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Dig this rubbish folks!! The AA (Automobile Association) feels in their superior knowledge to the rest of us that it would be a great idea that when the government buy the M50 toll bridge in August of next year that 2c should be added to the cost of petrol to pay for it, rather than continuing to toll the people who use it.
What a ridiculous idea!!! Well, I suppose it’ll suit the people who live in Dublin/use the M50, but why should those of us who live in the country pay for this road? Why should we pay more for petrol, which we use more of as we tend to drive further to work.
Yet another Dublin-centric idea to warm our cockles!!
~ by knightfall on December 12, 2007. | 2019-04-21T21:07:56Z | https://knightfall.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/aa-madness/ |
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Excellent clear video, going to try this, many thanks!!
This is beautiful! I just learned to knit in November and still have so much to learn, but will hopefully be trying this soon!
Thank you! I have struggled with broomstick lace and found it to be very awkward. My child asked for a broomstick lace afghan, and now, thanks to you, I can finally make it! | 2019-04-23T08:29:32Z | http://www.sapphiresnpurls.com/2012/11/knitted-broomstick-lace.html |
Seriously, I was in the dark for ages about this website. They are like Groupon, or other sites like that but better! They are all about the teachers. Lots of AMAZING deals with resources and things just for teachers! Seriously go check them out.
Click on this photo to head to the website.
If you head there from this link here and sign up you will get a 10% discount on your very first purchase (Make sure you tell them I sent you to get this discount). There are always amazing free deals going on, and some of the things you can find will already be discounted by sometimes up to 70%!!!!!
Disclaimer - While I will earn some future discounts by referring you to this site, it in no way impacts on how awesome I think it is!! Seriously, check it out you won't be disappointed.
Hey everyone!! Well it is well and truly Sunday in this part of the world, but that is okay by me! It's been a busy weekend, with family and friends heading to the cold south of Taupo for my baby sister's 21st birthday party!
Last week Miss Nelson challenged us to look at perspective when taking our photos. So I got outside with some of the kids at my school and had some fun on the playground.
Head over to Run Miss Nelson's got the camera! to see some more Saturday Snapshots from this week.
As teachers we are already a wee bit crazy.
We spend a good chunk of our time, energy, and money on the children in our class each year.
We spend countless hours organising wonderful lessons so that the children we teach will all be motivated, excited, and interested in what we have to say.
We buy our own professional development materials, and complete these readings, workshops, and conferences in our own time.
And most of it goes thankless.
When does enough become enough? When do you move from feeling like it will make a difference, to just pushing the proverbial up the hill?
This week was book week at my school. I spent countless hours organising people to come in and read to our kids, creating competitions for classes to do, and planning activities for classes to work through this week. And no one did anything. It was a huge waste of my time and energy. How much effort is too much? When all this preparation and planning was for the kids, and motivating them to read and write, when do you just pack it all in?
I don't like always going on about my TPT store, but I do love when people have sales/discounts on their awesome products.
Check them out, grab the bargain, and remember that wonderful feedback! Also remember that you earn TPT credits towards future purchases when you leave feedback!
While I'm thinking, head over to the Teaching Tribune and see what others have told you for their Monday Meet up this week.
There are always a whole lot of awesome bloggers who link up and let us know what is going on in their world. I love it because I can always find so many great ideas/people to follow. It's wonderful!
1 - I can do about 9 different accents... and I can hold on to a couple of them for an entire conversation.
2 - I'm all about the chicken! Chicken classic subway, grilled chicken from pita pit, chicken korma if I'm having Indian, or Panang curry with chicken for Thai.
3 - The only time any one notices is if they take me to a party... Otherwise I've successfully faked it for long enough! When I left home to go to university, my youth pastor told me that on my first day I should walk into the halls of residence dining room and announce my presence like this "Hello I'm Erin, and I'm here!" Loudly mind you. So I did... Little did I know that there were only three of us who moved in that day, and everyone else came the next day! I got a reputation for being a loud, open, outgoing, confident person from that second onwards, and no one believed me when I was shy! Since then it's kinda stuck, and now is almost my actual personality... Hence the name of my blog actually!! I'm forever learning to be awesome.
Oh boy am I excited that this linky is back! This is by far, my all time favourite linky, and I am SOOOOOO happy it's back. Not only because I love taking photos and sharing them, but also because the photos that Miss Nelson takes are SPECTACULAR! Seriously, you should go through her whole blog, particularly those Saturday Snapshot ones, and take a look. I really need to take some photography lessons, because mine are terrible in comparison!
Ok, so this has been a crazy busy week. I've got a leadership role at my school where I take all the student leadership groups. This includes student council, sports leaders, and a few other things. One of the major things that falls under my role is Book Week. Someone asked what that is, well it's a week we celebrate everything about books. Reading, writing, authors, characters etc.
I've sent probably 200 emails in the past two weeks inviting, booking, and confirming people from the community to come into school and read to our kids. Here's to that going off without a hitch!! We have 20 classes in our school, and I have enough readers for every class (except mine) to have two readers each. Some people are reading to more than one class though.
And now on to my photos of the week... Well just the ones that are on my phone. I will be better for next week, that is for sure!
And then there's my other sister who turned 21 yesterday. She's pretty good looking too.
Our school gets given trees when we recycle. We've earned 10 trees so far this year.
So Thursday morning some of the classes went out in the cold rain to plant them.
Where we live the weather never gets all that cold. Most of our kids are Pasifika (From the Pasific Islands). So our Principal shipped in 8 tonnes of "snow" for the kids to play in and experience the coldness!!
It was very much like brown slush by the time we got there, but they still had a blast!
And tried not to break our necks!
I was the only teacher who had seen real snow before!!
So it was exciting for us too!!
And then today I spent the day with some of my favourite girls from church and we got our nails done.
Now I was supposed to draw this yesterday, but I got home at 5 and was asleep by 520pm last night! So here is the winner of my Synonym scrolls based on a random number draw - Well done Katie!! I will be emailing you shortly!!
For those that missed out, head over to my store and check them out! In honour of my two sisters being pretty darn awesome I've put my whole store at 20% off for the next 2 days.
I really can't contain my excitement much longer... Soooo much cool and exciting stuff is happening over the next couple of weeks.
My other sister turns 21 in the morning!! Happy birthday Baby Bear!!
Next week is Book Week - I've organised it this year and it's all coming together nicely!
Oh my gosh that is a lot to celebrate!! And chances are I've forgotten something!!
And find out who won a copy of my synonym scrolls. Check out this post here for a bit of a giveaway!!
So my kids really struggle to use a thesaurus effectively. They take forever to even find the word they want to change, and then waste time choosing the one they want to swap out. Yes it's important to teach them how to use a dictionary and a thesaurus, but sometimes, their ideas are squashed when they can't find the right word to use quickly.
My kids LOVE these fans. They are colourful, easy to use, and durable if you laminate them! The version I'm using has lasted me about 5 years now!
I've updated the graphics and colours, and they are now on sale in my TPT store for a bargain at only $1.50. Grab them now. I will be updating them as I get time, and find other well overused words!!
1. Print, laminate, and cut out. It come in colour or B/W, so you can choose how to print.
3. Use at your writing centre, or during independent writing time. You could even use them during your writers workshop!
Once you print and laminate, simple push a split pin through the black dot and you are ready to go!
And now you can win a free copy! Tell me below what some of the words that your students over use are. I will choose a winner at random on Friday! You can also earn an entry by sharing the product on pinterest, or instagram. Just tag me (@learningtobeawesome) or comment below with your link.
And now it's 11:10 on a Monday night and I have a busy day of school ahead of me... Better get to bed now!
There is so much to be excited about!!!
Well now! That was an eventful week.
Two for Tuesday take two!
It's gotta get better right?
Wordless Wednesday - Running playlist! | 2019-04-25T08:14:30Z | http://www.learningtobeawesome.com/2014/06/ |
The FA Cup has reached the first round stage after kicking off in August in the extra preliminary round back in August.
Of west London's non league sides, only Wealdstone have made it to the first round proper.
Below is everything you need to know about the first round draw.
What are the other ties?
Most games will take place on Saturday November 7 but games picked for television will be played on the Friday and the Sunday.
Will my team be on TV?
The BBC and BT Sport have the rights to the FA Cup ties and the Beeb will be having an FA Cup special on the Sunday.
The corporations are yet to decide which games they show but the early favourites for televised coverage are Didcot Town's meeting with Exeter, FC United of Manchester's home game with Chesterfield and Salford City's home tie with Notts County.
If my side draws, when is the replay?
Winners in the first round earn £18,000 for their exploits. Wealdstone earned £12,500 for winning in the fourth qualifying round.
When do the Premier League sides enter?
They join in the third round. | 2019-04-23T21:53:42Z | https://www.mylondon.news/sport/football/football-news/fa-cup-first-round-draw-10336730 |
The gate of the community in Beijing, the standard is a brand that says “shared bicycles are forbidden”, which is the legacy of shared bicycles left to the city.
Under the vigorous wave of shared bicycle entrepreneurship, a variety of bicycles have emerged across the country. Orange Moby, yellow ofo, green cool ride… After 70, 80, 90, it is really a business venture for all ages. Shared bicycle startups quickly set up, the color is not enough, and the name is getting harder and harder.
Recently, ofo once again heard the news of the acquisition of Didi, the sharing of bicycles from the beginning of the birth of the controversial rumors. Although ofo has repeatedly rumored and denied, the industry is cold and the funds are tight (ofo is the only shared bicycle that is not excused), the outcome of ofo is not dominated by Dai Wei’s personal conviction. If theo is acquired, the shared bicycle startup will eventually have a zero independent operation, creating a record of all the out teams of the founding team since the word was created.
In a parking lot in Tongan District of Xiamen, tens of thousands of bicycles were severely distorted and dismembered. There are no fewer than 20 such cemeteries in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. In the winter of 2017, a snow buried the shared bicycles, no one is willing to ride the dirty bicycles, and the biting cold wind is not as warm as walking.
The cycling rate is constantly decreasing.
A large number of bicycles are piled up on the street. The dust is thicker and thicker. The new bicycles will eventually become a pile of garbage.
Unfortunately, these shared bicycles eventually became public nuisances. Like the party on the square, the crowd dissipated the chewing gum that was filled with the land.
A few thousand bicycles, ordinary people are not willing to spend so much money to buy, but they are so stunned. Many people think that this is a great waste of social resources. Even if the capital burns money, it can be a waste of the relationship with the money.
In the winter of 2016, the capital once had such a short period of calm. The bursting of the bubble and the coldness of the winter make everyone reflect and feel painful. Almost all investment institutions are calling for profit, commercial efficiency and return to value.
After the tide of sharing bicycles, the market is full of excitement. There are platforms, there are preaching, there are bet naked rides. Soon, Moby and ofo swept China’s top investment institutions.
According to public data, only Mobike and ofo have a total amount of financing of more than 4 billion US dollars, equivalent to more than 25 billion yuan.
According to the average cost of 500 yuan, the money raised by Moby and ofo can put 50 million bicycles, which is equivalent to one bicycle per person in all the three cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen.
The financing speed of Moby and ofo is a miracle in the history of Chinese venture capital. | 2019-04-19T22:52:17Z | https://shenzhen.blog/sharing-a-bike-is-actually-an-inefficient-travel-solution/ |
Once you understand the basics of premarital agreements, you should focus on the specifics of your circumstances and figure out whether a prenup is what you need.
If you or your fiancé answer yes to any of the following questions, there is a good chance a prenup would be helpful. If you answer no to every question, you might still benefit, but having a prenup might not be as critical.
Have you earned more than one year’s worth of retirement benefits or do you have other valuable employment benefits, such as profit sharing or stock options?
Will all or part of your estate go to someone other than your spouse when you die?
Jot down on a piece of paper a list of the things you might want to include in a prenup, such as identifying separate property, decisions about how you will handle money and property while you are married, whether alimony will be paid or waived in the event of divorce, retirement benefit agreements, and agreements about how you want to leave property at your death.
Next, ask yourself this question: On a scale of one to five, how comfortable am I with the idea of having a prenup?
Score of one or two. If you give yourself a one or a two, try to identify the reasons for your discomfort. If it is because you are uncertain how the terms of a prenup might compare to your legal rights without one, you may want to investigate the laws of your state before making a decision.
If you are pretty sure you want a prenup and your discomfort comes from fear of starting an argument or offending your fiancé by asking, then you might take this as an opportunity to practice talking about difficult matters in a loving way. You may even find it helpful to work on communication and negotiation skills with a counselor who specializes in premarital counseling.
The same is true if you don’t think you want a prenup and you feel that your fiancé is pressuring you to make one. This is a good time to practice communicating — clearly and kindly — about stressful issues. Whether or not you eventually make a prenup, you’re sure to learn more about what you each need and want.
Score of three, four, or five. If you scored a three, four, or five on the comfort scale, you are ready to start talking specifics with your fiancé. Even so, bear in mind that every good conversation involves some give or take. Don’t assume that you and your fiancé will see eye-to-eye on everything, especially when you first start talking. Allow plenty of time to talk — and be willing to get help if you need it.
When you’re ready, Nolo’s book, Prenuptial Agreements: How to Write a Fair & Lasting Contract, by Katherine E. Stoner and Shae Irving, walks you through each of these steps in more detail, and helps you draft your own agreement. | 2019-04-23T22:06:15Z | https://grandstrandlawgroup.com/is-prenuptial-agreement-right-for-you/ |
Now Showing in the Gallery: Wind Spirit Speaks!
My photography expresses my deep fascination with the role of art as a catalyst transforming what we see into moments of emotional or philosophical insight. These moments can be sublime or terrifying, affirming or unnerving–but they all occur when our hidden, subconscious emotions suddenly resurface into our waking awareness.
I explore this dynamic in my art by confronting the viewer with images that suggest elusive memories, dreams, and intuitions. I specialize in creating haunting, evocative compositions balanced between elusive beauty and the potential for violence. I achieve the tenuousness of this aesthetic space by juxtaposing opposing ideas—charm and danger, aggression and mystery, innocence and brokenness—in striking and visceral arrangements. In this space, anything can happen. The viewer’s conscious judgment and hidden, unacknowledged instincts must both assist in interpreting the paradoxical inputs. By providing a space of contact for active and unconscious ways of thinking, my works allow onlookers to catch a glimpse of their own internal topologies through the negotiation of their own sight and psyche.
The end goal of my art is the creation of exterior worlds that rekindle an understanding of the viewer’s unspoken interiors. I aim to devise pieces that guide viewers through uncomfortable emotional terrains to a more nuanced and fulfilled understanding of self. Through reciprocal processes of visual externalization and psychological internalization, I strive to inspire moments of realization in others, invisible dramas more alive than I can begin to imagine.
Nina Chung is an artist and fine art photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Chung’s highly suggestive imagery focuses on the emotional and psychological conflict arising from the interplay of challenging landscapes and their inhabitants. Her work emphasizes the origin and transference of atmospheric power between nature and the human psyche as perceived on an intuitive level. She specializes in capturing moments of animality in human subjects, and breathing emotional complexity into natural phenomena. Ms. Chung employs a range of techniques to enhance the dramatic quality of her work, including photo composite layers, chiaroscuro lighting techniques, and various cinematic effects. The diversity of her methods and clarity of her vision imbue her work with a richness of texture and tactile impact that spans a remarkable range of energy and emotion.
Ms. Chung was born in Seoul in 1969 and raised in the Brooklyn. She received her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in 1993 and began her artistic career experimenting with variety of mediums, including silkscreen, etching, collage, and silver pointe, before concentrating on photography. Her distinct style is the product of her rich background in classical painting, art history, kinesiology, and deep interest in Jungian psychology. Chung mentors young inner city children in Brooklyn during her free time. In “Skin and Stone”, Chung explores some of the least accessible reaches of the Icelandic terrain and their impact on the human psyche. Her most recent project, together with Nature Photographer Pat Schoenfelder, “Wind Spirit Speaks“, explores several artistic potentials of horses captured on film in their natural settings. | 2019-04-18T16:33:11Z | https://marqueegallery.com/artist/nina-chung/ |
Government says the 2010 Mid Term Budget will prioritize the creation of a conducive environment for farmers as well as agriculture equipment suppliers by reviewing existing duty on farming equipment.
The call by government comes at a time there is concerted efforts by all stakeholders in the agriculture sector to increase productivity so as to reposition the country as the breadbasket of the region.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti who recently toured an indigenous farming inputs and implements supplier, Farmers World said the fiscal authority will in the 2010 Mid Term Budget address the issue of high levies on vital capital goods in the agriculture sector.
Farmers World, Executive Chairman Cde. Edward Raradza implored the Finance Minister for assuring farmers and inputs suppliers that he will review the obtaining levies on imported capital goods.
It is anticipated that the forthcoming mid term budget will consolidate the macro economic gains made so far as well as create a more conducive environment for the growth of the agricultural sector. | 2019-04-25T17:56:28Z | http://www.zbc.co.zw/gvt-to-prioritise-agriculture-in-mid-term-budget/ |
If you didn't play Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii, you missed out on one of the most unique JRPG experiences of the last generation - and you were far from alone. Luckily, Nintendo is making it all better, confirming an April release for Xenoblade Chronicles exclusively for the New Nintendo 3DS XL (as well as the smaller New Nintendo 3DS in Europe *sob*).
The massive adventure has been shrunk down to fit on Nintendo's new flagship handheld, remade with brand-new 3D visuals. Xenoblade Chronicles will also take advantage of the dual-screen system by offering map and character data on the bottom screen, as well as allowing direct camera control by using the C-stick nubbin.
Not much else is known about the anticipated re-release, but as soon as we find out more, we'll be the first to let you know. | 2019-04-20T00:54:25Z | https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/xenoblade-chronicles-hitting-north-american-european-shores-new-3DS-april/ |
We come together to celebrate the Sun’s heat, the Sun’s radiance. We come together to honor the Gods and to celebrate life’s bounty and our ability to produce abundance and share. We come together to honor the animals who labor for us – the bees, the goats, the horses; and the animals we learn patience from – the snake, the turtle. On this holiday of Lammas, “loaf-mass” we celebrate the harvesting of the grain. The first sheaf of wheat is ceremonially reaped, threshed, milled and baked into a loaf. The grain dies so that the people might live. Eating this bread, the bread of the Gods, gives us life. Grain has always been associated with Gods who are killed and dismembered and then resurrected from the Underworld. In this way we honor the cyclical nature of life, for the wheat, the corn, the barley are both seed and fruit, promise and fulfillment.
Lammas is the pivot point between fear and hope. There is more to do to bring in a good harvest that will sustain us through the winter. And we need the animals’ labor and the crops to live. We humans cannot thrive without them. There is no culture without Nature. And yet storms come and they can leave devastation in their wake. A drought could kill the crops we depend on. Still, how do you want to see the world? To you look upon the world as full of promise? Do you feel held? Or do you fear what tomorrow may bring? Faith can sustain you when there is lack. But you cannot go it alone. Faith alone won’t work. To truly thrive, live and love in community. Together we are stronger! And I am not just talking about the town you live in or the friends you surround yourself with; I am also talking about the plants and animals you share space with; the Land you live on. To move from fear to hope, trust in the arms of community. For even if one cannot hold you, another can. And you will do the same. Lammas Blessings!
