'They say the better you know the insect, the better you are at removing it"
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We are experienced in treating cockroaches, silverfish, ants, carpet moths/beetles, fleas etc. We believe pest control is easier to fix when there are preventative measures in place.
We utilize the best and long-standing methods to treat each pest as organically as possible. Ceilings and voids are fogged, skirtings are sprayed and baits are placed for cockroaches. Chemical pest treatments should only be considered once all other avenues have been exhausted.
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Please note, when entering Darley Abbey Mills, a toll is in operation between the hours of 8.00am and 10.00am and also 4.00pm and 6.00pm. If asked, visitors to Pop! Studios/Mackney Photography do not need to pay this toll.


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Bib. Info - viii, 86p.
This book, produced cooperatively by the Timor-Leste Police Development Program and Dili Institute of Technology, is designed to teach Tetun at intermediate level with special emphasis on policing and justice. It includes chapters on the structure of the government and the national police service PNTL, violence, arrest and detention, traffic, resolving problems within the extended family, interviewing, and search and seizure.


Wow! We have been quiet over here buried in the most beautiful weddings and family sessions… but we are excited to finally take some time to share all of these with you! We are also SO excited to share more about OUR planning process while we tackle our very own wedding plans.
Although I may have jumped the gun on this part of the planning process, I have been searching high and low for some fun gifts for my Groom and his brothers. It is so hard to find unique and personalized gifts for men…am I right?! So during this process, this really neat company, Groovy Guy Gifts, sent us a couple of items for us to check out and review.
Groovy Guy Gifts was started by two brothers who had a love for out-gifting each other. As someone who loves to find unique and super personal gifts, I completely related to their story and after browsing their products, I was definitely intrigued.
Groovy Guys sent us a custom wooden box and flask to check out. I love the box as a fun way of presenting gifts. The interior is lined with velvet making it feel a bit more substantial than a lot of other boxes we have looked at. The flask was also the perfect size and quality. I loved the products in terms of style and quality, however, as someone who pays close attention to design, I would definitely like more options in terms of fonts, design, etc. For one line names or dates, both of these products are really fun.
Groovy Guy Gifts has even more fun products on their site that I think would be perfect gifts for Grooms and Groomsmen. Some of my favorites include their Alpha Apron, Growler in a Bag, and their Cooler Combo. (*this based on only seeing them on their site) They are definitely worth checking out in your search for the perfect gift!


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Election Results 2019: Sonia Gandhi leads in Rae Bareli, Smriti Irani leads in Amethi
At the time of writing, BJP candidate Smriti Irani was leading by a margin of over 6290 votes in Amethi.
SNS | New Delhi | May 23, 2019 11:33 am
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The BJP was ahead in three of the four crucial constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, including Amethi – the seat of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, as the election results 2019 kept coming.
At the time of writing, BJP candidate Smriti Irani was leading by a margin of over 6290 votes in Amethi. She had lost the seat in 2014 to Gandhi. But BJP reposed its faith on Irani in the seat which has always voted for the Congress.
Irani had at the time of writing got 51.16 per cent of the votes counted. Gandhi had only 42.08 per cent of the votes.
MUST READ | Verdict 2019: Crucial seats to watch out for
In Gorakhpur, the BJP appeared to be wresting the seat back from the SP, with party candidate Ravi Kishan garnering 186743 votes in his favour. The percentage of votes cast in his favour at the time of writing was 59.38 per cent. Rambhual Nishad of SP had got 113577 votes (of the total counted so far) in his favour.
There was no surprise in Varanasi as Prime Minister Narendra Modi maintained a healthy lead of 112476 over his closest opponent. He secured 64.5 per cent of the votes counted.
Surprisingly, the second place was occupied by Shalini Yadav of SP. Congress candidate Ajay Rai was in the third place.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi was leading from Rae Bareli. She had got 55.08 per cent votes counted in her favour. Dinesh Pratap Singh of BJP was trailing with 51616 votes of the total counted.
UP has 80 Lok Sabha seats.
Read | Decision 2019: Lok Sabha Election results Live Updates
Congress in Rae Bareli
Smriti Irani hosts 11 children honoured by President Murmu for lunch
Himachal govt keeps its word, restores OPS in first cabinet meet
Six crushed to death under a dumper in UP village, 3 injured
Parliament adjourned amid din over Hindenburg report
Speaker tried to pacify them as he wanted to take up the Question Hour. But the Opposition did not relent. Eventually, the Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm. Rajya Sabha too witnessed similar scenes.

