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BkiUbFA4uzki0zhJfEs- | BlogHome Bankruptcy What is the Best Way to Start Rebuilding Your Credit After Bankruptcy?
Rebuilding your credit after bankruptcy is possible. Though it will take you time to raise your credit score, you can create a brighter financial future for yourself. This is one situation where being proactive truly pays off.
Here are some smart ways to rebuild your credit and improve your financial knowledge.
After filing for bankruptcy, you'll probably be eager to raise your score, and that's certainly a good thing! However, be careful to avoid getting in over your head. Instead of taking on new loans in an attempt to prove your "worthiness" as a borrower, set yourself up for success with careful planning.
Build an emergency fund. We've all heard that we should have 6 months of expenses set aside. Start setting aside a couple hundred dollars a month where you can, and adjust your budget accordingly.
Dispute any errors on your credit reports.
Track your credit score each month from the same source.
After you have built up emergency savings and established a workable budget, it's time to take a look at credit options. Unfortunately, there are companies who offer loans with unfavorable terms, mostly in the form of sky-high interest rates. In order to rebuild your credit, you'll need to focus on secured loans and credit cards instead.
Secured loans are typically provided by community banks and credit unions. They differ from unsecured loans in that you borrow against a form of collateral.
In this case, the collateral is generally funded by money you have on deposit, and the money is inaccessible to you as you make payments on the loan. Some secured loans are made available to borrowers through a savings account, where the money is released as payments are made.
As you make payments, the bank or credit union makes a report to credit bureaus, which helps rebuild your score over time.
Secured credit cards function in a similar way. You make a deposit, which usually determines your credit limit. There are some caveats to using secured credit cards. Most come with annual fees and high interest rates.
The best plan of action is to use secured credit cards for a short period of time as a means to raise your score and improve your chances of being approved for an unsecured credit card.
Co-signed credit cards and loans are another option. Of course, you will need to ask a family member or close friend to cosign for you.
Co-signing doesn't just mean you're an authorized user on the credit card or another name on a loan. It means whoever signs for you is responsible for paying off any debt if you don't pay. If you decide to go this route, make sure your co-signer understands the terms and that you're able to keep up with payments.
As you rebuild with your credit card, do everything you can to avoid late payments and high balances. Keeping your balance at 10% of your credit limit is a good rule of thumb.
Tyler, Bartl & Ramsdell, P.L.C. has offered bankruptcy counseling and guidance to individuals and businesses for over 25 years. To begin rebuilding your financial future, contact us today!
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BkiUagDxK7ICUubsxYd4 | This Eid Lighten your wardrobe with Indo-Western Sherwani. Eid celebration continues for three days for Eid ul-Adha (or Al-Adha). It is a festival of Muslims celebrated all over the globe. They greet each other, wear new clothes, organize get together's, traditional feasts on this day.
Plain white Kurta pajama with some light embroidery work is perfect for your day wear functions and events. For evening get together and EID parties Indo Western Sherwani's are in vogue. Accessorizing them with stole and Pakistani juttis are a perfect combo.
Heavy and rich Sherwani's are always in demand for festivals, weddings and other fancy events. This time Eid is falling in summers. Light fabric Kurta pajama, Sherwani is ideal for this festive season.
These traditional outfits adorned with fancy embroidery extensions that are in vogue. Indo Western style is also popular. Ethnic Kurta's or Sherwani's paired with a blue denims are also in vogue. Bollywood celebs love to pair them together.
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BkiUcn45qhDACtS7gVLI | Alemania Occidental en los Juegos Paralímpicos estuvo representada por el Comité Paralímpico Alemán.
Participó en ocho ediciones de los Juegos Paralímpicos de Verano, su primera tuvo lugar en Roma 1960. El país obtuvo un total de 828 medallas en las ediciones de verano: 322 de oro, 260 de plata y 246 de bronce.
En los Juegos Paralímpicos de Invierno participó en cuatro ediciones, siendo Örnsköldsvik 1976 su primera aparición en estos Juegos. El país consiguió un total de 110 medallas en las ediciones de invierno: 32 de oro, 43 de plata y 35 de bronce.
Este país fue anfitrión de los Juegos Paralímpicos de Verano en una ocasión: Heidelberg 1972.
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BkiUdkI4eIZjmpBtQt-P | Tibet should be one of the core issues for India as China is trying to "influence" all of its neighbours, Lobsang Sangay, the head of the Tibetan government in exile has said.
Old Age Monthly Retirement Income Benefit is a Human Right.
At the Headquarters Establishment No. 22 also known as Special Frontier Force, I served to defend the Human Rights of men who are neither citizens nor refugees of the United States which employed us. For that reason, I examine the Human Rights of workers who work in the United States without being citizens or refugees.
The most important characteristic of Labor is that it consumes time while the man performing Labor experiences the relentless aging process without any concern for his nationality status. Providing income security in Old Age is a humanitarian concern for it defends the human dignity of all people who suffer from the inevitable consequences of the eternal Law of Aging.
Having served the US exposing my life to extreme risk of premature death, I must expose 'The Clinton Curse' that endangers the lives of all the US residents irrespective of their Nationality Status.
President Bill Clinton's Slavery Mandate of 1996 constitutes disobedience of LORD's Commandment to choose Life and to avoid the danger of eternal Death.
© Alexia Fernández Campbell/Vox Earvin Gonzalez assists an undocumented taxpayer in suburban Washington, D.C.
A 2017 Gallup poll that asked survey respondents "whether immigrants to the United States are making the [tax] situation in the country better or worse" found that 41 percent said, "worse," while only 23 percent said "better" (33 percent said they had "no effect").
· Those undocumented workers paid taxes for benefits they can't even use, like Social Security and Medicare. They also aren't eligible for benefits like the earned income tax credit. But the IRS still expects unauthorized immigrants to file their taxes, and many of them do so.
· So, despite all the political rhetoric, undocumented immigrants are not a drain or burden on the government.
In April 2017, I visited Casa de Maryland in Rockville, Maryland, which hosts two federally subsidized centers where low-income workers can file their taxes for free. That year, they had helped about 200 undocumented immigrants file their taxes, and many were waiting in line with their paperwork when I stopped by.
Comprehensive immigration reform failed in Congress, but Maria is still paying her taxes every year. "I think it's important, and all my relatives pay their taxes too," she told me.
· Last year, her tax documents also included two 1099 forms, for her second job as a contractor.
· In the end, Maria owed $1,131 in income taxes to the state of Maryland and $775 to the federal government. She said she had some money saved up because she knew she would have a tax bill at the end of the year from the contracting jobs. But she said she will probably get on a payment plan with the IRS. If Maria had qualified for the earned income tax credit, her tax bill would probably have been about $500 lower.
It's true that not all undocumented immigrants pay federal income taxes, because the government has no way to keep track of their under-the-table earnings. The IRS can withhold taxes from those hired with fake Social Security numbers, but workers who get paid in cash could simply choose not to report it, unless they voluntarily file a return with an ITIN number.
Still, all undocumented workers fund public schools and local government services by paying sales and property taxes like everyone else. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy estimates that they pay about $11.7 billion a year in state and local taxes.
And workers who get a paycheck, like Maria, still have payroll taxes for Medicare and Social Security withheld from their paycheck, even if they put a fake Social Security number on their W-2 form. The IRS estimates that unauthorized workers pay about $9 billion in payroll taxes annually.
In Maria's case, the W-2 form showed that she paid $1,072 into Social Security and $251 into Medicare, two social safety net programs she may never benefit from.
A portion of the payroll tax withheld from undocumented immigrants — like all workers — goes to the retirement trust fund at the Social Security Administration. In 2013, the agency reviewed how much money undocumented workers contributed to the retirement trust fund. The number was astonishing: $13 billion in one year.
The chief actuary of the Social Security Administration, Stephen Goss, estimates that about 1.8 million immigrants were working with fake or stolen Social Security cards in 2010, and he expects that number to reach 3.4 million by 2040.
These numbers are a stark contrast to the often repeated rhetoric that undocumented immigrants are a drain on the US economy. Even most Americans seem to think so — in a 2014 Reuters poll, 63 percent of people surveyed said they believe undocumented immigrants burdened the economy.
Emiliano, a 57-year-old undocumented day laborer from Honduras, told me that he knows many people assume he doesn't pay his taxes. He doesn't care. He just hopes one day it will help him get legal status.
When I told him the chances don't look good under the Trump administration, he shrugged.
"You have to have hope in something," he said.
The Flat Earth – The Grand Illusion is the fundamental basis for human existence.
In my analysis, the term 'belief' or 'disbelief' must be defined in the context of knowing the Ultimate, Unchanging Reality.
I ask my readers to carefully interpret scientific information and scientific facts to gain Pure Knowledge and Perfect Wisdom that helps man to define his faith or belief in the Ultimate, Unchanging, Eternal Reality often called LORD God Creator.
The celestial object called planet Earth is not an everlasting reality of God's creation. It is experiencing constant change since the time of its formation and is subject to eventual dissolution along with Sun and other members of our Solar Family.
1. Man must not have direct sensory experience of Earth's real shape and real speed. In fact, man needs the experience of the flat disc all the days of his life.
2. The duration or lifetime of man's mortal existence is determined by man's sensory experience of the apparent motions of Sun and Moon caused by Earth's Rotational Spin.
3. The major biological rhythm called Sun Rhythm, Circadian Rhythm, or Diurnal Rhythm that operates a myriad of man's living functions is synchronized with alternating periods of light and darkness called Day and Night while in reality, the Sun is shining all the time ever since it was created.
The Flat Earth. The Grand Illusion is the Fundamental Basis for Human Existence.
I ask my readers to reflect on scientific facts and information with due diligence. Even if I fly in a plane during the entire period of my earthly existence, my human body would still refuse to live according to the reality of Earth's Shape and Speed described by Science. In my view, man has no freedom to experience 'unconditioned' existence. Man's existence is always conditioned. The Mortal Existence is conditioned by the Grand Illusion. Man can find hope from God's promise of everlasting life granted by Belief which requires no validation by Science.
© CBS News Scathing of science and spinners to conspiracies, Flat Earthers proudly hold onto their beliefs that man never walked on the moon, our planet is a disc surrounded by ice, and that nothing is true if they can't see it for themselves.
If you picture Earth as a ball spinning through space. the folks who recently gathered at a park in Arcadia, California, are eager to argue: you're wrong! Earth is actually "flatter than a pancake," said Nathan Thompson, part of a movement of people who call themselves Flat Earthers.
They insist the Earth is, well, flat.
"The perimeter of Flat Earth is a wall of ice," said Thompson.
"That's what's holding in the ocean?" asked correspondent Brook Silva-Braga.
"That's what's containing everything," he said.
And what's underneath? "Well, you know, we haven't dug that deep," said a Flat Earther named Rene.
Netta Hagler, who arranged the meet-up of the Flat Earthers, questioned the fact that Earth is spinning through space at 1,000 miles per hour. "But we can't feel it. I don't believe I'm spinning right now. No," said Hagler.
Steere agreed to play a game of "20 Questions: Cosmic Edition" with Silva-Braga.
Photos of the Earth from space? "Completely and utterly false," she said.
In short, Flat Earthers don't believe much of anything unless they see it for themselves. They believe NASA is just part of a broad conspiracy.
National security expert Tom Nichols, who teaches at the Harvard Extension School, takes a dim view of Flat Earth. He told Silva-Braga he thinks something new is happening: "People have really become obsessed with the idea that, if it's not part of their direct experience, it can't be true.
Nichols poured his expertise into a book about "The Death of Expertise" (Oxford University Press).
"It's more democratic; isn't that good?" asked Silva-Braga.
So, in this "Show-it-to-me" world, we traveled to the Southern California desert, to meet, for ourselves, the one man who is boldly going where no Flat Earther has gone before.
Meet Michael Hughes – "Mad Mike" to his fans. Limo driver, self-styled daredevil, and most recently, do-it-yourself Flat Earth explorer. "I am their best hope. I am the best hope to prove the Flat Earth," he said.
And that rocket sitting outside his house? Mad Mike built it himself.
This past March, Mad Mike actually climbed into his steam-powered rocket and set off to see what he could see. And to the surprise of almost everyone, Hughes took flight and landed more or less intact.
© Provided by CBS Interactive Inc. "Mad Mike" Hughes launched himself into the heavens in a steam-powered rocket he built himself, to confirm his theory that the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee.
True, 1,800 feet is not nearly high enough to properly survey the planet. But Mad Mike now has a plan to go 62 miles up, to the edge of space, where he'll be able to see (or not see) the curve of Earth.
And if he somehow pulls that off, Mad Mike says he'll disprove centuries of science once and for all.
And with that, we put the ball back in professor Nichols' court.
"The world looks flat. I look out my window, I don't see a curve," said Silva-Braga.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of October 2018. Blessings of Goddess of Supreme Power. Moon Phases during the month of October 2018.
Puma Punku Divine Society celebrates the One, and Only One God as Father and Mother Principle at the same time. This Unity of God allows Personification of God as Male and Female, as Father and Mother giving Peace, Harmony, and Tranquility in the living Human Experience.
In Indian Tradition, Sharad Durga Navratri Celebration of 2018 begins on Wednesday, October 10, and concludes on the 10th day, the morning of Friday, October 19. This 'Nine-Night' Hindu festival is popularly known as 'Dussehra'. This festival is observed twice in a year, at the beginning of Summer Season and at the beginning of Autumn Season and the days are determined by Lunar Calendar.
I wish my readers Good Health, Prosperity, Peace and Happiness invoking the Blessings of Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess of Supreme Power.
In Physics, Power/Energy/Force is not associated with gender. But, when living things exist as male and female, description of Power/Energy/Force may have gender association. In Indian tradition, 'Deva' means God and 'Devi' means Goddess. Devi in Indian tradition is the personification of God's Supreme Power/Force/ Energy or 'SHAKTI'. To fully account for human existence, man needs two distinct or separate Principles that come together to produce the harmonious singular identity of the man. The issue is not about God's gender. Father Principle is called Originating Principle. Mother Principle is called Source Principle, for Mother is Source of Matter, Energy, and Knowledge to establish Life. Father provides Identity to human form, Mother provides Substance, the structural and functional basis of human form.
During 2018, Indians celebrate 'DEVI NAVRATRI' or 'SHARAD NAVRATRI' from Wednesday, October 10, to Friday, October 19. The term 'Nav' or 'Nava' means Nine. 'Ratri' means night. This celebration happens in a month called 'ASVAYUJA' ( or ASHWAYUJA – September – October), the month in which Full Moon Day is associated with the first star (Tithi) called 'ASVINI' in Indian Astrology.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of the Goddess of Supreme Power with Nine Manifestations.
Devi or Shakti is often called 'DURGA' for She is the embodiment of great strength. She is also called BHADRAKALI, JAGADAMBA, ANNAPURNA, SARVAMANGALA, BHAIRAVI, CHANDIKA, LALITA, BHAVANI, AND MOOKAMBIKA. During the 9-Night or Navratri festival, Indians worship nine different forms of Goddess Durga with 1,000 names. She is simply adored as Divine Mother and often addressed as 'MOTHER'("MATA" or "MAA") whatever may be the name or form She assumed on different occasions.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Telugu Calendar to mark the ten days of Nine-Night Festival.
Goddess Shakti has three Supreme Forms called DURGA, SARASVATI, and LAKSHMI. In India, traditions vary from region to region. First 3 – days of Navratri are dedicated to Goddess Durga, following 3-days are dedicated to Goddess Lakshmi and concluding 3-days are dedicated to Goddess Sarasvati or Goddess of Knowledge, Wisdom, and Speech. On Monday, October 15, 2018, the Sixth Day or Shashti 'NAVARATRI' is dedicated to Goddess called 'KATYANI'(legendary daughter of a devotee by name 'KATA'). On this day, Goddess Sarasvati is worshipped for this day is associated with a Nakshatra(Star) called 'MOOLA'.
1. Day -1, Wednesday, October 10. First day of the Bright Half of Ashvin. Navratri Begins as Pratipada or Ghatsthapana. This day is Observed as Chandra Darshan. Shailaputri Puja.
2. Day – 2, Thursday, October 11. Dwitiya, Brahmacharini Puja.
3. Day – 3, Friday, October 12. Tritiya, Sindoor Tritiya, Chandraghanta Puja.
4. Day – 4, Saturday, October 13. Chaturthi, Kushmanda Puja, Varad Vinayak Chaturthi.
5. Day – 5, Sunday, October 14. Panchami, Skanda Mata Puja, Upang Lalita Vrat, Lalita Panchami.
6. Day – 6. Monday, October 15. Shashti, Kathyayini Puja, Sarasvati Awahan, Sarasvati Puja.
7. Day – 7. Tuesday, October 16. Saptami, Kalaratri,, Shubhankara Puja, Sarasvati Balidan, Maha Lakshmi Puja.
8. Day – 8. Wednesday, October 17.. Mahashtami, Durga Ashtami, Annapurna Parikrama, Sarasvati Visarjan, Mahagauri Puja, Durga Puja.
9. Day – 9. Thursday, October 18. Navami, Maharnavami, Ayudh Puja, Siddhidatri Puja, Navami Homa.. Sarasvati Puja.
10. Day – 10. Friday, October 30. Dasami or Dashami. Vijaya Dasami, Dussehra Celebration.
DEVI NAVRATRI – GOD AS MALE AND FEMALE. NINE DIFFERENT FORMS OF WORSHIP CALLED TARA–TARINI SHAKTI.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Shailaputri, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
DEVI NAVRATRI – GOD AS MALE AND FEMALE. FIRST DAY OF NINE-NIGHT CELEBRATION BEGINS WITH THE WORSHIP OF GODDESS SHAILAPUTRI.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Brahmacharini, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Chandraghanta, the Goddess of Supreme Power.DEVI NAVRATRI – GOD AS MALE AND FEMALE. THE THIRD DAY IS CALLED TRITIYA, DEDICATED TO GODDESS CHANDRAGHANTA.
DEVI NAVRATRI – GOD AS MALE AND FEMALE. THE FOURTH DAY IS CALLED CHATURTHI. GODDESS KUSHMANDA REPRESENTS CREATIVE POWER, AND SHE EXPRESSES A SENSE OF JOY FOR HER OWN CREATION.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Kushmanda, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
DEVI NAVRATRI – GOD AS MALE AND FEMALE. GODDESS OF FOURTH DAY OR CHATURTHI IS KNOWN AS KUSHMANDA.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Skandamata, the Goddess of Supreme Power.DEVI NAVRATRI – GOD AS MALE AND FEMALE. GODDESS OF FIFTH DAY OR PANCHAMI IS KNOWN AS SKANDAMATA, MOTHER OF SKANDA OR KARTIKEYA.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Katyayani, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Kalaratri, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Maha Gauri, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings from Goddess Siddhidhatri, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. A hymn in praise of Goddess Durga, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Goddess Durga, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Prosperity from Goddess Lakshmi, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
DEVI NAVRATRI – GOD BOTH MALE AND FEMALE. GODDESS DURGA, LAKSHMI, AND SARASVATI. PERSONIFICATION OF GOD'S OMNIPOTENCE.
Sharad Navratri of 2018. Blessings of Knowledge and Wisdom from Goddess Sarasvati, the Goddess of Supreme Power.
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. A very special tribute to Dr Donna Strickland.
The Book of Genesis, The First Book of Apostle Moses, Chapter 1, verse 3 refers to the creation of Light.
Today, the world celebrates the invention of powerful optical tools that can illuminate God's creation giving us new insights hidden from our view as God's Light cannot reveal those hidden mysteries of Life.
Strickland is the first woman to be awarded the physics prize since 1963 when Maria Goeppert-Mayer was recognized for her work on the structure of atomic nuclei. Marie Curie won the physics prize in 1903 and the chemistry Nobel Prize in 1911.
Also in the 1980s, Mourou and Strickland were working together at the University of Rochester to overcome a problem that had dogged laser research for decades: High-intensity laser beams tended to destroy the material used to amplify them. It was as though scientists were trying to boil water in a pot that could not handle such high temperatures.
The Rochester researchers developed an elegant workaround, which they called "chirped pulse amplification." First, they stretched out the beam with a mile-long fiber optic cable, reducing its peak intensity. Then they amplified the signal to the desired level, before compressing it into an ultrashort, ultrapowerful pulse lasting a tiny fraction of a second.
Students have historically not been recognized by the Nobel Committee, something critics say overlooks the work done by young scientists who are more frequently women and underrepresented minorities.
Yet graduate students are the backbone of most scientific research; often they run the experiments and do the detailed data analyses that lead to major discoveries. The prizewinning discovery of pulsars — swiftly spinning cores of collapsed stars — would not have been possible without Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who built the telescope and spotted the first signal when she was earning her PhD. But Burnell was not among the list of laureates for that prize.
The journal Nature reported this weekend that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences would explicitly call on future nominators to consider gender, geography and topic for the 2019 prizes.
CPA has been used to take images of split-second processes, such as the interactions between molecules and atoms, and it's fundamental for laser eye surgery.
In a phone interview with the Swedish Academy, Strickland said her favorite application of high-power lasers is something she still demonstrates to undergraduate students in physics lab: White light generation.
With this technique, a beam containing a narrow range of wavelengths is shot into a medium such as water, causing the waves to spread out into a rainbow. This is more advanced than Newton's famous experiment with a prism; whereas he simply spread out light into its component colors, white light generation broadens the spectrum contained within a beam, creating the colored light.
India currently has two lasers that produce 100 terawatts (10 to the power 12) beams.
The terawatt (TW) is equal to one trillion (1012) watts. The total power used by humans worldwide is commonly measured in terawatts (see primary energy). The most powerful lasers from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s produced power in terawatts, but only for nanosecond time frames.
The Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology in Indore is in the process of installing two petawatt systems, while another is likely to be installed in Hyderabad.
Such high intensities are extremely useful in many scientific contexts. These high-power beams of light, when they interact with matter, produce such extreme conditions that are found only in the deep cores of stars, or other celestial bodies. Scientists use this to study and understand these conditions, which would otherwise not be accessible to them, giving rise to the expression 'astrophysics in the laboratory'.
Such ultrashort and high-power light beams also help the scientists in uncovering processes that take place in the micro-world. These processes happen so quickly that they cannot be captured by anything else. High-power femtosecond (10 raised to the power minus 15) pulses have enabled scientists to 'see' processes such as atomic interactions that earlier appeared to be instantaneous and remained invisible. | c4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
BkiUdE84uBhi8DXP5XZ4 | Leaving a management position can be a difficult choice for any manager. The perks are great: better salary and benefits, more responsibility and leverage within the company or organization. However, you may feel overly stressed, tired or in need of a career change. It helps to be able to identify your reasons for leaving your current management position—for yourself as well as your colleagues and acquaintances—before you make the leap.
Sit down with a pen and piece of paper and think about all of your reasons for wanting to leave your management position. Write down these reasons in a list. Some of them may include having too much responsibility, not liking your company or co-workers for various reasons or wanting a career change or simply a job change. Another reason may be that you no longer believe in your company or organization's leadership, business practices or ethics. Perhaps you miss direct client and customer contact, and you want to be involved in the daily operations of your organization again.
Take a break from your list for a while. This will give you time to think over which of your reasons justify leaving your management position.
Write down the reasons to stay in your management position on the other side of the paper where you wrote down your reasons for leaving. These may include having good benefits and salary.
Compare the two lists by rewriting them side by side on a new sheet of paper. Weigh each reason you want to leave your current management job against each of the reasons to remain a manager. Cross off the reasons you want to leave your job if you do not think they justify quitting, after considering what you would give up.
When people ask why you don't want to be a manager anymore, cite reasons from your list that you did not cross out. Once you can clearly identify your reasons for leaving your management job, you will be able to confidently make your case for change to others.
Why Do I Want a Position in Management?
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BkiUgaTxK7IDP-3_8ibD | Scouting new Michigan commit: 2022 four-star WR Tay'Shawn Trent
The Wolverines have the big bodied receiver they need.
By Jonathon Simmons Mar 8, 2021, 10:00am CST
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With a need for bigger wide receivers on the roster, Michigan scored with the commitment of East Detroit (MI) 2022 four-star Tay'Shawn Trent last week.
At 6-foot-4, 210 pounds, Trent is a viable outside and red zone threat with great size and length. As a junior, the four-star caught 32 passes for 548 yards and 11 touchdowns. Catching over a third of his passes for touchdowns emphasizes his usefulness close to the goal line.
East Detroit doesn't play the greatest competition, and it showed in its game against Roseville that I watched for this report. Despite the sloppiness, Trent caught five passes, including two touchdowns and a two-point conversion.
Trent's two touchdown grabs are good examples of what he brings to the table as an athlete. His first score is what you'd expect from the big-bodied receiver.
Within the five, Trent runs a fade to the corner of the end zone. The quarterback throws up a jump ball and Trent reaches out at the absolute peak to secure the ball over a good break-up attempt from the defensive back. He keeps control of the ball throughout the acrobatic catch and has six.
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The only receiver Michigan's had who could go up and grab a pass like that in recent history is Nico Collins.
Before watching the tape, I thought it would be good for Trent to bulk up and be more of a flex tight end. But in this game, he showed surprising quickness and burst that leads me to think he can separate without using just his size.
Against zone coverage, Trent bursts off the line to eat up the cushion. When he gets the cornerback to turn and run, he breaks down and curls back, leaving him wide open. The quarterback throws a low ball, which Trent is able to dig out using his long frame.
While Trent has good short area quickness, his long speed is a bit of a question. On his second touchdown grab, he runs a go route against man coverage. He beats his guy off the line, but is only able to create a yard of separation between him and the cornerback. In a lower level league, I'd like to see Trent get more space.
However, Trent is able to smoothly grab the ball over his shoulder in stride and get into the end zone.
Trent also plays outside linebacker in East Detroit's 3-4 scheme and showed some flashes. I think Trent could play defense if he wanted to, and not just in a Michigan-State-fan-salty-about-losing-him way.
He got a couple free runs at the quarterback for a sack, and is able to dip his shoulder to get around the edge. Here, he's rushing off the left side. When the ball carrier is about to run past him, Trent is able to bend and change direction to make the tackle for loss.