Call in the Lord: Lugh, Guardian of the wild and cultivated crops, with every lightning strike of Summer You go into the Grain infusing it with Your potency. You help us on our journey and You aid us with clear communication that we may be successful in life. We honor Your life and Your sacrifice, for with every death there is new life.
It’s so hot! Yet we light the fires anyway.
corn husk dolls and loaves of grain.
of a good fall harvest yet to come.
even in death there is new life.
This entry was posted in Lammas, Natural History, Poetry, Wiccan Holidays and tagged Arianna Alexsandra Collins, Hearken to Avalon, Lammas, Lughnasadh, Wiccan Holiday. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-23T01:55:22Z | https://hearkentoavalon.com/2016/08/03/lammas-blessings/ |
Over the past few years, I have heard so many remarkable stories from children's authors and illustrators. The stories are told with great enthusiasm and respect for their profession. I love hearing stories about how a love of books and art blossomed into a career or how a tiny idea developed into a book that I love. It is hard for me to walk away from a book-related event where I have had the opportunity to hear an author or illustrator speak and not be inspired to create something myself; a story of my own, a craft with my children, a new birthday blog post.
I have attended many events alone, which I love, but I have found that I equally enjoy attending these events with my family. Amazingly, whether the event is big or small, or the author or illustrator is a national best seller or local sensation, we have always had a positive experience!
The line for Mark Teague was unusually long for the last signing of the day on this Sunday evening, but hundreds of people stood patiently with their Dinosaur and LaRue books for a chance to meet this inspiring author-illustrator.
My son had Mark Teague sign Pancakes for Supper! by Anne Isaacs. My youngest daughter had Baby Tamer, my youngest son had How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? by Jane Yolen, my oldest daughter had Pigsty signed.
Earlier that day, before Mark Teague's book signing, we took a break from the other book signings to listen to Mark Teague's talk about how much he loves his job as a children's book author and illustrator. Teague has illustrated over 40 children's books including the Poppleton series written by Cynthia Rylant and the How Do Dinosaurs series written by Jane Yolen.
Mark Teague read the latest Dinosaur book, How Do Dinosaurs Say I'm Mad?.
He also showed us how to draw a dinosaur. I was amazed to learn that Mark Teague had no formal art training. He is self-taught! According to Children's Corner, after graduating with a degree in history he went to visit his brother in New York City. The sketchbook he filled on the trip helped him land a job working at Barnes and Noble making window displays. The connections he made on job and being around inspiring children's books each day helped him publish his first book, The Trouble with the Johnsons in 1989.
"I was that kid in the back of classroom always scribbling pictures all over everything. I even got in trouble with my teachers instead of doing the math test I would be drawing pictures on the desk. I got in trouble one time with my mom because she bought me a new pair of sneakers, these beautiful white canvas sneakers. And by the time I got home from school that day, they had been covered with little ink drawings all over. My mother didn't always appreciate my artistic talents." (Mark Teague, National Book Festival 2013, Library of Congress).
At the moment of hearing this story from Mark Teague I was inspired by the idea of creating art on pair of white canvas sneakers. I have my own memories of seeing kids draw on shoes in school. But, I was never brave enough to try it, and if I did I am sure I did it on the bottoms of the shoes where my mom wouldn't find it.
We started our celebration for Mark Teague by rereading all our books in our personal collection.
We got out our brand new set of Sharpie markers to turn these plain white shoes into a work of art.
We talked about using a pencil first to plan out our designs. This lasted a little while and then my children found was easier to just let creativity lead the way in the design.
My youngest son was serious about his shoe decorating!
It seems like we have been doing a lot of projects in our pajamas recently.
The next thing we knew our youngest came in with one of her own shoes. I guess she felt left out.
So, we gave her an older pair of shoes and a Sharpie too.
He was happy with his first shoe!
One shoe finished and it fits good. Now to decorate the next one.
These fine lookin' shoes were created by my 3-year-old son.
These sweet lookin' shoes were created by my 6-year-old son.
My daughter thought they were pretty sweet too, so she stole them!
From the moment I thought about doing this project with my children I wondered if they would wear the shoes. I am very surprised that my boys have worn them to school every day since making them.
My 8-year-old daughter just finished her shoes today and said that she won't wear them to school.
Thank you Mark Teague for inspiring us with your childhood story at the National Book Festival. Your enthusiasm for children's books is infectious! It was a highlight of our trip to meet you! Have a wonderful birthday!
She wore them to school! | 2019-04-26T08:10:38Z | https://www.happybirthdayauthor.com/2014/02/happy-birthday-mark-teague-february-10.html |
How it feels when J.K. Rowling gives us more "Harry Potter" information.
J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" universe is enormous. And since closing the book on the main series in 2007, she keeps adding to it. There are spinoff books, movies, and a play in the franchise — many of which reveal new insight about Harry, Ron, Hermione, and other characters from the original series.
The wealth of "Harry Potter" material also means that there's a wealth of behind-the-scenes information that yields new details of how J.K. Rowling thought up the books, how the filmmakers made the movies, and a ton of other information about the "Harry Potter" universe. Rowling even launched Pottermore, which has become a sort of ever-evolving encyclopedia of trivia and back-stories from her world.
It's a lot to keep up with. But for "Harry Potter" fans, all of it is fascinating.
Harry Potter is rich, because his ancestor was a pharmaceutical tycoon.
Harry Potter finding out he's loaded in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
One of the first things Harry does when he finds out he's a wizard way back in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," is visit the Gringotts wizarding bank in Diagon Alley. After all, he'll need some cash to buy school supplies for Hogwarts.
In his vault, he finds out that he has piles and piles of gold galleons. Harry's rich! Way more rich than most of his friends. Why? The books don't really explain. But Rowling addressed the issue on Pottermore.
In the 12th century, Harry's ancestor Linfred of Stinchcombe developed pharmaceutical remedies that were the basis for Skele-gro and Pepperup Potion. He built a business out of it, and the Potter family maintained the fortune for generations. Some time later, Harry's grandfather Fleamont Potter — the son of the "original" Harry Potter — quadrupled the family fortune with hair potion. The hair potion is even advertised in a stray newspaper in "Fantastic Beasts."
Gringotts does exchanges between magical and muggle money.
A Gringotts goblin from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."
As J.K. Rowling pointed out, it's the only way Muggle-born wizards and witches could buy wands, since Ollivanders only takes galleons, knuts, and sickles — not pounds or euros.
There's one character from the books who existed in real life.
An engraved portrait of Nicolas Flamel.
In Rowling's series, Nicolas Flamel is the alchemist who created the Philosopher's Stone, the magical object at the center of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" that can grant a person immortality.
In real life, Flamel was a French scholar and bookseller who lived in the 14th and early 15th centuries. After his death, he got a reputation as an alchemist who secretly achieved immortality. Rowling wrote about the inspiration on Pottermore, where she said Flamel attended the French wizarding school Beauxbatons in her version of his life.
Green gloves were used to make the books fly around in the Hogwarts library.
Emma Watson as Hermione in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
For the movies — particularly a scene in "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"— the books in the Hogwarts library have a knack for organizing themselves on shelves. The secret behind the magic is that green gloves were used. They worked the same way green screen does, and were wiped away in post-production so it looked like the books floated on their own.
There were two Harry Potters.
The Mirror of Erised scene in "Sorcerer's Stone."
"Henry Potter (Harry to his intimates), was a direct descendant of Hardwin and Iolanthe, and served on the Wizengamot from 1913 - 1921. Henry caused a minor stir when he publicly condemned then Minister for Magic, Archer Evermonde, who had forbidden the magical community to help Muggles waging the First World War. His outspokenness on the behalf of the Muggle community was also a strong contributing factor in the family's exclusion from the 'Sacred Twenty-Eight.'"
The original Harry Potter didn't show up in the books, but he lived around the time of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." So don't rule him out for a surprise appearance in the movie series.
The film designers have been hiding a secret character in the movies' fake newspapers.
What does Harry know about the Ginger Witch?
The Fourth Estate is an important part of Rowling's universe. The Daily Prophet covers magic in Britain and The New York Ghost covers the same in the United States.
In almost every "Harry Potter" movie, it was the design firm MinaLima that put together the fake newspaper props for different scenes. They had fun with it. Throughout the series, you can spot stories about "The Ginger Witch." She's a hooligan with a multinational criminal past spanning decades.
"We know now that things do get seen," designer Miraphora Mina told INSIDER. "In the past, we didn't realize how much these would be scrutinized by fans."
Read about all of the Ginger Witch's exploits here.
There's a perfume company that exists in the background of both the "Harry Potter" and "Fantastic Beasts" movies.
Dumbledore in front of a Divine Magic poster in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and a poster for the same brand featured in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
Another one of MinaLima's inventions is the Divine Magic perfume company. We first see it in a poster behind Albus Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" when he meets with Harry at the beginning of the film. In "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," there's a street poster advertising the same brand more than half a century earlier.
Before becoming headmaster, Dumbledore was a Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts.
Michael Gambon as Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore is an academic and something of a magical genius. As his chocolate frog card attests, he's "particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood, and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel." So it makes sense that he was a teacher at the wizarding school, not just the administrator.
It was while Dumbledore was a Transfiguration teacher that Tom Riddle — later to become Lord Voldemort — attended Hogwarts. He also taught Newt Scamander, the main character in "Fantastic Beasts," with whom he has a close bond. An issue of the publication "Transfiguration Today" in the movie has an article featuring his work. Jude Law is slated to play Dumbledore in the forthcoming "Fantastic Beasts" movies, which will be about taking down his rival Gellert Grindelwald.
Newt Scamander was a Hufflepuff.
Scamander's scarf gives it away.
Speaking of Newt Scamander and Hogwarts, the character — played in "Fantastic Beasts" by Eddie Redmayne — was sorted into the Hufflepuff house. You might have spotted his canary-and-black scarf throughout the movie, signaling Hufflepuff's colors.
J.K. Rowling wanted "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore" to look like "a trashy airport novel."
The cover of "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore."
"The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore" was a biography written by Rita Skeeter, a gossip columnist hell-bent on destroying his reputation. For the movies, Rowling wanted to reflect the poor, salacious quality of the book. So she told MinaLima to make it overwrought like "a trashy airport novel."
MACUSA president Seraphina Picquery has a big throne that looks like Dumbledore's from Hogwarts.
Her golden throne in "Fantastic Beasts" was intentionally made to be a visual reference to Dumbledore's in Hogwarts's Great Hall.
"There were props designed to connect the film back to the 'Harry Potter' series,"supervising modeller Pierre Bohanna wrote in "Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
Colin Farrell didn't read a single page of "Harry Potter" before reading J.K. Rowling's script for "Fantastic Beasts."
He watched the movies, though.
Farrell told SFX Magazine earlier this year that he was a big fan of the "Harry Potter" movies, but he didn't read any of J.K. Rowling's work before reading her script. He wanted to play the role of auror Percival Graves based on that screenplay alone.
There's a good reason the Horcrux inside Harry wasn't destroyed in "Chamber of Secrets."
Harry getting bitten by the basilisk in "Chamber of Secrets."
For years, "Harry Potter" fans wondered what, exactly, was going on with the portion of Voldemort's soul that was inside Harry. When Voldemort tried and failed to kill Harry himself, he ended up inadvertently leaving a Horcrux inside him.
But if that's the case, why wasn't it destroyed when the Basilisk in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" bit Harry, just as its poison-infused fang destroyed the horcrux that was in Tom Riddle's diary?
"A Horcrux can only be destroyed if its container is damaged beyond repair," Rowling explained. "Harry was healed by Fawkes. Had he died, the Horcrux would indeed have been destroyed."
Many of the spells are derived from Latin roots.
When coming up with magical spells, Rowling clearly worked her studies of Classical language and mythology at the University of Exeter. Many of them are based in the Latin language. "Accio," for example, sounds like "accerso," which means "to summon or fetch." "Wingardium Leviosa," the summoning charm, from from the word "wing" (referring to flight); "ard" (from the Latin "aardus," which can mean "elevated"); and "levi" (which means "to lift").
J.K. Rowling wrote a "Harry Potter" prequel short story — and the original copy was stolen.
In 2008, Rowling hand wrote an 800-page story about James and Sirius Potter noodling around on magical motorcycles and escaping some muggle cops. You can read it here. She auctioned it off for charity, but in April of 2017, that handwritten draft was stolen and it hasn't been found to this day.
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore has a specific meaning for each of his names.
Yes, that's his full name.
Rowling is famous for her memorable, magical character names. She's put a lot of thought into them, and a lot of the names refer to some deeper meaning for each character. Dumbledore, as the character with the most names, might be the best example.
"Albus" is Latin for "white," which could be symbolic or just refer to his beard. "Percival" was one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, who went in search for the lost grail. "Wulfric" may be a reference to the 12th-century British figure Wulfric of Haselbury, who was known as a miracle worker. And "Brian" is often thought to be derived from an Old Celtic word that roughly means "noble."
"Dumbledore" is one name that Rowling has discussed explicitly. It's an Old English word for "bumblebee."
"Because Albus Dumbledore is very fond of music, I always imagined him as sort of humming to himself a lot," Rowling said in a 1999 interview.
Some of the food in the movies was real.
One of the highlights of the "Harry Potter" movies and books are the feasts in the Hogwarts Great Hall. Shepherd's pie, Yorkshire pudding, and pumpkin juice seem to be served at every meal. During the epic feast scene in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," many of the dishes were actually cooked up for a more realistic effect. In general, the food was fake and made with resin.
The glass bottles in Snape's potions classroom was filled with really weird stuff.
There's probably gross stuff in there.
The movie's set designer found things like tufts of hair and unwanted guts and bones from local butchers for the potion ingredient vials. The room itself also expanded between movies, making room for more extras in later entries in the series.
Four different owls played Hedwig, Harry's owl, in the movies.
More than 12 rats played Scabbers, Ron's pet rat, four cats played Hermione's pet Crookshanks, and nine Neapolitan Mastiffs played Hagrid's dog, Fang.
Movie producers stood in for the Hogwarts moving portraits.
The portraits that line the walls of Hogwarts castle in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, Orlando.
One of the magical castle's features is that it has paintings that move. Some of them had plot significance, like the Fat Lady in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," who was played by comedian Dawn French. Others, though, were played by the movie's producers, who wanted to immortalize themselves in some way on screen.
15,000 glass orbs were made for the Room of Prophecy scene in "Order of the Phoenix." None of them were used.
You can still see the orbs on the Warner Bros. studio tour in London.
In the end, the producers decided to digitize the whole thing and none of the orbs made it to the movies.
The Black family tree wasn't canonized until the "Order of the Phoenix" movie.
The Black family is one of the oldest and most important in the wizarding community. There's Harry's godfather, Sirius Black, who's cousins with Voldemort's right-hand woman, Bellatrix Lestrange, and there's also Regulus Arcturus Black, who tried to destroy one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, and Phineas Nigellus Black, a former headmaster of Hogwarts.
It's confusing, and the books refer to a big tapestry in 12 Grimmauld Place, Sirius's family home, that features a family tree that lays it all out. But the actual content of that tapestry isn't entirely included in the books, so there are some gaps.
For the "Order of the Phoenix" movie, designer Miraphora Mina needed to include the tapestry in one of the scenes. So she called up J.K. Rowling, who mapped out the entire Black family for her. It's only from the movie that we have all of the relationships specified.
It took six months to design the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes scene in "Half-Blood Prince."
A display of packaging from Weasleys' Wizarding Wheezes.
The joke shop — which Harry, Ron, and Hermione go to at the beginning of the movie — is filled with whizzing magical pranks, bubbling potions, and everything from Anti Gravity Hats to Self-propelling Custard Pies. It's a feat of imagination and hard work from Fred and George Weasley, and it all had to be re-created for the movie.
MinaLima made the boxes and labeling for every single item. Everything in the shop had to look like it was manufactured and sold by the Weasley twins, and have a bit of backstory to it.
"It was a bit of a dream, really, to have six months to design a load of crazy packaging," Mina told INSIDER. | 2019-04-19T17:35:35Z | https://www.businessinsider.com/harry-potter-jk-rowling-movie-secrets-facts-2017-7 |
Florida Democrats are releasing their first attack ad against Republican nominee Ron DeSantis, charging that he favors letting insurance companies deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like cancer.
The new TV commercial from the Florida Democratic Party blisters the Republican congressman’s participation in efforts to strike down and replace the Affordable Care Act with its pre-existing conditions coverage requirement. It concludes with a quote the media attributes to DeSantis, that people with cancer who could not get health insurance should “show up to the emergency room” for treatment.
The commercial does not mention Democratic gubernatorial nominee Andrew Gillum except in the fine-print disclosure at the end.
The 30-second spot “Everybody” begins running in major media markets Tuesday. It launches as Gillum, the Tallahassee Mayor, turns the focus of his message this week to health care issues, including health care insurance coverage.
DeSantis’s campaign was not immediately available Tuesday to comment on it.
The ad officially is a “three-pack” ad, through which the state party is promoting three of its candidates, Gillum, Florida Chief Financial Officer nominee Jeremy Ring, and Florida Agriculture Commissioner nominee Nikki Fried.
Nonetheless, the ad was announced and promoted Tuesday morning by Gillum’s gubernatorial campaign.
Along the way the ad cites Time magazine, the AARP and CNN to back up its message that DeSantis opposes requiring insurance companies to provide coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.
“How can DeSantis lead Florida when he leaves Floridians behind?” the narrator concludes. | 2019-04-22T12:13:33Z | http://floridapolitics.com/archives/275676-democrats-ad-attacks-ron-desantis-on-pre-existing-conditions-coverage-opposition |
Dec 23, 2018 NFL Cervical Neck Joseph aggravated his neck injury in Week 16. He missed the regular-season finale but returned for the playoffs.
Dec 2, 2018 NFL Cervical Neck Joseph was forced from a Week 13 game with a neck injury but was able to play the following Sunday.
Oct 25, 2018 NFL Pedal Ankle Sprain/Pull Unspecified Grade 1 Joseph missed 1 game with a left ankle injury.
Dec 30, 2016 NFL Chest Rib Fracture Joseph missed Week 17 after presumably aggravating his rib injury in practice. He returned for the playoffs.
Dec 4, 2016 NFL Chest Rib Fracture Joseph missed 2 games with 2 fractured ribs and a bruised lung.
Oct 9, 2016 NFL Head Cranial Concussion Grade 1 Joseph sustained a concussion but was cleared by the following weekend.
Feb 15, 2016 NFL Knee Strain Grade 1 Joseph underwent arthroscopic knee surgery during the 2016 offseason.
Nov 2, 2014 NFL Head Cranial Concussion Grade 1 Joseph sustained a concussed but was cleared for the following game (after a bye week).
Dec 22, 2013 NFL Pedal Toe Turf Toe Joseph tore a ligament in his toe and needed surgery.
Feb 4, 2013 NFL Inguinal Groin Sports Hernia Joseph underwent double sports-hernia surgery early in the 2013 offseason.
Nov 18, 2012 NFL Thigh Hamstring Sprain/Pull Unspecified Grade 1 Joseph missed 2 games with a hamstring injury.