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Whether by choice or by law, transparency is a top priority. The ripple effects will alter how businesses operate.
A funny thing happened on my way to the editor's page. By "funny," I mean strange and bewildering. I found myself a few days ago in a room with current and prospective customers of a software vendor, all speaking openly in roundtable fashion, and the vendor knew I was there.
Was it a setup? Were only happy customers invited, to make prospects and press believe everything was hunky-dory? If so, there certainly were a lot of happy customers to invite, willing to take a day to discover how they can get more out their implementations. Moreover, the customers did have some suggestions for improvements. But nowhere evident was the jagged edge of frustration that you see in customers whose needs are met with little more than lip service by a smoke-and-mirrors vendor who has them locked in a long-term deployment and contract.
RightNow Technologies, the vendor about which I write, has forced itself to keep its customers happy. More than 80 percent of them use the hosted version of the software, the contracts are short term, and customers are allowed to try before they buy. Of course, it's harder to sell by this model when your application, such as ERP, is more unwieldy and requires a lot of customization. Still, many vendors could benefit from adopting this more-transparent, customer-friendly stance. And RightNow aren't exactly simple applications...
Transparency means accountability. Futurist David Brin was saying in 1999 that the industrial-age notion that we (as individuals) can live in anonymity is clashing against technology that makes our lives an open book. We have to adapt, he said, to the small-town mindset that there's no such thing as privacy. Don Tapscott, Intelligent Enterprise contributing editor, says essentially the same cultural shift applies to businesses.
RightNow and other businesses, such as Progressive Insurance, have taken a lot of voluntary steps toward transparency that have ostensibly helped their competitiveness. But many businesses — all that are publicly traded or hope to be — are being forced by law to become more transparent. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) raises financial audit and reporting standards.
SOX and other corporate governance laws have catalyzed efforts in many businesses to improve processes and systems for budgeting, planning, workflows, and other enterprise activities assisted by IT. In this issue, you'll find information on how to leverage compliance efforts for greater benefit to the enterprise as a whole. Since many businesses have to spend money to get in line with the law, Dean Sorensen points out (page 16), the progressive ones are exploring whether they can derive other advantages from those investments, such as improving customer focus and loyalty. Robert Kugel's feature (page 22), meanwhile, tells you how to save money on those forced investments. The News & Analysis department (page 7) further explores SOX issues.
Here's hoping that you don't uncover any funny business on your way to SOX compliance.
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Completed my workbench, now I need to get my 48" Atlas onto workbench safely. Not terribly heavy but I need to do this most likely by myself?
I've never used an engine hoist/lift before, is this the only option? Considered taking lathe apart, does the headstock come off easily? The motor and the assembly are already separate. Any thought or ideas?
The lathe comes apart very easily into 4 pieces, 1) Tailstock, 2) Headstock, 3) Saddle and 4) Bed. It comes apart in 30 min and is about an hour going back together. If you have an engine hoist, use it; it'll be much easier.
I would avoid disassembling the lathe that far unless you need to do it for some other reason. If you run the tailstock and carriage down to the right end of the bed, two normal adults can easily lift the unit.
If you have to do it by yourself, you should make a spreader bar from say a 4" by 1/2" flat bar or the equivalent in a "T" or two pieces of steel angle about 4 feet long. Rig up two choker straps or use one long one. Put the chokers around the headstock and the tailstock to keep the top-heavy lathe from turning over. Attach them to the ends of the spreader bar. With the carriage at the tailstock end of the bed, by test lifts, find the balance point for attaching the spreader to the hoist. If you need to move the lathe several feet, lift it enough to set it down on the hoist's legs until you have it in the final lifting position.
I had purchased the lathe a few years ago, its been stored in a crate since then and could use a good cleaning does the headstock come off fairly simply? I can see how the tailstock can be removed, maybe I should remove the headstock and tailstock clean and reassemble on the bench?
I'd shy away from removing the headstock. It's supp0osed to be exactly where it is. (unless it's been dropped). Putting it back there might be error prone.
The headstock is supposed to be a slight interference fit between the ways, and is positioned left to right by two tapped holes in the bottom of it that must line up with two drilled holes through the bed. Then it is locked in place by the 9-97 Clamp and a 1/2" bolt. Theoretically. you should be able to remove the 1/2" and two 5/16" bolts and remove and later reinstall the headstock without disturbing its accuracy. But as Tom wrote, I would avoid doing that if you can.
I highly concur with previous comments about, basicly, leave the headstock alone. I mounted a Craftsman 12X36 with just a couple of motorcycle tie-down straps. Slow, but no sideways pressure where it shouldn't be. And then took the motor off. I had a stand welded up by a pro welder, I didn't trust my own work for something like this. Wanted it right. Again, leave the headstock be. With the motor off, it shouldn't be that heavy or imbalanced.
I made a simple wooden gantry that was 7 feet above the floor using two new 2 x9 wooden joists 12 foot long set in the walls right across my small garage. To make an over croft above my lathe area. It came in handy to hang a small chain hoist off to lift my lathe off the trolley it was on .
The stand for the lathe is set on a welded frame set on 4 inch hard nylon locking castors, ( gives a good work height as I have a bust up spine and wrecked left leg ).
It was a simple task to use 2 x 2 ton webbing ratchet straps to fasten a length of 2x 3 wood along the bed of the lathe with the tail stock locked off at the right hand end and the carriage moved right up to it & locked off too.
With things set up like that the point of balance is slightly to the left of the center of the Atlas lathe. I hung a small plastic bucket next to a 1.5 ton chain hoist , used the bucket to contain the chain and winched the lathe up high enough to roll the stand under . . Kept the chain & straps on till I'd got the mounting bolts through all the mounting holes & fitted the washers & nylon locking nuts . Then fully lowered it to take the straps & wood off to tighten it up .
I have rebuilt 3 of these lathes and have dismantled 4 in total. The headstock is an interference fit as has been stated above. If you are concerned with accuracy being negatively affected, don't be. Cleaning the lathe, bed, headstock, tail stock etc will likely improve it's accuracy; unless of course you are un-crating a brand new Atlas (lol). Besides, understanding how your lathe goes together is never a bad idea; at least it shouldn't be.
For my first lathe I bought a cheap 1 ton chain hoist from harbor freight (about $40 on sale with a coupon). Hung it near the front of the garage door. Lifted the lathe with it and then lowered the lathe onto cart/table with wheels that was about the same height as my work bench. It was easy at that point to roll the table next to the work bench and slide it off onto it. Did it alone and it was pretty easy.
HF shop crane. I keep finding more uses for it.
I concur. I have one of the folding models and it's not like I use it everyday. But working by yourself safely it's the only way to fly IMHO. I also broke down and got the 1,000lb lift cart and one ton chain hoist. Worth every penny and my back thanks me.


Seasoned green onions go well with many dishes, both Korean and non Korean. Mix this up and serve with Korean Grilled Meats, or your favorite grill or BBQ recipe.
Mix all seasoning sauce ingredients in a medium mixing bowl. Let stand at room temperature for 1/2 hour.
Trim root and any discolored leaves from the green onion.
Cut the green onions into 1 1/2 to 2 inch lengths, then sliver each section.
Rinse slivered onion in cold running water, then drain.
Mix green onion into the seasoning sauce and let stand about fifteen minutes.


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Tactical Espionage Perfection
I think that Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
might be one of the best games ever made. Hyperbole aside, Kojima has
gone out of the franchise with a bang, creating a solid action game with
so much replay value that it has taken me over three weeks to finish
enough of the game to feel comfortable writing a review. That is to say,
there's a lot of game here, but what's more striking is how fun it
stays from beginning to end. In an already stellar series of games, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain managed to exceed my lofty expectations and stand as my favorite game of the year thus far.
When the prologue to this game, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes,
launched last year, it was met with some criticism. Nearly everyone who
I talked to happily admitted that the game was fun, but once a speed
run of the main story mission hit YouTube, showing it was possible to
complete within a few minutes, those complaints were fully founded. If
time as a factor of value was the issue with Ground Zeroes, then The Phantom Pain
has made up for that in spades. Not only did finishing the main
campaign take me well over 50 hours, I had a blast every minute of that
time and could honestly see myself going back for plenty more.
Coming from the admittedly awkward controls of previous games, I am
happy to report that this game not only controls excellently for a game
in the Metal Gear series, but it sets the bar for future
action-adventure games. Everything including aiming, shooting, crawling,
running, switching items and commanding buddies all feels fluid and
natural. It never feels difficult to get Snake to do what you want him
to do, thus freeing up the difficulty to be in accomplishing the tasks
set forth by the game and not struggling with subpar controls. This
makes everything that happens in-game feel more fair and when you mess
up, it's because you made a mistake.
One of the worries players had with the Metal Gear series
going open world was that the game would be light on story. This fear
turns out to be true to a degree, but not particularly problematic.
There are decent chunks of this game where there are few to no
cutscenes, but when the story beats did come up, they were more than
potent enough to keep me invested in what was happening. When all is
said and done, including the cassette tapes and cut scenes, I would
wager there is just as much story here as in every other game in the
series. I appreciated the convenience of being able to play the tapes at
any point, which can free you up to do side missions and I even cranked
it up and got some chores done while listening to them a few times.
Fox Engine has the capability of making some gorgeous games. Everything from the textures to the weather effects in The Phantom Pain
looks beautiful. In particular, the lighting effects were excellently
done, adding a huge amount of immersion to the design. The game had a
day and night cycle, so this was not only important for the look of the
game, but essential to gameplay. Seeing the spotlights comb the base
grounds at night looked spectacular and helped illustrate the dangers of
doing a night mission.
As in most games in the Metal Gear series, the best thing about The Phantom Pain
lay within the little details. If you went out into battle, you could
easily get a little shot up and your clothes and face would get bloody.
This does not go away between missions and when flies started buzzing
around my head, I got even more confused. As I later found out, there
are showers on Mother Base that you can wash yourself off to refresh
yourself. There is a tape in the game of someone pooping that if you
play aloud while hiding in a toilet stall, they won't check inside. If
someone spots you walking around in your cardboard box and they call it
in on the radio, the person on the other end will call them crazy and
refuse to send reinforcements. These are just a few examples of the
little touches this game has that make it amazing.
On top of those little touches is an impressively deep game. There
are an immense number of things you can spend your time doing in The Phantom Pain
and I was fully expecting to be overwhelmed, but that never happened.
New systems are doled out and explained in such a way that it was easy
to understand what you had at your disposal. Developing your base,
assaulting other players bases, doing side missions, listening to tapes
and fultoning a bunch of animals are just a few of the activities they
lay at your feel during the course of the game. When it comes tight down
to it though, there's nothing quite as thrilling as just running into a
base and mixing things up with a rocket launcher.
The silliness of the series is in full force with this game and is
one of the reasons I keep coming back in the first place. Something
about shooting a sheep with a tranquilizer dart and then watching it
blast off into the sky never gets old for me. It doesn't even matter
what I'm sending up in the fulton balloons, I never got tired of the
animation. Pair stuff like that with buddies like D-Dog and D-Horse
having abilities like D-Horse pooping on command and D-Dog having a stun
knife kept me entertained throughout.
Some of the tightest controls I've ever used in a game
The Fox Engine shines in this beautiful game
The wackiness of Kojima and his team shines through
D-Dog, nuff said
It is a very long game
Some sections are light on story
Some boss battles can be tedious
It has been a long time since I've felt this strongly about a game.
I've spent over 50 hours playing this game and I could easily see myself
doubling that over time. It exceeded every, admittedly high,
expectation I had for it going in and I would recommend it to almost
anyone who likes video games. Kojima has gone out of the Metal Gear series with a bang and I couldn't have asked for better. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
is the best game I have played this year and if you're a fan of the
series, or just someone who likes awesome video games, this one is a
must play.
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Michael Audrey 'Mike' Myers, portrayed by Nick Castle, is the central character and the villain of the Halloween franchise.
Unlike his previous incarnations, this version of Michael Myers is more human and less supernatural, retaining stab and gunshot wounds he received from Laurie and Loomis in 1978.
The mask that Nick Castle wears in Halloween for his role as Michael Myers is custom made for the movie.
But the Trick or Treat Studios mask is an exact replica of the mask worn by Michael Myers in Halloween 2018.
The outfit that Nick Castle wears in Halloween for his role as Michael Myers is a charcoal coverall that appears blue on screen with 2 front pockets.
It is the Workrite Coverall.
The Gold Toe crew neck tshirt seems to be a pretty close match.
The shoes that Nick Castle wears in Halloween for his role as Michael Myers are black leather boots.
They are arctiv8 inches work boots.
The murder weapon that Nick Castle uses in Halloween for his role as Michael Myers is a kitchen knife.
It has been identified thanks to a shot on instagram, it's a Henckels 8" chef knife.
If you want to use a safer replica instead the best choice would be the officially licensed Michael Myers plastic knife.
Hey there! I believe the coveralls that Nick Castle wears in the original were actually "Spruce Green". The lighting Carpenter used rendered the outfit looking more on the navy blue side to almost black at times.


