Novels™ LNL Partners has created a unique new genre. After proving to be a powerful and compelling platform for Man O’ War, I am delighted to have the format serve to showcase other works under the Shatner Singularity imprint. It is a particular joy and honor for my imprint to host work from my friend Stan Lee. As Stan himself is fond of saying, ‘nuff said’!” said Shatner.
“I’m thrilled to be working with my friend William Shatner’s new imprint. I look forward to sharing details of my new project at Comikaze Expo!” said Lee.
Jointly developed by LNL and Panelfly, the Cinematic Graphic Novel format delivers a groundbreaking form of digital comics that combines moving panels, a new stylistic dimension in animation, in-story sound effects and a music soundtrack to usher in an enhanced reading experience.


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Prediction of Ground Water Levels in Uplands of Coastal Tropical Riparian using PSO-SVM
Wetlands are considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. For the efficient management and proper development of a coastal tropical riparian, the behavior of ground water levels in uplands should be studied. Depending on the water levels in uplands, the surface water level on the nearby wetlands also changes, and sometimes changes the entire structure of wetlands. Computational Intelligence techniques such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM) along with optimization techniques such as Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) etc., can be used to develop a mathematical model for predicting the ground water levels in uplands. In the present paper, hybrid model PSO-SVM has been used with different kernel functions for the prediction of the ground water levels in the uplands of Padre Wetland in Surathkal, Mangalore, India. It was found that PSO-SVM tool with B-spline kernel function gives higher regression coefficients and also a stable model for the prediction of ground water levels in these uplands.
PSO-SVM, Coastal tropical riparian, Ground water levels, Wetlands, Uplands
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Please join us for discussion: The Critical Theory of Art as Technology.
Chris Cutrone teaches in the Departments of Art History, Theory and Criticism and Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is an Instructor at the Institute for Clinical Social Work and was a longtime lecturer in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago, where he completed the PhD degree in the Committee on the History of Culture and the MA in Art History. His doctoral dissertation was on Adorno’s Marxism. He received the MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the BA from Hampshire College. He is also a writer and media artist committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. He is the original lead organizer of the Platypus Affiliated Society, an international Marxist educational project.
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The Relevance of Critical Theory to Art Today by Christopher Cutrone for The Platypus Affiliated Society
Critique of Revolutionary Art: Trotsky, Benjamin, Adorno, and Greenberg by Christopher Cutrone for Caesura
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One of the recurring styles of recent designer platform and tool releases, particularly around . INTERNET, is designer productivity. That’s not surprising, considering the present financial environment and its effect on staffing levels. We’ve all been tasked to do more with less.Microsoft and the.NET Structure just recently launched the most recent version of their cross-platform advancement structure,. NET 8. In advance of the launch, I took a seat to talk with Gaurav Seth, partner director of product, developer platforms, at Microsoft, about the new release and about how he sees designers using.NET 8 in their daily tasks.Because.NET 8 is a Long Term Assistance release, it’s most likely to be adopted by most.NET advancement groups, who will anticipate the platform to work well for them until the next LTS release,. INTERNET 10. Like . INTERNET 6 before it,. INTERNET 8 mixes new features with enhanced tools, concentrating on common delivery patterns and supporting brand-new methods of working.Deploying much faster, with enhanced containers A crucial focus has actually been on infrastructure, specifically around the quickly growing cloud-native work. One area that I’ve touched on in previous posts is.NET’s container images. These have continued to be optimized, building on distro-less, ripped images to speed up downloads and to increase the density of services on a host.That last point is not one we usually think of, but it’s going to have a considerable effect on both the scalability and expense of cloud-native applications. If you can utilize fewer resources to run an application without any impact on its performance, then you have the ability to improve the economics of your code.The numbers are outstanding. A compressed, chiseled Ubuntu 22.04 image is now only 48MB, with a cut runtime of just 16MB.
It’s small storage and memory footprint will permit you to accelerate autoscaling of.NET resources in Kubernetes and try brand-new builds without awaiting images to download from your construct system’s repository. Making code more readable One subtle impact of the brand-new release is a set of enhanced language constructs that make C# code more understandable. Streamlining code significantly enhances maintainability, especially for big jobs maintained by large development groups. An easier-to-parse syntax permits developers brand-new to the code to understand it faster, minimizing the time to a fix.As Seth informed me, “Which’s the journey we’ve been on. How do we keep eliminating that boilerplate? How do we keep making it easier and easier and easier and achieve a lot more with less lines of code that you have to compose?
