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Riding with HEART %28Hunterdon Equine-Assisted Recreation and Therapy%29 has been helping special needs students with horseback riding lessons for decades.
Originally based in Flemington%2C the organization moved to its present location the Pittstown section of Alexandria about 10 years ago. This barn%2C which was originally built for yearling thoroughbreds%2C had been under utilized in the decade before RWH acquired it.
The Farm to Stable dinner celebrated Hunterdon County agriculture%2C bringing together the equestrian community and the local sustainable cuisine culture. All food was locally sourced and cooked by experts from the area.
ALEXANDRIA – Riding with HEART offers horeseback lessons and much more to special-needs students, ranging from social skills lessons for children on the autism spectrum to children with physical handicaps in wheelchairs.
The organization, with the assistance of some 100-plus volunteers, also has equine-assisted learning groups, equine-assisted psychotherapy groups, Mommy and Me for preschoolers with special needs and a Special Olympic Equestrian Team.
The Pittstown barn where Riding with HEART (Hunderdon Equine-Assisted Recreation and Therapy) is based was once a yearling facility for thoroughbred horses, said Jean Good, the group's treasurer and a board member. She said the barn eventually "morphed" into a breeding facility for standardbred horses, and she came to it in 1992. But the barn was underutilized for many years, she said, and about 10 years ago, Riding with Heart moved to the barn from its previous location in Flemington, with the help of Dr. Dennis Milne, who arranged for the organization to purchase the facility with the help of Green Acres funding.
Last winter's severe cold and heavy snow was not kind to the barn's roof, Good said. The organization consulted an architect, Ben Walmer, about repairing it, and as they discussed the need for fundraising, Walmer suggested Riding with HEART partner with The Highlands Dinner Club, an organization he founded to support and celebrate sustainable cuisine.
"It's not really a club," Walmer said. "Once you touch it, you're in."
So last Saturday, 150 supporters enjoyed local gourmet food, big on luxury prizes in a silent auction, and bet on a jumping contest between mini horses during a fundraiser dubbed From Farm to Stable.
Walmer liked the idea of paring Riding with HEART's agrotherapy with his own organization's emphasis on dining on in-season local foods. The partnership between the two organizations worked so well that Walmer, Good and the members of both groups are looking forward to making dinners together an annual event. For more information about the Highlands Dinner Club, see the sidebar.
The club brought in several local chefs, such as Ian Knauer, who has his own PBS cooking show and owns The Farm Cooking School in Stockton; Diane Pinder, who was named Best Chocolatier by New Jersey Monthly Magazine; Jennifer Scher, the owenr of Poppy Hill, a creative food-events company, the husband-and-wife team of Peter Droste and Morgan Beetham, doing business as Calva, Jason Albaum and Jackie Park Albaum, who create Blue J Syrups using all natural, mainly organic ingredients, and Bobolink Dairy and Bakehouse.
Jersey Artisan Distilling, which concentrates on rum making, and local beef and pork farm Milford Farm were also represented on the menu. Walmer said the seafood came from Metropolitan Seafood.
The feast began in the horse barn, where guests could see the horses in their stalls while munching on artisan breads and cheeses and sample wines. Artist Norma Spatz of Harding, who has sold art at several other Riding with Heart dinners, had a collection of her pastel drawings for sale in one of the stalls. Self-taught, Spatz started drawing 13 years ago, at the age of 64, and has become a phenomenon, who even has had one of her ornaments displayed on the White House Christmas tree. Her subjects range from birds to still lifes of flowers and vegetables.
"I try to arrange my paintings in such a way that the viewer feels a sense of calm and stillness," Spatz wrote for the event program. "I want the viewer to come back to the painting every day and feel peace."
As they sampled hors d'oevres, guests also had a chance to bid in a silent auction for luxury items such as a vacation on Long Beach Island, twosomes at High Bridge Hills Golf Club and Heron Glen Golf Course or a foursome at Basking Ridge Country Club, hot air balloon rides, and gift certificates at several reknowned restaurants.
As the hors d'oevres in the barn began to disappear, diners moved to the adjacent tent, where much of the cooking was being done. When most of the guests were in the tent, Good thanked all the participants and then announced a demonstration with some of the Riding with Heart students would begin in the corrals on the other side of the tent.
The first demonstration was about social skills with Social Skills Demo Daniel Akinsooto riding Stanley, led by Ben Mahler, and Nick Simovich, riding Penny, a golden Palomino, led by Sue Ploski. Students mounted the horses from a ramp and rode in the coral, interacting with the horse, the horse leader, and each other, even playing catch with a each other while they were mounted on their horses. Then came the Adaptive Therapeutic Horseback Riding Demo with two students who have overcome physical limitations through riding horses. Elyse Callahan, who began riding at age 4 and who couldn't sit on a horse without support. Now, at age 12, Elyse rode Odyssey beautifully, led by Sue Plotski. The other student was Brian Rebimbas, who use a wheelchair when he is not on a horse. He rode well with the help of sidewalkers Ben Mahler and Jessica Tippman. You can see a video of the student demonstrations on www.mycentraljersey.com.
The demonstration concluded with Amy Howard demonstrating dressage, a sport that developed from the skills needed by medieval knights. Howard, who used to be a Riding with HEART instructor, now is a member of the organization's board of directors, and she has her own dressage school, Amy Howard Dressage.
The diners continued to enjoy their gourmet meal with locally produced beef, pork, vegetables, wines, breads and cheeses, followed by a contest between teams of attendees trying to get one Riding with HEART's two miniature horses to jump a crossbar.
Work begins next month on the roof, and not a moment too soon. Shingles manufacturer GAF has committed to donating the shingles, and the goal of Saturday's event was to raise enough money to get the job done. However, contributions are always welcome for the organization's activities. Riding with HEART is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit organization, so contributions are tax deductible. For contact information, see the information box.
Staff Writer Pamela MacKenzie: 9008-243-6616 |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| | https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/local/hunterdon-county/2014/09/16/riding-heart-event-showcases-healing-horses-local-food/15732961/ | 1,515 |
What is Milton's Star Club?
How do you and your partner rate as a long term romantic and/or marriage relationship in the future?
How intellectual and sexually compatible are you both when you are together?
Why are you or your partner possessive, restrictive, or jealous when together, or around other people?
How will you both handle the financial and household responsibilities in a partnership over the long term?
Why are you, or your emotions going to be trampled on, or do you have the qualities of a wonderful long lasting happy relationship? | 7b4a6b77c98df536f6ea6e60724034a6 | 113 |
These animations look like the Ishihara test, which is a color perception test for red-green color deficiencies, you get at your Optometrist.
Colored animated drawings created by London based designer and artist Yoni Alter. Vivid and varied colors are a staple in this artist's commercial and personal works. Having had a look at all of his works, I have chosen his colored dots animations. They are quite impressive if you catch them as they are loading, you get to see the dots slowly come to life and the animals slowly start to run or walk. | https://www.designstack.co/2016/10/dots-come-alive-in-animal-animations.html | 114 |
The name change process has been a substantial and controversial topic in the High School 1327 (HS 1327) community. The Drake Leadership Council (DLC) finalized the name change and is continuing with the process, but now what are the next steps?
The DLC has been working to create an inclusive and productive name change process that will include ideas from many perspectives.
“What [the DLC] decided on is that we’re going to finalize any name submissions… we are going to ask that people finish up any name submissions by January 14 because that is our next DLC meeting,” HS 1327 Principal Liz Seabury said.
When the name change conversation started in July 2020, the DLC created a way for students to submit possible new name ideas. The DLC established a Jan. 14 deadline for the submissions so they can continue narrowing down the names in their next meeting and come up with a list of criteria for the new name.
“We also have a committee right now working on going through the 300 and some odd names and vetting them a little bit,” Seabury said.
Since the submissions have been open for around six months, the DLC has received hundreds of name ideas. These submissions will be narrowed down based on the board policy stating that the name must reflect a person who has made a contribution to education or a local geographic landmark.
“The idea I have proposed, and the committee generally likes but will be modifying before it’s official, is to have online votes that include students, staff, parents, and community to choose the best of the hundreds of submissions, then have a multi week vote-off tournament of the eight most popular names, wherein we include student advocates discussing each week’s vote, connected to projects within the 8 SLCs [Small Learning Communities] that research the names,” DLC staff representative Jasper Thelin said.
Once the DLC has narrowed down the submissions to around 100 names, they’ll be sent to an undecided group for a vote. Deciding who should be involved in the vote is among the next steps. The DLC will then finalize the top eight names and begin a single-elimination tournament style process.
Once the process concludes, the final name will be determined. HS 1327 will then recommend the name to the superintendent, who takes the name to the board. The board will then officially change the name of HS 1327 .
The identity for students at HS 1327 will not come automatically with the new name. The process will continue even after the name is officially changed. Students will find their representation in the new name and decide how they identify with it.
HS 1327 staff has discussed the options for the class of 2021’s graduation regarding the name of the school. The students can choose to either graduate with “Sir Francis Drake High School” or the school’s new name on their diploma. This gives the student a choice in how they want to identify with the school.
“What is most important to me…is that I hope it will help engage the student population in doing something real for their school. Being involved in naming your own school is exciting and momentous,” Thelin said.
The name change process gives the HS 1327 community an opportunity to choose a school title that they feel represents their values. Including the opinions from all people who want to be represented ensures that everyone will have a voice they feel is being heard.
Fiona Swan, is a junior at High School 1327 and this will be her first year in Advanced Journalism. She spends most of her free time surfing, discovering...
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In university, I almost believed it. This doctrine of might makes right in world affairs. I should say I almost believed in it. But, then I started to think about that a little. And I became of the mind that we need to do everything we can to make sure people have basic human rights the world over. I guess I also say this as someone who has always been a little different.
It takes a lot of courage to consistently stand up for human rights, especially within countries that are very much part of the international system. China is a great example. That is why I am so inspired by these folks who unfurled a Free Tibet banner off the Great Wall of China this week.
This is important work - thank you to all of you who risked your own safety to take part! | 5b0bac3225d258ed798c160145492ee0 | 163 |
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Sangareddy: Tourists visiting a colonial-era jail here plate and glass, a mug, washing and bathing soaps, bedding and other facilities as per state prison manual, in addition to a fan.
There is no work schedule for visiting ‘prisoners’ but they have to clean their barracks and are free to plant saplings during their stay. The jail was built during the primeministership of Salar Jung-I in 1796 under the Nizam rule in Hyderabad. | cdd0ba51096344621d03b4915c36dda3 | 105 |
Notes and memories for my book "Views of Vietnam" A story of coming of age with the back drop of an unpopular war.
Explore AndreaSilva60's photos on Flickr. AndreaSilva60 has uploaded 104 photos to Flickr.
Shit burning detail, a skill I learned in Vietnam and taught to my troops in Honduras, 18 years later.
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case of c-rations, contractors had different meals. | https://www.pinterest.com.au/humes0103/jungle-warriors/ | 93 |
I’m the US, at least in non-seismic areas of the Midwest, there are fairly loose requirements for redundancy. Most of it is client driven. No condo or commercial project is going to be designed for a loss of a column beyond what the code already requires. Government projects do require this as well as some specific corporate clients that have security concerns.
It is just no something that the market has accepted yet. It might be pushed in the next code revisions once the nature of the Miami collapse is known.
I personally tend to be on the side of caution for certain components, like transfer girders where I always put design with 10-15 % more rebar or PT than required. But yes I’ve never designed for an alternate load path if that component fails. | 25f760d5ce374c4cb1872f43a2ecefe7 | 167 |
Overview of Department:
The department has state-of-the-art facilities for training of undergraduate and postgraduate students in Community Medicine. Assistance to central and state governments in implementation of various national health programs through monitoring and evaluation and providing assessment reports and constructive feedback. It has state-of-the-art facilities for training of undergraduate and postgraduate students in Community Medicine The department has been involved in the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of health programs and activities in its vast field practice area It has a rich experience of handling various research projects funded by national and state agencies in the field of public health. The department has also played a key role in evaluation of national health programs by assisting central and state governments.
Courses Offered:
MBBS Course:
M.B.B.S students’ training in Community Medicine starts from 1st semester and continues till 7th semester. After a gap of one year, on successful completion of 9th semester they come back to the Community Medicine department for 2 months as CRRIs. Medical students teaching and training includes Lectures, Small Group Discussions, Seminars, Clinico-social Case Discussions, Problem solving exercises, Field Visits and Laboratory work.
Community oriented training is given to MBBS students as follows.
They are taken to field practice areas and are exposed to local health problems. The methodology of carrying out surveys is explained. The types of instruction include both observational and participatory.
- Nutrition, Socio-demographic & morbidity surveys
- Family health advisory services, home visits
- Reproductive & Child health care
- Outreach activities (Health Awareness Programmes)
- Specialist clinics are conducted every week on Thursdays
- Clinico – social case studies are conducted on cases from OPD as well as from wards.
- The students are exposed to various important institutions / organizations of Public Health importance.
- At the end of the above programme, the students present the observations on their visits / Clinico-Social cases and these are discussed objectively. All the staff members take part in the discussions.
- Short assessment test is conducted on the penultimate day of each postings and adequate feed back is given to the students.
- After successful completion of final year, the MBBS students are posted to community medicine department for 2 months as a part of compulsory Rotating Internship (CRRI) in batches of 21 – 24 students. CRRIs are given training in Primary Health Centre and Urban Health Centre and in other Public Health Institutions.
- Training in clinical diagnosis & management of common diseases in Rural settings.
- Exposure & hands –on experience in District Health Care system
- Management training through assistance to the concerned Medical Officer
- Training in Journal club presentations, seminars and recent advances in health care
- Doctor-patient relationship – emphasis on care & compassion especially for the socially disadvantaged (Non scholastic ability)
Library: Departmental library is provided with more than 108 books and two desktops with an internet facility.
Core Competencies
- Epidemiology
- Health management
- Health education
- Primary Health Care
- Monitoring and evaluation of health program
- Biostatistics
- Disease prevention and control strategies.
- Community Health Research.
Publications:
- Shravani M, Chennuri H, Kumar BPR. Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Coronavirus Disease 2019 among People Residing in Rural Village, Khammam District, Telangana. Ann Community Health. 2021;9(3):1-5.
- Nagapraveen Veerapu, Maslekar SD,et al.,Bubble CPAP (Continous Positive airway pressure) therapy as a primary mode of respiratory support in preterm newborns with mild to moderate respiratory distress syndrome. Peddiatric Review – International Journal of Pediatric Research. 2021;8(2).
- Nagapraveen Veerapu, Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis as a predictor of neonatal sepsis: a hospital-based cross-sectional study. International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics Babji NS et al. Int J ContempPediatr. May 2021;8(5): 860-866.
- Dr.B.P.Ravi Kumar, Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards CoronavirusDisease 2019 among People Residing in Rural Village, Khammam District, Telangana.Int.J Community Health 2021July- Sep;9(3).
- Harish, Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Coronavirus Disease 2019 among People Residing in Rural Village, Khammam District, Telangana.Int.J Community Health 2021July- Sep;9(3).
- M.ShravaniKnowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Coronavirus Disease 2019 among People Residing in Rural Village, Khammam District, Telangana.Int.J Community Health 2021July- Sep;9(3).
- Veerapu, Nagapraveen & Baer, Philip &Kudumula, Meghana.Health beliefs about hypertension among hypertensive elderly people in Khammam urban locality: health belief model. International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health.2020;7(10): 3892-3895.
- Veerapu, Nagapraveen & Bear, Ravi &Varikuti, Subbarao&Kurada, Jayakrishna. Pilot testing of sticker tool method for monitoring DOTS providers under revised national tuberculosis control program in Khammam: operational research. International Journal of Advances in Medicine.2020;7(5):790-794.
Projects:
- Active Tuberculosis case finding collaboration with State Tuberculosis division, Govt. of Telangana.
- Tuberculosis death audit collaboration with State Tuberculosis Division, Govt. of Telangana
- National Survey on Estimated District Prevalence of Tuberculosis.collobarated with central Tuberculosis Division,
- GOI, and world health Organization..
- Pilot testing of sticker tool method for monitoring DOTS care provider under RNTCP programme in Khammam | 04eabbb3af351c41e22dd9d9e1171a9d | 1,290 |
When I drank a lot it was as good an excuse as any to get wasted, just like when I smoked 4/20 was an excuse to get exquisitely stoned with friends and have adventures.
I was sick all day yesterday, so I laid in bed listening to comedy albums and old radio shows. Today I'm feeling better and I'm chilling at panera reading, surfing reddit, drinking lots if coffee, while I wait for my girlfriend to.come hang out. Tonight the NCAA brackets come out and making my picks will take a majority of my free time this week.
Complicating everything is the fact that I have lost internet access. Even on my phone. You never realize how much you require.internet access throughout the day until you lose it. I'm sure no one noticed, but this is why I haven't been on reddit much lately. | 00c1d446f9f54a0a9eb13c40bccdbe8a | 177 |
Notre Dame needed overtime and a late three from senior Steve Vasturia to push itself past Pitt for a road ACC win on Saturday.
The No. 24 Irish were down by two with time winding down when Vasturia pump faked and created the go-ahead three. Notre Dame’s road win was important since teams like Duke and North Carolina fell to unranked teams earlier in the day. | https://collegebasketball.nbcsports.com/2016/12/31/video-steve-vasturia-late-overtime-3-lifts-no-24-notre-dame-past-pitt/ | 82 |
My agenda is to call out armchair warriors who think they have a right to demand my mayor to resign.
You're not neutral. You say the mayor should resign but fail to acknowledge that the protrump rioters had no permit to demonstrate. In most cities the police would shut down the demonstration before it even started. If the mayor had an agenda, he would have blocked them from the start, but this is not how things work in Berkeley. You wouldn't know that because you know nothing about this place. If the protesters had a permit, then police would have been obliged to ensure the demonstration route was clear.
BLM protests are relevant because of the enormous scale of the protest, yet lack of arrests. This recent trump protest saw more arrests than any other protest since Occupy Wall Street. The two are clearly relevant in this discussion because you call for the mayors resignation but you don't even realize how small this protrump demonstration was compared to others. | 58a92686ef844ae3bb9e2b3edbe6cec3 | 195 |
Fast and furious tightening by the Federal Reserve risks plunging the economy into recession, and economists fear the central bank is making another mistake after a recent slow response to runaway inflation.
A string of massive interest rate hikes of 75 basis points, with at least one more expected in November, according to experts, means that officials are not going to wait for the effect of their actions before acting again.
The risk of an aggressive policy without analysis of the actions of Fed officials could drive the economy into a much deeper recession than expected. Given the lag of some inflation data, this is already a concern for many politicians.
Let me remind you that Fed officials started raising rates from almost zero only in March, after the price pressure had already reached a significant level. After their delay, they are now ramping up the burden on the economy at a record pace to catch up, with the price of a mistake being the future economic pain caused by inflation-suppressing actions. The Fed has already raised rates by 3 percentage points this year, with the bulk of the increase coming in the summer, and has vowed to keep raising rates until it sees clear signs of lower inflation.
According to the latest reports, inflation in the US resumed its growth in August, which forced the Fed to return to discussions on the topic of maintaining a further aggressive policy. The Fed's current actions have already pushed up the cost of borrowing on everything from home loans to cars, but the full impact of these moves on the economy will only be known in the next few months, given the time it takes for current changes to take hold across all areas.
Experts say that without creating the respite that many traders and investors hoped for in the early fall of this year, politicians risk causing a larger slowdown in the economy than necessary, as well as potentially damaging the labor market more than anticipated.
At their meeting later this month, Fed officials said they would raise rates by another 1.25 percentage points this year, which could mean another 75 basis point hike in November and a half-percentage increase in December. According to the Fed's median forecast, next year rates will rise by another quarter of a point. All this supports the dollar and puts pressure on risky assets, especially in the face of a deteriorating geopolitical situation.
As for the technical picture of EURUSD, the bulls have regained their advantage and the market under their control, which they lost at the beginning of the week, and now they are aiming to break through the nearest resistance at 0.9840. This is necessary if they expect a continuation of the upward correction at the end of this month. The breakdown of 0.9840 will take the trading instrument even higher to the area of 0.9890 and 0.9950. But despite the good upward prospects, the bulls' main task is to protect the immediate support of 0.9780. Its breakthrough will push the euro to a low of 0.9730, but in this situation there will be nothing critical, since the lower border of the new rising channel passes there. You can start to get nervous only if you miss 0.9730, as the pair will easily fall to the area of 0.9680 and 0.9640.
The pound continues to win back positions one by one thanks to the support of the Bank of England. Now the bulls are focused on the resistance at 1.1200, the breakthrough of which will open the prospects for further recovery in the area of 1.1260 and 1.1320. It will be possible to talk about the return of pressure on the trading instrument only after the bears take control of 1.1070, but this will not cause serious damage to the bull market observed since the middle of the week. Only a breakthrough of 1.1070 will push the GBPUSD back to 1.1010 and 1.0950. | https://www.fx.co/en/analysis/323102 | 784 |
The dream started out with me going to a park to meetup with my ex. It was night time, a still-kind of darkness, oak trees stuck out a bit more, and we drove home. He had a bruised eye and a broken jaw and I was taking care of him, and it was kind of like we were together again.
Scene changes. Its still night, but I'm at a brightly lit gas station. Its empty and old. I'm outside, and I notice the ground is mostly dry dirt. I walk around a bit and the dream changes again.
Now I'm riding a bike with my dad and brother in the neighborhood, its hot and sunny outside. A lady comes up to me, she's wearing glasses, looks middle aged, somewhat thin, and she's got a broken leg. I carry to her neighborhood nearby and through a house with no glass in the windows, the walls are all white, and the ground around the house is all dirt. There is a military couple in the house in their uniforms, and a shrunken man following us who is nice and spills noodles on a little table dish. Then we stand outside on the cement porch and it ends.
Ex & current: I'm in a relationship with a guy I love and care for, but don't see myself settling down with. I don't want to breakup with him and hurt him because he is so attached and I don't want to leave him because he's a great attentive charming loving guy but my ex came back a month ago and I told him I couldn't talk to him anymore. He stopped talking to me, on good terms, then a month later he comes back again. I haven't talked to him but I thought if I had a chance to do that over, I would have at least met up with him at that park and had a real-talk. We had both seen ourselves settling down together if it went that far.
I haven't been that close to my brother or dad in the past few years, even though I live with them. Im friendly with my dad and trying to be there for my dad through a divorce my parents are going through. Everyone is civil.
I usually feel like I run in circles relationship-wise and don't want to make the same mistake. I think maybe I should settle with someone who loves me very much and I know wouldn't leave me instead of go with someone I really loved for something that may or may not work.
