Sunpak Model S25, S34
The original “above the floor” patio heater since 1984. Don’t settle for everyone else’s copy when you can have the standard patio heater used in restaurants for decades. Available in Black or Stainless Steel, the Sunpak® Models S25 & S34 are outdoor rated heaters available for use with natural or propane gas. These heaters can be either wall or ceiling mounted. The mounting kit allows this heater to be mounted from above keeping the patio deck free and clear. Heat coverage varies depending on the wind exposure but is approximately a 10 x 10 ft area. Typical mounting height is 8-9 feet from the floor.
The required clearance from combustible materials must be maintained on all heaters. In addition heaters must have adequate fresh air and ventilation to operate properly. Make sure you can meet these requirements in making your heater selection.
S25 offers a lower radiant heat output which allows this heater to be located in patios with limited ceiling height.
S34 offers a greater radiant heat output which allows this heater to be located higher. Also note the above and side clearance requires increases with the higher BTU/Hr unit.
This heater requires a 24 VAC source and switch or timer or other control device. This control device is to be supplied by the installer
S25, S34 Specifications
- 25,000 btu (S25) or 34,000 btu (S34)
- Black or Stainless Steel
- Single-Stage Control
- Natural Gas or Propane
- 24 VAC – 20 VA
- Electronic Ignition
- Wall or Ceiling Mounted
- CSA Design Certified
- Rain Protected
- Optional Beveled Face Trim
Above clearances apply to Natural and Propane.
*Model S25 for propane gas for use in horizontal position only.
Sunpak Standard Models
24 VAC / 20 VA
24 VAC / 20 VA
24 VAC / 20 VA
24 VAC / 20 VA
Specification: Patio Heater shall be Sunpak Model S25 or S34 , utilizing a ceramic burner, electronic ignition, flame rectification safety, operating with 24 VAC control. Heater casing to have dimensions of 8″ x 8″ x 48″ long and the heater must be CSA design certified for outdoor use. Follow Manufacturer’s clearance to combustibles requirements.
Mounting kit should be specified as Item No. 12006 – Mounting Kit Black or 12006-6 Mounting Kit Stainless. Kits are universal to all Sunpak models.
FAQ Standard Models
Item No. 12006 SP Mounting Kit Black
Item No. 12006-6 SP Mounting Kit Stainless Steel
The mounting kits are universal between all Sunpak models.
For a single heater, any brand transformer with the following specs will work: 24 VAC – 20VA (minimum) Each heater requires 20VA, if two heaters are used, the transformer will need to be 40VA. Five heaters would require 100VA and so on.
Most installers utilize a simple wall switch. Another option would be a timer switch carried by most “big box” stores.
What about a thermostat? Not recommend. Infrared energy passes through the air and heats people and objects directly. Since thermostats measure air temperature they won’t work outside. The heaters might never turn off.
As a general rule of thumb, each Sunpak heater will heat approx. 10 x 10 ft of area. A 10 x 20 ft patio would use two heaters. Remember that with infrared, the heater will only heat things it can shine on. Heaters should be positioned so they “shine” where the people will be.
Heaters mounted between 8-9 ft from the floor seem to hit the “sweet spot”. 7ft is considered the minimum. Anything below this becomes a safety issue and will most likely be too intense to stand under. Heaters mounted over 10ft are less effective.
SHORT ANSWER: 8 ft 5 in.
We recommend for safety reasons that no patio heater should be installed below 7ft from the floor. Working backwards and taking into account the clearance requirements. The following guide can be used.
S25 in horizontal position (pointed straight down) requires 8’5″ floor to ceiling distance.
S25 at 30° angle requires 8’10” floor to ceiling distance
S34 in horizontal position requires 9′ floor to ceiling distance
S34 at 30° angle requires 9’5″ floor to ceiling distance
No. The TSH model uses a completely different valve and other parts that are not designed to be dropped into the standard units.
No. However with the right parts, it is possible to convert between gas types. Contact us for help on conversions.
Warning: If the procedure is done incorrectly, potential fire and death can occur.


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A yet to be identified married woman caught another lady having sex in bed with her husband. According to reports, busting them in action, the woman attacked the young lady she caught with her husband, cuts the weave off her hair, beats her up, strips her Unclad and drags her around the neighborhood stark Unclad.
Reacting to the post, some support the woman saying there is nothing wrong with what she did but some think what she did is not in any way good as they think she’s supposed to attack her husband instead.
According to Princewill who shared the post on Facebook;
“How right is this. Wife comes back home and meets her husband having sex with this young lady in there bed… She grabs the young lady, cuts her weave off her hair, beats her up, strips her Unclad and drags her around the neighborhood stake Unclad. All in a bid to shame the girl cos she lives in the neighborhood too. How right is this, is her action justifiable? What was the best thing she could have done?”

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Los Angeles Clipper Paul Pierce was not afraid to put on the colors of his former ballclub for this "MambaDay" commercial from Nike:
This isn't the first time we've seen Paul representing his old hood since moving on from Boston. He wore Celtics gear at Fenway in 2014 for Derek Jeter's last game, and donned a Sox cap several months earlier on his last day as a Brooklyn Net.
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Meaford, ON's Electric Eclectics Lines Up HEALTH, AIDS Wolf and MYTHS for Fifth Annual Festival
Published Mar 30, 2010Electric Eclectics, one of the most offbeat music festivals in Canada, has released the line-up of its fifth annual event, which will take place in Meaford, ON from July 30 to August 1.
This year's featured artists include thick slabs of noise from HEALTH, AIDS Wolf and MYTHS, avant-songcraft from Fancie and Friendly Rich & the Lollipop People, and indescribable, gotta-be-there artistry from Internet phenom Let's Paint TV, amplified balloon player Ricardo Arias and circuit bending pioneer Nicolas Collins. Previously announced acts include Danger Bay, Six Heads, Gardenia, the Allison Cameron Band, Toddler Body and Transmorphus Sound Ensemble.
Electric Eclectics is a proper pitch-your-tent experience, but its musical offerings are much more diverse than your average sun-baked beerfest. Organized by Chris Worden, Laura Kikauka and Gordon Monahan (who Exclaim! recently profiled here), the festival is more of an outdoor art gallery with multiple on-site installations, workshops, DJ tent and a film program. Tiny Meaford, near Owen Sound, is a picturesque setting for a crowd that's among the most respectful to be found at any music festival. The whole shebang, including camping, is priced at $65 (day passes are also available).
The film festival will showcase a performance from renowned Canadian experimental director Peter Mettler. Media artists Marla Hlady, Paul Walde and Christof Migone will be mounting installations. And just to keep you on your toes, performance artist Andrew Harwood will add one of many X factors to the proceedings: his alter ego Madame Zsa Zsa will dispense fortune telling and psychic readings to the audience.
More artists, DJs and details of workshops will be announced soon. Check the Electric Eclectics website for updates and ticket information.

