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If you're one of the few people who wish they can delete their facebook account, well it's now allowed. I just recently discovered that there's a way to do it. It was hidden by Facebook through a deep link and no one would be able to see it unless you research it.
Having a Facebook account can be daunting these days and you may even want to delete your account entirely and fly to a different planet so you can achieve everlasting peace.
Click on the link at the bottom of the main menu that says "Download a copy of your Facebook data".
And you will receive a confirmation look like below.
Take note that you will not be able to retrieve or activate your account once you delete your account. If you did that, let me treat you Congratulations! May you find peace on the other planet where you will be heading soon.
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Always first on the job. Your project begins with Slack & Co.
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Slack & Co. provides civil construction services, including earthwork, site work, mass excavations and underground utilities for Houston and South Texas. We maintain an unwavering commitment to the values that build trust with our clients: safety, quality, integrity, and professionalism. Our clients know that we will always deliver superior work and superior service. As a result, since 1992 we have developed strong relationships and completed a multitude of successful public and private sector projects.
WE BUILD SUCCESS. IT'S A COMMITMENT TO OUR CLIENTS AND A PROMISE WE FULFILL DAILY.
From pre-construction planning through completion, Slack & Co. is known for client-focused service, a professional approach and a desire to be part of the solution, not the problem. Our entire organization is committed to doing what is right for each project we take on – and this involves every person in our organization. This approach to business paved the way for us to become the specialty contractor of choice for our clients.
In an industry that often focuses more on the bottom line than on people, our client-focused approach truly sets us apart. Safely performing quality work is an integral part of daily life at every Slack & Co. job site, and safety will never be sacrificed for the sake of cost or schedule.
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Odometer is 2633 miles below market average! Shadow Black 2018 Ford Mustang GT RWD 6-Speed Manual 5.0L V8 Ti-VCT Priced below KBB Fair Purchase Price!
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Connect the MFJ-834 Coax In-Line RF Ammeter between your antenna and tuner/ transmitter/amplifier and measure antenna feedline current in 3 calibrated ranges.
Use it . . . for tuning your antenna tuner/ transmitter/amplifier for maximum radiated power … for determining antenna feedpoint impedance… for comparing antennas and tuners … for trouble shooting . . . and for checking for changes.
Use the MFJ-834 to determine best antenna tuner settings and to compare various tuners.
MFJ RF ammeters are rugged, read acc-urately over 1-30MHz in three linear ranges (.3, 1, 3 Amps) and barely perturb the antenna.
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A big crowd and a substantial offering did not translate into buyer initiative at this auction. Hamish Tostevin opened and closed on a single $6,000,000 vendor bid. Numerous people remained and chatted among themselves – a chance for neighbours to catch up.
Intel: They have a complete file on you - every home you visit, you bid on, you talk about. KGB? No, it's a selling agent.
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We spent: $48.50 for two people.
After having shown up for breakfast at more than one Auckland establishment only to find it was closed, the advertised hours were wrong or bookings were required, I thought I'd be smart and phone Beam ahead of time. But nowhere could I find a phone number. Nowhere could I find an email address. Beam has an Instagram account though and a Facebook account that typically answers "within a few hours" – but that is less than useful if one merely wants to avoid a Sunday morning drive that does not end in a flavourful breakfast. Oh well. Milford has some nice shops and the parking was easy across the road at the mall if we were turned away. But we weren't, despite the worrying knot of people at the door ahead of us. They disappeared and we were seated immediately. Beam is apparently named after the ceiling beams they found during renovation. And I guess the mural of a bulldog in an astronaut suit and standing on a planet is another "beam" reference.
Beam: 192 Kitchener Road, Milford.
Beam puts the carnival back into breakfast. My companion ordered the "coconut french toast forever" and what arrived can only be described as a festival on a plate: a swirl of berries, an upside-down icecream cone and, of course — no carnival is not complete without it — candy floss. It's called "Persian candy floss" on the menu, which makes it sounds ever so sophisticated as a breakfast ingredient. And given that it followed a decadent ice frappe piled high with cream and chocolate ($7), a post-prandial shop-wandering expedition was a must. Beam has given eggs benedict an Asian makeover, and shows what fusion looks like when it's done right. The breakfast staple came with Chinese crispy chicken and sriracha hollandaise on a spring onion pancake, combining spicy with rich creaminess to a deeply satisfying degree. I fear I may have tasted a hint of tarragon in the final, hollandaise sauce-soaked mouthful, and a flavour I associated more with bearnaise than hollandaise — and one that makes my taste buds cringe. But I may have been wrong.
Beam is one of the newest additions to Milford's busy town centre but I don't think novelty is all that accounts for its obvious popularity. It's fresh, it's flavours are interesting and service is fast and efficient enough that we could overlook the occasional stressy moment among the busy staff.
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I Haven't Been This Happy Since Optimus Returned From The Dead
Fifteen days to go until Transformers 2 is released. It may not seem that long a wait but for a fan such as me – every minute of every hour of every day feels like a lifetime. Five years ago, when they announced that a Transformers movie was in the pipeline, I was as giddy as a little school girl in love. I wasn't even perturbed by the fact that Michael Bay had been chosen as Director. Okay, his movies aren't that great, (I feel like spitting whenever I see a copy of Pearl Harbour) but let's face it, the guy knows how to blow things up and for a movie containing a number of giant robots kicking seven shades of rust out of each other, that's sometimes all you need.
I have watched the trailer countless times. I've wept with joy at the brief appearance of Jetfire, I've fallen to my knees and praising the gods of cinema at the thought of seeing The Devastator in a live action and jumped up and down like a hyperactive teenager on a trampoline on hearing the words "The Fallen." Some of you may not understand such excitement but those that have followed the Transformers Universe will understand.
What is that I hear you say – Why am I so happy in this piece when normally I want to take a nail gun to the world of entertainment? Well, fear not, that man hasn't gone away because although I am excited at the nearing release date of the movie there is something that has been bothering me lately. It was something that I had expected to happen should have prepared myself for and, when it did happen, let it gently wash over me and ignore it but I'm not built like that and as normal, I'm wound up.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – Big robots, big guns, explosions, death and destruction on a major scale and, to top it all off like a whacking great cherry on top of a pretty fine cake, an even bigger robot so big that it'll even have trouble fitting on an IMAX screen. So, what is not to like? Well it would seem that some of you out there expect a bit more from this movie – check out some comments on YouTube and certain film sites – you wanted a darker turn ala The Dark Knight, you want better dialogue from the characters, scenery chewing from the human element of the movie, and some of you wanted Michael Bay gone because he couldn't handle the franchise. There were other comments but I'll if I list them all I'll be here all day.
Should this film be made to appease those that expect more from the movie business? Should it be made for those that consider film high art? Since when should a film about giant robots be about interaction between the human characters. Okay, I'll agree with the point that a movie lives or dies by its script and how well the characters come across on screen but I'm not expecting the 'Othello' of robots. I don't want Optimus Prime to suddenly go Shakespeare and stand beneath a giant balcony proclaiming his love for Arcee in old worlde verse. I don't want the film to go Hamlet and have Autobots sleeping with their own mothers and poisoning their uncles. Most of all I definitely don't want to see Ironside break out into monologue enquiring about his entitlement to "a pound of flesh."
It seems to upset some people that films like Transformers are made and think little of people who find enjoyment from it, but why shouldn't we enjoy it? It's a blockbuster which has a strong fan-base, has plenty of back-material to draw from and contains everything which makes a summer movie great.
As I write this I am currently carving a tally-mark into the wall next to my desk, counting down the days until I can book my IMAX ticket and enjoying the ultimate pop-corn movie. At least I know I'll be enjoying watching Transformers 2 while the art crowd sit around a flea-ridden mini-screen in a pit of a cinema watching a short movie about the plight of Bolivian Pig farmers.
Out of the two – Which do you think will be remembered when the robots really do rise up and take over the planet?
Written by: Arron Kasady
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7 Comments on "I Haven't Been This Happy Since Optimus Returned From The Dead"
Brenda said on June 4th, 2009:
This movie is going to totally kick-ass man! Can't wait.
Jack'O said on June 4th, 2009:
hey dude you're totally right. let them keep their arthouse movies. its popcorn fest all the way man. long live optimus. yay
» I Haven't Been This Happy Since Optimus Returned From The Dead said on June 4th, 2009:
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GarykPatton said on June 16th, 2009:
Hi! I like your srticle and I would like very much to read some more information on this issue. Will you post some more?
Debs said on June 17th, 2009:
now I'll be tuned..
Arron Kasady said on July 2nd, 2009:
After having seen the movie and read some of the critics opinions I will most certainly be posting my personal opinion on the movie and its nay-sayers.
KonstantinMiller said on July 6th, 2009:
Hello. I think the article is really interesting. I am even interested in reading more. How soon will you update your blog?
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1349 is a black metal band hailing from a suburb of Oslo, Norway. The group formed in 1997 and comprises several former members of the band Alvheim. Their drummer, Frost is also a member of Satyricon.
The band's music is purposely similar in style and construction to the Second Wave of Norwegian black metal bands of the early 1990s, and does not incorporate synthesisers. As a result, 1349 have been compared to the early incarnations of Enslaved, Emperor, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Darkthrone, Immortal, and Mayhem, and are also described as being much heavier than most other Black Metal bands. The band tour on a regular basis; their live shows often begin with fire-breathing. In recognizing their influences, the band performed a cover of Mayhem's "Buried by Time and Dust" on their debut album, Liberation. They have also covered Celtic Frost, the band that Ravn recognises as his principle influence, at their live shows, and toured the USA with Celtic Frost in 2006. Ravn also appeared on Celtic Frost's 2006 album, Monotheist, performing guest vocals on the CD digi-pack bonus track, Temple of Depression. This band have so far have rejected the more commercial style of black metal exhibited by bands such as Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth.
The name 1349 was chosen by the band because it is the year the Black Death plague spread to Norway.
A music video of 1349's song 'Sculptor of Flesh' was released following the band's 2005 album, Hellfire. The video was directed by Judd Tilyard not by the fictional "Don Budd" as reported by MTV, the video switches from the band performing the song in Norway to clips of surgery filmed in Australia.
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La linea RER B è una delle cinque reti del Réseau express régional (RER), uno dei due servizi ferroviari suburbani che servono la città di Parigi, in Francia. Viene gestita congiuntamente da RATP e da SNCF. Si sviluppa per 80 km attraverso 47 stazioni passando per 41 comuni e 8 dipartimenti. I passeggeri sono circa 900.000 al giorno
Il percorso
Il percorso della linea attraversa l'agglomerazione parigina secondo un asse nord-sud con varie diramazioni. In dettaglio, la linea collega l'Aeroporto di Parigi-Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle (ramo B3) e Mitry-Claye (ramo B5) a nord-est, a Robinson (ramo B2) e Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse (ramo B4) a sud, passando attraverso il cuore della capitale francese.
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Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (MED)
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Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport has recently expanded, with a US$1.2 billion phase one opened in 2015. MED Airport currently has the capacity for 8 million passengers a year, which will rise to 40 million once the third and final phase of work is finished. Medina Airport is situated 20 kilometers (12 miles) to the northeast of Medina's city center, a journey of about 22 minutes, making Uber a great choice for a pleasant and stress-free transfer.
Medina Airport terminal
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Points of interest near Medina Airport
Medina, sometimes spelled Madinah, means the City of the Prophet. Historically, it is known as the city where Islam's founder, Muhammad, lived after leaving Mecca. The modern city of Medina is centered around a grand mosque, called the Prophet's Mosque, and is a major Islamic pilgrimage site. Interesting places to visit in Medina include the following (please note that only Muslims are allowed to enter the city):
Dar Al Madinah Museum
Hejaz Railway station
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Prophet's Mosque
Uhud martyrs cemetery
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World-renowned researcher Dr. Eva Feldman is stepping down as director of the University of Michigans A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute, an organization that supports research for cures for debilitating and deadly diseases.
Feldman was the founding director of the institute launched by philanthropist and businessman A. Alfred Taubman, who died in 2015 at age 91. Feldman spent the last 10 years at the helm as the institute developed new drugs, surgeries and therapies for diseases such as adult and childhood cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and, Feldmans research interest, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
When Alfred and I began the institute 10 years ago together, we had a vision of creating an institute where clinician scientists would take their most novel discoveries from their laboratory and translate that into patient clinical trials, said Feldman, adding that the team of four has grown to over 200. Weve really been able to realize that vision.
Feldman, 65, said Thursday that she raised the institute from its infancy.
Its now time for the next person to take it through its adolescence, because its still growing, she said. So it just seemed the perfect time to pass the baton to someone to have the next 10 best years of their life the way I just had the 10 best years of my life.
The institute will select the next director soon, Feldman said.
A Russell N. DeJong Professor of Neurology, Feldman will continue to run the ALS clinic at UM and her own laboratory, Program for Neurology Research & Discovery. Her team of 30 scientists have spent years working on human clinical trials that may lead to a treatment for ALS, a neurological disease also known as Lou Gehrigs disease. Most ALS patients lose the ability to walk and talk, and death may occur within three to five years of diagnosis.
In 2010, Feldman started the first human clinical trial approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to use stem cells to treat ALS. The FDA recently approved Feldman to move onto the final, nationwide phase of the trial that involves injecting stem cells into the spinal cord of ALS patients. If approved, the drug could be marketed to patients.
Besides focusing on the trial, Feldman said shell have more time to do a deep dive into why people with diabetes get neurological complications.
She also was elected to the National Academy of Medicine and plans to use her position to help others understand the value of philanthropy.
Philanthropy can be a game changer Al Taubman showed us that and one of my goals is to help other clinician scientists throughout the country understand the process, she said.
Feldman said shes much closer to a cure for ALS, but were not there yet. For now, she wants to press the pause button on the disease.
When the patient comes to me, I want to be able to offer them a therapy so they will stay right where they are the first day I see them, she said. I dont think that stem cells will necessarily make people go back to where they are before they got ill, but if we can stop the disease in its tracks, my patients will be happy and I will be happy.
Feldman was named a 2011 Detroit News Michiganian of the Year. Shes served as the president of the American Neurological Association, the third woman to hold the position in 130 years, and was named one of Americas Top Doctors in 2016.
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Letter to President Obama on the Kunduz Hospital Attack
PHR responded to Brian P. McKeon's letter and called for the disciplinary process to include consideration of criminal liability up the chain of command; that an analysis of compliance with international humanitarian law and the U.S. Military Code of Justice assessing criminal liability be made public; and that the victims and their families be provided full and effective reparation including guarantees of non-repetition as well as a full opportunity to present their claims for compensation beyond the narrow claims they have been directed to. Read the full letter here.
The U.S. Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Brian P. McKeon, responded to PHR's letter. Read the full response here.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) sent a letter to President Barack Obama expressing grave concern about the increased frequency of attacks on hospitals and medical personnel across the globe, including the devastating October airstrikes by the U.S. military on a Médécins sans Frontiérés (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. PHR urged the president to ensure that the U.S. government thoroughly address what happened in accordance with its obligations under domestic and international law, and to take action on the following recommendations:
(1) To ensure that the initial report produced by the Department of Defense as a result of its probe into the Kunduz hospital bombing be made available to the public promptly and to ensure that the recommendations resulting from the DoD's full investigation are forthcoming and transparent, contain active pursuit of criminal liability – including at the command level – and are communicated to the public in a timely manner;
(2) To publicly assert the United States' commitment to universally-recognized principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), which afford hospitals and medical personnel heightened protections during armed conflict and respect the obligation of medical personnel to treat the sick and wounded without interference, regardless of their identity or affiliation; and
(3) To convene a Court of Inquiry, utilizing your general court-martial convening authority under Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) art. 135(a), 10 U.S.C. § 935(a) and UCMJ art. 22(a)(1), 10 U.S.C. § 822(a)(1), charged with examining and inquiring into the incident and directed to offer findings, opinions and recommendations including coverage of punitive and corrective phases of the matter under investigation.
Read the full letter here.
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#Bonas to celebrate achievements of women and girls in sports
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St. Bonaventure University will host its annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day event for high school students on April 25.
This year, St. Bonaventure student-athletes will run clinics for softball, basketball, soccer, lacrosse, rugby, tennis, cross country/track, swimming and volleyball. Visiting students will be able to participate in those clinics as well as a fitness challenge presented by the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and yoga offered by the YMCA of the Twin Tiers.
Students from the following schools have registered for the sports day: Allegany-Limestone, Andover, Bath, Belfast, Bolivar-Richburg, Bradford, Cattaraugus-Little Valley, Fillmore, Franklinville, Genesee Valley, Hinsdale, Lutheran/Jamestown, Olean, Pioneer, Portville, Randolph, Salamanca, Scio, South Park, Southwestern, Walsh, and Wellsville.
"Some schools also bring middle school girls, and some teachers bring students on campus (who) may not be on an athletic team," said Dr. Paula Scraba, associate professor of physical education at SBU who organizes the annual event. "This is a great opportunity for them to experience being on a college campus or to participate in an environment where physical activity is a fun learning component as opposed to a competitive component."
Students will arrive starting at 9 a.m. and will be welcomed by Dr. Joseph Zimmer, provost, followed by talks from Tim Kenny, director of athletics; Dr. Nancy Casey, dean of the School of Education; Lt. Col. Sean Coulter, professor of military science; and Dr. Claire Watson, director of the physical education, sport studies, and health science programs.
Following the clinics, the students will have lunch (provided by donations from SBU students) and then are invited to participate in an SBU Student-Athlete Panel followed by closing remarks.
The day will end with a tour of campus for those interested and a visit to the University Bookstore. Students may also choose to continue the ROTC fitness challenge or talk with coaches.
National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD) began in 1987 to honor Flo Hyman, an Olympic volleyball player, for her athleticism and promotion of equality for women's sports. Hyman died of Marfan's Syndrome in 1986 while competing in Japan.
The NGWSD's mission is to "develop and deliver equitable and quality sport opportunities for all girls and women through relevant research, advocacy, leadership development, educational strategies and programming in a manner that promotes social justice and change."
NGWSD has continued since then to highlight the accomplishments of past female athletes and recognize current sports achievements, the positive influence of sports participation and women's continuous struggle for equality and access to sports.
The event is funded by St. Bonaventure's division of University Relations, Admissions, and Student Affairs.
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Collecting an already known completed blueprint results in a conversion of the blueprint directly into energy.
A new log message system was integrated into the left mission panel. This log message system shows the last server messages since your last zone change.
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Seneca Foods Corp is a US-based company which acts as a provider of packaged fruits and vegetables. Its product offerings include canned, frozen and bottled produce and snack chips. The company manages its business through three segments being a Primary segment and Secondary segment and The packaging and sale of snack products segment. The Primary segment is involved in the packaging and sale of fruits and vegetables. The Secondary segment is engaged in the packaging and sale of food products and the packaging and sale of snack products involves chip products.
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Safelite® Solutions to Relocate Alliance Claims SolutionsTM to Larger Cedar Rapids-Area Facility, Adding Up To 200 Jobs Next Year
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Dec. 5, 2012 - Safelite Solutions, the U.S. leader in claims management solutions, has announced plans to more than double its Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based operation by the end of 2013.
Safelite® currently operates its business unit www.allianceclaimssolutions.com, which is an employer of choice in the community and ranked No. 14 in 2012 Top Places to Work in Iowa program from the Des Moines Register, at 1620 E Avenue NE in Cedar Rapids. The relocation to the new 21,220-square-foot facility at 1125 Dina Court, Hiawatha, IA 52233, will allow the company to add up to 200 new full-time and part-time jobs to the community on top of Alliance's existing 75 associates.
Alliance Claims SolutionsTM, which is a provider of property, auto physical damage and auto glass claims management for small to mid-sized insurance companies, plans to move after February 1, 2013.
"We are excited about our expansion in Cedar Rapids and what it will mean for our customers, our employees and the community. We thank the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance, local leadership and the community for its continued partnership." said Jerry Beigel, senior vice president of Safelite® Solutions. "Being able to grow our business in tough economic times is a testament to the people who make Safelite® Solutions and Alliance Claims SolutionsTM the success we are."
Hiawatha Mayor Tom Theis said he is "very excited" Alliance Claims Solutions/Safelite® has decided to stay and expand in the Cedar Rapids area.
"We look forward to supporting their needs to attract a workforce, recognizing it will provide employment opportunities not only for the citizens of Hiawatha but those throughout the region," Theis said.
In addition, Beigel thanked City of Cedar Rapids Mayor Ron Corbett and City Manager Jeff Pomeranz, for their efforts in helping to ensure the company remain in the Cedar Rapids metro area.
Mayor Corbett was instrumental in the initial discussions with Alliance Claims SolutionsTM. While the company's physical expansion will be in the neighboring community, Corbett said it will keep the jobs in the Cedar Rapids area.
"Not only does this retain jobs, but the addition of 200 jobs will provide Cedar Rapidians more opportunities," he said.
Dee Baird, Economic Alliance president and CEO, said she is pleased the company made the decision to stay in this region, retaining and adding jobs in Iowa's Creative Corridor.
"We are very glad Safelite® chose the Creative Corridor to expand their operations," she said. "Safelite® is also a great fit amongst our other financial service companies in the region."
The company will be utilizing Iowa's New Job Training Program administered through Kirkwood Community College.
About Safelite® Solutions / Alliance Claims SolutionsTM
Safelite® Solutions provides property and casualty claims management for more than 175 insurance and fleet companies, including 18 of the top 30 property and casualty insurance companies. Safelite® Solutions and its subsidiary Alliance Claims SolutionsTM of Cedar Rapids, Iowa together manage a network of nearly 9,000 affiliate providers and operate four national contact centers located in Columbus (2), Phoenix (1) and Cedar Rapids (1).
Alliance Claims SolutionsTM is solely focused on enabling small to mid-sized insurance companies to deliver quality claim care. Alliance's call center is staffed 24/7 to provide the insurance industry with a variety of claims solutions, including Managed Glass Programs, First Notice of Loss, Statements, Desk Reviews and Claims Resolution. For more information, visit www.allianceclaimssolutions.com.
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Images are what gets reader's attention when they first land on your page. Use an image relevant to your topic, then write a caption under it that ties in with the paragraph that follows.
The image from the SEO website above did not give justice to what their article was about. Can you imagine the traffic jam building up in the reader's mind while scanning that page? From headline to your call to action, your copy has to read like you are driving in a super hi-way. Getting from one point to the next has to be fast and efficient.
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If you think a curiosity headline will work best for your copy, craft your message in such a way that your reader is motivated to read the next line. Use an image that will show the reader what that motivation is about--"Interesting. What's next?"
Remember that readers tend to scan over the page, and their attention span is short. Jumping from one element of your website to the next, readers decide within four seconds whether to continue or not. If there was something better to do on the internet than to read your article, guess what they will do next?
Everything ties together. One copy element has to tie in with the one before it, and leads the reader to read what's next. Your website copy should read like Super Mario collecting all those gold coins on its way to save the princess.
Go back to the top of this page, but this time, simply scan at this page's over-all layout. Pay attention to the copy elements and how they relate to each other. Attention, Interest, Description/Desire, Action (AIDA).
