It looks like the next iPad model or the iPad 2 is indeed ready to launch during the winter holiday season and some authentic reports reveal that it has a new 7 Inch design. IDG News translated a report from Economic Daily News saying Taiwanese companies have won a number of component contracts for the iPad 2.
Chimei Innolux will supply 7-inch LCD screens, which use the same IPS (in-plane switching) technology found in the original iPad, which improves viewing angles and colour on LCD screens. Touchscreen technology for the screens will come from Cando Corporation, the report says.
The talk about a 7 inch iPad has been doing rounds for a while and other sources like Digitimes and iLounge have also reported on the development of a smaller iPad than the original 9.7 inch model.
Apple has sold a record number of iPads since launch and a new smaller and sleeker version is sure to capture fans' attention once again. It's not hard to guess what a lot of people will be giving and receiving as a Christmas gift this holiday season.
Yes, it's a clever move to launch the smaller iPad right before Christmas so that people bought them each other as presents 😉 Actually, I think this device is gonna be great. 7 inch screen will be more handy to use, and maybe Apple will improve some other features of the existing iPad.
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Darwinism Can't Account for Objective Morality
Greg explains why Darwinism can't account for objective morality, then he answers a question about whether our sins are covered or washed away and takes a follow-up call from a caller about the origin and development of the cosmos.
How Can We Determine Which Christian Moral Principles Should Be Made into Laws?
Questions about how to determine which Christian moral principles should be made into laws and which shouldn't and why Christ suffered a temporary punishment delivered by man while he was alive if the punishment for man's sin is eternal and delivered by God after death.
Alisa Childers Interviews Greg
In an episode from the Alisa Childers Podcast, Alisa chats with Greg about the nature of truth, the need to understand the objective nature of morality in order to understand sin and the gospel, how truth claims are viewed as power grabs, how we can keep from being overwhelmed by this chaotic, relativistic culture, and more.
Can Atheists Be Good without God?
Greg talks about how you can't have objective good without God, then he answers questions about what it means to say we're made in the image of God, whether the image of God can be gained or lost, and how this relates to the abortion issue.
#STRask: How Would You Use the Existence of Natural Rights to Argue for the Existence of God?
Questions about how to use the topic of natural rights with someone who believes in them to discuss the existence of God, and whether the saying that "we come from God, and we will go back to God" is an accurate statement or just a form of "mindism."
#STRask: Does Naturalism Necessarily Lead to Moral Relativism?
Questions about whether naturalism necessarily leads to moral relativism and the ways naturalists try to ground objective morality.
#STRask: Aren't There Truths I Can Only Know Because of My Lived Experience?
Question about how to reconcile the fact that there are things one can only know through experience with the idea that truth can be known apart from a person's experiences.
#STRask: Are Logic and Reasoning Immaterial?
Questions about whether logic and reasoning aren't immaterial because they're activities of a physical brain and whether the fact that some people have a "blind mind's eye" counters the claim that the mind's ability to visualize images is evidence for the existence of a non-physical self.
What Is True Justice?
What does true justice look like? Here are four elements of true, biblical justice.
Jonathan Noyes Article 03/29/2022
#STRask: How Can Something Be Evil in Itself if Evil Is Only a Lack of Good?
Questions about how Greg can say something is evil "in itself" if evil is only a lack of good, how Jesus could have had a fully-human experience if he never doubted, and whether all bad things that happen to us are spiritual attacks.
An Existential Crisis Only Christianity Answers
Jon Noyes considers three realities concerning the soul, guilt, and human value and discusses why only Christianity provides a reasonable explanation.
Jonathan Noyes Video 03/14/2022
A Philosophical Reason to Think the Universe Had a Beginning
Greg talks about a philosophical reason to think the universe had a beginning and discusses the difference between the brain and the mind, then he answers a question about tactics one can use when talking to people about creation vs. evolution.
What Must Be True for Ultimate Justice to Exist?
Those who recognize, through their experience of the world, that justice is objectively real and not merely a matter of preference should ask themselves, what must be true for ultimate justice to exist?
How God Is Solving the Problem of Evil
Jon Noyes explains why Christianity offers the best solution to the problem of evil in his latest Stand to Reason University course.
Four Reasons Why People Reject Jesus
Greg talks about a conversation he had during a car ride with an atheist listener, then he describes four reasons why people reject Jesus, answers a question about God's relationship to time, and hears a story about how tactics worked for a listener on the first try.
What Is Truth, and Is It Knowable?
Greg responds to a question about the nature of truth and whether it's knowable, then he talks to callers about questions to ask evolutionists and the idea that truth is abstract, not concrete.
If God and Heaven Are so Great, How Is It Possible so Many Angels Fell?
If God is so loving and Heaven so great, how is it possible that so many angels fell from Heaven to follow Satan? Could they fall now? Greg answers these questions as he considers what we can know about angelic free will and redemption.
Greg Koukl Video 10/18/2021
The Nature of Morality Is Obligation to Appropriate Authority
Since principles exist outside of ourselves, can we then ground objective morality in mere ideas? Greg Koukl responds.
Alan takes notice of a cultural trend to reject teleological language when describing human anatomy and shows how this explains modern thinking on sex and sexuality.
Alan Shlemon Podcast 10/09/2021
#STRask: Responding to "Denying You're Racist Proves You're a Racist"
Question about how to respond to the Kafka trap claim that denying you're racist proves you're a racist.

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It's no accident you just typed in a search term related to search engine optimization or SEM and and found us here in the Barnwell search results – we used specific strategies and technical maneuvers to increase our visibility here in search engines.
Over 80% of consumers use search engines to find local businesses, and 90% of searchers never go past Page 1 of Google. Also, 94% of people will click on Organic Results rather than paid advertisements, and trust organic results more than ads which increases avg conversion rate. Without good SEO you are losing over 90% of all Barnwell prospects searching online for the exact products and/or services your business provides.
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is basically the process which gets your business to show up as the #1 result on Google (or other search engines) when someone searches for the products or services your business provides in Barnwell. Our SEO agency knows the proper steps to get your website in the top Google results no matter the location or size of your business.
Look at SEO as a large banner that you view every day as you head into town in Barnwell. If you see it advertising a sale in a clothing store, visit that store, and possibly try some new brands, thus contributing to the growth of the store. This is the very same principle with SEO. People searching online for a specific topic or information will be interested in a company that keeps on getting displayed on their search page.
As an example, a person trying to find an eatery to eat in Barnwell will select all from the ones that come up in the first rankings page and not the others. Always remember that businesses can't be successful in the absence of investments.
SEO's function grows with each passing day. The consequence is that it will continue to keep on generating traffic. While search engine marketing campaigns can show your business on top of the first page, your listing will disappear as soon as you'll stop paying. Whereas organic searches will last indefinitely and turn into a long term investment.
Millions of people use their mobile devices to perform searches on the web. Considering how convenient mobile devices are, it really should come as no surprise. Cell phone users rely on natural search results as opposed to ads. This is simply due to the fact that organic searches are totally tailored towards mobile user. For businesses who rely on mobile traffic, SEO is a key investment.
Local businesses in Barnwell can use this insight to get recommendations from local customers. If you had the notion that getting an SEO professional is an unnecessary expenditure, keep in mind that individuals are always checking into new towns while paying visits and trying to find new options.
In the past, it was hard for a small business in Barnwell to compete with the big guys. SEO offers a cost effective and fair platform where online presence could help you rise to the challenge. An old business may overlook the importance of SEO, thus giving small businesses a tremendous competitive edge and an opportunity to acquire clients. By using SEO it is allowing small businesses to not only get the small but find permanent customers.


