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What beautiful images. I enjoyed these and the others on your beautiful blog.
Unfortunately, I cannot give advice about over wintering plants as it does not get that cold here. My twin brother just moved to CT from Mill Valley just north of SF. He said he is going to have to re-think plants, and bringing less hardy ones in. So, he may end up asking you for advice!
I love the silver contrast with the salvia in the earlier post,too.
as one with no good windows, your on your own. and I would imagine what just hit PA has passed through Ohio, this is not late fall wind chills. The garden is now on its own till spring emerges.
however, the biologist in me says, why not experiment. no data is bad data. though in this case it may joyful vs sad data. good luck.
Honey? Yes Dear. Do you hear that? Hear what. Shh! There it is again! I don't hear anything.... Just listen--there it is again, it sounds like, like.... Plants in the attic! Get out!
Well, anyway, your ninebark is very lovely--I hope my coppertina soon looks like this.
Hey Philip, you might want to tell him to wait until next year to ask... *grin* It looks like I'll just be experimenting this year, so maybe next year I'll at least have some data to go on if asked for advice!
Stratoz, yes... it has passed through here, and will continue to be cold this week. I have put on my storm windows, and that's part of the whole problem. All of the plants that I knew had to come inside, are now sitting on my kitchen floor in various states of distress... some potted up, but other still in bags. lol. Ah well.
Hey I just posted about this and your very plant!! Your attic will be totally fine for the zone 8s (read a trench mani for how cold I let my plants get!) and according to our esteemed speaker at Bwold last week, you can put the cordyline in the basement (in the dark!). Plus your plants will slow down for the winter and not need as much water - maybe check them every 2 weeks or so.
Is there possibly a computer calendar program somewhere (my total computer ignorance is showing) that would email a reminder to water your plants!
Beautiful vignettes! I love the heuchera with the golden oregano and viburnum adds even more to the combination.
Hi Kim. I'm going to say yes you can put them in the attic, based on what I did a couple of years ago with a rose tree that was potted. I didn't want to leave it outside, so I put it in our unheated garage, with very little light (just what came in a window at the top half of a regular door). I only watered it a couple of times all winter and I'll be darned if that thing didn't start showing green growth around the end of March! I started watering it a little bit more then, and when it was a little warmer outside, I planted it in the ground.
I realize your plants are not as hardy as a rose, but your attic won't get as cold as our garage, either, where it is below freezing much of the winter.
I like the dirrerent shades of golden, grenn and red in your pictures - they make great companions!
I'm starting up a new meme for Fridays - Blooming Friday - it would be great if you would like to participate with one or two pictures of blooming plants. I thought it would be nice to share eye-candy for the week-end... Welcome!
Kim: Great colors in the garden and with those leaves, who needs flowers? Trust Kris. She knows of what she speaks!
Your photo of the clashing Physocarpus foliage with the arbor made me laugh. Autumnal foliage changes present such a fun challenge to garden design.
I say experiment all the way! My mom always puts her geranium in a NORTH window in the unheated northern Indiana basement for winter, watering it maybe twice the whole time. It's a beautiful monster every summer.


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Fear Lingers In Remote Afghan District After Taliban Are Pushed Out
Nimatullah Ahmadi
Mohammad Tahir, an elderly poor farmer in Warduj, remains fearful of a Taliban return.
WARDUJ, Afghanistan -- Residents say fear lingers in a remote Afghan district after government forces ended years of Taliban rule there by forcing the insurgents out in a fierce battle last month.
Life is slowly returning to normal in Warduj. Displaced residents and officials have returned to this mountainous district in the remote northeastern province of Badakhshan, which borders Tajikistan, China, and Pakistan.
Qiamuddin Fayeq, 53, is among the Warduj residents who endured nearly four years of Taliban rule after the insurgents overran the district in October 2015. He lives in his mud hut along with his wife and their three daughters and four sons.
"Our homes were destroyed by bombs and artillery fired by the government and by the Taliban," Fayeq told Radio Free Afghanistan.
He says that while security has improved, the fear of a Taliban comeback haunts them.
"If the government doesn't pay attention, the Taliban will return," he noted. "If our schools remain shut, our children will be illiterate and become a burden on society."
Qiamuddin Fayeq, 53, a resident of Warduj, says they suffered under Taliban rule.
Fayed has no job and makes ends meet by occasionally selling sheep from his flock. "We have nothing but a few mattresses. We only have some thin quilts that offer little protection against the harsh winter," he said.
He says he is deeply disappointed by lack of support offered by the government since he returned home after briefly fleeing the fighting in September.
"We were among the 30 to 40 families who fled the district on our bare feet," he recalled. "The former district governor gave us a bag of flour, a bag of rice, a bit of oil, and some tea. But we have received no help since then."
Mohammad Tahir, an elderly farmer, also stayed back in Warduj during the Taliban rule. Tahir recollects that the insurgents used to force locals to feed them and carry water, equipment, and weapons to their hideouts in the remote mountains.
Warduj's landscape is defined by the Hindu Kush Mountains.
Tahir enjoys the relative tranquility in Warduj but is fearful that
if the Taliban return, they would "decapitate" everyone who has worked with the government or supported the authorities.
"Life is not good. We ask the government to help us. We have been in misery for four years. We have not received any help," he said, urging the government to act swiftly to stabilize their lives and improve conditions in Warduj.
Harking back to the hard-line group's harsh rule in the 1990s, the Taliban control in Warduj appeared to be a concerted effort to recreate a mini Taliban state obsessed with controlling the region's residents.
Taliban Revive Harsh Rule In A Remote Afghan Province
"After capturing the region, they first collected all television sets to enforce a ban on watching it, and they banned women from going to the local bazaar without a male guardian," Mohammad Dawlat Khawar, a former district governor of Warduj, told RFE/RL's Gandhara website in 2018.
Apart from the moral policing, the hard-line Islamist militia also deprived Warduj residents of key services and development.
Dawlat Mohammad is a 57-year-old resident of Chakran, the district center of Warduj. He says Warduj was stripped of all reconstruction programs during the Taliban's rule.
"During the four years of Taliban rule, we lagged behind 30 years," he added.
Mohammad says crumbling school buildings force students to study under the shade of trees and the hospital in Warduj has no medicine. The district has 15 schools, including two high schools for boys and three for girls. But during most of the Taliban's rule, girls were not allowed to attend school. They also barred women from the only teachers' training college in Warduj.
District Governor Mohammad Imran Payam is the government's point man in ensuring that Warduj remains under Kabul's control.
He says the Taliban oppressed residents and destroyed or damaged government offices in the region by vandalizing doors and windows and burning furniture.
"Our district has seen four years of poverty, homelessness, and displacement. It still has many problems," he said. "We are currently building a local [government] office. There are construction issues and other problems that cannot be dealt with at once."
He wants more security forces to deal with the challenges ahead. Payam says that Taliban militants, along with a few hundred foreign fighters, mainly from Central Asian countries, are still active and holed up in remote villages of Bashund, Sofian, and Teergeran.
"We are concerned about improved coordination and greater effectiveness of the air and ground forces [to keep the Taliban away]," he said.
The river Warduj is the main source of water in the region.
Just recently, the head of Badakhshan's provincial council, Ahmed Bashir Samim, told Radio Free Afghanistan that at least 10 civilians were killed and wounded during an Afghan air operation in the Bashund area.
But Fawad Aman, deputy spokesman for the Defense Ministry, said the civilians were killed and wounded when a rocket fired by the Taliban hit them.
Mustafa Sarwar is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi in Prague.
Nimatullah Ahmadi is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan.

