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import { APIReference } from '../common/types';
type ProficiencyChoices = {
choose: number;
from: APIReference[];
type: string;
};
type Choice = {
choose: number;
from: APIReference[];
type: string;
};
type ActionDamage = {
damage_type: APIReference;
damage_at_character_level: Record<number, string>;
};
type Useage = {
type: string;
times: string;
};
type DC = {
dc_type: APIReference;
success_type: string;
};
type Action = {
name: string;
desc: string;
usage: Useage;
dc: DC;
damage: ActionDamage[];
};
type TraitSpecific = {
subtrait_options?: Choice;
spell_options?: Choice;
damage_type?: APIReference;
breath_weapon?: Action;
};
export type Trait = {
_id?: mongoose.Types.ObjectId;
desc: string[];
index: string;
name: string;
proficiencies?: APIReference[];
proficiency_choices?: ProficiencyChoices;
races?: APIReference[];
subraces?: APIReference[];
parent?: APIReference;
trait_specific?: TraitSpecific;
url: string;
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* Play all the base frames to get an idea of your style of play. Just know the secondary frames can really change that style but can still use all core abilities/items so at worst you can customize something that works for you.
* as stated already, hold of on spending any resource (including research) until you have a grip on how the game works.
* save up for a vehicle as a priority. With the cool down limit on gliders, this will make exploration and transport much faster. But don't worry about it too much at the start as the new ARES mission boards won't have you run too far from them.
* find a community/army to join to help you learn the ins and outs. FFANZ in the sidebar is one place you can start.
* if you have a problem, their support site has a lot of good info. Also, a lot of the R5 guys hang on their IRC if you ever want to talk to them. Info for these is in the side-bar. | 0d06d7144d274c9892bef8c92fa34f99 | 223 |
Peter Hund penned this review.
This is a natural time for Krauss and the boys to put out their first live album. After 15 years of paying her dues (five group albums, three solo releases and a collaboration with the Cox Family), the bluegrass diva neatly wraps it all up in a double-disc package culled from two nights at the Palace Theater in Louisville, Kentucky.
It’s the fifth consecutive gold record for the group’s leader, and a shoo-in for platinum status. Bluegrass already had been enjoying a renaissance, with the 31-year-old singer/fiddler and her bandmates doing their share to win new converts to the genre throughout the 1990s. Then, after the success of the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and its record-breaking soundtrack, things got even better.
Aiding and abetting the former child prodigy in her crusade to deliver some “real” country music to the masses are Ron Block, Barry Bales, Jerry Douglas, Dan Tyminski and, on select tracks, Larry Atamanuik.
Block, on banjo, tempers precision with an improvisational feel and an articulation indicating more than a passing knowledge of blues and rock. Bass player Bales has been on albums by everyone from Clint Black to Vince Gill to Reba McEntire to Dolly Parton. Douglas, of course, is dobroist par excellence. Mandolinist/guitarist/vocalist Tyminski, who left one great outfit (Lonesome River Band) to join another, has his finger squarely on the pulse of contemporary bluegrass and knows how to blend it with the traditional. And some may remember Atamanuik, who has evolved into a “bluegrass drummer” (purists, take cover), from his days with Peter Rowan and Richard Greene in Seatrain (without a doubt the only California-based bluegrass-rock fusion group produced by George Martin).
Over the course of the 25 songs here, there are more than a few non-Krauss-vocal numbers, so fans of her singing be warned. But the instrumentals and the songs with Tyminski singing lead break things up nicely, reiterating that this is a group — not just an angelic singer and her crack backup band. As they said in a recent interview, this is just the beginning and everything until now has felt like training camp.
Talk about a wonderfully scary thought!
| http://thegreenmanreview.com/music-2/alison-krauss-and-union-stations-live/ | 516 |
No, the clear water is actually due to the lack of phytoplankton (micro-organisms that drift in the water such as algae). They contain a substance called chlorophyll that absorbs light and gives them a green color. Phytoplankton is essential for oceans and lakes to sustain life. So the water being so clear means there’s no phytoplankton and typically, means that there’s not a lot of food for smaller fish, thus affecting the whole ecosystem.
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Born in Huntington, Long Island, New York, in 1970, Mariah Carey (she was named after the song “They Call The Wind Mariah”) was launched into the world of music on the age of three. Safari means ‘journey’ or ‘lengthy journey’ in Swahili, thus, allow us to start with a long journey of African animal checklist. Africa, the land with an abundance of different varieties and species of animals. These are small African foxes recognized for his or her huge ears.
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Jazz as we know it now grew from a form of music that was handed immediately from musician to musician without an excessive amount of principle being concerned. Not solely are on-line jazz guitar classes generally less expensive than in-person classes, however in addition they give college students entry to the strategies and strategies of among the world’s greatest teachers for a fraction of what it might cost in individual.
For now, the answer is to tell different musicians, to come back forth and make use of those self same scales that aren’t meant for, but mistakenly assumed to be for simply Jazz guitarists. There are particular types of chords that jazz musicians and composers have a tendency to make use of in their work. | 538c60be5dba059269f34937d0add5f3 | 631 |
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PRIMARY
NEGOTIATOR
(this is her dominant personality type)
SECONDARY
Explorer
(she also shows elements of this type)
Mellowrya
Peaceful, mellow and enjoying:
- Taking care of my possessions is a high priority for me
- On my time off, I like to be free to do whatever looks fun
- I am very sensitive to people's feelings and needs
Her 12 interests
in her own words...
Who am I? Easy-going, affectionate, supportive, curious, more wise then smart, generally clean, a bit awkward (shy) and more clumsy then I would like. I like self-sufficiency, farmers markets, festivals, Constitutionalist/Libertarian in view (I like Ron Paul), I'd be agreeable to be an expat, waterfalls, photography, reading, India food (YUM), eating healthy (generally), walking around, into herbalism, alternative health and views. I think we should use tesla energy. I am an INFJ personality from the Briggs test. I like solid real friendships. I think a friendship has to be the basis of any relationship so that the humor can get us through the tough times. I'm looking for a nice guy that i'm physically attracted to. Someone that has communication skills, and is easy going. But other then that, each person is different and has their own spark. Hmmm.. What am I looking for? Someone a little new agey, a little yoga or qigong, someone who would do silly things (like sing nonsense songs) with me to keep us entertained. More magician then knight-in-shining-armor. Someone who reads...something, or at least keeps learning. Nah, I want a reader. I like to be read to, or some interesting bit you found brought to my attention. Other then that, we'd just have to take it from there.
About her:
- Living situation:
- Live alone
- Live with roommate(s)
- Religious affiliation:
- Spiritual but not religious
- Relationship history:
- Divorced
- Income:
- I'd prefer to share this information with my matches later.
- Eye color:
- Hazel
- Hair color:
- Auburn / Red
- Ethnic background:
- White/Caucasian
What she's looking for:
- Age Range:
- 37 - 50
-
- relationship history:
- Single (never been married)
- Divorced
- Widowed
-
- smokes:
- Not at all
-
- Ethnic background:
- Asian
- Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
- White/Caucasian
-
- Religious affiliation:
- Agnostic
- Buddhist / Taoist
- Spiritual but not religious
- Other
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- education:
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out of mind, and is like lost pages from the chronicle of life.
trouble brought back consciousness with rekindled vigor.
loved and once lovely frame.
from the book of Job.
“_All_ can never be, Biddy, as once it _was_,” and I shook my head.
“Oh, don’t spake of it,” and she wiped her moist eyes with her apron.
consent all avoided it.
her cheek was like the eating of a worm at the heart of a rose.
mornings, some cheerful book to her.
bade me decline all such kindness.
that we inscribe nothing but her age and name upon the tomb-stone.
kindly, and spoke at length with some.
see you well settled somewhere in the North; but that will be denied me.
Justinian Trueman. They were strong personal friends.
see her. Justinian Trueman came also. By the force of circumstance, Mr.
himself for others, and daily and hourly crucified his heart!
nothing in life could destroy.
secret of the heart.
child of a widowed mother, who had spent her all upon his education.
stand by his engagement if she wished.
declined remaining in his family.
brother saw him, and told me that he looked well.
sealed letter, directed to Justinian Trueman, Boston, Mass.
I was weeping violently when I took it from her.
me. She was loud in her lamentation.
spoke this in a composed tone, my heart was all astir with emotion.
mournful intelligence with subdued grief.
the grave, her name, age, &c., inscribed thereon.
the midst, and was gazing well-pleased upon us.
he was too late to see his aunt alive.
the kindest manner, and recommended us to his care.
as he warmly shook us by the hands.
I accompanied him to his aunt’s grave.
making a donation to her brother, was left to her nephew, Robert Worth.
and we prepared for departure.
woman, in the possession of a comparative fortune; yet I was not happy.
means of happiness come to us when we have the capacity for enjoyment?
that I had mentioned his name to her.
near, you should not go,” she replied.
I wept freely; and, as is always the case, was relieved by it.
“I am glad to see that you can weep. It will do you good,” said Louise.
But little more remains to be told of my history.
vilest outrages and grossest inhumanities were committed!
fallen a victim to the white man’s cupidity.
everything that they saw.
tribute to their worth and kindness.
men and women, not mere chattels.
When we reached Boston I was made to feel this in a particular manner.
my arrival in Boston I found out, from Mr. Worth, the residence of Mr.
Trueman, and called to see him.
soon made myself known, and received from him a most hearty welcome.
glisten in his calm eyes when I spoke of poor Henry’s awful fate.
and I honored him for his constancy.
quiet puritanical little town in Massachusetts.
heat of summer, and is always a welcome guest.
Ben–Amy’s treasure–now grown to be a fine-looking youth.
yoke of American slavery, may be granted a hearing.
day, when He shall come in pomp and power to judge the quick and dead.
join in a blood-spilling coalition with the South?
| https://www.ecbasis.org/blog/2017/11/our-trip-would-indeed-have-been-delightful/ | 805 |
This article provides a summary of what's going on: [https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kongs-extradition-bill-from-a-grisly-murder-to-mass-protests](https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kongs-extradition-bill-from-a-grisly-murder-to-mass-protests)
You'll notice that a lot of pressure came from Western nations, who also assisted local "pro-democracy" groups in organizing the protests (the same groups were involved in Occupy Central, which was planned in Norway 2 years before it happened and have received loads of support from people like Marco Rubio).
The article doesn't clarify that the whole thing is really a matter of bad timing and anti-mainland bigotry: the extradition bill itself is very bland: [https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr18-19/english/bills/b201903291.pdf](https://www.legco.gov.hk/yr18-19/english/bills/b201903291.pdf) The bill does not allow extradition of people for criticizing China, etc. and only allows extradition for crimes that are already prosecutable in Hong Kong--and very serious crimes at that.
The US-HK extradition treaty is even harsher than this proposed one, which is why Edward Snowden couldn't stay in HK and had to leave. | e9d0db0aeffb4ee2a841ce4bcf22886c | 334 |
Im new to thisforum and hoping to get some answers. I really need help getting rid of some white fuzz in my tank. It's on my plants and now on my substrate. I researched and even posted on some forums but no answers, please help, it looks really ugly I'll post pics when I can.
i had the same thing, all i did was do a water change, added a bag of activated carbon to my filter, and it cleared up overnight.
I did a big water change yesterday, and how will the carbon get it if its hard to get off? i added three ramshorn snails, taking the risk that they breed rapid but moved my wisteria to the 10 gallon since that stuff was all over and they cleaned it up really good so i added three to see if they could clear it up. Ive had this for maybe.. at least a month and its spreading everywhere.
The plants look very unhappy, how are you supporting good plant growth? Light, fertilizing, water movement?
Tried several things and found nothing that eliminated it in tank. It became a minor frustration and I moved on burning the tank down with H2O2 and did a restart. It hasn't happened again.
It almost looks like fungus growing on dying (dead) organic matter. Those plants need some TLC bad!
Whats the run down of your tank?
what's tlc? I don't think it's unhappy, the plant roots are really good and that's how the plant grows, it gets red under good light. it's on my vals, wisteria and substrate now and spreading everywhere. it's a 36g bowfront, lighting is 2×24 watt t5ho Nova extreme.
Tender love and Care.
That plant should be a vibrant green color. Its dwarf Sagetaria correct?
oh! I try my best for all my tanks and spend alot to make em the tanks I always want since I was young. and I think it's a Pygmy chain sword. also my tank is moderately planted. it's on my vals too and they're healthy.
What is your Ammonia?
it's hard to see the red on it cause of the white stuff, also my substrate is floramax, dose excel, dose flourish comprehensive but stopped to see if that was the problem. I run two filters both for a thirty gallon, an aquaclear and aqueon. also run two DIY co2, drop checker is at lime green to yellow. as for my water parameters, I will have to do that in a while, gotta pick up brother from school. will list plants also in a bit.
edit! ammonia is 0.25 ppm, nitrite at 0 ppm, and nitrate I think around 10 ppm. the liquid is kinda light darkish orange.
Growing on the glass now, what could it be?
there should be zero amonia, so your tank is doing a mini cycle.
Also, are you using DIY Co2?
I don't think it's a mini cycle, and yes but it's not yeast gunk. I was told it's water mold.
You are over feeding or under filtrating.
Also, how do you know its not 'yeast gunk'? It looks exactly like 'yeast gunk' to me. If you are not using a bubble counter style bottle as a filter then it very well could be!
| https://www.plantedtank.net/threads/need-help-white-fuzz.150170/ | 718 |
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Each year, The New School is home to hundreds of public programs and events. These events play a significant role in the life and livelihood of the university. They enhance our reputation, promote university research and work, strengthen alumni-university affiliations, foster fruitful partnerships and relationships, provide a steady stream of new audiences and contacts, encourage social engagement, advance foundation and philanthropic goals, generate revenue, and contribute to the recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and staff.
The sections below provide guidance and tools for promoting your events and engaging your audiences, from creating compelling event assets to publishing events on the university events calendar, promotion through email newsletters, and reporting on results.
For additional information related to event logistics and processes, consult the Public Programs Toolkit. Contact us at [email protected] with questions and feedback on the sections and content below.
Pulling from events created in Splash, the Pre- and Post-Event Slideshow tool can be used by event coordinators to create a dynamic customizable slideshow of upcoming university events. Click to view an example. See the instructions for using the tool.
An editable InDesign sign you can post at in-person events indicating that seats are reserved.
Use this sign whenever you are video-recording or photographing on-campus events to notify audience members that the event is being recorded and/or photographed.
In addition to providing these promotional tools, Splash allows event organizers to more effectively manage planning, track registrations and tickets, send email reminders and post-event communications, and analyze attendee engagement.
More detailed trainings and tips and best practices for using Splash can be found in the Public Programs Toolkit.
The university has a limited number of Splash account seats, which are distributed among colleges, institutes, and administrative departments. Before requesting an account, check this list of Splash users to see who in your unit already has an account, and contact your colleague directly for support.
If your unit doesn’t already have an account and you anticipate the need to use Splash, please send a request to [email protected] with the non-personal email address you would like associated with the account. Once you have set up a new account, refer to the Public Programs Toolkit page on training resources. Splash also has numerous training resources, which can be accessed once you’re set up.
Note that we can also create a viewer (read-only) account in Splash. This is suitable for scenarios in which a Splash account holder who is creating and managing events in the system wants to share the guest list with a colleague who is not expected to make any edits.
If your department website is set up with an Events feed, or widget, you can add your events to the list presented in that section by using the correct tag. Please use only the tags that are appropriate for you.
If your department page does not already have an Events feed, you can have one added by contacting your college or department’s communications director or M&C project manager and specifying how you would like to filter your events—whether by tags, event theme, school, department, program, college, or center—using and/or logic.
If you would like to add an event widget to your Google Sites page, you can create a Splash hub and then embed it with iframes.
Add contact information from attendees of past events who have checked the opt-in box on the event registration form.
Add Subscribe buttons or links on your website to allow users to subscribe to your email newsletters and other publications. Event attendees can sign up for some of these publications by using this email sign-up form on the event calendar. If your mailing list does not appear on this page, please contact [email protected].
To help you more easily create email newsletters, M&C has created the Newsletter Content Generator, which generates HTML code for Splash events that can be added to your email marketing platforms (see an example of how it displays in the Public Programs Newsletter). Instructions for using this tool can be found in How-To: Newsletter Content Generator.
The Public Programs team sends out a monthly newsletter (except in January and the summer months) to an external list of approximately 30,000 individuals. In order for your event to be considered for inclusion, it must be in Splash at least five business days before the end of the month preceding the month in which the event is scheduled. A version of the monthly Public Programs Newsletter is sent to the internal community at the same time; it sometimes includes events that are open only to the internal community.
A variety of in-person promotional material and platforms are available, including stand-up or podium banners, lobby monitors, and digital easels.
NarwhalNation, developed and maintained by the Office of Student Leadership and Involvement (SLI), is a place for students to find out about upcoming events, clubs and organizations, club sports, intramural sports, recreation classes, and more. Contact SLI to learn how to set up your department or college as an organization in NarwhalNation in order to post events. Note that NarwhalNation and Splash are not linked, so events must be cross-posted where necessary.
Inclusiveness is one of the core values of The New School. For events, inclusiveness means considering how an event’s content, format, location, or associated materials might create barriers and affect guests’ ability to attend and engage fully. Please consult the Accessibility page of the Public Programs Toolkit for information about booking sign language and live transcription services, guidelines for speakers and panelists, event logistics, and other topics. The Office of Student Disability Services also provides support to students seeking accommodations at university events.
An important part of organizing any public program or series is evaluating how the event or events went and determining whether you met your goals. Splash allows for robust reporting at the level of the individual event, the department, the college, and the university. Key data points and metrics such as registration, loyalty, email open rates, and demographic and affiliation information (and much more) can be found in the Reporting tab in your Splash account. For university-level data, contact [email protected].
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UPDATE! Switched at Birth has been renewed for a fifth season at ABC Family/Freeform. What about the premiere (start) date of Season 5 Episode 1 in 2016?
The number of fans of the show Switched at Birth in 2015 has reduced a bit, but it still remains one of the most popular youth dramas of ABC Family and deserves to be renewed for the fifth season. The fall of the rating of the given project was expected by many critics, who don’t want the show to be broadcast next year.
Despite that fact, the show and its cast were again nominated for the prestigious awards (Imagen Awards, Teen Choice Awards, TCA Awards), and its showrunner Lizzy Weiss in her interview for THR confirmed plans for Season 5. She noted that the show wouldn’t be canceled as the screenwriters have a lot of materials to be released.
Weiss also hinted at time jumps, which can de used in the fifth season, as the given approach to the implementation of the plot was applied in the show Pretty Little Liars and turned to be quite successful. So, the first step has already been made and now we should only wait for the announcement from ABC Family.
