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Drilling in the sea is more complicated than on land; the lack of stability (for floaters), the corrosive environment, the more cramped conditions and the more difficult support logistics all dictate this.
During drilling the offshore well needs to be extended from the seabed to the rig floor, so that the mud system can be controlled. This is achieved by using a ‘riser’, which is a large diameter steel pipe that connects the top of the well on the seabed with the rig. The BOP can either be mounted on the seabed or be on top of the riser at the surface. Rigging up and down the riser for each well adds on to required rig time versus an onshore operation, and pressure testing the entire system is also more complicated than onshore BOP pressure testing.
Within offshore rigs there are two main categories; jackups and floaters. Jackups do not float, they simply stand on retractable legs (usually three) and hence provide a stable platform from which to drill.
The Jackup can of course only work in water depths that are less than the length of its legs, and typically this limits operations to less than 400ft water depth. When moving between drilling locations the hull is usually towed by tugs or carried by a specialist vessel, with the legs sticking high into the air. Once the jackup has arrived at the drilling location, the legs are lowered to the seabed, and then the hull (upon which all the drilling equipment is installed) is jacked up the legs, so raising itself out of the water.
Unlike Jackups, floaters are not limited to 400ft water depths as they do not rely on standing on long legs. They are essentially ships with drilling equipment, are usually self propelled and have a marine crew. When it arrives on location the floating rig needs to anchor with the help of support vessels, which can be a time-consuming process, but the main technical challenges versus jackups is the floating nature of the platform. The problem is that the rig will move up and down with swell and with tides if present, but the well bore of course doesn’t i.e. the drill pipe will have a tendency to smash into the bottom of the hole simply with the heave of the rig, which would make drilling a decent well problematic. The solution involves using a large hydraulic system known as a wave-motion-compensator. It adds up to yet more mechanical systems to operate, maintain, and potentially go wrong.
Drillship or semisub? Which of a drillship or semi-submersible is better is unclear, and basically seems to come down to availability as much as technical factors. It could be argued that transit speed between locations is faster for drillships and that keeping on station (whether by anchors or dynamic positioning) is easier in certain prevailing current locations with a long, thin ship-shape than a square semisub shaped hull. However the ship-shape layout limits space for an operation that uses ever larger equipment and ever more subcontractors (that all want a bed to sleep in and a doghouse for their specialist equipment).
Logistics and supply. There is an entire industry that simply services the logistical needs of the offshore drilling industry. It includes:
1) Catering – supply of food and onboard catering staff and cleaners
2) Supply vessels – to supply fuel, food, water, chemicals, drill pipe, casing, cement and act as an offshore storage facility when deck space becomes tight.
3) Supply vessels – used to act as emergency support for evacuation in bad weather or kick/blow-out scenarios, sometimes for transport of personnel from shore or from rig to rig within a field, and occasionally as accomodation if there’s no space left on the rig.
4) Anchoring vessels – usually supply boats or dedicated powerful tugs that aid in th elaying of anchors
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We live in a vastly different time now than we did 25 or even ten years ago. No other generation has enjoyed such a radical change in technology and lifestyle in such a short a time.
However, we have to realise that our time is limited and we should make the best of the time we get.
Time is a tool, and it can be manipulated, shared, divided, and saved. It is also our most valuable resource. We need to learn how to control and use it wisely.
Here are ten tips on how to fill every waking minute with Kipling’s ’60 seconds run’.
- Make a plan
- 1,440 minutes in every day
- Energy Management
- Tackle top priorities first
- Stay focused
- Try to touch things only once
- Learn to say “NO.”
- Slow down and think
- Visualise your outcome
- Delegate and outsource
1. Make a plan
Use 30 mins a day to plan how you are going to use your time. If you do not, you will find yourself running around in circles wasting time.
2. Don’t forget; there are 1,440 minutes in every day
Minutes do not vary from day to day. If you understand the time you have, then you can map out a plan for using it wisely. Understand and accept that some of these minutes will be used day-in and day-out for essential tasks like work, calls, etc. Others for personal needs such as exercise, relaxation, and yet others to service physical requirements, don’t forget to eat or sleep! It is how you use the unused minutes that make the difference in your financial and emotional well-being.
3. Combine Energy Management with Time Management
You can be the greatest planner ever and have every minute of the day packed with necessary tasks, but if you do not have the energy to complete them correctly, then it is all for nothing. Prioritise and plan in time segments that you can handle physically. Don’t exhaust yourself out.
4. Tackle top priorities first
Top priorities may not be the most pleasant, but they are the most important, so battle them when you are the most mentally alert and physically rested.
5. Stay focused
Do not get distracted by everything that is shiny around you. Always remind yourself of the task you are working on at hand. With everything that is happening in the World around us, it is easy to be distracted. Try carrying a short-list as a visual reminder.
6. Try to touch things only once
Trust your intuition when making decisions, especially on those choices that are not top priorities. Assign the task you are working on and finish it before moving on.
7. Learn to say “NO.”
Every-time you say “yes” to a request, you are saying “no” to something other. Time is yours to use, do not let someone else waste it. You will stand amazed how easy it is to deflect unimportant requests for your time by others. Easy things like having your door shut while doing priority tasks, not acknowledging the phone, and letting people know your busy. Doing this will help you find more time for yourself.
8. Slow down and think
I know this sounds counterintuitive to what I am asking you to do in rule #6, but at times it is important to catch your breath before reaching a decision. Do not make rash or emotional decisions. A few minutes spent to clear your mind, analyse the situation, and weigh your options will influence better choices and more time.
9. Visualise your outcome
Before reaching a decision or picking a course of action, start with the ending in mind.
10. Delegate and outsource
Do not be scared to let others do things for you. Look at your “to do” list and rather than asking “How do I get this task completed?” ask instead, “How can this task be accomplished?” It is a simple change of interpretation, but it takes the burden off your shoulders of having to complete every task yourself. Look for help — it is out there. | <urn:uuid:8e8c4da5-2067-4cb7-8b8e-ac3ddd5e902a> | CC-MAIN-2018-43 | https://retirementpostponed.com/life/time-management/ | 2018-10-16T21:03:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583510867.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20181016201314-20181016222814-00184.warc.gz | en | 0.93796 | 871 |
I have always found April a difficult month. It seems to be the defining month for transition between winter and summer. It can fool us on the first day (April fools day) and its weather for us in Europe does exactly the same, usually all month long, confusing us.
One where it is offering up a healthy mix of rain, stronger sun, a little flurry of snow and some heavy wind too.
It can constantly confuse us as it can rapidly alter within the same 24 hours to often keep the heating on, when it should be switched off and visa-versa. It can be an uncomfortable month of adjusting constantly, second guessing of what might be ahead.
On the innovation front I have been experiencing the same feeling of adjusting to uncomfortable days.
First, I was reviewing a report from Accenture, on how US big business was treating their innovation as more left to chance in their report, with my summary here on cloudy execution, my snakes and ladders. This ‘rocked’ some of my beliefs, ones where I thought we actually were making the progress on innovation understanding. It seems this is not the case, we are going backwards and then my month got suddenly worse from a report from Deloittes.
The Deloittes report was on how leadership within Boardrooms under my”uncharted waters”, was about how our boards are struggling to get their ‘collective heads’ around disruption and how innovation can, or cannot, dig them out of the threats they are facing. They are being disrupted constantly across the business. They are caught between fear and uncertainty on what to do and clearly that is not a comfortable place to be.
Both reports, as I was reviewing them, left me a little depressed to say the least and it just continues…..like the April weather…. leaving me totally uncertain and then what pops up….
Adding to this innovation reporting mix- Innosight provides a further angst report.
So a further report, this time from Innosight, throws even more angst into the boardroom, adding further into this mix of fear, caution, grim reading on a lack of innovation commitment facing larger organizations. The report from Innosight is in their Spring Insights, called Corporate Longevity: Turbulence Ahead for Large Organizations it just added more worrying news from my perspective on innovation lack of top level progress.
I again buckled up for a further reading of unpredictable innovation resolutions, just like this April weather, all raining down on us from those not heeding, understanding or changing their thinking. In many boardrooms they are not wanting to tackle in fresh ways the future and work towards embracing all the disrupting forces swirling around at present. They seem to want to hold on and not let go of the past .I’m getting really innovation weary from all this
So three reports I thought “oh no”- the grim reaper is truly upon us.
Innosight’s report starts with “We’re entering a period of heightened volatility for leading companies across a range of industries, with the next ten years shaping up to be the most potentially turbulent in modern history.”
Reap what you do not sow Mr Boardroom member- uncertain futures, badly invested in
So we all know that 50% of the current S&P 500 will be replaced over the next ten years, didn’t we? Well I did from past readings (clever me) but it is never nice to be reminded again. Not because of its reality but because of the leadership we have in place in many of these organizations is in the denial it will happen to them.
That is what is for me so upsetting. They earn Squillions and screw the long term health of the organization totally up as more often the case, because they were not even focusing on any belief of the future, just taking in the rewards for the immediate present. They could have done something about it but seem incapable to show the level of leadership to achieve this, just why, why is that?
With so much additional disruption coming from technologies, from start-ups, from intense M&A activities and having this ‘being overtaken’ by more agile, quicker growing companies just piles on the pressure within the boardroom but ignoring its threat as “it will not happen to me” without the boldness, decisiveness and intent to reinvent the organization to catch the different ‘waves’ of opportunity is sometimes bordering on criminal, well for me- what about you?.
Innosight in this report has a great passage
“Viewed as a larger picture, the lifespan chart serves as a barometer for marketplace change. And the stakes couldn’t be higher. Shrinking lifespans are in part driven by a complex combination of technology shifts and economic shocks, some of which are beyond the control of corporate leaders. But frequently, companies miss opportunities to adapt or take advantage of change. For example, they continue to apply existing business models to new markets, fail to respond to disruptive competitors in low-profit segments, or fail to adequately envision and invest in new growth areas, which in some cases take a decade to pay off”.
This sums it up pretty well for me. We have failures all around us going on due to this lack of imagination, a poor coherent longer-term vision, a lack of confidence to achieve any form of transformation lies within the organization and so it becomes incapable to undertake the transformation that it needed to undertake, due to continually miss the opportunities offered to evolve.
Leadership still lacks real innovation commitment, the linkage to growth, to fending off disruption, of tuning into current and future needs, the message of embracing it has simply not got through to those within the boardrooms; one that the comprehensive management of innovation can offer significant improvements on present performance and they need to fully take hold of it, to learn and leverage, to explore and exploit, in imaginative and breakthrough ways.
Innovation can offer a pathway out of the existing position that many organizations are facing, ones of poor growth, limited sustainability and growing erosion of their existing market positions, often spiraling down, with cutting existing costs seen as the only option. It can be so very different if they wanted to fully engage with innovation. Others are reaping the rewards of their own inabilities in the boardroom to commit the time needed to practice innovation.
The question is “will it change?” If so how, why and when- not with these answers.
The Innosight report points out in the organizations they surveyed of 91 companies with revenue greater than $1 billion across more than 20 industries across the world, the shocking news that only 24% have a growth strategy with a time horizon of beyond five years, 16.5% report having no formal growth strategy or a growth plan at all as they are seemingly “too busy executing”, “really don’t have time to focus on it” or “we don’t have a good process for formulating a growth strategy that we are confident about”
Then you get the “but of course we are committed to long-term innovation” but it is our “day-to-day decisions that undermine our stated strategy to change” Oh for heavens sake can this really go on? To make substantial change when you are facing the type of change and threats occurring today can easily take up to a decade to fully realize.
So the future continues to be pushed off, growth stays morbid and we resort to simply cutting costs, lowering choice, quality and resources to handle this, we continue to outsource our future to others, who are more than ready to take it on and learn, so as to take your place eventually.
So let the bell toll- let’s say goodbye to 50% of who we know today, you deserve it.
It leaves you utterly sad, even depressed. Innosight offers these thoughts below as a worthwhile thought, when so many of these larger organizations are not heeding or reading about their serious lack of commitment to innovation and the future. They seem apathetic or incapable to comprehend what this eventually means to the future of their organizations.
So Innosight suggests: “Leaders have to confront what might be called tensions, balances, or, even in extreme circumstances, paradoxes. They must optimize today, and discover tomorrow. They must be decisive and bet on moonshots, and defer to experiments. They have to focus, and enable serendipity. They have to leverage the core, and break its constraints”
It seems many just simply do not have the appetite to grow, to look towards the future when their own investment and return is tied mostly to the present.
It just does not seem boards are confident in innovation. There seems a reluctance in wanting to take ownership for innovation, one encouraging and investing more confidently in an evolving/ learning series of experiments to evolve the future of their business in iterative, exploratory ways. It is not a ‘core’ discipline or focal point as innovation continues to have been left to others outside the boardroom. That needs to change.
We are left to judge each company by deciphering ‘the smoke and mirrors’ offered that are claimed to form their “unique” innovation culture, to attempt to determination the staying power and their true belief and undertaking in a future, and make our judgement- mostly it should be yank our money, run like hell, until this future can be well-articulated and well-backed in action.
As companies sadly stick to their historical core as the business, falling to take the risks, invest in the new growth ventures and experiments to build towards a better shot at the future, so I say “just simply go, fade away and leave a puddle as your mess or contribution, and forget the thrill of reinvention and providing a ‘sense of destiny’ and taking pride in exploring more than simply exploiting, often just for your own personal gain”
So Goodbye, many of you in leadership positions, as you do not serve innovation well for its potentially exciting future. You are simply letting down the communities, the stakeholders, your customers, our futures, by not heeding all these ‘darker’ messages coming out of Accenture, Deliotte, Innosight and countless others telling you to change or die!
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So you've seen the enormous pump in bitcoin price today. You thought you'd wait till the bottom to buy. You thought, I guess, that someone would tap you on the shoulder and let you know - "Dear Sir, now is the time to buy your bitcoin." But it didn't happen. You're sick and tired of missing out. In short, FOMO is kicking in. You're ready to YOLO Market Buy the Shit out of this internet money. But you have no idea how. You're 100% ready to enter The Dark Side. In your personal, non-professional opinion, it is high time that you got some crypto exposure. But you don't know how to do that.
You probably have some friends and relatives that will start asking you questions about bitcoin and crypto this week. That's what happens after these pumps. Feel free to send them this post instead of crafting your own. I grow tired of answering this question, so I wrote this post. Now I can just send them this link.
What follows is my personal, non-professional opinion. It is not financial advice.
The first thing any one with the means to do it should do, once they make the decision to get cryptoasset exposure in their investment portfolio, is to buy and "HODL" (hold on for dear life) 1 BTC. We call it #HODL1BTC. Right now one full bitcoin will set you back around $8,000 to $9,000. That price is pretty volatile and you can, and probably should, dollar-cost average in to it by buying fractions of a BTC each day or week or month. Yes, that's right, you can own 0.00000001 BTC (1 sat). If you want to passively start accumulating some BTC while you buy your everyday groceries or whatever, try Fold. Click on that link right there and you can get 30,000 free sats from Fold. In the parlance of bitcoin, 1 sat (which is short for satoshi) is 0.00000001 BTC.
If you're reading this post, you are probably itching to go put some money somewhere, anywhere in some kind of "crypto"... You think I'm a cautious moron for wanting to dollar cost average into this. If you think that, you first need to understand why you need to act in the next few days, though. It's called the bitcoin halving and it's set to happen sometime in mid-May. Here's more about that from Bloomberg.
In order to acquire your crypto currency, you're first gonna need a fiat onramp. The best one for Americans is called Coinbase. Here's a referral code for that. Coinbase is a great private company based in Silicon Valley and valued around $8 billion in its most recent round in 2018. They are probably the most trustworthy place to invest. It's pretty much the first place anyone goes to buy more crypto when they hear it is mooning. It even suffered a temporary outage today as BTC crushed it all the way to $9400. I mean, for Chrissake, it was even in the opening credits of HBO's Silicon Valley!
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O.K. So that's bitcoin. Go get 1 BTC first before you do ANYTHING else. If you still have some money left over, then you should start trying to understand Ethereum (ETH).
Ethereum, quite simply, is a bitcoin that you can program. Think of ETH as Bitcoin version 2. It's a lot more than that but, as a small-time retail investor, probably understanding the fact that ETH is a token that allows you to interact with a huge decentralized computer is honestly enough. There's a lot going on in the Ethereum space right now, specifically a whole suite of tools that comprise something called decentralized finance (DeFi) that is a challenge to the trillions-of-dollar entire financial services industry as it currently exists.
Pretty soon ETH 2.0 will happen, which essentially would be Bitcoin version 3. This network upgrade should make the Ethereum system orders of magnitude faster, enough we hope to accommodate the exponential growth of DeFi services that come out every single day. But you don't even need to know about ETH 2.0. Just know that it is coming soon. It's sort of like the Ethereum equivalent of the Bitcoin halving. And you can buy it before that happens. For now I suggest you just read this puff piece about why ETH could be worth a lot more soon. If you want a more nuanced deep dive, take a look at Ryan Sean Adams' Bankless website.
But don't let your coins just sit there. Put them to work! For that you need a Blockchain Interest Account. Think of it like a savings account. You can get one of those at BlockFi, a well-funded startup that is seeing exponential growth. You don't need to worry about your funds there, at least for the next few years. They even have insurance on the portion of their holdings that they don't lend out for yield on your behalf. You can read more about a recent funding round here on Bloomberg.
If you use this referral code, we'll both get a little extra bitcoin after the 1st month of you funding a blockchain interest account. It might even be like $50. So it's worth it!
My personal recommendation is to get 1 BTC, 32 ETH, and 50 LTC on the crypto side and store your long-term dollar savings as USDC stablecoin on BlockFi to earn 8.6% interest, which can also be denominated in BTC or ETH or USDC/GUSD/PAX, whatever you like. That should be kind of a minimum initial goal before you go off the deep end with altcoins trying to catch moons and whatnot.
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Adam Sandler is rightfully earning tons of praise for his role in Uncut Gems, the intense new drama from filmmaking duo Josh and Benny Safdie. In the film, Sandler plays a gambling addict who works in New York’s Diamond District, where he tries to evade loan sharks while maneuvering to place a bet that could change his entire life—or finally destroy it. It’s easily one of the best performances Sandler has ever given, and may very well net him a shiny gold statue or two. He’s so great in the film, in fact, that Daniel Day-Lewis—arguably one of the greatest actors of all-time—personally phoned Sandler to congratulate him.
About 30 minutes into his appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast with co-star and former NBA player Kevin Garnett, Sandler relayed a charming story about making a stop at Macy’s to buy basketball shorts and shoes so he could shoot some hoops near his kid’s school. “I’m getting my sneakers and then I look down at my phone and it’s Daniel Day-Lewis,” Sandler says. After exchanging hellos, Day-Lewis complimented Sandler on his performance in Uncut Gems: “He starts talking about grabbing the seat in front of him. ‘I couldn’t let go of the seat in front of me,’ and just saying how much he dug the movie, he dug [Kevin Garnett], he dug the guys. But it was the best call ever.”
Sandler doesn’t divulge much about the conversation with Day-Lewis, whom he refers to as “Danny” because—in a far more intriguing revelation—the two actors are longtime friends. That’s not too surprising considering they’ve both made films with Paul Thomas Anderson, but it’s still a fascinating thing to think about. Did Daniel Day-Lewis watch That’s My Boy? Is he a Billy Madison fan or more of a Happy Gilmore guy? What does Daniel Day-Lewis’ Adam Sandler impression sound like?! | <urn:uuid:c545da8a-1a9f-4a5a-bae9-73004c6abaa1> | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | https://film.avclub.com/adam-sandler-is-so-good-in-uncut-gems-that-daniel-day-l-1840511339 | 2020-04-06T19:41:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371656216.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20200406164846-20200406195346-00433.warc.gz | en | 0.960539 | 443 |
I'm LOVING Banqer!
I'm gradually getting things settled, but it is almost the same pitch of excitement and frenzy of the Wall St stock market in my room. I have a Stationery Clerk in charge of who borrows stationery and how much to charge them, an Inspector who checks up on everyone's jobs that they are done and let's me know who needs paying and who needs a fine. I have a Secretary who rules up charts, hands things outs, sorts out the Company applications and job applicants so it makes my job less frantic. I think I'll need a Newspaper company soon who can write up my weekly Banqer News . I have advertising managers as well as the usual rubbish, windows, chair and desk tidiers. I only have the kids for an hour a day, but already there is quite a lot of activity with someone selling baking, another selling sherbet, someone else making stress balls to sell, a hair braiding company, a massage company, and even someone renting out iPad chargers on a five minute basis. And on top of that I had to hold a "court" session over a couple of allegations and issue fines. All of this needed to be written up in the Banqer News. It is certainly taking up quite a bit of my time each day, but I'm absolutely loving it to see these bright minds exploding with ideas and using their initiative with money making schemes, like offering coding lessons. Someone asked to set up a gambling parlour but the answer was a definite NO. Mind you, they would probably make a bit of money! LOLThere will be an earthquake in the weekend, so that will stir things up a bit in the house insurance market. And next week I'll start paying large sums of money for completed Maths Projects. | <urn:uuid:36abbfb0-d73d-4500-b35c-819182b2b8ae> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://primary.banqer.co:443/us/community/post/i-m-loving-banqer | 2023-05-29T01:36:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644574.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529010218-20230529040218-00042.warc.gz | en | 0.97349 | 367 |
Sierra Inn is located in South El Monte. The property provides a 24-hour front desk and free WiFi is available throughout the property. Los Angeles is 23 km from the motel, while Santa Monica is 45 km away. The nearest airport is Long Beach Airport, 32 km from Sierra Inn.
Number of rooms : 52
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According to the president of the United Aircraft Building Corporation (UAC) Slyusar, UAC is preparing to begin production of this model with 2022 year. The corporation’s task is to produce 12 airplanes per year; it is planned to supply 57 airplanes to the domestic market instead of the outdated An model.
Production of IL-114 will save the order of 5 billions of dollars that would have been spent to buy similar equipment from our foreign competitors- said Slyusar.
The IL-114 is designed for regional transport. Designed by Ilyushin Design Bureau in the USSR. The construction of the machines was organized in the 1980-s on the basis of the Tashkent Aviation Production Association named after V.P. Chkalov, where it was released around 20 aircraft.
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DOE Global Energy Storage DatabaseThe DOE Global Energy Storage Database is the go-to source for unbiased, accurate, and up-to-date information on energy-storage projects and policies. The database is publicly accessible and simple to use, providing an open-access resource for detailed energy-storage project and policy information, and allowing users to contribute data through a third-party vetting process.
The database-driven website is maintained by the DOE Office of Electricity Delivery & Energy Reliability. All data can be exported to Excel or PDF.
Energy storage projects and policies can be searched in through basic and advanced selection criteria, including via interactive data visualizations. Further, users can submit project and policity information for inclusion in the database. | <urn:uuid:1996df17-263d-4a15-ba73-7b445c6c7096> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | https://www.sandia.gov/ess-ssl/doe-global-energy-storage-database/ | 2019-03-26T04:36:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912204790.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20190326034712-20190326060712-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.844189 | 148 |
Jena is a semantic web framework implemented in Java. It allows you to store/query/inference RDF/RDSF/OWL triples. In Jena a set of triples (in RDF) are called Model or stored within Model object. By default Jena creates in-memory models, but this is not suitable if you have pretty large set of triples to process. Here comes SDB to rescue you. It’s a component of Jena that allows you to store these models in relational databases like MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, etc; This post describes my experience while setting up SDB on Ubuntu.
- Download SDB. Extract it into some folder.
- SDB works with SUN Java only. Ubuntu has GNU Java installed by default. You need to install SUN Java and set it as default.
[Note: you know why this point is important? I wasted 1 hr when I did same setup second time. Later I realized I was using GNU libgcj (gij/gcj). For god’s sake, someone please kill gcj…
- Create a database for SDB in MySQL. I did using phpMyAdmin. Let’s call this database SDB2.
- Prepare a store description file. It serves as config for SDB and contains information like where to connect. You will find one such example file in the SDB directory. Here is an example for the description file I have used:
@prefix sdb: <http://jena.hpl.hp.com/2007/sdb#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix ja: <http://jena.hpl.hp.com/2005/11/Assembler#> .
# MySQL - InnoDB
<#store> rdf:type sdb:Store ;
sdb:layout "layout2" ;
sdb:connection <#conn> ;
sdb:engine "InnoDB" ; # MySQL specific
<#conn> rdf:type sdb:SDBConnection ;
sdb:sdbType "MySQL" ; # Needed for JDBC URL
sdb:sdbHost "localhost" ; # or the IP address of the database server
sdb:sdbName "SDB2" ; # MySQL database name
sdb:driver "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" ;
- Set environment variables:
SDB installation directory –
Path to MySQL JDBC commector jar which contains
- Required tables must be created in database before we can use it. Run following to initialize
SDB2database. This creates 4 tables inside
bin/sdbconfig --sdb=sdb.ttl --create
If this fails, somthing went wrong with settings. Check them again.
