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Amstrad FD-1 je disketová jednotka vyráběná společností Amstrad. Používá diskety o velikosti 3". Jedná se pouze o disketovou jednotku bez disketového řadiče, takže je možné ji připojit pouze k zařízením disketový řadič již obsahující. Je ji tak možné připojit jako druhou disketovou jednotku k počítačům Amstrad CPC 664, Amstrad CPC 6128 a Sinclair ZX Spectrum +3.
Charakteristika disketové jednotky
Disketová jednotka umožňuje čtení zápis disket o velikosti 3". Použitá disketová mechanika má pouze jednu hlavu, takže diskety je nutno otáčet (mají stranu A a stranu B).
Připojení k jiným počítačům
K počítači Amstrad CPC 464 je možné disketovou jednotku připojit prostřednictvím disketového řadiče Amstrad DDI-1. Je také možné ji připojit jako třetí disketovou mechaniku k disketové jednotce Vortex Floppy Disk Station. K počítači Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A disketovou jednotku FD-1 také přímo připojit nelze. Pro připojení k tomuto počítači byl přislíben interface Amstrad SI-1.
Pro archivaci dat z 3" disket na dostupnější média je možné disketovou mechaniku z disketové jednotky FD-1 připojit k počítači PC.
Amstrad SI-1
V manuálu k počítači Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A je zmíněno, že je k němu možné připojit disketovou jednotku FD-1 prostřednictvím interface Amstrad SI-1, jakmile bude tento k dispozici. Pomocí tohoto interface mělo být možné připojit k ZX Spectru +2A nanejvýše dvě disketové jednotky FD-1. Tento interface ale nikdy nebyl vyráběn.
Reference
Externí odkazy
Amstrad/Schneider DDI-1/FD-1 na zock.com
Amstrad CPC
Disketové jednotky pro počítače ZX Spectrum
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The new club was sponsored by the Cottage Grove Lions Club, with Lion Don Johnson as our guiding Lion. It was his responsibility to see that the new club got off on good solid footing. It helped that his brother, new Lion LaMar Johnson was the Charter President of the new club.
The motto that evening was: "Touch a Life with Hope"
That was the beginning. What has followed for over 30 years can be characterized as years of outstanding, dedicated community service, good fellowship, personal development, an honored place in the community and a strong contribution to the mission of the Lions both at the District and International level. Members come and go, but the role of Waunakee Lions Club in Waunakee continues.
The new club pin was designed to recognize that there were new members from both Waunakee and the Town of Westport characterized by two lions in a barrel.
What do many residents identify with when Waunakee Lions are mentioned? FOOD! Lots of it - chicken, pork, barbequed beef, baked potato. The familiar yellow tents appear at many village functions where folks can enjoy the outstanding fare. Food service has always been one of the clubs major fund raising activities.
A lot of chicken was cooked! Lions Dan Teetzen and Scott Fleiner work the barbaque pit.
Waunakee Lions have always been well represented in the annual Waunafest Parade. (1980's) Sharon Taylor, wife of charter member Dave Taylor, made the two Lion suits.
Both deceased, were active in the formation and activities of their respective clubs.
Both deceased, were stalwart and influential members of their respective clubs.
Waunakee Lions have a history of strong and on-going support of Wisconsin Lions Camp, Rosholt, WI. Many members have visited the camp and many have participated in work activities on the camp grounds.
Vision is the signature project of Lions International and Waunakee Lions have collected used eyeglasses since 1980.
Before there was a Lion Bank, there was a socketbook!
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Q: Is it possible to force Windows Phone 8.1 apps to run full screen, hiding the notification bar (aka System Tray)? I'm not sure of the correct terminology here, but it's the bar at the top of the screen I'm interested in hiding.
I see examples for Windows Phone 8 outlining the following:
xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
Shell:SystemTray.IsVisiable="False" (Or true to display the tray)
Shell:SystemTray.BackgroundColor="Transparent"
But that doesn't work in 8.1.
How can I achieve this in Windows Phone 8.1?
A: I think you can try to hide StatusBar in App.xaml.cs - for example after activating window:
Window.Current.Activate();
StatusBar status = StatusBar.GetForCurrentView();
status.HideAsync();
Somehow similar question you will also find here with nice reference.
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Automotive transmission with fluid drive.
Hoses are used in automobiles for fluid transmission in various applications such as cooling, heating, power steering and braking among others.
Report Published: "Automotive Engine Belt & Hose Market - Global Forecast & Analysis to 2020"
He added : "Every single production activity, regardless of site or challenge will require fluid transmission solutions and this represents opportunities to Pantech.
Other improvements to this four-wheel, narrow-aisle articulating forklift include a faster lowering speed, steel hydraulic lines for more efficient fluid transmission and a thermostatically controlled, hydraulically driven fan to reduce fuel consumption and noise.
It has been reported that manufacturer of fluid transmission products Imperial Auto Industries has set up a new manufacturing unit at Chakan.
For direct skin medical applications such as dressings, wound care, surgical drapes, and medical device attachment, the crosshatch adhesive coating delivers improved breathability, fluid transmission, and moisture vapor transmission.
The fluid transmission preselector gear change was a feature of Daimler.
The second is that he provides an alternative to the usual assumption that the period of oral and fluid transmission simply ceased when the Gospels were produced in a written and fixed form.
Again, the feature that nonwovens bring to these materials is the ability to create a tortuous path to prevent particulate and fluid transmission yet allow air and moisture vapor to pass through for comfort properties.
BAE Systems support to the purpose-built Mobile Medical Unit enables underserved urban communities in Bengaluru to avail doorstep access to a team of doctors and nurses and state-of-the-art medical equipment and facilities such as X-Ray, ECG, IV fluid transmission and basic pathological testing.
The poster advertised the new Lanchester motor car with fluid transmission and preselector gear change.
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Dan Pomerantz has come down from the mountains.
For the past eight years, Pomerantz has operated Rebel Grown near Garberville in southern Humboldt County, earning a reputation for superior cannabis genetics and high-potency flowers. His 40-acre farm (pictured) is in an area called Palo Verde, a storied cannabis cultivation zone pioneered by back-to-the-landers in the 1970s.
But in the rapidly changing cannabis industry, he's realized growing high-quality weed and seeds in a remote mountain enclave is not enough. What was once an area of small-scale, mom-and-pop growers has devolved into an arms race of larger and larger operations chasing ever-falling prices.
"It's sad," he says. "That's what's going to happen around the state." So Pomerantz, 35, and his family recently moved to Santa Rosa. It's part of a move to scale up and diversify his business. While he's still at the farm several days a week, sales calls, meetings with attorneys and other business made living on the property full-time untenable.
"I'm fighting for survival in an industry about to get a lot of competition," he says. Santa Rosa's CannaCraft distributes his seeds. Rebel Grown is about to launch its own brand of flowers, vape pens and "raw resin." Raw cannabis is extracted from fresh, frozen plants.
Emerald Triangle growers like Pomerantz who don't develop a brand or align with distributors face a dicey future as big money pours into an industry about to go fully legal next month. "Get big or get out" has been common wisdom. "Go big and get branded, or get out" seems like even better advice.
So far it seems to be working for Pomerantz. His says his seed sales have increased 350 percent since 2011. He chalks that up to marketing and use of social media. He has high hopes for this weekend's Emerald Cup, where he will sell his wares in classy black-and-white packaging.
"I'm almost nervous about the demand this year," he says. "I'm really excited."
His passion is breeding cannabis and getting his seeds and flowers into the hands of consumers and growers who appreciate his efforts. He and his team have developed their own strains based on tweaks to popular genetic lines and selective breeding. Rebel Diesel and Diesel 2.0 are two strains he points to as market standouts. Rebel Grown's glossy 2017 seed catalog features 28 strains that are aimed at growers and consumers alike.
"Growing seeds is easy," he says. "Real breeding takes a lot of devotion."
But in the new cannabis marketplace, branding will be key to making sure his efforts reach consumers.
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Four people were arrested on the same day last week following two separate incidents involving alleged drunk driving.
SOUTH BRUNSWICK - Four people were arrested on the same day last week following two separate incidents involving alleged drunk driving.
According to South police, around 10:31 a.m. May 30, they responded to the Valero gas station, 2014 Route 130 for a report of a verbal dispute between two people in a blue pickup truck.
When police arrived they found a blue 2006 Ford F-150 driven by Jorge Arteaga-Santiago, 53 and passenger Stacey Tucker, 45, both of Robbinsville.
Officers Dale Hubner and Robert Marrese investigated the dispute and initially were given different names and false personal information by Arteaga-Santiago and Tucker. Hubner indicated that Arteaga-Santiago appeared to be intoxicated while speaking with him but Arteaga-Santiago told police he last had three beers at night on Memorial Day, which was two days earlier.
Following several standardized field sobriety tests and Hubner's investigation, Arteaga-Santiago was arrested for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and hindering his own apprehension for providing false information. He also was issued a number of motor vehicle summonses.
Tucker was also arrested for hindering her own apprehension for providing false information and two previous warrants for her arrest out of East Windsor Township, police said. Both Arteaga-Santiago and Tucker were later released pending their first court appearance.
Around 8:54 p.m. the same day, South Brunswick police responded to a motor vehicle crash on Major Road. When officers arrived they found a gray 2013 Ford Focus off of the roadway after striking a nearby fire hydrant.
Officer Jamal Benbow investigated the crash and located Stanley Allen Jr, 27, of North Brunswick, and Alexander Allen, 26, of the Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick, directly across the road from the crashed vehicle. Both men appeared to be intoxicated while speaking with Benbow and initially told him another male was driving the vehicle, who fled from the scene after the crash.
After several minutes, Stanley Allen changed his version of the account and said he had been driving the vehicle. Officers pieced together the travel route of the vehicle prior to the crash and located surveillance video which indicated Alexander Allen was the driver. Alexander Allen admitted to being the driver after confronted with the video surveillance.
As a result Alexander Allen, was arrested for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and Stanley Allen Jr was arrested for hindering his own apprehension for providing false information. The car involved in the crash was impounded and Alexander Allen was issued numerous motor vehicle summonses. Police said both Alexander Allen and Stanley Allen Jr were released pending their first court appearance.
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Baureihe 112, tot 1968 bekend als E10.12, is een elektrische locomotief bestemd voor het personenvervoer van de Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB).
Baureihe 113 en Baureihe 114 zijn ontstaan door het vernummeren van Baureihe 112-locomotieven.
Geschiedenis
De locomotieven werden na de Tweede Wereldoorlog ontwikkeld en gebouwd door meerdere fabrikanten. Het ging hierbij om de bovenbouw gebouwd door Henschel werk Kassel, door Krauss-Maffei werk München-Allach en door Krupp werk Essen en de elektrische installatie gebouwd door AEG, door BBC en door Siemens.
In de herfst van 1952 vond de roll-out van de eerste locomotief de E10 001 bij Krauss-Maffei en AEG in München-Allach plaats.
Om alle concepten te testen werd in december 1950 de opdracht verstrekt voor de bouw van vier prototype locomotieven. Hierbij werden aandrijftechnieken van verschillende fabrikanten ingebouwd.
E10 001, Krauss-Maffei/AEG met Alsthom-aandrijving
E10 002, Krupp/BBC met BBC Scheiben-aandrijving
E10 003, Henschel/SSW met Siemens Gummiringfeder-aandrijving
E10 004, Henschel/AEG met Sécheron-aandrijving en BBC hoogspanning sturing.
Om tot een goede vergelijk te komen werd in dezelfde maand een opdracht verstrek voor de bouw van nog een prototype.
E10 005, Henschel/AEG met Sécheron-aandrijving gelijk als E10 004.
Deze locomotieven werden tussen 1962 en 1991 in de sneltrein en waren in de TEE / IC kleuren geschilderd.
Bijnaam
In Duitsland heeft de loc-legende Baureihe E 10 de bijnaam Die Bügelfalte, wat 'de vouw' betekent. Deze bijnaam is te danken aan de verticale knik (vouw) in de carrosserie voor tussen de twee bestuurdersramen. Deze karakteristieke eigenschap geldt voor alle locs uit serie 112, maar niet voor alle E 10 modellen. De eerste E 10 locs uit serie 110 hadden nog geen vouw in de carrosserie.
Constructie en techniek
De locomotief heeft een stalen frame. Op de draaistellen wordt elke as door een elektrische motor aangedreven. De serie 112 (E10.12) heeft een maximumsnelheid van 160 km/h, de andere E10 locomotieven zitten onder de 150 km/h.
Nummers
De locomotieven zijn door de Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) als volgt genummerd.
E10 1265 - 1270: in 1968 vernummerd in 112 265 - 270
E10 1308 - 1312: in 1968 vernummerd in 112 308 - 312
112 485 - 504: in 1988 vernummerd in 114 485 - 504
De locomotieven zijn in 1991 door de Deutsche Bahn (DB) als volgt vernummerd.
112 265 - 270: in 1991 vernummerd in 113 265 - 270
112 308 - 312: in 1991 vernummerd in 113 308 - 312
Treindiensten
De locomotieven werden door de Deutsche Bahn (DB) ingezet in het personenvervoer op diverse trajecten in onder meer Duitsland en Oostenrijk.
Literatuur
Taschenbuch Deutsche Elektrolokomotiven. Horst J. Obermayer. Uitgeverij Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-440-03754-1
Spoorwegen, diverse jaargangen. Gerrit Nieuwenhuis, Richard Latten. Uitgeverij de Alk BV, Alkmaar.
Heinrich Petersen: Die Bügelfalte TransPress Verlag, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-613-71430-4
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Lawrence, Mass.) - Polartec is pleased to announce the recipients of its 20th annual Polartec Challenge Grant. Four separate expeditions will receive funding and support from Polartec to 2011: a solo climbing exploration in the remote northern Russian Arctic, a first-time circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island, a women's climbing first ascent attempt in the Indian Karakoram and a two-man first ascent attempt in the Charakusa Valley of Pakistan.
The first Polartec Challenge Grant recipient is solo expedition specialist Mike Libecki. Libecki, who has explored many of the last remaining corners of virgin Earth to climb dozens of first ascents, will this time travel to a remote and restricted corner of northern Russia above the Arctic Circle to climb walls that have never been explored before. Libecki will be dropped off by a Russian icebreaker and then have to ski and paddle over 50 miles of sea ice and open ocean on a homemade rig to reach his climbing destination. The trip will be the culmination of over six years of planning and reconnaissance.
The next grant recipient is the team of Jon Turk, Tyler Bradt and Erik Boomer that will together attempt the first complete circumnavigation of Ellesmere Island, one of the closest points of land to the North Pole. The expedition will travel over 1,400 miles across treacherous moving sea ice, glaciers and rocky coastline using kayaks, skis and sleds to complete the journey.
The third Polartec Challenge Grant recipient is a first ascent attempt of a 6,135-meter unnamed peak deep within the Indian Karakoram by an all-star team of female climbers. The team consists of pro climber and Polartec Athlete Advisory Board member Janet Bergman, Chamonix-based mountain guide Zoe Hart and Alaskan guide Kirsten Kremer. The unnamed peak is located on the eastern edge of the 'Line of Control' between India and Pakistan and the team plans an alpine style ascent to the summit in one light, fast, free push.
The final grant recipient, Kelly Cordes, actually received the award last year, but had to postpone his expedition because of an injury. Cordes, who is also a member of Polartec's Athlete Advisory Board, and his climbing partner Kyle Dempster will travel to Pakistan's Charakusa Valley, home to massive technical peaks including K6 and K7, along with scores of unclimbed rock and ice objectives, to attempt the first ascent of an unnamed rock spire. The 6,200-meter spire, near K7, has been attempted several times and its virgin summit remains an objective that requires the rare combination of high-end rock skills, tenacity and high-altitude mixed-climbing.
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Twitch Streamer Plays FromSoftware Games In A Truly Absurd Way
Spend any time on the internet—whether Reddit, Twitter, or YouTube—and you've likely seen some streamer doing some absurd-ass playthrough of a Soulsborne game (probably Elden Ring). Whether it's beating Margit with a harp or two Malenias simultaneously (one with a dance pad), there are some wild ways of tackling FromSoftware games out there.
Streamer Dr. DeComposing is simply just trying to finish FromSoft's games without dying in the first place—except he's using a freakin' electronic saxophone to do so. This challenge run, known as the Demigod Run, has been renamed by Dr. Decomposing as the "Deathless Doot Run." It's wild stuff.
A doctoral composer (which Kotaku verified), Dr. DeComposing is known for playing games with the Roland Aerophone AE-10, a roughly $700 digital wind instrument that can simulate clarinet, flute, sax, synth, violin, and other sounds. Watching his streams is hilarious and stressful; something always goes wrong. Sometimes, his keyboard will lock up due to the interference of the electronic sax, like the alt key getting stuck after playing a note on the instrument. Other times, he'll accidentally walk off a cliff because of an incorrect input. Hell, he might even play with silly sounds like farts while trying to maintain focus, such as when battling Malenia, Blade of Miquella in Elden Ring. At least he isn't trying a hitless run of these games. I'd probably die of laughter if every in-game action I made constituted a fart.
Just Doot Through The Pain
Dr. DeComposing
In an email exchange with Kotaku, Dr. DeComposing said the electronic sax is connected to his computer via USB and sends MIDI signals whenever he plays notes. These messages are captured by Bome MIDI Translator, a digital interface that converts those signals into mouse and keyboard inputs. There is a "mod wheel," or controller stick, on the back of the instrument that's been programmed as a replacement analog stick to operate the in-game camera. Otherwise, every action is performed by single doots.
"As I play through a game, I also have the Aerophone set up to play a variety of virtual instrument sounds and samples—the MIDI messages that I set up to control the game are also routed to a Digital Audio Workstation ('DAW') that stores my sound library," Dr. DeComposing said. "So every time I 'doot' on the electronic saxophone, it simultaneously presses a button on the gamepad and plays a little sound (eg a recorder, a taiko drum, a chiptune beat, a surprisingly tuneful fart, etc.). During my streams, viewers are also able to interact with the sound of the Aerophone by 'summoning the Wheel of Doots,' which randomly selects an Aerophone sound set from my library."
These doots make up Dr. DeComposing's gameplay. When his viewers aren't voting on a sound from the "Wheel of Doots," (a virtual spin board that includes a repository of swappable sample noises such as the word "crab" or random moans when he plays the Aerophone), you' ll hear traditional instrumental notes like B5 swear D5 that restore health and transform weapons (in Bloodborne), respectively. This is to both ease the frustration that comes with repeated deaths and restarts and to give his chatters a way to interact with the run by selecting the noises the instrument makes at regular intervals during his livestreams. It's pretty fun.
Gravity Is The Real Big Bad Here
In addition to the Demigod Run, he's already completed sax-controlled deathless runs of Bloodborne swear Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, both of which are watchable on his YouTube channel. Dr. DeComposing said Bloodborne took about two weeks to beat, while Sekiro was approximately one month in the making. But aside from some bosses, such as Bloodborne's Shadows of Yharnamthe frequent run-killer for him was gravity.
Since the Aerophone is monophonic and not polyphonic like a piano, Dr. DeComposing tends to make one movement at a time with the doots. Plus, the sole controller stick on the back of the instrument is programmed to function like WASD keys on a keyboard, all of which makes platforming or any sort of precise maneuvering for Dr. Decomposing something of a headache.
"All of these [controller-input] factors combined means that simple actions like running and turning simultaneously can't be done without more toggles I programmed into the Aerophone's controls," Dr. DeComposing said. "And so, platforming is a nightmare. The number of times I've died to gravity because the Aerophone controls weren't responding well is harrowing."
That's not to say it's all been terrible. Dr. DeComposing talked about some of the simpler aspects of the run, including Sekiro's Folding Screen Monkeys swear the Mist Noble (who plays a beautiful flute melody but has become something of a joke mini-boss in the Souls community for how easy it is to beat). While you would assume combat in FromSoft's games would be insurmountable with an instrument, Dr. DeComposing actually found fighting to be the easiest part because "a lot of the camera control issues" don't often apply. This is especially true of bosses like Bloodborne's Cleric Beast swear Sekiro's Guardian Apewhich let him lock on to a single target so he can focus on hitting the right notes at the right time to get the dub.
The Million Dollar Question: Why?
"I thought it would be impossible to effectively play any video games using the electronic saxophone at all," Dr. DeComposing said. "If it weren't for stumbling upon Bome MIDI Translator in the summer of 2021, I would have guessed that this kind of gaming wouldn't have been possible for me to do."
While the Bome MIDI Translator gave Dr. Decomposing the confidence that such a method of gaming could happen, it took a bit more experimentation and tinkering to get things working effectively. He didn't jump straight into the Soulsborne games, instead opting to start with "easier" titles like Studio MDHR's Cuphead and Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time to ensure inputs function properly.
"I still thought it would be impossible to use a saxophone to beat Dark Souls 3 (the first Souls game I played on the Aerophone in November 2021)," Dr. DeComposing said. "The programming for the controls was still pretty rudimentary and not exactly reliable, and it was extremely awkward at first to try controlling the camera and the rest of the game simultaneously. But then I managed to beat Vordt of the Boreal Valley on my first try and could only think, 'Holy shit, this is actually possible!'"
For Dr. DeComposing, that feeling of this absurd thing being possible is a high he's chased ever since murking the quadrupedal creature Vordt. But there's another, more philosophical element he enjoys about this specific challenge.
"I discovered along the way another aspect of these challenges that I love: the dichotomy of completing excruciatingly difficult tasks in the least serious way possible," Dr. DeComposing said. "The full video of me finally beating Malenia at level 1 on the Aerophone is 10 straight minutes of intense concentration and sweating bullets, ending with genuine shock and emotion on my face when I beat her, all while the Aerophone is triggering fart noises every time I dodge or attack or navigate a menu. That split between super intense and super silly is a space that I think is really fun to live in, and I wouldn't have found it if I hadn't tried to continuously push through what I thought was impossible."
So, what's the next FromSoftware game Dr. DeComposing will play through now that Bloodborne swear Sekiro are done and dusted? He doesn't have any particular order in mind, but he's eyeing it Dark Souls trilogy right now. Once he finishes those three games, he'll move on to Demon's Souls on PS5 and finally, FromSoft's magnum opus, Elden Ring. But everything he's doing is a sort of trial run. After beating all seven games, he plans to do it all over again back-to-back with very few breaks. His ultimate goal is to complete a full "Deathless Doot Run" by the end of 2023.