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Morning Coffee: M&A analysts in big demand in 2014. Jamie Dimon's wild family life depicted in his Christmas card
by Sarah Butcher 18 December 2013
Jamie Dimon's Christmas
2014 could be a good year for M&A analysts. UK-focused M&A has been a little inert in 2013, but more dynamism is expected soon. At the same time, big U.S. banks will need to hire more M&A juniors to meet their new commitments to shorter working hours for existing staff.
Goldman Sachs was the first to pare back juniors' working hours with its so-called 'Saturday rule' stating that junior bankers must not work from 9pm on Fridays until 9am on Sundays. Yesterday JPMorgan followed suite with an initiative for 'protected weekends' in which its junior bankers have one in every four weekends entirely work-free. Other banks are expected to adopt similar measures.
Both Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are expected to hire more junior bankers as a result of the initiatives. Goldman has committed to hiring 14% more M&A analysts next year than this year. JPMorgan says it will hire 10% more analysts to cope with the protected weekends.
Separately, Jamie Dimon has sent out a family Christmas card. Shown below, it depicts his three denim-clad Dimon daughters throwing tennis balls around denim-clad Jamie Dimon himself taking a swipe with a tennis racket, and his wife laughing hysterically. There's also some art which looks like an exploding pillow.
Over the past year, Goldman's shares have climbed 41%. Morgan Stanley is up 72%, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is up 31%. (WSJ)
15m messages are still sent by Bloomberg chat every day. Bloomberg wants to make them easier to monitor. (Financial Times)
JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank are both cracking down on multi-trader chatrooms. (Bloomberg)
Tom Hayes had planned to be a 'cooperating witness' in the LIBOR case and turn everyone else in. Not any more. (WSJ)
Wife of ex-Deutsche Banker says they used money from a charity they founded to buy expensive meals and furnishings. (Bloomberg)
SEC says Fabrice Tourre should personally pay $1.1m in fines. (Bloomberg)
David Hobbs, a former Mizuho trader, has been fined £175,000 by the FCA for allegedly inflating the price of coffee futures in collaboration with Andrew Kerr, a former broker. (The Times)
Goldman Sachs has named Charles McGarraugh, currently head of European mortgage-product trading, global head of metals trading. (Bloomberg)
Firms are "rethinking risk, collateral management, product control, model validation and front office." (JohnLothianNews)
How the CFA Charter helped my job search. (300 Hours)
Woman works 30 hours straight, drinks a lot of Red Bull, falls into a coma and dies. (Daily Mail)
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The Asheville Home Builders Association is honored to have been awarded the Grand Prize from the 2018 Momentum Awards presented by Growthzone for the Playhouse Showdown Project.
Through this unique program, Buncombe County students complete a themed 6′ x 8′ Playhouse working within specified parameters while demonstrating creativity in design and problem solving over the course of 5 months. Each of the five participating local high schools form a team comprised of students studying drafting, carpentry, interior design and marketing. Members of the Asheville Home Builders Association proudly donate all building materials as well as mentorship and guidance throughout the project.
Finished playhomes are on display for the community to view at the AHBA's Build and Remodel Expo each February. Each house is judged by a panel of licensed Builders for identifying a winner for the "Best in Show" Award and homes are also voted on by the public for identifying the "Viewer's Choice" Award. Throughout the building project as well as during the Expo, raffle tickets are sold by students and volunteers for a chance to win one of these custom playhouses.  All raffle ticket proceeds directly benefit Buncombe County High School's Career and Technical Education Programs.
As the home building market continues to be in high demand in the expanding Asheville Area, labor shortages for skilled craftsman have been front and center for the building industry. The Asheville Home Builders Association is working hard to encourage students to explore the options of pursuing rewarding career paths in the construction trades through programs such as the Playhouse Showdown Project. Through this program alone, thousands of dollars have gone directly to our local high school's Career and Technical Education Program to help purchase supplies for the schools and build up the Construction Courses available to students.
Interested in supporting the 2019 Playhouse Showdown? Visit The Playhouse Showdown Web page to learn more!


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Funeral Held For 4 Killed In Jersey City Fire
Filed Under:Eula Mae Pickett, Fire, Janelle Burrell, Jersey City, Mount Olive Baptist Church, William Pickett
Eula Mae Pickett and Rev. William Pickett. (credit: CBS 2)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — Friends and relatives remembered four family members who died in a fire in Jersey City as "beautiful people."
Mourners paid their respects at the Mount Olive Baptist Church Friday to 81-year-old Rev. Bishop William Pickett, his wife, 81-year-old Eula Mae, and their two adult sons, 55-year-old Thomas and 51-year-old Curtis.
"They were awesome people," said family friend Teresa Speaks. "They were God-fearing people, helped the community out a lot."
The fire last week tore through five houses on Grant Avenue and displaced at least 30 people.
Officials said it took firefighters 7 to 8 minutes to get to the scene instead of the usual 3 to 4 minutes because a dispatcher misunderstood a caller and firefighters went to Grand Street instead.
William Pickett ran a church in the basement of their home that he and his wife shared with their two sons. Relatives say both had special needs.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation. Jersey City's mayor has proposed changing the name of Grant Avenue to avoid further confusion.
In the meantime, the Pickett family is focusing on the memory of their loved ones as they say their final goodbyes to the couple they say built a legacy of giving.
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Okara is a by-product of tofu manufacturing and is usually used as a feedstuff. Herein, we developed a methodology of using okara as a carbon source for the preparation of photothermal nano-materials. It's interesting to find that just after calcination, the carbonized okara forms sphere-shaped hollow particles (denoted as HCNS) with an average diameter of 200 nm. Owning to the existence of a cavity, the HCNS was found to exhibit not only a good photothermal conversion efficiency, but also an ideal photoacoustic imaging property, which makes it a promising agent for imaging-guided photothermal therapy (PTT). The high photothermal conversion efficiency can result from the high carbon content and its hollow morphology. The in vitro and in vivo results both demonstrated the biocompatibility and capacity of the plant source carbon spheres for NIR-triggered cancer treatment. Therefore, the current work suggests a new method to gain a safe and low-cost photothermal platform which could be further exploited in biomedical fields.


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FACTOID # 16: In the 2000 Presidential Election, Texas gave Ralph Nader the 3rd highest popular vote count of any US state.
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Encyclopedia > Dichotomous key
An identification key, also known as a dichotomous key, is a method of deducing the correct species assigment of a living thing. As the alternative name implies, it works by offering two (or sometimes more) alternatives at each juncture, and the choice of one of those alternatives determines the next step. For each level of distinction, there is normally a further indent--68.32.19.33 21:20, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)--68.32.19.33 21:20, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)--68.32.19.33 21:20, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
2. Leaves not evergreen: 4
3. Mature plant a large tree — Southern live oak Quercus virginiana
3. Mature plant a small shrub — Dwarf live oak Quercus minima
4. Leaf narrow, about 4-6 times as long as broad — Willow oak Quercus phellos
4. Leaf broad, about 2-3 times as long as broad — Shingle oak Quercus imbricaria
5. Lobes or teeth bristle-tipped: 6
5. Lobes or teeth rounded or blunt-pointed, no bristles: 7
6. Leaves mostly with 3 lobes — Blackjack oak Quercus marilandica
6. Leaves mostly with 7-9 lobes — Northern red oak Quercus rubra
7. Leaves with 5-9 deep lobes — White oak Quercus alba
7. Leaves with 21-27 shallow lobes — Swamp chestnut oak Quercus prinus
This section of the key first differentiates between oaks with entire leaves with normally smooth margins (live oaks, Willow oak, Shingle oak), and other oaks with lobed or toothed leaves. In step two, the entire-leaved oaks are differentiated into two more groups. In step five, oaks with lobed leaves are differentiated between some of the red oak group and some of the white oak group.
Note that this is an informal key, i.e., not based on the taxonomic classification of the included species — compare with the botanical classification of oaks: Willow and Shingle oaks are in the red oak group, and Southern live oak in the white oak group. It is instead based on useful practical identification points. As such, it is typical of keys used for field identification of species, as found in field guides and other similar texts.
A stricter taxonomic key uses important characters for the distinction of major taxonomic subgroups within the group for the first leads, then gradually using lesser characters to break down the subgroups by their evolutionary relationships. Such keys are used in taxonomic studies. Because of convergent evolution, superficially similar species may be separated apart early on, with superficially very different, but genetically closely related species being separated much later in the key. They may also require examination of characters not always available in the field, or characters requiring microscopic examination. Taxonomic keys are therefore not often used for field identification.
In plants, flower and fruit characters are very important for primary taxonomic classification; a taxonomic key for the above oak examples might therefore follow this format:
1. Styles short; acorns mature in 6 months, sweet or slightly bitter, inside of acorn shell hairless (Quercus sect. Quercus, white oaks): 2
1. Styles long, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell woolly (Quercus sect. Lobatae, red oaks): 5
2. Leaves evergreen: 3
5. Leaves usually without teeth or lobes: 6
5. Leaves usually with teeth or lobes: 7
The concept here is that by concentrating on individual reliable characters, any form of life can ultimately be deduced as to its proper species. Sometimes keys can rely on obvious macroscopic criteria, as in the above example, but often they are forced to rely on obscure or even microscopic characteristics.
Other different keys may also be offered for the same group of organisms. When distinguishing between woody plants, a guide may offer separate keys for summer and winter use. Some other keys may use habitat preference to separate species.
Example of a key (http://www.phylodiversity.net/key/)
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Dichotomous Keys (528 words)
: A dichotomous key is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world, such as trees, wildflowers, mammals, reptiles, rocks, and fish.
Keys consist of a series of choices that lead the user to the correct name of a given item.
Use characteristics that are generally available to the user of the key rather than seasonal characteristics or those seen only in the field.


Aaron is a native of Newton, graduated from Newton Senior High School in 1989, and the University of Northern Iowa in 1995. He has studied independently in many areas of biblical and theological studies, and is currently pursuing his M.Div. through Reformed Theological Seminary.
Aaron and his wife, Cami, have been married for 22 years, and have been blessed with six children: Joshua, Caleb, Nathan, Stephen, Elizabeth, and Daniel.
Pastor Aaron enjoys reading, fishing, mushroom hunting, golfing, and movies.


