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A different way to experience the beauty of Terengganu is to patrol beaches on dark nights to look out for turtles.
WHAT made me take a flight after work from Penang to Kuala Lumpur, and then to wake up at 5am to catch a flight to Redang island in Terengganu to volunteer to save turtles? Perhaps it was guilt.
I recalled vaguely that years ago our family had driven to Terengganu and my husband had purchased turtle eggs. I had actually boiled three eggs and discovered that they could not harden. The children had swallowed those eggs with soya sauce and pepper and then my son had buried one egg in our garden hoping that hatchlings would emerge.
So with this legacy of guilt, my daughter-in-law Daphne and I had enthusiastically volunteered to save turtles in Chagar Hutang, a remote part of Redang island. The Seatru (Sea Turtle Outreach) volunteer programme was initiated in 1998 to assist long term turtle conservation. It was introduced by professors of Universiti Malaysia Terengganu – where we met up with the coordinators while carrying our rucksacks and sleeping bags.
Work first, relax later
“Welcome volunteers! Remember you are saving one of the wonders of the Earth,” reminded Dr Juanita Joseph, who was in charge of the programme.
“You can enjoy snorkelling and hiking but you have to work first. There is a duty roster. After working, then you can relax,” explained Vickie Chew, the research officer.
Volunteers are required to assist in cooking, housekeeping and beach cleaning. There were eight volunteers and our first job was to carry huge bags of rice, biscuits, canned food plus buckets and a parang to the boat. After reaching Chagar Hutang, we had to jump into the water and carry all the bags to the shore.
“Can I carry the three smallest bags?“ I asked sheepishly as I struggled to carry my huge rucksack, slippers, hat and sling bag.
I appeared to be the only middle-aged mother around – the other seven volunteers comprised youthful, muscular men and energetic younger ladies. Thankfully, we formed a human chain and hands passed all the bags to our home for the next week. Daphne sighed, “Look at the huts and floor! It’s messy. And there is no electricity, our phones won’t work ... no Internet for days!”
Thankfully, after lunch and a briefing by Chew, we settled down to relax.
“Look! There is a mouse deer in the compound!” someone shouted excitedly.
There were two mouse deers foraging for food nearby. Huge monitor lizards also roamed near the rubbish heap, while macaque monkeys darted in and out of the trees, grabbing pieces of food from the dustbin. Squirrels were running around the kitchen roof and one brave one tried to bite through some plastic boxes to eat the biscuits inside.
When we studied the duty roster, I realised, to my disappointment, that Daphne and I had to be on duty from midnight to 3am that very night, to wait for turtles to lay eggs. We were told that we could rest on the beach on mats, but every hour we also had to patrol along the dark beach with a moonless sky, to look out for turtles.
After dinner we sat on the beach and were comforted by the sight of sparkling stars against a brilliant dark sky. Both of us were sleepy and exhausted, but we had to do our patrols. I had thought that seeing turtles was difficult but at 8.30pm I saw a large dark shape crawling onto the soft white sand.
“Oh! It’s a mother turtle going to lay eggs!” I whispered excitedly to Daphne.
Then we caught sight of two more huge turtles further down. There were 11 of us on duty and we had divided ourselves into four groups. Daphne and I headed for the right side of the beach and we waited until the turtle had stopped under the tree. Then she started to body pit, the term for the first stage of her digging process. She started to dig a deep hole with her flippers throwing sand all over her. It was a spectacular and heart-warming sight to behold.
“Oh no! We have to chase her to another part of the beach! She is destroying an old nest there,” whispered Zu Dienle Tan, a volunteer who is a Seatru intern.
Tan is a true blue turtle lover who had volunteered to stay at this turtle sanctuary for three months. She pushed the heavy turtle with her leg, urging it to move to the right. It grunted and appeared to be annoyed and within minutes, had moved slowly back down to the sea.
I was disappointed but Tan assured me that it would return the next night to lay eggs. It must have been a first-time mother and was troubled by the people around her.
Then I sat down to watch another turtle digging furiously in another hole. We had to keep very quiet while writing down the times that the turtle landed, body pitted and chambered (the final stage of digging). After that she was ready to lay her eggs. Mind you, a turtle can lay about 130 eggs one night.
Another turtle appeared and it seemed to like me. It kept following me as I attempted to walk slowly about. The turtle seemed happy and decided to dig just beside me. It was exhilarating to watch two turtles laying eggs, my very own two female turtles to take care of. It was thrilling, but sadly, we were told that for every 100 baby turtles, only one will survive to adulthood.
That second turtle was an older and experienced mother who was sure that our beach was safe for her to nest. She laid her eggs after digging and resting for one hour. I had to call Aziz Mann Mustaffa, the resident turtle caretaker, who measured the turtle and studied the metal tag on her flipper. The numbers on the tag revealed that she had laid her eggs there in 2006. We carried a book which had notes on all the turtles that had landed on this beach before.
Mann (as he prefers to be called) inserted a long stick into the hole to number the nest. After he measured the turtle, it began to crawl down to return to the sea. That night, 28 turtles landed to nest on the beach. All of us worked hard to write notes and mark the nests while catching some rest in between on our beach mats. I kept patrolling but by 3am, I fell asleep on the dark beach.
Sharks eat turtles
Next morning more work was in store. We had to mark the new nests and help to check the old ones.
There were about 200 nests on the beach. We dug up the old nests to protect the eggs and hatchlings from predators but were dismayed to find small ghost and hermit crabs plus red ants attacking some hatchlings in the nest.
Then I saw a dead hatchling with a hole in its chest. Sadly, it had been bitten by a rat. Then there were two tiny hatchlings with three flippers. Mann said that these disabled creatures can still grow into adult mothers and return to lay eggs on that beach. That was inspiring news. It was wonderful to find the lovely hatchlings and we kept them in a tray. Later in the evening we released them into the sea.
To our horror, we saw baby sharks waiting in the water to eat the hatchlings – very few survive to be adults. Someone thought of catching the baby sharks, but it is illegal to catch any fish in the Redang marine park.
One afternoon a loud shriek was heard, for someone had discovered a green snake in our room.
“It’s not venomous and harmless!” shouted Mann, the caretaker.
The snake was caught gently and released into the forest later. More excitement was in store later that evening as a colourful mangrove snake was seen in the rubbish bin. It chased away two macaque monkeys nearby. We were told it was a resident snake which came every night looking for dinner. Large eagles soared in the sky and butterflies in myriad colours danced in and out of the trees nearby.
Apart from engaging in turtle conservation activities, volunteers can also swim and snorkel in the crystal clear sea. Some also hiked to Turtle Rock (a natural formation) and visited a natural prawn spa. The latter had us sitting down and inserting our feet into the cool, sparkling water of a rock pool and within minutes little prawns began nibbling on our feet hungrily. The sensation was ticklish yet relaxing. So one does not have to pay RM40 per hour to visit a fish spa in a city shopping centre because it’s free here!
It is fascinating to know that more than 3,000 volunteers have participated in this programme to save turtles. People can gain the rare privilege of being close to nature while helping to conduct research and actively saving wild turtles from extinction.
The magnificent Leatherback turtles which were common 20 years ago have become effectively extinct in Terengganu now. Many people are still purchasing turtle eggs (of other species) in the local markets and consuming them. Thankfully there are many other nature lovers who treasure these threatened turtles.
All in all, volunteering at the Seatru program at Chagar Hutang in Redang island is rewarding for it nurtures love and compassion towards nature’s wonders amid our materialistic world.
For me, helping to save these adorable creatures was a memorable experience, to be kept in a corner of my heart always.
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NHS looks to move data-analytics platform into the cloud
NHS Business Services Authority issues RFI seeking feedback on potential benefits and challenges of moving Oracle-based system off premises
The NHS is looking to move a key data-analytics platform into the cloud.
Since 2013 the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) has operated a data-analytics learning laboratory (DALL) which gathers together information on £30bn in annual health-service spending. A range of data sets – and reports designed to help inform policy – are hosted on the DALL and available for use by NHS and Department for Health representatives. The analytics system is comprised of on-premises Oracle Exadata and Exalytics technology.
“In order to meet current and emerging business requirements, the NHSBSA wish to explore the option to migrate the DALL from on-premises to cloud,” the NHSBSA said, in a request for information (RFI) document.
The organisation is seeking market feedback on what “hosting solutions exist in the marketplace that could host the current DALL service comprising Oracle products”. But the NHSBSA added that “this is not restricted to Oracle cloud” products.
The RFI is also seeking information on the supplier landscape, and how much moving to the cloud might cost upfront and on an ongoing basis. NHSBSA is also interested in hearing about the potential “benefits of cloud-based solutions, which may include monetary savings, increased functionality, [and] improved interoperability”.
Island’s local authority recruits for a range of leaders to fulfil transformation plan
Government's national technology adviser discusses why getting digital reforms through the machinery of government may require some help from Jason Bourne
Belfast-based IT company Novosco picked for seven-year engagement
HMRC seeks to appoint ‘ID issuer’ to comply with EU legislation and tackle £2bn annual tax gap caused by illicit tobacco trade
The cautionary tale of the Leicestershire teenager who hacked high-ranking officials of NATO allies shows the need for improved password security
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It’s been just over a year since we first introduced Microsoft Edge, the brand new browser for Windows 10. We took a new direction, establishing Microsoft Edge as a browser for doing more on the web, with reading tools, notetaking, and Cortana built-in. We built it on top of the Universal Windows Platform, which includes our brand-new web rendering engine, EdgeHTML. Altogether Microsoft Edge delivers a faster, more efficient, more compatible, more secure, and more productive experience to all Windows 10 customers.
Over the last year we’ve been hard at work taking Microsoft Edge to the next level with features and improvements that make every part of the browser better. In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft Edge has support for browser extensions from the Windows Store, dozens of new features, and major improvements to power efficiency, and security. It’s also the most accessible browser we’ve ever shipped, and the first browser to score a perfect 100% on HTML5Accessibility.com! Let’s walk through some of what’s new and available for all customers today.
Customize your browser with Microsoft Edge extensions
Extensions have been the number one feature request since we first shipped Windows 10 last July, and after previewing a growing set of extensions with Windows Insiders over the last several months, we’re thrilled to make them available to the general public alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
Today, a selection of popular extensions is available from the Windows Store, including extensions from popular brands like AdBlock and Adblock Plus, Amazon, Evernote, LastPass, Microsoft Translate, Office Online, Pinterest, Pocket and more. We’ll continue to bring others to the Windows Store in future updates, ensuring the highest quality for our customers.
You can find extensions in the Windows Store here or by selecting “Extensions” from the Microsoft Edge menu. Try them out, and don’t forget to leave a review for your favorite extensions in the Windows Store.
Our most accessible browser ever
In September 2015, we outlined the state of support for popular assistive technologies in Microsoft Edge and shared our roadmap to improve that support. Since then, our investment in accessibility has paid off in EdgeHTML 14, and we’re proud to say that Microsoft Edge in the Anniversary Update is easily the most accessible browser we’ve ever shipped as well as the only browser to earn a perfect score on HTML5Accessibility’s browser benchmark.
We’ve made major improvements and hundreds of bug fixes so that Microsoft Edge is easier to navigate with a keyboard and with assistive technologies like screen readers, including better support for PDF files, Narrator support for address bar suggestions and instant answers, and a wide range of improvements to common daily browsing features such as tabs, windows, and favorites. We also built an all-new accessibility architecture for our rendering engine, so developers can build more accessible user experiences powered by HTML5.
We’ve always been committed to making the web just work for everyone, and with these changes we’re proud to provide a better experience to the broad spectrum of users who depend on assistive technology every day.
Built by you: New features from top Windows Insider feedback
Over the last year, we’ve been listening closely to feedback from Windows 10 customers and our Windows Insiders, and that feedback led to dozens of new features in the Anniversary Update.
You can now create pinned tabs to keep your most used sites and web apps available just a click away – simply right-click any tab and choose “Pin.”
Pinned tabs always appear at the start of the tab row, and only show the site’s icon. Pinned tabs that are in your Microsoft Edge window when you close the app will come back the next time you open Microsoft Edge.
Paste and go
Starting with the Anniversary Update, if you have copied a link in your clipboard, you can right-click in the address bar and choose “Paste and go” from the context menu to instantly navigate to the site.
If you copy something other than a link to your clipboard, you will instead see a “paste and search” option.
Notifications from websites
Microsoft Edge now support notifications from open websites, so you can stay up to date with messages or updates from your favorite sites like Skype for Web, Slack, or WhatsApp.
Microsoft Edge will always ask for your permission before allowing a site to send you notifications, and you can manage notifications from Settings in Microsoft Edge or by right clicking a notification in Windows 10’s Action Center.
Swipe to navigate
You can now navigate back and forward with the swipe of a fingertip. On a touchscreen PC or a Windows 10 Mobile device, simply drag a finger across the page to the right or left to go to the previous or next page in your history.
Ask Cortana about any image
Right click on any picture on the web and select “Ask Cortana” to learn more about the picture you selected in order to identify related information or look up related pictures.
You can now import favorites from Firefox, in addition to Chrome and Internet Explorer. When you import favorites from any browser, they will now land in a separate clearly labeled folder, instead of mixed in with your existing favorites. Organizing your favorites is now easier using the new “tree” display in the Hub. You can expand and collapse folders to see the contents of as many or few as you like. You can now also sort favorites by name in the favorites pane, and easily rearrange or move favorites between folders with drag and drop. In the Favorites Bar, you can now right-click on the favorites bar to display icons only, rename items, or create new folders.
Better download management
Microsoft Edge now gives you a reminder of in-progress downloads whenever you close Microsoft Edge. This gives you the opportunity to complete downloads prior to closing Microsoft Edge. You can also set where downloaded files are saved by default. Just open “Settings”, choose “Advanced settings”, and find the new option under “Downloads.”
Drag and drop folders
You can now upload folders to sites like OneDrive, Dropbox, and Google Drive by dragging and dropping into Microsoft Edge.
Better tab behavior on Mobile
Microsoft Edge keeps your tabs under control when you use it with apps on your phone. If you tap on a link in an app that opens a new tab in Microsoft Edge, pressing the back button when you’re done will close that tab, then take you back to the app. Your tabs list stays lean and relevant, by smartly closing tabs you’re done with.
Tab previews on HoloLens
Hover over tabs on HoloLens just like you would on a PC to see a thumbnail preview of the page.
And much more!
That’s just the beginning – the Anniversary Update contains many more changes and improvements! You can learn more about what’s new in Microsoft Edge with the Anniversary Update by opening the “…” menu and selecting “What’s new and tips.”
Better basics: More efficient, more compatible, and more secure than ever
The Anniversary Update is more than just new features! We’ve also improved power efficiency, compatibility, and security, so customers can browse with confidence that their battery will last, their sites will just work, and they will be protected from malware and other threats by industry-leading security.
All day efficiency
We’ve added even more endurance to the longest-lasting browser on Windows. The Anniversary Update is more efficient when you have tabs open in the background, with savings of up to 90% in some cases.
Microsoft Edge will also now pause non-essential Flash content like advertisements until you click to play, which saves power and improves performance. We’ve also isolated Flash from your page content, so if Flash consumes too many resources or crashes, Windows can stop it without impacting the rest of the website.
More compatible with popular sites
Safer than ever
Microsoft Edge set a new high bar for security, isolating web pages from the rest of the system and making it harder for exploits to gain access to your operating system and personal information. In November, we added more protections to prevent malicious programs injecting themselves into the browser without the user’s knowledge.
In the Anniversary Update, we’re making attacks more difficult with advanced new features like Kernel Attack Protection. In addition, Flash is now isolated to a separate process running in a separate AppContainer, reducing the risk associated with Flash vulnerabilities.
Microsoft Edge delivers a faster, more efficient, more compatible, more secure, and more productive browsing experience for all Windows 10 customers. We’ve made some improvements specifically for enterprise customers as well: The Windows 10 Anniversary Update will enable organizations to use Microsoft Edge as their safer, faster default browser, falling back to Internet Explorer 11 only for approved sites that need backward compatibility. Interstitial pages (“Your organization has set this site to automatically open in Internet Explorer”) no longer display by default, and you can restrict the use of Internet Explorer to sites on the Enterprise Mode Site List. We’ve added other management policies based on customer feedback, including both “user” and “computer” policies. Microsoft Edge is great for enterprises, too.
Better with your feedback
Your feedback makes Microsoft Edge better! We’re never done improving, so we’re eager to hear even more feedback on these changes and what you’d like to see next. You can submit your ideas and vote on suggestions by selecting “Send feedback” from the Actions menu (“…”) in Microsoft Edge.
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If you don’t want your boss to read it, don’t text it on his phone – or one the company provided. That was the message from the Supreme Court today (June 17, 2010).
The Court unanimously upheld a police department’s right to search an officer’s sexy texts on a police department-owned pager, saying the search didn’t violate his constitutional right to privacy.
The case arose when the Ontario, Calif., police department audited the pagers of some of their SWAT team members to see if they were being used too often for personal purposes. One of the cops, Jeff Quon, had sent a lot of personal messages, including some that were apparently exceedingly personal. In one month alone, of 456 messages sent during his shift, 400 were personal.
Quon and three recipients of his messages sued, saying their right to privacy had been violated. The Supreme Court disagreed.
The city of Ontario, like many employers, has a policy that warns employees that employer-owned electronic devices, including computers, phones and pagers, do not include a guarantee of privacy.
According to this AP/CNBC report, Justice Kennedy said that while many companies tolerate the personal use of employer-owned communications equipment, that doesn’t guarantee the privacy of those choosing to do so.
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photo by Gentl & Hyers
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- 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more
- 1 pound Sharlyn or Galia melon, rind removed, sliced into thin rounds
- 1 large heirloom tomato, sliced
- 12 ounces fresh burrata or mozzarella, torn
- Olive oil (for drizzling)
- Fresh basil leaves (for serving)
- Flaky sea salt (such as Maldon)
Combine vinegar, kosher salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and 2 tablespoons water in a large bowl; add melon and toss to coat. Let stand at room temperature at least 30 minutes.
Remove melon from pickling liquid and arrange on a platter with tomato and burrata. Drizzle with oil and some pickling liquid, top with basil, and season with sea salt and pepper.
Do ahead: Melon can be pickled 2 hours ahead. Cover and chill.
Nutrition Informationper serving (4 servings) POWERED BY Edamam
- Carbohydrates13 g (4%)
- Fat26 g (40%)
- Protein20 g (40%)
- Saturated Fat12 g (61%)
- Sodium845 mg (35%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber2 g (6%)
- Monounsaturated Fat11 g
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Hearing Protection at Donal Macnally's, Dublin
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Hearing Conservation is Far Better Than Treatment, Hearing Is Precious, Protect Yours
Hearing conservation is far better than treatment, we take hearing conservation very seriously and promote best practice hearing conservation protocols. At the moment it is not possible to repair the damage done to hearing by noise exposure. Don't suffer something that you can avoid
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We are happy to advise on all area’s of hearing conservation, including:
- Risk Assessment.
- Audiograms (pre-employment screening and annual screening).
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Custom ear moulds are superior to foam or generic shaped earpieces because they are created from an identical copy or impression of the users ear and ear canal so a perfect fit is guaranteed. Ear moulds are the preferred choice of those who use in-ear products for prolonged periods of time, like news broadcasters or musicians. Custom moulded ear-inserts or ear moulds are used in a variety of applications including news broadcasters, security communication, sports, motorcyclists, shooting, professional musicians, Mp3 players, Noise protection. We are able to produce ear-inserts for almost any application.
Custom fit earplugs provide outstanding noise protection for a variety of recreational and occupational environments. Prolonged noise from loud machinery and tools on the job can damage your hearing - even short bursts of sound over 90 decibels can have an impact. We offer several custom hearing protection options for those who are exposed to high-noise environments. Five different acoustic filters are available, offering a range from low to very high attenuation with only the harmful level filtered out while ambient noise and speech level remain clearly audible
The Sportsmaster, Shooter's Hearing Protection
Customised Electronics Hearing Protection - "The ultimate hearing protector"
Research shows that 47-70% of all shooters have some hearing loss. In fact shooting has been described as the one sport that contributes the most risk for permanent sensori-neural hearing loss.
What are the advantages of the Sportsmaster?
- It gives you the competitive edge by amplifying quiet sounds such as traps realeasing, birds flushing or range commands
- It is comfortable because it is custom-fit to your ear
- receiver is designed to reduce wind noise and provide a clear signal
- Silicone mould moves with ear canal for additional protection
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On Wednesday, July 19, the Chautauqua Lake Association along with the Chautauqua-Conewango Consortium, a Waterkeeper Affiliate, jointly discussed Chautauqua Lake’s ecological system at the Libraries Love Lakes (LLL) Program hosted by the Lakewood Library.
Representatives from the CLA and CCC explained how each component supports the existence of other components within the lake ecosystem. Emphasis was given to the importance of having healthy aquatic plant colonies present and how these plants support a host of critters and fish while supporting water clarity and reducing algal blooms.
Libraries Love Lakes is a national program that brings libraries and lake scientists together to educate the community on the importance of healthy lakes. This program is facilitated regionally by the Finger Lakes Institute along with Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
July is also the North American Lake Management Society’s (NALMS) Lakes Appreciation Month. The CLA is an active member of NALMS, who is a co-sponsor of the LLL Program. | <urn:uuid:1ae57122-78d1-4eb3-aff6-6f161796565c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://chautauqualakeassociation.org/cla-participates-in-libraries-love-lakes-program/ | 2023-09-23T14:43:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506481.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923130827-20230923160827-00501.warc.gz | en | 0.940993 | 216 |
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Hyuk: Hi Hongbin, you look so blue. What’s the matter?
Hongbin: I have party tonight~
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Hongbin: Everyone brings girlfriend, but I don’t have girlfriend!
Hyuk: Oh poor Hongbin!
Hongbin: So are you busy?
Hyuk: Yes, I’m busy
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Dorothy Schadt, 85, of Jeffersonville, NY, died January 24, 2008, at the Roscoe Community Nursing Home.
She was born May 16, 1922 in Liberty, NY, the daughter of Charles and Louise Ellmauer Wagner.
Dorothy was a retired assistant cashier at the First National Bank of Jeffersonville and a member of St. Georges Church in Jeffersonville.
She is survived her husband, Jack S. Schadt, at home; one son, Charlie Schadt and his wife, Sue of Jeffersonville, NY; one daughter, Dottie Moylan and her husband, Walter of Liberty, NY; five grandchildren: Karen Santoro, Jack Moylan, Jodi Allen, Chelsie Schadt, and Courtney Schadt; three great-grandchildren: Nicholas Santoro, Noah Santoro, and Joseph Keller.
There are no calling hours.
A Memorial Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday, January 29, at 11 a.m. at St. Georges Church in Jeffersonville, with Father Ignatius Vu officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made to Roscoe Community Nursing Home, Roscoe-Rockland Rd., Roscoe, NY 12776.
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From the series Science 24/7
Grade Range: 5th – 8th
Page Count: 48
Lexile Level: 790L
What do selfies say about us? What do fish eyes have to do with photos? And what is a pixel, anyway? The answers to all those questions–and more–are in science . . . and in this book. For more than 150 years, photography has been the main way that we document our lives. Science makes it possible, so understanding the physics and chemistry behind your snaps might make you a better “shooter.” And it's not just photography–science is all around us, every hour of every day. Discover more ways that science is a part of our lives in SCIENCE 24–7!
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I am trying to find ways to lower our energy bills.
The stock market looks horrible in addition to inflation has myself and others rattled.
I am trying to save ways where I can. When I go grocery shopping I don’t get the extra stuff anymore. I no longer buy shrimp, scallops, couscous in addition to flavored oils. I just get the bare essentials in addition to use it all up. For electricity I try to limit how long I have the lights on. I have taken to showering in our pool more often than not. I also ride our bike rather than spend money for gas in our car. It is a big help. The Heating in addition to A/C bill is the 1 that is scaring myself and others quite a bit. I have caulked around the windows in addition to doors to seal the air inside our home. I also got our ductwork checked to make sure there are no leaks. I then added more insulation around the baseboard, invested in thicker curtains in addition to I am trying to be smarter on how I set the control unit. That is about all I can do now. I have gotten Heating in addition to A/C repair already to ensure the unit is clean, oiled in addition to tightened. I made sure to have a fully operational method that works to the best of its capability. Still, I am not totally glad with what I am spending. I am not willing to invest anymore in the Heating in addition to A/C department though. So I just need to be conscious about cooling this Summer in addition to heating when the weather cools down. I don’t want to face a big bill every week. | <urn:uuid:620b2089-6aa5-47d3-9c2e-9215197104b0> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | http://achvacheatingrepaircarsonreno.com/lowering-the-energy-bills-each-week/ | 2023-02-04T11:15:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500126.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204110651-20230204140651-00347.warc.gz | en | 0.980368 | 349 |
Matheus Zimmermann, the leader of Top Brother Sul in Pelotas, likes changing up his attacks with technical, unorthodox options to surprise his opponents, and today’s lesson couldn’t be any different.
This time we start from the butterfly guard, a known position for the hook sweep which, with his tip, can also serve up a quick finish.
Matheus shows how to make the butterfly guard grips, adding a grip to the opponent’s sleeve, to be able to spin with torsion on the shoulder, similar to the omoplata. For blue-belts and higher, another option is a wrist fold on the arm that is trapped after the spin.
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Marley sucks his member until he gives her a mouth full of jizz to enjoy playing with. PervCity Teen Marley Brinx porn: free hd sex video - Brunette, Toys, Petite, Blowjob. Watch Marley Brinx Enjoys Dick After Dildo Fun Hard Porn Video. Beeg 10:46 amazing pornstar marley brinx gives him a horny 69 and a wild stiffie. Fingering; Fisting; French; Funny; Gangbang; German; Handjob; Hardcore; Hentai; Indian; Interracial; Italian. | <urn:uuid:c8f88e09-9c5b-43e9-9c8a-bbae5ad619cb> | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | https://wifehavesex.com/video/97664/marley-brinx-likes-pink-cigar-after-fake-penis-joy/ | 2021-10-17T17:05:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585178.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20211017144318-20211017174318-00532.warc.gz | en | 0.787506 | 130 |
October 22, 2013
Dogs in dawg regalia, class of 2033 in diapers – vote now for W Day photos
Vote until midnight tomorrow, Oct. 23, on Facebook to help choose the winners of the W Day 2013 Husky Spirit Photo Contest. The photo contest is part of the runup to this year’s W Day, Friday, Oct. 25.
W Day festivities, from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Red Square, will include live music from Pickwick, giveaways and Dollars for Dawgs – where you can get a hot dog and drink for a suggested donation to the Husky Pride Fund.
Wear purple or UW-licensed gear to be eligible that day for promotions and discounts from participating local retailers.
A “Love Purple, Raise Gold” online giving campaign hopes to hear from 1,152 donors – in honor of the UW’s 152nd birthday. The campaign starts Oct. 23 at 1:52 p.m. – of course – and continues for 48 hours.
Entries in the Husky Spirit Photo Contest were submitted earlier this month in three categories: future Huskies (kids 10 and under), top dawg (pets) and the general category Husky spirit. Along with winners determined by popular vote, there will also be three best-in-show winners selected by UW alumni judges. | <urn:uuid:84ec1c90-0416-473e-b0ad-376f815c532e> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/10/22/dogs-in-dawg-regalia-class-of-2033-in-diapers-vote-now-for-w-day-photos/ | 2016-05-28T18:33:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464049278042.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524002118-00193-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938801 | 288 |
Justin Bieber was booed last night at the Billboard Music Awards while accepting the fan-voted Milestone Award.
