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Fruit Party slot is a Pragmatic Play new online slot with 7 reels and cluster pays. Seems like these guys are getting comfortable with fruit-themed slots but unlike those classic and simple ones, this is a bit more different and a bit more cheerful. Bite into these fruits at any Pragmatic Play Casino for real, or here for fun.
How to Play Fruit Party Slot
Set your bets and get the vitamin overdose party started.
Clicking on +/- buttons will draw up a panel where you can increase or decrease coins per line and coin value that will constitute the bet, or you can simply increase the total bet value.
Reels will start moving the moment you hit Spin button
Autoplay opens up a panel where you can choose Turbo Spin, Quick Spin and the number of automated spins.
You will need a minimum 5 symbols in a block to form a win, and the peach is the Scatter symbol that can appear on all reels and all rows.
Much like so many other cluster paying slots, this one also has a tumble feature included. Basically, after each win you land, the symbols involved will disappear from the reels and the remaining symbols will tumble down and make room for new symbols to fall on the reels. Tumbling will continue until there is no more winning combos to be created.
During the base game each symbol that gets involved in a win cluster has a chance of carrying x2 multiplier that will be applied to the total win of the cluster. Maximum multiplier value can reach up to x256.
Landing 3 or more Scatters will trigger the Free Spins round and award 10 spins to start. Symbols involved in wins can come with random x2 or x4 multiplier that will be applied to the win. You can retrigger the feature by landing additional 3+ Scatters during the feature and you will win between 10 and 14 spins depending on the number of triggering symbol.
The vibrant Fruit Party slot packs a 96.47% RTP with medium volatility that is leaning towards high, and maximum payouts that can reach up to x5000 your bet. Overall, Fruit Party seems to be a solid game that ticks all the right boxes and is worth checking out.
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kayenne23 471 reviews
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Reviewed on December 23, 2021
Fruit party is a slot by Pragmatic play, which was launched some time ago and it made its impact in the gambling community right from the start. The game as you can imagine by the name itself, has fruits as the main theme. The game has a beautiful design with bright colors surrounding the screen. The minimum bet is 0.20 € cents per spin. Which is great if you want to gamble with low bets. The max win you can have in this game is 5.000 x the initial bet. Another thing about this game is that in case you do not want to spins the reels for a long time in order to trigger the free spins feature you can buy the free spins feature, which is 100x the initial bet in order to buy it. The good thing about this game is that you can win big even when spinning the reels in the base game. To be honest, my biggest win in this game was a 2.560x win on a 0.20 € bet in the base game. Yes, correct I have triggered the free spins feature multiple times in this game and I never won anything decent except the time it paid big in the base game. I mean who could have thought. Now, in order to trigger the free spins feature you need to land 3 golden bonus scatters. To be honest triggering the free spins feature in this game seems a difficult task because it is not easy. Another thing I would like to point out is that this game is not a good game for wagering a bonus or anything else. The game can go cold in a matter of spins and drain the balance in a matter of minutes. So think twice.
I like this game to be honest because of one simple thing. The game can pay when it decides to do that, in the base game. This trait is difficult to be found in the new slots. But the game has some negatives. The bonus feature is hard to be triggered if you do not buy it. And the second thing is that it goes cold out of nowhere, which can decrease your balance in a matter of seconds.
Reviewed on September 30, 2021
Fruit Party is a cluster pays slot game that comes from Pragmatic Play game provider. It was released over a year ago and I think by now it's one of their most well-known games, for one reason it being so occasionally showcased by casino streamers. I can't even remember how many times I've seen players hitting the maximum win of 5,000x bet either on base game or in the bonus round, so I've definitely tried my own luck with it and I can't say I'm too impressed.
As the name tells itself, the slot is inspired by the fruit theme and all of the symbols are bright and joyful fruits. Then there are also scatter symbols and 3 of them trigger the bonus round. And as it usually goes with Pragmatic Play slots, you can also purchase the bonus feature for 100x your bet. When it comes to the design, I think it's a classic looking game with nice colors, and the winning combinations are created by cluster pays. The one thing I do miss here is that the game doesn't have wild symbols, so you really need to get winning clusters by matching the fruits- 5 or more of the same fruit will make a win. And let me tell you, this slot is so volatile that sometimes hitting a decent win seems impossible.
The real thing that you're looking to see in this slot is fruits with multipliers. You can get a spin where fruits have 2x and 4x multipliers and if you get a win, these multipliers are combined. Also, since it's a cluster slot when you get a win, the winning symbols disappear, and new symbols land on the screen, and it's possible that the fruits will then have multipliers added. However, from my own experience, it's very difficult to hit any big wins, unless you have multiple multipliers aligned, which hasn't happened to me yet.
Then there's also a bonus round where you get 10 free spins. The free spins are identical to the base game, the only difference is that you get the 10 spins, aside from that there's no additional bonus feature. In my humble opinion, this game is volatile to the point where the times I've bought the bonus round, it doesn't give a win over 20x bet and it can be extremely frustrating. And due to the fact that its cluster pays with no wilds, without the multiplier fruits, it is very difficult to achieve big wins. I've never had a win on base game exceeding 50x bet as far as I remember.
Overall, I am not a fan of this game. I think it has a decent design, but for me, it seems like the volatility is way too high. And while there definitely is the winning potential, for a casual player like me, this slot takes too much money even on smaller stakes.
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Reviewed on January 24, 2021
First of all, I'm not a fan of games that use more than 5 reels and 4 rows, preferring the old standard 5 reels 3 rows format instead. But of course, in real life, everything has exceptions to the rule, and this 7 reels 7 rows game from Pragmatic Play is one example. Thankfully it isn't one of those rubbish Megaways game that I hate so much. Fruit Party is really a 'clusters pay' kind of game, but uses that many reels and rows that I don't like, and making all the symbols in play appearing so tiny. I wouldn't mind it so much if I have perfect eyesight, but mine isn't, and hence my dislike for tiny symbols.
Honestly speaking, this fruit game could be better looking, by using slightly more vibrant colours, which would actually help in distinguishing better the various different fruit symbols. As it is now, some colours are not that much different in its hue or contrast, and I always need a fractionally longer time to visualise which fruit it is. Nevertheless, the overall presentation is still nice and acceptable.
The thing that I like most in this game is the random multipliers that can appear on the fruits at random times during the free spins feature game. These multipliers can appear on just 2 or 3 symbols at a time, or can appear on multiple symbols all at once, either on just one fruit type or on several. Each multiplier multiplies the win, not adding up, so any win can actually be multiplied by up to 256x. Now that is refreshing and exhilarating! It's like seeing smallish few cents win in one moment, to seeing tens of dollars win in the next, and I really like that kind of surprises very much.
Gameplay is basically the exploding symbols kind, also known as cascading or avalanching symbols, whereby winning symbols would explode and new symbols would drop in to fill the vacated spaces. A cluster of at least 5 symbols would be needed to make a win, and 3 of the Golden Fruit symbol would be needed to activate the free spins feature game. The multipliers do not appear during base game play, appearing only during the free spins game, so that's where and when huge wins can be encountered.
Honestly speaking, those 3 Golden Fruit symbols do not come often enough in the base game, but you can use the 'Buy' feature to instantly activate the free spins feature game, at a cost of 100x the bet amount per spin. This may sound a bit costly to buy, but is actually reasonable enough, considering that the free spins game may take way more than 100 spins to be triggered in the base game.
Whether you manage to get any of those big wins or not, it depends almost entirely on your luck. This luck thing is almost never with me whenever I play Pragmatic Play games, hence none of them ever made it into my favourites list.
Fiekie247 1105 reviews
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Reviewed on July 1, 2020
Fruit part is one of the latest releases by Pragmatic Play. You can benefit from multipliers up to a maximum of x256 during the base game and free spins. This is one of the easiest slots to hit x5000 actually and yes, we have seen how easily possible it is.
The game takes place on a 7x7 grid and has the tumbling feature that kicks in after wins are created. The tumble continues until there are no more wins. The symbols on the reels include different types of fruits with strawberry being the highest. The game does not have a wild in the game, so you just need to get 5 of the same fruits to generate a win. During the tumble its possible that new winning combinations can get multipliers which is called the random multiplier feature.
The golden fruit symbol is the scatter. Land 3, 4 or 5 of these anywhere on the same spin to trigger free spins. On offer here are 10 free spins but you can get up to 14 free spins. Landing 3, 4 or 5 scatters during the round adds another round of 10, 11 or 12 free spins to your total, with no limits.
During free spins the random multiplier are active on most of your spins where you can get a 2 or x4 multiplier when a winning combination is created. If you just land 5 cherries with max multipliers the potential win can be insane.
This slot is highly volatile and can take forever to trigger the bonus feature. I have had over x300 spins with no feature. It's the same as playing sweet bonanza with the extra bet feature. Those scatters take forever to land, and then after so many spins its disappointing that you win is so small. Overall, it's a great slot but this is not for me to be honest. I hope the base game will one day hit, but free spins is for me so hard. I guess that is why we see many people by the bonus.
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Q: Kerning with selnolig You can use the selnolig package to break up inappropriate ligatures
automatically.  For example, 'leaflet' should arguably not have an fl-ligature,
and this can be prevented with \nolig{leaflet}{leaf|let}.  But with many
fonts, breaking this ligature (with selnolig) still does not prevent the f from
touching the l.  I even tried kerning the fl pair with fontforge, but it seems
that selnolig does not use the font's kerning.  The following will
print 'leaflet' in increasing levels of appropriateness (I think; is it not a rule of typography that letters that do not form ligatures should not touch?).
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{selnolig}

