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China's Expected Surge in Pet Spending Draws Disbelief, Criticism: Spending on pets is expected to rise 27% to ¥170.8 billion in 2018, up from 9.8% last year. Millennials account for three-quarters of pet consumers in China. The fact that pet owners will spend about ¥5,016 ($730) on average – 15% more than last year – has been met with a lot of criticism on China's social media.
Automation Fails to Win China Convenience Store War: Jian24 opened its first staffless shop in Shanghai last October, but following much hype has recently closed. JD.com announced it would open 500 unmanned stores this year, but it has struggled to implement the concept on a larger scale. Only about 20 locations are operating so far. Nevertheless, innovations are likely to continue in the convenience channel as stores look at ways to stand out. The number of convenience stores in mainland China rose by 12,000 last year to 106,000, while the market expanded 23% to ¥190.5 billion ($27.8 billion) according to chain store association data.
China Brand Relevance Index Reveals Evolving Ways that Consumers Interact with Brands: The top-10 most relevant brands for Chinese consumers are all in tech: Alipay, Android, WeChat, Huawei, Microsoft, Taobao, Intel, Meituan, QQ, and Tmall according to a Prophet study. In the past 12 months, Apple fell from the 5th spot to 11, Nike 6 to 44, BMW 8 to 46 and Marriott from 9 to out of the top 50 (which wouldn't have been helped by the Taiwan/Tibet saga in January). Some of key take outs were: 1. Home-grown brands fuelled growth with meaningful and tangible innovations; 2. Brands that enhance a liberated lifestyle are on the rise; 3. User experience is enriched through curated content; 4. Home is evolving into the hub for better living; and 5. Outbound travellers seek authentic yet familiar experiences beyond borders. Global brands still play a leading role in 'distinctive inspiration' and 'customer obsession'.
40 Years Since Reform and Opening-Up: Changes in Transportation: Infographic illustrating the remarkable growth of China's transport infrastructure connecting the provinces over the past 40 years, which has played a big part in growing China's economy and enabling the growth of ecommerce and general consumerism.
Infographic: Fascinating Douyin Facts: The mouth-watering numbers behind China's hottest app and the impact its videos are having on growing things such as tourism.
Apple Finally Gets How to Play the China Market: The iPhone X illustrated that there's a strong market for high-priced devices, as long as value for money is demonstrated. In short, cheap won't wash for an Apple in China, and two phone numbers are better than one. Not all the media has been so positive, with the new iPhone's "most advanced" features now commonplace in China.
Two Million Fall Prey to Scam Involving Fake Huawei Products: Numbers are big in China, including the number who fall victim to scams such as one which offered free (fake) Huawei products, only to have to pay excessive fees for delivery and handling. The Harbin-based scammers made ¥80 million ($11.6 million) from the scam. The number of telecom fraud cases grew 89% between 2017 Q4 and 2018 Q1 according to Tencent.
Austin and the Midnight Pitch: Building Export Business with China: A great initiative between the city of Austin and Alibaba, providing a couple of late-night livestreams allowing smaller Texan businesses seven minutes to pitch their products from Austin to consumers in China on the Taobao app.
Chinese Officials Seize Hundreds of Kilos of Expired Meat and Unlabelled Fish in Latest Food Safety Crackdown: Surprise inspections across Chongqing discovered hundreds of kilograms of beef at a market that was four months past its expiry date, and tilapia fish in unmarked boxes among other breaches providing yet another reminder why Chinese consumers have little faith in food safety in the country.
How Education Can Help Consumers Warm to Frozen Products: The preference for frozen meat is highest in Beijing at 11%, followed by Guangzhou and Chengdu at 9%, and Shanghai – 8% according to research with 840 consumers in the four cities. Respondents believed that imported pork is "less fresh and had inferior taste and texture" due to the long transportation period involved, however after receiving information on the benefits of chilled and frozen pork backed by scientific evidence, their preferences shift and they become willing to pay a higher price for it.
China Will Need 7,690 New Airplanes by 2037, Boeing Predicts: China's booming leisure and business travel markets has seen Boeing increase its forecasts to 7,690 new planes required by China by 2038 – 6.2% more than last year's predictions. 75% of the total are expected to be for single-aisle aircraft typically used for short- and medium-haul flights. The new planes are estimated to be worth $1.2 trillion over the 20 years – over 135 countries have a GDP less than 1/20th of the forecasted value of the jets.
Legoland to See How Tropics Stack Up With Hainan Island Plan: Merlin Entertainment has partnered with CMC to develop a Legoland Park in Sanya combining elements of traditional Legolands along with tropical elements of Hainan. China is expected to surpass the US as the world's largest theme-park market by 2020, when the country's attractions will host an estimated 221 million people a year.
China's Made-Up Men are Redefining Gender Aesthetics in the Country: With 1 million followers on his Weibo account, male makeup blogger Liang Jinheng is one of a growing number of men who think cosmetic products aren't exclusively for women anymore. Retail sales of the men's beauty market in China will see nearly 7% growth in 2018, to reach about $2 billion. Overall, the global male grooming market is expected to hit $166 billion in sales by 2022, marking a compound annual growth rate of 5.4% from 2016.
China's Luxury Market is Exploding, Fueled by Tesla, Apple: China's luxury Consumer Price Index (CPI), which tracks the prices of luxury goods marketed to the country's 1.47 million high net worth individuals, rose 4.1% for the year ending June 2018 compared to 3.6% a year earlier. Luxury travel was a major contributor to the rising index, with prices up 8.5% following a decline the year before. Education prices saw the highest growth in 10 years. Yet it was the prices of baijiu and other high-end spirits that saw the most change from the year before, leaping by 12%, led by the 40% increase in the price of a 500 ml bottle Kweichow Moutai aged 30 years.
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Just thinking of Mom today, on what would have been her 87th birthday. She was the perfect mom for a young card collector. I remember those summer afternoons when she would drive us around town, visiting corner party stores and looking for packs of cards from any series other than the one that was available close by. It was thrilling to find some out of the way place that had series that we had missed. A couple times we even found packs that were one or two years old. Mom was a big supporter of my card collecting even when I was old enough to have grown out of it. Thank you, Mom, and God Bless. Say hi to dad for me.
« Pepper Martin has a big fan!
Sorry for your loss, Charles. For my collecting habits, my dad was the man, driving me to the 7-11 or the local drug store where I would buy cards and comics. I lost him in 2009, but I spent the last few years before he went interviewing him about his life. He really didn't remember how often he took me out or worry about it – I'm really sure it was weekly, as I had comics to keep up on. Good parents are a wonderful thing.
Charles, I know how large such a loss can be. In the last eight months, I've lost both parents and an aunt. There is no question she's inspired you to greatness. Your loss is great, but your greatest tribute to her would be to find happiness in your endeavors. Sincerely, your friend, Tim Symington P.S. If there's anything I can do, I'm around.
Charles, your mom loos like she was a fun lady! What wonderful memories she left with you. Thanks for sharing!
A very sweet tribute to a woman who raised an extraordinary son. I can only imagine how proud she and your dad must have been.
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Q: developing a chat website I want to develop a anonymous chat website like http://omgele.com.
I know that this website is developed in python using twisted matrix framework. Using twisted matrix it's easy to develop such website.
But I am very comfortable in Java and have 1 year's experience with it, and dont know python.
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*What should I do? Should I start
learning python to take advantage
of the twisted matrix framework?
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*Should I develop it in java?If so
which framework you would suggest to
do so?
A: Learn python.
This will add one very powerful tool to your toolbox.
Also twisted can do much more than just chat which will help you in future.
A: I would politely ask the people at omgele.com for a copy of their code and study it to
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*learn Python and twisted matrix
*decide to use it or if I decide against it, to apply what I learned from them to write my own Java site
unfortunately, the source code is not likely to be available..
Still I advise to learn from others, and if at all possible, join them to improve the code.
A: To your #2 question, take a look at Jabber (XMPP), it has several Java clients and is widely supported. Example Gtalk, Facebook use XMPP.
Here is an excellent server written in Java.
A: Learning Python can be an informative, interesting, and valuable process. When you really get going, you will probably find you can develop more rapidly than in Java. Twisted is an fairly well-executed framework which lets you avoid many of the pitfalls you can run into with asynchronous IO; it has top-notch implementations of quite a few protocols and a passionate, competent support community.
If you're interested in the knowledge and experience you'll gain doing so, go ahead and learn Python and use Twisted. If you feel pretty solid with your knowledge of Java you can probably read the official tutorial a couple times then start hacking away. Twisted can take a while to click, but it's really not all that hard.
A: I've worked with about a dozen different languages, and started with Python about two months ago. Java and Python in developing web apps, middleware, and services ROCKS!!
Learn Python.
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Q: Confusion regarding proportional control? https://www.mediafire.com/file/30bw1s5uw8fexu6/VTOL+help.pdf/file
From above link, I was reading a manual about QNET VTOL (Vertical Take off and Landing) trainer and I came across a the task/question shown in attached snap, the snap is page 7 of above linked file. This file mentions the tasks that were implemented using Labview.
Here it is mentioned that The response becomes oscillatory when no proportional gain is used while when I tried to observe the role of proportional control in simulink, I found out in scope that with decrease in value of proportional gain oscillations decrease and so there should be minimum oscillation, almost zero oscillation at zero value of proportional gain? Why this difference between simulink results and the observation in snap?
A: The problem is likely the way you have set up your simulation and initial conditions.
Consider your controller running open loop. You are providing a control voltage to give you a drive level. This control voltage is roughly proportional to the desired output level. If your simulation has a control voltage that is exactly proportional to the desired drive level, there is no need for a PI or PID control loop's "P" variable, because ther is never an error between the input and output.
In the hardware, however, the system's open-loop response is not exactly proportional to the drive signal, and this must be modeled into your simulation. Hence the need for a feedback loop. The loop measures the error between the desired output and the actual and this error is then processed and added to the control signal, reducing the error.
A loop with a "P" element only will give a better result than running open loop, because the error signal will be multiplied by the "P" variable and added to the control signal, getting you closer to your desired value. But it will never reach the desired value, because the correction from "P" depends on an error being present - if the desired value were reached, the error would be zero and there would be no correction. Increasng the "P" gain, reduces this value, but the rapid increase in drive signal from a small error, combined with the inertia as @Andy_aka pointed to, can cause oscillation whenever there is a change. The "I" value can be introduced to overcome the issue of a constant required error.
Now consider what happens when running with only an "I" component (no "P" as in your question). The error is detected and integrated, then multiplied by the "I" value and added to the control signal, and the device must start to move (accelerate) towards the target. When it arrives ast the "zero error" position, the error goes to zero, so the integral value will stop changing. However, the value of the drive output is not the value needed to hold it in place and counter the force of gravity, but instead is that value plus that needed to accelerate the load to the desired position. Since the feedback output is not changing, the value then drives right past the target, and the integral output value must decrease until the mass decelerates and then travels back through the target. If your simulation's initial condition was at the zero error condion, or if you did not account for mass acceleration and deceleration, no oscillation would be observed.
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Samuel Lancaster
Vice President, Legislative Affairs
Sam Lancaster serves as Vice President of Federal Government Affairs for Comcast Corporation. In this capacity he works with Republican Members in the House and Senate with an emphasis on House Republican Leadership as well as the House Energy and Commerce and Judiciary Committees.
Prior to joining Comcast, Sam worked on Capitol Hill for 19 years for Former Speaker of the House, J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL). During his tenure with Speaker Hastert, Sam served in various roles, including House Floor Assistant, Director of Speaker Operations and as Chief of Staff. Sam also served as a Senate Page and intern for the late-Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC).
Sam received a B.A. in Political Science and Administration of Criminal Justice from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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AquAeTer participated as part of a Hydroqual team to evaluate wastewater treatment system options for two fully integrated pulp & paper mills in South America. Wes Eckenfelder and Paul Marotta, both of AquAeTer, participated as technical experts on the team. Wes's 60+ years of industrial wastewater treatment experience and Paul's 20+ years of industrial pulp and paper experience added a broad experienced-based skill set to the HydroQual team. AquAeTer'sdeveloped a recommendation that offered significantly lower capital investment and energy savings. Base line recommendations to replace both systems with activated sludge wastewater treatment systems were ~$11 million per facility. These concepts were replaced with a recommended option which included upstream segregated stream wastewater treatment. Our team's recommended option included a capital cost of $7 million with an annual energy savings component of $2 million per year.
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November always brings to mind family. It's the month of my birthday, as well as Thanksgiving. So even on years where I don't visit with family, they are still close to my thoughts and heart.
I come from a big family. I have eight siblings! And as much as I love them, love being around them, as an introvert I've always had to step aside and recharge a bit. Being in the thick of things can be overwhelming and draining. You'll often find me on the outskirts, listening in on conversations but not always jumping in.
This poem was written for the Together Again prompt earlier this month from Poetic Asides.
the ivory beneath my fingers.
as I embrace the music.
I'm sure we've all gone through thoughts that we're not good enough, that someone else could do it better.
I was going through one of these phases: any other writer could tell this story better. Then I remembered my conclusion when I put myself down as a bad parent.
Even though I'm not the best mom, I don't want anyone else raising my kid, because I know him best.
As a writer, my characters deserve the same. I may not be the best writer, but I know my story and characters and no one can tell their story the way I can.
One of my favorite fantasy authors, Patrick Rothfuss, responded to a commenter who wished they could write like him. I wrote this verbatim into my bliss book so I'd always have a reminder when I start comparing myself to other authors.
"I'll never be able to write a book like The Last Unicorn. I wish I could, but I know I can't.
You can't write the sort of story I write. Only I can.
We all have our own style. Our own way. Our own something we need to say.
If you want to write like me, you're bound to fail. What you want to do is write your story, but do it brilliantly. Do it so well that it shines.
We are all unique. We each have a story to tell. Whether we tell that through our blogs, or poetry, or fiction, or in a different medium such as film or art. We can all contribute to the world. When we stop contributing, we do the world a disservice.
if your light went out.
may change someone else's life.
It's been a busy year for us Muselings, as we've mostly been entrenched in our own projects and life events. This month we come together again with one goal. To write new poems. Once again, Poetic Asides is prompting for November Poem a Day.
Differing from the April challenge, November has the goal of putting together poems for a chapbook. A poetry version of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). Michele, Margaret, Anne, and myself will be writing our poems based on the same prompts. Our hopes is to take these differening views, these "Four Sides of the Moon", to create a new poetry anthology.
I always enjoy seeing how different voices approach the same topic. One may take a prompt literally, another use it as a metaphor, or a stepping off point for another theme. To show an example of this, our day one prompt (taken from the Poetic Asides blog) was to write a "Game Over" poem. Michele wrote about football, Anne wrote about the end to a night out, Margaret about her father suffering through a night at the MET, and I wrote about a power outage forcing a game over to an unsaved video game. What does "Game Over" mean to you?
Margaret, Michele, and myself will be blogging this month. Poetry, writing, whatever we feel to share. So stick around. What are you working on this month? We'd love to hear from you.
This one is for my son, as he chose the prompt: dinosaurs. My first dinosaur poem.
As Anne mentioned in a previous post, we are having an internal contest. The Museling who writes and posts the most poems between July 15, 2014 and September 1, 2014 wins a writing book of their choice from Amazon.com. Expect the blog to be a crazy place, as posts will be unscheduled. We are posting whenever the inspiration strikes.
One of our main inspirations was returning to the joy of writing. We're hoping this will lift the pressure of structured posts, and get our poetry springs flowing again.
Share your own poems in the comments.
Feel free to challenge us with themes, forms, prompts. You can challenge an individual member or the group as a whole.
What do you do to keep the writing wells from drying up?
We hope to see you around during this poetry fest. Back to poeming, everyone!
This being National Poetry Month, I challenged myself once again to writing more poetry. Last year I wrote a lot of new poetry, but didn't make the goal of a new one every day. I followed one community's challenge, and some days the prompt simply didn't work for me or I tired out.
This year, I am following not one, but five challenges. The Poetic Asides blog is doing it's annual Poem A Day challenge. I discovered the NaPoWriMo (National Poem Writing Month) blog which posts daily prompts. The 30 Day Challenge page on Facebook is another to write a poem a day. I also joined the A to Z blogging challenge, which means blogging every Monday through Saturday in April with a consecutive letter of the alphabet. And there's the challenge on the Sims game forums again this year, but for a poem a week instead of one a day.
Last year I ended the month with 19 new poems. This year, I have written at least one poem every day. Some days more. With nine days to go, I already have 30 new poems! What really made a difference was having so many prompts to choose from. I could combine different prompts, or choose just one, or do something completely different. In addition to just the prompts, I met new bloggers and poets, and was inspired by their poems. It was from following a fellow blogger's AtoZ challenge that I learned about the Elfje poetry form, which in the few short days since I tried it has become a favorite.
Don't limit yourself. It's by broadening our horizons that we find inspiration.
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Hero News
'Hero' was released in theatres on January 15. The success meet of the comedy entertainer was held in Hyderabad on Sunday. Speaking on the occasion, debutant actor Ashok Galla said, "I will never ...Continue reading
Rajamouli unveils trailer for Ashok Galla's 'Hero'
'Hero' will be released in theatres on January 15. On Monday, SS Rajamouli unveiled its trailer. Superstar Krishna's grandson, Mahesh Babu's nephew, and Guntur MP Jayadev Galla's son As...Continue reading
'Hero' Trailer clocks record figures ahead of theatrical release
'Hero' will be released in theatres on January 15. Its trailer was unveiled by SS Rajamouli on Monday. Superstar Krishna's grandson, Mahesh Babu's nephew, and Guntur MP Jayadev Galla's ...Continue reading
'Hero', which was released in theatres on January 15, has received positive reviews on social media. Nidhhi Agerwal has acted opposite debutant actor Ashok Galla in the comedy entertainer. If one ...Continue reading
'Acha Telugandame' single from Ashok Galla's 'Hero' unveiled
'Hero', starring Ashok Galla in the lead, is directed by Sriram Adittya and produced by Padmavathi Galla. Currently in the post-production stages, the entertainer will be released in theatres in No...Continue reading
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Q: Qwerty keyboard is showing on Oppo, when it should be a numerical keyboard My EditText has an inputType="numberPassword"and I've tested this on many devices and it shows correctly (a numerical keyboard), BUT on an Oppo device it just shows a qwerty keyboard.
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android:inputType="numberPassword"
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How can I solve this?
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This November, Get Physical has the honour of releasing the first ever album from Chicago house luminary DJ Pierre.
Before that, they drop one of the singles from the LP with a special remix by Rumore & Benjamin Fröhlich.
Pierre, by anyone's standards, is a pivotal character in the story of house music. Active since the '80s, inventor of the acid sound with Phuture, the man behind the famous WildPitch style of tracks and remixes and a veteran of labels like King Street, Strictly Rhythm, Nite Groove and International Deejay Gigolo, he's done it all. The new album rounds up all these highlights and includes some new exclusives along the way.
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You don't need a time capsule to step into an America of years gone by. These historical destinations will amaze your kids and teach them about the "olden" days.
Visit this 19th-century whaling village to see tall ships and catch all-hands-on-deck demonstrations of life on the high seas. And don't miss its Children's Museum and Discovery Barn for nautical crafts and fun.
Ride in a Model T Ford and catch the antique carousel as you wander through 300 years of America's past in this mythical Midwestern town.
Experience prairie life and a Native-American camp. You might see a rustic wedding or an Underground Railroad reenactment. Kids can dip candles, hear stories, and play 1830s games in the PastPort Discovery Center.
Watch sheepshearers, weavers, and others bring 1819 Alabama to life. Little ones love the dress-up area and instruments at the EarlyWorks Children's Museum.
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Which digipeat paths should be used for the status message. Several standard choices are provided (including the path of no digipeat aliases at all), but other custom paths may be entered in the User-Defined Digipeat Path text field. If more than one path is selected, they will be used alternately by the proportional pathing algorithm (each lower path used half as often as the path before it).
What transmission intervals the status message should be transmitted at. This overrides the application-wide defaults set on the configuration dialog's Transmit tab. Note that if a port the status message is being transmitted through is using timeslotting, the transmit will not actually occur until the next timeslot after the scheduled status transmit time.
None of the changes are stored until the Save Changes button is pressed.
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Since last December, I kept getting a $37.90 charge on my American Express TrueEarnings card. The charge was from an internet payment company in Netherlands for a monthly subscription fee. After I noticed it in February, I called AMEX immediately to report the unauthorized use of my card and was told there will be an investigation to resolve the matter, and that could take 6 to 8 weeks to complete.
While I was patiently waiting for the outcome of the investigation, the charge continued to coming in and I had to contact AMEX every month to get a refund. Though I mentioned the investigation and that I haven't heard anything about it during the phone call, I was told the investigation could take a longer time if the case is complex. Since I got a refund very time and there's no other suspicious charges on my account, I didn't push it very hard until last Tuesday, 14 weeks after my first call.
I again complained about the lack of progress and asked to speak to the manager. The CSR I was talking to said the manager wasn't available at that moment and somebody will call me either that evening or the next day, which never happened. So when I called again this morning, I just asked for the manager and finally knew what was going on in the past four months.
According to the manager, though they opened an investigation after the first phone call in February, the record was erased by the system automatically when the refund was issued!That's right, the investigation was just written off!
Since there was no investigation at all, the four months were wasted. What made me mad about this whole process is that nobody ever mentioned this to me in my monthly phone call (they did say they can open an investigation and I told them not necessary because there's on on-going). Now the manager told me she overwrote the rule so the case won't be automatically removed and promised me a result within 6 to 8 weeks.
Hope they can resolve the case this time.
oh oh… I just opened an Amex account. If this is the service I can expect… I'm pretty leary of the whole experience then.
I highly recommend just getting a new card issued by AMEX. I resisted getting a new card number (thus a new ping on my credit) from GM Card when I was having problems with a fraudulent charge that kept popping up, but I'm glad that I finally decided to get a new card issued.
They won't stop the charges from coming through on your existing card, and you don't want to cancel the entire account until they've resolved the issue (or else you have to do it all through paper), so the only real option is getting them to issue a new card.
A Tentative Personal Finance Blog: Actually, their services are generally good and they did issue refund every time I call though there's not outcome of the investigation yet. I am not sure if mine is a special case or not (maybe it is because the other party is not in US) and it takes so long without even a result. Now I will have to see what they will have for me in 8 weeks.
Clever Dude: Actually one of the first things I asked them was to close the old card and give me a new card with a new account number. However, their theory is since it became a recurring charge (I didn't notice the charge until it appeared the third time on my card), canceling the card won't help because any recurring charge against the old card will be billed to any new card I may get. Now the best chance is to have them get the issue resolved. Fortunately, so far there's no other charges so the card may not be abused.
They are not the only credit provider. Cancelling the card will stop the problem… Guaranteed.
Art:I did call them and ask them to close the account and issue me a new card. However, they told me that since it became a recurring charge, canceling the card won't help because any recurring charge against the old card they receive will be automatically billed to any new card I may get. So I guess I will have to wait to the what they will get after the investigation.
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At Moving Service, our expertise lies in home and office removals. We offer partial services that include just packing materials, man and van hire in SW18 area, to a complete full solution that means we take care of every part of your removal process. The majority of our customers take the full solution as it saves time in searching for alternative options and gives them peace of mind that everything is being taken care of in one go. Moving can be stressful, especially the one to a new area even if it is the lovely district of Southfields. Our experience and knowledge of the area and of removals can take away this stress off you and we can make sure the removal is simple and time-effective so you have more freedom to do other moving essentials such as planning decorating or contacting people about changes of addresses. You will have everything taken care of. To find out more about our removal services, call us today on 020 8746 4402 and any one of our expert removal staff will be on hand to listen to you and offer you a free consultation.
The area crosses both postcode districts of SW18 and SW19. It is a suburban district in the London Borough of Wandsworth. The main residential area is known as 'The Grid', so called due to the series of parallel roads that are crossed at right angles by a series of parallel streets giving it a grid layout. It is made up almost entirely by elegant and beautiful Edwardian terrace houses. Some of the houses were converted into flats in the past, although this has now been banned to keep the look of the area and preserve the historical housing. The area is served by major bus routes that connect the area to many of the major parts of the city. There is also the Southfields tube station of the London Underground network, which is located between East Putney and Wimbledon Park. The area is plentiful of small shops and little cafes that provide all the basic necessities and more for locals. It is a very popular place to live with its charming and pretty housing, as well as quiet streets and a friendly atmosphere's these qualities that are drawing people in to move and establish themselves in the area.
The thing that makes Moving Service so popular is that we provide excellent and comprehensive solutions to all your removals to Southfields, SW18, whether it is home removal or office relocation. From packing to material supply, to removal van and unpacking, and to finally transporting and unloading of the items, we cover all the points of the removal process to ensure that we are with you every step of the way. Our staff collectively have years of experience and are more than competent to lift heavy or awkward items and do so with total care and attention to ensure your items remain in exactly the same condition as you left them. Our removal vans in SW19 area are new and modern, and we make sure they are in perfect condition with regular check - ups. This prevents any potential delays. You can be assured that everything is insured to give you and your belongings maximum protection and security. Your belongings are safe in our hands, that we can guarantee. To speak with one of our removal experts, then simply give us a call on 020 8746 4402 to find out more today. They will be more than happy to provide you with any information that will help assist you in your move.
Great house removals company! They went the extra mile to provide me with the best possible move to Southfields.
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Are we now equal to the longest blank stretch of cycle24?