If nothing else, this shows Trent's great athleticism and body control. Of course, he was also able to show that on offense as well.
I think Trent is underrated as a borderline four-star on the composite and three-star on 247Sports. Playing against poor competition and his lack of top end speed are the knocks against him, but his natural size and fluidity are going to make him a problem to deal with.
He absolutely can remain a full-time wide receiver at Michigan, especially since there aren't too many guys with his size on the roster at his position.
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BkiUdXM5qsBDEocIjHMt | The English Beat
By Ethan Brown
At 23, D.J. and production wunderkind Mike Skinner has created an album that captures the state of youth culture in the UK with the vividness of the Clash's debut or Trainspotting, all set to "two-step garage" (a UK-bred genre that melds drum and bass and soulful house).
Like Eminem, Skinner is an impossibly witty white emcee ("We met through a shared view / She loved me and I did, too"). He's also an innovative producer who utilizes outré rhythms and samples.
Original Pirate Material was produced entirely in Skinner's Brixton flat. This is typical two-step: Many producers use downloadable "studio" programs or even PlayStation's beat-making software.
Skinner is a compelling narrator with an eye for detail. "Weak Become Heroes" (about his first ecstasy experience) is the best, most honest song about E culture since Pulp's "Sorted for E's and Wizz."
Chock-full of street slang delivered in a thick brogue, Original Pirate Material can be as difficult to get through as A Clockwork Orange. Among the Skinnerisms: less 'ave it (let's have a good time), chase brown (do heroin), and show him you're a man football-fan-style (bring psychotic rage to a street fight).
Original Pirate Material
(Vice Records; October 22). | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUaODxK6-gD5TlawXt | Disable file attachment scanning & extractinig at MailScanner ?
Discussion in 'E-mail Discussion' started by sh4ka, Mar 9, 2007.
My main goal was stopping incomingo spam.. and MailScanner is doing a great work on that.. but, it is taking too much time extracting and scanning attachments... does anyone know how to disable scanning the attachments ?
1. Set "File Command =" to blank.
2. Set "Filename Rules =" to blank.
3. Set "Filetype Rules =" to blank.
4. To disable checking of zip attachments, set "Maximum Archive Depth =" to 0.
If i kill the process, once mailscanner is restarted, it comes again and shows the same message..
Any ideas how to avoid attachment scanning or extraccting ?
any idea how to fix this one, i getting high load process with this "extracting attachments"
Contact the people at configserver.com. They will be able to help you with configuring MailScanner to your needs. | c4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUbWM4c3aisBY82_M0 | Q: Hosting multiple asp.net core on ubuntu server with NGINX I'm getting crazy trying to host my 3 asp.net core services on a ubuntu server 22.04.
I managed to host correctly 2 static index.html pages following this tutorial: https://webdock.io/en/docs/how-guides/shared-hosting-multiple-websites/how-configure-nginx-to-serve-multiple-websites-single-vps
this is the response when I Curl http://{my ip address}/web2.webdock.io/ :
<html>
<title>web2.webdock.io</title>
<h1>Welcome to the web2.webdock.io with Nginx webserver.</h1>
</html>
using this configuration
server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
root /var/www/html/web2.webdock.io;
index index.html index.htm;
server_name web2.webdock.io;
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
}
}
When I try to do the same with my asp.net core api it doesn't work the same way. Here is my config file in the sites-enabled folder:
server {
listen 80;
server_name compliance;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:5001;
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection keep-alive;
proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
}
}
curl http://{my IP address}/compliance/ :
<html>
<head><title>404 Not Found</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>404 Not Found</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)</center>
</body>
</html>
I'm totally lost. Just spent 6hours at work trying to get this working without any success.
And of course my api works perfectly in localhost:5001
Thanks for your help
| stackexchange | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUaKXxK6-gD0SraeQh | Senate studies gay-marriage amendment
Protection is needed against 'activist judges,' sponsor says
By MARK HELM, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER WASHINGTON BUREAU
Mar 23, 2004 |Updated Mar 15, 2011 10:51 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- In a personal plea, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., one of only two openly gay member of Congress, yesterday urged fellow lawmakers to reject a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, saying homosexual couples "simply want to express their love and feelings in the same way as everyone else."
Frank told the Senate Judiciary Committee during a hearing on the amendment: "I have to ask, who are we hurting?"
The proposed constitutional amendment sponsored by Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., and Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo., would ban same-sex marriage, but would leave state legislatures with the right to recognize civil unions.
The amendment also would allow state legislatures to decide whether same-sex relationships would qualify for benefits associated with marriage.
Frank said that allowing gay couples to marry would "do nothing" to change the institution of marriage.
"The fact that I or someone else want to express our love and feelings in the same way as everyone else doesn't infringe on your rights," he said.
Bush calls for ban on same-sex marriage
Gay marriage or civil unions? State opens debate
But Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said allowing gay marriage would "destroy" the institution, which was created to ensure a stable environment for children.
"It's a myth that allowing gay marriage doesn't affect the institution itself," Cornyn said. "Accepting other forms of marriage weakens the institution, which is the bedrock of our society."
Allard told the committee that his amendment was needed to protect states from "activist judges" who threaten to force them to allow gay marriage. "There's not a state in the union that supports gay marriage," he said.
"The will of the people has been denied by a few judges, and that's not right."
Musgrave said the purpose of the proposed amendment wasn't to "discriminate but to protect the institution of marriage and the nation's children."
The proposed amendment has become a hot political issue since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in November that the commonwealth's constitution requires that gay marriages be allowed.
After the ruling, several cities, including San Francisco, began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Last month, President Bush announced his support for amending the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, but did not endorse the Allard-Musgrave proposal.
Bush has suggested that states should have the right to consider civil unions, which only Vermont has authorized.
Americans oppose gay marriage by a 2-1 ratio, according to a USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll taken earlier this month.
But a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll indicates that a slim majority of Americans surveyed support civil unions for gay and lesbian couples and that a slightly larger majority opposes amending the Constitution.
Republican leaders in Congress say they hope to have the votes in the House and Senate to pass the amendment by this summer.
During the hearing, Democrats voiced their opposition to the amendment, saying state legislatures should decide the issue.
"I've always believed that marriage is between a man and women," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. "But it's an evolving issue ... and should be controlled by the states."
Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said that if passed, the amendment would mark the first time that the Constitution had been changed to limit the rights of American citizens.
By MARK HELM | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUa1vxK0iCl7DT6Rrj | After two years of picking and 'planning' Christmas vacation, this year, I left it to Erik.
I'm the sort of person that likes to buy my airline tickets in August, and then research my destination through the fall so that we can arrive as prepared as possible. The good part of this approach is that I can uncover some gems that I might not otherwise come across. The bad part is that it reduces the element of surprise.
Erik is the opposite in his approach to vacation planning. Until December, I had just assumed that we would be sticking around for the holidays. But, then he started talking about looking at some last minute destinations and, on Sunday night, we got serious about looking.
It was ultimately a toss up between the Bahamas and the Netherlands. The Netherlands won. Three days later, we are here in Amsterdam for Christmas Eve.
Not so sure about the "netherregions", but I'm certainly looking forward to hearing about the Netherlands!! Happy holidays.
That's a brilliant pick. I bet it was right festive. Don't forget the Heinekin museum. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeAc25V5jESabID4h | The Kentucky Knows is probably the most elaborate piece he makes in his company, 300 Studio, which opened in 2010.
It's a nearly human-size figure made of wood with eyes that are reclaimed Blanton bottle toppers that feature metal horses and a long shellacked corn nose, in deference to the 51 percent corn that bourbon must contain. The sculpture can be finished with miniature bottles of bourbon that must be provided by the buyer. Davis cannot provide them himself because he does not have a liquor license.
He adorns his Lazy Susans with the Blanton metal horses so it appears as if the horses are racing around in the circle when the item is spun. And he sells bags of bourbon char nuggets — called Grillin' Charr — which are used for smoking meat while grilling.
Although he has worked extensively with Buffalo Trace distillery, Davis hopes to use other barrels eventually.
Davis' most expensive items are the Kentucky Knows, which run about $350 without liquor, followed by easels at $325 and wine racks at $275. Cutting boards run $49.99 to $69.99.
Davis didn't think about legacies while growing up near downtown Lexington. He thought about struggling to fit in with richer kids and making passing grades at Arlington Elementary and Bryan Station junior and senior high schools.
Although he has a full-time day job in federal law enforcement, Davis said that he often works 6-7 hours after work, plus weekends, at his studio. He has employed an intern he plans to hire as the business' second employee.
Although some clients are interested in bourbon barrel furniture, he will continue to offer only decorative pieces, he said.
Davis recently took his craft out of the studio, showing 15 children at the Beaumont branch of the Lexington Public Library how he works, stenciling their names on a piece of wood, then shellacking it.
Davis doesn't want the financial end of his business to ever override his heart, he said. What's important to him is giving back to the community, he said. Hal Gervis, director of Alltech's Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co., mentioned that Davis saw him while he was on his way to do the Town Branch clean-up, and Davis immediately changed his plans for the day to pitch in.
Davis said he wants to be a person known for "doing the right things, even when no one's watching. It really says who you are." | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbve6NNjgBtygeC0l | Attacks to critical Infrastructures: the next cyber front to worry about
By Reason Cybersecurity
on Tue Jul 04 2017
Imagine this scene: You're sitting at home one night, happily watching House of Cards on Netflix. Suddenly, the lights go out. You peek through your curtains and see…nothing.
Your whole neighborhood plunged into blackness. But it's not only your neighborhood, but it's also your whole city. It's your whole state.
Your power grid has been hacked.
Attacking critical infrastructures
Depending on the attack at hand, hackers may have infiltrated the network of your region's power grid and are holding it ransom for hundreds of thousands of dollars. If this were to be the case, you can be sure that the attackers would have no intention of restoring power until the ransom fee is paid.
Or perhaps they have caused actual harm to the network in an effort to do a whole lot of damage to the economy, public morale and their targeted company all at once.
A matter of national concern
Industries such as energy, water treatment, gas and oil providers, telecom, financial, transportation, manufacturing and food production/agriculture, to name a few, are considered industries whose functionality is vital to national safety and/or security. Any attack or loss of service at one of the 16 Critical Infrastructure sectors can cause widespread damage, not only to the company at hand but to regular ol' citizens in a matter of moments.
As scary as the idea of an attack on one of these sectors sounds, it's not unprecedented. In December 2015 and again in December 2016, two separate power grids in Ukraine were hacked. Though the lights went dark in both cases for just a few hours, some very real and dire questions were raised: Just how vulnerable are our nation's critical infrastructures to attacks? Can attackers also target other critical infrastructures? Are these industries prepared for large scale attacks? How will the public be affected?
The problem with ICS networks
It turns out that attacks to critical infrastructures happen more often than most people would probably like to know.
The networks of critical infrastructures, called ICS networks, tend to be made up of a patchwork of technologies, some of which have been in place since the '60s, and 70's. Back then, companies didn't have to worry about being connected to, and therefore exposed by, the Internet because it didn't exist. As newer technology was introduced to make machine interfaces simpler for plant operators, often this new technology was just slapped on top of the already existing network. At their core, these networks were designed with userability, not security, in mind.
The result is that the networks that lead straight to our nation's most critical assets are made up of layer upon layer of technologies that don't always have the greatest level of interoperability. Moreover, since the process of shutting ICS networks down for any periods of time to update/upgrade software has always been considered intolerable, they often run on operating systems that have not been updated in many, many years. In some especially disturbing situations, these operating systems are no longer even supported by their developers, which can force plant operators to use unapproved workarounds that can lead to even greater vulnerability. Clearly, this creates a situation rife with potential dangers. The good news is that despite the lack of security, attacks like these don't happen every day. Typically, attacks to ICS networks are carried out by nation-state actors with political agendas (though not always) and they have other, preferred attack methods up their sleeves. But they are beginning to occur with greater frequency and that in and of itself is cause for alarm. Some recent attacks "victims" include:
San Francisco' s transportation system
A German steel mill, which was partially blown up by hacked pumps
A network of Polish trains, which was taken over by a teenager with a homemade device, injuring 12 passengers
Houston's water system
New York City's dam system, hacked by the Iranians
Most famous of all, Stuxnet, the worm that shut down Iranian nuclear reactors at Natanz in 2010
The New Cybersecurity Executive Order
With experts warning that we have only begun to see the true force of ICS attacks, the government and even President Trump have taken notice. Last month, Trump signed a new Executive Order that places ICS vulnerabilities in the national spotlight. Now critical infrastructure companies will have to submit reports to Homeland Security who will then pass those reports off to the President's Office to be evaluated for proper adherence to new standards. Regardless of what you think of his politics, this is a bold move in the right direction towards ensuring that the nation's most sensitive resources remain secure. What experts hope to see is a gradual upgrading of security and awareness across Critical Infrastructure, one that will ultimately make us all more safe and secure.
The take-home for you, sitting there watching Netflix?
The kind of sad, kind of relief-inducing truth is that there isn't much you can do, save for pooling your money and buying a power plant just so you can make sure it's up to snuff. On the other hand, vulnerabilities in critical infrastructures have the ability to affect each and every one of us in a scary way, so it's important to be aware of what's at stake. | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUbx7xK7Ehm2ZQzfS9 | The Punisher er en amerikansk actionfilm fra 2004 og den blev instrueret af Jonathan Hensleigh.
Medvirkende
Thomas Jane som Frank Castle
John Travolta som Howard Saint
Will Patton som Leonard Glass
Laura Elena Harring som Livia Saint
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos som Joan
Kevin Nash som Russeren
Samantha Mathis som Amanda Castle
Roy Scheider som Franks far
Tom Nowicki som Lincoln
John Pinette som Mr. Bumpo
Eksterne henvisninger
Amerikanske film fra 2004
Actionfilm fra USA
Film baseret på tegneserier | wikipedia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUbIY25V5hegR8XgLm | I got assigned a role to teach marketing at a community college. Before this, I had never heard of the four P's of marketing: product, place, price, and promotion. However, I could've succeeded remarkably in the teaching role had the school used a certain textbook. The textbook would've made learning simple and fun for the both me and the students. But the school opted instead to pirate a PDF of a different book posted online. I used the PDF to prepare, so I requested the book version of the PDF for the actual class. Instead of purchasing the outdated book, the school wanted me to photocopy the pirated PDF page-by-page to hand out to all the students first day of class. (The book held around one thousand pages.) If I had accepted the role, I surely would have failed as the students would have learned outdated theory but little to no practical skills.
Later, as a student, I wanted to take marketing from Athabasca, but a certain social media marketing course had heavily outdated textbooks. So, I avoided the AU marketing program. After all, the books you read on marketing can make you shine or waste your time.
Lately, I've wanted to learn book marketing strategies. And perhaps you have a book within you. I've helped authors publish and market their books. I love making book trailer campaigns on YouTube, but I'd like to leverage social media more. Author Alinka Rutkowska says her social media platforms consists mostly of Facebook, Twitter, and Goodreads (2019). On top of social media, Rugkowska made an author Websites with landing pages and opt-in emails. She used Optimizepress, a WordPress plugin, that comes with landing pages and a membership site. I'd likely settle for a Wix website (with a membership plugin). After all, the learning curve for Wix is less fearsome than that for WordPress and Optimizepress. And the authors I represent don't want to spend months mastering complex platforms.
When helping authors, I've made mistakes. In the future, I'd ensure my authors have three editors: developmental editor, copy editor, and proofreader. Author Alinka Rutkowska describes the three: "developmental editor … tells you that your story will make great wrapping paper unless you get it significantly revised; copy editor … points out all your errors; proofreader … reads your masterpiece countless times and makes sure it's at its purest state possible" (p. 6 of 134, 9%). With a polished book, you can enter contests, possibly winning an award. Awards sell books, especially when advertised on your book's front cover.
Another mistake I made involved poor formatting. You can pay for someone to format your book interior (and cover page) cheap on Fiverr.com. I formatted book interiors myself. (Stupidly, I paid for fonts with license agreements when I could've used free fonts that come with an Adobe subscription.) I formatted one book with giant variable font sizes, each letter colored differently than the letters on either side. But the high cost of color books forced me to make the font black. Sadly, the colorless font took away the visual appeal. But on the bright side, the author's words more-than-made-up for my formatting faux pas.
On a final note, I think if you want to write, publish, and market your book, you should skip the community college. Make your first stop Author Alinka Rutkowska's How I Sold 80,000 Books: Book Marketing for Authors (Self Publishing through Amazon and Other Retailers). I'm sure she'll get you into every major online bookseller in no time.
Rutkowska, Alinka. (E-book, Updated 2019 Edition). How I Sold 80,000 Books: Book Marketing for Authors (Self Publishing through Amazon and Other Retailers). Leaders Press. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUeG7xK7Tt6CA5H41c | the importance of the natural environment and how they can care for it.
The One World Centre provides a range of professional learning services for educators working in family daycare, long day care and other early childhood services. Our workshops are interactive, relevant, and assist educators to implement key aspects of the National Quality Standard and Early Years Learning Framework. Participants will expand their own knowledge of global issues, take away practical strategies to use in their service and explore the One World Centre's collection of globally focused early childhood resources.
We also work in partnership with Little Green Steps WA who support education for sustainability in the early years.
For information about teaching resources available in the One World Centre Library, click here to visit our LIBRARY or our EARLY CHILDHOOD COLLECTION. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbfY5qU2Ap15jcrPG | Northern Territory Police are reminding motorists to adhere to road rules as students go back to school.
Around 6:30pm on Sunday 27 January, a 24-year-old male was stopped on the Stuart Highway after his vehicle was detected travelling 106 kilometres in a 60 kilometre zone.
The vehicle was examined and it was found that both rear tyres were bald and severely damaged.
The man has been issued a notice to appear in court on 13 March 2019 for driving at a speed dangerous to the public and driving with unserviceable equipment.
Sergeant Conan Robertson of Southern Traffic Operations said that with this week's return to school there will be a lot more kids on our streets.
"They are vulnerable road users and we need to work together to protect them.
"This morning police apprehended two drivers in the school zone on Memorial Avenue in Alice Springs. One vehicle was detected travelling at 58 kilometres per hour – 18 kilometres over the school zone speed limit.
"Road users are advised to slow down in school zones and pay attention to school crossings," he said. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUfY7xK0wg09lKEhE0 | Andreas Gutmann
Monkeys in Their Own Right
A few months after the landmark Los Cedros decision, Ecuador's Constitutional Court has ruled on another important case for the Rights of Nature. For the first time, the Constitutional Court has explicitly recognized that individual animals are protected by the Rights of Nature which also include the right to free development of animal behavior. Continue reading >>
Gustavo Prieto
The Los Cedros Forest has Rights
Last week, the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court published its judgment in the case of the Los Cedros forest, a protected cloud forest of great biodiversity in the Andean mountains of Ecuador. This judgment revokes environmental permits previously granted to two mining concessions in the Bosque Protector Los Cedros reserve. The Court ruled that the mining permits in question had not only violated several constitutional rights of communities in the area but also – most remarkably – the rights of mother nature (Pacha Mama). It specifically granted these rights to the Los Cedros Reserve. But there is still some uncertainty regarding future applications of this unusual, non-anthropocentric legal standard set by the Court to protect the rights of mother nature. Continue reading >> | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUd1DxK7IAHL_U9L_V | Nathan Stroupe, Afghanistan country director for Turquoise Mountain, in the courtyard of one of the 112 buildings the British charity has restored so far to create an institute for Afghan artisans to revitalize their heritage.
Christian Science Monitor has great stories about people and organizations that make a difference. I loved this one on a UK nonprofit called Turquoise Mountain, which is reviving ancient crafts in Afghanistan and providing much-need work for craftsmen and -women. More than 500 artisans have graduated from Turquoise Mountain specializing in traditional crafts such as woodworking, jewelry-making and gem cutting, ceramics, and elaborate calligraphy.
"When Turquoise Mountain took on the restoration of Murad Khani, one of Kabul's poorest historical neighborhoods, its aim was to do more than clear away wartime debris. From the beginning, the British charity also sought to revive the disappearing arts of Afghan culture, among them jewelry-making, woodworking, and gem cutting.
"In her heart, Ramzia Sarwary-Khorami always wanted to make jewelry. But the path to success in Afghanistan is narrow, especially for a woman, no matter how intrepid or ambitious.
"Ms. Sarwary-Khorami signed up with Turquoise Mountain and learned soldering, sandpapering metals and stones, and the secrets of the six cultures of Afghan jewelry making.
" 'I found my dreams,' says Sarwary-Khorami, who now works as a teacher and quality controller for the charity and sells her own creations through high-end jewelry designers in London – a pathway established by Turquoise Mountain for its graduate artisans.
More at the Christian Science Monitor, but it's behind a firewall.
This is good on so many levels–preserving heritage, providing people with hope and connecting them to their valued traditions, giving them a place to grow and express themselves!
It amazes me how healthy shoots like these continue to poke up out of the destruction. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUcX3xK4tBVhvvrbOc | Hidden camera in classroom: Teachers union may sue for investigative report CVUSD won't release
The district has denied requests for the investigative report, citing attorney-client privilege and personnel privacy.
Hidden camera in classroom: Teachers union may sue for investigative report CVUSD won't release The district has denied requests for the investigative report, citing attorney-client privilege and personnel privacy. Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/education/2019/05/03/hidden-camera-in-school-teachers-union-may-sue-for-investigative-report-cvusd-wont-release/1092579001/
Joseph Hong, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 2:47 p.m. PT May 3, 2019 | Updated 3:49 p.m. PT May 3, 2019
The Coachella Valley Teachers Association may sue to force school district leaders to release the report from its investigation into a hidden camera found in a classroom at a Mecca elementary school, Carissa Carrera, the union's president, said on Friday.
Carrera said the union's lawyer has requested the investigative report through California Public Records Act and written a letter to the district asking Coachella Valley Unified School District administrators to refrain from destroying any records related to the investigation.
"We're always working towards transparency," Carrera said. "The more information that's shared with people, the less we have to rely on speculation and rumors."
Since the camera was discovered at Saul Martinez Elementary School in March, the district has revealed few details as to why surveillance equipment was placed in a classroom.
In a statement earlier this week, Superintendent Edwin Gomez said the district had intended to place the camera in a different school in an effort to "capture footage of suspects who previously broke into the classroom." He provided no other details about the error.
During the month between this statement and the discovery of the camera, Carrera said "People thought someone was trying to spy on the teacher." She said more transparency would have "eliminated fears."
Coachella Valley Unified School District offices in Thermal. (Photo: Kristen Hwang/The Desert Sun)
More: CVUSD: Camera was hidden in wrong elementary school in Mecca
More: Coachella Valley Unified investigates secret camera found in an elementary school classroom
The Desert Sun has submitted multiple requests for both full and redacted versions of the report. Maria Gandera, assistant superintendent of human resources, denied all requests, citing attorney-client privilege and personnel privacy rights.
"While we appreciate the interest in this story, we are not able to provide either a complete or a redacted version of the investigative report at this time," Gandera said in an email on Friday. "It is not a lack of transparency but it is a matter of following legal standards and protecting personnel rights."
Carrera said the teacher who found the camera in his classroom at Saul Martinez Elementary has also been denied access to the report.
The school district has typically disclosed investigative reports, including one about the former superintendent's credit card usage and another about board member misconduct.
"I cannot comprehend at all why they wouldn't release it. It doesn't make any sense at all," Carrera said. "We're not going to just let this swept under the rug."
Students greeted with confetti on first day Saul Martinez
Students are greeted by teachers as they enter Saul Martinez Elementary on their first day of school, Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Students look up class assignments with their parents at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Students play outside before going into class on their first day of school at Saul Martinez Elementary in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Rosa Amezcua waits with her son Oliver before his class starts at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Students sit outside their classroom on the first day of school at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Students peer into a classroom on the first day of school at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Kindergarteners sit with their parents as they fill out papers on the first day of school at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Kindergarteners find their seats on the first day of school at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
A student waits for class to start on the first day of school at Saul Martinez Elementary School in Mecca, Calif., Wednesday, August 16, 2017. Zoe Meyers/The Desert Sun
Joe Hong covers education for The Desert Sun. Reach him at 760-778-4655 or Joseph.Hong@desertsun.com. Follow him on Twitter @jjshong5.
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Palm Springs admits 'unfortunate loss' during Indian Canyon road project
Woman robbed after helping suspect with Whole Foods nut grinder
Man shot by deputy in Rancho Mirage identified
No bail for La Luz del Mundo leader in child rape case
What's on the menu for the Taco Bell hotel?
Driving in Palm Springs? Indian Canyon conversion underway | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUdIM4uBhhxMaCiYtO | Mortgage Rates in North Dakota
Purchasing a new home in North Dakota is a major financial commitment. So if you're looking to become a home buyer, you'll want to shop for the best mortgage rates. Because interest rates and loan terms vary, it's a good idea to get quotes from several mortgage lenders. You can check out today's mortgage rates in North Dakota below.
Current Mortgage and Refinance Rates in North Dakota
5 affordable places to live in North Dakota
Choosing an affordable place for your home purchase can keep costs down. Here are five places with a low cost of living in North Dakota.
1. Jamestown
This North Dakota town has a population of just over 15,000, and around six in 10 people who live there own their homes, according to Niche. The median home value of $136,700 is well below the national median value of $184,700. Jamestown ranks eighth in North Dakota for cost of living, with only smaller towns ranking more affordable. It's home to attractions including Fort Seward Park, the Stutsman County Memorial Museum, and the National Buffalo Museum. Property taxes in Stutsman County are relatively expensive, however, averaging 1.54% of assessed fair market value, according to Tax Rates.org.
2. Williston
Williston is another inexpensive North Dakota town, although its population is about twice that of Jamestown. Williston is ranked 15th for lowest cost of living in North Dakota, and it also ranks sixth for most diverse. However, just 48% of people own their homes here, perhaps because the median home value of $249,400 is well above the national average. Property taxes are a bit cheaper here than Jamestown -- Williams County has an average tax rate of just 1.49% of a property's assessed fair market value.