Hello everyone, my name is Enigma! And as you can tell by the title, I need help finding a 9 inch Kellytoy Luigi plush for sale. I have been looking for three years, and I have STILL not found one. I need it for my plush collection and I could really need the help right now. Just please help me with this problem. I've been looking for years.
Re: Could anyone PLEASE help me find a 9 inch Kellytoy Luigi Plush for sale?
You might find something here!
Nice job the first thing I saw when I was going into the linked page was a bootleg Baby Luigi.
I don't think here is the best place to ask for help for obtaining video game merchandise, especially rare ones (as I really want the Epoch Baby Luigi plushies myself but never found them online), but have you tried going to Video Game Memorabilia yet? It's nightram's website, the Guinness World Record holder for the most video game merchandise, and they have forums that specialize in video game merchandise so they might know where to look for that.
After doing some research, I haven't seen the Kellytoy Luigi on VGMM, but I did find Wario and Mario, so this is just an idea of what they look like.
Sorry for the late response, but anyways, thank you guys for the help!!!
I know this is an old thread, and it seems that the TC hasn't been active for a while, but I just wanted to post this eBay listing for $150 which seems to be exactly what you're looking for!


While most women struggle with keeping weight off at least at some point in their life, there are those whose struggle is gaining weight. Maybe you're someone who can eat endless portions and still remain thin. If you are trying to build muscle mass or somehow change the way you look, the inability to gain weight when you feel too thin can be a frustrating struggle.
After you use this formula, you can use the value you get to determine if you are underweight, which would be any value under 18.5. If your BMI falls under this value, there are healthy ways to gain weight so that you can start looking and feeling like your best self without loading yourself without eating everything.
The first step to gaining healthy weight is to make sure your calories are not coming from junk food. Although it is true that you want to increase your calorie intake, make sure it is not through unhealthy junk food. Remember, that even though you are thin and your metabolism can burn off fat quickly, that still does not mean that it is healthy to be eating processed junk food. Rather than putting on healthy weight, you will be increasing your chances of health-related issues in the future.
Once you have cleared out your pantry of unnecessary processed foods, you can start filling your plate with delicious natural foods that are high in calories. Ensuring that you are fueling up on calorie-dense foods means that you must have a balanced diet.
Protein will primarily be responsible for helping you to build muscle rather than fat when trying to gain weight. Some wonderful protein options include anything in the meat, poultry, fish, soy, and egg category. Enjoying a meal of ground beef or salmon is perfect for a protein-packed dinner, as well as anything with beans, nuts, and lentils.
The word that so many women are afraid of, but need for a healthy diet: fats. Healthy fats are crucial to maintaining a well-balanced diet. While snacking down on French fries may not quite be the way to go for your fat intake, products such as olive oil, avocado, olives, and nut butter are wonderful healthy fat options. Fats are great because they are both easy to add into a meal, as well as more than double the calories of proteins and carbohydrates. Some simple ways to incorporate healthy fats could be with an olive oil salad dressing, avocado toast for breakfast, or almond butter with apple slices. Adding seeds to a smoothie or a salad is also a great way to incorporate fats into any meal.
Some more calorie-dense food options that will help you in gaining healthy weight include grains such as quinoa, pasta, whole-wheat bread, and rice. For fruit-lovers, you can enjoy bananas, pineapples, and dried fruits. In regards to vegetables, it is recommended to include those that are considered starchy, such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.
The next step is to try and follow the daily three meal, three snack rule. This refers to eating all three meals without skipping any and having snacks three times a day. While it is important to not skip any of the three meals, it is particularly important to never skip breakfast. Breakfast is most commonly known as the most important meal of the day, due to the fact that it sets the tone for the rest of your day. Ensuring that you do not skip meals is also important so that during the next meal you do not overindulge or binge eat. For your three snacks, enjoy calorie-dense snacks, such as crackers, peanut butter, dried fruits, or trail mix. These are all healthy options that will make snacking a guilt-free pleasure.
Beverages are also great snacks to help gain weight and boost your daily calorie intake. Milk and 100% fruit juices, as well as smoothies, are great because they include plenty of calories and protein. Aside from the health benefits, they are also delicious and will keep you fueled between meals!
Finally, when trying to gain healthy weight, it is important to limit your alcohol consumption. While alcohol does contain calories, it also has very little health benefits and, as a result, will cause you to gain unhealthy weight. While it is unnecessary to rid of your social life when trying to gain weight, you should simply keep in mind that it is crucial to gain weight safely so as not to risk heart disease, obesity, or other issues.
If you are someone who has a naturally fast metabolism and wants to put on some healthy weight, these tips will help to ensure you are accomplishing this safely and in an enjoyable way. When followed correctly and responsibly, putting on healthy weight will no longer have to be a frustrating battle. Enjoy delicious, full meals and snacks and watch as you begin to transform into the best and happiest version of yourself!


COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa -- As reported by the Commercial Property News: "A major upgrade is in the cards for Ameristar Council Bluffs, a hotel and casino property in Council Bluffs, Iowa, about 130 miles west of Des Moines and four miles east of Omaha, Neb. Owner Ameristar Casinos Inc. plans to expand the property through an approximately $100 million upgrade.
"Designed to reflect the style of historic riverboats, Council Bluffs first opened its doors along the Missouri River in early 1996. Ameristar has reinvested $80 million in the property since its debut. Currently, Council Bluffs features a 160-room hotel with 5,000 square feet of meeting space, as well as four restaurants, four bars and a fitness center. With the planned addition of 60,000 square feet to the casino, the property's gaming space will double in size. The expansion plan (pictured) also calls for the construction of a 1,000-space garage to complement the existing 1,000-space parking facility, and two new bars and a deli..."


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Command & Conquer: Generals er et strategispil i Command & Conquer-serien, udviklet af Electronic Arts.Generals er det første spil i serien som ikke er udviklet af Westwood Studios, som Electronic Arts købte op og nedlagde.

 Opbygning
Spillet er et krigsstrategispil, som sætter spilleren i position som leder for en krigsmagt på en slagmark. Spilleren kan vælge mellem at spille som USA, Kina eller Global Liberation Army (GLA), en terroristorganisation med tilgang til enorme resurser. Hvert af holdene har forskellige våben, køretøjer og teknologi – hver med sine fordeler og svagheder. Som i tidligere spil kan spilleren bygge så mange enheder og bygninger som ønsket, og uden at måtte f.eks. bygge bygninger for at støtte mængden af kampenheder, som i Blizzard Entertainments strategispil. Man kan imidlertid kun bygge én helte enhed per hold, og med udvidelsen Zero Hour kan antallet af masseødelæggelsesvåben per hold være uendeligt eller begrænses til et.Generals har tre spillerkampagner, en for hvert hold, som har en sammenhængende historie om en krig mod terror. Den rigtige rækkefølge er: Først den kinesiske, så GLA, og derefter den amerikanske kampagne. Hver kampagne har syv missioner.

Som i tidligere Command & Conquer-spil har man mulighedden til at spille et skirmish-spil mod computeren, hvilket vil sige, at man kan vælge en slagmark, et hold, og op til otte fjender eller allierede. Som tillæg har Generals mulighed for at spille mod andre via Internet og LAN.

 Forskelle fra tidligere C&C-spil
Alle tidligere spil i Command & Conquer-serien blev udviklet af Westwood, og der er mange forskelle fra spillene før til nu. Noget af det første mange fans bemærkede, var manglen af videoer før missionerne gik gang. Endvidere er konstruktionsmenuen flyttet fra højre side af skærmen til helt nede i bunden, og for første gang kræves egne byggeenheder for at bygge bygninger. Alle disse er vigtige elementer som har skilt Command & Conquer-spillene fra andre strategispil.

Desuden er man gået bort fra det oprindelige univers, hvor enten GDI og NOD kæmpede mod andre, eller Red Alerts allierede kæmpede mod Sovjetunionen.

Muligheden for at anskaffe et ubegrænset antal masseødelæggelsesvåben har heller ikke eksisteret i seriens forgængere..

På grund af ændringer i spillets opbygning, hævder mange tilhænger af serien, at Generals ikke hører hjemme i Command & Conquer''-serien.