The headline flags for interest, "Is this what you are looking for?" You then found the image from the subject website, and immediately after that, a question. One copy element motivates the reader to continue on to the next without giving them time to think about it.
Now, let's see if you were paying attention.
If I were using a pop-up to ask for the reader's email, at what point in this layout should the pop-up trigger be?
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They Saved Diana's Brain
Sep 14, 2017 | Religion & Royalty |
What if Princess Diana had survived the car crash which took her life in Paris twenty years ago? This is one of the questions explored in the new film Mondo Diana, produced and directed by notorious Italian 'shockumentary' maker Gino Gropa. Cheered by audiences but roundly condemned by British critics during a Cannes Film Festival screening, the film, a mixture of interviews, 'found footage' and reconstructions, is still awaiting a UK distribution deal. However, having seen the movie, The Sleaze can exclusively reveal some of its highlights to potential UK audiences. Most sensationally, Mondo Diana claims that, in the aftermath of her fatal auto accident, French surgeons removed Diana's brain and have kept it alive to this day. "It was the only way – her body was clearly completely screwed," says a white haired man, identified as a top French surgeon, in this section of the film. "It was ground breaking surgery, the operation took hours, but eventually we got her brain out and transferred to a glass jar full of nutrients!" Purportedly genuine footage of the brain in a liquid-filled jar, sustained by oxygen delivered by blood pumped by an artificial heart, follows this interview – with a narrator claiming that Diana's brain remains sentient, able to communicate via an electronic voice box. "Obviously, she finds her situation challenging – one minute she's a fabulously wealthy Princess, with the world at her feet, the next she is a brain in a jar," explains the alleged surgeon. "But she is fully aware of everything going on around her, thanks to being hooked up to inputs from video cameras."
The so called surgeon also reveals that, over the years, consideration has been given to transplanting Diana's brain into another body. "In the immediate aftermath of the crash, it was discussed whether we should try to place her brain in the body of Dodi al Fayed, who had also perished in the accident, but whose brain couldn't be saved," he claims. "But unfortunately, his body was also too far gone – there was also the question of the psychological effects of such a cross-gender transplant: we could have ended up with some kind of ravening bisexual monster on our hands!" Other attempts at a body transplant have founder on the lack of availability of a donor body meeting the Princess' standards. "Obviously, we couldn't just place her brain in any old slapper's body, with cellulite and sagging boobs," explains the surgeon. "We needed the body of a supermodel to fully do her justice. Sadly, most the bodies we could obtain were those of accident victims and usually missing a few parts." Consideration was, apparently, given to constructing a body, Frankenstein-style, from the best available body parts. "The prototype left much to be desired," the surgeon claims. "We couldn't find two legs the same length and the breasts were different cup sizes – it just didn't meet her high standards."
But being a disembodied living brain has proven to have some advantages, the film claims. "Her paranormal senses have increased hugely," another old man, this time identified as France's top parapsychologist, tells the audience. "She can remotely move objects solely by the power of her mind, not to mention having developed telepathic powers." It is alleged that she has even been able to influence the lives of her sons, guiding them to suitable partners, for instance. "Kate definitely married William as a result of the telepathic influence of Diana's brain," opines the parapsychologist. "I mean, why else would an attractive girl like her fall for a slap head like him?" This section of the film ends with another shot of the brain in its bubbling jar (topped by a tiara), held in a high security subterranean vault, constantly monitoring the outside world via a panoply of video feeds. Not surprisingly, this segment of the movie has come in for furious criticism, with allegations that the footage used is entirely faked, the scenes of the brain in a jar coming from an unreleased horror film and the scientists played by actors. Indeed, one critic has claimed that the French 'surgeon' is actually recognisable as a retired porn actor who appeared in many seventies sex movies, further pointing out that neither the surgeon nor the parapsychologist speak with French accents.
This isn't the only section of the film to attract criticism. Another segment chronicling the rise of a 'cult of Diana' has proven equally controversial, with its depiction of congregations of Diana-obsessed women – all dressed like the late Princess – worshipping effigies of Diana on the cross. "They believe that, as a symbol of perfect womanhood and motherhood, the Princess died for them all," the film's barrator claims. "Her sacrifice was intended to protect and empower all under trodden women, cheated on by their husbands and victimised by their in laws." The film alleges that, every year, on the anniversary of Diana's death, the cult makes a sacrifice to her memory, with one of their number chosen for the honour of getting drunk, climbing behind the wheel of a car and driving off at high speed, without a seat belt. If she crashes into a lamp post or other object and dies, then they believe they will enjoy Diana's favour for another year. If she is spared it is taken as a sign that the spirit of Diana has blessed her. Again, there are claims that the footage of Diana look-a-likes crashing their Volvos and Audis into motorway bridges is faked. Not to mention utterly tasteless.
Another highly controversial segment involves an interview with a supposed psychiatrist who claims that Diana did survive the Paris car crash, but suffered head injuries which turned her into a homicidal maniac, hell bent on murdering any member of the Royal Family she believed had been involved in trying to kill her in the crash. "She developed a paranoid delusion that the car crash was an assassination attempt organised by the Queen, Queen Mother, Prince Philip and Prince Charles," he tells an interviewer. "Obviously, the British establishment couldn't have a crazed Princess Diana running around, so they declared her dead and had her locked up in a secure mental facility under an assumed name." The Princess, however, escaped and attempted to exact her revenge, nearly garotting the Duke of Edinburgh with part of a leather horse harness, before being subdued by the Queen Mother in a furious fist fight which raged all through Windsor Castle and returned to the secure facility, where she remains to this day. Despite being dismissed in the UK as a tasteless attempt to cash in on the twentieth anniversary of Diana's death, the film has found favour on the continent, with French critics in particular praising it as a wide ranging exploration of the UK's continued obsessive fascination with an unexceptional woman whose only claim to fame was marrying into an outmoded institution. Others believe the film brings a message of hope for the world, with its revelation that Diana's disembodied brain is even now beaming out its telepathic message of love to a troubled globe.
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Publisher, Executive Editor and Chief Writer of The Sleaze, the Doc is in the forefront of the campaign to preserve historic 1970s moustaches, and is currently the owner of a fine 1970 Alain Delon, which he wears with pride every Thursday. Before founding The Sleaze, the Doc had the singular honour of being dismissed from the Ministry of Defence's Defence Intelligence Staff following his involvement with the original 'dodgy dossier', which sparked the civil war in the former Yugoslavia. Nevertheless, he stands by his controversial assessment that there is satellite imagery clearly showing Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic enjoying a three-in-a-bed romp with Princess Margaret and Richard Branson. Following his dismissal, the Doc crossed the Atlantic to enter the film industry, where he quickly became Tawny Kitaen's pubic hair stylist. The proud possessor of the world's largest collection of pornography discovered in hedgerows, the Doc is considered one of Britain's leading experts on smut, and acted as an advisor to the BBC 4 series A Pornographic History of Britain. Now in his early middle years, Doc Sleaze lives quietly in Southern England where he is sometimes allowed to teach Government and Politics to local A-level students. He can be reached through the site's main e-mail address - just don't expect a reply.
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Fast Facts: Mahayana Buddhism
Main Location(s)
Northern (Tibet, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, parts of Southeast Asia)
Name Means
Sanskrit, "Great Vehicle"
Sects/Branches
8 major schools: four practice-based (Zen, Pure Land, Vajrayana, Vinaya); four philosophy-based (Tendai, Avamtasaka, Yogacara and Madhyamika)
Many, owing to local cultural influences
Tripitaka plus many other sutras (e.g. Lotus Sutra)
Mahayana Buddhism emerged in the first century CE as a more accessible interpretation of Buddhism. As the "Greater Vehicle" (literally, the "Greater Ox-Cart"), Mahayana is a path available to people from all walks of life - not just monks and ascetics.
Mahayana Buddhism is the primary form of Buddhism in North Asia and the Far East, including China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and Mongolia, and is thus sometimes known as Northern Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhists accept the Pali Canon as sacred scripture with the Theravadans, but also many other works, the Sutras, which were written later and in Sanskrit.
Theravada and Mahayana Buddhists differ in their perspective on the ultimate purpose of life and the way in which it can be attained. Theravada Buddhists strive to become arhats, or perfected saints who have attained enlightenment and nirvana. This is considered to only be possible for monks and nuns, who devote their entire lives to the task. The best outcome the laity can hope for is to be reborn in the monastic life.
Mahayana Buddhists, on the other hand, hope to become not arhats but boddhisatvas, saints who have become enlightened but who unselfishly delay nirvana to help others attain it as well, as the Buddha did. Mahayana Buddhists further teach that enlightenment can be attained in a single lifetime, and this can be accomplished even by a layperson.
The various subdivisions within the Mahayana tradition, such as Zen, Nichiren, and Pure Land, promote different ways of attaining this goal, but all are agreed that it can be attained in a single lifetime by anyone who puts his or her mind (and sometimes body) to it.
The Mahayana form of Buddhism tends to be more religious in nature than its Theravadan counterpart. It often includes veneration of celestial beings, Buddhas and boddhisatvas, ceremonies, religious rituals, magical rites, and the use of icons, images, and other sacred objects.
The role of such religious elements varies, however: it is central to Tibetan/Tantric Buddhism, but is highly discouraged by Zen practitioners, who have been known to burn statues of the Buddha to demonstrate their unimportance.
"Mahayana." Encyclopædia Britannica (Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service, 2004).
Glossary of Mahayana Buddhism
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Home|World|Taiwan tycoon and presidential hopeful Gou gets tips from Trump
Taiwan tycoon and presidential hopeful Gou gets tips from Trump
Manoj NairMay 2, 2019
Taipei, May 02 (AFP):
Taiwan's wealthiest man and presidential hopeful Terry Gou said he met Donald Trump inside the White House on Wednesday with the American leader warning him that the job he is going for is "tough".
Gou, the head of tech giant Foxconn, made a surprise announcement last month that he plans to run for president in next January's elections after declaring the sea goddess Matsu urged him to do so.
The 69-year-old tycoon is seeking the nomination of the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) opposition party but his huge factories in the mainland have sparked concern over his cosiness with Beijing. A stream of Taiwanese politicians have beat a path to Washington in recent months, hoping to drum up support within the island's diaspora and among influential US officials. But only Gou has managed to secure a face-to-face with Trump. "If I am elected president of the Republic of China, I will be a peace maker and won't become a trouble maker… I will strengthen Taiwan and the US economically," Gou told reporters in Washington after the meeting. He also boasted of his White House connections in a swipe at the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which is much more sceptical of Beijing.
"We have been given the highest courtesy, (an invite) to the Oval Office, tell me until now which DPP official has such a capability?" he said, later showing reporters a coaster and pen embossed with Trump's signature.
Asked what Trump had told him, Gou said: "He replied that (being a president) it's a tough job." Gou made his billions through Foxconn, which assembles Apple and Huawei phones as well as parts and accessories for other major international brands.
The bulk of Gou's investments are in China, employing more than one million workers in the country where cheap labour helped fuel his company's meteoric rise.
Foxconn has vowed to build a 10 billion display screen factory in Wisconsin, creating 13,000 jobs, with Trump and Gou breaking ground together at a ceremony two years ago. But the project has since been hit by uncertainty over how many jobs will really be created and the huge tax breaks offered to Foxconn.
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An aficionado of puns and other word games, Frédérique is continually on the lookout for ways to make her business experience resonate with the needs of entrepreneurs so as to maximize their chances of success in the world of entrepreneurship. An entrepreneur herself for 15 years, she is always seeking solutions for SDECB clients, while creating practical tools and customized training. Previously a website creator and designer, she now applies her expertise to developing the SDECB's social networks.
Marie-Noël HollandManager, Economic Development & Employability
Marie-Noel has several strings to her bow and enjoys a very diverse multicultural experience. Originally from Ivory Coast, she studied and worked in Africa, France and Canada. This cultural diversity is felt in her humor appreciated by her colleagues. Holder of a master's degree in business administration and strong of more than a decade of support to Francophone organizations in the drafting of funding applications and results-based management principles, Marie-Noël is working to develop and to implement SDE's economic development and employability projects for the benefit of our entrepreneurs, youth and associations. She intends to use her experience to advance the priority economic issues of the community.
Bruno BaumgartnerRegional Economic Development Agent
Previously a chef and caterer in Montreal, Bruno directs his efforts each day to improving economic development in British Columbia and increasing the success of SDECB's entrepreneurial clients, by implementing projects and information services, or mentoring businesses. Whether it is representing the SDECB and Francophone entrepreneurs, building networks, or giving advice about specific services, Bruno wears a different hat every day to stimulate the economic community and better support local entrepreneurs.
Joël TremblayProject Manager
A proud amateur cabinetmaker, Joël creates and polishes SDECB content to ensure that information is properly disseminated. With his Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and Civil Law, Joël has been working with words and multimedia platforms for more than 15 years. His dual expertise is precisely the reason why he is often tasked with preparing the content of learning modules or new sections of the website, refining the writing of informational documents, and making new technologies accessible for the SDECB.
Jessica RogersProject Manager, Immigration and Employment
Jessica, who is from Sri Lanka, had to leave her country of birth at a young age to immigrate to France with her family. This experience pushed her to pursue her studies in the field of immigration, until obtaining a master's degree in International Law and Human Rights. Many years ago, Jessica decided to settle in British Columbia, a province she chose for her cultural diversity. As Project Manager, Immigration and Employment, she brings her expertise to bear on issues related to the economic integration of immigrant
Yohan LamolyProject Coordinator, Career Focus Program & Economic Integration of Immigrants
Yohan emigrated from Reunion Island to Canada in 2007. He has a Bachelor's in Economics and a MBA in Business Management from Laval University, Québec.
During his studies, he participated to several business startup challenges, a trade mission in Brazil and an exchange at the COPPEAD Business School of Rio de Janeiro.
Polyglot, he enjoys discovering new cultures and doesn't miss an opportunity to travel.
By working with the SDÉ, he is thrilled with bringing innovative ideas to reinforce Francophones and Francophiles employability in British Columbia.
Caroline BergerProject Manager, Immigration and Employment (on maternity leave)
Passionate about travel and wide-open spaces, Caroline endeavours each day to help many immigrants to integrate and work in this province. British Columbia is still a source of wonder and amazement to her, even after six years in Canada. An immigrant herself, she obtained a Master's degree from the prestigious Lyon School of Management and then focused her attention on Canada to establish Business France in Vancouver. Through a variety of projects, she contributes her expertise, curiosity and people skills to promote the SDECB's employment assistance services and to raise the awareness of businesses about hiring Francophone and Francophile immigrants.
SDECB, a non-profit Francophone organization, strives to give a voice each day to the Francophone and Francophile business community in British Columbia.
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I have also loved reading all the blogs. Fantastic accounts of everyone's days!!
Although I wanted to again congratulate all on the results at the above events my main reason for coming on here today is to say a BIG BIG THANK YOU to all of you who commented on my last blog. As you know Brighton was not a great day health wise for me which resulted in a not so great finish time and I was silly enough to let this get me very down and I was so close to calling it a day.
But after lots of verbal slaps (deserved) & wonderful words from you all it bought me back to my senses and made me realise what I did actually achieve last weekend. 18 months ago I hadnt even run (or couldnt run) a mile. Now I have run AND COMPLETED 2 full marathons, 2 half marathons with Oxford half & Snowdon planned for this coming October. So I have now picked up my Brighton finisher T-shirt from the corner of the bedroom where I childishly chucked it last week and dug the medal out from the drawer where I'd hidden it and worn them to my sports massage visit with pride.
Thankfully there was no major damage to my calf with just a few torn fibres and on advice from physio have been resting it with lots of stretching as well. It still doesnt feel quite right so have not yet run since last Sunday but hoping to get out this week for a 2-3 miler to ease it in.
Then it will be looking fowards and training will start for Snowdon. What a great buzzer event that will also be, I cant wait.
I will also put in for 2016 VLM ballot - but after Boltys post not sure how much luck we will have there!! And a few buzzers have mentioned Manchester next year so what do ya reckon guys??? Another buzzer event for 2016?
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Also, as you'll notice throughout our site, we volunteer our time and money in many different areas of the community. While we like to have fun, we also want to help others live a little better as well.
As for our members, we range from college students just discovering that Carribean soul to the professional type who are just trying to blow off a little steam.
We meet on the first Thursday of the month at 6:30pm at Senor Iguanas in Central Station by UofL.
To make us official, we are sanctioned by the national Parrot Heads In Paradise. We're also a listed as a non-profit social organization by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Our club is run by a Board of Directors with much of the work being directed to our committees (Entertainment, Fund-Raising, Communications, Membership, and Charitable Giving).
We're glad you stopped by. Turn on some Buffett tunes and kick back while you travel around our site.
Our parrot head club began in the same way that we'd like to think many Buffett songs have — on a beach in Key West, after a few cold cervezas, kicking back and wondering why we should ever go home.
Ron Wilder, Joe Schiess and Angie Mullins were down-island for our semi-annual homage to the tropics, when Joe started talking about getting everyone together for a party. Not just any party, but a monthly party where we'd celebrate the sand, sun and surf—a Buffett party. They kicked it about for a while, wondered who they'd invite, what they'd do, and where they'd have it. And then, like so many other great ideas in our lives, they forgot about it. After all, we were in Key West and there were more pressing things to do. And at the time, Kentucky was just a cold, wintry memory.
Back in Louisville, the thoughts remained dormant for a few months, until spring began bringing life back to the area. They then talked about it a bit, and began planning our first event.
For the location, they talked with the manager of Rumors, a place that can best be described as the closest thing Louisville has to Eat It Raw. Reluctantly, she agreed to let us hold the party at her restaurant, but was quick to note that she didn't see it as an ongoing event. Just didn't think we'd have enough people interested in something like we were talking about.
To populate our first party, they advertised in the local paper and put fliers up at work. And surprisingly, people came to the party. However, unlike the beginnings of most other clubs across the nation where you get members from varied walks of life, our first meeting was attended primarily by police, EMS, and nurses and doctors from our local trauma center. Oh, and a beautiful six-month-old baby named Anna Leigh who has since grown up with our club.
Our numbers began to grow and in a few short months, they moved from Rumors to The Brewery, a larger venue where we could spread out a bit and where the management was more inclined to work with our group. It was there that they first met and befriended Scott Kirby and Peter Mayer, who were invited to play a few sets at one of our early meetings. And they've been fortunate to remain friends with these great musicians over the years, having them return as often as possible to play their entrancing melodies.
Though the Derby Parrot Heads began as a tight-knit group of friends partying like Bubba does, our group quickly grew in numbers and our membership began becoming quite diverse. Over the years, we've had as members an assortment of doctors, nurses, lawyers, firemen, teachers, students, police—even a U.S. District Court Judge, and yes, they all wore leis, grass skirts and tropical shirts just like any other respectable parrot head would.
And as the years have passed, all of our members have become close friends, and in some cases spouses. Each one of us has at least one, really good friend that we probably wouldn't have met had it not been for the club. Indeed, over half of the members now vacation with people that they met through the club, whether it be a quick trip to Put in Bay or a week-long getaway to the French West Indies.
We've also lost a few great members and friends along the way. Al Baxter, a man who routinely visited Key West when Jimmy Buffett was thinking of little more than asking that cute little blond girl to the junior high school dance. Paul Adams, who lived and loved his life by the river when he had to, and by the ocean whenever possible. And Jackie Walton, a wonderful lady who used Jimmy's music to escape her pain as she fought a rough bout with cancer. Had it not been for the club, we might never have had the honor to meet these great friends.
along with various missions, non-profits and schools in the area.
Just like any group or family, we've had our bumps and stumbles along the way. But we've always remained positive, worked hard and enjoyed life. In the last twelve years, we've had some great laughs, met some great people, and made memories that we'll never forget. And we're hoping the next twelve years will be filled with more of the same.
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Jonas Forsman is a methodical problem solver. Young, humble and talented, he is a designer who carries out an in-depth analysis of each new product he works on. Functionality, requirement, technique, material and available solutions to similar problems are presented, studied and questioned.
Jonas' driving force as a designer lies in geometry and in the challenge of combining several components to form one piece. He finds the core of the product by reducing, combining and eliminating. Curiosity and persistence entice him to seek improvements to challenges he is confronted with, whether with furniture or other objects.
Jonas strives to make functional durable products and is very ambitious. If anything should be done, it should be improved on, made easier and more functional than ever before. Bearing this in mind, it can take a long time before he approves a product, but when he finally does, then it's an amazing creation!
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Here is another image from my recent Wyoming trip. After hiking out in the snow and rain from the Deep Lake area in the Wind Rivers I headed to the upper Green River valley near Green River Lakes. The afternoon of August 15 provided some of the most amazing storm light I have witnessed with rapidly moving clouds punctuated by changing sun light. It was spectacular to watch and photograph. This image is one of several I made throughout the late afternoon. What makes this one standout is the light highlighting the colors of the marsh grasses along the river in combination with the incredible sky and clouds. Sometimes you get lucky!
I returned last night from a trip into the Wind River Range in Wyoming where I backpacked into the Deep Lake area from the Big Sandy Opening trail-head. As much I like to photograph the prairie, there are times I need to return to the mountains and the alpine environment; places that are close to my heart and I came to love when I first ventured west as an undergraduate geology student at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania. Although I have visited and traveled in many of the mountain ranges in the West over the last 35 years, I have not really been back to the "Winds" since I was a serious technical mountain climber back in my 20's and 30's. It was an immense pleasure to travel once again into what I consider to be some of the finest mountains in the West and I was blessed with interesting weather and some stunning light. The two images below were made early in the morning on August 14 in Deep Lake cirque with the rugged and magnificent peaks of East Temple and Temple Peak rising over the lake. I was very fortunate to have fabulous early morning golden light, along with perfectly calm conditions that allowed me to make an almost perfect reflection image of Temple Peak in the lake. It was the start of a wonderful day in the magical environment of the alpine zone of the Wind Rivers.
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Facts and Figures on New York's Yellow Cabs vs. Uber Cars
By Yvonne Marcotte, Epoch Times
March 19, 2015 Updated: March 19, 2015
NEW YORK—New York's 13,587 yellow cabs are in competition with smartphone-driven newcomers on city streets, especially the 14,088 registered Uber cars that now outnumber cabs. Here's a look at how the basic operations of the two compare.
Yellow Cabs
Hailed on the street by customers looking for an "on" light on the vehicle rooftop, meaning it's available. One of the most common scenes on New York streets are people waving their hands in the air, often shouting "Taxi!"
Fares are set by the Taxi and Limousine Commission, at an initial fee of $2.50 plus 50 cents per 1/5 mile, or 50 cents per minute in slow traffic or when the vehicle is stopped.
Taxis operate under a medallion that now costs as much as $800,000. Most drivers do not own the medallion or the car; they must lease the medallion at a cost of up to about $140 per 12-hour shift, plus fuel.
Cars are hailed with a smartphone linked to the Uber driver, using an app that's set up ahead of time with a credit card. The car nearest to a customer responds, with location automatically designated through the app.