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Psychonauts 2 review for Xbox Series X/One, PS4, PC
PC, PS4, Reviews, Xbox One, Xbox One X, Xbox Series X
Also On: Xbox Series X, PS4, PC
Publisher: Double Fine Productions
Developer: Xbox Game Studios
Online: No
ESRB: T
Disclaimer: I am 1 of the 24,109 people who crowdfunded this title on Fig. My name also appears in the Hall of Brains in Otto Mentalis' Lab. I'm probably in the credits, but the backer credits were so long…I actually skipped it when it rolled.
In 2005 a modest number of gamers got to spend time at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, a training facility for potential recruits of a governmental agency known as the Psychonauts with a circus runaway named Razputin "Raz" Aquato. Raz, whose family hated psychics due to a family vendetta, found solace with the kids he met at the camp as he ironically was a psychic. Despite the fact that he was not supposed to be there, the staff at the camp was willing to let Raz partake in the training as the rest of the campers, all the while a dastardly plot was being hatched right underneath their nose. Honing his psychic abilities remarkably fast (The game takes place over the span of several days), Raz managed to foil the world threatening plot and was invited on an important mission with the Psychonauts.
The game had a cult following and the fanbase grew as the years passed. Double Fine Productions went on to make many well received titles such as Brutal Legends, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, and Broken Age. Despite much urging from fans, the student never felt it was the right time to revisit the Psychonauts IP. 2015 apparently was the right time as the game was finally announced and funding was being raised on Fig, a crowdfunding platform co-founded by the company. A VR title named Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin would be released to satiate fan interest, although given VR's limited user base, this side adventure was probably enjoyed through let's plays and youtube videos. After several delays, and even a company buy out by Microsoft, Psychonauts 2 has finally arrived and after nearly a decade and a half, was the 2nd full adventure of Razputin Aquato worth the wait?
Yes, yes it is. Psychonauts 2 takes the impeccably well written platformer from 2005 and manages to make a prettier and while retaining the charm and solid gameplay mechanics. In a Metroid-ish return to zero move, Raz's tenure as a Psychonaut is cut short as the temporary head of the Psychonauts demotes him to an intern. However a majority of the powers he's earned do make a return and are doled out rather quickly (Invisibility, Shield, Confusion are afterthought and frankly not missed). The new powers are equally inventive and one late game power even facilitates a low-key Invader Zim reunion (Raz is voiced by Richard Horowitz, who also voiced the eponymous Invader). Sadly the cast of campers that we grew to love do not return and are instead replaced with the Interns. While an eclectic bunch, interactions with the interns are scant and they never feel as fleshed out as the interactions campers of Whispering Rock. Raz's family also find their way to the grounds of the Psychonauts headquarters and just like interns, interactions with them never feel too meaningful and their relevance to the main plot feels underwhelming. Despite what felt like letting these two groups slip, the plot of the game is still meticulously crafted and follows up on some of the mysterious that were alluded to in the original all the while investigating a potential mole in the Psychonauts organization.
Psychonauts was lauded from the inventive mental worlds which the players would explore and help soothe the trauma that the owners of these mental worlds experienced in their past. Psychonauts 2's worlds manage to keep up with and in some instances even surpass the worlds of its predecessors. The game manages to provide a "villain explaining their plan" moment that was not only genuinely surprising, but something that put a smile on my face and I frankly wouldn't mind reliving the sequence over and over again. Much like real life, your return trips to these mental worlds will never be the same as the first time you visit and is disappointing as I wish there was a means to replay some of the boss fights that go through (Sadly this is something that carried over from the first time).
Mental Baggage, Figments, Memory Vaults return and the latter two act as a great means of storytelling and world building. Psi Cards, Cores and Psi Challenge Markers allow Raz to level up and provide intern credits to bolster his psychic abilities. Pins can be purchased and worn with various results from boosting or modifying his psychic abilities, or just silly effects such as making Raz do the infamous taunt/dance that Bobby Zilch did as an idle animation.
While my sloppy play would occasionally cause Raz to get knocked out of the mental world (aka "lose a life"), the game's combat never felt too unfair and unmanageable. As a statement regarding the "difficulty discourse", Double Fine implemented several accessibility options that can be applied if the players feel overwhelmed by gameplay. It definitely feels like growth by the company given how many complaints there were regarding the final level of the first game (that and you can't even incinerate the various woodland creatures in the sequel. Maturation!).
Now the negatives, while playing through the title was unbridled joy, I have to say the load times on the Xbox One X felt long, and it certainly doesn't help that getting knocked out of a mental world would trigger a load sequence. One might say why didn't you play this on PC or the Xbox Series X. While the game is cross buy (sadly on the Windows 10 Store), a video driver update prevented the title from loading (this is why I'm a console gamer 4 lyfe!) and frankly my Xbox Series X is a lamp stand at the moment. I also ran into some memory crashes on the Xbox One X version, but thankfully the game does a great job of auto saving frequently…although I did have to sit through load screens again..
Psychonauts 2 took over 16 years to reach the masses, and while it was an agonizing wait to return to the wondrous world that Double Fine has crafted, it was definitely worth the wait. Double Fine didn't deviate from the formula they had crafted many years ago and still retained the humor and heart that the first title had. While this title doesn't posit anything that remained unanswered, let's hope we won't have to wait as long to find out what happens to Raz in the next couple of days in his life.
Note: Xbox Game Studios provided us with a Psychonauts 2 Xbox One/Series X code for review purposes.
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Even before the season starts, we inevitably begin to wonder how the season will end. Who will win? How do the teams stack up? Will one team dominate? Let's take a look.
The 2014 Champion Diego Rollers, captained this season by Hellphaba and co-captain Hit N Run, have a hard-hitting team. With veterans Kung Pow Tina, Ryder Hard and returning favorite Boo La La, the Diego Rollers have a trio of triple threats ready to take on any roll. Rookies Fire 'N Spice and Kelly Clocksem will have their official roller derby debut on the 22nd. And Hedy LaScar had a strong debut performance on the Sparks earlier this year. This mix of dominant veterans and newer skaters may depend on the chemistry they have on the track.
Hard Corps, undefeated during the 2014 season, is the only team to return with all original players. Led by captain Tsunami and co-captain Selenium, Hard Corps returns with jammers Hartlyn! and Vermilion Valkyr. Blockers Amor Apache, Hard Kase, Killer Groove, Olive RockNRoll and Setty Machette round out the lineup. Without a strong jammer rotation, this team will depend on their tough defense and pre-existing team chemistry on the track.
The Swarm will be looking for a comeback this season, having come in third place last year. Captained by Zombie Dearest and co-captain Dirty Verde, the team has returning triple-threats and fan favorites Slamurai and Brazen Bull. Rounding out the team are returning skaters Kupcake Kaboom and Mayhem and transfer skaters Lilly Slaughter and Reck'em Ralph. The Swarm appears to have the most well-rounded and experienced team, but we'll have to wait for the season to start to see how they compare.
Decide for yourself. Come watch the home season opener this Saturday, August 22nd! More event details below.
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Background: DNA methylation analysis currently requires complex multistep procedures based on bisulfite conversion of unmethylated cytosines or on methylation-sensitive endonucleases. To facilitate DNA methylation analysis, we have developed a quantitative 1-step assay for DNA methylation analysis.
Methods: The assay is based on combining methylation-sensitive FastDigest® endonuclease digestion and quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) in a single reaction. The first step consists of DNA digestion, followed by endonuclease inactivation and qPCR. The degree of DNA methylation is evaluated by comparing the quantification cycles of a reaction containing a methylation-sensitive endonuclease with the reaction of a sham mixture containing no endonuclease. Control reactions interrogating an unmethylated locus allow the detection and correction of artifacts caused by endonuclease inhibitors, while simultaneously permitting copy number assessment of the locus of interest.
Results: With our novel approach, we correctly diagnosed the imprinting disorders Prader–Willi syndrome and Angelman syndrome in 35 individuals by measuring methylation levels and copy numbers for the SNRPN (small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N) promoter. We also demonstrated that the proposed correction model significantly (P < 0.05) increases the assay's accuracy with low-quality DNA, allowing analysis of DNA samples with decreased digestibility, as is often the case in retrospective studies.
Conclusions: Our novel DNA methylation assay reduces both the hands-on time and errors caused by handling and pipetting and allows methylation analyses to be completed within 90 min after DNA extraction. Combined with its precision and reliability, these features make the assay well suited for diagnostic procedures as well as high-throughput analyses.
Methylation of DNA cytosines in the context of CpG dinucleotides is a hallmark of the epigenetic regulation of gene expression and is involved in X-chromosome inactivation, imprinting, suppression of repetitive elements, and carcinogenesis (1)(2). Accordingly, analysis of DNA methylation is indispensable in both research and diagnostics, particularly considering that methylated DNA is chemically stable and is less subject to transient alterations due to biological variation than protein and mRNA (3).
Most methods that have been proposed for DNA methylation analysis of specific loci are based on treating genomic DNA with sodium bisulfite, which converts cytosines, but not 5-methylcytosines, to uracil. After PCR amplification, converted cytosines are distinguished from unconverted cytosines by several methods, including bisulfite sequencing (4)(5), methylation-specific PCR(6), high-resolution melting analysis (7), pyrosequencing (8), and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry(9)(10). Bisulfite-based approaches allow assessment of the methylation status for virtually any cytosine; however, the complex structure of the converted genome impedes a straightforward assay design (11). Moreover, inconsistent PCR amplification of methylated and unmethylated DNA and incomplete conversion of unmethylated cytosines can hamper quantitative analyses (8)(12).
As an alternative to bisulfite-based methods, quantitative analysis of DNA methylation with quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR)1 has recently been proposed (13)(14). After the digestion of DNA with methylation-sensitive endonucleases, the proportion of uncut (and thus methylated) DNA molecules is quantified by qPCR, with undigested DNA used as a reference. Additionally, methylation-dependent restriction enzymes can be used in a complementary manner, and an extrinsic DNA molecule can be spiked into the DNA preparation to evaluate whether the DNA digestion is thorough (13)(14). Methylation-sensitive multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification is also based on restriction of DNA with methylation-sensitive endonucleases, but it relies on hybridization, ligation, and amplification of locus-specific probes to detect uncut molecules. This approach allows analysis of up to 40 loci in a single reaction but is hampered by reduced flexibility and precision compared with qPCR analysis of DNA methylation (15).
Among the imprinting disorders, Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) (MIM 176270) is characterized by decreased fetal and neonatal activity, severe neonatal hypotonia, and hypogenitalism (16). PWS is caused mainly by the loss of the paternal allele at chromosomal region 15q11.2–13 because of interstitial deletions or maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) (70% and 30% of cases, respectively). Loss of the maternal allele at 15q11.2–13, on the other hand, causes Angelman syndrome (AS) (MIM 105830), which is characterized by mental retardation, seizures, apparent happy behavior, and ataxia of gait. In addition to maternal deletions (70% of cases) or paternal UPD (5%) at 15q11.2–13, sequence variants of the UBE3A2 (ubiquitin protein ligase E3A) gene have been shown to be a cause of AS. Only the maternal allele is methylated at 2 distinct regions of 15q11.2–13—PW71 and the promoter region of the SNRPN (small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N) gene. This feature allows the molecular diagnosis of PWS and AS via analysis of a patient's DNA methylation pattern. PWS patients will demonstrate full methylation, whereas these regions will be unmethylated in AS patients. These aberrant methylation patterns arise mainly because of the aforementioned deletions or UPD. In 2%–4% of PWS and AS cases, however, they are due to imprinting defects that are caused, for example, by microdeletions in the so-called imprinting center (17). Both bisulfite-based methods(8)(18)(19) and endonuclease-based methods (14)(20) have been proposed for diagnosing imprinting disorders such as PWS and AS; however, these procedures consist of multiple steps and are time-consuming. With commercial kits, bisulfite conversion still requires >3 h, and endonuclease-based approaches are hampered by extensive overnight incubations. In addition, both types of procedures require considerable hands-on time and have increased risks of handling and pipetting errors.
In the current study, we established the first quantitative 1-step DNA methylation assay (qOSMA) by combining rapid methylation-sensitive DNA digestion and qPCR in a single, closed-tube reaction. Reactions contain both methylation-sensitive FastDigest® HpaII (Fermentas Life Sciences) and qPCR reagents, and DNA digestion is followed by endonuclease inactivation and qPCR. Performing sham reactions containing no endonuclease in parallel provides an estimate of DNA input and allows quantification of the number of cut (i.e., unmethylated) DNA molecules. Such data in turn permit conclusions about the methylation status of the locus of interest. To test the feasibility of our approach, we applied the method to the SNRPN locus (Fig. 1A⇓ ) (13). Also measured in every individual was the unmethylated promoter of the CFTR [cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (ATP-binding cassette sub-family C, member 7)] gene (21), which served simultaneously as a control for DNA digestibility and as a reference locus for copy number assessment. In addition, including a calibrator DNA with a known methylation and copy number status in every experiment allows a functionality test for the methylation assays. The calibrator DNA also serves as a calibrator for copy number assessment (Fig. 1B⇓ ). Values for ΔΔCq (where Cq is the quantification cycle) of the locus of interest and the reference locus, as well as of the sample to be investigated and the calibrator sample, are used to quantify copy number, as has previously been described (22)(23).
(A), Basic principle of qOSMA. (B), Typical experimental setup for simultaneous quantification of DNA methylation and copy number. Calculations for quantifying methylation (including control calculations, boldface black lines) and copy number (gray lines) are shown.
We took advantage of this novel assay to simultaneously assess methylation and the copy number status of the SNRPN promoter, thereby allowing the diagnosis and molecular characterization of PWS and AS in <90 min after DNA extraction. In addition, we propose a model for correcting for reduced DNA digestibility from data obtained with the reference locus. We confirmed that this model significantly (P < 0.05) increases the assay's accuracy and permits analysis of DNA samples with reduced digestibility.
DNA samples from PWS and AS patients and from unaffected control individuals had previously been extracted from blood by standard procedures, including phenol–chloroform extraction and use of the QIAamp DNA Blood Midi Kit (Qiagen). Older DNA samples had become partially viscous after long-term storage. Samples with reduced digestibility were reextracted with the QIAmp DNA Micro Kit (Qiagen). To investigate the influence of DNA molecular weight, we sheared DNA before analysis by passing it up to 60 times through a 25-gauge needle.
To evaluate our novel assay as a diagnostic tool for PWS and AS, we conducted a blinded analysis of DNA samples from 12 PWS patients (10 with a deletion, 2 with UPD), 12 AS patients (9 with a deletion, 3 with UPD), and 11 unaffected control individuals. The initial diagnoses and molecular characterizations of PWS and AS were based on methylation-specific PCR followed by denaturing HPLC and microsatellite analysis (16)(24)(25).
Patients and control individuals gave written informed consent for the use of their DNA for medical research; all samples were irreversibly anonymized before qOSMA analyses.
HpaII reactions contained 0.3 U FastDigest® HpaII (Fermentas), 0.8× SYBR® Premix Ex Taq (Perfect Real Time™) (Takara Bio), 5 nmol/L of each primer, and 12 ng genomic DNA in a final volume of 10 μL. For sham reactions, HpaII was replaced by a diluent containing 10 mmol/L Tris, 100 mmol/L NaCl, 1 mmol/L dithiothreitol, 0.1 nmol/L EDTA, 200 g/L BSA, and 500 mL/L glycerol. Primer sequences for the SNRPN promoter were 5′-CATCTGTCTGAGGAGCGGTC-3′ (forward) and 5′-TCCAGAACAAAGGACTTTAGGG-3′ (reverse), and primer sequences for the CFTR promoter were 5′-CGAAGGAGGGTCTAGGAAGC-3′ (forward) and 5′-CGATTCTGACTCCCAGCCTC-3′ (reverse). These primers produced amplicons spanning 1 and 3 HpaII sites in the SNRPN and CFTR genes, respectively. Reactions were performed on capillary-based LightCyclers® (Roche Applied Science) under the following conditions: 10 min at 37 °C (DNA digestion), 5 min at 95 °C (HpaII inactivation, Taq polymerase activation), and 40 cycles of 95 °C for 10 s, 60 °C (SNRPN) or 65 °C (CFTR) for 15 s, and 72 °C for 15 s. In the blinded analysis of PWS and AS samples, the annealing temperature for the CFTR assay was decreased to 60 °C (same as the SNRPN assay). This change allowed PWS/AS diagnosis to be performed on a single LightCycler instrument. To avoid positional effects, we filled all positions of the LightCycler carousel with capillaries (26). Each reaction was performed in duplicate, and nontemplate control reactions were included in every experiment. A melting curve analysis ruled out the presence of unspecific amplification products. The assay was evaluated by changing the HpaII/diluent concentration or the DNA concentration.
where CqHpaII and Cqsham are the Cqs of the reactions performed with and without HpaII, respectively.
For the assessment of assay performance, measured methylation levels >100% were not adjusted to 100% in this study. Similarly, methylation levels <0% (i.e., occurring after correction for incomplete digestion; see below) were not adjusted to 0%. If the measured methylation level of the CFTR promoter was <15% in the blinded analysis, the DNA digestion was considered to be thorough, and measured methylation levels of the SNRPN promoter were used to distinguish PWS patients (>85% methylated), AS patients (<15% methylated), and healthy control individuals (35%–65% methylated).
where Cqpat is the Cq obtained with the sham reaction of the patient or sample of interest (pat) and Cqcal is the Cq obtained with the calibrator (cal).
Samples with copy number ratios <0.65 were considered to carry a deletion, whereas ratios between 0.85 and 1.15 were considered evidence of the presence of 2 SNRPN copies, indicating a UPD or an imprinting defect in cases with an aberrant methylation pattern at the SNRPN locus. All calculations were done with R (28) and Microsoft Excel software. Results are reported as the median (range).
where CSML1 is the corrected SNRPN methylation level and the MM terms represent the uncorrected, locus-specific measured methylation values as calculated with Eq. 1. This equation corrects for the proportion of DNA molecules that are not digestible in a given sample.
where CSML is the corrected SNRPN methylation level and the MM terms represent the uncorrected, locus-specific measured methylation values as calculated with Eq. 1.
Mixing experiments with PWS and AS DNA were performed to assess whether the SNRPN assay shows a linear response to various degrees of methylation. The measured degree of methylation did not deviate more than 5.9% from the expected one, for a coefficient of determination (r2) of 0.997 (Fig. 2A⇓ ). To assess the influence of DNA concentration on methylation measurements, we varied the input from 1 ng to 81 ng DNA per 10-μL reaction. Fig. 3A⇓ demonstrates that different DNA concentrations did not change the values for the methylation measurements appreciably, but a slight decrease in assay precision was observed. Varying the HpaII concentration, on the other hand, had a substantial influence on methylation measurements, with an exponential relationship between the restriction enzyme concentration and the proportion of digested DNA molecules. Methylation states expected to be 0% produced measurements of 24.5%–1.14% with 0.0625–2 U of HpaII. On the other hand, DNA methylation measurements were correct at expected methylation levels of 50% and 100% (Fig. 3B⇓ ).
Linear response of qOSMA and effect of DNA quality on assay performance.
(A), Linear response of qOSMA to various degrees of methylation for analyses of mixtures of PWS and AS DNA. (B), Influence of DNA quality on assay performance of measurements of CFTR and SNRPN methylation levels in samples with 0% methylation expected. Reextracted AS samples (▪) have lower methylation levels than samples that were not reextracted (□).
Influence of DNA (A) and endonuclease (B) concentration on qOSMA performance.
Results were obtained with the SNRPN assay and with DNA from AS patients (▪, 0% methylation expected), unaffected control individuals (•, 50% methylated), and PWS patients (♦, 100% methylated) as template. qOSMA is insensitive to changes in DNA concentration yet requires a minimal amount of endonuclease when analyzing low methylation levels. Note that the x axis scales for (A) and (B) are logarithmic. FDU, FastDigest units.
Assay performance depended on DNA quality such that old DNA samples that were not reextracted showed aberrantly high methylation levels, which indicated inhibition of the HpaII enzyme (Fig. 2B⇑ ). Therefore, we evaluated the suitability of the CFTR assay to detect induction of enzyme inhibition by low-quality DNA. We found a significant correlation (Kendall τ = 0.767; P < 10−5; Fig. 2B⇑ ) between measured CFTR and SNRPN methylation levels in AS samples, demonstrating that the effect of HpaII inhibition is almost the same for the CFTR and SNRPN assays. This finding confirms the ability of CFTR to survey for complete DNA digestion. The CFTR methylation levels measured in AS samples, however, were higher than those for SNRPN (P < 0.001, paired Wilcoxon signed rank test) because of increased formation of side products in the CFTR assay. Finally, a strong correlation between the measured methylation level and the intensity of DNA shearing (Kendall τ = 0.905; P < 0.01) indicated a significant influence of DNA molecular weight on digestibility.
To assess assay repeatability, we analyzed a sample from an unaffected control individual 7 times for each of the different HpaII and qPCR reagent batches. At a 60 °C annealing temperature, we obtained a median measured methylation level of 50.5% (range, 47.6%–53.4%) for SNRPN and 5.5% (range, 3.1%–8.4%) for CFTR.
The qPCR efficiencies for the SNRPN and CFTR assays were 2.12 and 2.04, respectively, as determined by the calibration curve method with sham reactions with serially diluted genomic DNA (29). In addition, SNRPN HpaII and sham reactions with serial dilutions of PWS DNA—which is fully methylated at the SNRPN locus and thus unaffected by digestion—indicated that the qPCR efficiencies in the HpaII and sham reactions are equal (i.e., the difference in efficiency, ΔE, is 0.006).
In all 35 samples investigated, SNRPN methylation was unambiguously assigned according to the diagnostic criteria defined in the data-analysis section. For the SNRPN locus, the median methylation level was 101.4% (range, 92.0%–103.5%; n = 12) in PWS patients, 3.9% (range, 1.0–6.7%; n = 12) in AS patients, and 52.1% (range, 48.3%–60.1%; n = 11) in the healthy control individuals. The median methylation value in the CFTR assay was 6.9% (range, 1.6%–12.7%; n = 35) (Fig. 4A⇓ ).
Blinded analysis of unaffected control individuals and individuals with PWS or AS.