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Trademark Law and the Social Construction of Trust: Creating the Legal Framework for On-Line Identity
Beth Simone Noveck, New York Law SchoolFollow
Trust is the foundation of society for without trust, we cannot cooperate. Trust, in turn, depends upon secure, reliable, and persistent identity. Cyberspace is thought to challenge our ability to build trust because the medium undermines the connection between online pseudonym and offline identity. We have no assurances of who stands behind an online avatar; it may be one person, it may be more, it may be a computer. The legal debate to date has focused exclusively on the question of how to maintain real world identity in cyberspace. But new "social software" technology that enables communities from eBay to Amazon collectively to rate their members is giving rise to meaningful reputation in an online context. To determine what rules should govern online reputation and the use of such reputational data, we should look not only to constitutional, copyright, or tort law, but to trademark, the area of doctrine most closely analogous. Trademarks are a collaborative creation made by the source of the mark and the buying public, which associates the mark with that source. The public 's interest in the mark circumscribes the property rights of the individual holder. By reasoning from trademark theory to create a new set of rules for online reputation we create incentives for the social construction of trust in cyberspace. One key consequence of this approach is the conclusion that in order to produce reliable and persistent online identity, past reputational data should be preserved, transparent, and widely shared.
83 Wash. U. L. Q. 1733 (2005)
Antitrust and Trade Regulation Commons, Intellectual Property Law Commons, Internet Law Commons, Science and Technology Law Commons


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    logger.info("tune_sklearn is not installed. Please run "
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__all__ = ["TuneSearchCV", "TuneGridSearchCV"]

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2018 was an exceptionally fun and busy year for Tam Makers, the community makerspace which Geo Monley and I co-founded a couple years ago!
We welcomed new teachers, including our first student teacher. We created an award-winning art float for social change with over a hundred volunteers. We started a teen maker club and other activities for high school students. Our community members amazed us with cool new projects.
Here are just a few highlights of what happened this year at Tam Makers, with photos and shout-outs to community members who made them happen. If you live in the Bay Area and would like to join the fun, sign up for our new classes and workshops for adults and teens in 2019.
We'd like to thank all of our community members who made Tam Makers so special this past year! Your energy keeps our shop alive with activity and it brings us great joy to work and play with all of you. Happy New Year!
Several of our community makers took on new roles as regular instructors at Tam Makers. Furniture maker Pierina Dell'Avo led our You Can Build It workshops. Creative director Chris Krueger taught CNC Router classes at Tam Makers and made many improvements to our makerspace this year.
To learn more about our teachers, visit our Community page — or just sign up for their classes.
A group of volunteers organized by Julia Dorn built this picnic table and benches, and set them up by Tam High School's music building. This was just one of the community projects that took place at Tam Makers this year. See photos of our latest projects in our Tam Makers album.
In spring 2018, we created an Art Float for Social Change, to inspire people to participate in democracy. This community art project was built by a team of over a hundred volunteers, led by Fabrice Florin and Geo Monley at Tam Makers. We are grateful to them all — and to Tam High School for hosting this project and presenting it at the student center on Earth Day. To see how we created this float, view our project slides and photo album, as well as this Independent Journal article.
This spring, the Tam shop acquired new equipment for machining metal and plastic. Students used these Sherline milling machines and lathes to make a variety of parts, such as marble mazes and these handmade joints for our Art Float. See more photos in our Tam Makers album.
The Art Float for Social Change made its debut at the Memorial Day Parade in Mill Valley. Our unique parade float featured Mother Earth and a circle of waving hands, spinning on a carousel of art pulled by a giant feathered serpent. Dozens of volunteers marched with us and our partners at Good Earth, MVCAN, Pataphysical Studios and the Youth Poster Contest. We received the Best Community Spirit Award for this collective art project, which invited people to vote and create a better world! To see the Art Float in action, watch this video and event photos.
Tam High students created a variety of cool projects this year at Tam Makers, under the guidance of Geo Monley. Rebecca designed a beautiful bowl on Adobe Illustrator and cut it out on the laser cutter. Will designed and built this practical desk out of incense cedar and epoxy resin. To learn how to create projects like these, sign up for one of our classes for adults and teens.
People loved our Art Float at the Fourth of July Parade! We strolled down the streets of Larkspur and Corte Madera, showing off our giant earth and dragon of change to inspire thousands of spectators. Tam High student Emma Spike and the Freedom Singers performed classic protest songs on our float podium. Folks sang along, cheered us and responded to our call to "vote, speak up — and be the change!" See more parade pictures in this Art Float media page and in this photo album.
To plan our next steps for Tam Makers, our core team held a retrospective this summer, with Chris Krueger, Fabrice Florin, Geo Monley and Meryl Rubinstein (shown from left to right on the photo above). They are holding the First Prize trophy we won for our Art Float at this year's Fourth of July Parade in Corte Madera.
Tam High student Niles Wertz became our first teenage instructor this fall, with his 'Introduction to Wood Turning' class. An experienced wood turner, he showed adults how to make objects such as wooden pens, mallets, candlesticks, spinning tops, and bowls. He sells his own creations at local arts and craft shows, such as the Mill Valley Fall Arts show, where the photo above was taken.
This fall, we started the Teen Maker Club, a new weekly afternoon workshop for students ages 12 – 17. As a result, many young makers have started to use the shop to create their own projects after school. They get to learn laser cutting, 3D printing, electronics, robotics, woodworking and more in activities supervised by Tam Makers director Geo Monley.
Last November, we led a fun workshop on how to create automata — or kinetic sculptures. Geo Monley hosted a group of North Bay Maker Educators, who learned how to make their automata move round-and-round, side-to-side or up-and-down. They designed their own animatronics, such as this animated cat, using bamboo sticks attached to foam cams, sliding through 3D-printed guides in their wooden boxes. We hope Marin students will enjoy creating their own automata as much as their teachers did! See also our short video, photos and lesson plan.
Meet some of the folks who make our Tam Makers community so special! The week before Christmas, a few of the regulars joined open shop sessions to build projects that made us happy. For us, the best holiday gift of all was the act of creation, in the company of like minds.
We're a community of makers and artists who like to build things together and learn from each other. To meet some of our makers, visit our community page. To learn about our activities, visit our classes page. And to stay in touch, sign up for our newsletter.
Happy New Year from all of us at Tam Makers!
This page was created by Fabrice Florin and originally published here on the Tam Makers site.
This entry was posted in Art, Community, Learning, Maker, Tech and tagged 2018, art float, Automata, community, education, maker, maker art, Maker Club, makerspace, marin, meeting, mill valley, school, tam high school, tam makers, Teacher, tech, workshop, youth on January 12, 2019 by Fabrice Florin.
We are creating a Time Machine at 'Pataphysical Studios, our art collective in Mill Valley, where surrealism meets the maker culture.
The 'Pataphysical Time Machine invites you to travel through time and meet characters from the past, present and future. We hope to engage our guests in a fun interactive experience that combines art, multimedia, theater and technology.
This 3D fly through video illustrates the experience we are creating. We invite our guests to go through a short interactive ritual during their visit: walk around the exhibit, step into our magic portal, pick a time to visit, travel to that time, meet its characters and return back to the present.
Press the buttons on this time travel dashboard to jump to different periods, which are shown on the illuminated screen above.
Our Time Machine exhibit is inspired by steampunk and art movements from the early 20th century: Pataphysics, dada and surrealism.
… and many more time travel artifacts!
To see our work in progress, view photos below, and our photo album for the Time Machine. To learn about other artifacts, visit our exhibit design spec for the physical structures. To learn more about the interactive experience, read our time travel design spec.
If you liked our 'Pataphysical Slot Machine, we think this new art exhibit will transport you even further. Fire in the hole!
Animated figures of the ancient god Anubis and the Creature from the Future Lagoon are here to guide your journey through time.
To make our art come to life, we are now developing new media and technologies that will animate the exhibit with animated characters, lights, sounds, motion and videos of the different times you will travel to.
Our growing video library already includes dozens of short clips for different time periods, to create the illusion of time travel.
This Belle Époque video takes you back in time to Paris at the start of the 20th century, when the arts and sciences flourished, along with a "joie de vivre" (joy of living) that is music to our ears.
This short video is just one of the scenes you can visit with the Time Machine, and its authenticity is confirmed by copious historical footage from a variety of sources. Other scenes in our prototype include videos of the Big Bang, Dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt, the French Revolution, A Trip to the Moon, Dada Cafe Voltaire, Trumpocalypse — and many more. Here are some of the other time scenes we're considering for the next version.
Meanwhile, our sounds library now includes many time travel soundtracks, as well as musical quotes about time (e.g. "Time!" by the Chambers Brothers, "Crying Time" by Ray Charles, etc.).
To learn about our multimedia plans, visit this media overview.
We will combine many different digital technologies to support the Time Machine experience: Arduino and Raspberry Pi for artifact devices, NodeRed for the central host, MQTT for the messaging protocol, EasyESP firmware and other tech.
Learn more in this infrastructure document, programming guide and technology overview.
About a dozen creators are building the Time Machine together. We're artists, engineers, makers, performers, poets, organizers and multimedia innovators. Over the years, we have grown into a world-class troupe of interactive artists, who like to make things together and learn from each other. Most of us are members of Pataphysical Studios and listed in this community page.
We work in small creative teams to design and build the different parts of the Time Machine, combining interactive art with lights, sounds, motion, and videos of different times. Besides Pataphysical Studios, some of our fabrication work takes place at at Tam Makers, our community makerspace in Mill Valley, where we use a wide range of tools, from laser cutters to CNC routers and milling equipment.
Learn more on our planning page and project lists.
This is the most complex art project that our team has taken on, and we could use more help. We are now recruiting a few more creators to contribute to our community project, so we can complete it together in coming years.
If you would like to help build this interactive art experience with us, email us at info@pataphysics.us. We're particularly interested in collaborators who you live in the Bay Area and can join our weekly work sessions in Mill Valley on Saturday afternoons. But if you live outside the Bay Area, we can also collaborate on a variety of tech and media projects. Let's talk!
It's a true pleasure to help new teams come together to design and build the various parts of our Time Machine. That's what collective art is about. We can't wait to see what it will look like in a year!
For more project updates, we invite you to subscribe to our mailing list — and/or follow us on Facebook. Learn more at pataphysics.us. We hope to see you soon, online or in person.
To see more photos of our work in progress, visit our photo album for the Time Machine.
This page was republished from our Pataphysical Studios site.
This entry was posted in Art, Community, Maker, Tech, Theater and tagged arduino, Art, character, collage, doctor, electronics, exhibit, fabio, figurine, machine, maker, maker art, makerspace, marin, mill valley, Multimedia, pataphysical, Pataphysics, raspberry pi, rindbrain, studio, tech, time, time machine, time travel on September 17, 2018 by Fabrice Florin.