Basic charge is $3 plus 40 cents a minute, or $2.15 per mile, but larger or fancier cars cost more. Uber fares can skyrocket at market rates based on customer demand during rush hours, bad weather, or holidays; customers are warned if they're riding at a "surge pricing" time.
Most Uber drivers own their vehicles, but others are given use of a new car at special financing rates, regardless of credit history.
Photos: Thousands at Pro-Gun Rights Demonstration in Virginia
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Q: Pushforward of $K_X+D$ on the non-snc locus Let $f:Y\rightarrow X$ be a birational morphism of smooth projective varieties, $F$ an effective divisor on $X$, $D=f^{-1}F_{\mathrm{red}}+\mathrm{Ex}(f)$, $B$ a smooth subvariety of $Y$ contained in the non-snc locus of $D$, is $f_*(\mathcal{O}_B(K_Y+D))$ always nonzero on $X$? If the dimension of $B$ and $f(B)$ are equal the question is trivial, but I have little idea about the general case.
A: This can be zero. For instance, let $X$ be $\mathbb{P}^3$. Let $q$ be a $k$-point. Let $G$ and $H$ be smooth hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{P}^3$ that contain $q$ and such that, as linear subspaces of the Zariski tangent space $T_q(X)$, $T_q(G)$ equals $T_q(H)$. Call this common subspace $S$.
Let the effective divisor $\underline{F}$ be $\underline{G}+\underline{H}$.
Let $f:Y\to X$ be the blowing up of $\mathbb{P}^3$ at $q$. Thus the exceptional divisor $E=\text{Ex}(f)$ is $\mathbb{P} T_q(\mathbb{P}^3)$, which is isomorphic to $\mathbb{P}^2$. The strict transforms $f^{-1}G$ and $f^{-1}H$ are smooth hypersurfaces in $Y$ whose intersections with $E$ are both equal to $\mathbb{P} S$.
Let $B$ be $\mathbb{P} S$, so that $B$ is isomorphic to $\mathbb{P}^1$. Then $D$ is not a simple normal crossings divisor at $B$; $D$ is "triple" along $B$. By direct computation, $\mathcal{O}_Y(K_Y+D)|_E$ is isomorphic to $\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^2}(-3+1+1) = \mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^2}(-1)$. Thus the restriction to the line $B$ is $\mathcal{O}_{\mathbb{P}^1}(-1)$. Therefore the pushforward $f_*(\mathcal{O}_Y(K_Y+D)|_B)$ is zero.
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Idaho Lawmaker Who Named Rape Accuser Says She Did Nothing Wrong
The lawmaker accused of raping the intern, Republican Aaron von Ehlinger, resigned earlier this year
By Rebecca Boone • Published August 2, 2021 • Updated on August 2, 2021 at 10:01 pm
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An Idaho state lawmaker refused to answer questions she deemed "irrelevant" during a hearing Monday to determine whether she violated ethics rules by publicizing in disparaging social media posts the name of a woman who accused another lawmaker of rape.
The lawmaker also argued that the young Idaho Statehouse intern who said she was raped wasn't actually a victim or entitled to privacy under the law.
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Republican Rep. Priscilla Giddings became the subject of two ethics complaints by about two dozen lawmakers after she publicized the rape accuser's name, photo and personal details about her life in April by sharing links to an far-right news article on social media and in a newsletter to constituents.
The Legislature's ethics committee scheduled the public hearing after finding probable cause that Giddings engaged in "conduct unbecoming a representative, which is detrimental to the integrity of the House as a legislative body."
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The lawmaker accused of raping the intern, Republican Aaron von Ehlinger, resigned earlier this year after the ethics committee recommended he be removed from the Statehouse. Von Ehlinger has denied all wrongdoing. The rape allegation is under investigation by police.
Giddings told the ethics committee Monday that shortly after the allegations against von Ehlinger became public in April, she called one of his attorneys to ask if he would release von Ehlinger's response to the rape accusation, and if he planned on including the accuser's name.
After the attorney did so, Giddings said she checked with a news reporter to determine if he had received the document, Giddings told the committee.
Then she said she went on Facebook to post a link to a different far-right blog article that included the intern's photo, name and other personal information — and linked to the same article in a newsletter to constituents.
After the intern's identity was revealed, she was subjected to a flood of harassment. Advocates for victims of sexual assault said the situation showed why many are afraid to report crimes.
But Giddings, who is running for lieutenant governor, said the complaints about her behavior amounted to little more than "woke cancel culture" and argued the ethics investigation was politically motivated.
She also said sharing the article link was the same as handing someone a newspaper, and was protected under her First Amendment right to free speech.
When Giddings entered the hearing Monday, she was met with applause, shouts of support and a standing ovation by some supporters in the audience — which included some militia members, members of an anti-vaccination group and others with far-right political organizations.
Some wore shirts with messages of support, including "victims for Priscilla," and "Stand with Priscilla, fighting for our freedom."
In her opening statement, Giddings said the ethics investigation was an unfair attack by political opponents and that she exercised her constitutionally protected right to free speech by sharing the link that revealed the intern's identity.
Giddings also said she believed the outcome of the hearing had been pre-determined and left the hearing room for most of the day, declining to cross-examine any of the witnesses who testified against her.
Rep. Brooke Green, a Democrat and one of the bipartisan group of lawmakers that signed onto an ethics compliant, said that the other two dozen lawmakers who also signed the complaint were approached individually and not told who else was signing to ensure that political motivations didn't play a part.
Green said the complaint was made because the Legislature has an obligation to ensure that sexual assault victims are safe and not revictimized by having their privacy violated. The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted.
Rep. Greg Chaney, a Republican who brought one of the complaints against Giddings, said not all speech is protected under the First Amendment, including speech that wrongly defames someone.
Chaney also said Giddings' actions amounted to retaliation against an employee or coworker who reports harassment or sex assault and therefore did not qualify as constitutionally protected speech.
Republican Rep. Julie Yamamoto, who also signed one of the complaints, testified that she would have withdrawn her name and forgiven Giddings if Giddings had apologized.
But that never happened, and Yamamoto said she didn't want to be counted among the lawmakers who are unwilling to hold each other accountable.
"You can do whatever you want, you can say whatever you want, but you need to be willing to accept the consequences," she said.
The hearing grew increasingly tense after the committee called Giddings to return as a witness, asking her why she shared the links and whether she felt that the intern — whom the committee called "Jane Doe" — was entitled to any privacy protections under the state's crime victim laws.
"You're way out of the park right now because there is no victim, so that doesn't apply at all," Giddings said.
Christopher McCurdy, the attorney representing the ethics committee, then asked Giddings, "Do you believe Jane Doe is entitled to dignity during the ethics hearing?"
Giddings declined to answer, calling the question "irrelevant."
She also said she wasn't initially aware that the intern's photo was included in the post she made on her page, and that she only skimmed the article before sharing it.
The link and the photo remained on her page until the afternoon of April 29 and screenshots collected by The Associated Press showed that commenters on that Facebook post and others repeatedly criticized Giddings for "doxing" the accuser. Critical comments appeared to be frequently deleted.
Some of the committee members grew visibly frustrated with Giddings' combative approach at the hearing, particularly when she refused to answer questions she deemed irrelevant or that she said focused on her beliefs.
"Just be candid with the committee. Tell us 'yes' or 'no,'" Republican Rep. Brent Crane said. "Don't hedge this way and hedge that way and play semantics and games."
Giddings declined to call any witnesses to testify on her behalf, saying she thought that the committee would have served the subpoenas for her. She said she wasn't able to reach them all by email.
The hearing is scheduled to resume Tuesday, when committee members will decide whether they will recommend that the full House censure, reprimand or expel Giddings.
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Home / News & Comment / Council of Europe may investigate England's Family Courts
Council of Europe may investigate England's Family Courts
Date:28 APR 2008
A motion has been tabled for the Council of Europe to consider investigating UK Family Law.
Ten Assembly members, five of whom are from the UK, have signed the motion which is yet to be discussed in the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly.
The text of the motion reads:
"The Parliamentary Assembly recognises that human rights are part of the Council of Europe's key values. It recognises that systems are needed for the protection of children when they are at risk. The Assembly believes, however, that those who are tasked with protecting children need to be accountable for their actions and need to operate in a way which protects the human rights of those people they are dealing with.
The Assembly notes that there is substantial concern that the secrecy of the Family Division of Courts in England and Wales has caused the development of an environment in which practitioners are not properly accountable. It notes that a number of people have emigrated from England because they feel persecuted by the authorities tasked with Child Protection.
The Assembly particularly notes the use of Section 54.4 of the 1999 Access to Justice Act by the Court of Appeal in England which is preventing cases being considered by the Supreme Court in England and the way in which this acts to undermine the rule of law allowing the Family Division of Courts to operate in isolation from the wider body of law.
The Assembly recognises that questions have been raised as to whether the judicial proceedings in England's Family Courts are compliant with Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the Right to a Fair Trial).
The Assembly also recognises that questions have been raised as to whether the system is also systematically uncompliant with Articles 3, 8, 10, 11 and 12.
The Assembly suggests that the relevant committee of the Assembly starts an examination of the system to which concerned parties can submit evidence of Human Rights abuses in England and Wales."
John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP and chairman of Justice for Families, said: "This is good news for families in England and Wales. This is the first step towards getting a supranational body to properly investigate the way in which Human Rights for parents are being abused in the UK. This is likely to lead to a proper inquiry that hopefully will allow parents and children to tell the Council of Europe what the UK has been doing to them."
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I have a Go project with a large vendor/ directory which almost never changes.
I am trying to use the new go 1.10 build cache feature to speed up my builds in Docker engine locally.
RUN go build -v myproject/vendor/... # <-- pre-build & cache "vendor/"
However this is giving "cannot find package" error (likely because you cannot build stuff in vendor/ directly normally either).
Has anyone been able to figure this out?
It makes sure the vendored libraries are installed first. As long as you don't change a library, you're good.
# Display time taken and the list of the packages being compiled.
docker build -t test --build-arg APP=$(go list .) .
On the project I am working on, without pre-compile, it takes ~12sec with 90+ package each time, after, it take ~1.2s with only 3 (only the local ones).
If you still have "cannot find package", it means there are missing vendors. Re-run dep ensure should fix it.
An other tip, unrelated to Go is to have your .dockerignore start with *. i.e. ignore everything and then whitelist what you need.
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged docker go or ask your own question.
How to include files outside of Docker's build context?
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The Mass Media is not nearly as impartial as they portray themselves and by placing more priority on the basics and obtaining input from the public I have no doubt that Wikimedia and Wikipedia can set a much better example for the Mass Media. The success of this proposal will depend on the sincerity and determination of the participants. Under the current circumstances merely trying will be a good step in the right direction.
Wikimedia can help define the basics of any subject and provide links to Wikipedia to remind the readers of the history of the subject and related subjects. The Mass Media often takes the basics for granted and presents some ideological ideas as fact even though they may contradict the basics of that subject. I could cite almost any subject and provide a good and simple example of how they do this, the easiest and clearest one may be gambling. Whether it is through advertisements or news stories the Mass Media spends a lot of time talking about gambling but they almost never mention the fact that in order for a gambling institution to survive they have to cover there expenses first profits second then whatever's left can go to the winner. There is an enormous amount of hype around this subject to convince the public that they can win and it is worthwhile. The fact that these gambling institutions are so successful is proof that this hype works. It could be argued that this would be biased or advocacy which is not what Wikipedia/Wikimedia is about, however to decline to do this would also be biased perhaps much more so. I believe that to do this wouldn't be unreasonably biased but could go a long way to correct an unreasonable bias that is much worse.
Another example is the healthcare debate that is currently taking place in the USA. There is an enormous amount of discussion about several different plans which I can't keep up with or understand completely. One thing I can see is that there is little or no discussion about preventive medicine. The most effective way to cut cost by far is preventive medicine. This could include anti-smoking programs and exercise programs that cost little or no money. The second most important thing would be child healthcare. Wikimedia could also spend more time describing other health care systems and provide links to well organized descriptions of them. The most important things on this subject like many others are being ignored by the Mass Media.
Another example where reminding the public of history would have a major benefit is the conflicts in the Mideast (other conflicts could be substituted). The USA media has spent a lot of time discussing how radical and potentially dangerous Iran could be if it gets nuclear weapons. I certainly don't object to this but they spend much less time reminding the public about past wrong doing by the US government. The public could have been reminded more often of the fact that the US propped up the Shah in the 50's. The Shah was a vicious tyrant and led the people of Iran to turn to the best opposition that they knew of at that time which was a radical theocracy. The USA also wound up supplying both sides in the Iran Iraq war. By keeping the public better informed it would help to find more rational solutions to these problems and avoid unnecessary conflict. Objections about this enraging Islam are unfounded since what is enraging them is the fact that it is being ignored by the USA. Islam is already well aware of this.
This would essentially involve doing a better job describing the basics of any given subject and providing links to additional related subjects and the history of that subject for those that are not familiar with it.
The purpose of the media is or should be to inform and educate the public. The media is also vital to the success of a true democracy. If the public doesn't have accurate information to base their decisions they can't make choices that are truly democratic. If one institution like the government in power or a small group of media owners can control the information available to the public it can never be a true democracy, at best or worst it would be the illusion of a democracy. The reason this could be worse is that if the public doesn't realize how biased the media is then they won't even realize that action is necessary to correct the problem.
A better informed public could lead to dramatic improvements in all aspects of life for everyone; it could also help avoid many disasters.
Some people may say this is biased or advocacy. I'm new to wikimedia but this objection has been used on wikipedia. To determine whether this is unreasonable bias would require reasonable discretion. I have no doubt that to do nothing under the current circumstances would be far worse. Some people seem to believe that whatever the status quota is at the time is unbiased. This is unreasonable, by this thinking it would mean that enslaving minorities in the 1850's was unbiased. If the status quo is unbiased than there would be no need for anyone to participate in Wikimedia or Wikipedia at all they could just let governments and corporations decide everything.
A similar argument could be made that Wikipedia or Wikimedia is not an experiment in democracy. This claim is also false since merely by inviting the public to participate there is some degree of democratic input.
The biggest obstacle could be accuracy. The objective should be accuracy and efforts should be made to check facts and seek ways to crosscheck them. This is one thing that should never be democratic nor should it be dictated by a leader. Facts should be based on credible research procedures and efforts to figure out what is true. Facts should not be based on what people want to be true.
Another obstacle could be bias or ignorance. In the Preventing school violence article I mention above it may demonstrate an example of this. In this case many members of the public may not realize how much they have been affected by the Mass Media. I tried to introduce information from credible sources that were backed up by good research and the first time around it was rejected. I expect to try again but my point is that since the public is editing wikimedia and they have become accustomed to obtaining their information from the Mass Media they may tend to imitate the Mass Media and create a mirror image. In order for the editors of wikimedia or wikipedia to set a better example than the Mass Media they must realize themselves that the Mass Media is biased. This may take time for the public to recognize the biases in the Mass Media but eventually after several tries this could lead to a much better media both at wikimedia and if the Mass Media takes the cue in the Mass Media. In the mean time there may be a lot of debate over how to improve things. During this debate it would be helpful to keep it civil.
Much of this can be done with volunteers at no additional costs on top of what wikipedia is already spending. If money is available I'm sure additional research could be done, however it will be tough to decide where the priorities are in that case.
This proposal is almost certainly already in place to some degree if the editors are doing a good job. This will also be in place to some degree if the proposal is rejected and the editors implement it anyway. In Wikipedia the rules tend to be enforced in a selective way. This means the quality of Wikipedia or Wikimedia depends on the discretion of the editors. I have noticed that some pages tend to be far better than others. If some editors have political objectives or biases they interfere the quality is lower.
Do you have a thought about this proposal? A suggestion? Discuss this proposal by going to Proposal talk:Set better example for Mass Media.
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Randy Chambers December 30, 2021 11:01 pm
Utah Jazz (25-9) vs Minnesota Timberwolves (16-18)
Game Info: Friday, December 31, 2021 at 9:00 pm (Vivint Arena)
Betting Odds: Utah Jazz -10.5 -- Over/Under: Click Here for the Latest Odds
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The Minnesota Timberwolves and Utah Jazz meet Friday in NBA action at the Vivint Arena. The Minnesota Timberwolves look for a win after splitting their last 10 games. The Utah Jazz look to build on their five-game winning streak.
The Minnesota Timberwolves are averaging 108.8 points on 43 percent shooting and allowing 109.3 points on 45.1 percent shooting. Karl-Anthony Towns is averaging 24.5 points and 3.6 assists, while Anthony Edwards is averaging 22.1 points and 3.6 assists. D'Angelo Russell is the third double-digit scorer and Malik Beasley is grabbing 3.2 rebounds. The Minnesota Timberwolves are shooting 34.2 percent from beyond the arc and 76.9 percent from the free throw line. The Minnesota Timberwolves are allowing 33.6 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 45.1 rebounds per game.
The Utah Jazz are averaging 115.8 points on 47.7 percent shooting and allowing 105.6 points on 44.2 percent shooting. Donovan Mitchell is averaging 25.4 points and 5 assists, while Bojan Bogdanovic is averaging 17.5 points and 3.6 rebounds. Rudy Gobert is the third double-digit scorer and Jordan Clarkson is dishing 2.4 assists. The Utah Jazz are shooting 36.6 percent from beyond the arc and 77 percent from the free throw line. The Utah Jazz are allowing 32.8 percent shooting from deep and are grabbing 47.6 rebounds per game.
The Timberwolves are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 road games and 6-2 ATS in their last 8 games overall. The Jazz are 0-5 ATS in their last 5 home games and 1-6 ATS in their last 7 games overall. The over is 8-3 in Timberwolves last 11 overall. The over is 13-6-1 in Jazz last 20 overall. The Timberwolves are 4-0 ATS in the last 4 meetings in Utah and 4-1 ATS in the last 5 meetings.
The Utah Jazz are piling up the victories, but they're not covering numbers, and they could be without Mitchell again due to a back injury. The Minnesota Timberwolves are quietly playing decent ball these last two weeks, they're covering numbers, and there's a chance Edwards returns for this contest. This line isn't showing the Timberwolves much respect, a club that also plays decent on the road and only loses by an average of 2.6 points. I have to keep riding with the Timberwolves as underdogs, a team I talked up a lot heading into the season.
Randy's Pick Minnesota Timberwolves +10.5
San Antonio Spurs at Memphis Grizzlies - 12/31/21 NBA Picks and Prediction
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Yin yoga is a lesser-known style of yoga. It is based around deep stretching of the lower parts of the body. Poses are held from around 5-20 minutes long and are intended to stretch the connective tissues in your joints. The stretches are not passive stretches; students keep their muscle activated during the poses.
There are so many different types of hip pain you may wish to consult with your yoga teacher even after having already checked with your medical professional. Ask your yoga instructor if they think your hips can benefit from the suggestions below or if they believe you should skip out on the yoga for now.
When the body is in pain it can slowly start to shut down. When this happens there is a lot of stiffness and just an overall lack of mobility. That lack of mobility can have a domino effect on the rest of the body, slowly leading into other problems in other areas of the body. There's the expression "use it or lose it" and although some injuries are obviously not applicable, there are some cases where it really is. Stretching out and moving your hip gently can lead to increased blood circulation in the area, which in turn can allow your body to heal more efficiently.
While holding yin poses, it is important to keep your muscles involved and activated. Your muscles will protect your joints from doing anything that they shouldn't do that could potentially cause you more pain. Your body is meant to protect itself, so allow your muscles to protect your hips. Stay engaged and you might even benefit from doing a gentle warm up first to loosen things up before jumping into such a deep stretch.
During your first class or two, be sure to take things slowly. Ease into the stretches and then gradually add more intensity as your hips open up. Remember that you will likely be holding these poses for a large amount of time so you will have a long time to ease into the poses.
Be gentle with yourself and allow yourself to enjoy this time you have placed aside to heal your body. It can be tempting to get irritated with your hips and get disheartened but just be gentle and know that even if you are not seeing dramatic results right away, you are doing something! There are people in your class who will progress faster than you and there are others who will likely progress slower than you; this is not a race. Focus on your own body and your own healing; your body knows what to do.
Be cautious in poses that do not involve your hips as well! Your entire body is connected and it is common for problems in your hips to cause problems elsewhere as well. Hopefully you have found some hope and information in this article to talk to your doctor and yoga instructor about possibly incorporating yoga to help you with your hip problems.
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Announced the "contacts" group, a leader in the Middle East, Asia and Africa telecommunications company, has announced the launch and for the first time in the Middle East platform for the management and development of Internet applications things, and in a form which allows its customers the opportunity to dissemination and application of Internet solutions to new things and innovative, able to meet the current growing needs and future market for automated communication between hardware and estimated to be worth billions of dollars.
She explained, "contacts" that the importance of this platform, which launched in collaboration with my company, "Oobarthur Technologies" Oberthur Technologies and "Thing Works" ThingWorx, two leading global provider of things Internet solutions, comes at a time which is expected to be the number of automated communication between devices is growing rapidly over the next decade, where projections indicate that this number will rise from 5 billion contact in the past year in 2014, to reach about 50 billion connection in the year 2024, which means that there will be a need to develop thousands of things Internet applications.
The things Internet solutions and automated connectivity solutions linking various devices, applications and information communication technology that allows devices to communicate directly with other systems and devices wired and wireless manner and form in which it provides intelligent solutions and services. Companies and institutions has become around the world are using things Internet solutions and solutions for automated communication between the planning system increasingly Hepeshkl, in order; improving productivity and promotion, save time, enhance the customer experience, the development of existing services, and open the door of the sources of revenue and new financial returns. From here, these increasingly complex system requires a more sophisticated platforms to work together and Bhetwafiqih high, things like cloud Internet hardware platforms, and huge data.
Through the use of these platforms "contacts" group hopes to be able to provide standardized components can be shared out horizontally in order to enable the rapid development and the reduction of costs and the form in which it contributes to the achievement of smart cities.
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Perspectives on Innovation
Is Blockchain Really Ready for Prime Time?
Mary C. Lacity
Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Visiting Scholar at MIT Center for Information Systems Research
Kate Moloney
Research Specialist at MIT Sloan School of Management's Center for Information Systems Research
Designed to be an ecosystem solution, Blockchain works best when you get a critical mass of players to agree to use it and that's not always easy.
[Perspectives on Innovation is a regular monthly series featuring content from Perspectives on GE Reports.]
It's not an overstatement to say that blockchain is one of the most evangelized technologies out there today. Everywhere you look new companies are promising that blockchain will be a game changer for everything from banking to energy to walking.
But is the technology ready for enterprise deployment?
There's no question that blockchain is an exciting new development. Invented ten years ago by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, blockchain is the technology that makes the cryptocurrency bitcoin work. Think of it as a decentralized ledger that continually verifies and keeps track of every transaction. Nakamoto's genius with bitcoin was to create a financial system "based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party."
Anyone in business will see the elegance and appeal of that statement. The idea of taking third parties out of the equation opens up a whole new world of automation and efficiency that should have most C-suite executives doing their homework on how they can use blockchain.
But we advise you proceed with care.