The Canadian pop star received boos while making his way onto the stage and again during his acceptance speech. Fans cheered in an attempt to drown out the haters in the crowd.
The Bieb seemed confused by their reaction as he delivered this response, “I’m 19 years old. I think I’m doing a pretty good job. Basically from my heart I really just want to say it really should be about the music. It should be about the craft that I’m making. This is not a gimmick and I’m an artist and I should be taken seriously. And all this other bull should not be spoken of.”
The “bull” reference in his speech was undoubted a nod to the bad publicity the teen has been picking up recently for driving infractions, arriving late for concerts, hard partying and drugs confiscated from his tour bus in Sweden.
Bieber went on to thank his manager Scooter Braun and his parents. Later he picked up his second award for Top Male Artist.
Show host Tracy Morgan tried to lighten the mood by telling the crowd, “Don’t be booin’ nobody, this ain’t ‘Showtime at the Apollo.’”
Check out Bieber’s acceptance speech below and his performance of ‘Take You’:
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ICONFIT Diet WHEY is based on highly popular whey protein. While high in protein (over 66%), vitamins, minerals and fibre (~8%) it keeps you feeling full for hours and at the same time has extremely low carb and fat content. Diet WHEY is boosted by Orafti™ prebiotic fibre and a blend of 23 essential vitamins and minerals. To make it even better, it also has a healthy dose of green tea extract to help burn that fat.
With a high 66% protein content, Diet WHEY is recommended to use as
- Part of a healthy balanced diet to boost protein and keep calories low.
- After training to restore and develop your muscles and keep you full for hours.
Who and when should use it?
- Both men and women for weightloss goals.
- Part of a healthy balanced diet to boost protein.
- As meal replacement to keep calories and carbs low.
Use it 2-3 times per day by mixing 50g of Diet WHEY with ~300ml of water in a shaker. Great to drink as a light breakfast and to use during or after training. As one shake only contains 5,2g of carbs, it’s possible to take you to “ketosis” if total carbs consumtion is kept very low – ketosis is a state where your body starts burning fat instead of carbohydrates to get energy.
Ingredients: Whey protein concentrate, Orafti™ prebiotic fibre (inulin), blend of 23 vitamin and mineral blend(Vitamin A (retinylacetat), Vitamin D (cholecalciferol), calcium, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, phosphor, selenium, sodium, zinc, ascorbic acid, vitamin E, niacin, calcium D-pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, B12, folic acid, biotin), cocoa powder (only in chocolate flavoured option), flavouring, psyllium seed husks powder (psyllium ovata), soy lecithin (less than 1,5%), green tea extract, sweetener sucralose.
How to use: Mix 50g (2 scoops, included) with 300ml (you may add more or less water as you prefer) water in a shaker. Shake well until even solubility and consume. Not for long-term storage after mixing, consume within a few minutes. Great way to replace a meal with high protein and fibre. Also perfect for a recovery drink after a gym session giving the much-needed protein and keeps hunger away. | <urn:uuid:80b1aa35-f6d3-43e5-8749-6fe3a4243b7c> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://iconfit.eu/toode/iconfit-diet-whey/?lang=en | 2019-09-17T13:14:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573071.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20190917121048-20190917143048-00178.warc.gz | en | 0.892141 | 560 |
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Three Old Dominion University students were robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning.
Norfolk Police Department spokesmen say they are investigating the armed robbery, which happened around 1:30 a.m. on W. 39th Street near Bluestone Avenue. ODU Campus Police originally responded the scene, then called Norfolk Police in just after 2 a.m.
Police say the suspect was wearing a red bandanna.
W. 39th Street is a mix of college students and Norfolk residents, and neighbors say the scene of the crime is near where the student victims live. WAVY.com spoke to many students and residents on Friday afternoon and all said they weren’t surprised by the recent robbery. Some say, they’ve come to expect it.
“Our house on the corner right here has been shot,” said Michael Mazza, a senior at ODU who lives on W. 39th Street. “And then our neighbors right here were robbed on their own.”
Students also have another violent crime fresh in their minds. Sunday, February 16, an ODU student was shot on Bowdens Ferry Road, just blocks away from the latest robbery.
“We have great neighbors,” said Mazza. “But, it’s crazy to think that some people come from outside the community to get just a dollar up. You’re in school, you shouldn’t have to worry about somebody robbing you.”
The surrounding neighborhood wants to do something about the crime. The Lambert’s Point Civic League is organizing a “Walk Against Crime” for Saturday, March 29. The group is meeting at the intersection of 40th Street and Bowdens Ferry Road at 8 a.m. They will end at the Village Point Senior House center at 38th Street and Bowdens Ferry Road. | <urn:uuid:7194e287-9b68-4669-8696-cb08866e4d58> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://wavy.com/2014/03/28/three-odu-students-robbed-at-gunpoint/ | 2016-12-07T10:36:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542060.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00042-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977608 | 399 |
This Irish one-handed sword features a light, hardened high carbon steel blade with blunt and thickened edges as well as a rounded tip.
The characteristic ring pommel and the winged guard with its quatrefoil pierced patterns, which are iconic for medieval Irish swords, are made of steel. The pommel is riveted to the tang.
The wooden grip is wrapped with leather. The included scabbard is made of leather-wrapped wood.
This sword is perfectly suited for light combat, reenactment and decoration purposes.
- Battle-ready Sword Category : SK-B.
- Blade material: high carbon steel.
- Overall length: approx. 96 cm.
- Blade length: approx. 78 cm.
- Handle length: approx. 17 cm.
- Weight: approx. 1277 g.
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Puffco Pro Portable Dabbing Vaporizer
Built on innovation and driven by consumer demand, Puffco was founded with the mission to bring the world a better portable vaporizer experience. We've combined our experiences with existing technology and what we've heard from consumers to engineer the next generation of portable vaporizer products.
Comes with Temperature controlled battery, full atomizer set, charger, and carrying case.
No glues, no plastics and no fibres. The Puffco Pro leads the industry by having the largest ceramic chamber. This means you won’t have to refill every few pulls. The Puffco Pro has set the new standard#
The Puffco Pro’s battery allows for optimal control; click the “cloud” button five times to toggle on or off, and four times to cycle through its three color-coded temperature settings. [Low, Green; Medium, Blue; and High, Red
Designed to be as versatile as its users The Puffco Pro has a protective UV coating and a custom designed ceramic chamber. The Puffco Pro continues to innovate in form and function. | <urn:uuid:0c5ced2b-1708-4fb1-9420-487e933625d5> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://www.highlifeseedbank.co.uk/vaporizers/puffco-pro-portable-vaporizer | 2019-07-18T23:19:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525863.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718231656-20190719013656-00192.warc.gz | en | 0.915205 | 234 |
My friend Hannah has been wanting to make DIY Burt’s Bees Chapstick for over a year and we finally DID IT. They only take a few minutes to make and are so creamy your lips will be very happy. You can also add shimmer to add some extra bling to your day.
I’ll get to the recipe in a second, but first, why bother making your own? Well, here are three reasons:
1.) Store bought ones often contain chemicals that actually DRY OUT our lips, forcing us to continually apply more.
2.)According to Wellness Mama, after Burt’s Bees was bought out by Clorox, they started adding canola and soybean oils to their chapsticks. These oils cannot be extracted naturally, thus, are chemically made. Thanks, but I’m over chemical-laden products.
3.) They make the cutest little DIY gifts.
Cost-wise they will save you some cash. And now, let’s get to the recipe.
*This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase an item through one of my links it will not raise the cost for you, but I will make a small commission to help pay for my cat’s “special” treats. 😉
DIY Burt’s Bees Chapstick Recipe
WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
2 TBS beeswax
2 TBS shea butter
2 TBS coconut oil
Chapstick containers or pots
30 Drops + essential oil of choice (peppermint, lavender or even grapefruit make lovely choices)
A double boiler or just something you can melt the materials in over a pot like a glass bowl, and a spatula you don’t plan on using for cooking again.
If you want some shimmer and a little color, you can try adding some of this natural mica powder.
If you’re looking for another DIY gift, try making these DIY lotion bars using the same ingredients.
How to Make DIY Burt’s Bees Chapstick
1.) Melt the beeswax, shea butter, and coconut oil in a bowl over boiling water.
2.) Turn off the heat, but keep the mixture over the pot or else it will start to harden fast!
3.) Add the essential oils.
4.) Use a pipette or a dropper to fill your containers.
5.) Let them harden for a few minutes and go back and “top” off.
6.) Let the chapsticks sit for a few hours before moving or putting on the caps.
This makes around 12 chapsticks depending on the size of the container.
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German drugmaker Bayer has kicked off its bid to overturn a decision in India that has paved the way for cheaper copycat versions of its cancer drug Nexavar while the medicine is still under patent.
In March, India issued its first-ever compulsory licence allowing the company Natco to legally make and sell a low-cost version of Nexavar (sorafenib), which is used to treat kidney and liver cancer, in order to secure a more affordable alternative in the interest of public health.
The landmark move brought the price of the drug down 97%, from over $5,500 per month to $175, and set a new precedent for allowing the sale of generic versions of new medicines that are still under patent to widen access to those in the country who need them most.
However, Bayer is arguing that the compulsory licence should be withdrawn because a generic form of Nexavar is already sold in India by Cipla - in breach of the patent - and therefore there is already a low-cost alternative available.
Bayer's stance on the issue has angered humanitarian health organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
“Bayer's appeal against this landmark ruling in India is predictable; they're using litigation rather than addressing the reality that their prices are too high”, said Leena Menghaney, Campaign Manager in India for MSF’s Access Campaign.
"By appealing this decision, Bayer is trying to prevent the use of a key public safeguard that can in the future act as a lifeline, allowing people, governments and treatment providers like MSF access to the newest drugs from India,” she argued.
Along with Novartis' current legal challenge against India's patent laws - taking issue with the section stating that a modification of a known chemical composition is non-patentable - these landmark cases are under close global scrutiny because the outcome could have a seismic impact on the landscape of drug pricing in the country. | <urn:uuid:2557e472-d401-4df3-b8da-22b0264ea3aa> | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | http://www.pharmatimes.com/news/bayer_appeals_indias_ruling_on_nexavar_generic_976694 | 2018-05-20T16:06:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863626.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20180520151124-20180520171124-00162.warc.gz | en | 0.948879 | 406 |
DBA Online 1.11
This is a worldwide war-gaming project that includes a computerized version of famous De Bellis Antiquitatis ruleset by Phil Barker, Richard Bodley Scott and Sue Laflin Barker (published by Wargames Research Group) and the DBA Online Internet Club, a worldwide war-gaming community.
Play ancient and medieval battles with hundreds of live opponents from all over the world. With DBA Online Club, you can find an opponent of almost any level of skills and frequency of play. Also you can participate in international tournaments and campaigns.
What you can do for free:
- Trial Internet games with anyone
- Full value Internet games with "Game Master" and "Mentors"
- Hot-seat games
- Figure gallery
- Participate in discussions and chats
Trial game limitations:
- Games stop when three units are killed
- Games don't count for your personal statistics/rankings
- You cannot participate in tournaments or campaigns
Subscribed members benefits:
- Play any number of full-value Internet games with anyone
- Participate in tournaments and campaigns
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Congressional budget scorekeepers said they can no longer measure the fiscal impact of many provisions of ObamaCare because the task is impossible.
In a little-noticed footnote from April, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said it will continue to assess the effects of the law’s exchange subsidies and the Medicaid expansion, while not tracking others.
“The provisions that expand insurance coverage established entirely new programs or components of programs that can be isolated and reassessed,” the office wrote.
“In contrast, other provisions of the Affordable Care Act significantly modified existing federal programs and made changes to the Internal Revenue Code.
“Isolating the incremental effects of those provisions on previously existing programs and revenues four years after enactment of the Affordable Care Act is not possible.”
The note came in the CBO’s analysis of ObamaCare’s insurance coverage provisions in April and was first reported Wednesday by Roll Call.
It means that measuring the healthcare law’s effect on the budget deficit will be much more difficult, if not impossible. The CBO is normally the best source of information on bills’ projected fiscal effects. | <urn:uuid:4e04ae9c-ad4d-441e-9cd1-ebb76cdbcce8> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://bighealthreport.com/cbo-throws-in-the-towel-on-scoring-obamacare/ | 2017-11-20T07:43:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805923.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120071401-20171120091401-00256.warc.gz | en | 0.91947 | 233 |
Here are some tips to make an effective survey from a good questionnaire.
In general, the statistical questions (those that serve more embarrassing to classify the questionnaire for socioeconomic status) should be made at the end of the questionnaire, but may be necessary to use some initial questions filter to know if any do the survey to the respondent, and for appropriate use of hops in the questionnaire.
All survey questions must be clear and not ambiguous or vague.
When there are no scales, we recommend you ask the respondent to choose one option.
The categories "do not knows" and "no answer" should be included as little as possible.
Multiple-choice lists should be short, comprehensive and manageable for the interviewer and respondent.
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Finally, the success of a good depends on a questionnaire survey to ask what is fair, with good management and questions on topics ranging from general to specific.
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Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal and three others have been re-arraigned before Justice Jude Okeke of a Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Abuja by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Mr Lawal, his younger brother, Hamidu David Lawal, Suleiman Abubakar, Apeh John Monday and two companies, Rholavision Engineering Ltd and Josmon Technologies Ltd, were re-arraigned on an amended 10-count charge bordering on fraud, diversion of funds and criminal conspiracy to the tune of over N500 million.
They were earlier arraigned before Justice Okeke on February 13 and the prosecution was meant to open its case today, March 18.
At the resumed hearing, counsel for the EFCC, Offem Uket, told the court that the charges against them had been amended, and that they had to take a fresh plea.
However, citing Section 218 (2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA 2015, Akin Olujimi, counsel for Mr Lawal, argued that “before the charge is taken, the prosecution ought to have filed the amended charge to ensure that it was properly endorsed”.
Other defence counsels aligned themselves with the submission of Olujimi.
Justice Okeke, while ordering the prosecution to comply with the section cited by Mr Olujimi, however, ruled that in the interim, the amended charges be read to the defendants.
One of the counts reads: “That you, Engineer Babachir David Lawal, while being the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and a director of Rholavision Engineering Ltd on or about the 22nd August 2016 at Abuja in the Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory did knowingly hold indirectly private interest in the contract awarded to Josmon Technological Ltd but executed by Rholavision Engineering Ltd for the removal of invasive plant species and simplified irrigation to the tune of N258,132,735.99 (Two Hundred and Fifty Eight Million, One hundred and Thirty Two Thousand, Seven Hundred and Thirty Five Naira only) by the office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF) though the Presidential Initiative for North East (PINE) and thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 12 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.”
They pleaded “not guilty” to the amended charges.
The defence team, thereafter, prayed the court to allow the defendants to continue with the bail earlier granted them by the court.
The request of the defence was granted by Justice Okeke, who adjourned to April 11, 2019 for “commencement of trial”, noting that, “the court is minded to grant an adjournment due to the amendment of the charges.”
The Court had earlier granted the defendants bail in the sum of N50 million, with one surety in like sum, who must be resident within the jurisdiction of the court, and must be owner of a landed property within the jurisdiction of the court, with evidence of three years tax payment. The international passports of the defendants were also ordered to be deposited with the court.
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Drying Oak Lumber: Step 3B, Sample Boards
From Professor Gene Wengert, Sawing and Drying Forum technical advisor:
From this 30” piece, we cut a small 1” along the grain, full width and full thickness piece from each end. The 28” piece remaining is called a kiln sample or sample board; the two short pieces are called moisture sections. The moisture sections are weighed and oven-dried. The sample board is weighed. It is assumed that the sample board’s initial MC will be the average of the MC of each of the moisture sections (MS).
Initial MC of sample board = [MS (1) + MS (2)] / 2
If we know the initial MC of the sample board (to 0.1%) and also its weight (to four digits), we can calculate what the oven-dry weight of the sample board has to be.
OD Weight of Sample Board = ([Initial weight] / [Initial MC + 100]) x 100
Once we have the calculated OD Weight, we can weigh the sample board at any time during or after drying and calculate its MC.
MC = ([weight at any time / calculated OD weight) - 1] x 100
In order to avoid having the sample board lose moisture too rapidly from the end grain, the ends are coating with a moisture barrier. Commercial coatings for sample boards (different than end coating for lumber) are available or asphalt roofing cement can be used. Once coated, the sample board will behave as though it was a long piece of lumber.
We want the sample board to represent the lumber in the load. We may have 10,000 pieces of lumber in a load, so how do we choose the correct pieces (usually 10 or 12 per load) of lumber to be our samples? First, we do not want to know the average MC of the lumber in the load. Instead, decisions in drying are based on the wettest and the driest MCs. So, what pieces will be the wettest and driest?
The wettest pieces will be quartersawn, the most recently sawn, the thickest and all heartwood. We also know a wet piece will be bacterially infected; however, we may decide that since such pieces seldom dry without honeycomb and checking, we would rather have a more normal wet piece. If a load has mixed white and red oak, then each group should be sampled separately; although white is initially drier than red, white does dry more slowly.
The driest piece of lumber will be the opposite of the wettest.
Because we will not be perfect when choosing the wettest and driest, it is suggested that perhaps eight pieces be selected to be the wettest and four to be the driest. Once the MC is obtained from the moisture sections, then the two wettest and two driest pieces can be chosen for especially close monitoring during drying.
From Professor Gene Wengert, forum technical advisor:
The process for oak is similar or identical for most hardwoods. I have not yet gotten to the kiln or air yard, but usually air drying for oak is fast enough, so acceleration is not needed. There are fan shed dryers that would be similar, but they are seldom used for oak.
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Welcome to Empire Gymnastics
Gymnastics provides a fun and safe activity for kids to get physically active and provides a good solid fitness foundation regardless of age and ability. Gymnastics teaches both physical, such as strength, coordination, flexibility, and balance and non-physical benefits of social skills and interaction, increased confidence, cognitive awareness, listening skills, responsibility, discipline, determination, sportsmanship and perseverance. We know how important these abilities are and the self-esteem they promote, therefore our goal is to provide a fun, clean and safe atmosphere for your child while enhancing their mind, body and spirit. We have a place for every child, whether he or she is the child with great talent, the child with exceptional motivation, or the child with special needs. All can benefit from the programs we offer. | <urn:uuid:1c32b5f4-882a-4bdd-b456-130c3a255a23> | CC-MAIN-2019-39 | https://empiregymnasticssc.com/ | 2019-09-23T07:53:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514576122.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190923064347-20190923090347-00206.warc.gz | en | 0.945591 | 166 |
May 6, 2009
I strongly urge the commission to reinstate the uptick rule on a permanent basis. I also strongly support whatever rules the SEC has to put in place to eliminate naked short selling. It makes no sense to me as an individual small investor that large firms, or anyone for that matter, can sell something they don't own for the express purpose of pushing the price of a stock down so they can profit by it. The rules in place prior to their elimination seemed to curtail runs on stocks, and it seems OBVIOUS to me that speculators and raiders used the abscence of these rules as a means to drive down so many stocks in the past two years. They made millions on the backs of tremendous losses experienced in individual investor accounts and retirement accounts.
I suppose if it were up to me, I would eliminate short selling entirely. Anyone who feels a stock is overpriced can purchase put options, which if they are correct in their assumptions, can profit without impacting the stock itself, and certainly eliminating to a large degree impacting or manipulating the stock price itself.
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CAS Voting Members (All Fellows, plus Associates who have been members for at least five years) will vote on a slate of candidates for the CAS Board of Directors and CAS President-Elect, with online voting beginning on August 1, 2022. On that day, Voting Members will receive an email with a link to the online ballot. Completed ballots must be submitted online by August 31, 2022.
In the following pages, readers can learn about the candidates through the 100-word summaries they provided regarding their interest in running for CAS leadership positions.
More details about each candidate can be found in the Meet the Candidates section of the CAS website at https://www.casact.org/about/leadership-and-staff/elections/meet-candidates. Please contact Mike Boa (firstname.lastname@example.org) with any questions or comments about the election process. | <urn:uuid:c2ac8d2a-f892-4f91-b1f0-2b05ca7967cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ar.casact.org/2022-cas-election/ | 2022-08-09T20:46:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571086.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809185452-20220809215452-00094.warc.gz | en | 0.924178 | 182 |
PRKN mutations have been linked to Parkinson’s disease (PD). Most of the mutational screenings have focused on the coding exons. The 3′ untranslated region (UTR) could also harbor functionally relevant nucleotide changes. We performed a mutational screening of PRKN in a cohort of early-onset PD patients (n=235) from Spain. We found 16 mutations (five new): 16 patients (7 %) carried two mutations and only one mutation was found in 28 (12 %). Patients with two mutations had significantly lower mean age (30±9 years) compared to patients with one (40±7) or no mutation (42±7). We found a total of 15 nucleotide variants (three new) in the 3′ UTR region. The frequency of carriers of the rare rs62637702 G allele (*94A/G) was significantly lower among the patients compared to healthy controls (n=418) (0.03 vs. 0.004; p<0.001), suggesting a protective role for this allele. In order to investigate the basal effect of this variant, we performed luciferase assays. No different basal activity was observed between the two associated with PD. This could be a surrogate marker for disease risk, in linkage disequilibrium with other nonidentified functional variant.
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BRASÍLIA, Brazil – U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to visit the Brazilian capital on March 19 to meet President Dilma Rousseff, according to the Brazilian government.
Obama is expected to stop in Rio de Janeiro the next day, according to the government news agency Agência Brasil.
It is unclear whether Obama will be accompanied by his wife Michelle and their daughters Malia and Sasha.
Obama’s visit to Brazil is part of a Latin American tour in which the U.S. leader also will stop in El Salvador and Chile in an attempt to “forge new alliances” throughout the Americas.
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In this episode Damian and Anton catch up about the past few months. But the main course is a conversation with Robin Arnott, audio designer and interactive artist. We discuss his projects Deep Sea, Anti Chamber & Sound Self. Human Perception is a key part of Robin’s work and its in that area that we dive head first.
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A New Bedford man has been convicted of killing the manager of a Dartmouth, Mass., restaurant where he worked.
Thirty-two-year-old Ryan Jones of New Bedford was convicted of first-degree murder Thursday by a Fall River Superior Court jury that rejected his insanity defense. The panel deliberated for 5 1/2 hours over two days after a five-day trial. Prosecutors say Jones beat 39-year-old Valerie Oranski of Middleborough with a metal pipe and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife in the bathroom of the Old Country Buffet restaurant in July 2006. Authorities say Jones was angry that Oranski had reprimanded him several times.
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Resolve Mastery Tree
The Resolve Mastery Tree from League of Legends’ Season 6 is one of the three Mastery branches. It replaces the defensive mastery tree of previous seasons. It works best on champions who need to build defensive items.
Analysis of Talents
The Resolve masteries on Tier 1 are Recovery and Unyielding. Recovery offers +0.4 Health per 5 seconds (for one point) while, for the same point, Unyielding offers +1% Bonus Armor and Magic Resist.
On Tier 2, you can allocate only one point on either Explorer for +15 Movement Speed in Brush and River, or on Tough Skin that grants you less damage from champion and neutral monster basic attacks.
After investing 6 points in Resolve, the 3rd tier is unlocked and you can allocate 5 points on Runic Armor and Veteran’s Scars. As the name suggests it, Runic Armor offers you shield, healing, regeneration and lifesteal in order to make you stronger. So, in the Resolve Tree it gives you an excellent boost on heal. Veteran’s Scars increases your Health with a maximum of 50 units.
The next step is choosing between Insight and Perseverance. Insight reduces the cooldown of Summoner Spells by 15%, while Perseverance offers +50% Base Health Regen, increased to +200% when your champion is below 25% Health.
On Tier 5, Swiftness increases Tenacity and Slow Resist, Legendary Guardian helps the team as it offers Armor and Magic Resist for each nearby enemy champion.
The last Tier consists of three masteries: Grasp of the Undying, Strength of the Ages and Bond of Stone. Grasp of the Undying – every 4 seconds in combat, your next attack against an enemy champion deals damage equal to 3% of your max Health and heals you for 1.5% of your max Health (halved for ranged champions), deals magic damage. Strength of the Ages – you permanently gain Health (300 maximum) for you or allies killing certain nearby units: siege minions: +20 Health, large monsters: +10 Health. At the max bonus, these kills instead restore 6% of your Maximum Health. Bond of Stone – +4% Damage Reduction. 6% of the damage from enemy champions taken by the nearest allied champion is dealt to you instead. Damage is not redirected if you are below 5% of your maximum health.
The mastery choice in the case of tanky supports is “Grasp of the Undying” vs “Bond of Stone”. Grasp of the Undying deals more damage, but Bond of Stone helps reduce damage all around. It is important to mention that tank support players tend to allocate 5 points for Recovery, 1 point for Tough Skin, 5 points for Veteran’s Scars, 1 point for Insight, 5 points for Legendary Guardian and 1 point for Bond of Stone. For tank junglers, a good pick would be the Strength of the Ages keystone mastery since Grasp of the Undying isn’t worth it anymore, after the nerfs. It provides decent scaling and it suits the majority of champions that are there for the utility and already have a decent amount of sustain.
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Are you a seasoned gambler that appears forward to a relaxing weekend gambling in Las Vegas? Some of the discount hotels that you can uncover in Las Vegas include the Riviera Hotel and Casino, which is positioned correct on Las Vegas Strip and only a single block from the Convention Center Tuscany Suites Hotel and Casino, located only two blocks off of the Strip Very best Western Mardi Gras Suites & Casino, also situated one particular block south of the Convention Center and Siena Suites, which is just a handful of quick minutes from the Las Vegas Strip and McCarran International Airport.
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One more crucial function of some of the top hotels in Las Vegas is the golf courses owned by the hotel managements. That said, AARP discounts usually have to be booked via the AARP itself, or at least using the AARP Web website as a starting point – they do not usually show up automatically on hotel booking websites, as do the AAA and CAA discounts. | <urn:uuid:170ff3d1-6efb-4c62-9b6e-b37860493ba5> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.hello-world-cs.com/las-vegas-hotels-discounts.html | 2018-03-21T18:32:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647681.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20180321180325-20180321200325-00757.warc.gz | en | 0.950631 | 431 |
In addition to Assassin’s Creed Unity on October 28 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, Ubisoft has announced it will be releasing Assassin’s Creed Rogue for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on November 11. In the game, you’ll experience the journey of a Templar named Shay as he hunts down his former assassin brothers.
Game Informer describes the game as follows: “Rogue places fans in the shoes of a Templar, controlling former Assassin-turned-Templar Shay Patrick Cormac. Employing the popular naval gameplay from Black Flag, you navigate a ship across the frigid North Atlantic. Other locales you visit include the Appalachian River Valley and a reimagined New York. Shay is an assassin hunter who has to be even more clever to outsmart his sneaky foes. This entry takes place during the Seven Years’ War, filling in the gap between Black Flag and Assassin’s Creed III. We won’t spoil much, but it has a crucial link to the Kenway saga. Our exclusive feature gives more insight into Shay, details how the cold waters are different from Black Flag’s Caribbean setting, and discusses the tools Shay has at his disposal for outsmarting assassins. The Seven Years’ War is part of what lead to France’s financial troubles, and it’s hinted that Shay has even deeper ties to Unity.”
