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Rachel Bhattacharya manages a side of the Maven business that sets the company apart from other automotive shared service offerings. Rachel oversees the company's business-to-business operations including the Lyft Express Drive program, the recent Uber partnership and future business use-cases of the Maven platform.
In addition to managing existing program operations, Rachel and her team are focused on refining a new, inclusive platform that will allow different businesses to use Maven vehicles for a variety of transportation needs. Her work includes optimizing services for the deployment of the Chevrolet Bolt EV, the only electric vehicle with enough range for ridesharing needs.
As GM and other automakers prepare for an autonomous future, Rachel's team also focuses on using Maven's commercial offerings as a method to pave the way for autonomous fleet operations.
Rachel describes herself as "not a car person, but a mobility person." Embodying an entrepreneurial spirit, she focuses on sustainability and cultural improvements on a large scale. She has a passion for revitalizing cities and urban centers, and bringing transportation solutions to areas where options are limited. She sees Maven a critical enabler to round out GM's product and service portfolio.
Prior to Maven, Rachel worked in Strategy on GM's Corporate Development and Global M&A team. Rachel joined GM from a position at Starbucks in Global Corporate Strategy, coming from a prior consulting role with Bain & Company. She received her BA in Architectural Studies and minored in Urban Planning at the University of Washington. She received her MBA at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—Kenan Flagler Business School.
Outside of work, Rachel is interested in design, specifically small space architectural design and jewelry design. These interests come second to her family: her husband and two-year-old son.
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Everyone who was on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School campus during the Feb. 14 mass shootings will be eligible to receive a share of the victims' fund created by the Broward Education Foundation.
That decision is in a final plan for distribution of the Stoneman Douglas Victims' Fund, which so far totals $8.2 million from more than 36,000 donors.
How much money each person will receive won't be decided until after June 30, once the number of eligible recipients and the total amount of donations are known, said Jeff Dion, director of the National Compassion Fund, which will administer the distribution.
The money was raised through the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.com, as well as outside fundraising activities such as benefit concerts, employer campaigns, and pledges by retail establishments to donate shares of purchase prices.
About 3,200 students were on campus the day of the shootings, according to Broward County Public Schools records. Also eligible will be about 225 staff members who work at the school, including teachers, custodians, food service workers and administrators.
Those eligible must apply through the NationalCompassionFund.org website by May 31. Applicants will be verified through attendance records.
Anyone else who was on campus during the shootings.
Within each category, all eligible recipients will receive equal amounts of money, Dion said. But no decisions have been made about how much money will be allocated to each category beyond that "the highest category" of payment will go to the designated representative of the 17 people who died.
The money will be given as a gift with no strings attached, the steering committee has said.
The distribution formula is patterned after others developed by the National Compassion Fund after the Las Vegas concert shooting in October 2017, the Pulse nightclub shootings in Orlando in June 2016, and others.
Parents, students and teachers still dealing with the trauma of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings are going to need long-term treatment if they're to have a chance at reclaiming normalcy.
Initially, Dion and the committee proposed requiring victims who were not inside the 1200 building to prove they had sought mental health treatment.
But at three town hall meetings held last month over the distribution plan, students, parents and teachers from the school urged the committee to open eligibility to victims who sought help from school counselors, clergy members or other non-traditional sources, even if they couldn't prove it by producing an invoice.
The decision to include everyone on campus during the shooting stemmed from "the fact everyone on that campus had some degree of mental anguish," LeMieux said by phone on Tuesday.
Also, unlike victims of the Orlando and Las Vegas shootings, Stoneman Douglas victims had to return to the scene of the crime, LeMieux said.
"We were particularly influenced by the observation that in other mass-shootings, victims are not asked to regularly return to the scene of such a traumatic experience," LeMieux wrote in an introduction to the final plan. "Yet in this instance, unless a teacher or student is willing to separate themselves from their friends, community, and support system, we are asking them to return to this school for periods ranging from a few months to several years.
Which survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting should be considered victims of traumatic — but non-physical — injury could prove vexing for a committee deciding how to split millions of dollars donated for victims.
The National Compassion Fund was created after victims and families from past mass casualty crimes, such as the attacks at Columbine High School in Colorado and Virginia Tech, complained about delays and unreasonable requirements imposed by stewards of money raised in their names.
Success of each distribution effort assisted by the compassion fund isn't measured by how much money is created or distributed, but by "whether 100 percent of what's collected goes to victims and it's distributed in a fair and transparent way," Dion said.
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The Taliban banned girls from attending school in Afghanistan in 1996. Though the group was ousted in 2001, its legacy remains a powerful force. Today, approximately 2 million Afghan girls are out of school. Girls who resist insurgent pressure and pursue education face real threats of violence. Some become targets in acid attacks, which can permanently disfigure their faces. The Mirwais School for Girls in Kandahar experienced one such attack in which 15 girls were burned. A 17-year-old girl named Shamsia suffered burns so severe she had to go abroad for treatment. She now suffers from vision problems and unsightly scars on her eyelids and left cheek. "The people who did this to me don't want women to be educated. They want us to be stupid things."
Girls with no education are typically married off young—usually to much older men. Among Afghan women ages 20-24, 43 percent were married by age 18. With little opportunity in life outside of marriage and motherhood, the fertility rate in Afghanistan is 6.2 children per woman, by far the highest in the region (South Central Asia has a fertility rate of 2.6).
When multilateral agencies like the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank fund development projects, they are guided by the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Adopted in 2000, the MDGs set ambitious targets for eradicating poverty, achieving gender equity, improving health, and protecting the environment. Millennium Development Goal 3 is to promote gender equality and empower women. The specific target of that goal is to eliminate gender disparity in all levels of education. Large disparities in the past have left generations of women uneducated and, perhaps worse, illiterate. Of the 774 million illiterate adults worldwide, two-thirds are women living in West and South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. In 21 countries, fewer than 40 percent of women can read.
The 2012 MDG Report announced the achievement of the education target for the developing world—in 2010 there were 97 girls enrolled in primary school for every 100 boys (within the acceptable 3 percent range for parity), compared to just 91 girls in 1999. However, strong regional disparities persist. In sub-Saharan Africa and Western Asia, only 93 girls attend primary school for every 100 boys, while in East Asia, girls outnumber boys in primary school, 103 to 100.
Secondary school is more expensive than primary school, which often forces parents to choose which of their children to send (they usually choose the boys). Early marriage, teen pregnancy, and safety concerns (long walks to school during which they may be harassed) can also keep girls out of secondary school. Still, the MDG target has nearly been met, at 96 girls for every 100 boys. Again, the average masks a range of 82 in sub-Saharan Africa to 108 in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The target for tertiary education has been met with the most success, with 98 girls for every 100 boys pursuing college and university degrees. Again, this ranges by region, from 63 in sub-Saharan Africa to 108 in Latin America and the Caribbean. (In the developed world, girls outnumber boys in tertiary education 130 to 100.)
During the last 40 years, the average years of schooling for women of reproductive age in the developing world increased from 2.2 to 7.2 years. Educated women tend to want fewer children than their uneducated peers and are better equipped to understand their family planning options. Joel Cohen, professor of Population Studies at The Rockefeller University, writes, "Education promotes a shift from the quantity of children in favor of the quality of children."
When a girl in the developing world receives seven or more years of education, she marries four years later and has 2.2 fewer children. In Nicaragua, 45 percent of girls with no schooling are married before age 18 versus only 16 percent of their educated counterparts. In Mozambique, the figures are 60 percent versus 10 percent; in Senegal, 41 percent versus 6 percent. Victims of early marriage are less likely to achieve equality in their marriages. For example, girls in India who marry before age 18 are twice as likely to report being beaten, slapped, or threatened by their husbands as are girls who marry later.
Educated women participate in wage employment at a higher rate and earn higher salaries than women who are not educated. In fact, an extra year of primary school boosts girls' eventual wages by 10 to 20 percent. An extra year of secondary school boosts future wages by 15 to 25 percent. Women earning their own money have more say in household matters and are less likely to be victims of domestic abuse. Empowering women to work extends benefits to entire families, as mothers use their earnings to invest in the health and education of their children. In fact, women reinvest 90 percent of their incomes in their families, compared with only 30-40 percent for men.
But employment in the formal sector remains elusive for many of the world's women. In Southern Asia, only 20 percent of non-agricultural waged employees are women. In Western Asia and North Africa, the figure is only 19 percent. Sub-Saharan Africa does better, at 33 percent, but falls short of the developed world figure, which is 48 percent. Additionally, the wage labor that women perform is often of lower caliber (and thus lower pay) than that of men. In fact, women occupy only 25 percent of senior management positions globally. Typically, when women work outside the home in the developing world it's either in agriculture or in the informal sector, where they are not afforded the same job security or benefits that the formal sector offers. According to the UN Development Programme, "75 percent of the world's women cannot get bank loans because they have unpaid or insecure jobs and are not entitled to property ownership. This is one reason why women comprise more than 50 percent of the world's population but own only one percent of the world's wealth."
Women's issues are more apt to be addressed when there are women in positions of political leadership. Indeed, most of the champions of reproductive health in the U.S. Congress are women. However, women are currently outnumbered fourto- one in legislatures around the world. Women hold only 19 percent of parliament seats and 16 percent of ministerial positions. A mere 5 percent of heads of state are women.
One obstacle to women seeking political office is fundraising. Women typically get less help from their parties raising campaign funds and are also less connected than men to business and professional networks.
To address these inequities, about 50 countries have adopted legislation to ensure that a certain proportion of candidates are women. Hundreds of political parties in another 30 countries have adopted similar quotas. The quotas have facilitated much progress; in Nicaragua, more than half of the seats won by a political party with a 30 percent quota were won by women.
Even with these quotas, however, not a single region in the world is on track to achieve the UN target of 30 percent women in decision-making positions.
Although not identified as a target of MDG 3, a key factor in women's empowerment is affordable access to voluntary family planning education and services. When women have the resources to make informed, voluntary decisions about the number and spacing of their births, they tend to have fewer, healthier children. Family planning allows sexually active teenage girls to delay childbearing in order to finish their schooling and begin their careers unencumbered by the demands of motherhood. Smaller families allow for greater investment in each child, including educational investment—especially for girls—and give mothers more time to devote to wage employment. According to Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive director of UNFPA, making voluntary family planning resources available "will not only save and improve the lives of women and children; it will empower women, reduce poverty and ultimately build stronger nations."
Unfortunately, millions of women lack access to contraceptive information, services, and supplies. Approximately 222 million women in the developing world have an unmet need for family planning— they would like to delay or end childbearing, but are not using modern contraception.
Men's attitudes toward family size can carry significant weight. When men want more children, their wives often face pressure to become pregnant, especially in abusive relationships. Men and women must work together as equal partners to make informed decisions about family size. According to former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, for both sexes to recognize the importance of women's rights is "the best way to ensure a better life for everybody, not just for women."
Women's Empowerment for Population Stabilization
The connection between women's empowerment and population is clear. When women are empowered to make decisions about their own lives—when they're educated and employed and their contributions to family and society are recognized—they tend to have fewer children, which slows population growth. Robert Engelman, president of the Worldwatch Institute, affirms, "If all women could use their right of choice and only have children when they wanted to, the population rate would stabilize."
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Ellie Davis says:
I never knew the importance of women empowering to benefit the entire family by helping them to earn more money. My sister is working on a school project about the history of women, and we are looking for advice. I will let her know about the benefits of women empowering to add it to her project.
harvey wasserman says:
it is absolutely essential that the world understand that the empowerment of women is the key to a sustainable number of humans on this planet.
the primary force behind over-population is misogyny.
Taylor Hicken says:
I totally agree when you mentioned that females should have the right to make decisions about their lives by getting a proper education and a stable job so they can as well make contributions to their families and society. A friend of mine has always wanted to fight for women's rights as she often hears bad stories about how some females are being oppressed in certain organizations just because of the genders. I will suggest to her getting some clothing and accessories regarding women empowerment so she can show her support in the matter.
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Smartphones can do amazing things, but who knew that they could also help you hack into expensive, luxury electric cars and drive away with them.
Electrek reports that a car thief most likely used a smartphone to unlock a Tesla Model 3, that was on display at the Mall of America in Minnesota. According to Electrek, a cybersecurity specialist suspects that the man who allegedly stole the car probably added the Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) to his Tesla account after a call to the company's customer service department. Once the car was linked to his account and phone, it allowed him to unlock the car and drive away.
"By doing that, you can now control the Tesla from an app on your phone," computer forensics expert, Mark Lanterman said in an interview with Fox 9.
The Drive reports that the thief made it 1,000 miles out of Minnesota before he was tracked down by authorities in Waco, Texas.
He tried to avoid capture by disabling the car's GPS, but the owner outsmarted him by passing along the car's charging locations over to the authorities.
The owner of the car rental company, John Marino, said that the suspect is someone he knows.
"We suspected it was him because he used to brag a lot about how much he knew about the car and its security, and this was somebody who had the wherewithal to make this happen," Marino explained.
This story raises questions about how secure the Tesla Model 3 really is, and it looks like the answer is that it's harder to get away with than a regular car.
Marino added that Teslas, on the whole, are pretty difficult to steal successfully because the company collects lots of information about its users and the vehicle's driving history.
Electrek reports that it's not atypical for Tesla to allow its customers to add VIN's to their account for rentals so that they can use the app on their phone as a key. The thief was reportedly able to take advantage of that, so perhaps another layer of security should be added down the line.
Tesla told Electrek that the thief was able to unlock the car because he rented it previously, but the rental company said that they disabled the suspect's access after he returned it.
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Big companies typically aren't more nimble than small ones. But there's one area in particular where the behemoths are speedier. It is in reaching the large and growing number of consumers who use digital resources--such as mobile search, online directories, review sites and social media--to find businesses.
Large companies have an almost automatic edge because they have the robust technology ecosystems they need to take advantage of this new landscape. However, small business owners and entrepreneurs can't access them. Many can't afford the same tools or lack the expertise to employ enterprise-level software solutions to address their digital marketing needs. They are often forced to turn to vendors that offer a disparate set of narrow solutions that address only a limited set of the challenges that face local businesses.
Half of small companies do not even have a website, according to a study we commissioned with Research Now.
Ninety percent of small businesses have not optimized their site for mobile, according to the same research.
While 78% of consumers' purchases are influenced by online reviews per a survey by Ipsos Open Thinking Exchange, 87% of small business owners do not ask their customers for reviews, according to other research we commissioned.
Even small steps can have big payoffs. One of our customers, Mark Matney, an attorney in Virginia, has seen the results of having positive reviews online. "One of the things that clients would say about why they chose me instead of another lawyer was that they had seen my reviews online. They had seen positive results from other clients," he said.
The good news for small businesses is that next-generation marketing tools tailored for them have been evolving quickly to keep pace with changing consumer behavior. The best ones for businesses are not DIY ("do it yourself") but instead have a blend of a DIFM ("do it for me") and DIWM ("do it with me") approach. This enables local businesses to have the starting point for an online presence set up for them - the basics like a website and directory listings - while getting support in higher investment activities like, for example, securing and syndicating online reviews.
This evolution is illustrated by how small businesses used to turn to the Yellow Pages, where they paid for impressions. Then, in the last 10 years, we and other competitors such as Google, Yelp and Angie's List have offered "clicks and calls" solutions that require very little time investment or oversight from a small business and provide transparent results. Domain providers like GoDaddy have offered basic websites at a low cost. Now, digital marketing strategies like reviews and social media require the small business owner to augment and personalize what technology providers can offer. The success of marketing platforms for small businesses will lie in delivering a flexible solution that combines DIFM and DIWM.
Still, there's progress to be made. Many content management systems are Frankensteins, welded together awkwardly when technology companies have merged or done an acquisition.
Then there's customer relationship management (CRM) software. Many small business owners know they should leverage it more. CRM is the type of marketing that generates the highest return on investment. However, many systems are not easy to use. The data, for instance, is not easily accessible, and it requires a major time investment or the expertise of a professional marketer.
Our bet is that the best solutions for small businesses will come from the providers that spot these gaps in the marketplace and address them. Small business owners need a solution that will use technology seamlessly to deliver the right message to the right consumer at the right time. That will make it a lot easier for small businesses to play in the big leagues, no matter what their budget.
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Yeah, I was surprised when they wrote and told me. They have kept me well informed. I sure hope they get yours finished soon and you get the benefits you deserve.
you are clearly one of the lucky ones. I hope so too.
50% TDRL for 6 months then 30% Permanent Retirement.
The paperwork was signed 7April 18.
The postage stamp said 5 June 18.
I called and they said that they sent paper work to my last duty station. So they can get my last orders revoked to get my new orders.
Now I am relieved to know the decision part is over with.
This is great news!!!! I am glad the decision didn't change. A weight has been lifted and now you can move forward with a smile on your face. Did they say how long it will be when you get you new orders?
Will you be applying for CSRC?
Thank you so much. I sure hope you hear something positive soon. Now since I know the PDBR decision I can relax. All this other waiting won't be hard.
I'm not sure on the wait time for my new orders. I figure a couple months.
Yes, I will apply for CRSC. I know that will be a year process by reading other soldiers posts.
I called Fort Carson about the retirement brieff. The RSO told me that all there retirement briefs are done online now.
I am now part of the retirement crew!!! I just got my paperwork today!!!! Deputy Assistant Sec to the Army has accepted the recommendation of the PDBR. 10% to 30%!!!
Congratulations on your retirement. I'm so happy you finally got it.
@ShadowStalker or @Perci75 know the timeline of when we get updated dd214 or additional paperwork? Did any of your documents state adjustment in pay? Everything is surreal for me now. I have read my docs soo many times I know it by heart. Hahaha!
Its an awesome feeling to know the hard part is over with. I'm still excited on the whole outcome. Now I wait for instructions. I hope that packet comes soon. I called Ft. Carson RSO. They said i need to do retirement briefs online. I finished and printed there certificate. Yes, I am way ahead of myself.
I know in the next week or so we should receive it by FedEx. What I have read from past posts.
Who I call? I am in California and there is no Army base near by, just two AF bases. Beale and Travis. So once you receive yours, I should expect mine within in a week.
I've called my last duty station where I was medboarded. Then asked them about my retirement briefing and ceremonies.
I will definitely let you know when I get my packet. We can help each other through the rest of this process.
RAPIDS site locator can also help you find the nearest I'd card and deers. After you get further along in the process.
I think the Army is a bit different then the AF. From what Ive read on here it seem the process after the PDBR for the Army is quicker. For the AF we are required to call Air Force Personnel Center and get a quick briefing. We then wait for the SBP briefing. If you leave within 50 miles of an AF base, they will set up an appointment and you go there. Beale is the closest for me but over 100 miles so my briefing will be over the phone. I was told 30-60 days out for my SBP briefing then each other entity (not exactly sure how many) has around 30 days to complete their part.
I was also advised (at least for AF retirees) that some people have been waiting 3 years. I hope this is the exception and not the rule. Any AF folks been through this entire process and can share their timeline?
My understanding is, AF won't cut orders until after I have my SBP briefing.
My husband got the coveted "white envelope yesterday. Such a long road we have traveled. When he was medically discharged we knew that his case was mishandled. 12 years later it is finally over. I've been watching everyone go through the same thing as us and it kills me. However, NEVER GIVE UP! many times we thought about it. When he got his application to do the PDBR he sat on it for over a year before mailing it in. So again, do not give up.
I do have a question to those who are finally on the other side. How long until we get orders so that we can get our ID cards back? Is he entitled to a retirement ceremony? How do I make this happen for him? Has anyone ever actually collected on the back pay? Or does the Army and VA take it all? Or is there a way to calculate that?
We were in the wave of letters that just went out. Ours was dated May 5, 2018. case # PD-2017-01443 SEPARATION DATE: 20070216 in case anyone is wanting information on their fight. Not sure if it helps, but maybe.
@tinker2cute Congrats!! Welcome! First, about the back pay, there is a lot that goes into it. I will try an example the best I can from DFAS this morning the Rep gave me the info on that.
For me, I was separated @ 20% in Jan 2007, I received a severance. That severance has been paid in full as of Dec 2017. I am now at 90% as of 2015. I will be awarded retro pay from 2007 until 2015. That is only if my orders state that my retirement is from date of separation.
I hope this helps you and anyone else.
This info was given me to this morning by a DFAS rep.
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National Rail is the national railway network in Britain. If you need assistance with booking train tickets or with planning a journey, call the National Rail helpline on 0844 453 0143.
National Rail was first introduced in 1999 as a trading name for the Rail Delivery Group, which oversees Britain's train operating companies. On the rail network, there are around 20 train companies which are privately owned and franchised by the Government. There are several networks which are not part of National Rail including the London Underground, Blackpool Tramway, Manchester Metrolink and the Sheffield Supertram. Eurostar and Heathrow Express services are also not part of National Rail. At National Rail train stations, you can purchase single/return tickets for journeys, as well as season tickets. You can also get pocket timetables for journeys operating from the station in question. For more information about National Rail services, call the National Rail head office helpline on 0844 453 0143.
You can call customer services for live train updates, for help planning a journey, for information about peak and off-peak journey times, to claim money back for a delayed journey, for travel advice over the Christmas period, for assistance with planned rail maintenance or to make a complaint about a train journey, train station or employee. You can contact the National Rail customer services helpline on 0843 178 3453.
National Rail Journey Planner is an aspect of the National Rail Enquiries service. It allows you to set your departure station and arrival station, the time that you wish to travel and there is an option to add a return journey. Once you have filled in this information and pressed 'go' you will be shown train timetables for both direct and non-direct trains between your chosen stations. You'll also see fare information and be given the opportunity to purchase tickets in advance for a lower price than it would cost to buy tickets at the train station when you travel. You will also see live journey updates if the train is already on its way to the destination, so if the train is delayed or cancelled, this information will be displayed to you. You can filter the journey results to show the cheapest or the fastest option. You can also add extra passengers and if you have a railcard, you can add this information which will alter your fare information. The types of railcards you can add to the journey planner include the 16-25 railcard, senior railcard or the disabled person's railcard. For more information about the journey planner or for help using the journey planner please call 0843 178 3454.
From the National rail website, you can download maps of the entire UK rail network, which will show all of the routes available as well as the local operators who oversee the journeys. The maps are available to download as a PDF file and you can download the full route map as a large or small scale. You can also download maps for the London rail and tube network, or download maps by region i.e. Derby & Nottingham, Edinburgh & Fyfe, and Leeds & Bradford. You can also download maps by the station. For help using the map or if you have experienced a problem with the map please call 0843 178 3455.
In the event that rail workers go on strike, National Rail will be the first to inform the public. This includes planned strikes and strikes at short notice. Strike information is usually displayed in a red banner at the top of the screen on the National Rail Enquiries website. If there is a strike planned for your usual route, you will be advised of alternative journeys and given information about how you can claim money back for a ticket that you won't be able to use due to strike action. When you are informed of a strike, you'll be told which train companies are affected and on which days the strike will occur. You can also keep up-to-date with strike action by following National Rail on Twitter. To find out when the next strike is you can call 0843 178 3457, you can also call that number to complain about a rail strike.
You can purchase advance tickets for National Rail journeys online. If you're flexible in terms of the times that you can travel, you can use the cheapest fare finder to find the lowest price ticket for the journey that you're making. You can also use the 'My Ticket' service to understand the full details of your ticket and the times/routes that you can use your ticket for. You can also use National Rail to get information on special offers and discounts relating to a journey you regularly travel on. If you make the same train journey more than three times a week, you could save money by purchasing a season ticket. You can buy a season ticket for 7 days, a month or up to a year. Season tickets are used for short-medium length journeys – they are not usually available for longer journeys. A season ticket will offer you an unlimited journey between the two stations specified on the ticket. You can also combine a train and bus season ticket with a PlusBus ticket. To buy tickets or for information about tickets please call 0843 178 3458.
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Industrials : Construction & Engineering | Mid Cap Blend
AECOM is a global infrastructure consulting company. The Company provides professional services throughout the project lifecycle, from planning, architecture, design and engineering to program and construction management. Its segments include Americas, International and AECOM Capital (ACAP). The Americas segment provides planning, consulting, architectural and engineering design and construction management services to commercial and government clients in the United States, Canada and Latin America in end markets, such as transportation, water, government, facilities, environmental and energy. The International segment provides planning, consulting, architectural and engineering design services to commercial and government clients in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific regions in end markets, such as transportation, water, government, facilities, environmental and energy. The ACAP segment has investments primarily in real estate projects.
UPDATE: 20 stocks to help you play a big 'restocking' of consumer goods, according to Jefferies
By Philip van Doorn
A supply-and-demand imbalance sets up a rebound in inventory restocking.
A supply-and-demand imbalance in the U.S. economy points to a group of stocks that should benefit from the "restock cycle," according to analysts at investment bank Jefferies.
Earlier this year, Americans were painfully aware of shortages of toilet paper, paper towels, certain food items and other commonly used goods. Thankfully the panic hoarding has subsided, at least for now.
But in an Oct. 19 report, a group of equity analysts at Jefferies wrote that the economic recovery in the U.S. has been marked by "incredibly strong retail and housing sales," and that "restocking efforts by retailers and homebuilders" could cause a sharp rise in demand that can benefit 37 companies and their shares.
U.S. retail sales were strong in September, rising 1.9% from August and surprising economists (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-retail-sales-surge-19-in-september-in-show-of-strength-for-the-economy-2020-10-16) polled by MarketWatch who had expected a 1.2% sequential increase. But the eye-popping number in the Census Bureau's retail sales data (https://www.census.gov/retail/marts/www/marts_current.pdf) was a 5.4% year-over-year increase in consumer spending.
The Jefferies analysts pointed out that in the pre-pandemic environment, manufacturers in many industries were trying to keep inventories lean to maximize efficiency. Looking ahead, Jefferies chief economist Aneta Markowska says companies may move from just-in-time inventory management to a "just in case" style, which means greater demand as inventory is built.
So the analysts see "scope for a powerful restock cycle." They named 37 companies that can benefit from the supply-demand imbalance in the U.S., and have "buy" ratings on 28 of them.
Here are the 20 companies listed in the report, all rated "buy" from the Jefferies team, that have the largest market capitalizations. Scroll the table to see all the data.
We're in the middle of third-quarter earnings season, and 12 of those companies had most recently reported quarters ending June 30 or earlier, based on data available from FactSet as of the close on Oct. 16.
Meanwhile, O'Reilly Automotive Inc. (ORLY), Campbell Soup Co. (CPB), Conagra Brands Inc. (CAG) and Church & Dwight Co. (CHD) all showed double-digit year-over-year sales increases.
In addition to Church & Dwight, Jefferies analyst Kevin Grundy included Kimberly-Clark (KMB) (the maker of Kleenex tissues, Scott toilet paper and Huggies diapers) and Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) on a list of companies that may benefit from "consumer restocking" through the end of 2020 and in the first quarter of 2021. KMB is not listed above because Grundy rates the stock "hold."
Within the beverages industry, Grundy called Constellation Brands (STZ), the brewer of Corona Extra and Modelo Especial beers, and owner of several brands of wine and spirits, as "the best way to position" for "an unprecedented consumer shift to take-home consumption channels."
Don't miss:Here are Wall Street's favorite stocks for an election-relief rally (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/here-are-wall-streets-favorite-stocks-for-an-election-relief-rally-2020-10-15)
-Philip van Doorn; 415-439-6400; AskNewswires@dowjones.com
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Q: SQL Server 2008 FullTextSearch Single Character in Name Missing from Results I have a full text indexed column in SQL Server 2008 which has the following rows:
W Smithers, Wilda Smithers, W2 Smithers
When I run the following query I only get back Wilda Smithers and W2 Smithers.
SELECT FT_TBL.full_name as results
FROM dbo.ft_table AS FT_TBL WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN CONTAINSTABLE (ft_table , full_name, '("w*" AND "smither*")',12) AS KEY_TBL
ON FT_TBL.ft_key_id = KEY_TBL.[KEY]
ORDER BY KEY_TBL.RANK desc
Any suggestions on how to tweak this so W Smithers is also in my result set?
