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'We Told Them the Truth'
N.J. Comcast Techs Beat Back Decertification Vote
Trying to organize shops at Comcast is, for many union activists, the ultimate David vs. Goliath situation.
The company boasts a weak record of taking care of its workforce, having jacked up employee health care costs, withholding more than $160,000 in back pay to employees and more.
But despite a recent push by management and a few anti-union workers, technicians represented by East Windsor, N.J., Local 827 decisively beat back a decertification campaign that would have eliminated bargaining rights for dozens of members.
New Jersey Comcast technicians overwhelmingly voted against a proposed decertification.
"The company got a couple of the guys who were not strong union people and persuaded them to try to go nonunion," said Local 827 Business Agent Rich Spieler. "There were rumors that Comcast was going to give them stuff that the union could never get for them."
Joey Mastrogiovanni, a lead organizer for the union's Third District, said Comcast was "making them hollow promises, telling them they could get more money if they got rid of the union." Mastrogiovanni said that this, coupled with many questionable discipline practices that he called "frivolous," set a climate that worked to stack the odds against many union supporters.
The group of more than 70 technicians organized in 2010 – the first group ever to vote "union yes" at the telecommunications giant – and successfully negotiated a contract a year later.
But as the first four-year agreement's expiration date loomed last winter, a group of employees influenced by management circulated a decertification petition that garnered 17 signatures.
"It was a total anti-union effort, with captive audience meetings and other tactics," Spieler said.
But Spieler, along with Mastrogiovanni, International Representative Brian Brennan and a dedicated team of stewards and other committed activists, set out to make the case to the workforce that the IBEW remained the right choice for their futures. The team included stewards Al Wallace, Edgar Negron, Heath Stephens and Shawn Spraggs; chief stewards Glenn Yeary and Leah Connelly; recording secretary Diann Rose; and Verizon steward Gavin Beachum.
"We worked hard, sending emails every week," he said. "We were on the phone with stewards all the time. With Business Manager and President Bob Speer, Joe (Mastrogiovanni) and other rank-and-file leaders, it was a total group effort."
In the end, the company's anti-union tactics came up short. The unit voted on Feb. 5 by a margin of 42-13 against the decertification. However, since both the company and the union had filed unfair labor practice charges, the National Labor Relations Board initially sealed the results. The board eventually dismissed all charges, and the vote was made public June 11.
"We did a better job of making the case for sticking together," Spieler said. "We told them the truth. The company would have their meetings with people in the daytime, and we would have a nighttime meeting afterwards where we would answer all their questions. That's what made the difference."
Mastrogiovanni notes that the votes for decertification were fewer than the number of people who signed petition in the first place.
"It shows that even though some might have momentarily wanted the union out, they changed their minds and hung together with the unit."
Local 827's negotiating committee is now mobilizing for its next collective bargaining agreement.
Photo used under a Creative Commons license from Flicker user Mike Mozart. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUdlM4eIXhyO7AEJts | Category: STPs
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Slider Photos, South West London, South West London Collaborative Commissioning, South West London Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, STP, STPs, Sustainability and Transformation Plan, Sustainability and Transformation Plans, Template Letter, Write to your Councillors, Write to your doctor, Write to your MP
Plans are currently underway to cut, downgrade and close Acute Hospitals all over England, under the cloak of a scheme called "STP" (Sustainability and Transformation Plans). In South West London, they are currently looking at reducing the number of Acute hospitals from the current 5 (Kingston, Croydon, St George's, Epsom & St Helier) down to 4, or […]
Merton, Sutton & Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have begun an "Engagement" on a set of proposals they have called "Improving Healthcare Together". Just like the proposals which were published last year by the Epsom & St Helier Trust, if enacted these proposals would remove Acute services from ONE OR BOTH of Epsom Hospital […]
Come to the KOSHH Public Meeting, 8pm, 19th of April 2018
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Your acute hospitals are endangered. The Epsom & St Helier Hospitals University Hospitals NHS Trust are planning to close one or both of Epsom & St Helier as Acute hospitals. Come along and find out what we can do to prevent this. The KOSHH public meeting is at 8pm on Thursday the 19th of April […]
Part 4 – One in Three Acute Beds To Be Cut!
10/11/2017, A&E, Act Now, Beds per thousand, Carshalton and Wallington, Complicit, Damning report on hospital reconfiguration, Daniel Elkeles, Epsom Hospital, Slash and Trash Plans, Slider Photos, South West London, St Helier Hospital, Statistics, STPs, Video
On the 10th of November 2017, the Epsom & St Helier Trust Board decided to proceed with their plan to remove Acute Services from one or both of Epsom hospital AND St Helier hospitals. At a board meeting on the 10th of November 2017, despite significant opposition, a whole series of relevant questions being raised, […]
Part 3 – Were the public Engaged Under Duress?
10/11/2017, A&E, Act Now, Beds per thousand, Chris Grayling MP, Croydon CCG, Cuts, Daniel Elkeles, Engagement, Epsom Hospital, Estates Review, Hospital Beds, Hospital Closure, Hospital downgrade, Jeremy Hunt, Kingston Hospital, Maternity, Merton CCG, Mitcham and Morden, MPs, NHS England, Paul Scully MP, Privatisation of your health service, Public Meeting, Richmond CCG, Shaping a Healthier Future, Siobhain McDonagh MP, Slash and Trash Plans, Slider Photos, South West London Collaborative Commissioning, South West London Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, St George's hospital, St Helier Hospital, Stephen Hammond MP, STPs, Sustainability and Transformation Plans, Sutton CCG, Sutton Hospital, Tom Brake MP, Trust, Urgent, Video, Wandsworth CCG
On the 10th of November 2017, the Epsom & St Helier Trust Board decided to proceed with their plan to remove Acute Services from one or both of Epsom hospital AND St Helier hospitals. At the meeting, before the board took their decision on whether or not to proceed, a member of the KOSHH Campaign […]
Part 2 – They want to take away your Acute Hospitals – ACT NOW!
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Video: Watch this – your life may literally depend upon it.
A&E, Croydon University Hospital, Daniel Elkeles, Deloitte, e-Newsletter, Engagement, Epsom Hospital, Five Year Forward View, Hospital downgrade, Kingston Hospital, Maternity, NHS, NHS England, Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Paul Scully MP, Siobhain McDonagh MP, Slash and Trash Plans, Slider Photos, South West London, St Helier, St Helier Hospital, STP, STPs, Sustainability and Transformation Plan, Sutton CCG, Sutton Hospital, Tom Brake MP, Traingate, Trust, Urgent, Video
As KOSHH have long predicted, the Epsom & St Helier Hospitals NHS Trust have now announced their plans for the future of hospital services in our area. Please watch the short video below for a summary of what is being proposed. The Trust have launched what they call an "engagement" where they are seeking the […]
KOSHH Press Release: Merton Council Oppose the South West London STP
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Keep Our St Helier Hospital (KOSHH) Press Release: KOSHH welcome Merton Council's Announcement today that they oppose the South West London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP). 10th of April 2017 The KOSHH (Keep Our St Helier Hospital) campaign welcomes Merton Council's announcement today that they oppose the SW London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP), […]
Write to your councillors #RejectTheSTP
Beds per thousand, Slider Photos, STP, STPs, Sustainability and Transformation Plan, Sustainability and Transformation Plans, Template Letter
We are about to witness the biggest shake-up which our health service has ever seen, under a plan called "STP" (Sustainability and Transformation Plans). Your local authority has the ability to reject these plans. Some councils have already done so. Write to your local councillors, demand that they halt this terrible plan. #RejectTheSTP If you […] | commoncrawl | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
BkiUfmXxK0zjCxN_veO4 | VSTO For Mere Mortals
Assuming that Office Power Users think of themselves as mortals...
Dr Pan Pantziarka Tue 13 Mar 2007 // 16:38 UTC
Book review In addition to the legions of professional Visual Basic programmers, there are still more developers who use VBA and Microsoft Office for automation, customisation or the development of tailored office applications. Many of these are super-users rather full-time developers, but they have depended on VBA to extend and expand what it is they can do with Excel, Office, Access et al.
While Microsoft has devoted a lot of energy to helping the VB 6.0 developer move to Visual Basic .NET (which later morphed into Visual Basic 2005, in a move many saw as an attempt to woo those developers who hadn't yet made the jump to the .NET universe), the road map for VBA developers has been less clear-cut.
For VBA programmers, the initial appeal of .NET was limited, not only because the initial release of Visual Basic .NET was missing some of the RAD features that VB developers knew and loved, but also because of the difficulties of switching to a completely different programming model, to the complexities of the .NET framework, Visual Studio and the Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). Somewhere along the line doing Office application development in .NET gained the reputation of being difficult, particularly for those still supporting older versions of Office.
This is where 'VSTO For Mere Mortals' steps in. It isn't a book pitched at the professional VB developer, many of whom had already started to move to objects and classes in VB 6.0. Instead this book is squarely aimed at the VBA programmer – professional or otherwise – who wants to take those first steps into the new world of Office development with VSTO. For starters, the book doesn't take much time to look at C#, object orientation or the detailed architecture of the .NET framework. The focus is clearly on making practical use of Visual Basic 2005 and VSTO to extend and control Excel, Word and Outlook.
The opening section of the book is about the new environment: an introduction to the .NET framework, an introduction to VB 2005 (and how it differs from VBA), the new world of Visual Studio 2005 and VSTO. This is the core material needed to get started, but it's in the second section of the book that the pace picks up. Here five chapters are devoted to Word and Excel only, looking at customisation with VSTO, task and action panes, user controls, smart tags and so on.
It's not just the programming models that have changed however. The final section of the book looks are broader issues such as deployment, security, Outlook add-ins, application migration and more. There is also a chapter on the next release of VSTO and the changes brought on by the arrival of Microsoft Office 2007.
While the experienced developer might find a lack of technical depth, particularly as regards the handling of object orientation and the architecture of the .NET framework, for the VBA developer anxious about moving to VSTO the book is about right. It strikes the right note in getting the reader to a point where it all makes sense, including oft neglected topics such as the debugging of Office applications in the new world.
Verdict: A useful introduction to those wanting to take their first .NET steps to automating and customising Word, Excel and Outlook.
Authors: Kathleen McGrath and Paul Stubbs
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Media: Book
Current Reg price: £21.43 inc. VAT (discount 33%)
Buy this book at Register Books at Reg Developer's special discounted price (subject to change)! | commoncrawl | 5 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
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We all want to live a life that matters, to live life to the full. The problem is, so often we look in the wrong places for our answer. Even more tragically, so many never find the answer to life they are looking for.
At Austin Life, we believe the life we are all looking for is found in knowing, loving, and trusting Jesus, and then in giving our lives away for the glory of God and the good of others.
We are made alive by faith alone in the Gospel, Jesus in my place, and daily changed by centering our lives around the Gospel.
We devote our lives to knowing, loving, and honoring God above all else.
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Urban Outfitters swings to surprise profit on strong digital sales
Shares in Philadelphia-based fashion retailer Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN) shot up more than 12% in the extended session on Tuesday, as the company reported surprise second-quarter earnings of $34.4 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, thanks to solid sales growth in its digital channel.
The Urban Outfitters brand posted an8% decline in comparable retail segment sales in the second quarter - Instagram: @urbanoutfitters
The group, which owns the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie Group, and Free People brands, among others, reported net income of $60.3 million, or $0.61 per diluted share, in the prior-year period.
For the second quarter ended July 31, 2020, the company's net sales totaled $803.3 million, falling 16.5% from $962.3 million in the same period in the previous year. A 13% decrease in comparable retail segment net sales resulted from temporary store closures during part of the quarter, as well as lower productivity once stores reopened, partially offset by double-digit growth in the retailer's digital channel.
Analysts polled by FactSet and cited by MarketWatch had expected the company to report a Q2 loss of $0.40 per share on sales of $672 million.
The Free People brand put in the strongest performance of the quarter, achieving an 11% rise in comparable retail segment net sales, despite the challenges posed by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Comparable retail segment sales declined 8% at the Urban Outfitters brand and 25% at Anthropologie Group.
Total retail segment sales at the company fell 14% overall, while the wholesale segment posted a 51% decrease.
"I'm pleased to announce URBN produced solid revenues and profits for the second quarter driven by strength in the digital channel," said the company's CEO, Richard A. Hayne, in a release. "Notably, all brands were profitable and enter the fall selling season with lean inventories and positive momentum."
Taking into account the first quarter of the year, net loss for the six-month period ended July 31, 2020, came to $104.0 million, or $1.06 per diluted share, compared to net earnings of $92.9 million, or $0.91 per diluted share, in the same period in the previous year. First-half sales totaled $1.39 billion, down 24% year over year from $1.83 billion.
The retailer opened a total of five new retail locations during the first half of the fiscal year and closed four, finishing July with 624 company-owned stores across its three main brands in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Four franchisee-owned stores also closed during the period, leaving a total of three.
Urban Outfitters has not provided financial guidance for the third quarter or the rest of the fiscal year. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdKg5qhDBSUjwhs6K | «Аринка» — советская лирическая производственная комедия, поставленная на киностудии «Ленфильм» в 1939 году режиссёрами Юрием Музыкантом и Надеждой Кошеверовой.
Премьера фильма состоялась 7 марта 1940 года.
Сюжет
Аринка вместе с отцом живёт на отдалённом участке железной дороги. Её отец, путевой обходчик, поехал в управление сдавать экзамен на дорожного мастера, но, переволновавшись, очень неудачно отвечал на задаваемые вопросы. Виновником своего неуспеха он посчитал молодого машиниста, сидевшего рядом с экзаменатором. Вернувшись домой, он с горечью сказал дочери, что их отправили на пенсию и надо переезжать в город. За время его отсутствия к Аринке с цветами пришёл влюблённый в неё машинист поезда, ежедневно проезжающего их участок. В этом молодом человеке Степан Степанович, к удивлению узнал своего вчерашнего «обидчика».
В ролях
Лариса Емельянцева — Аринка (Арина Степановна Архипова)
Николай Коновалов — заслуж. артист республики — Степан Степанович Архипов — отец Аринки
Александр Кулаков — Василий Иванович Сергеев — машинист
Павел Суханов — Костя — помощник машиниста
Валентин Киселёв — заслуж. артист республики — зам. начальника дороги
Алексей Бонди — заслуж. артист республики — Алексей Михайлович — начальник станции
В титрах не указаны:
Мария Барабанова — секретарь зам. начальника дороги
Михаил Майоров — эпизод
Алексей Матов — приятель Степана Степановича
Герман Орлов — мастер
Сергей Филиппов — старый железнодорожник, приятель Степана Степановича
Владимир Фокин — приятель Степана Степановича
П. Москвин — приятель Степана Степановича
Съёмочная группа
Авторы сценария — Семён Полоцкий, Матвей Тевелев
Режиссёры — Юрий Музыкант, Надежда Кошеверова
Оператор — Аполлинарий Дудко
Художник — Александр Блэк
Композитор — Никита Богословский
Директор картины — Пётр Подвальный
Ассистент режиссёра — А. Голышев
Ассистент по монтажу — Нина Керстенс
Звукооператор — Афанасий Симановский
Текст песен — Василий Лебедев-Кумач
Аккомпанемент на гитаре — Сергей Сорокин
Звуковая дорожка
«Песню Аринки» («Не пойму, почему всё переменилось...») (Н. Богословский — В. Лебедев-Кумач) исполнила Зинаида Тарская
Критика
Фильм был положительно оценён критиками:
С. Гинзбург писал в газете «Кино» в обзоре этих комедий: «Только режиссёры Ю. Музыкант и Н. Кошеверова дали произведение лучшее, чем положенный в его основу сценарий». «Это, пожалуй, лучший фильм среди рассматриваемых комедий», — признавал и журнал «Искусство кино». Ф. Карэн писал о постановщиках «Аринки»: «Они показали своё настоящее комедийное дарование — умение чувствовать, подмечать смешное в жизни и создавать комическое в искусстве. В этом порука тому, что авторы «Аринки» смогут создавать превосходные советские кинокомедии — умные и смешные».
Примечания
Литература
Ссылки
«Аринка» Аннотированный каталог фильмов киностудии «Ленфильм» 1918—2003.
Фильмы СССР 1939 года
Фильмы Юрия Музыканта
Фильмы Надежды Кошеверовой
Фильмы студии «Ленфильм»
Чёрно-белые фильмы СССР
Кинокомедии СССР
Кинокомедии 1939 года
Дебютные фильмы кинорежиссёров | wikipedia | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUd5c5qoaAwpKBAjJZ | Selecting the right drone as a beginner can be difficult.
Regardless of your budget you want a starter drone that can deliver a great flying experience, and your probably want a decent camera too.
Scroll down to see all our reviews of the top beginner drones.
The DJI Spark features ground breaking technology, such as gesture control and facial recognition. The gesture control allows you to guide the drone around with just your hands, feeling like a Jedi master!
The camera on this little thing is no joke either, you can get some awesome videos out of it. The videos are very easy to edit and share. The DJI Spark is also very easy to fly, even if you have never flown a drone before.
The Spark is a great starter drone if you have the budget for it. Its advantage over the DJI Phantom series is the size, it fits in the palm of your hand. This makes it extremely portable. The price you pay is less flight time and not quite as good a camera as on the later Phantoms.
If you are interested in a selfie drone, check out our top list here.
The Phantom 3 Standard from DJI might seem like a pricey option for a beginner, but considering that it is very easy to control and fly, even difficult to crash, makes it a great choice for any beginner with the budget. The video is excellent and the gimbal stabilized the footage very well.
It has an integrated camera stabilized with a 3-axis gimbal. It takes photos in 12MP and the video is in 2.7K.
This drones has been constructed to be easy to use for beginners, and it has extra safety controls. It has some useful features like live GPS tracking, return home via the press of a button and auto-hover.
You can use the Phantom 3 Standard with the follow me function, having it filming you and following you while you surf, skateboard, bike, run or ski.
If you have the budget for it I highly recommend the DJI Phantom 3 Standard camera drone for beginners. The quality that it offers is exceptional and as a prosumer drone it has lots of exiting possibilities. With a high safety profile it is great for people just starting out.
The Syma X5C Camera Drone is an excellent beginner drone, that performs better than what you would expect at the price.
It is really fun to fly, and can perform flips in the air. It can be flown both indoors and outdoors. Dont expect amazing videos, as this is more of a toy drone.
It comes included with a HD camera, and a 2GB memory card. The video can be a bit shaky as it does not have a gimbal, it does however have a gyro stabilization system.
Overall it is a great quadcopter to start with, and the price tag is right.
The UDI U818A is a fun and easy beginner quadcopter with a camera. This is a good choice if you are looking for a toy-grade drone to shoot some video for fun, and the quality of the footage is not that important.
It has a 6 axis gyro to keep it relatively stable, a 3.7V Lithium polymer battery that will give you around 7-9 minutes of flying time. The battery takes around 2 hours to charge.
The UDI U8q8A carries a 640×480 pixels camera. It is not a high quality camera but you can get some decent shots and video.
Overall this is a cool little starter drone, and the camera included makes it a good choice for beginners.
The Hubsan X4 is a fun and cheap quadcopter great for beginners. It has no camera, but it is great for practicing flying techniques before buying a higher quality drone.
It is manufactured by Hubsan, a company known for their swift and agile drones that can fly indoors and outdoors.
It is a one-piece, durable mainframe delivered RTF (ready to fly).
The LiPO, high capacity battery produces a flight time of around 8 minutes.
This mini drone is very small, just 2.3×2.3×1 inches, with a weight of just 4 ounces.
You can use it both indoors and outdoors, but it does not fly very good in windy conditions because of its small size.
This is a great choice if you want a cheap mini drone to learn on, and even though it is cheap it provides lots of value.
This drone is perfect if you already have a GoPro camera you would like to use with your drone. It offers great value, and is fun to use with a GoPro.
It has a flight time of around 10 minutes.
If you want to extend your flying time, there is a battery available you can buy.
The Ionic Stratus does not have a gimbal, and the video can get a bit shaky, so unlike the DJI Phantom 3 Standard, this is more of a toy-drone.
The camera is rubber mounted fixed, to remove vibrations from the quadcopter. You can remove the mount if you want to attach a good gimbal.
It offers a fun flying experience for beginners, but might not fly or land easily when there is a lot of wind.
This video is taken with a Hero3 Black attached.
This is a great beginner drone for GoPro.
The Hubsan H501S X4 has some really cool features, and the prices makes it friendly for beginners.
On the controller you see the live video feed, so you can see exactly what the camera is seeing.
You can also use the drones follow me mode, and let it follow you when your run, bike, surf etc. Having a drone that can follow you enables you to shoot some really cool action videos. Drones that follow you are usually quite expensive, but this quad is actually affordable.
The flight time is also quite impressive at around 20 minutes.
It has an automatic return to home function for extra safety.
If you love the idea of drones with follow me mode, here is a list of the best drones that follow you.
Want to make your first steps in the exciting world of drones? Are you an extreme sports enthusiast? Do you want to explore the world of aerial photography? Maybe you have a business idea that you need a drone to realize?
UAVs come in all shapes and sizes from toy-like quadcopters to large, commercial machines. Generally as a beginner you want a cheaper quadcopter that wont break the bank if it crashes or flies away.
The cheap mini drones often come without a camera, and at the price you really dont have much to worry about, but can focus on learning. The flight time is usually less than 10 minutes. They usually dont have any special functions.
If you add a little more money you get the UAVs that are a little bit bigger, and may have a cheap built in camera. They can be an awesome flying experience, and you can take some photos and shoot some video, but you cant expect great video. The flight time is usually quite short, around 10 minutes.
Some of the budget starter drones have features like flips, and 3D rolls, but they usually lack the more advances safety features of the prosumer drones, like return to home, follow me mode, hover, point of interest and often dont have live streaming.
These quadcopters usually set you back at least $300, but has so much more to offer. The flight time can be up to around 25 minutes, and the camera attached is usually of very good quality. A good example is the DJI Phantom 3, which shoots awesome video, and has features like return to home, follow me and auto-hover.
For this price they should have some kind of live video streaming system, via an app or via the controller.
At the high end of this category you can shoot video that looks quite professional, and have a drone that you can fly for up to 25 minutes. The larger drones handle wind better, and some come equipped with a gimbal that stabilizes the camera.
The controllable range: what's the distance from which you can control the drone? Some of the most basic models have a control range of only 30 meters.
Battery life: this is a major problem for some of the more inexpensive drones. A single battery will last anywhere between five and seven minutes. More expensive and better-built varieties have an extended battery life of up to 30 minutes.
Additional features: there are many other great extras that manufacturers equip their drones with. Live video streaming, automatic return home upon the loss of connection, follow-me functionality, flight pre-programming and the ability to go around obstacles are some of the cool extras.
You may want to consider some extra equipment. It can make the drone easier to control, increase the versatility of the equipment or prolong the flight time.
Batteries: this one is a no-brainer. Having extra batteries will give you the opportunity to enjoy additional hours of fun. While one of the batteries is charging, you'll be using the others to fly the drone. Make sure you have at least one additional battery.
Additional propellers: propellers are likely to break, especially while you're making those first flight attempts. Buy at least one full set of spare propellers.
Propeller guards: this one is great for beginners. It will keep your fingers and the propellers safe.
Landing gear: some quadcopter models are compatible with advanced landing products that are wider and more stable than the original. Customized landing can also help you improve picture/video quality.
SD cards: having at least a few micro SD cards will give you all of the memory required to shoot beautiful pictures and capture longer videos.
Carrying case: a quality carrying case will keep your expensive equipment protected while not being in use. It will also simplify the task of carrying your drone and accessories around. Make sure that the carrying case you're getting has comfortable, padded straps.
Always read the instructions thoroughly before getting started. If there are any instructional videos, you should go through those, as well. You may think that flying the drone is a piece of cake but if you're not careful, you risk damaging a rather expensive gadget. Chances are that you don't make the first flight your last one. Take your time and prepare yourself before going out there.
Familiarize yourself with the remote control – play around with it, push the switches and practice coordination between the two hands. You should also know how to take off and land the quadcopter gently. Acquaint yourself with indicator lights and what each one of them means.
Assemble the starter drone and check that all of the pieces have been secured together. Find a large open space and test the quadcopter. Don't go to maximum speed and maximum height immediately. Baby steps are a good idea for the first flight. Once you get a better feel for the controller and how the drone responds to it, you'll have the freedom to execute some much more daring flight experiments.
Get more tips here on flying a quadcopter.
See this guide: 7 Tips to Master Aerial Photography.
Drone terminology can be confusing for beginners. I have compiled a small drone glossary for beginners.
If your UAS weights more than 0.55 lbs. (250 g) and less than 55 lbs. (25 kg) you need to register it online.
It is very easy to register, and you do it here online.
These suggestions apply to hobbyists. When it comes to commercial use, each individual entity has to seek a permit. These are issued on a case by case basis. Various companies have already managed to obtain permissions for the commercial use of drones, which means that it isn't impossible.
Things are a bit different in other parts of the world.