Aug 12, 2011 NFL Inguinal Groin Strain Grade 2 Joseph missed about 2 weeks of training camp and the first 2 preseason games with a groin injury.
Dec 5, 2010 NFL Pedal Ankle Sprain/Pull Unspecified Grade 1 Joseph missed another game with his troublesome ankle.
Nov 21, 2010 NFL Pedal Ankle Sprain/Pull Unspecified Grade 1 Joseph re-injured his ankle and missed another game.
Oct 10, 2010 NFL Pedal Ankle Sprain Grade 2 Joseph missed 2 games with an ankle injury.
Nov 16, 2008 NFL Pedal Foot Fracture Joseph broke his right foot and missed the final 6 games of the 2008 season. He had surgery on December 3.
Sep 14, 2008 NFL Pedal Ankle Sprain Grade 2 Joseph missed 2 games with a sprained ankle.
Jun 4, 2007 NFL Pedal Foot Fracture Joseph had surgery on his left foot on June 4, 2007. | 2019-04-21T00:30:18Z | https://sportsinjurypredictor.com/player/johnathan-joseph/1901 |
Sky Blue Apartment is a collection work of Green Town, located at the junction of Fengqi east road and Jingtan road. It’s close to Qingchun square, 4 kilometers to West Lake and 2 kilometers to Qianjiang New Town CBD. Big supermarkets, hospitals and many restaurants are available nearby. The apartment is furnished in nice decoration, with fridge, washing machine, TV, air condition and so on. | 2019-04-22T06:10:31Z | http://hangzhou-rent.com/view.asp?id=1579 |
Following an unscripted test path, an exploratory session is always good to identify crashes, hangs or less obvious bugs.
The more exploratory testing you do, the better, since your chances of finding a great bug increase. But we don’t really have the time or manpower to do a lot of exploratory testing.
In addition, since testers have to sleep and eat as well, we can’t run uninterrupted test sessions for days on end. Still, maybe you wondered fearfully how your app would handle hours long, even multiple days long of continuous usage.
Enter Monkey, https://github.com/cbalea/monkey. This open source tool was designed to hunt for crashes. It can exert the app under test for a long period of time – in theory, forever – serving as a stress testing tool as well.
Like a monkey, it goes randomly through all of the screens and stops when the app cannot be interacted with anymore, or when the time runs out. This session will present the concept of exploratory testing, why it’s hard to automate and how the Monkey tool solves this problem.
It will include a live demo as well. | 2019-04-23T21:57:02Z | https://romaniatesting.ro/sessions/just-watch-and-let-monkeys-test-for-you/ |
Barcelona’s cuisine is famous for its traditional Spanish and Catalan fare and its ability to channel the city’s creative energy and infuse modern techniques into its food scene. Being such an international city, Barcelona boasts eateries from all different ethnicities. With such a large Middle Eastern and Asian immigrant community, it’s no wonder that there are tons of outstanding Asian restaurants all over Barcelona.
A traditional Japanese tea house, the Akashi Gallery in L’Eixample combines the ancient customs of Japanese tea-drinking with the modern desire to join food and art into one shared experience. A tranquil and relaxed environment, Akashi is the perfect place to step back from the fast-paced city life and enjoy a cup of tea and authentic Japanese food as if it were in Tokyo and not Barcelona.
For a more upscale experience, the famous nightclub Shoko is actually a restaurant by trade. With Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese options on the impressive menu to go along with their equally impressive DJ lineups, an entire night can be spent at Shoko for food, drinks, and dancing.
Lovers of Asian cuisine should definitely feel confident eating in the city as there is an assortment of delicious and affordable Barcelona Asian restaurants all over. | 2019-04-25T12:57:40Z | https://www.partyearth.com/barcelona/restaurants/asian-restaurants/ |
Lafayette Christian Academy's philosophy is based upon the Word of God.
The primary objective and purpose of the school is to train the student in the way of life presented in the scriptures while giving the student an excellent education. The goal of LCA is to minister to each student's spirit, soul, and body with subjects taught from a Christian perspective. | 2019-04-24T16:56:37Z | http://lafayettechristianacademy.com/academics/ |
GREEN IVY sterling silver and green peridot ring is a nice addition to your wardrobe! This ring has been hand formed, wrapped and forged of sterling silver. The 4mm green peridot has been hand-set among the ivy leaf and tendril vine. This is a one of a kind artisan piece that has all the warmth and feel that a custom ring offers. This detail has also been highlighted by antiquing the pattern. This antiquing will continue to darken and become more dramatic with wear.
This band is size 8.
The ring is shipped stamped and tagged sterling silver, and also comes in a custom truform jewelry box -- perfect for gift giving!
*Need another size? I would love to create this ring for you! Click the Request Custom Order button and provide me the details of what you are looking for.
Peridot is a stone of lightness and beauty. | 2019-04-23T11:25:52Z | https://www.etsy.com/listing/233844678/green-ivy-peridot-ring-silver-ring?ref=shop_home_active_5 |
Simple example of controlling access to resources based on origin IP address, this example validates origin is a private IP range.
I have also added the supporting unit test, note that I am reflecting the method inorder to set it to public visibility to allow testing of it. It should also be note that in order to generate the tests you must change the protected to public so that PHPUnit will recognize the annotated assertions and generate the desired tests.
* Test class for PrivateIPAssertion.
* Generated by PHPUnit on 2011-06-11 at 19:38:41.
* Generated from @assert ('10.0.0.1') == true.
* Generated from @assert ('192.168.0.1') == true.
* Generated from @assert (68.45.32.17) == false. | 2019-04-23T16:11:09Z | http://zircote.com/blog/2011/06/13/access-controls-by-ip-address-ranges/ |
Rainbow Wholesale Store Sdn Bhd - Rainbow Wholesale Store Sdn Bhd is a company that supplies luggage, bags and snacks. Our main office is located in Johor Jaya, Johor Bahru (JB).
20, Jalan Dedap 7, Taman Johor Jaya, 81100 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia. | 2019-04-18T22:35:42Z | https://www.newpages.com.my/v2/en/company/728301/Rainbow_Wholesale_Store_Sdn_Bhd.html |
O, my life is so miserable. I only see JJ once or twice a fortnight and she has to mistreat me.
But my 姐妹 is the best! JJ 你也有今天! Hahahahaha.
Help. I cant get the Wishlist Summary image loaded properly. How you convert the Excel/Word file into image file? | 2019-04-22T08:06:58Z | http://lala.sg/2006/11/07/jj-%E9%85%B7%E5%88%91/ |
A hygienic home or office is a healthy home or office, and the best way to get your living and working spaces healthy is with a dedicated cleaning service. At Extra Care Cleaning, we’re proud to provide expert carpet cleaning, residential cleaning and end of lease cleaning in Chelsea. Our comprehensive cleaning services are crucial for preventing people from coming down with respiratory problems and other illnesses, going a long way towards improving general wellbeing and increasing productivity. There’s no better time than now to call Extra Care Cleaning and discover just what we can do for you. Get in touch with us today.
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If you need trusted residential cleaning, end of lease cleaning or carpet cleaning in Chelsea, look no further than Extra Care Cleaning for top-of-the-line services. Contact our friendly team today to learn more about how we can assist you. | 2019-04-25T18:18:32Z | http://www.extracarecleaning.com.au/carpet-cleaning-chelsea/ |
Jason Sudeikis (Horrible Bosses, last year’s comedy hit We’re the Millers) will lead the cast as Red, a bird with a temper problem. Josh Gad, in his first animated role since the global smash hit Frozen, plays speedy Chuck, and Danny McBride (This is the End, Eastbound & Down) portrays the volatile Bomb. Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) has joined the pork side, Maya Rudolph (Bridesmaids, The Maya Rudolph Show) will play Matilda, and Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones, X-Men: Days of Future Past) will play the legendary Mighty Eagle.
In the supporting roles, Keegan-Michael Key (Comedy Central’s Key & Peele), Kate McKinnon (Emmy nominee for Saturday Night Live), Tony Hale (Emmy winner for Veep, Arrested Development), Ike Barinholtz (Neighbors, The Mindy Project), Hannibal Buress (Broad City, Neighbors), Cristela Alonzo (ABC’s upcoming Cristela), Jillian Bell (22 Jump Street), Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black), Grammy nominee and Latin music sensation Romeo Santos, and YouTube stars Smosh (Ian Andrew Hecox and Anthony Padilla), who have over 30 million YouTube subscribers, will bring an extra kick to this angry flock.
This entry was posted in First Look, News and tagged angry birds, Bill Hader, danny mcbride, Jason Sudeikis, josh gad, Maya Rudolph by Melissa Hanson. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-25T14:55:12Z | http://reelnewsdaily.com/2014/10/10/first-look-angry-birds-movie-coming-to-theaters-in-july-2016/ |
Roger Eschbacher Books and Other Writing: Guess Who's Getting Published by Kindle Press?!!!
Guess Who's Getting Published by Kindle Press?!!!
Amazon just emailed me...Kindle Press is going to publish GHOST STAR!!! Details to come. Woo hoo! Thanks for your support, everyone! | 2019-04-21T20:20:34Z | http://www.rogereschbacher.com/2017/09/guess-whos-getting-published-by-kindle.html |
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19 Feb: WHY YOU SHOULD BUY YOUR VALENTINE A HOUSE THIS HOLIDAY! | 2019-04-24T04:22:21Z | https://gulfstatehomebuyers.com/blog/page/2/ |
With the emergence of new compression standards such as High-Efficiency Video Compression (HEVC), offering a potential bit-rate reduction of up to 50 percent over H.264, 4K services and UHD TV are looming on the horizon. Broadcasters and service providers are now researching the technology requirements of delivering 4K content to a wide range of IP-based multi-platform services. To maintain quality as compression standards change, everyone along the broadcast chain needs to constantly measure the performance of the compression engines on which day-to-day operations depend. Any operation, large or small, from hardware/software designers to end user-producers who work with any kind of compression in SD, HD, and now UHD, should subjectively and objectively analyze compression performance to gauge how their technical and aesthetic choices will look and sound to both a professional end-user or a home audience.
Since its founding in 2003, Video Clarity has proactively delivered video quality testing and analysis tools to support the current and emerging formats customers require, and 4K is no exception. The company’s core capabilities are based on the notion that testing and QC must take place not only after the content goes live, but before, with testing tools that can ingest video from any source and then play it back in every resolution for delivery to every screen. Video Clarity’s products form a testing and monitoring foundation that can handle a large array of original file formats, with the ability to record and play back content and provide a split-screen comparison of two video sequences up to 4K resolution at 60Hz.
The RTM series of real-time monitors and recorders for checking video and audio quality, A/V offset, loudness, and VANC data integrity. When quality drops, the system generates an alarm and saves both the source and comparison feed around the error.
The ClearView family of video analyzers for determining video and audio quality using either quantitative, repeatable measurements or the operator’s eyes and ears.
The ClearView Player, a video recorder/player that gives R&D and quality assurance labs a reliable solution with programmable playback operations for all formats of uncompressed video. | 2019-04-22T16:39:53Z | https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/companies/entry/328/video-clarity |
My lexer (generated in C++) seems slower than table-driven lexers like lex. Is there anything I can do?
According to Ric Klaren, an istringstream object should do the trick. He also has an example, flexLex in the examples/cpp directory of the distribution, that shows using flex instead of ANTLR's top-down lexer. | 2019-04-19T15:42:17Z | http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=458474 |
The Eagles, after trading LeSean McCoy to the Buffalo Bills, might have found his replacement.
A person with knowledge of the situation, who requested anonymity, told NJ Advance Media that the Eagles have expressed interest in free-agent running back Frank Gore.
That person said a deal with the San Francisco 49ers star could get done as early as Tuesday, the first day free agents can sign with another team.
At this point, teams are not allowed to offer contracts to free agents. It is not clear how much it might cost the Eagles to sign Gore.
Gore, 31, finished last season with 1,106 yards on 255 carries and four touchdowns. One of 13 running backs to gain more than 1,000 yards last season, he ranked 10th among backs in the NFL.
Gore ran behind one of the top offensive lines in the NFL. ProFootball Focus ranked the Niners' as the ninth-best unit in the league last season. The Eagles finished second overall on the list.
His 4.3 yards per carry average was nearly identical to McCoy's 4.2 yards per carry.
Gore had a season high 119 rushing yards and a 55-yard touchdown reception in the 49ers' Week 4 win over Eagles last season.
How much of the workload Gore will get next season remains to be seen. If he joins the team, it's likely he will be the most experienced player on the roster.
The Eagles' need for a running back increased when they traded McCoy last week. They have Chris Polk (who they tendered as an unrestriced free agent), Darren Sproles, Kenjon Barner and Matthew Tucker on the roster.
There were rumblings on Saturday that the team might be interested in New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram, but Ingram re-signed before being able to accept other offers.
The free agency period is expected to be a busy one for the Eagles, who have approximately $46 million in salary-cap space. | 2019-04-21T10:18:15Z | https://www.nj.com/eagles/2015/03/eagles_frank_gore.html |
The hose that is in your product served on an Engine Company in the Fairfax Virginia Area as supply hose for about 15 years. Fairfax County has 38 Fire and Rescue Stations and serves over 1.1million people on a daily basis. This fire hose was decommissioned after failing its annual pressure test in 2013. It supplied water to fire engines every day to 3 different platoons on shift. That means it probably had over 1,000,000 gallons of water flow through it during its career.
Typically a supply hose is what we call LDH or Large Diameter Hose. LDH is 5" or larger diameter while the hose is pressurized, measured on the inside of the hose.
I primarily use LDH for my items since it doesn't go inside burning buildings, it simply supplies the fire engine with water from the hydrant. This keeps the hose mostly clean for its lifetime and free of any burning debris.
Supply hose is an amazing material, it's double jacketed for ultimate durability. The inside jacket is waterproof and it is what carries the water, the outside jacket is simply there to protect the inside jacket from cuts and abrasions. | 2019-04-26T06:47:45Z | https://recycledfirefighter.com/pages/fairfax-hose-story-1 |
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This attractive, 26 ounce Oregon St. Beavers thermos is a great way to keep your beverages hot while on the go. The 11 inch tall, vacuum sealed thermos features a black vinyl wrap with stitched details and a digitally printed team logo. The lid screws on and can be used as a cup.
Our tailgater spatula really catches your eye with flashy chrome accents and vivid Oregon St. Beavers digital graphics. The 420 grade stainless steel spatula is a tough, heavy-duty tool that will last through years of tailgating fun. The spatula features a bottle opener and sharp serrated edge.
We combine the popular Euro bead style with your love of the Oregon St. Beavers with this beautiful jewelry set that includes earrings and a matching bracelet. The stylish earrings feature hypoallergenic, nickel free fishhook posts and 3 team colored Euro beads and a metal team charm. The matching snake chain bracelet is 7.5 inches long with a 2 inch extender and 4 Euro beads with a rhinestone charm and team charm.
Get in on the trend! State themes are a trend that just keeps getting more popular and this jewelry set takes the state style and give it a sporty twist with a Oregon St. Beavers necklace that features an Arizona state outline charm paired with a beautiful team charm and matching team charm dangle earrings. The earrings feature hypoallergenic fishhook posts that are nickel free.
This classic pub brew mug has a 16 ounce capacity and features a metal Oregon St. Beavers emblem.
This classic tankard has a 12 ounce capacity and features a metal Oregon St. Beavers emblem.
This is the ultimate Oregon St. Beavers tailgate accessory! The high quality, 420 grade stainless steel tools are durable and well-made enough to make even the pickiest grill master smile. This complete grill accessory kit includes; 4 skewers, spatula with bottle opener and serrated knife edge, basting brush, tongs and a fork. The 18 inch metal carrying case is perfect for great outdoor use making grilling an ease while camping, tailgating or while having a game day party on your patio. The tools are 17 inches long and feature vivid team graphics. The metal case features a large team emblem with exceptional detail. This high-end men's gift is sure to be a hit as a present on Father's Day or Christmas.
Our functional and fashionable Oregon St. Beavers survivor bracelets contain 2 individual 300lb test paracord rated cords that are each 5 feet long. The team colored cords can be pulled apart to be used in any number of emergencies and look great while worn. The bracelet features a team emblem on the clasp.
Our officially licensed collegiate dangle earrings have fully cast Oregon St. Beavers charms with exceptional detail and a hand enameled finish. The earrings have a high polish nickel free chrome finish and hypoallergenic fishhook posts.
Our tailgater BBQ set really catches your eye with flashy chrome accents and vivid Oregon St. Beavers digital graphics. The 420 grade stainless steel tools are tough, heavy-duty tools that will last through years of tailgating fun. The set includes a spatula with a bottle opener and sharp serated egde, fork and tongs.
Craving something sweet? Then just reach for your very own Oregon St. Beavers gumball machine! This fun gumball machine accepts nickels, dimes or quarters and can be set for free dispensing. The glass globe is 4 inches wide and tall and can be used for any gumballs or candy that is less than 1/2 inch. The cast metal base is sturdy and features a chrome metal coin receptacle and turn handle. The classic novelty item is perfect for your desk at work, dorm room or game room.
This heavy-duty steel opener is extra long, with a durable vinyl covering. The extra length provides more leverage for speed opening and the opener features a large printed Oregon St. Beavers logo.
Our large hoop earrings have a fully cast and enameled Oregon St. Beavers charm with enameled detail and a high polish nickel free chrome finish and rhinestone access. Hypoallergenic fishhook posts.
Our aviator sunglasses have the iconic aviator style with mirrored lenses and metal frames. The glasses feature a silk screened Oregon St. Beavers logo in the corner of the lense. 100% UVA/UVB protection.
Seriously, these sunglasses open bottles! Keep the party going with these amazing Oregon St. Beavers bottle opener sunglasses. The stylish retro frames feature team designs on the arms and functional bottle openers on the end of the arms. Whether you are at the beach or having a backyard BBQ on game day, these shades will keep your eyes protected with 100% UVA/UVB protection and keep you hydrated with the handy bottle opener arms.
Our monochromatic steel money clips have a classic style and superior quality. The strong, steel clip has a black overlay of the Oregon St. Beavers logo over the brushed metal finish creating a stylish men's fashion accessory that would make any fan proud.
Make a statement with our chain necklaces. The 22 inch chain features a fully cast, metal Oregon St. Beavers pendant with vivid enameled details. Perfect accessory for game day and nice enough to wear everyday!
Use this attractive clip magnet to hold memos, photos or appointment cards on the fridge or take it down keep use it to clip bags shut. The magnet features a domed Oregon St. Beavers logo.
Dog tag necklaces are a fashion statement that is here to stay. The sporty version of the classic tag features a black printed over a high polish tag to create a bold and sporty look. The tag comes on a 26 inch ball chain with a ball and joint clasp. Any Oregon St. Beavers would be proud to wear this attractive fashion accessory.
This classic style cotton cord necklace features an extra large Oregon St. Beavers pendant on a 21 inch cord.