A: The W probably is a stop word. Try to remove it from the stoplist.
Check this link to see how it is done: Configure and Manage Stopwords and Stoplists for Full-Text Search
EDIT
Try to recreate the FT index, but this time do not specify any stop list at all.
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Events, unless otherwise noted, are at the Holiday Inn Downtown (Market Square), 318 West César E. Chávez Blvd. There will be a hospitality room on the 2nd floor of the hotel.
The 10km route will visit the River Walk, La Villita, the Alamo, El Mercado, Main Plaza. The 6km route includes Main Plaza, Aztec Theater, Texas Ranger Museum, Majestic Theater and El Mercado.
The 42K marathon goes to the four UNESCO World Heritage designated Spanish Missions, Stinson Field and Mission Reach, before returning. For the 22km route you will be bused to the furthest Mission — Espada — and walk back to the event hotel, passing through all four missions. The 13km route goes only to Mission Concepción and back. The 5km route explores the area south of the event hotel, including the historic King William area.
5:00 pm: Finish table will close.
The 22km route goes north along the River Walk, through Brackenridge Park, the historic Monte Vista neighborhood and Trinity University. The 15km route turns around at the Pearl and the 5km goes to the Alamo and back.
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Program for THURSDAY April 24th
JOINT MEETING WITH EL CERRITO
Guerilla Publicity: Connect with the Media
Jill Lublin is co-author of two national best sellers, Guerrilla Publicity and Network Magic and currently host of a nationally syndicated radio show. Jill shares her proven publicity secrets for getting the attention of national media, including The New York Times, CNN, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and more--
Learn the 7 guerrilla tactics for mastering any interview with magazines, newspapers or TV. And when you get your 15 minutes of fame, remember that you learned it all right here in Rotary!
MEETING OF APRIL 18th, 2008
Prez Pam Jones rang the bell and began another gathering of the friendly and "lively"(quote from program speaker, Severin Borenstein).
Rafael Cartagena led us in the pledge of allegiance.
Henry Kelman's thought-for-the-day was an off shoot of his insightful observations skills.
Jan Brown introduced John Strohmeier from the West County Times.
Glenn Daggs introduced Erle Moffett, an associate from OSS International.
Bill K. observed that everyone must be fine as he has heard of no issues and Charlie Wong, Elof Granberg and PDG Werner Schwarz are all in attendance today. Co-Editor: late news from the North Coast that X-Prez Rich Brandes has eye/vision issues that, together with his new job (working for Lisa), have kept him away recently.
E. J. Shalaby announced that the Bowl-A-thon for RotoVision was a great success. EJ reminded the club that Richmond Rotary fielded two teams. Team Genser won first place and Team Shalaby came in second…from the bottom. The event raised funds for new RotoVison projects.
Glenn (Birthday Boy) Daggs gave a brief description of the Peres School Walker Creek Camp project that is moving ahead within its $8,500 budget objective..
Mark Howe reports that garden plots at the Rotary Centennial Peace Garden at 4th and Nevin are fully subscribed by community folk with a waiting list for planting barrels that will bring additional growing space. Mark also gave a concept description of a Rotary/RPD gun buy-back program that is based upon similar programs in Oakland.
Rafael Madrigal invites Rotarians to participate in the Cinco de Mayo Parade and Festival on Saturday, May 3rd & May 4th.
The Parade is at 11:00am Saturday. Participants meet at 10:00am at 24th and Barrett (across from Wilson and Kratzer Mortuary). The route is 2 miles and ends at San Pablo City Hall at San Pablo Ave. and Church Lane.
The Festival will take place from 11:00am - 6:00pm on Sunday, May 4th. Rotarians are also being asked to be Helpers in the post-parade Fun Zone. Call Rafael M. for more information or to sign up for an hour or two.
Jan Brown announced the 40th Annual School District reception for student artists at the Richmond Art Center. Richmond Rotary support helped sponsor student awards this year.
Rhonda Harris described this year's Rotary sponsored Teen Moms Project at Richmond and Kennedy high schools. Help is needed to pull together 44 +/- baskets with practical care needs. Delivery of the baskets is slated for May 30th and a sign-up sheet is circulating.
Josh Genser invited members to the fund raiser/reception for Beyond Emancipation at his home April 25th, 4:00 PM. Beyond Emancipation is the organization Tony Thurmond runs that helps 18 year olds transition from foster care to life-on-their-own.
Prez Pam reminded the club that next week's meeting is THURSDAY THE 24TH HERE AT MVCC. It is a joint meeting with the El Cerrito Club.
Blue Badge Graduation
Glenn Daggs asked Rafael Cartagena to come up to the podium so the club could recognize his just -performed leadership of the Pledge of Allegiance as the last one he would do as a Red Badge Rookie. Raphael has completed the four tasks needed for full membership, including attending another Rotary Club Meeting, in Monterey Mexico. As Glenn gave Rafael his new blue badge, he observed that Rafael already has his first Paul Harris. Congratulations Rafael!
Prez Pam announced it was Glenn Daggs turn to be recognized. PDG Werner Schwarz in one of those very dangerous moves from his lair at the back table, deftly produced a very large Birthday Balloon which he affixed to Glenn's coat. A cacophony of congratulations were then expressed to Glenn for his 50th Birthday and to Werner for keeping anything as big as that balloon hidden. HAPPY BIRTHDAY GLENN!
Jim "the Beav" Beaver began the anti-climactic recognition of Glenn Daggs' 50th Birthday. Glenn said he went snow skiing and water skiing, surviving both and made a contribution to the Rotary Foundation.
Congratulations to Ralph Hill and Audry celebrating 33 years of wedded bliss (at their favorite Motel 6 overlooking the mud flats).
John Wilson recognized his own 50th wedding anniversary with a handsome contribution to the Club. Congratulations John and Lynne!
Josh Genser had Happy $$ for the successful Bowl-A-Thon, easy for him to say given his team's victory.
Herb "Dollar-A-Word" Cole had Happy $$ for both the WCCUSD student art show and the fund raiser for Beyond Emancipation. Herb reminded everyone that the day a young person in foster care turns 18 years old, he or she is essentially dropped onto the streets. Beyond Emancipation works to help them transition to self-sufficiency.
Jon Lawlis had Sad $$ because he will miss this year's Cinco de Mayo parade, but Happy $$ because he's missing it to go to an Eagles concert in Indio.
Rhonda Harris had Happy $$ because she is going to Vegas, to visit her Grandson.
Jan Brown had Happy/Sad $$ for the Mira Vista Park native plant garden and a City weed-eater run amuck.
Rafael Cartagena had Happy $$ for the honor of getting his new Blue Badge.
Kerri Andow drew the lucky ticket good for a free lunch!
The Ever-Changing Landscape of Energy
Resources, Energy Usage, and Our Future
With the windows partially drawn to permit the beautiful weather and exhibit a fitting view of the Richmond Refinery in the distance, Dr. Severin Borenstein, a co-director of the Center for the Study of Energy Markets and a former member of the governing board of the California Power Exchange and the California Attorney General's Gasoline Price Task Force, discussed contemporary issues associated with oil prices and related energy considerations with particular reference to challenges and misunderstandings faced today.
Dr. Borenstein perceives three broad challenges facing U.S. energy policy: (1) Gas and energy costing too much (an issue about which he is contacted almost daily by reporters); (2) Geopolitics of oil in our "one-world" oil market; and (3) Pollution and green-house gas considerations.
High cost of Gasoline and Energy
Bad news for big-car lovers… as a result of the great influence that oil-producing nations enjoy in establishing barrel prices, in concert with rapidly growing energy consumption in developing nations, gasoline will probably never be "cheap" again in the U.S. This is underscored by the fact that the United States does not produce or reserve enough gasoline for itself. Indeed, whereas in 1978 the U.S. imported 35% of its oil, that figure has risen to 65% today. Although "Big Oil" CEOs say they deserve tax breaks to drill for more oil to control gas prices, this request is not consistent with their frequent assertion, and the reality, that they cannot indeed control oil prices. Because a solution is not therefore likely to come from the supply side, Dr. Borenstein feels that demonizing the oil companies misses the point (although your humble rotating co-editor finds it cathartic, nonetheless).
A solution will instead likely have to originate on the demand side by changing our habits to commute shorter distances for work, drive more efficient vehicles, etc. Some Richmond Rotarians seemed surprised to learn that moving towards efficiency is not actually the trend, as our gracious speaker revealed that if we drove the same size vehicles from the mid-1980s, we would use 35% less gas. Dr. Borenstein attributes this phenomenon to insatiable demand for "powerful heavy toys" which are more fun to drive but consume more fuel, and notes that we would also be just as safe in smaller and more efficient cars.
Geopolitical Energy Considerations
Dr. Borenstein's comments in this area centered on his belief that the notion that as a nation, we can wield our collective consumer power to choose which other nations benefit from our enormous energy market, is likely erroneous. The "one-world" oil market means that even if we were steadfast in refusing to purchase oil from unfriendly nations such as Iran and Venezuela, or nations with atrocious human rights records, such as Saudi Arabia, such nations still would have no problem selling their product elsewhere in the highly demanding international market, and prices of oil would not be affected.
Our national consumption of oil is therefore problematic because hostile nations use their significant oil profits to fund movements inimical to the interest of the United States. Iran for instance, enjoys $50 Billion more in their hands, which goes a long way towards funding their pet interests such as Hezbollah. Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, on the other hand, uses his nation's vast oil wealth to influence South American elections towards ends that are less democratic.
It's the Environment, Stupid
First, the good news… The United States is poised to fare reasonably well for many decades in the face of climate change. Less fortunate will be other nations whose geographical and environmental conditions will make them more vulnerable to rising water levels, temperatures, and the resultant drought, famine and global conflicts that will likely ensue. Reducing green house gas emissions is therefore the greatest energy challenge we are faced with today, and a big part of the solution is the development of alternative fuel sources. Unfortunately, the current administration is hampering the development and implementation of such resources at exactly the wrong time. Our speaker was confident that any of the three leading presidential candidates (Obama, McCain and Clinton) would make changes for the better in this regard. Interestingly, he feels that increased energy and climate debate in the lead-up to the November election would not be beneficial because it would force the candidates to say "stupid things" and lock in positions that are not reasonable, such as Senator McCain's proposed "gas tax holiday".
Dr. Borenstein feels that any major reduction in gasoline prices would result in over-consumption in the U.S., relative to supply, and opined that if windfall profits were taxed aggressively (such as the $10 and $12 Billion quarterly profits announced recently by major U.S. oil companies) and used to reduce gas prices, we would end up seeing lines at the gas station that resembled those of the 1970s crisis shortage. Dr. Borenstein does not believe so much of the hype that higher gas prices will have a significant adverse affect on the U.S. economy, and points to the United Kingdom, where their economy is doing well despite $8.00 per gallon gasoline. Although to be sure, he feels that higher fuel prices may mean a slight draw-back in U.S. standard of living, that it would not be remarkable and would likely take us back to about the 1997 standard of living, which he remembered as not being so unlivable.
Finally, Dr. Borenstein addressed the prospective efficacy of certain alternative energy sources. He indicated that hydrogen had been long promised, but that scientists had developed no feasible hydrogen solutions and that they are still at least several decades away, which they also wrongly prognosticated several decades ago. Concerning nuclear energy (or "nucular" energy, as it is also known), although Dr. Borenstein felt nuclear energy merited greater discussion than at present, that it was not as cheap as commonly believed and that the waste disposal was problematic. Corn Ethanol also was not likely a "winner" as it is expensive and doesn't really reduce net emissions.
Dr. Borenstein's highly interesting and informative presentation left Richmond Rotarians wanting more, as there were more with questions than time permitted. There is no doubt this issue will continue to be of great relevance to us all.
Written by Josh Surowitz.
- Your rotating Co-Editors, Jim Young and Josh Surowitz
Club dark.
San Francisco Rotary Club #2, a Centennial Celebration. Details to follow.
Speaker pending.
Rotary District Conference in Sacramento
Help children who age out of the foster care system. Event benfiting Beyond Emancipation, at the Genser Residence, 4PM, 5222 Barrett Ave. RSVP to Jennifer Moxley, 510-261-4102
The 2008 Rotary International Convention, Los Angeles. See the website for details.
Frank Desplancke
William Dabney
Catharine Hay
Sidney Chauvin
Nabil Wahbeh
Monique le Conge
Luz Gomez
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No impact from Broome earthquake on Australia oil, gas operations
Oil and gas operations onshore and offshore Western Australia were unaffected by a magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck off the northern coast of the state, the country's offshore petroleum safety regulator and companies said.
"NOPSEMA has not received any reports of impacts to offshore oil and gas facilities following the earthquake," a spokesman for the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) said.
There was no major damage reported after the quake, which hit at a depth of 33 km (21 miles) at a point about 203 km offshore from the beach resort of Broome, state Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner Darren Klemm told reporters in a televised media conference.
Chevron Corp's Gorgon and Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects were running as usual, a spokeswoman said.
Woodside Petroleum said North West Shelf LNG, Australia's biggest liquefied natural gas (LNG) operation, and Pluto LNG were unaffected.
Japan's Inpex Corp said its Ichthys LNG facilities were operating normally following the earthquake.
Royal Dutch Shell declined to comment on the effect of the earthquake on their operations.
A spokeswoman for Pilbara Ports, operator of the Port Hedland and Dampier ports that handle most of Australia's iron ore exports, was not immediately available for comment.
Reporting by Sonali Paul; editing by Christian Schmollinger
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Editorial Comment: The Future of FLNG: Less is More?
-Adrienne Blume
Global LNG export capacity is expected to increase by 45% between 2017 and 2022, to more than 400 metric MMtpy, with 90% of the new capacity coming from sanctioned projects in the U.S. and Australia. By 2050, this capacity is anticipated to exceed 700 MMtpy. Regasification capacity is anticipated to increase even more sharply.
Executive Viewpoint: Back to production: Where we're going, we don't need pipelines
-Mark Casaday
What if a cost-effective way existed to extract and distribute natural gas, regardless of proximity to pipeline, and bring those assets back to production? What if the industry went in a direction that did not need pipelines? For those looking to monetize unproductive natural gas assets or bring unproductive wells back to production, it would be revolutionary.
Regional Focus:Australia to boost LNG exports despite domestic gas shortage
-Eugene Gerden
Australia is planning further increases in LNG production and exports over the next decade, despite quickly depleting reserves and a looming supply shortage in the domestic market.
GasPro 2.0: A Webcast Symposium
Following on the heels of the highly successful GasPro 2.0 Webcast Symposium in October 2018, the second GasPro Webcast Symposium 2.0 will take place on October 24, 2019.
The 2019 web event will gather experts in the fields of LNG, gas processing, and gas transport/distribution to share their operations expertise, engineering and design solutions, and technology advances and trends with our audience.
Attendees will learn about technology and operational solutions and deployments in a number of areas: plant design and expansion, construction, NGL production, optimization, sulfur removal, marine operations and separation technology.
October 24, 2019 08:30 AM CDT
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Ironman Mum & Dad - 10 questions with Kim & Brett about training and racing under one roof!
It takes a huge family effort to ensure either mum or dad to get to an Ironman start line. You have to consider the family dynamic at all times, understand how the work environment influences training, as well as the added pressure the athlete feels being away from their family while training - this is all outside of the continual assessment of how the athlete is travelling physically and mentally and making the necessary changes (some minor, some major) to their the program to ensure they are ready to tackle anything the race brings.
But what if mum AND dad wanted to get to the same start line? Coach Richard's task last year was to get Kim Andrew and Brett Kerwick to their first Ironman- fit, healthy and importantly keeping the family unit happy. 3 kids, 2 full time jobs and 1 massive goal. What was their secret? How did they go? What is next for this inspirational family?
Coach Richard sat down with Kim and Brett to find out more:
1. How did you get into triathlon and what made you decide to be a part of the T:Zero Multisport family?
K: I actually did a few triathlons in my late teens/early 20s to keep fit for netball, and then discovered the Noosa Triathlon weekend which became a regular part of my calendar most years – whether doing the whole race, in a team, or spectating.
As for T:Zero – probably threefold for me. Firstly, I watched from a distance as Richard guided Steven, Natalie and a group of their mates to all successfully achieve Ironman status and actually enjoy it! Secondly, the opportunity to be coached by Richard, knowing what he had personally achieved in the sport. And last but not least, I really loved the idea of a personalised program.
B: Kim got me interested in triathlon back when she was training for her first Noosa race. I did my first Noosa Tri the following year. I got in to T:Zero because I saw the program Richard was preparing for Kim as she took on Busso and I thought that was a great approach.
2. You both successfully completed your Ironman debuts at Ironman Western Australia in
December last year – what made you decide Ironman was the goal and when did you both
make the decision to focus on this race?
K: Knowing I was turning 40, I wanted to do something awesome and memorable. I decided Ironman was the perfect choice, so although daunted, I signed up in December and started training in February, 10 months out from the race.
B: We were both competing at a corporate triathlon for my work. Kim had started her Ironman training about 2 months prior and to be honest, I was teasing her about it all…..the personalised program, all the Ironman gear, her own Coach etc. We were having a laugh and then she said why didn't I do it as well…and we laughed some more…..and then signed me up on the spot, on my mobile in the carpark of the corporate race!
3. Ironman training can be a daunting prospect for any individual and their household. How
did you manage doing the training at the same time, all while running a household with 3
young kids and two full time jobs?
B: For us the key to managing it all was the way Richard specifically designed our program, for us as a couple and also us as a family. We didn't want our Ironman goals to come at the expense of our happy life all together. We actually found as the training went on and became more and more demanding, we in turn got better at managing it and actually enjoyed it even more.
K: We also got a lot of help from family, friends, random strangers…..anyone we could rope in to help!
4. With all of that chaos, what would a normal weekday and a normal weekend look like?
K: Most mornings, we would either sub at the front door from one person's session to the other, or alternately, one would be out running or swimming, while the other hit the wind trainer. Then, the reverse at night. In between all that was work, school drop offs, kids sport and all the normal stuff of life.
B: On the weekends, there were plenty of times when one person would be training almost all day, but we made the most of that by the other person getting in some quality time with the kids. Certainly there were some insanely early starts (we discovered the 3's…) so we could watch our boys play rugby, and there were some nearly midnight runs, so we could see the kids off to bed and still get our longer sessions done.
5. What do the kids think of all the training and racing?
B: We were nervous about whether or not we were doing the right thing by our kids in taking on the dual-challenge. However, the reality was quite the opposite. They have learnt so many lessons from it all; they have seen first-hand what hard work achieves, and they are already themselves showing signs of putting those lessons in to practice in the context of their own young lives. On a recent rainy day, our 6 year old son actually came up and said he was going for a 'rainy day run' because Saturday was his favourite day to run and it didn't matter if it was raining or not, that was his day! Then, all 3 of the kids went and ran together.
K: The kids embraced it all better than we could have ever imagined. There were certainly times when recognising their sacrifice and support, we realised we also had a big commitment back to them to keep trying our very best. They also loved the little things like running to get our gu's for us, filling drink bottles while we were on the wind trainer, and of course all the races and trips away.
6. Tell us about your respective days at Ironman Western Australia and how has Brett
managed knowing he was 'chicked' by his own wife?
K: Waking up and hearing the howling winds and pelting rain on race day, I honestly thought I was in the middle of my worst nightmare. But we just lay in bed laughing and decided, the horrible weather was just going to make it more epic. From then on (other than my 3 nervous vomits), it was actually all a dream come true. In the swim, I just focussed on conserving energy, following feet, and getting through it knowing that with each leg of the race I would get stronger as I moved on to my preferred disciplines. The ride was pretty tough in the wind and there was also that moment as you leave the final transition to go out on to the run, when the task still in front of you seems absolutely overwhelming. But I actually felt better the longer the run went on. I loved seeing all our friends and family out on course, both competing and cheering. But most of all seeing Bretty out there and realising we were 'doing it' was the best. With about 15km to go, I realised I was slowly catching him but worried I would just miss out on the chance for us to finish together so I dug in a bit more until I caught him at the start of our final run lap. We ran together for a while and it was fun to laugh and realise we were going to both beat our goal time. Then, I smoked him like an old dog and hammered out the last 10km to the finish! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!! (cue: evil laugh)
B: I'm married to a bitch. Enough said. Thanks Richard for pointing this out to the world.
K: Truth be told, we had always agreed it was my main goal for my 40th and Brett doing it was a bonus. Our program from Richard was actually designed accordingly, and so was our allocation of things like race wheels and so forth. On race day, out on the run leg, Bretty even raced across the median strip at one point to offer me a drink and see if I needed anything, which was pretty cool. So, there was definitely no 'getting chicked'.
B: I did cop a bit of a ribbing from some of the guys at work about Kim beating me, but I reminded them that none of them could have beaten her either and that shut them down pretty quickly.
7. We have read Brett's race report from AAA (click here for an epic read), but Kim, how was it for you on race day as Brett's crew?
K: AAA was the most incredible race I have ever seen – the scenery, the unbelievable course, the Kosciusko summit, the freezing temperatures. It was honestly an honour to be there crewing. I can certainly recommend it to anyone, whether as an athlete or supporter – definitely a bucket list ticker!
8. What is next for Team Kerwick/Andrew?
B: Kim is targeting Ironman NZ in early 2017, whereas my immediate goal is to work on my run leg (can't let her beat me twice!). So for me, that will mean the Gold Coast Marathon in July and then the Blackall 50 later in the year. My ultimate goal is to do Ultraman 2018, but a lot of work to do between now and then.
9. Truth be told - leading into Ironman Western Australia, you were fairly sure that 2016 would
see you both take up a more leisurely approach to fitness. No less than 4 weeks after
crossing the finish line, Brett had signed up for the AAA (Australia Alpine Ascent – the
hardest daylight triathlon in the world) and set an even bigger goal for 2018 with Ultraman,
while Kim focused her attention to 2017 with some impressive goals herself. What changed
to make you set these amazing goals for the future and allowing T:Zero Multisport to help you achieve these goals?
K: That's true. I was quite determined to have a big break in 2016. But just a few weeks after Busso, I was running through the Noosa National Park during our holidays and I realised how much I enjoyed the feeling of being strong, fit and healthy. And I also realised that to be honest, the money spent with T:Zero was actually our best investment last year and had made a huge, positive impact on our lives. By the time the day ended, we had messaged Rich and we were both back in the fold! Within a few weeks, Rich had mapped out an overarching plan for us both – individually and as a couple – for the next two years and we are super excited for the adventures ahead.
10. There are plenty of spouses out there, supporting their loved ones in triathlons, keen but
maybe a little reluctant to give it a go. What advice would you give couples, who are
training for endurance events at the same time?
K: We love to do things together – it's more fun and it's also a lot more fulfilling as a couple, rather than just one person achieving their goals. We couldn't have done it without Rich though – that's the truth. Rich made it manageable and it was great knowing he was in our corner, helping us to keep it all on track and make it fun too.
B: My tips are: don't get overawed by the training. Manage it in small parts i.e. one week at a time. You can do it – it is possible, and it's worth it!
An amazing collection of training and racing advice from the T:Zero Multisport coaches- with the occasional guest blogger! Read this blog to help you live your potential!
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Europe migrant crisis: EU blamed for 'soaring' death toll
Image source, Reuters
Italy - due to its proximity to Libya - is the main destination for migrants attempting to reach Europe by sea
Amnesty International has blamed "failing EU policies" for the soaring death toll among refugees and migrants in the central Mediterranean.
In a report, it said "cynical deals" with Libya consigned thousands to the risk of drowning, rape and torture.
It said the EU was turning a blind eye to abuses in Libyan detention centres, and was mostly leaving it up to sea rescue charities to save migrants.
More than 2,000 people have died in 2017 trying to get to Europe, it said.
The EU has so far made no public comments on Amnesty's report.
The deadly Spanish route attracting migrants to Europe
Job scheme to keep refugees at home
Life on board the rescue boats
Portraits of a migrant
It comes as interior ministers from the 28-member bloc are meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss the migrant crisis.
They will review a $92m (£71m) action plan unveiled by the European Commission to deal with the issue.
The commission proposes to use more than 50% of the funds to boost the Libyan coastguard's capacity to stop traffickers launching boatloads of migrants out to sea to be rescued.
The rest is to help Italy feed, house and process the migrants who get there.
Italian ports have continued to see a large number of migrants arrive in the past year, putting stress on the country's asylum system. Earlier this month, officials suggested closing Italy's ports to foreign rescue ships - something which is legally difficult, but indicative of the strain the country is under.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees added his voice to calls for more assistance for the Mediterranean nation from the international community.
"What is happening in front of our eyes in Italy is an unfolding tragedy," Filippo Grandi said at the time. "This cannot be an Italian problem alone."
Media caption,
This video from May shows the coastguard rescuing a migrant clinging to a ship's rudder
Italy's problem is partly attributed to the instability in nearby Libya, which is largely controlled by a multitude of armed militias, loyal to rival government factions. The country has been embroiled in widespread conflict since the downfall of Col Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.
In the power vacuum, people smugglers operating from the country's north coast are putting African refugees to sea in the hope of reaching Italy, often on flimsy rafts which cannot make the entire journey. Instead, humanitarian vessels rescue them from the water and deliver the migrants to the nearest port - an Italian one.
"Rather than acting to save lives and offer protection, European ministers... are shamelessly prioritising reckless deals with Libya in a desperate bid to prevent refugees and migrants from reaching Italy," said John Dalhuisen, Amnesty's Europe director.
"European states have progressively turned their backs on a search and rescue strategy that was reducing mortality at sea in favour of one that has seen thousands drown and left desperate men, women and children trapped in Libya, exposed to horrific abuses," he said.
Amnesty's report said measures implemented by the EU to strengthen search and rescue in the central Mediterranean in 2015 had dramatically decreased deaths at sea.
But this priority was short-lived, the document said, adding that the EU later shifted its focus to disrupting smugglers and preventing departures from Libya.
Such practices and an increasing use of unseaworthy boats had made the sea even more unsafe, Amnesty said.
Italy threatens to close ports
Refugee camp destroyed in fire
Interceptions by the Libyan coastguard often put refugees and migrants at risk, the rights group warned.
It said that there were serious allegations that coastguard members were colluding with smugglers and abusing migrants.
"If the second half of this year continues as the first and urgent action is not taken, 2017 looks set to become the deadliest year for the deadliest migration route in the world," Mr Dalhuisen said.
"The EU must rethink its co-operation with Libya's woefully dysfunctional coastguard and deploy more vessels where they are desperately needed."
Mr Dalhuisen stressed that "ultimately the only sustainable and humane way to reduce the numbers risking such horrific journeys is to open more safe and legal routes for migrants and refugees to reach Europe".
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
Refugee kids learn the hard way
Migrants in concentration camps - Pope
No relief in migrant crisis for Italy
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In our hyper-connected, social-media-saturated society, many of us (especially young people) are so obsessed with snapping "selfies" and living a virtual life online that we're forgetting how to care for the people right in front of us IRL (that's "in real life"). The resulting Selfie Syndrome is leading to an empathy crisis among today's youth—teens today are forty percent less empathetic than they were just a generation ago, and narcissism has increased fifty-eight percent during that same period.
But there is a solution: studies show that the antidote to Selfie Syndrome is empathy. And the good news is that empathy can actually be cultivated in children, starting even before they can talk. In UnSelfie, esteemed educator Dr. Michele Borba presents new and compelling research that explains how to impart this key skill to kids—whether it's teaching toddlers how to comfort one another or giving teens the tools to stand up to bullying—and why empathy paves the way for future happiness and success.
Caring about others isn't just about playing nice; it's a skill that's vital for children's mental health, leadership skills, and continued well-being, today and tomorrow. Dr. Borba's 9-step plan for raising successful, happy kids who also are kind, moral, courageous, and resilient provides a revolutionary new framework for learning empathy. Empathetic kids will thrive in the future, but the seeds of success can be planted today—one habit at a time.