In Canada, UAVs that weigh less than 77.2 pounds are considered recreational and they aren't subjected to particularly strict rules. Special Flight Operation certificates are required for all of the drones that are larger or owned by commercial entities.
European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) is the entity that has the authority to craft regulations in many European countries. According to current EASA rules, a certificate is required regardless of the intended use. Just like in the case of US permit requirements, these are handed on a case by case basis.
In some Asian countries, the agricultural use of drones has been fully permitted. In Australia, the commercial use of drones is possible after a relatively simple identification process has been completed.
Keep in mind that such rules are still in the process of being developed. You may want to figure out which authority is responsible for issuing permits in your country. Their website should feature information about the certification requirements and the complexity of the procedure.
For a beginner with a good budget, looking to learn more about the world of UAVs, I recommend the DJI Phantom 3 Standard. It is a great tool you, and has applications beyond just being a beginner drone.
If you want something cheaper, I recommend the Syma X5C for the fun flying experience and the low price. It is well worth the price, and a great starting drone.
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BkiUbJw5qsBB3Jex1z1_ | contact Tony Lay or contact Al Williamson.
*The last 10 rounds of this match will be shot at 200 yards.
Following the Saturday August 10th, 2019 Match, we will all move over to the DBCL clubhouse for the VMRM Banquet.
First relay begins at 8:00 a.m. after Range Safety "Course of Fire" announcement.
All matches are scheduled to run from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
Will be posted here after the event.
The match will be bench rest 50 rounds at 100 yards using the NRA SR21 and SR21C targets. Each string of 10 rounds will be fired in 5 minutes with 5 minutes in-between strings for scoring, and putting up new centers. Three sighters will be allowed before the first string of 10 with the lowest three hits on the target being dropped. For the final bolt-action match of the year the last string of 10 shots will be fired at 200 yards using the NRA MR-52 target. Spotting scopes are permitted. Ammo can be commercially purchased or handloads. Eye and Ear protection are required. Open bolt indicators must be used, and will be available at the range. As always, the decisions of the ranger officers are final. If you wish to shoot in more than one relay for score, you must shoot the additional relay with a different rifle.
Again for 2019 Rule for August 10th Bolt-Action Plus match. We are going to give everyone 15 minutes to complete the 4th and 5th strings of the relay. The extra 5 minutes will be considered a second prep period where you will be able to shoot 3 sighters at the 200 yard target. When scoring you should have 13 hits on your target. You will drop the three lowest hits.
There are four separate classes for the matches. People in these classes will be competing only against the others in their class.
Winners of each match will be awarded a VMRM certificate if requested.
As Issued Class: Rifles must be bolt action, issued by any country to its military forces. The rifle must be as issued with no modifications of any kind. Faithful reproductions will also be allowed in this class.
As Issued Scoped Class: Rifles must be bolt action, issued by any country to its military forces. The rifle must be as issued with no modifications of any kind including original scope. Faithful reproductions will also be allowed in this class.
Open Class: Rifles must be bolt action, issued by any country to its military forces. The only thing that needs to be original is the receiver. All other modifications are allowed.
Open Scoped Class: Rifles must be bolt action, issued by any country to its military forces. The only thing that needs to be original is the receiver. All other modifications are allowed.
The match will be bench rest 50 rounds at 100 yards using the NRA SR21 and SR21C targets. The first strings of 10 rounds will be fired in 5 minutes. The second string of 10 rounds will be fired in 4 minutes. The third string of 10 rounds will be fired in 3 minutes. The fourth and fifth strings of 10 rounds will be fired in 2 minutes. There will be 5 minutes between strings for scoring, and putting up new centers. Three sighters will be allowed before the first string of 10 with the lowest three hits on the target being dropped. Spotting scopes are permitted. Ammo can be commercially purchased or handloads. Eye and Ear protection are required. Open bolt indicators must be used and will be available at the range. As always, the decisions of the ranger officers are final. If you wish to shoot in more than one relay for score, you must shoot the additional relay with a different rifle.
M1 Garand users please note that we will have a quantity of two round en-block clips for you to use during the match.
Winners of each match will be awarded a VMRM certificate upon request.
As Issued Class: The rifles must be Semi-Auto issued by any country to its military forces on or before 1956. The rifle must be as issued with no modifications of any kind. Faithful reproductions will also be allowed in this class.
As Issued Scoped Class: The rifles must be Semi-Auto issued by any country to its military forces on or before 1956. The rifle must be as issued with no modifications of any kind including original scope. Faithful reproductions will also be allowed in this class.
Open Class: Rifles must be Semi-Auto, issued by any country to its military forces on or before 1956. The only thing that needs to be original is the receiver. All other modifications are allowed.
Open Scoped Class: Rifles must be Semi-Auto, issued by any country to its military forces on or before 1956. The only thing that needs to be original is the receiver. All other modifications are allowed.
The 1956 date was chosen to prevent M14/M1A1 and AR-15/M16 rifles from being used in this match. A survey of shooters indicated to us that people did not want these rifles to be legal for this competition. If you have a question about your rifle please feel free to contact us at the numbers listed below.
Match fee will be $5.00 and we supply the targets. The matches are open to the public. Matches will be held rain or shine. We are constrained by time so a limited number of relays will be run.
Reminder: 15 hours worked in a year reduces your annual membership fee. Each Friday before a scheduled match and the day of the match, work hours can be earned at the 100/200yd range.
Friday: 4:00 PM through 6:00 PM.
Saturday: 6:30 AM through 1:00 PM.
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One of the consistent messages of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations has been about the Queen's service and stability. Thrust into the responsibilities of monarchy aged just 25, she has been, it seems to me, equipped to serve in a way that no other Queen or King has been. She has Read more…
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The Vicarage had never heard anything quite like it: the three most prominent swear words in the English language all in the same sentence (and none of them began with B or S). The lorry driver was clearly having a bad day – and it wasn't even half past eight. Read more…
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In previous posts, I've considered the topics of importance and status, last weekend I was humbled by the response to a Bible study on Acts 6:1-7 which explores these themes. (You may like to read the passage alongside this post.) The book of Acts tells the story of the early Read more…
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Wholly weak (again)
Just over three years ago I had the privilege of being invited to preach at Portsmouth Cathedral. Among those gathered was Angela Tilby, former BBC religious programmes producer and known for being a somewhat provocative columnist for the Church Times. The Cathedral was marking the launch of a 'Living Well' Read more…
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One of the benefits of being asked to write book reviews (aside from getting a free copy, of course) is that I get to read ones I wouldn't naturally pick up off the shelf – or, given the demise of so many Christian bookshops in recent years, off Amazon, Eden Read more…
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Many years ago, I lived in a flat at the top of the Vicarage of a large church in Bristol. In those five years I saw and experienced first-hand the 24 hour a day demands, intrusions and joys of such a place. From sharing Christmas lunch with the vicar and Read more…
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A lasting influence
Sarah Everard is the latest of many, many people whose tragic death has uncovered deep, long-standing issues within society. Think too of others – Sarah Payne. Suzy Lamplugh. Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Emily Davison. You can probably think of others. People who have been more influential in death than Read more…
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BkiUc_A5qoTAnFx7D5Rt | What keeps Paul McCartney on the road?
by Nathan Poppe
Published: Fri, July 14, 2017 5:00 AM
For a knighted pop singer with a career stretching nearly 60 years, Paul McCartney seems like such a normal person.
The most scandalous thing I could find on TMZ was a video of him getting rejected alongside Beck at the doors of a club.
I read his latest interview with Rolling Stone and couldn't help but notice how cooly the 75-year-old performer dissected The Beatles' legacy.
"We always tried to be the best band in Liverpool," McCartney told the magazine. "Then we tried to be the best band in England. Then we tried to be the best in the world."
There's only a handful of musicians who could say something like that without appearing arrogant. McCartney's reflection on his mop-topped phase sounds so matter of fact, and there was very little precedent for what The Beatles did in their touring years. Those suits, songs and the resulting screams are the building blocks of arena tours and today's high-profile music entertainment.
The newest leg of the "One On One" tour lands in Oklahoma City on Monday and marks Sir Paul's return to the Chesapeake Energy Arena roughly 15 years after he helped open the downtown venue. He'll play nearly 40 songs over the course of three hours, a feat he'll accomplish without even taking a break for water.
"Can you imagine The Beatles stopping like, 'Excuse me, hang on folks,' and go, glug, glug, glug?" he told Rolling Stone. "We just didn't do that, so I'm not raised in the 'drink water' school. But before and after, I'll do that. But once I get on, I can stay on and do my thing."
Building audience, legacy
Video: Paul McCartney coming to Oklahoma City this summer
So what keeps McCartney in the concert game? Why's he still on the road so often? His band wrote the touring rules decades ago, and he's got little to prove to fans.
Maybe he's always got a creative itch to scratch.
Look back a couple of years ago at "Hope for the Future." It was a song McCartney wrote for the 2014 video game "Destiny," one of the most expensively produced ever. It's full of hope, optimism and sadly fell flat on its face. The music video plants a Paulogram (hologram Paul) into the alien landscape of the video game. The Brit looks about as comfortable as an itch on that part of my back that'll never get covered with sunscreen.
A year later however, he'd collaborate on "FourFiveSeconds" alongside Rihanna and Kanye West. It's an acoustic pop gem with as much heart as "Let It Be" and a reminder of the simplicity that the Beatles worked so hard to perfect.
Maybe McCartney doesn't want to be forgotten. That's harder to believe, though. After all, every year seems to mark a significant album anniversary (happy 50th birthday to "Sgt. Pepper's"), and there isn't a medium The Beatles haven't conquered. After the music streaming behemoth Spotify debuted the band's catalog on Christmas Eve, more than 6.5 million people tuned within 100 days. Spotify streamed 2,793 years of The Beatles in three months.
It often takes an obit to remind people of a special talent. McCartney just continues to build an even bigger audience and his star power hasn't dipped in his twilight years.
I figure McCartney must have something to prove to himself. There's gotta be a thirst stemmed in something deeper than he'd be bored retiring. It can't be the money. He could likely take a whole year off and still not fall too far off Forbes' list of highest paid celebrities. Genius-level talent doesn't sit still, and I picture McCartney tackles an arena like an everyday person mows the lawn or buys groceries.
He grew up in the spotlight, escaped an everyday life in Liverpool and made it happen surrounded by his best friends.
Touring is just what he does. When you're on for so many years, there's no off switch.
After all, who'd want to stop leading the biggest band in the world?
Paul McCartney 'One On One' tour
When: 8 p.m. Monday
Where: Chesapeake Energy Arena, 100 W Reno Ave.
Tickets: $63.50-$257, www.ticketmaster.com
The Beatles are here, there and everywhere. I spent the past couple of weeks noting when Paul and Co.'s music entered my ears. Here are a few highlights:
•Duncan native and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard popped up in the news again after taking charge of the new Han Solo film. That led me to watching his 2016 documentary, "The Beatles: Eight Days a Week — The Touring Years." It's exactly what the title suggests and organizes a great deal of pristine footage from the band's early years. Fun watch.
•On one day, I heard The Shins' James Mercer cover "Here, There Everywhere" during breakfast, "Love Me Do" playing in line at Coolgreens for lunch, and "With a Little Help From My Friends" drifted through the Big Truck Tacos speakers at dinner.
•I tested a collection of Sgt. Pepper's-inspired cocktails when Ludivine debuted a fresh drink menu dedicated to The Beatles' highly influential 1967 album.
•At a wedding, I danced with my girlfriend to "She Loves You," and that's a surprisingly fun song to twist to.
•NPR's Fresh Air featured an interview with Giles Martin, the son of famed Beatles recording engineer George Martin. In a touching moment, I learned George Martin progressively lost his hearing and hired his son to act as his ears. Giles Martin recently remixed all of "Sgt. Pepper's," and it's worth snatching the new stereo recordings. It sounds like a whole new record.
As with every Paul McCartney tour, "One On One" features dozens of classics from the most beloved catalog in popular music, spanning Paul's entire career — as a solo artist, a member of Wings and as a Beatle. [Photo provided by MJ Kim]
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In Rolling Stone, Paul McCartney promised a few surprises at his Oklahoma City tour stop, including a cut off "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," which turned 50 this year. [Photo provided by MJ Kim]
Paul McCartney reacts to the crowd after taking the stage at the then-Ford Center in 2002. [Photo by Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman Archives]
The "With a Little Help from my Friends" cocktail at Ludivine is among the bar and restaurant's fresh Beatles-inspired drinks. [Photo by Nathan Poppe, The Oklahoman]
Ludivine bartender Colby Poulin makes a Sgt. Pepper's-inspired cocktail based on the song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds." [Photo by Nathan Poppe, The Oklahoman]
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover [Image provided]
A scene from Ron Howard's "The Beatles: Eight Days a Week" [Photo provided]
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BkiUfj45qhLBs6lRtElJ | Home Science News
Spitzer Reveals That Asteroid Don Quixote is a Comet
TOPICS:AsteroidAstronomyCometJPLNASANorthern Arizona UniversitySpitzer Space Telescope
By Whitney Clavin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Northern Arizona University September 12, 2013
The left image shows Don Quixote's coma and tail — features of comets — as revealed in infrared light by Spitzer. The coma appears as a faint glow around the center of the body, caused by dust and gas. The tail, which appears more clearly in the right image, points towards the right-hand side of Don Quixote, into the direction opposite of the sun. The right image represents a more elaborate image processing step, in which the glow of the coma has been removed based on a model comet coma.Bright speckles around Don Quixote are background stars; the horizontal bar covers image artifacts caused by the image processing. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR/NAU
Data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope helped astronomers discover that the large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet.
For 30 years, a large near-Earth asteroid wandered its lone, intrepid path, passing before the scrutinizing eyes of scientists armed with telescopes while keeping something to itself. The object, known as Don Quixote, whose journey stretches to the orbit of Jupiter, now appears to be a comet.
The discovery resulted from an ongoing project coordinated by researchers at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Through a lot of focused attention and a little luck, they found evidence of comet activity, which had evaded detection for three decades.
The results show that Don Quixote is not, in fact, a dead comet, as previously believed, but it has a faint coma and tail. In fact, this object, the third-biggest near-Earth asteroid known, skirts Earth with an erratic, extended orbit and is "sopping wet," said David Trilling of Northern Arizona University, with large deposits of carbon dioxide and presumably water ice. Don Quixote is about 11 miles (18 kilometers) long.
"This discovery of carbon dioxide emission from Don Quixote required the sensitivity and infrared wavelengths of the Spitzer telescope and would not have been possible using telescopes on the ground," said Michael Mommert, who conducted the research at the German Aerospace Center, Berlin, before moving to Northern Arizona University. This discovery implies that carbon dioxide and water ice might be present on other near-Earth asteroids, as well.
Don Quixote's coma and tail (left) as seen in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. After image processing (right), the tail is more apparent. Image courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR/NAU
The implications have less to do with a potential impact, which is extremely unlikely in this case, and more with "the origins of water on Earth," Trilling said. Impacts with comets like Don Quixote over geological time may be the source of at least some of it, and the amount on Don Quixote represents about 100 billion tons of water — roughly the same amount that can be found in Lake Tahoe, California.
Mommert presented the results at the European Planetary Space Conference in London on September 10.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. For more information about Spitzer, visit http://spitzer.caltech.edu and http://www.nasa.gov/spitzer.
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR/NAU
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BkiUdXU4dbgg-nPSsQrA | Bayer Open Innovation Center, Berlin
Bayer Corporate Culture - Culture and ambition
Architecture is a public matter. When a dynamically growing company like Bayer realises a new headquarters, the development of the appropriate working environment for its own needs and employees is first in the foreground. But a company like Bayer AG, which repeatedly sets new standards with its high reputation, is also in the public eye with this project: on the one hand through its own employees who go in and out of the company every day, but on the other hand also through the public, the market and the shareholders, who also perceive and judge. Bayer's corporate architecture is consequently recognised as an expression of the company's spiritual attitude and directly reflects its culture and value system. Bayer AG's corporate architecture is an authentic statement of its own corporate culture. The architecture supports and promotes motivation, communication skills, creativity, team spirit and social competences of the employees.
Bayer Corporate Architecture - Function + Communication
Bayer AG's core potential is its partners and employees. Das Ziel der Gebäudestruktur ist es, viel Freiraum für Innovation und Flexibilität in einer inspirierenden Atmosphäre zu schaffen. Our approach is therefore not so much to design a classic office building. We therefore see the best potential in a new type of horizontal and vertical organism, as this is the best way to express the theme of the central centre as a symbol of commonality. In addition, it is important for Bayer that the employees are not arranged in a ring around a central core, but that through the shifting of the central core, a new central hub is perceived as a common experience and thus at the same time different neighbourhoods are created as identities, which also stand for the multitude of departments that are established around individual department heads. The modern Bayer Office building becomes the hub of this innovative achievement.
In order to meet the future challenges of the market, the architecture must foster a culture that allows interaction and communication as well as joint problem solving and reflects appreciation towards the employees. All workplaces create a multifunctional space and workspace with a variety of individual, shared, open and closed work areas. These new types of office landscapes create spaces that generate knowledge and encourage people to exchange and communicate with each other.
1st prize competition 2018, object planning, work phases 1 to 8, general planning
Client: Bayer AG
Bayer Campus - Concept and elements
The building is more than a mere shell for processes, structures and uses. Its form does not follow the primary function alone. Not "form follows function", but "architecture follows culture" becomes the maxim of Bayer Corporate Architecture. The new building is a direct expression of this corporate culture. We have therefore chosen the central common space as a symbol for this in our design concept. The centrepiece is this tangible, walk-in heart that connects all floors via a stair sculpture and around which the entire Bayer working and communication world is built.
The central air space is always joined to 2/3 floors and is then continued in a staggered manner so that a continuous experience space is created, but not a punched-through atrium that is perceived by staff rather as an outside space and can then also lead to acoustic problems.
Around the central area, the special rooms are arranged in two further layers – which support any work alone or in a team as diverse work tools. In addition, the workplaces are arranged along the façade, which also enables concentrated work.
The central experience space is connected to the park along the water via loggias on the southwest façade. This creates an intensive work-life experience that leads to real relaxation between the concentrated work steps during the day.
For passers-by, this creates an exciting urban setting for the individual sides of the building. The inclusion of the street lines also creates a strong urban edge that lends new support to the heterogeneous surroundings.
Nutzung: Office, Research + Laboratory
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BkiUcLXxaJJQnHaRwrbE | We're celebrating the seasonal shift this week in Montréal with Saturday's Santa Claus Parade, the lush drama of Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, the beautiful sounds of the Montréal Bach Festival, three international film festivals, innovative art by Alexander Calder and Julian Rosefeldt, and more great theatre, dance, circus, film and live music citywide.
Kick off the holiday season this Saturday at Montréal's 68th Santa Claus Parade – see Santa and his elves, hear holiday classics and watch all the parade antics along Sainte-Catherine Street downtown, starting at Fort Street at 11 a.m. and ending at Saint-Urbain Street at 1 p.m. No matter what the November weather, take advantage of the many free things to do this fall in Montréal, including seeing the city from several vantage points: take in the view from the lookout on Mount Royal (one of the most Instagrammable spots in Montréal); stroll through city streets to the St. Lawrence River on the beautiful Promenade Fleuve-Montagne path; or check out colourful Jean-Talon Market and Atwater Market – and eat local while you're there. At night learn why Montréal is a city of lights: see the colourful projection art animation of 100% Chance of Snow in Place des Festivals, revel in the high-tech wonders of Moment Factory multimedia creation AURA at Notre-Dame Basilica (one of Montréal's most famous icons) and spot history-focused Cité Mémoire projections on building facades throughout Old Montréal. Bird's-eye views of the city await in the comfort of the Observatoire Place Ville Marie downtown, La Grande Roue de Montréal observation wheel in the Old Port and the Montréal Tower at Olympic Park – or experience an Olympian's journey in the Canadian Olympic Experience at Canadian Olympic Committee headquarters downtown. Meanwhile NHL stars hit the ice as the Montréal Canadiens take on the Washington Capitals on November 19 at the Bell Centre. Discover Montréal through its literature at the Salon du livre de Montréal, a massive book fair that includes discussions with authors and publishers, a youth zone and English-language programming with Get Lit! Brilliant Books from Quebec, from November 14 to 19 at Place Bonaventure. Whether you're in Montréal for a long weekend or a week, solo or with family, plot your days and nights with My Official Montréal City Guide, a travel app that lets you experience the city like a Montrealer.
Warm up and eat well at these top Montréal restaurants for the gourmet traveller, cheerful bring-your-own-wine eateries (including some in Little Italy) and lovely new casual restaurants. Any time of day grab a pick-me-up at Montréal's indie coffee shops. And later on, relax with a perfect cocktail or have a drink away from it all in a hidden bar. If you're looking for local food and Québécois classics follow our guides to the best poutine, the best Montréal bagels and the best smoked meat, Montréal's top chocolatières, excellent Montréal meals worth writing home about and more musts for foodies visiting Montréal. If you've got a craving for dumplings, follow our guide to where to eat some of the best Chinese food in Montréal. For something light, seek out these health-conscious restaurants and great sushi restaurants and peruse our ultimate guide to vegan eating in Montréal. Or indulge your sweet tooth at Montréal's best bakeries and pastry shops. Explore more of Montréal and its culinary delights on Montréal's best food tours. And if you're traveling with kids, check out our ideas for great places to eat with kids in Montréal.
Gods, humans and mythical creatures cross paths in Wagner's parable of the history of the world Das Rheingold, presented by Opéra de Montréal at Place des Arts until November 17. Go see the circus in three shows this week: Cirque Éloize's Hotel, an energetic show combining acrobatics, theatre, dance and live music at Place des Arts until November 17, and Les 7 doigts's Passagers, an emotional tale of train travel and relocation, at La TOHU. Montréal's English theatre season continues to shine with British playwright Lucy Kirkwood's The Children, a story of two nuclear engineers confronting industrial and personal responsibility, from November 6 to 25 at Centaur Theatre. Teesri Duniya Theatre presents Stephen Orlov's Birthmark, a drama that crosses the divide between Canada's Jewish and Palestinian diaspora communities, from November 3 to 18 at MAI Montréal, arts interculturels. The Tashme Project: The Living Project traces the history and common experience of the Nisei, second-generation Japanese Canadians, from November 15 to 24 at Centaur Theatre. At the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, you can see A Doll's House, Part 2, a witty sequel to Ibsen's classic, opening November 18. Acts to Grind Theatre stages Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet's examination of ethics and indignities through the world of real estate salesmen, at MainLine Theatre from November 7 to 18. An innocent young crush turns into a passionate sexual awakening that's not without its foibles, in Hyper-Allergenic Productions' Gratitude at MainLine Theatre from November 21 to December 2. And In the Wings presents genderqueer rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch at fabulous drag club Cabaret Mado on November 21 and 22. In Montréal contemporary dance, Danse Danse presents Tentacle Tribe's Ghost, danced by street dance/hip-hop duo Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund, from November 13 to 18 at Place des Arts, while dance, ambient sound and vocals collide in Pep Ramis's The Mountain, The Truth & The Paradise at Agora de la danse from November 21 to 24. See Manuel Roque's award-winning dance performance Bang Bang from November 15 to 17 and Normal Desires, a new circus performance by Emile Pineault from November 22 to December 1, both at Théâtre La Chapelle. And multimedia artist Daniele Finzi Pasca (the creator of Avudo, shown in Montréal's Old Port for the city's 375th anniversary) presents his newest creation, Icaro, at Théâtre St-Denis on November 16 and 17.
The Montréal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) screens 157 films from 47 countries from November 8 to 18, as well as presentations, themed parties with live music, family programming on November 18 at the Cinémathèque québécoise (also where you'll find the UXdoc Space's free VR experiences) and more. Virtual reality storytelling also wows us in VR exhibition Echo: The Sound of Space, a creative exploration of the universe's timeless vibrations, at tech and culture hub the Phi Centre. In the SAT's Satosphere dome downtown, see 360-degree immersive live concert Richard Reed Parry's Quiet River of Dust, featuring natural-world visuals filmed by the Arcade Fire musician and Jean-François Lalonde, with narration by Laurie Brown, from November 13 to 24. Montréal's international LGBTQ film festival image+nation opens on November 22 with Christophe Honoré's French feature film Plaire aimer et courir vite (Sorry Angel). New, creative and cutting-edge animation can be seen at this year's Sommets du cinéma d'animation festival at the Cinémathèque québécoise from November 21 to 25. Roam the cosmos in science-meets-multimedia double bills Planet Nine and Secrets of Gravity, Continuum and Aurōrae and more at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. The Montréal Science Centre features IMAX films Oceans 3D and Pandas 3D along with hands-on science activities and a 3.8-billion-year-old moon rock! And among Montréal's great indie cinemas, Mile End's Cinéma Moderne screens art-house and cult films every day plus daytime family programming on weekends.
