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The Republicans Extremist Dilemma
I have been following the news all weekend and I think the Republican Party has a real problem on their hands. I am reminded about the saying "You created this monster now do something about it" All these left wing nut cases are about to be too much. I am sure that when Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party psyched these people up with their distortions and lies they had no idea that these narrow minded bigoted people would follow them to the extreme that they have.
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Ini Pentingnya Membatasi Cintamu Pada Pasangan Agar Hubungan Sehat dan Langgeng
Tak ada larangan dalam mencintai seseorang, namun perlua
digaris bawahi bahwa semua hal yang berlebihan itu tidak baik.
Meski sedang bahagia karena status hubunganmu dengannya alangkah lebih baik jangan berlebihan dan kamu harus tetap menjaga hubungan agar tetap sehat.
Inilah 5 batasan yang harus kamu tetap jaga agar hubunganmu sehat.
1. Gunakan Logika
Secinta apapun kepadanya kamu harus tetap menggunakan logikamu.
Karena awal timbulnya budak cinta karena terlalu mementingkan perasaan tanpa membawa logika. Sehingga bisa jadi hanya dimanfaatkan dan dipermainkan.
2. Jangan Posesif
Menjaga orang yang kamu cintai memang pergi, namun tidak perlu mengekakngnya.
Karena menjaga tanpa harus mengekang artiny kamu memberi kepercayaan kepadanya.
3. Berjuang Sewajarnya Saja
Jika kamu memang tidak sanggap lebih baik tidak perlu berjuang mati-matian untuknya.
Jika kamu terus berjuang untuknya sedangkan dia tidak mau berjuang untukmua akhirnya kamu sendiri yang yang terluka.
4. Tidak Ada Tuntutan Dalam Membalas Perasaan
Semua dilakukan dengan tulus dan ikhlas, tidak ada tuntutan pasangannya harus membalas sama besar dengan perasaanmu.
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Evictions rise in SA public housing
The South Australian government says tough new rules for public housing tenants have resulted in a rise in evictions.
Tim Dornin / Social Affairs
Housing SA evictions have spiked for tenants doing the wrong thing, including drug cultivation.
Evictions from public housing in South Australia have more than doubled following the introduction of tough new rules for tenants who continually do the wrong thing.
Latest Housing SA figures show a spike in evictions since April 2019, when the new rules were introduced to deal with people who engage in illegal activity, damage the property or refuse to pay rent.
Evictions rose from 143 in 2017/18 to 297 in 2018/19 and 299 in 2019/20.
The new policies provide for three warnings in relation to persistent antisocial behaviour though tenants who engage in illegal activity, such as drug production, can be removed immediately.
Warnings or strikes remain in place for 12 months.
Human Services Minister Michelle Lensink said Housing SA made every attempt to help people avoid eviction but tenants needed to meet their obligations.
"We unequivocally do not tolerate the minority of public housing tenants who repeatedly do the wrong thing or flout the law and that includes unacceptable hoarding, abusing and threatening neighbours, refusal to pay rent and illegal activity such as cultivating drugs," she said.
"Let's be clear, the majority of SA Housing customers are fantastic tenants who pay their rent on time, respect others and their property.
"However, we want to send a clear message to the minority of South Australian public housing tenants who continually engage in illegal, antisocial and unacceptable behaviour to stop or risk being evicted."
Ms Lensink said Housing SA would help to arrange early intervention support for tenants, but it was up to them to engage with the support to help them change their behaviour.
Housing staff also worked with outside support agencies when other issues were in play, such as mental illness or domestic violence.
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Capital Structure Report
Write an analysis in which you select two publicly-traded companies within the same industry and present the DuPont analysis for each of these companies.
The purpose of this assignment for the student is:
• Use information technology to complete academic writing and research.
• Present written information in a persuasive, organized, clear, and concise manner relying on research, data, and analytics.
• Use acceptable paragraph and sentence structure with minimum grammar, punctuation, and spelling errors; and demonstrate appropriate word choice, tone, and format.
• Explain and calculate the costs of different capital components—debt, preferred stock, retained earnings, and common stock.
• Calculate a bond’s yield to maturity and yield to call if it is callable, and determine the “true” yield.
• Identify the different types of financial markets and financial institutions, and explain how these markets and institutions enhance capital allocation.
Questions to be answered in your report:
Write a research report that outlines the topics –
• Explain how the debt has served to influence the ROE DuPont performance results for each company you choose, and then describe how volatility plays a role in the debt choices in the context of this DuPont analysis. Explore the factors that influence the valuation of equity.
• Consider each of the following capital structure theories: the trade-off theory, the signaling theory, the debt financing to constrain the manager’s argument, and the pecking order hypothesis.
• Describe each of the capital structure theories, and then order them in terms of which theory you believe to be most persuasive down to which you believe to be least persuasive. Form arguments defending your rankings and reference and discuss related academic studies to support your position.
Requirements of the assignment:
• All papers must follow all APA requirements including an abstract.
• All papers must have a reference page. The textbook is an acceptable source.
• Body of the paper 5 – 6 pages.
• Title page, abstract, and reference pages are required. However, they do not count towards any page count.
• Writing should reflect an understanding of the chapter’s basic concepts, thorough research, and logic and critical thinking skills.
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Britannia Hospital
Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) is a reporter who is about to shoot a documentary on Britannia Hospital, an institution which mirrors the downsides of British Society. It’s the day when Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth I is to visit the hospital to inaugurate a new wing, where advanced (and sinister) scientific experiments led by Professor Millar (Graham Crowden) will take place. Everybody in the hospital, from the cooks who refuse to cook, to the painters who couldn’t care less to get their job done, to an African cannibalistic dictator (à la Idi Amin Dada Oumee) who demonstrators want expelled from the hospital and tried, will contribute to making Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth I’s visit (and Mick Travis’ life) a true nightmare.
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As the threat of an invasion mounts, the appearance of a mysterious messenger persuades Jim to embark on a personal odyssey to solve the riddle of his past. Sergei won't let him go it alone, nor will the group of loyal friends they've made along the way. But even together, they'll need all their street smarts, as well as their newly-acquired skills, if they're to have any chance of surviving an encounter at the heart of one of the galaxy's oldest and most awesome secrets - the Star Binder.
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Imo Gov’s wife and Sen. Uche Ekwunife donated N500,000 for the upkeep of a 20-year-old raped mother of triplets
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The wife of the Imo State Governor, Chioma Uzodinma, and the senator representing Anambra Central in the Senate, Uche Ekwunife, have rescued a 20-year-old woman, Nkechi Ezenwa, who was delivered of a set of triplets prematurely.
Ezenwa was allegedly raped while hawking bananas in Owerri and became pregnant as a result.
The lady, who was delivered of two of the triplets through caesarean section at the Paveliar Care Clinic in Ubomiri, after she had earlier given birth on her own to the first baby at a health centre, was being held at the hospital because of the outstanding bill.
Ekwunife, on Saturday, made a donation of N500,000 for the upkeep of the triplets.
The senator, who was represented by Ify Chinwuko, during a visit to the triplets at the hospital, said she was touched by their story.
According to the lawmaker, the triplets and their mother deserve to live.
Also, the wife of the governor evacuated the triplets and their mother to the Federal Medical Centre, Owerri, for proper care.
Chioma, who visited the children at the hospital on Saturday, said the state government would assume responsibility for their welfare.
The governor’s wife, who was represented by the state Commissioner for Gender and Vulnerable Groups, Nkechi Ugwu, said the state government would rehabilitate the mother as well.
Our correspondent was told by medical personnel at the FMC, Owerri, that the triplets were under incubation.
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Saturday, March 27, 2021
Katie Snipes Lancaster
For nothing will be impossible with God. Luke 1:37
Thank you for these tiny
particles of ocean salt,
pearl-necklace viruses,
winged protozoans:
for the infinite,
intricate shapes
of submicroscopic
living things.
For algae spores
and fungus spores,
bonded by vital
mutual genetic cooperation,
spreading their
inseparable lives
from equator to pole.
My hand, my arm,
make sweeping circles.
Dust climbs the ladder of light.
For this infernal, endless chore,
for these eternal seeds of rain:
Thank you. For dust.
—Marilyn Nelson, “Dusting”
God of life, God of all life, spores, cells, winged protozoans:
Many moons ago, Marilyn Nelson wrote this poem
of gratitude for all submicroscopic living things.
Back then, she could say thank you for pearl-necklace viruses,
but now we wonder: can we say thank you?
Can we use those two simple words
to lift up to you the spiked ball of virus
that has shifted and changed all that we know
that has caused grief and loss so unyielding we can hardly speak it?
Yes, the dust. Thank you.
Yes, the algae, the fungus, the mutual genetic cooperation Maryln Nelson notices.
Thank you.
But, forgive us for withholding our thanks for viruses.
Find, instead, a way to hear our collective groan,
our deep guttural prayer,
our unmistakable murmur of need and grief.
Hear these other prayers when gratitude is its own impossibility.
Hear us, O God. Amen.
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Female Model of the Month for June 2022
Born on May 22, 2001, American model Emma Chamberlain first made a name of herself as a youtuber back in 2016. Throughout her youtube career, Chamberlain was known for her unique fashion sense. Now nearly six years later she has become a fashion icon. One could argue that trends such as sweater vests, scrunchies, and yoga pants all became popular because of her.
Today, Emma has been invited to prestigious events such as Paris Fashion Week and The Met Gala, representing brands such as Louis Vuitton, and Cartier. She has also modeled for fashion magazines such as Vogue Australia, Cosmopolitan, and Nylon.
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Re: Benefits of streamlining Happy New Year
Clive Clapham
No need to get so ansy.
I made it quite clear I was talking aero, and you brought in ground handling, in my book they are two different things.
Your happy with your show plane, I'm happy with my "backyard special" and if you think I have any dangley bits, you are mistaken.
Each to their own.
Flying as soon as I can.
--- In Q-LIST@..., "Jim P" <logistics_engineering@...> wrote:
Happy New Year Clive,
I'm not confusing anything aero or othewize, please reread my email. As soon as anyone demonstrates they can consistantly cruise their Q at 200 MPH + I'll be all over it. BTW, the JimBob Six Pack has proven itself over and over for many years now. At this stage, people either get it or they don't. So you can dangle what ever you want from the back and its OK.
You are correct, my plane weighs 775 lbs. If you ever saw it up close and personal you would understand why. I built it with the intention of having a fast, clean looking show plane and that's what I got. I wanted a production looking airplane, not one that looked like it was hatched in a back yard. In retrospect, I would have done it the same way.
Best regards and now.............. go FLY!
Jim Patillo
P.S.Flew to Truckee, CA (Reno)in the Sierras yesterday. Lots of snow in them thar hills.
--- In Q-LIST@..., "Clive" <gobxoy@> wrote:
Hi Jim
Missed your last reply(away for the Hols)
Appologies, should have said dangley tailwheels.
It,s the tailwheel in the slipstream that does the damage aerowise, that's why mine is tucked up behind the fin as much as possible.
Lets not confuse aero for convinence, thats a personal prefrence.
The original tail wheel geometry was just plain wrong exaberbated when pointing the tailwheel down to get the correct ground angle.
When the geometry is corrected they can be made to work just dandy, but without the kickout mode. Again PP.
I would agree that the average Q2-200 is not as clean as a Klaus' Varieze, but are closer than you give credit and can be made realy quite good. Check out the sq plate area in the old cafe 400's Sheehan at one point showed less than Hertzler.
Klaus's engine is anything from standard, aswell as a very clean airframe, but you got to admitt their bow main gear ahead of the prop arc hurts them alot.
If you want to go fast it's not just drag and weight that's critical how about horse power?
Klaus has the lot, and has spent alot of time/money to get there.
Sam handicaped himself in the last race IMHO, no offence Sam.
BTW what weight is your Q Jim I think I have you at approx 775 lbs empty?
Happy new year
Clive ... Gobxoy
--- In Q-LIST@..., "Jim P" <logistics_engineering@> wrote:
Hi Clive,
Me and many others have had that "aftermarket" tailwheel installed for a very long time and as far as I know everyone flying it, is happy. I haven't heard one complaint. For me, I'm willing to trade a couple of knots for convienence. "Turns on one main (with dual brakes), unlatching the full swivel allows the plane to be handled much more easily on the ground, also allows for canard incidence adjustment, more beefy and better control down the runway.
The video Sam provided shows "things" laid across the airstream and I can see that drag, but what happens when you turn that rod in line and flow air over it lengthwize? What kind of drag does that create? NOT MUCH. The vertical area of the tailwheel on the other hand does create drag but so does the original tailwheel.
There's no doubt drag is critical but if it's ones goal to have the lightest and cleanest Q in the air, one should start that concept from the first layup, not at the end of the project. Again, given the available engines and HP, I believe this plane hits the wall at around 215-220 MPH no matter what you do. Unlike Klaus' EZE , this airframe is not nearly as clean. If Sam or anyone else for that matter ever goes faster than that, I'm all ears.
Merry Christmas
Jim Patillo - Going out for another flight over Yosemite this AM. Its beautiful up there. We're really fortunate out here with all the great flying days.
Nice one Sam,
That certainly puts drag into perspective.
Looks those aftermarket tails wheels that hang down are a high drag item.
Merry Christmas all.
Clive Gobxoy
--- In Q-LIST@..., oneskydog@ wrote:
Especially propellers
In a message dated 12/21/2010 9:33:11 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
dmperry1012@ writes:
Wow! Thank you, Sam. Great Video.
I noticed the sound level went up as the drag went up -- if it's making
noise it's making drag.
Mike Perry
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Bengals vs Steelers snap counts: Hargrave still far too limited
As we reviewed the snap counts from the Pittsburgh Steelers Week 2 matchups, there were a few things that stood out. But perhaps nothing was more puzzling and quite honestly disturbing is the lack of reps rookie nose tackle Javon Hargrave is playing.
Just for comparison, rookie safety Sean Davis played 84 percent of the defensive snaps. Additionally, starting defensive ends Cam Heyward and Stephon Tuitt played 64 and 70 snaps respectively. By comparison, Hargrave, the team’s third-round pick played 11 snaps. The hope was that the addition of Hargrave would lighten the load of Heyward and Tuitt somewhat, but through two games that hasn’t happened.
What we are seeing is more of the same from 2015. In base defense, Heyward and Tuitt line up at defensive end, and in sub packages, they slide inside and the outside linebackers slide up and play defensive end. So far that hasn’t yielded much in terms of pressure and is like deja vu all over again.
The situation is made worse by the fact that linebacker Bud Dupree remains sidelined with injury. Nevertheless, he and Jarvis Jones came in much lighter than last season, which doesn’t lend itself to the rigors of a 16-game season playing essentially a defensive end position so much. So what we are going to see again is Heyward and Tuitt wearing down late, and these undersized outside linebacker being overwhelmed.
If there isn’t going to be an interior pass rush, why can’t that be Hargrave and Dan McCullers in there taking up space and let the athletes stay on the outside? McCullers only played five defensive snaps on Sunday. It seems to me that Heyward and Tuitt can do more damage coming off the corner rather than face constant double teams on the inside.
Perhaps we are just jumping the gun and eventually the defense will get settled in and find a way to create some pressure. It almost cost them in Week 2, and their luck is going to run out eventually.
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The Democrats have been interfering in foreign politics for far too long and they need to stop because it is not their place.
The party has forgotten how to represent us, only representing their own interests instead of those who elected them into office with an open mind.
If we’re that uneducated, then educate us by being more transparent about what’s happening in our own government. I guess they’ve forgotten that this is OUR government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people…of this country, not other countries.
In reality, our government has become nothing more than a business entity and a crooked one at that.
So, what am I rambling on about exactly? I’m talking about the Democrats trying to interfere in Israel.
I honestly think that they’re trying to destroy Israel. First, they were trying to not allow funding for their defense system (that’s another issue we could discuss), but now, they’re essentially just wanting to turn over the holiest sites of Christianity and Judaism to the Muslims by handing them the Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, and more!
On September 26, 2021 Alan Dershowitz wrote in Gatestone Institute, “Just when Congress overwhelmingly defeated an effort by eight radical Democrats and one Republican to defund Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, several “mainstream” Democrats proposed legislation that is equally dangerous and filled with half-truths, omissions, and outright fabrications.
Congressman Andy Levin has introduced a bill called “The Two-State Solution Act” that purports to further the “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict… The bill declares that the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip are occupied territories and must be referred to as such by all American statements. It implies that the occupation is illegal and entirely the fault of Israel… Jerusalem is more complicated. The Old City’s Jewish Quarter and the Western Wall had been illegally occupied by Jordan between 1948 and 1967, and excluded Jews. When Jordan attacked Israel in June 1967, Israel liberated these ancient Jewish sites and opened them up to all. These are not occupied territories. Nor is the rest of East Jerusalem, which is part of a united city.”
I’ve said it before, but Congress in general, but especially Democrats have no business butting into affairs that they don’t know enough about. The simplest example of this on a level that we can understand better is when congressmen asked Google’s CEO if they can track him if he moves across the room.
He obviously has no idea how the internet works, yet he’s in charge of making laws about it. This is why so many things are screwed up. Congress make laws about things they know nothing about.
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A woman from Virginia, who paid seven dollars for a Renoir painting at a flea market, will sell the piece this month for what should be a pretty profit. She had forgotten all about it until she recently decided to clean the house from top to bottom.
Potomack Co., the auction company, suggested that she put the painting, "Paysage Bords de Seine" by impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, up for sale for $75,000 to $100,000. Back almost two years ago, while she was shopping at a West Virginia flea market, the woman, who wants to remain anonymous, found the painting in a box of cheap junk priced at seven dollars by pure chance. When she decided to tidy her home about a week ago she unexpectedly came face-to-face with the painting again. Though the painting was signed by a certain Renoir, she didn't find this very interesting and hoped that she might be able to use its gold frame. But her mother told her to find out about the value of the picture.
"I actually listened to my mom for once," the woman said in an interview. She then contacted Potomack Co., where she showed it to Anne Craner, an art specialist.
"Clearly, it had Renoir's colours, it was the work of his brush," Ms. Craner said. She was later able to use a catalogue to show that the painting was genuine.
The lucky woman said she is still waiting for the shock to go away. "I just want to enjoy it quietly," she said.
She plans to take her mother to France after the auction and will take some flowers to Renoir's grave. "I just want to say thank you to him," she said.
Írd a mondatok elé a megfelelő betűt!
C = if there isn’t enough information in the text to say if it is true or not.
B The woman from Virginia bought the painting at an art exhibition.
She kept the painting in the basement of her house.
She will probably receive more than $75,000 for the painting.
There were other valuable objects in the box where she found the painting.
She phoned her mother as soon as she had bought the picture.
The woman doesn't usually take her mother’s advice.
Ms. Craner is still not sure that the painting is a Renoir.
Her friends are very happy about the good news.
The woman will already be in France with her mother when they sell the painting.
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You asked, we answered: 34 things you probably don’t know about Atlanta
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If you’re talking about the fastest car, look no further than November 12, 2017, when police pulled over a McLaren 720S that topped out at 155 miles per hour. After a late-night pursuit through Roswell and Sandy Springs, the driver made an abrupt stop and pulled to the shoulder. (The roughly $250,000 car’s brakes were smoking.) After failing a field sobriety test, the driver was placed under arrest for speeding, reckless driving, DUI, and other charges. Famous last words from the suspect after being placed in the cop car, as heard on the dashcam video the department posted to its YouTube channel: “Oh my God. Fuuuuuck.”
The award for fastest speed, clocked by Alpharetta police, goes to a motorcyclist who managed to hit 163 miles per hour this past August. According to a news report, officers opted not to pursue the speed demon because it was too dangerous but came upon him at a red light on Holcomb Bridge Road. The motorcyclist, a 30-year-old man from Cumming, told officers he was “just out for a ride” and didn’t know he was traveling so fast.
This article appears in our November 2019 issue.
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Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users
Admin Comment: Are they serious and want to protect their customer’s privacy from Government Surveillance or are they in bed with Government Surveilers and just trying to cover their rears?
By EDWARD WYATT and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER - Published: December 9, 2013
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Line-ups: Barca-Chelsea (1-1 agg.)
Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta are back in the Barcelona line-up for tonight’s Champions League last-16 second leg against Chelsea.
Iniesta missed Barca’s 2-0 win at Malaga last weekend with a hamstring injury, while Messi was excused due to the birth of his third son Ciro.
Ousmane Dembele also keeps his spot on the right wing, but Nelson Semedo and Denis Suarez remain sidelined for the Blaugrana.
Chelsea, meanwhile, are full-strength, although Antonio Conte springs a surprise up top, where Olivier Giroud is preferred to Alvaro Morata.
Barca escaped Stamford Bridge with an away goal in a 1-1 draw three weeks ago, but the Blues famously held them 2-2 to reach the Champions League Final back in 2012.
Follow the game as it happens at Camp Nou with our liveblog from 19:30 GMT/20:30 BST!
Barcelona: Ter Stegen; Sergi Roberto, Pique, Umtiti, Alba; Dembele, Rakitic, Busquets, Iniesta; Messi, Suarez
Subs: Cillessen, Paulinho, Alcacer, Digne, Andre Gomes, Vidal, Vermaelen
Chelsea: Courtois; Azpilicueta, Christensen, Rudiger; Moses, Kante, Fabregas, Marcos Alonso; Willian, Giroud, Hazard
Subs: Caballero, Cahill, Zappacosta, Emerson, Bakayoko, Pedro, Morata
Referee: Skomina (SVN)
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If France played any of the English Premiership sides and arrived with such a woefully inadequate defence strategy, they would in all probability lose.
They faced an outstanding England team and performance, but they asked no questions of England at all.
It is a sad indictment of what the French were offering when England realised that a simple kick behind the first line of defence was going to be met by – well, nobody!
Coaches of age-group teams will have some semblance of organisation on who does what when the opposition kick, but France seem not to have thought of that one. Yet this is pretty much the run-up to Rugby World Cup and a once-proud force were clueless.
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But this is not to take anything away from England. They had team selection spot-on and very quickly worked out that the simplest of kicking strategies was going to deliver in spades.
Why waste energy and potential errors in handling when a whack into space would almost certainly lead to points? And amazingly France seemed unable to think on the hoof to effect any change or alteration in what was a disaster looming.
If you are sailing towards a big collision at sea and you spot the potential disaster, it might be a good idea to change course. Yet nobody appeared to be in charge for France!
Surely the writing was on the wall and obvious – that has always been the time for an ‘injury’ and a quick rethink to get you to half time. But not a lot happened and England were never really troubled.
Jonny May of England touches down for the third try
One positive aspect of the match, apart from plus points for England, was the lineout. It has become a sad area for the game and we have seen too many time-wasting discussions before just about every put-in.
But England and France got on with the job in hand and it sped the game up no end. Let’s hope that this can be the blueprint for the game in the future.
