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Last Friday was my last day at Google. Of course, when you leave Google you have to write some kind of letter or rant. Seriously it's a rule: they won't remove your neural implant until you hit publish.
Jokes aside, this is more of a memoir than a polemic. Of course I have opinions, but now's not the time. This is more about reflecting on the last seven years of my life, thinking about what was important and what I'll do differently in the future.
What I did at Google
I moved to New York and started at Google at the beginning of 2015. I'd always wanted to work there. It seemed like the place where the smartest people worked to solve the most interesting problems. I liked the idea of an engineering-driven culture where experimentation was encouraged and the business was less important. The possibility of working on a 20% project that made it big like GMail appealed to me.
Google might have been that company at some point years earlier, but when I joined it was already transforming into a stodgy megacorp. I think it would have been difficult to start a "moonshot" project like self-driving cars or a new programming language in 2015. It's vanishingly unlikely today.
Docs, Sheets, and Slides
I started out on the Android apps for Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It wasn't quite the kind of work I was hoping for, but Docs was growing when I joined, and the people seemed great. It was interesting to work on mobile apps for a couple years, but the organization had some serious problems.
First, my team lacked mentorship and support. We inherited the Android apps from the Drive team in Sydney (originally, Docs, Sheets, Slides were bundled into the Drive app). Our team was all new hires (mostly new grads) and transfers from other parts of the company, so no one really understood the technical infrastructure, and we didn't know who to ask when we had questions.
Second, management was spread way too thin. My last manager had around 25 reports. We met for half an hour every three weeks, and for several months, she couldn't remember the name of my project. I gave up on ever getting promoted there.
Third, the organization was extremely product-driven. PMs made all the decisions. Engineers (at least at my level) had very little influence. We were expected to hit precise deadlines on multi-quarter projects (within two weeks), and when that inevitably didn't happen, we had to track all the time we spent on anything in 30 minute increments. It felt very cog-in-the-machine.
I got frustrated and transferred out after two years. In hindsight, I should have left much earlier. (Amusingly, another new hire joined my team on the same day. He transferred out within a week! We nicknamed him Waldo because we could never find him. Turns out he was talking to other managers.)
Some key lessons from this time:
Mentorship is really important, especially early on. It's absolutely vital to have someone early on to fill you in not only on the architecture of the project, but also the history and the organizational politics. Because of Conway's Law, those things are deeply interlinked. If you're joining a new group, find someone to spill the tea and give you that history.
Supportive management is vital if you ever want to get promoted. I joined Google at L4, which was at least a level below my previous job (staff engineer at Qualcomm). I thought I'd get promoted quickly, but it took over three years. My time in Docs didn't help me at all toward that.
Make sure you value the same things the organization does. Docs leadership was focused on delivering new features to paying customers. I value minimalist, fast, reliable software. Neither viewpoint is wrong, but they're in tension, and I was never happy doing the kind of work that was needed there.
Go support for Bazel
I joined the Go team in early 2017, initially building Go support for Bazel. At the time, Google was trying to open source or rewrite much of its internal infrastructure for the benefit of Cloud customers and new Alphabet companies (the formation of Alphabet was still recent). Bazel is the open source version of Google's internal build tool, Blaze. The Blaze Go rules had a lot of idiosyncrasies that didn't match the external way of doing things, so rules_go was mostly a greenfield project.
I didn't actually know Go or Bazel before joining the Go team, other than reading The Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan, which came out a year earlier. Actually quite a few people on the team first learned Go when they joined. That's a valuable lesson in itself: "N years of experience" requirements are unnecessary gatekeeping. Smart people can pick up anything quickly, and diverse perspectives are valuable.
Alan was an extraordinarily good mentor. Early on, I reviewed code for his new Starlark interpreter. It was a fantastic way to learn idiomatic, performant Go. I don't think I caught many bugs in code review, but I took the opportunity to ask many questions and learned a lot. As one of the creators of Blaze, he helped me get up to speed quickly there, too.
I was also lucky to have supportive managers, and my work was closely aligned with organization goals at the time. Many companies and large open source projects like Kubernetes were migrating to Bazel, so having solid Go support was crucial. I was promoted to L5 after a little over a year.
Those kinds of tailwinds are nice when you can get them, but they don't always last. Soon after, the Go team was reorganized into Google Cloud, and Kubernetes decided to stop using Bazel, so priorities shifted. Go 1.11 shipped with experimental support for modules, and it was clear that dependency management would be really important going forward. Most of the New York team shifted to making modules production-ready.
I started working on the go command (go build, go get and all that) at the end of 2018. Early on, I improved performance, added better diagnostic messages, and rewrote go get (it's been rewritten at least twice since then). Later, I added the retract directive, the cmd@version form of go install and go run, and many other minor features and improvements.
Probably the most impactful thing I wrote was the module reference documentation, about 80 pages of text explaining how the module system actually worked, including a specification of all the syntax and protocols. Dependency management is complicated (due to innumerable many edge cases), and it was hard for developers to migrate to modules without a manual. Measuring the success of a documentation project is difficult, but anecdotally from watching mailing lists, Stack Overflow, and public Slack, it seemed fewer people were getting stuck, more advanced questions were being asked, and people were more able to help each other.
