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BkiUbzLxK6nrxq6DmNZ4 | A rare bird in the world of residential construction, Crane Builders is equally at ease with small projects and grand ones, new construction and sensitive historic renovations. Find out why a commitment to quality has made this two-generation company keeps clients coming back time and time again.
Jackye Crane, president of Crane Builders, LLC. Click on the image for their website.
Drive across the Mississippi beachfront and you're sure to spot several Crane Builders signs. You might see one in front of a shaded lot where a foundation's being poured. Others stand before stately homes where no visible work at all is occurring – signaling that renovations or additions are taking place behind the scenes.
That's because the Cranes are equally at ease doing both new construction and renovations/additions. That makes them a rare bird in the contracting world, where most builders shy away from anything that might be problematic - like historic homes.
But Jackye's education goes beyond learning the value of high standards from her dad. In 2010, she graduated with honors from LSU's prestigious Engineering School with a degree in Construction Management. She keeps up with the latest advances in materials and tools, merging the best of the high-tech world with Old World craftsmanship.
This commitment to quality has served the Cranes well: more than three-quarters of current clients now come from their 40-year pool of previous customers. Homeowners like the Riveres (who have used the Cranes for several major home projects through the years) give rave reviews.
The Riveres cite multiple reasons for their satisfaction on their new home, including custom design touches and the fact their house was finished four months ahead of schedule.
Jackye says that while that's not always the case, conservative completion date estimates are standard.
Another factor in the quality control is the long-term relationship the Cranes have built with their sub-contractors. They use only like-minded subs and are able to pair different subs with different jobs. For instance, if someone wants standard wiring, they might call on one electrician. If owners want a "smart-home," they'll call in a sub who specializes in built-in home electronics.
A Crane built new home on Beach Blvd. in Bay St. Louis.
A historic Bay St. Louis home with interior renovations by the Cranes.
While the Cranes will happily take on the most ambitious new residential project, they're also experts in making the most of an already existing home.
In one recent project, the Cranes were called in to explore the possibilities of building a new house for Pass Christian residents. The family of six had moved full-time into what had been their weekend home. They were bursting at the seams and needed more space.
Instead of starting from scratch, the Cranes were able to devise a plan that utilized the existing home's unused attic space. The final project created an additional 750 square feet that included a stairwell, two bedrooms, a bath and a den.
An unused attic space became a sizable "addition" for one family's home.
In another current project, the Cranes are back working at a home they renovated a few years ago. In "Phase One," the garage was converted to a two-bedroom/one-bath poolhouse, and a porch was built overlooking the new pool, fountain and garden. In the main house now, two bathrooms are being renovated, while a breakfast nook/family room has been created, opening up the kitchen to the living area.
In Bay St. Louis, the Cranes worked with other loyal clients to renovate their historic beach home's kitchen. A dated acoustic tile ceiling was removed, exposing "gorgeous" moldings and bead-board ceilings.
Right around the corner, a shabby back wing has been torn off another historic house, with plans to open up the kitchen to a new great room addition. And the Riveres will be clients again soon – the Cranes are slated to build a pool and a cabana.
And since the Cranes are veterans at working in the historic districts of both Bay St. Louis and Pass Christian, they're also well-versed on the historic guidelines of each city - which makes for smooth sailing when appearing before local historic preservation commissions.
But while they often work on grand, historic homes and high-profile beach home projects, the Crane's approach smaller projects with equal care.
Jackye explains, "We build small-budget new houses too, working with clients to get them what they want and still meet their budgets."
Although, Jackye's at the helm of the business now, father Jimmy still stays fully involved. And the family construction business expanded again in 2016, when Jackye married Chris Hansen - owner of Hansen Custom Painting (and third-generation painting contractor). Hansen had been a favorite subcontractor of the Cranes since 2003. It turned out the Chris and Jackye had more in common than a devotion to quality control. The two have a new son, Andrew Wolfe Hansen.
Jackye, Chris and son in front of one of Chris's recent jobs. Click to read more about Hansen Custom Painting. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeBfxK0wg09lKDI5y | The Pacific Mountain Ascend is a waterproof shoe that features a waterproof membrane construction, cow suede upper with high density fabric. The 3/4 length steel shank helps avoid injuries by preventing objects from penetrating the shoe from underneath, while adding support and stability. The molded rubber toe bumper and textured PU heel counter will give you the extra support and protection you want.
Perfect for hiking and backpacking, the Ascend offers superior cushioning thanks to its memory foam footbed and the EVA midsole.
You're ready for your next adventure if you hike with the Ascend from Pacific Mountain!
Love these boots! They fit well and feel great! Can't wait to get out on the trail with them! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdOrxK5YsWPOofz1Q | Living in a small space can be a real buzz kill, especially when you have a small bathroom and a tiny shower. But did you know that there is one product on the market that will expand both your shower AND bathroom space in one quick fix?! Presenting The Rotator Rod, the curved shower curtain rod that flips!
I'm sure you have experienced the space and luxury of a standard curved shower rod in hotel rooms. Curved shower rods expand shower space by up to 33%, keep water inside the shower instead of on the bathroom floor, and hold clingy shower curtains out of the way while you're drying. Just look at the difference between the straight shower rod and the curved shower rod in the bathrooms below by Moen. The difference is incredible!
But as the inventory of The Rotator Rod quickly discovered, the luxury you gain from a standard curved shower rod doesn't translate to small bathrooms! All the space you gain in the shower is wasted in the bathroom because the curved rod juts out so far from the shower. If the toilet or sink in your small bathroom is anywhere close to your shower curtain, the shower curtain will suddenly be in your way!
The Rotator Rod is the best of both worlds: it is a curved shower curtain rod that flips out of your way! The Rotator Rod gives you the luxury of a curved shower curtain rod while you are in the shower but then rotates into the tub -- and out of your way -- while you use the rest of the bathroom! It's innovative design lets you expand your bathroom space OR your shower space with the flick of your wrist. And with Rotator Rod's innovative No-Drill Adaptor, you will not ruin your shower tile so you can keep your security deposit and take your shower rod with you when you move.
The Rotator Rod is the easiest way to expand your shower space and your bathroom space with one simple upgrade! It's the perfect shower rod for small bathrooms, frequent apartment hoppers, or people who just like luxury and options! Still skeptical? Just check out our reviews from verified buyers below or on the Reviews page of our website!
The Rotator Rod is also the perfect for apartment communities. Rotator Rod Showers are the easiest way to give your tenants more shower space AND more bathroom space without renovating, remodeling, or even drilling!
What do you think of the Rotator Rod? Do you have one in your home already? Tell us what you think below! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUfFo5qhDCRcuNKWbv | Offshore investments are often an attractive option to people where a parent has provided capital to a minor, or for those who can expect their marginal rate of tax to fall. They are also of benefit to investors entitled to an age related allowance, or expatriates investing while non-resident.
St. James's Place offers a range of offshore solutions via a range of international investments designed for investors wanting to invest regularly or as a one-off lump sum into a range of asset classes and currencies.
For further information, specific to your circumstances, please refer to our International Investment Bond brochure or contact me to discuss your requirements, as the information presented is based on existing legislation and HM Revenue & Customs practice and does not amount to tax planning advice. Any potential investor who is unsure of their tax position is recommended to take advice before investing.
Currency movements may also affect the value of investments.
The levels and bases of taxation and reliefs from taxation can change at any time and is dependent on individual circumstances. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUfc7xK0zjCrsOB4IA | We have been informed by Nominet, that the Loch of Shining Waters website has been shortlisted for the Nominet 2012 awards.
Nominet are a domain registrar and are responsible for looking after the authoritative name server for co.uk, me.uk, org.uk, net.uk and ltd.uk zones, which also includes the design, implementation and maintenance of the UK register database.
The awards celebrate the achievements and innovation of UK internet initiatives. Now in their sixth year, the annual awards aim to showcase projects which help to make the internet a more secure, open, accessible and diverse experience for all.
We have been shortlisted alongside the BBC, Open University, O2, Orange, My Society and a few other well known organisations, and in all honesty we are very shocked to be considered at all.
Within this category, we are up against Elmbridge Borough Council for their Online Noise Toolkit, which allows residents to report incidents of noise pollution. Hansard Society for their Lords of the Blog, which is an online blog to encourage dialogue between the public and members of the House of Lords. Lastly, My Society for their FixMyTransport website which allows members of the public to easily report public transportation problems to the transport operator.
The awards ceremony is being held at the Saatchi Gallery in London, on the 5th July 2012, and we will get to know if we have won in our category.
It's a real surprise to be shortlisted and it will be a much bigger surprise if we win, especially since we are in the same category as My Society, who have a long track record of developing public information sites, such as FixMyStreet, which allows you to report street repairs to the local authority, or their other site we use regularly, WhatDoTheyKnow, which allows people to make Freedom of Information all in the public domain.
None of the site would have been possible without the support of our site visitors and members, the volunteers who maintain the site, and the authors who have all helped contribute content to the site. Thanks also go to the WordPress community and contributing developers for keeping their project Open Source. Being shortlisted is recognition for everyone's hard work, contributions and support.
Thank you very much. It'd be good to win, but we're happy just to be shortlisted. Thanks again for your kind words and support. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUd2Y4uzlh53v23Wy7 | [Just a short observation on 1.2.4.1, since someone else is working on this section]
Mr. Al-Kadhi says :
In "The Five Gospels," written by 24 Christian scholars from some of the most prominent US and Canadian Universities around today, we read on page 44:
"Stories of Jesus curing a paralytic are found in all four narrative gospels, The Johannine version (John 5:1-9) differs substantially...The controversy interrupts the story of the cure- which reads smoothly if one omits vv. 5b-10 (Mark 2)- and it is absent in the parallel of John... Scholars usually conclude, on the basis of this evidence, that Mark has inserted the dispute into what was originally a simple healing story...If the words are to be attributed to Jesus, v. 10 may represent a bold new claim on Jesus' part that gives the authority to forgive sins to all human beings...The early church was in the process of claiming for itself the right to forgive sins and so would have been inclined to claim that it's authorization came directly from Jesus."
I am actually very amazed by these scholars. Nothing is clearer than reading the passages concerned. The healing of the paralytic in the Gospel of John occurs in Jerusalem :
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a feast of the Jews. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?" "Sir," the invalid replied, "I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me." Then Jesus said to him, "Get up! Pick up your mat and walk." At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. The day on which this took place was a Sabbath, and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat." But he replied, "The man who made me well said to me, `Pick up your mat and walk.'" So they asked him, "Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?" The man who was healed had no idea who it was, for Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there. Later Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "See, you are well again. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you." The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews persecuted him. Jesus said to them, "My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I, too, am working." For this reason the Jews tried all the harder to kill him; not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God. (John 5:1-2)
This place has been found by archaeologists (and in fact, some scholars have argued that John must have been written in the first century because that place was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 70). The controversy surrounding this healing incident is that Jesus healed on the Sabbath day, the rest day of the Jews.
The healing of the paralytic in the Gospel of Mark occurs in Capernaum :
A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven." Now some teachers of the law were sitting there, thinking to themselves, "Why does this fellow talk like that? He's blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?" Immediately Jesus knew in his spirit that this was what they were thinking in their hearts, and he said to them, "Why are you thinking these things? Which is easier: to say to the paralytic, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Get up, take your mat and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...." He said to the paralytic, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home." He got up, took his mat and walked out in full view of them all. This amazed everyone and they praised God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" (Mark 2:1-12)
The location of the miracle? Capernaum. Mark 2:1 says that "Jesus came home." Matthew 9:1 says he "came to his own town." Luke doesn't tell us where it is, but it is definitely not Jerusalem, for Luke 5:17 says "One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there."
The synoptic gospels were refering to the same event. The controversy? That Jesus has the authority to forgive sins. The two incidents of John and Mark were totally different: the places were different, the circumstances were different, the friends were different, the conversation were different. The subject matter were different. Nothing was the same except that a paralytic was healed. Unless Mr. Al-Kadhi wants to argue that Jesus healed one and only one paralytic in his entire ministry, he undermines his credibility making the above quote.
Mr. Al-Kadhi better read about the premises of the Five Gospels. If he applies those premises to the Qur'an, he can throw out the Qur'an as being not even the words of Muhammad, let alone of God.
The words of Jesus applies to Mr. Al-Kadhi :
You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life. (John 5:39-40)
The Rebuttal to "What Did Jesus Really Say?" | commoncrawl | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUbhw5i7PA9Fz9msQ9 | What weighs 8500 pounds, fits in a 7 foot square box and can cool the air from 5000°F to 120°F within two seconds? It's none other than a hypersonic wind tunnel that simulates earth reentry conditions which was buiIt for the aerospace program at the University of Arlington in Texas. This is one of many ground-breaking heat exchangers designed and fabricated by Heat Exchanger Design (HED), an Alerding CPA Group client since 1999.
HED prides themselves on being the "worldwide leaders in heat transfer technology". They strive to offer the most innovative and economical heat transfer solutions while adhering to the highest standard for quality. Their impressive client list reflects this commitment to excellence. Just a few of their domestic clients include the likes of Dupont, Eli Lilly, General Motors, Exxon Mobil and Georgia Pacific. And their extensive international client list spans five continents.
Heat exchangers are an integral part of many industries around the world, including petroleum, chemical, power, and food. Their concept is simple – hot and cold fluids enter the exchanger where they "exchange heat". When they exit the other side, the hot fluid has been cooled by the cold one, and the cold one has been heated by the hot one. Hesham Derazi identified the widespread need for this type of equipment, so he founded HED in 1984. Since then, they have grown from a small 1-2 person company offering thermal design to a sizeable manufacturing facility with over 50 employees, including some of the industry's top engineers, which is how they can forge new paths for design.
"Heat Exchanger has benefitted greatly from working with Alerding CPA group throughout the years," said Derazi, president of HED. "Their advice steered us toward implementing an advanced accounting software for the manufacturing environment, as well as recommending tax liability solutions and even gave us a client referral," he added.
"We have always appreciated our relationship with Hesham and Heat Exchanger," said Jered Fuquay, Director at Alerding CPA Group. "It's been fascinating to see their innovative product designs go to market and to assist them as the company has grown," he added.
To learn more about HED, visit their website at http://www.hed-inc.com. If you need assistance with your accounting needs, contact Alerding CPA Group at 317-569-4181 or visit our website: www.alerdingcpagroup.com. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUetHxK7Tt6AlxFOaz | Today Rugby Colorno is a sports club with the ability to develop and stimulate ideas in young people and their families. The objectives were reached in 2014 and this success was presented to the club members at the first meeting of the season. The club has 350 registered participants (Players, coaches, team managers), 380 club members, and it is one of the very exceptional clubs in Italy to have one or more teams in each age category, both men and women, starting from nursery rugby up to Seniors in Serie A. There are many sporting events organized at the Via Ferrari fields but the pride of the "Biancorossa" Club is the Youth Section. A great emphasis is placed on working within the schools of the entire Parma Province by dedicated coaches and instructors, with over 15 years of experience. Indeed, other schools from outside the Province, have joined in the activities.
It is because of this important social status Rugby Colorno undertakes, that other complementary activities have been introduced for the youngsters. The Summer Camp, for example, engages children from ages 4 to 12 in activities (sporting and educational), offering them a unique experience. It also offers the possibility of assisting with the chlidren's holiday homework, with extra focus placed on the English language. This Camp has been ongoing for 16 years. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdN85qhDBSUjwhw7R | After an intense 3 week test of this free application from Jott.com, my vote is in: 5 stars. If I could give it 6 stars I would. Why isn't this being talked about more? Is it just because I am in sales and on the road 99% of the time? This is amazing! First, take a peek at this video to see a little bit of what it does.
When you join, you provide your cell phone number and email address. You either upload your address book or type in your contacts. Rather then sending a text or email from the road, you call the toll free number - Jott matches your account to your address book and records your audio message. It then transcribes the message, sends it to the person who you told it to with the transcription and a link to the recorded audio and copies you on the email.
An extremely useful feature is the reminders. Lets say you just remembered that you need to order a gift for me for Christmas before the Amazon sale expires. Just call Jott, when it asks you "Who do you want to jot?" you say "Myself" or "Me". Then say "Don't forget to order the new Tablet PC for Patrick for Christmas before Friday's sale expires." Jott says, "Do you want a reminder?" "Yes" "For when" "Thursday December 13th at 7PM" "OK, got it Thursday December 13th at 7PM" Jott repeats. When the reminder is due, you get a text and an email of the transcription as well as a link to the audio.
Here is the newest feature: Calendar function. Lets say you just hung up with Boom and booked a racquetball game for Saturday. Rather than grab a pen, write it down while you are driving and lose the paper anyway, call Jott!
When Jott answers, say "Google Calendar". Jott repeats "Google Calendar". Beep. "Next Sunday 7:15 am racquetball at Northwood in Palmer with Boom." Boom! Just like that, it's on your calendar with the text that was transcribed and the correct date and time.
Thanks for helping us spread the word. We're happy to hear you are enjoying Jott! We'd love to hear any suggestions you may have. Please feel free to send them our way at feedback@jott.com.
Kate: thanks for the note on my note.
I'm happy you found me, and keep up the good work. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcAvxaL3SuhzLnLun | The Nutshell
Mothers-In-Law and Menopause
Competition for resources between mothers- and daughters-in-law having children at the same time could have been a driver for the emergence of menopause.
Hayley Dunning
Aug 23, 2012 | 2 min read
Only humans and two species of whale experiences menopause, and its purpose largely remains a mystery. Reproducing and passing on genes is such a large part of evolution that it seems strange for women to spend a significant portion of their lives unable to do so.
Theories regarding the positive impacts of the human menopause include the "mother hypothesis," which states that older women have a much higher chance of dying during childbirth, and the "grandmother hypothesis," which argues that there is a survival benefit when older generations help take care of their children's offspring. More recently, researchers proposed the "conflict hypothesis," which suggests that unrelated women across generations—mothers- and daughters-in-law—compete for resources when they have children at the same time. Because both women's children would suffer in this situation, there would be a multi-generational benefit if the grandmother could not produce her own children any more.
These hypotheses were...
"We were surprised that the result was so strong," co-author Andrew Russell of the University of Exeter told Nature. By assessing the inclusive fitness—how successful people are at adding to the population by producing their own offspring plus looking after relations' children—the researchers determined the grandmother hypothesis and the conflict hypothesis were equally supported.
The study isn't the definitive answer to menopause, of course, and many questions remain, such as how a women's ability to produce viable eggs affects the age of onset of menopause, and why menopause is hard-wired and inevitable, as opposed to environmentally regulated.
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BkiUfOc5qhLBjuJj-Nnr | And come back before your weekend spree to see what the Inky Thinkers have to say about it.
Hi Hot Ink Ladies! I just tried to email you but it was returned to me. Do you have another email address? I would like to discuss with you several Avon products and tell you I LOVE your site and how you write!
Unfortunately, Hot Ink Reviews is now archive-only. We were unable to keep up the production of reviews while pursuing paying gigs. Thanks for your interest in sharing Avon products with us, but we will have to politely decline. Thanks for reading and taking the time to contact us! | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdAI5qdmC79phtGuZ | La rue des Archers (en néerlandais : Boogschuttersstraat) est une rue bruxelloise de la commune de Koekelberg.
Situation
Longue de , avec une emprise de , sa numérotation va de 3 à 89 pour le côté impair et de 2 à 86 pour le côté pair la rue des Archers va de la chaussée de Jette à l'avenue de Jette.
Historique
Le tracé de la rue des Archers est établi dès 1868 et sera conforté en 1880 lors de l'adoption du plan définitif du Quartier Royal de Koekelberg. Ce plan a été élaboré par Victor Besme, inspecteur voyer chargé à partir de 1859 de l'aménagement des faubourgs de Bruxelles.
Elle a été dénommée tout d'abord rue Nicolay, du nom de Joseph Nicolay membre en 1830 du Gouvernement provisoire. Mais une autre rue Nicolay existant à Bruxelles, en 1895 les autorités communales changeront son intitulé en rue des Archers, suggérant le tir à l'arc pratiqué alors par plusieurs groupements sur le territoire de la commune.
Si quelques maisons voient le jour dès 1884, la plupart d'entre elles seront construites autour des années 1896-1897. Avec la rue De Neck, elle sera l'une des premières artères du Plateau de Koekelberg à être urbanisée.
Bâtiments remarquables et lieux de mémoire
n°12 : La maison a été construite en 1897. Le de la même année y naîtra l'artiste peintre Arsène Detry. Celui-ci exposera à Mons en 1928 et recevra le Prix du Hainaut en 1948.
n° 24 : Créée en 1885, l'usine de la société Josz & Fils fabriquera des panneaux décoratifs et des pancartes-réclames émaillés. Au début des années 1910, la firme adoptera le statut de société anonyme et deviendra Revêtements Josz SA. En 1939, la société cédera ses locaux à la biscuiterie-chocolaterie Victoria de la rue De Neck qui cherche à s'étendre et qui procédera à un remaniement profond des bâtiments.
n° 32 : En 1911, l'instituteur communal Charles de Jonge s'installe au 32 rue des Archers. Son fils Mathieu De Jonge deviendra avocat au barreau de Bruxelles. Il s'engage, en 1941, dans la Résistance et participe activement à la diffusion de la presse clandestine. Il vit clandestinement à Stoumont (province de Liège). Déporté au camp de Mauthausen, il y décédera en 1944.
n° 43 : En 1922, Paul Henrotin y installera l'Imprimerie Commerciale et Industrielle. Sous l'enseigne The Modern Press, on y imprimera le journal satirique Le Cri de Bruxelles. L'imprimerie y fonctionnera jusqu'en 1935.
n° 67 et 69 : Le Bureau de bienfaisance de Koekelberg, installé depuis 1903 rue Albert Dillie, manque de place. En 1920, la commune va acquérir l'ensemble des immeubles situés aux 67 et 69 de la rue des Archers. Vont y prendre place les services de bienfaisance et l'Assistance maternelle de Koekelberg. Ils quitteront la rue des Archers au début des années 1930 pour s'implanter rue François Delcoigne (Home Jourdan et CPAS).
Voir aussi
Liste des rues de Koekelberg
Liens externes
Notes et références
Rue à Koekelberg | wikipedia | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeSLxK6-gD5TlegQ8 | PS3inside.de has posted up today a large batch of information on Overstrike, which is the latest Project from Insomniac Games.
EDIT: Characters definitely seem to have a slight anime-style to them.
Yeah it does. Sounds like a fun game.
I'd say it looks to be inspired by Pixar. The Incredibles definitely bleeds through in the trailer, especially the lead character and the black-bubble gun thing.
The characters look generic as balls but I'm sure it'll be a fun game. So far, it's nothing that looks like a worthy match-up to Resistance or Ratchet.
Guy on the far right should be named "Token Biracial."
could be a good game!
Looks very Insomniac-ish, which is a great thing!
i only got the vid to go up to 37 seconds. weird. but the animations looks like insominiac works with the cartoony feel. i think this game is going to be in the middle of ratchet's over top goofy and cartoony action and resistance serious nature. did they give a release date on the game yet?
I hope this is a TPS, kinda like ratchet and clank, but with a more serious tone. It looks decent so far.
Heh, i really like that trailer! good humor, good music & a lot of action! Seems like Insomniac hasn't lost any of it's creativity with weapons either.
I'll have to keep my eye on this!
It looks really cool. I'm surprised Sony didn't try to keep it exclusive. But hey, Insomniac are a fantastic developer and I bet this will be a quality title from them. I'm guessing co op will be involved.
why does the black guy(Jacob) remind me of the nerdy black guy from Breaking In?
Looks pretty good. Well...we've come to expect great games from Insomniac and I'm hoping this ones another smash-hit!!
"You guys serve breakfast." LOL!!! Classic Insomniac!!!
Kind off unrelated by why no love for Kingdoms of Amalur? It looks incredible.
Insomniac and EA, what the hell did you do to Overstrike? | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUeVjxK1ThhCdy9fOV | COLLINS, MS (WDAM) - The City of Collins is putting eight of its surplus vehicles up for auction. The auction is set for Nov. 8-10 at Jeff Martin Auctioneers in Forrest County.
The vehicles include a motor grader, two backhoes, a garbage truck and four pickup trucks.