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When I heard that Warner Bros. Animation were producing a trio of
3-minute Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote theatrical shorts in CGI, I
pondered how many Looney Tunes fans would prefer the classic Chuck
Jones versions over the Friz Freleng and Robert McKimsversion and the
lackluster 2003 short film, "Whizzard of Ow". But when I watched
"Coyote Falls" in front of "Cats and Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore", I
became totally astounded in a positive fashion as I noticed its
Chuck Jones' classic feel of the Road Runner and Coyote animation has
been successfully translated into the CG realm, thanks to a Chuck
Jones-dedicated film director Matthew O' Callaghan bent on bringing any
cartoony style into CGI. Also, there are musical cues of Carl Stalling,
in which everyone can recognize them right when they grow up with the
Looney Tunes. Even stereoscopic 3-D is used effectively on gags, timing
and pacing, aside from depth of field.
When it comes to Friz Freleng or Robert McKimson on directing the Road
Runner and Coyote shorts from the mid-1960s, he ignored the original
RR&C template by Jones and chose to go onto a different take: A central
idea of the cartoon as an gag instead of the other way round and
Coyote's occasional successes on capturing his feathered nemesis. The
result: those shorts turned out to be unfavorable and forgettable. But
when it comes to Matt O' Callaghan, he did a tremendous job on not only
centering a gag without breaking the true and original RR&C premise,
but more importantly bringing a 3-minute RR&C cartoon (not 6 or 7
minutes as usual!) to the rank of Jones' RR&C cartoons as we all know.
(If you don't believe me, just check out "Daffy Duck for President" and
"Porky and Daffy: the William Tell Overture" and see the differences.)
There are still more Road Runner and Coyote shorts, coming to theaters
and the 2010 revamp of "the Looney Tunes Show", so let's hope they can
be good as or better than "Coyote Falls"!
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The Ministry of Roads and Highways has disclosed that portions of the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange in Accra will be closed for repair works.
The Ministry disclosed this through the Department of Urban Roads in a press statement issued on Tuesday, July 26.
Per the statement, the specific portion to be affected is the Akasanoma to Nsawam Road.
It will be closed from midnight of Friday, July 29, to midnight on Sunday, July 31.
According to the statement, the closure is to allow the contractor, QG KONSTRUKTION AB, to carry out repair works on sections of the ramp on the Nsawam road.


Hazardous Waste Cleanup: Adhesive Research Incorporated in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania
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- Cleanup Status
- Site Description
- Contaminants at this Facility
- Institutional/Engineer Controls
- Land Reuse
- Site Responsibility
Adhesives Research Inc. has completed the environmental cleanup at their Glen Rock, Pennsylvania facility. The following paragraphs describe the releases that occurred at the Adhesives Research Inc. facility, as well as the corrective measures taken by the facility to remediate the releases.
On December 14, 1987, a fire in the northeast corner of the facility's main manufacturing building occurred when a spark ignited during the transfer of vinyl ethyl ether from a mixing tank to a 55 gallon drum. The release of chemicals to the environment occurred when water used to fight the fire flooded the immediate area of the fire. Approximately 32,000 gallons of this contaminated water was collected and transported off-site by trucks. An additional 90,000 gallons of water were treated by an on-site carbon treatment system. A soil gas analysis survey indicated that the soils in the area had not been substantially impacted by the spill, therefore soil excavation was not required. On-site groundwater wells were tested repeatedly during a two year period following the fire incident. All of these sampling results revealed that the groundwater under the facility had not been impacted by the spill.
In 1990, two leaky underground farm use fuel tanks located on the facility property were removed. Approximately 16.47 tons of contaminated soil was excavated and disposed of off-site. Groundwater continued to be sampled at three locations near the tank removal area, and the results were sent to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) for review. No detectable amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons were found in any of the groundwater samples.
In 1992, seven underground storage tanks were removed from the facility. Leakage of fuel oil to the surrounding soils had occurred at two of these tanks. Approximately 40 tons of contaminated soil were excavated under PADEP oversight. Subsequent groundwater sampling at the facility found no detectable amounts of petroleum hydrocarbons in any of the groundwater samples.
After performing a facility inspection, and an evaluation of past remediation practices, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes that no further corrective action is necessary at the Adhesives Research Inc. facility. On October 22, 1999, EPA completed the 45 day public comment period for the Adhesives Research Inc. facility, during which time no comments were received on EPA's proposal that no further corrective action is necessary at this time. Therefore, EPA has adopted the proposed decision as the final decision.
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The Adhesives Research Inc. facility consists of approximately 12.5 acres located on Route 216 in Glen Rock, Pennsylvania, and is located in a largely agricultural area. Operations at this facility began in 1974, and continue today. Adhesives Research Inc. manufactures pressure sensitive adhesives and applies adhesive to a variety of media, including foams, plastic sheets, paper, and some metals. This process generates non-chlorinated solvents such as methyl ethyl ketone, toluene, xylene, heptane, and hexane as hazardous wastes. This waste is stored at the facility for less than ninety days before being shipped off-site for disposal.The threat of contamination to the environment at the Adhesives Research Inc. facility has been controlled, and the contaminants of concern have been cleaned up within acceptable levels.
Contaminants at this Facility
The threat of contamination to the environment at the Adhesives Research Inc. facility has been controlled, and the contaminants of concern have been cleaned up within acceptable levels.
Institutional and Engineering Controls at this Facility
Institutional Controls were not required at the site.
Land Reuse Information at this Facility
The facility is under continued use.
Site Responsibility at this Facility
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Corrective Action activities at this facility have been conducted under the direction of EPA Region 3.