The project I was most excited about though was native fuzzing, which I worked on with Katie Hockman. It was a lot of fun to build a fuzzing engine from the ground up (of course, learning a lot and borrowing ideas along the way). Regrettably, I didn't stay around until it shipped. Go 1.18 will hopefully be the first release with native fuzzing. More work is needed to improve its effectiveness to match go-fuzz and other systems, but even in its early state, I think it will catch a lot of bugs.
The biggest drawback of working on the Go team was how overloaded everyone was. The team was full of incredibly talented, productive people, but every person was carrying a heavy load. It was hard to actually complete and discharge any project since everything requires a bit of ongoing maintenance. I ended up being at least partly responsible for six projects. It was frustrating to divide my attention so many ways and not make progress on anything. I'd spend entire days barely keeping up with issue triage and code review.
My key lessons from this time:
Limit the number of long-term projects you're focusing on at any given time. It's better to do one or two things well than six things poorly. If a great new opportunity comes up, take it, but drop something else. If the dropped thing was important, it'll get staffed. If not... why work on it?
Teams should be responsible for products, not individuals. Go had too many projects owned by one person. That causes burnout and orphaned packages.
Working at scale is important, though it can feel "lazy" at times. When I worked on Bazel, I spent a lot of time helping individuals fix problems directly. It felt productive and gratifying, but there was no end to those problems because the rules were underdocumented and too difficult to use correctly. In contrast, writing the module reference documentation was a more efficient use of time because it scaled better. People could mentally model the system and avoid problems without needing help.
What kept me at Google
The people I worked with at Google were amazing. I got to be close friends with many people there, well beyond the normal coworker congeniality at other companies.
On Docs, we stayed late many nights playing Coup or Pandemic Legacy (great game, not a great choice these days though). Sometimes we'd gripe about things at the bar under Chelsea Market.
On Go, we cooked together and had dinner parties. We had a great time at conferences; drinking frozen margaritas around the pool at Gophercon 2019 after the talks were over was a highlight in my memory.
It's hard to adequately describe how I positively I feel the people there and I how much I miss them already. I hope to stay friends with everyone, but I know it won't be the same. There's a group spirit that goes beyond individual connections.
My biggest fear about going fully remote is that it's going to be difficult to reproduce that kind of connection on any new team. Those bonds are formed in person. We only weathered the pandemic as well as we did because those were established earlier.
Why I left
The reason people write these letters (and everyone else ridicules them) is because we've been at least a little brainwashed into thinking a job at Google is the pinnacle of employment. Leaving a job isn't usually an action that requires much explanation.
Here it is anyway.
I'm so tired. Everyone I know is burned out or right on the edge of it. I didn't expect this tweet to get nearly as much attention as it did. A few days later, I was surprised to see myself quoted in Burning out and quitting by Maya Kaczorowski. That article really resonated with me. I wrote about my experience with burnout through the pandemic earlier in the summer, but I didn't post it anywhere because it was just a long, boring personal story (kind of like this one). Maya's article was much better.
To summarize, I felt pretty stressed and overloaded before the pandemic. Everything that happened in 2020 pushed me over the edge. I started losing a lot of sleep, and I got a lot of headaches and back pain. I got a lot of "brain fog": inability to concentrate or make decisions. I started forgetting words and names and losing the thread of a conversation mid-sentence. I felt like I had no energy left for anything other than work, and I could barely manage that. I started making lots of mistakes that took time to fix later.
I tried just about everything I could think of. A few things helped, but not enough. I couldn't work anymore, and it was time for an extended break. From speaking with other people that have gone through this, it seems like the only thing that really helps.
Career and compensation
I could have taken a long leave of absence, then come back fresh; Google allows up to three months unpaid. I wanted to make sure I wouldn't burn out again though. Two big things stopped me.
First, Google was about to cut my compensation by 10% because I went remote. I moved back to San Diego in June before there was any remote work policy. I figured they'd have to come up with a remote work policy at some point, and I was willing to walk away if it was too unfavorable. A 10% cut is pretty damn unfavorable, considering I was doing the same work on the same team. It's not like the company couldn't afford it either. From the 2021Q1 earnings, Google Cloud revenue was up 53% year over year, and overall revenue up 61%.
Second, I didn't feel like I had any chance of being promoted to L6 for my work on Go. Google doesn't use the go command or modules, and since there's no direct measurable benefit to Google, it's very difficult to make the case. It's hard to get promoted beyond L5 for open source work that isn't directly tied to the business, so consequently, most folks on the Go team are piled up at L5. I felt that if I wanted growth, my choice was between finding a new job inside Google or outside.
There were a lot of things that happened at Google that I was unhappy with. Maven and Dragonfly seem like a distant memory now. Quite a few activists and researchers were fired for asking Google to be a bit more ethical. I've also seen friends underpaid, underleveled, and treated with less respect than they deserved.
I wish I'd done more to fight those things, beyond signing petitions and walkouts. I'm not much of an activist though, especially with burnout. All I can say is that those people aren't far from my mind. Those events made the decision to leave easier, and I'll be thinking a lot harder about ethics in whatever company I join in the future.
For the first time in my life, I don't have any plan on what to do next. I'm taking at least six months off, maybe a year. Call it a sabbatical I guess. Or a rumspringa.
I have some ideas on what I want to do during that time: train for a marathon, get better at cooking, start a vegetable garden, take a painting class, join a karate dojo, make some local friends... Mostly though, I just want to be a person without work for a while.
I feel extraordinarily privileged to be able to do this. My wife also works in tech and can comfortably support us both. I hope in a year, I'll be rested and ready to jump back into tech with a better sense of purpose and direction.