City Clerk Suzette Davis said most of the vehicles were made in the mid-1990s.
Charles has worked at WDAM for more than two decades. He was born and raised in Hattiesburg and attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Radio, T.V. and Film in 1988. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbxk4uBhhxMDmRUCV | When you add an image to your post, even if you have taken care of the Caption, Alt tag and Title tag values you may be missing a trick.
When your users click on an image, do your users see the image within a page or just the image?
If the image is within a page, you have opportunities to provide some context for the image within your site by adding some short text and even a description.
Lastly add a caption to the image, although this will change the look of your post to users as there will now be visible text below the image. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUgIg5qhDC0V1en6Gl | Council attempting to prevent dumping in region
Some of the rubbish dumped in the Queens Park estate.
The council is currently working with other agencies in an attempt to prevent illegal dumping following recent incidents in the borough.
A concerned resident raised the issue with the Times after rubbish was dumped illegally in the Queens Park estate.
The resident who wished to remain anonymous said: "This has been ongoing for some time. When clean-ups are organised, rubbish appears soon after in the area."
Commenting on the issue, a spokesperson for Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council said: "Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council is aware of illegal dumping in the Queens Park area. The council is currently working with Northern Ireland Housing Executive to try and prevent illegal dumping. The council would encourage members of the public who witness illegal dumping to contact Environmental Health on 028 9034 0160 or via email on envhealth@antrimandnewtownabbey.gov.uk"
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BkiUdwS6NNjgBtygf63Q | 2019 Volleyball News
2019-20 2018-19 2017-18 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 2010-11 2009-10 2008-09 2007-08 2006-07 2005-06 2004-05 2003-04 2002-03 2001-02
Historic Season Ends in Sweet Sixteen
Wingate, N.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team fell to the Carson Newman Eagles 3-0 in the Southeast Region Championship match of the NCAA Tournament.
Jags Outlast Bulldogs to Advance to Sweet Sixteen
Wingate, N.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated Wingate Bulldogs 3-2 in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament.
Jaguars Top Pacers in Round One of NCAA Tournament
Wingate, N.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated USC Aiken in the first round of the NCAA Tournament 3-0.
Allen Named to the D2CCA All-Region Team
Augusta, Ga. – Augusta University Volleyball standout Chloe Allen was named to the D2CCA All-Region Second Team.
Jaguars earn No. 4 Seed in NCAA Southeast Regional
Indianapolis, Ind. – The Augusta University Volleyball team is ranked fourth in the Southeast Region headed into the NCAA Tournament.
Aiken, S.C. – For the second straight year, Augusta University Volleyball team won the Peach Belt Conference Tournament Title, defeating the Flagler Saints in straight sets, 25-22, 25-21, and 25-16.
Jags Sweep Pacers, Head to PBC Championships
Aiken, S.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated USC Aiken in straight sets (25-15, 25-14, 28-26) in the second round of the Peach Belt Tournament.
Jaguars Advance past Braves in PBC Tournament
Augusta, Ga. – The No. 3 seeded Augusta University Volleyball team defeated the No. 6 seeded UNC Pembroke Braves 3-1 in the first round of the Peach Belt Conference Tournament.
Jaguars Break into the Region's Top Five
Indianapolis, Ind. – The Augusta University women's volleyball team jumped up two spots in the most recent regional rankings.
Four Jags Earn All-Conference Honors
Aiken, S.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team placed four members on the Peach Belt Conference All-Conference team.
Jaguars Send Seniors off with a Win over Lander
Augusta, Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated to the Lander Bearcats 3-2 today in a conference contest.
Jaguars Take Down Pacers
Augusta, Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated USC Aiken 3-0 today in a conference match.
Five Named to PBC Team of Academic Distinction for Augusta Volleyball
Augusta, Ga. – Augusta University Volleyball standouts Chloe Allen, Jessica Hedrick, Holland Martin, Kylie Martin and Payton Murchie were all named to the peach Belt Conference Team of Academic Distinction (Formerly All-Academic Team).
Jaguars Pick up a Clean Sweep of the Braves
Pembroke, N.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team picked up a 3-0 win over UNC Pembroke today in a conference match.
Jags Drop Five Set Match to Francis Marion
Florence, S.C. - The Augusta University Volleyball team dropped a conference match to the Francis Marion Patriots 3-2 tonight.
Jags Seventh in First Region Ranking of the Year
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Augusta University Volleyball team is No. 7 in the first NCAA Southeast Region Rankings, which were announced Wednesday afternoon.
Jaguars Cruise to a Win over Georgia College
Milledgeville, Ga. - The Augusta University Volleyball team picked up a 3-0 win over the Georgia College Bobcats in a conference match.
Jaguars Best the Saints in a Four Set Battle
Augusta Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated to the Flagler Saints 3-1 today in a conference contest.
Jaguars Outmatch Lions in a Close Outing
Franklin Springs, Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball defeated the Emmanuel Lions 3-1 in a non-conference contest.
Patriots Defeat Jaguars in Four
Augusta, Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team fell to the Francis Marion Patriots 3-1 in a conference contest.
Augusta Picks Up Another PBC Win
Augusta, Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated the UNC Pembroke Braves 3-0 in a conference contest.
Jags Pounce on a Victory for Pink Out
Augusta, Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated the Georgia College Bobcats 3-0 in a conference match.
Jags Drop Contest to Pacers in Battle of the Champions
Aiken, S.C. – It was a battle of the conference champions as the 2018 PBC Tournament Champion Augusta Jaguars fell to the 2018 PBC Regular Season Champion USC Aiken Pacers 3-1.
Jaguars Fall in Five at Lander
Greenwood, S.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team lost a tough contest to the Lander University Bearcats 3-2 (10-25, 25-21, 20-25, 26-24, 10-15).
High Powered Jag Offense too much for Royals as Augusta Tops Queens
Augusta Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team defeated the Queens University Royals 3-1 in a non-conference match.
Augusta Splits on Day 2 of PBC/SAC Regional Crossover
Jefferson City, Tenn. – The Augusta University Volleyball team closed out the PBC/SAC Regional Crossover tournament by splitting their two matchups against both Carson Newman and Lincoln Memorial.
First Day of PBC/SAC Regional Crossover in the Books
Mars Hill, N.C. – The Augusta University Volleyball team finished the first day of the PBC/SAC Regional Crossover tournament with a pair of wins over Lenoir-Rhyne and Mars Hill.
Jaguars Stop Comeback by Saints for First Conference Win
St. Augustine, Fla. – In their first conference match of the year, the Augusta Jaguars Volleyball team came away with a 3-2 win over the Flagler Saints.
Ramos Named PBC Player of the Week
Augusta, Ga. – Nicolette Ramos was named the Peach Belt Conference Player of the week for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 30.
Win Streak Ends in West Georgia as Jags Fall to Wolves
Carrollton, Ga. – The Augusta University Volleyball team fell to the West Georgia Wolves in five sets. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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BkiUdYE5qYVBgCinOWTD | < > The presidential elections dominated user searches this year, according to AOL's annual lists of top Web, mobile and video searches across more than 40 categories for 2008. But musicians continue to be hot topics for searchers as well. The rankings are based on the people, places and topics that received the largest volume of Web and mobile search queries on AOL Search and on Truveo, AOL's leading video search engine. Mariah not only came in at an impressive # 4 on the Top 10 Musician Searches of 2008 but is also the highest searched female artist on the list. To view other top searches on AOL Search in 2008, visit http://hot.aol.com/2008. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUc8Y4uBhivVgoi2RX | Jianxin Ma (2011), "Soybean and Brassica Genome Sequencing Projects," https://diagrid.hubzero.org/resources/30.
Meixia Zhao (2011), "Soybean and Brassica Genome Sequencing Projects," https://diagrid.hubzero.org/resources/32.
Andrew DeWoody (2011), "Vertebrate natural history in the 21st century: genetics, ecology, and evolution," https://diagrid.hubzero.org/resources/34. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
BkiUdjHxK1ThhBMLgnzS | Starting with a rumble and rolling into a surfin' good guitar line, "You Gotta Give It Up (Party Song)" by Charlie Faye and the Fayettes is gonna get you moving. It's going directly onto my workout playlist! This retro treasure has an empowering message and is from the band's upcoming release, The Whole Shebang due out on February 8, 2019.
On their second album, The Whole Shebang, Charlie Faye & the Fayettes hark back to the '60s and '70s on 12 tracks packed like suitcases full of sassy harmonies and swingin' soul, while folding in modern-day perspectives — and a determination to dance through the madness enveloping our world.
The Whole Shebang builds on the success of 2016's Charlie Faye & the Fayettes. This time, Charlie Faye and backing vocalists BettySoo and Akina Adderley arranged their retro-pop harmonies together, perfectly evoking the musical essence of a time when innocence collided with awareness that change had to come — for everyone. Celebrating the former while acknowledging the latter, songwriter and lead singer Faye deftly balances simple odes to falling in love ("1-2-3-4," "Riding High") with declarations of independence (the first single, "I Don't Need No Baby") and calls to wake up, get wise, speak up, organize ("You Gotta Give it Up [Party Song]").
As retro as it sounds, Faye's current direction is a radical evolution from her previous work as a folk-leaning artist. She had found some success with efforts including her albums Travels With Charlie, which reached the Top 10 on the Americana Music Association's airplay chart, and You Were Fine, You Weren't Even Lonely, which reached No. 16 on the Americana Music Association's airplay chart and earned the admiration of Grammy-winning artist and legendary producer Peter Asher, who sent her a note of praise and encouragement.
That emboldened her to pursue her desire to write and sing fun, entertaining songs instead of the introspective fare that tends to be a folkie's stock in trade. Her love of girl groups and singing harmony with her own girlfriends led to trying her hand at that style, which led to the first Fayettes album and the act she formed with BettySoo and Adderley. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUcxs5qX_BhxbdqJB9 | TRACY, Calif. (AP) — A Girl Scout leader and her husband were arrested after an emaciated, terrified and nearly naked 17-year-old showed up at a gym with a chain locked to his ankle, saying he had just fled his captors, authorities said Tuesday.
Police were also seeking the boy's aunt and had an outstanding felony warrant against her for an earlier alleged assault against the teen.
The boy, who authorities said ran away from a Sacramento foster home last year, came into the In-Shape Sports Club in Tracy on Monday wearing only boxer briefs and covered in what appeared to be soot, gym manager Chuck Ellis said. Tracy is about 70 miles south of Sacramento.
Ellis said the teen was scared someone was going to come after him and asked to be hidden.
The boy said he had been held captive for nearly a year, said Ellis, adding that he looked as if he were only 10 to 12 years old.
Police arrested Kelly Layne Lau, 30, and Michael Schumacher, 34, late Monday after questioning the couple. A subsequent search of their nearby home found further evidence implicating them, Tracy police spokesman Matt Robinson said.
They were booked on charges of torture, kidnapping and child abuse, and were set to appear in court Thursday, according to online jail records. The couple were being held at San Joaquin County jail on bail of nearly $1.2 million each.
Police still were seeking Caren Ramirez, 43, the boy's aunt, on suspicion of participating in the alleged abuse, Robinson said. Investigators were trying to figure out the connection between the couple and Ramirez, who authorities believe occasionally visited their home.
Lau and Schumacher's four young children, two of whom were home when police arrived, have been placed with Child Protective Services, authorities said.
According to neighbors, the couple seemed to lead lives that revolved around their kids.
"She told me that he was a nephew that was staying with them because he was having problems at home," Foster said. The boy was outside frequently, and his appearance never suggested anything unusual was happening behind closed doors, though the last time she saw him was May, she said.
"The last time I seen him, maybe two weeks ago, we were both taking our cans in from garbage days and he was really skinny and pale," Rachel Portillo said.
Robinson, the police spokesman, said the boy was confused when approached by detectives Monday, unsure where he had come from and how long had been held. He was taken to a hospital.
Robinson said detectives plan to interview the boy more Tuesday when he is a "little healthier." Police wouldn't release details about any conversations they've had with the boy or the couple since the arrests.
On her MySpace Web page, Lau describes herself as a stay-at-home mom and says her husband worked as a contractor. She posted many photos of her family, friends and pets.
Marcus Wohlsen reported from San Francisco. Associated Press writers Sudhin Thanawala and AP videographer Haven Daley contributed to this report. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdbQ25V5jD_GbNyOs | Music,ThrowbackThursdays,Videos
Chris Brown, Justin Timberlake, The Clipse, Usher
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY @JTIMBERLAKE X THE CLIPSE 'LIKE I LOVE YOU' LIVE MTV VMAS 2002
After 6 years away from the music scene Justin Timberlake is back with a brand new dope single 'Suit & Tie' featuring Hip Hop Icon Jay-Z. Justin was silently recording his brand new 2013 album 'The 20/20 Experience' from june of last year and finally has decided to come back with a bang shooting straight to Number 1 on the iTunes charts around the world. Well way back in 2002 Justin began his solo career with his debut single 'Like I Love You' which was featured on his Triple platinum album 'Justified' and the single went on to become a Top 20 hit on the billboard Hot 100 and even was certified platinum also. Justin premiered the song on the MTV VMA Awards show in 2002 and up until that moment the song had not been heard so it was very risky to debut in such a fashion with a performance on the world-wide stage such as MTV. The song produced by The legendary Neptune's and featured The Clipse who also performed alongside Justin for the debut of the single. Watch below as Justin shows he is up with the best of them such as Usher and Chris Brown with the dance sequences, live vocals and delivering a believable performance of R&B and Hip Hop which would eventually take Justin to higher heights in his career. Download 'Suit & Tie' On iTunes
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[…] finally here, Weeks after dropping the first single 'Suit & Tie' featuring Jay-Z from the brand new March 19th 'The 20/20 Experience' Justin Timberlake […] | commoncrawl | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUaYTxK6EuNCwysqr0 | Ultimate Support introduced a revision to their everpopular pro repair stand in 2005. The new stand incorporated a completely new clamp and a few other subtle refinements. Ultimate Support listened to their customer base and designed a new clamp that is even easier to use than previous clamps. The clamp still uses the same basic sliding jaw design but now has a larger throat capable of clamping tubing as large as 3� in diameter. The round rubber knobs are gone on both the jaw and the rotation clamp. Replacing the round knobs are easy to grasp three way spinners � a modification many users did to their old pro repair stands. And the last but certainly not least improvement is the spring loaded quick release. On top of the new clamp is a go-go-gadget large rectangular button. Pressing it explodes the clamp into the fully open position. One other less noticeable change is new sleeves in the main mast that adjust the height of the stand.
Operation of this stand is even easier than the previous stand and clamping bikes with strange and/or large tubing is effortless � a blessing for DH bikes. The new stand has a generous weight capacity of 60 lbs, enough to hold any hucker-bra�s big bike. Even with 60 lb capacity the stand still weighs no more than 13lbs. The new Pro stand took every bike I threw at it in stride. Multiple downhill, XC, and jumping bikes were built and repaired on the new Pro stand with no signs of weakness. The new sleeve on the vertical member gives a positive connection between the lower mast and the upper mast - a small problem the previous stand had. After using this stand extensively for a year, there has been no sign of play or degradation of the clamp operation. If you are an owner of previous Ultimate repair stands you will be happy to know that all of your other attachments will fit this new stand. The new clamp is even compatible with old stands so there is no need to purchase an entire new stand to get the new clamp (also available for Park shop stands).
Function of the new stand far exceeds the previous stand. If you remember, I gave the previous Pro stand a raving review and the Ultimate did not disappoint and further improved on all ready good design. The quick release button is golden. Unlike other quick release clamps we have seen from other manufacturers, this one is spring loaded, allowing for one handed operation � a great feature when you have a bike in the other hand. The quick release can also be used when removing the bike from the stand by loosening the clamp to a point where the bike starts to move in the clamp. The rotation of the new clamp is also great. My previous stand required regular cleaning and lubing to keep the clamp from becoming stuck if I tightened the rotational clamp down to keep a bike from rotating while I was working on it. The new clamp does not stick and allows for free movement once released. Ultimate�s high quality tote bag still remains the same and the new stand slides inside easily. If you ever purchase an Ultimate folding stand do yourself a favor and get the bag with it. It turns out that bag is very useful for transportation and storage. The material the bag is constructed with is thick and padded which protects your stand from rough treatment on road trips or plane flights and it doubles as luggage for your stand.
An added option is also a hanging scale specifically designed to work with repair stands. The scale has a round metal clamping surface that can be clamped in any bike rack. The part of the scale containing the LCD screen and buttons is ruggedized with a rubber coating as well as the hook.
Final words� Ultimate took a good product and made it even better. Often copied but never imitated, Ultimate has raised the bar again. Scorecard: 10 out of 10!
Posted on Sep 24, 2006 22:46:43 -0400 by Brady. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdpk5qdmDDqr2G1yH | GoX Labs Story
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GoX Labs was co-founded by Joe Hitt and Bruce Floersheim, two service-disabled Army officers who went on to teach at the U.S. Military Academy and become recognized experts in the field of wearable robotics.
Because of injuries sustained from military service, our CEO, Joe Hitt, started the Warrior Web program at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) in 2012 to reduce musculoskeletal injury and enhance wellness and performance.
At GoX Labs, accuracy wins. We discover technology that drives the next generation of wearable devices. Our technology has broad uses to improve the performance and health of industrial workers, recreational and professional athletes, the elderly, and even soldiers and rescue workers in the field.
Joe hired over 20 groups to help develop the science and the framework to mitigate injury. Our COO, Bruce, was the research center director at West Point who partnered with Joe to support R&D.
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BkiUdlw5qYVBV2nwbaQK | Q: Word shows up more than once in TSNE plot When plotting word embedding TSNE results, words show up more than once.
I am reducing dimensionality of a Word2Vec word embedding, but when I plot the results for a subset of the most similar words (manually enter several words for which I want the most similar ones), the same words show up more than once:
from sklearn.manifold import TSNE
words = sum([[k] + v for k, v in similar_words.items()], [])
wvs = model.wv[words]
tsne = TSNE(n_components=3, random_state=0, n_iter=10000, perplexity=29)
np.set_printoptions(suppress=True)
T = tsne.fit_transform(wvs)
labels = words
plt.figure(figsize=(16, 12))
plt.scatter(T[:, 0], T[:, 1], c='purple', edgecolors='purple')
for label, x, y in zip(labels, T[:, 0], T[:, 1]):
plt.annotate(label, xy=(x+1, y+1), xytext=(0, 0), textcoords='offset points')
Is this a normal behavior for PCA and TSNE word similarity dimensionality reduction, or is there something off with my code? Is it possible that the plot is treating each of the similar words subsets as independent from each other?
A: Each word has two vectors: as a center word and as a context word. Stanford University word2vec lecture starting at 41:37.
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BkiUdLo5qsBDFq2tB97l | In 1915, the Hartley walnut was exhibited at the World's Fair and won the blue ribbon for premium inshell nut. Today this "classic walnut" is the principal variety marketed inshell. Hartley walnuts are harvested mid-late season. The thin-shelled, well-sealed nut is easy to crack and continues to be the best inshell walnut variety for customers who require an artificially bleached shell. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUd5M4eIZjyngneP8Y | Man accused of setting fire at Florida horse-training centre
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. — A man recently fired from a Florida horse-training centre reportedly told investigators that he returned and started fires there to "get back" at the business.
The Palm Beach Post reports that no people or animals were hurt in the fires that 21-year-old Guillermo Rodriguez Torres allegedly set at Palm Beach Downs on Wednesday.
An arrest report says Rodriguez Torres was charged with second-degree arson after telling investigatrs he "wanted to get back at the people" he believed were responsible for his firing a few days before. It's unclear if he has a lawyer. | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUd0vxK7IAGcV422ZY | Ahmed AbdelHalim
Software Developer in Berlin, Germany
Ahmed is a back-end (API) developer who loves building useful and fun tools. He also has experience as a web developer and emphasizes writing clean code that adheres to the best coding practices.
GitHerokuGitHubRSpecRubyGitLabRedisLinuxPostgreSQLTest-driven Development (TDD)Behavior-driven Development (BDD)Ruby on Rails (RoR)Continuous DeploymentAmazon Web Services (AWS)GitHub APIShow more
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LIQID GmbH
JSON, XML, PostgreSQL, Docker, Sidekiq, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Priori Data GmbH
Google BigQuery, Bash, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
AskNative
Stripe Payments, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Ruby 5 years
REST 5 years
Test-driven Development (TDD) 4 years
Software Design Patterns 4 years
Ruby on Rails (RoR) 4 years
Docker 2 years
Python 2 years
Git, Docker, Vagrant, Bash, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Vim Text Editor, MacOS
...thing I've published is a blog post on Toptal's blog on implementing the Publish-Subscribe pattern in Rails.
Built the invitation system for inviting other users controlling the accounts.
Built the integration with Intercom.
Built the SEPA/XML exporter for charging the invoices to the bank.
Built the invoices system.
Technologies: JSON, XML, PostgreSQL, Docker, Sidekiq, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Implemented a better scraping approach for both Android and iOS partner accounts.
Maintained the PRO rails application.
Implemented parts of the Discovery application.
Re-implemented parts of the public data scrapers for iTunes and Google Play stores.
Technologies: Google BigQuery, Bash, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Ruby
Reimplemented large portions of an API to follow better design patterns (hexagonal architecture and the pub/sub pattern) and best practices (thin models, thin controllers, and single responsibility service objects).
Implemented a test suite for the API.
Implemented an events feature supporting booking via a Stripe booking service.
Reimplemented caching for better response times (fixed a bug in the caching of active model serializers).
Technologies: Stripe Payments, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Gitsubmodule (Development)
https://github.com/mad-raz/gitsubmodule
A Bash script that wraps features for adding and removing submodules to a Git project. It is mainly used to manage installing and removing of Vim plugins.
RM (Development)
https://github.com/mad-raz/rm
A Bash script for new users to protect against deleting important data via the "rm" command. The script uses the system trash instead of deleting the files completely.
EGP Rates CLI (Development)
https://github.com/mad-raz/EGP-Rates-CLI
A small CLI to show the exchange rates of EGP from twenty different banks in a cool terminal table
EGP Rates (Development)
https://github.com/mad-raz/EGP-Rates
A gem that scrapes the exchange rates of EGP from twenty different banks.
Clean Code and the Art of Exception Handling (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/abap/clean-code-and-the-art-of-exception-handling
Exceptions are as old as programming itself. An unhandled exception may cause unexpected behavior, and results can be spectacular. Over time, these errors have contributed to the impression that exceptions are bad. But exceptions are a fundamental element of modern programming. Rather than fearing exceptions, we should embrace them and learn how to benefit from them. In this article, we will discuss how to manage exceptions elegantly, and use them to write clean code that is more maintainable.
The Publish-Subscribe Pattern on Rails: An Implementation Tutorial (Publication)
https://www.toptal.com/ruby-on-rails/the-publish-subscribe-pattern-on-rails
The publish-subscribe pattern] (or pub/sub, for short) is a messaging pattern where senders of messages (publishers), do not program the messages to be sent directly to specific receivers (subscribers). Instead, the programmer "publishes" messages (events), without any knowledge of any subscribers there may be. This article provides insight in how to use the pub/sub pattern, in Rails, to communicate messages between different system components without these components knowing anything about each other's identity.
Toptal Mentor
Ahmed is a mentor in the Toptal Global Mentor's Program. This program is a partnership between Toptal and General Assembly to provide high quality mentorship for students from minority and low income backgrounds who are looking to begin their careers as professional software engineers. Ahmed shows commitment to diversity in tech by mentoring a General Assembly student every week for a year, covering everything from coding tips and tricks to advice on making it in the industry.