\setmainfont{ebgaramond}

\begin{document}
leaflet

\nolig{leaflet}{leaf|let}
leaflet

leaf\kern1.3333ptlet
\end{document}

How could I get the last result without the explicit kern?
PS.  This way of breaking the fl-ligature can be seen in Nietzsche, Werke in drei Baenden, Carl Hanser Verlag, 1977:

A: I don't think you would ever do this in English but in other languages with a fondness for compound words it is more of an issue.

\documentclass{article}

\directlua{
function breaklig (s)
return
string.gsub(
string.gsub(
s,
'leaflet','leaf\string\\kern.5em let'),
'shelfful','shelf\string\\kern.5em ful')
end
luatexbase.add_to_callback('process_input_buffer',breaklig,'break ligatures in specified words')
}
\begin{document}

I once wrote a leaflet that (or was it a pamphlet) that had a flipped flyleaf.
Actually I have a shelfful of them.

\end{document}

A: A major, and frankly vexing, practical issue when breaking up typographically inappropriate fl and ffl ligatures is how much whitespace (if any) should be inserted between f (or ff) and l. This issue doesn't come up when breaking up ff ligatures (cf "shelfful" and the screenshot below), and it's generally a less-vexing issue when breaking up fi (e.g., "aufisst" in German) and ffi (e.g., "Stoffisolierung") ligatures.
The "right" amount of whitespace that should be inserted between f (or ff) and l happens to depend crucially on the exact shapes of the f and ff glyphs. For some fonts, such as Palatino, Aldus, and Dante, no extra whitespace is needed at all, as these fonts' f and ff glyphs have fairly short "arms" which don't collide with the l glyph even if no whitespace is inserted. (Aside: this is probably a deliberate design feature of these fonts.) The babel package's "| method is programmed to insert 0.03em of whitespace. While this amount is OK for Computer Modern and Latin Modern, it is actually way too much for Palatino on the one hand and not enough for fonts such as EB Garamond, Caslon, Sabon, and Linux Liberine O on the other. For EB Garamond, for instance, it looks like 0.1em -- or more than three times the amount inserted with babel's "| method -- is the amount of whitespace that must be inserted if the f and l glyphs absolutely, positively must not touch each other. In my opinion, the typeset word "Verzweiflung" looks just awful if 0.1em of whitespace is inserted: One problem -- the inappropriate fl ligature -- has been replaced with a problem -- the unsightly gap inside the word -- that's nearly as bad! (Another aside: Maybe the "typographic rule" you mention, that adjacent non-ligated glyphs must not touch, has to be reconsidered.)
The real solution when breaking up fl and ffl ligatures, then, is to use variants of the glyphs f and ff that have "short" arms, i.e., arms that don't protrude (much) to the right and hence don't collide with a "tall" glyph such as l. Unfortunately, very few fonts currently offer such short-armed glyphs. I'm aware of only EB Garamond and Linux Libertine as font families that provide them. (Tediously, the "slots" where EB Garamond and Linux Libertine store their short-armed f-variants aren't the same. This makes programming up an automated use of the short-armed glyphs rather tedious and error-prone. This is also why I haven't gotten around to implement the short-f approach in the selnolig package...)
Another solution, which may or may not be available to you, is to use a font such as Palatino whose f and ff glyphs have short arms and thus don't collide with trailing l glyphs.

The following table compares the outputs of various methods for breaking up fl ligatures.
Note that the "new" method used below is similar to the one David Carlisle used in his answer, except that it uses a so-called "discretionary" to continue to allow line breaks (with hyphens) to occur in the word "Verzweiflung". Note also that no whitespace has to be inserted between the 2 f glyphs in shelfful, for any of the fonts considered here.

\documentclass[english,ngerman]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,babel,selnolig,booktabs,array,geometry}
\providecommand\xx{}
\newcolumntype{L}{>{\xx}l}
\newcolumntype{R}{>{\xx}r}
\setlength\tabcolsep{4pt}

\usepackage{luacode}
\begin{luacode}
function breaklig (s)
    s = s:gsub ( 'Verzweiflung' ,
        'Ver\\-zweif\\discretionary{-}{}{\\kern0.10em}lung' )
    return s
end
luatexbase.add_to_callback( 'process_input_buffer' ,
    breaklig , 'break ligatures in specified words' )
\end{luacode}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{@{}lRLLLLLL@{}}
&&    \multicolumn{2}{c}{\ttfamily selnolig}  &
      \multicolumn{1}{c}{\ttfamily babel "|}     &
      \multicolumn{1}{c}{\ttfamily "new"\ meth.} &
      \multicolumn{1}{c@{}}{\ttfamily f.short}\\
&&   \multicolumn{2}{c}{\ttfamily ("whatsit")} &
     \multicolumn{1}{c}{\ttfamily (0.03em)}  &
     \multicolumn{1}{c}{\ttfamily (0.10em)}  &
     \multicolumn{1}{c@{}}{(if available)} \\

\cmidrule(lr){3-4} \cmidrule(lr){5-5} \cmidrule(lr){6-6} \cmidrule(l){7-7}

% start with default font (Latin Modern)
\setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman}
Latin Modern
&ff fl & shelfful & {V}erzweiflung & Verzweif"|lung & Verzweiflung \\

\gdef\xx{\setmainfont{EB Garamond}[Scale=MatchLowercase]}
\xx EB Garamond
&ff fl & shelfful & {V}erzweiflung & Verzweif"|lung & Verzweiflung &
Verzwei\symbol{983911}lung\\

\gdef\xx{\setmainfont{Adobe Caslon Pro}[Scale=MatchLowercase]}
\xx Caslon
&ff fl & shelfful & {V}erzweiflung & Verzweif"|lung & Verzweiflung \\

\gdef\xx{\setmainfont{Sabon Next LT Pro}[Scale=MatchLowercase]}
\xx Sabon
&ff fl & shelfful & {V}erzweiflung & Verzweif"|lung & Verzweiflung \\

\gdef\xx{\setmainfont{Palatino Linotype}[Scale=MatchLowercase]}
\xx Palatino
&ff fl & shelfful & {V}erzweiflung & Verzweif"|lung & Verzweiflung \\

\gdef\xx{\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}[Scale=MatchLowercase]}
\xx Linux Lib.\ O
&ff fl & shelfful & {V}erzweiflung & Verzweif"|lung & Verzweiflung &
Verzwei\symbol{57568}\-lung\\
\end{tabular}

\bigskip
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
Another comparison of the methods' outputs (EB Garmond only):

\begin{tabular}{@{}llll@{}}
\uselig{höflich} & \uselig{trefflich} & \uselig{aufisst} & bad!\\
höflich & trefflich & aufisst & selnolig \\
höf"|lich & treff"|lich & auf"|isst & babel \verb+"|+ \\
höf\discretionary{-}{}{\kern0.10em}lich
& treff\discretionary{-}{}{\kern0.10em}lich
& auf\discretionary{-}{}{\kern0.10em}isst
&  ``new'' method --- not good either \\
hö\symbol{983911}\-lich
& tre\symbol{983904}\-lich
& au\symbol{983911}\-isst
&  f.short \& f\_f.short --- best!
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