Two weeks ago, I discussed a Majesco report from April that surveyed 1,000 UK insurance customers for their service preferences. We shared a link to the full report and discussed the findings that were somewhat ironic in nature. You can read that blog here.
Not every insurance customer is focused on price.
Those who are focused on price, are infrequently using insurers for their comparisons — they are using aggregators instead.
One-third of insurance customers surveyed are dissatisfied with their insurer's service levels.
Improved service technologies will save insurers on administrative costs.
While these issues may or may not be surprising to insurers, they can certainly be used for prioritising business technology projects. We can segment our discussion into two buckets: Communication and Service. Acknowledging that Communication and Service overlap, and that both are "two-way" in nature, I would like to focus on Communication as the outward messaging from the insurer to the customer and Service as the interactions that are initiated by the customer to the insurer.
The Majesco report found a host of issues surrounding communication, and not all of them were technology related. For example, 33-35% of customers felt that insurers should make policies easier to understand. Roughly the same number wished that everything they needed could be sent via e-mail. Between 50-60% of customers were only contacted by their insurer once per year. Compare this to many retail companies that communicate with customers once per week (or more) and you'll see that both insurer loyalty and consumer knowledge suffer from a lack of effective, consistent messages.
Consumers today wish to be known and to be catered to, and to grasp the value they receive for the price they pay. This one issue touches several technologies. To foster both a comprehensive approach to communication and an individualised message set, insurers should work to modernise customer engagement capabilities, data and analytics technologies, communication tools (social media, mobile apps, e-mail marketing technologies, agent communication tools) and any technologies that unify customer information between separate systems, such as general insurance, life and pensions for insurers. These projects involve a blend of technology upgradations in customer facing systems and data management systems but may not need replacement of core administration systems. Insurers should start with a customer-focused plan for communication (enhanced by surveys within the customer base) that will foster retention, loyalty and knowledge sharing – then see where that plan leads regarding relevant solutions. In this way, insurers will tie solutions directly to customer listening instead of anecdotal conjecture. It will help to seek advice from a technology partner. Solution Provider partners are familiar with new technologies and experienced with those that work best for insurer-specific functions.
The end result of excellent communications will be higher retention. Straightforward, frequent communication across all channels will keep many customers from feeling the need to shop around on aggregator sites. They will know they are "taken care of," a feeling that insurers should do their best to foster in every possible way.
"How do our customers wish to interact with us?," is a question that should drive insurance service solutions. In Majesco's recent report, we found that between 57% and 63% of customers use the telephone as their primary route for communicating with their insurers. When asked how they would like to communicate, most said that e-mail would be their primary vehicle, followed by telephone, website portal and online form. For simple policy management, however, the digital numbers jumped. Between 49%-57% would prefer to use an online form or a secure online portal.
Most striking though, is that no service channel seems to be going away. There is significant interest in maintaining mail and "in-person" service. So, while insurers would like to phase in new service methods, they will still need to be maintaining the old ones. The solution lies in a service methodology shift, pushing digital service capabilities that stand to save insurers a tremendous amount of administration cost. With £8 out of every £100 of premium being used to support customer service, a savings opportunity exists with an improvement in self-service that will help insurers safely broaden their service offerings.
Unfortunately, there is still a significant hurdle. Modernisation across these technologies impacts both external, customer-facing applications and legacy admin systems. To keep administration information accessible in a real-time, omni-channel environment, an insurer is best to move away from their legacy systems as a part of an overall plan for a competitive, sustainable structure aimed at future growth.
We see organisations of all types and sizes wrestling with modernisation, its proper timing, the financing and the cost/benefit analysis. We also are seeing a tremendous uptick in organisations that realize the benefits of shared technologies and cloud-based functionality. Insurers are attempting to create a service structure that will continually provide high-level service by properly designing the interactions between the front end and the back end so that they can plug and play (and unplug and unplay) front end components. These architectures are prepared for integrations of any type with standardised integration points and common service layers.
It all sounds expensive, but once again, this is an area where a partner can lessen the pain of investment by utilising proven, repeatable designs. If every investment is measured against a litmus test of customer necessity and competitive advantage as well as time and cost savings, then an insurer can move forward into modernisation with optimism and confidence.
Building consumer relationships is all about listening, then reacting positively with meaningful changes. Today, this is best accomplished when new models of service and communication use modern technologies to give regular, meaningful touches to every customer while at the same time increasing customer access and control.