Sorry for all that drama by the way just figured that might be relevant. So yeah help me out please!!
| http://www.dreambible.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12058 | 529 |
I'm just going to share a quick excerpt of my experience with CPS here. So my mum abused my dad, and me and my sister were caught in the crossfire. Luckily, my dad fought his ground in court and my life isn't as fucked up as it could be so far. My mum still beats me and I have to live with her 1 day a week. My dad is nice 95% of the time, so that's good. I live with my dad 6 days a week. Also CPS stole money from my dad. | 66a3c0a021694c3db0dbec89fd24f2f7 | 110 |
# This code handles 3D model-based objects recognition using geometric hashing algorithm
# Authors: <NAME>, <NAME>, <NAME>
# 11/1/2018
import math
from datetime import datetime
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import os
from random import shuffle
class TransformationParams:
def __init__(self, angle_x, angle_y, angle_z, scale, offset_point):
self.angle_x = angle_x
self.angle_y = angle_y
self.angle_z = angle_z
self.scale_factor = scale
self.offset = offset_point
class Point3D:
def __init__(self, x, y, z, pid):
self.x = x
self.y = y
self.z = z
self.id = pid
def calculate_transformation_parameters(point1, point2, point3, bin_size):
# this function calculates the transformation parameters for the bases (point1, point2 and point3)
# it returns a TransformationParams object which contains info about rotation angles, translation offset and scale
# factor
x1, y1, z1 = float(point1.x), float(point1.y), float(point1.z)
x2, y2, z2 = float(point2.x), float(point2.y), float(point2.z)
x3, y3, z3 = float(point3.x), float(point3.y), float(point3.z)
# ### TRANSLATION ####
# calculate offset/translation and apply it to the bases
new_x2, new_y2, new_z2 = x2 - x1, y2 - y1, z2 - z1
new_x3, new_y3, new_z3 = x3 - x1, y3 - y1, z3 - z1
# check that the chosen bases p1, p2, and p3 are not collinear by checking that vector R12 is not a scaled version
# of R13, assuming that p1 is the origin (0,0,0)
if new_x2 * new_z3 == new_x3 * new_z2 and new_x2 * new_y3 == new_x3 * new_y2 and new_y2 * new_z3 == new_y3 * new_z2:
# print("Points are not collinear")
return None
# ### ROTATION ###
# now since our first point is centered at the origin of our new coordinate system, we want to transform others so
# that the second point will land on the positive x-axis at point 1,0,0 (after normalizing by the scale factor)
# while the third point will land on the xy-plane. To do so we will first perform rotation around the y-axis so
# that the 2nd point lands on the xy plane. Then, we'll perform rotation around z-axis so that point 2 will land on
# positive x-axis. Finally, we'll do rotation around x-axis so that the third point lands on the xy plane
# first step is to calculate the rotation angle around the y-axis
if new_x2 == 0:
if new_z2 == 0:
rot_y_rad = 0 # point 2 is already on the xy plane
elif new_z2 > 0:
rot_y_rad = math.pi / 2.0
else:
rot_y_rad = -1 * math.pi / 2.0
else:
rot_y_rad = math.atan2(new_z2, new_x2) # rotation angle around y-axis in radians
# Apply rotation around y-axis for the points
if rot_y_rad != 0:
sin_theta = math.sin(rot_y_rad)
cos_theta = math.cos(rot_y_rad)
# since we're rotating around y-axis, y coordinates won't be affected
new_x2 = new_x2 * cos_theta + new_z2 * sin_theta
new_z2 = -1 * new_x2 * sin_theta + new_z2 * cos_theta # this should be zero
new_x3 = new_x3 * cos_theta + new_z3 * sin_theta
new_z3 = -1 * new_x3 * sin_theta + new_z3 * cos_theta
# now, rotate around z-axis so that point 2 will land on the positive x-axis
if new_x2 == 0:
if new_y2 == 0:
rot_z_rad = 0 # point 2 is already on the positive x-axis
elif new_y2 > 0:
rot_z_rad = math.pi / 2.0
else:
rot_z_rad = -1 * math.pi / 2.0
else:
rot_z_rad = math.atan2(new_y2, new_x2)
if rot_z_rad != 0:
sin_theta = math.sin(-1 * rot_z_rad)
cos_theta = math.cos(-1 * rot_z_rad)
new_x2 = new_x2 * cos_theta + -1 * new_y2 * sin_theta
new_y2 = new_x2 * sin_theta + new_y2 * cos_theta
new_x3 = new_x3 * cos_theta + -1 * new_y3 * sin_theta
new_y3 = new_x3 * sin_theta + new_y3 * cos_theta
# finally, calculate rotation around x-axis, such that the third point lands on the xy plane
if new_y3 == 0:
if new_z3 == 0:
rot_x_rad = 0 # point 3 is already on the xy plane
elif new_z3 > 0:
rot_x_rad = math.pi / 2.0 # 90 degrees
else:
rot_x_rad = -1 * math.pi / 2.0 # -90 degrees
else:
rot_x_rad = math.atan2(new_z3, new_y3)
scale = new_x2
# we need to scale our new reference coordinate system so that the distance between the first two points (bases)
# is 1
trans_info = TransformationParams(rot_x_rad, rot_y_rad, rot_z_rad, scale, point1)
return trans_info
def transform_point3d(trans_info, p, bin_size):
# this function transforms a point from the original to the new coordinate system using the
# transformation details provided in transformation_info object
# Apply translation
p.x = p.x - trans_info.offset.x
p.y = p.y - trans_info.offset.y
p.z = p.z - trans_info.offset.z
# Rotate around y-axis
sin_theta = math.sin(trans_info.angle_y)
cos_theta = math.cos(trans_info.angle_y)
p.x = p.x * cos_theta + p.z * sin_theta
p.z = -1 * p.x * sin_theta + p.z * cos_theta
# Rotate around z-axis
sin_theta = math.sin(-1 * trans_info.angle_z)
cos_theta = math.cos(-1 * trans_info.angle_z)
p.x = p.x * cos_theta + -1 * p.y * sin_theta
p.z = p.x * sin_theta + p.y * cos_theta
# Rotate around x-axis
sin_theta = math.sin(-1 * trans_info.angle_x)
cos_theta = math.cos(-1 * trans_info.angle_x)
p.y = p.y * cos_theta + -1 * p.z * sin_theta
p.z = p.y * sin_theta + p.z * cos_theta
p.x = int(round(p.x / bin_size)) / trans_info.scale_factor
p.y = int(round(p.y / bin_size)) / trans_info.scale_factor
p.z = int(round(p.z / bin_size)) / trans_info.scale_factor
return p
def add_entry_to_hash_table(htable, point, b1, b2, b3, model_id, include_id):
# this function adds an entry to link the x, y coordinates of the point to the model ID and bases pairs info
if type(htable) != dict:
# this should not happen, added just in case
htable = {}
# check if there is already an entry in the dictionary for the point's x coordinate
# if not create a new empty entry
if point.x not in htable:
htable[point.x] = {}
# check if there is already an entry for the point's y coordinate inside point.x's entry if not
# create a new empty entry
if point.y not in htable[point.x]:
htable[point.x][point.y] = {}
if point.z not in htable[point.x][point.y]:
htable[point.x][point.y][point.z] = {}
# check if there is already an entry for the model coordinate inside the point.x, point.y entry
# if not create a new empty entry
if model_id not in htable[point.x][point.y][point.z]:
htable[point.x][point.y][point.z][model_id] = []
# add the entry in the x,y bin with model ID and bases pair
if include_id:
htable[point.x][point.y][point.z][model_id].append([b1, b2, b3, point.id])
else:
htable[point.x][point.y][point.z][model_id].append([b1, b2, b3])
return htable
def compare_for_clustering(cluster_rep_table, new_model_table, model_lengths, thresh):
# this function is used to compare the hash table of a new model to the hash table of
# a the model that is the cluster representative to check for matching.
votes_table = {}
# vote for x, y coordinates from new_model_table that also exist in cluster_rep_table
for x in new_model_table:
if x not in cluster_rep_table:
return False
for y in new_model_table[x]:
if y not in cluster_rep_table[x]:
return False
for z in new_model_table[x][y]:
if z not in cluster_rep_table[x][y]:
return False
for model_id in cluster_rep_table[x][y][z]:
for b1, b2, b3 in cluster_rep_table[x][y][z][model_id]:
if model_id not in votes_table:
votes_table[model_id] = {}
if b1 not in votes_table[model_id]:
votes_table[model_id][b1] = {}
if b2 not in votes_table[model_id][b1]:
votes_table[model_id][b1][b2] = {}
if b3 not in votes_table[model_id][b1][b2]:
votes_table[model_id][b1][b2][b3] = 0
votes_table[model_id][b1][b2][b3] += (1.0 / model_lengths[model_id])
max_vote = 0
for model_id in votes_table:
for b1 in votes_table[model_id].keys():
for b2 in votes_table[model_id][b1]:
for b3 in votes_table[model_id][b1][b2]:
if votes_table[model_id][b1][b2][b3] > max_vote:
max_vote = votes_table[model_id][b1][b2][b3]
# check if a match exists. i.e., if the number of max votes is above the threshold
if max_vote >= thresh:
return True
else:
return False
def merge_with_full_htable(full_htable, cluster_htable):
for x_sub in cluster_htable:
for y_sub in cluster_htable[x_sub]:
for z_sub in cluster_htable[x_sub][y_sub]:
model = cluster_htable[x_sub][y_sub][z_sub].keys()[0]
if x_sub not in full_htable:
full_htable[x_sub] = {}
if y_sub not in full_htable[x_sub]:
full_htable[x_sub][y_sub] = {}
if z_sub not in full_htable[x_sub][y_sub]:
full_htable[x_sub][y_sub][z_sub] = {}
full_htable[x_sub][y_sub][z_sub][model] = cluster_htable[x_sub][y_sub][z_sub][model]
return full_htable
def start_offline_training(training_threshold, bin_size):
# this function is the offline training part where we loop through the models and produce the
# full hash table. Also, a clustering step was added to eliminate similar models by clustering
# them together and choosing only one model to be the cluster representative then add its hash
# table to the full table
print('Offline learning started...')
beginning = datetime.now()
print(beginning)
filenames = []
for root, dirs, files in os.walk("models3D/models/"):
for filename in files:
filenames.append(filename)
model_lengths = [0] * len(filenames)
# initialization
num_unclustered_models = len(filenames)
cluster_ids = {}
model_id = -1
full_htable = {}
num_of_models = len(filenames)
# we look for an unclustered Model, pick it as the cluster representative, construct its hash table, add it to
# the full table. then find all matches of this cluster and eliminate them
for b1 in range(0, num_of_models):
cluster_ids[filenames[b1]] = -1 # 0 means that this fragment is not clustered yet
while num_unclustered_models > 0:
model_id += 1 # cluster id
for k in range(0, num_of_models):
if cluster_ids[filenames[k]] == -1: # find the first unclustered model
cluster_ids[filenames[k]] = model_id
cluster_htable = {}
break
model_file = open('models3D/models/' + filenames[k], 'r')
lines = model_file.readlines()
model_file.close()
p_coord = [[], [], [], [], []]
#Feature Extraction
for ii in range(0, len(lines)):
# fetch atom data record
record = lines[ii].split()
# Only read alpha carbon atoms
if not lines[ii].startswith("ATOM"):
continue
if record[2] != "CA":
continue
# extract data from ATOM record
p_coord[0].append(float(record[6]))
p_coord[1].append(float(record[7]))
p_coord[2].append(float(record[8]))
p_coord[3].append(-1) # current identified model
p_coord[4].append(-1) # identified model ID
model_lengths[k] = len(p_coord[0]) - 1
# creates the full geometric hash table of the model
for b1 in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):
print(b1)
x1, y1, z1 = p_coord[0][b1], p_coord[1][b1], p_coord[2][b1]
p1 = Point3D(float(x1), float(y1), float(z1), b1)
for b2 in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):
if b1 != b2:
x2, y2, z2 = p_coord[0][b2], p_coord[1][b2], p_coord[2][b2]
p2 = Point3D(float(x2), float(y2), float(z2), b2)
for b3 in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):
if b1 != b3 and b2 != b3:
x3, y3, z3 = p_coord[0][b3], p_coord[1][b3], p_coord[2][b3]
p3 = Point3D(float(x3), float(y3), float(z2), b3)
# check that we're picking two unique points as bases
trans_info = calculate_transformation_parameters(p1, p2, p3, bin_size)
if trans_info is None:
# points are collinear, pick another combination
continue
# after picking the bases, loop through the remaining points
for p_index in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):
if p_index != b1:
point_x, point_y, point_z = p_coord[0][p_index], p_coord[1][p_index], p_coord[2][p_index]
point = Point3D(float(point_x), float(point_y), float(point_z), p_index)
new_point = transform_point3d(trans_info, point, bin_size) # transformation and quantization
cluster_htable = add_entry_to_hash_table(cluster_htable, new_point, b1, b2, b3, model_id, False)
num_unclustered_models -= 1
merge_with_full_htable(full_htable, cluster_htable)
# cluster all matching models
for n in range(k + 1, num_of_models): # loop through the remaining models
model_lengths[n] = len(p_coord[0]) - 1
if cluster_ids[filenames[n]] == -1:
model_file = open('models3D/models/' + filenames[n], 'r')
lines = model_file.readlines()
model_file.close()
matched = False
for b1 in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):
x1, y1, z1 = p_coord[0][b1], p_coord[1][b1], p_coord[2][b1]
p1 = Point3D(float(x1), float(y1), float(z1), b1)
for b2 in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):
if b1 != b2:
x2, y2, z2 = p_coord[0][b2], p_coord[1][b2], p_coord[2][b2]
p2 = Point3D(float(x2), float(y2), float(z2), b2)
for b3 in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):
if b1 != b3 and b2 != b3:
x3, y3, z3 = p_coord[0][b3], p_coord[1][b3], p_coord[2][b3]
p3 = Point3D(float(x3), float(y3), float(z2), b3)
trans_info = calculate_transformation_parameters(p1, p2, p3, bin_size)
if trans_info is None:
# points are collinear, pick another combination
continue
model_htabel = {}
for p_index in range(0, len(p_coord[0])):# after picking the bases, loop through remaining points
if p_index != b1:
point_x, point_y, point_z = p_coord[0][p_index], p_coord[1][p_index], p_coord[2][p_index]
point = Point3D(float(point_x), float(point_y), float(point_z), p_index)
new_point = transform_point3d(trans_info, point, bin_size)
model_htabel = add_entry_to_hash_table(model_htabel, new_point, b1, b2, b3, model_id, False)
matched = compare_for_clustering(cluster_htable, model_htabel, model_lengths, training_threshold)
# print(matched)
if matched: # if the base fragment and the new one are similar
cluster_ids[filenames[n]] = model_id
num_unclustered_models -= 1
break
if matched:
break
if matched:
break
print('Clustering ended...')
end = datetime.now()
print(end)
duration = end - beginning
hours, mod = divmod(duration.total_seconds(), 3600)
minutes, seconds = divmod(mod, 60)
print('Duration: ' + str(hours) + 'h, ' + str(minutes) + 'm, ' + str(seconds) + 's')
return full_htable, model_lengths, filenames
def search_for_a_match(full_htable, test_htable, threshold, model_lengths):
# this function is used to compare the hash table of a new model to the hash table of
# a the model that is the cluster representative to check for matching.
votes_count = {}
votes_lists = {}
# vote for x, y coordinates from test_htable that also exist in full_htable
for x in test_htable:
if x not in full_htable:
continue
for y in test_htable[x]:
if y not in full_htable[x]:
continue
for z in test_htable[x][y]:
if z not in full_htable[x][y]:
continue
for model_id in full_htable[x][y][z]:
for b1, b2, b3 in full_htable[x][y][z][model_id]:
if model_id not in votes_count:
votes_count[model_id] = {}
votes_lists[model_id] = {}
if b1 not in votes_count[model_id]:
votes_count[model_id][b1] = {}
votes_lists[model_id][b1] = {}
if b2 not in votes_count[model_id][b1]:
votes_count[model_id][b1][b2] = {}
votes_lists[model_id][b1][b2] = {}
if b3 not in votes_count[model_id][b1][b2]:
votes_count[model_id][b1][b2][b3] = 0
votes_lists[model_id][b1][b2][b3] = []
if test_htable[x][y][z][0][0][3] not in votes_lists[model_id][b1][b2][b3]:
votes_count[model_id][b1][b2][b3] += (1.0 / model_lengths[model_id])
votes_lists[model_id][b1][b2][b3].append(test_htable[x][y][z][0][0][3])
max_vote = 0
max_model_id = 0
max_votes_list = []
for model_id in votes_count:
for b1 in votes_count[model_id]:
for b2 in votes_count[model_id][b1]:
for b3 in votes_count[model_id][b1][b2]:
if votes_count[model_id][b1][b2][b3] > max_vote:
max_vote = votes_count[model_id][b1][b2][b3]
max_model_id = model_id
max_votes_list = votes_lists[model_id][b1][b2][b3]
# check if a match exists. i.e., if the number of max votes is above the threshold
if max_vote >= threshold:
return max_model_id, max_votes_list
else:
return None, []
def recognition_test(lines, full_htable, threshold, bin_size, model_lengths, model_names):
identified_models_coord = {}
identified_models_points = {}
model_id = 0
p_coord = [[], [], [], [], []]
for ii in range(0, len(lines)):
# fetch atom data record
record = lines[ii].split()
# Only read alpha carbon atoms
if not lines[ii].startswith("ATOM"):
continue
if record[2] != "CA":
continue
# extract data from ATOM record
p_coord[0].append(float(record[6]))
p_coord[1].append(float(record[7]))
p_coord[2].append(float(record[8]))
p_coord[3].append(0) # current identified model
p_coord[4].append(0) # identified model ID
b_i = range(0, len(p_coord[0]))
shuffle(b_i)
for b1 in b_i:
print(b1)
x1 = p_coord[0][b1]
y1 = p_coord[1][b1]
z1 = p_coord[2][b1]
p1 = Point3D(float(x1), float(y1), float(z1), b1)
for b2 in b_i:
if b1 != b2: # for each unique point pair
x2 = p_coord[0][b2]
y2 = p_coord[1][b2]
z2 = p_coord[2][b2]
p2 = Point3D(float(x2), float(y2), float(z2), b2)
for b3 in b_i:
if b1 != b3 and b2 != b3: # for each unique point pair
x3 = p_coord[0][b3]
y3 = p_coord[1][b3]
z3 = p_coord[2][b3]
p3 = Point3D(float(x3), float(y3), float(z3), b3)
trans_info = calculate_transformation_parameters(p1, p2, p3, bin_size)
if trans_info is None:
# points are collinear, pick another combination
continue
test_htable = {}
for p_index in range(0, len(p_coord[0])): # after picking the bases, loop through remaining points
p_coord[3][p_index] = -1
if p_index != b1:
point_x = p_coord[0][p_index]
point_y = p_coord[1][p_index]
point_z = p_coord[2][p_index]
point = Point3D(float(point_x), float(point_y), float(point_z), p_index)
new_point = transform_point3d(trans_info, point, bin_size)
test_htable = add_entry_to_hash_table(test_htable, new_point, b1, b2, b3, model_id, True)
matched_model_id, voting_point_ids = search_for_a_match(full_htable, test_htable, threshold, model_lengths)
if matched_model_id is not None:
voting_point_coordinates = [[], [], []]
voting_point_ids.append(b1)
for k in range(0, len(voting_point_ids)):
pid = voting_point_ids[k]
xv, yv, zv = p_coord[0][pid], p_coord[1][pid], p_coord[2][pid]
voting_point_coordinates[0].append(float(xv))
voting_point_coordinates[1].append(float(yv))
voting_point_coordinates[2].append(float(zv))
p_coord[3][pid] = int(matched_model_id) # coloring for current model
p_coord[4][pid] = int(matched_model_id) # all recognized models
already_identified = False
if matched_model_id in identified_models_points:
for i in range(0, len([matched_model_id])):
if sorted(voting_point_ids) == sorted(identified_models_points[matched_model_id][i]):
already_identified = True
break
# if the base fragment and the new one are similar
if not already_identified:
if matched_model_id not in identified_models_points:
# identified_models_coord[matched_model_id] = []
identified_models_points[matched_model_id] = []
print voting_point_ids
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d')
ax.scatter(p_coord[0], p_coord[1], p_coord[2], c=p_coord[3])
plt.title("Model " + str(model_names[matched_model_id]))
plt.show()
print("MATCH DETECTED")
print(len(voting_point_ids))
# identified_models_coord[matched_model_id].append(voting_point_coordinates)
identified_models_points[matched_model_id].append(voting_point_ids)
print identified_models_points.keys()
return identified_models_points.keys()
# MAIN FLOW #
threshold = 0.99
bin_size = 0.001
full_hash_table, model_lengths, model_names = start_offline_training(threshold, bin_size)
test_file = open('test scenes 3D/test_' + str(0) + '.pdb', 'r')
# test_file = open('test scenes 3D/1a0c.pdb', 'r')
lines = test_file.readlines()
test_file.close()
recognition_test(lines, full_hash_table, threshold, bin_size, model_lengths, model_names)
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Twitch streamer Ludwig Ahgren has explained how the ‘relaxed’ way Charlie ‘MoistCr1TiKaL’ White runs his YouTube channel is something he wishes he could emulate.
Ludwig is one of the most successful content creators in the world in his own right, blowing up on Twitch especially in 2021.
After taking the platform by storm with his 31-day subathon, he, along with other content creators, has put together some of the most innovative content on Twitch, including some slightly embarrassing couples games and hilarious roasts.
But Ludwig explained on stream why he’s slightly jealous of the more carefree style of creators like Cr1tikal, and showed off an incredible impersonation.
Ludwig has become one of Twitch’s biggest streamers in 2021.
Ludwig then added another flawless impression of Cr1tikal, as he compared the two approaches with another mundane speech. He said: “‘So, I bought cookies the other day and it says dark chocolate but I found out that when you bite into it, it’s milk chocolate.
It’s fair to say Ludwig’s impression wasn’t quite as clean as Ali ‘Myth’ Kabbani’s legendary impersonation of Felix ‘xQc’ Lengyell, but it certainly wasn’t terrible.
And regardless of Cr1tikal’s YouTube success, Ludwig can have comfort that his Twitch sub record will likely not be beaten by him anytime soon. | https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/ludwig-explains-why-hes-jealous-of-moistcr1tikals-youtube-content-1589084/ | 330 |
Pantheon Resources, the AIM-quoted oil and gas exploration company in Texas, has announced that the VOBM#4 well has reached target depth of 12,050 feet, having encountered the Wilcox horizon as targeted.
The wellbore is currently being prepared for logging operations, which are anticipated to take place over the coming days.
The company has also reported that Kinder Morgan has now completed the initial commissioning phase of the gas processing facility, which is running smoothly and trouble free.
The wells are currently in the 'clean up' phase, producing drilling mud and debris through a narrow choke. Production volumes during this phase from the VOBM#1 and VOBM#3 wells are averaging approximately 5 mmcf/d through a restricted choke.
The operator has conservatively restricted production rates whilst the wells are cleaning up and will progressively increase production volumes, including commencement of test volumes from VOBM#2H, when appropriate.
Jay Cheatham, CEO of Pantheon, said:"I am pleased to have reached target depth in VOBM#4. As we have previously stated, the Wilcox has been a welcomed bonus for us, with great potential should it be successful, particularly given our 75% working interest in the well. The gas facility is progressing in line with expectations.
“As the wells clean up the current restricted production rates should increase significantly going forward".
The market responded strongly to Pantheon’s latest update with the company’s share price up over 7% in late morning trading to 54.75.
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Official Online Registration for Faith Formation is NOW OPEN!
The Faith Formation of your children will continue to be based on the model of the domestic church. This will be done at home using Discover! Finding Faith in Life instead of the traditional weekly classes. Discover! Finding Faith in Life will inspire and engage your children with a self-paced, child-focused, at-home program. The Faith Formation team will be supporting you as you adapt to this model. It is our aim and hope that this program will benefit both your child/children’s faith, and that of your entire family!