“He explains it as a push to a very little pattern, utilizing the underlying platform to drive simplification in the languages it powers. For the majority of us, that implies improvements in C#, however we’ll see aspects of these brand-new features across the entire steady of.NET languages. Opinionated cloud-native development While much of the.NET 8 release has been public for a long time now, through a series of release prospects and sneak peek versions of Visual Studio, there’s still space for some surprises. This time it’s the unveilingof.NET Aspire, which Seth refers to as an opinionated stack for developing cloud-native applications
with.NET.You can think of.NET Aspire as a platform-level equivalent to tools like Dapr or Radius, giving you the scaffolding and guardrails needed to develop microservices-based applications on any public cloud.”It’s a golden paved path,”Seth told me.”It will feature a set of curated elements and tooling, and supports resiliency, manageability, and observability.”Seth suggests that.NET Aspire aims to be for.NET what Spring Boot is for Java. In any case,. Web Aspire starts to fill a big space in.NET’s tools technique. For a platform that’s utilized in many business jobs, it’s surprising that.NET does not supply any enterprise-specific tooling or frameworks, leaving you to transform the wheel with every major task. With its ready-to-use opinionated technique,. NET Aspire must simplify life for many business designers, allowing them to focus on providing excellent code, fast.A preview of.NET Aspire is shipping as part of the.NET 8 release, with a full release due in Spring 2024. The toolkit includes a starter app that assists you stand up your first Aspire job and check out Aspire’s functions. Along with.NET 8 you’ll require the most recent Visual Studio sneak peek release to develop Aspire applications. There is fundamental assistance for the.NET CLI, and support for the C# Dev Set for Visual Studio Code is prepared. Starting with.NET Aspire Creating your first.NET Aspire application provides you a front-end Blazor web app and a business reasoning service. Along with these are 2 new job types, an AppHost and a set of ServiceDefaults. You can think of these as the orchestration engine for your.NET distributed applications.The AppHost is where you specify your application containers and other assistance tools, including connection strings, while ServiceDefaults hold all the service-centric functions utilized for app discovery and for telemetry, so you have one location to link your management and observability tools . These consist of OpenTelemetry endpoints and standard.NET medical examination. ServiceDefaults also enable service discovery, so your APIs can be utilized by other parts in your dispersed environment.The default templates offer the fundamental structure of a.NET Aspire application. You can utilize the two available beginners to build your own apps, either
using the basic sample to provide you a foundation to develop on, or using just the essentials and developing your own front-end and back-end elements from scratch.One helpful feature in the AppHost is the capability to quickly configure assistant applications from your code, for example including containers with databases and other application services. This approach allows your applications to self-orchestrate, utilizing AppHost to handle Kubernetes and other infrastructure services for you. Components that explain infrastructure services are offered through NuGet, so you can continue to use existing.NET tools, even while developing out dispersed application infrastructures. The. Internet Aspire component model is an effective tool, and there are currently components for a lot of typical Azure services, consisting of third-party services like Redis and PostgreSQL. As the design is open source, you
should anticipate to see extra services present quickly.A designer dashboard for.NET Unlike other parts of.NET,. Web Aspire has a designer dashboard. This is a crucial tool for dispersed application development, as it offers you one place to see crucial metrics for your application, without needing to leave your development environment to take a look at an observability suite or a monitoring platform( which are not likely to be part of an advancement environment, anyway ). When you run your advancement code you get a visual trace of your requests, along with access to logs. This provides you the details needed to optimize calls, and locate the reasons for downturns that might not show up utilizing standard debugging tools– especially when you’re tracking a reliance on third-party tools like Redis.One crucial advantage of using.NET Aspire is that, while it’s useful by itself, there’s the possibility of using it in synergy with other tools for building and running dispersed applications. For example, what if your platform engineering group was constructing application infrastructures and definitions in Radius, with code being dealt with in.NET Aspire and releases and sidecars in Dapr?As.NET Aspire is an open-source platform, we can anticipate to see
it evolve features that address other cloud-native scenarios beyond Azure. Thinking about AWS’s serverless platform hosts an active C# community, we could even see assistance for event-driven serverless applications, with tools that assist set up target environments and that use code generation tools to provide native.NET implementations of service APIs.With the launch of.NET Aspire and an entire host of other efficiency tools, it’s clear that.NET 8 intends to make it quicker and
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According to the report, the most cherished girlfriend of the Nigerian icon has given birth to a baby boy.