Michele Borba, EdD, is an internationally renowned educational psychologist and an expert in parenting, bullying, and character development. One of the foremost authorities on childhood development in the country, she is a regular NBC contributor who appears regularly on Today and has been featured as an expert on Dateline, The View, Dr. Phil, NBC Nightly News, Fox & Friends, Dr. Oz, and The Early Show, among many others. She lives in Palm Springs, California, with her husband, and she is the mother of three grown sons.
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Tyson says: I shot this after he used the weight room when he was trying to get swoll. We'll miss him. I love the dude. He brought energy to the Garden that changed our year around. I've got a lot of respect for the kid for doing that, so we'll miss him.
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The Minor Planet Bulletin is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal. Its focus is on theoretical, observational, and historical information regarding the study of minor planets. The journal mainly targets amateur research, but it includes professional research as well.
It has been published by the Minor Planets section of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers since 1973 and the editor-in-chief is Richard P. Binzel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Operations
All editorial, production, and distribution tasks are performed on a volunteer basis, many by amateur astronomers.
See also
List of astronomy journals
References
Further reading
External links
English-language journals
Minor planets
Open access journals
Planetary science journals
Publications established in 1973
Quarterly journals
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#10 Kelly Lamberti, pictured here against Miami, recorded her 900th dig Saturday night against Eastern Michigan.
The Ohio Bobcats were able to recover from a slow start against the Eastern Michigan Eagles Saturday, taking control for the rest of the match and winning three sets to one.
In the first set, the Bobcats started off slow, falling behind 11-3 and 13-7 at points. However the Cats rallied and were able to cut the Eagles lead to 18-15, forcing an EMU timeout. They were able to keep the run going, tying the game at 21, and eventually completing the first set comeback with a 25-23 victory. Kelly Lamberti had four digs and eight kills in the set.
The Bobcats kept the momentum in the second set, opening up to a 7-1 lead over the Eagles. A milestone was also reached during the second set. Lamberti recorded her ninth dig of the match, which gave her 900 digs in her career. She became only the third player in Ohio history to have 900 digs and 1,000 kills in her career.
The Bobcats as a team kept the pressure on the Eagles, opening up a wide-open 12-2 lead, something they wouldn't lose for the rest of the set. They won 25-7 and grabbed a 2-0 lead in the match.
Through two sets the Bobcats had 28 kills to the Eagles' 15, and 48 digs to EMU's 36. Not only that, but Eastern Michigan's hitting percentage through two sets was .013. Abby Gilleland had 22 assists and 12 digs through the first two sets.
In the third set it was the Eagles who jumped out to an early lead, taking a 6-3 lead over the Cats. They would open that lead to 18-12. The Bobcats didn't quit however, making a run of their own and cutting the score to 20-17. Still, it wasn't enough as Eastern Michigan was able to take care of the Bobcats and win 25-21 in the third set.
The fourth set saw the Bobcats take back the momentum and open up with huge leads, including 6-0 and 11-4, that EMU would not be able to come back from. The Bobcats won the set 25-14 and won the match three sets to one.
The Bobcats outscored the Eagles in kills and digs, recording 58 and 87, respectively. They also had a .260 hitting percentage compared to the Eagles .093 to finish the game. Lamberti finished with 12 kills and 18 digs of her own, and Alexis Pinson and Karin Bull also added 11 kills each.
Ohio improved to 15-3 with the victory and 5-1 in MAC play, while EMU 11-10, and 1-5 in the MAC.
The Bobcats will come back home for their next match and take on Toledo on October 18th at 7 pm.
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Claspettomyia tenuiforceps är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Junichi Yukawa 1971. Claspettomyia tenuiforceps ingår i släktet Claspettomyia och familjen gallmyggor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
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What if, like, types of accounts were humans?
SUPER SMASH BROS RP ANY CHARACTERS ARE ALOUD!
(GGaD // important-ish?) An enormous beast has invaded the medieval sect of Forengard.
Hey can we talk about the "jumping off stuff to see if people care about you" threads?
show: "moo, kids, feed my some hay. feed me some hay, kids, feed me some hay!"
To take our minds off the situation, I've just passed 250 stars! Thanks everyone!
woo is the most popoler pepul on the fourm?
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Q: Python Bs4 - AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_text' I am trying to learn web scraping on juypter notebook with python but I'm getting the following error message
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_text'
What am I doing wrong?
# CONNECT TO WEBSITE
# Connect to Website and pull in data
URL = 'https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Data-Systems-Business-Analyst/dp/B07FNW9FGJ/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=data%2Banalyst%2Btshirt&qid=1626655184&sr=8-3&customId=B0752XJYNL&th=1'
headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/105.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/105.0.1343.50"}
page = requests.get(URL, headers=headers)
soup1 = BeautifulSoup(page.content, "html.parser")
soup2 = BeautifulSoup(soup1.prettify(), "html.parser")
title = soup2.find(id='productTitle').get_text()
price = soup2.find(id='priceblock_ourprice').get_text()
print(title)
print(price)
A: There are some issues in this case. The error tells you that no element with that attribute could be found on the page. I tried to go manually to the URL and search for the price element by the id of priceblock_ourprice and I could not find it, but this can be caused by several causes. Make sure to get the correct classes by using inspect element.
The main issue is it seems like the website you are scraping is dynamically loading data. Hence you would have to somehow render the JS before using BS4.
One way you can achieve this is by using Selenium and here you can see an example of solution for your problem:
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
import time
driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=Service('/usr/local/bin/chromedriver'))
URL = 'https://www.amazon.com/Funny-Data-Systems-Business-Analyst/dp/B07FNW9FGJ/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=data%2Banalyst%2Btshirt&qid=1626655184&sr=8-3&customId=B0752XJYNL&th=1'
driver.get(URL)
# time.sleep(1)
soup = BeautifulSoup(driver.page_source, "html.parser")
title = soup.select_one("span[id='productTitle']").text
price = soup.select_one("span[class='a-offscreen']").text
print(title)
print(price)
driver.close()
Alternatively, you can use a third-party service such as WebScrapingAPI to achieve your goal. I recommend this service since because it is beginner friendly and it offers CSS extracting. We also have more advanced features such as IP rotations , CAPTCHA solving , geolocation , sticky sessions and many other features . You can learn more about our service by checking out our docs.We also offer special support for Amazon by our Amazon Search API which is designed for problems like yours. This in an example of how your problem would be solved using our service :
import json
import requests
API_KEY = '<YOUR-API-KEY-HERE>'
SCRAPER_URL = 'https://ecom.webscrapingapi.com/v1'
PARAMS = {
"api_key":API_KEY,
"engine":"amazon",
"type":"product",
"product_id":"B09FQ35SW6"
}
response = requests.get(SCRAPER_URL, params=PARAMS)
parsed_result = json.loads(response.text)
title = parsed_result['product_results']['title']
price = parsed_result['product_results']['price']
print(title)
print(price)
A: That error is caused because soup2.find(id='priceblock_ourprice') is returning None, and None does not have a function get_text(); BeautifulSoup couldn't find an element with id='priceblock_ourprice'.
When I go to the webpage you linked, I can't find an element with the ID priceblock_ourprice. However, this could easily be because I'm using a full browser and thus am requesting the webpage with a different User-Agent header than your script.
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If soft and cosy is your thing, then you'll be sure to love out North Cote cotton jersey sweater. Featuring a cowl neck, this stripy fleece lined top is cut for a relaxed fit and has a vibrant contrast inside neck tape and stitching. Happy wearing!
North Cote Jersey Sweat is rated 4.7 out of 5 by 7.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Julie888 from Very nice... Comfortable and although size 12 ordered size 10 instead. It washes well. Good buy.
Rated 5 out of 5 by LizStar from Cosy and comfy This is such a comfortable top for this time of year, love the fleece collar so easy to wear . It washes like new and dries overnight, very pleased I bought it . More colours please.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Dobbythehouseelf from One for softies! Very pleased with this top. The cote jersey sweat is soft & flattering. Not too thick which I like. Also a nice shade of navy. I will probably wear mine with colourful trousers or crops I think.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Sassyp from Nice neckline I bought this because I particularly liked the neckline, perfect, it is a good top in general as well.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Marylikes 55 from A good but. Bought this top as liked the relaxed look. It is a generous fit. Nice weight for spring.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Poppy33 from Very good fit! Have had the top a couple of weeks and am delighted. Nice easy fit and a good length.
Rated 5 out of 5 by kazzahappyshopper from Not what I'd call a Sweatshirt This is a very unusual top. The description states it to be fleece lined but it's only the neck that is fleece lined. Also it's a heavyweight t-shirt and in my opinion is completely wrongly described as a sweatshirt.That being said I really like it as it's different from anything else I've seen on the high street. Between a size 10 and 12 I ordered in a 12 and whilst a bit roomy I didn't want a striped top being figure hugging so kept it and in fact wore it straight away.
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Ninja JaJaMaru-kun (忍者じゃじゃ丸くん, ninja jajamaru-kun) is an action game released in Japan on November 15, 1985 by Jaleco for the Nintendo Entertainment System and in 1986 for the MSX.
It was released for Nintendo's Japanese Virtual Console on December 26, 2006 and in PAL regions on September 21, 2007 as part of Ninja Week for the Hanabi Festival promotion. It was released on the North American Virtual Console on October 22, 2007 and was the first time the game made its release outside Japan, in their respective regions.
The game stars the little brother of Ninja-kun from Ninja-Kid. Princess Sakura has been kidnapped by Damazu-Dayuu, and because Ninja-Kun is away on a journey, the task falls to young Jajamaru-Kun.
In the game, the player starts with three lives and can only run, jump and throw shurikens. The game is divided into stages, each with four floors and eight enemies. Sakura-Hime and Damazu are placed, unreachable, at the top of the screen. Enemies use various projectiles, one of which will cause the player to lose a life. If JaJaMaru-kun lands on top of an enemy, it will simply be temporarily stunned and vice versa. Once an enemy is defeated and offscreen, a spirit will appear and ascend to the top of the screen. It can be collected before it has disappeared to receive points, which vary depending on the enemy. Sakura will sometimes drop petals that the player can collect, and Damazu will sometimes run around, dropping bombs. To advance to the next stage, the player must defeat all eight enemies by using shurikens.
Source: Wikipedia, "Ninja JaJaMaru-kun", available under the CC-BY-SA License.
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require_relative 'base_command'
module GitIssue
class ListCommand < BaseCommand
def parse(args)
options = OpenStruct.new()
options.tags = []
options.not_tags = []
options.formatter = GitWorker.list_format
parser = OptionParser.new do |opts|
opts.on("-a", "--all", "also show closed issues") do |message|
options.all = true
end
opts.on("-t", "--tag TAGS", "filter to issues with tag") do |tags|
options.tags = Tag.parse(tags)
end
opts.on("-f", "--find SEARCH_STRING", "filter to issues with text") do |search_string|
options.find = search_string
end
opts.on("-n", "--not-tag TAGS", "filter to issues without tag") do |not_tags|
options.not_tags = Tag.parse(not_tags)
end
opts.on("-p", "--pretty FORMATTER", "specify output format") do |formatter|
options.formatter = formatter
end
end
parser.parse!(args)
cl_tag = args.shift
if cl_tag then
options.tags << Tag.new({:key => GitWorker.default_tag, :value => cl_tag})
end
options
end
def run(options)
issues = Issue.all
if !options.all then
issues.delete_if{|i| i.status == "closed"}
end
if options.tags.any? then
issues.delete_if{|i| !Helper.tags_match(options.tags, i.tags)}
end
if options.not_tags.any? then
issues.delete_if{|i| Helper.tags_match(options.not_tags, i.tags)}
end
if options.find then
issues.delete_if{|i| !(i.title.include?(options.find) or
i.description.include?(options.find))}
end
issues = issues.sort_by{|i| i.created_at}
write_output [Issue.table_header(options.formatter),
issues.map{|i| i.as_table_row(options.formatter) }.join("\n")].join("\n")
end
@@help_message ="\
Queries the issue datastore.
Usage: git issue list [default_tag_specifier] [options]
Default tag specifier:
When present, the default tag specifier restricts results to issues with the
default tag set to the queried value. For example, if the default tag is
'kind' (which is the default default tag), then `git issue list feature` will
present all open issues with the tag kind:feature.
Options:
-a, --all
includes all issues in the resultset, including closed issues.
-t, --tag TAGS
limits results to issues with tags matching TAGS
-n, --not-tag TAGS
limits results to issues without tags matching TAGS
-f, --find SEARCH_STRING
limits results to issues containing SEARCH_STRING in the title or
description.
-p, --pretty FORMAT=withtags
specifies the output format for the matching issues. Currently available
options are 'oneline', 'withtags', and 'detail'
Examples:
git issue list # all open issues
git issue list bug -t priority:high # all open bugs with priority=high
git issue list feature -n milestone # open features without a milestone
git issue list feature -t milestone:v2.1.? # features for version 2.1.x
git issue list bug -t assigned_to:c* # bugs assigned to chris, cathy, etc.
"
end
end
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Q: What are the tools required to develop iOS applications? What are the tools (hardware/software) required to develop iOS applications? Because I want to learn iPhone application development.
A: You'll need a Mac (any current model will do) and Xcode which can be downloaded from the Mac App Store. It comes with all the tools necessary, including a Simulator. It nevertheless is recommended to test apps on the hardware (aka an iPhone) as well.
Additional details can be found here.
A: If Xcode is too complex, you might consider something such as Xojo. With Xojo you can make native iOS apps (and more) using easy drag and drop and Visual Basic-like coding.
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The C&C Burkman Family Blog:: The Year in Review!!
Hooray for blog posts! It was fabulous.
Merry Christmas. Man, you guys are BUSY! I don't envy you but it will go by fast. The update was great. In case you haven't checked my blog lately..... I am pregnant.....again! I think I am over the shock.
you guys are BUSY!!! But it's good to hear you are still alive! :D loved getting your christmas card, love you guys!
Wow! You guys have been busy busy! I love all the pictures! Cylie is just darling!
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Chevrolet after a three-year interval launched the second generation of the Chevrolet EL Camino in 1964 and it had an immediate impact. The car went on to sell extremely well in the Midwest, because drivers cherished the drivability of the car with the level-headedness of a truck.
The 1965 Chevy EL Camino was given some careful modifications in 1965 together with some extra engine options that made the car drive even better. The Increase in sales figure that year demonstrated that Chevy had an excellent blueprint where the new EL Camino was concerned.
However, there was officially just one EL Camino model in 1965, but it could be modified in almost any way the driver required. Buyers who ordered the Custom package got improved interior and exterior trim, and could also prefer to include the sport trim, which was basically an SS package, except in name.
A total of 34,724, 1965 EL Camino models were manufactured, which was about 2,200 higher than the number built the year before.
The 1965 EL Camino interior featured bucket seats and Chevelle SS wheel covers. Some trims modifications and upgrading done were a new 2-key ignition system and amplified sound-numbing insulation, an auto compass, an optional "low D-note" horn could be included in the standard 2-horn system to give a unique signal, a cruise control and an AM-FM radio became available for the first time.
While the 1965 Chevrolet EL Camino still has the standard 195-BPH two-barrel 283 in V-8 models, as the optional 4-pot version was cut. The 300-horsepower 327 V-8 engine was now easily obtainable. Its 250-BPH compatriot employed new cylinder heads and a broader-diameter singe exhaust system having an optional dual system. The remarkably strong L79 350-BPH 327 was also obtained. The 194-CID engine six-cylinder models remained standard.
The optional 230-cube engine was now timed at 140-BPH, owing to losing its unique camshaft and chrome accents.
The 1965 Chevrolet EL Camino specs boasted a new hood, grille, and front bumper which came to a slim crest at the center, taking the place of the flat-faced 1964 design. Therefore, the general vehicle length was stretched an extra 2.5 inches. External engine ID appears on the front-wheel gap in all engines except the base six.
A new single-lens, taillight design was employed. The back-up lamps were transferred to the rear bumper, increasing lighting when reversing. The tailgate insignia border altered from black to red in the lower area and from gold to white at the top. Also standard on the new models were lower bodyside moldings. There were 12 exterior color choices, 10 of them new for buyers to choose from. Otherwise, the design and appearance of the EL Camino remained very much akin to what they had been the previous year, other than the exclusion of the Chevelle badge.
The 1965 Chevrolet EL Camino was practically unrivaled in this year as it outsold all other models and car brands and till date is highly viewed as a muscle car which made a statement.
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Home › Supplement Ingredients › Sitosterol (Beta-Sitosterol)
Health Benefits And Uses Of Sitosterol (Beta-Sitosterol)
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Beta-sitosterol Background and Benefits
Beta-sitosterol is a phytosterol, which is a sterol produced by plants. It is chemically similar to cholesterol, and the pure form is a waxy, white powder. Beta-sitosterol is soluble in alcohols but insoluble in water.
The most abundant dietary sources of beta-sitosterol include avocados and pecans. Additional sources include corn oils, pumpkin seeds, rice bran, soybeans and wheat germ. Beta-sitosterol is also found in other plants such as saw palmetto, sea-buckthorn and wolfberries.
Beta-sitosterol can also be biosynthesized in the body, generally during the process of making cell membranes. The specific process of making beta-sitosterol varies between organisms, but it typically uses cycloartenol. The deoxyxylulose and mevalonate pathways are also important in the biosynthesis of beta-sitosterol.
The complete synthesis of beta-sitosterol in the laboratory is not yet possible, although it can be synthesized from stigmasterol. The primary difficulty in using beta-sitosterol as a chemical intermediate is establishing a chemical point of attack on beta-sitosterol's side chain. The best solution at this time is to ferment a solution of beta-sitosterol with a species of pseudomonas bacteria.
Beta-sitosterol's similarity to cholesterol may cause it to restrict the cholesterol that enters the body. This action may allow beta-sitosterol to help manage healthy cholesterol levels. It may also bind to the prostate gland in men, which can help relieve discomfort.
Uses of Beta-sitosterol
The most common use of beta-sitosterol is to support heart and prostate health. Other uses include burn management and exercise recovery.
Heart health support
Oral supplements of beta-sitosterol may help you to maintain a healthy cholesterol profile, especially total and low-density lipoproteins (LDL) levels.
Marathon runners may also use topical preparations of beta-sitosterol to relieve discomfort after a run and help support the body's natural recovery process.
Burn management
Some people use an ointment containing beta-sitosterol and berberine to manage second degree burns.
Prostate health support
A man's prostate gland routinely gets larger as part of the aging process, which is known medically as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Beta-sitosterol may help relieve the discomfort of BPH, which include difficult or uncomfortable urination.
Signs You May Need Beta-sitosterol
A high level of LDL in the blood, which is often the result of a high-fat diet, is one of the most common signs that you may benefit from beta-sitosterol. You may also want to take beta-sitosterol as a preventative measure if you have a family history of high cholesterol levels or other cardiovascular conditions. Prostate discomfort is also an indication that beta-sitosterol may help you. This condition is especially common in men who are more than 50 years of age.
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Three Ways to Reduce Stress that are Backed by Science
When it comes to managing stress, the internet is full of advice and techniques. Google gives a plethora of advice for managing stress including 'light a candle', 'use of aromatherapy oils' and 'guided muscle relaxation'. If you're open to trying ...
Other Ingredients That May Be Of Interest
Prostate Health Support Quercetin Background and Benefits Quercetin is the common name for the chemical formally known as 3,3',4',5,7-pentahydroxy-2-phenylchromen-4-one. It is chemically classified as a flavonol, which plants often use as pigments. Quercetin is synthesized by many plants, althoug...
Support for Prostate Health Saw Palmetto Background and Benefits Saw palmetto, known scientifically as Serenoa repens, is the only member of the Serenoa genus. It is a small palm with a maximum height of about 10 feet. Saw palmetto typically grows in dense thickets in sandy soil, usually as under...
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The summer started with lovely holiday from work for me. One of the main reasons I started my own business was to be really flexible with my working hours in order to never miss anything with my children; my previous job was pretty much the opposite. So June and July were quiet in Baby Massage terms, but very busy family wise. We had lots of fun at sports days and nursery trips and special classroom visits. Then we jetted off to not-so-sunny Spain for a week and a complete break from work for me – something which is VERY hard to manage when you run the whole business all by yourself!
This July, I introduced some new Family Workshops and taught little groups of mummies with children story massage and peer massage. The children ranged in age from 2 to 8 and everyone enjoyed learning lots of different massage techniques, stories and songs. The children created their own story massages too.
I had another lovely nursery visit at the beginning of August. The group of about 15 3-5year olds were totally captivated and clearly loved learning peer massage. I taught them four simple strokes to massage a partner's back and introduced the Weather Massage. The only interruption was from two brothers who were very keen to tell me they had seen an actual tornado in real life! We finished the session with some Incy Wincy Spider teamed with back massage actions.
It was a huge privilege to be invited to two parties this summer hosted by very inspiring local business mums. My children and I had lots of fun at the Yummikeys first birthday party; I left the children at home for Lottie's Baby Boutique launch party at Tiger Lily!
As the school holidays draw to a close, I have started Baby Massage five week IAIM courses again and I am currently working with a lovely group of mummies with babies at the Glencorse Centre. My next block of Baby Massage at Glencorse (September) is completely full with a waiting list but I am taking bookings for the course starting 3rd October.
I am starting teaching at a new venue from 30th August – Leaf and Bean Café in Morningside – very exciting!
To book a class or enquire about a school or nursery visit, complete a contact form and I'll get back to you ASAP.
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Certificate of authenticity issued by the Paul Sérusier Committee, in Pont-Aven, dated May 3rd, 2016.
31 x 32 cm / 12.2 x 12.6 in.
Notice of inclusion issued by the Wildenstein Institute, to be included in the forthcoming Renoir's Catalogue Raisonné, dated October 7th, 2008.
Catalogue Raisonné d'Edouard Vuillard, by Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Wildenstein Institute / Skira, 2003, Vol.II, illustrated under n°VII-425, p.754.
Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre céramique de Picasso de 1947 à 1971, by Alain Ramié, Madoura, 1988, similar ceramic described and illustrated under the n°250, p.133.
15.5 x 23.2 cm / 5.9 x 9.1 in.
Pissarro: Catalogue Critique des Peintures Vol.III, by Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Editions Skira / Wildenstein Institute, Paris, 2005, illustrated in color under n.895, p.589.
38.2 x 22.5 x 32.7 cm / 14.9 x 8.7 x 12.6 in.
Notice of inclusion in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre sculptée d'Auguste Rodin, by Jérôme Le Blay, dated February 5th, 2015.
Signed lower right : Francis Picabia ; Titled, dated, dedicated and signed on the reverse : 14 avril 1922, "Très sympathiquement au Comt Lefranc"
Certificate of authenticity issued by the Picabia's Committee, dated September 14th, 2018.
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Remember when films like "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory" and "Time Cop" were dignified with theatrical releases? Yeah, I'm getting misty-eyed too. I got a chance to talk at length the other day with the one and only Jean-Claude Van Damme and the interview is definitely worth checking out if you've ever been a fan. I really felt for the guy as he wistfully hoped for a comeback.
Anyway, in the course of our chat, Van Damme revealed that he and Seagal nearly came to blows on the screen way back when in a little film called "Demolition Man!"
Here's what he told me: "Years ago it was proposed that I would do a film with Steven Seagal. I was supposed to be in 'Demolition Man' with him. It was a great project. The script I read was a lot different than the one Sly did with Wesley Snipes. I was the bad guy. He was the good guy because he was the Warner Bros guy."
The mind practically explodes at the film that might have been, doesn't it? So did Warner Brothers make the right choice or would you have liked to have seen a Van Damme take on Simon Phoenix? Sound off.
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Q: D3.js not appending updated tree in HTML I am using D3.js Drag and Drop tree in angular js. It is working fine but whenever I am visting any link which changes the json input for d3.js which must changed the tree at front end but its not happening. The update function of d3 is called but its not updating tree in frontend.
Here is demo plunker http://plnkr.co/edit/Goe2xT0ZIZH4JGEaHUeN?p=preview I have created. Here you can see on first time Home as the parent node but when you click on link to change input json the tree is not updated , you can check in console that update function called.
Here is the link of my reference http://bl.ocks.org/robschmuecker/7880033
A: What happens is that the new SVG is being appended to the container, and since there is a white background, the first graph remains on top. All you need to do is clean the container by changing line 149 of dndtree.js to var baseSvg = d3.select("#tree-container").html("").append("svg"), where html("") cleans it up. You can also clean the container beforehand elsewhere.
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Round Diamond Journey Ring in 14k White Gold | Shane Co.
Your life's journey together is symbolized by this ring of six round diamonds at approximately .20 carat total weight. These dazzling hand-matched diamonds are set in 14 karat white gold.
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Something old, something new, something borrowed and plenty of blues.
No, there wasn't a wedding — but Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers did achieve a near-perfect union of musical styles and eras during their Saturday night gig at MTS Centre.
Playing the downtown arena for the second time in 24 months and armed with tunes from their first new album in almost eight years — not to mention more than three decades of radio-rock standards and staples — the veteran California sextet held 10,000 rambunctious fans in the palm for the duration of a well-paced 115-minute set.
"It's great to be back here," remarked the 59-year-old Petty, looking dapper in a blue velvet suitjacket, his recent beard trimmed back to a demonic goatee. "We've got quite a lot of songs to play for you tonight, so I'm gonna get right to it."
Bruce Springsteen, Sting and Tom Petty came from blue-collar families, fell in love with rock 'n' roll as kids, launched their recording careers in the 1970s and all ended up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
And they're all still active and vital. Sting and Springsteen remain among the Hall of Fame's most ambitious musicmakers. Sting, 58, performed in St. Paul Monday with a 45-piece symphony doing orchestral interpretations of his vast catalog. Since being AARP eligible, Springsteen, now 60, has become a prolific recording artist and age-defying dynamo onstage who has outdistanced his longtime bandmates.
Petty, who turns 60 in October, remains pretty much the same as he ever was. Except that the Heartbreakers, the King of Laidback Rock's band, sound better than ever -- well into their fourth decade together. On Tuesday at the Xcel Energy Center, Steve Ferrone's drums were thick, crisp and driving, Mike Campbell's guitar glistened, Scott Thurston's guitar, organ and harmonica filled in the gaps, Benmont Tench's keyboards splashed colors from a wide palette, and Ron Blair's bass added precision bounce. When you've got a band that crackles like that, Petty couldn't help but sound good.
What a night. What a singalong.
When Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers delivered "American Girl," their most longstanding hit, the 10,000-plus in attendance answered back with loud, breathless singing of the inconic chorus: "Oh yeah. Alright. Take it easy, baby. Make it last all night. She was an American Girl."
While that song stood out the most, it certainly wasn't out of place as Petty and his band performed 18 songs on Wednesday night at Qwest Center Omaha.
"Well how are ya?" Petty said. "We're back in Omaha one more time. We got a lot of songs planned for ya tonight and, well, we're going to get right into it."
CORPUS CHRISTI -- It's been nearly eight years since Tom Petty released an album with his band the Heartbreakers.
A highlight of the band's sprawling catalog is the tough, slickly produced "Damn the Torpedoes," its 1979 masterwork that has become the record against which most of Petty's releases have been measured.
It wasn't until 1989's "Full Moon Fever," a solo project apart from the Heartbreakers, that Petty's laid back approach emerged with winning results. The album yielded a handful of hits, not the least of which was "Free Fallin'," his watermark solo moment.
Through the '90s and beyond, Petty has recorded with and without the Heartbreakers, but on his latest, "MOJO" (Reprise), he regroups with the guys to concoct an intoxicating brew of blues, folk, and his own brand of rock that rolls a little slower than past efforts but is no less interesting.
Tom Petty chose the title for his latest project well.
MOJO pretty much says it all.