In addition, we will offer approximately six Sunday in-person experiences throughout the year, where families will come together to pray, learn, and celebrate our faith! This will also include a prayerful Celebration of the Word for children during the weekly family Mass.
We look forward to sharing all of the exciting details in August and the ways we hope to support your family as you grow in faith together!
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The basic premise has always been sound: the PocketSurfer2 is a truly portable device that you can buy off the shelf for £179 inc VAT. You can then enjoy proper internet access – real web pages rather than indifferently optimised WAP pages – without incurring hefty data charges. The most it will cost you to be online each month with the PocketSurfer2 is £5.99.
Whether or not you find using the PocketSurfer2 above and beyond the 20 hours a month that the initial purchase price includes remains to be seen, however.
The PocketSurfer2 accesses the web via GPRS (general packet radio service). It's the same technology that the BlackBerry used and that promptly shook up the way business users kept in touch and got online on the move.
While Datawind would no doubt love to make even a very small ripple along these lines, our first impression is that the PocketSurfer2 doesn't have the design appeal or the intuitiveness of the BlackBerry. But if you need mobile web access for a fixed price, the PocketSurfer2 may just be the sort of product you've been waiting for.
GPRS is still around – not least in current BlackBerry handsets – but the push from 2.5G to 3G and HSDPA (high speed data packet access) means few of the latest web-enabled mobile phone handsets rely on GPRS. The speed at which you can access the web isn't a problem with the PocketSurfer2, though.
Datawind’s servers push web pages you request to the PocketSurfer2 device. Web page content is compressed by a factor of up to 30 thanks to some clever algorithms that prioritise straight text page elements and shrink down images. This, the company says, enables it to provide 'pocket broadband access' and keep data costs down.
Options to upload items to the free 25GB online storage vault Datawind supplies with the PocketSurfer2, to access a PC remotely and to create word processed or spreadsheet documents are offered on the lefthand side. Email, IM and links to items such as news, sport and stock information, weather forecast (the Met Office website), train timetables and a search tool make up the central pane. Google Maps shows your current location in another pane further to the right of the screen.
There's something missing among this selection, though: a browser icon. We were surprised to find that the prominent onscreen items do not include an internet access option, given that this is what most people will have bought the PocketSurfer2 for.
Selecting any of the onscreen items and negotiating your way around the PocketSurfer2 itself is not as easy as it might be. Using the four-way navipad at the bottom right to move the cursor across the 640x240-pixel screen can be extremely slow.
Thankfully, the selection of quick access keys running down the PocketSurfer2's lefthand side helps ease things greatly.
For most purposes, the PocketSurfer2's GO button is the one you need. This launches the browser bar. Type in a URL and the page you want will generally be served up within a second or two. Pages are sent from a central server and are compressed en route so you get reduced graphics but quickly delivered pages. A quick access button directly beneath the Power button at the top left lets you flick between standard and fullscreen mode, the better to view items on your web pages.
Once you're at the page you need, you can quickly move around it. Whereas the zipping around accelerates during web browsing if you hold down the navipad key that correlates to the direction you want to go, you're stuck in slow-mo when navigating the device itself.
We also found it best to place the PocketSurfer2 flat on a desk or other hard surface while tapping away at the qwerty keyboard buttons. The PocketSurfer2 's keyboard bears more than a passing resemblance to that of a Motorola Razr handset with angular slashes between keys. Unfortunately, this device's keyboard flexes in much the same way as the original Razr phone, too.
We were able to view the static and fairly clean pages of the PC Advisor website with no trouble. Due to the compression, images within web pages are displayed at what looks like a fairly poor resolution. But this is not a problem if you're after online information and connectivity. Surprisingly, you're not especially hobbled by the PocketSurfer's compression algorithms if you want to make use of Web 2.0 applications such as Facebook or YouTube, though.
We were able to view a Facebook profile, tag photos and update comments and were even able to play a YouTube video though, of course, there's no audio output on this 174g device, as it probably wouldn’t work that well with the data compression required to deliver web pages at speed. We can't comment on battery life at this stage, since we’ve yet to receive the retail version of the PocketSurfer2, but its makers claim five hours of active use between charges. | https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/review/datawind-pocketsurfer2-review-1148/ | 1,061 |
This is a neat clean one owner home on 2.38 acres. Sellers built the home and have been here ever since. Brand new kitchen in the basement. Basement could be a suitable apartment. Brand new trex deck, double car detached garage and work shop, heated attached garage, storage shed, immaculately cared for home and yard. Back half of of property planted in alfalfa. Seller is related to listing agent.
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Political strategists grappled Thursday night with the potential outcomes of this surprising presidential election, yet concluded it may be a more conventional race than believed; hopefuls on both sides of the aisle must ultimately engage a growing core of young voters and, most importantly, must engage people of color.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs hosted the event, “On the Campaign Trail: Political Strategy, Millennials, and the 2016 Election,” that featured a panel of strategists, moderated by Dina Smeltz. About 50 people attended the event, organized by the Council’s Young Professionals program.
With the potential candidates looking more and more polarized, the issue of engaging undecided, new voters seems especially critical. Though the event was meant to underscore the importance of voter engagement in the increasingly unpredictable and surprising presidential election, the panelists mostly focused on contextualizing the race within patterns of voting in past races.
Democratic strategist Joe Trippi noted that during his work on the 2004 Howard Dean campaign for President, Dean sought to engage the three “legs on the stool” of critical demographic bases that Democratic candidates need to clinch success: millennials, white progressives and non-white voters.
He credits the unexpected success of Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders’s campaign to his impressive engagement with two legs, young voters and white progressives.
“Bernie Sanders has had a problem that most Democrats have – that you can get millennials, you can get white progressives, you can put pieces of it together, but if you cannot win non-whites, you cannot win the Democratic party nomination. It has always been so from the beginning,” Trippi said.
Currently, Trippi said, Sanders still has not been able to engage that critical “third leg of the stool,” though he had success with non-white turnout in his recent Michigan primary win. He predicts Sanders won’t be able to clinch with just his millennial devotion, as that voting bloc isn’t strong enough to support a majority.
On the Republican side, however, Trippi warned that the young white population, which is slowly replacing the historically more socially conservative older white population, may undermine the traditional strategy of early Republican candidates appealing to their primary-voting conservative base.
Yet the right-polarized rhetoric coming out of the Trump campaign has found success.
Stevens, a longtime conservative strategist who had worked on the media team on both of George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns, said the failings of the promising campaign of GOP favorite Jeb Bush came when he failed to sufficiently attack Trump’s bigoted policies.
“The Bush super-PAC gave Jeb over $100 million and Jeb only spent 5 percent of it attacking Donald Trump,” Stevens said.
Stevens echoed the sentiments of many other mainstream GOP leaders by underscoring the danger of Republican presidential candidate Trump’s unexpected ascent in the polls.
| https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/strategists-unpack-voting-blocs-key-to-presidential-election/ | 605 |
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Lawmakers complain that government officials failed to consult them with the decision to award a multi-billion dollar contract to a largely unknown public company.
RANGOON — The Rangoon divisional government has awarded a multi-billion dollar contract to a largely unknown public company to implement the Rangoon expansion plan, a development plan that will see Burma’s biggest city grow by tens of thousands of acres.
Rangoon Mayor Hla Myint revealed during a session of the divisional parliament on Friday that Myanma Setana Myothit company had been awarded the contract. But the news raised concerns among lawmakers, who said they had not been consulted.
“The company alone will carry out the project, and we have chosen it because it is financially strong. We have done it secretly to avoid unnecessary problems,” Hla Myint told lawmakers, reading a message by Rangoon Chief Minister Myint Swe.
The expansion plan will see the official city limits of Rangoon expanded by some 30,000 acres, including farmland, from Kyee Myin Daing, Seik Gyi Kha Naung To and Twante townships.
According to Myint Swe, the public company will complete 70 percent of the project within three years at a cost of US$8 billion. It will construct affordable apartments, a school for 1,000 students, a home for the aged, and five six-lane bridges.
Myint Swe said local residents had consented to the project, and that farmland had lawfully been claimed as urban property by a government order. Other development projects across the country, including the Thilawa Special Economic Zone near Rangoon, have led to widespread accusations of land confiscations without proper consent or compensation.
“The company will take sole responsibility to ensure land owners in the planned new town area are compensated properly. It will also supply utilities and build other infrastructure,” the Rangoon mayor said.
However, lawmakers were not pleased by a lack of transparency in the deal, saying they did not know the company’s background or how the contract had been awarded.
U Kyaw, a lawmaker representing Thingangyun Township, said the parliament was left in the dark during tender process. “We’ve only just been informed, which is really bad. It is important to check whether the people will benefit and whether the contract was given fairly,” he said.
Nyo Nyo Thin, a lawmaker from Bahan Township, agreed. “It is not compliant with democratic norms that [the Rangoon government] kept it a secret until putting it on the table at the assembly. And once it’s on the table, lawmakers should have a right to discuss it, but they didn’t allow us to do so,” she said.
The ninth regular session of the Rangoon divisional parliament began Friday and ends Sept. 5. | b57efe957cd9d53823f955f9f6ff9bc4 | 606 |
"Men actually look at my boobs. I've never had that happen before."
Mila Kunis is the proud mom to four-month-old baby Wyatt, her daughter with Ashton Kutcher. And like most new mothers, she's grappling with how her body has changed after giving birth. But there's one thing—well, two things—that have worked to her liking.
On last night's Conan, O'Brien called out Channing Tatum for looking like he was staring at her chest on the red carpet for their new movie, Jupiter Ascending. And though she laughed it off and assured everyone that Tatum was being a perfect gentleman, she did point out the obvious: "Boy, do these things grow."
She says she gets attention from men that she never got before. (Which is doubtful, but sure, let's go with it.) "Men actually look at my boobs," she said. "I've never had that happen before."
Now that motherhood has upped her cup size, she has to dress differently—and wear a bra for the first time. "This whole thing is amazing to me," she said. "It's a whole new world!"
| https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/videos/a32058/mila-kunis-new-mom-boobs-conan/ | 245 |
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Vanderbilt Commodores now must find out if they can win away from home if they want to go to their first bowl since 2008 and second since 1982.) improved to 5-2 at home under first-year coach James Franklin. They finish the season at Tennessee and at Wake Forest..
The Commodores sacked Smith four times and forced a turnover. They did it with their biggest win over Kentucky since a 42-6 win in 1969 and matched their largest margin of victory in an SEC game since 1971 when they beat Mississippi State 49-19.
Vanderbilt dominated almost from the opening kick in jumping out to a 24-0 lead at halftime that could have been much bigger if not for its own mistakes.
A personal foul on center Logan Stewart pushed the Commodores back after getting to the Kentucky 26. Randall Burden also picked off a Rodgers' pass at the goal line to end another Vanderbilt drive. After Archibald Barnes knocked the ball away from Mychal Bailey on a kickoff return and Steven Clarke recovered, the Commodores couldn't add more points when Rodgers scrambled to the Kentucky 3 staying inbound despite having no timeouts.
The clock ran out before Vandy could spike the ball, and the Wildcats sprinted to the locker room.
But the Commodores outgained Kentucky 278-41 in total offense in the first half and 410-211 overall.
Udom Umoh tackled Ryan Tydlacka after the Kentucky punter had to reach and grab a low snap, and Stacy scored on the next play from 3 yards out for a 7-0 lead in the first quarter. Vanderbilt scored 21 points in the second quarter as Rodgers tossed a 14-yard TD pass to Chris Boyd to start the scoring, which the quarterback celebrated by putting on the championship belt mimicking his older brother, Aaron of the NFL's Packers.
Stacy capped a 59-yard drive with an 8-yard TD run, and Ryan Fowler made it 24-0 with a 32-yard field goal. Stacy added an 18-yard TD run with 6:45 left when he moved a pile of players with him into the end zone for nearly half that.
Vanderbilt padded the lead in the third when Rodgers tossed the ball to Jordan Matthews on a screen, and the receiver broke a tackle by Burden and ran up the right sideline for a 49-yard TD with 4:05 left in the quarter. Burden was flagged on consecutive plays on the drive for pass interference.
Kentucky avoided being shut out by Vandy for the first time since 1968 when Smith drove the Wildcats 79 yards and found Nick Melillo on a 22-yard TD with 1:41 left in the third. Smith then connected with Matt Roark for the 2-point conversion. The Wildcats outgained Vandy 158-49 in the quarter but managed only the one scoring drive. | 230a35a6f72ca635e51afeddc6202012 | 596 |
Since 2013, Solomon Islands Import of Avocados fell by 8.8% year on year. At $596.3 in 2018, the country was ranked number 131 comparing other countries in Import of Avocados. Solomon Islands is overtaken by Tanzania, which was number 130 at $687 and is followed by East Timor with $226.26. United States topped the ranking with $2,664,467,144.54 in 2019, a growth of 8.8% versus 2018. Netherlands, France and Germany respectively ranked number 2, 3 and 4 in this ranking. Azerbaijan witnessed the best average annual growth at +425% per year, while Jamaica witnessed the worst performance at -74.2% per year.
How does Solomon Islands rank in Import of Avocados? | https://www.nationmaster.com/nmx/timeseries/solomon-islands-import-of-avocados | 161 |
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[01/03/02]A Warren County woman lost her home Wednesday afternoon when a fire started while she was taking a bath.
Belynda Lane, 31, 5537 Mount Alban Road, had turned on an electric heater in her bedroom before bathing, she said.
“I heard a pop’ and got out of the bathtub,” Lane said. Lane saw flames and smoke, dressed quickly, grabbed her phone and ran out the front door, dialing 911 and reporting the fire on the way, she said.
“I remembered my dog inside and went back in to get him,” Lane said, holding the dog in the blanket she had wrapped around her shoulders as she watched Culkin volunteers finish their work.
Lane was using the electric heater as a supplement, she said, as the temperature outside dropped toward freezing. She said she had also been having problems with her water heater, too, and was not sure what caused the fire.
Lane’s call to 911 was recorded at 4:29 p.m., and when firefighters arrived minutes later the fire was “going pretty good” in the back corner of the house, Volunteer Coordinator Kelly Worthy said.
At 4:50, smoke was still billowing from windows of the house and firefighters were still breaking upstairs windows and using water from the two pumpers to intermittently spray the attic area.
Worthy estimated that about half of the 61-year-old wood house, which belongs to Lane’s mother, Edith Lane Sims, 62, was structurally damaged by the fire and that practically everything in the house was damaged by smoke or water.
Lane had been living in the house about a year, she said. Her mother, who lives nearby, has kept the house for children and guests. Her mother’s parents, Robert and Annie Wilkinson, had lived in the house, she said.
Friends like Sharon Green began arriving before firefighters had left the scene.
It was the second residential fire of the year for the Culkin department. They and Northeast volunteers spent most of New Year’s Day battling a blaze at The Landings apartment complex. That fire gutted one building and left 10 families homeless. | https://www.vicksburgpost.com/2002/01/04/blaze-destroys-homeon-mount-alban-road/ | 462 |
The “magic” that TanTan has become is the “most important cosmetic product I have,” according to founder Dorothea Tanning.
The founder and CEO of the tanning salon, who started her business at age five, said she is still inspired by the company’s founder, a woman who died in 2007.
She is currently on a mission to create a “magic tanning product” that will “change the world,” according a post on the company website.
It’s no secret that many beauty brands have embraced the “magic product” idea, with products like The Secret Ingredient and The Skin Perfector all making their way to the market in recent years.
But TanTan’s products have a more holistic appeal, including the idea of adding natural elements to your skin.
It is made from a combination of oils, and its ingredients include vitamin E, vitamin E rich cocoa butter, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12.
It is also a lot more affordable than other natural skincare options, according to Tanning, who said she plans to open up her tanning studio to the public sometime next year.
The company was founded by Tanning and her husband, who both started their business in high school.
She said she began by trying to find natural ingredients in cosmetics, but she found it was impossible to find the right ones.
“I really think that people have forgotten the value of nature and nature’s value,” she said.
Tanning has launched several different tanning lines and cosmetics, including a line of “solar powered” products.
She has launched the “Solar Powered Tanning Cream” line, which was recently launched on Instagram.
Tanning said she hopes to release more products in the future, and said she will be open to feedback from the public about her product.
“The magic is there and it’s really amazing, and we are really excited about that,” she told ABC News.
| https://mersinimece.com/2021/09/mystic-tanning-cream-is-the-most-important-cosmetic-item-i-have/ | 435 |
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The average app file size is now 38MB for iOS mobile apps and 15MB for Android mobile apps. In this blog post, we explore how average file sizes vary between mobile app categories. With this knowledge, you can benchmark your mobile app against others to ensure your mobile app’s file size falls within norms.
Mobile app file size is important. If your mobile app is too large, it may be difficult or expensive for users to download. A lengthy ‘time to first play’ could turn users off before they even experience your mobile app. And a user’s device may have an extremely small amount of disk space. These problems compound if the developing world is part of your target market.
Mobile games, in particular, have grown rapidly in size. The app bundles need to include game assets and various SDKs. So a large bundle size comes hand-in-hand with a rich game experience. App developers are increasingly concerned with ensuring their app bundles remain as small as possible. So they choose lightweight SDKs or download content just-in-time where possible.
Average Android and iOS file size
Of all mobile apps published on the app stores, the average Android app file size is 11.5MB. And the average iOS app file size is 34.3MB.
But these figures include mobile apps that have a release date in the distant past. Indeed, if we look at mobile apps released in the past month, we see an average Android app file size of 14.6MB. And an average of 37.9MB for iOS mobile apps.
All subsequent figures in this blog post are for the mobile apps with a release date in the past month.
Average File Size by Category (iOS)
There are significant differences in mobile app file size between categories. It is no surprise that mobile games are the largest. The average iOS mobile game is 67.7MB in size, almost 80% larger than the average across all categories.
But it is the Newsstand category that is smallest on average. Average newsstand apps come in at 18.5MB. This is no surprise since these apps have a focus on content. So they tend to be lightweight.
The following chart ranks mobile app categories in order of average file size. These are figures for iOS mobile apps only.
Average File Size by Downloads (Android)
It is also worth noting a correlation between app file size and downloads. Looking at Android mobile apps, we can see that mobile apps with a large number of downloads tend to be large in file size, too.
Of course, this is not unexpected. The most popular mobile apps tend to be feature-rich. And that means additional code and assets which will pump up file sizes. Note that the figures for more than 50 million downloads suffer from small sample sizes.
Cumulative Distribution of File Size (iOS and Android)
This chart shows the cumulative distribution of file sizes for iOS and Android mobile apps.
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John Ecker is a communications, marketing, branding and fundraising executive. He is the Director, Family of Faith & Special Projects at Archdiocese of Toronto where he oversaw brand development and marketing for the $170-million Family of Faith Campaign. Previously, he was a Vice President at Indspire (the former National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation) and held director-level positions at the Ontario Trillium Foundation, ECHO: Improving Women’s Health in Ontario, and Toronto Board of Trade.
Until the late 1990s, Ecker was Manager of Marketing and Communication at the Ontario Heritage Foundation and oversaw development of its Heritage Community Recognition Program, forerunner of the Lieutenant Governor Ontario Heritage Awards.
He is also a member of the Province of Ontario’s annual June Callwood Awards Selection Committee. An active volunteer, Ecker has served on the board of Credit Canada and is a former chair of the Whitby Public Library Board and the Waterview Child Care Centre. He most recently served as Chair of Heritage Whitby (LACAC) and has been a volunteer for Doors Open Ontario. He also served as Chair of the Lynde Marsh Alliance, a land trust. Internationally, he established Bimini Bound, which sent over 10,000 books and learning resources to schools on the island of Bimini, Bahamas. | https://www.ocaf.on.ca/john-ecker-chair-of-the-ontario-heritage-trust-whitby/ | 272 |
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# frozen_string_literal: true
# testing OPTION HASH
# definition here -->https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18407618/what-are-options-hashes
# others in form {'pers3': 'micheal', pers4: 'jordan'}
def greet(pers1, pers2, others = {})
p "hello #{pers1.upcase}"
p "hello #{pers2.upcase}"
if others
others.keys.each do |pers_key|
p "i also greet #{others[pers_key].upcase}"
end
end
end
greet('ULRISH', 'TRICHIA')
# curly brace below is optional
greet('lovert', 'nina', { 'pers3': 'micheal', pers4: 'jordan' })
#=========== screen output =================
# "hello ULRISH"
# "hello LOVERT"
# "hello TRICHIA"
# "hello NINA"
# "i also greet MICHEAL"
# "i also greet JORDAN"
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The new Teca Vino wine displays will showcase your wine collection in a beautiful case that can be customised with a range of finishes and options to suit any interior styling. From smooth matt or gloss in any RAL colour, through a range of wood finishes and finally the picture frame style "Dune" styling, this wonderful wine display can sit either built into a wall, against a wall or free-standing with glass on all four sides.
Seegir will be pleased to talk you through the various options available which include 4 different shelving choices to present your wine bottles in either horizontal 'floating', upright or inclined positions. With coloured RGB lighting available with remote control, you can create a true centre-piece for your wine collection.
Available with full height or half-height models and a range of temperature settings that allow both whites and reds independently or together, we can also supply this model suitable for chocolate presentation (Teca Cioccolato), as a salami display and/or charcuterie display (Teca Salumeria) and also for general food & drink display (Teca Gastronomia).
The new improved 2016 models have been created to further extend the choice of finishes available, making the Teca Vino a very popular choice within Seegir's product range. Please call us if you are interested and we can provide our best price recommendation for you!
Nestled within the grade II listed Market Hall, Barrique is a Wine Shop, Bar & Deli, located in the heart of lovely Lytham on the Fylde coast. With a vast array of wines from around the world, Barrique is a place you can come for a morning coffee with pastries, a glass of wine and a bite to eat or to stock up your wine collection. Offering a delicious array of small plates, meats and cheeses sourced from local suppliers across Lancashire, fine produce is complimented by an extensive fine wine menu put together by resident wine expert and manager, Jake Crimmin.
Jake has an impressive background, having worked as sommelier at Jamie Oliver's Fifteen, head sommelier at Gaucho restaurants and with Spanish wine producer Cordorniu. During this time, Jake realised a wine dispense system would be a key element for the success of Barrique and chose Seegir's Wineemotion dispensers as his preferred supplier. A 24-bottle system was installed with an on-site nitrogen generator to ensure the great selection of wines in the Wineemotion system are all offered in perfect conditions to customers.
Seegir also supplied 4 dual temperature wine cabinets that are used not only to store the wines in perfect conditions prior to being loaded into the Wineemotion dispensers, but also giving Barrique an eye-catching display for retailing wines by the bottle for customers to purchase and take home.
Karma Resorts commit to offering luxury travel and lifestyle experiences beyond expectation. With beautiful 5 star luxury hotels around the world, the stunning setting of St Martins in The Scilly Isles was a natural choice for the Group's next destination.
A culinary journey is created with fresh local ingredients from the island and catch of the day fish brought daily to the hotel directly from the sea to the side of the hotel's own quay. The wine programme at Karma has been designed to extended this journey further for the resort's guests by offering a wonderful selection of wines, especially chosen to be the best accompaniment for the varying food menu.