Dr Kemi Olunloyo broke the news with a congratulatory message whilst, Instagram blogger, ‘Instablog9ja’ shares her tweet.
Davido is yet to break the news or confirm the report.
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Michael Ford has two passions: hip-hop music and architecture. In fact, his master's thesis at the University of Detroit was titled "Cultural Innovation: Hip Hop Inspired Architecture."
Ford, an architect, designer and founder of BrandNu Design, has partnered with software design company Autodesk to start free architecture camps around the country that teach disadvantaged kids about design and urban planning — all through the lens of hip-hop. The camps also feature hip-hop stars, including singer and lyricist Nikki Jean (@nikkijean).
Jean and Ford (@HipHopArch) join Here & Now's Robin Young to talk about the camps and what they hope to achieve. Ford says he was inspired to start the camps when he had a lightbulb moment in a planning meeting for the city of Madison, Wisconsin.
“I noticed in that room there was a lack of diversity and youth,” he says. “And right there I realized that if we are talking about 20 years into the future, we should have youth involved in this planning initiative who will be living in their prime, 20 years from now.”
On how the hip-hop architecture camps work
Michael Ford: “It's a one-week intensive that challenges youth to explore architecture and the implications of architecture using rap lyrics as a way to diagnose some of the failures of architecture in black and brown communities across the country. We then challenge the youth to conceive and generate new architecture, once again, that's based on some of those same rap lyrics.”
On some of the rap lyrics that inspire the work
MF: “I think one of the best examples might come from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, their song, 'The Message.' That starts off with a critique of architecture.
“I oftentimes describe rap music as the post-occupancy evaluation of modernism … saying that once we design and construct a space, we oftentimes go back and see how successful that architecture may have been, and that evaluation allows us to design the next space even better. That hasn't happened with public housing, or it's happening on a very small scale. So I look at rap music as that unsolicited evaluation of architecture. So Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five in the first line, 'broken glass everywhere,’ he's talking about the environment that they're living in, which is totally different from the urban renewal that a lot of planners and architects thought they were bringing to cities of color. Other lyrics like Snoop Dog, 'the grass ain't green,' he's talking about the lack of trees.
“The overall plan for the housing projects was that this would be towers in a park. And what happened is that a lot of these towers existed in concrete jungles as opposed to the lush green environments that planners and architects thought they were creating.
“The Cross Bronx Expressway is a similar story to what has happened across the United States. It's a story that ultimately led to the creation of environments that necessitated the birth of hip-hop.”
"Rap has structure. The way you put together a song has a structure. And it's very easy to draw the parallel between the structure of a song and the structure of a building."Nikki Jean
On what Nikki Jean sees in the kids who attend the camps
Nikki Jean: “The most beautiful thing to see is the ‘aha moment’ where they grasp the interconnectivity between something as intangible as the music they love and something as tangible as the places they live.
“Rap has structure. The way you put together a song has a structure. And it's very easy to draw the parallel between the structure of a song and the structure of a building. And one of the amazing things that I learned through working with Michael is that architects, they're like, ‘Oh, what does it make you feel like when you walk in this building?’ They're trying to get a utility, and also … that beauty from it as well. And that's what we're trying to do as artists. That's the joy and the connection for the kids, too. They're like, ‘Oh, I was already talking about this. I already knew about this. I just didn't, I didn't know that I knew.’ I think that one of the things that is so captivating to young people with hip-hop is there is a rhythm. There is a cadence to it. But being exposed to Michael and having the opportunity to see the rhythm and the cadence and architecture as well allows them to more easily read their environment as a text and feel it the way they feel music.”
On how kids create models of communities using rap lyrics
MF: “They literally create a community that the density and the scale is based on their favorite rapper. So when we talk about heights, they're not picking an arbitrary height, say I want a building that’s five stories or a building that’s 13 stories. If your favorite rapper is Lupe Fiasco, the density of your community, this height of your buildings, are going to be based on Lupe Fiasco rhyme schemes. So the communities that they create are based on something that they already love.