Among this season's must-see museum exhibitions, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts presents Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, the first Canadian retrospective of the American modern art giant, with over 150 works on display. The MMFA also features Resplendent Illuminations: Books of Hours from the 13th to the 16th Century in Quebec Collections, video installation Liminals: A Para-fiction of Transcendence by Jeremy Shaw, a powerful Inuit art collection and more. At the Musée d'art contemporain, don't miss the 13-screen immersive video work Manifesto by German artist Julian Rosefeldt, with actor Cate Blanchett taking on various roles, as well as a retrospective of influential multidisciplinary Québec artist Françoise Sullivan, historical artist manifesto exhibition Scores and Dana Michel's Jams Do Jams dance performances. In the Place des Arts exhibition hall, see Karine Giboulo's Arnait, an artistic tribute to Inuit women. At DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art in Old Montréal, Jasmina Cibic's Everything That You Desire and Nothing That You Fear immerses us in issues of cultural production and political aims, anchored in the planning stages of Expo 67. Galerie de l'UQAM and Cinémathèque québécoise explore themes of revolution in cross-disciplinary exhibition and film program Uprisings. In Ke'tapekiaq Ma'qimikew: The Land Sings / La terre chante, multidisciplinary Mi'kmaq artist Ursula Johnson reflects on human-made trauma on the land and waterways, at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. La Guilde presents Sonny Assu: A Selective History, 10 subversive works by the First Nations artist. See Frances Adair Mckenzie's spellbinding sculptural works and bright paintings by Veronika Pausova at Parisian Laundry and Lorna Bauer's captivating landscape photography exhibition Tools for Idlers at Galerie Nicolas Robert. Galerie D'Este shows Marcel Barbeau's paintings in exhibition Jours d'envol. Head to Mile Ex to see Never Apart's new fall exhibitions. There's more art to discover while gallery hopping and antiquing in the city. And go shopping for one-of-a-kind arts and crafts items at the Etsy Montréal Pop-Up Market at Windsor Station from November 22 to 24.
Montréal's past comes to life in multimedia exhibitions at Pointe-à-Callière, one of the city's excellent kid-friendly museums. At the McCord Museum, see different sides of local history in Shalom Montréal – Stories and Contributions of the Jewish Community and Wearing our Identity – The First Peoples Collection, and on Sunday bring your kids for story hour and hands-on workshops. Learn more about Jewish culture in Montréal in Zei Gezunt // Porte-Toi Bien // Keep Well (2018 - 2019), a grandson's exploration of his grandfather's inventions, transformed into works of art and history-rich storytelling, at the Museum of Jewish Montreal. Beautiful multi-sensorial exhibition WAR Flowers explores human nature in the landscape of war through floriography, sculpture and scent, at Château Ramezay - Historice Site and Museum of Montréal. The Stewart Museum's Paris on Display: 18th-Century Boutiques exhibition highlights the City of Light circa the 18th century. At the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Scripts for a new world: Film storyboards by Alessandro Poli explores elements of film that helped Poli form new language for architecture while Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths proposes a counter-reading of postmodern procedures. Based in research spanning three Québec universities, the Écomusée du fier monde's InterReconnaissance – Une mémoire citoyenne se raconte gathers voices and traces from 50 years of mobilizing for the rights of minority groups in Québec. The Musée de Lachine presents history and archeology from the times of fur trade and New France alongside contemporary art. Take more recent history home with you with our ultimate guide to vintage shopping in Montréal. And read all about jazz in Montréal, from the Roaring Twenties to today, featuring not only local history but jazz clubs still hopping to this day.
The international Montréal Bach Festival previews its official events with a prologue this weekend: a Bach Undercover children's concert followed by the Night of Choirs all evening at the Church of St. Andrew & St. Paul on November 17, as well as the Lagacé and Boucher families organ concert at Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal in Côte-des-Neiges on Sunday afternoon. The festival truly kicks off on November 22 with world-renowned tenor Julian Prégardien singing the part of the Evangelist in Bach's St. John Passion and conducting the Bach Festival's Choir and Orchestra at the Church of St. Andrew & St. Paul. Among the fall season's classical concerts, Kensho Watanabe conducts the Orchestre Métropolitain and violinist Kerson Leong in Korngold's Violin Concerto, Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune and more at Maison symphonique on November 22. And world music festival Mundial Montréal wraps up at Club Soda on November 16, with party music by Nomad'Stones, Ayrad's Andalusian, Berber, Moroccan and reggae rhythms, and masterful singer-songwriter and guitarist Daby Touré.
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BkiUceLxK4tBViZLEzH7 | Difference Between Dynamo and Turbine (With Table)
When electric power is generated with the help of chief energy sources, then it is referred to as electricity generation. It is before its delivery to its storage or end users' stage. As it is not available in nature freely so, there is a need for its production.
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Dynamo and turbine are two of the devices required in electricity generation. Dynamo with the help of electromagnetism, generates electric current, whereas turbine uses a fluid in the electric current generation. In this article, the chief aim is on differentiating dynamo and turbine.
Dynamo vs Turbine
The main difference between dynamo and turbine is that dynamo helps in electricity generation specifically for battery charging. On the other hand, the merit of using a turbine is that it offers a high power-to-weight ratio, installation requires less space, generates less vibration, and starts quickly.
A dynamo is simply an electrical generator that with the help of a commutator creates direct current. For industry, the dynamos were the very first electrical generators to deliver power. Also, deliver power to the foundation upon which several other later electric power conversions items were based.
A turbine is a device that mainly harnesses some fluid's kinetic energy and turns this into the device's rotational motion. The fluid can be of any kind like air, steam, combustion gases, or water. It is usually used in propulsion systems, engines, and electrical generation.
Comparison Table Between Dynamo and Turbine
It is a machine for mechanical energy conversion to electrical energy commonly through copper wires rotating coils in a magnetic field.
It is a machine for continuous power production in which a rotor or wheel is generally fitted with vanes.
Invented
Produce 14 volts
Produce 690 volts
RA Instruments, ELMO Agencies, VGM Engineers, and Melody Hobby Center.
Nordex Groups, Siemens Gamesa, Shanghai Electric, and Windey.
What is Dynamo?
The electric dynamo uses wire's rotating coils and magnetic fields for mechanical rotation conversion to pulsing direct electric current. This machine comprises a stationary structure that provides a continuous magnetic field. Also, rotating winding's set which turns within that field.
Because of Faraday's law of induction, the wire's motion within the magnetic field generates an electromotive force. This force in the metal pushes on the electrons creating an electric current. The constant magnetic field might be offered by one or more permanent magnets on small machines.
On the other hand, on larger machines, the constant magnetic field is offered by one or more electromagnets and is usually referred to as field coils. Historically, for domestic and industrial purposes, they were widely used in power stations for electricity generation. Since they have been switched by alternators.
In modern times, dynamos still have uses in the application of low power, specifically where there is a requirement of low voltage DC. Hand-cranked dynamos are used in hand-powered flashlights, clockwork radios, and other equipment of human-powered to recharge batteries.
What is Turbine?
Turbine-produced work can be used for electrical power generation when combined with a generator. It is a turbomachine with approx one moving part namely, a rotor assembly. On the blades, moving fluid acts so that they impart and move rotational energy to the rotor.
The instances of an early turbine are waterwheels and windmills. Water, steam, and gas turbines have a casing surrounding the blades that control and comprise the working fluid. With the help of turbo generators, a large proportion of the electrical power across the world is generated.
Gas turbines offer very high power densities due to their very high running speeds. The turbopumps as main engines were used by Space Shuttle to feed the propellants into the combustion chamber of the engine. When it comes to industrial processes, turboexpanders are used for refrigeration.
There are several types of turbines such as aircraft gas turbines, steam turbines, contra-rotating turbines, transonic turbines, ceramic turbines, shroudless turbines, shrouded turbines. It also comprises water turbines, bladeless turbines, mercury vapor turbines, wind turbines, and many more.
Main Differences Between Dynamo and Turbine
In terms of usage, Dynamo is mainly used in motor vehicles. On the flip side, the turbine is generally used in electrical generators, pumps, trains, power aircraft, ships, tanks, and gas compressors.
When it comes to etymology, the word dynamo is derived from a Greek word namely, dynamis which means power or force. Originally, it was an alternative name for electrical generators. Meanwhile, the word turbine derived from Latin words namely, turbo which means spinning top, and further in mid 19th century from French turned turbine.
In dynamo, the sliding friction between the commutator and brushes consumes power which leads to its low power and that dynamo's disadvantage. In contrast, the disadvantage of using a turbine is its lower life and lower net output.
The chief component required in dynamo construction is the commutator, the armature, and the stator. On the other hand, the rotor, base or foundation, tower, generation, and nacelle are some of the major parts of the turbine.
The merit of using dynamo is that it assists electricity generation mainly for battery charging. On the contrary, the advantage of using a turbine is that it starts quickly, generates less vibration, offers high power to weight ratio, and installation requires less space.
It can be concluded that both dynamo and turbine are two of the devices required in electricity generation. The origin of dynamo can be traced to 1831 when it was invented by Michael Faraday. In contrast, the origin of the turbine can be traced to 1791, when it was founded by John Barber. The manufacturer of the dynamo is RA Instruments, ELMO Agencies, and Melody Hobby Center.
On the contrary, Nordex Groups, Siemens Gamesa, and Windey are some of the manufacturers of the turbine. A machine for mechanical energy conversion to electrical energy commonly through copper wires rotating coils in a magnetic field is referred to as Dynamo. On the other hand, a machine for continuous power production in which a rotor or wheel is generally fitted with vanes is referred to as a turbine.
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#478: Scott Kelly — Lessons Learned from 500+ Days in Space, Life-Changing Books, and The Art of Making Hard Choices
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While we have an office that we use occasionally (in downtown Vancouver), we are relocating to Maple Ridge in the Spring of 2011. The way we see things… Maple Ridge is a growing, vibrant community filled with talented technologists who are sick and tired of wasting 500+ hours on the West Coast Express every year. And if you are like the company's founders, who are Maple Ridge locals, those 2 hours a day can be better spent on perfecting a work/life balance, or on building some really cool websites that have the potential to transform the Internet at its very core.
So if this sounds intriguing and want to try and build something spectacular, then keep on reading.
Knowledge that you don't know everything and that we don't know everything, but if we put our heads together, we can probably figure it out.
As noted, we presently have a temporary office location in downtown Vancouver. Initially, you could either telecommute or work out of that office. When we have moved into our Maple Ridge location, you would be expected to be at that location (though we are somewhat flexible… see above comment about work/life balance). | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdMLxK7Ehm2ZQ0hSF | With input from pharmaceutical engineers in the United States and Europe, the Pharma-Slide SSS is designed to meet cGMP guidelines, and to be the tightest sealing, most reliable sliding door available today. The SSS is offered in a variety of models with options to meet any pharmaceutical or cleanroom application. The powered, single-sliding, stainless steel SSS is available with 304 or 316 stainless steel. The standard stainless steel hood, track, and hardware assembly allow for all types of washdown conditions. The door's smooth surface, with no seams or fasteners, allows for easy cleaning. The door seals are an integral part of the door panel and require no fasteners for attachment.
Fast - Opens at up to 32 inches per second with independent, adjustable opening and closing speeds to meet any application. Easy to Clean - The exclusive allstainless round track eliminates dirt and debris collection points. The off-set track design makes it easy to access without removing the sloped hood. No exposed fasteners provide for smooth, easy to clean surfaces. Flush Windows - Optional windows are flush with the panel surface, have no fasteners and can be easily replaced if necessary. Safe - Adjustable speed allows for smooth, easy opening and closing. The standard safety circuitry reverses on obstruction by monitoring both directions of door movement. Dual electric photo eyes in door frame are standard. Tight Seal - Specially designed, non-marking, grey door seals provide a tight seal and are easy to replace. The seal retainers are an integral part of the door panel and require no fasteners. Manual Release - The power operated Pharma-Slide SSS can be opened manually in the event of power failure. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbBE5qg5A50uBvo5B | The job of a bank officer looks so stylish and powerful, but once we actually have not really dive into this career. When viewed from the outside view, everything seems easy, but the reality is only those who know it.
Bank officers can not actually get back as soon as the bank is closed. They usually need to complete various work such as balancing bank accounts for the day and many other tasks. So, you should not be surprised if I say there is a day they have to go back late. Yes, much more than what you do. Working late in the evening or night is a common thing for them.
Therefore, appreciate your current career. Make the kids, do not choose a career because they want to look great but choose the ones you really like. This is because you have to deal with that career throughout your life.
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BkiUc_A5qWTBDpT5QVQy | Maricopa County Chamber of Commerce
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Tattoos and Copyrights
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Everything You Want To Know About Copyrights and Tattoos.
I just read a very interesting article at https://www.jdsupra.com about IP rights of a Tattoo Artist and their work. A copyright is defined as "a person's exclusive right to reproduce, publish, or sell his or her original work of authorship (as a literary, musical, dramatic, artistic, or architectural work)" that is fixed in a tangible form of expression.
So, can a tattoo be considered an original work fixed to a tangible form? To be an original work the tattoo must be independently created by a human with at least some minimal degree of creativity, and it must be "fixed" when it is captured in a permanent medium such that the tattoo can be "perceived, reproduced, or communicated for more than a short time." A tattoo is usually designed by a tattoo artist or is designed under the direction of the individual receiving the tattoo requiring the tattoo artist to interpret the individual's request requiring the artist to have a minimal degree of creativity. The second requirement is met by fixing the Tattoo Artist's work to your body for life.
Since, tattoos meet both requirement and according to the law are copyrightable, how can an artist own a copyrightable image that is on someone else's body? Currently there is no clear jurisprudence regarding this issue, and most cases settle out of court. Nimmer on Copyright discusses this issue by referring to Mike Tyson and the suit surrounding his facial tattoo which states, "[t]he tattoo qualifies as an original "work of visual art" that may gain "recognized stature," with the result that a court may enjoin its destruction. See 17 U.S.C. § 106A(a)(3)(B). After a court invokes that provision to bar him from removing his tattoo, Mr. Tyson literally may not show his own face to the world; that is, he will be required to keep Mr. Whitmill's handiwork spread across his face, regardless of his own desires. Copyright law thereby becomes the instrument to impose, almost literally, a badge of involuntary servitude, akin to the mark with which ranchers brand the cattle they own." Nimmer
Currently there is a case in New York District Court in front of Judge Laura Taylor Swain involving LeBron James' tattoos on a video game created by Take-Two the publisher of NBA 2K video game franchise. Take-Two argues that LeBron James' tattoo is de minimis or fair use and therefore the case should be dismissed. However, Judge Swain denied their motion and further stated that "[t]he Court finds that, with respect to the video game at issue, it is not possible to apply the qualitatively-focused 'average lay observer' standard." In addition, Judge Swain states, "[b]ecause of the difficulties inherent in conducting a side-by-side comparison of the video game and the Tattoos, further evidence must be considered in connection with the fact-intensive question of the applicability of the fair use defense. As the differences between the Tattoos and Defendants' use in the video cannot be resolved with assurance on a visual comparison of the works alone, Defendants' fair use of the Tattoos is not so clearly established on the face of the [SAC] as to support dismissal."
From Judge Swain's statements it sounds like she is even unclear on how to rule on this issue, and needs more evidence and fact-finding in order for her or the jury to make a proper decision regarding this controversial issue. So, it looks like we are waiting a little longer to finally get a ruling regarding tattoos and copyrights. However, in the meantime we can still argue the issues and attempt to see what would happen if tattoos are ruled copyrightable. Nimmer gives a great discussion on the weird and awkward outcomes that we might see if tattoos are ruled copyrightable:
1. An overlapping tattoo may be considered a derivative work would could infringe the original artist rights.
2. "Even when the tattooist assigns away by contract all right, title, and interest in the copyright, he can still return 35 years later to assert an inalienable right to terminate the grant."
3. Celebrity and athlete tattoos on film, documentaries or magazines would need to obtain a license from the tattoo artist to show their work, and if no license is obtained the celebrity or athlete could be liable for contributory infringement.
4. You are now walking around with someone else's copyrighted material on your body and have to get a license to show it publicly in a picture or movie.
We will eventually have a ruling regarding tattoos being copyrightable. However, in the meantime we can only postulate what the courts will rule, and apply current copyright law to those "copyrightable" images.
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BkiUdOw25YjgKDfmRwQb | A couple weekends ago I attended a group shoot coordinated by some friends of mine at another friend's home studio and had the opportunity to get a few photographs of Melissa Riso.
There was a cool yellow upholstered and padded backdrop available and I decided to experiment shooting against it. The yellow fabric had a reflective quality to it so hitting it with a strobe would cause the fabric to illuminate and shine. I figured a ring flash would probably help get a glow around the subject in front of that backdrop.
The camera used was a Canon 5D Mark II with a Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS II USM and the above image was shot @ 88mm, f/8, 1/160s, ISO 100.
The ABR800 was triggered from the camera via PC sync cord and the other three strobes (1x AB1600 and 2x Einstein) were triggered via the PocketWizard MiniTT1+AC3 to FlexTT5 and PowerMC2 (trans)ceivers.
I feel the lighting setup worked out fine, but in retrospect, I wish I had tried shooting with the beauty dish as the key light and used the ABR800 ring flash overhead as the rim light. Although, if I used the beauty dish as the key light, the background would get lit a bit unevenly since I would have had the dish favoring one side and the bright bounce off the yellow background would be only on one side (and not all around the model).
Anyway, I'm happy with the results of session. I haven't had a chance to work on other shots from the set, but you can see more of my photos of Melissa Riso at http://jocabphoto.com/melissa_riso.
Firearm pictured is a Glock 17 (9mm, full size) with a Surefire X300 LED weapon light.
Whenever using firearms as props, always ensure that the firearm is unloaded. If the model is unfamiliar with proper and safe gun handling, give a lesson on the rules of firearms safety [NRAHQ.org].
Melissa Riso has an official website at http://melissariso.com and a Model Mayhem profile at http://www.modelmayhem.com/507695. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUb9rxK3xgpbERCLHE | FastCast4u | What will happen to my add-ons that I got for free with higher package, after I downgrade?
Help | What will happen to my add-ons that I got for free with higher package, after I downgrade?
You may keep it only if you make payment for those add-ons separately. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
BkiUe-g25V5jWJMbOg2z | Both Kutcher and Kunis claimed to have no attraction to each other during That '70s Show, despite Kutcher's objections. "She's lying!" he exclaimed when Stern brought up Kunis' denial from his interview with her the night before, "She has, like, a journal or, like, a diary from when she was a kid where she wrote, 'Oh, this guy's hot.' She thought I was cute!"
Fast-forward almost 20 years and we have the birth of the real-life Kutcher-Kunis romantic duo. Skipping some minor details, the two were trying out the whole friends with benefits thing up until a party where they finally came together and realized there was a bit more to the equation than they had previously admitted.
"I think I was smoking cigarettes at the time, and I was still a smoker," Kutcher said. "And she had quit smoking and she was like, she wanted me to like shot gun a cigarette smoke so she could breathe it in and I was like, 'All right.' And I started doing this. And gradually through the night, it got closer and closer and closer."
Indeed, it took a Hollywood-worthy trick to make their first real-life kiss a magical reality. Wondering how to make your relationship last like these guys? Here are some simple tips from happy couples. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbKLxK02iP1lCWkOW | Recently, ice cream manufactures have started to take notice of the fact that homemade greek yogurt has a lot of fans. They're stirring out higher quality frozen yogurts that highlight the natural flavor of the yogurt with other tangs in the dessert. Greek-style yogurt which is very popular is now also becoming a common base for frozen yogurts because of its flavor and consistency.
Homemade Frozen Greek Yogurt is a frozen yogurt recipe that one can easily make at home Greek-style yogurt as a base. Frozen yogurt can be made by using both regular and Greek style yogurt but later creates a richer tasting frozen yogurt because it is so much thicker than regular yogurt.
This basic frozen Greek yogurt is vanilla flavored. You can use a little vanilla extract for flavoring. Use Italian meringue as it gives a wonderfully light texture to the yogurt and you don't need to worry about using uncooked egg whites in your dessert.
You can use either non-fat or full fat homemade greek yogurt for this recipe. The most important thing is to pick a yogurt that you like the flavor of; because it will come through in the finished frozen yogurt. You'll get the best results with this recipe if you have an ice cream maker of some kind to churn your frozen yogurt base. The finished product will be light and smooth after churning. It can be frozen without churning but the consistency will be more like a frozen mousse than an ice cream.
Bring it to a boil over medium-high heat. When sugar comes to a full boil, continue to boil for about 1 to 1/2 minutes.
While the sugar boils, beat egg whites to soft peaks in a large, clean bowl.
When the sugar is ready, continue beating the eggs at a low speed and very slowly stream in the hot sugar. When all the sugar has been incorporated, turn up mixer to high and beat until meringue is glossy and has cooled down to almost room temperature.
Fold cold yogurt and vanilla into the meringue.
Pour yogurt mixture into ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer direction. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdiA4uzlgqFtGoKIZ | Articles, Chapters, & other finished products
Nancy A. Myers
English, UNCG
nancymyers@uncg.edu
3328 MHRA Bldg.
http://www.uncg.edu/eng/englishfaculty/facultybios/myers.html
Dr. Myers specializes in rhetoric and composition studies with an emphasis on the history of the discipline and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in composition, linguistics, and rhetorical history and theory. In addition to her current duties as Director of Composition, she previously served four years as the Director of Graduate Studies in English and four as the Director of English Education. She was President of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History or Rhetoric and Composition during 2010-2012. Awards and Honors: • Appointed as Regular Program Faculty for UNCG Women's & Gender Studies Program, 2011 • Nominated for UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, 2007-2008 • BRIDGES: Academic Leadership for Women, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004 • UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, 2002
There are 6 included publications by Nancy A. Myers :
Acting On or Acting With: Academe's Promotion of Exclusionary Participation in the Virtual Sphere 2001 469 The scenarios above illustrate the kinds of computer-aided instruction that I have witnessed across my campus over the last year. Each scenario highlights the benefits and limitations such teaching with technology holds for our students. The first th...
B 2003 648 I hit the top of the third flight of stairs, veered right down the hall, trying not to slip on the freshly waxed tiled floor in my 2-inch heels. The door was open, so I knew I wasn't late—yet. Bad form to be late on the first day of a graduate semina...
Cicero's (S)Trumpet: Roman Women and the Second Philippic 2003 5559 Focusing on the references to women and the feminine in The Second Philippic Against Antony, I argue that Cicero's female allusions open up a rhetorical space that exposes the subtle tensions within the Roman social dynamic of men and women. This his...
Review of Situating Composition: Composition Studies and the Politics of Location, by Lisa Ede 2006 980 I have always been fascinated by the triptychs of the Middle Ages, such as Bernardo Daddi's "Triptych: Madonna, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Saint Paul." Triptychs are three panels usually hinged together that tell three stories and one. The center pane...
Review: From Empathy to Denial: Arab Response to the Holocaust, Meir Litvak and Esther Webman Post-Zionism, Post-Holocaust: Three Essays on Denial, Forgetting, and the Delegitimation of Israel, Elhanan Yakira 2010 1013 Following historian Deborah Lipstadt's 2000 victory over David Irving in a monumental libel lawsuit, Lipstadt declared that the Holocaust would henceforth reign uncontested as historical fact. Yet within the last five years Holocaust denial has grown...
Review: Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies, edited by Lindal Buchanan and Kathleen J. Ryan. West Lafayette: Parlor, 2010. 483 pp. 2011 1323 When I read a draft of the introduction to Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies last summer, I was eager to see the collection in print. The draft introduction suggested an anthology of scholarly abundance and pos... | commoncrawl | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbn44eIZijW3pMtZx | Le département de Curacó est une des 22 subdivisions de la province de La Pampa, en Argentine. Son chef-lieu est la ville de Puelches.
Le département a une superficie de . Sa population était de habitants, selon le recensement de 2001 (source : INDEC).
Curacó
Curacó | wikipedia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUeAI4eIXgu5sT-vaX | Tourism Australia appoints Julie Earle-Levine North America PR Manager
Tourism Australia announced today that Julie Earle-Levine has joined Australia's national tourism marketing body to further develop its media relations efforts in the US and Canada, with the position based in New York for better access to some of the industry's top media centres.
Earle-Levine comes with a wealth of experience within the industry, having spent the past nine years writing travel, lifestyle and business articles for publications including The New York Times, New York magazine, The New York Post, Travel + Leisure and Yahoo! Travel. She formerly wrote for the Financial Times newspaper, based in New York, and The Australian newspaper in Sydney.
Earle-Levine joins Tourism Australia as the organisation continues to collaborate with industry to achieve the goals outlined in Australia's Tourism 2020 strategy.
"We are thrilled to have Julie on the team to further develop our reach in North America," said Jane Whitehead, Vice President, Americas, Tourism Australia.
Earle-Levine will be Tourism Australia's New York based-PR Manager, working with the rest of Tourism Australia's team in Los Angeles.
