Are there any ads now? Where?
I sure can't find any!
It makes me sad when people say not to chat. It is allowed as long as it's on topic and it builds a friendly environment between WI members.
I've been lurking for about a year. LOL! I think this is my 5th or 6th post. And y'all are too quick for me. I have 2 kids and 4 neighborhood kids here. Yep. I'm that house! LOL! Usually there's about 7 neighborhood kids here. It's a slow day. I've already gifted all that I can. I had so much. I think I found the add when it just started. I had so much stuff!!! So I gave away what I could and now I hold on to stuff if I make new friends and they didn't get something from this thing. I don't do the trading room to often. But, I love this idea.
Glad you joined us here! It's such a great group of helpful people.
I hope to see Doc more often this evening - anybody seen him recently?
Cloud one is special but what do you mean by infractions ??
LOL light chatter is okay we need to do something , while we search !! No ads !!
See I can edit my post !! No ads right now !!
I love gifting to kids as they usually love them the most and get the least. Also welcome to the boards!
I guess it depends on who is saying not to chat.....a lot of people have said that today, but they are relatively new, and I don't know if they understand that chat is allowed, it just has to be kept on the topic of snow white. (That's hard to do sometimes!) I would hate for someone not to join in the fun out of fear of being yelled at. Please feel free to join our conversations, and I'll take the heat if anything happens!
Are they coming in any regular timing, or is it random? Has it been more than once an hour?


It's official. Summer is less than 12 weeks away. Are you ready for tank tops, bikinis and short skirts?
No? Then, let's get started.
Welcome to the first installment of my Countdown to a Healthy Summer series.
Start the week off right with a pantry raid. Get organized. Rid your pantry (and your life) of processed, low nutrient foods that are getting in the way of you getting healthy.
A well-stocked pantry is the secret to getting and staying healthy. Having everything you need on hand to whip up a quick and healthy meal is the goal for this week. Below are basic pantry staples that should be stocked in your kitchen at all times. These foods are the foundation for most of the healthy recipes you find in magazines and cookbooks.
NEXT WEEK, we'll turn up the volume on refrigerated and fresh foods!


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Juan Diego Flórez Steals the Spotlight in Barber of Seville
06/08/2014 02/08/2014 by José Irurzun
Germany Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper, Paolo Carignani (conductor), Nationaltheater, Munich, 30.7.2014 (JMI)
Figaro: Rodion Pogossov
Rosina: Kate Lindsey
Almaviva: Juan Diego Flórez
Don Bartolo: Renato Girolami
Don Basilio: Peter Rose
Berta: Hanna Elisabeth Müller
Fiorello: Andrea Borghini
Officer: Dean Power
Production: Bayerische Staatsoper
Direction: Ferruccio Soleri
Sets: Carlo Tommasi
Costumes: Ute Frühling
This year the Munich Opera Festival included only one performance of this Rossini opera, with Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez as Count Almaviva. Seldom would it have been been more appropriate to revert to the opera's original title, Almaviva o sia L'inutile precauzione. Flórez completely influenced the outcome of the performance, making it a huge success rather than just one more Barber of Seville.
It is now 25 years since the stage production by Ferruccio Soleri premiered in Munich. It's a pleasant, traditional work that does not bother to add anything fresh to what has been seen so many times in the past. There is a revolving stage with the facade of Don Bartolo's house on one side and, on the reverse, the interior of the house, where most of the opera takes place. The set allows ample space for the singers to move about, and the costumes complement it.
The direction goes along a buffo road, especially with regard to Don Basilio and Don Bartolo, with comments added by other performers. I should mention the response of Juan Diego Flórez, disguised as Don Alonso, when Don Bartolo asks about his identity. The answer: Riccardo Muti! It was evident that singers were having a good time on stage, especially Flórez who is an excellent actor.
The music was again entrusted to Paolo Carignani, who offered a controlled reading but little Rossini style. Crescendos have always been the hallmark of the famous composer from Pesaro, but Mr. Carignani does not seem to share that idea. There were almost none, and it sounded more like Donizetti than Rossini. There were also some coordination problems in the ensembles that close the first act of the opera, perhaps due to the lack of rehearsals.
Juan Diego Flórez had the double merit of offering a magnificent Almavivas and, as I mentioned above, of shaping the performance as a whole. I think his voice has widened somewhat in the middle range, which does not prevent him from reaching the very top notes. It goes without saying that he brought the house down with Cessa di piu resistere. I have the impression that if he continues this evolution, there will not be many more Almavivas by Juan Diego Flórez. We'll miss them.
Rodion Pogossov was a competent Figaro. His baritone is reduced in size and short on color and, in the end, he is somewhat monotonous.
Mezzo soprano Kate Lindsey offered an attractive voice in the part of Rosina. She sang with good taste and easy vocal agility, but her voice is rather small and her projection is not very good. In the ensembles, she was almost inaudible.
Renato Girolami was a Doctor Bartolo with a powerful voice and not a basso buffo in the best tradition. He tends to show that he has this strong voice, which is not very well suited to A un dottor della mia sorte. His vocal agility is somewhat precarious.
Something similar happened with Peter Rose in the part of Don Basilio. He was much better the night before as Baron Ochs. Soprano Hanna Elisabeth Müller was a luxury as Berta, particularly in her aria.
Once again, the theater was sold out. The audience was pleased with the performance and gave the biggest ovation to Juan Diego Flórez after Cessa di piu resistere, exactly two minutes and seven seconds. At the end there were cheers for everyone, and especially for the Peruvian star.
José Mª Irurzun
Categories International Opera, Opera & Ballet, Previously Published Tags JM Irurzun, Munich Post navigation
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PROM 20: Martyn Brabbins Leads a Thrilling and Unusual Prom

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State Route 231 (SR-231) is the shortest state highway in the U.S. state of Utah. It serves as a connection between U.S. Route 89 (US-89) and SR-31 in Fairview.

Route description
SR-231 begins at the intersection of State Street (US-89) and Milburn Road, proceeding north on the latter. After slightly less than a city block, the route comes to its northern terminus at Canyon Road (SR-31). The road continues to the north towards Milburn, but it is not state-maintained beyond the SR-31 junction.  The entire length of SR-231 is .

History
The road from Fairview north to Milburn was added to the state route system in 1912 as part of SR-32, and in 1926 it became part of the original alignment of US-89. US-89 was moved to bypass Milburn in 1937, and the old route between Fairview and Milburn was transferred to SR-91. The routes remained in this configuration until 1969, when SR-91 was removed from the state highway system in a mass deletion of minor state highways and transferred to local jurisdiction.

However, the short segment of former SR-91 between US-89 and SR-31 in Fairview continued to be used as the primary connection from northbound US-89 to eastbound SR-31, and vice versa. As a result, in the meeting of the Utah Transportation Commission on October 12, 2018, this one-block segment was re-added to the state highway system as SR-231.

Major intersections

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how to animate my flag smoothly(e.g. wind blowing from sideway)? is my modelling problem or anmating?
it would work better i think if it were just an image mapped on to a subdivided poly. but it has to be a fairly dense mesh to look good.
i'm attaching an example of a piece of cloth that i animated for experimentation purposes... it is just a very subdivided mesh with some dynamics added to it.
Check your models setting in the subpatch section; should be set to "Last". That's the problem I see.
It makes no difference if it's mapped, it still has to have the geometry and he has that.
i tweaked some Ripples2 value to get the result above. later will try caesar's, btw thx for the link.
Actually today(12am,31st August) is my country independent's day!! I'm so proud of Malaysia (http://allmalaysia.info/). This CG flag was my sudden idea, sort of last minute way to show my love to my country.
Actually today(12am,31st August) is my country independent's day!! I'm so proud of Malaysia (http://allmalaysia.info/).
Congrat! I know only a little about your country. Is there a video called "Friday in Malaysia", made in LW, but never finished?!
but beside this its much more easy to use an image map of a flag instead of creating geometry.
But isn't it the same thing? You have to have the geometry for it to be smooth.
I guess I say this because when I made a flag I ended up doing the stripes and stars as geometry for the purposes of being able to have a nice up close shot.
Glad to see you got it sored out, Hydrowire.
If easier is the goal, maps will work for most every situation.
If realism and a close-up are what is desired, or needed, then geometry is the most viable choice. One can also apply a map to this type of setup as well for even more visual correctness.
Bump maps work well for many things but I've grown accustomed to giving things an extra row or two of polys to get the look that bump maps can't give you.
yes yes you are right, caesar! here's the link for downloading the movie: A Malaysian Friday (http://www.pocketmovies.net/detail_96.html).
This CG Movie greatly inspired me and i think is because this i started Lightwave seriously!! I'm so proud of the author-"Tajino". And of course he's a Malaysian too!
thx for all the replies, enjoy the shot!
If realism and a close-up are what is desired, or needed, ... polys to get the look that bump maps can't give you.
Yeah, sometimes we need that extra detail!
hydrowire : thx for the video link, I viewed just a wip of that time ago.