Blockchain might not be the optimal solution for your company's problems. Executives need to ask themselves: What problem am I trying to solve? And could it be solved using a more established technology? For example, it you're considering using an internal blockchain to share data across far-flung divisions, ask yourself why blockchain would be better than a traditional data warehouse?
Designed to be an ecosystem solution, Blockchain works best when you get a critical mass of players to agree to use it, and that's not always easy. For a bank, that might mean convincing trading partners, stakeholders and regulators to climb on to the same platform. Before investing in blockchain technology, think about who will have to buy into using the platform, and make sure everyone is on board.
That might be challenging because blockchain technology is still very immature. The two most viable blockchain deployments are bitcoin and Ethereum, another cryptocurrency with smart contract features. These two blockchain protocols are magnitudes slower than today's databases, and both have very small capacities compared to what will be needed for say, trade finance. The underlying computer codes are open-source, still evolving, and come with warnings to use at your own risk.
Although nearly $2 billion has been invested in blockchain ventures, most are still proofs-of-concept, experiments, or small-scale deployments. Granted, these are bellwether events, but it will take time to develop and scale enterprise-grade blockchains.
Blockchain works best when you get a critical mass of players to agree to use it, and that's not always easy.
That doesn't mean businesses should reject the idea of blockchain applications. Through our research at MIT's Center for Information Systems Research and the University of Missouri-Saint Louis, we've come up with three practices that forward-thinking companies should engage in to understand which, if any, business problems blockchain technology can solve for them.
Help set the standards.
Collaborative blockchains are going to need standards that everyone agrees to. If you think blockchain might benefit your company, get out in front and join a consortium or nonprofit that is working to help set the standards. Word to the wise: Large consortia can be slow to agree upon standards or to develop actual applications. Many small consortia, on the other hand, produce proofs-of-concept quickly, but may not attract enough additional participants to reach critical mass. If possible, mitigate the risk of backing the wrong horse by participating in both large and small consortia.
Develop expertise.
As with any new technology, the most critical resource is talent. But one interviewee estimated that there are only around 5,000 people in the world with the skills to architect blockchain applications. You might need to partner with the consulting firms who snagged much of the global talent and let them transfer their knowledge to internal staff.
Monitor the startup space.
Startup ventures are proliferating in this space, some of which might be working on solutions to the problems you are facing, meaning you won't have to start from scratch internally. Monitoring the startup space in your industry will help you know when it makes sense to invest in the new technology and when it makes sense to hire an outside firm.
The bottom line: Enterprise blockchains are coming, but not as quickly as the evangelists will have you believe.
This piece first appeared in Perspectives on GE Reports.
Dr. Mary C. Lacity is Curators' Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a visiting scholar at MIT Center for Information Systems Research. She has published 26 books on the topics of business services, sourcing, and automation, most recently Robotic Process Automation and Risk Mitigation: The Definitive Guide with professor Leslie Willcocks at the London School of Economics.
Kate Moloney is a research specialist at the MIT Sloan School of Management's Center for Information Systems Research.
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The African Fintech Market Is Taking Off
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URL: https://www.brinknews.com/is-blockchain-really-ready-for-prime-time/
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FairPoint is a telephone and internet provider that serves homes, businesses and public institutions.
The company provides phone and Internet service in 17 states, and has a fiber-based Ethernet network with about 18,000 miles of fiber wires in northern New England. This past summer, FairPoint's largest investor, New York-based Maglan Capital, said the company needed to consider selling itself because it had failed to maximize shareholder value.
Consolidated provides business and broadband communications in 11 states and is based in Mattoon, Illinois.
Public utilities commissions in the northern New England states will hold hearings in April and May on the merger. The Observer contributed.
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Share this Story: Emergency delays Brockville budget
Emergency delays Brockville budget
Ronald Zajac
Brockville taxpayers are facing a levy increase of nearly six per cent for 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the local economy.
The good news is the increase could essentially be eliminated by using "Safe Restart" funding from the province.
Emergency delays Brockville budget Back to video
Using that money to cancel out the tax increase is a decision city councillors are pondering, but on Tuesday they decided to put that decision off by a week in order to assess the fiscal consequences of Ontario's new state of emergency.
Council was poised to approve the budget in principle, setting the stage for deliberations running until final adoption expected in early March, but that was before Premier Doug Ford declared the second state of emergency and a new stay-at-home order taking effect on Thursday.
"If we were to pass it without reviewing the new information, I think it would be … not a budget in principle, it would be a budget without principle," said Coun. Jeff Earle.
"Things have changed drastically in the last four or five hours and it's not business as usual."
City staff presented council with an operating budget that calls for a net levy of $21,763,058.
Finance director Lynda Ferguson said the proposed budget represents an increase of 5.95 per cent on the tax levy.
Assuming no change in assessment, the result would be an increase in municipal taxes of $108.75 on a residential property assessed at $250,000, or a jump of $424 on a commercial property with $500,000 of
assessment, she noted.
Ferguson's budget report leaves council with a decision to make on how to eliminate that increase. The city can either use most of the provincial government's initial allocation of Safe Restart funding, of $1,313,900, to off-set the levy increase, or reduce its annual contribution to reserves by $1.2 million.
City staff is recommending council use the Safe Restart funding.
But that may not be the end of it, because city hall has yet to hear from outside partners or agencies such as the Aquatarium, the library, the health unit and city police, all of which could bring more increases to the table.
The pandemic, which is now in its second wave, has put considerable strain on the city's finances.
In October, city hall was projecting a $1.9-million deficit in city revenues due to COVID-19.
The projected revenue drop from 2020 to 2021 is $893,473.
Another decision in front of council is the proposed hiring of a "communication and engagement officer," an incremental item that would add $46,883 to the operating budget and be funded from the tax levy.
Baker described that line item as someone who would facilitate communication between city departments and the general public. He added hiring a new staffer is the "worst-case scenario financially" for the goal of improving communications, and the budget deliberations could yield less costly solutions.
Earle said the budget as presented does not take into account the potential loss of revenue from taxpayers, which would get more pronounced the longer the current lockdown and emergency measures carry on.
"In the path forward, I don't think maybe it considers enough of the loss of revenue of the people that are forced to pay this," he said.
Councillors agreed with the one-week pause, although Coun. Matt Wren said he does not believe the new emergency measures will change much.
"In the spring of 2020, we were locked down for 90 days," he noted.
"We're not in this alone. The provincial government and federal government are here to support those whose incomes are impacted. Those programs are still in force and effect," added Wren.
He recalled city officials were pleasantly surprised at city residents' ability to pay their municipal taxes at that time.
"We're in a severe wave but we have vaccines coming," added Wren. "We're not going to be locked down, I don't believe, for six, seven, eight months."
As staff and council members ponder what to do, Baker said their ability to mitigate costs in 2020 has made their job easier for the new year's budget.
"The money that was handed by the province for Safe Restart was to mitigate 2020 COVID-related issues," said Baker.
"The fact the City of Brockville managed their own house and didn't require those 2020 things, is allowing us to move that mitigation money forward to 2021."
Rzajac@postemedia.com
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Q: Why is the derivative of f(x) with respect to 'x' 'x' and not 1 in pytorch? I am trying to understand pytorch's autograd in full and I stumbled with this: let f(x)=x, from basic maths we know that f'(x)=1, however when I do that exercise in pytorch I get that f'(x) = x.
z = torch.linspace(-1, 1, steps=5, requires_grad=True)
y = z
y.backward(z)
print("Z tensor is: {} \n Gradient of y with respect to z is: {}".format(z, z.grad))
I would expect to get a tensor of size 5 full of 1 but instead I get:
Z tensor is: tensor([-1.0000, -0.5000, 0.0000, 0.5000, 1.0000], requires_grad=True)
Gradient of y with respect to z is: tensor([-1.0000, -0.5000, 0.0000, 0.5000, 1.0000])
Why is this the behavior of pytorch?
A: First of all, given z = torch.linspace(-1, 1, steps=5, requires_grad=True) and y = z, the function is a vector-valued function, so the derivative of y w.r.t z is not as simple as 1 but a Jacobian matrix. Actually in your case z = [z1, z2, z3, z4, z5]T , the upper case T means z is a row vector. Here is what the official doc says:
Secondly, notice the official doc says: Now in this case y is no longer a scalar. torch.autograd could not compute the full Jacobian directly, but if we just want the vector-Jacobian product, simply pass the vector to backward as argument link. In that case x.grad is not the actual gradient value (matrix) but the vector-Jacobian product.
EDIT:
x.grad is the actual gradient if your output y is a scalar.
See the example here:
z = torch.linspace(-1, 1, steps=5, requires_grad=True)
y = torch.sum(z)
y.backward()
z.grad
This will output:
tensor([1., 1., 1., 1., 1.])
As you can see, it is the gradient. Notice the only difference is that y is a scalar value here while a vector value in your example. grad can be implicitly created only for scalar outputs
You might wonder what if the gradient is not a constant, like dependent on input z as in this case
z = torch.linspace(-1, 1, steps=5, requires_grad=True)
y = torch.sum(torch.pow(z,2))
y.backward()
z.grad
The output is:
tensor([-2., -1., 0., 1., 2.])
It is the same as
z = torch.linspace(-1, 1, steps=5, requires_grad=True)
y = torch.sum(torch.pow(z,2))
y.backward(torch.tensor(1.))
z.grad
The blitz tutorial is kind of brief so it is actually quite hard to understand for beginners.
A: After discussing with a colleague, he found that the 'backward()' method actually is multiplying the gradient evaluated at z, with z itself. This makes sense for neural network applications. A short code snippet to understand this is the following:
z = torch.linspace(1, 5, steps=5, requires_grad=True)
y = torch.pow(z,2)
y.backward(z)
print("Z tensor is: {} \n Gradient of y with respect to z is: {}".format(z, z.grad/z))
The output is:
Z tensor is: tensor([1., 2., 3., 4., 5.], requires_grad=True)
Gradient of y with respect to z is: tensor([ 2., 4., 6., 8., 10.], grad_fn=<DivBackward0>)
In this case, you can see that z.grad divided by z is the actual expected gradient of z which would be 2*z.
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After Elizabeth died, Alfred married Susan Williams.
In the year 1846 the United States was involved in the Mexican War. Twenty year old Alfred took part in this. When he returned from the war, the gold rush was just beginning. In 1850 Alfred and his brother Andrew left for the gold fields of California. Alfred left his wife and daughter at home. It is not known how many left in this group. They traveled by oxen team across the plains. Somewhere near Dodge City, Kansas, tragedy in the form of Cholera struck them. It claimed the life of Andrew Garrison. Although Alfred was very ill he managed to turn a wagon bed over his brother's lifeless form and then he crawled off to a cool spring. This he credited with saving his life. He lay there 3 days, then went back and buried his brother. He then continued on to California. He was gone from Missouri for two years.
The return trip was made by water, except for the short strip of land across Panama Canal, called the Kings Highway. When he reached Louisiana, he came up the Mississippi River to St. Louis and then up the river to Linn Creek. Many years later a grandson asked Alfred how much gold he brought back with him; but he never received an answer to his question.
During the Civil War, Alfred took part on the side of the north. There is still in existence, an original order from Governor McClurg to Alfred Garrison, to bring a number of men to Sedalia, Mo. for duty. The year was 1862. During this war, one of the local soldiers that didn't make it back was Sam Farmer. After he was killed, his widow and sons John M. and Tom were given a home at the Garrisons.
When the Emancipation Proclamation was given, many slaves in the community were simply turned loose to make a way by themselves. Such was the plight of Ed Case and his mother. Alfred Garrison found them walking up the road; the mother was crying because she didn't know what to do; the little boy was crying because mama was unhappy. Alfred brought them home and gave them shelter and work. Many years later Alfred's son, Lige (Elijah) who was fair of complexion and blue eyes made the remark that he was a grown man before he realized that he and Ed Case weren't "kinfolk." The Case family is highly regarded by the old timers in the neighborhood who remember them.
After the war in the year 1874, a 20 year old Swede named Charlie Anderson, came to this community. He had first gone to Iowa from his native Sweden and stayed there three weeks; not liking the north country, he made his way south until he arrived at the Garrison Farm. Here he found work and lodging. He learned the English language from John M. Farmer as the two worked side by side. He later married Alfred's daughter Julinae (Jo). Another of Alfred's daughters Nancy married W. H. Parrish, the father of the present W. H. 'Bill' Parrish. Daughter Susan married Neednam Parrish, and Mary became Mrs. Jacob Fohn. Matilda became Mrs. Charlie Morgan. Victoria married George Rogers and Alfred's only son Elijah married Mollie Newland. Three daughters died young. Louzan, Clarisa and Lucinda.
Alfred became a person of some note in Camden County. He was one of the first farmers to take cattle and hogs by land to St. Louis. This trip took from ten to twelve days. On the way home, as the story is told, Alfred would sleep in graveyards and out of the way places to keep from being relieved of his money. He would also try to borrow five or ten dollars from a friend, telling them that he had left all his money in the bank in St. Louis. This was to keep people from thinking he had lots of cash on hand that needed another home. He had a healthy respect for a dollar. On one occasion he broke his arm and when grandson Bill wanted to take him to the Dr., Alfred showed him how to make a splint. He then showed him how to put the splints in place and how to wrap bandages around. He then pulled his own arm into place and had Bill tighten the bandages. The young boy was still uneasy and begged to for a Dr; but Alfred told him to pour turpentine over it and it would be all right.
Perhaps Alfred is best remembered by most people as Judge Alfred Garrison. He held the position of presiding judge of the county court for a number of years. His obituary in a 1921 Reveille states that as a county judge he saved Camden Co. from the Bogus Railroad sharks who nearly ruined several neighboring counties. It is interesting to note that a great grandson Jewel Franklin holds that same position that Alfred once held. Alfred also served the County as Probate Judge from the year 1910 to 1914.
Judge Alfred Garrison, also called Uncle Alfred passed away Dec. 24, 1920 at the age of 94 yrs. He was buried on Christmas day with the Rev. C.F. Green officiating. The obituary states that in spite of the inclement weather, his funeral was well attended. He is buried in the little family cemetery on the Garrison estate. The little graveyard is well cared for by the W. H. Parrish family.
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In 1926, 21 year old Ruth Ganss recieved a handmade wedding gift from her grandmother who lived in Germany. Louise was a very special person to Ruth - the only mother she knew for the first three years of her life before she was reunited with her parents and sisters in Brooklyn, NY.
The gift was a hand-embroidered table cloth with matching napkins to decorate a table for up to 12 guests. They have been carefully cared for for nearly 90 years, passing to Ruth's daughter, Joan; and then grandaughter, Karen, who cares for them to this day.
Louise was quite the gifted needleworker and seamstress, and she passed those skills on to her daughters. One daughter, Marie, would become so proficient at needlecraft that she immigrated to the US to take a position as a private seamstress for a New York City family. She would pass along her skills to each of her five daughters. Daughter, Ruth, could sew about anything, from household items to children's clothing. She also became quite the expert knitter. Ruth's daughter, Joan, learned the knitting and sewing from her mother and added needlework to her own repretoire of skills. And Joan's daughter, Karen, would expand those skills to include handmade quilting and crocheting. Karen made sure that her four daughters each recieved a sewing machine before they left her nest.
In 2006, Karen taught her daughter Georgia to knit and crochet. It was Georgia's crocheting that really took off. Before long, the two of them had amassed nearly 1,000 hats, donating most to charities. Friends & family began asking for hats, happy to pay Georgia and Karen for their time and skill. Soon, Georgia and her mother began setting up shop at local craft shows and farmer's markets. And then they decided to hit the road; traveling to many art, music and craft fairs and festivals. An online store followed...a small craft business was born !
While at an early music festival, Georgia exclaimed "It's a party on your head !" The phrase rapidly caught on. After being trademarked, the small business became known as Holston Mountain Hat Project, holstonhats.com and "It's A Party On Your Head !"
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Q: Selecting and Deselecting overlapping graphics in silverlight I am placing a line (lets call it line 1) on a canvas and attaching a mouse enter, mouse leave, mouse up and mouse down event to it. Another line (line 2) is then created with the same events attached. All events work perfectly when any of the lines are selected.
For some reason when the first line that was created is dragged and released over the second line created the line does not get released on the canvas, however it remains glued to the mouse pointer until another click is made away from the second line. This problem occurs when the earliest lines created are dragged over the newer lines and not vice versa ( problem occurs when line 1 is dragged and released on line 2 but not vice versa, or line 1 over 2 and 3, and line 2 over line 3 etc.
I do not know what code might help regarding the solving of this issue, would anyone have any suggestions or maybe have encountered a similar problem?
A: The reason for the observed behavior is quite easily deduced:
All elements in a Panel do have an implicit z-order that will take effect when no ZIndex property is specified for en element. Earlier added elements have a lower z-order than later added elements (xaml markup is parse from top to bottom and elements that occur earlier are added earlier).
Now if you start moving elements around and two elements overlap the z-order is still effective. so your earlier added line will be treated as if it is physically beneath the other line, and all mouse events will go to the top-most line in the z-order. therefore the MouseUp event is not received by your moved element and it is still glued to the mouse pointer until you move your mouse away from the overlapping area and release the mouse again.
I can think of several ways to solve it:
Probably the easiest thing will be to just set an explicit ZIndex on the element as soon as you select it, when you move it around it will always be on top of all other elements, and when you release it anywhere you can clear the ZIndex again. Some example code to give you an idea:
private void OnElementSelected()
{
// todo: maybe we need to store the previous zindex value and re-assign it later
// to prevent it from getting lost
Canvas.SetZIndex(this, Int32.MaxValue);
}
private void OnElementReleased()
{
this.ClearValue(Canvas.ZIndexProperty);
// todo: maybe re-assign stored z-index value
}
An alternative solution would be to have a transparent MouseEventObserver placed over your whole Canvas that gets activated as soon as you select an element, then the order of your elements doesn't matter.
Edit
A nice fact (many devs probably are unaware of) about the Canvas.ZIndex attached property: it works for every panel type, not only for Canvas. So you can even specify the z-order of elements inside a Grid with Canvas.ZIndex.
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Processing of Facial Emotions Differs in Bipolar and Schizophrenia
April 29, 2013 • By A GoodTherapy.org News Summary
Bipolar (BD) and schizophrenia (SZ) have often been compared and contrasted in research. Each of these psychological conditions has its own set of unique symptoms, and yet they share some symptoms and risk factors. This overlap has led to extensive research on the differences and similarities between the two illnesses. Recently, neurological examinations have been used to assess how emotional processing and cognitive processes are impacted in a wide variety of mental health problems. But until now, few studies have directly examined how emotional processing differs in BD and SZ. To address this gap in literature and to extend the data on the most prominent distinction between SZ and BD, G. Delvecchio of the Department of Psychosis Studies at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London recently analyzed data from over 29 studies involving participants with SZ, and/or BD, and control subjects with no history of psychosis.
He examined MRI results and looked specifically at neural regions that impact facial emotional processing. He found that individuals with BD had overstimulation in the thalamus and amygdala/parahippocampus while SZ participants had decreased stimulation throughout all regions impacting facial emotion processing. This suggests impairment in emotional regulation in the BD group. "By contrast," said Delvecchio, "Overactivation within visual processing regions coupled with reduced engagement of facial affect processing regions points to abnormal visual integration as the core underlying deficit in SZ."
In sum, these results suggest a decrease in facial processing regions in people with SZ, compared to individuals with BD and control participants. Although these findings demonstrate neurological processes and deficits unique to BD and SZ, there are still similarities that exist on physiological, cognitive, and emotional levels. Understanding how neurological variations impact the other symptom domains of SZ and BD can help differentiate between the two illnesses and can better predict illness trajectories. Delvecchio hopes that future work explores all the facets relevant to BD and SZ more thoroughly in order to gain insight into the similarities and disparities of these two serious mental health issues.
Delvecchio, G., G. Sugranyes, and S. Frangou. (2013). Evidence of diagnostic specificity in the neural correlates of facial affect processing in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: A meta-analysis of functional imaging studies. Psychological Medicine 43.3 (2013): 553-69. ProQuest. Web.
I do understand how these differences may help us better understand the impact and playing out if the two disorders…But would it help in the identification and diagnosis…?Because that stage could be crucial as well as difficult due to certain similarities…!
I did not know that having problems with recognizing facial cues and emotions could be indicative of different mentalil lnesses. I guess that once you think about it it makes sense, but I would have never thought to out bipolar disorder in the same basket with schizophrenia. It seems likei have heard a lot more about how bipolar can be managed with medication while it is always assumed that schizophrenia isn't that way, is maybe more resistent to management.
young'un
hard to even imagine how facial emotion processing being impaired would feel like.that would disrupt conversations and relationships in general I would guess.not a happy situation to be in.but at least we should try to help treat these people.
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Ohio State's Department of Neurological Surgery is shaping the field of neurosurgery. No one exhibited this excellence and innovation more than Carole Ann Miller, MD.
In addition to her extraordinary achievements in the world of neurosurgery, Dr. Miller was among the most humble, kind, fair, generous and gracious individuals. Her depth of caring for her patients was remarkable, always putting their welfare first. Dr. Miller was a trailblazer her entire life, being among only a handful of women out of 180 people in her medical school class. In addition to being the first female leader of many organizations, Dr. Miller also received the 2005 American Medical Women's Association Local Legends Award.
One of her passions was teaching residents and medical students, and she always treated them like a member of her family, with caring, consideration and respect. She believed that in mentoring students, the educator must be the "guide on the side" rather than the "sage on the stage".
Her distinguished career extended more than 40 years. She received an undergraduate degree with honors in History and her medical degree at The Ohio State University. She then secured an internship at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated and was named "Best Intern." She returned to Ohio State to complete her residency in Neurosurgery. Dr. Miller's illustrious career continued with an appointment as a Neurophysiology fellow at Yale University, followed by an appointment at the University of Michigan as Neurosurgery faculty. She returned to Ohio State, where she was for the remainder of her tenure, in multiple capacities, including as division director of Neurosurgery and Neurosurgery program director.
Dr. Miller passed away on October 28, 2015, after a courageous battle with a terminal illness. In September 2015, Ohio State's Neurological Institute created the Carole A. Miller MD Lectureship and Resident Day in her honor.
Carole Ann Miller, MD, was the first woman board-certified neurosurgeon in the United States.
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On the same PC different versions of Laserworld Showeditor can be installed at the same time. That is not given for the smaller bug-fixes, but applies to the major releases, like Showeditor 2011 and Showeditor 2015.
Each version has its own *.ini-file. This *.ini-file can be copied from one version to another, but it is not recommended due to potential incompatibilities.
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JACKSONVILLE – Dante Fowler Jr. officially is no longer with the Jaguars.
The Jaguars on Tuesday traded the fourth-year veteran pass rusher to the Los Angeles Rams in exchange for two draft selections: a third-round selection in the 2019 NFL Draft and a fifth-round selection in the 2020 NFL Draft. The Jaguars announced the trade Tuesday afternoon.
Fowler, the No. 3 overall selection in the 2015 NFL Draft from the University of Florida, appeared in 39 games for the Jaguars with one start. He registered two sacks this season after registering a career-high eight last season. He missed his 2015 rookie season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament injury.