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WWE Confirm At Least One Tryout Winner Will Compete At Greatest Royal Rumble
Posted By: Thomas Lowson on Apr 22, 2018
At least one finalist from WWE's tryouts in Saudi Arabia will compete at the Greatest Royal Rumble, the company has confirmed.
The tryouts have taken place over this week, with eight wrestlers being selected from the group. They are:
Hussain Aldagal, a 6-foot-3, 215-pounder with a background in volleyball and bodybuilding.
Mansoor Al-Shehail, a 6-foot, 175-pounder who has trained under WWE Hall of Famer Dory Funk Jr.
Faisal Kurdi, a 5-foot-9, 180-pound MMA fighter, amateur grappler and Muay Thai boxer
Nasser Bawazer, a 6-foot-3, 250-pound champion in boxing, MMA and aikido.
Khalid Alhothali, a competitor in bodybuilding, as well as combat sports, including boxing and jiu-jitsu.
Abdullah Almagrabi, a 225-pound karate champion and boxing trainer.
Faisal Allabboudy, a 23-year-old whose athletic background includes competitive swimming, boxing and bodybuilding.
Asaad Alshareef, a 23-year-old Greco Roman and freestyle wrestler who has also trained in various martial arts.
Congratulations to the eight athletes who were declared the winners of the #KSATryouts! At least one of these prospects will compete in THIS FRIDAY's Greatest Royal Rumble event. #WWEGRR https://t.co/Rf7ykYRprb
— WWE (@WWE) April 22, 2018
Whilst the role of the finalist(s) has not been announced, it is likely to be as a participant in the historic 50-Superstar Royal Rumble.
The Greatest Royal Rumble will take place in the King Abdullah Stadium in Saudi Arabia, and will air live on the WWE Network.
Source: WWE.com
Tags: #wwe #greatest royal rumble