"I'm passionate about Australia and look forward to working with writers and editors to help them discover and learn more about Australia's diversity, and to keep them updated on all new news from Down Under," said Earle-Levine.
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BkiUdxU4uBhi2h6VPTuR | Please take a moment to check out my friend Nadine's blog post and her blog. Here is a excellent post.
There's a common belief among many people that addiction is a choice, but that misconception does more harm than good and this post explains why.
← IF YOU THINK ITS EASY. YOU PROBABLY HAVE NEVER HAD TO WALK IN MY SHOES. | c4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUcag5qoYDgPtUp2v4 | Storing 13 million gallons of water: Project on schedule to curb flooding in Mundelein
The multifaceted Western Slope drainage improvement project in Mundelein is focused on creating a detention area to hold stormwater. More than 64,000 cubic yards of soil will be removed to create the area near North Seymour Avenue and East Courtland Street. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Crews continue Monday to remove more than 64,000 cubic yards of soil to make way for a stormwater detention area near North Seymour Avenue and East Courtland Street in Mundelein. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
Work continues Monday along West Division Street in Mundelein, where 72-inch-diameter storm sewers, right, have been installed. Paul Valade | Staff Photographer
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Posted11/3/2020 5:30 AM
A multifaceted project to reduce flooding and protect property near downtown Mundelein is about 65% complete and is ahead of schedule.
Huge underground pipes and other measures to better channel stormwater away from streets and homes have been installed and the focus now is on shaping a large area to store it.
When complete, the big hole being dug on the site of a former guitar factory at 444 E. Courtland St. will hold 13 million gallons of water, the equivalent of filling a football field, including the end zones, 30 feet high.
That description is one way to envision the enormous volume and the magnitude of an ongoing $6.8 million project to relieve flooding that has plagued some neighborhoods west of Route 45 for 70 years.
"Simply put, it is a lot of water," said Adam Boeche, the village's director of public works and engineering.
Crews with heavy equipment have been busy, and during the next several months, 64,000 cubic yards of earth will be removed from the roughly 16-acre site of the former U.S. Music Corp.
Eventually, a sloped pool called a detention area will be shaped to hold stormwater coming from the west and solve a long-standing problem.
"In place of that guitar factory, we are digging a giant hole to put all this water we're going to have to channel over there," Mayor Steve Lentz said recently during a virtual town hall hosted by the GLMV Chamber of Commerce.
The Western Slope drainage project is named after the neighborhood west of Route 45, built after World War II before ordinances to regulate stormwater were enacted.
Underground pipes that carried water to the east beneath Route 45 and to the Seavey ditch, which drains a 1,220-acre area, are not big enough to handle heavy rain and often have been overwhelmed.
A lack of space to store the water also was cited as a major contributor to flooding, according to an analysis commissioned by the village.
This chronic problem reached critical mass in July 2017 when 6.2 inches of rain fell in 16 hours. The area, particularly the intersection of Division Street and Route 45, was inundated.
The result was a multifaceted plan to reduce flooding.
The groundwork began in May when 6-foot-diameter storm sewers were installed along Division Street from Memorial Park to Lake Street (Route 45) to work in tandem with the existing pipes, Boeche said.
That and associated work is complete on both sides of Route 45. The two sides will be connected in the spring, and it is hoped the entire system, including the detention area, will be running next summer.
Other future aspects of the stormwater management plan include a bike path, park and the extension of Hawthorne Drive.
New Mundelein detention area holds enough water to fill a football field and end zones 30-feet high
Land swap clears way for new public park, flood-relief effort in Mundelein
Could a park with a guitar-inspired promenade replace vacant factory in Mundelein? | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUavLxK7ICUyBuyfwX | https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-matrix-changed-visual-effects-now-resurrections-pivots-to-reality-11640174408
'The Matrix' Changed Visual Effects. Now 'Resurrections' Pivots to Reality.
While 1999 movie influenced everything from videogames to action movies to the metaverse, latest installment shows some restraint
Carrie-Anne Moss and Keanu Reeves are back in 'The Matrix Resurrections,' a sequel in the franchise that began in 1999.Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures
By John Jurgensen
Dec. 22, 2021 7:00 am ET
The jaw-dropping visual effects in "The Matrix" transformed the quest to prove what is possible on screen. The franchise returns this week to find out if there is anything more that can be done.
For the 1999 original, filmmakers invented a way to make Keanu Reeves's hero, Neo, defy physics while dodging bullets on screen. The effect blew enough minds to get a nickname—"bullet time"—plus changed the look of action movies, and influenced mediums from animation to videogames. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUeE-6NNjgB0Ss27q0 | We are checking options for another Xojo related conference in 2019.
Again we look for a place in Germany, but this time we consider whether we go to Cologne instead of Koblenz. Cologne could be a city where people may go for additional days for some sight seeing and entertainment. Cologne will definitive be more expensive than Koblenz, and maybe same as Munich. But if we go there, we need to make that decision soon to reserve the space in advance to get good rates.
Date could be somewhere in October 2019 as spring is taken by Xojo Inc. for their Xojo Developer Conference in May 2019. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUcpTxK7Ehm79fcbfu | 'Oh, blocked by James!' Happy three-year anniversary of Cavs-Warriors Game 7, Cleveland
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LeBron James' block of a layup attempt by Andre Iguodala in Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals is one of the most iconic moments in Cleveland sports history.
"Iguodala to Curry ... Back to Iguodala ... Up for the layup ... Oh, blocked by James!"
Three years ago today, ESPN's Mike Breen made one of the most memorable calls in Cleveland sports history.
LeBron James' chase-down block of a breakaway layup attempt by Andre Iguodala set the stage for Kyrie Irving's game-winning shot, which was followed by Kevin Love's incredible isolation defense on Steph Curry.
The Block.
The Shot.
The Stop.
June 19, 2016, is one of those days we'll never forget. The Cavs became the first team to rally from a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals by defeating the 73-win Golden State Warriors 93-89 in Game 7.
The title ended Cleveland's 52-year, 146-season, 18,802-day championship drought.
It brought adults to tears — in the best way possible — and set off a frenzy of celebrations downtown.
Thanks to Twitter, a lot of us relived some of those moments on Wednesday morning. "Blocked by James" was trending in the U.S., and it's a search we highly recommend.
Since many of us are in the mood to reminisce, let's look back on a few of the key moments — the obvious and the overlooked — from Game 7 of the 2016 Finals.
James' rejection, which occurred with 1:50 remaining in a game that was tied at 89, was incredible. The King's ability to track down a shot from behind is one of the 7,000 things we'll cherish from one of the two best careers in NBA history.
An underappreciated aspect of the play, though, is J.R. Smith making it possible.
Smith was defending Curry on the fast break, then switched over to Iguodala after Curry passed it to the 2015 Finals MVP. Smith did an excellent job of contesting Iguodala's shot without fouling, and in so doing, he gave James enough time to catch up and make one of the most memorable plays in league history. If Iguodala isn't forced to double-clutch the shot, there might not be a block.
Smith also wound up with the rebound.
The Shot
Irving's 3-pointer over Curry broke an 89-89 tie with 53 seconds left.
If you watch a video of the play, you'll notice that James was standing in the corner, watching the then-24-year-old guard do his thing. When the shot goes in, James raises his hands in the air.
The superstars could have been a perfect tandem, with each taking turns running the show for years to come. They never realized it, though.
Maybe they do now, since Los Angeles is one of Irving's rumored destinations as he seems set to leave the Celtics two years after forcing his way out of Cleveland.
The Stop
For what seemed like an eternity, Kevin Love — who has spent roughly 75% of his Cavs career being brought up in trade rumors — was forced to defend Curry one-on-one after a switch.
Curry dribbled behind his back and between his legs, then passed to Draymond Green, who was being defended by Irving. (Irving had switched onto Green after a pick.)
Green wisely passed it right back to Curry, who attempted to cross Love over before missing a 26-foot 3-point attempt with 30 seconds left.
During the 2019 Finals, Curry said he could have "easily gone around" Love for a two-point basket to trim the Cavs' lead to one.
Love dropped the mic with an "Easily." tweet, and Richard Jefferson dropped the hammer in the replies.
What a group.
A few other tidbits that shouldn't get lost in time, as we get old and the notable anniversaries of the 2016 title are celebrated.
• Klay Thompson tied the game at 89 with a layup with 4:39 left. The Warriors, who averaged 114.9 points per game and 114.5 points per 100 possessions in the regular season, didn't score again.
In fact, there was a 3:46 gap between Thompson's basket and Irving's 3. Think there was some Game 7 tension?
• By rallying from a 3-1 hole, the Cavs dealt the Warriors their first three-game losing streak in 31 months.
• Prior to Game 5, the Warriors had won 50 of their last 53 games at Oracle Arena. The Cavs responded by winning Game 5 and 7 on the road.
• LeBron in 13 games vs. the Warriors in the 2015 and '16 Finals: 32.5 points, 12.2 rebounds, 8.8 assists, 2.0 steals, 1.5 blocks, eight 30-point games and four 40-point games. He might have been even better in the 2017 Finals. That Cavs team was better, too. The problem: The Warriors added Kevin Durant.
• Irving outplayed Curry for much of the series.
Irving averaged 27.1 points, 3.9 assists, 3.9 rebounds and 2.7 turnovers in the 2016 Finals. He shot 46.8% from the field, 40.5% from 3-point range and 93.9% from the free-throw line.
Curry's norms: 22.1 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 4.3 turnovers, with 40.3-40-92.9 shooting splits. He failed to reach 20 points in four of the seven games. Irving tallied at least 23 points in all but one of the seven.
Kyrie's defense was pretty darn good, too.
• The game drew a 46.3 rating in the Cleveland market. That's the second-best ever for a Cavs game — topped only by a 49.0 for Game 3 of the 2015 Finals — and it doesn't take into account the thousands who watched Game 7 in a bar or at a friend's residence.
Social media can be annoying a lot of the time.
But even if you make a point of avoiding it, we suggest you at least check Twitter every June 19.
You can follow me on Twitter for sports information, analysis and tweets that bring out the logo and font critics. | commoncrawl | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
BkiUeI04eIOjSKE2vGSw | Courses » Diploma » Engineering » Civil » Diploma Civil Engineering »
Diploma Civil Engineering
Do you have interest in building structures? Do you want to be a civil Engineer? Do you like building bridges, dams and breath taking buildings? Then here is information you are seeking to know about Civil Engineering? Learn more details about Diploma in Civil Engineering Course, the syllabus, course description and the job prospects.
Course Name: Diploma Civil Engineering
Group: Diploma
Stream: Engineering
Course Category: Civil
Introduction to Civil Engineering
Civil engineering deals with the designing and constructing the buildings, construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, canals, dams and other structures. Their work also involves supervising the old and new buildings. Civil engineers work focuses on soil testing, movement of construction materials, equipments, machinery and resources to the site of construction. The civil engineers tasks involves designing the buildings, preparing the projects reports, using computers for drafting, analyzing and preparing the legal documents. They need to adhere to rules and regulations set by government, prepare and execute the works. Civil engineers need to be mobile to supervise the construction sites and assess the completion of works.
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Diploma Civil Engineering - Colleges & Admission Notifications
Find the list of colleges offering Diploma Civil Engineering course. Check out individual college websites to know more about the admission for 2021 - 2022 academic year. You may download the application form and course details from the official college website.
A. R. J. Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
A. V. C. C. Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
A.A.N.M. & V.V.R.S.R. Polytechnic, Krishna Dist, Andhra Pradesh
A.M.K. Technological Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
A.Y. Dadabhai Technical Institute, Gujarat
Aanm & Vvrsr Polytechnic College, Andhra Pradesh
Aarooran Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
Aarsh Institute of Technology, Gujarat
Abdul Razzaq Kalsekar Polytechnic College, Maharashtra
Abhishek Polytechnic College, Punjab
Abohar Polytechnic College, Punjab
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Polytechnic, West Bengal
Acharya Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
Acharya Polytechnic College, Karnataka
Acharya Shrimannarayan Polytechnic, Pipri-Wardha, Maharashtra
Achrya Shrimannarayan Polytechnic, Maharashtra
Adarsh Engineering College, Haryana
Adarsh Polytechnic College, Haryana
Adarsh Shikshan Sanstha, Maa Vaishnavi Polytechnic, Maharashtra
Adarsha School of Engineering & International Polytechnic, Odisha
Adhiparasakthi Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
Adhiyamaan Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
Adi Parasakthi Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
Aditya Education Group, Maharashtra
Ahilyadevi Holkar Bahuuddeshiya Sevabhavi Sanstha's Prernal College, Mauli, Maharashtra
Aishwarya Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
AKS University, Madhya Pradesh
AKT Memorial Polytechnic College, Tamil Nadu
AL-Ameen Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu
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Additional information of the Course
Eligibility Pass in X and XII class with science and mathematics and English as one of the subject in class X. The skills needed for this course is logical thinking, problem solving skills, ability to grasp the concepts, good communication to deal with the people and work force.
Documents required for admission: Original certificates, JET admit card, Mark sheets of matriculation, character certification from the last attended institution, domicile certificates, migration certificate, colored passport size photographs.
The students would be exposed to designing, planning, drafting surveying and estimation of costs. The syllabus consists of applied mathematics, physics, chemistry, mechanics, communication, engineering drawing, building material, computer applications, electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering, hydraulics, concrete technology, thermal engineering, surveying, design of steel, reinforced structures, environmental engineering lab, estimation and costing, irrigation engineering cad lab, road, railway, tunnel and harbour, town planning, elements of architecture, civil lab, project work, English communication survey practice, entrepreurship and field visits. The course prepares the students for the changes in the techniques and technologies and provides a basis for employment.
A Diploma Civil engineer find jobs in different sectors due to ever growing demand in the construction field and there is need for qualified civil engineers for infrastructures in the fast growing cities. They are employed as site engineers, supervisor, planner, surveyor, designer etc in the construction companies, private and public firms and can also venture into their own business. The tasks of civil engineer involves collecting the data for the project, estimating the costs, planning, preparing and constructing as per the schedule. Civil engineers need to supervise the completion of the work at the construction sites and undertake the repair works and maintenance.
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BkiUc-A25V5ikWNAG1-a | Q: How to add mysql skip name resolve I have to connect to my MYSQL server via remote connection from my pc,
The connection works. But its too slow.
From my reasearch I heard adding a line,
skip name resolve
is going to speed it up.
But where to add this? And how?
I am using mysql 5.7 with Ubuntu 16.04.
Is there any tutorial or something for this? I am noob.
Can anyone please help me?
A: Edit the below metioned file and add the given code.
/etc/mysql/my.cnf OR For Ubuntu16.* /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
[mysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /tmp/mysql.sock
skip-external-locking
skip-name-resolve
And restart MySQL server using below command.
sudo service mysql restart
A: *
*Add option skip-name-resolve in your config file.
*Add cmd line option --skip-name-resolve when you start mysqld or mysqld_safe.
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BkiUfZLxK1UJ-2RwX5WO | Q: How to Quantify Utility/Pleasure/Pain using the Positive Real Numbers? I am studying about Cardinal Utility in Economics (or more generally, how to quantify pleasure and pain!)
Intuitively, I assign a positive number to pleasurable experiences, and a negative number to painful experiences:
*
*pleasurable experience $\rightarrow$ positive number
*painful experience $\rightarrow$ negative number
*greater the magnitude of the number $\rightarrow$ more intense is the pleasure or pain
But... is there anyway to transform this scale into the positive real numbers?
*
*more painful the experience $\rightarrow$ closer to zero
*more pleasurable the experience $\rightarrow$ larger positive number
That way, I won't need to worry about sign!
A: The answer mentioned by Good Morning Captain is great! If $U_\text{old}$ was my old utility scale, whose range is the real numbers $\mathbb{R}$, then Captain's transformation:
$$U_\text{new} = f(U_\text{old}) = \begin{cases} \frac{1}{1+|U_\text{old}|} &\text{for } U_\text{old} \leq 0\\ U_\text{old}+1 &\text{for } U_\text{old} > 0 \end{cases}$$
maps negative values of $U_\text{old}$ onto the unit interval $[0,1]$, while mapping the positive values onto $\mathbb{R}^+$.
An even simpler solution would be to just use the exponential transformation:
$$U_\text{new} = \exp(U_\text{old})$$
In both the cases (Captain's function and Exponential function):
*
*painful experiences $\rightarrow$ negative values in the $U_\text{old}$-scale $\rightarrow$ values in the range $[0,1)$ in the $U_\text{new}$-scale. More negative the experience, more close is the scale to 0.
*neutral experiences $\rightarrow$ 0 in the $U_\text{old}$-scale $\rightarrow$ 1 in the $U_\text{new}$-scale
*pleasurable experiences $\rightarrow$ positive values in the $U_\text{old}$-scale $\rightarrow$ values in the range $(1,+\infty)$ in the $U_\text{new}$-scale
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BkiUb-vxK7ICUubsypiY | Q: Transform a div without transforming icon inside I am attempting to transform a div on hover using the CSS transform properties.
I have the transform doing what I want, but unfortunately its applying the transform (logically I guess), to the contents of the div I want to just apply the transform the div but not the underlying content (an Icon in this case).
I have seen a few methods on here, including applying the reverse transition to the icon, but when I did that it just multiplied the effect.
Here is my code:
.MsgBtnIcon {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
right: 7px;
padding: 0px;
}
#transDemo2 div {
display: block;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
right: 0px;
background-color: #03A9F4;
width: 75px;
height: 75px;
text-align: center;
-webkit-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
}
#transDemo2 div:hover,
#transDemo2 div.hover_effect {
-webkit-transform: rotate(360deg) scale(2, 2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
-moz-transform: rotate(360deg) scale(2, 2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
-ms-transform: rotate(360deg) scale(2, 2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
transform: rotate(360deg) scale(2, 2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
}
<script src="https://use.fontawesome.com/353bc64522.js"></script>
<div id="transDemo2">
<div class="hover">
<i class="fa fa-plus fa-4x MsgBtnIcon" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</div>
</div>
A: You can accomplish this by moving the MsgBtnIcon to be a child of the hover div and add pointer-events: none.
Updated fiddle example
.MsgBtnIcon {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
right: 7px;
padding: 0px;
pointer-events: none;
}
#transDemo2 div {
display: block;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
right: 0px;
background-color: #03A9F4;
width: 75px;
height: 75px;
text-align:center;
-webkit-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
}
#transDemo2 div:hover, #transDemo2 div.hover_effect {
-webkit-transform:rotate(360deg) scale(2,2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
-moz-transform:rotate(360deg) scale(2,2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
-ms-transform:rotate(360deg) scale(2,2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
transform:rotate(360deg) scale(2,2) translateX(-19px) translateY(-19px);
}
<script src="https://use.fontawesome.com/353bc64522.js"></script>
<div id="transDemo2">
<div class="hover"></div>
<i class="fa fa-plus fa-4x MsgBtnIcon" aria-hidden="true"></i>
</div>
A: Rather than fighting against the transform, maybe it would be better to simply separate the part that suffers the transformation from the part that stays unnafected:
https://jsfiddle.net/m1hqzaqf/
<script src="https://use.fontawesome.com/353bc64522.js"></script>
<div id="transDemo2">
<div class="hover">
</div>
<i class="fa fa-plus fa-4x MsgBtnIcon" aria-hidden="true">X</i>
</div>
After all, the 'hover' div, in this instance, seems to be there just to pose as a background, anyway.
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BkiUdXo5qsFAfznZbsmm | In Hitsbook we love the cinema, and you?
Have you already sent your fake terror trailer to DARKFEST?
What is your favorite movie nominated in the Oscars 2018?
Did you go to Tim Burton's exhibition in Mexico City?
Fun facts about "The Shape of Water" | c4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUeibxK3YB9i3RMhCy | It may be possible to make minor alterations or an extension to your house without the need for planning permission. This is known as 'permitted development'.
To find our whether you need to make a planning application, you should look on the Planning section of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council's website. You will also find all of the information you need about making an application, download all of the appropriate forms and guidance notes as well as being able to submit your planning application online. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUeww5qhDCHWDRFUQd | I'm so glad Kevin Henkes has taken to writing about the seasons, and I hope he does all of them. Winter Is Here is a poetic exploration of the sights and feelings of winter -- from the way the snow covers the outside world to the many different articles of clothing that a child must put on before going out to play. Gentle text works well for young children, and the bright illustrations bring colors and definition even to descriptions of white snow and transparent ice.
Of course, the best part of this book is that it ends with spring! | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdc45qhLA_wzE9Ndm | Q: "Error creating session" when attempting to debug application with Eclipse/CDT & gdb I'm receiving a rather cryptic error when attempting to debug a simple C++ application.
Message: "Error creating session"
Stacktrace:
org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.MIException: Process Terminated
at org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.MISession.setup(MISession.java:232)
at org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.MISession.<init>(MISession.java:204)
at org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.MIPlugin.createMISession0(MIPlugin.java:135)
at org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.MIPlugin.createSession(MIPlugin.java:464)
at org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.AbstractGDBCDIDebugger.createGDBSession(AbstractGDBCDIDebugger.java:114)
at org.eclipse.cdt.debug.mi.core.AbstractGDBCDIDebugger.createSession(AbstractGDBCDIDebugger.java:68)
at org.eclipse.cdt.launch.internal.LocalCDILaunchDelegate.launchDebugSession(LocalCDILaunchDelegate.java:343)
at org.eclipse.cdt.launch.internal.LocalCDILaunchDelegate.createCDISession(LocalCDILaunchDelegate.java:468)
at org.eclipse.cdt.launch.internal.LocalCDILaunchDelegate.launchLocalDebugSession(LocalCDILaunchDelegate.java:145)
at org.eclipse.cdt.launch.internal.LocalCDILaunchDelegate.launchDebugger(LocalCDILaunchDelegate.java:112)
at org.eclipse.cdt.launch.internal.LocalCDILaunchDelegate.launch(LocalCDILaunchDelegate.java:72)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:853)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.core.LaunchConfiguration.launch(LaunchConfiguration.java:703)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin.buildAndLaunch(DebugUIPlugin.java:866)
at org.eclipse.debug.internal.ui.DebugUIPlugin$8.run(DebugUIPlugin.java:1069)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
OS: Ubuntu 32 9.04
gdb: GNU gdb 6.8-debian
eclipse: 20090619-0625
gdb is in my path and is executable from the terminal.
I've also tried using both the 'elf' and 'GNU' binary parsers to no avail.
Any ideas anyone?
ashley
A: Not much ideas, except looking at the source code of MSISession:
// The Process may have terminated earlier because
// of bad arguments etc .. check this here and bail out.
try {
process.exitValue();
InputStream err = process.getErrorStream();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(err));
String line = null;
try {
line = reader.readLine();
reader.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
// the reader may throw a NPE.
}
if (line == null) {
line = MIPlugin.getResourceString("src.MISession.Process_Terminated"); //$NON-NLS-1$
}
throw new MIException(line);
}
Meaning that somehow, when you are at this stage, the Process has already produced some errors, probably due to bad arguments.
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BkiUd244ukPiEUwWDhz0 | In one week's time, I was able to relive a lot of the life I've led that brought me to this point. No, I'm not a time traveler, but I certainly felt like one.
From 1965 through 1976, I had the great fortune to spend my summers at sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains. The camp, opened in 1950, was celebrating its 65th anniversary, and the current owner was celebrating 25 years of owning and running the camp, and as a result, invited all counselors and campers back for a weekend reunion.
I was a child again. I was able to forget about the everyday stresses of my life as an adult in an unforgiving world. I rolled down hills, I toasted marshmallows around a campfire, I sang camp songs and I renewed friendships with people I hadn't seen in 40 or 45 years. (Stop counting on your fingers if you're trying to figure out how old I am). I even stretched my limits, forgot my fears and challenged my body physically by going zip-lining. I competed in color war, pulled pranks on my bunkmates and relived the end of the summer banquet traditions. And then it was over. The reunion seemed to have passed as fast as my life is passing, in the blink of an eye.
Then it was on to Boston, where I met up with my husband, the American history nut. His intention was to see everything he possibly could that related to the birth of our country. We traveled the route of the Freedom Trail, two and half miles, stopping at every attraction, and did so in one day. Living in Florida, I'm not used to hills… including Bunker Hill. It took us nine hours, with 30 minutes for lunch and a half a dozen water bottles each. Paul Revere had nothing on me!
A cool, indoor activity, like visiting the New England Aquarium, was a welcomed relief. In fact, it was a huge surprise. No, we didn't fall in the shark tank. We did, however, receive a private tour of the "behind the scenes" of the Aquarium. We learned some most fascinating facts, most importantly was one, not to raise dragonfish unless you are financially independent, and two, always be nice. Karma works. As my cousin's late daughter, Carly Ferro would say, "Be kinder than necessary." That, I believe is why we were picked for the tour.
In Boston, I got my lahbstah, my chowdah and a big fat piece of Boston cream pie. I was still the happy camper I was when I started this week.