- Next you can run test suit to ensure everything is working fine.
bin/sdbtest --sdb=sdb.ttl testing/manifest-sdb.ttl
In my case one testcase failed stating –
Failure: Unicode-5(com.hp.hpl.jena.sdb.test.junit.QueryTestSDB): Results sets not the same
I decided to write this as the SDB wiki does now contains clear steps to follow. Hope your semantic (web) application ROCKS !
- Setting Default JVM on Ubuntu
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'Bachelor' alum Lex McAllister dead at 31
Former "The Bachelor" contestant Alexa "Lex" McAllister has died at 31, police told TheWrap.
Columbus, Ohio police responded to an emergency call at approximately 2 p.m. on Saturday, and the caller indicating that McAllister may have overdosed on prescription pills. McAllister was transported to a local hospital in stable condition, but died at 2:39 a.m. on Tuesday, police said.
A representative for the Franklin County, Ohio, coroner's office told TheWrap that the case had been called into the office, but that McAllister's body had not yet been transported to her office. The coroner's office had no further information.
McAllister appeared on the 14th season of the ABC reality series, which featured Jake Pavelka. She was sent home in the first week.
Read original story 'Bachelor' Alum Lex McAllister Dead at 31 At TheWrap
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San Diego, California – Epsten, APC, one of the oldest and largest Southern California community association law firms, announces its new officers and leadership team effective September 1st, 2021.
SAN DIEGO - Aug. 18, 2021 - PRLog -- Epsten, APC, has one of the strongest teams of common interest development attorneys in the industry with 21 attorneys and three offices in Southern California. The firm is known for its professionalism and quality as well as the reliable legal services it provides to its more than 1700 residential and commercial common interest development clients.
It continues to be the firm's goal to foster a culture based on traditional professional values and service to its clients. The firm practices law in an industry where trust, relationships, and excellence define success for its clients and itself. The firm will continue to provide the same continuity and stability as it has for more than 35 years.
These changes and additions to the Epsten, APC management structure will lead us into the future with a strong team of attorneys and dedicated staff. Managing Shareholders, Jon H. Epsten, Esq., CCAL and Susan M. Hawks McClintic, Esq., together, with fellow shareholders Kieran J. Purcell, Esq., Anne L. Rauch, Esq., Rian W. Jones, Esq., Dea C. Franck, Esq. and William S. Budd, Esq., agree these changes in officers and new roles will position the firm for its next decade of growth.
Effective September 1, 2021, the new leadership team for Epsten, APC is as follows:
- President/CEO/Managing Shareholder: Susan M. Hawks McClintic, Esq.
- Vice President/Client Relations: Jon H. Epsten, Esq., CCAL
- Vice President/CFO: Kieran J. Purcell, Esq.
- Secretary: Anne L. Rauch, Esq.
- Chief Operations Officer: Carolyn D. Decker
- Transactional Department Chairs: Susan M. Hawks McClintic, Esq., and Kieran J. Purcell, Esq.
- Litigation/Appellate Department Chairs: Anne L. Rauch, Esq., and Rian W. Jones, Esq.
- Indian Wells Office Managing Shareholder: Dea C. Franck, Esq.
- Complex Litigation Attorney Mentor: William S. Budd, Esq.
About Epsten, APC
Epsten, APC and its attorneys are dedicated to the practice and study of laws and regulations related to California community associations and common interest developments. As a local Southern California law firm with offices in San Diego, Temecula and Indian Wells, Epsten, APC is proud to be a recognized leader in both community association law and construction law since 1986.
Learn more at www.epsten.com.
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By Judy Reiss
I had the strangest experience the other day, which made me realize that your sense of smell is probably the most important sense we have. Although it sounds silly, here is what happened. I was in an elevator and all of a sudden I got the whiff of the smell of what I think was Brylcreem and Tums. And what it brought back to me was my Grandfather Ayers, who always used Brylcreem to slick back his hair and of course always had at least one Tums in his mouth. Now it might sound crazy now but that smell shocked me so much that I had to look around to see if my grandfather was there. Of course, I knew it couldn’t have really been him because he has been gone for at least 70 years. And how could I actually have been so taken aback that this smell, after at least 70 years, still brought him back so clearly?
So, what do you think? I know that I am right, but I want to know what you think. Of all our senses which includes hearing, taste and of course smell, which do you think is the most interesting and we use the most? Think about it. You can hear all sorts of things which will remind you of something from your past. But I am not sure how important that sound really is. I think that if you hear something that reminds you of something you have heard before, it is probably true. But it also is a sound that you have heard lots of times before. The sound of a bell might remind you of elementary school but it also is a sound that you have heard lots of times at various other times and places. So school is just one of many sounds in your memory.
I am not sure about taste at all. I can’t think of one thing that tastes either good or bad that actually brings back a memory. Maybe a wonderful ice cream cone of a wonderful flavor will bring back a memory of a specific event from your childhood. For me, I can’t remember any specific ice cream flavor but I do remember a specific birthday party where Dixie Cup vanilla and chocolate ice cream was served and as an adult I have had a similar Dixie Cup and found it did bring me back. Of course, back then no one had ice cream on a regular basis and a Dixie Cup was a very special treat. When I had one as an adult it just wasn’t the same! It did remind me of that birthday party but just not the same.
Now when I think of smell, I can think of lots of times that I have smelled something that actually brought back lots of special memories. Not every memory is one that is wonderful, some were just memories of events that were just part of my growing up experience. Believe it or not when I was growing up I was lucky enough to have both sets of grandparents. And each set lived in their own house. And each house smelled entirely different. One grandmother was not just a good cook, she was also a baker who baked almost every day. So, of course, her house smelled like delicious produce. The other set was quite a bit younger and as I remember, both of them smoked. So their house smelled like smoke and also of fresh flowers. And I found both homes a warm and happy place to go. And today? Well, I know that I have been in many places that smelled like these terrific places as a young girl growing up. And every time I have smelled the smells of my childhood, I have been able to take myself back to what was a very happy time for me.
I can taste a cookie or even a piece of plum pudding that my grandmother baked and find it wonderful. But it doesn’t actually take me back to her kitchen the way a smell of them baking would do.
Strange as it sounds, I spent some time in a hospital once and when I awoke, before I opened my eyes, I smelled the smells of my Nana’s house and was shocked when I opened my eyes and couldn’t see or hear the trains that always went by near her backyard. Can you imagine such a distinct smell and that it would actually bring back such a memory after that many years?
So for me the answer is smell is the most important sense. And I love the opportunity to smell a happy part of my childhood. Maybe I am just getting so old that these senses are actually part of me. What about you? Do you have the wonderful opportunity to revisit your growing up when a small whiff of something just crosses your face and your nose? How lucky are we to have the wonderful sense of smell! A lot more fun than the other senses or none at all.
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Submitted January 24th, 2009
WOW! Amazing one
this is amazing. i love the abstract. and the watercolor feel. truly awesome
+1 from me
whoa, incredible, hit vote!
Love it, +1… I’ll buy this one in a heartbeat.
Check out my design too if you get a chance.
Very, very interesting and high quality illustration.
I would by it. +1
great work man
nice illustration.. check mine out too
yess! ive been waitin’ for another one from you. wonderful illustration. (creme or white)
So awesome! +1
critique me if ya got a sec?
Color wise, I love the white. White is just my favorite :)
Amazing how you incorporated so many things into one.
this is awesome!!!congrats
this is siiick!
i feel in love with it the moment i saw the thumb, it looks so much better on creme, this will get printed for sure, if you have any time check out mine please, another one for you….peace…
Intriguing design that holds interest. A keeper!
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My inspiration to paint the land and seascapes and share the beauty and spirit of this beautiful land. My roots are European- so I did receive most of my art education in The Netherlands. As a graduate from The Design Academy in Eindhoven and The Academy of Fine Arts in Utrecht, I have explored Art in many dimensions- in the true sense of aesthetics, as well as in Industrial Design and daily life.
In the 1980’s and begin 90’s I had an international career in graphic design, corporate design and management. I won recognition from the industry for a Corporate Identity Strategy Manual in the form of an International Gold Design Award in London, UK.
Employed by a London graphics design firm, DIA, I created corporate communication strategies for a number of international companies, including Honda Motors Europe, Costain and TNT Sky Pak.
Settling in Canada on the Sunshine Coast with my family in 1994, I found great inspiration in the natural beauty of the West Coast. This created a balance, sparking my current lifestyle, allowing more focus on my painting.
Here I am surrounded by nature and ever-present to an overwhelming sense of expanse. Originally from Europe, I had never experienced this before. Every single day, I am aware of true greatness, openness and beauty when I view the ocean and North Shore Mountains, or on my yearly kayak trips and daily runs through the forest.
Currently I am represented by the Kurbatoff Art Gallery for the greater Vancouver and White Rock area.
Enjoy a few images of Marleen’s recent work and
please visit her website MarleenArt.com.
I am an abstract painter. I primarily work in oil and paint my impressions of life on canvas. The physical act of painting, the process, is as important to me as colour choice, contrast, composition, and all the “laws” of design and art making.
I’ve been painting since I was a teen. I discovered then, the power of turning colour into a tree, sunset or mountaintop. I learned that I had the freedom to change what I saw or felt into my own expression of it. I love to paint and I’ve been compelled to create ever since.
My fascination with visual art, technology, and film making lead me to a post secondary education in Broadcast Television, and I worked in the industry for a number of years until finally returning my focus back to my original love of oil painting.
I am continually coming up with ideas and I’ve devoted most of my life to exploring those ideas through some form of art. When you see my work, you are seeing a visual translation of my thoughts and ideas on canvas.
I am an abstract painter but really, I’m an optimist striving to connect with people through my artwork because I believe that connection creates awareness and understanding.
Enjoy a few images of Marlene’s recent work
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BURTON, Michigan — Local parents and parents-to-be can put their minds at ease about car seat safety during regular child safety seat sessions, to be offered starting Saturday through Genesys Regional Medical Center and Greater Flint Safe Kids.
Certified Child Passenger Safety technicians will perform safety inspections on car seats and teach proper installation of seats.
Sessions will take place this Saturday, by appointment only, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Burton Fire Station No. 1, 2033 E. Bristol Road, near Saginaw Street.
Sessions will follow the first Saturday of each month — except holiday weekends — at the same times and location.
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Interesting as I was reading a post at Lisleman’s A Few Clowns Short, he asked have you done something or been somewhere that doesn’t exist anymore. Lo and behold, further down in my reading, I learned that the iconic Jaws Ride at Universal Studios Orlanda is closing.
Based off the 1970’s Jaws Movie, the ride has been a part of Universal Studios since it opened in 1990. They had a link to a video in the linked article but it was long so for the interested, here is a shorter video of the ride only.
So go ahead an answer Lisleman’s question. What place from your past is no longer around?
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Until the 1960s, Benidorm was a small fishing village; today it is known for its hotel industry, beaches and skyscrapers. According to the 2014 census, Benidorm has a permanent population of 69,010 inhabitants, making it the fifth most populous town in the Alicante province. Benidorm has the most high-rise buildings per capita in the world.
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With a spotlight on sustainable fashion options, Handmade Canberra’s spring market is on this weekend, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September, packed full of fashion, food and fun. Market organisers have chosen to highlight fashion for the September markets, with a focus on the abundance and quality of the ‘slow’ and sustainable fashion options available. Handmade traders must only sell Australian-made goods, and managing director Julie Nichols says “so many of our designers are committed to more ethical and sustainable production methods. Many of them design and print their own fabrics and source recycled materials”. The markets will again be supporting local charity organisations. GIVIT will be collecting donations at the entries, and the Newborn Intensive Care Foundation (NICF) will be holding their annual Bake for Babies fundraising stall, raising money for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Handmade Canberra spring market, 7-8 September 10am-4pm at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC). Entry: free, but donations to charity collectors are encouraged. More info: handmadecanberra.com.au
Consequence of Change
Being environmentally friendly just got a whole lot cuter, with the launch of Consequence of Change’s debut collection of designer bags. A one-woman start-up, Consequence of Change celebrates and showcases the work of emerging Australian artists on canvas bags, and has embraced the notion of a ‘moving canvas’, allowing the purchaser to wear their artwork on their arm. A portion of each sale is also donated to i=Change, a platform that allows the purchaser to choose where their donation goes after the sale.
To find out more, visit consequenceofchange.com
Women’s Health Week
Women’s Health Week (2-6 September) is on right now, and women’s health organisation Jean Hailes is urging women around the country to “unlock their powers for good” and look after themselves both inside and out. “Women are leading busier lives than ever before,” says WHW campaign manager, Brenda Jones. “Sometimes they need to be reminded to put themselves on their own to-do lists. WHW is the perfect opportunity for women to set aside some time for their own health and wellbeing. Together, we want women to think about, and do something positive for, their health.” More than 100,000 women and girls were expected to attend WHW events around Australia this week.
For more information, visit womenshealthweek.com.au
The Iconic takes to the skies
Online fashion giant The Iconic has announced a partnership with Alphabet’s drone delivery service Wing, and selected Canberra customers will be able to receive their online orders in as little as 10 minutes. It was announced that Canberra-based customers could initially shop select apparel and accessories via Wing, from a curated edit of pieces from brands Atmos&Here and Staple Superior. Wing and The Iconic said they also plan to deliver products from Calvin Klein, Camilla & Marc, Bonds, Daniel Wellington, G-Shock, Happy Socks, Le Specs, Local Supply, Quay, Ray-Ban and Timex. Customers can order from The Iconic via the Wing app; their order will be dispatched via drone from the company’s depot in Mitchell and make its way to the recipient’s address.
Wing is available for trial in the Gungahlin suburbs of Crace, Palmerston and Franklin, and is coming soon to Harrison. For more information, visit wing.com/australia/canberra
Specsavers x Fred Hollows Foundation
Specsavers has joined forces with The Fred Hollows Foundation to close the gap on vision loss between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, with two limited-edition frames. The frames feature the artwork of Aboriginal artist and Gumatj leader, Peter Datjing Burarrwanga. The artwork, entitled Ganiny and Fog, was one of the first stories painted by Datjing after receiving sight-restoring cataract surgery, and the artwork depicts his homeland Birany Birany in East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. $25 from the sale of each of these frames will be donated to The Fred Hollows Foundation, with the aim of raising $125,000 to help the foundation continue their work in Australia.
Available now in Specsavers stores and online via specsavers.com.au
What’s new in the world of beauty? ‘A Beauty’ (Australian beauty) is continuing to dominate:
Skincare queen and founder of Go-To Skincare, Zoë Foster Blake, has done it again, launching a skincare line for babies and children that claims to be “clean, cute and worry-free”, as well as totally adorable. Foster Blake said she created Gro-To to give children a sense of ownership about their body and what’s used on it. “We made something kids can clearly identify as theirs, because it is theirs,” she said. The products are pH-balanced and free from synthetics, harsh soaps, silicones and SLS. The range comprises a body moisturiser, calming room mist, gentle bubble bath and a body oil.
Prices start from $15, available via grotoskincare.com
Sydney-based makers of natural Aussie products, Bondi Wash have released another hand wash and hand lotion combo in ‘natural native citrus’. Renowned for bringing Australian botanicals into the home, Bondi Wash make products for the home, body, baby (and even the dog), and promise their newest line is free from synthetic ingredients and parabens and is non-toxic, biodegradable and Australian-made.
Native citrus hand wash $30 and hand lotion $50, available via bondiwash.com.au
Another cult Australian beauty brand, Biologi has launched its latest offering to the world – organic rosehip oil that’s unaltered and unrefined. Touted powerful yet gentle, Biologi says their latest product can be used to hydrate the skin, reduce redness and inflammation, improve the colour and texture of scars, reduce blemishes, and smooth fine lines and wrinkles to make the skin feel firmer and tighter.
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RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — A never-before-seen video has been released by the family of a woman who says she was blinded by a Beaumont police officer who pepper sprayed her during a traffic stop.
A Riverside jury is deliberating the case against former officer Enoch Clark, who is charged with using excessive force against motorist Monique Hernandez during a stop that led to her drunk driving arrest in February 2012.
Video released to CBS2 by Hernandez’s family shows the woman in excruciating pain shortly after she was blinded by the spray as she was taken in for treatment.
“I don’t know what he did mom. All I know is I felt something touch my temple… all I seen was little stars,” she says.
The trial wrapped up last week with the prosecution showing dash-cam video of the arrest and the incident. That video is still not available to the public.
Clark, who claims Hernandez resisted arrest, could spend 20 years in prison if convicted.
After four days of deliberation, however, it appears the jury may be deadlocked, with jurors indicating to the judge Monday they were having difficulties.
One issue appears to be defining reasonable force. On Monday, jurors asked the judge to define legal necessity before they went home.
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CHICAGO—Once methotrexate enters a cell through the reduced folate carrier (RFC), which thinks it is picking up folate, the drug is polyglutamated. It is this polyglutamate methotrexate that provides the actual clinical effect. These methotrexate polyglutamate “species” are added and lost over time, but it’s a slow process.
What difference does it make whether a clinician knows this? An understanding of the process makes it more likely a clinician will make sound decisions for their patients, said Joel Kremer, MD, the Pfaff Family Professor of Medicine at Albany Medical College, N.Y., and director of research at The Center for Rheumatology, during the 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. He has devoted much of his career to studying methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. His back-to-basics talk on the cornerstone drug touched on different modes of methotrexate administration, drug resistance and toxicity.
With methotrexate polyglutamate, the underlying science means rapid dosing escalation is probably not the best approach. “Understanding the complexities of the differential cellular sensitivities to methotrexate can, and should, inform our approach to management,” Dr. Kremer said. “Clinical decisions should be anchored with an understanding of the biochemistry and metabolism of this unique drug.”
Researchers have shown it takes a median of 27.5 weeks for methotrexate polyglutamate species to reach a steady state concentration. In other words, Dr. Kremer said, “don’t expect instant results when the dose of methotrexate is changed.”1
“If you choose to increase the dose every two weeks, I can see it as a pragmatic maneuver to get you to the point where you believe your patient will have sufficient methotrexate to do the job,” he said. “But you will not be able to judge the actual clinical result of the increase in a two-week period. There’s simply not enough time for the accumulation of the polyglutamates.”
‘Don’t expect instant results when the dose of methotrexate is changed.’ —Dr. Kremer
More Methotrexate Insights
Dr. Kremer offered six additional insights that hold important clinical ramifications:
- Oral vs. subcutaneous: Oral absorption of methotrexate, he said, is highly variable. It could drop by as much as 30% when the dose increases from 7 mg to 15 mg or more. Switching to parenteral administration, then, can improve bioavailability dramatically.2
- Methotrexate resistance: Rapidly dividing cells take in methotrexate more readily, but the decreased cellular activity from treatment decreases the drug’s uptake. “Thus, long term, clinically effective methotrexate could lead to a diminution of its own uptake and a plateau of response,” Dr. Kremer said.
- Folate and methotrexate efficacy: Although methotrexate is a folate antagonist, taking folate with methotrexate should not be a concern, he said. There is some evidence that in matched populations, those not taking folate need less methotrexate than those taking folate, but the effect is not enough to discourage the use of folate.3 “Withholding folate supplementation with methotrexate is a mistake. There is no reason I can find in the world’s literature to withhold folate supplementation on the day of methotrexate. Folic acid does not enter the cell via the RFC,” so there is no competition for uptake, he said.
- Combinations: Although hydroxychloroquine increases the active tubular resorption of methotrexate, sulfasalazine competes for cellular uptake with methotrexate at the RFC, so it could result in a lower therapeutic effect for methotrexate. The combination of methotrexate and sulfasalazine has proved inferior to methotrexate and hydroxychloroquine, Dr. Kremer said. Interestingly, triple therapy with all three has proved more effective than either of the aforementioned doublet combinations, he said.
- Toxicity: The duration of exposure of rapidly dividing cells to methotrexate will determine whether they become toxic, and any exposure to a serum level of methotrexate of more than 0.05 umol/L for more than 24 hours will result in a cytotoxic effect. Also, any compromise in renal function prolonging the terminal half-life of the drug beyond 24 hours at that level will result in toxicity to rapidly dividing cells in the gut, oral mucosa and bone marrow. Giving methotrexate to patients with renal insufficiency must be done carefully, he said.
- Alcohol consumption and liver monitoring: Dr. Kremer said some patients can tolerate regular alcohol methotrexate for the long term, but other, more sensitive patients will develop irreversible liver fibrosis or cirrhosis. You can’t tell one group from the other, he said, so it’s important not to ignore any elevations of transaminase enzymes or decreases of serum albumin if the levels are sustained on repeat testing. “Any elevations of transaminase enzymes, if persistent,” he said, “should trigger a decrease of the weekly dose until the elevations disappear.”
Thomas R. Collins is a freelance writer living in South Florida.
- Dalrymple JM, Stamp LK, O’Donnell JL, et al. Pharmacokinetics of oral methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Nov;58(11):3299–3308.
- Braun J, Kästner P, Flaxenberg P, et al. Comparison of the clinical efficacy and safety of subcutaneous versus oral administration of methotrexate in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis: Results of a six-month, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, controlled, phase IV trial. Arthritis Rheum. 2008 Jan;58(1):73–81.
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Theme: "Triple Threat"—Theme answers are based on two-word phrases that start with the word triple. But instead of using using the whole phrase (with the word triple), the second word of the phrase appears three times. Clear as mud? Here, this will help....
- 17A: Horse racing coup, literally (CROWN CROWN CROWN) [Triple Crown].
- 23A: Baseball rarity, literally (PLAY PLAY PLAY) [Triple play].
- 45A: Rhythm for waltzing, literally (TIME TIME TIME) [Triple time].
- 54A: Text layout specification, literally (SPACE SPACE SPACE) [Triple space].
Crosswordese 101: In CrossWorld we don't say that the cookies cost $1.00 individually. Or that you'll need to lay out $5.00 for each latte. No, we like our consumer goods divided into pops. That's right. The cookies are $1.00 A POP [32A: Each] and you'll need to lay out $5.00 A POP for the lattes. It's ridiculous really—the cost of a latte. But that's not the point. The point is, if the clue is simply each or per or individually—anything along those lines and you know you're looking for A POP.
But hey, I wasn't really done talking about the theme. Who liked the theme? Who thought it was solid, elegant, and well-executed? Show of hands, please. Okay, hands down. (See how I did that?) I thought it was okay. Actually, I thought half of it was great and the other half ... not so much. Triple time? I'm sure there's some musician out there who will chime in about his 30 years' experience with the New York Philharmonic where they always call 3/4 time "triple time." But me? No, as a matter of fact, I have not played the piano for more than 20 years, but when I did play I was good and back then we called 3/4 time "3/4 time." Triple time means fast to me. One faster than double time. And then there's triple space. Again, I'm sure there's someone out there who's retired from Kinko's and can verify that triple spacing is extremely common. But I don't buy it. I've typed a large number and wide variety of documents in my day (dexterous fingers from all the piano playing, you know) and can't say that I've used triple spacing more than, oh, twice. I was a secretary. For years. Typed a lot. Not much call for the triple spacing. Just sayin'.
Bullets Bullets Bullets:
- 1A: Sitcom set in Korea (M*A*S*H). One of the best sitcoms of all time. You know you cried when Radar walked in and told everyone that Henry Blake's plane had crashed. Don't try to convince me that you didn't.
- 10A: Late-night talk pioneer Jack (PAAR). Did anybody watch Conan last night?
- 33A: Gag response (HA-HA). I read the clue as "gag reflex" and thought "Well, that's pretty gross."
- 39A: Apple MP3 player (IPOD). It's definitely Tuesday if they're gonna give you that much detail in the clue like that. Oh, and looky-here, more product placement at 1D: Computer choices (MACS).
- 62A: Reader of Seventeen (TEEN). As I was flying through the acrosses I saw this clue and thought "Teen. Wait. No, that can't be right. TEEN can't be the answer for a clue with the word sevenTEEN in it." Anyone else catch that? I would call that a mistake.
- 6D: Just free of the bottom, as an anchor (ATRIP). Never heard this word and, in fact, wasn't sure if was supposed to be "at rip." But no, it's just ATRIP.
- 18D: Mystery writer Marsh (NGAIO). Learned about her in crosswords. She was from New Zealand.
- 19D: Guitarist's gadget (CAPO). That's the little doo-hickey they put around the neck of the guitar to, basically, change the key. Unfortunately, that's as much detail as you're going to get from me about that. You know what I'm talking about though, right?
- 25D: It might be applied while puckering (LIP BALM). Hmm. I feel like I'm complaining a lot today and want to remind you all that I'm a very nice person. But I just don't believe that you pucker up to apply lip balm. If you pucker up, you don't really get the proper lip coverage and everyone who knows me knows that I'm a staunch advocate of proper lip coverage.