A mainly cloudy night with a little light rain during yesterday evening followed by showers of rain, then sleet, during the early hours. Dry and breezy with sunny intervals so far this morning. Freya produced a maximum gust of 58 mph here so certainly nothing unusual in this part of the world.
Just the odd shower around last night, the strong wind died down after midnight. Clear spells and dry. Sunny spells so far this morning, breezy.
Maximum temperature to 18:00 GMT yesterday 11.4c.
Minimum temperature on grass 1.5c.
Cloudy though no further rain overnight. Overcast this morning, light rain setting in around the observation. further intermittent light rain through the morning and early afternoon. From mid afternoon, a spells of moderate rai, this followed by broken cloud early evening, windy and mild.
A mild day with sunny spells breezy during the morning but the breeze moderating into the afternoon. Late afternoon a few short showers with hail arrived and turning cooler.
A breezy day with sunny spells and a spell of heavy showers around lunchtime. Maximum 10.3, minimum 3.4. Wind moderate W.
Apart from a couple of light showers this afternoon it was a dry and breezy day with sunny intervals.
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At yesterday's Prime Minister's Questions, Gordon Brown alleged that David Cameron had replied to the question "Are you committed to educational maintenance allowances?" at a public meeting by saying "Let's just say I'm not uncommitted to it".
There was much excitement at the Left Foot Forward blog during PMQs that Brown had lifted the quote directly from a piece on the site by guest writer James Mills.
"In light of a video made available to Left Foot Forward, we accept that this is not the form of words that Cameron used at the event and have amended the story accordingly."
Will Gordon Brown follow that with a similar apology for misleading the House at next week's PMQs?
For the record, the Conservative position remains that there are no plans to scrap EMAs, as Michael Gove told the Guardian last autumn, for example.
Dawn Butler (Lab): Is the hon. Gentleman in favour of the education maintenance allowance?
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A highly educated American Indian population is vital for improving the economic sufficiency and prosperity of Washington's American Indian communities statewide.
To this end, Washington State – in collaboration with the American Indian Community and private sector partners – established the American Indian Endowed Scholarship (AIES).
This program provides educational scholarships on a competitive basis to high-achieving, low-income resident students who have close social and cultural ties to an American Indian tribe or community within the state. Recipients demonstrate academic merit and a commitment to serve the American Indian communities in Washington.
Funding is prioritized for upper-division and graduate students. Students can use the scholarships at public colleges and many accredited independent colleges in Washington.
Past recipients have careers in law, medicine, education, business, and resource management. All have returned, or plan to return, to their tribal communities to work on behalf of Indian peoples within the state.
The state initially appropriated just over $292,600. Those funds have been matched and exceeded by private donations. All donations and allotted funds are kept in a permanent endowment trust. The interest earnings of that fund provide for the annual scholarship awards. The current endowment corpus is valued at $616,241.
Representatives of the American Indian community have formed a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, known as the Friends of American Indians in Education (FAIE), to promote and coordinate fund-raising activities for the scholarship. The selection committee is composed of American Indian educators, tribal education administrators, and private individuals from the American Indian community in the state.
More information about AIES and how to apply can be found on our partner site, readysetgrad.org.
Establishes an endowed scholarship program to help American Indian students and rectify past discrimination by providing a means and an incentive for American Indian students to pursue a higher education.
Defines student eligibility, committee selection, award amounts, and management of endowed funds.
The scholarship, which ranges from $500 to $2,000 annually, may help defray educational expenses for up to five years.
Twelve students will receive the scholarship for 2018-19.
391 scholarships will have served 222 students through 2018-19.
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Posts Tagged With: Rubicon Heritage Services
Chasing the Oval: Historic Reports of Rugby in Midleton, 1889-1967
Posted on February 13, 2016 by Damian Shiels
For those interested in international rugby, exciting times are back as the 6 Nations Championship is once again in full swing. Midleton is a town that is now steeped in the rugby tradition, with strong links to the game through the town's AIL club Midleton RFC, and also with Schools Rugby, notably Midleton College. We decided to take a look back through the pages of the Irish Examiner and gain a historic perspective on the game in the town, which stretches back into the 19th century.
Dave O'Callaghan (Munster Rugby) and Clive Ross (Ulster Rugby), both products of Midleton College, where rugby has been played since the 19th century
More than 120 years before producing the likes of Dave O' Callaghan and Clive Ross, Midleton College was fielding rugby teams. The Cork Examiner of 9th April 1889 brought news of an "interesting football match, under the Rugby rules" which took place between the College and the second fifteen of Cork Queen's College. Unfortunately for the Midleton boys, the Cork students "displayed their superiority" from the moment of "the leather being put in motion" and emerged victorious by 1 goal and 2 points to no score.
The report of the match between Midleton College and the Cork Queen's College second fifteen, 9 April 1889 (Cork Examiner)
Midleton College faired much better in a game against Cork Grammar School in 1892. The Midleton ream "rushed to the front" and showed some nice "give and take play" to score a try, which was soon followed by another. However, despite some "well-concentrated rushes" in the second half they failed to add to their tally, but luckily held on for the win, by 1 goal and 2 tries to 2 tries.
The report of the match between Midleton College and Cork Grammar School, 19 October 1892 (Cork Examiner)
Midleton College's Gloster, who had been a standout in the 1892 game, was still going strong in 1895, when Midleton took on Tipperary College. The strength of the Tipp team left Midleton dependent "almost entirely on the swiftness of their forwards," but apparently they were " not able to show on the soft ground." Whenever "the oval" came into a Midleton forward's hands, the "would not have gone twenty yards when he made the acquaintance of mother earth." When the final whistle sounded, Midleton had been defeated by four tries to nil.
The match report of Tipperary College and Midleton School, 29 November 1895 (Cork Examiner)
Outside of Midleton College, the town's first Rugby Football Club was founded in the 1927/28 season (for a summary of the history of clubs in the town, see the Midleton RFC site here). It only survived for a few years, but despite that made an impression on the community. The Cork Examiner brought an advertisement on 29th September 1928 for the First Annual Dance to support the club, which was due to take place on Tuesday 2nd October in Midleton Town Hall. Perhaps in an effort to attract the ladies, women enjoyed a reduced entrance fee, while a discount was available for couples. A running buffet was planned, with dancing scheduled from 9 pm on; musical accompaniment was to brought by Brierley's Dance Band.
Advertisement for the First Annual Dance of Midleton RFC, 29 September 1928 (Cork Examiner)
We are fortunate that some images of this iteration of Midleton RFC are left to us. The Cork Examiner of 27th March 1929 ran a photograph of the team that had put Dungarvan to the sword by 16 points to 3.
The Midleton RFC team who defeated Dungarvan 16-3, 27th March 1929 (Cork Examiner)
Despite the demise of the first Midleton RFC, the town was not left without a team, as there was separate entity called the Midletonettes taking the field. As explained by the present-day Midleton RFC website, it was this team that is regarded as the direct antecedent of the current club.
Rugby results, included the score of the Conettes and the Midletonettes, reported on 8 February 1932 (Cork Examiner)
The Mideltonettes defeat the Covettes, reported on 29 November 1932 (Cork Examiner)
The modern Midleton RFC played their first game against Bandon in 1967, the beginning of a long and proud tradition. The "oval ball" still gets a consistent outing in the town, drawing crowds today much as it did more than 125 years ago. The story of the game, and indeed of the town's history in other sporting codes, is something we hope to return to in future posts.
Categories: 20th Century, Nineteenth Century | Tags: History of Rugby, Midleton College Rugby, Midleton RFC, Midleton Rugby, Midletonettes, Munster Rugby, Rubicon Heritage Services, Rugby in Cork | 1 Comment
The Midleton Archaeology and Heritage Project
Posted on December 5, 2012 by Damian Shiels
Hi and welcome to our new blog! The Midleton Archaeology and Heritage Project is a not for profit group that has been established to explore the history and heritage of the town of Midleton, Co. Cork and it's environs. We are a partnership between local archaeology and heritage businesses Rubicon Heritage Services, Know Thy Place and Midleton Tidy Towns Association. We hope to use these social media platforms to highlight different aspects of Midleton's fascinating story, and to raise awareness of the stories that surround us. We hope that you will follow us as we try to find out more!
Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork
Categories: General | Tags: Archaeology, County Cork, Know Thy Place, Midleton, Midleton Tidy Towns, Rubicon Heritage Services | Leave a comment
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Rahmalia Mawarni, 2017. The Effect of Women Directors on Capital Structure in Non Financial Firms that listed in Indeks Kompas 100 Period of Time 2011-2015. Thesis, Jakarta: Concentration of Financial Management, Study Program of Management, Faculty of Economics State University of Jakarta. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of women directors on capital structure in non-financial firms listed in Indeks Kompas 100 period of time 2011-2015. Women directors is measured using the proportion of women directors in the company. Capital structure is measured using two-proxies; debt to equity ratio and debt to asset ratio. The sampel in this study is 52 non-financial firms that listed in Indeks Kompas 100 period 2011-2015. Unbalanced panel data regression model used in this study. Resulted from this study , that women directors has no significant effect on capital structure; debt to equity ratio and also debt to asset ratio. Control variable that used in this study resulted that Return on Asset has negative significant on DAR, but no significant on DER. Current ratio has negative significant on DER, but insignificant on DAR. Firm size has positif significant on DER and DAR. Growth negative significant on DER, but insignificant on DAR. Tangibility asset insignificant on capital structure; DER and also DAR. Keywords: Women Directors, Capital Structure, Return on Asset, Current Ratio, Firm Size, Growth, Tangibility Asset.
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Google's Commerce Search For Retailers Now Better And Cheaper
Leena Rao @LeenaRao / 11 years
For any e-retailer, product search is the foundation of a commerce platform. Many times, a consumer goes directly to the search box to find the object they want. And the ability to easily find products on a retailers site affects the consumer interaction and experience with their site and produces higher conversion rates. Google began powering search platforms for retailers last year, with the launch of Commerce Search, a hosted enterprise search product to power online retail stores and e-commerce websites. Today, Google is launching the next iteration of Commerce Search which offers retailers a more powerful and less-expensive version of the product.
The first version of Google Commerce offered a variety of features that are optimized for retail and product search, such as parametric search, sorting of results, spell checker, stemming, and synonym suggestion. The newest version builds on these features, by offering a more in-depth search experience for users and merchants. As Commerce product manager Nitin Mangtani tells me, version 2.0 focuses on enhancing navigation and the user experience.
The Merchandising Dashboard: A new merchandising dashboard gives merchants more options within their search portals. Retailers can now rank products, so that certain products rank higher in search results than others. Additionally, retailers can feature promotions and sales within search portals within a given timeline. And retailers can add customized filters or 'facets' to search, and Google's technology will present the appropriate results accordingly. All of these features can be implemented through a rules wizard that requires no custom code so a marketer or merchandiser could easily implement changes.
Search Improvements: Google is adding realtime query autocompletion, which is a necessary element of any retail site. And Google will customize auto suggestions for each site, depending on the product indexed. Google has also improved speed of search results in Commerce search, and claim that search results are returned to shoppers in less than a second.
Price Drop: Google is dropping the price of Commerce search to a pricing model that starts at $25,000 per year. Previously, Commerce search pricing started at $50,000 per year. Pricing is based on total volume of queries and items indexed.
Google Commerce search also integrates Google products like Google Analytics and Google Product Search. Using Commerce, retailers can measure clicks, conversion rates, number of transactions, average order value and other data via Google Analytics. And e-commerce vendors can provide a single feed of products and catelogue items that will power Commerce and indexing of their products on Google Product Search.
Retailers using Commerce search include Birkenstock, Smart Furniture and Coveroo. Google declined to release the exact number of retailers who are using the Commerce search product, but did say that Google is powered enterprise search for 30,000 sites currently. Google also offers a general hosted search product that is used by organizations that want to add customized Google search functionality to their websites.
I'm curious if Google dropped their price because of a lack of retailers adopting the search product. As the retail industry steadily climbs out of the hole caused by the recession, I still think $25K is a lot to pay for search for smaller retailers. But it's good to see that Google is dropping the price to allow for more retailers to use the product. And Google is pushing its product as an easily deployable, user-friendly way to integrate powerful search into a retail site. Google faces competition from Omniture, IBM, Endeca and others.
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Senate Hearings Today for President Biden's USPS Board of Governors' Nominees
alotfromlydia Benjamin Franklin, Election tampering, Humor, Louis DeJoy, Politics, USPS April 22, 2021 April 22, 2021 3 Minutes
Benjamin Franklin was appointed our first Postmaster General in 1775, a year before the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Continental Congress. Those were the days when men wore breeches, cravats, shoe buckles, and powdered their hair. Post was delivered by horsedrawn carriage, or by carriers who rode on horseback. Mail delivery may have taken longer then than it does now, or not.
https://www.history.com/.amp/news/us-post-office-benjamin-franklin
Fast forward 246 years. How the mighty have fallen. We have a common thug walking in the footsteps of greatness, intentionally destroying an American institution with the ultimate goal of undermining our democracy. He labors on behalf of the surviving Koch brother, Charles, a Libertarian puppet master whose family wealth can be traced back to Nazi Germany.
https://prospect.org/api/amp/power/one-billionaire-versus-the-mail/
Does this Postal Service "motto" sound familiar?👇🏻
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
I'm about to break your heart like mine was broken (yesterday) when I learned that the little piggy who went to market wasn't going there to shop. 😭
Those words are not the USPS "motto." They are the inscription chiseled in granite over the entrance of the 8th Avenue New York City Post Office, taken from Book 8, Paragraph 98, of "The Persian Wars" by Herodotus, (500-449 B.C.) The USPS has no motto but the Persians didn't have to contend with Louis DeJoy.
Within days of his appointment by that former guy, U.S. Postmaster Louis DeJoy began destroying hundreds of mail sorting machines, all were in working order. He had them dismantled and junked the parts so they couldn't be repaired. To replace one would come at a cost of over $600 million. All the work done by sorting machines had to be done by hand, but he also cut over time so the work could not be done at all. Mail piled up.
DeJoy sabotaged the mail to disenfranchise voters with the hope of undermining the 2020 election. A record number of mail-in ballots had been requested due to the pandemic and due to GOP tactics of closing polling sites in predominantly Democratic precincts. Those closures required voters to travel farther and often to stand in line for several hours to vote. DeJoy had ballots classified as third-class mail, holding them back for weeks hoping they would not be counted after arriving late.
That pursuit also delayed delivery of medications, checks, and other financial documents- hurting Americans financially and medically.
Additionally, DeJoy likely broke campaign finance laws, committing fraud, when coercing employees to contribute to Republican candidates then reimbursing them with bonuses.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/09/report-louis-dejoy-used-bonuses-to-reimburse-employees-for-donations-to-gop-campaigns/
Tampering with the U.S. mail, for anyone else, would constitute a felony. Like most appointees of Putin's POTUS, there have yet to be consequences for his illegal conduct. Quite the opposite is true; he is still on the payroll, still slowing down mail, raising prices, and strategizing on sabotaging future mail-in voting.
Today, April 22, 2021, the Biden administration is taking the first step to removing DeJoy from his position. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is holding hearings for President Biden's three nominees to the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors. It is only the U.S. Board of Governors who can vote DeJoy out, but the three new appointees may not be able to affect change. The current group of six is on team DeJoy, including Democratic chairman Ron Bloom who was appointed by 45.
https://about.usps.com/who/leadership/board-governors/
U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman, Ron Bloom
(Hate) Tangerine Man appointee, Ron Bloom has recently expressed strong support for the postmaster general.
What else is new? According to a report on Yahoo News, The Postal Service is running a 'covert operations program' that monitors Americans' social media posts.
https://news.yahoo.com/the-postal-service-is-running-a-running-a-covert-operations-program-that-monitors-americans-social-media-posts-160022919.html
How does surveilling social media part of the USPS? Perhaps they could focus on delivering guaranteed 3-day priority mail within 2 weeks?
DeJoy takes no responsibility for the current financial state of the postal service. Granted, the USPS has been losing money for 15 years because since 2006 they have been pre-funding retirees' pensions, 75 years in advance. What company would remain profitable with that plan in place?
DeJoy's business plan is not to shorten the length of time pensions are funded, but rather to raise prices and slow down delivery— give consumers less in exchange for more. 🤔
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2020/02/house-votes-end-controversial-usps-payments-future-retirees-health-care/162912/
Have you seen DeJoy testify before Congress? He is smug, unapologetic, and refuses to step down. He was blatant in his attempts to delay the delivery of mail-in ballots. The next election, which will affect the Congressional balance is in 18 months, and that is what he has his eye on.
The USPS is just one item in Biden's agenda, to repair that which 45 broke.
I for one would like to see DeJoy charged with vandalism and election tampering, but no one has asked my opinion.
*This post was created without interjections of offensive "colorful language," and that was by no means easy.
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2 thoughts on "Senate Hearings Today for President Biden's USPS Board of Governors' Nominees"
Here is someone who most likely has a pocket pardon. Jail is where he belongs.
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Q: Show that $\lim_{n\to\infty}(6n)^{\frac16}a_n=1$ with $(a_n)$ such that $\lim_{n\to\infty}a_n\sum_{j=1}^na_j^5=1$ Show that
$$ \lim_{n\to\infty}(6n)^{\frac16}a_n=1, $$ where $(a_n)$ is a sequence of nonnegative real numbers such that $\lim_{n\to\infty}a_n\sum_{j=1}^na_j^5=1.$
I recently got stuck on this problem. I can't seem to make an approach because this is the first I've seen this sort of problem.
A: Proof Let $s_n = \sum_{k=1}^na_k^5$. We know that $$a_ns_n \to 1\text{ as }n\to\infty.$$ We want to show $$(6n)^{1/6}a_n\to 1\text{ as }n\to\infty.$$ It is enough to show $$\frac{s_n}{(6n)^{1/6}}\to 1 \text{ or equivalently }\frac{s_n^6}{n}\to 6\text{ as }n\to\infty.$$
Stolz–Cesàro theorem states:
Let $a_n$ and $b_n$ be two sequences, with $b_n$ unbounded and increasing. Then,
$$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{a_n}{b_n}=\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{a_{n+1}-a_n}{b_{n+1}-b_n}$$
if the second limit exists.
Therefore it suffices to show $$s_n^6-s_{n-1}^6\to 6 \text{ as }n\to\infty.$$ Note that $$s_n^6-s_{n-1}^6 = s_n^6 - (s_n-a_n^5)^6 = 6a_n^5s_n^5 - 15a_n^{10}s_n^4 + 20a_n^{15}s_n^3 -15a_n^{20}s_n^2 + 6a_n^{25}s_n-a_n^{30}.$$
As $s_n$ is a non-decreasing sequence, if the sequence is bounded, then $\lim s_n= s$, and so $0 = \lim s_{n}-s_{n-1}=\lim a_n^5 = 1/s^5$, which is impossible. Therefore $s_n$ is unbounded and so $a_n^i s_n^j\to 0$ if $i > j$. Therefore $s_n^6 - s_{n-1}^6 \to 6$.
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Analysis of texture can yield information about the rock's source material, conditions and environment of deposition (for sedimentary rock) or crystallization and recrystallization (for igneous and metamorphic rock, respectively), and subsequent geologic history and change.
The term rock refers to the bulk volume of the material, including the grains or crystals as well as the contained void space.
Rocks are commonly divided into three major classes according to the processes that resulted in their formation.
These classes are (1) igneous rocks, which have solidified from molten material called magma; (2) sedimentary rocks, those consisting of fragments derived from preexisting rocks or of materials precipitated from solutions; and (3) metamorphic rocks, which have been derived from either igneous or sedimentary rocks under conditions that caused changes in mineralogical composition, texture, and internal structure.
The changes can be chemical (compositional) and physical (textural) in character.
Metamorphic rocks are often formed by processes deep within the Earth that produce new minerals, textures, and crystal structures.
The conversion of sediment to rock is termed Rocks have many different textures.
About a third of people with JME may show a photoparoxysmal response or an abnormal EEG in response to flickering lights.
Therefore, if a normal EEG is obtained from someone suspected of having juvenile myoclonic epilepsy, than it is important to perform an EEG capturing sleep and wakefulness to make certain of the diagnosis.
I had a couple of grand mal seizures and was put on medication for a few years.
Because I didn't have any more seizures, the drugs were stopped.
So my friend if you're here I'm sure you would be knowing about Tinder App as well as How it works or even have found Girls to Chat & Flirt with them but finding them isn't enough you need start a conversation with them which is the really difficult task according to many people..
I thought my body was falling apart and I didn't know why..
The band retreated into the oversized green room to a feast of edible delights including Tylers favorite Coconut Juice..
Alzo lists the top sites for tracing your austro-hungarian roots It used to be that if you had ancestors who came from any of the countries that once encompassed the massive Austro-Hungarian Empire, you would be hard-pressed to find anything useful online..
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Tristachya nodiglumis är en gräsart som beskrevs av Karl Moritz Schumann. Tristachya nodiglumis ingår i släktet Tristachya och familjen gräs. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
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FIVE MIN WALKING DISTANCE TO WEMBLEY STADIUM & WEMBLEY ARENA & QUICK EXIT TO A406 , A40,M11,M25,M4 and other routes.
I put the details in my sat nav and found the address very easily. Five minutes walk from Wembley Stadium and the Ibis Hotel where I stayed. Can recommend this and would definitely park here again.
Excellent. Easy to find (with the help of an A-Z!), a generous space and a very friendly and helpful house-owner. Certainly would recommend and use again if going to Wembley.
Easy to find, plenty of room and only a short walk from the Stadium. Great stuff.
Owner guided cars onto drive to ensure they could get us all in. they had space for 5 cars of which we was the last. Turned up early and they were cool to start the booking. nice people.
Excellent they were so helpful. Close to thr stadium and easy exit away! Definitely book with them again.
Initially very good, owner greeted us politely. We were asked to move our car meaning that we would be "blocked in" by another car that had also booked a car park space. We were told not to worry as he would get their key and if we got back first, he would move the car. We did get back first to a house with no-one home, no-one answering the phone and being blocked in for nearly half an hour. When the owners of the other car came back we asked them about the key and they said that they wasn't even asked to give over their key, basically we were lied to just so that we would move our vehicle. Not very happy when you have a 3 hour drive home!!!
Positives - amongst the cheapest Negatives - Used this parking space twice in last year and both times we were asked to either park on the road using a permit or use a neighbour's driveway. We were not informed of this at point of booking.
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SCA18; Spinocerebellar ataxia type 18; Sensorimotor neuropathy with ataxia autosomal dominant;
Congenital and Genetic Diseases; Nervous System Diseases
The following summary is from Orphanet, a European reference portal for information on rare diseases and orphan drugs.
Orpha Number: 98771
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 18 (SCA18) is a very rare subtype of type I autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA type I; see this term). It is characterized by sensory neuropathy and cerebellar ataxia.
Prevalence is unknown. Only 26 cases in a 5-generation American family of Irish ancestry have been reported to date.
Onset is in the 2nd and 3rd decades of life with symptomatic onset ranging from 13 to 27 years. Patients initially present with axonal sensory neuropathy, while cerebellar ataxia and motor neuron dysfunction develop later.
SCA18 has been linked to chromosome 7q22-q23 but the responsible gene mutation has not yet been identified. Both SCA3 and SCA4 are also associated with a peripheral neuropathy and should be taken into account in the differential diagnosis.
Prognosis is unclear. However, mean disease duration from age at onset of illness to age at last examination is about 24 years in the reported cases.
Visit the Orphanet disease page for more resources.
80%-99% of people have these symptoms
Areflexia
Absent tendon reflexes
Gait ataxia
Inability to coordinate movements when walking
Muscular weakness
Difficulty articulating speech
Dysmetria
Lack of coordination of movement
Hearing defect
Hyporeflexia of lower limbs
Lower limb hyperreflexia
Overactive lower leg reflex
Muscle fibrillation
Pes cavus
High-arched foot
Sensorimotor neuropathy
Nerve damage causing decreased feeling and movement
5%-29% of people have these symptoms
Cerebellar atrophy
Degeneration of cerebellum
Head tremor
Involuntary, rapid, rhythmic eye movements
Peripheral axonal neuropathy
Skeletal muscle atrophy
Muscle degeneration
Muscle wasting
Titubation
Babinski sign
Dysdiadochokinesis
Difficulty performing quick and alternating movements
Hyporeflexia
Decreased reflex response
Decreased reflexes
Limb muscle weakness
Limb weakness
Age symptoms begin
Progressive gait ataxia
Sensory axonal neuropathy
Making a diagnosis for a genetic or rare disease can often be challenging. Healthcare professionals typically look at a person's medical history, symptoms, physical exam, and laboratory test results in order to make a diagnosis. The following resources provide information relating to diagnosis and testing for this condition. If you have questions about getting a diagnosis, you should contact a healthcare professional.
Spinocerebellar Ataxia: Making an Informed Choice about Genetic Testing is a booklet providing information about spinocerebellar ataxia and is available as a PDF document on the University of Washington Medical Center Web site. Click on the title above to view this resource.
Ataxia UK
12 Broadbent Close
London, N6 5JW United Kingdom
Toll-free: 0845 644 0606 (Helpline)
E-mail: helpline@ataxia.org.uk
Website: https://www.ataxia.org.uk/
euro-ATAXIA (European Federation of Hereditary Ataxias)
Website: https://www.euroataxia.org/
National Ataxia Foundation
600 Highway 169 South
Telephone: +1-763-553-0020
E-mail: naf@ataxia.org
Website: https://ataxia.org/
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) was established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information. Click on the link to view information on this topic.