Ruby, Bash, XML, Python
JSON Web Tokens (JWT), Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Ruby on Rails API, GitHub API, Sidekiq, Google APIs, Facebook API
Codeship, Travis CI, Wercker, GitLab, GitHub, Terminal, Vim Text Editor, RSpec, Git, Basecamp, Vagrant, BigQuery
Continuous Integration (CI), REST, Test-driven Development (TDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Continuous Deployment
Heroku, MacOS, Software Design Patterns, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Docker
JSON, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, NoSQL, Memcached
APIs, Stripe Payments, Google BigQuery, SOAP, Big Data, Unix Shell Scripting
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
Arab Academy for Science and Technology - Alexandria, Egypt | commoncrawl | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUcaU5qhDACtS7gDf8 | Joseph blames the problem rightly on the corrupt bureaucracy. But does not know how to solve the problem: our model of debate is insufficient for our complexity of civilization. We have abandoned communism and socialism because of the problem of incentives and economic calculation in favor of redistributive democratic secular humanism, without understanding that conservative values and classical liberal procedural limits on power or not, our problem is that we have outgrown, by the division of labor and knowledge, and the increase in technological velocity, the civic republican model that is based upon a separation of powers and the calculative process of rational debate, because our legislators are not free of the limits that socialists fell prey to: the limits of legislative incentives and the limited information necessary for economic consideration, calculation and forecasting. Our government literally consists of a technological strategy insufficiently informed to make the decisions with which we have empowered it. Therefore it is open to abuse – not simply because of intention, but because of folly and a lack of means by which to conduct a rational argument. We must divide up the problem of governance differently – while adding computational capability and adding incentives for responsible actions to an increasing number of people – the vast majority of them citizens who are members of the private sector.
In other words, the problem is one of calculation: we lack the data to make rational judgements and therefore rely on sentiments. We lack the incentives and therefore fall prey to the bureaucracy.
Your argument and your sentiments are admirable. But the institutional problem is well understood. It lies in describing the additions to the constitution such that we create alternative institutions free from bureaucratic corruption, yet which are practically implementable, and which would not require violent revolution, nor extraordinary suffering to implement. As well as a plan of implementation and schedule.
Sentiments are easy. Sentiments are wishes in the wind. They are the dreams and fantasies of well intentioned men capable of nothing but exposition. They are the masculine version of a romance novel – experientially pleasant but materially vapid.
Plans are tangible things open to action, improvement and criticism. And since Mises, Hayek, Popper, Parsons and Rothbard failed to define a rational model for the post-agrarian world, there is no institutional model by which to deliver us from evil so to speak.
Our problems are non-trivial, and vastly more complex than reverting to the debate structure of the framers, wherein a small number of men simply exaggerated the city-state model of the greeks, relying upon the wisdom of platonic pseudo-philosohpher kings to make good judgment despite their representation of craftsman, merchant and farmer alike. This is too simple a form of government for a nation of hundreds of millions producing tens of millions of products and services, and a worldwide empire of trade, trade routes, and a world monetary system we treat as third party, but which, like international policing and trade routes, is the primary source of our empire's power.
Our government has expanded and corrupted into exactly what was predicted by the Iron Law of Oligarchy: We have added judicial review – legislation from the bench.
We have added a state sponsored religion: democratic secular humanism. And ostracized the church.
We have allowed a bureaucracy to develop that cannot be shut down. We have become an empire over distinctly different cultures with distinctly different economic interests.
We have become externally dependent upon our most competitive resource – energy. We have transferred the culture from saving while productive to lend while in retirement, to inter-temporal redistribution from the productive to the unproductive.
We have converted government from it's objective of increasing productivity for the purpose of international competition to the effort of redistributing hypothetical gains at the expense of international competition – we have created the predatory state instead of the productive state.
We have converted from a culture of integration whose problem was to enfranchise farmers for the purpose of securing our interior from external conquest, to a culture of disintegration that actively undermines integration.
We have all but dissolved the states and oppress the country's center at the bequest of the coasts.
We have destroyed our currency, overextended our empire, exhausted our cultural habits of saving and the 'Protestant ethic'. And turned our cultural majority into a cultural minority open to conquest by tribal primitivism on a scale and at a speed which would have horrified and panicked Roman citizenry.
We have instituted ponzi-insurance schemes under the premise of reducing risk for the few, but in doing so created a redistributive scheme of permanent debt, and insurmountable risk for the many.
We have squandered a century of post-european manufacturing advantage, not to improve our competitiveness, but to export our jobs in the silly believe that the price reductions would be worth the competitive loss of jobs, as if all men in america could be rocket scientists and engineers.
We have immigrated cheap labor without understanding the cost of delaying our children's entry into the work force.
We have demasculineized our military without understanding that the secret to western individualism is in the fraternal order of self-sacrificing soldiers, who by their risk gain earned enfranchisement and after such risk would not become obedient to authority.
We have allowed our military to become an administrative machine, and police force only able to operate hierarchically rather than a collection of warriors capable of post-industrial defense and conquest from multiple independent angles. We have adopted silly pseudo-libertarian monetary policy and exposed our lower classes to terrific long term risk, and privatized great wealth at the expense of our working classes.
We have trained two generations of children to be lifestyle pets rather than productive and competitive citizens.
We have demasculinated men and made vast numbers of them abandon society for the comfort of video games or sports, and allowed feminists to take our their wrath on men rather than on the church, the state, and ignorance itself. And forced men into aged poverty in order to secure a consistent standard of living for children who have yet to become productive.
We are a debt society with a predatory redistributive kleptocratic state bent on accomplishing through debt slavery and constitutional circumvention what cannot be accomplished through the proscribed constitutional rules and voluntary democratic process. But worse of all, we have vastly increased the division of knowledge and labor and become a society managed by credit rather than law or religion, but we have not updated our government to consist of institutions that act as a bank, when the credit function is primary lever of our post-religion, post-law government.
We must amend our constitution for this reality. Our government must act as a bank whose duty is to issue loans and cooperate with the private sector, and socialize the profits of competitive advantage. for redistribution to the common people. It must take only calculated insurance schemes that are the product of gains in productivity earned by borrowing on the promise of the common people. This institutional change will have behavioral consequences that will remake our state as one that is competitive, and resurrect us from the simpleton idiocy of the redistributive and irresponsible state whose actions are not measured, not earned, and only stopped by near revolt at the ballot box, but inescapable once implemented as law.
We must relieve the house of commons from the act of taxation ,and allow it only investment and redistribution of the profits.
We must close the department of education and institute a voucher scheme.
We must privatize all functions of the state and open them to competition. We must vote directly with dollars against competing published contractual budgets, rather than competing individuals whose promises are immaterial.
We must restore the senate to election by the state legislatures, and limit both the volume of taxation and origin to the senate.
We must reform our lending system so that loans are not escapable by the originator, and vastly increase the number of bankers, and their quality, so that they are at the level of our lawyers, rather than at the level of our book keepers. We must restore local banking and personal advocacy of individuals by bankers, so that we do not devolve into an class of the enslaved, as ignorant of compound interest and risk as we are of laws and due process.
We must sunset all laws so that they die along with the poor fools who write them. Laws too often institutionalize silly ideas that would be destroyed by the market of daily experience.
We must disallow the development of regulations outside of the legal process, and destroy the power of the bureaucracy permanently.
We must separate property definitions, and abstract property definitions (like CDO's, patents, copyrights, stocks) from the legislative process by creating registries for all legally reconcilable traded property types, and remove the ability for patents to prevent products from seeing the market. Put to practice is insufficient a test for protection: put to market is the only protection we should offer.
We must change corporate law to provide the same freedom to sole proprietors and partnerships and LLC's and SC's and Corps so that we only have one body of law for each, and one method of taxation for all.
We must change taxes such that they do not distort human cooperation, require little or no overhead, and are all based upon both income and balance sheet, so that we encourage men to become independent, but protect the people from the political class of financial predators who circumvent the market purely by the application of capital.
We can have redistribution. People under fiat money are DUE redistribution, because it is they who are borrowed against and whom take the risk.
We can maintain our empire, our freedom, our way of life. But it must be calculable to be responsible and accountable. Right now it is unregulated chaos of extreme borrowing using snake oil formulae peddled by charlatan economists, snake oil mathematicians and other hucksters who are no better than entrail-readers, oracles and bone-augers and less accurate it turns out at inter-temporal prediction than the average man on the street.
THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM FACING US IS THE WEAKNESS OF THE DEBATE MODEL OF GOVERNMENT IN THE FACE OF THE CALCULATIVE COMPLEXITY OF OUR CIVILIZATION. OUR MODEL IS JUST TOO WEAK. The problem of socialist calculation is still evident in the debate model of government. OUr problem is sufficient information to make decisions, and limiting decisions to where we have sufficient information, and avoiding legislation that uses quantitative, methodological and ideological charlatainism.
Some of us who spend time on these theories are diligently working in back rooms, offices, academic institutions, think tanks, cars and showers to solve this problem. But it is not a problem of sentiments. It is a problem of execution.
Institutionalizing this degree of change will not come without violence or trauma. It never has. It never will. There are too many with vested interests feeding off the predatory state. But some of us are now more willing to take that risk than we were over the past decades. And it takes only about five percent of a population to force such a change, if that group is willing enough to act to enforce the change. | c4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUc8g25V5irJ1Xw3Hq | Mommy This &That: Psychic dog?
I love our dog, I really do. He is treated like part of the family and is by my side as much as he can be when I am home. If I move from the office to the master bedroom, which is maybe a total of 20 steps, he will get up and move too. He's a pretty low key dog, doesn't really play or chase balls. He does like chasing cats and squirrels, but only if they are in our yard. He doesn't like the rain or getting his paws wet. He sleeps in the room with us, enjoys scraps from the table and several walks a day. He's kept up to date with yearly vet visits and heartworm preventative, as well as flea/tick preventative. He's spoiled rotten and I love him to death. I can't imagine my life without him. Until the following happens.
He's been baby training me for the last week. I'm a light sleeper and don't enjoy it one bit! I remember when I use to sleep deep and anywhere. Now, not so much. I can fall asleep with the TV on, but after a bit the noise annoys me and it must go off. The whir of the fan can keep me up for hours as I listen to it make it's humming noise. Once we stayed at a hotel and the light above the bed somehow vibrated from who knows what and I heard it all night, getting a absolutely craptastic nights sleep.
So imagine my horror this week, when Prince decided to stay up most of the night walking around, scratching, coming to my side of the bed and looking at my face and then going to Hubby's side and looking at his face. When you finally pay him attention and wake up, you realize the lights have been out for maybe 2 hours. So up one of us will get to take him out front to pee. Because he refuses to use his dog door at night...we think he finds the backyard creepy. He does his business and comes in only to start the noise all over again, two hours later. This is when I spout off sleepy language that is not fit to print. When I wonder why I own a dog in the first place. Why we have a dog door when he won't use it at night.
And then I realize it's his way of saying "I know there's a bun in there and I'm preparing you for that. You won't thank me now. But you will thank me later."
Our cat was never a lap cat until I was pregnant. She even tried to cuddle up on my lap when I was so pregnant there really wasn't any lap left. I think the pets really do know there's a baby in there!
I enjoy your blog, it brings back so many fond memories for me! I wish I would have started my blog when I was pregnant!!
This is so funny! I had flashbacks of the night before last, when the dog did the same thing, pacing from my side to Pear's side sniffing our faces. It was during one of those paces that the little *insert curse word* broke my laptop!!
What a sweet doggie--and so photogenic! My sister-in-law has two photogenic mutts as well--I posted a GORGEOUS photo of them on my blog last week. BTW, I'm new to the blogosphere, and I'm offering a Great Giveaway on my blog this week. Please stop in sometime!
You all will have to forgive me, I am use to commenting to each individual comment and it seems blogger does not allow you to do that. Or maybe it does and I just don't have a clue?
Pearl: Animals are funny things, aren't they?
Apple Joos: They are so cute and adorable until they start breaking things! I don't know what my reaction would have been at the site of a broke laptop!!
Veggie Mom: Thanks for stopping by! And yep, he can take some great pics, the booger!
Oh sweet doggie! My Shadow (dog) was so cuddly with me when I was pregnant. She was never really a snuggler but she would just curl up on the couch with me. Now she's a total lover.
Her late night routines include scratching at the floor and scratching her ears (jingly collar from all the tags she has). Drives us nuts some nights.
Oh Prince is the same! just last night he was shaking his head until I pushed myself out bed to take him outdoors. Then I was up and he came back in and passed out! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdsPxK6Ot9V_E4Ykc | Sometimes you have to speculate to accumulate, and whilst advertising shouldn't be about speculation it also shouldn't be about having to spend vast amounts of money.
Even if you have a small budget there are things you can do to increase your sales. All it needs is a little bit of creativity Here are some cost-effective marketing techniques you can employ that will help with increasing your sales.
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This one is more or less free. Engage with your existing customers – and find out what else you might be able to help them with.
If they have a problem – look for ways you can solve it and look to include that as a service or a product you can offer to all your other clients.
By talking to all your clients, imagine how many other ideas they might come up with.
Is yours the kind of business where you might hold a sale – or run a special offer scheme? If so, as ordinary as this might sound running them to timetable gives your customers something to look forward to. It will also encourage them to buy from you on a regular basis.
If your customers know a promotion is coming up you might also want to encourage them to share the details with their friends, colleagues and contacts. This is a great way to create brand loyalty too.
You might need to advertise the first few promotions but once customers see that they are held on a particular frequency they will start to expect it and you should be able to cut back on the advertising – it will be self-promoting.
Look at ways that you can cross promote your business with local organisations who are in the same sector but not directly competing with you. Look at ways you can all start to promote each other – and maybe find ways in which you might be able to offer a discount if a customer uses both of you.
You might also want to look at ways you could run events locally and all sponsor it together. Perhaps a networking meeting or a charity fundraiser. Gathering a reputation for wanting to help other local businesses surely isn't going to harm your business.
Often you spend a lot of time focusing on your products features but actually you should be looking to help your customers by telling them how your product or service can solve their problems.
Review all of your website content. If your pages are not focused on how you can improve your customers lives then consider a re-write or adding additional pages which focus on the benefits for your customers.
Another place you have content is on all your social media platforms. Make sure that your Social media marketing strategy focuses in on the benefits you can provide – and seek to produce engaging and shareable content that drills home the benefits rather than features.
Everyone loves a bargain – and your customers – and potential customers are no different.
Consider all of your products and how you might be able to group them together and slightly discount the price. You could also run this in conjunction with your promotion schedule mentioned above.
You can't simply expect social media to automatically bring followers and new customers to your business. Sending out content every week will only go so far – you have to seek to engage with your followers.
You need to engage with them – ask questions – or opinions. Find out what they might like to hear from you in future blog posts. Actively engage and provide entertaining content that they want to respond to – and then get involved with them – but always maintaining a professional level.
If you customers like what they see – and get something out of following you then they are much more likely to share your content with their followers and so knowledge about you spreads.
You should, if you have read any of our other articles, already have an email list. If you do we hope you are using it well.
You should be emailing them regularly. It shouldn't cost you any more to send out more frequent communication. Most email automation services charge per subscriber – not by the number of emails you send.
You want to be careful not to bombard them though – but by creating a well crafted engaging drip campaign you should encourage more sales and remember the mantra we explained above. Focus on the benefits.
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BkiUd_nxK6-gDyrT-ENq | Hear Lady Gaga take on Elton John's 'Your Song' for new covers album
'Revamp' will feature Elton classics covered by The Killers, Florence and more
Luke Morgan Britton
Lady Gaga pays tribute to Elton John
Lady Gaga has covered Elton John's 'Your Song' for a new tribute album.
Elton recently announced the album 'Revamp', which features a selection of his classic songs covered by the likes of The Killers, Florence & The Machine, Queens Of The Stone Age and many more.
Set for release on April 6, 'Revamp' boasts 'reimagined' versions of hits including 'We All Fall In Love', 'Candle In The Wind', and more by a host of Sir Elton's friends and past collaborators – including Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Miley Cyrus and Mumford & Sons.
Gaga has now turned 'Your Song' into a modern, very Gaga-like defiant pop ballad. Listen below.
On Twitter, Gaga wrote that it was a "honour" to cover "one of the greatest songs of all time".
HERE WE ARE!!! Here's my cover of one of the greatest songs of all time. Elton John and Bernie Taupin's "Your Song." What an honor it was to record. THATS ME ON THE PIANO! THIS ONES FOR YOU!!💕✨ https://t.co/SYyfQgJGtH pic.twitter.com/5NeVDwDLUN
— Lady Gaga (@ladygaga) March 29, 2018
"It's always a huge compliment when an artist loves your song enough to take the time and effort to rework it," Sir Elton has said of the covers LP. "As songwriters, Bernie and myself are thrilled when singers we admire and respect as much as those on 'Revamp' choose to add their own unique twist in the process.
"It means that our music is still relevant and ultimately that our songs continue to reach new audiences. We're humbled and thank them all for their generosity."
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The tracklist for 'Revamp' is:
'Bennie And The Jets' – Elton John, P!nk and Logic
'We All Fall In Love Sometimes' – Coldplay
'I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues' – Alessia Cara
'Candle In The Wind (2018 Version)' – Ed Sheeran
'Tiny Dancer' – Florence +The Machine
'Someone Saved My Life Tonight' – Mumford & Sons
'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word' – Mary J. Blige
'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' – Q-Tip featuring Demi Lovato
'Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters' – The Killers
'Daniel' – Sam Smith
'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me' – Miley Cyrus
'Your Song' – Lady Gaga
'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' – Queens of the Stone Age | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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Benicassim Festival, Spain
Last Saturday I finally watched Low playing live for the first time, at Benicassim Festival (their first gig in Spain).
They played at the third stage, at the same time Belle and Sebastian were playing at the main one. There was not too much people waiting for Low (although, apparently, one of them was Thom Yorke, from Radiohead, who played some hours later at the main stage) but it was a really friendly crowd. People were quite silent, and respectful to the band, and the only interruptions were the clappings after some singing or Alan solos. Actually, the band had to do an encore, something extremely infrequent in this kind of festivals (you know, bands usually only have like 45 minutes to play and then just go away).
Songlist:
Lordy
Dinosaur Act
Will the night
Encore: Lust
It was a really wonderful gig. I am not very objective, that�s true, but someone who followed me to the first line told me it was one of his favourites of the festival (and there were concerts from Radiohead, Primal Scream, Cure, Suede, etc.). They have a really amazing sound live, but surely you already know this. Alan excused the band for not playing last year (they were invited) with a "Sorry about last year. We've heard you were a really mean people... but now we know...better", and then started to say "abierto - cerrado" in Spanish ("open - close") for some seconds. Before the encore Zak took a photo of the crowd with a little camera (maybe a LOMO one). After the gig, people were requiring the songlists, the drumsticks, all the stuff... Alan and Zak jumped off the stage to talk to the people of the first lines, singing records... I think they were a little bit surprised with the reaction of the people. It was one of the nicest crowds I can remember.
There is a daily magazine, which goes out all the days of the festival. In one issue there was an interview with the band, nothing very special, but there was some message from our loved trio ("To the beautiful people of Spain... You are all the way too drunk... I cannot remember what goes later, but they said they want to come back soon and there was some invitation to go to Minnesota). By the way, according to some journalist, it seems Thom Yorke himself expressed his admiration for the band, by approaching to Alan, Mimi and Zak at the hotel pool...
it was my first Low gig. I got the songlist and a photo with Zak, and, well, it was the best moment of the weekend, that's for true.
Manuel Silva silva.m@cpcom.bbdo.es
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BkiUaqbxK3YB9m8SUUhu | Home Entertainments
NBA To Use Microsoft Teams To Project Fans Into Game Arenas
Kavvitaa S Iyer
The National Basketball Association (NBA), an American men's professional basketball league, in collaboration with Microsoft Teams is planning to bring more than 300 basketball fans live at courtside during games.
NBA, which is set resume its season on July 30th in Orlando, Florida, will use the new Together Mode in the video meet app that would project fans on screens in its arenas during games.
"Today, in partnership with the NBA, we are excited to announce a reimagined fan experience powered by a new feature in Microsoft Teams called Together mode," Jared Spataro, VP, Microsoft 365 said in a statement.
"The core of our partnership with the NBA is delivering next-gen experiences for their fans on and off the court. All of us at Microsoft can't wait to watch an NBA game again and are excited to be part of the new fan experience. We hope Together mode helps fans feel more connected and immersed in the game, and helps teams feel the energy of their fans, even when they can't be in the arena."
Together mode uses AI (artificial intelligence) segmentation technology to bring people together into a shared background like a conference room, coffee shop, or arena. Using scientific principles of cognition and social perception, Together mode is more than a virtual background—it makes being together virtually actually feel like being together in-person.
It's easy to maintain natural eye contact, for instance, or register fellow participants' emotions as they react to what's happening—whether it's a meeting announcement, a class presentation, or the sight of a favorite NBA player about to score a three-pointer.
Starting July 30, the NBA will outfit each game court with 17-foot-tall LED screens that wrap three sides of the arena. These "stands" will be populated with more than 300 cheering fans who will join the game using Together mode in Teams. Besides, a view of their fellow fans, participants can watch a live feed of the game right within Teams.
"We are excited to partner with Microsoft to virtually incorporate NBA fans into our season restart," said Sara Zuckert, Head of Next Gen Telecast, NBA. "This unique live game experience will allow fans to maintain a sense of community as they watch their favorite teams and players."
This new experience gives participating fans the feeling of sitting next to one another at a live game without leaving the comfort and safety of their homes, while players experience their energy and support in-venue.
In collaboration with broadcast partners ESPN and Turner Sports, more than 30 cameras, including many in robotic form, will be repositioned closer to the court and showcase never-before-seen camera angles in places that are otherwise not accessible with fans in the arena. Microphones around the court will capture enhanced sounds from the floor, including sneaker squeaks and ball bounces. DJs and announcers will be in-venue to help replicate the sounds and experiences teams are accustomed to in-arena.
Additionally, all viewers will have the ability to impact visual effects in the venue through a virtual cheering experience. Fans can digitally cheer for their team through the NBA App and NBA.com and on Twitter using team hashtags throughout the game. Virtual cheering will be reflected on the video boards in-venue with graphics and animations that capture the level of fan engagement around the world.
Fans will also have the opportunity to see their videos featured through TikTok Challenges. Snapchat's "ground segmentation" augmented reality technology will also give fans an opportunity to explore a virtual rendering of the official court in Orlando via a Lens wherever they are.
NBA Digital, jointly managed by the NBA and Turner Sports, will provide customized viewing options on NBA League Pass and NBA TV via the NBA App and NBA.com. Fans will have access to alternate feeds with new camera angles, enhanced graphics, gaming options, in-language and influencers calling the game with a focus on areas such as analytics, fashion and music. Fans will also have access to live NBA Pick'Em: Trivia for every NBA game.
"Working with our broadcast and technology partners, we are excited to unveil a series of enhancements that will bring fans closer to the game and allow them to personalize their viewing experience," said Sara. "Our goal is to create an enjoyable and immersive experience where fans can engage with each other and maintain a sense of community as we restart the season under these unique and challenging circumstances."
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BkiUd5M4uBhi_K2XMBe7 | Home Latest News Construction sector celebrates Queen's Birthday honor
Construction sector celebrates Queen's Birthday honor
New Zealand's construction industry is celebrating the appointment of industry stalwart Graham Coe as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, announced recently in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
Registered Master Builders Federation chief executive Warwick Quinn says Mr Coe is the industry's single most worthy recipient of the honour after an illustrious half century career in the construction sector.
"Graham's life's work has contributed significantly to New Zealand as a nation, through his dedication to the betterment of the industry. His leadership within Master Builders and BRANZ has led to a sector-wide improvement in the standards required and quality delivered by builders to New Zealanders."
Mr Coe, a life member of the Registered Master Builders Federation as well as Auckland Master Builders Association, spent 36 years running his own construction companies — including Franklin-based Coe and Lewer Builders — building hundreds of new dwellings and alterations, schools, churches, factories and the Waiuku Civic Centre.
Mr Coe first joined the Auckland Master Builders Association in 1972, and held various management and board positions — including branch president, board member, junior vice-president, president and immediate past president — before he was made a life member in 2002.
He joined the New Zealand Master Builders Federation marketing committee in 1990, and in 1993 was made its president. A series of senior positions within the organisation — Master Build Services board member, NZ Federation Council and then the Board — followed, before he was made president of the Registered Master Builders Federation in 2001. In 2004 he was made a life member.
Mr Coe was also instrumental in developing the House of the Year programme — he was chairman of the national judging panel between 2001 and 2010 — which has been credited with lifting the standards of residential building in this country.