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Members of the Orient Fire Department, Southold Town Police Department and Plum Island ferry were honored Tuesday by the U.S. Coast Guard for their role in a water rescue last month.
The rescuers were presented certificates at the Riverhead Fire Department.
Three boaters were pulled to safety thanks to the combined efforts of members of multiple agencies who responded. The 34-foot wooden boat the men were aboard sunk in Plum Gut April 14 after striking rocks in bad weather. One man aboard the boat managed to call 911.
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SBG expands into North America and appoints Vice President of Sales
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SBG product suite - RaceWatch, MatchTracker, Focus
Joe Schrimpl
SOUTHWARK, U.K. - March 4, 2020 - PRLog -- SBG Sports Software is excited to announce the opening of its new North American operation based out of Chicago, IL. headed up by recently appointed VP of Sales and Business Development, Joe Schrimpl.
SBG Sports Software Incorporated will strengthen SBG's growth in Major League Soccer and US motorsports series whilst offering enhanced local support for existing customers. This investment comes as a direct result of increasing demand for SBG's next generation sports analytics applications RaceWatch, MatchTracker and Focus.
The appointment of Joe Schrimpl represents a strategic move to expand the SBG product suite to support additional elite sports across North America. Schrimpl is joining with over 20 years of award-winning success in sales and operations throughout the sports technology space. Schrimpl served in various capacities for over 7 years at XOS Digital Inc, serving as Account Manager to numerous professional and collegiate football, basketball and hockey teams for video and data analysis and instant replay. Schrimpl was also a part of National Championship Football staffs, directing the Video and Operations Department at the University of Southern California for nearly 7 years. Schrimpl began his career in sports technology assisting Football, Basketball and Soccer staffs at the University of Miami, Fl and Drake University respectively.
SBG's global leadership position in professional sports is reflected by customers in 40 countries across 4 continents, with local partners in Spain, Germany, Japan and Australia. A new base in Chicago gives SBG access to elite sports throughout the US and Canada, perfectly located to further enable customer support and new market development across 3 time zones.
Gareth Griffith, CEO of SBG Sports Software comments on the expansion into the US: "Over the last few years we have been applying SBG technology with great success in elite level sports including Formula 1, Premier League football and Six Nations rugby. It has been a long-held ambition to expand into North American sports, which I have personally followed enthusiastically for many years. We are delighted that Joe Schrimpl is joining us to lead our US organisation. His appointment reflects our continued commitment to industry expertise, and we look forward to making significant impact in the US market."
Joe Schrimpl: "I've been in the sports technology industry for many years and SBG's reputation and position within the market is second to none. Coaching and analysis staff are in constant pursuit of that competitive edge and they deserve a technology partner that is equally competitive, dependable and innovative. SBG brings a unique and unparalleled approach to elite sports data and visualization applications to the US sports industry. I'm thrilled to be joining the SBG Team."
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The famed Singye Dzong, one of the most important sites of pilgrimage in Bhutan is a 3-day uphill walk from Lhuentse Dzong. It is located at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters. It is believed that Guru Rinpoche, the Precious
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Currently, the area has a mediation center that accommodates 12 monks in a three-year retreat, two main monasteries are Gawa Dzong and Singye Dzong. A journey to Singye dzong will be a rewarding experience
The story acknowledges that the name of the place "Dungkar" was derived from the physical shape of the land. The place has the exact shape
Kishuthara
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Shazo in Minjey
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Khiney Lhakhang
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Wangzhing Lhakhang
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Sivaji Corner
Silver Jubilee Function
Top 100 in Singapore
100 Days in USA
100th Day Celebration
50th Day Celebration
FDFS - Tamil Nadu
FDFS - All India
FDFS - USA
FDFS - Western Countries
FDFS - Middle East
FDFS - Malaysia
FDFS - Singapore
FDFS - Hong Kong & Thailand
Making of Sivaji
Sivaji Techniques
VIPs Watched Sivaji
Advance Booking Reports
Sivaji Stills
Sivaji Hoardings
Sivaji Working Stills
Punch Dialogue Competition
Cast & Crews
First Look Photos
Sivaji Shooting Starts Ad
Sivaji Poojai
Sivaji Box Office Reports
Sivaji's record run + revenue at INOX!
Sivaji's rain of records in Mayajaal!!
Sivaji's unimaginable record at Sathyam complex
Sivaji's Top 10 record in SUN TV's history!
Sivaji sets news record in 125 days theatres!!
Sivaji's record in Andhra Pradesh!!
Sivaji breaks Chandramukhi record of 100 days!!
Sivaji continues reign at box office - The Hindu
Sivaji's record in US & Canada!!
Sivaji continues breaking records - Indian Express
Sivaji's collections ranges between 200-450 Crores
Sivaji's Top 10 countdown record!!
Sivaji's Thundering run & some facts behind it!
Sivaji's Earth Shattering Records - Cinema Express
Sivaji's Pittsburg Performance!!
Sivaji's record in Tenkasi and Kolathur!!
Sivaji's record in Tiruchendur & Tiruthani!
Sivaji rocking South Africa!
Sivaji rock steady in Chennai at 9th week!!
Sivaji's record in Aruppukottai!!
Sivaji 50 days centres complete list!!
Sivaji rocking Pink City - The Screen!!
Sivaji's unbeatable record in Coimbatore!!
Boss creating new records in Chennai!!
Sivaji TN Business & Mayiladuthurai Record!
After Titanic & CM, Sivaji creates record in Dubai!
Even in its 5th week Sivaji rocks the nation - Today ET!
Sivaji to collect Rs.350 Crores!! Business Today!
Sivaji broken all records and going to...ET Madras
Sivaji still rocks Chennai!!
Sivaji, still No.1 in South - Times of India
The Sivaji wave continues...The Screen Weekly
Record being created in Sivakasi!!
Who's the Emperor? - Times of India
Sivaji's record in Coimbatore!!
Netthiyadi from Times of India - All India Edition
Doubts regarding Sivaji run in TN and Chennai?
Sivaji leads in Andhra too (Parasakthi Herodaaa)
Records set in Capital Delhi - Zee news & The Hindu
Sivaji stuns Pune & record set in Srilanka!!
What theatre owners say across India about the Boxoffice!
Sivaji storm continues at boxoffice & The Boss
Sivaji to reap 250 crores & some observations!!
The Boss rules everywhere!!
Sivaji Box-office records & other important stuffs!!!
Middle East : Sivaji The Boss Movie FDFS Celebrations
Galleria Cineplex - Dubai
SIVAJI has created many records not only in Tamilnadu, but in almost all the foreign countries.
The biggest surprise is the GCC countries in which Sivaji has been received in a very grand manner and the tickets are not available for another one week. We are in constant touch with all the theatres across and we are getting the answer that they never witnessed this kind of response for any movie and the tickets are selling like hot pancakes, even after a week time, which is definitely a rarest of rare phenomenon.
The happenings here in UAE are tremendous. There was a huge expectation for Sivaji and it was visible from the celebration that took place in all the theatres, where Sivaji was released. People standing outside the theatre, for their show, were shouting and becoming restless when the previous show was running inside the theatre. The theatre authorities in Sharjah were forced to call the police to control the crowd. People with their families thronged the theatres like attending their family marriage or some other festivals. Its not only the Tamil population, who are waiting to see the movie but people from different parts of the world are coming to watch the movie just to know why there is so much of talks about this movie in particular and why so many people are rushing to get their tickets.
Eldorado Cinema Hall - Adudhabi
We really enjoyed watching the movie here in UAE and it is distinctly evident from the attached photographs and video clips. One of our members Mr.Siva has sent few snaps from Abu Dhabi showing the crowd in Eldarado Theatre at Abu Dhabi. It was never seen crowd for any movie till now. Also attached are pictures showing celebration in Concorde Theatre at Sharjah. It has a huge seating capacity of 1000+ and it is full for another one week. We also heard from neighbouring countries of GCC that the response is very good, encouraging and overwhelming, especially Qatar, Oman and Kuwait.
In Kuwait, the movie was houseful for a week through advance booking, which is unheard in any movie history. They expect that Sivaji will run for more than a month in all GCC countries like UAE, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.
Concord Cinema - Sharjah
Attached is also a photograph, which is definitely new to Dubai because of two reasons.
1. The board shows only 5 tickets per head / person
2. Ticket price AED 30/- per ticket
They normally issue any number of tickets, but then they were forced to reduce the no. of tickets per person to 5, due to the heavy demand.
Normally the ticket price is only AED or Dhs.20/-, but on seeing the tremendous demand from the day of release of Audio Cassette / CD, they have revised the price to AED / Dirhams 30/-, only for SIVAJI.
First of its kind in the history of UAE, even the advance booking is full and even on weekdays, all shows are full. Believe it people, I am talking about UAE (Middle East), a Gulf Country and not about any other place. All this can happen for the one and only man, OUR SUPERSTAR.
PERA SONNA SUMMA ULAGAME ATHIRUTHILLA……………
Moderator, UAE
An Indian film is proving so popular in Bahrain that it is the only movie being shown at two theatres and tickets are selling on the black market. Sivaji - The Boss stars Rajinikanth, one of the highest paid actors in India, along with Vivek, Suman and Shreya. The Tamil movie was first released at Al Hamra Cinema on Friday, but proved so popular that screenings started at Awal Cinema, said Bahrain Cinema Company marketing and public relations head Sunil Balan.
All four shows in each theatre saw 0 per cent occupancy, with almost 90pc of seats booked on Wednesday.
"This movie has made a historic mark in Bahrain because it is the first time that more than one theatre is showing only one movie over and over," said Mr Balan.
"Previously, a movie would be shown at Al Hamra and Awal on the same days, but not for all the shows.
"This is also the first time we have experienced 0pc occupancy in our theatres for any movie just an hour after the release.
"The seats for all the shows at both theatres are 90pc booked already for the next week - a record.
"We have never experienced anything like this before and our decision seems right."
Mr Balan added the movie was expected to run in Bahrain for at least a month and nearly 5,000 people saw it on Friday alone.
He admitted hearing that tickets for the movie were being sold on the black market, but wouldn't comment further.