I know you're probably wondering what "PCE" means. The suspense is over: PCE stands for "Prominent Cease Entertainment." There! Happy now?
... a leading group of Nigerian producers, singers and MCs (Fem-D, AY, Wollywood, Dapsy Do & D-Roye) based in the United States. Displaying a wide range of creativity and innovation, PCE Crew has crafted a brand new sound, while maintaining the Nigerian hip-hop flavor.
Likes: From the word go, PCE Crew hit the ground running. Absolutely no time is wasted with intro beats playing and absentee vocals like artistes typically do. The song is a fast-paced, up-tempo one and that's the first thing that strikes you when you hit play. The vocals were okay, save for a few hiccups (see below).
I liked the song arrangement, especially the sequence of the vocalists. It seemed to be well-thought out and planned. The beats were consistent, keeping the energy level high.
The fade-out outro was good and made a lot of sense, given the "guns blazing," loud, up-tempo intro.
Dislikes: The "as you see me I'm alright" part (along with the rest of that section) seemed like it did not belong in the song. Furthermore, the minimal vocals at that point still sounded off-key. The song would have been better off without that section, in my opinion. The songwriting could also have been better.
Happy New Month in advance. No April Fool's Day jokes abeg. At least, not on me :-) Ciao!


Abstract: This thesis proposes the method of anayzing the TV program. This new method clarifies the identity frequency of the event and the TV programming according to F-measure. F-measure is a value obtained from a multiple average of accuracy and the reproduction rate.


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January 26, 2019| Reviews
Photos: Emo Night at Fitzgerald's in St. Louis (with Craig Owens of Chiodos)
By Ismael Valenzuela
Emo Nite returned to St. Louis with a huge dose of nostalgia. The LA based party has been touring across the country, inviting all sad kids to join the sing-a-long.
Emo Nite has been gaining more and more popularity and they're back in St. Louis. The night started out slow, with some Drake and Travis Scott playing in the background while the venue filled up and the fans got their drinks. About 45 minutes in, the curator came out and jumped right into it. He opened with Fallout Boy, followed by Taking Back Sunday. The crowd didn't hesitate and immediately started singing along every word. After a few songs, and everyone seemed warmed up, the curator started pulling fans onto the stage. Soon the stage was filled and Emo Nite was in full effect.
Emo Nite began in a dive bar in LA, where every Tuesday they played old emo rock from the 2000's. Eventually, they took their parties to the road and started touring across the country. The tour always featured a special guest to come DJ their favorite playlist and St. Louis was blessed with bringing out Craig Owens of Chiodos and Badxchannels. I was personally ecstatic because I've been a fan of Chiodos since 2005. Before Craig Owens came out, everyone was temporarily booted from the stage. As soon as he set foot on stage the entire venue erupted. He began his energetic set with Thrice, Taking Back Sunday and My Chemical Romance. He finally played "Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minute on the Creek" by Chiodos and I couldn't help but to put my camera down and sing along. Craig Owens preformed this song in full and shared the mic with fans while everyone sang along.
Emo Nite is much more than a sing-a-long dance party, it's about sharing nostalgia and remembering the awkward struggles we had as angsty teenagers. It is worth checking out, even if you're no longer listen to that genre anymore. After attending Emo Nite, you'll end up revisiting old emo albums from high school, I guarantee it. I know I did.
Ismael Valenzuela
St. Louis based photographer and writer.


Common elbow injuries that we treat.
Pain on the outside of the elbow joint is usually classified as "tennis elbow" or "DIY elbow".
These terms are very generalised terms for several possibilities. The term "tennis elbow" usually refers to damage of the forearm muscles and tendons that attach to the outside of the elbow joint. The technical term can be described as either tendonitis or tendonosis.
Pain is usually experienced with gripping activities, movement of the elbow or sports such as tennis, badminton etc. It is important to remember that anyone can suffer tendonitis or tendonosis at the elbow, not just people who play tennis. Treatment will usually focus on the damaged tissue and factors that are contributing to the pain. It is not a condition that responds well with rest, painkillers or injections.
Golfers elbow is the same pathology as tennis elbow except it happens on the inside of the elbow joint.
Again, you don't have to play golf to experience pain on the inside of the joint. In fact it is more likely in people who do repetitive movements such as typing and mouse work. The technical term is tendonitis or tendonosis. However, in some cases, pain can be present just because the muscles are so tight.
Treatment will focus on correcting the damaged tissue, loosening the effected muscles and strengthening the whole joint. Again this is a condition that does not respond well with rest, painkillers or injections. If the person suffering pain plays golf regularly then assessment of his / her technique would also be advantageous.
Pain in the elbow can also be referred from the neck. This usually happens when there is some form of nerve compression in the cervical spine.


988 is a 37-gonal Number.
988 is a 166-gonal Number.
988 is a Centered 47-gonal Number.
In the year 988 AD Dirk II the West Frisian count of Holland, died.
In the year 988 AD Dunstanus the English archbishop of Canterbury, died.
In the year 988 AD Prince Vladimir was converted to Christianity in Kiev.