3. West Fargo
West Fargo is a suburb of Fargo, and ranks 20th for best place to buy a house in North Dakota out of 47 ranked areas. It's also known for having some of the best public schools in the state, and is in the top 20 among best places to raise a family. Homes are more expensive than the national median here, at a median of $228,100. Still, 68% of West Fargo residents are owners rather than renters. Property taxes in Cass County are some of the highest in the U.S., at an average of 1.87% of assessed fair market value. Although taxes are higher than in some of the other places on our list, West Fargo offers residents the chance to enjoy plenty of local attractions, including Rendezvous Park and the Red River Zoo.
4. Dickinson
This North Dakota town has a population of just over 22,700, and has been identified as one of the best places for young professionals, as one of the most diverse places in North Dakota, and as home to some of the best public schools in the state. Property values are above the national average here as well, with a median home price of $235,300. As in West Fargo, most people own their homes, with just 46% of residents renting. Property taxes are relatively expensive here, with an average rate of 1.39% of assessed fair market value in Stark County.
5. Mandan
Mandan comes in 25th out of 47 places with the lowest cost of living in North Dakota. It's also one of the top 10 places to retire, and one of the top 20 most-diverse locales in the state. The median home value here is less than that of some of the other places on our list at $207,100, but still above the national median. Property taxes are fairly high, at 1.79% of assessed fair market value. Despite these costs, 65% of Mandan residents own their homes.
Whether you choose one of these locations or another place to buy your North Dakota home, remember to shop around for the best mortgage rates to keep your monthly payments as low as possible. Check out our mortgage calculator to help you estimate your monthly payment, including principal, interest, insurance, taxes, and PMI. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUd7k4dbghTN2K2qXR | Caviar Origin: The History of Caviar
Caviar has been a luxurious specialty food for centuries, and in recent years it has become more accessible than ever before thanks to sustainable aquaculture practices.
But this amazing food item did not simply appear out of thin air onto the plates of history's most influential parties. It has a long and rich past that is definitely worth exploring further.
Today we're taking a journey through caviar history, beginning in ancient times and leading right up to the 21st century. Let's begin!
Ancient Caviar Origins
The history of caviar begins not with the cured eggs themselves, but with the sturgeon.
Humankind has been enjoying the fruits of the sturgeon, a prehistoric fish, for over 250 million years. Sturgeon was found in abundance throughout the continents of Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and was quickly identified as a delicious nutritional powerhouse for early peoples.
Although we only know of approximately 27 different species of sturgeon currently in existence, natural historians say that dozens of sturgeon types existed in the past, some even larger and more dominant than the largest species today.
Not only was sturgeon appreciated for its protein-packed meat (in some cases, thousands of pounds worth), but it also provided salty, succulent eggs that provided a ton of nutrition and tasted delicious in a world without much culinary advancement.
These eggs were quickly identified as a delicacy by early cultures such as the Greeks, who were using these eggs to celebrate important banquet events dating back to the 4th century BC. Even Aristotle recorded the widespread appreciation for sturgeon in his early works.
In ancient Persia, sturgeon roe was not harvested from the live fish but rather collected by hand along the river beds that flowed throughout early cities and towns.
It was the Persians who were responsible for caviar's modern name, which is translated from khavyar, meaning "egg." However, the word was not officially printed in English text until 1591.
The Persians are also seen as the first people responsible for curing sturgeon roe, officially making the first caviar creation before anyone else.
Industrialization and Indulgence
It's impossible to think about modern caviar culture without thinking about Russia, a country which certainly played a big role in bringing caviar into the mainstream consciousness.
As early as the 8th century, Slavic fishermen were pulling massive sturgeon from the Volga River and using every part of the fish to feed up-and-coming communities.
From the mouth of the Caspian Sea to St. Petersburg, the sturgeon represented a pillar of the Russian economy, and caviar was a major bargaining chip in the evolving arena of world trade with other nations in the region.
It wasn't just aggressive river fishing that made caviar such a key part of Russian society at this time. There is also clear evidence that industrialized farm fishing took place throughout the country, with many different types of sturgeons raised and harvested for their eggs.
While caviar was affordable to the masses in this time of abundance around the 12th century, things changed quickly as the sturgeon ran dry.
The Caspian Sea began to lose its natural resources of fish, and international competition in the area led to disputes and skirmishes over the territory. Ivan the Terrible was known for driving hard bargains with competing nations to gain supremacy in the sturgeon trade.
In short, sturgeon went from peasant food in Russia to a royal delicacy very quickly!
A parallel story took place in the United States of America, with some key differences.
We may find it funny now, but for decades following the Civil War, caviar was all over the place in the United States, to the point that it was given away for free.
German entrepreneur Henry Schact, cited by history books, was the man to take advantage of the amazing natural sturgeon resources in the blossoming USA, and who made a fortune exporting these fancy eggs to Europe, where markets were thinning at the time.
Yes, at the turn of the 20th century, Russia received more caviar than it produced during this period, turning the tables on tradition. It wasn't long before things flipped back to normal once again.
The Golden Age of Caviar
As the 20th century progressed, Americans began to take their cues from European aristocracy and adopt the customs of the wealthy classes to replicate their indulgent lifestyles.
Caviar, which did not yet have that royal reputation in the States, was reserved for the richest, largely due to overfishing and the rise of other global powers.
It didn't take long for the upper crust of American society to import caviar from abroad, putting it once again out of the reach of working classes.
Caviar prices were soon so astronomical that the product was only made available to the very richest bankers, politicians, and business tycoons.
It was at this time that the prestigious label "Russian Caviar" became common parlance in American culture, and many people still make this association today, despite the global caviar market having been through many changes since.
To this day, the most coveted caviar comes from the Ossetra and Beluga sturgeon of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, and people around the world can pay more than $350 an ounce for the best caviar on earth.
Affordable and Accessible
The caviar landscape continued to change as the 20th century advanced, and regulatory measures made fishing in the Black and Caspian Seas more challenging than ever.
New regulations meant that caviar producers had to seek new aquaculture methods that would yield quality caviar at a much more sustainable rate, even if it meant losing some profits in the short term.
This plan has paid off, thankfully, and as it stands now, the caviar landscape is rich with variety and with a reasonable barrier of entry.
Consumers can not only import caviar from anywhere in the world using the internet and fast-tracked shipping methods, but they also have access to local, sustainable farms that would not have been possible just a few decades ago.
It's not just for the Tsar's any longer— delicious caviar and roe alternatives are available at most local specialty food spots or can be shipped to your door in days.
Boutique producers are also taking the initiative to create hybrid caviar creations that tap into never-before-seen flavors, colors, and textures. Plus, fisheries are testing out new, humane methods of egg harvesting that yield great caviar while keeping the sturgeons alive and well.
There is no doubt we are living in the greatest time in history for the widespread enjoyment of quality caviar, and that is absolutely something worth celebrating!
The Long, Luxurious History of Caviar
Caviar's history is a rollercoaster ride that takes us across nearly every continent and through many memorable phases of global economics, politics, and culture.
We're happy to say that caviar's most recent chapter has undoubtedly been its best, as more people than ever before have access to the product that has been untouchable for centuries.
It will be very exciting to see where aquaculture, engineering, and the culinary arts take this famous ingredient, and Imperia Caviar will be on the front lines producing some of the finest products in the world.
If you are interested in our caviar philosophy and have unanswered questions, please consult our FAQ guide and feel free to drop us any pressing inquiries.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Caviar
https://www.thespruceeats.com/history-of-caviar-as-food-1807579
https://www.rbth.com/longreads/black_caviar/
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package play.api.libs.ws.ssl
import javax.crypto.SecretKey
import java.security.interfaces._
import javax.crypto.interfaces.DHKey
import scala.util.parsing.combinator.RegexParsers
import java.security.{ KeyFactory, Key }
import scala.Some
/**
* This singleton object provides the code needed to check for minimum standards of an X.509 certificate. Over 95% of trusted leaf certificates and 95% of trusted signing certificates use <a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-131A/sp800-131A.pdf">NIST recommended key sizes</a>. Play supports Java 1.6, which does not have built in <a href="http://sim.ivi.co/2013/11/harness-ssl-and-jsse-key-size-control.html">certificate strength checking</a>, so we roll our own here.
*
* The default settings here are based off <a href="">NIST SP 800-57</a>, using <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:MD5and1024">Dates for Phasing out MD5-based signatures and 1024-bit moduli</a> as a practical guide.
*
* Note that the key sizes are checked on root CA certificates in the trust store. As the Mozilla document says:
*
* <blockquote>The other concern that needs to be addressed is that of RSA1024 being too small a modulus to be robust against faster computers. Unlike a signature algorithm, where only intermediate and end-entity certificates are impacted, fast math means we have to disable or remove all instances of 1024-bit moduli, including the root certificates.</blockquote>
*
* Relevant key sizes:
*
* <blockquote>
* According to NIST SP 800-57 the recommended algorithms and minimum key sizes are as follows:
*
* Through 2010 (minimum of 80 bits of strength)
* FFC (e.g., DSA, D-H) Minimum: L=1024; N=160
* IFC (e.g., RSA) Minimum: k=1024
* ECC (e.g. ECDSA) Minimum: f=160
* Through 2030 (minimum of 112 bits of strength)
* FFC (e.g., DSA, D-H) Minimum: L=2048; N=224
* IFC (e.g., RSA) Minimum: k=2048
* ECC (e.g. ECDSA) Minimum: f=224
* Beyond 2030 (minimum of 128 bits of strength)
* FFC (e.g., DSA, D-H) Minimum: L=3072; N=256
* IFC (e.g., RSA) Minimum: k=3072
* ECC (e.g. ECDSA) Minimum: f=256
* </blockquote>
*
* Relevant signature algorithms:
*
* The known weak signature algorithms are "MD2, MD4, MD5".
*
* SHA-1 is considered too weak for new certificates, but is <a href="http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/policy.html">still allowed</a> for verifying old certificates in the chain. The <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/xuelei/entry/tls_and_nist_s_policy">TLS and NIST'S Policy on Hash Functions</a> blog post by one of the JSSE authors has more details, in particular the "Put it into practice" section.
*/
object Algorithms {
/**
* Disabled signature algorithms are applied to signed certificates in a certificate chain, not including CA certs.
*
* @return "MD2, MD4, MD5"
*/
def disabledSignatureAlgorithms: String = "MD2, MD4, MD5"
/**
* Disabled key algorithms are applied to all certificates, including the root CAs.
*
* @return "RSA keySize < 2048, DSA keySize < 2048, EC keySize < 224"
*/
def disabledKeyAlgorithms: String = "RSA keySize < 2048, DSA keySize < 2048, EC keySize < 224"
/**
* Returns the keySize of the given key, or None if no key exists.
*/
def keySize(key: java.security.Key): Option[Int] = {
key match {
case sk: SecretKey =>
if ((sk.getFormat == "RAW") && sk.getEncoded != null) {
Some(sk.getEncoded.length * 8)
} else {
None
}
case pubk: RSAKey =>
Some(pubk.getModulus.bitLength)
case pubk: ECKey =>
Some(pubk.getParams.getOrder.bitLength())
case pubk: DSAKey =>
Some(pubk.getParams.getP.bitLength)
case pubk: DHKey =>
Some(pubk.getParams.getP.bitLength)
case pubk: Key =>
val translatedKey = translateKey(pubk)
keySize(translatedKey)
case unknownKey =>
try {
val lengthMethod = unknownKey.getClass.getMethod("length")
val l = lengthMethod.invoke(unknownKey).asInstanceOf[Integer]
if (l >= 0) Some(l) else None
} catch {
case _: Throwable =>
throw new IllegalStateException(s"unknown key ${key.getClass.getName}")
}
// None
}
}
def getKeyAlgorithmName(pubk: Key): String = {
val name = pubk.getAlgorithm
if (name == "DH") "DiffieHellman" else name
}
def translateKey(pubk: Key): Key = {
val keyAlgName = getKeyAlgorithmName(pubk)
foldVersion(
run16 = {
keyAlgName match {
case "EC" =>
// If we are on 1.6, then we can't use the EC factory and have to pull it directly.
translateECKey(pubk)
case _ =>
val keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance(keyAlgName)
keyFactory.translateKey(pubk)
}
},
runHigher = {
val keyFactory = KeyFactory.getInstance(keyAlgName)
keyFactory.translateKey(pubk)
}
)
}
def translateECKey(pubk: Key): Key = {
val keyFactory = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader.loadClass("sun.security.ec.ECKeyFactory")
val method = keyFactory.getMethod("toECKey", classOf[java.security.Key])
method.invoke(null, pubk) match {
case e: ECPublicKey =>
e
case e: ECPrivateKey =>
e
}
}
/**
* Decompose the standard algorithm name into sub-elements.
* <p/>
* For example, we need to decompose "SHA1WithRSA" into "SHA1" and "RSA"
* so that we can check the "SHA1" and "RSA" algorithm constraints
* separately.
* <p/>
* Please override the method if need to support more name pattern.
*/
def decomposes(algorithm: String): Set[String] = {
if (algorithm == null || algorithm.length == 0) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Null or blank algorithm found!")
}
val withAndPattern = new scala.util.matching.Regex("(?i)with|and")
val tokens: Array[String] = "/".r.split(algorithm)
val elements = (for {
t <- tokens
name <- withAndPattern.split(t)
} yield {
name
}).toSet
if (elements.contains("SHA1") && !elements.contains("SHA-1")) {
elements + "SHA-1"
} else if (elements.contains("SHA-1") && !elements.contains("SHA1")) {
elements + "SHA1"
} else {
elements
}
}
}
sealed abstract class ExpressionSymbol {
def matches(actualKeySize: Int): Boolean
}
case class LessThan(x: Int) extends ExpressionSymbol {
def matches(actualKeySize: Int): Boolean = actualKeySize < x
override def toString = " keySize < " + x
}
case class LessThanOrEqual(x: Int) extends ExpressionSymbol {
def matches(actualKeySize: Int): Boolean = actualKeySize <= x
override def toString = " keySize <= " + x
}
case class NotEqual(x: Int) extends ExpressionSymbol {
def matches(actualKeySize: Int): Boolean = actualKeySize != x
override def toString = " keySize != " + x
}
case class Equal(x: Int) extends ExpressionSymbol {
def matches(actualKeySize: Int): Boolean = actualKeySize == x
override def toString = " keySize ==" + x
}
case class MoreThan(x: Int) extends ExpressionSymbol {
def matches(actualKeySize: Int): Boolean = actualKeySize > x
override def toString = " keySize > " + x
}
case class MoreThanOrEqual(x: Int) extends ExpressionSymbol {
def matches(actualKeySize: Int): Boolean = actualKeySize >= x
override def toString = " keySize >= " + x
}
case class AlgorithmConstraint(algorithm: String, constraint: Option[ExpressionSymbol] = None) {
/**
* Returns true only if the algorithm matches. Useful for signature algorithms where we don't care about key size.
*/
def matches(algorithm: String): Boolean = {
this.algorithm.equalsIgnoreCase(algorithm)
}
/**
* Returns true if the algorithm name matches, and if there's a keySize constraint, will match on that as well.
*/
def matches(algorithm: String, keySize: Int): Boolean = {
if (!matches(algorithm)) {
return false
}
constraint match {
case Some(expression) =>
expression.matches(keySize)
case None =>
true
}
}
override def toString = {
algorithm + constraint.getOrElse("")
}
}
/**
* Parser based on the jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithm BNF.
*
* @see http://sim.ivi.co/2011/07/java-se-7-release-security-enhancements.html
*/
object AlgorithmConstraintsParser extends RegexParsers {
import scala.language.postfixOps
def apply(input: String): List[AlgorithmConstraint] = parseAll(line, input) match {
case Success(result, _) =>
result
case NoSuccess(message, _) =>
throw new IllegalArgumentException(s"Cannot parse string $input: $message")
}
def line: Parser[List[AlgorithmConstraint]] = repsep(expression, ",")
def expression: Parser[AlgorithmConstraint] = algorithm ~ (keySizeConstraint ?) ^^ {
case algorithm ~ Some(constraint) =>
AlgorithmConstraint(algorithm, Some(constraint))
case algorithm ~ None =>
AlgorithmConstraint(algorithm, None)
}
def keySizeConstraint: Parser[ExpressionSymbol] = "keySize" ~> operator ~ decimalInteger ^^ {
case "<=" ~ decimal =>
LessThanOrEqual(decimal)
case "<" ~ decimal =>
LessThan(decimal)
case "==" ~ decimal =>
Equal(decimal)
case "!=" ~ decimal =>
NotEqual(decimal)
case ">=" ~ decimal =>
MoreThanOrEqual(decimal)
case ">" ~ decimal =>
MoreThan(decimal)
}
def operator: Parser[String] = "<=" | "<" | "==" | "!=" | ">=" | ">"
def decimalInteger: Parser[Int] = """\d+""".r ^^ {
f => f.toInt
}
def algorithm: Parser[String] = """\w+""".r ^^ {
f => f.toString
}
}
| github | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
BkiUffnxK0iCl36cYjJL | This book (technically it's not a book, it's a blog post but I could make a pdf and then it's a book right?) deals with the economic problems Sweden is facing due to its membership in the SEK-Zone. It is inspired by Hans -Werner Sinns upcoming book "Gefangen im Euro" (which from the look of it will be x pages of whining about foreigners). All numbers are taken either from the Swedish statistics agency or IMF.
High unemployment: 8.5% in February 2014.
Strong public finances: The decifit 2013 was 1.1% of GDP and general government debt at the end of the year was 41% of GDP.
Deflation: Inflation rate of -0.2% in February 2014.
A monstrously large current account surplus: 5.7% of GDP in 2013.
If ever there was a textbook case for fiscal and monetary expansion, this is it. Yet the political parties all agree that doing nothing is the best course of action, except a small xenophobe party that wants to do nothing and blame the immigrants when it doesn't work. Why is that? The explanation lies in the strict rules imposed by Sweden due to its membership of the SEK currency region.
An independent central bank with an inflation target of 2%.
A budget surplus goal of 1% over a budget cycle.
So have these policies been succesful? The short answer is no. The figure below shows unemployment in Sweden. One can see that unemployment recovered immediately following the crisis but then got stuck at a high level.
One explanation for the failure is that the central bank has been completely ignoring its mandate. Since the inflation target was introduced in 1995 average inflation has been 1.2%. Another explation is that the surplus rule means that the goverment sector will be a drag on the economy.
Euro membership: This would have the advantage of a more active central bank and free Sweden from the current "one size doesn't fit one" regime. It would also give room for a substantial fiscal boost: Government expenses could have been 1.5% of GDP higher in 2013 and still fit within the Maastricht criteria.
Treaty change: In principle Sweden could dump its budget surplus goal and demand that the central bank explains what the hell it is doing. The problem here is that a treaty change would have to be approved by one parliament and there is little apetite for that, especially in an election year.
The only hope left is a global economic recovery. Sweden is, as usual, hoping that other countries will solve it's problems.
This entry was posted in ekonomi on March 31, 2014 by groda.eu.
A) It's all a scam, they spend the money on Nintendo and Vodka, and I find out about it.
B) Three possiblities with the same end result.
It's all a scam, they spend the money on Nintendo and Vodka but I don't find out about it.
The project fails and they don't manage to produce a record.
They produce a crap record.
C) They produce a record with one or two decent songs.
E) The record is a magnificient masterpiece.
So now all that remains is to put a probability and a value for each outcome.
So I should contribute 63€ to the project.
There are some perks that could have a value in themselves, but stuff like a signed banjo or curry in Manchester doesn't really appeal to me.
Q: Couldn't I just free ride on the others and get the benefits anyway?
This entry was posted in ekonomi on November 11, 2013 by groda.eu.
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BkiUdTU4dbjiU7z3ZW_i | The Poetry Society of New York
New York, NY | http://www.poetrysocietyny.org
The Poetry Society of New York has a simple three-fold mission:
a.) to unite New York poetry communities b.) to bring the works of New York poets to the world c.) to never bore you
The New York City poetry world has largely isolated itself to a small and Balkanized circle. The Poetry Society of New York moves through and opens up that circle to unite the community of makers with the community of appreciators in new and mysterious ways.
The Poetry Society of New York first emerged under the guise of The Poetry Brothel at The Living Theater in early 2007. The Poetry Brothel was a performance art event aimed at fostering intimacy, urgency and exaltation within the New York poetry community, and at expanding that community to include a more diverse population of artists. At that time New York City, the place perceived by thousands of young writers to be the epicenter of the contemporary poetry world, felt boring. Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara and Edna St. Vincent Millay had quit running amok decades earlier, and a clear vitalizing alternative was required. The Brothel provided one cure: a pastiche of back-alley history and literary revelry, The Poetry Brothel remedied the monotony of the slam poetry reading's endless bravado, and charmed patrons of the one-note, one-format academic poetry readings out of their fold-up chairs into back rooms for private readings.
But it wasn't enough. The Poetry Brothel bridged difficult social and sociological gaps between individuals, but soon, The Poetry Brothel's founders, Stephanie Berger and Nicholas Adamski, felt the need to cross literal borders. They created The Translation Project in the hopes of opening the lines of communication between New York poets and poets living abroad, but in order to get funding for such a project, it was time to get legal and form business entity. When the state of New York rejected the business name "The Poetry Brothel," citing it as "lewd and illegal," Berger and Adamski requested "The Poetry Society of New York," and much to their surprise, they got it. Since forming The Poetry Society of New York, they have produced the New York Poetry Festival, Quartier Rouge, Brothel Books, and this website with several future projects in the works.
The New York City poetry world has largely isolated itself to a small and… | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUd1nxaKgS2KSYnecI | Tags: America's Forum | Exclusive Interviews | Israel | Middle East | Russia | Ukraine | Pete Hoekstra
Hoekstra: Kerry's Remarks Damaging to Israel Relationship
By Joe Battaglia | Tuesday, 29 April 2014 04:08 PM
The words and actions of Secretary of State John Kerry are "creating a difficult situation for the president and for this administration and for America," says former Rep. Pete Hoekstra.
Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican and former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told J.D. Hayworth on "America's Forum" on Newsmax TV that Kerry's remarks about Israel and his undermining of U.S. intelligence efforts in the Ukrainian conflict with Russia should make the world "nervous about this administration and its policies in totality."
"Secretary of State Kerry could keep the president really, really busy with all the statements that he's making," Hoekstra said Tuesday. "It was a few months ago that he basically said something along the lines of, 'You know, if Israel doesn't move forward in the peace process, they're going to become isolated, and the rest of the world is just going to impose economic sanctions,' almost inviting the rest of the world to impose economic sanctions and implying that America would stand on the sidelines.
"Now he's done the same type of thing by using the word 'apartheid.' The president's got other things to do. He can't keep apologizing for Secretary of State Kerry, if you can get my sarcasm," Hoekstra said.
Kerry's latest remarks, according to Hoekstra, could prove to be the most damaging to the relationship the United States shares with Israel.
"Remember, Israel's our best ally in the Middle East," Hoekstra said. "They are our friend. They have been ever since their existence. The policies of this administration [are] what you have to look at in a larger context.
"The situation for Israel has become much more tenuous in the last five years than what it's been in a long time. Israel is wondering whether the U.S. has its back, and then you put together these kinds of statements from Secretary of State Kerry and ... a lot of people in the Middle East other than Israel are wondering whether the United States has Israel's back, and that just makes it very, very uncomfortable for Israel right now. It jeopardizes their national security, and that's why they're so nervous about this secretary of state."
Equally unforgivable in the mind of Hoekstra is another secret recording in which Kerry told the Trilateral Commission in Washington that the United States has "taped conversations" that prove the Russian government in Moscow is giving orders to a network of spies and operatives in Ukraine.
"When Russia started to move into Crimea, the word on the street was the U.S. had no indication that Russia was considering being that aggressive," Hoekstra explained. "What the Russians heard when they saw those kinds of press reports was, 'Wow, the United States doesn't have the intelligence. They don't have the tools to penetrate our electronic communications. We have secure networks for communicating between each other about what we're doing, and so we can just keep using those systems because we are secure.'
"What Secretary Kerry has now told them is that your communications, they are not secure, the Americans were able to penetrate them, we have the recordings. Guess what? They will find alternative ways of communicating, and if they really thought four months ago that they were dark and they were now told that the U.S. has penetrated their system, that is a major breach of the intelligence world and it is a wonderful gift to the Russians.
"I hope that's not the case, but the real question is, why is Secretary Kerry talking about that to the Trilateral Commission? That is the granularity, that is a detail that those folks don't need to know."
Hoekstra added that these closed-door sound bites are jeopardizing our tarnished international position.
"We shouldn't be finding out what America's real foreign policy is by getting tape recordings of what the secretary of state says behind closed doors," he said. "Our foreign policy ought to be right out there, and it ought to be clear to the American people, it ought to be clear to our allies, and it ought to be clear to those who are in disagreement with the United States."
Kerry: US Intel Recording Russia Giving Orders to Ukrainian Spies
Kerry Backs Off Israel 'Apartheid' Comment
Pete Hoekstra, John Kerry, Israel, Ukraine
Tuesday, 29 April 2014 04:08 PM | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUbz3xK0wg09lKA-sC | A sure sign that the world is changing comes from a study done by the Centre for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College. Nearly one-third of companies surveyed said good "corporate citizenship" is a key component in recruiting and retaining quality employees. Yet just five years earlier, less than 10% of companies in a similar study said it was important.
Moreover, other surveys of customers, investors or lenders, and other stakeholders show that a plurality of them prefer doing business with responsible companies. Indeed, an increasingly common question in consumer market research asks if respondents avoid companies that don't reflect their values and, consistently, more than half say they do.
Admittedly, in the depths of a strangling recession, it's tough for companies to think about something as seemingly ethereal and removed from the bottom line as being a good corporate citizen. Yet doing so actually shows up on the P&L statement, either because loyal customers who like a company are more likely buy from them again, or – and this is just as likely – because an irresponsible company can end up paying hefty fines for a cavalier attitude. Keep Reading. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdr8241xg966rPIwR | Q: MediaPlayer stops after default click sound is played by Android I implemented simple MediaPlayer playback mechanism in my app. I'm not sure if that may be the cause of a problem, but everything seemed to work good up to a moment when I upgraded project to newest API (currently 19).