It seems that players on the putting-in team need reassurance with a committee meeting at each and every line. But all they are doing is making it easier for the defence to have more time to get organised then disrupt proceedings.
The main man has to be the 10. He has to take control with a signal, probably to the 9, to say what he wants. There are then a limited variety of options available and the signal for the choice can be given on the way in to the lineout. The throw can coincide with arrival and the defenders will have little time to react and disrupt. Or is that too simple?
The referee has to be part of such a strategy and the game should be overjoyed to see teams getting on with the lineout. So the ref must be an integral part of letting it happen as long as it is legitimate.
Too often we hear the poor old referee almost pleading with the players to curtail discussions and get to the next part of the game. Yet all that is needed is for there to be positive encouragement for the team putting the ball in to get there and act immediately.
It will need practice, of course, and the hooker will need to be confident in the sequences being performed on cue. But it could add an extra ingredient to the dynamics of rugby as the current trend is to take forever and a day for each lineout.
As the game becomes more athletic and faster with more ball-in-play time, we allow a set-piece to bite into the clock and the supporters are being short-changed.
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Exeter are next up for Gloucester and it will be good to taste Premiership rugby again. The visitors are easy to beat on paper, but you have to have the grunt to take their forwards on and keep them away from driving-maul range.
So simple, really, but every team in the league knows that much already yet few manage to produce and turn theory into the actuality.
Gloucester’s pack can manage this when at their best so it should be an absorbing contest where home advantage may just be the difference. But if form is anything to go by, it will be no place for the faint-hearted.
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The solution to supply-side inflation is more than just avoiding policy uncertainty!
Sugar Ban- According to the recent events going on, the Narendra Modi government is in charge to control food expansion. Following the shocking May 13 notice proscribing wheat products, it has now” limited” sugar shipments in addition to rejecting all scores and cesses on unrefined soybean and sunflower canvas significances. While the act may appear to be licit — retail growth in consumable canvases was 17.28 percent time on time in April — the same can not be said for trade boycotts and restrictions.
Sugar product was recorded to reach a- time high of 35.5 million tonnes in 2021- 22( October- September)( mt). With opening inventories of 8.5 mt, the total availability of 44 mt is further than acceptable to meet the homegrown utilization demand of roughly 27mt. In discrepancy to wheat, where government estimates of the size of crop production this year appear to grow, there’s no debate about sugar yield. The cost of sugar hasn’t increased and does not even seem to go higher shortly.
True, that the public authority didn’t enjoin, but rather decided to” direct” and allow the commodity of sugar” with unequivocal concurrence.” Moreover, the government has tried to cover absolute products at 10 mt for 2021- 22. This is even though both the number of agreements approved( around 9 mt) and the quantum transported(7.8 mt) have proactively outperformed last time’s record of 7mt. Given that goods, indeed in normal inflow, may not exceed 10 mt, the question arises Why was it necessary to declare limitations in the first place?
The wheat import ban, which came only days after reports that India was ready to” feed the world,” has affected the country’s image as a dependable provider to the global world. Moreover, the decision has caused a large number of losses to Indian drovers and merchandisers who had reduced their crops or entered into contracts for supplying large product houses. Sugar merchandisers and domestic shop drivers have a long list of reasons to interrogate “What’s the clear point it’s that the goods, too, won’t be moved from the confined to the defined class anytime soon?”
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The Modi government’s concern about food expansion — was 8.38 percent in April. It was higher or more advanced than the overall monthly retail expansion of7.79 percent. One must not forget to honor the value in its new decision to reduce excerpt scores on diesel and petroleum. Because the Reserve Bank of India has little control over energy and food prices, a lot more is dependent in the hands of the government’s financial and force- side operation programs. Still, similar measures shouldn’t be used to avoid change.
Shoot out checks and lading limits( imposed by the government last year on the exchange of beats) will make drovers and agri- businessmen conservative about expanding lands or investing in the development of market and store network foundation. The government should try to understand that empowering force response, rather than making strategy vulnerable, is only a temporary solution to the force-side expansion.
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What are the examinations of the sugar export ban?
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The public authority has changed the bracket of sugar from’ open’ to’ limited,’ which requires no intervention on the part of the government. This means that sugar products can only be vended with the direct permission of the Directorate of Sugar, Department of Food and Public Distribution( DFPD), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, and Food and Public Distribution. Likewise, the checks will be valid morning of June 1 and will be valid until October 31, or until further orders are issued.
Though the wheat export has been banned, sugar on the other side will continue to export till June 1, 2022. To date, the company has contracted shoot out the requests of 90 lakh tonnes, with 71 lakh tonnes delivered outside of the country. From June 1, the export of sugar will be done only after the request of both the forthcoming contracted quantum and new agreements entered into by manufactories.
How important did India trade over the last two seasons?
Trades have been exorbitantly blasted as a result of the guard crops over the last four seasons. The Center also extended auspices to shop drivers to push deals overseas. The central government would declare both the share for a shoot-out and the appropriation to negotiate the thing previous to the launch of the sugar season( October to September constantly).
In 2017- 18, the government set a thing of trading 20 lakh tonnes of sugar and approved a budget of Rs crores to deal with an inbound vehicle, weight, taking care of, and many other tasks.
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For that season, the company produced6.2 lakh tonnes of goods while spending Rs 440 crores from the backing budget.
For the ensuing season( 2018- 19), a trade target of 50 lakh tonnes was set with a talent budget of Rs crores, of which 38 lakh tonnes of sugar were transferred out utilizing R crores of backing.
Following a guard crop in 2019- 20, the shoot-out volume was increased to 60 lakh tonnes with a talent budget of Rs crores. Mill drivers timed goods totaling59.60 lakh tonnes while spending Rs crores from the talent budget.
The base in the global request helped sugar trades reach 70 lakh tonnes in 2020- 21, with 60 lakh tonnes completed with Rs crores of government backing and 10 lakh tonnes transferred out with zero help from the government authority. The commodity was done without government talent through the open general permit system.
Mill drivers have agreed to trade 90 lakh lots of sugar during the instigation season( 2021- 22). 71 lakh lots of sugar have freely left the country. Transfers listed to depart after June 1 will bear government blessing.
Given the extraordinary rise in energy costs, Brazil delivered further ethanol than sugar, which also helped sends out with development over the last couple of seasons. This, combined with the dry season affecting other major sugar directors like Thailand, backed India into sinning into countries that were formerly subject to Brazilian sugar. After Brazil, India is the world’s second-largest patron of sugar. Anyhow, Brazil has constantly led in terms of sends out. During the instigation sugar season, global sugar prices have remained bullish. Trades have helped shop drivers insure that drovers are paid on time.
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Why are there checks now?
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Given the global interest, trades, according to assiduity interposers, can continue unabated. Anyhow, an implicit concern for the government is low stocks at the launch of the ensuing season. This can affect stock restrictions for about 90 days.
The sugar season officially begins in October, but it only becomes effective after December. However, costs in the domestic request may rise, If there’s a deficit of back- up stocks during this time. While gaining control over expansion remains a significant need, the cost of that adventure can not be borne by the public authority.
Still, retail costs may rise, If the October opening stock falls short of 65- 70 lakh tonnes. The current controls would ensure that the public authority keeps an eye on the effects.
Still, retail costs may rise, If the October opening stock falls short of 65- 70 lakh tonnes. The current controls would ensure that the public authority keeps a constant eye on sugar stock to ensure that there’s no deficit at the launch of the ensuing season. Retail sugar prices have remained nearly unchanged time on time, ranging from Rs39.50 to Rs 41 per kg.
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Did Don Mattrick want to kill Xbox?
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The Kinect is something that Microsoft wants to complete delete from the history books. And a name that’s synonymous with the failure of the device, and the backlash to the early Xbox One rollout, is Don Mattrick. There are a multitude of reasons why the Xbox One signaled a major shift for Microsoft. Even with the name, Microsoft was showing that it wanted to be the one true destination for entertainment. And given the fact that it was the last-place finisher in the console wars of its generation, that obviously failed. But why?
A lot of what people blame Mattrick for is attributed to the “trend-chasing” with projects like Kinect, as well as the rollout of the Xbox One itself. The motion-tracking accessory was maligned by many gamers, regardless of skill level. Mattrick infamously said that “the controller is a barrier, separating video game players, from video games” during the original reveals of the product.
It’s strange to think about now, but it would seem that a lot of the blame comes from Don Mattrick. One visionary, the creator attributed to the original Xbox, even went so far as to reveal that Mattrick may have even hated the console. And it wasn’t just the Kinect, there was another major snafu in the Xbox One rollout that drew a ton of ire. Many gamers remember quite hilariously when the attempt at DRM on the Xbox One was basically booed off the stage at E3 2013. And in the fallout over the announcement of always-online DRM for the new console, Mattrick said the worst possible thing. During a quick interview at E3 with Geoff Keighley, Mattrick was quoted as saying that “we have a product for people that aren’t able to get some kind of connectivity, it’s called Xbox 360.”
There’s not much you can do to smooth over the backlash to always-online DRM, but Mattrick somehow made it worse. In reality, if you could point to one thing to not do when people hate your product, it’s to say that they shouldn’t buy it at all.
And now, we might actually know why all these things kept happening. It turns out that Mattrick may have hated the console from the get-go. Seamus Blackley, the man credited with creating the original Xbox, actually had a very enlightening story to tell.
“I’ve never talked about this before, but the irony of Don Mattrick as Xbox Chief was huge for me,” Blackley tweeted. “When I first came to EA Canada to present the idea of a Microsoft console, he nearly blocked me from addressing the company because he didn’t believe it was possible.
Blackley was shopping around the Xbox prototype prior to launch, and during a meeting with then-EA Canada head Mattrick, the console was almost blocked outright. Blackley described the encounter as “tense,” saying that Mattrick didn’t want the heads of the company to see the new creation. How someone who had little faith in the brand becomes the head of its maker is bizarre. But, stranger things have happened. Mattrick left Xbox in 2015 to take on a leadership role at mobile giant Zynga for a short time.
In more recent years, the gaming division has tried to move away from the disastrous Kinect and DRM decisions which almost doomed the company. The push toward the Xbox One S seems to be going well. And obviously, the company ditched its plans for DRM shortly after they got thoroughly owned in front of everyone by Sony. And yes, it’s not very fair to say Mattrick is entirely to blame here. There’s likely some influences from Microsoft and its increasingly invasive approach to Windows that had something to do with all this, but that’s not how many common gamers will remember all this.
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Hillsborough, California Proclamation
Hillsborough California Proclamation
WHEREAS, Alcohol and Drug Abuse is a serious problem in our society to the degree that one out of five adult Americans has an alcohol or drug problem that requires treatment; and
WHEREAS, for twenty-six years the world wide Narconon network has been a leader in the fight against drug and alcohol abuse through its education and rehabilitation services; and
WHEREAS, there are many valiant individuals and groups in the Greater Bay Area that are working to rid our society and the problem of alcohol and drug abuse; and
WHEREAS, Narconon of Northern California will bestow Awards of Merit to certain of these individuals and groups on September, 25, 1993;
NOW, I, Jean E. Auer, Mayor , Town of Hillsborough, do hereby proclaim September, 25, 1993, as
in our city and urge all citizens to join in the cause to ensure the well-being of this and all future generations by taking a stand against drug and alcohol abuse.
Jean Auer
Mayor of the Town of Hillsborough
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A Demand Gen ROI Dilemma: Small-Scale PPC Advertising vs. eGifting
Lauren Alt
How much money are you spending per click on paid advertising? $5, $15 ,perhaps even $22/click? It's no secret that paid digital marketing can be expensive...but when executed and optimized efficiently, the ROI can make the investment worthwhile.
However, since the shift to remote work and cancellation of in-person field marketing events, sales dinners, and networking opportunities, marketers have shifted their budgets in attempt to stand out online. For companies like Postal without millions of surplus budget, how do we stand out when the competition for digital reach is at an all-time high.
Postal CEO, Erik asked a thought-provoking question: if we're bidding $15/click and paying over $140 per download, why can't we send gift cards in exchange for downloads instead?
*Cue marketer eye roll*
So, instead of debating, we thought we'd test it and share out our results.
Our PPC vs. corporate gifting experiment
The methodology: reach out via organic channels (email and social) to people offering $10 to download our recent eBook. Simultaneously, run PPC ads promoting the same ebook.
The question
Will paying people $10 to download our eBook have a better ROI than using PPC advertising to download the same eBook? Will paying people for downloads drive tire kickers and unqualified leads?
Our hypothesis
Using MagicLink, we will generate more leads and the cost per lead (CPL) would be cheaper. However, leads given a gift card in exchange for a download will likely drive tire kickers and unqualified leads.
What's a "MagicLink"?
A MagicLink is simply a way to allow recipients to click an embedded link in order to redeem a gift without previously having your recipient's contact and address information. This enables you to use Postal as a lead generation tool, embedding these "virtual gifts" into your sales and marketing efforts - LinkedIn InMails, marketing emails, and ads are common channels used to send MagicLinks.
Using MagicLinks can be used to create experiences throughout the sales funnel—whether that’s to increase top of funnel conversion rates, book more meetings, or establish brand loyalty after onboarding a new customer, the use cases add value to each stage in the customer journey.
The experiment
- $5000 budget for each channel
- The eBook
- Landing pages
- Using PPC advertising
- Sharing MagicLink on organic social channels and nurture emails
PPC Page
The PPC Landing Page Offer
MagicLink Page
The $10 eGift Landing Page Offer
The Results
PPC: $5k
PPC: 2.6M
MagicLink: 28.9K
PPC: 25,529
MagicLink: 456
PPC: 57
MagicLink: 265
On-page conversion rate
PPC: 0.24%
MagicLink: 58.89%
We concluded that both channels were impactful for different reasons. eBook downloads driven from PPC ads drove 2x the amount of new free trials as MagicLink—we assume that is because our PPC ads help us locate new people that haven't yet heard about our free trial.
However, MagicLink drove 5.5x more eBook downloads and created almost 20x more qualified pipeline. Our conclusion is that offering gift cards via MagicLink in exchange for an eBook does drive quality interest and can be considered as a competitive marketing channel.
While paid advertising is here to stay and remains a consistent way to build our database of new potential customers, MagicLink proves faster ROI on converting names through the marketing funnel and becomes a cost-effective option to building an engaged base of prospects.
Try it Yourself!
Start using MagicLink from Postal for free today and see results like this for yourself. Below are some more creative ideas you can leverage MagicLink to revamp your funnel.
• Generate sign-ups to a virtual event or webinar
• Get people to download an eBook or other piece of gated content
• Conducting a giveaway or contest
• Re-engaging with marketing captured leads
• ABM campaigns
• Warming accounts that have ghosted to reignite conversations
• Booking meetings with prospects
• Building relationships within larger accounts
• Sending items for account-based sales campaigns
• Saying "Thank You" for attending a demo
• Welcoming a new customer following the on-boarding process
• Creating a first impression with a new client to enhance brand loyalty
• Congratulating customers on hitting a landmark or celebrating a milestone with them
Before investing in your next offline campaign, be sure to plug your plan into our ROI calculator to ensure you’re maximizing your marketing dollars.
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Lauren Alt
Lauren Alt-Kishpaugh is the Director of Demand Generation at Postal, the leading Experience Marketing Platform that creates memorable moments for organizations to generate leads, increase sales velocity, and retain happy customers. Prior to Postal, Lauren worked across various marketing functions including marketing operations, campaign management and acquisition at hyper-growth software companies like Outreach, ThousandEyes, and Solv Health. She currently lives in San Francisco with her husband, Jon.
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A week ago I placed a felt that I’ve been pondering for some time for the social media. I mentioned: “Brand new huge popularity of demagoguery within the Western government are an indictment towards our very own souls.”
I want to take some time within this weekly analysis in order to chat a little more about this. There are several who can rapidly read it and you may agree or differ instead of contemplating the implications of one’s details contained when you look at the Scripture that we quoted (Exodus 20:5-6). In my opinion there is a primary implication to your neighborhood now, and i also encourage you to definitely read subsequent.
Expose Demagoguery. It appears to be to get a good buzzword used by many, exactly what exactly will it suggest? A beneficial demagogue is scheduled because of the Merriam-Webster given that “a commander whom utilizes prominent prejudices and not true states and you may claims to help you obtain energy.” In a nutshell, he could be telling you whatever they consider we need to pay attention to. We come across so it going on on the American political system on the both edges of your own spectrum. Know significantly the difference between a man straightening which have an applicant because the applicant so much more directly aligns to Biblical standards, and you may a man aligning which have an applicant as they need to follow see your face. Talking about vastly additional info. Simply mentioned: “Never just take what is right and wrong from a candidate to have political place of work higher than you’re taking The latest Bible.” Do not think political figures was theologians, no matter if it cite Scripture.
The concept of idolatry since revealed on the ancient Jewish and Christian texts that people discover have a look difficult to incorporate in our industry. I comprehend during the Exodus 20:4-6: “You’ll maybe not lead to on your own a created picture, or one likeness from whatever is in paradise over, or that’s regarding the planet below, or that is within the water under the earth. You’ll maybe not bow right down to her or him or suffice them, to own I god the Goodness have always been a jealous Jesus, visiting the iniquity of your own fathers toward college students towards the third additionally the next age bracket of these whom hate me, however, indicating steadfast always many people that love myself and continue maintaining my commandments.”
Whenever we like a governmental commander we’re going to continue theirs, ultimately, whenever we love ourselves we are going to remain our very own
This really is a shameful commandment. Here we see Goodness stating to not generate idols, and you can worship her or him. That is idea foreign in order to united states, nevertheless the layout continues to have agency roots on the hearts away from individuals. Most people who don’t particularly just what Scripture claims need plunge on what appears to be a keen injustice. Just how do the newest sins of the fathers get God’s view to help you the children? “It generally does not appear fair” they scream. In my opinion it’s very reasonable, that’s where is why. The trick is in the last area of the passing. I read “continue my personal commandments.” When we love God, we’re going to remain His commandments. I teach our kids as we alive, and you will subsequently they get the award because of their worst training that we have offered him or her. It is not some crazy idea that Jesus tend to courtroom your kid for just what you will do. This is the proven fact that your youngster will perform that which you create, whenever they make bad decisions might afford the price exactly as both you and We.
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Swimwear brand Seafolly targets UK
Australian swimwear label Seafolly will open a chain of flagship stores as part of a plan to build up the brand's reputation in the UK. The popular label is already available in department stores such as John Lewis, House of Fraser and Selfridges, but will now look to sell from its own stores too. It began its assault on the UK market with its first ever outdoor advertising campaign outside of Australia in May. Seafolly chief executive Anthony Halas said: "The next stage is to build the brand so that we have people asking for Seafolly." Halas says the UK market is unique as most consumers buy own-brand swimwear and have a lack of recognition of branded swimwear. "Seafolly's first job is to raise awareness of the brand and convert own-brand sales into branded sales by making Seafolly more available." The brand's annual advertising campaign in Australia signifies the start of the summer, where it enjoys a dominant market share of between 35% and 40%.
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Party Food
♨️ 15+ Recipes | Lifetime access | Certified Course | Recipe PDF | Doubt Solving
Workshop Description:
In this workshop, we have taught national and international recipes that are appropriate for parties.
What will you learn?
1) Green Pav Bhaji
2) Pav Bhaji Fondue
3) Chocolate Pani Puri
4) Sizzling Spaghetti with Cilantro Sauce
5) Regular Hummus
6) Basil Hummus
7) Roasted Garlic and Jalapenos hummus
8) Hummus crostini with grilled salad and lavash
9) Makhmali sandwich
10) Sizzling Burnt Rice with Herb Sauce
11) Cheese Lachkari with Masala Kulcha
12) Mushroom Zucchini Poppers
13) Green Coastal Fondue
14) Coconut Fantasy
15) Chocolate fondue
16) Beetroot hummus
17) Palak Paneer Rolls
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Fondue Pot (Optional)
Sandwich maker
Who is this course for?
This workshop is for the ones who love to throw perfect parties with all the preparations.
How does this online class work?
After enrolling in this class, one will have to watch the provided videos and make notes while going through the recipe PDF. Once, you are done with watching and feel that your concept is clear, you need to start trying out the recipes as soon as possible. Once done, and you feel doubts at any point about your recipe, you can drop a voice message on WhatsApp on our kitchen query.
The Cooking Journey was started in 1997 by Sneha Thakkar with a simple passion for cooking, is now a renowned culinary expert chef who is commended for her 20 years of unbeatable experience and expertise. She founded the SWAD cooking institute, located at pal, Surat which provides hands-on practice and home chef training to all the enthusiast who likes to cook and stands as one-stop solution for all food concern.
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March is National Nutrition Month
March is National Nutrition Month
20 Ways to Enjoy More Fruits and Vegetables from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
National Nutrition Month is a great time to start incorporating better ways of eating. Building a healthy plate is easy when you make half your plate fruits and vegetables. It’s also a great way to add color, flavor and texture plus vitamins, minerals and fiber. All this is packed in fruits and vegetables that are low in calories and fat. Make 2 cups of fruit and 2 ½ cups of vegetables your daily goal. Try the following tips to enjoy more fruits and vegetables every day.
1. Variety abounds when using vegetables as pizza topping. Try broccoli, spinach, green peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms and zucchini.
2. Mix up a breakfast smoothie made with low-fat milk, frozen strawberries and a banana.
3. Make a veggie wrap with roasted vegetables and low-fat cheese rolled in a whole-wheat tortilla.
4. Try crunchy vegetables instead of chips with your favorite low-fat salad dressing for dipping.
5. Grill colorful vegetable kabobs packed with tomatoes, green and red peppers, mushrooms and onions.
6. Add color to salads with baby carrots, grape tomatoes, spinach leaves or mandarin oranges.*
7. Keep cut vegetables handy for mid-afternoon snacks, side dishes, lunch box additions or a quick nibble while waiting for dinner. Ready-to-eat favorites: red, green or yellow peppers, broccoli or cauliflower florets, carrots, celery sticks, cucumbers, snap peas or whole radishes.
8. Place colorful fruit where everyone can easily grab something for a snack-on-the-run. Keep a bowl of fresh, just ripe whole fruit in the center of your kitchen or dining table.
9. Get saucy with fruit. Puree apples, berries, peaches or pears in a blender for a thick, sweet sauce on grilled or broiled seafood or poultry, or on pancakes, French toast or waffles.
10. Stuff an omelet with vegetables. Turn any omelet into a hearty meal with broccoli, squash, carrots, peppers, tomatoes or onions with low-fat sharp cheddar cheese.
11. “Sandwich” in fruits and vegetables. Add pizzazz to sandwiches with sliced pineapple, apple, peppers, cucumber and tomato as fillings.