We hope to hear the release date of the new episodes soon, as the show has deserved to be broadcast in 2016, hasn’t it?
UPDATE 1 (October 21, 2015): Good news! ABC Family – which will change its name to Freeform in January 2016 – has picked up a fifth season of original drama series Switched at Birth (10 episodes).
UPDATE 2 (March 11, 2016): Freeform has confirmed that the upcoming Season 5 will be the final season for Switched at Birth. Series creator Lizzy Weiss confirmed that the series won’t visit your screen until 2017.
UPDATE 3 (July 4, 2016): The fifth and final season of the series will premiere on January 31, 2017.
So happy,excited and grateful. I really hope we see more of Emmett Bledsoe in Season 5.
Great! How many episodes?
I’m sad by this news (update 2) but i think Switched At Birth had a great 5 year run.
Switched at Birth has always been my favorite show since it’s first episode. I’m sad to learn that it will soon be ending, but grateful for another season.
Aww I love switched at birth .
| https://season-release-date.com/switched-at-birth-season-5-premiere-date-2016/ | 504 |
It is nonsense to say,[1] “I’m a blue state Democrat, so I can vote my conscience!” Yet I don’t see people talking about this. Instead, I hear the argument that swing state Democrats must vote for Hillary Clinton, but blue state Democrats have a choice.
I was a Bernie Sanders supporter in the primary. I donated to him. And I bought a shirt from him and wore it proudly. But I did not support Sanders because he was perfect. He wasn’t perfect. I’m much more a Jeremy Corbyn kind of guy (not that he’s perfect either), but I’m not a citizen of the UK. I voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary because he was the best alternative available to me.
Now I am (Like Bernie Sanders himself!) a Hillary Clinton supporter. I have donated to her, and as you can see on the right, I have bought a shirt from her. And I wear it proudly too.
Alternatives Not Choice!
Picking Jill Stein or Mickey Mouse in the general election means blue state Democrats (And red state Democrats!) can’t pick between Clinton and Trump. But those are the only alternatives. It simply isn’t the case that our electoral system makes Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, or anyone else an alternative. Change the system? Sign me up! But that will not happen before 8 November 2016. So the alternatives are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
Blue state Democrats can vote any way they want, of course. But if they think themselves morally superior because they don’t vote for Clinton, they are seriously deluded. We will know what they are: people who left to others the job of picking from the alternatives — people who saw no difference between Clinton and Trump.
I think the shirt I’m wearing above is kind of ugly. I wouldn’t have bought the corresponding shirt if I lived in Florida — a swing state.
But I bought that shirt because I am in a bright blue state. FiveThirtyEight currently gives Clinton a 99.8% chance of winning the state. I’m pretty sure that makes it the bluest state in this election. So I got the shirt for the message: blue state Democrats for Hillary Clinton. Because my vote is not about making me feel better; it is about picking the best alternative for the country.
Swing state Democrats are obviously foolish if they don’t vote for Clinton. But blue state Democrats are too. We have no choice. We have two alternatives.
What About the Revolutionaries?
But what about the revolutionaries? The ones who think Trump will bring on the glorious revolution? They have no choice either! They must vote for Trump. If they really feel the only way forward is revolution and that the catastrophe of a Trump presidency is the way to get it, they must pick Trump. That’s just as true in Oklahoma (FiveThirtyEight gives Trump a 99.5% chance of winning) as anywhere else.
They are also, luckily, rare. Any reasonable person must vote for Clinton. And that is just as true for blue state Democrats as anyone else.
[1] Great idea: if you live in a country with a parliamentary system!
Kumbaya Democratic Party!
I would disagree if third parties had any support behind them. In 2012, in California, the two leftist parties combined got around 1% of the presidential vote. If the number was 10 or 15 percent, then strengthening the alternative party would make more sense. Americans don’t support the hopeless underdog.
Here’s a question. How much of Sanders’s success came from being the only other candidate in the primary? (Let’s just forget that Baltimore oaf.) After all, there’s always somebody in the Democratic primary who runs on similar positions; Dennis Kucinich, say. And what do they get? That same 1%, in a good year. Not because their positions are unpopular; because nobody thinks they have a chance. So they vote for the candidate with an actual chance whom they believe is closer to them politically. I’m basically wondering if there’s any chance for a leftist Democratic candidate in 2024? Or was this year a one-shot deal, because nobody else wanted to go up against the best campaigner in America? Will the left fall back to Kucinich levels? Or are things like the environmental movement, the fight for $15 movement, OWS starting to change the party? I certainly hope so!
One last point. There’s never a “safe” district. My district has voted Democratic for president back since the party began (and stood for far different things!) And had Democratic congresspersons since 1949. Those offices are “safe”. Yet we’ve had Republican mayors, city council members, etc. There’s always a bond bill that needs passing. Whether or not your vote matters for president, it matters in local government. Always.
Did you read what Corey Robin had to say on the issue. I think this is the direction the part and the country is going. After a fairly short period of time, I came to believe that Sanders’ biggest problem wasn’t his “socialism” but his age. You get another Sanders who’s in his fifties and they will fly. And that person will come because the Democratic elites see where the voters are going.
No, I hadn’t read him before today. He’s very gifted. If I had more energy, I’d definitely read more.
I hope that’s the direction the country is going. I see it as the 1930s; we could fix capitalism or embrace fascism. As a betting man, I’m not putting my money on hope. But it’s not impossible. Maybe 70/30 against.
I think his analysis is solid. This is part of why conservatives talk such nonsense: they have nothing real to react against. But that doesn’t mean they will necessarily fail. I mean: scary dark-skinned people! | https://franklycurious.com/wp/2016/08/19/blue-state-democrats-hillary/ | 1,283 |
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"A friend of mine brought home a bat and a glove from a trip to Miami, so we started hitting tennis balls into the neighbors gardens. That was in 1991," Heinsohn told Inside Mac Games in a July 2012 interview. "We then formed a baseball club and started playing in organized baseball leagues in 1994. In the meantime I played all sorts of baseball computer games, but there was no management-related game that I liked, so in 1998 I decided to simply develop my own game, just for fun. When it was done in 1999, I figured it was probably good enough to earn some money with it, and thats when it all started." - , subtitled Legend of the Seven Stars in its North American release, is a role-playing video game developed by Square (now Square Enix) and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It was originally released on March 9, 1996, in Japan and on May 13, 1996, in North America. Nintendo ported the game, with minor differences, to the Wii's Virtual Console service in 2008 and to the Wii U's Virtual Console service by late June 2016 to regions around the world. It is the first role-playing video game in the "Mario" series. The game contains fundamental gameplay similarities and inspirations to other Square role-playing video games, such as the "Final Fantasy" series, with a story and action-based gameplay derived from the "Super Mario Bros." series. - A sports game is a video game that simulates the practice of sports. Most sports have been recreated with a game, including team sports, track and field, extreme sports and combat sports. Some games emphasize actually playing the sport (such as the "Madden NFL" series), whilst others emphasize strategy and sport management (such as "Championship Manager" and "Out of the Park Baseball"). Some, such as "Need for Speed", "Arch Rivals" and "Punch-Out!!", satirize the sport for comic effect. This genre has been popular throughout the history of video games and is competitive, just like real-world sports. A number of game series feature the names and characteristics of real teams and players, and are updated annually to reflect real-world changes. - A video game is an electronic game that involves human or animal interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor. The word "video" in "video game" traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images. Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial. - Mario's Time Machine is an educational video game originally released for MS-DOS and then for the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super NES consoles. The Software Toolworks both developed and published the MS-DOS and Super NES versions in 1993, while the NES version was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Nintendo in 1994. The MS-DOS version was re-released as "Mario's Time Machine Deluxe" in 1996. - Abandoning previous ventures in favor of toys in the 1960s, Nintendo then developed into a video game company in the 1970s, ultimately becoming one of the most influential in the industry and Japan's third most-valuable company with a market value of over $85 billion. From 1992 until 2016, Nintendo was also the majority shareholder of Major League Baseball's Seattle Mariners. - Educational games are games explicitly designed with educational purposes, or which have incidental or secondary educational value. All types of games may be used in an educational environment. 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He also voices Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Wario, Waluigi and Toadsworth. - The "Mario" franchise is the best-selling video game franchise of all time. Over 210 million units of the overall "Mario" series of games have been sold. Outside of the "Super Mario" platform series, other "Mario" genres include the "Mario Kart" racing series, sports games such as the "Mario Tennis" and "Mario Golf" series, role-playing games such as "Super Mario RPG" and "Paper Mario", and educational games such as "Mario Is Missing!" and "Mario's Time Machine". The franchise has branched into several mediums, including television shows, film, comics, and licensed merchandise. Since 1995, Mario has been voiced by Charles Martinet. - The Virtual Boy is a 32-bit table-top video game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. Released in 1995, it was marketed as the first console capable of displaying stereoscopic 3D graphics, a form of virtual reality. The player uses the console in a manner similar to a head-mounted display, placing their head against the eyepiece to see a red monochrome display. The games use a parallax effect to create the illusion of depth. Sales failed to meet targets, and by early 1996, Nintendo ceased distribution and game development after shipping 1.26 million units and releasing 22 games. - A role-playing game (RPG and sometimes roleplaying game) is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making or character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines. - Mario Tennis, known in Japan as , is a 2000 sports video game developed by Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. The game was released in North America and Japan in the summer of 2000, and released in Europe later in November. It is the first tennis-based game starring Mario since "Mario's Tennis", and the second game developed by Camelot on a Nintendo system. The game is known for being the introduction of Waluigi, and the re-introduction of Princess Daisy and Birdo. - Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing. The name is derived from the sport's typical venue: a stadium with an oval running track enclosing a grass field where the throwing and jumping events take place. Track and field is categorised under the umbrella sport of athletics, which also includes road running, cross country running, and race walking. - There have been five "Mario Kart" games released for home consoles, three portable games, and three Namco co-developed arcade games, for a total of eleven. The latest title in the series, "Mario Kart 8", was released on Wii U in May 2014. The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide to date. An enhanced version of "Mario Kart 8", entitled "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe", will be released on the Nintendo Switch in April 2017. - Virtual reality (VR) typically refers to computer technologies that use software to generate the realistic images, sounds and other sensations that replicate a real environment (or create an imaginary setting), and simulate a user's physical presence in this environment. VR has been defined as "...a realistic and immersive simulation of a three-dimensional environment, created using interactive software and hardware, and experienced or controlled by movement of the body" or as an "immersive, interactive experience generated by a computer". - Madden NFL (known as John Madden Football before 1993) is an American football video game series developed by EA Tiburon for EA Sports. It is named after Pro Football Hall of Famer John Madden, a well-known former Super Bowlwinning coach of the Oakland Raiders and color commentator. The series has sold more than 100 million copies, and influenced many players and coaches of the physical sport. Among the game's realistic features are sophisticated playbooks and player statistics, and voice commentary that allows players to hear the game as if it were a real TV broadcast. As of September 2013, the franchise generated over $4 billion in revenue. - Mario 's Tennis ( Mariozu Tenisu ) is a 1995 sports game developed by Nintendo for the Virtual Boy video game console . The game was released at the launch of the Virtual Boy , and even as a pack - in game in North America . The game received mixed reviews from critics , who generally felt the game offered a good fundamental game of tennis that was hampered by the Virtual Boy hardware and a lack of content and long - term appeal . - A team sport includes any sport which involves two or more players working together towards a shared objective. A team sport is an activity in which individuals are organized into opposing teams which compete to win. Examples are basketball, volleyball, water polo, handball, lacrosse, cricket, baseball, and the various forms of football and hockey. - The "Super Mario" games follow Mario's adventures in the fictional Mushroom Kingdom, usually with Mario as the player character. He is usually joined by his brother, Luigi, and occasionally by other members of the "Mario" cast. As in platform video games, the player runs and jumps across platforms and atop enemies in themed levels. The games have simple plots, typically with Mario rescuing the kidnapped Princess Peach from the primary antagonist, Bowser. The first title in the series, "Super Mario Bros.", released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, established gameplay concepts and elements prevalent in nearly every "Super Mario" game since. These include a multitude of power-ups and items that give Mario special magic powers such as fireball-throwing and size-changing into giant and miniature sizes. - Arch Rivals is a basketball arcade game released by Midway in . Billed by Midway as "A Basket Brawl", the game features two-on-two full court basketball games in which players are encouraged to punch opposing players and steal the ball from them. - Paper Mario, known in Japanese as and originally known as Super Mario RPG 2, is a role-playing video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 game console. It was first released in Japan on August 11, 2000, in North America on February 5, 2001, and in Europe and Australia on October 5, 2001. "Paper Mario" was re-released for Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console in July 2007 as well as Wii U Virtual Console in 2015. - Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will. - Sport management is an industrious field concerning the business aspects of sports and recreation. Some examples of sport managers include the front office system in professional sports, college sports managers, recreational sport managers, sports marketing, event management, facility management, sports economics, sport finance, and sports information. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'mario's tennis' exhibits the relationship of 'genre'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - american football - animal - baseball - basketball - boxing - combat - comic - country - culture - economics - educational game - educational video game - entertainment - game - genre - ghost - golf - information - interview - japanese - legend - management - march - narrative - play - racing - racing video game - rpg - skill - sport - sports video game - statistics - tennis - video - virtual reality - will
The answer is:
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The characters in Gary Shteyngart’s novel “Super Sad True Love Story” inhabit a continuously surveilled and scored society.
Consider the protagonist, Lenny Abramov, age 39. A digital dossier about him accumulates his every health condition (high cholesterol, depression), liability (mortgage: $560,330), purchase (“bound, printed, nonstreaming media artifact”), tendency (“heterosexual, nonathletic, nonautomotive, nonreligious”) and probability (“life span estimated at 83”). And that profile is available for perusal by employers, friends and even strangers in bars.
It’s a fictional forecast of a data-deterministic culture in which computer algorithms constantly analyze consumers’ profiles, issuing individuals numeric rankings that may benefit or hinder them.
In two nonfiction books, scheduled to be published in January, technology experts examine similar consumer-ranking techniques already in widespread use.
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Etihad to acquire stake in Air Malta?
Air Malta (KM, Malta) is close to finalizing a strategic partnership agreement with Etihad Airways (EY, Abu Dhabi Int'l) aviation sources in the Maltese capital, Valletta, have revealed.
Speaking to The Times of Malta newspaper on condition of anonymity, the sources said airline chairwoman Maria Micallef and senior officials from the Office of the Prime Minister had conducted the negotiations on behalf of Air Malta with an announcement expected shortly. The Emirati carrier is expected to acquire a shareholding in the state-run carrier though no exact details of the proposed deal were given.
Last week, Maltese Tourism Minister Edward Zammit Lewis confirmed the national carrier was in talks with an interested party but refused to disclose their identity.
Air Malta has been in the midst of a restructuring programme aimed at returning it to profitability following years of losses, the most serious of which was EUR78 million in 2012. Though it posted a EUR16.4 million (USD18 million) loss for the year ending March 2015, the carrier's top brass is confident it can reduce that figure to EUR4 million (USD4.38 million) by March 2016.
However, despite improvements in financials, Micallef in October lamented the carrier's lack of a prominent partner adding that access to economies of scale would help drive down Air Malta's costs thus rendering it more competitive.
Contacted for comment, an Etihad spokesman refused to either confirm or deny the talks simply stating that it was not company policy "to comment on rumours or speculation".
Should the reports turn out to be true, Air Malta would become Etihad's fifth equity partner in Europe behind Air Berlin (AB, Berlin Tegel), Air Serbia (JU, Belgrade), Darwin Airline (F7, Lugano), and Alitalia (AZ, Rome Fiumicino). The Abu Dhabi-based carrier has also signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Montenegro Airlines (YM, Podgorica) concerning a proposed strategic cooperation agreement.
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An old parachute-style distress flare is believed to have started a fire that took less than five minutes to change from a small flame to a blaze the size of a football field.
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A few weeks ago, I posted photos from Lauren’s bridal portrait shoot at the Bella Donna Chapel in McKinney, and I’m finally getting a chance to upload the photos from their fun and intimate wedding back in September.
Despite the sweltering heat, the bride was calm and cool as she walked down the aisle to marry her high school sweetheart. And I love all of the little personal details that they incorporated into the reception, held at her parent’s home in Cedar Hill.
Congratulations Lauren & Richard!
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Spread around good food, good words, good music and anything good that you have in excess.
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I'm looking for replacment for back to previous cells function from quick access toolbar in 2007 version of Excel. There is F5 + Enter shortcut but it works only for one cell back. Back from quick access toolbar in newest version works with unlimted previous cells. Is there a way to do it in 2007 version? Thanks for aby advise.
This add-in for Excel works. Maybe not perfect, because you need to check cell to return to it, but it works. Many thanks for Your help.
@Jacekmi I'm not sure what you mean by "because you need to check cell to return to it"?
You need to select a cell by click on it wether you click hyperlink in the cell. Otherwise there will be going back to other previous select cell.
You mean that clicking on a hyperlink is not recorded by the tool?
Yes. Its going to last select cell, not last clicked hyperlink.