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Boy in the Box: Mystery Of America's Unknown Child
Peoples, Scary / Horror / Cruelties
He has no name and no identity. When his tiny body was discovered inside a cardboard box he was known only as "The Boy in the Box," marked for his cruel death instead of for his short life.
At the time no one would have thought that some of the very same police officers who searched through the crime scene for clues on that cold dreary day in 1957 would be reburying the boy as "America's Unknown Child" over four decades later.
Discovery of the body
On February 24th, 1957 a college student pulled his car over onto the side of a remote road in Fox Chase – a community in the northern outskirts of Philadelphia.
The man had seen a rabbit cross the road and followed it into a garbage-strewn lot when he saw a suspicious looking furniture box. What he found inside was the body of a young boy – no more than 5 or 6 years old, wrapped in a flannel blanket.
Crime scene where the body was found.
The boy was malnourished and badly bruised – the cause of death due to severe head trauma – though oddly enough, someone appeared to have recently trimmed his nails and cut his hair shortly before or after his death, for he still had remnants of hair on his body.
The greatest mystery of this case is not only that the killer of the boy was never found but that the boy to this day had not been identified. When the investigation began this outcome was far from expected, for the crime scene was not void of clues.
The cardboard box the body was found in once held a bassinet purchased from the local JC Penny store, however, the store had a cash only policy and the purchase of that particular bassinet couldn't be traced.
Also, the flannel blanket the boy had been wrapped in was one of thousands, and even a man's cap that they found near the scene never led to its owner. The boy had no fingerprints on file and his footprints were difficult to match because his feet were badly wrinkled from having been immersed in water for a long period of time.
The Philadelphia police circulated thousands of flyers with the boy's photo and description across the country. Calls from many concerned citizens came in, but the leads led to one dead end after another.
It was unbelievable that this young boy didn't have a single relative or friend of the family who recognized him. Parents of missing children came to view the body but no one claimed the poor boy.
The boy in the box, depicted on a flyer sent out to residents of surrounding towns.
For years investigators continued the search, many on their own time, with the hope that something would lead to the boy's identity and the boy's killer, but as the years passed, the chances of uncovering the mystery diminished.
A decent funeral and burial was arranged in 1998 and the boy's remains were moved to another cemetery, for the boy was previously buried in a pauper's graveyard housing criminals and unidentified bodies with only the investigators on the case to carry his tiny casket.
Now over a hundred people attended the ceremony, several of them the same detectives determined to keep the case of the murdered boy alive. The boy was named "America's Unknown Child" but not without the hope that some day the mystery will be solved.
Theory: The foster home
An investigator by the name of Remington Bristow from the city medical examiner's office spent 36 years on the case – all the way through retirement and to his death.
He spent hours following leads, often on his own time and expense, and died believing that he knew the killer of the young boy to be a foster family that lived near the place where the body was found.
Bristow even called in a psychic who envisioned a house where a couple had lived with five foster children.
At the time of the discovery they claimed that all five children were accounted for, but Bristow discovered a similar blanket at the house to the one the boy's body had been wrapped in. Even though this couldn't be proven, he died believing he had solved the case.
The Vidocq Society – an international group of crime-solving professionals – adopted the case in 1998. Sam Weinstein – the second policeman to arrive at the scene where the boy's body was discovered – led the society's Boy in the Box investigation.
He was later joined by Joseph McGillen, a former investigator with the Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office and William Kelly who the supervisor of the Philadelphia Police Department Identification Unit during the time of the murder.
The Vidocq Society assisted in obtaining a court order to exhume the boy's body for DNA testing. Unfortunately the body was too decayed and the test was unsuccessful.
Theory: The woman known as "Martha" or "M"
Another theory was brought forward in February 2002 by a woman identified only as "Martha." Police considered "Martha"'s story to be plausible but were troubled by her testimony, as she had a history of mental illness.
"M" claimed that her abusive mother had "purchased" the unknown boy (whose name was Jonathan) from his birth parents in the summer of 1954. Subsequently, the boy was subjected to extreme physical and sexual abuse for two and a half years.
One evening at dinner, the boy vomited up his meal of baked beans and was given a severe beating, with his head slammed against the floor until he was semiconscious. He was given a bath, during which he died.
These details matched information known only to the police, as the coroner had found that the boy's stomach contained the remains of baked beans and that his fingers were water-wrinkled.
"M"'s mother cut the boy's distinctive long hair (accounting for the unprofessional haircut which police noted in their initial investigation) in an effort to conceal his identity.
"M"'s mother forced "M" to assist her in dumping the boy's body in the Fox Chase area. "M" said that as they were preparing to remove the boy's body from the trunk of a car, a passing male motorist pulled alongside to inquire whether they needed help.
"M" was ordered to stand in front of the car's license plate to shield it from view while the mother convinced the would-be Good Samaritan that there was no problem.
The man eventually drove off. This story corroborated confidential testimony given by a male witness in 1957, who said that the body had been placed in a box previously discarded at the scene.
In spite of the outward plausibility of "M"'s confession, police were unable to verify her story. Neighbors who had access to "M"'s house during the stated time period denied that there had been a young boy living there and dismissed "M"'s claims as "ridiculous.
Forensic facial reconstruction showing what the boy may have looked like when alive.
On March 21, 2016, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children released a forensic facial reconstruction of the victim and added him into their database.
The Boy in the Box was discarded in a dumpsite, left with no identity – no story to tell – and so many people have adopted his case out of empathy for the boy who suffered a cruel and undeserved death. Forty years have passed yet there still may be someone out there that could step forward.
The Boy in the Box deserves to be remembered for his life, not for his death.
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The Vacation Plan Worksheet is for employees and supervisors to use when the employee is at or near the maximum vacation accrual.
The employee fills out the top line and gets the information for the second line from the department personnel assistant.
The employee completes the "Employee's Vacation Request" box. The hours requested should be enough to bring the balance below the maximum by a significant amount.
The supervisor fills out the "Supervisor's Response" box.
The employee and supervisor fill out the left side of the section marked "Agreement and Time Record." The supervisor retains the original and gives the employee a copy.
As time goes by, the employee and the supervisor each record the actual hours, until the plan is carried out.
Sixty days before the employee reaches the vacation maximum, the supervisor notifies the employee that he or she is approaching the maximum. A Vacation Plan Worksheet may be used if desired.
If the employee does not request vacation, no further action is necessary. Accruals will stop when the vacation balance reaches maximum, and resume when the balance goes below maximum.
If the employee requests vacation and the supervisor denies the request, they try to agree on an alternative. If they can't, the employee becomes entitled to the 4-month grace period. Requests to exceed the maximum vacation accrual limit requires approval from the department head and Employee and Labor Relations. See UCD Procedure 2.210.III.B.
The employee and supervisor must fill out and sign the Vacation Plan. The original of the form is kept in the department and used to keep track of both accruals and usage.
UC Davis Health only: The next level manager reviews and signs the form. The department sends a copy of the form to the UC Davis Health Payroll Office.
The department uses OPTRS (at Health, the Payroll office uses Form 644D) to make the appropriate entries in the payroll system to ensure proper accounting for the vacation cost liability.
Alternative A: The VLA (vacation accrued) and VAC (vacation used) entries are made on or before the cutoff date for each pay period, via the OPTRS rosters.
Alternative B: When the employee goes below the maximum, or at the end of the four-month grace period (whichever is later), the appropriate payroll system entries are made for the entire grace period, via the OPTRS EDLR late pay screens. The comments field should list the accrual and usage for each month and the name and telephone number of the preparer.