PubMed is a searchable database of medical literature and lists journal articles that discuss Spinocerebellar ataxia 18. Click on the link to view a sample search on this topic.
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The Woman in Black Angel of Death 2015 REVIEW
PAUL ADAMS reviews The Woman in Black: Angel of Death 2015
TITLE: The Woman in Black Angel of Death
DIRECTOR: Tom Harper
CAST: Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine, Helen McCrory, Adrian Rawlins, Leanne Best, Ned Dennehy
Proof of how far the famous real-life case of Borley Rectory has become engrained in the fabric of British supernatural horror is shown in the imposing double gables of Eel Marsh House, the eerie setting for this, the rejuvenated Hammer Film's second take on Susan Hill's classic English ghost story from 1983, The Woman in Black.
As well as a successful and long-running theatre production, Hill's story has been the subject of a fondly remembered TV version penned by Quatermass author Nigel Kneale, as well as a previous big screen treatment by Hammer in 2012 starring a post-Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe as the Jonathan Harker-like solicitor, Arthur Kipps.
For its sequel, The Woman in Black Angel of Death 2015, Hill herself is credited with the writing, bringing the story several decades on from its Edwardian roots to the wartime England of 1941. Escaping from the London Blitz, a group of schoolchildren accompanied by their teacher Eve Parkins (Phoebe Fox) and frosty headmistress Mrs Hogg (Helen McCrory), are evacuated to the apparent safety of a lonely mansion near the north-east coastal village of Crythin Gifford.
Jon Crocker's screenplay assumes that cinemagoers are more or less familiar with the general back story with the result that there is little reference to the original film's events. Separated from the mainland by a tidal causeway, Eel Marsh House is haunted by the vengeful spectre of Jennet Humfrye, a black-draped apparition whose appearances are a portent for the impending death of the local village children.
Her murderous attacks have decimated Crythin Gifford, to the point that it has now become little more than an empty Arkham-like Lovecraftian ruin, populated by a solitary blind man along with the lonely ghosts of her numerous victims.
Tormented by the loss of her own child, given up for adoption at birth, Eve becomes attached to traumatised orphan Edward (played by Oaklee Pendergast), mute since the death of his parents killed in an air raid.
However, the return of the young to Eel Marsh House soon stirs up the unquiet ghost of the Woman in Black and channelled through Edward, she begins to wreak her continued revenge for the loss of her own child in an accident on the treacherous Nine Lives Causeway many years before.
The effective transfer of a pure ghost story to either the big or small screen is remarkably difficult to achieve.
The problem lies in the creation and sustaining of the unique atmosphere that can be generated on the printed page, as well as walking the tightrope between the need to move a story forward and the pleasure of lingering over supernatural details.
Arguably the most successful forays into the genre are the highly regarded BBC 'Ghost Story of Christmas' adaptations of M.R. James, Sheridan le Fanu and Dickens, a great achievement, particularly with James whose ghostly horrors can be subtle in the extreme.
The danger is to lose focus and slide away into the realms of shock horror, something that The Woman in Black Angel of Death 2015 suffers from where long periods of eerie tension are punctuated by jump scares and similar noisy clichés, as well as the numerous slamming door/locked room perils that gradually lose their power to chill.
Visually, however, like its predecessor, The Woman in Black Angel of Death 2015 is reasonably satisfying: the Borleyesque Eel Marsh House itself, particular its derelict and ruinous interior; the lonely causeway and marshes together with the wild overgrown cemetery, all go a long way, thanks to George Steel's expansive cinematography, to create the atmosphere that the script ultimately struggles to maintain. The Woman in Black herself, sparingly used throughout the film's duration, remains a genuine totem of evil.
Thankfully, Hammer have brought to the screen a set of believable principle characters that former Misfits and Peaky Blinders director, Tom Harper, makes good use of.
Helen McCrory's Miss Hogg is perhaps somewhat understated, Phoebe Fox as Miss Parkins effectively intertwines her own back story with that of the spectral Mrs Humfrye, while Jeremy Irvine as tragic RAF officer Harry Burnstow, as well as providing romantic interest, demonstrates the astonishing youth of the pilots who were called on to fly and fight in a war more horrific than any work of fiction could ever create.
Tell us your thoughts on The Woman in Black Angel of Death 2015 in the comments section!
Watch The Woman in Black Angel of Death 2015 trailer
http://pauladamsauthor.co.uk
Paul Adams is a Luton-based paranormal historian, writer and publisher.
Jason Egan 10 January 2015 At 12:37 pm
Fantastic review, a lot of work has definitely been put into this. I agree with the majority of what has been said. I thought this film was decent when I went to see it and would say it was equally as good as the first. I slightly disagree on the jump scares point as I think some of them worked to end an eerie atmosphere, to provide an element of shock. However, I must say I thought that a lot, and I mean a lot of jump scares were expected to occur which was one of the negative aspects of the film. Aside the jump scares, I believe the atmosphere was fairly successful throughout the film. Brilliant review.
Covent Garden: 5 Haunted Places to Visit
Covent Garden is full of haunted places to visit, as JON KANEKO-JAMES discovers on this stroll around central London
The Green Manalishi (with The Two Prong Crown) by Fleetwood Mac
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DOM COOPER explores Fleetwood Mac's dark and beastly The Green Manalishi (with The Two Prong Crown)
The Ghosts of Miskin Manor, Wales
CLAIRE BARRAND investigates historic Miskin Manor in Wales and all is ghosts!
Britain's 5 Most Haunted Battlefields
EDDIE BRAZIL dons his breastplate and tassets and goes in search of the phantom armies, which are still slugging it out on Britain's Haunted Battlefields.
Son of Dracula 1974 is a film 'worse than you could possibly imagine, says reviewer JIM IVERS
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It would be hard to argue against the idea that virtual reality and electric cars represent two of the most exciting tech developments of the current decade. Neither is actually new this decade, mind you, but they've certainly emerged in new and significant ways these last few years. And perhaps inevitably, they've started to cross paths.
This probably shouldn't surprise us, not just because they're two prominent technologies but because virtual reality in particular has branched out in some unexpected ways. It started out with some fairly rapid expansion through the video game ranks. While VR started with demos and app-like games, it's now embracing new versions of major franchises that were already very popular on Xbox, PlayStation, etc. And internet casino games, which have become thoroughly integrated with mobile devices, are also starting to dip their toes into virtual reality.
If people were surprised to see virtual reality editions of Skyrim and popular online slot games though, it's nothing to how odd it was to see other applications for VR. There are virtual fitting rooms popping up in some retail stores; there are virtual treatments for migraines and anxiety; there's VR storytelling to take you through everything from mysterious crime scenes to Biblical tales. VR is just about everywhere – which, again, is why we shouldn't really be surprised that it's apparently in electric cars, in more ways than one.
The idea of VR window panels is kind of unclear, but it's something we're seeing through the GAC Motor Enverge, which has been described as a deadly looking electric car from a company you've never heard of. If this is true, and you haven't heard of GAC, it's a Chinese auto company that's looking to expand internationally, and the Enverge is its electric concept car. It's been turning heads, not least because it has virtual reality screens "embedded in the side windows." As far as we can tell, this means that the side windows are actually coated with a matte finish, but the exterior of the car is actually projected onto the windows via VR. It's certainly unnecessary, but is a perfect example of how modern electric cars and VR might not be able to resist one another.
This is an idea that may never come to fruition in functioning vehicles, though the fact that Apple is working on it definitely gives it some clout. Apparently Apple has been seeking a patent to fit self-driving cars with VR displays in a move to make the ride more fun for passengers. This could lead to all kinds of different concepts, but to give you an idea of how crazy it's getting early on, one of the ideas we know about at this point is simulated zombie chases. Okay then.
On a less wild note, VR is clearly going to have a major impact on car testing. Basically, a single VR headset, complete with realistic controls, could allow people to virtually test drive countless cars in a short amount of time. This doesn't replicate every aspect of an actual test drive, but it does essentially invent a window shopping aspect to the process out of thin air. Don't be surprised at all if the next time you visit a dealership looking to buy, you wind up with a headset fitted over your eyes.
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Students Compete in Navy-Focused Grand Robotics Mission and see their Future in STEM
By NSWC Dahlgren Division Corporate Communications | July 9, 2014
A middle school student uses remote-controlled models to solve simulated naval robotic missions at a science, technology, engineering and mathematics summer academy, sponsored by the National Defense Education Program. The annual summer academy ran from June 24 to 28 at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va. Ninety-five students from five school districts engaged in the summer camp. (Photo by U.S. Navy)
KING GEORGE, Va. -- Middle school students who completed a Grand Robotics Mission Challenge at the Virginia Demonstration Project (VDP) Summer Academy are now looking forward to a future filled with more "STEM" challenges on a grand scale.
In all, 93 students applied their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to solve problems of Navy interest at the National Defense Education Program (NDEP) sponsored event from June 23-27.
"It is exciting for me to experience students approaching you to share their eye-opening STEM understanding and their career discoveries with a smile on their face," said Jane Bachman, VDP STEM Dahlgren Academy Director. "This year, the student teams exhibited tenacity as they tried really hard to complete all ten of the Navy focused robotic missions."
Bachman - a Navy human performance in simulation lead engineer - joined her Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) colleagues to work with 16 teachers from five Virginia middle school systems to challenge students throughout the week with scenarios mimicking real engineering problems.
"All week, we worked on 10 different robotics missions," said Linda Lapp, a Spotsylvania Freedom Middle School physical science teacher who worked with an NSWCDD mentor in guiding her team of six students. "The missions covered real life Navy experiences - things like mine sweeping, delivering the railgun to the ship, rescuing a swimmer, and rescuing a ship. We're doing all these different types of robotics missions using our robots."
In the Grand Robotics Challenge, the student teams worked to demonstrate one non-stop mission of seven robotic Navy focused challenges. This activity emphasizes modular programming and component reuse skills.
"The teams program their robots one time to see how many missions they could successfully complete during a little 15-minute window - and the team had two tries to accomplish the grand mission," explained Lapp. "It applies to real world because you want to utilize the manpower and the ship power for more than one mission."
Navy officials anticipate the students may one day use their STEM skills at Navy warfare center laboratories to design future technologies supporting U.S. warfighters and America's homeland defense and security personnel engaged in real-world missions.
"The summer STEM academy is a one-of-a-kind experience," said Jesse Blackburn, a Stafford County Dixon-Smith Middle School physical science teacher. "Students are afforded the unique opportunity to engage with scientists and engineers in a way that very few their age have been able to do. The academy allows students to create and problem-solve using the principles found in many STEM related careers. This is a program that builds excitement and will continue to push students toward STEM related degrees and careers."
The NDEP VDP goal is to increase the attraction of the Navy's warfare centers and shipyards as an eventual place of employment for students participating in the program.
The program teams up teachers like Lapp and Blackburn with practicing scientists and engineers from the mentor-rich environment at the Naval Warfare Centers. During the school year, science and math themes featuring robotics problems are integrated throughout the curriculum.
"At the end of the summer academy, over half of the students raised their hands in response to a question regarding their interest in pursuing STEM careers - Wow!" said Jajuana Avery. "Sharing my story allowed me to give the students an opportunity to dream and set goals like I did once I was introduced to a science career."
The students engaged 16 NSWCDD scientist and engineer mentors in career awareness discussions. The mentors included scientists and engineers who have mentored students in STEM for several years as well as first-time mentors such as Avery and Joey Wilson, from the NSWCDD Electromagnetic and Sensor Systems Department.
"I was pleasantly surprised at both the positive attitudes and capabilities of the students in the team I mentored," said Wilson, a Navy computer scientist. "I believe they are destined for very bright futures. At the end of STEM camp, one of the students thanked me for being a good mentor. That's when it hit me that I connected with the students and maybe touched them in a way that will influence the rest of their life in a positive way. It is a very good feeling to know I may have made a difference."
The summer academy was a week full of experiments and hands on science activities, said Diamond Chick, a Stafford County student, adding that she enjoyed the opportunity to experience a variety of science and engineering areas from life science to civil engineering in addition to meeting other students from different schools and counties.
"I like the tower test the best," she said. "It was a chance to work with drafting and present all the stuff you would as an engineer in a real life situation, like a design brief."
NDEP VDP originated under the Office of Naval Research N-STAR (Naval Research - Science and Technology for America's Readiness), a science and technology workforce development program launched in 2004. It was initiated to show a diversity of pre-teens and teens that math, science and engineering are fascinating, fun and rewarding.
Moreover, the Dahlgren VDP STEM Academy runs a parallel junior mentor program where eight high school students, an NSWCDD scientist or engineer mentor, and a middle school teacher who encourage and engage students in advanced robotic missions, leadership roles, and presentation skills.
Since its inception, VDP's ultimate goal has been to establish educational outreach programs at other Navy research and development centers throughout the country.
The initiative could eventually expand beyond the Navy and evolve into a national demonstration project encompassing all Department of Defense laboratories in a sustained effort to secure the long-term competitiveness of America's science and technology workforce by hooking more kids on math and science at an earlier age. As a result, the number of students earning university degrees in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology is expected to exponentially increase.
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Q: What to use instead of GraphDatabaseSettings.BoltConnector? I'm using Neo4j's Java driver to access the db with Bolt protocol.
If I have a look at the Neo4j documentation, I see that I should use GraphDatabaseSettings.BoltConnector for settings.
However my IDE says it's deprecated.
Do you know what replaces GraphDatabaseSettings.BoltConnector?
Thanks
A: Seems to be a error in the docs. The docs about GraphDatabaseSettings.BoltConnector says:
DEPRECATED: Use BoltConnector instead. This will be removed in 4.0.
That is: BoltConnector is deprecated, so use BoltConnector instead. (???)
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Guillaume Canet Bio - Biography
Name Guillaume Canet
Naionality Franch
Date of Birth 10-April-1973
Place of Birth Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Famous for Acting
Guillaume Canet is a French actor and film director. Canet began his career in theatre and television before moving to film. He starred in several films like Joyeux Noel, Love Me If You Dare and The Beach. In 2006, he turned to writing and directing with Tell No One and won a Cesar Award for Best Director. Canet has also received attention because of his personal life. He was formerly married to actress Diane Kruger. After they divorced he began a relationship with Marion Cotillard that was closely followed by the media.
In 1997 he appeared in the thriller film Barracuda for which he won a prix d'interpretation (best actor award) at the Festival Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1999. The same year he was nominated for a Cesar Award for his role as Vincent Mazet in the comedy film En plein cœur. He then traveled abroad to film Danny Boyle's The Beach. After completing The Beach, Canet starred opposite Sophie Marceau in La fidelite and in Jerry Schatzberg's The Day the Ponies Come Back.
Guillaume Canet Photos
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Some herds across Canada aren't getting enough of some necessary minerals, and yours might be one of them.
If animals' mineral needs are not met, the results are costly. Without adequate mineral intake, cow-calf producers will see poor performance, disease resistance and reproduction in their herds. Mineral requirements for cattle depend on their weight, age, and expected performance (maintenance vs. weight gain vs. pregnancy). Mineral supplementation needs also depend on the feed, water and soil chemistry around the herd.
You'll also hear about the latest research done on mineral supplementation strategies, and have the opportunity to ask questions.
Register anyway! This webinar will be recorded and posted online at a later date. All registrants will receive a link to the recording and supplemental learning resources. By attending the live event, you'll have the opportunity to interact and ask questions too.
John McKinnon, Ph.D. – Professor, Researcher and the Saskatchewan Beef Industry Chair in the Department of Animal and Poultry Science at the University of Saskatchewan.
Dr. McKinnon's research is focused on nutritional and environmental factors influencing the growth and carcass quality of feeder cattle and the nutrition of wintering beef cows. He continually communicates about science and innovation to beef producers through the Western Canadian Feedlot Management School, The Saskatchewan Beef and Forage Symposium and monthly nutrition articles for the Canadian Cattleman's Magazine. He also works directly with cow-calf producers, feedlot operators, veterinarians, and feed industry personnel on their feeding and management programs.
This entry was posted in Animal Health and Welfare, Feed Grains and Feed Efficiency and tagged Cattle Nutrition, John McKinnon Ph.D., Webinar by Beef Research. Bookmark the permalink.
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Барбара Майер (, ) — австрийская шоссейная велогонщица.
Карьера
Многократная призёрша чемпионатов Австрии по шоссейному велоспорту в групповой и индивидуальной гонках и маунтинбайку в кросс-кантри марафон.
В 2018 году приняла участие в чемпионате мира в индивидуальной гонке на котором заняла 37-е место уступив 4 мин 42 сек победительнице Аннемик ван Влёйтен
Достижения
2014
3-я на Чемпионате Австрии — индивидуальная гонка
2017
3-я на Чемпионате Австрии — групповая гонка
2018
2-я на Чемпионате Австрии — групповая гонка
2-я на Чемпионате Австрии — индивидуальная гонка
2-я на Чемпионате Австрии — кросс-кантри марафон
2019
2-я на Чемпионате Австрии — кросс-кантри марафон
Рейтинги
Примечания
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Велогонщики Австрии
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Marie grew up near Castleberry, Ala., and attended Auburn University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in public relations in 2006. While in college, Marie realized that she wanted to pursue a career in the nonprofit sector, so she could make a difference in other's lives. She joined the SIFAT staff as the marketing and promotions coordinator in September 2006.
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The Rimhadd is a very well built and well kept beach side condominium north of Hua Hin town center.
On site the condo has 24 hour security and large parking area. There is a very large swimming pool for residents and a children's shallow pool in the shade. Fitness room, library and fully staffed reception and maid services.
There is direct access via stone steps down to the beautiful white sandy beach.
Nearby places of interest include F&N retails center. Sheraton Hotel and Resort. Venezia Themed shopping park. Chaam is just 10 minutes drive away and Hua Hin is within an easy 6-8 minute drive.
This 1 bedroom apartment has an open plan living room with kitchenette area with basic food preparation facilities and fridge. Two good sized balconies with excellent ocean views. The separate bedroom has an en-suite bathroom with a window view to the ocean and hot shower. Guest bathroom off the lounge. The apartment is 64 sq/m in size and is sold with furnishings.
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using System.Collections.Generic;
using EnergonSoftware.Data;
using EnergonSoftware.Util;
using UnityEditor;
using UnityEngine;
namespace EnergonSoftware.Editor
{
public sealed class AIEditor : NodeEditor
{
private const string TestAssetPath = "Assets/Data/test_ai.asset";
[MenuItem("Energon Software/AI Editor")]
public static void ShowEditor()
{
AIEditor window = GetWindow<AIEditor>();
window.Show();
}
private readonly Dictionary<string, AIEditorNode> _states = new Dictionary<string, AIEditorNode>();
public AIEditor()
: base("AI Editor")
{
}
private void OnEnable()
{
LoadData();
}
private void LoadData()
{
Debug.Log($"Loading AI data from '{TestAssetPath}'...");
AIData data = AssetDatabase.LoadAssetAtPath<AIData>(TestAssetPath);
if(null == data) {
Debug.LogError("Could not load AI data!");
return;
}
foreach(AIState state in data.States) {
AIEditorNode stateNode = new AIEditorNode(state.EditorPosition, state.Name, this);
AddNode(stateNode);
// TODO: check for overwrites
_states[state.Id] = stateNode;
}
foreach(AIStateTransition stateTransition in data.StateTransitions) {
AIEditorNode startNode = _states.GetOrDefault(stateTransition.StartState);
if(null == startNode) {
Debug.Log($"No such start state {stateTransition.StartState}!");
continue;
}
AIEditorNode endNode = _states.GetOrDefault(stateTransition.EndState);
if(null == endNode) {
Debug.Log($"No such end state {stateTransition.EndState}!");
continue;
}
AIEditorEdge stateEdge = new AIEditorEdge(this)
{
StartNode = startNode,
EndNode = endNode
};
AddEdge(stateEdge);
}
}
protected override void OnRightClick(Vector2 mousePosition)
{
base.OnRightClick(mousePosition);
GenericMenu menu = new GenericMenu();
menu.AddItem(new GUIContent("Add State"), false, OnAddNode, mousePosition);
menu.ShowAsContext();
}
private void OnAddNode(object obj)
{
Vector2 mousePosition = (Vector2)obj;
NodeEditorNode node = new SequenceEditorNode(mousePosition, "State", this);
AddNode(node);
}
}
}
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The first time I went to Xujiahui looking for iPhones, I didn't have much luck. All the shops told me they didn't carry 水货 (smuggled goods). Later, Brad tipped me off about exactly where to go in the computer market, and when I actually bought the iPhone about a week ago, the iPhone seemed to be for sale everywhere.
The place to buy the iPhone in the Xujiahui computer market is B1 (don't waste your time upstairs). There are actually two computer markets in Xujiahui (both accessible from the subway); both are selling the iPhone in B1. I recommend the one connected to the big glass globe; there's more selection/competition. The iPhone 3G can be found, but it's quite expensive. I didn't pay much attention to its selling price because the iPhone's new 3G capabilities are useless in China. Instead, I sought out the original iPhone. The 8 GB version can be bought for around 4000 RMB, and the 16 GB version for 5000+ RMB. I opted for the former.
It can be confusing shopping for the iPhone because of the disparity in vendor prices, and when you try to find out why, you get all kinds of stories. I didn't see anything that looked like a knock-off, but you definitely have to make sure that the iPhone is undamaged and comes with everything it's supposed to.
> Me: Your iPhones are all opened.
> Him: Yeah, we have to open them.
> Me: But that shop over there sells them unopened.
> Him: They just re-shrink-wrap them. If you want me to, I can re-shrink-wrap one for you too.
Altogether we bought six iPhones. I was the only one that found a defect; I got a phone with a scratched screen. The vendor tried to downplay the defect at first, but gave into my demand to replace the phone even after I had paid.
Overall, a pretty good consumer experience. The iPhones you buy in China obviously don't come with Apple support or hardware warranties, but if you find a good vendor you can go back to them for help dealing with firmware issues.
Let me know if you have any questions about the experience. I was initially somewhat wary of buying 水货, but the company subsidy was just the push I needed. After learning a lot about the iPhone in the past week, I'm quite pleased with the purchase and with the iPhone's functionality in China, even despite a recent iTunes Stores block.
GigShanghai is a new website created to share the Shanghai music scene with the world. Created by Brad of ShanghaiStreets and Aric of ChinesePod, it provides regular audio content via podcast to give you an actual earful of what Shanghai live music venues have to offer. You can also stream the podcasts directly from the site.
I know both Brad and Aric personally, so I can tell you that this teamup has a lot of promise. Maybe they'll even mention this website someday, when someone asks about when the Shanghai music scene started gathering steam for its eventual eclipse of Beijing's. Check it out.
> Staff: Hello, [hotel name].
> Me: Hi, is your hotel having a Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday?
> Staff: Let me transfer you to the restaurant.
> Staff: The Chinese restaurant or the Western restaurant?
> Restaurant Staff: Hello, [hotel restaurant name].
> Me: Hi, is your restuarant having a Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday?
> Restaurant Staff: Yes, we have a buffet dinner.
> Me: A Thanksgiving buffet dinner?
> Me: Yes, Thanksgiving. 感恩节.
> Restaurant Staff: 感恩节? Oh, no. It's Italian food.
> Me: OK, thank you.
I don't think that the Chinese should all recognize and celebrate Thanksgiving or anything ridiculous like that. I just expected most of the nicer international hotels in Shanghai to offer some kind of Thanksgiving meal. I guess that's just not always done.
I found two deals at reasonable prices: the Holiday Inn Vista Shanghai Thanksgiving Dinner for 149 rmb per person (I had called the Pudong Holiday Inn, and they were oblivious to Thanksgiving over there), and the Moon River Diner Thanksgiving for 150 rmb per person.
I chose the Moon River Diner dinner (the menu looks awesome!), but the Gubei restaurant's Thursday night was already full, so I had to make a reservation at the Pudong location. I actually talked to the chef on the phone! He's a guy named Micahel from New Mexico, and he assured me it would be authentic. As he pointed out, the few hotels putting on the super expensive Thanksgiving banquets hire European gourmet chefs, so they present distorted fancy-pants interpretations of Thanksgiving dinner. Totally not like mom used to.
So I'm looking forward to this dinner. If you're in Shanghai and you want to seize your once-a-year chance for a Thanksgiving dinner, you better hurry up and make a reservation.
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forest runs down ravine cut into solid granite rock, plentiful in this area.
Depicted shallow mountain fresh water stream in Eastern Townships forest runs down ravine cut into solid rock much of it granite with a bit of quartz, plentiful in this area.
Hiking through the forest we came upon this little meandering stream, whose water source is deep in some huge rock formation probably kilometers away east of where we were.
The scene was July 16, 2017 somewhere near Lake Memphremagog near US border on a nice, very sunny, warm, Sunday when a group of us decided to hike through some unknown territory to most except for our leader, who had already marked our path earlier.
This my contribution for WP single word prompt:"SHALLOW".
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Coconut Creek Tops BA For Second Win Of The Year
Written by Alex Ramirez on March 7th, 2013
The Cougar offense had multiple opportunities to score
The Coconut Creek Cougars took advantage of every opportunity given to them by a young and inexperienced Boyd Anderson team to win 19-6 on Wednesday.
Coconut Creek ran the bases aggressively and stole in every opportunity possible.