Ah, yes. This is due to how the tool works, if you click a hyperlink, the underlying cell never gets selected and hence the tool does not know that is where you came from. If you first click and hold the mouse button so it selects the hyperlink cell and then click the hyperlink, it does work. Annoying. | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel/replacment-for-back-function-from-quick-access-toolbar-in-2007/td-p/2901818 | 269 |
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<reponame>nicolgit/visualstudio-lametric
import { Router, ActivatedRoute, Params } from '@angular/router';
import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { Headers, RequestOptions, Http } from '@angular/http';
import { TestApiOutput } from "../Model/myModel"
@Component({
selector: 'home',
templateUrl: './home.component.html'
})
export class HomeComponent implements OnInit {
errorString = "";
testOutput = "";
userName = "-";
accessToken = "";
isAuthenticated = false;
testUrl = "";
loginRedirectUri = "";
constructor(private activatedRoute: ActivatedRoute, private http: Http) { }
ngOnInit(): void {
this.activatedRoute.queryParams.subscribe((params: Params) => {
if (params['Error'] != null)
{
this.errorString = params['Error'] + ": " + params["ErrorDescription"];
console.log(this.errorString);
}
this.http.get("/Home/LoginRedirectUri").subscribe(data => this.loginRedirectUri = data.text("iso-8859"));
this.userName = this.getCookie("lametric-name") == "" ? "World" : decodeURIComponent(this.getCookie("lametric-name"));
this.accessToken = this.getCookie("lametric-auth-accesstoken");
this.isAuthenticated = this.accessToken != "";
this.testUrl = this.getCookie("lametric-vso-url") == "" ? "" : decodeURIComponent(this.getCookie("lametric-vso-url"));
});
}
public signin() {
let auth = 'https://app.vssps.visualstudio.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=CE2BF6DB-465F-45D9-9062-2CAFFFCF12B7&response_type=Assertion&state=/&scope=vso.code&redirect_uri=' + this.loginRedirectUri ;
window.location.href = auth;
}
public test() {
let body = {
url: this.testUrl, auth_token: this.getCookie("lametric-auth-accesstoken")
};
this.errorString = "";
let headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });
this.http.post("/Home/Test", body).subscribe(data => {
this.errorString = data.text("iso-8859");
});
}
public save() {
let body = {
url: this.testUrl, auth_token: this.getCookie("lametric-auth-accesstoken")
};
this.errorString = "";
let headers = new Headers({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' });
this.http.post("/Home/UpdateURL", body).subscribe(data => {
this.errorString = data.text("iso-8859");
});
}
public signout() {
this.setCookie("lametric-auth-accesstoken", '', -1);
this.setCookie("lametric-name", '', -1);
this.userName = "World";
this.isAuthenticated = false;
this.accessToken = "";
}
private getCookie(name: string) {
let ca: Array<string> = document.cookie.split(';');
let caLen: number = ca.length;
let cookieName = `${name}=`;
let c: string;
for (let i: number = 0; i < caLen; i += 1) {
c = ca[i].replace(/^\s+/g, '');
if (c.indexOf(cookieName) == 0) {
return c.substring(cookieName.length, c.length);
}
}
return '';
}
private setCookie(name: string, value: string, expireDays: number, path: string = '') {
let d: Date = new Date();
d.setTime(d.getTime() + expireDays * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
let expires: string = `expires=${d.toUTCString()}`;
let cpath: string = path ? `; path=${path}` : '';
document.cookie = `${name}=${value}; ${expires}${cpath}`;
}
}
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At Palm Springs Limousine Services, we have been offering exemplary and luxurious transportation to the Coachella Valley for years. One thing we get loads of questions about, from tourists and local residents alike, are inquiries regarding the number of celebs residing in the region. Once home to three U.S. Presidents, additional presidents have vacationed here through the years. In this article, our limo services will highlight some of the most notable presidential history found in town. From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama – here is a quick overlook of the city’s famous connections to the White House.
Honored at Walk of Stars, General “Ike” Eisenhower was a passionate golfer said to have played a hundred rounds of golf per year. Bringing his passion for golf to the desert in the 50s, Coachella Valley quickly emerged as one of the president’s most favored destinations. Eisenhower later purchased a home at Eldorado Country Club in Indian Wells, becoming a local resident eligible to receive his own star on Palm Canyon Dr. Visiting the celebrities’ stars on this street has become one of our most booked Limousine excursions. Whether by limo services or not, make sure to check out these famed, embedded bronze stars.
Gerald Ford passed away at his Rancho Mirage estate.
Homeowners in Rancho Mirage since the late 70s, both Gerald- and Betty Ford are recognized at Palm Springs Walk of Fame. After living in the city for decades, the former president passed away at his house in 2006, 93 years old. Their Thunderbird estate complete with Palm-lined gardens overlooks one of Ford’s favorite golf courses. With no less than 6 bedrooms in an over 6,300 sq. ft. mansion, the ranch-style house was equipped with a private swimming pool and surrounding fountains. Attracted to the region due to its brilliant climate, world-renowned sports, and natural springs, the Fords first settled here in 1978.
A regular visitor, Reagan vacationed in town both as Governor and Commander in Chief. Often observed golfing at the Annenberg Estate in Rancho Mirage, Reagan would also pay visits to local resident Frank Sinatra. The Reagans later purchased a villa near the Movie Colony. Besides frequently seen golfing, Reagan was regularly visiting Sunnylands. Limos to Reagan’s favorite hangout spots are common and in high demand. Limousines are weekly scheduled for celebrity tours in adjacent communities. Book your limousine today and let the adventure begin!
SEE ALSO: What Songs Did Elvis Record in Palm Springs?
Franklin D. Roosevelt vacationed in La Quinta in the 1930s.
Did you know that Herbert Hoover was the first president to visit the city? Or did you know that Roosevelt vacationed in La Quinta? Although no stars to prove it, a number of additional commanders-in-chief have found their way to the California deserts. As an example, Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage has been visited by Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. Rancho Mirage has been visited by other golf enthusiasts as well, including Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Furthermore, Donald Trump, Bush Sr., Jimmy Carter, and Lyndon B. Johnson all have made visits to the valley. Additionally, the Obamas first post-presidency vacation in January of 2017 took place in town as well.
Looking for a presidential form of transfer? Want to luxe up your trip to Coachella or just a local trip to Desert Hot Springs? Let our Palm Springs limos prove why we are the top-rated provider of limousines in Riverside County.
NextNext post:7 Most Visited Limo Destinations in Coachella Valley! | https://blackhawklimo.com/palm-springs-the-presidents-playground/ | 769 |
You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product? Review title: frustrating, NOT ergonomic, NOT comfortable. Product review: Earlier this year I wrote that the mouse's function gradually got better over the course of several months. I gave it 4 stars at the time.The mouse wheel decided today that it will stop cooperating with MS Word again. The zoom function (ctrl-mouse wheel) is not working.The click buttons are finicky too. Occasionally, when I want to select an area, I have to really press down hard on it or otherwise it selects what it wants. This probably happens a few times a day.In my view, this mouse is NOT ergonomic. The dorsal side of my right hand had started hurting so much that I switched to my left hand a few weeks ago. Now my left hand has started to hurt in a corresponding location. I've never had a problem like this with mice before.In other words, I've had so many problems with this mouse that I'm shopping for a new one right now. This mouse is ideal for giving as a gift to people you don't like.Okay, I'm off to do more consumption.
Answer:
decrease | b6b50fe6b8aad9f09761351f53efa7a5 | 263 |
Excellence in Ministry grant recipients and their spouses are required to attend the annual Personal Finance Academy. The focus of this three-day event is to educate and inspire clergy households to be wise financial leaders.
Event begins at 2:00 PM on Thursday, Aug. 8 and concludes at 1:00 PM on Saturday, August 10. Hotel and meals will be provided for all participants. Travel reimbursement will be provided for Excellence in Ministry grant recipients and spouses. All EIM grant recipients and spouses are required to attend the full event.
Eligible seminarians and 2019 EIM grant recipients can register online after May 15 (deadline to register is June 15). | https://pensionfund.org/events/personal-finance-academy | 133 |
But taxation is theft. /s
People like that think about how if they didn’t pay taxes, what they would do with that money. They generally think that the money would have a better benefit to them if it stayed with them, and they’re probably not wrong.
But road quality/bridges/sewage/infrastructure projects, public school quality, public libraries, and other things paid for by taxes are super worth it to me and I’m happy to pay for it. But some people don’t agree and that’s, like, their opinion mang. | e003c8a01b5940b7b97e114638ea66a7 | 128 |
There a several good and inexpensive recumbent exercise bikes to choose from right now, including the brand new Weslo Pursuit CT 2.0 R Exercise Bike. But how does this new release stack up the completion? Please continue reading for our take on this new recumbent model from Weslo.
Recumbent-style exercise bikes offer a certain degree of comfort that make them attractive for many users, and the good news is that there are many good options on the market, particularly if you are looking for a more basic model without too many electronic frills.
Among the most recent newcomers to this packed niche is the Weslo Pursuit CT 2.0 R Exercise Bike.
The Pursuit CT 2.0 R brings all of the key features prevailing in its price range, including a simple yet functional LCD display that presents speed/time/distance/pulse/calories burned; an easy step-through frame design; pulse/heart rate monitoring; and adjustable resistance.
However, the Pursuit CT 2.0 R also comes with a couple of surprises. For instance, this model comes with (4) workout apps that are designed by a personal trainer, and which and are tied to the bike’s resistance mechanism so that the bike’s resistance automatically adjusts based on the workout selected. Likewise, the duration of these workouts is also pre-set, to further give you the feel of being personally coached. Also interesting is this unit’s thumb-sensor heart rate monitoring.
In addition to coming with good basic features, the consensus among users is that the Pursuit CT 2.0 R provides great value for its relatively modest price (which is currently hovering around $200). Some report slight difficulties assembling it, while others comment that it’s fairly straightforward to put together, with some users reporting being able to do so within a couple hours. The only real complaint about this model that we could find is that the seat adjustment can be somewhat cumbersome.
Please note that the Pursuit CT 2.0 R is rated for individuals weighing up to 250 pounds. If you need a similar recumbent bike with a slightly higher weight capacity (up to 300 lbs) and you don’t mind sacrificing the workout apps, we suggest the Exerpeutic 900XL.
Overall, in our view, we agree with the consensus of users that the Weslo Pursuit CT 2.0 R Exercise Bike provides very good value in the $200-range recumbent bike market, as it provides all of the basic features prevailing in this class, plus some we don’t always see, like the workout apps and automatic resistance adjustment. Accordingly, for a solid, basic recumbent bike that has a few extra whistles, the Pursuit CT 2.0 R is a smart buy. | https://www.houseandgardentech.com/weslo-pursuit-ct-2-0-r-exercise-bike-review/ | 577 |
<filename>src/application/link/hefang/cms/application/content/controllers/CategoryController.class.php
<?php
namespace link\hefang\cms\application\content\controllers;
use Exception;
use link\hefang\cms\application\content\models\CategoryModel;
use link\hefang\cms\application\user\models\AccountModel;
use link\hefang\cms\core\controllers\BaseCmsController;
use link\hefang\helpers\StringHelper;
use link\hefang\mvc\exceptions\SqlException;
use link\hefang\mvc\views\BaseView;
class CategoryController extends BaseCmsController
{
public function set(string $id = null): BaseView
{
$user = $this->_getLogin();
if (!($user instanceof AccountModel)) return $this->_restApiUnauthorized();
$id = $this->_post("id");
$name = $this->_post("name");
$keywords = $this->_post("keywords");
$description = $this->_post("description");
$type = $this->_post("type", "article");
if (StringHelper::isNullOrBlank($id)) {
return $this->_restApiBadRequest("分类标识不能为空");
}
if (StringHelper::isNullOrBlank($name)) {
return $this->_restApiBadRequest("分类名不能为空");
}
if (!in_array($type, ["article", "page"])) {
return $this->_restApiBadRequest("类型参数异常");
}
$model = new CategoryModel();
$model->setId($id)
->setName($name)
->setKeywords($keywords)
->setType($type)
->setDescription($description);
try {
return $model->insert() ? $this->_restApiCreated() : $this->_restNotModified();
} catch (SqlException $e) {
if (StringHelper::contains($e->getMessage(), false, "23000", "1062")) {
return $this->_restApiBadRequest("分类标识“{$id}”已存在");
}
return $this->_restApiServerError($e);
} catch (Exception $e) {
return $this->_restApiServerError($e);
}
}
public function list(string $cmd = null): BaseView
{
$type = $this->_request("type");
$where = "enable = TRUE";
if (!StringHelper::isNullOrBlank($type)) {
$where .= " AND `type` = '{$type}'";
}
try {
return $this->_restApiOk(CategoryModel::pager(
$this->_pageIndex(),
$this->_pageSize(),
$where
));
} catch (SqlException $e) {
return $this->_restApiServerError($e);
}
}
}
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BARCELONA -- Silent Circle's privacy-minded Blackphone is back with a second edition built to deliver top-notch security while offering the looks and performance of a flagship smartphone. Revealed at Mobile World Congress 2015 today (March 2), the Blackphone 2 will help herald the launch of an improved PrivatOS that provides greater security features to both Blackphone handsets and the upcoming Blackphone+ tablet.
Sporting a 5.5-inch full HD display and a glossy, Gorilla Glass 3-based construction, the Blackphone 2 is a decidedly larger and sleeker phone than its all-plastic predecessor. The black-and-silver smartphone felt sturdy, yet lightweight enough to be held comfortably.
MORE: Blackphone Review
The Android-based PrivatOS software that powers both Blackphone and Blackphone 2 will soon receive a feature called Spaces for separating the user's work and personal lives. Spaces keeps enterprise and personal data in completely separate profiles that can be easily switched between from the lock screen. All apps and data saved on the enterprise side can be locked or wiped by an IT administrator if needed.
The Blackphone ecosystem will also soon gain Silent Meeting, a secure conference-call platform developed by Silent Circle that eschews access codes in favor of a visual interface that lets the host easily view and manage who's on the call.
Blackphone 2 is built to integrate easily with office-software platforms such as Citrix, and is notably more powerful than the original Blackphone model. The handset runs on an octa-core Qualcomm processor (Silent Circle didn't specify the model) with 3GB of RAM and packs 32GB of storage, a 13-MP rear camera and a 5-MP sensor in the front.
Released last year, the original Blackphone ($630 unlocked) provides security features such as encrypted calls, texts and contacts. We had mostly positive things to say in our review of the older model, in which we praised the phone's robust and easy-to-use privacy features. We did, however, find the phone's processing performance to be sub-par compared to that of the average mainstream smartphone.
The Blackphone 2 has the potential to bridge that performance gap, while improving on both the secure-communication features and user-friendly interface that impressed us on the original. Details are currently scarce on the phone's tablet counterpart, the Blackphone+, but Silent Circle seems committed to building an ecosystem in which all of its products provide the same security benefits.
We'll have a fuller assessment of the Blackphone 2's capabilities when the phone hits later this year for a currently unannounced price.
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- Samsung Galaxy S6 vs. S5: What's New
Mike Andronico is an associate editor at Tom's Guide. Follow Mike @MikeAndronico and on Google+. Follow us @TomsGuide, on Facebook and on Google+ | 56aa8de073617b809481742b1951ae70 | 612 |
Given the question: Here is a review left by a customer on a product. Would you say he was satisfied or dissatisfied? Title: Great Coffee Review: We have tried a number of the K-cups and everyone in the office prefers the Cappucino. We will continue to order.
The answer is:
satisfied | 9f960844c2fbff30b1caddab5cded1c3 | 69 |
A Boheme rouge rollerball pen by montblanc.
The Boheme range is now discontinued by montblanc so becoming harder to find in new condition.
The pen is made from black precious resin with 22K gold plated trim and features the famous montblanc emblem at the top of the pens cap , below this on the clip ring it reads Germany and has the unique serial number.
A red ruby synthetic gemstone at the end of the clip.
The pen comes with all its original packaging this includes outer card box ,presentation case, service guide booklet and completed out of date warranty card. | https://www.dylanstephenpens.co.uk/product/montblanc-boheme-rouge-rollerball-pen/ | 128 |
Distance from Ecuador to Guadeloupe
Distance from Ecuador to Guadeloupe is 2,711 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 1,685 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Ecuador and Guadeloupe is 2,711 km= 1,685 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Ecuador to Guadeloupe, It takes 3.01 hours to arrive. | 809fdc17f0617ee06790b1060a4f657d | 98 |
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Most U.S. stocks advanced while the USD weakened as investor focus returned to the American economy and tax legislation. Republican lawmakers are rushing to secure votes to push a tax plan through the Senate as early as this Thursday. Should the plan get passed, members of both chambers of Congress would then have forge a compromise between their diverging bills. If everything goes smoothly, tax reform should be ready for President Donald Trump's signature by the end of the year. Goldman Sachs Group, meanwhile, warns the proposed changes could see New York losing some of its highest-income residents. Political stalemate in Berlin is showing signs of easing as the main opposition Social Democrats began haggling over the terms of a renewed coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, rather than seeking to block an alliance between Germany's two largest parties. In a speech to the party faithful on Saturday, Merkel emphasized how well her Christian Democrat Union and the SPD had worked together in the previous administration. Elsewhere in European politics, the Brexit train rattles on, with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May grappling with the Irish border question ahead of next week's talks. Currently, the TSX is down 0.20% and the DOW is up 0.34%. EURCAD is up 0.30% trading between 1.5120 and 1.5198. GBPCAD is up 0.14% trading between 1.6914 and 1.7002. JPYCAD is up 0.51% trading between 0.01138 and 0.01145. Gold is up 0.50% trading between $1,286 and $1,299USD/oz., silver is up 0.33% trading between $17.01 and $17.19USD/oz., while oil down 1.38% trading between $57.69 and $58.81. | https://www.vbce.ca/blog/587-daily-foreign-exchange-rates-for-our-top-10-currencies-update-forex-vancouver-november-27-2017 | 374 |
Effective interaction among participants is crucial to the success of a presentation. The workspace of a presentation, which is the presentation slides, is a natural and effective medium of interactions among presentation participants. However, due to the insufficient support from existing collaborative presentation systems, workspace-mediated interaction is inconvenient in presentations, especially in collaborative presentations. In this paper, we explore typical workspace-mediated interaction forms and analyze their characteristics. Based on this analysis, we present a series of approaches to supporting workspace-mediated interaction in the context of the CoPowerPoint system. | https://eudl.eu/doi/10.1109/colcom.2005.1651233 | 108 |
The typical shopping or maybe pet shop aisle offers a wide selection of companies plus kinds of dog food on your pet. It is possible to distinction between these kinds of several choices? Do the offers natural rewards change lives? Much like food pertaining to human beings, dog foods deviate significantly while in the dietary rewards, taste, in addition to value.
As soon as fixing your dog, the primary place to begin will be looking at the natural subject material with food. Check ingredient labeling, nutritious information, and also additional information within the product’s product packaging to understand the initial qualities of each one variety. Ahead of visiting the shop, examine ones pet’s health and the decision vet in relation to any sort of healthy requires they might have. A variety of health concerns, through looseness of the bowels to help substantial getting rid of is often alleviated along with an effective diet. Do you know pregnant or perhaps nursing dogs need much more healthy proteins? By way of learning more about your current dog and individual wants, you can use the first steps to discovering the right dog food.
In relation to locating the optimal mouth watering dog food in your animal, it is really a waste they won’t only communicate upward plus inform you what you prefer. For those who taking note of your pet’s eating routine, even so, you can discover preferences towards selected models, varieties, and flavors. Normally, turning the flavor of your pet’s food frequently (for case in point a single week hen, a few days ground beef, seven days lamb) can help make a stable diet program and also keying anyone with to which flavor your dog prefers. It documented, even so, which much like the food most of us take in, the ideal flavorful food would possibly not constantly become the best choice. A great number of products can be full of all kinds of sugar and also man made flavors and lead to damaging (although tasty) over-eating problems. Always be particularly watchful about semi-moist foods , which in turn most often can come available as beef as well as cash processed sweets, since they are primarily brimming with unhealthy ingredients.
Your veterinary might propose managing a number of blood stream function to discover more about all the amounts in your dog. When your dog food toppers high cholesterol or maybe other issues, you’d like to learn pertaining to these matters since it can influence anything you feed your current dog about an every day basis. Really don’t believe that what happens a person’s dog needs because each dog is definitely different.
In case your vet’s will be not familiar with Winner dog food , people can display the pup the website in which listings all of the different formulas. This specific will permit your own vet to determine what exactly emerges, study the constituents, as well as explain exactly what he or she suggests.