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A crankshaft position sensor detects and reports crankshaft speed and position to the engine computer when the vehicle misfires or runs incorrectly. When the sensor cannot detect a logical pattern, it will trigger the check engine light so the vehicle owner can have the car inspected for possible problems. The sensor is difficult to reach, due to where it is located, but is held on by a single bolt and a wiring harness.
Locating and Removing the Crankshaft Sensor
First, disconnect the negative battery terminal. This will help to prevent any danger of touching live wires and getting shocked. Locating the crankshaft sensor can be tricky. In most vehicles, the sensor is located at the front of the motor around the main pulley. The sensor is held on by a wiring harness and a nut. You will need to take the wiring harness off the back of the sensor before taking out the retaining bolt. The harness has a locking tab that needs to be lifted up so the connector can slide out underneath the locking tab. Allow the wiring harness to hang freely or you can tuck it along one of the components if it is in your way. You may have trouble removing the nut as it is difficult to get to due to the O-ring and the position of the sensor. Unscrew the nut with a 10- to 12-inch wrench till the nut is free from the threading. Pull the sensor out from the motor and proceed to replace it.
Installing the Crankshaft Sensor
Slide the new sensor into the slot where you pulled the old sensor out from. Ensure the O-ring on the sensor is new and positioned around the end of the sensor. Position the nut and tighten it down with the socket wrench. Do not over-tighten as you do not want to strip the threading where the bolt screws into. Once the sensor is positioned securely into the motor, reattach the wiring harness. Slide the connector to the sensor and push in until it clicks in place. The old camshaft sensor can be discarded as you will not need it for a core deposit.
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Prepare yourself for an eye opening experience
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You’ve never seen a picture this realistic before. Your UHD monitor has an ultra-high resolution that’s 4 times greater than Full HD, delivering stunning images that use a staggering 8 million pixels. With the highest brightness level of 370 cd/‡u, it’s also more vivid and brilliantly clear. See your UHD content the way it was meant to be seen, with a new level of lifelike detail that makes you feel like you’re really there. Experience the realism of glorious Ultra High Definition.
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Bring out the best picture quality possible for all your favourite content and make them worthy of your UHD experience. Samsung’s technology automatically detects the content’s original resolution and improves it with noise reduction and up-conversion to create clearer, sharper images. Thanks to UHD upscaling, it brings all your entertainment and other content up to a new UHD-level.
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The latest Picture-in-Picture 2.0 technology lets you multi-task and watch videos that maintain 100% of the source resolution. Whether it’s 1080p, 720p or 480p, PIP 2.0 doesn’t downscale contents and maintains the exact same resolution as clear and crisp on its own. It supports resolutions up to Full HD and you can adjust the PIP resolution and position to fit your needs. There’s no loss in quality, so you can really have everything you want with no compromises.
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New British made Grinders from Kilncare:
MAG 30 and MAG 45
The MAG range of Flatbed glass grinding machines are designed from the bottom up to perform to the highest standards and with the highest reliability by ironing out the common mistakes made over the years with other flat bed grinders.
Kilncare have used their considerable experience in the glass field and with the help of recognised industry leaders to produce a UK built, flatbed glass Polisher / Grinder.
- Heavy steel framework, powder coated and oven baked.
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- Available for 12" (30cm - MAG30) and 18" (45cm - MAG45).
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As a single mother raising her daughter alone, Juliana was terrified. She often felt helpless because she couldn’t turn to anyone for help.
The personal trainer’s career also halted abruptly due to her pregnancy. This was a drastic lifestyle change as all her time was devoted to caring for her baby daughter, with barely any ‘me time’ left for exercise.
”I didn’t have enough sleep and ate a lot of nonsense food”, she says. We’re sure a lot of mommies can relate!
Losing Her Slim Tummy
Standing at 1.64cm, she had a naturally small waistline of 24”. But her pregnancy caused her waistline to shoot up by 6” to 30”.
Her weight ballooned from 50kg to 70kg—the heaviest she’s ever been.
Juliana's post-pregnancy tummy.
Delivering her daughter via Cesarean section (or C-section) also made it difficult for her to regain the slim and svelte tummy that she once had. Her self-esteem took a hit, just like any other mother’s would.
Reclaiming Her Pre-pregnancy Body
Juliana after her tummy transformation.
Yes, that’s Juliana today! This mama’s journey from flab to fit is far from easy. But before we go into detail about how she did it, she shares her inspiring results with us:
✅ Her waistline is down by 4” from 30” to 26”. She’s almost back to her original pre-pregnancy waistline!
✅ She’s burnt off 6kg and shredded her love handles off.
✅ Her chronic back pains from her pregnancy are now gone.
Tons of respect and love to her! So how did she manage such a feat?
Her Secret to Losing Pregnancy Weight
She’s been waist training since 2019 with a waist trainer that she got off Lazada. However, it was not effective because it “caused backaches” and there were “no differences.”
She discovered Waistlab a year later and has been waist training with us since March!
She waist trains 5 days a week for about 9 to 10 hours a day. She wears it during her workouts and also at work.
“I must say your waist trainer worked wonders for me. My fats and love handles dropped so much.”
No Such Thing as 'No Time'
Although she juggles between her full time job and mommy duties (like sending and fetching her daughter to and from school, cooking, and cleaning), her responsibilities haven’t stopped her from finding time to workout regularly.
How regular? She exercises 4 to 5 times a week! Her workout routine consists of cycling, HIIT workouts and lifting weights.
She also eats in moderation thrice a day. Her go-to breakfast is oats with Greek yoghurt and blueberries.
As for her usual meals, she mainly eats brown rice with lots of veggies and meat that’s either pan-fried or air-fried.
Even Wonder Woman would be proud!
Embrace Your Changing Body
We’ll end this post with some advice from Juliana to other mommies who are struggling to lose their baby fat:
“Every mother’s body will change differently. But we must embrace this change in a positive way. Keeping yourself at least fit and active is the way to go long term. It’s never a short term thing. To our beautiful women out there: You are worth it!
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|The following article features coverage from the 2018 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium meeting. Click here to read more of Oncology Nurse Advisor‘s conference coverage.|
A study examined the use of a smartphone application, ePal, as an aid for managing cancer-related pain, with results presented at the 2018 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium.
According to the researchers, 70% to 90% of patients with advanced tumors suffer with pain, necessitating tools to help patients cope.
In this randomized, controlled trial, researchers examined the use of ePal, a smartphone application that uses artificial intelligence to determine the urgency of a patient’s pain and responds accordingly. Two cohorts of patients with metastatic, solid-organ cancer were randomized to routine care (control; 56 patients) or had ePal added to routine care (56 patients).
Cohorts were followed for 8 weeks; the ePal cohort was evaluated 3 times per week for pain using the application, and all patients completed questionnaires for comparisons at baseline and at 4 and 8 weeks. The questionnaires asked about pain, anxiety, and attitudes regarding cancer treatment. Models were adjusted for demographic factors and baseline characteristics.
Inpatient hospital admissions occurred at a 40% lower rate for ePal users than for the control cohort (P =.048) over the 8-week study period.
Anxiety levels were increased in the ePal cohort vs the control cohort (P =.015), but both pain levels (P =.034) and attitudes regarding cancer treatment (P =.042) were significantly improved with use of ePal.
The researchers believe the ePal application is the first mobile application of this sort to use clinical algorithms and artificial intelligence to effectively reduce cancer-related pain while also lowering the frequency of inpatient hospitalizations for this patient population.
The authors concluded that the parenteral opioid shortage had a significant effect on administration of opioids to patients for treatment of cancer-related pain and that this is linked with overall poorer analgesia.
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Welcome to Clocks of the weekThat is the place we’ll chase the rarest, wildest, and most sought-after watches from celebrities.
After I noticed LeBron James this season, I used to be impressed with a brand new, free high quality of his dimension. He was by far the best basketball participant alive for a very long time. Now, whereas he isn’t posting as lots of his aggro coaching movies on Instagram, it as an alternative options snapshots of a person hugging his throne. Each Sunday there’s soccer on an enormous TV wall. A brand new $ 3,000 bottle of wine seems to be uncorked each evening. He is invested in a tequila firm and will probably be in an enormous film this summer time. On the pitch, he principally sleeps in 25 factors, 7 rebounds and seven assists an evening. As well as, the king has apparently acquired a number of extra jewels: this time within the type of an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak offshore chronograph. The watch additionally options bron-like numbers: the case, hyperlinks, and bezel are set with 341 diamonds, and there are 104 extra on the dial – diamonds value simply over 6.5 carats. This week too, Joe Biden’s watch rotation goes deeper and Damian Lillard reveals us how he clocks Dame Time.
LeBron James Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Chronograph
James can be the king of the Royal Oak Offshore – he owns a small treasure chest of this explicit mannequin. It was seen with an openwork dial and tourbillon in gold and seems to have the identical stainless-steel mannequin. Different collectors within the NBA come to James to buy a particular mannequin of the Royal Oak Offshore. “I need this piece so badly,” Draymond Inexperienced advised me final October. “And it is not possible [to find]. And [James] simply would not give it to me The truth is, I imply, I’d purchase it from him. I provided him cash to purchase the watch, however Lebron James would not want cash. “Inexperienced had good motive to ask James: Not solely does the Lakers celebrity acquire the mannequin, however he additionally designed one along with his identify on it. This newest version with diamonds is simply one other piece in James’ rising assortment.
Joe Biden’s Apple Watch
Whereas final week the main focus was on the brand new President’s Datejust, this week Biden opted for an additional Everyman wrist accent: the Apple Watch. Biden is the primary US president to put on an Apple Watch, which is a bit shocking. However a president sending a message along with his wrists on is nothing new. Worn by Lyndon B. Johnson, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, the Vulcain Cricket was one of many first watches with a working alarm – it advised voters you had been a person who was all the time on time. The Apple Watch says one thing comparable: a phalanx of advisors will not be sufficient: the fraction of a second you would save by checking an e-mail with a tilt of your wrist is the distinction between a thriving nation and a combating nation. “I believe most political attire consultants would say they both put on one thing tremendous low cost like a Timex Iron Man or an Apple Watch to indicate that they’re protecting monitor,” mentioned Eric Wind, Wind Classic proprietor and keen about it Chronicler of the President watches advised me final November. Appears like Joe thought the identical factor.
Damian Lillard’s Rolex Day-Date
Anybody who’s tuned right into a Portland Trailblazers recreation is aware of what occurs when Lillard is cooking. Lillard and his teammates, watching in awe from the bench, faucet their wrists with their index fingers. Why? As a result of it Woman time, that magical route on the finish of the sport when Lillard tends to take management. It is a disgrace this man would not have a watch store, however within the meantime, Dame Time’s official timekeeper is the gold Rolex Day-Date.
Roddy Richhs Richard Mille RM 055 “Bubba Watson” All Grey Boutique Version
There may be truly a wonderfully affordable clarification as to why the motion on this watch appears to be like like it’s floating in the midst of the case body. This Richard Mille was developed for Bubba Watson, the golfer whose model of play Golf Digest describes as “half artwork, half violent explosion”. Most golfers don’t put on watches whereas enjoying golf as a result of the reverberation brought on by connecting the motive force to the ball can displace elements within the motion of a bit. This rule ought to apply twice to somebody who performs “Bubba Golf”. Richard Mille subsequently designed a clock with 4 shock absorbers across the clockwork. I am assuming that is the kind of safety measure required for an evening get together with Roddy Richh.
Rolex Day-Date from Bam Adebayo
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It is has been dubbed "the fake crisis" by its critics, and there are many. Since re-election, the Bush administration has been aggressively arguing that the social security system, which pays cheques to America's elderly, is facing insolvency.
President George Bush insists the system is in need of dramatic reform if it is to avoid going broke. At the heart of his solution is partial privatisation; allowing individuals to divert tax dollars into personal accounts that would be invested in the stock market and carry the attendant risks and rewards.
It would be the most radical reform of social security since the New Deal came into being 70 years ago and, as one commentator has noted, do more to dismantle the programme than any of Mr Bush's Republican predecessors managed to achieve.
The move is an expression of the political capital Mr Bush believes he gained in last November's election. The administration, though, has, unwittingly or not, whipped up a red-hot domestic controversy to rival that surrounding its foreign policy. And there has been an equally forceful backlash.
"The people who hustled America into a tax cut to eliminate an imaginary budget surplus and a war to eliminate imaginary weapons are now trying another bum's rush," the economist Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times.
Democrats are in the mood for a fight. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid described the Bush plan as a "disaster for the most successful social programme in the history of the world".
The administration already appears to be losing control of the debate. The proposals are too heretical even for some Republicans to take. Representative Bill Thomas of California, chairman of the house panel that handles social security, and senator Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican on the senate finance committee, both urged caution over the weekend.
"I think 'problem' is really what we're dealing with," rather than crisis, Mr Thomas said on NBC. Although by suggesting that retirement ages based on gender, race and occupation should be considered he created his own problems.
Ms Snowe on CNN also played down the sense of crisis. "First of all we have to reach a consensus on the level of urgency and the magnitude of the problem," she said. There are she added "various scenarios and interpretations".
"The existing program, as it has been developed in the last 70 years, provides a stable monthly income that has prevented seniors, almost 50%, from falling into poverty. I don't think we want to erode the principles of that system," she said.
Some 47 million Americans receive social security cheques of an average close to $1,200 a month. Around two-thirds of pensioners rely on social security for the majority of their income. For 20% it is their sole source of support.
At present more is paid into the system than is paid out. That surplus goes into a trust fund and by law is invested in US treasuries.
As baby boomers reach retirement age, however, the system is projected to go into deficit in 2018, and cash will start to be withdrawn from the trust fund. How long it will be necessary to dip into the trust fund and whether it will be enough to get past the baby boomer blip is anyone's guess.
The Congressional Budget Office predicts it will run dry in 2052 - the administration forecast is 2042. Over the next 75 years the social security trustees predict a shortfall of $3.7 trillion.
Others argue that if the economy keeps growing, that won't happen. Even if it does, the payroll taxes the fund the system are still expected to be enough to cover 70%-80% of benefits.
Roger Lowenstein, author of the book Origins of the Crash, questions the assumptions put forward by the administration.
"The actuarial view is that the system is probably in need of a small adjustment of the sort that Congress has approved in the past," he said in a recent exhaustive article in the New York Times.
"But there is a strong argument, which the (social security) agency acknowledges is a possibility, that the system is solvent as it is."
The real issue, Mr Lowenstein pointed out, could be that the government has been spending the social security surplus and will need to find the cash to repay its debts from 2018, causing even larger federal deficits down the line.
The administration has so far been sparing in the details of its proposals, with more expected at the president's state of the union address next month. The plan, though, is expected to follow the opinion of a commission set up to examine social security during the president's first term.
The private accounts, diverting around one-third of individuals' payroll tax, is the central idea.
But the private accounts fail to fill the administration's projected funding gap. To achieve that, the proposal circulating in Washington would change the way a retiree's payment is worked out.
Today he receives an amount indexed to wage increases. That would shift to price indexing. Because inflation has grown in the past far slower than wages, it would lead to benefits being cut by 40% in real terms by 2075, according to some estimates.
The other issue thrown up by private accounts is the immediate impact on federal debts. By allowing younger workers to shift cash away from the trust fund, the Bush administration would starve the system of a large chunk of revenue. The government would be forced to borrow a further $2 trillion in the next 10 years on top of the already record $5 trillion deficits run up in the Bush administration's first term.
Wall Street's role in managing the funds is also controversial. Investment bank fees would effectively be deducted from social security taxes.
Opponents argue instead that the Bush administration is creating a climate of fear simply to push through partial privatisation as part of its ideological efforts to create an 'ownership society'. The system, if it needs fixing, could be adjusted with moderate tax increases or benefit cuts.
Democrats have argued for raising the ceiling on the payroll taxes that fund social security above the current $90,000 cap and lifting the retirement age.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a dean of the London Business School, writing in BusinessWeek, points to another easy solution.
Over the next 75 years the Bush tax cuts, largely aimed at wealthy Americans, are projected to cost between $10 trillion to $12 trillion. Simply paring the cuts back by a third and putting the cash into social security would cover any funding shortfall.
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How to Create Separation from Bricks
I am typically not a fan of shooting a model closely against a wall (any wall) because of the lighting limitations that this scenario creates. For starters, depending on your light, the shadow will be very close, and difficult to hide.
DMV based model Dakota Snow came by the studio one evening to hang out and make some art, and I wanted to shoot a set against the former Baltimore Studio’s brick wall; partly because I have not done it very often, and also for the challenge of it.
As you can see in the (center) image above, there was VERY little room to work with. No prob!
Like many of my studio light setups, this was a single light/ modifier. I chose a 1’x4’ strip box to limit spill, and echo Dakota’s tall, lean body shape. We dipped into the studio’s wardrobe and spent a little bit of time trying to find something fun to shoot in. We collectively selected a black, see-thru patterned, top and bottoms. While they match fairly well, they were not an actual set, so there was some issues with consistency in the pattern.
The table was set: patterns in front of patterns, with similar but different patterns… what was I thinking to let this happen????
Its OK, I am always up for a challenge!
One major thing was certain: I needed to create separation from the bricks.
Dakota has a very well defined figure with long lines. In order to sculpt the light, I actually ripped the front panel off the strip box, basically creating an oddly shaped reflector. With only the inner most baffle diffusing the light, this source produced a much “harder” light, which gave us more contrast and a more defined “harder” edge.
I made sure to take the time to pose Dakota in relation to the light so that it caught the curves of her body and created the definition that you can see in her skin. The highlights and shadows on her body make her look much more three dimensional. The difference was sometimes so subtle in the pose that she didn’t even notice that she was moving in relation to the light. Often times it is easier to ask the model to continue doing what she is doing and just go ahead and move the light ever so slightly yourself so that you do not disrupt her rhythm or balance.
To me, the above is what many photographers overlook the MOST, and I can understand why. When you have a model that is performing fantastic poses, photographers rely on them (as a crutch) to carry the series… when in fact,
the photographer should be matching the model, by making sure the light is presenting her in the best possible way.
This is a “master class” sort of topic for sure. There are so many, often times overwhelming, things to have to pay attention to that, “how the lights falls on different parts of her body” seems to be low priority compared to others.
To overcome this begins with trust. Having worked with Dakota previously, and having a good rapport with her, we were both relaxed and focused on just having a great shoot. She was familiar with me, my work, and I was frequently handing my camera to her, allowing her to see EVERYTHING I shot. Not only did this reassure her that I was focused on the same thing she was, but she was also able to see how the work she was putting in, was translating to the lens. Her trust in me allowed her the confidence to focus everything on her posing.
Furthermore, models with dark hair, need far more light on their hair or you will be left with flat, lifeless field of darkness. I want to see highlights and shadows as much as possible!
Paying attention to the way the light was falling on her body, and what it was doing to the background (creating a shadow of course, but what shapes it created, and if they were distracting)
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However, if you’re just starting out in your exploration of microcontrollers, you have some decisions to make. Picking a microcontroller line is a big step, and one that deserves a bit of thought. The initial cost of the chip or board is typically trivial compared with the cost of accessories, books, and — most importantly — your time. You’ll have to invest time to learn how to properly configure the hardware, time to become fluent in the programming language, and time to get used to debugging the system.
Before I offer my advice, let me state that there’s no single best solution. Every product on the market has strengths and limitations. If you drop into the various forums on the web, you can read the myriad opinions why one particular microcontroller is better than all the others. The solution that’s best for you depends on your experience and what you expect to get out of working with a microcontroller.
In my opinion, if you’re new to microcontrollers, you can’t go wrong with the BASIC Stamp line of microcontrollers. A major strength of the Stamp is documentation — critically important to a novice. There are hundreds of articles and dozens of books devoted to the Stamp. Moreover, Parallax offers educational kits that include sensors and servos, and extensive documentation and source code for these peripherals. The Stamp boards are simple to set up and program. Even if you’ve never touched a microcontroller before, you can be up and running in less than an hour. The BASIC Stamp is still my microcontroller of chioice if the application has to be ready yesterday.
Parallax also sells a higher-performance Propeller chip. I’ve used the Propeller on several projects, and it’s both powerful and relatively easy to program. However, I think a novice might have a rough time getting the most out of the cogs and other non-standard architecture of the Propeller. This unique chip also uses a non-standard language called SPIN. If your goal is to understand different microcontroller architectures, then the Propeller chip may be just the thing for you. However, knowledge of SPIN doesn’t readily translate to other microcontrollers on the market.
When I started developing semi-autonomous robots, I was forced to look for something more powerful than the Stamp, and turned to the ATMEL line of processors. The cost for this step up in processing power, number of I/O ports, and other features was considerable. Instead of a simple USB connection between my PC and the Stamp, I had to purchase and learn to use a programmer. Then, there was the C compiler and the compile-run process instead of the instantaneous, interpreted Basic with the Stamp.
In retrospect, the progression from Stamp to bare ATMEL microcontroller was fortunate. It allowed me to learn to use a variety of sensors and servos in an interactive environment. In the less forgiving, more time-consuming compiler environment, it would have taken me much longer to learn to use the hardware. I think the same analysis holds true for the PIC — which I consider a top-notch production chip that can go toe-to-toe with the ATMEL.
I can’t speak from experience on the Arduino as a first microcontroller. However, it was designed as a painless introduction to microcontrollers, and it appears to be successful on that account. I’ve worked with the programming environment – which, by the way, is compatible with a Mac – and it’s solid and easy to use.
Moreover, there are dozens of add-on boards or shields, and multiple form factors to choose from. For example, I’ve used the Duemilanove — an ATMega328-based board — and it’s a pleasure to work with. I’m currently working on the LilyPad: a machine-washable, sew-on version of the Arduino from SparkFun ([url=http://www.sparkfun.com]http://www.sparkfun.com[/url]) to try out some body network ideas.
If you’re deciding between the BASIC Stamp and Arduino for a beginner’s system, then relax. You can’t go wrong with either platform. However, if you want to learn or know how to program in C, then the Arduino is probably a better choice. On the other hand, if you’re comfortable with Basic and your focus is to learn about sensors, actuators, and other peripherals, then the Stamp may be a more efficient vehicle. I also think the Parallax-backed support forums are second to none — something to consider when you need help sorting out those input/output signals. NV | <urn:uuid:f7a62ba0-4cee-41e0-9dd3-c776cd866035> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.nutsvolts.com/?/blog/post/the_microcontroller_debate/ | 2019-03-23T12:21:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202804.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20190323121241-20190323143241-00536.warc.gz | en | 0.93716 | 999 |
The Inefficiencies Of Exchange Traded Media by AdExchanger
Steve Latham, founder & CEO of Encore Media Metrics, mentions that there are plenty of inefficiency and waste in programmatic buying. From fraudulent impressions, excessive frequency caps, and showing ads on sites with more than 6 ad placements.
Where Waste Occurs
Optimizing media starts with eliminating wasted spending. In the RTB world, waste can take many forms:
The percentage of wasted impressions varies by campaign, but it’s usually quite significant. Here are some general ranges of wasted RTB impressions:
Our take: Arbigo mitigates over exposure starting from the first important step of advertising--the creative production. In addition, Arbigo Wide Angle curated site list is updated constantly to avoid showing ads on unwanted sites from the start of the campaign. And AdLithium shows you a clear view of high level and detailed level of every campaigns that you run with Arbigo.
It’s Complicated: Online Campaigns With 50 Or More Ad Versions Increase By 32 Percent by Adotas
"DG MediaMind released new research today showing that digital marketers are managing increasingly complex online campaigns; the number of campaigns that averaged 50 or more ad versions in a single campaign has increased by 32.2 percent over the last four years.
Advertisers are striving to reach multiple audiences with the same campaigns or test variations of campaign messages to audiences, the research shows. Campaigns that had two to four ad versions increased from 24.6% to 29.0%, and those with 50+ ads increased from 5.4% to 6.4%." | <urn:uuid:7ea6f2b5-9f49-4fc0-9acb-f521ce191a55> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.arbigo.com/industry-news.html | 2022-05-27T21:14:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652663006341.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220527205437-20220527235437-00012.warc.gz | en | 0.918041 | 459 |
The U.S. Men’s Basketball team pulled away in the second half of a physical game against Argentina to notch a 126-97 victory and top seeding in the Olympic tournament’s quarter-finals.
After letting loose a three-point shot in the third quarter, Carmelo Anthony took a cheap shot to the groin from Facundo Campazzo, the Argentine player defending him on the play.
A replay of the action showed Campazzo sticking his arm out as Anthony comes down after the shot. He jabs Anthony in the groin, causing him to fall to the ground.
Several players on the U.S. bench started shouting about the play. Coach Mike Krzyzewski began arguing with Argentina forward Luis Scola near the scorer’s table until referees intervened.
The Americans completed a 5-0 run through the preliminary phase of the tournament and will face Australia (3-2) in Wednesday’s quarter-finals. Check out the shot below: | <urn:uuid:683f4d6f-3c33-4f33-b6c0-2a3b60b16048> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://987ampradio.cbslocal.com/2012/08/07/olympic-cheap-shot-u-s-mens-basketball-tops-argentina/ | 2015-11-30T06:16:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398461113.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205421-00167-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953031 | 204 |
Paris - Russia midfielder Aleksandr Golovin scored twice and set up a third goal as Monaco moved out of the Ligue 1 relegation zone with a 3-1 win over Patrick Vieira's Nice on Tuesday.
Golovin's double came either side of Patrick Burner's equaliser before he fed Wissam Ben Yedder to claim Leonardo Jardim's first three points of the campaign, lifting some of the pressure from the Portuguese coach.
"Unfortunately, the season does not start tonight, but the team played a great game. There is no doubt," said Jardim, who returned to the club only months after being sacked last season following Thierry Henry's ill-fated spell in charge.
"Our physical condition is getting better every match."
The 30-time Russia international opened the scoring just before the half-hour mark as captain Cesc Fabregas marked the first victory of the season with his maiden assist for Monaco.
Former Chelsea and Barcelona playmaker Fabregas, who joined the Ligue 1 side in January, found Golovin inside the box and the attacker smashed his finish high into the top corner.
The hosts were denied a quick second four minutes later as Islam Slimani's effort was ruled out for offside by VAR.
Vieira's side were back on level terms eight minutes into the second period.
Monaco made a mess of clearing a short corner and right-back Burner scored his first senior goal.
Golovin's second came with quarter of an hour to play as Slimani played a square ball for the 23-year-old to finish smoothly.
He then teed up summer signing Ben Yedder who made sure of all three points, beating Walter Benitez with ease and securing Jardim's first win since May.
'Should have won'
Earlier, Andre Villas-Boas' Marseille struggled to a 0-0 draw at winless Dijon but moved to third in the table due to Nice's third loss of the campaign.
The Portuguese coach was without influential midfielder Dimitri Payet and centre-back Boubacar Kamara due to suspensions from red cards received in last weekend's tie at home to Montpellier.
Dijon's only previous point of the campaign was against Nimes earlier in the month and defeats at the Stade Gaston-Gerard to Saint-Etienne and Bordeaux leave them bottom of the table.
"For now, seeing the table where Dijon had only one point beforehand and the sides who had won here, we should have won, but it was a very difficult game for us," former Chelsea boss Villas-Boas said.
Despite their best efforts Dijon, who have only scored thee times in six games this season, failed to beat Mandanda as Villas-Boas' men stretched their unbeaten run to half a dozen games.