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Sundial Growers Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL) and Inner Spirit Holdings Ltd. (CSE: ISH) (OTCQB: INSHF) announced that they have entered into an arrangement agreement pursuant to which Sundial will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Inner Spirit for total consideration of approximately $131 million. The combined company will continue to focus on providing quality cannabis to consumers through a responsible and disciplined approach while creating enduring value for shareholders.
Under the terms of the Agreement, Inner Spirit's shareholders will receive, for each Inner Spirit common share held, (i) $0.30 in cash and (ii) 0.0835 of a Sundial common share (representing $0.09 per Inner Spirit common share based on the 10-day volume-weighted average price ("VWAP") of Sundial common shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market), for total consideration of $0.39 per Inner Spirit common share. The purchase price of $0.39 per Inner Spirit common share represents a premium of 54.8% to the 10-day VWAP of Inner Spirit common shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange (the "CSE") and a premium of 62.5% to the closing price of Inner Spirit common shares on the CSE on May 4, 2021. The Transaction has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of Sundial and Inner Spirit and is expected to close early in the third quarter of 2021.
The Transaction is expected to provide modest synergies and economies of scale due to the different business models of Sundial and Inner Spirit.
"Sundial becomes a stronger and more diverse cannabis company by acquiring Inner Spirit and the Spiritleaf retail store network," said Zach George, Chief Executive Officer of Sundial. "Inner Spirit has successfully created a franchise-based retail network that has grown from coast to coast and offers a differentiated and premium in-store experience to consumers. Our shared Albertan roots and commitment to data-driven consumer insights make for an ideal partnership. Sundial's capital base will enable us to support continued expansion and deepen the capabilities of the Spiritleaf retail brand."
"Sundial is the ideal company to acquire Inner Spirit and support the future development of the Spiritleaf retail cannabis brand," said Darren Bondar, Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Inner Spirit. "The Sundial team has shown a strong commitment to our management team, franchise partners and employees as well as our growth ambitions. The combination will enable us to further expand our position as the country's leading retail cannabis brand for customers and communities and will open up new market opportunities to us. We're also very pleased Inner Spirit shareholders will be able to participate in our future success through an ongoing equity ownership."
In just over two years, the Spiritleaf retail network has grown to become Canada's largest single brand retailer with 86 stores operating in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Spiritleaf's franchised and corporate stores have created deep ties within their local communities and served 2.3 million guests in 2020. The retail brand has earned a reputation as a knowledgeable and trusted source of recreational cannabis while offering a premium consumer experience. Spiritleaf opened its 86th store on April 28, 2021 in Edmonton, Alberta and is projected to exceed the 100-store milestone in the summer of 2021.
SpeakEasy Cannabis Club Ltd. (CSE: EASY), a holder of a federal licence to cultivate, process and sell cannabis under the Cannabis Act announced it is 4 months into a 6-9 month application process to receiving its Narcotics Dealers License ("NDL") in-order to develop and standardize psilocybin cultivation. A NDL licenced dealer may produce, assemble, sell, provide, transport, send, deliver, import or export a controlled drug (psilocybin) if they comply with the terms and conditions of their dealer's licence and any permit issued under the licence.
In early January this year, SpeakEasy began the application process for an NDL and a section of SpeakEasy's processing building has been earmarked as the location for the research and development area that would house a licence referred to as an NDL. The NDL allows research, development, purchase and sales among other activities of narcotics. SpeakEasy's intent is to acquire a full catalogue of psilocybin bearing mushroom genetics in-order to develop cultivation methods, standardize potency and develop extracted concentrated products in preparation and with the expectation of the legalization of psilocybin in the Canadian market. SpeakEasy expects to complete the extensive review process and receive its NDL later this year with the total licencing process taking between six and nine months. Upon receipt, the Company intends to immediately begin the process of preparing for the anticipation of the legal market.
Founder Marc Geen states, "Agriculture has always been the core of SpeakEasy's business and psilocybin production is not much different. Commercial mushroom production is very similar to cannabis production, especially considering both are controlled substances and likely will fall under a similar set of regulations. We are in a great position to be able to be at the forefront of the growing psilocybin market and also apply SpeakEasy's farming knowledge to the production of magic mushrooms adding efficiency, high-quality production at an economical costs of production."
Compelling evidence of the therapeutic benefits of psychedelic drugs appears in multiple scientific studies. Several clinical trials are underway in the United States and worldwide to investigate the therapeutic effects of psilocybin, the active component in the fungi known as "magic mushrooms." There is new hope for treating debilitating disorders such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, anorexia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and addictions. Multiple efficacy studies going on around the world in areas that encompass life-disrupting psychiatric and neurological conditions such as major depressive disorder (MDD), addictions, and other mental illnesses. A successful outcome could completely upend treatment protocols(2).
Trulieve Cannabis Corp. (CSE: TRUL) (OTCQX: TCNNF), a leading and top-performing cannabis company in the United States, announced the closing of the acquisition of Mountaineer Holding LLC.
Total transaction consideration was $6 million satisfied through the payment of $3 million in cash and by the issuance of 60,342 subordinate voting shares of the Company. Stock price was based on 10-day VWAP from the last trading day before signing.
Trulieve CEO Kim Rivers stated, "We are pleased to complete this transaction quickly as the addition of Mountaineer achieves a significant presence for us in West Virginia. Our teams have already been at work in the state and adding Mountaineer to our portfolio provides significant potential for depth and scale. We look forward to serving West Virginia patients, and expect to be operational before the end of 2021."
As previously announced, the Mountaineer acquisition positions Trulieve for vertical operations in West Virginia. The Mountaineer business consists of a cultivation permit and two dispensary permits in West Virginia. This transaction further extends and strengthens Trulieve's national expansion with the ability for a full-scale operation in a new medical marijuana state.
The Good Shroom Co Inc. (TSXV: MUSH), a Quebec based company that created and manufactures functional beverages under its two brands: Teonan® and Velada™, announced that it has entered into a private labelling agreement with Good Food Market Corporation pursuant to which it will manufacture and deliver three distinct functional beverages, starting this year. TGSC's private labelling initiative is part of a two-pronged approach to solidify its position in the growing functional mushroom industry by focusing on building its own brands and by selling and supplying privately labelled products to other companies.
"This introductory order of 3,000 units will allow us to establish a relationship with Good Food and we expect, will lead to additional ongoing orders of at least 15,000 units per product in line with the terms of our two year contract." stated Eric Ronsse, the Chief Executive Officer, "In addition, with the recent cash injection that followed the completion of the Company's qualifying transaction, we expect to accelerate certain initiatives for both of the Company's mushroom-based beverage lines: the Teonan and the Velada brands.
Functional mushrooms are packed with nutrients and for thousands of years, fungi were relied on for nourishment and their medicinal benefits. In recent years, renewed interest by the scientific community led to numerous studies showing their overall health benefits and unsurprisingly, mushrooms are making an important comeback; the global functional mushroom market is expected to grow annually by 9% for the next three years and is expected to reach US$34B by 2024."
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This month's feature bird, the sparrow-sized snow bunting visits the Flathead in winter, seeking relief from the harsh weather of its breeding grounds in the tundra and has the distinction of being the only winter songbird in our area that is mostly white.
A circumpolar bird, the snow bunting breeds farther north than almost any other land bird, and its appearance in our part of the world heralds the approach of winter. Look for small flocks of these white beauties in open fields and along shorelines, where they feed mainly on seeds by walking or running along the ground. According to Radd Icenoggle in his book Birds in Place, the winter flocks roost together on the ground in tight, huddled masses, sometimes burrowing into the snow for insulation; they are often seen "bathing" in the snow.
While visiting the Flathead, snow buntings are most easily identified in flight by their large white wing patches. The wintering male is white overall with a buff, streaked back, a white rump patch, black wing tips and a yellowish-orange bill. The female is similar, except that she is more brownish and lacks the rump patch. The wintering flocks are alive with buzzy calls and whistled "tew" notes.
According to the Cornell Labs' Online Bird Guide, the male snow buntings return to their Arctic breeding grounds in early April when the temperatures can still dip to minus 20 degrees and snow still covers most of the ground. Soon after their arrival, the males set up and defend territories that include good nesting sites. However, they will still flock together to forage and usually roost in loose groups of 30 to 80 birds. The females do not return until four to six weeks later.
In breeding plumage, male snow buntings are almost pure white except for their black back, central tail and primary wing feathers. After the arrival of the females, the snow buntings place their nest deep in cracks or other cavities in rocks. These secluded sites are chosen to avoid predators such as Arctic fox and snowy owls, and, although they are relatively safe from predators, the rocks are extremely cold. For this reason, the open cup-like nests are lined with a thick layer of fur, lichen and feathers to help keep the eggs and nestlings warm.
Also, the female must remain on the nest for most of the incubation period and the male feeds her during this time. The eggs, two to seven, are creamy white with various brown spots and scrawls. Incubation takes 10-16 days and newly hatched babies are helpless, with long, gray-brown down. Both parents share the responsibility of feeding the babies for the 10 to 17 days until they fledge.
Although breeding and non-breeding males look quite different, the snow bunting has only one molt per year and no true "alternate plumage." After the molt, which occurs in late summer, the male looks brownish with a brown and black striped back. Underneath the colored feather tips, the dark feathers are pure black and the body feathers are all white. The male wears off all the feather tips by actively rubbing them on the snow until he is immaculate white and jet black by the time the next breeding season arrives.
In 2005, the area Christmas Bird Counts recorded two snow buntings in Bigfork, 35 in Kalispell and 200 in Eureka (in 2016, 28 in Bigfork, 15 in Glacier National Park; in 2017 just one in Kalispell), so keep your eyes peeled for these interesting visitors as you drive around the valley this winter.
The farmlands in Lower Valley and West Valley are among my favorite places to search for these rather tiny birds. Although they're somewhat hard to spot while on the snow-covered ground, watching a sizable flock swirling over a field in winter can be a spectacular sight. Snow buntings and the chance to see them are one of the reasons that the Flathead Valley is such a great place to live!


Charles Sleicher shows me one of his favorite photographs: an egret, snowy white against a dark, pre-dawn sky, tail fanned like a spraying fountain. It's a picture that took him years to get: years of annual forays into the Florida darkness, searching patiently for just the right spot, the right light, the right moment in the egret's ritual courtship performance. Sleicher points out the splash of lime green around the egret's beak: a rare show of bling, visible only when the bird was courting.
We are standing in the dining room of Mirabella, the Seattle retirement community where Sleicher has lived for nine years. He takes pleasure in visiting old favorites hung around the building, like the egret. We also look at photos of eagles in Alaska, the rolling green wheat fields of the Palouse, fall foliage in New England, and penguins on South Georgia Island—which, Sleicher reminds me, is southeast of South America. It's where the explorer Ernest Shackleton famously landed after one of the most grueling Antarctic voyages in history.
Sleicher has been a professional photographer since 1991, when he retired from his first career as a professor of chemical engineering (and longtime department chairman) at the University of Washington. His specialties there were fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Sleicher contends that chemical engineering and photography use "completely different parts" of his brain. His work has been featured in National Geographic, Nature's Best Photography, Sunset, and many other magazines and calendars; he is represented by a stock photo agency, and he still leads photo safaris in Africa. He admits to slowing down a little—endurance and balance are the challenges he feels at 93—but he is still deeply immersed in the art, and adventure, of photography.
The adventure began with the gift of a Brownie camera when he was 10 years old. His family spent summers in the Adirondack Mountains, and he began to take nature photographs. In high school, he set up his own darkroom. In 1944, when Sleicher graduated from Brown University and went into the Navy, he bought a Leica, which he kept "for decades." But those decades—as he earned his doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan and pursued his 30-year career as a professor at the University of Washington—kept him too busy to pursue photography as seriously as he would've liked.
In 1971, Sleicher, his wife Jan (who passed away in 2008), and his two children lived in Nairobi, Kenya, for a year while he studied the effect of pesticides on the environment. The Kenyan government gave them a free pass to all the national parks. They bought a VW bus and spent as much time camping in wildlife areas as they could. Sleicher's hope was that someday, he would come back and concentrate on photographing the landscapes, animals, and birds of Africa. Since retirement, he's made 10 trips. On most journeys, he sees at least 150 different species of birds; on one trip, he saw 240. On another, he saw 17 different species of eagles.
Sleicher can't imagine his life without photography. He says that when he retired, he studied woodcarving for two years, but then decided he had to choose. He chose photography because it would mean many more opportunities for travel and adventure.
He began by taking classes with several photographers, including renowned nature photographer Art Wolfe, who lives in Seattle but spends most of his time taking pictures and leading safaris and workshops around the world. Sleicher went digital "early on," when Canon came out with a nine-megapixel camera in 1999. Photoshop is "like the darkroom," he says: You're taking the photo you snapped in the field and developing the digital image into a "real image." A work of art.
What keeps Sleicher going? That continual search for "the beautiful and the unusual." It gives him "great pleasure," he says, when he finds it. Which he does: again and again.