12. Wake up to fruit. Make a habit of adding fruit to your morning oatmeal, ready-to-eat cereal, yogurt or toaster waffle.
13. Top a baked potato with beans and salsa or broccoli and low-fat cheese.
14. Microwave a cup of vegetable soup as a snack or with a sandwich for lunch.
15. Add grated, shredded or chopped vegetables such as zucchini, spinach and carrots to lasagna, meat loaf, mashed potatoes, pasta sauce and rice dishes.
16. Make fruit your dessert: Slice a banana lengthwise and top with a scoop of low-fat frozen yogurt. Sprinkle with a tablespoon of chopped nuts.
17. Stock your freezer with frozen vegetables to steam or stir-fry for a quick side dish.
18. Make your main dish a salad of dark, leafy greens and other colorful vegetables. Add chickpeas or edamame (fresh soybeans). Top with low-fat dressing.*
19. Fruit on the grill: Make kabobs with pineapple, peaches and banana. Grill on low heat until fruit is hot and slightly golden.
20. Dip: Whole wheat pita wedges in hummus, baked tortilla chips in salsa, strawberries or apple slices in low-fat yogurt, or graham crackers in applesauce.
*See “Color Your Plate with Salad” at for more tips on creating healthy salads
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Gary Conklin from Surprise, Arizona, age 77
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Сluster rebuilding
The storage cluster is self-healing. If a node or disk fails, a cluster will automatically try to restore the lost data, that is, rebuild itself.
Rebuilding prerequisites
For a cluster to be able to rebuild itself, it must have at least:
Rebuilding process
The rebuilding process consists of several steps. Every CS sends a heartbeat message to an MDS every 5 seconds. If a heartbeat is not sent, the CS is considered inactive and the MDS informs all cluster components that they stop requesting operations on its data. If no heartbeats are received from a CS for 15 minutes, the MDS considers that CS offline and starts cluster rebuilding. In the process, the MDS finds CSes that do not have replicas of the lost data and restores the data—one replica at a time—as follows:
• If replication is used, the existing replicas of a degraded chunk are locked (to make sure all replicas remain identical) and one is copied to the new CS. If at this time a client needs to read some data that has not been rebuilt yet, it reads any remaining replica of that data.
• If erasure coding is used, the new CS requests almost all of the remaining data pieces to rebuild the missing ones. If at this time a client needs to read some data that has not yet been rebuilt, that data is rebuilt out of turn and then read.
Self-healing requires more network traffic and CPU resources if replication is used. On the other hand, rebuilding with erasure coding is slower.
If a node or disk goes offline during maintenance, cluster self-healing is delayed, to save cluster resources. The default delay is 30 minutes. You can adjust it by setting the mds.wd.offline_tout_mnt parameter, in milliseconds, with the vstorage -c <cluster_name> set-config command.
Recommendations for cluster rebuilding
Two recommendations that help smooth out rebuilding overhead:
• To simplify rebuilding, keep uniform disk counts and capacity sizes on all nodes.
• Rebuilding places additional load on the network, and increases the latency of read and write operations. The more network bandwidth the cluster has, the faster rebuilding will be completed and bandwidth freed up.
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Lack of insurance exposes blind spots in vision care
Every day, a school bus drops off as many as 45 children at a community eye clinic on Chicago’s South Side. Many of them are referred to the clinic after failing vision screenings at their public schools.
Clinicians and students from the Illinois College of Optometry give the children comprehensive eye exams, which feature refraction tests to determine a correct prescription for eyeglasses and dilation of their pupils to examine their eyes, including the optic nerve and retina.
No family pays out-of-pocket for the exam. The program bills insurance if the children have coverage, but about a third are uninsured. Operated in partnership with Chicago public schools, the program annually serves up to 7,000 children from birth through high school.
“Many of the kids we’re serving fall through the cracks,” said Dr. Sandra Block, a professor of optometry at the Illinois College of Optometry and medical director of the school-based vision clinics program. Many are low-income Hispanic and African-American children whose parents may not speak English or are immigrants who are not in the country legally.
Falling through the cracks is not an uncommon problem when it comes to vision care. According to a 2016 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, as many as 16 million people in the United States have undiagnosed or uncorrected “refractive” errors that could be fixed with eyeglasses, contact lenses or surgery. And while insurance coverage for eye exams and corrective lenses clearly has improved, significant gaps remain.
The national academies’ report noted that impaired vision affects how people experience their world, including normal communication and social activities, independence and mobility. Not seeing clearly can hamper children’s academic achievement, social development and long-term health.
But when people must choose, vision care may lose out to more pressing medical concerns, said Block, who was on the committee that developed the report.
“Vision issues are not life-threatening,” she said. “People get through their day knowing they can’t see as well as they’d like.”
Insurance can make regular eye exams, glasses and treatment for medical problems such as cataracts more accessible and affordable. But comprehensive vision coverage is often achieved only through a patchwork of plans.
The Medicare program that provides coverage for millions of Americans age 65 and older doesn’t include routine eye exams, refraction testing or eyeglasses. Some tests are covered if you’re at high risk for a condition such as glaucoma, for example. And if you develop a vision-related medical condition such as cataracts, the program will cover your medical care.
But if you’re just a normal 70-year-old and you want to get your eyes examined, the program won’t cover it, said Dr. David Glasser, an ophthalmologist in Columbia, Md., who is a clinical spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology. If you make an appointment because you’re experiencing troubling symptoms and get measured for eyeglasses while there, you’ll likely be charged anywhere from about $30 to $75, Glasser said.
There are a few exceptions. Medicare will pay for one pair of glasses or contact lenses following cataract surgery, for example. Some Medicare Advantage plans offer vision care.
Many commercial health insurance plans also exclude routine vision care from their coverage. Employers may offer workers a separate vision plan to fill in the gaps.
VSP Vision Care provides vision care plans to 60,000 employers and other clients, said Kate Renwick-Espinosa, the organization’s president. A typical plan provides coverage for a comprehensive eye exam once a year and an allowance toward standard eyeglasses or contact lenses, sometimes with a copayment. Also, individuals seeking plans make up a growing part of their business, she said.
Vision coverage for kids improved under the Affordable Care Act. The law requires most plans sold on the individual and small-group market to offer vision benefits for children younger than 19. That generally means that those plans cover a comprehensive eye exam, including refraction, every year, as well as a pair of glasses or contact lenses.
But since pediatric eye exams aren’t considered preventive care that must be covered without charging people anything out-of-pocket under the ACA, they’re subject to copays and the deductible.
Medicaid programs for low-income people also typically cover vision benefits for children and sometimes for adults as well, said Dr. Christopher Quinn, president of the American Optometric Association, a professional group.
But coverage alone isn’t enough. To bring down the number of people with undiagnosed or uncorrected vision, education is key to helping people understand the importance of eye health in maintaining good vision. Just as important, it can also reduce the impact of chronic conditions such as diabetes, the national academies’ report found.
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Stained Glass
Darling Lille
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Classic Razorgore - Tank Mis-Logs as Fury
Classic - If I mind control Razorgore as a tank, and then proceed to break the final egg (as you should do as main or first tank), then proceed to get conflagrated and get threat back after, and then continue tanking until boss death, then I am not logged as a tank in the logs. Have been logged as Fury Warrior last several weeks.
Link to my logs
Please let me know what can be done to adjust this or if you need other info.
TLDR: If you MC razorgore, you dont get logged as a tank?
The rule is be in Defensive Stance for 35% or more of the fight. If you don’t stance change at all and never use a Defensive Stance-locked ability (Taunt, Disarm, Revenge, etc.), then I won’t be able to tell you’re in it.
Btw I am Crusher in these logs.
So here is our kill last night. After looking at it, the two tanks the were registered casted taunt once (Bailout) and twice (Charlie). I (Crusher) never used a taunt, or defensive locked ability on razorgore, because he is immune to taunt like all the dragons, and its most optimal for me to stay fury and smack him down.
Is there any other metric you could consider for this fight specifically to more accurately record tank? Even using a stoneshield potion could be enough maybe, which I did. Or damage taken threshold? Just suggestions, because it seems weird to have to perform less than optimally just to convince logs register as tank.
Thanks for the quick follow-up!
Edit: I also had the most damage taken on the fight by a large margin. Let me know what you can do, would love to have Razorgore record properly for me :slight_smile:
It’s difficult to use damage taken metrics, since that was how things used to work and that ended up classifying DPS as tanks all the time.
Yeah I understand that would be a complicated one, but under current conditions couldn’t any of my fury dps warriors just cast a taunt on the immune boss and potentially register a near-100 tank parse for Razorgore?
Edit: clarified question that Fury dps could register tank if they wanted to, by only taunting?
No, it is using stance uptime. Taunt just establishes that you’re in Defensive Stance, and then it looks at uptime of Defensive Stance.
Okay 10-4, thanks for all the clarification on this. I’ll play with sitting def stance for like 15 seconds each time on razor, but this is essentially just to convince logs as the fight doesnt really require any defensive skills or the mitigation from defensive stance. I appreciate all yalls work in fine tuning classic logs, I know its been finicky, especially for tank logs, but it seems to be in a very good place now!
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FAQs | Center for Jewish Life
What does Princeton’s Jewish community look like?
Princeton’s Jewish community is vibrant and diverse. There are currently 14 student groups under the CJL umbrella, ranging from Challah for Hunger to Koleinu (our CJL a cappella group) to the Muslim-Jewish Dialogue. On a typical Sunday afternoon at the CJL, you can find students playing piano in the Mandelbaum Lounge, studying Talmud in the Beit Midrash, and throwing a football on the back lawn. Our community is comprised of 700 Jewish students from various backgrounds, and the Princeton Jewish community provides students across campus with both meaningful experiences and tons of fun. Student groups and programs are student-driven. Do you have an idea for a new student group? Let us know.
How do students get involved with the CJL community?
There are countless ways to get involved with the CJL community! Many students join one of our numerous student groups. Others come to the CJL for Shabbat dinner on Friday nights, and get to know people by hanging out in the Mandelbaum Lounge, where students often hang out and relax. Additionally, students come to the CJL for educational events, study breaks, and to spend time with friends.
What resources are available for Jewish students through the CJL?
Our beautiful building has three stories with a library, kosher dining hall, study and lounge spaces, a TV room, and several sanctuaries. We are located in the center of campus, close to many academic buildings and Frist Campus Center. The dining hall is part of the University meal plan and hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish students enjoy the delicious food each week (homemade cookies are among the favorites). The CJL has a dynamic program and educational staff with diverse religious and cultural backgrounds, including Reform, Conservative and Orthodox rabbis. Students are able to use CJL resources in order to help them achieve their goals while at Princeton, whether it be planning a Winter Break trip to Greece or putting on a CJL theater production.
What is Shabbat like at the CJL?
Shabbat is the high point of Jewish life at Princeton. Every Friday night, the CJL holds an amazing Shabbat dinner with an average of over 200 students in attendance. Before dinner, there are weekly prayer services (Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox), in addition to other prayer groups that meet every month (such as our partnership minyan, Namer, and a musical indie minyan, Zamru). On Shabbat day, students of all backgrounds spend time at the CJL to eat together, go to services, and hang out.
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Provincial Nominee Program
Provincial Nominee Program (PNP) Provincial nomination offers a valuable route to Canadian permanent residence.
Each Canadian province and territory (except Nunavut and Quebec) has its own unique Provincial Nominee Program.
Each PNP has at least one immigration stream that is aligned with the federal Express Entry immigration selection system.
Provincial nominations issued under these Express Entry-aligned streams are known as ‘enhanced nominations’ and award
Express Entry candidates an additional 600 Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) points.
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Oregon Lawmakers Adjourn 2022 Session
Oregon Lawmakers Adjourn 2022 Session
Oregon lawmakers adjourned their five-week “short” session today, 32 days into their 35-day session. The legislature spent most of the week enduring long floor sessions to work through an extensive list of bills passed by committees and left many unfinished proposals for another session. Unlike most sessions, the delays caused by the bill readings persisted until nearly the end, requiring legislators to listen to a computer read the contents of each measure before making speeches and taking votes. Despite the long days and nights, the legislature accomplished a significant amount of work in only a short amount of time, most of which occurred in the final week.
On Monday, the Ways & Means Committee advanced its hallmark package of budget bills for the session. Among those bills was the annual budget reconciliation measure, which rebalances state agency budgets and dispenses money for the odds-and-ends spending that does not squarely fit in other legislation. However, this year, the legislature received news that surging revenues coupled with leftover federal money from the American Rescue Plan Act would boost its spending capacity by billions of dollars. Lawmakers wasted no time finding ways to spend that money, committing nearly $6 billion in new state spending.
Oregon’s strong revenue position deflated any need for tax increases, but the legislature was not without tax controversy before it adjourned. Since the legislature limits the number of measures individual lawmakers and most committees can introduce in the short session, the Senate’s tax-writing committee spent much of the session crafting an omnibus tax bill. Usually, these bills contain the more mundane and technical side of tax policy but can quickly evolve into something more substantial and controversial. Such was the balance the tax-writing committees navigated throughout the session, causing delays that, on occasion, seemed to risk torpedoing the entire bill. After postponing committee action on the omnibus for more than two weeks, the measure arrived in the House on Monday and was met by a frustrated committee needing to address the controversy in the session’s eleventh hour. Ultimately, the House scaled back the omnibus tax legislation—returning it to its more mundane and technical beginnings—and the legislature sent it to the governor. The drama around the omnibus, which largely fell outside the radar of most spectators, sets the stage for interim politics as the legislature readies for robust tax discussions in 2023.
Although the die was already cast on the policy and political fights early into the week, Republicans continued to require the chambers to read the contents of each measure before moving on to floor speeches and final votes. These bill readings led most legislators, lobbyists, and spectators to believe the session was likely to run up to its constitutional adjournment deadline on Monday. Once the last major controversy of the session—the legislation requiring agricultural employers to pay overtime to farmworkers—was passed out of both chambers on Thursday, Republicans lowered their swords on bill readings jettisoning the legislature to adjournment.
The political community shifts its attention to the tumultuous and unpredictable campaign season as the legislature closes the chapter of this short session. Candidates have until Tuesday, March 8, at 5 p.m. to file their candidacy for the primary election on May 22. As of this morning, only 35 (of 60) state representatives and nine (of 16) senators have filed for re-election, signaling substantial turnover and uncertainty of the personalities at the center of the legislature. Additionally, Oregon will see its first open gubernatorial race in a dozen years, at least two competitive congressional campaigns, and a robust competition over legislative control. These campaigns are superimposed on a high-stakes national election and increasingly growing divisions between, and within, the political parties. The only certainty in our politics is that change is coming.
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Comparative Politics
The Political Psychology of Lynching: WhatsApp Rumors, Anti-Government Appeals, and Violence
Across the world, violence-inducing rumors about crime have triggered spectacular displays of violence. We argue that, in addition to other components, appeals to the untrustworthiness of government authorities constitute a central component of the DNA of violence-inducing rumors. Indeed, a component that allows those circulating rumors to persuade individuals of their credibility and importance. To test this hypothesis, we conducted an original laboratory experiment among students in a rural community in Mexico. We find evidence that appeals to the untrustworthiness of government increase citizens’ perceptions of the credibility, importance and shareability of the message. Further, we find individuals perceiving rumors as more credible, important, and sharable to be more likely to incite others to commit violence against alleged criminals when given a chance. The results of this study have broad implications for our understanding of the psychology of rumor sharing and the emergence of extralegal violence.
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Alberto Salazar – Establishing Easy Day Pace
Easy Day Pace = no slower than a minute and a half of 5k race pace.
“That’s what distance running is, you’re always tired, but you still hit the key workouts…”
“…It’s hard training, you’re supposed to be tired; as long as you hit the hard workouts and are progressing, how you feel on the easy days, it doesn’t matter.”
“Hard training gets ya dead”
“You can’t be overtraining if you are improving on your hard workouts.”
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1) Are they road legal?
In Canada, each province declare the legality of electric bikes. Most of them have the following requirements to be a road-legal electric bike:
Any two- or three-wheeled bicycle that:
Please check with your local jurisdiction for more information.
In USA, a road-legal electric bike must meet the following requirements:
State laws in USA vary widely. Please check with your local jurisdiction for more information.
2) Are e-bikes really that green?
Let’s look at how far a Loonie ($1) gets us:
Car ~1 litre of gas 13 km
Public Transport 1/3 of a ticket 15 km
Motorcycle ~1 litre of gas 20 km
Hybrid Car ~1 litre of gas 20 km
Biktrix Electric Bicycle 13 Recharges 400+ km
3) How heavy are your bikes?
Our bikes are some of the lightest power:weight ratio bikes in its category. The Juggernaut weighs around 54 lbs and the Stunner weighs around 45 lbs including battery and motor installed on the bike.
4) Does the battery recharge when riding?
No. Using the battery's motor to recharge the battery is called regenerative braking. We explain why our bikes don't support this in the next question.
5) Do our bikes support regenerative braking?
No. We strongly believe that the cost does not justify the benefit. We found that e-bikes simply don’t have enough inertia or speed to support regenerative braking like most hybrid cars. Some people claim that they get about 10-15% more mileage from their regenerative braking systems. Frankly, instead of spending $500+ for a regenerative braking system, you could pay $200+ to upgrade your battery to over 30% capacity.
6) How far, how fast?
The total capacity of a battery can be measured in terms of Watt-hours. A 48V10.4Ah battery has 48x10.4=499.2Watt-hour. That is, a 500 Watt motor running at full load can run on this battery for one hour. Hence, the faster you drive, the faster you drain the battery.
Our bikes are speed limited to 32 kph / 20 mph. Unless you ask us to remove this limit for off-road use only. An unlocked Stunner/Juggernaut will reach speeds of up to 50 km/hr or 32 mph.
7) How long does the battery take to charge?
Our bikes some standard with a 2A charger. With the standard charger, the battery completely recharges in about 4 hours.
8) What tools are required for assembly?
Bikes are shipped with all necessary hardware, but some additional tools are required.
Assembly includes 3 simple steps:
1. Install front wheel and front fender
• Quick release wheels - no tools required
• Nutted wheels - size 15mm open wrench
• Fender - size 4 & 5 Allen Hex key
2. Install handlebar
• Handlebar - size 4 & 5 Allen Hex key
3. Install pedals
• Pedals - size 15mm open wrench
Some specific models also include additional install tips:
9) What about warranty?
All our bikes are covered with a 12 month warranty. Other accessories are backed with a 6 month warranty.
10) Are Biktrix bikes weatherproof?
Our bikes have been ridden in really rough conditions. Rainstorm, Snowstorm, etc. and have performed without any issues. That being said, our motors/batteries should never be completely submerged in water.
11) How do I get my other questions answered?
Send us a note!
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School & District Management
A Formula for Teaching Controversial Topics
By Hana Maruyama — December 09, 2013 1 min read
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In a piece for The Atlantic, Lisa Rau Cannon, who teaches current events at an after-school academy in Los Angeles, offers a formula for discussing controversial issues while remaining sensitive to biases. She writes:
Familiarity + Context + Devil’s Advocacy = Meaningful Discussion
For example, in a recent discussion about gun control, Cannon began by asking if the middle school students knew what an AK-47 was. "[T]hey flung their arms up so quickly that I thought someone might dislocate a shoulder,” she writes—it turns out they were familiar with the semi-automatic rifle from the video game Grand Theft Auto.
Cannon then put the issue in context by bringing up the LAX airport shooting, which they knew about because it took place locally. Next, she widened the context by including the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting and the Navy Yard shooting.
Finally, she eased into the gun debate by posing different sides. She explained that those in favor of increased gun-control believe that limiting the purchase of semi-automatic weapons could have given victims more time to escape while the shooter reloaded. “My formula reminds me to interject a devil’s advocate idea, such as the argument that laws wouldn’t stop killers who get their guns illegally, anyway,” she writes. “Perhaps I’d introduce the concept of focusing on mental health, rather than guns.”
The formula came out of Cannon’s frustration with one-sided teaching and her fear of “inadvertently spin[ning] students’ perceptions” herself. “One thing that gets my blood boiling,” Cannon writes, “is when a student says, ‘My teacher says [insert garden variety opinion stated as fact].’ One of my students was unable to explain why she believed that stem cell research was the same thing as abortion, but that it must be true because her homeroom teacher said so.”
Still, Cannon is adamant that discussing these kinds of issues in the classroom is crucial: “Adolescents often have fragmented notions about real-world, R-rated themes: violence, death, sex, scandal. Sheltering students from these distressing subjects only keeps their frame of reference limited to the grapevine.”
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Jaden Smith vs. Vegan Mayo Is the Feud 2017 Deserves
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Celebrity philosopher, Hollywood royalty, and entertain-trepreneur Jaden Smith is somehow in a beef with a vegan mayonnaise and it's everything and nothing all at once. According to a report on Time.com, Just Goods, Inc., the carton water start-up owned by the Smith/Pinkett Smith scion, is suing Hampton Creek, which makes Just Mayo and is backed by Bill Gates and Peter Thiel.
This is me watching all this celebrity condiment controversy:
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First of all, with all the money these people have you'd think they wouldn't be so shy about naming their products.
"What's this?"
"Oh, just mayo. NBD."
::proceeds to spread mayo on a stack of million dollar bills.::
Have some confidence, Bill Gates! Believe in yourself, Jaden! Read The Year of Yes, Peter Thiel! It's not just water. It's Blow-Your-Mind Body Juice™ and it will, literally, give you life. I would buy that.
I've been really missing messy, rich man drama since the sudden departure of that sassy Slytherin, Anthony Scaramucci, so I'm eating this mayo-water food fight right up.
I will now attempt to explain the conflict. You will not understand. That's okay. The only reason I understand is that I am now a lawyer after reading the West Virginia ACLU's salty amicus brief and I am now a shade lawyer.
So, in 2014 these two companies came to an agreement about how large and in what font Hampton Creek would print the word "just" on their products. This was made in an effort to keep people from confusing Just Goods as one of Hampton Creek's line of Just Other Food Products (not the actual name. Unless it is. Unclear.)
All was well and good until recently when Hampton Creek was like, "Lol, JUST kidding." They changed from a small, cursive "just" to a massive Helvetica "JUST" and folks are shewk.
This is, by far, the second biggest San Serif controversy of the summer.
Is it rude to say that every part of this sounds unbearable? Don't get me wrong, there's nothing I love more than some good font tea. But a company that sells water in a box is a suing an eggless mayo over a word? Right in front of my salad?
I'll take this drama, though, if only because it doesn't involve the words "collusion," "impanel" or "Jared Kushner's irate baby hawk voice."
It's like this drama was frozen sometime mid-2015 and emerged like "Hey, guys, let me tell you something wild."
The imbroglio has also produced a series of headlines, all of which are the most 2017 headlines ever written.
Text, Font, White, Black, Line, Smile, Document, Parallel, Paper product, Rectangle,
Somehow, I think we deserve this.