So: playback from file starts normally and suddenly stops when I click a button in my app (which causes the standard 'click sound' to be played). I set OnCompletionListener for my MediaPlayer, and it's triggered after click sound, with my MediaPlayer as argument.
private void startNewTrack(int which){
stopTrack();
try {
if (mp == null) {
mp = new MediaPlayer();
//mp.setOnCompletionListener(this);
mp.setOnErrorListener(this);
}
MediaMetadataRetriever meta = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
meta.setDataSource(playlist[which].getPath());
String titleString = meta.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_TITLE);
if (titleString == null)
titleString = playlist[which].getName();
title.setText(titleString);
album.setText(meta.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_ALBUM));
artist.setText(meta.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_ARTIST));
try {
byte[] pic = meta.getEmbeddedPicture();
if (pic == null)
cover.setImageResource(R.drawable.albumart_mp_unknown);
else
cover.setImageBitmap(BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(pic, 0, pic.length));
} catch (Exception e) {
cover.setImageResource(R.drawable.albumart_mp_unknown);
}
mp.setDataSource(playlist[which].getPath());
mp.prepare();
seek.setMax(mp.getDuration() / 1000);
mp.start();
while (playerThread != null)
Thread.sleep(5);
playerThread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run(){
while (mp != null && !isInErrorState) {
try {
if (!isSeeking && mp.isPlaying()) {
final int pos = getCurrentPosition() / 1000;
MusicPlayback.this.post(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run(){
seek.setProgress(pos);
}
});
}
Thread.sleep(500);
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
}
});
playerThread.start();
play.setImageResource(R.drawable.pause);
} catch (Exception e) {
errorMessage();
}
}
My onCompletion method calls release() on MediaPlayer. I commented it out temporarily, but it did not change anything.
So the question is: Why my MediaPlayer stops when other sound finishes playback? It sometimes even hangs the whole app.
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BkiUdPM5qhDBIcqDkS81 | Some rocks can be either regional or contact metamorphic rocks.
That means, they can be formed either by high temperatures alone, or by both high pressures and temperatures.
Such rocks include marble, serpentinitite, quartzite and others.
It's no wonder marble is so widely used in buildings, sculptures and anything else imaginable. It's a perfect rock to use because it's soft - the white mineral that dominates it is not quartz but calcite. It can form either by regional metamorphism, or contact metamorphism near igneous intrusions. Minerals other than calcite include tourmaline, epidote, spinel, garnet, anorthite, albite, tremolite, diopside, pyrite, graphite, mica and iron oxides. Depending on the exact mineral composition, the rock can vary between grey, green, olivine and other marble.
Quartzite, on the other hand, is a hard rock that consists of the hard mineral quartz. It is formed from sandstone - a quartz-rich rock. Metaquartzite contains over 90% quartz. Other minerals include mica, feldspar and iron oxides. Both can be formed by regional metamorphism, or contact metamorphism near an igneous intrusion.
Amphibolite is a coarse-grained rock that most often forms by metamorphism of mafic igneous rocks. The dominating mineral is amphibole, most often hornblende. Others include garnet, epidote, chlorite, pyroxene and feldspar. Garnets are common porphyroblasts. Amphibolite can have foliation or schistosity.
Eclogite forms at extreme temperatures and pressures from mafic igneous rock. It is medium to coarse grained, typically greenish grey and often has minerals like kyanite and red garnet. The greenish mineral is omphacite - a type of pyroxene. it can occur as large rock bodies, or as nodules in basalts and kimberlites. Eclogite is one of Eskola's metamorphic facies. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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BkiUdgk5jDKDyKYv5mJb | When it comes to storied histories of San Francisco restaurants, Mission Rock Resort has an amusing one. Set in a not-so-cool down on the wharf in a long forgotten, undeveloped area, it sits looking out at a large ship drydock facility and probably the cheapest small boat harbor in the city. Always funky and always a great view, they've been shut down for heavy penalties serving minors, and ever since that time, I don't think they could recover. Peter Osborne is minting his own money these days, with the likes of San Francisco and SOMA restaurant hits like, MoMos, Pedro's Cantina, Pete's Tavern, all located across the street from AT&T Park, home of the 2012 World Champion San Francisco Giants!!!
Looking south of the park, Pete obviously envisioned another pitstop for those traveling north to the game and snapped up Mission Rock Resort. More than $2 million was put into the refurbishment of the place. The beautiful thing is that, although it's been significantly cleaned up, it still has the illusion of a dump, and I mean that in the most respectful and complimentary way. Dumps are where sports fans are most comfortable.
I was really excited that they would be opening for breakfast, but that was short-lived, and now 11am is the earliest you're going to get into Mission Rock Resort. Weekend brunch looks amazing with french toast made from thick diagonally-sliced sourdough bread slices. There are the usuals, but it seems that they go over the top in preparation.
It was lunchtime, and I was in the mood for seafood and just back from a food-fest Thanksgiving weekend in Santa Cruz, so what would one more decadent meal be? Dave had their burger and I had the fish and chips. Their Bloody Mary's are a short pour and tasty, making one think the $8 price tag is reasonable, a good trick in the bar business.
I really enjoyed both the burger and the fish and chips. I think the burger was way better than the burger at Marlowe that is currently thought to be the best burger in San Francisco. Prices are reasonable at $10 to $15, but it's the view, great service, ample parking and updated 'dive' ambience that will keep you coming back again and again to Mission Rock Resort. You rock, Pete!! Rock on!! | c4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUeqDxK6wB9dbuVJ32 | Galloway SNP MP Richard Arkless is to hold a surgery day next Wednesday, September 2, to consider the arguments around the Assisted Dying Bill which will be debated in the House of Commons on Friday 11th September.
Richard Arkless said:"I have been contacted by a large number of my constituents on both sides on the argument and I have been touched by the personal stories they have shared with me on this subject.
"I have to stress that the Bill which is being presented in the Westminster Parliament would only affect England and Wales. This is a topic which has come up previously in the Scottish Parliament but on both occasions the Bills failed to pass. Assisted dying remains outlawed in Scotland.
"However I do think this Bill will have an impact on Scotland in that many people living in Scotland may be free, depending on the wording of the Bill, to travel the short distance to England to die.
"Any vote on this Bill will be a matter of conscience, in that SNP members will take their own view on whether to vote, and which way to vote.
The surgery will take place in the constituency office in Dumfries on Wednesday 2nd September between 10am and 5pm. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdKw5qX_BkksYXRdH | We accept sponsorship requests from either high-quality establishments (like restaurants or restaurant chains) or from companies that have high-quality products or services (like rice cookers, sushi making kits, sushi grade fish, etc) that are in some way either directly or indirectly related to sushi and/or Japanese cuisine.
Preferably, I have also already favorably reviewed the product, business or service on this site and/or personally highly recommend it myself.
If I have not reviewed the product or service yet and I don't have any personal experience with it, you can request that I do so by providing the product/service for review. This isn't a guarantee of sponsorship however. The goal of this sponsorship is to provide the readers of this website with the "Best of the Best".
This select few will form an A-list of sponsors of sushi and sushi related products that typically will be displayed (starting at the top) in the far right column of every page of the AllAboutSushiGuide website.
For just the month of January 2015, that would have been over 78,000+ page views and over 32,000 unique sushi loving visitors.
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If you are already a sponsor, then thank you very much for your support! | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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BkiUfLHxK7IAHXQeOjNs | Statistics on Millennials are like hand grenades, relentlessly lobbed by Boomers and Gen-Xers over the generational no-mans-land of technology and past the unmarked graves of brave hipsters who have gone before. And if one hits you before you're thirty, you're like a lost-boy who got thrown out of Neverland and grew up too fast. "Did you know 100% of millennials are selfish?" they say. Or, "Have you heard that world-hunger was actually caused by a coffee-drinking-hipster from Orange County that didn't want to work hard?" To which we sigh, "Yes, Grandma, you've told me that before… and No, I still don't have a 'real' job.
And as a millennial, I confess… sometimes I'm pretty selfish. I want privileges I haven't earned, and often shirk the responsibilities of adulthood all so that I can cherish a few more sunsets with my friends. I enjoy Instagram and hate taxes. I ugly-laugh when I replay a snap using a voice-change filter. And some months I spend more money on coffee than I do on rent. Come at me.
We're the generation that is standing on society's proverbial table and shouting, "Why not! Why can't I have my cake and eat it too?!" And is that too much to ask? To work and play? To learn and love? To get where I'm going by making a couple of mistakes along the way? Is that so bad?
If you're like me then you have wondered how to make it across to the other side of 20 with your hiking boots still laced and your coffee still hot.
And by the sheer grace of God, I have found a job that supports the adventurer in me AND is forming in me the habits and skills I'll need when I finally figure out what I want to do with the rest of my life. I work at Camp. Yes, CAMP!
My nieces and nephew think that my job is a prolonged vacation, which it kind of is. "Mom works for the School District, but Uncle Kyle works at camp," is a sentence they've probably said or thought at some point. But I'll let you decide which sounds cooler. I work at a camp in the PNW that features dirt bikes, horses, paintball, archery, beach property on two lakes, a giant swing, and a High Ropes Circuit. And if that weren't enough, last year over 1,600 people made some kind of commitment to Jesus here! Dunk-tanks, water balloons, s'mores, silly songs, good friends, and Jesus. Yep, this is my job!
But at the same time, my job isn't just developing me into an adult… it's developing me into the kind of adult the world needs. An adult who is kind, compassionate, often-laughing, conflict-navigating, hard-working, and even process-following. I'm becoming an adult who cares more about purpose than paychecks. And one day I'll be the kind of Dad that raises a tribe of crazies that know how to laugh loud, work hard, and love well.
Do something different. Something crazy. Live a little. The best adventures take work, and the best work takes you on adventures. Most camps' pay starts around $2,000 for a summer of work – most of which you can pocket if you're careful. Costume dance parties, skits, late-night conversations, dirt bike and horseback rides through the forest, paintball wars in a junkyard, and songs around a campfire – these are all best served with a side of I-can't-believe-I'm-getting-paid-for-this.
2.) Find a Job at camp that suits your passions.
There's not just one job at summer camp. Most camps are have open summer positions for activity supervisors, videographers, photographers, store managers, nurses, deans, housekeepers, kitchen staff, and of course – counsellors. Don't write camp off, because someone else might apply for your dream job!
3.) Work for a cause.
Maybe your camp's focus is the disabled. Maybe it's low-income individuals. And maybe your camp shares the Gospel too. Whatever it is, millennials want to know that their work is bigger than themselves. This isn't the drive-thru or your average 9-to-5. My camp serves homeless and at-risk youth, military families, inner-city kids, and low-income families, all while sharing the message that Jesus came to heal brokenness. I'm not just working hard and having fun, I'm making an impact.
Camp breeds friendship in young adults like Black Friday breeds hysteria in middle-aged-women. You'll meet people that are gut-bustingly-funny, refreshingly-authentic, and crazy-passionate. Add to this that you'll be cracking jokes constantly and you probably just found a new BFF or two. If that weren't enough, no small number of us have found our spouse at camp!
5.) Grow Up… A Little.
Just give me a chance on this one. You just graduated high school or you're in college… and truthfully, people hardly trust you with anything yet. But at camp, you're a valuable leader with responsibilities that your friends and others depend on. You'll learn a thing or two that the millennial in you maybe hasn't wanted to figure out yet. You'll have to navigate conflict, keep people safe, watch other people's kids, share a room with another human being, wake up on time, and keep track of your keys. Your friends (not your parents) will be counting on you, which is the kind of incentive us millennials need to toe the line a little more consciously.
At camp it's okay to make mistakes. It's okay to have a bad day and talk to your boss about it. No one's going to scream "Job Opening!" after you drop the ball – in fact, they'll probably help you pick it up and encourage you to try again. If you've had the entry level jobs most of us have had, then you know this is actually a big deal.
7.) Grow in your faith.
A lot of camps are faith-based. At camp the pressures of social media weaken because authentic relationships are completely available to you. This kind of unplugged, bible-soaked and prayer-saturated space is exactly what you need if you want to run faster than ever at Jesus.
where the trees bud with tufts of cotton candy, fruit punch flows freely from the water fountains, every guys journal reads like Braveheart and every girl's diary reads like a Nicholas Sparks book. But on the real – this is the kind of job that won't be around after you turn 30, or sign the dotted lines on your first full-time job after college. It's completely worth it – to have an adventure, make friends along the way, and to accept the kinds of responsibilities that help make the world a better place. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdqXxK19JmhArD1uu | I was going to do a burger, but then decided that I would like it even more with some runny yolk. And there you have it: my new favorite breakfast or brunch. I'll likely eat it for lunch and dinner too. I'm quite obsessed. The salty fat soaks into the kimchee, which adds that kick and brightens with some acid. Everything is better with a runny egg, natures rich yellow sauce. It's complete with some fresh toasted bread to sop and carry the flavors to your mouth.
Let's talk about the eggs, the 6 minute eggs. You may have seen it on Top Chef when Michael Voltaggio made them to showcase some farm fresh local eggs. They're very soft boiled eggs, where the whites are delicate and just holding together. The yolks are completely running. You can also think of it as an egg poached in it's shell to hold better shape. For a more in depth and scientific explanation, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt does a great article on Serious Eats. They are my favorite way to have eggs now and all it takes is simmering whole large eggs for 6 minutes (or extra large eggs for 7 minutes). Place them in ice water immediately to stop the cooking, and peel the shells very gingerly.
1. Prepare an ice bath and set aside.
2. Start simmering water. Preheat George Foreman Grill or a cast iron pan on your stove.
3. Add eggs to simmering water and try to maintain at a simmer for 6 minutes (7 minutes for extra large eggs).
4. While eggs are simmering, place bacon on grill or cast iron pan. Cook for 2 minutes.
6. When the eggs are done simmering, place in ice bath immediately. Gently crack egg shells, being careful not to bang too hard. The whites are very delicate. Peel off the shells.
7. Serve the 6 minute eggs with the bacon and kimchee. Serve with choice of bread.
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Wow! This looks wonderful and such comfort food! I am all about that! Lovely blog! I will be back!
What a scrumptious meal! Those eggs look so good!
you have attained egg perfection, if your photos are any indication. bravo.
I just recently made a bacon and kimchi egg salad. I'll have to try your "deconstructed" version, because runny yolks are the bomb.
No wonder our son says the best breakfast he's ever had was in New York!! Such wonderful combinations when East meets West!
Vicki, I'm convinced that bacon and kimchee is one of the best pairings n earth now!
And I agree about perfectly cooked eggs. It's really important. I've had kimchee, never made it, and doubt my tummy would like it for breakfast!
you've become the EGGspert!! First the steamed scrambled eggs now this!
Barbara, I didn't like him during the show but I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt because I know these shows try to play up the drama and people come out seeming like something they're not. Nasty makes for better TV.
On kimchee, I happen to have an iron stomach but it's not for the sensitive.
Wow Jessica… I saw your tweet about this and it made my mouth water but now you've blown my mind. I love runny eggs, but have never thought to remove the shell. What a fantastic idea! Thanks and gorgeous pics.
What a fabulously looking meal!! Looks so tempting too!
Vanessa, it's prob great for kids to have the shells peeled already. Less mess.
Sigh..you can make bacon eggs looks so yummy.. is it all because of brilliant or lit bit good food photography as well. Indeed love your blog.
these delicious dishes look awesome.hope these yummy in taste.I am definitely going to do some special in daily taste. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfQE5qhDCiRj_ErRc | Bio: Sarah trained as an actress in Trinity College Dublin and worked in theatre after graduation. She soon moved into broadcasting and is currently working as a TV presenter in London. A trained broadcast journalist, she reports and presents for ITN and Ireland's premier entertainment programme, Xposé. She has previously worked with a number of broadcasters including Sky News, Channel 5, ITV, Discovery and RTÉ.
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BkiUbMs5qhDACnCyyicg | Privacy preserving pandemic reporting-tracing application that will alert users if they have come in close proximity with carriers - & which can handle massive populations producing a low server cost.
Colin Liepmann
Colton Pierson
Ash West
Laurence Ion
We are a team of rouge developers from all over the world. We started with the basic idea that we needed to get a tool in the hands of everyone to allow them to know if they had possibly been infected or not. The current virus that's wreaking havoc on the world is a silent killer- people don't know they're infect for days! So we came up of a way to curb the community spread between individuals.
Initially, the project started small between two of us, but slowly it grew and we have a team of fantastic engineers, security, product, and medical experts from around the globe!
Our idea started with the code name: "Save The World". That's our inspiration, that's our goal, and regardless of the outcome of this hackathon, we will continue to do so.
Most people agree that tracking is an invasion of privacy and something we'd rather not have. However, cities are being locked down, and citizens are prevented from moving freely. It's only a matter of time before people start to get too cooped up and we need to let people get back to their daily lives- and once the curve is lowered, the restrictions will ease. However, this is when things will become dangerous; it will become the second spike of the Covid-19 virus.
Guardian will be especially useful as we enter the "long tail" of this pandemic. People will want to get out of their houses and start moving around again. Guardian will help eliminate this pandemic because without a system like this we may see second and third spikes in virus spread. Guardian is targeted for the current pandemic, but would be useful in the case of future outbreaks/pandemics.
We are developing a lightweight tracking and alert/contact system that can integrate with verified test results. This system must do everything possible to preserve a high level of privacy and be simple enough that everyone and anyone can use it.
We are currently working with both healthcare and privacy/security experts to validate the concept and product.
Client Application
A Privacy Focused, Scalable, Community Driven, Verifiable Infection Risk Alert System
Guardian is strongly authenticated mobile phone application, which works in conjunction with a secure data collection backend server.
This system is based on the premise that the rapid spread of COVID-19 is primarily due to people moving about when are unaware that they are infected. [Community Spread]
Countries that have controlled spread have employed mainly two methods (including hygiene guidelines) in combination:
historic tracking
Users install Guardian on their mobile phone, and then they mostly forget about it!
They can do two things with Guardian:
They will get alerts when they have been close to someone who has reported symptoms, or has been verified to have tested positive,
They can report symptoms, or confirm a positive or negative test result.
What do alerts look like? Initially they will be very simple: "Alert, yesterday you were 20 feet from someone for 10 minutes who reported symptoms matching COVID-19".
This system can save lives with the potential for mass installations because:
It is simple, it has to the most simple app possible that anyone can use,
It is secure,
It is scalable,
It enforces user privacy and anonymity
It can be integrated to healthcare systems doing wide-scale testing.
Some key points:
Alerts are calls-to-action. They ask the user to do a self-inspection, e.g. do they have a fever. They remind the user to follow instructions - social distance, hand-washing, etc. They ask you to report if you are sick.
Maps are not that important - we have to stop staring at maps. What is important your historic location track - who were you close to, and who was close to you.
Real time is not important - If someone starts to feel ill, they usually will make there way to their home before they report this. So the location of report is not that critical, but time of first noticed symptoms is.
Some key assumptions:
People want to do the right thing, when they are sick they will stay home,
If given the opportunity they would be willing to anonymously warn others who they might have put at risk.
The goal of this system is to give users some peace of mind that there is something they can do with very little effort that can have a large impact on the outcome of the pandemic.
This system uses GPS location tracking, however, the motivation is simply to alert users when they have been close to someone who has been verified to have COVID-19. It also has a mechanism to report themselves as being diagnosed with COVID-19 (and verified by healthcare workers).
This system is based on the premise that the rapid spread of COVID-19 is primarily due to people moving about with they have mild systems and are unaware and untested. It further assumes that when diagnosed, a person will self-quarantine. This diagnosed person will feel remorse for potentially putting others at risk, and hence will be willing to share more detailed information about their movements during the pre-diagnosis time-frame. This is a guilt driven application.
However, even though your locations are shared, no other users will know your name or know exactly where you have been - it's really none of their business. A persons movement is their own private information. What Guardian will show is a risk factor based upon you own movement. (see diagrams)
These alerts will serve to remind persons that there are still new cases of COVID-19 being diagnosed. Their reaction should be to continue preventive measures such as social distancing and proper hand washing hygiene - an alert that you were close to someone recently diagnosed will make you think twice about going to work when you feel sick.
Social distancing and other preventive measures are hard to communicate to people. Over time people get lax with their personal preventive measures. At the same time draconian big-brother measures of citizen location tracking doesn't feel good. We can make a system that has a high level of privacy, is scalable, and primarily community driven. Over time it can get better, and use verifiable healthcare submitted information can be incorporated.
This application mostly does nothing! You install it, and forget you are using it. Occasionally you get an alert. If you unfortunately contract COVID-19 then you can report it and alert others. But it is as accurate as possible. It will compare your locations to others down to 5 minutes and within the accuracy of GPS.
People need to stop searching for infected persons or areas on maps where they shouldn't go, and instead consider themselves as potential carriers of the infection. No matter where a person goes, or how few people are at a location, there is still a chance that someone else at the same location could be a carrier (or you could). Guardian's core principle is to use historic tracking combined with testing as the basis for alerts - proximity and transmission can happen at any location.
Gates called for a "national tracking system similar to South Korea, saying that "in Seattle, the [University of Washington] is providing thousands of tests per day but no one is connected to a national tracking system" and that "Whenever there is a positive test it should be seen to understand where the disease is and whether we need to strengthen the social distancing."
This system needs to work anywhere in the world. The easiest way to do this is to just use mobile phone numbers. The goal is for users install Guardian application on their mobile phone, and then they mostly forget about it until they either are alerted they were in proximity of some who may be infected, or has confirmed to be infected.
The system uses an innovative multi-resolution location private intersection method to preserve privacy but still allow accurate historic determination of proximity.
The user's historic location data is only stored on the user's own mobile device, expect for large scale location movements which are tracked by the server. The security principle here is "the server can't leak data It has never had or never seen!". However, when one user is reporting themselves as infected (self-diagnosis or actual test confirmation by health officials), then a precise path intersection can be done by using private intersection methods. Private intersection is the preferred method used in many healthcare applications to preserve privacy.
Not only does this architecture preserve privacy, it also gives scalability by using distributed computing, and preserves device battery life.
Tracker Application
This is one of our major feature sets, but unlike most other applications, we are focusing on the data, battery, and accuracy of the application rather than heavy front facing features.
The Guardian smartphone application tracks the users position throughout the day - every 5 minutes it checks your position and locally stores your position track to your phone. The application then reports to the cloud service when a user enters a new region during the day, as well as at the beginning and end of day
Note: your precise position data is stored securely on your phone.
We have built two separate parts to create Guardian. The first being our backend protocols which are built in Elixir. The second is our client which we are building in a combination of React Native and Redux. The two are separate and only communicate through a documented protocol in order to preserve maximum privacy of the user.
Healthcare testing in the US is so up in the air right now- there is no standardization practice in place for a test kit to be verified. We've had to come up with a brute-force way to get around this issue.
Guardian can also be used as a first-contact tool for healthcare professionals.
People will spoof it
You must be registered. This limits some amount of spoofing.
Your entire time-location track is uploaded when you report you are infected.
Your time-location track is encrypted and must be believable.
Moderation could limit spoofs
We could use healthcare verification of testing (some sort of test-id, etc., that can be verified or entered by healthcare worker).
It creates panic. The alert you receive is for your movements on previous days, there is nothing you can immediately do to change the situation. Also, the location itself is not the problem - this is not a chemical spill.
GPS is not very accurate. What use is it in an apartment for example? True. But then again, it's just letting you know that this is indeed real and people are still being diagnosed. It seems that a lot of systems are focusing on targeting the subject (infected person) too closely and trying to single an individual which is very privacy invasive, and works against the goal of communicating the pandemic to the larger public and getting participation in such a system. As such, accuracy is actually working against broad usage of such applications.
I want to know where the infected people are. We do not plan to track infected persons - because they probably wouldn't give consent anyways because they are supposed to self-isolate.
This can harm business and put people in danger We do not plan on showing maps to users that include exact locations and combined with other paths - because the risk is that people will start to think some location is bad, such as a business. It's not the location, it's just random - you were in the wrong place at the wrong time!
Accomplishments We're Proud Of
Well, this is some of our secret sauce. Guess we have to save that for a surprise discussion. :)
The world is filled with people who want to help. It brings us hope!
What's Next for Guardian
Regardless of the outcome of this hackathon, Guardian will continue to move forward. We firmly believe that this is something the world needs. And our supporters also believe so too. Our team will continue to volunteer their time and effort to tackle this global crisis- and the crises that follow.
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COVID-19 Global Hackathon 1.0
elix, react-native, redux
Find COVID 19
Find COVID 19 provides you with locations visited by COVID 19 patients in the last two weeks. So you can get tested if you were at these locations, or avoid them if you haven't visited them already.
Cart Buddy
Social app to crowdsource inventory updates for local stores, so shoppers can minimize trips, stay home and be alerted when all necessities they require are all back in stock at a single store. | commoncrawl | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
BkiUdP84ubnjot5JaoZ0 | Controversial profile for LT's lawyer
Lawrence Taylor (left) and Arthur Aidala AP
Lawrence Taylor's lawyer, Arthur Aidala, is no stranger to controversial clients. Aidala — who was hired Thursday afternoon after Taylor was arrested on charges of raping a 16-year-old runaway in a Rockland County hotel — defended real estate developer Abe Hirschfeld in 1999 after he plotted to kill his business partner, Stanley Stahl, with whom he had a "survivor take all" arrangement.
PHOTOS: NY ATHLETES GONE BAD
The jury was dead locked, but Hirschfeld was later convicted of criminal solicitation and served two years in prison. Stahl died in 1999 of a stroke; Hirschfeld died in 2005 of complications from cancer. Last year, Aidala rep resented, pro bono, Brigitte Harris, the Staten Island woman who killed and castrated her fa ther, Eric Goodridge, following years of sexual and physical abuse. Harris is serving a 5-to-15-year sentence. Aidala is also a regular contributor to Fox News as a legal analyst and ap pears frequently on "Studio B with Shepard Smith." | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
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You can find plus-size clothing practically anywhere. There are a lot of manufacturers and retailers who have addressed the problem of being overweight. So they come up with collections that fit size 11 and beyond.