This delicate bead bracelet has eye-catching team colored beads that are strung on 2 stretch cords that provide a comfortable and easy fit. The crystals are separated by beautiful helix beads in high polish chrome for a truly designer inspired look. The 2 strands of beads intertwine for a fun and stylish bracelet. This chic accessory is finished off with a Oregon St. Beavers team charm that has expertly carved detail and an enameled color finish. A contemporary look to thrill any female sports fan. Whether this a gift for yourself or someone special you cannot miss with this trend-setting fashion bracelet.
These comfortable and fashionable double-bar cuff bracelets feature a 1 inch metal Oregon St. Beavers inset logo with enameled detail.
This classic jewelry set contains are most popular Oregon St. Beavers dangle earrings and 22 inch chain necklace. The trendy, dangle earrings are lightweight and feature a fully cast metal team charm with enameled team colors. The matching necklace completes this fashion forward combo and is a spirited set that is perfect for game day but nice enough for everyday.
Our classic Oregon St. Beavers desk set features a slot for a note pad, a slot for your business cards and comes with a stylish pen. The set shows off your school pride with a hand enameled team emblem.
Our officially licensed chrome key chain have exceptional 3D detail that really sets this key chain apart from other Oregon St. Beavers key chains. The logo is finely carved and enamel filled with a high polish chrome finish.
We have combined the wildly popular Euro style beads with your favorite team to create our Oregon St. Beavers bead bracelet. The 7.5 inch snake chain with 2 inch extender features 4 Euro beads with enameled team colors and rhinestone accents with a high polish, nickel free charm and rhinestone charm. Perfect way to show off your team pride.
These beautiful euro style earrings feature 3 euro beads and a detailed Oregon St. Beavers charm on hypoallergenic fishhook posts.
Show off your team pride with our Oregon St. Beavers family automotive decals. The set includes 6 individual family themed decals that each feature the team logo. The 5 x 7 inch decal set is made of outdoor rated, repositionable vinyl for durability and easy application.
Love your team, show it off with our Oregon St. Beavers bead dangle earrings! These super cute earrings hang approximately 2 inches and features 2 team colored beads and a high polish team charm. A must have for game day!
This fun and colorful Oregon St. Beavers fan bead jewelry set is fun and casual with eye-catching beads in bright team colors. The fashionable dangle earrings feature a team colored beads that drop down to a carved and enameled charm. The stretch bracelet has larger matching beads that make a striking statement and have a matching team charm. These sassy yet sporty jewelry pieces make a perfect gift for any female fan. Spice up your game-day outfit with these fun colorful earrings and bracelet that are also cute enough for any day.
Our Fan Bracelet is a one size fits all string cuff bracelets with a screen printed ribbon with the team Oregon St. Beavers name and logo.
Our fun, flexible Oregon St. Beavers key chains are made of a rubbery material that is layered to create a bright, textured logo.
Get in on one of the most popular trends in jewelry, front and back earrings! This must-have style is all of over the red carpets and we taken this contemporary look and paired it with your love of the Oregon St. Beavers! The front of the earring is a sporty team logo and the back of these eye-catching earrings is a glass ball filled with colored crystal beads. This piece is perfect for a fashion-forward fan, with bold taste and trend-setting style.
Our officially licensed game day shades are the perfect accessory for the devoted Oregon St. Beavers fan! The sunglasses have durable polycarbonate frames with flex hinges for comfort and damage resistance. The lenses feature brightly colored team clings that are perforated for visibility.
No better way to show your Oregon St. Beavers pride than by painting your face. Siskiyou’s Game Day Face Temporary Tattoo isn’t your typical face paint. It is a water based application that doesn’t smudge, smear or sweat off while you’re wearing it and easily peels off after you’re done celebrating your team’s big Win! The temporary tattoo is large enough to trim down to fit your face. Our Game Day Face Temporary Tattoo’s are fun for fans of all ages. You may have seen our product before, these are the same Temporary Face Tattoos as pitched on ABC’s Shark Tank.
Whether you are caravaning to the game or having a tailgate party make sure you car is wearing its fan gear with our extra large, 11 inch Oregon St. Beavers home state magnets. These striking magnets can be easily placed on for game day and removed without he residue left by decals. The design features a bright state outline with the location of the team highlighted with a football and a large team logo.
It's a home state decal with a sporty twist! This Oregon St. Beavers decal feature the team logo over a silhouette of the state in team colors and a heart marking the home of the team. The decal is approximately 5 inches on repositionable vinyl.
Our flexible Oregon St. Beavers key chains are a fun way to carry your team with you. The pliable rubber material is extremely durable and the layered colors add a great 3D look to the key chain. This is really where quality and a great price meet to create a true fan favorite.
The perfect iPad mini accessory. The iPad mini slides easily into the inner sleeve that allows complete accessibility to all of the devices features and is the protected by the attractive out cover that can be secured closed or open while working with a simple stretch band. The great case features a cast and enameled Oregon St. Beavers emblem.
This retro, knotted choker is a cool and unique piece of fan jewelry. The tattoo style choker features a high polish Oregon St. Beavers charm with rhinestone accents.
Our wrist strap lanyard key chain is made of durable and comfortable woven material and is a not only a great key chain but an easy way to keep track of your keys. The bright Oregon St. Beavers graffics makes this key chain easy to find in gym bags, purses and in the dreaded couch cushions.
This cool new style wallet features an inner, metal bill clip that lips up for easy access. The super slim wallet holds tons of stuff with ample pockets, credit card slots & windowed ID slot. The wallet is made of genuine fine grain leather and it finished with a metal Oregon St. Beavers emblem. The wallet is shipped in gift box packaging.
We have taken the classic floating charm locket and combined with licensed sports charms to create a must have fan necklace. The necklace comes with 3 charms; 1 Oregon St. Beavers charm, one football charm and one helmet charm. The charms float in a beautiful locket that has a strong magnetic closure with a rhinestone border. The locket comes on an 18 inch snake chain with 2 inch extender.
This unique Oregon St. Beavers key chain has 3 great functions! The key chain opens to become a nail clipper, when open you can access the nail file pad and the key chain has a bottle opener.
Our 18 ounce game day cups are what every tailgating or backyard events needs! The cups feature a big Oregon St. Beavers logo so you can show off your team pride. The popular 18 ounce size is perfect for drinks or ping pong balls! Sold in sleeves of 18 cups.
Our 18 ounce game day cups are what every tailgating or backyard events needs! The cups feature a big Oregon St. Beavers logo so you can show off your team pride. The popular 18 ounce size is perfect for drinks or ping pong balls! 2 sleeves of 18 cups, 36 cups in total.
Trick out your golf gear with our Oregon St. Beavers schedule coin that acts as a golf ball marker when on the links or a cool collector's item. The light weight coin features the teams football schedule in vivid team colors.
This unique hitch cover features a large Oregon St. Beavers logo. If you have ever hooked up a trailer or boat your have probably smashed your shins on the ball hitch a few times. This revolutionary shin shield hitch cover provides your much abused shins with the protection they deserve! The tough rubber hitch is rated to work with Class V hitch receivers hauling up to 17,000 gross trailer weight and 1,700 tongue weight allowing you to leave it on while hauling.
Our glass shot glasses are perfect for collectors or any game day event. The 2 ounce glasses feature bright, vidid digital Oregon St. Beavers graphics.
Our glass shot glasses are perfect for collectors or any game day event. The 2 ounce glasses feature bright, vidid digital Oregon St. Beavers graphics. Comes in a set of 2.
Get in on the trend! State themes are a trend that just keeps getting more popular and these necklaces take the state style and give it a sporty twist with a Oregon St. Beavers added to the state outline charm. The come on a snake chain that is 22 inches long.
Who says glasses have to be glass, check out this ultra cool stainless steel 2 ounce collector's glass. The brushed metal glass has a painted, metal Oregon St. Beavers emblem.
Our high-quality stainless steel travel mugs have a 14 ounce capacity, brushed metal finish and features a metal Oregon St. Beavers emblem.
Big and flashy isn't for every woman. These 1/2 inch stud earrings offer a small option that still shows she is a true Oregon St. Beavers fan. The earrings have hypoallergenic posts.
Quality detail and sturdy functionality highlight this great tailgater buckle that features an inset domed emblem Oregon St. Beavers dome logo and functional bottle opener.
No tailgate party is complete without your Oregon St. Beavers salt & pepper shakers featuring bright team graphics. The glass shakers are 3.75 inches tall and the screw top lids have holes that spell out P and S. These team shakers are a great grill accessory whether you are barbecuing on the patio, picnicing or having a game day party.
Spice it up with our Oregon St. Beavers tailgater season shakers! This compact shaker is 2 inch tall with a twist top that closes off the holes at the top making it perfect for travel preventing those messy spills. The shaker has wide holes perfect for keeping your pepper seeds or cheese toppings. The bright team graphics will make you the envy of the other fans while you are grilling up your tailgating goodies.
Dog tag necklaces are a fashion statement that is here to stay. The sporty version of the classic tag features a gradient print in team colors featuring a full color team logo over a high polish tag to create a bold and sporty look. The tag comes on a 26 inch ball chain with a ball and joint clasp. Any Oregon St. Beavers would be proud to wear this attractive fashion accessory.
A great way to show off your team spirit! Our licensed toothbrushes have opposing angled bristles to reach between teeth with each forward and backward stroke. The extended tip accesses hard-to-reach areas of the mouth. Cool Oregon St. Beavers graphics and colors.
Sports fans do not have to sacrifice style with this classic bi-fold wallet that sports the Oregon St. Beavers extra large logo. This men's fashion accessory has a leather grain look and expert craftmanship for a quality wallet at a great price. The wallet features inner credit card slots, windowed ID slot and a large billfold pocket. The front of the wallet features a printed team logo.
This unique money clip features a classic, brushed-metal finish with a handy bottle opener feature on the back. The clip has the Oregon St. Beavers logo expertly printed on the front of the clip.
Our brushed metal money clip has classic style and functionality. The attractive clip features the Oregon St. Beavers logo expertly printed on front.
Our Oregon St. Beavers chip clip magnets feature a crisp team logo on the front of the clip. The clip is perfect for sealing chips for freshness and with the powerful magnet on the back it can be used to attach notes to the fridge or hanging your child's artwork. Set of 2 magnet clips, each clip is 3.5 inches tall and 1.25 inch wide.
This beautiful Oregon St. Beavers wine stopper has a classy monochromatic logo on the top disc. The tapered rubber rings allow you to create a tight seal on multiple sizes of wine bottles so that you are able to preserve the wine for later enjoyment. This a perfect addition to a game day celebration. | 2019-04-21T07:23:33Z | http://www.crazedoutsports.com/cgi-bin/store.pl?mode=listitems&cat=College&subcat=Oregon%20St.%20Beavers&template=3col.tmpl |
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The Future of Banking in Germany – Who Will Survive the Death of Banks?
In June 2007, the first shock waves hit the German banking industry: speculative transactions in the subprime market, the US mortgage loan market for borrowers with low credit ratings, led to the biggest global economic crisis of the post-war period. Since then, the German banking system has been trying to get back on its feet. But the rapid pace of digitalization is leading to increasing international competition in the domestic market and the pressure to invest in current IT infrastructures is growing. It seems that the really hard times are just beginning.
The "Bankenreport 2030", published in February 2018 by management consultants Oliver Wyman, predicts that the number of banks in Germany will fall from 1,600 to just 150 to 300 within the next 10-15 years. Can German banks even arm themselves against the demise of banks and their competitors, including foreign banks, FinTechs, market infrastructure providers and global technology companies? And if so, what measures can be taken?
At first glance, the situation does not seem all that dramatic: according to Oliver Wyman's Bankenreport 2030, banks in Germany currently have a large customer base of private and business customers, draw on a stable earnings pool of around 115 billion euros and have low risk costs. But profitability has been reduced by a third in the last ten years and banks are operating in a fundamentally different market environment. The existing 'three-pillar structure' of private commercial banks, state-owned providers and cooperative banks will be streamlined by bank consolidation and increasingly centralized structures and supplemented by a fourth pillar at the same time. This pillar consists of foreign banks, market infrastructure providers, international technology companies and FinTechs and directly competes with German banks. Such a change would lead to sustainable transformations in the entire industry.
Against the background of new competitors and additional drivers of change such as technology and innovation, changing customer expectations and strict regulations, two possible future scenarios can be expected, according to Oliver Wyman. On the one hand, a calculable, incremental evolution scenario that supplements existing structures with cooperations, expanded business models and digitization initiatives; on the other hand, a much faster, radical disruption scenario that requires speed and digital technologies and makes current structures obsolete due to the adaptation of new systems and processes.
The increasing modularisation of supply and demand plays a decisive role in both scenarios. This means that products and services no longer necessarily come from one provider, but are also offered as a conglomerate of different financial service providers. According to Oliver Wyman, successful banks will no longer map the entire value chain in the financial sector with their services, but will follow the trend of value creation networks. Thus, a sustainable corporate positioning of the banks either as suppliers by concentrating the product range or as 'orchestrators' with a regional focus and contact to the customer is decisive for their survival in the market.
To be prepared for both scenarios, banks should on the one hand train their intercultural competence and on the other hand improve their ability and willingness to innovate. As a result, a far-reaching change in corporate culture is required, which is why the strength profile of managers and their ability to enable changes in the company are seen as an important competitive differentiating factor.
Why are FinTechs putting so much pressure on German banks?
A major driver of changes in the financial sector are the so-called FinTechs. These companies are rapidly changing the banking market with specialized financial solutions that are adapted to current technology and market conditions and are driving the disruption scenario. The number of FinTech companies in Germany is growing steadily. According to the study 'Germany FinTech Landscape' by the auditing and consulting agency Ernst&Young, there were already 310 companies in 2017, with an upward trend. It is to be expected that the upcoming Brexit will have a positive influence on Germany's attractiveness as a location and that there will be a move – especially from FinTechs located in London. It can be assumed that the rapidly increasing number of FinTech's will put additional pressure on German banks.
It is a fact that different digital financial service providers already cover a large part of the product range of large banks. Whether in the areas of payment and payment transactions, in the financing and lending process or in the property and insurance industry (PropTech and InsureTech). FinTechs often redefine banking and address the weaknesses of banks. In the age of digitalization, FinTechs have already exploited the potential that some banks have not yet recognized or implemented. Online banking or customer advice via video chat are no longer enough. With their innovative banking processes and customer-journey analyses, FinTechs are much more agile and customer-oriented: Cloud technologies and mobile service offerings enable customers who do not have direct access to a bank's branch network, for example, to configure their credit via app. Algorithms automatically determine their creditworthiness and determine the repayment rates.
That is why it is now more important than ever for banks to develop a clear digitalization strategy. Only by cross-platform and cross-departmental linking of data can customers' current expectations of service and speed be fulfilled, as they are already accustomed to from FinTechs.
In addition to the need for extensive process innovations, the Bankenreport 2030 emphasises the relevance of a sustainable business model based on a clear strategic positioning of German banks for the evolutionary as well as the disruption scenario. In both scenarios, far-reaching changes through digital technologies are expected, also for the employees of financial institutions. In case of a disruption, a drastic reduction in staff numbers is to be expected, which will have major consequences for the employment and IT architecture of the banks.
According to estimates by the analysis service provider Barkow Consulting, on which the Handelsblatt has already reported, the bank branch network has halved from 66,000 banks in 1996 to around 30,000 in 2017. The IT architecture of German banks also needs to be fundamentally renewed and adapted. Here the FinTechs are ahead of the banks and benefit from process automation and omnichannel offerings by using current IT and cloud systems. Most legacy systems of German banks are outdated. Historical programming languages, functional gaps, isolated IT solutions and redundancies in the IT landscape result in high support costs and excessive IT costs. Modern, modular banking platforms are much more flexible and form the backbone of a state-of-the-art IT infrastructure.
Using open interfaces, existing systems can be integrated, and front and back office applications can be linked in a useful way. Frameworks and templates enable banks to generate efficient, fully or partially automated solutions more quickly and to focus much more strongly on their actual business model. The technological flexibility is described by Oliver Wyman as one of the most important key elements in the banks' struggle for survival.
The structural change in the German banking system is already in full swing: drastic changes due to disruptive technologies and increasing competition from foreign banks, infrastructure providers, international technology companies and FinTechs are forcing banks to act quickly. Due to their range of innovative financial services and new product variations in the financial services industry, FinTechs are increasingly becoming stronger in the battle for the relationship to customers and are acting as a accelerator for the decline of banks in Germany.
To survive, traditional banks must have a clear strategic position and benefit from the advantages of digitalization and modularization to develop viable business models. The implementation of digital banking platforms is an important step in bringing the IT architecture into line with the new market speed by using lean and flexible processes.
The digital transformation must be practiced within the entire company and anchored in the corporate culture. Only in this way will the irreversible change in the banking sector become an opportunity and not an obstacle for German financial institutions. | 2019-04-18T18:28:40Z | https://www.knowis.com/blog/the-future-of-banks-in-germany-can-the-death-of-banks-still-be-stopped |
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Emeralda Marsh is called the “Jewel of Lake County Bird Watching”. When we first visited in May of 2010, the Interpretive drive had just been closed to vehicles – which was a big disappointment and prevented me from doing a review of the site. Fast forward to late March of this year and the drive is again open, so Kevin M. and I headed over to see if this place lives up to its reputation.
It’s huge (7089 acres), with a 4.3 mile long drive that’s accessible by car for part of the year. We arrived a little after sunrise but before the gate opened at 8am, and so we spent a little time around this very picturesque canal just up the road from the entrance.
Canal, mist, and Sun Dog: A Sun Dog appears over this misty Florida canal near Emeralda Marsh just after sunrise.
Photo hints: The Interpretive drive is open from the 3rd week in February through May on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Call before you go to make sure. The drive had already been closed when we went last May and the place is too big to walk (at least for me). The hours are 8 – 5. We didn’t see much of interest on about the first half of the drive. Things picked up a bit when we turned north at the south-west corner (see link to Google Maps, below). Then we ended up seeing a good variety of birds including a Belted Kingfisher, coots and moorhens, gators, American Bitterns, a Northern Harrier, Ospreys, Egrets and Herons, and various ducks.
There’s a dirt road that’s closed to cars leading west from the north-west corner of the drive. It goes to a rookery on a small island just off the Lake Griffin shore. We walked out there and saw some displaying and nest-building going on, but it was grown up and hard to get a clear view.
Lenses: Bring your standard bird set up – the longer your lens, the better.
Best time to visit: When the drive is open (late February to May), which is also the best time for nesting, breeding, etc. Winter time is reportedly good for migrating species, but the drive will be closed to vehicles and you’ll have to hike in to the area.
Here’s a link to the property map, and you can download the drive guide here.
Landscapes and sunrise / sunset photos will be hard due to the hours that the drive is open to cars, although you may be able to find a few scenic locations close by for golden hour photos.
There was a Bass fishing tournament going on the morning we were there, which made for a few loud moments as the fast boats all roared off. We also heard several gun shots, so there was some hunting going on in the area.
“Jewel of Lake County Bird Watching”? I certainly can’t argue with that. This is a huge place with a diversity of habitats and we did end up seeing a lot. I think that if you could visit several times over the course of a year, you’d see a variety of Florida and migratory birds.