He has also played a pivotal role in the success of the Building and Research Association New Zealand (BRANZ), as chairman of both BRANZ Group and Branz Ltd from 2007 and 2008 respectively until this year.
Mr Quinn says Mr Coe has contributed selflessly to the sector, with much of the work done in his own time and out of his own pocket.
"The sector has collectively asked — how can we adequately acknowledge what Graham has done for our industry? A royal honour, we believe, is appropriate recognition."
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BkiUcv7xaKgTuVvaEZyg | Villa Aalto is een het voormalige woonhuis van de Finse architect Alvar Aalto. De villa is gelegen in Munkkaniemi, een westelijk stadsdeel van Helsinki. Het was van 1936 tot Aalto's dood in 1976 in gebruik als zijn woonhuis en atelier.
Aalto ontwierp de villa samen met zijn vrouw Aino.Hij diende ook als atelier en kantoorruimte: het werkgedeelte is van witgeschilderde baksteen, het woongedeelte van hout. De villa heeft een plat dak en een groot terras op het zuiden. Het huis is vrijwel geheel ingericht met zelfontworpen meubilair.
Aalto's tweede vrouw Elissa bleef tot haar dood in 1994 in de villa wonen. In 1998 kwam het huis in het bezit van de Alvar Aalto Foundation en werd het in gebruik genomen als museum. Samen met zijn nabijgelegen tweede atelier uit 1955 vormt het een dependance van het Alvar Aalto-museum in Jyväskylä.
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Alvar Aalto Foundation - The Aalto House
Museum in Helsinki
Bouwwerk van Alvar Aalto
Bouwwerk in Helsinki | wikipedia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUbhHxaKgS19lq95CP | "I've become a freak … an alien. I no longer belong to the human world," Blair told her true love, and he held her close, determined never to give her up. "I'd stay in this darkness forever as long as I could be with you. Wherever you are … that's my home." Everett meant every word. In fact, he'd willingly give up his own life to protect the girl he'd always loved.
Belle resides somewhere north of Houston, Texas in a small inconsequential town with the smallest most inconsequential name. There in the shady reaches of the pines, elms, and oaks, she daydreams of adventures and secrets that she weaves throughout her stories. She studied literature at University of Houston and is quite sure that she has the best readers and fans in the whole wide world.
Readers of my CICADA trilogy enter the story at the Sonic in a small, inconsequential, southeast Texas town.
To those just passing through on their way to other places, Willis appears to be a tiny town at the crossroads of IH-45 and FM 1097. Many have nicknamed Willis as a "bedroom community", which generally means that most people commute to neighboring towns for work.
But, as you may have guessed, there's more to Willis, Texas than meets the eye. This mysterious town stretches its arms out into the great Piney Woods like antennae searching for secrets that lay hidden in the unlikeliest of places. It's in those places, nestled beneath the shady canopies of the pines and ancient oaks, you'll find most of the places my characters visit in FIREFLY.
Lake Conroe, for instance, plays a role in the lives of the town folk of Willis and also in the lives of my main character Blair Reynolds, her family, friends, and even a foe. For, you see, the murky waters of Lake Conroe lap at the eastern boundary of the family ranch. Not only has the lake provided hours of enjoyment in the lives of many of the characters, but it also ends up saving Blair in the ending chapters of FIREFLY. If you haven't visited the lake, you should do so sometime … either on vacation or by picking up my books!
Before my characters prepare to travel to unknown territories south of the border, there are a few stops in Willis where they even bump into actual residents. If you're considering a weekend trip to discover where it all happens in FIREFLY, you've got to include The Pizza Shack on your list of "must visit" locations. You can even sit at the same table where Ash and Blair share a pizza together after a run-in at the local Walgreens.
Like most coming-of-age stories, my characters grow and move on to different places. In the case of Blair and her friends, those places lie deep in the jungles of Brazil where another small, inconsequential town called Cândido Godói harbors secrets about the connection between them and the extraterrestrials that have become a dangerous reality in their lives. But, to find out more about that, you'll have to wait for the release of MONARCH in 2014!
Check out my books CICADA and FIREFLY, then plan a trip to visit Willis, Texas! Though the town may seem small, the adventures are quite the opposite! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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BkiUcwI5qWTA5dUDjwho | Catalogue Search for "format:"DVD"" Feature : Drama
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Jonah Hauer-King and Ashley Judd star in this family adventure drama based on the book by W. Bruce Cameron. When Lucas (Hauer-King) adopts a puppy he...
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Crime drama directed by Steve McQueen. When a heist turns deadly and leaves four men dead, their widows are left not only burdened by grief but of the...
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Michael Caine stars in this British crime drama directed by James Marsh. A group of retired crooks come together to rob an underground safe deposit facility...
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Off-beat drama from writer/director Rian Johnson, imitating the conventions of 1940s hardboiled film noir as a teenager investigates his ex-girlfriend...
Bart Layton writes and directs this British-American crime drama starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner and Jared Abrahamson as four young...
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Margot Robbie stars in the title role of this biographical drama about American figure skater Tonya Harding. Growing up with an aggresively pushy mother...
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BkiUdMg25V5io-ocxkHk | 1. Started a blog. Obviously. You're reading it. I'm enjoying it so far. I have interacted with some very lovely people, met people in real life through it, flexed my writing muscles and read more because of it.
2. Went to Manchester. At least I don't think I'd ever been there before February. Not that I remember. I think I like it. And it has some very nice people.
3. Grew courgettes. With a little help from Tim and our allotment buddy Swish, I planted half a dozen seeds and we grew so many courgettes we had to give some away! And we can eat a lot of courgette in this house. Total success.
4. Exhibited a photograph in an exhibition. One that was curated and had a preview night with wine and nibbles and everything. It was really cool to be a part of.
7. Volunteered at an astronomy fair. I spotted a notice asking for volunteers to man a physics fun stand at a fair in Devon and in a moment of crazy I offered my services and Tim's. Science outreach is hugely important but I'm not the most outgoing person so I may not do that to myself again.
9. Painted a ceiling. Which is very tiring, it turns out. Thankfully I had help from Tim and my Dad. In fact they did more than me. But I did do some of it, honest.
10. Watched It's a Wonderful Life. I know. How could I possibly have gone almost 30 years without watching the epitome of Christmas films? I finally sat down in front of it on Christmas Day and it has immediately won top place in my favourite Christmas films list. Unsurprisingly.
I could probably cheat and add a whole bunch of blogging-related firsts, because it's all been new to me this year! And a few more owning a house firsts as well. But that would get boring pretty quickly. So instead, feel free to tell me your 2010 firsts in the comments, I hope you have had a good year, and all the best for 2011.
The snow stuck around just long enough for us to replace our traditional Christmas Day walk with sledging up at the local park. It's the same park my siblings and I sledged in as children so it was a real memory lane moment to be up there with a variety of sleds, my Dad throwing himself enthusiastically down every slope while I took it a little easier. The light was falling so I didn't get many photos, but here are a few to show the great fun we had.
Some people might classify this as chicklit, not my usual genre, but as Dervla would say this time of year, this is no ordinary chicklit; this is chicklit that absolutely completely struck a chord with me. Plus, it's Christmassy.
Clara is 40 and is scrambling around Oxford Street on 23 December to complete the perfect Christmas she has planned for her 16 guests, including her three children, husband and ex-husband. The book follows her through the ensuing mayhem of family, friends and Christmas.
Knight mercilessly mocks the middle-class boreishness. I mean, these people are London middle class, which is a whole separate sub-class of its own. They obsess over the provenance of their food (in fact, food in general) and PTA meetings and how to give their children everything without spoiling them. Clara herself is painfully aware that these are not issues most of the world has the luxury of worrying about and besides, she finds it boring. What happened to those youthful days of discussing politics?
There are some painfully real moments and Clara can be a little vicious in her own mind, but she loves the people around her and this shines through. Her sisters are particularly wonderful characters and their shared history and language are joyous to be part of.
I laughed out loud many a time but I also appreciated the main "lesson" that Clara learns – that your true family is the one that's there for you, the people who "taught me to swim, and everything that that's shorthand for" as she puts it. Broken marriages and jumbled extended families may be nothing new but I suspect there's still a lot of people out there trying to negotiate the tricky waters of which parents, step-parents, half-brothers and ex-step-granddads they keep in touch with. It's always nice to know that someone else is struggling with the same issue.
Knight has got right into the Christmas tradition by writing about Christmas past, present and future. I loved that touch, though the future Christmas was rather less bleak than Dickens'. If you're not one for making a fuss about Christmas, this may not be the book for you. But I loved it. I stayed up far too late into the night to finish it and then felt a little sad that it was over so soon.
Merry Christmas and happy holiday reading!
I had just been thinking that it was a while since I last read a murder mystery, and then I randomly selected this from my TBR. It's a debut novel that the publisher describes as being akin to David Lynch's films, which caught my attention.
There are a lot of characters in this dissection of small-town life in Ontario and one of the novel's strengths is that I was interested in every one, finding them believable, complex and full of contradiction. Which is exactly what you need for a good mystery.
The town of Mooney's Dump changed its name to Sunshine shortly after attractive young mother and dentist Alice Pederson disappeared two years ago, but a new name can't take away the dark unease of the townspeople. Alice was last seen at a party at the local wildlife park, a party most of the town attended. Now remains have been found and a man has been arrested for Alice's murder. But is it her body and her murderer? And what's with these sightings of a tiger prowling loose?
In addition to the usual small-town intrigues of who's sleeping with who and who used to date who, there's the man who's not been quite right since his parents died in a car crash, conflicts with the local First Nations reserve and gossip bordering on prejudice about a gay couple and a mixed-race marriage.
The timeline skipped around a lot, with it not always being clear when events happened, so that most of the relevant details to unravelling the mystery had been revealed before the final chapters pulled it all together by clarifying the order of events.
I was thoroughly drawn into the story and devoured the bulk of the book in one sitting. But I did have some issues with it. I know it's an old method for thriller writers to try to mislead the reader with red herrings, throwing in extra suspicious characters and events, but there were moments reading this when I was annoyed by how a plot thread turned out.
What I didn't notice until after I'd finished reading was that McGill appears to have made himself a character, adding a postmodern meta aspect to his storytelling. At least I think that's what he's done. Anyone else who's read this know what I'm talking about? No? Just me then.
I have been dipping in and out of this short story collection for a long long time, which means that I can really only say anything useful about the second half. But I'm reasonably sure I liked all of it, if that helps.
Anyone who's read Catcher in the Rye will recognise the dry, not-one-of-the-crowd narrative voice of all these stories. Quite a few are also young male narrators, adding weight to the comparison but also to the possibility that a little of Salinger's own life is being told here. The title story hints at this most strongly. It's a letter to a woman on her wedding day, apologising for not being able to attend and detailing how they met (presumably for the benefit of wedding guests who might have this note read out to them?). It's a simple, touching story of an American GI dining alone in a British cafe and being approached by a young girl who asks if she can write to him. The GI is quiet, bordering on non-communicative, possibly already struggling with the stress of war. The girl is precocious and demanding. But the pairing works brilliantly and the conversation is both believable and interesting.
Most of the stories are like this, inasmuch as they're snapshots of ordinary lives and the not-so-ordinary personalities who are stuck living them. A couple have clear story arcs but most are more snatched, seeming to fade in and then fade out of the scene or situation being described.
I think this comic book is strictly aimed at children but that didn't stop me from thoroughly enjoying it and learning all sorts of new facts about the space race. And I live with Tim and have been to Kennedy Space Center, so I consider myself reasonably well versed in this stuff.
The story begins in 1957 with the text "T-minus 12 years" and ends (except for a short postscript) in 1969 at "T-minus zero", the moment when Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon. The story inbetween shows both the Russian and the American teams of scientists, engineers and pilots, not to mention the politicians who had their own ideas about going into space. There's more detail about the Americans, possibly because much more information about them is available to an American author, and not every question I had was answered, but overall this was an impressive and entertaining summary of historical events.
Most of the missions get their own panel with a list of pertinent details: rocket used, launch date, flight duration, etc. Deaths and other disasters were not lingered on, which I actually found a little difficult, but there were enough of them to make it clear how immensely daring the astronauts and cosmonauts were. These men and women (the first woman in space was Russian Valentina Tereshkova in 1963 – I didn't know that before today) really were braving the unknown, human guinea pigs essentially. Early flights went up before having figured out urine disposal or temperature control. There's a scene where cosmonauts discuss not taking much food on a 2-day flight because the smell in the capsule made them feel too queasy to eat.
There are a couple of jumps back in time to show the development of the science behind space travel, though I'm sure another book this long could have been written/drawn on that subject. The story is reverent without painting everyone involved as perfect. NASA engineer Caldwell C Johnson is picked out as being a workaholic who rarely saw his family, lost track of days of the week and didn't stop to celebrate each victory on the way because he was already immersed in the next challenge (or indeed the one after that). Russians are shown mocking American failures and achievements, not to mention covering up the cause of Laika's death and keeping many other details secret. Interestingly, the book does mention that the American and Russian teams met up every so often to discuss their work and that these meetings were friendly affairs, but no detail is given. I don't know if this is because it's all classified or if there were no details important enough to pick out for this abbreviated history.
The full-page bibliography reveals that most of the authors' sources came from NASA, including mission transcripts, but they also spoke to astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and Alan Bean. They also say that they didn't read one particular book they found because it was only available in Russian, which sounds like a bit of a rubbish excuse when researching Russian history. Surely they could have found a Russian speaker to help out? However, they did do a lot of research (they provide a web address for the full list, described as a stack of books "more than ten feet tall") and it shows.
I heartily recommend this to any adult or child interested in the space race, but I would also be interested in learning more about the Russian side of things.
Published 2009 by Simon & Schuster. Available from GT Labs.
My second parcel of goodies is here (after a delay while it sat forlornly at the sorting office until Tim kindly cycled over there and fetched it for me). In case anyone missed my last post about this, I took part in the Great Grocery Bag Exchange, organised by Carin of A Little Bookish. Go here to find out more.
Yes I have eaten three of those rather chunky cookies already and yes they are very tasty. Yum yum. Thanks again Lydia! | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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package com.davidbracewell.io.resource;
import lombok.NonNull;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;
/**
* The type Writer resource.
*
* @author David B. Bracewell
*/
public class WriterResource extends BaseResource implements WriteOnlyResource, NonTraversableResource {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private final Writer writer;
/**
* Instantiates a new Writer resource.
*
* @param writer the writer
*/
public WriterResource(@NonNull Writer writer) {
this.writer = writer;
}
@Override
public Writer writer() throws IOException {
return writer;
}
@Override
public Resource append(byte[] byteArray) throws IOException {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
@Override
public boolean exists() {
return true;
}
}//END OF WriterResource
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BkiUf9M5qhDCyOQLS7Xg | Podcast – The Independent Dublin Dream Team Band September 21, 2022
Filed under: Podcast — irishelectionliterature @ 9:54 am
Tags: 1997 general election, Independent Dublin Dream Team Band, Irish Politics, Podcast, Politics, rainbow george weiss
The National Group – "The Others" The Alan Kinsella Podcast
Founded in 1924 , the Party was a split from Cumann na nGaedheal caused by the treatment of Army Officers in the 1924 Army Mutiny. This episode covers the Party as well as the Army Mutiny. The Group were also known as The National League and National Party
The National Group 21:35
The Independent Dublin Dream Team Band 31:57
Post Office Candidates in Roscommon in 1991 22:57
The United Labour Party 33:29
Militant Labour 45:42
In the 1997 General Election , 11 candidates stood for The Independent Dublin Dream Team Band. This was the Irish branch of The Rainbow Dream Ticket, Vote For Yourself, Make Politicians History series of Parties founded by Rainbow George Weiss. This episode covers the 1997 General Election Campaign as well as Rainbow Georges various forays into Irish Politics, North and South.
Podcast -Post Office Candidates in Roscommon in 1991 September 9, 2022
Filed under: Podcast — irishelectionliterature @ 3:32 pm
Tags: 1991 local elections, Irish Politics, Podcast, Politics, Roscommon
In early 1991, An Post issued details of a massive cost cutting plan which involved the closure and downgrading of various Post Offices throughout the Country as well as the introduction of roadside boxes for those whose dwellings were a distance from the road. Two 'Post Office Candidates' , Paul Beirne and Danny Burke stood in Roscommon in the Local Elections as a protest.
Podcast – The United Labour Party August 19, 2022
Filed under: Podcast,United Labour Party — irishelectionliterature @ 3:01 pm
Founded in 1978, The United Labour Party contested a number of elections in Northern Ireland. A Socialist Non Sectarian Party, among those involved were Paddy Devlin and John Coulthard. They petered out around 1984, with some members later becoming part of the Labour 87 group.
Podcast – James Clarke running as an Old IRA candidate in 1944 July 22, 2022
Filed under: Podcast — irishelectionliterature @ 10:41 am
Tags: 1944 general election, James Clarke, Old IRA, Podcast
A look at the 1944 General Election Campaign of James Clarke running as an Old IRA candidate in Laois Offaly. This episode also has a brief history of the Old IRA, their aims, objectives and so on.
Podcast – Patrick Belton – Independent – September 1927 July 12, 2022
Tags: Irish Politics, patrick belton, Podcast, Politics
Having been elected for Fianna Fáil in June 1927, Patrick Belton took his seat in the Dail and was expelled from Fianna Fáil for doing so. He stood as an Independent in September 1927. He later stood for Cumann na nGaedheal and was elected for them in 1933. One of the few people to have been elected as a TD for both Fianna Fáil and Cumann na nGaedheal.
Podcast – Jack Murphy and The Unemployed Protest Committee June 27, 2022
Tags: Irish Politics, Jack Murphy, Podcast, Politics
Podcast – Peadar Cowan and Vanguard June 10, 2022
Tags: Irish Politics, peadar cowan, Podcast, Politics, vanguard
A look at the Vanguard a far Left group set up by Peadar Cowan in 1944 as well as Cowan's Political career in Labour and Clann Na Poblachta.
Podcast – "Former Captain NI Football Team" Derek Dougan 1997 Election Campaign in East Belfast June 3, 2022
Tags: 1997, Derek Dougan, Independent, Irish Politics, Politics
A look at the 1997 Westminster Election Campaign of former Northern Ireland International Derek Dougan as well as a bit on his football career, time at the PFA and so on.
Podcast -United Front Labour May 27, 2022
Tags: Irish Politics, Podcast, United Front Labour
United Front Labour was an Alliance of The Communist Party of Ireland, Socialist Party of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Labour Party and various Trade Union groups that contested the 1936 Municipal and Guardians elections in Belfast. This episode covers initial overtures about Left Unity as well as the election campaigns themselves.
Podcast – Ulster Christian Democrat Party May 20, 2022
Tags: 1996 Northern Ireland Forum, Irish Politics, Podcast, Politics, Ulster Christian Democrat
The Ulster Christian Democrat Party contested the 1996 Forum Elections. They wanted all churches to recognise the Northern Irish state, Northern Ireland to be renamed 'Ulster', to become Independent and be part of the Commonwealth. Their Website
Podcast -Democratic Partnership May 13, 2022
Tags: 1996 Northern Ireland Forum, democratic partnership, Irish Politics, Podcast, Politics
Democratic Partnership was a group made up of Peace People, Peace Activists , Trade Unionists and ex Northern Ireland Labour Party members. They contested the 1996 Northern Ireland Forum Elections. This episode also covers the Northern Ireland Forum electoral system, which was unique and as far as I know hasn't been used since.
Podcast -Martin Brennan -Independent Republican -Sligo -1937 May 6, 2022
Tags: 1937 general election, Irish Politics, martin brennan, Podcast, Politics, Sligo
In the 1937 General Election, War of Independence and Civil War veteran Martin Brennan ran as an Independent Republican in Sligo. This episode looks at that campaign and briefly looks at his War of Independence record and time as a Fianna Fail TD.
Podcast -The National Citizens Movement April 30, 2022
Filed under: National Citizens Movement,Podcast — irishelectionliterature @ 9:32 am
Tags: Irish Politics, National Citizens Movement, Podcast, Politics
Founded in 2014, The National Citizens Movement grew out of The Anti Water Charges and wider anti Austerity Movement. They contested the 2015 Carlow Kilkenny By-Election before merging with Direct Democracy Ireland in December 2015.
Podcast – The Cork Civic Party April 15, 2022
Tags: Cork, Cork Civic Party, Irish Politics, Podcast, Politics
Founded in 1945, The Cork Civic Party had representation on Cork Corporation until they disbanded in 1966. They represented Business interests in the City.
Podcast – Meath Centre Left March 25, 2022
Filed under: Centre Left,meath,Podcast — irishelectionliterature @ 12:46 pm
Tags: Centre Left, Irish Politics, Meath Centre Left, Podcast, Politics
Founded in 2014, Meath Centre Left contested the 2014 Local Elections, running two candidates in Ashbourne
Podcast – The Community Party March 18, 2022
Filed under: Podcast,The Community Party — irishelectionliterature @ 12:08 pm
Tags: community party, Irish Politics, letterkenny, Podcast, Politics
Founded in 1985 , The Community Party contested the 1985 Local Elections for Letterkenny UDC and had a Councillor elected. This episode also covers the debate around slot machines in Donegal in that period.
Podcast – Ciaran McKeown -1969 Dublin South West March 11, 2022
Tags: 1969 general election, Ciaran McKeown, Irish Politics, Podcast, Politics
In the 1969 General Election, the then President of USI Ciaran McKeown ran in Dublin South West as an Independent. This episode covers McKeown in College, USI, the election, the aftermath and his life afterwards
Podcast – William Lawless – Fianna Fáil Convention Choice -1953 Wicklow by-Election March 4, 2022
Tags: 1953 Wicklow by-election, Fianna Fail, Irish Politics, Podcast, wicklow, WIlliam Lawless
In 1953 William Lawless was selected at the Fianna Fáil Convention to contest the WIcklow By-Election. However He wasn't ratified by Party HQ and Paudge Brennan who came second in the Convention was chosen as the Party Candidate. Lawless ran as an Independent under the banner of The "Fianna Fáil Convention Choice" Candidate. Locally much of the Party supported him. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUc0Q4dbgg5rq9qkep | Hemmati, S. (2017). Analysis of the expression level of aquaporins under acetylene treatment and pathogen attack. Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 3(2), 71-82.
Shiva Hemmati. "Analysis of the expression level of aquaporins under acetylene treatment and pathogen attack". Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 3, 2, 2017, 71-82.
Hemmati, S. (2017). 'Analysis of the expression level of aquaporins under acetylene treatment and pathogen attack', Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 3(2), pp. 71-82.
Hemmati, S. Analysis of the expression level of aquaporins under acetylene treatment and pathogen attack. Trends in Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2017; 3(2): 71-82.
Analysis of the expression level of aquaporins under acetylene treatment and pathogen attack
Article 3, Volume 3, Issue 2, June 2017, Page 71-82 PDF (574.67 K)
Fusarium wilt disease and Sigatoka leaf spots threaten global market of Musa sp. Major Intrinsic Proteins (MIP) consisting aquaporins (AQPs) facilitate the transport of water and molecules like H2O2, CO2, silicon, boron, urea, and ammonia. Biotic and abiotic stresses affect the expression level of MIPs and influence the transportation of water and nutrients, which results in the susceptibility of plants to diseases. Expression level of MIP genes in Musa acuminata (MaMIPs) fruits during development and under acetylene treatment; expression of MaMIPs in the corms of banana infected with Fusarium oxysporum cubense (Foc), and the expression of MaMIP genes in the leaves treated with Mycosphaerella fijiensis were retrieved from the banana genome hub database. Expression data of roots, treated with virulent Focs at 3, 27, and 51 hours post-inoculation (hpi) were downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus. The expression data were analyzed using MeV 4.9 program. Expression level of MaMIPs was mainly suppressed by acetylene and biotic treatments. Twenty seven and 51 hpi of roots with Foc, 88% and 63% of MaMIPs were down-regulated. However, MaNIP2-1 expression showed a significant up-regulation in all conditions. Infection of banana corms resulted in the suppression of MaMIPs. A low decrease in the expression of MaMIPs was observed, when the leaves were under Mycosphaerella fijiensis attack. Suppression of MaMIPs might be in line with repression of plant defense by banana pathogens as an approach for infection progression. Identification of the MIPs influenced by stresses provides the opportunity for the production of transgenic resistant cultivars.
aquaporin; Banana; Biotic stress; Expression profile; Fusarium; Mycosphaerella | commoncrawl | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUbls5qsJBjmSXwAKX | YouTube Automatically Blocks MIT Courses … And Blender Videos?