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Everything Else — 5A: Pub diversion (DARTS); 14A: Spots in high school? (ACNE); 15A: Group cultural values (ETHOS); 16A: Funny Bombeck (ERMA); 20A: Work on seams (SEW); 21A: Moo goo __ pan (GAI); 22A: Draw a bead on (AIM AT); 28A: Strait of Dover port (CALAIS); 30A: Prefix with -syncratic (IDIO-); 31A: University of Maine town (ORONO); 37A: Lecherous (LEWD); 38A: Book in a hotel room (BIBLE); 40A: Lad's love (LASS); 41A: Bakery buy (LOAF); 42A: More than sufficient (AMPLE); 43A: Hood's gal (MOLL); 44A: Chews out (SCOLDS); 49A: Aptly named Renault (LE CAR); 50A: Blazed a trail (LED); 51A: McDonnell Douglas product (JET); 59A: Prefix with dynamic (AERO-); 60A: Fanatical (RABID); 61A: Flu symptom (ACHE); 63A: Coasters with runners (SLEDS); 64A: Refs' fight-ending decisions (TKOS); 2D: Meadow measure (ACRE); 3D: Drift removers (SNOWPLOWS); 4D: Cut with an ax (HEW); 5D: Turns to compost (DECAYS); 7D: Letter after pi (RHO); 8D: Pull off the road (TOW); 9D: Nine-digit ID (SSN); 10D: Jeopardy (PERIL); 11D: Coffeehouse lure (AROMA); 12D: Big name in multilevel marketing (AMWAY); 13D: Vehement speech (RANT); 24D: Comes down to earth (LANDS); 26D: German violinist Busch (ADOLF); 27D: Cry of surprise (YIPE); 28D: Prof.'s employer (COLL.); 29D: Length times width (AREA); 32D: Garlicky mayo (AIOLI); 34D: Brandy distilled from cider (APPLEJACK); 35D: Place for cargo (HOLD); 36D: Fruity drinks (ADES); 38D: Sponge up (BLOT); 42D: Litmus reddeners (ACIDS); 43D: "... for a __ pittance" (MERE); 44D: Rides for knights (STEEDS); 45D: Home often made of canvas nowadays (TEPEE); 46D: Sympathetic words (I CARE); 47D: City SE of Atlanta (MACON); 48D: 11th century Spanish hero (EL CID); 49D: Future atty.'s exam (LSAT); 52D: Canyon rebound (ECHO); 53D: Casual shirts (TEES); 55D: Prom gp. (SRS.); 56D: Buddy (PAL); 57D: Civil War nickname (ABE); 58D: Soft touch (PAT). | <urn:uuid:5b047b42-1ce0-4acd-900d-6a04c30997b9> | CC-MAIN-2016-30 | http://latcrossword.blogspot.com/2009/06/tuesday-june-2-2009-c-frank.html?showComment=1243972386688 | 2016-07-31T00:22:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-30/segments/1469258944256.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20160723072904-00249-ip-10-185-27-174.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929531 | 1,783 |
Written by: Michael Den Boer on November 23rd, 2008
Theatrical Release Date: Japan, 2005
Director: Yûji Tajiri
Writer: Fumio Moriya
Cast: Rinako Hirasawa, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Minami Aiyama, Akino Hirasawa, Takeshi Ito, Setchin Kawaya, Setsuhiko Kobayashi, Yûya Matsuura, Kazuhiro Sano
DVD released: November 18th, 2008
Approximate running time: 109 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1:33:1 Full Frame, Letterboxed Widescreen & 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo English
DVD Release: Salvation Films
Region Coding: Region 0 NTSC
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The Nuns began as a Punk Rock/New Wave band in the late 1970’s. Over the years there have been numerous line changes. The Nuns musical style has changed through the years with the latest incarnation of the band dabbling in the Gothic Rock genre. Since the beginning there has been one constant that has remained and that is the band’s lead singer Jennifer Miro.
“The Nuns: New York Vampires” is collection of live performances and interviews that showcase the current incarnation of The Nuns. The contents on this DVD are broken down into three sections. The first section is titled Videos and the contents are as follows a video introduction with Jennifer Miro (7:43). She discusses how The Nuns and this project came to be. Up next is Live at the Limelight NYC: Short Film “a Message to Nigel” (33:55), Live at the Marquee, London (13:02), Live at Black Mass, London (9:49). These three live performances do a superb job showcasing the bands baroque visual style. These live performances are followed by a Short Film titled “Drusilla Darling” (12:21). This is an odd tale about a vampire that leans more towards campy than scary. The next features on this DVD are two un-aired episodes New York Vampires Episode 1 (30:58) and New York Vampires Episode 2 (27:55), for a purposed TV series about The Nuns and their lives. The remaining contents the section titled Videos is a music video for the song “White Slave” (4:26), A Note from Jennifer (6:00) which is essentially a text bio for Jennifer Miro and the Original Promo Trailer for “The Nuns: New York Vampires” (1:50).
The last two sections are titled History (5:10) which includes a image gallery with music playing in the background and Visuals which includes an assortment of image galleries, Erotic Performance Cards (1:10), Gig Photos (42 seconds), Posters and Advertisements (2:21), Erotic Photos (52 seconds), Jennifer 2007 (2:25) and Jennifer 2008 (1:00). These image galleries also have music playing in the background. Tragically since this collection has been release one of the bands lead singer’s Mistress Kris was murdered in a NYC hotel. Ultimately if you are fan of Gothic music laced with erotica than you are sure to get a kick out of The Nuns: New York Vampires.
All the contents include on this DVD are presented in their original aspect ratio. The image quality fares well throughout with the various segments being shot at different times and under different circumstances. The majority of the content has also been flagged for progressive playback with only a few segments that are interlaced. The image for all of the segments remains stable and there are no problems with ghosting or blurring.
This release comes with one audio option a Dolby Digital stereo mix in English. The audio sounds clean, clear, evenly balanced and at times robust. Overall The Nuns: New York Vampires gets a solid DVD release from Redemption Films. | <urn:uuid:1e3c9f10-e1b0-4b84-9287-7befc3140385> | CC-MAIN-2015-22 | http://10kbullets.com/reviews/n/the-nuns-new-york-vampires/ | 2015-05-23T13:24:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207927634.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113207-00262-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.905469 | 840 |
In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal (also base-16, hexa, or hex) is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F (or a through f) to represent values ten to fifteen.
Its primary use is as a human friendly representation of binary coded values, so it is often used in digital electronics and computer engineering. Since each hexadecimal digit represents four binary digits (bits)—also called a nibble—it is a compact and easily translated shorthand to express values in base two.
In digital computing, hexadecimal is primarily used to represent bytes. Attempts to represent the 256 possible byte values by other means have led to problems. Directly representing each possible byte value with a single character representation runs into unprintablecontrol characters in the ASCII character set. Even if a standard set of printable characters were devised for every byte value, neither users nor input hardware are equipped to handle 256 unique characters. Most hex editing software displays each byte as a single character, but unprintable characters are usually substituted with period or blank.
In URLs, all characters can be coded using hexadecimal. Each 2-digit (1 byte) hexadecimal sequence is preceded by a percent sign. For example, the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Page substitutes a space (which is not allowed in URLs) with the hex code for a space (%20).
In situations where there is no context, a hexadecimal number might be ambiguous and confused with numbers expressed in other bases. There are several conventions for unambiguously expressing values. In mathematics, a subscript is often used on each number explicitly giving the base: 15910 is decimal 159; 15916 is hexadecimal 159 which is equal to 34510. Some authors prefer a text subscript, such as 159decimal and 159hex.
In linear text systems, such as those used in most computer programming environments, a variety of methods have arisen:
In URLs, character codes are written as hexadecimal pairs prefixed with %: http://www.example.com/name%20with%20spaces where %20 is the space (blank) character, code 20 hex, or 32 decimal.
In XML and XHTML, characters can be expressed as hexadecimal using the notation . Color references are expressed in hex prefixed with #: #FFFFFF which gives white.
The C programming language (and its syntactical descendants) use the prefix 0x: 0x5A3 Character and string constants may express character codes in hexadecimal with the prefix x followed by two hex digits: 'x1B' (specifies the Esc control character), "x1B[0mx1B[25;1H" is a string containing 11 characters (not including an implied trailing NUL). To output a value as hexadecimal with the printf function family, the format conversion code %X or %x is used.
In the Unicode standard, a character value is represented with U+ followed by the hex value: U+20AC is the Euro sign (€).
MIME (e-mail extensions) quoted-printable characters by code inside a text/plain MIME-part body prefix non-printable ASCII characters with an equal to sign =, as in Espa=D1a to send "España" (Spain).
In Intel-derived assembly languages, hexadecimal is indicated with a suffixed H or h: FFh or 0A3CH. Some implementations require a leading zero when the first character is not a digit: 0FFh
Notations such as X'5A3' are sometimes seen, such as in PL/I. This is the most common format for hexadecimal on IBM mainframes (zSeries) and midrange computers (iSeries) running traditional OS's (zOS, zVSE, zVM, TPF, OS/400), and is used in Assembler, PL/1, Cobol, JCL, scripts, commands and other places. This format was common on other (and now obsolete) IBM systems as well.
Donald Knuth introduced the use of particular typeface to represent a particular radix in his book The TeXbook. There, hexadecimal representations are written in a typewriter typeface: 5A3
There is no universal convention to use lowercase or uppercase for the letter digits, and each is prevalent or preferred by particular environments by community standards or convention.
The choice of the letters A through F to represent the digits above nine was not universal in the early history of computers. During the 1950s, some installations favored using the digits 0 through 5 with a macron character ("¯") to indicate the values 10-15. Users of Bendix G-15 computers used the letters U through Z. Bruce A. Martin of Brookhaven National Laboratory considered the choice of A-F "ridiculous" and in 1968 proposed in a letter to the editor of the ACM an entirely new set of symbols based on the bit locations, which did not gain much acceptance.
Not only are there no digits to represent the quantities from ten to fifteen—so letters are used as a substitute—but most Western European languages also lack a nomenclature to name hexadecimal numbers. "Thirteen" and "fourteen" are decimal-based, and even though English has names for several non-decimal powers: pair for the first binary power; score for the first vigesimal power; dozen, gross, and great gross for the first three duodecimal powers. However, no English name describes the hexadecimal powers (corresponding to the decimal values 16, 256, 4096, 65536, ...). Some people read hexadecimal numbers digit by digit like a phone number: 4DA is "four-dee-aye". However, the letter 'A' sounds similar to eight, 'C' sounds similar to three, and 'D' can easily be mistaken for the 'ty' suffix: Is it 4D or forty? Other people avoid confusion by using the NATO phonetic alphabet: 4DA is "four-delta-alpha". Similarly, some use the Joint Army/Navy Phonetic Alphabet ("four-dog-able"), or a similar ad hoc system.
The hexadecimal system can express negative numbers the same way as in decimal: –2A to represent –42 and so on.
However, some prefer instead to express the exact bit patterns used in the processor and consider hexadecimal values best handled as unsigned values. This way, the negative number –42 can be written as FFFF FFD6 in a 32-bit CPU register, as C228 0000 in a 32-bit FPU register or C045 0000 0000 0000 in a 64-bit FPU register.
As with other numeral systems, the hexadecimal system can be used to represent rational numbers, although recurring digits are common since sixteen (10h) has only a single prime factor (two):
For any base, 0.1 (or "1/10") is always equivalent to one divided by the representation of that base value in its own number system: Counting in base 3 is 0, 1, 2, 10 (three). Thus, whether dividing one by two for binary or dividing one by sixteen for hexadecimal, both of these fractions are written as 0.1. Because the radix 16 is a perfect square (4²), fractions expressed in hexadecimal have an odd period much more often than decimal ones, and there are no cyclic numbers (other than trivial single digits). Recurring digits are exhibited when the denominator in lowest terms has a prime factor not found in the radix; thus, when using hexadecimal notation, all fractions with denominators that are not a power of two result in an infinite string of recurring digits (such as thirds and fifths). This makes hexadecimal (and binary) less convenient than decimal for representing rational numbers since a larger proportion lie outside its range of finite representation.
All rational numbers finitely representable in hexadecimal are also finitely representable in decimal, duodecimal and sexagesimal: that is, any hexadecimal number with a finite number of digits has a finite number of digits when expressed in those other bases. Conversely, only a fraction of those finitely representable in the latter bases are finitely representable in hexadecimal: That is, decimal 0.1 corresponds to the infinite recurring representation 0.199999999999... in hexadecimal. However, hexadecimal is more efficient than bases 12 and 60 for representing fractions with powers of two in the denominator (e.g., decimal one sixteenth is 0.1 in hexadecimal, 0.09 in duodecimal, 0;3,45 in sexagesimal and 0.0625 in decimal).
Most computers manipulate binary data, but it is difficult for humans to work with the large number of digits for even a relatively small binary number. Although most humans are familiar with the base 10 system, it is much easier to map binary to hexadecimal than to decimal because each hexadecimal digit maps to a whole number of bits (410).
This example converts 11112 to base ten. Since each position in a binary numeral can contain either a 1 or 0, its value may be easily determined by its position from the right:
00012 = 110
00102 = 210
01002 = 410
10002 = 810
= 810 + 410 + 210 + 110
With surprisingly little practice, mapping 11112 to F16 in one step becomes easy: see table in Uses. The advantage of using hexadecimal rather than decimal increases rapidly with the size of the number. When the number becomes large, conversion to decimal is very tedious. However, when mapping to hexadecimal, it is trivial to regard the binary string as 4 digit groups and map each to a single hexadecimal digit.
This example shows the conversion of a binary number to decimal, mapping each digit to the decimal value, and adding the results.
Compare this to the conversion to hexadecimal, where each group of four digits can be considered independently, and converted directly:
The conversion from hexadecimal to binary is equally direct.
The octal system can also be useful as a tool for people who need to deal directly with binary computer data. Octal represents data as three bits per character, rather than four.
Converting from other bases
Division-remainder in source base
As with all bases there is a simple algorithm for converting a representation of a number to hexadecimal by doing integer division and remainder operations in the source base. Theoretically this is possible from any base but for most humans only decimal and for most computers only binary (which can be converted by far more efficient methods) can be easily handled with this method.
Let d be the number to represent in hexadecimal, and the series hihi-1...h2h1 be the hexadecimal digits representing the number.
i := 1
hi := d mod 16
d := (d-hi) / 16
If d = 0 (return series hi) else increment i and go to step 2
"16" may be replaced with any other base that may be desired.
Addition and multiplication
It is also possible to make the conversion by assigning each place in the source base the hexadecimal representation of its place value and then performing multiplication and addition to get the final representation.
I.e. to convert the number B3AD to decimal one can split the conversion into D (1310), A (1010), 3 (310) and B (1110) then get the final result by
multiplying each decimal representation by 16p, where 'p' is the corresponding position from right to left, beginning with 0. In this case we have 13*(160) + 10*(161) + 3*(162) + 11*(163), which is equal 45997 in the decimal system.
Conversion via binary
As most computers work in binary, the normal way for a computer to make such a conversion would be to convert to binary first (by doing multiplication and addition in binary) and then make use of the direct mapping from binary to hexadecimal.
Tools for conversion
Most modern computer systems with graphical user interfaces provide a built-in calculator utility, capable of performing conversions between various radixes, generally including hexadecimal.
In MicrosoftWindows, the Calculator utility can be set to scientific calculator mode, which allows conversions between radix 16 (hexadecimal), 10 (decimal), 8 (octal) and 2 (binary); the bases most commonly used by programmers. In Scientific Mode, the on screen numeric keypad includes the hexadecimal digits A through F which are active when "Hex" is selected. The Windows Calculator however only supports integers.
The word "hexadecimal" is strange in that hexa is derived from the Greek έξ (hex) for "six" and decimal is derived from the Latin for "tenth". It may have been derived from the Latin root, but Greek deka is so similar to the Latin decem that some would not consider this nomenclature inconsistent. However, the word "sexagesimal" (base 60) retains the Latin prefix. The earlier Bendix documentation used the term "sexadecimal". Donald Knuth has pointed out that the etymologically correct term is "senidenary", from the Latin term for "grouped by 16". (The terms "binary", "ternary" and "quaternary" are from the same Latin construction, and the etymologically correct term for "decimal" arithmetic is "denary".) Schwartzman notes that the pure expectation from the form of usual Latin-type phrasing would be "sexadecimal", but then computer hackers would be tempted to shorten the word to "sex". Incidentally, the etymologically proper Greek term would be hexadecadic (although in Modern Greekdeca-hexadic (δεκαεξαδικός) is more commonly used).
Common patterns and humor
Hexadecimal is sometimes used in programmer jokes because certain words can be formed using only hexadecimal digits. Some of these words are "dead", "beef", "babe", and with appropriate substitutions "c0ffee". Since these are quickly recognizable by programmers, debugging setups sometimes initialize memory to them to help programmers see when something has not been initialized.
Some people add an H after a number if they want to show that it is written in hexadecimal. In older Intel assembly syntax, this is sometimes the case.
"Hexspeak" may be the forerunner of the modern web parlance of "1337speak"
An example is the magic number in FAT Mach-O files and javaclass file structure, which is "CAFEBABE". Single-architecture Mach-O files have the magic number "FEEDFACE" at their beginning. "DEADBEEF" is sometimes put into uninitialized memory. Microsoft Windows XP clears its locked index.dat files with the hex codes: "0BADF00D".
Two common bit patterns often employed to test hardware are 01010101 and 10101010 (their corresponding hex values are 55h and AAh, respectively). The reason for their use is to alternate between off ('0') to on ('1') or vice versa when switching between these two patterns. These two values are often used together as signatures in critical PC system sectors (e.g., the hex word, 0xAA55 which on little-endian systems is 55h followed by AAh, must be at the end of a valid Master Boot Record).
The following table shows a joke in hexadecimal:
The first three are interpreted as multiplication, but in the last, "0x" signals Hexadecimal interpretation of 12, which is 18.
Another joke based on the use of a word containing only letters from the first six in the alphabet (and thus those used in hexadecimal) is...
If only DEAD people understand hexadecimal, how many people understand hexadecimal?
In this case, DEAD refers to a hexadecimal number (57005 base 10), not the state of being no longer alive. Obviously, DEAD normally should not be written in all-caps (as in the preceding) as it makes it stand out, thus ruining the riddle.
There have been occasional attempts to promote hexadecimal as the preferred numeral system. These attempts usually
propose pronunciation and/or symbology. Sometimes the proposal unifies standard
measures so that they are multiples of 16.
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Want to know what the property market is really doing in Brisbane? Well let’s take a look at the CoreLogic figures are telling us.
Firstly, let me explain who CoreLogic is, in case you don’t know. They are Australia’s leading property market researchers. They run the stats, the numbers, the data – everything, based on what’s actually happening out there in the real world of real estate. They report on those facts and figures without bias or speculation. So when we’re looking for real information, rather than turn to media outlets, we turn to Core Logic.
As of the end of July 2020, property values saw a decrease of 0.4% for the month and a decrease of 0.9% for the quarter, but… the annual change is up 3.8%. This figure is lower than Sydney and Melbourne figures, but it’s still holding.
Of course, there are many things currently supporting the property markets around nationally. Record-low interest rates make borrowing very easy for those with secure jobs and good incomes. The record levels of government support and also the repayment holidays for distressed borrowers also help to insulate any immediate impact on property values. Additionally, the federal and state government incentives for first home buyers has increased demand for entry level houses.
So values are holding and even increasing. That’s a great sign.
On the ground in Greater Brisbane, we’re seeing lots of interest from buyers. Quality homes in desirable locations are being put on the market and they’re selling at a good pace. During July some open homes that the researchers attended had 30-40 groups through, which demonstrates that the interest is real and the buyers are active.
If you’re hoping to buy a “pandemic bargain”, chances are high that you’ll be disappointed because we’re just not seeing that predicted “crash”. Many properties are being sold off-market for good prices and both buyers and vendors are being savvy rather than greedy.
These figures remind us not to get caught up in the little peaks and troughs along the way and certainly not to get caught up in media hype about booms and busts.
For the vast majority of us, buying property is a long term investment. In reality, the value of our property is only relevant on the day we sell or refinance, not today, tomorrow or next month.
If you are looking to buy or sell, our advice is to do your research – compare CURRENT, LOCAL sales and listings. Talk to agents. Let them know you’re serious. Ask for verification of the figures you’re being shown. Get clued up on fact rather than fiction.
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How to Make It
In a blender or mini processor, combine the ginger, garlic, vinegar, ají amarillo paste, black pepper and 1 tablespoon of the soy sauce and puree until smooth. Reserve the ginger-garlic sauce.
In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook the pasta until al dente. Drain well.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat the oil. Add the ground beef and cook over high heat, stirring to break up the meat, until browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer the meat to a bowl.
Add the onion to the skillet and cook over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the meat and tomatoes and cook over high heat for 1 minute, then add the remaining 2 tablespoons of soy sauce and boil for 1 minute. Stir in the chicken stock and the ginger-garlic sauce and bring to a boil.
Add the pasta and grated Parmesan to the sauce and toss to coat. Fold in the cilantro and season with salt. Transfer to a bowl, garnish with Parmesan shavings and serve.
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absolutely nothing ot tho Kaeua's
cruioo or its object.
Nile ill Mut K.
At noon today auctioneer Mor
gan dispot-ed of 170 shaies of the
stock of tho Hawaiian Ilardwaie
Company by order of tho Boaul
of Directors for non-payment of
an abbossmeut of tf-5 per shaie.
Fifty dollars por share
had been paid up. Tho stock wus
sold in two blocks, one of 20 and
tho other of loO shares. Cecil
Brown was the purchaser of both
lots at Si per bhare, theie being
no other bids offered.
A G-roomod cottage, stables
aud servant's quarters, situate on
Wilder avenue. Large grounds
well laid out aud planted with
fruit and ornamental trees; ouo
full set of furniture and cookiug
stove cau einuiu in the house if
wanted. Apply to A. V. Gear,
210 King stivU.
A I'Hlrnl Ire.tj Willi Jhiuiii.
Washington, D. C, March 11.
Tho President has proclaimed tho
now patent convention with Japan
and it is now opeiativo. The
treaty piovalrs that citizens or
subjects of either country shall
have tho same protection as
native citizens regarding patents,
trademarks and designs.
By tho steamer Miowora, tho
Criterion Siloon received a large,
cousigumontof tho celebrated bock
boor, brewed by tho Seutllo Brow
ing and Malting Co. This is tho
first bock to make its appearauce,
and is a sure indication of bettor
EVENING BULLETIN, APIUL 5, 187.
The arrival of the last Aus
tralia was greeted with a sigh
ot relief from the whole com
munity. The unusually long in
terval between mails had made
people quite anxious, and rum
ors of war and other political
disturbances were flying as
thick as leaves in Vallambiosa.
The encouraging news of the
)robable passage of the Ding
ey bill, imposing a duty onall
oreign sugars while preserving
or Hawaii nei the advantages
of the Reciprocity Treaty, glad
dened the hearts of all, planters
as well as merchants, who pre
dict a new era of prosperity
and progress for these beauti
ful Isles of the Pacific. News
was also brought of the knock
ing out of Champion JimCor
bett by his sturdy opponent
The "Tribune Bicycle"
knocks them all out. Like the
Roman tribunes of old, it stands
on a pinnacle of fame, elevated
above all others, and like Fitz
simmons it beats all the other
The '97. Model is the acme
of peifection in wheels; it has
no equal. We received a num
ber of them by this Australia
and can furnish them in black,
royal, blue or maroon.
The Sager Pneumatic Saddle
is recognized as the best for
ease and comfort; no disease
of the spine or jar to your nerves
if you ride this saddle.
The Stodder Puncture
less Tire is impenetrable by
glass, nails, thorns, pins, etc ,
and yet it retains all the elastic
and resilient qualities. Every
Tire guaranteed for one year.
In addition to the above we
handle the Zimmy, Stormer
and other bicycles and carry a
full line of M. & W. Tires,
Rims, Handle Bars in wood
and nickel, Bells, Cyclometers,
Come and inspect our new
Hawaiian Hardware Co.
NO. 307 FORT STREET,
In Suitings Lbi?
A 1'erfoct Fit Guaranteed.
J. P. !
1 4-2 ITort Stroot.
I3T TELEPHONE 012 jr
Dissolution of Copartner
ship. To Whom It May Cosor.rtN:
-Tbu copirtuerrhip herolofoie cxlnt
lug liotweuu the unikwigntil under
tbo llrm mime ot I'opple'on & Moot!
bus been tliN iluy dissolved by mutual
c.otiK'Ul. Mr. Ezra l'oppletnn will
continue tbo luisius ami uasumo all
nubilities', uud uollecU ull outstand
I 7M 1'OPPIiE'ION,
Honolulu, Ii I , A'iil i, IU''?.
IN THE CIKOU1T UOUIIT OF
tho Klrot Circmlt, Hawullau ralandn.
In Die Mutter of tbo liuiikruptey of
William W. Hoyd. Cieillton of tbo
mill Iltttikriipt are lirreby uotllleil to
(oni.i hi rtiul pniv llu'irdftt efor
lliti cluk of tbo Ciruult C'ouit of die
Klmt Circuit, nt tli Court Hoine, on
Kridiiy, UieOtli iluy ot April, lb97, bw
twueu the liotirH of ten o'olonk In tho
forenoon hikI noon of the sabl iliy,
mill elect un Assignee of tbo wilit
lly the (Joint:
GEOltGE LUC AH, Clerk.