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In Memory of William "Bill" Peulen
Two hours prior to the service, from 11:00 - 1:00 on Saturday
Memorial Service: Saturday, March 19, 2011, 1:00 PM, at the O'Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson
William Peulen, age 81, of Hudson died on March 13, 2011 at the Christian Community Home in Hudson. He was born on October 6, 1929 to William & Anna (Legler) Peulen in Stillwater, Minnesota. He grew up in the Stillwater area and attended school in Oak Park Heights. At the time of the Korean War, William joined the US Army. He served in the Infantry where he earned a Purple Heart, among other awards. While in the army he earned the rank of Sergeant.
On April 30, 1954, William was married to Jeanette Muckenhirn in Hudson. The marriage would be blessed with two sons; William and Joseph. The newly formed Peulen family settled in Hudson and William worked first as a house mover and then as both a short and long-haul truck driver. He retired in 2008.
William enjoyed the outdoors. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and enjoyed trap and skeet shooting. He also loved to travel with the family. He was a proud member of the Bayport VFW and American Legion.
William is survived by his; wife, Jeanette, of Hudson; sons, Joseph of Marin County, CA and William of North Hudson, WI; sisters, Margaret Doerr, of Stillwater, MN and Marion Simser of Caledonia, MN. He was preceded in death by his parents, William & Anna Peulen; brother Joseph & sister Elizabeth
A memorial service for William will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at the O'Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson. Military Honors conclude the service. Visitation will be held from 11am to 1pm. Burial will be held at a later date. Services are in the care of the O'Connell Family Funeral Home and Countryside Crematory, 715-386-3725.
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Nike developers released a new version of the Run Club for the Apple Watch Series 4. The program now uses the displays 42 and 44 mm. To install the new version Run Club Watch, if you update fresh iPhone app.
Apple released the Nike + Series 4 10 days ago, but for unknown reasons the company was unable to prepare the application to the clock output.
Apple donated 1000 of smart watches to the new study on the occurrence of eating disorders (RPP), according to CNBC.
Apple simultaneously with the announcement of Watch Series 4 updated model range of watchstraps. The portal AppleInsider has shown how new version will look on the hand and how they differ from the already previously available.
There are many straps for the Apple Watch from third party manufacturers. However, those that produces Apple itself always remain out of reach quality performance and design solutions perfectly matching with the user interface.
Apple has published a couple of short videos about the capabilities of the Apple Watch on his YouTube channel. In the video instruction demonstrates the application "Training" and use of "Emergency calls".
Life in the big city is often an obstacle course that bring a lot of stress. Tell how to defeat fatigue using a few iOS apps.
The app was developed by the creators of the game "Monument Valley" in conjunction with the American psychologists. Thanks to the first Moodnotes got a beautiful and eye-catching design, and experienced professionals have done everything possible to help future users to cope with psychological problems.
Apple Pencil – the necessary gadget for the owners of iPad Pro or iPad 2018. This is more than a stylus. Only with it you can unlock the full potential of the iPad. But like all gadgets, the Apple Pencil you can buy accessories that will emphasize individuality.
This year, Apple notified users and developers that older applications created using watchOS 1 SDK, will not work on watch OS 5 and above. Now the owners of devices can find and remove old applications that no longer run.
In this tutorial we will explain how to identify and remove legacy applications Apple Watch.
First, we start the Watch app on the iPhone.
As noted by users, following the clock for the new Apple Watch Series 4 device goes haywire, turning into a useless "brick". Yet, this problem was faced only the owners of the smart device from Australia.
Showcase shopping centre on Oxford street in London decorated with dynamic images used in the new iPhone and Apple Watch Series 4. This is reported by 9to5Mac.


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Q: Why do some switches have uplink ports? So, this appears, on the surface, to be a network admin (serverfault) question, but I'm looking for a lower level answer from a network hacker type.
I was pretty much oblivious to how networks actually work in real life until I started my summer internship.  Then, by way of having no other option (internship is at a pretty networking-centric place and I have to put together testbeds for testing [among other things] networks), I became familiar with them.  For one thing, the fact that there's no "This goes out to the internet!" port on commercial switches was kind of surprising, until you reasoned about how it works (starts out like a hub til it 'learns' where ips are in terms of the physical port, i guess?).
And after this home-crafted self-discovery (or possibly, error in thinking), I'm back at the extended stay hotel and looking at my cheap little home switch, and it has an uplink port.
Now my question to you, Network hackers (in the good way), is why?

A: Uplink ports can be thought of special ports for inter-switch connections. Sometimes they may have a higher speed (1G instead of 100M for example). Or they are interchangeable (laid out as modules).
Some have multiple uplink ports (I had one with two), so you may have redundancy or multiple switched connected this way with the same logic (where is the mac address (on wthich other switch)?).

A: The "uplink" port on your SOHO switch is internally crossed over. It relieves you of having to use a crossover cable to connect two switches. That is the only difference.
BTW: There isn't a "this goes out to the internet" port on SOHO switches either. You're confusing switches and routers/gateways. This confusion may be encouraged by manufacturers putting the two logically separate devices in one piece of hardware, e.g., a router with a 4-port switch. While we're at it, a wireless router w/ 4 port switch is actually logically three separate devices (router, switch, and access point).
BTW #2: A switch (well, except for layer 3 switches, which arguably are only switches to the marketing department) actually learns where MAC addresses are. It neither knows about nor cares about IP.

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Design your own group travel adventure.
Experience the magic of the Harry Potter films all over again at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London. Explore behind-the-scenes and see the costumes, sets and props that brought the famous franchise to life.
Madame Tussauds is one of the most famous wax museums in the world. It is visited by hundreds of thousands each year who travel to marvel at the craftsmanship and waxy realism of famous faces.
The Coca-Cola London Eye is located in the centre of London on the bank of the River Thames, opposite the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben. The London Eye has become a global icon and has become a modern symbol of London.
The only surviving tea clipper and fastest of her time, The Cutty Sark, built in Scotland in 1869, now rests in Greenwich and serves as a museum educating visitors about her journeys and maritime history.
Serving as a second home to Queen Elizabeth II, Windsor Castle has a rich history, having been passed down through the Royal family for almost 1000 years.
Experience Bankside, the Soho of Elizabethan London and learn about the life and works of Shakespeare in a faithful reconstruction of the original 1599 open-air playhouse with an informative exhibition.