Asus 6z 256GB Review: Perfectly functional
When Asus released the Zenfone 5Z, many were skeptical of the phone, saying that Asus was probably lucky with the product. Okay, the 6z is a follow-up to the supposed one-hit-surprise and we’re going to examine it in detail to see if the Nessiers were right. Read on to find out.
Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 with Asus 6z 8GB LPDDR4 memory and 256GB on-board storage. As far as specs go, the Asus 6z doesn’t leave out anything that is going to make a big difference in performance, probably save for UFS 3.0 storage. In all honesty, the lack of UFS 3.0 storage shouldn’t be a barrier for anyone considering buying this phone. We conducted our gaming test after our general benchmark test to find out where Asus 6z is in the performance spectrum. What we got was certainly not disappointing.
On the synthetic benchmark, Asus 6z manages to collect impressive numbers. The Geekbench 5 benchmark single-core Asus 6z scores 768 and the multi-core test scores 2621. By comparison, the ROG Phone II from Asus has a GeekBench score of 753 and 2508 for single and multi-core testing, respectively. AnTuTu sees 6z perform admirably with a respectable score of 440589. Benchmarks that are more GPU-bound, such as 3DMark and GFXBench, Asus 6z have no place to complain. The scores come very close to the OnePlus 7T, which is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855+ that plays a slightly faster Adreno GPU.
Coming to Real-World Performance, we measured the phone’s gaming performance using GameBench, which allows us to measure real-time CPU-GPU usage, including recording frame rates and even junk. For PUBG Mobile, we recorded an average frame rate of 60fps with 96 percent stability. The gameplay itself was buttery smooth, the game’s graphics were extreme and the resolution was set in HD. For the Asphalt 9, we recorded a median frame rate of 30fps with 93 percent stability. Unfortunately, Asphalt only runs at 60fps on very select devices and Asus 6Z is not one of them.
Using the Asus 6z as a daily driver reveals that the phone’s hardware and software are well-matched together, and no visual jitter can be noticed when switching between apps or even two dozen tabs in Chrome. When editing photos on Snapseed, the previews are almost instantaneous and the file export takes a negligible amount of time, leaving no real reason to complain.
It is interesting to see how far the hardware and software of smartphones have come in the last two years. The Asus 6z is a device whose functionality is at a point where it is essentially indistinguishable from its peers. Most phones in the high-end segment will give you very similar benchmark numbers, but more importantly, very similar numbers for frame rates. Where it will really make a difference is the camera and software experience, which we will discuss later.
The Asus 6z has a primary 48-megapixel camera with a dual-camera unit while the secondary ultra-wide camera has a resolution of 13 megapixels. The aperture of the primary camera is f / 1.8 and the aperture of the secondary camera is f / 2.4. So far, things are pretty standard. Where things are interesting is that the 6z doesn’t have a front-facing camera. Instead, the rear camera module flips upwards, turning the camera into a front setup. This gives the Asus 6z an unfair advantage in that it can use its Sony IMX586 48-megapixel sensor as a front-facing sensor with all its binging chops.
In terms of camera performance, the primary camera is the strongest point of this phone. The Sony IMX586 sensor produces impressive photos in daylight, unless it’s the 12-megapixel image you’re looking at. Although Asus 6z has tried to stick to the “as-stock-as-possible” approach to the OS, the camera app is completely customizable.
There is nothing to complain about when you look at the pictures taken from the primary camera. Detailed retention and dynamic range are similar to what we have seen from other smartphones with this sensor. While it doesn’t create images that can compete with the likes of the iPhone 11 Pro or the Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, it does stand out neck-to-neck with its counterparts such as the OnePlus 7T. Where the Asus 6z is slightly reduced is the case with the ultraviolet lens, which produces slightly softer images directly outside the camera. You can see some samples below to understand the image quality.
The ultraviolet lens has noticeably soft edges
No slouch under low light shooting conditions
Autofocus is a speed that works in both good and bad light which is impressive. Autofocus is only present in the primary camera, the Ultravide camera does not have this feature. Also, due to the limited f / 2.4 aperture, the ultraviolet camera is not suitable for shooting in low light. If you stick to regular lenses, you will get good results in low light.
As for the rear camera, the Asus 6z’s dual cameras don’t make as big a mark as they do with the front-facing cameras. As with most other smartphones, OEMs use extremely small sensors with dense pixels that usually end up without that great image quality. With the Asus 6z, this is not because you will find the best imaging sensor on the market for taking selfies for you.
Overall, the Asus 6z provides a fairly good imaging experience, which is on par with the best in its class.
The Asus 6z packs a 5000mAh battery, which is probably why the phone weighs 190 grams and is 9.2mm thick. With this huge battery, there is no doubt that the phone will last you an acceptable long time. In the Geekbench 4 battery test, the phone lasted about 21 hours, which is impressive by all counts. In daily use, the phone delivers about 2 days of use despite having an IPS display. Smartphones typically use AMOLED panels to get the most out of battery life, but the Asus 6z sticks with a color-perfect IPS display and still manages to deliver exceptional battery life. Suffice it to say, in the case of Asus 6z you will not have any complaints about the battery life. Also, if you think that dropping wireless charging from the package was not the best idea, just think about how long it would take to charge a 5000mAh battery on a wireless charger.
The Asus 6z sports a 6.4-inch IPS display, which means full color accuracy for sRGB color gamut. The resolution of this display is 1080×2340, its pixel density is about 403 ppi. At a time when most companies are starting to move to AMOLED displays, even on many cheap smartphones like the Redmi K20, sticking to the Asus IPS LCD panel is a strange choice. Nonetheless, we get a panel that can go up to 556 lux of maximum brightness and as low as 4 lux for incredibly comfortable use in the dark.
The Asus 6z comes with an IPS LCD display instead of AMOLED
The daylight clarity of the Asus 6z’s display is quite decent, and while the screen is bright enough for day-to-day use, the panel is slightly towards the reflective side. It’s not too much trouble, but it’s not as easy as reading the OnePlus 7T in bright daylight. We will say that the display of Asus 6z is functional, but certainly not the best in the class.
The Asus 6z is a solid follow-up to last year’s Zenfone 5z. Asus has harnessed the power of its engineering department to come up with a flip camera that offers quality selfies that no other smartphone can offer today. It offers a much more refined OS than ever before on an Asus smartphone, which is fast, smooth and close to the feel of stock Android. The battery life of this phone is exceptional, and does not leave room for performance complaints. However, the Asus 6z fails to provide a “wow” factor, which will set Asus 6z experience or even ownership of the 6z different from any other phone in this price range. In fact, the best reason to go for 6z more than anything else in its class is the price of the smartphone, its combined performance metrics and the fact that it has a headphone jack. If you are on a budget and can’t really afford the OnePlus 7T, the Asus 6z is a really good option.


Bungie held a second stream showcasing Destiny 2‘s upcoming Into the Light update on March 26.
During the weapons-centric presentation, the studio showed off the Hall of Champions, a new social and reward zone coming to the game. While players hoping for a return of the OG Tower from the first Destiny may feel some sense of disappointment, Bungie showed off how the Hall of Champions offers more benefits than the old Tower ever did.
Into the Light is a content update for Destiny 2, which will be released on April 9. In a tease for the update, Bungie showed art depicting Guardians defending the Last City against a horde of enemies. In particular, the backdrop seemingly depicted the original Destiny tower repaired. As it was attacked, damaged, and abandoned at the start of Destiny 2, getting the actual Tower back has been a sore spot for fans.
Bungie’s first Into the Light livestream introduced the horde-like Onslaught mode. The second stream showed that the Tower is, in fact, not returning for Into the Light. Instead, Destiny 2 is getting a new social space called the Hall of Champions, where Guardians can access Lord Shaxx’s Brave Arsenal.
What is the Hall of Champions?
The Hall of Champions is a new non-combat zone that Bungie describes, saying, “Shaxx has carved out a little bit of the backstage of the Tower.” Passing through strewn-about relics and doodads from Destiny‘s history, Guardians navigate what looks like the Tower’s tucked-away storage rooms. After passing through a few bulkheads, players will arrive in the Hall proper, spacious, and decked out in red and gold.
The Hall of Champions is kind of like a combination of Xur’s Treasure Hoard from the 30th Anniversary Pack and the now-sunset Tribute Hall from the Forsaken expansion. The ample area is full of chests and interactable holograms, each with different functions. The sets of chests in the center are for the three Class armor sets. Two chests toward the back of the Hall let Guardians trade the new Trophies currency for Brave Arsenal weapons and offer a quick means for new players to gear up.
Those last two chests are also positioned near the two vendors in the Hall of Champions, Lord Shaxx and Arcite 99-40. Both offer bounties, but Shaxx has reputation rewards, while Arcite has Brave Arsenal weapon quests. On top of the chests and vendors, Guardians will notice several holograms of Shaxx. These are for Attunement, a new feature that makes one Brave Arsenal weapon more likely to appear at a time.
While it doesn’t look like Guardians will return to the Tower before The Final Shape, the Hall of Champions offers its own unique draw. In the spirit of waging a defense against The Witness, this new operation base provides much more function than the Tower’s nostalgic form ever did.


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Ramu LOs will get royalties, assures Chan
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Chan made the assurance in Parliament on Friday when asked by Usino-Bundi MP, Anton Yagama.
Yagama said since the project began, tons in mineral exports have left their shores at Basamuk, however, to this date there has been no royalty.
He also queried when the outstanding K10 million would be paid to the landowners.
Chan said the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) and project developers, Metallurgical Company of China (MCC), had recently agreed to pay landowners royalties.

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Produced by Mappa, Zombie Land Saga premiered in October 2018. The second season started after almost 3 years in April of this year which has ten episodes so far. The manga adaptation was also released following the anime, running simultaneously. The first season consisted of twelve episodes. And now fans are waiting for ZOMBIELAND Saga Season 2 Episode 11.
Zombie Land Saga Episode 11:
Zombie Land Saga is a comedy horror series, which follows the resurrected from death, who were the famous pop stars of their respective times, to bring back or revive the culture of Saga Prefecture. The zombie-like artists form an ultimate pop group called Fran Chou Chou which is handled by the one who resurrected them, the producer Kotaro.
The last episode showed the group remembering the time when they performed for the first time and faced failure, also being optimistic and going on with their work. Kotaro tells them they need to perform at the same stage on the same day, which would be exact 1 year after the incident. The performance would be a kind of revenge as the season title also suggests. After some convincing, they all agree about the performance.
Kotaro is confronted by Arata saying he knows the truth and would publish it. Kotaro replies saying that would not change the group’s intention to perform. The ending showed a storm coming on the same day. The upcoming episode titled All It Takes Is for You to Be There SAGA will show the events after the storm and also the group might perform anyway which may result in some way of help.
ZOMBIELAND Saga Season 2 Episode 11: Release Date
The episode is scheduled to release on 17th June that is on Thursday. It would be the second last episode before the anime concludes for the season. The release time would vary based on time zones.
ZOMBIELAND Saga Season 2 Episode 11: Watch Online
The episode would be available on Crunchyroll with original audio, English, and other language subtitles. The dubbed version would be released on Funimation for the viewers. For certain countries, the episode would be available on AnimeLab. For Asian viewers, the episode would also be available on the YouTube channel for watching.
Stay With Stanford Arts Review for Latest Episodes