Kyle Perisic Contributor
YouTube's content filtering software is accidentally blocking some education- and software-related videos automatically and some channels have lost all of their content.
The content filter, called Content ID, is used to protect artists from YouTube channels copying their work and profiting off of it, but it appears to have backfired.
One channel, Blender Foundation, describes itself as "the free and open source 3D creation suite." Another channel is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's OpenCourseWare channel, which says it publishes MIT educational videos "covering the entire MIT curriculum, ranging from the introductory to the most advanced graduate courses."
Both lost all their videos, TorrentFreak reported Monday.
"You may have noticed that we are having some trouble with our videos! Please stand by. The elves are working around the clock to fix the issue," MIT's channel wrote on Twitter.
"Videos on a limited number of sites have been blocked as we updated our partner agreements. We are working with MITOpenCourseWare and Blender Foundation to get their videos back online," YouTube said in a statement to TorrentFreak.
Blender's channel, which boasted nearly 32 million views at the time of publication, has 197 thousand subscribers. MIT's had over 138 million views and 1.5 million subscribers.
YouTube screenshot of Blender Foundation's page, taken June 19, 2018. The same appears on MIT's OpenCourseWare channel. (Image: YouTube screenshot)
YouTube has had troubles with content filtering in the past. It has blocked videos of birds chirping and musicians' white noise videos.
Content filtering is currently being debated in the European Union and it's voting on June 20 and 21 on a bill that would require Internet content creators to include an automatic content filter much like the one YouTube uses.
Save Your Internet, a digital right coalition that includes the Electronic Frontier Foundation, says that the EU's Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and the Council on Copyright in the Digital Market would "destroy the Internet as we know it."
The EU's proposal would, among other things, effectively make memes illegal and would force a tax on simply linking to other websites, according to Save Your Internet.
Other features YouTube uses manually restrict videos. A review of a fast food product was manually flagged for being "offensive."
The channel, The Report Of The Week, said in a tweet on June 2 that his video was "manually reviewed and flagged" and placed in limited state. He was told that he wasn't able to appeal the decision, but the video was eventually returned to its normal unrestricted mode. (RELATED: YouTube Restricts 'Offensive' Fast Food Review)
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BkiUe7fxK6-gDw5Aw6sY | Coaching is a powerful, energising and creative process for making those meaningful changes that you want from your life. Whilst the fundamental belief of coaching is that you are the expert in your life and you have the answers locked within you, a coach can enable you to identify any potential internal blocks that may be holding you back. This process can facilitate those 'lightbulb' moments that spark new ways of thinking so you can make those necessary changes in order to move in the right direction; e.g. within a job, your health, family or a particular stage in your life - the list is endless.
Coaching is different from therapy in that counselling focuses on the past, whereas coaching focuses on the future in terms of where you want to be and what you want to achieve. However, it is a confidential, non-judgemental partnership based upon a relationship of trust.
Neuroscience is the study of the brain. Your genetics, environment and life experiences to date have shaped your brain chemistry. Our brains remain pliable throughout our lives and new experiences and emotions can reshape neuro-pathways to literally transform the brain. Visualising a specific experience can activate the same neural pathways as the actual experience or achievement.
The subconscious mind can greatly influence our thoughts, feelings and actions, whether or not we are consciously aware of this process.
By applying the principles of neuroscience and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming), we can help you to understand your own unique brain patterns and how they have influenced your behaviour so that you can start to think and behave differently to maintain new ways of being and achieve what you want and deserve.
"Increasing self-understanding leads to personal breakthroughs."
We leverage a worldwide leading diagnostic psychometric and coaching tool known as 'Insights® Discovery' profiling. Based on the psychology of Carl Jung, 'Insights Discovery' increases your self-awareness to help you perform at your highest level. Using this tool, we can help you better understand and leverage your strengths, counterbalance blindspots and more effectively manage conflicts within relationships.
You'll receive a 20+ page personal profile that gives you an engaging, reinforcing and transformational insight into yourself and how you relate to others. Explaining in detail your personal style and how you make decisions, your coach will leverage this information in order to develop your mindset, sharpen your capabilities, increase your personal effectiveness and strengthen relationships, both at work and at home.
The introductory coaching session is used to get a 'helicopter view' of your world. We use the 'wheel-of-life' model to see how each area of your life integrates in order to identify the appropriate starting points as often, where the coaching begins is upstream to your perceived coaching need. This exploratory 90-minute session results in your Personal Coaching Programme and an agreement of 2-3 areas for potential focus with initial coaching on one of your chosen areas. Ongoing sessions are used to review your progress, acknowledge what's working and explore any potential setbacks to keep you motivated and on track. The intervals between your individual sessions are mutually agreed depending on the changes being implemented and what's involved.
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BkiUfaM5qhDCiRj_E0qX | Salinas' Fox Theater reopens
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Fox Theater owner Anthony Lane excitedly tore closure notices off the historic theater's front doors Thursday as it re-opened four and a half months after shuttering.
"We got the occupancy from the city to re-open the theater as of today Aug. 30, 2018. So it's going to be a great day for the rest of my life," Lane said, pausing as he became overwhelmed with emotion. "...Everyone worked really hard to put this theater back and we're back up and running and we are going to bring some great shows for the public."
On April 12, the city ordered the theater to close due to permit conditions related to fire code and safety. A wall was also designated as reinforced masonry, according to the city.
Although he disagrees with the city on the designation, Lane asked the city council for time to bring the theater's wall into compliance.
Amid vocal public support for the theater, the city council voted in May to give the Fox more time to fix the issues, which centered on its ability to withstand earthquakes, its fire sprinklers and other code issues, city officials said.
"We finished all the work that was asked of us. We've completed it with the help of my engineer Michael Martin, Sal Dimaggio construction and all the staff that helped me out and all the workers who worked very, very hard," Lane said.
The work included more than $400,000 in retrofit expenses such as installing a sprinkler system, as well as the biggest piece: reinforcement of a steel wall.
"It was a lot of work," he said. "It was an amazing job that these people that work for me put together, just seeing the steel going in was incredible, absolutely incredible."
On Thursday, Lane proudly showed off a temporary certificate of occupancy for the theater, stating it was in code compliance and may be lawfully occupied.
The city initially gave Lane until June 11 to come into compliance but later, upon seeing progress, granted him multiple extensions for the work to be completed.
He said more than 32 events were canceled at the theater during the work, causing promoters to lose money. Staff had to relocate five weddings, four quinceaneras and five private parties.
"It was really difficult on the brides, but they were amazing with us as we worked to relocate them" Lane said. "A couple of my guys, people who work for me, are homeless. Some of the staff hadn't made money in four and a half months so it was a little tough, but we kept working and did it. We put in 20 hour days, and we finished this."
On Thursday, Salinas Councilman Steve McShane announced the re-opening on social media, writing "The historic Fox Theater Salinas is back open thanks to the hard (and expensive) work of Anthony Lane. Proud to work closely with him through such a complicated and difficult process. Thank you for sticking through it, Anthony!!! The Fox is a treasure."
Lane said his phone was already ringing off the hook as the theater immediately booked 13 events in the first day open.
He said the theater will have a re-opening party on Sunday night for supporters.
"I just want to thank all the people in Salinas who believed in me. There was a lot of negativity at the beginning, people saying for me to just get things done," Lane said. "I don't believe that a lot of the things that we did were necessary, but unfortunately, when you get a notice to abate, you have no choice, but I'm just glad that the theater is reopened to the public and in the words of my engineer, it's probably the safest building in the entire state of California."
Angel Kowatsch, Lane's best friend and theater general manager, and others applauded as Lane excitedly tore off the city notices from the doors of the theater.
Linda Lawson, who co-owns the business next door, Bright Eyes, with her husband Steve Lawson, smiled wide as she peeked around the corner at the commotion.
"The vibrancy will be back," Steve Lawson said. "We miss the excitement the theater brings … Every day we see people stopping to take pictures of the Fox. It's historic and it's amazing."
"(Lane) does so much for the community," Linda Lawson added. "He really does and doesn't get credit for it."
Opened in 1921 through the Martin Family, the Fox Theater first showed movies and plays, along with other live entertainment concerts.
Lane purchased and renovated it in 2007, and the first event at the theater when it reopened was a comedy show by George Lopez.
The theater, along with the Salinas Sports Complex, serves as one of the few entertainment venues within the city. It celebrates its 100th anniversary in November 2021.
More:Salinas city council gives Fox Theater more time
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BkiUaijxK7Dgs_cY3a_5 | Ever which way they want the story - Argumentative Essays Topics Examples
Ever which way they want the story
Ever since the introduction of mass media through print, media has surrounded us and has had significant impact on our political views, our economy and even shapes our culture and society.
With media so intertwined with such important aspects of our lives, it is important to develop an understanding of how media effects the political, economic and cultural meaning of our lives through media studies. For this essay, I will explain two political aspects of media and discuss the relationship between the economic power of the media (ie.advertising) and how this plays a considerable role in shaping our culture.I will also point out how media studies assist us to understand these aspects better throughout the essay. The importance of understanding the relationship between the media and parliamentary politics is crucial to our political understanding in general. The media aims to provide a variety of political views and opinions so that as voters, we have a well rounded knowledge of all parties and issues involved.However, many of us are unaware of the developing relationships between media owners and politicians. As a result of this camaraderie, journalists are mere puppets as their boss dictates which way they want the story to slant1 to support their ally, and hence, a bias is created.
Media studies not only allows us to explore these controversial relationships but to also become more sophisticated in understanding the hidden language of the journalist and politician. In comparison to the written word, visual media seems to have a powerful control over the audiences' political opinions.One might assume that good looks may be a contributing factor to a political win. However, Windschuttle argues that "good looks are largely in the eye of the beholder… someone who has charisma will become good looking"2. As an example, Windschuttle refers to Richard Nixon's television appearances during the 1972 Presidential election3.
According to western standards, Nixon was not considered a 'good looking' man. However, his charisma and mastery of television catapulted him to the top.Similarly, Prime Minister Bob Hawke was also known for his charisma and transparent nature, which were both factors that contributed to his popularity4. The second approach to politics in media is related to the politics within the media. Media studies is fundamentally a political study into the "power structures"5 behind each form of media.
By using Harold Lasswell's model of communication, we ask "Who says what, in which channel, to whom and with what effect? "6. This type of questioning allows us to develop a healthy suspicion so that everything is not taken for face value.The theory of political economy also suggests that the media is essentially a corporate enterprise7, run by powerful people who play a dominant role in what the media says and how they say it.
The media coverage of the infamous S11 protests began months prior to the date with journalists creating an assumption that it would be a bloody affair. However, journalists never revealed that during these months of preparation, protesters had participated in workshops educating themselves on the benefits of non-violent protesting8.Due to this lack of knowledge, thousands of police men and women were briefed with the theory that the protesters were going to be violent and brutal. As a result of this, the second day of the protests saw police from the paramilitary Force Response Unit aggressively seize upon 50 civilians non-violently protesting against large global corporations9. The police provided no forewarning to the group or directions to move before the assault.
The attack was repeated 12 hours later on a group of approximately 100 civilians, resulting in injuries to about 70 citizens. 10So why did the media prematurely portray the protesters as aggressive, even when they were unsure of the outcomes? The media tycoons who run the media were part of the World Economic Forum and had given specific instructions to portray the protesters as violent so that police numbers would be high to ultimately protect themselves. This example of manipulation from behind the scenes gives us a new perspective on the issue. We often find that the inclusion of this political perspective gives us the knowledge to be a more critical member of society, which can be quite rewarding. 11.
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BkiUdZ85qsMAIzHy9577 | Over the summer, Google released a rather astonishing video of Google Wave in action. All across the internet enthusiasm was at an incredible high. Google Wave was going to be a paradigm shift of a collaboration suite. It was going to surpass email as the way people communicate with each other. I work a bit with collaboration software, mostly Sharepoint, so I was particularly interested in where this might go. Thus, it was with excitement that I acquired an invite to Wave.
Now, I've been scooting around this interface for about a week attempting to figure things out and I've come to a few conclusions.
Why not? It's far to complicated. What makes email a powerful medium is in actuality it's pure simplicity. The learning curve for email is almost trivially small. Wave is chock full of features, but in a sense they are features that are simply more than what the average person requires and that is a barrier to entry. I want to stress though that this is not so much a criticism as it is merely an observation. Wave probably isn't seeking to solve the email problem.
I hadn't realized this before, but in the process of attempting to plan a trip to Greece with a friend using Wave as our platform I found the lack of a true chat interface unbearably frustrating. While you can "ping" a person in Wave, that ping merely acts as a mini wave. It's fully featured, which is absolutely overkill for a quick chat, and is also saved as a separate wave from the one you are currently working on, meaning the chat information and any decisions made there are separated from the rest of your collaboration work.
I think for Wave to really take off, it needs to have a true chat feature, one that rather than being a wave is truly optimized for chat. For me, the lack of this was so frustrating I had to supplement my work in Wave with chatting over Adium.
The third: There really needs to be connectivity between Wave and other Google Apps.
You're welcome to attach documents to your waves, but there doesn't appear to be a way to link in Google's already relatively successful collaboration suite. Prior to using wave for our "Plan a Trip to Greece" project, my friend Shane and I had both a Google doc of information and a Google Map of places we wanted to visit. My enthusiasm for Wave was damped when it became clear I could not capitalize on this existing work within the application. I could drop in a map gadget, but I'd have had to build my whole map again from scratch.
It felt extremely limiting to not be able to bring in work completed in other places, especially considering that those other places are ... well ... Google.
1. Why the funky scroll bars? They're a little clunky and it confuses me a bit that they didn't just use standard scroll bars which work perfectly well.
2. In a long wave, how can I jump to the unread changes? Right now I can't find a way to do this. If the changes are spread throughout the wave, it's extremely difficult to move through it to find the relevant changes.
3. Nested replies get quickly out of hand: one thing, having to double click to even find these features is messy. Another, those nested replies seem to not always show up where you expect it to. As they grow, it makes following them a bit difficult. I think they perhaps would have worked better showing up in the style of notes in Microsoft office revision mode.
Wave might yet prove to be a paradigm shifting project. Niggling usability issues are a part of any release like that, so it doesn't concern me overly much. However, the lack of Google Docs and Maps integration surprises me and makes me wonder how long we'll have to wait to see what I view as very necessary new features.
One other thing that came to mind as I was playing with this... will the masses, who aren't perhaps looking for a robust collaboration solution, find themselves driven to use Wave at all? I have my doubts. Most of us in our day to day lives don't require that much complexity and jumping right into it is an overwhelming experience.
On the other side of the fence we have gmail kind of quietly doing its thing. More and more it seems to me that it's gmail that could really take off as a collaboration platform that everyone can start using. Already it has integrated chat with the email client, and it's starting to build in a connection with Google Docs as well. It's a way of easing users into a more robust experience by trickling the features in over time. Not a bad approach, although maybe not a paradigm shifting one. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUeGbxK7IAEwOJJLuY | A capsule carrying asteroid rocks collected by Hayabusa-2 successfully landed on Earth
The news: A capsule containing the first rock samples from the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth Sunday, December 6 in "perfect" condition, according to the researchers.
The samples were collected after a six-year mission by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 spacecraft to and from Ryugu, 180 million kilometers away. Hayabusa-2 flew close to Earth and dropped the capsule which then passed through the atmosphere at high speed before deploying a parachute. The 16kg capsule, which contains about 0.1 grams of rock and dust, landed safely in Woomera, South Australia at 4:37 a.m. local time and was located and collected shortly thereafter by the team. recovery led by the Japanese space agency JAXA.
The precious sample is carefully packaged to be taken to Japan for study (JAXA)
The team carefully inspects the spot where he fell (JAXA)
The importance: This is only the second time in history that samples from an asteroid have arrived on Earth – the first was the original Hayabusa mission, but which only managed to bring back a few micrograms of asteroid dust. The hope is that the samples will help researchers better understand how the solar system formed, including habitable worlds like Earth.
Asteroids are like time capsules of ancient space history because their physical and chemical composition is much better preserved than that of a planet, which changes more over time. Ryugu should also help us understand what kinds of elements and compounds could have been delivered to the early Earth via meteor impacts. After dropping off its precious cargo, Hayabusa-2 has fired its engines again and is now heading to asteroid 2001 CC21 for a flyby in July 2026, followed by a rendezvous with asteroid 1998 KY26 in July 2031.
And after: The capsule is about to be transported to Japan, where we'll find out exactly how much asteroid material has been collected, and researchers can begin analyzing it to see what clues to our early history it contains.
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The BxNU Master of Fine Art (MFA) at Northumbria University has been developed in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
The two-year course offers ambitious artists the opportunity to participate in a unique postgraduate degree programme, centred on the dynamic and critical culture of the BxNU Institute at BALTIC 39 in Newcastle's city centre.
The BxNU Institute, led by BALTIC Professor Andrea Phillips, is a base for a network of internationally active artists, academics and curators who provide world-class teaching and mentorship in contemporary art practice and research. The BxNU MFA course sits within the wider BALTIC 39 culture of postgraduate research, with regular opportunities to engage with practice-based PhD researchers also resident at BALTIC 39. In 2019, alongside Phillips, new professors include Gavin Butt and Maria Fusco. The BxNU MFA provides students with exceptional opportunities to develop their art practice in this context, supported by outstanding exhibition facilities, a public-facing Experimental Studio and dedicated work spaces for all students.
The purpose-designed studio and exhibition spaces at BALTIC 39 are one focal point of the course where students are supported to develop their individual practice, through experimentation and critical reflection. You will also be encouraged to develop collaborative and co-productive initiatives with other artists, curators and social organisers in the city and elsewhere. You will work in an environment that encourages and supports self-motivated decision-making guided by the Art Department faculty, the BALTIC curatorial and learning teams alongside experts from different disciplines. Your practice will be developed within the framework of the BXNU Institute where discussion and debate on the role and value of contemporary culture is stimulated.
Throughout the two-year programme there are opportunities to interact with artists, writers and curators who are working to develop exhibitions and events at BALTIC and B39 as well as access a broad range of practicing artists, curators and theorists via our weekly visiting lecture series and events in the BXNU Experimental Studio. As an MFA student, you will be able to help programme talks and symposia organised by the BxNU Institute and participate in collaborative events initiated by BALTIC curators, all of which embody the spirit of openness and exchange at BALTIC 39.
The MFA course benefits from its direct proximity to BALTIC's 300-square-metre, top-floor galleries where the MFA graduating exhibition is held each year. These spaces are managed and programmed as a project space by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
Situated on the banks of the River Tyne and in close proximity to BALTIC 39 is the internationally renowned BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. BALTIC has welcomed over 7 million visitors since opening to the public in July 2002. BALTIC is a world leader in the presentation and commissioning of contemporary visual art. Housed in a landmark ex-industrial building, BALTIC consists of 2,600 square metres of art space, making it the UK's largest dedicated contemporary art institution.
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BkiUdlg5qX_BlbLl_17k | Recent work at the University of Minnesota, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Argonne National Lab has combined X-ray and neutron scattering to probe elusive operating mechanisms in a new class of devices known as electrolyte transistors.
Electrolyte transistors essentially combine electrolytes, such as organic ionic liquids, with novel materials such as inorganic complex oxides, to enable control of materials properties (e.g., magnetism) using only an applied voltage. This functionality could provide revolutionary breakthroughs in devices such as hard disk drives. One of the major challenges in understanding their operating mechanisms, however, is characterizing the devices "in operando", i.e., as they are actually functioning.
In this work, the research team made a breakthrough by establishing not one, but two means to achieve in operando characterization of electrolyte-gated magnetic oxides. Devices were specially designed to enable high energy X-ray diffraction and polarized neutron reflectometry measurements, providing both structural and magnetic information. The devices were found to operate completely differently for different signs of the applied voltage, a major advance in terms of resolving the debate surrounding their operating mechanisms. The work was funded by the National Science Foundation MRSEC, and the Department of Energy Center for Quantum Materials at the University of Minnesota. | c4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUgJDxK19JmhArGWJG | Q: Piecewise linear function close to continuous function
A continuous function $\phi$ on $[a,b]$ is called piecewise linear provided there is a partition $a=x_0<x_1<\ldots<x_n=b$ of $[a,b]$ for which $\phi$ is linear on each interval $[x_i,x_{i+1}]$. Let $f$ be a continuous function on $[a,b]$ and $\epsilon$ a positive number. Show that there is a piecewise linear function $\phi$ on $[a,b]$ with $|f(x)-\phi(x)|<\epsilon$ for all $x\in[a,b]$.
I want to construct $\phi$ bit-by-bit starting from the left at $a$. I consider the set $C=\{c\mid$the linear function $\phi$ from connecting $f(a)$ and $f(c)$ satisfies $|f(x)-\phi(x)|<\epsilon$ for all $x\in[a,c]\}$. This set contains $a$ and also some interval close to it (since $f$ is continuous we can find $\delta$ such that $|f(a+y)-f(a)|<\epsilon/2$ for all $0<y<\delta$. Consider its least upper bound, and choose something slightly less than it. But I have no way to know why this process will eventually cover the entire interval $[a,b]$.
A: As julien hinted, the function is uniformly continuous by compactness of $[a,b]$. This means there exists $\delta$ such that $|x-y|<\delta$ implies $|f(x)-f(y)|<\epsilon/2$. Define $\phi(x)=f(x)$ for $x=a,a+\frac{\delta}{2},a+2\frac{\delta}{2},\ldots$. Then "connect the dots" to make $\phi$ piecewise linear.
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BkiUfPDxK6nrxrSHhZLK | I was very hopeful for the return of a market to Chatsworth Road but I'm afraid to say the result has not matched my hopes. As a certain local writter wrote in Guardian earlier this year the 'market has cheeses you need a mortage to buy' and lots of other little trinklets that only a certain section of our new neighbours could afford to buy. Of course word has spread to others and now we have an invasion of 'yummy mummies', 'graphic designers' et al every weeekend. I look out of my window at them passing by and morn for the passing of a great opportunity to create something that could have brought together the WHOLE of this area, but instead we're another part of London suffering financial apartheid through the backdoor of gentrification. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUfOs4uzliDEmfhLQB | <?php
/**
* Controller
*
* @author Kévin Walter <walkev13@gmail.com>
* @version 1.0
*/
class MenuGroupController extends UAutoController
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/**
* Delete list of rows (Action)
*/
public function actionDeleteRows()
{
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if (Yii::app()->request->isPostRequest && isset($_POST['rows']) && is_array($_POST['rows'])) {
$model = $this->_model;
foreach ($_POST['rows'] as $tmp) {
parse_str($tmp, $pk);
$menuGroup = $model::model()->findByPk(count($pk) == 1 ? reset($pk) : $pk, array('select' => 'id'));
if($menuGroup !== null) {
UCmsMenu::clearMenuCache($menuGroup->id);
$menuGroup->delete();
}
}
unset($model);
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/**
* @see BBaseAutoController::_afterSaveEditModels()
*/
protected function _afterSaveEditModels(&$models)
{
UCmsMenu::clearMenuCache($models[$this->_model]->id);
}
/**
* @see BBaseAutoController::_afterSaveTranslationModels()
*/
protected function _afterSaveTranslationModels(&$models)
{
$cmsMenuGroup = UCmsMenuGroup::model()->findByPk(
$models[Yii::app()->language]->{$this->linkModels},
array('select' => 'id')
);
UCmsMenu::clearMenuCache($cmsMenuGroup->id);
}
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BkiUdtA5qoaAwrv3W7qq | The FCPA Enforcement Explosion Continues: Nine New Enforcement Actions in 2007 and Approximately 100 Active Investigations
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") is 30 years old this year, and the anniversary is being "celebrated" with an explosion of enforcement activity by both the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the Department of Justice ("DOJ").