Diagnostic thresholds are indicated by gray dotted lines. (A), qOSMA results of SNRPN methylation analysis, with CFTR serving as a DNA-digestibility control. (B), Copy number assessment with sham reactions of the methylation analysis. All samples were assigned to the correct diagnosis. Boxes represent interquartile ranges (IQRs); bold horizontal lines, medians; whiskers, lowest and highest values still within 1.5 × IQR; open circles, outliers.
Similarly, copy number status was correctly determined in all samples. A ratio of 0.69 in 1 sample was not within the required range, and a second experiment was needed to confirm a deletion. This imprecision is presumably attributable to DNA sample inhomogeneity, as indicated by a high divergence in the Cq values in reaction replicates of this sample. Patients with UPD as well as healthy controls presented with a median SNRPN copy number ratio of 0.98 (range, 0.87–1.09; n = 16), whereas patients with deletions showed a median ratio of 0.47 (range, 0.40–0.62; n = 19) (Fig. 4B⇑ ).
To further evaluate the potential of correction, we applied Eq. 5 to the DNA samples for the blinded analysis of PWS patients, AS patients, and unaffected controls. In addition, we performed a correction for samples that showed partly reduced digestion. These old DNA samples were not reextracted and showed a median CFTR methylation level of 22.4% (range, 4.3%–40.1%). The median of the respective AS samples was used as the calibrator quotient (MMSNRPNcal/MMCFTRcal). The correction increased assay accuracy in both types of DNA samples, in that measured SNRPN levels were significantly (P < 0.05) closer to the expected values. In addition, correction decreased assay variance in AS samples (Table 1⇓ ). Increased concordance with expected values and precision allowed proper discrimination between AS and PWS patients and unaffected controls, even in samples with reduced digestibility. Without correction, an AS sample was classified as being from an unaffected control individual, and 5 other samples were out of the defined ranges. With correction, all samples were within the defined ranges, and diagnosis was unambiguous in each case (Fig. 5⇓ ).
Correction for incomplete digestion with a significant (P < 0.05) increase in assay accuracy and an appreciable reduction in variation.
Results for freshly extracted or reextracted DNA (filled symbols) and for old DNA samples that were not reextracted (open symbols) are shown. Expected methylation values for SNRPN are 0% (AS patients, squares), 50% (unaffected controls, circles), and 100% (PWS patients, diamonds). Defined diagnostic thresholds are indicated by gray dotted lines.
We present a qOSMA, the first single-step DNA methylation assay that uses untreated genomic DNA as template. It is based on qPCR reactions containing methylation-sensitive endonucleases, which allow DNA digestion and subsequent quantification to be carried in a single work step through selection of the appropriate reaction conditions. The assay includes sham reactions containing no endonuclease to correct for variation in DNA input, allowing assessment of the degree of methylation via quantification of the cut (and thus unmethylated) DNA molecules. In addition, sham reactions can be used for simultaneously quantifying copy number, which adds important information regarding the potential causes of aberrant methylation at the investigated locus. Besides the evident reduction in workload, our procedure substantially lowers the risk of errors due to handling and pipetting by reducing the methylation analysis to a single step, which is a crucial condition in diagnostics. Given that most endonucleases are fully active in a PCR mix (http://www.neb.com/nebecomm/tech_reference/restriction_enzymes/activity_in_taqPCRmix.asp), our assay is presumably applicable to most CpG sites for which methylation-sensitive or -specific endonucleases are available.
In the current study, we evaluated our novel assay with a blinded diagnostic approach that included 12 PWS and 12 AS patients, as well as 11 unaffected control individuals. All samples were unambiguously assigned to the correct methylation and copy number status, with the exception of a sample from 1 individual that required a repeat analysis to confirm a deletion at the SNRPN locus. During assay evaluation, we found a linear relationship between the expected and measured levels of DNA methylation (Fig. 2A⇑ ), demonstrating the quantitative nature of our assay. Considering the precision of the assay, we suppose that it even has the potential to detect mosaicisms in PWS and AS patients (16). It is not able to distinguish UPDs from imprinting defects, however; such differentiation will require additional steps, such as microsatellite analysis.
DNA from λ phage, which has been proposed as a control for proper DNA digestion, is typically spiked into the investigated DNA sample and analyzed in parallel with the locus of interest (14). Extrinsic DNA molecules, however, may respond differently to treatments than genomic loci and therefore cannot be used to normalize for genomic DNA input in copy number analysis. We thus investigated the potential of the CFTR promoter to serve as a control for DNA digestibility. The CFTR promoter has been reported to be unmethylated in several tissues (21), and deletions in the promoter that could invalidate a copy number analysis are extremely rare (http://www3.genet.sickkids.on.ca/cftr/app). We found that the CFTR assay reliably detects reduced DNA digestion, making this assay a valuable alternative to spiking with extrinsic DNA—particularly considering its concomitant qualification for serving as a reference in copy number quantification.
In some instances, it might be of interest not only to detect but also to correct for incomplete DNA digestion, e.g., when investigating large numbers of samples with reduced DNA digestibility, for which reextraction might not be feasible. Correction of DNA samples with typical, as well as reduced, digestibility with Eq. 5 substantially increased assay concordance with expected values and precision, suggesting that the proposed model is well suited for bias correction and provides a useful tool for retrospective studies of DNA samples of varying quality.
DNA quality is not an issue when extracting DNA with silica-based kits, because all samples (re)extracted with this technique performed well. Because the digestibility of DNA is decreased with DNA of reduced molecular weight, however, we do not recommend shearing of DNA before digestion, as has been proposed (13).
A critical assay parameter is the appearance of qPCR side products that might form at low methylation levels because of the absence of appropriate templates. The annealing temperature of the CFTR assay was decreased from 65 °C to 60 °C in the blinded analysis of PWS and AS samples. On the one hand, this reduction in temperature allowed PWS/AS diagnosis to be performed in a single LightCycler run; on the other hand, it led to an increased formation of side products that led to an overestimate of CFTR methylation. Thus, the formation of side products has to be strictly monitored when analyzing low-level methylation. In addition, positional effects due to incomplete DNA denaturation could reduce assay precision on plate-based instruments, but not on properly used capillary-based instruments (26). We are currently preparing a manuscript that shows how to detect and circumvent such positional effects on plate-based qPCR instruments.
In summary, we have presented the first assay for qOSMA analysis. The quantitative assay is performed in a closed tube, substantially reduces the hands-on time, and can be accomplished within 1.5 h after DNA extraction. It thus strongly facilitates high-throughput methylation analyses and is feasible in any laboratory equipped with a qPCR instrument. Finally, the assay allows simultaneous quantification of DNA methylation and copy number. It therefore qualifies as an efficient diagnostic tool for PWS, AS, and any other imprinting disorder, as well as for other methylation-sensitive diseases, such as different forms of cancer.
Research Funding: S. Gallati, Swiss National Science Foundation, grant no. 310000-112652.
1 Data are presented as the median (range).
2 Methylation value with correction is significantly (P < 0.05) closer to the expected value than the methylation value without correction (Wilcoxon rank sum test of the absolute value of the difference between the measured and expected methylation values).
3 NC, "normal" (unaffected) control individuals.
↵1 Nonstandard abbreviations: qPCR, quantitative real-time PCR; PWS, Prader–Willi syndrome; UPD, uniparental disomy; AS, Angelman syndrome; qOSMA, quantitative 1-step DNA methylation analysis; Cq, quantification cycle.
↵2 Human genes: UBE3A, ubiquitin protein ligase E3A; SNRPN, small nuclear ribonucleoprotein polypeptide N; CFTR, cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (ATP-binding cassette sub-family C, member 7).
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Ted Schlein -- investing in the future
By Amy Oringel
Ted Schlein is a modern-day guardian angel. With the competition for market share in the Java community quickly reaching its boiling point, start-up companies are searching frantically for money, a winning business strategy and a killer management team. And many of them turn to Ted Schlein for help. As the partner at successful venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins in charge of the Java Fund, Schlein takes a precious few companies under the prestigious KP wing and then takes them, hopefully, to the top.
In the wake of the media clamor surrounding Java, not much attention has been paid to those who are advancing its usage to solve today's real business problems. Ted Schlein is leading this charge. With 15 companies in just a year and a half benefitting from investments and counsel from the Java Fund, and about a dozen more on the way, Schlein has left others to duke it out in courtrooms or engineering labs. He focuses instead on building companies which make Java work to earn its share of the spotlight.
The Fund supports enterprise software companies in four areas: applications, infrastructure, development tools and services. Though the mere existence of the Java Fund is a testament to Silicon Valley's commitment to the technology, Schlein is quick to point out that, "This is not about financing everyone using Java, it's about getting a return on our investment."
Java's timeline, as Schlein describes it, began in 1995 with its birth, 1996 brought the hype, 1997 was about tools and ubiquity and 1998 is going to be about solving business problems, the necessary foundation on which to build a company. With 10-12 proposals crossing his desk every week, Schlein has well-defined criteria for determining who makes the cut. He reviews the market and how the company's products address that market. But the most important element is the people, which he says make up 70% of the formula. The right people, Schlein claims, will be interested in deriving benefits from Java, not using it for its own sake. "Some companies want to rewrite existing applications in Java, but it doesn't always make sense, while others want to automate applications which haven't been automated before and that is good business. I'm very customer benefit-focused from an investment philosophy perspective," he adds.
The bulk of Schlein's time is spent on those companies already supported by the Java Fund, such as Extensity and Netiva. In fact he says, "Venture capitalist is a big misnomer, because capital is a very tiny part of it. We write the initial check and that's when the real work begins." To give his companies the "unfair competitive advantage" they need to succeed in the market, Schlein helps them develop business strategies, secure strong relationships in the industry and recruit the best talent to staff the company's executive team. He also engages in public speaking to keep the Java Fund name visible and reviews about ten proposals per week from hopeful companies looking to join the Java Fund family. He names his operations experience as the key to his ability to do his job well saying, "I am degree-less. I don't have an MBA or any engineering degrees. What I've done all along is understand the technology from a market perspective. You've got to know enough to talk to engineers, as well as have an appreciation for the technology and how it will be used."
Ted Schlein's business acumen had a head start. Forget flipping burgers, as an undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania, Schlein used his Mac to start his first business, a resume company, which took a bite out of Kinko's' hold on the market. Back in 1986, before it became fashionable for technology-oriented easterners to defect to the sunny West coast, Ted Schlein spent his summers off from the University of Pennsylvania working for start-ups in the Bay Area. When the second semester of his senior year rolled around, Schlein took his academic career off-campus and helped start Reality Technologies which produced PC simulation software based on Wharton's business school program. Schlein sold the distribution rights to gaming giant Electronic Arts and, with the help of an obliging economics professor, earned the final credits toward his degree.
Ted Schlein had nothing to do with Java before running the Java Fund. Not that he wasn't qualified -- after graduating from Penn in 1986, Schlein was snatched up by Symantec as a marketing manager, where again his Macintosh ended up being the vehicle for his success. As the only Symantec employee using a Mac, Schlein came up with the idea to make Norton Utilities for that system. The move was a success and Schlein was chosen to head up the utilities division. Schlein's next project, Symantec's Anti-Virus for the Mac (SAM), ignited the virus craze and he headed further up the corporate ranks.
In mid 1996, Java was beginning to take center stage and, naturally, Kleiner Perkins wanted in on the action. As an investor in Symantec, many of the KP partners including John Doerr had worked closely with Schlein for years. They came calling with the opportunity to run the Java Fund and, in October 1996, Schlein accepted. Though the offer to join one of the most successful venture firms on a project which promised to be the next big thing was sweet, Schlein does admit the move was a risky one, "No one knew if it was a good or bad idea, but we had a strong sense that Java would be one of the main enabling technologies of the Internet."
In looking into his Java crystal ball, Schlein sees the answers to questions about Java's future coming from the customers. "If customers decide they want to live in a Windows-centric world, that's how it will be and developers will follow their lead. If they decide they will have multiple server platforms, then they'll use Sun's version," he explains. Following this philosophy, he encourages his partners to foster good relationships with both Sun and Microsoft and stresses staying out of the religious wars. "At the end of the day we've got to build businesses and if that means working with Microsoft so be it," he adds. But it's unavoidable to acknowledge where most developers' loyalty lies. "Sun has a huge chance to win and developers can help drive their chances by supporting Activator and HotSpot and showing customers why running on multiple platforms solves problems; in other words, show the true beauty of Java."
With the demand for Internet developers in Silicon Valley and elsewhere at an unprecedented high, Schlein offers this advice to job seekers weighing different opportunities, "The first two things to look for are the management team and the management team. These are the people who will have the vision, figure out the business model and raise the money." But you won't find Schlein himself pounding the pavement any time soon. He says, "I think I'll be happy if I only have two jobs in my life."
This article was originally published on April 8, 1998
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Mount Mercy Girls College win Cork CanSat Regional Final
Teams of transition year students from Cork secondary schools designed, built and launched mini-satellites made in the shape of soft drink cans at the Regional final of CEIA and ESERO (European Space Education Resource Office) Ireland CanSat Final held at Cork Institute of Technology this weekend. A team of transition year girls from Mount Mercy College were the proud winners of the CanSat challenge, and they will go forward to the National CanSat event on 27 & 28 April 2017.
A CanSat is a simulation of a real satellite in the size and shape volume of a soft drink can and is a European Space Agency initiative designed to inspire young people to pursue a career in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the availability of a highly qualified workforce in the space industry of the future.
Speaking at the event said Dr. Eamon Connolly, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Promotion Officer, CEIA – Cork's Technology Network – said: "CanSat is a unique space project that simulates a real satellite which fits into the volume of a soft drinks can – students launch their own satellite and get first-hand practical experience of a real space project. This initiative is designed to encourage and excite transition year students as to the possibilities of a career in science and engineering."
"I would like to congratulate Mount Mercy College on their achievement, but I would also like to acknowledge the hard-work and dedication shown by our other finalists – each team did a fantastic job, the quality of the work this year was incredible," said Stephanie O'Neill, ESERO Ireland Manager, Science Foundation Ireland Discover.
There are six regional partners including Cork Institute of Technology, Dublin Institute of Technology, Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology, Limerick Institute of Technology, Sligo Institute of Technology and Athlone Institute of Technology.
The competition is a joint collaboration between ESERO Ireland and the CEIA and is co-funded by the European Space Agency and Science Foundation Ireland Discover, the education and outreach programme managed by Science Foundation Ireland.
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i have had a few people reach out to me these past few days and want to know some fun things to do when you have a short visit to San Francisco…so here it is!
1. wake up early and hike up to the top of Bernal Heights to get a great view of the city.
it's a way to get a workout in and have your breath taken away by feeling on top of the world. it is also very dog friendly so you can play with lots of good dogs running around! my nose only glows like that on top of hills.
for about $4 you can hop on a trolly "muni", for $2 you can ride the bus and depending on your distance, you can ride BART for cheap. we cheated and used my uncle's knowledge to get around but you can't really get lost because there are tons of neat things to see everywhere.
3. go to the *FREE* cable car museum.
it may actually deter you from getting on them because they are all essentially just pulled by big cables and there are some of the steepest hills ever in San Francisco.
4. visit the largest Chinatown outside of Asia!
after the quick stop through the museum, you can be on your way into Chinatown. tons to see, lots of history and cultural here (obviously), very affordable tourist-y souvenirs and tasty treats. we had a BBQ pork bun and it was delicious.
5. stroll through North Beach (aka Little Italy)!
this is a fun area and you absolutely need to be hungry when you go! there are tons of Italian restaurants, pizza on focaccia bread and unbelievable pastries! i would highly recommend Mara's Italian Pastry. be warned that this was incredibly messy but worth every crumb on my lap and face.
this is a way cool place that filled with tons of unique shops and boutiques inside as well as commuters getting across the bay on…you guessed it…ferries! this is still on track from your walk through North Shore.
you should try to go during a tuesday/thursday/saturday because where we are standing in the photo below is filled with a farmer's market on those days! please also note my bling-bling on my jacket. isn't that amazing? thanks sun.
7. check out the Golden Gate Bridge-of course!
there are a ton of different view points of where to take photos so check out here to see where you might be coming from and know that if you drive-parking will be atrocious. use the crosswalks because i almost died.
8. go down Lombard Street for the crookedest street in all of San Fran!
this was us at the top of the hill…it has 8 hairpin turns and is very well known and insane. i don't ever want to live on this street. don't be holding a full coffee while you go down this either while letting your daredevil of a husband drive down it.
1) what else would you add to the San Francisco list?
2) do you like cinnamon in your pastries?
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LOVE cinamon in my pastries. Could you move after that wheel? It looks awesome!
it was soooo delicious! it was pretty flaky so i think i only ate about 2/3 of it because the rest was on the floor!
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ISLAMABAD: The Planning Commission (PC) has so far released Rs190.9 billion under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP), accounting for 81 percent of the Rs233 billion federal development programme for the fiscal year 2012-13.
The disbursement took place despite the fact that a mechanism for releases against development schemes put in place by the commission itself required no more than 35 per cent of the total funds in the first quarter of a fiscal year.
The commission is supposed to release 20 percent of the funds in the first quarter (July-September), 20 percent in the second quarter (October-December), 25 percent in the third quarter (January-March) and 35 percent in the fourth quarter (April-June).
A total amount of Rs360 billion had been allocated for the federal PSDP but the commission was responsible only for monitoring and execution of projects worth Rs233 billion as Rs100 billion was funded directly through foreign aid and another Rs27 billion worth of special programmes like People�s Works Programme was being supervised directly by the cabinet division and the finance ministry.
According to the latest data released by the PC, an amount of Rs98 billion has been released for 346 infrastructure development projects and Rs85.4 billion for 716 social sector projects.
An amount of Rs2.4 billion has been released for 77 other projects and Rs5 billion for the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA). According to break up details the total cost of 346 infrastructure projects has been estimated at Rs2314.4 billion, out of which Rs.211.7 billion have been earmarked in the 2012-13 budget that include Rs85.6 billion as foreign aid.
The total cost of 716 social sector projects is Rs554.7 billion of which Rs135.2 billion is to be allocated in the current PSDP with foreign aid standing at 8.4 percent.
The cost of 77 other projects has been estimated at Rs41.8 billion out of which Rs3 billion has been earmarked under the Public Sector Development Programme 2012-13 while Rs10 billion has been earmarked for ERRA in the current development programme.
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Al-Qiyqmia is an Arabic term that means Values. The term: Qiyam is a plural of Qimah which means value. It addresses every aspect of a Muslim's life, from greetings to international relations. It is universal in its scope and in its applicability. The distinction between human beings over other creatures is that human behaviour is controlled or limited by certain ethical values (qiyam) which purify their soul. These qiyam are reliable benchmarks to measure the individual's and societies' behaviour, especially those who are enjoying Islamic ethics. Thus, the authorities running educational institutions and training centers are bound to teach the Islamic Qiyam to motivate tolerance, justice and equity among the Muslims. The objective of this paper is to explore the role of Islamic qiyam in protection human behaviours, its implications on the consolidation of unity among Muslim societies with diverse culture, and participation of educational institutions in instilling these qiyam among individuals, which eventually leads to the development of Muslim Nations; educationally, culturally, scientifically, economically and politically, etc.The paper is based on a descriptive and analytical method, since it describes the qiyam suggested by the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah, and to analyses the prevailing ethical problems among the Muslims, and how it could be resolved. The paper is intended to identify the most important values (qiyam) to be taught by various educational or training institutions in Islamic countries to serve as a comprehensive unifying framework for the Muslim Ummah.
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Q: Progress Bar help I'm very much new to programming and have been doing fairly well so far. But progress bars still confuse me. The web unfortunately has to many differing examples for me to get anything out of them. Some say to use background worker some don't, etc. Below I have what I THINK should work but doesn't. Its just supposed to she a progress bar when copying file from one folder to another. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.
private void btnCopyFiles_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string folder1 = @"c:\folder1\";
string folder2 = @"c:\folder2\";
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(folder1);
FileInfo[] filelist = di.GetFiles("*.*");
int count = di.GetFiles("*.*").Length;
this.progressBar1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar();
progressBar1.Maximum = count;
progressBar1.Minimum = 0;
progressBar1.Step = 1;
foreach (FileInfo file in filelist)
{
try
{
this.Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor;
File.Copy(folder1 + @"\" + file.Name, folder2 + @"\" + file.Name, true);
progressBar1.PerformStep();
this.Cursor = Cursors.Default;
}
catch (Exception error)
{
MessageBox.Show("Error: " + error);
}
}
}
A: I'm assuming that you are using Visual Studio and have added the ProgressBar control by dragging it to the form. If this is correct, then following line, may be the problem:
this.progressBar1 = new System.Windows.Forms.ProgressBar();
By recreating the control, you are loosing its link to the form. Just remove or comment that line and try it again.
A: Overall the issue is that your code continues to execute not allowing the form to re-draw itself as it needs to. Your best, and fastest route is to use a BackgroundWorker to actually perform your operation, using its events to update the progress. Doing this, the update to the progress bar is done on the UI thread, and the UI updates, your file operations go on behind the scenes.
A: First, create a struct to hold arguments to the BackgroundWorker, which will be passed in DoWorkEventArgs.
public struct CopyStruct
{
public string sourceDir;
public string destDir;
}
Then, do something like this:
private void btnCopyFiles_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
InitializeBackgroundWorker();
CopyStruct copyStruct = new CopyStruct
{
sourceDir = @"C:\folder1\",
destDir = @"C:\folder2\"
};
backgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync(copyStruct);
}
private void InitializeBackgroundWorker()
{
backgroundWorker.WorkerReportsProgress = true;
backgroundWorker.DoWork += backgroundWorker_DoWork;
backgroundWorker.RunWorkerCompleted += backgroundWorker_RunWorkerCompleted;
backgroundWorker.ProgressChanged += backgroundWorker_ProgressChanged;
}
private void backgroundWorker_ProgressChanged(object sender, ProgressChangedEventArgs e)
{
progressBar.Value = e.ProgressPercentage;
}
private void backgroundWorker_RunWorkerCompleted(object sender, RunWorkerCompletedEventArgs e)
{
// do something when finished
}
private void backgroundWorker_DoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
{
BackgroundWorker worker = (BackgroundWorker) sender;
CopyStruct copyStruct = (CopyStruct) e.Argument;
DirectoryInfo di = new DirectoryInfo(copyStruct.sourceDir);
FileInfo[] filelist = di.GetFiles("*.*");
int numFiles = filelist.Length;
for (int i = 0; i < numFiles; i++)
{
FileInfo file = filelist[i];
File.Copy(Path.Combine(copyStruct.sourceDir, file.Name), Path.Combine(copyStruct.destDir, file.Name), true);
// This line updates the progress bar
worker.ReportProgress((int) ((float) i/numFiles*100));
}
}
This contains almost no error checking, so you'll have to add that, but it works with a few test directories on my system.