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The Riverside Hotel is three star hotel located in a quiet district within a walking distance of Riga center and Old Town, just a 15 minute walk to the Riga Central Railway Station.
The hotel has 21 air-conditioned comfortable rooms, each of which features an en-suite bathroom, cable TV, free WiFi Internet access, controlled heating, hairdryer and wardrobe. Queen Luxury Suite complete with en-suite Jacuzzi for special occasions and romantic holidays. The best thing is that room service is available 24 hours a day.
Spa of Riverside Hotel includes sauna and Jacuzzi. Banqueting and conference facilities are also available.
Friendly front desk staff wil be ready to help you throughout a day and will assist with car rental, shuttle transport to the airport and ticket services. Luggage storage is also provided.
In the morning you can enjoy a hot buffet breakfast and various Latvian dishes for lunch and dinner at the hotel’s restaurant.
Rooms start at EUR 40 per night. | 2019-04-21T06:30:27Z | https://www.riga-guide.com/hotels/riverside/ |
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A selection of reviews from happy customers who have enjoyed their trips with us.
See what our customers are saying about our coach trips and short breaks.
I would like to congratulate you on a wonderfully organised trip to Guernsey yesterday, 27th May, it was a truly super day helped by some great weather, the Channel was like a lake, breakfast and evening meal provided was excellent.
Went on the island bus for £1 which took one and a half hours, well worth the money, extremely busy because a big liner was in so Guernsey was saturated. I think Peter was going again today, do not know where he gets his energy, but many thanks to all.
My first trip with you.
Myself and a friend booked to go on the day trip to Guernsey which was last month. From the moment the phone was answered and I heard the warmth and happiness in Tony’s voice I knew it would be a lovely day out. The extremely comfortable coach was on time and arrival to Poole harbour was as predicted 9am.
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I would like to thank you on behalf of my auntie and myself for the really great coach trip to Highclere [Castle] and boat trip today. We had a lovely time. Your coach driver Robert and lovely lady assistant made it one of the best trips we have had.
I will recommend your company to our friends.
Just to say thank you very much for organising such a great day out [to Bletchley Park] yesterday.
My sister in law and myself had a lovely day.
The ‘On Board’ entertainment ‘banter’ between you both was also very amusing.
We are both hoping to go on one of the trips to Guernsey so I will phone asap on that one - and also one of the trips to Southend sounds good. Well they all sound good.
— Wendy & Brian M.
Another lovely day out to see the Three Queens in Southampton with Peter and Adam - weather slightly damp and the mist came down as the three liners sailed by Calshot but it was rather atmospheric as they appeared through the mist. Great harbour cruise followed by lovely meal at The Swan and drive through the New Forest.
We have just returned from a very good day out to Guernsey with your company and have to say, what a super day it was.
We were collected from our collection point actually a few minutes early which was good, transported to the port, given all directions in easy stages by a very efficient tour host Eryl, and accompanied all the way with tips for how to spend our day in the venue.
The meals we were able to choose were very tasty, particularly for mass produced food, and, in short, all went completely to plan and a most enjoyable day. Our driver Adam was very careful and helpful and both of them combined made sure we all had a good day and explained all the necessary points we needed to enable us to enjoy our day and be in the correct place at the correct time.
We went on the ‘Longleat Trip’ yesterday and have to write and say it was the most fantastic day. The Festival of Light was quite out of this world and we have, in the past, seen displays in Florida but this was something else again.
Of course it was even better the way the coach trip went, Peter and Adam were just great. So friendly and helpful and so very informative that we knew exactly what and when event, pick-ups etc were going on. It was a great success and this could not have been better executed.
Peter is superb at his role and made us all feel special and individual. It was nice not to have to drive for a change and sit and relax on the well driven coach. The price was also really good for all we saw and had, it really was an excellent day.
Do hope you are able to do more trips from Basingstoke.
I am a person who would say if things are not right so it’s great to say you could have nothing to think about saying which was not ‘first class’.
I would like to thank your team (Eryl and Adam the driver) on our trip to the Shard, Thames Clipper and Cable Car yesterday, they were both extremely helpful and informative. The trip was very well organised and even with a few traffic problems along the way Adam managed to get us to our destinations without too much delay. We had a wonderful day so would you kindly thank them both on behalf of myself, my wife and our friends, they are a credit to your company.
We have already booked another day out to Highclere Castle with your company which we are all looking forward to. | 2019-04-26T15:49:00Z | https://justdaysout.co.uk/testimonials/ |
If you love the look of logs, but decide against building a log home, perhaps you should consider including some log features in your design. We can provide and install log post and beam work, log trusses and roof supports, or log stairs and railings in any conventional home design. As in our log homes, we would work closely with your contractor to ensure a smooth transition between the log and conventional components. Send us your plans and ideas for a free estimate.
See our Stairs and Railings page for more examples of ballusters, rails, risers and treads built out of logs.
We also do log furniture, mostly on a custom basis, but we usually have some pieces on hand. Ask us about doing a special piece for your home. | 2019-04-20T13:18:32Z | http://heartwood-log-homes.com/log-features.htm |
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There’s truth to the ol’ saying “there’s nothing lighter than a hole”, but sometimes, well, just no.
Popularised by the famously weight obsessed Mercx and peaking in popularity in the ’70s, ‘drillium-ing’ basically involves drilling lots of holes into bike parts in a bid to drop precious grams from your go-fast bike.
There’s no denying that some drillium efforts can be beautiful, but this distinctly DIY effort as spotted by Bike Snob AUS — the Facebook account of Brisbane based shop Cranks Bicycle Garage — hasn’t quite hit the mark.
As many commenters have pointed out, it’s likely that the additional drag that this modification will cause will far outweigh any benefit dropping the weight will have, but I feel as though the finer details of bicycle mechanics may be lost on this individual. | 2019-04-21T22:26:34Z | https://www.bikeradar.com/news/this-is-drillium-done-so-so-wrong/ |
Eagle Cliff South New Homes in Norman from Home Creations.
Homeowners in this community will love having easy access to all Norman has to offer! Whether you're looking to shop, take a trip to OU's campus, visit surrounding parks, or spend a day with your family at Lake Thunderbird, you won't have to venture far from home. Eagle Cliff South offers easy access to Highway 9, Highway 77, and I-35; making those daily commutes anywhere in the metro effortless. Eagle Cliff South offers homes from both our Sonoma Collection and Wellington Collection, giving homeowners the flexibility to choose the perfect features and the right price. | 2019-04-24T03:04:00Z | https://www.homecreations.com/new-homes/ok/norman/eagle-cliff-south/550/?sort=n,a,m,e&page=6&item_per_page=3 |
Beverly Hills is sidestepping traditional media marketing with a thought leadership trend piece on the future of luxury, which helps position both the destination and the bureau as fresh and forward-thinking.
When a tourism bureau produces its own thought leadership around a theme aligned with the city’s value proposition, it accomplishes a number of things.
One, the intelligence is a marketing piece in itself, promoting both the destination and the DMO’s leadership in a fresh way with actionable takeaways.
Two, it engages the local destination partners in an elevated discussion around important travel trends and consumer behavior.
Three, its educates local government and business stakeholders, who can often use the research for their own purposes, which further supports the bureau’s case for funding.
This week, the Beverly Hills Conference & Visitors Bureau launched “The Future of Luxury” trend report. The overarching goal is to show how Beverly Hills is an iconic luxury travel brand that’s attuned and evolving with next generation luxury travel trends.
The report identifies 10 key luxury destinations worldwide, spanning from Los Angeles to Zurich to Hong Kong, based on their population of “ultra high net worth individuals” (UHNWIs). Each city description shows demographic data, spending patterns for high-net locals, and what’s trending in terms of general interest in the luxury marketplace.
For example, 74% of Singaporeans with over $1 million in moveable assets prefer to research luxury products online but they prefer to buy in-store. Also, mainland Chinese consumers define watches, bags and jewelry as their “most interesting” luxury purchases, while Hong Kong residents prioritize luxury travel. In New York, retail spending is shifting as more consumers are purchasing lifestyle experiences for gifts, such as spa treatments and theater events.
The rest of trend report focuses on what it defines at “Luxury 2.0,” revolving around the digitization of the travel and shopping experience, and “Luxury 3.0,” which refers to the rise of brand experiences and experiential marketing.
As an example given for this “digitization of exclusivity,” Oscar de la Renta debuted its fall campaign on Instagram weeks before buying print placements in Vogue. Burberry hired celebrity photographer Mario Testino to shoot the first-ever fashion launch for Snapchat.
The Luxury 3.0 section explains how fashion labels are serial innovators and “retail is becoming as much a communication channel as a shopping experience.” Pop-up stores, cross-industry partnerships, and live programming streamed online are becoming a regular thing to engage high-income Gen Y audiences.
Presently, The Future of Luxury trend report is only available for download on an unmarked Beverly Hills CVB website page that requires a passcode. The report was developed primarily for the destination partners, but anyone can request a copy of the report, although that isn’t made clear on the site.
We’re told that the report will be made publicly available on the CVB website in a couple of weeks. For now, request a password at: media@lovebeverlyhills.com.
The Beverly Hills CVB’s annual budget is minuscule at only $4 million because there’s only a small number of properties paying into the bed tax. This report provides added marketing muscle for the money, and other bureaus should be doing something similar. | 2019-04-22T16:42:51Z | https://skift.com/2016/02/05/beverly-hills-tourism-ceo-on-refreshing-a-mature-luxury-travel-brand/ |
beige shower tile is likely to make your shower seems to be much more astonishing. Granite is beautiful also it’s ideal for every style. We’ve learned many praises for marble counter tops, however at an identical time, you can find a few drawbacks which produce marble perhaps not suitable for everyone. So, before deciding, let us evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the counter substance .
The kind of the taps ought to be viewed as well. Shower taps are available in assorted styles. There is a contemporary cosmetic that has thoroughly clean lines and much not as handles. Or you may like the standard one which includes got the three holes regular. It’s 2 holes at the deal and one in the spout. The best method to determine the taps’ grade is to observe the substances. Strong brass faucet is more durable and have to have extra maintenance. You will find additional materials such as die cast zinx metal that’s cheaper but easily corrode.
The only created from steel but painted with any color you like, an over-toilet shelves where it’s possible for you to save towels, bathroom paper, and other activities needed within an shower. The only generated from alloy that’s three or four shelves. The one made of timber along using a cabinet. People that want to have a really good lovely shower and think of it like a wonderful spot to chill out and also possess comfort is likely to be very satisfied to possess it. | 2019-04-21T21:07:32Z | http://www.tzusk.net/beige-shower-tile/ |
Known as the “caviar of beans”, flageolet beans are a type of bean that originated in France, sometime in the 1800s (the name “Flageolet” is actually a French name) and is currently cultivated in two main areas in the country - Brittany (north-west of France) and the Nord-Picardy region in France. It is little wonder then, that flageolet beans are considered to be a typically “French” bean, commonly used in French cuisine. It is often served with lamb and there are quite a number of popular flageolet-based French dishes such as “flageolets à la crème” (flageolet with cream), “flageolets au chorizo” (chorizo flageolet) and “gratin de flageolets” (flageolet gratin).
The beans come in a variety of colors and are named accordingly; Flageolet noir (black, “noir” = “black” in French), Flageolet jaune (yellow), Flageolet rouge (red), Flageolet blanc (white) and Flageolet vert (pale green). The last two types, i.e., the white and pale green varieties are the most popular and of these two, arguably the most popular is flageolet vert (the pale green variety), also known locally as “Chevrier vert”.
The fresh beans could be cooked immediately, similar to green peas. The dried beans however would have to be soaked before they are ready for cooking. | 2019-04-24T06:09:40Z | http://culinary-connoisseur.com/flageolet-beans-french-cuisine-ingredient/ |
GENEVA, Mar 18 2013 (IPS) - The current growth model is not sustainable. Neither the green economy nor alternative sources of energy can prevent global warming. Solutions will come from concerted actions at the local and national levels, from the adoption of instruments and practices borrowed from other disciplines like peacebuilding, and from the move to a “no-waste economy”, according to experts here.
In its milestone report, “The Limits to Growth”, published in 1972, the Club of Rome warned that the human ecological footprint had grown dangerously quickly from 1900 to 1972. Shortly thereafter, the warning proved to be prophetic: by 1986 the human ecological footprint had overshot the carrying capacity of the Earth. At current production and consumption levels, we need 1.5 planets to survive; if everyone lived like a U.S. citizen, we would need five planets.
Land, water and biodiversity continue to decline. Global CO2 emissions are on the rise. The oceans are warming and the sea level is rising continuously. Forest cover has decreased by 300 million hectares since 1990.
In his new book, “The Crisis of Global Sustainability”, presented in Geneva on Mar. 15, Tapio Kanninen, co-director of a project on sustainable global governance at the City University of New York and member of the Club of Rome, warms that we cannot continue with the current model of economic growth whilst limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius.
Technology cannot help us – it would be environmentally damaging and too costly, he says. We cannot move to alternative sources of energy – the present alternatives like solar, nuclear and wind contribute relatively little of global energy needs and they are unlikely to replace fossil fuel completely. In short: humanity has reached a stalemate.
“Many U.N. summits after the (1987) Brundtland Commission have avoided concrete action,” Kanninen said at the book launch Friday.
The recent Rio+20 Earth Summit held in Brazil this past June is just one example of the limitations of these international gatherings. Though thousands of participants had hoped the conference would generate concrete solutions and commitments to reducing global warning, the concluding document made no mention of the 30-billion-dollar fund need to transition to a green economy, nor did it outline a blueprint for sustainable development post 2015.
Most of these summits draw very high-level attendance, but in the end industrialised countries’ national interests dominate the bargaining universe. The global North wants to safeguard its neoliberal economic targets, while the South continues to defend its development goals.
Kanninen advocates for a second review conference of the U.N. charter and a complete paradigm shift.
Kanninen advocates abandoning the old approach of viewing sustainable development as a battlefield and adopting instead instruments from peace-building processes.
Yves Lador, consultant and representative of the U.S.-based Earthjustice at the U.N. in Geneva, told IPS on the sidelines of the book launch that this was an interesting approach.
“Particularly (with regards) to climate change, we need some trust building measures inspired by the disarmament agreements”, through which governments allow outsiders to monitor their progress. He added that cross verification between different independent monitors could bolster the exercise.
“This would be very useful because we don’t know the reality of various countries’ emissions. China, for example, does not make this data readily available. India has problems in data collection, but welcomes outside advice on how to share this data with the public.
He cited growing awareness of the link between climate change and human rights as a salient example of the right to information – namely, the right of the public to know the extent and impacts of climate change and to participate in decision-making.
A circular economy is, by definition, a restorative economy: products should be designed for longer use and materials reused and recycled, which would increase the demand for maintenance and repairs. The concept has been around since the 1970s but it has gained momentum again due to the activities of the U.S.-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation and to “Bankrupting Nature”, a recent report authored by Ander Wijkman and Johan Rockström, co-president of the Club of Rome.
He believes an increase in services like leasing would compensate for the loss of jobs resulting from the decrease in production. Other major companies like Caterpillar have stopped selling huge trucks, and have begun to lease them. | 2019-04-23T08:06:44Z | http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/how-to-break-the-stalemate-on-global-sustainability/ |
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Fix: "This Project location not fully trusted by .NET Framework..."
Using the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Configuration administrative tool, you need to add a code group with a path to the network share and give it full trust.
If you know you are going to have zeros appear in the denominator of formulas in a stored procedure or function, use the nullif function to null them out, e.g. nullif(@MyValue, 0).
The test is a complex test with a simple result (a happy smiley face...as opposed to a sad smiley face) if your browser meets all the standards.
The complexity involved in creating a full-blown SOA where everything is a service seems to me to more often than not outweigh whatever the benefits of separation of logic is supposed to be in terms of code reuse (and I'm a heretic on that whole issue anyway...one should remove business logic from your data layer, but only if it makes sense).
Step 1: Setup a system DSN. In this case, we will be using a database file. I named the DSN VFPDBC, and set it to a dbc file called TestDatabase.dbc which contained a table called TestContainedTable. Create DSN using the Microsoft VFP Driver for .dbf files (there are different drivers listed in the available dropdown).
Step 2: Create the Linked Server in SQL Server Enterprise Manager using the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers. In this case, I named the Linked Server VFPDBC.
T-SQL: "exceeds the maximum number of bytes per row (8060)"
This message occurs when the sum of the bytes of the data types of all the columns in a table exceeds the limit that SQL Server allows. The only real solution for this is to break up the table into multiple tables.
This method allows you to set filter and sorting criteria and pull all rows that meet them from a DataTable. However, if you have a large number of rows, the performance nose-dives dramatically.
For instance, with a data table of about 400,000 rows, to do a certain number of iterations of a method that used DataTable.Select took approximately 20 minutes. By ordering the data and doing some checks on each row within a for loop to make sure it met the criteria I needed, the same number of iterations took less than 1 second.
So, be careful when using DataTable.Select (and make sure you index it, etc. regardless). If you have a large number of rows, you might find that writing more code (which, depending on your view of for loops, may look messy) performs significantly better.
Does the table contain a column uniquely identifying the row?
Be careful of performance, add few indexes.
Be careful of the indexes disk usage. Index all fields used in where or sort clauses.
Do most queries sort on a particular field?
Index this field! Sort the index the way your sorts expect the data.
Do most queries filter on a particular field?
Index this field! If the query selects a few columns, create a composite index and add the selected fields to the index.
Does the table contain mainly natural language text?
This error will occur if you are trying to use NTLM authorization on a web site, and the users are hitting it from behind a proxy server. There is no 'fix' for this. The web site will need to be reconfigured to use basic or digest authentication.
This is related to XP. As with XP, I don't know all of the details, so I can't really judge this (though I am initially skeptical), but there's a lot of info here.
Otherwise, if ansi_warnings is on, it will still report errors and terminate batches, regardless of the setting of arithabort. Also, arithabort overrides arithignore.
There's a lot in here for those that deal with SOA to think about. | 2019-04-19T03:04:24Z | http://www.blogcoward.com/archive/2005/04.aspx |
Founded in 1993, JIG is the sole jewelry specialized distribution company in Korea which manages more than 100 retail stores based on a strong manufacturing base. Holding 4 brands including Diame, Metrocity, Kokosugar and Hello Kitty(license) and each brand is operated through a different sales channel for targeted customer segment. Design development capabilities, strong manufacturing base, branding know-how accumulated over a long period of time and above all, JIG is pleased to introduce our various brands and products to overseas customers. | 2019-04-22T14:04:47Z | https://www.jewellerynet.com/en/directory/Gemcome/44122/18kgoldearring |
Your Notifications settings section sends you notifications about new leads and their website activity, as well as reminders to follow up with your leads and for any tasks you may have scheduled.
To access your Notification settings, log into your iHOUSEweb admin menu, click TurboLeads, then click Settings, finally scroll down to the Notifications section.
Each setting is can be toggled on or off, and clicking on the setting's title lets you set the time of the reminder, and the notification method. TurboLeads can send you notifications using email, text messages, and push (system) notifications. You can choose one or more of these methods, or none of them turns toggles the notifications off.
Task reminders: These are reminder notifications you receive before a task is due.
New Leads: When a new lead is captured.