"I've heard that tickets for the movie are being sold on the black market," he said.
"We don't want it to happen and are thinking of putting a check on it."
Accountant Vijay Kumar, who saw the debut show, told the GDN that the long wait was worth it.
"The long wait is not a waste; the hype is not a facade," he said.
"The hullabaloo is not hogwash - Rajinikanth has proved himself.
"The movie is simply stunning, splendid and superb.
"It surpasses all expectations and wins over all hearts.
"It is fantastic, wonderful and admirable. Passions soar. Spirits run high. Breathtaking moments flash every now and then - words indeed cannot describe the movie and it's the effect on you.
"Sivaji is Rajini's best."
Construction worker R Palanisami who also saw the movie on Friday said he doesn't regret paying BD5 for a ticket on the black market.
"Some of us had to pay BD5 for a ticket to watch the movie because we are die-hard fans of Rajinikanth," he said.
"We only get an off day on Friday and paid a taxifare to get to Manama from Durrat Al Bahrain.
"We have also conducted prayers at the temple for Sivaji to be a great hit and our prayers have been answered.
"This film is titled Sivaji to commemorate the memory of late actor Sivaji Ganesan.
"Another interesting point is the real name of Rajini is Sivaji Rao."
A company supervisor P Ashok, who does not understand the language well, said he could understand the hype.
"I was apprehensive to be honest because I am not a Rajini fan and could never understand the frenzy that he whips up every time his movie is released," said Mr Ashok.
"But catching Sivaji on the first day, I could understand why after I saw it. I enjoyed the movie thoroughly despite the language barrier.
"Several people, despite not having tickets, were present just to partake in the fun."
Some of the biggest icons of the Indian film industry came together for the movie, including director Shankar, music director A R Rahman and AVM Productions.
In the movie, which runs for three hours and six minutes, Rajinikanth plays Sivaji, the one-man demolition squad against black money.
It is the most expensive film ever made in the history of Indian cinema, costing Rs950 million (BD9m), and was released at an estimated 900 screens worldwide.
In every country it was released, tickets sold out for the first two weeks.
The film took 19 months to be completed and missed its original screening date of May 31.
begena@gdn.com.bh
Courtesy : http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=185443&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30089
Muscat (Oman)
I Watched the movie on the second day of the release as the theatre is not encouraging advance booking and we peoples were living 200 kms away from the theatre where it released. The Theatre management issued special order that a person can carry only 6 tickets. during the time of booking one of our friend working in MUSCAT went to the theatre at 8:30 eventhough the bookings will start only after 9:30. there was a long queue for the second day booking. I heard from various peoples that the queue is the first time in oman for seeing the film and that too for booking.
Lot of House wifes turned to the theatre to watch the movies. they could see lot of office workers came to book the tickets wearing tie. I missed all those.
For the Record SHIVAJI is running Five Shows except on FRIDAY's.
We reached the theatre hall around 9:00 PM. We bought the tickets for 10:30 SHOW. When we asked the theatre guys they told the show would start not less than 11:15 as interval is just finished for the previous show. So we waited outside and getting reports from the other those who watched the earlier day.
Suddenly people started moving inside. with in few minutes we dont know from where the peoples joined the queue. even after the booking is made theatre management asked to form a queue as they have not mentioned the Seat Numbers in the ticket as they have not expected this much crowd. i could sense more than 300 standing in a line till 11:00. as time moves on the entire theatre is fully surrounded by the peoples.
Finally the Previous show ended at 11:20 and we could see lot of peoples coming and nodding the head like Motta Boss. lots of smile in their faces.
at 11:30 Night Queue started moving in. Took few minutes to settle in seats.
11:50 They Started showing the Ayngaran Logo. followed by the trailer of SULTAN THE WARRIOR. Full Silent. till they showed the name SHIVAJI, Lot of sounds from the fans even at 12:00 Mid night. several hey hey Sounds. lot of claps in the middle. Got various comments from the friends in the interval. Could sense lot of fans humming the songs with lot of claps. At the End every one trying to pretend like motta boss. The Show ended at 3:00 Early Morning.
I wish to see the movie the next day but my friends forced me and taken me with them. I came back to SOHAR with them the next day. the next Week i told all my friends who accompanied me the previous week that am going for a meeting. actually there was a meeting which i am supposed to attend. but i should have returned back on the same day but i haven't. On the next day myself and my another Friend Mr. Vijay planned to see Shivaji. He also watched the movie the previous week. we went there to the theatre assuming that there will be a show @ 1:30 PM. Unfortunately they reduced the shows from 5 to 3. so the show will start only at 3:15 PM. So we to Annapurna (OMAN EXPRESS Restaurant) to have our lunch. earlier our plans was to skip the lunch. Our another friend called and told us that he will also join. So we all reached the theatre @ 3:00 and got the tickets for the 3:15 Show. This time not much crowd but still there was some bookings going on for the evening and night shows.
In the Theatre i saw another friend Mr. Chandrasekar. He was told by one of my friend living in sohar (Mr. Mahadevan) that see around you will definitely find RAVI there. he was searching for me in the theatre. and finally he found me. we all enjoyed watching the movie.
It was a great experience for me as this is the first film am seeing abroad. That too standing in a big line.
I am planning to go to must this week end also if possible will watch the movie.
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This is a hugely exciting and unique opportunity to be part of the Sunderland Football Trust; a new charity which will be responsible for the strategic management three brand-new grassroots football hubs in the City. The new facilities are being developed through the Football Association, Sport England and Premier League's revolutionary 'Parklife' programme in partnership with the Football Foundation along with Sunderland City Council.
The Parklife programme has the vision of creating multi-pitch artificial grass football hubs across England's major towns and cities, where the need for good quality pitches is greatest, creating a passion and interest in football that lasts a lifetime.
Construction of the new hubs began in January 2019 and are due to become operational this year, enabling football to be played across the sites in the 2019/20 football season. Once built, the Sunderland Football Trust will be granted long- term leases for each of the 3 hubs – Community North Sports Complex, Ford Quarry and Northern Area which will together provide a total of ten new full-size artificial grass pitches. Each hub will be supported by pavilion buildings containing a café, social and education spaces and team changing rooms. In 2018, The Trust and Council jointly procured Pulse Soccer, a specialist leisure operator to run the hubs on their behalf.
The Sunderland Football Trust is now looking to appoint a minimum of two (2) Independent Trustees to the Board on a voluntary basis. The Trust is seeking individuals with extensive experience and knowledge gained in the areas of strategic planning for sport and expertise in using sport as a tool for inclusion and delivering wider social outcomes. The trust is also seeking for one of the independent Trustees to become the Trust's Chair.
It is expected that Trustees will be required to commit a minimum of six days each year to the Charity, including Board meetings and the AGM. At the Trust's discretion, a dedicated officer resource will be available from the Football Foundation to help support with administrative tasks.
The Sunderland Football Trust is a registered Charity & Company Ltd by Guarantee. The mission of the Football Trust is to use the power of sport, in particular football, to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing football and other sports, capable of improving health.
The Football Foundation is supporting the founding Trustees with this recruitment process and in the first instance any queries should be directed to the Football Foundation via email to footballtrusts@footballfoundation.org.uk
If you would like to apply for either of these positions please send your CV with a covering letter, outlining your relevant skills and experience to footballtrusts@footballfoundation.org.uk (CV and Covering letter should together be no more than 4 A4 pages at font size 12)
NB: Applications from head hunters and/or agencies will not be considered for this position.
The Sunderland Football Trust is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse Board of Trustees and is proud to be an equal opportunities Trust. We welcome applications from disabled people and those from an ethnic minority background.
All suitably experienced applicants will receive consideration for these positions without regard to race, ethnicity, religion or belief(s), gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age or with regard to pregnancy or maternity.
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Eight of the 10 highest-paid female athletes are tennis players. Top-earning Serena Williams has pocketed some $81.7 million in prize money since the start of her career, during which she has claimed a record 39 grand slam titles.
The highest-paid male tennis professional, Novak Djokovic, has taken home $108.8 million but won only 12 grand slam titles.
As in most walks of life, there has long been a divide between male and female earnings in tennis.
This year marks a decade since women won the right to equal prize money at the oldest tennis tournament in the world, Wimbledon.
In 2007, Wimbledon became the last of the four major tournaments to award equal prize money, with the US Open rolling out pay parity in 1973, the Australian Open in 2001 and the French Open in 2006.
Williams, along with her sister Venus, was one of the highest-profile proponents of pay parity in tennis, which is ahead of the curve in sport in general when it comes to the gender pay divide.
But this is a war that has been waged over decades. In 1973, tennis icon Billie Jean King founded the Women's Tennis Association, pushing the women's game and pioneering gender equality.
However, there continues to be debate about whether women should earn the same as men. Opponents argue women attract smaller crowds, generate less money for the sport, and their matches are far shorter (the best of three sets to men's best of five). Djokovic, pictured below, is among those claiming men should "fight for more".
At Wimbledon, more of the men's matches have been scheduled on best-placed centre court and court one in the last two championships.
The debate's is likely to to heat up again with Hollywood's adaptation of King's "battle of the sexes", in which she took down former world number one Bobby Riggs, pegged to hit the big screens this summer.