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"I feel so sorry for them," he said. "It's bad enough our oil-field work played out and we've got to move on, but those poor folks … ." I knew the Clouds weren't rich, but they had enough to share with others-that was their Christian creed.
Every time we stopped for gas or a rest stop, Mr. Cloud would pick out some unfortunate and hand him a dollar for bread for his family. In those days that dollar would buy eight or 10 loaves.
And so it was that on an early fall morning, Mother and I got ready to go to her favorite store, Montgomery Ward (or, as she fondly called it, Monkey Wards), about 15 miles away in downtown Modesto. She had a shopping list she kept to herself and a purse holding her and Dad's earnings from their seasonal job in a tomato cannery. With the crop done, that job had now ended, and she could go and buy things she needed for our home. We would take Dad's Model A Ford.
I was not looking forward to the trip; it would be a boring day for me. My sole purpose in going along was to carry things to the car, for she could rarely find a parking spot very close to the store.
I felt a little better after we went through Empire. As it happened, a little freight train was puffing along the tracks that ran parallel to State Route 132. Mother pulled the Model A up even with it, and I was fascinated by the black smoke pouring out of the smokestack, the big wheels turning so fast, and the noise. I smiled when the engineer sounded the whistle. Pretty soon we were even with him, and when I waved to him, he waved back! We continued like this for some time, until we got to the outskirts of Modesto, where the tracks veered away.
Mother had to park a good half-block away from the big store, and she wasted no time daydreaming, for she had many purchases to make. My work of shuttling goods to the car soon began, and I remember well the first parcels-two big feather pillows for her and Dad's bed. I was a pretty big kid, but they were all I could handle.
The rest of the morning went pretty much the same. There was a parcel of new underwear for all her menfolk, and then another of new pants and shirts and bib overalls. The little car was rapidly filling up when she said that before going home, we would go to Smitty's Lunch and buy ourselves a store-bought hamburger and a Coca-Cola.
As we ate in a leisurely fashion, she gave absolutely no hint that she planned to go back to the store. But soon we were there again, and this time we were looking at radios.
A salesman tried to sell her a big floor model, but she said she didn't have enough money for such as that. He worked his way down and finally showed her one that would suit. He said it was a table model, but a rather large table model to accommodate a large speaker for good music tones. It was the Airline Deluxe, with eight-push-button tuning. It really was beautiful in its highly polished, walnut-finish cabinet with lighted dial and brass trim around the dial and push buttons.
The buttons were simple to set, and we agreed that would be my job when we got it home. It came with a sheet with little printed tabs with any station call letters on the West Coast. Today I can recall only two of them: KTRB, our local station in Modesto, and KSFO, from San Francisco. I will never forget KTRB because my family was always up and around at dawn and the radio switched on when KTRB began its new day with Frankie Carle's Sunrise Serenade. Later, my high-school choir would sing from their studios.
KTRB presented another popular program on Saturday mornings, Mrs. Glass' Amateur Hour, featuring local children. She always played the studio piano and led them in her theme, "I must learn my ABCs, bring home A's instead of D's, and my folks I'd surely please, but I like rhythm in my nursery rhyme!"
After a few days with the radio, I was like all my friends, listening to Little Orphan Annie, The Lone Ranger and Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, and asking Mother to buy me chocolatey Ovaltine and Wheaties, "the breakfast of champions" and Jack Armstrong's favorite. Mother succumbed to the ads, too, and bought a box of Oxydol to try, and another time, Rinso White to use in her Maytag washer.
We lived only a block from school and she always fixed a hot lunch for me. When I came home to eat, she always had one of her new soap opera programs on. I remember especially Mary Marlin, Backstage Wife, Ma Perkins and Stella Dallas. We found these programs fascinating as we pictured the stories in our minds.
Mother was very musical, with a glorious alto singing voice, and as she worked, she sang along with music from the radio. Harmony came naturally to her, and she often sang her own improvised harmony line. It was all very beautiful and improved her quality of life.
That first radio back in the Good Old Days was a blessing to us all! ?
In 1938 we had moved from the oil fields of Oklahoma to the little town of Waterford in California's fertile Central Valley. We found things there much more to our liking. For one thing, our home was now served by electricity, and Mother could have electric appliances. We no longer needed kerosene lamps, and for the first time in my 10 years, there was some talk around the dinner table about radio.
We had never had it back east-in fact, no one we knew had a set-so we didn't miss it. Then my older brother, Ed, bought a Ford V-8 car and took me for a ride one day. He turned on the car's radio and the Lightcrust Doughboys serenaded us to town and back. But it didn't make much of an impression on me; I was more interested in the speedometer! He showed me he was going 50 miles per hour, and when he passed a slower car, I watched as it drifted off into the distance behind us. I could hardly wait to get home to tell Mother how fast we'd gone! Then, when it came time to move to California, I rode with my parents' best friends, Mr. and Mrs. Cloud, in their new Ford V-8. It, too, had a radio and they played it constantly. But I was more interested in the sights along the way and, on Route 66, seeing all the poor farmers with their ragged families in old, beat-up cars and trucks going the same direction we were-as Mr. Cloud said, to get a new start in California. He said they had lived in the Dust Bowl where there were awful dry conditions and they couldn't farm there any more.


City Life: World Edition, the follow up to the critically acclaimed city builder, City Life, keeps all the great aspects of the original and expands the possibilities through exciting new content and features. Over 100 new buildings, including famous structures such as the White House, the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin and others will be available in the game, along with new maps and a fully-integrated content editor. Now players will be able to create or customize buildings within the game, then share them online with other City Life: World Edition owners. Players will also be able to listen to their favorite music while playing the game by simply importing their favorite MP3 files.
A true 3D city builder that allows the player to grow his or her creations from a small village to a massive megalopolis, creating a living breathing metropolis filled with diverse citizens moving to and fro, interacting realistically with one another and the player.
Six distinct social classes challenge players' design and management skills. Unique amenities must be offered to meet the varying expectations of the citizenry, as only diverse but harmonious neighborhoods allow a city to reach its full potential.


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SUV Linked to Fatal Road Rage Incident Possibly Found
The Associated Press Published: August 12, 2021
Plymouth Police via Twitter
PLYMOUTH (AP) -- Police in a Twin Cities suburb say they have found an SUV that matches the description of the one driven by the person who fatally shot a man in a suspected road rage incident.
Plymouth police say investigators are currently processing the vehicle to gather possible evidence.
The development comes about a month after 56-year-old Jay Boughton was shot in the head as he drove his son home from a baseball game on Highway 169.
His vehicle crashed in the parking lot of a nearby apartment building where his 15-year-old son gave his father CPR.
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Q: Why newly created app in react have low site performance in lighthouse Want to get reasons why the newly created app has a low score in the lighthouse.
Currently showing a score of 28.
Please help me to get a possible solution to increase the site performance

A: You can follow the issues mentioned in the lighthouse one by one.
React and Virtual DOM suffer from slow performance. Use a faster JS framework like Solid-js.
https://solidjs.com/
Watch this video for general performance issues:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9q3h2khlc
Use this website to know the cost of your dependencies:
https://bundlephobia.com/package/react-dom@17.0.2

A: Note that there's a big difference if you run these tests on dev mode or production mode.
I assume that if you'll build it in production mode and deploy it to netlify or another hosting provider, you'll see different numbers.

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Du chaud au froid : pourquoi est-il logique de louer l'équipement de CVC?
De pollution visuelle à un régal pour les yeux : transformation des sites industriels en friche dans les villes.
Manières les plus récentes de réparer les nids-de-poule.
L'essor multifamilial : Qui va rester en appartement et pourquoi?
Qu'est-ce que la BIM en 5D et comment change-t-elle la manière dont nous approchons les projets?
Qu'est-ce qu'un GFCI (disjoncteur de terre) et à quoi sert-il?
Est-ce que la technologie de suivi de la main-d'œuvre peut vous faire économiser de l'argent?
Béton autoréparable : Bientôt dans un projet de construction près de chez vous?
Le futur de la construction : la construction en cartouches?
Pourquoi mettre en place la politique Pouvoir arrêter le travail?
Les maux des milieux de travail : Des programmes de formation professionnelle et technique pourraient atténuer les pénuries de .
Tenez-vous à jour sur les dernières nouvelles et les plus récents conseils.
How Many Port-a-Potties Do You Need?
Drone technology can save you time and money, but not all drone services are equal.
Drones are rapidly changing the landscape for construction companies. According to the 2018 Construction Technology Report from JBKnowledge, 37 percent of companies surveyed are now using drones on construction projects. Time- and money-saving applications range from inspections and surveying to materials management and progress mapping.
Some companies are going it alone with an in-house drone operation, but that approach can quickly become a headache. One of the largest construction companies in the U.S. ended up hiring United Rentals for end-to-end drone service after initially running its own program. With one pilot and two drones, the company couldn't keep up with demand.
"They were struggling with scale," said Helge Jacobsen, vice president for operational excellence at United Rentals. "Even one that had a million and a half dollars' worth of brand new drones in a warehouse ended up using us because scaling a program beyond one site is actually really hard."
Hiring an end-to-end drone service can be a practical and scalable way to adopt this technology, but finding a provider capable of meeting your needs is essential. Ask these questions as a starting point.
Are your pilots licensed and in compliance with regulations?
Make sure the pilot holds a Remote Pilot Certificate with a small UAS rating, and ask what kind of drones they have. Also ask the company how they comply with federal, state and local regulations for the application you need. Strict FAA rules apply to the use of drones, but not every drone service understands them or knows how to comply with them.
The pilot should know, for example, how to stay below maximum speed and maintain work-zone boundaries when encountering wind shear caused by the presence of buildings and heavy equipment, and how to maintain visual line of site. Any commercial drone operator should also know which kinds of airspace require permission from air traffic control. (The answer: class B, C, D and E airspace).
Do you have experience working at busy construction sites?
Not all operators know their way around construction sites or are familiar with the necessary safety precautions.
"There's a difference between getting a drone up and taking some cool shots of a valley and being in an active job site where you have 250 people and 100 pieces of machinery," Jacobsen said. "Being safe in that kind of environment is just different."
How big is your operation infrastructure?
Putting a drone pilot on a plane isn't cheap, and getting a drone's lithium batteries onto the plane can be an issue, too. A company with a local operation infrastructure will likely be more cost-competitive, as well as more convenient, for companies operating in more than one place. United Rentals' end-to-end drone service, for instance, operates from 1,200 branches.
It's smart to ask about liability insurance. Drone operators in the U.S. are not required to have it (unlike in Canada), but it's still a best practice. Ask for details, including the types of accidents and amount of liability covered.
Can you deliver useful data in context?
Data is all but useless unless it drives better, faster decision making. Ask not only about the data the service will provide but also how it will be made available. You want a platform that's easy to navigate and a company that will slice, dice and analyze the data so it's actionable.
"We do the data manipulation and analytics, and we have a really slick portal where you very easily can access the information you're looking for," Jacobsen noted.
How do you maintain a safety culture?
Drones can increase worker safety, such as by performing dangerous inspection work in lieu of human workers, but they can also add risk without proper hazard identification and mitigation. Evaluate the safety procedures of a drone service as you would when hiring any contractor that's going to work onsite.
An end-to-end drone service can help construction companies increase productivity and save money while avoiding the hassle of developing and maintaining an internal program. Yet the payoff largely depends on finding a provider that fits your needs.
Russell McLendon is an Atlanta-based writer and editor who covers a variety of topics related to nature, science and technology.
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Why do you think the glory of God shining around the shepherds terrified them?
How is God's glory seen in Jesus coming as a baby and lying in a manger?
Share a time when a fellow believer brought you great joy.
How can you seek to bring joy to other believers this week?
What opportunities for witness does Christmas bring?
Has the gospel resulted you joyfully proclaiming the good news to others? Why or why not?