Tip #1: Know your body to know your fit. There is nothing more liberating than knowing the composition of your body and admitting to it. Understand your strengths and the bad portions that you should not highlight. That way, you will be able to find what kind of fit you will require. If you have very broad shoulders or hips, there are ways to tone them down when dressing up.
Tip #2: When buying bottoms, choose stretch fabric. They are not form-fitting but are also not baggy to make you look even bigger. Stretch jeans in darker maong shades are essential in your closet.
Tip #3: Avoid extravagant prints and loud colors. They will only highlight how big you actually are. Choose neutral colors of tans and browns and blues with simple lines.
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Tip #5: Pile up! Make your closet rich with options for dressing up for all occasions. Do not settle for just one style just because you have found your size in it. Be patient looking through other styles. Before you know it, there are lots more of other clothes that can make you look beautiful regardless of your size. Do not be afraid of looking for designer clothes. The most elite fashion designers do not discriminate big size women. In fact, a good bunch of them regarded plus-size clothing with much thought. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUew3xK2li-HhsAmV3 | Pakistan's First E-commerce Policy Gets Approved by Federal Cabinet
PM Imran Khan with Federal Cabinet / via Facebook Imran Khan Official
With the ever booming global e-commerce industry, Pakistan's Federal Cabinet has finally approved the first-ever e-commerce policy framework in the country. The approval was made at a cabinet meeting headed by PM Imran Khan earlier this week, where he added that this was a much-needed step which will accelerate the performance of Pakistan's Kamyab Jawan Programme and One- Woman, One-Bank Account Initiative, as well as a trigger factor for empowering youth and creating job opportunities for them through digitalization.
E-commerce policy framework of Pakistan has been approved by the Cabinet to create an enabling environment for holistic growth of e-commerce across all sectors of the country to transform Pakistan into a significant player in global digital economy.#ProgressivePakistan pic.twitter.com/9QqtlEtBIO
— Govt of Pakistan (@pid_gov) October 1, 2019
According to the statistics shared by the Government of Pakistan on their official Twitter account, e-commerce sales in 2017 were Rs 20.7 bn, which grew by 93.7% to Rs 40.1 bn in 2018. Currently, 60% e-commerce transactions by value are post-paid cash-on-delivery (CoD) transactions. The new policy will work on shifting cash-on-delivery (CoD) payments to digital payments, following a timeline of September 2022 for payments beyond Rs 10,000. Moreover, steps will be taken to change all CoD payments into digital payments by 2029.
In comparison, the e-commerce sales in India were $20.5 bn in 2017, rising to $25.3 bn in 2018 and expected to grow up to $62.3 bn by 2023. The e-commerce industry is already at its peak in the developed countries, and it is about time for Pakistan to improve its e-commerce sector as well.
PM Imran Khan further reflected that around 64% of Pakistan's population is under the age of 29 and is thereby more inclined towards using technology. According to the statistics issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, there are around 162 million cellular subscribers and 71 million 3G/4G subscribers in Pakistan. Despite these figures, the trend of e-commerce in the country has been fairly low, and the approval of this new policy not only aims to increase Pakistan's e-commerce trade but also lead it towards becoming a progressive global economy.
The e-commerce policy's aims and objectives have been shared by the Government of Pakistan on its official Twitter account.
E-Commerce Business Policy Framework's Aims and Objectives.#ProgressivePakistan pic.twitter.com/UYKgmQsW23
e-commerce,
e-commerce business policy,
Prime Minister of Pakistan | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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Who would win in a fight between voldemort and darth sidious?
I'm just coming back in from making a snowman. When was the last time YOU made one?
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I thought Don was in Boston.
Sridhar said he had a stomachache and left the room.
Rathnakumar's backpack is near the door.
Mickey has been studying in his room since dinner.
For a short time, Urs lived in Boston.
Eliot woke up around noon.
That's the real reason Saumya ran away from home, isn't it?
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Tiefenthal was warned not to bully Stuart again.
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Cathy and Bucky hugged each other.
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BkiUdQ05qWTD6faZ2zpo | Volgograd (disambiguation)
List of craters on Mars: O-Z
Volgograd is a city in Russia.
Volgograd may also refer to:
Volgograd Oblast, a federal subject of Russia
Volgograd International Airport, an airport in Volgograd Oblast, Russia
Volgograd Reservoir, a fresh water reservoir in Volgograd and Saratov Oblasts, Russia
FC Volgograd, an association football club based in Volgograd, Russia
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Volgograd_(disambiguation)
Volgograd (Russian: Волгогра́д; IPA: [vəlɡɐˈɡrat]), formerly Tsaritsyn (Russian: Цари́цын ), 1589–1925, and Stalingrad (Russian: Сталингра́д ), 1925–1961, is an important industrial city and the administrative center of Volgograd Oblast, Russia. It is 80-kilometer (50 mi) long, north to south and is situated on the western bank of the Volga River, after which the city was named. Population: 1,021,215 (2010 Census); 1,011,417 (2002 Census); 1,022,578 (1989 Census).
The city became famous for its resistance during the Battle of Stalingrad against the German Army in World War II. It is often regarded as the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of warfare.
Tsaritsyn
Although the city may have originated in 1555, documented evidence of Tsaritsyn located at the confluence of the Tsaritsa and Volga Rivers dates only from 1589. The fortress Sary Su (a local Tatar language name meaning: yellow water/river), was established to defend the unstable southern border of the country. It was located slightly above the mouth of the Tsaritsa River on the right bank. It soon became the nucleus of a trading settlement.
This page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Volgograd
This is a list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact crater on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here contains only named Martian craters starting with the letter O – Z (see also lists for A – G and H – N).
Large Martian craters (greater than 60 km in diameter) are named after famous scientists and science fiction authors; smaller ones (less than 60 km in diameter) get their names from towns on Earth. Craters cannot be named for living people, and small crater names are not intended to be commemorative - that is, a small crater isn't actually named after a specific town on Earth, but rather its name comes at random from a pool of terrestrial place names, with some exceptions made for craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude.
List of catenae on Mars
List of craters on Mars
List of mountains on Mars
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BkiUdTs5qsBC5C3p7js9 | Inside Machines: Lumber machine manufacturer's moves to servo control yields increased precision, productivity.
By: Hunter Stofferahn
A 2x4-ft. piece of lumber is the construction industry's ultimate commodity, which is why a leader in the lumber industry is using sophisticated automation to gain a competitive advantage for this price-sensitive product.
Creating a solution with automation
WaneShear Technologies creates the sawmill machinery that puts a finished edge on dimensional lumber to create straight, clean, high-grade 2x4-ft., 2x6-ft., 2x8-ft., and larger boards. The equipment created by WaneShear's Ukiah, Calif., location has the challenge of processing this consistent product from rough lumber that was sawed from raw logs, which can vary widely in width and length before entering the edging machinery. The technical challenge increases because of the constant need to increase production volumes made necessary by the pressure to maintain profitability amid fluctuating prices in the volatile construction industry.
While automation has been part of this equation, WaneShear has been pioneering a different solution. Traditional edging automation equipment used hydraulic components. Hydraulics deliver the powerful, high torque output the application demands but often result in leaks of hydraulic fluid. Spilled fluid can damage the lumber and make it unacceptable for sale. Fluid also can combine with sawdust to create a sticky substance that gums up machinery and makes cleanup difficult.
"We knew that by switching from hydraulics to servo automation, operators could solve a lot of our problems," said Ron McGehee, president and chief designer of WaneShear's equipment and the holder of 25 plus patents on sawmill related inventions. "In the past we didn't look very carefully at servo automation because we felt servos wouldn't have the torque strength to get the job done, and they would be too large to fit in the physical space of our machines without a lot of re-engineering."
This attitude changed in the last few years, as the footprint of servo motors has been reduced and new, more powerful servo motors have come into the market.
"The time had come for a new approach, and we saw the opportunity to be an industry leader," said McGehee.
Servo automating for edging
Servo motion also offered an opportunity to improve the precision of WaneShear edgers, which would lead to more usable boards from every log. WaneShear pioneered the use of vision systems and variable frequency drives to stage rough boards for edging. The staging of boards is especially challenging because squaring an irregular board doesn't always call for a perfectly straight cut. Cutting angles can often vary by 6 deg, requiring the use of precise camming routines that often must change quickly to compensate for a variety of board contours. Because board lumber is quality graded, a better quality of cut means the machine's output can be sold at a higher price.
The edgers manufactured by WaneShear must be integrated with the other equipment in a crowded sawmill, which presents a separate set of challenges for automating the edging process. Each edger is customized to fit the available space on a sawmill floor that is filled with a variety of other equipment, which makes minimizing the footprint of each machine critical.
"Linking machines in tight spaces gets to be pretty much essential," said McGehee. "If we can replace gearboxes and hydraulic equipment with servos in the same physical space, we can add capability without adding an integration problem for our customers." Control system integration is equally important, with most mills using PLC-focused control architecture for their production equipment. "PLCs are the customer's comfort zone," said McGehee. "Whatever automation you add, it must integrate with the PLC in a way that gives a minimum of trouble for the personnel on the sawmill floor otherwise they won't buy into it."
Reliability was the primary concern and requirement for WaneShear when considering the switch to servo control. Sawmills must run around the clock, 365 days a year to remain profitable. This desire for reliability led McGehee and the other members of the engineering team to a motion automation manufacturer providing reliable servo motors and engineering support for challenging applications.
Vision system identifies target
Application technical challenges began with the staging of boards for cutting. The edger's vision system extrapolated each board's position into four position points, which were translated by a motion controller into more than 1,000 positioning points. The motion controller's cam editor tool was used to create a set of motion profiles, which were used by servo-based conveyors to precisely stage boards for the most accurate edging possible with the least waste.
The interface between the PLC and servo axes was simplified by the addition of servo amplifiers that can be controlled using the add-on-instructions from a standard PLC. This feature proved to be particularly important for the WaneShear software development team to avoid requiring customers to learn an entirely new programming interface to successfully integrate the new servos.
Integrating servo motors
Integration of the servo motors themselves proved to be one of the most positive outcomes in the development process. The servo motor dimensions made them an easy fit into the spaces once occupied by hydraulic components. The torque ratings of the motors suited them well to conveying lumber at the high-power, low-RPM rates needed by a sawmill application. The torque density profiles of the servo motors also made it possible to replace a gearbox on one of the WaneShear machine designs, resulting in cutting component costs. The precision of the motion control components allowed WaneShear to reduce errors on its conveyors from 1/8 in. down to 1/250 in., allowing the company to shorten the length of its conveyor belts without compromising the accuracy of the cut.
The servo motor implementation allowed the edger to reach performance targets. The goal was to increase output to 75 boards per minute, requiring a cycle time of 800 milliseconds per board. The design team also expected to improve the quality of boards due to the extra precision of the servo-driven control system. All targets were exceeded. Board output quality increased by 25%, and the new WaneShear servo-equipped edger is processing standard 8-ft boards at more than 20 ft per second, well beyond the 800 millisecond goal.
"We've been so successful," said McGehee, "that now the rest of our customers' plant equipment needs an upgrade to keep up with the edger ... which used to be the other way around."
The servo motors and drives used are being designed into all WaneShear machines going forward. "We are also seeing other machines within our customers' mills using the [servo] products." McGehee anticipates continuing to use the automation technology provider "for a long time to come."
Hunter Stofferahn is the regional motion engineer for Yaskawa America Inc. Edited by Emily Guenther, associate content manager, Control Engineering, CFE Media, eguenther@cfemedia.com.
The benefits of integrating servo motors and replacing hydraulic components
How to maximize production with servo automation
Solving production challenges with automation.
What are the challenges behind integrating servo motors for other applications? | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUbYU4eIXguphAwey3 | Have you been itching to know what's under the Kin's skin? The helpful demolition experts at iFixit and Chipworks lay it all for you in a step-by-step disassembly of Microsoft's just-introduced, youth-oriented smartphones.
Microsoft's design is a bit bulkier than high-end smartphones like the iPhone and Motorola Droid. It's 0.77 inches thick compared to 0.48 inches for iPhone and a bit thicker for Droid.
The heart of the phone is the first-generation mobile chip from Nvidia, the Tegra APX2600. Tegra is the chip vendor's mobile silicon platform, based on an ARM core, with a companion GeForce graphics core and other components. It's been designed for good quality multi-media applications, and Microsoft already uses it in its line of Zune music players.
Later this year, the first smartphones, many of them apparently Android-based, with Nvidia's next generation CPU, the Tegra 2, will become available. The company is also targeting tablets and netbook-style devices. More details can be found at Nvidia's Website.
The onboard camera, a Sony IMX046 with an impressive 8 megapixels, only takes up 0.3 cubic inches. Sony fabricates it with a 90 nanometer CMOS process. Chipworks notes it's one of the first phones to feature 720p High Definition video.
Networking connectivity is provided by a Qualcomm QSC6085 CDMA processor and, for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (and FM radio) a Texas Instruments WL1271A chip. The touchscreen controller is from Synaptics: its Clearpad technology in a device marked T1021A.
Storage is via the Samsung moviNAND KLM8G4DEDD package, based on an advanced 30-nanometer architecture, with up to 8GB of capacity.
* Avago has two chips inside the Kin Two: an ACFM-7103 CS/Cellular/S-GPS Qunitplexer and an ACPM-7353 dual-band power amplifier.
* The camera is the Sony IMX046. The IMX046 is fabricated using a 90nm CMOS process. The camera's resolution is 8.11 effective megapixels (8 active megapixels), 1.4 μm sized pixel, 1/3.2" optical format. Samsung was the first to use this camera in the M8800.
* Taking a cue from the iPhone and Zune HD, the Kin Two has an accelerometer. It's an STMicro 331DL 3 Axis nano MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) device. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
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BkiUbG45qdmB66aQ4WzM | PreMarket Prep Recap: The 4 Stocks Dennis Dick Bought Yesterday
On Wednesday's PreMarket Prep, co-hosts Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick discussed the bullish chart setups in several tech stocks.
On Thursday's show, Dick revealed he had purchased four such stocks for a swing trade. Those stocks are Alibaba Holding Corp (NYSE: BABA), Teladoc Health Inc (NYSE: TDOC), Rocket Companies Inc (NYSE: RKT) and UWM Holdings Corp (NYSE: UWMC)
For the full discussion on why Dennis bought those stocks, click here or watch it at 5:00 in the clip below.
Other Stocks Discussed On The Show
Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) 6:06
Eli Lilly and co (NYSE: LLY) 9:08
Casava Sciences Inc (NASDAQ: SAVA) 14:06
Biogen Inc (NASDAQ: BIIB) 14:40
Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: SRPT) 15:08
Beyond Meat Inc (NASDAQ: BYND) 20:30
The US Dollar 24:40
Solar Stocks: FirstSolar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) 37:10
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) 41:30
Penn National Gaming, Inc (NASDAQ: PENN) 41:55
DraftKings Inc (NASDAQ: DKNG) 43:15
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) ViacomCBS (NASDAQ: VIAC) Roku (NASDAQ: ROKU) 43:50
Lordstown Motors Corp (NASDAQ: RIDE) 48:50
AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC) 51:55
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) 54:55
Ambarella Inc (NASDAQ: AMBA) and GoPro Inc (NASDAQ: GPRO) 56:43
Desktop Metal Inc (NYSE: DM) 1:05:35
Doximity Inc (NYSE: DOCS) 1:07:55
Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) 1:09:39
KB Home (NYSE: KBH) 1:12:22
Darden Restaurants, Inc (NYSE: DR)I 1:13:23
Steelcase Inc (NYSE: SCS) 1:14:05
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc (NASDAQ: BBBY) 1:16:05
Carnival Corp (NYSE: CCL) 1:17:08
Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE: PLTR) 1:21:14
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Marc Chaikin, Founder of Chaikin Analytics
After 40 years on Wall Street as a trader, stock broker analyst and options trader, Marc founded Chaikin Analytics LLC to deliver proven stochristk analytics to investors and etraders, based on the Chaikin Power Gauge, a 20-factor alpha model proven effective at identifying a stock's potential. Chaikin pioneered the 1st real-time analytics workstation for portfolio managers and stock traders, now part of Thomson Reuters' institutional workstation, and developed computerized stock selection models and technical indicators, including Chaikin Money Flow, which are industry standards.
Topics discussed with Marc:
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His opinion on bank stocks
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BkiUdvA25V5isMEL7ZvW | HONOLULU – The $1.1 million, out-of-court settlement between the city and former police officer Clarissa Barta for sexual harassment by colleagues is the largest settlement of its type, says Barta's attorney, Mark Davis.
But Davis said the important breakthrough, in this case, was the willingness of police officers to testify against their own.
The settlement was approved by the City Council yesterday.
"What is significant is that it was within the Police Department and that it all came to light by virtue of police officers standing together to tell the truth," attorney Mark Davis said.
Six or seven male and female former colleagues corroborated many of Barta's charges. "If that had not happened, it would have been her word against the police officers'," Davis said.
The lawsuit charged that Barta was subjected to sexual harassment at the hands of nine officers, including superiors, while assigned to the Honolulu Airport from 1989 to 1992.
The case "created a public dialogue on the problem of sexual harassment in the Honolulu Police Department," Davis said. He called the settlement a good first step toward "the position of gender equity and a less hostile working environment" on the force.
In October, Police Chief Michael Nakamura and the department adopted a new, more stringent procedure on sexual harassment.
The city spent $500,000 hiring private attorneys in its defense against the suit. Earlier this year, three civil rights groups had protested the city's handling of the case. City attorneys reportedly researched Barta's sexual history and gynecological records. The groups said the tactics were designed to intimidate and harass her.
Barta has not made any public comment on her allegations since the case was filed in July 1994 in U.S. District Court.
Council Budget Chairman Duke Bainum noted that of the $5 million set aside this fiscal year for settlement of claims against the city, $1.9 million was used yesterday.
$325,000 in an assault case involving a police officer in 1984.
Kaleo, who was believed to have been intoxicated, was to be taken to his father's house six blocks away.
Instead, he was found beaten and on the H-2 freeway two hours later, about 4 miles away.
The hospital reported that Kaleo sustained a cracked skull. Also, his brain was split and scarred and he suffered severe neck injuries that required surgery.
$90,000 in a settlement involving former police officer Jesse Canoy. The suit claimed Canoy had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl from August through November 1992.
According to court documents, the teen was a family friend who was at the Canoy home when the assaults occurred.
Canoy is serving 10 years for the assault of that girl and four other teenagers. All are either relatives or family friends. Earlier this year, Canoy was denied probation. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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By: Mari Carr & Lila Dubois
Masters' Admiralty, book 1
The scent of death lay over every surface and permeated the air. Three bodies, three different methods of murder, but the reek lay over, in, and on every molecule in the cave, binding the horrifying tableau together.
"Don't look at them." Her brother, Antonio Starabba, cupped her elbow, turning her away from the bodies. The cave had once been natural, but humans had lived, loved, and died on these lands for thousands of years, and the cave bore the scars of human use—the floor had been leveled, niches carved out of the walls, and steps cut into the crevasse that served as entryway into the cave.
Antonio steered her past two people who were quietly photographing and processing the scene. One looked up in time to see her face—or what there was to see of it between the mask and the hood of the all-white disposable coveralls she'd put on before entering.
It should have rendered her anonymous, but the woman recognized her.
"Principessa," she murmured quietly, bowing her head.
Antonio led his sister to the far side of the cave, where rough shelves had been cut into the walls. The shelves were filled with what a lay person would have called a treasure-box decorated with rough-cut jewels that indicated they had been made long before the refined tools jewelers used today were available. A stone bust from ancient Greece, as well as two paintings on the floor, leaning against the walls, both impressionist-style paintings of the Italian countryside, all burnt orange and shades of yellow and citrine.
As lovely and interesting as all those things were, the vast majority of the treasure on display—and despite her training, she couldn't help but think of this as treasure—was coinage. Gold and silver coins, most with the rough, thinned edges of ancient currency.
For the most part, the coins were simply loose on the stone shelves, except for three stacks on the right-hand side of the top shelf. Each stack had nine coins.
Three bodies. Three stacks. Nine coins. All multiples of three.
She stepped back to look at the paintings. One had three oaks in the foreground, the other had three plump sheep in a field.
"Whoever this is, they know," she said.
Antonio nodded. "Yes. You will handle the art?"
"The art, the jeweled box, yes. But I'm not a coin expert."
"Get one."
"There's someone in England."
Antonio frowned, his dark brows drawn down over his gold eyes. "The country or the territory?"
"The territory. He's one of us."
"Merda. I don't want this spreading outside of Rome."
"Now is not the time to play games." She had very little patience for the political games the territories played. She understood them, but that understanding didn't mean she shared her brother's—or father's—suspicious and secretive policies. The boundaries of the nine territories had been drawn and redrawn, existing entirely separately from the national boundaries of the countries of modern-day Europe.
"Do you really think a stranger would have found this place, on this land?"
Antonio shook his head, but he said, "It is possible."
"Who is going to handle…" She couldn't stop herself from looking over toward the bodies. Her gaze fell first on a severed limb. With a shudder, she forced herself to turn back to the little cache of art and coins.
"Antonio," she protested. "You cannot."
"We can, we will."
"We do not have what the Polizia di Stato do—the labs, the tests."
"The Carabinieri do."
"We do not—"
"Not your division."
The Carabinieri, one of Italy's two police forces, were technically members of the military and older than the modern country of Italy. But they didn't deal with homicides the way the polizia did, and were better known for responding and providing support after major events like earthquakes than for taking on barbaric killers.
"We will not involve the polizia." Antonio squeezed her shoulder.
"You are a fool." Her brother surely had to see that this was not something they could hide from the normal authorities.
"Tell me the name of the coin expert you need. I will contact England."
He turned away.
"Coglione," she muttered under her breath. Her brother was a moron. She cast one last look at the three stacks of coins. She would make sure they weren't moved, not until the coin expert got there. If this was meant as a clue, then everything about the coins could be a clue, not just where they were from or their value, but their condition—which side was faceup—and even their relation to each other.
▶ Also By Mari Carr & Lila Dubois
· Treachery's Devotion
· Loyalty's Betrayal
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BkiUd2s4eIZjvTAIZOK1 | AT&T recently suffered a massive worker strike over unfair contracts and outsourcing, among other concerns, and a post by an AT&T employee on Medium indicates that things will only get worse for the internally embattled carrier. The convergence of workers totals over 20,000 nationwide, and includes workers of all stripes from AT&T's various business interests, including landline, mobile, and DIRECTV. Installers, call center workers, technicians, and retail employees are all planning on coming together for a rally, and will reportedly be making a showing at AT&T's next shareholder meeting. The post on Medium did not specify exactly how the shareholder meeting would be handled, only saying that the group of workers would be head. The large-scale rally, on the other hand, is set to be the largest show of workforce camaraderie in AT&T's history.
The strike has roots in various places, but a lot of the action early on centered around California and Nevada. In fact, the one year anniversary of a group contract from that region, April 9, is the date set for the massive cross-state rally. The rally is set to include not only AT&T workers looking for better conditions and fairer contracts, but also the likes of union leaders and elected officials, who will help to formulate and drive home a message to AT&T and the world in no uncertain terms.
This big move comes as the industry at large faces a bit of a shift toward more worker-friendly policies; T-Mobile was recently forced to disband a company-owned union replacement called T-Voice, and Verizon workers went on strike not too long ago, backed by Senator and presidential runner Bernie Sanders. Across the wireless space and many other industries, workers are taking a stand against toxic workplace practices en masse. The drive for the pursuit of the American dream may be linked to the current sociopolitical climate in the United States. The Trump Administration's cabinet, policies, and other aspects are controversial to say the least, and social change has been building and sweeping for years. It's hard to say whether the current upheaval in wireless is a part of this wave, or if wireless workers have been holding back this righteous fury for another reason. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUgMrxK7IDPV_Ium6R | "I think in narrowing the scope of the jail perspective ... we can go back to doing those things we do best," he said.
Having a larger in-house staff also would allow the jail to house more federal prisoners, for which the jail receives a daily stipend.
Sabbatine also said deputy sheriffs with full law-enforcement authority are better equipped and trained to monitor inmates in the Community Alternative Program, or CAP. If more offenders could be enrolled in the program and monitored effectively, the jail would have more room for federal inmates, he said.
County jails receive $70 a day for each federal inmate they house. Eighty additional federal inmates at the Fayette County Detention Center could net an additional $1.2 million a year, Sabbatine told council members.
Councilwoman Diane Lawless, head of the public safety committee, agreed that court transports and CAP potentially could be done cheaper and more effectively by the sheriff's office, which receives state and federal funding and grants.
Most of the cost savings would come from employee classification, Witt said. Corrections officers are classified as hazardous-duty employees, but court security officers are not.
That means the sheriff's office would pay only half as much toward a court security officer's retirement fund as the detention center pays its employees.
The state would pay the sheriff's office $8 an hour toward the court security officer's salary, Lawless said. Jail employees do not receive that stipend.
"It's money that's laying on the table that we don't get back, but if the sheriff's office took over the transportation, at least that much would be recovered," she said.
Witt said that it would take much discussion and planning before the changes could occur but that her office was willing to accept additional responsibilities. The possibility of the sheriff's department absorbing additional responsibilities came up at least twice this summer.
In July, the public safety committee launched a study to determine who should run the jail and, specifically whether it should be Witt. Sabbatine, a former longtime director of the jail and a national authority on inmate risk assessment, was named interim director in July. He took the reins last month after Ron Bishop retired.
In August, the sheriff's office began escorting funeral processions in Lexington after the Lexington Division of Police stopped performing the service because of budget cuts.
"The only way that we can fully serve the community is by working together and sharing resources," Witt said. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUbb_xK7kjXMEc7aE1 | Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? Thousands of years of history say the answer is yes. Introducing the new video trailer for Walter Scheidel's The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century.
You can read a Q&A with author Walter Scheidel about the crucial role of violent shocks here.