“What we do is we look at every single word and syllable, and we create a very abstract diagram that charts the rhyme scheme of Lupe Fiasco. Let's say it's ‘Hip-Hop Saved My Life.’ ... And that chart, that diagram, that piece of art eventually becomes the building. So if Lupe Fiasco has a rhyme with words that have multiple syllables, that building may be a lot taller than a rhyme scheme that uses words with a single syllable. … So we’re literally converting lyrics into architecture.”
This rap video is a final project by kids who participated in the Austin, Texas, Hip Hop Architecture Camp in 2017.
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Buying a pet rabbit is a long term commitment - they can live 10+ years. If you want to get rid of your rabbit because he has behavioural issues then please look into other options first, he probably just needs neutering, handling differently, or just a little TLC. See our links page for more help and information sources.
If you haven't bought a rabbit yet, please research LOTS and think carefully first. Don't be tempted to buy one on impulse, nor with the thought that you can always rehome them if you decide you don't want them anymore. Thousands of rabbits are abandoned, given to rescue centres or change hands privately every year. Only buy pet rabbits (it would need to be a pair) if you know they will be part of the family as much as a dog would be.
What NOT to do when giving up a rabbit
If you have no other option but to rehome your pet, PLEASE do not dump them on rescue doorsteps, or even worse - set them free into the wild. They are domesticated animals and cannot survive on their own like their wild ancestors can. Abandoning an animal is an offence and anyone found guilty of doing so can be banned from keeping animals for a fixed period or life. Advertising your rabbit on the internet or in the newspaper as 'free to a good home' attracts the wrong kind of attention, so please avoid this.
The correct way to rehome your rabbit
- Phone your local rescue who may either be able to take in your bunny and rehome him/her or direct you to someone who can,
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There really wasn’t a winner … or rather, there were only winners. The annual “A Company of Authors,” which we previewed here, is like the Dodo’s Caucus Race: “Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.” Alright, alright … there are no prizes, either, but everybody really does win.
That said, John L’Heureux‘s presentation of his latest, The Medici Boy, was clearly one of the highpoints of an afternoon that was full of them (some said it was the best “Company of Authors” year evah). So much so that I began taking notes against my better instincts – my home is cluttered with wads of papers filled with unused notes, whatever will I do with them? L’Heureux said that we know little about the origins of Donatello‘s bronze David, unlike most of his works that we can pin to an approximate date and a commission. Not so with this mysterious work, which L’Heureux called “a revelation.”
I was the last moderator on the final panel of the long afternoon. Hence, by the time I staggered out into the Stanford Humanities Center lobby where the Stanford Bookstore was selling copies of the featured books, much buying and selling had already taken place. However, one book had vanished entirely. You guessed it. L’Heureux’s The Medici Boy was suddenly a Stanford best-seller. No surprise, perhaps. The Washington Post said of the book and its author: “His luminous prose, swift narrative, love of art history and cool eye for human weakness make this one a pleasure to read.”
Although I had arrived too late to purchase a copy, there had been a small bonus book added to each purchase, and one or two left over. So in the spirit of the Caucus Race (“all shall have prizes”), I got a free copy of Dikran Karaguezian‘s Conversations with John L’Heureux, published by Stanford’s CSLI Publications in 2010 – and with an excellent introduction by Tobias Wolff, too. Here’s what L’Heureux said about The Medici Boy five years ago:
“Way back in 1999 on my first trip to Florence I had the good fortune to visit the Accademia and the Bargello on the same day, which meant I got to see Michelangelo‘s David in the morning and Donatello’s David in the afternoon. They provided me with a good close-up contrast. I was astonished at the Michelangelo – it’s vast and overwhelming – and I was embarrassed by the Donatello. I didn’t know where to look. The statue is so unashamedly naked. And erotic, with an eroticism that is quite calculated, I think. It asks to be looked at. It asks to be touched. I knew absolutely nothing about Donatello at that time, but one look at the David convinced me that Donatello knew exactly what he was doing and went ahead and did it anyway. …
“I concluded first that there’s a story here. That whoever modeled for this David meant more to Donatello personally than the models for Saint George or Saint Louis. Donatello gives the statue an audacity, a sexual defiance, that I’m sure he captured from the model. It’s not superimposed. It’s there in the boy posing for him. And their relationship, I concluded, was by its nature designed to break his heart. …
Q: It sounds as if you must have done a lot of research for this book.