Once a Year
Once a Year
Once a Year
BST AT THE
Nuuanu and King Streots.
Each day adds a number of
meiubeis to our popular
Club ono and two drew last
Satuiday. Club three is rapid
ly rilling up. The satno on
tliusiHsui fin ot old cxintH, all
(duBses aro anxious to join, bo
cause it is a clear saving of
You Throw Away
Besides anothor vital point
adds to tho popularity, and that
is that wo do not mako it
obligatory to take a watch, but
allow you to select any ono or
moro articles in tho store, no
matter in what lino. Could
anything bo fairer to you?
We want to nay right bore,
that we will back up any uud
ovory article selected in our
club with tho same full and
complato guarantee whioh goes
with ovory piece of goods sold
in the store. You tako no risk
whatovor. Wo tuko it all.
On and after April Ut, Dm. Cooper
& HaymonJ will occupy the oflices of
Dr. McOrew nn Hotel Htreet. Olllco
hours from 8:30 to 10 a in, 1:30 to 3
and 7 to 8 p. m. Teli-pbono No. 154.
Hotel St., near Fort. Tol. 802.
The Manufacturing Harness Co. ?jji
Kort an,l King St roofs.
Telepiioni: 228. P. O. Box 022.
f -' w
. . "jr f.i
OUR SPJV-01AL.TY IS
HandmaUe Harness, &tc
K, Wc keep in &tock and sell no goods oxcopt
OUR OWN MANUFACTURE.
arc clothes cranks,
iu tliut they foul
no elotlicH aiV good
elothee save tailors' clothes
make good clothes,
but charge too
much for tho goodness.
Gooducss is an incident.
lack tho incident, '
ovon when tho tailor
charges for it. Same
cloth, samo mako,
with incident, for half
tailor's prico our way.
9 Hotel Street
We Wake Shirts to Order.
Tbo uuilorMuiiU'l having been ap
potuteil AduiiuUtrutix of the Evtato
of Cluing King, late ot WhIuIuu, Otliu,
deceased, by order uf I by Honorable
A. l'erry, Second Juil of tbo Circuit
Court, Klrot Judicial Ciicult, itepub"
Hoof Huwuil, hereby iiotitloa ull per
sona having claims agiiut ubl ch
th to to present thuhauio with vouchers
duly authenticated, oven though the
sumo bo feeuied by inorli;ago upon
real estate, to hliu at Wululua, OhIiu,
within six (6) months from lUte
beieof, or such claims will bo forever
buried. All pen-oin Indebted to nald
eHtute are also notified and directed to
pay such debts to the Administrator
only. PAUL MAHAULU,
Administrator of tho Estate of Cbang
Dated Walalua, Oahu, March 8,
1897. 658 4t
Election. of Officers.
The following OlUcern imve btcu
elected by the Woodlawn Fiult Com
pany to eerve for the ensuing year;
F. W. MoChesney President.
J. S. Walker
Secretary aud Treasurer.
J. H. Bchiiaok Auditor.
The ubove'together with J. Lazarus
constitute the Boaid of Directors.
J. 8. WAIiKKR,
Honolulu, March 12, 1607. 571-3t
Furnished Houie on' lleietunla
street, the renldf lice of Louis Marks,
completely furnished throughout and
ready loi iiiiineoriie ixxui-uuuy.
607-tf GEO, ii. HOARDMAN.
Notice of Removal.
On and after April 1st, C. V. K.
Dove, (Surveyor and Civil Englueor,
will occupy his New Oluce in tho
Campbell lil-cfc, op (ttti, next to iho
otllce of the Bwhop Hjtato. 5a-lw
On and after April 1st Dr. II. V.
Murray will occupy the House of
BtiiceCartwrlght, corner Alukea and
Reretaulu streets. B7l-lw
J. J. COUGHLTN.
Including a Fine Line of
In large variety. Also
Etc., Etc., Etc.
FOR SALK IIV
Von Holt Block. King Street.
In tho Cirnuit Court ofQn,,.rl.0l
the First Clicuit, Huwail- OTA'S
an Islands. James J. Byrne vs. John
Allot), II. Allen and other?, at Cham
berh. Tbo Kepuullo of Hawaii: To
tlie Maiijlml of the Ha wniiuu Inlands,
or bis I)uiuty, Oreetlng: You aro
herehy couiiiiainUil to pummoii John
Vllen, Henry Allen, Heurv Rhodes,
W. H. Iiunibert. A. I-ek, 11. F. Dll
ltiighum aud O.ibu Railroad & Laud
Co. to appear ten days alter tiorvlco
ueieof, lftiioy lesido on the Island of
O.iliu, otherwise twenty days after
tervlee, before such Judge of tbo Cir
cuit Court of the First Circuit o shall
liewltllug at Clmmbcis iu the Court
Itoom, nt Honolulu, in the Judiciary
Buildlug, to'auswor the uunexed bill
or James J. Byrne. Ami you are fur
ther commanded, by order of tbo Hou.
A. W. Carter, 1st Judge of the Circuit
Court of the 1st Circuit', that process
be served upon V. A. IClnney, Esq ,
for aud on behalf of A. Feek nud that
a temporary Injunction issue h pniyed
for against tbo Oahu Railroad & Lnul
Company, A. Feek, bis Attorneys,
Agent and Factors, uud have you
then there this Writ, with your re
in ' -'if u
I spi I Witaoi-j tho Flint Judge
1 HI'AI' of tbo Circuit Court of the
First Circuit, at Honolulu, this 27th
day of July, 1890.
(Slg) GEORGE LUCAS,
i HG'S, Civil Code. Tho time with
in which au act Is to be done,
flull bo computed by excluding tho
llrdt day and including tho last. If
the last day be Sunday, it shall be
r fsrltflf flit, fnrniiiilni. frvlr.i. i.in
copy of the original summon!. Iu .'.lid
taunc, nuu iiiai niu v,ijuru oroerea inai
fcervico be m.tdu Uon said uou resi
lient oeieuuanr, a. roeK, oy puidlca
tion of tho same uud coutluuauce of
nild 'Hii!' until tin !!Hlh dav of Juue,
1M7, a. 10 o'o o.'k iu tho for.iiii'iii.
Honolulu, H I Mfliidi 11), lht)7,
J. A. THOMPSON,
One Kiuo Taiuily CiiiridRe Ilorso war.
ruuttd tj be a geuth uuiuiul. -ply to
w. w. wmanT,
B'a-lw , Port htreet.
NOTARY PUBLIC aM TYPEWRITER
OfKicm 203 Merchant strtet, Cuuipbell
Hloik rear of J. 0. Curler' office, v. O.
Box :t;io '
I f'iKM&i Jh'', - .iW, ,.!- , .3 . i-
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3,6 en julio 27, 2013
I spent four nights here on a business trip. The cottage is well appointed, and if you like dogs, the two next door are as lovable as you'll ever meet. The view is great, and the location is easy to find. I like the idea of making my own breakfast, and I am sure thy would be accommodating for special food needs. The office area is especially nice for anyone in the area on business, and the Wi-Fi signal is strong.
4,0 en junio 30, 2009
The stars shine bright. The warmth of the sun is subdued by a gentle breeze. The view of the hills and trees is spectacular. All this happens on the porch of the Fling Family B&B. Dancing to the band and chatting on the deck of the Fling Barn could not have been more fun.This was a great way for we city people to go home to our country roots. Thanks to the Fling Family for a wonderful week end. We will be back. Don and Carolyn -Ft. Thomas, Ky
4,6 en noviembre 03, 2008
This B&B has a long-distance view of rolling hills that looked great in the fall colors. The abundance of windows and the big rooms had me moving around with my coffee cup to find several favorite perches for nice views. Things to do included walking down to see the horses and then looking forward to getting back to those big leather couches where I could really sink in. The rural location has a night sky with the milky-way I have not seen in my Ohio hometown for about 30 years. Bill and Debbie provided opportunities for socializing at the out-door fire-pit and for just chit-chatting about how farm life was or is. A glass of wine at the end of the day seemed to be an essential part of the experience which has us wishing for more.
4,6 en junio 24, 2008
This is just an incredible B&B. It's actually a large, two-floor cottage, with a spacious downstairs living room/dining area/kitchen, and a wonderfully furnished upstairs bedroom with office area, sitting area, kitchenette and outdoor deck. The cottage sits on a 200 acre farm with dramatic views and lush vegetation. There is wonderful hiking and lots of quiet areas to sit and read or bird watch. The owners were welcoming and very friendly. All in all, our stay was everything we could ask for. We highly recommend this B&B. | <urn:uuid:9322a773-f165-4fe1-8630-399367f26e66> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.bedandbreakfast.com/es/ohio-hillsboro-flingfamilyfarmbb-reviews.html | 2014-12-19T17:53:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768741.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00066-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958192 | 523 |
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The McBurney Transport group began in 1965 with the formation of McBurney Transport in Ballymena by Norman McBurney, OBE. Over the past 40 years, the company has grown substantially to become one of Ireland's largest independently run logistics operations. We offer a wide and varying range of transportation and warehousing services 'tailored' to meet each of our customer's needs throughout Northern Ireland, UK, Republic of Ireland & Europe.
We have a diverse customer base of over 200 companies throughout the entire range of industry sectors. Many of our customers are blue-chip companies within the marketplace.
We believe that the transport industry is always evolving and we have endeavoured to adapt our services to meet all our customer's requirements. We have developed our 'one stop shop' capability over the years and the McBurney Transport group's main objective is to provide a 'complete transport package' for its customers, which includes the supply of:
Transportation of full and part loads of:
Dry/ ambient goods
Temperature controlled goods
Paper for recycling
Storage & warehousing of:
Dry/ ambient goods
Groupage, warehousing, distribution & home delivery services
Vehicle, trailer & driver hire on a ?customer demand? basis
Consolidation and cross docking of loads
Administration and management provided at customer warehouses & depots for smooth running of the contract.
A comprehensive tailored logistics service
We are a family run business with founding member Norman McBurney as the present managing director. He is joined by his wife Lynn and five children, who are all actively involved in the daily operations of the group. They all play vital roles within the group to ensure its continuing success and growth within a market, which is more challenging and complex than ever.
We have the resources!
We have 1100 vehicles & trailers in our fleet and currently employ 600 staff throughout our depots. We have a very low turnover of staff, which we believe is an asset. We invest in our people and provide good working conditions, which encourages experienced staff to remain within the company and work to the best of their ability. We also have 80-100 dedicated sub-contractors based throughout the UK and Ireland. Each subcontractor has been vetted to ensure they maintain the high service levels expected by the group
We have a wide range of depots and operational bases throughout the UK & Ireland which enables us to provide our customers with a comprehensive and efficient service on both sides of the Irish Sea and beyond into Europe.
We are a private Company with a distinct management team, which enables informed decisions to be made quickly, without the delay of having to consult board members. This leads to a much more efficient operation, which has the flexibility to move as customer demands are made.
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With the length of experience and expertise in the haulage industry, we have the knowledge to understand our customers' needs in a highly competitive and ever changing economic environment. We pride ourselves in having the operational ability and financial resources to grow with our customers. We understand the nature of our customers? businesses and work with them for mutual advantage. We listen to our customers and adapt our operation to suit their ever-changing requirements.
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Herstal, formerly known as Heristal, or Héristal, is a municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Province of Liège along the Meuse river. Herstal is included in the "Greater Liège" agglomeration, which counts about 600,000 inhabitants.
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Just one hour from Brussels is Liege, a historical city on the river Meuse, dating back to Charlemagne. With a wonderful central location only one hour from Brussels by train or car, Liege must-see sites are the Prince-Bishops’ Place, Liege-Guillemins Station, Museum of Walloon Life, Church of Saint-Jacques, and St. Paul’s Cathedral. Stay for its fun, vibrant night life.
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Middlesex County Chess Association
Annual General Meeting
Monday 4th July 2011, Exmouth Arms
Peter Ackley Hayes
Peter Grant-Ross Kings Head
Robert Mumford Kings Head
Adam Raoof Hendon
Colin Mackenzie Kings Head
Alan Marshall Harrow
Charlie McAleenan Athenaeum
Mike Mackenzie Hammersmith
Steve Banks Enfield
Wil Ransome Muswell Hill
David Ebbett Ealing
Anthony Fulton Willesden and Brent
Frank Chin Hackney
A Chamberlain Harrow
Kate Cooke Metropolitan (pp Charlie Cooke)
Apologies for Absence: Chris Fewtrell
Division 1 trophy received on behalf of Ealing by David Ebbett.
Division 2 trophy won by Athenaeum: trophy to be transferred from Willesden.
Division 3 trophy (location currently unknown) won by Albany.
Formula 4 trophy won by Enfield.
Formula Under-160 won by Muswell Hill. A trophy may be obtained and named the Lila Fewtrell Trophy in recognition of the work done for the County by Lila.
New venue: The Pilot, Chiswick.
The Middlesex League ran smoothly this year.
No Middlesex teams reached the finals of the County Championships this year.
Three County stalwarts died this year: Hanan Afnan, John McVicar and Lila Fewtrell.
Minutes of the 2010 meeting:
Approved with some spelling corrections on surnames.
These were presented, discussed and approved. One minor question was whether Insurance should be listed as a fixed asset or current asset. All debtors have now been paid off.
League Secretary's report:
Graham Snow reported that the new rule 16 on grading order now works well after some initial teething troubles. There have been requests to clarify international grading. Incorrect clock adjustment caused a problem in one match.
There will be two new teams in Division 3 next season: Hendon 4 and Muswell Hill 2.
Team captains' and tournament reports:
Open (Anthony Fulton): finished 3rd in SE, beat Greater Manchester, lost to Lancashire.
U-180 (Anthony Fulton): finished 3rd in SE, lost to Warwickshire. It was thought that the Warwickshire captain had not been sporting in agreeing date of play as the match occurred on a day when the Middlesex Open, U-180 and U-160 teams were all playing. For next season, it was requested that players interested in playing County
chess should contact their match captains.
U-160: team got to quarter finals but withdrew because of a lack of players: those who turned up played for the U-180 and Open teams. U-140: did not qualify from the SE regional section.
Individual: This was organised by Peter Ackley at The Pilot, Chiswick. 1st R.Haldane 6/6, 2nd P.Ackley 4.5/6, 3rd B.O'Gorman 4/6.
Correspondence: Middlesex are on 5.5 out of 13 or 14. There is
pressure to inrease electronic boards rather than postal boards.
Junior chess: Graham Snow organised a congress but numbers were
small. Angela Eyton arranged a tournament at a girls' school, which
was better attended. Graham Snow is standing down as Junior
captain; Angela Eyton is taking over.
The Winters Trophy and Ralph Barnett Trophy competitions were not
held this year.
There were no Middlesex League committee meetings this year other
than the AGM.
Delegates to ECF / SCCU:
Adam Raoof reported that meetings had gone smoothly. There was some
discussion about the ECF memership scheme. Adam Raoof stated that a
scheme "will be implemented" but that full details had not yet been
settled. David Ebbett suggested that occasional players might be
put off by compulsory membership.
Election of officers:all were nem con.
President: Adam Raoof
Vice President: Peter Grant-Ross
Treasurer: Robert Mumford
League Secretary: Graham Snow
Open and U-180: Anthony Fulton
U-160: Nick Collacott
U-140 and / or U-120: to be announced.
Team tournament: unlikely to happen.
Individual tournament: to be announced
Winters Trophy: to be announced.
Ralph Barnett Trophy: to be announced.
Grading: Colin Mackenzie
Junior: Angela Eyton
Auditor: Peter Walters.
Any Other Business:
Grading Scheme: extensive discussion took place on the ECF decision
to publish two standard-play grading lists per year. The guidelines
stated by Adam Raoof are that the summer list is to be used for
eligibility and the winter list may be used to vary board order in
line with current playing strength. This might be particularly
useful in the Formula divisions.
Sky TV: David Ebbett reported that one or more chess players are
being sought to take part in a dance competition.
League management software: Adam Raoof reported on a piece of free
software written by John Upham which assists in managing chess
league organisation. It was decided to look into this during the
2011-12 season with a view to possible adoption the following year.
Colin Mackenzie stated that the main work involved inputting of
Dates of future meetings:
Fixtures meeting: 12th September, Exmouth Arms, 7.00.
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Vice Media’s video employees unionize after large-scale campaign
Hundreds of Vice Media employees involved in writing, producing and appearing in the company’s television and video content have successfully unionized following a large-scale effort to organize.
The Writers Guild of America, East, and the Motion Picture Editors Guild will represent approximately 430 Vice Media employees and freelancers who work on video content for cable channel Viceland or Vice programming for HBO, union representatives announced Thursday.
In May, a delegation from Vice Media’s organizing committee — on behalf of employees organizing across the Writers Guild, the Motion Picture Editors Guild and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — requested the media and broadcasting company honor employees’ decision to unionize.
Vice voluntarily accepted Thursday after reviewing union cards employees signed indicating their support of the unions. On-air talent continues to organize under the Screen Actors Guild, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the completion of the union drive and described the news as “a significant victory” for organized labor’s attempts to unionize digital media.
“Today’s victory is a huge step for current and future employees at Vice [Media] who want to build power and influence at our place of work and throughout the industry,” the Vice Union Organizing Committee said in a statement. “We join our previously organized colleagues at Vice.com and our counterparts at Vice Canada, as well as news, digital media and nonfiction TV creators who have been empowered by the labor movement and successfully negotiated strong union contracts.”
Seventy Vice employees who write for the company’s website organized with the Writers Guild in 2015 as part of a flurry of organizing efforts across digital media, including sites like Gawker, the Huffington Post, the Guardian’s U.S. edition and the Intercept. Many of those newsrooms have unionized with the Writers Guild, although the Guardian and Law360 opted to go with the NewsGuild, which also represents news organizations like the New York Times, Thomson Reuters and the Daily Beast. | <urn:uuid:e4c6b905-3fe2-415c-bc69-fdb12723cff7> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://www.mic.com/articles/184632/vice-medias-video-employees-unionize-after-large-scale-campaign | 2020-01-21T03:48:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250601241.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20200121014531-20200121043531-00317.warc.gz | en | 0.939468 | 432 |
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Folks.. watch this video from my favorite current Band. And What an amazing worship team. A review is coming soon for their new CD. WATCH FOR IT NEXT WEEK ON “THE JOINT” Sojourn Music “Absent From Flesh” Live 06.05.09 from chuck heeke on Vimeo.
Good Friday is coming in two weeks and I have been working hard on planning all things holy week. I am not the kind of person who wants to pull out all of the stops during these days in a way that does not exemplify our normal services. With that said though I do want … Read moreGood Friday Service and Liturgy
I ordered my new mac’s on Friday and they showed up on monday. WOW! That was awesome. I opened them and was ecstatic because I love technology, but for it to show up on my birthday was a special treat. I had them set up in literally minutes and started dropping in all my software … Read moreMac day 1: a new beginning
Woohoo. Thanks to twitter…we know Conner and his wife Rae just had a baby minutes ago. Of course he stole my boys name… 8lbs 2oz and 21″ long! Gavin Conner Byrd has arrived!! Awesome news and congrats big guy.
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Photographer, inventor and pioneer of cinematography. Born Bristol as William Edward Green. Married the Swiss Helena Friese in 1874 and added her name to his. (It's not clear where the extra "e" came from.) One of the first to work (mainly in Brighton) on the idea of moving images, he lodged various patents but none of his methods worked well enough to keep him out of the bankruptcy courts nor for the world to credit him as the inventor of cinema.
Died at a cinema industry meeting in the Connaught Rooms and buried at Highgate Cemetery with a grave monument by Lutyens (unexpectedly traditionally Gothic in style), on which he is described as "the inventor of kinematography". The Gaumont Graphic newsreel (available on the British Pathe website) captured Friese-Greene’s funeral procession arriving at the cemetery, the coffin topped by a full size mock-up of a film projector pointing at a screen on which are the words, picked out in flowers, “The End”.
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Some people live their lives and don't ever accomplish all that much. Others work really hard and have some very impressive accomplishments that they can look back upon with satisfaction. Then, there are people like Danny DeMichele who is seemingly gifted as everything he puts his hands on meets with success, and the list of accomplishment are not only long, but impactful too.
After cutting his teeth in the e-commerce world, he went on to merely start an internet agency (some of you may be familiar) called eVisibility. This, the first of many successful ventures to follow, only became the 169th fastest growing company in 2010 as cited by Inc. Magazine. After selling eVisibility to the LSF Network, these now combined companies became one of the largest privately held agencies within the digital industry.
One of his driving passions for quite some time now is to bring truth to consumers and those companies that fall outside of the major conglomerate classification, those small and mid-sized companies. Surprisingly (or not) his major target or adversary is perhaps Google, and the information they share on how to promote sites and traffic. Danny DeMichele will state clearly and without mincing words, that how sites are promoted and how site traffic is increased will not be in accord with how Google suggest it happens, and he has gone as far as to declare that this is not only incorrect information, but knowingly wrong information being passed on by this mega search site giant.
This is very likely one of the driving forces behind a few of the companies he is operating currently, yes, that's more than one. Incubate, for example is designed to help companies in the service provider realm, and not surprisingly this will include how to market and PR related areas. Quiverr is another one of those companies he's built, and this enterprise is focused on full service marketplace branding. Once again, and this is a common theme, much of the focus will come back to how to make companies and their sites more visible, how to increase search ranking index and increasing traffic.
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The Latest: Flight 93 victims remembered for their spirit
Sep 11, 2021, 9:41 AM | Updated: 9:49 am
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SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The victims and heroes of Flight 93 are being commemorated at a ceremony at the site where the plane crashed in a field on Sept. 11, 2001.
President Joe Biden was making an appearance, and Vice President Kamala Harris, former President George W. Bush and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf were also speaking.
Watch former President George W. Bush's full speech at the 9/11 memorial ceremony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania here: pic.twitter.com/KTApvhWPj7
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 11, 2021
Wolf said the passengers and crew of Flight 93, whose actions are believed to have led the hijackers to abandon their mission of targeting the U.S. Capitol, offered a lasting lesson of courage and hope.
“This story and this place remind us each day what it means to be an American,” said Wolf, a Democrat. “In times of strife, we Americans, we come together. We comfort each other. We protect each other and we stand up for each other. This memorial is a powerful reminder of what we have lost. But it’s also a powerful reminder of the strength of the American spirit.”
Larry Catuzzi, father of Flight 93 passenger Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas, said in an interview that he talks to her every day.
“I say something that kind of reminds me of her, and I’ll talk to her. Or something good happens to me and i thank her for her being with me,” said Catuzzi, whose 38-year-old daughter was pregnant when she perished.
The family started a foundation in her name that has distributed college scholarships to more than 100 girls, funded three neonatal units and built a park in Houston memorializing the victims of Flight 93.
MORE ON SEPT. 11:
— From 9/11’s ashes a new world took shape. It did not last
— Surviving 9/11 was ‘just the first piece of the journey’
— 9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves
— How 9/11 changed air travel: more security, less privacy
— Two decades after 9/11, Muslim Americans still fighting bias
— 20 years later, fallout from toxic WTC dust grows
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— From election to COVID, 9/11 conspiracies cast a long shadow
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“Am I cool, kids?”
“Good. I’m glad. And that’s what makes me cool: not caring. Right?”
Omit the last word of that quote from The Simpsons, and it could have been said by The Hideout’s co-owners, Tim and Katie Tuten. Their annual Block Partyin conjunction with The A.V. Club (possibly our favorite pop culture site out there)has never been about what’s buzz-worthy, but rather community, as well as bands the storied, ramshackle venue knows and loves. Funnily enough, the above quote is also from “Homerpalooza,” a Simpsons episode that skewers the commercialization and outlandishness of larger-scale music festivals.
Now don’t get us wrong. We love Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo as much as anybody. But it’s nice to end the summer in a more relaxed fashion, in a parking lot that still feels like someone’s backyard. Yes, it’s much smaller than pretty much any other festival in the city. Yes, there’s only one stage. Yes, it’s kid-friendly. Yes, there’s an emphasis on safety. And yes, those porta-potties stay jaw-droppingly pristine throughout most of the two days.
But hey, we’re not here to talk about sanitation, even if The Hideout is only a stone’s throw away from the garbage truck army of Fleet Management. We’re here to talk about the music. In honor of The A.V. Club‘s house style for their reviews, we’ve given each act’s set a letter grade, in addition to including a few choice Stray Observations. The only one we regrettably didn’t get to cover was Brooklyn punk trio Nude Beach, as our work schedules only allowed us to catch the second half of their set. However, we can attest to their crack musicianship, scrappy stage presence, and the big-chord catch of their tunes.
Besides being just plain good, most of the other bands at this year’s festival have exhibited considerable staying power, regardless of how much airplay they’ve gotten. As for Nude Beach and their fellow younger acts? Well, only time will tell. But The Hideout and The A.V. Club like them. And for now, that’s good enough for us.