"When we have a chance to run we will," Coconut Creek Manager Roger Davidson said. "We haven't had many opportunities to [be aggressive] on the bases this season, but today we did and we took advantage of that."
Cougars starting pitcher Jose Baez began the game by striking out the first two Cobras hitters before giving up a walk. Boyd Anderson's pitcher hit a scorching line drive with a man on base to the left-center gap for a triple that brought in the first run of the game for the Cobras.
In the bottom of the first, the Cougars responded. After one out and taking advantage of an infield error by the Cobras, short stop Winston Nuñez got on first and promptly stole second uncontested. Nuñez advanced to third and scored, both times on wild pitches. Center fielder Angel Caraballo hit a fly to left that was caught for the second out of the inning. Caraballo had a good day at bat for the Cougars, hitting multiple extra-base hits and totaling five RBIs.
With two outs, pitcher Jose Baez reached first on an uncaught third strike and stole second. He then advanced to third on a wild pitch and attempted to score from third on a passed ball but was tagged out at home to end the inning.
The Cougars scored two more runs in the bottom of the second, when lead-off hitter Robert Singh drew a walk and stole second, putting himself in scoring position. He then advanced to third on a passed ball, and scored on a wild pitch.. After two outs and with the bases loaded, Caraballo hit a rocket down third base line into left field for a two RBI double. With two outs and runner on second, Baez struck out to end the inning for the Cougars.
The Cobras are working to improve on the fundamentals.
The Cobras took the lead momentarily in the top of the fourth, but Coconut Creek came back for eight runs in the third and seven runs in the bottom of the fourth to end the game.
Davidson was happy with the win but realizes that the Cougars are a work in progress.
"We still have a ways to go, young as we are we have work to do," Davidson said. "The kids are happy today, they all got to play."
Boyd Anderson Cobra's interim coach Andre McAden shared his thoughts after the game.
"Our line-up is coming along," McAden said. "We can only get better. We need to get our guys more familiar with [the fundamentals], we're a little behind and our job as coaches is to get our players up to speed."
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October 31, 2014 in holiday, movies
Happy Halloween! I openly admitted my love for all things Disney and Disney Channel movies yesterday. And now here's some evidence to back that up. Instead of getting all decked out in a Halloween costume that I've spent way too much time and/or money on coming up with, instead, I'll be curled up on the couch with the lights out, candles burning, munching on some popcorn and indulging in some of my favorite Halloween movies! I don't have anything against this holiday…if you go all out for it, great! I just don't. But that doesn't mean I haven't been DVR'ing my favorite movies and saving them for tonight! I'm looking forward to it, and that's all that matters to me.
Twitches (2005)
Two teen witches who were separated at birth and were adopted by two different families meet on their 21st birthday and must use their powers to save the world in which they were born, where their birth mother still lives.
Can I just say that I pretty much love anything with Tia and Tamara Mowry?! I watch this movie every year around Halloween. It's so fun! It's girly and magical and really sets the mood for Halloween!
Twitches Too (2007)
After using their powers to battle the forces of darkness, the sisters settle down to lead normal lives. However, the discovery that their biological father may not be dead, but residing in New York, causes confusion for the pair.
I'm glad they came back and did a second movie to the original Twitches. It wraps up the story line much better than leaving it as it was. And, it's Tia and Tamara again, with two more years of experience, so you better believe it's a good one!
Hocus Pocus (1993)
After three centuries, three witch sisters are resurrected in Salem Massachusetts on Halloween night, and it is up to two teen-agers, a young girl, and an immortal cat to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
I must take this moment to fully admit that I have never, ever seen this movie. *gasp!* I know. But I've heard nothing but great things about this one and it's currently sitting on my DVR waiting for tonight. Maybe it'll be another Halloween regular, you never know!
Halloweentown (1998) and Halloweentown II (2001)
Marnie, Dylan, and Sophie Piper have their first out of many adventures! On Halloween, while Marnie is arguing with her mother Gwen, the kids' grandmother Aggie comes to visit. Aggie wants to start Marnie's witch training before her 13th birthday or Marnie will lose her powers forever. But there is another reason for Aggie's visit. Something dark & evil is growing in Halloweentown & Aggie wants help to defeat it. While Aggie & Gwen are arguing, Aggie uses magic which Marnie observes. After Aggie leaves to return to Halloweentown, Marnie, Dylan and, unknown to Marnie and Dylan, Sophie follow her onto the return bus. Soon afterwards, Gwen follows the children to Halloweentown. While there, Aggie & Gwen are attacked by the dark force in a movie theater. Marnie, Dylan & Sophie race to get the ingredients to activate Merlin's Wand to stop the evil.
The Cromwell clan split their time between the real world and "Halloweentown", but the son of an old rival threatens to make the latter "real" and the real world a place of monsters.
I honestly can't tell you how many years I've been watching these movies. Another Disney Channel Original Movie, and I'm hooked. I look forward to the fun Cromwell clan year after year, and I'm glad that Disney Channel is now showing their sequels, too!
Halloweentown High (2004)
Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year in her new home. She asks the Halloweentown Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school in the mortal world.
I admit that this one wasn't always on my radar…it's just not as good as the other Halloweentown movies. It's definitely grown on me and is currently recorded, but I may not watch this one…we'll see how many movies I get through and what I'm feeling tonight. 🙂
Return to Halloweentown (2006)
By now, everyone knows Marnie Piper is a witch, so it comes as no surprise when she wins a full scholarship to prestigious Witch University in Halloweentown. Excited about learning alchemy and amulets, potions and portents, Marnie travels through the portal to become Witch U's most famous coed. But everything is not what it seems. There's a new school rule: no magic allowed!
This is probably my favorite of the Halloweentown movies, hands down! It's fun to see Marnie embracing her powers and doing things on her own, as she's now older and attending college. Add in girl drama and jealousy, and this movie is fantastic! It's a must see for sure.
That's seven movies I'll be powering through tonight. Bring it on! I'm really looking forward to some 'me' time and not worrying about anyone else and what they want to do or where they want to go. Sounds perfect to me this year!
What are you doing for Halloween?
A Re-Introduction
when life gives you lemons, do you make lemonade or squeeze them in other people's eyes?
Rachel S. October 31, 2014 at 2:15 pm
All of the Halloweentowns! Love them
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There are Cart Ruts on Gozo, I have only managed to find 2 lots so far and the Cart Ruts at Dwejra (Inland Sea) may not be the most spectacular in themselves but their location makes them a massive puzzle. The puzzle of the Dwejra Cart Ruts is called the 2 meter drop problem. Another problem is where were they going to as they are only found in a very short section with nothing there.
The Cart Ruts at Dwejra and the gEUlogy found attached to the Cart Ruts also give rise to 2 very interesting questions. Are the Cart Ruts a natural formation or, if they are man made, then did the formation of the Inland Sea and the Azure Window happen after the Cart Ruts were made?
The pair of cart ruts in the Dwejra area climb all the way up from behnd the chapel dedicated to Saint Anne to the towering cliffs north of the Inland Sea. The purpose of these cart ruts are still unclear.
These cart-ruts are one of the most enigmatic archaeological features due to an unexplainable two metres drop and to the fact that they start and terminate in a mysterious way.
Can this all be explained in an Electric Universe?
There are a few pairs of Cart Ruts found at Dwejra. You can find these by going past the church (Saint Anne) and walking up the path around the Inland Sea. After about 30-50 meters there are some steps cut into the limestone. Go up these then go left towards the cliff edge. Here you will find the Cart Ruts shown above.
There seems to be 2 pairs of Cart Ruts here beside each other, one pair very defined and long and the other rather strangely short although still spectacular in its own way as it cuts through the edge of the rock.
The more defined pair of Cart Ruts appear to lead down but where do they go? If you follow them up then you will find some amazing gEUlogy attached to these Cart Ruts as they curve round and up the plateau.
This is the plateau that the San Lawrenz Cart Ruts are found on. The image on the left shows the Cart Ruts (far right of the image).
The Cart Ruts appear to stop when the reach the normal flat level but there are some lines of rock that seem to align with the Cart Ruts. But why would you get higher rock? As this would mean that the rest of whole area had to be worn away by Cart Rut action unless man or nature somehow chose to remove the rock in this area but leave this lines of rock.
Are they evidence of a natural process that may have formed the Cart Ruts at Dwerja? There are other "Dykes" found in and around the Cart Ruts at Dwerja, these may be part of same system.
The main Cart Rut pair bends up the slope but only 1 Rut seems to have been fully formed. This has a pair of Dykes running through it. Now the problem here is that according to geology malta should not really be able to have any Dykes. Malta is purely a sedimentary island, no intrusions, no volcanic activity, no black stones or rock. The problem with that is you can find Dykes all over the place, including Dyke Swarms. You can also find immense variety of stones/pebbles including blacks. So is nature wrong and geology correct? Or are they just fault lines?
The above images show the thickish Dyke as it crosses the Cart Rut. Notice that the 2 Dykes are slightly different in composition and material. I believe these are not geology Dykes but gEUlogy Dykes and are therefore some form of Electric Universe discharge. They are slightly different as 1 is perhaps a positive and the other a negative.
These Dykes and other lines cutting Cart Ruts are not just found at Dwejra but also at San Gwann and Clapham Junction. Is it a coincidence that they are found together? If the Cart Ruts are man made then did the Cart Ruts themselves attract the natural event that caused these discharge or cutting lines?
Part of the mystery of the Dwejra Cart Ruts is there start and end. But if you look at where they end they are found in a location of EU Dykes and end in a mini semi circular crater. Classic natural electric discharge and EDM evidence.
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STAMFORD, CT - Morgan Stanley presents Wednesday Nite Live in partnership with City Carting & Recycling and Purdue Pharma in Columbus Park in Stamford Downtown. This week's concert starring Joe Jackson will begin at 6:30pm on Wednesday, July 11. Joe Jackson will take the stage at 6:30pm.
Legendary songwriter Joe Jackson will feature songs from across his entire catalogue, including hits from his earliest albums "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" and "Steppin' Out" as well as songs from his most recent album, 2015's critically acclaimed Fast Forward.
Morgan Stanley presents Wednesday Nite Live in partnership with City Carting & Recycling and Purdue Pharma is produced by Stamford Downtown Special Services District. Additional sponsors include Barefoot Wine, Fleur de Mer, LaMarca Prosecco, Storypoint, Whitehaven, Skytop Lodge, Frank Mercede & Sons, Crystal Rock, Crowne Plaza Stamford, Hampton Inn, Hotel Zero Degrees, Sheraton Stamford Hotel, Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa, Event Management, Inc., Happyhaha Photography, Simply Signs, Stamford Advocate and WEBE 108.
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"Saria's Song" is a recurring song in The Legend of Zelda series. It usually serves as background music for places that are related to forests or woods.
Saria teaches "Saria's Song" to Link as a symbol of friendship when he visits her in the Sacred Forest Meadow in Ocarina of Time. Playing the song allows Link to communicate with Saria at any time. When Link speaks to her, Saria provides him with information about what to do or where to go next in his quest. If Link opts not to speak to Saria, Navi will ask if he wants to speak with her instead.
Link can play "Saria's Song" to cheer up Darunia and receive the Goron's Bracelet in return.. By playing the song to the lone Skull Kid in the Lost Woods, Link a can obtain a Piece of Heart. Once Link turns into an adult, he must play "Saria's Song" in front of Mido in the Lost Woods to gain access to the Sacred Forest Meadow.
"Saria's Song" also serves as the background music for the Lost Woods and the Sacred Forest Meadow.
In Majora's Mask, "Saria's Song" appears as the background music for the Woods of Mystery and when Pierre dances with Link. It also plays during the scene where Tatl, Tael, and the Skull Kid are playing in the woods. During the ending of the game, the Skull Kid mentions that Link has the same smell as the fairy kid who taught him that song in the woods, assuming he is the same Skull Kid as the one in Ocarina of Time.
The notes for "Saria's Song" can sometimes appear on a wall in the northern part of Termina Field, where Link can play a song for Rupees.
The song makes a last appearance after the game credits, where the tree stump showing a drawing of Link, Skull Kid, Tatl, and Tael appears.
In Twilight Princess, a remix of "Saria's Song" appears as the background music of the Sacred Grove. Also, the Skull Kid plays the song on his horn from time to time.
In Tri Force Heroes, "Saria's Song" appears as one of the tunes the Lucky Lobby Ball plays when hit with the Sword.
In Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland, "Saria's Song" appears as part of background music of the Deku Temple. A remix of the song also appears as the Bana Bana boss theme.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, "Saria's Song" appears as an alternative background music on the Great Bay stage, also serving as Young Link's theme song. "Saria's Song" can also be heard at the end of the "Ocarina of Time Medley" in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. A medley, "Saria's Song / Middle Boss Battle", is featured as track in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Super Smash Bros. Melee's arrangement of "Saria's Song" is also returns as a track in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
In Hyrule Warriors, "Saria's Song" substitutes the victory theme during Darunia's victory animation, where he dances to the music as he did in Ocarina of Time.
When Zelda performs a Special Attack while using the Baton, one of the songs that she can play is "Saria's Song".
Saria's Song is based on three main notes, F, A, and B. The tonic of the piece is F, resulting in a scalar mode of F Lydian (a major scale with a raised 4th). Although this is where the piece is based harmonically, it is still overall ambiguous in its harmonization, as accidentals in the harmony later on in the piece suggest that the piece is in fact in C Major and it simply starts on the 4th scale degree and a IV in the harmony. The modal basis of the piece is a way to make the song sound more medieval and removed from classical western music.
The piece is in duple meter and is constructed in binary form (an A section and a B section, with a short intro on tambourine) which is looped "ad infinitum." Both A and B sections are characterized by straight-forward dance rhythms in metric groupings of two. The A section is 8 bars long (in 4/4 time) and the B section is 10 bars long, which can be viewed as a 6 + 4 hypermetric grouping.
In Ocarina of Time, a Goron near the shortcut to the Lost Woods in Goron City states that all Gorons love "Saria's Song."
Through the use of cheats, it is possible to play "Saria's Song" and the "Sun's Song" in Majora's Mask. "Saria's Song" has no effect except changing the background music to the "Final Hours."
In The Wind Waker, the background music of the Forest Haven's interior features a segment of "Saria's Song."
In Majora's Mask, the "Song of Healing" is "Saria's Song" in reverse.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, "Saria's Song" is incorrectly referred to as "Saria's Theme".
Japanese サリアの歌 (Saria no Uta) Same as English.
Italian Canzone di Saria Same as English.
SpanishEU Canción de Saria Same as English.
↑ Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland Music - Deku Temple, YouTube, published July 12, 2009, retrieved June 11, 2016.
↑ Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland - Deku Temple Boss 2, YouTube, published March 18, 2012, retrieved June 11, 2016.
↑ Music in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Cruise Elroy.
↑ BETA Sun's song and Sarias song in Majora's Mask, YouTube, published January 1, 2008.
↑ Inside Forest Haven - The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, YouTube, published July 16, 2011, retrieved June 11, 2016.
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A Cloud Sky for a Nursery Expecting Twins!
The latest additions to the Katherine Alice Furniture Collection are finished. Watch the transformation of this midcentury dresser and night stand in this step by step DYI .
Design, management, subcontracting and artistic execution all took place this summer as NYSS broke the glass ceiling between being a "Sub" and a General contractor. We were honored to work for one of our favorite customers as she changed lighting, leveled ceilings, skim coated walls, changed paint colors, and added the icing on top - Venetian Plaster.
We were only able to this because of the strong industry relationships we have built over the years . We would like to thank the various companies, Generations Paint and Paper, Custom Associates, Gusto Interiors, Citi Cleaning and SGM Photography.
NYSS had the pleasure of having our latest project, a Venetian plaster finish at a private residence on the Upper East Side of Manhattan photographed by none other than the award winning commercial photographer Scott Morris. These images are just a teaser - can't wait to share the final product.
NY SURFACE STYLES IS A GUEST SPEAKER AT THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART'S CLASS - DESIGNING WITH COLOR TOUGHT BY NINA LOMEO.
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Walls are painting to look like whimsical blocks of wood.
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DESIGN ON A DIME 2012 WAS A HUGE SUCCESS!
"The eighth annual Design on a Dime featured more than 50 of the world's top interior designers, who created unforgettable room vignettes with new merchandise, which was donated and then sold for 50 to 70 percent off retail pricing."
Below is the vignette by Arlene Angard Design and room divider by NY Surface Styles. The room divider is silver leaf with sand stone birch trees, custom designed for the event. Every item in the vignette sold.
An interview with partners Katie Knuth and Leah Jampel.
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You want me to what? Six things you should know about having multiples
Are epidurals mandatory, can I have a home birth and other burning questions you'll have when you're pregnant with twins.
By Tenille Bonoguore
Photo: Pexels
Since in vitro fertilization became mainstream in the 1990s, the rate of multiple births has grown steadily in Canada and around the world. Multiples now account for 3.2 percent of births, compared to two percent in 1991. While that isn't a huge spike, because multiples are considered high risk, it carries an outsized impact on health services.
But just because we're making more multiples doesn't mean that our bodies are any better at bearing or birthing twins and triplets—multiples are still a high-stakes process. To get a handle on what twin-parents-to-be can expect, Today's Parent spoke with Jon Barrett, a senior scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto and co-director of the Sunnybrook Research Institute's Centre for Mother, Infant and Child Research, and asked him to answer some of the most common questions.
1. Are epidurals mandatory? No, but they are highly recommended. And doctors don't just recommend an epidural because it helps alleviate the mother's pain; the babies are actually the main beneficiaries. "Once the first child is delivered, the second gets itself into all kinds of funny positions," says Barrett. "If you have an epidural in place and you're in an operating room, it allows for immediate intervention." If you choose to not have an epidural and complications lead to a Caesarean section, you will likely be put under general anaesthetic and not be conscious for the birth.
2. Will I have a C-section? Not necessarily. The rate of Caesarean birth is higher for multiples, but that's because there is a higher risk of complications. (Rates of pre-eclampsia are two times higher in multiples, and gestational hypertension is two to five times higher.) If all is going well, Barrett says there is no evidence to support choosing a C-section over a vaginal birth. That doesn't hold for triplets, though: You will be scheduled for a Caesarean.
3. Can I still choose a home birth or have a midwife? No. Both home births and midwife deliveries are ruled out, due to the higher risk of complications. In twin pregnancies, the risk of adverse outcomes is much higher than in singleton pregnancies. "Not many people realize this, but having multiples is one of the highest risks you can have in pregnancy, equivalent to gestational hypertension and diabetes," says Barrett. You will likely deliver in an operating room or in a hospital with access to operating equipment.
4. Will the babies come early? About 60 percent of twins are born before 37 weeks—the point at which multiples are considered full term. Late-preterm babies (those born after 32 weeks) face a number of dangers, but the highest risk is for those born before 32 weeks, and twins are 10 times more likely than singletons to be early preemies, born before 30 weeks.
5. Will my twins have developmental delays? The odds are definitely in your favour, but there are things to be aware of. Multiple Births Canada says twins develop in a similar way to singletons, unless there are specific issues due to prematurity or birth defects. Premature babies have two "birth dates": when they were born and when they were due. Their development will be monitored according to their due date, so while they look like they are behind their birth peers, they are probably doing just fine for how old they would be if they'd gone full term. If your babies are behind, don't fret: Studies show that most twins catch up to their singleton peers before they start school, if not earlier.
6. What else should I keep in mind? When it comes to his own misconceptions, Barrett says that his biggest surprise in 20-plus years of specializing in multiple births wasn't a clinical result; it was the impact that having twins (or more) has on families. "I don't think I was aware of the stress of looking after those babies," he says. "Rates of divorce and family violence are higher. Society has trouble realizing that the 'minor' difficulties of singletons are much higher for twins."
Still, knowing that things will be stressful doesn't necessarily help reduce the stress itself. Even the strongest couples will hit hurdles. But at least knowing that the stress is real and that feeling overwhelmed isn't failure might help families reach out and ask for help.
Read more: Twin tricks: advice from a paediatrician and mom of twin girls The lowdown on twin gear
Labour and deliveryMultiplesTwinsNewbornC-sectionPregnant with multiplesPreemiesPreterm labour
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Who Is Going To Win Next Week's 'America's Got Talent' Finale?
After Wednesday night's results show we now know who the ten acts are that will move on to the America's Got Talent finals next week. This is a great group of acts that not only have a great deal of talent but also have shown a lot of courage, growth, and spirit. But ultimately there can be only one winner. Let's speculate wildly on who that will be, shall we?
Angelica Hale
I believe that it will ultimately come down to her and Darci Lynne Farmer. If our post views are any indication, Angelica is second only to Darci Lynne. She's got a HUGE social media following and has RABID fans. She might just pull it off.
However, the odds on favorite to win is Darci Lynne Farmer. Her singing ventriloquism act does two things that are going to put her over the top. She appeals to both the singing fans and the variety fans as well as being one of the most unique acts we've ever seen. We predict a Darci Lynne win.
Kechi
Oh, Kechi. Of all of the stories that have been told this season, none is as tragic and inspiring as Kechi's tale of surviving a plane crash. Plus I just found out she went to the same tiny Houston Catholic college as me. As much as I would like my fellow University of St. Thomas alum to win, I just don't see it happening.
These guys WILL get a huge Las Vegas act out of being on the show. Of that I am certain. But I just don't think they connect with the audience enough to win. They do look good in Spandex though.
Evie Clair
There is a question whether or not Evie will return for the finals after the tragic death of her father. If she does return, it will be hugely popular and extremely brave. If she doesn't, Simon has already promised her a spot next year. We wish her the best.
Chase Goehring
Chase is cute, a good songwriter, and a talented performer. The teen girls like him too. But I don't think he's AGT champion material. I'm sure he'll get a record contract and much love from the ladies from his appearance on the show.
Light Balance
These guys are very cool, no doubt about that. But much like Diavolo I think it's difficult for the audience to really connect with a group of guys doing a wacky dancing act. They'll go home but I bet they get a Vegas show too.
Mandy Harvey
She will be the third contender for the championship along with Darci Lynne and Angelica Hale. The deaf singer with the golden voice is an audience favorite and one of Simon's darlings too. She could pull of an upset.
Preacher Lawson
I love this guy. He's truly hilarious and smart. If this were a comedy competition, he'd surely win. But no comedian has ever won AGT and I doubt that's going to change now.
Sara and Hero
We love Sara Carson here at Talent Recap. It cannot be easy to train those dogs to do what they do with such precision. People have counted her out before and she keeps coming back swinging. So, maybe she'll win?
Tags America's Got Talent angelica hale chase goehring darci lynne farmer diavolo evie clair Kechi light balance Mandy Harvey preacher lawson Sara and Hero
Andrus Chesley says:
Darci all the way. Multi talent by the tons.
Montonay Putter says:
Chase ……
April Ervin says:
i think Darci goneing to win to she is so good
There are a couple of acts that are good in the finale BUT it (has) to be Darci Lynn Farmer. Angelica is GREAT but all she does is sing – really well. Darci has "multiple" talents and should go all the way.
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The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety adopted an own-initiative report by Pavel POC (S&D, CZ) on the implementation of the Plant Protection Products (PPP) Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009.
The evaluation of the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 revealed that the objectives of protecting human and animal health and the environment are not fully being achieved and that improvements could be made in order to achieve all the objectives of the Regulation.
Main conclusions: the report noted in particular that the objectives and instruments of the Regulation and its implementation are not always sufficiently in line with EU policies in the fields of agriculture, health, animal welfare, food security, water quality, climate change, sustainable use of pesticides and maximum residue levels of pesticides in food and feed.
Members recalled that the precautionary principle is clearly not being applied in the risk analysis of pesticides. They found it unacceptable that the approval requirements of safeners and synergists have not yet been applied, contrary to the Regulation. They also considered it unacceptable that the negative list of co-formulants has still not been adopted, especially after the ban on POE-tallowamines in combination with glyphosate, which has highlighted the adverse effects that certain co-formulants can have.
the limited public availability of information on the evaluation and authorisation procedure, as well as the limited access to information.
The Commission is urged to propose improvements to further enhance the transparency of the regulatory process, including on access to the data in safety studies submitted by producers as part of their applications for market authorisation of PPPs in the EU. Members recognise the need to review the procedure in order to improve evaluations, increase the independence of the authorities tasked with carrying out studies, avoid conflicts of interest and make the procedure more transparent.
The report stressed that the authorisation and promotion of low-risk and non-chemical pesticides is an essential measure to support integrated pest management with low pesticide inputs. It recognised the need for more research on these products and underlined the importance of creating an innovation-friendly regulatory framework which will allow the replacement of older chemistry by new and better crop protection products.
increase the overall transparency of the procedures in particular by explaining and justifying the decisions of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed.
ensure effective enforcement of the Regulation, especially as regards controls on the PPPs marketed in the EU and regardless of whether they have been produced in the EU or imported from third countries.
Industry is called on to provide all data and scientific studies in a uniform electronic and machine-readable format to the rapporteur Member States and the EU agencies.
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A new warning for an old problem? The FDA has instituted a warning that antipsychotics may be potentially fatal to elderly patients with dementia. How do we manage dementia related psychosis now? Dr. Michael Jibson joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to make recommendations on how to approach this issue.
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Suzuki's plucky new-for-2013 Jimny off-roader is a superbly reliable vehicle – but its robust off-road capability is certainly going to be put to the test for the vehicle's latest challenge.