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Consumers are becoming ever more discerning. The focus on individual consumers is growing. The emergence of e-commerce offers opportunities for market players such as international retail chains, manufacturers who wish to sell their products directly to consumers, and companies that want to turn big data into smart data. The traditional concept of the 'shop' is changing rapidly in response to these opportunities. The combination of online and offline sales is presenting major challenges to manufacturers and retailers alike. What is more, the Authority for Consumers and Markets is making more efforts to regulate unfair business practices, and, in May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. The GDPR gives European regulators the power to impose substantial fines on companies that misuse personal data. The Retail & Consumer Products Team at Houthoff has in-depth knowledge of the retail sector. The inevitable shift towards omni-channel sales will complicate distribution and data processing, and require strategic partnerships and effective chain management in order to create and maintain a level playing field. At Houthoff, our experienced specialists are well-prepared to handle the legal consequences of these developments.
Our expertise within the retail and consumer products sector
More and more of our clients in manufacturing and production are entering into strategic partnerships and participating in joint ventures. They endorse Houthoff's knowledge of this sector and engage our specialists to structure these new partnerships, taking new business models into account. It is no longer possible to imagine the current economy without digital platforms.
Suppliers often find themselves facing legal and infrastructural challenges. Our retail lawyers advise these parties on smart solutions for such challenges.
The GDPR will require retail chains to critically assess their data processing activities and revise them if necessary. In that context, our Retail & Consumer Products Team will execute thorough compliance processes for large international retail chains and other clients.
Franchise structures can be complex. We advise various parties on this niche area, always keeping in mind both the PR aspects and the relationships between those involved.
Our Retail & Consumer Products Team understands the issues facing industries involving supermarket concepts, electronics, automotives, bicycles, watches, and food/non-food. The players in these industries work closely with our specialists in the fields of M&A, finance, product liability, labour law, tenancy law, privacy law, and IT law. Our lawyers have excellent relationships with other retail lawyers throughout Europe. The integration of this knowledge leads to well-thought-out and practical solutions that can address all stages in the life cycle of our clients' companies.
Highlighted Matters
Advised Fortenova Group on the acquisition of 18.53% of the shares in Mercator, a large retail group based in Slovenia.
Advised Timex Group and its shareholders on the acquisition of a majority interest by The Baupost Group. The existing shareholders of Timex Group retain a substantial interest in the business. Timex Group manufactures and distributes watches under brands as Guess, Versace, Salvatore Ferragamo, Furla and Ted Baker.
Houthoff advised Sligro Food Group N.V. with the proposed acquisition of the shares in Exploitatiemaatschappij Wheere B.V. by Sligro Food Group Nederland B.V. This will include the activities of Vroegop Ruhe & Co B.V., consisting of food wholesaler De Kweker, Vroegop AGF and freight company L.A.J. Duncker.
Acted as Dutch counsel in connection with the preparation and implementation of the settlement plan relating to the Agrokor group. Agrokor entered into an insolvency process in 2017 under 'Lex Agrokor', a law passed in Croatia aimed at the restructuring of Agrokor in view of its systemic importance for the Croatian economy. The business has been transferred to the Fortenova Group.
Houthoff represented Active Capital Company in the sale of FTNON, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of food processing equipment specialized for the fresh cut and thermal treatment of fruit and vegetables, to JBT Corporation, a US-based leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food processing and air transportation industries. FTNON's USA and China based subsidiaries were, as part of this transaction, sold directly to JBT.
Houthoff advised Poiesz Supermarkten B.V., a chain of supermarkets in the Northern Netherlands, on the acquisition of Zorggroep Friesland B.V., sole shareholder of Van Smaak B.V.. Van Smaak B.V. delivers meals to healthcare institutions and individual customers and has the whole relating process (including the purchase of the raw materials, processing and logistics) in house.
Houthoff represented Active Capital Company in their acquisition of Lumat International from their previous owners. Lumat is a supplier of High Tenacity Yarn, Polyester, Polyamide, (Nylon), Aramide and Synthetic continuous filament yarn.
Houthoff has advised tesa SE on the acquisition of shares in the capital of Nijkerk-based Polymount International B.V. from its current shareholders. Polymount is active in the business of developing, manufacturing and sale of a producer of self-adhesive 'twinlock' sleeves used in printing presses. The new combined infrastructure of Polymount's Twinlock division and tesa will create opportunities for synergy and growth on a global scale.
The growing importance of e-commerce creates conflicting interests between manufacturers or wholesalers and retailers, particularly if these retailers perceive the activities of their suppliers as unfair competition for their stores. Houthoff has supported the franchisees of one of the Ahold banners in working out a solution that seeks to find a solution for this by introducing rules, a compensation scheme and clear rights and obligations for both parties.
Walter van Overbeek
Consultation response to Bill on P2B Regulation
L Catterton acquires majority stake in BIRKENSTOCK
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April 21, 2016 -- Pope Francis During Todays Mass in Santa Marta.
We must memorize the beautiful deeds God has worked in our lives.
The Holy Father stressed this during his daily morning Mass this morning at Casa Santa Marta, saying that our faith is made stronger when we recall all the key moments and signs in which God has been active and present for us, reported Vatican Radio.
The Pontiff urged those present to 'store' these wonderful memories, as they demonstrate how God always accompanies us and is not frightened off by our wicked deeds.
Just as the Church describes the Sacrament of the Eucharist as a "memorial," and in the Bible, the book of Deuteronomy is 'the book of the Memory of Israel,' the Pope said we similarly must do this in our personal lives.
Saying he was giving 'simple advice,' the Pope told the faithful to memorize what God has done for them.
"What's my life been like, what was my day like today or what has this past year been like? (It's all about) memory. What has my relationship with the Lord been like? Our memories of the beautiful and great things that the Lord has carried out in the lives of each one of us," the Pope concluded.


Every species contains a vast amount of information about the world, how it evolved , how it continues to develop, and how we may find a harmonious place within it, the loss of a species is the loss of a biological library. A tropical forest does not resemble a local market, it is thousand times more complex than the Chandni Chowk. Biota craws, swims, swoops and slithers; it buzzes, bores, and burrows, it rots and oozes through forest floors, and estuaries; it take wings, and is submerged in rich black soils; it permeates, devours, and is fecund. But this life has no voice other than out own because extinction is silent and mute. The lost tamarins of Brazil's Atlantic clear-cut forests cannot speak to us through the tropical plywood panelling in a mobile home; cannot explain that out new habitat wiped out their own. They will not be heard from again. The poet and essayist Gary Snyder writes: "The ending of the lines of so many found sorrow and grief. Death can be accepted and to some degree transformed. But the loss of lineages and all their future young is not something to accept. It must be rigorously and intelligently resisted. Defend all these plants, bugs, and animals equally? Little invertebrates that have never been sent to a zoo or wildlife magazines? Species that are but a hair away from one another? It isn't just a case of unique lineages but the lives of overall ecosystems ( a larger sort of almost – organism) that are at stake. Some archly argue that extinction has always been the fate of species and communities alike. Some quote a Buddhist teaching back to us: "all is impermanent", indeed. All the most reason to move gently and cause less harm. Largely highly adapted vertebrates once lost, will never return in the forms we have known them. Hundreds of millions of years might elapse before the equivalent of a whale or an elephant is seen again, If ever. The scale of loss is beyond any measure the planet has ever known. 'Death is one thing, an end of birth is something else'.
We will face what naturalist Jack turner calls the "final loss" – the point in the not-too-distant future when environmental degradation on the planet will no longer require our active participation.
An illustrative example of this principle is a pond when it begins to receive large run-offs of phosphate containing detergents. Ordinarily, as fish create waste and die, detritivores decompose the waste into inorganic products that feed the algae population and invertebrates that become in turn food for the stable fish production. When phosphates drain into a pond, the influx causes the algae to bloom faster than it can be consumed by the slower-breeding fish. As the algae dies, the decomposition uses us much of the available oxygen, causing a die-off in the oxygen deprived fish. The dead fish are more waste, creating more algae, since the fish are not consuming it. The increased level of decomposition lower the oxygen levels even further and what was once a carefully constructed and balanced closed system collapses under the burden of rapid and accelerating growth. Today, we face similar prospects on a global level. Because of potential interactions and feedback loops within the global climate system, a global warming cycle, once begun, may well progress on its own, regardless of whether we continue to combust fossil fuels or due to the release of methane gasses in the Arctic Tundra.


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Пеллі́стор (англ. Pellistor) — твердотілий пристрій, що використовується для виявлення газів, які або є легкозаймистими, або мають значну різницю теплопровідності порівняно з повітрям. Саме́ слово "пеллістор" є поєднанням англійських слів pellet (кулька, гранула) та resistor (резистор).

Принцип роботи
Детектуючий елемент складається з дрібних керамічних намистинок-каталізаторів, чий опір змінюється в присутності газу, що детектується.

Історія
Пеллістор був розроблений англійським науковцем Аланом Бейкером на початку 1960-х для використання при видобутку корисних копалин як послідовник безпечної шахтарської лампи та канарки.

Різновиди

Каталітичні
Каталітичний пеллістор (такий, який використовується у каталітичному кульковому давачі) діє шляхом спалення газу, наявність якого намагаються визначити. Тепло, що виділилося внаслідок спалення, спричиняє зміну опору детектуючого елементу давача, яка є пропорційною концентрації газу.

Теплопровідні
Теплопровідний пеллістор працює шляхом вимірювання зміни тепловіддачі (а, отже, температури/опору) детектуючого елементу в присутності цільового газу.

Посилання

Газові давачі


Brandi Glanville is known for speaking her mind, but she may have given TMI this time.
In her new book "Drinking & Tweeting and other Brandi Blunders" (obtained by Life & Style) she reveals details of how she coped with her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian's affair with LeAnn Rimes.
Meanwhile, it seems Glanville doesn't have any plans to settle her feud with Rimes.
Glanville has had an icy relationship with Rimes ever since her ex-husband Eddie Cibrian had an extramarital affair with the country singer.
Glanville made the comments during question-and-answer session at Palihouse in West Hollywood where she was promoting her (aptly titled) book at the Gilt City LA hosted event.
"She can go [bleep] herself!" Glanville said (via E! News) when Rimes was brought up during the session.