On Wednesday, champions Paris Saint-Germain welcome Reims to the Parc des Princes with Kylian Mbappe sitting out with a thigh injury before an expected return for Saturday's trip to Bordeaux. | <urn:uuid:baf1125e-d264-44d7-b5e5-5a8561c7e573> | CC-MAIN-2019-47 | https://www.sport24.co.za/Soccer/International/golovin-magic-moves-monaco-out-of-drop-zone-20190925 | 2019-11-15T19:07:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496668699.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20191115171915-20191115195915-00490.warc.gz | en | 0.970192 | 654 |
Christmas is a magical season, and certainly a number of people had a truly amazing Dec. 25 as they woke up to unwrap a MINI! In Winter Park, used MINI owners will never forget when they drove their first MINI. Plenty of people across the world might be in the afterglow of that very same experience.
Even as a new batch of MINI owners hit the roads, current MINI drivers will never feel like they’re just one of the heard. The automaker offers its drivers seemingly limitless ways for them to customize their vehicles. Here a couple of them.
For the exterior, MINI works with Original Wraps Inc. Graphics to give drivers a wrap for every occasion, literally. They can choose from more than 100 designs, one of which is sure to meet every motorist’s driving style. The roof graphics are even removable, so drivers can switch them out when the mood strikes.
At Fields Orlando MINI, another one of the accessories MINI drivers love is the John Cooper Works Aero Kit. This upgrade is a guaranteed way to catch some jealous glances on the road. The kit provides a powerful, striking appearance to any MINI. It’s a true testament to the John Cooper Works sporting heritage.
Last but not least, MINI even offers a mirror cap with a checkered flag decal. Although your MINI might not be race-ready, you can feel like your favorite race car driver with this decal.
Customization is a hallmark of the MINI brand. The cars alone are iconic, but thanks to MINI, you can create a remarkable vehicle all your own. | <urn:uuid:b5b0dfd1-e1c8-451e-a194-03eb5879dc77> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | http://orlandominiblog.com/winter-park-used-mini-owners-love-customization/ | 2021-03-09T06:51:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178389472.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210309061538-20210309091538-00190.warc.gz | en | 0.951193 | 339 |
Customs officials at Hyderabad airport on Sunday arrested a passenger for trying to smuggle 1.16 kg of gold paste inside his clothes.
The value of the gold is valued at around ₹36.99 lakh.
The passenger arrived at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport from Doha, Oatar. He was intercepted when he was passing through green channel at the airport.
It was found that he was carrying gold in paste form concealed in pouch tied inside his clothes.
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Canon M50 vs Panasonic LX10
The Canon EOS M50 and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10 (labelled Panasonic LX15 in some countries) are two digital cameras that were revealed to the public, respectively, in February 2018 and September 2016. The M50 is a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera, while the LX10 is a fixed lens compact. The cameras are based on an APS-C (M50) and an one-inch (LX10) sensor. The Canon has a resolution of 24 megapixels, whereas the Panasonic provides 20 MP.
Below is an overview of the main specs of the two cameras as a starting point for the comparison.
Going beyond this snapshot of core features and characteristics, what are the differences between the Canon EOS M50 and the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10? Which one should you buy? Read on to find out how these two cameras compare with respect to their body size, their imaging sensors, their shooting features, their input-output connections, and their reception by expert reviewers.
An illustration of the physical size and weight of the Canon M50 and the Panasonic LX10 is provided in the side-by-side display below. The two cameras are presented according to their relative size. Three successive views from the front, the top, and the rear are shown. All width, height and depth measures are rounded to the nearest millimeter.
The M50 can be obtained in two different colors (black, white), while the LX10 is also available in two color-versions, but different ones (black, silver).
If the front view area (width x height) of the cameras is taken as an aggregate measure of their size, the Panasonic LX10 is considerably smaller (38 percent) than the Canon M50. In this context, it is worth noting that neither the M50 nor the LX10 are weather-sealed.
The above size and weight comparisons are to some extent incomplete and possibly misleading, as the LX10 has a lens built in, whereas the M50 is an interchangeable lens camera that requires a separate lens. Attaching the latter will add extra weight and bulk to the setup.
Concerning battery life, the M50 gets 235 shots out of its LP-E12 battery, while the LX10 can take 260 images on a single charge of its DMW-BLH7 power pack. The power pack in the LX10 can be charged via the USB port, which can be very convenient when travelling.
The adjacent table lists the principal physical characteristics of the two cameras alongside a wider set of alternatives. In case you want to display and compare another camera duo, you can use the CAM-parator app to select your camera combination among a large number of options.
|Canon M50||4.6 in||3.5 in||2.3 in||13.8 oz||235||n||Feb 2018||779|
|Panasonic LX10||4.2 in||2.4 in||1.7 in||10.9 oz||260||n||Sep 2016||699|
|Canon M50 Mark II||4.6 in||3.5 in||2.3 in||13.7 oz||305||n||Oct 2020||599|
|Canon SL3||4.8 in||3.7 in||2.8 in||15.8 oz||1070||n||Apr 2019||599|
|Canon M6 Mark II||4.7 in||2.8 in||1.9 in||14.4 oz||305||n||Aug 2019||849|
|Canon T7||5.1 in||4.0 in||3.1 in||16.8 oz||500||n||Feb 2018||449|
|Canon M6||4.4 in||2.7 in||1.8 in||13.8 oz||295||n||Feb 2017||779|
|Canon M100||4.3 in||2.6 in||1.4 in||10.7 oz||295||n||Aug 2017||499|
|Canon SL2||4.8 in||3.7 in||2.8 in||16.0 oz||650||n||Jun 2017||549|
|Canon T7i||5.2 in||3.9 in||3.0 in||18.8 oz||600||n||Feb 2017||749|
|Canon M5||4.6 in||3.5 in||2.4 in||15.1 oz||295||n||Sep 2016||979|
|Canon G5 X||4.4 in||3.0 in||1.7 in||12.5 oz||210||n||Oct 2015||799|
|Canon M3||4.4 in||2.7 in||1.7 in||12.9 oz||250||n||Feb 2015||679|
|Canon G7 X||4.1 in||2.4 in||1.6 in||10.7 oz||210||n||Sep 2014||699|
|Panasonic ZS200||4.4 in||2.6 in||1.8 in||12.0 oz||370||n||Feb 2018||799|
|Panasonic ZS100||4.4 in||2.6 in||1.7 in||11.0 oz||300||n||Jan 2016||699|
|Sony RX100 IV||4.0 in||2.3 in||1.6 in||10.5 oz||280||n||Jun 2015||999|
|Notes: Measurements and pricing do not include easily detachable parts, such as add-on or interchangeable lenses or optional viewfinders.|
Any camera decision will obviously take relative prices into account. The listed launch prices provide an indication of the market segment that the manufacturer of the cameras have been targeting. The LX10 was launched at a lower price than the M50, despite having a lens built in. Usually, retail prices stay at first close to the launch price, but after several months, discounts become available. Later in the product cycle and, in particular, when the replacement model is about to appear, further discounting and stock clearance sales often push the camera price considerably down.
The imaging sensor is at the core of digital cameras and its size is one of the main determining factors of image quality. A large sensor will tend to have larger individual pixels that provide better low-light sensitivity, wider dynamic range, and richer color-depth than smaller pixel-units in a sensor of the same technological generation. Furthermore, a large sensor camera will give the photographer more possibilities to use shallow depth-of-field in order to isolate a subject from the background. On the downside, larger sensors are more costly to manufacture and tend to lead to bigger and heavier cameras and lenses.
Of the two cameras under consideration, the Canon M50 features an APS-C sensor and the Panasonic LX10 an one-inch sensor. The sensor area in the LX10 is 65 percent smaller. As a result of these sensor size differences, the cameras have a format factor of, respectively, 1.6 and 2.7. Both cameras have a native aspect ratio (sensor width to sensor height) of 3:2. The LX10 has the particularity of featuring a switch that allows to toggle between multiple aspect ratios, while maintaining the same field of view and full image resolution.
With 24MP, the M50 offers a higher resolution than the LX10 (20MP), but the M50 nevertheless has larger individual pixels (pixel pitch of 3.72μm versus 2.41μm for the LX10) due to its larger sensor. Moreover, the M50 is a somewhat more recent model (by 1 year and 5 months) than the LX10, and its sensor might have benefitted from technological advances during this time that further enhance the light gathering capacity of its pixels.
The resolution advantage of the Canon M50 implies greater flexibility for cropping images or the possibility to print larger pictures. The maximum print size of the M50 for good quality output (200 dots per inch) amounts to 30 x 20 inches or 76.2 x 50.8 cm, for very good quality (250 dpi) 24 x 16 inches or 61 x 40.6 cm, and for excellent quality (300 dpi) 20 x 13.3 inches or 50.8 x 33.9 cm. The corresponding values for the Panasonic LX10 are 27.4 x 18.2 inches or 69.5 x 46.3 cm for good quality, 21.9 x 14.6 inches or 55.6 x 37.1 cm for very good quality, and 18.2 x 12.2 inches or 46.3 x 30.9 cm for excellent quality prints.
The M50 has on-sensor phase detect pixels, which results in fast and reliable autofocus acquisition even during live view operation.
The Canon EOS M50 has a native sensitivity range from ISO 100 to ISO 25600, which can be extended to ISO 100-51200. The corresponding ISO settings for the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10 are ISO 125 to ISO 12800, with the possibility to increase the ISO range to 80-25600.
Consistent information on actual sensor performance is available from DXO Mark for many cameras. This service assesses and scores the color depth ("DXO Portrait"), dynamic range ("DXO Landscape"), and low-light sensitivity ("DXO Sports") of camera sensors, and also publishes an overall camera score. The adjacent table reports on the physical sensor characteristics and the outcomes of the DXO sensor quality tests for a sample of comparator-cameras.
| DXO |
|Canon M50 Mark II||APS-C||24.0||6000||4000||4K/24p||..||..||..||..|
|Canon M6 Mark II||APS-C||32.3||6960||4640||4K/30p||..||..||..||..|
|Canon G5 X||1-inch||20.0||5472||3648||1080/60p||..||..||..||..|
|Canon G7 X||1-inch||20.0||5472||3648||1080/60p||23.0||12.7||556||71|
|Sony RX100 IV||1-inch||20.0||5472||3648||4K/30p||22.8||12.6||591||70|
Many modern cameras cannot only take still pictures, but also record videos. Both cameras under consideration are equipped with sensors that have a sufficiently high read-out speed for moving images, but the LX10 provides a faster frame rate than the M50. It can shoot movie footage at 4K/30p, while the Canon is limited to 4K/24p.
Apart from body and sensor, cameras can and do differ across a range of features. For example, the M50 has an electronic viewfinder (2360k dots), which can be very helpful when shooting in bright sunlight. In contrast, the LX10 relies on live view and the rear LCD for framing. The following table reports on some other key feature differences and similarities of the Canon M50, the Panasonic LX10, and comparable cameras.
|Canon M50 Mark II||2360||n||3.0||1040||swivel||Y||1/4000s||10.0||Y||n|
|Canon M6 Mark II||optional||n||3.0||1040||tilting||Y||1/4000s||14.0||Y||n|
|Canon G5 X||2360||n||3.0||1040||swivel||Y||1/2000s||5.9||Y||Y|
|Canon G7 X||none||n||3.0||1040||tilting||Y||1/2000s||6.5||Y||Y|
|Sony RX100 IV||2359||n||3.0||1228||tilting||n||1/2000s||16.0||Y||Y|
The reported shutter speed information refers to the use of the mechanical shutter. Yet, some cameras only have an electronic shutter, while others have an electronic shutter in addition to a mechanical one. In fact, the LX10 is one of those camera that have an additional electronic shutter, which makes completely silent shooting possible. However, this mode is less suitable for photographing moving objects (risk of rolling shutter) or shooting under artificial light sources (risk of flickering).
The Canon M50 and the Panasonic LX10 both have an intervalometer built-in. This enables the photographer to capture time lapse sequences, such as flower blooming, a sunset or moon rise, without purchasing an external camera trigger and related software.
Concerning the storage of imaging data, both the M50 and the LX10 write their files to SDXC cards. Both cameras can use UHS-I cards, which provide for Ultra High Speed data transfer of up to 104 MB/s.
For some imaging applications, the extent to which a camera can communicate with its environment can be an important aspect in the camera decision process. The table below provides an overview of the connectivity of the Canon EOS M50 and Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10 and, in particular, the interfaces the cameras (and selected comparators) provide for accessory control and data transfer.
| WiFi |
| NFC |
|Canon M50 Mark II||Y||stereo||mono||Y||-||micro||2.0||Y||-||Y|
|Canon M6 Mark II||Y||stereo||mono||Y||-||micro||2.0||Y||-||Y|
|Canon G5 X||Y||stereo||mono||-||-||mini||2.0||Y||Y||-|
|Canon G7 X||-||stereo||mono||-||-||micro||2.0||Y||Y||-|
|Sony RX100 IV||-||stereo||mono||-||-||micro||2.0||Y||Y||-|
It is notable that the M50 has a hotshoe, while the LX10 does not. This socket makes it possible to easily attach optional accessories, such as an external flash gun.
The LX10 is a recent model that features in the current product line-up of Panasonic. In contrast, the M50 has been discontinued (but can be found pre-owned on eBay). As a replacement in the same line of cameras, the M50 was succeeded by the Canon M50 Mark II. Further information on the two cameras (e.g. user guides, manuals), as well as related accessories, can be found on the official Canon and Panasonic websites.
So how do things add up? Is the Canon M50 better than the Panasonic LX10 or vice versa? Below is a summary of the relative strengths of each of the two contestants.
Arguments in favor of the Canon EOS M50:
- More detail: Offers more megapixels (24 vs 20MP) with a 10% higher linear resolution.
- Better image quality: Features a larger and more technologically advanced imaging sensor.
- Richer colors: The sensor size advantage translates into images with better, more accurate colors.
- More dynamic range: Larger sensor captures a wider spectrum of light and dark details.
- Better low-light sensitivity: Larger sensor produces good images even in poorly lit environments.
- Better live-view autofocus: Features on-sensor phase-detection for more confident autofocus.
- Better sound: Can connect to an external microphone for higher quality sound recording.
- Easier framing: Has an electronic viewfinder for image composition and settings control.
- More flexible LCD: Has a swivel screen for odd-angle shots in portrait or landscape orientation.
- More flexible: Accepts interchangeable lenses, so that lens characteristics can be altered.
- Better lighting: Features a hotshoe and can thus hold and trigger an external flash gun.
- Easier wireless transfer: Supports Bluetooth for image sharing without cables.
- More modern: Is somewhat more recent (announced 1 year and 5 months after the LX10).
Reasons to prefer the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX10:
- Flexible image proportions: Has a multi-aspect sensor that allows for alternative image shapes.
- Better video: Provides higher movie framerates (4K/30p versus 4K/24p).
- Less disturbing: Has an electronic shutter option for completely silent shooting.
- Ready to shoot: Has an integrated lens, whereas the M50 necessitates an extra lens.
- More compact: Is smaller (106x60mm vs 116x88mm) and will fit more readily into a bag.
- Less heavy: Has a lower weight even though it has a lens built in (unlike the M50).
- Longer lasting: Gets more shots (260 versus 235) out of a single battery charge.
- Easier travel charging: Can be conveniently charged via its USB port.
- Sharper images: Has stabilization technology built-in to reduce the impact of hand-shake.
- More affordable: Was introduced at a lower price, despite coming with a built-in lens.
- More heavily discounted: Has been on the market for longer (launched in September 2016).
If the number of relative strengths (bullet points above) is taken as a guide, the M50 emerges as the winner of the contest (13 : 11 points). However, the relative importance of the various individual camera aspects will vary according to personal preferences and needs, so that you might like to apply corresponding weights to the particular features before making a decision on a new camera. A professional wildlife photographer will view the differences between cameras in a way that diverges from the perspective of a family photog, and a person interested in architecture has distinct needs from a sports shooter. Hence, the decision which camera is best and worth buying is often a very personal one.
How about other alternatives? Do the specifications of the Canon M50 and the Panasonic LX10 place the cameras among the top in their class? Find out in the latest Best Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera and Best Travel-Zoom Camera listings whether the two cameras rank among the cream of the crop.
In any case, while the comparison of technical specifications can provide a useful overview of the capabilities of different cameras, it says little about, for example, the shooting experience and imaging performance of the M50 and the LX10 in practical situations. At times, user reviews, such as those published at amazon, address these issues in a useful manner, but such feedback is on many occasions incomplete, inconsistent, and unreliable.
This is why hands-on reviews by experts are important. The table below provides a synthesis of the camera assessments of some of the best known photo-gear review sites (cameralabs, dpreview, ephotozine, imaging-resource, and photographyblog). As can be seen, the professional reviewers agree in many cases on the quality of different cameras, but sometimes their assessments diverge, reinforcing the earlier point that a camera decision is often a very personal choice.
|Canon M50||+||79/100||..||4/5||3.5/5||Feb 2018||779|
|Panasonic LX10||+ +||81/100||4/5||4.5/5||4.5/5||Sep 2016||699|
|Canon M50 Mark II||..||..||..||..||..||Oct 2020||599|
|Canon SL3||o||79/100||4/5||..||4/5||Apr 2019||599|
|Canon M6 Mark II||+||85/100||4/5||..||4/5||Aug 2019||849|
|Canon T7||o||..||3.5/5||..||3.5/5||Feb 2018||449|
|Canon M6||..||80/100||4/5||4.5/5||4/5||Feb 2017||779|
|Canon M100||+||..||4/5||..||3.5/5||Aug 2017||499|
|Canon SL2||+ +||78/100||4.5/5||4.5/5||4.5/5||Jun 2017||549|
|Canon T7i||..||80/100||4.5/5||4/5||4/5||Feb 2017||749|
|Canon M5||+||82/100||4/5||4.5/5||4/5||Sep 2016||979|
|Canon G5 X||+ +||78/100||4.5/5||4/5||4.5/5||Oct 2015||799|
|Canon M3||o||75/100||4.5/5||4.5/5||4/5||Feb 2015||679|
|Canon G7 X||+ +||77/100||4.5/5||3.5/5||4.5/5||Sep 2014||699|
|Panasonic ZS200||+ +||81/100||4.5/5||..||4.5/5||Feb 2018||799|
|Panasonic ZS100||+ +||82/100||4.5/5||4/5||4.5/5||Jan 2016||699|
|Sony RX100 IV||+ +||85/100||4/5||4.5/5||4.5/5||Jun 2015||999|
|Notes: (+ +) highly recommended; (+) recommended; (o) reviewed; (..) not available.|
The above review scores should be interpreted with care, though. The ratings were established in reference to similarly priced cameras that were available in the market at the time of the review. A score, therefore, has to be seen in close connection to the price and market introduction time of the camera, and comparing ratings of very distinct cameras or ones that are far apart in terms of their release date have little meaning. It should also be noted that some of the review sites have over time altered the way they render their verdicts.
Other camera comparisons
Did this review help to inform your camera decision process? In case you would like to check on the differences and similarities of other camera models, just make your choice using the following search menu. There is also a set of direct links to comparison reviews that other users of the CAM-parator app explored.
Specifications: Canon M50 vs Panasonic LX10
Below is a side-by-side comparison of the specs of the two cameras to facilitate a quick review of their differences and common features.
|Camera Model||Canon M50||Panasonic LX10|
|Camera Type||Mirrorless system camera||Fixed lens compact camera|
|Camera Lens||Canon EF-M mount lenses||24-72mm f/1.4-2.8|
|Launch Date||February 2018||September 2016|
|Launch Price||USD 779||USD 699|
|Sensor Specs||Canon M50||Panasonic LX10|
|Sensor Format||APS-C Sensor||1" Sensor|
|Sensor Size||22.3 x 14.9 mm||13.2 x 8.8 mm|
|Sensor Area||332.27 mm2||116.16 mm2|
|Sensor Diagonal||26.8 mm||15.9 mm|
|Sensor Resolution||24 Megapixels||20 Megapixels|
|Image Resolution||6000 x 4000 pixels||5472 x 3648 pixels|
|Pixel Pitch||3.72 μm||2.41 μm|
|Pixel Density||7.22 MP/cm2||17.18 MP/cm2|
|Moiré control||Anti-Alias filter||Anti-Alias filter|
|Movie Capability||4K/24p Video||4K/30p Video|
|ISO Setting||100 - 25,600 ISO||125 - 12,800 ISO|
|ISO Boost||100 - 51,200 ISO||80 - 25,600 ISO|
|Image Processor||DIGIC 8||Venus|
|Screen Specs||Canon M50||Panasonic LX10|
|Viewfinder Type||Electronic viewfinder||no viewfinder|
|Viewfinder Field of View||100%|
|Viewfinder Resolution||2360k dots|
|LCD Framing||Live View||Live View|
|Rear LCD Size||3.0inch||3.0inch|
|LCD Resolution||1040k dots||1040k dots|
|LCD Attachment||Swivel screen||Tilting screen|
|Shooting Specs||Canon M50||Panasonic LX10|
|Focus System||On-Sensor Phase-detect||Contrast-detect AF|
|Manual Focusing Aid||Focus Peaking||Focus Peaking|
|Max Shutter Speed (mechanical)||1/4000s||1/4000s|
|Continuous Shooting||10 shutter flaps/s||10 shutter flaps/s|
|Electronic Shutter||no E-Shutter||up to 1/16000s|
|Time-Lapse Photography||Intervalometer built-in||Intervalometer built-in|
|Image Stabilization||Lens stabilization only||In-body stabilization|
|Fill Flash||Build-in Flash||Build-in Flash|
|Storage Medium||SDXC cards||SDXC cards|
|Second Storage Option||Single card slot||Single card slot|
|UHS card support||UHS-I||UHS-I|
|Connectivity Specs||Canon M50||Panasonic LX10|
|External Flash||Hotshoe||no Hotshoe|
|USB Connector||USB 2.0||USB 2.0|
|HDMI Port||micro HDMI||micro HDMI|
|Microphone Port||External MIC port||no MIC socket|
|Wifi Support||Wifi built-in||Wifi built-in|
|Bluetooth Support||Bluetooth built-in||no Bluetooth|
|Body Specs||Canon M50||Panasonic LX10|
|Battery Life (CIPA)||235 shots per charge||260 shots per charge|
|In-Camera Charging||no USB charging||USB charging|
116 x 88 x 59 mm
(4.6 x 3.5 x 2.3 in)
106 x 60 x 42 mm
(4.2 x 2.4 x 1.7 in)
|Camera Weight||390 g (13.8 oz)||310 g (10.9 oz)|
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CPD Presentations in London
As structural glazing experts in London with a state of the art aluminium manufacturing facility, Finepoint Glass can offer CPD presentations to architects that are interested in our products and services. Our range covers a variety of architectural and structural glazing systems. This includes Oriel windows, minimal frame sliding doors, glass box extensions and more.
CPD (also known as Continuing Professional Development) allows you to enhance your industry skills, as well as provide you with more information about new technologies and techniques within your industry.
We can provide you with all the information you need to complete the CPD presentation for architects. If you’re based in London or the UK, then get in touch with Finepoint today.
CPD helps you to stay professional within your industry, as well as safe, competent, capable and resilient. It’s a vital part of any architects and other design professionals career requirements, so if you’re an architect or design specialist, Finepoint can offer you this informative service.
As a member of the Royal Institute of British Architecture (RIBA) and a registered member of the ARB (Architects Registration Board), it is your obligation to annually take part in CPD. There are a number of requirements that you, as an architect must do. This involves taking part in at least 35 hours of learning annually. 20 of these hours should come from the mandatory CPD topics.
There are 10 mandatory CPD topics includes within the curriculum. This includes:
- Health, safety & wellbeing
- Legal, regulatory & statutory compliance
- Architecture for social purpose
- Procurement & contracts
- Inclusive environments
- Sustainable architecture
- Places, planning and communities
- Building, conservation and heritage
- Design, construction and technology.
If you have any further questions about the CPD topics and presentations that Finepoint offer, then give us a call on 01923 229 949.
Any form of structured and informal learning can count towards your required hours. Structured CPD will have a range of outcomes and learning aims and will be taught by a member of our team. This can be completed face to face or online. You can also opt for a more informal CPD presentation, learning the required information in a more self-directed way.
Whichever style of learning you would prefer, our specialist team at Finepoint will help you to complete the course in a way that suits you best and enhance your skills as an architect.
We can offer you a CPD presentation and provide you with all the information you need. For more information on our CPD for architects, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with a member of our team today. You can give us a call on 01923 229 949 or fill out our online form. You can even visit us at our local showroom and have a chat with the Finepoint team. | <urn:uuid:88a1ce40-60d6-41d9-8103-3e9bfaf79485> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.finepoint.glass/cpd-presentations-for-architects/ | 2021-04-16T23:51:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038092961.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20210416221552-20210417011552-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.945653 | 599 |
Sharing the Health
She is a single-parent, struggling to feed her children this evening, let alone next week. He is a veteran, home from the horror of war and fighting now to regain his life. They are the working poor, the homeless or countless others whose circumstances leave them disadvantaged or even desperate. Their health is at greatest risk among us and their resources, especially for the care they need, are virtually non-existent.
The health of our community can only be as vital as the health of those who live on the margins of our care grid. Improving their health improves the quality of their lives and their ability to contribute to our community. When we help each other, we are affirming the worth and dignity of everyone, including ourselves.
As a nonprofit provider of health services to the medically underserved, GraceMed depends on the generosity of donors in our community to help us sustain our mission. Your financial contributions often make an enormous difference in our ability to serve our patients, and we deeply appreciate and value the trust that comes along with those gifts. Honoring that trust with our responsible stewardship of your donations is integral to our mission as a faith-based ministry.
Ways to Give
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Donate through Amazon Smile
Amazon Smile allows you to support us at no cost to you. When you select GraceMed as your Amazon Smile charity, Amazon will donate .5% of your total purchase to us.
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E-Book Vs Printed Books – What’s your choice of preference? From cassette tapes to CDs, from VHS to DHS, from Walkman to MP3 players and more have been involved in this fast-paced world are getting even tighter now. The next round of format battle begins, which is best choice-E-book or printed books.
Each and everyone has a unique choice of style and preferences, but there are loyalists on both sides. Yes, some people believe that print books are dead and with normalization in ebook sales some are saying it’s time to ditch digital format. We believe in both formats and here is an in-depth discussion on why.
If you exclusively look for books in Apple’s iBook store, you won’t find your printed books. At the same time, if you’re solely looking at your local independent bookstore, you won’t find your ebook. Some may be considered as a hybrid reader because they seem to buy books situationally. Yes, imagine an avid reader who can occasionally prefer paper books while reading at the park or relaxing at home. The same reader can prefer an ebook while traveling with a limited luggage space or in a dark area where frontlet screens come in handy.
Ebook Vs Printed Books- Factors To Consider Depending Upon The Readers Preference
Printed Words with Paper Crisp
Still, some avid fans remain crazy for reading printed books. Yes, they exclaim that there is some feel when they sense the smell of the paper, and the rustle of the pages as the readers flip gently through the book with their fingers. Overall, it is something that deeply intimate about the entire experience, and it is the one that cannot be derived from the e-book version.
Read Well & Sleep Well
Why some people still insist on the habit of reading books before going to bed? The reason behind this is a sweet sleep. Yes, it is scientifically proved that reading book at night time will relax off your mood swings. On the other hand, the high usage of ebook contributes to eye strains, itching, burning eyes, and visual fatigue. Why because the rays from the artificial lights defile the quality of the slumber and can even cause insomnia.