Petty, who will turn 60 this fall, truly got his mojo workin' when he and The Heartbreakers entered the studio to make what is, for all intents and purposes, their first real studio album in more than five years.
"With this album, I want to show other people what I hear with the band," the Grammy Award-winning Petty says on his website. "MOJO is where the band lives when it's playing for itself."
Only they're not playing for themselves, they're playing for you.
Tom Petty has always been a fan of straight up rock 'n' roll with a bit of the blues thrown in. A lot of his music reflects his influences and contemporaries from people like Bob Dylan and George Harrison, to bands like the Beatles and The Yardbirds. But having said that, Tom Petty is his own musician, his own rock star and his own influence.
This is his 12th studio album with his band The Heartbreakers and it's an album of all the honesty one has come to expect from a hardened bunch of musicians led by the charming Tom Petty. The smirky delivery of lyrics and the simplistic arrangements make this one a breeze to listen to. An interesting thing to note is that the album was recorded live in a studio with most musicians including Petty playing on vintage equipment. Now that's cool.
For their first studio album in eight years, Petty & co return to blues-based basics, with mixed results. Petty and the rest of the seasoned team must have mused over old memories for hours before coming up with this riff-laden collection; guitarist Mike Campbell even dug up his old wah-wah pedal to add authenticity to the mix. There are 15 tracks on Mojo, which as at least two too many; the turgid Lover's Touch and the ersatz reggae of Don't Pull Me Over are simply wearing. But Petty, now edging 60, is on better form letting it rip on Jefferson Jericho Blues; recalling his rakish past on The Trip's to Pirate's Cove, shuffling J.J. Cale-like on Let Yourself Go; coming over all tender on No Reason to Cry; and savouring British blues-rock on I Should Have Known It. The ghosts of past blues giants pervade, but the band's distinctive voice keeps the album well ahead of its influences.
Nearly a decade ago, U2 proudly announced it was reapplying for the job of the best band in the world. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have never made such an audacious claim. But Saturday at a packed United Center, the ensemble made a strong case for at least being considered for the position. The sextet's inventive days are gone, yet the communication, cohesiveness and chemistry that Petty and his mates demonstrated for 110 minutes should serve as a lesson to all musicians—particularly hoary legacy acts content to coast on their laurels.
From the big jangle of the opening "Listen to Her Heart" through the country-tinged pep of the closing "American Girl," the Heartbreakers treated every tune as a vehicle for collaborative expression. Akin to the 2005 World Champion White Sox, there aren't any superstars in the Heartbreakers. Dressed in a crushed velvet sports coat, Petty didn't hog the spotlight, and neither did his eager supporting cast. The all-for-one approach allowed each member to step in with key contributions, whether they came in the form of keyboardist Benmont Tench's raindrop-evoking piano fills or jack-of-all-trades Scott Thurston's dusty harmonica accents. Reinvigorated since their last tour, the Heartbreakers epitomized how a great rock band operates—and acts.
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Aurellien is a start up business born from the already successful Renfrewshire Electronic Group. Their unique joined up HR services proposition needed its own brand identity to reflect a high level business.
Give us a classy look.
Aurellien's team has an astonishing amount of experience of working at high levels in HR, in some seriously sized businesses. Targeting blue chips in the drinks and IT sectors meant we needed a polished look and feel. We decided to go with the warm tones of whisky to reflect their experience, traditional values, and individuality.
Warm copper tones used in the core brand look are also reflected in the unique image overlays we created for use in the Aurellien website. Designed with the goal of establishing credibility and driving people to their door for further info, we've taken an open and spacious approach to the design look, whilst using icons and strong pull quotes to draw in the eye and engage site visitors.
Like the adverts for the cop shows.
It's great to have a client that wants to be different. When we discussed team photography for the site, Aurellien said it again – we want something classy and professional, but a little different from the average corporate headshots. Two hours in the studio, and another few in post-processing and they tell us we've nailed it.
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If application activity ceases, whether because the application is shut down, or because human users have gone home and stopped introducing updates, the slon(1) will iterate away, waking up every sync_interval milliseconds, and, as no updates are being made, no SYNC events would be generated. Without this timeout parameter, no SYNC events would be generated, and it would appear that replication was falling behind.
There is a concommittant downside to this lag; events that require all nodes to synchronize, as typically happens with SLONIK FAILOVER(7) and SLONIK MOVE SET(7), will have to wait for this lagging node.
That might not be ideal behaviour at failover time, or at the time when you want to run SLONIK EXECUTE SCRIPT(7).
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Schools Matter: Why Did KIPP Hire a Principal It Knew Was a Convicted Felon?
Why Did KIPP Hire a Principal It Knew Was a Convicted Felon?
After a decade of working for KIPP Aspire Academy, the principal of the charter school has been put on administrative leave while the Texas Education Agency reviews his employability, complicated by two convictions of federal financial crimes in 1994.
Roy Feliciano, now 54, was an employee of the FBI in Puerto Rico before he was indicted in 1994 on charges of making false claims to the government and "knowingly participating as an employee of the FBI in a particular matter in which, to his knowledge, his spouse had a financial interest," court records show.
In a plea agreement, Feliciano admitted to those charges while other charges of conspiracy, forgery and several more counts of false statements were dropped.
According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, the charge of making false statements is a felony, while the charge pertaining to FBI employees is a misdemeanor.
Feliciano was sentenced to six months of house arrest, five years of probation and a $200 fine.
His wife, Evelyne Derose-Feliciano, also took a plea deal in which she admitted to aiding and abetting and making false statements. She was ordered to pay $13,800 in restitution to the FBI.
Records detailing the facts of the case are archived in Missouri and were not immediately accessible. Feliciano could not be reached Tuesday for comment.
In a prepared statement Tuesday, KIPP San Antonio refused to name Feliciano but identified him as a school leader. His school, the Aspire Academy, enrolls fifth- through eighth-graders in the 700 block of Fredericksburg Road. The school enrolled 430 students in the 2013-2014 school year, according to TEA records.
KIPP San Antonio said Feliciano was hired in 2005 and that, during the interview process, he voluntarily disclosed his conviction "for making false statements in a government investigation." KIPP hired Feliciano after conducting background and reference checks, the statement said.
"We also consulted with an attorney who informed us that it was legal to employ the individual," the statement said.
KIPP, short for the Knowledge is Power Program, is a national network of free, open-enrollment charter schools that is "dedicated to preparing students in underserved communities," according to its website.
According to the Texas education code, a person who has been convicted of a crime "involving moral turpitude" may not be employed in an open-enrollment charter school. The code does not define moral turpitude.
Another law, enacted two years after Feliciano was hired, requires TEA approval of open-enrollment charter teachers and administrators after a review of their national criminal history.
As required by law, Feliciano had been fingerprinted for the TEA's database, but a spokeswoman could not say when the fingerprints were submitted, whether the agency had ever reviewed his criminal history or if KIPP had provided all the information to the agency that the law requires. . . .
Felons. KIPP. Birds of a feather?
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MCNet Coaches
Being recognized as a Ministry Coach in the Network signifies that one identifies with the core values and is using our materials to bring about the transformation process with existing leaders and organizations or mentoring new leaders to develop new ministries and organizations. While each coach is part of the global network, they typically are engaged in local ministries and part of other organizations. MCNet does not have a hierarchical structure focused on position, rather it is a movement of like-minded leaders committed to raising up another generation of servant leaders within their context.
Currently we have Associate and Ministry Coaches in Eastern & Western Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and North America.
Possible Coaching Options:
Associate Coaches
Share MCNet Values
Use MCNet materials in one's own ministry
Limited access to resources
Ministry Coaches
Coach and train Teams from other Organizations
Equip other Ministry Coaches
Develop Regional and/or National network
Invitation to Triennial Consultation
Unlimited access to resources
Phil & Nancy
After being associate pastor in the 1980s, Phil and Nancy began ICM Canada in 1989 and moved to Kenya with their young daughter in 1990 to do Pastoral training in East Africa. After this, they responded to a call for leadership training in the post-Soviet lands in the late 1990s and moved to Berlin in 2000. While there they developed the Mentoring materials and joined together with Doug and Rebecca and Gary to develop the rest of the Ministry Coaching materials. He has a BA in Theology, an MA in Curriculum Development, and a PhD in Organizational/Leadership Development. He currently teaches workshops, coaches teams and consultations around the world as well as being a catalyst for the Ministry Coaching Network. phil@icmcanada.org or jeske.nancy@gmail.com
Doug & Rebecca
Doug and Rebecca began their ministry as church planters in Canada. They have also both effective teachers and Doug has also been the academic dean of a Bible School for many years. They have been catalysts for change in the Canadian church as they have mentored leaders, helped churches through transition, as well as being mediators of church conflict. Doug and Rebecca have also travelled internationally on behalf of the Network teaching on leadership and church health and are currently pastoring a church in Canada. Doug is the co-author of many of MCNet's materials and is president of CLIMB Canada, providing leadership to the growing movement of MCNet in Canada. doug@lifelongleading.ca or rebecca@lifelongleading.ca
Rafik & Safia
Rafik and Safia grew up in Tanzania and become followers of Jesus after growing up as Muslims. Rafik began his ministry as a evangelist in East Africa and also planted and pastored churches in Tanzania. With the heart of an evangelist, Rafik's passion is to share the Good News of the Gospel in every aspect of his life. Currently they (and their six children and grandchildren) live in Canada. He is a trained counselor and works with at-risk adults struggling with addiction and homelessness as a Salvation Army chaplain. As an MCNet Coach, he also regularly travels to East Africa to train leaders and see the Church in Tanzania and East Africa mature and grow. rafikdaudjee@yahoo.com
Gary & Gail
Gary and Gail have been cross-cultural missionaries for over three decades. Their ministry began in Guatemala where they helped to lead a substantial ministry. From Latin America, they moved to Germany several months before the fall of the Berlin wall. For many years they pastored an international church in the city as well as being involved with a humanitarian organization providing aid to many developing nations. Gary has helped to develop the MCNet materials and has taught seminars on every continent. As a minister at large with the Network he continues to provide an oversight and advisory role. cooperlwm@aol.com
Karl & Claudia
Karl and Claudia are currently pastoring a church in Magdeburg, a city in the former East Germany. Since first meeting Phil and Gary in Berlin in the early 2000s, Karl has travelled extensively with MCNet, sharing with the next generation the importance of mentoring. Being the citizen of several countries and speaking multiple languages, has enabled Karl to adapt to many cross cultural ministry settings. Claudia has a degree in psychology and operates a private practice in Germany, in addition to serving in their church. In addition to teaching internationally with MCNet, they are part of a network of church planters in Germany and have a heart for the next generation of leaders in Europe. aservant@gmx.net
Valera & Narina
Valera and Narina are based in the Caucasus region of southern Russia. They serve a fellowship of churches providing mentoring for young leaders, as well as being catalysts to see many in their fellowship of churches begin focusing on the next generation. Using the MCNet materials, they have developed an extensive strategy to provide workshops and coaching to the leaders of their fellowship, providing many unique innovations to contextualize the MCNet materials. They are currently serving in St. Petersburg in a church plant and various ministries throughout the city. She is also a sought after translator, travelling internationally to serve in this capacity. They have a desire to train leaders and see churches become effective multipliers of ministry in Russia as well as in many other countries. kudaevv@gmail.com or nkudai@mail.ru
Alexey & Tatiana
Alexey and Tatiana live in Moscow and serve in many capacities of ministry in the city and surrounding region. In addition to being on a pastoral team of a local church, Alexey also is the Rector of an evangelical bible school in Moscow. Here he has developed many innovative programs based on the cornerstone of mentoring relationships. He serves many churches in the Network, equipping and coaching ministry teams. Tatiana operates a counseling centre, as well as being a professor in both Russia and Germany. They both are fluent in English and have each earned a PhD. In addition to their heart for the Russian Church they have travelled internationally as MCNet coaches. They continue to have a passion to see the evangelical church in Russia truly become contextualized and are involved in many local and international networks that help to facilitate this. algorbachev@gmail.com or tgorbacheva@etsmoscow.org
Deo (Deodatus)is originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo and currently are based out of the USA. Before coming to Christ, Deo was a Muslim Imam in East Africa, where he taught Islaam studies for nearly twenty years. Using his dramatic testimony, he teaches seminars regarding how to reach Muslims. He also has an extensive teaching ministry to leaders in many African countries. His focus with MCNet is on Francophone Africa and he travels regularly to teach workshops in West Africa and coordinate MCNet in Africa. While his focus in Africa, Deo truly has a global passion. He has travelled from South America to Europe and continues to raise up leaders who have a passion to be mentors for the next generation. dmwamba@gmail.com
Javier & Aidelys
Javier and Aidelys serve as ministry coaches in Cuba. His innovative approach has dramatically impacted the church as he mentored a movement of young people. Through his commitment to mentoring, he continue to raise up many young leaders. Javier was also the director of evangelism for his denomination and he has a has a heart to reach out across Cuba. He is currently developing a network of coaches within several centers in Cuba who are training leaders within the church and beyond. He desires to see a movement of healthy leaders and reproducing churches across Cuba that can impact the society in culturally relevant ways. javier@lpn.co.cu
Raydel & Madelines
Raydel and Madelines are medical doctors by training, but have sensed God direct them to focus on leadership training in Cuba and Latin America. Raydel has made the transition from being a specialized surgeon in Cuba, to mentoring other leaders in the church and coaching ministry teams. Together with Javier he provides leadership to MCNet in Cuba, but also has a heart for the rest of Latin America. He has been a catalyst to introduce the MCNet materials and process of leadership training among Spanish speaking leaders in many surrounding countries, including the USA. He regularly travels outside of Cuba in order to coach leaders and see the Network expanded in Latin America. raydelriquelme@gmail.com
Carlos & Jacqueline
Carlos is the director of a national ministry in Dominican Republic which focuses on a holistic approach to serving the community, addressing both practical and spiritual needs. To accomplish this they partner with several organizations including MCNet. His goal is to see healthy leaders raised up in DR, so that they may lead healthy teams and healthy churches. He is a committed mentor and coach of other leaders and, with his team, is facilitating the expansion of MCNet throughout the Dominican. Through his many connections in Latin America, he and Raydel are also involved in expanding the Network in other countries in the Caribbean, Latin and South America. cpimentel@empoweringaction.org
Maxym & Anya
Maxym and Anya lead the Mission of Hope ministry in eastern Ukraine. They have a passion to see families restored to wholeness and with their team serve many displaced families in their region. From this ministry, they have also developed a team in order to plant a new church. Maxym is also a key regional leader in Ukraine for his denomination and in this capacity serves the leaders of churches in his district. They are also networkers and have assembled a team of leaders across denominations of which he is the MCNet coach in Ukraine. maxym.nadezhda@gmail.com
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The Crash WrestleCon show was a professional wrestling supercard event, scripted and produced by the Mexican lucha libre wrestling company The Crash Lucha Libre, which took place on April 6, 2018. The show was held at The Sugar Mill in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA and was the first time The Crash had held a show in the United States. It was part of a larger "WrestleCon" event that took place in New Orleans around the WrestleMania 34 show held on April 8, 2018. The show was later made available on demand on the High Spots network.
The show featured several inter-promotional matches between The Crash wrestlers and wrestlers from Impact Wrestling (IW) who were also a part of the larger WrestleCon event. In the main event Austin Aries defeated The Crash representative Penta el 0M in a match where Aries' Impact World Championship was not on the line. The show also featured the one-night reunion of the Latino World Order (lWo) in the semi-main event as Damián 666, L.A. Park, and Nicho el Millonario teamed up to defeat La Rebelión Amarilla ("The Yellow Rebellion"; Bestia 666, Garza Jr., and Mecha Wolf 450). The fifth match of the night featured three wrestlers who primarily worked for Impact Wrestling and not The Crash as Willie Mack defeated Brian Cage and Sami Callihan. The show featured a total of eight matches.
Production
Background
The first WrestleCon supershow was held in 2015 in San Jose, Calinfornia on the same weekend as WrestleMania 31 in near-by Santa Clara, California. The first show led to an annual event held by various wrestling promotions in the week leading up to WrestleMania. In 2018 WrestleMania 34 was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, leading to various WrestleCon 2018 shows being held in and around New Orleans in the week leading up to the big show. As part of that show The Crash Lucha Libre announced that they would be promotion a show at WrestleCon. It was not just the first time The Crash participated in WrestleCon but also the first time they promoted a show outside of Mexico.
Storylines
The Crash WrestleCon show featured eight professional wrestling matches scripted by The Crash with some wrestlers involved in scripted feuds. The wrestlers portray either heels (referred to as rudos in Mexico, those that play the part of the "bad guys") or faces (técnicos in Mexico, the "good guy" characters) as they perform in the ring.
Results
Aftermath
The Crash did not participate in the 2019 WrestleCon event in the New Jersey/New York area. The main event match between Austin Aries and Penta el 0M led to Penta winning the Impact World Championship from Aries on April 22, 2018, at the Impact Wrestling Redemption show. While his reign only lasted for two days before Aries regained the championship, it did lead to Penta el 0M appearing regularly for Impact Wrestling over the following year.
References
2018 in professional wrestling
2018 in Louisiana
April 2018 events in the United States
Events in Louisiana
Professional wrestling in Louisiana
The Crash Lucha Libre shows
Professional wrestling conventions
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HomeAuthor ShowcaseOnce Upon a Zombie: Book One: The Color of Fear | Dedicated Review
by: Charlie Kennedy
Once Upon a Zombie: Book One: The Color of Fear | Dedicated Review
Review sponsored by Billy Phillips
The Children's Book Review | October 1, 2015
Once Upon a Zombie: Book One: The Color of Fear
By Billy Phillips and Jenny Nissenson
Age Range: 11 and up
Publisher: Toon Studio Publishing (June 2015)
What to Expect: Sisters, Zombies, Halloween, and Fears
Heights, darkness, dancing in public—you name it, fourteen-year-old Caitlin is afraid of it. To add to her list of fears, it just happens to be Halloween. In a new city. In a new country. Without her mum. Caitlin's little sister, Natalie, however, is completely fearless, excited even, by the rumored sightings of dead people emerging from cemeteries around the world.
Then the impossibly cute Jack invites Caitlin to meet him at the local cemetery, keen to find out more about these mysterious sightings, and Natalie thinks Caitlin would be crazy not to go.
At the cemetery though, Caitlin thinks she's definitely crazy when she finds that it isn't Jack who's waiting for her, but a beautiful zombie with long, Rapunzel-like hair. Suddenly Caitlin finds that the characters from the stories Caitlin's mum read to her as a little girl are all alive, only they're are all very much, well, dead. Caitlin's needed in a fairytale world gone wrong, but can she overcome her fears to help save a land of zombies?
Once Upon a Zombie is an intriguing and original story, and one that's bound to appeal to fans of popular fairytale characters. There's a lot to like here: a modern, fun, and engaging voice, witty dialogue, and Caitlin's wisecracking, sassy and smart sister. Smart, too, is the vivid imagination of the authors, with some wonderful visual scenes including the moment when Jack, reduced to the size of a frog, windsurfs on a leaf. The wise, soul-searching caterpillar (who drinks organic mint tea, rather than smoking a hookah) shows how classic characters can be reinvented in such a fun and refreshing way.
At times, the book feels rushed, especially at the ending, with us hurtling through one action-riddled plot point after another—and the epilogue is a tad heavy handed. However, the imagination at work is wonderful, and the dialogue between sisters entertaining and convincing. Young readers looking for reinvented, well-known characters and a light-hearted romp of a read will no doubt enjoy Once Upon a Zombie.
Add this book to your collection: Once Upon a Zombie: Book One: The Color of Fear
Billy Phillips is a writer, creative director and producer. He has ghost-written thirteen best selling non-fiction books, some of which surpassed a million copies sold. This is his debut novel. He owns a large vintage collection of fairy tale books and art and lives in sunny and all-too-dry Southern California.
Jenny Nissenson is a writer, producer and entertainer. She has written for Nickelodeon and lives in Hollywood, California with 1009 puppets and her twenty-five year old pet tortoise.
Dedicated Reviews allow authors and illustrators to gain prompt visibility for their work. The author of "Once Upon a Zombie: Book One: The Color of Fear," Billy Phillips, sponsored this non-biased review. Learn more about getting a book review …
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Charlie Kennedy
A recent graduate from the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of San Francisco, Charlie is working on her own first children's fantasy novel. Originally from England, Charlie grew up fascinated by the works of Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl, and other European children's authors. Charlie pursued a career in journalism in both England and the UAE before returning to her true love of creative writing. When she's not writing or reading, Charlie can be found with her camera in tow, capturing the sights within her neighborhood and others, in her fair city of San Francisco.
Hols
To be honest I'm reading this book at the moment and it's really good but there is a few swear words in so I would recommend 12 and up or 13 and up but it's really good , it really goes on how mature your child is , if he or she knows it's a bad word an wouldn't say it than I would say it's fine but it is also a bit challenging because there is complicated words but this again goes on our child's capability so if he or she is great at reading there shouldn't be a problem Thx
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Your support in all forms -- prayers, gifts, and service -- allows many students to receive a quality Christian education that only a school like PCS can give. Your generosity makes a huge difference!
"I have found myself in tough financial situations....but I find if I wallow in these situations, I don't get out of them. However, when I get busy being a blessing to others, that is when God not only shows up, He shows off. One thing I know for sure: the best way through the eye of the storm -- should you ever find yourself in one -- is to get busy and start sowing a seed!"
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This order was sufficiently complicated that it's taken a couple weeks to fully come together. The client wanted to work Hindu elements (particularly emblems for Kali, Ganesh, and AMMA) into a Sheridan design. That on its own took some time but we upped the complexity a bit by narrowing the strap to 2" instead of the normal 2.5". That half an inch can make a big difference sometimes. Going with the theme I replaced the typical flowers used in Sheridan with lotus blossoms and heavily employed tinting to give the entire design some contrasts.
In addition there were two modifications to how the guitar strap connects to the guitar. Instead of having a hole at one end of the guitar strap we fixed a loop of latigo that closes with a stud button. That will wrap around the neck of the guitar and should work pretty well. On the other end I'd changed the cut of the little strip that connects to the bottom of the guitar. Formerly it was cut with a 2" square at one end for the strap to feed through itself. Material-wise this has been a cumbersome part of the pattern and in this case I was worried about the strip being as wide as the strap. So I replaced the square with a Dee and that seems to work reasonably well. The strip can be fed through the Dee in the same manner as before, or, since the Dee is too large to feed back through the strap, it can hold the strip in place on its own allowing for more options in how the strip and strap connect.
All in all this has been a pretty heavy project but I'm pretty content with how it's all come out. I'll probably start working some of these elements into the "default" design for the Bard guitar straps.
The client has exquisite taste, both in art and artisan.
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Posted on May 31, 2015 at 7:27 pm.
A combination of new products, and rediscovered herbal remedies have been found to have anti-aging effect for the skin.
They must be effective for you.
There must not be any ingredients that will also cause an allergic or other outbreak.
The ingredients must work together to produce a synergistic effect, and not chemically react with each other or you to cancel out their effects.
Finally, since many of the creams on the market contain synthetic ingredients to prevent spoilage, enhance smell, appearance, and feel, the product must be acceptable to you according to your sensibilities and the potential risks that these products may bring. Since you may differ from others on each of these points, my recommendations for each person may vary and may take time be formulated.
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According to scholars, one of the most influential individuals in the history of knowledge was a man by the lengthy name of Abū 'Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn 'Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā'. In English he is more commonly known by his Latinized name: Avicenna.
Approximately one thousand years ago, Avicenna discovered the contagious aspect of infectious diseases and was the first to prescribe quarantine as a means of limiting contagion.
However, more than two thousand years before Avicenna, the Children of Israel were practicing quarantine – not for physical maladies, but rather for spiritual ones.
The Torah explains in great detail the malady of tzaraat, which is commonly and mistakenly translated as leprosy. The Rabbis explain that tzaraat was a direct physical manifestation on the skin of a spiritually diseased person. It is most often associated with the sin of tale-bearing; however there are a host of other sins that are also attributed to tzaraat.
Part of the treatment for someone stricken with tzaraat was to exile them from the Camp of Israel. They were to have no human contact and be treated as if they were dead. The afflicted individual also practiced the rituals of mourning, basically mourning their own quasi-death (see this week's story below for a fictionalized interpretation).
Rabbi Hizkiyahu ben Manoach (Hizkuni) explains that the reason for the exile was not only as a corrective measure for the sinner. It was also to protect the community from the sinner's negative traits until his rehabilitation was complete and he could once again safely join the community of Israel. Hizkuni indicates that the condition of tzaraat, of picking up a spiritual ailment, is contagious.
Thus, according to Hizkuni, the exile of the sinner served a twofold purpose. The primary one was for him to be separated from his daily life, routine and overall normal human existence and consider the severity of his sin which has transformed him into someone who is functionally 'dead' in the eyes of God and the community. This painful separation would hopefully cause him to return from the error of his ways. The second was to keep the toxic influence of the person with tzaraat away from the community, lest it infect others.
May we always aim for and surround ourselves with spiritual health and thereby also achieve, maintain and spread physical health.
To the speedy recovery of all those that need it.
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Q: Using Dynamic Data-Model For $scope in AngularJs I want to do something like this:
function doSometing(array, dynamicID){
$scope.property1_dynamicID = SomeFunction();
$scope.property2_dynamicID = OtherFunction();
}
what is the right way to do this?
A: var propertyName = 'property1_' + dynamicID;
$scope[propertyName] = someFunction();
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using falkonry_csharp_client.helper.models;
using falkonry_csharp_client.service;
using System;
namespace falkonry_csharp_client
{
public class Falkonry
{
private readonly FalkonryService _falkonryService;
public Falkonry(string host, string token, SortedDictionary<string, string> _piOptions = null)
{
_falkonryService = new FalkonryService(host, token, _piOptions);
}
public Datastream CreateDatastream(DatastreamRequest datastream)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.CreateDatastream(datastream);
}catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public List<Datastream> GetDatastreams()
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetDatastream();
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public Datastream GetDatastream(string datastream)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetDatastream(datastream);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public bool ValidateAuthToken()
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.ValidateAuthToken();
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public void DeleteDatastream(string datastream)
{
try
{
_falkonryService.DeleteDatastream(datastream);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public Assessment CreateAssessment(AssessmentRequest assessment)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.CreateAssessment(assessment);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public List<Assessment> GetAssessments()
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetAssessment();
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public Assessment GetAssessment(string assessment)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetAssessment(assessment);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public void DeleteAssessment(string assessment)
{
try
{
_falkonryService.DeleteAssessment(assessment);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public InputStatus AddInput(string datastream, string data, SortedDictionary<string, string> options)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.AddInputData(datastream, data, options);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public InputStatus AddInputStream(string datastream, byte[] stream, SortedDictionary<string, string> options)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.AddInputFromStream(datastream, stream, options);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public EventSource GetOutput(string assessment, long? start, long? end)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetOutput(assessment, start, end);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public string AddFacts(string assessment, string data, SortedDictionary<string, string> options)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.AddFacts(assessment, data, options);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public string AddFactsStream(string assessment, byte[] stream, SortedDictionary<string, string> options)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.AddFactsStream(assessment, stream, options);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public HttpResponse GetHistoricalOutput(Assessment assessment, SortedDictionary<string, string> options)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetHistoricalOutput(assessment, options);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public List<EntityMeta> PostEntityMeta(List<EntityMetaRequest> entityMetaRequest, Datastream datastream)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.PostEntityMeta(entityMetaRequest, datastream);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public List<EntityMeta> GetEntityMeta(Datastream datastream)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetEntityMeta(datastream);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public void onDatastream(string datastreamId)
{
try
{
_falkonryService.onDatastream(datastreamId);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public void offDatastream(string datastreamId)
{
try
{
_falkonryService.offDatastream(datastreamId);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public HttpResponse getFacts(string assessment, SortedDictionary<string, string> options)
{
try
{
return _falkonryService.GetFacts(assessment, options);
}
catch (Exception)
{
throw;
}
}
public HttpResponse GetDatastreamData(string datastream, SortedDictionary<string, string> options)
{
try
{
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Q: Sylvester's criteria and Negative definite Matrices. A)Sylvester's criterion states that a Hermitian matrix M is positive-definite if and only if all leading principal minors are positive.