Client Alert | July 26, 2007
Postgraduate Course in Federal Securities Law – Current Trends in Federal Securities Litigation
Jonathan C. Dickey is the author of "Current Trends in Federal Securities Litigation" [PDF] prepared for the ALI-ABA Postgraduate Course in Federal Securities Law, June 28 - 29, 2007.
Client Alert | June 28, 2007
Supreme Court Decision in Rita v. United States Resolves Role for Presumption of Reasonableness in Federal Sentencings
On June 21, 2007, the Supreme Court issued an 8-1 decision in Rita v. United States, No. 06-5754, affirming the ability of appellate courts to use a presumption of reasonableness where the sentences they are reviewing were imposed within the applicable range under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines.
Supreme Court Establishes Rigorous Pleading Standard for Investor Suits
On June 21, 2007, the Supreme Court issued an 8-1 decision in Tellabs v. Makor Issues & Rights, No. 06-484, explaining the plaintiff's burden under § 21D(b)(2) of the PSLRA (15 U.S.C.
Latest SEC Reminder About Managing Conflicts within Financial Institutions — Have You Tested Your Walls Lately?
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently provided an important reminder of the need for effective information barriers and procedures to address potential conflicts of interest, including misuse of confidential information, that may exist given the multiple hats increasingly worn by broker-dealers, investment advisers, hedge funds, private equity funds, and other financial intermediaries.
Liability Issues for Audit Firms – The Risk of Catastrophic Exposure Prompts Calls for Liability Reforms
Jonathan Dickey and Jeffrey Minnery are authors of "Liability Issues for Audit Firms - The Risk of Catastrophic Exposure Prompts Calls for Liability Reforms," published in the Securities Litigation Report, April 2007.
Client Alert | April 2, 2007
Fifth Circuit Narrows Scope of Liability Under Federal Securities Anti-Fraud Statute, and Rejects Class Certification in Enron Securities Litigation
In a decision having important implications both for the scope of liability under the securities laws and for class certification in general, on March 19, the Fifth Circuit ruled that a securities fraud action against certain financial institutions that participated in transactions with Enron Corporation could not proceed as a class action.
Client Alert | March 22, 2007
UK Court of Appeal Confirms That Documents Created by Regulators Are Not Always Protected from Production in Court Proceedings
Questions have arisen in England concerning the production of documents, created in the context of an investigation by the chief regulatory body in the UK, the Financial Services Authority (the FSA), in subsequent legal proceedings.
Insider Trading Prosecutions Return: What Public Companies Should Do Now
On successive days this month, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice announced major enforcement actions alleging insider trading in connection with merger and acquisition activity.
Trends in Claims Against Lawyers
Jonathan Dickey and Jeffrey Minnery are authors of "Trends in Claims Against Lawyers," [PDF] published in the Securities Litigation Report, February 2007.
Client Alert | February 1, 2007
Second Circuit Rejects Class Certification in IPO Securities Litigation, Imposing Strict New Standards on Plaintiffs Lawyers
On December 5, 2006, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a significant blow to the plaintiffs' bar, issuing an opinion that answered the "surprisingly unsettled" question of what standards govern a district judge in deciding a motion for class certification under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Client Alert | December 8, 2006
Delaware Supreme Court Rules on Directors' Standard of Oversight
Decision has significant implications for option backdating litigationIn a significant decision issued on November 6, 2006, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on the standard to be applied under Delaware law when assessing the personal liability of corporate directors for failing to adequately oversee the corporation.
Client Alert | November 8, 2006
For litigators, the cry is: 'Play Ball!'
Washington, D.C. Partner Andrew S. Tulumello and Associate Travis D. Lenkner are authors of "For litigators, the cry is: 'Play Ball!'" [PDF] published in the October 30, 2006 edition of The National Law Journal.
The Antidote To Prolix Securities Fraud Complaints: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8
Washington, D.C. partner Andrew S. Tulumello is the author of "The Antidote To Prolix Securities Fraud Complaints: Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8" [PDF] published in the November 2006 issue of Thomson/West's The Wall Street Lawyer - Securities in the Electronic Age.
Briefing – The Stock Option Backdating "Witch Hunt" – What Do I Need to Worry About?
Over the last year or so there has been an increasing number of corporate investigations into alleged stock option backdating activities led primarily by the SEC, the DOJ and the FBI.
Client Alert | October 26, 2006
Litigation and the Director
Jon Dickey and Aric Wu are authors of "Litigation and the Director," published in the Securities Litigation Report, July/August 2006. Reprinted with permission, Securities Litigation Report, copyright 2006 West Legalworks.
Client Alert | August 30, 2006
Current Trends in Federal Securities Litigation
Jonathan C. Dickey, Daniel Floyd and Paul J. Collins are authors of "Current Trends in Federal Securities Litigation" prepared for the ALI-ABA Course of Study Postgraduate Course in Federal Securities Law: Current Developments, July 20-22, 2006.
Recent Court Decisions Suggest Greater Latitude for ERISA Fiduciaries to Retain Company Stock as Investment Option
Two recent court decisions make important contributions to the developing caselaw on the obligation that ERISA fiduciaries may have to remove company stock from employee benefits plans when the stock is declining in value. In Summers v. State Street Bank & Trust Co., Nos.
Client Alert | July 7, 2006
Former Senior Enforcement Official Discusses SEC Expectations, Enron, SRO Consolidations and the Pros and Cons of Cooperating with Regulators
Gibson Dunn partner Barry Goldsmith, the former Executive Vice President for Enforcement of NASD and Chief Litigation Counsel at the SEC, is interviewed in "Former Senior Enforcement Official Discusses SEC Expectations, Enron, SRO Consolidations and the Pros and Cons of Cooperating with Regulators," published in the June 2006 issue of Securities Litigation Report.
Federal Court of Appeals Vacates SEC's Regulation of Hedge Funds
The Court's DecisionThe Federal Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has vacated the SEC's rule regulating hedge funds under the Investment Advisers Act.
Audit Committee Liability: Recent Actions Against Audit Committee Members
Gibson Dunn partner Jon Dickey and associate Daniel Muino are authors of "Audit Committee Liability: Recent Actions Against Audit Committee Members," prepared for a July 19, 2006 PLI Audit Committee Workshop.
Client Alert | May 31, 2006
"Principles-Based" Accounting Standards – An Accident Waiting to Happen?
Jonathan C. Dickey and Michael J. Scanlon are authors of "'Principles-Based' Accounting Standards - An Accident Waiting to Happen?" published by Insights in February 2006.Reprinted with permission, copyright 2006, Insights
Client Alert | February 28, 2006
Recent Decisions Concerning the Right of Advancement of Defense Costs
Jonathan C. Dickey is the author of "Recent Decisions Concerning the Right of Advancement of Defense Costs" published in Securities Litigation Report, February 2006.This article originally was printed in the February 2006 issue (vol.
Blue Ribbon Commission Issues Recommended Best Practices for Directors
On December 7, 2005, a blue ribbon commission of the National Association of Corporate Directors issued a report that discusses the current legal liability environment for directors and recommends best practices for directors to safeguard against personal liability.
Client Alert | December 20, 2005
Be Careful What You Ask For: Unintended Consequences and Unfinished Business Under the Class Action Fairness Act
Partner Jarrett Arp is the author of "Be Careful What You Ask For: Unintended Consequences and Unfinished Business Under the Class Action Fairness Act," published in the Fall 2005 issue of Antitrust magazine, a publication of the ABA Section of Antitrust Law.
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BkiUeGM5qdmDNmRzV3aL | Earlier this month, DataXu sponsored the 2016 Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Masters of Media Conference at the Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, FL.
Chief Revenue Officer Ed Montes kicked off the event with opening remarks during the welcome dinner to a crowd of 200+ attendees. Ed's remarks focused on high-level themes that permeated the overall agenda of the two-day conference.
The overall question speakers and attendees sought to discuss during the conference was the following. Although digital media is capturing an increasing percent of marketer spend, why do marketers' actual business results appear to be shrinking?
Heather Dumford, Director, Media, Global Marketing at Conagra Foods, Inc.
Access additional coverage on the ANA conference here. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdzU5qhLBWAiyVcD- | Crime + Justice Energy + Environment Extreme Weather Space + Science
Texas governor's school safety plan: Armed marshals, increased law enforcement presence
By Ray Sanchez, CNN
Updated 6:09 PM EDT, Wed May 30, 2018
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott unveiled a plan Wednesday to improve school safety, including allowing law enforcement officers to take breaks and fill out reports in schools and increasing the number of armed school marshals in classrooms.
"This plan is a starting point, not an ending place," Abbott told reporters in Dallas less than two weeks after authorities say a teenager shot and killed 10 people at Santa Fe High School.
"This plan puts the state on a pathway to ensure healthier families, safer schools and safer communities in the state of Texas."
Known as the governor's School and Firearm Safety Action Plan, the 40-page list of recommendations includes more than $120 million in funding from various sources for increased law enforcement presence in schools and training for armed marshals.
"As one Santa Fe student said … arming teachers and not knowing who is armed, that is what we need," Abbott said. "When an active shooter situation arises, the difference between life and death can be a matter of seconds. Trained security personal can make all the difference."
Abbott proposed "collaborative working agreements" between schools and law enforcement to include schools on regular patrols, allow officers to take breaks at schools and provide them with rooms to fill out police reports.
"My plan increases the number of school marshals by training more school marshals this summer at no cost to schools and by proposing increasing the number of school marshals per campus," he said.
The governor's plan calls for up to one marshal for every 100 students, allowing the marshals to carry their firearms and streamlining their training.
The plan was announced a day after Santa Fe High students returned to the school south of Houston for the first time since the May 18 shooting.
One Abbott proposal subject to legislative approval is a change to Texas' gun storage law.
Currently, prosecutors can file a misdemeanor charge against a gun owner who failed to secure a weapon when a child under 17 gains access to a "readily dischargeable" firearm from that person's property.
Abbott proposed changing the age limit to 18. The accused Santa Fe High shooter is 17.
In addition, the governor – a strong advocate for Second Amendment rights – said the state would make about 100,000 gun locks available free of charge to Texans but use of the devices would not be mandatory.
The plan also recommended $20 million for the expansion of mental health screening and services to help identify and remove students who pose "imminent threats of harm."
The proposal includes strategies for "hardening" school buildings by reducing entrances and exits and the installation of "active shooter alarm systems" that would prevent students and staff from rushing out from classroom into the path of a shooter.
Implementation of the plan would be left up to individual schools districts, Abbott said.
Abbott's announcement followed a series of roundtable discussions between the Republican governor and shooting victims, parents, school officials, law enforcement experts and others on ways to curb violence in the classroom.
Abbott said some proposals could be implemented by the start of the next school year.
In a statement, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence co-president Kris Brown criticized Abbott's plan, asking, "What are you planning to do about the guns?"
Brown said it is "frighteningly easy for dangerous people to get access to a gun, and this proposal does little to stop that."
Abbott's proposals were prompted by the slaying of 10 people and wounding of 10 others at Santa Fe High.
Authorities said student Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, walked into the school with a shotgun and a pistol and killed eight students and two teachers. Charged with capital murder of multiple people and aggravated assault on a public servant, Pagourtzis has not entered a plea.
The governor's sessions last week focused on gun regulations, mental health issues, the causes of gun violence and victims and their families.
One of the participants, Round Rock police Chief Allen Banks, spoke of the dangers of allowing "somebody that is not proficient" with a firearm "in a position … where they'll have to use deadly force."
"Training has to be paramount," Banks said.
Others spoke about the shortage of counselors to identify potential warning signs of violence in students.
On Tuesday, Santa Fe High students, staff and parents attended a general assembly at the school with Abbott. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUgKXxK7IDOB8Ti5W5 | Lucy's (Elfen Lied) vectors are frighteningly efficient killing tools.
Possess powerful telekinetic extensions of oneself.
The ability to possess powerful telekinetic extensions of oneself. Sub-power of Telekinesis and Telekinetic Force Manipulation. Variation of Aura Constructs and Other Aura.
User has telekinetic extensions of themselves (generally in the form of additional limbs) controlled through both conscious thoughts and instinct, as if they were parts of their own body. The limbs are invisible (depending on users choice), intangible (most of the time) and with variable shape. Their number, reach and strength varies between users, but they remain invariably centered on their body. The arms possess incredible strength, are extremely fast and precise, possess a perceptive aspect, allowing the user to instinctively sense everything that's around them and anticipate impending threats.
They can be used to deflecting attacks, creating a personal force field for defense, offense, etc, generating pressure-wave to cause area effects, attacking opponents lethally or for subduing and being essentially intangible, they can phase through most protections target directly the vulnerable parts (like internal organs or a vehicle's pilot), etc.
Skilled user can control the telekinetic aura at a cellular or molecular level, allowing them to be used for healing oneself and/or others or to perform highly delicate surgical operations.
Infusion - Empower them with various effects.
Portal Creation - Give the arms unlimited reach.
Rule Bending - Multiply their strength and speed.
The number, range, and strength of the extensions depend on the user's power.
Finn the Human (Adventure Time); Temporarily after losing his arm.
Raven (Teen Titans); In conjunction with darkness/shadow-controlling abilities.
... before reaching planetary level.
Jodie Holmes (Beyond: Two Souls) is bound to a spiritual entity who serves as her means of overcoming all challenges through telekinetic interaction with her surroundings. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUbaM5qX_AYzUT0JGR | Q: Limit the number of running instances of a python script I have a python script, say scriptB that needs to be run 1000 times, getting called from another script, say scriptA. How can I make sure that there are no more than n running instances of the scriptB? I need to make the entire process faster, so I need to have parallelism.
A: import scriptB's function into scriptA. I'm assuming scriptA is also a python script.
scriptB
def scriptB_function(x):
return x*x
scriptA
from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool
from scriptB import scriptB_function
args = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]
pool = ThreadPool(4) # 4 threads in pool
result = pool.map(scriptB_function, args)
pool.close()
pool.join()
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BkiUe4DxK1UJ-rRIBP-f | We recently made our annual trip to Benezette to see Pennsylvania's wild elk. We like to go this time of year when the elk are bugling.
We usually try to incorporate a little hiking around for some interesting elk encounters... like playing hide-and-seek with these majestic creatures.
This bull elk must have thought he looked like a bush.
Imagine standing on the high ground with that bull elk right there... in the misty distance an elk bugles... then an answering bugle sounds long and loud in the timber to the right... and another from the hilltop behind us. Soon after we turned to go, this resting bull joined the music rolling off the hills and mountain ridges.
We love to be surrounded by bugling elk.
This big bull sure knows how to parade around with his set of antlers.
On the next hill over was another monster bull with a herd of about twenty cows and calves.
If these two bulls would clash... that would be a bull fight worth watching!
Oh, but, they were talking to each other.
Can you hear those bugles? The loud one from this big bull and the ones from the hills far away? It's beautiful, just like the turning leaves.
Yes, that's why we head over to Elk County this time of year.
Dana, are these all taken with a telephoto lens? How close did you get ?
These photos are wonderful. Thanks for letting me tag along while you go tramping about looking at elk.
Yes, I took these photos with my zoom lens. Not all the photos were zoomed in because we were fairly close to the elk. Many of the shots were taken within a stone's throw. These particular elk seem rather fearless. That's a bit dangerous because its easy to forget they are wild and very strong.
I'm glad you could "tramp" along... we usually take new folks along every year, but this year that didn't work out. I guess that's ok since I could "take along" people from all over the world.
A wasp hunkering down for the winter? | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUeCXxaL3Sui42Xhfm | Why The Bulls Beat The Best Teams And Then Lose To The Worst Ones
Dec. 13, 2016 , at 2:19 PM
By Chris Herring
Filed under NBA
Different Bulls, same result?
Garrett Ellwood / NBAE via Getty Images
CHICAGO — After dealing a former most valuable player, letting a fiery, ex-defensive player of the year walk in free agency and signing a future, yet aging Hall of Famer, the Bulls were bound to change. We just didn't know whether it'd be for better or for worse.
But, ironically, even with a mostly new cast surrounding star swingman Jimmy Butler, one of the most bizarre tendencies from past Bulls' teams persists: the baffling ability to take down some of the league's best teams one night but lose to its very worst the next. Many have tried to explain the phenomenon, and the explanations range from an unfortunate run of injuries to team style and composition influencing consistency to the general wear and tear of life under the exacting rule of former coach Tom Thibodeau, who's set to storm the opposing sideline in Chicago for the first time Tuesday night as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Bulls' puzzling, two-faced play stands out most when it happens in consecutive games, as it did earlier this month. The club beat the defending-champion Cavaliers the night before getting drilled by the Dallas Mavericks, who, along with the Wolves and Sixers, have the worst record in the NBA.
The showing wasn't out of the ordinary. During the past five full seasons and what's been played so far this year,1 the Bulls have had nine instances — more than any other club2 — in which they knocked off a team with a pre-game winning percentage of at least .600, only to then lose to an opponent with a .400 winning percentage or worse the next game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The Bulls narrowly escaped laying another egg by holding on to beat a lowly Miami unit this weekend after an impressive win over San Antonio.
WIN VS. GOOD TEAM
OPP WIN %
LOSS IN NEXT GAME VS. BAD TEAM
2012-13 New York Knicks 65.7% Phoenix Suns 31.6%
2012-13 Golden State Warriors 63.4 Washington Wizards 24.4
2012-13 New York Knicks 66.2 Toronto Raptors 38.5
2014-15 Toronto Raptors 87.5 Indiana Pacers 30.0
2014-15 Houston Rockets 69.7 Utah Jazz 34.3
2014-15 Golden State Warriors 85.7 Los Angeles Lakers 26.1
2014-15 Cleveland Cavaliers 61.1 Detroit Pistons 38.9
2014-15 Toronto Raptors 60.3 Detroit Pistons 35.3
2016-17 Cleveland Cavaliers 76.5 Dallas Mavericks 16.7
Chicago Bulls: The NBA's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Bulls wins against teams with .600 winning percentages or greater that were followed by a loss to a team with a .400 winning percentage or lower, since the 2011-12 season
Source: Elias Sports Bureau
The mind-boggling stat raises two questions: Why have the Bulls been so inconsistent for this long? And can this new group of players eventually find a way to break the troubling pattern?
Several premises might help explain the Bulls' bizarre showings in recent years.
Although the injury bug didn't necessarily bite Chicago way more frequently than other teams, the ailments hampered the Bulls in a way that few clubs could relate to.
Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah, now with the New York Knicks, suffered devastating injuries with the Bulls. But beyond those two, basically every other regular starter — Luol Deng, Kirk Hinrich, Richard Hamilton and even Butler last season — battled something at one point that kept him out for a significant time. The locker room looking more like an infirmary often threw the club out of rhythm and prevented Thibodeau from being able to make full use of arguably the NBA's best bench.
It's also fair to wonder whether the Bulls' smothering, precision-based defense, ingrained by Thibodeau, might have left players worn down for their next game.
"He loved to have his players go lay it all on the line," Bulls power forward Taj Gibson said. "Everybody knew what kind of team we were: a hard-nosed, defensive team that was going to play hard till the last minute of the game."
The blood and sweat paid dividends: The Bulls were regularly among the NBA's best defenses during Thibodeau's five seasons, which started in 2010-11 and ended in 2015. Chicago also ranked near the top in terms of how much ground they covered each night despite playing at one of the slowest per-possession paces in the league. That means they moved considerably farther and faster than the average club on each play. (Looking at Minnesota's repeated second-half meltdowns this season, the Wolves may be suffering some of the same fatigue problems.)
The human nature part of all this: that a player, or a team, might get more amped to play some teams as opposed to others, as former Bull Pau Gasol surmised about his old team last week. "The Bulls usually get up against good teams," he said. "The challenge is getting up against the not-so-good teams and winning those games." (No one was more tightly wound than Noah when he'd play against LeBron James — a whopping 14 percent of Noah's career technical fouls have come against James and his teams, according to ESPN Stats & Information Group.)
To be clear, it's not out of the question that the Bulls could turn over a new leaf and start playing more consistently, regardless of the quality of their opponent. That trend of beating good teams and then immediately losing to bad ones occurred almost entirely under a previous regime, of which just a handful of players remain.
Even with that in mind, it's hard to ignore some of the unusual tendencies that started under Thibodeau and, at least for now, have continued under second-year coach Fred Hoiberg. Consider, for example, that the Bulls have won an astonishing 16 consecutive home games on TNT's Thursday-night broadcasts since February 2013, beating, among others, the Heat, Rockets, Spurs, Thunder, Clippers and Cavs over that span.
Since March 2013, the Bulls have snapped Miami's 27-game win streak, the Knicks' 13-game win streak, Golden State's 19-game win streak at home and, last week, the Spurs' 13-game win streak on the road — all in nationally televised games, either on ESPN, TNT or NBATV.
Wild inconsistency has played a role in the national TV success, too. Fans often joked that Hinrich, the ex-Bull, seemed to morph into Michael Jordan whenever Chicago played on national television. But there appeared to be some truth to that. Hinrich's best performances during each of his last three seasons as a pro — per Basketball-Reference.com's Game Score stat — were during nationally televised games: a 14-point showing at Phoenix on ESPN last season, a 20-point night against Cleveland on ESPN in 2014-15, and a 19-point explosion on TNT during a blowout win over Houston in 2013-14.
It probably isn't a great omen, then, that one of Hinrich's replacements once carried around a similar reputation, with at least a little statistical backing.
As for these Bulls, sitting at 13-10 nearly a third of the way through the season, no one would say they're without flaws.
The perimeter shooting, red hot to start the season, has regressed to where many thought it would. In a league that prioritizes spacing and shooting more than ever before, Chicago ranks dead-last in 3-pointers made, 3-pointers attempted and 3-point percentage. (Things may get a bit better now that Doug McDermott, one of the precious few competent shooters on the team, is back after suffering two concussions. But it's troubling that Nikola Mirotic's game continues to oscillate between that of Channing Frye and a late-career Andrea Bargnani, who now finds himself playing overseas at age 31.)
Crunch-time offense should be a concern for the Bulls, too, even if it hasn't truly cost them yet.
Despite the worries about the range-impaired backcourt featuring three players who each need the ball, Rondo, Wade and Butler haven't gotten in each other's way for the most part. The trio has handled opponents comfortably overall, winning by 6.3 points per 100 plays in 353 minutes.
But things have played out far differently in clutch moments, when the game slows down and spacing gets cramped because teams refuse to guard Rondo near the arc.
That explains why the Bulls own the NBA's worst field-goal percentage during the last five minutes of close games and how the same three players are losing by 12 points per 100 plays in fourth quarters.
Nevertheless, the Bulls have been able to survive many of their late-game scares with solid defense. They've been surprisingly good on that end of the floor, limiting opponents to 18 free throws a game, second-fewest in the NBA, while also forcing turnovers at a better rate than last season.
And for how horrible their shooting is, the Bulls make up for some of that with their newfound ability to draw fouls — never much of a strength of the old-look Bulls and their star. Their free-throw attempts — more consistent than relying on someone like Butler's jump shot — are up more than 21 percent from the same point last season. Another welcome source of scoring: the offensive glass. Chicago, similar to the Bulls teams that Thibodeau coached, owns the best offensive-rebounding rate in the NBA and scores more second-chance points per night than any other club.
By no means are these improvements enough to make the Bulls real contenders again, like they were under Thibodeau before Rose's injuries took root. But they at least give Chicago a shot to find consistency with Butler and Hoiberg, both on national TV and otherwise.
Check out our latest NBA predictions.
The data from Elias covers games from the start of the 2011-12 season through games played Sunday night.
Five teams had eight.
Chris Herring is a senior sportswriter for FiveThirtyEight. @herring_nba
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BkiUfok5qhDC0V1enYfD | Q: calculate value to input for sound delay in a assembly program I was looking at a program that is about a sound note sequencer that plays different sound notes with different duration, in the middle of some sound notes there will be a delay for like 0.5s or 0.25s, then I cannot figure out a way to calculate the value to load into the register to achieve the duration that I want.