We hopped a plane to D.C., where we grabbed a car and drove to Baltimore to "relive" our parenting days, by visiting our daughter. Somehow, with time, the roles have reversed. Our daughter was the consummate hostess, treating us to meals, filling the refrigerator in our hotel room, and sharing her life with us. We visited Annapolis for the history and the Naval Academy for the cute guys in uniform. Our daughter provided lunch, again. The next day, we visited Botanical gardens and a Conservatory, got lost coming back, and shared a delightful Shabbat dinner.
True to our calling, (like John Muir), we headed for the mountains of Shenandoah National Park on Saturday. We explored caverns and went horseback riding. We even had to call my husband's old boy scout skills to find our way back, because GPS doesn't work in the mountains. Back in Baltimore, I got my long-anticipated crab cakes.
On our last day, we went into the city to visit the Maryland Jewish Museum. The oldest standing Jewish Temple in the country, some great exhibits and then one last visit with our daughter at her home.
And as fast as that, my vacation was over. Well, not yet. After driving back down to D.C., and dropping of the car with 4 minutes to spare, we, through no fault of our own, got to extend our trip for two more hours due to a flight delay. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdZU5qoYAlE7mUv60 | Texting with guys has become an art in itself. Everyone has different texting styles, timing, and preferences. Plus texting guys is not like texting a friend. When texting a girl friend you text right back, you put lots of smileys and exclamation points, you text multiple texts, change the conversations, ask her deep, loaded questions, send her pics of your 1st grade picture, and text her at 3am to tell her something funny.
Here are some general tips on texting guys.
Build excitement and intrigue. Watch this video from professional pick up artist, Mehow, on how to text with a guy.
From the ladies of The Rules and their new book.
How long do I wait to reply to a text? 4 hours say the Rules.
set some boundaries on what you use texting for – making logistical plans or flirting. Probably not best for defining a relationship or bringing up issues or problems.
Don't follow them first on facebook, twitter, Instagram.
Don't mention you've looked at their profiles or googled them.
Have any good texting tips? Any other texting questions? | c4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUdgXxK6-gD5Tldv5M | Association: - Food, - satisfaction, - pleasure. Question: - Which part of myself do I feed?
a dream of food can be looked as a good sign, particularly if you ate and became full.
The quality of the dishes and drinks in the dream and your feelings to them are important for the interpretation of your dream. For example, a dream in which you eat rests can show that you live on the most necessary. Think about the quality and quantity of the 'ingredients' of the life with which you can enrich your awake life, and how these can be procured.
a decent meal or a tasty snack which were taken with pleasure to themselves can reveal a deep feeling of the satisfaction with your life. One also indicates the faith that good times approach you or that the foundation was laid for future profit.
? Did you have feelings of guilt because of quality or amount or did you eat with pleasure?
Insatiably to eat or to drink, the 'ravenous' side of your personality can express, reflect unfulfilled needs and maybe provide the feeling to be unbeloved on itself put or. Such dreams can also emphasise the fear that momentary good times of short duration can be and must be enjoyed, as long as it still goes.
Richly only food devours quickly acquisitiveness and lacking sympathy often registers for others.
paltry food which does not taste can point out to the fact that one achieves a low success in which one cannot be glad, - feelings of guilt are also sometimes expressed in it.
consolation food from child days can show the longing to return at easier times.
invitation for food should point to forthcoming troubled times.
Going it in the dream about the fact that he does not eat or refuses the absorption of nutrients indicates this one avoid from growth and change, so against something in our life which it is a matter to overcome. Maybe the dreaming tries to keep away from other people or to isolate himself. Or, however, the dreaming is discordant with himself because he is discontented with his body.
One tries to remember what one has eaten in the dream to draw from it his conclusions, because the dream food is often to be equated with the spiritual food which could come away us and after which one crowds voraciously.
Becoming the dreaming in his dream consumes, symbolises this his knowledge that he is consumed by his own feelings and fears or by that of the other people.
by a wild animal to be eaten, concludes by the fact that the dreaming is 'eaten up' by his own animal nature.
The surroundings in which the dreaming ate or drank - for example, a social occasion - can reflect the aspects in the life of the dreaming which need attention or spiritual food.
The purchase of food can express the hidden temptation 'to buy' the attention or sympathy more different to themselves.
dreams about yellow food like pasta or vanilla sauce can show cowardice.
It means: The person is what he eats', and, hence, the dreaming at the spiritual level should take the best food to himself which he can get.
It is to be eaten nobody good in the dream stars, except to seers and astronomers, - this it means good salary and increase in property, - to all others it prophesies the death. To eat from his own meat brings poor luck, - he will come by physical work and strain to big property and not live in this manner though on his meat, probably, however, from the salary of his meat. From good premeaning it is more distant for a foreman if he eats of those body parts by which he earns excellently his living, - namely work one with both hands, other only with one, third with the fingertips, again other with the whole body. For belletrists it is good if they give to eat mouth and tongue to others, - they will acquire by mouth and tongue a lot of money and be so able to grant also other maintenance. If one consumes his own mouth or his own tongue, he will lose his speech ability. It means private individuals to remorse for cheeky speeches. A woman who eats from own meat will go whoring and live in this manner by own body. It announces everybody which has a friend or narrow relative or beloved person on the sickbed grief, - then mourning consume her own meat, while they disfigure themselves in pain. It announces an empire and everybody which leads his life completely by wish nothing good if he eats of own meat, - it means a complete circulation of the life-style and the property relations of the dreaming just as food of own excrement. A man who had three sons dreamt, two of them slaughtered him and consumed his meat, however, the latest one comes, makes to the other reproaches serious to both, would be completely knocked down and says full loathing: 'I touch from the father nothing.' It met that his latest son died, - then he alone should not get not possibly from the meat, but from the property of the father his part, while he parted before this from the life and was not heir to him. The others, however, which had eaten inherited the fatherly property.
only smell: bad news stands in the house.
eat fruit: indicates at kisses which one receives with pleasure. | c4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUfcfxK7Ehm4VQwyQe | A dense fog advisory in effect for 12 regions in the area
ANTONIO GANDY-GOLDEN
Bush, Board among key injuries in NFL's Week 6
Pittsburgh Steelers inside linebacker Devin Bush (55) is helped from the field after he was injured in the first half of an NFL football game against the Cleveland Browns, Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020, in Pittsburgh. Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said in the post game news conference that Bush suffered a significant injury to a knee on the play. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin said in the post game news conference that Bush suffered a significant injury to a knee on the play. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)Pittsburgh second-year inside linebacker Devin Bush sustained what coach Mike Tomlin called a "significant knee injury" in Pittsburgh's 38-7 rout of the Browns on Sunday. Board has movement in his limbs after suffering a concussion and neck injury in the team's 20-19 win over Washington. Bush, who had not missed a defensive snap all season, injured his left knee in the second quarter when he took an awkward step while attempting to break up a pass. Also, Giants cornerback Darnay Holmes suffered a neck injury in the game.
Giants and Judge finally win, beat Washington on fumble TD
New York Giants' Daniel Jones (8) runs away from Washington Football Team's Landon Collins (26) during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
In fact, the 38-year-old Judge barely had time to celebrate as the Giants rode a wild final four minutes, a decisive play by Mr. Irrelevant — scooped up a fumble and ran 43 yards for a touchdown to give New York a 20-13. Washington coach Ron Rivera rolled the dice and went for the win with a 2—point conversion. The only way to learn to win is to play to win. That's what I want those guys to understand."The stop allowed the Giants to avoid a second 0-6 start since 2013.
Redskins draft pick from Liberty says he had coronavirus
Washington Redskins rookie receiver Antonio Gandy-Golden said Wednesday he tested positive for the new coronavirus in March and has fully recovered. Gandy-Golden said in a statement that he tested positive during NFL draft training on March 24, had mild symptoms and was cleared on April 7. The site makes reference to a graduated student who tested positive for the coronavirus on March 24 but was not on campus during the two weeks prior. "Prior information that the graduated student came to an on campus clinic was incorrect," it said. First things first, you definitely want him to be safe, Redskins defensive lineman Jonathan Allen said on a video call with reporters. | commoncrawl | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUbI84uzqh_FJ_JcfM | Q: pdfx package writes into pdf file I want to create a pdf/a-compatible file in LaTeX using the pdfx package. Unfortunately, instead of using the correctly created xmp file to convert the file into pdf/a, some lines of cryptic text are written directly into the pdf file. My minimal example (largely based on http://www.golatex.de/pdfx-bzw-pdf-a-oder-pdf-x-t4427.html) is
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.xmpdata}
\Keywords{pdfTeX\sep PDF/X-1a\sep PDF/A-b}
\Title{Sample LaTeX input file}
\Author{Das war KOMA}
\Org{goLaTeX}
\end{filecontents*}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a-1b]{pdfx}
\usepackage[pdfa]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}
This produces the error ! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}, although I have a \begin{document} in the file, and the following file:
Any ideas where the problem lies?
A: You need eciRGB_v2.icc in the working directory.
\documentclass{article}
% ===============================
% Embedding the color profile.
% Requires eciRGB_v2.icc in the working directory
% http://www.eci.org/_media/downloads/icc_profiles_from_eci/ecirgbv20.zip
\pdfminorversion 4
\immediate\pdfobj stream attr{/N 3} file{eciRGB_v2.icc}
\pdfcatalog{%
/OutputIntents [ <<
/Type /OutputIntent
/S/GTS_PDFA1
/DestOutputProfile \the\pdflastobj\space 0 R
/OutputConditionIdentifier (eciRGB v2)
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BkiUfI425V5jS9ZhY83v | Southern Wake Academy Eliminates Wasted Time, Paper and Upgrades Their Technology with Konica Minolta
Southern Wake Academy is a tuition-free, independent, public charter school located in Holly Spring, North Carolina. Mike Heavey, Director of Development for Southern Wake Academy, knew that he needed to put measures into place to save the school money and save his teachers precious time during the school day. That's when he formed a partnership with Konica Minolta.
The academy had worn out technology that was out of service more than it was working. Mike was also receiving different bills each month depending on how much his staff was printing. It became worrisome not knowing what to expect in each bill. He needed efficient solutions that made his teachers' days much easier and provided predictability.
"Students are using technology-based education programs, but our teachers still have items that need to be printed. With the help of Konica Minolta, teachers can send any of their print jobs to one of their 5 bizhub® 558e printers, have them sorted, stapled, hole punched and ready to pick up between classes." And with bizhub® SECURE, which offers an enhanced set of security measures to lock down printing with password protection – Mike never has to worry that private student information is left unattended. Additionally, Southern Wake Academy utilizes Konica Minolta's OneRate program, which means each month his bill is the same as opposed to a variable cost with overages. It's a simplified way for him to control print-related operating costs and for teachers to print as much as they need without the academy receiving a surprise invoice at the end of the month.
Mike relies on Konica Minolta because of how reliable the MFPs are and how efficiently they help make his school run. "Before installing the 5 bizhub® 558e machines, the previous equipment experienced a ton of down time, would always break and they just simply weren't keeping up with the demand of the school," says Heavey.
The new machines that were installed print an extra 10 pages per minute and Konica Minolta was able to lower Southern Wake's yearly costs by over $1,000. Southern Wake Academy now has updated technology to support an increase in students. Print flexibility, streamlined billing with OneRate and a well running school takes the pressure off of Mike Heavey so he can focus on growing enrollment!
Another way Southern Wake has upgraded technology is with the Double® 2; a telepresence robot that allows teachers and students to remotely connect to each other. The Double® 2 gives students and teachers a real, physical presence at school via a two-wheeled balancing robot with an attached iPad®.
The robot moves around the classroom to make the student feel connected to his or her peers. "Our students love it so much, they've even dressed it up to look more human-like," says Heavey. This technology helps students get engaged and stay involved, even when they cannot physically be in the classroom.
Mike has future plans of using Konica Minolta's ITS division, All Covered for VOIP solutions and to run the Academy network. He looks forward to working further with Konica Minolta as a partner in this growth and an expert in school-based technology.
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BkiUfeY5qhDCaySU99R- | Founded in 1994, Levacare provides a values-oriented, innovative approach and collaborative approach to enable sustainable achievement. As a Family Office we continue to work with existing clients to achieve balanced, holistic, long term perspectives and solutions.
The 'heart and head' connection requires a care centric approach to maintain relationships with vigour.
The ability to communicate, cooperate and support is more enabling to initiate and complete our goals whilst reducing risk.
Personal growth is the key driver for a transformational journey in our personal and work spheres, balance, being key.
Clarity of mind and purpose is possible if we can align our values as individuals and organisations to fulfil our aspirations.
Open-mindedness to new ideas, perspectives and sharing provide the pivots for competitive change by learning continuously.
Shared knowledge and collaborative respect provides the basis for sustainable relationships, outcome achievement and empowered communities.
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BkiUesnxaKgTq1C9PD4D | Paste presents THE REFLEKTOR TAPES, a fascinating insight into the making of Arcade Fire's international #1 album Reflektor. The film hits theaters for a one-night exclusive event on Wednesday, September 23rd in select markets. In addition to the feature film, this one-night event will also include content you can catch only in theaters.
Directed by Kahil Joseph, THE REFLEKTOR TAPES recontextualizes the album experience, transporting the viewer into a kaleidoscopic landscape, sonically and visually. It charts the band's creative journey as they lay foundations for the album in Jamaica, record in Montreal, and play an impromptu gig at a Haitian hotel on the first night of Carnival, before bringing their breathtaking live show to packed arenas in Los Angeles and London.
THE REFLEKTOR TAPES blends never-before-seen personal interviews and moments captured by the band to dazzling effect, and features 20 minutes of exclusive unseen footage, filmed only for cinema audiences. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdQg5qX_BoWGV688j | Canna Cribs: E1 - Glass House Greenhouse - Commercial Cannabis Growing Operation in California
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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 28, 2019 / GLOBAL HEMP GROUP INC. ("GHG" or the "Company") (GHG.CN)(OTC PINK:GBHPF) (GHG.CN) is pleased to announce that harvest at its joint venture hemp farm in Scio, Oregon is now complete. Harvest Harvesting began in early October and is now 100% complete. As with many areas of Oregon
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 28, 2019 / GLOBAL HEMP GROUP INC. ("GHG" or the "Company") (GHG.CN)(OTC PINK:GBHPF) (GHG.CN) is pleased to announce that harvest at its joint venture hemp farm in Scio, Oregon is now complete.
Harvesting began in early October and is now 100% complete. As with many areas of Oregon this year, Scio also experienced some weather challenges during the end of the growing season prior to harvest. Ultimately periods of dry weather extended long enough into October to have a successful harvest.
The last batch of hemp plants harvested have just competed the drying process. All biomass from the 2019 harvest will be ready for sale and/or further processing in the coming week. As drying and shucking are completed, the biomass will be weighed and prepared for storage before processing and/or sale.
This year genetics used at the farm were of vastly superior quality as compared to last year. The most recent independent test results of the current harvest was 18.48% Total CBD and compliant with non-detectable Delta 9 THC. Not only was there a 50% increase in CBD content over the previous year's harvest, there were virtually no males found in the field through the entire growing season. These improved genetics have produced higher quality trimmable flower that is being separated from the general biomass that will be processed into CBD crude oil. Trimmable flower prices are currently selling for upwards of $250 per pound, whereas biomass for extraction last season was priced at $30 to $40 per pound depending on quality.
Greenhouse Operations
The Company has expanded growing operations to include year-round production from its greenhouses. The first greenhouse (approx. 3,000 sq ft) is on track for harvest in January. Expansion into the adjacent greenhouses, will occur over the next 30 days. Drying flower in the larger greenhouses is complete and cultivation will soon expand into all of the greenhouses on the farm. An additional 4,000 sq ft greenhouse will be constructed in Q1 2020 to increase the available indoor growing area. Management is currently evaluating additional greenhouse expansion plans in order to generate a year-round revenue stream for the Company.
Follow the development of the Scio Oregon Hemp Project on Instagram @hemp_global.
About Global Hemp Group Inc.
Global Hemp Group Inc. (GHG.CN) (OTC PINK:GBHPF) (GHG.CN), is focused on a multi-phased strategy to build a strong presence in the industrial hemp industry in both Canada and the United States. The Company is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, with hemp cultivation operations in Oregon State. The first phase of this strategy is to develop hemp cultivation with the objective of extracting cannabinoids (CBD, CBG, CBN & CBC) and creating a near term revenue stream that will allow the Company to expand and develop successive phases of the strategy. The second phase of the plan will focus on the development of value-added industrial hemp products utilizing the processing of the whole hemp plant, as envisioned in the Company's Hemp Agro-Industrial Zone (HAIZ) strategy.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
Certain information set forth in this news release may contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the control of Global Hemp Group Inc., including, but not limited to the impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions, volatility of commodity prices, currency fluctuations, dependence upon regulatory approvals, the availability of future financing and exploration risk, the legality of cannabis and hemp. Readers are cautioned that the assumptions used in the preparation of such information, although considered reasonable at the time of preparation, may prove to be imprecise and, as such, undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements.Except as required by law, Global Hemp Group Inc. disclaims any intention and assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward looking statements to reflect actual results, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, changes in factors affecting such forward looking statements or otherwise.
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BkiUcjbxK5YsWR0Ki_UA | Analysis of Time Series Data in the Presence of Outliers
Bookcover of Analysis of Time Series Data in the Presence of Outliers
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This book deals with the methods of detection, and identification of outliers in time series data in the frequency domain. It also discusses the method of analysis that would be insensitive to outliers. The author uses some robust regression method to fit sine and cosine coefficients at each Fourier frequency assuming additive outlier (AO) and multiplicative outliers (MO) respectively to obtain discrete Fourier transform for removing outliers from time series data. The parameters of the contaminated series were estimated using the maximum likelihood (ML) method and the statistical properties of the derived estimates were investigated. Two algorithms were proposed for detection and accommodation of aberrant observations in the frequency domain while modified test statistic using a more robust estimate that is resistant to outlier were also developed to test each observation for discordance. A new filtering method of accommodating outliers was also suggested and the performance of various accommodation techniques was determined in respect of the fixed and dynamic models.Real life and simulated data were used to illustrate the techniques.
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Outliers; Fourier transform; Periodogram; Filtering; Monte Carlo simulation | commoncrawl | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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Np: The Artist, nd. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with color photographs. Artist's book limited to 50 numbered copies. A photozine abecedary, illustrated with photographs of drugs, weapons and cash seized in police raids, with, in each photograph a letter spelled out, usually with drugs. Old price sticker to back cover..... More
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict
Burroughs, William S. [as William Lee]
New York: Ace Books, 1953. First edition. 12mo, wraps. Bound dos à dos with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. The first edition of Burroughs' first novel. Poet, publisher and musician Dan Lauffer's copy, who helped the book's distribution and so many other publications of the underground in NYC by stocking at..... More
Die Reise ins Innere. Eins Psychedelisches Magazin
Greub, Thomas, ed.
Germany: Concept Data, 1973. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Text mostly in German. Illustrated with drawings, comics and collages. Single unnumbered issue of the periodical, perhaps all that was issued - this is the only issue we've seen. Includes comics by the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, an R. Crumb centerfold, both translated..... More
Suikergoed & Marsepein
Huges, Hugo Bart
Amsterdam: Barbara Huges, 1968. Second edition. 4to, 34 pp., mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and bound with cloth tape into textured card covers printed in color. Second expanded edition. A self-published treatise on trepanation by a member of Provo who had experienced the act firsthand. On January 6, 1965..... More
Attention Poets, Historians, Flamebrains Spaceouts & Madmen. Herbert Huncke Reads!
Huncke, Herbert
New York: [Fuck You Press], 1964. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from holograph on rose paper stock. A flyer from a rare early reading by Huncke at Le Metro. Though unattributed, the flyer was obviously designed by Ed Sanders of the Fuck You press. Rare. The only example of..... More
Sex... Drugs... Gods. The New Consciousness. Guest Speaker: Ed Sanders
Sanders, Ed
New York: [1966]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from holograph and drawing on blue paper. Flyer for an appearance by Ed Sanders, speaking as part of an anarchist discussion group at CCNY. Though the flyer is illustrated with an Eye of Horus and is similar in design to various..... More
Mechanized Opium
Zephyrus Image
San Francisco: Zephyrus Image, nd. First edition. 9 1/4 x 14" broadside, linocut no newsprint. An early broadside from the press, dating from the Collins Street days, and with the newsprint paper utilized, and early spelling of the press name as "Zephyrous", similar in feel to the companion pieces Help..... More
Help Your Local Junkie Kick
[Zephyrus Image]
[San Francisco]: Zephyrus Image, [1970]. First edition. 6 1/2 x 12 1/2", linocut in green on newsprint. The rare first state of the broadside, originally distributed by posting them on telephone poles around Berkeley. One of the greatest posters of the 70's, deriving a strange power from Myer's masterful linocut..... More | commoncrawl | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
BkiUdAjxK03BfNelWqnT | Swedish Relaxation Massage: The Best Form Of Stress Relief?
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Ahh, Sweden: bestower of four-piece disco-pop ensembles, crazy affordable DIY furniture, mouth-watering meatballs and the ultimate form of relaxation massage.
Swedish relaxation massage is one of the world's most popular forms of massage, and it's also one of ours. We've explored the difference between deep tissue massage and Swedish relaxation massage in a previous blog, but today the focus of the magnifying glass is on Swedish massage as a form of stress relief.
Now right off the bat, we'd assume that a massage that has "relaxation" in its very name would be the best form of stress relief for our bodies and our brains, correct? It makes sense, since we associate the term relaxation with inner peace, tranquillity, reprieve – basically the antitheses of all things stress-related. To relax is to let go of strain and enter a state of zen. Swedish relaxation massage can allow us to do this.
But is Swedish massage the best massage for stress relief?
So perhaps the reason Swedish massage is the most highly requested massage is because it is the most familiar to people. Therapists have let us know that sometimes people choose Swedish relaxation massages simply because they don't understand what massage they really need.
We'll refrain from going all scientific on you. On the very surface level, stress is an ailment of the mind. Chemical imbalances in the brain can make us tired, irritable, anxious, or a combination of these. When we hold all of these feelings in our body, the stress of the brain translates into stress of the body.
But we can fix this! It's just a matter of working backwards – start with the body and the brain will follow. This is precisely what massage, and especially Swedish relaxation massage, is supposed to do. By targeting the places in our bodies that harbour tension and strain, massage provides dual-relief. When all that rigidity is worked out of your shoulders with long, buttery strokes, suddenly your stress just starts to melt away.
So if it's your brain that's giving you stress, then a Swedish massage is the way to go. This kind of massage is a treat for the body and an indulgence for the mind. A relaxing massage improves mental clarity, focus and attention. However, if your stress is the result of a physical inconvenience – stiff shoulders, an aching back, a crook neck – then perhaps you require something with more intensity, like a deep tissue massage or a sports massage. All of these massages will alleviate stress, but for different purposes.
If you have read Deep Tissue Vs. Relaxation – What's the Difference? then you may have heard some of these terms before. If you haven't given that post a go yet, we'd recommend checking it out to help you decide which massage is best for you.
Swedish relaxation massage uses long, broad strokes that are applied slowly and with pressure tailored to your needs. This is called effleurage and even the term sounds totally chill. Your Blys massage therapist will employ these effleurage strokes using their palms or fingers to break down muscle knots and tension. We can totally vouch for the blyssful sensation of this technique (massages for science!) and it's ability to set your mind at ease so quickly.
Swedish relaxation massage may also use petrissage, which is a kneading motion that uses the thumbs and knuckles. We know that might raise and eyebrow – thumbs and knuckles sounds like a brawl – but it's not like that at all. Imagine a cat getting ready to lie down on a fluffy blanket: that's more like petrissage.
Friction, vibration and tapotement (rhythmic tapping like you see in the cartoons) are sometimes used in Swedish relaxation massage as well, however your Blys massage therapist will determine the best techniques to get your body into the most relaxed state possible. Swedish relaxation massage is designed as a full-body massage that taps into the zen part of the brain you almost forgot you had.
Just as every person is different, everyone will react to and hold their stress differently. Blys therapists know this and will ascertain the parts of your body that require the most attention. The lower back, shoulders and neck are typically susceptible of tension, stiffness or soreness, however you should always let your therapist know where you would like for them to focus. Communication is always key for the best massage on the market.
Swedish relaxation massage is perfect if you're new to massage, or just want to treat yourself to something indulgent (that's also good for you!). We know that for the busy people of the world, spas are not an option. Travel is inconvenient, wastes precious time, and can be stressful in itself. That's why Blys allows mobile therapists to come to you at your home, hotel or work. So now the wonderful effects of a Swedish relaxation massage don't wear off as soon as you get back into the car – you don't have to get into a car at all.
Your Blys therapist will bring everything – all you have to do is book online or in the app, and we'll do the rest. How easy is that? You have absolutely no reason to be stressed now, so book your next Swedish relaxation massage today and get blyssed! | c4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUd7LxK7kjXLSrGExe | As you head to the polls, I want to encourage you to Look UP!