Despite a plethora of positive news, NAB’s Tapas Strickland says there’s still confusion in rates markets as central banks have wrong-footed investors with a switch to a more dovish outlook.
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Host of The Morning Call, The Why? Curve & Debunking Economics. Mildly amusing. Shares birthday with Trump, Boy George & Che Guevara, few days older than Boris.
Markets have not significantly retraced their moves after Powell’s speech yesterday. NAB’s Tapas Strickland explains why he created such a positive risk outlook.
Has the Supreme Court issued the death knell for Scottish independence, or provoked more antagonism? @rdhearing and I talk to Prof Keating from @CCC_Research on this week's Why Curve podcast https://www.whycurve.com/scots-on-the-rocks/


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Unconventional news formats are springing up as young people increasingly turn to the Internet for information. On YouTube, the first news programs targeted specially at a young audience are casual in tone, but serious about journalism.
"Was geht ab!?" or "What's Up?" is a daily news show on YouTube. Its 5 hosts, including Florian "LeFloid" Mundt, are familiar faces to German internet users. The program tries to differentiate itself from conventional TV news. Its target audience is people between the ages of 14 and 34 -- a group which watches comparatively little television, but spends a lot of time surfing the Net.


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The model is parented to a control curve called: genericHeroTransform_v1a1:topCtrl. This control curve is locked but if you wish to change the character scale, you can unlock the attributes - (MAYA only) - and the character should scale with the rig properly. NOTE: You must use this node if you wish to change the scale and keep the rig in tact.
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New Deadline for submissions: April 15
NCMM 2018 — Main Topic
Composing Music Today
Music today is more diverse than it has ever been. The variety of genres, practices, techniques, technologies, systems of dissemination and forms of reception has changed the way in which music is composed. Music is now almost omnipresent in our society, from the concert hall to the museum, from the media to public spaces, to private listening with headphones. For each of these situations, and many others, someone composed the music, created the sound, and organized the musical discourse that will be present in the listening space. This music was created using a diversity of techniques, knowledge and technologies that should be considered, because each of these resources used in musical creation influenced the final result.
In this context it is pertinent to ask: what is composing music today? What is the role of the composer in today’s musical world? Can we continue to talk about “composing music” in any situation of music creation? Or should we consider the use of other expressions? What is the role of musical creation in the context of a museum exhibition, or in installations? Can a sound artist be considered a music composer?
Is sound art a form of musical composition? Can real-time coding or free improvisation be considered forms of musical composition? What is the difference between real-time composition and a computer music performance? In a world where the technological means seem to make musical creation accessible to anyone, what is the place of the “traditional composer”?
It is within the context of this complex problem that we encourage composers, musicologists, performers, teachers, philosophers and other interested researchers to contribute to proposals covering the whole range of questions involved in this subject. Students, postdoctoral and early-career researchers are particularly encouraged.
The conference is also open to other topics related to contemporary music studies and practices. Thus, we encourage the submission of papers related to any aspects of the field including, but not limited to, composition, music and technology, auditory perception, music history, analysis and theory, musical genres and practices and cultural issues.
- Musical composition practices, performance and reception:
- Composition techniques and technologies, including new instruments and unconventional tools and means.
- Real time composition and interactive music, including live coding, electronic, interactive and computer music.
- Collaborative composition, free improvisations and open composition.
- Practice-based research in music, including composition, performance and collaborative musical activities.
- Music history, theory and analysis:
- What are the challenges of contemporary music for musical analysis and history?
- What new paradigms, theories and techniques are emerging?
- What balance is there/should there be between theory and practice in general and specific musicological methodologies?
- Does contemporary music need new techniques, methodologies and specifically designed tools, or is what already exists sufficient?
- Philosophy of music and aesthetics:
- What philosophical points of view can be brought to bear on aesthetic and technical transformations in contemporary music?
- What of epistemology, semiotics and phenomenological studies of contemporary music?
- Musicology, intertextuality and authenticity:
- How to discuss intertextuality and authenticity in the context of contemporary music, and what issues should be considered.
- What about critical, systematic and empirical musicological methodologies and practices in contemporary music?
- Auditory perception and cognition:
- Issues of music cognition, semiotics and the experience of contemporary music
- How to study the relationship between the composer’s intentions and the perceptual experience of music.
- Musical sound transcription, representation and music notation:
- What new questions does contemporary music raise in terms of transcription, representation and music notation?
- New tools and methods of transcription and representation of sound.
- How and which musical sound representations can become tools for musical art creation and research.
- Sound technologies and the music industry:
- Genres and diversity of style.
- The influence of industry and technology on musical aesthetics.
- Broadcasting and sampling: repetition and variation as a means to become a musical hit.
- Popular music and other contemporary arts in relation to music
- What musical issues do internet communities, group compositions and telematics raise?
- Music and image:
- What of music and “moving images” on TV, cinema, Internet and other kinds of multimedia?
- What of the musicological challenges of music for video games?
- Sound art, installations and exhibitions:
- What musicological discourse can there be for music outside the concert hall?
- How and why study sound art and music/sound installations in a musicological context?
- What can be the role of music in museum exhibitions?
- Soundscape, sound ecology:
- How, and with what terminology, can one discuss soundscapes and sound ecology in a musical domain?
- Virtual auditory space creation, sound ecology and sonification.
- Documentation and preservation of musical heritage:
- What problems are there concerning the preservations and documentation of contemporary music works?
- How and why is the performability of some contemporary music works challenging and sometimes not viable?
- Music and emergent cultures and societies, cultural heritage and inclusive societies:
- Anthropology, cultural and cross-cultural studies in contemporary music.
- Questions of unity, diversity, plurality, multicultural resources, hybridization, and local music in a globalized world.
- What problems arise concerning music criticism, the sociology of music and culture?