Overdue lead reminders: These are reminder notifications you receive after a task is due if it has not yet been marked as completed. You can specify how long afterwards and how many times to be reminded.
Overdue lead time limit: New leads are overdue if they haven't been attempted within the time set.
Website Activity: When a registered lead visits your website, saves a listing, or saves a search.
Form submissions: When a lead submits a form on your website or comments on your blog.
Inbound text messages: When you receive a text message from a lead.
Inbound emails: When you receive an email from a lead.
Additional notification email addresses: You may select up to five additional emails to receive notifications.
New unassigned leads: When a new lead is assigned to you.
All lead assignments: See where your leads are being assigned (you will not receive notifications for leads that you manually assign yourself). | 2019-04-23T16:09:49Z | https://support.ihouseweb.com/support/solutions/articles/13000062813-notifications |
Linezolid is an antibiotic used for bacterial infection. It primarily works by inhibiting bacterial protein synthesis.
Linezolid is primarily bacteriostatic against most bacteria which means that it inhibits the growth and doesn’t necessarily kill the bacteria itself.
Caution must be used with linezolid and serotonergic drugs as there is a risk for serotonin syndrome. Clinical risk/benefit analysis needs to be done.
Linezolid overall has good coverage for VRE and MRSA. It is an option for MRSA pneumonia where daptomycin is not.
Linezolid has both an oral and an IV option which allows for good continuity of inpatient and outpatient use. | 2019-04-23T10:50:35Z | https://www.reallifepharmacology.com/linezolid-pharmacology/ |
It appears GIGABYTE is set to launch a new X399 motherboard.
While it does not say GAMING, it surely is, an AORUS motherboard. The X399 Extreme a high-end motherboard, but Extreme series are not the top-tier (those usually are GAMING 7 or 9).
The south-bridge area is covered by a fancy shroud, reminding us of ROG Zenith from ASUS. Three out of three M.2 slots are equipped with shields for better heat dissipation.
For graphics cards or other PCIe components, you have four x16 slots and one x1.
Photos from Cowcotland only give us a glimpse of the X399 AORUS Extreme since RGB lighting is turned off. Not that we care, but it’s a reminder how great looking motherboards are without those LEDs… but, do you like it? | 2019-04-24T15:20:41Z | https://videocardz.com/newz/gigabyte-shows-off-x399-aorus-extreme-threadripper-motherboard |
Buy Crocs™ Fun Lab Cars Size 4 Kid's Clog in Red from $34.99 at Bed Bath & Beyond. The Crocs Fun Lab Cars Kids' Clog adds a pop of color and comfort to his wardrobe. In bright red and made from durable Croslite material, this iconic clog features the legendary Cars graphics with a contoured footbed and a heel strap for a secure fit.The Crocs Fun Lab Cars Kids' Clog adds a pop of color and comfort to his wardrobe. In bright red and made from durable Croslite material, this iconic clog features the legendary Cars graphics with a contoured footbed and a heel strap for a secure fit. | 2019-04-21T18:20:34Z | https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/1/1/1155376-crocs-fun-lab-cars-size-4-kids-clog-red.html |
Strawberry Yogi ejuice by Yogi E-Liquid is the flavor of a subtle sweet honey granola bar with strawberry undertones. Sink your taste buds into a scrumptious granola bar with sun kissed strawberries all day long. Strawberry Yogi ejuice provides savory granola on the inhale with a touch of sweet strawberries on the exhale. It will be one of your favorite breakfast eliquids in your collection. Readied in a 60ml eliquid bottle. | 2019-04-22T20:36:13Z | https://ejuicesteals.com/products/strawberry-yogi-e-liquid-60ml |
With all the ups and downs in the market, any portfolio can veer off-course. But some simple adjustments can put things back on track.
Everyone knows you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket. It’s too much of a risk. Drop it and splat! There go all your eggs.
It’s the same with your portfolio. You don’t want to have all your assets in just one kind of investment.
A typical asset allocation: 60% stocks, 30% bonds and 10% commodities.
It’s unlikely that the assets in all three “baskets” — stocks, bonds and commodities — will go down at the same time.
Various types of assets usually react differently to the news of the day or market conditions.
By spreading around your assets you can manage risk (which we’ll define as volatility) while you aim for growth.
In general, stocks are more risky than bonds, and prices of commodities —such as oil, industrial and precious metals— are subject to big swings.
When the stock market is roaring, that 60% weighting in equities can balloon to 65% or even higher.
Consequently the percentage of bonds and commodities shrinks.
Now your portfolio’s makeup has changed, and so has its risk profile.
Remember the glory days of the NASDAQ when stocks doubled every few months? Oops — we know how that played out.
When the percentages get too far out of line, it’s time to rebalance your portfolio so that it returns to its original composition: say, 60% stocks, 30% bonds and 10% commodities.
Calendar rebalancing is simple but may not adequately address market behavior.
Some favor action with a move of over 5% each way in the portfolio allotment, i.e., stocks can fluctuate within a 55-65% band; bonds within 35-45%.
A 10% move can serve as an automatic trigger to rebalance, with less than that for volatile classes like commodities.
Without rebalancing, the identical portfolio grew to only $413,000 in the same time frame.
Results: The rebalanced portfolio had a 12% greater profit.
Overall, rebalancing led to a 21% improvement in the reward/risk ratio, allowing investors to sleep a bit easier at night.
As always, transaction costs and tax implications must be factored in.
Workplace accounts like 401(k), 403(b), pension plans and the like often fly under the radar. But they need to be rebalanced too.
Like most things in life, portfolios need regular attention to function at their best. Check in with your financial adviser to make sure your accounts are primed for top performance. | 2019-04-23T22:27:32Z | https://gersteinfisher.com/resource/a-balancing-act/ |
Being an important physical backbone of any industrial enterprise, an industrial infrastructure propels the growth of business by supporting critical operations. That is why when infrastructure shows even a telltale sign of deterioration, facility owners need to act quickly to remediate. And when damages occur to protective infrastructure coating systems, a skilled painting company is called in to implement timely rehabilitation. The early detection, assessment, and remediation by the painting company of any infrastructure damage not only avoids huge costs, it also ensures lesser interruption in business processes.
Infrastructure damage may be rooted in a variety of causes. The painting company can pinpoint whether the presence of water or minute moisture quantities has led to fungal or microbial growth. The qualified painting company can also determine if erosion through the harsh scouring action of wind, air, and water have deteriorated the surface of the structure, or if improper ventilation has unbalanced humidity and temperature, causing condensation or dehydration of surfaces. A skilled painting company can determine whether chemical, physical, or corrosive attacks have undermined the integrity of the infrastructure.
During everyday operations, any signs of damage such as peeling paint, cracks in walls and surfaces, deteriorating floor quality, leaky roofs, traces of moisture seepage, or fungal and microbial stains should raise a warning bell that it maybe time to call in a painting company for coatings rehabilitation. | 2019-04-23T02:24:45Z | https://www.raiderpainting.com/blog/damage_to_industrial_infrastructure/ |
Almost lost in the noise about Microsoft yanking Windows 10's latest upgrade from distribution was the vendor's decision to do the same thing with the newest Windows Server editions.
Both Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 1809 remained in limbo as of Monday.
"We have temporarily removed all media for Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server, version 1809," the company said in a 12 October update to a blog post.
"If you have already downloaded media, please don't install it and wait until more information is available to proceed. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused."
Windows Server 2019 is the on-premises, perpetual-license successor to Server 2016, and like that software, will be supported using the standard 5+5 scheme, with five years of "Mainstream" support and another five years of "Extended" support.
The former will expire 10 October, 2023, while the latter ends 10 October 2028.
Windows Server 2019 is akin to the LTSC, or "Long-term Servicing Channel," version of Windows 10; LTSC is maintained with security-only updates but is not offered feature upgrades. It is a static OS that resembles Microsoft's pre-Windows 10 model. The same holds true for Windows Server 2019, which will not be offered new features or functionality.
Organisations that want access to feature changes sooner than the next edition - which, if Microsoft sticks to its practice, would be Windows Server 2022, available in the fall of 2021 - must instead adopt the Semi-annual Channel (SAC) version.
Again, like Windows 10, the Windows Server SAC delivers an upgrade twice each year, in the spring and fall (April and October, typically). The spring SAC is supported for only 18 months, but the fall SAC will be serviced with security and non-security updates for 30 months.
Windows Server 1809, the first SAC of the Windows 2019 line - admittedly, the numeric labels can be confusing - was also removed from distribution shortly after its early-October debut.
Microsoft has restarted delivery of Windows 2019's version 1809 only to the Windows Insider beta testing program. It will use that forum to determine when to renew general shipment. | 2019-04-21T04:13:45Z | https://www.reseller.co.nz/article/648622/windows-server-2019-remains-release-limbo/ |
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I am a Thai (Indian origin), I can help teach and transfer my Hindi language and the Indian culture to anyone willing to explore the language. The class will focus on speaking skills and can be altered according to the students requirement. We can discuss a variation in the learning process as per the students requirement. I also speak fluent English and Thai.
I specialize in teaching Hindi & English to students and adults. I possess experience in teaching Hindi and English to University students. I have taught children as part of the National Social Service Scheme in India. I have a Doctorate degree and my academic career was supplemented by academic scholarship. I have basic understanding of French. Its been one year since I moved to Paris.I look forward to getting to know my students and helping them reach their goals in learning Hindi & English through innovative methods and cultural exploration!
Hello, I am Asheesh. I am Indian. My mother tongue is Hindi. I propose to teach Hindi depending on your requirement (Basic to Advanced) in easy way to help you learning it very fast. I have experience in teaching languages. Basically, I love teaching and I enjoy it. If you are interested, don't hesitate to ask for availability. Thanks.
France is a big country and you may not live in Paris or Toulouse, where you can find other Hindi-speaking Indians who might be interested in teaching their language and culture Indian. In such cases, I offer courses or conversations online, Hindi or Indian culture, whatever your need; I am an Indian who has lived and worked in a high school in France as an English assistant, and I am passionate about French language and culture. I live in India now.
I have been teaching Hindi (Indian language) for several years. Teaching is my passion. It's my endeavor to help Hindi learners. We teach to meet with specific requirement of the learner. I have already taught Hindi to few Hindi learners from France.
I have a very patient approach towards teaching and try to make the content and delivery specific to the requirements of the student. I always try my level best to customize the session according to the requirement of the learner e. g. the learner could be a foreign native and wish to learn Hindi for conversation because he has to make trips to India, or student lives outside India yet he/she is studying Hindi as a subject in his/her curriculum. In both the cases, method of teaching would be entirely different. I take one to one sessions, and the course content is designed as per requirements of the student which includes alphabets, vocabulary, writing practice, asking and answering questions and conversation as well. I make my students relaxed and help them to get rid of hesitation of conversation in a different language. Teaching is my passion. I always try to understand the child first and then try to start from the root to make the base of the subject strong. I am quite familiar with the use of whiteboard and digital pen to make the things more understanding to my students. Students don’t need any special arrangements, just a normal computer or laptop and a stable internet connection. It is so simple to use that I have taught even children of 2nd & 3rd standard with little guidance of their parents. Overall, it is a lot of fun, ease and immensely effective. Masters in English helps me to teach Hindi to those students who are from non Hindi background. I explain the content to them in English so that they are able to understand fast.
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Faculty members at the School of Nursing believe and promote the idea that growth as a human being and growth as a nurse are synonymous.
The nursing curriculum is augmented by relevant knowledge from the arts and sciences, which guides students on a path toward personal and professional fulfillment. That nearly all of our faculty members hold doctoral degrees is indicative of our unwavering commitment to education. Research is a large part of the academic experience at the School of Nursing, as reflected in our research grant funding, which has quadrupled in just three years. Our research and teaching staff is pivotal in guiding students through their own explorations of the mutable world of modern-day science.
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Working on a crew provides practical production experience in various areas including carpentry, costuming, painting, props, electrics, running crews, stage management, audio and projections. Learn more.
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I write picture books, beginning readers, and chapter books, and usually speak in 3 large-group assemblies during a school day: a 45-minute presentation for K - 1, 55-minute presentations for grades 2 - 3, and 4 - 5/6, and I enjoy having an Authors' Lunch with students. The more familiar students are with my books, the more they'll get out of the visit. You can find a list of my presentations as well as book-related activities on my website.
Earth Day started early this year with my February 26th, March 4, and March 6th visits to three New Jersey elementary schools. Because of an on-going situation at the Berkeley Heights schools, the students were not able to research a variety of conservation organizations and vote on one winner, but creative librarians Marilyn Merrill and Mary Niedenfuhr made the best of it and I had three wonderful Authors for Earth Day visits.
The 4th graders at all three schools researched The Raptor Trust, a bird rehabilitation center in Millington NJ, that many of the students had visited. The 4th graders worked in small groups and made wonderful posters to inform other students about The Raptor Trust, which provides free care for injured birds, hoping to return each one to the wild. For a variety of reasons, some birds, such as the aptly-named Uno, the Bald Eagle with only one good eye, cannot safely be returned to wild. These birds become 'education birds,' and permanent residents of The Trust. As their posters show, the students were particularly taken by these permanent residents.
To add to the students' conservation awareness, I showed my photos of The Wild Bird Fund, New York City's only bird rehabilitation facility housed in a small store-front on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Wild Bird Fund sends raptors it is not able to rehabilitate to The Raptor Trust. One student told how she and her family had come upon the Wild Bird Fund during a recent trip to NYC. When they saw doves and pigeons in the front windows, they couldn't help but go inside, where they were greeted by recovering swans, ducks and chickens. I'm guessing more students will be interested in visiting the facility on future trips to the city.
PTO rep Yuna Kim picked me up from the train station in Princeton Junction and we drove to Orchard Hill Elementary with her two daughters sitting in the back seat reading my books. An excellent start to an excellent day! Upon arrival at the school, I was greeted by PTO rep Karen Chang, who'd organized the book sale and helped me with the signing.
I was Orchard Hill's Second Grade Author this year. The conservation organizations I asked the kids to research for Authors for Earth Day were The Raptor Trust, The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and the Ocean Conservancy. Posters advocating for each one lined the hallways.
Librarian Sharon Baller designed a wonderful Zamboni Meets Garbage Truck welcome display for me on her library window. She had done so much to prepare her students for their Authors for Earth Day visit, even visiting The Raptor Trust herself and taking a video of a recuperating Bald Eagle for her students.
At the end of the day when Mrs. Baller announced that the winner of my donation was the Ocean Conservancy, cheers rang out up and down the Second Grade Hallway. This is the third year in a row that the Ocean Conservancy has been a winner at one of my A4ED schools. I showed the kids an oversized copy of the check for $1,000 that I'd send to the Ocean Conservancy because these students voted for me to do so.
It makes me so happy that being a part of A4ED allows me to give these kids a voice and the power to help make the ocean a cleaner, safer place for all the creatures and people who depend upon it. Many thanks to Sharon Baller, Yuna Kim and Karen Chang for organizing such a memorable day at Orchard Hill School.
The minute I stepped inside Bayville Primary School and saw the amazing 3-D mural created by the art teacher and the kids, I knew I was going to have an amazing day. I was right.
Stefanie Lipsey, the librarian, had prepared her students very well for my visit. The K-2 students were quite excited about the Authors for Earth Day project and voted for me to donate half of my honorarium to the Ocean Conservancy. Since the kids in Bayville live near the sea and spend lots of time at the beach, they are interested in a healthy ocean, so it's no surprise that they chose the Ocean Conservancy.
After the assembly, I was treated to an incredible lunch prepared by the PTA moms, complete with a garbage-truck cake!
I spoke to grades 3-5 in the afternoon. Although this group, too, voted for the Ocean Conservancy as their choice for an author donation, Paige Coppola, the upper school librarian, told me that many of her students were incredibly moved by the work that The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is doing in providing a home in the wild for elephants who have spent most of their lives performing in circuses. Ms. Coppola phoned the sanctuary and arranged for her students to have a remote learning experience with the elephants at the sanctuary.
Authors for Earth Day gives kids a unique opportunity for learning about the earth and its creatures, and it's an honor for me to be a part of it each year. Many thanks to Ms. Lipsey and Ms. Coppola, two incredibly dedicated librarians, and to the teachers, administrators, staff, and PTA at the Bayville Schools who all helped to make it a wonderful day.
My MARCH FOR SCIENCE sign, suggested by students and lovingly painted in watercolor by my artist husband, didn't survive long in the rainy D.C. weather!
It was heartening to hear how much the students had learned from researching the five conservation organizations on their A4ED ballots. They told me about futuristic directions in science, the plight of bats and whales and why the world's rain forests are so vitally important. In the end, the kids voted for our donation to go to VIVA VAQUITA!. This organization is working to save one of the world's most endangered species, the little Vaquita Porpoise, which currently has only 28 remaining individuals. The Washington School students are hoping that their donation can help to get those numbers climbing!
Thank you, librarian Lisa Breen for preparing the students so beautifully, and thank you Washington School PTO and faculty for your support in making my first A4ED visit such a memorable one for us all.
Thanks to an inspirational principal, Laura Armstrong, a talented Reading Specialist, Angela De Salvo, fantastic teachers, and 520 eager and well-prepared sixth graders, my A4ED visit to McLean 6th Grade couldn't have been more perfect. Right off the bat, they made me feel welcome.
My day began with a tour of the school conducted by the Student Council so that I could admire all the Earth Day posters the students created to promote their favorite conservation organizations.
When the votes were tallied, I announced over the school's PA system that the winner of a portion of my honorarium was — Ocean Conservancy.
I gave my presentation on Myth-o-Mania, a series of books retelling some Greek myths with Hades as the narrator, and the students and I discussed the ancient Greek concept of Gaia, Mother Earth, and how thousands of years ago people were concerned about taking care of our planet, just as we are now. Back in the day, I taught sixth grade and it was so cool to spend time in a school devoted specifically to the education of sixth graders! | 2019-04-19T10:19:07Z | http://authorsforearthday.org/kate-mcmullan.html |
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There are three key differences: 1. During the notification process, the Collector in consultation with the Chief Wildlife Warden can allow the continuation of certain rights of people inside a Sanctuary but not in a National Park. 2. The Chief Wildlife Warden can permit grazing of livestock only in a Sanctuary. 3. A Sanctuary can be upgraded as a National Park but not vice versa. | 2019-04-25T05:02:42Z | http://www.conservationindia.org/ |
Changes in the genetic requirements for microbial interactions with increasing community complexity. Manon Morin, Emily C Pierce, Rachel J Dutton. eLife 2018;7:e37072. Link to article.
From Sample to Multi-Omics Conclusions in under 48 Hours. Quinn RA, Navas-Molina JA, Hyde ER, Song SJ, et al. mSystems. 2016; 1(2) e00038–16. | 2019-04-20T08:11:03Z | http://www.theduttonlab.com/publications-1/ |
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A star-studded cast of GOP heavyweights will be speaking this weekend at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. But the conference itself may not be the main attraction for the hundreds of activists, party workers, and leaders who will be coming to hear the likes of Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul.