The MTM graduates listen to the welcome remarks by MTM Director Prof. Paul Leonardi, TMP Chair and Prof. Robert York, and College of Engineering Dean Rod Alferness, and the faculty address by TMP Vice Chair and Prof. Dave Seibold.
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Climate Expert Bidisha Bhattacharyya Gets Key Post in U.S. Agriculture Department
The Indian American is appointed as Senior Policy Advisor in the Farm Service Agency.
Sri Lankan American Entrepreneur Among Main Supporters of Recall Petition Against California Gov. Newsom
The Biden administration has appointed climate and energy expert Bidisha Bhattacharyya as Senior Policy Advisor in the Farm Service Agency (FSA), amongst four other top appointments Feb. 22.
FSA is an agency under the United States Department of Agriculture that was formed by merging the farm loan portfolio and staff of the Farmers Home Administration and the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.
Bhattacharyya has spent three years deploying solar energy solutions in rural India, where she led the end-to-end rollout of a new off-grid solar product line in collaboration with technology startup Simpa Networks.
She was earlier posted as director of Climate and Energy Policy at the Centre for American Progress (CPA). Prior to joining CPA, Bhattacharyya was vice president of Emerging Markets at the impact-investment firm Village Capital, where she led a global team across India, Mexico, and East Africa to invest in high-impact startups innovating to solve problems across clean energy deployment and financial inclusion.
According to her bio on the CPA website, Bhattacharyya also spent four years on Capitol Hill as Senior Energy and Agriculture Policy Adviser to Senator Al Franken of Minnesota and as Energy and Agriculture Legislative Assistant for Congressman Betty McCollum of Minnesota.
Indian American Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Celine Gounder's Husband Andy Wahl Dies in Qatar While Covering World Cup
"I care about solving big public problems, particularly those that pertain to climate change and environmental sustainability. For the past 15 years I've built and implemented solutions to problems across the public, nonprofit and private sectors," Bhattacharya's LinkedIn profile states.
Earlier in her career Bhattacharyya served as a Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow for the Akanksha Foundation, a program associate at College Possible, and a teacher at the Breakthrough Collaborative. She holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University. She holds a bachelor's degree in economics from St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.
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--  vehicle request
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CREATE TABLE VEHICLE_REQUEST(
    ID BIGINT NOT NULL,
    CODE VARCHAR(100),
    USER_ID VARCHAR(64),
    DEPT_CODE VARCHAR(50),
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Discussing Bible topics and listeners' questions and issues relative to Jehovah's Witnesses and the Watchtower Society.
Program #9 When is the shaking?
Discussion of the Devil's tactics in Eden and how, by Jehovah's permission, the operation of Satan works now in inducing Jehovah's Witnesses to believe "the lie."
After a six month hiatus, this episode considers a variety of questions, such as: What is a thousand years to Satan? An unbaptized person is wondering if he could better help his congregation by not getting baptized. A sister inquirers how much is enough as regards putting up with the Watchtower's hypocrisy? How do you explain the increase in Memorial partakers? Who is the false prophet of Revelation? And what is the purpose of life?
This program considers listeners' questions, such as: How can you be sure Jehovah's Witnesses are the true faith? And since the leadership of the Watchtower are becoming more corrupt, why ought JW's be in subjection to those taking the lead? And in a similar vein, since the worldly authorities are so corrupt why ought we be in subjection to them? If you would like to submit a question for the next episode email me at watchmanspost@gmail.com or go to the contact page You may also leave a voice message.
Questions regarding the seven empires and the eighth king. Will the great crowd really come out of the great tribulation? What is the meaning of the various time periods in Daniel, 2,300, 1290, 1335 days etc? Also, are Jehovah's Witnesses the only ones who will be saved?
This episode considers listener's questions, is the "organization" a legitimate, scriptural arrangement? Why did angels develop sexual passion for women? Could the Watchtower's NGO status in Russia be the reason they are coming under ban now? And more. Plus a special musical bonus track!
Question 1: Were/Are the 144,000 Virgins? Question 2: Who were those in "prison" who Jesus preached to during the three days of his death? What about the Gap Theory and dinosaurs? What is the difference between everlasting life and immortality? And more!
June's program entertains questions on a variety of topics, such as Christ's mediatorship, the meaning of the "other sheep," questions about DNA manipulation, the 7,000 who are killed - and more!


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"Surgin' Bird" originally "Surfin' Bird"
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"Surf In Bird" originally "Surfin' Bird"
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Your dog puts its front legs through the jacket, then you close the jacket using a zipper on the left side. The colour is a lovely black/grey mottled fabric with red details. The inside is a brushed fabric which is very soft and nice.


The new signs at the end of 110 are misleading and dozens of people are doing dangerous U-Turns. What was wrong with U.S. 90 east Ocean Springs and U.S. 90 west Keesler? Downtown Biloxi and Keesler is confusing given the right exit unique clover leaf.
Look it up! In Mississippi and many other states the law requires the slower-moving vehicles to move right "regardless" of the speed of the traffic.
It is against the law to shoot someone, but driving in the left lane at the speed limit doesn't hurt anyone except speeders who want to break the law. Both are illegal, but remember, speed kills.
Please remember that this is also a tourist area and many drivers traveling east, for example, will need to turn left. Street and business signs sometimes are difficult to see from the right lane. Switching to the left lane in traffic is also difficult, but many of the local drivers are courteous when they see a left-turn signal from a car in the right lane. Try to see driving from several perspectives.
I was in Winn Dixie in Long Beach on a recent Monday night around 7:15 p.m., paying for my purchases at the service desk, when a young man about 16 or 17 years old with kind of long, dark hair came up to the counter with a bouquet of flowers. Sounding concerned, he said to the girl behind the counter, "Do you think my grandmother would like these?" She replied, "Well, I know I would." This young man probably does not read Sound Off, but I hope his grandmother or someone else in his family does and recognizes him. In a time when many young people his age are so wrapped up in themselves, it is refreshing to witness such a kind gesture taking place. It made my day.