It is therefore very important that the wine served is always fresh and in perfect condition during the guests' stay at St Martins - the main reason WineEmotion was chosen given our advanced preservation technology. The WineEmotion dispensers are situated in The Veritas Wine Lounge offering 8 whites and 8 reds simultaneously in the relaxed atmosphere created by the team at Karma. The hotel management also wanted to extend the resort's contemporary ambience and unparalleled hospitality by making use of the self-serve feature of the WineEmotion system - each guest receiving a wine card on check-in to the resort, allowing them to experience the dispensers at their leisure throughout their stay.
WineEmotion UK cannot think of a more beautiful setting for our dispensers, from the meandering coastline along the white sand beach to the inviting interior design and sea views. Our dispensers are very much at home offering a great selection of fine wines within the iconic charm of Karma St Martins. We are very pleased to be working with Karma Resorts, having installed another dispenser at their Jimbaran resort in Bali.
Expo2015 starts next month until the end of October providing visitors to Milan the opportunity to experience some of the most innovative exhibitions in the world. WineEmotion are very pleased to be a part of EXPO2015, an official partner of the Wine Pavilion which promises it's visitors a truly interactive wine experience.
As part of the Wine Pavilion, some 1400 Italian wines will be available on dispense, via the 160 WineEmotion wine dispenser system (yes, 160 wine dispensers!). Each dispenser will be networked into a media system where information about the wine being poured will be presented on a large media tablet above the dispensers. Organisers are creating a wine library of Italian wines, split into each Italian wine producing region so the visitor can experience a journey through Italy tasting different wines served in perfect conditions from the WineEmotion dispensers.
The WineEmotion team were presented with a challenge of unprecedented levels, to create the server & networking solution, to meet the production and to establish an effective installation within the custom-built Wine Pavilion - all within 3 months from receiving the order at the start of February 2015. We are pleased to say all is on target with less than 3 weeks to go!
Bench Wine & Tapas Bar in Ramsgate opened its doors last month offering 48 bottles of wine on dispense by the glass via their new WineEmotion dispense system & display wine cabinets supplied by Seegir.
Offering customers such a broad range of wines is all part of the service for Bench, who are utilising an on-site preservation gas generator to keep the wines as fresh as when they were first opened. "This has been a great installation for us, working with the Bench team from the concept and design stage to create one of the largest wine dispense systems outside of central London" said Dan Lovell, MD of Seegir. "The Bench team have not compromised on specification throughout the complete works programme so it was natural fit for us to work together, both companies believing in great design and quality build".
Bench provide a range of tapas food as well as their extensive wine by the glass menu, offering a great wine and dine experience to visitors to Ramsgate's Harbour Parade.
Seegir can create a stunning display for your wine - a beautiful wine frame. These stylish temperature controlled creations elude Italian design and are combined with advanced refrigeration technology to ensure your wine display will be an unforgettable feature. There is a wide choice of styles and colour finishes to choose from for the frames and different combinations for the shelving. A wide choice of LED lighting completes the effect for you to create a unique wine frame.
The wine frames offered by Seegir have been installed globally in hotels, restaurants, bars and luxury private residences. Our experts will advise and design a wine frame for you that will take into account your interior design and wine collection, the requirements for serving and display. Our professional installation team will work with your contractors to ensure a seamless installation within your schedule.
During 2014, Seegir carried out a number of installations of wine libraries in private residences. There has been an increasing trend for private collectors to showcase their wine in these stunning cabinets not only to create a memorable display within their homes but also to provide temperature and humidity controlled functional storage within their living quarters - rather than behind the (locked) door of an underground wine cellar or wine room.
A wine library or wine wall is a beautiful cabinet over 2 metres high that combines cleverly designed shelving and LED lighting with mirrored stainless steel or other polished metal finishes. By carefully considering the shelving styles - upright, horizontal, inclined etc. - that are best suited for the specific bottles of wine you wish to display, a truly unique and breath-taking wine display can be created. Cutting edge refrigeration technology ensures constant and digitally controlled cooling to each compartment, with either single or variable temperature settings allowing both white and red wines side by side with your champagne and sparkling wine collections.
The term wine library is normally reserved for when the item is to be placed against the room wall, the cabinet itself having a solid back wall with a polished stainless steel interior. A wine wall is a phrase used when there is usually multiple wine libraries placed againt a wall - effectively creating a wall itself! When a wine wall is created to divide a room, the wine libraries can be supplied with glass rear doors so light can be let through - also special shelving can be supplied that allows for instance inclined bottles both ways so that the visual effect is the same on both sides. Some suppliers can provide glass sides at the ends so you can effectively create a 'wine island'.
The list of options and different configurations can be very confusing which is why at Seegir we are always pleased to offer our advice and experience. We will recommend the best configuration that will suit your wine collection and have the means to utilise Europe's leading manufacturers without being tied down to one particular product range.
Seegir will always carry out a technical logisitics survey upon price agreement - the wine libraries are very heavy and very large as well as being extremely prone to damage given their high glass and stainless steel content. A survey will determine the best access route to your chosen location as well as confirming whether the wine library can actually fit - it is often the case that these items require tipping which means the need for extra height over and above the height of the item itself. Our logistics team will endeavour to find the best solution for your installation - during the year we have carried these wine libraries up 5 flights of stairs to a penthouse apartment and wheeled them through gardens and around swimming pools!
So if you are considering a wine library, wine wall or even a wine island, Seegir can offer you the best advise available on the UK to ensure you bring the WOW factor to your wine collection!
25 years ago you could have picked the number of wine cabinet suppliers in the UK on one hand. The high street retailers maybe offered one or two models but never showcased them in their department store showrooms. A few select specialists, most of whom still operate today, were and still are your best choice for advice and selection.
Today, every major appliance manufacturer has a wine cabnet range and it is almost becoming a standard appliance included in any new kitchen scheme. The UK wine market is worth over £13bn and there's never been such a high demand for wine cabinets within the home. The high street retailers in your local town now offer a range of cabinets and provide you with advice (normally read straight from the instruction or training booklet!) and they will usually steer you towards the manufacturer that offers them the most commission. They are not experts in wine storage nor will they provide you with best models available for your particular collection. So be aware! A wine fridge might sound like the latest status symbol or must-have item and there are some very sleek looking models out there ... but be careful as what you are getting is probably a fridge that you put wine in - not a cabinet that is designed specifically for storing and serving wine.
Therefore Seegir has put together our own guide to help you make the correct choice, after all, from our experience of the wine cabinets we offer, you should only be making this choice once every 20 years or so. Choosing to purchase a wine cabinet (not a wine fridge!) first and foremost means you have realised that your wine collection requires a stable environment to ensure you achieve the best conditions to store it in and protect it. You have invested heavily in your wine, so you should make a carefully considered decision on your wine cabinet, hopefully this guide from Seegir will help.
Budget: The first consideration is your budget - we always ask our customers to consider the value of their wine collection first and foremost as this normally provides a good insight into the overall spend they would be willing to pay for the correct wine storage. There is no definitive guide - x% on a wine cabinet if your wine is valued at £X - it really is down to the individual. Determining value in anything is a subjective matter, in particular wine!
Usage: Secondly you need to consider what function you require the wine cabinet to have - is it for long term storage? is it for serving temperatures or ageing? is it to be a showpiece in your home? is to be kept under lock and key hidden away? These factors can very much influence the decision you make on the type of cabinet, it's overall look and which features are important.
Capacity: Next we would advise you to look at the size of your collection and this in effect will narrow down your options on which cabinet or cabinets can accomodate the bottle capacity you require. Most manufacturers rate their capacity on the Bordeaux style bottle, being a slimmer and easier bottle to store on shelves. If your collection includes considerable quantities of champagne or Bordeaux style bottles then be prepared for less capacity on what the official levels claim (due to wider bottles). Also consider the future: is your collection at or nearing drinking age, what percentage requires longer term storage and what are your plans for adding to it in the future? Purchasing more than one cabinet may be the best option if you have big expansion plans for your wine collection for the future!
1. Refrigeration system: compressor or thermoelectric? Seegir only advocates compressor systems - these are professional systems that guarantee a stable temperature within the cabinet, depsite fluctuating temperatures externally. Compressor based systems are more efficient than thermoelectric systems, in terms of performance and energy consumption. The downside is the cost but as we mentioned before, a thermoelectric system is probably included when you buy a wine fridge, or wine cooler or chiller as they are more frequently called these days. So to sum up, thermoelectric systems are cheap and used in basic wine fridges, they will not last as long as compressor based systems but more importantly will not guarantee a stable temperature controlled conditions for your wine.
2. Humidity regulation: many wine cabinets will claim to regulate humidity but there is no actual regulatory control to effect this, just the natural humidity achieved within the case and a lot of hope it meets the right level for storing wine. All of Seegir's wine cabinets ensure the correct humidity levels are always found within the cabinet (70-75%) with some systems allowing this to be regulated by the customer, others have this preset and monitored through an internal hygrostat. The correct humidity level is important: if too dry then the corks will dry out and shrink, allowing air to enter the bottle and oxidise the wine; if too damp then mould will ingress to the bottle through the cork ad ruin the wine, even a mouldy label can devalue your wine on resale. Most of our systems have a charcoal filter to further ensure the air within the cabinet is in perfect condition and will not contaminate the wine.
3. Shelving: Seegir's wine cabinet ranges have two very distinct style of shelving. Our Chambrair range have very basic metal shelves, wine friendly for laying wine down with no snags for catching labels etc. They are fixed in place and purposely so . . . the original founder of Chambrair did not want what he called 'gimmicky' pull out shelves as the priority of any wine cabinet should be to protect the wine - in his eyes, the shelf needed to be fixed to ensure the wine was hardly ever moved, as most connoisseurs will support that perfect ageing of wine is to ensure it is perfectly still. Our other ranges cater for those consumers that prefer the shelves to be wooden, pull out, soft close, presentation, angled, display - the list is endless!
4. Doors: a simple choice here - glass or solid door? Solid doors are more suited for non-display locations such as garages, storage areas, utility rooms etc. Glass doors are for those that wish to view the bottles from the outside, the only consideration here is to ensure the glass is UV protected as UV light entering through a glass door will harm the wine.
5. Location: if you are considering locating the wine cabinet in an outhouse, a garage or inside the house but in a small space with limited ventilation (such as a built in cupboard) then ensure you choose a cabinet that can cope with the changing ambient conditions experienced. Compressor based systems will be more robust to external climate change than their cheaper thermoelectric counterparts. If your wine cabinet is to be built in, some manufacturers offer built in models - these normally have the ventilation at the front at the bottom. The heat expelled from the refrigeration system's condenser needs to go somewhere - if it doesn't, the compressor works harder, ice builds up and the system will eventually seize - an expensive repair bill will be waiting for you! Most stand alone cabinets require a minimum 25mm gap to the back and top to allow sufficient discharge of the heat; built in models can do just that - be fully built-in so no gaps required.
6. Other considerations: there are other minor considerations to factor in - for instance, Seegir's Chambrair wine cabinets are noise rated at 15dBA which is incredibly low. If you are locating the wine cabinet in a prominent living space, the noise level of the compressor cutting in and out could be a crucial element in the decision making process. Other features that may affect your decision include if the cabinet is lockable or at the very least has a childproof door system; anti-vibration mounts to the compressor so there is no unnecessary virbrations through the cabinet and therefore through the wine bottles; does it visually display the temperature and/or humidity levels for your peace of mind; the parts guarantee and f there are any hidden callout and/or labour charges.
In conclusion, there is a lot to think about when purchasing wine cabinets, some of the considerations in Seegir's wine cabinet purchasing guide may or may not be of interest to you but we hope it provides you with an informative insight. Sometimes price is not the most important aspect, you have to look at the whole picture from general service levels, the advice you are given, the after sales support and the lifetime you can expect out of your cabinet. Seegir has Chambrair customers from over 25 years ago calling us with their first breakdown, most of which can be fully repaired.
At Seegir we offer you impartial advice without any hard sales tactic - our driving force is to ensure you source the correct cabinet for the individual requirements of your own wine collection. You can have peace of mind that our wine cabinets will cover all of the aspects in our guide fully, supported by our national after sales support network.
The new Quattro wine dispenser gives a new dimension to the WineEmotion range with an integral gas cartidge making it the perfect addition to your home. Holding 4 bottles of wine in a refrigerated chamber, perfectly preserved for over a month, allowing the home owner to experience different wines during the day without the rest of the leftover wine going to waste (what's leftover wine I hear you ask?!).
You can enjoy the premium wines from your wine collection without the risk of spoilage; a glass in week 1, a glass in week 2 or a glass in week 4 will all taste exactly the same - perfect! Instant pouring, perfect temperature, all within a beautiful and compact wine dispenser from WineEmotion's renowned design team.
Wineemotion is the No.1 choice for design professionals - the Quattro can be a valued addition to your kitchen home theatre or living quarters. the main feature is the preswervation system called ISOL+, it is a unique system to WineEmotion ensuring perfect isolated preservation for each bottle - no cross contamination like other systems. Delicate wines are prefectly protected.
WineEmotion is changing the way we drink wine - from the retail environment through to the home. Stunning design, patented technology, unrivalled quality & reliability. The emphasis is on automatic dispense and perfect tasting conditions - allowing you to focus on the main task in hand - drinking and enjoying the wine!
With the UK wine industry valued at over £12 billion in 2013 and set to rise to over £13 billion in 2018, wine investors and collectors need to assess their storage options.Despite the uncertainty of investing in wine, recent reports from Key Note highlight the steady increase of investors and collectors capitalising within the beverage industry.
As high end investors diversify their portfolios from champagne to Chardonnay it is imperative that the correct storage is installed. Where traditional wine cellars are not practical, wine libraries and wine walls offer a contemporary and stylish alternative. There is an assumption within the wine market that the installation of an air-conditioning unit is sufficient to house and protect wine, this is incorrect. Air conditioning and ducted systems do not provide a constant and critical control of the main factors that protect wine collections: temperature and humidity.
Clive Saunders, BDM of Seegir comments; “As the wine industry is set to steadily increase over the coming years, it is essentials that buyers are fully aware of the correct storage options available. The right home storage system allows people to not only protect their liquid assets but to showcase and enjoy their investments with friends and family. | 4a51a874317d6649b256bbdbac5fc917 | 4,500 |
"Well I did a basic sketch that looks like a toddler drew it," he said as he pulled out a folded piece of paper from his back pocket. "It's called a [kanabo](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/deadliestwarrior/images/5/53/Kanabo2-0.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/500?cb=20150611173502). It's a weapon from ancient Japan." He unfolded to show the design. "I found it while using some of the older books for some research a while back. Basically, it's a baseball bat mixed with a mace. I was wondering if something like this was possible in celestial bronze." He looked at the son of Hephaestus hopefully. "I'm not really sure though what it could be in non-weapon form though. The daggers were a watch and bracelet. This, I'm not sure. Plus I think it'd be cool to have a little apple engraved cause even though I'm getting rid of her weapons, she's still my mom ya know?" | 1d6ed2fdcbe44b02b039dbb5e0e54dae | 234 |
BoA's Summer of Strangeness continues as we welcome scientist and podcaster Chris Cogswell. In this fascinating conversation, we talk about his background as a scientist, his ill-fated stint as Head Researcher for MUFON, and the uniqueness of UFO research organizations. We also take a deep dive into 'alien alloys' or 'metamaterials' and find out how one might go about studying a piece of metal believed to be from an alien craft and if it is even possible to prove such a thing. This segues into some discussion about the challenges of disclosure and we wrap things up with some talk about nanotechnology and Chris' show The Mad Scientist Podcast. | http://www.binnallofamerica.com/boaa071320.html | 142 |
SYLVAN GROVE-Cadence Nondorf scored 15 points and Keeli Knobbe added 13 as the Sylvan-Lucas Lady Mustangs started fast and then held off a Wilson charge to eventually pull away for a 45-32 victory Friday evening in Northern Plains League action at Sylvan-Lucas Unified High School.
The Lady Mustangs raced out to a 16-0 lead and settled for a 16-2 advantage after the first eight minutes. Then the Lady Dragons opened the second period with an 8-0 run to cut their deficit to 16-10 before Sylvan-Lucas regained their footing and pulled out to a 26-13 lead at intermission. The third quarter was even as Sylvan-Lucas (12-5, 8-1 NPL) maintained their lead at 34-20 and then went on to their third win in the last four nights.
Wilson (6-10, 3-5 NPL) was led by Macy Hanzlick's 15 points while Cara Criswell chipped in with 11.
The Sylvan-Lucas Boys trailed just once in the game's opening minutes and then got hot as they rolled to a 56-40 over the Dragons.
The teams traded baskets early and Wilson held a 7-6 lead following a three-point bucket by Charlie Hlad. After that the Mustangs closed out the quarter on a 17-6 run to lead 24-12 after the first eight minutes. The Sylvan-Lucas onslaught continued in the second stanza as they rolled out to a 42-21 halftime cushion. In the third quarter, Sylvan-Lucas built up their lead to 53-26 heading into the final period.
Early in the fourth quarter, the Mustangs had a chance to trigger a running clock but a three-point attempt by Jonah Huehl rattled out of the basket allowing Wilson the opportunity to finish the game with a dominating 14-3 quarter against the Sylvan-Lucas reserves.
Huehl led Sylvan-Lucas (14-3, 8-1 NPL) and all scorers with 22 points. Wilson (6-11, 2-7 NPL) was led by Westin Hughes' 15 points while Garrett Thielen added 11, nine of those points were scored in the fourth quarter.
Lakeside is the next opponent for both teams with Sylvan-Lucas hosting the Knights on Monday, February 17 in a doubleheader postponed from January 17 and then Wilson will visit Lakeside on Tuesday, February 18. | http://www.krsl.com/local-sports/11949-sylvan-lucas-rolls-to-sweep-of-wilson | 522 |
Modern residential complex PARKSIDE RESIDENCE, ideally located in the tourist area of Limassol, Linopetra, 700 meters from the beach.
The project offers a special lifestyle for those seeking comfort in a modern gated community. Located in one of the most sought after tourist areas of Limassol, within walking distance of the sandy beaches. The tranquil atmosphere and proximity to all amenities of the city's infrastructure, including supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, banks, pharmacies and grocery stores, provide an ideal environment for the whole family.
The project occupies a 1069 m² plot adjacent to the park and offers 7 spacious two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments and penthouses with private rooftop pools, located in a modern 3-storey building. The infrastructure of the complex includes a swimming pool, solarium - zone and landscape design. Each apartment has a separate covered parking space and storage room. The windows of the 2nd and 3rd apartments offer sea views.
The exterior of the building is harmoniously combined with the interior, which was created using advanced technologies, modern engineering systems and current design solutions. As befits a premium class project, everything here is done with attention to detail, building and finishing materials of the highest quality are used.
Italian interior doors GD DORIO S.P.A.
| https://dom.com.cy/en/live/complexes/luxury-complex-limassol/parkside-residence/ | 274 |
So cool. Wish I could draw like that.
K, signed up for their beta – lets see if they let me test it out. Will definitely blog about the experience.
Bma – check out “aviary” and adobe ria apps…no need for stuffy installs. I’d like to read a post on your experience with them! | https://zealoustiger.com/2008/04/04/google-doodles/ | 77 |
Your Wallet in a Workshop incudes everything you need to make a pretty seedpod with tendrils, leaves and a seed to which you can add your favourite scented oil.
You will be sent fully illustrated instructions, materials and wood fibres in a choice of colour palettes and my contact details for any queries. Other than a suitable work surface, anything extra you need will be easily found in most homes - a towel, soapy water, scissors and a needle and cotton. And of course your favourite scented oil.
A Workshop in a Wallet is suitable for total beginners to feltmaking, or improvers who would like to learn about making 3D items. It also makes a great gift for children over eight years with some parental guidance. At any time I think there may be a concern for youngsters (like using hot water or scissors) the instructions are written in red.
CORONAVIRUS REASSURANCE: The paper and wool are from new packs only handled with vinyl gloves on. The plastic wallet, brooch pins and my contacct card have only been handled with gloved hands in the 5 days (or more) prior to packing your purchase. The only thing over which I have no control is the outer packaging.
You can choose from the following colour palettes and two colours will be sent: oranges & lemons, pinks & purples, reds & tans, pastels, greens, blues, brights, monochrome. | https://courses.curatorspace.com/course/detail/3 | 301 |
If you have ever gone through a serious medical treatment you must have signed a Medical Consent Form. Medical consent forms are used to take the consent of the patient before medically treating him and the patient is made fully aware of the details of treatment as well as the risks that may follow it. This is so that he may consciously agree to the terms and conditions and the doctors be not held responsible for any loss. In case a person cannot fill the form himself because he is insane, in coma or is an immature child, the form is to be filled by a surrogate.
Since people face medical problems on day to day basis from minor to major, it is hereby important to know what kind of medical treatments necessarily require a medical consent form as this form is not required for simple diagnostic tests and situations in which your action itself imply consent. For example, a blood test, a monthly check up etc. However, the commonly included categories for medical consent form are; anesthesia, surgery and some other invasive procedures.
Once consent form is signed it is considered as a formal and legal agreement unless the patient revokes his consent before the treatment is given. The medical institutes usually provide patients with a copy of medical consent form while they keep the original as a proof.
So next time when you take a medical treatment, make sure if it requires you to sign a medical consent form and when you sign it be very clear that you fully understand the terms and conditions of it. Be aware, be safe! | 9291b2d47181c0d8e89b13e39912093d | 299 |
I think it is probably the best computer I have ever owned. I have only had it a couple of days but I am really loving Pop! OS and the machine is super powerful. The screen looks great in direct sunlight and I don't even have to turn the brightness up to the max. The keyboard is taking me some getting used to but that is mostly because I have been using Macs for years I think. The keyboard is really great. As long as I am not playing a game the fans are completely silent. The only downside to the whole package that I can see so far is the battery life. I have 83% left right now and it says 5 hours and 13 minutes left. But that is to be expected from a beast mode computer like this. | f6ddbb435b02465e8f4802decdc2a608 | 154 |
The goals of Small Business Saturday are to keep the "dozens of independent small businesses" you've seen from closing up. The goals of keeping true Small Businesses open is to increase the variety and uniqueness of a small town.
A franchisee may have similarities to a Small Business, but it is not a Small Business. Their stores have differences and advantages over a true Small Business. National level advertising, name brand awareness, corporate-dictated layouts and menus, benefiting from wholesale supply prices from being part of a chain, an established business model to follow, cheaper startup costs. New products are introduced from corporate testing models and not from whims of a small business owner. Etc, etc. These are major advantages over a true small business that cannot be stressed enough in their advantages.
If Kilwins "remains established" in West Chester for a long time, it will kill off the other, actual small businesses I have mentioned and prevent new ones from opening. Do you want a small town with national chains instead of true "Mom 'n Pop" stores? I don't. These are the goals of Small Business Saturday. The owners may be "locals" now, but their business is still a franchise, and is still in direct competition with actual small businesses in town. The owners can't be that local, as they also run a Kilwins in King of Prussia.
Promoting a diverse and unique selection of stores in West Chester cannot include supporting a Kilwins. | 1dbc32b0c9c943afadf7ff308faa2deb | 308 |
Our Revolution Malden is a progressive political engagement group based in a small city just north of Boston, Massachusetts. They needed a logo that spoke to the hyper-local focus of their efforts while echoing the aesthetic of the state and national level organizations, and evoking some of the emotional impact of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.
The background shape is the outline of the city of Malden, with an overlay of an old streetmap. This shape left some dead space above the city name, and I decided the best move was to “put a bird on it,” as the liberal northwest joke goes! One special moment during the Sanders campaign was when a small bird perched on the Senator’s podium as he spoke, so I thought this cute little touch was perfect both for the composition and the historical foundation of the group.