“Actually research for this thing is an endless process. I never really intended to write the book even though I began keeping notes for it as early as 1999. I thought of it as a project for my old age, something I could keep noodling away at right up to the moment of my death … or my being sent doddering and drooling to Casa Sayanara … and when people would ask, ‘Are you working on a new book?’ I would reply, ‘Oh yes, a long term project on Donatello.’ And then I’d leave a pile of notes and nothing more at my death, but I’d have been able to kid myself that I was still at work.
Truth be told, I have the same misgivings, that at my death my survivors will find only piles and piles of confused and disorganized papers and notes. So I was relieved that the bookstore also carried a few books by some of the panel moderators at “A Company of Authors” – and Humble Moi was among them. So at least one series of efforts will not be entirely lost to time. The featured book was one of my earlier efforts, Czeslaw Milosz: Conversations. While I can’t say that the small stack of my book flew off the shelves, the pile was slightly shorter when I left, which was gratifying.
One of my favorite quotes from the book: “I feel that the greatest asset that my part of Europe received in the history of the twentieth century, the privilege of our being the avant-garde of inhumanity, is that the question of true and false, good and evil, became operative again. Namely, good and evil, true and false have not been discovered through philosophical discourse, but empirically, like the taste of bread.”


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The opportunity to run amok beside Lake Burley Griffin and get showered in a whole lot of fluoro paint is what it takes to get Canberrans out of bed early on a Sunday morning.
Organisers predicted up to 8000 runners pounded the pavement on the capital's northside for the Swisse Color Run on Sunday morning.
It was the second year the paint race, dubbed the "happiest five kilometres on the planet", has been held in Canberra.
Huge crowds made their way in a loop from Commonwealth Park while bombarded by 3000 kilograms of vibrantly coloured corn starch.
The run was followed by a party at the finish line where more coloured starch will be thrown into the air.
Race director Woody Sedgman said the event took around six months to organised including coordination with the National Capital Authority, staff and various contractors.
"This event has proved so successful because it's just a simple and fun idea," he said.
"It's about putting people in a position where it is not about competition but having fun and the colour element helps take people's inhibitions away – it makes sure they have a good time.
"It's about getting a good selfie and being funny with your friends and bringing out your inner child."
It seemed many Canberrans had such a good time they refused to clean themselves and proudly wore their coloured starch around town in the afternoon.
Since the first event in the United States in 2012, the Colour Run has become a worldwide phenomenon and been held in cities in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The event takes place all over Australia, with runs also scheduled for Melbourne, Queensland, Perth and Adelaide in coming months.
Mr Sedgman thanked everyone involved in the event and said the organisers would continue help Canberrans "enjoy the moment".


The chances aren't too bad that the illegal aliens bill will pass its first reading in the Knesset today.
There is widespread agreement in the Knesset among almost all Zionist parties to make it more difficult for non-Jews to obtain citizenship here.
The right, of course, approves of such a move. Former interior minister Ophir Pines-Paz of Labor was partner to the bill's creation and a signatory to it, while former interior minister Eli Yishai (Shas) told Haaretz last week the law should be made more stringent, because "I want your children to marry Jews and not to assimilate."
The new law would require all illegal aliens to leave the country for up to five years, even if they are married to Israelis. An illegal alien, according to the law, might be the aged parent of a new immigrant, the partner of an Israeli citizen, a foreign worker, or the child, by a previous marriage, of a new immigrant. The law also curbs the right to marry: A person who chooses to marry an illegal alien will have to part from that person for a long period or move abroad with his or her spouse.
A committee of experts headed by Professor Amnon Rubinstein has been reviewing the bill, which was approved by the cabinet six months ago. Rubinstein calls the clause calling for people who overstay their legal visa by a month to go abroad for a year "unreasonable, arbitrary and cruel punishment." The Interior Ministry says the law will not apply to those who innocently overstayed their visas, and Rubinstein's committee is supposed to determine immigration policy, not the treatment of illegal aliens.