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A Goodyear official said the tire manufacturer is at least two years from having a wider and taller tire ready to race.
Greg Stucker, director of Goodyear race tire sales, said there's an "outside chance" the tire will be ready for its first on-track test this year. Stucker had said in January that there was hope that Goodyear could race the new tire in some events next year, but the timeline has changed.
"We feel like we've still got some work to do," he said Wednesday during a tire test at Lowe's Motor Speedway. "We're certainly seeing some performance advantages, which was one of the goals. We think we've got some things to improve before we put it on the race track."
Stucker said the new tire, which is expected to improve handling and the quality of the racing, is 1.5 inches wider and is 2 inches bigger in diameter than the current tire.
Goodyear has looked into a new tire because of the challenges the new car presents. The car has more right-side weight, putting more force on the right-side tires. Tire problems at some tracks have shown that what worked with the old car doesn't work with this one.
Goodyear has been aggressive in testing since those problems developed last year. The company has tests at Indianapolis planned in April and mid-June. Goodyear also will test at New Hampshire and Chicago this year and make a second trip to Atlanta to prepare for the Labor Day weekend race there. Since December, Goodyear has tested at Las Vegas, Darlington, Atlanta, Texas and Lowe's Motor Speedway.
The Lowe's two-day test ended Wednesday. Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, Marcos Ambrose and Paul Menard tested. Stucker said Goodyear was looking to use the same type of right side tires at Charlotte that were used at Las Vegas.
Stucker also said the right-side tires for Martinsville will be a softer compound to help with grip.
Bud drops sponsorship
Budweiser, which had been a sponsor in the NHRA since the early 1980s and backed Kenny Bernstein's team for 30 years, announced this week that it will not return as sponsor.
So, what about Budweiser's sponsorship of Kasey Kahne's Sprint Cup car?
"As far as our stuff, we have another year with Budweiser, and they've been great to work with," Kahne said. "Hopefully, we can do things to keep them happy and... work with them for a long time."
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Marcos Ambrose said the four-race suspension NASCAR gave crew member Jimmy Watts for chasing a tire across pit road at Atlanta was fair.
Watts' suspension begins this weekend at Bristol. NASCAR called a caution at Atlanta after Watts ran across pit road and dangerously close to the track to get an errant tire. The caution dramatically affected the race, putting several contenders a lap down.
Ambrose said that Watts is a "great guy" but that Watts "just went on a reaction and it was the wrong reaction.
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"Catania is Sicily's most vibrant city, the modern, forward-looking sister to traditional Palermo. Its stone buildings are dramatic against the blue skies, its piazzas and boulevards are wide and inviting and, come night time, the streets are full of students having fun at the zillion bars and clubs" – Lonely Planet Sicily Guide.
The city is also the trading capital of Sicily, the major airport, commercial and manufacturing center. It arises under the biggest volcano of Europe the "Mount Etna". Its fortunate geographical position in one of the most beautiful parts of the world allows one to enjoy a healthy mild climate and a clear blue sea all year round, favoring outdoor life and offering a tranquil rhythm of life which is both pleasant and stimulating.
Catania contains numerous architectural remains of ancient times, including the ruins of Greek and Roman theaters and Roman aqueducts and baths. Also here are a cathedral (founded 11th century) and Ursino Castle (13th century). The University of Catania (1443), one of the first universities established in Europe, is here.
A selection of the city's most important Churches.
Catania's Cathedral was built in the 12th century and then was entirely rebuilt in 17th century after the earthquake and the eruption destroyed most of the city. The Chapel of Saint Agata is inside the Cathedral and contains precious treasures.
This is thought to be one of Catania's most beautiful churches. It has a splendid dome enclosed in a polygonal open gallery and its interior is full of marble decoration and a golden-bronze altar. The church was built in the first half of the eighteenth century by Vaccarini.
The Benedictine Monastery, one of the largest in Europe, is more like a palace than a religious building, its gorgeous aspect is probably due to the close links between Benedictine monks and Catania's aristocracy. In the 18th century it was one of the most important cultural centres in Sicily, attracting many visitors amazed by the luxury and the pomp of the building. It now hosts the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of Catania University.
This imposing religious building, next to the Monastery, dates back to the end of the seventeenth century and is still partly unfinished. San Nicolò l'Arena was built modeled on the basilicas in Rome, following the wishes of the Benedictine monks. The interior of the church is almost totally bare.
charming in Catania, there is a never-ending, opulent line of religious buildings, such as the Church of San Benedetto, the Church of the Jesuits and the Church of San Giuliano.
This is the heart of Catania, with the city's symbol monument: the fountain with the Elephant. The city's cathedral with the Chapel of Saint Agata looks out onto this square, where precious treasures are kept. There is also Palazzo degli Elefanti which is the City Hall. One of Catania's most interesting roads starts from Piazza Duomo – Via Etnea, where there are splendid Baroque buildings with lava dust façades and a multitude of shops and confectioners.
The Elephant, symbol of the city since 1200, is in Duomo Square. This is a lava-stone statue that dates back to the Roman era, mounted on a modern structure carved by Vaccarini in the 18th century. According to the legend, this animal became the city's symbol because pigmy elephants lived in this place and protected people by chasing away fierce animals.
This fortress is the only medieval building survived the earthquake and the eruption in 17th century and it is today still almost intact. It was built around 1240 to protect the city from the sea and was used as royal residence and then as prison. It hosts the Civic Museum since 1934 and contains paintings, sculptures, bronzes and ceramics from various eras.
most famous opera: the "Norma". Its style reminds the Opera House in Paris: it is a large theater with four tiers anda gallery, there are lots of wrought iron in the portico and several corridors and frescoed ceilings.
Catania theater tradition has ancient roots and is part and parcel of the city's culture: there are about 25 active theaters in the city, each one specialized in a particular type of show, the puppet theater, the opera, ballet, Greek tragedy, classical theater and experimental theater. The most famous theater is the Bellini Theater, which was opened in 1890 with the famous opera the "Norma" by Bellini. There are also the Metropolitan, the Verga, the Musco, the "Teatro Club", the "Piccolo Teatro", the "Nuovo Teatro", the "Teatro della Città", the "Piscator", the "Teatro degli Specchi", the "Teatro Stabile dell'Opera dei Pupi" and many other theaters.
This museum, opened in 1994, contains about 1500 graphic works by the Catania artist: engravings, lithographs and etchings, including the famous "Commiati".
This 18th century palace situated in Via Sant'Anna, was the home of Giovanni Verga during the last twenty years of his life. The house shows many objects belonged to the famous writer. The library is extremely valuable, it contains almost 3000 volumes by various authors, such as Deledda, Tolstoy, Gorky, Flaubert and Dumas.
This is the house where the famous composer lived before he moved to Naples. The museum is spread over a route that shows the private and artistic life of Vincenzo Bellini. Inside the museum there are also some very interesting, original musical manuscripts signed by the artist.
The wonderful Palazzo Biscari, one of the most beautiful buildings of the city, was the residence of Prince Biscari. Its halls are full of frescoes, galleries, archaeological finds, statues, marbles and other artistic wonders.
Catania celebrates Saint Agata, the city's patron saint, each year with three days of festivities: 3, 4 and 5 February. The first day is dedicated to the offering of candles, each confraternity offers a huge "candelora" that is carried in the procession with difficulty due to its weight: some "candelore" weigh up to 1200 kilograms each! This first day ends with a fireworks display in Piazza del Duomo. On the second day, Catania's inhabitants wear long white tunics to remember the historical night of 1126 when the Catania people of the time left their houses in their nightshirts to meet two citizens who had come back from Constantinople with the Saint's relics. The festival continues with a procession carrying the statue of Saint Agata, decorated with all the wonderful treasures that are kept in the Chapel that carries the saint's name. The procession lasts all days and passes by all the places in the city that are linked to the saint's martyrdom. It ends late at night, when the procession statue (called the fercolo) returns to the Cathedral. On the last day, white carnations replace the red ones used on the previous day, that symbolize the saint's martyrdom. The most emotion-filled moment is when the procession passes along Via di San Giuliano: this steep road is considered to be a trial of courage for the Saint's followers. Once this procession has finished and the "fercolo" is returned to the Cathedral, the festival ends with a fireworks display, that leaves the Catania people exhausted but happy for having celebrated their patron saint.