At the end of March, five retired avid Suzuki fans will embark on a 28,000-mile fundraising expedition in an around the world tour to raise money for Save the Children and the Oakhaven Hospice in Lymington, Hampshire.
Masterminded by retired businessmen Leslie Carvall, the convoy will start from London's Trafalgar Square on March 31st. It will mark the realisation of Carvall's plan, inspired by a large convoy of classic cars that drove past him on the Paris to Peking rally.
Les realised he wanted to do something similar but this time on a much greater scale and to make it worthwhile for a charitable cause.
As a result, the retired crew – who are all in their 70s – have created the Ultimate Challenge, devising the witty strapline, "Heaven can wait, I'm busy".
The team chose the Suzuki Jimny as its car of choice to prove the arduous five-month trek could be completed in low cost, compact and capable 4x4s – three areas in which the Suzuki Jimny excels.
With an 85hp 1.3-litre petrol engine, a five-speed manual gearbox, permanent four-wheel drive and a low kerb weight of just 1,090kg, the Jimny is the perfect vehicle for the five-strong crew to attempt the trip in.
The team will travel across two cars in pretty much standard spec. The vehicles get all terrain tyres, and a slightly modified spring and damper setup, as well as heavy-duty front and rear bumpers.
The sum total of the mechanical alterations are marginal though, and apart from a few additional luggage racks these pretty much are the same Suzuki Jimnys you could drive out of a Suzuki showroom.
From London the tour will head to France and on to Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland, before aiming for Moscow and beyond.
From all at T W White & Sons, we wish drivers Leslie Carvall, Glyn Maher, Alan Butler, Charles Scott and Peter Streets the best of luck.
Keep checking back as we'll bring you all the news of the "Heaven can wait, I'm busy" expedition.
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Review: The Lucky One
Oh Nicholas Sparks. Oh dear. I respect your success and your ability to write love stories about attractive, white people. I admire the way you…
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News: Tom Lenk Has A Blog!
Okay, so it's news in the loosest sense of the word. If you're saying, "But who even is Tom Lenk?" right now, you should go…
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Review: Not Suitable For Children
Not Suitable For Children begins like an episode of Skins. Housemates Stevie, Gus and Jonah have hatched a plan: throw awesome house parties, collect money…
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Review: 21 Jump Street
I had plenty of reservations about 21 Jump Street. The original show revolved around a group of youthful cops who worked undercover in high schools,…
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Review: Lincoln
Lincoln begins like a documentary, with text and photographs. However, don't be fooled by the slow start, because what follows is 153 minutes of compelling…
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Review-Off: Pitch Perfect
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Review-Off is like a Sing-Off, but with opinions and critique instead of spontaneous harmonies. If you want to declare a winner, feel free. Other reviewers: Sharona…
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Review: Jurassic Park
Can you believe that before 2013, I'd never watched Jurassic Park in full? This week, after having seen the trailer play on a TV at…
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Q: Authorize a WordPress site and a React app with a web hook and token? Problem: The client is using MemberPress/Wordpress as their main platform. The users are being managed there. I built a React app to coexist with the Wordpress platform.
What I have done: Memberpress has webhooks. So when a user logs into WordPress I hook into that action with a node server that inserts the user into a custom database and I generate a token so that the user can access the nodes the user owns within my infrastructure.
module.exports = (req, res) => {
const { id, email } = req.body.data;
request(
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mutation,
{
wpId: id,
email
}
).then(data => {
res.json({ status: "success" });
});
};
The above gets triggered every time a user logs in. This executes a graphQl mutation that has a custom resolver that checks if the user with that wpId exists. If not it will create a new user. Then it generates a node token https://github.com/prisma-archive/graphcool-templates/blob/master/auth/email-password/src/signup.ts and sends back in the response.
Once I obtain the token I can make requests on the user.
Problem: I am not sure how I can connect the two. I have to redirect the user to the wordpress login page. The login action triggers the event, and a token will be generated. I am not sure how I can store that token in an efficient way that can then be sent back to my app.
My thought would be to write a small plugin inside WordPress to handle the response of the hook and store the token in local storage within WordPress. Then whenever the user clicks to go to the app I can put the token in the URL (feels slightly weird and cant directly go to the URL). I am out of any other thoughts and would appreciate a nudge in the right direction.
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You are here: Home > Resources > Illegal Mining Business Resumes In Atewa
Illegal Mining Business Resumes In Atewa
Illegal mining has begun ravaging some parts of the Atewa forest reserves and derailing the fight to secure the landscape from the grip of activities that have the potential of destroying its vegetative cover and water provisioning services, critical for community resilience and climate adaptation.
Information from Community Forest Forum members in Kobreso, indicates that, a site specifically close to the area, is under attack from mining entities connected to persons at the 'top'. So far, two top political officials have been mentioned in this new plot to destroy the Atewa Forest.
Elders in the community alleged that Madam Kate Gyemfuaa, National Women's Organizer for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) together with one Baba Yangro, NPP chairman for Denkyembuo constituency (who are both residents of Akwatia in the Eastern Region), are the faces behind the mining activities at Kobreso.
Ground surveillance carried out by A Rocha Ghana's team has gathered that as at April 3, 2019, the said alleged miner had already deployed an excavator to the site and had begun digging up the earth crust in search for mineral resources. As at the time of the team's visit, the excavator was already about 120 metres from the site. The miner is also said to have shunned warning from the chief and people of the area not to mine in the area as the targeted site is out of bound. The miner has encroached 15 meters into the boundary of the Atewa Forest.
Traitors?
Investigations into the said improprieties have further confirmed an unhealthy relationship between the staff of the Forest Services Division and miners in the area. According to men on ground, an arrest was made following a tipoff of miners in the area but unfortunately, the swoop hit rock bottom as those arrested were released following interventions from "a top official at the Forestry Commission". The FSD Rapid Response Team's journey to the police station was truncated. The arrested culprits were later seen working at the same site where they had been picked about an hour after the arrest. This development comes on the back of persistent report of artisanal mining ongoing under the canopies of the Atewa Forest, which has so far not seen any action from the state agencies concerned.
More collaborators
In the same surveillance, our team found out that one mining company, Motion Mining Company is also alleged to have laid ambush on trees that had been planted under the Taungya system―a Forestry Commission initiative aimed at rehabilitating forest reserves that had been severely affected by the fires of the 1983 drought. The system allocated degraded parts of forest reserves to farmers to grow crops and intercrop with trees. The idea was to ensure that farmers continue to feed on the land while still caring for the trees till the canopy closes and cropping was no longer possible.
Again some of the revenue from the trees when felled was to be given to the farmers involved. The development has left actors of the Taungya system angry about the impunity destroying once lush forest.
But CEO of Motion Mining Company has since denied his company's involvement in any mining operations or felling of trees in the area.
A Rocha Ghana finds it hard to believe that the efforts of the ruling government to clamp down on activities of illegal mining are being muddied by its own flanking members. What is even more appalling is the FSD's involvement in the said illegalities― destroying what the law mandates them to protect.
We therefore call for an investigation into activities that led to the release of the arrested illegal miners even before they could get to the police station. We also want a further probe to ascertain whether or not persons mentioned as brains behind the illegal activities, are indeed perpetrators.
This development raises a lot of questions to the commitment of the state agencies to address deforestation and forest degradation in Ghana. Until we act concertedly to crack down on the criminal activities that are threatening our state gazetted reserves such as the Atewa Forest, the fight against galamsay and other environmental degrading activities would be for naught.
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A South Africa Adventure > ZooLab Ltd.
cies from the dangers of poachers, our team all felt compelled to take action and raise awareness of the issues faced which could easily bring both the black and white rhino to extinction.
ZooLab's ambitions go beyond the UK, 2017's South Africa trip has made the whole ZooLab team even more determined to help protect rhinos at Mankwe Wildlife Reserve.
In August, we sent three of our rangers - Chris, Lilian and Phil - to South Africa where they spent two weeks volunteering with the Nkombi Volunteer Programme in Mankwe Wildlife Reserve. We wanted them to immerse themselves in this unique ecosystem, while experiencing first hand the conservation efforts taking place to protect the wildlife residing in the reserve.
To say our intrepid explorers had an adventure would have be an understatement - their time was spent caring for a baby zebra, fighting wildfires, taking part in bush burns (a controlled burn that can act as a barrier to a wildfire by reducing available fuel sources) and patrolling the reserve on the look out poachers (to name a few).
"My time in South Africa was truly an eye opening experience. From the moment we arrived at Mankwe I could tell the next two weeks were going to be a real treat, from the extremely friendly welcome to the fact we were surrounded by wilderness - it was ticking all the boxes!
It's been very hard to pinpoint one particular highlight as everyday brought up unexpected but exciting events. I think battling the out of control wildfires in Pilanesburg were a once in a life time experience. I've never seen anything like it. Mountains covered in flame and smoke, grabbing tortoises and stuffing them in my camera so I could release them once we were all safe.
My camera lens got so hot that it was uncomfortable to hold, at points it felt like the car would get too hot to sit in! Seeing the caracal was a massive highlight because it's a cat species I had never seen (or expected to!).
It was an amazing experience and everyday was something new and exciting! I must admit zebrasitting, when the others were doing one of the night burns, was so cute.
Seeing the big animals like rhinos, giraffes and elephants in their natural habitat was breathtaking! The elephants particularly impressed me with their sheer size and majestic manner.
I also enjoyed all the burns - they really do give an adrenaline rush, especially when we were trying to get the wildfire in Pilansberg National Park under control…it was slightly scary at times when we were surrounded by the massive fires but also spectacular.
If I had to list all of the new things I learned out in the bush, it would probably have been most of the activities we did! I loved every second of the trip, all the activities, the camp and also all the people we met - they are doing such an incredible job out there! I can't wait to go back next year!"
"I've recently had the pleasure of returning to Mankwe Nature Reserve in South Africa for a second year - this time, I was part of their world renowned volunteer programme.
The ZooLab contingent were staying at the volunteer site Nkombi, right in the heart of the reserve alongside just a handful of other volunteers. It's an amazing site with all the comfort you could ask for and surroundings that are not only beautiful - but full of life.
It was near impossible to sit on the porch of the kitchen and not see birds, lizards and bugs moving around and you need only take a stroll around or look slightly further afield to see the likes of giraffe, zebra, water buck, impala, baboons and even rhinos (to name just a few)!
The programme was full of 'work' such as trekking in the bush looking for snares, setting up camera traps, monitoring rhino, feeding and cleaning a baby zebra, and firefighting!The volunteer programme is an amazing way to contribute and help the cause. It was incredibly rewarding to feel as though our actions actually helped people and animals on the reserve.
A highlight of the trip was the night burns. Night burns are controlled fires lit intentionally to stimulate the growth of desired grassland plants. These controlled fires also lessen the chance of more powerful, destructive wildfires. These fires are like nothing else I have ever experienced - fires the size of a village with orange flames igniting trees and bushes, climbing 4/5 storeys and lighting up the sky! It's an amazing mix of danger and beauty - I was mesmerized, yet alert and seeing the awesome destructive force of fire was incredible.
When visiting Africa, the huge variety of wildlife is always going to be a major highlight! I personally love just simply driving around the reserve and keeping my eyes peeled for all the amazing wildlife on offer. We had amazing luck sighting incredibly rare animals such as caracal, leopard, brown hyena, buffalo, sable, eland, hippopotamus and of course rhino.
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Radio talk show host and author Larry Elder, once a huge fan of Barak Obama for president, has changed his mind after learning that Obama participated in the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Mr. Elder told viewers of the Fox News Channel on Tuesday morning March 18 that after he saw video tapes of Reverend Jeremiah Wright giving his now infamous sermons he has concluded that it is not right to support Senator Obama.
Mr. Elder called Rev. Wright's sermons "screeds" and he said that Senator Obama exhibited very poor judgement in attending religious services orchestrated by Rev. Wright.
Mr. Elder said he was shock parents allowed their children to hear the message of hate delivered by Rev. Wright.
Critics dismiss Barack Obama's plans to bring the "two Americas" together. But, his plans may just work.
Taxes: Barack Obama's America blasts the Bush tax cuts for "unfairly" benefiting the rich. They intend to allow the Bush tax cuts to expire, with resulting higher taxes on income, capital gains and dividends.
Obama's solution: Shared sacrifice. If your last name begins with A through E, Obama will continue the Bush tax cuts. If your last name begins with F through L, Obama will allow the Bush tax cuts to expire. If your last name begins with M through Z, Obama will raise your taxes. Now the following fiscal year, those with last names beginning A through E face a tax increase. The F through L's get the Bush tax cuts. And the L through Z's will have their tax cuts expire. The next fiscal year, Obama will rearrange the cuts, depending, of course, on your last name, and will continue this rotation every year of his administration.
The Iraq war: Obama's America considers the war a failure, a war that "never should have been authorized, and never should have been waged." They feel the Iraq war makes Americans less safe, causes us to take our eye off the ball in Afghanistan, infuriates our allies, and uses funds better spent elsewhere.
Obama's solution: Withdraw all troops by the year 2009. Then send them back in 2010, followed by their return to America in 2011, with another redeployment to Iraq in 2012. These on/off, every-other-year rotations would continue throughout his presidency. This satisfies those who want the troops home immediately. But it also appeases those who consider our national security dependent upon a military presence in Iraq. This policy also confuses our enemy, since they never know whether we are coming or going.
Health care: Obama's America considers health care a right, not a privilege. They want a government-run universal health-care system. They consider it a national disgrace that 47 million people (many here illegally) live in a country without health insurance.
The other America agrees with Claude Castonguay, the father of the Quebec universal health-care system, later adopted by the whole of Canada. Castonguay recently pronounced his country's system a failure, and now urges American-style competition and pushes for a greater role by the private sector.
Obama's solution: Provide universal health insurance to those without it. Allow those happy with their current health-care policies to retain them. Who pays for the uninsured 47 million? Tax Canada.
Global warming: Obama's America considers global warming a dire threat to our planet. As with Al Gore of the Oscar-winning film "An Inconvenient Truth," they consider drastic action necessary to avoid catastrophe.
The other America agrees with General Motors' vice-chairman Bob Lutz, who recently called global warming a "total crock of s—-." They support an analysis in the documentary "The Great Global Warming Swindle," which aired in England on the UK's private channel 4. This America questions the extent to which man-made activity causes increased temperatures. They question whether the Kyoto Protocol — mandating large expenses on industry to control greenhouse gases — actually harms more than helps. Other climatologists/skeptics argue that many factors account for the slight rise in world temperature over the last hundred years, including, but not limited to, solar activity.
Obama's solution: Force Lutz to square off on pay-per-view against Al Gore in an Ultimate Fighting Championship no-holds-barred death match. The winner gets to decide America's policy on climate change.
Larry Elder is a syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author. His latest book, "Stupid Black Men: How to Play the Race Card — and Lose," is available now. To find out more about Larry Elder, visit his Web page at www.LarryElder.com.
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AES will implement a school wide Patriot Discipline Plan in order to promote and reward positive behavior.
No check outs after 2:15 p.m.
ALL car rider drop offs and pick ups must go through the car rider line, which is located at the rear of the school.
For security purposes and your child's safety, no transportation changes will be accepted over the phone. Please send a note to your child's teacher.
No visible cell phones allowed in school building.
No pictures taken in school building without administrative permission or proper authorization.
All parents/guardians/visitors must adhere to the school dress code.
After ten (10) school days, lost clothing, not claimed, will be donated to a charitable organization.
Please see an administrator if you have any questions.
The mission of Austin Peay Elementary School is to provide students with the skills necessary to be successful lifelong learners in positive, safe learning environment.
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We're looking for a motivated, reliable, team player with a 'can-do' attitude to join our friendly and energetic Warehouse team.
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Protests in the NFL are creating quite the controversy on and off the field. In recent events, NFL players have been kneeling to represent racial injustice within the country. The protest has not only caught the eyes of the fans, but everyone around the country. The NFL felt it was necessary to meet with league personnel to discuss the controversy.
Recently, the publicity of the protests has caused tension among fans.
The protest has reached multiple NFL teams like the San Francisco 49ers. Even though the majority of the protests involve kneeling, some NFL teams have responded to this protest in different ways. According to ESPN, earlier in the week players were outraged by the fact that some NFL owners were controlling their choice to stand or not.
Since the protest reached the field, it was time for the NFL to discuss the controversy.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told NFL Network recently that the point of the meeting is to have a talk with NFL personnel about the controversy and figure out how they want to react. Goodell expressed that this protest is a chance to make a difference, not only in the NFL, but throughout the country.
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However, Goodell made it clear that the meeting was meant to connect owners, NFL players and personnel so that they can be on the same page.
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Debt Rattle July 5 2020
July 5, 2020 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:19 am Finance Tagged with: Big Pharma, Columbus, coronavirus, Covid19, epidemic, Flynn, HCQ, revolution, statues, zinc
Nickolay Lamm Jefferson Memorial under 25 feet of water
• On America's Birthday, Celebrating The Corporate-Sponsored Revolution (Taibbi)
• Protesters Pull Down Columbus Statue In Baltimore, Dump In Harbor (ZH)
• COVID19 Close To Losing Epidemic Status In The US – CDC (JTN)
• Hydroxychloroquine Knocked Again: WHO Shuts Down Trials (F.)
• Early Treatment with Zinc, Low Dose HCQ and Azithromycin (Zelenko et al)
• Financial Muscle Of Big Pharma Distorting Science During The Pandemic (RT)
• More Than 200 Scientists Dispute WHO Theory On COVID19 Transmission (BT)
• BP and Shell Write-Off Billions in Assets (ICN)
• Flynn's Prosecution: The More We Learn, The Worse It Seems (Hill)
• False Allegations Of Affair With Flynn Used As Pretext For FBI Probe (JTN)
• Sex Will Be Removed From Dutch ID-Cards (BT)
And there goes Columbus. Who and what's next? Does anyone give any thought anymore to the fact that when all is said and done, Americans will still have to live in their country, together?
The Conservative half of the nation increasingly gets the picture, rightly or wrongly, through their media or their own thoughts, that the other half doesn't just want to change their country, they want to take it away from them.
Sit down and talk before it's too late.
BREAKING: Coronavirus Outbreak
US yesterday 52,104, 7-day average at highest level.
NC, AL, SC, KS, AK all report new highs. National positive rate at 8.1%. FL today now reports 11,458. pic.twitter.com/oxMISixFoV
— Yaneer Bar-Yam (@yaneerbaryam) July 5, 2020
Balkans recently are on a sharp rise, majority of which on highest 7-day average level in two months. Yesterday Bulgaria, Croatia and Montenegro reported their all-time highs. Belarus decrease continues. pic.twitter.com/pHPvyNn0ch
Good news that Australia is taking rapid action imposing strong lockdowns to stop recent outbreaks to contain them locally. Yesterday reported 194 (including some historic cases), highest in three months, today 107. pic.twitter.com/aOrHo8cWDm
Matt Taibbi doesn't hit every single button here, but this is certainly a valiant effort.
It's the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a corporate consultant's white guilt self-help manual, and a New York Times series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong. Much of America has watched in quizzical silence in recent weeks as crowds declared war on an increasingly incoherent succession of historical symbols.
Maybe you nodded as Confederate general Albert Pike was toppled or even when Christopher Columbus was beheaded, but it got a little weird when George Washington was emblazoned with "Fuck Cops" and set on fire, or when they went after Ulysses S. Grant, abolitionist Colonel Hans Christian Heg, "Forward," (a seven-foot-tall female figure meant to symbolize progress), the Portland, Oregon "Elk statue," or my personal favorite, the former slave Miguel de Cervantes, whose cheerful creations Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were apparently mistaken for reals and had their eyes lashed red in San Francisco.
Was a What the Fuck? too much to ask? It was! In the space of a few weeks the level of discourse in the news media dropped so low, the fear of being shamed as a deviationist so high, that most of the weirder incidents went uncovered. Leading press organs engaged in real-time Soviet-style airbrushing. Here's how the Washington Post described a movement that targeted Spanish missionary Junipero Serra, Abraham Lincoln (a "single-handed symbol of white supremacy," according to UW-Madison students), an apple cider press sculpture, abolitionist Mathias Baldwin, and the first all-Black volunteer regiment in the Civil War, among others: "Across the country, protesters have toppled statues of figures from America's sordid past — including Confederate generals — as part of demonstrations against racism and police violence."
The New York Times, once the dictionary definition of "unprovocative," suddenly reads like Pol Pot's Sayings of Angkar. Heading into the Fourth of July weekend, the morning read for upscale white Manhattanites was denouncing Mount Rushmore, urging Black America to arm itself, and re-positioning America alongside more deserving historical parallels in a feature about caste systems: "Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out. The lingering, millenniums-long caste system of India. The tragically accelerated, chilling and officially vanquished caste system of Nazi Germany. And the shape-shifting, unspoken, race-based caste pyramid in the United States."
It's tragic that this even needs saying, but the sudden reinvention in the press of modern America as a Nazi apartheid state is as phony as the thousands of patriotic campaigns that occupied the news media previously. We're witnessing an obscene malfunction of the elite messaging system. The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement.
One down, two to go. When that's done, rename DC. At least be consistent.
A group of protesters in Baltimore spent their 4th of July using ropes to pull down a statue of Christopher Columbus in the city's Little Italy neighborhood – tossing it into the Inner Harbor. The statue, dedicated in 1984, is the latest monument to be destroyed in what President Trump dubbed the "left-wing cultural revolution" by "angry mobs." According to the Baltimore Sun, the Columbus statue has been the site of a wreath-laying ceremony right before the annual Columbus Day parade, which, in 2019 was replaced with the Italian Heritage Festival.
"Republican state delegates and Italian-American activists held a press conference at the statue last month to ask Gov. Larry Hogan and Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young to preserve and protect the memorials, following activists' comments about pulling down the monuments themselves and the introduction of a City Council bill this week to rename one of them in honor of victims of police violence. The downed statue is one of three monuments to Columbus in Baltimore." -Baltimore Sun
Certain to be misunderstood.
Coronavirus deaths in the country have nearly reached a level where the virus will cease to qualify as an epidemic under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules, the federal agency reported on Friday. The CDC qualifies a disease outbreak as an "epidemic" if the number of deaths attributable to the disease exceeds a certain percentage of total deaths per week. That threshold for pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19 fluctuates slightly depending on the time of year, ranging from around 7% at the height of flu season to around 5% during less virulent months. CDC data indicate that deaths from those ailments began skyrocketing in the country around the second week of March, hitting a peak around early May and then plummeting quickly after that.
The latest data show that the percentage of deaths in the country attributable to those factors had as of the last week in June reached its lowest point since the end of last year, becoming "equal to the [current] epidemic threshold of 5.9%," the CDC said. The agency notes that the official tally of deaths "will likely change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks." Yet the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, pneumonia and influenza have been declining for 10 straight weeks, the agency said on its website, suggesting COVID-19 may cease to qualify as an epidemic in the next few weeks. The welcome news comes as fear over a "second wave" of the virus has gripped the U.S., with some states experiencing fresh surges of COVID-19 along with increased hospitalizations.
It is almost funny. One day after a study is published that says HCQ does work, the WHO strikes back again.
The World Health Organization announced Saturday it would suspend trials for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and HIV treatment lopinavir/ritonavir for Covid-19 patients, casting further doubt on the drugs as potential coronavirus treatments. The two drugs "produced little or no reduction" in mortality rates for Covid-19 patients, the WHO's statement read, and that the trial's international steering committee recommended it discontinue the trials for the drugs. The call only applies to this specific trial and will not affect any other studies of how the treatments can be used as a pre- or post-exposure drug or by patients not in hospital, the WHO wrote.
According to Reuters, the WHO is also leading a trial into whether remdesivir, Gilead's antiviral treatment, can be used for Covid-19 infections. Last month, the FDA announced it was withdrawing an emergency use authorization it issued in March for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as Covid-19 treatments because the potential side effects—namely heart problems—outweighed possible benefits, although according to the FDA website the organization is still investigating risks of the two drugs.
The Zelenko research is finally available.
Objective: To describe outcomes of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the outpatient setting after early treatment with zinc, low dose hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin (the triple therapy) dependent on risk stratification. Design: Retrospective case series study. Setting: General practice. Participants: 141 COVID-19 patients with laboratory confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections in the year 2020. Main Outcome Measures: Risk-stratified treatment decision, rate of hospitalization and all-cause death. Results: Of 335 positively PCR-tested COVID-19 patients, 127 were treated with the triple therapy. 104 of 127 met the defined risk stratification criteria and were included in the analysis.
In addition, 37 treated and eligible patients who were confirmed by IgG tests were included in the treatment group (total N=141). 208 of the 335 patients did not meet the risk stratification criteria and were not treated. After 4 days (median, IQR 3-6, available for N=66/141) of onset of symptoms, 141 patients (median age 58 years, IQR 40-60; 73% male) got a prescription for the triple therapy for 5 days. Independent public reference data from 377 confirmed COVID-19 patients of the same community were used as untreated control. 4 of 141 treated patients (2.8%) were hospitalized, which was significantly less (p<0.001) compared with 58 of 377 untreated patients (15.4%) (odds ratio 0.16, 95% CI 0.06-0.5).
"The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet are the two most influential, most highly resourced medical journals in the world. If they no longer have the ability to detect what is essentially fraudulent research, then… Then what?"