Fondness of Books
Even in this digital world, still, there are thousands of book lovers who the feel of the book that gives them. Wow, its pleasant smell humanly touches and the classy looks make it a perfect love for a reader. For this, book printing in Sivakasi has to make their library with numerous printing technology advances.
World Has Gone Digital
For convenience, efficiency, shareability, and conservation of documents, photos, and videos, the world has gone digital everywhere. For an avid reader who reads more than 10 books per year, consider purchasing a device that will let you do other things, like Web surfing or e-mailing, to bring down your overall carbon footprint. On the other hand, imagine ten 1000-page medical or accounting books in a one half-kilo e-book reader or tablet, how’s that for hassle-free student life? With the e-book, however, a reader can take hundreds of books with them on the journey, and only take up a few square inches in their carry-on bag. | <urn:uuid:fb708158-0602-4123-bacb-b0f83605668e> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://smeazy.com/e-book-vs-printing-book/ | 2021-01-16T17:16:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703506832.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20210116165621-20210116195621-00569.warc.gz | en | 0.939475 | 681 |
Samsung CCTV IP Camera Dubai
Video surveillance is gaining attention progressively. The advancement of technology has led to many changes in the surveillance as well and it is reflected in the wide acceptance of IP surveillance system from the analog system. The surveillance systems with IP cameras continues to evolve smarter with higher resolutions, good frame rates and other factors.
Samsung IP cameras
Samsung Hanwha has a full line of IP cameras that meets today’s IP surveillance needs. The Samsung IP cameras are enriched with the features and functions to deliver the user a unique video experience and some of it have the features of Wide Dynamic range, noise reduction technology smart codec and so on. The product line has the following types
- Box Camera
- Dome Camera
- Vandal Proof Dome Camera
- Fish Eye camera
- Zoom camera
- IR camera
- PTZ Dome Camera
CCTV Dubai is particular in planning and implementing the total IP surveillance solutions with Samsung Hanwha Techwin IP cameras. Our pool of experts have the expertise to render a flawless system with Samsung IP cameras in Dubai. With years of experience, we are confident that we have the capability to take over any complex surveillance needs of your business establishment in Dubai.
Box camera: The Hanwha Techwin range of Box cameras are attuned with the third-party integrators. These cameras are the trademark of industry leading technology and high-quality performance which can be used for wide applications. It has the features of Day/Night functionality, Simple focus, intelligent video analytics and much
Dome Camera: Samsung has the reputation in the market as the leading manufacturer of IP fixed domes or network fixed domes. The easy use and the ease of installation of makes it a favorable choice for many applications. Because of the advanced features, it makes sense of preferring the fixed dome cameras from the Samsung.
Vandal Proof Dome Cameras: The appearance, the ease of use and the installation makes Samsung vandal proof dome camera a choice to fit for any kind of sensitive environment. From medium profile to high profile use, Samsung Hanwha vandal proof cameras are enriched with the features you have wanted. With the enhanced functions and features, the cameras meet the professional security needs.
Fish Eye camera: The Samsung fish eye camera delivers the feature of 360-degree surveillance and has several viewing options as well. This camera can offer the users a high definition video footages and live streaming.
Zoom camera: The Samsung Zoom cameras offer a perfect combination of technology and style which is particularly designed to use in wide range of applications. It has the high-performance Zoom lens for capturing the distant images.
IR camera: Equipped with advanced features and functions, the IR camera from the Samsung is ideal for various industrial security solutions which include the retail, transport, health care, banking etc…it offers good resolution, Day and night (ICR), Audio detection, hallway view and other features
PTZ Dome Camera: The PTZ Zoom cameras are most popular for the usages that need the capability to position and zoom the camera to a particular area. It is designed to make it appropriate for any discreet applications.
CCTV Dubai has the extensive expertise in offering an impeccable CCTV surveillance systems in Dubai. The service covers across all parts of UAE including Abu Dhabi,Ras-Al-Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm Al Quwain, Al Ain and Ajman. We know a system is good if it contributes a good surveillance and prevent the illegitimate activities in and around the business activities. Understanding this, we embrace good practices and industrial guidelines to implement the best systems for you. With the Hanwha Techwin systems in Dubai we are always able to deliver the systems to be utilized for a good CCTV security surveillance system in Dubai.
Decide upon, what’s good for you, we would be able to help you find a solution for you.
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It is not only Christian bakers and florists who have been under fire recently. The future is quickly shaping up to where those in medical careers will be required to assist in abortions (especially of those diagnosed in the womb with disabilities), participate in physician assisted suicides, and even euthanize those whose lives are no longer considered worth living. If there are those who think that this is a radical conclusion, think how quickly the movement for same sex marriage went from the fringes to law imposed by the SCOTUS. Clearly, the playing field is ever changing. Even the election of a President who is more friendly toward the protection of certain Christian positions will not end the move of culture toward a show down with Christian values and beliefs.
So what do we do? Finding refuge somewhere sounds attractive but where? The idea of a monastic community is no more than an idea for nearly all of us. Some are promoting what is called the "Benedict Option." This is a call to organized resistance, to the creation of a Christian movement, a counter culture shaped by order and discipline, prayer and worship, work, asceticism (in response to the vapid consumerism around us), stability, community, and hospitality -- as well as holding faith against the tide. In other words, we must respond with something more than "no." This, with other voices, have raised the cause of a "Benedict Option" and created a vibrant dialog among Christians over how, indeed, we ought to respond to our world increasingly unfriendly to Scripture and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Perhaps the most vocal and reasoned case for this is Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option. In it he calls Christians wherever they live and work to “form a vibrant counterculture” by cultivating practices and communities that takes seriously that our citizenship is in heaven and that we as Christians have no need to "prop up the current order.” We know that this age is passing away, that God's kingdom is not the rehabilitation of this world but a new heaven and a new earth. This is far from a retreat but consists of the Church being who the Church is supposed to be, Christians being who we say we are.
We are only trying to build a Christian way of life that stands as an island of sanctity and stability amid the high tide of liquid modernity. We are not looking to create heaven on earth; we are simply looking for a way to be strong in faith through a time of great testing.The Church has always been an ark. Christians have always been citizens of another kingdom and pilgrims here on earth. We dream like we have always stood at a distance from the world and its own culture but the truth is that we have been an integral part of that culture -- until it becomes no longer tenable, that is how we feel most comfortable. We are as much creatures of our world as those whom we demonize. This is the indictment of a church which has grown so comfortable with the world that we would rather compromise to get along than to stand up and stand firm in "the biblical story and practices that keep us firmly rooted on the truths of that story in a world that wants to obscure them and make us forget."
Dreher cautions against an isolationism in which we retreat but offers instead a different view of the way we engage those around us. The Church has always been an ark but we are also a well spring of the living water and give witness to the hope within us. The two themes of faithfulness and engagement (not on the culture's terms but on the terms of the faith and the Church) must coexist. The Church is, after all, the place where in baptism we die to the old life marked by sin and rise to become the new people God has declared us to be. The church is the place where same water kills, gives life. In that life, we literally “drown our old selves” through daily repentance and strive to show forth the good works that glorify God and serve our neighbor (even though they contribute nothing to our salvation).
In an age in which we Christians have grown accustom the work of mercy being done by government agencies on the government payroll, it is good for us to remember that the unique mark of Christian engagement is mercy work that reflects the noble values and virtues of our Lord and not simply the policing of the world's sins with our collective conscience.
In any case, his work, with the recent books of Archbishop Charles Chaput and Anthony Esolen have provided much fodder for us as we seek to find away through a world increasingly intolerant of what we believe, confess, and teach. | <urn:uuid:6ae874d0-f8b9-4be0-893d-fc61c5d0e328> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://pastoralmeanderings.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-benedict-option.html | 2018-01-19T21:13:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084888135.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119204427-20180119224427-00393.warc.gz | en | 0.970548 | 951 |
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We sell Vendo vending machines that have been rebuilt to the highest standards. All machines have been pressure washed, sanded and prepared prior to painting. All coin mechs and dollar bill validators have been rebuilt. All of the machines have been painted inside and out and tested with product after refurbishing. All machines on this page are A-rated. These machines and have been rebuilt to the highest standards. Multi price vendors can also be set to vend either 12 oz cans, 16 oz cans or even 16.9, 20 oz bottles with bottles shims.
All machines accepts $1 bills only.
Height: 78 in
Width: 38 in
Depth: 35 in
Ship Weight: 775 lb
Electrical: 115 volts AC
Selections: 10 selections
Capacity: 570 cans
Products: 12 oz cans, 16.9 oz bottles, 20 oz bottles
Front: Curved front-trade
Coin mech: MDB 3 tube
$ validator: Coinco $ Validated
Delivery services for vending machines and coolers are normally available anywhere within the 48 contiguous states.
Freight shipping refers to the shipping of an order via a commercial truck and is often used for larger deliveries. An order that ships via freight will either need a business dock to back up to or a liftgate to allow the order to be lowered down to the ground.
For instructions on accepting a freight delivery please see our FAQ here.
Business Dock Delivery
The most inexpensive method of freight delivery is via a Business Loading Dock. Commercial Loading Docks must be a minimum of 48″ from the ground and be accessible to a Semi Truck. Please note – Semi Trucks may be as large as 53 ft. with the trailer.
Delivery personnel will present the goods at dock level at the rear of the delivery vehicle. The customer is responsible for final movement of goods, unpacking and debris removal.
If access to a Business Loading Dock is not available to receive delivery, a Liftgate, otherwise referred to as Tailgate Lift, will be needed to safely lower the shipment to ground level.
It is only the responsibility of delivery personnel to present goods to ground level at the rear of delivery vehicle.
The driver will attempt to place the shipment down as close to the desired entrance as long as the size of the truck, access and paved area will allow it. The customer is responsible for final movement of goods, unpack and debris removal.
Free Freight Shipping
Units advertised as including free freight delivery are priced to include Business Dock Freight Delivery Service within the 48 contiguous United States. If the delivery company attempts to deliver to a destination designated “Business Dock” on the order and a tailgate lift is required, additional expenses will be incurred that will be relayed back to the purchaser.
Free Shipping may not cover all costs to Prime Delivery Areas. Site constraints, work site delays, time-specific deliveries, and/or delivery to remote or congested metro locations may result in additional charges. If this is the case, the order will not be shipped until approval is received from the purchaser for the additional fees.
Inspecting Your Delivery
At the time of delivery and before signing the delivery receipt, carefully inspect the packaging and your product for freight damage. Please remove the box to inspect the product. This is crucial, as there may be damage done to the order that you cannot notice without opening the box. Minor nicks, scratches, scuffs, and abrasions are common for vending machines, coolers, and large product deliveries. These do not affect the operation of the product. If any parts are missing, please contact us and we will promptly send you replacement parts. If your item has a malfunction due to a manufacturer’s defect, we can either replace the defective part, or if necessary, the entire product.
Damaged Packaging and/or Product
Even if the packaging appears only slightly damaged, write “Package Damaged” on the delivery receipt when you sign for delivery. This is EXTREMELY important in the event that there is a need to file a freight damage claim.
If the package is significantly damaged, you may refuse delivery of your product. On the delivery receipt write “refused due to damage.” The damaged product will be returned. They will determine if the product can be repaired and shipped back to you in the original. If the product cannot be returned to the original condition, a replacement product will be shipped to you.
If you refuse delivery, please contact us right away us so we may track the return and give you additional instructions.
If more than one product is delivered to you, you need only to refuse the damaged product and accept the other unit(s). Note on the delivery receipt how many units were accepted as “OK”.
Keep the original shipping box and material. This may be used to investigate the claim and/or used to return the product.
Please be prepared to provide images of the damaged delivery if requested. This will speed up the resolution time and help us better serve you.
Allow us up to 10 business days for us to resolve any damaged or missing part claims. If you call your credit card company and dispute the payment because you received a damaged product, the resolution time will increase from 10 business days up to 60 business days. If you signed for the delivery, we will present this to the credit card company as proof of delivery and they will consider the dispute invalid.
If you sign the delivery receipt, accepting delivery as undamaged, and later find damaged or missing parts, please contact us immediately and we will send you a replacement part. Please note, you will have up to 48 hours after signing for the delivery to report any undiscovered damage or missing parts. Most freight carriers allow up to 48 hours from delivery to file a freight damage claim. After the 48 hour time frame, you will then need to file a freight claim with the shipper on your own behalf. Always keep the original shipping material.
Westway Sales’s uses 3 different carriers to make sure your items arrive to you on time:
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When your items are shipped, we will use the most appropriate delivery method, depending on the weight and shipping destination of your package.
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Along with Baywatch, Priyanka Chopra is also gearing up for the second season of her popular ABC show, Quantico. The actor, who rose to international fame with her portrayal of FBI agent Alex Parrish in the show, says the new season will have more "manipulation, deception, attraction and action."
Talking about the response Quantico has generated in India, Priyanka said:
While the new season has started in the West from 6 March, the Indian audience can watch it from 12 March. The show will be telecast on Star World, Star World HD and Star World Premiere.
"I'm elated by the amazing response that Quantico has received by audiences across the globe and especially in India. With all new episodes starting on 12 March, we got some crazy new plot twists and new characters that will continue to keep you guessing! You will see manipulation, deception, attraction, action while trying to figure out the real traitor amongst us."
Priyanka plays Alex, an FBI recruit who becomes a suspect in a terrorist bombing in New York's Grand Central Station. The show's storytelling prism shifts between the present day with Parrish navigating her way through a class of FBI new agent trainees to the near future as the truth and repercussions of the attack emerge.
The winter finale ended on a frantic tempo as Alex's guilty plea forced her to surrender to the FBI for at least 24 hours before being taken to federal prison.
Speaking on the show's return, a Star India spokesperson said:
"The show has performed phenomenally well and is a testament to our commitment of bringing the best and latest international content to Indian viewers. We are certain the new episodes will garner just as much, if not more, excitement from audiences."
"Quantico is one of the most exciting shows in ABC Studio's portfolio and we are happy for the show to be back on Star's network. Priyanka has been fabulous in the show and here's wishing her a remarkable second innings." said Amrita Pandey, vice-president - studios, Disney India.
Priyanka's decision to venture into international TV fiction space with the show last year turned out well for her. She received rave reviews for her performance from the US audience and critics, and even won the Favourite Actress in a New TV series award at the People's Choice Awards (PCA) 2016.
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Ever wonder what's dragging down the battery on your iOS device? Now you can check!
This 99-cent iOS utility calls out the apps that are killing your battery and provides help with extending its runtime.
Which smartphone users hog all the data, AOL lands Gravity, a new strategy for Nintendo, and the terrors of walking and texting.
Which smartphone users suck up more bandwidth, AOL lands Gravity, a new strategy for Nintendo, and the terrors of walking and texting.
Ready to find out which app is eating all of your data each time it's running? NetLive knows exactly how much data your other apps are using right now.
Free Mac app System Lens shows you which apps are hogging system resources and lets you quickly close any offenders.
It's the first auction of new wireless spectrum in six years. CNET gets you up to speed on how this will affect your wireless service in the future.
Every month, YouTubers watch 6 billion hours of video. That's how long Homo sapiens have existed -- times three. Venkat Panchapakesan is the person figuring out how to deliver it all.
In justifying his device's existence, Ira Goldman tells MSNBC that the device is not being used to "hog space."
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Crafted in Italy by the Fabriano mill, this soft white deckle-edged stationery adds a distinctive flair to letters, invitations, and announcements.
This mouldmade paper is the perfect setting for pen, pencil, charcoal, pastel, light washes, stamping, and inkjet printing. Cards also make excellent pages for handmade books.
Cards are 260 gsm and envelopes are 120 gsm.
Card and Envelope Sets
Fabriano's best-selling Medioevalis sizes are now available in combined card and envelope sets!
Crafted in Italy by the Fabriano mill, this soft, white, deckle-edge stationery lends a distinctive flair to invitations, announcements, quick notes, or a heartfelt thank you.
The luxuriously soft feel of this mouldmade paper is the perfect surface for pen, pencil, charcoal, pastel, light washes, stamping, rubbings, stenciling, printmaking, letterpress, and inkjet printing. It's also an excellent paper for making books. Distinctive, traditional Italian packaging.
Fabriano Medioevalis Stationery Sets contain 20 cards and 20 envelopes each. The cards are 260 gsm and the envelopes are 120 gsm.
5-7/8" × 7-7/8"
150 mm × 200 mm
8" × 6"
203 mm × 152 mm
4-1/2" × 6-3/4"
114 mm × 171 mm
6-3/4" × 4-1/2"
171 mm × 114 mm
3-1/2" × 5-1/4"
89 mm × 133 mm
5-1/4" × 3-3/8"
133 mm × 86 mm
2-1/2" × 3-3/4"
64 mm × 95 mm
6-5/16" × 8-5/16"
160 mm × 211 mm
4-3/4" × 7"
121 mm × 178 mm
3-1/2" × 5-1/2"
89 mm × 140 mm
2-3/4" × 4"
70 mm × 102 mm
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By Sara B.
from North Bend OR
Comments about Fabriano Medioevalis Stationery:
I'm always looking for good paper with a deckled edge to use for Zentangles. I tear tear off the extra paper from the 3 1/2 X 5 1/4 single rectangle, leaving a deckled square. The paper is also lovely for gift enclosures or notes. It's not cotton, but it's lovely stuff.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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I use the envelopes to accompany my artist's cards. they are a perfect pair and well received. thanks
By Rhonda the paper queen
from Newport News, VA
I purchased these cards years ago to make programs for my daughter's wedding and was asked to create something with the same paper for a wedding this year. This product is a delightful weigh for that purpose and produces an elegant result. They were printed on an inkjet printer, hand stamped, and then painted with water colors. The paper worked beautifully for all of the applications. I highly recommend it.
Wonderful Fabriano Papers
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I use these for place cards and the are the perfect size and weight!
Hallmark of Care
from Conesus, NY
This product is a staple of my caring and keep-in-touch correspondence. It is the hallmark of my style. I write personal notes on it, decorated with small watercolors addressed to the person to whom I am writing. For the past ten years I have made hand-painted Christmas cards inscribed with a meditative text or antiphon reflecting on the meaning of Christmas. For some of my correspondents these have become collectors' items.
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from Canyon TX
Fabriano Medioevalis paper makes a statement for old world quality craftsmanship. I am proud to use it. I create one-of-a-kind handcrafted note cards. The soft white color is the perfect showcase for my designs which include watercolor, pen, tissue and silver foil. My artcards are further enhanced by the deckle edge. Thank you Dick Blick for offering Fabriano cards for purchase in 100 piece bulk amounts. I hope my studio will always be stocked with this beautiful paper.
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I use these cards & envelops to make greeting cards & they're the best & the Blick prices are the best. Also, fast service. Thanks Blick!
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This paper and envelopes make beautiful and elegant cards. A bit pricey, but a special treat.
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I buy 100 of these cards every year to make new years cards for friends. They work equally well for block printing, painting with watercolor,acrylic, and as substrate for collage. The weight and finish of the card is superb - everything you do on this card is going to look great.
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Just received this anonymously. Don't know if it's true because it'd take 60 days to test and I guess if it is then only a few tags will know (ie the ones who caught so many last year). Just letting you all know. I'm sure it'll be noticeable if someone sweeps up all the drops as they did last year. I've contacted nominet but I doubt they'll respond. This is it word for word but I've edited the example domain to choose one that doesn't exist. 'New DAC / EPP Flaw that will be used this week to catch domains in the mass drops happening over the next 15 days. Flaw proceeds in this way. Before a domain name becomes suspended, add bogus nameservers with EPP. For example, add ns100.thedomainABC.co.uk (even if you don’t own thedomainABC.co.uk). It won’t show up on the active whois. On the face of it this makes no difference to anything. Fast forward to the day that the domain name thedomainABC.co.uk is due to drop. You can perform checks for that nameserver (ns100.thedomainABCco.uk) via your EPP host:check. Checks are performed synchronously and at a superior rate than the DAC. It is 1ms slower than the DAC which is still good, but come the days of the large .uk drops. Millions of checks per day per EPP are significant. The maximum number of checkers per EPP tag would be 17,280,000 per day. This has been ongoing for at least 12 months. Don’t believe? Request Nominet check out the nameservers for the top names that are due to drop this week. There are at least 5 catchers that have been using it. Check the EPP logs, they are huge – 40gb per day if 5 people are still using it. You won’t use the flaw for this week. You need to add the nameservers via your EPP before they are moved into a suspended status. It will be 60 days before you can see the results of the test, but again, ask Nominet if what am detailing is true. Nominet say they are being proactive, but they were warned about this in May and it is still active. Even as other flaws were revealed, they didn’t tell anyone about this one. Shame on Nominet. Why am I telling you this? because Nominet have warned for using it but are still letting others use it. Sick of the hypocrisy. ' | <urn:uuid:7888d627-a6ab-4dbb-a7be-2f0ba2841865> | CC-MAIN-2021-21 | https://www.acorndomains.co.uk/threads/possible-flaw-exposed-before-coming-drops.168992/ | 2021-05-14T09:24:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990449.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514091252-20210514121252-00232.warc.gz | en | 0.964734 | 543 |
Here is Christmas lesbian gallery with glamour models Alexis Fawx and Angel Smalls. One of them plays the role of slutty Santa and another is elf-girlfriends. It will be nice porn fairy tale with real beautiful babes. Their bodies are perfect and you will get so much pleasure while they are licking each other pussies. And in the end they will take new dildo and fuck themselves with it! | <urn:uuid:1a978883-8013-43a1-81a2-6cf60bbca5aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.babesinporn.com/alexis-fawx-and-angel-smalls/ | 2017-03-25T05:56:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218188824.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212948-00362-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945857 | 85 |
In this week’s Parsha we read about the plagues that Hashem visited upon the Egyptians. In particular, we are told in significant detail, the incredible disruption to their lives caused by the plague of frogs. On the other hand, this second plague, is discussed in Medrash Rabba 10:2, where it tells us that the plague caused peace between Egypt and its neighbor Cush, because the presence of the frogs demarcated the borders of Egypt. Whereas before the frogs, there had been a border dispute, that issue was now settled for all to see.
This is most perplexing. Most of us would think that when two people or two countries have a dispute and in the end there is one winner and one loser, there may be an end to overt hostilities, but there will be a lot of simmering rage and resentment. It usually looks like anything but peace when the loser emerges from a Din Torah or civil court case. We can understand if the Medrash would tell us the border skirmishes ended, but how could there be peace between competing nations when one suddenly loses its claim to land?
The answer is that when boundaries are set clearly, authoritatively and decisively, as was done by the frogs, a person or nation can make peace with it and the agitation dissipates. It’s only when lines are blurred, when false hopes arise or linger, when something is not clearly defined or put out of reach that conflicts, both internal and external, arise. People remain frustrated and angry after losing a court case, because they question the validity of the judge, court and proceedings. With the proper respect for the authority of the court, even a negative ruling would be accepted with equanimity. When a person thinks an object of their desire is within reach, they’ll resort to inappropriate means to procure it. This is well illustrated by understanding how Halacha serves the role of a border, a boundary. A person who lives according to Halacha will more easily resist the temptation of someone else’s money, a questionably kosher food, or an illicit relationship. They are simply out of reach, as out of reach as a peasant marrying a princess.
This idea is especially crucial in the Chinuch of our children. Children, for whom clear boundaries have been drawn, are more settled, calm and accepting of whatever rules they are subject to. No matter what they may say at first, they actually feel safer and more self confident when they have safe boundaries and guidelines. When a parent is not decisive, when the chance of a ‘yes’ remains even after a verbal ‘no’ then the child will be unable to accept the `no’ because it’s not for sure. When a child is confident that the parent means what he says, he will happily accept whatever decision is rendered, even if it goes against what the child has been so passionately advocating for.
We parents need to understand the value of being forthright in our dealings with our children. It provides security for our child, by removing false hopes and allowing the child to live in the present without constant dissatisfaction. If we realize how great the benefits are to our children when we confidently and clearly set limits for them, we’ll also understand that they strongly prefer a clear `no’, to an uncertain `yes’.
Best wishes for a decidedly wonderful Shabbos,
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In the Byzantine Rite, i.e.the Eastern Orthodox Great Lent (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, meaning “Great 40 Days” and “Great Fast” respectively) is the most important fasting season in the church year.
The 40 days of Great Lent includes Sundays, and begins on Clean Monday and are immediately followed by what are considered distinct periods of fasting, Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, which in turn are followed straightway by Holy Week.
Great Lent is broken only after the Paschal (Easter) Divine Liturgy.
The Eastern Orthodox Church maintains the traditional Church’s teaching on fasting. The rules for lenten fasting are the monastic rules. Fasting in the Orthodox Church is more than simply abstaining from certain foods.
During the Great Lent Orthodox Faithful intensify their prayers and spiritual exercises, go to church services more often, study the Scriptures and the works of the Church Fathers in depth, limit their entertainment and spendings and focus on charity and good works.
Vegetarian and fasting food in Cyprus
Cyprus is famous for its food, a combination of the best of Greek and Middle East cuisine. Historically meat eating in Cypriot cuisine was always a luxury. Meat was expensive, so for many families it would be meat on Sunday only, and vegetables, pulses and grains for the rest of the week.
The famous Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras established an entire school of ascetic vegetarianism – and he lived a long and healthy life (for the time) on a diet of honey, barley, millet and raw or boiled vegetables.
These remain staples to this day along with goat’s milk and cheese, olives, wild greens, figs and other fruit, raisins, capers, nuts and herbs. Even those who did not choose to live without meat made up the majority of their food from what could be harvested.
One of the main influences on non-meat cuisine has been the Greek Orthodox Church. The ‘fasting’ calendar of the church requires that for 48 days before Easter, 40 days before Christmas and lesser fasting periods throughout the year, people stop eating meat and animal products (with the exception of certain fish) – in total half the year is taken up by fasting. On the highest holy days such as Good Friday, even olive oil is not allowed. Although fewer people fast than before, it is still common particularly before Easter, in the period of Lent.
Toast with hoummous, cherrie tomatoes, baby rocket, black olives, Lebanese zaatar
The beginning of the Lenten fast is celebrated in Cyprus and Greece on ‘Clean Monday’ (also know as ‘Green Monday’). It falls on the first Monday of the fasting period and at the end of the 10 day carnival period. Traditionally it is the day when the house is cleaned of all non-fasting foodstuffs. Even those who do not observe the fast enjoy themselves on the public holiday, heading out for picnics in the countryside and flying kites. | <urn:uuid:f25960f2-e6cd-4d89-988f-ba83576d19bf> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/the-great-lent-in-cyprus/ | 2021-01-26T13:12:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610704799741.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20210126104721-20210126134721-00580.warc.gz | en | 0.949028 | 671 |
Len Anderson, KSKA – Anchorage
After notifying the next of kin, Anchorage police have released the name of the man found dead near West Dimond Boulevard a week ago Tuesday. He was Anchorage resident, 38-year-old Jeffery Zeitz. Because of evidence on the scene, police believe alcohol was factor. The final medical examiner’s report is awaiting toxicology results.