Like most political action groups this one hit the ground running, facing their first local election cycle mere months after the first meeting. They needed images to advertise their endorsed candidates, remind their members and friends to get out and vote, and to congratulate the endorsed candidates who won their elections.
I used the same gradient background for the GOTV and endorsement images as the logo, but for the congratulations image I wanted something that stood out a little bit and felt more celebratory. The gold glitter and faint rays do a great job of changing up the image to express a different feeling.
I got excited and had some credit lying around at a print on demand store that was going to expire, so I threw together a banner for the group! It uses the same image as the logo, but to print clearly I needed to recreate it at the right size. Designing for print is always tricky, but it’s worth the effort when you see your creations in the real world. | https://qgpennyworth.com/portfolio/our-revolution-malden/ | 365 |
Matrix Music Nation recording artiste Efe has released a brand new music video for his single titled Belinda, a potent Afro-pop track that is taken off his recently released EP Non-Stop, which he delivered lat year. The video features talented female dance Sanjay displaying some mesmeric dance moves and it suits the track really nicely. Check it out below.
Song Produced by Bandoo
Video Directed by Mauriz
Dance Performed by Sanjay | d9a949f6780d62855402b2e4c9c2cef6 | 96 |
People often have beliefs about taxes and government spending that are not based in reality. Example: People have no idea how big the share of wealth held by top is or how low the effective tax rates are on the super wealthy (lower than that of every other income bracket right now). Or how much Federal spending goes to foreign aid (1% but people assume 10%)
I think we’d get very strange results but I do agree that way too many people would game the system by putting in 0. Most state + local tax regimes in the US charge between 7-12% of median income including common fees. | 10ba865467a64caaa6116f46021fc461 | 126 |
No matter whether you are serving GOD faithfully or not, you are going to find yourself in difficult situations. Many of the painful moments we face are the result of our own making. Some are simply the common experiences of living in a fallen world where things breakdown naturally. Other difficulties are divinely planned and arranged by GOD for the purpose of cultivating a spirit of faith within His children. Either way, GOD is sovereign & therefore He directly causes or allows every situation. But you need to understand this – GOD does not cause or allow difficult times to bring pain into our lives for no purpose at all. | 474c75f455a55f7c236907dca576f4dc | 119 |
LUDLOW, Ky. -- The Coast Guard recovered a boat that sank into the Ohio river Saturday night near Ludlow.
Boone County Dispatch said a passerby spotted the houseboat partially submerged in the water and alerted the coast guard. They recovered the boat and Ludlow Police are handling the investigation.
It was not known immediately whether anybody had been on board the boat when it sank.
Fire units were on scene, and water rescue tied off the boat. | https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/kenton-county/ludlow/houseboat-sinks-into-ohio-river-near-ludlow | 96 |
the gst conundrum in gaming industry how the 28 tax on contest fee will end the gaming industrys growth
As per industry estimates, there are over 800 gaming companies in India and post this taxation policy, very few will be able to survive
Internationally, the gaming industry pays anywhere between 10-20% as tax to the government, depending on the country’s taxation policy.
The online gaming industry is waiting for the Group of Ministers to meet in early September for the new goods and services tax (GST) policy. The industry has been verbally contesting against the GST introduced by the government, suggesting 28% tax on the contest fee. While the tax rate is higher– from 18% to 28%, the basis of industry’s ire is not just the rate but the valuation on which it is being imposed– which is the contest fee. “The current 18% tax levied on platform fee or the gross gaming revenue (GGR) is in accordance with international best practices. Taxation on prize money instead of gaming revenue can lead to a collapse of the business model of the majority of platforms legally offering online games of skill. This can also lead to reduced tax collections for the exchequer and give a boost to the growth of black-market operators. A fair and equitable taxation method has to be the way forward,” Joy Bhattacharjya, director general, FIFS, told BrandWagon Online.
Over the last couple of years, the gaming industry witnessed a surge in userbase as well as cashflow. From fantasy to real-money to casual, all segments of the online gaming industry saw newer audiences coming onboard as well as new companies entering the domain. According to the latest BCG-Sequoia India report, the Indian gaming industry generated $1.8 billion in revenue in 2020. This is expected to triple to over $5 billion by 2025 on the back of the ‘mobile first’ phenomenon, despite the industry standing at one percent of the global gaming market.
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The Tax Conundrum
In July, the Group of Ministers (GOM) led by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma presented a report recommending that online gaming activities should be taxed at flat 28% on the full value of consideration, without making any distinction between games of skill and chance. Despite the fact that the Supreme Court had passed a verdict in 2021 stating that fantasy and card based real money games such as Rummy are games of skill and not chance. Hence, the report suggested was not received well by the industry and the GoM decided to revise the report and reconvene. As per that report, the GoM had decided to put 28% tax on contest fee as opposed to platform fee. “We laud the efforts of the GoM in following an open and consultative process. They have met us and tried to understand our perspective while drafting the new report on GST,” Roland Landers, CEO, AIGF, stated.
To give a perspective, contest fee is the money that a player puts into the platform at the time of entering the contest. While platform fee, is the token money that company keeps for levying the service. For instance, if a user is playing rummy for a price pool of Rs 1000, then he/she is putting in Rs 100 from his pocket to enter the contest. If and when the player wins the contest, he/she walks away with Rs 100. Of the Rs 10 the player has put in, the company will keep anywhere between Rs 5-10 (depending on the platform fee they charge which varies from 5-10 percent). This is their main revenue.
Industry experts claim that the GOM’s initial recommendation of charging 28% GST on contest fee will result in gaming companies seeing nearly 1100% rise in tax imposed. This will have a heavy impact on the gaming industry which is mostly full of start-ups, bringing about the death of most of the companies who won’t be able to take the burden of the heavy taxation. As per industry estimates, there are over 800 gaming companies in India and post this taxation policy, very few will be able to survive. “The government is treating the online gaming industry at par with gambling. This is one of the main reasons for proposing a 28% tax slab for us,” Aman Gupta, AVP finance, Witzeal Technologies Private Limited
On the gamer’s side, the cost to participate in the game will go up by 300% for gamers under this proposed tax policy. Thereby, forcing gamers to limit their participation and also push them into off-shore, illegal gambling websites as their cost of playing will go up. This will result in gaming industries losing userbase.
On the other hand, if the GST Council simply levies 28% tax on platform fee or gross gaming revenue then the companies will see 50-53% rise in taxation. In this case, either the gaming industry has to reduce the platform fee charged or the prize pool offered. If they reduce the platform fee charged, they will take a hit on revenue and if they reduce the prize pool, they might face a loss of userbase.
The Government Point Of View
The Indian government has demonstrated its support towards the industry multiple times. The sector, which contributed Rs 15 – 20 billion in 2020 to the government exchequer and the same is expected to reach Rs 35 – 50 billion by 2025, is considered a sunrise sector by the government. To the extent that in Budget 2022, The government set up an animation, visual effects, gaming, and comic (AVGC) task force for the development of the sector.
As per industry sources, the GST council has categories for industries on which they increase/decrease tax. Currently the GST Council currently does not have any category named ‘Gaming’. Earlier gaming used to fall under the ‘Online Services’ category but it was now brought under ‘Gambling and Betting’ which includes casinos. Hence, only 18% tax was levied on the category earlier while now it was brought up to 28%.
Furthermore, the government wanted to impose the tax on actionable claim which the council saw as prize pool. According to the GST Act, an actionable claim is a claim to any debt. However, platforms argue that the prize pool itself is not a debt for them. Moreover, Bombay High Court gave a judgment stating the prize pool cannot be considered as an actionable claim.
Internationally, the gaming industry pays anywhere between 10-20% as tax to the government, depending on the country’s taxation policy. The ideal situation for the industry would be to fall in this bracket itself. The previous report, which blurs the lines between game of skill with game of chance, might just cause a legislature anarchy, resulting in userbase erosion and foreign disinvestment.
The Group of Ministers are expected to meet in early September for the GST on gaming industry. And then in the latter half of the month The GST Council will lay out its ruling. The industry is waiting with bated breath to see whether the government lays out a policy in their favour or not. | https://www.financialexpress.com/brandwagon/the-gst-conundrum-in-gaming-industry-how-the-28-tax-on-contest-fee-will-end-the-gaming-industrys-growth/2648828/ | 1,487 |
We live in an age of bread and circuses, as did Juvenal. Actually I have no objection to "circuses" including royal ones. We all need cheering up. What I object to is the coming rationing of "bread". Despite all the noise about the government's deficit, Britain remains a wealthy country, but the wealth is concentrated. At a recent local discussion a nice comfortably-off lady (Somerset has more than its share) commented on benefit cuts, "Anyone can manage on £10 a week less". She's right of course - about people like herself. Conclusion - cut less, tax more. If you still think drastic cuts are the solution, read Skidelsky and somebody lend George Osborne an economics A-level textbook as Keynes' own writings may be a bit technical for him.
Quite. I’m reminded of the time a few years ago when my wife was working as a secretary for a firm of solicitors. One of the partners was genuinely shocked when she pointed out that the amount of money he was taking out of petty cash to buy drinks for a client at a social event was more than the office junior was paid per week.
| http://disgruntledradical.blogspot.com/2010/11/bread-and-circuses.html | 241 |
The unholy trinity of government, media and security (big tech's willing compliance is a bonus here) needs only a national police force to replace municipal/county LE.
That, IMO is behind the defund police movement, 70 percenters will support it because they're crazy, but state governments will support it (and them) because they have an agenda... and crazy is a force multiplier. They will say that crime is out of control and beg for federal assistance.
Most places use their military, it's easier, but it's less sellable in the US. This national force will be requested by Democratic Governors overwhelmed by the crime they created as a cover for requesting it in the first place.
You will see these requests for federal assistance coming from jurisdictions that previously refused help from Trump and vilified him for even offering it.
Biden really is the sitting President. Right ?
Unless you declare sanctuary status and ignore federal immigration laws...
I'd like to see the release of more of these video collages (from different media outlets) on a variety of subjects. Maybe they're being held back for the midterms.
Anyway, it's telling that all say the same thing at the same time and in the same way. t's not a mistake, an accident or a coincidence... it's deliberate and coordinated.
If nothing else though, it shows how reluctant the people who were fooled by this are to admit that they were actually fooled by it. A powerful technique usually having a two year lifecycle, that's why they do it.
When selecting a course of action (COA) it’s pretty common to list all conceivable options, discard the bad ones outright and then test the good ones against the “Goddess of unintended consequence standard” before selecting a winner.
I’m confident that using children as a wedge issue against parents just before a contentious election could only make the “conceivable option list” in a Liberal war room.
Elevating that to a course of action (when you can clearly see the lady in black reaching for Aspirin) is the either the domain of valour or madness. I suspect the latter (but that’s just me).
I love having a ring side seat to the self destruction of the LEFT. Karma is such a beautiful thing.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra goes before a House Appropriations subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., to discuss President Joe Biden’s budget proposals for fiscal year 2023, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2022. ...
Supreme Court Justice-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson isn’t a biologist, and apparently neither is Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.
“Congresswoman, I’m looking at you, and I think you’re a woman. How much more do you want me to give you?” said Mr. Becerra at the Wednesday hearing of the House Education and Labor Committee.
None was forthcoming, but don’t expect Republicans to stop asking. As Democrats get behind the push to fold transgender women into women’s sports, prisons, public facilities and categories, opponents want the party to define its terms before redefining society.
Totally self inflicted... all they had to do was not be crazy.
It's easy, the bar is pretty low now... stop being bat sh%$ crazy and see yourself rewarded.
Using the education system as a wedge between parents and children (especially at the kindergarten level) is such a bad idea that I think they should do it.
Is there no one in the DNC war room that can even read a calendar? Encouraging children at the kindergarten level to make irreversible and life altering decisions without parental consent is unlikely to age well.
On top of everything else, the weaponization of western banks, where we've established the precedent of seizing individual assets, is pretty huge. Throw in inflation and it's right up there with leveraging young children against their own parents.
Personally, I no longer do banking the same way I did previously, the branch has noticed and apparently I'm not alone in this. It seems that running out of cash is a new SOP for them... I say get used to it, you own it, order more or loose what you still have. They don't like hearing that BTW.
Oregon Democrats force public schools to distribute menstruation products in boy's bathrooms.
I'm pretty sure these folks don't believe their own nonsense.
When I see them feeding laying mash to roosters (that hipster urban chicken thing) I might start to believe they actually believe what they say they believe. Annoying parents (who weren't previously annoyed) is certainly a winning tactic in the run up to midterms.
Nothing screams "good idea" like getting between parents and their children in a provocative and money wasting manner.
Keep up the good work.... I'm rooting for ya.
How about banks, or maybe the courts eh?
The subject matter here (below) doesn't matter, what matters is the leak; what matters is judicial integrity.... or the lack of it. Add that to the list now.
Is anyone keeping score here or are the 70 percenters responsible for electing these fools too busy feeding laying mash to their roosters?
Some people seem to take umbrage at the notion of 70 percenters... too bad. Add up the percentage of liberal, NDP, Green and block voters in Canada. Let me know what you get. Without looking I call 65% (plus or minus).
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Globe and Mail reporter Tamsin McMahon.
Is there a book you return to again and again, a work that would make life on a desert island bearable? Each weekend, until Labour Day, Globe writers will share their go-to tomes – be it novel, poetry collection, cookbook – and why the world is just a little better for them.
I have long been a fan of horror fiction, though being a snob I tried to restrict myself to what I considered "literary" horror. Typically that meant anything obscure or Victorian.
It was while searching for something suitably high-brow that I discovered British writer Robert Aickman in an anthology of ghost stories. Each piece included commentary from the editor, Marvin Kaye. In his introduction to Aickman's The Hospice, Kaye wrote that he had pulled the story from an earlier anthology because he found it "puzzlingly obscure," and yet it had continued to haunt him. "Any work of fiction that exerts such a powerful hold on the imagination must be some sort of masterpiece," he wrote.
I saved the story for last and was thankful that I did: Aickman's tale of a lost and injured traveller forced to bed down at a home for people seeking refuge from the modern world was unlike anything I had ever read.
Aickman described the outbreak of the First World War, shortly after his birth in London, as "the strange debacle of 1914, when man ceased to run his own world." The sentiment is a recurring motif in many of Aickman's 48 short stories, though they are never directly about war. The best involve ordinary people grappling with experiences that are at turns terrifying, erotic, humorous and often cruel.
There are recurring themes: hapless men whose cars break down, leading them astray; travellers attempting ill-advised shortcuts through the remote British countryside. Many characters seem to have been dulled by the harshness of the modern world and are awakened by a brush with something that often seems more bizarre than supernatural.
What to make of Bind Your Hair, whose protagonist discovers an orgiastic maze while on a walk to escape the boredom of life with her in-laws? Ringing the Changes is ostensibly about newlyweds who honeymoon in a town ringing its church bells in order to raise the dead. But much of the focus is on Gerald's insecurities about marrying a much younger woman. ("At heart, women are creatures of darkness all of the time," a character tells him.) The mystery is compounded by the fact that Aickman's stories can be maddeningly opaque. They often end without a tidy resolution and are open to interpretation. Characters rarely suffer directly from their experiences, which typically serve to expose a more existential suffering. In Aickman's hands, guilt, insecurity and regret become far more terrifying than ghosts and vampires.
My favourite story is The Inner Room, most easily found in the posthumously published collection The Wine-Dark Sea. It's a twist on the haunted dollhouse tale about a young girl, Lene, who is first enthralled and then comes to fear a dollhouse she receives for her birthday.
The house itself has all the trappings of a classic ghost story: It's built like a Gothic prison, houses nine decrepit dolls, and no matter how much she tries, Lene can't find a way to access the house. Instead, she watches helplessly from the outside and has unsettling dreams about its troubled inhabitants.
Her parents sell the dollhouse after her brother calculates that it must contain a hidden chamber. Lene's family eventually crumbles and Lene grows up aimless and underwhelmed by her life.
The story ends with Lene encountering the house and its inhabitants in real life. The dolls confirm her worst childhood fears: that they suffered greatly because of her neglect and have become savage and vengeful. They show her a picture of their detested landlord: a photograph of Lene as a child, with a pin stuck through her heart. "Wouldn't you think her heart would have rusted away by now?" one of the dolls tells her.
The story touches on the fragility of family bonds and the power of childhood experiences to shape our lives in ways we can't always understand or control.
For me, it brings back one of my earliest childhood nightmares about a beloved toy that came alive and threatened me. I banished it from my room, but was soon filled with regret and asked it be returned. However, by then the bond between us had been shattered. To this day, I can still recall the feelings of shame and sadness at having doubted my faithful friend.
I suspect many Aickman fans must also be forced to interpret his work through a prism of personal experience. With little to guide the reader, one has to turn inward in search of an explanation. And Aickman seems to appreciate how terrifying self-examination can be.
Aickman's work largely fell out of print after his death in 1981, though he has made a resurgence recently, thanks to writers such as Ramsey Campbell and Neil Gaiman, who cite him as an influence.
I return again and again to his work because each reading unearths a new clue about a story's meanings. Yet as quickly as I can settle on an interpretation, I discover something else that casts it in doubt. That's what makes his writing so haunting.
To lift a quote from the preface to Aickman's Cold Hand In Mind: "In the end, it is the mystery that lasts, not the explanation."
| https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/ghost-stories/article35690173/ | 1,151 |
1st Thu of the month at 6:30 pm.
Welcome to the LeSauk Lions!
"To advance Lion's causes, promote involvement in our local community, and support youth and families in need."
HammerSchlagen at it's Best!
Would you like to learn more about the LIONS Organization? Check out the "links" to the right. For more local "links" and information about the LeSauk Lions in particular, check out "the buttons" on the left.
Here are a few photos of our past club projects, activities and events.
10 LeSauk Lions at Camp Friendship!
Building Bunks at Camp Friendship!
13 Completed Bunks!
Libertyville at Summerfest!
Lions Shane and Tom getting on the bus. Great job to Lions Jeff and Jason for setting up a great "Mystery Bus Trip"
Everyone got their seat?
Lions Amanda Schreiner and Carol Mead sitting with the 235 Wash Cloths and 305 disposable razors collected for the St. Cloud Salvation Army Worship and Service Center.
It's all about finding the right people for the job! Ron and Wally.
...and having enough supervisors...
Lions Brian and Mary are in Columbia at the moment, picking up Jack! | https://e-clubhouse.org/sites/lesauk/ | 269 |
Would filing a claim impact him at renewal? No, filing a claim would not impact his renewal rate as this would be a weather-related claim. That does not mean the rate would remain the same, there could be other factors that would cause the rate to change such as rate increases, inflation protection, etc.
The fence sits on the property line. How would the claim be handled? This is a very interesting question because it’s not always straightforward.
Where a fence or section of fence resides can influence how the claim is handled and who is responsible.
If the fence sits on your neighbors land or property, it is their claim.
If the fence sits entirely on your property it’s your claim and not your neighbor’s.
When the fence sits on the property line one of two things can happen.
The claim can be split between the two home owners who share the fence, provided they both file a claim.
The more likely outcome is the claim goes to whoever files it first.
Almost all of my clients have a 1% deductible for wind and hail claims. This is 1% of the dwelling value, the amount of coverage on their home. In my client’s case this worked out to a deductible of $2,550.00.
The other item we discussed was whether the entire fence was damaged or just the one side between his backyard and his neighbor’s. Since it was just one side, the likelihood of the entire fence being replaced was minimal. Most adjusters will rule that the downed section be replaced, not the entire fence.
Obtain three estimates from fencing companies on repairing the damaged side and entire fence and then compare them with his deductible.
I also shared an experience I’d had about 12 years earlier on my former home which was about a half mile from his. In my case, the side of fence between my backyard and my next door neighbor’s backyard had blown over from a similar wind event. I reviewed our home owner’s policy and found the deductible was $1,000.00. My neighbor did the same and we made the decision to do what neighbors used to do. We split the cost of materials from Home Depot and spent two weekends replacing the fence that ran between our two backyards. Our out of pocked cost was somewhere between $350 and $400 each and it made for a nice project between the two of us.
It turns out my client did the same thing, although in his case his neighbor was an elderly woman who couldn’t help with the labor but she did split the cost of the materials. My client then got creative and invited some of his friends to come help him with some well-earned barbeque and cold drinks after the project was completed.
Share your experiences or questions with me on our Facebook page or in the comments section of our blog. I’d love to hear from you and we’ll all learn something together!
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SQL Server Cast is a technical blog about my daily experiencies working with Microsoft SQL Server.
I am an SQL Server specialist in Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS). On this blog you will find information for different problems and troubleshooting scenarios. Hopefully this blog will help you in solving your problem or will bring you some new ideas for a future project. I hope you enjoy reading.
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I had one of the most amazing experiences this week. I was able to see the most spectacular collection of jewels ever! I am talking about the phenomenal exhibit at the St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts. I was also able to preview the exhibit with the designer of the exhibit, the curators and executive staff of the museum. Drawn to Beauty and Jewels of the Imagination are a showcase of the art and works of Jean Schlumberger. Jean Schlumberger was born into a prominent textile family in Alsace France. Although he showed promise in his drawings at a young age his parents wanted him to be a banker and they sent him to Berlin to learn about banking. That did not work for him as it would not for most artists and he went to Paris to be an artist. Each and every piece that Schlumberger creates are a nod to nature and as he states he tries to make everything look as though it is growing, organic, natural.
He starts each design with a sketch and painting. Here are some that they had on display to show how detailed he became with each piece.
This exhibit is the largest collection of Schlumberger’s work and is from both Tiffany’s archives and The Mellon Estate. Bunny Mellon was one of his biggest supporters and he created many of the pieces for her directly.
To see the flow of his amazing career and the range of his pieces was amazing. The letters that were shared during the creative process are so enchanting.
As you turn from Drawn to Beauty into Jewels of the Imagination your breath is taken away by the amazing work that Rush Jenkins and his team did to put together the display. They used images from the Mellon estate and their gardens to create the feeling that you were there in the gardens yourself.
I am torn by how much to show you in pictures verse you experiencing it on your own as I feel this is an exhibit that everyone should go see. There are amazing pieces not only of jewelry but also table top decorations, the jewelry boxes that were used to give pieces as gifts have lapis tops. There are pieces that will take your breath away and ones that will make you smile from the whimsy. As a designer I had a hard time leaving as the natural elements that were used to display each piece were magnificent. Each display allowed the viewer to experience the open and the hidden elements. It was just as much about the finding of the elements and the impact that each section had on you as it was about the phenomenal artwork that Schlumberger created.
Go see the best of Tiffany in these collections. Imagine what it would be to wear the most magnificent pieces of jewelry ever created and know that art is more than a painting or drawing. Art is the embodiment of all things beautiful and creating a space to truly display that beauty. | b403d78e29a10f957a377a19729392ee | 572 |
Pharmac says it has reached the final stages of fully subsidising the drug Trikafta for people living with the disease cystic fibrosis.
It is now in the consultation process and hopes to have the drug available by April 2023.
Trikafta is already funded in dozens of other countries, and has been found to extend the lives of those with cystic fibrosis by around 27 years.
The current lifespan of someone with the disease is 35.
For 33-year-old mother of three, Chantelle de Kort, the news is 'life-changing' for her family.