In today's fast-paced environment, it's more critical than ever for service providers to provide businesses with applications that run over reliable Ethernet-based services. Business class Ethernet has become the choice for small, medium, and large businesses as industry standards have evolved to include high availability network requirements.
Service Providers are quickly migrating to an all packet-based network for transparent WAN/LAN, VPLS, VoIP, Video Conferencing, and other critical applications. Transition Networks understands that business class Ethernet services require flexible bandwidth services, multi-point connectivity, and scalable architectures today in order to allow additional Ethernet services and applications in the future. This level of management needs to happen while growing the number of users on a network and guaranteeing customer satisfaction with increased reliability and uptime. Transition Networks products also provide the simplicity and security of physical layer connectivity negating the need for unnecessary signal processing or routing.
Transition Networks' products support MEF Carrier Ethernet standards in a wide range of expanding markets, including wireless backhaul, fiber conservation, business services, cloud assurance, and carrier exchange networks. These products provide carrier-grade quality, reliability, performance and protection for TDM and Carrier Ethernet services.


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Apex Legends Might Have Killed Sea Of Thieves' Twitch Momentum
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At the end of January, Sea of Thieves seemed to be on the cusp of pulling off one heck of a trick: joining Twitch's upper echelon after nearly a year of relative irrelevance. Popular streamers were piling onto the newly-refurbished ship's deck, curious to see if it could provide a viable alternative to Fortnite, which everyone has been playing for approximately a million years in Twitch time.
Then, Apex Legends happened.
During the final week and a half of January, Sea of Thieves saw a string of days in which it regularly peaked at an hourly average of over 100,000 concurrent viewers, sliding into second or third place on all of Twitch alongside Fortnite and League of Legends. But when Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment launched Apex Legends on February 4, Sea of Thieves' concurrent viewer average plummeted back down to the 2,000-15,000 range, where it now sits most days.
This might strike you as strange. After all, Sea of Thieves and Apex Legends are superficially different types of games. But like Fortnite before them, both have that Twitch "it" factor: they can facilitate spectacular, skill-based shenanigans, chill after-school hangouts, and everything in between. But in a world consumed by battle royale fever, ApeLegs has a big leg up—especially given all the subtly revolutionary ways it's iterated on the battle royale formula.
Sea of Thieves' sudden burst of early-2019 momentum stemmed from two things: a December update that made the game more exciting, and interest from a handful of bigger streamers—one of whom, Summit1g, led the charge with his 3.5 million followers. His PVP-focused, almost griefer-like antics attracted a whole new audience to the multiplayer swash-and-buckle-'em-up and buoyed his slightly stale streaming career. He kept this up for more than a month, at which point other Twitch mega-stars like Dr Disrespect, TimTheTatman, and even Ninja decided to pop in and see what all the fuss was about. This led to faux rivalries, media coverage, and a reaction from developer Rare.
At the time, I wondered if Sea of Thieves could sustain its momentum. I wrote:
At this point, Sea of Thieves could wind up being just another flash in the pan on a platform prone to giving games 15 seconds of fame and little more. Right now, it still seems like big streamers, Summit aside, are feeling curious rather than committal. In another week or two, they could easily jump ship back to Fortnite without so much as a tear shed over their short-lived seafaring days. But Rare's promised more support for the game, and if it can keep things fresh, this might be just the beginning for Twitch's latest major player.
Instead of jumping ship back to Fortnite, however, many of them slid right into Apex's open arms. Thanks in large part to a sponsored partner program, Apex Legends immediately attracted the likes of Ninja, Shroud, Dr Disrespect, and pretty much every other top-tier Fortnite streamer, pulling double the number of people watching Fortnite when it launched on February 4. It's cooled off some since then, but it still regularly averages between 200,000-300,000 concurrent viewers and has been the number one game on Twitch since it came out.
Summit1g is one of the many streamers who joined Apex's day-one stampede, and he hasn't looked back since. The last time he played Sea of Thieves was February 3. When asked by a fan if he was done with Sea of Thieves forever shortly after Apex came out, Summit replied "Fuck no," but went on to say, "Who knows? You never know which games blow up nowadays, man."
Not all big streamers have abandoned Sea of Thieves. CDNThe3rd, who has 1.7 million followers, still plays it regularly, and last Thursday, the game's concurrent viewer count briefly spiked into the upper 30,000's. Earlier today, popular French streamer Squeezielive also briefly popped into Sea of Thieves, catapulting it into the 50,000 range for a little while. Once he swapped over to Apex Legends, though, it dropped down to a paltry 2,000.
Apex is, for now, certifiably The New Hotness on Twitch. But that, too, may not last. Streamers and audiences are fickle. Just ask Sea of Thieves.
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Eugene the Jeep (Eugene de Jeep) is een stripfiguur bedacht door Elzie Segar. Dit fictieve dier komt voor in de stripreeks Thimble Theatre uitgegeven door King Features Syndicate. De strips werden later hernoemd naar [[Popeye (personage)|Popeye]].

Het dier verscheen ook in de tekenfilms uitgebracht door Fleischer Studios en Hanna-Barbera.

Fictieve oorsprong
Eugene the Jeep maakt zijn debuut op 9 augustus 1936 in de strip Wha's a Jeep? Hier legt professor Brainstine uit: "Een Jeep is een dier dat voorkomt in een derde dimensie, zoals onze wereld, maar zijn ontstaan deels dankt uit de vierde dimensie. In de vierde dimensie leven cellen die dezelfde elektrische vibraties hebben als bepaalde cellen van de Afrikaanse wilde hond. De cellen uit de vierde dimensie kunnen transporteren naar de derde dimensie. Als zij daar belanden in de buurt van een Afrikaanse wilde hond ontstaat er een aantrekkingskracht tussen beide vreemde cellen waardoor zij verstrengelen. Vervolgens treedt er een transmutatie op waardoor uit de Afrikaanse wilde hond een mysterieuze Jeep ontstaat."

In de strips was Eugene een geschenk van Olijfje aan Popeye. Zij verkreeg het dier via haar oom Ben die in Afrika op ontdekkingsreis is. De Jeep wordt voorgesteld als een geel dier. Hij heeft de grootte van een hond, gaat op zijn achterste poten en heeft een hoofd dat lijkt op dat van een beer. Verder heeft hij een grote neus, lange nagels en een vooruitstekende buik. Hij eet enkel orchideeën.

De Jeep kan niet spreken en het enige geluid hij maakt, lijkt op het woord "Jeep". Hij kan wel communiceren via lichaamstaal. Een Jeep kan niet liegen en zal altijd de waarheid uitbeelden, ook tegen oplichters. Verder heeft hij een hoge intelligentie. Hij kan zichzelf teleporteren en zelfs door muren gaan.