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In the small charming city of Loreto, many Catholic medals of distinction are handcrafted using an ancient Roman custom of forming metal and hand finishing it in the Loreto custom of silver oxidization. We invite you to experience these rich, hand-crafted metal treasures with rhodium-plated chains, beautifully gift boxed.
We've selected our best-selling pieces to support our members of the armed forces.


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23 August: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition
The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the goals of the intercultural project "The Slave Route", it should offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.
The Director-General of UNESCO invites the Ministers of Culture of all Member States to organize events every year on that date, involving the entire population of their country and in particular young people, educators, artists and intellectuals.
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition was first celebrated in a number of countries, in particular in Haiti (23 August 1998) and Goree in Senegal (23 August 1999). Cultural events and debates too were organized. The year 2001 saw the participation of the Mulhouse Textile Museum in France in the form of a workshop for fabrics called "Indiennes de Traite" (a type of calico) which served as currency for the exchange of slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Circular CL/3494 of 29 July 1998 from the Director-General to Ministers of Culture invites all the Member States to organize events to mark 23 August each year.
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Charleston, WV– Natural gas is having a tremendous impact on the State budget and in local economies throughout West Virginia.
The West Virginia oil and natural gas industry paid more than $138 million in severance taxes in fiscal year 2018, an increase of 4.3 percent or more than $5 million over 2017 receipts, according to a review of information provided by West Virginia Department of Tax and Revenue and the State Treasurer's Office (STO).
Of that $138 million, more than $15 million in severance tax payments will be made to counties and cities, according to the STO. This represents a 61 percent increase year-over-year, and all counties will receive increased disbursements – and in some cases substantial increases.
"The increase in severance tax receipts has contributed greatly to the State's current budget surplus while providing needed revenue to county and city governments," said Anne Blankenship, executive director of the West Virginia Oil & Natural Gas Association. "The local funds are used to support vital public services – everything from local emergency responders, community projects and social programs".
Blankenship noted that six counties received more than $1 million in payments from the fund. They are: Doddridge County ($2,834,771); Wetzel County ($1,456,511); Ritchie County ($1,382,162); Tyler County ($1,345,274); Marshall County ($1,336,783); and, Harrison County ($1,064,866).
In terms of year-over-year percentage increase, Tyler and Ritchie saw gains of 103 percent and 80 percent, respectively. Monongalia County, which will receive $551,832, experienced an increase of 217 percent, the largest gain of any county in the state.
Other counties receiving significant severance distributions include, Ohio ($644,109), Kanawha ($503,976.94), Marion ($358,274.67), Brooke ($309,042) and Taylor ($260,134).
Severance to cities is based on population, so Charleston ($107,965), Huntington ($94,972), Parkersburg ($66,149), Morgantown ($62,300) and Wheeling ($59,255) received the largest portion of those revenues.
Ninety percent (90%) of the natural gas severance taxes collected are allocated to the State. The remaining ten percent is distributed two ways – 75 percent is dispersed to gas-producing counties, and the other 25 percent is distributed to all counties and municipalities. To view the list of county/municipality severance tax distributions, as outlined by the STO, click here.


The insurance industry has traditionally lagged behind the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. As a result of our own experience in the claims administration process our target market continues to expand because the phrase "timing is everything" is universally applicable for an employee, employer and carrier. Most people appreciate the meaning of how "time is money" but I was taught it is not just about the money; its about the amount!
Aclaimant is not just about time; it is the amount of time and money that is wasted because of a fragmented and disjointed workflow process that has failed to take advantage of technological tools of engagement. Our message today is not just taking a deep breadth and exhaling with an "it's about time" sigh of relief.
Our goal is to employ a culture of being "on time" by Tracking Information…. Managing Exposure, before, during and after an incident is reported.
It's about time that a policyholder has the right to take care, custody and control of their incident reporting data.
It's about time that a policyholders risk management team has the same technological tools that other industries have access to.
It's about time for an employee to feel safe and secure by being able to report an incident in real time.
It's about time for a policyholder to be able to direct the information to the right people.
It's about time that the policyholder doesn't have to chase information in order to expedite medical, financial and litigation management decisions.
It's about time the employer, the employee and the carrier use full disclosure as their ally.
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I've managed to get it so that spammers on my boards get a 403 message.
The only thing I found was that the directives had to go into the apache2 config file rather than the .htaccess file which complained "order not allowed here". I also adjusted it so that only POST is blocked..
I'm going to run with it for a few days then I'm going to add a couple more RBLs to the list and then I can hopefully put the trackback link back in.
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Q: Changing image of UIImage with time I want to change an UIImageView's image and 3 seconds later go back to the first image...This is my code:
-(void)change: (UIImageView *)sender
{
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNAmed: @"anImage"];
    [sender setImage:image];
    [self performSelector: @selector(doNothing) withObject:nil afterDelay:3];
    [sender setImage: [UIImage imageNamed: @"firstImage"]];
}

It doesn't work.