"Just doing simple things like walking the block is hard now. Also housework and laughing, I can't laugh without having a coughing fit," de Kort says.
"The amount of medication and energy I have to use just to get through a day will completely change."
According to de Kort, once she is on Trikafta she will no longer have to take 30 tablets and six nebulisers a day to get the mucus out of her lungs.
"It prevents me from getting chest infections, which doesn't always happen, and then I have to go to hospital for weeks at a time away from the kids."
Pharmac says it has been negotiating a deal with drug maker Vertex for 18 months to supply Trikafta to New Zealand.
The drug is not cheap, with some patients paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to access it privately.
"One of the things that happened for Pharmac this year was a significant budget uplift," Pharmac's director of operations Lisa Williams says. "[Funding of] $71 million for this financial year and $127 million next year. So we have been working hard to try and reach a deal and now we have achieved that."
For 10-year-old Nora Hughson-Young, taking the drug would mean being able to be active for longer.
"I'm happy. I know that it will help me and make me more healthy," Nora says.
Her mother, Nicci Hughson, says Nora has told her she wants Trikafta so she can be "normal".
"She needs medicine every time she eats and she is often on antibiotics and gets rundown quite easily," Hughson says.
"She also misses quite a bit of school and gets tired easily. She just wants to be able to go to school camp and on the mudslide like the other kids."
Cystic Fibrosis New Zealand says more than 540 people have the disease in Aotearoa, which attacks the lungs and digestive system.
Lisa Burns, from the organisation, says she has been campaigning since 2020 for Trikafta to be available here.
"It is very difficult to put into words what this means to me, let alone to the community that are going to have years added to their lives," Burns says.
"We as a community have fought hard to get the stories out there, so people understand the really cruel nature of cystic fibrosis."
Burns says the announcement is very emotional for all the families who have lost someone to the disease.
"We can't get those families back that person, but I have every confidence that they will be celebrating, because this is very much a tight-knit community."
“Pharmac, not politicians, makes the decisions on what treatments to fund, but politicians decide what funding to provide to Pharmac, and health is always a priority for Labour governments,” Andrew Little says in a statement tonight.
“Since 2017, we’ve increased the medicines budget by 43%, letting Pharmac make more than 200 medicines available for thousands of people.
“Trikafta is the latest of those medicines. It has the potential to not only greatly improve quality of life for people with cystic fibrosis, but also extend their lives by up to 27 years.
“This is fantastic news for them and for their families, and comes on top of other recent announcements, like a plan to fund the spinal muscular atrophy medication Spinraza and a call for proposals for late-stage lung cancer medicines.
“It shows what a difference the Government’s budget boost is making. When we came into Government, the medicines budget – like other parts of the health system – had been starved of investment, despite record population growth.
“We’re fixing that. In 2020, we promised we’d increase Pharmac’s budget by $200 million over four years. We’ve kept that promise, and on top of that put in $71 million more this year, with another $120 million boost is in the pipeline for next year.
“The medicines budget is now 43% bigger, under the Labour Government, than it was when we were elected in 2017. This means better access to medicines and treatments for New Zealanders, helping people lead healthier lives," Little said. | https://tvnz-1-news-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/2022/12/05/life-changing-drug-on-the-way-for-cystic-fibrosis-sufferers/ | 1,021 |
Does your client need a large loan with a high LTV?
From home-buyers to landlords, in the current market it may be more difficult for your clients to access high worth mortgages, especially if they need a high LTV.
Whether they’re applying for a residential or buy to let mortgage, if they can’t easily prove their ability to repay significant amounts of money each month, they may not be able to get the loan amount they need. Some lenders could be particularly cautious about lending large sums at a higher LTV, even on an investment as reliable as a property.
Could Kent Reliance for Intermediaries provide the solution?
While other lenders may be less flexible on high-value properties, Kent Reliance for Intermediaries is suited to assist with these hard-to-place cases. Your local senior business development manager will work with you to understand the case requirements and the underwriting team will assess each case individually to find the best solution for your client. | https://connectbrokers.co.uk/does-your-client-need-a-large-loan-with-a-high-ltv/ | 204 |
Definition of grist in English gristPronunciation: /grɪst/ noun [mass noun] 1corn that is ground to make flour. malt crushed to make mash for brewing. 2useful material, especially to support an argument:the research provided the most sensational grist for opponents of tobaccoPhrases grist to the (or one's) mill useful experience, material, or knowledge:all this free publicity was grist to his millOrigin: Old English 'grinding', of Germanic origin; related to grindgrist in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of grist in the US English dictionary | cf02baa742974565de9d3ede3eebff34 | 126 |
One of the bummers about Chromecast is that it doesn’t have an official Amazon Prime app that will let you stream Amazon content that you watch on your computer to your television. That said, Android Police brings us word that there’s a new app called Primecast that promises to give you access to all of your Amazon Instant Video content on Chromecast, although there’s no telling whether Amazon will allow it to keep doing so in the future.
This isn’t quite seamless, as you can see from the description above, but it still sounds like the best way available to get your Amazon content streaming to your Chromecast… until Amazon inevitably figures out a way to cripple the service, at the very least. The app costs just $2.99 on Google Play and Android Police says that it works very well for the time being, so it couldn’t hurt too much to give it a try.
Learn more about where to get this app by checking out Android Police’s full report at the source link below.
| https://bgr.com/2014/11/07/best-chromecast-apps-primecast/ | 217 |
Emilau: What on Rodoripol is Arc???
Trixis is a month different from other regions. In Trixis winter can arrive and in bad years, last for many months relentlessly pulverizing the interior with snow and ice, summer can linger bringing lush grasslands even into the northern plains, fall can remain and turn the seas choppy, rains may fall, even snow, and in the month of Trixis, the ground turns to a thick mud sludge.
The colony resettles in 14,10. Wagons are stuck in mud, and the halflings grow weary. Upon arrival at Skaramor Ruins, temperatures began to dip.
Snowfall is scattered throughout the surrounding tiles to the west. Not everyone has arrived at colony this phase.
A Dwarven freighter has gone missing in your area, carrying Wood, Food and Stone to help Narmor. If any assistance may be offered please help us find our missing ship!
An undead wraith is loose in the village and has already caused 2 deaths!
Has signatures from Falrin and Tyson"
Prop 1.8.1 doesn't exist, and Falrin/Tyson wasn't even here. (farlin can't vote).
##2.1.1: We founded a pantheon due to our faith! I suggest we take; Northern Lights: Colony gains +10% Faith for each Tundra tile adjacent.
We have 4 (I believe) Tundra tiles next to us. Thats +40% faith a turn which seems incredible. The other options are on Discord if anyone wants to take a look.
##2.1.2: Now that we're on the coast, we should research Sailing.
We can also build things now that we have a bit of wood, build a mine, and we have the letter from Lord Milas of Bayern.
Our corruption is not too high and I don't think we need faith now. I think Iron Veins is a better option.
Emilau: Faith is what sustains us. Were it not for my faith losing Jartoum would have made me unable to perform this job.
I would highly prefer it if I do not end up forced to lessen our corruption each and every phase as it inevitably rises. Faith is a good thing, and we should take advantage of the situation that we are in.
I would prefer that we tabulate our remaining workers, figure out what to do about those unaccounted for, and ensure that none of them are dying due to the presence of the undead before we bother with worker allocations. They aren't particularly useful without some stability and knowledge of how things are going to progress this phase.
As I suggested in Discord, I would not be opposed to contacting Melnir, but we should not be taking any rash actions against him until he has had an opportunity to speak to us about what is going on.
Avendi's findings suggest that the ship was wrecked. We should send doves with the news to all interested parties.
Before I leave to fight the wraith, I vote in favour of Northen Lights, faith is essential to life and is beneficial to the barony. More even as we are bound for hard times.
In case I die in the pursuit of the wraith I wish to be buried at sea.
Colony gains bonuses when trading Iron to other factions.
| https://webdiplomacy.net/contrib/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=765&p=22942&sid=f3c12949ec12c52bf05d412e2de3dd16 | 703 |
<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: component documentation module import is hardcoded
username_0: #### Is this a bug, enhancement, or feature request?
enhancement
#### Briefly describe your proposal.
#### Which versions of Angular and Fundamental NGX are affected? (If this is a feature request, use current version.)
#### If this is a bug, please provide steps for reproducing it.
#### Please provide relevant source code if applicable.
#### Is there anything else we should know?<issue_closed> | 16484747 | 128 |
So let us explore a diverse little array (emphasis on little) of trippy, doobie-friendly metuhl releases, each sure to get you operating at peak inefficiency this slow, dreary Tuesday.
Some people ski, others fish — OM drones. It’s what they do. Advaitic Songs has doomy fuzz in no small quantity, but on the California stoner duo’s fifth album, one can hear the group getting a little artier. Otherworldly string leads and Justin Chancellor-y basslines now tango with the established lo-fi riffage and monotone chants. I can only imagine what this stuff sounds like when you’re on more than just a cup of a coffee.
Ulcerate’s 2011 album The Destroyers of All proved something: A lot of people like creepy, dissonant, walking-paced death metal. If you are one of those folks, then give a few spins to English trio Binah. Though definitely not a facsimile of the aforementioned kiwis, Binah also is imposing and unsettling, and draws a little from many flavors of death metal over the years: Gothenberg riffage, a little grindy dissonance, and plenty of gloomy vibes that nod to the English doom trifecta. MS writer Grim Kim already gave this her stamp of KVLTy approval so you know it’s real.
This album’s “On a playlist with” tells all you need to know about whether Abrahma (fka Alcohsonic) will float your boat: slow and sludgy riffs, feel-gud grooves, and gravelly vocals like a smoky Josh Homme and a clean Phil Anselmo. It’s interesting that Abrahma hails from Paris, certainly not one of the first places we would associate with stoner metal.
“Constants” sure sounds like the name of a pro-tooly tech band — hell, their song “Passenger” even shares a title with a Periphery song — but really these alternative-gazers are an unpretentious, uncomplicated rock band with some seriously stratospheric sounds. I feel like I’m in a glass case of emotion — and all I’ve taken today are Claritin and a daily multi!
It’s always funny when you put a lot of effort into something and people around you appreciate it — but for a completely different reason than what was intended. Like in high school when I played in a prog band, we thought we were such serious artists making a real statement! So one day, some kid told us we were his favorite band in the area — cuz we sounded GREAT when he was stoned! I imagine that kid having the same feelings about Venezuelan guitar whiz Santiago Rodriguez (SRod get it?) and his band. Srod plays proggy instrumental rock that isn’t overly flashy or technical; not a buzz kill, but still cool enough to make sure fans won’t have any pesky females bothering them any time soon!
Last year, MS scribe Corey Mitchell wrote about former Attack Attack! singer Austin Carlile’s Of Mice & Men; to his shock, Carlile’s newish band had become non-awful on their 2011 sophomore album. It’s true: The Flood, and its new expanded edition, are very not shitty. Sure, plenty of bands do Meshuggah-core better than these rascals, but in 2012 it is commendable that OM&M’s album is so utterly passable with the good-cop/bad-cop vocals and breakdown-fests aplenty. If you dig The Flood‘s heavier “catchy chorus-free” tunes (e.g. “I’m A Monster”), then rejoice for the new bonus disc contains three new “clean-singing be damned” drop-A odysseys.
| https://www.metalsucks.net/2012/07/24/sht-that-comes-out-today-to-get-stoned-to-july-24-2012/ | 843 |
// Code generated by gotdgen, DO NOT EDIT.
package tg
import (
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"sort"
"strings"
"go.uber.org/multierr"
"github.com/gotd/td/bin"
"github.com/gotd/td/tdjson"
"github.com/gotd/td/tdp"
"github.com/gotd/td/tgerr"
)
// No-op definition for keeping imports.
var (
_ = bin.Buffer{}
_ = context.Background()
_ = fmt.Stringer(nil)
_ = strings.Builder{}
_ = errors.Is
_ = multierr.AppendInto
_ = sort.Ints
_ = tdp.Format
_ = tgerr.Error{}
_ = tdjson.Encoder{}
)
// AuthLoginToken represents TL type `auth.loginToken#<PASSWORD>`.
// Login token (for QR code login¹)
//
// Links:
// 1) https://core.telegram.org/api/qr-login
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/constructor/auth.loginToken for reference.
type AuthLoginToken struct {
// Expiry date of QR code
Expires int
// Token to render in QR code
Token []byte
}
// AuthLoginTokenTypeID is TL type id of AuthLoginToken.
const AuthLoginTokenTypeID = 0x629f1980
// construct implements constructor of AuthLoginTokenClass.
func (l AuthLoginToken) construct() AuthLoginTokenClass { return &l }
// Ensuring interfaces in compile-time for AuthLoginToken.
var (
_ bin.Encoder = &AuthLoginToken{}
_ bin.Decoder = &AuthLoginToken{}
_ bin.BareEncoder = &AuthLoginToken{}
_ bin.BareDecoder = &AuthLoginToken{}
_ AuthLoginTokenClass = &AuthLoginToken{}
)
func (l *AuthLoginToken) Zero() bool {
if l == nil {
return true
}
if !(l.Expires == 0) {
return false
}
if !(l.Token == nil) {
return false
}
return true
}
// String implements fmt.Stringer.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) String() string {
if l == nil {
return "AuthLoginToken(nil)"
}
type Alias AuthLoginToken
return fmt.Sprintf("AuthLoginToken%+v", Alias(*l))
}
// FillFrom fills AuthLoginToken from given interface.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) FillFrom(from interface {
GetExpires() (value int)
GetToken() (value []byte)
}) {
l.Expires = from.GetExpires()
l.Token = from.GetToken()
}
// TypeID returns type id in TL schema.
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/TL-tl#remarks.
func (*AuthLoginToken) TypeID() uint32 {
return AuthLoginTokenTypeID
}
// TypeName returns name of type in TL schema.
func (*AuthLoginToken) TypeName() string {
return "auth.loginToken"
}
// TypeInfo returns info about TL type.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) TypeInfo() tdp.Type {
typ := tdp.Type{
Name: "auth.loginToken",
ID: AuthLoginTokenTypeID,
}
if l == nil {
typ.Null = true
return typ
}
typ.Fields = []tdp.Field{
{
Name: "Expires",
SchemaName: "expires",
},
{
Name: "Token",
SchemaName: "token",
},
}
return typ
}
// Encode implements bin.Encoder.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) Encode(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't encode auth.loginToken#629f1980 as nil")
}
b.PutID(AuthLoginTokenTypeID)
return l.EncodeBare(b)
}
// EncodeBare implements bin.BareEncoder.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) EncodeBare(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't encode auth.loginToken#629f1980 as nil")
}
b.PutInt(l.Expires)
b.PutBytes(l.Token)
return nil
}
// Decode implements bin.Decoder.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) Decode(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't decode auth.loginToken#629f1980 to nil")
}
if err := b.ConsumeID(AuthLoginTokenTypeID); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginToken#6<PASSWORD>: %w", err)
}
return l.DecodeBare(b)
}
// DecodeBare implements bin.BareDecoder.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) DecodeBare(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't decode auth.loginToken#629<PASSWORD>80 to nil")
}
{
value, err := b.Int()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginToken#629f1980: field expires: %w", err)
}
l.Expires = value
}
{
value, err := b.Bytes()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginToken#629f1980: field token: %w", err)
}
l.Token = value
}
return nil
}
// GetExpires returns value of Expires field.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) GetExpires() (value int) {
return l.Expires
}
// GetToken returns value of Token field.
func (l *AuthLoginToken) GetToken() (value []byte) {
return l.Token
}
// AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo represents TL type `auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#6<PASSWORD>6`.
// Repeat the query to the specified DC
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/constructor/auth.loginTokenMigrateTo for reference.
type AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo struct {
// DC ID
DCID int
// Token to use for login
Token []byte
}
// AuthLoginTokenMigrateToTypeID is TL type id of AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo.
const AuthLoginTokenMigrateToTypeID = 0x68e9916
// construct implements constructor of AuthLoginTokenClass.
func (l AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) construct() AuthLoginTokenClass { return &l }
// Ensuring interfaces in compile-time for AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo.
var (
_ bin.Encoder = &AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo{}
_ bin.Decoder = &AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo{}
_ bin.BareEncoder = &AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo{}
_ bin.BareDecoder = &AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo{}
_ AuthLoginTokenClass = &AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo{}
)
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) Zero() bool {
if l == nil {
return true
}
if !(l.DCID == 0) {
return false
}
if !(l.Token == nil) {
return false
}
return true
}
// String implements fmt.Stringer.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) String() string {
if l == nil {
return "AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo(nil)"
}
type Alias AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo
return fmt.Sprintf("AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo%+v", Alias(*l))
}
// FillFrom fills AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo from given interface.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) FillFrom(from interface {
GetDCID() (value int)
GetToken() (value []byte)
}) {
l.DCID = from.GetDCID()
l.Token = from.GetToken()
}
// TypeID returns type id in TL schema.
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/TL-tl#remarks.
func (*AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) TypeID() uint32 {
return AuthLoginTokenMigrateToTypeID
}
// TypeName returns name of type in TL schema.
func (*AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) TypeName() string {
return "auth.loginTokenMigrateTo"
}
// TypeInfo returns info about TL type.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) TypeInfo() tdp.Type {
typ := tdp.Type{
Name: "auth.loginTokenMigrateTo",
ID: AuthLoginTokenMigrateToTypeID,
}
if l == nil {
typ.Null = true
return typ
}
typ.Fields = []tdp.Field{
{
Name: "DCID",
SchemaName: "dc_id",
},
{
Name: "Token",
SchemaName: "token",
},
}
return typ
}
// Encode implements bin.Encoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) Encode(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't encode auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#68e9916 as nil")
}
b.PutID(AuthLoginTokenMigrateToTypeID)
return l.EncodeBare(b)
}
// EncodeBare implements bin.BareEncoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) EncodeBare(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't encode auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#68e9916 as nil")
}
b.PutInt(l.DCID)
b.PutBytes(l.Token)
return nil
}
// Decode implements bin.Decoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) Decode(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't decode auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#68e9916 to nil")
}
if err := b.ConsumeID(AuthLoginTokenMigrateToTypeID); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#68e9916: %w", err)
}
return l.DecodeBare(b)
}
// DecodeBare implements bin.BareDecoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) DecodeBare(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't decode auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#68e9916 to nil")
}
{
value, err := b.Int()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#68e9916: field dc_id: %w", err)
}
l.DCID = value
}
{
value, err := b.Bytes()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#68e9916: field token: %w", err)
}
l.Token = value
}
return nil
}
// GetDCID returns value of DCID field.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) GetDCID() (value int) {
return l.DCID
}
// GetToken returns value of Token field.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo) GetToken() (value []byte) {
return l.Token
}
// AuthLoginTokenSuccess represents TL type `auth.loginTokenSuccess#3<PASSWORD>`.
// Login via token (QR code) succeded!
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/constructor/auth.loginTokenSuccess for reference.
type AuthLoginTokenSuccess struct {
// Authorization info
Authorization AuthAuthorizationClass
}
// AuthLoginTokenSuccessTypeID is TL type id of AuthLoginTokenSuccess.
const AuthLoginTokenSuccessTypeID = 0x390d5c5e
// construct implements constructor of AuthLoginTokenClass.
func (l AuthLoginTokenSuccess) construct() AuthLoginTokenClass { return &l }
// Ensuring interfaces in compile-time for AuthLoginTokenSuccess.
var (
_ bin.Encoder = &AuthLoginTokenSuccess{}
_ bin.Decoder = &AuthLoginTokenSuccess{}
_ bin.BareEncoder = &AuthLoginTokenSuccess{}
_ bin.BareDecoder = &AuthLoginTokenSuccess{}
_ AuthLoginTokenClass = &AuthLoginTokenSuccess{}
)
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) Zero() bool {
if l == nil {
return true
}
if !(l.Authorization == nil) {
return false
}
return true
}
// String implements fmt.Stringer.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) String() string {
if l == nil {
return "AuthLoginTokenSuccess(nil)"
}
type Alias AuthLoginTokenSuccess
return fmt.Sprintf("AuthLoginTokenSuccess%+v", Alias(*l))
}
// FillFrom fills AuthLoginTokenSuccess from given interface.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) FillFrom(from interface {
GetAuthorization() (value AuthAuthorizationClass)
}) {
l.Authorization = from.GetAuthorization()
}
// TypeID returns type id in TL schema.
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/TL-tl#remarks.
func (*AuthLoginTokenSuccess) TypeID() uint32 {
return AuthLoginTokenSuccessTypeID
}
// TypeName returns name of type in TL schema.
func (*AuthLoginTokenSuccess) TypeName() string {
return "auth.loginTokenSuccess"
}
// TypeInfo returns info about TL type.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) TypeInfo() tdp.Type {
typ := tdp.Type{
Name: "auth.loginTokenSuccess",
ID: AuthLoginTokenSuccessTypeID,
}
if l == nil {
typ.Null = true
return typ
}
typ.Fields = []tdp.Field{
{
Name: "Authorization",
SchemaName: "authorization",
},
}
return typ
}
// Encode implements bin.Encoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) Encode(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't encode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e as nil")
}
b.PutID(AuthLoginTokenSuccessTypeID)
return l.EncodeBare(b)
}
// EncodeBare implements bin.BareEncoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) EncodeBare(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't encode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e as nil")
}
if l.Authorization == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to encode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e: field authorization is nil")
}
if err := l.Authorization.Encode(b); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to encode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e: field authorization: %w", err)
}
return nil
}
// Decode implements bin.Decoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) Decode(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't decode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e to nil")
}
if err := b.ConsumeID(AuthLoginTokenSuccessTypeID); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e: %w", err)
}
return l.DecodeBare(b)
}
// DecodeBare implements bin.BareDecoder.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) DecodeBare(b *bin.Buffer) error {
if l == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("can't decode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e to nil")
}
{
value, err := DecodeAuthAuthorization(b)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode auth.loginTokenSuccess#390d5c5e: field authorization: %w", err)
}
l.Authorization = value
}
return nil
}
// GetAuthorization returns value of Authorization field.
func (l *AuthLoginTokenSuccess) GetAuthorization() (value AuthAuthorizationClass) {
return l.Authorization
}
// AuthLoginTokenClassName is schema name of AuthLoginTokenClass.
const AuthLoginTokenClassName = "auth.LoginToken"
// AuthLoginTokenClass represents auth.LoginToken generic type.
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/type/auth.LoginToken for reference.
//
// Example:
// g, err := tg.DecodeAuthLoginToken(buf)
// if err != nil {
// panic(err)
// }
// switch v := g.(type) {
// case *tg.AuthLoginToken: // auth.loginToken<PASSWORD>
// case *tg.AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo: // auth.loginTokenMigrateTo<PASSWORD>
// case *tg.AuthLoginTokenSuccess: // auth.loginTokenSuccess<PASSWORD>
// default: panic(v)
// }
type AuthLoginTokenClass interface {
bin.Encoder
bin.Decoder
bin.BareEncoder
bin.BareDecoder
construct() AuthLoginTokenClass
// TypeID returns type id in TL schema.
//
// See https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/TL-tl#remarks.
TypeID() uint32
// TypeName returns name of type in TL schema.
TypeName() string
// String implements fmt.Stringer.
String() string
// Zero returns true if current object has a zero value.