Herein lies the trap: the bill grants an exemption of going abroad to those who submit a citizenship application within three months after the law goes into effect. However, because of a special order in effect that freezes the citizenship process for Palestinians, couples comprised of one Israeli and one Palestinian have not been able to submit their requests for family unification for over three years. Does this mean that the law (and the requirement to leave the country) will apply retroactively to all Israeli-Palestinian couples who have married is recent years? The Interior Ministry has promised it will allow such couples to submit their requests.
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Fall is here. Not only have the leaves started to turn gold and brown, and the air cooler, but there are more birds, the days are shorter, and the malaise of the triple digit heat is gone.
It is time to start reading more, and trying new kinds of tea, and getting cozy with blankets. We’ve even had some rain in the drought parched world in which I dwell.
I was out in my backyard, which isn’t landscaped aside from a few raised garden beds, half a dozen oak trees, a bunch of citrus trees, and iris plants I’ve spread around the edge of the fence and around the oaks. I was setting up my critter cam when I looked up to see a Ghost. It was Nigel, my ghost. Well, not my Ghost, I’m not dead, but it he lives, haunts, exists, or whatever at, around, behind, outside, and all over my house, and sometimes in my car, and anywhere he wants around me. There seems to be some connection that neither one of us can explain. So I won’t even try to explain.
Nigel looked over at me with a noncommittal sneer.
“There was a baby raccoon out here last night with someone I assume was it’s mother,” I said to the Ghost.
“I saw them,” he said. “It isn’t like I had anything else to do.”
I looked at Nigel standing there today in a black suit, a hand painted tie, and his dark hair expertly tousled. “All dressed an no place to go Nigel?” I asked.
“I’m here for the raccoons, and some of the other Ghosts are having a concert down by the river tonight. They invited Mary and me.”
Mary is Nigel’s girlfriend. She died around 1701 but I have no idea how she ended up here with Nigel. I don’t know how the whole Ghost migration thing works. Nobody does, not even the Ghosts. The other Ghosts are a mix of gold miners from the 1850’s, musicians from the 1920’s who used to play in clubs along the river, and a few folks who lived in the second half of the 20th Century. They all seem to play some sort of musical instruments, and sing. I never said it was good, but sometimes it is, depending on who or what shows up.
“Have fun,” I said.
“Come join us,” said Nigel.
“They don’t like Vampires.”
“Vampires don’t like Ghosts. We’re both sort of dead but not really, each one coveting what the other has and they don’t,” said Nigel.
I knew he coveted a real body and the ability to travel anywhere. I have no idea what Ghosts might think Vampires covet from them. No idea. Seriously. Who would want to be like a Ghost?
I didn’t tell Nigel that. He would just sulk and throw insults at me.
So I said nothing, because I am his friend, and he is mine.
It is odd the bonds of friendship that grow from maybe a common place, or interest, or other friends, then grows into something that can’t be explained. It is when souls know each other in ways that others can’t see. It is an unspoken shared thing that is both unexplained and overly obvious. It is shared experiences, long talks, quiet walks, and the ability to just listen without judgement.
“Have fun tonight,” I said.
“You too,” said Nigel. “I hope the foxes show up too. They’re so precious.”
“Yes they are,” I said.
Nigel gave a slight smile then vanished into the cool fall air. I adjusted the critter cam, and threw out a couple of handfuls of California poppy seeds along my fence line to hopefully bloom in the sprint.
I looked forward to an evening with my husband, some fine spiced blood, and perhaps late into the night some time for reading a good book.
Happy fall everyone. Don’t forget to change your clocks this weekend. Call a friend. Stay safe. Don’t be a dick. And maybe find some live music. Of course I also recommend you kiss a Vampire. You’ll thank me for it later.
~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
I tried, but I’m almost sure, whatever I kissed, it was probably not a Vampire. The guy looked fabulous – but he strongly smelled from a mixture of kale-soup and wet weasel… should that tell me something?


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There are very few shooter games that can maintain a great gameplay and offer other playable console options that will fit any gamer’s preference like the Call of Duty franchise. Way back in 2014 CoD released their 1st ever mobile console game called Call of Duty: Heroes which is more of a Real Time Strategy game instead of a First Person Shooter (or even Third Person Shooter).
But there may be future plans for a true shooter game of Call of Duty coming to the mobile platform. KING, the developers of the popular and addicting Candy Crush games state on their website that they are already working on a CoD for mobile. KING (now operating under Activision Blizzard) states that they are avidly seeking for art directors, level designers and system designers for the game.