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Gym equipment 101: Your guide to gains | Well+Good
Feel Prepared and Efficient the Next Time You Hit the Gym With This Equipment Guide
Tehrene Firman・January 7, 2020
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If there's one word to describe the gym this month, it's crowded. Still, there's no time like the present to learn how to use a new piece of gym equipment—even when there's a line of people waiting to use it after you. The good news is you can become a pro before you even walk through those doors.
To feel confident and prepared during your workouts, first create a plan. Then dive into exactly what you need to know to get a great workout once you get there. Whether you've been wanting to try out the rowing machine or want to get more out of your elliptical sessions, here's a roundup of our best guides that will help you master the most common pieces of gym equipment like a boss.
How to use gym equipment like a pro during your next visit
1.BENCH
There are so many different ways you can use the bench at the gym. If you want to ease into the piece of equipment sans weights, try bodyweight exercises first. You can do a circuit that consists of pushups, squats, jump overs, and other moves.
2. weights
Weight training can feel intimidating. When you're just starting out, learn some of the best beginner-friendly sets, including goblet squats, ledge rows, and lunge to bicep curls.
3. Rowing machine
Everyone tends to make the same mistake when using a rowing machine by letting their arms doing all the work. Mastering the correct form is easier than you think. Before you sit down, just learn the three-part movement pattern, which includes the finish, the catch, and the drive.
4. Assault bike
Many people think of the assault bike as boring, but it's anything but. It's popping up in HIIT classes for its stellar conditioning perks, and there's a challenging way to use it. "I recommended the Tabata process—it really gets the heart rate up before, during, or after any work. It's a big caloric burner," says trainer Jay Mark of FitHouse. Start by doing three one-minute intervals with 30 seconds of rest between each.
5. Battle ropes
You've probably seen the battle ropes hanging out at the gym, and now it's time to go over and pick them up. "Battle ropes can provide an excellent workout because they allow you to do some challenging moves without having to put your joints through the stress of carrying weights," says trainer Tyler Spraul, CSCS. When you use them, make sure you're using the right form. "Stand in a strong athletic stance with knees and hips bent. A slight curve in your back is okay, and keeping your core tight in this stance will give you a solid foundation for any regular battle ropes exercises," he says.
6. Elliptical
Using the elliptical is a great way to get in a low-impact cardio workout. If you use it correctly, that is. For the best results, trainers recommend focusing on a handful of aspects: not going too fast (and adding resistance!), using the right form with your back straight and shoulders back, and making sure you're never leaning, rocking, or twisting.
7. Bosu ball
The Bosu ball is the ultimate stability-builder, and it can be used for far more than crunches. "I love it because it can be added to so many simple exercises to make them even more challenging and effective," says Tiffani Hendin, obé fitness instructor. Hendin recommends doing Bosu ball burpees and Bosu ball squats to really work your muscles.
8. Ski erg
The ski erg is basically a rowing machine that stands upright. Instead of sitting and pulling the handles in toward your chest, you're standing and pulling the handles down like you're using ski poles. "The ski erg is a low impact workout and a high calorie burner," says Tatiana Lampa, a trainer at FitHouse. "I like using it as a cardio sprint, or even at the end of a workout for metabolic conditioning."
9. StairMaster
The StairMaster works your glutes, quads, hamstrings, and calves—basically your entire lower body. If you're not sure which type of workout to do on it, there are a bunch of different options, from a HIIT routine to a weighted warmup.
Here's a 5-minute HIIT workout you can do right at home:
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Five members of Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades and a Palestinian firefighter died in an explosion inside a tunnel in the al-Tuffah neighborhood near a Hamas military site in eastern Gaza City on Thursday.
Ministry of health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said firefighter Hussein Tawfiq Masoud, 28, from Rafah died after inhaling gas in the tunnel.
The dead Hamas fighters were identified as Salman Naim al-Harazin, Ahmad Khalil Ayyad, Ibrahim Salih al-Qar'an, Raed Kamil Marshoud, and Khalil al-Gharabli, all from al-Shujaiyeh neighborhood.
Witnesses told Ma'an that an explosion shook a house in the al-Tuffah neighborhood, and ambulances and civil defense services rushed to the scene.
A day earlier the same neighborhood area was targeted by an Israeli airstrike.