This is like a millennial mad lib.
This is a word cloud of things you hear at a Goop conference.
This was written by a team of AI robots that will quickly shut themselves down.
This headline has broken me. I... think this headline is... bae?
Stay tuned for the latest developments in JustGate.
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Rising Prices, and How Hartford is Staying Ahead in Today's Market
Rising Prices, and How Hartford is Staying Ahead in Today's Market
To be a buyer in today’s market is quite the rollercoaster ride! Bidding wars, escalating prices, skilled labor shortages... Why is it happening and what does it all mean? Hartford Homes’ VP of Purchasing, Amanda Meek, sheds some light on the current housing market and the effects that rising costs have had on her team and Hartford Homes, as a whole.
The last two years have really been the “perfect storm” for the construction industry. Here’s what we know:
• We’ve seen a scarcity of materials as a result of manufacturing shutdowns due to the pandemic, paired with a tremendous demand for new housing.
• With the increased demand for new housing, builders in nearly every market feel the need to increase production to meet demand.
• The need for skilled labor has also increased, often with the need outpacing the available resources in the market.
• This scarcity of resources, both human and physical, has driven the cost of both up, which in turn increases the cost of the goods.
How has the skilled labor market changed in the past two years?:
• We’ve seen several shifts in the subcontractor market over the past two years.
• During the beginning of the pandemic, many trades were eager to drop their prices for fear the market would slow down and they would lose the work they had under contract.
• However, the unpredictability in the market from both a material and labor perspective resulted in trade partners raising prices to protect their own margins. Since material supply is unpredictable, most trade partners end up making multiple trips to complete work, impacting productivity and efficiency.
How has Hartford ensured reliable skilled labor for the future?
• At the beginning of this year, we’ve started to see a shift as new trade partners become acclimated to doing business with Hartford Homes. Word of mouth from trade partner to trade partner has reinforced our reputation within the market, driving new trades to approach us. That’s exciting!
• In a market like the one we’re in today, trades can pick who they work for. When they choose us, it’s a recipe for a long-term, successful partnership.
We are affected by the global supply chain disruption, just like every other homebuilder. Why is Hartford different?
• We’ve been intentional and disciplined in our approach to current market conditions.
• We’ve decided to suspend “dirt start” homes and instead build “quick move-in” homes. With quick move-in homes, the Hartford team selects the floorplan and finishes, and ensures the materials with the most unstable pricing have been delivered and installed. Then, it’s time to release it for sale!
• This allows us to commit to a sales price for our buyers instead of surprising them with a huge price increase, 30-days prior to closing.
• We can be more conservative on price increases allowing us to remain competitive and to offer fair, market value prices to the buyer.
• It also allows us to predict our margins, so we remain financially healthy as a company and can continue to operate successfully for years to come.
• We are local and have been in business for over 30 years with a reputation for quality and fair business practices. Our trade partners want to work for a stable company that won’t be “here today, gone tomorrow”
• When we have the best trades in the market, they engage with us on alternative products and value engineering strategies that bring value to our homeowners and preserve quality.
Meek wraps up by saying, ”Price increases are an inevitable result of current market conditions, but through thoughtful work, discipline, and a commitment to our buyers, our employees, and our trade partners, we can minimize the impact.” At Hartford Homes, Great places, Great relationships, and Great finance are our top priorities. Like a three-legged stool, if one leg is off balance, the rest of the stool is affected. With more than 30 years in the home building industry, you can rest assured, knowing that Hartford will always put you first.
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Fast Food Hacks Rip Micheals Needs You To Know - Exclusive
Over the years, diners have found their own ways to hack fast food menus. BuzzFeed reports that determined customers have transformed In-N-Out burgers into animal-style grilled cheese sandwiches, ordered KFC Double Downs with an extra mac 'n cheese filling, and discovered a way to turn any Five Guys sandwich into a melt.
On the other hand, some fast food hacks just don't work. The Washington Post notes that McDonald's once tried to publish their own in-house hacks that had the potential to transform their menu items into outlandish creations beyond anyone's imagination. The only problem was that they weren't very good — the hacks generally failed to save shoppers money, and many of them didn't taste particularly memorable.
When it comes to getting the best bang for your buck, Rip Micheals has pioneered enough top-notch fast food hacks to fill a book. When the comedian and personality isn't hosting his show, HARTBEAT Studios' "Urban Eats & Treats," Micheals is busy developing and trying out some serious menu hacks that can make anyone's meal out that much easier. Micheals sat down with Mashed for an exclusive interview and shared some of the best finds he has discovered over the years.
Rip Micheals revealed his top fast food hacks
It's no secret that Rip Micheals loves Chipotle, so it only makes sense that the comedian has found ways to transform some classic menu items into all-star creations. He particularly loves the chain's sofritas quesadilla, but he found a way to get even more goodness out of the order. "You got to order it mobile style because if you order it mobile, they give you the sour cream, the lettuce, and everything on the side," Micheals told Mashed.
He explained that if you get the item at the restaurant, the workers simply wrap and prepare the quesadilla, but if you get the mobile version, you get three free sides with the item. "Always order mobile," Micheals insisted.
Micheals has hit up Chipotle for years and had another tip for savvy shoppers. "What you do is you get one bowl, put a lot of condiments on it, ask for extra chicken, steak, or whatever you want, and then get the soft shells on the side," he said. Each add-on item only costs a dollar, and he figured out how to essentially make seven tacos out of the pile of ingredients for $12.
His tips don't stop at Chipotle. "If you do go to Subway, they will give you as much lettuce, tomato, and vegetables as you possibly want," Micheals continued. If Micheals wants a massive salad, he orders a sandwich overflowing with the basic vegetables, throws away the bread, and ends up with about five salads' worth of vegetables.
Rip Micheals brings more of his food expertise to "Urban Eats & Treats" on Tubi. Make sure to keep an eye out for the comedian's next special out soon.
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Tags: Good, Life ✍ Author: Jane Addams
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Tags: Past, Tense ✍ Author: George Ade
Tags: Jacket, Worse ✍ Author: Kate Adie
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.
Tags: Almost, Country ✍ Author: Aravind Adiga
I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew.
Tags: Able, Full ✍ Author: Steven Adler
Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.
Tags: Law, Stupid ✍ Author: Louis Agassiz
Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.
Tags: Found, Water ✍ Author: Peter Agre
You never pull the trigger until you know you can win.
Tags: Trigger, Win ✍ Author: Roger Ailes
Tags: Last, Night ✍ Author: William Maxwell Aitken
Tags: Heart, Quiet ✍ Author: Isaac Asimov
Tags: Ourselves, Peace ✍ Author: Dalai Lama
Tags: Die, Lives ✍ Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Tags: Today, War ✍ Author: John F. Kennedy
Tags: Knows, Love ✍ Author: Khalil Gibran
Tags: Seen, Someone ✍ Author: Khalil Gibran
Tags: Knows, Love ✍ Author: Khalil Gibran
I won't be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn't mean I want them to stop looking.
Tags: Looking, Mean ✍ Author: Marilyn Monroe
Tags: Idea, Success ✍ Author: Mark Twain
Tags: Able, Seldom ✍ Author: Mark Twain
Tags: Equality, Freedom ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tags: Reality, Whatever ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tags: Humanity, Living ✍ Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tags: Hurt, Love ✍ Author: Mother Teresa
Tags: Proud, Wealth ✍ Author: Ronald Reagan
Tags: Against, Forget ✍ Author: Winston Churchill
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Tags: Here, State ✍ Author: Michele Bachmann
Acorns were good until bread was found.
Tags: Found, Good ✍ Author: Francis Bacon
Tags: Fire, Successful ✍ Author: Douglas Bader
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
Tags: After, Individual ✍ Author: Michael Badnarik
Tags: Chemical, Company ✍ Author: Leo Baekeland
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Tags: Truth, Yourself ✍ Author: Pearl Bailey
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Tags: Poetry, School ✍ Author: Russell Baker
Tags: Doctor, Happy ✍ Author: Stephen Baker
When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.
Tags: Looking, May ✍ Author: Robert T. Bakker
Until 1956, America treated Israel not much differently from other friendly states.
Tags: America, Friendly ✍ Author: Alan Ball
Tags: After, Single ✍ Author: Robert Ballard
I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me.
Tags: Monopoly, Somebody ✍ Author: Steve Ballmer
Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
Tags: Conscience, Judge ✍ Author: Honore de Balzac
Tags: Marriage, Woman ✍ Author: Honore de Balzac
Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
Tags: Old, Time ✍ Author: Antonio Banderas
Tags: Realize, Short ✍ Author: John Barrymore
Tags: Love, Religion ✍ Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Tags: Broken, Stand ✍ Author: Yogi Berra
I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.
Tags: Broken, Thought ✍ Author: Yogi Berra
Tags: Head, Second ✍ Author: Erma Bombeck
Tags: Broken, Light ✍ Author: Warren Buffett
Tags: Food, Friendly ✍ Author: Samuel Butler
I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago.
Tags: Playing, Thought ✍ Author: James Caan
I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Tags: Problem, Sense ✍ Author: Herman Cain
Tags: Laugh, Often ✍ Author: Jeanne Calment
Tags: Born, End ✍ Author: Italo Calvino
The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
Tags: Cool, Die ✍ Author: Candace Cameron
Tags: Bit, Child ✍ Author: Billy Campbell
Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.
Tags: Easy, Said ✍ Author: Eddie Campbell
Tags: Born, School ✍ Author: Naomi Campbell
I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.
Tags: Few, Movies ✍ Author: Bobby Cannavale
I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.
Tags: Happy, Somebody ✍ Author: Dyan Cannon
Tags: Against, Heart ✍ Author: Maria Cantwell
Tags: Conviction, Excellent ✍ Author: Thomas Carlyle
Tags: Knows, Saying ✍ Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tags: Lose, Win ✍ Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tags: Express, Opinion ✍ Author: Kurt Cobain
Tags: Divorce, Good ✍ Author: Kurt Cobain
Tags: Age, History ✍ Author: Isaac D\'Israeli
An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.
Tags: American, Guilty ✍ Author: DMX
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
Tags: Time, Whole ✍ Author: Willem Dafoe
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.
Tags: Later, Men ✍ Author: Robert A. Dahl
Tags: Focus, Time ✍ Author: James Daly
You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.
Tags: Problems, Yourself ✍ Author: Claire Danes
You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.
Tags: Crisis, Few ✍ Author: Claire Danes
I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how important meat is to you until you don't have it for long time.
Tags: Realize, Time ✍ Author: Brittany Daniel
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
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Until the contract is signed, nothing is real.
Tags: Contract, Real ✍ Author: Glenn Danzig
Tags: Business, Money ✍ Author: Bobby Darin
Tags: Days, Started ✍ Author: Larry David
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Tags: Business, Star ✍ Author: Bette Davis
Tags: Off, Small ✍ Author: Ellen DeGeneres
Tags: Conceited, Successful ✍ Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Tags: Marriage, Married ✍ Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Tags: Answer, Religion ✍ Author: Frederick Douglass
Tags: Found, Wanted ✍ Author: Frederick Douglass
Tags: Another, Times ✍ Author: George Eads
It probably won't sink in until I've retired from running but I'm a much better athlete than two years ago.
Tags: Running, Won ✍ Author: Michael East
Tags: Best, While ✍ Author: Clint Eastwood
Tags: Away, Getting ✍ Author: Christopher Eccleston
As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
Tags: Funny, Women ✍ Author: Billy Eckstine
Tags: After, Getting ✍ Author: Thomas A. Edison
Tags: Goal, Living ✍ Author: Thomas A. Edison
Tags: Congress, President ✍ Author: Donna Edwards
My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
Tags: Alive, Job ✍ Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Tags: Human, Reflection ✍ Author: Loren Eiseley
Tags: Dead, Death ✍ Author: George Eliot
Tags: Rules, Wise ✍ Author: T. S. Eliot
Tags: Public, Tell ✍ Author: T. S. Eliot
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
Tags: Babies, Ready ✍ Author: Queen Elizabeth II
Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr, the man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all.
Tags: Act, Knows ✍ Author: Jim Elliot
Tags: Mum, Parents ✍ Author: Freema Agyeman
I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
Tags: Death, Father ✍ Author: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I wasn't really comfortable reading until I was 12.
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I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
Tags: Behaved, Student ✍ Author: Colin Farrell
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From: Meg
Last night some friends and I attended the world premiere of the playing of the Fellowship of the Ring movie score at the Hollywood Bowl, performed by the LA Phil Harmonic in a show called Musical Mythology. The conductor (whose name I cannot remember at the moment) discussed briefly on the historical significance of ring mythology, which had its start in the iron age and is found in every nation that developed smelting and metal-working. The first act of the show consisted of a small selection of classical music, such as Ride of the Valkyrie by Wagner and the movement Jupiter from The Planets, as well as four movements from the Harry Potter score by John Williams.
After intermission, the real fun started.
The score was not played to the letter; certain tracks were shortened or removed entirely, while others were extended slightly to make the entire performance flow better. Naturally, Enya’s songs were skipped. They had the Pacific Chorale performing the chants found in such tracks as The Prophecy, The Black Rider, and The Bridge of Khazad Dum. Lothlorien was one that was particularly excellent. But I must admit I felt bad for the young boy who was performing the solo in In Dreams, since you could tell he was nervous. I mean, I would be too, singing in front of thousands of people!
But the best part of the evening was the fact that Howard Shore himself attended the premiere! He got a standing ovation when he appeared onstage; my friends and I even think we saw Enya’smo parked in the lot…
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Emerald Bolts Bob Lucky A Magazine for Flash Fiction
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A Man of His Word
She hopped in the car and kissed him on the cheek. "Did you do it?"
"Of course," he said. "I said I would." He slowly pulled away from the curb while she fiddled with her seatbelt.
He looked in the side-view mirror and eased into traffic. "What do you think?"
"I love you," she said, rubbing his shoulder.
He told her how her mother wasn't scared so much as angry.
"She said we were made for each other."
"And my father?" she asked, a tremble in her lower lip.
He didn't look at her and she felt the car speeding up.
"He wrote me a check for twenty-thousand dollars," he said.
The Future of Memories
The ceiling was very high and the exquisite marble floors stretched out like a bank of clouds. Tall, narrow windows cast light across the room and up the walls opposite. The predominate color was white. Whenever he shifted his gaze, the brightness would blind him for a few seconds.
It was crowded for a Thursday morning, but that may have been because it was a free admission day. People wandered about in a state of mild confusion. This confused him because the walls were blank. It looked like something Rothko would have done in a white phase. People bumped into to each other as they moved around the room staring at the walls.
The new exhibition was in A Hall. He studied the map on the brochure a moment before he realized he was in A Hall. He looked at the invitation again and wondered who had invited him. His connections with art were minimal at best. The last work of art he had completed had been an ashtray for his mother. When was that? Fifth grade, he reckoned. She was dead now. Lung cancer.
It had been a long bus ride to the museum and he had to use the toilet. There were no signs anywhere, but he saw several men standing in a line at the far end of the hall and headed in that direction. He had to go. Where does this go, he asked the man in front of him. Where does this go, the man in front of him asked the man in front of him. And so on it went. It was parrots all the way down. This is going nowhere, he thought to himself, surprised at the little joke he had made.
There was a commotion at the front of the line. It's the Playmate of the Year 1967, he heard one old man shout. This was immediately contradicted by someone who claimed it was the woman to whom he lost his virginity. Another man guffawed, how can you lose your virginity? You make it sound like an accident. A scuffle broke out and the line collapsed into a scrum. What were they looking at? A few men wiped tears from their eyes. A man with a booming voice called them all a bunch of liars, that it was the prostitute he had slept with in Tonga during the millennium celebrations.
Intrigued, he muscled his way forward to have a look. It was his mother.
Two Sides of Love
"You ever have a one-eyed woman wink at you?" he asked.
It had been years since I had seen Roger, and I'd been certain I never wanted to see him again, but when he called and said he was back in the city for just three days, I thought it would be safe to take a chance. After all, he'd be gone in a few days, back to his posting in Zambia.
"It's pretty weird," he went on without waiting for an answer. "I mean, during the wink itself she can't really see you. Spooky," he said, taking another gulp of his gin and tonic.
"How do you know she was winking at you?" I asked. "She might have got something in her eye and was just blinking."
"I thought about that," he said, "and it was kind of dusty in the market, but I'm pretty sure she was winking at me."
He called the bartender over and ordered another round of drinks, though mine was almost full.
"There weren't many other men around that morning. Unless she was a lesbian or something, I'm pretty sure she was winking at me."
We were silent for a moment. When you haven't seen or heard from someone in a long time and you only have a short time together, you tend to be careful about what conversations you start.
"Where was her eye?" I asked.
"What do you mean? Was she a cyclops or something?"
"No. Was it the left eye or the right eye?"
"Oh," he said and tossed a handful of peanuts into his mouth, some not making it past his bushy mustache and clattering on the bar.
"Was it love at first sight?"
"Isn't it always?" he laughed.
"So what side was her eye on?"
"Doesn't matter, does it, if it's love?"
The bartender arrived with the drinks and a new bowl of peanuts.
"If it's love, wouldn't you remember what side it's on?" I asked.
Roger gave me a long look while shoveling some more peanuts into his mouth. I didn't turn away. Eventually he averted his gaze.
Picking up his drink and turning back to me, he said, "Let's drink a toast."
"To what?" I muttered, picking up my new drink. "The past?"
"To Carolyn," he said.
We clinked glasses and swallowed deeply.
"How is she?" I asked.
"Fine. Fine. She says to say hello." Roger rolled an ice cube around his mouth and let it slip back into the glass. "Remember that big mole she had on her ass? She finally had it removed."
"Which cheek was it on?" I asked.
"Hell. I can't remember."
"The left," I said.
- Bob Lucky (USA – Ethiopia)
Bob Lucky lives in Ethiopia.
He has an MFA from the University of Texas at El Paso and currently teaches at the International Community School in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He is co-author of the chapbook _my favorite thing_ (bottle rockets press, 2011), and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in various journals, including Shot Glass Journal, The Prose-Poem Project, Emerald Bolts, Rattle.work, Shamrock Haiku Journal and Modern Haiku.
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Elizabeth Warren's Anti Corruption Specificity Evaporates When Foreign Policy is Raised
Warren gave a blistering attack on corporate power run amok, giving example after example, like Congressman Billy Tauzin doing the pharmaceutical lobby's bidding by preventing a bill for expanded Medicare coverage from allowing the program to negotiate lower drug prices. Noted Warren: "In December of 2003, the very same month the bill was signed into law, PhRMA -- the drug companies’ biggest lobbying group -- dangled the possibility that Billy could be their next CEO.
"In February of 2004, Congressman Tauzin announced that he wouldn’t seek re-election. Ten months later, he became CEO of PhRMA -- at an annual salary of $2 million. Big Pharma certainly knows how to say 'thank you for your service.'"
But I found that Warren's tenacity when ripping things like corporate lobbyists' "pre-bribes" suddenly evaporated when dealing with issues like the enormous military budget and Israeli assaults on Palestinian children.
The Press Club moderator, Angela Greiling Keane, early in the news conference asked about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's keeping press out of town hall meetings, pairing that with Trump's outright attacks on media
Warren: I now sit on Armed Services and I have been in the middle of the sausage making factory on that one. And that has pushed me even more strongly in the direction of systemic reforms. I want to be able to have those debates. I want to be able to get them out in the open and talk about these poor issues that affect our government, affect our people. I want to be able to debate them on the floor of the senate. I want to be able to do amendments on them. Right now the whole of big money over our government stops much of that. It chokes off much of the debate we should have. So I am going to give you a system-wide answer because I think that's what matters here. This is not about one particular proposal, this is all the way across. How is it that we get the voices of the people heard in government instead of over and over the voices of the wealthy and the well connected. The voices of those with higher armies of lobbyists. So for me that's what this is about.
But part of the power that the wealthy and well connected have is getting direct responses to their specific concerns. Political funders are unlikely impressed with broad "system-wide answers".
And we've been here before.
One question is, realistically, what are Warren's goals here? It could well be a good faith effort by someone committed to changing the world for the better. But then, why the selectivity?
If it was enactment of these policies, then the strongest way to do that might have been to find a rogue Republican to pair up with on at least some aspects of her proposals so as to avoid charges being purely politically motivated. When questioned by a New York Post reporter at the news conference, Warren couldn't name a Republican whom she might work with. This would especially be the case since Trump -- like Obama before him -- ran against the establishment
Is it to make her a leading contender for the Democratic nomination? If so, the hope would be that she's not simply playing the role of what Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report calls "sheepdogging" -- that is, the presidential run or promise of a run by a Sanders or Warren as simply a tool the Democratic Party establishment uses to keep enough of the public "on the reservation".
Said Warren of her own financial reform proposals: "Inside Washington, some of these proposals will be very unpopular, even with some of my friends. Outside Washington, I expect that most people will see these ideas as no-brainers and be shocked they’re not already the law.
Why doesn't the same principle apply to funding perpetual wars and massive human rights abuses against children?
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If you follow me at all on social media then you probably know that me and my family took a vacation to Costa Rica in August. Lucky for us my father lives out there so it makes the trip a little bit easier. I was super nervous about taking Mylo the 2 year old for many reasons. I am not going to lie, it was hard travelling with him. Overall we had a great time though and it was something we desperately needed. I don’t even remember the last time we all flew somewhere for a vacation. We also happened to be there for my dad’s 75th birthday which was pretty special.
My dad lives in a town called San Isidro about an hour from the pacific side of Costa Rica. We made the plane, taxi, bus, taxi day long trip to his house on the first day. We spent a few days there and then made a trip to one of my favorite places, Manuel Antonio park. I will explain a little below each picture further down in the blog post.
One of my favorite things this visit was all of the colors and textures of the walls and structures. It is so wet all the time, so there are all kinds of life growing on the walls and basically any surface available. So many things to look at besides your typical tropical plants and flowers. I definitely did not get to take near as many photos as I would have liked to. Watching a 2 year old to make sure they don’t get bitten by ants and don’t go places they are not supposed to takes up most of your time and makes it a little bit hard to carry around the camera.
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Image above: Road by my dad’s house leading up the mountain.
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Image above: The little walking path up to my dad’s house. We stayed in a similar house right next door. My dad has worked very hard on his front yard/garden and it is full of life and fruits and all kinds of things.
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Image above: My dad’s little rock sculptures he put together in his garden.
Image above: Mylo eating one of the oranges from my dad’s front yard. The oranges are a little different. You basically peel off some of the rind and squeeze the juice into your mouth. Mylo could not get enough.
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Image above: People sell these lottery things from these small desks. I don’t know how they work but I like the desk.
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Image above: Mylo’s favorite toy on the trip was the coin money. He kept asking us for big money big money. He held them in his pocket of his shirt.