AA) a Hermitian matrix M is negative-definite if and only if all leading principal minors are negative.
B)a Hermitian matrix M is positive-semidefinite if and only if all principal minors of M are nonnegative.
BB) a Hermitian matrix M is negative-semidefinite if and only if all principal minors of M are nonpositive.
Now My question is the following::
1) Can AA) be deduced from A) ? Or vice versa..
2) Can BB ) be deduced from B) ? Or vice vera...
My Thoughts: I think they can be as if $A$ is positive definite or positive semi definite then $-A$ will be negative definite or negative semi definite.
So AA)[BB) ] can be deduced from A)[BB) ].
Edit I wanted to ask if AA)[BB) ] can be deduced from A) [B) ]???? Basically I wanted to know if Sylvester's law is useful to determine whether a Matrix is negative-semidefinite or negative definite?? I am sorry..PLease edit your answer accordingly..
Can anyone please correct me if I went wrong anywhere??
Thank You.
A: After long discussion I realised My thought was wrong. I was thinking that $det(-A) = - det(A)$. But this is possible only when $A$ is of odd order.
Now I will show how $A$ is negative definite if and only if all his LEADING principal minors of even order are positive and that of odd order are negative.
I assume that I know the Sylvester's criteria positive definite iff and only if all his LEADING principal minors are positive .
If $A$ is negative definite then $-A$ is positive definite. All $(-A)$'s LEADING principal minors are positive Then all the even order leading principal minor of $A$ will give positive determinant while the odd ones will give negative .
If all of $A$'s LEADING principal minors of even order are positive and that of odd order are negative. Then we can say all of $(-A)$'s Leading principal minor will be positive. So $-A$ is positive definite. So $A$ is negative definite.
$A$ is negative semi definite iff and only if all his principal minors of even order are non-negative and that of odd order are non-positive.
proof will involve the same argument.
A: Let $A$ be a symmetric $ n \times n $ - matrix. For $k=0,1,,,n$ we denote the leading principal minors by $d_k$.
$A$ is positive definite $ \iff $ all $d_k>0$;
$A$ is negative definite $ \iff (-1)^kd_k>0$ for $k=0,1,,,n$ .
A: I'll interpret your post as if there was an error in the line
My Thoughts: I think they will be equivalent as if $A$ is positive definite or positive semi definite then $A$ won't be negative definite or negative semi definite.
Obviously these statement are mutually exclusive. A positive definite matrix is definitely not a negative definite, semidefinite or positive semidefinite matrix can only be one of them. Said so, you are saying that the statement are equivalent in the sense that:
A matrix $A$ is positive definite $\Leftrightarrow$ $A$ is not negative definite
but this is most definitely not true because if a matrix is not, say, positive definite it can be either: negative definite, negative semidefinite or positive semidefinite! So that is why we have to have a definition for all four cases. Hope this clears your ideas
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The case of Shamima Begum, a UK teen who fled to Syria to marry a Daesh* fighter, has triggered controversy over security concerns in Britain as reports emerged saying that the 19-year old is seeking to return home after spending four years with militants in Syria.
Sputnik has discussed the security concerns related to Jihadi returnees from Syria in the UK, as well as the case of Shamima Begum, with Nick Griffin, a former member of the European Parliament.
Sputnik: The head of MI6 has warned that Britons returning from Syria are "potentially very dangerous". How likely is it that the pregnant woman will be allowed to return to Britain?
Nick Griffin: This woman's own interview comments, in which she made it clear that she regarded the beheading of defenceless prisoners of war, marks her out as an unrepentant Salafist bigot. As such she — and any children she raises — will always pose a clear and serious danger to decent people everywhere. Despite that, however, it is inevitable that — after a little face-saving verbal opposition from the home secretary — she will be allowed back into Britain by a government and legal elite that have long lost the convictions and will to stand up for genuine British interests.
Sputnik: Some politicians have said that she is unsuitable to return to the country. If she does return, what future awaits her in Britain?
She will be immediately given a fully refurbished flat at taxpayers' expense, plus all benefits. She will be interviewed by respectful police and social workers and may be given a token supervision order. The most serious sanction she really risks in Soft Touch Britain is to have her access to the Internet restricted.
Sputnik: The MI6 chief has warned that Daesh's downfall could result in al-Qaeda's resurgence. With the current stance the UK's intelligence services have on operations in Syria and the stance they have on returning jihadists, what consequences can this have on the country?
Sputnik: Given that the UK's official position for some 7 years has been to provide aid and propaganda support for "moderate Islamic rebels" who are allied to al-Qaeda (using the label al-Nusra in Syria) it seems a little strange for MI6 to start worrying about that at this stage! But, of course, he is right. The destruction of Daesh (primarily by Syria, Russia and Hezbollah, with, to be fair, a contribution by the Kurds) does indeed mean that al-Qaeda is once again going to recruit and grow. Which means that innocent people in Britain, America and Western Europe will be at added risk of terrorist atrocities in classic "blowback" as a result of the ruling elite's wicked policy of trying to use Wahhabi fanatics as weapons of globalist foreign policy in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and the Philippines.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author do not necessarily reflect those of Sputnik.
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Feature requests & ideas — submit and vote here!
I know this is not part of the invoice or quotes, but it would be a great future add-on if we were able to have an expense tracking system. Basically if my accountant could just login to my site under his own user account, and I could let him download all of the expenses, invoices and receipts that he needed.
Mollie is an upcoming European Payment processor.
When a quote is sent to a customer and the customer click on the link (quote ) then it will be registerd in "notes" with date and time when the quote has been read.
WP eSignature is a self-hosted alternative to DocuSign or other subscription-based document signing services. An integration (as seen with Sprout Invoices, for example) would allow clients to be directed to a document (contact, terms and conditions, etc.) before being permitted to accept a quote or pay an invoice. This is something I used heavily and would love to see it back as part of my workflow.
Currently once I have created all the invoices, I have to go to the list of invoices, sort by draft and then press the Email button next to each draft invoice. It would be amazing if I could select all draft invoices and do a bulk email of invoices to my users.
New tax field that allows options such as negative values and calculation before taxes. In Spain we have this type of mandatory tax (here it is called IRPF) and I know that in other countries it is also mandatory.
Nice to have also a expenses extension.
Also to integrade in Reports Dashboard.
It will be appreciated if you could "Receipt Settings" as well.
By default, it should have Cash and Check under there as well for in-person payments. Right now it only has the Payment Method as whatever payment gateway extension is installed, such as PayPal. Currently we have tp leave it blank and put a note in the Payment ID or Memo.
The ability to send an email before/after a quote expires would be awesome. Something like "Just a reminder your quote will expire on X date" as well as a notification that the quote has expired. If this had similar options to the payment reminders, that would be awesome. Also, I don't know exactly how the quotes behave once expired, but I'd love to see an "expired" status that will prevent the client from viewing the quote, maybe with a message I could set such as "This quote has expired. Click here to request a new one" or whatever is relevant.
I would be interested in an addon that would allow administrators to attach an image file to the invoice/ job number. A file that could be attached and sent separately from the invoice or quote, as an additional follow up email which is attached to the same job/ invoice number.
If you can visualize… on the backend interface, in the quotes area, next to the send email and pdf buttons in the upper right side, there could be a third button that would ask you to choose an image and a "send attachment" email. The system would then email the customer a link, just like as a quote or invoice, only it displays the image asking for an approval or reject.
The system would then display a status ont he backend list of invoices, next to the order status, weather it was approved or rejected. If its rejected the admin would just keep resending, same process, until it was approved.
Additionally, It could be used to attach other documents and contracts as well. If done right, you could add your own HTML containing whatever shortcode and other forms that may already be accessible on your site and or anything that needs customer approval or feedback .
currently, there is not a way to do this with the different amounts and different dates (not all the same amount or same timing so recurring or subscription cannot be used.).
Customers need to be able to pay partial amounts on invoices via Stripe.
Add the ability to show Client Area details in My Account for WooCommerce.
Ability to add widgets that connect to Sliced, such as Reports, on the Dashboard.
Could you please add a "Minimum payment due" box to the quotes/invoices pages.
Contextual emails would be great! E.g.
The Subscription Invoice extension is awesome, But it would be great to have the option for clients to be able to view and cancel their subscription from the client dashboard.
Currently Woo Invoices creates invoices only when using the "Pay by Invoice' method, or when an admin sets the order status to "Invoice". Perhaps add an option to create invoices for all orders, regardless of the above.
Example: Client A has two locations (Location A and B) instead having to create a separate login for each location, I would link the two, and they would show all on one account when logged in… (possibly tabs to toggle bewtween accounts, given an account name or the address of an account.
This contract module would manage contacts in conjunction with an invoice. Sharing/merging user and invoice data into a text document.
For example a customer signs a service/maintenance contract and after that the invoices are generated.
# Add Contract: Select template, fill the fields from the customer database, add extra information to the user profile related to the redaction of the contract, link automatic invoice generation.
# List Contracts: Edit contract, send contract by email, generate PDF, download Contract, Signed Status, Linked invoice.
# Add Template: Use default "tags" to be substituted dynamically, create custom "tags" to add user data into contracts layout.
This are only general ideas. I've been checking some contract software options but they lack the integration with invoicing.
I need to be able to create Quotes instead of Invoices when using the Woocommerce Checkout Payment Gateway.
Currently, the subscription invoice extension recurs the payment each month but does not create a new invoice showing it is paid each month. It would be best for the client to be able to access the paid invoice for each month (or whatever term), so they have a receipt/record of the payment.
On the invoice have an area to track payments for client reference for invoices that offer payment plans.
Automated reminder emails provide the very cool %is_was% parameter so can do past or future tense. There is an option to send a reminder ON the due date but there is no supporting present tense – it instantly feels like the payment is overdue to the client which takes them off guard or puts them on the defensive.
It would be really helpful to have an option for "Your payment is due today" as this would be the most useful reminder in a lot of cases. Even changing the cutoff from "is" to "was" to the day following the due date would help, but seeing "today" would be most meaningful to the recipient.
I have multiple agents and I would like a way to assign them to an invoice.
Add reports module to wp-admin Home for dashboard.
I create end of month invoices that I edit repeatedtly during the month as I do work for clients. At the end of the month I currently have to manually send the invoices to the client. It would be great if they just send automatically on the due date.
Would it be feasible to add a delivery address field to the invoicing screen – either stored per client or per invoice? The field could be pre-populated using the client address field (with a check box to show this) or an option to submit another address for the delivery. The Delivery address could be printed at the bottom left of the invoice page in the white space opposite the invoice totals.
The ability to send multiple quotes in the same email for the clients choice of decision.
Apply the option of creating a credit note allocated to an invoice for customer returns.
while the Braintree Payment Gateway is functional as in the payments do go through, no client info is passed on to the gateway other then card details. With WooCommerce for example, when a payment is made through a standard Braintree plugin, client name is passed on as well.
This allows a 3rd party, which we don't give access to WordPress and the Invoices section, to view Braintree exported transaction list and pair which payment belongs to which customer. If you don't pass on the name, then we have no idea which transaction belongs to who.
make more fields searchable, i.e. client name, email, etc.
To be able to allow or disallow sales tax per Line Item on Invoices. For instance, not impose a sales tax for Labor performed, but on the same Invoice be able to charge sales tax for items sold.
Thank you for making an awesome invoice plugin!
I do have a request of a much needed option, that currently is missing. I do understand that in the US prices are offered net. and tax is added on at sales. However, in most markets globally, prices are offered as full prices with VAT is already included in the price.
It has become very confusing for our clients being offered a full price (for one or multiple services) over phone, but when receiving the invoice, all items are in net.
So far every client receiving the quotes… and also invoices, has called or emailed asking how we compute these invoices….
Would it be possible to have an option where the full price can be itemized, and VAT is calculated in reverse and itemized as "VAT %" and "Whereof VAT" instead?
I'm trying to find a way to filter invoices and quotes "by number" but it's not possible, filtering function is working on "post name" but in a lot of cases customers are only using the invoices number as the payment reference on bank remittance. This is a big problem in manual registration of a payment when you have monthly hundreds of invoices. Difficult is improved by using "recurring invoice" where you can't use number of invoice on post name, because they are created automatically.
Hi, in the invoice, report are great you tell me how much invoice i have paid, due, passdue and so on. When you hover on a particular color in the graph it said how namy invoice are inthis part… NICE… but a really usefull thing to know is THE AMOUNT that is paid, due etc.etc….. can you add this please in the next release. in the loop that count then invoice of a particular status, you have the amout, just put a variable that increment, and show it up…. thanks in advance.
A way to add to quote a woocommerce product . A horizontal list of woocommerce products could be presented and the user could request a budget from several of them.
After submitting, a quote would be created with the products and units requested, and the administrator would only have to apply adjustments and edit some data.
When we offer clients multiple ways to pay, it would be great to have a column in the invoice list view (dashboard) that showed which Gateway was used, together with the paid date/time. I know this can be found in the single invoice view, but for accounting and admin purposes it would really help t have this info at-a-glance. Ditto for the CSV export, if it could have its own column in the export, would be very helpful. Thanks for your consideration.
Some of company pic is asking to cc them a copy invoice instead of just send to their account email.
Appreciate if u can consider about this.
I'd love an extension that allows messages or assign "packages" to be posted to clients' client areas so they see what services they have availed from me.
Add taxes into reports page.
Instead of starting email reminders at 7 days I am hoping that you can add 14 and 30 days to this setting. This way it gives clients more than a weeks notice to scramble up money.
Client hits your website, presses on the "gold" package, or "silver" package, if they are logged in, it would automatically create a billable invoice or membership. with the ability to pay on the page at checkout.
It would be super awesome to see an Aged Debtors Report – "Who owes money to me".
I have large number of clients and whenever I want to send them Invoices or quotes , for me It takes a lot of time bcz I need to search client one -by -one (in existing list) I am in a hurry Please Add a search option in the Update or make Paid extension I am happy to purchase this Paid extension too.
Adding a column before the Hrs/Qty and move the Hrs/Qty column next to Price/Rate.
Hello, another amazing feature would be adding categories to the invoices. This would also show up in the Invoice column. We could also be able to sort invoices by category.
My business has a few different divisions and assigning them each a category would speed up the accounting. This would also enable us to switch ALL of our transactions over to Sliced Invoices.
I need an additional field, a points field,that will be multiplied by the (adjust %) which is already there. The total will be the actual discount on the invoice.Looking forward for your urgent and prudent response.
For some clients, the invoice must be sent to multiple recipients.
I'd like to see a way to add this to the user record (_sliced_client_cc_email, user_meta perhaps) and auto populated in the modal for manually sending out invoices and receipts.
Currently, an invoice number is set on the moment of creation of an (draft) invoice, not on de moment when an invoice is set on "unpaid" (the moment of publishing, I would say).
In The Netherlands we need sequential invoice numbering. How things are handled how, I can't really prepare invoices in advance because that will break the sequence.
I'd like to add a "Draft" watermark to the pdf invoices.
The html variant uses the `sliced_get_invoice_watermark` function which has a filter to add extra watermark text.
The PDF does not use this function and has no option to add a custom watermark text.
There currently is a sliced_init_pdf *action*, but eg. to add a template to a pdf it's needed to return the pdf instance back to the method.
Using a sliced_init_pdf *filter* should make this possible (the filter returning the mpdf instance).
Feature to be able to change the Invoice Status (Unpaid, Paid, Cancelled, etc) from the Invoices page of the Admin instead of having to open and edit the Invoice.
Into the Invoice Web Page, add a button to allow paiements via TWINT.
This could be an extension like STRIPE and PayPal..
Add more fields in to stripe gateway plugin.
No have options for more simple fields how, description, address, zip code… in stripe gateway. Has only basic fields for add payments.
I started to use your system due online payments with our wordpress support plus ticket system. Anyway, our contry does not accept paypal or other brand gateways because of some tax problems and that's why we need to use national payment brands like paytr. But, they dont give any software support, they just share API.
Different numbering for two types of invoices. In my country (Greece), we have invoice for business client (that includes the vat id, address, name etc) and we have invoice for simple client (like a simple receipt).
I would like a way to define two numberings for these kind of invoices.
I have several clients for whom I issue several invoices each month depending on the services provided. Since they all have differing due dates, it would be awesome to be able to generate a 'Statement of Outstanding Invoices' at the end of each month, which can be emailed to them. Then the clients can easily see/choose which invoices need to be paid from that statement.
Make life easier for the client and there's a higher probability that we'll get paid on time.
Ability to change the footer text for estimates and invoices separately, rather than a single setting for both.
Please make Hungarian translation available.
If you connect Sliced Invoice with woocommerce, you cannot automatically enter additional checkout field data on your invoice.
So I would like to know if it is possible to ensure that the customer's extra data can be automatically included in the invoice.
I think Sliced Invoices and WP Booking system are both superb. However, as with any form of software, users will always have requests and here is mine.
Alongside WP Booking, I use Sliced invoices. Both work great, but don't interact with each other, I would like to auto create a user entry in Sliced Invoices Quote client when a booking is made through WP Booking. This would save me from having to retype all the details from WP Booking into the Quote user of Sliced Invoices. Possibly via some sort of 'Add to Users' button. That would copy all the details across to the User in Sliced invoices Quote User.
It's quite possible that it's already there, but I'm missing it.
My business runs a quarterly payment system where we invoice people four times a year. Would it be possible to add an option to the recurring invoices where you can add a quantity of invoices to a series? For example, you are going to create an invoice which would recur 4 times during 12 months, and after the year the recurring should stop.
Hi, I need an invoice for the purchase. Please send it to me. on k.hermant@hermant-avocat-versailles.fr.
When i import a CSV file of invoice with paid status, i would be great to send automatically an email to the client.
I would like to make one invoice for four different paypal accounts to pay 1/4 of the invoice total each.
I'd be down to pay for the add-on that did this.
I've look everywhere I think and can't seem to find where I can print an invoice with overdue on it or add an overdue stamp to the pdf.
I really need one for my business.
This is one of my customer's need and probably is a usual request.
One of my customer's request is to be able to add a line in between line items as a comment. I think this could be easily accomplished by disabling the mandatory rule for price.
It would be a nice feature to be able to mark a Client as Inactive. I have users that were created for clients because I have invoices for them but we are no longer doing business with each other. I would like to delete their user to limit unnecessary points of entry to the website but it would effect their invoices. Even if I could delete them, suppose I do business with them again a year later? If I could just make them Inactive so they wouldn't have a login option unless they were an Active client.
When quote converts to invoice, automatically send deposit invoice.
We need to be able to send our clients our estimates (which we can currently.) They then need to be able to review it, accept the quote, and then pay the deposit. Currently, the quote can automatically convert to invoice and then send the invoice but our clients only owe us a deposit to begin work, not the entire amount. I want to be able to set the plugin to automatically issue a deposit invoice as soon as the quote is accepted.
Attach PDF to existing Contact record in ZOHO CRM or create new contact record with PDF is created.
PayPal API allows for retrieval tax information upon checkout. It would be great if Sliced Invoices could support this by transferring the tax information during the transaction.
Please add the option to specify the order the discount is applied. According to some laws, there's a need for choosing whether the discount should be applied for a total price including the tax, or excluding it.
It would be great if we could select multiple invoices and edit their statuses from Overdue or Unpaid to Paid.
If a customer has a Stripe account on file, the ability to process a payment on that account from the admin screen. This is beneficial in a couple of scenarios.
1) Non-standard payments that occur on a semi-regular basis. A client authorizes up to $300 in work be billed when completed.
2) A client receives an invoice and calls to ask to process the payment. Being able to "add a payment" and have it process via stripe (or other gateways) would be great.
Implementation would be best on the edit invoice screen. Maybe a "Pay now with linked [Stripe] account' button or other payment gateway.
We have a need for our Standard Customers to have a 21 day invoice, and our Commercial Customers a 30 day invoice. Is there a workaround for this?
It is quite difficult to change the status invoice by invoice from "unpaid" to "paid", due to there is no bulk edition of invoices (a shame).
It would be great the possibility of bulk changing the status of the invoices, so we haven't to change them one by one in edit screen.
Had a thought. If we could have an option to NOT attached PDFs to an email from a select number of recipient countries that "might" address the issue. Whether it is instructions on how to edit the plugin to not attache PDF if country="one" or "two" or "three", etc.. The best way would be to have a check box when we create an invoice for a given recipient that we could say whether to attach a pdf to an email on a per recipient basis. Just some thoughts. We "anxiously" await your response.
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London is YOU! Police Officer Recruitment Meet and Learn Session
by The Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC)
Mon, 16 December 2013
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You are invited to attend a police officer recruitment event on behalf of the Mayor's Office for Policing & Crime (MOPAC) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on Monday 16th December at the Grand Palace Banqueting Suite, 242 High Rd, Wood Green, London N22 8JX between 6:00pm – 8:30pm followed by networking and refreshments.
London is one of the most diverse cities in the world, and as a capital city, presents an extremely complex policing challenge. An essential component of the Mayor's vision for the MPS is that their officers and staff should reflect the city it serves.
The MPS is currently undertaking a comprehensive recruitment programme, aimed at recruiting 5000 new officers by 2015. This presents a real opportunity to achieve the Mayor's vision that London is policed by Londoners – and a chance to increase the proportion of Black & Minority Ethnic (BME) officers within the Met.
In order to support this recruitment drive MOPAC has invited Ray Lewis, the Mayor's Senior Advisor on Mentoring, to form a small taskforce to work with the MPS and support the recruitment drive through a number of events aimed at increasing interest amongst BME Londoners to become police officers.
I do hope that you will be able to join us on the day. These events are important as they will enable you to find out about becoming a police officer and will provide an opportunity to hear and question existing police officers about a career in the MPS.
For further information visit: http://www.metpolicecareers.co.uk/newconstable/
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The recent SAIS Employment Outcomes Report compiles great data on the jobs and internships attained by the most recent graduating class, thanks to the efforts of the Career Services Office. The headline of the report, "93% of all graduates sought and found employment, obtained fellowships or internships, or pursued further study within six months of graduation," highlights the demand of SAIS graduates in today's marketplace. But how does one develop context to interpret this data point? The answer, of course, depends on your personal level of optimism versus skepticism.
Skeptics may scoff that the metric is insufficient – six months of post-graduation unemployment is too long, and the level of job attainment is less important than the quality of the jobs attained. Short-term opportunities or highly over-qualified positions are not the employment outcomes towards which most SAIS graduates aspire. Questions as to whether the same employment outcome could have been achieved without a SAIS degree also cast doubt onto the value-added by a SAIS degree.
But to clarify, the report only provides data on the near-term employment outcomes of SAIS grads. Long-term, longitudinal studies of the career paths of SAIS graduates would be a fantastic addendum, but remain out-of-scope of this report. The choice of metric is common among APSIA schools, and by this metric SAIS compares very well to peer institutions. Moreover, the 15-year trend highlights the consistency in employment outcomes.
While short-term opportunities may not always be the ideal post-graduation outcome, an enormous portion of the SAIS alumni community can speak to the powerful and personally-rewarding effects these experiences have provided in building their careers. SAIS alumni in fields ranging from financial risk management to foreign service operations have attested to the value-add of their SAIS education late into their careers. The "big picture" thinking of an international relations degree will continue to be in demand in our ever-interconnected world.
After reading the employment report and speaking to SAIS alumni, I remain an optimist. The Class of 2013 has blazed career paths many SAIS graduates aspire to. Here is to much continued success for the Class of 2013, and similarly positive employment outcomes for SAIS graduates in years to come.
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June 17 - Britain's top fraud prosecutor is poised to bring criminal charges against former Citigroup Inc and UBS AG trader Thomas Hayes, who is alleged to have been a central figure in a scam to rig global benchmark interest rates, a source familiar with the situation said on Monday.
Britain's Serious Fraud Office was expected as soon as Tuesday to charge Hayes, following the London interbank offered rate rigging scandal, which has rocked the financial industry from the United States to Japan, the source said.
It was not possible to reach Hayes on Monday and his British lawyer was not available. The SFO declined to comment.
Regulators allege Hayes and others made thousands of unlawful requests to colleagues to submit false Libor rates, colluding with other banks and at least five interdealer brokers to spread false information and influence others.
The benchmark affects hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of mortgages, credit card and other loans worldwide.
The move will also allow the SFO to stake a jurisdictional claim to a British suspect who has faced possible extradition since U.S. prosecutors charged him last year.
The SFO arrested Hayes for questioning in December. One day later, the U.S. Department of Justice lodged sealed charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and an antitrust violation against Hayes. It also charged former UBS trader Roger Darin with conspiracy.
Hayes was 27 when he joined UBS in Tokyo in 2006, becoming a senior and highly-valued trader of interest rate derivatives indexed to yen-denominated Libor. His trading generated nearly $260 million in revenues by late 2009, when he left UBS to join Citigroup after a dispute over his salary package.
But at Citigroup, he was fired less than a year later after colleagues raised concerns about inappropriate Libor requests.
Regulators have fined three banks to date over the Libor scam, with UBS agreeing a record $1.5 billion penalty to settle U.S. and UK charges.
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Saracens Make A Decision On Salary Cap Punishment Appeal With Joint Statement
by Jason Hennessy · November 18, 2019
Premiership Rugby and Saracens have concluded matters relating to the recent breaches of the Premiership Rugby Salary Cap, with Saracens confirming they will not request a review of the decision by the independent disciplinary panel.
This means that the disciplinary process is at an end and the sanction on Saracens Rugby Club is confirmed as:
a total fine of £5,360,272.31
and a total deduction of 35 league points
The Gallagher Premiership Rugby table will be updated today.
Darren Childs, Chief Executive of Premiership Rugby, said:
"We welcome Saracens' decision to accept the verdict of the independent panel and are pleased the club has crucially reaffirmed its commitment to the Premiership Rugby Salary Cap.
"This is the right outcome for English club rugby. Bringing this process to a conclusion means that we can focus on working in partnership with all Clubs to continue to build a competitive and successful league."
Nigel Wray, Saracens chairman, said:
"We have made mistakes and so, with humility, we must accept these penalties. As a club, we will now pull together and meet the challenges that lie ahead.
"We confirm our commitment to the Salary Cap, and the underlying principle of a level playing field, and will continue to work transparently with Premiership Rugby in this regard."
The charges against Saracens, which relate to the seasons 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19, were brought following a nine-month investigation by Premiership Rugby. In accordance with the Salary Cap Regulations, the charges were referred to the independent dispute service, Sport Resolutions, which appointed a panel chaired by Lord Dyson.
The decision of the independent panel was to uphold all of the charges, finding that Saracens had both failed to disclose payments to players and exceeded the ceiling for payments to senior players in each of the three seasons.
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Habitat III - 19.10.2016
'Local governments are innovation boosters' explains CEMR President
"Local governments are at the heart of the innovation process, being both innovators and facilitators for innovation." Mayor of Santander and CEMR President Iñigo de la Serna began his speech with this statement at the 2nd World Assembly of Local and Regional Governments, on 16 October 2016 in Quito, just before the official launch of Habitat III.
This assembly was an opportunity for over 300 local and regional elected representatives from around the world to submit a joint statement to the Habitat III conference and to commit to contribute to the achievement of the New Urban Agenda. The New Urban Agenda is a global guiding document that defines how we should build, move and live together in cities, in order to secure a sustainable future.
Addressing the audience, Iñigo de la Serna stressed the importance of innovation and how CEMR makes innovation a way of life at the local level in Europe. Thanks to infrastructure, policies and services made possible in part by CEMR, citizens are empowered to innovate – not only technologically, but also in political participation, via e-Government for instance.