Instead, the attendees will be all abuzz with gossip about who's up, who's down, who's in or out at the Republican National Committee. No doubt Southern GOP committeemen will be special targets of a media looking for a story about the continuing soap opera that Michael Steele's chairmanship has become. And to make matters even more interesting, Steele is still on the agenda as closing speaker for the conference on Saturday afternoon.
The dizzying progression of scandals, charges of misuse of party funds, personnel changes, and high-profile calls for Steele to step down threaten to take the focus off what should be the conference's main purpose: to rally the troops and send them off to the midterm wars with confidence and enthusiasm. Instead, they have the chairman of their party basically accusing them of racism for questioning his job performance, a national organization in painful disarray, and the entire party waiting for the next scandal or embarrassment to drop. Although there have been a few calls for Steele to step down, most of the national committee seems to be solidly behind him, so there is little chance they can force him out. But it won't take much for that to change. Steele has been given just about all the rope he is going to get, and with midterms approaching, the absolute last thing the party needs is this kind of turmoil at the top.
What kind of reception can Chairman Steele expect on Saturday? The chairman has never been very popular with the rank and file, but the attendees will mostly be leadership types who look for results. And when the organization you head can raise $11.4 million in March, you're not doing half bad. Steele will be greeted politely but not enthusiastically.
The conference will also be notable for who isn't attending. Mitt Romney suddenly found something better to do on March 25 and canceled his scheduled appearance. Some might think Mitt is going into hiding because a lot of Republicans are angry at him for RomneyCare, which served as something of a template for ObamaCare. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mr. Romney is going to be promoting his new book, No Apology: The Case for American Greatness.
Still, as the acknowledged front-runner for the nomination, Romney is not doing himself any favors by passing up an event where his main rivals -- Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee -- will be the headliners. What's he afraid of? There really may be some backlash associated with RomneyCare, especially among Southern conservatives who poll as the most opposed to national health insurance reform. In this instance, it is possible Romney thought it wiser to avoid unpleasant confrontations until passions cool somewhat. | 2019-04-26T02:16:59Z | https://pjmedia.com/blog/southern-republicans-gather-in-new-orleans-with-rnc-controversy-front-and-center/ |
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Google Music hasn’t been making a lot of noise lately and is, in some ways, in danger of being overshadowed by other cloud music sites. But the Internet giant has roared back with the addition of a key backup feature for users.
Starting immediately, Google Music users are able to instantly restore their music collection with a single click. That applies to both purchased music and any songs they’ve added from their own library.
It is, of course, a direct response to Apple’s iCloud, which automatically backs up App Store purchases, but also lets users backup music from other sources on their hard drive – for a price.
Google Music’s new features don’t appear to carry any charge – and they’re being targeted at the Android audience, though PC users will able to use them as well. The only catch? Users are restricted to two downloads each via the Web interface. | 2019-04-22T23:13:08Z | https://variety.com/2012/digital/news/google-music-adds-key-backup-feature-31202/ |
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Echinacea is thought to be the best herb for acute inflammatory issues. Symbolically, Astragalus is utilized to help poor assimilation of food, drink in addition to ideas and notions. Astragalus has been around for approximately 5,000 decades. Astragalus is the herb connected to The Magician. Astragalus is combined with different herbs to accomplish their effects.
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There isn’t any medical evidence to demonstrate a relationship between the frame of mind and a decrease in the immune system. Other studies have discovered that ginseng can be quite a beneficial herb for somebody’s health. Recent studies have proven that astragalus comprises an alkaloid. This is the reason where herbal preparations are concerned it is recommended to seek advice from a skilled and competent herbalist as an alternative to self prescribing.
As a result, you will nonetheless receive the laxative benefits but you’re going to no longer have the cramping. It’s good to know about their differences as a way to use them properly for healing various problems. Take care not to attach an excessive amount of clay to every side or you’ll have a tough time getting your vessel to stand. At some point, you cough this up. This typically happens during nighttime. There are instances that Echinacea isn’t the suitable herb for the job, there’s a suitable lower cost substitute for Goldenseal in several cases, etc.. While you can keep this up to a week, it is a very good idea to prepare an original batch every couple of days. | 2019-04-22T14:08:06Z | http://kratomsource.org/uncommon-article-gives-you-the-facts-on-astragalus-that-only-a-few-people-know-exist/ |
David Cole of CV2 and I went to Denver, CO to hack notebooks with the second cohort of Intersections and the Denver Writing Project’s Tech Matters group. Now in our final installment, we reflect on a parent-child workshop with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose from Saturday, June 28.
Photo courtesy The Tech Museum of Innovation. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
The workshop at The Tech involved a couple of firsts for us: our first museum workshop and our first intergenerational workshop. To adapt our previous workshop model for this particular environment and audience, we collaborated with members of the museum’s education and exhibitions teams: Bridget Rigby, Prinda Wanakule and Rebekah Nelson. Our other workshops had all been for educators, so we had always included opportunities for discussion, planning and reflection. We cut these sections out which left more time for pure making and circuit play. We also decided to suggest a lower age limit of 9 years old given the size of the group, number of facilitators and complexity of the task. This was a good call in retrospect. We did have some younger makers participate and they did struggle—and not always in the good, productive way that comes with making. I was a little nervous as I’d never designed a parent-child workshop before, but excited to see how it would turn out.
As a friend of mine says, “Parents are their children’s first and most important teachers.” Working at six tables with 3-4 pairs, it was wonderful to watch adults and youth learning alongside each other as peers. Parents modeled problem-solving skills as they worked through the different activities. Youth came up with ideas to extend their projects. The pairs collaborated with the others sitting at their tables.
Another interesting phenomenon was how these participants worked through the activity sequence. We had handouts that demonstrated how to make a simple circuit with one light, a parallel circuit with multiple lights and how to add a switch. Our previous workshops were more formally facilitated; each one of these activities was a separate undertaking. Here, participants chose to adapt their previous circuit to include the new functionality. For example, we saw a lot of people opting to hack their simple circuit to add a switch or to add a parallel circuit to their simple circuit.
We also had a group of educators attend from the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s STEAM team and San Joaquin County Office of Education. Hacked their notebooks with great gusto and came up with some really imaginative projects. Watch Sandra Yellenberg explaining the visual aid she created using paper circuitry to illustrate magnetic fields.
The parent-child pairings worked really well. Generally speaking, there aren’t a lot of youth learning experiences that let them see firsthand how adults tackle new information and challenges. By working with and helping a trusted adult, they have these important behaviors and strategies modeled for them, which they can then use themselves.
As for things we would change, we needed to stress to everyone that the materials they received at the beginning of the workshop were all that were available so that they could have planned how to use their circuit stickers across three activities. I’d also make the workshop shorter: 3 hours was too long for many of the children, whose ages skewed to under 10 years old. While some makers of all ages stayed engaged for the full workshop, many of the younger ones were done after 2 hours or so.
All in all, we felt this workshop was a success. We certainly enjoyed watching everyone hack their notebooks and share the communal joy of making.
Next up: we reflect on our first Hack Your Notebook Day by exploring the tweets, videos, pictures and blogs of participants from around the country.
Read more about Hack Your Notebook at The Tech on their blog. | 2019-04-22T04:53:25Z | http://www.nexmap.org/blog/2014/7/10/part-3-of-3-constructing-intersections-between-science-art-and-literacy |
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Hi octane will not increase milage. Also hi octane is only for automatic model.
No harm in it. You can mix it with regular fuel every once in a while. It helps to keep the catalytic converter clean, as it has additives in it. Make sure you get fuel from good and known pumps.
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Today my the alpine deck went off and was not working after I turned off the engine, everything else is working fine how should I fix it? Also where exactly are the fuse located under the dashboard?
Kia har swift me immobilizer laga hota ha? Mery pas 2011 model ha aur jab khareedi thi to 2 keys mili thi sirf.ab kia iski duplicate nahi banwa skta local?
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Burdock root is considered as the best herbal blood purifier. It has great diuretic properties, which help in cleansing our blood by straining impurities from it. It also improves blood circulation throughout the skin, which promotes perspiration and makes the epidermal tissues free from toxic materials. According to herbalists, burdock root contains high level of ‘inulin’ which, being a resinoid hydrocarbon, keeps the liver as well as gastrointestinal tract functioning efficiently. As a result, the production of toxins in our body becomes limited and our bloodstream remains uncontaminated.
Oregon grape root is the second most important herb that is used for cleansing our blood. It is enriched with berberine, an alkaloid substance holding antiseptic properties. It also possesses excellent qualities of combating infections as well as stimulating immunity. It can detoxify our blood effectively and keep us away from all types of inflammation, itching and infectivities caused by fungi, viruses and bacteria.
Yellow dock also has amazing blood cleansing quality. The anthraquinone glycoside content of the herb attributes to its laxative effect, which keeps our liver and digestive system healthy by stimulating the production of bile and several other digestive enzymes. Consequently, the blood flowing all through our body remains pure. The infusion prepared from this herb is used as health tonic as well as natural remedy for ‘congestive skin conditions’.
Pokeroot or poke sallet is mostly found in certain parts of Africa, Europe and the U.S. It is also known for its good blood cleansing capacity. It basically works on our lymphatic system and makes them free from impurities. Our connective tissues also get purified by pokeroot. In short, this herb shows a great positive impact on our blood and cleanses it in a number of ways. However, while consuming the herbal infusion of pokeroot, make sure that you are taking in only 5-10 drops each 3 consecutive hours. Or else, you might end up developing stomach disorders.
When it comes to eliminating harmful heavy metals from our bloodstream in a natural way, nothing can be better than having the herbal infusion of chaparral leaves. It is a strong antioxidative agent, which serves the purpose of an antibiotic too. It not only purifies our blood, but also plays a pivotal role in cleansing our lymphatic system. However, the consumption of chaparral must be in moderation in order to avoid liver disorders.
Red clover is another powerful herbal blood cleanser. The blossoms of this herb are rich in vitamin E as well as beta-carotene, which help in keeping our liver healthy. Moreover, it works as a good diuretic substance too. Due to these properties of red clover, our blood remains toxin-free and we become able to stay away from diseases. | 2019-04-18T20:30:41Z | https://www.beautyglimpse.com/6-effective-herbs-purify-blood/ |
Great news that Richard Branson launched a competition to come up with an innovation to remove carbon from the atmosphere with $32 million prize money.
ELIZABETH JACKSON: Billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson and former US vice president Al Gore have launched a $32 million competition to come up with an innovation which removes carbon from the atmosphere.
While the so-called Earth Challenge is funded by the flamboyant entrepreneur, he’s gathered a panel of eminent experts, including Australian of the Year Tim Flannery, to judge the entries. | 2019-04-25T16:28:14Z | https://blumensacha.wordpress.com/category/climate-change/ |
The movie Clash of the Titans 2 aka Wrath of the Titans: trailer, clips, photos, soundtrack, news and much more!
When the Titan king will rise the world will end! Well unless Perseus (Sam Worthington) saves the day!
The cyclops are a breed of one-eyed cannibal giants endowed with brute strength.
The Minotaur is a ferocious combination of man and bull. He is an unholy union of brutality and terror! The only thing more fearsome than his power is his rage!
Wrath of the Titans – Gods don’t die.
Wrath of the Titans – Being half human makes you stronger than a god, not weaker.
Wrath of the Titans – We are brothers.
Wrath of the Titans – What are you waiting for?
The sequel to Clash of the Titans is directed by Jonathan Liebesman.
Those Siamese monsters are fearsome fighters!
Wrath of the Titans – Yes, but on my terms.
The half-god Perseus (Sam Worthington) has to rescue his daddy, Zeus (Liam Neeson), in this sequel to Clash of the Titans.
I really wish I had a chimera for loyal pet! Then thieves, and my mother in law, would stay clear from my home for sure!
The poster above features Actor Edgar Ramirez as Ares, the Greek god of war.
In theaters: March 30, 2012.
Sam Worthington really needs a haircut!
Feel the wrath of the Titans at your local theaters on March 30, 2012.
The film is directed by Jonathan Liebesman. It will hit theaters on March 30, 2012.
Wrath of the Titans will hit theaters on March 30, 2012.
“A decade after his heroic defeat of the monstrous Kraken, Perseus—the demigod son of Zeus—is attempting to live a quieter life as a village fisherman and the sole parent to his 10-year old son, Helius. Meanwhile, a struggle for supremacy rages between the gods and the Titans. Dangerously weakened by humanity’s lack of devotion, the gods are losing control of the imprisoned Titans and their ferocious leader, Kronos, father of the long-ruling brothers Zeus, Hades and Poseidon. The triumvirate had overthrown their powerful father long ago, leaving him to rot in the gloomy abyss of Tartarus, a dungeon that lies deep within the cavernous underworld.
The sequel will be directed by Jonathan Liebesman.
Director Jonathan Liebesman (who helmed the Killing Room and Battle Los Angeles) has been hired by Warner Bros to helm the movie sequel to Clash of the Titans.
The plot of Clash of the Titans 2 hasn’t been announced yet, but Sam Worthington and Gemma Arterton will most likely reprise their roles as Perseus and Io in the movie Clash of the Titans 2.
I wonder if Sam Worthington will still be at the center of this movie sequel to Clash of the Titans. But knowing how the studios, I guess they’d rather have the same lead character. So I suppose Sam Worthington will reprise his role as Perseus in the movie Clash of the Titans 2. | 2019-04-21T03:22:19Z | https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/clash-of-the-titans-2/ |
To where do i bill the hours of distress and effort my spouse is going through in trying to make sure she will not be harassed or arrested due to HB2?
I don't know how i advocate for Christine publicly without discussing very sensitive and private subjects. What a stupid law.
I'm listening to Debt: The first 5000 Years and it underscores the interrelationship of patriarchal culture, debt, slavery, honor, policing female purity, and violence. It's a useful lens for looking at the apparent "Oh noes think of the childrens" reaction here vs gun violence.
If you don't mind saying, what do you mean by "the apparent `Oh noes think of the childrens' reaction here vs gun violence"?
My thumbs are held for Christine's and your well-founded comfort in NC.
Ah, there were a few memes about how legislatures will not act on gun control despite the concrete evidence of school shootings whereas the threat to young women in the bathroom (part of the rhetoric behind the NC law) seems rather overblown -- yet the incredibly quick approval track for NC's HB2 ... was incredible. Essentially, "why can't we get behind protecting people by implementing gun control as fast as we can pass laws regarding bathroom use?" | 2019-04-25T18:17:25Z | https://elainegrey.dreamwidth.org/601449.html |
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ALPA has a small block of rooms set aside for active ALPA members at the Washington Hilton.
ALPA Members - Upon registering you will see an option on the ALPA Members Only Registration section to request a hotel room. The room rate is $169 a night at the Washington Hilton, Washington DC.
Located in the heart of Washington, DC, the Washington Hilton hotel is situated near the capital's most sought-after neighborhoods. Enjoy the best entertainment and nightlife Washington has to offer at the nearby Adams Morgan, Woodley Park and the U Street Corridor. This Washington, DC hotel is one mile from the Smithsonian National Zoo and only four blocks from the Dupont Circle Metro. Discover iconic Washington attractions including the White House, National Monument and Lincoln Memorial.
Experience a memorable Dupont Circle hotel dining experience in The District Line Restaurant, offering regionally inspired comfort foods and seasonal dishes with locally sourced ingredients. Enjoy traditional American favorites, delicious seafood and healthy salads. Meet with friends over cocktails in the stylish TDL Bar, or unwind with your favorite drink and watch sports on one of 15 flat-screen TVs in the comfortable McClellan’s Sports Bar.
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Francis joined SBP as its first independent, non-executive chair in July 2018.
With a background in environmental science, specialising in forestry and land use, Francis spent the first 16 years of his career with WWF, the conservation organisation, in various leadership roles within WWF-UK, WWF International and WWF Netherlands. During his time with WWF, Francis played a major role in establishing the Forest Stewardship Council.
Moving to HSBC, the multinational bank, Francis spent 14 years as a Senior Adviser leading the bank’s work on integrating sustainability and climate change mitigation perspectives into the business.
Francis holds a BA (Hons) in Agriculture and Forest Sciences and an MSc in Forestry and its Relation to Land Use from St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK.
Arnie is recently retired from his position as President of the Public and Private Workers of Canada, a British Columbia based pulp and forestry union. He has worked with indigenous communities and environmental organisations to promote sustainable forestry and environmental stewardship to save old growth forests on Vancouver Island.
Winner of a 2019 Delta Clean 50 Award, which recognises clean capitalism and sustainability of industrial output in Canada. He has been involved for most of the last 20 years promoting the Forest Stewardship Council of Canada. Much of that time was spent as a sitting board member of the Social Chamber.
Martin is the Executive Chair of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Martin joined CISL from the European Climate Foundation, where he was working as Europe Group Co-ordinator from 2015, and also led their Industry and Innovation programme.
Martin has a long track record of working on industry, environment and sustainability issues. He is also an expert advisor to the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 on climate and resource issues, a representative on the Economic and Social Committee’s Commission on Industrial Change, and a member of UCL’s European Institute Advisory Board.
Kathy is a Professor of Biodiversity in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. Until recently she was the Director of Science at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
She is also a member of the UK Government’s Natural Capital Committee. Kathy has over 30 years’ research experience focusing on modelling and remotely determining important landscapes for biodiversity and ecosystem services across the world.
Kathy is familiar with the work of SBP, serving as a member of the independent Advisory Board to SBP from 2015 to 2018.
Kathy holds a BSc in Geography and Environmental Science from the University of Southampton and a PhD in Plant Sciences from the University of Cambridge, both located in the UK.
Vaughan Bassett has over 25 years’ experience in international business, particularly in the forest products industry. He joined Pinnacle Renewable Energy in May 2011 and is responsible for the pellet marketing, sales, sustainability, logistics and trading activities of the company.
He has deep connections to other biomass producers in Canada and is an active Director of the Wood Pellet Association of Canada, where he is serving as its President. Vaughan is also a Director of the Advisory Board of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (BC) and is currently serving as its Chairman.
Previously, Vaughan spent almost 20 years with Sappi, a global pulp and paper company, as the executive in charge of their world-wide pulp sales.
As a keen proponent of sustainability principles, Vaughan contributed to the establishment of SBP standards in its start-up phase.
Vaughan holds a BSc from the University of Natal and an MBA from the University of the Witwatersrand, both located in South Africa.
Arnold has been the Vice President Bioenergy with Ekman & Co in Sweden for the past nine years. Ekman & Co is one of the World’s leading sales and marketing organisations focusing on the global forestry industry. He is responsible for the sales and marketing of wood pellets from a variety of biomass producers in Russia, Canada, Israel, Europe and the USA.
Prior to joining Ekman & Co, Arnold was the Sales Director with the Swedish wood pellet producer, Latgran, based in Latvia. During his time with Latgran, Arnold was intricately involved with the new build of several large wood pellet plants across Latvia.
Arnold has witnessed the growth in the wood pellet industry first-hand and has been instrumental in the development of industrial wood pellet standards.
During 2013, Arnold was the elected Chairman of EIPS (European Industry of Pellet Suppliers) and he continued in this role until 2015. During his tenure, EIPS was an active participant and promoter of the SBP sustainability agenda.