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We went fishing at this cool spot with talapia ponds and then were able to eat the fish afterwards in the restaurant. Me and Madi both caught the most fish. Mylo was a little freaked out by it.
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Image above: The sunsets are gorgeous and people line up outside to watch the sun go down into the ocean. This particular sunset looked so much like a pyramid.
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This is the little jerk raccoon that bit Madi’s foot. I had no idea raccoon’s were so mean and I watched the whole thing happen. Apparently they like hot pink stuff and he tried to steal her flip flop.
Image above: If you look at that grey blob right in the center you will see the back of a sloth. Sloth’s are my favorite animals and this was the closest I have ever seen one there. It moved from one tree to another and was amazing to watch.
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Image above: It was raining like crazy on our drive back to my dad’s from the beach. So, I shot this out of the car window. It doesn’t show the whole field but these are all over the place out there. Little banana plantation towns. A big soccer field in the middle with houses all around it.
Image above: One of my favorite fruits ever, rambutans, until I found this one below which is now my all time favorite, a cape gooseberry.
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So, those are all my favorite pictures from this trip. It was an awesome time and something we will always remember.
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Have you ever wondered how the TABC came to be? Here’s some information from our licensing agency in Dallas, TX.
The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) was initially founded in 1935 as the Texas Liquor Control Board. Today, the TABC exists to inspect, supervise and regulate all aspects of any business in the state that manufactures, imports, exports, stores, sells, transports, advertises, distributes or labels alcoholic beverages.
In 2007, the TABC amended its mission to say that “The commission shall:
1. Protect public safety by deterring and detecting violations of this code;
2. Promote legal and responsible alcohol consumption;
3. Ensure fair competition within the alcoholic beverage industry;
4. Ensure consistent, predictable and timely enforcement of this code;
5. Ensure a consistent, predictable and timely licensing and permitting process;
6. Promote and foster voluntary compliance with this code; and
7. Communicate the requirements of this code clearly and consistently.”
Prohibition and beyond
The policies of the TABC were heavily influenced by the Prohibition era, as it was developed around the time of the ratification of the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which repealed the 18th Amendment that implemented prohibition.
When prohibition laws were adopted statewide in Texas, 199 of its 254 counties had already been voted dry under local option laws, 43 were considered “practically dry” and just 10 were without any areas with prohibition. Ultimately, on a national level there was not enough support for prohibition laws and enforcement struggled, which meant opponents of prohibition would be victorious.
Congress first allowed the sale of beer up to four percent ABV, and just months later, Texas voters amended the state’s constitution to allow the sale of beer. Prohibition was repealed entirely two years later, and Texas communities reverted to their previous wet/dry status. Shortly after, the TABC was created to regulate the state’s liquor laws.
There have been several big events in the state since then that have had an effect on liquor enforcement activities.
In 1971, the Texas legislature created a mixed beverage permit, allowing sales of liquor by the drink in areas that opted in through local elections. The new permit also introduced the mixed beverage gross receipts tax at 10 percent, imposed on all gross receipts from the sale, preparation or service of a mixed drink. The rate was increased to 12 percent in 1985 and again to 14 percent in 1989. By 1993, these taxes amounted to $244.7 million, which was more than half the revenue the agency was collecting.
In 1993, House Bill 1445 was passed, which enacted certain recommendations from the Sunset Review. Under these changes, collection and verification of the mixed beverage gross receipts tax was now determined to be the responsibility of the Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts, and responsibility for enforcing the Bingo Enabling Act was transferred to the Texas Lottery Commission.
This has been a brief history of the TABC and Texas liquor law. For more information and historical facts, contact our liquor licensing agency in Dallas, TX.
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8834: Jutaro Nishimura
8834: Jutaro Nishimura
Jutaro Nishimura
He was born on 1 September 1880. He was a self-employed grocery store owner. His family includes Tsuge Nishimura (mother; nee Tsuge Endo), Jusaburo Nishimura (father), Shige Nishimura (wife), Shigeo Nishimura (son), Juzo Nishimura (son), Mitsuo Nishimura (son), Kiyo Nishimura (daughter), Yaeko Nishimura (daughter), Atsuko Nishimura (daughter), and Shizuko Ohashi (daughter; nee Shizuko Nishimura). His home address is listed as 566 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC. He was forcibly uprooted to Vernon, BC.
Sex M
Date of Birth 01 September 1880
Nationality Japanese national
Locations uprooted
Vernon, BC
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Type Person
Custodian Number 8834
Name Jutaro Nishimura
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Metadata Author: Jayson Jap
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What's New in Cinegy Convert 12
Cinegy is happy to present the next major release of Cinegy Convert family - Cinegy Convert v12. It inherits key technology of Cinegy Convert v11 while proposing a bundle of new useful features and more important fixes and improvements. What’s New in Cinegy Convert v12 The advantages of new features and functions can be appreciated in the following areas of Cinegy Convert v12: 8K formats support for both input and output
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Blogger Poll On The Senate Immigration Bill
John Hawkins crunches the numbers, including the results of this question:
5) Do you believe that the bill in the Senate would, if passed, secure the border and stop the influx of significant numbers of illegal aliens into the United States?
Yes: (0%)
No: 49 (100%)
Read the rest, here.
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Baseball could see 76 game season, reduced salary for players
A baseball season is not out of the question, but negotiations haven’t gotten very far.
As of now, the Major League Baseball (MLB) and Players Association (MLBPA) are talking about a different schedule and salary for this summer. The league has suggested a shortened 76-game schedule that would be done in the end of September and the playoffs over by the end of October.
They also want the players to take a salary reduction of 25%. So in all, a 76-game season, playoffs, and players getting only 75% of their salary. The MLB also offered playoff money (pool) and “no MLB draft pick compensation for signing players” per CBS Sports.
One of the previous offers was for a 114-game season and a longer playoffs, but that was rejected.
One of the main issues that the MLB and MLBPA have is negotiating the player salaries.
One point the MLB made about having players take a salary cut is that many games might be played in a stadium with no fans. In theory, a stadium without fans will generate a lot less revenue for the team, therefore leading most to believe that player salaries will be harder to pay. If less money is coming in, then theoretically, and realistically, less money goes out.
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Mike Axisa from CBS Sports posted this message involving some possible offers and scenarios that the MLB and MLBPA might negotiate:
CBS Sports also stated that the “MLB previously offered a “sliding scale” proposal and reportedly would pay prorated salaries in a 50-game season.”
Speaking from the side of the MLBPA was Evan Drellich. He reported that the MLBPA said the MLB’s recent offer was actually worse than before.
As of now, there is no confirmed solution, but they are negotiating.
It all comes down to two things – safety and money.
Photo by Phil Goodwin
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Eric Weddle unretired and is signing with the Rams for their postseason run??? I never heard or seen that in my life is it against any rules?
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You can be 100% sure that the NFL would have nixed this at high speed if it were against the rules; the league office approves all contracts.
– Philip Kendall
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When a player retires while under contract, a team can add them to the Reserve/Retired List, in which case the contract progression pauses, and would resume if the player unretires.
Also, a player who retires before training camp begins cannot play for another team that season.
It appears Weddle signed a two-year contract with the Rams in 2019, and then retired after one year. It's unclear if the Rams did add him to the Reserve/Retired list in order to hold his rights, but reports of his unretirement say he signed a one-year contract with the Rams, which seems to be a new contract.
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Consignor FAQ
Q: What is the consignor's commission?
A: Our base consignor percentage is 60%. However by volunteering you can receive up to 90% depending on the number of hours you volunteer. For more information, please visit Consignor Incentives
Q: Do consignors get to shop early even if they don't volunteer?
A: Yes. All consignors will be able to shop the pre-sale.
Q: What does the $25 registration fee cover?
A: The consignor fee helps to pay a portion of the sale's overhead, including location rental, printing costs, advertising fees, postage and event insurance.
Q: How do I tag my items?
A: Our T2T EXPRESS tagging system allows you to automatically format and generate barcodes online for all your sale items. Each barcode is encrypted with your seller #, item price and discount information. Barcodes are placed directly on the items sold and scanned at the time of purchase. For more information visit TAGGING.
Q: How do I order barcodes?
A: Ordering barcodes is very simple.
1. Log in to your consignor homepage.
2. Click “Order Barcode Labels.”
3. Indicate price, # of labels & discount information
4. Click “Submit Barcode"
After you submit your barcode order your barcodes will be available to be viewed/printed. For more information, visit Tagging.
Q: How do I print my own barcodes?
1. Log in to your consignor homepage.
2. Click “Order Barcode Labels.”
3. Indicate price, # of labels & discount information
4. Click “Submit Barcode"
5. Click “Submit Order”
*Please wait for all tags to appear on your screen before you print them. For more information, visit Tagging.
Q: Is there a specific drop-off time?
A: Yes. Each consignor must sign up for a drop-off appointment. Your drop-off appointment time is approximately 45 minutes, unless you are a high volume consignor (300+ items). Visit Drop-Off, Pick-Up to schedule an appointment.
Q: Do I have to place my items on the sale floor?
A: Yes. Once your items have been inspected and approved by a Teacher 2 Teacher volunteer, you will place your items on the sale floor.
Q: When is pick-up?
A: Pick up is Sunday, July 14th following the MANDATORY sort which begins at 3:00pm. All Consignors are required to attend the sort. The sort and pickup should take approximately 3 - 5 hours.
Q: What is a Group Sort?
A: Consigners work collaboratively to sort the remaining unsold items by consignor number or donation.
A: All unclaimed items remaining after the designated time will become the property of Teacher 2 Teacher. You will be assessed a $50 removal fee. The fee will be deducted from your consignor earnings.
Q: What happens to donated items?
A: Unsold items marked for donations by Consignors will be donated to first year teachers at our post-sale giveaway.
Q: When will I receive the compensation from the sale?
A: Your check will be mailed within two weeks of the sale.
Opening of our on-line store, T2T Direct, and
Facebook Live sale(s) will be coming soon!
If you are interested in registering to consign for next year, please email for more information. Please feel free to Join our mailing list to receive sale updates.
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The Curse of Chief Wahoo
"I'm here for my grandchildren — for their self-esteem," says Marjorie Villafane, a Sioux from North Dakota who has lived in Cleveland for more than 40 years and has participated in the annual Opening Day protest of Chief Wahoo for the last 20.
"I'm here so my grandchildren can be proud of their heritage. People act like we're trying to take their baseball away from them, but we're not. It's just, why do they have to turn us into Chief Wahoo?"
Jim Farrar, a member of the Cherokee Nation who drove from Michigan to join this year's demonstration, speaks of re-education camps and smallpox-infested blankets — painful memories associated with the displacement of indigenous North Americans by European colonists. To Farrar and many protesters, Wahoo's exaggerated features and toothsome grin trivialize and mock their history.
"It isn't guilt that we want you to feel," he says. "Just understand what our opposition comes from."
To many if not most Clevelanders, Chief Wahoo has never represented a race of people at all, but a benevolent symbol of the magic of those first trips to the ballpark: a smiling, slugging alien angel of joy. Given these positive associations, many find it especially easy to ignore that Wahoo was created in an era when popular attitudes toward minorities were quite different than they are today.
The symbol first appeared in 1947, the creation of Walter Goldbach, a 17-year-old draftsman hired by Indians owner Bill Veeck to design a mascot that "would convey a spirit of pure joy and unbridled enthusiasm." Goldbach's version had yellow skin and a phallically prominent nose. By 1951, the figure made its debut on Indians uniforms, updated with fire-engine-red skin and a more giddy, less imbecilic grin. Sportswriters provided the name "Chief Wahoo."
Goldbach has said that he had a hard time "figuring out how to make an Indian look like a cartoon.
"It was the last thing on my mind that I would offend someone," he added.
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Donald Trump, if you did to a Webb City, Mo., woman what you've done to Marla Maples -- impregnate her, deny your responsibility and then refuse to marry her -- that woman would drive to your home and make mincemeat out of you.
And if that didn't convince you, that woman's brothers would run you down with their pickups.
That really happened, Donald, back in 1978. The Webb City family ringed a guy just like you -- granted, with a smaller bank account, but the same type morals -- with their trucks, and marched him straight to Carterville Christian. While the ceremony was going on inside, the brothers sat outside revving their engines. Rumor has it that, 15 years and five children later, that ol' boy still pees in his pants at the sound of a Ford F-250 in his driveway.
Now, I don't know much about Marla's home life. I know she comes from the same Southern town as Deborah Norville, another blonde I have wearied of reading about. Maybe they grow them gentler there. Maybe Marla hasn't heard of the mincemeat option. And I don't know if Marla has brothers, or if her brothers have pickups, but I figure someone ought to step up before she embarrasses the both of you further.
That someone is me. I, a member of the working press, am prepared to call a moratorium on the coverage of the rest of your life if you don't get to the altar pronto.
Donald, I have read of your indiscretions. I have read of how Ivana stumbled onto your girlfriend on a ski slope. I have read of Ivana's makeover, her new career, the month she gets in the Florida mansion, and the gag order you had placed on her at the time of your divorce. I know Marla has a hard time keeping former employees out of her shoes -- a weirder heist I don't want to contemplate. I know you have champagne tastes on what must now be a beer income. I have seen your face -- red and bloated with those bushy, bushy eyebrows -- all over the place.
And I'm sick of it, frankly, Donald. Now I read where Marla --
whose stomach is bulging daily -- has taken to carrying around a wedding dress on her travels, should you ever be ready to commit to marry her, the mother of your child.
She says you make funny noises when the subject is broached. She says you are afraid of marriage.
I don't know if you've ever had to wait on something or someone, Donald, but it's no laughing matter. I cannot for the life of me understand why any woman would wait you out, so all I can figure is that if she's so inclined, the two of you were made for each other.
The way I see it, this latest weirdness on your part is getting you in the newspaper all too often, and it's time someone had the guts to stand up to you. So here's what I think: If you don't do right by that girl and marry her, this is my absolute last Donald Trump story. I don't want to brag, but I bet I know at least five journalists who would go in with me on this one. And you know, with the bottomed-out New York real estate market, you don't stand much of a chance of getting your name in print by any legitimate means.
So think about it. Take a week. I imagine it wouldn't take long to slap a coat of paint on the Carterville Christian. Kent, the minister there, is a friend of mine. Call me. I'm ready to talk turkey when you are
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SOPA Updates: Matt Cutts Summary, European Parliament Resolution, Sandia Labs, BSA
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In the ongoing debate around the controversial "Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)" bill in the US Congress (that I have covered previously here and here), there are four updates worth reading:
• First, Matt Cutts provided a comprehensive SOPA update last week talking about all the online activism and support against the bill. Great collections of links, and I loved this part at the end:
I thought we’d have to wait 20-25 years before a critical mass of people would defend the net. But SOPA has brought that day a lot closer. SOPA galvanized the tech community, from start-ups to venture capitalists to the largest web companies. SOPA was an unexpected shock and a wake-up call. Well, guess what? Now the internet is awake. And I don’t think it’s going back to sleep any time soon. We might need to rally again in the near future, but we can do that. The internet learns fast.
• Sandia National Laboratories responded to a request from Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren with a letter outlining why SOPA wouldn't work and would decrease our cybersecurity.
• The European Parliament adopted a resolution that included among its many clauses, one (#25) that spoke specifically to SOPA/Protect-IP issues:
• Finally, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), which represents many of the largest tech companies and had been promoted as supporting SOPA, clarified their position and indicated that the law as written is too broad and could have unintended consequences.
All in all a much better situation than was the case two weeks ago...
Image credit: jasonippolito on Flickr
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Global appliance company Electrolux announced today the launch by Electrolux North America of a new line of sustainable kitchen and laundry appliances, with sustainability-enhancing features targeting reduced water and energy use and improved health while boosting appliance performance.
Electrolux stated that the new launch represents the next step toward achieving its sustainability targets, including becoming circular and climate-neutral with zero carbon emissions in its operations by 2030.
Amie Guy, Vice President of Marketing for Electrolux North America, said:
“We are deeply committed to a more sustainable future, both in our manufacturing operations and in our consumers’ homes. Our strong consumer reviews and the interest in the appliances’ sustainability features confirm that we are all looking for ways to eat and live healthier lives while reducing our environmental impact.”
The new products include ovens featuring Electrolux’s built-in Air Sous Vide technology, using precisely controlled heat and airflow without sous vide’s use of water. The laundry lineup includes a washer with technologies designed to make clothes last longer and surpass the whitening effects of bleach without the use of harsh chemicals and a front-load electric dryer that features Electrolux’s Balanced Dry technology that saves time and energy.
Guy added:
“In addition to being energy-efficient, our new washers and dryers are specifically designed to help preserve fabrics, making them last longer. By helping consumers take better care of the clothes they already own, we are doing our part in helping people live a more sustainable lifestyle.”
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Question: I’m attending a bridal shower next month and then the wedding is early next year. My understanding is that the couple isn’t doing a registry. What shower or wedding gift can you give if the couple isn’t registered?
Answer: First, be sure to confirm with the couple, a family member or close friend of the couple whether or not they are registered. Traditionally, this information is relayed by word of mouth and not printed on any of the party invitations, save the dates or the wedding invitations. Second, if it is confirmed that there isn’t a registry, find out if they are hoping to get cash gifts, or some sort of honeymoon fund or requesting that guests make donations to a favorite charity. Finally, if none of those are the case, opt for cash, gift cards or a traditional gift within your budget, such as white linen napkins (you can never have too many and they go with everything) or some other kitchen linens, crystal (consider a vase or decanter), a silver picture frame or luxurious, high thread count sheets. Whether giving cash, gift cards or personalized, traditional or utilitarian offerings, the point of shower and wedding presents is to show the couple that you are happy to share in their special day with them and celebrate their love.
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Pinstripe Alley Top 100 Yankees: #65 Vic Raschi
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"The Springfield Rifle" was one of Casey Stengel's most trusted weapons in his '50s dynasty rotation.
1990 Baseball Wit card
Name: Victor Raschi
Position: Starting pitcher
Born: March 28, 1919 (West Springfield, MA)
Died: October 14, 1988 (Groveland, NY)
Yankee Years: 1946-53
Primary number: 17
Yankee statistics: 120-50, 3.47 ERA, 3.58 FIP, 207 GS, 1,537 IP, 832 K, 99 CG, 24 SHO, 88 ERA-, 93 FIP-, 15.9 rWAR, 23.3 fWAR
Just a few posts ago, starter Eddie Lopat was added to the Top 100 Yankees at #68. It seems fitting that he should be followed not long after by one of his closest friends and teammates on Casey Stengel's Yankees, Vic Raschi. Whereas Lopat plied his craft with a remarkable repertoire of breaking pitches, Raschi was a no-nonsense master of the fastball, blazing it past hitters of his era. He was so overpowering that at one point, the legendary Ted Williams remarked, "Vic Raschi is the best pitcher alive. There just can't be anyone as good."
The third of Egyzia and Massimino "Simon" Raschi's four children, Victor John Angelo Raschi was born on March 28, 1919 in West Springfield, Massachusetts, home of the U.S. Armory's famous rifles. By the time he was 10 years old, he was already drawing attention to the humble family, as he won a state-wide marbles tournament. The Italian immigrants' son was a natural athlete though, excelling in baseball, football, and basketball at Springfield Tech High School.
Raschi's favorite sport was basketball, but baseball scouts from the Indians, Cardinals, and Yankees paid careful attention to his skills on the diamond. A Yankees scout named Gene McCann saw the 16-year-old Raschi "throwing bullets" as a freshman with a very fluid pitching motion and knew that he could become something special. He knew that Raschi's carpenter father was old and ailing from his years on the railroad though, and that his younger brother Eugene, who barely survived his surprising birth 11 years after Vic, had health problems too due to a batted ball that smashed his eye when he was just seven. Despite only being in high school, Vic Raschi was destined to soon become the head of the household.
So when the Yankees successfully arranged a meeting with the Raschi family, they assured Vic that they would pay for his college education and give him spending money as well. He had to give up football, but Raschi felt that this was an opportunity that he couldn't turn down. After unsuccessfully attempting to enroll in Manhattan College past the deadline, the Yankees arranged for Raschi to attend the College of William & Mary down in Virginia, and he began his schooling there full-time in 1938. It was during his early education there that he met another student named Sally Glenn, who became his wife a few years later.
Raschi was angered when after an All-State basketball season, the Yankees told him that he had to give up that sport that as well. They knew that his potential on the mound was too great to possibly be wasted due to a basketball injury. During his sophomore year, he dominated his competition and William & Mary won the conference championship. Although Raschi was not finished with his degree, the Yankees told him that he had nothing left to prove as a collegiate pitcher and gave him orders to report to the Class C Amsterdam Rugmakers during the summer of 1941. Raschi would eventually finish his degree part-time on the Yankees' dime, but he did not graduate until 1949.
In his first professional season, Raschi was steady with a 3.68 ERA over 142 innings that looked a lot better when accompanied by his 10-6 record. Amusingly, his follow-up campaign with the Class B Norfolk Tars in '42 was considered a bit of a disappointment due to his 4-10 mark even though he had a superior 2.71 ERA. His fastball became slowly more difficult to hit as well, as his H/9 dropped from 10.6 in '41 to 6.8 in '42. That would be the last organized baseball he would play for awhile though, as he enlisted for World War II with the Army Air Force, where he put his collegiate studies in physical training to use by serving as an instructor for three years.
Upon his return to baseball in 1946, Raschi rocketed through the system. He had a 3.16 ERA over 168 innings in Binghamton, earning him a promotion to the well-respected Newark Bears. It was on this team that he met the odd-looking fellow who would become his catcher for most of the next decade, Yogi Berra. Newark's manager was former Yankee ace Lefty Gomez, and after only five games, the future Hall of Famer told GM George Weiss that Raschi was ready for the majors.
The Springfield Rifle
On September 23, 1946, Raschi made his MLB debut at Yankee Staidum, older than most rookies due to the war at age 27. With Berra behind the plate, he went the distance against the Philadelphia Athletics for interim manager Johnny Neun, winning his debut and notching his first career single, too. A few days later at Shibe Park, he took down the A's again with an even better performance, allowing just five hits and one run over seven innings of work in a shortened complete game 2-1 victory.
Since he had such a terrific year in '46, Raschi expected to make the Yankees' Opening Day roster in '47, even with new manager Bucky Harris at the helm. However, pitching coach Charlie Dressen was not particularly impressed with him, so he advised the Yankees to send him back down. The Yankees told him to report to the Pacific Coast League's Portland Beavers. Raschi was absolutely furious and refused, returning to his home with Sally in New York instead. The Yankees threatened to have him banned from baseball for life, but his wife assuaged his concerns and told him that it would be a fascinating experience to live out west for a little while.