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Sandy Lee Bragg, a resident of Tarrant, AL., entered into eternal rest on March 13, 2019. Funeral services are scheduled for 12:00 noon on March 23, 2019 at Macedonia 17th Street Baptist Church (1405 13th Ave. N). Burial will follow in Zion Memorial Gardens. Public visitation will be Friday, March 22, 2019 from 3:00 until 8:00 P.M. at the funeral home.


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Verizon's New Solution Tackles IoT for Utility Companies
By atesmeh | July 29, 2015
Verizon is hoping to help utility companies ease into the coming age of the Internet of Things (IoT).
The company today announced "Grid Wide Utility Solutions," a new IoT platform service that aims to ease the pain of modernizing the grid for utility companies.
Now available in the U.S., Grid Wide offers electric utility companies an integrated solution for smart metering, demand response, meter data management and distribution monitoring and control.
According to a press release, Verizon said the solution can maximize the benefits of smart meters and comes equipped with a wide range of cloud-based applications intended to help utilities companies boost revenue and keep costs down.
"Historically, utility companies have constructed costly communications networks and installed premise-based servers designed to last for at least a decade," said Jay Olearain, director of business development for energy & utilities, IoT Connected Solutions at Verizon. "The industry has since realized that the coverage, reliability and security of public wireless networks have evolved well beyond anything that they can construct on their own efficiently and with scale."
Olearain said that Verizon pre-built Grid Wide as an as-a-service model, which the company hopes will remove the complexities, time and cost for utilities with having to build their own solution.
"As a result, utilities don't have to swap out their entire meter population, they can start to solve the problem areas right now on a per-month, per-meter cost basis," he added.
Verizon said its revenue from the IoT and telematics totaled approximately $165 million in second-quarter 2015 and $320 million year to date.
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Chronicled and The LinkLab Announce The MediLedger Project, a Revolutionary Blockchain-backed System to Safeguard the Pharmaceutical Industry
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Chronicled, Inc. and The LinkLab LLC today announced The MediLedger Project, a joint venture that will explore and develop blockchain solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. The project is primarily aimed at demonstrating compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), utilizing innovative capabilities found with blockchain technology to track and trace prescription medicines. The project seeks to demonstrate the ability to prevent counterfeit medicines from entering the supply chain. The DSCSA requires the industry to adopt an "interoperable system" to manage records of ownership and transfer of prescription drugs in the United States, and they feel strongly that blockchain technology could be best suited to do this.
Blockchain offers a number of unique advantages over older technologies. Every time an asset is registered, verified, or transferred on a blockchain, a distributed network of validation "nodes" come to consensus, making it exceedingly difficult for malicious actors to fabricate or tamper with the event logs. Therefore, it is much more secure than existing central database solutions, which are vulnerable to hacking and data addition or deletion by a central administrator, and allows for a level of data provenance that has not been possible within current frameworks. The MediLedger Project aims to leverage this capability to create an interoperable system in which multiple parties, including manufacturers, wholesale distributors, hospitals, and pharmacies can register, verify, and transfer pharmaceutical products with absolute trust in their authenticity and provenance. This represents a major step forward in regulatory transparency and consumer safety and signifies an important step forward in the application of blockchain technology to the biopharmaceutical industry.
"Traditional, centralized databases are like castles with moats," said Chronicled CEO Ryan Orr. "You can fortify them as much as you want, but a hacker will always find a clever way to sneak inside the castle. Blockchain introduces a whole new paradigm. It's a distributed network, data is cryptographically secured, a breach in one node has no effect on the whole, and the consensus mechanism prevents malicious actors from tampering the system. That's one of the things that's really revolutionary about this technology."
The MediLedger Project has aspirations beyond helping to enable pharmaceutical companies to achieve DSCSA compliance. The participants hope to use their system to help fundamentally move the industry forward in improving drug security and preventing the production and trafficking of counterfeit and illicit drugs globally. By year end, they plan to have demonstrated, through a series of milestones, the advantages of a blockchain system as the best way forward for this significant use case.
The project has formed a working group of pharmaceutical industry leaders, which include Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, Pfizer, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson Corporation. The working group defined the industry requirements for the blockchain pilot, both for a prototype system and for an industry operating model. The group has met the first hurdle: building a prototype system for the registration and verification of medicines on the blockchain while keeping all business information private from other participants. The next effort will be focused on developing business models and operating requirements.
"The immediate goal for us is to show that blockchain is the best solution for this need," said Susanne Somerville, co-Founder of The LinkLab. "We are aiming to have done that by the end of the year. After that, the sky's the limit."
About Chronicled
Based in San Francisco, Chronicled is a technology company leveraging blockchain and IoT to power smart, secure supply chain solutions. Chronicled secures IoT device identities, data, and event logs and automates IoT-dependent business logic through smart contracts. Chronicled is also a founding member of the Trusted IoT Alliance, with the mission of creating open source tools and standards to connect IoT and blockchain ecosystems to deliver business value.
About The LinkLab
The LinkLab is a unique supply chain consulting group founded to provide life science companies guidance and support to meet world-wide serialization regulations. With deadlines fast approaching, we work to provide companies with innovative approaches to ensure gaps are identified, timelines are met, and business value is realized. The LinkLab formed from observing the Pharma industry's progression in establishing electronic management of prescription medicines and seeing a need for improvements. With experience going back to 2008 in planning for California's ePedigree law, The LinkLab principals have, for the last four years, focused on projects which support the packaging, distribution, and commercial requirements of serializing prescription medicines. To learn more, visit http://www.thelinklab.com/.
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Q: $e^{i(kx-\omega t)}$ as a wave Consider $u(x,t)=\exp(i(kx-\omega t))$. Then, in case that $\omega$ is a real number, this describes a travelling wave with speed $\omega/k$ moving to the right.
This surely lives on the complex plane since
$$
u(x,t)=\cos(kx-\omega t)+i\sin(kx-\omega t).
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In which way can we call this a "wave"? This surely is not to be thought of as some sinusodial wave I first think of when hearing the word "wave"?
Same question with $e^{i\omega t}$.

A: Write it like $u(z,t) = \cos(kz-\omega t)\cdot \bar x + \sin(kz - \omega t) \cdot \bar y$.
This precise expression gives you a wave of the following form (the cosine and sine describe how the $x,y$ coordinates of the wave move, as it travels through the $z$ direction):

A more general wave, of the form $u(z,t)=A\cos\phi \cdot \bar x + B \sin(\phi + \varphi)\cdot \bar y$ can be represented as a combination of the blue and red curves below:

Addendum:
Noting that $\bar x = (1,0), \bar y = (0, 1)$, one may write, $u(z,t)=\cos \phi +i\sin \phi = \exp(i\phi)$, where $\phi =kz-\omega t$.
Why do I like the representation I wrote first? Well, you can see that if you have a wave travelling in some direction, we can call that direction $z$, the two remaining perpendicular directions $x,y$ and we have an explicit expression of the periodic behaviour of the wave in it's $x$ and $y$ directions.
An analogous analysis can be done with $\exp i\omega t$, can you see it?

A: The wave is complex as you wrote and it can be thought of as cork-screwing throughout space and time, but to think of it as a wave you will need to consider the real and imaginary parts separately:
On the left is a plot of the real part of the wave and on the right is it's complex part:

As you can see these look more 'wave like'.
You may think of it as a wave when you consider the real part of the wave in one dimension $$\Re[u(x,t)]=\Re[e^{ikx-i\omega t}]=\cos(kx-\omega t)$$
Selecting $\omega \gt 0$ and $k\gt 0$ will result in a rightward travelling wave, with $k\lt 0$ results in a leftward travelling wave. Plotting a graph for $t=1,2,3,....$ will allow you to see this.

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Needless to say, this was shocking to us. It's a shame and a horror, but it's the reality. Luckily last year, Portugal passed the law⁰8/2017. It's a law that protects dogs. No longer are dogs considered "furniture" or poor little objects. Now, if you own a dog you must provide food, eau, and medical help. If the dog is in pain, is injured or suffering you can go to jail for up to 1-year. Finally! My only gripe is that 1 year in jail is not enough. I would sentence the offender depending on the circumstances anywhere from to 2-5 years.
If you have earned your residency in Portugal, you are eligible to adopt a dog. In various shelters, they will have internal rules on who they will allow to adopt a dog. Par exemple, Uniao Zoofila, a rescue in Lisbon will only allow locals who live in the city limits adopt their dogs. This is because they check-up on newly adopted dogs to make sure the dogs are being treated kindly, and to assist in any health or training necessary for the puppy. This is a rule I can agree with!
Tout d'abord, we won't discuss where to buy dogs. We're an adopt don't shop household and we will look down on you with spite if you don't adhere to this way of living. Autre que ça, we're cool.
aucun. But…but there are places that don't really give a crap. They like dogs, and like your money. Just ask before you go in. Most people will just nod their head and look the other way. Just watch out for restaurants, the fine is pretty steep at 100 Euros, so only bring them there if there is an outside area. If it's your local bar/cafe people will not mind. Regardless, there are plenty of miradouros and kiosks in Lisbon you can take your pup to.
METTRE À JOUR: As of May 2017, Pets will be allowed in restaurants in Portugal as long as they have a sign saying restaurants are allowed. Dogs will need to be on a short leash and can only stay in the service zone (aka – no kitchen acces).
We always have anxiety when flying with our dog. In order to reduce these worries, we always make sure we have a direct flight, keep the flights under 3 hours, buy a good crate, and have him relaxed before the flight. Natasha from Pegadas e Bigodes goes to the Netherlands for holidays and to adopt out dogs on a relatively consistent basis and has never lost a dog. She is smart. Apparemment, it's cheaper with cargo when going throughout Europe.
Let's start this off by saying, skip the taxis. Ubers are so much better in Portugal. Now that that is out of the way, if you need to travel by taxi, a good suggestion is to muzzle your dog. Many taxi owners are fine with dogs, but a few are pretty anti-dog (they tend to be more of the old-school Portuguese). They will say that the dog will shed and get other owners allergies up. Sure, these are valid concerns, mais honnêtement, most just don't like dogs.
I have never had a problem with an Uber driver. Premier, book your Uber. Puis, immediately call the driver. Tell him or her where you are, and that you have a little dog with you. If they are "anti-dog" they will just cancel the trip. I have yet to have this happen to me.
 Jardim do Arco do Cego in Saldanha: This one just opened in January 2018, it's not the best. The issue is that the park is a rectangle of dirt surrounded by a fence. Most people let their dogs just run loose in the park, but because the university is nearby, the park can be quite dirty. Students often leave half eaten food, bouteilles, and trash all over…and while the freguesia has people to clean it…it's quite a job. Not my fave, but does the trick when you're in a rush.
How to get there: La ligne rouge ou jaune à Saldanha.
Content que tu aies aimé. Most restaurants here are ok as long as they have an outside area/terrace. It really depends on the restaurant owner. Yes, it is supposed to go into effect May of this year, but keep in mind it is voluntary – so not all restaurants will have to accept dogs, only those who want to.
Ouais, people are super nice here with dogs. Everyone's been super sweet with Santino on the metro. No issues so far with Uber drivers, I just keep Santino on my lap (he's only 11 kilos). How big is your pup?
salut, thanks for the details! I've been looking everywhere for raw / frozen dog food but I haven't had any luck… I've gone to Marco's and Pet Outlet and they had never seen or heard of it anywhere. I am near Barrio Alto… do you know of anywhere nearby that sells any? I am at a loss!