Environmental education issues and problems are a focus of MDG 7. For poverty reduction, universal primary education, gender equity, reduction of child mortality and improvement of maternal health, reduction of deaths from AIDS, environmental sustainability and enhanced partnerships for development, there must be sensitivity to cross cutting environmental issues as they affect any achievements that can be made in each of the MDGs. However, since the main theme of this chapter is environmental issues, the chapter contents are more aligned to MDG 7 and how environmental education is a factor in poverty reduction.
The list below, though not exhaustive, provides an inventory of global environmental problems which are factors in breeding poverty and make it difficult to make a transition from poverty to non-poverty.
Climate change, including global warming has resulted in, amongst others, loss of water, electricity, heat wave, and lack of surface water • Related to this is the problem of global dimming • fossil fuels • sea level rise resulting in floods, • greenhouse gas • Ocean acidification • Shutdown of thermohaline circulation • Environmental impact of the coal industry which results in diseases such as pneumonia; and • urban heat islands. Climate change is a global problem that impacts on energy and other essential needs such as water and electricity, which results in high bills to access essential goods and services that are hard to secure because eof climate change.
Conservation: The conservation of natural resources is very important for agricultural production, and promotion of tourism, amongst others. Lack of effective conservation has a negative impact on, amongst others, species extinction • pollinator decline • coral bleaching • holocene extinction • invasive species • poaching and endangered species.
Energy: There is a global shortage of sources of energy, which calls for energy conservation. Strategies towards energy resources include use of renewable energy, renewable energy commercialization, efficient energy use to curb environmental impact of the coal industry and the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing.
Environmental degradation: Environmental degradation has a bad impact on survival of human and animal species due to impacts of eutrophication •habitat destruction •and invasive species that indiscriminately breeds extinction of others.
Genetic engineering: There are problems of genetic pollution, and genetically modified food controversies. Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to radiation or chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. Other techniques by which humans modify food organisms include selective breeding (plant breeding and animal breeding), and somaclonal variation.
GM foods were first put on the market in the early 1990s. Researchers have also developed a genetically-modified breed of pigs that are able to absorb plant phosphorus more efficiently, and as a consequence the phosphorus content of their manure is reduced by as much as 60 %.
Intensive farming: Some farmers breed more animals in spaces not adequate for their populations. This leads to overgrazing, soil erosion and infertile soil for gainful arable agricultural development. Due to the dry climatic conditions and lack of surface water, the need for irrigation cannot be overemphasized. Arid conditions have resulted on monoculture where only drought resistant plants can survive. There are also environmental effects of meat production especially where there are diseases that affect livestock, and the need for proper application of plasticulture.
Land degradation: With the impact of globalization came many chemical and non- chemical land and air pollutants, soil erosion, soil contamination and salination by toxic nutrients and desertification. Land use is adversely affected by rural-urban migration, urban sprawl • habitat fragmentation leading to habitat destruction especially where there are controversies surrounding ownership and access to land.
Water and air pollution — Environmental impact of the coal industry is manifested in acid rain • Eutrophication • Marine pollution • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Water crisis • Marine debris • Micro plastics • Ocean acidification • Ship pollution • Wastewater • Fish kill • Algal bloom and mercury in fish • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing. Other challenges and problems include environmental impact of the coal industry nonpoint source pollution point source pollution light pollution • Noise pollution especially in the inner cities, and visual pollution. Air pollution includes environmental impact of the coal industry, smog tropospheric ozone, indoor air quality, volatile organic compound atmospheric particulate matter.
Reservoirs: These are crucial for rainwater catchment and storage but need proper maintenance and purification measures especially where there are water borne illnesses. Environmental impacts of reservoirs can be fatal and deadly if uncontrolled.
Resource depletion: This includes over- exploitation of natural resources, clear cutting • deforestation, illegal logging and over-drafting.
Consumerism: Use of environmental resources by commercial entities who want to maximize profit can lead to consumer capitalism, planned obsolescence, and over-consumption of plant and animal species.
Fishing: Fishing is common in areas where there are seas, lakes and rivers that hardly run dry. Fishing typologies include blast fishing bottom trawling cyanide fishing, ghost nets, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, overfishing, shark finning, and whaling.
Mining: Mining is very lucrative source external revenue in Botswana and other African countries. However, associated environmental problems include acid mine drainage, environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing, mountaintop removal mining, and slurry impoundments.
Waste: Solid and liquid waste products include heavy toxic metals, pesticides, herbicides, electronic waste, litter, waste disposal incidents, marine debris, medical waste, landfill, leachate, environmental impact of the coal industry, incineration, great pacific garbage patch, exporting of hazardous waste, environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing.