A: For the progress bar to be updated in your user interface, the process that is working on something must execute on another thread (otherwise it blocks the UI thread, and the UI will not be updated). The BackgroundWorker is a good candidate for doing this.
Perform your file copy loop in the DoWork event of the background worker, and call the BackgroundWorker.ReportProgress method to, well, report progress. In the event handler for the ProgressChanged event you can set the value in your ProgressBar control. You start the process by calling the RunWorkerAsync method on the BackgroundWorker component.
A: Since you are new to programming start with this.
Add
Application.DoEvents();
after
progressBar1.PerformStep();
This should get your application working for now. You'll eventually want to move your copy process to a thread/Background worker. But not knowing your abilities, the Application.DoEvents() is probably the easiest fix, but not the prefered fix.
A: have you tried progressbar1.Increment(x) where x is the number of files transferred?
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Q: RegEx that matches a word that NOT succeeds another one How could a JavaScript RegEx be written, so that it matches for example the word cube, but only if the word small is not present in the 20 character range before this word.
RegEx should match:
*
*cube
*red cube
*wooden cube
*small................cube
RegEx should not match:
*
*small cube
*small red cube
*small wooden cube
*..........small......cube
*any sphere
Currently my regex looks and works like this:
> var regex = /(?:(?!small).){20}cube/im;
undefined
> regex.test("small................cube") // as expected
true
> regex.test("..........small......cube") // as expected
false
> regex.test("01234567890123456789cube") // as expected
true
> regex.test("0123456789012345678cube") // should be `true`
false
> regex.test("cube") // should be `true`
false
There must be 20 characters in front of cube, where each is not the first character of small.
But here is the problem: If cube appears within the first 20 characters of a string, the RegEx does not match of course, because there are not enough characters in front of cube.
How can the RegEx be fixed, to prevent these false negatives?
A: You can use this regex:
.*?small.{0,15}cube|(.*?cube)
And use matched group #1 for your matches.
Online Regex Demo
A: I have investigated about this since it seemed to be easy but it was definitely more difficult as I thought.
My idea was to try a negative lookbehind regex like:
(?<!small).{0,20}cube
But this didn't work and of course javascript doesn't support negative lookbehind.
So, I was trying a different technique and it could solve many cases like the following:
cube -> match
red cube -> match
wooden cube -> match
small cube -> not matched
small red cube -> not matched
small wooden cube -> not matched
..........small......cube -> not matched
any sphere -> not matched
The idea is to do the following:
var newString = "cube" // <-- Change here the string your want to test
.replace(/(small)?.{0,20}cube/g, function ($0, $1) { return $1?$0:"[match]"; });
and then compare newString to [match]. If it is different then your string didn't match.
I have struggled with some cases that should match but didn't, like:
small................cube
small.......cube
There is something wrong with .
I know that this doesn't fully answer to your question, but I wanted to share with you this approach since community can see this and help improving the answer, or give ideas to provide better answers
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Beginning today 10/11/2018 at 9:00 am the contractor will be replacing a water main valve located at the intersection of Hickory and Fair Streets. During this work there will be no water service on Fair Street from Otsego Street to Hickory Street and all of Hickory Street. This work is expected to take between 2 and 3 hours.
After the valve is installed the mains will be flushed so users may experience a brief change in water color and/or air pressure. This is a common, temporary occurrence and is not a cause for alarm.
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LISLE, Ill. (WLS) -- College basketball's player of the year, Wisconsin's Frank "The Tank" Kaminsky, will have his number 44 jersey retired by his high school, Benet Academy in Lisle.
Kaminsky is also the John Wooden Award winner and the Kareem Abdul Jabbar Center of the Year Award recipient.
The mayor of Lisle has also proclaimed April 16 as Frank Kaminsky day in that village.
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Like many an ad woman before her, Clare hopped a plane to NYC after college to get her feet wet in the industry—and over the next decade wrote for CPG, toy and alcohol brands including Michelob ULTRA and Stella Artois. She also practiced and performed improv at the UCB Theatre for seven years. Now a Senior Copywriter with us, she brings her expertise, sense of humor and lightning-fast wit to clients including Lakewood Ranch, the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, Yard House and more. She also mentors our younger creatives, helping to guide them up their own professional paths just like the one she's been blazing for herself.
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Sonia Thompson, Board Member at Tuntum Housing Association and a Great Places Commissioner, explains why community engagement is essential for creating great places, and offers practical advice on how to do it.
We have learned a lot about loss over the course of the Great Places Commission's visits to the Midlands and the North – loss of quality employment, transport connections and services. But we have also learned about community, and how it is the people that can make or break a neighbourhood.
'People make places' has been the overarching theme throughout our journey. We've witnessed the value of community when all around you is failing, but also how hollow and grey life can be when so much around you is disintegrating and there is no effective community to fall back on.
I firmly believe that, for most people, housing associations offer the best opportunity to have a great place to live. But make no mistake – we are asking extremely busy housing associations to become anchor institutions, moving into the space largely vacated by local authorities reeling under the loss of finances and a variety of quangos that were eliminated back in 2010.
So how can housing associations do this effectively? Castle Vale Community Housing is an example of a housing association that has embedded community and high levels of tenant involvement at all organisational levels, including its board. Their example reinforces what we all subliminally are aware of – that you need individuals with commitment to community empowerment operating at the highest levels if you truly want to fuel your housing association using an 'asset-based community development' approach, whose premise is that communities can drive development themselves by identifying and mobilising existing but often unrecognised assets.
Tenants and residents have worked well together in Castle Vale to take on a range of increasingly complex projects that benefit the community, from a library to a football stadium and swimming pool. These projects could be considered as just assets but from the community's point of view each of them has added rewards, from employment and training to creating affordable places to socialise. At the same time, they're strengthening the community and helping make Castle Vale a better place to live.
When people see others like them getting things done and doing them well, their confidence in themselves and their community grows. The level of trust and self-belief in Castle Vale's board was extremely high, as was the knowledge and skills – the result of 20 years of community experience and strategic decision making.
Unfortunately this is not the position that most housing associations find themselves in, and many may well be asking where to start. I would argue that community needs to be taken seriously – as seriously as any other aspect of the association's work. This requires its own strategy, with its own outcomes and success measures. It would be a mistake to simply bolt it onto an existing role, or to be unclear what the benefits to the association would be in getting this work done.
There's no need to reinvent the wheel. There are others who have done the work before you and we have found them interested and excited to share their experiences of what worked well – as well as what they would have done differently.
People up and down the Midlands and the North told us that for them a great place to live means more than just a beautiful house in a surrounding desert. So, if we want to be able to say that we, as housing associations, offer great places to live, we would do well to capture the energies, skills and knowledge of our communities and engage them in responding to the issues that they face.
Interested in how your organisation can help create great places to live? Get involved in shaping the next exciting phase of the Great Places Commission's work by reading and responding to our interim report.
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Fletnik brązowouchy (Coracornis sanghirensis) – gatunek małego ptaka z rodziny fletówek (Pachycephalidae). Występuje na wyspie Sangir w Indonezji, gdzie pozyskano dwa okazy pod koniec XIX wieku i ponownie odkryto ptaka w 1985. Krytycznie zagrożony wyginięciem.
Taksonomia
Po raz pierwszy gatunek opisał Émile Oustalet w 1881. Holotyp pochodził z wyspy Sangir (Sangihe). Autor nadał nowemu gatunkowi nazwę Pinarolestes sanghirensis. Oustalet opisu dokonał na podstawie dwóch okazów muzealnych zakupionych od Léona Laglaize; przetrzymywane były w Muzeum Historii Naturalnej w Paryżu. Obecnie (2020) Międzynarodowy Komitet Ornitologiczny umieszcza fletnika brązowouchego w rodzaju Coracornis. Uprzednio umieszczany bywał w rodzaju Colluricincla, niekiedy uznawany za podgatunek fletnika zmiennego (Colluricincla megarhyncha) ze względu na niepewne pochodzenie kilku starych okazów muzealnych. W badaniu z 2010 potwierdzono, że fletnik brązowouchy należy do Coracornis i jest gatunkiem siostrzanym względem fletnika kasztanowogrzbietego (C. raveni). Wcześniej jako takson siostrzany wskazali go również Jønsson et al. (2008).
Morfologia
Długość ciała wynosi 17–19 cm, masa ciała blisko 36 g. Sylwetką fletniki brązowouche podobne są do drozdów. Upierzenie z wierzchu oliwkowobrązowe, zgięcie skrzydła i niższa część grzbietu bardziej kasztanowe. Spód ciała jaśniejszy, brązowy, brzuch bardziej rdzawy. Dziób i nogi czarne. U jednej niedojrzałej samicy tęczówka miała barwę ciemnoszarą.
Zasięg, ekologia i zachowanie
Fletnik brązowouchy to endemit wyspy Sangir (prowincja Celebes Północny, Indonezja). Pod koniec XX wieku ptaki te występowały wyłącznie na górze Sahendaruman, wcześniej odnotowywane były w innych rejonach wyspy. Środowiskiem życia fletników brązowouchych są górskie lasy rosnące na wysokości 600–750 m n.p.m. Najprawdopodobniej częściej ptaki te przebywają w małych grupach, w środkowych i górnych warstwach lasu oraz w gęstym podszycie z ratangów. W 1996 obserwowano fletniki na zboczu z rozsianymi kamieniami i dużym zagęszczeniu pandanów. Fletniki brązowouche zjadają prostoskrzydłe. W żołądku osobnika pozyskanego w 1985 znajdowały się drobne czarne i ciemnobrązowe fragmenty chitynowych pancerzyków. Obserwowano te ptaki podczas żerowania na epifitycznych paprociach, wśród opadłych lub żywych liści, mchów, kory i pnączy. W maju 1985, przy okazji ponownego odkrycia gatunku, opisano pieśń jego przedstawicieli. Tworzyła ona znaczącą część porannego śpiewu ptaków (ang. dawn chorus). Fletniki brązowouche zaczynały śpiewać o 5 rano, jeszcze przed wschodem słońca. Brak informacji o rozrodzie. W czerwcu 1985 odłowiono osobnika, który zdawał się być młodociany. Inny ptak był w listopadzie obserwowany, jak podaje owada innemu fletnikowi, najpewniej młodemu (miał nieco odmienny wzór upierzenia na głowie).
Status i zagrożenia
IUCN uznaje fletnika brązowouchego za gatunek krytycznie zagrożony (CR, Critically Endangered) nieprzerwanie od 2000 roku (stan w 2018). Głównym zagrożeniem dla fletników brązowouchych jest niszczenie środowiska ich życia. W latach 80. XX wieku niemal cała wyspa Sangihe została wylesiona. Lasy pierwotne, w których występują fletniki, pod koniec XX wieku zajmowały 225–340 ha. Prócz tego ptaki są niepokojone przez ścieżki przecinające lasy oraz wycinkę pod miejsca na ogrody. Fletnik objęty jest ochroną, podobnie jak inny endemiczny gatunek Sangihe – lazurczyk (Eutrichomyias rowleyi). W 1999 ustalono, że lokalne społeczności zdają się respektować znaczenie chronionego lasu na górze Sahendaruman. Przez około sto lat fletnika brązowouchego znano jedynie z dwóch okazów. Od 8 maja do 7 czerwca 1985 prowadzono na Sangihe prace terenowe, podczas których ponownie odkryto przedstawicieli tego gatunku. Liczebność populacji szacuje się na 50–249 dorosłych osobników.
Przypisy
Linki zewnętrzne
Fletówki
Ptaki Azji
Gatunki i podgatunki zwierząt nazwane w 1881 roku
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21/08/2016�� SXSW 2015: Nina Forever - Co-directors Ben and Chris Blaine and star Abigail Hardingham Interview elements and principles of design pdf The American Cinema; Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris Book condition: Used; Acceptable Book Description E P Dutton, 1968. Paperback.
Prof Linda Ruth Williams is the Co-Investigator of Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015. Linda's research is most focused on contemporary British and American film; she has published widely on gender in cinema, sexuality and censorship, the relationship between film and contemporary art, and genre cinema.
The American Cinema; Directors and Directions, 1929-1968 by Andrew Sarris Book condition: Used; Acceptable Book Description E P Dutton, 1968. Paperback.
It covers American film directors and their films/film careers through 1968. Welles, Von Sternburg, John Houston, etc. Most of the directors worked in black and white first. For those who are not aware of the old masters (and a few losers) this is a fine book for film study.
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Small and simple acts of kindness can have a huge impact.
Eighteen months ago, Mary Latham drove away from her home in New York, solo, in her mother's aging Subaru. Her mission: collecting stories of good and stories of kindness from all 50 states.
Mary Latham firmly believes that there are always more good stories, and more acts of kindness and love, than there are bad ones.
Her collection of happy stories is not meant to ignore that there's a lot of bad things happening. But her mission is to remind people that there's a lot of good around, too.
Latham will compile her stories in a book that will be distributed in as many hospital waiting rooms as she can figure out how to access. Some of the stories are about incredible acts of selflessness. But many more of them are about little ripples that make big circles.
In this TedX talk, she describes her road trip across America and relates how the stories and acts of kindness are much more indicative of the world we live in, than the negativity.
If you would like to send Latham a proposal to meet and discuss stories of kindness and positivity, you can visit her More Good website to find out more.
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/**
* Class for Cancel request
* @package SkrillPsp
*
*/
class SkrillPsp_Cancel extends SkrillPSP
{
private $referenceId;
/**
* Constructor
*
* Loads json request source and and decodes it in php array and sets id member
* and referenceid parameter
* @param string $referenceid optional
* @return void
*/
public function __construct($referenceid = null)
{
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}
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*/
public function setCustomerId()
{
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}
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{
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case "payment":
foreach($value as $key => $value) {
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throw new InvalidArgumentException("$key is not valid for payment section");
}
$this->validate($key, $value); // validator for field values
$this->json['params']['payment'][$key] = $value;
}
break;
default:
throw new OutOfBoundsException("You should set predefined parameter group!");
}
}
}
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}
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}
}
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Statistical Analysis And Class Actions: Part 2 > Publications > Experience & News > Edgeworth Economics, L.L.C.
This article from Law360 by Dr. Nathan Woods, a partner at Edgeworth, is the second article in a three part series discussing the statistical analysis of class certification topics in wage-and-hour class and collective actions.
In this article, Dr. Woods examines rigorous analysis and statistical testing of whether common patterns are present in a wage-and-hours proposed class. He uses an illustrative example of an off-the-clock allegation to show how rigorous analysis can shed light on whether apparent differences in subparts of a proposed class are statistically meaningful.
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Investors and Patents
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Do You Need to Patent Your Product
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What Is A Patent And Where Do Patent Rights Come From?
A patent is a right, granted to an inventor who files an application to exclude others from making, using, selling or importing an invention throughout the country where the patent is granted without the inventor's consent. A patent is an exclusive right given by law to inventors to make use of, and exploit, their inventions for a limited period of time. The inventor may license or sell the patent rights defined by the claims of the patent.
By granting the inventor a temporary monopoly in exchange for a full description of how to perform the invention, patents play a key role in developing industry around the world. Without a patent, anyone can make and sell your invention without your permission and without paying you. It is important to state that a patent application only provides patent pending and does not provide any enforceable patent rights. Only a granted patent provides enforceable patent rights to an inventor or business.
Patent protection in a given country does not extend to other countries. Whilst there is a trend towards global harmonization of patent laws, with the World Trade Organization being particularly active in this area, inventors must usually file an application in each country they want their patent to be effective.
Types of patents
There are three different types of patents available in the United States
Utility patent, which covers the functional aspects of products and processes. This is the most commonly understood of the defined patents.
Design patent, which covers the ornamental design of useful objects; and
Plant patent, which covers a new variety of living plant.
The application for patent must include background information, the nature of any technical problems solved by the invention, a detailed description of the invention and how it works and where appropriate, illustrations of the invention.
Patent eligibility
In general a patent will be granted for an invention so long as it has never been made in public in any way, before the date on which the application for a patent is filed. The invention must not be obvious to others with good knowledge and experience of the subject of the invention and the invention must be capable of being made or used in some kind of industry.
Patents do not protect ideas. Any exclusive rights obtained can only protect something that is approved to being eligible to patent. Whilst eligibility for patents vary from country to country, in the United States the list is broad, with eligible protection available for machines, compounds and processes. It is also possible to patent genetically engineered living organisms. Business methods are also eligible for protection as is software, although obtaining a software patent in the United States is difficult as the application will need to include a comprehensive discussion of the underlying technology. Some man-made DNA has also been protected.
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Mara Family
July 7, 2009 September 22, 2009 by Arusha
Family safaris usually occur at a difficult time for optimum game viewing. But the Mara won that game for us!
Understandably, most family safaris are scheduled for the summer school holiday. Spring break is often too short, and there are often kids in the same family with different spring breaks. And with U.S. schools starting earlier and earlier, especially the sports programs, the family safari usually takes place from the first of June through the end of July.
That's not at the optimum time for game viewing. I still maintain that the game viewing in East Africa at any time of the year is better in East Africa than at any time of the year elsewhere, like in southern Africa. So for game viewing, in a sense it doesn't matter.
The optimum game viewing in East Africa occurs in March and April (in the Serengeti) or in September and October (in the Mara). Variances in weather can extend or contract these windows. Our safari – like many family safaris – is happening in early July.
Quite apart from the anomalous drought that is happening, this is a tough time for experiencing the big herds East Africa is known for. No problem with elephants, but wildebeest, zebra, and the many other ungulates and antelope are widely dispersed as they navigate the end of a rainy season searching for better grasslands.
The best place to end a safari at this time is in the Mara. We ended it by exclusively occupying a wonderful luxury semi-permanent camp right on the Sand River. I've only been going to Sala's Camp for several years, but it's quickly becoming my favorite family safari camp for this time of the year.
Consider this. On our way from the Keekorok airstrip at around 430p, Monday, we managed to have a lovely tea stop on a hill overlooking vast stretches of the Mara, find six lions posing for photographs, plus find three cheetah on a recent Tomie kill beautifully framed by a dramatic sunset.
The cheetah kill was particularly fascinating. There were at least 150 vultures which had dropped out of the sky and were menacing the poor cheetah. Vultures hunt by sight, and this was their last opportunity before dark.
Cara Hopcraft, the camp host, was ready with a special welcome of hot towels, fresh lime juice, and hot water for showers! The camp is mildly lighted by solar, so as dark as it was, the tent was warm and welcoming.
Each tent is beautifully furnished and includes flush toilets. I especially like the little touches which I feel might not be so expensive or difficult to arrange, but indicate a care that so many camps lack. There was a little vase of local wild flowers on the vanity counter, the water bottles were beautifully beaded, and the clothes organizer was a simple drop-down canvas box considerably more useful than a huge chest. Flashlights, bug spray, and three kinds of shampoo and conditioner! Most importantly, for those of us who shave, the mirror was perfectly placed under the solar light to avoid before dawn lacerations!
"I really didn't expect this," young Dillon said, truly on behalf of everyone. But as I explained to everyone, "camping" in East Africa has morphed into something else. Part of the reason are the extraordinary fees that the park authorities demand for the right to camp in any fashion. So once that expense is incurred, the upmarket becomes the only reasonable demographic.
We stayed in the Mara for three days and nights. The first two mornings we had an early breakfast and then took a long 6-7 hour game drive. Our location right on the Sand River couldn't be more beautiful, but it is somewhat compromised for optimum game viewing in the Mara. So the longer drives were necessary.
At this time of the year in the Mara, it is very cold. Ari and Hayley wrapped themselves in several Maasai blankets. The gloves that are on our preparation list, appeared at last.
We had fabulous game viewing. For one thing, the migration was arriving. Two weeks ago I greeted the first wave at the Sand River, and now more was on the way. It's still very much the beginning, and the herds won't concentrate until August, but everyone was very impressed. "I never expected this!" Leo told me waving his Tolstoy hat at a line of running wilde.
I was especially surprised and overjoyed to find rhino! Yes, authorities have been trying to reintroduce rhino to the Mara for years and years. We found a mother and calve who were very leery of us and disappeared after a few minutes in deep brush. We also found the tracks of another single rhino. This is impressive and certainly a highlight of this southeast area.
Add to the rhino a bevy of lion, cheetah, and for Carl and me, some very impressive birding. We definitely (I stand by it, fellow birders) found the black coucal and banded snake eagle, two extraordinary finds.
But probably for the family, as successful as was our game viewing, the volleyball games with the camp staff on the Sand River, and the trampoline antics in the afternoon were just as memorable. I sat one afternoon with Grandma Marian on the cliff above the river watching the kids (and their parents) having extraordinary fun. But we all stopped short of insisting that Conor perform his famous break-dancing; he was, after all, a few years out of shape having joined his folks on safari from the boondocks of Guinea where he is a Peace Corps volunteer.
It was hard ending the safari. Everything seemed to have worked so well, and the two families who didn't know one another before the trip had now become very close. As a last hurrah and fabulous surprise, Irene had carved out of the river sand two remarkably realistic crocodiles! We'd seen them on the Mara. At first glance it was kind of scary!
A good vacation anywhere broadens beyond its theme into memories that could be created anywhere in the world. A good family safari must have the wonderful game viewing we accomplished, but it doesn't have to be the best game viewing of the year. Good lodges and camps, memorable occasions like sundowners and relaxing conversations around an isolated camp fire, and the warmth of new friendships might occur anywhere in the world. But when it happens in East Africa, ending at a place like Sala's Camp in the Mara, it ranks right up there with the best family vacation possible anywhere!
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Home » Nation » Facebook Live 'sex assault': Boy, 14, arrested in Chicago
Facebook Live 'sex assault': Boy, 14, arrested in Chicago
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A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in Chicago in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was streamed on Facebook Live.
The boy faces charges of aggravated criminal assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. He was not named because of his age.
The girl was allegedly assaulted by five or six males last month.
Around 40 people were said to have been watching the stream at one point but nobody reported the incident to police.
A teenager had alerted a relative of the girl's, Reginald King, to the assault.
"There were adults who saw this. None of them had the wherewithal to say, 'Hey, I gotta call someone'," Mr King said.