The 28-year-old accepted the assignment and upon entering Lucky Beavers Stadium in Portland, he was introduced to the manager, Jim Turner. The demotion turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to Raschi in baseball, as he and Turner formed a close bond. He was a fine pitcher in '46, but Turner told him that he was not aggressive enough. Due to the injury that crippled his younger brother's life, Raschi was hesitant to back hitters off the plate, out of the fear that his fastball might do the same to them. The normally mild-mannered Turner made his point clear:
"You have to crucify those sons of bitches, Vic. Murder them, crucify them, kill them."
Turner's subtle advice encouraged Raschi to become more intimidating on the mound. On gamedays, no one could even approach him since he took to having an angry scowl face the entire time.
Raschi notched a 2.75 ERA in 85 innings, and when the Yankees needed a spot starter in mid-July, Turner told Harris and Weiss to recall Raschi. On three days' rest, he pitched 6 1/3 innings of three-run ball in the second game of a doubleheader on July 13th against the White Sox, earning the win. It was the Yankees' 14th victory in a row, and incredibly, they stretched the streak to 18 in time for Raschi's next start. If the rookie could win, the Yankees would tie the American League record with a 19-game winning streak. Sure enough, Raschi was up to the task, allowing just six hits and two runs in a 7-2 complete game victory over the Indians. The record lasted 55 years, and the team went on to win the 1947 World Series over the Dodgers, Raschi's first championship.
Although the Yankees finished in third place in '48, leading to Harris's firing, Raschi became a menace on the mound with 222 2/3 innings, 18 complete games, and six shutouts, leading to the first of four All-Star appearances. He teamed with 1947 acquisition Allie Reynolds and new Yankee Eddie Lopat to form the "Big Three" that would anchor the team's rotation for the next five years.
Casey Stengel was the unlikely choice for Yankees manager, but it did not take long for him to notice that he had about as good a starting rotation as he could ever dream. Raschi's old manager Turner became his pitching coach, and he helped all of Raschi, Lopat, and Reynolds become versatile, reliable arms. Raschi in particular was the man who Stengel trusted the most, according to teammate Jerry Coleman. Stengel said, "I thought Raschi was the best pitcher I had on the team for nine innings... Boy, he was the best on the club in the eighth and ninth inning."
Sure enough, Raschi tossed 66 complete games and 13 shutouts from 1949-52 while posting a 116 ERA+ and averaging 253 innings per season. He was named an All-Star three more times, earned AL MVP votes in five seasons, led the AL in games started twice, and paced all starters with 164 strikeouts in 1951. Like clockwork, the Yankees won the pennant every year and followed up a terrific season by taking down the National League champions in the World Series.
Raschi saved some of his best pitching for when the season was on the line. In '49, the Yankees were tasked with winning the last two games of the season against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium to steal the pennant from them. They won the penultimate game behind relief ace Joe Page and sent Raschi to start the potential season finale against Ellis Kinder. Raschi, who had worked hard with Berra all year long to get him to trust Raschi's pitch calls over Stengel's, was as intense as ever and came up big for the team, tossing shutout ball through eight and finishing his five-hitter in the ninth to clinch the pennant.
In 60 1/3 innings of World Series play, Raschi excelled with a 2.24 ERA and pitching the game of his life in the opener of the 1950 Fall Classic. The upstart Phillies, nicknamed the "Whiz Kids," had won the NL pennant over the Dodgers on the season's last day with a 10th inning homer by Dick Sisler at Ebbets Field. Undeterred, Raschi quieted them with a two-hit shutout, and the Yankees went on to sweep them away. His teammate Lopat stole the show in '51, but Raschi had a 0.87 ERA over two starts in that series against the Giants as well, then notched a 1.59 ERA with two victories in the '52 World Series victory over Brooklyn. When his fastball was on, the "Springfield Rifle" was overpowering.
A dynasty subsides
By 1952, Raschi was so well-regarded that he was the highest-paid pitcher in Yankees history at $40,000. Like Lopat and Reynolds though, his heavy workload from Stengel's use led to injuries though, and a surgery to remove torn cartilage in his knee sustained running the bases following the '51 season did not help. His rate statistics were roughly the same, but he was no longer capable of making his customary 30+ starts and over 200 innings.
Not long after the Yankees closed out their record fifth consecutive championship in '53, Weiss sent him a contract for 1954 that called for his salary to be cut by 25 percent. Angered by the slight, he chose to hold out until spring training. To his shock though, when he reported to St. Petersburg for spring training, he learned from the press that Weiss that he had been sold to the St. Louis Cardinals for $85,000.
Raschi was determined to prove that his old team made a mistake by letting him go, but regrettably, there just wasn't much mileage left in his right arm at age 35. He spent two more seasons putting up mixed results with the Cardinals and Kansas City Athletics before calling it a career.
Raschi retired to his upstate New York home by the Conesus Lake, where he owned a profitable liquor store for several years. He was also vital to the growth of Geneseo State College's athletics program, where he helped provide vital conditioning for both baseball and basketball players. In 1975, the college dedicated its baseball and softball field in his honor, and to this day, SUNY Geneseo is still the home to Victor J. Raschi Field.
Time healed the wounds between Raschi and the Yankees, and he would often return for Old-Timers' Day. He maintained strong friendships with Reynolds, Lopat, Berra, and many more teammates who remembered how kind and affable he was off the field. Pitching was clearly an entirely separate aspect of his character. On the eve of the 1988 World Series, Raschi passed away suddenly at age 69 on October 14th due to a heart attack. Appropriately, one of the first people to call his widow Sally was Eddie Lopat's wife.
Andrew's rank: 64
Tanya's rank: 64
Community rank: 54.5
WAR rank: 70
Season Stats
1946 27 NYY 2 0 3.94 1.95 2 2 0 2 0 16 14 7 7 0 5 11 0 0 0 90 90 0.0 0.5
1947 28 NYY 7 2 3.87 4.01 15 14 0 6 1 104.2 89 47 45 11 38 51 1 0 2 91 91 0.4 0.9
1948 29 NYY 19 8 3.84 3.46 36 31 2 18 6 222.2 208 103 95 15 74 124 3 0 5 106 106 2.3 4.2
1949 30 NYY 21 10 3.34 3.94 38 37 0 21 3 274.2 247 120 102 16 138 124 6 1 10 121 121 3.0 3.5
1950 31 NYY 21 8 4.00 3.73 33 32 1 17 2 256.2 232 120 114 19 116 155 3 6 6 108 108 2.9 4.5
1951 32 NYY 21 10 3.27 3.47 35 34 0 15 4 258.1 233 110 94 20 103 164 5 1 8 117 117 2.6 4.0
1952 33 NYY 16 6 2.78 3.26 31 31 0 13 4 223 174 78 69 12 91 127 6 0 5 119 119 2.7 3.0
1953 34 NYY 13 6 3.33 3.47 28 26 2 7 4 181 150 74 67 11 55 76 1 0 1 111 111 2.0 2.7
NYY (8 yrs) 120 50 3.47 3.58 218 207 5 99 24 1537 1347 659 593 104 620 832 25 8 37 111 111 15.9 23.3
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Appel, Marty. Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012.
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Gittleman, Sol. Reynolds, Raschi, and Lopat: New York's Big Three and the Yankee Dynasty of 1949-53. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2007.
Golenbock, Peter. Dynasty: The New York Yankees, 1949-1964. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1975.
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Consistent lower speed limit needed outside all schools - lobby group
10:19 am on 31 January 2022
A safe speed group is pushing for speeds around schools to be capped at 30km/h.
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Last year the government proposed this speed limit around urban schools but a higher cap of 60km/h around rural schools.
The 30km/h limit is a speed recommended by the World Health Organisation.
Lucinda Rees, from NZ School Speeds, said decisions around speed limits outside schools are inconsistent.
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Rees said the road rules need to be changed to prioritise and protect children.
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He added, "I was neither involved nor heard of what process, procedure, and reason 5 billion won was set as (son's) performance pay on March 4, 2021. It's something I want to know, too."
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It's nice to hear from all of you!
JonLeung, I've also thought of this place as a kind of second family over the last two decades. Months ago, when my thoughts were at their darkest, I was worried that nobody here would ever hear about it if I was gone. Now that I'm feeling much better, this isn't really a concern anymore but I should probably leave a note in my safe about it. If anything happened to any of you guys, I would hope to hear about it also.
You mentioning your physical health reminds me that I really need to take better care of mine now that my mind is doing better. My eating habits have been pretty bad over the last few years and my addiction to soft drinks certainly isn't helping. I've started cooking real, healthier meals lately which is good but kicking the soft drinks habit is going to be hell.
Electromax, I'm glad that working from home turned out alright for you. Most of the people I know found it really isolating. As for myself, I was part of the only team at my job which was required to be on-site (since we provided and repaired the laptops the regular workers used to work from home) so I had more social contacts that most people during most of the pandemic.
By the way, I just took a look at your DeviantArt and wow, you are a mapping *beast* and I'm definitely going to spend an hour of two browsing your gallery! I'm envious of your technical skills, as they apparently enable you to map so many more (complicated) games than people like me who have reached the limits of their abilities. Or at least, I'm not ready to invest the time and energy required to approach your level, or the interest really. I still make maps when the mood strikes, but I'm also splitting my time with another recent hobby. Working on my own personal fonts have guided me to the amazing world of conlangs and although I'm a complete amateur, I'm having fun coming up with ways to "encrypt" text graphically!
DarkWolf, I hope you're taking care of yourself and that your work situation improves. Also, your mention of Black Stone reminded me that I still grateful for your Texture Skewing utility. It helped fuel my interest in mapping isometric games.
Revned, it's good to hear from you too. We haven't talked in ages!
Don't feel too bad about having trouble socializing. I'm only just starting to socialize on my own after nearly three decades so you can't be worse than me ;). I think my gaming evolution has reached a similar point to yours, in that I find games for the platforms of my youth (NES, Game Boy, Genesis, SNES) increasingly harder to enjoy as time passes. Nostalgia doesn't seem to work as much as it once did, though I'll still occasionally play an old favourite. Lately, I've been playing Switch exclusives as well as some smaller indie PC games and having a lot of fun.
Like you, I've also given up on my more ambitious mapping projects or at least, I'm not holding hope that I'll ever finish them. I'm usually working on more personal maps for obscure games that few people know about or trying to put my own spin on famous games (which is hard to do when you're assembling screenshots), but I'm still having fun, which is the goal for me after all. I hope the passion comes back to you sometimes soon!
Grizzly, it's too bad that your mapping tool fell through and I think I sort of understand the feeling of working so hard for so long on something but ending up making it worse in the long run. Hopefully, you still find enjoyment in your other coding projects because it sounds like you're not lacking in terms of ideas, which is good. As for playing for play's sake, I think that's very healthy! I'll usually oscillate between "playing for fun" and "playing to map" a few times a year with each phase lasting several months. To me, it's almost like a mental "detox".
Your mention of finding it exhausting to talk to other people reminds me a lot of myself before I starting my medication (not suggesting your situation is like me though). I don't know about you, but what I found difficult to deal with was this constant anxiety about saying the wrong thing and being judged for it. Constantly second-guessing myself during *every* single social interaction was incredibly exhausting and such an ingrained reflex that I only felt the fatigue while not even noticing most or all of the toxic thoughts. I don't know how much of an obstacle this is for you but I hope you find some way to relax and enjoy yourself without worrying about all that pandemic stuff.
StarFighters76, I have to admit that for the longest time, I hadn't realized (or had simply forgotten) that you were the author of the vast majority of the original maps on GameFAQs! Given that you never use in-game graphics for your work, you're probably the mapper in the best possible position to try and make money with them, though you should still be careful from a legal standpoint.
A number of months back, someone named Phillip Summers started a Kickstarter to create hand-drawn game guides for older NES games that would not feature any official graphics or artwork. The project looked really cool and the art style meshed really well with those from game manuals of the time. Unfortunately, he was contacted by an unnamed lawyer and had to cancel the campaign. The guides are thankfully still available though and for free (check out the latest updates on the Kickstarter page for the links) but it sucks that the creator can't make money for his hard and impressive work (although you can pay what-you-want for a kind of making-of art book for the series). But hey, if you ever manage to make it work financially, make sure to tell us so that we can celebrate!
As for the various mentions of a Discord, I used to be pretty much against the concept. I grew up with message boards and I was never into linear chat rooms where things go too fast and discussions are hard to follow. However, my position has softened somewhat lately as I've been following a Discord server, Marioverse, that was the successor to the Reddit board Project Marioverse which is centered around mapping out the Super Mario universe. If a VGMaps Discord was ever created, I can't promise I would be a big participant but I would certainly try to be more active than I've been here.
Given how quiet it's been around here lately, I thought it might be interesting to share how we're all doing, what with COVID-19, the current political climate and message boards in general slowly dying out...
Personally, things are going very well at the moment but that's only because I hit rock bottom a while ago.
Five and a half months ago to be precise, I was diagnosed with occupational burnout after years of being overworked, experiencing symptoms similar to when I was suffering from sleep apnea (lack of mental energy, difficulty to concentrate, no interest in anything) only much worse, up to and including suicidal ideation.
Thankfully, I work in the public sector so I was able to retain my job while my doctor put me on extended leave in order to rest and heal up. Today, after five and a half months, a lot of rest, weekly psychotherapy sessions and the appropriate dosage of antidepressant, I feel like I've been reborn.
First of all, the medication worked wonder to take care of the constant anxiety that has been the background of my life for at least several decades. Also, the psychotherapy has helped me to understand myself a lot better. I now have names for how what has been making my life so difficult for so long, namely "social anxiety disorder" and "avoidant personality disorder". Over the last few months, I've finally been able to do simple things I had been putting off for years because of my anxiety, such as changing Internet provider, contacting an old acquaintance after years of silence or just posting on this forum about my thoughts and feelings without overly worrying about what people will think of me!
I still have so much to do to improve my life, but I feel like I'm finally moving forward at a good pace.
As for VGMaps, I still visit every week but for the longest time, I was just too tired or anxious to post anything. Needless to say, I haven't done a lot of mapping lately aside from trying to give my own twist to a game that has already been mapped several times (Metroid II: Return of Samus).
I've been mostly playing, especially since I finally bought a Nintendo Switch a few weeks before being diagnosed. There were finally enough games I wanted to justify the price and both Super Mario Odyssey as well as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild helped to keep me sane during those first few months before I could start both medication and therapy. I still have several others I haven't even started yet (Luigi's Mansion 3 and Metroid Dread) but I've been too busy with positive real life stuff!
Browsing my mapping folder earlier today, I've been thinking of maybe starting a thread where I could post samples of my many, *many* failed and/or abandoned project and discuss them. What I was hoping to achieve, why I eventually gave up, etc. Maybe it might motivate others to post about their own failed project, who knows?
Anyway, I hope everyone who's still around is doing well and if not, that they get the help and support they need.
Take care everyone!
Maps In Progress / Re: Mike007's Map Projects
« on: July 19, 2021, 12:58:06 pm »
Weirdly enough, I've also been experimenting while mapping The Simpsons: Road Rage (GBA) over the last few weeks.
I was hoping to present the main six maps with an isometric view like with my Equinox world maps but I've been frustrated by the way the sprites of objects like buildings, mail boxes and billboards are sometimes placed *very* sloppily. Like, most buildings are placed in the center of an enclosed square but there are a few that lie almost entirely out of theirs, which really aggravates my desire for proper alignment.
I have no idea if I'll ever finish these (chances are high that I won't!) but if I do, would you be upset if I submitted them to the site?
Maps In Progress / Re: Electromax - getting to work on PS1 maps!
« on: May 19, 2021, 08:51:53 pm »
I love seeing 3d maps rendered in an isometric perspective like this, even though they're not always easily "readable" because rooms will overlap with one another and ceiling geometry is sometimes visible.
Also, because of the primitive graphics of the game, it's not always easy to tell where edges are located. When older 3D games are rendered like this, I've always wondered how much better/worse it would look with a visible outline around edges.
Thank you for such an amazing video, and I'm glad that you'll be making maps for the next two games as well.
Can't wait to check out the maps by myself!
I wasn't trying to nitpick or find faults, honest!
It's just that door alignment was a pet peeve of mine while mapping and the Cackle Mound in particular drove me crazy when I was working on it so I noticed those adjustments right away.
And in terms of misalignment, I meant when moving around the map in debug mode. The first two labyrinths are nearly perfect in their raw forms but then the third has neighboring doors that are off by 48 or even 56 pixels. That's huge to me!
I didn't notice any of the other things you mentioned or at least, they felt natural to me.
I guess I'm still just a bit too invested in Shantae's maps to be objective!
I'm sorry if I came off as being judgmental as that wasn't my intention. I'm just not that good at expressing myself and the language barrier doesn't help.
My intent was simply to discuss the choices we make as mappers in representing the truths of a game's world and how we fell about them.
We all have changes we are personally fine with and others we aren't.
For example, fixing a few missing tiles feels more like correcting a bug to me. It's not accurate to the game, but it *feels* right and I did it a few times with Sonic Advance (GBA).
When mapping Gradius (NES), I even flipped a tile horizontally in the last level because it was the only one that didn't fit with the rest and was clearly a mistake. And in the next to last level, I moved an enemy a bit because it was the only one that was off-centered inside a background "cell".
Like you said, developers don't always have the time or interest in making such things perfect as it's barely noticeable while playing but plain obvious when laid on a map.
And that ROM hack is probably something I'd do myself!
It was very common for NES games for example to have all sprites being lower vertically by one pixel for complicated programming reasons.
That's totally something I'd fix *everywhere* if I was mapping such a game!
So please, take my previous comments not as an attack, but as the personal opinion of a colleague who doesn't always agree but fully respects and supports you!
Having just perused through the finished maps, I'm happy to say that they are great looking!
You've managed to solve in a very elegant way an issue I was struggling with, namely those smaller forest and waterfall areas reached through caves and how to name them.
It never even came to my mind to simply group them along with the connecting caves on their respective main map, thereby avoiding the naming issue altogether!
However... I have to be honest and say that I'm not a fan of the various little adjustments you made to the labyrinths to make sure that all the doors would align correctly.
I too was frustrated by the way connected labyrinth doors would sometimes be completely off vertically with one another but actually changing the rooms that are visible in-game themselves would kinda feel like lying to me.
I hope you don't mind me being honest here and take it as the constructive criticism I mean it to be.
I'm no stranger to edits myself like with my Sonic 3D Blast but I've always kept it limited to offscreen areas.
I do understand the impulse though. I remember on a previous iteration of VGMaps that's now gone, there was a discussion about what to do with the vertical "gaps" between areas in the 2D Metroidvania games. An old forum member (either Zeric, Wileee or Edsword) made a mockup for Symphony of the Night's Long Library where he added in a connecting area that required editing the existing portions to fit it in.
It was impressive work but it was felt that altering the existing map was dishonest, not to mention how much work it would have been to do the same for *every* other gaps throughout the whole castle!
Anyway, it's one hell of a project that you've managed to complete so kudos to you!
Hi JonLeung,
There's a bit of grieving involved for every project that I end up abandoning, like a dream I have to give up because I'll never be able to make it come true.
Some are closer to my heart though but I often have difficulty making the hard choices as to which project to hold on to, and which to abandon.
I think it's ultimately a good (though painful!) thing when someone else comes along and submit full maps for a game I've been working on and off for years without much passion and often, just hanging on to that dream. That means I can finally move on to other, more meaningful games.
I think my present signature is actually honest for once as to which games I really want to finish mapping.
1) Drill Dozer (GBA): I stopped mapping this for a very stupid reason at a time where lack of mental energy (cause by a combination of untreated sleep apnea, work-related stress and severe social anxiety disorder) made me very susceptible to stop for a stupid reason.
It's back on but it's moving forward at a slower pace because:
a) I never stopped working throughout the whole pandemic so not much free time;
b) I actually pushed myself to have more regular social interactions for the last year or so and that ends up eating several hours I would otherwise have used for mapping;
c) I try to play more games in general so that too takes time away from mapping.
2) Sonic 3D Blast (GEN): I don't know when I'll get back to this one but I'm at least confident that if someone else maps it before me, they'll most likely stick to the actual in-game maps which do not fill the whole area between the screen borders and are full of bad tiling and inconsistencies.
I want to correct as much of those problems as I can which won't make them perfect (some perspective problems aren't fixable for example) but will at least make them much nicer to look at.
3) Naya's Quest (PC): An unknown indie flash game that plays with perspective, this game was practically made for me and is probably the single most stimulating challenges I've encountered while mapping since Battletoads' last level with the rotating tower.
It just takes so *long* to make a single animated map that visually portrays the location of each tile through elevation and rotation and there are 30 rooms in the normal mode in addition to several more in the New Game+ mode.
Hi Cleeem,
Sorry for the overlong psychoanalysis, I didn't mean to hijack your tread!
I'm really curious to see your final maps.
Regarding the map names, you most likely used that huge scanned one from also appears in the manual but with all the area names added to it.
I've been trying to find out whether that map is official of not for years!
Strangely enough, according to The Cutting Room Floor, there are a bunch of unused names inside the ROM that would have indicated the name of the area you've just entered, as well as the areas east and west respectively. They were most likely from an earlier version of the game because they don't fit the final game but it's a neat thing to discover!
If you are curious, here are all the unused directions :
Welcome to the Scarecrow Field. West: desert, East: Spiderwood Forest
Welcome to Spiderwood Forest. West: Scuttle Town, East: Dribble Falls
Welcome to Dribble Falls. West: Spiderwood Forest, East: Water Town
Welcome to Flushstone. West: Dribble Falls, East: Slime Flats
Welcome to Slime Flats. West: Flushstone, East: Quaggore Swamp
Welcome to Quaggore Swamp. West: Slime Flats, East: Splinter- Grave Grove
Welcome to Splinter-Grave Grove. West: Quaggore Swamp, East: Stumprot Forest
Welcome to Stumprot Forest. West: Quaggore Swamp, East: Mount Brazier
Welcome to Mount Brazier. West: Stumprot Forest, East: Pinestone Bluff
Welcome to Pinestone Bluff. West: Mount Brazier, East: Mud Bog
Welcome to Mud Bog. West: Bandit Town, East: Sandy Dunes
Welcome to Sandy Dunes. West: Oasis Town, East: Scuttle Town
Welcome to Skitterclaw Desert. West: Golem Mine, East: Wasteland
Welcome to Wasteland. West: Skitterclaw Desert, East: Scarecrow Field
Maps Of The Month / Re: 2021/02: Sonic Battle (GBA) - TerraEsperZ
« on: February 22, 2021, 09:31:48 pm »
I always thought there were supposed to be only two color palettes, daylight and nightlight.
And that the slight differences after the transition between the two was simply a slight coding error (like a loop calculating the color values between day and night going from 0% to 99% instead of 1 to 100%).
I would consider the palette you get after pausing/unpausing to be the true one but that's just me!