In de tekenfilmreeks wordt de Jeep beschreven als een hond. De Jeep wordt zelfs meerdere keren geïntroduceerd.
De eerste keer is in 1938 in de tekenfilm The Jeep. Daar geeft Popeye het dier als cadeau aan Olijfje en Erwtje met de eenvoudige uitleg: "De Jeep is een magische hond die zichzelf kan laten verdwijnen en andere dingen doet". In de tekenfilm ontsnapt Erwtje uit het huis van Olijfje en trekt hij door de stad. Popeye gebruikt de Jeep om Erwtje terug te vinden.
De tweede keer is in 1940 in de tekenfilm Popeye presents Eugene The Jeep. Hier krijgt Popeye de Jeep van Olijfje via een pakjesman. In de begeleidende brief staat dat Popeye de Jeep 's nachts buiten moet houden, wat niet evident is.
In de aflevering Jeep is Jeep uit 1960 is Popeye de oppas van Erwtje in zijn eigen huis. Popeye krijgt een postpakket aan met daarin een Jeep. Het dier werd als verjaardagscadeau geschonken door een maharadja uit India. In de begeleidende brief staat dat Eugene magische krachten heeft. Ondertussen heeft Erwtje het huis van Popeye verlaten. Popeye gebruikt de Jeep om hem te vinden.

Trivia
 The Jeep is ook een bijnaam van Mr. Chad, het karakter dat vaak bij de graffiti Kilroy was here getekend werd. Net als Eugene the Jeep had Mr. Chad namelijk een enorme neus. Een andere bijnaam was The Goon'', afgeleid van Alice the Goon, een ander stripfiguur dat in de Popeye-stripreeks voorkwam.

Fictief zoogdier
Personage uit stripverhaal
Personage uit Popeye

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Forum: Rugby League
Topic: Gold Coast Titans 2019
Re: Gold Coast Titans 2019
Relocations don't work. They need a hard **** to come in and improve the fundamental structures of the club. I don't think much of Griffin but he might actually be what the club needs. It's a taboo phrase but they need a 5 to 10 year plan. Sent from my SM-G570F using Tapatalk John Cartwright said h...
Forum: Canberra Raiders
Topic: Nick Cotric takes early plea, suspended three weeks
Re: Nick Cotric takes early plea, suspended three weeks
Ok, let me explain. It was a dangerous tackle and I don't believe I ever said it didn't deserve the punishment it received. We have a different perspective on how dangerous it is comparatively. I believe a lot of these flipping above the horizontal tackles - where the player can put his hand out and...
Relocations don't work. They need a hard **** to come in and improve the fundamental structures of the club. I don't think much of Griffin but he might actually be what the club needs.
It's a taboo phrase but they need a 5 to 10 year plan.
All that aside, and even through your own admission that is what ? 6 out of 4 years... out of a 20 year window. I know I don't need to explain statistics to you? No you dont, but someone prompts me to say "is this one of the 10 worst you've seen" and i think about it and say "yeah, i think it is" b...
You guys are spending way too much time on this There really is no need to spend anymore time on it either. Any study would accept the results of a four year trial where the accepted figure of tackles in the spectrum is 5 or 6 (not sure which Nick settled on). But that works out to be over 1 per ye...
How can you call some of them immediately out of scope simply because it's a grade 2 when the very first one (Peachey) is a grade 2. Share your thoughts on the McLean tackle which was also a grade 2. A terrible accident no doubt but the most dangerous in the NRL era from an outcome perspective. All ...
The Rickman wrote:
Why not just admit you were wrong?
Shhhh… I want to see where they go with this.
At least Lucy was entertaining.
Why not just admit you were wrong? It's much easier to ridicule posters like Gangers for not providing the 'howlers' evidence, and opposing your Unconscious bias topics without any of their evidence... But now I have gone and found a little evidence to challenge an expressed opinion I am ridiculed ...
So, just checking... you're removing the throws graded as 2 or below? * checks notes * including the Peachey grade 2 and the Thaiday grade 1 that only last night you agreed were in the spectrum. It's okay if you want to contradict yourself by now excluding those two, I just wanted to double check. A...
Nick claimed it was one of the worst tackles he'd seen in all his years watching the game. He asked me to name 10 worse tackles. GE and I linked a handful of YouTube clips with tackles equally bad or worse. Of course 'equally bad or worse' is open to interpretation. So I found 8 grade 3 tackles, pl...
Nick claimed it was one of the worst tackles he'd seen in all his years watching the game. He asked me to name 10 worse tackles. GE and I linked a handful of YouTube clips with tackles equally bad or worse. Of course 'equally bad or worse' is open to interpretation. So I found 8 grade 3 tackles, plu...
Northern Raider wrote: Interesting stat from that list is 0 X Grade 1 charges.
I didn't include them, because there is a lot. I thought I explained why I had selected 2 and above, despite Nick conceding that the Thaiday tackle in the clip - was in the spectrum - yet graded a 1.
Oh. The Peanut gallery, right on cue.
Forum: Other Sports
Topic: The Cricket Thread
Re: The Cricket Thread
I feel bad for our kiwi brahs but still pretty content knowing there are a billion miserable Indians.
You said we wouldn't be able to find 10 in the time you had watched the game, And you're still yet to do that. Now the number is 30? Where the hell will these goalposts end up? No, the number is still 10. I'm just making the point that even if the number WAS 30, and you could find 30 (and you cant,...
The first two I concede but the last one (origin) is by far the worst. One tackler lifts him up and the second tackler drags him straight back down head first. Anything could have happened there. That's 3 in 2016 and a 'fan video' is hardly definitive of the season as a whole. So a minimum of 3 in ...
The first two I concede but the last one (origin) is by far the worst. One tackler lifts him up and the second tackler drags him straight back down head first. Anything could have happened there. That's 3 in 2016 and a 'fan video' is hardly definitive of the season as a whole. So a minimum of 3 in o...
At 0.29 Peachey flips Blair (this was also after the whistle). Very next tackle Thaiday on a Manly player. At about 1.50 a warriors player on a knights player, quickly followed by a Bulldogs player on a warriors player. The tackled player on both of these doesn't come down on their head or shoulder ...
PigRickman wrote:
gergreg wrote: ↑
In the last clip that I mentioned... 2016 big hits there is 4 worse tackles. W[emoji52]
No. THere wasnt.
Post the clip, I don't know how to on my phone. How many you got from that clip? Let's step through them.
Forum: The Lime Lounge
Topic: Off topic
Re: Off topic
bonehead wrote: honey? Mrs Fui.
Canberra suburb? Mrs Fui.
They arent all worse! and even if they were his TACKLE WOULD STILL BE ONE OF the worst i've seen Marrrrone. This is next level. Amazing stuff indeed. You said 10 tackles. In the last clip that I mentioned... 2016 big hits there is 4 worse tackles. We'll use that as a rough indicator - 4 worse tackl...
That is just a few that can be quickly found on YouTube, which is at best an unreliable resource.
Why would anyone argue against that? It's a send off, im sure most of us said that at the time too. How does that mitigate the fact the cotric incident is also worthy of a send off, unless the the contention is the officials were right to keep those players on the field... and that surely cant be w...
But no one has seen a worse tackle than Cotric's since the 1970's or 1980s! No send off, twice!
Ray Warren in commentary mentions a 'recent Kristan Inu one' which I remember being really bad too. I couldn't find it on YouTube.
but on the first charge, i plead innocent. You sure you want to risk it with the judiciary? You've got a lot of priors [emoji13] I haven't lost an argument yet, Gangers. I'll take those boys to task too! :D [emoji38] Haha... our very own (GH) Baghdad Bob. Sent from my SM-G570F using Tapatalk
[emoji38] that's a wild swing. I dont specifically recall defending Cam Smith for any chicken wings, crushers or any of those MMA style actions. Certainly i defend him for his actions in the McKinnon incident, and i enjoy pointing out he's the best player to ever play the game and reveal is how ups...
A player that is tilted above horizontal that then has the ability to stretch out and feel the ground is nowhere near as dangerous as a player who is lifted and flipped. In both instances the bloke being tackled is at the mercy of the tackler but if he can put his hand on the ground he is in more co...
You did say above ..... checks notes garbage .... the Cotric tackle is easily one of the most dangerous tackles you've seen in the NRL..... this one above is worse. Go to YouTube and search for Greg Inglis spear tackle and he was done twice in one game and both were much worse than Cotric's. One of ...
So Walters has turned down the gig. Be interesting to see where they go next Sent from my iPhone using The Greenhouse mobile app powered by Tapatalk He hasn't turned it down. He's asking to be asked, with a guarantee of being given the job. Hopefully, it happens! He has been desperate for a NRL gig...
Re: Cotric and the judiciary
Rewatched this again this morning and by the time Lafai hits the ground Cotric has almost completely lost contact with him. It really was just a copybook tackle that went wrong due to Lafai stepping back inside late. The worst charges should be for when there are multiple players in the tackle and ...