'Hideous crime'
The girl had been dropped off near her home after attending church with her family on 19 March. She then disappeared and was found on 21 March after the alleged assault was filmed.
She was reunited with her mother but the family has had to be relocated as it suffered threats and taunts. Police expect to make further arrests.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said: "Crimes like this are hideous and we do not allow that kind of content.
"We take our responsibility to keep people safe on Facebook very seriously and will remove videos that depict sexual assault and are shared to glorify violence."
In January, Chicago police arrested four people in which a man's alleged assault was live streamed, also on Facebook Live.
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This article is about motion in physics. See also motion (legal), motion (democracy) and Apple Motion.
In physics, motion means a change in the position of a body with respect to time, as measured by a particular observer in a particular frame of reference. Until the end of the 19th century, Newton's laws of motion, which he posited as axioms or postulates in his famous Principia, were the basis of what has since become known as classical physics. Calculations of trajectories and forces of bodies in motion based on Newtonian or classical physics were very successful until physicists began to be able to measure and observe very fast physical phenomena.
At very high speeds, the equations of classical physics were not able to accurately calculate correct values. To address these problems, the ideas of Albert Einstein concerning the fundamental phenomena of motion were adopted in lieu of Newton's. Whereas Newton's laws of motion assumed absolute values of space and time in the equations of motion, Einstein's theories assumed relative values for these concepts. Since Einstein's equations yielded accurate results at high speeds and Newton's did not, Einstein's theory of relativity for bodies in motion has usurped Newton's laws of motion, based on absolute space and time. However, as a practical matter, Newton's equations are much easier to work with than Einstein's and therefore are more often used in applied physics and engineering.
It is interesting to note, however, that because motion is defined as the proportion of space to time, these concepts are prior to motion, just as the concept of motion itself is prior to force. In other words, the properties of space and time determine the nature of motion and the properties of motion, in turn, determine the nature of force. Therefore, relative space and relative time result in relative motion, which means that the unit values of space and time can change for observers moving at high speeds relative to each other. These concepts have led physicists in general to conclude that only relative motion can be measured and that absolute motion is meaningless.
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You are here:Home » Other Reads » Instagram Roundup! How Active Are You On Social Media?
Are you #Instagram ready? Do you post Instagram worthy images? Well, as much as bloggers need to be active on social media sites, I have to admit I am not much into Instagram just looking at my pathetic numbers. With so many social media sites, it is really hard to catch up and I don't have as much time to spare.
I have 2 favourite photos in this Instagram roundup - the one taken with my son at Pulau Tekong Camp, and of course the 3D Jelly Art. You can read more at their respective highlighted links.
For this round-up, I like the photos taken at my poolside. It is one of my favourite hangouts, although I rarely swim there. Not sure why, but the water is always freezing even though the weather is so hot.
Mmmm........ which photo do you like best for this Instagram roundup? I am drooling over the Tasty Foie Gras Stuffed Chicken in Merlot Red Wine Reduction!
How about this roundup? Are you a fan of SK-II skincare too? That reminds me I have to go for my Magic Ring test in a few weeks time to see if there is any improvement after using the SK-II GenOptics Whitening Skincare for more than a month now.
I am into Facebook regularly.. but I am thinking of Instagram too cos my kids are there! I guess it is getting more and more popular so if time permits, I will start on it soon!
No. I don't even own an Instagram account. I am even more pathetic than you. Haha. I don't think it is necessary for me (for time being, maybe ^^).
To me, updating my blog and FB is a lot of works. Dont need another social media.
for me my blog is my first social platform and I think it will always be my favourite one. Instagram is fun but it is more visual and more image oriented and I like the combination of words and pictures that is to be found in blogging.
Love all your insta posts!
I usually post one photo per day on instagram but lately I've been getting tired of it so I think I will be less active on insta.
Instagram is actually my fav social, second is Facebook!
Honesty Shirley, I can't cope with all the different social media. If I still try to keep up with others, I won't have a life and I will loose all the love in my life for spending so much of time on social media. I only post from time to time and I really don't care about numbers. You sure are doing great on insta and we sure are following each other.
My instagram account is inactive. Long time never used d.
I only joined Instagram last year and honestly if I weren't a blogger, I wouldn't have done it at all. That pic of you with your son is super sweet Shirley!
Even I like you pool side photo, I will check out your Instagram page.
Nice overview Shirley. I'm relatively new to Instagram but seem to learn something new each week.
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Game Theory Nintendo Pokemon Theories March 18, 2021
Does Pokemon Take Place in a Multiverse? Pokemon's Hidden Lore!
Pokemon may seem like a simple game for kids, but it's actually a complex web of secret dimensions, alternate universes and parallel timelines. In this video I take a look at all of the evidence for the Pokemon multiverse in the main-series games!
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You've probably played in a Minecraft world before, but have you ever wondered how that terrain was generated? In this video I go step by step to show you how chunks and biomes are formed, and modify the source code to show you every part of the process!
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How to Program 3D Terrain for Video Games
Ever wondered how games like Minecraft or No Man's Sky create their virtual worlds? Let's find out by programming our own procedurally generated 3D terrain from scratch!
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This video discusses the design of Pokemon in the generation 7 games, Pokemon Sun and Moon. We discuss the new region, the major themes of these Pokemon, and the common design trends and motifs.
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The Ultimate Monopoly Strategy Guide
Transcript: What's up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. First, I want to apologize for not uploading in a while. I am completing my Master's degree this semester, and I have been really busy these past several weeks finishing up my project and report, as well as looking for jobs after I graduate. I…
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We are finally back with the Evolution of Pokemon Designs series, this time focusing on Generation 6 – Pokemon X and Y. As always we look at the designs of these Pokemon to see common themes and trends among them, stylistic changes from previous generations, and how new mechanics and technology have influenced the designs.
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A History of Paper Mario Combat
Transcript: What's up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. I'll admit that, prior to this year I had never really played a Paper Mario game. However, I love origami – it is one of my biggest hobbies, and I have been thinking for a while now that it would be really cool to see…
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Quidditch is one of the most famous of all fictional fantasy games and sports – and one of the most flawed. Where does this game go wrong, and how can it be fixed?
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I am the Proud daughter of a Vietnam and Korean War Veteran. My father was a proud citizen of the U.S., he was proud to support Our Country in any way that he could.
Kilmer's description of Vietnam Veterans as punks, criminals and basically worthless pieces of flesh is not only insulting to all Vietnam Veterans, but to their families and to every Veteran and Active Member of Our Fine Military.
These 'celebrities' that get paid more money than they need to live the rest of their lives have no idea what 'sacrifice' means . . . not the sacrifice that Our military make for Our Country, for Our Sake and Safety.
Mr. Kilmer is an arrogant s.o.b. and should not be allowed the privilege of portraying an American Soldier as Our Soldiers deserve the respect and gratitude of all Our Country.
I am also a very PROUD Hooah Mother of an Iraq Veteran.
Ed. note: Thank you, Virginia, for joining the conversation, and thank you for your father's and your son's service. It is men like them who keep us free.
My uncle went to Vietnam as a Marine at 18, with pride and a sense of duty to his country.
I served in the US Army, and when I went in there were a lot of Vietnam Veterans still in the US Army. They were dignified, steady and the best teachers any soldier could have.
Years later, I had to take a life as a Deputy Sheriff, and you do not brag about it or talk like you know what it is like. You move on and deal with it with maturity and live with it.
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Woman's death at LaBelle RV park sparks homicide investigation by Hendry County sheriff
A Sheriff's Office report said a deputy found Brenda Hill, 66, lying face down on the floor of her home shortly after 7 p.m. Monday.
Woman's death at LaBelle RV park sparks homicide investigation by Hendry County sheriff A Sheriff's Office report said a deputy found Brenda Hill, 66, lying face down on the floor of her home shortly after 7 p.m. Monday. Check out this story on news-press.com: https://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2019/01/31/womans-death-labelle-rv-park-sparks-homicide-investigation/2732026002/
Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-Press Published 12:57 p.m. ET Jan. 31, 2019
The Hendry County Sheriff's Office is conducting a homicide investigation after a woman was found dead in her home at a LaBelle recreational vehicle park.
A Sheriff's Office report said a deputy found Brenda Hill, 66, lying face down on the floor of her home in Grandma's Grove RV Park on State Road 80, shortly after 7 p.m. Monday after she failed to come to the park's clubhouse.
The report said injuries did not appear consistent with a fall and deemed the death suspicious. Neighbors who had checked on Hill said the door to her home was locked.
Further details were unavailable.
Police car with siren during the night (Photo: ChiccoDodiFC, Getty Images/ iStock)
Connect with this reporter: MichaelBraunNP (Facebook) @MichaelBraunNP (Twitter)
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Mr. William "Billy" Hilton Swayze, age 32 of Franklin, KY, passed away Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 2:23 AM from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Franklin, KY.
Arrangements are under the direction of Gilbert Funeral Home where services will be held at 1:00 PM Thursday, January 24, 2019 with burial to follow in the Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Simpson Co., KY.
Billy was born December 18, 1986 in Bowling Green, KY to Bruce Swayze and Bonnie Spencer Swayze who both survive of Franklin, KY.
Additional survivors include his brother Beau Andrew Swayze of Los Angeles, CA, an uncle, Richard Spencer of Hot Springs, AR, three aunts, Nancy Spencer of Hot Springs, AR, Wanda Spencer of Elephant Butte, NM and Susie Spencer of Miami, FL, and several cousins also survive.
Billy was a member of the First United Methodist Church, he was a 2005 Franklin Simpson Graduate. He was owner of Thunder Sound Recording Studio and he was the corporate secretary for his family's business Alliance Rubber Company. HE participated and toured with various bands.
Visitation will be from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM Thursday, January 24, 2019 at Gilbert Funeral Home.
Online condolences may be made www.gilbertfhonline.com.
There's still time to send flowers to the Visitation at the Gilbert Funeral Home from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM on January 24, 2019.
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In a letter to Gov. Matt Mead, a Forest Service official says her agency won't force stockgrowers from the Wyoming Range to protect bighorn sheep.
Lawmakers say it's time to review past budget studies rather than spend $350,000 on a new study to understand how to deal with a potential revenue downturn.
Wyoming lawmakers amended the budget to increase teacher pay and reject additional money for Highway 59. They also debated money for a Laramie golf course.
The Wyoming Senate has passed a non-discrimination bill to add workplace protections for LGBT workers. The measure now goes to the House.
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Ease of doing business or Ease of diluting labour safety?
Is IFI influence on economy back with a vengeance?
Will the Parliament Recognise the Impending Disaster, & Discuss Forced Evictions in Narmada Valley?
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Two sleeps on Celtic Song and everyone seems to have found their rhythm. Two hour watches and duties assigned. Meal prep and clean-up occur fairly effortlessly. The stress of everyday life is beginning to fade. The sea is an obvious prescription for our crew, five like-minded people, leaving their jobs, family and friends behind to live our dream, find adventure, solitude and possibly peace of mind...that RESET button that is a rarity.
All the beauty that nature has to offer surrounds us, encapsulates our 40ft vessel, as we surf up and down the 8ft swells (although last night was substantially larger and rockier)...still no complaints! The moon and stars show their brilliance, not to be outdone the sun rises and spectacularly a new day dawns. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 1025 first sighting of land, Cedros Island. We should reach our first stop at Turtle Bay around 2300. This is where we will meet up with all the other boats and crew to enjoy activities before our next leg.
While I contemplate everything that has occurred to bring me to this place in time, I am overwhelmed with gratitude. So many things could have been different, some people might think they should have been different, but as this past year has brought about a multitude of changes that could have broke me, I found my sanity in sailing. When everything else fell apart, I never gave up on my dream to sail around the world...the dream just got a makeover. For a few of us this is the longest offshore passage to date. For me this will be the beginning of many more to come.
Anyone who truly loves sailing and boats will understand what I mean when I say that coming back onboard Celtic Song is like seeing a dear friend you have missed. The days and nights I've been lucky enough to spend on this beautiful boat have made us feel like companions. I love her wood accents, her sails, and her portholes... which this morning show only a view of open ocean on all sides.
The anticipation of this trip has been a bit overwhelming. Months of planning, dreaming, and excitement built up to our departure yesterday. My husband John and I are joining Captain Diane and the rest of the crew for the next 10 days, sailing from San Diego to Cabo San Lucas as part of the famous Baja Ha-Ha. Settling into our first 24 hours of this almost two week trip, I'm struck by how incredibly grateful I am to be here. I'm thankful that life has brought kindred spirits and amazing opportunities like this one into my world. I'm also grateful that I've been brave enough to say "Yes!" to creating the kind of life I truly cherish living.
the water for only one day.
Captain Diane says this all the time, and it is very true. Our galley is packed with fresh food and produce, and we have already had delicious sandwiches with basil, tomato and turkey, wonderful soup for dinner, and then fresh oatmeal and berries for breakfast. I savor every bite when I'm sailing... it all just feels more special somehow.
boats with no lights... but what I am struck by the most of this trip is all the little nuances of night watch that I love. When everyone on Celtic Song is asleep, it is a different world. The red lights we use to preserve our night vision cast a soft glow on everything. I love the ritual of gearing up for my watch shift -- warm beanie, PFD, hot tea. I'm usually still waking up as I make my log entry, checking lat and long, scanning radar to see what is nearby, reacquainting myself with the current bearing and plotted course. Even checking the barometer feels comforting and familiar to me now. As we change shifts, we chat softly in the cockpit. I look forward to getting up for a 2 am watch, and I don't think I ever would have anticipated that!
I love taking naps... but there is truly nothing better than taking a nap while sailing. I think there is something decadent about allowing yourself to rest and not feeling guilty. We get into such a beautiful pattern when underway. The crew gathers for breakfast and morning chatter, then everyone feels free to spread out. Napping, sitting on the bow and taking in the view, or maybe blogging. :) Unless you are on watch (or when we are putting the spinnaker up!) your time is yours. And having nothing to do feels like the most precious luxury.
Speaking of which, I'm logging off to go do nothing now but enjoy the view.
Thank goodness for the iron genny. There's a saying popular among cruisers about the wind. It goes like this..."
wind from the wrong direction.
Ha ha on the ha ha. We have Winds from the South at 2-3 knots! Wrong direction and not enough! We did manage to sail for 3 hours between 5 and 6 knots on our rumb line in the afternoon.
Crew are settling in as we slowly release the tentacles of land. We are racing along slowly with about 150 other boats, of souls on board in the HAHA Approximately 550 participants. The Grand Poobah said it is the largest HaHa on record.
At the moment not a lot to report. We are all getting familiar with our nav tools on board, Coastal Explorer, Radar, AIS. Currently we are motor-sailing at 5.5 knots, south east toward Turtle Bay due to arrive in a couple of days. Sophie , our dog onboard is doing OK. Not too happy about missing her run and ball chasing.
Diane's crew for the Baja Ha Ha from October 29th through November 9th are: Shelley, John & Anna, and Roxie.
Susie Campbell's boat 'Campbell Sloop' & Celtic Song with Blue Hearts at the starting line.
Amazing Water maker Installation. Thank you WAde and daily marine and the best ship wright ever---eddie!
October 6, getting ready for the haha with my sister in law peggy!
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Our People, Our Stories, Success Story
Chef Paigton Wilson
"Master P"
Passionately Serving Exquisite Cuisine with a Smile
By Chef Brian Wubbena, Director of Culinary
Chef Paigton Wilson is our Head Chef at our Southlake, Texas location. She has almost two years under her belt as the leader of our culinary team and has done a phenomenal job. As always, let's do a little backstory and get some insight into her history and learn how she came to be a chef.
Paigton grew up in Mansfield, Texas and has been cooking since she was able to reach a stove. As a small child, her mother would either be holding her on her hip as she created in the kitchen, or she'd set Paigton on the counter to watch. As she got old enough to start helping, it became a huge source of pride. Eventually, Paigton started racing home from school in order to cook dinner for her family. Paigton told me that she found it relaxing but also comforting saying, "I really loved seeing the smiles on my parents' faces. It's the same feeling that I get from the guests in our restaurant."
In high school, Chef was in the band program and soon realized that it wasn't a fit. Her mother let her know right away that she wasn't going to "sit around" all year so she decided to check out the culinary program. Paigton started competing her sophomore year and immediately loved the pressure, camaraderie and pace.
At the end of her senior year, a representative from Johnson and Wales visited her high school. After asking questions and learning more, Paigton decided that she was packing her bags and heading to Rhode Island for culinary school. Although students usually aren't allowed to compete during their first year, her skill level and enthusiasm convinced the school to make an exception and she started competing as a freshman.
After returning home, Chef worked in a butcher shop as an oyster shucker. This taught her to not only appreciate the craft, but the animal itself. When she started at Truluck's, she landed a spot as a sous-chef for the talented Chef Manny Vera.
When speaking to Manny about his experience with Paigton he said, "You know, I've watched her grow into one the hardest working chefs that I have ever worked with. When she came to us, she didn't really have that much experience in fine dining. When I think about watching her learn, grow and develop it makes me proud. She's always slangin' that real iron!!!!!!"
I don't really know what that last line means, but it sounds just like Manny and he put a lot of emphasis on it, so let's just go with it. Essentially, Manny truly respects Paigton, and he doesn't dole out compliments like that often.
Ultimately, "P" is a pearl on the Truluck's culinary team and we're all very proud of her hard work, can do spirit and continuous growth. Should you find yourself in the Southlake, Texas area, allow Chef to prove her life-long skills. She'll serve a huge smile on your face, just like her parents had when she was starting her culinary career many years ago. Your table is waiting.
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Featured Artist Gil Assayas (GLASYS)
Prophet XL
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6-Voice Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer
SEQUENTIAL INTERVIEW – GIL ASSAYAS
GLASYS (Gil Assayas) is a pianist, synthesist, producer and vocalist who delivers intricate, virtuosic keyboard parts, electronic soundscapes, and impassioned vocals in one package that combines his many influences including Electronic music, Alternative Rock, Jazz, and Classical music. Since playing his first solo show two year ago, GLASYS has been endorsed by major gear manufacturers such as Sequential, Nord Keyboards, and Spectrasonics, and has developed a large social media presence with over two million total video views. GLASYS has also been featured on the Grammys® website, and has had his song "The Pressure" played at a Portland Trailblazers NBA game. Recently, he was discovered by Hip-Hop giant T-Pain on reddit and the two are now collaborating. GLASYS is also currently touring with legendary 70s-80s band Utopia, led by Todd Rundgren.
"HOLY. SHIT! I've never seen anything like this in my life. Man. PM me if you wanna work together, bro. This is amazing!" – T-Pain
"A master at the keys, Israeli instrumentalist Gil Assayas shares animated vocals with faultless keyboard and synth playing to make jazzy electronic you can't help but dance to." – The Deli, Portland
"From the first bar of the title track of Glasys' debut EP "The Pressure," it is already clear that Gil Assayas is a musician of rare talent and skill. The Portland-based Assayas is possessed of rather intimidating piano chops and assembled an impressive collective of musicians for the project." – Jonathan Wilson, Northwest Music Scene
"Glasys, one of the best new acts to emerge out of Portland in quite some time. The brainchild of producer extraordinaire Gil Assayas, Glasys layers gorgeous keyboards on top of poppy, delicate vocals." – Marissa Abruzzini, Tour Worthy
How did you first get started with music? Was it nature or nurture for you: Were you a self-starter or was it something that you grew into?
"My parents are both classical musicians so I grew up in a very musical home. I started taking violin lessons at the age of 7 and picked up the piano a couple of years later. Eventually, I decided to quit the violin and stick with the piano."
It seems that some musicians have a sort of "eureka" moment in their early years where the lightbulb comes on and they realize "This is what I need to be doing." Do you recall anything like that for you?
"Yes. When I was 14 I was going to the Jerusalem school of music and dance and I remember hearing a Jazz pianist by the name of Omri Mor (who was a few years older than me) play an Oscar Peterson tune. I hadn't been exposed to a lot of Jazz music before that, and his playing completely blew my mind. I remember asking him for the sheet music, and when he told me that he had in fact improvised most of it, my jaw dropped to the floor. At that moment, I realized that I had to learn how to play like that and immediately started taking Jazz piano lessons."
Tell us about your first synth!
"My first synth was actually a Workstation, A Roland Fantom X that I bought when I was 18 and was into Indie/Alternative music. For the first couple of years, I only played presets and tweaked them without really understanding what I was doing. I liked the sounds but was too afraid to learn how to program new ones, it involved a ton of menus and strange acronyms and seemed super complicated. But one day my curiosity got the best of me and I decided to actually read the manual… again and again till I memorized every parameter on the synth. It took a lot of time and practice but I eventually became a pro at creating new sounds on the Fantom X. Little did I know at the time that actual knob-per-function synths existed. I didn't even know what an analog synth was!"
Do you usually design your own sounds? If so, how do you approach that? Do you have a process?
"Yeah, 99% of the sounds I use are designed from scratch. I find it easier to sculpt the sound I'm hearing in my head than to audition hundreds of presets hoping to find something that resembles it. That's why I love synths that have a great raw tone, like the Prophet-6. It doesn't take much work to create beautiful sounds, the basic oscillators and filters already sound so alive. I love simple and intuitive layouts, and I'm not a fan of having an overwhelming number of options or parameters to deal with. My process is simply to start with a default patch and sculpt the sound until it matches what I hear in my head or until I stumble across a new sound that inspires a musical idea."
What kind of things get you excited about an instrument?
"In the past, any cool analog synth or keyboard instrument would get me excited, but nowadays I get excited by an instrument that either lets me create sounds that I can't produce with my other instruments, or simply lets me create familiar sounds more easily and efficiently. That's why I fell in love with the Prophet X — the combination of high quality samples, analog filters and a knob-per-function interface enables me to design sounds that would otherwise be very tedious to program with a computer — within seconds. In the short time that I've had the Prophet X, I've done whole productions using nothing but that synth. It's improved my workflow so much that I can't imagine working without it anymore."
When you get a musical idea how do you go about developing it? Can you give us an example?
"It really depends on how I got the idea in the first place. Sometimes I'll stumble upon an inspiring sound with my synths and pedals, in which case I'll record the idea immediately and start layering other sounds on top of it until I figure out what I want it to be. Other times I'll improvise on the piano and find a chord progression, riff, or melody that I think is worthy of a song, in which case I'll usually spend a period of time (anywhere from a few hours to a whole year) fleshing out the idea until it's complete. When I'm songwriting, I usually don't arrange or produce the song until it's done.