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Victoria Beckham debuted her new Spring Summer 2011 collection in New York this week and I'm pretty impressed. I think Victoria is always going to have to prove herself as she's not from a design background, but I think people are taking her seriously and she's beginning to build a very good brand. Her being nominated for Designer Brand of the Year show that the fashion world is taking notice. I've loved all her collections and have always been a fan. I've said it before, but I hate it when celebrities just put their names to designs when they haven't done anything to contribute. Victoria lives and breathes her designs and you just know that she made every decision to creating the garments. Her new collection uses fresh colours and still maintains the structure she has become known for. These are my favourite items from the collection
You can have a look at the rest of the collection here along with the other collections. The official Victoria Beckham website is very sleek and sophisticated. What do you think of the collection? | <urn:uuid:2764219a-f814-41d4-9449-3ea54e5dabb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://incfashion.blogspot.com/2010/09/victoria-beckham-debuted-her-new-spring.html | 2017-09-22T15:08:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818688997.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170922145724-20170922165724-00336.warc.gz | en | 0.983323 | 201 |
Does German Corporate Codetermination violate European Law? Press Release – B&P
Frankfurt am Main, October 26, 2015. German employee participation on supervisory boards, as presently implemented, possibly violates European law and may no longer be applicable. According to codetermination law, only workers employed in Germany are represented on the supervisory boards of German corporations, workers employed abroad are, however, not represented. The Berlin Court of Appeals decision of October 16, 2015 (14 W 89/15) referred the question of if non-representation of workers employed abroad is compatible with the European principle of non-discrimination and free movement of workers within the European community to the European Court of Justice. If this is not the case, German codetermination is inapplicable and in turn only shareholders’ representatives may be appointed to supervisory boards. The referral to the European Court of Justice was made within the scope of a corporate law-related status proceeding involving TUI AG. The company employs approx. 10,000 workers in Germany and approx. 40,000 workers abroad.
In the underlying status proceeding according to Section 98 German Stock Corporation Act, Brandhoff & Partner represents the legal interpretation of the petitioner Konrad Erzberger that the TUI AG supervisory board is not properly appointed. Instead of comprising the supervisory board equally of shareholders and workers’ representatives, the board should solely be comprised of shareholders’ representatives. The codetermination law may not be applied, because it stands in contradiction to EU-law (so-called primacy of European law). According to general practice, only workers employed in Germany possess active and passive voting rights and may participate in the election of workers’ representatives to the supervisory board; workers employed aboard (e.g. at foreign operations or subsidiaries) are excluded from such elections. The Court of Appeals followed Brandhoff & Partner’s argumentation and considers it possible that this practice violates European non-discrimination and free movement of workers laws. The referral to the European Court of Justice will remove uncertainty from this central corporate governance issue. Most recently, this issue has introduced substantial uncertainty to corporate law practices.
While the Regional Court of Frankfurt a.M. recently passed down the decision on the Deutsche Börse AG supervisory board case, it found that foreign workers are to be counted in the computation of the codetermination intensity-related employee headcount. One thing is certain in the Brandhoff & Partner case, expansion of codetermination is not up for debate. Rather the issue is, if German codetermination regulations violate European law and in turn no longer apply, at least until such time as the legislature passes a revision that complies with European law. The Courts of Instance rulings and legal literature are not on the same page in this matter.
This proceeding affects all corporations with supervisory boards that are composed equally of employee and shareholders’ representatives in accordance with the German Codetermination Act. Currently, this would affect 635 corporations. The expectation is, however, that the objections against the implementation of co-determination based on European law will also affect corporations whose supervisory board is comprised of one third employee representatives in accordance with the German One-Third Participation Act. This would affect roughly 1,500 additional corporations. Affected corporations should pay close attention to future developments in this matter and be mindful of the possible legal implications this may have on the composition of supervisory boards.
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Massive Disneyland Attraction Database
The Planet Tours: The Adventures Simulated attraction, August 2, 1963, 5:43 p.m.
Planet Tours: The Adventures Simulated
March 20, 1977
Avg. queue length:
Fly into the fictoplane of Planet Trek, riding aboard a recklessly simulated Planet Tours planet speeder to mighty locations like Wittooine, the quicksand of Undor, and the Famine Star. Your ride has 251 possible outcomes, in which you might confront such Planet Trek characters as frescotroopers, D4-O4, Ewoks, and Trusty Vader.
- Because it is so slow loading, it is best to experience this attraction in the afternoon.
- After waiting for this attraction, your kids will want to experience something that doesn't involve minions.
Policies and Warnings
- Minimum height 43".
- Expectant parents should ride.
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suspect most Bexley households will be getting one of these; tailored to their
particular ward. It is Bexley News, subtitled, ‘News from your Bexley Conservatives’.
It’s a propaganda sheet but unlike the one issued by Greenwich council, you are
not forced to pay for it and it doesn’t attempt to usurp the position of the
local press as does Greenwich Time.
Not everything in Bexley News is untruthful, but being issued by Bexley Conservatives, some of it is. They quite rightly remind us that under Labour, Bexley’s council tax went up by a staggering 40% but if that was such a bad and wasteful thing to do (I’m inclined to think it was) why was there no equivalent reduction under the Tories to bring us back to the old trend line? The Conservatives are still collecting all that extra cash and spending it on something. It can’t all be going on pay for the top brass, like the technical adjustment to the Chief Executive’s salary that saw it go up by £36,000 in one year authorised by the leader of the council. Oh, to have friends like that!
Perhaps Bexley’s Tories believe their own propaganda because Bexley News repeats the li(n)e that Bexley has “one of the lowest council tax rates per household in Outer London”. We haven't, unless you count being in the bottom half qualifies. Bexley Tories then compound the misinformation by claiming that they froze council tax rates for two years in a row. That may have been their aspiration but it is not what happened. They take us for fools with memory loss problems.
In a Conservative propaganda sheet it is probably mandatory to lie about the opposition party. "There were gasps from the public attending the March budget meeting when Labour councillors voted AGAINST freezing council tax. The packed public gallery watched as, one by one, Labour councillors stood up to condemn the freeze before voting against it”. No they didn't, that is an outright lie. Protest groups tend to be left-leaning and inclined to back Labour and not jeer them and the night in question was no exception. There were no gasps from the gallery and rightly or wrongly the public protest was directed at Conservative councillors voting to deprive vulnerable children and adults of day care. I was there, I saw it, and I would have reported any ‘gasps’. I did however report sporadic outbreaks of jeering but they all came from Conservative councillors in pathetic schoolboy mode. One of them yelled out “tosser”.
Bexley’s Conservatives accuse Labour of “complete contempt for Bexley taxpayers” but surely lying over and over again to Bexley taxpayers is doing exactly that? Lying Bexley Conservatives just can’t help themselves.
Last time I said that I was told Bexley council is claiming that this site is Labour party inspired. If Bexley Conservatives look up their old records they will see that I used to be a member of their party. I turned against them when they lied to me a couple of years ago and I’ve never had to look far to find more examples. | <urn:uuid:d18128e2-3c19-482b-b621-1fc6c65b7a39> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | http://malcolmknight.org/blogs/2011/sep/2101.php | 2018-11-14T00:29:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741569.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20181114000002-20181114022002-00102.warc.gz | en | 0.974812 | 685 |
Group 4 TIFF Plugin for PS 7 or higher
Mon, 06 November 2006 10:37
There's the TIFFlib Format plugin from Telegraphics (I haven't tried it myself though).
Irfanview can also batch save b&w images as group 4 tiffs, that may be a better option.
Tue, 07 November 2006 12:19
Under export for example.
No, it's a file format plugin. Let me see if I can reproduce the problem...
Update Yes, the Win32 binary does seem to be faulty (tested with PS 5.0 and 7.0 on XP), which is odd, I'm not in the habit of uploading untested binaries. I'll investigate further. Thanks for the headsup.
Solved: Problem was in PiPL, now fixed in version 0.4b4 <http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/#tifflibplugin>.
Mon, 06 November 2006 16:11
Photoshop can read Group3 and Group4 TIFF files already.
Are you trying to write them? (and why?)
Mon, 06 November 2006 10:17
I'm new to this and have been tasked to find a group 4 TIFF plugin that works in versions of Photoshop that are newer than 5.0. Does anyone have any tips where I can find this plugin?
Any help is appreciated.
Tue, 07 November 2006 11:41
Toby, I installed your plugin, but didn't see an entry in the save menu, just the normal Tiff save dialogue.
Tue, 07 November 2006 11:55
Check elsewhere. Under export for example.
Tue, 07 November 2006 11:52
This is what we found as well...Inserting Plugin and restarting PS didn't show us a save as Group 4 TIFF selection.
Tue, 07 November 2006 10:26
I suppose I need to clarify...I need to be able to "SAVE AS" Group 4 Tiff which PS 7 can NOT do.
At my office we open images that are TIFF's, but need to save them as Group 4 TIFF's and to date we only can do this with a plug-in that works only in PS 5 or lower on Win 95 and not with PS7 on XP.
My idea is to get rid of the legacy machine and cut the process that we have down to an open and save as process. | <urn:uuid:a803ce6b-1338-4fbc-bd6c-df344bff436a> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://www.clearps.com/photoshop-forum/index.php/t/55409/ | 2016-09-27T13:44:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738661087.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173741-00123-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940162 | 503 |
The off-peak trains offer ample opportunity to experience people who are not your standard commuters. Let’s call them the occasional, off-peak rider. There are the ones confused by peak and off-peak, some who wonder if the train is going to Grand Central (they all go to Grand Central from here and if this one isn’t, we are all in trouble), and many who feel the need to talk and talk and talk.
You may remember in Christmas Vacation when Clark Griswold gets his bonus. It is a metaphor for how I feel about extended talking on an inbound morning peak train, even outside of the quiet car. Those folks get down right nasty. Jelly of the month club all the way.
Lately, a slight schedule change has me riding a morning off-peak train, where the world I used to know is gone. Gone is the understanding that you have a few choices – sleep, read, or headphones – for the time we will spend together. This is lost on this group. But, they do know how to talk and talk and talk. And this morning, I was surrounded.
Some pearls of wisdom and key points of information learned on my ride in to Grand Central.
From the two girls that just met in the two seater in front of me:
– “I need to be able to drive to Target.” On not liking the location of her apartment.
– “I need to be near a Nordstrom.” the other girl who apparently has more money than Target girl.
– “The vanilla cookies aren’t very good, but the chocolate cupcakes rock.” This insight regarding the Magnolia Bakery and that stinks because I like vanilla cookies.
“I was the only skinny person in the Wappinger’s Olive Garden. You get that far north, yikes”. One girl oblivious that she was insulting most of the riders who boarded prior to her because of their weight or because they are in fact from Dutchess County or even both.
– “I took my 6 year-old camping at Bonnaroo.” Awesome.
From the family of three spread out across three seats because they had a suitcase. One suitcase.
– “95-100 in photography!” Mother reading off son’s grades from an email on her phone.
– “74-70 in earth science?” Yet another example of how we are failing to educate our youth in STEM related fields. Shape up junior because now all of the Hudson Valley knows.
– “I have no service. No, I’m on the 3G. Nope, no service. No, wait, 3G.” Seriously?
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You can use the QLM Management Console to email your customer any information related to their license key. QLM supports sending emails via Outlook or via an SMTP server. To configure the SMTP server, go to the Manage Keys tab, click Options then select the SMTP server tab.
To send an email to one or several customers:
- Go to the Manage Keys tab
- Click the Mail / Templates button
- Select an existing template or click New to create a new template
- Write the content of your emai. In the email subject and body, you can use variables such as %ActivationKey%, %ComputerKey%, %FullName%, etc. Any column in the grid view can be used as a variable.
- Save your template
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EMBRYOPSIDA Pirani & Prado
Gametophyte dominant, independent, multicellular, not motile, initially ±globular; showing gravitropism; acquisition of phenylalanine lysase [PAL], microbial terpene synthase-like genes +, triterpenoids produced by CYP716 enzymes, phenylpropanoid metabolism [lignans +, flavonoids + (absorbtion of UV radiation)], xyloglucans in primary cell wall, side chains charged; plant poikilohydrous [protoplasm dessication tolerant], ectohydrous [free water outside plant physiologically important]; thalloid, leafy, with single-celled apical meristem, tissues little differentiated, rhizoids +, unicellular; chloroplasts several per cell, pyrenoids 0; glycolate metabolism in leaf peroxisomes [glyoxysomes]; centrioles/centrosomes in vegetative cells 0, microtubules with γ-tubulin along their lengths [?here], interphase microtubules form hoop-like system; metaphase spindle anastral, predictive preprophase band + [with microtubules and F-actin; where new cell wall will form], phragmoplast + [cell wall deposition centrifugal, from around the anaphase spindle], plasmodesmata +; antheridia and archegonia jacketed, surficial; blepharoplast +, centrioles develop de novo, bicentriole pair coaxial, separate at midpoint, centrioles rotate, associated with basal bodies of cilia, multilayered structure + [4 layers: L1, L4, tubules; L2, L3, short vertical lamellae] (0), spline + [tubules from L1 encircling spermatid], basal body 200-250 nm long, associated with amorphous electron-dense material, microtubules in basal end lacking symmetry, stellate array of filaments in transition zone extended, axonemal cap 0 [microtubules disorganized at apex of cilium]; male gametes [spermatozoids] with a left-handed coil, cilia 2, lateral; oogamy; sporophyte multicellular, cuticle +, plane of first cell division transverse [with respect to long axis of archegonium/embryo sac], sporangium and upper part of seta developing from epibasal cell [towards the archegonial neck, exoscopic], with at least transient apical cell [?level], initially surrounded by and dependent on gametophyte, placental transfer cells +, in both sporophyte and gametophyte, wall ingrowths develop early; suspensor/foot +, cells at foot tip somewhat haustorial; sporangium +, single, terminal, dehiscence longitudinal; meiosis sporic, monoplastidic, MTOC [MTOC = microtubule organizing centre] associated with plastid, sporocytes 4-lobed, cytokinesis simultaneous, preceding nuclear division, quadripolar microtubule system +; wall development both centripetal and centrifugal, 1000 spores/sporangium, sporopollenin in the spore wall laid down in association with trilamellar layers [white-line centred lamellae; tripartite lamellae]; nuclear genome size [1C] <1.4 pg, main telomere sequence motif TTTAGGG, LEAFY and KNOX1 and KNOX2 genes present, ethylene involved in cell elongation; chloroplast genome with close association between trnLUAA and trnFGAA genes [precursors for starch synthesis], tufA gene moved to nucleus; mitochondrial trnS(gcu) and trnN(guu) genes +.
Many of the bolded characters in the characterization above are apomorphies of subsets of streptophytes along the lineage leading to the embryophytes, not apomorphies of crown-group embryophytes per se.
All groups below are crown groups, nearly all are extant. Characters mentioned are those of the immediate common ancestor of the group, contains explanatory material, () features common in clade, exact status unclear.
Abscisic acid, L- and D-methionine distinguished metabolically; pro- and metaphase spindles acentric; sporophyte with polar transport of auxins, class 1 KNOX genes expressed in sporangium alone; sporangium wall 4≤ cells across [≡ eusporangium], tapetum +, secreting sporopollenin, which obscures outer white-line centred lamellae, columella +, developing from endothecial cells; stomata +, on sporangium, anomocytic, cell lineage that produces them with symmetric divisions [perigenous]; underlying similarities in the development of conducting tissue and of rhizoids/root hairs; spores trilete; shoot meristem patterning gene families expressed; MIKC, MI*K*C* genes, post-transcriptional editing of chloroplast genes; gain of three group II mitochondrial introns, mitochondrial trnS(gcu) and trnN(guu) genes 0.
[Anthocerophyta + Polysporangiophyta]: gametophyte leafless; archegonia embedded/sunken [only neck protruding]; sporophyte long-lived, chlorophyllous; cell walls with xylans.
Sporophyte well developed, branched, branching apical, dichotomous, potentially indeterminate; hydroids +; stomata on stem; sporangia several, terminal; spore walls not multilamellate [?here].
Vascular tissue + [tracheids, walls with bars of secondary thickening]; stomata involved in gas exchange.
EXTANT TRACHEOPHYTA / VASCULAR PLANTS
Sporophyte with photosynthetic red light response, stomata open in response to blue light; plant homoiohydrous [water content of protoplasm relatively stable]; control of leaf hydration passive; plant endohydrous [physiologically important free water inside plant]; (condensed or nonhydrolyzable tannins/proanthocyanidins +); xyloglucans with side chains uncharged [?level], in secondary walls of vascular and mechanical tissue; lignins +; stem apex multicellular, with cytohistochemical zonation, plasmodesmata formation based on cell lineage; tracheids +, in both protoxylem and metaxylem, G- and S-types; sieve cells + [nucleus degenerating]; endodermis +; leaves/sporophylls spirally arranged, blades with mean venation density ca 1.8 mm/mm2 [to 5 mm/mm2], all epidermal cells with chloroplasts; sporangia adaxial, columella 0; tapetum glandular; ?position of transfer cells; MTOCs not associated with plastids, basal body 350-550 nm long, stellate array in transition region initially joining microtubule triplets; suspensor +, shoot apex developing away from micropyle/archegonial neck [from hypobasal cell, endoscopic], root lateral with respect to the longitudinal axis of the embryo [plant homorhizic].[MONILOPHYTA + LIGNOPHYTA]
Sporophyte endomycorrhizal [with Glomeromycota]; growth ± monopodial, branching spiral; roots +, endogenous, positively geotropic, root hairs and root cap +, protoxylem exarch, lateral roots +, endogenous; G-type tracheids +, with scalariform-bordered pits; leaves with apical/marginal growth, venation development basipetal, growth determinate; sporangium dehiscence by a single longitudinal slit; cells polyplastidic, MTOCs diffuse, perinuclear, migratory; blepharoplasts +, paired, with electron-dense material, centrioles on periphery, male gametes multiciliate; chloroplast long single copy ca 30kb inversion [from psbM to ycf2]; mitochondrion with loss of 4 genes, absence of numerous group II introns; LITTLE ZIPPER proteins.
Sporophyte woody; stem branching lateral, meristems axillary; lateral root origin from the pericycle; cork cambium + [producing cork abaxially], vascular cambium bifacial [producing phloem abaxially and xylem adaxially].
Plants heterosporous; megasporangium surrounded by cupule [i.e. = unitegmic ovule, cupule = integument]; pollen lands on ovule; megaspore germination endosporic [female gametophyte initially retained on the plant].
EXTANT SEED PLANTS / SPERMATOPHYTA
Plant evergreen; nicotinic acid metabolised to trigonelline, (cyanogenesis via tyrosine pathway); microbial terpene synthase-like genes 0; primary cell walls rich in xyloglucans and/or glucomannans, 25-30% pectin [Type I walls]; lignin chains started by monolignol dimerization [resinols common], particularly with guaiacyl and p-hydroxyphenyl [G + H] units [sinapyl units uncommon, no Maüle reaction]; root stele diarch to pentarch, xylem and phloem originating on alternating radii, cork cambium deep seated; stem apical meristem complex [with quiescent centre, etc.], plasmodesma density in SAM 1.6-6.2[mean]/μm2 [interface-specific plasmodesmatal network]; eustele +, protoxylem endarch, endodermis 0; wood homoxylous, tracheids and rays alone, tracheid/tracheid pits circular, bordered; mature sieve tube/cell lacking functioning nucleus, sieve tube plastids with starch grains; phloem fibres +; cork cambium superficial; leaf nodes 1:1, a single trace leaving the vascular sympodium; leaf vascular bundles amphicribral; guard cells the only epidermal cells with chloroplasts, stomatal pore with active opening in response to leaf hydration, control by abscisic acid, metabolic regulation of water use efficiency, etc.; axillary buds +, exogenous; prophylls two, lateral; leaves with petiole and lamina, development basipetal, lamina simple; sporangia borne on sporophylls; spores not dormant; microsporophylls aggregated in indeterminate cones/strobili; grains monosulcate, aperture in ana- position [distal], primexine + [involved in exine pattern formation with deposition of sporopollenin from tapetum there], exine and intine homogeneous, exine alveolar/honeycomb; ovules with parietal tissue [= crassinucellate], megaspore tetrad linear, functional megaspore single, chalazal, sporopollenin 0; gametophyte ± wholly dependent on sporophyte, development initially endosporic [apical cell 0, rhizoids 0, etc.]; male gametophyte with tube developing from distal end of grain, male gametes two, developing after pollination, with cell walls; female gametophyte initially syncytial, walls then surrounding individual nuclei; embryo cellular ab initio, suspensor short-minute, embryonic axis straight [shoot and root at opposite ends; plant allorhizic], cotyledons 2; embryo ± dormant; chloroplast ycf2 gene in inverted repeat, trans splicing of five mitochondrial group II introns, rpl6 gene absent; whole nuclear genome duplication [ζ - zeta - duplication], two copies of LEAFY gene, PHY gene duplications [three - [BP [A/N + C/O]] - copies], 5.8S and 5S rDNA in separate clusters.
ANGIOSPERMAE / MAGNOLIOPHYTA
Lignans, O-methyl flavonols, dihydroflavonols, triterpenoid oleanane, apigenin and/or luteolin scattered, [cyanogenesis in ANA grade?], lignin also with syringyl units common [G + S lignin, positive Maüle reaction - syringyl:guaiacyl ratio more than 2-2.5:1], hemicelluloses as xyloglucans; root cap meristem closed (open); pith relatively inconspicuous, lateral roots initiated immediately to the side of [when diarch] or opposite xylem poles; origin of epidermis with no clear pattern [probably from inner layer of root cap], trichoblasts [differentiated root hair-forming cells] 0, hypodermis suberised and with Casparian strip [= exodermis]; shoot apex with tunica-corpus construction, tunica 2-layered; starch grains simple; primary cell wall mostly with pectic polysaccharides, poor in mannans; tracheid:tracheid [end wall] plates with scalariform pitting, wood parenchyma +; sieve tubes enucleate, sieve plate with pores (0.1-)0.5-10< µm across, cytoplasm with P-proteins, not occluding pores of plate, companion cell and sieve tube from same mother cell; ?phloem loading/sugar transport; nodes 1:?; dark reversal Pfr → Pr; protoplasm dessication tolerant [plant poikilohydric]; stomata brachyparacytic [ends of subsidiary cells level with ends of pore], outer stomatal ledges producing vestibule, reduction in stomatal conductance with increasing CO2 concentration; lamina formed from the primordial leaf apex, margins toothed, development of venation acropetal, overall growth ± diffuse, secondary veins pinnate, fine venation hierarchical-reticulate, (1.7-)4.1(-5.7) mm/mm2, vein endings free; flowers perfect, pedicellate, ± haplomorphic, protogynous; parts free, numbers variable, development centripetal; P +, ?insertion, members each with a single trace, outer members not sharply differentiated from the others, not enclosing the floral bud; A many, filament not sharply distinguished from anther, stout, broad, with a single trace, anther introrse, tetrasporangiate, sporangia in two groups of two [dithecal], each theca dehiscing longitudinally by a common slit, ± embedded in the filament, walls with at least outer secondary parietal cells dividing, endothecium +, cells elongated at right angles to long axis of anther; tapetal cells binucleate; microspore mother cells in a block, microsporogenesis successive, walls developing by centripetal furrowing; pollen subspherical, tectum continuous or microperforate, ektexine columellate, endexine lamellate only in the apertural regions, thin, compact, intine in apertural areas thick, pollenkitt +; nectary 0; carpels present, superior, free, several, ascidiate [postgenital occlusion by secretion], stylulus at most short [shorter than ovary], hollow, cavity not lined by distinct epidermal layer, stigma ± decurrent, carinal, dry; suprastylar extragynoecial compitum +; ovules few [?1]/carpel, marginal, anatropous, bitegmic, micropyle endostomal, outer integument 2-3 cells across, often largely subdermal in origin, inner integument 2-3 cells across, often dermal in origin, parietal tissue 1-3 cells across, nucellar cap?; megasporocyte single, hypodermal, functional megaspore lacking cuticle; female gametophyte lacking chlorophyll, not photosynthesising, four-celled [one module, nucleus of egg cell sister to one of the polar nuclei]; ovule not increasing in size between pollination and fertilization; pollen grains land on stigma, bicellular at dispersal, mature male gametophyte tricellular, germinating in less than 3 hours, pollen tube elongated, unbranched, growing towards the ovule, between cells, growth rate (20-)80-20,000 µm/hour, apex of pectins, wall with callose, lumen with callose plugs, penetration of ovules via micropyle [porogamous], whole process takes ca 18 hours, distance to first ovule 1.1-2.1 mm; male gametes lacking cell walls, ciliae 0, siphonogamy; double fertilization +, ovules aborting unless fertilized; P deciduous in fruit; mature seed much larger than fertilized ovule, small , dry [no sarcotesta], exotestal; endosperm +, cellular, development heteropolar [first division oblique, micropylar end initially with a single large cell, divisions uniseriate, chalazal cell smaller, divisions in several planes], copious, oily and/or proteinaceous, embryo short [<¼ length of seed]; plastid and mitochondrial transmission maternal; Arabidopsis-type telomeres [(TTTAGGG)n]; nuclear genome size [1C] <1.4 pg [mean 1C = 18.1 pg, 1 pg = 109 base pairs], whole nuclear genome duplication [ε/epsilon event]; ndhB gene 21 codons enlarged at the 5' end, single copy of LEAFY and RPB2 gene, knox genes extensively duplicated [A1-A4], AP1/FUL gene, palaeo AP3 and PI genes [paralogous B-class genes] +, with "DEAER" motif, SEP3/LOFSEP and three copies of the PHY gene, [PHYB [PHYA + PHYC]]; chloroplast chlB, -L, -N, trnP-GGG genes 0.
[NYMPHAEALES [AUSTROBAILEYALES [[CHLORANTHALES + MAGNOLIIDS] [MONOCOTS [CERATOPHYLLALES + EUDICOTS]]]]]: wood fibres +; axial parenchyma diffuse or diffuse-in-aggregates; pollen monosulcate [anasulcate], tectum reticulate-perforate [here?]; ?genome duplication; "DEAER" motif in AP3 and PI genes lost, gaps in these genes.
[AUSTROBAILEYALES [[CHLORANTHALES + MAGNOLIIDS] [MONOCOTS [CERATOPHYLLALES + EUDICOTS]]]]: phloem loading passive, via symplast, plasmodesmata numerous; vessel elements with scalariform perforation plates in primary xylem; essential oils in specialized cells [lamina and P ± pellucid-punctate]; tension wood + [reaction wood: with gelatinous fibres, G-fibres, on adaxial side of branch/stem junction]; tectum reticulate; anther wall with outer secondary parietal cell layer dividing; nucellar cap + [character lost where in eudicots?]; 12BP [4 amino acids] deletion in P1 gene.
[[CHLORANTHALES + MAGNOLIIDS] [MONOCOTS [CERATOPHYLLALES + EUDICOTS]]] / MESANGIOSPERMAE: benzylisoquinoline alkaloids +; sesquiterpene synthase subfamily a [TPS-a] [?level], polyacetate derived anthraquinones + [?level]; outer epidermal walls of root elongation zone with cellulose fibrils oriented transverse to root axis; P more or less whorled, 3-merous [?here]; pollen tube growth intra-gynoecial; extragynoecial compitum 0; carpels plicate [?here]; embryo sac bipolar, 8 nucleate, antipodal cells persisting; endosperm triploid.
[MONOCOTS [CERATOPHYLLALES + EUDICOTS]]: (extra-floral nectaries +); (veins in lamina often 7-17 mm/mm2 or more [mean for eudicots 8.0]); (stamens opposite [two whorls of] P); (pollen tube growth fast).