For many, one of the principles of agile is delivering working software over comprehensive documentation. Software developers often see it as a pain to create the documentation. But the documentation is a must and required by managers, customers, collaborators, etc. so it is important to find approaches and tools which can help us document our products.
Swagger is a specification and framework to document REST APIs. I tried Spring-MVC integration. The result was amazing and worth sharing.
Swagger MVC scans in given package path for Spring MVC annotations and turns it into Swagger API specification. It tries to extract API resources from @Controller classes and API calls names, HTTP methods, request and response type from @RequestMapping methods and so one.
It also supports @ApiOperation and @Api annotations, but @Api was not working for me from some reason.
API specification can be rendered as xml or json.
Swagger UI uses json API specification to build nice looking visual documentation which contains also prepared REST client for each call.
To set up your Spring MVC project together with Swagger just add Maven dependencies and follow simple instructions which you can find on project site.
I had only three problems during using Swagger. @Api annotation was not working for me, extensibility module is poorly documented and I didn't get it working and Swagger is not following Jackson custom serializers and deserializers.
I tried also JSONDoc but it doesn't use Spring MVC or JAX-RS annotations to build your documentation and you have to write your documentation through jsondoc annotations which is not so productive, especially when your API is changing during early development and you need to provide documentation to collaborates.
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Metal powder screening with particle size below 50 µm is a big challenge in the creation of new alloys, as our Asad Bilal is explaning in his article published by Elsevier, most of all now that the demand for finer powders with the aim to widen and diversify metal powder products range is pushing technological innovation in the field of industrial screening.
In order to obtain competitive metal powder products in line with high quality market demand, critical points are represented by screening throughput rate and efficiency.
Virto-Cuccolini overcame the limits shown by other screening systems and even by traditional vibrating sieving equipment through the X-Line series, which is capable to screen particles with dimensions included between 1000 µm and 6 µm.
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We are proud to actively contribute in the creation, for our Customers in metal industry, of new product lines for metal powders. Based on their own success, we are proud to give our contribution in creating new metal powders product lines, and through this, having a role in technological innovation for the production of electrical batteries, any type of 3D printed component, more and more efficiently performing additives.
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There's No Stopping Erman Baradi
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A SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION OF OMAR DEL VILLAR AND B SIMONE
Hollywood event producer, host, and writer Erman Baradi – often called "top networker in Hollywood" for his entertainment platform, Ermantourage – has kept busy in 2020 despite the pandemic. And he looks to keep the momentum going for big plans in 2021.
Transitioning his live events to Zoom earlier this year, Erman's hosted special virtual events with guest speakers from The CW, Paramount, NBCUniversal, Marvel, "The Walking Dead," "This Is Us," and "Game of Thrones," just to name a few. "I know it's been a tough time for our audience, especially since we're such social people. Lockdowns can really take a toll on people's mental health. So, my goal is to continue offering a space for creative individuals, and anyone looking for good company for that matter, to stay connected and to make new friends and collaborators even if we're still many miles apart physically." Additionally, his Zoom events have raised money for Operation Underground Railroad, The Innocence Project, Equal Justice Initiative, and Beyond Freedom. "It's always been vital for my platform to raise awareness and funds if and where possible for organizations. It's one thing to entertain, but it's more purposeful to entertain and give back. That's what I hope to do with my eventual film and television career."
Nowadays, Erman is volunteering for Prison Fellowship as a new Justice Ambassador. According to the official site, "Prison Fellowship believes that a restorative approach to prisoners, former prisoners, and all those affected by crime and incarceration can make communities safer and healthier. Our ministry is founded on the conviction that all people are created in God's image and that no life is beyond God's reach." Back in 2018, I remember seeing the news story of Kim Kardashian working with President Trump on the clemency of Alice Marie Johnson after she spent two decades in prison for a non-violent crime. That piqued my interest in prison and criminal justice reform," Erman explains. Then in 2020, as we're all sitting at home, I watched the Netflix series 'The Innocence Files' based on the exonerations of individuals wrongfully convicted, who were represented in court by lawyers of The Innocence Project. This really got my wheels spinning and I looked up prison reform organizations and came across Prison Fellowship. This past summer, Alice Marie Johnson spoke at the RNC and that really got me going. Should my Hollywood career truly take off, prison and criminal justice reform would be high on my list of things to tackle with my platform."
What about Erman's creative side? Erman is represented as a screenwriter by Emagine Content and hopes to get projects going over the next few years. "It's sort of funny. My buddies and I had plans to create original content in 2020. Then the pandemic happened. We reconvened recently and decided that no matter where the world is in 2021, we'll roll out content anyways, even if they're short form and super contained. We just want to create and have fun and entertain," expresses Erman on his desire to write and produce. "The last five or so years I've made many connections in the game, so I'm ready to pull the trigger and use these relationships."
These connections also include music! "I spent 2020 getting voice lessons from my friend J Quelz over Zoom just to add another skill and kill time. One of my interests is to eventually write songs and to utilize my screenwriting skills to tell stories through music," Erman adds in regards to having friends in the music world.
As for events, Erman is producing his next all day virtual entertainment summit. On Saturday, January 30th, he's gathering special guests in film, television, and music to benefit Inner-City Arts LA. The organization offers a safe, creative space in Los Angeles where more than 200,000 children have been invited to create and explore. Inner-City Arts provides quality arts instruction for students from underserved communities, integrated arts workshops for educators, and programming designed for the community.
"I'm turning 31 at the end of November. I still feel young and vibrant, and there's plenty more road ahead of me," Erman graciously states. For this infectious public figure, there's no stopping his drive, undeterred by the circumstances that is 2020.
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NPR, along with attorneys from six other law firms across the nation, filed suit in the Southern District of New York against 17 banks, including Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Commerzbank, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, Royal Bank of Scotland, Credit Suisse, Credit Agricole, and Bank Saderat. The lawsuit, O'Sullivan, et al. v. Deutsche Bank, AG, et al., Case No. 1:2017-cv-08709, was filed on November 9, 2017 behalf of 64 plaintiffs who suffered death or injury resulting from 55 separate attacks perpetrated by terrorists.
The plaintiffs, who are servicemembers or families of servicemembers injured or killed in terrorist attacks in Iraq between December 17, 2003 and October 12, 2011, said Iran, and its agents and proxies, used U.S. currency "knowingly provided to them by Defendants to fund the very Terrorist Groups who perpetrated the Terrorist Attacks which killed or injured Plaintiffs." The lawsuit goes on to allege that "without the material support provided by Defendants to Iran and its Agents and Proxies, the Terrorist Groups would not have been able to carry out such Terrorist Attacks on the scale and with the lethality in which they were perpetrated."
The suit is being brought pursuant to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001 and the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act of 2016. The plaintiffs are represented by NPR partners Michael Angelovich and Neil Smith, and associate Chad Ihrig. A copy of the lawsuit filed against the banks can be viewed below:
O'Sullivan v. Deutsche Bank


This is a short tutorial that suggests a way to organize a very large amount of files with DropIt, for example if you need to recover files from a old hard disk or a messy directory.
The simple idea is to proceed into two steps, doing a first pre-sorting operation to make a macro division by format and then manage each group of files separately.
This step is the core of the idea: before using all the associations needed to organize your files, start creating a single association that performs a first separation of your files.
If you are new with DropIt, you could need to read How to start with DropIt before proceed.
Now drag&drop your files onto DropIt to proceed and separate them.
You can disable the association used for the first step and use all the desired actions on your files, with the advantage of process them one format per time (so you can for example ignore undesired formats or manually verify what files do you have for a specific format).


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The Best and Worst States for Working Moms
By Martha C. White
Moms do it all, but it's easier for them to juggle careers and children in some places than in others. Just in time for Mother's Day, a new survey ranks which states are best for working moms, based on an analysis of child-rearing services, professional opportunities and work-life balance metrics.
According to personal-finance site WalletHub.com, the best state for working moms is Oregon, where work-life balance is the best in the nation. In second place, Washington, D.C. comes in with the top ranking for professional opportunities. Vermont, Maine and New York, in that order, round out the top five. Delaware, in at number six, has the top child-care ranking in the country.
The Northeast makes up an outsized percentage of the top 10: After Delaware, WalletHub lists Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts and Ohio.
On the flip side, three of the bottom five states in the survey are in the South: Louisiana gets the dubious distinction of being in last place, with Mississippi just above it and South Carolina also in the bottom five. Two Western states, Idaho and Wyoming, round out the lowest five.
To evaluate how friendly each state is in terms of child care, careers and work-life balance, WalletHub looks at a few different factors in each category. For measuring how good a state is at providing working moms with child-care-related solutions, it looks at day care quality and the cost of child care relative to the average working woman's salary, along with public school quality and the number of pediatricians. States' career-related rankings are based on the degree to which there's a gender-related pay gap and the ratio of female to male executives, and work-life balance is assessed based on the state's parental leave policy, and the length of the average woman's workday and daily commute.
Looking at this more granular data shows that, even in high-ranking states, things can be tough for working mothers. "It's clear that something must be done to increase workplace gender equality and ease the burden on working parents, but there is significant debate about what that 'something' should be," WalletHub says in its report. "Progress, it would seem, is taking shape at different rates across the country."
For example, even though New York ranks fifth overall, it has the most expensive child care. Meanwhile, 35th-ranked Alabama has the best female-to-male executive ratio in the country, and among the cheapest child care.
Experts interviewed by WalletHub say technology is a big factor shaping working moms' experiences, for better and for worse. It gives them flexibility to, say, check email while at a little league game or waiting in the doctor's office, but it also ramps up the expectations of and demands on their already-precious time.
Legislation mandating paid sick and family leave time as well as more flexible work options would help alleviate the crunch, they say, as would more comprehensive and affordable child care options. Women earning on par with their male counterparts and occupying more corner offices will also help level the playing field, they assert. "Less than 5% of Fortune 500 companies have female chief executives," WalletHub points out, adding, "Female CEOs seems to be drastically underpaid relative to their peers."
While working moms might get flowers or a spa day this Mother's Day, this report shows that "having it all" is still an elusive goal for most.


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Q: Why aren't empty strings filtered out of this Java stream? I have a stream operation (Java 8) that is meant to parse a bunch of strings into doubles and take a sum.  Some of the strings are empty, but I don't believe any are null. I've added a filter operation to filter the empty ones out before they reach Double.parseDouble() where they might cause an error, but the filter doesn't seem to work.
My code:
double myTotal= myObjectList.stream()
    .map(myObject::getAmount)
    .peek( s -> System.out.println("before filter: " + s) )
    .filter( s -> !s.isEmpty() )
    .peek( s -> System.out.println("after filter: " + s) )
    .mapToDouble(Double::parseDouble)
    .reduce(0D,Double::sum);

This is in a JSP, and the JSP fails to compile.  According to the error page, the exception occurs in the last line (.reduce(0D,Double::sum);), but the "root cause" is a "java.lang.NumberFormatException: empty String" -- Double.parseDouble() is encountering empty strings.
I have tried several permutations of the filter operation, including some that checked for null and some that checked !s.equals("") and the like.  I added the peek operations for debugging and it is clear that an empty string is being printed both before and after the filter line.
What am I doing wrong?  Is there a better way to filter out values that can't be parsed to doubles?