A: Try:
-(void)change: (UIImageView *)sender
{
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNAmed: @"anImage"];
    [sender setImage:image];
    [sender performSelector: @selector(setImage:) withObject:[UIImage imageNamed: @"firstImage"] afterDelay:3];
}

performSelector schedules selector call with some delay. It does not delay the execution of current method

A: Could you post the code for doNothing too please?
If doNothing really does nothing, then what's happening is the doNothing method is being called after 3 seconds from when the following line executes:
[self performSelector: @selector(doNothing) withObject:nil afterDelay:3];

But here's the thing, the following line is being executed straight after your doNothing method has been scheduled to run after three seconds:
[sender setImage: [UIImage imageNamed: @"firstImage"]];

In other words, the method execution doesn't wait around for your doNothing method to complete, it just continues, and doNothing is run on a separate thread.

A: you have said to perform the function doNothing after 3 seconds of delay. So after 3 seconds it will get called so change the image back to firstImage in doNothing function.

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import java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols;
import java.util.Locale;

public class DecimalFormatSymbolsTest extends junit.framework.TestCase {
    private void checkLocaleIsEquivalentToRoot(Locale locale) {
        DecimalFormatSymbols dfs = DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance(locale);
        assertEquals(DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance(Locale.ROOT), dfs);
    }
    public void test_getInstance_unknown_or_invalid_locale() throws Exception {
        // TODO: we fail these tests because ROOT has "INF" for infinity but 'dfs' has "\u221e".
        // On the RI, ROOT has "\u221e" too, but DecimalFormatSymbols.equals appears to be broken;
        // it returns false for objects that -- if you compare their externally visible state --
        // are equal. It could be that they're accidentally checking the Locale.
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Life | Style
The *Definitive* Guide To Eco Friendly Jeans–13 Brands That Will Rock Your World
by Anna Redko
Ever wondered what happens to your donated clothes, specifically jeans, beyond the obvious reselling stage? If recycled, then your pair of jeans gets shredded and blended with new cotton. Making eco friendly jeans out of 100% recycled denim fabric remains a challenge without blending it with new cotton due to the loss of fabric strength.
By some measures, fashion is cited as the #2 most polluting industry in the world, while by other measures, #5. Regardless of how you measure those often interconnected factors as energy use, gas emissions, and water pollution, fashion's immense toll on the environment is indisputable.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of denim companies still use chemical-based processes to dye their denim because making vegetable/natural dyeing processes are often difficult on an industrial scale due to color consistency and intensity issues. There is also a whole host of other issues to do with manufacturing denim like the sustainability of cotton farming; the use of toxic chemicals and animal-derived dyes involved in the dying process, which also lead to water pollution concerns; the laundry process that involves vast amounts of clean water usage; the finishing techniques such as distressing, oiling and color effects that are harmful to workers and further produce an increased amounts of waste.
But don't fret because the industry is definitely changing and here is the proof: some awesome eco friendly jeans brands that are tackling these issues and more head on!
Eco Friendly Denim Brands You Can Feel Good About
Vegan Denim
Kings of Indigo was voted #1 most sustainable denim brand in Europe and has received a PETA prize. It has partnered with House of Denim on creating the Red Light Denim collection, which is made with at least 21% recycled jeans that have been collected in Amsterdam. The rest of the fabric is comprised of 7% hemp and 72% organic cotton making it an entirely sustainable fabric.
They have also partnered with the recycling movement REMO, creating QR codes that enabling customers to track the entire manufacturing process of their garment from plant to store. Kings of Indigo uses renewable energy whenever possible and water conservation techniques in their manufacturing. It continuously works toward using 100% recycle materials both for its products and packaging.
Additionally, it uses vegetable dyes in parts of their collection that uses 70 liters less water, 30% less energy, and is all chemical-free, making them vegan!
This brand doesn't do seasonal collections, instead sticking to a year-round core collection. They have a large collection that is completely made out of organic cotton, also using recycled polyester and cotton in their collections. Kuyichi uses natural indigo dyes that reduce water waste, plus vegan leather for some edgier designs, yay.
Kuyichi practices transparency by publicizing their annual sustainability report on their website and showing their entire manufacturing operations.
Orta has a whole range of vegan denim that is dyed with vegetable dyes; the brand also deserves major kudos for being the first to use vegetable dyes on an industrial scale for denim.
MUD Jeans offers Lease A Jean plan that allows customers to rent a pair of jeans when they sign up for a membership. The plan also allows them to swap the pair even after a year for a new pair or donate then for recycling. It also has a program where customers can customize a pair of vintage jeans to their liking. MUD is working to reduce even more chemicals and recycle more water in its manufacturing processes. It shows a complete independent audit report including factories used and employee working conditions and sustainability practices of each facility.
All jeans are made from 100% organic cotton. Nudie Jeans includes recycling program initiative and reselling of secondhand gems. Its production process is transparent with stringent social responsibility program.
Socially Responsible Denim
Yoga Jeans uses organic cotton (whenever possible), non-toxic chemicals, and dyes. It also reuses water in their washing processes, and recycles any details like rivets and leather. Everything is manufactured from start to finish at their Canadian facility where they abide by strict employee welfare and environmental regulations.
Haikure operates under 'Made By' agency that monitors factory conditions as well as social and environmental production processes. It uses reduced water and chemicals with a new N-Denim system. This brand also includes QR-code technology that lets customers know the entire manufacturing process of each item they purchase.
Monkey Jeans makes it its priority to support and treat all their workers well their workers involved in the entire manufacturing process of their jeans. All jeans are made from 100% organic cotton and are ethically and environmentally conscious.
Good Society
Good Society donates 25% of all its profits to charities that focus on improving social issues. All of its denim is made out of 100% organic cotton, and its sourcing and manufacturing processes are completely transparent and published on their website. Good Society has also been approved by PETA!
Upcycled Denim
100% of all denim is recycled from old Levi's. The pair you select on the website is the pair that you get, and every pair is made in the USA.
Frame has a style called Le Mix that uses Fabric taken from returned items and leftover stock to create these upcycled jeans. All are made in the USA.
Phlemuns
All garments are made out of patchwork recycled denim, which is then reworked into a new item. All items are made in the USA.
Designer sources high quality dead stock items from manufacturers and sewers that would have otherwise gone to waste. Then adds hand-sewn details to each item. All garments are made in Los Angeles, California.
Phew, that was quite a round-up! Are you excited to try any of these brands? Or do you already own some of them? Let us know! 😀
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Exception caught by form: No file decorator found.
I was wondering if someone would be able to show me an example.  I basically want to output the form as  and do away with the standard layout.  Maybe add a few custom classes also.
Updated
class Application_Form_Admin extends Zend_Form
{