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Blue Collar Workers in Laval Set to Strike
The City of Laval's 750 blue collar workers recently voted 95% in favour of a strike and will take strike action this weekend and next.
The union gave strike notice to the labour tribunal on October 17, as required under the Québec Labour Code.
The first phase of this overtime strike will start at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, October 28 and end at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 29. The second phase will start at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, November 4 and end at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, November 5.
The strikes will close four municipal arenas. Employees at the Nature Centre will strike from 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, October 28 to 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 29.
The last collective agreement expired in January 2016, and 30 bargaining sessions have been held since then with no real progress. Even after 13 meetings with a mediator, the parties have been unable to reach an agreement. The union has been highly critical of the offers the City has brought to the table.
"We want to be treated the same as the workers the City has signed agreements with during the last few months," said CUPE 4545 vice-president Stéphane Lavoie. "We have made progress on working conditions, but the City keeps adding new demands. They're trying to butcher our agreement, but we're not going to let them."
The unionized workers intend to express their dissatisfaction peacefully and lawfully.
Laval's 750 blue collar workers are members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 4545. They provide public services as road workers and flaggers, water, sewage and snow removal workers, and workers at arenas, parks and dry materials dumps. They also include mechanics, building maintenance workers, groundskeepers and sanitary maintenance workers.
Legislation ruled a violation of workers' right to collective bargaining: CUPE Nova Scotia applauds court ruling in Manitoba
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popping in so i can post this beast of a giveaway.
and without offending you i don't know why you wouldn't want to enter this because it's FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS. i know no one that doesn't need and/or want that kind of cash money.
so don't be stupid. ENTER THE DAMN GIVEAWAY.
Hey girl, do you still plan on being in the fantasy football league? I sent you an email to sign up your team on ESPN. If you aren't wanting to be apart of it, I need to know ASAP so I can find someone to take your place! Thanks!


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What a busy, wonderful day!
I attended the 10am session at CFBC. Today's WOD was "Deck of Cards". I've had the pleasure of doing this WOD in the past. Today's rules, however, were different in that each person individually picked a card from one of 3 piles of cards and completed the requisite number of reps of that activity, i.e., the group didn't complete the activities and reps together. Instead of going through the entire deck, there was a 20-minute time cap. Most importantly, you could even pull, for example, the 10 of diamonds from the deck 4 times, as a number of decks of cards had been combined. Oh, and the 2s, 3s, 4, and 5s, had been removed.
I honestly couldn't tell you how many reps of the activities we completed, as it's a big blur. I can tell you that I pulled 3 diamonds worth a 100m shuttle carry 3 times in a row. How awesome is that?
I began with GHD sit-ups, but after doing about 50 changed to Abmat sit-ups.
We only did 11 burpees twice. I would've preferred many, many more rounds of burpees. We only rowed 500m twice. And I was happy that we didn't row more. There were times when we did plate squats over and over. There were times when we did sit-ups over and over. We didn't do shuttle carries nearly enough.
We were probably 20 or more minutes into the WOD before a club was pulled from the deck. And then another club, and another club, and another club. Too many damn pull-ups. I must learn butterfly pull-ups. I must, I tell you, I must.
Cassis accused me of cheating when doing Abmat sit-ups. Ouch. That hurt.
My only wish was that the WOD lasted longer; say 60 or even 90 minutes.
A large group of CFBCers went to lunch at Brixx, and a good time was had by most. A smaller group went to Gigi's Cupcake Shoppe. Bad decision. I ate some kind of cupcake, and even though I consumed just a small portion of the icing I developed a headache. It may have even been a sugar coma.
Dave, Deedee's father, instructed a CPR session for the CFBC coaches (sans Kirk). It was great! I can now confidently say that I could perform CPR on any of you fools. Go ahead. Try me.
Jeff finally received the email message from CF HQ informing him that he had indeed passed the Level 1 certification. Yay! He can now coach at CFS!
During one of my visits home during my first year of college, I asked my mother if my father had any Cruex, as I had developed a case of jock itch. She went to the bathroom medicine cabinet, returned, and handed me a tube of Vagisil. I said, "It may have been a while since you've seen me naked, but things haven't changed that dramatically." She replied, "Just use it. I promise that it will cure your condition. It will cure most rashes." And it did. I think Vagisil is the duct tape of medicines.
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New Jersey's COVID-19 caseload has surged to levels not seen even during the height of the spring outbreak, with Gov. Phil Murphy and experts warning things could get worse.
The state recorded about 4,900 new cases overnight as New Jersey weathers another wave of the outbreak, Murphy, a Democrat, said Thursday in a tweet. The increase comes as weeklong averages of new cases have climbed steadily for weeks.
The Democratic governor also reported 64 new deaths overnight, putting the toll at 15,373.
"This pandemic is nowhere near over," Murphy said in a tweet. "We can't give up the fight now. Mask up. Social distance. Wash your hands."
Murphy said he's keeping "all options on the table" when it comes to closing parts of the state's economy again, as he ordered in the spring.
'Grinch times five'
He urged people to be especially vigilant with Christmas coming up.
"This is Grinch times five. Don't travel," he said, urging people even to keep their distance from Santa. "Santa's got to wear a face covering; you've got to wear a face covering."
The weekly average of new daily cases topped 4,000 earlier this week, up from 3,500 earlier this month and above the nearly 1,000 seen in October. New Jersey's hospitalizations topped 3,000, Murphy said, a level not seen since May.
The impact of Thanksgiving travel
The climbing rates could stem from Thanksgiving travel.
State Epidemiologist Dr. Christina Tan said such a spike could happen, but it's too early to tell because the incubation period is about 14 days.
We do expect that given the volume of travel over the holiday weekend that there might be concern for spikes," she said.
Though the cases are higher now than in the spring, New Jersey is now testing tens of thousands of people a day. Officials say that indicates the levels could have been higher earlier in the year but the picture wasn't clear because of the lack of testing.
Another difference this time around is that patients admitted to hospitals are having better outcomes, said Dr. Nizar Kifaieh, CEO of Hudson Regional Hospital in Secaucus.
'It's up to the people'
In the spring the number of COVID-19 patients quadrupled from March to April, and so many died that the hospital had to use a truck to store bodies when the hospital ran out of room.
Now, larger numbers of patients are being discharged and taken off ventilators, partly because doctors have a better understanding of which indicators to check for - such as conditions that increase the chance of blood clots - which guides treatment, Kifaieh said. Some of the treatments tested out in the spring, such as steroids, have become standard practice, he added.
He added that the improvement is also partly due to people with underlying conditions taking more precautions but warned that everyone must stay vigilant.
"At the end of the day, we can do as much as we can as health care providers," he said, "but really it's up to the people to be cautious and prevent this disease from spreading and overwhelming the health care system."
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Q: conditonal with dlookup value I have a subform with a field called "REMAINING PALLETS". In control source I have this look up formula:
=DLookUp("[CountofIdPEDIDOSPRODUCTOS]";"[SUMA PALETS]";"[PRODUCTOPEDIDO] = " & [Forms]![PEDIDOS]![PEDIDOSPRODUCTOS]![IdPEDIDOSPRODUCTOS])

I have another field in the same subform called "Nº DE PALLETS" and I would like to do the next conditional clause on dirty event in my subform to check if maximum pallets nº is correct:
If Me.[nº palets].Value < Me.[Remaining pallets].Value Then
 MsgBox "ESTE PALET SOBRA"  End If

and do not add the last record if the conditional clause matches
But It doesn't show any msgbox and the record adds up anyway I don't know why. Is It possible Dlookup control source doesn't allow lf clauses?