Other high-profile speakers included UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, President of Ecuador Rafael Correa, and UCLG President Mpho Parks Tau.
The road to Quito and what comes next:
As its name suggests, Habitat III is the third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. Forty years before Quito, Habitat I took place in New York in 1976, when 37.9% of the world's population was urban. Habitat II took place in Istanbul in 1996, twenty years later, and 45.1% of the world's population was urban. Today, that number has reached 54.5%.
There were also three preparatory committees before Habitat III. The so-called "Prepcom" meetings were meant to, unsurprisingly, prepare the Habitat III Conference, in terms of organisation as well as content, and draft the New Urban Agenda. The Prepcoms were open to all UN member states as well as local and regional government representatives and other stakeholders. Prepcom1 took place in New York (USA) in 2014, Prepcom2 in Nairobi (Kenya) in 2015, and Prepcom3 in Surabaya (Indonesia), just a few months before the Habitat III Conference.
The Habitat conference takes place every twenty years. Following that logic, Habitat IV should take place in 2036. Before that, the focus will be on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, adopted in Quito. In fact, the Quito Implementation Plan Platform will soon be launched: an online tool to monitor the implementation of the Habitat III outputs, the platform will be open to all to share information and will be part of the legacy of Habitat III.
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Bioinformatics in the Classroom
A schematic of the circular Wolbachia genome. Credit: Julie Dunning Hotopp and Seth Bordenstein, 2005
About NCBI. About NCBI explains NCBI's role in facilitating research and education specific to the "fundamental molecular and genetic processes that control health and disease." An... (more info)
BLAST for Beginners. This interactive tutorial is designed as a quick introduction to the BLAST family of sequence analysis programs. These slides show a progression of steps in... (more info)
BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium. Engages in the collaborative development of curricula and actively supports educators interested in the reform of undergraduate biology. The pedagogical approach of... (more info)
Bioinformatics. This project is a series of interrelated modules designed to introduce the student to modern biological techniques in the area of bioinformatics. Bioinformatics is the... (more info)
Bioinformatics in the Biology Classroom. This educational journal article addresses the implementation of bioinformatics in the classroom. The author explains how bioinformatics could play a key role... ( This site is likely no longer available. )
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NCBI: Education. This Web site from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers a set of detailed tutorials to help users make full use of NCBI's bioinformatics tools... (more info)
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The Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves: This page allows you to download all of the component parts that make up the award winning educational CD for The Human Genome Project.
Species: Comparing their Genome: The Action Bioscience journal article illustrates how mapping the genome of different species reveals that: all living things share parallel genes, the genome of other species can be used for human disease research, many diseases are caused by defective genes or proteins, and so far, the mouse offers the best insight into human disease.
Using Bioinformatics in the Undergraduate Classroom: From the pages of magazine, the online version of BEN's education column in BioScience provides educators with updates in science education, examples of successful initiatives to transform biology teaching, and new ways of improving student understanding.
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Q: Is this a safe way to store my passwords? I've been reading around a few different guides/tutorials on this topic and found the following:
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*Storing Passwords Securely using Salt in PHP
*Secure Hash and Salt for PHP Passwords (Top Answer)
I know that what I've read there is a very secure way to store a users password. I've made an attempt to combined the 2 slightly while instead of using mt_rand like in the first example, I've generated my own dynamic salt.
Here is my code:
<?php
$static_salt = ""; // Removed value for obvious reasons
$dynamic_salt_choice = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
$dynamic_salt_length = 40;
$dynamic_salt = "";
$dynamic_salt_max = strlen($dynamic_salt_choice)-1;
for ($i = 0; $i < $dynamic_salt_length; $i++) {
$dynamic_salt .= substr($dynamic_salt_choice, rand(0, $dynamic_salt_max), 1);
}
$password_length = length($password);
$split_at = $password_length / 2;
$password_array = str_split($password, $split_at);
$password = $password_array[0] . $static_salt . $password_array[1];
$password_hash = hash_hmac('sha512', $password, $dynamic_salt);
?>
According to me this is fetching a static salt, generating a dynamic salt, we're then splitting the given password in 2 parts in an array and adding the static salt in between the two password sections.
We are then hashing the password with sha12 along with the dynamic salt.
My question to you is, is this more secure or just as secure as the 2 methods I've linked to? Or am I making it more vulnerable by mixing things up this way?
I also take it storing $password_hash in a cookie along side a username cookie for automatic login is a big no-no? If so, how do websites remember you through cookies in a secure manner?
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I'm trying to increase the level of security with my sites
well, to let you know, no password hashing ussue can increase your site security even a bit.
You have to focus on the other, much more important things such as SQL and file injections, XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities. If you keep your site secure, it will keep your passwords as well safe just as a side effect.
Next thing you have to focus on, is password strength. No hash can secure a a silly password like joe or 123.
As for the hashing itself - you can use whatever you wish, some basic things like using some sane salt like registration time or email and some number of iterations of whatever hashing function is enough. Don't put too much meaning in hashing. it is not the thing that requires SO much attention as inventing some extra-secure original algorithm.
My question to you is, is this more secure or just as secure as the 2 methods I've linked to? Or am I making it more vulnerable by mixing things up this way?
Dunno if you trust me (I bet you won't) but ALL these methods are secure enough and require no impreovement. And affect no security of the site but only passwords themselves in case they are stolen using another vulnerability in your site.
I also take it storing $password_hash in a cookie along side a username cookie for automatic login is a big no-no?
I don't think it's wise thing to reveal a hash itself. But again, it affects no site security but passwords potential vulnerability only. If your hash and password are strong enough, a logic is making me to say that it is safe enough.
A: This seems like a reasonable salting scheme, although possibly overkill. It probably doesn't need to be 40 characters long - you're just trying to blow up the size of a rainbow table, not make an unguessable nonce - but making it long won't hurt.
As for autologin, you should store (in a cookie) a random token that corresponds to a database entry pointing to the user's account. When the user changes their password, erase all these entries for that user. When generating this token, rand() isn't good enough - you need a secure, unguessable random number. Unfortunately, PHP doesn't really have a built-in facility for secure random numbers - mt_rand() is about as close as it gets, but I personally would directly read random bytes from /dev/urandom on a Linux system and use that to generate my nonce.
A: Assuming that the $dynamic_salt is stored alongside the final $password_hash -- since the hash wouldn't be testable without it -- this scheme is quite weak. Using a salt does protect against rainbow tables, but a non-iterated HMAC leaves this scheme weak to brute-force attacks. (The length of the salt does you no good, as it's a known constant in the hash input. Putting it in the middle of the original password doesn't really help either.)
Overall, this scheme is far weaker than bcrypt(), as it only (effectively) iterates the hash twice. You're really no better off than if you simply were storing the password using a simpler scheme such as:
$salt = uniqid();
$password_hash = hash_hmac('sha512', $password, $salt);
But you're still better off using someone else's (tried and tested) password encryption routine, rather than cooking your own.
With regard to using the password hash in a cookie -- this is to be avoided, as it allows an attacker with read-only access to the database (e.g, via a SQL injection attack or a stolen backup) to impersonate any user in your application without knowing or changing their password. It also means that, if a user's computer has been set to automatically log in, the password hash is stored on it. I'd avoid this.
A better scheme might be to set a randomly generated nonce in a cookie when a user chooses to log in automatically, then store a hash of that nonce in the database. This way, the server can check the correctness of a login key without ever having to "remember" it.
A: Salts can be used,but it has got its own limitations. Another way is using bcrypt.More information can be found at http://www.openwall.com/phpass/
And i think This SO article is more than enough Secure hash and salt for PHP passwords
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Bad Wiessee is een gemeente in de Duitse deelstaat Beieren, en maakt deel uit van het Landkreis Miesbach.
Bad Wiessee telt inwoners.
Partnersteden
Dourdan, sinds 1963.
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Michael Ande (1944), acteur (Der Alte)
Overleden
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Jan Sassen (1884-1962), Nederlands burgemeester
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Top 200 Guitar Songs
Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley wrote this track because they felt that they needed an anthem that might function the rallying cry for all their followers. The song is often performed live because the last music of their encores, when fans just demand for it to be performed. It peaked at quantity 68 on the Billboard singles chart and was even featured in the movie Dazed and Confused. Dance music at its core isn't any better https://lyricsaround.com/en/bollywoodfm/3_v_1/ than the beat that drives the track, and a list compiled by Cloud Cover Music calls out the most popular dance music songs of the decade that have the least quantity of distinctive lyrics. The tones expressed in each music had been analyzed by applying computerized quantitative sentiment evaluation. Automatic sentiment evaluation associates each word or phrase within the music with a set of tones that they specific.
Remember that this music is completely different from"Bailamos"even though they're each about dancing.
The well-liked Disney movie The Little Mermaid features the hit track Under the Sea.
If you want to know more about this app, you presumably can read the full review of Genius music and lyrics app here.
Since Fechner's initial work on time collection analyses, Kendall's τ has been a most popular metric for analyzing cross-temporal relationships .
Is it because you, Mrs. Epstein, can't stand the fact that some women aren't dwelling to the identical standards you lived with in your house when you were a child?
Assuming that's coke fiends (back when individuals really did cocaine.) perhaps that's true. Still, it doesn't explain "kissing leperous faces" or why the temperature at the rotten oasis could be dropping. View in galleryvia youtube.comAsking the question that we're not sure anyone needed, The Killers need to know "are we human or are we dancers? " In a time of great political, social, spiritual, intersexual, and cultural divide, where all individuals are drawing distinctions about who and what they are, it's possible this struggle is a bridge too far.
Plus, if you see an attention-grabbing word you don't know, you can add it to a vocab listing. FluentU brings native movies inside attain with interactive transcripts. Every definition has examples which have been written that will help you perceive how the word is used.
Nct 127 Talk Concept Behind Releasing Favorite, Chart
He is telling you that if you make a difference, little by little, will at all times make you are feeling good, regardless of whether it is one thing so small as giving somebody less fortunate cash, to as massive as giving a charity a big sum of money. Our work can be restricted by the truth that music success was operationalized by business success in the US market. Although some cultural shifts up to now several a long time appear to be world in nature, similar to rising individualism , this needn't be the case for all dimensions of tradition. Different dynamics may probably be observed when it comes to track success in components of the world with totally different values, practices, and ecological circumstances. Although such an endeavor is beyond the scope of the current manuscript largely because of the lack of equally wealthy time series knowledge from different countries, it might be worthwhile to try to address this question sooner or later. Partial correlations between novel music manufacturing index and average lyrical compressibility.
Genius is the largest music IQ group containing the music lover as properly as the skilled artist. Genius is compatible with most of the music players to offer music lyrics. The ultimate friendship music, "Lean on Me", famously written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bill Withers, has definitely turn out to be a timeless classic. It's a really feel good music that's not solely memorable but also comfortable.
The relationship between mean lyrical compressibility and the amount of novel music produced every year was sturdy. We noticed significant constructive associations throughout three operationalizations of the quantity of novel track selections and the average lyrical compressibility of in style songs. By and large these different variables were not considerably associated with modifications in lyrical simplicity after controlling for the possibly confounding influence of temporal autocorrelation.
Music, and extra particularly lyrics, have a way of touching our hearts. Lyrics can affect our moods, unite nations, allow us to forgive each other, and alter the method in which we view life. Wherever and nonetheless the inspiration strikes, it's the viewers who have significantly enjoyed the work of countless artists and musicians.
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A Newark arson investigator has been charged by the Essex County Prosecutor's Office with setting fire to an occupied, two-family home in December.
Veteran firefighter Abnathy A. Mason, a 50-year-old paid member of the Newark Fire Department, is accused of setting a blaze that sent tenants running from a South 8th Street building which he owns, authorities said yesterday. Two families were inside the 2-1/2 story building at the time, but no one was injured and the fire was quickly contained.
"The charges are being denied and any statement will be forthcoming from our attorney," said Mason when questioned about the arson allegations last night.
Prosecutors would not discuss details last night, including the charges and alleged motive. But at the time of the blaze, authorities said it was considered suspicious and within days the prosecutor's office assumed control of a probe that had been started by the Newark arson unit. Mason was arrested Monday night.
Neighbors around the burned home told authorities and The Star-Ledger shortly after the fire that they had seen Mason leaving the building just before the blaze erupted. He has remained on the job, although authorities said yesterday that he ha been transferred out of the arson unit, where he has worked for several years.
Mason has been a firefighter for 27 years, and his post as a certified arson investigator gave him full police powers. He also has been a frequently honored member of the force.
Mason was a recipient of the department's Community Service Award because of his long list of public activities, both on and off duty. He had served on the board of directors of the Young People's Institute, helped to coordinate the department's minority recruitment program and he was involved in the department's annual Fire Prevention Poster Contest, which is done in cooperation with public and parochial schools.
The city's fire department has more than 700 firefighters, including Mason's 28-year-old son, Abnathy Mason, Jr., who became a recruit last year.
City Fire Director Stanley Kossup was not available for comment last night. His wife said he had not yet arrived home last night from a trip south. The prosecutor's probe, and the fact that Mason was a target, had been widely known among city firefighters for months.
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Sarah worked as the Museum's IT manager for over 20 years. She managed the Museum's first large-scale electronic specimen cataloguing project, and oversaw other cataloguing and web development projects. The Learning Zone website, dedicated to providing accessible scientific resources for schools, has proved popular with teachers in the UK and abroad.
In 2002 Sarah setup the first webcam on the swifts nesting in the Museum tower, and she works with ornithologists to monitor the swifts during the breeding season. The livestreams of the nesting birds attract an enthusiastic international audience.
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Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a devastating disease with a median survival of only about two years even in the 20% of patients that present early enough to be eligible for surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy. With this urgent medical need in mind, we are exploring the use of adoptive T cell transfer in patients with PDAC, as this therapy has shown remarkable clinical success in patients with advanced melanoma.
Despite the notion that, different from melanoma, PDAC is a non-immunogenic tumor, we observe at least moderate (>150 CD3+cells/mm2) T cell infiltration in 60% of patient biopsies analyzed by immunohistochemistry (n=66). Flow cytometric analysis shows that tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes (TILs) predominantly display an activated effector memory phenotype with signs of exhaustion or prolonged antigen exposure, such as high PD1 (n≥30).
Upon in vitro culture TILs can be expanded from 85% of PDAC patients (n=96) and show growth capacity and phenotypes similar to melanoma patient TIL (n=62). The majority of tested PDAC TIL cultures produce IFN-γ in response to autologous tumor cells in an MHC-I dependent manner, but cross-reactivity and a low response magnitude are common observations.
In order to gain insight into the original tumor-reactivity of TILs before expansion, we studied the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire by deep sequencing and made the following observations: the TIL TCR repertoire is i) distinct from the broad repertoire observed in the blood; ii) usually dominated by large T cell clones, possibly due to in situ expansion after tumor-antigen encounter; and iii) in most patients not maintained during the TIL expansion period, likely leading to a loss of important T cell clones and a shift in tumor-reactivity in the TILs available for patient treatment after in vitro expansion.
Deep sequencing of the TCR repertoire in combination with TCR cloning provides us with a tool to study TIL reactivity directly ex vivo and to 'rescue' TIL-TCRs with valuable reactivities that could be reintroduced in the form of genetically engineered T cells. Whether PDAC TILs are reactive towards shared antigens and/or mutation-derived neo-antigens is currently being investigated based on exome and RNA sequencing data from a subset of patients.
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HomeBlogHamas: Israel Not Serious about New Prisoner Exchange Deal
Hamas: Israel Not Serious about New Prisoner Exchange Deal
February 17, 2017 Blog, News
Two Israeli soldiers went missing during Israel's 2014 offensive on the Gaza Strip. (Photo: via Social Media)
The Hamas movement said on Friday that Israeli authorities were not showing seriousness in creating a new prisoner exchange deal for Israelis held by Hamas and Palestinians imprisoned in Israel.
Spokesperson of the movement, Hazem Qassem said that the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, had received Israeli offers through intermediates last week, but said what Israel is offering does not "meet even the minimum of the demands made by the resistance."
Qassem told Ma'an that Israeli authorities are not showing any seriousness in agreeing on a prisoner exchange deal, adding that the "statements of Israeli leaders are just part of their lies directed at the families of the imprisoned Israeli soldiers to convince them they are putting in efforts to bring them back."
Hamas just elected a new leader, #YahyaSinwar. Last month, their spokesman told @mehdirhasan that a new charter would be released "soon". pic.twitter.com/gtmZpVgi5K
— UpFront (@AJUpFront) February 16, 2017
Hamas claims to hold the bodies of two Israeli soldiers, Oron Shaul and Hadar Goldin, who were pronounced dead by Israel during the 2014 war in Gaza, though Hamas has never explicitly said whether the two Israeli soldiers were alive or dead.
Earlier this month, Hamas had rejected an offer by the Israeli government to release a Hamas official in Israeli custody in exchange for the release of one of two Israelis thought to be held alive in the Gaza Strip.
Avraham Mengistu, an Israeli of Ethiopian descent, has reportedly been held by Hamas since September 2015 when he accidentally wandered into Gaza. Hisham al-Sayed, a young Israeli-Bedouin man who has schizophrenia, was last seen when he crossed into the Palestinian territory in April 2015.
Bennett: Next war with Hamas only a matter of time https://t.co/yS1zjnPRn0
— Marianne (@MarianneSansum) February 8, 2017
Hamas has repeatedly insisted that Israel must release all prisoners who were freed as part of the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal who have since been redetained before starting talks of a new prisoner swap deal.
According to Palestinian prisoners' rights group Addameer, some 6,500 Palestinians were held in Israeli custody as of January.
(Ma'an, PC, Social Media)
Hezbollah Chief Threatens to Target Israeli Nuke Plant
Israel Threatens to Attack Lebanon in Response to Nasrallah Statements
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PT, MPT Adam received his Master of Physical Therapy degree from the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. He believes in active treatments focused on achieving each person's individual goals for therapy. Adam enjoys treating a wide variety of age groups and diagnoses. He takes great pride in providing health services to the people in this area as a Palmerton native. Adam enjoys spending time with his family and competing in obstacle course races.
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I've never done any quilting (I've a sister who's excellent at that), but I've done origami since forever. In fact, origami was a way to explain to other people what I did for a living. I'd start with a 6" x 6" piece of paper that was white on one side and black on the other (digital!). Then I'd fold a boat, or a frog, or a crane. That's what software developers work with – they begin with ones and zeros, bits and bytes. From there, they can build anything.
Not sure the explanation always worked, but at least it was entertaining and instilled a small measure of appreciation for what I and other software developers did for a living. Certainly better than describing the challenges of buffer overflow issues or SQL injection attack counter measures. That approach gets one uninvited from parties.
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Gov. Grants Pardon In 2008 Sexual Assault Case
Gov. Grants Pardon In 2008…
Gov. Bob McDonnell granted a conditional pardon Tuesday to a man who was wrongly convicted of a 2000 sexual assault.
In 2008, Johnathan Montgomery was convicted of molesting a 10-year-old girl outside her grandma's house when he was 14 years old. Nearly two weeks ago, the now woman recanted her story a few weeks ago. According to some reports, she said she made up the story because she was caught looking for sexually explicit web sites.
Montgomery served more than four years in the Greenville Correctional Center. The conditional release was granted after the Mid-Atlantic Innocence project, which is based in Washington D.C., filed a petition Monday night for his conditional release. He was originally scheduled to serve another 2.5 years of an originally 7.5 year sentence.
The now 22-year-old woman, Elizabeth Coast, is facing perjury charges in connection with the case. Montgomery's original conviction was vacated at a November 9 hearing.
If you are facing any type of criminal charges, it is in your best interest to retain an aggressive, assertive criminal defense lawyers. Call now for your free, initial consultation.
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The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is a rock band from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. Their music largely consists of often tongue-in-cheek homages to the works of H. P. Lovecraft, specifically the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets formed in January 1992 after meeting at Fraser Valley College in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Lead singer Toren Atkinson and lead guitarist Warren Banks formed the band so they could open for local group Mystery Machine. Even though they "had no musical training or experience" they were able to create a three song set list and play the opening act for their first show.
In their early years the band produced three demo tapes: Gurgle Gurgle Gurgle', Hurts Like Hell!, and Cthulhuriffomania. Most of the songs were later re-released on other albums.
In 1996 the band released Great Old Ones.
In 2000 the Thickets released Spaceship Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. The singer Toren said the album was "heavily inspired by the science fiction movies and reruns we'd all grown up with like Lost in Space and Angry Red Planet".
In 2002 the Thickets collaborated with Wizards of the Coast to release Let Sleeping Gods Lie - an all-Cthulhu Mythos themed CD. The album was used to promote Wizards' new d20 edition of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. The album contained twelve previously-released Thickets tracks, and had a special tie-in with the Call of Cthulhu game rules. If the CD is played during a roleplaying session, the game contains rules for die roll modifiers that take effect depending on what song is currently playing.
The Shadow Out of Tim is the Thickets' second theme album, after Spaceship Zero. The title is a play on words from the H.P Lovecraft short story The Shadow Out of Time. The album is an adaptation and a rock opera based on Lovecraft's story. The album recounts the tale of a marine biologist who found his body had "been possessed by an alien intelligence" and works to find out what happened. The album was released at the Summer Solstice (June 21) 2007.
Among the songs recorded during The Shadow Out of Tim sessions were "Shhh...." and "(We're Gonna) Kill the Chupacabra (Tonight)." They were not included on the album as they "didn't fit in with the [album] narrative". Both we're later released on The Dukes of Alhazred.
In 2009 the Shadow Out Of Tim song "Blackout" was nominated for the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards for Hard Rock/Metal Song of the year.
In 2008 the Thickets were invited to play at the Penny Arcade Expo. Their performance at the event led to their previously unreleased song "Shhh...." being included as a downloadable track in the PAX 2008 Collection for the video game Rock Band. The song was also included on the "Child's Play CD 2008" compilation.
In March 2016 the Thickets launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund creation of a new album. The album successfully funded later that year. The album was released in 2017 with the title The Dukes of Alhazred. A Stranger Aeons review said "If you like some catchy rock with your cosmic horror, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets are your guys!"
The original three members of the band, at the January 1992 formation, were Toren Atkinson, Warren Banks and Quentin Rogers. Quentin, though, never appeared on any of their releases, nor played at any of their public performances. The first bass player to appear with the band at a show was Devon Presseau. The band has gone through several bassists and drummers since its inception. Thomas R. Falk has toured and played with the band as a second guitarist. The discography below details band member history.
The current line-up of the band consists of vocalist and lyricist Toren Atkinson, guitarist Warren Banks, guitarist/bassist Mario Nieva, drummer Jordan Pratt (former drummer for the band Mystery Machine), and bassist/backup vocalist Merrick Atkinson.
Outside the band several members have other artistic side projects. Lead singer Toren Atkinson co-hosted a science/comedy podcast named Caustic Soda. Drummer Jordan Pratt, former bassist/video director Bob Fugger, and former guitarist Chris Woods formed and co-hosted comedy podcast Speedway Squad. Upon Fugger's departure, Pratt and Woods were joined by Thickets guitarist Warren Banks to create a new podcast, Horsetrack Hooligans.
Outside of the band, Toren Atkinson is also an artist, having illustrated books for role-playing games including Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu (and Delta Green), as well as the Lovecraft-inspired collectible card game Mythos. Warren Banks and Toren Atkinson also co-wrote (along with contributions by John Scott Tynes and Monte Cook) the roleplaying game Spaceship Zero, published by Green Ronin Publishing.
A large part of The Thickets live shows involves the band members wearing "imaginative and bizarre" stage costumes. The outfits are usually Cthulhu Mythos-themed. The band has gone through various iterations over the years, from plush gug and fungi from Yuggoth outfits to the red jumpsuit/astronaut motif for their Spaceship Zero concerts, to their Satyr costumes, and most recently, their early twentieth century nautical styles featuring mustaches.
Lead singer Toren Atkinson classified the Thickets' music as "rock and roll" and "power pop". Toren notes that they try to be creative and original with their music and ideas. "One thing I'm proud of ... is that while we don't necessarily take a Lovecraft poem or story and directly put it to music ... [our songs are] steeped in Lovecraftian lore. We make ... the Cthulhu Mythos our own by putting it in a more punk-rock milieu and a distinctly new, and often tongue-in-cheek, place".
In "The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft", Gary Hill described "One Gilled Girl" from Great Old Ones as "The Ramones take on H. P. Lovecraft". Hill describes several Thickets songs as having "thrash and punk influences merge".
Several reviewers have specifically called out praise for the Thickets' song lyrics. A review in The Unspeakable Oath said "the lyrics really are what sets this band apart". For his part, lyric author Toren Atkinson said "I like to challenge myself when writing music. I love playing with language".
While the singer Toren admits to writing "95% of the band's lyrics", he attests that the rest of the Thickets' creation process is a group effort. "Usually when we practice, one or more of us will come with some melodies and riffs we've cooked up over the past couple weeks, and we 'jam it out' until we either get a song or we get sick of it". He also notes that the band uses deadlines as external motivation to create: "As a collection of lazy procrastinators, we will usually 'throw our hat over the fence' by booking time at a recording studio. Then we have x months/weeks to come up with an album".
Toren notes that they also reach out to the Thickets fan base for help when they need special subject expertise. "For example, for "The Math Song" and "Dies Ist Unverschamtheit" I had a brain friend help me with the algebraic equation and the German lyrics, respectively. On The Shadow Out of Tim, I put the call out ... for help with writing the Middle Egyptian lyrics".
The Thickets have toured across North America a few times, performing with such bands as GWAR, Dayglo Abortions, MC Frontalot, Freezepop, BlöödHag, Bad Brains and Nomeansno. They played at Dragon Con in 1997. The Thickets opened for They Might Be Giants at GenCon in 1998. They were invited to play at the first annual H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 1996, and returned to play at the festival for three years afterward. They returned again to play at the festival in 2008 and Anime Evolution in 2010.
Gurgle! Gurgle! Gurgle! (1992, cassette).
Hurts Like Hell! (1993, cassette).
Cthulhu Strikes Back (1995, CD album) – Reissued 2003 as a Special Edition with two extra tracks.
Great Old Ones (1996, CD album) – Re-release of material from Hurts Like Hell and Cthulhuriffomania, with a few additional tracks.
Spaceship Zero: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2000, CD album).
Let Sleeping Gods Lie (2002, Special issue CD compilation).
The Shadow Out of Tim (2007, CD).
The Dukes of Alhazred (2017, digital download & CD).
Fraser Valley Champions (1994, CD compilation).
Collections and Conceptions for the Critically Confused (1994, CD compilation), Closet Rock Entertainment.
Fight Prime Time (1996, CD compilation), Kathode Ray Music.
Tombstone Park (1998, CD compilation), Reanimator Records.
For Lucio Fulci: A Symphony of Fear (1999, CD compilation) – 11. "House Of Clocks".
Weird Fiction Horror Comp (date unknown, CD compilation), Valiant Death Records.
Child's Play CD 2008 (2008, CD compilation), Penny Arcade Merchandise.
Hymns From the House of Horror, Vol. II (2011), Rue Morgue – 1. "Shhh..."
Fort Zombie – "Ride the Flying Polyp" (instrumental). Toren Atkinson also supplied voice acting.
"Worship Me Like A God" (1993) – Directed by Bob Fugger. Played at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in 1997.
"Colour Me Green" (1995) – Directed by Bob Fugger.
"20 Minutes of Oxygen" (2011) – Directed by Mike Jackson.
Bloodsuckers (2005) – "Slave Ship"
"The Sounds of Tindalos" and "Slave Ship" appear in the trailers for the video game Sword of the Stars, for which Toren Atkinson also supplied voices.
Chapter ten of Gary Hill's "The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft" is titled "The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets: Lovecraftian Humor Set To Music".
According to the introduction of My Tank Is Fight!, author Zack Parsons says he took the title from a song by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets (a verse of the song "My Tank").