We all serve according to the gifts bestowed upon us by the Holy Spirit. We are moved to contribute our talents, time and treasure. Once we realize that all we are given is a gift from God, we willingly share it to do our part to 'Make and Be Disciples' as urged by Archbishop Coakley.
In order to know the will of God we have to know the ways of God as the Jesus taught us. In prayer we cultivate our hearts to know Him and His will for us. It is also important that we take the time to recognize our charisms, and discern the ways we can use our gifts to share the love of God.
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In a bold move, President Donald Trump changed his legal domicile from New York to Florida–from his glitzy Trump Tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to his Mar-a-Lago Club, the one-time estate of cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post. The New York Times first reported that Trump, and his wife, Melania, filed a declaration of domicile in September in Palm Beach County Circuit Court saying that his resort in Palm Beach, Florida will be their permanent residence.
Obviously, it's a tax avoidance move. By any measure, President Trump appears to be obsessed with saving taxes. He's put conservation easements on his golf courses and gotten big tax breaks; he's put historic preservation easements on Mar-a-Lago and his Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. , which qualify for more tax breaks. He fights property tax bills. He says "I'm smart" for paying no federal income taxes, but since he hasn't released his tax returns yet we don't really know how good he is at this tax avoidance game. (Note: For income tax purposes, taxpayers are taxed only on their federal adjusted gross income. If they have no adjusted gross income as a result of losses, depreciation, etc., they similarly would have no New York taxable income.)
Trump's New York to Florida move might be his biggest tax savings bet yet. By moving to Florida, he and Melania could escape New York state and New York City combined income tax of 12.7%. If he and Melania are still Florida domiciliaries when they die, they'll escape New York estate tax (a 16% levy on assets over $5.75 million) on much of their wealth (New York state can still levy its estate tax on their New York property).
These high-stakes moves are a hot topic among the ultra rich. "We continue to have conversations with clients about changing domicile from high tax jurisdictions to Florida," says Chris Zander, president of Evercore Wealth Management in New York City. The firm opened a Tampa, Florida office in 2013 to accommodate. "The financial impacts are real!"
But it's not so easy to leave your old state's tax collector behind. The Trumps will have to count their days and not spend more than 183 days in New York state–any part of a day, even an airport layover.
If New York tax authorities were to audit the Trumps, the audit would first focus on the "domicile" test: Where do the Trumps really consider home? Second, the auditors would look to the alternative residency test, called "statutory residency"–whether the Trumps had a place of abode in New York state and spent more than 183 days there. Third, even if the Trumps were able to establish nonresidency, the auditors would look at whether they properly "allocated" their sourced income to New York on their tax return.
The real question is whether, in the eyes of the New York State tax department, Trump is able to establish that he changed his "domicile" to New York now, says Tim Noonan, a tax lawyer with HodgsonRuss in Buffalo, New York who specializes in residency tax audits. Usually that requires a taxpayer to prove by clear and convincing evidence that they "left" New York in "landed" in Florida. "The important legal issue is whether or not the President is able to establish now, in the fall of 2019, that he has sufficiently "landed" in Florida," Noonan says. The domicile test is based in large part on a taxpayer's intent and also on a taxpayer's actions, so his filing of the Florida "domicile declaration" is certainly important but not dispositive.
Thinking of moving? HodgsonRuss has a comprehensive tax guide on what to expect in a state residency tax audit here. And here's a list of which states impose death taxes (17 states plus the District of Columbia).
This article was originally published by Forbes.com. Read the original article here.
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Bannockburn Sluicings
Man-made badlands
The Bannockburn Sluicings are a spectacular landscape of cliffs and pinnacles that remain from large-scale water blasting during the 19th century search for gold.
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This desert made by water is not a natural site, but the 150-year-old aftermath of goldminers' dreams, and a technique known as 'hydraulic sluicing' where water was blasted at the hills to release the gold.
The Bannockburn Sluicings can't be experienced from a distance; you have to walk it to understand it. What looks desolate from the entrance turns into a rough, raw and rewarding walk through a valley of caves, tunnels and rock tailings left untouched since abandoned by the last of the mining men.
As an iconic heritage site, the shock of the old will take you to the edge of understanding, and give you a chance to reflect that it was people who made this place.
The Bannockburn Sluicings are proudly cared for by the Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
The extensive man-made badlands near Cromwell can be explored on foot or mountain bike. Several trails offer different perspectives of the relics that lie amongst the spectacular cliffs and pinnacles scoured by miners using water-blasting to get to alluvial gold - the rich pickings deposited in and beside rivers.
Miners worked this area for 50 years, from the early 1860s. Explore what is left of the dams, tunnels, walls, and water races built to feed precious water to various mining sites. Keep an eye out for remnants of stone and earth houses, the blacksmith shop, and caves and rock shelters where the poorest miners once lived.
Little remains of the Stewart Town settlement: a miner's stone cottage and an orchard planted in 1906 that still yields pears and apricots. Once you reach Menzies Terrace there are great views across Cromwell and Bailey's Gully.
If you have less time, make your way to vantage points that can be reached by car or a short walk.
The warm, dry climate and absence of vegetation give you the feeling you're exploring a remarkable desert. It's a climate that is proving perfect for the area's new gold: grapes.
Travel 6km south-west through Cromwell, and cross Lake Dunstan to get to Bannockburn. The sluicings can be reached from Felton Road
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Dunedin Railway Station
Ornate and flamboyant, the Dunedin Railway Station is today considered one of the world's best.
Kawarau Suspension Bridge
Historic Kawarau Suspension Bridge is an innovative feat of engineering that has withstood notorious canyon winds for over 140 years.
This charming town reveals the stories of two very different goldrush communities: the preserved avenue where wealthy European banks and merchants traded, and the restored huts of Chinese miners who lived a much more modest lifestyle.
Otago Central Rail Trail
Aotearoa New Zealand's original Great Ride, this popular 152km cycle journey follows the Otago Central railway line that once connected isolated communities in Central Otago with Dunedin.
Larnach Castle
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1 Million Calves Die In Midwest Floods: Vegan Activists Raise Awareness
The extreme weather conditions meant staggering numbers of animals were swept into freezing floodwaters. Those who survived will most likely die as a result of the lack of food and drinkable water or be sent to the slaughterhouse, according to PETA
by Maria Chiorando 24th April 2019 Updated 1st October 2020
Reading Time: 2 minutes More than a million animals were killed by the extreme weather (Photo: Adobe. Do not use without permission)
A vegan charity is placing two billboards to raise awareness around the 1 million calves who died as a result of Midwest flooding in recent weeks.
The New York Times described the extreme weather conditions in March as 'record floods' saying they were taking a 'devastating toll on farmers and ranchers at a moment when they can least afford it'.
But animal rights charity PETA says that while humans affected by the bomb cyclone and extreme flooding in the Midwest 'had advance notice and help evacuating, animals trapped on meat and dairy farms were offered no such chance'.
Drowned animals
"Many of them drowned or experienced other painful and terrifying deaths in the floods, including 700 pigs on just one farm as well as more than 1 million calves," said PETA.
"The calves, most of whom were being raised for the beef industry, were swept into freezing floodwaters and have been washing up dead along the banks of rivers. The cows who survived the floods will most likely die as a result of the lack of food and drinkable water or be sent to the slaughterhouse."
Vegan billboards
Now PETA is placing billboards in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri, which it says can 'spell out how we can prevent future disasters like this one'.
The boards – on U.S. Route 71 at E. 63rd Street and on I-70 at E. Truman Road – say: "Stop Eating Meat! They Die for Your Cruel and Dirty Habit."
"If this message of compassion inspires just one person to leave cows off their plate, then they won't add to the millions of animals who experience a terrifying death every year, whether in a slaughterhouse or in a natural disaster," PETA Executive Vice President, Tracy Reiman, said in a statement.
"PETA's billboard urges meat-eaters to listen to the flood of reasons why they should change their ways and embrace compassionate vegan eating."
Animal flood deaths
These drownings follow the death toll of Hurricane Florence last September, where more than 3.4 million animals were left to die, locked in inescapable buildings by farmers who fled to save themselves.
The hurricane – a category 4 storm – caused flooding across the Carolinas. Vegan activists with the animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) and Brother Wolf Animal Sanctuary, as well as independent activists, entered flooded North Carolina factory farms in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence to show the extent of the devastation.
"Activists found barns with thousands of drowned chickens, and dumpsters filled with hundreds of dead piglets, as well adult pigs," said a spokesperson for DxE in a statement sent to Plant Based News.
"These animals are sensitive, intelligent individuals, yet corporations intentionally neglect them to brutal deaths for the sake of the bottom line," added activist Arwen Carlin.
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Jerms is now an official Co-Leader with myself so congradualtions to him!
That's all for now Guys I wanted to keep this breif so I can continue working on the expansion.
I know im awesome but what did I do again?
Congratulations Jerms on Becoming Co-Leader!
We have had a Big last couple of months for us here at 'Chill Gaming' we had a name change from 'Cheese Ninja Warriors'. Make sure you join the Chill Gaming Xfire to be apart of this community. Forums Site has been given a re-do and it's looking pretty schmick.
This was said a while ago while we were still CnW; but now that we are Chill Gaming I plan to start designing some merchandise. It's going to be some fairly simple things probably just stickers and stuff. The money made from sales is going to go into the club's expansion, used for things such as funding competitions and maybe lead to us opening some servers up!
In order to stay apart of this community please join the Chill Gaming Xfire, also keep active on both the forums and in-game (even if that means 1 posts a fortnight and 1 hour a fortnight).


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Cathay Pacific cuts profit guidance for second time amid Hong Kong protests
FILE PHOTO: Workers service a Cathay Pacific flight at Hong Kong International Airport, China September 3, 2019. Picture taken September 3, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
(Reuters) - Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd (0293.HK) on Wednesday said the short-term outlook remained "challenging and uncertain" due to anti-government protests in its home market as it lowered its profit guidance for the second time in less than a month.
The airline said passenger numbers fell 7% in October and it now expected second-half profit to be "significantly below" the first half's HK$1.347 billion ($172.04 million), in a step up from the wording "below" used last month.
Hong Kong anti-government protesters on Wednesday paralyzed parts of the Asian financial hub for a third consecutive day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalation of violence.
"Overall we foresee a challenging remainder of 2019 for our airlines," Cathay Chief Customer and Commercial Officer Ronald Lam said in a statement on Wednesday.
"Looking ahead, our advanced bookings continue to show weakness in both inbound and outbound Hong Kong traffic for the rest of 2019, partly offset by moderately increased transit passengers via Hong Kong."
Cathay reduced passenger flight capacity by 2-4% versus its original schedule between August and October and made further cuts of 6-7% for November and December, Lam said.
The percentage of seats filled dropped by 4 percentage points to 77.6% in October despite the capacity cuts, airfares were under pressure and premium travel demand was sluggish, he said.
The airline is expected to hold an analyst briefing on Thursday, the first under a new management team led by Chief Executive Augustus Tang after the airline's former head, Rupert Hogg, resigned in August after a crackdown by China's aviation regulator.
Some analysts have already forecast the carrier will report a loss in the second half.
Reporting by Jamie Freed in Sydney and Niyati Shetty in Bengaluru, editing by Louise Heavens and Kirsten Donovan


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Dawn Cappelli
Rob Zerby
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TJX Hacker Gonzalez Gets 20 Years For Crime
Defendant Still to be Sentenced for Heartland Breach Linda McGlasson • March 25, 2010
A federal judge Thursday sentenced Albert Gonzalez to 20 years in prison for leading a group of cybercriminals who hacked into the IT systems of TJX and other retailers. Gonzalez, who received his sentence for the TJX, Office Max, DSW and Dave & Busters breaches in front of a judge in the District Court of Massachusetts in Boston, will face another sentencing on Friday in the Heartland Payment Systems breach.
His sentence of 20 years in the TJX breach, where more than 90 million credit and debit cards were taken, brings to a close the most expensive and biggest prosecution of computer crime undertaken by law enforcement. The 20-year sentence is also one of the toughest imposed for a financial crime of this type. Second to his sentence is the 13-year-long sentence handed down to hacker Max Vision in February for stealing 2 million credit cards from banks, businesses and other criminals.
The notorious hacker Gonzalez, also known as "segvec," "soupnazi" and "j4guar17," pled guilty late last year. His attorney had argued in presentencing hearings that Gonzalez should be given only 15 years because of his cooperation with law enforcement and stated that the defendant suffered from Asperger syndrome, a form of autism.
In the Heartland incident and two other cases involving Hannaford and 7-Eleven, Gonzalez could be sentenced up to 25 years.
Legislation & Litigation
Information Security Agenda - Kevin Richards, President of ISSA
Heartland Hacker Sentenced to 20 Years
Linda McGlasson
Linda McGlasson is a seasoned writer and editor with 20 years of experience in writing for corporations, business publications and newspapers. She has worked in the Financial Services industry for more than 12 years. Most recently Linda headed information security awareness and training and the Computer Incident Response Team for Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), a subsidiary of the NYSE Group (NYX). As part of her role she developed infosec policy, developed new awareness testing and led the company's incident response team. In the last two years she's been involved with the Financial Services Information Sharing Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), editing its quarterly member newsletter and identifying speakers for member meetings.
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Marriott Faces $125 Million GDPR Fine Over Mega-Breach
Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) from the Frontlines
Advanced Cyberthreat Intelligence Against The 2018 Threat Landscape
https://www.bankinfosecurity.eu/tjx-hacker-gonzalez-gets-20-years-for-crime-a-2340


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// Boost.Geometry (aka GGL, Generic Geometry Library)

// Copyright (c) 2012 Barend Gehrels, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
// Copyright (c) 2012 Bruno Lalande, Paris, France.
// Copyright (c) 2012 Mateusz Loskot, London, UK.