Look up from your life, past your own career, beyond your own neighborhood. Look to the wider world when you vote. What kind of leadership are you electing for the future? What kind of vision are you supporting? Are you helping to put in place legislatures that will protect natural resources or exploit them? Are you voting for human development or for the environment that hosts all life? These are challenging times, and much hangs in the balance.
How will you stand on the Earth?
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird…it's a comet….it's ATMOSPHERE!
The second gift in my December calendar of counting blessings is air. The blog entry I posted two years ago is about an encounter with duck hunters. Ironically, I met a duck hunter yesterday. He came into my daughter's home with a mallard drake dangling from his fist, took it out to the back yard, and began to pull back skin and feathers to reveal a dark red breast. If you've never eaten duck, this may conjure a shocked response. If you have (and enjoy it as much as Steve does), you may shrug your shoulders and think, "Okay, that's how we get duck meat. Yum!" My daughter came into the house minutes later with a collection of feathers in a plastic bag and announced, "Everyone's getting feather earrings for Christmas!" My daughter makes and sells jewelry. Her designs are beautiful, I think.
So, natural resources…we use them, we share them with everything on the planet. We breathe something like 19 cubic feet of oxygen each day. Our air quality affects every breath we take, every bird and animal and plant as well. There's an air quality exhibit at Discovery World where I work, so I am reminded of this several times a week. We will use the resources; we will affect the web. The question we must continue to ask is "How?" Are we mindful? Respectful? Wasteful? Grateful? Entitled? Do consider before acting.
I'm new around here. To Wisconsin, that is. People here shoot animals at state nature areas. And the DNR is okay with this. They post helpful signs that indicate which recreational activities are allowed and that includes the hiker dude whom I recognize, and a hunter dude whom I don't. Well, I recognize him now. I've been seeing more of him lately. He's up there next to the binoculars. I can't figure out how all these things coexist, though. If you're in a wildlife refuge area to view wildlife and hike around, and other people are there to shoot at the wildlife, what's the etiquette for getting along?
Steve and I walked in the Vernon State Wildlife Area on Wednesday. This was our fourth visit. We've seen so many different kinds of animals there: birds and frogs and turtles and fish and muskrats. I wanted to see how the place was changing with the season. We walked down the gravel trail alongside the railroad tracks and heard 3 shots. When we got to the other parking lot, we saw 4 pickup trucks with gun racks. One of them had a sticker that said, "P.E.T.A. – People Eating Tasty Animals". Gun deer season was just over, I thought. We walked out on the dike and saw decoy ducks on the water in several different places. As we got nearer, people in camouflage gear appeared in the cattails. I had my binoculars and my camera. They had guns and a dog. Steve and I were talking in low voices, wondering to each other, actually, what the protocol was for this seeming conflict of interests. Were the hunters harboring ill will for us, thinking that we were maybe scaring away the ducks and geese? Were we harboring ill will for them, thinking that they are killing the wildlife we've come to enjoy? Were the water birds harboring ill will for all of us, wishing we'd just let them be? We nodded greetings. At one point, some birds flew over in formation while the hunters tooted away on their duck call devices, but apparently, they were too high up to shoot. If they were any lower, would they have shot anyway, while we were standing there on the path?? I just don't know how this is suppose to work. Are we supposed to stay away during hunting season? It's not posted that hikers can only be there on certain dates. We heard shots as we walked back to our car.
I'm still puzzled about this. I have heard a few more stories from folks I've met about deer hunting. People have great family memories about hunting traditions. I imagine my favorite postal employee out there in the field, waiting 8 hours to spot a deer, and I suppose it's kind of like fishing. You get to sit quietly in nature and forget about business at the post office. No one bugs you for hours at a time. And if you see a deer, you aim and shoot. If you hit it, you get to be all physical and field dress it and carry it away. Sounds like a complete departure from stamping packages all day long. I appreciate that.
There's a particular stark beauty in the late fall landscape. Trees are skeletal. Light is low and angled. Ice forms in geometric patterns. It's rather post-modern feeling. It makes me moody. So does the hunting scene. In a way, it fits, though. I guess I'm coming to a kind of ambiguous acceptance of it. Survival, mortality, an uneasy coexistence with everything. In the summer, this same drama is played out, except it's covered in fecundity and green light.
Still, the universe is a complicated tapestry, as Steve said last night – a magic carpet stretching in all directions forever. I look for a perch from which to see as much of it as I can.
This week's challenge is about a universal favorite: FOOD! I grew up in a family that was highly educated about and highly appreciative of food. My family was started in Massachusetts, moved to Chicago and then to California. Regional ethnic influences were explored and absorbed with gusto. Last night, as Steve & I enjoyed dinner at our local sushi bar, we got to talking about our personal culinary histories. Steve adamantly refused to eat anything but hot dogs, potatoes and asparagus until he was 16. Then, on a trip to New England, he actually tried fresh fish and realized that he was missing a world of wonderful taste. You can get lost in a food wasteland, if you're not adventurous, in the Midwest. But there are plenty of opportunities to branch out.
And the beer? New Glarus Spotted Cow. The best in Wisconsin micro brews, IMHO. And you can't buy it in Illinois. Oh, but that's not all! DESSERT!
The cafe has a deli and market attached, were you can find a variety of locally made sauces, mustards, natural soaps, and ART!
Yes, indeed, ladies & gentlemen! Step right up to the Art-o-Matic vending machine, insert your token, make your selection, pull the knob, and PRESTO! A cigarette-pack-sized piece of genuine, handmade ART will plop into the tray! Decoupage, graphic, random, actual ART. Really, isn't this a cool idea? Get your local cafe to install one TODAY! All your neighborhood artists will want to supply stock for it. I think it's brilliant.
This year, on St. Patty's Day, we're invited to the Finnegan's house (Steve's sister's) for garam masala corned beef & aloo gobi, naan, chutney and Chai spiced rice pudding. See, living in Wisconsin need not be bland! | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUfVI5qhLB0AM-e9LY | Nautique's new-for-2014 Super Air Nautique G21 has, well, everything.
You would be hard-pressed to find a feature that the new Super Air Nautique G21 doesn't have. The new-for-2014 model debuted in November and it's making a huge splash in the marketplace. For example, the G21 has become the official towboat of the USA Wakesurf National Championships. How did that happen so fast?
The Super Air Nautique G21 is packed with features for maximum fun on the water.
Well, the Nautique Surf System (NSS) has a lot to do with it, and you can read the full story on that system here. Briefly stated, the NSS uses a plate on the transom that extends outside the running surface on hydraulic rams, which gives the driver the ability to create a wave on either side of the boat instantly. The cool part is the system works so quickly that it allows you to switch the surf wake from side to side as swiftly as the rider can rider over the crest in the middle and drop in on the other side.
The system is part of the Nautique configurable running surface, which includes the Waveplate on the transom and up to 2,850 pounds of factory ballast, all of which is tied into the LINC display on the dashboard. The LINC system is offset to the right of the steering wheel rather than directly ahead of it so you don't have to reach through to make adjustments. The LINC system controls all wake-tuning settings and even stores rider preferences for wakeboarding, wake surfing, or wake skating, all of which are just different enough to require distinct settings.
An overhead view of the Super Air Nautique G21.
All that weight makes one of the biggest double-ups I've ever seen. Check out the video here and skip ahead to 1:40 to see it.
Also new this year, Nautique introduced the Surf Pipe on the G21. Rather than have exhaust exit on the transom just beneath the swim platform, the Surf Pipe directs exhaust underwater and releases it ahead of the propeller, which disperses exhaust gases over a wider area. Riders can breath a little easier. All water ballast compartments are belowdecks, so there are no bladders taking up valuable stowage space beneath the seats or in the compartments flanking the engine. Nautique has tucked a lot of boat in a 21-foot package. It comes at a price, though. Base MSRP is $109,875.
For the money, you get a spacious bow fitted with forward-facing lounges, four cupholders and lots of room thanks to the "spade" design. The lounges come with flip-up armrests and grab handles tucked into the coaming panels and stowage underneath the cushions, which support themselves when open on dual-action hinges. In the cockpit, there's abundant seating in stock form, but Nautique built in an innovative rear-facing bench. It works easily enough, sliding forward on tracks. The bench cushion, which conceals another cushion underneath, then flips up and locks in place to create the back rest. The observer's lounge also flips up to make the bench a full-width affair.
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BkiUdNQ4uzlhjV1b1cJl | I guess I should start off this post by saying what I'm doing is a dirty hack, in no way supported, and in general a terrible idea. But it's also really awesome.
Occasionally I find it would be nice to be able to dynamically generate the values used in a ValidateSet attribute on a function parameter. Joel Bennett wrote a post a while back explaining how to build a custom validation attribute that could be written to include the ability to update the set list dynamically. Or you could even use his technique of using ValidateScript and throwing a custom error message to generate the set dynamically.
The problem with these other techniques is that ValidateSet comes with magic that they don't include. This magic provides tab-completion, error messages, and a listing of valid values in help, all for free. I actually started off my experiment by following Joel's post and implementing my own ValidateDynamicSetAttribute class that provided Add() and Remove() methods so the values could be changed on the fly.
But that class wouldn't have come with the magic of ValidateSet, and while I was using ILSpy to learn how ValidateSet was implemented, I discovered that it was based on a private string array and it turns out I had just learned how to access private members while I was at the PowerShell Summit 2013 (thanks Adam!).
The result is the following function that takes a FunctionInfo object (use Get-Command), the name of the parameter that is using ValidateSet, and the new set of valid inputs. It hacks its way into the command, locates the correct parameter, locates all the ValidateSet attributes on it, and rips into the heart of each one and replaces the private validValues array with the one provided in the -NewSet parameter.
Replace the set of valid values on a function parameter that was defined using ValidateSet.
The name of the parameter that is using ValidateSet.
The new set of valid values to use for parameter validation.
After running Update-ValidateSet, Test-Function will accept the values "one" and "two" as valid input for the -P parameter.
This function is updating a private member of ValidateSetAttribute and is thus not following the rules of .Net and could break at any time. Use at your own risk!
Write-Error -Message "Parameter $ParameterName in command $Command doesn't use [ValidateSet()]"
Write-Error -Message "Parameter $ParameterName was not found in command $Command" | c4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
BkiUdJHxK0zjCxN_tKR6 | When the clients called FORMA to talk about their Master Bedroom suite, their initial brief was simply "We'd like to have a comfortable place to read and a place to store books, somewhere in our bedroom; and clean up the desk area. Updating our bathroom and closet area a bit would be nice, too". Working together with the clients a new Master suite was envisioned. Sycamore paneling and custom built-ins dress up the bedroom and accommodate a reading nook, book storage and a home office. The master bath and closet area was reconfigured to integrate with the new bedroom and to provide the client's a peaceful spa-like setting for starting their day.
The Architecture|DC Magazine, Fall 2011 Issue includes an article on the project, "Domestic Policy".
The project was The Washington Post Real Estate Section cover story for January 14 2012. "Inhabit: Making the master bedroom suite a luxurious retreat". | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbWjxK6nrxrSHdq7_ | Eating Fish has long been associated with making people brainy and being a nutritious low-calorie diet. The omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil is highly essential for the human body which it is unable to produce. Hence consuming it from outside is very necessary. Omega-3 is responsible for maintaining a good heart and overall health. Thankfully, if you dislike it, you can always get away with one or two helpings a week, which is sufficient for staying fit and preventing heart diseases. In fact, research has shown that people who consume little or none of these are more prone to heart attacks rather than those who don't.
Eating Fish to Keep Diseases at Bay!
Consuming fish as part of the daily diet is prevalent in many places, particularly, those around fishing areas. It helps in reducing most of the diseases of prostate cancer to asthma. The high protein and low-fat content are invaluable for weight watchers and help in maintaining a good skin. The benefits of eating fish are immense and applicable to both children and adults.
• Omega-3 is good for the retina and brain tissues.
• It reduces cancers that can take place in the colon, ovary, breast, oesophagus, oral cavity and prostate.
• The risk of heart ailments is reduced to a great extent because eating fish helps in reducing inflammation and blood clots, blood pressure, blood fat and increasing good cholesterol.
• Dementia and Alzheimer's is reduced a lot by the daily consumption of fish.
• Low Omega 3 level in the brain is linked to depression and eating fish can help in reducing it.
• Battling the symptoms of psoriasis, rheumatic arthritis, and autoimmune diseases become easier.
• Pregnant women who consume fish are at lower risk of delivering premature babies than those not consuming it.
If you want to have great looking hair and skin, then consuming the healthy fat in regularised amounts is crucial. It makes the skin look nourished and keeps the hair shiny. It is useful in preventing and controlling psoriasis. Studies have revealed that men who consume fish on a regular basis along with vegetables and fruits are capable of producing stronger sperms than those who don't. Saltwater fish contain a lot of Vitamin D which aids in improving bone health and warding off any disease. A piece of salmon contains about 75 percent of the recommended amount of vitamin.
Eating fish every day has loads of benefits, but if for some reason it is not possible you can always opt for fish oil supplements which have the same goodness. But according to doctors, it is best to consume the real thing so that the maximum benefit can be reaped.
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BkiUdBw4eIZjgkpX8upX | Designer Dogs: An Exposé Inside the Criminal Underworld of Crossbreeding — the title of Madeline Bernstein's new book tells you exactly what we'll discuss today, and why it's so important to share this information and raise awareness of crossbreeding atrocities. The breeder who first introduced 'designer dogs' in the form of the Labradoodle, says if he knew how far people would take this unhealthy and dangerous obsession, he would never have started it.
Madeline Bernstein is the President of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Los Angeles (spcaLA). A frequent speaker and commentator on issues relating to animal welfare, ethics, and law enforcement, she advocates for humane treatment and respect for animals.
You've seen countless life hack articles, but what about a hack to get through one of the most difficult events in life? Ann Grant, JD, offers The Divorce Hacker's Guide to Untying the Knot for navigating the churning waters of divorce. Learn how to know when it's time to give up on therapy, steps you should take BEFORE filing, and the way the new tax law will impact you. Most importantly, Ann will debunk the notion that a woman can't create a new and better life on her own.
Ann Grant began her career as a corporate litigator specializing in unfair business practices and consumer fraud. Following her divorce she created her own firm, focusing on family law and a holistic approach to this life transition.
It takes two to Tango, right? No, says Winifred M. Reilly, you can decide at any time to take action and make positive change, and by doing so, your spouse is likely to change too. In It Takes One to Tango: How I Rescued My Marriage with (Almost) No Help From My Spouse-And You Can Too we'll address questions such as: What if my partner won't get on board? When is hope, false hope? And why you must learn to think differently and stop looking for "fair" or "equal".
Winifred Reilly, MA, MFT is a psychotherapist specializing in marital and relationship issues. She has 35 years of clinical experience treating hundreds of couples on the brink of divorce.
Also today, what do you really know about our neighbors to the North? Like most Americans you probably view Canada as a benign and peaceful country with a moose around every corner, and a citizenry as rabid about their hockey as we are about football. You may have even said "Eh" in an affectionately mocking way.
But as the great tundra to the North approaches their sesquicentennial anniversary, award-winning journalist and native Canuck Jesse Brown unveils the truth behind that carefully crafted image in his new book, The Canadaland Guide to Canada. Now you'll know what 'sorry' really means! Jesse Brown is the creator of the Canadian podcast, Canadaland, and has won awards for humor and investigative reporting. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfZvxaKgQVeJrm-L9 | Lifting accidents occur in virtually every job or workplace when an employee is injured while attempting to lift a heavy object or a piece of equipment without using proper safety precautions, or in cases where negligence of a co-worker or employer plays a role that results in an accident with injury.
Lifting accidents are fully covered in Connecticut State Workers' Compensation laws, and victims of lifting accidents may be eligible to receive substantial workers compensation benefits from injuries that were suffered while on the job.
Many employers are capable of assisting employees in the claims process for workers' compensation, but that does not mean the assistance you will receive is of any level of quality. Because businesses must focus on many areas in addition to workers' compensation claims, human resources departments and other responsible parties may not be familiar enough with the process or law to be of any real benefit.
A workers' compensation lawyer with experience in lifting accidents is the preferred option in the event of any work accident, because a legal professional who is familiar with the process can provide a distinct advantage on many levels.
Schafer & Schafer, LLP has been providing dependable workers' compensation claims guidance, representation and other services to clients throughout Fairfield County and New Haven County for years. We pride ourselves on our history of achievement and have helped many clients to win their workers' compensation claims and receive the benefits they need to cover costs associated with recovery and loss of wages due to the inability to work.
Our attorneys will take the time learn about you and the work accident that caused your personal injury, and can plan an approach to get your matter resolved with the benefits.
Contact a Stamford workers' compensation lawyer if you have been injured in a workplace lifting accident and are not getting the benefits you are entitled to. | c4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdfk5qoaAwrv3Wt1B | One of a kind Feather Clutch Bag and Matching Journal.
This beautiful thick cut tapestry velvet come in bronze, tan and gold and is lined in pink luxurious velvet in the same color as the feather.
Topped with gold sequin Appliqué and long bright pink soft feathers. Top zipper with a pretty beaded zipper pull hand made to match this one of a kind clutch.
Comes with a matching mini journal topped with the same appliqué which fits inside the clutch.
Journal 5.5 x 4 with blank pages.
This matching set is a one of a kind gift and can be shipped directly to you or your recipient. This comes wrapped in a clear bag with pink ribbon. I can include a gift card, just message us what you would like it to say.
In stock, ready to ship out immediately or within 1-2 business days.
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BkiUdus4eIZjyN3HBwT8 | Yesterday afternoon, a group of us began the drive back to Accra from Patriensa. As you'll see in a future blog entry, our car broke down and we spent hours hobbling back to Accra, towed by a feed truck whose tow rope kept breaking from the front of the car. In the meantime, you can hear two podcasts I posted from my mobile phone while we were stranded – yes, I managed to have mobile phone access in rural southern Ghana. | c4 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUfjI25V5jU2MqUUQ1 | A corn plant requires a certain number of growing degree units (GDUs) to reach maturity, regardless of the number of calendar days it takes to accumulate.
The relationship of GDU accumulation and corn development, along with utilizing the estimated number of days to reach a certain growth stage, can help predict when important growth stages will occur.
Growth stages can be used to help growers make timely applications of herbicides and fungicides. The following information is on corn growth and development from emergence to R6 growth stage.
Corn growth stage development can vary according to corn maturity. An early maturing product may produce fewer leaves or develop through growth stages faster then a slower paced late maturing product. This is important to remember when staging corn in relation to accumulated GDUs.
As soon as corn seed is planted into soil, metabolic reactions begin to take place within the seed. With adequate moisture and soil temperatures above 50° F, the radicle will begin to elongate from the corn seed. Emergence of the radicle from the seed is called germination, which may occur from 2 to 3 days after planting or after 65 to 80 GDUs have accumulated. Germination may take several days longer depending on soil moisture, soil temperature, residue on the soil surface, and planting depth of the seed.
VE Stage. Corn emergence (VE stage) is achieved when the coleoptiles reach and break through the soil surface. Normally corn requires approximately 100 to 120 GDUs to emerge, which under favorable conditions can be 4 to 5 days after planting.1 If cool or dry conditions exist, emergence may be delayed several weeks. At the VE stage, growth is also taking place below the soil surface as the nodal root system begins to grow. At approximately 6 weeks, the nodal root system will replace the work of the lateral seminal roots in supplying the plant with water and nutrients.
Problems may occur prior to emergence. One preemergence problem that can occur is when coleoptiles rupture below the soil surface. This makes it difficult for the seedlings to break through the soil surface, resulting in seedlings that are yellow, twisted, or "leafout65533;? below ground. Reasons for this may include cloddy soil, herbicide injury to the seedling, soil crusting, or extremely cold soil temperatures.
V1 Stage. The V1 stage is reached when the first leaf has fully emerged and the leaf collar is visible. The V1 stage typically occurs 3 to 4 days after emergence. The first leaf to emerge will have a rounded tip, while all leaves that emerge later will have more pointed tips.
Figure 1. Corn seedlings at V1 to V3 growth stages.
V3 Stage. The V3 stage marks the end of the seed being the main food source and the beginning of the photosynthetic process. The V3 stage is reached at 10 to 20 days after emergence or at around 350 GDUs.2 At the V3 stage, the plant begins to rely more on the nodal root system as these roots form root hairs and continue to increase in size. Growth of the seminal root system has ceased.
During the V10 to V17 growth stages, any management practice that helps reduce plant stress and allows for adequate nutrient levels can help maximize yield potential.
V11-V15 Stage. At V12, kernel row determination is almost complete. As the plant nears pollination, soil moisture and nutrient availability becomes increasingly critical for yield determination.
Figure 2. Corn plant at tassel or VT growth stage.
Pollination begins around 9 or 10 weeks after corn emergence. Moisture and heat stress during pollination may cause the greatest yield reduction, which can result in barren tips or loss of entire ears.
VT Stage. Tassel stage begins when the last branch of the tassel is visible, but silks have not emerged (Figure 2). This occurs after the accumulation of approximately 1135 GDUs.2 Tassels normally appear 2 to 3 days before silk emergence. Pollen shed typically occurs in the morning or evening.
Figure 3. Corn plant at silking or R1 growth stage.
R1 Stage. The silking stage begins when the silk is visible outside the husk (Figure 3). Pollen falls onto the silks to potentially fertilize the ovules. Each ovule can produce an individual kernel. Moisture stress at this time can cause the desiccation of silks and/or pollen grains, which could reduce seed set.
Grain fill is the last set of stages of the corn growth cycle. The plant now directs nutrients for reproductive growth instead of vegetative growth. While the number of kernels has already been determined in earlier stages, the size of the kernels is set during grain fill stages. Frost or freezing before black layer maturity may prematurely kill a plant, which will slow drydown, reduce grain quality, and final yield potential.
R2 Stage. The blister stage is approximately 10 to 14 days after silking at 1660 GDUs.2 During this stage the kernel is white and shaped like a blister.
R3 Stage. Milk stage (18 to 22 days after silking), the kernel is yellow with a white milky inner liquid. At this stage dry matter accumulation is very rapid. Silks on the corn ear are brown and dry.
R4 Stage. During the dough stage (24 to 28 days after silking/1925 GDUs) the inner fluid begins to thicken due to starch accumulation. The kernels will have accumulated half of their total dry weight.
R5 Stage. At dent stage (35 to 42 days after silking/2190 to 2450 GDUs) the kernels begin to dry down from the top of the kernel towards the cob. Each kernel will have a dent at the top. If a frost occurs during this stage, the black layer can form prematurely preventing additional dry matter accumulation.
R6 Stage. The kernels continue to gain weight until black layer formation or physiological maturity (55 to 65 days after silking/approximately 2700 GDUs) occurs. The black layer forms where the kernel attaches to the cob. Kernel moisture is at 30 to 35 percent.
2 Neild, R.E. and Newman, J.E. 1990. Growing season characteristics and requirements in the Corn Belt. National Corn Handbook, Purdue University, Cooperative Extension Service, West Lafayette, IN. | c4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUex_xaKgQRkwUl5Nd | Traditional recipes with a touch of innovation and creativity.
At the international breakfast buffet, You can choose between the sweet and delicate flavors of the typical Italian "colazione" or the most robust continental breakfast.
Lunch and dinner are served in the table and are based on regional and international cuisines.
Special evenings with an unexpected culinary delights, a vast assortment of "day-fresh-seafood" , typical meat of the Nebrodi mountains, fresh pasta: each event in a warm and convivial atmosphere.
Whether for a drink, a quick meal, a cocktail, a work appointment or a moment of relaxation, You are in the right place. Inside hot colours, elegant and informal amenities; outside a great terrace surrounded by the swimming pool and comfortable green space.
On the beach the lounge bar gives You the possibility to leave the frenetic life and enjoy relaxed moments.
Whether for a drink or a quick meal without moving away from the sea.
Cocktail: it's perfect to create a moment of relaxation and, especially in the evening, at sunset, it can make easy the dialogue and the new experiences. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUdvg5qdmDI1x-YU5w | We are all aware of how ERPs are taking over the business world in an organised manner. Why not, they are helping businesses move northward by improving efficiency, boosting productivity, optimising manpower, controlling time and saving money. Yet, we are not able to recognise one clear fact that ERP implementation is not only about technology. It is more about humans as well. The implementation of an ERP is a critical process and the success very much depends upon everyone in the organisation. Hence, taking everyone in loop becomes imperative for it to work to its optimum.
Adopting or adapting to new technology is not a cake walk for sure as it needs the people of the organisation to come out of their comfort zones and try something new and learn it. Anxiety and hesitation is a natural human phenomenon and no with ERP it's not an exception at all.
There are many examples of companies not doing well only because the people are not willing to accept and initiate change because may be they see technology as a threat to them or the feel they wont be able to adopt it the way it should be. But, its up to the management how to take this and respond to it sensible and make sure that the management understands human psychology around it, the culture of the business and then puts its own team to the heart of the process by spreading awareness about the benefits of digitisation to the business and even personally.