    public function init()
    {
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            'required'   => false
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        // Add the title
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            'label'      => 'Project Title',
            'required'   => false,
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                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the title
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            'label'      => 'App Id',
            'required'   => true,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the title
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            'label'      => 'App Secret',
            'required'   => true,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the title
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            'label'      => 'Namespace',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the title
        $this->addElement('text', 'applink', array(
            'label'      => 'App Link',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 255))
                )
        ));

        // Facebook Only?
        $this->addElement('checkbox', 'fbonly', array(
            'label'      => 'Facebook Only',
            'required'   => false,
            'value'      => 1
        ));

        // general app data group
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        // Facebook Only?
        $this->addElement('checkbox', 'fangate', array(
            'label'      => 'Fangate Page',
            'required'   => false,
            'value'      => 1
        ));

        // Facebook Only?
        $this->addElement('checkbox', 'welcome', array(
            'label'      => 'Welcome Page',
            'required'   => false,
            'value'      => 1
        ));

        // Facebook Only?
        $this->addElement('checkbox', 'help', array(
            'label'      => 'Help Page',
            'required'   => false,
            'value'      => 1
        ));

        // Facebook Only?
        $this->addElement('checkbox', 'entries', array(
            'label'      => 'Entries Page',
            'required'   => false,
            'value'      => 1
        ));

        // pages enabled group
        $this->addDisplayGroup(array('fangate', 'welcome', 'help', 'entries'), 'page', array('legend' => 'Page Optons'));

        // Add the title
        $this->addElement('text', 'ogtype', array(
            'label'      => 'Default Open Graph Type',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the title
        $this->addElement('text', 'ogtitle', array(
            'label'      => 'Default Open Graph Title',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the title
        $this->addElement('text', 'ogdesc', array(
            'label'      => 'Default Open Graph Description',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the title
        $this->addElement('file', 'ogimage', array(
            'label'      => 'Default App Image',
            'required'   => false
        ));

        // generic open graph data
        $this->addDisplayGroup(array('ogtype', 'ogtitle', 'ogdesc', 'ogimage'), 'og', array('legend' => 'Generic Open Graph data'));