When you understand about points to feed your own dog , you can begin browsing the many options.
This can include going through the various flavors which have been available. You ought to get a tiny tote of a flavor ahead of a greater bag. This specific will assist you to make your dog used to it. When your dog is usually probably going to take something that you spend front side of them, there are several most dogs that happen to be a little discerning as to what that they eat.
Recognizing simply how much you need to nourish your dog is important any time selecting the best Winner dog food to buy, when it comes to size. You ought not risk buy substantial luggage if your dog simply eats half a single cup daily – if you have got four or five canines from the house. Stocking dog food is usually inopportune as there are no reason to take action if the dog food can be purchased in many sizes.
Right after picking out the solution, the flavour, and also how big is the particular dog food , all you want conduct is definitely look for a supplier. Some sort of service provider may be right later on in life from you. When you are straight into a store, you can even talk to a person that is knowledgeable around the product. Enable the individual learn which kind of reproduce you might have plus the bodyweight to hear what they have to recommend.
Finally, it is a smart idea to become suspicious about a number of the claims and also trademarks which dog food suppliers placed on the packaging. Terms like “all natural” as well as “table score” are generally altogether summary , nor correlate with the actual elements or maybe healthy attributes of your respective animal’s food. “People rank” is definitely the only title endorsed because of the FDA, consequently watch out correctly when you are interested in top-of-the-line high quality dog food in your pet.
Acquiring well-informed pertaining to each your furry friend plus the several dog food possibilities available can certainly help you produce the appropriate final decision any time standing up in the furry friend aisle. Make check-ups for your vet a frequent apply and you are therefore sure to build your puppie’s dish time frame a good and yummy treat. | https://www.atelierdenisguidone.com/greatest-superior-dog-foods-what-exactly-carry-out-a-person-really-need-to-find-out/ | 1,055 |
I have ordered from Lemon Ladies for 2 years now and I highly recommend this orchard. Great lemons and great service!!
These are lovely lemons and the service from Lemon Ladies Orchard couldn't be better. Thank you so much for the prompt delivery of these amazing fruits, you've made me one happy woman.
Thank you so much Teresa! I love growing lemons for you!
The Lemon Ladies couldn't have been more delightful, my lemons arrived in great condition and the fragrance when I opened the box was amazing. The quality and service are outstanding and I will definitely order again.
Thank you So Much, Theresa!
We moved from sunny California to South Dakota 8 years ago, leaving our Meyer lemon tree behind. We've missed eating them very much and this year we decided to try Lemon Ladies. They are just so wonderful we had to order a second batch. We highly recommend this orchard. The product and service are excellent.
Six beautiful Meyer lemons arrived on our doorstep and we moved them to Iowa in a cooler and will move them back to MA if any are left. We are definately savoring them! We are using them to garnish drinks at the moment. The ladies from the grove could not have been more charming, too! Will order next season without fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I received my lemons very quickly and was not surprised by the few days delay because Karen sent me an e-mail to remind me that the Lemon Ladies ship on Mondays only. I use the lemons i purchase to make Limoncello and Limoncello Creme which have both turned out wonderful due to the quality lemons from the Lemon Ladies Orchard. This is my second purchase and i will purchase again.
Your lemons taste fantastic. I couldn't resist eating one of them right after i received my shipment. I also just baked the most fantastic lemon meringue pie using the meyer's. I have to say it is simply delicious. My family agrees. I received my order of meyer lemons very promptly. I do feel the need to comment on the packaging. First of all, the box was damaged in shipment. (The postal service did see to it to tape it and it did arrive somewhat intact.) several of the lemons were very soft and seemed to have needed a little more space and protection in the box. Overall, the box seemed too small for the shipment. I would recommend a sturdier and roomier box for shipping. Overall, I have a very favorable opinion of your lemons and will order them again.
Thanks for letting me know about the box Linda. I have starting marking the boxes Fragile and Perishable. I hope that will help! And very happy to hear you enjoyed your lemons. The pie sounds great! | https://www.localharvest.org/reviews.jsp?mid=19229 | 571 |
My recommendation is to have a loose script worked out before-hand (with appropriate branches and sequels) when you know that significant NPCs are going to be at the same place as the PCs.
In more of a process flow form ...
1) Start with motivations and goals ... what are the goals of the NPCs involved, and what do they hope to attain in their perfect world from the interaction?
2) What are the extenuating and mitigating circumstances ... what do the various NPCs know that gives them advantages over the other NPCs, e.g., Fred has poisoned Joe and Fred has the antidote? What aspects of the environment might influence events, e.g., the meeting takes place at Joe's castle, and the NPCs are surrounded by 500 heavily armed, rabid followers of Joe?
3) Script out the interaction between the various NPCs as if the PCs were not going to be present.
4) Think about the goals/motivations/playing style of of the PCs and lay out some likely out actions on the part of the PCs.
5) Determine the likely, reasonable responses of the NPCs.
6) Add some spice by having 2-3 items that the NPCs can say or do that might surprise the PCs and give the initiative back to the NPCs.
You measure success in such a case by how believeable it is that the meeting would have taken place without the PCs present.
Question for you: if two NPCs meet and the PCs never know about it, did the meeting actually take place? | https://zhalindor.com/multinpcs.htm | 310 |
With China and India forging a closer partnership, tour operators are excited about the fast development of the China-India tourism market.
According to statistics of the Indian government, 250,000 Chinese visited India in 2017 while about 800,000 Indians visited China, said STIC Travel Group Chairman Subhash Goyal, adding "we as a company have explored and are trying to create a lot of awareness of the tourism potential of China."<!-SSE NEWSADSTART SSE-> <!-SSE NEWSADEND SSE->
Established in 1973 in New Delhi, the STIC has become one of the largest travel groups in India, representing about 20 of the world's best travel, aviation, tourism, cruise and hotel brands exclusively in the country.
India officially started providing E-Travel Visas to Chinese nationals in 2015, aiming to attract Chinese visitors by offering convenience for those who are willing to travel, visit or conduct business in India. As of February 2018, Chinese use of the e-visa ranks sixth in India, according to Goyal.
"This is a very small percentage of the total number of Chinese visiting India," Goyal said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
He said he expected "e-visa utilization from China would be in the top 2-3 positions" but only if some problems could be resolved, including the e-visa payment that works only during standard Indian office hours.
The STIC started cooperating with Air China, China's state-owned flag carrier, as early as 2002 when the two companies signed the All India Passenger Sales Agreement. Meanwhile, the company has been handling other Star Alliance members, such as United Airlines of the United States, Ethiopian Airlines and Ukraine International Airlines.
"The advantage with Air China is that China and India are two of the world's most populated countries and also China is one of the fastest developing countries in the world," Goyal said.
Benefiting from business expansion of Air China in India, the STIC's profit has increased in recent years.
"With the launch of its Mumbai operations (in 2015), Air China was the No.4 airline, operating on the ex-Mumbai to China route. Today, Air China has grown to No.2 in the same category, which is a testimony of its growth and progress in India," Goyal said.
Talking about cooperation in the future, Goyal said he saw tremendous opportunities between India and China "for the simple reason that China has become the factory of the world and India is the back office."
Researches suggest that in the next five years, the annual growth rate of the aviation markets in China and India is expected to reach 8.8 percent.
"I hope that one day there will be an open sky between our two countries and Air China will be flying to major India cities like Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Cochin with daily and double daily operations," Goyal said.
"I also feel that Indian carriers like Air India, Jet Airways, Indigo, Spicejet and Vistara Airlines etc. should fly all major cities in China like Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou," he added. | 1f66760fc67ecced7499ebb46aec69f7 | 652 |
from django.contrib.auth.backends import ModelBackend as OriginModelBackend
from django.contrib.auth.models import Permission
from chamber.multidomains.domain import get_user_class
class GetUserMixin:
def get_user(self, user_id):
UserModel = get_user_class()
try:
return UserModel._default_manager.get(pk=user_id)
except UserModel.DoesNotExist:
return None
class ModelBackend(GetUserMixin, OriginModelBackend):
"""
Authenticates against settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL.
"""
def authenticate(self, request, username=None, password=<PASSWORD>, **kwargs):
UserModel = get_user_class()
if username is None:
username = kwargs.get(UserModel.USERNAME_FIELD)
try:
user = UserModel._default_manager.get_by_natural_key(username) # pylint: disable=W0212
if user.check_password(password):
return user
except UserModel.DoesNotExist:
# Run the default password hasher once to reduce the timing
# difference between an existing and a non-existing user (#20760).
UserModel().set_password(password)
def get_group_permissions(self, user_obj, obj=None):
"""
Returns a set of permission strings that this user has through his/her
groups.
"""
if user_obj.is_anonymous() or obj is not None:
return set()
if not hasattr(user_obj, '_group_perm_cache'):
if user_obj.is_superuser:
perms = Permission.objects.all()
else:
user_groups_field = get_user_class()._meta.get_field('groups') # pylint: disable=W0212
user_groups_query = 'group__%s' % user_groups_field.related_query_name()
perms = Permission.objects.filter(**{user_groups_query: user_obj})
perms = perms.values_list('content_type__app_label', 'codename').order_by()
user_obj._group_perm_cache = set(["%s.%s" % (ct, name) for ct, name in perms]) # pylint: disable=W0212
return user_obj._group_perm_cache # pylint: disable=W0212
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Davinder Singh Kang qualified for javelin throw final with a mark of 84.22m in the qualification B round in the World Championships on Friday.
Davinder came seventh in the overall list and fifth in qualification B round.
A total of 13 athletes will compete in the final round which will be held on the penultimate day of the championship.
Earlier, carrying the hopes of the entire country on his young shoulders, Neeraj Chopra came short of a top-class performance as he finished seventh in Group A qualification round and 15th in overall performance which put him out of a final round appearance.
Neeraj could not hurl the iron spear to the the automatic final round qualification mark of 83m in his three attempts with his best effort of 82.26m coming in his opening throw.
The 19-year-old world junior record holder then fouled his second attempt before clearing only 80.54m in his third and final throw at the Olympic Stadium here.
Five throwers, including world season leader Johannes Vetter (91.20m today) of Germany, came up with automatic qualification throws while Hamish Peacock of Australia was ahead of Neeraj at sixth spot in Group A with a best throw of 82.46m.
All the throwers who clear 83m or at least 12 best performers will make it to the final round to be held on August 12.
“I tried my best but I could not clear the automatic qualification mark of 83m and I am disappointed. I gave a lot of effort in the first throw but it missed the 83m mark by a few centimetres. There were some problems in the second throw and the third one also did not go the distance (of 83m). I have been training hard for this World Championships but I could not do well in the actual competition,” Chopra said after his event.
“It would have been ideal if a coach had come with me but that is not in my hands. I don’t know what had happened today, I cannot say now whether it was technical issue or other factors,” he added.
| https://sportstar.thehindu.com/athletics/neerajs-fate-for-final-round-qualification-hangs-in-balance/article19468164.ece | 444 |
Yuber Suikodens ver of Marvels Loki?
Yuber really loves chaos kind of the same thing, he ends up in mostly every war he can get to.
As Yuber havent been given that much information and mostly can be speculated....with his powerlevel he could very well be some kind of "god" demi-god or whatever you might call them. as they have done the hole Tierkreis game is based on several diffrent diamentions where there are hole kinds of batshit crazy stuff.....and dragons come from an other dimension, and the hole Pale Gate Rune summons monster from other Dimensions....and Yubers rune is that true rune right? if I remember correct.
not saying Yuber has to be a god or anything but something.
Re: Yuber Suikodens ver of Marvels Loki?
What version of Loki are you comparing this to? The movie or comics? In the movie he used a big, big portal thing to summon the army. It wasn't his army.
Whatever Yuber is, he isn't human. We know that much.
Also, why Marvel's Loki? Why not Loki from Norse mythology? Considering Suikoden already borrows from Norse mythology, it'll make more sense.
Test your Suikoden music knowledge!
More thinking Ultimate marvel comic series(as I read all of that one), but he seems quite the same in most of them what I know.
Fair enough, but Suikoden borrows from Norse mythology, and of course Thor from Marvel does so too. I would say, if you want to compare them, it is best to compare it to the original.
As for the comparison, I don't agree with it though.
Loki likes mischief, he stirs things up. Yuber like chaos. He's there to fight war and searches for war. Loki is also far more powerful than Yuber. Loki can shapeshift, Loki engineered the death of Baldr, when Loki was bound by the gods and had a snake placed above his head which was dropping venom, his pain caused earthquakes. Odin's horse, Sleipnir, Loki gave birth to when he was a mare. Yes, Loki is the mother of Sleipnir.
Thats why I meant inspired by loki, his master was Windy and she was doing all the sceaming. now when shes gone his leaving the sceems to the silverbergs/any other random tactican.
and he does the fixing the chaos part. and its not that a big a diffrent of doing misfchief.
and thats why I said marvels Loki as he keeps geting out of his pinches and start doing misfchef/other plans.
being an exact copy is just lame.
I can understand your reasoning, but I still disagree. Yuber seems to join wars, merely because. In SIII his role is bigger, but in SI and SII, he's just there. He doesn't cause wars. He doesn't stir things up. He joins a war and leaves when things get hairy, whereas Loki manipulates, plans, is cunning. Just because both like chaos, doesn't mean they're similar.
So no, I don't think they're similar, or that Yuber is inspired by Loki.
Yuber isn't much of a strategist, he's just muscle. Loki is the opposite. He's canniving, a great sorcerer, but otherwise relatively weak when compared to other great Asgardians such as Baldur, Brunnehylde, and Bor. | ee8ae2ce1a5192b665fe10dbad5a0969 | 746 |
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is well suited to noninvasive imaging of the heart, and its role in heart valve disease is being evaluated. Semiquantitative grading by visualizing the AR jet has been compared to echocardiographic techniques, but quantitative measurements are now being explored. In contrast to previous studies with non-breath-hold velocity-encoded phase-difference sequences, we used a breath-hold phase-difference technique. In previous studies, this yielded accurate flow measurements in large vessels, coronary arteries, and bypass grafts.2 This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of this MRI technique in quantifying RV in patients with chronic AR and to correlate the data with echocardiographic and angiographic results.
Qualitative and quantitative assessments of AR were carried out by left and right heart catheterization 1–10 days before MRI. Angiograms were calibrated by exposing a standard grid on the radiographic film. Volumes were calculated by the method of Dodge and colleagues.3 For quantitative determination, the total stroke volume was assessed by cineangiography in 2 planes (right anterior oblique 30°, left anterior oblique 60°). The forward stroke volume was determined by thermodilution, and the difference between volumes yielded the RF. Regurgitant fraction was calculated as: (TSVangio – FSVFick)/TSVangio, where TSVangio is the total angiographic stroke volume, and FSVFick is the forward stroke volume (Ficks principle). Qualitative assessment of the severity of AR was also performed by visual estimation of the concentration of contrast medium in the left ventricle, using the method of Seller and colleagues.4 AR I° is confinement of the jet to the LV outflow tract and disappearance at each systole. With AR II°, the contrast jet remains for more than one systolic contraction. III° is associated with continuous filling of the cavum between 2 or 3 heart cycles. IV° is opacification of the entire left ventricle at the first heart beat.
All patients underwent transthoracic Doppler echocardiography. Color-flow techniques included measurement of the maximal anteroposterior diameter (height) of the regurgitant jet at the junction of the LV outflow tract and the aortic annulus in parasternal long-axis view, and the maximum height of the LV outflow tract at the same location. Continuous Doppler-wave imaging of AR permits quantification of both the slope and pressure half-time. Regurgitant volume was calculated as: aortic flow mitral flow. Regurgitant fraction was calculated as RV/aortic flow. Based on these methods, the severity of AR was graded as I for mild, II for moderate, III for moderate to severe, and IV for severe.
Magnetic resonance imaging was carried out with a 1.5-T Magnetom Vision device (Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany), with a 25-mT·m–1 gradient and 600-µsec rise time. All patients were investigated by electrocardiogram-gated MRI in the supine position with a phased-array body coil. Initially, a turbo fast low-angle shot sequence (repetition time/echo time 1100/2.3 ms, field of view 400 mm, flip angle 10°, 128 x 256 matrix, slice thickness 8 mm) was obtained in various planes (4 transverse, 1 coronal, 1 sagittal) during a breath-hold at deep inspiration. These images were used as localizers. A 2-dimensional T2-weighted breath-hold (end-inspiration) turbo spin-echo sequence, half-Fourier acquisition single-shot turbo spin-echo sequence (HASTE; effective echo time 44 ms, repetition time 800 ms, slice thickness 5 mm, field of view 230–350 mm, multislice technique with 7 slices, 176 x 256 matrix size) was planned on the coronal localizer for axial views. The sequence was triggered to every R wave, the trigger delay was 0 ms. All patients were imaged in axial, coronal, and sagittal planes. A breath-hold gradient-echo cine study in angulated coronal projection planned on a transversal HASTE image (LV outflow tract) was performed to visualize the direction and area of the regurgitant jet. In each patient, the same gradient-echo (cine) sequence was also performed in the short axis (planned on a transversal HASTE image perpendicular to the ventricular septum) to assess LV volume and EF (Figure 1
). For flow measurements, a breath-hold velocity-encoded phase-difference MR sequence was used ("through plane", segmented fast low-angle shot 2-dimensional sequence, repetition time/echo time 110/5 ms, velocity encoding 250 cm·sec–1). The duration of the breath-hold period was 15–25 sec. Flow measurements were performed in the ascending aorta by positioning the slice in the vicinity of the aortic valve. A repetition time of 110 ms allowed acquisition of 6–8 pairs of magnitude and corresponding phase images on the flow curve during the cardiac cycle. The total MRI examination time was approximately 30 min for all sequences.
Echocardiography and angiography were performed by an experienced cardiologist not involved in the study, with no knowledge of the MRI results. Descriptive results were expressed as mean ± standard deviation for continuous variables, and as percentages for categorical variables. To correlate the different methods, the Spearman coefficient was used. The Pearson coefficient was used for samples with a normal distribution. To evaluate the influence of LV function, the chi-squared test was used. All calculations were performed with SAS/Stat statistical software version 8.2 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA).
The main criterion of an optimal diagnostic method is the capacity for serial evaluation of the severity of AR in addition to parameters of LV function. Magnetic resonance imaging is a noninvasive technique suitable for evaluating cardiac function and valve morphology.7–9 Initially, AR was assessed by the signal void on cine MR images or by measuring the difference between left and right ventricular stroke volumes.5,10,11 With the introduction of velocity-encoded phase-difference MRI, an accurate and direct measurement of blood flow velocity became possible. The principle depends on the accrued phase shift of spins moving along a magnetic field gradient.12 Chatzimavroudis and colleagues13 showed that with increasing slice distance from the aortic valve, a decrease in measured RV occurs due to an aortic compliance effect. The advantage of the breath-hold sequence is a fast examination time of approximately 30 sec. In contrast, the non-breath-hold techniques require 3–4 min, depending on heart rate. The benefit is 13–18 phases are acquired during the cardiac cycle, compared to 6–8 with the breath-hold sequence. The main disadvantages of the time-consuming non-breath-hold sequences are moving and breathing artefacts, especially in older or severely sick patients.