And then, in some other cases, an idea will suddenly pop into my head (with a complete arrangement and everything) which I'll then try to recreate one piece at a time. These ideas usually appear when I'm trying to fall asleep at 3AM, and they don't always end up sounding the way I imagined them."
Do you have certain musical ideals? Certain things that you strive for?
"When it comes to my own compositions, it's very important to me to stay authentic and true to myself, to only create music that I'm proud of. It's not always easy to stay uninfluenced by people's opinions these days with everyone letting you know exactly what they liked and didn't like about your music on social media, but I do my best. I strive to remain motivated by the art itself and not by view counts or likes. On a technical level, I'm always striving to be a better player."
Generally speaking, are you happier in the studio or on stage?
"It's the balance between the two that keeps me happy. If I'm strictly doing studio work I get uninspired and depressed after a while, but if I perform too much and have no studio time I end up feeling burned out and exhausted. I enjoy doing both."
What are you listening to these days?
"I'm mostly listening to the music my friends make. I have a lot of extremely talented friends and I enjoy checking out their creations, learning from them and finding new inspiration. Some examples are Coco Columbia, The Secret Sea, Sama Dams… there are so many! I also follow a lot of younger Jazz musicians like Jacob Collier and Louis Cole because I learn so much from them."
What kinds of things inspire you — musically or otherwise. Has this changed over time?
"I'm inspired by fresh ideas and authenticity and I've always preferred darker music that pierces your soul rather than happy party music. It's not that I don't enjoy a good funk song, it's just that the 'put your hands in the air' stuff often feels like a distraction from life, whereas darker music that addresses your deeper feelings feels like therapy. Life's hard, and I listen to music that reflects that."
Do you have a musical bucket list?
"My bucket list keeps growing, I can barely keep up with it. I have a lot of video ideas for my YouTube channel, I'm working on an album, I want to create a cool new live show and tour a lot in 2019. There are lots of musicians I want to collaborate with as well, I plan on doing more of that this year."
What made you choose Sequential?
"I remember hearing Prophet '08 demos years ago when I was living in Israel and being blown away by the sound. I eventually convinced a friend of mine who owns a music store in Jerusalem to start to start importing Sequential stuff and I'd spend hours jamming on the Prophet '08 every day. When the Prophet-6 came out, I knew it was the perfect synth for me and I purchased it shortly after moving to the US. Around 90% of my upcoming album is created with the Prophet-6, and many of my YouTube videos feature it as well. It's definitely my go-to synth for any analog sound."
What's one of your favorite things about Sequential instruments?
"First of all, they sound amazing and alive. But they're also so balanced and well designed. I've rarely had to open the manual to figure out how to do something. If there isn't a knob for it (which there usually is) then it's just a couple of button presses away. I also love the Slop function.Oscillators that drift slightly out of tune sound so pleasing and human to me, and it's so nice that you can control the amount."
How are you using Sequential instruments in your music?
"I use the Prophet-6 for most of the analog sounds in my productions: pads, leads, bass, etc. My music is mostly electronic and these types of sounds are featured heavily. I recently got the Prophet X and I've been using it for sample-based sounds, cinematic sounds, and analog/sample hybrid stuff. I've only scratched the surface of what it can do."
Any interesting tricks or techniques you'd like to share?
"Modulating the effects on the Prophet X is a lot of fun, I've created some cool sounds by assigning the wheel and sliders to effect parameters. Reversing samples and modulating their start/end times can lead to some very unique sounds as well. On the Prophet-6, I love using polyphonic glide and playing 6-voice chords. You can hear each individual voice find its own path to another note and it sounds so great."
http://glasysmusic.com/
https://www.facebook.com/GLASYSmusic/
https://www.instagram.com/glasysmusic/
https://twitter.com/GLASYSmusic
https://www.youtube.com/user/GilMusicVideos
"The Pressure" on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/il/album/the-pressure-ep/id1149758375
"The Pressure" on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6LUj1K4eMLNThOKtLfPWJr
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An alcohol assessment will be required when you have been arrested for DUI in Washington State. In fact it is recommended you complete a substance abuse evaluation as soon as possible after your drunk driving arrest. Sooner or later you will receive notice to attend an arraignment hearing, and it is possible you can be placed in jail at that hearing. You want to be prepared so that does not happen. Obtaining an alcohol assessment demonstrates to the court that you are taking this matter serious and doing everything possible to remain a good citizen.
Further, your DUI defense attorney will need to negotiate a case settlement offer with the prosecuting attorney. Prosecutors like to hear that you are already completing many steps proving you are responsible. One of those steps is obtaining an alcohol assessment. They are interested in protecting the community and they want to review the findings and treatment recommendations of the assessment before giving any reduction in charge. Any experienced DUI defense attorney will instruct you complete the assessment as soon as possible.
If you do enter into a legal settlement or go to trial and you are found guilty the judge at the sentencing hearing will command you to obtain an alcohol assessment. It helps that you can counter, "Your Honor I have already completed that task, and I have (or are in the process of) complying with the assessment recommendations. At the sentencing hearing you want the judge to be as happy as possible and having this take completed will help.
If you are found to have no issues with drugs or alcohol you will be required to attend an Alcohol Information School. If it is determined that you do require some form of substance abuse treatment then you will need to complete that treatment. Programs can range from three months, six months and up to two full years of treatment. It is critical you select the proper substance abuse agency to conduct your alcohol assessment. Some agencies are quite "liberal" with their recommendations. Two years of treatment can cost as much as $6,000.00 so there is incentive to suggest treatment. There are many agencies that will provide an honest and appropriate assessment. Confer with an experience DUI defense attorney which agency to utilize.
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Considerable research effort has been devoted to understanding earnings differences between immigrant and Canadian-born workers. Previous studies have established that immigrants typically earn less than Canadian-born workers with the same amount of education and work experience. The low earnings of immigrants are often attributed to the specificity of human capital to the country where it originates - in other words, education or work experience in the country of origin cannot be directly transferred to the host country, resulting in well qualified immigrants holding low paying jobs. Another possibility is that employers in the host country discriminate against immigrants. This paper uses data from the Canadian component of the International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey (IALSS), which includes both standard demographic and labour market information for the Canadian born and immigrants and results from tests of literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills, to investigate these issues. Interpreting the test scores as direct measurements of cognitive skills, the authors provide a closer examination of explanations for low immigrant earnings than has previously been possible. In addition, the data include more precise information on where education was obtained and age of migration than is available in most previous studies, further enabling scrutiny of immigrant-Canadian born earnings differentials.
This monograph series features detailed studies from the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) database by Canadian and U.S. literacy scholars and experts. Monographs focus on current policy issues and cover topics such as adult training, literacy skill match and mismatch in the workplace, seniors' literacy skills and health as well as literacy and economic security.
This study compares the pattern of returns to the education required by an individual's job, including education beyond and below that level, to patterns in other countries. It explores the relationship between literacy skills and the educational requirements of an individual's job.
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Well, we decided to play with the idea of a Tesla truck and what it might look like. Of course, no one outside of Tesla has any solid proof or knowledge of the details of the truck, so this is pure speculation. Still, it's a fun topic to throw around.
Tesla is currently working to fulfill the orders of the model X SUV while preparing the next Model 3 sedan for its official launch. Apart from expanding its network of superchargers across the country, Tesla's agenda seems free after Model 3 reaches the innings sometime in 2017. That leaves room for the fully electric automaker to take the pickup truck segment. But why a truck, ask? Well, the segment is experiencing impressive growth, especially in the middle-sized class. Jumping into battle could mean big profits for Tesla.
Obviously, the production of a truck presents a number of engineering challenges not facing the sedans or crossover. In order to be competitive, the Tesla truck will have to offer a respectable towing and hauling capacity, maintaining a range of decent batteries, have the ability to traverse rough terrain, and yet maintain a similar battery range as the Model X when downloading. No doubt Tesla's engineers will be tested.
Tesla's pickup will probably share parts with the X-model – it only makes sense. However, we are not expecting Tesla to pull an old school GM and just slap a pickup bed instead of the loading area of his SUV. Rather, Tesla would be prudent to give his van a familiar but distinctive look, to separate it from the X-model, but still undeniably Tesla. When compared from side to side, the truck and the model X share a similar general shape in front of the B pillars, but the truck has a higher posture with more pronounced mudguards and a more rugged lower fascia. These are the signals that help to define the "van" of the vehicle.
Behind the B-pillar, the back doors drop the hawk's wings in favor of a more conventional style. The C-pillar then mixes well from the ceiling down into the load bed, making the transition between the cabin and the bed more stylistic. In fact, the Honda filo design influenced our decision for this style feature. After all, both trucks would ride in a reinforced unibody chassis.
The chrome trim around the windows and the Tesla signature door handles will help to clear up the side profile of the truck. The black edging around the bottom of the truck will help protect the paint from rocks and mud while perpetuating that rugged appearance. We may be familiar with wheel options such as wheel-type cylinders. Tire options will be more aggressive in other parts of Tesla's range.
We do not know what Tesla planned for the cargo bed. However, I claim that ridgeline will serve as a guide for Tesla's designers. We expect to see the smallest load, the modular attachments, and even the creative ways of using the various power plugs. Tesla will probably offer a tonneau casing as a standard equipment, helping to improve the aerodynamic efficiency of the truck.
We did not expect anything less than the high caliber interior of Tesla, perhaps a slightly modified version of the Model X cabin. The cube sporty seats, a minimalist instrument panel with a massive touch screen, and a fully digital gauge cluster for the driver are highly probable. Tesla could pull a surprise with a foldable back bench seat, or perhaps bucket seats attached to the rear bulkhead with open storage under. Those bucket seats also could bend up flat against the rear wall to haul larger items.
Like the X-model, the Tesla pickup will probably have a large windshield that is removed as a hairline that recedes.
Tesla will surely give his truck customers options when choosing an electric propellant. The X model offers four options, which include the 60D, 75D, 90D, and the extravagant P90D. For the service of trucks, however, we bet that the base 60D will be omitted. That leaves three possible options if Tesla follows the model X as an example.
The Model X 75D offers 237 miles of electric driving range with a time of 0 to 60 mph of six seconds. The maximum power is rated at 328 and the torque reaches 387 ft. lbs. Those are similar numbers to the Chevrolet Silverado when equipped with the 5.3-Liter V-8.
The 90D has an increased reach, totaling 257 miles. Its time from 0 to 60 mph takes place in just 4.8 seconds thanks to a maximum of 417 hp and 485 pound-feet of torque. Opting for the P90D brings an impressive 532 horsepower in ridiculous mode with a huge 713 pound-foot pair. That's enough to push the X model to 60 mph in just 3.2 seconds. The maximum speed is listed at 155 mph for the P90D and 90D, while the 75D is topped to 130 mph.
What's more, each battery option comes standard with all-wheel drive. This will be of great value in the pick-up market, allowing customers the confidence to cope with a slippery boat ramp or a snow-covered dirt road in winter.
Speaking of trailer, Tesla pickup will surely be based on the 5,000-pound towing capacity of the X-model. Perhaps with the adaptation of the suspension and an integrated trailer brake system, the pickup truck could pull up to 7,000 pounds.
The prices will be interesting to follow. Will Tesla push the pickup market, so it is a luxury item comparable to the X model, or would it reduce the price more in line with the current average size pickups of the vans? Only time will tell, but we would be in a slight reduction in cost over the model X. The truck will not be the money from Model 3, but Tesla cannot be the price of a customer base.
That suggests that the Tesla truck will have a starting price of about $50,000. That's $18,000 less expensive than the X model but far above the estimated $35,000 price of starting for Model 3. Of course, the price will accordingly increase with the most powerful battery options.
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Methane Leak Seen From Space
Infrared image of the Porter Ranch methane leak.
NASA reported that the methane leak from Southern California was registered from space. Satellite data from January revealed the leak from beneath a Porter Ranch mountain, showing the magnitude of the greenhouse gas emissions.
The Hyperion Spectrometer Findings
NASA satellite Earth Observing-1 passed three times over the Aliso Canyon and registered the methane leak. The spaceship had a Hyperion imaging spectrometer that measured shortwave infrared marks of CH4.
The satellite recorded the methane leak on three different occasions, and scientists managed to map its magnitude and morphology.
The orbital measurements were validated by the information captured by airborne instruments. Researchers have now the proof that space observations could contribute to further methane leak detections.
The percentage of methane released into the atmosphere through human activities has not been determined yet.
Scientists feel confident that future orbital instrument may be able to complete global surveys of massive CH4 emissions.
Methane was proved to be 25 times more dangerous than carbon dioxide when it comes to climate change.
The Aliso Canyon Methane Leak
The accident was discovered in October 2015, and in January 2016 the governor issued a state of emergency. By February 2016, the gas leak was reported to be under control.
The methane leak was responsible for health problems in thousands of residents, ranging from nosebleeds to nausea and headaches.
More than 6,400 families were relocated because of the dangers of the gas leak. However, public health officials declared that there will be no long-term effects.
The accident was estimated to have contributed to a quarter of the state's methane emissions, which would make the event the worst environmental disaster since the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The responsible company will have to pay the costs of capping the well, family relocation, as well as added penalties from government agencies, expenses to mitigate pollution and other potential damages. Sempra Energy has now more than 65 lawsuits filed on the issue.
The leak took place in one of the 60-years-old wells at the base of Santa Susana Mountains. The wells were first used to store oil, and after the oil deposit ran out the company continued to use them for methane storage.
There are 115 wells in the area, and people are reluctant in returning to their homes as there are no guarantees that the other wells are safe.
During the accident, more than 97,100 tons of methane and 7,300 tons of ethane were released in the atmosphere.
Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Aliso Canyon, CH4 emissions, environmental disaster, greenhouse gases, Hyperion spectrometer, methane leak, Methane Leak Seen From Space, nasa
Alaska Wildfires Vicious Circle
June 6, 2016 By Marlene R. Litten
Alaska wildfires are a threat to the ecosystems and they also induce climate changes.
A new study shows that the loss in the carbon storage from Alaska's soil is directly linked to wildfires. The number of local fires has increased because of the changes in the Arctic climate and the rise in temperatures, thus initiating a vicious circle.
The Devastating Effects of Alaska Wildfires
2015 was Alaska's record year in wildfires, as more than 5 million acres were affected by fire.
Carbon stored by trees and soil vegetation is released back into the atmosphere during a fire. Moreover, the burning of the plants exposes the permafrost that lies under and creates damages to the soil.
The conclusion of the recently published study shows that the net carbon balance is dangerously affected by the wildfires.
Forest burns lead to the massive releases of methane and carbon dioxide, which are the main elements involved in climate change.
Every year, the wildfires in Alaska emit more greenhouse gases than all the other fires from the states. The warming temperatures is an important factor that favorites spontaneous fire occurrences in the wild.
Alaska's Flux of Greenhouse Gases
The new geological study analyses the effects of Alaska fires on forests, tundra, and the frozen soil. These natural elements are in turn the primary protectors against climate change.
Alaska's vegetation and soil store more carbon than all the other US states combined, and they can absorb about 3.7 m tones of carbon each year.
Previous studies have already shown that rising temperatures have a negative impact on the carbon storage in soils and on the glaciers size.
Scientists are thus worried about the impact that the warming temperatures, the ground melting, and changes in the streams of the ocean will affect the greenhouse gas exchange and the carbon storage.
Alaska is also one of the high latitude ecosystems which are considered to be more vulnerable when carbon storage is taken into consideration. Average temperatures are thought to be having a more abrupt increase in temperatures in the next 50 years. In this worst case scenario, scientists calculated that by 2100, Alaska may lose a quarter of its frozen soils.
Until now, Alaska wildfires were considered a side effect of climate change, as their number is increased because of the new conditions brought by the warming temperatures.
The new study shows that in fact, the devastating effects of wildfires add up to the conditions that are favorable to climate warming.
This cycle can only lead to the destruction of the area and perpetuates the risks for larger scale climate changes.
Filed Under: Science Tagged With: Alaska Wildfires, Alaska Wildfires Vicious Circle, carbon deposit, climate change, frozen soils, greenhouse gases, warming temperatures
Doomsday Clock Is Ticking; Set At '3-Minutes' To Midnight
January 24, 2015 By Carol Harper
The world is "three minutes" from doomsday.
That is the troubling viewpoint from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Disappointed with a lack of global action to address climate change and shrink atomic arsenals, they chose today (Jan. 22) to push the minute hand of their famous "Doomsday Clock" to 11:57 p.m.
It's the first time the clock hands have moved in 3 years; since 2012, the clock had been fixed at 5 minutes to emblematic doom, midnight.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists doesn't utilize the clock to make any genuine doomsday forecasts. Rather, the clock is a visual symbol to caution people about how close the world is to a potentially civilization ending disaster. Every year, the magazine's board examines to humankind's survival to choose where the Doomsday Clock's hands must be set.
Specialists on the board said they felt a feeling of direness this year because of the world's continuing addiction on fossil fuels, dawdling with authorizing laws to cut greenhouse gas emanations and slow actions to dispose of atomic weapons.
Kennette Benedict, executive director of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said in a news conference this morning in Washington, D.C., "We are not saying it is too late to take action but the window for action is closing rapidly. We move the clock hand today to motivate action."
Sivan Kartha, a senior researcher at the Stockholm Environment Institute said, "If nothing is done to decrease the amount of high-trapping gases like CO2, in the environment, earth could be 5 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit (3 to 8 degrees Celsius) hotter before the end of century."
Some may not feel frightened when they see those numbers; they may usually encounter that sort of temperature swing in the course of a single day, Kartha said. However, he said a temperature increment of that magnitude was enough to bring the world out of the last ice age, and it will be sufficient to "fundamentally change" the Earth's surface later on.
"Nuclear disarmament efforts have 'ground to a halt' and many nations are expanding, not scaling back, their nuclear capabilities. Russia is upgrading its nuclear program, India plans to expand its nuclear submarine fleet, and Pakistan has reportedly started operating a third plutonium reactor, Sharon Squassoni, another board member and director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said.
She said the United States has good oratory on atomic non-proliferation, yet in the meantime is in amidst of a $335 billion upgrade of its atomic system. (That figure appears to originate from a Congressional Budget Office report from December 2013.)
Made in 1947, the Doomsday Clock was initially a symbol of the risk of atomic war. In the interceding years, it now reflect the decreasing supplies of – and mankind's expanding dependence on – fossil fuels, alongside the impact of environmental change, and other experimental revelations with potential for a severe impact on human life.
Initially, the time was set at 11:53pm, or 7 minutes to midnight. The most recent it has ever been was 11:58pm in 1953, when the US and Russia each tried atomic devices inside the space of nine months.
"The likelihood of worldwide calamity is high," the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists conclude, "and the actions required to lessen the threats of catastrophe must be taken soon."
Filed Under: Science Tagged With: atomic weapons, CO2, Doomsday, Doomsday Clock, greenhouse gases, Kennette Benedict, Sivan Kartha, three minutes from doomsday
Study Reveals: Rising Crop Yields Stimulate Global Warming
November 21, 2014 By Cliff Jenkins Scott
It appears to be irrational, however, mounting crop yields really add more carbon dioxide to the environment. Over the recent decades, sustenance generation has expanded pointedly to meet demands for rising populace. As per the recent study directed by researchers at Boston University, expanding crop yields represents as much as 25% of the recurring boost in greenhouse gases.
Crops Acts As Mop
Plants soak up carbon dioxide in spring and summer alter solar energy into food, prompting an exceptional drop in barometric Co2. At the same time that consumed Co2 is discharged once again into the air in the fall and winter, said Chris Kucharik, co-creator of the study and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The study is published in the Nature journal.
It's not that crop yielding is adding more greenhouse gasses to the environment. Rather, crops acts as a mop for Co2. Researchers say the mop has turned a lot bigger, holding and discharging a greater amount of carbon. Global food production is anticipated to twofold in the following 5 decades. The results of the recent study could help analysts enhance atmosphere models and better comprehend Co2 buffering ability of ecological unit.
Link Between Crop Yields & Co2 Increment
It's yet an alternate bit of proof that when people do something at a vast scale, we "significantly impact" the environmental synthesis. In spite of the fact that farmland has expanded practically nothing, crop generation has expanded fundamentally in the most recent 50 years, on account of plant propagation, fertilization developments, and watering system. Cropland records of only 6% of the aggregate green vicinity in the Northern Hemisphere. Yet it is a "prevailing patron" to the half increment in the carbon dioxide regularity cycle.
Among different crops, corn assumes the greatest part in irritating worldwide temperatures, emulated by wheat, rice and soybeans. Researchers said these products assimilate and discharge a billion metric huge amounts of Co2 yearly. Up to this point, mainstream researchers had missed the association between growing crop yields and the sporadic Co2 increment.
Filed Under: Science Tagged With: carbon dioxide, Chris Kucharik, CO2, crop yields, Global warming, greenhouse gases, Mop, Northern hemisphere, rice, soybeans, wheat
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http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/161111/188688 demonstrates one possible application: pasting screenshots taken on a hi-dpi device into a post may make them appear at the wrong size, unless one can add the appropriate dimensions in css pixels.
The iDOT chunk from Apple appears to be the only metadata which could be used to automate such a size tagging. It is not standardized, will be destroyed by image editors, and doesn't seem to cater for non-integer pixel densities.
In any case, image dimensions are a technical detail. Markdown is for writers, rather application and layout logic. Do we really want writers dealing with this additional complexity?
Since the writer is putting an image into the document, you should most definitely give him the ability to control how it is sized. Imagine MS Word not letting you resize or reposition an image in a document because it's "too complex" for the writers "little mind". That's ridiculous!
SOrry, but I just had to rant!
Markdown is quite different from MS Word. Whereas a Word document contains layout, presentation, and content information, Markdown is only used to structure content. This gives Markdown documents the advantage of being independent from how they are presented. Different applications can present the contents of the document in different ways - for example, one application could render the document as a single wide column, another in newspaper style columns. Different layouts may require images within the document to be rendered in different sizes too - for example, a mobile layout will typically require that a smaller version of the image is displayed compared to the layout that is rendered when using a desktop browser.
I think that image dimensions are a presentational concern that do not belong in Markdown.
That said, for power users who want to explictly define additional attributes such as image height and width, we could just use consistent attribute syntax rather than inventing a new syntax specifically for image dimensions.
Markdown is only used to structure content.
I think that's total BS, despite what Gruber sez. Nearly every commonmark code is for presentation only.