What do abused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, and slaves killed by the state have in common? They have all been deprived of their personhood by the law. In The Law is a White Dog, Colin Dayan shows how the law can be used to dehumanize and marginalize, even as it upholds civil order. Dayan puts the topic in historical context, showing how these issues are still prevalent today. In an interview with WFHB Indiana, the author speaks to recent instances of police brutality. Listen for a fresh take on a a timely issue. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUbn05qg5A53urzQEy | To test whether an educational outreach intervention for families and physicians, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) principles of judicious antibiotic use, decreases antimicrobial drug prescribing for children younger than 6 years old. Setting. Twelve practices affiliated with 2 managed care organizations (MCOs) in eastern Massachusetts and northwest Washington State. Patients. All enrolled children younger than 6 years old.
Practices stratified by MCO and size were randomized to intervention or control groups. The intervention included 2 meetings of the practice with a physician peer leader, using CDC-endorsed summaries of judicious prescribing recommendations; feedback on previous prescribing rates were also provided. Parents were mailed a CDC brochure on antibiotic use, and supporting materials were displayed in waiting rooms. Automated enrollment, ambulatory visit, and pharmacy claims were used to determine rates of antibiotic courses dispensed (antibiotics/person-year) during baseline (1996-1997) and intervention (1997-1998) years. The primary analysis (for children 3 to <36 months and 36 to <72 months) assessed the impact of the intervention among children during the intervention year, controlling for covariates including patient age and baseline prescription rate. Confirmatory analyses at the practice level were also performed.
The practices cared for 14 468 and 13 460 children in the 2 study years, respectively; 8815 children contributed data in both years. Sixty-two percent of antibiotic courses were dispensed for otitis media, 6.5% for pharyngitis, 6.3% for sinusitis, and 9.2% for colds and bronchitis. Antibiotic dispensing for children 3 to <36 months old decreased 0.41 antibiotics per person-year (18.6%) in intervention compared with 0.33 (11.5%) in control practices. Among children 36 to <72 months old, the rate decreased by 0.21 antibiotics per person-year (15%) in intervention and 0.17 (9.8%) in control practices. Multivariate analysis showed an adjusted intervention effect of 16% in the younger and 12% in the older age groups. The direction and approximate magnitude of effect were confirmed in practice-level analyses.
A limited simultaneous educational outreach intervention for parents and providers reduced antibiotic use among children in primary care practices, even in the setting of substantial secular trends toward decreased prescribing. Future efforts to promote judicious prescribing should continue to build on growing public awareness of antibiotic overuse. | c4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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BkiUdSk5qdmDC8BJn0Ed | Oklahoma City musician Graham Colton has changed his game musically, encouraged by the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne. Colton will perform songs from his 2014 album, "Lonely Ones," during a free concert at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Bricktown's Centennial Plaza.
Guitars do not chime on Graham Colton's new single, "Born to Raise Hell," and if there are any six-string instruments on the song, they certainly are not calling the shots. Instead, spacious keyboard sounds and layered vocals carry the day.
As he plays the track through the mixing board in his private studio in central Oklahoma City, Colton is smiling. He has changed the game.
And it was Wayne Coyne who encouraged the button pushing. In 2012, Colton and Coyne met at Blackwatch Studios in Norman and collaborated on a cover of Sparklehorse's "Don't Take My Sunshine Away." The result sounded nothing like the guitar-driven pop-rock Colton recorded for Universal Records on 2004's "Drive" and its follow-up, "Here Right Now." It simply did not sound like the guy who opened for Counting Crows and the Wallflowers.
The Sparklehorse song began Colton's journey to recording "Lonely Ones," and it was Coyne who pushed him down the road less traveled.
Colton began hanging out at Coyne's house, spending several evenings listening to Coyne's favorite mindblowers such as the Beach Boys' 1966 classic, "Pet Sounds." As Colton absorbed Brian Wilson's "teenage symphonies to God," he started to hear how his own music could take on new dimensions.
Colton, 31, is relishing this new section of his creative life. After parting company with Universal five years ago, Colton began building relationships with area musicians and taking an active role in the Oklahoma music scene, performing at events such as the Buffalo Lounge at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, Texas.
And last year, he released a collection of vintage-sounding California country-pop with singer-songwriter Lindsey Ray under the name Sooner the Sunset.
But with the upcoming "Lonely Ones," Colton is trying to do something new at every level and bring fresh minds into his creative process. He is currently making a video for "Born to Raise Hell" with LAMAR+NIK, the Oklahoma-based music video production team that recently shot two videos for legendary alt-rock band Pixies.
Colton's Centennial Plaza show is the kickoff date for a one-month U.S. tour with Bronze Radio Return. The tour will showcase the new songs, which he said reflect his new mindset.
That's certainly an understatement for Graham Colton. After a major label career, numerous TV appearances and the limiting musical peg of "singer-songwriter," Colton has gone through a complete reinvention on his new album "Lonely Ones" (out January 21, 2014).
And while that early career led to success — major label albums (Drive and Here Right Now), performances on The Tonight Show and The Late Show, videos on TRL, tours with everyone from John Mayer to Counting Crows to Maroon Five — there were tradeoffs. A little stifled creativity. The musical designation of being a singer-songwriter, a genre not known for taking risks. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUcSnxK7FjYEB4Ui9r | In 1923, Mary Thompson wrote a short history of Richmond for a school project. This charming, hand-written booklet, illustrated with photographs that she took herself, provides us with a captivating view of 1923 Richmond as seen through the eyes of one of its young citizens.
In 1985, Mary Thompson's booklet was donated to the City of Richmond Archives along with other records of the Thompson family. This exhibit provides an overview of Mary's project, and allows you to read her full text and view all 40 images.
Like many people of her day, Mary Thompson had a great appreciation for the natural beauty that gave Richmond the name "Garden City." In her history she writes that "in the early years there was a growth of timber along the waterfront while the remainder of the Island was covered with grasses of different kinds ... wild roses grew in great profusion and to a great height garlanding the bushes and festooning the trees whose beauty in June was undescribable."
Mary also focused on the accomplishments of Richmond's Pioneers. She writes that "Hugh McRoberts was the first person to make permanent improvements on the Island. To him is due the honor of being the first to dyke in and cultivate a piece of alluvial overflowed land at the mouth of the Fraser River. ... McRoberts died in 1883 leaving a long and interesting record as a pioneer, a good sturdy man of the best type."
In addition to describing the physical geography and general history of Richmond and its pioneer settlers, Mary also included 40 photographs that she took of the community.
These include photographs of Woodward's Landing, the Orange Hall, the Fisherman's Hospital, the B.C. Electric Interurban Station in Steveston, the Royal Bank building (now the Steveston Museum), the old Municipal Hall, the Thompson family home, and many other buildings and sights all over Richmond.
Mary Thompson's class at Sea Island School, 1929. Six years after completing her student history project at Bridgeport School, Mary began teaching at the Sea Island Japanese School. She taught from 1929 to 1940, and again in 1947.
Mary Thompson's "History Project of Richmond Municipality" is available here in its entirety. The original booklet is available at the City of Richmond Archives. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUcrw4ubnjop7FE396 | RRL by RALPH LAUREN classic trucker jacket comes in cream denim with a pointed collar, double patch flap pockets with embroidered emblem, button up front, and light distressing throughout. Minor mark on back and sleeve. Tag removed. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
BkiUfY45qhLBzgIB9Dix | Whether it's a pineapple sewn onto the sleeve of an otherwise conservative jacket, or a mismatched patchwork of multi-toned denim on pants, the patch trend is spreading to all price points of clothing and accessories.
This includes department stores like Nordstrom, says one of its top stylists, Michelle Addison, who explains people are really taking to the trend because it adds an element of DIY: "It looks like you've made it yourself," says Addison, (but in a good way!).
Bomber Jackets. The stylist says this is one of the easiest ways to try the trend. "The bomber jacket was a huge trend last season and you saw a lot of people putting those patches on bomber jackets. That's a good way to spruce up a bomber jacket too," adds Addison.
If you're looking for a basic bomber jacket to add patches to, try BP's bomber jacket ($92.73), or for one already decked out in patches, try Topshop's 'Bruce' patch detail MA1 bomber jacket ($150).
BP's bomber jacket (left) and Topshop's 'Bruce' patch detail MA1 bomber jacket (right).
Tonal Denim. "Often you'll see that tonal shift of patchwork, which is like different colours of denim," explains the stylist. "So, most people will be directed to buy something in that regard because everybody wants a new jean." (Stylist tip: Pair cropped patchwork denim pants with a chunky heel.) If you don't want to buy a new jean, Nordstrom can help you revamp a pair you already own. The Jean Mullet: "The trend that's happening now is it's short at the front and a little longer at the back, for a cropped kind of jean. So you can get it cut in that manner and frayed for $25." For a more conservative look, try a cropped patchwork denim jacket like Rebecca Taylor's Patchwork Chambray jacket ($269.99).
Vetements Deconstructed Crop jeans and Rebecca Taylor Patchwork Chambray jacket.
Accessories. The patchwork trend extends to accessories too. You can add patches to hats, purses, backpacks—anything your heart fancies. Hollister's Patch Corduroy Rucksack is a budget-friendly option for a patchwork backpack ($46.95). For a more high-fashion entry, we like the Dolce and Gabbana Vulcano Backpack in nylon with appliqués ($1,923.72)—or take matters into your own capable hands and iron on the patches yourself.
Do It Yourself. If sewing is your stitch, make a party of it! DIY patchwork parties have been popping up across the city with events hosted by stores like Mine and Yours and local patchwork company El Patcha. There are plenty of patches for sale online and Mine and Yours sells patches throughout the summer at the store's patching station (where customers can even iron-on the goods in-store).
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BkiUdZE4eIZjyphZu1AT | Specifically designed for teams of care and support staff, our courses on The Mental Capacity Act/DOLS is based on the concept that this is "everyone's business" and is relevant for every aspect of health and social care.
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BkiUa7HxK2li-DeXyDbH | 1995 & 1996, two first printing paperbacks.
Two books by Professor Morton N Cohen, the pre-eminent Lewis Carroll scholar. His well-regarded biography of Lewis Carroll, and an edited version of his 1979 Letters of Lewis Carroll.
Both books are in very good condition and appear unread, though the Letters has some tanning to the pages. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUd7c5qWTBIrGEFNks | Losing their grip
Zach Klonsinski | Wednesday, October 29, 2014
A chill in the air means the postseason is near and the action Wednesday night matched that atmosphere, as No. 5 Notre Dame and No. 12 Michigan State played to a 1-1 draw at Alumni Stadium.
Kevin Sabitus | The Observer
Irish senior forward Vince Cicciarelli battles for possession of the ball with a defender during Notre Dame's 1-0 victory over Northwestern on Oct. 14, at Alumni Stadium.
Last year the Irish (9-4-3, 5-1-1 ACC) beat the Spartans (9-3-4, 3-1-2 Big Ten) in the NCAA quarterfinals, 2-1, to advance to their first ever College Cup and eventually the program's first NCAA championship. Junior midfielder Evan Panken tallied the lone goal for the Irish in the rematch.
"It was disappointing not to pick up points but full marks to [Michigan State]," Irish coach Bobby Clark said. "They're one of the best teams in this region and it was always going to be a difficult game."
Michigan State entered the match with one of the nation's stingiest defense, allowing 0.51 goals per game and shutting out opponents in 10 of its last 15 games prior to Wednesday night. The Irish were able to mount some early pressure, however, when graduate student defender Luke Mishu cut in from his right-back position and sent a shot curling towards the lower-left corner of the net. Spartan junior goalkeeper Zach Bennett was able to make a diving stop, sending the ball just wide of the post.
Bennett was up to the task again a few minutes later, tipping a sharp-angle shot from Irish senior forward Vince Cicciarelli up and over the bar.
"We played so well in the first half," Clark said. "I thought the first half was possibly our best opening performance of the season. We really controlled the game from the start."
Michigan State responded with a chance of its own in the 25th minute as Spartan junior midfielder Jason Stacy had his 25-yard free kick directed inches wide of the post by a diving Irish graduate student goalkeeper Patrick Wall.
"Pat's a terrific goalkeeper," Clark said. "He's like a coach at the back … he's been a fantastic goalkeeper for us."
The Irish registered their third strong scoring chance of the half in the 35th minute when a corner was headed around the box and fell at the feet of sophomore defender Brandon Aubrey. Aubrey got an attempt off, but Bennett and three Spartan defenders formed a wall that kept the ball out and the match scoreless heading into halftime.
Picking up where the Irish left off, Mishu threw a long header into the Spartan penalty box three minutes into the second half where senior midfielder Nick Besler headed it towards Panken at the far post. His six-yard header was stopped by Bennett, for the Spartan keeper's sixth save of the night.
Notre Dame broke through in the 56th minute when junior midfielder Patrick Hodan sent a pass from the end line to Panken just inside the six-yard box. Panken's first close range shot was stopped by Bennett, but he was able to control the rebound and bury his third goal of the season between Bennett and the near post.
Irish junior midfielder Evan Panken dribbles the ball downfield during Notre Dame's 1-0 victory over Northwestern on Oct. 14.
"It was good to see Evan getting another goal," Clark said. "He's just got a nose for the goal. … It was a nice goal and it put us ahead.
In the 75th minute, Spartan junior midfielder Jay Chapman sent a header just over the net. Three minutes later redshirt senior defender Ryan Keener headed the ball off the post.
"We scored, then we actually played quite well for a bit," Clark said. "Then they brought on the second forward and I thought we lost our grip on the game for a seven, eight minute period."
Finally the Irish defense gave way. In the 80th minute, a Keener header off a corner generated a rebound that redshirt senior forward Tim Kreutz put past Wall for his third goal of the season and the match equalizer.
"We were too deep and gave up a bad goal," said Aubrey. "We just didn't want to lose in overtime, but we still went forward some."
The match would head to overtime, where Michigan State junior midfielder Jay Chapman had the first opportunity but was turned away by Wall. Fellow Spartan senior forward Adam Montague made a run that split the Notre Dame defense, but the ball edged out far enough in front of him for Wall to pounce and deny any shot.
Notre Dame's chance came with less than a minute in the first overtime period, when freshman forward Jeffrey Farina made a run to the endline, and then crossed a ball into the box. Mishu got a header on target, but Bennett snatched it from just under the crossbar. The second extra period provided no real strong chances for either side.
Michigan State ended up outshooting the Irish 16-15, but Notre Dame held the advantage in shots on goal, 10-6. Bennett registered nine saves while Wall made six for the Irish.
Notre Dame travels to play Pittsburgh on Saturday in their final match of the regular season with a chance to clinch the ACC regular-season title.
"You don't need any motivation to win a league title," Clark said. "It's very important we now finish the season with a win at Pittsburgh."
"We'll try and keep the same mentality of coming out with our hair-on-fire and try and take it to them," Aubrey said. "If we just come out and do what we are capable of the result will come."
The Irish will look for that blazing start when they take on Pittsburgh on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Tags: Bobby Clark, Evan Panken, Jeffrey Farina, Luke Mishu, Men's Soccer, Michigan State, Patrick Hodan, Patrick Wall, Pittsburgh
About Zach Klonsinski
A History graduate, Zach spent all four of his years on campus as a resident of Knott Hall. Hailing from Belgrade, Montana, he covered a wide variety of sports in his time at Notre Dame, including Football, Hockey, Men's Basketball, Men's Soccer, Women's Tennis, Fencing, Rowing, Women's Lacrosse and other events around campus. You can contact him in his post-graduation travels and job search at [email protected]
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BkiUb_k5qsNCPSsganwS | Today's update is not good news I am afraid, I noticed that the server load jumps to 90%+ whenever someone changes an area and then it goes back to normal after 10~30 seconds It happens. even if I am the only one on the server, which leads me to believe that they have a lot of optimization to do before the Bedrock server out of beta.
I think that I possibly have the worst world seed in history! I only have a few more areas to try to mine in my mine because it's filled with lava everywhere. I'll know tomorrow if I am going to have to abandon the mine or not.
I have made a pathway that connected 3 of the mountains and they pretty much lead to nowhere. On the plus side of things, the third mountain leads into a swap which really isn't saying much. I want to find villagers and a desert because I need a ton of sand for glass blocks for the project that I want to build. | c4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUc9_xK6nrxqmozNVG | Discussion in 'Guitars For Sale / Trade / Wanted' started by AlexRuger, Dec 6, 2018.
Up for sale is my 2000 Ibanez JS1000 in white. This was the first year utilizing a Prestige neck. AMAZING condition for its age, definitely a case queen. Zero hardware corrosion. Very dark rosewood. White is still bright and not yellowed, and it only has a couple very minor blemishes (one near the input jack as usual, and one near the knife edge of the bridge). Missing the trem back plate but I can get you one if it's important to you.
Accessories: Includes a white DiMarzio clip-lock strap and a Fender hardshell case.
Shipping: Free shipping in the continental US. Buyer and I split shipping if to Alaska or Hawaii. International shipping is okay but buyer will have to pay for it.
Contact Info: PM me here.
References (eBay or other forum userid): PM me for details and I'll happily give you tons of references. eBay, Reverb, Jemsite, etc -- I just prefer to keep that stuff anonymous otherwise necessary.
Price (include currency and if firm/obo): $1,400 obo. Trades will be considered. Open to not only guitars, but also studio equipment, computers, tech and game stuff, etc. Partial trades + cash are cool as well.
Bump. Price drop to $1,300 OBO. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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BkiUdhM5qoTA0iwhHdea | HAMPTON, VA, August 2, 2018 – ivWatch, the only provider of continuous monitoring devices for the early detection of intravenous (IV) infiltrations and extravasations, was recently issued a medical device license (MDL) by Health Canada permitting the company to sell the ivWatch Model 400 to Canadian health care organizations.
Every infiltration is a medication dosing and delivery error that can impact the patient through prolonged hospital stays, temporary harm or permanent injuries. Beyond the patient safety impact, any of these adverse events may result in increased expenses, significant legal risk and reputation damage for health care providers and facilities.
"We're excited to work with health systems and pediatric hospitals who have quality improvement measures in place and stand ready to implement technology capable of drastically reducing the time to detect a PIVIE beyond what is currently possible by visual and tactile assessment," said Hensley.
The MDL is the final step for Canadian market entry and was preceded by the company's achievement of ISO 13485 Certification, the global standard for medical device quality management systems (QMS) developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO®).
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BkiUeSHxK4tBVhat4-QT | Posted September 19, 2017 - Filed under Commentary, Demography, Economy, Financing, Technology, The Journal, Trends.
It is difficult to travel on any road today without seeing solar panels on the rooftops of houses, larger solar farms across vast fields or wind turbines in the distance. With larger initiatives to create more environmentally sustainable energy and reduce carbon footprint, many universities are reviewing their options for alternative energy sources.
Three of the most common types of alternative energy solutions being installed today are solar panels, wind turbines and cogeneration plants. Ensuring that these efforts to "go green" have long-term success requires an understanding of possible risks and how best to manage them.
Solar panels convert sunlight to electricity. The individual panels comprise multiple photovoltaic cells. Typically, the panels will be installed as part of a solar array, either on a roof or mounted in a field. Solar is one of the fastest-growing segments in renewable energy and it's easy to see why. With low maintenance costs and high reliability, solar panels can lower overall electricity costs and add some independence from the electrical grid and its peak prices.
In addition to these specific hazard considerations, it's important to understand who will be financially responsible for the array. In most cases, arrays tend to be owned by a third party, which can complicate risk mitigation and damage repair efforts. Be sure that this is decided on and understood early on.
Projects can take as long as two years to complete.
Cogeneration systems are so-named because they produce both heat and power. The excess thermal energy produced in the production of electricity is captured and used for heating buildings or water, or even for powering absorption refrigeration to provide building cooling. As with both solar and wind, cogeneration can provide a measure of grid independence and insulation against price spikes and outages, and—in many areas—provide an income stream from excess energy sold back to the utility.
Presence of pressurized oil lines near heat sources.
As technologies have matured, environmental concerns have grown and, where other fuels have become more unpredictable in cost, going green has gained real momentum. So, bringing some form of renewable energy to campus is likely a question not of "if" but of "how." Risk is real, but with foresight, planning and insurance, it can be easy—and beneficial—to be green.
Amy Hahn is a loss control engineer and certified fire protection specialist at Risk Strategies Company. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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}
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BkiUdtE5qoYA0qtoLHn4 | Built by a Master Mason
On a sunny afternoon last week, I had to the opportunity to go inside Two Oliver Street on Salem Common, a grand brick Federal house built in 1811 and currently for sale (so you can go in too, if you want). I hadn't been in the house for a while, maybe a decade or so, and while there have been some alterations made to the more utilitarian spaces, the historic "public" rooms remain perfectly preserved, including the Zuber & Cie wallpaper in the dining room. There is a beautiful double parlor, very large center halls on all three stories, a sweeping serpentine staircase, and countless bedrooms—I really lost count, though three third-floor rooms have been combined to make a large poolroom, rec room, man cave, whatever you want to call it (it's not very cave-like). There is also a wine cellar, a lovely deck overlooking an enclosed garden, and a carriage house with a second-floor apartment! All of these features are wonderful, but for me, the key attraction of the house was its combination of modernized facilities and systems combined with historical "texture": I don't like it when age-old plaster looks too smooth. Well see for yourself: here are my photographs of the exterior and first, second, and third floors.
Another Rumford Roaster! I really believe that Salem can lay claim to being the city with the most Rumford Roasters.
Beautiful views over Oliver Street on one side of the house, and the Common on the other.
I love old basements—-if they are clean, which this one definitely was (unlike mine). On our way back upstairs from the wine cellar (just below), we popped in to see the "unfinished" part of the basement, which is really quite impressive. Combined with all of the exterior aspects of the building, it really reinforces the sense of masonry craftsmanship. Yes, the woodwork is beautiful too (as you can see above) but I walked away thinking about brick.
Generally I write about the occupants of historic houses, but as I walked away from Two Oliver with all that brick on my mind I wanted to research the builder: I knew it was Joshua Upham, who also built Old Town Hall and part of Derby Square, but that was about all I knew about this "talented" (I found this adjective in several places) mason. Fortunately his son published a biography: even though it's a bit more focused on Upham's faith and activism (he was a Deacon of his church and a very passionate abolitionist) we also get to read a bit about his long career, which began in Boston as a mason's apprentice. After a fallout with his fellow apprentices, he went down to the docks to catch a ship for Newburyport (as there had just been a fire) but wound up in Salem instead. This was in 1803, just before Salem's Federal building boom, and in the words of his son, "in the reckless runaway, with his one shirt, one pair of duck trousers and a spencer, it would have needed a prophetic eye to see the most successful master mason in town, under whom the larger part of its ancient brick dwellings and stores were erected." Two Oliver Street was built for merchant Joseph White Jr., who lived in the house for only five years, until his death in 1816. There followed a long occupancy by Benjamin H. Silsbee and family in the middle of the nineteenth century, after which the house became the parsonage of the Tabernacle Church on Washington Street and the long-time residence of several generations of the Clark family. Joshua Upham's spectacular building career was followed by an equally spectacular second career as an inventor of fire "annihilators" designed to protect buildings under the auspices of the Salem Laboratory on Lynde Street, and when he died in 1858 he was still in the possession of several patents.
Joshua Upham, the builder of 2 Oliver Street/33 Washington Square North, which is now for sale through J. Barrett & Company.
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10 responses to "Built by a Master Mason"
Helen Breen
Thanks for the delightful peek inside that beautifully preserved Federal house on 2 Oliver Street in downtown Salem. What a beauty! Loved the fan light at the entrance to the parlor, the Rumford Roaster, the oval staircase seen from above, and the cozy back garden.
My sense if that whoever becomes the new owner will have the same interest in preserving the home's ambiance as the former occupants did. Great pics!
Just wondering – where did you dig up the bio of builder Joshua Upham written by his son?
Did I link to the Google Books site? I think it's also on the Internet Archive.
Absolutely beautiful old home! I kept going back and forth from picture to picture…that hallway, the murals, the kitchen…and the delightful courtyard garden made me wish I could win a quick million! Just lovely.
It really is–though it's a big house for sure, it does not seem overwhelming in scale.
Nanny Almquist
Thanks for sharing this beautiful house with us. The Rumford Roaster as always intrigues me. Do you know anyone who has actually figured out how to use one and done so?
I know people who have figured them out, but I don't think I know anyone who has actually used them!
Michael Bonner
Dear Donna, Congratulations on your gorgeous blog about Historic Salem. Your writing is both lively and so well crafted.
I am the proud new owner of 2 Oliver Street. I would love to meet with you sometime after the closing on March 28 to pick your brain about the history of the house over a glass of wine.
Feel free to give me your email or cell and I'll look forward to meeting you in person soon!
Well thank you, Michael, and congratulations to you on your gorgeous new (old) house! It's a very special house. I'd be happy to meet with you—just email dseger@salemstate.edu after your closing!
This house is most definitely haunted.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-murder-in-salem-64885035/
It is known as the White-Silsbee House. What is not known is what spirit or spirits roam the halls at night. The father would be an obvious choice, but no one can say for sure. The Church was able to acquire the house in the late 1800's because no one wanted to live there with the memory of the original owner's murder.
This would make a wonderful house for a psychic or witch practiced in dealing with unresolved psychic energies. It could be a terrific and powerful domain for the new owner who is not afraid of the dead but knows they have everything to teach us.
100% authentic Salem.
The article you are citing refers to the Gardner-Pingree house; there is no evidence that this house is haunted, or the Gardner-Pingree House, for that matter. I deal in fact here, not silly commercial speculation. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdvQ5qX_BnmUhOKdK | Sunday 7th April 2013 – 8.30pm – Suzie Fothergill.
A motorcyclist has been taken to hospital following an incident in Staffordshire this morning.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to a road traffic collision at the junction of the A500 and Shelton New Road in Stoke on Trent shortly after 11.10am this morning.
An ambulance and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford, carrying a critical care paramedic and a trauma doctor, were sent to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Services spokeswoman said: "On arrival at the scene crews found a motorcyclist that had been in collision with a lamp-post.