A: Such expressions are requeried after the code has run.
So include it in your code:
If Me.[nº palets].Value < Nz(DLookUp("[CountofIdPEDIDOSPRODUCTOS]", "[SUMA PALETS]", "[PRODUCTOPEDIDO] = " & [Forms]![PEDIDOS]![PEDIDOSPRODUCTOS]![IdPEDIDOSPRODUCTOS] & ""), 0) Then
    MsgBox "ESTE PALET SOBRA"
End If


So i will divide the input dataset in five smaller dataset. And i will exec the PGM five times.
So maybe i will post in dfsort forum .
Why not use IDCAMS REPRO with the COUNT / SKIP options?
Sorry, I should have read more careful what you posted.
As you use the format CC=BPXWDYN('ALLOC RTDDN(DISKDD) SHR VOL('DISK') UNIT(SYSDA)') you MUST do a "FREE DD("diskdd")" after calling IEHLIST.
Because my input dataset will become bigger and bigger beaucause of the number of the volume wich is growing day by day.
So i would like to find a way to divide dynamicly the input dataset by considering the numbers of the line of the input dataset.
willy jensen wrote: Sorry, I should have read more careful what you posted.
"EXECIO" QUEUED() "DISKW SYSIN (FINIS)"
"EXECIO * DISKR SYSPRINT (FINIS)"
And your 'SAY 'IEHLIST RC' RC' is placed wrongly in the program, the FREE command also sets the RC value.
1. You use 'ALLOC DISK FAILED' message text twice. I suggest to use different messages so that you can tell which instance issued the message.
where the EXIT occurs after your recovery routine?
@Pedro - the 'EXIT CLOSE(text,rc) is from my sample on page 1. The CLOSE function has an EXIT at the end, so could equally well have been 'Call CLOSE text,rc'. I like functions.
This is a different topic to the one that began this topic in the first place. Locked.


Oxygen saturation targets in premature infants have been investigated in multiple international randomized controlled trials. Some trials have shown increased mortality with targeting lower (85% to 89%) compared to higher (91% to 95%) oxygen saturation ranges, while others have not. We will review the mortality outcomes of the largest multi-centered trials and a post hoc study that observed increased mortality at lower target ranges among small for gestational age infants. The planned Neonatal Oxygen Prospective Meta-analysis (NeOProM) collaborative will hopefully provide further insight into patient-specific risks, which include growth status.


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Whoopi Goldberg ready t make acting return
By The Mercury | pottsmerc@pottsmerc.com |
Whoopi Goldberg is reportedly ready to ditch 'The View' and return to acting.
The 65-year-old star – whose company Whoopi Inc. was recently named in a lawsuit and accused of helping to plot to bump a long-time developer out of a plan to revitalise West Orange in New Jersey – is said to be keen to "make some changes in her life" after more than a decade on the daytime talk show.
An insider told GLOBE magazine: "It's a big headache she didn't need, and it's spurred her to make some changes in her life.
"The hours on ['The View'] are long and gruelling, and she doesn't have any friends there to make it fun or exciting.
"And after 14 years doing the same thing, and fighting with co-hosts, she needs a clean break."
The 'Sister Act' star – whose most recent big screen role came in 2018's 'Nobody's Fool' – has continued to step in front of the camera, but seems keen on taking on bigger roles again.
She recently reiterated her desire to join 'Doctor Who' as the titular Time Lord, although she isn't sure BBC bosses would ever cast an American in the iconic role.
She said: "I wanted to be Doctor Who and I still do. I think it would mean an evolution into being American and I don't know that that's correct for 'Doctor Who'.
"I don't know I can usurp that. As much as I love it, I love watching it still in all the iterations.
"There are certain things that are blatantly all English. 'Doctor Who' is like that to me. It's like Marmite. It's very English and needs to stay that way."
Back in 2019, Whoopi revealed she actually tried to land the role at one point, but TV bosses turned her down.
She explained: "I wanted to be the first female Doctor … the American version of Doctor Who ends up in New York and it's me.
"The idea of that so made me happy. But they were like 'Um no.' I was like, 'OK, I'm cool. I -understand.'"
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The small tasks of home ownership can sometimes become a long to-do list. If regular upkeep of your property has been delayed far too long, here are some helpful suggestions about how to remediate any deferred maintenance and initiate a workable schedule for the future. It goes without saying that anything deemed an emergency requires immediate attention.
Barring emergencies, however, there are some priority home maintenance areas that every homeowner should be aware of. Certain small items left undone can lead to larger problems sooner rather than later. Among the critical areas, according to home repair specialists, are the roof and gutters, heating and air conditioning systems, exterior hose bibs and basement window wells.
Dripping faucets also deserve attention; laundry equipment—washer water supply hoses and dryer vents—should be checked regularly. Sometimes, home maintenance requires a bit of detective work; at other times, it's best to consider worst case scenarios in order to prevent them. The best practice is to develop a schedule that includes a regular checklist performed on a set schedule, perhaps quarterly or seasonally. Regular upkeep will not only keep a home looking better, but in most cases the preventive care will prolong the life of operating systems, and may also reduce the cost of regular performance and improve energy efficiency.
In short, keeping up with routine maintenance is a smart move, whether you intend on selling a home or staying in it forever. On the other side of the coin, if you have recently moved into a new-to-you home, that is the ideal time to set up a routine maintenance schedule, especially if a pre-sale home inspection confirmed that the home was in good condition.
If a home has issues—too little care for too long—it may be that the task of tackling all needs at once is overwhelming. When the list is long, planning is key to getting it done. This is a situation when reasonable expectations and perhaps added patience can be of great benefit.
Financial planners recommend that homeowners budget approximately one percent of home value for annual maintenance in order to protect property value and assure that repair costs are manageable over the long term. However, despite the recommendation, many homeowners budget much less, sometimes nothing at all, on a monthly basis. Over time, that can lead to financial problems as well as a long list of deferred maintenance issues. Older homes may require additional funds held in reserve for emergency repairs.
Responsible DIYers are capable of performing many other routine repairs as well. But even the most minor repairs cost money, and unless owners establish a monthly budget, there is an almost universal tendency is to put off simple tasks until they become larger needs. That is an ongoing problem, but having a routine and an annual plan makes resolution easier.
Routine spring cleaning of a home's interior and fall yard work and exterior repairs in preparation for the long winter were the norm for past generations of Shelby County homeowners. They still are a reasonable way to keep abreast of routine maintenance needs, both inside and out, and to spread the cost of repairs over the entire year.
With a comprehensive checklist for each season, homeowners can easily catch up and keep up with routine chores. It's also a great way to get the entire family involved in the ongoing job of home maintenance. No matter how many items are on the list, scheduling tasks over a period of a few weeks will lighten the load. Fall, with generally moderate weather, is an ideal time to perform those chores that weren't completed in the spring. It's also the right season to prepare for colder weather, upcoming holidays, or for prime selling season in vacation areas, according to the National Association of Realtors. Here is a list of the top 10 items to include on a home's fall checklist.
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Myanmar Military-Appointed Election Chief to Consider Dissolving National League for Democracy
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The party of now-detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi won huge majorities in 2015 and 2020. Now it might be banned by the junta.
By Associated Press for The Diplomat
Anti-coup protesters hold the flag of the National League of Democracy party of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while others flash the three-fingered salute during a "flash mob" rally in Bahan township in Yangon, Myanmar, Sunday, May 9, 2021.
Credit: AP Photo
The head of Myanmar's military-appointed state election commission said Friday that his agency will consider dissolving Aung San Suu Kyi's former ruling party for alleged involvement in electoral fraud and having its leaders charged with treason.
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy came to power after a landslide 2015 election victory, and won an even greater majority in last November's general election. It was set to start a second term in February when the military seized power in a coup, arresting her and dozens of top government officials and party members.
Junta leader Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing cited electoral fraud as the reason for the army's takeover, saying "there was terrible fraud in the voter lists." The army-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party, which suffered unexpectedly heavy losses in the election, made similar allegations.
Independent observers dispute the assertions of widespread irregularities.
Political parties were called to discuss planned changes in the electoral system at a meeting Friday, There, Union Election Commission chairman Thein Soe said an investigation of last year's election that would soon be completed showed that Aung San Suu Kyi's party had illegally worked with the government to give itself an advantage at the polls.
"We will investigate and consider whether the party should be dissolved, and whether the perpetrators should be punished as traitors," he said.
Aung San Suu Kyi's party, which has thrown its weight behind the mass popular movement against the military takeover, has faced constant harassment since the coup, with its members arrested and offices raided and closed.
The junta initially announced that it would hold new elections a year after taking power, but later hedged and said the delay could be up to two years. Before the start of democratic reforms a decade ago, Myanmar was ruled by the military for 50 years.
Aung San Suu Kyi's party also won a 1990 election, but the military stepped in to prevent it from taking power.
Aung San Suu Kyi and other members of her government already face various criminal charges that could keep them from running in the next election. Their supporters assert all the charges are politically motivated.
The announced purpose of Friday's commission meeting was to discuss the junta's plan to change the country's election system from "first past the post" to proportional representation.
In first past the post systems, the candidate with the most votes in a given constituency is the winner, while in proportional representation, the share of winning parliamentary seats in an area with several seats is allocated according to the proportion of the vote won by each party or candidate.
Almost all the major parties — including Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD — refused to go to Friday's commission meeting, as they regard the body as illegitimate.
Local media reported that almost a third of the parties boycotted the gathering in the capital, Naypyidaw. Many of the 62 attending were pro-military organizations that polled badly in last November's election, failing to win a single seat.
After taking power, the military dismissed the members of the election commission and appointed new ones. It also detained some members of the old commission, and according to reports in independent Myanmar media, pressured them to confirm there had been election fraud. The new commission declared the last election's results invalid.
A non-partisan election monitoring organization said this week that the results of last November's voting were representative of the will of the people, rejecting the military's allegations of massive fraud.
The Asian Network for Free Elections said in a report that it "lacked sufficient information to independently verify the allegations of voter list fraud" because the election law did not allow it access to voting lists, but that it had not seen any credible evidence of any massive irregularities.
However, the group also called Myanmar's electoral process "fundamentally undemocratic" because its 2008 constitution, implemented under army rule, grants the military an automatic 25 percent share of all parliamentary seats, enough to block constitutional changes.
It also noted that large sectors of the population, most notably the Muslim Rohingya minority, are deprived of citizenship rights, including the right to vote.
The military ruled Myanmar from 1962 up to 2011, when a quasi-civilian administration backed by the army took over.
The Associated Press reported from Naypyidaw, Myanmar.
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How Does The Myanmar Crisis End?
By David Hutt
The military junta's possible handover of power to a quasi-civilian "transition council" could create complications for the country's resistance forces.
Myanmar Junta Sentences Australian Economist to 3 Years Prison
By Sebastian Strangio
Sean Turnell was sentenced alongside Aung San Suu Kyi, whom he served as an economic adviser prior to her overthrow last year.
Myanmar Junta Moves Aung San Suu Kyi Trial to New Prison Facility
The ousted leader's transfer came as the military administration's defense minister attended an ASEAN meeting in Cambodia.
Myanmar Election Body Charges Aung San Suu Kyi With Electoral Fraud
By Grant Peck
It could potentially result in the NLD being dissolved and unable to participate in a new election the military has promised in two years.