This idea was further reinforced by the knowledge that it has some effects on reducing the so-called 'cytokine storm' that is considered deadly with Covid-19. It's prescribed in rheumatoid arthritis to reduce the immune attack on joints. The other reason for recommending hydroxychloroquine is that it's extremely safe. It is, for example, the most widely prescribed drug in India. Billions upon billions of doses have been prescribed. It is available over the counter in most countries. So, I felt pretty comfortable in recommending that it could be tried. At worst, no harm would be done. Then hydroxychloroquine became the center of a worldwide storm. On one side, wearing the white hats, were the researchers who'd used it early on, where it seemed to show some significant benefits.
For example, Professor Didier Raoult, of the Institut Hospitalo-universitaire Méditerranée Infection, in France: "A renowned research professor in France has reported successful results from a new treatment for Covid-19, with early tests suggesting it can stop the virus from being contagious in just six days." Then came this research from a Moroccan scientist at the University of Lille: "Jaouad Zemmouri … believes that 78 percent of Europe's Covid-19 deaths could have been prevented if Europe had used hydroxychloroquine… Morocco, with a population of 36 million [roughly one tenth that of the US], has only 10,079 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and only 214 deaths. "Professor Zemmouri believes that Morocco's use of hydroxychloroquine has resulted in an 82.5 percent recovery rate from Covid-19 and only a 2.1 percent fatality rate, in those admitted to hospital."
Just prior to this, on May 22, a study was published in The Lancet, stating that hydroxychloroquine actually increased deaths. It then turned out that the data used could not be verified and was most likely made up. The authors had major conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies making anti-viral drugs. In early June, the entire article was retracted by Horton. Then a UK study came out suggesting that hydroxychloroquine did not work at all. Discussing the results, Professor Martin Landray, an Oxford University professor who is co-leading the Randomised Evaluation of Covid-19 Therapy (RECOVERY) trial, stated: "This is not a treatment for Covid-19. It doesn't work. This result should change medical practice worldwide. We can now stop using a drug that is useless."
The study has since been heavily criticized by other researchers, who state that the dose of hydroxychloroquine used was potentially toxic. It was also given far too late to have any positive effect. Many of the patients were already on ventilators. This week, I was sent a pre-proof copy of an article about a study that will be published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases. Its author has found that hydroxychloroquine "significantly" decreased the death rate of patients involved in the analysis. The study analyzed 2,541 patients hospitalized in six hospitals between March 10 and May 2 2020, and found 13 percent of those treated with hydroxychloroquine died and 26 percent of those who did not receive the drug died.
Smaller droplets.
More than 230 scientists from 32 different countries have signed an open letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO) disputing the official view on how the coronavirus Covid-19 can be spread by aerosol. The official view of Covid-19 transmission supports two methods: droplets of saliva from an infected person produced during coughing or sneezing, which are then inhaled by someone else in the vicinity; and particles picked up from surfaces contaminated by such droplets, and then introduced to eyes, nose or mouth by someone else. However the open letter, due to be published next week in a scientific journal, argues that there is a third method.
In normal circumstances people produce aerosol droplets when singing or even speaking, which are much smaller than those produced in coughing and sneezing, and which because of their size, hang longer in the air and are also more likely to be carried on currents of air. The case for aerosol transmission came to light when 53 members of a 61-member choir in the US became infected in March despite observing sanitary measures. Two of those infected died. Scientists suggested that group singing was the source of the infection: a large group of people in a confined space breathing more or less in time with each other, and breathing in and out more forcefully than usual while singing.
That case was supported when news emerged of a restaurant in the Chinese city of Guangzhou, and an outbreak that took place there that affected ten people from three families dining at separate tables. One person from one of the families had recently returned from Wuhan, where the pandemic started, but was without symptoms.
And will announce again they go green.
Two of the world's largest energy companies have sent their strongest signals yet that the coronavirus pandemic may accelerate a global transition away from oil, and that billions of dollars invested in fossil fuel assets could go to waste. This week, Royal Dutch Shell said it would slash the value of its oil and gas assets by up to $22 billion amid a crash in oil prices. The announcement came two weeks after a similar declaration by BP, saying it would reduce the value of its assets by up to $17.5 billion. Both companies said the accounting moves were a response not only to the coronavirus-driven recession, but also to global efforts to tackle climate change. Some analysts say the global oil and gas industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation and is finally being forced to reckon with a future of dwindling demand for its products.
"I think we may look back on this as the turning point, the moment the industry finally started to say that real assets with real dollar figures associated with them are likely to be 'stranded'"—or left undeveloped—"in a decarbonizing world," said Andrew Logan, senior director of oil and gas at Ceres, a sustainable business advocacy group that has represented major investors in their engagement with oil companies. "This is a huge turnaround from the industry's previous stance, which had been that no existing assets were likely to be stranded, that there may be risks in the future, but not in the here and now. That acknowledgment, that the risk is real and it's here in the present, is a really big deal."
Flynn's attorney, Sidney Powell, petitioned the court to order Sullivan to dismiss the appeals court case. Since both the prosecution and defense agree that the case should be dismissed, it had been in judicial limbo while the judge was deciding if he wanted to dismiss it or move forward with sentencing. This is the second federal court in less than a year to rebuke the FBI, with Judge Neomi Rao's opinion noting the agency's handling of cases related to the failed Russia collusion narrative. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court also did so in December.
The second, and perhaps more significant, news was the revelation that additional evidence in the FBI's possession was not previously turned over to Flynn or his attorneys. In a landmark case that is rapidly becoming known to many Americans, the Supreme Court held in Brady v. Maryland in 1963 that prosecutors must disclose the existence of exculpatory evidence to a defendant, regardless of how they obtained it or if it relates to their theory of prosecution. And therein lies a two-part problem with the recent disclosure of a handwritten note by fired deputy assistant FBI director Peter Strzok.
The first problem is that such nondisclosure would even occur — especially in the courtroom of Judge Sullivan, who was burned by prosecutors' violations of the Brady rule, including the 2008 prosecution of former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). Sullivan starts his trials with a strict admonition about Brady and stresses the continuing obligation on the part of the government. The second concern is that Strzok's notes appear to document that then-President Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden were driving a criminal investigation of a senior official of an incoming administration from the Oval Office.
Halper's role is ugly on multiple fronts.
Svetlana Lokhova's life flipped upside down when she became ensnared in what she describes as a completely false narrative that she had recruited Michael Flynn to work with the Russian government. Lokhova, an immigrant from Russia to Britain who worked as an academic at the world-renowned Cambridge University, found herself facing allegations that she had been involved in an affair with Flynn. A new mother at the time, Lokhova described herself as "absolutely gobsmacked" by the allegations. She explained during an interview on the "John Solomon Reports" podcast that she met Flynn once in 2014 when he visited Cambridge while he was serving as the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
She was seated across the table and one seat down from Flynn at a 2014 dinner that was held after Flynn had delivered a presentation, she said. During the dinner, Lokhova spoke about a postcard written by a young Joseph Stalin in 1912 that she had discovered in the Soviet archives. Flynn viewed the document on her iPad and requested that Lokhova email him a copy. She obliged, emailing it to Flynn and copying Flynn's assistant. When Flynn left the event, Lokhova said, she remained and spoke with others about "how successful the dinner was." During the podcast, Lokhova recalled an incident when an American man at Cambridge named Stefan Halper fell asleep and snored during a presentation that she gave.
But despite his apparent lack of interest in her, Halper in 2016 wanted to have dinner with her. Halper requested "through my professor to have a private dinner with me at my professor's house," Lokhova said. She declined to attend, and said that this occurred shortly after Flynn was announced as a Trump campaign adviser. Lokhova said that an FBI memo revealed that Halper told the FBI that he witnessed Lokhova departing the Cambridge dinner in a cab with Flynn and boarding a train along with him. She said Halper also claimed she was affiliated with Russian intelligence. Lokhova said all of those allegations are false and that Halper did not even attend the dinner. "But based on this completely false statement that I somehow seduced General Flynn, they start investigating General Flynn for espionage," she said.
Fine by me, fine by me. But a Dutch guy had me laugh when he wrote: "I don't know about yours, but my ID card only has a photo of my head on it".
Identity cards in the Netherlands will no longer state whether the holder is male or female, from 2024 or 2025. With this decision, the government wants to meet people who, for example, do not feel entirely male or female. The sex indication will not be removed until about four years from now, as the production of identity cards would be reviewed then anyway, making the costs and consequences of the change "limited," according to Dutch Minister for Emancipation Ingrid van Engelshoven. However, the law and the instructions for the police still have to be amended. Interest groups COC Nederland (lesbians, gay men, bisexual, transgender and intersexual people), NNID (sex diversity) and TNN (transgender people) have been arguing for this for some time.
They are happy with the plans and call it "great news for people who have problems with that indication of sex on their identity documents day in, day out," reports Het Laatste Nieuws. According to the organisations, the removal offers a solution to people who keep getting unnecessary and indiscreet questions at counters, on the train or at the border. For the time being, international passports will retain a sex indication. The Cabinet wants to wait and see if other countries want to get rid of gender registration, reports NOS. Germany, for example, has had an identity card without the designation 'man' or 'woman' for some time now, and an increasing number of countries are offering the same possibility.
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Raúl Ilargi Meijer
Nickolay Lamm Jefferson Memorial under 25 feet of water • On America's Birthday, Celebrating The Corporate-Sponsored Revolution (Taibbi) • Prot
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 5 2020]
Kanye for president:
He does not appear to have registered his name with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for November's election. The closest name the FEC database shows is a candidate called "Kanye Deez Nutz West", who filed their papers with the Green Party in 2015 under the address "1977 Golddigger Avenue, Suite Yeezus" and appears to have raised no money.
V. Arnold
Well, at least humor is still present…
Dr. D
Are those cars on the bridge? What?
Ending the reign of terror of racist elk. Or possibly patriarchical hetero elk. No one can tell as the people toppling them can't give a coherent answer. I think they toppled a fish yesterday too.
The WHO has killed half or three-quarters of a million people so far, why stop now? I mean, they do this pretty regularly, but it doesn't usually attract so much media attention. The answer is to believe Science, that is, the Lancet and JAMA. Whose editors wrote years ago their Science was compromised beyond repair, and who published transparently false studies, immediately retracted with great outcry, and whom we immediately read, quote, and believe slavishly again.
Like this: " More Than 200 Scientists Dispute WHO Theory On COVID19 Transmission (BT)"
Masks don't work. Science already said that, but we're out with our pocket-posies and buffalo rattles 'cause we're all modern and logical and stuff. …Or actually they do work: they work to confound easy facial-recognition and therefore rig elections and overthrow nations in textbook CIA manner. Yawn. Boring. And they wonder how it became a tribal symbol instead of a medical action when medicine itself says it's not an useful action but a symbol of obedience.
"may accelerate a global transition away from oil"
WTF? Like what do these possibly have in common? "Hey, dude, we don't have like, A N Y money, he he, but we do have this psychedelic super-mellow, so we're going to…ya know…he he he…Ya know…invest in s—t that has no EIEO rate of return but does require leveling mountains of lithium and rare earths…an' s—t."
Translation: we wanted to do it although it makes no logical or engineering or social sense, and is therefore a front to an agenda we're not admitting: total control via total death by engineered scarcity. Because it's totally, transparently illogical anyway, doesn't matter what excuse we get our press-whores to write, because it wouldn't make sense anyway. Just write and repeat. There's plenty of dumb, suicidal people who will believe anything for money and to be popular.
"Flynn's Prosecution: The More We Learn, The Worse It Seems (Hill)"
Speaking of writing things anyway: hahaha! Nobody cares! RussiaRussiaRussia! They're interfering in our elections that Donald Trump will steal which is why we need less-secure mail-in voting! "Gentlemen of the Jury, ex-Zip-it A" "Zip it good!" "Www.ZipIt.com"!
Doesn't matter what's true when no one reports it and no one believes it. …I mean other than when your whole society collapses and you die in a ditch starving in a landscape of ruin and tyranny wondering what went wrong. Other than that, no difference at all.
"False Allegations Of Affair With Flynn Used As Pretext For FBI Probe (JTN) "
This was insane in a world that beggars the use of "insane." He sat across a dinner party from her once. Therefore we wiretap the opposition candidate and remove an elected President. I say great! Since we can investigate anyone for eating Russian Dressing, surely it's fine to wiretap 6-levels of Biden, Schiff, Brennan… And do it forever since you'll clearly win every (unequal, rigged) election for 100 years. Oh it's not okay? Funny ol' world. So the Donald is bad and a dictator because he's apparently not doing this and is opposed to it happening in 2020 or ever again? But they other side is NOT a dictator because they do and did. Got it! Right!
Can you put a photo of a heteronormative patriarchical elk on your ID? May be the only place it's safe. But I identify as…Idris Elba. Peter the Great. Jimmy the Greek. And Hellen Keller. But mostly the elk.
July 5, 2020 at 12:07 pm #60841
A fitting end to a great rant Dr. D; keep on trucking….
July 5, 2020 at 1:12 pm #60843
zerosum
covid19 cases down for 3rd day
https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=genie+wishes+gone+wrong&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHgPOllrbqAhVRFzQIHURxAGwQsAR6BAgIEAE&biw=1060&bih=436
In the Bible, Lot's wife is a figure first mentioned in Genesis 19. The Book of Genesis describes how she became a pillar of salt after she looked back at Sodom.
https://www.google.com/search?source=univ&tbm=isch&q=pillar+of+salt&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjzyoeal7bqAhV-GDQIHRHSCU4QsAR6BAgFEAE&biw=1060&bih=436
You wished for a change
Cuba-geddon? Amid COVID Crisis, Havana Tells Citizens To "Grow Your Own Food" Or Starve
COVID Impact – 1.5 Billion Pound Potato Mountain Trapped In Supply Chain
Permanent Job Losses Will Be A Rude Awakening For The Stock Market
Stanford Doc: COVID Fatality Rate For People Under 45 Is "Almost 0%"
my parents said know
When will they pull down the bull on Wall Street? Not that it will get rid of the bull on Wall Street…
In the great flood here in 2011; the Thais used bridges as safe parking places for their cars…
I can only assume the same for the D.C. flood…
July 6, 2020 at 1:30 am #60847
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Early Treatment with Zinc, Low Dose HCQ and Azithromycin (Zelenko et al)
Maybe download it now in case it disappears.
VietnamVet
Dr. D sure can catch inconsistencies. I knew something was wrong since I used to commute that way across 14th Street Bridge for decades. So, I googled it. It is a bad photoshop of the projected 25-foot rise of water at high tide from climate change. My first thought was that, by then, dikes would have been built to protect the highway and Metro's tunnel entrance. But, after reconsideration, Washington DC's surrender to the coronavirus pandemic indicates that nothing will be built. What will be flooded will be flooded.
This is part and parcel of the basic failure of the belief that money defines everything. Profit comes treating the disease not preventing it. A complete amoral reversal of the Hippocratic oath; "First do no harm".
BLM protesters in Seattle kept a freeway closed for several days by parking vehicles and occupying the space.
Late Friday night a guy tried to drive his 2013 Jaguar fast through and around the improvised roadblock. What I see in the few seconds of video is that the white car swerves around a parked white van, swerves the other way to miss a crowd of protesters, hits 2 protesters who the driver could not have seen through the white van, and who could not have see the car approaching at high speed. The video ends as the driver slows to apparently stop.
Summer Taylor RIP, was a 24 year old white girl who worked as a vererinary technician, and was well liked and personable. https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/1-protester-dead-1-injured-after-car-rams-seattle-protest.html
Dawit Kelete, the driver of the white Jaguar, is a 27 year old former University soccer player, who studied business, and is from Ethiopia or Eritrea. https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/dawit-kelete/
How's this working out for everybody?
Can we work together to fix anything yet?
Doc Robinson
If you click on the flood photo, you can see the article What Will Sea Level Rise Look Like in Real Life?
Original photo:
Boogaloo
Hmmm. I am not sure I am buying these fictional pictures. The incoming water would slowly kill those trees and change the vegetation. Wind and storms would make it impossible to have a spotless monument surrounded by all of that green swampy water. The picture shows what a temporary flood might look like, but not the long term consequence of rising waters from global warming.
BLM is no revolution. It's just a mob. A true revolution targets institutions, not individuals. And even those fake revolutions that roll out the guillotine for individuals, they only have a chance of success if they target the key individuals in those institutions, rather than Joe Sixpack out on the street. BLM is a sideshow. It is designed to quench the thirst for blood while the looting continues. Nope, there will be no coming together to fix things — not when it is impossible to even have a conversation about what needs to be fixed.
By the way, for history lovers out there, may I recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast. Right now I am listening to Season 10, which covers the Russian Revolution. It is nice to hear such an informative podcast that does not seek to persuade, but to simply explain what happened and why. He is a good storyteller. Years ago I listened to his History of Rome podcast, which was brilliant — and which inspired a lot of other history podcasts.
By the way, for history lovers out there, may I recommend Mike Duncan's Revolutions podcast.
Thanks for that reminder; I'd forgotten about Duncan's podcast.
He did a very good job on the French Revolution as well…
Here's a link:
https://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
Debt Rattle July 4 2020 Debt Rattle July 6 2020
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The Series/Model columns correspond to VIN series & body style and not Fisher Body plate Style numbers.
(2) Production for Canada is reported at 16,285 units; 10,761 L6 and 5,524 V8 Chevelles but are not broken down by specific series/model.
Vintage Vehicle Services documentation does indicate 1,425 Malibu SS sport coupes (5837) were built for sale in Canada.
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Fort Lauderdale, FL – The price of gas dropped for most people across the country during the past week, according to the latest release from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. However, substantial price increases in California and a smaller increase in gas prices in the midwest caused the national average to edge upward slightly. Nonetheless, the technical average remained unchanged on the week at $2.03 for a gallon of regular unleaded.
For drivers in California, the price of gas went up a heart-stopping nine cents per gallon to settle at an average $2.83. That dragged west coast prices six cents higher on the week. Drivers across the midwest were hit with a price increase for the first time in over a month, as the cost of gas lurched upward by about three cents. Still, that region remains the second cheapest place in the country to fill up the tank. For all other survey regions, the price of gas was down on the week.
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DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware officials have confirmed that the death last month of an inmate who was charged in a fatal prison riot last year was a suicide.
Delaware's public safety department confirmed in an email Friday that 30-year-old Kelly Gibbs killed himself on Nov. 22, just days after pleading guilty to rioting, kidnapping and conspiracy in the February 2017 riot. Officials refused to disclose how Gibbs died.
This story has been corrected to show that Delaware's public safety department, not the Department of Correction, confirmed the inmate's suicide in an email.
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Uncovering Jeff Brown's 5g Stock Pick As "The #1 Tech Stock ...
"" is an online presentation by widely known and particular investor and advisor, Jeff Brown. In this discussion, he is marketing his newsletter service, called the . In addition, the stock he is reviewing and encouraging on in the online video is a business that remains in the technology space and makes semiconductor chips.
A semiconductor chip smaller than a fingernail can hold millions of circuits. Usually, these are simply called "chips." This company has actually designed a chip that will be used to access the 5G network which is presently being set up in lots of areas on the planet. 5G is anticipated to totally transform the method the world uses the internet.
Brown goes over that the greatest impact will be of "technologies of the future." What are "technologies of the future"? Some examples would be: self-governing automobiles, Internet of Things (IoT), hologram innovation, robotic surgical treatment, language translation without delays, enhanced reality, and virtual truth. That's a lot! But it will also impact on things we utilize every day.
For example, Samsung has actually currently begun including 5G capability to its new phone releases. In fact, Jeff showcases one that can utilize 5G. However, the real factor Brown brings out a 5G phone is to talk about the business making the much discussed RF semiconductor chip inside the phone that gives it that 5G capacity.
Brown says that the demand for those chips by other phone producers might significantly boost the chip maker's earnings and cause a strong rise in its stock rate. So far, giant tech companies like Samsung, Huawei, and Apple have placed orders for the extremely demanded 5G chips. With these essential partnerships in location, its stock might soar in the next couple of years as strong need for 5G-capable smartphones dramatically rises.
New York City, NY - ( NewMediaWire) - September 05, 2020 - With the global coronavirus pandemic currently sweeping the globe, it is becoming increasingly important for investors to optimize their cost savings and build on their current capital. In this regard, the current model of the Future Report consists of an entire host of information regarding an "financial weapon" that has the potential to interfere with the Chinese economy to a tune of nearly $15 trillion.
In his view, the US military is presently working in close conjunction with numerous significant business like Apple, Amazon, and Google to produce a weapon that will paralyze the Chinese economy to a point where the Eastern powerhouse's international dominance will finally come to an end. A Closer Look at the Future Report's Task Xi In the latest version of the Near Future Report, Jeff Brown has laid out a number of profitable monetary opportunities.
Also, it deserves discussing that Brown constantly compares the scope of Job Xi to the Manhattan Task. In truth, the 2 have nothing in typical other than the fact that both projects were developed and worked upon at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For the history buffs out there, the Oak Ridge laboratory was where the Hiroshima-Nagasaki a-bombs were also established.
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Miriam Macaia Martins (n. Tomar, 1985) é uma violinista, violetista e cantora portuguesa.
É licenciada em Música Antiga (violino barroco) pela Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo do IPP, no Porto.
Violinista e violetista no agrupamento musical Divino Sospiro, com residência permanente no Centro Cultural de Belém, assim como violinista da Orquestra Barroca da Casa da Música.
Participa regularmente, com violino e/ou canto, em eventos relacionados com a editora FlorCaveira.
Ligações externas
Violinistas de Portugal
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Burch Family Wines
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The wild and remote Great Southern region of Western Australia is still writing its first chapter of vinous history and exploring vast untapped potential. The book on Burgundy stretches back over centuries, and its distinction is firmly established. Marchand & Burch unites these distant lands to create a new perspective on Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. Explore both collections below.
Australian Collection
The heart of the Australian Collection is in the Great Southern, from the wild and remote Mount Barrow Vineyard. Planted by the Burch Family in 2005 the vineyard faces the formidable Southern Ocean, and its unique microclimate meets an ancient geology where gravel and granite combine to test the resilience of the maturing vines and which gives expression, character and distinct terroir to the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir.
The French Collection brings wines from the great vineyards of the Côte d'Or and beyond to Australia. Since the first vintages from 2007 Pascal's own holdings of vines in Burgundy have increased to include 8 hectares of Village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru appellations. We are pleased to offer a lively Crémant de Bourgogne sparkling along with our range of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, and could also not resist the allure of some old vine Gamay to make our Cru Beaujolais from Morgon.
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The French Collection of wines from Burgundy is a realisation of the ambition of Jeff and Pascal to collaborate in a meaningful way to bring wines from the great vineyards of the Côte d'Or and beyond to Australia. Since the first vintages from 2007 were released the range has expanded as Pascal's own holdings of vines in Burgundy have increased. He now owns 8ha of Village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru appellations, as well as continuing to source fruit from a trusted network of family growers. We are pleased to offer a lively Crémant de Bourgogne sparkling along with our range of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. All our wines are sealed under screwcap, and we were among the first producers in Burgundy to seal a Grand Cru wine with this ever reliable closure.
To further understand the way the vineyards of Burgundy are classified we recommend this article on the official Burgundy website
Appellations that we currently have available or are coming in 2021 include the following:
Appellations Regionale:
Cremant de Bourgogne NV
Appellations Village:
Chablis 2020 (arriving August 2021)
Marsannay 2018, 2017
Gevrey-Chambertin 2018
Chambolle-Musigny 2018
Vosne-Romanée 2018, 2017
Nuits-Saint-Georges 2018, 2017
Côte de Nuits – Villages 2018
Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Planchots 2019 (arriving August 2021)
Appellations Premier Crus:
Gevrey-Chambertin Champeaux 2019 (arriving August 2021)
Morey-Saint-Denis Les Genavrieres 2019 (arriving August 2021)
Morey-Saint-Denis Les Millandes 2018
Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Vergelesses 2019 (arriving August 2021)
Savigny-Les-Beaune Les Lavières 2018, 2017
Beaune Clos du Roi 2018
Volnay Fremiets 2018
Appellations Grand Crus:
Clos de la Roche Grand Cru 2018
Appellations Cru Beaujolais:
Morgon 2019
The heart of the Australian collection is the estate Mount Barrow Vineyard, planted by the Burch Family in 2005 and much admired by Pascal Marchand on his visit to Western Australia the following year. The vineyard faces south to the formidable Southern Ocean, its unique microclimate meets an ancient geology where gravel and granite combine to test the resilience of the maturing vines. It is this struggle which gives expression and character in the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir that speak solely of this environment and nowhere else.
The Australian collection now comprises five wines: The Villages wines are exuberant, varietal and ready to drink. The Villages Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are crafted from the younger vines at the bottom of the Mount Barrow vineyard and are matured in tanks and larger format old oak barrels to emphasis vibrancy and fruit freshness. The Villages Rosé is a homage to the Provençal style and uses old vine Grenache and Shiraz to convey the delicate, alluring, spicy and mineral characters which makes these wines so unashamedly enjoyable.
At the top of vineyard, which rises to 380 metres above sea level, the original plantings of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay are maturing into their second decade, and comprise a selection of prized French clones along with the revered Gin Gin clone of Chardonnay which has been planted in Western Australia for over fifty years. These vines give rise to the two wines that express the aspiration and achievement of the Australian Collection, the Mount Barrow Pinot Noir and Mount Barker Chardonnay. Fruit of great presence and depth can handle some carefully selected new French oak to enhance structure and cellaring potential, without masking the varietal character or the voice of the terroir. These two wines represent the ongoing dream of Jeff Burch to unlock the full potential of the Great Southern and have been appreciated in their evolution by lovers of fine wine and esteemed critics over the last decade.