Zero() bool
}
// DecodeAuthLoginToken implements binary de-serialization for AuthLoginTokenClass.
func DecodeAuthLoginToken(buf *bin.Buffer) (AuthLoginTokenClass, error) {
id, err := buf.PeekID()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
switch id {
case AuthLoginTokenTypeID:
// Decoding auth.loginToken#<PASSWORD>.
v := AuthLoginToken{}
if err := v.Decode(buf); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to decode AuthLoginTokenClass: %w", err)
}
return &v, nil
case AuthLoginTokenMigrateToTypeID:
// Decoding auth.loginTokenMigrateTo#6<PASSWORD>6.
v := AuthLoginTokenMigrateTo{}
if err := v.Decode(buf); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to decode AuthLoginTokenClass: %w", err)
}
return &v, nil
case AuthLoginTokenSuccessTypeID:
// Decoding auth.loginTokenSuccess#<PASSWORD>.
v := AuthLoginTokenSuccess{}
if err := v.Decode(buf); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to decode AuthLoginTokenClass: %w", err)
}
return &v, nil
default:
return nil, fmt.Errorf("unable to decode AuthLoginTokenClass: %w", bin.NewUnexpectedID(id))
}
}
// AuthLoginToken boxes the AuthLoginTokenClass providing a helper.
type AuthLoginTokenBox struct {
LoginToken AuthLoginTokenClass
}
// Decode implements bin.Decoder for AuthLoginTokenBox.
func (b *AuthLoginTokenBox) Decode(buf *bin.Buffer) error {
if b == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode AuthLoginTokenBox to nil")
}
v, err := DecodeAuthLoginToken(buf)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to decode boxed value: %w", err)
}
b.LoginToken = v
return nil
}
// Encode implements bin.Encode for AuthLoginTokenBox.
func (b *AuthLoginTokenBox) Encode(buf *bin.Buffer) error {
if b == nil || b.LoginToken == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to encode AuthLoginTokenClass as nil")
}
return b.LoginToken.Encode(buf)
}
| 1063031 | 5,467 |
The idea of Western world as cold and frozen as captured in McCabe & Mrs. Miller may recall the lonely and almost-empty atmosphere of a kingdom in England in The Lion in Winter, since both films brought out contrast looks of their respective background as commonly perceived, yet the strong elements of both genres still convincingly present in the films, either to enhance the genre or to serve as a supporting backdrop.
The former film as discussed here decided to bask itself under the heavy thick of snow, somehow confining the brass loud of Western as usually appeared on the screen, particularly the Western films made in this era, mid-1960s to early-1970s, when Sergio Leone did not hesitate to downgrade the genre with uncomforting violence, at the same time when John Wayne was still around to maintain the dignity of the genre through traditional values of good deeds over evil doings, in a very two-dimensional way at the very best.
The confinement itself then is redeemed by the presence of the two leading characters with their unique traits considered as a breakthrough then. Warren Beatty’s McCabe is an opportunist who often confuses himself with his indecisiveness. He deliberately suppresses himself from his past that made him what he is, yet eventually he surrenders to the past, his own reputation, to a very unfortunate result at the end. It is understandable then that he carries his gloominess throughout the entire film, making each scenes he appeared seemed to be palpable to swallow.
However, the same cannot be said towards Julie Christie, the saving grace of the film. Thanks to her radiant presence shining through her feisty acts, Christie turns her Mrs. Miller as a multi-dimensional character with a mere single look as represented by her generous eyes that speak many things themselves. It is hardly any wonder then that Robert Altman chose to end this film with the camera zooming in Christie’s bewildering eyes, something we seldom see in recent times until another film, Facing Window, does it with the same satisfying effect.
And isn’t that a rarity to see a Western film is almost entirely carried out by a mere presence of the leading lady character? Another breakthrough indeed, from Altman at his playful time in accordance to his famous M.A.S.H.. | https://nauvalyazid.com/2006/02/04/ | 466 |
This might be the world upside down: a fish eating a cat? But you have to remember that sharks are a bit more dangerous than your average anchovy.
Your cat won't mind: the desire to sleep and nap is many times stronger than the awareness of any danger - especially if that danger comes with a fluffy pillow filled with high-quality cotton! And this cute shark igloo is suitable for more than just cats: (smaller) dogs will love it as well. | https://www.coolgift.com/en/Shark-Cat-Bed | 97 |
A vaccine and a virus aren't a belief. They're just facts.
The respect is about not needlessly wanting to spread something so trivially avoidable. I say 'needless' and 'trivial' because it takes all of 30 minutes to get vaccinated. Done.
If this were about some complicated surgery, things would be quite different. But it's just a vaccine, and one that at least in many countries requires only a single shot. It's like a 5y old refusing to eat veggies despite being hungry, **just** because their parents told them to eat.
I guess put even more simply: If someone absolutely insists on wanting to act like they're but a sulking child unwilling to admit they were wrong, then it's only fair for others to tell them that they cannot join for activities the adults are doing, and instead need to stay in their room. | f757a5426d5d4c6eabde6bedb08d892e | 185 |
This modern design solar light collects sunlight throughout the day, resulting in a beautiful, bold and bright glow as evening sets in. It is constructed of durable weather resistant nylon resulting in a unique light, that is designed to withstand the test of time.
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# Helper for equality testing in tests
#
class TestHelperMixin(object):
_mixin_ = True
def __eq__(self, other):
return self.__class__ == other.__class__ and self.__dict__ == other.__dict__
def __ne__(self, other):
return not self == other
def shape(self):
# for non-W_Objects to act as such during pattern generation
from theseus.shape import in_storage_shape
return in_storage_shape
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I recall my articles by the same title (Part Eight) May 09, 2001 and (part nine) Sept 7, 2001 at Asmarino.com.
To grasp what I am talking about in this article it is imperative first to read the two articles mentioned above.
In part eight, I discussed about the plight and fortune of the elites siding with the Eritrean government. I labelled them The "On” side. I said that the "On” side to be favourable for Eritrea’s democratisation they should be granted a livelihood for the future in case they lose power. Otherwise they would not be nice people for democratisation to succeed in Eritrea.
In part nine I mentioned about the opposition groups to the government. I labelled them the "Off” side. I characterize them as fruitless to the democratisation and development of Eritrea. I categorically rejected them as non-viable and weak opposition that brings no change to Eritrean politics. I based my argument that they are for the sake of opposition merely jealousy and hate to the Eritrean government. They lack substance as effective opposition group. Their failure is due to their weakness of not being effective opposition group. If they would have united and base their opposition by substances that brings positive change to our society then they would have won our heart.
Next, we are going to see the potentiality and the effectiveness of the alternative group that are some times with the government and at other time they are in opposition to the government. I labelled them the "On and off” groups. In this group as the leading figure Dr. Berket Habtesalasie could be mentioned. Others are: Mohammed Sheriffo, DR. Araya Debessia, Ex-ambassador Hibret and others.
In Eritrea, democratisation to succeed, totally depends on the peaceful dialogue among the elites with government and in opposition to the government in one hand and the civil society on the other hand. The solution is dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, and thousand times dialogue and again dialogue. Non-stop dialogue. Character assassination, denigrating, blackmailing and sabotage are effective only during war with external enemy. When it comes to internal social problem the method is different. Negative approach is not behaviour of civil society like the gentle and proud Eritrean people. Our fathers and forefathers had the behaviour to dialogue in Biato with respect to each other. Therefore, be it the B13, G15, EPDM, ELF-RC, PFDJ or whatever acronym you have lets come to dialogue.
The Eritrean government seems to avoid and seems to want totally eliminate the potentially alternative group, the G15. These are one exemplary group that were with the government, but which are now in opposition to the government. They matched perfectly to my label the "On and off” side elite group. These are the group, which are hope for future democratisation in Eritrea. I don’t give credit or bother too much about the rumours spread about them. I am aware and well prepared that the elites on the "On” side are going to use all means to crash this group. The elites who were with Mengistu regime did use the same tactic to eliminate opposition groups. Saddam Hussein of Iraq, the late Hafiz Alasad of Syria, Idi amen of Uganda, Siad Baree of Somalia, Meles of Ethiopia and others used the same tactic. That is, they avoided dialogue and chose the stick to silence opposition elites.
I am not pessimistic to the democratisation in Eritrea. But I am afraid that some thing might go wrong. That is, if we avoided dialogue and preferred silencing opposition groups by spreading rumours that will be very dangerous to future Eritrea. I know that the propaganda to terrorize the people by the name unity of the country is going to work very well to the advantage to the government. But this will be short-term victory for the elites on the "On” side. For Eritrea it will be disadvantage, because we are going to miss the opportunity to create civil society. For example, first the rumour about the G15 was corruption. Now the rumour is selling sovereign of Eritrea to Woyane. Taking advantage that we lack civil society in Eritrea the rumours are working very well to the advantage of the government. The situation now in Eritrea reminds me the time of Derg era. Derg was very effective to capitalize the weakness of the society by spreading rumours to defame the opponents. The Derg succeeded to prolong its power by avoiding dialogue. Derg could have solved the Eritrean problem by dialogue. Derg was defaming the Eritrean struggle by saying they are going to sell Eritrea to the Arabs. All that was, using power, to use it stay long by avoiding dialogue.
Look now, what happened to Derg after creating misery and shame to the people of Eritrea and Ethiopia. The strong man, who was labelling himself the defender of Ethiopian unity, Mengistu Haiemariam fled the country and now he is in Exile. His supportive that were preaching as, Derg the only true representative and vanguard of the Ethiopian people lasted in jail. Like PFDJ the Workers party of Derg was lonely and dominant power in Ethiopia. Without effective opposition party the workers party of Derg did all the mischievous and grave mistakes that threw Ethiopia to the now disastrous situation. The same will happen in Eritrea if PFDJ tries to crush genuine opposition parties like the G15. If the PFDJ groups are going to accept pluralism as the only viable and secured way to our stability and welfare we welcome them to lead us even for the next 10 years. As long as they respect humane right, freedom of press, freedom of voluntary civil community, formation of multiparty, freedom of economic participation, respecting the constitution and abide by rule of law the PFDJ could be an exemplary group.
As for the elites on the "On and off” side it is a matter of learning from the past mistakes of the "off” side opposition groups. I expect the "On and off” side to come with concrete program that organize us to be effective opposition party supporters. I would like to see both the "On” side elite and the "On and off” side parties to present their program and everybody to see it for a choice for the coming election 2001. Here I would like to remind to the "On and off” side elite that they to be positive with the existing government and try to harmonize the programmes and schedules for the election 2001 to match with the government. I expect the "On and off” side elites to be gentle and work for harmony and progress of the on going election 2001. It is weakness not to participate on the discussion arranged by the government to ratify the election and party formation drafts. It is wisdom do participate positively and effectively to make the ratification of the laws successful. Who present it is irrelevant. No body is going to get prise for presenting it. People will judge who is democrat and who is hard working by looking at the programmes and activities of the parties. Therefore, it is my wish and pray that the elites on the "On and off” side which are hope for future stability of Eritrea to act as genuine opposition parties by taking measures that includes the interest of the existing government. The fundamental mistake of the elites on the "On and off” side will be if they try to marginalize and exclude the existing governments elite.
Conclusion, In the near future, I expect the Eritrean government to learn from past mistakes and come to dialogue. I expect soon, all members of the central government to come to a dialogue and resolve their problem peacefully. I expect soon, the draft law for election and forming political parties to be ratified. I expect soon, genuine parties to emerge from within PFDJ, two or three this time and all other opposition groups to reconcile their program and merge with these political parties. Let election 2001 will be successful and I hope PIA to continue as a president and the G15 to be the dominant opposition party in the parliament. By doing so, I hope Eritrea to have balance of power between the executive body which is now more experienced in governance than the otters and the opposition party to be effective in checking and scrutinizing the executive body. For us, the masses, let us concentrate to develop a civil society. By civil society I mean by performing intensive civic education to create civility.
Focus on election 2001 part eight dealt with elites who are siding with the government. Part nine dealt with the elites who are totally against the Eritrean government and part ten dealt with the elites who are some time with the existing government and on the other time opposing it. Even though I mentioned names, which some time I feel guilty that I crossed the red line, nevertheless, I did it by paying great respect and admiration to their talent and at some times I considered them as my favourites. | https://afronorway.com/documents/focus_on_eritrea_elec.php?entry_id=1259920212&title=focus-on-eritrean-election-part-10 | 1,863 |
Review of Hon. Gerald French's book about Lord Chelmsford from the Birmingham Daily Post 9 January 1940.
” An Echo of the Zulu War.
Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War. By Major the Hon. Gerald French. With a foreword General Sir Bindon Blood. (Lane, 21s.).
Everybody knows the main facts about Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War; and history, on the whole, has endorsed the contemporary verdict against Lord Chelmsford. With that verdict Major French and Sir Bindon Blood disagree; and this book, based partly on “private, semiofficial and official papers, preserved by Lord Chelmsford” and later annotated by one of his staff, is an effort to get the verdict reversed.
It is not wholly successful. Though Major French gets an acquittal on the general charge that Lord Chelmsford underrated his enemy, he can hardly get away from the plain facts that Lord Chelmsford divided his forces into five columns of a thousand men apiece, all of which proved too small; that he undervalued the larger and the square in Zulu fighting; that he left details of his own column in unprotected camp while he went after the enemy; that the enemy “slipped” him and got at his camp; that he was slow in coming to the rescue; that somehow or other the man he had ordered to take command, Colonel Durnford, did not arrive until two hours before the Zulu attack. (There is, by the way, a mystery about this written order, which has never been discovered to this day, either in original or in the file duplicate).
What happened, at any rate, is clear. The Isandhlwana camp was cut up. One of the Chelmsford columns was besieged in Echowe. The other columns retired into Natal. Lord Wolseley was ordered out to take Chelmsford’s place; and only tho heroic defence of the lager at Rorke’s drift saved Natal from invasion. Lord Chelmsford, it is true, made a fine and brave recovery. He advanced again into Zululand, tempted the Zulus to break themselves on his square at Ulundi and so, in effect, ended the war. But the answer to that is surely that his tactics on the second invasion were the tactics he should have used on the first invasion. There seems some reason to believe that he had neglected local advice and based his plans on a memorandum from General Michel, reproduced, who was at home and based his views on his own experiences in the Kaffir War of twenty years before.
Allowing for tlhe fact that he is trying to make a case, Major French has written a good book. The Chelmsford correspondence and memoranda contain some interesting new matter and throw a quite pleasant light on the character of Lord Chelmsford, who is described by Sir Bindon Blood as "a fine specimen of the class of officer and gentleman which we find so abundantly in the British Army.” The maps and battle descriptions are well done. On the other hand, Major French never seems fully to realise the strength of the case he has to meet, and he is almost ill-tempered in his references to some of those who have condemned his hero."
| https://www.1879zuluwar.com/t10746-1940-review-of-lord-chelmsford-and-the-zulu-war | 687 |
The City of Duncan is looking to crack down on properties connected to the illegal drug trade.
Council gave the first three reading to the new controlled substances property bylaw at its meeting on June 17 that is intended to regulate and impose stringent requirements in regards to the remediation of properties that have been damaged through the production, trade or storage of controlled substances.
In a staff report, Paige MacWilliam, Duncan’s director of corporate services, said that the city has had to deal with several properties in recent years that have been used for the manufacture, storage or trade of controlled substances.
“In particular, the increased prevalence of fentanyl and other illicit drugs has become an issue,” MacWilliam said.
Staff Sergeant Kurtis Bosnell, the plain clothes commander at the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP detachment who attended the meeting, said he has seen various drafts of the bylaw and, if implemented, it would be one of the most up-to-date bylaws dealing with the issue in the region.
He said local police have struggled with issues around houses that were used for illegal drug purposes for years.
“One of our concerns is that, under current bylaws, once we leave a house in the city that has been used for drugs, a lot of the original people who were there tend to come back and the problem starts again,” he said.
Mayor Michelle Staples said the city has been working on the bylaw for about a year.
“It will give us the ability to deal with situations that we would not have been able to before,” she said.
According to the draft bylaw, the city may deem a residence used for drugs unsuitable for habitation and issue the registered owner a notice advising that the residence shall not be occupied again until authorized by the city.
The city may place a note on the title of the property which would immediately alert anyone who may be considering purchasing the property to the presence of a previous illegal drug operation, and the associated fire, safety and health hazards posed.
The city may also require the owners of these properties to return the home to a condition suitable for habitation.
As well, property owners will be required to have certified companies conduct a safety inspection of the residence to ensure the home is clear of any toxic dangers associated with controlled substances and mould.
The city may also require the owners to arrange for an independent inspection with a report submitted to the city to ensure that the structural integrity of the residence is safe for habitation.
“If the owner fails to comply with an order under this bylaw, the city may hire a professional contractor to undertake the required remediation at the owner’s expense,” MacWilliam said.
| https://www.cowichanvalleycitizen.com/news/city-of-duncan-considers-tougher-laws-for-drug-houses/ | 563 |
import { Lookup, getHandFromScore } from './lookup'
import { Card } from './card'
import { combinations } from './helpers'
const LOOKUP = new Lookup()
export class Evaluator {
evaluate(cards: number[], board: number[]) {
return combinations(cards.concat(board), 5)
.map(c => this.five(c))
.reduce((x, y) => (x.score < y.score ? x : y))
}
private five(cards: number[]) {
let score: number
if (cards[0] & cards[1] & cards[2] & cards[3] & cards[4] & 0xf000) {
const handOR = (cards[0] | cards[1] | cards[2] | cards[3] | cards[4]) >> 16
score = LOOKUP.flushLookup[Card.primeProductFromRankBits(handOR)]
} else {
score = LOOKUP.unSuitedLookup[Card.primeProductFromHand(cards)]
}
return {
score,
hand: cards,
handStr: cards.map(c => Card.intToStr(c)),
handPrettyStr: cards.map(c => Card.intToPrettyStr(c)),
handName: getHandFromScore(score)
}
}
}
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Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Michelle Shocked, affectionately known as the Godmother of Americana, brings her unique blend of indie, folk, blues, and politics to the festival. Not one to shy away from controversy, Michelle’s dynamic personality, frank storytelling, and captivating vocals promise an intimate and unforgettable evening of music, as she performs tracks from each of her first three studio albums while discussing the highs and lows of her career.
Short Sharp Shocked, Captain Swing, and Arkansas Traveler are arguably Michelle’s most enduring works and Truth vs Reality will see her performing these hits, with plenty of banter and a few surprise numbers thrown into the mix.
| https://getinvited.to/imaginebelfast/editing-the-michelle-shocked-truth-vs-reality/ | 143 |
He went on, “It could also be a game changer, because it doesn’t require skilled health care workers to handle the syringe to perform the dilutions. Pretty much anybody could just put it on their arm and use it,” he said.
Dr. Jaqueline Dudley with the the LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease said these mutations and variants are a big reason they are encouraging people to consider the vaccine, if they haven’t gotten it.
Several recent UT Austin graduates told KXAN they’re not surprised there’s a tie to their alma mater.
| https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southwest/needle-free-covid-19-vaccine-patch-in-development-using-ut-austin-technology/ | 130 |
Boredom but a very specific kind of boredom. I’m impossibly busy, personally & professionally. So it’s not that kind of boredom. If it wasn’t effete* to call it ennui that might be a better word for it.
I think of it as a selfishness for happiness. I have everything anyone could want professionally and personally but I’m also tired. Tired of being on all the time and laying beside someone lovely, laughing and fucking, is like a special kind of vacation.
*possible it’s effete to say effete, actually | 1fdcd8fc58154d8ea0c448925d8ed89e | 135 |
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America has traditionally been the defender of the weak and fought against evil around the world. When a man or women joins the US military, they are joining an organization that has saved the world repeatedly. When America is the dominant military power in the world, the free world is safe. If China or Russia ever become the dominant military power, the free world is in moral peril.
Since the 1960s and the Vietnam War, the political left in America and much of the world has denounced our military as a force against peace. The facts are that American military power is responsible for preventing major wars since World War Two and maintaining the postwar economic boom by maintaining free commerce, communications and travel.
The claims by the political left that the US is an imperialistic power is propaganda. The US does not have dozens of puppet governments set up around the world. It was the former Soviet Union which ruled many countries through the puppet governments they set up by force and intimidation.
America won the “Cold War” IN SPITE of the Democrats, NOT because of them. Political Leftists spent 50 years making excuses for the most evil form of government in all of history - Communism - a system responsible for the genocide of over 30 million innocent people since 1917. Leftists constantly tried to harm America’s military by ridiculing the military and always trying to reduce the defense budget.
Liberals treated the Cold War as if it was an ego contest - a battle between the biggest guys on the block to see who was stronger, rather then the truth that the Cold War was a battle between good (The US) and evil (Soviet Communism). It would be inconceivable for any US veteran to think how they could in good conscience serve in a country with an evil agenda - like the old Soviet Union, or today in Iran. Although we were born in America, we serve because the US fights for just causes. It would be impossible to morally justify serving in the military of Russia, Iran, Communist China and so on. When America has invaded a country, it was to restore freedom and eliminate dictatorships and oppression. When the Soviets invaded a country, it was to establish adictatorship.
Democrats bungled the war in Vietnam, turning what could have been a quick victory in 1965 into a long losing war and wasting thousands of American lives. Vietnam, as well as the Korean War, was a war to stop Communist expansion - NOT a civil war.
In any war the US has to become involved in, the political discussion across America should be on how best to destroy the enemy as quickly as possible, with as few American casualties as possible and come home victorious. In the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan under George Bush, the democratic party, in their hatred of George Bush, did tremendous harm in our attempts to win these wars. Many democrats in Congress were more concerned with destroying Bush then winning the war on terror. | 4a3e137a2384122fcfc6b772f963fd7d | 587 |
ATW Daily News
Embraer profit dip tied to production issuesMonday March 26, 2007
Embraer reported $390.1 million in 2006 net income, a 13% drop from the previous year, which the company attributed to rising costs and fewer deliveries. It reported net sales of $3.8 billion compared to sales of $3.83 billion in 2005, while the firm order backlog increased 11% to $14.3 billion. Fourth-quarter net income was down 20.3% to $124.4 million on an 8.9% fall in net revenue to $1.08 billion.
The Brazilian manufacturer had expected to deliver up to 145 aircraft in 2006 but that fell to 130 due primarily to production problems related to the wing assembly, President and CEO Mauricio Botelho said (ATWOnline, Oct. 9, 2006). "We had strong difficulties with the supplier," he said. "By July last, we took control of the operation, changed management, processes, systems and tooling. We now have things under control." The work had been contracted to Kawasaki Heavy Industries.
Embraer raised its 2007 delivery forecast to 165-170 aircraft from 150. Botelho said an order from Hainan Airlines for 50 ERJs and 50 E-190s (ATWOnline, Aug. 31, 2006) represented an endorsement of its strategy "to penetrate the Chinese market." He added that it also gave the company a foot in the door "before a Chinese competitor could develop their own aircraft." Embraer began an ERJ-145 joint production venture with Harbin Aircraft Industry in 2002. | c4d52cab2c5cd175e8d295eca8f305fc | 333 |
The third Tutorial is Using The Colour Wheel, giving you an insight into how to use the wheel to help you choose colours for your designs.
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Using a Colour Wheel
Using a Colour wheel will help you mix and match colours and help you select a colour scheme that will compliment and tone. It is quite easy to use and if you right click on the main image below you will be able to save this to your computer to refer to for future use.
PRIMARY COLORS
Red, Yellow and Blue are the primary colors. These are the three basic colors that are used to mix all hues.