I have searched wiki and some other online resoures such as from this website : https://www.avr-tutorials.com/assembly/calculating-execution-time-sequential-code to find out how to calculate the execution time for a function.
delay:
push {lr}
ldr r10, =12000 @ in fact this function will result in a delay of 0.25s
b loop
loop:
..... @ some instructions to play sound
subs r10, #1 @ in each loop the time counter is subtracted by 1
cmp r10, #0 @ when time counter reaches zero, branch to a end function
beq end
b loop @ loop the function until time counter hits zero
for example, the above function with register r10 as a time counter, and in another loop function,a value of 0(meaning 0 Hz sound is input into the register to create a delay between sound notes) is added to register r0 by mov r0, #0, and the I want to find out what value do I need to load into the time counter r10 in order to let me play the 0 Hz sound for like 0.5s or 0.25s and how do I calculate this value to be loaded in. I don't know what is the exact way of saying this but perhaps I will phrase it as " calculating delay time in a program?"
The delay function that I found somewhere else will in fact really result in a 0.25s delay but I don't understand how does it work. I am guessing it takes 0.25s for the time counter r10 to reach 0 by subtracting 1 from it in each loop. But I really cannot figure out how does this calculation comes about.
Thank you.
A: Just answering on ..in fact really result in a 0.25s delay but I don't understand how does it work part (in fact, this is the only question I can recognise as a question):
A CPU instruction takes some fixed time to execute(*) on a given CPU clocked at a given frequency. Knowing this data you can calculate the number of loop iterations necessary to get the delay you need. It's just a simple arithmetic task.
(*) This does not hold for most modern CPUs and this method of implementing a delay is strongly discouraged for a number of reasons.
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BkiUbiE5qdmB62S3XFlf | Neil Gaiman Launches New Crowdsourced Storytelling Project (Sponsored by the New BlackBerry)
in Literature, Technology | February 7th, 2013 1 Comment
The tech-savviest among us may greet the news of a new BlackBerry phone with an exaggerated yawn, if that. But we have reasons not to dismiss the latest iteration of Research in Motion's flagship product entirely. The Z10 launched to record early sales in the United Kindgom and Canada. Both the device and the fresh operating system that runs on it "represent a radical reinvention of the BlackBerry," writes Wall Street Journal personal technology critc Walt Mossberg. "The hardware is decent and the user interface is logical and generally easy to use. I believe it has a chance of getting RIM back into the game." Even so, building the product amounts to only half the battle; now the BlackBerry brand has to continue gaining, and manage to hold, customer interest. That's where a certain master of gaining and holding interest named Neil Gaiman comes in.
Say what you will about their phones; Research in Motion's marketing department has shown an uncommon degree of literary astuteness, at least by the standards of hardware makers. You may remember Douglas Coupland, for instance, turning up in advertisements for the BlackBerry Pearl back in 2006. But the company has recruited Gaiman—the English author of everything from novels like American Gods and Coraline to comic books like The Sandman to television series like Neverwhere to films like MirrorMask—for a more complicated undertaking than Coupland's. Under the aegis of BlackBerry, Gaiman extends his collaboration-intensive work one domain further. A Calendar of Tales finds him sourcing ideas and visuals from the public in order to create "an amazing calendar showcasing your illustrations beside Neil's stories." The short video above recently appeared as the first in a series of episodes covering this storytelling project. Of this we'll no doubt hear, see, and read much more before 2013's actual calendar is out.
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Colin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on literature, film, cities, Asia, and aesthetics. He's at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. Follow him on Twitter at @colinmarshall.
Stacey C says:
Personally, I have nothing against Blackberry (physical keyboard shines!), but I generally doubt their potentials to rise up.
It has nothing to do with how good the quality of hardware is, neither the fancifulness of OS, and definitely not the amount of popular APPS available—all 3 are anyway pretty much unreachable for a new comer in Smartphone market like RIM, by the way—but the survival factors rest inside the psychology of human minds:
Which way are the general customer-base leaning towards? will the combined power of CURIOSITY and BRAND-LOYALHOOD prevail? or are people rather be PRACTICAL and SPARED of UNKNOWN BUGS by sticking w/ an OS and APP system they know well of?
Besides, a fatal battle RIM has to fight is on how to break up people's TIES with an OS system they've already shipped possibly hundreds of dollars in: On the surface it's not like a heart-wrenching amount—nonetheless for the majority, it's an "extremely upset idea" to pay for APPS greatly resembled to those on their current system, kinda feel like being charged for things already paid. And the HIGHLIGHT here is, it's not just applying to stale smartphone market, but even part of RIM's most promising buyers, people w/o a smartphone yet…but owning a Flatscreen! They're also bounded down by the same APP system issue; People such as me, who didn't notice about this locked-in state after already shoveling money buying a bunch of APPs, most of them universal; while the rest are buyers whose "brand-pref." already played into their Flatscreen purchase.
Anyway, my point is, RIM's road towards becoming a hard smartphone seller seems especially bumpy. I will pray for them, though, since the idea of smartphone market coming down to be a 2-party nation is rather nasty! | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUbeA5qU2Apzl5uWm- | Q: macOS 10.14: Cannot find stdio.h I am trying to run the following hello world program:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
With my system's default C compiler located in /usr/bin/gcc, that works as expected. But when I am using the compiler I installed, GCC version 6.4, located in $HOME/usr/bin/, I get the following error:
$ gcc main.cc
main.c:1:19: fatal error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
#include <stdio.h>
Any idea on how to fix it? I've tried xcode-select --install/reset. Also, at first, compilation was failing with the system's gcc but I fixed it by creating the /usr/include directory. However, I need to use the compiler I've installed.
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BkiUcWY25V5ha7jY7-Nu | Compete Classic: NASCAR Spotter's Guide
By Michael Myers of Queers4Gears
(from Compete's April 2014 issue)
Every season a few drivers change sponsors or a new driver arrives in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series. But 2014 will have more changes than any season in recent memory. With the largest rookie field in years and several veteran drivers moving to new teams, it may be hard for some fans to keep up with who is in what car.
Queers4Gears has compiled a few visual aids to help you spot the new drivers and paint schemes you'll see on track this season.
Last year's Nationwide Series Champion, Austin Dillon moves into the Sprint Cup Series in 2014. Dillon will be driving the #3, an iconic number that has been absent from the track since Dale Earnhardt Sr. died in the #3 at the 2001 Daytona 500. There are mixed emotions among the fans about the #3 returning to the track. But Earnhardt's son, Dale Jr. has expressed his support for Austin Dillon's efforts to return NASCAR's most famous number to the track.
Juan Pablo Montoya has left NASCAR to return to his racing roots in the Indy Car Series. Montoya is being replaced by rookie Kyle Larson in the #42 Target Chevrolet. Larson was the 2013 NASCAR Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year and his win in the Camping World Truck Series at Rockingham marked the first NASCAR "Drive for Diversity" graduate to win a NASCAR national series race.
Martin Truex Jr replaces Kurt Busch at Furniture Row Racing in the #78 for the 2014 season. Truex brings his two Cup Series wins and seven poles to Furniture Row Racing, the only Sprint Cup series team that is headquartered outside of NASCAR's "capital" in Charlotte, NC. Truex finished 16th in 2013 points driving for Michael Waltrip Racing.
Ryan Newman replaces Jeff Burton in the #31 Caterpillar Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. Newman, a 14-year series veteran most recently drove for Stewart-Hass racing and brings an impressive resume to RCR. He won the 2008 Daytona 500 and has 17 career wins and 51 poles. Newman did make NASCAR Championship "Chase" Playoff in 2013 … barely. He made the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup after point penalties were levied against Michael Waltrip Racing and Martin Truex Jr. coming out of Richmond, removing Truex from the Chase field.
After spending his entire career at Richard Childress Racing, Kevin Harvick moves to Stewart-Hass Racing in 2014. Harvick will take his primary sponsor, Budweiser, with him to SHR but will now be driving the #4 car. Harvick brings an impressive 23 wins, and he's coming off a third place points finish in last year's Championship, tying his career best. Off to a strong start with new crew chief Rodney Childers, Harvick won in Phoenix, the 2nd race of the 2014 season.
Kurt Busch moves from Furniture Row Racing to field a new entry for Stewart-Hass Racing in 2014. Busch will be driving the #41 with HASS Automation as the primary sponsor. The self-proclaimed "Outlaw" is coming off a 10th place finish in the 2013 points. Busch brings 24 career wins and 16 career poles to SHR. This new ride marks a new highpoint for the Vegas native after bouncing around through several lower level teams since he left Penske Racing at the end of 2011.
AJ Allmendinger
AJ Allmendinger is back with JTG Daugherty Racing in 2014 and will be driving the #47 carrying several major sponsors. Allmendinger has competed in the Sprint Cup Series since 2009 and has two career poles, and his 2nd place finish at Martinsville in 2012 marks his career best. Allmendinger split time in 2013 between Phoenix Racing and JTG Daugherty, but now he'll be full time with JTG, having recently inked a three-year contract. Known as a superior Road Course racer, AJ raced in two NASCAR Nationwide Series events in 2013, winning at Road America and Mid-Ohio.
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OVERTIME EVENTS: April 2014 Gay Sports Events Around the Country
Compete Friday Roundup: For the week of March 27 – April 3 | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdPo4eIfiUSUPXB5S | KRW LAW LLP WELCOME DECISION TO REVERSE LÍOFA BURSARY SCHEME WITHDRAWAL
The Minister for Communities, Paul Givan, has re-instated the Líofa Irish language bursary scheme. The scheme provided around £50,000 worth of bursaries to allow 100 persons to attend summer courses in the Donegal Gaeltacht. The decision was communicated in correspondence sent to a number of colleges on 23rd December 2016.
On 6th January 2017, in accordance with the pre action protocol for judicial review, KRW Law sent a letter before action to the Minister for Communities drawing to his attention the unlawfulness of his decision. In our letter before action, KRW Law asserted that the Minister's decision was unlawful for the following five reasons:
First, it was in breach of our client's legitimate expectation that the Minister would continue to fund the Líofabursary scheme;
Second, the decision was procedurally flawed. Given the wider importance of the bursary scheme and the commitments set out above, fairness required the Minister to consult on this decision prior to taking it;
Third, the decision was contrary to the Minister's duty, under s.75 Northern Ireland Act 1998, to have due regard to "the need to promote equality of opportunity … between persons of different religious belief". No equality screening document has been published by the Minister, in breach not only of s.75, but also of his Department's statutory equality scheme;
Fourth, the decision was discriminatory on the grounds of religion and/or political opinion;
Fifth, the decision was irrational, in that it failed to have regard to obviously material considerations and/or was based on improper considerations, such as an apparent hostility to the Irish language.
Within a week of this legal action, the Minister reversed his decision.
Speaking after the decision to re-instate the scheme, Niall Murphy, partner at KRW Law said:
"We were privileged to receive the instructions of a mature student whose interest in the Irish language was inspired by a radio interview with Linda Ervine and the event of Irish classes being convened at the East Belfast Mission
"We are grateful to the assistance afforded to us by An Dream Dearg, Conradh na Gaeilge, the Committee for the Administration of Justice and also the former Minister for Culture Arts and Leisure." | commoncrawl | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdTjxK0iCl7UGXRDI | RED BANK: COUNTRY FEST IN THE RED
They danced, but they didn't eat much, at the country music festival last month. (Photos by Peter Lindner. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
The music was a hit, but the cash registers rang out a sad song at the Red Bank Rockin' Country Music Festival last month.
The two-day event in Marine Park drew only 10,000 to 12,000 paying customers, compared to a similar number who typically show up for the single-afternoon International Flavour Festival in the White Street parking lot in April, Red Bank RiverCenter executive director Jim Scavone tells redbankgreen.
Combined revenue from the gate and from beer and win sales came in at slightly under $80,000, roughly tracking the gross from the International Flavour Festival. "But this time, we had two days worth of expenses," Scavone said.
As a result, "there won't be a profit for RiverCenter," Scavone said.
But he said the downtown promotion agency will honor its commitments to the Red Bank Public Library Foundation, the Red Bank Volunteer Fire Department and the Red Bank Charter School, which were promised a slice of the profits for mustering volunteers to work the festival.
"The RiverCenter board is ensuring we'll make donations to those charities," Scavone said. "They really stepped up for the event."
The nonprofit RiverCenter, he said, typically ends the year with a modest surplus, and the board will try to project how 2014 is shaping up before determining how much to donate.
So what went wrong? It wasn't necessarily the first-time spotlighting of country music, at least going by the reactions of those who paid their $5 admissions. Scavone said the lineup was roundly praised.
But the event, over the June 28 and 29 weekend, fell on what turned out to be a couple of gorgeous beach days, which may have kept potential fairgoers elsewhere.
"A little cooler and a little cloudier would have helped," said Scavone. Graduation parties also may have bitten into the event, he said.
But vendors, including owners of about a dozen Red Bank restaurants and dessert shops, said the crowd just wasn't spending.
Tom Fishkin, owner of Readie's Delicatessen and vice chairman of the RiverCenter board, said he grossed just $50 more over the two days than he did at Flavourfest.
Other vendors groused to him that too many fairgoers were bringing in their own coolers with food, Fishkin said.
But banning coolers isn't the answer, said Fishkin. "If they're not allowed to have coolers, they'll just eat before they get here," he said.
Scavone said the board will reassess both the festival theme and its place on the calendar before deciding whether to bring it back next year. The country music theme replaced 2013's Sippin' on the River, which showcased Red Bank restaurants and featured local rock and jazz acts.
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BkiUdXw25YjgKNDlVi1c | Pammie's Crib: Guest-Post : At a cross road.
Hi Pammie and Pamscribers, hope you all are doing great. Please, I'm at a cross road, and I need your urgent advice.
He is Ken, what I call my first love... that's if it actually exist. We are at an odd moment and yet pulled through. But our greatest barrier is distance. So much as am trying to make it work, I just don't see it working.
Most atimes, at any issue that is raised, and there is a misunderstanding, he always calls his big sis to settle it..., like am a kid, and being that I don't like crowd, cos 3 is crowd in a relationship. This gets me upset. Still he doesn't seem to care.
Right now, I got really emotionally involved with another guy, but I just found out we are of same genotype (AS).
And health wise, genotype concerned, it can't work right?
So, I'm thinking of taking a break from relationship, clear the heart and concentrate on my studies, or should I still give Ken more time and see if he'll change? He's AA by the way. Please your advice. Thanks Pam.
Dear Pamscribers, let's do what we do best. Cheers.
You are seeing another while still in going out with him?
You know what you want my dear, if what you seeing in Ken is not what you want, I would advice you to move on, the As guy shouldn't be an option don't try it. Just concentrate on your studies the right man would find you, even if you are in hole.
You have basically given the best advice already. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUd_nxK6-gDyrT-EPB | Opening a coffee shop is considered a pretty profitable business. Unlike a bar or a restaurant, this establishment does not require any special equipment except for the coffee machines. Baking can be made outside the coffee shop, it may be delivered every morning by one or more suppliers. Because of this, coffee shops can not have a large check. Its average size should be about 5-6 dollars per set of coffee and cakes.
High competition and easy fail on the market have always been the main problems for this business. People are constantly interested in new cafes and return to the old ones in case they did not like the new cafes.
People have always been curious to visit new places. That is why the main emphasis in the development of a marketing company should be put on making the customers return again. That is it's necessary to focus on a cosiness inside the café or on a personal approach, which in general exert a moderate impact on the marketing budget.
In order to predict how much money is needed to open a cafe, you need to think about an assortment that can create a serious competition for the existing players for at least a few months. To do this, you should choose the best option among the available suppliers and arrange a delivery of the products on a regular basis and check its freshness as well.
Renting a room will be your major expense. However, if the premises are someone's property, they will transfer their cost to the price during ten years. The average number of clients per day in a café should not exceed a hundres visitors, because otherwise the cafe loses its atmosphere and should play according to the rules of the big business. One coffee machine can prepare coffee considering a maximum load of 100 clients a day.
Download our sample of a café business plan in Excel that does not require significant initial investments and has a payback period of one year. Of course, you can design your own business scenario using the existing template. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdkTxK0fkXPSOqKej | http://www.beecrowd.com.br/judge/problems/view/1154
# Ages
Write an algorithm to read an undeterminated number of data, each containing
an individual's age. The final data, which will not enter in the calculations,
contains the value of a negative age. Calculate and print the average age of
this group of individuals.
## Input
The input contains an undetermined number of integers. The input will be stop
when a negative value is read.
## Output
The output contains a value corresponding to the average age of individuals.
The average should be printed with two digits after the decimal point.
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BkiUdeo5qsBB3XW1f6N6 | >Jessica Watson the America's Cup and Getting Pandora ready for sailing
>The intrepid round the world sailor, 16 year old Jessica Watson from Australia passed the Cape of Good Hope this week to begin her final leg back to Australia. While she still has some 5,000 miles to go, passing the final cape on her voyage is a major accomplishment and one that will certainly earn her a place in nautical history as a tough young women making a round the world voyage at a young age. Jessica has been covered widely in the news and one of the more interesting videos I have seen of hers and other similar voyages by young people is worth checking out. It was posted by ESPN and is a good overview of the controversy surrounding Jessica's voyage as well as other young people in the last several years. Normally I would inbed a video frame but for some reason ESPN has disabled that feature on YouTube. Check out the video by clicking here.
The 33rd America's Cup was also decided with a decisive victory for the BMW/Oracle team in a two race sweep. Personally, I had become a bit jaded about the race given all of the legal wrangling over the last few years. However, to see these two massive boats racing was quite magnificent and worth tuning in to. Unfortunately, the races were not broadcast on any station in the US but could be watched on the Web in streaming video. The two videos that follow are highlights of the two races. Really interesting.
Now, back to my own, ever so humble, Pandora.
It's just over a month until she goes back in the water and there is lots to do to get her ready. The last few months has been particularly busy for me at work as I will soon leave a position that I have had for over 16 years as a division President at a private publishing company. Our company was sold 5 ears ago and my contract with the buyer is up as of the end of March. It has always been my dream to do something on my own and now that the new company, hard hit by the recession, has decided to sell one of my two divisions to yet another buyer, I have decided to go out on my own and form a new company.
Anyway, I have been really busy for the last few months but not so busy that I can't think about Pandora and the coming sailing season. However, between work and the terrible winter weather I had not even laid eyes on Pandora since leaving her at the marina dock as she was prepared to haul back in November. My visit to Annapolis last weekend was nearly two weeks after the big snowfall with 4′ of snow dumped in the area and I didn't know what to expect. Well, the snow didn't disappoint as there was still plenty on the ground when I arrived. The cockpit was filled nearly to overflowing but happily everything down below was dry and snug.
I have pared down my list of major project list down to three major areas. Have the mast painted and replace all standing rigging, remove and refurbish the Max Prop and replace and enlarge the aft holding tank. I am also installing a cell phone booster to provide much more solid cell and Internet reception in areas where cell reception can be a bit spotty. They say that this system will provide for good coverage up to 50 miles from a cell tower. That should about cover it for the east coast of the US. I was going to raise the waterline a bit but that will have to wait until next winter. Along with the rigging upgrade I am adding a running forestay to fly a storm jib as well as setting up the main with a 3rd reef. With my plans for more offshore work in the coming years, I needed to adjust my sail setup for more extreme wind conditions. The ESPN video I linked to above gives you an idea of how nasty conditions can become sometimes. I want to be sure that Pandora is set up for such conditions.
My to-do list for my visit last weekend was to remove a leaky holding tank so that I could have a new one made that would allow for greater capacity. While the tank is out I also needed to clean up a messy bilge from years of seepage and other lovely problems related to storing raw sewage aboard. The bilge had gotten a bit smelly and needed attention. The tank came out fairly easily and with a bit of work I was able to fit a cardboard template into the spot.
I have now had the flooring up several times on Pandora and fortunately, it's pretty easy to pull up the panels and expose the bilge. This shot is after I had cleaned things up a bit. The amount of crud under the holding tank made it really obvious why the bilge was smelling nasty. There is still lots more cleaning left to make it presentable for the new tank which will more completely fill the space available. By increasing the size of the tank I will have about 50% more storage. The tank goes in the forward section ahead of the bilge pump.
I have also had the mast painted professionally and these before and after shots show what a fabulous job they did. Really nice work. Lot's of $$ going into a very nice job.
The top of the mast, looking good, perhaps better than new.
Amazing how the same hardware reinstalled looks like it's totally new. It's from 1998. Just terrific.
No, this is not a new winch.
This mast is over 65′ long and it looks very big when it is on the ground. I am so glad that I decided to have the rigger handle all of the work as the job looks overwhelming to me now that I see the scope of it and think about how I was thinking of doing some of the prep work myself. What was I thinking?
The new holding tank will be ready next week and the plan is to head back down to Annapolis on Friday afternoon to reinstall it. The best part will be schlepping buckets of water from the yard bathroom to the boat so I can more completely clean out the bilge prior to reinstalling the tank. I should probably replace the head hoses as well while I have everything torn up. That's surely going to be fun.
Our plans for sailing this summer will be April and May in Annapolis, June in Mystic CT, part of July in Wickford RI and on to Maine for August. And, with my nifty new cell booster installed, I will have better cell coverage on board so I can spend some of my work days aboard.
Just a month to go. I had better stay focused on the April launch date. Yikes!
>The America's Cup, second race.
>It's Sunday morning and in Valencia Spain BMW/Oracle Racing is waiting to hear if the race committee is going to declare a today a race day and competition for the 2nd race of the America's Cup. With all of the legal wrangling it's a bit hard to be excited about the race as it's seemed more like a race fought in court and less about being out on the water slugging it out around the race course.
However, I have to admit that as I have watched videos of the BMW/Oracle boat and promotional information being sent out by BMW/Oracle Racing it's become clearer just how impressive a machine that boat really is. Until yesterday when I watched a press conference from BMW/Oracle Racing I had been focused more on the two billionaire owners sparing and didn't appreciate that while it's certainly that, it's also a platform for Oracle to showcase their software and programing abilities to the world. To listen to some of the details of just how sophisticated the boat is and the network of sensors that the boat is armed with was more than impressive. One particular example is the ridged wing sail. Unlike "soft" sails, this wing doesn't show if it's properly set because it can't luff. The only way to tell if it's set properly is to read the loads and wind angles as displayed from instruments and sensors placed around the boat and on the "sail" or rather wing. The crew watches the output on "heads up" displays projected on their sunglasses. As you watch videos of the boat note that the helmsman is wearing a backpack. That's where the electronics that run his display is housed, receiving data from all over the boat. That' boat is indeed a gigantic floating billboard for Larry Ellison and the impressive capabilities of Oracle.
This video newscast from some months ago provides some context to how the Cup has been pursued over the years and some of the outsize egos that have pursued it. Ellison's legal rangling was successful and now they are in Spain and competing.
I am hopeful that a summary video of the first race will soon be available as I did see one at the BMW/Oracle Racing site but haven't been able to find a posting that's available all of the time yet. The first race was quite interesting as it showed that BMW/Oracle Racing was able to win after a really botched start that had them crossing the starting line some 3,000′ behind the Aligne and ultimately winning. The power of the massive BMW/Oracle boat flying two of three hulls is quite something. To get a feel for the scope of the boat, check out the specs page for the team. Be sure to click on the graphic on the specs page to see what these specs look like when shown on a drawing of the boat itself.
It's also fascinating to watch the PR machine that this group is when you consider that they have a fully functioning video studio at their base in Valencia and you can watch the transmission over the Web as it's happening over in Spain. Go to this link to see what they are saying or video archives of what's been broadcast to date. This all-the-time availability of info controlled by the team verses occasional broadcast by a network shows how much news programing and distribution has changed over the years.
Something else that's changed a lot is the boats themselves. Hard to believe that less than 70 years separates the boats from the giant "J" boats from today's. This short video clip shows the contrast between the monstrous boats of the 30s and today's modern machines. What next?
It will be very interesting to see what happens in the coming week and if the America's cup will indeed end up on American soil once again. Fingers crossed.
>The Corinthians 75th Anniversary Weekend in New York City
>As I have mentioned in past posts, I am involved, for many years, with a sailing group, The Corinthians. This genesis of the organization was primarily about yacht owners sailing their own boats, with unpaid crew, as opposed to paid captain and crew. The organization grew out of the Great Depression as a way for owners to continue sailing under changed circmstances. As we emerge, hopefully, from what some are calling the "great recession" what better time to celebrate our 75th anniversary and as a validation that we are as relevant now as we were at our founding 75 years ago. And what better way to celebrate this important milestone than with an event at the New York Yacht Club on 44th street in Manhattan.