// Use, modification and distribution is subject to the Boost Software License,
// Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

#ifndef BOOST_GEOMETRY_UTIL_CALCULATION_TYPE_HPP
#define BOOST_GEOMETRY_UTIL_CALCULATION_TYPE_HPP

#include <boost/config.hpp>
#include <boost/mpl/if.hpp>
#include <boost/type_traits.hpp>

#include <boost/geometry/util/select_coordinate_type.hpp>
#include <boost/geometry/util/select_most_precise.hpp>

namespace boost { namespace geometry
{

namespace util
{

namespace detail
{

struct default_integral
{
#ifdef BOOST_HAS_LONG_LONG
    typedef boost::long_long_type type;
#else
    typedef int type;
#endif
};

/*!
\details Selects the most appropriate:
    - if calculation type is specified (not void), that one is used
    - else if type is non-fundamental (user defined e.g. ttmath), that one
    - else if type is floating point, the specified default FP is used
    - else it is integral and the specified default integral is used
 */
template
<
    typename Type,
    typename CalculationType,
    typename DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType,
    typename DefaultIntegralCalculationType
>
struct calculation_type
{
    BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT((
        boost::is_fundamental
            <
                DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType
            >::type::value
        ));
    BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT((
        boost::is_fundamental
            <
                DefaultIntegralCalculationType
            >::type::value
        ));

    typedef typename boost::mpl::if_
        <
            boost::is_void<CalculationType>,
            typename boost::mpl::if_
                <
                    boost::is_floating_point<Type>,
                    typename select_most_precise
                        <
                            DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType,
                            Type
                        >::type,
                    typename select_most_precise
                        <
                            DefaultIntegralCalculationType,
                            Type
                        >::type
                >::type,
            CalculationType
        >::type type;
};

} // namespace detail

namespace calculation_type
{

namespace geometric
{

template
<
    typename Geometry,
    typename CalculationType,
    typename DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType = double,
    typename DefaultIntegralCalculationType = detail::default_integral::type
>
struct unary
{
    typedef typename detail::calculation_type
        <
            typename geometry::coordinate_type<Geometry>::type,
            CalculationType,
            DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType,
            DefaultIntegralCalculationType
        >::type type;
};

template
<
    typename Geometry1,
    typename Geometry2,
    typename CalculationType,
    typename DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType = double,
    typename DefaultIntegralCalculationType = detail::default_integral::type
>
struct binary
{
    typedef typename detail::calculation_type
        <
            typename select_coordinate_type<Geometry1, Geometry2>::type,
            CalculationType,
            DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType,
            DefaultIntegralCalculationType
        >::type type;
};

/*!
\brief calculation type (ternary, for three geometry types)
 */
template
<
    typename Geometry1,
    typename Geometry2,
    typename Geometry3,
    typename CalculationType,
    typename DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType = double,
    typename DefaultIntegralCalculationType = detail::default_integral::type
>
struct ternary
{
    typedef typename detail::calculation_type
        <
            typename select_most_precise
                <
                    typename coordinate_type<Geometry1>::type,
                    typename select_coordinate_type
                        <
                            Geometry2,
                            Geometry3
                        >::type
                >::type,
            CalculationType,
            DefaultFloatingPointCalculationType,
            DefaultIntegralCalculationType
        >::type type;
};