        // Add the wall title
        $this->addElement('text', 'apptitle', array(
            'label'      => 'App Title',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the wall caption
        $this->addElement('text', 'appcaption', array(
            'label'      => 'App Caption',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 60))
                )
        ));

        // Add the wall message
        $this->addElement('text', 'appdesc', array(
            'label'      => 'App Description',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 255))
                )
        ));

        // app message details
        $this->addDisplayGroup(array('apptitle', 'appcaption', 'appdesc'), 'appdetails', array('legend' => 'App deatils (Used when sharing)'));

        // Add the wall title
        $this->addElement('text', 'wallmsg', array(
            'label'      => 'Wall Message',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 255))
                )
        ));

        // Add the wall title
        $this->addElement('text', 'friendmsg', array(
            'label'      => 'Friends Wall Message',
            'required'   => false,
            'validators' => array(
                    array('validator' => 'StringLength', 'options' => array(0, 255))
                )
        ));

        // app message details
        $this->addDisplayGroup(array('wallmsg', 'friendmsg'), 'wallmessages', array('legend' => 'Wall post messages'));

        // Add the submit button
        $this->addElement('submit', 'submit', array(
            'ignore'   => true,
            'label'    => 'Submit',
        ));

        // And finally add some CSRF protection
        $this->addElement('hash', 'csrf', array(
            'ignore' => true,
        ));

        // change markup of elements
        $this->setElementDecorators(array(
            'ViewHelper',
            array(
                'Description',
                array(
                    'tag'    => 'div',
                    'class'  => 'submit-button',
                    'escape' => false
                )
            ),
            array(
                array(
                    'data' => 'HtmlTag'
                ),
                array(
                    'tag'   => 'span',
                    'class' => 'element'
                )
            ),
            array(
                'Label',
                array(
                    'tag'    => 'label',
                    'class' => 'elementLabel',
                    'escape' => false
                )
            ),
            'File',
            array(
                array(
                    'data' => 'HtmlTag'
                ),
                array(
                    'tag'   => 'span',
                    'class' => 'element'
                )
            ),
            array(
                array(
                    'row' => 'HtmlTag'
                ),
                array(
                    'tag'   => 'li',
                    'class' => 'element-row'
                ),
            ),
            'Errors'
        ));

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            'FormElements',
            array(
                'HtmlTag',
                array(
                    'tag' => 'div',
                    'id'  => $this->_containerId
                )
            ),
            'Form',
            'Errors'
        ));

    }

}

A: You have at least one "File" element in your form, you called setDecorators and did not include the "File" decorator, which is a required decoratotr for a 'File' element:

35.6.4. Zend_Form_Element_File
The File form element provides a mechanism for supplying file upload fields to your form. It utilizes
Zend_File_Transfer internally to provide this functionality, and the
FormFile view helper as also the File decorator to display the form
element.


African culture will be the focus of a series of events taking place between September 21st and September 26th at the Ion Creanga branch of the Bucharest Metropolitan library. The African Week is the first in a series celebrating cultural diversity and will be followed by events dedicated to Italian, Polish, Swedish and Brazilian cultures.
An exhibition with works by artist Kinsley Nwabia and with traditional objects will open the event, which will also see film screenings, music, public readings and a presentation of traditional clothing.