How To Set The Perfect Sprinkler Rotation
In preparation for fun spring activities, you want to make sure your yard is looking its best. This means making sure your sprinkler system is doing its part to give your lawn the best treatment it deserves.
Before we get started, here are some quick tidbits of information:
- The average yard needs approximately 15 to 22 gallons of water per minute. The larger the lawn, the more water it needs.
- The average sprinkler head shoots out water at a distance of 55 to 60 feet, shooting out approximately 15 gallons per minute. This is enough to keep a lawn well irrigated. If your soil is particularly low in pH, consider a lime application.
Sprinkler Adjustment Steps
Both sprinkler types, rotary-style and spray-type, need to be adjusted periodically as they tend to fall out of adjustment over time.
For a pop-up sprinkler you need to:
- Turn off the water and lift the sprinkler tube out of the ground with pliers.
- Look for a marker or marks on the edge of the nozzle. Rotate until the mark is aligned with the correct angle to cover your yard.
- Turn the entire sprinkler until the angle is corrected. Once corrected, place the sprinkler back into the ground.
For a rotary-impact sprinkler you need to:
- While the water is on, rotate the metal trip collars just under the spray head.
- Locate the trip lever, and push it down in the correct position so it makes contact with the other metal trip collars
- Set one collar to the left, and the other to the right. Doing this while the sprinkler is on will allow you a trial and error period to figure out the best result for maximum sprinkler coverage.
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"Commercially available objects of high quality that have been introduced at the Gallery of the Studio of Young Artists Association (FISE) in the past five years are showcased at the exhibition, yet this time the installations are not based on functions, but on style: superfunctions, upcycling, top design, souvenir. The unusual exhibition aims at introducing visitors into present day Hungarian design through successful small serial products that can even be taken home a few hours after seeing them."
Last Tuesday afternoon I called my friend and begged him to come with me to this gallery which I never heard of to see this exhibition I did't know anything about.
Lucky me, he's cool enough, so we got on the metro, got off at the Hungarian Parliament and walked about 8 blocks until finally we arrived at the tiny gallery - which I'd never have noticed otherwise.
I thought most of the exhibition was going to be useless for me, full of interior design stuff and, like, vases and special forks or whatever...well I was wrong. It was mostly about fashion. Mostly in this case means 10 of the 13 exhibited items were fashion-related in one way or another.
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Matyó Jewelry Collection by LOKALwear
"The Matyó flowers are one of Hungary’s most distinctive folk art symbols. Originally from the Northeastern town of Mezőkövesd these beautiful flower patterns are believed to have developed in the 19th century by local women and are still used today as traditional embroidery motifs.With the aim of exposing local traditions and culture, LOKALwear has developed a contemporary jewelry line, combining the traditional emblematic Matyó flower patterns reinterpreted in distinct up-to-date materials and colors."
The pieces are made of polystyrene, available in emerald green, ivory, black, red and metallic blue. The collection includes cuff links, necklaces and earrings.
Let's see: it's basically all plastic. The colors sound good, but if you look closer, it's all cheap paint or at least it looks like it (based on the LOKALwear webshop as obviously they were smart enough to only display the black and the ivory pieces on the exhibition).
As for cuff links, they are hinged back cuff links which is also a bit lame if you ask me and they're not even real silver. Also, I'm a fan of fun cuff links and it can definitely spice up an everyday shirt but I just can't get over the fact that the earrings and these cuff links are basically the same only with different hardware. If I were a guy, I'd never wear earrings as cufflinks. Would you?
The prices are too high in my opinion - $ 25.50 for a pair of flower cuff links, $ 14 for a pair of stud earrings, $ 38 for chandelier earrings and necklaces from $ 16 to even $ 50.I personally think those who can afford these products would rather buy something brand name for the same price or sometimes even less - this 6-pack of stud earrings at H & M is $ 4.95 for example and the rose studs look almost exactly like the LOKALwear studs.
All in all I would say the idea is not bad. I mean it does sound good to revive the “folkloric” pattern, the Matyó flowers in a trendy way, but it should be actual high quality and truly stylish, there should be a creative touch to it which there is not in LOKALwear's collection.
Visit the LOKALwear website here and let me know what you think and if you agree with me or not! x


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Mid Autumn Festival Activities
27 August - 3 September 2022
13:00 - 18:00
2 Banda Street Chinatown Visitor Centre Singapore 059962
Chinatown MRT Station
来来来! Where else but come to Chinatown to have a fun filled Mid-Autumn Festival! Experience Chinatown's workshops and explore fun-filled activities from 26 August. Cultural instructors at Another Day (Meng Hui 梦回) will be conducting the Chinese Fan Workshop, Chinese Flower Lantern Workshop, Chinese Flower Lantern Workshop and Hair Accessories Workshop. Do participate in our first ever Chang’E games at the Chinatown Visitor Center, with an exciting synopsis of her love story and her handsome Houyi. Come meet Chang’E who will be dressed in Hanfu costumes at the Chinatown Visitor Centre to explain the games and to hand out the game cards.
Chinatown Business Association & 梦回 Another Day


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Inclusion: What Is It and How Can We Become More Inclusive
So we’re still talking among ourselves – a lot – about diversity and inclusion in hiring. We wrote here a couple of weeks ago about hiring for cultural fit, and how it can sometimes result in hiring for “unconscious bias.”
We’re not done. Our virtual “water cooler” discussions are ongoing, and we’ve found that we tend to have different ideas as to what “inclusion” actually is.
Aha! A topic presents itself because if we all have different ideas as to what constitutes inclusion in hiring, we bet others do, as well.
And away we go!
So just what is inclusion?
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has a tidy definition: inclusion “describes the extent to which each person in an organization feels welcomed, respected, supported and valued as a team member.”
Simple, right? Looks so on the surface. But here’s the kicker: EACH of us probably has a different definition of what makes us feel “welcomed, respected, supported and valued.”
You, for example, may like it when you get recognized on the company intranet for your work anniversary. Even if your boss doesn’t say “thank you for all you do.” While your colleague might be absolutely fuming that the Big Guy/Gal never even said “Congrats on your anniversary, and thank you for everything you’ve done for the company,” even if he did get the same public recognition.
And what about the excellent executive assistant with a hidden disability who asked to work from home (pre-pandemic), who always got her work done on time, every time; who came up with an excellent and highly successful employee retention program that saved the company tens of thousands of dollars in just its first year of implementation; yet who was STILL told she had to come into the office more regularly because her co-workers thought she was getting unfair special treatment. (A true example, BTW.)
How “welcomed, respected, supported and valued” do you think SHE felt?
And we haven’t even touched on inclusion for POC, LGBTQ, etc. ….
….groups historically discriminated against who more often than not definitely have been made to feel unwelcome, disrespected, unsupported, and not valued!
Here’s our definition of inclusion
Don’t get us wrong: we think SHRM’s definition is pretty good. But we found one from LoveHasNoLabels.com that we think is much more appropriate for the remainder of 2020 and beyond (considering all that has been happening this year).
Supporting and embracing diversity in a way that clearly shows all individuals are valued, recognized, and accepted for who they truly are. This involves demonstrating respect for the abilities, beliefs, backgrounds, and cultures of those around you and engaging those with diverse perspectives, so that others feel an unconditional sense of belonging for who they are.
This sounds GREAT. We want it!
So how can we be more inclusive?
It starts with “demonstrating respect” and moves on to “engaging those with diverse perspectives.”
Those two phrases, we believe, are key. Both require ACTION: “demonstrating” and “engaging.” Doing, in other words.
Actual strategies to help your company become more inclusive
- First, your leadership MUST be fully on board. Nothing happens (there will be no “doing”) unless your company’s leadership makes it a priority. Leaders should learn from inclusivity experts – in a private and judgement-free setting in which no embarrassing or awkward questions are too awkward or embarrassing – on what an inclusive business looks and acts like.Once leadership understands its importance and what it will take for your company to become more inclusive, the stage will properly be set for inclusivity initiatives that truly will work for all employees.
- Get feedback and ideas from employees. This step probably is the second-most important strategy (second only to getting leadership aboard). Doing so will help a great deal when it comes time to implement your new/revised initiatives/policies/programs, etc.
- Start using inclusive language. Ask employees (and even contractors and clients) what pronouns they prefer (they/them; she/her). Use “partner” or “spouse” rather than the gendered “husband/wife.”
- Create safe places in the office and make it OK for those who ask for them…to ask for and use them. Could Muslim employees use a quiet space where they may pray to Allah during the day? Do you have gender-neutral restrooms? What about a quiet office for a lactation space for new moms or even distraction free offices for workers who are highly sensitive to the overstimulation often created in open offices (making sure there’s no stigma attached to the use of these offices)?And, taking the example mentioned above about the worker with the hidden disability: ensure that employees who ask for ADA-compliant physical accommodations receive them without judgement.
- Ask for feedback regularly moving forward. Ask for it often. Welcome it.
Your leaders, managers and employees are going to make mistakes. Everyone will face challenges no one could have anticipated. The idea is to ensure that everyone feels free to express their needs and discuss the challenges they’re experiencing.
Chances are great you’re already moving toward more inclusivity at your company!
After all, this topic has been in the news pretty much constantly for several months now. So, let us know: what are you doing to ensure your business is more inclusive?