We acquire 6–8 measurements during one breath-hold period, which may result in a loss of 10% of the RR-interval. We do not believe that AR will be underestimated because of this, but there is a possibility that blood flow during breath-hold MRI may differ from physiological flow during normal breathing because breath holding can change intrathoracic pressure. However, several studies and our own experience indicate that breath-hold MR flow measurements using a small lung volume by shallow inspiration can provide exact flow quantification.14 In our opinion, the advantages of the breath-hold technique predominate, and the method can provide flow quantification close to the physiological flow. It is possible to determine RV with a high degree of accuracy, and this correlates well with the degree of AR determined by angiography and echocardiography. This offers the advantage of noninvasive serial determination of RF and RV in relation to LV function parameters. For grading the severity of disease, we found RF to be the best parameter. Determination of the anatomical configuration of the aortic valve is an important aspect of preoperative diagnosis. In adults, MRI has been shown to be superior to echocardiography for characterization of valve morphology, due to the limitation of an acoustic window in some patients.15
The degree of AR can be assessed using several echocardiographic techniques. The size or extent of the regurgitant jet within the LV, effective regurgitant orifice area, RF, and RV are distinct measures of the severity of AR. The effective regurgitant orifice area may be the most hemodynamically important parameter, but it is difficult to derive in most patients. The most common approach relies on the relationship between the size of the AR jet, visualized by color-flow imaging in several planes, and RV. The length of the jet conveys unreliable information about overall severity of AR. Perry and colleagues16 found a poor correlation between jet length and maximum jet area and the angiographic severity of AR. The proximal isovelocity surface area of a regurgitant color-flow jet can be useful for estimating valve insufficiency. Proximal isovelocity surface area is based on the hemodynamic principle of flow through a small circular orifice in a flat plate. The main theoretical limitation is that the regurgitant orifice is usually neither circular nor flat, and assessment of RV shows the relevant discrepancies. The proximal isovelocity surface area was not used because of technical difficulties that limit its application for the aortic valve. Advantages of echocardiographic evaluation of the regurgitant jet are fast and easy estimation of the degree of AR, and that no special analysis software is required. Disadvantages are that it allows only semiquantitative estimation, has poor correlation with actual AR, and eccentric jets are possibly underestimated. Eccentric jets may become entrained along the LV wall, which tends to alter their appearance and hence the perception of AR severity. Changes in gain, color scale, transducer frequency, and wall filters will affect the appearance of the jet, independent of degree of AR. Magnetic resonance imaging allows determination of AR even in patients with multiple valve disease, because RV determination is independent of mitral regurgitation. Echocardiographic and angiographic evaluation of RV and RF remains difficult or impossible in patients with coexisting mitral or tricuspid regurgitation.
Another advantage of MRI is the low interobserver variability. Engels and colleagues17 found better correlation with the clinical grade of valve disease in adults, using MRI flow measurements rather than echocardiography. During the MRI scan, special attention must be paid to locating the flow plane in the same position in all patients. The distance of the slice from the aortic root has a significant impact on results. We always place our slice just above the origin of the coronary arteries to obtain the best contour delineation of the aorta. Background phase-offset errors can lead to significant inaccuracies in flow measurements, although they may not be obvious on velocity map images. Even offset errors of 1% of the velocity encoding range set could cause large errors in RV. A possible solution is the phantom correction technique, but this time-consuming process is unacceptable.14 We start the flow measurements with a high level of suspicion, and a phantom correction acquisition is only performed if discrepancies are noticed between measured and expected results. Angiography can provide valuable hemodynamic information on the degree to which AR affects the cardiac chamber, but assessment of AR may be limited when based on a single projection and requires assumptions regarding jet geometry. The severity of AR may be overestimated if during ascending aortography, the catheter descends toward the aortic valve, thereby altering its function. Moreover, angiography is not the most suitable screening method as the optimal timing of surgery is determined mostly by LV parameters and these are more difficult to assess invasively. The critical parameters (LV end-diastolic/systolic diameters, EF) can be assessed with high reproducibility using echocardiography or MRI.
Magnetic resonance imaging is ideally suited to serial evaluation of valve regurgitation and LV dysfunction, and quantification of RV and RF is now readily performed with MRI. Despite such capability, there are no standard thresholds for qualitative assessment of AR. However, MRI is costly and time consuming, and arrhythmias or atrial fibrillation can interfere with electrocardiogram-gating and impair image quality. Unlike echocardiography, MRI cannot be performed in real time and shows lower spatial and temporal resolution. In our opinion, echocardiography is still the method of first choice to identify patients with AR. Our study has shown that MRI combined with flow measurement is a very accurate, robust, applicable, and simple method to identify AR and quantify cardiac function parameters. In addition, MRI gradient-echo techniques allow a 3-dimensional impression of the extent of the regurgitant jet within the left ventricle. In young patients, a complete cardiac evaluation, including MRI and coronary angiography, can be performed in a one-stop shop. Invasive determination of the severity of AR can no longer be considered the standard procedure because the method has several limitations.
It was concluded that MRI is a completely noninvasive technique that allows exact volume determination for clinical purposes. The severity of AR can be assessed either by calculation of RF or by analysis of the regurgitant jet extension by the gradient-echo technique (Figure 1
). Comparisons between purely quantitative measurements of aortic RV by MRI and qualitative assessment of AR by angiography or echocardiography showed good correlations. This suggests that MRI has great potential in reliably measuring the severity of AR in a quantitative manner, and it may provide additional anatomical and functional information leading to a better understanding of the disease. | 448c082adf7c7913ea9e8c175e80fb13 | 2,993 |
Slightly, it will be a little diff white but still a quick fix for the paint on ceiling . Most stock ceiling paints are the same for the most part. There just slightly diff whites. I do highly recommend repainting the whole ceiling with ceiling white….but just to get rid of the gray it’d say get a quart and do a few coats just over the spots …just depends on how much work you wanna do. If you want to just patch it and make it go away do that..if you want it fixed the right way repaint the whole ceiling with 2 coats of ceiling paint. | 5109f53885944e7c85004a4c5768ee39 | 124 |
And note that each vendor should lodge their own application, as there is no provision to allow for the lodgement of joint applications. All parties on the Certificate of Title will require a clearance certificate. For example, joint tenants or tenants in common will need to fill out a form each. It is the vendor’s responsibility to provide the purchaser with the clearance certificate and ensure it's valid.
Tax Store Accountants Warwick. | https://taxstore.com.au/news/selling-taxable-australian-property-you-may-need-a-clearance-certificate-from-the-ato-tax-accountants-warwick | 86 |
Eric Ostertag, CEO of Poseida, noted, “Teneobio's UniDab binders are an ideal match for Poseida's novel and industry-leading CAR-T platform technologies. Poseida has demonstrated that UniDabs can be engineered to serve as binding molecules for our CAR-T therapeutics and oftentimes may function better than other binders for use in CAR-T products."
“We are pleased to expand our existing partnership with Poseida, whose cutting-edge genetic engineering tools combined with our targeting UniDab candidates will enable the development of the next generation of superior CAR-T therapies to treat cancer. We believe that UniDabs provide differentiated advantages from other targeting moieties, and that their utility and reach will extend beyond antibody therapeutics to novel transformational cell therapy treatments," added Omid Vafa, CBO of Teneobio.
Teneobio and Poseida Expand Their ...
MENLO PARK, Calif. and SAN DIEGO, Aug. 07, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Teneobio, Inc., a next generation multi-specific antibody therapeutics company, and Poseida Therapeutics, Inc., a San Diego-based clinical-stage company translating best-in-class gene engineering technologies into lifesaving cell therapies, announced today a new research collaboration and licensing agreement to develop novel CAR-T therapies using Teneobio’s heavy chain only domain antibodies (UniDabs™). Poseida will apply UniDab binders, which demonstrate significant advantages over traditional single chain variable antibody fragment (scFv) binders, to the development of its next generation CAR-T therapies.
“We are delighted to partner with Poseida and to help create the next generation of cell therapies," said Roland Buelow, CEO of Teneobio. “Domain antibodies have been clinically validated as excellent targeting moieties in CAR-T cells. They confer robust in vivo specificity and efficacy. They are smaller in size, have greater humanicity, and superior developability relative to standard scFv’s. The use of UniDabs as binders in CAR-T products is predicted to result in a lack of tonic signaling and lower immunogenicity, thus solving some of the problems of the first-generation, scFv-based CAR-T therapies."
SEATTLE, July 30, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nohla Therapeutics, a leading developer of universal, ...
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Ms. Wei Xiujuan, a teacher at the Teacher Training College of Beihua University, was tried by the Gaoxin Court on the morning of July 13, 2018. She is being held in the Jilin City Detention Center.
Mr. Liu Jianying was recently arrested for talking to people about Falun Gong in a park. His home was ransacked.
Ms. Zhang Mingfang, 69, was arrested by officers from the Mengzhuiwan Police Station, Chenghua District, on the afternoon of May 11, 2018. Her home was ransacked.
Ms. Zhang was officially arrested by the Chenghua District Procuratorate on June 14. She is being held in the Chengdu City Detention Center.
Ms. Zhu Fengling, 52, from Xintai City, was arrested by the head of the Xintai City Domestic Security Division Feng Dayong, and other officers on July 11, 2018.
Ms. Zhao Huanrong, 57, was arrested on the afternoon of July 12.
Ms. Dong Zhihua, 68, and her husband Mr. Shi Jinqing were arrested at their home on July 13. Mr. Shi was later released.
Ms. Zhu, Ms. Zhao, and Ms. Dong are being held in the Beishi Detention Center.
Ms. Luo Xiuqin from the Huaiyin District was arrested at her home on the afternoon of May 25, 2018. She was held in the Jinan City No. 3 Detention Center for seven days, and has since returned home.
Ms. Zheng Shumei was arrested by officers from the Huaiyin District Domestic Security Division on September 26, 2017. She was taken to the Jinan City Detention Center.
Ms. Zheng's case was handed over to the Prosecution Section of the Huaiyin Procuratorate by the Domestic Security Division. Due to insufficient evidence, the Procuratorate returned her case twice.
When Ms. Zheng's case was turned in to the Procuratorate a third time, it was then handed over to the Huaiyin Court on July 10, 2018.
Mr. Tian Xingbao is being held in the Shenzhou City Detention Center. His case was turned over to the Procuratorate for review.
Ms. Jia Lanzhen was arrested by Zhang Mengkan and other officers from the Guangzong County Domestic Security Division on the morning of July 14, 2018. The officers confiscated a computer, two cell phones, printed materials, and 2,300 yuan in cash. Ms. Jia was taken to the Guangzong Police Department.
Ms. Guo Jinyu, in her 60s, was arrested by plainclothes officers on the morning of July 9, 2018. She was taken to the Nanyang Detention Center.
Ms. Liu Shuixiu has not returned home since July 12, 2018. It is suspected that she might have been arrested.
Ms. Zhang Qingbi and Ms. Tang Chunhua were arrested by officers from the Daxigou Police Station and Yuzhong District Domestic Security Division on the afternoon of June 29, 2018. The officers ransacked their homes and confiscated Falun Dafa books and photos of the founder of Falun Gong.
Ms. Zhang was taken to the Chongqing City No. 1 Detention Center, while Ms. Tang's whereabouts are unknown.
Mr. Lu Shubin, 56, was mistreated in the Hulan Prison. He was very emaciated and his stomach, legs, and feet were swollen. He unable to take care of himself.
Mr. Lu was released on medical parole on May 17, 2018, but he passed away on early morning of May 29, 2018. | https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2018/7/29/171308.html | 784 |
Calcutta: Gordon Lewis, the ICC-appointed judicial commissioner who heard the misconduct charges against James Anderson, said that “ironically” it was the BCCI counsel that helped him make his mind up that the England pacer could not be considered guilty.
Lewis said Anderson was deemed not guilty as there wasn’t enough evidence to impose sanctions.
In his written verdict as published by ESPNcricinfo, Lewis has said that he was not “comfortably satisfied” given the lack of audio or video evidence, or a detailed neutral witness, that Anderson was guilty.
Lewis said he found the witnesses to be extremely biased in favour of their own team, and the only neutral witness — a Trent Bridge steward — said he didn’t see much.
‘comfortably satisfied’ pursuant to Article 6.1, something close to beyond reasonable doubt was required,” Lewis was quoted as saying .
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“As I reflected on the evidence and the final submissions made by the representatives of the parties, I turned my mind to a possible downgrading of the charge to Level 1. At this point, Mr Adam Lewis stated.
“During that submission Mr (Adam) Lewis posited his ‘two push theory’ for which there was not an iota of supporting evidence,” the commissioner said in his verdict. “And that submission I suspect came from Mr Lewis’s frustration in trying to make sense out of two totally conflicting versions of the evidence. It was an effort to find an explanation for the inexplicable, based on the conflicting evidence the tribunal had heard.”
Jadeja had allegedly stated that “Anderson continued to abuse him in the corridor and had ultimately pushed him in the back.”
The account of the only “closest to unbiased” witness, Trent Bridge steward David Doyle, wasn’t exhaustive. Doyle said in his written statement that he saw Jadeja turn around. “I couldn’t see who exactly he was heading towards.”
and told him to ‘f***ing go back to the dressing room’.
“Jadeja denies any aggression on his part and particularly he denies that he ever turned around or did anything that could be considered aggressive on his part.
“According to Anderson’s version, it was Jadeja who was the aggressor and without provocation. In the corridor, as they approached the steps that led upstairs, Anderson said that Jadeja turned around and aggressively came towards him and ‘got right up in my face’. He said he instinctively put up his hands as Jadeja still had a cricket bat in his hand.
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Maintaining a Healthy Immune System
I am delighted to read the article above from one of our experts in the field of Rheumatology. I have been successfully using diet and alternative therapies for my patients over the years. The challenges are several fold. There will always be lack of evidence bc there is no financial incentives to study food, supplements, and herbs. We play a role in impairing the patient's immune system by prescribing immunosuppressants eventhough we are helping the patients disease process. We get no training in nutrition. Finally, we are dismissive of ideas that are outside of our doctrine and training without understanding.
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FM Jaitley takes dig at Rahul's demand for separate farm Budget
At a press briefing, Jaitley announced that the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has decided to scrap nearly a century old practice of having a separate railway budget and merging it with general budget.
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The bot will Lay the fav at the start of the match for a £10 fixed liability.
As soon as there is a break of serve by either player the bot will green/red up and close the trade, if no break occurs the trade will still be closed when the score line becomes 6-6.
It will repeat the above each set if still the same fav.
To use the file just click on the Lay the Fav after Break of Serve.Baf attachment link below and this will download it to your computer, then with guardian open on the "Automation" tab click "Import a Rules File" as shown in the image, once imported it will now appear in the drop down box just above, you can now apply it to any markets you have added into guardian.
(If you only wish to lay & hedge the once at the start of the match click "edit rules" then select "Lay bet start of set" and click on the green minus icon to remove this part).
I downloaded your file but can´t figure out how the bot will work when the break happens in the last game of the set (final set score 6-4 or 7-5) because the relative score condition triggers the rule in the current set, and when the above situation happens the scoring inmediately moves to the next set.
Can you clarify this to me? I am sorry if I am not expresing myself in a correct way, but english is not my native language.
In this situation you would need to add a green up at the start of each set, but becuase it lays the pre-match fav again each new set if you do this ensure its completed before the new lay is placed.
I've having a bit of trouble with rules not firing when expected. Attached is a basic rule which is the opposite of the subject lay rule. I believe this rule should trigger at the very start of the match, backing the favourite if their odds are greater than 1.10. However I've set this against 10 games this morning and it's only fired twice. I want the rule to only fire in the very first game.
Conditions are i) score is 0,0,0 vs 0,0,0, ii) market is in play, iii) back price > 1.10. Also running I've got 4 bet angel programmes (1 live and 3 practice, each with 16 markets and with refresh is set to 200ms on the live and 400ms on practice with data streaming.
Could you possibly have a quick look and advise if there's something I can do to get it fire consistently?
Secondly, on some occasions the opening score feed comes through a few seconds late, ie the score is never seen as 0-0 instead it arrives after a player has won the 1st or on rare occasions even the 2nd point.
There isn't much you can do about the second except trigger the rule on or just after the offical start time before the match starts and with no score conditions.
Thanks Dallas, that's really helpful! I've adjust the refresh to 20ms and will keep the number of markets to a minimum. I think the main issues is the delay in the scores coming through as I've not encounter this problem with rules which trigger later in a match. I'll try the 0-15, 15-0 suggestion. | https://forum.betangel.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=11260 | 691 |
There is a 20 year gap between Linda and her oldest brother (19 between her other brother Don). In essence, Linda and I are the “babies” of our families as the difference between my two older brothers is 9 and 10. Linda and I met at our place of employment soon after leaving our respective colleges. I remember to this day the first time I was introduced to her family. When we arrived at her parent’s house, there were Chuck and Don waiting on the couch to make sure I was good enough for their little sister. Quite intimidating as the Iowa corn grows them big over there – Linda is close to 6′ and her brothers towered over her – add into the mix Chuck, at the time and later her other brother, was a member of the Sheriff’s Dept. Tall and carried handcuffs and a gun for a living. I must have done something right as they accepted me into the family and always make me feel welcome whenever we get together.
Sgt Fluffy as his fellow worker’s referred to him as (never me, of course, did I mention he carried a gun) gave 40 years of service to Scott County, many as sergeant in their civil department. His son mentioned in this role he never had to wear the standard uniform, but did have an incredible collection of over 100 ties, many on display during his ceremony. He was an avid photographer of local professional sports, crime scenes, stock car races and nature/wildlife. A definite area where we bonded as he would always be eager to show me his latest snaps or new gear. He was always willing to lend a hand, quick with a joke, well crafted (often crude) pranks and never let any ambiguity exist on where he stood on the latest political landscape or news of the day – qualities I always admired in Chuck. He always wore a smile and it never took long before you were laughing right along with him.