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Friday, September 6th
Trampled By Turtles (6:15 p.m.)
Something I never thought I’d say about a summer festival set: I wanted more slow songs. Maybe it’s my lack of appreciation for bluegrass-inspired indie rock, but the furious mandolin picking and fiddling starts to grate on me after a while, melting into an endless, samey-sounding hoedown. Although fun at first, I can’t do it all night.
So, true to their name, Trampled By Turtles’ swampier stuff stood out to me simply by breaking up the mood. The boggy dirge of “Gasoline” was like a sunset dipped in blood, and the galloping ending of closer “Alone” paid off thanks to the backwoods lullaby at its beginning. I also can’t name a song that isn’t made better by some strategically placed “whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh”s at the climax. It wasn’t quite enough to win me over, but it sure was purdy.
* Like many people, I’ve always found Trampled By Turtles’ band name to be strange, and their set got me thinking about it quite a bit. Can you imagine actually being trampled by turtles? For some reason, I keep picturing getting stampeded to death a la The Lion King by a battalion of aldabra giant tortoises, which can actually move quite fast. Frightening stuff.
* Despite some overloud bass mixing during the Turtles’ first song and a few hiccups during The BOTH, overall the sound was surprisingly crisp for an outdoor festival. It never started to drone and distort as it does by the end of Lolla or even Pitchfork. To be fair, it’s a much, much smaller space. But still.
* Props to the sound guy for playing Dire Straits’ Making Movies almost in its entirety in between the first few sets of the day. I get a lot of shit for owning every Dire Straits album, and hearing my favorite one blasted at The Hideout reaffirmed that maybe, just maybe, they’re a cool band. Dan Caffrey
Mavis Staples (7:30 p.m.)
In the minutes before Mavis Staples played at dusk on Friday night, a throne was set up to the left of the stage. If that sounds like an overwrought gesture, it’s not. Not for a longstanding musical and sociopolitical icon like Staples, and certainly not in her hometown of Chicago, where her reputation is downright regal. At 74 years young, the soul legend is still intent on earning her keep.
Although needing to walk with a cane due to a recent knee-replacement surgery, Staples was nevertheless affable, charming, sassy and plenty invigorated. Coloring her lively set both with cuts from her latest release, One True Vine, and covers from The Band (“The Weight”) and Buffalo Springfield (“For What it’s Worth”), the singer captivated the Hideout crowd with a veteran’s touch. Even though she didn’t need to take a seat on the throne, no one would have blamed her if she had.
* The name of Mavis’ new knee? “The Hideout.”
* There’s a lovable, cool grandma quality to everything Staples does. Even the imperfections, such as having to briefly stop her set to confer wit her band, were met with warm laughter from the crowd. There’s something comforting in a singer that doesn’t try to hide her age.
* Most tender moment? When she tearfully remembered singing “The Weight” with Levon Helm. Ryan Bray
Neko Case (8:45 p.m.)
Proving that one good turn deserves another, Neko Case followed up Mavis Staples’ powerhouse performance with a strong showing of her own to close out the first night’s festivities. The set was the singer’s first in support of her solid (and verbosely-worded) new record, The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You. There was some slight anxiety over the monitors, but it seemed to go largely unnoticed by the eager crowd.
Case, backed by a stellar supporting cast that included a quiet Eric Bachmann on guitar and a chipper Kelly Hogan on backup vocals, split the difference between dusty Americana ballads and more spirited indie pop fare. The new record was well represented (“Calling Cards”, “Wild Creatures”, and “Night Still Comes”), but the undisputed highlight came when Case and Hogan went completely a cappella on everyone’s ass with “Nearly Midnight in Honolulu”.
* Before she sang a single note, Case dedicated every one of her songs to Mavis Staples. That’s pretty classy.
* Even with the presence of Bachmann on guitar, the number of Archers Of Loaf songs played was a disappointing 0. He and Neko could have at least done “Your Control”their metallic duet on Crooked Fingers’ 2008 album, Forfeit/Fortune.
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Dresses weren't the only things we couldn't take our eyes off of during the 2017 Met Gala. There were plenty of memorable accessories, too! Wonderwall.com rounded up the most buzz-worthy bling, bags and headpieces from the A-list affair, starting with the intricate bejeweled headpiece that "Entertainment Tonight" host Carly Steel wore. Wow. Now keep reading for more!
Katy Perry wore a sheer red Maison Margiela by John Galliano veil with the word "witness" embroidered across the top during the 2017 Met Gala. But that wasn't even the oddest part of her getup…
Katy Perry completed her look with a metallic headpiece — a solid band wrapped around the back of her head that ended in spirals on either temple — during the 2017 Met Gala.
Madonna carried a water canteen during the 2017 Met Gala. But that's not the only way she committed to the military theme of her ensemble…
Sarah Paulson playfully tugged on the camouflage net that Madonna carried like a stole during the 2017 Met Gala.
Jaden Smith didn't just wear a grill during the 2017 Met Gala. He also carried — wait for it — his dreadlocks, which dad Will Smith cut for him in mid-April.
Lily Aldridge sure made an interesting choice during the 2017 Met Gala! She wore a sheer fuchsia veil across the lower half of her face.
Hailey Baldwin nailed the veil trend during the 2017 Met Gala. She stunned in a bejeweled, netted veil that she wore across the top half of her face. The model completed her look with diamond earrings and a chain choker.
Celine Dion donned an intricate fascinator that blended in with her dark brown locks during the 2017 Met Gala.
Thandie Newton had major flower power during the 2017 Met Gala thanks to the massive headpiece that topped off her look.
Whoever told Hollywood that oversized floral fascinators were in: Stop. "The Girl on the Train" star Haley Bennett reached new heights — but not in a good way — during the 2017 Met Gala.
Cassie donned massive cuff earrings during the 2017 Met Gala.
We bugged out over the gold necklace Laura Dern wore during the 2017 Met Gala. It featured a bejeweled beetle at the center.
Hollywood golden girl Brie Larson wore flecks of gold in her hair, which perfectly complemented her Chanel gown, during the 2017 Met Gala — and we were all about it!
Pretty, pretty princess! Elle Fanning topped off her 2017 Met Gala look with a jeweled headband.
Sofia Richie dripped in diamonds during the 2017 Met Gala. She donned a multi-strand choker with a stunning lariat and mismatched earrings (one was a solitaire drop earring and the other was a chain drop earring).
Joan Smalls completed her edgy look during the 2017 Met Gala with an Anita Ko lip ring and ear cuff.
Claire Danes missed the mark with her ensemble during the 2017 Met Gala, but the bejeweled arrow she wore in her hair was right on point.
Serena Williams donned massive emerald-and-diamond drop earrings during the 2017 Met Gala. (We're surprised her earlobes didn't fall off!) But that's not the only reason why her bling caught our attention…
Serena Williams also wore an unforgettable spiked diamond cuff bracelet during the 2017 Met Gala.
Emma Roberts played with color, carrying a pink faux-fur stole with red lining during the 2017 Met Gala.
We weren't wild about Katie Holmes' look during the 2017 Met Gala, but we couldn't take our eyes off of her major diamond necklace.
Sigh. Jemima Kirke channeled Princess Leia by wearing matching giant black floral bows on either side of her head during the 2017 Met Gala.
City of stars on Chrissy Teigen's headband! The model paid homage to the "La La Land" soundtrack (still?) during the 2017 Met Gala. Unfortunately for her, it just added to the overly busy nature of her ensemble.
It takes a lot to get us to look away from Hugh Jackman! But his wife, Deborra-lee Furness, lured our gaze away during the 2017 Met Gala when she rocked a serpent bracelet that snaked up the back of her hand. Exquissssite!
Miranda Kerr had one of our favorite jewelry moments of the 2017 Met Gala. She wore multiple diamond bracelets with a giant diamond-and-ruby cocktail ring and stunning diamond studs.
Mary-Kate Olsen over-accessorized during the 2017 Met Gala. How's that for an understatement? Her jewelry included multiple beaded necklaces, drop earrings featuring carved heads and a tarnished gold chain that she wore in her hair as a headpiece.
Sophie Turner wore a series of gold-and-diamond loops in her ears during the 2017 Met Gala.
Mandy Moore donned mismatched earrings — one long drop earring and one stud — during the 2017 Met Gala.
Kate Hudson also embraced the mismatched earrings trend during the 2017 Met Gala. She wore one intricate drop earring in one ear with a diamond stud in the other.
Rami Malek donned a silver poppy pin, which helped break up the monotony of his otherwise all-red ensemble, during the 2017 Met Gala.
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Trapped in an airport terminal in Jordan by President Trump’s travel ban, Hanan Isweiri fretted that as a Libyan citizen she would not be able to return to her husband and three children in Colorado. She wondered if she could complete the doctorate she had worked toward for seven years. Most of all, she feared for her 1-year-old son, who was having an allergic reaction but was not permitted to leave the airport.
Just about the only thing she did not have to worry about — despite staying in airport hotels in Jordan and Turkey, and repeatedly booking and rebooking intercontinental flights in those chaotic early days — was money. Friends had set up a GoFundMe web page, raising $5,366 to help defray the significant costs she incurred as a result of the ban.
“Some friends do a fund-raising site for me, and I believe without this I would never make it,” said Ms. Isweiri, 41, who made it back to Colorado on Sunday, two days after a federal judge put a halt, for now, on the travel ban.
After Mr. Trump’s executive order, individual lawyers volunteered their time and expertise at airports around the country. Large organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, which had seen a boom in fund-raising after Mr. Trump’s election victory, have helped mount legal challenges.
But the financial dislocation for ordinary people like Ms. Isweiri, a Ph.D. student at Colorado State University who was in Libya for her father’s funeral when Mr. Trump signed off on the ban, was enormous. In dozens of cases, crowdfunding sites allowed friends, neighbors and complete strangers to fill the gap and cover the expenses that otherwise might have unwound the financial security of immigrants and residents affected by the ban.
Because of the decentralized nature of the campaigns, it is hard to say exactly how many have started since the change in immigration policy. But the largest crowdfunding site, GoFundMe, and a company it recently acquired, CrowdRise, have seen more than 50 new campaigns that have raised nearly $1.5 million related to the executive order, which halted travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely. An appeals court in San Francisco is reviewing the order.
YouCaring, a smaller GoFundMe competitor, is also hosting several campaigns, including one that has raised nearly $7,000 for a Syrian woman who had been approved to resettle in Little Rock, Ark. A British site, CrowdJustice, sped up its opening in the United States after Mr. Trump’s executive order. The first American campaign on the site raised $36,000 to pay for the lawyers of two Yemeni brothers who were deported after arriving at Dulles International Airport in Virginia.
In just the last few years, crowdfunding has increasingly become a regular part of the public response to humanitarian crises like floods, mass shootings or, in this case, the fallout from a presidential order.
GoFundMe has, on its own, helped attract more than $3.4 billion in donations from 30 million donors since it was founded in 2010 — more than what has been pledged on well-known crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter, which focus more on helping entrepreneurs and artists.
“We are the social safety net for everyone who falls through the cracks,” said Rob Solomon, the chief executive of GoFundMe, which is based in Redwood City, just south of San Francisco. “No matter how great the NGOs and government agencies are, a lot of people will fall through the cracks.”
GoFundMe takes 5 percent of the funds raised for administrative fees and an additional 2.9 percent for credit card processing. It defends the fees by pointing to the costs involved in maintaining the site, and building systems for vetting potential fund-raising campaigns. YouCaring charges 3 percent for credit card processing.
These campaigns have been dogged by questions about whether they represent the most efficient way to get money to people in need of help. Existing charities have complained that crowdfunding has siphoned money to the saddest personal stories, as opposed to the established institutions that provide broad support after emergencies. The sites have also faced criticism over their level of oversight to ensure that money ends up where it is supposed to go.
Ethan Mollick, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania who has studied crowdfunding, said the individual nature of the campaigns could lower the level of accountability around spending.
When Eric Martinez and Jen Thorson, the founders of the company Modjoul, realized that their employee Nazanin Zinouri, a recent Ph.D. graduate of Clemson University, was trapped in her native Iran, they set up a GoFundMe page with a $30,000 goal to help get her back, and were met with criticism over what some users of the site perceived as a very high figure.
“You’ve already raised $12,000 in 2 mere days, what is that for?” a user, under the name Kimba Essence, asked in a post last week. “Where is the disclosure on what you are doing with $12,000?”
Mr. Martinez said that people were underestimating the costs — not just for all the international cellphone calls, printing bills for legal filings and the $3,200 for same-day flights from Tehran to Frankfurt to Boston, but also for an immigration lawyer to work on her case in what was expected to be a protracted legal battle. Also anticipated: months of car and rent payments while she waited without a job to get back into the country. (She made it back this past Sunday.)
“Everybody said too much money, so we lowered it” to $15,000, Mr. Martinez said. “The only negative about it is the trolls come on,” he added. “The uneducated, espousing their views, not knowing what it takes.”
But trolls can also spur fund-raising. After someone on Twitter told the actor and former White House employee Kal Penn, “You don’t belong in this country,” he went on CrowdRise and asked for $2,500 for the International Rescue Committee. He ended up raising over $800,000.
Lawyers in Dallas, who set up a “war room” at the local airport to help detained travelers, raised $34,000 to pay for the expenses associated with the operation. Another $25,000 was raised for a Yemeni girl separated from her family.
Mr. Mollick said the sites had been a promising new venue for fund-raising because they allow for a wider array of innovative approaches to emergencies, in ways that offer donors a more personal sense of investment.
“The crowd tends to select a greater variety of things, things that can be really good or really bad,” he said. “With expert money, you tend to get the same result every time.” | <urn:uuid:26bc3d67-4515-4872-8363-f3a4534bc616> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/travel-ban-crowdfunding.html | 2020-09-21T09:12:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400201601.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20200921081428-20200921111428-00525.warc.gz | en | 0.975485 | 1,454 |
Muro-o Ann Warabai yuu Salad Bowl
The Muro-o kiln is the workshop of ceramic artist Hironobu Ogawa. A journeyman in pottery, Ogawa began work in his hometown of Osaka before eventually arriving in his current base of Hagi, western Japan. Hagi has a deep pottery tradition as is known for soft-colour glazes and its classical tea ware. Ogawa, as always, has a slightly different approach. Adapting the traditional white glaze of the Hagi style, he brings a bubbling, elemental quality to his work. The results are patterns that resemble white lava formations on red soil.
Ogawa's original love of ceramics was acoustic, in the pinging sound of newly fired work. His workshop now echoes with this sound as he sculpts new forms across the Hagi red soil. This dedication and feel for his materials leads Ogawa to unique creations that are a striking edition to any kitchen or dining table.
These salad bowls provide a plunging canvas for Ogawa's each time unique combination of white flowing glaze, and red fired base. | <urn:uuid:b3bdcf06-f534-4cd1-a704-01aff925ce0a> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | https://wagumi.myshopify.com/collections/ceramic/products/muroo-an-warabai-yuu-fukabachi | 2018-02-21T04:50:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891813431.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20180221044156-20180221064156-00575.warc.gz | en | 0.96604 | 233 |
I was able to buy a 32 oz container of Greek Yogurt for $2.39 and two dozen cage free eggs for $1.99 each in the dairy clearance section at Kroger. I was too tired to make yogurt or go to our egg man!
I bought some gift cards for places we normally frequent and received 4x the fuel rewards at Kroger. This helped make our gas $1.51 a gallon this past week (.50 cents off a gallon).
Husband was given a full bottle of fuel ejector at an estate sale that just wanted to get rid of everything on their last day. I also bought some garden shoes and a basket for a $1.00 each.
Our biggest savings/spending came from the short trip we took this past week to Kentucky for a few days.
For both hotel rooms we received a discount. One discount was for $15.00 when we used our AARP card (this almost paid for our membership) and the other discount was for $20.00 when we used a coupon from a booklet at a rest area.
We took advantage of the breakfast in both places that we stayed.
We used the little shampoos and soaps they give you. We also brought some home.
We filled up our coolers with ice from the ice machines.
We took our own drinks and snacks.
We also took coupons that come in the mail for eating out with us.
Some of the ways we spent our money:
We stopped by a Mennonite farm and bought some meat on the way home. They have great meat at a good price. We used our coolers to take the meat back home. It was still frozen solid by the time we got home with the help of the wind and the
We stopped by two thrift stores and had a good time looking. Found the grand baby a wind up toy. That was all we could find though. We were so disappointed!
We bought 36 cans of the brand of pinto beans that we like. These come in extremely handy on the days I don't want to cook at all. I have fooled many a visitor and even my own family because they taste like homemade.
Husband also found some pop he hadn't had in awhile at a local grocery store. We can not find it here -it's called Ne hi Peach. He is one happy man.
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Heres some pics from my project today, I turned my fairly large walk-in closet into a vocal booth.
Heres what it started as
Heres with all the crap removed and just the shelves left.
Blankets put up on the wall, with mattress foam underneath.
So thats pretty much it, I plan on getting some real acoustics foam for the other bare wall and the ceiling, tell me what you guys think. | <urn:uuid:4472cc19-ac70-4d7f-86da-1bb661531be7> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.futureproducers.com/forums/production-techniques/studio-design-acoustics/turned-my-walk-into-vocal-booth-pic-heavy-56k-warning-321219/ | 2013-12-11T05:38:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164031957/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133351-00068-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934018 | 92 |
Wale Drops Bumping Track ‘Good to Great’ Feat. Phil Ade [LISTEN]
Wale is back with a new song called “Good to Great,” which is for a collaborative project between the good folks at Genius and Original Penguin.
Produced by JujulnPerson, the song boasts a thumping beat, finger snaps and soothing synths. On the track, Wale looks back at his partying ways and romantic trysts after the club lets out.
"I told her I’d pick her up, she said, 'Cool' / She said, “What time,” I said, '2' / Then she asked me what time she’d be back / I said, '2:30' / She said, 'Pssh, like that?' / I said, 'Pssh, I’ve been like that' / That’s a whole tomorrow, plus I threw in thirty / So grab your Louis ‘cause time’s burning," he raps.
Singer Phil Ade delivers a celebratory chorus singing, "If she want it, then she gon’ get it / Have another, girl, it’s on me / Bet you’ll get drunk, then call me / In the club all night long / This how it goes when the lights off.
In an interview with Genius, Wale said the song was inspired by late-night club outings during the recording of his 2016 mixtape, Summer on Sunset. "It just feels like the end of the club and it’s about to go down," he explains. "Nights like that are dope to me because being able to share memories and document them through music is dope.”
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Lying About Obama
A new biography uncovers the facts behind the fake news.
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Jack Cashill has written over a dozen books, including two about the mysterious 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800, one about the Trayvon Martin case, and two – now three – about Barack Obama. His new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency, is a definitive account not only of Obama’s eight years in office but also of the transformation of most mainstream American political journalists, largely during the Obama era, from relatively objective reporters of the facts – emphasis on “relatively” – to dedicated partisans of the left, ready and eager at every turn to cover up unpleasant truths (however important) about Democrats and to promote outrageous lies (however destructive) about Republicans.
Fortunately, in the age of the Internet, the mainstream media have competition. Yes, there are scads of people who purvey nonsense online. But there are also serious writers who are devoted not to the Democratic Party narrative but to the facts. Some of them have worked in the mainstream media only to lose their jobs because of their excessive curiosity about matters that their bosses considered off-limits. Ken Timmerman, a Clinton voter in 1992, was fired by Time when, in 1994, he “followed the facts on the China trade to the doors of the Oval Office.” Sharyl Attkisson’s interest in the Benghazi story forced her out of CBS News. Both kept writing, but for less prestigious – and less lucrative – outlets. Cashill calls these non-mainstream writers “Lilliputians” (for the teeny-weeny people, of course, in Gulliver’s Travels) and describes them as members of the new American samizdat, borrowing the Russian word used in Soviet times to denote, as he puts it, “the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state.”
It seems to me that applying the term samizdat to the media picture in the U.S. today is wonderfully clarifying. No, Cashill admits, members of the American samizdat don’t face the threat of the gulag – not yet, anyway. But they – we – are untouchables on the media landscape. We have a far tougher time making a living than the lockstep hacks of the MSM, and are effectively barred from, say, employment in higher education. The websites we write for are deemed “unreliable sources” by Wikipedia, which at the same time treats everything in the New York Times and Washington Post as holy scripture. Those who seek to dismiss, distort, or demonize us are aided in that effort by colossally deceitful left-wing operations such as Media Matters for America and the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose smears against us – “racist,” “Islamophobe” – the MSM routinely cite as authoritative.
While borrowing the word “Lilliputians” from Jonathan Swift, Cashill lifts the word “firemen” from Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, in which the job of firemen isn’t to put out fires but to burn books. In today’s American media, the firemen, as defined by Cashill, are those members of the MSM who avoid reporting on news that counters the mainstream narrative. Take those editors and reporters who covered up Obama’s ties to the corrupt left-wing organization known as ACORN, which was supposedly devoted to helping the black community. Ultimately it was a young freelancer, James O’Keefe, whose covert videotapes made ACORN criminality public. In response, major media such as CNN and the Post attacked him as a racist; but O’Keefe’s exposé was so powerful that ACORN ended up dissolving in 2010. Even now, however, the ACORN page at Wikipedia – a solidly left-wing site – asserts that O’Keefe’s videos “inaccurately portray[ed] the [ACORN] personnel as encouraging criminal behavior.”
The fall of ACORN was only one episode. Throughout Obama’s presidency, the MSM presented him as a remarkably virtuous, scandal-free leader. Only thanks to the samizdat do we know better. And Cashill brings it all together. His book is a remarkable trove – a damning litany of crimes, falsehoods, catastrophic missteps, indefensible decisions, and suspicious autobiographical omissions and distortions, ranging from the big lie of Obamacare (“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it”) to the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups, from Fast and Furious to Sylindra. There are also innumerable smaller stories of the sort that the MSM ignored, but would’ve plugged tirelessly if they’d been about Trump and not Obama – including the mystery about Obama’s social-security number (which places him in Connecticut, a state he never lived in); his baffling refusal to discuss with the Times his student years at Columbia University; and the rewriting by reverential Obama biographers of his parents’ very brief marriage, apparently to lend credibility to his fanciful reference, in speeches, to the “improbable love” between the Kenyan man and the Kansan woman who “shared an abiding faith in the possibilities” of America.
Then there are the exceedingly shady Obama friendships that the MSM strove to ignore, downplay, or whitewash. Take Obama’s mentorship in Hawaii by Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist pedophile whose identity was first obscured in the memoir Dreams from My Father (in which he was referred to only as “Frank”) and who was omitted entirely from the audiobook. Or Obama’s coziness, during his Chicago days, with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn of the radical Weather Underground, the former of whom is believed by many to have ghostwritten Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father. Journalists who have shown curiosity about either of these relationships have been shot down as racists, right-wing extremists, conspiracy theorists, or all of the above.
Granted, Obama’s two-decades-long relationship with his anti-Semitic, America-hating Chicago minister, Jeremiah Wright, did make MSM headlines. The story was simply too big to bury. Still, the MSM was quick to help Obama out. First, it put a positive spin on the 2008 Philadelphia speech in which he stated that, despite Wright’s imperfections, he could “no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother.” Briefly put, Obama, by way of exonerating Wright, threw grandma under the bus, saying that she’d “once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by on the street.” This was a lie. In fact, Madelyn Dunham, who was seriously ailing at the time of the speech, had never “confessed” any such thing; Obama had invented the story, smearing the woman who’d raised him for years while his mother was off in Indonesia. The Philadelphia speech was hailed by the MSM as a heartfelt statement on race relations. A few weeks later, Obama kicked Wright to the curb. Then, two days before her grandson was elected president, Dunham died, having refused, after the Philadelphia speech, to say how she felt about him. The MSM spun (or deep-sixed) every bit of this disgusting episode to Obama’s benefit.
Race dominated the Obama years. After a campaign during which he speechified eloquently about racial unity, he spent his presidency whipping up racial division, all with the help of the MSM. Remember the policeman, James Crowley, who was smeared as a racist for arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates? Did you know he’d voted for Obama? Remember George Zimmerman, also labeled a racist after he killed Trayvon Martin? Did you know that Zimmerman, too, was an Obama voter? The Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown; the founding of BLM; the knee-taking by Colin Kaepernick and others: at any point, Obama could have made a passionate speech about race and defused the situation. Instead he whipped up racial animosity, and the MSM applauded. In 2009, whites and black alike held very positive views of race relations in the U.S.; four years later, they had far grimmer views of the situation.
That wasn’t all. In 2012, when the Obama administration dishonestly blamed the deadly attacks in Benghazi on an anti-Muslim film, the MSM parroted the lie. Cashill documents the way in which mainstream reporters who knew nothing about foreign affairs were dependent on mendacious “messaging” by wily Obama staffer Ben Rhodes. Cashill reminds us that Obama was collaborating closely with Russia in 2015 – recall the hot-mic moment when he asked Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to inform Vladimir Putin that after his re-election he’d “have more flexibility” to pursue Russia-friendly policies. Did the MSM care? No. But a year later Obama’s need to frame Trump meant that “the White House had to frame Russia too.” And so, too, did the MSM, which unquestioningly parroted the inane Russia-collaboration narrative for years.