A: Maybe it are white spaces, you can trim() the string first and then check if it's empty, to also remove the whitespace Strings like:
double myTotal= myObjectList.stream()
            .map(myObject::getAmount)
            .peek( s -> System.out.println("before filter: " + s) )
            .filter( s ->  !s.trim().isEmpty() )
            .peek( s -> System.out.println("after filter: " + s) )
            .mapToDouble(Double::parseDouble)
            .reduce(0D,Double::sum);

If you use java 11 you can use String.isBlank() in your filter instead of isEmpty(). isEmpty() looks at the lenght of the string. isBlank looks for whitespaces.

A: String with white spaces, technically not empty, cause an exception to be raised with the message "empty string". As another poster pointed out, the solution is to trim the input string first.
This confusion is the result of an unfortunate documentation bug in sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString which is indirectly called by Double.parseDouble. Although the semantics of String#empty is

Returns true if, and only if, length() is 0.

the implementation of readJavaFormatString actually trims the input string first, then computes the length, and throws the NumberFormatException with the (very misleading) message "empty string":
in = in.trim(); // don't fool around with white space.
                // throws NullPointerException if null
int len = in.length();
if ( len == 0 ) {
    throw new NumberFormatException("empty String");
}

This can be readily observed by executing:
Double.parseDouble("   ");

A: You could use Apache's StringUtils.isNotBlank function as well.It will take care of both Null and Empty strings.
https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-3.3/org/apache/commons/lang3/StringUtils.html#isNotBlank(java.lang.CharSequence)
double myTotal= Stream.of("","10.00","20.22","  ")
                //.map(myObject::getAmount)
                .peek( s -> System.out.println("before filter: " + s) )
                .filter(StringUtils::isNotBlank)
                .peek( s -> System.out.println("after filter: " + s) )
                .mapToDouble(Double::parseDouble)
                .reduce(0D,Double::sum);

Output:
before filter:
before filter: 10.00
after filter: 10.00
before filter: 20.22
after filter: 20.22
before filter:
30.22

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Ladies and gentlemen superstar Dj Xclusive is here with a new year jam for you all titled "love" which you all need to download and listen to. Starting a new year with this hot jam, dj xclusive must be up to something. Lets see as the year runs out whether the year is gonna go well for dj xclusive or other wise.


Working With "Habits of Mind"
In this episode, Jeff takes a deeper look at working with various "habits of mind" and how mindfulness practice can help. He shares some stories from his life to illustrate how these various habits of mind can cause a considerable amount of unnecessary suffering for ourselves and for others around us unless we practice being more aware of how we are reacting internally to what we are feeling and we believe about what is happening to us in any given moment.. He brings it all together by explaining how sustained mindfulness practice can sharpen our awareness of what is going on in our minds and can "shine a light" on these "habits of mind" that we may have been unaware of previously so that we can begin to openly question them and loosen our grip on them..


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As Symptoms Spread, Hasidic Leaders Sound the Alarm: 'A Fire Is Burning'
By Rachel Holliday Smith and Reuven Blau Mar 18, 2020, 3:27pm EDT
Additional Reporting By Yoav Gonen and Claudia Irizarry Aponte
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Early Tuesday morning, roughly 70 people gathered in a Brooklyn synagogue for a morning shachris prayer service.
"I banged on the bima [prayer stand] and made them stop," recalled Tzvi Zucker, a member of Brooklyn's volunteer Shomrim police who was enlisted by leaders of Congregation Hisachdis Yirieim Veretzky to help enforce a new 25-person limit per service.
Zucker said he also recently stopped congregants from sharing a cake: "People started to eat it with their hands," he said. "I had the entire thing thrown out."
While some big synagogues have closed their doors, the Midwood shul, colloquially known as "Landau's minyan factory," has implemented restrictions to combat the spread of the coronavirus, even with services running 18 hours a day.
Elsewhere in Brooklyn, officials are struggling to maintain appropriate social distance in the borough's Hasidic neighborhoods, which encompass different sects but face some common challenges amid the virus crisis.
A Community 'in Peril'
"It's a vulnerable community because of the centrality of large social gatherings," said Councilmember Mark Levine (D-Manhattan), chair of the City Council's Health Committee. "It's what makes it a beautiful community in so many ways, but at times like this, it places them in peril."
Levine spoke amid some recent reports of large gatherings in Hasidic communities at a time when the state has banned events with more than 50 people and most New York City schools and religious institutions have temporarily shuttered.
Congregation Hisachdis Yirieim Veretzky in Midwood, Brooklyn, has put up two tents for outdoor services, March 17, 2020.
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At an event hall on Ross Street in Williamsburg, the FDNY responded to a call about a large wedding underway and broke up the event Tuesday afternoon. Photos of the guests outside the venue made the rounds on social media.
"The gathering was contrary to the social distancing directives that are in place now," said Jim Long, an FDNY spokesperson. "We inspected and found cause for action and we asked for the event to be ended."
In Borough Park, home to multiple Hasidic groups, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported more than 100 people have tested positive for coronavirus at one local urgent care clinic, Asisa.
'People Have to Wake Up'
In Crown Heights, all yeshivas in the Lubavitch Jewish community have been shuttered since noon on Friday, and an edict from an area rabbonim, or rabbinical court, handed down Tuesday told all those over 65 to stay at home.
"A fire is burning in our community," the letter read. "It is absolutely forbidden for anyone over the age of 65 or with underlying health conditions to attend shul, mikvah, weddings or any other public places."
But many synagogues, or shuls, have continued services this week. The neighborhood's main synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway remained open through Tuesday afternoon — with a "bustling crowd," as COLlive, a local news site, reported.
But by Wednesday afternoon its doors had been chained shut, CrownHeights.info reported.
The synagogue's administrator Zalman Lipskier said the closure came at 3 a.m. Wednesday morning. Staff shut the doors, he said, because he has been sick in bed for three days.
"The rabbis put out a letter to close the shul, we close the shul," he told THE CITY. "You do what you gotta do, that's it. There's nothing to say about it."
Crown Heights resident Andrea Karshan said she and others had been calling for the closure of all synagogues "for weeks."
"People are going to be dead because they didn't close 770," she told THE CITY by phone earlier from her home where she is self-quarantining with a rough cough and fever.
A man walks along Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights, March 17, 2020.
Multiple sources in the neighborhood said Lubavitch people now hospitalized were attending services at the Eastern Parkway synagogue as recently as Saturday.
A Crown Heights man, Rabbi Zalman Goldstein, who reported that his father is in critical condition at a local hospital, sent out an audio message sounding the alarm through a post on WhatsApp from a local Lubavitch news site, CrownHeights.info.
"In my family, right at the beginning, they thought we should keep it private. It's the biggest mistake," he said. "We're letting the shuls stay open? People have to wake up!"
"[You can say,] 'Ah, it's too late, everybody's already exposed,'" he continued in the recorded message. "Let's say everybody, 95%, are exposed, but we can still save one or two people. Shouldn't we do that?"
Goldstein could not be reached by THE CITY.
An About-Face
There is no way to know how many people have the virus in the Lubavitch community. But several locals who spoke with THE CITY say the numbers of suspected cases grow every day among people they know.
Karshan suspects gatherings for Purim, the holiday which took place on March 9 and 10, contributed to the apparent spread. A report from amNewYork Metro of a Purim party at 770 Eastern Parkway for the holiday showed young and old packed in together.
"We can't be afraid to be together as a Jewish community. This is the source of our strength to be together," partygoer Shmuli Bronstein told the paper. "If we get this virus, maybe we just get sick God willing. But if we die, it's God's will."
Yosef Hershkop, who manages four medical clinics in Borough Park, Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Queens, says he's seen an uptick in visits at all of his locations since last week. He said he is getting calls all the time from people who are worried they have COVID-19 symptoms.
Though there's a lot to be concerned about, he's encouraged by an about-face he's seen in the community.
"In the last 48 hours, there's been a huge change for the better," he said Tuesday. "Suddenly, even the most nonchalant people are like, 'Oh my God, this is serious.'"
A lack of testing, like elsewhere in the city and country, is making detection very difficult, Hershkop said. For now, he's telling patients over the phone: "Stay home."
The Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, March 17, 2020.
Levine agrees that things have begun to "move in the right direction" for the city's Orthodox community — helped by the report of the 100 positive tests in Borough Park, "some alarm from the Health Department and a few of us working the phones feverishly," he said late Tuesday.
The changes in the community are appearing online, as in a video of men praying together, separately, on outdoor porches and balconies. Jewish children in isolation at home are already learning from online classes from local yeshivas, one father told THE CITY.
A Quest to Save Lives
At Landau's, the shul has set up two large white tents on the sidewalk outside for people to avoid overcrowding while keeping the required 10-person prayer quorum, known as a minyan.
Zucker funneled the hundreds of people arriving for the three daily services into the three main rooms inside the Avenue L synagogue and to the tents. The number of people attending services there was up in part because many other Midwood shuls, and yeshivas with prayer services of their own, have closed, Zucker said.
Meanwhile, a large sign on the front door discouraged elderly people and anyone even slightly sick from entering.
"This is about saving lives," he said, noting the services from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. each day would go on until government officials demanded they stop.
Help THE CITY cover the coronavirus crisis: What are your questions, concerns and experiences? Tell us here.