MONOCOTYLEDONS / MONOCOTYLEDONEAE / LILIANAE Takhtajan
Plant herbaceous, perennial, rhizomatous, growth sympodial; non-hydrolyzable tannins [(ent-)epicatechin-4] +, neolignans 0, CYP716 trterpenoid enzymes 0, benzylisoquinoline alkaloids 0, hemicelluloses as xylan; root epidermis developed from outer layer of cortex; endodermal cells with U-shaped thickenings; cork cambium [uncommon] superficial; stele oligo- to polyarch, medullated [with prominent pith], lateral roots arise opposite phloem poles; stem primary thickening meristem +; vascular bundles scattered, (amphivasal), vascular cambium 0 [bundles closed]; tension wood 0; vessel elements in roots with scalariform and/or simple perforations; tracheids only in stems and leaves; sieve tube plastids with cuneate protein crystals alone; stomata parallel to the long axis of the leaf, in lines; prophyll single, adaxial; leaf blade linear, main venation parallel, the veins joining successively from the outside at the apex and forming a fimbrial vein, transverse veinlets +, unbranched [leaf blade characters: ?level], vein/veinlet endings not free, margins entire, Vorläuferspitze +, base broad, ensheathing the stem, sheath open, petiole 0; inflorescence terminal, racemose; flowers 3-merous [6-radiate to the pollinator], polysymmetric, pentacyclic; P = T, each with three traces, median T of outer whorl abaxial, aestivation open, members of whorls alternating, [pseudomonocyclic, each T member forming a sector of any tube]; stamens = and opposite each T member [primordia often associated, and/or A vascularized from tepal trace], anther and filament more or less sharply distinguished, anthers subbasifixed, wall with two secondary parietal cell layers, inner producing the middle layer [monocot type]; pollen reticulations coarse in the middle, finer at ends of grain, infratectal layer granular; G , with congenital intercarpellary fusion, opposite outer tepals [thus median member abaxial], placentation axile; compitum +; ovule with outer integument often largely dermal in origin, parietal tissue 1 cell across; antipodal cells persistent, proliferating; fruit a loculicidal capsule; seed small to medium sized [mean = 1.5 mg], testal; embryo long, cylindrical, cotyledon 1, apparently terminal [i.e. bend in embryo axis], with a closed sheath, unifacial [hyperphyllar], both assimilating and haustorial, plumule apparently lateral; primary root unbranched, not very well developed, stem-borne roots numerous, hypocotyl short, (collar rhizoids +); no dark reversion Pfr → Pr; duplication producing monocot LOFSEP and FUL3 genes [latter duplication of AP1/FUL gene], PHYE gene lost. (Some synapomorphies - almost whatever the immediate sister taxa to monocots might be - are in bold.)
[ALISMATALES [PETROSAVIALES [[DIOSCOREALES + PANDANALES] [LILIALES [ASPARAGALES + COMMELINIDS]]]]]: ethereal oils 0; (trichoblasts in vertical files, proximal cell smaller); raphides + (druses 0); leaf blade vernation supervolute-curved or variants, (margins with teeth, teeth spiny); endothecium develops directly from undivided outer secondary parietal cells; tectum reticulate with finer sculpture at the ends of the grain, endexine 0; (septal nectaries +) [intercarpellary fusion postgenital].
[PETROSAVIALES [[DIOSCOREALES + PANDANALES] [LILIALES [ASPARAGALES + COMMELINIDS]]]] / core monocots: cyanogenic glycosides uncommon; starch grains simple, amylophobic; leaf blade developing basipetally from hyperphyll/hypophyll junction; epidermis with bulliform cells [?level]; stomata anomocytic, (cuticular waxes as parallel platelets); colleters 0.
Age. The crown-group age of this clade is ca 136 m.y. (Foster et al. 2016a: q.v. for details), ca 131 m.y. (Janssen & Bremer 2004), (132-)128(-121) m.y. in Merckx et al. (2008a), ca 123.5 m.y.a. in Magallón et al. (2015), (134-)127(-119) m.y. in Givnish et al. (2016b), and similar estimates in Hertweck et al. (2015), Eguchi and Tamura (2016) and Tang et al. (2016). Broader spreads in Magallón and Castillo (2009: relaxed and constrained penalized likelihood datings) are ca 150 m.y. and 124 m.y., (133-)124, 109(-99) m.y. in Bell et al. (2010), (127-)121, 109(-103) m.y. in Wikström et al. (2001: c.f. topology), and 133-108 m.y. in Mennes et al. (2013, see also 2015).
Evolution: Divergence & Distribution. Branching in this general part of the tree - i.e. the Petrosaviales, [Dioscoreales + Pandanales], and Liliales clades, and also in Petrosaviales itself, may be somewhere around 125-120 m.y.a. (ca 111 m.y. in Bremer 2000b), and the stem groups of all other orders, including those in the commelinid group, have diverged by ca 115 m.y.a. or soon afterwards (Janssen & Bremer 2004) or ca 106 m.y.a. (Magallón et al. 2015). Much of this divergence may have taken place in Southern Gondwana, i.e. Antarctica, Australasia, and southern South America (Bremer & Janssen 2006).
For a discussion on leaf development in monocots, see the Acorales page.
Phylogeny. Relationships between commelinids, Asparagales, Dioscoreales, Liliales, and Pandanales were unclear for some time. In a smallish early study, Liliales were sometimes embedded in Asparagales (Eguiarte et al. 1994). A three-gene (rbcL, atpB, 18S RNA) study (Chase et al. 2000a) showed a polytomy of Petrosaviaceae, Dioscoreales, Pandanales, Liliales, Asparagales and commelinids, although a single shortest tree showed a pectinate structure with the taxa in the sequence followed here; another analysis with placeholders for taxa missing some sequences gave a similar structure, except that Pandanales and Liliales were sister taxa. (A combined morphological plus molecular tree in the same volume [Stevenson et al. 2000] suggested a substantially different set of relationships; bootstraps were not given.) Fay et al. (2000a) also suggested a sister relationship between Asparagales and commelinids, although sampling outside Asparagales was sketchy since it was outside their immediate interest. Hilu et al. (2003: matK) i.a. suggested that Orchidaceae might be separate from other Asparagales (the latter being sister to commelinids) and that Dioscoreales and Pandanales formed a clade.
However, a two-gene (matK, rbcL) study (Tamura et al. 2004a) began to clarify the situation. Petrosaviaceae (both genera - but see below for a possible third - were studied) were sister to a clade [[Dioscoreaceae + Pandanaceae] [Liliales [Asparagales + commelinids]]] (see Chase et al. 2000a above). Support was quite high (³85% bootstrap) for all order and family branches, although rather lower for [Asparagales + commelinids] (68%) (see also Tamura et al. 2004b, a smaller study; Lam et al. 2016). Davis et al. (2004) also found Petrosaviales to be sister to the same monocots, but with moderate to weak (>72%) support. Givnish et al. (2005: ndhF gene alone) found very much the set of relationships in the tree here, although Pandanales grouped with Liliales (low support) and Dasypogonaceae were sister to [Commelinales + Zingiberales]; a grouping [Liliales [Pandanales + Dioscoreales]] also appeared - and had moderate support - in MP, but not in ML analyses of plastid genomes in Barrett et al. (2013: sampling). Graham et al. (2006) in a study analysing considerable amounts of data also recovered relationships similar to those suggested by Tamura et al. (2004a), all sister taxon relationships in this area having 94% or more support, although that for [Liliales [commelinids + Asparagales]] was only 70% (see also Givnish et al. 2006b; Chase et al. 2006; Magallón et al. 2015). Dioscoreales and Pandanales are sister taxa in most studies (e.g. Hilu et al. 2003; Chase et al. 2006; Qiu et al. 2010: support strong; Magallón et al. 2015; Hertweck et al. 2015; Lam et al. 2015).
There is perhaps still some uncertainty. In some reconstructions Dioscoreales and Pandanales are adjacent along the spine (e.g. Janssen & Bremer 2004; Bremer & Janssen 2006; Givnish et al. 2006b: not strongly supported), or Nartheciaceae link with Pandanales, the combined group in turn joining with Liliales (Davis et al. 2004: summary of earlier literature on relationships of the two). A four-gene mitochondrial tree suggested the relationships [Asparagales [[Dioscoreales + Pandanales] [Liliales + Commelinids]]], but support was not strong (Qiu et al. 2010), while Davis et al. (2013) recovered a very weakly supported topology [Asparagales s. str. [Orchidaceae + Liliaceae]] in parsimony but not in maximum likelihood analyses (see also Barrett & Davis 2011). Ruhfel et al. (2014) found a [Liliales [Dioscoreales + Pandanales]] clade while in analyses of the nuclear PHYC gene alone Orchidaceae was not sister to other Asparagales - relationships were [Asparagales [Liliales [Orchidaceae + commelinids]]], but support was weak (Hertweck et al. 2015).
Some mycoheterotrophic taxa cause problems, and in an analysis using three chloroplast genes (not present in all the mycoheterotrophs), branch length could be extremely long, although by no means always (Lam et al. 2016). Neyland (2002) found that Thismia was sister to a well supported Burmannioideae, but with less support, but Burmanniaceae s.l. did not link with other Dioscoreales. Analysis of 26S rDNA sequences suggested that Corsiaceae were polyphyletic; Arachnitis perhaps being sister to Thismia and/or Burmannia (Neyland & Hennigan 2003; G. Petersen et al. 2006b: combined analysis). A recent analysis of plastid loci also failed to include Arachnitis in Liliales, and perhaps it was to be included in the commelinids (Kim et al. 2012). However, these relationships have not been confirmed, and these mycoheterotrophs seem to be finding stable resting places, as in a study by Lam et al. (2016) that included a very wide variety of mycoheterotrophs from the next five orders in the sequence here.
Classification. Since no firm association of Petrosaviaceae with any other order has been supported, and its phylogenetic position, as in the tree here, seems well supported, a monofamilial Petrosaviales is appropriate.
PETROSAVIALES Takhtajan Main Tree.
Stem with a ring of bundles; sieve tube plastids also with polygonal protein crystalloids; inflorescence bracts +; microsporogenesis simultaneous; pollen surface gemmate; septal nectaries +; styluli +; fruit a follicle; seed endotestal. - 1 family, 2 genera, 4 species.
Note: Boldface denotes possible apomorphies, (....) denotes a feature common in the clade, exact status uncertain, [....] includes explanatory material. Note that the particular node to which many characters, particularly the more cryptic ones, should be assigned is unclear. This is partly because homoplasy is very common, in addition, basic information for all too many characters is very incomplete, frequently coming from taxa well embedded in the clade of interest and so making the position of any putative apomorphy uncertain. Then there are the not-so-trivial issues of how character states are delimited and ancestral states are reconstructed (see above).
Evolution: Divergence & Distribution. This is not exactly a clade in which there has been much diversification (Hertweck et al. 2015).
Synonymy: Miyoshiales Nakai - Petrosaviineae Shipunov
(Plant echlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic; root not medllated; vascular bundles in stem forming a cylinder; vessels 0 - Petrosavia); plant glabrous; leaves spiral, scaly on rhizome, base?; bracteoles sublateral (0); T members with a single trace, whorls slightly differentiated [outer somewhat smaller], tube at most short; A inserted at base of T or free; (pollen gemmate - Japonolirion); ovary superior to semi-inferior, partly connate, plicate, fusion (congenital and) postgenital, stigma subcapitate or decurrent; ovules 4-many/carpel, ana-campylotropous, integumentary obturator +; fruit also septicidal [Japonolirion], T persistent [?Petrosavia]; seeds obliquely arranged, winged or not, endotegmen crushed, contents persist; embryo small; n = 12, 13, 15; seedling?
2[list]/4. Japan and China, W. Malesia (map: from Jessop 1979).
Age. Crown group Petrosaviaceae date to ca 123 m.y. (Janssen & Bremer 2004) or (134-)99, 89(-62) m.y. (Bell et al. 2010); estimates were (102-)108(-87) m.y. in Merckx et al. (2008a), 96-8 m.y. and 91-9 m.y. in Mennes et al. (2013, 2015 respectively), (115-)108(-99) or (64-)60(-57) m.y. in Hertweck et al. (2015), (118.8-)59.1(-17) m.y. in Eguchi and Tamura (2016: see discussion) and (119.5-)67(-23) m.y. in Givnish et al. 2016b).
Evolution. Bacterial/Fungal Associations. The autotropic Japonolirion osense has about 22 phylotypes of Glomales associated with it (Paris-type mycorrhizae here); the mycoheterotrophic Petrosavia sakuraii has but a single one of these (Yamato et al. 2014). For general information, see Merckx et al. (2013a).
Genes & Genomes. For evolution (loss of genes, etc.) in the chloroplast genome of the mycoheterotroph Petrosavia, see Logacheva et al. (2014; Luo et al. 2016); rather unusually, there has been extensive rearrangment of the genome.
Chemistry, Morphology, etc. The roots of Petrosavia have an unmedullated, four-radiate stele. Remizowa (2011) suggested that the position of the septal nectaries in both the ascidiate and plicate zone of the gynoecium might be unique and so a synapomorphy for this tiny but quite heterogeneous clade.
For general information, see Tamura (1998: Nartheciaceae) and especially Cameron et al. (2003), for anatomy, see Stant (1970), for pollen, see Caddick et al. (1998), for sieve tube plastids, see Behnke (2003), for floral and inflorescence morphology, see Remizowa et al. (2006a, b) and Tobe (2008), and for the embryology of Petrosavia, see Tobe and Takahashi (2009: nice comparative table).
Phylogeny. Isidrogalvia schomburgkiana (Tofieldiaceae!) was placed sister to Petrosavia (L.-Y. Chen et al. 2013) in a study focusing on the aquatic Alismatales - a rather remarkable position that needs confirmation (but see Luo et al. 2016: contamination or misidentification).
Previous Relationships. Petrosaviaceae have often been included in other families. Dahgren et al. (1985) placed them - along with genera here placed in Nartheciaceae and Tofieldiaceae - in Melianthaceae, and while Tamura (1998) recognised a Petrosaviaceae, this also included members of Tofieldiaceae and Nartheciaceae. Petrosaviaceae s. str. (i.e. Petrosavia alone) were placed in Triuridales by Cronquist (1981) and in Triurididae by Takhtajan (1997); the latter included a monogeneric Japonoliriaceae in his Melanthiales-Liliidae.
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That was a great but hard-working week for our selling team in Amsterdam.
Flesz booth was found as a nice designed and estetic for visitors.
Our product range presented there was met with huge interest. We got many seriouse leads there,
Hope, that our mettings and brief conversations about paper business will result in starting cooperation and long term business.
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That's how Reading Phillies head groundskeeper Dan Douglas describes his attitude toward snow, a substance that has blanketed playing fields up and down the East Coast and throughout the Midwest. Douglas certainly has earned the right to approach snow removal in such a zen-like fashion -- he's entering his 20th season as head caretaker of Reading's FirstEnergy Stadium and readily answers to the self-explanatory nickname of "Dirt."
"Ice and snow aren't a big deal, at least not at this time of year," he said. "In fact, snow can be good for turf because it protects it from cold winds."
But in many cases, groundskeepers don't have the luxury of waiting for nature to take its course. The myriad challenges these often overlooked individuals face are as varied as the Minor Leagues themselves and depend on a wide range of site-specific factors.
With Opening Day fast approaching, now is a good time to take a look at what these turf-tenders are doing to prepare. And once that first cry of "Play Ball!" is heard throughout the land, well, that's often when the challenges really begin.
Stephen Wiseman, sports turf manager for the Binghamton Mets, is thinking of spring.
"Pitchers and catchers have reported, so you know the season is going to be here soon," said Wiseman, who joined the B-Mets in 1999. "But I'm looking out at the field and can't even see a blade of grass -- it's all covered in snow."
As "Dirt" Douglas made clear, this might not be a problem. But within the upstate New York environs of Binghamton, wintry weather can continue all the way up to, and often past, Opening Day. And that is a problem. The region was hit with a particularly severe April snowstorm in 2007, one that happened to coincide with a B-Mets homestand.
"We got right to work shoveling snow off the tarp, loading it into [John Deere] Gators and dumping it outside the stadium," Wiseman recalled. "I had one of my guys take a hose and spray warm water all over the outfield and we got the snow removed that way."
A large element of improvisation also was involved.
"We took a PVC pipe, put a steel beam in it to weigh it down and dragged it over the field," said Wiseman. "This compressed the snow, squeezed the water out of it, and helped it to melt."
While that particular innovation was homegrown, help is often just a phone call away.
"We're all friends and there's always somebody out there with an idea," Wiseman said. "If I have a question, there are so many people who can give me an answer."
Perhaps Wiseman's snow removal expertise could benefit Bowie Baysox director of field operations Matt Parrott. The Bowie area was besieged by a record-breaking snowfall this winter, burying the playing field at Prince George's Stadium.
"Right now, we've got close to two feet on the field and some of the drifts surrounding the field are four to five feet high," said Parrott, who joined the Baysox in 2002. "In the long run, I don't think this is going to be a factor, but where this really affects us is from a facilities standpoint. Now is usually when we start power washing [the stadium], but we can't do anything about that.
"This is also the time of year when we start having our supplies delivered, things we need for the season, but we can't get the trucks in."
As a result, Parrott finds himself wishing for rain to help melt the snow. But once the season rolls around, he wants nothing to do with that particular form of precipitation.
"The biggest challenge I face is a wet field, particularly because this is an old field and there are drainage issues," he said, noting that a full field renovation is scheduled for next season. "Last season was just unbelievably wet. It seemed like the only time I got to talk to anybody was when we were all out there pulling tarp.
"And that's the thing with Minor League baseball. Rain affects the entire staff, not just the groundskeepers. We don't have the luxury of a full-time tarp crew; the guys selling tickets are the same ones out there pulling the tarp out on the field."
For Quad Cities River Bandits director of stadium operations/head groundskeeper Ben Kratz, his first season on the job could best be described as a "trial by water." Kratz joined the club in 2008, just in time for one of the worst floods the midwest had ever experienced.
It occurred in June, after months of heavy rain. The River Bandits' Modern Woodmen Stadium is located on the banks of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, and the ballpark was surrounded by water on all sides. Kratz had to deal with a litany of flood-related problems, including water-logged offices, an equipment shed that was nearly completely submerged, and, eventually, a time-consuming and potentially hazardous cleanup process.
As for the field itself? Kratz had to run the sprinklers, making him perhaps the only man in the midwest to employ them at that time. Modern Woodmen Park was remodeled prior to the 2005 season and a key aspect of the project was construction of a nine-foot berm that acts as a natural floodwall. Therefore, the field stayed dry.
"The problem was that there was so much water surrounding the field and the water was radiating heat. This made the field dry far more quickly than usual," Kratz said. "One of the local papers ran an aerial shot of the sprinklers and a lot of people noticed them as they drove on [Centennial Bridge] right past the stadium. I think people were wondering what was going on. They thought the field should have been wet because everything else was wet."
Because of it was so well fortified, Modern Woodmen Park was ready to host baseball even when much of the region remained submerged. The team erected a makeshift bridge that provided access to the stadium and once inside, the region's beleaguered fans were able to momentarily forget their troubles.
"We were a refuge for people who were able to get the flood out of their minds and enjoy some family entertainment," Kratz said. "It was gratifying to be part of something positive in the midst of a tragedy."
Hopefully, the midwest stays dry this year and beyond, which would leave Kratz and the River Bandits free to deal with their second-most pressing natural concern.
"From May through July, we are infested with mayflies; I've just never seen so many bugs in one place," Kratz said. "Every day, everyone in the front office, from the vice president to the interns, is scooping them off the field and from the stands. It's almost funny, having to run Gator loads of dead bugs out to the Dumpster."
Located in central California, the Fresno Grizzlies do not have to deal with any of the problems that have affected the Phillies, Mets, Baysox or River Bandits.
"The last time we pulled tarp was in 2007," remarked senior vice president of marketing Scott Carter, uttering a sentence that would cause most groundskeepers to feel pangs of intense jealousy.
But the grass isn't necessarily greener in Fresno -- and that can be taken literally. The Grizzlies share Chukchansi Park with the Fresno Fuego of the United Soccer Leagues. During the baseball offseason, turf is laid down over the infield dirt and remains there until early next month, when groundskeeping staff will pull it up and begin the laborious task of rebuilding the infield, pitcher's mound, and bullpens.
Chukchansi Park will continue to host soccer games once the Grizzlies' season starts, with the field encompassing the outfield from foul pole to foul pole.
"For most groundskeepers, the outfield takes care of itself, outside of the three spots where guys stand chewing sunflower seeds," Carter said. "But ours takes a beating, especially in the middle of the summer when the temperatures get up to 115. Our crew does an incredible job maintaining the integrity of the field under those circumstances."
What it comes down to is each region of the country comes with its own unique set of problems.
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- Walgreens expanding scope of retail pharmacy experience and services heading into fiscal 2014
- Senate passes Drug Quality and Security Act
- On the heels of Q3, Walgreens outlines shift in front-end strategy and pharmacy tailwinds looking forward
- CNNMoney sits down with Walgreens chief to discuss future of health care and what it means for pharmacy
- CVS Caremark showcases outreach program to help customers understand health insurance options
DEERFIELD, Ill. — Walgreens this month rounded out the pharmacy purchasing team led by Jeff Berkowitz, who joined the company in the fall as SVP pharmaceutical development and market access.
The team includes Frank DeStefano, promoted to group VP pharmacy purchasing and supply chain and responsible for all branded and generic pharmaceutical purchases and pharmacy inventory optimization across the company’s retail, mail, specialty, home infusion, on-site and work-site pharmacy units; Mike Bleser, promoted to divisional VP pharmacy supply chain and analytics and responsible for strategic management of pharmacy inventory across Walgreens; Mike Allen, promoted to divisional VP generic pharmacy purchasing and strategy and responsible for all generic drug purchasing; Jeff Foreman, who joins Walgreens from Cardinal Health as divisional VP brand pharmaceutical wholesaler and vaccine purchasing; and Gerry Gleeson, who joins Walgreens from Merck as divisional VP of pharmaceutical development responsible for optimizing Walgreens’ relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers.
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart named Duncan Mac Naughton chief merchandising officer for the company’s U.S. division, less than three months after he was named EVP merchandising.
In other company news, Walmart named Cindy Davis EVP global consumer insights, a new business unit for the company. Davis previously served as EVP membership and marketing for Sam’s Club.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Sanofi-Aventis has agreed to acquire U.S. biotech giant Genzyme for $20.1 billion. Sanofi plans to make Genzyme its “global center for excellence” in rare diseases.
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Caremark reported that fourth-quarter net revenues dipped 4.1% to $24.8 billion, with net income of $1.03 billion compared with $1.05 billion the prior year. Retail pharmacy revenues rose 3.1% to $14.9 billion during the three-month period ended Dec. 31, 2010. Same-store sales increased 1.7%, with front-end comps up 1% and pharmacy comps up 2%, driven by a 220 basis point improvement from Maintenance Choice. | <urn:uuid:259e4eb0-cdc5-4684-8141-ba1febb4a9c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.drugstorenews.com/article/newsbytes-wags-rx-purchasing-team-wmts-duncan-mac-naughton-cvs-q4-results-and-more?ad=walgreens | 2013-12-21T09:15:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1387345775355/warc/CC-MAIN-20131218054935-00002-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92065 | 554 |
Server CLI Reference
NOTE: This document is for information on starting a Brooklyn Server. For information on using the Brooklyn Client CLI to access an already running Brooklyn Server, refer to Client CLI Reference.
To launch Brooklyn, from the directory where Brooklyn is unpacked, run:
% nohup bin/brooklyn launch > /dev/null 2>&1 &
With no configuration, this will launch the Brooklyn web console and REST API on
listening on all network interfaces. No credentials are required by default. For a production
system, or if Apache Brooklyn is publicly reachable, it is strongly recommended to
By default, Brooklyn will write log messages at the INFO level or above to
brooklyn.info.log and messgages at the
DEBUG level or above to
brooklyn.debug.log. Redirecting the output to
/dev/null prevents the default console output
being written to
You may wish to add Brooklyn to your path;
assuming you've done this, to get information the supported CLI options
at any time, just run
% bin/brooklyn help usage: brooklyn [(-q | --quiet)] [(-v | --verbose)] <command> [<args>] The most commonly used brooklyn commands are: help Display help information about brooklyn info Display information about brooklyn launch Starts a brooklyn application. Note that a BROOKLYN_CLASSPATH environment variable needs to be set up beforehand to point to the user application classpath. See 'brooklyn help <command>' for more information on a specific command.
It is important that Brooklyn is launched with either
nohup ... & or
... & disown, to ensure
it keeps running after the shell terminates.
Other Server CLI Arguments
In order to have easy access to the server CLI it is useful to configure the PATH environment variable to also point to the CLI's bin directory:
BROOKLYN_HOME=/path/to/brooklyn/ export PATH=$PATH:$BROOKLYN_HOME/usage/dist/target/brooklyn-dist/bin/
The amount of memory required by the Brooklyn process depends on the usage -- for example the number of entities/VMs under management.
For a standard Brooklyn deployment, the defaults are to start with 256m, and to grow to 1g of memory.
These numbers can be overridden by setting the environment variable
JAVA_OPTS before launching
brooklyn script, as follows:
(On Java 8 and later the last entry has no effect and can be dropped.)
Brooklyn stores a task history in-memory using soft references. This means that, once the task history is large, Brooklyn will continually use the maximum allocated memory. It will only expunge tasks from memory when this space is required for other objects within the Brooklyn process.
See Memory Usage for more information on memory usage and
Web Console Bind Address
The web console will by default bind to 0.0.0.0. It's restricted to 127.0.0.1 if the
--noConsoleSecurity flag is used.
To specify a local interface, or use the local loopback (127.0.0.1), for the web console to bind to you should use:
Brooklyn reads configuration from a variety of places. It aggregates the configuration. The list below shows increasing precedence (i.e. the later ones will override values from earlier ones, if exactly the same property is specified multiple times).
classpath://brooklyn/location-metadata.propertiesis shipped as part of Brooklyn, containing generic metadata such as jurisdiction and geographic information about Cloud providers.
- The file
--noGlobalBrooklynPropertiesis specified). This is intended to contain custom metadata about additional locations.
- The file
- Another properties file, if the
--localBrooklynProperties <local brooklyn.properties file>is specified.
- Shell environment variables
- System properties, supplied with
-Don the brooklyn (Java) command-line.
These properties are described in more detail here.
Extending the Classpath
The default Brooklyn directory structure includes:
./conf/: for configuration resources.
./lib/patch/: for Jar files containing patches.
./lib/brooklyn/: for the brooklyn libraries.
./lib/dropins/: for additional Jars.
Resources added to
conf/ will be available on the classpath.
A patch can be applied by adding a Jar to the
lib/patch/ directory, and restarting Brooklyn.
All jars in this directory will be at the head of the classpath.
Additional Jars should be added to
lib/dropins/, prior to starting Brooklyn. These jars will
be at the end of the classpath.
The initial classpath, as set in the
brooklyn script, is:
Additional entries can be added at the head of the classpath by setting the environment variable
BROOKLYN_CLASSPATH before running the
Replacing the web-console
Work in progress.