There’s much more in Unmasking Obama, but suffice it to say that this is a book that needed to be written, and that needs to be read by every American who cares to know the truth about that most incompetent and malevolent of presidential administrations. Even if you feel that you followed the samizdat closely during the Obama years, there will be remarkable material here that you’ve either forgotten or never heard about. But Cashill’s more important accomplishment here is the way in which he maps the media, distinguishing the fake-news giants from the fact-driven Lilliputians. This service is more important than ever in the age of Biden, when the Democrats’ recapture of Washington has given the MSM – and their Silicon Valley allies – a new sense of empowerment, which they’ve exploited in the most nefarious of ways. Even as I write this, it’s being reported that Twitter has “restricted” James O’Keefe and his organization Project Veritas for daring to expose censorship by Facebook. More than ever, samizdat heroes like O’Keefe are necessary to the survival of our democracy. And Unmasking Obama – whose author is also in the first rank of those heroes – is vital reading for all Americans who don’t yet grasp the degree to which their picture of reality has been distorted by guileful operators who, claiming to be brave voices of truth, have instead been the willing tools of power. | <urn:uuid:0056552b-6062-41b6-8e7e-3afc34c16289> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/02/lying-about-obama-bruce-bawer/ | 2022-01-16T20:01:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300010.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220116180715-20220116210715-00340.warc.gz | en | 0.96453 | 2,287 |
Being the head football coach at a major university can bring all kinds of perks and opportunities that you and I will never get to experience. For Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, that includes meeting Russell Crowe. Evidently the brawling Aussie had learned that Carr used Cinderalla Man (unsuccessfully) to motivate his players and called Carr. The two soon struck up a friendship and Carr traveled to Australia last week to watch Crowe's rugby team play.
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As multi-cloud adoption increases, it’s important organizations have a way to manage the complexities of using multiple clouds from multiple vendors and make the most of their investments. In this article, we guide you through an intuitive model to management.
The multi-cloud trend is not new. For years, various analyst firms have reported that most organizations use more than one cloud. For most organizations, multi-cloud translates to an on-premises environment plus one or more public clouds. Many organizations also work with one or more managed service providers as well, adding additional complexity. While the issue of what is or isn’t a cloud can get a bit tricky, especially as it relates to both the data center and third-party hosted environments, what matters is the average organization is managing multiple distinct environments, each with a unique set of attributes and operating characteristics.
More of everything is really difficult to manage
So what do IT operators and app dev professionals alike want from their multi-cloud environments? In a recent study VMware commissioned, one of the top wish list items was having a consistent approach to managing the cloud environments in use.
Consistency was viewed as a key vehicle for simplifying operations; enabling organizations to maintain a balance between efficiency, agility and security. Consistency was also viewed as important to ensuring a high degree of leverage from existing skill sets.
However, the reality of achieving a consistent approach to multi-cloud operations is anything but easy. Managing just one large environment well can be challenging. Managing multiple, large, complex and unique environments that are each effectively their own silos is exponentially difficult.
This is especially true when you consider the dynamic and highly decentralized nature of any of the hyper-scaler clouds. When organizations first begin leveraging public clouds, they often find it much more challenging than managing an on-premises data center. There is just more of everything to manage – more accounts, more users and more services. In addition, the decentralized nature of the public cloud often throws out the window the previous way to govern the use of resources in the data center.
A maturity model built from deep cloud experience
The challenge of effectively managing a multi-cloud environment starts with visibility. It’s harder to maintain visibility of what each team is doing in a multi-cloud environment that includes public clouds. – and if you can’t see across your cloud estate, you can’t optimize your overall environment. You also won’t have a lot of control over who does what, where they do it, and what they use to do it. You will quickly wind up in a situation where you’re overspending on cloud and you’ve increased both operational and security-based risks.
CloudHealth Technologies (now CloudHealth by VMware) pioneered public cloud management and is a multi-cloud capable solution that works across hyper-scaler public clouds as well as any combination of VMware-based hybrid or private clouds.
The CloudHealth team’s recently refreshed cloud management maturity model provides the kind of guidance organizations need to move from flying blind in the cloud to maximizing their investments across any combination of clouds.
This maturity model was developed by leveraging years of learnings gained from helping hundreds of customers manage their cloud environments more efficiently and cost-effectively. These organizations have accomplished this without having to sacrifice the agility that made cloud computing attractive to them in the first place.
The graphic above summarizes the maturity model the CloudHealth team developed. It provides a four-step approach to achieving maturity across three operational dimensions: financial management, cloud operations, and security and compliance (SecOps).
Understanding the model
The first step of the model is focused on achieving visibility across these three operational domains. Visibility means different things depending on the domain. For instance, in the area of financial management, the objective of achieving visibility is to help drive financial accountability of cloud users. In this domain, visibility means you can accurately report on what each team is doing and allocate costs back to consuming entities. For SecOps, visibility translates into capabilities to report threats emanating from misconfigured resources in real time.
Step two in the model is about optimization. Once you have achieved broad visibility, you are in a position to identify the highest-value optimization opportunities. Most of the opportunities you act on during this phase will be executed through manual processes. That’s not a bad thing. You’re learning what really makes a difference to the performance of your cloud environment during this phase.
As you mature, you’ll begin to define standards and automate core processes. In this third step, you’re taking the visibility you achieved in step one, combining it with the optimization opportunities you took advantage of in step two, and are now bringing it all together with governance and automation. The result is you make optimization a routine part of your daily operations.
Finally, in step four, you integrate this automatic and well-governed optimization process into your business systems and metrics to ensure these improvements become a key part of how you run your business.
A truly beautiful model
The beauty of the model is that it is such a logical and natural progression. It reflects the best of the paths hundreds of CloudHealth customers have taken in their cloud journey.
I’ve captured a bit of the flavor of the model here in this blog, but to understand the steps better, you should download the white paper. Each step is illustrated as a set of best practices, which aren’t theoretical. They were captured by working with hundreds of organizations, large and small, across every industry. In the white paper, you’ll discover how to establish a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE), which involves bringing together a cross-functional working group to govern cloud usage across an organization and drive best practices.
If you follow the practices outlined in the white paper, you’ll improve the effectiveness of your operations across the three domains in a way that enhances agility and helps you make the most of your cloud investments.
A great way to learn more is to attend CloudLive Virtual on May 20th. Hosted by the CloudHealth by VMware team, CloudLIVE is an industry-leading multi-cloud conference dedicated to transforming and scaling businesses in the cloud.
Listen to Rachel Dines and Ennio Carboni discuss multi-cloud management with me and Eric Nielsen on a recent episode of our podcast. Rachel heads up product marketing for CloudHealth, while Ennio leads product management. We spend a good chunk of time on the podcast talking about the maturity model.
Visit the CloudHealth by VMware website for more information on the CloudHealth solution.
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When an injury is sustained to the nerves, it can stop signals to and from the brain causing the muscles not to work properly and a loss of feeling in the injured area. To repair the injury, surgery is performed to remove the injured part of the nerve and then reconnect the ends of the nerves.
Nerves are part of the “electrical wiring” system that sends signals between the brain and rest of the body telling the muscles to move and when to feel pain, pressure and temperature. The nerves are protected by a ring of tissue called axons. The nerves can be injured, cutting both the nerve and axon.
“Oftentimes when lacerations are sustained to the fingers, wrist and arm, whether it be just a small cut or a more traumatic mechanism, nerves and other tendons can be lacerated and are injured in that situation,” says Michael D. Riggenbach, M.D.
A nerve injury can cause:
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The guy lives in the US and is engaged in hacking PS4 for a long time. This vulnerability he discovered a couple of years ago, and all this time he studied the possibilities for hacking. The first news about the hack was heard back in January, but it worked only on firmware not higher than 4.05.
How it works
This option uses the console vulnerability in sleep mode. According to the hacker, the processor of the south bridge remains active and is responsible for downloading in the background. At the same time, the main SoC "sleeps" and does not protect the PS4. So, Pihur downloaded the necessary files using an FTP server. The hacker noted that in the iteration of 5.05 Sony replaced the access keys, but not the connection, which leaves a loophole for hacking the console.
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The following school board candidates are endorsed by CHATR for the upcoming election on Tuesday, November 5, 2013:
Sandy Smith (write-in)
Bob Charlton (write-in)
To Join CHATR contact Pete Regan at email@example.com
Our mission statement:
The Camp Hill Association for Tax Relief is a group of Camp Hill residents who believe that we need to restore fiscal sanity to our school district’s approach to spending.
We do not agree with or support the school board’s lack of fiscal restraint. For example, since 2009:
- Spending has increased over $4.5 Million dollars
- Teacher/Admin. salaries have increased 20%
- Property taxes have increased over 30% (this is almost 3 times the rate of inflation- for info on this go to www.inflationdata.com)
- Benefits have increased by over 37% in 2013-14 alone
Going forward for the 2014-15 school year budget we are asking that the school board deliver a budget featuring a 0% discretionary spending increase.
That is, for every increase in discretionary spending, there must be a corresponding decrease, dollar for dollar. Simply put, discretionary spending is defined as any spending that the district is NOT contractually bound to. Again, for every dollar of increased spending in one budget area there must be a dollar of decreased spending in another area.
This dollar for dollar approach is just the way that the residents of Camp Hill handle their finances, and we believe that the school board should do the same with OUR money.
Further, we believe that our teachers and administrators should be offered a 2 year contract (as opposed to the usual 4) and that they must take a 0% pay increase in year one of a new teacher’s contract. The contract should not be for more than 2 years. It is a fiscal fact in Camp Hill that we have sufficient revenue, and that no programs need to be cut. What we DO have is a spending problem.
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Ranchero Beef Steak
Pay homage to the grill with your favourite Canadian beef steak. The sauce in this recipe goes well with any Grilling or Marinating steak — it’s somewhat smoky and spicy and loaded with garden vegetables. If you can’t take the heat, reduce the amount of chipotle pepper by half.
Time: 20 Minutes
Cook: 20 mins
Yields: 4 – 6 Servings
- 1 tbsp (15 mL) canola oil
- 1 cup (250 mL) sweet onion, cut lengthwise
- 1 ½ cups (375 mL) sliced mushrooms, preferably cremini
- 1 sweet bell pepper, sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- ½ tsp (2 mL) Herbes de Provence or dried thyme
- 3 tomatoes, diced
- 1 canned Chipotle pepper in adobe sauce, diced
- 1 cup (250 mL) tomato sauce
- 1 cup (250 mL) beer
- 1 lb (0.45 kg) Flank, Top Sirloin or Tri-tip Steak, 1-inch (2.5 cm) thick
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
Heat oil in non-stick pan over medium high heat; cook onion, mushrooms, bell pepper, garlic and herbs for 5 minutes or until vegetables start to soften and brown. Add tomatoes and chipotle pepper; cook about 5 minutes or until most of the liquid has evaporated.
Stir in tomato sauce, beer and barbecue sauce; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer approximately 15 minutes stirring occasionally or until liquid has reduced to half or third.
Meanwhile, season steak with salt and pepper. Grill over medium high heat approximately 12 minutes, turning at least twice, to medium-rare doneness 145°F(63°C). Let steak rest for 5 minutes. Cut into thin slices, across the grain and serve with the sauce.
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Despite the fact that you're in Dubai , not as a local resident and as a tourist, you should maintain local traditions and norms of decency. In this regard, so as not to cause misunderstanding and disrespect on the part of local residents, do not wear too revealing clothes, going for a walk around the city.
In the pool, on the beach or at the hotel you can spend time in bikini and pareo, but such clothing is not valid. It is also not acceptable short skirts and shorts – in Dubai these things are considered to be provocative and indecent.
Your clothes should be closed and not too tight. To a closed clothes did not stay in the sun unbearable, follow the example of the locals – wear things made of natural fabrics (cotton or linen).
Women should wear long dresses, skirts or loose pants that cover their legs and cover the shoulders. For men fit lightweight pants and shirts.
You will also need a hat, Panama hat or scarf to protect your head from the sun, and be sure to bring dark glasses, without which you risk to damage the eyes.
If you go to a prestigious restaurant or a business meeting, you may be fit strict formal dress. Man enough to wear a decent suit.
In Dubai , you will notice that local people – both women and men wearing the traditional Arab Gulf attire. Even if you buy this garment, do not wear it on the streets of Dubai. It is believed that costumes can only be worn by the locals, the foreigners also are not allowed.
Despite the hot weather, tourists are not recommended to wear in shorts. They are unlikely to offend the residents of the city, accustomed to visiting Europeans, but it is better for you to conform to local traditions. | <urn:uuid:a223d1b1-473a-4a18-a380-2b5bf1d794f9> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://eng.kakprosto.ru/how-13126-how-to-dress-in-dubai | 2020-07-05T12:55:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655887360.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20200705121829-20200705151829-00481.warc.gz | en | 0.957708 | 353 |
Come enjoy beautiful Lake Kampeska on our three acre tree lined lot. You will have lake access directly across the street with fishing dock and swim beach a few steps away from this lovely home. Spend the day fishing, relaxing on the beach or swimming. In the evening, roast marshmallows over a cozy campfire.
Two story home with four bedrooms and two and one half baths, sleeps 11. 2,300 square feet of living space. Large wrap around patio with BBQ grill. | <urn:uuid:cc13134f-b9ae-4c04-ac14-f2b698888bfc> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p632146vb | 2019-01-20T20:13:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583730728.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20190120184253-20190120210253-00439.warc.gz | en | 0.92279 | 99 |
Hand made at our farm from Mexican marigold stalks and tied with an ivory satin bow suitable for almost any décor. Each bundle has a small label to remind you what it is. These plants are smaller than the other aromatics that we bundle so the stems are thinner and produce more interesting bundles. Mexican tarragon has a aroma all to itself its not really like anything else. Its not a tarragon and its not a marigold either although it has flowers that are very similar to small marigolds. The aroma is medium to strong and will scent a small room fairly rapidly.Size: 9" X 4" approx
Average Weight: 1.70 oz (38 grams) Each
Latin Name: Tagetes lucida
Our organic aromatic stick bundles are ideal centerpieces or simple decorations
for any time of year. These bundles slowly release natural essential oils into
the air providing a subtle natural aroma without any harsh chemicals or harmful
To enliven bunches where the aroma has faded gently trim the ends of the sticks. This will release more oils from the bundles. Bundles can last for two or more years with gentle trimming.
Trimmings and sticks can also be used on open fires to provide a burst of aroma. Use only a few sticks at one time. DO NOT use the whole bundle at one time as this may release too much oil. This is especially important for those who are sensitive to aromatic substances, have allergies or are prone to them.
Our aromatic plants are all raised totally organically with no use of chemicals or pesticides at all.
Keep bundles dry at all times to prevent deterioration.
All our bundles are kept in tightly sealed containers under constant temperature and low humidity to ensure that no oils are released until they begin their journey to you.
PLEASE NOTE. All our bundles are hand made from natural material so every bundle
is slightly different. We attempt to make all our bundles to be as similar to
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Garage Door Repair Service in Madison, TN
Garage Door Opener Repair and Installation Service Provider
In as much as protection a garage door can give you, it could possibly still mean injury and peril once it did start to fall to pieces. Strong garage door is a big help if you want to prevent robbers and burglars to intrude inside your home. To attain it, you might contact us today. When operating it starts to give us a hassle, it provides us extreme problem dealing with it. Garage door opens and close with the help of the metal rollers, that is why they should be taken care more. Applying oil for lubrication is necessary to prevent it from getting stuck while opening or closing. When you need a reliable company that could help you mending your broken garage door parts and accessories and restore its functioning condition, hiring an expert is the way to solve it. However you have to be sure they are highly qualified and carry the right tools for providing the solution. We are a company always available to provide commercial and residential garage door services. Our professionals have the power to execute the following:
- Install residential and commercial garage doors
- Change garage door
- Repair and replace broken parts
- Upgrade garage doors to make it energy efficient
- Fix misaligned safety sensors
- Silenced noisy garage doors
- Service all types of garage door
- Work on faulty garage door openers
- Repair stuck garage doors
- Repair malfunctioning auto reverse
- Install weather sealing and stripping
What we have in our company:
Insured, licensed and skilled technicians and tradesmen
Weekends and holidays availability
Exemplary customer support
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Technologically updated tools and techniques
Top Quality Services and Supplies
We keep safety and security as our top priority. Our technicians are efficient, well-trained, experienced and certainly accredited. We're here to provide cutting edge quality services that will absolutely fit in your budget. We are the right company you can entrust with your garage door problems. We have the right tools and quality material to fix your garage door problems.
Making our customers happy and contented is our pride and we do our best to uphold this.
Our professional service technicians are available 24/7 to provide you any garage door repair, installation and maintenance services withing the are that we serve.
In need of assistance in garage door? We roll our sleeves to provide you superior services. Hire us today! Our expert garage door technicians will assist you, be it minor or major garage door issues. We are going to deal with all your blues with your broken or damaged garage door systems with all our efforts and knowledge to bring it back to its pre-state. It is advisable to do what you can now and not tomorrow. Do not wait for tomorrow, if you can handle your problem today.
Why do you need to wait if you can dial our number now? Do not allow your present issue to cloud your thinking. Make sure you do not miss the boat! We give out free estimations. Our helpful customer service representatives will be happy to answer your inquiries. We could work things out for you. We make certain that the solution that we would provide you would be long lasting regardless of the type of emergency you are facing.
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Bug report #20236
Identify tool does not open feature form when used on Sqlite views (loaded as layers)
|Affected QGIS version:||3.4.0||Regression?:||No|
|Operating System:||Easy fix?:||No|
|Pull Request or Patch supplied:||No||Resolution:|
|Crashes QGIS or corrupts data:||No||Copied to github as #:||28057|
Basically, if an SQL query (one with geometry) is saved as a view, then loaded as a layer, the identify tool selects the feature appropriately, but does not open the feature form.
Obviously it can't open it for editing, as views are read-only, but this is inconsistent with the action on other layers which are locked for editing where the tool still opens a read-only version of the form.
If the identify tool opens the side-bar (usually because it has selected more than one feature), all the data is there.
If the attribute table is opened in form view, all the data is there.
The properties dialogue for the layer allows form design.
All this seems inconsistent with the behaviour of the identify tool. | <urn:uuid:ba082c40-b8e8-4270-bcaf-0f518d38ce58> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://issues.qgis.org/issues/20236 | 2020-08-15T10:06:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439740838.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815094903-20200815124903-00015.warc.gz | en | 0.881349 | 257 |
Brock Boeser’s huge day Alex Ovechkin hits one more goal-scoring milestone Pacific Division is Tim Heed Jersey complete chaosThe potential looks vivid for your Canucks, Alex Ovechkin pulls off a different major milestone and 4 teams compete to earn the Pacific Division.Allow me to share 4 items we acquired Saturday during the NHL. Canucks get glimpse of futureThe past few of seasons have not been considerably enjoyment for anyone using a rooting interest while in the Vancouver Canucks, but when Saturday is any indication, which may not be the case for a lot longer.The Canucks’ 2015 first-round decide, Brock Boeser, created his NHL debut in a very 4-2 acquire above the Minnesota Wild and squandered no time locating the back from the internet. Boeser, 20, signed using the Canucks earlier in the day after his North Dakota group was eliminated from the NCAA tournament on Friday. This year using the Preventing Hawks, Boeser experienced sixteen aims and 34 details in 32 video games.Though it is just one activity, Boeser’s perform ought to get Canucks lovers fired up with the potential.Per @CanucksPR & @EliasSports, Brock Boeser is the 18th player in franchise history to score in his NHL debut Barclay Goodrow Jersey Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) March 26, 2017 Get back to the office in no time with BPs New Half-Time Lunch and $10 Combos. Dine-In Only. Click listed here to learn more.Senators fail to gain on Canadiens againFor the third time during the final eight days, the Ottawa Senators failed to gain ground on the Montreal Canadiens. But Saturday’s activity was the best on the three, and showed that this rivalry may be as good as it has ever been.Just look at what happens immediately after this incredible toe save from Carey Price. Ultimately, Montreal used offence from their defence to get the win. Shea Weber fired an absolute bomb past Craig Anderson inside the first period and Andrei Markov added two more of his own later while in the sport.The Canadiens have one with Rourke Chartier Jersey the best offensive blue lines within the NHL and that proved to be the edge on Saturday.#Habs now have 159 points from their defencemen this period, tied for 4th while in the NHL Sportsnet Stats (@SNstats) March 26, 2017Montreal won the time series 3-0-1 and now lead Ottawa by three details for 1st while in the Atlantic Division. At this point, a playoff series between the two would likely only happen in the second round.Here’s hoping we get seven more online games of this. | <urn:uuid:4255e4e1-c721-4461-b49f-16251349c53a> | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | https://letrasylinguistica.unison.mx/4-points-we-figured-out-within-the-nhl-top-heavy-pacific/ | 2019-01-18T07:02:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583659944.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20190118070121-20190118092121-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.953479 | 552 |
Penang Heritage Trust, in collaboration with Think City Sdn Bhd, would like to invite you to the next Seberang Perai Story Lecture entitled ‘The Memories of Studying in Province Wellesley Tamil Schools in the 1960s’
Date: 11 June 2016 (Saturday)
Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm
Venue: 1st Floor, Sri Ananda Bahwan Restaurant, 2985 Jalan Bagan Luar, Butterworth
Speaker: Dr Arjunan Narayanan
Fee: Free admission, but limited seats only
Following the British colonial government’s 1912 Labour Ordinance, plantation owners established Tamil schools in their respective estates. the government also established Tamil schools in the urban areas.
This talk will cover the situation in the Malakoff Estate, Alma Estate and Ramanathan Tamil schools. Malakoff Estate Tamil School was in a British rubber estate while the Alma Estate Tamil School was in a Chinese owned sub-divided estate. As both schools were located on private lands, they were partly funded by the Malayan government. The Ramanathan Tamil School was an urban and fully government funded school.
The talk will look at these three schools from the perspectives of their location, the plantation society, facilities at the school, the class room teaching, school extra-mural activities adn the students’ life after school hours in the plantation environment. It will cover a six-year period, 1959 – 1964.
Dr Arjunan commenced his schooling at Malakoff Estate, Alma Estate and Ramanathan Tamil schools in Province Wellesley. His secondary school studies were in Bukit Mertajam High School and Han Chiang High School, Penang.
His qualifications: PhD (UK), Master of Defence Studies (Australia), Bachelor of Social Sciences, Diploma in Public Administration and Diploma in Public Management (Malaysia)
He has published in areas related to International Relations. His Tamil book, Samuthaya Malargai (Flowers of Society), is a collection of his articles published in the Malaysian Tamil Dailies. He was in public service for 32 years. Currently he is with HELP University. | <urn:uuid:2a38d6cf-502e-4c14-a90c-54affb0b94cf> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://pht.org.my/seberang-perai-story-lectures-the-memories-of-studying-in-province-wellesley-tamil-schools-in-the-1960s/ | 2020-10-19T23:51:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107867463.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20201019232613-20201020022613-00139.warc.gz | en | 0.962618 | 450 |
Would-be Xbox One owners will stand the machines on their end at their own peril, according to an interview at GameSpot with Albert Penello, Microsoft senior director of product management and planning for Xbox. Unlike the previous generation, the new Xbox is not made to stand on its side, thanks to the design of the disc drive.
Microsoft’s current console, the Xbox 360, has always supported either vertical or horizontal positioning on a surface; this is something of a feat, since the tray-load drive is vertical when the box is standing on its end. The new Xbox one will have a slot loading drive, like the PlayStation 3 and upcoming PlayStation 4, but it’s not designed to be used while the box is in an upright position.
“We don’t support vertical orientation; do it at your own risk,” said Penello. “It wouldn’t be a cooling problem, we just didn’t design the drive for vertical.” Penello expects that the constraint won’t be a problem—according to Microsoft’s own research, “80 percent of people” stash their Xbox 360s horizontally anyway.