Have you ever heard of anything quite so pathetic?
I was having a meal with an old friend recently when he told me how frustrated he was with his employer. Not that unusual in itself, you might think, except that he was on the point of resigning because his bosses had just approved his plans for transforming his business division!
Obviously we are not talking junior level here, my friend is a VP. He told me that was sick and tired of trying to persuade his other VP colleagues to implement their part of the changes and cost cuts that they had all agreed to, more than a year ago. It is not as if his company no longer needs cost reduction and efficiency improvements, it does badly. Until very recently it was at the point of going out of business completely.
My friend is the kind of guy that does not like to sit around and do nothing while Rome burns. Recently he came up with a new proposal for trimming down another division and the board agreed, not because they thought it important but, because they could sense that he was becoming so frustrated by doing nothing that if they didn't let him do something then they thought (quite rightly) he might resign!
So there you have it, A board of directors agreeing to changes, in order to try and retain an important employee. Now my friend is not stupid; he's proud for sure but he genuinely wants to turn the business around and bring it to another level of success. But his motivation is understandably lacking when he knows full well that his board is not committed, or able, to get it's VP's to work together to deliver the changes that the business so badly needs.
Have you ever heard of such a thing and how far would you go to keep a valued employee?
I once knew a painter who at the end of each day emptied his leftover paint into a big tub he had in the back of his van. No matter the colour of paint he was using, in it went into the tub: Post box red, canary yellow, blushing pink, emerald green, even Prussian blue. No matter the combination, with a stir of a paddle it always turned a light battleship grey. The painter used this leftover paint for undercoat and even top coat; when he could persuade his customer into believing that grey was the colour of sophistication and compromise.
And yet, this seems to be true of everything: Write an article for an in-house magazine and let a few managers review it and before long you have a grey text that says nothing and bores even the most optimistic employee into a deep sleep.
In politics too, if you live in a country where everything is just perfect and you do not want anyone coming along and changing things, then be sure to have proportional representation: give everyone a say, ensure there are lots and lots of political parties and make sure everyone's voice is heard. In no time at all everything will turn grey. You don't need to worry about any ideas that people may have (especially if they are important) because they will never find a sufficient majority to come to anything. Every idea will have to be traded in compromise; 'if I support you on this what will you give me in return?'. And even if the idea did eventually make it to the statute books, it will be so watered down with grey compromise that it will most likely be completely ineffective.
In the same way, please God spare us from collaborative board rooms; the debating business units, the open HR departments and the logic of the consensus of the workers councils. When everyone's voice is heard you end up in white noise, or dare I incorrectly say, grey noise? However I do need a caveat here: I am not advocating dictatorships or anarchy, far from it, but in business I do like to see distributed responsibility; leaders that have a vision; that take decisions, that report back progress to the shareholders while delegating action to those best placed to take it on.
So be careful of anything grey, it may look calm and hassle free and it may even replace purple in becoming the new fashionable colour in neck ties and shirts for men. But watch out: if you start to live it; unless you live in paradise, you'll end up bored and despondent and having to debate with everyone, just to keep things exactly how they are right now.
So be prepared to upset someone, be bold enough to execute 'your plan'. Be prepared to stand up and be counted for taking a decision. The enemy of enterprise is not regulatory control, its inaction (disguised in the form of grey compromise).
Harley is the Chairman and one of the founding Partners of The Bayard Partnership; a multi-disciplinary group practice specialized in solving complex business problems, either via hands on project and change management or via coaching and consulting.


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Enterprise Survey [en/oth]
As part of its strategic goal of building a climate for investment, job creation, and sustainable growth, the World Bank has promoted improving business environments as a key strategy for development, which has led to a systematic effort in collecting enterprise data across countries. The Enterprise Surveys are an ongoing World Bank project in collecting both objective data based on firms' experiences and enterprises' perception of the environment in which they operate.
An Enterprise Survey is a firm-level survey of a representative sample of an economy's private sector. Firm-level surveys have been conducted since 1998 by different units within the World Bank. Since 2005-2006, most data collection efforts have been centralized within the Enterprise Analysis Unit. The Enterprise Surveys are conducted across all geographic regions and cover small, medium, and large companies. The surveys are administered to a representative sample of firms in the non-agricultural formal private economy. Data are used to create indicators that benchmark the quality of the business and investment climate across countries.
The survey was conducted in Bolivia between January and June of 2017 as part of Enterprise Surveys project, an initiative of the World Bank. The objective of the survey is to obtain feedback from enterprises on the state of the private sector as well as to help in building a panel of enterprise data that will make it possible to track changes in the business environment over time, thus allowing, for example, impact assessments of reforms. Through interviews with firms in the manufacturing and services sectors, the survey assesses the constraints to private sector growth and creates statistically significant business environment indicators that are comparable across countries. Only registered businesses are surveyed in the Enterprise Survey.
Data from 364 establishments was analyzed. Stratified random sampling was used to select the surveyed businesses. The data was collected using face-to-face interviews.
The standard Enterprise Survey topics include firm characteristics, gender participation, access to finance, annual sales, costs of inputs and labor, workforce composition, bribery, licensing, infrastructure, trade, crime, competition, capacity utilization, land and permits, taxation, informality, business-government relations, innovation and technology, and performance measures. Over 90 percent of the questions objectively ascertain characteristics of a country's business environment. The remaining questions assess the survey respondents' opinions on what are the obstacles to firm growth and performance.
Sample survey data [ssd]
The primary sampling unit of the study is the establishment. An establishment is a physical location where business is carried out and where industrial operations take place or services are provided. A firm may be composed of one or more establishments. For example, a brewery may have several bottling plants and several establishments for distribution. For the purposes of this survey an establishment must make its own financial decisions and have its own financial statements separate from those of the firm. An establishment must also have its own management and control over its payroll.
v01, edited, anonymous dataset for public distribution
All variables are named using, first, the letter of each section and, second, the number of the variable within the section, i.e. a1 denotes section A, question 1 (some exceptions apply due to comparability reasons). Variable names preceded by the prefix "ASC" indicate questions specific to Bolivia and other countries in Latin America 2017, therefore, they may not be found in the implementation of the rollout in other countries. All other variables are global and are present in all country surveys over the world. All variables are numeric with the exception of those variables with an "x" at the end of their names. The suffix "x" denotes that the variable is alpha-numeric.
The scope of the study includes:
- Characteristics of Establishment;
- Infrastructure and Services;
- Sales and Supplies;
- Innovation and Degree of Competition;
- Land and Permits;
- Crime;
- Finance;
- Business Development Services;
- Business-Government Relations;
- Labor;
- Business Environment;
- Performance.
Geographic Unit
Regions covered are selected based on the number of establishments, contribution to employment, and value added. In most cases these regions are metropolitan areas and reflect the largest centers of economic activity in a country.
The whole population, or the universe, covered in the Enterprise Surveys is the non-agricultural economy. It comprises: all manufacturing sectors according to the ISIC Revision 3.1 group classification (group D), construction sector (group F), services sector (groups G and H), and transport, storage, and communications sector (group I). Note that this population definition excludes the following sectors: financial intermediation (group J), real estate and renting activities (group K, except sub-sector 72, IT, which was added to the population under study), and all public or utilities sectors.
Primary investigators
Funding Agency/Sponsor
Sampling Procedure
Three levels of stratification were used in this country: industry, establishment size, and region.
Industry stratification was designed in the way that follows: the universe was stratified into Manufacturing industries (ISIC Rev. 3.1 codes 15- 37), Retail industries (ISIC code 52) and Other Services (ISIC codes 45, 50, 51, 55, 60-64, and 72).
Size stratification was defined as follows: small (4 to 20 employees), medium (21 to 50 employees), and large (51 or more employees). These categories differ from the global ES size definitions - small (5 to 19 employees), medium (20 to 99 employees), and large (100 or more employees).
Regional stratification was done across three regions: La Paz, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba.
The sample frame consisted of listings of firms from two sources: for panel firms the list of 362 firms from the Bolivia 2010 ES was used, and for fresh firms (i.e., firms not covered in 2010) Economic Census, updated by Encuestas y Estudios (2016), was used.
The quality of the frame was assessed at the onset of the project through visits to a random subset of firms and local contractor knowledge. The sample frame was not immune from the typical problems found in establishment surveys: positive rates of non-eligibility, repetition, non-existent units, etc. In addition, the sample frame contains no telephone/fax numbers so the local contractor had to screen the contacts by visiting them. Due to response rate and ineligibility issues, additional sample had to be extracted by the World Bank in order to obtain enough eligible contacts and meet the sample targets.
Given the impact that non-eligible units included in the sample universe may have on the results, adjustments may be needed when computing the appropriate weights for individual observations. The percentage of confirmed non-eligible units as a proportion of the total number of sampled establishments contacted for the survey was 12.1% (109 out of 903 establishments).
Survey non-response must be differentiated from item non-response. The former refers to refusals to participate in the survey altogether whereas the latter refers to the refusals to answer some specific questions. Enterprise Surveys suffer from both problems and different strategies were used to address these issues.
Item non-response was addressed by two strategies:
a- For sensitive questions that may generate negative reactions from the respondent, such as corruption or tax evasion, enumerators were instructed to collect "Refusal to respond" (-8) as a different option from "Don't know" (-9).
b- Establishments with incomplete information were re-contacted in order to complete this information, whenever necessary.
Survey non-response was addressed by maximizing efforts to contact establishments that were initially selected for interview. Attempts were made to contact the establishment for interview at different times/days of the week before a replacement establishment (with similar strata characteristics) was suggested for interview. Survey non-response did occur but substitutions were made in order to potentially achieve strata-specific goals.
The number of interviews per contacted establishments was 0.40. This number is the result of two factors: explicit refusals to participate in the survey, as reflected by the rate of rejection (which includes rejections of the screener and the main survey) and the quality of the sample frame, as represented by the presence of ineligible units. The number of rejections per contact was 0.28.
Three sets of assumptions on establishment eligibility are used to construct sample adjustments using the status code information.
Strict assumption: eligible establishments are only those for which it was possible to directly determine eligibility. The resulting weights are included in the variable wstrict.
Median assumption: eligible establishments are those for which it was possible to directly determine eligibility and those that rejected the screener questionnaire or an answering machine or fax was the only response. The resulting weights are included in the variable wmedian.
Weak assumption: in addition to the establishments included in points a and b, all establishments for which it was not possible to contact or that refused the screening questionnaire are assumed eligible. This definition includes as eligible establishments with dead or out of service phone lines, establishments that never answered the phone, and establishments with incorrect addresses for which it was impossible to find a new address. Under the weak assumption only observed non-eligible units are excluded from universe projections. The resulting weights are included in the variable wweak.
Dates of Data Collection
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
Data Collection Notes
Private contractors conduct the Enterprise Surveys on behalf of the World Bank. Due to sensitive survey questions addressing business-government relations and corruption-related topics, private contractors are preferred over any government agency or an organization/institution associated with government, and are hired by the World Bank to collect the data.
The surveys are usually implemented following a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, a screener questionnaire is applied over the phone to determine eligibility and to make appointments; in the second stage, a face-to-face interview takes place with the Manager/Owner/Director of each establishment. Sometimes the survey respondent calls company accountants and human resource managers into the interview to answer questions in the sales and labor sections of the survey.
All Enterprise Surveys are conducted in the local languages.
Encuestas y Estudios Consulting Group was the main contractor that implemented the Bolivia 2017 ES.
Encuestas y Estudios Consulting Group
The structure of the data base reflects the fact that two different versions of the survey instrument were used for all registered establishments. Questionnaires have common questions (core module) and respectfully additional manufacturing- and services-specific questions.
The eligible manufacturing industries have been surveyed using the Manufacturing questionnaire (includes the core module, plus manufacturing specific questions).
Retail firms have been interviewed using the Services questionnaire (includes the core module plus retail specific questions) and the residual eligible services have been covered using the Services questionnaire (includes the core module).
Each variation of the questionnaire is identified by the index variable, a0.
The end date of the last complete fiscal year is identified by variables a20y, a20m, and a20d, collecting information on respectively, year, month, and day. For questions pertaining to monetary amounts, the unit is the Bolivian Boliviano (BOB).
Data entry and quality controls are implemented by the contractor and data is delivered to the World Bank in batches (typically 10%, 50% and 100%). These data deliveries are checked for logical consistency, out of range values, skip patterns, and duplicate entries. Problems are flagged by the World Bank and corrected by the implementing contractor through data checks, callbacks, and revisiting establishments.
Enterprise Analysis Unit enterprisesurveys@worldbank.org
Confidentiality of the survey respondents and the sensitive information they provide is necessary to ensure the greatest degree of survey participation, integrity and confidence in the quality of the data. Surveys are usually carried out in cooperation with business organizations and government agencies promoting job creation and economic growth, but confidentiality is never compromised.
Citation requirements
The use of this dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the identification of the Primary Investigator (including country name)
- the full title of the survey and its acronym (when available), and the year(s) of implementation
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download (for datasets disseminated online).
The World Bank. Bolivia Enterprise Survey (ES) 2017, Ref. BOL_2017_ES_v01_M. Dataset downloaded from [URL] on [date].
Archive where study is originally stored
https://www.enterprisesurveys.org/Portal/
Cost: None
The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.
DDI Document ID
DDI_BOL_2017_ES_v01_M_WB
Development Data Group DECDG World Bank DDI documentation
Date of Metadata Production
DDI Document version
Version 01 (September 2017)