Nearly every commonmark code is for presentation only.
CommonMark is meant for expressing meaning. It's declarative. Writing *this is emphasized* doesn't mean "make the words 'this is emphasized' italic". It's up to the consumer of the content to determine how the content and meaning expressed in a commonmark document will be presented.
use HTML, <img src="..." alt="..." width="..." height="..."> is not difficult to write if you want to be explicit.
I definitely recommend #2. CommonMark shouldn't be overly concerned about specific implementation details, and why bother wasting an author's time with information that code can easily detect automatically?
Of course, you may need to do something custom to handle SVG, but that's the beauty of a post-processor. You can make it do whatever you want, or even add parameters to make it have customizable behavior.
Because you can not … eg: retina… a 300x300 image may have the intention of rendering in 100x100 or 150x150. There is no way of conveying this intention short of adding an awkward image tag or non-standard post processor.
a 300x300 image may have the intention of rendering in 100x100 or 150x150. There is no way of conveying this intention short of adding an awkward image tag or non-standard post processor.
You describe a non-standard behavior, and then complain that it may require a post-processing step? If you're going to be providing retina images you ought to be using srcset or <picture>. Once you do that you're going to need additional information anyway, such as where the alternative versions of the images are to be found, and what sizes should be supported.
And who's to say a post-processor can't have its own set of standards? That's the point of separating it out. CommonMark shouldn't be concerned with such things.
And as far as "can not" is concerned, it's trivial to take <img src="/filename.jpg" alt="..."> and convert it to <img src="/filename.jpg" srcset="/filename-2x.jpg 2x" alt="...">. How the file names are mapped to srcset (or <source> elements for <picture>) can be configured from a post-processor, without cluttering up the raw CommonMark source or the CommonMark spec.
It seems to me that images are by definition a presentational concern. It's hard to derive any meaning from them until they are rendered.
It's hard to derive any meaning from them until they are rendered.
I disagree. Images are presentational. Otherwise, why have images in your Markdown? A thousand words or so should suffice.
why have images in your Markdown?
The <img> element must not be used as a layout tool. In particular, img elements should not be used to display transparent images, as such images rarely convey meaning and rarely add anything useful to the document.
A thousand words or so should suffice.
I hope you realize that what you just implied by referencing the idiom "A picture is worth a thousand words" is that an image can be used as a way of expressing meaning, which runs directly counter to your claim that "images are presentational".
So if I put an image in a document because I like the way it enhances something in the document is that a presentational element or is it just supplemental? We could get all lawyerly about the answer but it's kind of silly I think.
The supplemental argument is lost on me. So is the idiom argument.
Content = what's inside the image, plus its title and description.
Presentation = how the image is displayed (including resizing).
Markdown is only used to structure content. This gives Markdown documents the advantage of being independent from how they are presented.
It's a little tricky because the visual content of an image is not included in the Markdown text. But it's still content.
Another way to think about it: the content of the document (potentially) loses meaning if you don't include the image when it is combined with another layout/design. Whereas the content of the document shouldn't lose meaning when images are resized, the font changes, etc, because these concerns are seperate from the meaning of the content.
I'm pretty sure everyone is taking me bit too literal here. I'm simply saying that the nature of images are presentational in that you really can't derive meaning until you render them. I can read text paragraph and understand it without rendering it. Images require rendering unless you put a very detailed description with them (and even then you don't get the full effect). That's what I meant by "1000 words". It's not that it isn't content, it's content that can't be understood well until rendered.
Images (in Markdown) are different than other content. Authors want to position and size them.I find it weird that we're so steadfast against doing this. (Yeah, I realize we're trying to capture what's currently done in Markdown in the first round of the spec).
And yes I know the arguments about keeping content and presentation separate. That's great for those who want to go that way but frankly, most of the Markdown I write would benefit from just a bit of image layout control. Hell, left, center, right would get about 90% of it for me. Instead I'll keep using clever tricks to get images to layout as I want using attribute selectors and such.
I worry that if we start adding custom markup for particular presentational/layout options we'll clutter documents with a lot of special symbols for layout that are hard to understand unless you already know the syntax. Remember Textile? That's the direction CommonMark would be going in if we go down that route. But Markdown has a different philosophy from Textile; it is intended to be read as-is "without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions".
If image dimensions and alignments are granted special syntax, syntax for colours and fonts will be requested next. I feel that that formatting the presentation of particular elements is a special case because (a) we can already do a lot of presentation formatting with rules, and (b) presentation should not necessarily be carried over between applications (mobile layouts in particular are unlikely to use the image alignment information). In cases where particular elements do require extra presentational information, we have raw HTML and the work going into the consistent attribute syntax extension to support these use cases. Because both raw HTML and consistent attribute syntax use plain English for attribute names, the syntax for these attributes is arguably more readable than the formatting symbols used by Textile (if you don't already know the meaning of the symbols).
it is intended to be read as-is "without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions".
I hope everyone would like it! I am myself **a big fan** of it.
To be frank, I think even the current syntax for image is not clear enough for anyone who isn't already familiar to Markdown, not to mention any further "improvement" in this part of spec. Or at least, it should go to "extension" instead of in the spec, and don't force every implementation to implement it before being able to claim that they support CommonMark.
The image syntax is probably the least readable part of Markdown, although it is basically an extension of the link syntax. Images are essentially a type of link where external content is embedded rather than opened by the reader. So I think the same argument applies to the Markdown link syntax.
Since CommonMark is intended to be highly compatible with Markdown, images are unlikely to be changed or removed for the core, but I don't see why a conforming parser couldn't have a "lite mode" that skips images.
To warm up this topic: I still believe this is necessary, despite all the arguments that the CommonMark text should not concern itself with how it is being presented / rendered later. While I agree that specifying exact sizes or HTML attributes into CommonMark is not reasonable, I think that at least a way to express "this image should be scaled to X% of the text width" is IMO necessary to make images in CommonMark even remotely usable. Otherwise the rendering engine has an impossible task: It cannot automatically decide whether an image should be up/down-scaled or included 1:1 just by looking at the image and the output format.
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home > Our Projects > Species at Risk > Insects
The following insects are considered species at risk. If you see any species at risk, please Report your observations to HHLT, or directly to our project biologist, Paul Heaven, Glenside Ecological Services Ltd. Click here to download the Species at Risk Observation Summary Sheet and send it to us (see contact info) or send an email to Paul Heaven, pheaven@glenside-eco.ca
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The Monarch (Danaus plexippus) is categorized as Endangered nationally, and a species of Special Concern provincially.
There are four separate and distinct life stage of the Monarch consisting of egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and adult. The adult Monarch is a large butterfly with predominantly orange wings outlined by a broad black border and two rows of circular white spots. The Monarch caterpillar is striped with alternating white, yellow and black transverse bands, with a pair of black filaments at its head and tail. The Monarch chrysalis is green with a black and metallic gold band, and scattered gold spots.
The eastern Monarch breeds in southern Canada east of the Rockies and migrates to central Mexico to overwinter. In Ontario the Monarch is limited by the range of its main food source, milkweed, which extends throughout southern and central Ontario. Milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) are the sole food source of the Monarch caterpillar and grow in open and periodically disturbed habitats such as roadsides, fields and wetlands. Adult Monarchs feed at milkweed flowers but require other wildflowers for nectar when milkweed is not in bloom. In the County of Haliburton important milkweeds for the Monarch are Common Milkweed and Swamp Milkweed.
Although the primary threat to the Monarch is forest loss and degradation in overwintering areas, the declining abundance of milkweed in Canada is also a significant threat. Milkweed declines have been attributed to the conversion of farmlands to larger and more intensive industrial agriculture use, and the use of herbicide resistant crops.
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After that comes Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who raised $6 million, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar with $5.2 million and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey who raised $5 million. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand raised $3 million, and former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro took in $1.1 million. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper have not said how much they've raised.
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Some new fan art imagines what Christian Bale would look like in the role of Captain Britain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As long as the MCU moves forward, there will continue to be a need to bring in new characters and actors as those of before are left behind. With so many of Marvel's most popular characters already seeing time on the big screen, Marvel Studios will have to start diving into further obscurity when it comes to picking what characters will join the MCU next.
One of these may just be Captain Britain, especially with Kevin Feige saying they've discussed bringing him into the fold thanks to the high level of interest from actors. Should they choose to bring Captain Britain to the big screen, some new fan art imagines what the suit could look like - and what Christian Bale would look like in the role.
BossLogic is back once again with his signature fan art. Following Feige's comments, the artist experimented with Captain Britain's costume. In order to do this, a base model of an actor was necessary, and the end result is former Batman Christian Bale helping bring the character to life.
This design does take liberties with how Captain Britain has traditionally looked on the page. For starters, he is not wearing a head piece, but that could be just so people can see it is Christian Bale here. However, even the pattern of his suit has changed. Instead of the chest piece mirroring Britain's flag, this version only accounts for about half of it. Experimentation with costume designs is always a factor in these films, so should Captain Britain get a big screen chance, it could very well be a departure from what comic readers are used to.
Regardless of the look or one's preference on Bale hypothetically holding this role, it is something that is likely years away from possibly happening. That said, it is one that could make a lot of sense for the studio. It could help the MCU branch out from being so America centric and give them a tentpole franchise for overseas markets. His potential separation from the Avengers stories could allow him to have largely standalone adventures that do not require much crossover, but as a new and unknown franchise, Marvel would likely find a way to have a more notable hero appear in a limited capacity as well.
Stay tuned to Screen Rant for further updates on Captain Britain's potential MCU debut.
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Statute and financing of European political parties
EPP Group in the European Parliament
EU political parties on new, solid ground: transparent, efficient and better representing the citizen's interests
The long-awaited proposal on European political parties has been finalised and adopted by the Constitutional Affairs Committee. The majority of the Committee approved today the report by Mrs Giannakou on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations.
The report underlined that European political parties, as they stand now, cannot fully fulfil their roles. It calls for a common European legal statute for European political parties and their foundations, which would permit them to obtain legal personality under EU law.
After the votes, Rapporteur Marietta Giannakou stressed the importance of the adoption of these proposals in view of the upcoming European elections. "The improvement of the rules on founding and funding EU political parties to increase their visibility, transparency and effectiveness are crucial," she said. Bearing in mind that, from now on, the winning party in the European elections will have the right to put forward their lead candidate as the next European Commission president, the new legislation will offer EU citizens the chance to vote for European political parties with legal personalities, which will represent citizens' interests. "Citizens will be able to get actively involved in political life and the political system more easily, in order to express their opinions and concerns particularly," concluded Mrs Giannakou.
The main novelties of the new regulation are the following:
EU legal statute
The creation of a European legal status for European political parties and political foundations, ensuring high standards of transparency and accountability.
Respecting EU values a necessary condition
Requiring respect of the fundamental principles and values of the EU, as defined in the Treaty on European Union.
More financial flexibility
The maximum donation from natural or legal persons will go up to 18,000 euros, while European political parties will have the opportunity to transfer unused funds to the following year. It should be noted that the regulation will not cause an increase in the share of the EU budget distributed to European political parties. The percentage of co-financing from the EU budget will remain unchanged at 85%.
Stricter sanctions to ensure compliance
The European Parliament and an independent authority would be in charge of assessing compliance with these rules. Parliament would enforce punishments in case of misuse of EU funding, eg. in cases of failure to comply with reporting and transparency requirements or of criminal conviction.
The agreement is scheduled to be adopted during Parliament's April plenary session. The Commission should table a proposal for improving the rules by mid-2018. The regulation is to apply from 1 January 2017.
The EPP Group is by far the largest political group in the European Parliament with 274 Members from 27 Member States.
MEP Contacts
BRU - Tel: +32 (0)2 2845182 Fax: +32 (0)2 2849182
STR - Tel: +33 (0)3 88 175182 Fax: +33 (0)3 88 179182
Email: marietta.giannakou@europarl.europa.eu
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Theodoros Georgitsopoulos
E-mail: theodoros.georgitsopoulos@europarl.europa.eu
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By Matt D'Ambrosi SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Learning a new skill can be fun. But at Hope 4 Us Housing Inc., there's a little more to it than that.
Hope 4 Us Housing offers 90-day training programs that teach participants all sorts of skills in carpentry and construction. These include skills such as proper etiquette on a job site, how to use different types of saws, how to install light fixtures and more.
The overarching goal of the program is to equip participants with the skills they'll need for future employment. But the owner of Hope 4 Us Housing, Lamar Middleton, explained that the program isn't just about developing technical skills.
Middleton said when participants complete the program, he wants them to feel good about themselves even if they come to the realization that construction-related work isn't what they want to do.
Baines, who earned an associate's degree in general studies from Onondaga Community College in 2016, said he wants to try to apply his education before committing to a job in construction.
Regardless, he recognized that what he's learned so far in the program has been valuable.
"Before this class, I was real timid on using my hands to do things, but being in this class, it just makes me feel like now I can just figure things out using my hands," Baines said.
Baines, who attends training on top of working another job acknowledged it's difficult to do both, but said he plans on finishing what he started.
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My uncle likes sports very much. He loves soccer ball, basketball, baseball, tennis and more. He plays baseball and basketball very well. He likes to watch the sports games on TV. He plays sports every day. He has a small(小的) sports collection. He has 3 tennis rackets, 2 baseballs, 3 basketballs and a soccer ball.
(F)1. My uncle doesn't like sports, but he has a sports collection.
(T)2. He plays baseball and basketball very well.
(F)4. He watches TV and plays sports every day.
(T)5. His collection is small: 3 tennis rackets, 2 baseballs, 3 basketballs and a soccer ball.
It is Sunday afternoon. Mary goes to do the shopping with her mother. Her mother wants to buy some food for supper. Mary wants to buy a new skirt and some school things. They come to a shop.
"What does your shop sell?" Mary asks, "A lot of things." The girl in the shop says. "You can buy food, drinks, clothes in our shop and school things, too."
Mary and her mother go in. There are many people in the shop. Mary finds a nice white skirt. "How much is the skirt?" Mary asks the girl in the shop.
"That's too dear. Can I find a cheap one?"
"What about the green one? It looks nice. And it's only thirty Yuan."
After that, Mary buys some school things, too. Her mother buys a lot of food, like bread, cakes, meat and fish. They get home very late.
(D)1. Mary goes to do the shopping with her mother on ________.
(C)3. The white skirt is _____.
(B)4. Mary buys a _________ skirt.
(B)5. The green skirt is ___________.
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Q: In Divergent, why can people choose their faction after the test? In Divergent, Tris was assigned to Abnegation by her test results, but she picked Dauntless.
That sort of gives away that she is a Divergent, right? That's supposed to be secret. Doesn't the government know that her test results don't match her faction choice?
The plot resolves around powerful people trying to hunt Divergents. Yet we have a bunch of people choosing different factions than their test results. Kind of strange that those people aren't suspected to be Divergent.
Also, why are people actually allowed to choose anyway?
A: The test determines aptitude. Choice is separate
The purpose of the test is to determine which faction is the best fit for an individual. Although people usually choose the faction that their parents are in, and even more frequently choose the faction determined by their test results (most of whom, yes, are probably Divergent).
As to why people can choose at all, why not let them choose? The system may have been oppressive and manipulated by outside forces, but they weren't trying to stifle every spark of individuality and choice. Quite the opposite, in fact: producing more Divergent was a major goal of the program.
Why didn't the government suspect that Tris was Divergent?
Well, first, it's not really the government that one would have to worry about, since most of them are Abnegation, and Tris's parents occupy important positions therein. It's more about whether Erudite's leader suspects.
After all:
She is the danger Tori and my mother warned me about, the danger of
being Divergent. Sitting right in front of me.
—Divergent
And she most certainly did:
"Correct. The aptitude test is by far my greatest achievement as a
scientist," she replies. "I looked up your test results, Beatrice.
Apparently there was a problem with your test. It was never recorded,
and your results had to be reported manually. Did you know that?"
"No."
"Did you know that you're one of two people ever to get an Abnegation
result and switch to Dauntless?"
—Divergent
She was suspicious for exactly the reason you mentioned.
The other, of course, was Tobias. This is a very small number, and Jeanine almost certainly suspected that both were Divergent.
I understand only one thing: She is lying to me. She doesn't care
about the technology—she suspects that something is awry with my test
results. Just like the Dauntless leaders, she is sniffing around for
the Divergent. And if my mother wants Caleb to research the simulation
serum, it is probably because Jeanine developed it.
—Divergent
A: The test is actually just a test that lets you know which faction you would be most suited for, and only one aptitude is allowed, to identify the Divergent, which would be for the benefit of the people outside of the factions and Jeanine Matthews. This means that it is not the Harry Potter world, where something tells you that you have to go to a certain group.
The aptitude test finds out this information by putting you through a series of virtual situations where your choice affects you result. You are told which faction you are best suited to, and then you are supposed to go home and do some thinking about the test and your future faction.
"Our father had to work late," Susan says, "and he told us we should spend some time thinking
before the ceremony tomorrow."
"Good," he says. "I'm sure you have some thinking to do. You should go to your room."
And people are allowed to choose, because humans have the right to pursue happiness, which means getting in with the crowd that you will most likely not become factionless because of. Wouldn't you want a choice?
The government didn't suspect anything because of her choice (but they suspected something because of her results, alright), because choosing a faction other than you aptitude test result is not limited to the Divergent. Choosing another faction just means that you want to join a certain faction. It does not mean that you necessarily have the aptitude for it. For example, if a non-Divergent got Abnegation but chose Dauntless, if would just mean that the non-Divergent wants to be in Dauntless.
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Secret US Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
October 5, 2007 in Alberto Gonzales, CIA, Corruption, Department of Justice, George W. Bush, Government, Iran, Iraq, Politics, Power, The War, This Administration, Threat to America, Torture, Unbelievable, War Crimes, War on Terror
By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen in Washington
Reports of unacceptable interrogation techniques led to a shake up in policy and staff at the Justice Department in 2004. After Alberto Gonzales' arrival, the public started hearing things had changed, but new reports claim that things remained the same — or worsened.
When the Justice Department publicly declared torture "abhorrent" in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations.
But soon after Alberto R. Gonzales's arrival as attorney general in February 2005, the Justice Department issued another opinion, this one in secret. It was a very different document, according to officials briefed on it, an expansive endorsement of the harshest interrogation techniques ever used by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The new opinion, the officials said, for the first time provided explicit authorization to barrage terror suspects with a combination of painful physical and psychological tactics, including head-slapping, simulated drowning and frigid temperatures.
Mr. Gonzales approved the legal memorandum on "combined effects" over the objections of James B. Comey, the deputy attorney general, who was leaving his job after bruising clashes with the White House. Disagreeing with what he viewed as the opinion's overreaching legal reasoning, Mr. Comey told colleagues at the department that they would all be "ashamed" when the world eventually learned of it.
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FBI Raids DoJ Attorney's Home in Search for Warantless Wiretap Information Leaker
August 6, 2007 in Alberto Gonzales, Corruption, Department of Justice, Executive Privilege, George W. Bush, Politics, The Constitution, U.S. Attorneys
From The Raw Story:
As Newsweek reports in its August 13 issue, the FBI has used a secret warrant to raid the home of former Justice Department lawyer Thomas M. Tamm, taking three computers and personal files.
The government is searching for the individual who leaked information about President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program to the press, prompting a New York Times report in 2005. Mr. Tamm worked for the Justice Department during a period in 2004 when critics of the program included then Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller. Tamm is said to have shared concern, but whether or not he was actively protesting is unknown.
The FBI raid on Tamm's home comes when Gonzales himself is facing criticism for allegedly misleading Congress by denying there had been "serious disagreement" within Justice about the surveillance program. The A.G. last week apologized for "creating confusion," but Senate Judiciary Committee chair Sen. Patrick Leahy said he is weighing asking Justice's inspector general to review Gonzales's testimony.
The raid also came while the White House and Congress were battling over expanding NSA wiretapping authority in order to plug purported "surveillance gaps." James X. Dempsey of the Center for Democracy and Technology said the raid was "amazing" and shows the administration's misplaced priorities: using FBI agents to track down leakers instead of processing intel warrants to close the gaps. A Justice spokesman declined to comment.
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Q: Disable Specific Keys in IE 6 I need to disable specific keys (Ctrl and Backspace) in Internet Explorer 6. Is there a registry hack to do this. It has to be IE6. Thanks.
Long Edit:
@apandit: Whoops. I need to more specific about the backspace thing. When I say disable backspace, I mean disable the ability for Backspace to mimic the Back browser button. In IE, pressing Backspace when the focus is not in a text entry field is equivalent to pressing Back (browsing to the previous page).
As for the Ctrl key. There are some pages which have links which create new IE windows. I have the popup blocker turned on, which block this. But, Ctrl clicking result in the new window being launched.
This is for a kiosk application, which is currently a web based application. Clients do not have the funds at this time to make their site kiosk friendly. Things like URL filtering and disabling the URL entry field is already done.
Thanks.
A: For what purpose do you need this? Because disabling the backspace would be hell for typing urls or emails, etc.
We could recommend other workarounds if we knew the problem better.
EDIT 1:
This website seems to have some information as to how it's done. I can't verify it currently, but I'll look into it:
http://www.ozzu.com/programming-forum/disable-key-and-back-t44867.html
Edit 2:
This website has some key codes:
http://www.advscheduler.com/docs/manual/type_sendkeys.html
It seems BACKSPACE is 08.
EDIT 3:
Found some more code for blocking, check this out:
<script type="text/javascript">var sType = "keypress";</script>
<!--[if IE]>
<script type="text/javascript">sType = "keydown";</script>
<![endif]-->
<script type="text/javascript">
fIntercept = function(e) {
// alert(e.keyCode);
e = e || event.e;
if (e.keyCode == 116) {
// When F5 is pressed
fCancel(e);
} else if (e.ctrlKey && (e.keyCode == 0 || e.keyCode == 82)) {
// When ctrl is pressed with R
fCancel(e);
}
};
fCancel = function(e) {
if (e.preventDefault) {
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
} else {
e.keyCode = 0;
e.returnValue = false;
e.cancelBubble = true;
}
return false;
};
fAddEvent = function(obj, type, fn) {
if (obj.addEventListener) {
obj.addEventListener(type, fn, false);
} else {
obj['e'+type+fn] = fn;
obj[type+fn] = function() {
obj['e'+type+fn](window.event);
}
obj.attachEvent('on'+type, obj[type+fn]);
}
};
fAddEvent(document, sType, fIntercept);
</script>
Ok, now you should have all you need to do it. To disable backspace, the keycode is 08. You can probably just use the code I posted with slight modifications only... :\
Try it out and see if it's what you needed. (I hope you know how to use Javascript.)