For more information and reviews of the Australian collection, and to purchase the wines, visit the product pages of the individual wines in our online shop. And check out our blog for stories about the history and exciting future of the Mount Barrow Vineyard.
Current vintages of the Australian collection wines are:
2020 Villages Rosé
2018 Villages Chardonnay
2020 Villages Pinot Noir
2018 Mount Barker Charodnnay
2018 Mount Barrow Pinot Noir
Burgundy – or "Bourgogne" to the French – is like a foundation stone to the world of fine wine, producing inimitable examples of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay, varieties born of (and inseparable from) its historic wine landscape. It is the birthplace of the unique and abiding concept of terroir; the notion that fine wine can bear the distinctive imprint of its originating place, with the winemaker a conduit for the careful translation of soil, season and vine into an authentic sensory experience in the glass.
The region itself occupies a compact strip of Eastern France where favourable areas, characterised by limestone soils, are completely covered with vines – their dominance yielding only to a network of small, ancient villages which carry some of the most famous names in the world of wine. The climate is continental and highly variable with a relatively short summer. Vineyards are vulnerable to frost and hail and vignerons are constantly challenged by the vagaries of nature when growing and ripening their fruit.
The heart of Burgundy is the Côte d'Or; this "golden slope" of prized land is only two kilometres wide and stretches 40 kilometres from Dijon in the North to the River Dheune in the South. Its mosaic of vineyards has been completely classified into a hierarchy of quality over centuries by monks, farmers, family Domaines and Negociant wine producers. All the Village, Premier Cru and Grand Cru wines of Marchand and Burch are from vineyards within its limits, and particularly the northern section, the Côte de Nuits, which is dominated by plantings of Pinot Noir.
The Great Southern is Australia's largest delineated wine region by area, stretching nearly 200 kilometres both north-to-south and east-to-west along the isolated south coast of Western Australia. Only a very small portion of this larger area is under vine, the remainder being occupied by forest or farmland unsuitable for viticulture. To bring some vinous focus to its vast remoteness, the five main wine producing areas have been officially classified into subregions.
The Mount Barker and Porongurup subregions are of primary importance for Marchand and Burch's production of Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. These two adjacent areas lie 40 kilometres north of the Southern Ocean, with a cool maritime climate strongly influenced by the inland movement of cold ocean air. This moderates the temperature during the growing season, allowing for longer ripening and the development of complex flavour profiles, which then translate from grape to wine.
The vineyards in both these subregions lie above some of the world's oldest recorded geology, and imposing granite outcrops are a signature feature. With very little soil disturbance or erosion over many centuries even the soil material itself is highly distinctive. This striking contrast with Burgundy was particularly meaningful and exciting for Pascal Marchand and he convinced Jeff to focus their collaborative energy on these vineyards in the pursuit of an ultimate expression of "new world" terroir.
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Q: How to integrate Google Pay API in Xamarin Form? I want to do payment using google pay in xamarin.form.
Google pay always throw error: "Payment Failed. this transaction may be risky. for your safety it can't be completed at this time."
2 question: Do I have to do any configuration in google Pay API Console?
Below is my code for android application:
public class MainActivity : global::Xamarin.Forms.Platform.Android.FormsAppCompatActivity
{
int gpay_requestCode = 123;
protected override void OnCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
{
base.OnCreate(savedInstanceState);
Xamarin.Essentials.Platform.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
global::Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, savedInstanceState);
LoadApplication(new App());
MessagingCenter.Subscribe<string>(this, "PayViaGooglePay", (value) =>
{
PayViaGooglePay();
});
}
private void PayViaGooglePay()
{
if (IsGooglePayInstalled())
{
string GOOGLE_PAY_PACKAGE_NAME = "com.google.android.apps.nbu.paisa.user";
int GOOGLE_PAY_REQUEST_CODE = 123;
Uri uri =
new Uri.Builder()
.Scheme("upi")
.Authority("pay")
.AppendQueryParameter("pa", "9725258448@okbizaxis")
.AppendQueryParameter("pn", "Gurukrupa")
.AppendQueryParameter("mc", "5812")
.AppendQueryParameter("tr", "123456789")
.AppendQueryParameter("tn", "test")
.AppendQueryParameter("am", "1")
.AppendQueryParameter("cu", "INR")
.Build();
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ActionView);
intent.SetData(uri);
intent.SetPackage(GOOGLE_PAY_PACKAGE_NAME);
StartActivityForResult(intent, GOOGLE_PAY_REQUEST_CODE);
}
}
protected override void OnActivityResult(int requestCode, Result resultCode, Intent data)
{
if (requestCode == gpay_requestCode)
{
if (data != null)
{
string response = data.GetStringExtra("response");
string[] resArray = response.Split("&");
string txnId = resArray[0].Split("=")[1].ToString();
string responseCode = resArray[1].Split("=")[1].ToString();
string status = resArray[2].Split("=")[1].ToString();
string txnRef = resArray[3].Split("=")[1].ToString();
if (status == "SUCCESS")
{
Toast.MakeText(this, "Payment Success", ToastLength.Long).Show();
}
else
{
Toast.MakeText(this, "Payment Failed", ToastLength.Long).Show();
}
}
else
{
Toast.MakeText(this, "Payment Failed", ToastLength.Long).Show();
}
}
}
private bool IsGooglePayInstalled()
{
PackageManager pm = this.PackageManager;
bool installed = false;
try
{
pm.GetPackageInfo("com.google.android.apps.nbu.paisa.user", PackageInfoFlags.Activities);
installed = true;
}
catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e)
{
Toast.MakeText(this, "Google Pay Is Not Installed", ToastLength.Long).Show();
}
return installed;
}
This code will open google pay application, but when I do payment it throw error "Payment Failed. this transaction may be risky. for your safety it can't be completed at this time."
Please help me and share me your suggestion.
Thanks in advance.
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Synthetic peptide within Human SMAD5. The exact sequence is proprietary.
Our Abpromise guarantee covers the use of ab168252 in the following tested applications.
Transcriptional modulator activated by BMP (bone morphogenetic proteins) type 1 receptor kinase. SMAD5 is a receptor-regulated SMAD (R-SMAD).
Cytoplasm. Nucleus. Cytoplasmic in the absence of ligand. Migrates to the nucleus when complexed with SMAD4.
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of rat liver tissue labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + S465) with purified ab92698 at a dilution of 1/800. Heat mediated antigen retrieval was performed using Tris/EDTA buffer pH 9. ab97051, a HRP-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) was used as the secondary antibody (1/500). Negative control using PBS instead of primary antibody. Counterstained with hematoxylin.
This data was developed using the same antibody clone in a different buffer formulation containing PBS, BSA, glycerol, and sodium azide (ab92698).
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of mouse liver tissue labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + S465) with purified ab92698 at a dilution of 1/800. Heat mediated antigen retrieval was performed using Tris/EDTA buffer pH 9. ab97051, a HRP-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) was used as the secondary antibody (1/500). Negative control using PBS instead of primary antibody. Counterstained with hematoxylin.
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of human cervical carcinoma tissue labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + S465) with purified ab92698 at a dilution of 1/800. Heat mediated antigen retrieval was performed using Tris/EDTA buffer pH 9. ab97051, a HRP-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) was used as the secondary antibody (1/500). Negative control using PBS instead of primary antibody. Counterstained with hematoxylin.
Dot blot analysis of SMAD5 (pS463 + pS465) peptide (Lane 1), SMAD5 (pS465) peptide (Lane 2), SMAD5 (pS463) peptide (Lane 3) and SMAD5 non-phospho peptide (Lane 4) labelling SMAD5 (pS465) with purified ab92698 at a dilution of 1/1000. ab97051 (Peroxidase conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L)) was used as the secondary antibody at a dilution of 1/100000.
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of (1) human breast carcinoma and (2) human colonic carcinoma tissues labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + P465) with unpurified ab92698 at a dilution of 1/100.
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of normal human tonsil tissue labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + S465) with unpurified ab92698.
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of human hepatocellular carcinoma tissue labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + S465) with unpurified ab92698.
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of human cervical carcinoma tissue labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + S465) with unpurified ab92698.
Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of human glioma tissue labelling SMAD5 (phospho S463 + S465) with unpurified ab92698.
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Posted on May 31, 2011 by Linda D.
Yasmina glowered at me. "It is. I am sure." She was far too set in her ideas that I was this so-called Seeker of her Prophecy for her to entertain any doubts. I was to open the Pathways because it was written down that I would do so. I disagreed. But for a moment I found my thoughts became fuddled. She was right. I was the Seeker and my destiny was to use the key.
"Can Anshey du Khull reveal more?" I asked, my senses reeling that I was even considering doing what the priestess wanted.
Anger welled up in me then. No one ordered me around like that. I rose, my temper broiling, my mind clearing. "Well, I'm going to my chamber. I'm tired. If you won't help, then so be it. I'm the Seeker and I'll decide where to go now. And when. Not you!" I snatched up the key, clutching it tightly. "This is mine, and I will use it when it suits me, not when it suits you." And with that I flounced out of the room, annoyed and upset by the sanctimonious wiles of these two old women.
He stood placidly but his concern for me was obvious as I stroked his back and neck. Nuzzling me gently was his way of settling my emotions: despite our closeness he had no words to comfort me. But his warmth gradually seeped into me as I poured out my anger, relating to him what was causing my upset. He neighed sympathetically as if understanding and I cried briefly, grateful for his presence. Ghost was a true friend and I told him so. Whuffing happily he nodded his head and I smiled.
By the time I left him and went to bed I had vented the worst of my temper. Having stored the key safe in my box I lay down on the bed, my hand going to the pendant of Ekchua that Isolda had given me. It seemed warmer than it usually was. Surprised but too tired to concern myself I slipped into an uneasy sleep.
Shortly after midnight I woke from a nightmare of being trapped in a small dark room with masonry falling on my head. I sat up clutching the blankets tightly around my body. It took a while for the shivers to leave me, tears streaming down my face. Only a dream I kept muttering, only a bad dream. That won't happen. Can't happen. My thoughts swirled. As the fears of the nightmare receded, real fears of the Pathways took their place. Was I really going to try out the key? With no other knowledge? Could Ferantu help? I wasn't sure. He had withheld much from me and despite his obvious love of me I couldn't be certain that he'd know of these Pathways.
So, who else could I turn to? I thought of Grunthrin. Would he know more? He was, after all, a Targ. Could he help me? Did he know if the Pathway still existed in his homeland? I wished he was here to guide me. Perhaps that's where I should go next – back to the Guild Hall, to talk to him. The Pathways, after all, could wait. Unless the priestesses could come up with some concrete answers I decided that there was no way I was going to risk my life, and Ghost's life, on some foolhardy adventure.
And with that thought firmly established, I snuggled back down beneath the covers and soon drifted back to sleep.
Hehe, think her anger stems from frustration, dislike of being ordered around and fear… definitely defensive!
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Catch Urinetown: The Musical
by etodadmin | Sep 4, 2012 | Local Events
Watch Urinetown: The Musical as it premiers on the Sunshine Coast. One of the funniest musicals in recent years, Urinetown is a hilarious tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold.
It is set in a mythical place in the future when water has become so scarce that private pee-ing is not allowed. A single corporation controls the public amenities and charges people for their basic need to pee. A hero rises to the top and leads them all in a revolution.
Urinetown is a satirical comedy musical with music by Mark Hollmann, lyrics by Hollmann and Greg Kotis, and book by Kotis. Greg Kotis had the idea for Urinetown while traveling in Europe. A traveling student on a budget, he encountered a pay-per-use toilet, and began writing shortly thereafter, joining with Mark Hollmann for the journey to Broadway.
Urinetown has been nominated several times and has won many awards. Most notably, it was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won three. The characters of Bobby Strong and Hope Cladwell were both included on New York Theatre Monthly's list of "The 100 Greatest Roles in Musical Theatre". The characters of Bobby Strong and Little Sally are featured in what has become a yearly tradition at the Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS annual Gypsy of the Year benefit concert, in which the characters perform a short comedy sketch making fun of current Broadway shows.
Be sure to catch Urinetown on October 26, 27, 28 and November 9, 10, and 11 at Coolum Civic Centre within walking distance from our Coolum Holiday Accommodation.
For more details, go to www.coolum.com.au/theatre
To book your stay at Coolum Holiday Accommodation, visit www.endlesssummerresort.com.au
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Jerome P. Cavanagh Photographs and Other Material
Abstract The Jerome P. Cavanagh Photographs and Other Material consists of numerous photographs, the majority of which were taken during his time in office. These photographs cover events such as the 1968 Olympic Bid, visits from Lyndon B. Johnson, aftermath of the 1967 unrest, and Mayor Cavanagh with various prominent Detroit business people, union members, and politicians. Also included in the collection is memorabilia from his 1966 Senate campaign, 1968 Olympic information, and other various...
John Musial Papers
Identifier: UP002184
Abstract John J. Musial was a student at University of Michigan who later worked for the city of Detroit. He served on the Commission on Community Relations as the Research Director in 1963. Musial wrote articles related to programs and projects in the city of Detroit. The John Musial Papers consist of reports and other published materials created by or regarding the development of the city of Detroit. As Research Director of the Commission on Community Relations, he authored some of the reports. The...
Joseph B. Sullivan Oral History
Item — Box: Individual Oral Histories Box 4: Sm-T, Folder: 5
Identifier: UOH002313
Abstract Judge Joseph B. Sullivan was a longtime Wayne County legal and civic leader, notable for his role as a founding member of Focus: HOPE. Early in his career he was executive secretary for Detroit mayor Jerome Cavanagh, with whom he became a close friend. He was interviewed by Reuther archivist Raymond Boryczka in 1991. Collection consists of the interview recordings and transcript, conducted in two parts in June and August of 1991, with Sullivan on the election and administration of Detroit mayor...
Dates: 1991-06-18; 1991-08-14
Maurice Kelman Papers
Abstract Attorney Maurice Kelman taught at Wayne State University Law School and served as Special Counsel to Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Part 1 of Mr. Kelman's papers, which reflect his career as an attorney and arbitrator, primarily relate his work as Special Counsel to Mayor Cavanagh.Part 2 of the Collection spans the years of 1943 to 2012, including materials from Kelman's early life attending Durfee Intermediate and Cass Technical High Schools, further education at the University of Michigan,...
Paul Cavanagh Oral History
Item — Box: Individual Oral Histories Box 1: A-E, Folder: 10
Abstract In 1991, Raymond Boryczka conducted an interview with Paul Cavanagh, brother of Detroit mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh. Collection consists of interview recording and transcript. Cavanagh discusses his and his brother's childhood in Detroit; Paul's work at Ford Motor Company and Chrysler; UAW involvement; and, mainly, his brother Jerome "Jerry" Cavanaugh's political growth and career. Some topics covered include Father Coughlin, race relations, religion, and the Civil Rights movement.
Dates: 1991-08-06
Subject: Michigan -- Politics and government X
Names: Cavanagh, Jerome P. X
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Girardin, Ray 2
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Motorola's latest flagship smartphone, the Moto X will have its price cut for an hour on Monday, 27th of January 2014, as Motorola kicks off its Valentine's Day sale. Indeed, it is an extra sweet deal without a contract.
The $100 discount on any Moto X is a limited special offer that starts to avail Monday at 3pm to 4pm (ET), obtainable while supplies last of course.
Those who will miss the special offer can still avail of the $70 off on any Moto X units, contract free. This promo is set to last until the 14th of February, Valentine's Day.
As what Motorola has posted on its Twitter page, the deal will be applicable for both the developer and the international edition of the Moto X device.
Motorola's Moto X handset originally emerged among the most expensive smartphones but later on, the manufacturer has decided to impose gradual price cut until it reached a fixed price at $399. With the $100 discount Monday special, you may now get a share of such a hefty handset for only $299. All you need is to act quickly in order to hit the website before the deal expires.
The Moto X smartphone comes with a 72m0p 4.7-inch Super AMOLED display, a custom eight-core Motorola X8 chipset with dual 1.7GHz Snapdragon MSM8960 Pro cores, 8 mega-pixel camera, a 2200 mAh battery and a 2GB of RAM. It runs on an Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean platform with an available update to Android 4.4 KitKat. The device sports Motorola X8 Mobile Computing System.
Available color variants are black, white (front panel) and 18 color options (back pane).
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Seedy K's Peerless Pigskin Prognostications: Week XII
November 13, 2018 Football, Gamingseedyk
On a weekend when there wasn't much movement among those who aspire to the Final Four, there were a couple of, uh, let us say, interesting results with local implications.
And, more important, those results handed your inveterate game picker a couple of Ls on the dreaded right hand side of the ledger.
Kentucky, the nation's darling just a couple weeks ago, continued its plummet back to the norm. The Wildcats followed their loss to Georgia with a haven't we seen this before mediocre performance in Neyland Stadium. Which means, victories almost assuredly ahead against Middle Tennessee and rival U of L, the Cats will more than likely not be Fun is Bowling in the New Year's Six.
Jeff "Oh my, does I have a life altering decision to make" Brohm's Boilermakers were throttled in the balmy clime at Minnesooooooota. Might he have been looking ahead to next season back home? Of course, he wasn't, but Louisville fans fervently wish it were so.
But, Pitt, Syracuse and Washington State all prevailed, the latter under the newly mustachioed tutelage of Mike "All my synapses aren't connected" Leach.
So, three up, two down for the weekend. Entering rivalry time, yours truly stands 33-22 for the year. Could be worse.
This week's slate of games, upon first blush, looks to be the most boring of the entire campaign. Let's hope some surprises are in store. Except, of course, for the games I predict.
Cincinnati @ Central Florida. Respect in the form of Game Day on the premises and the flexing of this AAC battle to ABC Prime Time have Orlando in the biggest tizzy since Mickey and Minnie were caught doing the nasty in the Swiss Family Treehouse over Labor Day weekend. I'll tell you who is happier than the fans of the undefeated, defending national champion Knights. That's Kirk Herbstreit, who won't have to jump on a plane and fly cross country between his morning and evening gigs. The Bearcats served notice, or so it seemed at the time, when they opened with a W at UCLA. Their only blemish is a setback to tough Temple in Philly. Meanwhile the country's largest university holds the country's longest winning streak. The Knights are on a crusade — Get it? Knights. Crusade. Pope Urban II. Council of Clermont. — for back to back undefeated seasons for the first time since, well, maybe ever. UCF has been rollin' but not steamrollin'. The Knights appear vulnerable. Will they be too pumped for another W? Are they vulnerable? Methinks, yes. Cincy upsets.
Syracuse vs. Notre Dame (Yankee Stadium). His odd hairline notwithstanding, Dino Babers is proving to be arguably the best young coach going. Within three seasons, he's turned it around at the three programs where he's head coached. The Orange are a rock solid 8-2, heading into two toughies to end the campaign. This one at the House That Ruth Built, and a home closer with another rising program, Boston College. The Hype Machine is pumped to 11. The Fighting Irish haters are chomping at the bit to see Brian Kelly get his comeuppance. Does the 'Cuse have enough to prevail in this, their biggest battle in years? They'll push the Irish. Hope I am wrong, but I just don't think they're quite ready to pull off the upset in Bright Lights Big City.
Southern Cal @ UCLA. Didn't this used to be a really really really big game? Either in the Coliseum or Rose Bowl. Palm trees. Sunshine. California girls on the sidelines cheering on their football heros. No wild fires burning up the landscape. The kind of atmosphere that had you thinking, how come I didn't matriculate at one of those schools? Well, not this season. The Trojans are 5-5, having fallen in 3 of their last 4. Clay Helton's seat is warming to the touch. The Bruins are doing even worse. The Chip Kelly rejuvenation era got off to a shaky start. Four Ls, followed by a couple of Ws, then three more Ls. No titles are on the line. No trips to the Rose Bowl. Just some pride and bragging rights in a town taken over by smoke, the Rams and LeBron. Since my youth, I've always favored the Bruins since they used to swirl out of the huddle in those Cali blue and gold unis like some Busby Berkeley musical number. The Bruins upset.
Middle Tennessee @ Kentucky. Benny Snell Jr. was certainly upset after the L to Rocky Top. As much for some of his teammates lack of effort as for the defeat itself. He called them out. The Cats were obviously still hurting from the Georgia debacle when they visited Knoxville. The feisty Blue Raiders from the C-USA will not just lay down. They'll certainly be a test if the offensively squiggly Cats haven't shaken their hangover. Kroger Field won't be quite as full, nor quite as rockin's as it was two weeks ago. Will UK summon the energy to bounce back in a game they should win? Yes. But not by much.
North Carolina State @ Louisville. Given the events of the last few days, this game actually now has an aura of intrigue about it. Bobby Petrino is gone. So too his familial Thanksgiving dinner guests, to whom he provided jobs. Lorenzo Ward is sitting in with a short staff. Which unfortunately still includes the soon to be out of work Brian Van Gorder. Cardinal AD has called out the team, confronted them with the lack of effort on display in recent weeks. We will find out how much pride this gang has by whether they lay it on the line or not. State was upticking until the Wolfpack dropped 2 of its last 3, including last time out to the Demon Deacons. The visitors are about a two TD favorite. If the Cards keep it that close, the few fans that will be in the stands will likely go home pleased. I'd settle for maximum Cardinal effort. I don't foresee Louisville putting a Whammy on the visitors.
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"The few fans that will be in the stands…" – Umm I believe more will be in attendance then you think.. Bobbi's firing should increase the crowd by 10,000 and the fact that Jeff is coming (?) will add another 5,000. If we can stay in the game the crowd will be raucous.
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SAN FRANCISCO–What a difference over a year makes. In the Yahoo conference I attended in New York City in 2016, an eternity in the tech world, the panelists were not as confident about the future of apps, as they talked about how apps are either downloaded but not used or downloaded less because people need space on their smartphones.
Then early 2018 reports by QZ.com pegged the 2017 revenue of apps at $26.5 billion, bigger than Starbucks and McDonald's for the same year, which made me curious how the Mobile Growth meetup sponsored by Branch Metrics at the Yelp offices last January 23 would turn out. Of course, companies know that for their app business to thrive, they have to add more gigs to their phones.
So it seem the app industry figured out that dilemma, thanks to utility apps like uber and how technology and marketing work together these days. Proof: App store optimization, push notifications, first-time user experience on an app and paid acquisitions may be tech solutions, but they're also marketing-driven tech solutions. Users are constantly engaged.
The two — web apps and mobile apps — have again managed to co-exist.
The panelists Jay Garg of Yelp; Genevieve Owyang of Realtordotcom, James Chang of Udemy and Carrie Buonaccorsi of Pandora Music shared their insights on the mobile phone industry -and why it's all good again — and how to keep apps relevant.
Partnering with the right companies can be extremely beneficial on both sides, said Buonaccorsi. The partnership of Panora with TMobile. which involves sharing of Pandora Premium, reportedly saw a 14% uptick on number of trial starts.
Owyang suggests running an A/B test through the Google Play Store.
As for analyzing a new user versus an existing user, Chan made great points about not making onboarding one-size-fits-all, and by extending the onboarding experience beyond the first few screens.
"Don't forget to check if (people) use the app within the first 7 days after download. If they don't, they never will," he said.
"Word of mouth really helps. On our listing detail pages, users typically want to share the app with their partner, friend, or family member. We also ask (in a friendly way) that they download the app," said Owyang.
And testing is crucial. "Sometimes, you don't have enough users to run tests. In these instances, consider cohort analysis," said Chan.
NEW YORK — In most tech meetups, people are asked how many people have heard of Birchbox? Most of the nearly hundred people raised their hand. If you're still wondering, what it is about, it's this: Birchbox delivers monthly boxes of beauty or grooming samples, picked to match your profile.
Headquartered in New York City, with operations in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Canada and Belgium, the company has grown at a fast clip with a strong following among its first clientele–the female set and secondary target, the male set.
Last November 19, CTO Liz Crawford talked about her role and how the company operates at the NYC European Tech Meetup which held the event at Spotify's roomy industrial-themed office. Inside, it's hard to believe you're in New York.
Birchbox reportedly does not have a "global content system" as of yet, but the United States is home for its marketing initiatives and infrastructure. Engineering, however, is hard to internationalize, she said.
Birchbox has two data scientists who build recommendation algorithms. They rely on signals. For example, they try to find out if customers favorited or liked a product online. "Our data scientists work on optimizing (samples in our boxes).
"Figuring out what to send to customers is actually hard. The more customers we get, the harder it becomes," she added.
What is a good box can be different for anyone? "All we want is for the experience to be personal to you," she said.
Eventually, after subscribing, customers buy the brands from the samples in the box.
As the holiday approaches, Crawford who admits to working late lately said things will be picking up again soon and it will be a busy time for Birchbox.
Birchbox reportedly doesn't charge any shipping or handling fees—just the $10/month, $110/year for the Beauty Box and $20/month for Birchbox Man. If your shipping address is in a state it operates, sales tax will be applied to your order.
NEW YORK–Last October 12, Area 1 Security, Birchbox, Livefyre and Metamind, presented at the packed Data-Driven meetup at Bloomberg.
Area 1 Security's Oren Falkowitz and Livefyre's Ramana Rao presented themselves as companies from Silicon Valley.