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text: I was born and raised in Utah in a large family with six siblings. It was in my early years I developed a love for learning and knowledge. My parents had a set of encyclopedias that I would often pull out and read large sections on animals, planets, or places. I now own that same set of encyclopedias as a reminder that the pursuit of knowledge is truly a worthy endeavor. I attended high school in Springville, Utah and took part in such activities as band, orchestra, theatre, and soccer. I then went on a two year LDS mission to São Paulo Brazil. There I learned to speak Portuguese and have since used that foundation to learn the very closely-related language of Spanish. I then returned and attended Utah State University where I studied science and graduated with a BS in 2017. I have been married since 2012 and am the father of 3 little girls. I love spending time with my family playing games, reading books, and teaching my girls nerdy things. Being a Dad is one of my greatest joys and I make a pretty mean chicken quesadilla too. I enjoy reading, playing and listening to music, observing astronomical objects through my telescope and learning. If you get stuck in a conversation with me about rockets, biological processes, or the future of technology; buckle up, you might be there for a while. Science is my passion and I love every facet of understanding the universe. I also have a great love for the performing arts and feel that Pioneer High School is a perfect fit for this combination. I look forward to teaching about the beauty of science and critical thinking!

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A recently released University of Michigan study promotes the alleged economic and environmental benefits of a transition to electric vehicles. But the study’s emphasis on fuel costs vs. overall costs limits its real-world applicability. The claimed environmental benefits of the transition are also questionable, and the policy interventions recommended by the authors fail to solve critical affordability issues.
A U-M news release promoting the study opens with the claim that “More than 90% of vehicle-owning households in the United States would see a reduction in the percentage of income spent on transportation energy—the gasoline or electricity that powers their cars, SUVs and pickups—if they switched to electric vehicles.”
The real-world usefulness of this study hinges on the phrase “transportation energy.” Study authors limited their economic analysis to the cost of the energy used to power the vehicles. As the study abstract notes, “Excluded in the analysis is the purchase cost of the vehicles themselves.”
That’s an odd choice given that one of the major focuses of the study is “energy justice” and a recognition that low-income households are being “left behind” by the EV transition. When a stated focus of your research concerns the availability of EVs to all Americans , the Kelly Blue Book-reported average $67,000 cost of an EV in June 2022 can’t be reasonably ignored. Focusing this research specifically on “transportation energy” costs, rather than the real cost of transportation, represents a significant limitation to the usefulness of the study’s findings.
The study’s authors also briefly mention other research that questions whether transitioning to EVs can realistically be considered “perpetually positive, neutral, or amoral” and list several issues EVs face in the “broader energy justice framework.” They only list outstanding environmental and social issues like: battery disposal, increased mining necessary to manufacture EV batteries, the “adverse environmental and social impacts associated with cobalt and lithium extraction,” exclusion of indigenous cultures in decision making processes, toxic pollution, water scarcity, and several others.
Focusing on a single concern in the above list — mining — demonstrates that the claimed environmental benefits associated with the EV transition are questionable at best. International Energy Agency data indicates that manufacturing EVs requires six times greater levels of mineral and metals than are required for internal combustion engine vehicles.
Work done by Mark Mills at the Manhattan Institute pairs with the IEA data to highlight the massive growth in mining needed to meet the proposed demand for EV batteries. “A single electric car contains more cobalt than 1,000 smartphone batteries,” Mills notes, and an “electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials.” When measured against the hundreds of millions to billions of EVs needed to transition away from traditional vehicles, the scope and magnitude of increased mining becomes shockingly clear.
Study authors also recognize that “EV ownership in the U.S. has been dominated by households with higher incomes and levels of education.” EV affordability is a well-traveled issue and highlights some of the problems associated with government policy forcing technologies into the market place before they are ready for prime time. Given their high costs, EVs still tend to be a luxury item, with almost 80% of claimed EV tax credits going to households with annual incomes over $100,000.
The study’s authors recommend that further “policy interventions are needed to increase EV accessibility so that all Americans can benefit from the EV transition.” However, the current situation, with upper-middle-class and wealthy households snapping up the bulk of EV tax credits, exists solely as an outcome of existing “policy interventions” aimed at increasing accessibility to EVs. It’s reasonable to question whether additional subsidies will realistically solve the problem that subsidies helped create in the first place.
Adding to this difficulty, a 2019 Ernst & Young study estimated that removing the cap on the federal EV tax credit would cost taxpayers more than $46 billion. This means that while EV owners might reduce their spending on transportation energy, they will likely expend those savings on the higher purchase price and increased taxes to cover the subsidies lavished on EVs.
On the environmental front, the study’s authors claim that the EV transition would reduce “climate-warming” greenhouse gases. However, current estimates have determined it will take approximately 65,000 to 80,000 miles, or 5-7 years of driving to break even on greenhouse gas emissions. This long break-even point is due to the “embedded CO2 emissions” associated with construction, delivery, etc. of the car, as well as the fuel sources used to charge the car. More generous IEA data indicate that an EV, being charged with the “global average mix” of electricity, will still emit half as much CO2 as an ICE vehicle over its full life cycle. But author and economist Bjorn Lomborg notes that for only $300, it’s possible to purchase CO2 credits equaling those total emissions.
The U-M study avoids reporting the real costs of an EV transition with its odd “transportation energy” metric. The study also mentions but does not seriously investigate numerous environmental and social issues brought on or exacerbated by their proposed transition. Finally, the policy prescriptions recommended to extend EV ownership to low-income households typically benefit upper-income households. Taken together, the arguments presented in favor of transitioning to EVs in this U-M study lack the charge to spark any serious policy change.
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Total Transformation! See The Eye-Popping Evolution Of Kylie Jenner's Boobs
Kylie Jenner's features are larger than life — but she didn't come that way! RadarOnline.com Online has proof of the reality star's expanding chest size in recent years (and even weeks).
Kylie Jenner is known for lying about the possible plastic surgery she's undergone (remember her big lip filler confession?)Despite the starlet's protests that her breasts are au naturel, evidence suggests otherwise.
Wowza! The 19-year-old has only been "busting" out recently, especially compared to her older photos.
The KUWTK star chalks her bigger chest up to a good bra with plenty of padding, but it's more likely she's gone under the knife to achieve her busty look. That, or Kylie's bra is a magical new invention from the wizarding world.
- Khloé Kardashian Shows Off Her Enviable Abs After She's Spotted On A Date With Trey Songz — See The Jaw-Dropping Pic!
- Khloé Kardashian Accused Of Photoshopping Hourglass Body As Fans Roast Her Over Curved Door In Selfie
- Tristan Thompson Begged Court To Seal Paternity Docs, Cited His Fame On 'KUWTK' & 'Athletic Stardom' In NBA
Kylie Jenner wears a sheer top as she arrives at the Delilah club to celebrate Kendall Jenner’s 21 birthday
In the past, Jenner has been pegged with plenty of boob job rumors. "Kylie appears to have undergone a breast augmentation, going from a B to a D cup in size," Dr. Anthony Youn, who has not treated Jenner, told RadarOnline.com in April 2015.
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For this pet portrait commission of Sydney, a charming Black Lab, I used two photos as reference.
In one he was dressed for St. Patrick's day, looking into the camera wearing a green feathery luau thingy around his neck and a goofy headdress with two green Irish top-hats on springs (I'm not judging, we've all been there). As charming as it was, the customer requested that the St. Paddy's gear not be included in the portrait.
The other photo was from the side and he was looking off to the right.
In my view, the first photo was the best, even though the neck gear obstructed a lot of his neck. Still, the lighting was right. Also, his expression was interesting, and I'm always interested in the eyes. Because if the eyes are good, the rest of the portrait will usually fall into place quite easily.
I employed a loose style with this portrait. Since the size was 8x10, I didn't want to get hung up in too many tiny details. And I wanted a bold look, so I added a bright color background to complement the dominant blue and purple tones in the fur. Doing so infused the pet portrait with an energy often missing in more traditional portraits.
This pet portrait commission of Sydney has a nice, direct quality that I like.
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I enjoy experimenting with styles and tools as I paint. Usually I don't stray too far from realism, but just enough to give the painting a distinctive style all its own.
It's fun to see my style changing and growing with each commission.
If you are considering a pet portrait commission for Christmas, please consider ordering as early as possible. Delivery usually takes 3 weeks from the time you order, but with the Christmas rush, sometimes I get backed up. So the earlier you order, the better.