"The motorcyclist, a man in his 40's, was treated for significant leg and arm injuries. The man was given pain relief at the scene and fully immobilised before being conveyed, via land ambulance, to University Hospital of North Staffordshire for further assessment and treatment.
Sunday 7th April 2013 – 10.00am – Suzie Fothergill.
A man has been taken to hospital following a road traffic collision involving two cars and a motorcyclist in Staffordshire last night.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the incident near to the junction of King Street and Clarence Road in Fenton, Stoke on Trent shortly before 9.40pm yesterday.
Two ambulances and a paramedic area support officer were dispatched to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "On arrival at the scene crews found a motorcyclist who had suffered serious multiple injuries.
"The man was treated for a serious chest injury and multiple fractures to his leg, pelvis and collarbone. He was fully immobilised and conveyed to the major trauma centre at University Hospital of North Staffordshire for further assessment and specialist treatment.
"The hospital was pre-alerted to the arrival of the man and of his injuries.
Saturday 6th April 2013 – 11.00pm – Suzie Fothergill.
Two people have been taken to hospital following a road traffic collision in Wolverhampton today.
A passing West Midlands Ambulance Service crew came across the incident at the junction of Cannock Road and Stafford Street in Wolverhampton at approximately 8.45pm this evening.
A further ambulance, a rapid response vehicle, a paramedic area support officer and the Trust's MERIT rapid response vehicle, carrying a critical care paramedic and a trauma doctor were dispatched to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "Crews found a motorcyclist and a pedestrian that had been in collision.
"The pedestrian, a man in his mid-20's, was treated for a head injury and injuries to his lower limbs. The man was fully immobilised and conveyed to the major trauma centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. A medic from MERIT travelled on board the ambulance continuing to provide emergency medical treatment whilst en route to the hospital.
Saturday 6th April 2013 – 9.00pm – Suzie Fothergill.
West Midlands Ambulance Service has attended to a spate of motorcycle incidents throughout the region today.
Shortly after 12.55pm this afternoon West Midlands Ambulance Service received a call to the junction of Atherstone Street and Brook End in Fazeley, Tamworth. An ambulance, a rapid response vehicle and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Staffordshire were dispatched to the scene.
On arrival at the scene crews found a car and a motorcycle that had been in collision. The motorcyclist, a man believed to be in his 40's, was treated for a leg and a potential pelvic injury. The man was immobilised and airlifted to Queen Elizabeth Birmingham for further assessment and treatment.
At approximately 1.25pm this afternoon the Trust was called to reports of a pushbike and a scooter that had been in collision at Wrekin View in Madeley, Telford. An ambulance, a senior ambulance officer and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford were sent to the scene.
A nine year old boy was treated by crews for a head injury and multiple abrasions to his body before being airlifted to University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
Just after 1.30pm crews were again called to an incident involving a motorcyclist and a pushbike on Coton Road in Nuneaton. Two ambulances, a paramedic area support officer, the Midlands Air Ambulance from Strensham, two BASICS doctors and the Trust MERIT rapid response vehicle, carrying a critical care paramedic and a trauma doctor were in attendance at the scene.
The cyclist was treated for multiple injuries. Due to the serious nature of his injuries the man was given at anaesthetic at the scene before being conveyed, via land ambulance, to University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire. A medic travelled on board the ambulance continuing to provide emergency medical treatment whilst on route to hospital.
The motorcyclist, a man, was also treated for multiple injuries before being immobilised using a neck collar and spinal board. The motorcyclist was also conveyed via land ambulance to the same hospital for further assessment and treatment.
At approximately 3.35pm the Midlands Air Ambulance from Staffordshire, an ambulance and a community first responder attended to an incident involving a car and a motorcyclist near to Whitacre Garden Centre on Tamworth Road in Coleshill, Birmingham.
The motorcyclist, a man, was treated for serious multiple injuries. The man was fully immobilised and airlifted to University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire.
Shortly after 5.15pm crews were called Holyhead Road, Priorslee, Telford to reports of a motorcyclist that had been in collision with a bollard. An ambulance and the Midlands Air Ambulance from Cosford were dispatched to the scene.
The motorcyclist, a man, was treated for a potential pelvic fracture. The man was given pain relief at the scene and fully immobilised before being airlifted to University Hospital of North Staffordshire.
Friday 5th April 2013 – 8.40pm – Suzie Fothergill.
A teenage boy has been airlifted to hospital following an incident in Wolverhampton today.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to a road traffic collision at the junction of Lawnswood Avenue and Birmingham New Road in Ettingshall shortly after 5pm this evening.
Two ambulances, a rapid response vehicle, the Midlands Air Ambulance from Staffordshire and the West Midlands Care Team, consisting of a doctor, an immediate care nurse and a paramedic ambulance officer were dispatched to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "On arrival at the scene crews found a pedestrian and a car that had been in collision.
"The pedestrian, a boy believed to be approximately 14 years of age, was treated for a head injury, a significant left leg injury, a potential right leg injury and a fractured arm.
Friday 5th April 2013 – 8.30am – Suzie Fothergill.
Two people have been taken to hospital following a road traffic collision in the Black Country last night.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the incident which took place on a roundabout at the junction of Shrubbery Avenue, Bell Street and Dudley Road in Tipton shortly after 7.10pm last night.
One ambulance, a paramedic area support officer and the Trust's MERIT rapid response vehicle, carrying a critical care paramedic and a trauma doctor were dispatched to the scene.
"The driver and front seat passenger from one of the vehicles were reported to have been ejected from the car. The driver, a 20-year-old man, was found lying on the floor in the middle of the roundabout. The man was treated for a head injury and fully immobilised before being conveyed to Russells Hall Hospital for further assessment and treatment.
"The front seat passenger, a 19-year-old woman was treated for minor injuries and was conveyed to the same hospital for further assessment.
Thursday 4th April 2013 – 8.30am – Suzie Fothergill.
A boy has died and another has been injured following an incident in Warwickshire yesterday afternoon.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to reports of a road traffic collision in Parkfield Road in Rugby shortly before 4.35pm yesterday.
An ambulance, two rapid response vehicles, a paramedic area support officer, a senior ambulance officer, the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance and a BASICS Doctor were dispatched to the scene.
A West Midlands Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: "On arrival at the scene crews found a boy lying in the road. The boy who had suffered serious injuries was immediately assessed and was found to be in traumatic cardiac arrest. Full resuscitation techniques were carried out at the scene but unfortunately despite best efforts of ambulance crews nothing could be done to save the boy and he was confirmed deceased at the scene.
I have no more details on this incident for more information please contact Warwickshire Police.
Tuesday 2nd April 2013 – 6.30am – Suzie Fothergill.
Two people have been taken to hospital following a road traffic collision in Tamworth last night.
West Midlands Ambulance Service was called to the incident on Coventry Road in Kingsbury at approximately 8.35pm yesterday.
Three ambulances, a rapid response car, a paramedic area support officer, a BASICS Doctor and the West Midlands CARE Team were dispatched to the scene.
"The driver of the first car, a man in his 20's, was treated for minor injuries and discharged at the scene.
"Two men in their 30's were found to be trapped in the second vehicle. The men were extricated from the vehicle with the assistance of the fire service. The driver was treated for multiple fractures to his pelvis and leg whilst the passenger was treated for leg fractures. Both men were fully immobilised and conveyed to University Hospital of Coventry and Warwickshire for further assessment and treatment. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdWA4uBhiv24yKrVX | Shot on location in Braddock, Pennsylvania and first shown as part of the exhibition so it is, curated by John Carson, at the Mattress Factory Pittsburgh. The town of Braddock is located in the eastern suburbs of Pittsburgh in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The town's industrial economy began in 1873, when Andrew Carnegie built the Edgar Thomson Steel Works. Braddock became the "cradle of Western Pennsylvania's steel industry" but like many other steel towns, Braddock's fortunes changed with the collapse of the steel industry in the United States in the 1980s. As a result of this decline, Braddock has since lost 90% of its population from its peak in the 1920s.
No Return is set in a fictional future where the planet is slowly dying as a consequence of pollution and climate change. No Return extends Doherty's interest in the relationship between landscape and memory and in working in locations that bear the traces of contested histories and narratives; some forgotten, some half remembered. Many of his works, Ghost Story (2007), Buried (2009), Remains (2013), have evolved from investigating specific places in his native Northern Ireland, as a means of meditating upon the existence of traces of past events that will not disappear, that resurface and cannot be forgotten. Doherty's approach and process is speculative. He often takes an existing image or other information as a starting point and then proceeds to see what can be discovered or found in the location. At the same time, Doherty's method is sensitive to the difficulties of working in a contemporary landscape that has been shaped by specific local circumstances and larger historical events.
No Return is concerned with the present rather than the past or the future. The work attempts to engage with the landscape as it looks today, as a repository of the memories of past experiences and as a witness to the ravages of socio-economic change. In looking at the present, No Return imagines and visualizes our shared apprehension about the future.
Willie Doherty (b.1959, Derry, Northern Ireland) continues to live and work in Derry.
His native landscape has been the focus of his work since his black-and-white photographs from the early 1980s. Doherty became known for his photographs overlaid with text, which dealt directly with the language of conflict as it relates to the representation of place. He continues to work in both video and photography as a means to investigate the changing political landscape of Northern Ireland and other countries with contested borders.
Doherty's photography and video installations have been included in numerous international exhibitions such as "Cocido y Crudo" at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (1994); "1999 Carnegie International," Pittsburgh; "XXV Bienal de São Paulo" (2002); the "Venice Biennale" (2007); "dOCUMENTA" (13), Kassel. He has been nominated twice for the Turner Prize; once in 1994 and again in 2003. In 2006, his work was the subject of a video survey exhibition organized by Laboratorio Arte Alameda in Mexico City and, in 2007, the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau in Münich and Kunstverein in Hamburg collaborated on an exhibition and catalogue, "Willie Doherty: Anthology of Time-Based Works." In 2010, Doherty filmed for the first time outside of Ireland and this work, 'SEGURA' was shown at "Manifesta 8" in Murcia. In 2016, Villa Merkel in Esslingen exhibited several recent and new video works by Doherty. In 2018, Doherty will participate in the inaugural edition of FRONT International, "An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises," in Cleveland Ohio.
In 2011, his work was the subject of one-person exhibition at Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane. "One Place Twice: Photo/Text/85/92," Doherty's exhibition of early black-and-white photographs was on view at Alexander and Bonin in 2012. From 2013 – 2014 a major survey exhibition of Doherty's video and photographic works "UNSEEN" was organized by the City Factory Gallery, Dublin and traveled to the Museum De Pont, Tilburg. In 2015, CAM- Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon presented "Again and Again," a major solo exhibition of Doherty's video and photographic works. In 2017, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburg commissioned the artist to create a new video work, No Return, which was shot on location in Braddock, Pennsylvania. | c4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdz7xK6nrxq6DoDFr | The MusicIRIS is a platform that helps you connect to musicians around you. Stay connected to all the artists events and gigs happening in India. Also, we sometimes giveaway free passes to events or free music downloads by artists.
What sets it apart from the humongous crowd is that we try to crowd-source as much content as we can. Anybody can send us articles and useful content, and we'll look forward to publish it as soon as possible, if its worth sharing.
Any other suggestions/comments are welcome. We might consider them. Or we might not. But they are welcome nonetheless.
All the work by The MusicIRIS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdyHxK7IADzpkUySz | Q: Crystal Report 13 and PHP integration error I want to integrate php and crystal report, im using CI and sql server database and running IIS. I have installed the 32 bit runtime because im running 32 bit version of php 7.0 in 64 bit windows server 2012. i have enabled 32 bit application IIS, and now im stuck in this error:
An uncaught Exception was encountered
Type: com_exception
Message: Source: Unknown
Description: Unknown
Here is my construct on my crystalreport.php
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$this->_file = $params['file'];
$this->_orientation = isset($params['orientation']) ? $params['orientation'] : "D";
//echo $this->_path.$params['modul'].'/'.$this->_file.".rpt";exit;
$this->_Object= new COM('CrystalReports13.ObjectFactory.1') or die ("Could not initialise Object.");
$this->_App = $this->_Object->CreateObject('CrystalRuntime.Application.13') ;
$this->_Report = $this->_App->OpenReport($this->_path.$params['modul'].'/'.$this->_file.".rpt", 1);
$this->_Report->EnableParameterPrompting = 0;
$this->_config['server'] = $CI->db->hostname;
$this->_config['database'] = $CI->db->database;
$this->_config['uid'] = $CI->db->username;
$this->_config['pass'] = $CI->db->password;
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The error pointed at the CreateObject();
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BkiUbTA4eIZijW3pMXr- | United States Pilgrimage
Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption & San Francisco Area
Spiritual Leader: Fr. Chris Liwarski
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San Francisco · Sonoma County · Mission San Juan Bautista · Carmel by the Sea · Mission San Luis Obispo · Old Mission Santa Barbara · Los Angeles · Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels · Hollywood · Garden Grove · San Juan Capistrano · Mission San Luis Rey · San Diego · Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala
Begin your 9-day Pilgrimage to California Missions in San Francisco, with a visit to the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi which was built for Catholic gold rush settlers in 1849, before the city of California was even a State! Continue to incredible missions like the Mission of San Juan Bautista, the Old Mission of Santa Barbara, Mission San Luis Rey, and incredible churches like Saint Mary of the Assumption, the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, and the Crystal Cathedral. Along your west coast Pilgrimage, visit vineyards, beaches, and even Hollywood. Learn about California's Catholic roots on this unique American Pilgrimage!
Fr. Chris Liwarski
Any Questions? Contact:
Natasha@206tours.com
from Newark
8 nights at centrally located first class hotels as follows: (or similar)
~ 2 nights: May 17 - 19: Hyatt Place Fremont (San Francisco Outskirt)
~ 1 night: May 19 - 20: The Kinney, San Luis Obispo
~ 3 nights: May 20 - 23: Courtyard by Marriott Hawthorne (Los Angeles Outskirt)
~ 2 nights: May 23 - 25: Best Western Seven Seas, San Diego
Transfers as per itinerary
Transportation by air-conditioned motor coach
Assistance of a professional local Catholic guide(s)
Sightseeing and admissions fees as per itinerary
Mass daily & Spiritual activities
Luggage handling (1 piece per person)
Tips for Hotels and restaurants
Hyatt Place Fremont
(San Francisco Outskirt)
Courtyard by Marriott Hawthorne
(Los Angeles Outskirt)
Best Western Seven Seas
Tips to your guide & driver.
Airfare from your hometown
What is the Cost of "Cancel for Any Reason" Coverage: $299
- Can I cancel my trip any time? - You can cancel up until 48 hours prior to your departure.
- Will "Cancel for Any Reason" coverage work if I cancel due to Coronavirus, Act of God - Yes.
How Does "Cancel for Any Reason" Coverage Work? - To get "Cancel for Any Reason" coverage you'll have to purchase a base travel insurance plan www.206tours.com/insurance/insurance and add "cancel for any reason" (CFAR) coverage within 14 days (2 weeks) of your first tour confirmation otherwise premium maybe higher or you will not be able to purchase it. Excluded are these 3 states -New York, Missouri and Minnesota -you do not have to purchase basic/ regular travel insurance (which we highly recommend).
You will be able to get all your money back, if you cancel your trip for any reason that's not already (a reason) covered by your policy, example if you are sick, or a member of your family is sick, you will make a claim through the regular travel insurance, who will refund you.
Day 1: Monday, May 17, 2021: Arrive San Francisco
Upon arrival, meet your tour escort for your transfer to the hotel for check in. Enjoy some free time, before we embark on our panoramic city sightseeing tour including the Civic Center, Opera House, Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Park, Japanese Tea Garden and the Presidio. We will celebrate Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption. The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption is the principal church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, the existing Cathedral is the third bearing this name. The first still stands and is now known as Old St. Mary's and the second was destroyed by fire in 1962. After Mass, we will return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Tuesday, May 18, 2021: San Francisco - Sonoma County - San Francisco
Following a full breakfast at the hotel, we will proceed to the famed Sonoma Wine Region and Marin County area by crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. We will visit the Mission San Francisco Solano, which is nestled in the wine country 40 miles north of San Francisco and across from the site of the Bear Flag Revolt of 1846. We will celebrate Mass at Mission San Francisco Solano and enjoy some free time for prayer and reflection. We then return to San Francisco for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Wednesday, May 19, 2021: Mission San Juan Bautista - Carmel by the Sea - Mission San Luis Obispo
After breakfast, we will celebrate Mass at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. It is here that the relics of Saint Francis, Saint Clare, and Saint Anthony of Padua are contained. Following Mass, depart San Francisco for visit of Mission San Juan Bautista also known as "Mission of Music." While here we will view the only remaining original Spanish Plaza, surrounded by 30 buildings including the original adobe manjerio (nunnery). Next, we will enjoy drive to Carmel by the Sea and stop for tour of Folktale Winery and Vineyards which will include tasting of six wines. We continue with a visit of San Carlos Borromeo Mission in Carmel, where St. Junipero Serra is entombed beneath the sanctuary of this church. We end the day in San Luis Obispo where we will have dinner and retire for the evening.
Day 4: Thursday, May 20, 2021: Mission San Luis Obispo - Old Mission Santa Barbara - Los Angeles
After breakfast, we will start our day with a guided tour of the beautiful church, gardens, school and museum that holds a collection of its artifacts at San Luis Obispo de Tolosa Mission. We will have lunch en route to Santa Barbara, a spectacular Southern California coastal community. In Santa Barbara, we will participate in a private guided tour of Old Mission Santa Barbara and celebrate Mass. Mission Santa Barbara's namesake comes from the story of Saint Barbara, a girl who was beheaded by her father for following the Christian Faith. We will continue on to Los Angeles for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Friday, May 21, 2021: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Hollywood
After full breakfast at hotel we will celebrate Mass and partake in a private tour at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The Cathedral is widely known for en-shrining the relics of Saint Vibiana and piece of the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Continue with the tour of Beverly Hills and Hollywood, including TLC Chinese Theatre, the Walk of Fame, Avenue of the Stars, Sunset and Wilshire Boulevards. Dinner will be at a local restaurant. Return to the hotel for overnight.
Day 6 |Saturday, May 22, 2021: Los Angeles - Garden Grove - Los Angeles
Following breakfast at the hotel, we will transfer to Garden Grove/ Orange County for visit and Mass celebration at Christ Cathedral (the former Crystal Cathedral) which is now the home of the diocese. We will be touring its stunning facade and the magnificent gardens that surround it. Continue on to visit the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles. The way of life of the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles is rooted in the Gospel, and in the Carmelite spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila. "Carmel" means enclosed garden in which God Himself dwells. The divine indwelling in the soul is the foundation of Teresa's doctrine. Then visit the Mission San Fernando Rey de Espana. We will conclude the evening with dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Sunday, May 23, 2021: San Juan Capistrano - Mission San Luis Rey - San Diego
Following breakfast at hotel, depart Los Angeles for San Juan Capistrano. Welcome to the "Jewel of the Missions"! Enjoy lunch, on your own, at a local restaurant and stop for some relaxation time at Dana Point. Continue to Oceanside and celebrate Mass at Mission San Luis Rey, also known as the "King of the Missions." This mission is named for St. Louis who led the crusades to regain the Holy Land for Christ. Next, we will make our way to San Diego for dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Monday, May 24, 2021: Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala
Today, after breakfast, we will explore San Diego. We will drive through Mission Bay Park and see Balboa Park. Celebrate Mass at Mission San Diego de Alcala, the "Mother of the California Missions". This afternoon, enjoy some free time to relax, pray or explore San Diego. Tonight, we enjoy our last night with a farewell dinner at local restaurant.
Day 9: Tuesday, May 25, 2021: Return back home
With a renewed sense of pilgrimage and an invigorated love of our Catholic faith, we bid farewell to our fellow pilgrims. Transfer to the airport for your return flight(s) home.
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BkiUdeo5qoTBBnDyg9GN | Please join us for a small group themed discussion on what does it mean to be a people of trust.
Shanthi Project is a nonprofit organization that offers therapeutic yoga and mindfulness strategies to trauma survivors of all ages. In this presentation, join Brooke as she shares what Shanthi's mindfulness in the classroom looks like. Discussion will include how this program began; what mindfulness offers to teachers, students, and families and even some mindfulness strategies you can use and practice at home.
In the previous session we looked at the human brain as an extraordinarily complex physical object that along with the body and the environment makes a human being what he or she is. Here we examine some of the upsides and also some of the downsides of that particular view.
Guest speaker M. Said Selmanlar was born in Turkey in 1994 and came to U.S. 3 years ago. He is the current president of the Lehigh Dialogue Center which was founded in 2004 as a 501(c) non-profit and non-political organization by a group of dedicated volunteers of business people, academicians and professionals in the Lehigh Valley. LDC aims to promote mutual understanding and common commitments throughout the world for enriching social good.
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BkiUc6U5qYVBSqkygkEv | KYOTO CITY OFFICIAL TRAVEL GUIDE
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Cherry-Picked Sakura Spots on the Edges of Kyoto
Come springtime, Kyoto is full of gorgeous color, as the cherry blossom season arrives on schedule for its fleeting festival of pink and white. Unfortunately, it's also full of crowds flocking to see these sights, which means that sometimes your only view is one seen over a sea of heads, phones and cameras.
Kyoto is home to a host of famous sakura-viewing spots, though not all of them are in the city proper. If you're willing to stretch your legs a little and venture into the surrounding hills and suburbs, you'll be rewarded with some decidedly less-crowded spots. Most are quite conveniently accessed by public transport, so why not leave the clamour of the town center behind and take in some real spring beauty at your own leisurely pace?
Keihoku: Joshoko-ji Temple
The township of Keihoku, located in the mountains in the far north of the city limits, has been a secluded getaway destination since the 8th century. This tranquil rural area has deep connections with Japan's Imperial household. Joshoko-ji Temple was established in the 14th century. Its famous kokonoe cherry is registered as a natural treasure. With serene rural vistas and blossoms trailing over thatched roofs, the sakura scenery here has a transitory beauty unmatched by any in the city.
Access: Taking a JR bus from Kyoto Station, alight at the Shuzan bus stop and change to a local Keihoku Furusato bus. It's a 15-minute ride to the Yamagunigoryo-mae bus stop. From here the temple is a 10-minute walk.
Opening Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Ohara: Sanzen-in Temple
Another of Kyoto's northern gems, the Ohara area is well-known as the city's vegetable garden, supplying delicious local delicacies to the city's restaurants and dining tables. It's just as famous for the magnificent Sanzen-in Temple, which is home to National Treasure Amida Nyorai Buddhist icon and lush gardens, and a year-round tourist destination. The weeping cherry near the Oku-no-in Temple is a particular highlight. The grounds are lit up during the sakura season, making the 300-plus cherry trees appear to float mystically above the landscape.
Access: A 60-minute Kyoto Bus ride from Kyoto Station to Ohara bus stop, then a 10-minute walk to Sanzen-in Temple.
Takao: Jingo-ji Temple
An hour by bus from Kyoto city center will bring you to Takao, a quiet mountain village popular as a hiking destination from Arashiyama. Jingo-ji Temple is famous nationwide for its breathtaking autumn scenery, but its springtime cherry views are still miraculously unknown. At this time of year, the unique solemnity of mountain temples and the magnificent views are especially memorable when experienced along with the moving sight of wild and weeping cherries.
Access: Take a JR bus on the Takao Keihoku line from Kyoto Station, and after 50 mins alight at the Yamashiro-Takao bus stop. The temple is a 20-minute walk from here. Alternatively, take the Number 8 bus from the bus stop above City Subway Shijo Station and Hankyu Line Karasuma Station, alight at Takao bus stop after a 45 minute ride. The temple is a 20-minute walk from here.
Nishikyo: Oharano-jinja Shrine
There are some fine cherry blossoms out on the west side of town too. Forty minutes from the station by a train and bus connection will bring you to Oharano, an area rich in nature located in the foothills of the Oshioyama mountain range. Oharano-jinja Shrine is a historic shrine which is said to have been built in 784, around the time that neighboring Nagaoka-kyo was established as the nation's capital. A magnificent weeping cherry tree over 80 years old brings masses of divine white blooms to the shrine every spring. This tree, known as the Sengan-zakura, only blooms for a few days every year, making it a special destination for sakura enthusiasts.
Access: From Kyoto station, take the JR line to Mukomachi Station and change to a Hankyu Bus bound for Minami-kasugacho. The shrine is a seven-minute walk from Minami-kasugacho, the final stop.
Opening Hours: Shrine grounds open to visitors all hours.
Shrine office open 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily.
Yamashina: Bishamon-do Temple
During the Edo Period some three centuries ago, Yamashina flourished at Kyoto's gateway on the Tokaido Road. Bishamondo, one of the area's most historic temples, is famous for its fusuma-e sliding door painting. Created on the rules of "reverse-perspective," the painting creates an optical illusion that places the vviewer in the central position regardless of viewing point. As for sakura, the temple's treasure is a 150-year-old weeping cherry known as the Hannya-zakura. With its branches stretching over 30 meters wide, the mighty tree has a majesty and grace that only centurions are afforded.
Access: The temple is a 20-minute walk from Yamashina Station on the JR, subway, and Keihan lines. JR Yamashina Station is a five-minute ride from Kyoto Station.
(Gates close at 4:30 p.m. until March 15th)
Fushimi: Horikawa Riverbanks
Fushimi, home of Kyoto's sake industry, is a quiet town south of the city, interlaced with a network of canals. These canals were key to the area's prospering as a river port handling trade between Osaka and Kyoto during the Edo and Meiji Periods. The town retains its historic atmosphere to this day, with blocks of white-walled sake storehouses and barges sailing back and forth along the canals. For the best view of the cherry trees exploding into bloom, take one of these tourist boats (the Jikkokubune or the larger Sanjikkoku-bune) and sample some local brews as you drift down the canals.
Access: The tourist boat landing is a five-minute walk from Chushojima Station. From Kyoto Station take the Kintetsu Kyoto Line to Tambabashi Station. Change here for the Keihan Main Line, and alight at Chushojima (Approx. three-minute ride).