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Three brothers are behind a series of viral videos trolling
The former vice president had made "a lot of really creepy statements" in the past, Conway said, "that make me very uncomfortable, certainly as a mother but as a person who breathes air and exercises brain capacity."
But Biden's name is never mentioned, and what follows in the video is a mashup of Trump's own words — from when he suggested, on "The View," that if "Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her," to his speculating in another old interview about daughter Tiffany's future physical appearance.
By Tuesday afternoon, the so-called "Creepy Trump" video had more than 6.3 million views on Twitter.
From their respective pandemic lockdowns in New York and Los Angeles earlier this year, the three brothers who founded MeidasTouch began to turn over an idea — and an opportunity. Ben, 35, Brett, 30, and 27-year-old Jordan Meiselas had been captive audiences to Trump's coronavirus press conferences and, feeling frustrated and angry with time on their hands, started a blog. Opinion and aggregation soon turned into the rapid production of political videos.
New York natives, the brothers decided that their experiences across different professions — Ben is a lawyer; Brett a video editor; and Jordan a marketing supervisor — could be folded together to successfully launch an online media and advocacy operation. With an election approaching and liberals' appetite for anti-Trump content peaking, their audience was already in place.
The most direct line into the national presidential media narrative in 2020 runs through the Washington, DC, media market. It is there that Trump consumes, for hours on end, cable news programming from the White House — including the commercial breaks. Last Tuesday, MeidasTouch announced a five-figure ad buy that has seen the spot air across cable news, with a focus on some of Trump's favorite Fox News programs.
When an ad from the Lincoln Project, a Never-Trump Republican super PAC, caught his attention back in May, setting off an after-hours tweetstorm, it succeeded not only in the further upsetting the perpetually mad President, but in generating a news cycle around his pique.
The freakout secured the group's status as heroic turncoat provocateurs in the minds of many liberals thirsty for catharsis after nearly four years of Trump's presidency. Though its practical electoral upside remains a point of debate on the left, the market is ripe for media-makers who can channel liberal frustrations while, if the timing lines up, triggering Trump in the process.
For MeidasTouch, the breakthrough came in late April, with an assist from George Conway. Brett Meiselas, the brother who cuts the videos, tweeted one at Conway, the Republican lawyer husband of Kellyanne Conway and a Lincoln Project co-founder. One retweet later, MeidasTouch was on the map and in the game.
"It got over a million views very quickly. Suddenly we had people paying attention to us. We had followers," said Brett, the former head of post production for the digital department on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," of their viral breakout.
Trump vs. Trump
The slick spot follows a theme the brothers, who now operate MeidasTouch as a super PAC — with more than $300,000 in contributions to date, they said — have sharpened over months: using Trump's own words, and those of his aides and allies, against him. The spot that caught Conway's eye featured President Ronald Reagan's famous 1980 debate line — "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" — over quick cuts showing contemporary images of bare shelves, coronavirus testing lines, headlines reporting unemployment numbers and, in the finale, Trump being laughed at during his 2018 speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
The Trump campaign did not comment on the ads.
"A lot of what (Trump and his team) are saying is projection," Ben Meiselas, a civil rights lawyer who represented Colin Kaepernick in his lawsuit against the NFL, told CNN. "They're blaming the things that they're doing on Biden and on others."
That insight has become a commonplace in liberal spaces online, which helps explain why the MeidasTouch ads have touched a nerve — and repeated their viral success. Similar digital videos targeting Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump have combined for more than 14 million views on Twitter.
In a spot attached to the hashtag, "ByeDonJr," the President's son is seen on Fox News railing against an unnamed figure.
"The guy doesn't know what he's doing. It's gross negligence and honestly it's worse. It's just sheer incompetence," Trump Jr. says, as video cuts in showing his father walking around confusedly and then, also on Fox News, talking up the White House response to the coronavirus and making his infamous prediction that it would "at some point just disappear."
"In 2016, the thing that Trump was also so successful in was, he could say something, he could label his opponent any way he wants to label his opponent and that would kind of stick, very quickly. He's a good branding guy," Brett Meiselas said.
The MeidasTouch videos, he added, fit into a broader effort among similar groups determined to "take the oxygen out of the news cycle from (Trump) almost immediately."
"So when Don Jr. goes on Fox News and he tries to set this tone, like the Bidens are this corrupt family enterprise, we could hit back almost instantaneously and take the air out of that message," Brett said, "which I think is super important to get out in front of."
Brett Meiselas had never made a political ad before this year, but he credited his time working on DeGeneres' show with helping to develop the chops for fast-paced, movie trailer-style videos that grab the viewer off the top.
"Working on a daily talk show on a daily grind like that, it's high pressure," he said. "You need to get things out at a certain level of quality and you need to be able to get a clear message across, and whether it's a comedic message in two minutes, or a political ad in 30 seconds, 60 seconds."
The brothers view their role as closing the online gap between conservative media and meme-making and what exists — or existed during the last election — on the Democratic side. In 2016, Brett Meiselas said, the Trump campaign were "content kings."
"It had an impact. Facebook obviously had a tangible impact on the election cycle. There's no doubt about it," he said. "Digital has a tangible impact."
Looking outside the Beltway
The group has also made digital videos in support of Biden, though those have been more narrowly targeted, with titles including "Dear Michigan" and "Dear Pennsylvania."
"These videos are not just anti-Trump ads, they're pro-Joe Biden ads and show why we think he's the right person for those specific states, utilizing speeches that he's made," Ben Meiselas said.
The Biden ads haven't gained the same traction as the videos trolling Trump. Ben acknowledged that, like with Hillary Clinton four years ago, there is an enthusiasm gap among Democrats for their own nominee, pointing to the different political cultures that surround Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who lost out in the primaries again this year.
But even if the Biden videos don't pop the way Trump-focused ones do, he added, it's worth the time.
"I think it is important, as a progressive group, not just to say, 'Hey, we're progressive, we're liberals, we're Democrats,'" Ben said. "But also to say, 'We stand behind Biden.'"
The MeidasTouch videos have yet to catch Trump's eye, or ire, but right wing media giant Breitbart has taken notice. After the group posted a video lampooning Ivanka Trump, who posted an online commencement speech after her live talk was canceled by Wichita State University in early June, Breitbart covered it with the headline, "Colin Kaepernick Attorney's Political Action Committee Attacks Ivanka Trump over Virtual Commencement Address."
The write-up is a fairly straight-forward description of the video, explaining that it "splices footage of Ivanka Trump's online commencement speech with footage of protesters in the streets meeting with violent interactions with police." Despite its fealty to Trump, even Breitbart couldn't resist claiming a piece of the video's viral power.
"You have your low hanging fruit of, 'Creepy Trump' or 'Bye Don Jr.' But it's also critical for us that, as Trump has tried to monopolize digital spaces, and he so successfully captured that in 2016, that now his voice is being drowned out in those same digital spaces in 2020," Brett Meiselas said.
The brothers' group is still, in the universe of super PACs, relatively small. It's pulled in only a fraction of the funding that others, like the Lincoln Project, have received. But their ambitions are growing they hope to buy ad time in television markets in potential swing states, like Iowa, where the Biden campaign and other Democratic groups might not choose to heavily invest.
They took a first step in that direction this week, announcing on Tuesday plans for new five-figure buys in Texas, where Biden launched an ad last week, Alaska and Montana.
"Weak President," a spot that begins with Trump's oddly cautious descent from a stage following his recent commencement speech at West Point and concludes with a clip, from the same event, of the President using two hands to lift a small cup of water, will air on cable for a week in Houston and on broadcast stations in Missoula, Montana, and Anchorage, Alaska.
"I think you see an excited, motivated (Democratic) electorate out there, and I see a deflated Trump grasping for people to be at his rallies while no one's showing up, and just withering away at these ridiculous press conferences he's holding," Ben Meiselas said. "Do I think MeidasTouch is responsible for all of that? No. Do I think for most of that? No. But do I think MeidasTouch is playing a small part, as three brothers can, in impacting this election cycle? Yes."
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SAP Labs in Palo Alto Will Add 300 Positions