The Jaguars now have seven selections in the 2019 NFL Draft: one selection in the first, second, fourth, sixth and seventh rounds – as well as two selections in the third round. They acquired one of the third-round selections in Tuesday's trade with the Rams and they acquired the seventh-round selection from the Baltimore Ravens for center Luke Bowanko.
They now have eight selections in the 2020 NFL Draft: one selection in the first, second, third, fourth, sixth and seventh rounds and two selections fifth round (including one acquired from the Rams Tuesday).
Fowler has a forced fumble and a fumble recovery this season.
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This is an old revision of StudioToursHacker made by KendraHacker on 2018-04-06 09:23:08.
Aidan, you are doing investigative journalism. As I was reading your project proposal I became interested right away, because I really liked the Logan Paul blog post that you did and think it would be fun to read more in-depth information about topics much like this one. As I started reading your blogs I noticed that you definitely weren't lying about writing in-depth about a variety of topics. I learned a lot of information! Some about things that I didn't know much about before, like disc golf.
You really create a personalized voice in your blog and allow readers to feel like you are individually talking to them because your writing is so casual and conversational. I think that that's a strong skill to have, especially in blogging. Here's a blog post that really shows your personality. I especially like that you add traces of comedy within your writing, like at the beginning of this blog post or this one, I think it entices readers to want to read it. I know that it did for me.
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Balankanché Cavern: Part One
19 January 2016 Art, Music & Lit 3
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from The Man Who Owned a Wonder of the World written by Evan J. Albright. The book is an investigation into how Chichén Itzá became one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world. The author explained to us that during the editing process, many interesting, but in the end irrelevant, bits of history got cut or reduced. We asked Evan if he might share some of this interesting Yucatan history with our readers, and this is the result... Part One of a three part series. You might consider this the "director's cut" of the book, and this part features the true story of the discovery and excavation of the Balankanché cavern, less than two miles away from the center of Chichén.
Balankanché, the Throne of the Jaguar
Everybody complains that the guides at Chichén Itzá either know nothing or make stuff up. But a guide made the biggest discovery at Chichén Itza since Edward Herbert Thompson dredged the Cenote Sagrado and recovered gold, carved jade, and human skeletons.
José Humberto Gómez Rodríguez has lived his entire life in Mérida. "I've been in and out of the country, but Mérida is my home," he says in a recent interview. He is thin and wiry and somewhat ageless. You would believe him if he told you he was in his 50s and you would believe him if he said he was 78. He has a winning smile and is completely comfortable with being the center of attention, good traits to have if you want to be a guide in Yucatan.
He got his start in the tourism business more than 50 years ago at Chichén Itzá. His grandmother was related to the Barbachanos, the family that owns the Mayaland Hotel and Hacienda Chichen, both next to Chichén, so she spent the busy season of June and July working there. From the age of eight, Humberto would stay with her and so he spent his summers growing up among the ruins of Chichén. Knowing how much he liked to explore, Bernardino Tun, the head gardener of the Mayaland, told Humberto of a cave not far away and gave him directions how to find it.
The entrance to the cave, though overgrown, was not difficult to find, only 300 meters off the road to the village of X'Kalakoop. At the mouth of the cave was a small group of ruins. In ancient times, steps had been chiseled into the rock descending into the earth. "Maybe because I was very young and very small, the cave looked very, very big to me," he recalled.
At first he could only go a few meters into the cave before it became so inky black that there was no light to which his eyes could adjust. That Christmas he collected the little candles left over from the posadas. When he returned to the cave the next season he now had light so he could explore its labyrinthine passageways, leapfrogging one candle distance at a time. "I could look back, see the candle, light another one. I started going into the cave farther and farther and farther, little by little." Later he obtained a flashlight, and was free to roam its passages for as long as the batteries would last.
Humberto was not the first to explore the cave. It was well known, at least to those who had spent time at Chichén Itzá. Edward Thompson had learned of it from the Maya who helped him dredge the Cenote Sagrado. On Easter morning 1905, he had explored it with the archaeologist Alfred Tozzer, who described it in a letter to his family in New England:
"The cave is immense and, as all others in this country, of limestone with stalactites and stalagmites over the entire roof and floor," Tozzer wrote. "It has been used for human habitation as there are stone steps leading down into it and stone walls for defense at intervals in the interior. The corridors are very winding and seemingly have no end, opening up into huge rooms with high dome-like roofs. We wandered around and had to use great care not to get lost in the numerous turns. We did not begin to cover the whole cave although we walked and walked. In many places the floor was covered with pots sherds bearing evidence of a former people. It was probably occupied in the time of tribal wars and possibly as a place of refuge at the time of the conquest."
When the Carnegie Institution arrived to restore Chichén Itzá in the mid 1920s, there began several investigations of the cave, which had a name: Balam Canche, Maya for "jaguar throne." Researchers combed the floor for broken pottery and dug test pits. Others collected flora and fauna, or tested the groundwater that flooded the deepest parts of the cave. One was a teenager with a ten-dollar name: E. Wyllys Andrews IV. "Bill," the son of one of Chicago's leading surgeons, had grown up with the freedom and resources to pursue whatever intellectual interests caught his fancy. He was a regular visitor to the Field Museum in Chicago and through his parents, knew some of the up-and-coming Maya archaeologists of the day, most notably J. Eric S. Thompson. It was only natural that he discovered a passion for Maya archaeology and anthropology.
Andrews arrived at Chichén Itzá a few days after his 17th birthday in December 1933 to spend six months as Sylvanus Morley's assistant at the Carnegie Institution's headquarters and to collect reptiles for the Field Museum. While exploring Balam Canche (today called "Balankanche"), Andrews saw what he thought was a white snake. He spent hours in the cave trying to capture a specimen for his collection, but never saw it again (later explorations found a blind eel, which easily could have been mistaken for a snake). He also found more dangerous creatures, such as a large centipede the Maya called u-dzudz-milan ("the kiss of hell") that, when cornered, would scuttle forward or backward with a biting attack that injected a clear poison reportedly fatal to humans. The cave became most famous, at least in scientific circles, when in 1936 it was discovered to be home to a species of hooded tickspider (cryptocellus pearsei), a thick-legged arachnid previously unknown to North America except as fossils.
Humberto Explores
The renown of these archaeological and biological discoveries was minimal by the 1940s when Humberto began to explore it. He wandered its passages, his footsteps at times crunched in the dark as he stepped on the broken pottery left behind by prehistoric generations. The floor throughout the cave alternated between sahcab, a calcareous light-colored earth, and a dark clay that, once brought into the sunlight, turned out to be red.
Around that same period archaeologists from the Carnegie Institution returned one last time to determine when the cave had been occupied. They dug a test pit and recovered pottery from many different eras. In the end they determined that the cave had seen human habitation over a period of 3,000 years, right up through the Spanish Conquest.
Humberto knew none of this. He went to school to study anthropology, but the prospect of spending several years in a classroom held no appeal and he dropped out. Instead he became a licensed tour guide, and went to work for the Barbachanos.
Working for the Barbachanos
In those days guides were more than founts of history, archaeology, flora and fauna about Yucatan. Typically a guide would pick a group up at their hotel and spend the entire day with them, driving them to ruins or churches or villages, making certain they got lunch and sometimes dinner, and attending to their every need, all with the hope of getting a big tip at the end of their visit.
Because he worked for the Barbachanos, Humberto returned time and again to Chichén Itzá. In his spare time, while his guests enjoyed the comforts of the Mayaland, he would return to the cave.
In early September of 1959 Humberto had been guiding a couple from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. "On the third day they said they were tired, that they didn't want to do any more climbing [of ruins]," Humberto recalled. "I said, 'Why don't we do something different. Let's go under the ground.'" So he took them to Balankanche. He gave them a flashlight and left them to explore while he went off on his own.
"I took one of the passageways that I was very familiar with, and I went right to the end," he said. "I had been there I don't know how many hundreds of times." This time the wall looked a little funny, and in the glow of his flashlight it appeared to be of a different color. Humberto produced a large knife that he always carried and began scraping at the wall. "A section of it came off, like a big piece of stucco." Behind it was the same kind of man-made masonry one could find in any of the Maya ruins. Humberto had found a secret wall.
If you can't wait for Part II to find out what's behind the secret wall, here's a video snipped of don Humberto describing what he found!
The above is expanded from The Man Who Owned a Wonder of the World: The Gringo History of Mexico's Chichén Itzá. (c) 2016 Evan J. Albright, republished by permission. Photograph of the illuminated censer in the main chamber of Balankanché by Bill Drennon. Other photographs are by the author, Drennon, Steven Fry, James Fields and from the monograph Balancanché: Throne of the Tiger Priest by E. Wyllys Andrews IV (New Orleans: Middle American Research Institute, Tulane University, 1970).
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Balankanché Cavern, Part Two
Balankanché Cavern, Part Three
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Will Hunt 4 years ago
I'm a journalist based in New York and was wondering if someone from Yucatan Living might help me get in touch with Jose Humberto Gomez. Thank you!
Silvia Gomez Rodriguez 4 years ago
El Sr. José Humberto Gomez Rodríguez, es mi hermano, con mucho gusto puedo hacer el contacto con usted.
Mi número de telefono celular es 9999100097
Estoy a sus órdenes, será un placer atenderle.
Patt Barrington 5 years ago
You got me with the ending of Part I.
Can't wait for the next!
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Is the Term Pulpit Pimp Racist?
Is the Term Pulpit Pimp Racist? I am growing concerned that many of those who are being called pulpit pimps by Internet Heresy Hunters, and their comrades are disproportionally those of minority status. The term pimp brings back those images of the seventies, where the big brim hats and stack heels were the order of the day. Why wouldn't the preachers that these heresy hunters target be called, charlatans, greedy, hucksters, reprobate, infidels, or any of 100 other terms that they could be called?-(Note: I think you should be praying for these individuals instead of calling them names)-I have read many of these individuals' posts which are more fiction than fact, and most of these individuals websites mirror the local gossip columns that many of the world frequent. How many times has one ever heard Billy Graham, Charles Stanley, Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, or David Jeremiah being called a pulpit pimp, yet is every Black Preacher that wears a nice suit and speaks with confidence is a pulpit pimp? This is racist at the core!
Is it alright to call any African American Preacher that attains a measure of success a pulpit pimp? Is this rational? Is this racist? Is calling a black preacher a pimp signifying to others that these individuals specialize in the selling of women's bodies? Is this how mainstream America sees most black men as pimps and our women as____? Are we not debunking these stereotypes? How can we use these terms and be proud of them? Many of these sites are operated by African Americans who seem to abhor anything that resembles black success. Are they experiencing Self Hatred? I am cognizant that there are many African American Preachers who are exhibiting less than stellar behavior across our land, yet I don't think the term pulpit pimp would apply to these individuals. Pimp is a vile term to call a preacher by, maybe those who operate these websites that calls primarily black preachers "Pulpit Pimps", will examine themselves and their love for their own race!
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The Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Exchange Gains and Losses using Fair Value Accounting) Regulations 2005
Laid before the House of Commons
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 103(1AA) of the Finance Act 1996(1) and paragraph 54(2A) of Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002(2) make the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and effect
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Exchange Gains and Losses using Fair Value Accounting) Regulations 2005 and shall come into force on 2nd January 2006 and shall have effect in relation to periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005.
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
"derivative contract" has the same meaning as in Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002;
"fair value accounting" has the meaning given in section 103 of the Finance Act 1996;
"generally accepted accounting practice" has the meaning given in section 50 of the Finance Act 2004(3);
"loan relationship" has the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the Finance Act 1996; and
"designated", "fair value", "available-for-sale" and "fair value hedge" have the same meanings as they have for accounting purposes.
3. For the purposes of these Regulations the currency with which a company computes its profits and losses as determined by sections 92 to 92E(4) of the Finance Act 1993(5) shall be known as the "base currency".
Exchange gain or loss : general
4. In these Regulations exchange gain or loss shall not include any debits or credits referred to in regulation 4(1), (3) and (4) of the Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Change of Accounting Practice) Regulations 2004(6).
Exchange gain or loss arising from loan relationship assets or liabilities
5.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) set out the rules for calculating the exchange gain or loss arising from loan relationship assets or liabilities in the following circumstances—
(a)the asset or liability is accounted for at fair value, or
(b)that asset or liability or part of it is a hedged item in a designated fair value hedge and the risk being hedged is or includes exchange risk.
(2) Where paragraph (1) applies and—
(a)an amount is recognised in the company's profit and loss account or income statement which arises from comparing at different times the fair value of the asset or liability (or in the case of regulation 5(1)(b) any part of it), and
(b)the change in fair value is attributable to any extent to fluctuations in the spot rate of exchange between the currency in which the asset or liability is denominated and the base currency of the company,
the exchange gain or loss is calculated as set out in paragraph (3).
(3) The exchange gain or loss for any accounting period is the change in fair value between the earlier and the later time in that period that is attributable only to fluctuations in the spot rate of exchange between the currency in which the asset or liability is denominated and the base currency of the company.
6. If an asset is accounted for as available-for-sale, the exchange gain or loss is the amount shown in the profit and loss account or income statement which fairly represents that gain or loss in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice.
Exchange gain or loss arising from derivative contracts
7.—(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) set out the rules for calculating the exchange gain or loss arising from derivative contracts where such a contract is accounted for at fair value.
(a)an amount is recognised in the company's profit and loss account or income statement which arises from comparing at different times the fair value of the derivative contract, and
(b)that change in fair value is attributable to any extent to fluctuations in the spot rate of exchange between the base currency of the company and one or more currencies that form part of—
(i)the underlying subject matter of the derivative contract, or
(ii)in a case in which that currency or those currencies do not form part of the underlying subject matter of the contract, the currency or currencies in which payments under the contract fall to be made,
(3) The exchange gain or loss for any accounting period is the change in fair value between the earlier and the later time in that period that is attributable only to fluctuations in the spot rate of exchange between the currency or currencies and the base currency.
Calculation of residual profit and loss
8. Regulation 9 applies where there is a fair value profit or loss in relation to a loan relationship or derivative contract which is not wholly an exchange gain or loss (as determined by regulations 5 to 7).
9.—(1) Where there is a fair value profit, the residual profit is calculated by subtracting from the profit any exchange gain, and adding to it the amount of any exchange loss.
(2) Where the exchange gain exceeds the fair value profit, the difference between the two is the residual loss.
(3) Where there is a fair value loss, the residual loss is calculated by adding to the loss any exchange gain or subtracting from it any exchange loss.
(4) Where the exchange loss exceeds the fair value loss the difference between the two is the residual profit.
(5) Residual profits and losses are amounts recognised in determining a company's profit or loss for a period for the purposes of section 85B(1)(7) of the Finance Act 1996 and paragraph 17B(1)(8) of Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002.
Dave Watts
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations set out the calculations for exchange gain and loss in loan relationships and derivative contracts where the assets and liabilities involved are accounted for using fair value accounting.
Regulation 1 provides for citation, commencement and effect.
Regulation 2 provides for interpretation.
Regulation 3 sets out the application of the term "currency" to these Regulations.
Regulation 4 provides that exchange gain or loss does not include debits or credits referred to in parts of regulation 4 of the Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Change of Accounting Practice) Regulations (S.I. 2004/3271).
Regulations 5 and 6 set out how to calculate exchange gain or loss arising from loan relationship assets and liabilities.
Regulation 7 sets out how to calculate exchange gain and loss arising from derivative contracts.
Regulations 8 and 9 set out how to calculate the residual profit or loss in relation to a loan relationship or derivative contract.
Regulation 9(5) clarifies that residual profits and losses are amounts recognised in determining a company's profit or loss for the purposes of section 85B(1) of the Finance Act 1996 and paragraph 17(B)(1) of Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002.
These Regulations do not impose any new costs on business.
1996 c. 8. Sub-section (1AA) was inserted by paragraph 29 of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 2005 with effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005 and substituted by paragraph 10 of Schedule 6 to the Finance (No. 2) Act 2005 with effect from 20 July 2005.
2002 c. 23. Sub-paragraph (2A) was inserted by paragraph 36 of Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 2005 with effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005 and substituted by paragraph 11 of Schedule 6 to the Finance (No.2) Act 2005 with effect from 20 July 2005.
Sections 92 to 92E were substituted for former sections 92 to 94AB by paragraph 77 of Schedule 10 to the Finance Act 2004 with effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005 and, in the case of a company required to prepare accounts under the Companies Act 1985 or the Companies Act (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, any period of account beginning before that date for which the company is required or permitted to prepare such accounts in accordance with international accounting standards.
S.I. 2004/3271.
This section together with section 85A substituted for former sections 85 and 86 by paragraph 3 of Schedule 10 to the Finance Act 2004 with effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005, and, in the case of a company required to prepare accounts under the Companies Act 1985 or the Companies Act (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, any period of account beginning before that date for which the company is required or permitted to prepare such accounts in accordance with international accounting standards.
Paragraphs 17A to 17C were substituted for former paragraphs 17 to 20 by paragraph 50 of Schedule 10 to the Finance Act 2004 with effect for periods of account beginning on or after 1st January 2005, and, in the case of a company required to prepare accounts under the Companies Act 1985 or the Companies Act (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, any period of account beginning before that date for which the company is required or permitted to prepare such accounts in accordance with international accounting standards.
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*4. *26,945 *,*26,945 Kobukuro "Kaze wo Mitsukete"
*7. *14,279 *,242,845 Kenshi Yonezu "Flamingo / TEENAGE RIOT"
*9. **8,981 *,**8,981 amazarashi "Living Dead"
10. **8,059 *,381,391 SKE48 "Ikinari Punchline"
13. **6,818 *,403,681 Arashi "Kimi no Uta"
17. **5,133 *,367,686 Kenshi Yonezu "Lemon"
20. **3,880 *,**3,880 CHiCO with HoneyWorks "Mister Darling / Gimme Gimme Call"
35. **1,865 *,116,212 Morning Musume '18 "Furari Ginza / Jiyuu na Kuni dakara"
51. **1,124 *,*18,009 EXILE SHOKICHI "Futen Boyz"
57. **1,013 1,468,817 AKB48 "Sentimental Train"
58. **1,012 *,*24,993 MISIA "Ai no Katachi feat. HIDE (GReeeeN)"
61. ***,845 *,*20,593 Mariya Takeuchi "Chiisana Negai / Ima wo Ikiyou (Seize the Day)"
96. ***,440 *,*39,121 Hypnosismic Matenrou: Onin Rinshou "Meikyuu Kabe / Champagne Gold / Tigridia" by Shinjuku Division "Matenrou"
*9. **7,862 *,**7,862 Jin "Mekaku City Reload"
16. **4,405 *,**4,405 Kiyono Yasuno "Egao."
19. **3,630 *,*35,072 Kiyoe Yoshioka (Vocalist of Ikimonogakari) "Utairo"
20. **3,625 *,451,910 Kenshi Yonezu "BOOTLEG"
22. **3,164 *,*51,211 Ketsumeishi "Ketsunopolis 11"
29. **2,774 *,**2,774 Mika Nakashima "PORTRAIT ~Piano & Voice~"
31. **2,358 *,*32,570 Yu Takahashi "STARTING OVER"
33. **2,226 *,**2,226 Luna Haruna "LUNA JOULE"
36. **2,177 *,**2,177 wacci "Gunjou Refrain"
40. **1,891 *,**1,891 PENICILLIN "Megalomania no Tsubasa"
53. **1,145 *,174,080 Kenshi Yonezu "YANKEE"
55. **1,103 *,*10,927 Berry Goodman "BEST BEST BEST"
56. **1,083 *,**8,040 Chatmonchy "BEST MONCHY 1 -Listening-"
65. ***,989 *,149,779 Tohoshinki "TOMORROW"
78. ***,745 *,*19,468 MY FIRST STORY "S S S"
80. ***,719 *,131,279 Kenshi Yonezu "Bremen"
81. ***,705 *,*25,573 Kenshi Yonezu "diorama"
83. ***,693 *,*27,590 Mai Kuraki "Kimi Omou: Shunka Shuutou"
84. ***,677 *,**4,669 JUNNA "17-sai ga Utsukushii nande, Dare ga Itta."
85. ***,675 *,991,111 Yumi Matsutoya 40th Anniversary Best Album Nihon no Koi to, Yuumin to.
86. ***,671 *,*25,162 Aimyon "Seishun no Excitement"
98. ***,591 *,***,591 Hannya "THE BEST ALBUM"
100. **,569 *,635,661 Miyuki Nakajima "Singles 2000"
Good job Luna Haruna w. best album.
One of my most anticipated song in Fall.
*9. **7,862 *,**7,862 Jin "Mekaku City Road"
@tsubasalover Isn't it Mekaku City Reload?
Anyway nice numbers for USG and fripside.
93. ***,637 *,**1,492 Nujabes "metaphorical music"
@mizukasa I just checked it and saw that it's Analog Record ver.
Err, what does that mean? The tracklist looks nothing new though.
@mizukasa Basically it means vinyl record or phonograph record in Japanese. You can say it a re-release under vinyl record form.
Mmm nice. Actually still waiting for my A3! VIVID AUTUMN EP album to arrive.
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Q: print-out database on c# which has type 'TIMESTAMP' I'm using a query in C#. I'm printing out data from a database.
Its number of columns is about 200 and the first column's type is TIMESTAMP.
Other types don't have a problem being printed out. Only TIMESTAMP does.
Someone said I can use TIMESTAMP to get TO_CHAR(COLUMN_NAME, 'YYYYHHDD')
I want to show all of database. But if I want, I should type all of column.
This way newly created columns aren't shown.
I want to use query like this, but it doesn`t work:
SELECT TO_CHAR(TIME, 'HHMMSS'), * FROM DATAS
Please help me with this query.
A: The following works for me:
SELECT CONVERT(numeric(20,0), stamp + 0) FROM ...
This is where "stamp" is timestamp column.
A: Assuming you are using SQL Server, you have to read the timestamp value as a byte array and convert it to string. The SQL Server Data Type Mappings on MSDN show that Timestamp maps to Byte[] and can be accessed by the GetSqlBinary or GetBytes methods.
The mapping also shows that timestamp is actually a row version number that changes automatically each time a row is modified. It has nothing to do with time. It's just an incrementing 8 byte number. This number has no meaning for end-users and there is probably no point in showing it anywhere.
If you still want to display it, you can convert the timestamp bytes to an Int64 type using the BitConverter.ToInt64 method.
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PUMA Air Handling Units are designed to supply fresh filtered air, heated or cooled as required. Many ancillaries such as silencers, dampers, filters, inverters and control panels are available. Please refer to our product literature or consult our sales office.
These standard and bespoke Air Handling Units can be used in many applications, and are highly suitable for mounting in ceiling voids. Puma units can be supplied as Internal or External Roof Mounted.
For General Ventilation Applications and Computer Rooms.
Permanent Extract for General Ventilation Applications.
Heavy Duty Air Handling for General Ventilation Applications.
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The Model 1200 deburrs, grains, polishes, cleans, descales, and buffs at a single station, a single machine, and a single operator.