63 tooth metal change gear suitable for SIEG C2, C3, SC2, SC3 and other mini-lathes.
Click the 'More' tab for a link to Neil Wyatt's article in Model Engineers' Workshop magazine No. 204 discussing how you can use a 63 tooth gear to cut both Metric and Imperial threads on a Mini-Lathe.
Note: Additional gears beyond those supplied with your machine may also be required to cut some threads.
See a copy of Neil Wyatt's article Universal Thread Cutting on a Mini Lathe from Model Engineers' Workshop issue 204.
The article includes 3 pages of tables showing change wheel combinations to cut all standard BSW, BSF, BSP, BA, UNC, UNF and Metric threads (within the capacity of the Mini-Lathe) for Mini-Lathes fitted with either a 16TPI, 1.5mm or 2mm leadscrew.


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By MOViN 92.5 | November 28, 2022
Zayn Malik covers Jimi Hendrix for late guitar legend's 80th birthday
Experience Hendrix L.L.C./Sony Music Entertainment
Sunday, November 27 would have been Jimi Hendrix's 80th birthday, and the late guitar legend got an unexpected tribute from none other than Zayn Malik.
The former One Direction member has released a cover of Hendrix's song "Angel," from his posthumous 1971 album, The Cry of Love. On Twitter, Zayn wrote, "Being asked to collaborate to celebrate @jimihendrix 80th birthday was such an unexpected and huge honor. I have so much respect and admiration for Jimi, his music and fans. 'Angel' is out now – hope you love the track as much as I do. Happy 80th Jimi."
According to Billboard, Experience Hendrix L.L.C., which runs Hendrix's estate, invited Zayn to create a new version of "Angel" using the music from the original track. It's not clear if other artists were also invited to participate.
In a statement, Experience Hendrix told Billboard, "We are pleased that Zayn has been inspired to use original music from Jimi Hendrix's 'Angel' in his recording of the song. We're hopeful that this version of a Hendrix classic will enlighten a new generation of listeners about Jimi's genius and further propel his continuing legacy."


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Q: How SVG is drawn in HTML Good day,
I was playing around with SVG, when I noticed this behaviour.
Background: I was loading the SVG using snap.svg. The node I wanted to replace was inside a group <g> node.
I selected an SVG node using document.getElementById. Then I got the parent. Then I replaced the textContent property of the parent with another set of SVG text. However, the new SVG was not visible.
I opened the developer tools in google chrome. I selected the same node in the node tree view. I edited the node as HTML, replacing all SVG nodes with the new SVG text. However, the new SVG was not visible.
Lastly, I selected the root element, the SVG tag itself. Then edited the SVG tag as HTML, appending the SVG text as the last child element. Now the new SVG was visible?
Are there SVG drawing rules that I should be aware of? I've read in other questions that it's hard/impossible to replace SVG text the save way HTML can be replaced by using node.innerHTML.

A: Have you looked at using Element.innerSVG which is provided by Snap.svg?
Also, Element.innerHTML should work on svg elements too, and it already does work in some browsers (e.g newer versions of Opera and Chrome, see here). This is defined in the DOM Parsing spec.

A: You should try creating the SVG elements with the namespace aware createElementNS API. For an example, see http://www.kevlindev.com/tutorials/basics/shapes/js_dom/


"Tales from the iVolunteer Team" is an ongoing series of personal stories from the team that runs the Philippines' first volunteerism portal.
Preparations for the Go Volunteer! Event are now in full swing, as iVolunteer Philippines held its kick-off session last January 23, with over 20 Non-Profits and Partner Organizations in attendance.
The kick-off event, held at the Office Project in Salcedo, Makati, brought together iVolunteer's various Partner Organizations – both current and new, to share what everyone should look forward to on March 5 and 6, 2016 at the Glorietta Activity Center.
Executive Director, JB Tan, opened the event by welcoming the attendees, and providing a brief background of iVolunteer Philippines – emphasizing the group's mission of engaging all Filipinos in nation building through different and creative forms of volunteerism. Later, Bel Padlan, Director of Partner Relations and Go Volunteer! Project Lead, walked through the activities leading up to and happening during the 2-Day Volunteer Awareness Weekend.
The adventure-themed Go Volunteer! event seeks to encourage visitors to go beyond their usual day, and their usual activities to explore new things, learn about themselves and others, while at the same time contributing and creating impact to important causes. For Partner Organizations, the Go Volunteer! Weekend is a valuable platform for them to not only share their organization's programs, but also their individual volunteer journeys, enough to encourage others to begin their own.
Interested to join the Go Volunteer! Event? Pre-register by visiting the new iVolunteer Philippines Site and sign up for the March 5 and March 6 events.