This table lists the Effie Award programs that are included in the 2019 Effie Index. This year's rankings were determined via Effie Award finalist and winners announced between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018.
Please note: Effie Slovenia, along with recently launched programs Effie Belarus, Effie Canada, Effie Dominican Republic, Effie Italy and Effie Pakistan, did not hold a competition during the 2019 Effie Index qualifying period.
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We've got a row of 8 blinds across the back of the new studio space, which are presently white and which cover the floor-to-ceiling glass doors. These can be opened out onto the garden which, once it's recovered from the devastation of building work, will be green and handsome and, we hope, full of birds!
Right now the snow covers only the beginnings of a pond and a half-built wood store, so the blinds are closed as early as four o'clock. We came up with the idea, some time ago, of having each of our artist friends decorate a blind for us, so we'd have a ready-made installation of eight pieces of art to continually feast our eyes on after dark. Since we can only remove one blind at a time (or face being exposed to the entire street 24/7), we're doing them one by one.
We gave her a brief and she produced a sketch - not Kelly's usual way of working, since her pieces are nearly always the product of a spontaneous imagination and are essentially self-perpetuating - then she got stuck in with black Poscas (in different sizes, leaving plenty of space in which the really intense parts could breathe). Result! It's possible to stare at it for hours and see things you haven't spotted before. You can also see more of Kelly's doodles on her Flickr page.
We've got the next few artists lined up, but we'll leave it till the winter's over before starting the next one. Brrrr. By then, the back wall should be built, so far fewer nosy neighbours will get a look-in... they're missing out on some great art though, poor souls.