SECONDARY COLORS
Orange, Green and Purple are the secondary colors. They are achieved by mixing two primary colors together.
TERTIARY COLORS
Tertiary colors are more complex hues that are achieved by mixing primary and a secondary colors that are adjacent on the colour wheel.
OPPOSITE and COMPLEMENTARY COLORS
Opposite colors are diagonally opposite one another on the color wheel. You can work out the opposite color to any primary color by taking the other two primaries and mixing them together. The result will be its opposite or ‘complementary’ color.
ANALOGOUS COLORS
Analogous colors sit next to one another on the color wheel. These colors are in harmony with one another.
Some Formulas for Color Harmony
There are many theories for harmony. The following illustrations and descriptions present some basic formulas .
A color scheme based on analogous colors
, the opposing colors create maximum contrast.
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We hope that you have found these Tutorials helpful and please leave a comment if you have the time to let us know what you think.
A colour wheel - exactly what i have been looking for - thank you -well done on keeping up the high standard with Issue 5! Look forward to my 'mag' every week :)
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Thanks, I found this very helpful. | 54fdbddcd844906cfdd8f309792987ed | 466 |
Texan rancher by day and heavy metal God by night Big Dad Ritch has been the driving the force behind Texas Hippie Coalition for over a decade now. That time has seen the band share the stage with bands as diverse as Nazarath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Korn and Black Label Society. Now Texas Hippie Coalition are back with a new line-up and a brand new album in the form of High In The Saddle. HEAVY Mag recently caught up with Big Dad Ritch to chat about his love for music and the brand new album.
You can listen to our full Texas Hippie Coalition on Spotify. | https://heavymag.com.au/texas-hippie-coalition-are-ridin-high/ | 133 |
<?php
namespace Arctic\Method;
use Arctic\Api;
use Arctic\Model;
use Arctic\Reference\SetWrapper;
class Insert extends Method
{
public function __construct() {
parent::__construct( self::TYPE_MODEL , Api::METHOD_POST );
}
/**
* @param array $response
* @return Model
*/
protected function _parseResponse( $response ) {
// get references (before filling data)
$references = $this->_model->getReferences();
// clear references that support directly embedding
foreach ($this->_model->getReferenceDefinitions() as $reference_definition) {
if ($reference_definition->getEmbedInParent()) {
$name = $reference_definition->getName();
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}
}
// fill data
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// update cache if an ID was returned
if (isset($response['id'])) {
Api::getInstance()->getCacheManager()->set($response['id'], $response, $this->_model_class);
}
// write references too
foreach ( $references as $name => $obj ) {
if ( $obj instanceof SetWrapper ) {
$obj->insertAll();
}
else {
$obj->insert();
}
}
return $this->_model;
}
protected function _prepareRequest( $api_path , $arguments ) {
if ( $this->_model->doesExist() ) {
Api::getInstance()->raiseError('Model Already Saved','Cannot be inserted again.');
}
// build request
$request = $this->_model->toArray();
// add references that support direct embedding
foreach ($this->_model->getReferenceDefinitions() as $reference_definition) {
if ($reference_definition->getEmbedInParent()) {
$name = $reference_definition->getName();
if (isset($this->_model->$name)) {
$request[$name] = $this->_model->$name->toArray();
}
}
}
// build uri
return $this->_runRequest($api_path, $this->_method, json_encode($request));
}
}
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SUPERMAN OR SAVIOR?
Did I just want a good excuse to have pictures of Henry on my blog – absolutely!
Who saw Man of Steel last weekend [I did!!] contributing to their record breaking Highest June weekend opening in the USA EVER! Did the story seem familiar to you because this may have been Jesus’ story. Super sacrilegious storyline, Superman!
My views of film marketing encompass what I call the Hot Hero Heuristic. If he is hot, women’ll stampede the theatre doors. For men, it is an Action Hero Heuristic. With superheroes, action scenes extend far beyond the limits of our reality. Some people take a more central route reading industry magazines, critics’ reviews, and research the stars. I do for indy films, but for a superhero film – again, it’s just light-hearted entertainment.
Apparently, there’s a heavier message. So much so that Warner Brothers made a Resource Site for churches to better use the platform of our all-American hero to help sell the idea of the world’s savior. They hired a christian marketing firm, Grace Hill Media, to help spread the word. They offered free pre-screenings for pastors and outlined sermons for pastors to parallel these stories.
Still skeptical? Focus your heat vision here: A hero from elsewhere, comes to Earth with powers he’s struggling to understand. His message is Hope and his powers are for good, but people here are frightened by what they don’t understand and are frightened by his potential power. He leaves his family and goes in search of his “heavenly” (as in Space) father and winds up saving the world.
I know, right?! Apparently I haven’t been to church recently because if I’d known Superman would be the sermon, I’d have gone to see how receptive parishioners are to this suggestion. The WB certainly doen’t mention it in articles celebrating their record-breaking opening! They’re just bringing people in with one image then using parallel direct and indirect messages to share Jesus’ story with viewers.
Do you feel that the WB is helping churches gain new, possibly younger, members because of an easier, perhaps more “appealing,” story? Or are they going straight to Hell for purposefully capitalizing on their knowledge that Christian audiences are large and very influential to their congregations to support or resist certain things in the entertainment world?
No kidding! Talk about eye candy, that guy! Ah, so annoying to try to keep looking away. Grrr. Haha! Well, you’ve done a great job of stating your own view on this very controversial topic. I had wanted to watch this movie (along with the rest of the folks on Earth), but then had changed my mind when I had read about this movie’s “hidden / other-good / should-be-positive-n-accepted-by-everyone” message.
Thank you for reblogging!! I still highly recommend the Superman movie and will probably go again myself!
Grab the popcorn, let’s go to the movies!!
Okay, fine. Me too, it’s hard to not add this guy’s pic on my blog’s page. But REALLY, the controversy surrounding this movie’s message is worth sharing and Sarah’s done a great job of writing about it. | https://makesmewander.com/2013/06/19/sos/ | 725 |
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Brett Bellchambers
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How long you have been with WTB: Since 2013
Age: 41
Discipline: XC endurance events – 100km, 100 milers, 7/8 hrs, 12hrs and 24hr solos
Hometown: Ulverstone, Tasmania. Currently residing in Lyneham, Canberra – in Australia’s fastest postcode, 2602.
Favorite place to ride: Canberra is my favourite place to ride, it’s close and all the rides leave from my door. I once free camped next to a river with my mate in Winter Park - Colorado for a month and did nothing but MTB all day every day in 1998, I still have very fond memories of that month.
Fun fact: PawPaw Cream heals everything -
How WTB contributes to your success? Who would have thought a tiny looking tyre like the 2.0 Nine Line would contain so much grip, whip between rocks and still keep you upright whilst it’s looking for grip as the front end is pushing wide late into the night. I’m excited about trying out the 2.25 version on the front end. The Volt saddle is that perfect balance between comfort and speed, just enough cushioning to keep the tail bones happy, but not enough that chaffing gets you later in the day.
How you got started out competing? Straight out of Uni in Tasmania I moved to Adelaide in South Australia for my first job as an Engineer. I remember just riding around in the Adelaide Hills (home of the Hill Top Hoods) on my MTB when I first arrived and trying to find tracks to connect up when I met these ‘old blokes*’ riding around, we got chatting and they ended up become very good friends and in one case a riding/racing mentor. They took me to my first XC race, I believe that I raced C-Grade and loved it. From that I progressed to National Level XC races, National Level Road races and a few local DH’s (I never was much good at them). * I say ‘old blokes’ but they were the same age as I am now, when you’re 22 everyone is old.
First experience with a bike: I remember a small green hollow plastic motorbike shaped kick along thing that you sat on and propelled with your legs along the ground. Apparently people at the time thought it was bad for young developing legs. Dad likes to point out now that might not have been the case.
Who do you look up to? I look up to anyone that has gone out of their way to give me useful advice on life, being a better person, or taken the time to tell me how I raced dumb and how I could be smarter next time. I remember in one of my old jobs that I would cop a bollocking from my boss for getting something wrong, but he’d also spend the next 5 minutes telling me what I did wrong and what to do so I never got it wrong again. I also had another boss that taught me that pure ‘force of will’ will overcome ‘common sense’ in 95% of most instances. Maybe that’s how I approach 24hr solo racing.
Other activities(off the bike): I love a good lay in bed on a rainy Sunday morning, when I’d normally be riding, with breakfast, a coffee and a pile of 2000AD comics that I haven’t read and collected up over months. Apart from that it’s just the normal family stuff, kids sports and making sure that the wife gets out for a ride/run as well. Somehow that seems to keep us quite busy. That and trying to keep something like 15 bikes up and running all the time.
Beverage of Choice: Nothing beats a cold beer after a race, or sometimes during, like the 9hr mark of a 12hr race. I love a very milky latte at home after a good MTB ride, I’ve never been one for lycra and cafes, very un-roadie of me I know. Ginger beer is always good on a stinking hot day and who can go past a lime spider for fun.
Place you have always wanted to ride: There’s still a lot of amazingly great places in Australia that I’m yet to ride, quite a few of them seem to be popping up in my home state of Tasmania, the government down there seems to be getting the idea that mountain bikers are good people, like to stay in places, eat and drink and have a good time and bring money into remote areas. I was lucky enough to ride a lot of the iconic MTB trails in the USA back in 1998. I always wanted to ride one of those endless single track trails that you read about in the French Alps (?). The ones where you catch a chair lift to the top, then ride down to the chair lift on another mountain, go back up again and repeat until you’ve done a big day mtb ride and a big mtb loop that crosses countries. | 34429f38851f70ab08db14d7b8f633e1 | 1,082 |
I'm far from hardcore, even though I play a lot of hours. Historically I'm an RPG person vs a looter person.
I'm enjoying the game quite a bit. The gameplay, different builds, and world are all fantastic.
Regarding loot and progression: I would have made the level cap higher, had the loot align with the levels better. For example, an easy route would have been 60 as a cap, and having each level of loot be for a 10 level range (1-10 Common, 11-20 Uncommon, etc). RNG is still in play in the form of inscription hunting, but we're not left with the feeling there's never a chance to improve a build as quickly as now. Also, those sets of 10 line up easily with the difficulty levels.
Biggest issue for me: Content. Content. Content. We've seen teases of a wider variety of enemies in the game, in trailers, and in artwork, but right now we have just a couple different types of beasts (wild animals), 3 different enemy factions, and a couple unique boss monsters. That's not enough variety for a game lacking an ongoing story, imo. I love the world and exploring, but there needs to be a serious expansion in variety of enemies you interact with, to further enhance the gameplay. | d124f30069514bb39c8f3ef96a0b8ba1 | 275 |
We are writing to inform you of ongoing representations on tackling racism at QMUL, and to invite you to a workshop organised by QMUCU anti-racism working group, on Friday Nov 13, 1.30pm-3pm. Recent representations join with other QMUL colleagues dedicated to equality and anti-racist work to call on QMUL to publish their Inclusion Report complete with ALL appendices and staff testimony about experiences of bullying and harassment.
1. Call on QMUL management to publish the Inclusion Report 2020 IN FULL.
This week, after persistent efforts by QMUCU reps to persuade QMUL management to share the findings of its recent Inclusion Report with all colleagues, we wrote to the relevant VPs once more requesting that the report be released IN FULL, without redactions.
We are deeply concerned at the gap between senior management’s rhetorical commitment to an inclusive university and the lived everyday reality of exclusion for QMUL staff and students. In order to make an inclusive university a reality, management need to show that they are actually engaging in anti-racist action. This is even more imperative given the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on people of colour. Instead our requests for open acknowledgement of the problems, in order that we all can come up with some realistic solutions, continue to be met with evasion.
We ask QMUCU members to raise these issues in any university forum available to you, and to demand that anti-racist action is taken, including through the full publication of the Inclusion Report (2020).
In order to better mobilise against these examples of institutional racism within Queen Mary, and UK Higher Education more generally, we are developing a series of trainings on how to build anti-racist spaces, communities and systems, within the union, itself.
The first of these trainings will be led by Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, Dr Akanksha Mehta, and Christopher Nicholas (UCU Equality support official for race, religion or belief) and will take place on Friday 13 November 1.30-3pm. The training, which will be held online, is open to all QMUCU Members. We will share additional details as well as the link, closer to the date.
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With just under two weeks before its release, some new Clips from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 have just surfaced! In Clip 1, we see a shocked Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) learning that Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) still is alive. In the Clip 2, we meet the Crew which Katniss will be working closely with, headed by Cressida (Natalie Dormer).
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In order for their families not to be punished, they have to prove to him that they’re really in love. There’s only one problem—Katniss was faking her emotions for the viewing audience at home, a fact that Peeta has to come to terms with.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire also stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jena Malone, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Willow Shields, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland, Amanda Plummer and Sam Claflin.
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In Catching Fire, we can expect Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) to join forces with Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason as President Snow (Donald Sutherland) is none too pleased of the Rebellion Katniss is responsible for sparking in District 12 with her Victory in the last Hunger Games.
Currently filming in Georgia, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been penciled-in for a November 22, 2013 release.
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“Dear Kim, I have a question.
I am genuinely struggling, and have been. I would appreciate hearing your thoughts.”
– Anonymous
Thanks for your note, Anonymous, and I think you are right! Lots of people ARE asking themselves a similar question: Where, when, and how do we draw the line with family and friends who support (implicitly or explicitly) what we would consider to be morally reprehensible?
Like you, I struggle in this area also. My own ‘line’ would be with friends who appear to turn a bind eye to the unborn. I want to get right up in their faces (FB or otherwise) and shake them hard awake. Can’t they see the evil in sacrificing the innocent; destroying the divine; desecrating the image of God in both mother and child? How can we, both of us Christians, be so far apart on this issue and continue to remain friends? I very much want to not be their friend until we can agree on this foundational truth: Violently removing a baby from the sacred womb of his mother is a great evil before God.
And then the Holy Spirit reminds me of this other reality: As soon as I begin lumping “them” into “those people who won’t renounce evil”, and “those people who turn a blind eye to obvious evil,” and “those people who support the oppression of the innocent,” I start believing the enemy’s lie that “those people are especially vile (but you are not)” and “those people have no good in them at all, (but you are full of righteousness).”
And where do hateful, evil, horrible people who have no ounce of good in them belong? Hell. What do awful and morally repugnant people deserve? Not a shred of mercy. “Those people” deserve collective condemnation, wrath, and disgrace. “They” deserve to be cast out as far away from me and society (and God) as possible. I also am not trying to be overly dramatic, here. But you can see where this goes.
You and I are not wishing our friends to hell, obviously. We most earnestly desire that they would open their eyes and begin to see things the way we see them, and as we believe God sees them. But could there be a better way to deal with the “those people” who God has brought, on purpose, into our lives? Could it be the way of forgiveness? Goodness? Of divine lovingkindness?
Is it possible to combat systemic racism, profound injustice, entrenched hatred, and violent oppression – not with hard lines in the sand – but with something as simple and difficult as divine mercy?
The last thing Jesus Christ said in his life was, “Forgive them, father, for they don’t know what they do.” Christ forgave and blessed (BLESSED!) those whose were inflicting horrible, hate-filled, and violent evil upon the most undeserving person in history. And the Bible suggests that had we been in the crowd, we would have called out “Crucify him!” just like the rest of the mob. We would have been one of the mockers or scoffers. Or, equally as shameful, we would have run away and hid ourselves as all his disciples did. And if we think we would never have done so, we are the sorriest of liars.
Abandoned, alone, and enduring horrific abuse, the innocent Son of God was still was able to see his tormentors and betrayers with compassion and without hate in his heart. He was sinless to the end. And so as a follower of this Jesus – whether I like it or not – I must also forgive those who don’t know fully what they do. And I must do this whether they desire my forgiveness or not.
Unlike Jesus, however, we are hardly spotless and innocent. We also don’t enjoy God’s divine omniscience and are unable to see into the mysterious depths of the human heart, much as we’d like. And so we must first; rigorously and with God’s help, examine what resides in our own hearts before assuming to know the motives of another soul – especially what we glean about their souls on social media.
Who then do I see as “they”? To whom do I feel superior? Where am I “spitting on others” in my own heart? Of whom do I think the world would be a better place if they weren’t in it? These are good first questions to ask before deciding to draw any line.
My point is that we need God’s divine light to see what crouches in the crevices of our own hearts FIRST. We need God’s word, his perspective, and the help of the Holy Spirit to do this difficult soul work because it is not a natural thing that anyone prefers to do! The natural way – the human way – is to justify our own motives and be greatly offended by those who continue to sin against use. Easy peasy.
And then there’s still more. After the hard work of seeing and repenting of our own pride, we need to ask for even more grace to discern how best to engage with our brothers, sisters, friends, and other human beings whose behavior and beliefs we may still deeply abhor.
This is so difficult, but I’ve found it helpful to use language like “us,” and “we,” and “help me understand,” and “I forgive you, (even though you didn’t repent or ask for my forgiveness)” as I strenuously trust God to give me his words, his ears, and his point of view.
This doesn’t mean that we don’t exercise good judgement, of course. As Christ followers we are called to discern good and evil; exercise self-control; stand firm in the faith; be courageous and persevere; test every spirit; defend the weak and vulnerable; speak truthfully; give generously; refuse to show the slightest partiality; and overcome every evil with good.
We are called to be just, as our God hates injustice. We are called to hate evil, as our God loves and is jealous of all that he has made. We are called to be holy, as our God is holy.
And this call is one that requires an active response with our bodies. We get up and follow our Lord down into the dark and ugly basements of this world. We go with Jesus to bring people in bondage out into his life and light. He calls and we follow. He speaks and we listen. We pick up our mat and follow him to those still lie in wait for his healing.
Christ forgives and we are called to also forgive those who sin against us. And so, in my opinion, we are not to draw hard lines in the sand. But we are to pray for God’s ready and powerful help, his words, his light, and his healing for the suffering world.
Worry less about the others. What is he asking of you today? Now go follow him there.
Peace to you and yours because you are the daughter of a forgiving God whose property is always to have mercy and give aid. He will help you generously if you ask.
Kim
4 responses to A Line In The Sand
That is such a powerful declaration. Love is always messier and harder than we would like it to be. It over flows every box we try to put it in and runs beyond every line we draw. It exists and always shall beyond every boundary, wall, fence or construct
Such a timely good word! Thanks for sharing. Was able to encourage others with this today.
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So thankful that HE is the judge of our hearts. Well said as always. Thanks.
So beautifully said, Kim. May we always check our own hearts first, and trust that our gracious Father will move the hearts of others as He wills, not necessarily as we will. Grace and peace. | c643875bb6991698b953b75bd09dff07 | 1,713 |
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Met some cool old guys riding st4s on the ferry. They loved the RC and we decided to ride the day away!
Those are some outstanding pictures TD. Well done.
I see both the Ducati's running the windscreen lip.
I like that rear pack on the grey Duc.
I never liked bags on any bike I had. A back pack is more than enough to fit 3-4 t-shirts and a few other stuff in it. It has 2 major and another 3 smaller compartments that I can even put in my laptop in (sucrificing on clothes though) and be ok with everything I need.
A couple of times when I needed to carry a camping tent, I just strapped it outside the back pack horizontally and although it was too much, I rode the bike just fine. No extreme riding but once I got to the camping site and installed the tent, I was free again.
Looks like the Kingston ferry terminal? Did you do the whole 101 loop through Forks and Aberdeen, or just out to the ridge? The loop is worth it, lots of fun out that way.
I've always hated riding with a backpack. It wears you out so much faster than you would think. I used to do it everyday I rode in college, until one day I rode without it and couldn't believe the difference (I hadn't had a ride other than commuting in over a year). I avoid backpacks like the plague now. Another thing to consider is that you and your stuff in your bag are much safer in a get-off if you aren't attached.
I spent a fair amount of time considering that on my last major ride.
Same her on all you just said. I had a rediculous big backpack last year for Hwy. 36, and swore that next year I'd try tank bag and a lot less stuff. This year I used a light camelback and tankbag. Still don't like anything hanging on my back, and the tankbag is just not ideal, gets in the way sometimes. Found myself smashing it down constantly. That's why I want to try a tail pack.
If it doesn't fit in the tail section....it doesn't go.
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Chicago Bears rookie quarterback Justin Fields was knocked out of a loss to Baltimore with a rib injury on Sunday, and the Green Bay Packers might have suffered a huge blow when left tackle Elgton Jenkins went out with a left knee injury in a loss to NFC North rival Minnesota.
Fields walked to the tunnel after the first drive of the second half and team officials later announced the rib injury. He was replaced by Andy Dalton. Dalton threw two touchdown passes, including a 49-yarder to Marquise Goodwin in the closing minutes, but the Bears lost their fifth straight, 16-13.
Fields was coming off several promising outings but struggled against the Ravens, going 4 of 11 for 79 yards before the injury. Dalton could end up starting on Thanksgiving when Chicago plays at Detroit.
The Bears also lost defensive back Duke Shelley (hamstring), who was hurt covering a fourth-quarter punt. Ravens defensive end Calais Campbell suffered a foot injury away from the ball on the first drive of the second half.
The Packers’ Jenkins, a Pro Bowl selection at left guard last year, went down in the fourth quarter with an apparent injury to his left knee and was carted to the locker room. Jenkins moved to left tackle this season to replace David Bakhtiari, who has yet to return from a torn ACL suffered last year.
Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb suffered a concussion just before halftime of a 19-9 loss to the Chiefs. He landed hard after going up for a ball in the end zone that Charvarius Ward intercepted. Lamb was helped by trainers to the locker room and did not return. Cowboys safety Donovan Wilson left with a shoulder injury in the fourth quarter.
The Chiefs lost running back Jerick McKinnon (hamstring) and cornerback Rashad Fenton (right knee).
Tennessee's Marcus Johnson, who had a 100-yard receiving game last week, was ruled out after hurting his right hamstring late in the first quarter of a 22-13 loss to Houston. Cornerback Chris Jackson hurt a foot, and outside linebacker Ola Adeniyi returned after hurting his hamstring. Defensive lineman Teair Tart went down late. Texans linebacker Jordan Jenkins hurt a knee and defensive lineman Ross Blacklock went down late.
Seattle rookie cornerback Tre Brown appeared to suffer a significant knee injury late in the first half of a loss to the Cardinals. Brown was down for several minutes and limped to the locker room.
Other injuries Sunday included Dolphins linebacker Brennan Scarlett (knee), safety Brandon Jones (elbow) and cornerback Jamal Perry (right knee); Jets running back Michael Carter (ankle); Washington center Tyler Larsen (knee) and right tackle Sam Cosmi (hip); Panthers left tackle Dennis Daley (glute) and cornerback Donte Jackson (lower leg); Lions guard Halapoulivaati Vaitai (concussion) and defensive end Da’Shawn Hand (groin); and Browns wide receiver Jarvis Landry (left knee) and linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah (leg).
Also hurt were 49ers cornerback Davontae Harris (knee); Jacksonville wide receiver Jamal Agnew (right leg), cornerback Shaquill Griffin (concussion), cornerback Tyson Campbell left (shoulder), left tackle Cam Robinson (knee) and safety Andre Cisco (groin); and Eagles cornerback Darius Slay (head), running back Jordan Howard (knee) and linebackers Shaun Bradley (shoulder) and Davion Taylor (knee). Saints tight end Adam Trautman limped off the field against the Eagles.
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