He leaves behind his wife Cathy of 50 years, 5 children (Joyce, David, Judy, Cindi and Bobbi), 6 grandchildren (Austin, Hunter, Sydney, Owen, Charlotte and Finley), his brother Don and his sister “Sam” which I was quickly made aware was Linda’s “ordained” named by Chuck who wanted another brother and wasn’t pleased with what arrived from the hospital. He carried the alternative masculine nicknames for his own daughters as well – new guests to the family outings need a guide to whose-who or confusion sets in quick. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention his beloved Shih Tzu name Cujo. With the help of his SGT Fluffy nickname and his constant furry companion at his side that first intimidating impression with him on the family couch awaiting my first arrival were replaced with the real truth, a kind individual with a heart bigger than his stature and an unselfish abundance of humor. I will truly miss him.
With deepest sympathies to Linda, her brother, his family and friends left behind, take solace in the memories of what time we did have with Chuck or should I now say, Sergeant Fluffy.
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Curriculum Matters
Reading – This week our class will start reading the non-fiction book Magic Tree House Fact Tracker: Dinosaurs by Mary Pope Osborne. Students are working on improving the quality of their discussion in their small reading groups. They are taking on specific roles and learning how to talk deeply about the text.
*The book projects for Pilgrims were sent home on Friday and are due Friday December 11th. As always, students must complete one project but can complete both for extra credit.
Writing – We will continue our next writing unit, Non-fiction: All About Essays. This week students will revise and edit their writing piece with peer and teacher assistance.
Math – This week students will continue to work on Chapter 7: Metric Length. We will focus especially on meters and centimeters. Students will practice measuring objects accurately with meter sticks and rulers being sure to only use the metric side of the ruler.
Social Studies – Unit 1 test on Monday.
Science – Students will have a test on the chapter on Earth’s Surface at the end of this week.
Habits of Mind- Questioning and Posing Problems: How do you know? Having a questioning attitude, knowing what data are needed and developing questioning strategies to produce those data. Finding problems to solve.
Spelling Words
1. badly
2. madly
3. quickly
4. weekly
5. daily
6. sadly
7. gladly
8. proudly
9. softly
10. loudly
11. bravely
12. pattern
13. describe
14. simple
15. determine
Important Dates!
· Wednesday December 23rd- Student Hip Hop Performance at 9am with Mrs. McMorrow (in PS 132 Performing Arts Space) · Thursday December 24th- January 3rd- Winter/Holiday Break: No School
Reminders/Miscellaneous
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To view the result of the automated tests on a project, go to the "Automated tests" tab, "Tests" group and click "View results". The result of tests is displayed in the "Results of tests" pane. | https://help.windev.com/en-US/?2019028 | 579 |
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Real Estate Platform Software Developer Spark Raises Over $1 Million in FundingFriday, August 12, 2016
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Spark Connects Vancouver's Two Hottest Sectors - Tech and Real Estate - Raising Over $1 Million in Funding
Vancouver, BC, August 12, 2016--(T-Net)--Spark, a Vancouver based startup bridging the real estate and technology sectors, announced today that it has raised over $1 million in funding.
Spark develops software for selling, marketing and managing new development real estate, from presale condos and single family homes to master planned communities.
The company's platform tracks and manages close to $10 billion of inventory (new developments) for its clients worldwide. Using this first round of funding, Spark plans to expand into other countries, focus on research & development and acquire new talent.
“Our goal is to make it easier and more efficient for developers and marketers to sell properties. A short timeinto our startup, my partner, Cody Curley, and I pivoted our business based on client feedback and marketdemand for smarter software to sell new developments,” explained Simeon Garratt, CEO of Spark.
“With the additional $1 million funding we will continue to provide well designed and innovative business tools to help our customers streamline their sales process. This will ensure their clients have the best home buying experience.”
Spark's vertical market software is currently used in more than six countries and manages hundreds of new home projects. In 18 months, the company has experienced an average monthly growth of 30 per cent.
With headquarters in Vancouver, one of the world's hottest housing markets, the company started to secure local accounts with some of the city's leading developers.
Their first U.S. client was a popular NewYork based company whose online and mobile app gives real time national data to potential home buyers and renters. The high profile account attracted the attention of developers in Eastern Canada and soon Garratt and Curley were writing contracts with national and global developers, brokerages, home builders and marketing agencies.
Spark's client list includes four of the top 10 new development brokerages in NewYork, a prominent developer in the United Kingdom with an extensive portfolio in central London and a Vancouver developer with 40 towers expected to be built within the next 10 years.
ABOUT SPARK
Co-founded in 2012 by real estate marketer Simeon Garratt and creative designer Cody Curley, this startup initially offered an online portal for people to discover luxury developments around the world.
The company eventually rebranded as Spark, a Software as a Service (SaaS) product, simplifying the way new development real estate is marketed and sold.
Spark's technology brings value to its users by incorporating sales and marketing tools for the entire product life cycle of a new property - from listed homes and lead generation to customer conversation, inventory tracking, contract tracking, email marketing solutions andevent management resources.
Kathleen Reid
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Oprah Winfrey picked up a stunning apartment in Streeterville, Chicago, hasn’t ever lived in it since buying it in 2006.And despite assuring that she will live in the 4,607 square foot apartment, she has decided to put in on a lease for $15,000 per month. The private elevator landing leads to a formal living room via the reception gallery, formal dining room and sun parlor at the back of the house. The wood-paneled living room sports a wood-floored library with fireplace and widows that offer tree top views to Lake Michigan and the Oak Street Beach. The service quarters is hid behind the elevator and formal dining room.
The dining room features a “galley style kitchen with antiqued white cabinetry, granite counter tops and breakfast area, separate laundry room, access to the service elevator, and a kitchen-size butler’s pantry with dark cabinets and granite counter tops”. The house also has provision for a home office with built-in desk and a brick-walled storage room for alcohol and a full height wine refrigerator.
The guest room sports huge walk-in closet, fireplace, private bathroom with window, and French doors that lead to a small shared terrace to the master bedroom. The house boasts of a 1,300 square foot master suite with three walk-in closets, built-in storage cabinet, 2.5 bathrooms and a entertainment. For now, Winfrey prefers her “15,000 square feet 4-unit combination duplex condominium” at the Water Tower Place complex, Chicago instead.
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NORTHAMPTON - Northwestern District Attorney Elizabeth D. Scheibel has issued a statement defending her criminal prosecution of six teenagers in the bullying of the late Phoebe Prince in the wake of an online magazine story suggesting she may have overstepped herself.
The story, by Emily Bazelon, in the magazine Slate, which is owned by the Washington Post Co., states that teenagers at South Hadley High School told her the type of name-calling the 15-year-old Prince suffered before her Jan. 14 suicide was not “entirely beyond the pale.” Prince had been called a “whore” and an “Irish slut.”
In her three-part story posted Tuesday, Bazelon writes, “The South Hadley statement released Wednesday, Scheibel wrote that the charges are “appropriate and supported by available evidence.”
Former South Hadley High School students Sean Mulveyhill, Kayla Narey, Flannery Mullins, Sharon Chanon Velazquez and Ashley Longe face civil rights charges in connection with Prince’s hanging suicide. In addition, Mulveyhill and Austin Renaud have been charged with statutory rape with regard to Prince.
Scheibel noted the charges were the result of an 11-week investigation that is ongoing.
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Scheibel went on to state that the story suggests .”
Bazelon’s story draws a picture of Prince as a troubled girl who was self-abusive and who had made a previous suicide attempt. It states Prince began cutting herself in 2008 while a student in an Irish boarding school, behavior that started again in February 2009. Bazelon writes that in May 2009, Prince started taking Prozac.
In November 2009, the article states she was prescribed Seroquel, a drug used to treat mood disorders, and that on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, Prince swallowed a bottle of Seroquel and was hospitalized at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton for the next week.
Luke T. Gelinas, a parent who has criticized the school system’s handling of the Prince case, said the Slate story was based on grand jury minutes, which are not public.
“The investigation is much deeper than the minutes she has,” Gelinas said.
The article hurts not just the community, but the students who are charged in the hazing, he said.
The case has been covered worldwide, including in Ireland, where Prince lived with her family prior to moving to this country to attend school here.
Scheibel has stated Prince was the target of months of bullying both at school and over electronic media, harassment that she has said was common knowledge at the high school.
if you act like a ___, you'll get treated like a ___.
Nice. So if you act like an idiot do we get to treat you like an idiot? We will have to wait and see what course the law takes but for you to think these six teenagers did nothing is absurd. They've been punished enough? So they lost college scholarships. Big freakin deal. Let their family pay for it instead.. if they can find a college to accept them.
You Wspfldgrl are a sanctimonious snot. | 80665e865122e7b15005d2521b536cf0 | 676 |
Q: How efficient is .clone()? I have a page with a canvas area (nothing to do wth HTML5) where people can create "art" by dragging in photos, creating divs that they can drag, stretch, color, etc. etc. etc. The canvas div is inside a canvasContainer div. Now I'd like to implement an UNDO option. My thought was to do a
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when an operation began, say at every dragStart event, and at the end of the operation an UNDO, if asked for with Ctrl-Z, would execute
$('#canvas').remove();
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My concern is that the clone, and perhaps the append, might be a bit compute intensive as the page grows and start slowing down the page's responsiveness. I suppose it depends on how jQuery does the clone. If it just breaks off the section from the DOM and does a straight memory copy, it shouldn't be bad. But if there's a lot of calculation and building going on it could be a problem.
Does anyone have a feel for whether this is a reasonable approach to implementing UNDO?
Thanks
A: Almost every DOM modification you make triggers what is known as a reflow
During a reflow, the browser recalculates the position of every element.
If your DOM contains a lot of elements, and complex nested structures, reflows start to take more time.
Minimising the number of modifications to your DOM will help keep things responsive and fast.
On the javascript side, Clone() will clone an element and all contained elements.
this means that the deeper your structure is and the more child elements it contains, the longer it takes jquery to run through the hierarchy of the element it was called on.
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Mitchell Frost "MJF" - Perfection. Musical euphoria.
You'd be hard pressed to find a more enthusiastic fan of Eric Clapton and the musicians that join him at the crossroads guitar festival than myself. I own all the previous crossroads festivals on blu ray and DVD as well as all of the other Eric Clapton concert videos that have been made commercially available. I was also at one of Eric's shows from his tour earlier this year, so I have a good idea of how things should sound.
Video- Very sharp and clean image. Contrast is fantastic, and the clarity of the image can't be faulted. This concert was shown in movie theaters, and the image quality would be right at home at an IMAX theater. This is a presentation only possible due to the high resolution available on the blu ray format. No doubt compression artifacts and noise will be seen in the DVD version due to the limitations of the format. There is an incredible lack of grain and noise despite the dark conditions around the performers and stage. The editing and camera angles are difficult to fault, with plenty of close ups of the feet work of the individual guitar players. You get a wonderful impression and understanding of how the musicians are communicating on stage. Video quality is 10/10.
Audio- What a challenge for the producers to mix the sound! Often a half dozen guitar players are performing simultaneously, along with many other instruments and yet the mix was not crowded or busy. When I was at one of the shows on Clapton's tour this past year I was stunned at the unreal clarity of his vocals in a live setting. Honestly the best I've ever heard a lead vocal sound at an indoor concert. That same impression comes through on the blu ray. Turn up the volume and hear the crystal clear sound of Eric's voice on tears in heaven to hear an example. The uncompressed DTS-MA audios a revelation of beauty. Bass notes are full and clear, vocals soar with punch and dynamics, and every instrument is mixed to perfection. I'd imagine with a proper amplification system this concert could be re-played and with your eyes closed you would believe you were actually at the concert and not at home. I own perhaps 100 concert blu rays and DVDs and have heard plenty of poorly mixed junk. This concert tops mayer's where the light is, Clapton's previous crossroads 2010 festival, the clapton and winwood concert, and Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at radio city in terms of audio quality. It's spectacular, and sets a new standard for concert blu rays.
What about the concert itself? In my opinion, this is the best overall package of performances from any crossroads festival. The musicians are all extremely comfortable and their playing is especially inspired. I was introduced to some new songs and artists and reminded of why I have such a deep love for blues and rock music. These players all have music deep down in their soul and their playing and singing comes from deep within themselves. It's a refreshing reminder of where great music comes from and the uniquely human expression that flows from live musicians unaided by technology. It's all about the music, and you can sense from every performer that they are kindred spirits with one another. Highlights include Robert Cray. The Allman Brothers, John Mayer, Gary Clark Jr... Actually the whole concert is one enormous highlight reel... nothing should be skipped... it should all be savored.
N. C. Pride "Just Curious..." - Perfect for my Toddler!
My daughter is just 2 1/2 and is just getting the hang of touch screens and the like. this has been a perfect fit for her developing mind and for her little hands. Only one con is that there are so few games for kids of her young age that she is forced to try skills that she's not quite ready for but that just makes it fun for both of us.
I recommend purchasing the gel skin because it keeps kids from accessing the battery compartments and gives those little fingers a better grip. Also, this things eats batteries like there is no tomorrow so I purchased the car and AC adapters as well.
• Presidential politics is even more rough and tough than most people would imagine. The candidates are out to destroy each other and many times are successful, particularly if they have mega funds at their disposal. The Romney camp’s destruction of Gingrich is an example.
• With few exceptions, the candidates in the primary and the general election really did not like each other.
• Romney was not well liked by leading Republicans, apparently including Ryan before he became Romney’s running mate.
• Romney, his wife and most of Romney’s close advisors actually thought he would win. But given everything that took place, including the positions he took during the primary and his not infrequent missteps, it is surprising he didn’t lose by more.
• Governor Christy has a huge ego and apparently more than a few skeletons in his closet.
Michael Z. Rork "Photographer" - Airplay issues resolved!
This little speaker is one powerful badass. The sound is crisp and clean and I often feel like I'm hearing it in other parts of the room. It really sounds great.
UPDATE: I've now been using it for a few days with NO drop outs. I'm 100% certain the updated fixed the issues.
Though I wish I'd gotten the ring. I could really use some portability. | http://trustedpharmacycatalog.com/d/dmeinc.biz.html | 1,120 |
Here’s our Angry Birds Free Surf and Turf Level 2 walkthrough video. Our strategy is to toss the Boomerang bird over the main structure, spinning it back and avoiding the wheel of the paddle boat. You can now use a Yellow bird or two to clear the remaining pigs on the left side of the boat.
This is Level 19 from Surf and Turf in the full Angry Birds app. Feel free to check out that page for more strategies.!
Has anyone every played this @testuser40 or @AMSlimfordy?
I’ve played it a few times @testuser23 and @BirdLeader
1. Arc the Boomerang Bird high into the peaks and activate it into the horizontal wood plank above the bottom pig on the right.
2. Aim the Yellow Bird into the 4 way intersection of wood planks on the left just above the bottom pig on the left. | c2914f54a141d1a560c560def9bd7284 | 188 |
I think you're overstating the difficulty of Zomboid's combat, personally. I wouldn't say that I'm an expert at the game or anything, but I can take on groups of 6 or more on default settings with careful positioning. - It's not *ideal,* maybe, but one of the great things about zomboid's open world is that you can *run away* \- and it's very rare that I find myself in a situation where the zombie horde overwhelms me in that sense. Without infection, the undead host would lose a lot of it's intended threat, personally.
Not trying to shame you or anything - Zomboid does have a pretty sharp learning curve, but proper positioning and situational awareness alleviates a lot of the issues you described for me. I reccomend playing with headphones, if you got 'em. Additionally - scratches aren't a guaranteed infection. I've survived many-a-scratch in my time. Bites are a bit more tricky, but I have heard of people surviving them in the past - and I've also gotten my fair share of false positives in my time.
Ultimately - as the others have said - that's one of the reasons the sandbox mode is so great - If I wasn't able to lower zombie density when I first started playing, I probably wouldn't be as hooked as I am now - but you can see where balancing this game around *one* or *two* core rulesets is undoubtedly a nightmare, lmao.
...I do wish guns were more useful, though. I don't know if the answer is in increased ammo spawn, but I do think having some gun-related options in the sandbox would be nice. I get that Indie Stone has made it's stance on guns pretty clear, but it is pretty odd to me that it's the one area of the game that isn't directly editable in the sandbox options. | 3ee1d8f260034c68805945e9a4654383 | 408 |
After spending three weeks exploring Bangkok and southern Thailand, we were fortunate enough to travel up north and visit a beautiful eco lodge for two nights. LISU LODGE is nestled in Northern Thailand about an hour north of Chiang Mai. The lodge is named after a hill tribe village located nearby and is a part of a community-based project that is helping preserve the rich heritage and traditions of the hill tribes in Chiang Mai. Lisu Lodge is run and operated by Lisu villagers and the food is locally sourced from their organic rice fields and a lovely vegetable garden.
THE ROOM
Jill and I both enjoyed the experience of sleeping in a traditional Lisu style cottage. It kept the integrity of the original designs but also had a comfortable modern setup including electric fans, power outlets, hot water, a hairdryer, and toiletries. The staff set up our mosquito net for us and it did the trick and kept us bug-free for a comfortable night’s sleep. On the property there are four guest cottages with a few rooms to each cottage equaling a total of twenty rooms. Each cottage has their own staff assigned to accommodate you throughout your stay, which we found great because we were able to develop a connection with them which made it feel homey.
ALL INCLUSIVE MEALS
At the Lisu Lodge, all your meals are included in your stay. We were served breakfast, lunch & dinner and the portion sizes were huge! Make sure you arrive hungry and ready to eat because you will get a lot of delicious locally sourced Thai food from their organic rice fields and gardens. At night, at least while we were there , we were also welcomed by a local group of children and adults who put on a traditional dance with music. We joined in with the dance and were taught a very basic dance routine with them. It was cute and a surprisingly fun experience!
ACTIVITIES | VILLAGE & TEA TOUR
There is a good selection of experiences to choose from at the Lisu Lodge.
- Water Rafting on the Mae Tang River
- Ox Cart Riding through local farmlands
- Thai Massages
- Traditional Thai Herbal Steam Baths
- Thai cooking classes
- Lisu Hill Tribe Village Tour
- Araksa Tea Garden Tour
The activities we did were:
Lisu Hill Tribe Village Tour
We were taken on a little tour through the Lisu Village which is located right next to the Lisu Lodge, it included an interesting temple and a visit to the shaman’s house a sort of priest for the Lisu people. As we walked around our guide gave us information of the area, the people and allowed us time to talk to the shaman. It was really awesome to get to know more about where we were staying and the people we were spending the few days with.
Araksa Tea Garden Tour
We were hosted by a friendly fellow named Charlie who explained to us the process to create Thai Green Tea. Green Tea is a personal favorite of Jill’s so it was a pretty neat experience for her. They started with giving us a breakdown of how the plant is grown, and how to pick the leaves from the plant. We then got to pick some tea leaves and finally sit and watch the tea making process which they do all by hand. At the end, we enjoyed a lovely cup of fresh green tea and some snacks. All tea at Araska is made and processed in a traditional way by hand which creates a lovely product. No pesticides are used during the process.