Since you're going to post a full map set, I'm almost certainly not going to keep working on mine. I was only done with the day version of each area and only had about 1.5 labyrinths done so there would still be a lot of work to do and not a lot of incentive to do it.
What I am honestly super interested in is the map names you'll be using. There are a couple of hidden areas that don't have official names that really bothered me when I was working on it.
Can't wait to see the result!
Personally, the text and the pictures seem to indicate a new game "in the style of" A Link to the Past.
I think those pictures are most likely mockups to showcase their engine and give an idea of what to expect.
That minimap certainly looks rough and unfinished.
Map Requests / Re: Full map set for Sonic the Hedgehog's games
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Maps In Progress / Re: FlyingArmor's Map Projects Present and Future
« on: January 04, 2021, 10:49:19 pm »
And just a little bit ago, I got the bathroom level done for The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (SNES) and it should be up fairly soon. It was quite an ordeal getting all the elements of each room together the way they're presented in-game. I had to come up with a solution for the backgrounds in the taller rooms, since the art for the background doesn't scroll vertically, so I just took the gradient part and stretched it to the height of the room, and kept the sink, mirror, and door elements at the bottom along with the horizontally parallax scrolling bubbles.
For the underwater portions, I managed to get the colour math correct for most of the layers except for the wavy water layer, but just as I am typing this out, I may have stumbled upon a solution, so I'll need to resubmit this map once that's figured out.
This is the kind of challenge I miss the most about mapping.
Sometimes, you'll just run into a game where some elements just seem impossible to represent properly on a static map. You get frustrated and might spend days, weeks or even months trying to come up with a solution. And one day, it finally just pops into you mind and after a bit on tinkering, you implement your workaround and produce something amazing!
I too am curious as to how you'll handle the crystal ball stage ;)
Maps In Progress / Re: Drill Dozer (GBA)
« on: December 29, 2020, 09:09:45 pm »
This is just a small update to indicate I've gone back to work on this and I'm almost finished with Area 4-1.
Map Requests / Re: Mother 3
« on: December 08, 2020, 06:27:54 pm »
I was just about to post about the same thing!
I bought a digital copy of this guide years ago for the maps alone since I've never even played a Mother game before...
As a fan guide, it is easily more professionally made than many of the last few game guides published on paper.
Of course, it's a guide and not a series of image files on VGMaps but if you're looking for an amazing walkthrough for Mother 3, this guide is the best thing available.
Maps In Progress / Re: Jackster's Map Projects
« on: November 14, 2020, 03:21:48 pm »
Great job on those Faces of Evil maps Jackster! I was hoping someone would finally map those stages because I find those graphics gorgeous.
Can't wait for you to do the same with Wand of Gamelon!
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Zazu Wally the Whale Light Projector - Grey
£24.99 Regular price
Wally the whale is a light projector with soothing melodies.
The projection shows water drops while it could play calming ocean sounds, mimicking a mum's heartbeat or lounge music. After 30 minutes Wally shuts off automatically.
Wally's cry sensor enables last played settings for the projector and music, when your little one starts crying. The whale could be attached to your crib and is powered by 3x AA batteries (not included).
• Multicolour light projector with cry sensor
• Projects water drops on the ceiling in 4 different colour-modes: red, blue, green or multicolour
• Plays soothing melodies while falling asleep: heartbeat sound, ocean sound or lounge music.
• Auto shut-off after 30 minutes (both music and light)
• Operated by a 3 AA batteries (not included)
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I like to believe that there is a star for everyone. Your star appears on the day that you are born untill you breathe your last. The thought of all of us at least having one beautiful thing as soon as we are born amazes me. I have always been mesmerized by the sky. Especially the night sky, more so when there is a full moon.
On one of those beautiful nights last year, I happened to be at the house of the lady I was working for at the time. She’d just given me a house tour and mentioned that she didn’t like people in her personal space. I later noticed that she gave everyone a house tour. Even people she’d just met. It was a beautiful house.
As was custom of most of our conversations, she was talking to me about how important it is for women to be strong for themselves and how she had built her big beautiful house in 6 months. Intoxicated by the beauty of her house and her words I went into a trance and only woke up to find that I was staring intently at the sky without really seeing it. There were only two stars in the sky that night, one that burnt so brightly and a very dull one next to it. I thought of how stars burn their brightest when they are dying and it made me think of us. Her, a bright star whose shine was coming to an end and me a budding new star.
I too am a star, dull and not sure how to burn but a star nonetheless. Even in a sky full of stars I’d still have my place.
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Who is a Church Planter?
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Question: By way of definition: Who is a church planter?
Answer 1: Everyone is called to plant the gospel and help to create new communities of believers. (btw – this is the work of making disciples that Jesus talks about in the Great Commission – Matthew 28:19-20). In a very real sense church planting is the ministry of everyone who takes the call to reach all people for Christ and the call to live on mission seriously.
Answer 2: There are also people who have a special vocation as church planting missionaries. These people can also be rightly called church planters and may be vocational missionaries, bi-vocational missionaries, or avocational missionaries. These people pioneer the spread of the gospel among unreached and underserved people and who equip and release others to preach the gospel and plant the church.
Answer 3: There are also people who are have a special vocation as church planting pastors. These are people who can also rightly be called church planters. These pastors start new churches and new branches of the church in areas where the gospel has already spread significantly through an area or population. The continuing spread of the gospel, the multiplication of the church in many generations and multiple gospel movements, and the renewal of the established church depends upon these pastoral church planters.
Conclusion: Everyone should be planting the church in one way or another. Through our prayers, gifts, participation and witness. Some people should be sent to the many groups of people who have little or no access to the gospel in order to do the initial “homesteading” clearing and plowing and preparing new fields for planting, and many should be sent out to continually start, strengthen and multiply the church so that all generations will know THE Planter and Harvester; the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Tata gambled in the micro-SUV segment with the launch of the Punch. Thankfully for Tata, the Punch has become an instant hit with the customers. It has been clocking in more than 10,000 monthly sales for the last few months. So why is the Punch popular? The Punch is famous for its features and design. Seeing the success of Tata, other manufacturers are also entering this segment. In today’s article, we discuss 3 upcoming Tata Punch rivals.
Citroen C3
Tata Punch rivals
The C3 is Citroen’s next car for India. The C3 is one car that has faced a lot of delays. So why the delays? The major contributor has been the chip shortage. In terms of design, the C3 gets quite a peculiar design. It has an upright bonnet and high-raked windshield with orange highlights. What will be its engine options? The C3 will come with a 1.2-litre naturally aspirated and 1.2-litre turbo petrol. Both engines will come with a manual gearbox option only.
Tata Punch rivals – Maruti YTB
Tata Punch rivals
Maruti has seen the success of Tata Punch and wants to have a pie of it. According to reports, Maruti is working on an SUV based on the Baleno. For now, the car is codenamed YTB and will take design elements from the Futuro-E concept car. It will get the same engine options as the Baleno. What about features? It will get the same features as the new Baleno.
Hyundai micro-SUV
Tata Punch rivals
Tata is currently going toe to toe with Hyundai. The Punch has helped Tata even leapfrog Hyundai in the sales chart. So what is Hyundai’s plan? Hyundai is also working on a micro-SUV, and this is an all-new India specific car, not the Casper. This car is codenamed Ai3 and will share its underpinnings with the Grand i10 Nios. Like other Hyundai cars, it will come loaded with features to take on the Tata Punch.
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Daily Joke: Freshman Qualifies for the College Football Team
Laura Beatham
Jul 03, 2021
09:10 P.M.
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Today's jokes are all about football, including a freshman trying out for the college team, a couple who went on a date to a football game, and two friends discussing the possibility of football in heaven.
A college freshman tried out for the college football team. The coach wanted to see if he would be fit for the team, so he asked the freshman a couple of questions to evaluate his skills.
"Can you run fast?" asked the coach. In response, the freshman ran the length of the field in under 30 seconds. The coach was very impressed, so he asked a second question, "Can you tackle?"
A football on a field. | Photo: Pixabay/Oliver Cardall
In response, the freshman tackled a large dead tree at the end of the field and turned it to sawdust. "Wow, now that was a brilliant tackle," exclaimed the coach, "but can you pass the ball?"
The freshman thought about the coach's question for a moment and then said, "Well, if I swallowed it, I am sure I would be able to pass the ball."
One day a man decided to take his girlfriend, who did not know anything about football, to a football game. The couple had really great seats, right behind their team's bench. After the game, the man asked his girlfriend if she enjoyed it.
"Oh, I really loved it," the woman said. "All the tight pants and big muscles. But I could not understand why they were all fighting and killing over 25 cents." The boyfriend was dumbfounded and asked, "Uh, babe, what do you mean?"
The girlfriend responded, "Well, at the beginning of the game, they tossed up a coin, and one team got it. Then for the rest of the game, they kept screaming, "Get the quarterback, Get the quarterback," and I'm just like, it is only 25 cents!"
One day, two avid football fans, Mark and Frank, were discussing the latest game and who they thought would win the season when Mark asked Frank, "Hey, do you think there's football in Heaven?"
Frank responded, "I'm not sure, but let's make a promise that whoever dies first will find out if there's football in heaven and then tell the other who's still alive." Mark agreed to the promise.
Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Frank passed away. Mark was miserable and went to their favorite pub to remember his late friend. He then heard Frank say, "Hey Mark, it is me, Frank."
Mark said, "You have to tell me, is there football in Heaven?
Frank said, "Well, I have good news and bad news."
"Well, come on, tell me then." Mark urged.
"The good news is, there is football in Heaven. But the bad news is, you're playing defense on Friday."
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By Clifford Miu | Horror
A student signs a lease for an apartment, then discovers it was the site of a homicide.
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3 young scouts are selected for a prestigious opportunity. But nothing is what it seems.
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2 men are hired to transport a mysterious box, then discover it's hiding a deadly secret.
By Joe Kicak | Horror
A first-time mother's home becomes a trap as her husband's sinister intentions emerge.
The Sermon
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A preacher's daughter has a secret that could destroy them all.
By Matt Black and Ryan Polly | Horror
A sleep-deprived store clerk sees a mysterious man appear on the security camera.
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A group of strangers volunteer for a medical study that hides a dark secret.
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A prisoner wakes up in a cell to discover he's a test subject in a psychological experiment.
The Best of Intentions
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A vengeful father suspects his disabled daughter has been sexually abused.
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A soul-searching camping trip takes a supernatural turn.
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A man doesn't notice that doomsday is happening around him.
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A man must race home before nightfall... or his terrible secret will be let loose.
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A dishonest little girl receives a terrifying visitor after a parenting lesson goes wrong.
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A young woman takes in a stray cat. Then a series of bloody occurrences begin to happen.
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A woman's fear of her childhood home returns when her dad senses a presence in the house.
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK - API Service
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This website provides documentations and examples for the Python SDK library entitled uk-covid19, as published by Public Health England on Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK.
Similar libraries are also available for JavaScript, R, .Net, and Elixir.
The API supplies the latest data for the COVID-19 outbreak in the United Kingdom. The endpoint for the data provided using this SDK is:
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Aaron Perry
About Aaron Perry
For my 9th Christmas, I was a blessed boi and my father bought me a Nintendo 64. I was a pretty cool kid at that point. I started a Nintendo club which wasn't really a club at all, as it was just me and two friends. But, we grabbed every copy of Nintendo Power we could find and with our measly allowances, rented Rush 2 every week from the small shop down the road.
Then one day we saw Goldeneye. That was it. No more Rush. No more Super Mario. No more Pilotwings. Thank god for that. What 9 year old wants to play Pilotwings?
Eventually the store went out of business and we got to keep GE. It wasn't really surprising to be honest, looking back on it now. Living in a tiny town, Shady corner store who's biggest business is it's 6 machine laundromat, buying like 1000 N64 games. I mean, Blockbuster is like 15 minutes further down the road.
For like 5 years, Goldeneye was all we played. Unlocking every cheat, 4-player all-nighters, gamesharking the shit out of it. Until one day we gamesharked too hard and my cartridge wouldn't work anymore. Secret tears were shed that night.
In time, our Nintendo club would fall apart, I would sell my 64 and use the money to help buy myself a Gamecube with Luigi's Mansion. So many regrets.
So. I haven't owned a gaming console since '04 or '05. Until Christmas of 2018. My 30th Christmas. When my girlfriend bought me one. WITH GOLDENEYE.
Lets see what happens.
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Aaron Perry's country: Canada.
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Comcast: TV programming change
A Comcast customer review by GetHuman user GetHuman-patb from December 2nd, 2017
Background on GetHuman-patb's case
GetHuman: GetHuman-patb - can you tell our other Comcast customers when your case took place?
GetHuman-patb: Yes. It was afternoon, on November 29th.
(Shows GetHuman-patb a list of common Comcast problems)
GetHuman-patb: "Cancel service" was why I was trying to call.
GetHuman-patb's review of Comcast customer service
GetHuman-patb: TV programming change
GetHuman-patb: The H* (history *) channel is now Viceland. This is a terrible station. First of all, there is no history. So far, I see weird and*or *** - trans gender programming. This is not suitable family viewing. I see none of the shows from H* (*****, World War II, ancient astronauts, etc) as was promised. Since the history channel is mostly pawn shows or the like, you have effectively eliminated ALL history from your programming and replaced it with a combination of pawn*****trans-gender programming. I'll be sure to check out the Verizon lineup.
GetHuman-patb: I'd give them a two out of five for ease of finding your way to help.
GetHuman-patb: I'd give them a three out of five on communication.
GetHuman-patb: For that I would say two out of five.
GetHuman: And finally- any advice for other Comcast customers?
GetHuman: Well there you have it. Some useful feedback and words from GetHuman-patb taken from his Comcast customer service problem that occurred on November 29th, 2017.
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Pacific Electric (PE) was America’s largest interurban electric railway system, blanketing the Los Angeles region with more than 1,000 miles of rail lines. The origins of the Red Car system date back to 1895 and the opening of the region’s first electric interurban line connecting Los Angeles with Pasadena. In 1901, real estate and utility tycoon Henry Huntington formed the Pacific Electric, sparking an intense period of interurban expansion and a battle with the Southern Pacific (SP) railroad for control of the region’s electric railways. Huntington sold his interests in the PE to the SP in 1910, and the Great Merger of 1911 consolidated almost all of the region’s interurbans under SP control. In exchange for his interest in the PE, Huntington gained complete control of Los Angeles’ local streetcar system, the Los Angeles Railway.
By 1914, more than 1,600 PE trains entered or left Los Angeles daily over the system’s four operating districts. The system reached its peak in the mid-Twenties; after that, it began a slow decline, halted temporarily by the traffic boom brought on by World War II, and then declining precipitously in the postwar years. In 1953, PE’s remaining passenger operations were sold to transit operator Metropolitan Coach Lines, who in turn sold the remaining lines to the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1958. The last remnant of PE’s vast passenger operation, the line to Long Beach, was replaced with busses in 1961.
PE also operated a significant freight business, becoming the third largest originator of on-line freight in California. Many PE rail lines were retained for freight service after passenger operations ended, and several have even returned to transit use as modern light rail and commuter rail lines.
The Museum has a collection of over 35 pieces of rail equipment from the far-flung Red Car empire, including many of the most iconic pieces such as the classic Hollywood Cars of the 1920s and the enormous Blimps that closed out service on the PE in 1961.
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posted by LaminatorX on Monday April 13 2015, @11:30AM Printer-friendly
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From the The Guardian.
Introducing the Sad Puppies...
"The shortlists for the long-running American genre awards, won in the past by names from Kurt Vonnegut to Ursula K Le Guin and voted for by fans, were announced this weekend to uproar in the science fiction community, after it emerged that the line-up corresponded closely with the slates of titles backed by certain conservative writers. The self-styled "Sad Puppies" campaigners had set out to combat what orchestrator and writer Brad Torgersen had criticised as the Hugos' tendency to reward "literary" and "ideological" works.
Today's Hugos, Torgersen has blogged, "have lost cachet, because at the same time SF/F has exploded popularly – with larger-than-life, exciting, entertaining franchises and products – the voting body of 'fandom' have tended to go in the opposite direction: niche, academic, overtly to the Left in ideology and flavor, and ultimately lacking what might best be called visceral, gut-level, swashbuckling fun".
Twenty years ago, he writes, "if you saw a lovely spaceship on a book cover, with a gorgeous planet in the background, you could be pretty sure you were going to get a rousing space adventure featuring starships and distant, amazing worlds". Nowadays, he claims, the same jacket is likely to be a story "merely about racial prejudice and exploitation, with interplanetary or interstellar trappings".
And here we have the Rabid Puppies definitely not mentioning GamerGate:
Another group of allied rightwing campaigners, dubbing themselves the Rabid Puppies and led by Vox Day, real name Theodore Beale, have also added their voices to the block-voting campaign against what Day called "the left-wing control freaks who have subjected science fiction to ideological control for two decades and are now attempting to do the same thing in the game industry".
And finally a bit of Martin:
"Call it block voting. Call it ballot stuffing. Call it gaming the system. There's truth to all of those characterisations. You can't call it cheating, though. It was all within the rules. But many things can be legal, and still bad ... and this is one of those, from where I sit. I think the Sad Puppies have broken the Hugo awards, and I am not sure they can ever be repaired," he wrote.
• (Score: 4, Insightful) by microtodd on Monday April 13 2015, @12:42PM
by microtodd (1866) on Monday April 13 2015, @12:42PM (#169666) Homepage Journal
I'm curious why you think Starship Troopers was bad. You don't really say. I personally enjoyed it. It was basically world-building with a specific political ideology in mind. So it was a look at a possible future (speculative fiction) if certain governmental and societal components occurred.
Was it realistic? I don't know. The psychological theories presented were interesting. To me, the two most interesting ones were a) corporal/physical punishment, often extreme, affects behavior in positive ways. The girl in Rico's H&MP class said she never got in trouble because she didn't want to get lashes. (would that happen in real life? history seems to say no...severe corporal punishment occurs in certain parts of the world and yet there are still "bad guys"). and b), that war is a form of controlled violence, of using force to achieve political objectives, up to that point *and no more*! So basically the opposite of total war.
It seems like history has said these ideas are wrong, but they were interesting to read about.
One part that was accurate, I think, was the training and military structure. "Train as you fight" is a real US Army motto, and there's the idea that if the training is really frickin' hard then the real thing will be easy. And the idea that a small, highly trained, well-equipped team is better than a large army of cannon fodder? Yeah, recent conflicts have shown that's true.
So no, I didn't think it was a bad book. Why did you? I'm honestly curious,
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• (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Monday April 13 2015, @01:02PM
by TheRaven (270) on Monday April 13 2015, @01:02PM (#169675) Journal
It's been over a decade since I read it, and I have no great desire to remember it (I mostly recall thinking 'well, that was a waste of a couple of hours of my life'). From what I recall, the story was bland, the characters were absurd stereotypes, and most of the psychology was debunked long before the book was published.
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• (Score: 2) by fadrian on Monday April 13 2015, @01:22PM
by fadrian (3194) on Monday April 13 2015, @01:22PM (#169690) Homepage
Sorry son, but midlife Heinlein doesn't hold up that well. The characters are cutout and, although the story is well-paced, the plot has several holes, the dialog is constrained by the subject matter and has little place to shine. They exposition itself is fairly mid-20 cen pulp language - stereotyped scenes in generic places. Just not enough life in the story to keep me engaged as a story.
Sure the political ideas might be great (to some - not so much to me), but you need a story to keep the reader engaged while the exposition goes along. Bradbury could write; Asimov could write; Ellison didn't write - he fucked life into the dead corpse of his stories by dint of pure imagination; Heinlein? He was able to make a living writing, so I guess that's something. But I'd rather read his past history stories from earlier days of pulp when expectations were lower or his later work like Job or Friday, when he finally got a bit of a handle on writing dialog, even if he was trying to fuck his own mom all the time. The years when STroop came out was a wasteland for him, as far as I'm concerned.
That is all.
• (Score: 3, Funny) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday April 13 2015, @04:27PM
by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Monday April 13 2015, @04:27PM (#169805) Journal
Great take! And delivered with perfect Ellison tone of profane aggression, mixing contempt and admiration.
And? He's not dead.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
• (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 13 2015, @03:06PM
by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 13 2015, @03:06PM (#169741) Homepage Journal
Have you read Tom Kratman? His books are available on Amazon Kindle - I don't have a Kindle, so I have them delivered to Amazon Cloud, and read them with a browser. I've liked all of his books so far, and he uses that philosophy extensively in his writings. He has done a separate little essay on that subject, and I believe it is free. Let me find the link . . . []
• (Score: 4, Interesting) by tadas on Monday April 13 2015, @05:23PM
by tadas (3635) on Monday April 13 2015, @05:23PM (#169843)
I'm a person on the Left of the political spectrum - literally a card-carrying member of the ACLU and NAACP (I had to ask to get a physical card). I disagree with must of Kratman's political philosophy -- and I'll automatically buy any of his novels because he's a great storyteller (I accept the politics in the story in the same way I accept the "science" - for the duration). Same goes for a lot of David Drake (don't like his Belisarius books for some reason). Same for even a flaming Libertarian like L Neil Smith.
Same goes for Heinlein - but only the "juvies" - Citizen of the Galaxy, Tunnel in the Sky and Starman Jones to name a few. TheRaven's summary of the midlife Heinlein "adult" books is pretty much right on. I think the universe gave him a giant karma payback when the hippies picked up on "grok" and Stranger in a Strange Land and spent the decade of the 60's annoying him mightily....
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Pennsylvania District 15
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Glenn Thompson
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Glenn “GT” Thompson has been a Congressman since 2009. His LCV scorecard rating is 5%
Thompson is about as bad as it gets. He supports onshore and offshore oil drilling to keep America running on fossil fuels. Although he claims that this is necessary as a means to keep the country running while more sustainable and clean energy methods are up and running, he has voted against any funding to make sure that renewable energy can even gain a stronger foothold in the energy market. He promises to support “appropriate” sustainable legislation, but apparently nothing seems appropriate to him, since he has voted against almost every single clean energy and sustainability bill to pass through Congress since 2009.
In addition to supporting fossil fuels, Thompson rambles on about his support for energy saving measures, like higher fuel standards, tax credits, and technological advancements. We have a few issues with this. First, as a society we should be requesting that corporations, which are much bigger polluters than the standard household, are held accountable for their emissions. Thompson voted against holding corporation accountable with taxes and emission cap programs but encourages small families to use less energy by “turning off lights when you’re not in the room.” Saving energy and reducing pollution should not fall solely on the shoulders of the people who need light to feed their families, but instead on the businesses that are causing the vast majority of the pollution to begin with. Second, he voted against research and design funding for new, energy efficient technologies that could have helped create more energy efficient retrofitting in the industrial sector. Third, he voted against taxing corporations for their emission outputs.
Sounds like he’s all lip service.