The lyrics to "The Math Song" appear in calculations on a chalk board in an episode of the cartoon series Rocket Monkeys.
The Laundry RPG contains a scenario called "Going Down To Dunwich", quoting the two first verses of the song of the same name in its introduction.
^ a b z (September 10, 2008). "Don't Tell The Jocks: Geek Dad Interviews Toren Atkinson". Wired_(magazine). wired. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
^ a b c d e f g h Gates, Michael (November 13, 2009). "The Syncopated Call of Cthulhu: An Interview with Toren Atkinson, Lead Singer for The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets". thickets.net. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
^ a b Mussbacher, Ashley (March 5, 2012). "Q&A - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - The Cascade". ufvcascade.ca. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
^ a b c d e Leeson, Kevin (December 1, 2006). "Interview with the Thickets (PDF)". Absolute Underground. Vol. 3 #1 no. 13 - December / January 2006-2007. Victoria, British Columbia: Hidden Forces Publishing. p. 18. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
^ a b c d Atkinson, Toren. "Music - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets". thickets.net. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ "Cthulhu Strikes Back Special Edition". thickets.net. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ "Great Old Ones (1996) - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets". thickets.net. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ "Soundtrack - Spaceship Zero". spaceshipzero.com. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ a b c d "Interview: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets". innsmouthfreepress.com. October 8, 2009. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
^ a b Smith, Mat (February 1, 2002). "Wizards of the Coast - In The Works (February 2002)". wizards.com. Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on June 5, 2002. Retrieved August 26, 2018. when you pick up an autographed copy of Call of Cthulhu from our online store, you'll also get a limited-edition compilation CD by a band called the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets.
^ ""The Shadow Out of Tim" Album Street Date is the Summer Solstice!". thickets.net. May 2007. Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved 2007-06-01.
^ Megashaun (September 29, 2009). "Popshifter - The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets: An Interview With Toren Atkinson". popshifter.com. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
^ Gabe (July 30, 2008). "New - PAX 2008". Penny Arcade. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ Crecente, Brian (August 30, 2008). "PAX Pack Brings Nerdcore to Rock Band, Donations to Child's Play". Kotaku. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ a b z (December 18, 2008). "Child's Play CD 2008: Music for Charity". wired.com. Retrieved August 27, 2018.
^ Atkinson, Toren (Mar 16, 2016). "The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets 5th Album - Updates". indiegogo.com. Retrieved August 26, 2018. posted by Toren Atkinson Mar 16, 2016 "Wow! We're at 75% of our goal already!"
^ Segers, Guido (May 10, 2017). "Review - The Dukes of Alhazred". stranger-aeons.com. Retrieved August 27, 2018. If you like some catchy rock with your cosmic horror, The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets are your guys!
^ "About - Caustic Soda". CausticSodaPodcast.com. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
^ "About us - Horsetrack Hooligans". horsetrackhooligans.com. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
^ "The Whisperer Interview - Darkest of the Hillside Thickets". thickets.net. October 17, 2003. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
^ a b c Gary Hill (2006). "10: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets: Lovecraftian Humor Set To Music". The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft. p. 147-154. ISBN 978-1-84728-776-2. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
^ Klepac, Christian (1997). "Cthulhu Strikes Back - Review". The_Unspeakable_Oath. Retrieved August 31, 2018.
^ "Event Archive - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets with BloodHag and the Boss Monsters". artsvictoria.ca. February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
^ "Darkest of the Hillside Thickets w/ BloodHag". livevan.com. February 7, 2009. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
^ "Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon". hplfilmfestival.com. 2008. Retrieved August 28, 2018.
^ "Anime Evolution 2010 >> Music". animeevolution.com. 2010. Archived from the original on June 7, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2018.
^ "Hymns From the House of Horror Vol. II". rue-morgue.com. June 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
^ Hothead Games (October 29, 2008). Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode 2. Windows. Hothead Games. Scene: Ending credits (1m 15s). "Some Things Man Was Not Meant To Know" performed by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. (c) The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Courtesy of Divine Industries, Inc.
^ Fugger, Robert (1993). "Worship Me Like A God - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets". youtube.com. Retrieved September 4, 2018. Toren Atkinson: 'This is circa 1993, Chilliwack BC Canada. dir: Robert Fugger'.
^ Jackson, Mike (February 19, 2011). "20 Minutes of Oxygen - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets". vimeo.com. Steam Powered Films. Retrieved September 4, 2018. A sci-fi music video for the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, from their album Spaceship Zero.
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Former sportswriter lives the good life after opening a bar in Thailand
Former sports journalist Danny Knobler with his family in his sports bar Danny's Sports Bar in Pattaya, Thailand. (Courtesy Danny Knobler)
Danny Knobler has always wanted to visit Japan, and after covering pitcher Masao Kida's rookie year with the Detroit Tigers in 1999, the sports journalist booked a trip to explore the country and meet Japanese reporters with them the following January he had made friends.
Since he would be in the neighborhood and could extend his vacation, Knobler checked a map to see where else his frequent flyer miles could lead him in Asia.
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"I saw Bangkok and you didn't need a visa to get there. It was warm and I knew I liked Thai food," said Knobler, the Tigers beatwriter for Booth Newspapers from Michigan. "So I thought," Why not? "I booked an extra week in Thailand and ... I'm here 20 years later."
That drive to his itinerary was life changing for Knobler, a Los Angeles native and UCLA graduate who gave up his 35-year baseball writing career in 2018 to open a sports bar in Pattaya, Thailand, a roughly 90-year-old vacation town Miles southeast of Bangkok.
59-year-old Knobler and his wife Sirirat Instasuk, whom he met on his first trip to Thailand and married in 2007, opened Danny's Sports Bar in January 2019, a cozy pub two blocks from the beach in the heart of Pattaya's vibrant nightlife.
The open-air house is so small that 20 customers feel like a crowd. There are seven bar stools, four high-top tables, a pool table, and four flat-screen TVs that are usually set for European football games, Formula 1 racing, rugby, NFL, and NBA games, and the occasional baseball game.
US and Thailand flags are pinned to the ceiling. Scarves from UCLA and the English Premier League teams Tottenham and Liverpool are among the wall decorations. A large bronze bell hangs over the bar, which is a staple in many pubs in Thailand.
"When you ring the doorbell," says Knobler during a FaceTime tour of the pub, "buy a round of drinks for everyone in the bar."
The pub reopened on August 1st after being closed for 4½ months due to the coronavirus. Danny has resumed normal operating hours - from 4:00 p.m. until 5 a.m. and sometimes later depending on the business, seven nights a week - thanks in large part to Thailand's COVID shredding capabilities.
Although it was the first country outside of China to register cases of COVID-19, Thailand, with a population of 70 million, recorded just 4,000 cases and 60 deaths before a recent shrimp market outbreak near Bangkok increased the daily cases of 34 on Jan. December increased to 18, 576 on December 19.
Pattaya residents have not had to wear masks or social distancing in bars and restaurants for months. Knobler's clientele consists mainly of retired expats living in the region, English-speaking service workers and - before Thailand closed its borders in the spring - tourists.
His regulars include a retired deputy sheriff from Portland, Oregon, a former customs agent in LAX, an IT specialist from Boston, and a correction officer from Fresno.
"I still interact with people from probably 20 different countries every week," said Knobler, who does not speak Thai, apart from a few rudimentary sentences. "When the tourists are here, we get people from 50 different countries into the bar every month."
Knobler's wife, nicknamed "Lek", runs the bar with her daughter Sorn and her son-in-law Nirutch, the head bartender. Knobler's retirement visa allows him to live in the country year round, but he is not allowed to work because he is not a Thai citizen.
"In sports writing, you have to be able to talk to someone, and in a bar you have to do the same."
Danny Knobler
"We talked about getting a work permit, but ... um ... I don't want to work," Knobler said with a laugh. "I don't go behind the bar. I don't handle money. I don't hire or fire people. My role is pretty simple. I come to the bar every day to talk to people and make sure the right games are played run on TV. "
Though he came of age in the 1980s, Knobler said he had no latent desire to repeat Ted Danson's role as Sam Malone on the hit sitcom "Cheers."
But he'd been to enough sports bars during his travels as a Tigers Beat Writer from 1990 to 2008 and as a national baseball columnist for CBSSports.com (2008-13) and Bleacher Report (2014-18) to know what he liked and what what not? Not like in a pub.
Decades of navigation through the sometimes treacherous waters of a clubhouse in a big league, interacting with the different personalities of the sport and responding to angry readers helped him prepare for his new appearance.
"In sports writing you have to be able to talk to someone, and in a bar you have to do the same," Knobler said. "And you have to develop a thick skin because just like a ballpoint pen when you have a bar, people shoot you and many of them anonymously online. This is how you learn to deal with people who just want to jerk you off."
An occasional negative Yelp review didn't deter Knobler or diminish his love for his adopted country. Thailand's tropical climate suits Knobler - "I haven't put on long pants or socks since July 2019," he said - as did Pattaya's relaxed, festive atmosphere and cosmopolitan feel.
Danny's Sports Bar has customers from dozens of countries every month. (Danny Knobler)
Although it is a smaller town with around 120,000 inhabitants, Pattaya's selection of ethnic restaurants and food trucks gives it an international flair.
"I definitely feel like he's enjoying the life he's having," said Bob Lorenz, studio host for the New York Yankees' YES Network, who took an overnight trip to Pattaya while he and his wife were going to a wedding in February were in Bangkok.
"Just speaking to Danny, he seemed very happy. He's his own boss, which probably helps. He likes to deal with his customers. It was great to learn his story, how he met his wife, and how they decided to just wrap her up and move on. "
Knobler was on the last stop of a pub crawl in Pattaya in 2000 when he met Lek visiting a friend at the bar. Knobler was single. Lek recently divorced with four children.
"It was the end of the night and her friend was trying to get me to go with her," Knobler said. "I wasn't interested. Lek and I started talking. We got married seven years later."
Lek moved to the United States and became an American citizen, but she maintained her home in Pattaya. The couple moved to New York City in 2008, but when Knobler was fired from CBSSports.com in 2013, they spent the winters in Pattaya.
Knobler freelanced for Bleacher Report for baseball for five years. When the website cut its jobs and paid after the 2018 season, Knobler and Lek decided to live permanently in Thailand, where the cost of living is much lower.
Knobler pulled $ 30,000 from his retirement savings to secure the first lease, furniture, lights and fans, system TVs and housewares for the bar, as well as internet service and cable and satellite TV packages. His monthly rent is about $ 600.
Knobler said the bar made a profit every month before and after it closed, although revenue this year is down 15% to 20% from 2019.
"We know almost all of our customers by name," says Danny Knobler, owner of Danny's Sports Bar. (Danny Knobler)
Similar to the US, Thailand's tourism industry has been decimated by the pandemic. Many hotels, bars and restaurants are temporarily or permanently closed. Popular destinations like Phuket, Ko Samui, and Ko Phi Phi, Knobler said, are like ghost towns.
Danny's stayed afloat mainly because of its low overheads - there is no air conditioning, no low utility bills, and no meal services, just bottled beer and cocktails - and its loyal local clientele.
"There are a couple of great indoor sports bars here, but they're fighting right now because there aren't enough people here to support them," Knobler said. "We know almost all of our customers by name. Many of them are good friends.
"It's not the same people every day, but the same group of people who come. Especially in good times there is a jubilant atmosphere."
These may not be booming times for Danny's Sports Bar, but it would be a lot worse without Thailand's skillful handling of COVID.
The country was almost completely closed from mid-March to May, with a nationwide ban on alcohol sales that was strictly enforced. Curfew as well as mask and social distancing requirements. The bars were closed until June, some until July.
International flights to Thailand were essentially suspended for nine months before the country eased travel restrictions on citizens of 56 countries on Dec. 18 to boost tourism.
Travelers still need a certificate stating that they are COVID-free 72 hours prior to travel, and they must drive directly from the airport to a quarantine hotel for two weeks.
"Except for grocery stores in April and May, everything was closed," said Knobler. "The [case] numbers kept going down until they finally hit zero, and they stayed near zero for a whole month before things opened up."
The restaurants were allowed to open on June 1st with mandatory temperature controls and social distancing. Many bars opened on July 1st. Knobler, who spent much of the shutdown organizing weekly freebies for unemployed locals, reopened his pub on Aug. 1.
"Aside from having to wear a mask to go to a store, we're really just leading normal lives - you don't think too much about the virus here," Knobler said. "I think people took it seriously and it's a different culture. People were asked to do things to help everyone and ... not everyone followed, but obviously enough of them."
Of course, things are very different in the United States, where 18.4 million cases and 325,000 deaths related to coronavirus were recorded as of December 23, and many refuse to wear masks or follow safety protocols.
"Often times it feels like we're on another planet," said Knobler, a 1979 graduate of University High in West Los Angeles. "We don't work the same way. When I talk to friends and family [in the US] I feel a lot of frustration and the difficulties people face."
It's after 4 a.m. in Pattaya. When Knobler ends a two-hour conversation with a reporter in Los Angeles, a friend from England walks into the bar with his wife.
"We'll be here for a while, playing music and hanging out," Knobler said. "We're not going anywhere. We're still open. I'm sure I'll have a beer in hand in a few minutes."
The less traveled road has taken Knobler to the other side of the world, about 13,000 kilometers away, to a life that he could never have imagined two decades ago.
Still, he somehow found himself in a place where everyone knows his name. He is stress free, fulfilled, and has no intention of returning to the US.
"I'll come to visit," said Knobler, "but I love it here. This is home."
This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.
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- A list of members will be kept at CCA box office/reception downstairs. Members will bring some proof of identification and sign for and collect keys to the club from CCA reception. Members will also need to sign in and out of the building for fire regulation purposes, so **please remember to sign out and return the keys when you leave!** + A list of members will be kept at CCA box office/reception downstairs. Members will bring some proof of identification and sign for and collect keys to the club from CCA reception. Members will also need to sign in and out of the building for fire regulation & security purposes, so **please remember to sign out and return the keys when you leave!**. Do not pass the keys on to someone else after you have finished using the space.
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Q: Is there a way to fix an unaligned plus sign in Tikz? I use Tikz to transform MATLAB plots in Latex but I use exponential notation for numbers in these plots. However the output features a "plus" sign that is a bit off.
Is there a way to fix this ?
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A: You can try this...
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HomeNewsTRAILER: Akshay Kumar's 'Gold' - once again in patriot style
TRAILER: Akshay Kumar's 'Gold' - once again in patriot style
Akshay Kumar - The Munni Roy Starter Film Gold trailer has been released. There is no doubt that the trailer is quite impressive. In the film, the British slave is India's story, which wants to win the first gold Olympic medal in hockey with independence. How do they become dreams, how they get worried, this story is about Gold.
The film is directed by Reema Kagti. learly, Akshay Kumar has always liked the patriot viewers, so there is a lot of expectations from Gold. Akshay is seen in a very different style in the film.
Gold Trailer
w the story of 1948. While Azad won a gold medal for the first time in the London Olympics in India. This movie was considered as the biopic. But this is completely imaginary.
Film producer Ritesh Sidhwani said Gold is not a biopic. This is a completely fictional story, which is depicted in India in 1933-48. At that time, how the conditions of the country were .. players and sports at that time and the hockey is based on gold.
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Old Navy Canada Women's Plus Skinnies on Sale!
You are here: Home / Fashion / Old Navy Canada Women's Plus Skinnies on Sale!
What about these? Try these ones on honey".
After telling her time and time again, I didn't like how the style fit me. I would go and try them on anyways (rolling my eyes like a typical teenager) on my way into the change room just to avoid an argument. Back then Skinnies to me were not only uncomfortable, but they made my already big clown feet, look even bigger! LOL! Who knew one day my thoughts on Skinnies would change?… I sure didn't.
Last month when Old Navy launched their Plus Size line in Canada, sold exclusively online. I headed over to their site to check out the collection and I found myself actually wanting to take a peek at the skinnies they offered. To my surprise, my mouth hit the floor. Their skinnies were super cute! I loved the way they looked and that there was so many different funky styles and patterns to choose from.
Great news! Right now ALL Skinnies are currently on Sale online at Old Navy Canada, until October 2. 2013, starting at $19! This sale is also available to those who reside in the USA on the American site.
Old Navy Canada offers a great selection for the plus-sized fashionista, ranging in size from 16-30. Offering affordable cute skinnies in prints, tuxedo, snakeskin and coated colours. Perfect for those looking to put together stylish outfits this fall and winter. Here's a look at some of my favourite pant styles that are available (currently in my shopping cart) and on sale right now!
Shop Old Navy Canada online, 24/7, with free shipping on orders of $50 or more and as always they offer free returns and exchanges.
Have you checked out Old Navy skinnies yet? Which pair is your favorite?
Disclosure: This is a sponsored post written by me, on behalf of Old Navy Canada. Regardless all opinions expressed are my own.
Old Navy is one of my favorite stores!!! I love their skinny jeans!!
Wow! That's a good Sale!!!
ah! great sale! i've been doing skinnies now and again myself. and i don't hate them.
Great sale and I like these for my one slender girl, but I still am not a great fan of the tight ankles either. I might check them out anyways. I don't mind the tight ankle if it's not too tight. Know what I mean? And only if the rest – waist and hips fits really nicely.
I haven't tried them yet but I love Old Navy so I might go check them out.
I LOVE Old Navy jeans! They always fit so well!
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Backers of California ban on gay therapy support other states as opponents plan lawsuit
Oct. 2, 2012 12:00 a.m.
Gay rights advocates are making plans to get other states to join California in banning psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight, even as opponents prepared Monday to sue to overturn the first law in the nation to take aim at the practice.
After months of intense lobbying, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill late Saturday that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from using so-called reparative or conversion therapies with clients under age 18. Brown called the therapies "quackery" that "have no basis in science or medicine."
Two New Jersey lawmakers already are drafting similar legislation, while groups that helped get the California law passed are sharing research, witnesses and talking points with counterparts in other states, said Geoff Kors, senior legislative and policy strategist for the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights.
"There are lots of folks today who are looking at this, now that the governor has signed it," Kors said. "We'll be reaching out to all the state [gay rights] groups, especially in states that have had success passing LGBT rights legislation."
The law only applies to licensed therapists, not ministers or lay people who counsel teens to resist same-sex attractions.
Two Christian legal groups, meanwhile, said they would sue in federal court in Sacramento to prevent the law from taking effect Jan. 1.
The lawsuits will be filed on behalf of therapists whose practices include efforts to help clients change their sexual orientations or reduce their attractions to people of the same sex; parents who have sought such therapy for their children; and teenagers who currently are undergoing it, lawyers for the California-based Pacific Justice Institute and Florida-based Liberty Counsel said.
Liberty Counsel Chairman Mat Staver said his organization plans to argue in court that the law infringes on the First Amendment and equal protection rights of individuals to give and receive information that matches their personal and professional beliefs.
"What this law does is tell minors that they can no longer receive information about same-sex attractions that they have been receiving and that they find beneficial to them," Staver said. "It also puts counselors in a situation where they must present only one viewpoint of this subject."
The law Brown signed states that mental health providers who use sexual orientation change efforts on clients under 18 would be engaging in unprofessional conduct and subject to discipline by their respective state licensing boards.
Mainstream associations representing psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers have dismissed reparative therapy in recent decades as being ineffective and potentially dangerous to the mental health of teenagers and young adults, who are led to believe their interest in same-sex partners is wrong.
David Pruden, vice president of the California-based National Association for Research and Therapy on Homosexuality, a professional association that supports treatment for homosexuality, estimated there are two dozen therapists statewide who engage in efforts to change sexual orientation, and not all of them treat adolescents.
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Q: Why does Chrome Dev Tools not show "computed" tab? I'm learning about Box Model in Dev Tools, but I'm unable to see the "computed tab" when navigating through developer tools. I re-downloaded Chrome and Canary 2 but neither of them made a difference in showing the computed tab between "styles" and "event listeners". Has anyone come across this issue in the past?
*I've attached a screenshot of what I'm seeing.
image of dev tools not listing computed tab
A: Since Chrome 85, the Computed section is always displayed as a tab.
What's New In DevTools (Chrome 85)
A: To always display the tab:
1) Go into Dev tool settings by ellipses at the top right
2) Change Panel layout to Vertical
If you leave "Panel Layout" at the defaul "auto" setting, you can only see the computed tab when the dev tool window is greater than a certain width.
A: It is a bit confusing as it gets moved around based on the size of styles panel. No idea why.
If it is not wide enough it shows up below the 'layout'
It appears as a tab if the panel is wide enough
A: For anyone confused like me, this took me months to find..! (unless it was just added in an update)
Click and it shows the computed tab like it always used to
A: This worked for me . Now i can open style/element/computed at the same time.
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*Open setting ( click on gear Icon )
*Set Panel Layout option to Horizontal
*Close the settings now & you are good to go :)
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Closely related to the Porsche Panamera luxury 4-door coupe, Porsche's Mission E is aptly named, illustrating the progressive automotive transition from conventional fossil fuels to 100 percent electric vehicles. Of course, Porsche will never lose sight of their original motoring roots, which are of course founded strongly in petroleum racing. All things considered with the Mission E, what the Porsche brand is attempting to bring forth is an EV that's deeply intertwined with Porsche's racing roots.
Below, our Pasadena Porsche professionals take a closer look at the Mission E, the off-road-oriented Mission E Cross Turismo, and what Porsche intends to bring to the market with this cutting-edge model.
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Originally unveiled as a concept car at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show (a rather fitting location for the Porsche brand), the Mission E was originally slated as the manufacturer's first fully electric car. The only exception was that Ferdinand Porsche himself — the founder of this legendary brand — created some very early EVs (more like hybrids) that you can learn more about here.
As the Mission E is shaped like the existing Porsche Panamera, the company plans to price the Mission E accordingly. Built on an entirely new platform under the guise of "J1," the Mission E is anticipated to go into production sometime in 2019 at Porsche's Zuffenhausen plant. There is a projected production of some 15,000-20,000 units per year, though these figures may increase given the rising popularity and accessibility of electricity as a means for automotive fuel. Ultimately, time will tell.
Unlike any Porsche vehicle ever produced, the Mission E is powered by not one, but two electric motors. With one electric motor at the front axle and one at the rear axle, this dual-motor system helps control all four wheels — individually — via Porsche's Torque Vectoring system. Together, the two electric motors are projected to produce around 590 brake horsepower, ultimately resulting in a 0 to 60 mph time of fewer than 3.5 seconds! That's pretty speedy for an all-electric vehicle, which, if we've learned anything from Tesla's performance models, means that the torque (acceleration and power-on-demand) is pretty much instantaneous. Sign us up!
On a more environmentally-friendly, economical note, the Mission E is also slated to have a range of over 500 km or roughly 311 miles. Using a "turbo charging" system designed to charge the Mission E's battery to 80 percent in just 15 minutes, that level of range from an all-electric vehicle is fairly impressive.
But What If I Want To Take My Mission E Offroad?
With meaty tires, a significantly higher ground clearance and an all-around attitude that says "I can tackle this terrain with no problem," the Mission E Cross Turismo is going to be, for many drivers out there, essentially the ultimate vehicle. Think about it: it can off-road (to a limited extent, it's no raised Jeep or anything), it gets infinity miles per gallon because it's an all-electric vehicle, it'll keep the environmentalists happy, there's plenty of room for passengers and related cargo, it's really fast…and hey, it doesn't look too bad, either.
The only problem with the off-road variant of the Mission E is that it's not coming out soon enough — even the regular Mission E won't be seeing tarmac until 2019 or 2020 at the earliest.
Though there's really nothing that can replace the thrill and satisfaction of physically shifting gears and revving a gas-powered engine, maybe the instant torque of EVs will fill this void in a more environmentally-friendly fashion. Of course, at this point, that's difficult to determine. Either way, it's not likely that our Porsche Pasadena mechanics will be working on an all-out EV for some time. Here's to the future!
Stay Tuned For More Insight From The Pasadena Porsche Repair Experts!
HOUSE Automotive is as passionate as you are about all things Porsche. From the latest news to useful tips and tricks to get the most out of your ride, tune in next time to read more from our Porsche mechanic team.
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Police: Man turns himself in after killing Tinder date
May 24, 2020, 10:17 AM | Updated: Dec 30, 2022, 11:25 am
Picture of 25-year-old Ashlyn Black of Layton who was murdered after going on a Tinder date
BY CAMI MONDEAUX & MARC GIAUQUE
LAYTON — A man is in custody after turning himself in for killing a woman after a Tinder date, the Layton Police Department confirmed Sunday. Ethan Hunsaker, 24, called the police around 3 a.m. Sunday and said he had just killed someone, according to the probable cause statement.
Authorities identified the victim as Ashlyn Black of Layton on Monday. Black was 25-years-old.
During the initial call, Hunsaker said he "did not know" the person he just killed — but reported he did it 10 minutes before making the call.
Officers responded to Hunsaker's residence where the incident occurred. Hunsaker told the officers he had weapons but was unarmed at the scene.
When they arrived, the officers made contact with Hunsaker just inside his residence. Police say Hunsaker repeatedly asked the officers to shoot him.
Layton Police then took him into custody.
Officers found the victim, a woman named Ashlyn (Hunsaker said he didn't know her last name), in a bedroom with several stab wounds. Responding officers began performing CPR but pronounced her dead on the scene.
After being taken into custody, Hunsaker described how he met the victim. The two met on the social dating app Tinder, and they planned to meet for drinks at a local bar. Both Hunsaker and the woman paid for their own drinks.
The two went to Hunsaker's residence, where they fell asleep. Hunsaker woke up with the woman resting on his arm — then he began to choke her.
Black attempted to fight back resulting in marks on Hunsaker's arms, neck and shoulders.
Hunsaker admitted to officers he had killed the woman by choking her "as hard as he could for about one minute," according to the police's probable cause statement. After that, he went downstairs to retrieve a knife from the kitchen and began stabbing her.
Police report Hunsaker admitted to stabbing her "more than five times, but no more than 10 times," according to the statement.
Police said they are investigating a motive, although the attack seems to have been unprovoked. According to the statement, the date was normal and there was no argument that would cause him to want to kill her.
According to police, Hunsaker had been previously diagnosed with several mental illnesses.
Hunsaker will be booked with felony charges with no pay bail available — police say this is intended for the safety of the public.
Here is the media release for the homicide from early Sunday morning. The suspect is in custody, but anyone with information related to this case is encouraged to contact us. pic.twitter.com/Hc7zYUQ1uI
— Layton Police (@laytonpolice) May 24, 2020
See original report below:
Police said a woman was stabbed multiple times by a man she had just met on a Tinder date — after which, the man turned himself in.
In a statement, Layton police said the suspect called them at 3:19 a.m. Sunday and told them he had just killed someone. Officers responded to his home near 1300 Reid Avenue where they say they found the victim on the floor, with stab wounds to the torso.
"Despite efforts to revive the victim, she was pronounced deceased on scene," the statement said.
Police said the suspect, 24-year-old Ethan Hunsaker, told them he had met the woman on Tinder late Saturday night. Police said they are investigating a motive, but the attack appeared to be unprovoked.
Hunsaker was booked into the Davis County jail for investigation of murder.
Police are asking anyone who may have information in the case to contact them at (801) 497-8300.
This is a developing story. Details will be updated as they become available.
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The Utah Department of Corrections says a correctional officer was assaulted Monday inside the Antelope Housing Unit at the Utah State Correctional Facility. The officer was hospitalized, but later released.