Jill and I enjoyed our brief stay at the Lisu Lodge. The workers were very friendly, the traditional Thai food was tasty and the property was quite relaxing. If your looking to get a taste of the peace and quiet in Northern Thailand the Lisu Lodge is a good place to start. OR if you are looking for other activity based trips around Thailand , check out ASIAN OSIS’ website HERE where they have a variety of other trips similar to Lisu Lodge in different parts of Thailand as well as Sri Lanka and Laos.
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The GRAMMY Museum® :: Public Program :: The Songwriters Hall of Fame Legends-in-the-Round
Presented by The Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Oct 15 , 2012 Show: 9:30PM
In 2010, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, together with the GRAMMY Museum, launched the Songwriters Hall of Fame Gallery, with the premier Songwriting Legends-in-the-Round event. The Gallery installation, located on the museum's fourth floor, features video highlights from annual SHOF Awards & Induction Dinners, as well as information on all SHOF inductees and honorees. Two years later, the popular series continues in the Clive Davis Theater. Featuring a stellar gathering of some of today's top songwriter/producers speaking about their craft and the stories behind their hit songs are Dan Wilson (Adele, Dixie Chicks, Semisonic), Greg Kurstin (Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Lily Allen), Evan Bogart (Beyonce, Rihanna, Sean Kingston), Tim Pagnotta (Neon Trees, Kris Allen, Sugarcult) and Rodney Jerkins (Justin Bieber, Black Eyed Peas, Lady Gaga/Beyonce). The event will be moderated by Phil Gallo, Senior Correspondent at Billboard Magazine. All proceeds benefit The Songwriters Hall of Fame and the GRAMMY Museum's educational programs.
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BUSINESSES in Cinderford decked the halls for the festive season as part of a Christmas window display competition from the town council.
Dozens of businesses in the town centre decorated their shop fronts with Christmas trees, tinsel, fake snow and more for the council’s festive competition.
Councillors judged the competition entires this week, with the winners announced on Tuesday (November 29).
First place was awarded to Vintage Rose Florist on Market Street, who put out an array of festive flowers, snowmen and winter wildlife.
Second place went to Grindles Coaches Ltd, who created a colourful display featuring reindeer, bells and Santa in his sleigh.
Carpenters DIY won third place, with a range of decorative Santas, polar bears and Christmas stockings on show.
Other entries included Slinky Inky Tattoo and Soapery, who created an impressive festive scene featuring soap-making elves and Father Christmas taking a bath.
Sleek Nails and Beauty displayed a life-size fluffy snow man, while The Roundabout Cafe and Tearoom decorated their window with reindeer and snowflakes.
Greenhill Coffee House also got into the spirit with an array of hanging baubles and tea lights.
The top three will now be presented with a trophy by the town council.
A spokesperson for the council posted on Facebook: "Thank you to all our wonderful local businesses who took part in our Christmas Window Competition.
"There were so many great entries that have made our town centre look very festive.
"Judging is now complete and the trophies are being engraved!" | https://www.theforestreview.co.uk/news/tis-the-season-for-fabulous-displays-505493 | 337 |
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We have almost decades of experience in creating a wide range of innovative and world-class web applications with the best talented pool of Ruby on Rails developers who have worked on a variety of projects across different industries and are helping large corporations and start-ups to build, maintain and scale web applications faster and at lower costs. We follow Agile Software Development Methods such as Scrum and Extreme Programming, and love contributing to open source projects.We have developed robust ruby on rails applications for clients globally.Our consultant services covers value programming and proactive project management practices in order to deliver great web applications, no matter what issues may arise. | https://www.railscarma.com/ruby-on-rails-development-and-consulting-company-singapore/ | 261 |
ABN AMRO has met its 2019 commitment target, and has hired 80 refugees into its workforce. All refugee employees have also been offered extensive coaching for a full year.
In 2019, Accenture committed to hiring 100 refugees in the Netherlands by 2025. Hiring refugees was more difficult for the company in 2020 and 2021 due to the impact of Covid-19 on Accenture’s business. Nonetheless, since 2019, Accenture has hired 30 refugees into its operations. Accenture has surpassed its other commitment targets — it has provided refugee mentorship and upskilling programs to more than 1,100 refugees since 2019, as well as five coding classes. Accenture continues to work towards meeting its hiring goal by 2025.
Arcadis has exceeded its 2019 commitment target (45) and has reached 56 refugees with employment opportunities as of April 2022. More than half of them have been hired in the Netherlands, Belgium, the U.K., Germany, Italy, and France. In addition, in the Netherlands, Arcadis has offered refugees the opportunity to attend a three-month learning module on engineering and soft skills.
Asito has surpassed its 2019 commitment target (50), and has hired more than 95 refugees. Asito has implemented a hiring and training program for Eritrean refugees in a number of cities in the Netherlands. Asito is currently re-structuring the organization and will explore new activities to train and hire refugees in the near future. Asito also continues to raise awareness among its clients about the importance of providing work opportunities for refugees.
Dura Vermeer has surpassed its 2019 commitment target (45), and has trained and placed over 75 refugees in jobs over three years. . Hiring refugees is now embedded in the company’s recruitment process. Dura Vermeer continues to collaborate with the Hogeschool Rotterdam, UAF, UNHCR and the Refugee Talent Hub. It also continues to encourage its suppliers and clients to hire refugees.
Dental Care Professionals has focused on providing work experience in dental clinics to refugee dentists. It has built up a database of Syrian refugee dentists and has increased awareness of the availability of refugee dentists and the challenges they face. It remains a difficult and long process for dentists educated outside the European Union to take the dental exam in the Netherlands. Dental Care Professionals could therefore not meet its 2019 commitment target of finding 60 refugee dentists positions in dental clinics.
The hospitality sector has been heavily impacted by COVID-19 and, globally, Hilton faced significant operational challenges given restrictions placed on hospitality. Hilton’s project in the Netherlands was put on hold, despite a great start in collaboration with the Dutch Refugee Council. Nevertheless, Hilton has impacted nearly 11,000 refugees worldwide through volunteering, training, employment and procurement practices since 2015. The company is exploring how to restart these projects in the Netherlands.
HP and its partners have successfully piloted the HP School Cloud, an education technology solution, in several schools in urban and rural Uganda. When Covid-19 limited the opportunity to scale the pilot to other schools, HP adjusted its focus and continued to support the education of both local and refugee populations in the region, including by offering HP LIFE, a free skills training program from the HP Foundation for entrepreneurs, business owners, and lifelong learners.
ManpowerGroup has exceeded its 2019 commitment target (200) and has connected at least 400 refugees to sustainable employment in the Netherlands. ManpowerGroup has also successfully expanded its commitment to other countries, and has started employment initiatives in Sweden, Germany, the U.K., and Colombia. ManpowerGroup will continue its work to increase awareness about sustainable employment opportunities for refugees among its clients around the world.
As of April 2022, Philips hired 75 refugees in the Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Costa Rica and Panama, working towards its 2019 commitment target to hire 100 refugees by the end of 2024. Philips has organized awareness workshops for employees and career workshops and soft skills training for refugees in the U.K., Germany, and Panama, reaching almost 300 people.
The Philips Foundation has changed the scope of its 2019 commitment. The initial project to set up a field hospital in the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria was canceled due to political reasons. The Philips Foundation continues to support refugees by providing access to quality healthcare, and has funded several refugee-supporting organizations.
Rabobank met its 2019 commitment target, and has successfully hired 60 refugees into its workforce.
Randstad has exceeded its 2019 commitment target (1,000), and has helped 11,000 refugees in Europe integrate into the labor market.
Signify Foundation has met its target of improving access to energy and lighting for refugees and asylum seekers in Rhino camp Uganda. Signify Foundation has also provided lighting solutions and stable electricity to refugee camps, health centers, and houses in Uganda, reaching more than 80,000 refugees. 22 young refugees have been trained to become solar sales agents.
Unilever has surpassed its commitment target (10,000), and has reached nearly 30,000 Syrian refugees in Lebanon with hygiene promotion materials and hygiene products. | https://www.tent.org/update-on-2019-dbs-commitments-april-22/ | 1,039 |
Fc alpha/mu receptor (Fc alpha/mu R), a novel Fc receptor for IgA and IgM, is a type I transmembrane protein with an immunoglobulin (Ig)-like domain in the extracellular portion. Although IgA and IgM bind to Fc alpha/mu R, the molecular and structural characteristics of the ligand-receptor interactions have been undetermined. Here, we developed twelve monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against murine Fc alpha/mu R by. P se blocking immunizing mice deficient in Fc alpha/mu R gene. Eight mAbs totally or partially blocked IgA and IgM bindings to Fc alpha/mu R. The mAbs bound to a peptide derived from the Ig-like domain of murine Fc alpha/mu R, which is conserved not only in human and rat Fc alpha/mu R but also in polymeric Ig receptor (poly-IgR), another Fc receptor for IgA and IgM. These results suggest that IgA and IgM bind to an epitope in the conserved amino acids in the Ig-like domain of Fc alpha/mu R as well as poly-IgR.
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We're not a chain! Woodlands is only in Marin County, family owned and operated by Marin County residents.
We sure appreciate your business, and really hope you'll tell your friends and neighbors about us.
We are proud to offer two levels of in-store training with expert Mike Wombacher, founder of Dog Gone Good. Mike’s training approach emphasizes positive reinforcement while retaining the benefits of structure, guidance and authority. His motto is “maximize the positive, minimize the negative and be realistic.” Classes are held once a week for 6 weeks, and are usually on Wednesday evenings in Mill Valley. Please register in-store.
Heather was previously a manager at Woodlands Pet, before opening her own nail trimming business! She and her team know just how to trim those nails while fido had a great time.
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The State Government, in consultation with the Kerala High Court, is mandated to establish a family Court for every area in the State comprising a city or town whose population exceeds one million. The State is also empowered under Section 3(1)(b) of the Act, 1984 to establish Family Court in such areas. | https://www.indialegallive.com/topic/mact-court-hall/ | 62 |
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Agree about the ending! This is one where I think a lot of the "slog" perception comes from the lack of meaningful advancement in Perrin's plot, which was extra frustrating when you knew you'd have to wait another 2 years for the next volume.
But the monumental ending! Remember being totally overwhelmed first time reading it, made all of the preamble in the book worth it and left me itching for the next installment. Also Rand's earlier chapters in the book are a lot more engaging when you know what he's building towards and get to see all the small steps and plans he's putting in place to try and make the attempt successful. | 5ffba5fa9f1a46f5bf941c7a1b63e785 | 138 |
Each year, the United Nations “International Year Of…” is considered when exploring potential themes, and 2021 provides us with both the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables and the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development.
In keeping with these UN topics, Food: Different by Design covers a broad range of areas in food production and sustainable agriculture, enabling students to explore topics such as biosecurity, food technology, laboratory-developed foods, and more. In the true spirit of National Science Week, scientific development will be at the core of the theme.
The theme of ANSTO’s National Science Week Hackathon 2021 will once again align with National Science Week with specific challenge areas being released by mid-2021.
The National Science Week 2021 theme and title have been confirmed and will be Food: Different by Design. Keep an eye on this page for updates and additional information about the hackathon. Updates and resources around National Science Week 2021 will be available on the ASTA webpage.
Create a 3-min video presentation and submit.
Finalists will be notified by COB on August 17th.
Winners announcement on August 18th.
Show your teacher the ANSTO National Science Week Hackathon website and ask them if they would be willing to support you with this project or if they would like to use this as a classroom activity.
Your teacher is the one who will be required to register your team and submit your entry.
Your teacher will submit the official team registration form.
A hackathon is an immersive experience where people come together with diverse ideas and skills to rapidly design and build products that customers would actually use. The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) will once again run one of these sprint-like events for Australian secondary students as part of National Science Week 2021. The theme of ANSTO's National Science Week Hackathon will align to the theme for National Science Week 2021 which is Food: Different by Design.
While there are many variations of hackathons, it typically involves forming teams, brainstorming ideas, getting feedback from mentors and customers, and rapidly designing/building something to test in front of customers.
Hints and some resources may be given before the official start, however, the specific problem statements and resources are released to participants when the hackathon begins.
Resources may include innovation and design tools, data sets, access to APIs, hardware and software to aid in ideation or even building a functional prototype or minimal viable product that customers would use.
Innovation tools such as business model canvas, interviewing and SMART goals are used to identify potential solutions and aspects of the hack that may need to be tested.
Final solutions can be in the form of a model, prototype, diagram, app, or any design method that fits the solution created by the teams.
This hackathon is unique as students have the opportunity to book time with ANSTO scientists, entrepreneurs with previous hackathon experience and potential customers who can give them advice and feedback.
The aim of ANSTO's National Science Week Hackathon is for secondary school students to gain experience in science, innovation and entrepreneurship. Students will also gain creative confidence, valuable team-working skills, interviewing skills, experience with online collaboration tools and have a chance to interact with scientists, professionals and entrepreneurs. Teams will submit a video showcasing their ideas to a panel of scientists.
A supporting activity for students in Years 7-10 who are engaged with National Science Week.
ANSTO's National Science Week Hackathon is open to Australian Secondary School students in years 7-9 (Junior Division) and years 10-11 (Senior Division) interested in science and technology.
Recommended team size is between 3-7 students.
Students within teams can be from different year levels, but must compete in the division of their oldest student.
If you would like to make this a whole class activity, please contact us.
Submissions must be made and approved by a teacher.
ANSTO's National Science Week Hackathon 2021 will begin on Monday, August 14th and submissions must be received by 11:59pm on Wednesday, August 16th.
See Key Dates and Timeline of Events below under additional information.
This is a virtual Hackathon. Students can participate remotely from anywhere in Australia.
ANSTO, in collaboration with nandin and the Australian Museum, are proud to welcome a panel of mentors with diverse experience and extensive backgrounds in scientific research, innovation and technology industries. Participating in the hackathon and having the opportunity to work with these amazing scientists, engineers and business people in an individualised setting is sure to inspire and engage the students in STEM-related topics.
Mentors with hackathon experience may guide and provide feedback/advice to students on the Monday of the hackathon. This may include helping teams test their assumptions, ideate, introduce tools for innovation, and effectively present their solution.
Students will have the opportunity to book in a session with their mentor of choice for August 17th via Zoom. This will be their opportunity to engage with the mentors and ask them exploratory questions about their problems/solutions.
Mentors provide assistance completely voluntarily and are not considered part of the team for the purposes of intellectual property, prizes or any other licensing purposes.
Mentoring sessions are not mandatory but highly recommended.
This hackathon is being organised by Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) as part of Science Week 14-22 August 2021. This is following a run of successful hackathons involving ANSTO and Nandin startups. In 2018, ANSTO ran H2Go Clean water Hack bringing together university students from Australian and Sri Lanka to create novel approaches to address chronic dehydration in Sri Lanka. More recently, ANSTO and Nandin startups got together to find solutions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, better use open data from NASA and others, and to help build sovereign supply chains that can withstand supply shock.
Get written permission from the copyright owners before submitting your work. Make sure to cite permission at the end of your video/in your written overview.
Use copyright-free images, music and sounds effects. Use this guide to properly attribute your sources, if needed.
Submissions created by students are owned by the students. This hackathon aims to inspire students to create something new and they will own the IP to their unique idea.
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Liverpool will run a cultural programme on its historic waterfront in the run-up to the contest. Photograph: Alan Novelli/Alamy
The Eurovision song contest will be hosted by Liverpool next year after it beat 19 other cites to stage the event on behalf of war-torn Ukraine.
The annual extravaganza will be held in the UK for the first time in 25 years on 13 May as Ukraine is unable to host the event due to the Russian invasion.
Liverpool was one of 20 cities to offer to stage the 67th Eurovision, beating Glasgow in the final two.
The announcement by Graham Norton on the BBC’s One Show on Friday will fire the starting gun on a frenetic six months of preparation to stage one of the most-watched music events in the world.
All eyes will be on Liverpool’s 11,000-capacity M&S Bank Arena for the three live events that culminate in a four-hour grand final in May.
More than 160 million people from around the world tuned in to watch the three events in Turin, Italy, in May.
Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra won the contest with their song Stefania, a folk-rap ensemble they dedicated to all the country’s mothers.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, had initially hoped to host next year’s contest in the port city of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war’s most devastating bombing, but agreed in July that staging Eurovision would not be possible while fighting continues.
The UK agreed to host next year’s Eurovision on behalf of Ukraine after it finished second with Sam Ryder’s Spaceman, the country’s highest position since 1996.
Nearly 10,000 people are involved in producing the Eurovision song content and they are expected to start converging on Liverpool within weeks. The event will effectively take over the city for almost two months, starting on Easter weekend in April, and draw in thousands of tourists.
Liverpool will run a cultural programme that “represents modern Ukraine – a progressive, creative and ambitious country” and open a Eurovision “village” around the M&S Bank Arena on its historic waterfront.
The core of the city’s programme will be an artist exchange and co-production between Ukrainian and Liverpool-based artists, working closely with its sister city of Odesa in southern Ukraine.
Statues and monuments across Liverpool will be dressed in vinoks, traditional Ukrainian headdresses that have become a symbol of resistance during the fight against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
It will also feature a “takeover” by Ukrainian street artists and host a showcase of pysanka, painted eggs that are a central part of Ukrainian culture around Easter.
For those who enjoy the faintly ridiculous side to Eurovision, there will be a city-wide game of hide-and-seek involving cutouts of Sonia, the Skelmersdale-born singer who came second in Eurovision 1993 with the song Better the Devil You Know.
Claire McColgan, director of Culture Liverpool, said the extravaganza would be a “lifeline” for the city’s hospitality sector, which is still recovering from the pandemic, and that it would “provide hope” for businesses that were “probably going to be on their knees over winter”. | https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/07/liverpool-to-host-eurovision-song-contest-on-behalf-of-ukraine | 717 |
You might not have heard of Omnivore Recordrings, but it's time you did. They have created a unique, atypical label with passionate and beautifully produced releases ranging from a long lost album by Alan Price, Big Star, Alan Ginsburg, Maynard Ferguson, JD Souther, Neil Finn, to Southern California favorites The Rave Ups and The Bangles. Take some time perusing their catalog to really grasp how passionate they are about these reissues!
Alan Price's musical career ranges from his early seminal work with the Animals, to the critically acclaimed soundtrack to Lindsay Anderson's 1973 masterpiece, O Lucky Man! Price recorded the successor to O Lucky Man! in 1974 and its been shelved till now, finally available after 43 years. Savaloy Dip is a combination of dance hall, pop, and politically motivated tunes. Where the Animals carried a rough edge, especially with Eric Burdon's incomparable voice at the helm, Price took a curious turn with his musical endeavors. Embracing the Gin and Jag set, his cover of Randy Newman's "Simon Smith and his Wonderful Dancing Bear" was a goofy, fun, effervescent take on an already lovely eccentric song. His affection for British Dance Hall music, with a keyboard driven jauntiness was quite the opposite of the Rock and Roll work of Burdon.