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The average salary in Seattle, Washington, is $69,031. As of Q1 2017, the trend in wages is growing with a 0.7 percent increase over last quarter. The cost of living is 45 percent above the national average in Seattle. Popular jobs in Seattle include Software Engineer, Software Development Engineer (SDE), and Senior Software Engineer which pay between $100,214 and $128,123 per year. Some popular Seattle industries include Software as a Service (SaaS) Development, Software Development, and Retail. In Seattle, some popular employers include Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp, and The Boeing Company.

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1.Robinson, L. (1998). Professional athletes–held to higher standard and above the law: comment on high-profile criminal defendants and the need for states to establish high-profile courts. Indiana Law Journal, 73(4), 1313-1352.
Background: This article explains how when a celebrity is involved in a crime it brings out the “inequities within the justice system”, meaning it brings out all of the injustice that there actually is in the justice system especially when it comes to celebrities that are involved in high profile crimes.
How I Used It: I did not use this article as much as I thought I would have but I definitely should have used it more. I used this article in my white paper to try to prove how celebrities, especially professional athletes get much less serious backlash and punishment for their crimes.
2. Furman, H. (1998). Publicity in high profile criminal cases. St. Thomas Law Review, 10(3), 507-536.
Background: This article suggests that high profile lawyers do not always handle their cases in an honorable or lawful manner. It is also explained that the lawyers seek to gain more media attention for their unethical style of defense, bringing media influence to the case itself.
How I Used It: I used this article to explain my thesis and support it. This article helped me because it had evidence that Lawyers of a high profile are known to not be as honorable in court yet still get away with it. And this helped prove what I was saying was right.
3.Morris, J. N. (2003). Anonymous accused: Protecting defendants’ rights in high-profile criminal cases, the Boston College Law Review, 44(3), 901-946.
Background: This article explains how difficult it is to give high profile criminals their right to a fair trial. Because the court system also needs to realize that their jury might be affected by outside sources. The article talks about how our first amendment right allows the media to portray and influence the world in any way they so please. It explains how this is a problem because the jury can be swayed.
How I Used It: This article was useful to me because it helped me to show the counter argument to my thesis. That high profile cases are at a disadvantage in the court room. As opposed to my thesis that they have an advantage.
4. Gibeaut, J. (2005). Celebrity justice. ABA Journal, 91(1), 43-49.
Background: In this article John Gilbeaut explains his theory of a two tiered court system. This means that there is one court system for people of a high profile and a whole separate court system for the average person. In this article he explains the discrepancies.
How I Used It: This article was helpful to me because it allowed me to have more information to support my claim that high profile lawyers make the criminal justice system unfair. This also helped me to prove that I am not alone in believing that the court system is different depending on how much money you have. This is definitely not how it’s supposed to be.
5.Carroll, B. A. (2013). Celebrity adjudication: Comparative analysis of united states verdict rates for celebrity defendants. Entertainment and Sports Law Journal, 11(1), 1-8.
Background: This article explores the idea that high profile cases get the upper hand because a lot of the time celebrities become household names, and people cannot believe they would commit a crime. This article also explains how the verdicts for celerity defendants differ from normal people’s.
How I Used It: This article helped me because it allowed me to prove my thesis and it explained one of the many reasons why people of a high profile get off easy when it comes to their crimes.
6.Brotman, E. C. (2015). Dealing with the press in high-profile cases: How to neutralize the 13th juror. Litigation, 41(4), 40-44.
Background: This resource helped to explain the opposing side of my theses. It also showed me that people of high profiles are more likely to lose their good reputations over a crime. It also helped my claim though by explaining our first amendment right and how it doesn’t matter who we are, everyone is allowed to say anything they want. and that this should be expected.
How I Used It: This article really helped me to strengthen my claim because It was important for me to make it known to the reader that yes, maybe it is true that a reputation will be ruined, however, isn’t that to be expected when being accused of a crime. This article helped me to learn how to back up my claim.
7.Chamberlain, J.; Miller, M. K.; Jehle, A. (2006). Celebrities in the courtroom: Legal responses, psychological theory and empirical research. Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, 8(3), 551-572.
Background: This article explains how celebrities are treated with more leniency than an average person in a court of law. The author also believes that these celebrities get sympathy form the public.
How I Used It: This article supports my claim that celebrities are treated better in a court of law then regular people. The public thinks of the celebrity defendant as someone that can never do anything wrong and that maybe they are being falsely accused. This helps my claim because it is another reason why the justice system is not fair.
8.Cushner, Q.; Hartley, R.; Parker, D. (2009). Spreading the news: Communicating with the media during high-profile trials. Judicature, 93(2), 52-82.
Background: This article explains in depth how the media is allowed to communicate with people involved in High Profile cases. It explains what is allowed to be released and how they actually come into contact. It also tells the boundaries that the media has in terms of obtaining information.
How I Used It: This source was helpful because it gave me background knowledge about what the limits were to the medias knowledge. Also, I never really understood how the court and the media came into contact and who was allowing this to all be recorded and this article gave me that information.
9.Wilkinson, B. A.; Schulman, S. H. (2002). When talk is not cheap: Communications with the media, the government and other parties in high profile white collar criminal cases. American Criminal Law Review, 39(2 Annual Survey of White Collar Crime), 203-224.
Background: This article explains how usually the second a high profile criminal needs help it seems that everyone is at attention and on their side. It is almost as if everyone is trying to protect this person. It also explains how lawyers often respond to the media without really taking into consideration what they say and how it could effect their client.
How I Used It: I used this article by teaching myself more about lawyers and their intentions on cases of a high profile. Although this article mainly discusses white collar criminals, I think it is still applicable to my claim because these circumstances are similar to those of a normal celebrity criminal where everyone is trying to help the person of high profile.
10.Wetherington, G. T.; Lawton, H.; Pollock, D. I. (1999). Preparing for the high profile case: An omnibus treatment for judges and lawyers. Florida Law Review, 51(3), 425-488.
Background: This article elaborates on what exactly a judge lawyer needs to do to prepare for a high profile case. This includes money, backlash, media and everything in between. This also includes how they will handle it if they lose a lot of money from the case.
How I Used It: This article as helpful in supporting my claim that celebrities have easier times at court because it is less expensive for them to get what they want. So, Ideally this is what happens.

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KABUL, Afghanistan - When the Taliban engineered a prison break in the southern city of Kandahar in June, nearly 900 inmates escaped but not a single one had been fingerprinted or photographed.
SHASTA LAKE, Calif. - The federal government is considering enlarging a dam to boost the state's water supply, which would flood what little land remains above water where a Native American tribe had fished and farmed for centuries.
NEW YORK - The first cell phone running Google Inc.'s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs.
Dr. Michael Guido, renowned evangelist from Metter, "is improving" after a recent fall in which he injured his head. Staff at Guido Gardens in Metter say "he is still very weak, but is trying to walk around his home for exercise every day."
A man police said sexually assaulted a woman at Eagle Villas is behind bars without bond.
SCOTIA, Calif. - After more than 20 years of protests, the last two people living in the giant redwoods of Northern California were climbing down for good, convinced by the new owners of the forest that the ancient trees would be spared from the saw.
LANCASTER, Pa. - A former county coroner received probation Tuesday for giving newspaper reporters the password to a restricted 911 Web site, and the judge who handed down the sentence accused the journalists of violating their professional ethics.
TAESUNGDONG, South Korea - Inside the barbed-wire walls of Korea's Demilitarized Zone, schoolchildren in the hamlet known as ''Freedom Village'' competed Tuesday in foot races and showed off their traditional drumming skills.
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(Note: All information included in this report is taken from law enforcement incident reports and arrest records, which are public records and available for review at any and all local law enforcement agencies. Not every arrest leads to a conviction. Guilt or innocence is determined by the court system.)
NEW YORK - Financial markets resumed their pullback Tuesday as investors worried that lawmakers were losing the sense of urgency seen last week when the government proposed a massive bailout for financial institutions as a way to dislodge clogged credit markets.
ATLANTA - A Georgia man convicted of killing an off-duty police officer was set to be executed Tuesday, even though witnesses have backed away from their testimony and questions remain about whether he is truly guilty.
NEW YORK - Oil prices swung lower Tuesday, falling below $107 a barrel as traders cashed in profits a day after crude rocketed to its biggest one-day gain ever - an epic rally apparently triggered in part by a technical fluke.
BILLINGS, Mont. - Federal wildlife officials have asked a judge to put gray wolves in the Northern Rockies back on the endangered species list - a sharp reversal from the government's prior contention that the animals were thriving.
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The Velvet Hills Chorus, the Colorado Springs chapter of Sweet Adelines International, consists of diverse women making extraordinary music. We are a contemporary, fun, dynamic organization, singing 4-part a cappella harmony, barbershop style. The women of Velvet Hills have been singing together and entertaining in the Pikes Peak region for 50 years.
We are located in a strip mall at the intersection of Austin Bluffs and N Academy Blvd.