John is a co-founder and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Enviva, the World’s largest producer of woody biomass fuels. The company’s portfolio of facilities includes approximately 3.5 million metric tons of production capacity with more under construction and ships its product to customers around the world from purpose-built and third-party marine terminals in the US Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. In April 2015, John led Enviva Partners, LP (NYSE: EVA) to its initial public offering on the NYSE, making it the first publicly-traded company in the industry.
John understands sustainability’s place at the core of Enviva’s business and the industry at large. In 2016, Enviva introduced its Track & Trace TM program, a state of the art tool that identifies the source of every ton of purchased wood. He also led the creation of Enviva’s Forest Conservation Fund, a program dedicating $5 million over 10 years to the protection and conservation of critical bottomland forests in the Southeastern US.
John holds a BA in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley and a MBA from the University of Virginia, both located in the US. He is frequently sought out as a speaker and thought leader at industry and financial conferences.
Thomas is the Director and Head of the Fuel and Logistics teams in Ørsted Bioenergy. He has more than 15 years’ experience from different commercial and management roles in Ørsted (formerly known as DONG Energy).
Previously, Thomas worked as a consultant to the energy sector at PwC and Deloitte.
Thomas is a trained economist from the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Peter-Paul is the Head of Environment, New Energy, Regulatory Affairs and Stakeholder Management at RWE, and has been responsible for the company’s bio-based economy project since 2010.
Prior to that Peter-Paul spent over ten years as Vice-President Biofuels & Development within Essent Trading International SA in Geneva, with responsibility for sourcing, trading and the development of biomass materials (solids and liquids) for electricity production on a global scale.
Peter-Paul holds a number of positions on bodies leading on biomass and sustainability and is currently a Director of TKI Bio-based Economy in the Netherlands, a consortium for knowledge and innovation directed at the production of bio-based innovation across the entire biomass value chain.
Peter-Paul has a legal and business administration background.
Will is the Chief Executive Officer of Drax Group, the UK’s largest renewable power generation company and Europe’s largest decarbonisation project. Drax meets around 7% of the UK’s overall power demand while supplying its 350,000 business customers with 100% renewable power.
Will joined Drax Group in 2015 as its Chief Financial Officer and since then has been instrumental in driving significant change across the business, including reformulating the company’s long-term vision to enable a zero carbon, lower cost energy future for all.
Stepping up to the role of Chief Executive Officer at the beginning of 2018, Will now has responsibility for all aspects of the Group’s stewardship and its business. This includes plans to provide more highly flexible, lower carbon generation to support the UK power system and an emphasis on helping Drax Group’s retail customers reduce their own carbon footprints through efficiency and renewable electricity.
Previously Will was the Chief Financial Officer of CSR plc, a leading global semiconductor company, with responsibility for finance and strategy, as well as investor relations, M&A, IT and facilities.
Will holds a BA in Russian and Soviet Studies from Harvard College, and an MA in International Relations and Economics from Johns Hopkins University, both located in the US. | 2019-04-26T02:17:58Z | https://sbp-cert.org/about-us/governance-transition-process/new-board |
In 2001 the complete human genome was published1 with great fanfare and excitement. Many anticipated that the knowledge of the human genetic code (the genome) would provide a complete understanding of what makes a human, well--human. In addition to the human genome, finished and draft genomes for over 25 plants and animals, including the chimpanzee, have now been completed, providing a complete "book of life" for all these organisms.2 Unfortunately, only a small portion of each of these books is understood by scientists.
From the genomes of these organisms emerged a new scientific field called "genomics." Genomics is a science that tries to make sense of the mountains of DNA sequence data that is being compiled. The study of the human genome will reveal much about the number and organization of genes and the products of their transcription (proteins). This information will enable scientists to answer a number of questions about heredity (the study of inheritance) and possibly lead to a number of cures for genetic disorders. But what else might the genome tell us about ourselves? Will this provide any new information about human origins and help determine what makes a human distinct from the animal kingdom? Many secular scientists have used this information in a variety of ways to support evolutionary hypotheses about human origins and the origin of all life forms. At ICR, we have also begun to investigate the field of genomics to provide scientific evidence supporting the Biblical position that man was created distinctly different from the animals, and that each "kind" of animal was created distinctly different from other "kinds."
One area of research currently being conducted at ICR is a comparison of the human and chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) genomes. The Biblical teaching that man was a special creation (Genesis 1:27), different from any other created "kind," is contrary to the evolutionary paradigm that man evolved from a primitive ape. Following the evolutionary line of reasoning, evolutionists have proposed that the chimpanzee is the nearest relative of modern man--both have evolved from a common hypothetical ancestor. Evolutionists are using certain fossils and the general similarity of man and chimpanzee as proof of their common ancestry. As molecular data (including amino acid sequences in proteins) have accumulated over the past thirty years, this evolutionary link has supposedly been confirmed. Many protein-coding sequences in the genome have been reported to have a 98.5% sequence homology (the percent of DNA that matches between two organisms) for humans and chimpanzees. However, such sequence similarity was based only on a fraction of the total genome of man and chimpanzees, and reflects only the physiological similarities of humans and chimpanzees based on their cellular protein content, not the overall genomic content. The homology frequently reported for the human/chimpanzee genomes excluded "indels," which are areas with zero sequence homology. In a recent analysis by Britten et al., inclusion of "indels" in human and chimpanzee sequences reduced the human/chimpanzee homology to 95%.3 However, preliminary research at ICR using genomic databases and the current literature indicates that the sequence homology between humans and chimpanzees may be less than 90%, as more genomic regions, such as heterochromatin (regions of condensed noncoding DNA) and unresolved alignment gaps are included in homology studies.
Major differences between the human and chimpanzee genomes are increasingly being documented in scientific journals. An example of this was reported in an article in Genome Research identifying chromosome rearrangements between human chromosome 21 and the homologous chimpanzee chromosome 22.4 Using many long-range human PCR primers (primers used to sequence 10,000 bases at a time) that spanned 32.4 Mb (1Mb = 1 million bases) of human chromosome 21, approximately 27 Mb of chimpanzee chromosome 22 were successfully sequenced. This left 5.4 Mb of corresponding human sequences undetectable in chimpanzee chromosome 22. Assuming the 5.4 Mb of DNA that was unable to be sequenced in the chimpanzee genome was 70% homologous to the corresponding human sequence (very generous for sequences that are not alignable!) and combining this with the 27 Mb of sequenced chimpanzee DNA (assuming this region is 95% homologous, see above) would give a homology of 90% for human chromosome 21 and chimpanzee chromosome 22. If the unalignable region is less than 70%, the homology of human chromosome 21 and chimpanzee chromosome 22 will be even less than 90%. Considering all the elements that determine sequence homology, when an entire sequence comparison is finally made between the human and chimpanzee genomes, the actual amount of DNA sequence homology is almost certainly going to be less than 90%.
What is the significance of 98.5% versus 90% homology? If the human and chimpanzee genomes are 10% different, it rules out the possibility that humans and chimpanzees evolved from a common ancestor. If the difference between the two genomes is 10% then the total number of differences in the DNA sequence would be approximately 300 million nucleotide bases (10% of 3 billion nucleotides present in humans or chimpanzees), meaning that 150 million bases in both the human and chimpanzee have mutated and been fixed in the population since the last common ancestor. If the hypothetical divergence of humans and chimpanzees occurred about 5 million years ago and given that a human generation is about 20 years (and a chimp slightly less), then 250,000 generations have passed from the time humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor. To get 150 million nucleotide changes in 250,000 generations, the two lines of descent would require 600 beneficial mutations fixed in each population of ancestral humans and chimpanzee per generation. However, nearly all mutations are neutral, having no effect and therefore are not selectable, or are slightly deleterious, causing genetic deterioration in a population of organisms. A few beneficial mutations have been observed, such as mutations that confer antibiotic resistance in bacteria and sickle cell trait in humans. But even these mutations are deleterious when the individual is returned to optimal conditions for survival and forced to compete with other individuals lacking the mutation. Recognizing the high genetic cost of fixing any mutation in a population, J.B.S. Haldane, an evolutionist, determined mathematically that it would take 6 million years to fix just 1,000 beneficial mutations in humans through natural selection.5 If only 1,000 of the mutations are beneficial, then nearly all of the 150 million mutations in the human lineage would be slightly deleterious or neutral. Deleterious mutations would lead to degeneration of the genome resulting in extinction, and the neutral mutations would cause no change. This does not lead to some "great leap forward" to a more adapted creature. Because there is no feasible evolutionary solution to this problem, this whole situation has been termed "Haldane's dilemma." Even if the difference in homology of humans and chimpanzees is just 98.5% there still would be 250,000 beneficial mutations to be fixed in both populations in the last 5 million years, far too many than are feasible by Haldane's calculations.
The differences between humans and chimpanzees cannot be determined simply by the amount of sequence homology. The regulation of genes is also an important factor. Differential expression of proteins in humans and chimpanzees has been identified in brain and liver cells. In a comparison of 538 proteins expressed in brain and liver cells in both humans and chimpanzees, 31% of these proteins showed different levels of expression between humans and chimpanzees.6 For comparison, two species of mice, Mus musculus and Mus spretus, also were analyzed for protein expression differences, but showed just a 7.5% difference in the number of differentially expressed proteins. The larger difference between humans and chimpanzees would support the position that they are two separate "kinds" while the mice, which are classified in the same genus, are likely one "kind."
The differences in expression were not trivial either, as some of the differentially expressed proteins had more than a 10-fold difference in expression levels between humans and chimpanzees.7 One likely candidate controlling the different levels of proteins in the brain and liver cells are differences in the DNA sequences of the gene promoters in humans and chimpanzees.7 These differences might affect the binding affinity between DNA and the enzymes necessary for the expression of the gene that encodes the respective protein. Differential expression of proteins is one likely way the Designer specified some of the physical and behavioral differences between humans and chimpanzees.
Certainly, the real difference between man and animals (including the chimpanzee) is man's creation in the image of God, as revealed in the Bible. Man's relationship with his Creator affects much of the way he behaves, and ultimately is the defining characteristic that separates him from the animal kingdom. Genomics research at ICR should support this fact, showing man to possess genomic characteristics that could not evolve from another created kind.
1) Measuring mutation rates in humans.
2) Determining the validity of molecular clocks.
3) Refining the mitochondrial Eve hypothesis showing the relatedness of all humans.
4) Delineating the created kinds.
We will also conduct research using computer models to study the feasibility of evolutionary genetic theory versus the actual emergence of modern populations from a literal Adam and Eve.
Venter, J. C., et al., 2001. The sequence of the human genome. Science 291:1304-1351.
Britten, R. J., 2002. Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and human DNA sequences is 5%, counting indels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99(21):13633-13635.
Frazer, K. A., et al., 2003. Genomic DNA insertions and deletions occur frequently between humans and nonhuman primates: Genome Research 13:341-346.
Haldane, J. B. S., 1957. The cost of natural selection. Journal of Genetics 55:511-524.
Enard, W., et al., 2002. Intra- and interspecific variation in primate gene expression patterns. Science 296:340-343.
Watanabe, H., et al., 2004. DNA sequence and comparative analysis of chimpanzee chromosome 22. Nature 429:382-388.
Cite this article: Criswell, D. 2005. Genomics at ICR. Acts & Facts. 34 (7). | 2019-04-23T06:24:15Z | https://www.icr.org/article/genomics-at-icr/ |
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The NCAA Licensed Michigan Wolverines Varsity Pub Table & Bar Stool Set has colorful, digitally enhanced logos that are applied with a laminate coating to protect the surface. The commercial grade pub table x-base had adjustable leg levelers for stability and stands 40 in. tall. The table top measures 24-inches in diameter and features a laminated protective top. The laminate helps to prevent wear and fingerprints for an easy-to-clean surface. The heavy duty bar stools are made from heavy gauge tubular steel with a double rung design. A lifetime warranty is included on the swivel which atop sits a durable foam top with reverse screen printing beneath the vinyl to ensure that the logo will never wear off, chip, fade or peel! The contrasting black vinyl side bands add additional durability and a retro look. The seats measure 30-inches in height, 14 in. width and 4 in. thick. The base measures 21-inches. This entire set is also made in the USA. | 2019-04-24T18:02:11Z | https://www.coolpooltables.com/products/michigan-wolverines-varsity-pub-table-bar-stool-set |
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A kidnapped dog will go blind unless it is given daily medication, its devastated owners have warned.
Denise Arnold and her partner, Anthony Thomas-Chambers, were baling the hay in the fields on their farm in White Horse Lane in Finchampstead last Friday when their two dogs were taken at around 10am.
Miss Arnold finished baling and realised the dogs, which had been running around a nearby field, were gone.
One is a long-coated Jack Russell named Fifi, while the other is a pedigree miniature Pinscher.
However, the six-year-old Pinscher, Shammy, has a genetic eye disorder and as a result has only one eye. It needs regular eye drops to prevent incurable blindness.
The owners are particularly concerned, as Fifi has been kidnapped before.
Last time, travellers sold her within four hours at a roadside in Newbury. The new owner, who bought her for £100, took her to the vet, who discovered she had a microchip and had been stolen.
Miss Arnold said she believes the thieves may not have realised Shammy is blind in one eye, as the dog has black fur around where its eye should be.
She added they are not suitable as house pets.
“They are farm dogs,” she explained.
White Horse Lane is not an often-used thoroughfare and so the owners believe that the dogs have been deliberately targeted.
Shammy is black and tan, with ears that stand up. She also has a docked tail.
Miss Arnold said: “It’s heartbreaking that they have been taken.
“We were supposed to go to Berlin next week and obviously we have now had to cancel. If someone finds them, please call the dog warden.
“We will give a reward of £300 for the dogs and if someone has bought them we will give them their money back."
Anyone finding the dogs can call Miss Arnold on (0118) 973 5115 or 07738 352150. | 2019-04-23T20:32:20Z | https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/kidnapped-dog-go-blind-without-4251032 |
Being a Botswana passport holder, you first of all should be aware that you need a valid visa for your every trip to Vietnam, regardless of where you are, how long you are staying in the country and purpose of your visit (tourist or business).
Visa on arrival (VOA) is considered a convenient option for Botswana travelers to get a valid tourist/business visa for Vietnam as it is completely applied online with an internet-connected device without any document. It is available for both tourists and business travelers with long-term stay.
How to get Vietnam visa on arrival for Botswana citizens in Australia?
Here is full picture about Vietnam visa for Botswana citizens. However, it may be changed from time to time. | 2019-04-23T14:46:31Z | https://visa-vietnam.com.au/vietnam-visa-for-botswana-citizens-in-australia/ |
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Manufacturer Himoinsa has supplied ten parallel-connected generator sets to support the UK National Grid to reduce surges during peak demand.
Through its distributor Ocktcom, Himoinsa said the gensets had been supplied in 40ft (12m) containers and could supply 20MW of power to the grid for one or two hours a day, up to a maximum 400 hours per year.
The manufacturer said the gensets were able to deliver 100% of the available power in less than 30 seconds.
Installed near to an urban area, the units are housed in weather-proof containers and emit 79dBA at 1m distance. The engine models can also be adapted to natural gas supply if required.
Fuel economy is a key issue with compressors and generators. In the genset sector this is driving a move towards hybrid technology, while control systems and telematics are becoming more sophisticated across the board. | 2019-04-18T11:16:39Z | https://www.khl.com/news/himoinsa-supplies-gensets-for-uk-peak-demand/117928.article |
The distance between Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Otautau, New Zealand is approximately 14,020 km or 8,712 mi.
To reach Winnipeg, Manitoba in this distance one would set out from Otautau bearing 52.6° or NE and follow the great circles arc to approach Winnipeg, Manitoba bearing 58.7° or ENE .
Winnipeg, Manitoba has a warm summer continental/ hemiboreal climate with no dry season (Dfb) whereas Otautau has a marine west coast climate (Cfb).
Winnipeg, Manitoba is in or near the cool temperate steppe biome whereas Otautau is in or near the cool temperate desert scrub biome.
Total annual precipitation averages 662.3 mm (26.1 in) less which is equivalent to 662.3 l/m² (16.25 US gal/ft²) or 6,623,000 l/ha (708,043 US gal/ac) less. About 3/7 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 3.1° lower in Winnipeg, Manitoba than in Otautau.
The table shows values for Winnipeg, Manitoba relative to Otautau. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Otautau vs Winnipeg, Manitoba. | 2019-04-23T14:13:02Z | http://www.winnipeg.climatemps.com/vs/otautau.php |
If you are an avid enthusiast that craves to go deeper into the process of processing alcoholic drinks right at home then you can now say cheers while you are drinking alcoholic beverages by means of your home distilling set. You can get readymade set from suppliers together with online ones and can even produce a complete mini distilling plant right at home.
Before you start off generating ethanol or alcohol at home or buy a distilling kit to change your pastime into reality, you should investigate on all local laws in your county, state and country. You should proceed only if you are legally granted to construct any drink alcoholic beverages at home or show it with your friends. If you wish distillers yeast to carry out drinking alcohol at home or in your garage then you should assure that all elements used in the package are of food grade quality. The resources used for manufacturing should also be resilient to strong alcohols and spirits so that there is no corrosion that could lead to a problem after a few batches of alcohol is geared up.
You will need a home distilling system based totally on the style of alcohol or spirit that you plan to produce at home. A set that will normally be made up of a distilling container with a heat source to boil the mixture and a condensing unit to cool down the alcohol vapors and switch them back once again into liquid alcohol. If you intend to develop your own system at home then you will require a stainless steel pot as well as with heating components and a condensing unit that will require to be cooled down with both air or water or any other cooling source. If you are developing your own system at home then you should assure that you get a skilled person to guide you out in the design and execution of the equipment. You can effortlessly find a number of designs over the internet along with a list of components involved, which consequently will make it quite easy for you to make the kit.
Along with the appropriate system you will also must need the right ingredients to make your alcohol at home. Depending on the style of drink that you want to create you will need matching fermenting yeast to ferment your wash, which is water blended with the ideal fruit, vegetable or grain. During yeast fermentation, all fermentable sugars in the wash or mash will become alcohol or ethanol. Nevertheless, you will need to maintain strict control over your fermentation practice since an unexpected rise in temperature above 27 degrees Celsius or the formation of strong alcohol could get rid of the yeast and result in slow or stuck fermentation, which would result in a bad or lost batch.
Having said that, instead of searching for versions of the saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast, which is mostly used to ferment different alcohols and spirits, you can search out turbo yeast, which is an great sort of yeast that offers stronger alcohol at higher temperatures. This super yeast is out there in select online stores and you can order small sachets for your home distillery. This yeast coupled with an good value kit will allow you to generate stronger alcohol with that perfect taste, color, acidity, and character to please your taste buds.
You too can make different alcoholic beverages at home with the perfect set up in your hands. Having said that, in addition to a risk-free distilling kit you also need durable fermenting yeast with high yeast temperature and high alcohol endurance qualities. Once you have the most effective possible set up and yeast in your hands then you can soon say cheers while at the same time drinking alcoholic beverages right from your home distilling set up. | 2019-04-20T14:49:21Z | http://smrill.com/info/say-cheers-while-at-the-same-time-drinking-alcoholic-beverages-from-your-home-distilling-system/ |