Looking through a cut-out bin the late 70's I discovered a copy of an out of print LP by Price, "Between Today and Yesterday" a loose concept album, one side for "Today" and the other for "Yesterday", the title song which actually first appeared as a piano solo on the almost unreleased Savaloy Dip. Almost unreleased? Yes, well it turns out that a small number of 8-track tape versions of the album did make it to market, but that was a mistake, and most were recalled. As the press releases for this release states, “Omnivore is proud to present the first ever, non 8-track release of a great lost album, Savaloy Dip!” From a paean to a favorite Welsh boxer, to boogie-woogie piano, it’s actually a bit difficult to properly characterize the proceedings with a simple label.
As a time capsule of his 1970s work, Savaloy Dip gives a glimpse of his future musical direction, and Omnivore's thoughtfully written liner notes, photos, and clean remastering from the original master tapes, insures that this is a release any Alan Price fan will cherish.
Pretty in Pink, the classic 1986 John Hughes film starring Molly Ringwald, was accompanied by an official soundtrack album, but for most fans of the film, the soundtrack was missing the most important song, "Positively Lost Me" by the Los Angeles based band, The Rave-Ups, led by Jimmer Podrasky. Their Town + Country title on Fun Stuff Records was a college favorite, and led to a later record deal with Epic Records, but alas it seemed that if bad luck could strike a band, then The Rave-Ups were a super magnet of sorts.
Town + Country was recorded in fits and starts in the A&M Studios, with studio time allocated only when the studios were empty. The band members all worked at the studio, in the mailroom, and would practice at night, finally convincing producer to record them. Not only was their song the driving music for the film, but they also appear in the film to boot. Why then were they not included in the soundtrack? The answer (or myth) was that A&M didn't want their mailroom guys on an A&M record. But they conquered the LA music scene, with consistent positive critical reception in the press, radio, and fans. The story of the band is almost a Greek tragedy, one of loss, wasted opportunity, and bad timing. All the while it was a band anchored by some seriously talented musicianship. So, It was like a bolt of lightning to many fans when word got out in 2013 that Podrasky was back in the studio after more than 20 years, with an independently produced album, "The Would Be Plans" a release that like it's predecessors garnered instant fan support and critical raves.
So, it was a surprise when Podrasky announced via Facebook in May 2016 that the long of print debut album from The Rave Ups was being treated to a 30th Anniversary reissue by Omnivore Records. And like Omnivore’s other releases, the new version has been carefully remastered, with extensive liner notes and photos, 11 previously unissued bonus tracks, and a new introduction and history of the album written by Podrasky. The new remastering is exemplary, and brings back the punch of the band. From an audio standpoint the new version is a revelation, until now, just how well recorded and produced the album wasn’t really evident, at least not on my old pressings of the album.
The percussion is tight, taught, and punches you in the gut. The bass lines are articulate, musical, and reveal a band at the height of it's powers, honed by endless nights in clubs and on the road. Podrasky’s songwriting and lyricism is one of the best kept secrets in rock and roll, and from the first notes of the first track "Positively Lost Me" the albums doesn’t let up. Podrasky, a Carnegie Mellon graduate, where the band was formed, always informed his music with a poetic narrative, accompanied a guitar driven signature.
It’s easy to think of Podrasky as The Rave Ups, but that does an immense disservice to the rest of the band, whose lineup at the time was, Jimmer Podrasky (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Terry Wilson (guitars, background vocals, harmonica),Tommy Blatnik (bass, background vocals), and Timothy J. (drums, percussion, background vocals, four-handed piano).
For fans of the Rave Ups, this is a long overdue reissue, superbly put together by Omnivore. From an audio standpoint, the remastering allows the tight musicianship to hold together as a band, yet showcasing the strength of the individual performances, and recording. Podrasky's many personal trials, near death experiences, poverty, fatherhood, and more are detailed in other publications, and it's wonderful to finally see his life on track, and his work back in the limelight again. The Rave Ups – Town + Country on Omnivore Recordings comes Highly Recommended.
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*
* $Created by: <NAME> (<EMAIL>) 2021-02-25
* The meeting at 3:00pm today was canceled. More time for coding.
*/
#ifndef __XNETTEMPLATE_H__
#define __XNETTEMPLATE_H__
#include "../tensor/XTensor.h"
#include "../tensor/XThread.h"
namespace nts { // namespace nts(NiuTrans.Tensor)
/*
data distributor template. It distributes batches of data to workers.
The use of data distributor follows:
Start() -> GetBatch() -> ... -> GetBatch() -> End()
In addition, GetBatch() should be thread-safe, and thus could be
called by different threads simultaneously.
*/
class DataDistributeBase
{
protected:
/* mutex of batch loading */
MUTEX_HANDLE loadMutex;
public:
/* constructor */
DataDistributeBase();
/* de-constructor */
~DataDistributeBase();
/* start the job (e.g., open the file).
NOTE THAT before calling Start() one should initialize
the distributor if neccessary */
virtual
bool Start();
/* end the job (e.g., close the file) */
virtual
bool End();
/* get a batch of samples */
virtual
bool GetBatchSimple(XList * inputs, XList * golds);
public:
/* get a batch of samples */
bool GetBatch(XList * args);
/* get a batch of samples (for multi-threading) */
bool GetBatchSafe(XList * args);
};
}
#endif // __XNETTEMPLATE_H__
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Salsa dancing was among the first casualties of restrictions on close-contact indoor activities during the coronavirus pandemic -- and among the last in the UK to see bans lifted. Now enthusiasts of the paired-dance technique set to Latin beats of the same name have wasted no time shimmying back onto the dance floor. | https://tv.guardian.ng/tag/salsa/ | 66 |
Located in North Staffordshire and close to the M6, Stoke on Trent is a vibrant city with a rich industrial heritage, which inspired its nickname ‘The Potteries’. Stoke is a diverse place to live, with something for the whole family to enjoy, from first-rate shopping to open parkland, museums and sports facilities.
At The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery you can find out more about the ceramics industry in Staffordshire through the ages, while other museums in the city include Etruria Industrial Museum and Gladstone Pottery Museum.
In the city centre you’ll find the historic Stoke Minster, along with high street shopping, cafes and restaurants. Intu Potteries and Trentham Shopping Village are purpose-built shopping malls, while Regent Theatre and the New Vic Theatre provide evening entertainment with shows spanning drama, comedy, music and dance.
Stoke is a surprisingly green city, with lots of parks including Turnhurst Jubilee Wood, Berryhill Fields, Fenton Park, Park Hall Country Park and Westport Lake. If you’ve got children this is a big positive, providing plenty of choice for gentle afternoon walks and summertime play spaces.
If you enjoy taking part in sports, there are lots of good facilities in the city including Stoke Ski Centre, Kilnworx Climbing Centre and Waterworld Stoke. If you prefer spectating, you can see Stoke City F.C play their home football matches at the Britannia Stadium.
Family-friendly attractions near to Stoke include Trentham Gardens and Monkey Forest, Chatterley Whitfield Heritage Country Park, and Alton Towers theme park, which is also home to the popular CBeebies Land.
If you’re moving to Stoke with children, it’s good to know that there are lots of excellent schools in the city. Outstanding schools as rated by Ofsted include St Mary’s Catholic Academy, St Peter’s Catholic Primary School, St Wilfrid’s Catholic Primary School, St Mary’s CofE VA Primary School and St Joseph’s College.
Independent schools in Stoke include North Road Academy, Unity School, Phoenix U16, Sporting Stars Academy and Park Avenue Girls’ High School. For higher education, Stoke is home to the main campus of Staffordshire University.
Situated close to junction 15 and 16 of the M6, Stoke is well connected to the rest of the country by road. The train station is on the West Coast Mainline, with regular services to places including London, Birmingham and Manchester. There are also lots of cycle routes throughout the city.
For commuters it’s easy to get to and from Stoke. Birmingham is around 45 minutes away from the city by either car or train, while Manchester is a one hour drive north, or 45 minutes away by train. To get to and from London, the Virgin Trains service takes just one hour 35 minutes, while the car journey takes much longer at around two hours 45 minutes.
If you’re going on holiday or travelling abroad for business, Manchester Airport, East Midlands Airport and Birmingham Airport are all within easy reach of Stoke, so there will be plenty of flying options no matter what your destination.
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I’m so excited to share this years Christmas Tablescape…a rustic glam tablscape with touches of plaid, reindeer, greenery, and wood accents. My idea for this years table came to life after finding these festive christmas tree candles and reindeer table accents from Crate and Barrel. I found pieces at Crate and Barrel, Pier 1, At Home, and Amazon to create a table that is warm and inviting.
When creating a tablscape, first come up with your theme and then build upon that theme. Get creative and don’t be afraid to use your imagination! I always suggest using fresh greenery and candlelight for a Christmas tablescape. Not only does the fresh greenery smell amazing but the candlelight creates a warm and welcoming space for family and friends to congregate around.
I hope my holiday tablscapes bring you a lot of inspiration so you can also create beautiful tables throughout the holiday season! Check out last years Christmas tablescape HERE and ours from two years ago HERE.
I’m also going to be sharing a Christmas morning breakfast casserole and a delicious boozy holiday coffee drink so be sure to check back here soon!
As always, thanks so much for stopping by…see you real soon!
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Poverty in Northern Ireland is slightly lower than in England or Wales, but it is higher than in Scotland.
Poverty among pensioners has fallen considerably over the last decade. Families with children have seen steady or falling poverty rates, but working-age adults without children are now at higher risk of poverty than ten years ago.
Northern Ireland has higher worklessness and lower employment than elsewhere, and the proportion of people in poverty in workless households has increased slightly over time, in contrast with the UK as a whole.
This suggests that the employment rate continues to be a major factor affecting poverty rates in Northern Ireland, and that raising the employment rate could lead to falls in poverty.
The gap in educational attainment among richer and poorer children has narrowed slightly but remains very large.
There are more people with no qualifications and fewer people with higher-level qualifications in Northern Ireland than in the rest of the UK.
One in ten households in the poorest fifth in Northern Ireland faces problem debt.
Nearly two-thirds of people in the poorest fifth are not paying into a pension, increasing their risk of future poverty.
Despite the steady decrease over time of child poverty, pensioner poverty and poverty rates for disabled people in the four parts of the UK, the trend in most parts of the UK is that these poverty rates have started increasing, with the exception of Northern Ireland which has seen its poverty rate drop in recent years.
Attainment has increased over recent years. Those from poorer backgrounds are still much less likely to achieve five or more A*–C grades at GCSE (including maths and English).
| https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/poverty-northern-ireland-2018 | 325 |
Honorary Doctorate Award (Honoris Causa) is presented to Asst. Prof. Amit Vinayak Shinde for his contribution in the field of Teaching. He has been contributing his life in Animation and Multimedia Sector. We are conveying our best wishes for his success or achievements. It has been recorded in Magic Book of Record. | https://magicbookofrecord.com/amit-vinayak-shinde-honorary-doctorate-award/ | 72 |
Shop owners can analyze a customer’s shopping habits the moment he or she walks into a store by observing the products the customer picks up, how the customer interacts with the product and, of course, what products the customer decides to buy.
But thanks to technology and the internet, customer analysis that was once done through observation can now be done with quantifiable data.
Technology leaders discussed the relationship between data and retail Thursday at the University of North Texas’ 12th Annual Consumer Experience Symposium. They talked about how data can help retailers get to know their customers better and sell more products.
Han Woo Park, a media and communication professor at Yeungnam University in South Korea, said companies can gather customer data a number of ways – one of the best ways being social media.
Millennials, especially, have a tendency to post almost everything to sites like Facebook and Twitter. By observing what gets posted to social media, retailers can track what customers buy online, what they search and the types of products a particular customer prefers, he said.
Companies can also analyze customer data by using services like Google Analytics, Omniture and Edgecase.
Edgecase founder and chief data scientist Garrett Eastham said his company is the reason why online shoppers see “related products” on the websites of some stores – when a customer buys a dessert dish, for example, the website then directs the customer to similar products like salad bowls or appetizer dishes.
Some of Edgecase’s clients include Pier 1 Imports, Urban Decay and Crate & Barrel.
Using data to analyze customers is becoming more crucial as retailers move toward personalized marketing, said Amrit Kirpalani, founder and CEO of software company nectarOM.
He said he understands that some people may be apprehensive of the fact that companies track customers’ shopping habits and personal interests, but if used properly, retailers can use that data to give customers a more personalized experience.
“If you deliver personalized experiences in a very safe manner, meaning like, ‘Hey yeah, this is information I’m willing to give you and this is an appropriate exchange between brand, retailer and consumer,’ then most customers really like the notion,” he said.
It all comes together to not only “maximize experience” for shoppers, but generate more revenue for retailers, Park said.
| https://fortworthbusiness.com/energy/data-analysis-gives-retailers-an-edge-tech-leaders-say/ | 488 |
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On the business side, ChannelNEXT Events are all about building predictable and sustainable recurring revenues and best business practices.
Our select vendors and speakers are focused on delivering the best solutions, insights and value. We are not into having celebrity guests to attract and entertain delegates but rather prefer to invest into relevant-to-the-channel expert speakers.
If you are VAR, MSP ITSP or ISV and your goal is to build a managed service recurring revenue business, then this event is a sure fit for you!
Every year, we do several regional events across the country. We go to the local channel communities because it requires much less travel time and costs by attendees.
ChannelNEXT is also where channel partners and vendors come together to experience life-changing Mastermind Peer-Group sessions. This unique collaboration, exchange of ideas and support is where stronger business partnerships and meaningful personal relationships are built.
In-Person social networking is always at the core of these events. If you have already attended a ChannelNXT event, then you know what it means. If not, you are in for a treat! As we roll out of the pandemic, everyone will be yearning form more live contact with others. As such, we will be ramping up our social networking activities.
Why choose ChannelNEXT out of the many tech events out there? It really depends on what you want to get from the experience. In reality, attending any channel conference can be a good thing (always an opportunity to learn and discover new ways to build business). We designed ChannelNEXT to be a smaller VIP event where every attendee feels welcomed and leaves with the right information after spending the right amount of time in an enjoyable environment.
The data over the past decade shows that every attendee walks away with at least 4 significant business opportunities (some have told us that over 1/3 of their business growth was because of ChannelNEXT). More importantly, near 100% said that they would return.
Our team had been doing this for over 18 years and the event is not just business, it’s personal! | https://channelnext.ca/event/channelnext-east/ | 430 |
And if you actually paid attention to art history, you'd realize that every one of these movements has been about pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable in the art world.
But today the mainstream art circles have entirely embraced absurdity. Nothing is too absurd, nothing is too abstract or too mundane or too silly to qualify. Nothing is off the table. Urinals, trash, manufactured/factory-made "art", bodily fluids, screeching live performances, bananas, ~nothing~. Does it include a winning pitch? Is it "ironic" or "clever"? Then it is welcomed, embraced, proclaimed to be genius, and showered with money and money and more money.
Of course, once it's embraced by the mainstream, it inevitably becomes watered down, manufactured, and trite. And so it has now for several decades.
But, if you truly want to see what's on the horizon, who the next avant-garde artists are, you'd have to look beyond these navel-gazing institutions and see what they are ignoring, or better-yet, turning their noses at. Then you *might* just find some real, genuine art. | 91492b751f7140618adec03b4edf7442 | 249 |
He always gets out from work past a normal dinner time (9:00pm or later) so I try my best to shift around my day's events so I can whip up a nice meal and have it ready for him by the time he gets out. Sometimes having good food made by someone who loves you can turn a pretty bad workday 180 degrees around. And when we gym it, he always forgets his water bottle, so I keep an extra with me just for him. We text each other during the day with random I love you's and silly inside jokes. I love that inside jokes from years ago still make us laugh. :) | 93a3c577c3b449ea8d4d4e48560200d8 | 130 |
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that not every book you pick up is going to be a good book. It’s impossible for a single book to click with every single person who picks it up. The vast majority of people probably just put a book they don’t enjoy aside when they finish and forget about it. But us book bloggers/ reviewers have to express our thoughts on books we didn’t enjoy.
What constitutes a negative review varies from person to person. I consider it anything I rate 2 stars or lower (2.5 stars is mediocre. 3 stars is still a book I enjoyed). There are also a lot of different negative review styles. Some people are really balanced, some people write rants. (We won’t acknowledge the people that write personal attacks about an author when they don’t like a book. That’s not okay).
“Mixed” reviews are probably a better way to describe what I write, rather than outright negative ones, especially now I’m writing pros vs cons list reviews. Even before my new style, I don’t think I ever just straight out ranted about a book without saying something positive. I always try and highlight at least some of the things I enjoyed even in the books I strongly disliked, or at least point out the aspects that had potential.
Something I’ve noticed when writing my pros vs cons reviews is that I struggle to come up with points for the cons list. Really struggle. I don’t know if it’s just that I’m generally pretty easy going when it comes to books (I try to go into most books with low expectations, so that way my enjoyment can only go up) and usually only pick up books I’m pretty sure I’ll enjoy or what.
You would think it would be easier to write a more negative review than a genuinely mixed or positive one, particularly if the rating is 2 stars or lower. Normally it’s easier to articulate/ rant about the things you really didn’t like, especially since I take notes while I read. Not for meeeee.
I wonder if it’s because I kind of feel guilty when I’m writing a negative review? I don’t like being mean, even though I’m not really being mean. I like to think I write balanced reviews and explain the specific reasons a book didn’t vibe with me. Personally, I find some of the slightly more negative, honest reviews more helpful than the super positive, gushing reviews (there has been more than one book I passed on after trusted reviewers with similar tastes to me didn’t enjoy it). So I have no reason to feel guilty. BUT I DO. The guilt makes a nice mental block when I’m trying to come up with cons about a book.
How do you feel about writing negative reviews? Do you enjoy reading negative reviews?
Also, for the love of all good books, DON’T TAG AUTHORS IN ANY SORT OF NEGATIVE REVIEWS. It’s rude.
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If I don’t like a book but feel the need to write a review since it was an ARC I usually just say what someone might like about the book and am typically pretty vague, for example, if you like a story with multiple characters and settings and a story that moves quickly with a variety of things going on all at once, you would enjoy this book. And my review is usually much shorter for books I don’t like as much.
I try to be more objective in my reviews. I write up a list of what worked and what may have been better on my reviews so that it will give balanced view. And even in a not so good book, I try to add some redemption points.
That’s my approach too!
I usually rant in negative review but I feel guilty after doing that. And end up writing it in notes and not publish it.
Sometimes you need to start with a rant to get it out. I commend you for writing it in your notes first!
I too have ranted once or twice. But usually about the characters choices more than anything else. Even then I still purposefully take the time to try and find some redemption points.
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