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Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Sir Francis Galton was a British science writer and amateur researcher of the late nineteenth century. He contributed greatly to the fields of statistics, experimental psychology and biometry. In the history of biology, Galton is widely regarded as the originator of the early twentieth century eugenics movement. Galton published influential writings on nature versus nurture in human personality traits, developed a family study method to identify possible inherited traits, and devised laws of genetic inheritance prior to the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's work.
Subject: People, Reproduction
Tissue Engineering
Tissue engineering is a field of regenerative medicine that integrates the knowledge of scientists, physicians, and engineers into the construction or reconstruction of human tissue. Practitioners of tissue engineering seek to repair, replace, maintain, and enhance the abilities of a specific tissue or organ by means of living cells. More often than not stem cells are the form of living cells used in this technology. Tissue engineering is one of the disciplines involved in translating knowledge of developmental biology into the clinical setting.
Subject: Processes
Charles Benedict Davenport (1866-1944)
Charles Benedict Davenport was an early twentieth-century experimental zoologist. Davenport founded both the Station for Experimental Evolution and the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor in New York. Though he was a talented statistician and skilled scientist, Davenport's scientific achievements are eclipsed by his lasting legacy as the scientific leader of the eugenics movement in the US.
Marie Stopes International
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a not-for-profit organization based in the United Kingdom that promotes reproductive and sexual health. It grew from one small clinic, founded in North London in 1921, into an international provider of reproductive health care and information that operates in almost forty countries. The Mothers' Clinic, from which it grew, was created in the hopes of expanding couples' reproductive rights, and the modern organization continues to work toward the same goal today.
Subject: Organizations, Reproduction
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal, inherited disease found in humans and characterized by buildup of thick, sticky mucus, particularly in the respiratory and digestive tracts. The abnormally thick mucus prevents the pancreas from functioning normally; it often leads to digestive problems and chronic lung infections. Cystic fibrosis is most prevalent in Caucasian individuals, and approximately 1 in every 29 individuals in the US is a carrier for the mutated CF gene.
Subject: Disorders
Josef Warkany (1902–1992)
Josef Warkany studied the environmental causes of birth defects in the United States in the twentieth century. Warkany was one of the first researchers to show that factors in the environment could cause birth defects, and he helped to develop guidelines for the field of teratology, the study of birth defects. Prior to Warkany's work, scientists struggled to explain if or how environmental agents could cause birth defects. Warkany demonstrated that a deficiency or excess of vitamin A in maternal nutrition could cause birth defects.
Subject: People
Epigenetic Landscape
The epigenetic landscape is a concept representing embryonic development. It was proposed by Conrad Hal Waddington to illustrate the various developmental pathways a cell might take toward differentiation. The epigenetic landscape integrates the connected concepts of competence, induction, and regulative abilities of the genes into a single model designed to explain cellular differentiation, a long standing problem in embryology.
Subject: Theories
Eric Wieschaus (1947- )
Eric Wieschaus studied how genes cause fruit fly larvae to develop in the US and Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, Wieschaus and colleague Christiane Nusslein-Volhard described genes and gene products that help form the fruit fly body plan and establish the larval segments during embryogenesis. This work earned Wieschaus and Nüsslein-Volhard the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
John Craig Venter (1946- )
John Craig Venter helped map the genomes of humans, fruitflies, and other organisms in the US in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and he helped develop an organism with a synthetic genome. In February 2001, Venter and his team published a human genome sequence after using a technique known as Expressed Sequence Tags, or ESTs. Venter worked to bridge commercial investment with scientific research. Venter founded a number of private companies, including the for-profit Celera Genomics, headquartered in Alameda, California, as well as research institutes, such as the not-for-profit J.
Kurt Benirschke (1924-)
Kurt Benirschke studied cells, placentas, and endangered species in Germany and the US during the twentieth century. Benirschke was professor at the University of California in San Diego, California, and a director of the research department at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California. He also helped form the research department of the San Diego Zoo and its sister organization, the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species.
Fate Mapping Techniques
For more than 2000 years, embryologists, biologists, and philosophers have studied and detailed the processes that follow fertilization. The fertilized egg proliferates into cells that begin to separate into distinct, identifiable zones that will eventually become adult structures through the process of morphogenesis. As the cells continue to multiply, patterns form and cells begin to differentiate, and eventually commit to their fate.
Subject: Technologies
Theodora (Theo) Emily Colborn (1927-2014)
Theodora Colborn studied how chemicals affect organisms as they develop and reproduce during the twentieth and twenty first centuries in the US. By the 1940s, researchers had reported that chemicals from agricultural and industrial processes affected how wild organisms developed, but in 1991, Colborn organized the Wingspread Conference in Racine, Wisconsin, at which a group of scientists classed these chemicals as environmentally harmful substances. Colborn and her colleagues called those chemicals endocrine disruptors, as they mimic or block the body's endocrine system.
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann (1961- )
Cornelia Isabella Bargmann studied the relationship between genes, neural circuits, and behavior in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the US. Bargmann's research focused on how the sense of smell (olfaction) in the nematode word Caenorhabditis elegans. She provided a model to study how neural circuits develop and function in the human brain, as the genetic regulatory pathways are similar.
"The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize" (1950), by Barbara McClintock
The Origin and Behavior of Mutable Loci in Maize, by Barbara McClintock, was published in 1950 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. McClintock worked at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Laurel Hollow, New York, at the time of the publication, and describes her discovery of transposable elements in the genome of corn (Zea mays). Transposable elements, sometimes called transposons or jumping genes, are pieces of the chromosome capable of physically changing positions along the chromosome.
Subject: Publications
Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861)
Friedrich Tiedemann studied the anatomy of humans and animals in the nineteenth century in Germany. He published on zoological subjects, on the heart of fish, the anatomy of amphibians and echinoderms, and the lymphatic and respiratory system in birds. In addition to his zoological anatomy, Tiedemann, working with the chemist Leopold Gmelin, published about how the digestive system functioned.
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex (1998), by Alice Domurat Dreger
Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, by historian of science Alice Domurat Dreger, was published in 1998 by Harvard University Press. In the book, Dreger describes how many doctors and scientists treated human hermaphrodites from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. She states that during this time period, many physicians and scientists struggled to determine the nature sex, and to support a classification of sex as male or female, many physicians and scientists resorted to viewing a person's gonads for identification of his or her sex.
Subject: Publications, Theories, Disorders
Ethics and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
The recent development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and related technologies has caught the attention of scientists, activists, politicians, and ethicists alike. IPSCs gained immediate international attention for their apparent similarity to embryonic stem cells after their successful creation in 2006 by Shinya Yamanaka and in 2007 by James Thompson and others.
Subject: Technologies, Ethics
Studies in Spermatogenesis (1905), by Nettie Maria Stevens
Studies in Spermatogenesis is a two volume book written by Nettie Maria Stevens, and published by the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1905 and 1906. In the books Stevens explains the research she conducted on chromosomal sex determination in the sperm and egg cells of insect species while at Bryn Mawr College, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Studies in Spermatogenesis described early examples of chromosomal XY sex-determination.
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844)
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, commonly known as Geoffroy, studied animals, their anatomy and their embryos, and teratogens at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Geoffroy also helped develop several specialized fields in the life sciences, including experimental embryology. In his efforts to experimentally demonstrate the theory of recapitulation, Geoffroy developed techniques to intervene in the growth of embryos to see whether they would develop into different kinds of organisms.
MicroSort
"MicroSort, developed in 1990 by the Genetics and IVF Institute, is a form of pre-conception sex selection technology for humans. Laboratories located around the world use MicroSort technology to help couples increase their chances of conceiving a child of their desired sex. MicroSort separates male sperm cells based on which sex chromosome they contain, which results in separated semen samples that contain a higher percentage of sperm cells that carry the same sex chromosome.
Fortunio Liceti (1577–1657)
Fortunio Liceti studied natural philosophy and medicine in Italy during the first half of the seventeenth century. Liceti wrote greater than seventy works on a wide range of topics, including the human soul, reproduction, and birth defects observed in animals and human infants. In the seventeenth century, people commonly addressed birth defects using superstition and considered them as signs of evil, possibly caused by spiritual or supernatural entities. Liceti described infants with birth defects as prodigies and monsters to be admired and studied rather than feared.
Harald zur Hausen (1936–)
Harald zur Hausen studied viruses and discovered that certain strains of the human papilloma virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease, can cause cervical cancer, in Europe during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Zur Hausen spent his research career identifying the viruses that cause diseases, particularly cancer-causing viruses (oncoviruses). He primarily focused on HPV and cervical cancer. Zur Hausen hypothesized that HPV was cancerous and discovered that two strains, HPV 16 and 18, caused cervical cancer.
Sidney Q. Cohlan (1915-1999)
Sidney Q. Cohlan studied birth defects in the US during the twentieth century. Cohlan helped to discover that if a pregnant woman ate too much vitamin A her fetus faced a higher than normal risk of teratogenic effects, such as cleft palate. A teratogen is a substance that causes malformation of a developing organism. Cohlan also identified the teratogenic effects of several other substances including a lack of normal magnesium and prenatal exposure to the antibiotic tetracycline.
De Monstruorum Causis, Natura et Differentiis (On the Reasons, Nature and Differences of Monsters) (1616), by Fortunio Liceti
In 1616 in Padua, Italy, Fortunio Liceti, a professor of natural philosophy and medicine, wrote and published the first edition of De Monstruorum Causis, Natura et Differentiis (On the Reasons, Nature, and Differences of Monsters), hereafter De monstruorum. In De monstruorum, Liceti chronologically documented cases of human and animal monsters from antiquity to the seventeenth century. During the seventeenth century, many people considered such monsters as frightening signs of evil cursed by spiritual or supernatural entities.
The Notch Signaling Pathway in Embryogenesis
The Notch signaling pathway is a mechanism in animals by which adjacent cells communicate with each other, conveying spatial information and genetic instructions for the animal's development. All multicellular animals utilize Notch signaling, which contributes to the formation, growth, and development of embryos (embryogenesis). Notch signaling also contributes to the differentiation of embryonic cells into various types of cells into various types of cells, such as neurons.


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Informing Women's Health Policy in Wisconsin
Building an advocacy agenda that reflects the priorities and needs of Wisconsin's underserved communities of women
Full Project Name:Informing Women's Health Policy in WisconsinPrimary Community Organization:Wisconsin Alliance for Women's HealthAward Amount:$10,000.00
While policy often aims to improve community health and well-being and, in some instances, does have a disproportionately positive impact for women in traditionally underserved communities, there is a lack of evidence that policies reflect the self-identified priorities and needs of Wisconsin's underserved communities. To strengthen women's health advocacy efforts, it is essential to engage the voices of those more impacted. This project aimed to ensure that women's health policy in Wisconsin better represents the preferences and needs of underserved communities of women - specifically women of color and low- to moderate-income unmarried women - through professionally-conducted focus groups that will be used to help guide women's health policy advocacy efforts in Wisconsin.
9to5 Wisconsin, Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health (WAWH), other allied Wisconsin organizations
• Developed a report compiling focus group findings that resulted in two additional issue areas - paid leave and addressing the gender wage gap - being added to the Wisconsin Alliance for Women's Health "Proactive Policy Prescription" to ensure it reflects priorities of Wisconsin women of color and low- to moderate-income unmarried women
• Used information gathered through this project in advocacy efforts related to legislation that would have repealed family medical leave protections and other important employment laws


On the Cloudways blog there's a new post sharing some of the things you can expect from the Laracon Online conference happening February 7th. As its name implies, Laracon Online is a one-day, single track conference happening completely online.
The entire Laravel community is pretty excited about the upcoming Laravel Event of the Year – Laracon Online 2018. The webinar will be streamed online on 7th Feb 2018. It is expected that the entire who's who of the Laravel community will attend the event.
Laracon Online is perhaps the most important event where more than eight renowned speakers and over 6000+ attendees from around the globe. The conference addresses multiple areas of interest but the focus remains on in-depth technical talks given by Laravel experts.
The article spends some time giving a little background about the conference and the Slack instance that will be used for attendee communication. Speakers at this year's event include well-known names in the Laravel community like Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan and Taylor Otwell. The article also includes several tweets from both speakers and the Laravel community, excited about the upcoming event. If you're interested in attending you can find out more about the conference and pick up a ticket from the main Laracon Online conference website.
On the Laravel News site they've posted the official announcement of the return of the popular online Laravel conference: Laravel Online 2018.
Coming back for 2018 is the one-day Laracon Online conference that will be held on February 7, 2018. Just like last year, the event will be hosted entirely online and no matter where you live you can now take part in a Laracon. No hotels, no airfare, just signup and spend the day watching some of the best speakers right from your computer.
Speakers at this year's event include Taylor Otwell, Matt Stauffer, Adam Wathan, Chris Fidao and many more. The event will run from 9:45am - 6:45pm EST and will include a Slack "backchannel" for the attendees to chat about sessions or ask questions about the topics covered. You can register now for the event and pick up an Early Bird ticket for just $12 USD ($25 after Early Bird).
The Laravel News site has a new announcement posted about a new online-only conference for the Laravel (and general PHP) community: Laracon Online.
The event is happening on March 8th starting at 9am EST and will run all day until around 6pm EST. The schedule hasn't been posted yet (other than the session times) but Early Bird registration is open and tickets are available for only $10 USD. If you can't attend, all sessions will be recorded and will be available post-conference. For more information, check out the conference website.


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