Secondly, they need to partner with a reliable ERP solutions provider in order to harness the power of it to the optimum. This provider will do the hand holding as far as implantation of the technology is concerned and orientation as well as training around transferring it to the hands of the team members is concerned. May businesses look for quality ERP and the features or benefits of it, but what is more important is after support. The support is critical to the success of the ERP and ultimately to the business as well. The following tips can help you avoid the hamper of implementation of technology caused due to sheer ignorance around importance of human factor.
Awareness and Interaction – It's a good idea to spread awareness about the implementation of the ERP and the benefits of it to the business and individual as well. The early you start the better for you.
Orientation and Training – Investing seriously in training your team be it higher management or middle or junior team members. This not only improves output and productivity but also confidence and ownership.
Reassure – Make the team understand about the benefits of the ERP and how it is going to ease their day to day life hassles and boost their productivity.
Well, at the end of the day the ultimate beneficiary is going to be your business. So, go for a provider that puts your people first and concentrates on user experience by taking a holistic approach around ERP implementation.
After this online attendance management system was installed in a 2500 bedded super speciality hospital in Bangalore, it helped the hospital to manage the attendance of its staff and students efficaciously and also reduced costs to a great extent. Apparently, the hospital had been spending a humongous amount of money annually on stationary and printing which after automation was reduced significantly and the results are given below. Similarly, there was significant reduction in the communication costs annually after automation.
With the advent of internet, communication has become extremely easy and fast as well. The process of learning has also evolved over a period of time and has used the technological advancement to its best. Technological advancement has also brought about a paradigm shift in the way educational institutions manage their campus, more so automate their work processes and use their resources to the optimum.
Here is how a campus management ERP help any educational organization streamline its work processes.
Data Management at Speed – With an erp management system you can provide your students access to assignments and submission online easily from the convenience of their homes or anywhere. ERP's have a dedicated dashboard that is user friendly for every student and the student can access it with his/her unique ID and password to get every information on himself at college be it exam schedule, results, assignment status, fee status and more.
Optimal Resource Management – Obviously, with an automated management system, your resource can be concentrated on priorities. You can channelize your resources to the best of your interests. ERP's also help in saving a lot of time and ultimately help in increasing your returns and ROI too.
Going Green – Education management systems have helps many institutes go paper-free in most of their administrative and academic initiatives, thus helping them contribute to the environment in bits and pieces, if not to the optimum.
Today, ERP management systems consist of modules that can manage most of the departments of any educational outfit be it admissions, fees, timetable, examinations, results, transportation, hostel accommodation, payroll, finance, library, mess and many others, thus saving in a lot of resources, time and money.
Although, there are a lot of challenges that organizations mainly of small size face with respect to acquiring tailored education management system and get caught in the clutches of one size fits all kinds due to budget constraints mainly. Some face challenges with respect to transition from the old to the new. But, all these challenges can be overcome with a custom made college management system and proper orientation procedures in place. | c4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
BkiUdUM4eIZjnMRRdfVE | Pilgrim's Regress: UK faces both ways.
Our politicians and media are outraged that the wicked Spanish (and possibly the Portuguese as well) are refusing to honour the Ehic card (which used to be the E111 form) which guarantees access to health services at the same level of nationals to innocent and trusting British citizens travelling within the European Union. What perfidy.
At the same time our government is being arraigned before the European Court of Justice for its failure to honour the EU commitment that social security benefits should be available to to all EU citizens working in other EU member countries on the same basis as nationals. Our Secretary of State, Ian Duncan Smith, vows that he will "fight every step of the way" to preserved Britain's practice, initially introduced by Labour, of treating other European nationals differently.
It is now a commonplace that our politicians routinely blame "Europe" for rules against which the media stirs up antipathy. The rules regarding equality of access to social security were agreed by all 27 member states, including Britain. The government and media are forever spouting about British "values." What about an Englishman's word being his bond?
And we should also remember that equal access to social security benefits are a valuable safeguard for the thousands of British citizens working in other EU countires, just as much as the Ehic card, if honoured, safeguards UK tourists.
No to the snoopers' charter
Ten reasons to be (politically) cheerful.
The next coalition negotiations
Immigration and Employment
Ukip councillors
Local (?) Election Campaign
More hints for Michael Gove from Central Africa. | commoncrawl | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUdlvxK7ICUt7cQUwd | SFR, Inc. :: View topic - Getcher free copy of Chill Wind!
Getcher free copy of Chill Wind!
Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2011 10:38 pm GMT Post subject: Getcher free copy of Chill Wind!
I have decided I will give an actual book copy of CW away to a member of the forum after I receive my review copies on the 7th. All you have to do is be the first person to correctly answer all the following CW and OUaF (Once Upon a Forum), questions correctly. Submit your answers to me via a PM or email.
STIPULATIONS: Closed to all S&JW regulars. Yes, even you, Steve. (You know you're gonna get one anyway). If nobody gets all 10 correct, it will go to the best overall score.
Only forum members in the good ol' USA should play. I simply just cannot afford to ship anything internationally. That said, if you live outside the US and play and win, you'll have to send me the shipping costs via PayPal or something.
1. What is the name of the dwarf city that is in danger from invasion?
2. Name the mountain region where the Vagha™ city is located.
3. How do dwarves name their families?
4. Who is the leader of the coral elf army?
5. Give the rank and name of the leader of the Morehl™ army.
6. Where does Chguck call home?
7. What is the name of Chguck's wife?
8. What does Chguck fear more than anything in the world?
9. Where was Chguck going and why?
10. Name the giant that Chguck encountered on his journey.
Okay, that's it. Good luck!
I think for question 7 you should require her full name.
I am somewhat surprised by the response to this. To date I have only received one reply. If I don't get any others, this person will win by default. Doesn't anybody else want a free copy?
You know, I read this when you first posted it, but I didn't have time to look it up and kind of forgot about it.
As an aside, I was going through my computer files and found my annotated "Once Upon a Forum" file. It's pretty extensive, although it needs some serious catch-up work. Then again, until Joe posts the next installment, I have all the time in the world. | c4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
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BkiUd185qYVBh4z4uHbj | Geonosian was the language of the Geonosian species native to Geonosis. It consisted of click consonants, possible through the dual mandibles of Geonosians—one moving vertically, and a second, internal set moving horizontally.
Aristocrat Geonosians were also able to understand Basic fluently, unlike the lesser castes. It is unknown if they were all physically unable to speak Basic (much like Wookiees), or if they simply preferred their own language. The Queen Karina was known to be capable of speaking Basic. An off-world Geonosian, Tookra, could also speak Basic.
The language was mostly spoken by Geonosians, but there were instances of offworlders understanding Geonosian without the immediate need of a translator; Count Dooku, Shu Mai, Senator Padmé Amidala, Lott Dod, and Ysanne Isard were notable examples. Marmio Mio also learned the language while on the planet.
Human vocal cords were apparently capable of reproducing the Geonosian sounds. Infected clones were able to reproduce the sound fairly simply and authentically.
In a Hyperspace online chat, Matthew Wood said that the sound of the Geonosians was one of the weirdest he had ever recorded for a Star Wars movie. It consisted of a penguin mating call as well as fruit bats fighting over a banana.
In Attack of the Clones, when Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padmé are taken into the Geonosian execution arena to be killed, the Geonosians in the arena make noises that sound like Human cheering instead of Geonosian-sounding noises, even though nearly everyone in the arena is a Geonosian with the exceptions of Count Dooku, Jango Fett, Boba Fett, Nute Gunray, Rune Haako, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Padmé Amidala. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
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COVID Booster: Associate Professor Nathan Bartlett explains why armpit pain after a third COVID vaccination, as TGA states that lymph node swelling is the most common adverse event.Newcastle Herald
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Health experts predict when Omicron variants will peak in Australia
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The highly infectious Omicron strain of Covid-19 has become Australia's most prevalent subspecies, with daily increases and deaths continuing to shock the country.
Health officials are still pushing for higher vaccination rates to fight the virus and prevent it from destroying hospital systems, but they are also relying on rapid antigen testing.
But could the massive surge in infectious diseases be put to an end?
Camera iconPeople are encouraged to get vaccinated.Matt Jero Neck / Getty Images credit: supply
South Australia's Prime Minister Stephen Marshall has repeatedly stated that Omicron expects to peak in the third or fourth week of January, with each state offering slightly different advice.
Modeling by NSW Health last week showed that Omicron peaked in mid-January and subsided by mid-February.
Victoria's Health Minister Martin Foley suggested this week that the state's peak would be in late January or early February, but Queensland had similar expectations.
Omicrons account for 81.6% of cases in Australia, according to GISAID, which facilitates rapid sharing of data from all influenza viruses and Covid-19.
This is equivalent to 99.5 percent in South Africa, 85.1 percent in the United Kingdom, 74.3 percent in the United States, 74.1 percent in Canada, 89.6 percent in Japan, 55.4 percent in France and 21.3 percent in Germany.
However, the delta variant remains in the Australian community and remains a risk.
Camera iconDue to the surge in Omicrons, restrictions remain in some parts of Australia. NCA NewsWire / Sarah Matray credit: News Corp Australia
When does Omicron peak?
Peter Collignon, an infectious disease doctor and microbiologist at the Australian National University, told NCA NewsWire that he believes Omicron will peak in mid-January.
"Most of the spreads were between Christmas and New Year," he said.
Since then, he has said that people have "corrected" their behavior and interacted less.
"People don't interact with each other, so I expect it to diminish," he said.
Epidemiologist Katrina Roper told NCA NewsWire that she believes peaks can occur in late January or early February.
"New South Wales and Victoria are on similar orbits, so they can peak at the same time," she said.
"Diffusion requires human interaction, which can slow it in less densely populated areas, such as remote areas compared to cities."
Gaetan Burgio, also from ANU, said that worldwide Omicron has peaked only in South Africa and perhaps the United Kingdom.
"In Europe or the United States, outbreaks are still in the exponential stage," he told NCA NewsWire.
"It is difficult to predict the peak of Omicron due to the unreliable number of tests performed per day and the underreporting of positive cases, but we do predict the peak of Omicron in 2-4 weeks.
"We expect Delta / Omicron strains to be spread across Australia except Western Australia, and exponential growth is about the same between states, so there is no difference between states."
Professor Corignon predicted that WA would likely spread the virus when the border was reopened.
He said that the main thing was to get a high level of vaccination, so fewer people would go to the hospital or die.
Dr. Brugio said WA had "very well controlled" the spread of the infection and described it as a "significant" outcome.
How does the healthcare system deal with Omicron?
Australia's healthcare system seems to be on track so far, but Dr. Burgio has seen a further surge in cases as hospitals have more patients and medical professionals have to be affected and isolated. Said that he couldn't deal with it well.
"Unfortunately, due to the delay between the initial symptoms (Covid diagnosis) and complications, the pressure on our health system will worsen in the next few weeks," he said.
Dr. Brugio said that some mitigation measures include obtaining boosters, developing home hospitalizations, monitoring mild cases and elderly patients, treating mild infections, and monoclonal antibodies to avoid disease severity. And Paxlovid said it would include the purchase of efficient anti-Covid treatments.
He also suggested that people maintain precautions such as wearing masks and working from home.
Hospitalizations have not increased at the same rate as cases, Dr. Roper said, and with a highly vaccinated population, fewer people will be severely ill.
"Their hospital stays should be shorter and they probably need less intervention," she said.
"There are so many cases, and even with a low percentage of hospitalizations, the absolute numbers will increase, but this should peak fairly quickly.
"The main message is to prepare people for self-care at home, but to have friends and family check in in case they need additional help.
"The majority of vaccinated people infected with the Omicron strain experience a home-manageable 3-4 day illness. If you have a headache or fever, you have rest, water, and paracetamol."
Professor Corignon suggested that people should not "hang too much" on the daily number of cases.
Rather, he said the number of people in the intensive care unit and the number of deaths should be measured.
"Hospitalization has not increased exponentially," he observed.
Camera iconRapid antigen testing is now more widely used. NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short credit: News Corp Australia
How about a rapid antigen test?
Dr. Burgio welcomed a more unified approach to collecting data and mandatory reports.
"But a non-compulsory approach would have been more useful in encouraging RAT reporting," he said.
Dr. Burgio said supply was also a major concern.
"There is a problem with the supply of RAT and PCR. Given the problem of supply, the health department has made a wise decision not to do PCR if RAT is positive," he said. rice field.
"We have a lot of concerns about the shortage of PCR reagents and RATs, but unfortunately we don't see any immediate improvement.
"Early detection of infection is important to prevent the spread of the infection, initiate treatment, and control its outbreak."
Dr. Roper said it would be interesting to see the government's decision on the need to actually be tested, rather than being able to self-report on the basis of symptoms.
"At this point, it's important to track the numbers to understand the impact of vaccination programs and how the healthcare system manages them," she said.
"From now on, it may not be important to get a definitive diagnosis in the laboratory and use self-reported symptoms to get ideas for local respiratory illness."
Dr. Roper said it could ultimately resemble the flu that people self-care at home.
"We may move to this model of Covid … it responds to symptoms without the need for testing," she said.
"If we move to this model, this will free up rapid antigen testing and bring it to where it is most needed.
"For example, in elderly care facilities, it is more important to keep infected people out of the environment, given their vulnerabilities.
"Systematic use of them in a valuable workforce around vulnerable people (eg, testing every two days) detects infections before symptoms and better protects the elderly. . "
Source link Health experts predict when Omicron variants will peak in Australia
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In addition to being dark, ugly and in your face, "Nightcrawler" is a hilariously scathing examination of journalistic integrity. Bolstered by a career-best performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, "Nightcrawler" functions as both a send-up of the "if it bleeds it leads" mentality as well as a fascinating character study of a complete sociopath.
We meet Lou Bloom (Gyllenhaal) as he breaks, enters, and steals as his only means of making a buck. One night after witnessing a traffic accident, Bloom notices video producers shooting the grisly scene and almost immediately decides to get himself a camera and a police scanner and become a freelance video producer. It's not long before he crosses the line and starts setting up crimes just so he can get some quality coverage.
Gyllenhaal shed 30 pounds for the role, and his usually charming smile comes off a bit more sinister when it's plastered on the face of Lou Bloom, the film's deranged lead. Bloom is just as psychotic as some of cinema's most memorable anti-heros — comparisons to Travis Bickle ("Taxi Driver") and Patrick Bateman ("American Psycho") are easy to make.
Bloom is despicable right from the start and only becomes more depraved as he ascends the journalistic food chain by any means necessary. The dramatic weight loss adds to his character by further detaching Lou from the rest of society — his ethics barely register him as human, and his physical appearance matches this inhumanity. When his intern chastises him for not "understanding" people, Bloom later responds with the distinction that he understands people just fine — he just doesn't like them.
Rene Russo and Bill Paxton both turn in great performances in their supporting roles, and it's a shame neither of them got more screen time, but the movie truly belongs to Gyllenhaal. Russo plays Bloom's news director who tells him that "a screaming woman running around with her throat cut" is the type of footage the network is interested in, and he takes that to heart.
There are some incredibly memorable scenes between Nina, Russo's character, and Bloom. There's a sequence in which the two negotiate that will make you howl with laughter while also forcing you to ponder how much of what we're seeing actually goes on behind-the-scenes — the idea of monetizing tragedy is really brought home here.
Open RoadRusso and Bloom have an interesting relationship, to say the least.
Watching Bloom rise to the top via his own obsession with business strategies and corporate thinking gives the movie an extra layer of scorn and offers a compelling look at the mind of a sociopath. Since his obscene behaviour only increases his salary and helps his career, the audience is left to their own devices to figure out the moral of the story — is this what it takes to rise to the top in our corporate-minded world? Bloom can be viewed as an embodiment of corporate America, and that's pretty a horrifying indictment.
"Nightcrawler" is an extremely efficient thriller that is also stimulating on an intellectual level. Gyllenhaal has never been better and the role already has some throwing his name around for the Oscar race. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 |
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BkiUdJ85qhDBKItwQepi | This year, 23 first-year Geisel med students and five Dartmouth Institute students embarked on a journey to Minnesota and Wisconsin for spring break. Along with advisor Shawn O'Leary, the group spent time in Minneapolis with the urban Indian community and visited five different reservations across northern Minnesota and one nation in Wisconsin. The trip gave students a glimpse into Indian history, culture, and health.
Now that they're back, the students would love to share some of what they learned with the Dartmouth community. Join them on April 3, from 12:15 - 1:15 PM in Kellogg Auditorium to learn more about their trip while enjoying a Minnesotan wild rice soup dish harvested by Shawn O'Leary and his father, and prepared by Shawn himself! There will be meat and vegetarian-friendly options. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUbT04ubnjorKKr7QG | Mount Ader är ett berg i Antarktis. Det ligger i Västantarktis. Argentina, Chile och Storbritannien gör anspråk på området. Toppen på Mount Ader är meter över havet, eller meter över den omgivande terrängen. Bredden vid basen är km.
Terrängen runt Mount Ader är kuperad norrut, men söderut är den bergig. Den högsta punkten i närheten är meter över havet, kilometer söder om Mount Ader. Trakten är obefolkad. Det finns inga samhällen i närheten.
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BkiUbB_xK0-nUh8iHxHC | The 41st installment of San Francisco's infamous international film festival Frameline rolled into the Bay Area on June 15, presenting its opening night film, The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin, to the masses. One of 147 films that were part of this year's festival, the documentary honors a true literary hero of the San Francisco landscape.
The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin was directed by Jennifer Kroot and edited by Bill Weber, who previously collaborated on To Be Takei, another film to find placement as a centerpiece Frameline selection.
Thursday night opening celebration included a screening of the film and a reception at Terra Gallery in the city's Rincon Hill neighborhood. Maupin himself mingled with San Francisco's film elite and an appearance by Looking star Jonathan Groff. | c4 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUcGI5qhLACAkw__GE | import functools
from typing import Callable
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
from pandas.api import types as pdt
from visions.backends.pandas.series_utils import series_handle_nulls
from pandas_profiling.config import Settings
def is_nullable(series: pd.Series, state: dict) -> bool:
return series.count() > 0
def try_func(fn: Callable) -> Callable:
@functools.wraps(fn)
def inner(series: pd.Series, *args, **kwargs) -> bool:
try:
return fn(series, *args, **kwargs)
except: # noqa: E722
return False
return inner
def string_is_bool(series: pd.Series, state: dict, k: Settings) -> bool:
@series_handle_nulls
@try_func
def tester(s: pd.Series, state: dict) -> bool:
return s.str.lower().isin(k.keys()).all()
if pdt.is_categorical_dtype(series):
return False
return tester(series, state)
def string_to_bool(series: pd.Series, state: dict, k: Settings) -> pd.Series:
return series.str.lower().map(k)
def numeric_is_category(series: pd.Series, state: dict, k: Settings) -> bool:
n_unique = series.nunique()
threshold = k.vars.num.low_categorical_threshold
return 1 <= n_unique <= threshold
def to_category(series: pd.Series, state: dict) -> pd.Series:
hasnans = series.hasnans
val = series.astype(str)
if hasnans:
val = val.replace("nan", np.nan)
if int(pd.__version__.split(".")[0]) >= 1:
val = val.astype("string")
return val
@series_handle_nulls
def series_is_string(series: pd.Series, state: dict) -> bool:
if not all(isinstance(v, str) for v in series.values[0:5]):
return False
try:
return (series.astype(str).values == series.values).all()
except (TypeError, ValueError):
return False
@series_handle_nulls
def category_is_numeric(series: pd.Series, state: dict, k: Settings) -> bool:
if pdt.is_bool_dtype(series) or object_is_bool(series, state):
return False
try:
_ = series.astype(float)
r = pd.to_numeric(series, errors="coerce")
if r.hasnans and r.count() == 0:
return False
except: # noqa: E722
return False
return not numeric_is_category(series, state, k)
def category_to_numeric(series: pd.Series, state: dict) -> pd.Series:
return pd.to_numeric(series, errors="coerce")
hasnan_bool_name = "boolean" if int(pd.__version__.split(".")[0]) >= 1 else "Bool"
def to_bool(series: pd.Series) -> pd.Series:
dtype = hasnan_bool_name if series.hasnans else bool
return series.astype(dtype)
@series_handle_nulls
def object_is_bool(series: pd.Series, state: dict) -> bool:
if pdt.is_object_dtype(series):
bool_set = {True, False}
try:
ret = all(item in bool_set for item in series)
except: # noqa: E722
ret = False
return ret
return False
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BkiUc7PxK6nrxq6DnNED | English Blog, Immigration Blog, News & Blog
Below are some key changes for the employment-based preference categories this month:
Dates for Filing for Employment-Based Preference Cases:
EB1:
EB1 China remains current.
EB1 India remains current.
All other EB1 remain current.
EB2 China moved forward 2 months from 07/01/2018 to 09/01/2018.
EB2 India moved forward 10 months and 1 week from 09/01/2011 to 07/08/2012.
EB3 China moved forward 1 week from 01/08/2019 to 1/15/2019.
EB3 India moved forward 1 week from 01/01/2014 to 01/08/2014.
EB5 China (non-RC) moved forward 1 month from 11/15/2015 to 12/15/2015.
EB5 China (RC) moved from being unavailable to 12/15/2012.
All other EB5 (non-RC) remain current.
All other EB5 (RC) moved from unavailable to current.
Below are some key changes for the family-sponsored categories this month:
Dates for Filing for Family-Sponsored Cases:
F1:
F1 for China and India remain at 05/15/2016.
F1 Mexico remains at 08/01/2000.
F1 Philippines remains at 04/22/2015.
All other F1 remain at 05/15/2016.
F2A: All F2A remain current. Although the Dates for Filing chart applies to family-sponsored categories, since the F2A category remains "current" on the Final Action Dates chart, F2A applicants may file using the Final Action Dates chart for October 2021 which is current.
F2B:
F2B for China and India remain at 09/22/2016.
F2B Mexico remains 10/01/2000.
F2B Philippines remains 10/01/2013.
All other F2B remain at 09/22/2016.
F4 China remains at 10/01/2007.
F4 India remains 01/01/2006.
F4 Mexico remains 06/01/1999.
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BkiUbmXxK0-nUKDhpTAq | <?php
/**
* Created by Malik Abiola.
* Date: 06/02/2016
* Time: 15:50
* IDE: PhpStorm.
*/
namespace MAbiola\Paystack\Repositories;
use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use MAbiola\Paystack\Abstractions\Resource;
use MAbiola\Paystack\Contracts\ResourceInterface;
class PlanResource extends Resource implements ResourceInterface
{
private $paystackHttpClient;
/**
* PlanResource constructor.
*
* @param Client $paystackHttpClient
*/
public function __construct(Client $paystackHttpClient)
{
$this->paystackHttpClient = $paystackHttpClient;
}
/**
* Get Plan by id/code.
*
* @param $id
*
* @return \Exception|mixed
*/
public function get($id)
{
$request = $this->paystackHttpClient->get(
$this->transformUrl(Resource::PLANS_URL, $id)
);
return $this->processResourceRequestResponse($request);
}
/**
* get all plans. per page.
*
* @param null $page
*
* @return \Exception|mixed
*/
public function getAll($page = null)
{
$page = !empty($page) ? "page={$page}" : '';
$request = $this->paystackHttpClient->get(
$this->transformUrl(Resource::PLANS_URL, '').$page
);
return $this->processResourceRequestResponse($request);
}
/**
* save new plan.
*
* @param $body
*
* @return \Exception|mixed
*/
public function save($body)
{
$request = $this->paystackHttpClient->post(
$this->transformUrl(Resource::PLANS_URL, ''),
[
'body' => is_array($body) ? $this->toJson($body) : $body,
]
);
return $this->processResourceRequestResponse($request);
}
/**
* update plan.
*
* @param $id
* @param $body
*
* @return \Exception|mixed
*/
public function update($id, $body)
{
$request = $this->paystackHttpClient->put(
$this->transformUrl(Resource::PLANS_URL, $id),
[
'body' => is_array($body) ? $this->toJson($body) : $body,
]
);
return $this->processResourceRequestResponse($request);
}
/**
* delete plan.
*
* @param $id
*
* @return \Exception|mixed
*/
public function delete($id)
{
$request = $this->paystackHttpClient->delete(
$this->transformUrl(Resource::PLANS_URL, $id)
);
return $this->processResourceRequestResponse($request);
}
}
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BkiUbEs4eIZijQpFYL4c | Bayannuur (, Mongolian: rich lake) is a sum (district) of the Bayan-Ölgii Aimag (province) in Mongolia. It is located to the very east of the aimag capital Ölgii and it has a border with the Uvs Aimag. Like in Bayan-Ölgii's other sums, Bayannuur is primarily inhabited by ethnic Kazakhs.
As of 2014 it had a population of 4794 people.
References
Populated places in Mongolia
Districts of Bayan-Ölgii Province | wikipedia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
BkiUeh45qhDCHrMKHoQg | In 1976, the voters passed Proposition 7 to provide property tax relief to encourage the preservation of qualifying historical properties. The legislature subsequently passed an enabling statute commonly referred to as the Mills Act, which grants participating local governments, (cities and counties,) the authority to enter into contracts with owners of qualified historic properties who actively participate in the restoration and maintenance of their historic properties in exchange for receiving property tax relief.