Area 1 the cyber-security app that counters phishing attacks, focuses on stopping phishing attacks before they happen, the most common form of attacks now in our computer devices.
Area 1, raised $15 million this week, following Falkowitz's presentation at the meetup. Falkowitz used to work for the National Security Agency.
Rao presented how Livefyre's real-time content and engagement platform works. For those not familiar with the company, you often see them as the engine in the comments section of most websites.
Livefyre and Salesforce were in the news recently for its agreement to integrate their respective platforms that are seen by many as an effective way for companies to create a more cohesive marketing strategy.
MetaMind's Richard Socher talked about the power of deep learning for enterprise, the future of understanding unstructured data. This includes speech recognition and a general image classifier which he demonstrated. You can create own image classifier with a free API. It's an effective way for people to classify photos together in a category using an easy drag-and-drop technology.
Birchbox's Liz Crawford presented her discovery commerce platform for beauty products last. Birchbox lets you get monthly deliveries of beauty or grooming samples, picked to match your profile. You can also customize your shipment by picking a sample or adding subscriber-only product deals.
Birchbox has come a long way. This week, it launched its own makeup line, Love of Color.
NEW YORK–Last September 2, General Assembly held a talk featuring three companies offering online coding courses, One Month, Thinkful and Hopscotch at its offices in the Flatiron District.
Chris Castiglione, co-founder of One Month, the Y Combinator-backed learning platform, talked about how One Month is precisely that—it helps anyone learn any of its technology-based online courses in one month. These are online tutorials in Ruby on Rails, HTL, CSS, Growth Hacking, iOS and Programming for Non-Programmers.
While bootcamps preach total immersion, One Month lets learners take their time—15 minutes a day for 30 days, all online. "We have our own style compared to other courses out there. We are a school, not a library like Lynda.
One Month builds a course in 3 to 4 months and offers it for $49 a month.
Dan Friedman, co-founder of Thinkful, spoke next, took the opportunity to announce new educational offerings on its site. Tonight, it will start offering a library of online courses at $99 a month and in the following week, it will feature graduates of its programs.
Founded three years ago, Thinkful raised $4.5 million in a new round of funding last January, which is aimed at expanding its educational offerings online.
Unlike bootcamp classes which can set you back by a whopping $15,000, Thinkful offers a more affordable solution to learning starting at $300 to $1000 a month. One is paired with a mentor in a real-time online learning system or what Friedman calls the "magic of one-on-one plus the flexibility of online," inspired as the company was on the one-on-one mentoring study by Benjamin Bloom.
What type of student do they get? "They go to us after they go to Codecademy," he said. They get students paid for by the companies they work for, as part of their corporate training.
Next presenter was Samantha John, co-founder of Hopscotch, the iPad app that teaches kids how to create an app. Launched 2 years ago, it reportedly has 2.5 million downloads. "There's no typing, no tricky syntax, just drag blocks of code with your fingers and play what you make instantly," she said.
It ended up being used a lot in classrooms, she added.
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In what may appear to be a reflection of the current state of education in the Philippines, the University of the Philippines (UP) is the sole Philippine university that entered the World University Rankings list of Times Higher Education for the period 2016-2017.
The premier university of the country ranks 801++ in the overall rankings of the London-based publication. However, it failed to join the list of top 200 universities in Asia. The latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings for Asia listed UP at rank 70 (same as last year), Ateneo de Manila University at rank 99 (up from 114), De La Salle University (DLSU) at rank 143 (improved from 183), and UST at rank 157 (which went down from 143). The National University of Singapore (NUS) retains its title as the best university in Asia in the latest Times Higher Education's (THE) World University Rankings. NUS is followed by the Nanyang Technological University, Peking University, University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua University.
Here are the world's best universities according to Times Higher Education for the period 2016 to 2017.
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Beijing -- China Unicom, operator of China's sole Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) network, has awarded Motorola Global Telecom Solutions Sector (GTSS) a $10 million contract to build Phase II of its value-added location based services (LBS) network. Motorola will provide equipment, network support and optimization services.
LBS allows China Unicom's subscribers to access a range of location-based information, including nearest public facilities, restaurants and entertainment outlets. It also allows customers to play location-based games. The contract includes deployment of GPSOne position determining equipment (PDE), which can accurately determine the user's location.
"One of our ambitions is to build a range of value-added services that will help simplify and enhance the lives of our customers, and location based services are a key aspect of our plan," said Zhai Yi Bing, vice general manager of the Value Added Services department of China Unicom. "The stability and ease with which Motorola helped us deploy the core positioning platform of the LBS, and the success we've already seen with that system, made them the obvious choice for Phase II."
Motorola has a global reputation as a leader in CDMA2000 1X technology. It is the largest supplier to China Unicom, and has a long-term business relationship with the operator. In addition to their collaboration on LBS, the companies also recently announced the deployment of Motorola's JAVA technology-based platform to deliver mobile content to its millions of subscribers in China.
Deployment of LBS services for China Unicom demonstrates Motorola's commitment to help operators improve average revenue per user (ARPU) and encourage revenue-generating data service uptake: "Now is the time to understand customers' application demands as well as to determine the business model that will carry operators through 3G deployment," said Rueybin Kao, corporate vice president and general manager, Motorola GTSS China. "Motorola is an acknowledged leader in providing the cost-effective, value-added solutions that will allow China Unicom to take full advantage of this key learning time while at the same time allowing them to open new revenue streams."
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Attn: All Female Motorcyclists: The Legendary Buffalo Chip Salutes You
by RBMA | May 4, 2011
Sturgis, SD; The Legendary Buffalo Chip will be holding the First Annual Biker Belles ™ Celebration During the 71st Annual Sturgis Rally.
The passion, diversity and spirit of women in motorcycling will be celebrated during the 71st annual Sturgis Rally.
Wednesday – August 10, 2011 the Biker Belles™ Celebration Ride will begin in the historic town of Deadwood with the Lodge at Deadwood rolling out the red carpet with a special welcome reception complete with events, entertainment and activities catered to women.
Following the red carpet treatment, Meg McDonough from the Motor Maids, and friends will lead the all-women's ride to the Buffalo Chip for "The Best Party Anywhere®."
This inaugural event was created to celebrate our role in shaping the motorcycle culture while raising awareness and funds for two great charities, the Abbott House and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame. The Abbott House is a private charity that provides residential treatment services to girls between the age of seven and seventeen and the Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame offers a world class experience for visitors to the Sturgis SD area.
"We couldn't be more excited about this inaugural celebration of women in motorcycling in Sturgis." says Laura Klock, 4-time national land speed record holder and pilot of the original "World's Fastest Bagger.' Laura will be at the Buffalo Chip to unveil "SALT," a customized Harley-Davidson® built under her supervision with the young women of the Abbott House. Tickets to win this special bike will be available during the event or online at www.abbotthouse.org. All proceeds will be given to the Abbott House.
Biker Belles™ will be a day of real women during an incredible motorcycle rally!
Tickets for the 2011 Biker Belles™ celebration are available now at www.bikerbelles.com or by calling (605) 347-9000. The Biker Belles™ celebration requires a $75 contribution, of which 100 percent goes directly to its chosen charities. More details to come so stay tuned!
I hope to see many of my fellow female riders out that day.
Ride Safe and see you in Sturgis!
Russ Brown Motorcycle Attorneys® and BAM, Free Breakdown and Legal Assistance for Motorcyclists will have a booth at the Legendary Buffalo Chip. Stop by and get your free BAM Benefit Card, get legal advice or grab stickers.
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Sandy takes down Nielsen
Hurricane Sandy has New York shut down
(EPA)
By Joe Flint
Television ratings service Nielsen said Monday's numbers will be delayed because of super storm Sandy.
That was to be expected. Not only is Nielsen based in the East Village of New York City, one of the area's hardest hit by weather and power outages, the number of local East Coast television stations preempting network programming for storm coverage will make it incredibly difficult to figure out who was watching what. Nielsen hopes to release numbers later Tuesday. Fortunately for Nielsen, much of its actual number crunching is done in Florida.
Most network affiliates in areas hit by the storm, including TV stations in New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., opted to run their own news programs during much of Monday. Also, CBS and the CW Network both scrapped their programming plans in favor of primarily reruns. Neither network wanted to waste new episodes of shows when much of the country would not be able to watch.
Nielsen typically issues multiple ratings reports to the networks every day. The first is what is known as the "fast nationals," which are preliminary estimates of the previous night's programs and released early in the morning. Later in the day, Nielsen releases final daily numbers.
The high number of preemptions and power outages, however, will create more work for Nielsen in determining ratings for Monday.
Nielsen has not said how long it will take for numbers to be available but under the circumstances the odds are the TV industry and advertisers will take any Monday numbers with a big grain of salt. Many stations are still preempting network programming Tuesday as New York City and other areas try to emerge from the storm.
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If the gathering of bishops in Rome for the 2014 Synod of the Family last fall was not dramatic enough, we might be in for quite a surprise at this year's synod. Already controversy surrounds the upcoming synod and the tension among many of the Church's hierarchy is palpable. It's almost certain, barring any embargo on synod updates by the Vatican, that the Synod on the Family 2015 will be perhaps the most dramatic gathering of bishops since the Second Vatican Council.
Remarks made by the president of the German Bishop's Conference, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, recently have sparked intense debate among Catholics—lay and ordained alike—about the authority of national bishops conferences regarding faith and morals. It is reported that in a press conference following a gathering of the German bishops that Cardinal Marx remarked "We are not a branch of Rome. Each conference of bishops is responsible for pastoral care in its cultural context and must preach the Gospel in its own, original way. We cannot wait for a synod to tell us how we have to shape pastoral care for marriage and family here." The cardinal's statement has led many to wonder about the authority of national conferences in matters of discipline and Church teaching.
Within hours and days of Cardinal Marx's statement, several high-ranking churchmen have openly challenged his thought. Fellow German Cardinals Paul Cordes and Gerhard Ludwig Müller openly shared with German and French media their disagreement with Marx's comments. Both expressed serious concern, even condemnation, of the idea that a national conference could rule on doctrinal or disciplinary matters.
Officially, national conferences do not hold magisterial authority. In fact, every decision made by a conference of bishops must receive a recognitio from the Apostolic See (Apostolos Suos, §18). The understanding is that the ministry of a bishop is exercised in unity with the College of Bishops and the Bishop of Rome. In essence, Cordes and Müller seek to maintain the Church's understanding of episcopal ministry.
Yet the cardinals cannot quell the bishops' public debate around these matters. And that is what is really at stake in the current discussion about the Church's teaching on marriage and divorce. Many churchmen would much prefer that bishops'—and even priests'—opinions on these matters remain private and contained within the context of their meetings. Modern media and some bishops' willingness to share will likely undermine the efforts of many to keep internal debate from going public. That was certainly true during the Second Vatican Council and it will likely be so over the next few months. For those of us observing the synodal proceedings, the next few months will indeed be dramatic.
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Luxembourg Invests to Become the 'Silicon Valley of Space Resource Mining'
By Peter B. de Selding 2016-06-06T21:42:40Z
The Luxembourg government's backing for space mining ventures includes an iniial $225 million in seed money for R&D and co-financing. One early investment will be in Deep Space Industries' Prospector-X nano-satellite to test space-mining technologies.
(Image: © Deep Space Industries)
PARIS—The Luxembourg government on June 3 reaffirmed and strengthened its backing for a homegrown space-mining industry, saying it would invest more than $200 million in research, technology demonstration and in the direct purchase of equity in companies relocating to Luxembourg.
In a demonstration of the depth of the political backing the spaceresources.lu project now enjoys, Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Deputy Prime Minister Etienne Schneider addressed a press briefing following the initiative's first board meeting.
Betel and Schneider were flanked by two spaceresources.lu board members, Jean-Jacques Dordain, former director-general of the 22-nation European Space Agency; and Simon Pete Worden, former director of NASA's Ames Research Center. [Mining Asteroids: Deep Space Industries' Vision in Pictures]
Planetary Resources is one of several private companies hoping to mine the precious metals and water ice from asteroids. See how asteroid mining could work in our full infographic here. (Image credit: Karl Tate, SPACE.com Contributor)
Schneider said the government has set aside an initial 200 million euros ($225 million) to cover early costs associated with the space-mining venture. In statements that could have come from a private-equity company, he said Luxembourg would not limit itself to supporting research and development. He stressed that the 200-million-euro budget was only the start of the government's financial support for space mining.
Purchasing equity in promising early-stage companies offers the government a long-term return on its investment – an ability to benefit from the upside, he said.
Schneider and Bettel said the government would be crafting a Luxembourg Space Act, which they said should be enacted into law by the end of this year, that would give legal protection to space mining companies recovering and exploiting for profit raw materials taken from the Moon, asteroids or any other celestial body.
One Luxembourg official said the initiative has the stated support of all three political parties in Luxembourg's ruling coalition. Schneider and Bettel represent two of them.
Luxembourg to take advantage of limitation in U.S. law
"Why should companies invest in Luxembourg when they can do it in the United States, where maybe there is more know-how and a bigger community to engage in this business?" Schneider said.
"There will be one big difference between the American Space Act and the Luxembourg Space Act. The American Space Act only allows this business to American companies, with at least a majority of American capital.
"The Luxembourg Space Act will be open to all investors which will be located over here, in Luxembourg. That's a huge difference for investors – also to American companies or startups, which one day will have to get new capital – money to get really launched. If they don't find American capital they will have a problem and they will maybe look for another nation where they can have international capital and grow.
"I don't know why the Americans limited themselves to American capital, but we will not. We will be what we have been, an international place for international investment. Luxembourg has the ability to become the Silicon Valley for space resources. That is our aim for the years to come."
Luxembourg and Deep Space Industries have an agreement under which the company's Prospector-X nanosatellite will be co-funded by the Luxembourg government to test asteroid-rendezvous technologies.
Dordain's successor at ESA, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, suggested on June 1 during a briefing at ILA 2016, the Berlin air show, that the agency was skeptical about what Luxembourg was doing.
"We have no formalized position on that," Woerner said. "From my personal point of view, it's interesting what Luxembourg is doing. There are some thoughts about whether it's the right solution, just to go to bodies in our solar system to get resources. But I'm quite sure that as soon as it's affordable, it will be done. It's not our playground so there is no official position so far from ESA."
Schneider said several individual ESA nations have expressed interest in the project and that he would discuss it with them in December on the margins of the ESA ministerial conference in December in Lucerne, Switzerland. Luxembourg and Switzerland are co-chairing the meeting.
Dordain said the initiative's board meeting concluded with an agreement that the program needed to move quickly, attracting young engineers to Luxembourg to work on it and setting a three-year deadline for assessing the first results.
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AN ARKANSAS MAGAZINE needs to be representative of the state, and not just in terms of content. It's got to look like it, too—the essence of Arkansas distilled into fonts and figures, glyphs and graphics. So, how do you do that? We wondered that, too. But once we really started talking about the state, and about how much it's changed since the magazine was founded 10 years ago, it just kind of flowed out of us, thanks in no small part to the newest Arkansan on our staff: our creative director, Emma Devine.
The redesigned Arkansas Life, which launched with the September 2017 issue, offers a better reader experience in terms of organization, consistency and visual appeal. To offer more way-finding for the reader, five sections were created to contain front- and back-of-book departments: FRONT PORCH, LIFE/STYLE, DISPATCHES, TABLE and VENTURE. A mini TOC begins each section, and each section features both rotating and permanent departments to keep the magazine fresh, yet consistent month-to-month. The DISPATCHES section created room for essays and other non-feature longform that had previously wound up on the cutting room floor. As a whole, word counts for department pieces were cut in favor of lighter, more digestible pieces that offer a place to land for more passive readers.
Every design detail was considered and tweaked, from the nameplate to the end glyph and everything in between. The guiding design principle was turn-of-the-century typography and rural signage, which pay homage to the rootedness of our agrarian state. To keep things feeling progressive and modern, we went for an airy, playful use of the grid. Clever headlines and decks, as well as well-placed captions and pullouts, attract the reader's eye and serve as entry points throughout the book.
"If we have more fun making the book, then the reader will have more fun reading it." This was our goal for the redesign—I think we achieved it. See below for sample pages from the redesign.
IN THE FALL of 2015, Arkansas Life published its first cookbook, The Modern Arkansas Table, which is a collection of 40 recipes celebrating the culinary creatives who call The Natural State home. Written by then-staff writer Emily Van Zandt, photographed by staff photographer Arshia Khan and designed by then-creative director Kelley Lane, the publication sold out its initial run in six months.
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Why are guide versions no longer viewable?
Good question! Jive is the community platform we use to host the Canvas Community, including the guides. Lithium, which is a company that acquired Jive (technically JiveEx) has decided that they will not grant non-community admins the rights to view version history. We do not agree with this decision and have made our opinion about it known to Lithium. Unfortunately that is about all we can do at this point. If you have a specific question about a given version or when something might have changed in the documentation, please feel free to DM us.
Seeing your question is specific to the community as opposed to pertaining to Canvas itself, I'll go ahead and move it to the Meta Community Group which is a mini-community about the community.
I'm totally in the realm of conjecture here but I am guessing that most clients only want admins to see version history because they are less transparent about changes that is our standard default. And I would imagine communities that work with educators are a small part of "their" customer base - again, just guessing.
Ah! Well... if Instructure gets a chance to, they may want to mention to Lithium that following an information deficit model isn't going to help any of us in the long run.
That's true! For context, the wide majority of corporate community teams report up through the marketing org of the particular company and are much more focused on advertising, generating leads, etc. whereas our's is a more support focused community. Our goal is to communicate change and help people be successful in using our products, so its a very different mindset.
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When man has a thought-form, he takes material from the forms of nature, and makes an image of the form which is in his mind. He has, so far, made little or no effort to co-operate with Formless Intelligence; to work "with the Father." He has not dreamed that he can "do what he seeth the Father doing." Man reshapes and modifies existing forms by manual labor; he has given no attention to the question whether he may not produce things from Formless Substance by communicating his thoughts to it. We propose to prove that he may do so; to prove that any man or woman may do so, and to show how. As our first step, we must lay down three fundamental propositions.
Reasoning back from the phenomena of form and thought, I come to one original thinking substance; and reasoning forward from this thinking substance, I come to man's power to cause the formation of the thing he thinks about.
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Large Study of Female Cancer Survivors Highlights Poor Health Behaviors
Anne Landry
Following a large survey of more than 22,000 US women, researchers from H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, in Tampa, Florida, have concluded that a significant proportion of female cancer survivors have poor health behaviors, compared with women who have not had cancer.
The study found that female cancer survivors have poor health behaviors, compared with women who have not had cancer.
They suggest that identification of prevalent cancer-related behavioral risk factors provides an opportunity to boost wellness among women with a previous cancer history. The study was led by clinical psychologist Sarah M. Rausch, PhD, director of integrative medicine at Moffit, and reported in the February issue of the American Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Investigators administered health questionnaires to 19,948 women presenting for screening mammography. A detailed history of health behaviors was available for 18,510 women, and of this group 2,713 (14.7%) had a previous cancer history.
Dr. Rausch and colleagues reported a number of important and statistically significant results: compared with women who did not have a cancer history, cancer survivors were less likely to rate their overall health as "excellent" (13.6% vs 21.5%), to exercise moderately or strenuously (56.5% vs 63.3%), and to use complementary and alternative medicine (57.4% vs 60.2%).
Cancer survivors were more likely to be current smokers (6.3% vs. 5.5%), rate their overall health as "poor" (15.8% vs. 9.1%), and report more weight gain over time. Cervical cancer survivors (n = 370) in particular were most likely to be current smokers (15.7%) and regular alcohol users (71.7%), compared with other survivors. They also reported the largest weight gain (4.9 lbs at 5 years and 13.4 lbs at 10 years). Survivors of ovarian cancer (n = 185) and uterine cancer (n = 262) most frequently reported being obese (41% and 34.4%, respectively).
In conclusion, Dr. Rausch and colleagues wrote that their findings "suggest opportunities for tailored behavioral health risk factor interventions for specific populations of cancer survivors."
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Ubuntu Manpage: Eliom_content.Html5.Manip - DOM-like manipulation functions.
Eliom_content.Html5.Manip - DOM-like manipulation functions.
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For the past several years, I've made huge strides to reduce my exposure to harmful toxins… from the foods that I eat to the products that I use on my body. But, finding decent options to replace the not-so-good-for-you store-bought cleaners has definitely been more of a challenge. Using baking soda and vinegar for everything sounds like a great idea in theory, but the results just haven't measured up for me (especially for the amount of time and elbow grease that's often required). Well, I did a lot of experimenting and I finally found a solution that works against that gunky build-up in the bathroom (and it doesn't require hours of scrubbing!).
Step 1: Grab some baking soda and liquid castile soap.
Step 2: Add some baking soda to a bowl (I used around 3/4 cup… ish – measurements don't have to be exact).
Step 3: Add some liquid castile soap to the baking soda and start mixing with a spoon. You want to add enough liquid castile soap to form a thick paste (I used around 3-4 tablespoons… ish).
Step 4: After you've formed your paste, add some water to thin it out a little bit so it'll be easier to spread (I used around 2 tablespoons or so).
Step 5: Apply your cleaner to whatever surface you'd like to clean and scrub with a sponge/brush/cloth. I've used it on my ceramic tile, bathtub, sinks, toilets… though you may want to test this cleaner out on an inconspicuous area first just to make sure it's safe for whatever surface you're using it on before you commit.
Step 6: Rinse with water.
Voila! Enjoy your clean surface!
If you try it out, let me know how it works for you!
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CHICAGO (Feb. 14, 2017) - The interactive media company 360° Revo, in conjunction with the Chicago Automobile Trade Association (CATA), have produced an interactive tour of the 2017 Chicago Auto Show for car enthusiasts worldwide to experience. Visitors to the Chicago Auto Show website will be able to go virtually inside and outside specific vehicles that are featured at this year's show. 360° Revo has produced these tours every year since 2012 for the CATA.
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Q: What does "practices are the context to which they respond" mean?
Through our practices, we create the reality (context) through which the former is influenced by the latter. 'Social reality is practices' (Taylor, 1985 cited in Schatzki, 2005: 470). Or, to put it differently, practices are the context to which they respond. Contexts are 'nexuses of practices and material arrangements' (Schatzki, 2005: 471). The context with its institutionalized meanings limits the possibilities to think and act (Berger and Luckmann, 1966). As a consequence, leaders are not free 'to do whatever they want, but neither are they determined in their actions by the situations they find themselves in' (Grint, 2005: 1490, emphasis added).
Drath, W.H. & Palus, C.J. (1994) Making Common Sense – Leadership as Meaning Making in a Community of Practice. Published as CCL Report no 156.
I am reading an article and trying to understand what this sentence " practices are the context to which they respond" means.
Does it mean the same as "practices are the context and practices respond to this context"?
A: I think it helps to consider the initial portion, about social reality.
The author(s) are saying that practices (e.g. etiquette, opportunity based on perceived stature, cultural norms observed at particular events) provide a context for social interaction and for society. Behaving according to such practices is what truly determines social reality.
Alternatives to established practices are irrelevant, i.e. there's no place for unique outcomes. Change probably doesn't happen spontaneously, not until it is encoded in practices. Practices provide the entire context for society. That's why social reality IS practices.
A: practices are the context to which they respond.
means: practices respond to a context.
They don't exist in a void.
It's really just that in my opinion.
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resources for studying the Middle East from ancient to modern times.
The standard resource for scholarly journals in historical studies.
Use to find articles on Jewish history, activity, and thought.
A collection of English language news sources, including some publications from the Middle East. Select the "World Regions" option to filter results to sources from the Middle East.
A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Most titles go back to the 1990's. You can limit a search to Arab-American or Middle Eastern publications.
Contains full-text of news sources. For publications from the Middle East select "World News".
Full-color reproductions of international news sources. Typically provides the most recent 90 days.
Provides access to articles in over 5,000+ magazines and journals. It contains Full text for many of these publications.
English language translations of international news sources.
Translations of foreign news sources, including radio and television broadcasts. Earlier years are available on paper and microfiche under the title Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Daily Report.
Middle East contemporary survey by Mekhon Shiloaḥ le-ḥeḳer ha-Mizraḥ ha-tikhon ṿe-Afriḳah.
Annual Publication.Penn State has 1976/1977-present.
Provides an overview of developments by country. A good source for learning about the major issues in a country.
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AEW Console Video Game WON'T Feature GM Mode
Sad news for fans of wrestling video games, as All Elite Wrestling's console game will not feature a GM Mode.
In an interview with IGN Japan, Kenny Omega noted that while the game will feature a campaign mode, online multiplayer, a create-a-wrestler feature, and "various other unusual modes", there will be no mode similar to that of the SmackDown vs. Raw era. Instead, fans of the mode will need to get their GM Mode fix through one of AEW's two mobile games, Elite General Manager.
An official quote from 'The Best Bout Machine' stated the following:
I can say right now that we're not sure of how many wrestlers will be available upon release, but one thing I can say is that the number of wrestlers in the AEW is growing all the time, and the roster of wrestlers in the game will reflect that. There will be a campaign, and various other unusual modes, and you will be able to edit your own wrestler, too.
While a release date hasn't yet been confirmed, the reigning AEW World Champion noted that developers were hoping to release the game in 2021, providing all the kinks are worked out. Don't get your hopes up, though - AEW won't be releasing their first venture into console gaming until they are entirely happy with the end product.
AEW Games, Gaming, WWE, Kenny Omega
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