It’s quite possible that KING may opt out for an FPS/TPS shooter style game for an arcade or adventure type of game instead. The official title, release date, and detailed info has yet to be released and with KING still searching for directors and designers we can only expect that it will be quite a while before we eventually get a teaser trailer or some other form of detailed information for some clarity on their direction with the newest mobile installment in the Call of Duty franchise.


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One-third of firms can't afford to pay rates bill
ONE in three small businesses say they cannot afford to pay rates to local authorities this year.
Rates are threatening the survival of 40pc of small businesses, a new survey claims, with three-quarters of business owners saying the system of imposing the charges is "unfair".
Commercial rates are paid to city and county councils to cover the cost of providing street lighting, sewerage systems, roads and other essential services.
But the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, which represents 8,500 companies, said rates had risen by 47pc in the past decade, and one in three (28pc) will be unable to pay their rates bill for 2011.

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I got into construction to make money, and I realized pretty quickly I should have done it sooner!
I was an unskilled laborer willing to work... but most of all, I wanted that paycheck. That’s what opened the door.
The more I learned and the more I did (including screw-ups), the more I realized this is a pretty damn cool industry.
10 years later, I’m a finish dozer operator and have run anything from a D3 to a D11.
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Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1987
Person-Environment Fit Theory and Organizations: Commensurate Dimensions, Time Perspectives, and Mechanisms.
Caplan, Robert D.
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v31 n3 p248-67 Dec 1987
Describes person-environment (PE) theory, pertinent studies and experiments in improving PE fit, advocating research on role of past, present, and anticipated PE fit on well-being and employee behavior; outcomes when PE fit is changed by altering P, E, or some combination; and considering the agent of change. Emphasizes systemic properties of organizations in predicting individual change. (Author/KS)
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'Scorpion' actress Katharine McPhee heading to Broadway
Updated 1:20 pm, Wednesday, February 14, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Katharine McPhee has already played someone who stars in a Broadway show. Now she's really going to do it herself.
The singer-actress told The Associated Press that she is stepping into the hit musical "Waitress," marking the Broadway debut for the former cast member of NBC's "Smash." She starts April 10 and stars through June 17.
"People come up to me all the time and say, 'You've done Broadway, right?' And I'm like, 'Nope, I've never done it,'" McPhee said. "I did a show about it but I was never, in fact, on Broadway. So this is really my first moment."
McPhee, 33, can be seen on the CBS drama "Scorpion," where she helps a group of misfit geniuses combat high-tech threats. Her recording career includes the 2015 album, "Hysteria," and she sings jazz standards on "I Fall in Love Too Easily," which came out last year.
McPhee, who was the runner-up to the 2006 "American Idol" crown, losing to Taylor Hicks, also starred in "Smash," which focused on the backstage drama surrounding the creation of a Broadway musical about Marilyn Monroe.
McPhee played Karen Cartwright, a small-town girl from Iowa who becomes a serious contender for the title role, putting her in fierce competition with seasoned Broadway trouper Ivy Linn, played by Megan Hilty.
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"Waitress," the musical adaptation of the 2007 film with songs by pop star Sara Bareilles, tells the story of Jenna, a waitress and pie maker trapped in a small-town diner and a loveless marriage. The role has been played by Jessie Mueller, Betsy Wolfe — and Bareilles herself.
"Aside from being a big Broadway fan and wanting to be on Broadway one day, to do a show that Sara Bareilles wrote the music and lyrics to — I'm such a fan of hers — it's a real thrill for me," McPhee said.
The musical is adapted from a 2007 film starring Keri Russell. It offers unusual ingredients for musical theater, like infidelity, spousal abuse and lack of maternal instincts.
"It's a group of imperfect people, which is real and human. I'm looking forward to portraying a woman that a lot of people can relate to — struggling, wanting to have a better life," McPhee said. "I can't wait to have this to be my first show."
With live TV under her belt, as well as grueling shooting schedules, McPhee said her chief concern is having the energy needed to perform eight times a week.
"I'm not afraid of the role. I'm not afraid of the nerves of doing a show," she said. "I'm more afraid of the stamina." Bareilles and McPhee huddled in her dressing room and broke the role down. "I'm going to look to her as a guiding light."
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