The amount you save will depend on your property's location, size, and comparable rents in the area. The savings vary from property to property, and have ranged from 20% to 70% based on age, condition, and local market value factors in accordance with the formula set by state law. In general, properties that have been under the same ownership for a long time (e.g., pre-Prop. 13,) where the property taxes are already low compared to more recently sold homes, will derive less benefit from the Mills Act. The amount of the reduction in assessed value is determined by the Assessor's Office based on statutory guidelines. To learn more, go to the County Planning Department website or the California Office of Historic Preservation website. | c4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
BkiUddA4dbghTN2K2MP0 | Staying awake for longer than is good for a person
We finished Owling at around 1pm, and after we had bled Antti dry for local gen, had a meal and cleaned ourselves up, it was probably about 3ish. Finally, a bed, probably the thing I had been most keen on seeing other than owls. The plan was to get up at around 9pm, and go birding locally, before dropping down towards the Russian border about four hours away so as to be in position for yet more spectacular birding during the best period, which is 2-6am. With info on singing Red-flanked Bluetails, we were well prepared to go the extra mile, so to speak.
What we were in no way prepared for was the volume nor the persistence of the snoring that was to come from the Prof. Quite unbelievable, an unholy mating of a Walrus and the Flying Scotsman. A correspondent suggested a flight of Lancaster bombers, but no raid over Germany ever emitted this sound. This was seismic in scale and scope. He would start off slowly before settling into a steady rhythm. At this point I estimated perhaps 110 decibels, or Concorde taking off. Gradually though it would build, to the point the walls began to shake, and then would come the climactic snort. Enormous. Devastating. Epic. Like Krakatoa blowing up. Nearby lakes probably experienced Tsunamis. This would have the effect of actually semi-rousing the Prof momentarily from his beatific state, and was sometimes accompanied by a small noise of fright, but never quite waking him though, at which point it would start all over again. I had considered myself so tired that nothing could possibly have stopped me falling into the world's deepest sleep. I could not have been more wrong. I got up, paced around, videoed the monstrous performance for posterity (which could yet find its way to a worldwide audience!), and after finding no cushions with which to smother him, retreated wearily to bed, there to lie wide awake despite something like 33 hours on the go. Needless to say our planned lengthy restorative sleep never really came to fruition, and so after four hours of torture, we pulled the plug and got up to carry on birding.
It's still broad daylight at 7pm in mid-Finland. Our base was the Liminganlahti Nature Reserve, Finnature's base in the area. It's a superb place, brilliantly functional (bar sound-proofing) and situated at the southern tip of an estuary. We made our way to the birding tower for a look around, and started adding to our already extensive trip list immediately. Flights of Wood Sandpipers, Ruff, summer plumaged Blackwits and heaps of stunning Little Gulls. Glorious, but we were unable to tarry with a full agenda planned, even with the extra hours granted to us by the Prof's malfunctioning airways.
Our next stop was the port area at Oulu, wader central. More Wood Sandpipers, breeding Redshank and LRP, a small colony of Arctic Terns. The main target was Terek Sandpiper, but in my zombie-like state I missed the only brief flight view. Maybe I saw it, maybe I didn't, but not matter, one day this blocker will fall, hopefully back in the UK if I can ever manage to be free when one pitches up. Woodcock overhead, Merg and Goosander in the bay, and our first and I think only Starlings of the trip. Great birding, and slightly surreal given the time of day, but it to was get even weirder when close by we twitched a breeding pair of Citrine Wagtail at around midnight in full daylight. The darkest period is probably around 1am, but it wouldn't even count as half light. It basically a bit dull, like the UK in about November, and then about ten minutes later the sun starts to rise again and it brightens up. What I want to know is when the birds sleep? We spent most "nights" birding, and the Fieldfares and many others would go straight through. Similarly I located the Citrine Wags on call, and they seemed very much awake. I thought living organisms died if they didn't sleep - certainly that's what I was beginning to feel like! We added Shelduck here, also wide awake and flying around.
A quick 'bargain' burger stop in a services and we headed south-east-ish towards a couple of sites where some last-minute gen courtesy of some mates of Rich B told of Willow Grouse, Greenish Warbler and several singing Bluetails (more accurately called Orange-flanked Bluetails by the Finns). We didn't manage the Willow Grouse but did find an early morning Black Grouse perched up, as well as Golden Plover and a noisy Wood Sandpiper by the side of the road. The next area led us to the singing Greenish almost immediately, where we got great views of it perched atop the highest tree belting it out - a great sound and one that I might stand a chance of remembering. No sign of the Bluetails, but we get massively confused by singing Redwing - they sounded mega and had us really excited until we espied one actually making the wonderful sounds we had been hearing and were thus crushed. Our final site of the morning was an area called Losonvaara, an area of old growth taiga forest. It delivered immediately, even before we'd had a chance to break out the coffee, with the zippy song of what could only be a Bluetail. OK, so they're not as rare as they once were - even I have seen three in the UK, but they're still mind-blowingly brilliant. We eventually found three birds singing from prominent perches, including two blue adult males - something I've not seen before. Also here were at least two Greenish Warblers, and evidence of Hazel Grouse if not the birds themselves. We walked a recommended track, inhaling the pine frangranced air and generally feeling at peace with the world. I would like Chateau L to smell strongly of pine, so may go and source some pine-emitting diodes or whatever. I'd also like it to have resident Bluetails but that may prove more difficult.
Once we were done here, we realised it was only nine in the morning and yet we'd been birding for about 14 hours. This is what I mean when I say that Finland fucks you up. The place is so nice, the birding so good, and the light so constant that the temptation to continue birding is too strong to resist. It's still light, the birds are still singing, so you just find yourself carrying on, kidding yourself that you're actually feeling OK. Ish. You begin to get the shakes after a while, and feel incredibly light-headed, or alternately like your head weighs several hundred kilos. And yet you plod on, you keep pushing. I'm not sure I would have gone to bed at all if Bradders hadn't insisted we stop mid-afternoon at a town near the Russian border called Tohmajarvi. And anyway, what was the point in trying to go to sleep with Mount Whiteman erupting in the corner? This latter problem was solved by our next hotel having been a Soviet Interrogation Centre in a previous era, and as such had the option of separate cells which we gratefully accepted. This time I slept, and a good thing too as the ratio of hours working/travelling/birding to sleeping was a rather worrying 56:4.
Labels: A short trip, Finland
Red-footed Falcons
Possibly my favourite photo from the whole trip....
Toughing it out
Boring Bee-eaters
Rollers and Red-feet - Phoarrrr!!
First few from Hungary
Birding through the night
Owling in Oulu
Sitting next to a legend
Finland screws you up
Ten things I have learned recently
After school on a Monday...
A cautionary tale
Badgers in Wanstead remain relaxed
June. Oh dear.
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BkiUaubxK3xgpfdGNxL9 | Teen picked for homecoming court as prank shines at ceremony
Monday Oct 1, 2012 6:14 AM
Whitney Kropp, the teen who was elected to the court as a hurtful prank by classmates, attended the homecoming dance in West Branch, Michigan, wearing a donated dress as her entire town rallied around her. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.
By NBC News staff
In a red, ruffled dress and flowers in her hair, Whitney Kropp, the Michigan high school student picked by her classmates to be on her school's homecoming court as a prank, took to her school's football stadium Friday for the ceremony.
"I had thoughts about not coming, but you know what, I'm glad I changed my mind and actually came out," Kropp told NBC News.
Kropp's appearance was met with thunderous applause and camera flashes from her fellow students at Ogemaw Heights High School in West Branch, Mich., and even members of the opposing team.
John M. Galloway / AP
Whitney Kropp, third from left, waits for the ceremony to begin at Ogemaw Heights High School's homecoming football game on Friday.
At Kropp's side was Josh Awrey, the class of 2015's male representative, the Bay City Times reported.
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After the ceremony, Kropp, who said she had been bullied throughout her time in high school, told reporters that she was glad she decided to remain on the court.
"I'm overwhelmed," Kropp said. "I'm so happy – this is so much right now for me. The school is fantastic they treated me so well."
'Easy target'
Kropp said last month she was initially surprised to learn that her classmates nominated her to be in the running for her school's homecoming queen. But she said she soon felt humiliated and betrayed when she found out that it was all a joke.
Sophomore homecoming representatives Whitney Kropp and Josh Awrey give each other a hug during the homecoming ceremony on the Ogemaw Heights High School football field on Friday.
"People had bullied on me, I guess, for my looks, how I did my hair, how I dress, my height, so I guess they thought, you know, maybe someone that is different is someone that's an easy target," Kropp said.
But, Kropp said she pulled through with the support of her mother and the rest of the town.
"You want to protect your kid, and you feel angry and mad at what has happened, but at the same time the outpouring to help her has been beyond expected," Kropp's mother Bernice Kropp said.
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Word spread quickly through the community of about 2,100 residents in West Branch. Resident Jamie Kline started a Facebook support page, gaining more than 4,000 likes in Michigan and nationwide. Personal stories of bullying and messages of encouragement filled the page.
A salon owner in West Branch donated service to cut, color and style Kropp's hair, and other local businesses paid for her dinner, gown, shoes and tiara for the dance.
Sophomore student Whitney Kropp never saw herself as part of the "in" crowd at her high school, so she was surprised to find out she was voted to homecoming court. It turned out to be a prank, but now the community is rallying behind Whitney to show their support for her. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.
Before the game, a local company even made T-shirts in support of Kropp in her favorite color, orange, adding to the messages of encouragement that Kropp says helped her prevail.
Kristy Erway, Hannah Gebnard, and Paige Sharp of Cadillac High School hang a banner in support of Whitney Kropps in West Branch, Mich., on Friday.
"The kids that are bullying you do not let them bring you down," she said. "Stand up for what you believe in, and go with your heart and go with your gut. That's what I did and look at me now. I'm just as happy as can be."
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BkiUbLI5qX_AYtUxBZkp | Pyotr Lvovich Bark (Russian: Пётр Львович Барк) later Sir Peter Bark, (18 April 1869 – 16 January 1937) was a Russian statesman.
Bark was born in Novotroitskoye village in Yekaterinoslav Governorate, He descended from a Baltic-German family in Estonia. His father Karl Ludwig Bark (later Ludwig Genrikhovich after converting to the Russian Orthodox faith) was a forestry manager for the Royal forests.
After studying law in St. Petersburg university, Pyotr Bark entered Credit Chancellery of the Ministry of Finance in 1891. Later he acted as a private secretary to the governor of the State Bank of Russia. In 1903 he went to Berlin to study banking with Mendelssohn & Co. On his return he was appointed manager of the foreign department of the State Bank. Later he became deputy Governor of the State Bank.
He resigned from his post in 1907 to accept appointment in private Volga-Kama Bank.
In 1911 Bark was appointed Assistant Minister of Commerce and Industry; In 1914 he was appointed Minister of Finance, replacing Vladimir Kokovtsov. He served in that position throughout the First World War until the abdication of Nicholas II.
Although briefly detained by the Provisional Government he was soon released after which he immigrated to the west. Held the position of Managing-Director of the Anglo-International Bank based in London. Knighted by King George V of the United Kingdom and the other realms in 1935 for his contributions to banking industry.
Bark died in Aubagne, France and is buried in the Russian cemetery in Nice.
Kokovtsov, Vladimir. (1935). Out of My Past (translator, Laura Matveev). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Bernard Pares. Sir Peter Bark. The Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 16, No. 46 (Jul., 1937), pp. 189–193.
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BkiUdPs5qdmB629MG_jf | There is no magic pill or formula for weight loss. At the end of the day pounds come off when you eat fewer and burn more calories. But what if the two-pronged approach just doesn't appeal to you? Can you really lose weight without dieting? Yes, you can! Here's how.
Don't save physical activity for the gym. Look for ways to move more all day. Easy ideas include a 20-minute walk at lunch time or after dinner; 10 minutes of rope jumping in the morning and standing at regular intervals throughout the day. Better yet, try wearing a pedometer because more steps equal less weight. The American Heart Association recommends 12,000 to 15,000 steps per day to promote weight loss. Wear your pedometer for 7 days to get a good daily average of the steps you are currently taking. Challenge yourself to increase your step total each week until you reach your target step number.
Unmanaged stress sends you into prolonged fight or flight mode. In preparation, the body secretes cortisol, a stress hormone that encourages consumption of high fat, high calorie foods. What does that mean? Sometimes we eat not because we are hungry but because we need comfort. Try new strategies that soothe stress and reduce comfort eating.
Don't want to take anything away from your diet? That's okay. Focus on adding to your diet instead. Aim to consume 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day. Just add them to what you are already eating. You may just find that when you consume more fruit you have less room for foods that pack on the pounds. Another tip – drink water throughout the day and with your meals.
Less sleep often equals more weight. Enough said. It is a good idea to stop eating in front of the television, too. Practice eating all meals and snacks in a setting that encourages you to slow down and pay attention to the taste and experience of the food. The focus here isn't on eating less; instead it is on enjoying the food you do eat more.
Build muscle to boost your calorie burn. Weight training can improve your muscle to fat ratio, which means your body will burn calories more efficiently.
For example a 150 pound woman that gets moderate physical activity each day needs about 2523 calories per day to maintain her current weight. To lose one pound per week without dieting she will need to burn an additional 500 calories each day because 3,500 calories equals one pound. Activities she could do to burn 500 calories include 40 minutes of fast rope jumping, running at 10 minute mile pace, or an intense game of racquetball. Extra steps count, too. Create a daily 500 calorie deficit by racking up at least 12,000 steps on your pedometer.
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BkiUf3rxK1Thg9qFgBsK | Meet Moo, The Mini Dachshund Has Unique Coat
by admin · August 24, 2020
We know you've already seen many photos of cute animals on the internet, but we bet you've seen nothing like this one. Moo is a lovely 7-month-old mini dachshund who lives in Miami, Florida. His color markings give him a mismatched quality that gives him a very unique look!
Moo, a seven-month-old mini dachshund, is a real head-turner. Aside from his puppy-dog eyes and cute sausage shape, this adorable pup makes people look twice because of his starkly mismatched coat. This dog lives with his mom, Victoria Hoffman, 24, in Miami, Florida. Looking at Moo's head, you'd see that he looks like a regular dachshund with his black and tan fur. But when you see the rest of his body, you won't believe it belongs to the same dog! The pooch was blessed with a unique appearance – a speckled body fur that resembles a Holstein cow. This characteristic gave Victoria the idea of naming him "Moo."
"He is a unique piebald because he has heavy ticking, black spots on his white coat, and he also has a pure black and tan head. So, it looks like his body doesn't match his head," she told Daily Mail. Many would ask if the pup was wearing doggy pajamas because they couldn't believe his fur was real. "They're surprised to find that it's actually just his natural coat," Victoria added.
Dachshunds have varying colors and coat patterns, but what makes Moo extraordinary is the glaring difference in the markings between his head and body. Aside from doxies, several species of dogs have piebald coats, including the beagle. It is also a common feature among birds, cats, horses, cattle, foxes, snakes, and pigs. This pup is quite the celebrity, especially when Victoria takes him outside. Strangers would often approach them and ask about Moo's speckled fur. Some would even request to take pictures of him.
"He's truly such a special little pup. He's our little star," Moo's proud mom said. Victoria, who works for a skincare beauty company, says that her dog has a special coat and a special personality to match. She says that Moo has "lots of attitude and is super cuddly and sweet." "He loves to hoard his toys in one spot, watermelon and almonds are his favorite treats, and he loves to take naps on his back under his bed," she added.
Victoria never gets bored or lonely with Moo around. She considers having him around a blessing, especially during these hard times. She and her boyfriend have always wanted a dachshund, and she said they wouldn't have gotten a dog if it weren't for COVID-19, since they wouldn't have been at home as much. "It's true that blessings and joy can still come out of hard times. Moo has been just that," she said. Moo is definitely one of the hottest dogs on the internet right now. At the time of writing, he has over 40,900 followers on Instagram, and we're certain his popularity would only grow over the years. Besides, who could ever resist this adorable-looking pooch?
Many people can't handle Moo's cuteness, especially when he poses for photos. Here are some comments his Instagram followers left under his cutest pictures. "Too previous for words! We don't deserve you, Moo!" wrote @zoeyeomanzy. "I've been seeing your picture being posted all over the internet you're way too cute to handle," said @divatheminidoxie.
"I'm absolutely in love with this beautiful pup! Omg!! @billtron_182 said. Others couldn't believe what they were seeing. "I am just now seeing this-how did this happen? I've never seen anything like his coloring!" @sweetmelissa5517 commented. We couldn't blame these followers for their comments; Moo is really charming beyond words! If you just can't get enough of this mismatched cutie, you can follow him on Instagram (instagram.com/moo_in_miami).
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BkiUfrrxK6-gD5Tlf4DJ | CG B.Sc Nursing Exam 2018: Application Form, Exam Dates, Eligibility, Fees.
CG B.Sc Nursing Exam 2018 is conducted by Chhattisgarh Professional Examination Board, Raipur for providing admission to B.Sc Nursing programme ( 4-year undergraduate course). CG B.Sc Nursing 2018 Notification has been released now.
CG B.Sc Nursing examination is conducted once in a year on 17th May 2018. Candidates can seek admission in government and private nursing college/institutions of the state through this state level entrance exam. This article provides the complete information about CG B.Sc Nursing 2018 including exam dates, application form, eligibility criteria, exam pattern, syllabus, etc.
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The General category students have to pay 200/- for application.
Students belonging to the SC/ST/PWD category have to pay 100/-. For application.
Marking scheme 1 mark for each correct answer.
Candidate must be a resident of Chhattisgarh State.
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Candidates must be passed with Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Zoology and English as the mandatory subjects.
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BkiUeCc5qsMAIpX-gA7l | One of the biggest challenges in any business is supplying customers with products and services that will make them come back over and over again. Wood cutting boards are a good example since cooks all over the United States and abroad want the best tools and supplies available to them when they are preparing meals. Therefore, it is important for gift shop owners, kitchen supplies stores and laser engravers to make sure that they select the best wood cutting boards available in the industry. So, here are some of the essential key points to look at to make the best choice.
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After just over eight years on the air, the adventure is over. The world of Adventure Time is going away, along with Jake, Finn, Princess Bubblegum and the rest of the cast. To give them a proper send-off, Babish has recreated a collection of the best dishes from the series, all made with a healthy does of imagination.
In Praise of 70mm
You can talk about the glory of 70mm film — the color, the texture, what the format allows the camera to capture — but 70mm had a bigger role that had nothing to do with technical aspects or aesthetics. After the landmark 1948 court case that broke the monopoly of the big studios and their theater chains and changed the studio system itself, 70mm might be responsible for saving the film industry as a whole.
Illuminating Giants
The peaks that Reuben Wu photographs aren't anything new but the way he captures them is. Using a drone, the artist travels across the globe to shine a light on the world's tallest mountains. His latest project takes him to Peru where he illuminates the 16,000-foot high ice wall of the Pastoruri Glacier.
Live Action Toy Story 3
Pixar's Toy Story 3 has one of the most touching intros in movies, something that's become a hallmark of the animation studio. Two brothers have spent years recreating the entire movie in live action — an impressive feat that they plan to have finished by 2019. The just-released trailer is a shot-for-shot remake of the classic intro and loses none of the emotional impact of the original, making us excited to see the full-length version.
Eyebrow-Raising Elon Musk Interview
In between building rockets and electric cars, Elon Musk stopped by the Joe Rogan Experience. During the three-hour interview, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO talked flamethrowers and electric planes while smoking a blunt and sipping whiskey. The release of the podcast coincides with the departure of two more Tesla executives and a stock price drop. | commoncrawl | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
BkiUd-04dbghe2kmY5rY | Story - News
Oct 5, 2009 2:50 PMPublication: The East Hampton Press
Montauk Highway roadwork in Water Mill will create detour and traffic delays through spring 2010
Road work began Wednesday, September 16, on Montauk Highway in Water Mill, in the vicinity of Little Cobb Road.
The eastbound and westbound lanes of Montauk Highway were shifted north to accommodate the construction, and access to and from Little Cobb Road will be temporarily blocked. Little Cobb Road may still be accessed using Cobb Road.
Traffic may also be halted periodically so workers can move construction equipment in and out of the area. It is anticipated that the work and travel lane detours will remain in effect, around the clock, until early spring 2010, according to the New York State Department of Transportation, which is responsible for that stretch of Montauk Highway, also known as Route 27.
"This road improvement project is needed to replace and repair the deteriorated culvert structure that carries Montauk Highway over Mill Creek," a press release issued by the Department of Transportation stated. "As with any roadway project, these operations are weather dependent and may be canceled, postponed or prolonged due to inclement weather."
Signs will advise motorists of the detour to Little Cobb Road. "Motorists are urged to use alternate routes to avoid delays," the department also advised. "If drivers must use Montauk Highway in this area, they are reminded to drive carefully through the work zone, heed instructions from flaggers and construction personnel, and obey the posted construction speed limit for their safety as well as the safety of the highway work crew."
For traffic and travel information, motorists should call 511 or visit 511NY.org, the Department of Transportation said. Motorists may also obtain travel information from the INFORM Transportation Management Center cameras at INFORMNY.com and on their handheld communication devices at INFORMNY.mobi.
Fer cripes sake, Route 27 isn't jammed up enough already? Takes me as long as an HOUR to go a lousy 30 miles as it is. Why don't they do these construction projects at night and not hold all of us commuters hostage?
By easthamptoner (34), easy hampton on Sep 18, 09 4:49 PM
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to easthamptoner: With this project it wouldn't matter if they were doing it during the day or at night. They had to close off Little Cobb Rd in order to complete this project, no matter what. The traffic backs up whether or not there is construction. It has for years, even before the traffic light in Water Mill was added. I actually think that eastbound traffic might move slightly better because no one will be mergin from Little Cobb Rd. Plus, based on your nickname, I'm guessing you don't ...more live right around the corner from where they are working.
By itsamazing (224), Southampton on Sep 19, 09 2:44 PM
Yes, traffic is flowing well at this site IMO. The concrete barriers were set up quickly, and new painted lines were done immediately, including the new westbound left turn lane west of the site on to Cobb Road.
Also, eastbound traffic from Cobb Road in the morning will be able to merge on to 27 OK, with perhaps a little less aggressiveness than at the old (now blocked off) merge over the culvert being worked on.
If this work had to be done, it is being handled professionally, ...more and at the right time of year IMO. Lets hope they throw the necessary person-power, equipment, and resources into it, so that winter does not cause unnecessary delays.
By PBR (4956), Southampton on Sep 20, 09 12:12 PM
Seems as if the site was empty of workers for a couple of days this week. Hope this is not a sign of things to come.
By PBR (4956), Southampton on Sep 30, 09 1:28 PM
YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE THE BACK ROADS.
By timebomb (4), moriches on Sep 30, 09 10:45 PM
They should have used this time to widen roads through Watermill. As small a commercial center Watermill has, even that is going to turn into a ghost town. So many loicals just can't be bothered to go through there. I think they should close the Little Cobb road entrance into 27, I think that will help the flow through Watermill. The one lane in each direction is killing the business not helping it. Yes they should be working at night.
By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 5, 09 1:19 PM
How come there was no one working there today..10-6 it will take a long time to complete this project when no one is working
By DJ9222 (85), southampton on Oct 7, 09 12:21 AM
Widen the roads? Unless the roads are widened all the way through Bridgehampton, Wainscott, etc. you are going to have a backup of traffic when traffic goes from 2 lanes into 1. Two lanes through Water Mill would only lead to people driving at a greater speed thought this area. I realize traffic is a problem in Water Mill. I've been here for almost 40 years and there has always been a back up of traffic even before there was a traffic light. Of course, then it was only on weekends but it was ...more there. I do agree that the Little Cobb Road entrance adds to the congestion a great deal. Traffic is moving better right now without the Little Cobb Rd Entrance. I am also wondering why no one has been at the site in over a week. I thought this time around the idea was to get this project done ASAP.
By itsamazing (224), Southampton on Oct 7, 09 12:23 PM
We should widen the roads werever this is possible. We lived with one lane each way on 27 and was tortured for years over it. How beautiful is it now! If we can build two lanes and move the back-up further east I'm all for it. Whatever can be done for the nightly rush hour west should be done. Route 27 east of Watermill needs to be retarred now. Widen and retar at same time. Watermill is backed up from 6 a.m. till late every day in summer. Any speed would be better than no speed.
By Mets fan (1501), Southampton on Oct 8, 09 9:49 AM
I have not seen anyone working on this site for about a 1 1/2 weeks. Most of these days were good weather -- some rain. Winter is coming. What's up NYS?
By PBR (4956), Southampton on Oct 8, 09 5:29 PM
The job is now active again. See new article and photos elsewhere on the site.
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