The Model 1200 offers all of the same great features as the Model 1000 and accepts 12" wheels instead of 10" inch wheels.
*Includes magnetic starter (NEMA 12) and controls without power cord.
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Opening Reception: First Friday, April 2, 6 - 10 PM
In the current COVID-19 climate, isolation has become a way of life. We've developed a compelling desire for conversations that are spontaneous, emotional, authentic. Separation has posed a greater need to hear each other's reassuring voices, and thus we've been engaging in more telephone conversations. After the Tone is a series of larger-than-life paintings based on
telephone scenes from movies. Many of them are from older films, where twisted cords and pointed antennas hark back to a time when phones had buttons or dials, not screens, and they were tethered to a landline while restricted to a certain location. As our notions of aloneness and solitude have blurred during the pandemic, these cinematic moments seem relevant now as we've regressed to staying home more often, using the phone as a lifeline.
ALEX PAOZOLS seeks to give the messy mix of exalted everyday life a sense of rhythm and color with his art. The cinematic subjects of his paintings are often torn by fathomless fear and
a yearning to feel less like outsiders in their own world. Alex loves to create playlists that make life feel like a poignant movie. He is full of gentle humanity and simple honest-to-god kindness and tries to paint every day. He lives in Denver and rent-free in your imagination.
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Wallet, because I need money!
Phew, this is what I have to carry everyday, I would be lost without any of them! I also forgot to add one important item...Nature Valley bars for when I don't have time to grab food. Will I be seeing you at LFW?
Lovely, that prada purse is to die for!
i am curious ! so if you wear your flat shoes; where do you put the pair your wearing like ur heels or boots :O!
Enjoy! I hope you capture great moments during fashion week!
I also have those flat shoes :). you're amazing, you can still go out only carry that things.
would really want to go to LFW!
That sounds like the perfect things to for your everyday purse!
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#1) North opens 2 , E-W Vul.
East might bid a direct 3 if the partnership plays it as stopper-asking. West has a stopper, but way too much strength to bid only 3NT. Figuring on running diamonds opposite, he will want to drive to at least 6 (maybe via 4 or Blackwood). East may just overcall 3 , over which West should bid 3 (he can still reach 3NT if his partner bids 3 over 3 ). East might also double at his first turn, which might have West thinking about a heart slam. This one has no clear route --nor a clearly correct contract.
#2) East deals, Both Vul.
West is not good enough to open 1 planning to bid hearts twice. Over his 1 opening, the auction will likely continue: 1 -2 -?? East might pass, or could take a false preference to 2 or even raise to 3 . This is not an easy game to reach.
#3) West Deals, Nobody Vul.
After 1 -1 -2 , East has two main choices: rebid hearts, or support diamonds (either to 2 or 3). I think 2 is the most likely action. After this, West should offer 3 , which East will likely raise to the decent game.
#4) East deals, Both Vul.
After 1 -1 -2 , West might pass (conservative) or bid 2NT (aggressive). If he passes, a good contract is reached. If he bids 2NT, might East try 3 next (quite optimistic)? In either case, E-W will do well to stay out of game.
I'm not used to sitting out second halves and being the "low-man" on the team. Welcome to Hilton Head.
Our team sponsor had health issues, so our professional team entered the first knockout event 5-handed. With my 22,000+ masterpoints, I was the baby on the team.
My partner, David Berkowitz has 28,000. The other 3 guys on the team? Eric Rodwell, Jeff Meckstroth, and Mike Passell, with 48K, 59K, and 60K respectively. Yikes--a 217,000 masterpoint team!
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As an American imam at one of the largest mosques in the DC Metro area, I am greatly troubled by the new cases of violent extremism among Western Muslims, both American and European.
Recent cases of young people engaging in violent extremism clearly show they have not learned Islam from respected, well-known Muslim scholars. Instead they have learned a deviant theology through the Internet, often fromWestern-born hate preachers adept at misusing their knowledge of our society. These hate preachers claim that genuine Islamic scholars are not credible, and actively try to invalidate their teachings by completely distorting both the message and the way it is communicated.
First, they follow no actual frame of reference or consistent methodology, but rather pick and choose whatever fringe opinions can support violent extremism. They ignore mainstream schools of thought, religious establishment and well-respected scholars, while actively trying to discredit them. They preach their perverted messages without the checks and balances of rational debate.
Second, the lack of information and the misinformation among young people in America and Europe about Islam, theology, dealing with conflict and understanding the concept of jihad, allow this situation to persist. The hate preachers count on this, and use the lack of adequate educational materials in English to further exacerbate their hate.
In the history of Islam (as with other religions), a group called the "kharijites" adopted overly radical ideas, killed innocent people and turned against fellow Muslims. This group was anti-establishment, anti-law and order and anti-social norms. The kharijites were ultra-rigid, and misused theology to justify violent extremism, and even believed that anyone who did not accept their beliefs had no right to live. We are unfortunately seeing a revival of that perverse ideology in a fringe minority that does not represent 1.5 billion Muslims around the globe.
Recruiting people into this extremist ideology has now taken a new turn: people with little knowledge but able to speak eloquent English and Arabic can pose as preachers, despite lacking necessary qualification as scholars. They simply confuse their listeners about Islam and what it stands for.
• Injustice: Islam has never accepted using another injustice to fight injustice. Even during times of war, Islam has prohibited taking innocent life and attacking civilians, yet these preachers' perverted perspective allows that. Similarly they ignore the lessons of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) about the way neighbors and people of other faiths should be well-regarded, about the responsibility of Muslim communities to protect minorities, and they ignore historical events such as early Muslims seeking (and being granted) refuge under the protection of a Christian king in Abyssinia.
• Betrayal: Their call to law-abiding American or European Muslims to turn their back on our societies is actually a call to betrayal. Muslims are religiously obligated to uphold any contract they make. Immigrants and naturalized citizens effectively sign "contracts" with their adopted country, and violating that is a betrayal – and a grave sin.
• Security: Creating fear, destruction and disturbance in society is one of the greatest crimes in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) taught Muslims that no one can be a person of faith if his neighbor does not feel safe from him or her. Extremists violate this principle when they preach war, chaos, instability and destruction. Indeed, more Muslim lives are being lost as a result of their actions than those of any other community.
• Service: Islam calls for every individual to take care of their parents; convincing young people to go to fight in Somalia or tribal areas of Pakistan violates this tenet of our faith.
• Public Discourse: Extremists ignore Islam's history of calling for open discourse to address issues, and ignore the lessons of American history in how past mistakes were corrected through open political discourse. The ability to resolve issues that faced the African American and the Jewish American communities, and others, clearly show the efficacy of the civic political process.
Some of these extremists have been brainwashed into seeking glory, fame and self-satisfaction through taking innocent lives, while others have been misguided into believing that their criminal deeds are allowed by religion. In reality, violent extremism is like organized crime with a credo that only appears to be religious. Countering this threat is something that everyone needs to participate in.
The Muslim American community must work with law enforcement to keep our communities safe. Since 9/11 our mosques are more vigilant, citizens more proactive and parents willing to closely monitor their own children – as can be seen with the Muslim Association of Hawaii's work with law enforcement last week, the Muslim vendor who reported the Times Square bomb and the parents of the Virginia Five.
In addition, the Muslim community is responding by introducing a meta-narrative describing what Islam actually is. This is not a simple counter to those preachers advocating violent extremism with no consistent narrative, and whose ideas have become a cult perpetuated through blind acceptance. Over the years the Muslim American community has issued many statements and fatwas condemning violent extremism, with organizations like the Islamic Society of North America campaigning against violent extremism with brochures to raise public awareness, or MPAC and others which have had scholars speaking out against violence, and Muflehun which had been set up to study the issue and engage both youth and law enforcement to keep our society safe.
We pray to God that our efforts will galvanize all Americans to truly reject these distorted philosophies of hate, and to make our country safe and secure from the harm they wish to inflict.
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Nickolas Ashford (4 de maio de 1941 - 22 de agosto de 2011) e Valerie Simpson (26 de agosto de 1946), conhecidos como Ashford & Simpson, foram um casal de compositores e produtores musicais norte-americanos. Ashford compôs a canção "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
Na década de 1980, interpretaram o hit "Solid", que alcançou o número um na parada dos Estados Unidos em que referem que apesar das dificuldades que tinham como casal, o amor mantinha-se sólido como uma rocha.
Ashford nasceu em Fairfield, na Carolina do Sul, e Simpson no Bronx, Nova Iorque. Eles se conheceram na Igreja Batista White Rock do Harlem em 1963. Depois de terem gravado, sem sucesso, como uma dupla, eles se juntaram a Joshie Jo Armstead, Ronnie Milsap e Maxine Brown, bem como as The Shirelles e Chuck Jackson.
Ashford morreu em um hospital de Nova Iorque em 22 de agosto de 2011, devido a complicações de um câncer na garganta.
Bandas formadas em 1964
Motown
Bandas de R&B dos Estados Unidos
Bandas de música disco
Bandas de Nova Iorque
Duos musicais
Bandas afro-americanas
Produtores musicais dos Estados Unidos
Compositores dos Estados Unidos
Músicos afro-americanos
Agraciados com o Prêmio Grammy ao Curador
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15:49:42 > Samsung GT-I9060M WRITE FLASH: START!
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19:58:51 > SELECT "UNLOCK PIN" or "UNLOCK CODE" and enter CODE!
19:58:51 > IF CODE NOT ACCEPTED PLEASE FULL RESET PHONE or CLEAR eMMC AND TRY AGAIN!
19:58:51 > FULL RESET: PHONE OFF, press [#]+[POWER] or [VOL UP]+[POWER]!
19:58:51 > CLEAR eMMC: PHONE OFF, press [VOL DOWN]+[POWER], select CLEAR EMMC, press [HOME]!
19:58:51 > Disconnecting from server: OK!
19:58:51 > Alcatel OT-4013X CALCULATE CODE(S): END!
20:25:38 > Checking server 1: OK!
20:25:42 > Connecting to server: OK!
20:25:46 > Asking server for access: OK!
20:25:46 > Disconnecting from server: OK!
20:25:46 > Samsung SM-J500F CLEAR LOCKS (FRP,EE,REACT): START!
20:25:48 > Reading partition: OK!
20:25:48 > START CLEARING LOCKS!
20:25:48 > Flashing : OK!
20:25:48 > DONE CLEARING LOCKS!
20:25:48 > Samsung SM-J500F CLEAR LOCKS (FRP,EE,REACT): END!
20:34:07 > CONNECTING TO DEVICE: START!
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All Categories Portable Analyzer (4000 Series) with Digital Display - Formaldehyde
Portable Analyzer (4000 Series) with Digital Display - Formaldehyde
Rise time to 50% of final value (sec)
4160-5.00m ± 0.5% of full scale 1.0% of full scale ± 1.0% of full scale ± 1.0% of full scale (24 hours) Less than 1 second 0 - 5.00 ppm 0.01 ppm 7" H x 4" W x 8.875" D (178 x 102 x 225 mm) 4.5 lb (2.0 kg) 20 40-50
4160-19.99m ± 0.5% of full scale 1.0% of full scale ± 1.0% of full scale ± 1.0% of full scale (24 hours) Less than 1 second 0 - 19.99 ppm 0.01 ppm 7" H x 4" W x 8.875" D (178 x 102 x 225 mm) 4.5 lb (2.0 kg) 20 40-50
4160-1999b ± 0.5% of full scale 1.0% of full scale ± 1.0% of full scale ± 1.0% of full scale (24 hours) Less than 1 second 0 - 1999 ppb 1 ppb 7" H x 4" W x 8.875" D (178 x 102 x 225 mm) 4.5 lb (2.0 kg) 20 40-50
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Kim Kardashian Is Not a Millionaire According to Forbes
Kim Kardashian's beauty brand KKW reportedly signed a deal that made it's valued at a billion, however, Forbes denies that.
Kim recently hit the billionaire status quo and her husband Kanye West was praising her for the same. However, the publication which ripped her sister Kylie off of the billionaire list has also denied of her being a billionaire.
The beauty mogul is worth $900 million after signing a deal with Coty Inc. Kim signed a deal to sell a 20 percent stake in the company which sells makeup and fragrances for $200 million. The company had also bought a share of 51 percent of Kylie's company. They bought it for $600 million last year.
Kylie Jenner was claimed to be a billionaire after signing a deal with Coty last year. Forbes claimed her as a 'self-made billionaire' and featured her in their magazine cover. But in May 2020, Kylie was ripped off of the title of a billionaire by the publishing company. Forbes accused her of forging tax returns and inflated business figures. According to Forbes, her worth is around $950 million.
In the case of Kim Kardashian, Forbes reports that the deal which is set into the third fiscal quarter of 2021 will leave Kim with a 72 percent stake. As 8 percent of her company is owned by her mother Kris Jenner. This will prevent her from being a true billionaire.
Meanwhile, Kanye recently bragged about Kim on attaining the billionaire status. The rapper took to Twitter to appreciate his wife. He wrote how proud he is for becoming a billionaire. Kanye continues in the post writing how many hurdles she has faced but now God is shining on her. 'I am so proud of my beautiful wife Kim Kardashian West for officially becoming a billionaire,' Kanye wrote. You've weathered the craziest storms and now God is shining on you and our family. So blessed this is still life.'
Kanye posted a rather peculiar art as a photo with his message. The image included green tomato, a tomatillo, a cherry tomato, some lavender, and other flowers, all arranged on the ground.
Although Kanye's post received a lot of criticism. People were raging because he was bragging about his wife being a billionaire which seemed rather ill-timed. They mentioned the situation of the country and how it is battling a financial crisis at the moment when he brags about the billionaire status.
However, Kim's deal includes new beauty categories and the expansion of her products across the globe. It is a long-term strategic partnership. TMZ reports that Coty acts as a licensee for skin, hair, personal, and nail products. The deal means that Kim is still the one running the company as she only gave a 20 percent stake to Coty Inc.
If the company has paid $200 million for one-fifth of the brand, it would mean that the whole company is valued at a billion dollars. Coty brought a majority of 51 percent of Kylie's company however for Kim, she is still the boss of her company. Kim and her team were working on this deal for months now.
Kim said: 'This relationship will allow me to focus on the creative elements that I'm so passionate about while benefiting from the incredible resources of Coty, and launching my products around the world.'
Kim's KKW was also recently sued by Seeds Beauty in the fear that they would release trade secrets to Coty Inc. Last month, Kylie took to Twitter to respond to Forbes for ripping her off of the billionaire status. The publication company accused her of inflating figures and forging tax returns to gain the status in one of their reports.
Kylie was surprised by the article because it also claimed that the Jenners want you to believe it is doing well when it is not. And they also claimed she is not a billionaire.
Kylie was named a self-made billionaire in 2019 and again in 2020 by Forbes. However, after they ripped her off of the title, Kylie took to Twitter to express her disbelief. She wrote that she thought it was a reputable site. Kylie continues saying that all she sees is several inaccurate statements. She denies having lied to reach there.
The beauty mogul continued expressing her disbelief. She said that they have no proof other than saying that her tax returns are 'likely forged'. She rants on blaming them asking that they just thought that she forged it. Either way, she expressed that she is grateful to be blessed beyond her years and have a beautiful daughter. She takes the attention off of her status quo and says she can name a list of 100 things more important than this now.
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I know that many of you in the US are feeling the effects of winter weather. I definitely am! My trip last week was full of snowy walk arounds, de-icing and really cold temperatures. So naturally, I found refuge in my stamp room and started thinking about spring. I'm so thrilled to share my first project as a design team member for Newton's Nook Designs!
I suspect that you can see exactly why I was drawn to this beautiful wreath from the Happy Little Thoughts stamp set! I just love the pretty little flowers and I chose this coordinating sentiment from the set too. It is meant to fit perfectly inside the wreath. I inked the wreath and sentiment with Versamark ink and stamped on Ranger Watercolor Paper. Then I heat embossed with white embossing powder. I colored the background and the wreath using Tim Holtz Distress Inks in Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn and Broken China. It takes a little patience when you start since it is white embossing on white paper but just take your time. Totally worth it! I did a light layer of the blue (Broken China) around the edges of the wreath to start and then filled in the flowers and leaves a bit at a time. You will have to layer the colors to get them like you want them. Once I had the coloring right, I cut the image down using a Stitched Rectangles Die and added some sequins in coordinating colors. As a final pop of color, I layered the image on this pretty DSP print from Pop of Pink (SU).
Coloring this definitely helped me chase away the winter blahs! I hope that you find a little bit of spring happiness today no matter what the weather is outside! Thanks for stopping in today. Back tomorrow with the latest from Freshly Made Sketches. See you then!
And what for a project! No cat, but gorgeous!
So cheery, Jen! Love your color choices. Thanks for sharing your techniques, too… I am sure I am not the only one that is captivated by the watercolor look.
Take good care in the winter weather!
Thanks for sharing your talent with us, and congratulations on being chosen for the design team… Very nicely done.
This is such a cute card, Jennifer! Love it!
This is such a pretty card, Jen! Love those colors so much !
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package org.apache.geode.internal.cache.tier.sockets.command;
import org.apache.geode.cache.execute.Function;
import org.apache.geode.cache.execute.FunctionService;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.tier.Command;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.tier.MessageType;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.tier.sockets.BaseCommand;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.tier.sockets.Message;
import org.apache.geode.internal.cache.tier.sockets.ServerConnection;
import org.apache.geode.internal.i18n.LocalizedStrings;
import org.apache.geode.internal.security.SecurityService;
import java.io.IOException;
public class GetFunctionAttribute extends BaseCommand {
private final static GetFunctionAttribute singleton = new GetFunctionAttribute();
public static Command getCommand() {
return singleton;
}
@Override
public void cmdExecute(final Message clientMessage, final ServerConnection serverConnection,
final SecurityService securityService, long start) throws IOException {
serverConnection.setAsTrue(REQUIRES_RESPONSE);
if (!ServerConnection.allowInternalMessagesWithoutCredentials) {
serverConnection.getAuthzRequest();
}
String functionId = clientMessage.getPart(0).getString();
if (functionId == null) {
String message =
LocalizedStrings.GetFunctionAttribute_THE_INPUT_0_FOR_GET_FUNCTION_ATTRIBUTE_REQUEST_IS_NULL
.toLocalizedString("functionId");
logger.warn("{}: {}", serverConnection.getName(), message);
sendError(clientMessage, message, serverConnection);
return;
}
Function function = FunctionService.getFunction(functionId);
if (function == null) {
String message = null;
message =
LocalizedStrings.GetFunctionAttribute_THE_FUNCTION_IS_NOT_REGISTERED_FOR_FUNCTION_ID_0
.toLocalizedString(functionId);
logger.warn("{}: {}", serverConnection.getName(), message);
sendError(clientMessage, message, serverConnection);
return;
}
byte[] functionAttributes = new byte[3];
functionAttributes[0] = (byte) (function.hasResult() ? 1 : 0);
functionAttributes[1] = (byte) (function.isHA() ? 1 : 0);
functionAttributes[2] = (byte) (function.optimizeForWrite() ? 1 : 0);
writeResponseWithFunctionAttribute(functionAttributes, clientMessage, serverConnection);
}
private void sendError(Message msg, String message, ServerConnection servConn)
throws IOException {
synchronized (msg) {
writeErrorResponse(msg, MessageType.REQUESTDATAERROR, message, servConn);
servConn.setAsTrue(RESPONDED);
}
}
}
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package main
import (
"encoding/json"
. "fmt"
"log"
"time"
"gopkg.in/mgo.v2"
"flywheel.io/sdk/api"
)
func check(err error) {
if err != nil { log.Fatalln(err) }
}
func main() {
var session *mgo.Session
var err error
for i := 1; i <= 3; i++ {
log.Println("Connecting to mongo...")
wait := time.Duration(float64(i) * 5.0 * float64(time.Second))
session, err = mgo.DialWithTimeout("localhost", wait)
if err == nil { break }
}
if err != nil { log.Fatalln("Could not connect to mongo:", err) }
defer session.Close()
session.SetSafe(&mgo.Safe{})
database := session.DB("scitran")
tables, err := database.CollectionNames()
check(err)
Println()
Println("There are", len(tables), "tables:", tables)
for _, tableName := range tables {
table := database.C(tableName)
count, err := table.Count()
check(err)
if count <= 0 { continue }
Println()
Println("There are", count, "documents in table", tableName + ":")
Println()
var item interface{}
cursor := table.Find(nil).Iter()
for cursor.Next(&item) {
y, err := json.MarshalIndent(item, "", "\t")
check(err)
Println(string(y))
}
Println()
check(cursor.Close())
}
var client *api.Client
var user *api.User
for i := 1; i <= 3; i++ {
err = nil
Println("Checking API...")
client = api.NewApiKeyClient("localhost:8080:insecure-key", api.InsecureNoSSLVerification, api.InsecureUsePlaintext)
user, _, err = client.GetCurrentUser()
if err == nil { break }
time.Sleep(1000 * time.Millisecond)
}
if err != nil { log.Fatalln("Could not connect to API:", err) }
Println("Environment still up with user", user.Firstname, user.Lastname + ".")
}
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No ifs, ands or Butts: Building had rich history
By Lisa Tindell
For those who travel along Forrest Avenue in East Brewton, one landmark has left the landscape. Butts TV is now a very descent thing of the past.
Last week, demolition of the building located at 117 Forrest Avenue was demolished leaving behind fresh soil. The building was located next door to the East Brewton Civic Center just across from Piggly Wiggly.
Although the building was home to several other businesses through the years, Butts TV is the most well-remembered business to have operated in the location.
Debra Butts Hawthorn remembers her time growing up around the business that began with her grandfather and later run by her father.
"I have such sweet memories of being there with the family," Hawthorn said. "I kind of grew up in that store and learned a lot from my daddy about treating people fairly and honestly. A lot of people have said really nice things about my daddy. He had so much pride in himself and in his business."
The business of repairing radios, and later, televisions began in 1941 when E.J. Butts began making repairs in the community. Wayne Butts, son of the owner, bought out his dad in 1954 and began offering television repair while E.J. continued to repair radios on a part-time basis in the business.
"He started out repairing radios then, which is what most people had," Hawthorn said. "As things progressed, televisions became a big business for repairs, too. As technology changed through the years, the business changed with it moving from repairs to sales and even rentals."
Hawthorn said the business that began only in the repair end of technology for radios and televisions, other advances called for some creative strategy.
"When satellites came along, they did that too," Hawthorn said. "Then people started having VCRs and wanted to rent videos. They did that as well. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, people even had the option to buy records at the store. As things changed, the business changed with the times."
Through the years of doing business in the location adjacent to Murder Creek, floods became a common occurrence. Beginning with the flood of 1973, the business was forced to pack up as much as possible and start over more than a half-dozen times over the years. The flooding had taken its toll and dealt a final blow on the building and most recently experienced flooding in September of this year.
In 2002, a special history of the business was examined in The Brewton Standard's annual Progress edition. In the article, owners Wayne and Faye Butts reminisced about the business and the events that transpired while there.
"There have been times I would have welcomed the opportunity to move," Wayne Butts said in 2002. "But, we never have been able to get the proper government assistance to make that possible. Unlike homeowners who are able to get grants to assist in relocating, there is no such assistance available to businesses in flood zones."