While the Xbox division has changed its stance on a handful of aspects of the console, this is one it probably can’t backtrack on, even in the face of an angry 20 percent minority. The console is set to launch on November 22. | <urn:uuid:bbdbb3e6-21ba-4f5e-9cd3-551af733eec4> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/09/put-the-xbox-one-on-its-end-at-your-own-risk/ | 2019-05-21T19:11:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256546.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521182616-20190521204616-00447.warc.gz | en | 0.928365 | 296 |
because there is a God and He loves us. i keep telling you this. none of you listen. but it’s cool. it’s cool.
speaking of which, jeff jarvis wants us to lay off the hate and the evil and the mudslinging when blogging about this presidential election.
at first i was all, “come on hippie, isnt half the fun of a blog to have not only the ability to sling a little mud, but then sling a little more?”
but, as usual, i was wrong.
half the fun of blogging is getting nice emails from hot chicks who want to get naked with you. the other half is getting a chance to practice writing three times a day in front of hundreds of people.
there actually is no room for mudslinging in a proper blog that aspires to be taken seriously. a gentleman should leave that for the discussion boards.
blogs should be setting the standard. we should be setting the tone that tv and newspapers and magazines once had. and even if we shouldnt be, we could be, so therfore we should be.
the busblog doesnt need to lower its standards to the level of others just because theyre doing it.
and since everyone is so frickin confident about their guy’s record, why bother with the bs?
as a reluctant kerry supporter, i hereby take my man jeff jarvis up on his plea. i will no longer talk about our president’s incomplete military record where he obviously took a few months off to go to rehab or bang sheep or do whatever it was that he was doing. i will no longer write about things that are not rooted in the main facts about this particular race.
the facts being the economy, the war on terror, health care, education, constitutional amendments, the seperation of church and state, the war on drugs, wmd, obl, and the war in iraq.
if jeff wants to lay out a few more standards, i believe that will be helpful.
meanwhile, i would hope that any blogger who thinks that they can run a mud-free blog who supports the president will refrain from john kerry’s health records, his opposition to the vietnam war, the swift boaters, michael moore’s weight, etc.
similarily i will not run out and buy kitty kelly’s new book. and if i do i wont write about it.
welcome back raymi. we missed you.
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Easy access on sign-in: There should be an obvious place to click to access the control panel. Even better, some web hosting companies automatically load the control panel upon log-in to the host. It seems like everyone has a website these days. But building and maintaining a site can only happen if there is a space on a server that can be accessed by everyone. This process is known as web hosting. | <urn:uuid:ceff31c7-fa7b-4e96-9534-9c466ebf1049> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://webhostingspark.com/terminal-server-license-servers-available/ | 2017-09-20T12:40:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818687281.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170920123428-20170920143428-00286.warc.gz | en | 0.932565 | 538 |
Set in the heart of the village of Corfe Castle, this magnificent Grade II listed 16th-century property offers spacious accommodation for a large family or group seeking a sumptuous country retreat.
The house is set within extensive grounds and makes a superb base for discovering the Purbeck Hills, or you could sit back and relax in the comfort and style of the glorious surroundings.
This fantastic holiday home offers an elegant drawing room with open fire, a very large dining room with open fire, separate snug/sitting room with large wood burner in an inglenook fireplace, TV and a well equipped kitchen. There are numerous characterful features throughout including a large beamed inglenook, peephole window, chandeliers and a piano. There are six tastefully decorated bedrooms and four bathrooms, as well as a gallery and utility room. The adjacent cottage features its own kitchen/diner, a pretty lounge and three comfortable bedrooms. Outside you can relax in the courtyard which has a raised fountain, or you can explore the gently sloping gardens and terraces where there are various seating areas, a dining pavilion, fire pit, BBQs and pond. Off-road parking is available for up to six cars.
The picturesque village of Corfe Castle offers a variety of independent shops, including a multi award-winning family bakery, restaurants, cafes and pubs. The village surrounds the ruins of a Norman castle which offers breath-taking views across the Purbeck Hills. Local attractions include the wonderful RSPB Nature Reserve at Arne Forest (1 mile), Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum (1 mile), the Blue Pool (3 miles) and Kilwood Nature Reserve (5 miles). There are beautiful Dorset beaches, quiet coves and delightful villages nearby, including Studland (5 miles), Winspit Quarry (5 miles), Kimmeridge Bay (6 miles) and Lulworth Cove (12 miles). You can also enjoy the delightful seaside town of Swanage (5.5 miles) and the pretty village of Studland (5.5 miles) where you can catch a ferry to explore Brownsea Island. Poole (15 miles) and Bournemouth (19 miles) with their myriad entertainments are easily accessible. | <urn:uuid:0c2d1c21-77da-4649-b5d7-ce914b1a6177> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://www.dorsetcoastalcottages.com/cottage/74566-well-court-and-cottage--corfe-castle | 2023-06-03T05:49:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649105.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603032950-20230603062950-00618.warc.gz | en | 0.940756 | 456 |
Our research group made our annual pilgrimage to Mammoth Lakes, CA to kick off the beginning of the (academic) year. The evenings were filled with discussions on past, current, and future research and imbibing on delicious homemade food. The days were spent enjoying all the activities that the Eastern Sierras had to offer. The group hike this year was the Twenty Lakes Basin Loop Trail (though about half of us decided to only tackle the loop around Saddlebag Lake). But those that did the entire 10 mile route were rewarded with a snow cave unlike anything that I’ve ever seen. Quentin — our resident group photographer and videographer — created a wonderful video showing the epicness of the hike (the snow cave comes around 0:45). | <urn:uuid:ec0bb38b-a3f1-4c45-8ad1-50bb619179e3> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | http://kastner.ucsd.edu/blog/annual-research-group-retreat/ | 2021-04-14T17:22:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038077843.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20210414155517-20210414185517-00282.warc.gz | en | 0.978789 | 153 |
Official site for Tourism & Visitor Information for Cattaraugus County, New York Welcome to the Enchanted Mountains! Larry the Cable Guy at the Seneca Allegany Casino See award-winning comedian Larry The Cable Guy at Seneca Allegany Casino Read more Ellicottville's Winter Blues Weekend Get out to the hotspots for some great Blues! Read more Greater Olean Outdoor and Rec Sports Show Held at Good Times of Olean, with 50 vendors! Read more Get out the skates this winter! Ice Skating is fun for everyone! Here's where to go... Read more Holiday Mission to Halley's Comet with DRCLC! Go on a simulated mission to Halley's Comet on a football free Sunday! Read more XC Ski at the Art Roscoe Trail System in Allegany State Park These trails are groomed, having varying difficulties and are a lot of fun! Read more Moore's Maple Shack and Pancake House open Sundays Moore's open their doors Sundays from 8am to 2pm Read more Go for a snowshoe adventure or evening hike every Tuesday in Jan and Feb Join naturalists at Allegany State Park for fun on Tuesdays! Read more Cattaraugus County is the Enchanted Mountains of Western New York! We are home to Allegany State Park, Amish Trail, Ellicottville, NY, Holiday Valley, Rock City Park, Sculpture Park, Seneca-Allegany Casino and so much more! Travel Guide It's a full 56-page comprehensive guide, highlighting the activities and attractions in our County and it's FREE!! View the visitor's guide online or request that the Enchanted Mountains guide be snail mailed to you for FREE! | <urn:uuid:03f1fed4-aae0-4edd-9e63-b8de6dab63ef> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | http://enchantedmountains.com/ | 2018-01-19T19:30:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084888113.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20180119184632-20180119204632-00605.warc.gz | en | 0.893345 | 357 |
Two more semi final spots are up for grabs in the last round of the Liga Postobon regular season, with five teams still in contention.
Deportes Tolima and Independiente are both already certain of a spot in the next stage and play rather unimportant away matches to Atletico Nacional and Millonarios respectively this Saturday.
But the real action takes place on Sunday. Third-placed Santa Fe have 30 points and defend their spot in an away match to Atletico Huila. A win will certainly see the Bogota side through to the next round but any other result could well prove to be fatal.
La Equidad are currently in fourth place and play away to Deportivo Cali, who themselves are in sixth. A win to La Equidad will be enough for them. If Cali win, they might advance but they would still depend on results in at least one other game.
That other game is the match between Junior and Envigado, where fifth-placed Junior are quite likely to win. All the Barranquilla side would need if they do, is for either Santa Fe or La Equidad to slip up. Only if Junior’s win over Envigado is smaller than Cali’s win over La Equidad, the situation could still get complicated.
Finally, Real Cartagena face an away match at Cucuta Deportivo. The coastal team are in seventh place and technically still have a chance of making it to the next round, though with 28 points they would need a miracle to happen. | <urn:uuid:8564ecf4-89de-48d5-b039-8a26fa870271> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://colombiareports.com/preview-liga-postobon-week-18/ | 2023-12-02T16:16:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00458.warc.gz | en | 0.947424 | 325 |
| From the flag of Oliver Murray (Flagger since 2006) |
We live in the Information Age and as such are overwhelmed by choice and information much of which can be irrelevant. Waving The Flag is a next generation business that sells believable and relevant information with a human touch.
I wanted to watch the cricket overseas but did not want to be trapped into the strict package holiday routine. My salvation came via Waving The Flag and their fully flexible offerings. At one end of the continuum you can travel as an INDEPENDENT FLAGGER which means you are part of the flag group for the cricket but free to organise everything else yourself or at the other end enjoy luxurious B&B apartment accommodation, cricket, golf and tours with the WAVING THE STICK option or anything in-between.
The brilliance Waving the Flag is two fold. First of all complete flexibility, for example the night before a day trip if space is available you can join and secondly the people you deal with have experienced everything they offer and are there with you, not as a tour helpers but as fellow travellers, albeit a very knowledgeable traveller who is always willing to answer your questions and make sure everything runs smoothly.
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Start a new tradition this year and get a fresh cut tree from one of our Ashe County Christmas tree farms!
Frostys Choose and Cut is hosting Santa! He will be taking pictures between 1pm and 4pm on November 23, 24, 29, 30 and again on December 1, 7, 8, 14 and 15.
Long's Tree Farm offers a hay ride up to the top of the mountain and you can walk down and pick your tree. Their staff will help you cut, wrap and load it. Check their site for a discount coupon
Mistletoe Meadows has hot cocoa and hot cider available to warm you up as you search for that perfect tree!
Little Grandfather Mountain Christmas Tree Farm will also be hosting Santa visits. Stop by and see Santa's workshop, enjoy a hay ride and build a wreath.
Shady Rest Tree Farm offers a variety of different Fir trees along with some Blue Spruce. They have wreaths and garlands in addition to 30,000 trees to choose from. | <urn:uuid:71b41a90-a97a-4763-b593-73812caaca00> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://blog.cabinsathealingsprings.com/2019/11/fresh-cut-christmas-trees-are-perfect.html | 2020-07-03T10:08:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655881984.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20200703091148-20200703121148-00407.warc.gz | en | 0.955007 | 208 |
Analytics professionals are in high demand as organizations rely on data to increase efficiency and improve business outcomes. The field is only expected to grow: The World Economic Forum predicts that analytics professionals will be in high demand across all industries by 2020.1
The University of Dayton’s AACSB-accredited School of Business Administration now offers an online Master of Business Analytics program that will prepare you to pursue a career in business analytics. The intensive curriculum combines analytics coursework with the business foundation you need to succeed as a well-rounded professional. Additional benefits of studying analytics online at Dayton include:
- The opportunity to earn your degree in as few as 12 months
- GMAT/GRE waivers available to qualified applicants
- Live, face-to-face online classes led by expert faculty
- A WeWork Global Access membership
Learn how you can develop the in-demand analytics skills your organization needs in the online master’s in business analytics program from the University of Dayton. | <urn:uuid:ca2142c1-b81b-408b-8d21-78c3f24aea17> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.datasciencecentral.com/group/announcements/forum/topics/ud-analytics-master-s-online-gmat-waiver-avail | 2020-09-20T02:05:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400193087.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20200920000137-20200920030137-00048.warc.gz | en | 0.941255 | 198 |
Updating your resume doesn't have to be too time-consuming or painful, says resume expert Lauren Milligan, founder of ResuMAYDAY, a Chicago-based resume writing and career services firm. She shares five quick tips for breathing new life into your old resume.
1. Start at the End
Don't overwhelm yourself by looking at your entire resume -- yet. "Look at the bottom of your resume and see if there's anything new that you can add. Workshops, professional training, or awards are a quick way to add something current," says Milligan.
2. Where You've Been and Where You're Going
Next, look at the position nearest the bottom of your resume. Milligan advises, "Ask yourself if it's still relevant to your current career goal. If it's not, delete it so you can build on more current accomplishments that will further your career."
If that last position is still somewhat relevant, "Just edit it down. The very first position you held should get the least amount of attention," she reveals.
3. A Year in the Life
Turn your attention toward your current job. Milligan says, "Update any new projects or accomplishments that have occurred over the last year. Even if it's not a promotion, just include anything from 2007 that can be added to it."
4. Update Your Look
Current information deserves a current look. Does your resume look stylish and polished -- or plain, dull, and dated? If so, Milligan believes it may be time to give your resume a face lift. "If you're still using the same resume format you used a few years ago, you should change it to something more suited to the positions you're currently pursuing -- not those you had after graduation."
Also, make your resume available in several formats -- text only, Microsoft Word, and a PDF. "There's a good use for each of these formats. Having a PDF of your resume at the ready implies a little more technical savvy on your part."
5. Proofread. Proofread. Proofread.
Milligan cannot stress enough the importance of proofreading your resume. "Every time you make any changes to your resume, it's possible to introduce another error," says the resume and careers guru. "Proofread it again and again, and ask a few friends to look at it, also. You can never be too careful."
Adds Milligan, "If you have a 'blah' resume, you're leaving yourself open to those jobs that other aren't willing to do. Update it to make it great!"
It's a new year! And while you may not need an entirely new resume, you should probably freshen up your current credentials. | <urn:uuid:8975bcad-3156-4607-9cd0-b7a5eeb29ab3> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://savannahnow.com/advertising/yahoo-hotjobs/five-steps-updating-your-resume | 2015-03-27T17:33:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131296587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172136-00246-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954014 | 558 |
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ROMEL was founded in 1984 by the following 7 organisations : L’OEIL, CLSC Côte-des-Neiges, la Maison Internationale de la Rive-Sud, YMCA International, l’Hirondelle, la Communauté Laotienne du Québec et La Maisonnée.
These organisations were deeply preoccupied with housing issues related to the various cultural communities; they wanted to be able to rely on an organization that can offer expertise in the field and serve the needs of their clients in all housing related matters.
- Client ROMEL
- Date August 22, 2012
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Mr. And Mrs. Veltri Priest River, Idaho
Joe and Elnora Veltri, Priest River, will observe their 60th wedding anniversary on Monday.
Their children and spouses are: Karen Falk, Boise; Richard Veltri, Malden, Wash.; Patricia Parkins, Spokane; John Veltri, Honolulu; and Dennis Veltri, Priest River.
The Veltris were married Nov. 10, 1937, in Priest River. They have 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. | <urn:uuid:e6503bac-c8eb-43e0-bb7c-dba9d3e3a6c2> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/nov/09/mr-and-mrs-veltri-priest-river-idaho/ | 2014-04-17T11:12:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609527423.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005207-00495-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.889901 | 107 |
I worked with Helia at Iselect. Her role was Risk Para-Planner- I recall Helia was extremely diligent in her work and very dedicated to providing efficient and effective assistance to Advisers in a timely manner; Helia was always very professional in her dealings with anyone she dealt with.
I had the pleasure of building a relationship with Helia and as a person; I found Helia to be loyal, always willing to listen and always happy to provide advise, specially in areas where she had a lot of knowledge such as finance and with Home loans. Helia is an honest person, and lives her life with integrity.
I would highly recommend Helia, if you are looking for assistance with your home loan needs; she has the knowledge, experience and contacts to assist you with your home loan needs. As a Para-planner she will not disappoint you and you will be very impressed with her professionalism displayed in your work.
I would like to take this opportunity to wish Helia success in her future endeavours.
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By Amy Wolf
A recently released congressional study on abstinence-only education has confirmed the conventional wisdom that this tool of conservative ideology fails teens miserably.
Mathematica Policy Research Inc. surveyed more than 2,000 16 year-olds, half of whom had abstinence-only education and half of whom had sex education that included information on contraception. Startlingly, the results for both groups were the same:
The mean age at which virginity was lost was 14.9 years; 23 percent had had sex in the previous year and always used a condom; 17 percent had sex only sometimes using a condom; and 4 percent had sex never using one.
About a quarter of each group had had sex with three or more partners. Additionally, teens continue to be at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Almost half of the 19 million new STD infections recorded in the United States each year involve people aged 15 to 24.
“Just saying no is not working,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. “These are efforts by the federal government to fund ideological programs, not health care or medical programs,” reported P.J. Huffstutter in the L.A. Times in April.
$191 MILLION BOONDOGGLE
Most funding for abstinence-only education comes from Title V, the Bush administration’s addition to the Welfare Reform Act requiring states to match 75 percent of all federal money received and forbidding any mention of contraception other than of its propensity to fail. The White House has proposed $191 million for the abstinence program in fiscal 2008 — an increase of $28 million over current funding.
According to a New York Times report last July, New York State received $3.7 million from Washington for abstinence-only programs, which it had to augment with $2.6 million of its own. Even though New York schools must provide education about HIV and AIDS, they do not have to offer broader sex education. Anecdotal evidence suggests that sex-ed curricula vary widely in New York City. “From what the kids tell me, it seems to depend on who your teacher is,” says Amanda Theiroff of Children’s Press Line, a youth reporting project in Harlem.
Elizabeth Magron, a 14-year-old freshman at Dominican Academy, a Catholic school on East 68th Street, said she is satisfied with her sex ed, although abortion has not been mentioned. Magron feels that abstinence-only education is “unrealistic in today’s society.” She knows other teens who have taken abstinence pledges but break the vow.
Title V is based on ideologies that dictate that “a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of all human sexual activity” and that “sexual activity outside the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects.” Leslee J. Unruh, head of the South Dakota-based Abstinence Clearinghouse, states, “There are kids who don’t want to know how to put on a condom, because they don’t want to have sex.”
Indeed abstinence-only education is intentionally divorced from reality. In its campaign to end funding for abstinence-only education, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS). SIECUS reports that Ron Haskins and Carol Statuto Bevan, congressional staffers who were key in crafting the abstinence education language, wrote that “the explicit goal … is to change both behavior and community standards for the good of the country.” They went on to say that the “standard was intended to align Congress with the social tradition … that sex should be confined to married couples. That both the practices and standards in many communities across the country clash with the standard required by the law is precisely the point.”
An Oct. 3, 2006, report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) helped foment resistance to Title V on a state level, concluding that abstinence programs had not been proven to work and at times disseminated inaccurate information. In the report, one state official described an instance in which educational materials “incorrectly suggested that HIV can pass through condoms because the latex used in condoms is porous.” The GAO report, along with the Mathmatica survey, has dissuaded some states from receiving Title V money.
Fed up with the federal mandate to fund failing abstinence-only programs, states including California, Wisconsin and New Jersey are rejecting the program altogether. In California, state lawmakers determined that the state’s abstinence-only program had not been effective. In October, New Jersey said it would do without the $800,000 it had been receiving. In March, Democratic Gov. James Doyle said Wisconsin would no longer accept nearly $600,000. | <urn:uuid:f331c4a7-5a3e-4699-aa26-22638027cf97> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://indypendent.org/2007/04/abstinence-ed-gets-an-f/ | 2022-05-17T04:31:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662515501.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220517031843-20220517061843-00368.warc.gz | en | 0.967873 | 1,013 |
MU Extension events calendar
Professional development events
Building Strong Families (Session 10 of 10)
Tuesday, May 13, 2014, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Hillcrest Thrift Shop community room--South Platte site
6520 NW Prairie View Road, Kansas City MO map...
The Building Strong Families program is taught year-round in partnership with Hillcrest Ministries, a faith-based social service agency and transitional housing program serving homeless families in the greater Kansas City area. When accepted into the Hillcrest program, adults agree to participate in an intensive 90-day program that emphasizes life-skills and financial solvency. Several modules from the Building Strong Families curriculum are utilized in the life-skills education component.
The May workshop topic for Hillcrest residents is "Guidance and Discipline-More than Time-Out".
Registration for the Building Strong Families classes are handled directly by Hillcrest case managers. For general information, contact the University of Missouri Extension Center at 816-407-3490 | <urn:uuid:ff2c75e5-b828-48e7-9ac3-684dbe95a4db> | CC-MAIN-2015-35 | http://extension.missouri.edu/calendar/DisplaySingleEvent.aspx?R=C&E=236383&S=10 | 2015-08-29T20:57:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644064538.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025424-00352-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.843054 | 219 |
Just a quick idea -apologies if I am bringing up a completely over -discussed suggestion.
Nagios alerts us via email. I have a very large Nagios roster - better than 800 machines. When Nagios alerts we currently copy the IP or host name, open the MUI, paste in the search box, and process the find to get to it in the MUI. It would be very beneficial to our operation if the email had a link to the Nagios MUI page for that host or service. Make the IP a url and link it to he MUI search function? I am not a coder, or at least don't have enough skill to do this, but I would love to have someone tell me how or write it up. Its just a suggestion for the development teams.
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|By PR Newswire||
|February 27, 2013 04:40 AM EST||
NÜRNBERG, Alemania, February 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Ixonos ha presentado varias soluciones innovadoras en Embedded World 2013 de Nürnberg. La aplicación Ixonos Low Latency HD Video Streaming se ofrece con un streaming de video full HD de baja latencia para dispositivos de pequeña huella, como las cámaras de seguridad. El Ixonos Embedded Linux Board Support Package (BSP) se ha construido de forma muy elegante, haciendo que sea sencillo la construcción, personalización y mantenimiento de la distribución Linux para pequeños dispositivos.
"La tecnología Ixonos Low Latency HD Video Streaming es excelente para los sistemas de tipo A/V, como vigilancia por video, que necesita de una latencia baja Glass-2-Glass", comentó Martin Lund, especialista de Ixonos. La aplicación funciona en Ixonos Embedded Linux BSP, y usa la fuente abierta popular del marco multimedia Gstreamer 1.0 para el respaldo del streaming. "Basándose en nuestro conocimiento, este es el streaming de video más rápido en el sistema integrado de baja potencia. En nuestra solución, estamos optimizando el funcionamiento del chipset", añadió Lund. Ixonos es uno de los primeros integradores de sistema en el mercado en llevar esta nueva tecnología a los chipsets.
El principal parámetro de la aplicación es su latencia muy baja; se puede garantizar una latencia tan baja como de 275 milisegundos para un streaming full HD 1080p30 A/V. La aplicación utiliza el sistema en chip Texas Instruments DM8148, que permite un bajo consumo energético y un diseño de dispositivo de huella pequeña.
Ixonos Embedded Linux BSP es una agrupación moderna de software y de bajo peso integrada que incluye componentes de fuentes abiertas actualizados. Proporciona una plataforma de software que es fácilmente ampliable para cualquier tipo de aplicación integrada Linux y funciona en placas de varios de los principales fabricantes de chipset.
"Ixonos Embedded Linux BSP se ha construido de una forma muy elegante, haciendo que sea sencillo personalizar y mantener. La mejora de los componentes nunca antes había sido tan sencilla", afirmó Sören Kristensen, director de desarrollo de negocios de dispositivos conectados de Ixonos. "Al beneficiarse de los componentes modernos se consigue un tiempo de funcionamiento excelente; una mejora utilización de la CPU y una carga de la CPU menor. Nuestra agrupación inteligente presenta una pequeña huella y un tiempo boot breve, siendo esenciales para los dispositivos inteligentes", comentó Kristensen.
Ixonos es una compañía de soluciones móviles creativas. Desarrollamos tecnologías inalámbricas, software y soluciones para dispositivos conectados y servicios móviles. Junto con nuestros socios corporativos, diseñamos productos y servicios que permiten a los consumidores disfrutar de experiencias móviles inspiradoras. Mejoramos la competitividad de nuestras compañías cliente permitiendo una experiencia del usuario superior así como una comercialización más rápida para sus dispositivos y servicios. Tenemos oficinas en Finlandia, China, Dinamarca, Estonia, Alemania, Gran Bretaña, Eslovaquia, Corea del Sur y Estados Unidos. Ixonos Plc cotiza en NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd. En 2011, los ingresos de la compañía fueron de 81,4 millones de euros y su beneficio operativo fue de 1,9 millones de euros.
Para más información contacte con:
Antti Vuolli, director de chipset e integración, teléfono +358-50-487-4172, [email protected]
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"We've discovered that after shows 80% if leads that people get, 80% of the conversations end up on the show floor, meaning people forget about it, people forget who they talk to, people forget that there are actual business opportunities to be had here so we try to help out and keep the conversations going," explained Jeff Mesnik, Founder and President of ContentMX, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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Internet of @ThingsExpo has announced today that Chris Matthieu has been named tech chair of Internet of @ThingsExpo 2016 Silicon Valley. The 6thInternet of @ThingsExpo will take place on November 1–3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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When people aren’t talking about VMs and containers, they’re talking about serverless architecture. Serverless is about no maintenance. It means you are not worried about low-level infrastructural and operational details. An event-driven serverless platform is a great use case for IoT. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Animesh Singh, an STSM and Lead for IBM Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, will detail how to build a distributed serverless, polyglot, microservices framework using open source tec...
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The 19th International Cloud Expo has announced that its Call for Papers is open. Cloud Expo, to be held November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, brings together Cloud Computing, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, Digital Transformation, Microservices and WebRTC to one location. With cloud computing driving a higher percentage of enterprise IT budgets every year, it becomes increasingly important to plant your flag in this fast-expanding business opportuni...