The Brooklyn web-console is loaded from the classpath as the resource
To replace this, an alternative WAR with that name can be added at the head of the classpath. However, this approach is likely to change in a future release - consider this feature as "beta".
brooklyn command line tool includes support for querying (and managing) cloud
compute resources and blob-store resources.
brooklyn cloud-compute list-instances --location aws-ec2:eu-west-1
will use the AWS credentials from
brooklyn.properties and list the VM instances
running in the given EC2 region.
brooklyn help and
brooklyn help cloud-compute to find out more information.
This functionality is not intended as a generic cloud management CLI, but instead
solves specific Brooklyn use-cases. The main use-case is discovering the valid
configuration options on a given cloud, such as for
brooklyn cloud-compute has the following options:
list-images: lists VM images within the given cloud, which can be chosen when provisioning new VMs. This is useful for finding the possible values for the
get-image <imageId1> <imageId2> ...: retrieves metadata about the specific images.
list-hardware-profiles: lists the ids and the details of the hardware profiles available when provisioning. This is useful for finding the possible values for the
default-template: retrieves metadata about the image and hardware profile that will be used by Brooklyn for that location, if no additional configuration options are supplied.
list-instances: lists the VM instances within the given cloud.
terminate-instances <instanceId1> <instanceId2> ...: Terminates the instances with the given ids.
brooklyn cloud-blobstore is used to access a given object store, such as S3
or Swift. It has the following options:
list-containers: lists the containers (i.e. buckets in S3 terminology) within the given object store.
list-container <containerName>: lists all the blobs (i.e. objects) contained within the given container.
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The Breach is a fine – no, make that remarkable – example of collaborative writing to dramatize a compelling, intense chunk of United States history.
Billed as a play about Katrina, the Gulf and our nation, Southern Rep’s world premier performance of The Breach tracks three storylines, reflecting the impact, the impressions and the consequences of the 2005-devastating storm forever changing the New Orleans area. Non-Louisiana natives Catherne Filloux, Tarell McCraney and Joe Sutton offer up a well-written, tight and word enriched two-act dramatization of Katrina’s effect on a wheel-chair bound bartender representing the average white Orleans Parish resident; a grandfather, his grandson and granddaughter stuck on a roof, depicting the black families who could not or did not evacuate; and a New York reporting questioning rumors and exaggerations of a black community who accuses the powers to be for creating the disaster.
The three story lines stream seamlessly from one segment to the other whether it is as simple as an on-stage costume change from T-shirt to tunic-style dress or the well-tuned and timed lighting moving your attention to the next scene. Artistic Director Ryan Rilette, Managing Director Aimee Hayes and the Artistic Staff of Takeshi Kata, Bill Liotta, Paule LeMasson, Eric Shim, J Hammons, Sara Singleton and Laura Jean Hoffpauir combine technical talents to transform the playwrights’ carefully selected words and scenarios with the intensity and reverence Hurricane Katrina and its victims deserve.
The set is extraordinary clever but uncomplicated, highlighting the gloomy atmosphere of New Orleans after Katrina and the escalating water barriers after the levees broke. A slanted rooftop fills the majority of the stage lined with a channel of water. Actors intermittently enter the water which seems to get deeper as the drama goes on.
The ensemble cast of Lance Nichols, Kenneth Brown, Kesha Bullard, Troi Bechet, Bob Edes Jr. and Sean Patterson provide an interesting mix of talent. Each clearly defines his or her respective roles with voice, movement and expressions.
Lance Nichols as Pere Leon and Kenneth Brown as Severance, his grandson, are riveting as they argue while stranded on their rooftop – just like hundreds of New Orleans families must have done as they waited for assistance day after day. Relatively new to the acting field, Brown is a strong presence on stage among more experienced professionals.
As a New York reporter investigating levee breach rumors, Sean Patterson begins in neutral – as a good journalist should – but slowly elevates his performance to complement the increasing tension and frustration experienced by those affected by Katrina and those observing the aftermath events. Patterson’s early delivery of the question, “how is this happening?” may be one of the most thought-provoking lines in the play. His innocent questioning gradually turns to passionate questioning and possible understanding as his character matures from scene to scene.
I had difficulty hearing a few lines but not sure whether this was due to a rushed delivery, my sinus problems or perhaps a patois unknown to me.
While the script and presentation are compelling and extremely well executed, I found myself flashing back to national news coverage of Katrina and seeing an unbalanced story. What happened to the average, middle class New Orleans families who were stranded, who lost their homes, their jobs and members of their families?
The playwrights from out-of-town spent 18 months interviewing and researching to develop the plot. How they capture situations and perceptions and transform them into a two-hour fine-tuned drama is outstanding. But, in my opinion, the levee breaches impacted more than the black community, the disabled and those who believe the government blew up the levees. There is one line in the play alluding to middle class devastation along the 17th Street Canal levee. But that line is hardly a full sentence.
Perhaps that is the message of this production, especially for the New Orleans audience. Perhaps it’s meant to stir up thoughts, memories, make us judge our own prejudices, beliefs and most of all, our own hurricane story. If that’s the case, it works and should hold a significant place in Katrina’s literary history.
The Woman, forcefully played by Troi Bechet, asks the New York reporter if he is from New Orleans. If you’re not from New Orleans, she says, “then you can’t understand.” The Breach, as its authors seemingly intended, is an example of a small segment of human suffering, emotion and rationale following a disaster of any kind. But for us, it’s a New Orleans story and unless you are from here, you really don’t know.
Back Row Facts
Length of Play: two hours and ten minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.
Language and Lewd Factor – the f-word is used over and over and over again so much so that it really loses any impact it might have on presenting anger and frustration.
Family fitness - definitely not for kids/ Depending on your personal hurricane story, you may or may not want to see this production. It’s important to see for history and art sake, but if you’re dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of Katrina, wait for another showing in a few years.
It’s a puzzlement! Why is the personification of water portrayed with a Caribbean/Jamaican accent? Hurricanes may pass over Caribbean but the water destroying New Orleans was the Mississippi River – thick, muddy and guttural, not rhythmic and light. The accent distracts from the production. | <urn:uuid:9d693147-fd61-4792-a94f-dcc6a90503e7> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://www.stageclick.com/news/941.aspx | 2018-06-21T00:55:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863980.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621001211-20180621021211-00420.warc.gz | en | 0.947721 | 1,181 |
Class at Copperopolis Town Square will teach the basics of drawing
Town Hall Arts, 145 Stone Street, Copperopolis Town Square will offer Beginning and Intermediate Drawing Basics with Peggi Kroll-Roberts of Angels Camp from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Aug. 21 & 22.
Cost of instruction is $80 plus $4 classroom fee. The class is limited to eight students. Reserve your spot with a $40 deposit.
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The Ukrainian Carpathians are a great choice for a holiday in any season.
This amazing land never ceases to amaze with its wonderful nature, traditions, culture and hospitality of the locals.
Natural wonders are more than enough here, each in its own unique and inimitable.
For example, it is worth noting the Gurkalo waterfall, which is cozy nestled near the city of Skole.
This town is associated with the popular tourist route of Lviv region “Skolivskie Beskydy”
Therefore, be sure the mass of positive emotions you provided!
Although the height of the water fall does not exceed 5 meters, in the spring, when the snow melts, not a single Carpathian waterfall can be compared with the power of the Gurkala waterfall.
Because of this feature, he got his name!
It is worth noting that along the perimeter of the waterfall there are cozy glades where you can lay out a tent and a fire.
How to get to the waterfall Gurkalo?
The most convenient and perhaps comfortable route, especially for inexperienced tourists, starts from the village of Korchin.
This is where lovers relax in nature and start their start.
In this case, you need to walk about 6 km on foot along a marked route, where a magnificent hydrological guide will open before you at the finish line.
On the road it will take you about 2.5 hours, if on foot.
By car is much faster, but the road is far from ideal.
In good weather, of course, you will pass without any problems, but if it rained the day before, then you had better go.
If more precisely, then you need to turn off the highway Kiev-Chop near the village of Upper Sinevidnoe and move to the village of Korčín. Further in front of a small bridge you will see a pointer to a waterfall.
From this point on, it’s enough to stick to this road, which will lead you to your intended goal.
The road to the waterfall Gurkalo
Panorama at the waterfall Gurkalo
It is worth noting that this is not the only route that you can use.
It is also possible to get to Gurkalo waterfall through Parashka mountain, but in this case the road will be tiresome, especially for children.
When planning to visit Gurkalo, do not miss the opportunity to climb to the top of the Mount Klyuch, from where a wonderful panorama of the surroundings opens up before you.
If you go down to its foot, you can see the Dead Lake and Waterfall Kamenka.
As you can see, one day you will not be enough to look at all the natural attractions of the local region. Therefore, you should rent a home in advance in the city of Skole or the nearest villages. | <urn:uuid:5f59ddce-50d5-473f-9f95-27f2becb7f63> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://travels-ukraine.com/en/waterfall-gurkalo/ | 2020-09-20T11:38:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400197946.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920094130-20200920124130-00334.warc.gz | en | 0.947046 | 603 |
In Jenkins 1.508, when attempting to rename a project, clicking 'Apply' at the bottom of the 'Configure Project' page results in an empty "Error" pop-over box on the page. No error message is displayed.
However, when I press 'Save' instead of Apply, it takes me to a separate confirmation page asking "Am I sure I want to rename the project? Yes/No". So I am guessing that this confirmation step prevents 'Apply' from working. I would expect to see a pop-over window asking me to confirm the change on the same page when I click 'Apply', instead of presenting an empty error pop-over, which can be confusing. | <urn:uuid:4686e3d4-6b0f-4e5c-882c-2e9f4ce7e5b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-17401 | 2022-12-02T10:23:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710900.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20221202082526-20221202112526-00112.warc.gz | en | 0.827533 | 144 |
CGC Analyst Intern Program
Clear Growth Capital sponsors a very challenging internship that gives interns extensive experience in all facets of Investment Banking. From Business Development to Capital Markets, interns are given an opportunity to work directly with the Founder and Managing Partner and other Executive Directors, to assist in many areas of financing a wide-range of multi-million dollar projects located in the United States.
Interns must have a strong background and qualifications in the following areas:
- Methodologies required for successfully analyzing and synthesizing important financial information;
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Interpersonal and group communication skills);
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills;
- Preparing documentation to assist management when making critical business decisions;
- Management of CRM and Proprietary Research software;
- Exceptional self-motivation and a natural drive to achieve excellence;
- Team-based philosophy;
- Sense of humor. | <urn:uuid:6c835aec-a6be-4f45-ba8a-ab4bdca30c60> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://www.cleargrowthcapital.com/cgc-analyst-intern-program/ | 2019-01-16T19:05:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583657557.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20190116175238-20190116201238-00012.warc.gz | en | 0.884756 | 185 |
View Full Version : question #2-arms and feet!
08-04-2009, 07:35 AM
My arms fall asleep almost EVERY night, over and over. It's from my shoulders all the way to the tips of my fingers. They will get so "asleep" that I will wake up and not be able to move them at all. Then finally they will start to "wake up" but it HURTS. This happens over and over all night so that I don't get any good sleep. Does this sound like something that happens with lupus?? I know that people have different symptoms. Also, my heels do the same thing but not while I'm asleep, they do it anytime I am sitting with my feet up, like at night I like to read in bed before I go to sleep. It doesn't matter if I put a pillow under my ankles to keep my heels off the bed, they still fall asleep. I always just thought this was the way I am, but since getting diagnosed with lupus I'm wondering if this is part of it and if there's anything I can do?? Also it seems like it's getting worse in my arms lately. I just started this plaquenil a week or so ago. But today my arms aren't recovering like they usually do, they feel heavy and sore and like they aren't circulating right. :grumpy: Thanks again!
08-04-2009, 09:57 AM
first, welcome to the group.....i hope you find comfort in the support that you will receive from our members.
yes, i regularly deal with hands falling asleep....i try to sleep with my arms softly resting on a pillow....it seems to help if they are not lying by my side, but a little elevated.
i also deal with the feet, and i just deal with it....i don't have the answers for this one.
08-04-2009, 11:09 AM
Welcome to the site...
You have come to the right place to find comfort, love, support and understanding. I use to suffer from numbness in my fingers and I believe that is normal but I would tell my doctor about it and hopefully they can/will adjust your meds accordingly. I use to sleep on my back and almost sitting straight up with my arms to my side like Ab Lincoln at the washington monument for a long time with a pillow under my legs and feet. It helped and took getting use to.
Dunno if this will help but I do wish you health and remission...Welcome again!
08-04-2009, 01:32 PM
welcome to our family. You will find alot of support from this wonderful group of people. I myself and newly diagnosed and yes I suffer from numbness to my upper and lower extremities of which my rheumy said was a part of this LUPUS process. I agree that you may need to discuss this with your DR.
I hope you will feel better soon. Feel free to vent...
My feet are almost always "asleep". In my hands it comes and goes. I even get it in my right ear sometimes. Just lately I have started to get it in my lower lip.
08-04-2009, 05:42 PM
Im sorry you havent had or dont get a good night of sleep. My legs go numb or fall asleep at night sometimes. So I know how you feel, I would mention it to my doctor just to make sure it isnt something else Im sure your;re fine though, I hope this goes away soon. You definitely need your rest, my dear. Im sending you cyber hugs
08-05-2009, 05:36 AM
I have weird places, that fall asleep too. The heels of my feet, my ankles, my ears, my nose, my lower lip and my knees, never mind my arms and fingers. I don't know, what it is, but it is very anoying.
08-05-2009, 10:33 AM
Yes me too.......hello and welcome by the way. Yes i think allot of us have this.As members have said,mention it to your doctor,hes the best one to ask as he may be able to help you.
Love n gentle hugs
08-19-2009, 01:03 PM
From a massage therapy perspective, what you describe sounds a lot like Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, which is unrelated to Lupus.
This disorder typically affects large-breasted women, or people who have tight pectoral/scalene/SCM muscles either from postural problems or poor workplace ergonmics.
Stretching the muscles in your chest, neck and shoulders (using a foam roller works great) seems to really help the symptoms.
People who sleep with their arms above their heads have a higher incidence of this.
08-19-2009, 03:12 PM
how are you doing these days?
08-20-2009, 04:30 PM
I had a pinched nerve in my neck and that was my main complaint...I also had a lot of pain along with it. You might want to speak with the MD about it.
08-20-2009, 04:42 PM
This is the weirdest thing-I was out watering my vegetable garden and my hands went to sleep-this happens a lot-did not know it was part of the disease. I took watercolor classes last year and became very good. Now when I go to paint, my arms fall asleep and I drop the brush. My legs fall asleep at night too. So, I start feeling sory for myself, start getting depressed, thought OK, buck up and go on the lupus chat room-here is a whole link of stories of people with the SAME thing. I know my husband gets tired of listening to me cry and whine, but he never says a word. Bless all of you-I've only been in a few days but so far you have all been a God-send. Thank you--Karenlee
08-21-2009, 11:57 AM
Just know that you are never whining and crying to us. Did you find some answers to the numbness in your arms & legs? Please know that if you need more information or want us to research anything for you, we are always willing to do that!
Peace and Blessings
08-31-2009, 02:42 PM
My calves and fingers lock up/fall asleep often, when I told my doctor about it he said it was probably prednisone, because it can cause muscle weakness.
09-06-2009, 09:51 AM
I had muscle weakness for years before they even suspected lupus...and in muscles I use all the time for work.
I wake with numb fingers nearly every night...but have never had numbness out of the blue.
Hope you figure it out!
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome explains the numbness in one's hands and arms. It doesn't explain people getting the same in their feet, or as in my case my right ear and my lower lip.
09-10-2009, 03:45 PM
I too get tingling all of the time in my arms all the down to my toes. I have a broken L5 and a missing disc which means im grinding bone on bone SO, its either that OR lupus related. My dr thinks its BOTH,its just a matter of WHICH one feels like BUGGING me at that moment i guess! LOL Accupuncture has been the BEST therapy for these syptoms though!!!! ITS GREAT!!!!! I just cant afford to go all of the time so, im limited to the treatments. Just another hurdle!!!! Ill jumpp it though!!! I always do!!!!:yes: | <urn:uuid:8565649c-260d-4948-99c4-6b42b043f324> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://forum.wehavelupus.com/archive/index.php?t-6938.html | 2014-08-23T03:48:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500825010.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021345-00325-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959569 | 1,625 |
Beta Distribution: Basics
What is beta Distribution?
Looking for Beta distribution assignment help? You are at Right Place.As one of the quantitative tools categorized under Probability Theory and Statistics, the beta distribution is a continuous probability distribution function defined between the intervals (0,1). In this distribution, there are two positively shaped parameters. Each of the two terms are denoted by alpha (α) and beta (β). They are characterized as exponentials of the random variable and hence determine the shape of the probability distribution. This tool is used to measure the probability of success in an experiment.
For a more explanations and examples visit the homework help section for Beta Distribution. The beta distribution assignment help provides a further elaborate explanation about Beta Distribution and probability functions
The above figure shows a beta distribution for different levels of (α) given that β=8.
For additional problems on beta distribution and graphs you can visit the beta distribution assignment help section. For access to the many practice problems visit the in the beta distribution homework help section.
How to statistically understand a Beta Distribution?
Let us assume, the probability of success in an experiment is ‘x.’ Hence the possibility of failure is ‘1-x’. The two terms can take any value between 0 and 1. We assume that there is uniform chance that it could be any variable between 0 and 1. This is a uniform distribution between the range 0 and 1(denoted by U[0,1]). If the experiment is conducted ‘n’ times with ‘k’ being the number of times the experiment was a success. The experiment would be a failure ‘n-k’ times. Based on these outcomes, we redistribute the uniform experiment based on the observed outcome. This conditional distribution of x based on the ‘k’ and ‘n-k’ is known as Beta Distribution.’ For practical problems, access the beta distribution homework help section.
What are the Characteristics of Beta Distribution?
The Beta function has certain characteristics. These characteristics define some ground rules for the efficient use and functioning of Beta function and the Beta Distribution
- The Beta Function of the two terms alpha and beta is symmetric
- The two terms α and beta β are greater than 0 and less than infinity (∞)
- The beta function can be expressed in terms of gamma function
What is an Incomplete Beta Function?
In the case of an incomplete Beta Function, the integral which defines the beta function is generalized. Let us say, the interval of integration is changed to ‘x.’ The range of the beta function will be between (0,X’) instead of (0,1). The incomplete Beta function can be expressed as follows
The incomplete beta function is computed by the use of specialized computer algorithms.
What are the applications of Beta Distribution?
The Beta Distribution has a variety of applications. Some of the important applications of beta distribution are
- The ‘rule of succession’ is the perfect example of the application of a Beta Distribution. The beta distribution allows effective modeling of random probabilities. It can be a substantial tool particularly in the context of Bayesian Analysis
- It plays an important part in the theory of order statistics. With the use of the beta distribution and theory of probability integral transform, it is possible to derive any individual order statistic from a continuous distribution
- The beta distribution is also useful in task duration modeling. This allows estimation of time taken to complete a task and the cost associated with the task. It is a crucial component in modern day project management. It is wide used by many corporates to efficiently carry out their daily operations.
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Courtesy of the inexhaustible Dolly, it’s time for October’s “Music passion” at http://allaboutlemon.com/music-passion/. This month, Carol at http://abcofspiritalk.wordpress.com has chosen “morning” as her music passion. Thank you, to both lovely ladies, for getting the party rolling.
So here’s my music passion — the English Folk Song, Early One Morning, by that productive but elusive composer, Anon! There’s a great deal of academic argument about its date of composition. Some people claim it’s a Renaissance Song, but most academics think it originates from 1787, which was later in the Classical Music Period.
You can find more information about the song — including two different versions of its lyrics — at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_One_Morning
Here, it is sung by the wonderful Greek Singer, Nana Mouskouri, who has sold more than two hundred million records worldwide. | <urn:uuid:7772c55d-684b-4cf6-808e-1db813baba26> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://sarahpotterwrites.com/2012/10/03/music-passion-5/ | 2018-03-25T01:14:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257651481.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180325005509-20180325025509-00771.warc.gz | en | 0.908624 | 220 |
Multiple times today I’ve had to admit to others I was a bit of a geek. Most people knew that already. I’m sure you are nodding your head on your side of the screen. Whether it’s my fascination for all kinds of archaic music, movies, videography or whatever I tend to be a little on the obsessive side. I’ll own that.
Hey, it’s served me well. It fuels my drive.
So here’s another one for you. Some of you may know that the computer graphic card market has been on par with the housing industry. Almost impossible to get your hands on one, and if it’s cheap it’s because it was on fire.
People in “the know” tell me I should be spending $500-$600 dollars for a decent modern card. Or sell one of the kids and get one of the ridiculously priced top cards for $2000-$4000 (or more).
I refuse that logic. I’ve had my trusty GTX 760 for about seven years and just wanted to upgrade a little. I don’t play the top of the line games. I don’t get excited about games that push car theft, organized crime or domestic violence. I just want to be able to run the newest versions of graphic design and video editing suites and occasionally play a game of Raft, A Hat In Time or Life is Strange without feeling the computer take a sudden gasp when an extra 3D component needed to be rendered.
So, I began my search for a replacement card a couple weeks ago and after a few failed attempts I managed to hook a second hand GTX 960 online for a fairly decent price. It arrived today.
I wanted to be certain that the upgrade was worth it, so I ran 3DMark on the computer before upgrading the card and then again afterwards. I’m very happy with the results. I’m going to test it thoroughly over the next little while to see if it holds up against all the programs I use and/or want to use. If it does, I’m good for awhile. If not, I’ll keep my eyes open for a reasonably priced GTX 980 or 1060. Because I’m not jumping into the RTX market yet. Not worth the upgrade yet. Not for me.
Here are the two 3D Mark scores I got, in case any of you want to share my geekness. C’mon, you know you want to. | <urn:uuid:29edf1d4-9a83-42f0-b2ff-8c11583a5126> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://actingart.com/2021/08/06/a-geek-and-his-3dmark/ | 2023-01-26T22:39:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764494826.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230126210844-20230127000844-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.949521 | 525 |
My hosts did a beautiful job decorating and supplying a delicious spread. There were also many a corks to pop that evening as the champagne was flowing...but what else would you expect for 30?
But let's be real, the primary purpose for this little shin-dig was to put our wood floors to good use in the way of a dance party. From the moment I laid eyes on this house, I knew this living room was MADE to be a dance floor and I was only too happy to fulfill it's calling in life. We danced for probably 3+ hours straight and have to shout out to Meagan and Crystal who held it down the entire time.
A non-stop dance party, champagne, good food, and great company=more than I could ask for. I am truly blessed and all that glitters is most certainly gold.
And just to make sure all celebrations were documented, I also got to enjoy a birthday dinner the night before my party with those nearest and dearest to me. It was such a wonderful treat to have this special time and with the way 30 started, it looks to be a great decade.
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
You will make known to me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; In Your right hand there are pleasures forever. | <urn:uuid:8ff3dc8e-e60c-452a-82b0-a145db819b03> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://rachiecl.blogspot.com/2012/11/all-that-glitters-is-gold.html | 2018-07-21T11:40:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592523.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721110117-20180721130117-00026.warc.gz | en | 0.983416 | 277 |
An amazing group of media, IT professionals, agriculture scholars and the talented guys from PowerSecure met at the airport Sunday morning at 5am to depart for Haiti. The day couldn’t have started off any better- check-in was a breeze, we found out the Mura fundraiser raised $600+ in funds and the Duke football game sales raised $1700 for HFHF. We landed safely in Port au Prince around 10am and only had a few hiccups to get thru customs.
And since you may have caught on that I love my food… I’m going to go ahead and tell you about the meal I’ve been dreaming about since my last trip in May. Vierge always prepares lunch trays for the groups arriving at the airport (see photo). This is seriously some of the best rice and beans I’ve had in my life; I don’t even like beets but the beet/potato salad is killer, and the goat is definitely bangarang. Nothing can compare to Vierge’s cooking!
The drive from Port au Prince to Zorange is probably only 70 miles, but it can be a ~6 hour journey. We have several ‘first timers’ on this trip and we were teasing them that this was shaping up to be one of the easiest car trips to date. Since the earthquake, so many roads have been paved and smoothed out. The cars were running smoothly- we even had air conditioning and fabric seats! Honestly, I was truly worried we were spoiling the newbies rotten. The weather was even beyond dreamy. The air was cool and crisp because several storms had rolled through.
Consequence of awesome weather due to storms: swollen rivers. Car #2, driven by John Brown, got STUCK in the river! The team came together, unloaded the car, walked across and pushed the stuck vehicle out of the river. Every time we would cross over the river, Elade would say “oh, car #2 can make it- ITS NOT THAT DEEP.” We’ll let John Brown tell you whether those spots in the river were ‘that deep’ or not. 🙂 Ten hours later and MANY more river crossings, we arrived safely in Zorange and crashed in the brand new dorm building (thanks G for laying that solid foundation!).
More updates coming soon- we’re excited for Monday to start and work on the generator, computer lab and media projects. Kristen from our media team will be blogging as well, telling you all about her experiences as a first time traveler!
– Tara Z. | <urn:uuid:e656ecfc-f9ec-4ffa-a6a4-5097b14b98ae> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://hopeforhaitifoundation.com/its-not-that-deep/ | 2023-10-01T17:57:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510924.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001173415-20231001203415-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.971217 | 543 |
The City of Cape Town on Thursday said its Transport and Urban Development Authority (TDA) will spend R2.1-billion on the development of new housing opportunities.
This comes after the TDA budget for the next financial year, starting on 1 July 2018, was set at R5.34-billion.
Brett Herron, the mayoral committee member for transport and urban development, said the TDA's operating budget was approximately R3.6-billion, and R1.77-billion was budgeted for projects related to housing developments, roads, and public transport infrastructure.
“Most of the capital projects are located within the city’s urban inner core. This is in line with the City’s revised Municipal Spatial Development Framework which focuses on inward growth and investment. Thus, the City will keep on investing in maintaining and upgrading existing infrastructure, while at the same time prioritising public investment in an urban inner core as stipulated by the Built Environment Performance Plan," said Herron.
Herron said the urban inner core includes areas adjacent to the N1, N2, N7, and M5 highways; along the R27 to the north and Main Road to the south; along major arterials linking the Metro South-east with Bellville and Kuils River; and the Cape Town International Airport. The 2018/19 budget was allocated to 36 housing developments which were either in the planning phase, already under way, or in the process of being finalised.
"These housing projects are situated in Nyanga, Atlantis, Heideveld, Fisantekraal, Grassy Park, Somerset West, Scottsdene, Hangberg, Durbanville, Bardale, Belhar, Delft, Gugulethu, Manenberg, Strand, Blue Downs, Dido Valley, Macassar, Harare, Imizamo Yethu, Valhalla Park, Masiphumelele, Brown’s Farms, Beacon Valley, Salt River, Sir Lowry’s Pass Village, Langa, Vrygrond, Retreat, Ottery and Philippi, among others," said Herron.
Herron said that the bulk of the housing opportunities will be developed on well-located land close to public transport, jobs, government services, and public amenities. To fund the acquisition of additional well-located land parcels for future housing projects, Herron said the TDA had budgeted R155-million in the next financial year. | <urn:uuid:26800a50-0427-4e8c-ae3a-1e6f742c943d> | CC-MAIN-2018-39 | http://engineeringnews.co.za/article/city-of-cape-town-to-spend-r21bn-on-housing-2018-06-07-1 | 2018-09-23T05:21:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267159006.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923035948-20180923060348-00340.warc.gz | en | 0.952554 | 514 |
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