Opening Hours: Jikkokubune tours run from March 21st through December 8th, 2019. Fifteen departures daily between 10:00 a.m. and 4:20 p.m.
Sanjikkoku tours sail on March 30th, 31st, April 6th, 7th, 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th, 2019. Six departures each day between 9:35 a.m. and 3:35 p.m.
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This qualification is issued by Service IQ (formerly Hospitality Standards Institute). They will issue you with your LCQ certificate directly. We take care of the LCQ application for you.
Assessment for this course is based on the requirements of Service IQ. If the assessment is not completed or there are errors, the unit standards cannot be awarded. You can choose to take the assessment at another time. If you do not pass the test, you may qualify for a verbal re-sit, free of charge. If you have a substantial amount of incorrect or incomplete answers you will have the opportunity to re-sit these at our scheduled group re-sit times within the next three months. A re-sit fee of $65 applies. For scheduled assessment re-sit days and times, contact 092612390. The course must be completed within 3 months of the enrolment date.
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BkiUdu84dbjiVFhKgE97 | Guilty Gear Strive Delayed to Fix Much-Maligned Lobby System
The fighting game will now launch in June.
Kenneth Shepard, MARCH 4, 2021
Arc System Works has announced that Guilty Gear Strive is being pushed out of next month and into June.
News of this came from a post on the studio's social channels, where it said it would be integrating feedback from the fighting game's recent Open Beta Test, which means that a few months of polish time is necessary to get Guilty Gear Strive at its best.
The full statement reads as follows:
We have made the tough decision to move the release date of Guilty Gear Strive (previously planned for April 9, 2021) to June 11, 2021.
Since we have received valuable feedback after the recent Open Beta Test, we would like to make the most of this opportunity to provide the best game possible. We need extra time to polish some aspects of the game, such as the online lobbies and the server's stability.
We believe it best to use the extra time to improve the game's quality and provide a better experience to all our players.
「Important announcement regarding #GuiltyGearStrive」 pic.twitter.com/siP46ketuE
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During the Open Beta Test, the lobby system Arc System Works was using for Guilty Gear Strive was a major point of criticism. Even here at Fanbyte, where Eric Van Allen wrote about how the lobbies were a major hassle, and that the community was already looking for ways to navigate around them rather than use them.
"That's not to say the ridiculous lobbies will kill the game; fighting game players have traditionally dealt with frustrating multiplayer systems or used workarounds," Van Allen wrote. "They will do it here and continue to do so. Private Discords, character channels, and subreddits, as well as just having a social network of fellow fighters invested in the same game, can go pretty far. My concern is where that leaves the average person."
So hopefully whatever rework Arc System Works puts into place with these additional two months of development will smooth things over. Guilty Gear Strive is launching on PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.
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BkiUdt7xaJiQnQ_a1CTU | The Role Geography and Income Play in Getting to and Through College
This is the second of a 4-part blog series focused on the interconnected elements that impact students who fall within the academic middle of their peers.
If over a lifetime Americans with college degrees earn 84% more than those with only high school diplomas, then getting to and through college is the greatest lever for promoting upward economic mobility. For high school students who fall within the academic middle of their peers, attaining a post-secondary degree can be a challenge as they are generally on the cusp of college eligibility but need the extra guidance and support to get there. Add geography and family income into the equation, the probability of low-income students earning that degree decrease even more.
According to nationwide statistics for the high school class of 2018, 55% of students attending low-income, high-minority schools enrolled in college the fall after high school graduation as compared to 71% of students who attended high-income, low-minority schools. How much people make often determine where they can afford to live, and where people live often dictates the variety of resources and opportunities their children are exposed to in order to climb the academic ladder.
Capital Partners for Education (CPE) mentors low-income students in the academic middle from the Washington, D.C. area to provide the skills and experiences they need to successfully complete college and excel in the workforce. Many of CPE's students reside in Wards 7 and 8 of Washington, D.C., where data on financial outcomes is alarming.
As of January 2020, the average median household income in Ward 7 was $40,963 and $36,697 in Ward 8 compared to $90,695 in the city as a whole. This income gap presents barriers to students who may not live in more affluent areas of Washington, D.C. and overall, it contributes to the systemic issue of income inequality in the United States.
Navigating life as a student from a low-income area comes with its own set of challenges. CPE college student, Fred, grew up in Ward 7. He offers insight into the difference in opportunities he had access to compared to his peers. "I remember hearing about students who received the D.C. Achievers Scholarship Award," said Fred. "We didn't get that at my school but I feel it was something we needed." Fred believes that getting himself into programs like CPE was vital for his success as he grew up in a community that didn't provide access to resources such as mentorship or help with paying for student fees.
A contributing factor to Fred becoming an academic middle student was what he experienced outside of school. "If you grow up in a low-income area, your daily thoughts and troubles are different from those who don't," said Fred. "For me, my primary thoughts were centered around safety, wondering how I was going to get home, and having to decide if it was too late in the day to participate in extracurricular activities." After talking to some of his peers from higher-income areas in D.C., Fred said they didn't have the same worries. "To live in an area that allowed you to solely focus on your studies and moving forward shouldn't be taken for granted when you compare that to students from low-income areas who often have to endure things that go on outside of school, ultimately hindering their success in school," said Fred.
A 2019 Stanford study reports: "families residing in disadvantaged neighborhoods may have less access to high-quality preschools, fewer neighbors with high levels of education, social and political capital who can provide role models and support, more exposure to violence and crime (Patillo, 2013), fewer social services (e.g. physical and mental health care), and fewer opportunities for extracurricular activities. All of these factors may shape educational opportunities and cognitive development both in early childhood and during school." (Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2019)
One of the outcomes from residing in low-income neighborhoods points to minimal post-secondary education attainment. As of January 2020, only 16% of Ward 7 residents and 17% of Ward 8 residents had achieved a bachelor's degree or higher. It's a challenge to aspire to what you haven't been exposed to without support from someone who has achieved those goals.
Fred is a first-generation college student and relied heavily on the mentorship he received from his CPE mentor, Aaron; FASFA workshops held by CPE; and going on college campus tours to get into college. "My mom wasn't able to provide substantial help when I went through the college application process," said Fred. "It's still hard to this day particularly when having to fill out the FASFA form each year with her." Although Fred admires his mother's strength and resiliency, he wanted to create a different path and do something no one in his family had ever done before – attend college.
"I know I wouldn't be in college if it wasn't for CPE," said Fred. "It's the push you get to achieve more, because I was at the point where I just wanted to get out of high school and I wasn't thinking past that. CPE and my mentor kept me focused on my future with a goal of getting to and through college." Fred's passion for creativity led him to major in theater and performance. He is in his junior year at Morehouse College and plans to pursue a career in stage production and costume design after receiving his bachelor's degree next year.
Students from low-income areas face an ever-widening gap in accessing resources and being exposed to opportunities that help them complete college with the necessary skills to enter sustainable careers. This blog provided insight into the interconnected elements of geography and income that impact students who fall within the academic middle of their peers. The next blog in this series will focus on race and how it effects these students in their quest to achieve upward economic mobility. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
BkiUd0E25V5jBFwBuDue | Q: use of jquery or html5 to drag,resize a div around inside parent <div class='main' >
<div class='panel panel-primary desktop-window'>
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now what i need is to make this panel movable and resizeable and minimizable !
so i started with
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$('[data-action="close"]').click(function(){
$(this).closest('.desktop-window').remove();
});
$('[data-action="collapse"]').click(function(){
if(!$(this).attr('restored')){
var p=minimized.push($(this).closest('.desktop-window')) - 1;
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$('#active-windows').append("<a href='#' data-restore='"+p+"' class='btn btn-xs btn-default' onclick='restore(this);'>RESTORE</a>");
}else{
p = $(this).attr('restored');
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now the tricky part is how to move around and resize this thing !
for resize i tried
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but its not working for some reason :( any clues ?
as for moving around i dont want to use heavy jquery-ui since im already using bootstrap.
so is there an easier way to do it with jquery+html5 alone ?
also even when i tried jqueryUi problem is that it takes the dom out of its location and append it to body, which is not what i want.
thanks for your time
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BkiUdw05qsBDFq2tCk3e | First game : Madrid Vs Tottenham - One of the best matches two watch as both the teams would have an attacking display and even though spurs are having a dream run no one can count them out. Real likely to win the match and many people would put their money on them but my bet would go on spurs and they are turning to be the dark horses of this years Champions League. There is nothing to loose for the English side but Real Madrid have everything to loose. Mourinho would definitely like to show of another milestone in his career and move on . Ronaldo would miss the first leg due to injury and that would be a nice advantage for Spurs and hope they can capitalize on it.
Second game : Chelsea Vs Manchester United - this match would definitely see an English team reach the semis and probably reach the finals. Both teams having equal chances as United have confidence of being first in the league and Chelsea have the edge as they beat United recently. Its a match where any prediction can go wrong. Its all on the hands of players how they play on the day.
Third game : Barcelona Vs Shakthar - Barcelona clear favourites for this game. Shakhtar coming of a strong display in the last round against Roma showed that they are not scared of any team and would for sure play attacking against Barca. Barca goalie should tighten up his gloves and be ready to make some hot saves.
Fourth game : Inter Milan Vs Schalke04 - Inter getting the easiest draw in the quarters. Schalke not attacking much but play technically. Inter would like to comfortably reach the semis unlike the round of 16 they won which had a lot of drama. Schalke's main player would be Raul as he is eager to keep making an impact in Europe and show that he is still present. | c4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUfUbxK3YB9m4AAxJX | Did you know that some of our Montreal pharmacies employ naturopaths who give advice to customers, even though this is forbidden? This is one of the many upsetting facts uncovered by Philippe Mercure for his La Presse investigation on the sale of homeopathy in drugstores. He was inspired by an article I wrote a few months ago, revealing that at least two-thirds of big-chain pharmacies in Montreal were selling the now-infamous Oscillococcinum, sugar pills alleged to help with flu-like symptoms.
Mercure visited 20 pharmacies in our city. In the 19 that carried the homeopathic product, he asked to speak to a pharmacist. He explained that a friend of his had been bedridden with muscle aches and a fever for two days. He heard about Oscillococcinum. Should he buy it?
Seven professionals told him not to. Six had more ambiguous messages, warning him of the lack of evidence but concluding that it could potentially work. Six more actually recommended the product (four pharmacists, one pharmacy technician, and one naturopath).
- Homeopathy was conceived at a time when medicine was pretty barbaric, and it was based on ideas borrowed from sympathetic magic (like cures like… so something that provokes a fever will cure one in an ill patient) and bad observations (a remedy that was inadvertently shaken while taxiing on cobblestones seemed to work better). Its proponents will approve of the titanic dilutions used to create the final product (because the more you dilute, the more powerful it becomes, obviously): they will say the water remembers the original molecule (but somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it, as Tim Minchin reminds us).
A representative from the Quebec Order of Pharmacists told Mercure they were surprised and disappointed by his findings. Indeed, article 34 of the pharmacist's code of ethics in Quebec states that he or she "must practice with competence and in accordance to scientifically acceptable data". The Order told Mercure that pharmacists who recommend homeopathic products will find themselves in a precarious position from the standpoint of professional ethics. I was happy to read a clear statement from their representative in La Presse: "There is no scientific evidence that demonstrates the efficacy of homeopathy for any indication" (translation mine).
In these situations, many practicing pharmacists are quick to blame the chain for which they work, which decides what gets sold beyond the prescription counter. So Mercure went to the ABCPQ (the Quebec Association of Pharmacy Chains) for comments. Their response beggars belief. They told him that they had only been informed these past few weeks of new publications which they believe are credible and which cast doubt on the efficacy of homeopathic remedies. When asked what these "new" and "credible" publications were, their spokesman pointed to the media coverage of our Oscillococcinum investigation. It should go without saying that we did not provide evidence of homeopathy working or not. The research on homeopathy has been conducted by actual researchers and isn't new. Entire governments have conducted evidence checks on the body of evidence behind homeopathic claims and have come to the conclusion that, as the Quebec Order of Pharmacists correctly stated, it does not work for any indication.
So what will the ABCPQ do with this "novel" information? They told Mercure they will give signs to pharmacists to put next to homeopathic products. These signs will indicate the absence of scientific data regarding homeopathy and will invite customers to consult their pharmacist for more details. I believe this is a small step in the right direction if consistently implemented, as it will expand on Health Canada's requirement for cold-and-flu homeopathic remedies targeting children to carry a similar warning. A two-fold problem remains. First, how many signs will go up, since homeopathy is usually distributed all over the pharmacy, mixing the sugar pills with the actual drugs? Second, will the incorrect advice by some pharmacists be corrected in the future?
The final (and most disturbing) revelation from this piece of reporting concerns the presence of naturopaths in some of our pharmacies. When I sought to determine how many pharmacies carried Oscillococcinum last December, I discovered that one of them had a naturopath on staff. I was transferred to her and she recommended the product. I was shocked by her presence in an actual medical pharmacy, but Google Reviews of the establishment provided further proof that she was real. Mercure uncovered a second naturopath working in a Montreal pharmacy. Both pharmacies belong to the Shoppers Drug Mart banner (Pharmaprix on the French side). A representative for the pharmacy chain claimed they were "clerks" who should not be giving advice.
Forgive me if I can't believe this. Two pharmacies from the same chain happen to have floor clerks with such a universally recognized knowledge of alternative medicine that the pharmacy staff decides to systematically reroute questions on homeopathy to them?
What this looks like instead is a tentative step toward "integrative pharmacies". Much like creationism was rebranded as "intelligent design" (and later as "teach the controversy"), alternative medicine is in the midst of an academia-friendly reinvention: integrative medicine. The elevator pitch is that "Western medicine" is good but insufficient, and must be integrated to alternative therapies for the patient to receive optimal care. Some pharmacies have fallen under that spell (I visited one in Vancouver last year).
I do have some bad news for their potential infiltration in Quebec: our Order of Pharmacists states that it is forbidden. According to article 9 of their code of ethics, pharmacists are barred from collaborating with non-professionals. Since neither homeopaths nor naturopaths have a professional order in Quebec, they are considered non-professionals. Their employment in pharmacies as alternative health "professionals", even away from the prescription counter, is prohibited.
Pressure is mounting against homeopathy. All of this media coverage is generating discussions behind closed doors. There is a national class action lawsuit led by a citizen, Adanna Charles, against the makers of Oscillococcinum, the claim being that its publicity is deceiving and misleading. In British Columbia, the Registrar of its College of Pharmacists recently asked people following the media coverage of our investigation to chime in on whether or not homeopathy belongs on drugstore shelves. South of the border, the Center for Inquiry is suing CVS, a major pharmacy chain, for fraud over the sale of homeopathic remedies. And in the UK, the unremitting efforts of the Good Thinking Society and its allies led to the National Health Service stopping its funding of homeopathy through taxpayer money. And I should mention pharmacist Graham MacKenzie of Nova Scotia who publicly removed homeopathy from his shelves.
Homeopathic products, which masquerade as real medication, have no place in our drugstores. By being sold in pharmacies, they receive an implicit endorsement. And it's the consumer, physically ill and ill-informed, who ends up paying the price. | c4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
BkiUdKfxaKgQKLxdbe-x | BSNL 4G Expected Launch Delayed
Reported by Tanay Singh Thakur November 19th, 2021 at 12:44 am
If the state-run telco then takes almost 10 months from there to launch 4G services, it would mean that BSNL's 4G networks might only become a reality by the end of 2022.
The telco has extended the proof of concept (PoC) timeline till December 31, 2021.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is now expected to take more time for launching 4G networks.
BSNL requires 4G roll out very desperately and the delays must be very painful for the company.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is now expected to take more time for launching 4G networks. The telco's 4G trials have been extended now. The trials were supposed to finish by October 31, 2021. But that hasn't happened because Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) hasn't complied with all the norms of the Expression of Interest (EoI). BSNL wants TCS to comply with the EoI norms and use 40W radios. TCS has majorly used 20W radios for the sites which would increase the power requirement for running 4G sites.
BSNL 4G Trials Now Expected to Finish by December 31, 2021
According to a Financial Express report, the expected time from for BSNL to complete the 4G trials is now extended to December 31, 2021. If the state-run telco then takes almost 10 months from there to launch 4G services, it would mean that BSNL's 4G networks might only become a reality by the end of 2022.
But that too depends on the condition that there are no more delays. The telco has extended the proof of concept (PoC) timeline till December 31, 2021. Further, there's also problems for the telco in upgrading the 2G and 3G sites to 4G in the south and west zones at a cost of Rs 567.35 crore. For the unaware, its proposal to upgrade the said sites were denied.
All this additional time that BSNL is taking to roll out 4G services is eating away its chances of actually being able to make an impact in the market. The other operators would have enhanced the quality of their 4G services by a long margin until then. Further, even 5G might arrive in end by the end of 2022 or early 2023.
BSNL requires 4G roll out very desperately and the delays must be very painful for the company. If there are any more delays, BSNL's 4G won't make any difference at all.
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BkiUa7Y5qX_AY1OJKk6B | '2018 is looking to be the greenest year yet for the auto market,' Edmunds analysts say.
The nation's roads are about to get greener.
The overall market share for green vehicles is on pace to jump to 4.4% of the overall vehicle market in 2018, compared to 3.2% this year, according to analysts from Edmunds.
"2018 is looking to be the greenest year yet for the auto market," Edmunds said in a Monday note.
Plug-in vehicles could see sales double next year, on track to outsell traditional hybrids before 2018 is out. That comes even as investors harbor continued concerns that industry leader Tesla Inc. (TSLA - Get Report) won't be able to deliver on its promise to place Model 3s across the U.S. Earlier this year, Tesla chief Elon Musk insisted his electric car company would ramp up production to 5,000 cars per week by the end of 2017. The company has whiffed on the goal by a long shot, delivering 222 Model 3s in the third quarter.
"Even if Tesla doesn't meet its full production commitments for the Model 3 until midsummer, 2018 will still be a hallmark year for green vehicles," said Jessica Caldwell, Edmunds executive director of industry analysis.
"The price of batteries is coming down, EV range is rising, and shoppers will have more choices than ever. However, the lower end of the EV market will feel pressure once federal tax credits start to wane toward the latter half of the year, which will give the first indication of how ready the segment is to stand on its own," Caldwell said.
While electric model sales are teed up for solid gains, overall car sales are expected to shrink for the second year in a row in 2018, Edmunds said. Analysts predict a total of 16.8 million vehicles sold next year, down from 17.2 million in 2017.
"The rise in green car sales is really just a precursor to what OEMs have in the works for the autonomous vehicles promised for 2019 and 2020," Caldwell said. "2018 will be a year of right-sizing for the present while putting some of the critical building blocks in place for the future." | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUetnxK6-gD5Tle5kD | The GENCODE Consortium aims to identify all gene features in the human genome using a combination of computational analysis, manual annotation, and experimental validation. Since the first public release of this annotation data set, few new protein-coding loci have been added, yet the number of alternative splicing transcripts annotated has steadily increased. The GENCODE 7 release contains 20,687 protein-coding and 9640 long noncoding RNA loci and has 33,977 coding transcripts not represented in UCSC genes and RefSeq. It also has the most comprehensive annotation of long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) loci publicly available with the predominant transcript form consisting of two exons. We have examined the completeness of the transcript annotation and found that 35% of transcriptional start sites are supported by CAGE clusters and 62% of protein-coding genes have annotated polyA sites. Over one-third of GENCODE protein-coding genes are supported by peptide hits derived from mass spectrometry spectra submitted to Peptide Atlas. New models derived from the Illumina Body Map 2.0 RNA-seq data identify 3689 new loci not currently in GENCODE, of which 3127 consist of two exon models indicating that they are possibly unannotated long noncoding loci. GENCODE 7 is publicly available from gencodegenes.org and via the Ensembl and UCSC Genome Browsers. | c4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
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La République d'Herceg-Bosna, une entité non reconnue en Bosnie-Herzégovine entre 1991 et 1994.
Le canton de Herceg-Bosna ou canton 10 (Zapadnobosanska / Hercegbosanska Županija), un des cantons à majorité Croate composant la Fédération de Bosnie-et-Herzégovine. | wikipedia | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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France's biggest antisemitic website may soon be forced offline
French internet providers have until Thursday to block an openly racist and antisemitic website, or face a fine of 10,000 euros ($11,400) for every day they allow users to access it.
The ultimatum comes from Paris' outgoing public prosecutor, François Molins, who summoned all of the country's internet service providers to the French capital last month and told them to block the Démocratie Participative website.
Rife with 1930s-style caricatures depicting Jews as crooks and international conspirators, the far-right site is run by 37-year-old Frenchman Boris Le Lay.
The site claims to be "the most widely read website by unabashed white youth," and publishes articles daily with blatantly antisemitic names such as "The Criminal and Murderous Fanaticism of the Jewish Race Exposed to the World" and "While Advocating for the Invasion of Europe, World Jewry Claims Israel as a Racist Jewish State." Any pictures of Jewish men or women also feature a yellow star and the word "Jude."
A source close to Molins' office told Haaretz, "We have a list of antisemitic and hateful websites that we monitor and have sued already. But this one is by far the most extreme we have ever encountered."
A spokesman from Orange, France's largest internet service provider, told Haaretz that the company "would comply with [the prosecutor's] decision, and will implement it on time."
Source: haaretz
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BkiUfCzxaKgQUv_dNjLI | Q: Natural frequencies It's defined as the frequency that an object vibrates at when there is no driving force.
What's a driving force? IS the natural frequency the frequency at which the atoms inside vibrate? People usually use the example of hitting a baseball bat or striking a tuning. Isn't the hitting a driving force? And when you hit a tuning fork harder, the frequency of the vibration doesn't change. The amplitude changes. Can someone explain that? Does anyone have like a good animation of wave propagating through air and changing amplitude?
A: If you hit a tuning fork with a hammer, you provide a driving force. Once your hammer is no longer in contact with the tuning fork, there is no longer any driving force, and the fork vibrates at it's natural frequency.
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Two valuable depreciation-related tax breaks can potentially reduce your business taxes for 2017 if you acquire and place in service qualifying assets by the end of the tax year. Tax reform could enhance these breaks, so you'll want to keep an eye on legislative developments as you plan on buying business assets.
Section 179 Expensing
Sec. 179 expensing allows businesses to deduct up to 100% of the cost of qualifying assets (new or used) in Year 1 instead of depreciating the cost over a number of years. Sec. 179 can be used for fixed assets, such as equipment, software and real property improvements.
The Sec. 179 expensing limit for 2017 is $510,000. The break begins to phase out dollar-for-dollar for 2017 when total asset acquisitions for the tax year exceed $2.03 million. Under current law, both limits are indexed for inflation annually.
Under the initial version of the House bill, the limit on Section 179 expensing would rise to $5 million, with the phaseout threshold increasing to $20 million. These higher amounts would be adjusted for inflation, and the definition of qualifying assets would be expanded slightly. The higher limits for buying business assets will generally apply for 2018 through 2022.
The initial version of the Senate bill also would increase the Sec. 179 expensing limit, but only to $1 million, and would increase the phaseout threshold, but only to $2.5 million. The higher limits would be indexed for inflation and generally apply beginning in 2018. Significantly, unlike under the House bill, the higher limits would be permanent under the Senate bill. There would also be some small differences in which assets would qualify under the Senate bill vs. the House bill.
First-Year Bonus Depreciation
For qualified new assets (including software) that your business places in service in 2017, you can claim 50% first-year bonus depreciation. Examples of buying business assets that are qualifying include computer systems, software, machinery, equipment, office furniture and qualified improvement property. Currently, bonus depreciation is scheduled to drop to 40% for 2018 and 30% for 2019 and then disappear for 2020.
The initial House bill would boost bonus depreciation to 100% for qualifying assets (which would be expanded to include certain used assets) acquired and placed in service after September 27, 2017, and before January 1, 2023 (with an additional year for certain property with a longer production period).
The initial Senate bill would allow 100% bonus depreciation for qualifying assets acquired and placed in service during the same period as under the House bill. However, there would be some differences in which assets would qualify.
Year-End Planning for Buying Business Assets
If you've been thinking about buying business assets, consider doing it before year end to reduce your 2017 tax bill. If, however, you could save more taxes under tax reform legislation, for now you might want to limit your asset investments to the maximum 179 expense election currently available to you. From there, you can then consider additional investments depending on what happens with tax reform. It's still uncertain what the final legislation will contain. We also do not know yet if the passing and signing into law this year will be successful. Contact us to discuss the best strategy for your particular situation.
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BkiUffw5qhDCqaup9tmL | WASHINGTON -- Congress sent President Bush an $800 billion boost in the federal borrowing limit on Thursday, spotlighting how the budget has lurched out of control in recent years and how hard it will be to afford future initiatives.
"The president commends the Congress for passing the debt limit increase," the White House said in a written statement that did not mention the magnitude of borrowing involved or its causes. "Passage of this legislation was important to protect the full faith and credit of the United States."
In an effort to reassure the financial markets that federal borrowing would be unimpeded, the statement said Bush would sign the legislation by next Monday.
Republicans said they were being responsible because the increased borrowing will let the government pay Social Security benefits and its other bills. They blamed Democratic spending for the problem, and accused them of playing politics by opposing the measure.
"Let's not use our elderly as political pawns in trade for a seven-second sound bite back home," said Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas.
"I want someone to explain to me how it can be moral for a father to stick his kids with his bills," said Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss.
Remaining problems included an effort by some legislators to curb Bush's plan to contract out federal jobs to private businesses, as well as a plan to pay for some of the bill's increases by cutting unspent defense funds.
The bill would grant increases to such priorities as veterans' health care and the FBI and will probably contain thousands of home-district projects.
Hewing to Bush's demands to curb domestic spending, it also would cut grants for local water improvements and research supported by the National Science Foundation, while holding the federal subsidy for Amtrak to $1.2 billion, the same as this year.
Aid to help refugees in Sudan's war-torn Darfur province would be $404 million, including $93 million to be transferred from Iraq reconstruction money that is being spent at a snail's pace. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
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