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From wearable activity trackers to fantasy e-sports, data and technology are transforming the way athletes train for the game and fans engage with their teams. In his session at @ThingsExpo, will present key data findings from leading sports organizations San Francisco 49ers, Orlando Magic NBA team. By utilizing data analytics these sports orgs have recognized new revenue streams, doubled its fan base and streamlined costs at its stadiums. John Paul is the CEO and Founder of VenueNext. Prior ...
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A critical component of any IoT project is what to do with all the data being generated. This data needs to be captured, processed, structured, and stored in a way to facilitate different kinds of queries. Traditional data warehouse and analytical systems are mature technologies that can be used to handle certain kinds of queries, but they are not always well suited to many problems, particularly when there is a need for real-time insights.
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CenturyLink has announced that application server solutions from GENBAND are now available as part of CenturyLink’s Networx contracts. The General Services Administration (GSA)’s Networx program includes the largest telecommunications contract vehicles ever awarded by the federal government. CenturyLink recently secured an extension through spring 2020 of its offerings available to federal government agencies via GSA’s Networx Universal and Enterprise contracts. GENBAND’s EXPERiUS™ Application...
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"My role is working with customers, helping them go through this digital transformation. I spend a lot of time talking to banks, big industries, manufacturers working through how they are integrating and transforming their IT platforms and moving them forward," explained William Morrish, General Manager Product Sales at Interoute, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place November 1-3, 2016, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, is co-located with the 19th International Cloud Expo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world and ThingsExpo Silicon Valley Call for Papers is now open.
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Big Data engines are powering a lot of service businesses right now. Data is collected from users from wearable technologies, web behaviors, purchase behavior as well as several arbitrary data points we’d never think of. The demand for faster and bigger engines to crunch and serve up the data to services is growing exponentially. You see a LOT of correlation between “Cloud” and “Big Data” but on Big Data and “Hybrid,” where hybrid hosting is the sanest approach to the Big Data Infrastructure pro...
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The IoT is changing the way enterprises conduct business. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Eric Hoffman, Vice President at EastBanc Technologies, discussed how businesses can gain an edge over competitors by empowering consumers to take control through IoT. He cited examples such as a Washington, D.C.-based sports club that leveraged IoT and the cloud to develop a comprehensive booking system. He also highlighted how IoT can revitalize and restore outdated business models, making them profitable ...
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We all know the latest numbers: Gartner, Inc. forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from last year, and will reach 20.8 billion by 2020. We're rapidly approaching a data production of 40 zettabytes a day – more than we can every physically store, and exabytes and yottabytes are just around the corner. For many that’s a good sign, as data has been proven to equal money – IF it’s ingested, integrated, and analyzed fast enough. Without real-ti...
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I wanted to gather all of my Internet of Things (IOT) blogs into a single blog (that I could later use with my University of San Francisco (USF) Big Data “MBA” course). However as I started to pull these blogs together, I realized that my IOT discussion lacked a vision; it lacked an end point towards which an organization could drive their IOT envisioning, proof of value, app dev, data engineering and data science efforts. And I think that the IOT end point is really quite simple…
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With 15% of enterprises adopting a hybrid IT strategy, you need to set a plan to integrate hybrid cloud throughout your infrastructure. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Steven Dreher, Director of Solutions Architecture at Green House Data, discussed how to plan for shifting resource requirements, overcome challenges, and implement hybrid IT alongside your existing data center assets. Highlights included anticipating workload, cost and resource calculations, integrating services on both sides...
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"We are a well-established player in the application life cycle management market and we also have a very strong version control product," stated Flint Brenton, CEO of CollabNet,, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 18th Cloud Expo, held June 7-9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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The IoT has the potential to create a renaissance of manufacturing in the US and elsewhere. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Florent Solt, CTO and chief architect of Netvibes, discussed how the expected exponential increase in the amount of data that will be processed, transported, stored, and accessed means there will be a huge demand for smart technologies to deliver it. Florent Solt is the CTO and chief architect of Netvibes. Prior to joining Netvibes in 2007, he co-founded Rift Technologi...
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Unless your company can spend a lot of money on new technology, re-engineering your environment and hiring a comprehensive cybersecurity team, you will most likely move to the cloud or seek external service partnerships. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo, Darren Guccione, CEO of Keeper Security, revealed what you need to know when it comes to encryption in the cloud.
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Basho Technologies has announced the latest release of Basho Riak TS, version 1.3. Riak TS is an enterprise-grade NoSQL database optimized for Internet of Things (IoT). The open source version enables developers to download the software for free and use it in production as well as make contributions to the code and develop applications around Riak TS. Enhancements to Riak TS make it quick, easy and cost-effective to spin up an instance to test new ideas and build IoT applications. In addition to...
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It was late on Sunday night when officials in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh received the alert. Federal authorities said they needed to track down more than 1,000 people linked to a large Muslim missionary gathering nearly 2,000 km away in the capital New Delhi.
Authorities in Andhra Pradesh, a region of about 50 million people, used cell phone towers, government databases and even village volunteers over the next five days to find almost everyone on the list — from attendees to the people they had been in close contact to fellow travellers.
The search is part of a nationwide manhunt for thousands of people linked to an outbreak of coronavirus at the headquarters of the Tablighi Jamaat group in a cramped corner of New Delhi, which is propelling a surge of cases in India, the world’s second most populous country after China.
“We have almost tracked everybody,” a senior Andhra Pradesh health official told Reuters.
Authorities have found and quarantined 9,000 people connected to the headquarters or their close contacts, India’s federal interior ministry said on Thursday. Officials from at least three states said they were looking for hundreds more linked to the Nizamuddin Markaz building, which serves as a hostel and center for missionary workers from all over the world.
The outbreak is the largest cluster reported in India, according to federal and state health department data. It presents a major challenge to the country of 1.3 billion people, where high population density and a rudimentary public health system risk undermining the fight against the disease that has killed tens of thousands of people worldwide.
With authorities concerned the outbreak has spread the virus across India, the incident has fanned communal tensions just weeks after Hindu-Muslim riots in the capital killed more than 50 this year.
More than 450 coronavirus cases and at least eight deaths have now already been linked to Tablighi Jamaat in India, according to data from state governments.
That accounts for about a fifth of the more than 2,000 infections reported by India’s federal health ministry, which has said there have been 53 deaths. More than 950,000 infections have been reported globally, according to a Reuters tally.
The group also held big gatherings in February and March that led to a mass outbreaks in Malaysia and Pakistan, respectively, according to officials in those countries.
A spokesman for the Tablighi Jamaat group, Mujeeb ur Rehman, denied that the headquarters was a big source of India’s coronavirus cases: “India by then had already hundreds of cases. So, it will be wrong to say that Markaz was a major source of outbreak in the country.”
Tablighi Jamaat is an orthodox Islamic missionary movement with members across the world. Thousands of people from across Asia and elsewhere gather at its global headquarters in New Delhi’s densely-populated Nizamuddin West neighbourhood famous for its Sufi shrines and kebab stalls.
The six-story building includes large halls where prayers are held and sermons delivered. At night, it turns into sleeping quarters for 200-300 people on each floor, said one attendee from West Bengal state, who said he attends courses there twice a year and gave only his first name.
On March 13, two weeks after the group held a meeting in Malaysia that emerged as a source of hundreds of coronavirus cases across Southeast Asia, Tablighi Jamaat’s members gathered in New Delhi, including nearly 200 Indonesians and Malaysians, according to two top Tablighi leaders interviewed by Reuters.
The headquarters typically hosts between 2,000-4,000 people on most days, with events scheduled at least a year in advance, the two leaders said.
“We have a transparent system and we respect the rules of the country,” one of the leaders said.
On March 16, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a ban on all gatherings of more than 50 people, except weddings, in an effort to contain the outbreak.
But the Tablighi leaders said their headquarters remained open for several days until Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a one-day citizen’s curfew on March 22.
A New Delhi-wide lockdown began on March 23, followed by a national one starting March 25.
The group said it was able to move out around 1,500 people before the countrywide lockdown came into force, but that hundreds remained stranded inside. “After the lockdown was announced, it was impossible to further vacate the Markaz,” one of the Tablighi leaders said.
Mujeeb ur Rehman, the group’s spokesman, confirmed that a conference was held between March 13 and 15. He added that most foreign attendees had arrived weeks before the event.
Indian officials first became concerned about the group’s Nizamuddin Markaz headquarters around March 18 after Indonesians linked to the group tested positive for COVID-19 – the disease caused by coronavirus – in the southern state of Telangana, according to a government source and an interior ministry letter dated March 28 reviewed by Reuters.
By March 21, India’s interior ministry sent details of the group’s foreign and Indian workers to all state governments to trace and test them, the ministry said in a statement.
At that time, officials estimated the group’s headquarters housed about 1,750 people, including 216 foreigners, the ministry statement said. Another 2,100 Indian and 800 foreign workers were scattered around the rest of the country.
About 370 people travelled from Tablighi Jamaat’s headquarters to Andhra Pradesh, according to a state government note reviewed by Reuters.
To locate them and people they had been in contact with – totaling more than 1,000 people in all – authorities fed names into multiple databases, including taxpayer lists, to find local addresses, the senior health official said. Then, police officers, municipal officials and village-level volunteers helped to track them down, the official added. A team of up to about 1,5000 people was involved in the whole process.
The government note, drafted on March 31, said state authorities had identified 1,321 people with the help of health officials, police and Indian railways.
In the western state of Maharashtra, police and health department officials used cell phone numbers to try to find around 1,400 attendees, a senior health department official said. The state has so far found 1,300 of them, Maharashtra’s Health Minister Rajesh Tope said.
Early this week, health officials began clearing the building of people and taking them to quarantine facilities in the capital. Guarded by paramilitary police, some clutched prayer beads as they were loaded onto buses. Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendra Jain said authorities moved 2,335 people.
But cases linked to the Nizamuddin Markaz have already been reported from as far away as the Himalayan Kashmir region in the far north to the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the east and the rugged northeastern state of Assam, according to interviews with local officials and public data.
In Kashmir, a conference attendee who returned from Delhi on March 16, died 10 days later, becoming the first recorded fatality from the event, local officials said. Authorities in Kashmir are now monitoring more than 2,000 people who may have come into contact with those who tested positive after attending the Markaz, the officials said.
In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, 263 people – or about 85% of all coronavirus cases recorded in the state – are people who traveled to the Markaz, officials said on Thursday.
The case has also re-opened communal fault-lines in India, after months of the deadliest Hindu-Muslim riots to sweep through the capital city in decades.
On Wednesday, the Vishva Hindu Parishad, a hardline Hindu group linked to Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, demanded stricter action against Tablighi Jamaat, describing their Delhi base as the “epicentre of (the) COVID-19 quake in India.” And anti-Muslim content and “#CoronaJihad” has been trending on social media in India as the sheer extent of the outbreak became apparent.
In Sarai Kale Khan, a religiously mixed neighbourhood bordering Nizamuddin, a group of men wielding sticks have barricaded the entrance to the area, trying to prevent people from entering.
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It's a combo Tuesday again, the day I usually post about movies for Todd's blog, which today means I'm talking about the 1959 version of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES - my entry in the much anticipated Peter Cushing Centennial Blogathon:
To learn more about the Blogathon and the one and only Peter Cushing (1913 - 1994), British actor and gentleman extraordinaire, please use the link labeled above as 'source'.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959) is a film directed by Terence Fisher with a screenplay by Peter Bryan based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, it stars the splendid Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, Andre Morell as Dr. Watson and Christopher Lee as Sir Henry Baskerville.
For me it's always seemed a slam dunk: Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes, I mean. First things first, doesn't he just look the part? Those chiseled cheekbones, that gorgeous nose, the clipped, superior way of speaking, the intense gleam of intelligence shining in his eagle-eyes, that high forehead. Who would ever doubt that he was Sherlock Holmes?
Andre Morell as Dr. Watson, I'm not so crazy about. Though there is one comy-cozy scene at the end when he and Holmes sit down to tea which leaves one with a very nice feeling of shared camaraderie. And he does get to wear a very fetching herringbone cape while traipsing on the moors.
But I'm getting ahead of myself as usual.
Since this is a 1950's production from Hammer Films, we get the usual harsh (and often garish) color of the time. It was the kind of film color that came as close to being 'film noir' as color would get - perhaps unintentionally. This was brazen color with no subtlety, no softly rounded edges, if you know what I mean. The film was also the first HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES shot in color.
And of course, being a Hammer Films Production, the movie begins with a story of crazed blood lust. The legend of the Baskervilles (as recounted by Dr. Mortimer) is fully visualized with proper over-the-top details, starring an overwrought David Oxley as Sir Hugo Baskerville run amok, complete with curved, bloody dagger and murderous soul. Not to mention, a dead virgin.
This sequence takes up about ten or fifteen minutes of the film, but immediately thereafter we're transported to Holmes' Baker Street rooms where Dr. Mortimer has arrived to try and interest the famed consulting detective in the details of the fantastic Baskerville case.
The current Sir Hugo has died in a rather bizarre way, obviously a victim of the notorious family legend, and now his heir, Sir Henry is in deadly peril. Having just arrived from Johannesburg ready to take control of his fortune, Sir Henry (Christopher Lee) comes complete with a heart ailment which makes him susceptible to stress. Uh-oh.
I love the early scenes in which Peter Cushing so ably establishes Holmes as a man who doesn't suffer fools gladly (but really, when did he ever?) as he slices and dices Dr. Mortimer's pomposity down to size. Mortimer, as played by David de Wolff, is a gruff, unusually quarrelsome gent, so much so, that one wonders why he's appealed to Holmes for help in the first place.
But Holmes isn't having any of of his guff.
If you've read the Doyle story and/or seen the other films based on the book, you'll notice that there are two points missing from this first, all important meeting: 1) the walking stick deduction and 2) the incredible oversight of the best piece of dialogue from the written story: "Mr. Holmes they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
The screenwriter saw fit to leave that out. If you can believe it.
At any rate, on we go with the story: Once Holmes hears the legend out, he poo-poos it to Mortimer, as only Peter Cushing as Holmes could poo-poo it, lounging in a comfy chair wearing what looks like a silk robe (or smoking jacket) all the while puffing on a long stemmed pipe. He owns the part right there. Mortimer, of course, is nearly apoplectic. He is not a man used to disrespect.
Holmes accepts the case and shows up, with Watson in tow, at the heir's hotel room where they find Sir Henry Baskerville (Christopher Lee) bemoaning the loss of a brand new boot. Minutes later the heir has an unfriendly encounter with a large tarantula spider (not in the original story) and from then on, things move along mighty quickly. It is agreed that Sir Henry needs looking after.
Holmes, citing other pressing duties, chooses 'to stay behind in London' but sends Watson in his place to guard over Sir Henry. Watson, Mortimer and Sir Henry then travel to Dartmoor and sinister Baskerville Hall, Holmes's dire warning ringing in their ears: under no circumstances must Sir Henry be allowed to walk about the moor at night when the 'forces of evil are exalted'.
Well, we all know that where mysterious doings go, there must also go Holmes, so it's no surprise when he turns up having gone to Dartmoor incognito to get the lay of the land, as it were, without interference and without letting Watson know. In this behind the scenes investigation, Holmes has already gotten friendly with Selden, the escaped lunatic murderer who has escaped from Dartmoor Prison and who has sworn never to be re-taken alive.
From Selden, Holmes has apparently gotten the background dope on all of Dartmoor's dark doings. It is obvious from the very beginning whom Holmes suspects may be behind the very darkest of those doings.
Note: Many of the plot points we know and remember from Doyle's story are given short shrift in this movie version - set aside, I suppose, in order to keep things moving ever more swiftly.
Stapleton, Holmes and Mortimer looking for trouble and finding it.
Enter Stapleton the butterfly collector (though I believe in this version of the story he is a farmer), here played most grimly by Ewen Solon, with a congenital deformity of the hand. That tells you right away that he bears watching if you didn't know immediately by the perpetual scowl on his face.
On Dartmoor, Sir Henry (who seems to have a lascivious eye for the ladies) then meets the puzzling Cecile Stapleton (Marla Landi in true Spanish spitfire form), here described as Stapleton's daughter. One thing will lead to another as these things always do and Sir Henry is soon besotted with the mysterious dark-haired beauty.
Admittedly Christopher Lee makes for a rather more dashing Sir Henry than other actors in the part before or since though here he is called upon to make some absurd 'scary' faces when under duress. Christopher Lee afraid? I don't think so.
The Bishop and his nifty bike.
Almost stealing the movie from under every one's noses is Miles Malleson as the short-sighted, absent-minded and rather endearingly bumbling, Bishop Frankland who keeps a nice collection of spiders.
'To a great mind, nothing is little.' Not a quote from this story, but it seems apt.
When one evening Holmes reveals himself to Watson and apologizes for having kept him in the dark, the game is afoot as the Hound makes himself heard on the moors and Holmes and Watson give chase.
In the end everyone gets their more-or-less just desserts, the wretched hound is vanquished, the great Grimpen Mire claims another victim and all is right with the world.
What I like most about Sherlock Holmes as a character (besides his brilliant deducing) is that he assumes he is the star of any room he enters, the master of any situation he encounters and yet, somehow, he always remains likable. In Peter Cushing's hands, he is gracefully, delightfully eccentric and has a very nice wardrobe.
I've mentioned before how the story of THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES has never received any real justice on screen. The main reason is that screenwriters are forever tinkering with the original plot for one reason or another and always mucking it up.
In one case, that of the excellent Jeremy Brett in the PBS Hound of the Baskerville adaptation, the disastrous casting of Kristopher Tabori (for whatever reason, an unlikeable actor) as Sir Henry Baskerville ruins the film for me and renders it unwatchable. (Everyone forgets that Sir Henry MUST be likable in some small way or else we won't care what happens to him.) The Basil Rathbone version has very good casting but leaves enough holes in the plot as to make it mostly non-sensical.
This version of Doyle's classic (though it too leaves many holes in the plot) works best if you don't pay much attention to cohesion and just sit back and enjoy Peter Cushing and Miles Malleson as they do their stuff. A terrific film for a dark and stormy night.
Afternoon tea with Holmes and Watson.
I hope you'll link on over to Pierre's The Frankentenia Blog hosting the Peter Cushing Centennial Blogathon and check out all the links to all the participating bloggers, all film mavens, all Peter Cushing aficionados.
Also don't forget to check in at Todd Mason's blog, Sweet Freedom, to see what Overlooked (or Forgotten) Films other bloggers are talking about today.
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Efron is scheduled to arrive in Sydney in October. In addition to his hosting duties, he will perform alongside Australian sensations, the Veronicas, Australia’s Herald Sun reported Sunday.
Efron, 19, starred in the popular kids movie "High School Musical," and its sequel before landing the role in "Hairspray.”
"I'm so excited to be coming to Australia to host Nick's 'Kids Choice Awards,'" Efron said. "I can't wait to get down there and slime all the Aussie kids -- it's going to be a blast."
Efron, who says he loves Australia so much he wants to buy a house there, will be in Sydney Sept. 5 for the Australian premiere of “Hairspray” -- which also stars John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Michelle Pfeiffer and Queen Latifah.
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Here's the latest article from the Irish Culture site at BellaOnline.com.
Several new articles have ben placed on the site. The first has to do with the life and times of St Patrick -- from his captivity and being sold into slavery, to his return as the second bishop of Ireland. The second is the story of the "Nine Irish" --nine men who were condemned to the penal colonies in Australia and who over the years gained their freedom and rose to varying positions of responsibility both in Australia nd in America.
Hopefully my new book: A St. Patrick's Day Guide & Other Things Irish, will be available twards the end of this first week of March or early next week. Details will follow.
Please visit irishculture.bellaonline.com for even more great content about Irish Culture.
To participate in free, fun online discussions, this site has a community forum all about Irish Culture located here -
Easter is also on the way. Like so many religious "holy-days" it is also becoming more and more secularised, losing much of its original premise to egg hunts, fuzzy rabbits and a good excuse for a "binge" session. You can enter your thoughts on this in the Irish Culture Forum section.
BTW----the Low-Carb site here on Bella is running a competition for those who wish to lose weight . The time frame is from now until May 1st and there is a $50 Amazon gift card for the winner. You might want to look over that site too.
Irish Culture Forum Discussions:
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Music: Johnny Mc Evoy
You can go to "YouTube" and search for music by Johnny Mc Evoy -----one of Ireland's most distinguished and yet under-rated singer/songwriters.
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Christian Quotes for the WEek
Quotes taken from Recapture the Wonder by Ravi Zacharias:
The noblest reason is to know God Himself...Philippians Chapter 3
Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character. Oscar Wilde
It is foolish to obtain by one means what God had intended to be obtained by another... It only leads to pain and disappointment and nonfulfillment.
We live in a century in which everything has been said. the challenge today is to learn which statements to deny. Charles Hartshorne
There are many traps in the world of religion.
Spirituality for the sake of the spirit is not a sufficient reason for being spiritual.
It's sad to realize that we've reduced life to getting and acquiring....Morpheo
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Instead of binge watching all the videos, in my experience if you watch 1 video every day and implement it you will be able to complete the course and retain a lot more knowledge. This is how I learn Python. I take a topic and spend 30 minutes daily learning it.
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BiffbarfPatagonia's been a major player in outfitting US troops for quite some time now, which I think is rad. It is, however, terribly ironic considering their stance on the environment and how little the military gives a fuck about it.
So making long lasting, high quality gear, manufactured in a generally more sustainable fashion with typically slightly more environmentally friendly materials is ironic? IMO it would be ironic if they turned down those contracts to let a lesser company supply the forces with worse gear, made in a less sustainable manner. Patagonia supplying the forces is has a net positive impact compared to the alternatives.
Also with all the government money flowing to Patagonia because of these contracts, they're able to continue support environmental causes, develop more sustainable manufacturing methods, and provide those methods to their manufacturers all over the world. | <urn:uuid:decfb566-6045-4003-994f-13fde1a7262c> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/872032/Black-Diamond-Lays-off-70-in-SLC--moving-manufacturing-to-Asia- | 2022-01-25T18:09:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304859.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125160159-20220125190159-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.969305 | 172 |
[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] socklen_t definition
Mon Sep 17 22:51:58 CEST 2007
> Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 11:32:05AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >> As for the rest of the patch, how do we know that int is the
> > > correct
> >> type to use if socklen_t doesn't exist? Using the wrong type
> > > could
> >> be dangerous. On Beos we know it's int, but we can't be sure in
> > > the
> >> general case.
> > Read the RATIONALE section in POSIX on socklen_t. All of the
> > functions
> > that take socklen_t arguments originally took int. The problem was
> > that a few vendors decided to change their implementations to use a
> > new type that would be the system wordsize, so POSIX mandated a
> > socklen_t so that either behavior could be acceptable. But int is
> > the
> > correct type for socklen_t.
> > Hope I got that mostly accurate... It's from memory, too tired to
> > look
> > it up at the moment.
> Neither OS/2 nor Beos purport to be POSIX compliant, so nothing from
> POSIX text has any bearing on those OSes. If it did, there would be
> proper socklen_t definition and the issue wouldn't exist in the first
If POSIX didn't mandate socklen_t to support broken OSes in the first
place it wouldn't be needed. BeOS does support POSIX. Not all of it but
just enough to not have to support useless crap. And probably not the
last version because of the age, but that doesn't mean it doesn't
support it at all.
All portable software I know (those that are portable to OSes, not that
require porting OSes to them...) have proper checks for socklen_t with
autoconf (for once it's used correctly), before they were ported to
BeOS, so it's not because of it.
Besides Haiku will have it AFAIK.
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Tai Jia was the son of Tai Ding and a Shang Dynasty King of China.
In the ''Records of the Grand Historian'' he was listed by Sima Qian as the fourth Shang king, succeeding his uncles Wai Bing and Zhong Ren . He was enthroned in B.C.E. 1535 with Yi Yin as his prime minister and Bo as his capital.
He was an autocratic ruler who treated his people badly and broke his own laws. A few years into his reign saw internal disorder among the court. Prime Minister Yi Yin advised him to change his ways but the headstrong king ignored the advice of the elder statesman. Eventually Yi Yin had no other choice but to exile the king to the Tong Palace , in present day Southwest YanShi county, Henan provin near the tomb of the first Shang king , to repent.
Sima Qian says that following the exile Yi Yan ruled the country as regent for three years until he felt that the king had sufficiently changed and invited him back to the capital to reclaim his throne. From that point on the king took care of his people and managed the government well. So that in the 10th year of his reign Yi Yin resigned from his post and retired, honoring the king, after his death, as Zhong Zong .
The Bamboo Annals however tell a very different story; claiming that after the exile Yi Yin seized the throne and ruled as king for seven years later until Tai Jia secretly retured to the palace killed his former Prime Minister. Afterwards the king assigned Yi Yin's land and castle to his sons, Yi She and Yi Fen .
Since archaeological evidence shows that Yi Yin was still worshipped by the Shang people several hundred years after his death the former account is widely considered the more reliable. According to both sources the king ruled for 12 years before death. He was given the posthumous name Tai Jia and was succeeded by his son Wo Ding .
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