}} // namespace calculation_type::geometric

} // namespace util

}} // namespace boost::geometry

#endif // BOOST_GEOMETRY_UTIL_CALCULATION_TYPE_HPP


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Heartwarming Narration of "The Third Man" by Loretta Lynn
On Easter, "Who Says God is Dead" singer and Country Queen Loretta Lynn shared a video on Facebook and Instagram her encouragement and sweet inspiring message to fans and fellow artists.
In the 2-minute video, Loretta Lynn quoted her favorite gospel song "The Third Man." She briefly explained what faith means to her followed by a personal narration of what took place in the story of "The Third Man."
Even though we can't be all together as we'd like, the power of Easter is never diminished. I so appreciate all God has done for me. Love y'all — Happy Easter!
Due to this present world pandemic, countries have been shut and people were forced to stay inside. While the government and health systems around the world are desperately seeking a cure, people from every nation were brought to their knees.
In the midst of this crisis, influential figures like Loretta Lynn took advantage of social media to extend hope and inspire those within her reach.
The Third Man's Role
Loretta Lynn sat with her guitar as she spoke to the camera. She started by acknowledging the reality of God and her personal relationship with Christ. She added that her faith has been the one thing that has enabled her to go through all the hardships in life.
The story of her favorite gospel song "The Third Man" has been Loretta Lynn's light. As she reminisced the song, she also would like the world to know who "The Third Man" was.
She said that she saw three crosses with three men crucified and writhing in agony. While two of the men cried out for mercy, the third man looks at her. His eyes were like telling her, "I am doing this for you."
As she knelt before the third man's cross, reaching for his feet, she felt his blood spilled on her. When she looked up, this third man was wearing a crown of thorns. Finally, he cried out to his father asking why he has forsaken him. The crowd jeered and mocked. Soon, he died.
When asked what it meant that Jesus died for her, Lynn said that it hurts. She said that there is no way we could repay Jesus for his sacrifice on the cross for mankind. In closing, she said that the only way we could show gratitude for what he has done for us is to show how much we love him.
Loretta Lynn Openly Talks About Her Faith
Known as the "Coal Miner's Daughter" early in her stardom, Loretta Lynn was fairly acquainted with heartaches. One of those was the death of her father from a stroke. This broke her heart then as it was her first time to experience the loss of someone dear to her.
"But I wasn't mad at God," Lynn said. She soon accepted that losses are part of life. Despite having questions about pain, she said that those were things that we cannot solve and out of our control. She maintained that it was only her faith in God that she's able to heal. This conviction led her to record and release gospel albums and hymns in the course of her singing career.
A post shared by Loretta Lynn (@lorettalynnofficial) on Feb 8, 2019 at 9:34am PST
Back to our present dilemma, many of us are understandably having mixed feelings of fear and discouragements. Some of us might be mourning the loss of a loved one whom we didn't have the chance to say goodbye to. Some of us might be even terrified at the thought that life in the coming days would go worst.
But as what Loretta Lynn shared in her Easter message, we can only cling to our Maker. She reminded us of the hope we have because of "The Third Man" who died for our sins. Life has become more difficult as each day passed, but we should not forget how sovereign our God is.
If it weren't for God, none of us would be here.
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DOI: 10.1145/1965724.1965727
To ensure the timely publication of articles, Communications created the Virtual Extension (VE) to expand the page limitations of the print edition by bringing readers the same high-quality articles in an online-only format. VE articles undergo the same rigorous review process as those in the print edition and are accepted for publication on merit. The following synopses are from articles now available in their entirety to ACM members via the Digital Library.
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The Case for RAMCloud
John Ousterhout, Parag Agrawal, David Erickson, Christos Kozyrakis, Jacob Leverich, David Mazières, Subhasish Mitra, Aravind Narayanan, Diego Ongaro, Guru Parulkar, Mendel Rosenblum, Stephen M. Rumble, Eric Stratmann, and Ryan Stutsman
For the past four decades magnetic disks have been the primary storage location for online information in computer systems. over that period, disk technology has undergone dramatic improvements while being harnessed by higher-level storage systems (such as file systems and relational databases). However, disk performance has not improved as quickly as disk capacity, and developers find it increasingly difficult to scale disk-based systems to meet the needs of large-scale Web applications. Many computer scientists have proposed new approaches to disk-based storage as a solution, and others have suggested replacing disks with flash memory devices. In contrast, we say the solution is to shift the primary locus of online data from disk to DRAM, with disk relegated to a backup/ archival role.
A new class of storage called RAMCloud will provide the storage substrate for many future applications. RAMCloud stores all of its information in the main memories of commodity servers and uses hundreds or thousands of these servers to create a large-scale storage system. Because all data is in DRAM at all times, RAMCloud promises 100x– 1,000x lower latency than disk-based systems and 100x– 1,000x greater throughput. Though individual memories are volatile, RAMCloud can use replication and backup techniques to provide data durability and availability equivalent to disk-based systems.
The combination of latency and
scale offered by RAMCloud will change
the storage landscape in three ways:
simplify development of large-scale Web
applications by eliminating many of
the scalability issues that sap developer
productivity today; enable a new class
of applications that manipulate data
100x– 1,000x more intensively than
is possible today; and provide the
scalable storage substrate needed for
cloud computing and other data-center
for Power Efficiency in
Virtualized Data Centers
Gargi Dasgupta, Amit Sharma, Akshat Verma, Anindya Neogi, and Ravi Kothari
By most estimates, energy-related costs will become the single largest contributor to the overall cost of operating a data center. Ironically, several studies have shown that a typical server in a data center is seriously underutilized. For example, Bohrer et al. find the average server utilization to vary between 11% and 50% for workloads from sports, e-commerce, financial, and Internet proxy clusters. This underutilization is the consequence of provisioning a server for the infrequent though inevitable peaks in the workload. Power-aware dynamic application placement can simultaneously address underutilization of servers as well as the rising energy costs in a data center by migrating applications to better utilize servers and switching freed-up servers to a lower power state.
Though the concept of dynamic application placement is not new, the two recent trends of virtualization and energy management technologies in modern servers have made it possible for it to be widely used in a data center.
While virtualization has been the key enabler, power minimization has been the key driver for energy-aware dynamic application placement.
Server virtualization technologies first appeared in the 1960s to enable timesharing of expensive hardware between multiple users. As hardware became less expensive, virtualization gradually lost its charm. However, since the late 1990s there has been renewed interest in server virtualization and is now regarded as a disruptive business model to drive significant cost reductions. Advances in system management allow the benefits of virtualization to be now realized without any appreciable increase in the system management costs.
The benefits of virtualization include more efficient utilization of hardware (especially when each virtual machine, or VM, on a physical server reaches peak utilization at different points in time or when the applications in the individual VMs have complementary resource usage), as well as reduced floor space and facilities management costs. Additionally, virtualization software tends to hide the heterogeneity in server hardware and make applications more portable or resilient to hardware changes. Virtualization Planning entails sizing and placing existing or fresh workloads as VMs on physical servers.
In this article, the authors simplify resource utilization of a workload to be captured only by CPU utilization. However in practice, multiple parameters, such as memory, disk, and network I/o bandwidth consumption, among others, must be considered.
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Report to the Mayor and City Council on City Comptroller Audit Operations Fiscal Year 2020.
Presentation of the annual report on the operations of the Audit Bureau of the New York City Comptroller's Office for Fiscal Year 2020.
Comptroller (COMP)
Report on Matrix Penalties for Failure to take Police Action
As part of the Police Reform package passed in March 2021, the City Council required an outside oversight agency to examine the adequacy of the presumptive penalties for officers who fail to take police action.
Commission to Combat Police Corruption (CCPC)
Police - Discipline
Pension Fund Annual Report
Annual report on the Relief and Pension Fund for the Department of Street Cleaning (DSNY's predecessor agency) for year ending June 30, 2021.
Sanitation, Department of (DSNY)
Pensions and Sanitation
Nothing Gained
Presentation of the report of the New York City Comptroller's investigation of the City's $8.26 million payment to Global Medical Supply Group during the fiscal year 2021.
Interim Findings and Recommendations of the New York City Comptroller's Investigation
Presentation of the inquiry by the office of the New York City Comptroller into the City's COVID-19 planning, preparation, initial response, and recommendations actions to prevent like fiscal and operational challenges from starting in future public health emergencies.
Follow-up Audit Report on the Financial and Operating Practices of the Queens Borough Public Library
Presentation of the follow-up audit report of Queens Borough Public Library to check whether it fully perform the nine recommendations made in a prior audit of the Queens Borough Public Library's financial and operating practices (Audit # FN 14 – 099A).
Final Special Letter Report the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Compliance With Section 23-702 of the New York City Administra
The auditors recommend that DOHMH ensure that all public school cafeteria inspection results are readily available on its website for the required number of years so that parents and guardians may be informed of the conditions found in the kitchens and cafeterias of the schools that their children..
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Final Letter Report on the New York Public Library's Provision of Website Translation Services (Audit #SZ21-092AL)
Exhibition of the final letter report on the New York Public Library's provision of website translation services.
Final Letter Report on the New York County District Attorney's Office's Provision of Translation Services to the Limited English Proficient Population
This Final Letter Report concerns the New York City Comptroller's audit of the New York County District Attorney's Office's (DANY's) provision of translation services. The objective of this audit was to determine whether DANY is providing translation services.
Languages, Community Relations, and Data and Communications
FY 2022 Agency Watch List.
"The Agency Watch List spotlights city agencies that raise the most budgetary concerns due to rapidly increased spending and meager measurable results. The following report reviews trends to evaluate the effectiveness of agency spending in achieving the Administration's stated goals."
Audit: Review, Evaluation, and Monitoring of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response Practices
Memorandum: Audit: Review, Evaluation, and Monitoring of Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response Practices New York City Independent Budget Office from the New York City Equal Employment Practices Commission
Audit on the New York City Police Department's Controls over Seized Property Inventory
The audit makes several recommendations that aim to improve NYPD's controls over its inventory of property. These appear in the body of this report.
Government, Police, and Accounting
Audit Report on the Twelve Manhattan Community Boards' Compliance with New York City Charter and New York City Administrative Code Requirements for
Our audit found that not all of the Manhattan Community Boards complied with the City Charter requirements relating to public meetings and hearings and to maintaining websites.
Government, Compliance, and Manhattan
Audit Report on the Three Staten Island Community Boards' Compliance with New York City Charter and New York City Administrative Code Requirements for
Our audit found that not all of the Staten Island Community Boards complied with other City Charter requirements relating to public meetings and hearings and maintaining websites.
Community Relations, Staten Island, and Compliance
Audit Report on the Safety of the Department of Park and Recreation's Public Swimming Pools.
Presentation of the audit report on the safety of New York City Department of Park and Recreation's public swimming pools to verify whether the Department of Parks and Recreation manages and preserves outdoor public swimming pools in a way that ensures the safety of pool patrons.
Audit Report on the Safety Measures Implemented by New York City Department of Education in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Presentation of the audit report of the New York City Department of Education to verify whether the agency knew the specific benchmarks for managing the cited standards for in-person instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Audit Report on the Operating Practices of the Kings County Public Administrator's Administration of Estates.
Presentation of the audit report on the operating practices of the Kings County Public Administrator's administration of estates.
Audit Report on the New York County District Attorney's Office's Inventory Practices over Its Office Equipment
The audit makes several recommendations that will improve DANY's controls over its office equipment inventory. These appear in the body of this report.
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Audit Report on the New York City Police Department's Civilianization Efforts
The NYPD has made efforts to civilianize a number of positions within various units in the agency, those efforts have not been systematic and have been delayed when compared to the NYPD's own timetables.
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Audit Report on the New York City Police Department's Controls over Seized Property.
Audit report of the New York City Police Department to establish whether the agency has an effective management in place to account for its collection, recording, and reporting of seized property.


A hoist uses mechanical advantage to do the heavy lifting it does. This mechanical advantage (or lift) happens when a chain is wrapped around a movable drum attached to a shaft which turns gears that move the lift chain incrementally to the distance the pull chain is moved. This exchange of distance for force allows one to lift tremendous weight with little effort.
The image to the right shows the placement of reduction, lift chain, lock ratchet and pull chain gears. As the load is lifted, the lock ratchet gear locks in place, preventing the load from dropping back down.
In this view, we see that as the chain is pulled downward (input force), the chain gear drives a spindle that turns a reduction gear on the opposite end.
This small gear drives two larger gears which take the input force and converts it to lift strength. On the reverse side of the large gears, there are smaller gears to transfer input force further along.
These small four-sprocket gears turn the final reduction gear, completing the conversion of pull distance (input force) to lift strength (output force).
This final reduction gear is connected to the lift chain housing and rotates the lift chain, raising the load attached at the end of the chain.