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Well I am always saying time goes by so fast. Well this month wasn't any different. I went to bed last night thankful for a great month but so happy its over. It seems like October was a packed month with something on the calendar every day. Family visiting, our nephew Landon was born, field trips, play dates, Halloween and much much more. I am writing this and it exhausts me. Joe and I got laughing last night when we turned out the lights at 8:30 and purely exhausted...yes this is what our life has come to. I am not sure if this is part of the "mom years" or not. We have been buzzing around the farm like bees again in preparation for our farm tour. We are finally almost finished. Fresh paint, cobwebs gone freshly raked barns. All milking equipment officially installed and working. Milk parlor power washed. Gates all hung and level. Phew.....quite the list and a little more left to do and we are good to go. We hosted our first field trip to about 40 kids and adults from the Community home school program. Families came all the way from Mill Valley and Cloverdale to take a tour and learn a little about the sheep dairy. So fun, Joe.....well he did great. I know he was nervous about the tour and keeping the kids attention. I was so proud of him and the kids well, they had a blast. Oh..and those puppies had a great time visiting with so many people. I guess the not suppose to socialize doesn't really work with our farm. So this week ahead we have the official farm tour and attending a conferences full days Thurs- Saturday. Then back to normal life. I am looking forward to slowing down a bit and relaxing. The girls are growing so fast and just so fun to be around, most of the days anyways. We had a great Halloween with starting with Averys preschool party and parade finishing out with a little trick or treating!! Glad October is over and November is very suiting for us....a month to be thankful for all we have. Thanks to all our family for such a great month and being so supportive and making all the girls functions and those special grandma days they look forward too!
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As part of our social video series, we take a look at Facebook video and how you can leverage advertising on their platform to reach a broad and engaged audience.
You have two distribution options when it comes to Facebook video; paid or organic. Of course, you can (and should) post organic video content to your existing audience, but if you're looking to extend your reach and find a new audience, Facebook video ads are a great way to do so. Facebook have a wealth of information about their users; their likes, hobbies, education, career and what they had for breakfast. This level of targeting means you can zero-in on specific audience segments, and target relevant messages to the right people.
Facebook only launched video ads in 2014, and it has come a long way since then. Even when stacked up against video behemoth, YouTube, Facebook comes out fighting with some very impressive video usage, engagement and reach stats.
It's not news that Facebook, in general, has a huge reach, but it is worth stopping to look at the latest stats and marvel at how much of your existing and potential audience is using this platform.
There are over 1.7 billion active users on Facebook (Facebook defines an active user as anyone who has logged in in the last 30 days). The even more staggering statistic is that as of late 2015, Facebook reported that there were 8 billion video views on their platform per day. EIGHT. BILLION.
The figures are impressive, no doubt, but remember that Facebook counts a video view as anything over 3 seconds, which in reality is probably not very accurate considering the auto-play feature, which means videos automatically begin to play (without sound) when a user scrolls through their Facebook feed. Compare this to YouTube, where you can see whether people made an active effort to watch your video content by clicking on the play button.
Facebook also lets you see video plays of ten seconds or longer in your page Insights section, which will give you a more accurate idea of how many people stopped and actively consumed your content. You should still think about how to capture people's attention during that vital three-second window. Remember, you're trying to halt people from scrolling through their feed, which will be hard to do if your video has a twenty-second long intro.
Organic video content appears in the main feed of a user's profile, on desktop or mobile. Paid video advertising means that you can choose whether your video content appears in Facebook's desktop feed, mobile feed or the right-hand column.
You can see examples, design and technical specifications and create your video ads here.
Use this data to inform your content marketing strategy as well as your amplification strategy. Boost posts that have performed well, both on Facebook and other channels and modify your content if you see that a particular part of your video is causing people to drop-off in large numbers.
Consider the size of your audience on Facebook. It is possible to reach a huge number of individuals and if you do, use the performance data to help inform your video strategy in general. Sure, some factors will be specific to a user who is in the Facebook mindset, but engagement and retention metrics, as well as comments, should be used to shape your video content on all channels proactively.
The approach that works for you will be entirely dependent on your content and service or product. However, there are broad learnings that you can use to help you get started with your video strategy on Facebook.
Facebook is not the place to publish you 10,000-word company manifesto or your 20-minute long CEO interview. You have three seconds to grab attention and then only a short time after that to keep it. A recent study showed that you will lose a third of your audience by the 30-second mark.
Use YouTube for your long video content, adapt your content for Facebook to make it punchy and attention-grabbing from the outset and keep it as short as you can without compromising the content.
Factor branding in during the early stages of your content strategy. As shown above, many users will drop-off before the end of the video. So don't wait until the end to introduce your brand or the call to action.
It's really about testing, learning and refining so that you find a strategy that works for you. Thanks to the large potential audience and the wealth of data available, this process can be accelerated on Facebook. It is therefore a good place to start with your video content marketing.
Check out these social videos, made by Genero's network of creative filmmakers.
Discover more about social media video with our guide to social video for brands and advertisers.
Get in touch if you would like to speak to Genero about creating video content for your product or band.
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Q: Issue in Deep learning while backpropagation. (Python) Can't seem to figure out the issue with this simple 2 layered network. The forward process seems to be error free, however, I am unable to figure out how to calculate the cost for w1, w2 and b1 which are the weights and bias for the first layer.
//forward
z1 = point[0]*w1 + point[1]*w2 + b1
z2 = sigmoid(z1)*w3 + b2
pred = sigmoid(z2)
//backward
z2_d_cost = 2 * (pred-target)
z2_d_pred = sigmoid_p(z2)
z2_cost_pred = z2_d_cost * z2_d_pred
w3 = w3 - z2*lrate*z2_cost_pred
b2 = b2 - lrate*z2_cost_pred
z1_d_pred = sigmoid_p(z1) * z2_cost_pred * w3
w1 = w1 - point[0]*lrate*z1_d_pred
w2 = w2 - point[1]*lrate*z1_d_pred
b1 = b1 - lrate*z1_d_pred
A: Nvm Figured it. simple mistake, it should be
w3 = w3 - z1*lrate*z2_cost_pred
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Youtober Day 1! Starting off with a fall fashion haul because what else makes more sense? I recently made an order on Asos with things for the new season, autumn is the best time for fashion.
Hope you guys are excited for the daily videos!
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Who are the Common Victims of Identity Theft?
Identity theft is defined as a crime that involves stealing a person's identity to be used by another person for various benefits that might be financial or non-financial in nature. The problem of identity theft is a growing concern all over the world, especially in the US, and everyone is a potential target. Cases have been reported where the victims of identity theft include individuals, organizations, deceased persons and even children. According to the Federal Trade Commission, around 9 million people in the US turn victim to the crime of identity theft every year.
The issue of identity theft is further complicated due to the fact that we live in a digitized world. The IT era has made sensitive information openly available to the public through various sources. With the increased use of social media and digital banking transactions, identity theft is becoming easier to commit, and harder to track.
While you can do some things to minimize the chance of becoming a victim, there are no guarantees. What you can do to help with the financial burden, however, is consider an identity theft insurance policy or endorsing your homeowners insurance with identity theft coverage. Though identity theft insurance may not protect us from the crime itself, it will make things bearable when we have to deal with the added expenses associated with repairing your credit after the crime has been committed.
According to field experts, social media is one of the most significant hunting grounds for identity thieves. Since the main purpose of social media is to share information with large groups of people, it makes it easy for criminals to look for vulnerable targets. Though social media users may not post information such as their credit/debit card numbers or their social security numbers, even regular information such as birth dates, telephone numbers, or an address is all that an identity thief would need to steal someone's identity.
Status and wealth are also common factors in an identity theft. Identity thieves are constantly on the lookout for vulnerabilities in the habits of wealthy people. Rich people are also vulnerable because most of them do not operate single bank accounts or have single sources of credit. This ultimately results in their information being available from several sources. This provides the thieves with multiple options to work with.
Ever since the birth of electronic payments and transactions, identity theft has been witnessing significant growth. The rising number of people who use credit and debit cards for monetary transactions are regularly putting themselves at risk of identity theft. There are many ways in which criminals can steal data from a payment card. One of the basic methods is to physically steal the card and extract the data from it, although it can be done without ever seeing your card as well.
Another way to access information is through data breaches, where the actual target is a payment processor or a store where digital transactions are made. These places keep records of all electronic transactions on servers. When hackers manage to break into these servers, they can access detailed information about every single payment that was made with a card at a particular place.
The use of a data skimmer is also a common method criminals use to steal data from payment cards. The data skimmer can be attached to a POS (Point of Sale) machine and used to "skim" data from the card while a transaction is being made. OR, an unscrupulous cashier can manually use the skimmer when the individual making the payment isn't looking.
Children are also a growing part of the identity theft population and according to some studies, they are 35 times more likely to be targeted than adults. The number of children being affected has steadily risen over the years. Reports indicate that around 500,000 children fall victim to this crime every year. Identity thieves build credit lines using a child's stolen personal information.
One of the major sources to obtain information about a child is through his or her social security number, which are given to them at birth. The reason criminals use a social security number is because most children do not possess credit sources such as bank accounts, payment cards, driving licenses, or financial statements. Another reason is that children do not have any credit histories, which results in their social security numbers going unmonitored. So, the theft goes unnoticed until the child turns 18 and by that time, the damage done is extreme and very hard to fix.
The ever-growing problem of identity theft is also attributed to the spread of mobile technology; cell phones in particular. Ever since the advent of smartphones, identity thieves have had access to an almost infinite pool of vulnerable sources. Smartphones, today, are used to carry out pretty much every major transaction known to the average person. People use smartphones to pay their bills, make purchases, transfer money, and pretty much every other form of monetary transaction.
Smartphone users become victims of identity theft when they do not use passwords or other security systems to protect their devices. According to ID theft protection firm, LifeLock Inc., smartphone users have a one-third higher chance of falling victim to identity thieves. These users also do not take care when using free Wi-Fi in public spots, which makes their devices even more vulnerable. Identity thieves are known to set-up fake wireless spots to gain access to mobile devices.
A good way to make things easier while facing identity theft is to have Identity Theft Insurance in place. Having one can make things much easier when dealing with such an issue. It can provide you and your loved ones with support when we need it the most. For further information on ID Theft Insurance Policies, give us a call or request an agent call you.
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Dr. Shruti is one of the most competent dentists around and has a special interest in aesthetic and cosmetic dentistry. Her core competence is single visit root canal treatments. Her professionalism with time and patient interaction is commendable. A fine blend of modern and latest technology use with her experience is her forte. She has received many a awards at national level in her academic years. Constant upgrading of her dental skills by attending conferences and hands on has given her an edge. With a specific up gradation on zirconia crowns and cosmetic smile designing she has served many patients with satisfactory results.
My wife had an accident and broke 5 of her front teeth. We went to a couple of popular dental clinics and doctors, but finally chose Aesthetica. Highly professional, well maintained, extremely well mannered nurses and staff and very competent doctors! My wife was treated by Dr Shruti Agarwal, and she was a revelation to us. Other doctors in Kolkata took a very clinical view of the problem, but Dr Shruti understood and addressed the emotional and psychological effects as well. She gave us a couple of options and explained the positive and negative aspects of all the options. She patiently answered all our queries, no matter how many times we asked her. Her handiwork is unbelievable - you cannot even make out that the front five teeth are artificial. She does not have the "I am the doctor, I know it all" attitude and she keeps herself updated with all the latest development in her field. You don't get to see that happen a lot, specially in doctors from Kolkata. She has a way of calming down the patients with practical, but very positive attitude and talks. In all our interactions with other doctors from all fields, we have never met anyone in whom you can have complete trust, and know, that whatever she will do, she will do with your best interests in her heart, and you will come out with a smile - literally!! We wish the best to Aesthetica and to Dr. Shruti Agarwal. Thanks.
The patient was my client's daughter. Dr.Agarwal was prompt and efficient in identifying the problems and suggested alternative remedies to choose from. We chose to get the child's problematic milk tooth extracted the next day. The procedure was within the specified time frame, hygienic, quick and efficient. She handled the child very well too. Would absolutely recommend Dr.Agarwal to others.
Very good experience. Dr.Shruti has a great patience. At the time of my wisdom tooth extraction I had a very bad behaviour, but still doctor could manage and made me calm downand finished the job in a few minutes. Rct and crowning job was also done very fast and professional. Thanks a lot, doctor!!
***** ********* ***** Dont ever take the treatment from her. I have visited asthetica clinic for pain in wisdom tooth in 2015 Feb. She has recommend rct on my wisdom tooth, with latest painless technology they had, that too only 2 sittings. I have paid around 15000 for rct of one tooth only. But right after rct, I had so much pain for first week and was feeling uncomfortable, I have visited clinic 3-4 times, everytime she has done xray, and told me everything is fine, then she grinded other teeth on my compliant, but she did nothing about my wisdom tooth pain, this pain u have tolerated for almost 7-8 months by thinking may be because healing will take time. But finally i have visited Cmc Vellore, they have done full mouth xray and told tooth is in very bad situation, immediately extraction is required, then I have visited some other specialist in bangalore, everyone recommend immediate extraction, and has also told that situation is that bad, that no one can guarantee proper healing as rct has created too much infection in gums. Now my tooth is extracted, but still infection doesn't go away, and doctors are suggesting surgery in case infection prevails.
I don't know why this doctor has not attended the case seriously, when I have visited her so many times for complaints. I had worst experience, I have wasted my money and time, and still facing the after effects. Please think twice before choosing ur dentist.
The doctor explains things clinically and professionally in a very fast manner and insists on treatment by trying to take commitment by confusing you with all medical jargon's and procedure.Either u listen to her advice or she wont treat you.May i add here dentistry is not a life saving procedure that i would have to listen in totality what the doctor says. I was made to sit directly on the patient inclining seat for carrying medical dental procedures and had to explain things looking up.Trust me its not very happy scenario. Its like u go to a doctor for check up and he makes u lie directly on the operation theater to check you up and yes... a summary of the entire dental cost for all other areas is also made right in front of you on a computer screen...You are just a potential maximum billing prospect for the clinic/ doctor... I am just sharing what i have experienced and observed.
Secondly , while treatment i got a cut on my lip from the instrument used to shape the tooth, it was really disappointing for me.
Though the doctor was apologetic on the matter.
It was a very quick experience, she was in a hurry for some reason. I don't know whether she is usually this quick or she deliberately did this to get rid of me. I usually get my Scaling & polishing done in 45 to 60 minutes but somehow she managed to get it done within 15 minutes and that includes polishing too. BTW she is good what she does but the only problem is she doesn't give enough time to her each client/patient, and that is considered as mean to me.
Dear Sir apologies for making you feel less attended to but there were no deliberations involved ,usually the time taken for a session of scaling depends upon the amount of deposit patient has and since you get your scaling done regularly you needed a short session as there were less deposits ,also there was not much to explain you about the procedure as you had already had scaling before and you were not looking at any further consultation . Despite above sir ,I would be more than happy if a follow up check up appointment clears any further doubts by gracing us with some of your valuable time .Thanking you for keeping your faith in me .
She explained the problem and solutions very well.
Great job done. Very informative* ***** ********** Good and experienced hand. Would like to get the treatment again from her when needed.
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GATE 2006 ECE Video Solutions on EDC (Electronic Devices and Circuits)
1. The values of voltage across a tunnel diode (VD) corresponding to peak and valley currents are VP and VV respectively. The range of tunnel diode voltage VD for which the slope of its I-V characteristics is negative would be
a. VD < 0
b. 0 ≤ VD ≤ VP
c. VP ≤ VD ≤ VV
d. VD ≥ VV
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7NNJYXvEvk
2. The concentration of minority carriers in an extrinsic semiconductor under equilibrium is
a. Directly proportional to the doping concentration
b. Inversely proportional to the doping concentration
c. Directly proportional to the intrinsic concentration
d. Inversely proportional to the intrinsic concentration
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iujDfqtrnyA
3. Under low level injection assumption, the injected minority carrier current for an extrinsic semiconductor is essentially the
a. Diffusion current
b. Drift current
c. Recombination current
d. Induced current
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYB5k5Y48t4
4. The phenomenon known as "early effect" in a BJT refers to a reduction of the effective base width caused by
a. Electron – hole recombination at the base
b. The reverse biasing of the base collector junction
c. The forward biasing of emitter base junction
d. The early removal of stored base charge during saturation to cutoff switching
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-2EhtZEJBw
5. An N-channel depletion MOSFET has the following two points on its ID verses VGS curve are
(i) VGS = 0 at ID = 12 mA and
(ii) VGS = -6 volts at ID = 0 mA
Which of the following Q-points will give the highest Transconductance gain for small signals?
a. VGS = -6 volts
b. VGS = -3 volts
c. VGS = 0 volts
d. VGS = 3 volts
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxd4IZqv1vU
6. In the circuit shown below, the switch was connected to position 1 at t < 0, and at t = 0, it is changed to position 2. Assume that the diode has zero voltage drop and a storage time tS. For 0<t<tS, the voltage across the 1 KΩ resistor (VR) in volts is
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmgL0d-ztU
7. The majority carriers in an N-type semiconductor have an average drift velocity V in a direction perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field B. The electric field E induced due to hall effect acts in the direction
a. V x B
b. B x V
c. along V
d. opposite to V
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzgCSNqVcU
8. Find the correct match between Group 1 and Group 2 :
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkGp1dylZb4
9. A heavily doped N-type semiconductor has the following data:
Hole – electron mobility ratio : 0.4
Doping concentration : 4.2 x 108 /m3
Intrinsic concentration : 1.5 x 104 /m3
The ratio of conductance of the N-type semiconductor to that of the intrinsic semiconductor of same material and at the same temperature is given by
a. 0.00005
c. 10000
d. 20000
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmYZgSc58Gw
10. For the circuit shown below, assume the zener diode is ideal with a breakdown voltage of 6 volts. The waveform observed across R is
Solution : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjeTnzvlyrw
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The Best of Mantronix (1986–1988) is a compact disc and vinyl record compilation album by hip hop/electo funk group Mantronix. The album was released on the Ten record label in 1990.
Despite the title, the album features tracks exclusively from Mantronix's first two (and only) studio albums released by Sleeping Bag Records between 1985 and 1986 (1985's The Album and 1986's Music Madness).
Track listing
"Ladies (Full Length)" (Kurtis Mantronik, MC Tee) - 6:52
"Electronic Energy Of..." (Mantronik) - 5:32
"Who Is It? (Club Mix)" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 6:58
"Needle to the Groove" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 3:39
"Bassline (Stretched)" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 5:24
"Listen to the Bass of Get Stupid, Pt. 2" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 4:26
"Scream (Remix)" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 6:15
"Sing a Song (Break It Down)" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 4:07
"Ladies (Revised)" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 6:44
"Mantronix to the Groove (Megamix)" (Mantronik, MC Tee) - 8:50
External links
[ The Best of Mantronix (1986-1988)] at Allmusic
1990 greatest hits albums
Mantronix albums
Virgin Records compilation albums
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Title: Albert Cossery
Subtitle: Subversion by irreverence and ridicule
Author: S. Laplage
Issue: Fifth Estate #377, March 2008
Source: https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/377-march-2008/albert-cossery
Notes: Fifth Estate #377, March 2008
S. Laplage
Subversion by irreverence and ridicule
Anarchist Albert Cossery's books are the most irreverent that I've ever read, ridiculing those in power, the police, the wealthy, and the stupidities of our industrial society. Everything our puritanical society deems important--material wealth, ambition, proper conduct, hard work, university degrees, progress--is ridiculed in his novels, most of which are set in Arab countries (especially Egypt). He mocks bourgeois materialism, consumerism, and productivity while reserving his sympathies for the lowlife: street-corner layabouts, hashish dealers, petty thieves, beggars, confidence tricksters ("shuttar" in Arabic), and bandits.
Albert Cossery, Paris, 1997
His main characters' goals in life are the pursuit of happiness; they have no ambition other than procuring amusement from observing the actions of those around them, and experiencing pleasure. Working is abhorred, and, of course, they are often suspected by the authorities of subversion. (Apparently this anti-work sensibility is a trait shared by the author himself: when an interviewer asked Cossery why he had only produced eight novels in sixty years, he proclaimed that laziness was a virtuous form of meditation and contemplation.)
Albert Cossery, born on November 3, 1913 in Cairo into a wealthy family received the education of those in his social class, going to a French school and thus becoming familiar with French literature and writing in French. During World War II in British-occupied Cairo, he fell in with Jama'at al-Fann wa'al-Hurriyah, a group of European anti-fascist exiles and Arabic surrealists that experimented with modern ideas and creative methods. But in interesting ways, his novels also tap into a long-standing tradition in classical Arabic literature centering around cunning vagabonds and conniving gate-crashers, except Cossery gives them a contemporary anarchist twist. For example, Cossery's fifth novel, La violence et la derision (1965), details a series of bold, seditious pranks made by a laidback revolutionary pacifist against a brutal dictatorial regime; a reviewer for the Parisian journal Anarchisme et non-violence applauded the book for its meditations on "the human qualities that we hold dear: a sense of irony, nonconformism, a taste of freedom, and a love of life."
In 1940, Henry Miller helped him publish his first work in English, a collection of short stories entitled Men Forgotten By God. Two of his excellent novels, The Lazy Ones (1952) and Proud Beggars (1981) are also available in English. It's unfortunate that only two of Cossery's novels have been translated into English, and I've been told that they're expensive--hopefully public and university libraries carry them. People who can read a language other than English will probably be able to find all of Cossery's works; the anarchist bookstore in Montreal, L'Insoumise, carries all of Cossery's books in French. The bookstore can be contacted at anarchistefestival--at--yahoo--dot--ca or by regular mail by writing to my attention at Fifth Estate.
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Get Yours Fitted at Berwick Mazda Today!
Heard about the new Apple Car Play and Android Auto Retrofitted Accessory? Interested in having your Mazda decked out with one?
For more information on availability and compatibility: fill out the form below, contact us on 03 8796 6222 or visit our dealership at 3 Prestige Place, Narre Warren 3805 (2 minutes from Fountain Gate, Bunjil Place and Monash Fwy).
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Gang held over huge postal cheques fraud
Updated: 09:41 EST, 26 January 2006
POLICE today smashed a gang at the centre of a multi-million-pound post office cheques fraud.
Detectives raided addresses in Streatham, Croydon and Tottenham at dawn.
A gang of asylum seekers are accused of masterminding the theft of thousands of items of post containing personal chequebooks, credit cards and social security cheques.
Among those held was a postman and at least two other former postmen. Another man arrested is believed to have acted as a forger who altered the cheques for payment into hundreds of accounts set up under false names.
All those held are believed to be from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The fraud is believed to have operated for several years.
Detectives from the City of London Police economic crime department had the gang under surveillance for three months.Officers watched as the stolen cheques were distributed at meetings involving suspects driving Jaguars, Mercedes and Jeeps.
The gang is linked to at least £150,000 worth of fraudulent profits. But police believe they were responsible for a large part of £4m stolen from the benefit system this year. The inquiry, codenamed Operation Voyager, involved investigators from the Department of Work and Pensions and the Post Office.
The arrests are the second phase of an inquiry into thefts from Royal Mail.
Police believe gang members worked as postmen and picked out letters containing cheques and credits cards by the envelopes or the return addresses.
A forger would alter the names and amounts on the cheques so they could be laundered through accounts set up under false names.
FTSE LIVE: Trump talks up UK trade deal in Davos; Jobless...
One of Britain's oldest department store chains Beales...
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The following list of property managers was surveyed from the yellow pages as well as the listings found in our office. Each agency was contacted by phone and agreed to participate in our list. Off-Campus Life does not endorse any of these companies.
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Restaurante El Surtidor is spacious and there is plenty of parking, because when this was the main route for traffic heading to and from Granada, it was a favourite stop for coaches and buses. It's got three spacious dinning rooms, a small kiddies' park around the back and even rooms to pass the night. And of course, the gasoline station is right next door so everybody; even your car, gets to have a refreshing drink.
The food is great and not expensive. In fact, the Menu del Día will only set you back ten euros a head and for that you get a choice of ten first courses and ten main courses! As for eating times, the kitchen is open until midnight, straight through from early morning! The restaurant specialises in grilled meat but offers a wide variety of other dishes. It's also worth noting that they cater for communions and large parties in general.
El Surtidor also offers a collection of small gifts for travellers, both comestible and ornamental.
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Efe Obada goes from streets of London to Panthers 53-man roster
Cutdown day is a bruising one for the dreams of more than a thousand players who find out that their hopes of making a team have been dashed.
There are a lot of happy moments as well, including the news that defensive end Efe Obada survived Saturday's cuts to make the Panthers 53-man roster.
Obada was born in Nigeria, moved to the Netherlands and then, along with his sister, trafficked to England at the age of 10.
Once in London, the two kids were abandoned on the streets and, as he told NFL UK a couple of years ago, eventually finding his way to football at 22 after experimenting with life in a gang.
"It hasn't set in.
I don't even know.
I'm grateful," Obada said, via the team's website.
"You know when you really want something and you get it and you're like, 'Oh my goodness.
I'm going to enjoy this.
That wouldn't make for as happy a story, but it's still notable to see how far Obada has come four years after playing football for the first time.
Nick O'Leary, Travaris Cadet among cuts as Bills get down to 52
Mike Gillislee to visit Saints
There are a lot of happy moments as well, including the news that defensive end Efe Obada survived Saturday's cuts to make the Panthers 53-man roster. Obada was born in Nigeria, moved to the Netherlands and then, along with his sister, trafficked to England at the age of 10. Once in London, the two kids were abandoned on the streets and, as he told NFL UK a couple of years ago, eventually finding his way to football at 22 after experimenting with life in a gang.
He played for the London Warriors, caught the eye of the the Cowboys in 2015 and spent the next couple of years getting looks with NFL teams before getting cut….
Related ItemsEfe ObadaGlossary of American footballLondon WarriorsNigeriaPanthera
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Dance institutions might seem similar, but fundamentally they are actually rather different. You could pass by simply anybody, yet you will certainly need to establish which one is appropriate for your kid. In order for your kid to properly discover as well as enjoy dancing, the dance college setting must be conducive to and also really motivate exercising and also finding out and also practicing. Courses must be flexible as pupils can be moved around to placements where they appear most matched, Salsa Kurs Bonn.
Among the important jobs that can give a simple reference is to examine the online reputation of the dancing school by looking at the careers of a few of the past students. If many of the trainees have actually proceeded to effective professions as experts, or have mosted likely to examine dance at higher levels, the chances are very likely that they could have great training if the institution has been around for some time.
At the end of the year, some colleges might hold a recital, where the skills are placed on display. The pupils can take pleasure in the experience while it promotes and also displays growth as a performer as they could enjoy the experience of performing without pressure.
One location that ought to likewise be checked out is the expenses of recital costumes. Charges could often be as high as $100 each as well as they could not be of premium quality. There is now a new trend that includes costumes as street wear so that the expenses as lower as the outfits may actually be put on offstage as typical garments.
You may or might not be comfortable without the capability to see your kid practice. The dancing school might have a policy of not enabling parents to observe the youngsters, while others school might enable monitoring from behind windows. There may stand explanations behind the policies as in some circumstances it is utilized to avoid interruptions. You ought to know as well as be fully comfy with the policy as mentioned prior to your youngster is registered.
Competition is constantly helpful for growth, and you should figure out if the dancing college does competitions. You must additionally find out more concerning the nature of the competitors, as the affordable setting could also be a bit damaging, when self-confidence is influenced. There are in some cases concealed fees for competition, as well as in your analysis, you ought to ensure that all costs are divulged.
Examining the credentials of the instructors is an additional method that can be usage in picking an institution. Teachers might belong to professional organizations such as the Dance Masters of Bonn, but many of these companies could include hardly any in the way of value. The history of the instructors is more important, as well as you should figure out where and what they researched, as well as the length of time they have been included with mentor dancing, Rumba Tanzkus.
If the experience has come greatly from doing, despite the fact that the listing of performance could be impressive, you ought to be aware that good performers do not always make good educators. You might have the ability to inform an expert dancer, by looking a point like gait as well as position, yet you must also be worried concerning teaching approaches. The web content of the courses will additionally be essential as they will certainly establish how well your dancer discovers and executes.
Most importantly, you desire your kid's dance experience to be a joyful, learning experience with high quality training in an environment that values both the children as well as the moms and dads.
This page was last modified on 21 July 2018, at 10:17.
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