A: You can't do it from a web page. One of the main purposes of a web browser is to protect users from the internet. They define a very specific set of things that web sites can do, and disabling buttons isn't in the list.
On the other hand, if you're a network admin and just want to mess with your users, you might be able to do it via some desktop software. But I wouldn't hold my breath.
A: I'm using this jQuery solution (tested on ie6 and firefox 3.6):
$(document).keydown(function(e) {
var tag = e.target.tagName;
var ro = e.target.readOnly;
var type = e.target.type;
var tags = {
INPUT : '',
TEXTAREA : ''
};
if (e.keyCode == 8) {// backspace
if (!(tag in tags && !ro && /text/.test(type))) {
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
}
}
});
hope it helps someone
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We had a great Bug Day for the Translate Toolkit.
Where's the beautiful Nivo from Ndiyo?
In about May I read about Ndiyo, a non-profit that's making ultra-thin clients called Nivo (Network-In, Video-Out). They're basically designing an FPGA that can support VNC or RDP and so creates a tiny little box that has a network connection, keyboard and mouse connectors, and a VGA out. Some of the team are the original VNC developers, which must help.
SessionSaver is the most useful extension I know of for Firefox, and it's surprising it doesn't have a real home - it seems it gets passed from person to person to fix things up for different releases.
Basically it records the set of windows and tabs you have open in Firefox (including the history etc) so that if you quit or the browser crashes, they can be restored on startup (you can also save named sessions and switch between them). (It stores this in prefs.js which is arguably not the best for performance but seems to work fine without corruption).
Now, I just crashed my X server for some inexplicable reason. Which led me to think again to myself, I wish I had a SessionSaver for Konsole. I tend to use both Firefox and Konsole as task lists - web pages I must look at / process, shell operations I'm busy doing.
A long time ago I coded up a Python program to periodically dump the different tabs open in Konsole along with the processes running in them, current directories and open files. The idea being you can run this in a cron job and at least be able to see what was happening if Konsole crashes rather than losing track.
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Restaurateur Keith McNally's latest venture is set to be as sainted as his legendary Balthazar.
When Augustine opened this past winter, the timing could not have been more ideal. Located in the renovated Beekman hotel in Manhattan's Financial District, the Francophile restaurant is entirely in sync with a recent rise in the popularity of classic French cooking. But that was to be expected. Restaurateur Keith McNally has been opening Left Bank–worthy brasseries across New York for decades, from Balthazar to Pastis, and Augustine (augustineny.com) is the ultimate expression of his expertise. The setting—mosaic and art nouveau tiles, distressed mirrors, wrought-iron chandeliers, leather banquettes, and a burnished gold ceiling that glows—feels distinctly upscale bistro. The menu is a master class in French technique perfected. Executive chefs Shane McBride and Daniel Parilla call their leg of lamb and duck à l'orange—each slice of bird seamed by a golden ribbon of crispy skin—house favorites. But you won't want to miss the cheese soufflé, an airy cloud of Gruyère, Parmesan, and horseradish fondue; or the refreshing avocado-and-crab salad enlivened by a grapefruit vinaigrette. For dessert, the textbook tarte Tatin is proof enough that the French table, and McNally's passion, will never go out of fashion.
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In some tales, parasitic organisms cause zombification by killing their hosts and reanimating their corpses. In this case, zombies also prey on the living and their bite causes an infection that kills.
In either scenario, this causes the outbreak to become an exponentially growing crisis: the spreading "zombie plague" swamps law enforcement organizations, the military and health care services, leading to the panicked collapse of civil society until only isolated pockets of survivors remain. Basic services such as piped water supplies and electrical power shut down, mainstream mass media cease broadcasting, and the national government of affected countries collapses or goes into hiding. The survivors usually begin scavenging for food, weapons and other supplies in a world reduced to a mostly pre-industrial hostile wilderness. There is usually a 'safe zone' where the non-infected can seek refuge and begin a new era.
"When Zombies Attack!" (2009)[13]
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The Zombie Institute for Theoretical Studies (ZITS) is a program through the University of Glasgow. It is headed by Dr. Austin. Dr. Austin is a character that has been created by the university to be the face of ZITS. The ZITS team is dedicated to using real science to explain what could be expected in the event of an actual zombie apocalypse. Much of their research is used to disprove common beliefs about the zombie apocalypse as shown in popular media. They have published one book (Zombie Science 1Z) and give public "spoof" lectures on the subject.[14]
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The CDC also published a graphic novel, Zombie Pandemic, alongside a series of related articles.[16]
In the unclassified document titled "CONOP 8888," officers from U.S. Strategic Command used a zombie apocalypse scenario as a training template for operations, emergencies and catastrophes, as a tool to teach cadets about the basic concepts of military plans and disaster preparation using its admittedly outlandish premise.
In the unclassified document titled "CONOP 8888," officers from U.S. Strategic Command used a zombie apocalypse scenario as a training template for operations, emergencies and catastrophes, as a tool to teach cadets about the basic concepts of military plans and disaster preparation using its admittedly outlandish premise. [17][18]
On October 17, 2011, The Weather Channel published an article, "How To Weather the Zombie Apocalypse" that included a fictional interview with a Director of Research at the CDD, the "Center for Disease Development".[19] Based on a seasonal attraction in the Atlanta area called The Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, Weather.com interviews "Dr. Dale Dixon" (subtle references to characters in AMC's "The Walking Dead") asking questions about how different weather conditions affect zombies abilities.[20] Questions answered include "How does the temperature affect zombies' abilities? Do they run faster in warmer temperatures? Do they freeze if it gets too cold?"[19]
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Barbarians Season 2 Release Date, Cast, & Plot
November 19, 2020 November 19, 2020 by Kimberly Hicks
Netflix's Barbarians or Barbaren will be coming back for its second season real soon.
Undoubtedly, producing period series such as this, Vikings, and Tudors takes a lot of work and research. It is also a risky move for networks to produce them because the chances of getting a lot of flak for theatrics can be taken as something offensive. As for Barbarians, it has gained the audience the show needs to be renewed for more seasons faster than producers expected.
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Netflix originally intended the show to be a mini-series instead of something more long term but if the audience demands it, so it shall be done!
Plot of Barbarians Season 2
As of now, we do not have any information regarding what's going to happen in the show's second season and we're also anticipating that it's going to take a while. Especially with the global pandemic.
Usually possible plotlines are released closer to the release date of the upcoming season so let's hang in there to see what the gods have in store for our favorite savages.
Although if you're fond of history, you would know that the Battle of Teutoburg Forest played a major role on the Roman conquest. It left the barbarians with little moves to make but given that there isn't much literature on what they did to save their culture, this leaves an opening for a lot of possible intriguing options for the show's producers to take.
Expounding on how the anti-Roman alliance Varus proposes to Maroboduss (king of Marcomanni) is certainly a storyline we're pretty sure Netflix will explore.
The Cast of Barbarians Season 2
Although there were a lot of killing in season one, we are hoping that we still get to see more of the main cast. Especially now that Thusnelda who is played by Jeanne Goursaud is pregnant.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGnFQQuFNmi/
Laurence Rupp as Arminius
Jeanne Goursaud as Thusnelda
David Schutter as Folkwin Wolfspeer
Bernhard Schutz as Segestes
Gaetano Aronica as Varus
Jeremy Miliker as Ansgar
Eve Verena Muller as Irmina
Nikolai Kinski as Pelagios
So, When Will Be Barbarians Season 2 Be Released?
The Netflix show has been renewed for a second season so that means more action-packed, bloodthirsty episodes for all of us! However, we are assuming that with the ongoing pandemic, filming and production wouldn't be able to start until 2021.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGuR9uslDbL/
Which only brings us to the best possible scenario, we might be seeing Barbarians Season 2 by 2022.
Where Can I Watch the New Episodes of Barbarians When They Air?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHaWAZwqwgr/
As of writing, you can only stream Barbarians on Netflix. However, we are hoping that they branch out to other streaming platforms.
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The spring 2018 edition of Night Visions International Film Festival wrapped up with a blast in Helsinki on Sunday, April 22nd. The biggest festival in Scandinavia focusing on (but not limited to) fantasy, horror, science fiction and action cinema conquered a total of five screens in the Finnish capital for five consecutive days. The audience was introduced to 31 feature films and a handful of shorts in a total of 64 screenings.
The biggest hits of the festival included Justin MacGregor's Best F(r)iends (USA 2018), reuniting Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero on the big screen after 15 years, Jeremy Dyson's and Andy Nyman's London Film Festival hit Ghost Stories (UK 2017) and the festival's opener You Were Never Really Here (UK / France / USA 2017) by Lynne Ramsay.
Out of the retro selection, the best performers were the scifi horrors Remote Control (1988) and Squirm (1976) by the director-screenwriter-producer Jeff Lieberman, who also presented all of his screenings in person to the Night Visions audience. Remote Control and Squirm were now also shown for the first time ever on the big screen in Finland.
In conjunction with the closing, Night Visions also announced the dates of its fall 2018 edition of the festival. The next edition of Scandinavia's biggest genre bash will take place in Helsinki, Finland from November 21st to November 25th, 2018.
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Home / Biography / PAWS
Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, PAWS (all hats) certainly are a trio who also play indie rock and roll with punky ferocity and an extraordinary knack for pop hooks. Phillip Taylor, Josh Swinney, and Matt Scott created like a cabin studio room project and began documenting at their 1st practice session. Carrying out a little operate of cassettes and a break up 7″ solitary for Edinburgh-based Gerry Loves Information, PAWS released their Mermaid EP and continued to tour for some of 2010. Their debut recording, Cokefloat!, premiered on NOUVEAU RICHE BUSINESSMAN Information in 2012. The record was well received from the music press, and their following weighty touring in the U.S. and European countries — alongside famous brands Japandroids, Bleached, the Breeders, and Ty Segall — amassed an ardent and loyal group of fans by 2013. Then they parted methods with bassist Matt Scott, and Ryan Drever was recruited to fill up the vacant space. Later on in 2013, the trio journeyed to upstate NY, where they documented their sophomore recording at Mice Parade-founder Adam Pierce's house studio room. Titled Youth Tradition Forever, the record premiered in 2014. It continued to receive extremely reviews that are positive and produced many end-of-year lists aswell to be nominated for the Scottish Recording of the entire year award. The music group toured European countries and THE UNITED STATES extensively to market the discharge, including a well-documented schedule-clash with previous Smiths frontman Morrissey. Completed in the summertime 2015 however, not released until 2016, their third work, No Elegance, boasted the creation skills of blink-182's Tag Hoppus.
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Michigan RB Edwards brushes off hand injury
4:29 PM ET Paolo UggettiESPN Michigan running back Donovan Edwards appears all set to continue his streak of breakout
games ahead of the Wolverines'College Football Playoff semifinal match against TCU.The sophomore running back suffered a concealed hand injury against Nebraska previously this season and has been playing
in a cast ever since. On Tuesday, as Michigan practiced on website in Arizona, Edwards was seen in a smaller cast on his right hand. "Ain't absolutely nothing to it." Edwards stated on Thursday when asked how he has played at a high level through the injury."Like, I currently understand how unique
I am. The whole mindset of this season has been that everyone's got to produce. "The sophomore averted questions about his hurt hand, even declining to take it out of his sweatshirt pocket and joked that those around him could not state for certain whether he was using a
cast or not. His colleagues, nevertheless, are not fretted about his status for the game or what kind of efficiency he'll produce come Saturday."He hasn't missed out on a beat,"offensive lineman Ryan Hayes said. "I think absolutely nothing would keep him out of the game. He could quickly sit out with what he's started on, but no, he hasn't missed out on a beat. He's gon na be the exact same. "< img src ="https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/photo/2022/1030/r1083237_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center"width="65 "height="
65″/ > Edwards'function has expanded throughout this season, in large part because of the injury to star running back Blake Corum. After Corum was restricted in the game against Ohio State and eventually eliminated for the season due to the fact that of knee surgery, Edwards ran for 401 combined lawns in wins over the Buckeyes and Purdue in the Huge Ten title game.
"You want to speak about huge games?" Wolverines coach Jim Harbaugh said earlier this month. "This man comes alive in the huge games."
The 6-foot-1, 204-pound Edwards is averaging 7.5 backyards a bring this season and has seven touchdowns along with carries of 60 and 85 yards in his previous 2 games. His performance has actually permitted Michigan to keep its run-first identity in spite of losing a potential Heisman Prize contender.And for a second-year player simply striking his stride, Edwards does not do not have much self-confidence either."Everyone understood what I can considering that I got here,"Edwards said."I'm a positive individual … There's no one in the nation that can do just about half the things I can do. "
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New Rogue One: A Star Wars Story-Inspired Offerings Hit Disney's Hollywood Studios
Posted by Mickey News | Dec 18, 2016 | Walt Disney World Resort News | 0 |
Just as Rogue One: A Star Wars Story officially opened in theaters, several exciting offerings inspired by this new film will also debut to the delight of guests at Disney's Hollywood Studios!
First, AWR Troopers from the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story will debut at Disney's Hollywood Studios in a new scene in the park's existing "Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away" daytime show. AWR (Advanced Weapons Research) Troopers are encased in specialized Stormtrooper armor, and serve as the bodyguards and enforcers of Director Krennic of the AWR division of the Empire.
The park's Star Wars Launch Bay was also updated with new props from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," including a Shoretrooper Blaster, Director Krennic's Imperial Shuttle, a Death Star model, a U-wing gunship and more. Making-of footage has also been added to the the behind-the-scenes film in Launch Bay Theater.
Guests visiting Star Wars Launch Bay at either Disney's Hollywood Studios or Disneyland park in California on December 16 and until supplies last only may receive a complimentary Rogue One: A Star Wars Story button.
Starting tonight, "Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular," will return to the park. (The show will join the nightly holiday "Jingle Bell, Jingle BAM!" as a second nightly fireworks spectacular at the park now through December 31).
Please check the park entertainment schedule for showtimes during your visit for more information on any of these offerings.
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Those who use a computer mouse with their left hand will be happy to know that common keyboard shortcuts like cut, copy and paste have alternatives on the right side of the keyboard.
These keyboard shortcuts will work on Windows, Gnome and KDE. These were the only shortcuts for southpaws I found on the web (another commonly suggested one was Alt+Backspace, but that doesn't seem to work any more). If you know of any more right-handed alternatives to common keyboard shortcuts, share them below!
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We are excited to announce a hands-on workshop on using data management tools. It will take place in Oslo, 6th and 7th of November. Participants from DLN projects and the DLN research school will be prioritized.
Managing your data well is an important research skill. Good data management enables the preparation, handling, storing, sharing, and reuse of data. These attributes of good data management equates to efficient research and saving of time and resources. Data management tools and best practices can help to make your research data and models FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable).
The two-day workshop will combine both presentations and hands-on sessions. It will provide researchers with practical skills about the data management tools SEEK, Exdir and NeLS.
Day 1 (6. Nov; 10-16): SEEK, is a web-based (or locally installed) resource platform for managing and sharing scientific research datasets and models in your project and with the community after publication. It is based on the ISA format; Investigation, Study, Assay and is flexible in terms of the type of data stored. You can point to local data storage while keeping the metadata or smaller derived data sets in SEEK. Both basic use and more advanced features of SEEK will be covered.
Day 2 (7. Nov; 9-16): Exdir is a novel, open specification for data storage in experimental pipelines. Exdir shares the same abstractions as HDF5 (a widely used data format in science) by organizing data in groups and datasets with associated metadata. However, Exdir improves on the drawbacks of HDF5's complex single-binary-file format by instead storing everything in a hierarchy in the file system. Exdir stores human-readable metadata in YAML files and binary data in plain NumPy files. This allows for manual modification of the hierarchy and metadata. A demonstration of the Exdir and its Python API will be shown.
NeLS (Norwegian e-infrastructure for Life Sciences) is an infrastructure providing storage, data sharing and analysis tools. NeLS connects to the national data storage platform NorStore, allowing long term storage. The integration of NeLS with Galaxy will also be shown. Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for accessible, reproducible, and transparent computational biological research, that allows computational workflows to be set up and used, without the need of programming skills. Using Galaxy in NeLS makes it easy to document the processing and analysis of your data.
We are collaborating with FAIRDOM and ELIXIR.no to link SEEK and NeLS. The SEEK and NeLS integration work will also be mentioned.
Trainers from the FAIRDOM Hub in Manchester, from ELIXIR Norway and Centre for Integrative Neuroplasticity of the University of Oslo will guide you through the activities. The workshop is free to attend, including lunch both days and dinner on the 6th of Nov. We have set the limitation to 30 participants, so be quick! If you have questions about the workshop, contact fatemeh.ghavidel@uib.no or rune.kleppe@uib.no. Contact liv.falkenberg@ntnu.no for questions related to the DLN Research School.
Link to registration – the deadline is set to 28. Oct, but first-come, first-served apply.
Link to application for travel grant (DLN research school members only).
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Q: Get JSON value from BASH CURL Response with Python I am having a problem parsing a JSON response to 2 variables in BASH. I dont have access to install jq or jsawk or anything cool that makes life easier. I have python, thats all.
This is what I'm working with: I have a curl call that gets a JSON response. The response is stored in a variable called api_response.
API_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "MY-Token: $Token" -XPOST -d "$INPUTS" ${MY_BASE}$MY_PROCESS${PROCESS})
this variable essentially is the value of the response from the api
[{"name":"test-name1", "value" : "test-value1"},{"name" : "test-name2","value" : "test-value2"}]
In the past, I had only need to get a single value from the response and was able to do that using the following
API_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "MY-Token: $Token" -XPOST -d "$INPUTS" ${MY_BASE}$MY_PROCESS${PROCESS} | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)[1]['value'])
[outputs]
test-value2
I was trying to extract to two JSON values from the single variable API_RESPONSE but I get an error doing it this way.
API_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "MY-Token: $Token" -XPOST -d "$INPUTS" ${MY_BASE}$MY_PROCESS${PROCESS})
myvar1=$($API_RESPONSE | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)[0]['value']")
myvar2=$($API_RESPONSE | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)[1]['value']")
I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 267, in load
parse_constant=parse_constant, **kw)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/__init__.py", line 307, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 319, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/json/decoder.py", line 338, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
The variable api_response is the same data that was working before. Why would it work with a curl call and not from variable?
A: I figured it out with help from a friend.
When going from bash variable to python sys.stdin, a bash variable needs to be redirected by SOME action to the python sys.stdin.
With the curl execution piping output to the python sys.stdin it would work because the output was being redirected to python. But once I had the entire response stored in the variable within bash, the next step was to echo the output and redirect to python.
[json response]
[{"name":"test-name1", "value" : "test-value1"},{"name" : "test-name2","value" : "test-value2"}]
[code block]
API_RESPONSE=$(curl --silent -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "MY-Token: $Token" -XPOST -d "$INPUTS" ${MY_BASE}$MY_PROCESS${PROCESS})
myvar1=$( echo $API_RESPONSE | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)[0]['value']")
myvar2=$( echo $API_RESPONSE | python -c "import sys, json; print json.load(sys.stdin)[1]['value']")
echo $myvar1
echo $myvar2
[outputs]
test-value1
test-value2
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY (CBSDW.COM) – Some thieves in Texas may have been trying to prepare for a holiday feast… the hard way!
Officials came across a meat mother load in what began with a traffic stop for littering.
It happened over the weekend when deputy constables in Montgomery County, just north of the Houston area, pulled over a driver after seeing someone throw an aluminum can out a window.
The driver of the car was still being cited for "messing with Texas" when workers at a nearby Kroger store reported a theft. Employees had taken down the license plate of the vehicle that fled from the store with more than $1,000 worth of meat.
It turns out that plate was the same as the one being driven by the alleged litterbug.
After getting consent to search the vehicle, a Sergeant found pounds and pounds of meat — including a roast in the glovebox and a t-bone steak under the driver's seat — pork, shrimp, Glade air fresheners other items from the Kroger.
There was also meat, in containers, in the backseat and trunk.
The 52-year-old passenger in the vehicle was arrested for felony theft, a charge elevated because the man had a previous theft convictions.
The $1,188 worth of meat and goods was returned to Kroger.
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3) In Costa Rica, there is no restriction to property ownership by foreigners.
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Anderson Valley Brewing Company is adding a sales position in the Northern California region. The Area Sales Manager will work with AVBC management and assigned distributors to achieve company goals. Details for job duties; responsibilities and qualifications are listed below.
Responsible for managing and maintaining proper inventory levels.
Responsible for meeting or exceeding all sales goals.
Responsible for developing a relationship with distributor management and employees.
Responsible for setting up, attending, and overseeing various promotions in assigned sales territory (bar promos, beer festivals, off-premise store promos, etc.).
Responsible for establishing new business in on-premise and off-premise accounts.
Responsible for fostering relationships with existing key on-premise and off-premise retailers.
Responsible for working with distributor employees to capitalize on sales and distribution opportunities.
Responsible for planning and participating in regular distributor sales meetings (general sales meetings, regional breakout meetings, etc.).
Multiple years of sales experience in the beverage industry (distributor and brewery experience) preferred.
Prior knowledge of Anderson Valley Brewing Company and AVBC beers preferred.
Detail oriented, possessing excellent communication skills.
Ability to accomplish multiple tasks with reasonable time management.
Ability to analyze sales data (experience with VIP - iDIG preferred).
Ability to develop and execute a market plan, an incentive plan, and sales plans.
Reliable vehicle, with up to date insurance required.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Power Point, and Word.
Is comfortable participating in social media, i.e. Twitter, Facebook, etc.
We are seeking a candidate that is highly motivated, a self-starter, organized, energetic, and passionate about craft beer. A flexible schedule is a must, as candidates will be required to travel throughout the assigned territory in Northern California. Responsibilities will include evening and weekend sales and events. Candidate must also be able to lift cases and draft containers.
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The inspirational, charismatic and creative Literacy educator Pie Corbett will explore with delegates developing poetry, storytelling and writing through the Arts e.g paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs.
9.30 am Registration and refreshments.
Talk by Anne Cutler, Director of Learning at Tate about it's work and engagement with schools.
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Reading images, creative games and writing poetry.
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Promote first class out of school learning opportunities.
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Demonstrating quality teacher / pupils interactive strategies and activities.
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