Parents of high-school-age drivers might want to take note
Wisconsin Act 164 went into effect Nov. 1 banning first-time drivers from driving while using a cellphone. The law was passed last spring.
"I think it's absolutely a good law to have," said River Falls Police Sgt. Jon Aubart. "It's a good one for parents to remind their kids about not using a phone while driving.
"There are enough driving distractions and beginning drivers already have a lot of things they need to pay attention to. Use of a phone divides their attention."


IBC, a GM subsidiary, has invested £185m in production facilities for the new joint venture. Maximum annual production is expected to be around 86,000 units.
The Vivaro/Trafic will go on sale in the second half of 2001. Vauxhall and sister company Opel anticipate half-year sales of 20,000 units across Europe.
The 2.8-tonne Vivaro is front wheel drive and has a choice of two different length wheelbases.It will be launched with two 1.9 turbo diesel engines with common rail injection (80bhp and 100bhp) and a 2.0-litre petrol unit (120bhp). A 2.5-litre turbo diesel will be added later.
One unusual feature is the dome-shaped cab, which improves headroom and visibility as well as making access easier.


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Broad Ripple Animal Clinic & Wellness Center has staff members that are trained animal behaviorists to offer comprehensive behavior services. They’ve decided to do this for the same reasons that CattleDog Publishing and DrSophiaYin.com were born: seeing so many animals put to sleep because of behavioral problems rather than disease or injury. They created a school for dogs called Bark Tutor, where they work with owners and their pets to help them be successful. Last year, Dr. Yin had the pleasure of conversing with Amber Taylor, RVT and practice manager, about their puppy program.
Written by Dr. Yin in 2009, this article covers the dangers of those holiday snacks we often leave out for friends and family. And, unintentionally, for a rambunctious pet with a finely tuned nose. Although the tasty candy here was chocolate eggs, Halloween and Christmas also feature dangerous, delicious chocolate.
For most pet parents, having a dog that’s well trained would be nice but doesn’t seem like a necessity. This is especially true if the dog spends most of his time in familiar places—such as the home, or the yard, or just on short walks in the neighborhood. He may be so used to the scene that he never gets excited enough or distracted enough to be bothersome. It turns out that you can’t count on life being so mundane. One family found this out the expensive way when their Holiday house plan went awry.

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Honda Indy Toronto: Crews rev up for track construction
Construction began Wednesday on the 2.84-km track that will be used for July’s Honda Indy race at Exhibition Place.
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Construction kicked off Wednesday for this year’s Honda Indy Toronto, beginning a month of hard work to install barricades, erect fences and weld manholes in time for the big race.
More than 2,000 12-foot concrete barriers, each weighing more than 8,000 pounds, will be set up to line the 2.84-kilometre track that snakes through Exhibition Place.
Crews plan to work on Lake Shore Blvd. only at night to help keep traffic flowing smoothly.
The 200-worker construction effort will take until July 11, with races scheduled for the weekend of July 12-14.
Honda Indy Toronto president Charlie Johnstone said he’s particularly excited about off-track attractions this year like a craft beer festival and food trucks.
“We’ve really tried to add a lot of off-track excitement because we know the people who come for the race are race fans, but a lot of people aren’t aware there’s so many more things going on off-track that are just as exciting,” he said.
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IN QUALIFYING EMERGENCY SITUATIONS CERTAIN PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT LAWS MAY BE WAIVED UNDER G.L. c. 149, §44(A)(4) OR THE ADVERTISING REQUIREMENTS MAY BE WAIVED UNDER G.L. c. 149, §44(J)(6). UNDER THESE LAWS PUBLIC AWARDING AUTHORITIES SEEKING AN EMERGENCY WAIVER MUST RECEIVE WRITTEN APPROVAL FROM THE DIVISION OF CAPITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE (DCAMM).
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Address letter to:
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The letter should be on official agency or municipality letterhead and explain each of the following in detail:
1. Whether the awarding authority is seeking a waiver of the bidding requirements of G.L. c. 149, §44A(4), and/or the advertising requirements of G.L. c. 149, §44J(6);
2. The nature of the extreme emergency and how it creates an immediate threat to the health or safety of people or property;
3. How and when the awarding authority became aware of the emergency situation;
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5. Why the time requirements involved in the standard bidding process will not suffice;
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7. The approximate dollar value of the emergency scope of work; and
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X-MAS CONTEMPORARY - The Christmas Carol of the 21st Century
The X-MAS CONTEMPORARY project set the goal of combining the concept of Christmas as it is experienced today with the music of our time.
What does Christmas mean to you?
Dietrich Henschel asked this question of twelve different composers from different countries.
12 composers write 12 Christmas songs of the 21st century.
In collaboration with the ensemble of chief conductor Vladimir Jurowski, this project has been developed into a evening of music fit for the holidays. The premiere will take place on 7 December 2019 in the Konzerthaus Berlin.
Programming of the 12 Christmas Carols of the 21st century can be done according to the audience's wishes and can be supplemented by traditional Christmas carols.
This programme can also be combined with Dietrich Henschel's "X-mas Percussive" project with Simone Rubino.
"X-mas Contemporary" CD release: Farao Classics - 15 November 2019.


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CEO of Baby Jet Promotions and manager of Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan, Samuel Anim Addo has revealed that, the Ghanaman Soccer Center, a national camping facility at Prampram for the Ghana national team needs serious renovation.
Anim Addo who was part of the team who accompanied highlife musician Kwaisey Pee to donate items to the U-20 team told host DJ Nyaami in an interview on SVTV Africa that, the facility needs a serious renovation for the camping of the national teams.
“The most important thing is that; it needs a serious uplift. Government should come in, because if the national teams all camp here, it’s the duty of all of us, so government must come in and let’s uplift the place. If the place is a center of excellence, then it should have every facility here, a minimum of three-star so that we can camp the national team here. We can make here a city of soccer.” he said.
Anim Addo furthered that, the facility could also generate revenue to the state if given the needed development.
“Infrastructure in football should be also be developed, and here, looking at how vast the land is, we can build more pitches and all the national teams can camp here and it saves cost. At the same time, other teams who would like to camp outside their country can camp here. Other clubs can also camp here, so as far as it will be supporting the nation, it would also generate revenue and do a lot for the nation”
Samuel Anim Addo is currently promoting the annual Baby Jet U-16 tournament which is currently underway in the Ashanti Region.
The tournament offers a huge career opportunity to many of such mushrooming talents hidden in the hinterlands and the cities.
The event is organized by Goldstars Consult Ltd and supported by Asamoah Gyan Foundation and Baby Jet promotions.
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