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Williams does not have any information available on his stances on sustainability and clean energy.
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Top 10 proofs that the future is shit, everything is going to hell
The future holds many surprises for us, starting with the death of all of us, since it is the only thing we are 100% certain of. Now that we have started this top on a happy note, I can focus on another aspect of our common future: technology. We can be almost certain that several inventions will all be rotten and will only cause us harm, that’s what I suggest you see right away with some examples of really shitty things from the future.
1. Automatic cars do anything
The prestigious Tesla brand (prestigious in the sense that it’s expensive) got a bit screwed up when several models started to mess up. Loss of control, refusal to brake, unmanageable speed… Several accidents, some of which were fatal, took place, which is not at all reassuring.
2. You can be extorted for your cryptocurrencies
It’s not bullshit or online data theft, it’s really about thieves physically attacking people in the City of London area to ask them to transfer their cryptocurrency to their accounts. . Not really secure these famous currencies.
3. NFTs are going crazy
They were sold to us as the future of internet exchanges and it quickly went down the drain since even some video game studios wanted to get started. If there are parts of the concept that will probably continue to exist like the certificates of authenticity, chances are that it will continue to break the mouth in beauty.
4. There are sexual assaults in the metaverse
There’s so much reason to think this invention sucks that you were shown the shitty stuff of the metaverse. In the middle of all these things was the story of an English woman whose avatar had been blocked by four others who insulted her, asked her to masturbate and tried to touch her. And she had barely been online for a minute. Good atmosphere.
5. Drones are mainly used to kill people
At the base we thought that we were going to be able to use them to take beautiful photos or at worst to have stuff delivered, but no. Most uses of drones are by the military and are only used to bomb and kill people. Great these little flying machines.
6. Robots already say they want to wipe out humanity
Who speaks of the future speaks of robots, and on this you can be sure that several companies are currently working on the subject. During a presentation of a robot with an artificial intelligence, this one had quite simply let go in an interview that he intended to annihilate humanity. Reassuring these future friends, we’re going to have a lot of fun.
7. Tesla’s “tunnel loop” supposed to be anti-traffic is already a failure
Imagine being in a car driving in a grey, narrow and several kilometers long tunnel at low speed, it’s already anguish. But in addition imagine that the only positive thing about this invention is the fact that it prevents traffic jams but in fact it’s a failure since it still jams inside, wouldn’t that be stupid? Well it is.
Finally not really because of the planet, rather because of these big companies which pollute enormously in their search for progress and income. But hey, it’s good to have super powerful smartphones, especially when you’re dead.
9. There is still no PS5 and XBOX available
A year and a half. A YEAR AND A HALF since these consoles came out and there are still fucking waiting lists to get them. It is shameful. It’s worse than shameful, it’s unpleasant.
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Conan Chop Chop is a co-op roguelite beat-em-up by Mighty Kingdom in which you hit things with swords and bows.
Your goal is to fight your way through four regions and defeat their bosses in order to open a door and fight another boss. The reason for this isn’t important or well told. The cutscenes are silly on purpose, but not funny and immediately overstay their welcome. Thankfully, the cutscenes are short and few in number.
The art, music, and sound effects evoke the aesthetic of a late 2000s Flash game, and while it didn’t personally charm me, it’s perfectly functional and the animation is mostly smooth.
Your toolkit is about what you’d expect from a top-down beat-em-up: You aim your close-up and ranged attacks with the right stick, and you have a dodge, a parry, a block, and a super move usable once you fill your rage. There are four different characters with slightly differing dodges, super moves, and upgrade trees, and you pick up a variety of items along your journey that will further augment your character.
Despite some hitboxes not matching the visuals, all of this feels responsive, and it’s just crunchy enough to not feel like button mashing.
There are a few categories of items you’ll pick up during a run, most of which simply increase stats and scale upwards as the run continues. If you stick with one weapon for too long, it will stop dealing any damage, so it’s better to switch it up whenever you can. None of the weapons feel radically different, mostly being a little slower or faster, but it’s adequate.
The main differences come with the charms, which allow changes like applying poison to your sword swings or dropping a bomb when you dodge. These buffs are more restrained than I would have liked, with many of them being irrelevant to most playstyles or affecting the game in subtle ways rather than the bold, fun ones that make the game’s best charms.
Unfortunately, you have to pick up Steelfire from fallen enemies to spend it on unlocking new items. This means you start your first run with very few items unlocked and run into the same stuff repeatedly. Also, since you can only carry four charms and the other items only differ in small ways, you’re often unlocking things that aren’t all that useful.
The roguelite elements of Conan Chop Chop aren’t brilliant, but they’re good enough, and the combat is fun, but not mind-blowing. However, when you’re playing it with friends, the added chaos and co-operation add enough excitement to elevate the game to a competent co-op roguelite.
Unfortunately, when you’re playing alone, the pace of the game is quite slow, with a somewhat methodical feel to dispatching each group of enemies. It’s still not ridiculously difficult, but it does expose how random it is to get the good drops, because without good luck, you’re going to struggle with the bosses.
The boss designs aren’t exciting, and some of them have moves that’ll one-hit KO you or are extreme damage sponges if you’re playing solo. The final boss is particularly egregious, making you fight all the other bosses again and having multiple stages that aren’t exciting and don’t work with the camera system. I sleepwalked through the first two areas over and over on my way to the final boss, and the lack of item variety in early runs didn’t help.
If you don’t have friends to play with, there are better-balanced roguelites with more exciting power-ups out there. But if you’ve tried all the classics and are looking for an easy-to-learn co-op roguelite, Conan Chop Chop contains a solid amount of fun.
Conan Chop Chop releases on March 1 for $14.99 on PC (where it is currently 10% off) and $19.99 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
Watch the Review in 3 Minutes for Conan Chop Chop. Then check out a deeper discussion of how roguelites are succeeding and failing these days.
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Who sang the song "Imagine"?
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Employees Information Commission (EIC)
An independent agency responsible for setting thorough and effective
reporting requirements for corporations for their employees and consumers
Equal access to information is essential for efficient economic markets. Businesses need
to be transparent about information, including goals, actions to implement those goals and
compensation structures in support of those goals. The Employees Commission would
be essential in making that happen.
The Employees Information Commission would be an independent, SEC-type entity. The SEC ensures shareholders have accurate and adequate information from businesses for free and fair capital markets. The EIC would ensure employees have accurate and
adequate information from businesses for free and fair economic markets.
Ensure that businesses report adequate and accurate information to their employees and consumers, including:
~ Corporate goals for balancing the interests of employees, consumers and shareholders, with comparison against the economic and social goals and guidelines recommended by the Issues & Guidelines Commission
~ Management compensation plans and how they are structured to accomplish corporate goals
~ Measurement of accomplishments of corporate goals
Excessive Income Inequality. Over the past forty years the percent of US income received by
90% of the people has declined from 65% to 50%. That 15% shift represents approximately
$2.5 trillion per year. The income received by the top 10% of the people increased from 35%
to 50%, approximately $2.5 trillion per year, with the top 1% of the people increasing from
10% to 20%, $1.7 trillion per year.
Unfair Impact on the Income of the Non-wealthy. On average, the 90% of the public had no increase in income during that time. White males in that group saw a decline in both income
and status. If this shift in income hadn't happened, 90% of the people in the US would have
30% higher incomes today.
Reduced Economic Growth and Wealth Asset Inflation. Because 90% of the people drive consumer demand and consumer demand drives economic activity, this shift in income has limited demand for products and therefore the economic growth of the country. Excess income to the top 10% has resulted in significant, and not economically supported, stock market and other high end asset price inflation.
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top 10% of the people in our country. There is currently an effort to redefine the purpose of a corporation to be for the benefit of all stakeholders, not just shareholders.
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Topfwagen | Gauge H0 - Article No. 46390
Acid Transport Car Set.
Prototype: Acid transport cars with a brakeman's cab or with a brakeman's platform. Privately owned cars painted and lettered for the VTG, Vereinigte Tanklager und Transportmittel GmbH / United Tank Farm and Transportation, Inc., Hamburg, Germany, used on the German Federal Railroad (DB).
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Model: The cars have detailed, finely constructed frameworks of braced timbers. The cars are loaded with acid containers. All of the cars have different car numbers and come individually packaged. Length over the buffers for each car 11.3 cm / 4-7/16".
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Cars with pot-like containers are used to transport acids and other corrosive liquids, and these pots are set up on the car's frame. The pots are protected again tipping over and sliding by a sturdy, type of framework mounting with appropriate components to hold the pots in place. The cars' floors have slopes from the middle of the cars to both sides to draw off any overflowing contents. The cars are equipped with a handbrake that is operated from a brakeman's platform; cars with a brakeman's cab are possible but not mandatory. The pots are made of earthenware, a material that withstands even the strongest acids. These pots standing on the cars - usually eight to twelve pots each with a volume of 800 to 1,200 liters / about 211 to 317 gallons - are loaded with air pressure. Each pot has two connections for this: one marked in blue for blowing in air, and one marked in red for drawing out the load. The acid cars must be specially handled by the railroads, since the earthenware pots are delicate; in the event of damage, the contents flowing out can cause accidents. Acid cars are not maintained by the railroads; they are the property of the users, such as chemical companies, or they belong to car leasing companies such as Eva or VTG.
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SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP26199 PART NUMBER: N/A FILE NAME: SP26199.tar TITLE: HP Systems Insight Manager 4.1 Update 1 VERSION: 1.0 LANGUAGE: English CATEGORY: Software Solutions DIVISIONS: Systems OPERATING SYSTEM: All supported Linux and HP-UX operating systems. SYSTEM CONFIGURATION: N/A PREREQUISITES: HP Systems Insight Manager 4.1 EFFECTIVE DATE: August 16, 2004 ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION ALLOWED: Yes SUPERSEDES: None DESCRIPTION: HP Systems Insight Manager 4.1 Update 1 This softpaq updates HP Systems Insight Manager 4.1 to fix a problem of not being able to login to HP Systems Insight Manager after Microsoft patch Q867801 has been installed on Internet Explorer. HOW TO USE: 1. Download the TAR file to the system with HP Systems Insight Manager 4.1. 2. Ensure that you are logged in as the "root" user to the system. 3. Change directories to the directory to which you saved the TAR file. 4. Expand the TAR file using the following command: tar -xvf SP26199.tar 5. Change the permissions of the installation script to allow the root user to run it. This can be done using the following command: chmod u+x install 6. Run the script as follows: ./install (C) Copyright 2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Group, L.P. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies
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/Ali’s indelible mark touched Mississippi too
Ali’s indelible mark touched Mississippi too
Ali made an indelible impression on the world, Mississippi included. Many of his descendants grew up with him. Sometimes we weren’t sure what to think of him. One thing is certain: He made life infinitely more exciting. You either loved or loathed him from the beginning. There was no middle ground. I was a fan. He was just so appealing. Even though I tried to avoid him, I loved him more. When I was 18, I drove from Hattiesburg, Mississippi to Jackson in 1971 for the Joe Frazier fight. It was the “Fight of the Century”. The closed circuit show at Mississippi Coliseum was closed. It was jam-packed and it was a festive atmosphere. The video stopped working after the first few rounds. Festive became ugly, and then we finally got a photo of Frazier, who had been brutally beat, winning a decision. All three Frazier fights were on closed circuit. The excitement of boxing has never been greater. The morning of September 15, 1978, I woke up in Monroe, La. and looked out from my second-floor apartment. The Ouachita River had caused my Toyota to float down the street. To get to New Orleans, I took a hitchhike in a boat to ride with a passing person to rent a car and drive there that night to see Ali take back the heavyweight title from Leon Spinks at the Superdome. He was no longer the Ali of his youth. He was not as powerful in his punches as he had been in the past. He had enough ring knowledge to whip Leon. I was seated ringside alongside future champ Larry Holmes who openly supported Ali. There are many Mississippi connections to Ali. Lucian “Sonny”, a Tupelo native, was the first professional fighter that knocked him down in Ali’s 10th professional fight. Ali won the fight by TKO in round four, as he predicted. Three years later, Banks was killed by injuries sustained in a fight with Leotis Mart. (Read more about Ali’s Mississippi connections at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame website. Ali arrived in Mississippi shortly after defeating Spinks to film Freedom Road with Kris Kristofferson. Tony Byrne, then-Natchez mayor, recalls: “You remember, I was sure I wasn’t going be like him,” Byrne explains. “Then, he arrived and he charmed everybody including me. Ali was a huge hit in Natchez. “There was concern that the Ku Klux Klan would try to kill Ali at that time. We called Cliff Finch, the governor at the time, to set up an escortee from the Louisiana line. Our sheriff’s office provided an escort. Byrne said, “There wasn’t any protecting Ali.” He wanted to be open and mingling with people. He would get on the magic trick bus and stop at school buses. “The people here, black, and white, absolutely loved Ali.” Byrne stated that Ali told him that all his brags before fights and his clowning inside the ring were modeled after Gorgeous George. As a kid, Ali saw Gorgeous George’s matches in Louisville. He was horrified at how many people hated him and paid big money to see him. Byrne stated that Ali told him Gorgeous George was making $1,000 per match, while the guy he was wresting was making $100. “He said that stuck to him.” Tyrone Keys, an ex-NFL and Mississippi State football player, had breakfast with Ali in 1978 when the champ visited Mississippi State. Keys was a Jackson native. Keys was taking a break from the Natchez movie. Keys stated, “Just me and he.” He made me feel like a friend. He knew that I was a good football player and had potential to be a pro. Keys spoke to me about fame and relationships five years later. Keys was in Los Angeles on a rainy day and stopped by a restaurant for breakfast. Keys stated, “It was so heavy that it was going to rain so much, I was going get soaked.” “Then, I saw this man coming towards me with his umbrella. He was a man I recognized as Muhammad Ali. Keys came to my door and said, “I saw that you pulled up and didn’t want you get wet.” Keys then got out and reintroduced Ali to me. They went back to the restaurant for breakfast. What are the chances? A rainy day in L.A. Ali and Keys arrived at the same restaurant in the same city of 3.4million? Keys stated that Ali and Keys arrived at the same restaurant at the same time as the first medical report about Ali’s injuries. He spoke openly about it. He asked me what my thoughts were, which I will never forget. Keys couldn’t tell, so he asked me if i could tell. As we all know, Ali’s physical condition deteriorated each year. But, Ali would provide one more thrill to this writer. It was the opening ceremonies of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. The Clarion-Ledger was the newspaper I was covering. Many of us were in the press box trying to guess which U.S. Olympian would light up the flame. Muhammad Ali was my pick. It was just that I didn’t know if Ali could actually light the flame. Although it was difficult, he managed to do it. Even though it was a difficult moment, twenty years later, I still feel the chills when I think back to that day. Rick Cleveland writes a weekly sports column running Fridays at Mississippitoday.org. To support this work, make a regular donation today to celebrate our Spring Member Drive. This will allow us to continue important work such as this story.
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IP Addresses
Cornelius Diekmann, Julius Michaelis and Lars Hupel
28 June 2016
This entry contains a definition of IP addresses and a library to work with them. Generic IP addresses are modeled as machine words of arbitrary length. Derived from this generic definition, IPv4 addresses are 32bit machine words, IPv6 addresses are 128bit words. Additionally, IPv4 addresses can be represented in dot-decimal notation and IPv6 addresses in (compressed) colon-separated notation. We support toString functions and parsers for both notations. Sets of IP addresses can be represented with a netmask (e.g. or in CIDR notation (e.g. To provide executable code for set operations on IP address ranges, the library includes a datatype to work on arbitrary intervals of machine words.
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With its stock down 31% over the past month, it is easy to disregard Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN). We, however decided to study the company's financials to determine if they have got anything to do with the price decline. Stock prices are usually driven by a company’s financial performance over the long term, and therefore we decided to pay more attention to the company's financial performance. Particularly, we will be paying attention to Illumina's ROE today.
View our latest analysis for Illumina
How Is ROE Calculated?
The formula for return on equity is:
So, based on the above formula, the ROE for Illumina is:
6.4% = US$701m ÷ US$11b (Based on the trailing twelve months to April 2022).
What Is The Relationship Between ROE And Earnings Growth?
Illumina's Earnings Growth And 6.4% ROE
On the face of it, Illumina's ROE is not much to talk about. We then compared the company's ROE to the broader industry and were disappointed to see that the ROE is lower than the industry average of 16%. Therefore, Illumina's flat earnings over the past five years can possibly be explained by the low ROE amongst other factors.
We then compared Illumina's net income growth with the industry and found that the company's growth figure is lower than the average industry growth rate of 33% in the same period, which is a bit concerning.
Is Illumina Using Its Retained Earnings Effectively?
Illumina doesn't pay any dividend, meaning that the company is keeping all of its profits, which makes us wonder why it is retaining its earnings if it can't use them to grow its business. It looks like there might be some other reasons to explain the lack in that respect. For example, the business could be in decline.
Overall, we have mixed feelings about Illumina. Even though it appears to be retaining most of its profits, given the low ROE, investors may not be benefitting from all that reinvestment after all. The low earnings growth suggests our theory correct. Having said that, looking at the current analyst estimates, we found that the company's earnings are expected to gain momentum. To know more about the latest analysts predictions for the company, check out this visualization of analyst forecasts for the company.
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Find and replace - HTTP to HTTPS
Feature name
• Find and replace HTTP to HTTPS
Feature function
• When running bulk audits such as 'Unsecure Website Report.
• Changing HTTP to HTTPS is a very long and tedious process at the moment. A user needs to open a single item at a time, click edit, change to HTTPS and save.
• Having a ‘search and replace’ or an automatic option by Bitwarden to update or add those URLs will make this function quick and useable.
FYI, this screenshot is after I change tens of entries already.
see screenshot.
Good idea - this would be helpful.
In the meantime, it is pretty easy to export your vault as an unencrypted JSON then use a global search and replace to look for http:// and replace with https://.
Hope that suggestion is helpful!
That is a solution for novice/ tech people not for the general public.
The ‘reused password’ tool is also a bit odd. It will show a list of resued passwords but not which items are using those same passwords. so a user needs to run a memory challenge to open and close items to find the ones that are the same. I assume the list bundles the items together (one after the other) but that is not that intuitive.
That’s a good idea.
In the process of implementing, I would suggest a small improvement though:
For every automatic replace, it first checks if the HTTPS page exists
Furthermore, it could be a nice feature if adding an HTTP page to your vault, it checks if the HTTPS page is the same and asks you if you would not rather save the HTTPS instead. (but maybe I’m treading into feature creep now)
I agree. However we need to remember that these features are mostly used once during or after initial setup and mostly for users who migrate from another app.
I would recommend a complete ‘on boarding’ feature during import process.
I am not sure how many people actually know or use these extra features. I assume they only know and want to use these extras when comparing between the paid and free versions.
Glad I found this - I was just looking at the over 365 http - all of which I’ll apparently need to go and change… manually. A bit much.
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How do I automatically bridge in another extension to an incoming call?
I would like to bridge in another extension to calls made between two specific extensions using Asterisk/FreePBX. Note that I am very new to FreePBX.
Do you want to make conference call or barge a call between 2 extentions?
When a call is placed from extension A to extension B, I would like to automatically call extension C and bring extension C into the call.
Did you examine conference and conference pro modules? I think these modules could help.
You could do this in [from-internal-custom]; I’m not sure what the code would look like, but it would require some asterisk dialplan coding. I might research this if I get the time, but I’m pretty busy right now and can’t promise it.
You’d want to do IF A is calling B or B is calling A, join C to the call in your logic. GotoIf would be able to achieve it, but I’m not sure if the “conference” feature which the phone is actually responsible for (I think) can be triggered by the PBX.
Conference rooms might be required; you could also set up the conditional to redirect the call to your conference room and then dial out to the other two parties.
I am trying to do this in the dialplan (let me know if this is a bad approach). I can determine (in extensions_custom.conf) if the call should have this treatment. I can then dial out to extension C. I believe the problem is that the Dial() application blocks, and extension A is connected to C. The dialplan code is as follows:
exten => 1001,1,GotoIf($[${CALLERID(num)} != 1002]?nobridge)
same => n,Dial(SIP/1003,10)
same => n,GotoIf($[${DIALSTATUS} != ANSWER]?nobridge)
same => n,Bridge(${CHANNELID})
same => n(nobridge),Noop()
This code lets all calls to 1001 through that are not from extension 1002. If the call comes from 1002, extension 1003 is called and 1002 is connected to 1003. The Dial() application appears to block. (nbthost) It is possible that this could be done with ConfBridge(), but I’m not sure how. (Overkill) You are correct that I am trying to initiate a conference from the PBX side. I apologize that I am a novice to this, and I sincerely appreciate your help.
Also note that in this last case that if 1003 doesn’t answer in 10 seconds, the call is sent to 1001 as it should be. If 1001 answers, then 1002 and 1001 are connected as would be expected.
I think I found something great. The Originate() application is a non-blocking Dial().
Did you get this figured out? I am running into the same issue.
I don’t know the dialplan to auto conference something off the top of my head, and i’m not going to spend time on it. Hopefully someone else will pop in with that bit.
But you want to make a custom context. and then give that context to your extension that needs to do this.
exten => 1234,1,NoOp(Need to Autoc onference calls to extension 1234)
exten => 1234,n,? ;<--- insert logic here
exten => 1234,n,Hangup()
; all other calls do normal processing
exten => _[*0-9]!,1,Goto(from-internal,${EXTEN},1)
exten => h,1,Hangup()
Thanks I will give this a try
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I'm behind a firewall that blocks all incoming connections and does not support either NAT-PMP or UPNP. Also, I do not have administrative access to the firewall, so there is no way for me to setup port forwarding. My understanding is that while I can make connections to other peers, this situation prevents them from initiating a connection with me which prevents me from downloading as fast as I could otherwise.
My question is short of forwarding all utorrent traffic (forwarding a small amount would be OK) through a VPN, an ssh proxy, etc., is there a way to overcome this problem? I was reading a little about using a SOCKS proxy for tunneling only tracker-related traffic. Would this resolve the problem?
Thanks for your help.
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Home > MC2 > Chapter 11 > Lesson 11.2.4 > Problem 11-69
Dawn drove miles in hours on a rural interstate highway. If she maintains the same speed, how far can she go in hours?
Since Dawn will maintain the same speed, we can find the equivalent fraction for hours to solve for the distance.
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atl-hadrins 57 points58 points 7 months ago
I can't remember who it was but there is at least one higher up that lost his/her job and is due in court soon.
Yep Found it DA Jackie Johnson.
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Remember when the Supreme Court declared that racism was over?
nau5 5 points6 points 7 months ago
No see they said racist voting laws were over and voila now that the protections gone they’re back.
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Well yeah it was aimed at the confederate states that instituted Jim Crow. Sure it should have been aimed at every state, but the law was allowed to stand for decades.
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That was a fun little dream.
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