by Dice News June 22, 2010 4 min read
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If you're an experienced applications software developer or IT professional looking for work in solution management, project management, or cloud computing, it would be wise to get thee to Palo Alto.
With a current staff of 2,000, SAP Labs plans to boost the personnel footprint in its Palo Alto office by adding 200 to 300 positions between now December, according to Managing Director Rami Branitzky, who calls the current IT jobs market in Silicon Valley "surprisingly robust."
Based in Waldorf, Germany, SAP, with $13.9 billion in sales in 2009, ranks as the world's largest applications software company. Last month it announced plans to acquire Sybase, but SAP Labs' hiring plans are separate from that deal.
"Our sense is that the job market as a whole is much improved, with some developers getting multiple job offers," Branitzky told Dice News. "We're looking to hire (meaning "add") close to 10 to 15 percent of our current workforce between now and the end of the year."
SAP Labs' hiring focus will be in solution management, project management, and cloud computing, Branitzky says, adding, "we're also looking for people who have extensive partner experience, as well." Another key area where SAP Labs is looking to bulk up: mobile computing.
Branitzky views Silicon Valley's current job environment as much improved over the last year or so. "Last year, toward the end of the year, we started to see a recovery, but now we're seeing an aggressive job market," he says. Much of the activity, he points out, is related to the overall recovery in the technology sector.
Job opportunities in the applications area, though, have been somewhat limited due to the consolidation of many software firms in recent years. "There are not that many companies left in the applications space," Branitzky observes.
Bay Area CEOs Expect More Growth in Second Half
The U.S. economic recovery may be sputtering – with the stock market reversing course almost daily and some companies still trimming jobs – but the attitude in Silicon Valley has taken a decidedly upbeat turn, according to a survey released last week.
Based on responses from about 500 CEOs and top executives who are members of the Bay Area Council, business confidence is at its highest level in almost five years. The Council's overall confidence index rose to 62 out of 100, an impressive jump from its record low of 31 early last year. And 63 percent say they believe the Bay Area economy will be better six months from now.
Similarly, 64 percent of IT executives expect the industry to improve over the next six months. In last quarter's survey only 47 percent were that confident. Overall, 58 percent of CEOs say economic conditions have improved from six months ago – an increase of 22 points from last quarter.
The Bay Area Council includes chief executives from the nine Bay Area counties, who were surveyed from late April to late May.
Cisco to Hire Again
Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers told an investment conference that the networking equipment leader plans to hire 3,000 people during the six-month period from May to October. That's on top of the company's previously announced increase of 1,000 workers during its fiscal third quarter, which ended May 1.
— Doug Bartholomew
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Great, To God be the Glory of the continuance of a new way to lead the World as a superpower in computing technology and human capital resources. I guess satan didn't like that.
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Br J Gen Pract. 2013 Apr; 63(609): 214–215.
University of Sheffield, Sheffield and Vice-Chair of RCGP, London.
The Inquiry heard oral evidence from six GPs whose surgeries are situated within the Trust catchment area. This focused largely on the extent to which the GPs were aware of problems at the Trust.
The Francis Report raises a number of serious issues about NHS 'whistleblowing' and identifies failures in the application of current whistleblowing policies. The NHS, and GPs in particular, face unique problems in whistleblowing.
All doctors have a duty to act when they believe patients' safety is at risk or that patients' care or dignity is being compromised.2 This paper defines 'raising a concern' as doing so through the normal internal structures of accountability and 'blowing the whistle' as highlighting a concern to individuals outside of these structures, often externally, and normally after failing to successfully raise the issue through the expected internal routes.
When a GP decides to act as a 'whistleblower', for example because of concerns about the patient care provided by a GP colleague, he or she may have an additional challenge because in a practice partnership professional, financial, and social interdependency coincide; this is very different to the position of other doctors in a secondary care setting who have a contractual relationship with, and are normally employees of, an NHS body such as a trust. The GP contract however, is not a direct contract of employment and although under the current law, the Public Information Disclosure Act (PIDA)3 should, in principle, give protection to all 'workers', this protection has not yet been defined for GPs. A 'test case' is shortly to go before the courts but as things stand, NHS bodies can claim that whistleblowing policies only apply to employees and that they have no specified duties towards GPs. This is further complicated by the fact that GPs may be both providers of care and private employers at the same time. In the case of salaried GPs, where a GP is an employer, the situation can become even more complicated and at present the position remains unclear.
All of this means that a GP whistleblower may find themselves in a situation where they have little or no professional support, and this, of course, may act as a profound disincentive for a GP to 'stick their head above the parapet'. When this is added to the current NHS 'blame culture' towards individuals8 and the substantive risks of whistleblowing in terms of hostility, marginalisation and the threat to a doctor's career,9 it is quite remarkable that there have ever been any GP whistleblowers at all!
However, although a number of such resources are available to GP whistleblowers (such as Whistleblowing Helpline [http://wbhelpline.org.uk/] and Patients First [http://www.patientsfirst.org.uk/]), many of them are not 'fit for purpose', since they do not offer a great deal in the way of practical support through the specific complexities faced by GP whistleblowers. Such practical support must be the role of the professional organisations.
Although legislation was passed 14 years ago to support the rights of whistleblowers,3 there is little evidence that it has in practice provided protection to individual NHS whistleblowers: indeed the consequences for an individual whistleblower can still be devastating as the quote above from the 'live' case illustrates.
Hammond13 in his evidence to the Francis Inquiry stated that 'staff that do blow the whistle are frequently marginalised, counter-smeared and suspended and many agree to a modest payoff with a gagging clause to protect themselves from personal and professional ruin'.
The widespread use of compromise agreements in the NHS is clearly contrary to the public interest, especially when it involves issues of patient safety. The recent letter from Sir David Nicholson (Chair of the National Commissioning Board) about adequate support being provided to whistleblowers in the NHS and the requirements of Health Services Circular 1999/199814 sought to discourage the use of such agreements, but this was more of a request rather than an instruction.
There is no doubt that whistleblowing can be a courageous, difficult, and detrimental thing for the individual. To report any sort of concern, let alone whistleblowing, means bringing into question the judgement of another doctor or health professional; something which is (rightly) taken very seriously. However, since patients trust their GPs more than any other professionals, they are more likely to confide in them and expect them to take action when issues about patient safety are brought to their attention.
In such circumstances there is an ethical imperative for us as GPs to act, initially by 'raising a concern' but if our legitimate concerns are not properly addressed, then whistleblowing may have to be our last recourse; with all the potentially disastrous consequences for us as individuals. The creation of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) offers an opportunity for some of these issues to be addressed and the issuance of Whistleblowing Guidance to CCGs is not only an imperative but also a matter of urgency if tragedies like the Mid Staffordshire case are not to occur again within the NHS.
The respective roles of the professional bodies (the GMC, BMA, MDOs, LMCs and the Royal Colleges) need to be clarified in cases of GP whistleblowing: a joint statement about the position of GP whistleblowers should be agreed and publicised.
The RCGP and other Royal Colleges should offer generic support and guidance for whistleblowing members by signposting available resources and providing referral to appropriate sources of advice.
All practices should have whistleblowing policies in place and GPs should know who to go to for advice and support when they have concerns about the quality or safety of patient care.
Finally, and most importantly, we all need to help create a responsive, open, and supportive cultural environment in the NHS: not only by improving transparency but also by using the legislation which already exists to protect whistleblowers from retribution.
We owe this to our patients.
Freely submitted; not externally peer reviewed.
Quotations a, b, and c are from a 'live' GP whistleblower case and are used with the full knowledge and consent of the person concerned.
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