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Q: Change Selected in dropdown Javascript I have the following drop-down:
<select size="1" name="foo" id="foo" style="cursor: pointer;">
    <option value="bla1;" class=" nAll" selected="1">Requests</option>
    <option value="bla2;" class=" nAll">Requests Rate</option>
</select>

I'm trying to change the select option with the following code:
      var url = window.location.href;
        var i=1
        var value=getUrlParameter(url);
        $("#foo").find('option').each(function(){
        if(value === i){
            $(this).attr("selected","1");
            }
        else
        {
            $(this).attr("selected","0");
        }
        i++;
    }
);

Basically i have a parameter that I sent in the URL and I want to set the drop-down correctly when I reload the page.
For some reason this is whats happening when I run the code:
<select size="1" name="foo" id="foo" style="cursor: pointer;">
    <option value="bla1;" class=" nAll" selected="selected">Requests</option>
    <option value="bla2;" class=" nAll" selected="selected">Requests Rate</option>
</select>

what I'm hoping to achieve:
<select size="1" name="foo" id="foo" style="cursor: pointer;">
        <option value="bla1;" class=" nAll" selected="0">Requests</option>
        <option value="bla2;" class=" nAll" selected="1">Requests Rate</option>
</select>

A: The value passed in to the getUrlParameter method should be a string. But it has been passed as url variable value.

var getUrlParameter = function getUrlParameter(sParam) {
    var sPageURL = decodeURIComponent(window.location.search.substring(1)),
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Oelofse is 26 years old and from Christiaan Stad (Oslo). Instigated by Hans Weddingh, he agrees to help murder all the ship's officers as well as to enter the cabin of the constable and murder every one there. For that purpose he had a knife in his pocket and the help of a certain Hans Oelsen.
The second part of the document describes that under a government where law and order is maintained, such acts cannot be tolerated and an example must be made (for others) and punished in the most rigorous manner. He is brought before the commissioners of the courts of justice (Gecommiteerden van de Raad van Justitie), the commander (Cornelis van Qualbergen) and the commander of, and all the captains of the return fleet (currently anchored in the bay) where sentence is pronounced in the name of the lords of States General of the United Netherlands.
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neck, and subsequently branded (as criminal), and to serve 25 years in chains on public works without pay and be banned to Robben Island, and as before all possessions and assets to be confiscated.
The fact that he later married and left descendants tells us the story of his "fate."


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LGBTQ Utahns say these Salt Lake City coffee shops are their safe spaces
Because there are few queer-specific gathering venues in Utah, many members of the LGBTQ community have turned to coffee shops as de-facto safe spaces, functioning as centres for both connection and affirmation.
It's difficult to pinpoint what makes certain coffee shops more friendly than others, but those that do allow people to be completely themselves: to dress in clothes that reflect their gender and identity, to be publicly amorous with a partner, or to generally appear as openly gay.
In a recent interview, Indigo Mason, a 21-year-old Salt Lake City resident who grew up in Park City, claimed that Utah has a "good queer coffee culture," and that those locations give a chance for LGBT Utahns who are sober or too young to attend to gay clubs to develop community.
"It's like, what do you do when you're 19 and want to meet new people in Salt Lake City?" Mason remarked. "Perhaps you might visit Sugar House Coffee or a nearby coffee shop."
Coffee shops already offer a feeling of community for McKenna, a 19-year-old from Sandy who identifies as bisexual and asked that The Salt Lake Tribune not use her full name because she isn't totally out to everyone in her life, "even if you don't know the people there," she said.
And she believes that this could be especially true in Utah, where the predominant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches its members not to drink coffee. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes that having "same-sex attraction" is not a sin, but acting on it is immoral.
"It's sort of apparent that you're going to encounter individuals who drink coffee at coffee shops," she said, "which in the LDS demographic kind of draws individuals who aren't LDS for the most part." "I believe there is a component of it."
Members of the LGBTQ community believe they have found acceptance in four coffee shops in Salt Lake City:
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Geri's Review: Making Up by Lucy Parker
May 15, 2018 by Geri · Leave a Comment
MAKING UP
Series: London Celebrities #3
Author: Lucy Parker
Author of Act Like It and Pretty Face Lucy Parker returns readers to the West End, where it's fireworks onstage and off in a sexy enemies-to-lovers showdown.
Once upon a time, circus artist Trix Lane was the best around. Her spark vanished with her confidence, though, and reclaiming either has proved…difficult. So when the star of The Festival of Masks is nixed and Trix is unexpectedly thrust into the spotlight, it's exactly the push she needs. But the joy over her sudden elevation in status is cut short by a new hire on the makeup team.
Leo Magasiva: disgraced wizard of special effects. He of the beautiful voice and impressive beard. Complete dickhead and—in an unexpected twist—an enragingly good kisser.
To Leo, something about Trix is…different. Lovely. Beautiful, even though the pint-size, pink-haired former bane of his existence still spends most of her waking hours working to annoy him. They've barely been able to spend two minutes together for years, and now he can't get enough of her. On stage. At home. In his bed.
When it comes to commitment, Trix has been there, done that, never wants to do it again. Leo's this close to the job of a lifetime, which would take him away from London—and from Trix. Their past is a constant barrier between them.
It seems hopeless.
Utterly impossible.
And yet…
Lucy Parker became an instant favorite after I fell in love with the first book of her London Celebrity series. She has never fails to deliver on the swoons and the great characters. The third book, Making Up, is no exception.
We've met Trix in Pretty Face. She's a circus artist and Lily's best friend who was in an abusive relationship with Dan. That abuse took a toll on Trix and the aftermath was even more heartbreaking. She lost confidence in herself and her talents, and just when it seems like her career and life are in the doldrums, an opportunity to take the lead role in the long running show she's in dropped on lap right along with her old nemesis, Leo Magasiva.
We've also met Leo Magasiva briefly in Pretty Face. He's a make up artist whose Holywood rise was derailed by an allergic reaction mishap. Now back in London, Leo joined Trix's company as the head make up artist.
Can I just say how refreshing it is to read about a hero who is not a billionaire/Rockstar/biker/soldier but a makeup artist? I loved it. Plus, Leo Magasiva was just divine. Swoon-worthy, creative guy with a heart of gold. He's the perfect man for Trix, and lord knows she needs someone trustworthy after Dan the snake oil man almost ruined her life.
It doesn't have to be complicated, Trix." It was the only thing he could say. It was also a total bloody lie. It was them. It was going to be completely fucking complicated."
The chemistry between Trix and Leo just leaps off the page and their banter was amazing. Lucy Parker definitely knows how to write banter. The relationship between Trix and Leo was complicated from the start. They had history and they had personal issues to deal with on top of everything. I of course, adored it because I love me some complicated.
It was delightful going back to the London setting of this book. I wish more contemporary romances are set there just to break the monotony of American set romances. I loved that the London described in this book is filled with diverse characters and it felt lived in. London's West End is in and on itself a main character in the book. And oh, this book was also damn funny. It's not slapstick humor but the sarcastic, offbeat, and deadpan kind, which I personally prefer.
There's a new character introduced in this book which I feel readers will either love or hate. I wasn't sure about it myself but I think I love to read more about this character. Fingers crossed Lucy will have something plan because it's going to get interesting to say the least.
We do not squee over anything to do with this man, ovaries. Rein in the hormones immediately."
I enjoyed this book immensely. Although I'll be the first one to say that it's far from perfect. I had a bit of an issue with the pacing especially the middle. It was definitely slow during that part but it did pick up and finished strong. And that epilogue!! Loved it.
There is also a scene that might raise some discussion around consent. And after thinking about it and rereading that part again, I personally wasn't bothered by it. I felt that something was already established between them. So I wasn't bothered by it. I'm mentioning this, trying to be as vague as possible as to not spoil the book but I also feel that it's a good point to discuss among readers.
Anyway, I still adored this book. Those little snags weren't big enough to affect my overall enjoyment at all.
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