As the group's shore activities chair, I have spent a number of years, more than I care to admit, as the one responsible for putting on events for the group such as our annual meeting, informal get-togethers in members homes and in this most recent case, a celebratory weekend in New York.
In spite of near record snowfalls in Annapolis and Philadelphia, where many of our members live, nearly 160 gathered on Friday evening to celebrate, make new friends and to reconnect with others. We met in the model room, perhaps the most remarkable room in New York City. Check out this panoramic view of the room. It's amazing. As many of our members are also members of The New York Yacht Club, it was very fitting that we should choose to celebrate there, a place that has been a part of our group for many years. We have traditionally held our holiday gam there, and in the same room as Friday's event.
This year was supposed to be even better and I wanted to be sure that we were able to really do it up so I knew that it had to be more than "just another party". Here's how it ended up going.
On Friday afternoon nearly 60 of us enjoyed a one hour tour, with half of us being led by the club curator, Lindsay who led us through the model room, library and dining room and did a wonderful job of helping us better understand the club and it's rich history.
While this view isn't of our event, it certainly speaks to the special occasion that can be had in the New York Yacht Club.
Another highlight of the event was the debut of a book written by past master Bill Thomas chronicling the 75 year history of our group. Bill wrote and edited the entire book with design and production help from Jason Calfo. The two really out did themselves in producing a book worthy of our silver anniversary. Due to the generous donations from many of our members, a copy will be provided to all members free of charge. Extra copies will be available on the club website for purchase soon.
The evening's festivities was introduced with an a men's a capella group The Columbia University Kingsman, an amazingly talented group of 7 young men who serenaded us to kick off the event. If you ever have an opportunity to see and hear them in concert or hire them for your event, I highly recommend it. They were just wonderful.
The evening was wonderful, with a 7 piece dance band and great fellowship, food and drink.
On Saturday morning nearly 60 members, met at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a guided tour of selected nautical works. What a great job our guide did as she ran us from one end of the museum to the other, her enthusiasm and tremendous knowledge of the what the Met has to offer was clearly obvious for all to see. If you have never thought of having a special tour at the Met, I encourage you to consider one. For a group of 16 or more the museum will put together a custom tour just for you. The fees are very reasonable and it's just a wonderful experience. Here's a link that provides details on guided tours.
After our visit to the Met, thanks to a fellow member Robin, a long time friend of our hosts, we moved about 10 blocks south for an afternoon tea with all the fixings at a private home with a truly remarkable collection of British Marine Art. Our host and hostess, Tom and Letty who contributed the complete spread of food, beautifully presented, graciously shared their knowledge and home. Their collection was wonderfully described in American Heritage Magazine and I encourage you to check out the article. Believe me, as great as the description is, to see the collection is to truly appreciate what a well intentioned and educated collector can assemble when given the opportunity. Our hosts are perhaps better described as British marine art scholars as to refer to them as just collectors doesn't begin to do justice to their depth of knowledge. Seeing the pieces was a remarkable experience but hearing of how Tom and Letty went about assembling their collection, the thought behind each piece and why it was there, added immeasurably to the afternoon.
I have often said that I give my time to The Corinthians because of getting so many nice notes and comments I get, perhaps the best "attaboy" I have gotten so far, was the special citation from Past Master Bob Ebin with whom I have worked for the last two years, when he recognized me with a special citation award on Friday at the event, in front of all of our guests.
As if that wasn't enough, I was stunned to be recognized with a second recognition, the "Keel Bolt" award, from the membership and awards committee for my years of work on events as well. This award has been presented yearly since 1971 and is constructed from a section of a keel bolt from the Yacht America, the yacht from which the Americas Cup was named. What a thrill it is to have a piece of history in my home for the next year and to be recognized by The Corinthians, that has been such an important group to me over the years.
The Corinthians Keel Bolt Award
After all the planning with considerable help from others there comes the inevitable "morning after" when it's time to get back into real life. It's a quiet Sunday at home and I will now refocus my energies on the day to day and begin to think about getting Pandora back in the water. With less than two months till splash time, there's lots to do. Now if the snow in Annapolis will just melt. | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUePA4eIOjRq_TyGBX | Prizes (10): Copy of The Fabulous Flying Machines of Alberto Santos-Dumont by Victoria Griffith.
Prizes (2): Army VS Aliens Dice Game.
Prizes (3): Grooming Lounge Essentials of Handsomeness Gift Set (ARV $69).
Prize: Silver Amethyst Twist pendant (ARV $225).
Prize: Pair of FootJoy FJ Sport Spikeless golf shoes.
Prize: Choice of two Rescue 2011 Hybrids.
Enter daily to win a custom made R2D2 hat for you or your loved ones! What a great stocking stuffer or small gift for the holidays coming up!
Prize: Magic Mike Blu-ray and deck of Magic Mike playing cards autographed by Channing Tatum (ARV $40).
Prizes (5): Copies of The Art of Living Joyfully by Allen Klein, Imperfect Spirituality by Polly Cambell, and Girlfriends Forever by Reeda Joseph (ARV $50).
Prize: Rug Doctor Mighty Pro X3 (ARV $399).
Prizes (3): $80 Teleflora gift card.
Prize: 2-night stay for four at the Fairmont Newport Beach in Newport Beach, CA, dinner at bambú Restaurant, and $50 gift card to Fashion Island [no transportation] (ARV $750).
Prizes (5): Copy of One Hot Mama by Erin Cox (ARV $15.95). | c4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
BkiUbwrxK6Ot9WA5gMOv | Although there are lots of orthodontic treatments out there, you might understandably feel worried about having to wear visible braces for a long time. Here at Advance Dental Clinic, we provide the outstanding Six Month Smiles system. These braces are not only more discreet than traditional fixed braces, they can also straighten your teeth a lot faster too!
It is these benefits that make Six Month Smiles one of Advance Dental Clinic's most popular and effective orthodontic treatments.
Before we fit your braces, we'll invite you to Advance Dental Clinic for a free consultation. Here we will listen to your concerns about your smile and you'll have the chance to tell us what you'd like to change. We'll carry out a full assessment of your teeth and explain the processes of all our brace systems before you make a concrete decision. If you do choose Six Month Smiles, we will then make impressions of teeth to help us create your bespoke braces. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdnc4eIOjR058MMwR | Avon and Somerset Constabulary
CCTV shows moment two cars crash in Bedminster leaving man walking on pavement trapped
A 74-year-old man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries
This is the moment two cars crashed leaving an elderly man who was walking on the pavement, trapped.
The crash happened on Markbury Road at its junction with Bedminster Road shortly before 10.30am on Friday, December 22.
The CCTV taken from nearby Highbury Motors shows the two cars collide.
Footage shows a red mini coming into the path of an on-coming silver car.
A man walking along the pavement is hit in the collision, and a garden fence was knocked down.
Elderly man has life-threatening injuries after two-car crash leaves him trapped underneath a car in Bedminster
Dan from Highbury Motors described what he saw. He said: "It was very shocking.
"The old man had just crossed Bedminster Road and was walking on the pavement around the corner when it happened.
"The police told us he was in a bad way."
Avon and Somerset police confirmed that a 74-year-old man had been taken to Southmead Hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Police at the scene
The man was freed by firefighters from nearby Bedminster fire station as well as a crew from Temple fire station.
LIVE: Major disruption at Bristol Airport after plane leaves runway
He had chest and pelvic injuries according to a spokeswoman for Avon Fire and Rescue Service.
A woman with neck pain was also freed from inside one of the vehicles.
Specialist collision investigators have been working at the scene and the road remains closed.
For the latest click here for our live blog.
Southmead
Avon Fire and Rescue | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUb4nxK3YB9m3uuTeh | using DarkSoulsII.DebugView.Core;
using DarkSoulsII.DebugView.Model.GameObjects.GameEntities;
namespace DarkSoulsII.DebugView.Model.GameObjects.Target
{
public class TargetMapCtrl : TargetCtrl, IReadable<TargetMapCtrl>
{
public MapEntity MapEntity { get; set; }
public new TargetMapCtrl Read(IPointerFactory pointerFactory, IReader reader, int address, bool relative = false)
{
base.Read(pointerFactory, reader, address, relative);
MapEntity = pointerFactory.Create<MapEntity>(address + 0x0010, relative).Unbox(pointerFactory, reader);
return this;
}
}
} | github | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbZA4c3aisLHGDpyN | The SPINNAKER has got an exquisite, temporary design and the shape reflects the beautiful curves of a cruising spinnaker sail. We are challenging you. To take a break. Let go for a moment, and anjoy the feeling of quality and good design.
A cruising sailboat is a spectacular sight and confirms that mankind is subject to the laws of nature. This was our design team's source of inspiration when creating the SPINNAKER chair.
The ambition was to create an easy chair in contemporary design with an unrivalled sitting comfort.
We are proud to introduce you to our SPINNAKER and are confident that the chair will fulfill your expectations. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdo45qoYAxftPVllR | Premium Options Include Backup Cam, Heated Seats, USB, Bluetooth, Push-Button Start, All-Wheel Drive and plenty more options to list! This vehicle has been beautifully reconditioned inside/out, mechanically inspected by our certified Honda technicians and is ready for it's new owner. Number 7 Honda invites you to come take this one for a spin!
Located in the Number 7 Auto Mall, we are proud to serve the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), including Brampton, Mississauga, North York, Newmarket, Scarborough, Woodbridge and Markham. We have great pre-owned cars, trucks and SUVs. Our finance and lease professionals can help you find either classic monthly finance solutions or more modern Bi-weekly payment options that save you money!
Please contact me about the 2015 Honda CR-V that you are advertising on Carpages.ca. Thank you. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUbDw4eIfiUOJspqj7 | NCTCOG respects and values the individuality of all team members.
At the North Central Texas Council of Governments, we care about our employees and our community.
"I love bing a part of a great culture and a desireable work environment. My 9-1-1 Director provides a commendable culture through example by demonstrating trust and communication."
"For me, it is a perfect fit for where I am in my career, the work we do is vitally important to our customers and the employees all seem to have a sense of importance of public service."
"Although NCTCOG has more than doubled in size since I started working here, it's retained the best qualities of small organizations. Its leaders are highly approachable and open to new and better ways of getting the work done. Our work is often challenging, but the challenges are external in nature and manageable because of internal support." | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUehi6NNjgB1scZrMX | Home » Forums » Public Access » SAS Related Topics » Happy Birthday DUKE!
Happy 39th birthday DUKE, hope it was a good one!
...It's actually still the 23rd over here.
Just one more year until the Young 40! Drink up on the wodkabull!
Happy Birthday DUKE Big congratulations from here.
Today you turned one in ultra human years. May you have 39 more of these ultra years.
Happy birthday DUKE! I hope you had a good day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to ya Duke!!! Yep hope ya get many many more ofem!
manny gratzzz on your 25th B-day, im not gonna say 39th because its so close to 40!
auf die naechsten 39 !!! | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUdBg5qoYAq3Pz85gh | using System;
namespace LogIndexer.Analysis.Domain
{
public class WebLog
{
public DateTime Date { get; set; }
public string Level { get; set; }
public string Controller { get; set; }
public string Message { get; set; }
}
} | github | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUeA3xK7Tt52mM93zb | i don't have actually e-stop .
I will be very happy if somebody can help me !
Set the Pin # to "0" should fix it, Don't forget the "Apply".
change it the ENABLE ESTOP to green.
Your saying that if you click on Reset it still flashes Red, What version are you using.
E-Stop will all-ways be Green (Checked) in Ports & Pins, With 0 in pin # you should be able to Reset, Try checking the Emulated box and Port # to 0 also.
WHEN THE "RESET" FLASHING THE MESSAGE "ESTOP BUTTON PRESS"
Post your Mach3Mill.xml file, It's should be located in C:\Mach3 folder, Make a copy of it and rename to ShyMach3Mill.xml.
Give us a little more info on your setup, Re-check your Ports & pin settings, Motor Outputs.
Thanks Chip for your help i'm appreciate !
i attach the file .
You have attached the wrong file, what you have there is the exe, you need to look for a file like circled in the pic.
i hopes that i attach now the right file .
oh! Hood thaks for your attention . | c4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUdE84c3aisMwilvj8 | Sustainable office building in Canary Wharf to feature living green wall
by Nai-Yu Chen/ June 26, 2019/ Business, Environment, Tower Hamlets/ No Comments/
Five Bank Street (second from left) will become one of the greenest office buildings in the UK Pic: Nai-Yu Chen
A 24-storey development nearing completion in Canary Wharf is set to become one of the most sustainable office buildings in the UK, and new home to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The EBRD was originally established after the fall of Berlin Wall to support former Soviet bloc countries shift to market economies. It now works in 38 economies across three continents.
The Bank will take up 365,000 square feet in Five Bank Street in 2020, moving from Exchange Square in the City of London when their lease ends. Its some 2,500 staff will occupy the top 12 floors, joining Société Générale, who will equally move 2,500 staff into the lower seven levels later this year.
BREEAM – Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method, is the world's longest established method of rating and certifying sustainable buildings.
Five Bank Street, with a BREEAM 'Outstanding' rating, will be home to some 2,500 staff of EBRD. The organisation has said that "sustainability was an important element when deciding the move".
Anthony Williams, the Bank's head of External Communications, told Eastlondonlines: "The EBRD takes sustainability extremely seriously. It is a fundamental element in all of our work as we roll out projects across 38 economies to promote effective private sector-led economies and entrepreneurship."
"We have a target of dedicating 40 percent of our annual investments – €9.5 billion in 2018 – to Green Economy projects by 2020, and we are well on the way to meeting that goal."
Five Bank Street will include public access to a new promenade along the South Dock in Canary Wharf Pic: Nai-Yu Chen
Five Bank Street, developed and owned by the Canary Wharf Group, will exhibit a 170m² living green wall on its southern face and public access to a new promenade along the South Dock when construction completes later this year.
Its design includes habitat creation for birds, invertebrates, and fish at roof and dock levels, while all major procurements were done in accordance with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) guidelines on responsible sourcing.
News: Canary Wharf Group lets 365,000 sq ft to @EBRD at 1–5 Bank Street to accommodate 2,500 EBRD Headquarters staff. This is a significant commitment to London and the expansion of #CanaryWharf. The lower floors, are already let to Société Générale. https://t.co/Xizpv1dz8q pic.twitter.com/VdUZeAZYO3
— Canary Wharf Group (@CanaryWharfGrp) May 1, 2019
Martin Gettings, Head of Sustainability at Canary Wharf Group plc, told Eastlondonlines: "It was clear from the start that EBRD and ourselves share very similar levels of commitment to sustainability. Indeed, this was one of the attractions of our working together."
He added: "Long term engagement and relationship building is crucial to any commercial partnership, and sustainability considerations are absolutely a part of the ongoing dialogue we have with all of our tenants."
Gettings said Five Bank Street is "one of the largest projects in the world to be targeting BREEAM Outstanding" and "sustainability considerations feature prominently in conversations relating to this building".
According to Gettings, setting sustainability goals with clients is a "typical" approach taken by the Canary Wharf Group.
He said: "An appropriate level of sustainability collaboration takes place with all of our tenants, ranging from an individual member in our Level39 community, through to major occupiers in existing space or new buildings such as Five Bank Street."
Creativity on display: cross-cultural art festival Zealous X is back in Shoreditch
by ELL Admin/
Tower Hamlets Council election fraud trial: Corruption allegations withdrawn over returning officer
by Claudia Niubo-Fe/
Council upholds Joiners Arms community asset status
by Emily Goddard/
Muslims in Tower Hamlets unite to celebrate Ramadan
by Ayesha Rahman/ | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbBM5qg5A53r24TGk | All presented information was gathered by reading the protocol specification ([MS-DNSP], https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc448821.aspx) and reverse engineering the dns.exe binary using IDA.
The management protocol layers on top of RPC, which, for this protocol's purposes, can be layered on top of either TCP or named pipes. If you're interested in messing around with the protocol or its implementation, it can be found in domain controllers under c:\windows\system32\dns.exe. Its RPC interface UUID is 50ABC2A4–574D-40B3–9D66-EE4FD5FBA076 and it uses the \PIPE\DNSSERVER named pipe for transport.
By default only DnsAdmins, Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins, Administrators and ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS have write access on this object. Notably, from an attacker's perspective, if we're members of each group but DnsAdmins, we've already owned the domain. So, let us see what we can do if we've got ourselves a DnsAdmin.
Looks like the server does not even do any verification on the dll path specified in this operation. Before starting to implement this, I figured someone must have dug this up before. A google search for ServerLevelPluginDll raised nothing of the sort, however it did pop up the useful dnscmd command line tool, which I hadn't known before.
First, trying to run this as a weak domain user with no special permissions on the DNS server object (other than Generic Read, which is granted to all members of the Pre-Windows 2000 Compatible Access group, which by default contains the Domain Users group), the command fails with an access denied message. If we give our weak user write access to the server object, the command no longer fails. This means that members of DnsAdmins can successfully run this command.
Great. Now, for testing purposes, we restart the DNS server service. Whoops — it fails to start, and clearing the registry key value allows it to start. Apparently it needs something more from our DLL. Time to open IDA.
There are several possibilities to quickly reach the functionality we seek to reverse in this case — searching for relevant strings and searching for relevant APIs are usually the easiest and quickest. In our case, going through all xrefs to LoadLibraryW or GetProcAddress gives us what we need — going through the code of the function which LoadLibraryW's our DLL and the one function it is called from, we see that no validation is performed at all on the path given to ServerLevelPluginDll.
The hurdle we've run into is indeed the only one — if either the DLL fails to load, or it does not contain one of the DnsPluginInitialize, DnsPluginCleanup or DnsPluginQuery exports, the service will fail to start. We also need to make sure that our exports all return 0 (success return value), otherwise they may cause the service to fail as well.
The pragmas are in place to modify the default export names to the ones that we desire. To verify that our exports are good, we can use dumpbin /exports path\to\dll.
Now we try running dnscmd with our new dll and voila, it works! All we need is to put our dll on a network path which is accessible by one of the domain controllers' computer accounts (dns.exe runs under SYSTEM) (Read access for the Everyone SID should do the job), and we can run code as SYSTEM on a domain controller, thus taking control of the domain.
While this demonstrates that it is possible to take over a domain if you're a member of DnsAdmins, it's not limited to just that — all we need to successfully pull off this trick is an account with write access to a DNS server object. The ACLs for these objects are usually, from my experience, not kept as clean or monitored as ACLs for domain admins (or similar groups protected by AdminSDHolder), thus offering a nice chance for a small domain elevation of privilege.
Regardless, dns.exe currently still runs as SYSTEM and boasts a good amount of attack surface, so it is probably a worthwhile candidate for some fuzzing — both for the DNS implementation and the management interface.
Mar. 31st — Initial disclosure to secure@microsoft.com.
Apr. 1st — Disclosure acknowledged and forwarded for review.
Apr. 8th — MSRC case 38121 opened.
May 2nd — Investigation concluded and ruled that this is not a vulnerability and will be fixed in the future, outside a security update.
May 5th — Discussions regarding further hardening of the DNS server service.
May 8th — Findings are published.
Big thanks to MSRC's Daniel for the handling of this case, was a pleasure to work with.
Small update (May 10th): Nikhil Mittal has elaborated on the precise technicalities of getting this feature to work in his lab, here. Thank you! | c4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
BkiUaYnxK0fkXQzmJStQ | Field testing in late September 2009 permitted comparisons of the output of a WMI remote-controlled seeding generator burning a modern solution with an older style AgI generator and solution previously calibrated in the Colorado State University (CSU) Cloud Simulation Laboratory. That facility is no longer available for seeding generator calibrations. Acoustical Ice Nucleus Counters (AINCs), usually operated at -20°C, were used to monitor ice nucleus concentrations from passage of AgI lines released upwind by mobile generators towed approximately perpendicular to the prevailing wind direction. Considerable variability existed for total ice nuclei per AgI plume passage as could be anticipated given variations in atmospheric conditions. However, examination of all tests with useable data revealed no major difference between the outputs of the two generator types using different solutions. The WMI generator uses a newer solution, expected to produce ice nuclei which operate primarily by condensation-freezing in winter orographic clouds. It had yields in the -15 to -20°C range similar to the Montana State University Skyfire generator producing a relatively pure AgI aerosol likely to operate by contact nucleation. However, AINCs with standard configurations as used in this investigation cannot differentiate between ice nucleation processes. The observations also documented that a newly-manufactured AINC compares favorably with previously tested units. Recommendations are made for future testing expanded to warmer temperatures than practical with the standard configurations of the AINCs available for this study. | c4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUdTw5qoTAnFx7EL4C | Auburn tag artist transforms bank wall
Community First Bank hires Myk Santori
Updated: 7:46 AM PDT Jul 17, 2012
Damany Lewis
Hayden says he became tired of hiring people to paint over the graffiti. So, he decided to have it covered with graffiti art.
An Auburn graffiti artist was hired by an unlikely customer to create art: a bank.Myk Santori was brought on board by Community First Bank to cover some graffiti left by vandals."I was here last night until 9 at night, and I was wondering if police were going to come by," Santori said.He will use 50 cans of spray paint to create a mural over the next week."This is my enjoyment," Santori said Monday.Bank CEO Bob Haydon said vandals routinely hit the back wall of his bank, and he got tired of hiring people to paint over the graffiti."We captured his talent, our problem, and together, we have an answer," Haydon said.Santori said part of the mural was inspired by his 7-year-old daughter. Haydon said he is paying for Santori's supplies to complete the project and intends to make a donation to a local art foundation in Auburn.
AUBURN, Calif. (KCRA) —
An Auburn graffiti artist was hired by an unlikely customer to create art: a bank.
Photos: Bank combats graffiti with graffiti
Myk Santori was brought on board by Community First Bank to cover some graffiti left by vandals.
"I was here last night until 9 at night, and I was wondering if police were going to come by," Santori said.
He will use 50 cans of spray paint to create a mural over the next week.
"This is my enjoyment," Santori said Monday.
Bank CEO Bob Haydon said vandals routinely hit the back wall of his bank, and he got tired of hiring people to paint over the graffiti.
"We captured his talent, our problem, and together, we have an answer," Haydon said.
Santori said part of the mural was inspired by his 7-year-old daughter.
Haydon said he is paying for Santori's supplies to complete the project and intends to make a donation to a local art foundation in Auburn. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfJ7xaKgQX6NqsoTl | Akrilamid je organsko jedinjenje, koje sadrži 3 atoma ugljenika i ima molekulsku masu od 71,078 -{Da}-.
Osobine
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Мономери | wikipedia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUbXM5qg5A5-klCZc9 | Q: write EPROTO B8150000:error:0A000152:SSL routines:final_renegotiate:unsafe legacy renegotiation disabled When I try to install any package on NPM, I'm getting the error below;
47 verbose stack FetchError: request to https://artifactory.thy.com/artifactory/api/npm/kac-npm/@angular%2fcli failed, reason: write EPROTO B8150000:error:0A000152:SSL routines:final_renegotiate: unsafe legacy renegotiation disabled: c:\ws\deps\openssl\openssl\ssl\statem\extensions.c:908:
NodeJS Version: 18
NPM Version: 8
A: I fixed the problem by reverting back to NodeJS LTS Version(NodeJS V16.17)
A: I know this post is a few months old, but instead of falling back to an older version, this solution from this MadDocNC worked for me and allowed me to use the latest version of Node 18. https://stackoverflow.com/a/74600467/2950027
| stackexchange | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdmw4eIXh4Izb5xFz | Amber | Alaskan Brewing Co.
Alaskan Amber is based on a recipe from a turn-of-the-century brewery in the Juneau area. It was voted "Best Beer in the Nation" in the 1988 Great American Beer Festival Consumer Poll.
There are no roads connecting the remote coastal community of Juneau, Alaska to the Lower 48 or even the rest of the state. Everything must travel by air or sea. Oceangoing vessels, from fishing trollers to small skiffs, are a common sight as they travel the icy waters of Southeast Alaska. Each evening fishermen from all walks of life return to a safe harbor and close the day with a cold Alaskan Amber. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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