Butts said at the time, that the flood in 2001 greatly altered their ability to continue business in some aspects of their offerings. With the flood, the business lost its entire video rental inventory and they chose not to replace that portion of their business.
Hawthorn said the recent demolishing has stirred memories for her as well as friends of the family and of the business.
Doug Agerton remembered his visits to the business and "Mama Butts" through the years.
"I have to admit it was sad to see the Butts TV building being torn down, Agerton said. "I understand why but that building was a special place for me to visit from time to time, actually everyday during turkey season when Wayne Butts and Mama Butts had the Movie Gallery and TV repair shop. I always called Ms. Faye 'Mama Butts' because she treated me like I was one of her own children."
Agerton said his visits to the business weren't actually business, but more of a chance to get some hunting advice and visit with a friend.
"I loved going by to talk to Wayne about hunting," Agerton said. "We would be in there where we could see cars passing and Wayne would see a fellow called Sarge pass by and he would say 'Well, there goes good ole Sarge, he ain't going to stop by, he must know where a turkey is gobbling and he don't want us to know.' It's not about the building, it's the people and the memories that make places special. I am sure everyone has childhood places that were special to them that are not here now. Ed Leigh McMillan told me one time, 'The only thing that stays the same is change.' Wayne was a dear friend of mine and I really miss him during the spring of the year.
No matter what time of year it was, Hawthorn said Butts likely had a record of most everything that took place in the shop.
'My daddy was so organized about everything," Hawthorn said. "He had a notebook for everything. He had everything documented so well in the notebook that he had the times of heavy rains and how fast the water would rise each time. He was so precise in his records that he knew even before predictions of a flood were made. He would tell people it was going to flood and it did."
Hawthorn said being at the business so much she was able to see just how much people appreciated her family and the services they offered.
"There were times when I would be up front with my mother and here laughter coming from the back," Hawthorn said. "There were friends of my family that would drive up and come in the side door just to talk with my daddy. You could hear the laughter and the talking from there. That's a wonderful memory for me now."
No details have been uncovered on any future plans for the property.
First baby of the new year born at DWM
Casserole takes stress out of holiday breakfasts
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The release date of 'Hello Guru Prema Kosame with Ram as hero is locked.The producer has announced the release date as 18th October 2018.This is going to be a Dusara gift for Ram Fans.
The movie that was launched on 8th March 2018 is progressing well with its shooting schedules.
Ram and Anupama Parameswaran is the lead pair with Prakash Raj playing a key role.
Devi Sri Prasad is doing the musical score.Camera being handled by Vijay K Chakravarthy. Editing isby Karthika Srinivas. Dialogues are written by Bezawada PrasannA Kumar. Story,screenplay and direction are by Trinadha Rao Nakkina of recently release 'Nenu Local' movie fame.
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the legal right to use a title designation.
representation and support at local and provincial levels of government especially on issues that concern Reflexologists.
a connection to the International Reflexology Community and Organizations.
respect as a professional member of a respected profession.
guidelines for professional conduct and ethical practices.
discounted professional and general liability insurance.
the ability to connect with extended health insurance companies as a provider.
an opportunity and avenue to influence the direction of your chosen profession through participation and voting rights.
an opportunity to lend some of your expertise to an organization that works for you.
first-hand information on new developments in Reflexology.
the ability to share your experiences through the submission of newsletter articles.
the ability to network with and contact other Reflexologists.
free marketing through a listing on RABC's website.
an enhanced listing for Teachers and Teacher Trainers.
access to continuing education courses and courses provided by internationally renowned Instructors.
special rates and/or often free access to workshops.
access to unofficial Peer meetings or exchanges.
the right to attend the Association's AGM and special rates for associated Conferences only available to members.
access and the right to use the Association's professional logo.
access to Association brochures and marketing material.
guidelines for ethical advertising practices.
the ability to participate in an (often paid) Health and Trade Show organized by the Association.
a beautiful laminated wallet sized Membership Identification Card.
a professionally designed Wall Certificate for Approved Memberships.
all the rights and privileges of an RABC member.
Download and printout the Membership Renewal Form and submit along with your membership fee cheque to the address stated on the form or Email the completed Form and pay the renewal fee via E-transfer - please see "payments" under the "MORE" tab for online payment instructions.
Every person who adheres to the Objectives, Code of Ethics and Conduct and Constitution and By-laws of the Association and has paid the annual fees associated with their category of membership, shall be considered a member in good standing.
To apply for a new membership, please complete and mail the registration form, along with all required supporting documents and a cheque in the correct amount, payable to the Reflexology Association of B.C. to the address stated on the form.
Carefully review the membership criteria listed below for your category before you send in your application. Submit all requested documentation with your application.
All applicants must sign and submit a copy of the RABC Code of Ethics and Code of Standards and agree to adhere to the Constitution, By-laws and Policies of the Reflexology Association of British Columbia and pay the applicable annual membership fees when they become due.
Have at least one certificate of completion of a Reflexology Practitioner Training course/program* that is comprised of a minimum 40 hours classroom study and 60 hours practicum.
* Certificates/Diplomas of Schools and Institutes offering Reflexology Practitioner Training courses/program recognized by RABC. The curriculum will contain basic Reflexology history, Anatomy (with enhancements on Foot Anatomy), Physiology and Pathology, Methodology and a mandatory knowledge of the "Thumb Walking Technique", General Assessments, Client and Session records, General Business practices and Ethical and Professional conduct and practices for the Reflexologist.
Please note: If your course has met the above criteria, but the institute/school that provided your training is not recognized by RABC, you may submit your documentation along with your membership application and other documentation. Our Membership Director and Educational Standards and Approvals Committee will review non-conforming applications on a case by case basis.
To become an Approved Member, applicants must apply to participate in the RABC Proficiency & Practical Examination by downloading and submitting the completed form provided in the next section along with the membership application. An interim 18-month Practitioner membership without an "Approved" certification will be provided for new Practitioners that are in the process of completing the requirements to obtain the certification or are waiting to participate in the RABC Proficiency Examination.
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Applying for an Approved Practitioner Membership but a written and practical examination was not part of your course curriculum?
Individuals who have met or exceeded the required hours in practicum and classroom but did not participate in a written or practical examination can register to take part in the RABC Proficiency Examination (written and practical segments) for membership as an Approved Practitioner. To register, download, complete and submit the form with the registration fee along with your membership application.
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Have a Teaching Certificate or equivalent training that is recognized by RABC.
A completed RABC Teacher Membership Application form for the current year.
A copy of your Reflexology Teacher's Certificate, course notes, charts and the original copy of the 200 hour session record with your application.
Reflexology educational institutions or organizations offering Association accredited Reflexology training courses and programs for Approved RABC Reflexology class memberships.
Organizations not affiliated with the practice of Reflexology and those having products of interest for the practicing Reflexologist.
Individuals having no practitioner training and no business licence for the practice of Reflexology.
Please note: Enhanced listings on the RABC website are not available for Associate memberships.
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Student memberships are available for individuals actively participating in a Reflexology Practitioner Training Course or Program.
Please note: Enhanced listings on the RABC website are not available for Student memberships.
A completed and signed Membership Application form for the Student category.
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2. Identify the fact that a) every female ever in the history of females loves margaritas (they're like the drink equivalent to dolphins) and b) every female ever in the history of females has been/is/will be on a diet (duh).
3. Create Skinnygirl 100 Calorie Margaritas.
4. Mention Skinnygirl 100 Calorie Margaritas on every episode of everyone one of the three hit shows on Bravo in which you star.
JULIA LILLIS'S POPCORN BUTTER IRRIGATION SYSTEM — it's a linkage of small plastic tubes that connect to a funnel that will spread the liquid butter at a movie theater all over your bag of popcorn… No Kernal Left Behind! (currently undergoing beta testing — see diagram below).
JULIA LILLIS'S FAMOUS GREEN LASER DIET SPORK — It's a well-known fact in the laser world that the particular band of wavelength that produces green light will give you an upset stomach if you look directly at it; and what girl trying to lose weight doesn't love an upset stomach?! I give you, my Green Laser Diet Spork: a spork that emits a green laser beam so as soon as you start eating with you'll be overwhelmed with a subtle backdrop of nausea to take away all desire to consume solid food (sure to be a hit in sororities nationwide).
Any potential investors, please contact me through nakedfanmail@gmail.com… let's get rich together!!!
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Home » "Exhibiting You" - Story
"Exhibiting You" - Story
By: Zeyba Rahman
Other authors: Amanda Koster
Submitted: 03/03/2008
Beyond Harmony - Women's Voices from the Islamic WorldThe Hadra of Chefchaouen is one of the four Moroccan women's musical ensembles who recorded for the audio CD series Women's Voices from the Islamic World. The first of the CD series, Beyond Harmony - Women's Voices from the Islamic World: Morocco was recorded entirely on location in the regions where the music is rooted. It is a musical journey from the mountains to the Sahara desert that explores the rich, varied of Islamic musical traditions prevalent in Morocco.
Zeyba Rahman, Project Director and Producer, traveled in 2006 with her production team which, included Seattle photographer Amanda Koster who was focused on those moments in between recordings to create a complete sense of these remarkable women artists. The resulting CD is launching with exhibitions and panel discussions about the role of Muslim women artists in our dynamic and fast globalizing world.
The resulting exhibition combines Ms. Koster's telling images of women musicians from four different regions of Morocco with Ms. Rahman's rich recordings. Ms. Rahman and her team traveled to Khenifra, a mountainous Berber town in the Middle Atlas range, where they first heard Ms. Cherifa Kersit's commanding voice. They visited Taroudant, a historic town in the South that is as red as Chefchaouen is blue.
Once there, Ms. Rahman recorded the Bnat Charjan ensemble perform polyrhythmic music typical of the Sheikhat tradition... Their Moroccan tour concluded in Guelmim, in the Draa valley, where the Hassani Guedra group, Bnat Aïchata, introduced them to traditional Saharan pentatonic melodies.
The Beyond Harmony - Women's Voices from the Islamic World: Morocco project exhibition is designed as a "beyond the veil" experience. Visitors enter the gallery space where suspended fabric panels display compelling images of the women. Where viewers slip into the private sphere of women in their communities while, hearing their music in Arabic and Berber. Ms. Koster's movement filled photographic panels combine textures with images to create a sensation of the hadra ceremony. It is an almost magical, feminine ambiance.
During an era of galloping globalization where cultural distinctions and nuances are flattened out, the Beyond Harmony project seeks to dispel the ubiquitous stereotype of oppressed, infantilized Muslim women who are constrained from contributing to society. Women like Rahuoum El-Bekkali have become international musical heroines, proving that musical and poetic expression can be a truly empowering female experience. Not only do these songs depict religious poems, invocations and popular songs, but they shed light onto important cultural traditions that have been passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter. With each successive generation these incredible women strengthen their identity as women, Moroccans, and Muslims.
Zeyba Rahman, Producer of Beyond Harmony
Zeyba Rahman, a cultural and social entrepreneur, uses the connectivity of the arts to build collective synergy that inspires social change. As President of Jungli Billi, a New York based consultancy that works globally, Rahman applies project management experience to conceive/lead cultural/educational initiatives engaging performing arts, visual art, film, poetry, dialogue and debate. Projects are implemented with strategic, multi-sector partnerships. Companion conferences examine critical civil society issues to explore solutions.
From 1997-2007 Rahman was one of the Directors of the Fès Festival of World Sacred Music and its Fès Forum: Giving A Soul to Globalization. Ongoing responsibilities included fundraising, partnership development, program and audience development, outreach and communication. She worked closely, cross strata and sectors with NGOs, governments, communities, financial institutions, academia and more. During her tenure, the Festival brought over 650 artists, 60 Forum speakers and over 100,000 people from approximately 25 countries annually to Fès.
She is Project Director/Producer of the Women's Voices from the Islamic World (ongoing) audio and television series. Current, she is Project Director for Illuminating Islam a multi-institutional arts festival and conference scheduled to launch in June 2009 in New York City. The Board Chair of World Music Institute, she is recognized as a leader in cultural/social programming. A popular speaker at global events, Rahman maintains a special interest in environmental, women's leadership and Islamic world's issues.
Amanda Koster, Photographer of Beyond Harmony
Amanda Koster is an internationally acclaimed social documentary photographer committed to worldwide compassion and empowerment. Originally from Geneva Switzerland, Ms. Koster and earned a bachelors degree in anthropology from Southern Connecticut State University and later studied photography at the International Center for Photography in New York City.
She works with magazines, design agencies and international non-profit organizations (Doctors Without Borders, Action Against Hunger, United Way, PATH) around the world. Clients include: The New York Times, Newsweek (USA, Middle East, China), Time Inc. Publications, Inc. Magazine, Entrepreneur, Vision (China), Orange Life (Canada), Fast Company, Business Week, Wired, and Microsoft.
Ms. Koster devotes equal time to her personal projects. Koster was awarded Washington State GAP Grant and additional grants from "Money For Women In the Arts/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund" and the Puffin Foundation for her collaborative project "Women's Voices from the Islamic World: Moroccan Women's Song Project" (beforeharmony.org). The project documents female Berber and Arab Moroccan Musicians and offers a new image of Women in Islam illustrating women devoted to their passion and mission on earth.
Other award winning projects include; "AIDS Is Knocking" (aidsisknocking.org), documentary work about AIDS orphans and widows in Kenya, "This Is Beautiful," (thisisbeautiful.org), a project that redefines the innate beauty of all women. Grants from Kodak Professional support her projects.
In addition Ms. Koster has worked extensively with youth media projects internationally, teaching photography as a tool for visual storytelling creating a voice and outlet for underrepresented youth.
Amanda is featured in the book: "In Their Shoes." (by Deborah Reber) The book's goal is to arm a generation of girls with the information and the inspiration of women thriving in their fields to make smart choices and realize their own dreams.
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Associate members are those persons who are interested in promoting the purpose and functions of the society, but are not eligible for voting or student membership. They shall have all the priveleges and obligations of voting members except the right to vote or hold office. Choose from 1, 2, or 3 year dues. $5 initial application fee is included in the total.
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I wrote/illustrated my last three books – Hamlet, Monkey Red Monkey Blue and BOM! Went the Bear, plus part of The Great Gatsby, in my studio at home, which I call my "drawing room". My drawing room is enormously important to me as a dedicated space where I can spread out my scribbling gear, my research and source material and all the piles of paper that accumulate whenever I am at work. I have a lot of odd scraps of paper and pictures blu-tacked onto the walls for inspiration, and for the happy feeling of being surrounded by beautiful and interesting images.
My drawing room has two desks in it – one for drawing and one for computer work. While the two types of work complement each other and are both essential to the books that I do, I like them to be separate spaces. For Hamlet, which required a lot of involved Photoshop work, I was still using an ancient PC. I've since moved to a Mac and am astounded that I was able to do such a big project on the old clunker.
When I am working on a book I like to add pictures to the walls as points of reference or for stimulation. For example, when working on Hamlet I drew inspiration for the background stage sets from a card that a friend had sent me showing a section of a painting by Vittorio Zecchin. I kept it on the wall as close to eye level as possible so that I could take "sips" of it whenever I felt like it. As I finish one book and start another, I tend to keep the older material up on the wall for sentimental reasons, and also because they are images that I really enjoy. For the last two books I strung a wire across my desk so that I could peg finished artwork on it to refer to while working on other pages.
How has the place that you write evolved or changed since you first began writing novels?
I have had a "drawing room" in every house I've lived in for the past eleven years, and have carried my blue-tacked bits of paper from house to house. This room is certainly the nicest, with a large window onto the garden. It has evolved by becoming fuller and more cluttered despite my frequent attempts to purge and tidy. For a long time I used to also write and draw in local cafes, pubs and during one month of renovations, in the local library. This was only for preparatory work – research, sketchpad scribbling, concept work, notes and brainstorming and some rough drafts. For the time-consuming and meticulous work of the final drawings, I need to work in my room with all my gear.
Before my two darling girls were born, I worked to a very strict schedule. I used to work part-time (and before that, full-time) as a lawyer, so I had to be very disciplined about making (and using!) regular time for working on my books. When I was at the office full time and working on Gatsby, I drew every morning before work. When I went part-time, I spent my home days drawing from about 8am to 6pm, often without a break. Now, with a baby and a toddler, I just have to seize my moments when I can! It has been a learning experience, as I was very accustomed to devising and sticking to a strict work schedule. Now I have to be more flexible and work in fits and starts.
My morning ritual when I worked on Gatsby was to make a powerful double espresso and drink it from a little bone china cup with a rose on it as I began to work. By the time I was doing Hamlet, I had switched to tea brewed in a teapot which I painted for my husband. I still remember with fondness the rush of the coffee, and how it lifted me into the swing of early morning drawing sessions. When I have coffee now, it reminds me of that time.
Next week, legendary children's author Isobelle Carmody (The Obernewtyn Chronicles and the upcoming Metro Winds) will be sharing her writing spaces in Prague and the Great Ocean Road. Some beautiful images and video to share in The Writer's Studio.
Great Mac Slater Coolhunter 2 Review!
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The EUR/USD has been in a steady downtrend after it broke from consolidation mode. The pair went below 1.1780 yesterday, but 1.1720 is still a big hurdle for bears. The price is rejecting the W L5 level, and we could see 1.1850. However, 1.1835-50 could provide a rejection towards 1.1763 retest and 1.1720 zone. If the price hots 1.1720, we could see a bounce towards a more significant correction – 1.1895.
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Q: Publishing workflow always discards page I have a publishing web with unique permissions. I have tried changing the default approvers group through code by doing the follwing:
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*Locate Pages list
*Locate workflow association by list.DefaultContentApprovalWorkflowId
*Update AssociationData and change DisplayName and AccountId to "CustomApprovers" (which is a sharepoint group.
*Call list.WorkflowAssociations.Update with the association.
It seems to work fine until I try to submit a page for approval. Sharepoint shows the "Processing" page, but when it completes the page is always discarded. It also does not add a task to the approval task list. Why does this happen? Am I missing a step?
Things I've tried:
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*Change it to a group that does not exist: Validation error when submitting.
*Change AccountId to the group id: Validation error when submitting.
*Change the AccountType to SpGroup: Page is automatically discarded.
*Not change anything (use default settings): Page is submitted correctly.
A: The reason it did not work was because I was manipulating the AssociationData using XDocument. When I dumped the xml back into the string it attached
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16">
at the top which in turn caused the xml to be rejected in some weird way. Doing a regular string replace worked just fine.
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In the previous post, we developed a logarithmic depth accumulate() function that can be used to emulate a for-loop. In this post, we'll look at how to construct a function that emulates a while-loop with the recursive depth of O(lg(n)) where n is the number of iterations of the while-loop. Recall that our initial motivation is to be able to determine if a large number is prime at compile time as was done in this post.
(first + 1 == last) ?
for all sufficiently large n. In that case, the recursion of depth can fit more than n iterations. By the use of geometric series formula, the sum becomes ; and since the first term is dominating, we just need to show that . Note that .
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On September 14, 2017 R/V 'Professor Logachev' went on the regular, 39th cruise.
Before the long-awaited cruise, the vessel was staying during more than two years at the pier of Kanonersky ship repair yard. During the anchorage the main ship systems were fundamentally reconstructed, and almost all scientific equipment was replaced.
The crew and the scientific staff exhausted by downtime have a challenging and long-term cruise ahead of them. It is necessary to make up for the time spent on reconstruction. Therefore the main objectives of the cruise in accordance with the geological task are: to search the ore manifestations of deep-sea polymetallic sulphides (DPS), to assess engineering geological conditions of their occurrence, to replenish the database on the initial state of environmenta l situation on the sites E, F and G of Russian exploration area.
Master of "Professor Logachev" V.P. Pidenko. Several hours before the R/V departure.
The crewmen and the scientific staff will have to work hard on the scheduled assignment in the central part of the Atlantic Ocean, where in the conditions of autumn-winter storms it is necessary to test all new marine and scientific equipment installed during the reconstruction period. After the equipment "grinding" , they will have to perform on exploration sites the sonar profiling by means of side-scanning sonar "МАК-1М-1" with electro-prospecting module ЕП and new underwater navigation system "HiPap-101", the hydrophysical sounding STP "SeaBird 911+", the bottom television survey with telescope "Sperre AS", the geological testing of sulphide ores with television grabs ДГ and ГК-6Т, and environmental studies with equipment of the Institute of Oceanology of RAS and remote controlled underwater device "Subfighter 30k".
The cruise will last 218 days with three calls to ports Fort de France ( Martinique, France), Las Palmas (Gran Canaria, Spain) and Ponta Delgada (Azores, Portugal).
The bulk of work must be done this year, Vladimir Dmitrievich Kriukov, General Director of Joint-Stock Company "PMGRE" spoke about that at a general meeting before the departure of the Research Vessel:"These two years, while there was a reconstruction, we were barely making ends meet to keep our wonderful specialists in order to continue the work necessary for the state, the work we are able and ready to do. We took credits, we got into debt, and now, guys, we hope for you. We believe that you won't fail, that you will honourably do everything and come back alive and healthy to your relatives and friends. Good luck! Have a safe journey!
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Situated in Traben-Trarbach, this apartment features a terrace. The property boasts views of the garden is 40 km from Trier. Free private parking is available on site. The fully-equipped kitchen has an oven and a toaster, as well as a coffee machine and a kettle. Towels and bed linen are featured at Fewo Blütenreich. Bernkastel-Kues is 5 km from Fewo Blütenreich, while Cochem is 22 km from the property. The nearest airport is Frankfurt-Hahn Airport, 11 km from the property.
WiFi is available in all areas and costs EUR 1.50 per 24 hours.
Please inform Fewo Blütenreich in advance of your expected arrival time. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly with the contact details provided in your confirmation.
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Миро:
Вещества
Ми́ро — ароматическое масло, которым смазывают тело человека во время одного из христианских таинств, Миропомазания.
Ми́ро — вещество, источаемое иконами или мощами в процессе мироточения.
Имена
Миро, Анри (1879—1950) — канадский композитор, дирижёр и музыкальный педагог.
Миро, Габриэль (1879—1930) — испанский писатель, эссеист.
Миро, Жоан (1893—1983) — каталонский живописец, скульптор, график.
Миро, Луис (1913—1991) — испанский футболист, вратарь, после окончания футбольной карьеры тренер.
Миро, Пилар (1940—1997) — режиссёр испанского кино и телевидения.
Миро (ум. 583) — король свевов в 570—583 гг.
Миро (род. 1984) — псевдоним болгарского рестлера Мирослава Барняшева.
См. также
Мирро
Miro (значения)
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Finding a good grant writer may seem like an impossible task. One of the many complaints I've heard from non-profit organizations is the difficulty associated with finding a grant writer who is ethical. To make the process of finding an ethical grant writer much simpler, it would be wise to know what to look for….
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Q: Json serialization format I'm fairly new to Json. I can't understand the resource from this URL: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Neutron/LBaaS/API_1.0#Remove_a_VIP
My vip_id field has been named with numbers such as 1, 2, 3, etc, so in the example, when they send the request DELETE /v1.0/vips/02b1fef7-16f5-4917-bf19-c40a9af805ed, why is the vip_id field not numbers (1, 2, 3, etc)? In other words, why is the request not in in the format of DELETE /v1.0/vips/1? What is 02b1fef7-16f5-4917-bf19-c40a9af805ed?
A: 02b1fef7-16f5-4917-bf19-c40a9af805ed is a UUID. The description says, that the URL pattern is
/v1.0/vips/{vip_id}
where vip_id seems to be an UUID. It identifies a resource to delete.
If you read the example how a VIP is created using POST, it looks like such a resource get's an id that is a UUID. So I doubt that you can create a VIP with an ID of 1 or 2.
Edit
Of course this depends on the concrete system, but the important thing to understand is the format of an URI. Each VIP is identified by an ID. The path of the URI for a VIP has the format
/v1.0/vips/{vip_id}
This format has three parts.
*
*/v1.0: The version of the system
*/vips: The collection of all VIPs
*/{vip_id}: A placeholder for the ID of a concrete VIP.
If the system allows UUIDs for the vip_id, an URI path like
/v1.0/vips/02b1fef7-16f5-4917-bf19-c40a9af805ed
can identify a VIP. It looks like a simple integer can be used, too. Then an URI path like
/v1.0/vips/1
identifies a VIP, too.
In a RESTful system, you use HTTP verbs like GET or DELETE to interact with resources. If you want to get the details of a concrete VIP, you issue a GET request for its URI. If you want to delete it (perhaps together with any children), you issue a DELETE request to its URI.
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The Strategic Implications of European Union Enlargement
BRIMMER, ESTHER & FROHLICH, STEFAN
Hos dig inom 16-25 arbetsdagar
Enlargement will change the nature of the European Union, but how will it affect international affairs? The EU and its member states command significant economic resources and have launched a Common Foreign and Security Policy. Yet the demands of taking on ten new countries, concluding a constitutional treaty to accommodate decisionmaking, and dissipating acrimony after the war in Iraq, all complicate efforts to develop and enhance the EUs international presence. This book considers the impact of enlargement with respect to the EUs perception of its international role in specific geographical regions. The contributors discuss a range of global issues, including the environment, food policies, development, terrorism, and the use of force. Contributors include Stefan Frhlich (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Hanna Ojanen and Kristi Raik (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Ulrike Guerot (German Marshall Fund Berlin Office), Stanislaw Tekieli (Center for Eastern Studies, Warsaw), Michael Leigh (European Commission Directorate General for External Affairs), Henri Barkey (Lehigh University), Anne-Marie LeGloannec (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques), Stanislav Tkachenko (St. Petersburg University), Nicolae Idu (European Institute of Romania), Ulrich Weisser, Esther Brimmer, Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, and David Michel, (Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins SAIS), Daniel Gros (CEPS), Angel Ubide (Tudor Investments), Patrick Cronin (CSIS), and Antonio Missoroli (EU Institute for Security Studies).
Författare: BRIMMER, ESTHER & FROHLICH, STEFAN
Förlag: Ctr For Transatlantic Relation
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Thank you to everyone who visited us at the Health Fair this weekend at the Farmer's Market!
Our local Farmer's Market rocks!!
Local Farmers, Artisans and Producers!
We used zero paper or plastic bags that day!!
Carnival Squash are in from Pitch Pine Farm!
At Healthy Harvest, we believe it is pretty cool to utilize fruits and veggies that are in season. We have a small selection of produce year round, but in the summer-time- woohooo!! It is on!
Photos from the "Be the Love" party!
19th Annual Women in Business issue!
Happy & Healthy New Year!!!
or to sit in reverence by the river.
& wiggle your toes in the soil.
Healthy Harvest and is the second winner of $250 in Transylvania Bucks!!
and thank you for supporting local!
My name is Stella and I am the owner of Healthy Harvest.
with my mom on our organic farm in the mountains of NC.
to prepare what, to us, were feasts!
who worked as a Traditional Herbalist for over 30 years.
and that food is medicine.
the body can and does heal itself.
and well being of various other aspects of life.
and responds to intelligent therapies.
non-gm (non genetically modified) foods.
We also carry lots of other goodies!
share their stories with us.
We do Special Orders & Mail Orders upon Request.
Enjoy Brevard "Shop Local" Campaigns!
Brevard Academy, Brevard Elementary and Rosman High School.
Peace, Love and Organic Foods!!
almost 15 years ago!!! So grateful!
Greeting Cards and much more!
Locally Handcrafted Good Medicine Bookmarks, Honoring Herbs, Flowers, the Mountains and You.
Premium Essential Oil Combinations for the Body.
Inside each hand painted original bottle, you will find specially blended top of the line essential oil combinations. A delight for the senses and a very unique stocking stuffer!
Waters Essential is handcrafted in Brevard, NC.
Waters Essential, Essential Oils in the Blending Stage. Photographs by Stella Godwin. Do not copy.
Healthy Harvest is a proud sponsor. 100% of the proceeds of this event go to local people!!
locally grown organic herbs, locally manufactured high quality herbal supplements.. We love you Gaia!
Yummy Goodness for the whole family!
Bring 2 Cups Water to a boil, add 1 Cup Quinoa. Reduce heat and simmer for approx. 20 minutes. Let Quinoa chill before adding veggies. Steam Snow Peas and Bell Peppers until soft.
To chilled Quinoa, add steamed and fresh veggies. Mix together.
Add dressing to quinoa garden salad to taste.
Great Selection of Healthy Protein Shakes to choose from!
May Beauty and Well-Being Be Yours!
Fresh locally baked Stollen available during the holidays!
Pics from our "Be the Love" Party!
Peace, love and happiness! Organic Food Rocks!
Hey Stella! Thanks for the coffee and cookie on groundhog day!
I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed the party you gave on Saturday. The food was delicious, in fact, it was mind-boggling to be able to have a small buffet like that where I could eat everything, from gluten-free/dairy free down to the coconut creamer. It felt like I was eating at home. Oh, and the music! So delightful.
What a great website you have created. The pics are great; everyone loves pictures and I was happy to see some from the past, especially the one with you and your Mom.
Thank you, Stella - great info as always!
Congratulations and appreciation to you for all you do for us!
Organic Lavender to Greet You!
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Description: BuzzFeed has an online magazine called Reader. It features cultural criticism, personal essays, fiction, and poetry. The Reader is also home of the annual BuzzFeed Emerging Writers Fellowship.
Needs: BuzzFeed Reader is taking pitches from freelance writers for its online literary site called Reader. An article here from Rachel Sanders, deputy culture editor for BuzzFeed, explains how to submit personal essays and cultural criticism pieces.
Length: Personal essays should be about 1500 to 2500 words. Cultural Criticism pieces should run 2000 to 4000 words.
Payment: The article says they pay competitive rates.
How to Submit: Send your pitches to reader.pitches@buzzfeed.com. Read Rachel's post for the complete details.
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By Jennifer Horvath, Attorney, Braumiller Law Group On April 19, 2017, ArcelorMittal Tubular Products, Michigan Seamless Tube, PTC Alliance Corp., Webco Industries and Zekelman Industries filed petitions with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) and the Department of Commerce (DOC). The imposition of antidumping/countervailing duties (ADD/CVD) on imports of such tubing could have
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module NWAHTMLSpec (nwahtmltests) where
import qualified Test.HUnit as HUnit
import NWA
import HTML
import Control.Monad (unless)
newtest :: String -> (State, [Transition String], [State]) -> String -> Bool -> HUnit.Test
newtest name (start, trans, finals) input want = HUnit.TestLabel name $ HUnit.TestCase $ case new start trans finals of
(Left err) -> HUnit.assertFailure $ "given input: " ++ show (start, trans, finals) ++ " got error: " ++ show err
(Right auto) -> case exec auto (parse input) of
(Left err) -> HUnit.assertFailure $ "given input: " ++ show input ++ " got error: " ++ show err
(Right got) -> unless (got == want) $ HUnit.assertFailure $ "want: " ++ show want ++ " got: " ++ show got
start = State 1
failed = State 2
opened = State 3
first = Symbol 1
open = Symbol 2
paren = (start, [
(Call start "<a>" (first, opened)),
(Return (Bottom, start) "</a>" failed),
(Call opened "<a>" (open, opened)),
(Return (open, opened) "</a>" opened),
(Return (first, opened) "</a>" start),
(Call failed "<a>" (open, failed)),
(Return (Bottom, failed) "</a>" failed),
(Return (first, failed) "</a>" failed),
(Return (open, failed) "</a>" failed),
(Internal start "a" start),
(Internal failed "a" failed),
(Internal opened "a" opened)], [start])
alpha = Symbol 1
beta = Symbol 2
gamma = Symbol 3
-- example from VPAs vs Tree Automata in the slides of Language Automata and Logic for Finite Trees - Oliver Gauwin
exampleOliver = (State 0, [
(Call (State 0) "<a>" (alpha, State 1)),
(Call (State 1) "<a>" (beta, State 1)),
(Call (State 1) "<b>" (beta, State 4)),
(Return (gamma, State 4) "</b>" (State 3)),
(Return (beta, State 4) "</b>" (State 3)),
(Return (beta, State 3) "</a>" (State 2)),
(Return (alpha, State 3) "</a>" (State 5)),
(Call (State 2) "<b>" (gamma, State 4))], [State 5])
nwahtmltests = HUnit.TestList [
newtest "open close paren" paren "<a></a>" True,
newtest "open paren" paren "<a>" False,
newtest "close paren" paren "</a>" False,
newtest "two open paren" paren "<a><a>" False,
newtest "close paren" paren "</a>" False,
newtest "two close paren" paren "</a></a>" False,
newtest "open open close close paren" paren "<a><a></a></a>" True,
newtest "open open open close close paren" paren "<a><a><a></a></a>" False,
newtest "open close open close paren" paren "<a><a></a></a>" True,
newtest "with letters open close paren" paren "<a>a</a>" True,
newtest "with letters open paren" paren "a<a>a" False,
newtest "with letters close paren" paren "</a>a" False,
newtest "with letters two open paren" paren "<a><a>a" False,
newtest "with letters close paren" paren "a</a>" False,
newtest "with letters two close paren" paren "a</a>a</a>" False,
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newtest "with letters open open open close close paren" paren "a<a>a<a>a<a>a</a>a</a>" False,
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Friedrich Merz (Brilon, 11 de noviembre de 1955) es un político alemán perteneciente a la Unión Demócrata Cristiana de Alemania (CDU). En diciembre de 2021, fue escogido por los afiliados para liderar esta formación política. La elección fue ratificada en enero de 2022 por el congreso del partido. Previamente fue diputado al Parlamento Europeo de 1989 a 1994 y miembro del Bundestag desde 1994 hasta 2009, donde presidió el grupo parlamentario CDU/CSU desde 2000 a 2002. Regresó al Bundestag en 2021, y en 2022 fue elegido nuevamente como presidente del grupo parlamentario CDU/CSU.
Estudios e inicio laboral
Friedrich Merz nació en Brilon, en el estado de Renania del Norte-Westfalia, en la entonces Alemania Occidental, de padres católicos, Joachim Merz y Paula, de soltera Sauvigny. Su padre era juez y miembro de la CDU hasta que dejó el partido en 2007. Su madre, Paula Merz, de soltera Sauvigny (n. 1928), procedía de la antigua familia Sauvigny, que pertenecía a la alta burguesía de Brilon desde finales del siglo XIX. El abuelo de Merz, Josef Paul Sauvigny, fue abogado y alcalde de Brilon entre 1917 a 1937.
Después de terminar su Abitur (en Alemania se le da este nombre a los exámenes finales de la educación secundaria que permiten estudiar en una universidad) en 1975 y cumplir su servicio militar, realizó la Licenciatura en Derecho, que empezó en la Universidad de Bonn y continuó en la Universidad de Marburgo. Fue miembro de la K.D.St. V. Bavaria Bonn, una fraternidad de estudiantes católicos, miembro del Cartellverband. En 1985, se convirtió en juez en Saarbrücken. Un año después, en 1986, abandonó la judicatura y se dedicó al ejercicio privado de la abogacía como jurista en la asociación de la industria química de Alemania, hasta 1989.
Entrada en política
Afiliación
En 1972, cuando tenía diecisiete años, se afilió a la rama juvenil de la CDU, la Unión Joven (Junge Union), y ha sido descrito por los medios de comunicación alemanes como miembro del "Pacto Andino", una supuesta red de miembros influyentes de la CDU formada por miembros de la Unión Joven durante un viaje a la región andina de América del Sur en 1979.
Elección para cargos públicos
En las elecciones de 1989, fue elegido miembro del Parlamento Europeo, donde permaneció la legislatura hasta 1994. Allí formó parte del Comité de Asuntos Económicos y Monetarios y de la Delegación del Parlamento de Relaciones con Malta.
En las elecciones federales de Alemania de 1994 fue elegido miembro del Bundestag por el distrito de Hochsauerland, mandato que tenía hasta 2009. En su primer mandato, fue miembro del Comité de Finanzas. En octubre de 1998, tras las elecciones de 1998, fue nombrado vicepresidente y en febrero de 2000 presidente del grupo parlamentario de la CDU/CSU, junto con Michael Glos. Desde este cargo, ejerció como líder de la oposición en el Bundestag durante el primer mandato del canciller Gerhard Schröder.
Para las elecciones de 2002, el candidato demócrata cristiano, Edmund Stoiber, incluyó a Merz en su gabinete en la sombra para la campaña, para tratar de destituir a Schröder de la cancillería. Durante la campaña, Merz se desempeñó como experto de Stoiber en mercados financieros y presupuestos. Tras la derrota electoral de Stoiber, Angela Merkel asumió la dirección del grupo parlamentario y Merz volvió a ocupar la vicepresidencia hasta 2004. Entre 2002 y 2004, fue también miembro de la junta ejecutiva de la CDU, bajo la dirección de Merkel. Además de su mandato en el Bundestag, entre 2002 y 2004, Friedrich Merz trabajó como abogado en el bufete de Cornelius Bartenbach Haesemann und Partner.
Entre 2005 y 2009, Merz fue miembro de la Comisión de Asuntos Legales y en 2007 anunció que no se presentaría a las elecciones de 2009. En 2005, Friedrich Merz fue nombrado socio del despacho de abogados Mayer Brown. Además de sus actividades como abogado, Merz ha sido miembro de distintos consejos de administración y juntas directivas de diversas empresas privadas.
Después de 2009, Merz dejó la política temporalmente, trabajó en su bufete de abogados y para empresas económicas, entre otras para BlackRock, administrador de bienes estadounidense.
Candidato a la presidencia de la Unión Demócrata Cristiana
En 2018, tras el anuncio de Angela Merkel de que no se presentaba a la reelección como presidenta de su partido, Friedrich Merz optó como candidato a este puesto frente a la que resultó triunfadora, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, la entonces primera ministra del estado federado del Sarre.
En 2020, se postuló de nuevo para liderar la Unión Demócrata Cristiana (CDU). El congreso del partido, en el que se debía elegir al líder, se aplazó hasta enero de 2021 por la Pandemia de COVID-19. Friedrich Merz se presentó como uno de los favoritos, con una posición crítica frente a Angela Merkel, fundamentalmente en su política migratoria. La elección de Merz supondría un giro de la línea centrista marcada por Merkel. No obstante, Merz acabó siendo derrotado nuevamente, esta vez por el ministro presidente de Renania del Norte-Westfalia, Armin Laschet.
Tras la renuncia de Laschet como presidente del partido debido a la derrota de la CDU en las elecciones federales de 2021, se convocó una elección entre los militantes del partido para escoger a su sucesor, a la que Merz se postuló. Resultó victorioso con un 62,1 % de los votos. Merz fue confirmado en el cargo en el congreso de la CDU en enero de 2022.
Familia
Friedrich Merz está casado con la jueza Charlotte Merz. Vive en Arnsberg-Niedereimer, Sauerland, y tiene tres hijos.
Referencias
Enlaces externos
Página oficial de Friedrich Merz
Biografía por CIDOB (en español)
Políticos demócrata-cristianos de Alemania
Abogados de Alemania
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Home / Military & War / 1665 1ed Eighty Years War Flanders Spain Dutch Independence Strada Battle Scenes
1665 1ed Eighty Years War Flanders Spain Dutch Independence Strada Battle Scenes
Famiano Strada Pierre Du Ryer
Famiano Strada (1572 – 1649) was a Jesuit priest, historian, and moralist.
The Eighty Years' War or Dutch War of Independence (1566–1648) was a revolt of the Seventeen Provinces against the political and religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands. After the initial stages, Philip II deployed his armies and regained control over most of the rebelling provinces. However, under the leadership of the exiled William the Silent, the northern provinces continued their resistance. They were eventually able to oust the Habsburg armies, and in 1581 they established the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands.
Illustrated with 21 Incredible Engravings +Double Page
Main author: Famiano Strada; Pierre Du Ryer
Title: Histoire de la Guerre de Flandre
Published: Suivant la copie impr. à Paris, 1665.
Illustrated with 21 engravings
13 portraits including
Phillip II of Spain
Margarita Parma
Antonius Perenotyus
Ferdinandus of Spain
8 double-page illustrations
Signatures, v. 1: *⁴, A-Z⁸, Aa-Zz⁸, Aaa⁸
Publisher: Suivant la copie impr. à Paris, 1665.
Size: ~7.5in X 4.5in (19cm x 12cm)
Famiano Strada (Rome, 1572 – there, ninth in Jun. 1 649) was a Jesuit priest, historian and moralist.
Famiano Strada was a Jesuit scholar who taught at the Collegio Romano of the Jesuits in Rome. He taught rhetoric and Latin to include Bishop Lorenzo della Robbia and Pope Clement IX. He was fiercely anti Tacitus, because he felt that the Roman writer was to undermine the authority of the king and gave rise to undermine confidence in the leadership.
The most famous work of Famiano Strada, De Bello Belgico decades duae, 1555-1590 (Dutch: The war in the Low Countries), and was written with the help of Alexander Farnese (1545-1592), around 1602. It was published in 1632 and translated into Dutch in 1646. In 1655 it was published in Dordrecht at the time that neither Holland nor in four other provinces a supporter of Orange was governor. The book describes the sights and sounds of the battle between the Spanish troops of the Duke of Parma and the troops of the States General of William of Orange.
Strada's historiography of the Eighty Years' War became in the 17th century, known in the Netherlands and was criticized for its pro-Spanish attitude of Strada. Strada defended in turn by indicating that the supporters of Orange fought not from religious conviction but only the material interests of the secular nobles defended.
Another important work is Prolusiones academicae (Scholar Previews "), issued in 1617, with treatises on style and criticism. Here one finds include a story about a nightingale and a musician, which later formed the inspiration for the English playwright John Ford (1586-1640) in the writing of The Lovers Melancholy.
1862 Civil War Cavalry Tactics Union General Philip Cooke Music Bugle Calls
1695 Military Revolutions Wars of Europe & Asia Ottoman Turks Mohammed Siam 27 Portraits
1655 Famiano Strada History of DUTCH Revolt Charles V Holy Roman Empire WARS
1693 1st ed Louis of Bourbon Prince of Conde France WAR French Battles 2v Set
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Latest report reveals that Napoli star Piotr Zielinski has had a change of mind ahead of the winter transfer window which reopens in the coming weeks.
Before now, it was reported that Piotr Zielinski would be interested in a move away from the Italian Serie A amidst interests from English Premier League clubs.
However, Piotr Zielinski is now considering to remain with Napoli and would seek to extend his stay by signing a new contract with the club.
The report adds that Piotr Zielinski's representatives are also not interested in him leaving Napoli but will ensure negotiations with the club to have a new deal tabled for the star player.
Piotr Zielinski has got a contract with Napoli which ends in 2023 but with the latest development, he could be set to stay.
Aurelio di Laurentiis also want the 24-year-old to remain but have splashed an asking price of about €80 million.
However, Liverpool will only be handed a boost if the player fails to agree to a new deal with the club knowing that he is no longer a regular at the club.
The Reds are desperate for a midfielder as they seek to mount pressure on league leaders Man City when the second half of the season resumes in January.
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The Coolest Police Cars In The World
Dubai's new Lamborghini and Ferrari patrol cars are the talk of the town, but they have some competition from elsewhere in the world.
Neil Churchill
Dubai Police wowed the emirate and the world recently with the unveiling of their latest patrol cars, a Lamborghini Aventador and a Ferrari FF, totalling a combined value of around Dhs4 million.
Many on Twitter used the hash tag #OnlyinDubai to describe their awe at the new vehicles, but that's not strictly true. As cool as Dubai's latest law enforcing wheels are, it's not the first place to put flashing lights on top of a super car.
Here are some of the coolest police cars in the world.
The spiritual home of Ferrari and Lamborghini, the Italian stallions were using a Lambo to patrol their streets before anyone else. In 2004 Lamborghini gave two Gallardo LP560-4s to the Roman State Polizia. Excruciatingly, only one remains after its sibling was crashed.
Dubai isn't the only emirate in the UAE whose police know how to drive fast. Abu Dhabi uses this Nissan GTR to patrol the city's roads.
Despite their mild-mannered, 'bobbys-on-the-beat' reputation, British police have some fast wheels up their sleeve.
London Metropolitan Police opted for a canary yellow bodywork when choosing their Gallardo.
Unfortunately this Caparo T1 is just a prototype, but was logically named the Rapid Response Vehicle.
Fortunately this Lotus Evora is not a prototype and patrols the motorways of the West Midlands. Capable of 0-62mph in five seconds and a top speed of 162mph, it's handling makes it inescapable on England's country lanes.
More realistically if you're doing something you shouldn't be, you'll be pulled over by one of these. The Jaguar XF is very British, and very cool.
Columbian police confiscated this gorgeously-retro Ferrari 348 from a local drug dealer. It was put up for auction but failed to attract any bids meeting its $250,000 price tag. Instead, local police stuck some flashing lights on its roof, gave it some new paintwork and voila, they had a new patrol car.
The Dutch often display their coolness as a nation in different ways to other European countries. Rather than a predictable sports or super car, the Frevoland Police opted for a Spyker C8 Spyder.
This list wouldn't be complete without an entry from the Germans. Home to the autobahn, German police need some serious power to keep up with their criminals. Fortunately they opted for the most powerful four-door saloon car on the planet.
This Brabus CLS V12 S Rocket has 730 horse power and comes with a top speed of 225mph. You can't run from this thing, even on the autobahn.
Less scary-looking but you'll still think twice about outracing it, before pulling over and switching your engine off, this Porsche 911 Carrera S goes from 0-60mph in 4.5 seconds.
The U.S. has more cool cop cars than you can shake a stick at. So here's just a few.
Michigan City police use this modified, and seriously cool, Cadillac CTS-V as their patrol car.
This Dodge Viper is so achingly beautiful and dazzling in its livery and badges, if we were a criminal we'd be too busy admiring it than to drive away.
The classic Dodge Charger cop car, made famous in The Transformers franchise, fortunately for the bad guys this one won't change into decepticon Barricade.
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