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Tennessee Earns a C-Minus on State Report Card, Ranks 36th in Nation
December 30, 2015 | Corrected: January 26, 2016 1 min read
Corrected: The Quality Counts 2016 report, published as the Jan. 7 issue of Education Week and online, included errors in the school finance analysis. This page has been revised to correct grades, scores, and rankings in summative results and school finance. Details are available at www.edweek.org/go/qc16correct.
The 20th annual edition of Quality Counts—Called to Account: New Directions in School Accountability—continues Education Week's long-standing tradition of grading the states on their performance. A state's overall grade is the average of its scores on the three separate indices tracked by the report.
This year, Tennessee finishes 36th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, with an overall score of 70.9 out of 100 points and a grade of C-minus. The nation as a whole posts a grade of C.
Diving into the findings for the three graded indices, Tennessee earns a C in the Chance-for-Success category and ranks 40th. The average state earns a C-plus. In School Finance, Tennessee receives a D-plus and ranks 39th, while for the K-12 Achievement Index it finishes 17th with a grade of C-minus. The average state earns grades of C and C-minus in School Finance and K-12 Achievement, respectively.
Quality Counts 2016 also focuses on educational accountability as its special theme. The report examines how new state and federal strategies are transforming the assessment of school performance, and reshaping the consequences for poor results. As part of this project, the Education Week Research Center conducted an original analysis of student achievement in the No Child Left Behind era. The analysis highlights results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress from 2003 to 2015. It examines achievement, poverty-based gaps, and trends over time.
To shed light on student achievement in the NCLB era, the Education Week Research Center averaged NAEP scores for reading and math in grades 4 and 8 to create an overall proficiency rate for each state and the nation as a whole. The state's combined proficiency rate stands at 33.9 percent for 2015, placing it 32nd in the rankings. The nation as a whole posts a rate of 34.8 percent.
Tennessee's 2016 Highlights Report includes results for each of the nearly-40 indicators that make up Quality Counts' overall grading rubric. This year's State Highlights Report also contains the special analysis of student achievement in the NCLB era.
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Enzyme from fungi shows molecules which way to turn
Xue Sherry Gao and team isolate natural catalysts for better drug synthesis
A small fungal enzyme could play a significant role in simplifying the development and manufacture of drugs, according to Rice University scientists.
The Rice lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Xue Sherry Gao and collaborators isolated a biocatalyst known as CtdE after identifying it as the natural mechanism that controls the chirality — the left- or right-handedness — of compounds produced by the native fungal host.
The open-access study appears in Nature Communications.
Two chiral things are, like hands, alike in structure but cannot perfectly overlap. Because the property is important in designing drugs that bind correctly to their targets, the ability to achieve 100% correct chirality is highly desired, Gao said.
"It's important because if a pharmaceutical drug has the wrong stereochemistry (chirality in three dimensions), it could become a poison to humans, even if the planar chemical structure is the same," she said.
Like "left" or "right" orientation in chiral objects, what's known as a 3S or 3R orientation is determined by a molecule's stereocenter, a one-atom connection between parts of a molecule, Gao said.
Rice chemical and biomolecular engineers led the discovery of a new biocatalyst, CtdE, used in this illustration to construct an alkaloid with a critical 3S-spirooxindole framework, as seen in blue in the bottom molecule. Their study also provides deeper insight into the mechanism of stereoselective catalysis. FAD (flavin adenine dinucleotide) and NADH (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) are cofactors used in the reaction. Illustration by Zhiwen Liu
But while nature handles the process with ease, selectively synthesizing stereocenters has been a challenge for chemists. The entire mechanism behind nature's ability to control whether a molecule has a 3S or 3R orientation has been hidden from view until now.
Understanding how it works in fungi and analyzing its structure could give scientists, particularly those who design drugs, a new chemical synthesis tool.
The focus of the study, a bioactive natural product known as 21R-citrinadin A, discovered in 2004 in a marine-derived fungal strain of Penicillium citrinum, is toxic to leukemia in mice and human lung cancer cells.
"21R-citrinadin A is a very complicated molecule, with eight stereocenters," Gao said. "In a way, the paper emphasizes how nature uses enzymes to synthesize a complex molecule with such a precision. Eight different stereocenters are a lot to control."
She said the molecule incorporates a "very intriguing" 3S spirooxindole ring. "Nature produces several other chemicals with a similar spirooxindole pharmacophore," Gao said. "However, we became very curious that some of them contain a 3R spirooxindole ring, the opposite of 3S in citrinadins.
"All the genes responsible for expressing this small molecule are clustered together in these fungi, so first we found the gene cluster and looked at each gene individually to see which one could be the most important to catalyze the specific chemical transformations," she said.
"Once we find it, we can take that gene outside of the fungus, put it back into a user-friendly host, E. coli, and then use protein purification technology to isolate and test its function in a test tube," Gao said. "By doing everything outside of the fungus, we can be sure there's only one enzyme that performs this one function."
The modified E. coli express CtdE protein in bulk. When subsequently used in chemical transformations, CtdE catalyzed the desired 3S stereoselectivity across the board. "A spirooxindole is hard to synthesize already," she said. "Our goal was to understand the mechanism of how the enzyme controls this specific 3S stereochemistry."
Bioinformatic analysis, X-ray crystallography and experiments confirmed that CtdE is solely responsible for catalyzing 3S stereoselectivity, Gao said. (Another enzyme, PhqK, was already known to catalyze 3R orientation.) "Having a set of two enzymes that give precise control over stereochemistry will eventually improve the synthesis in pharmaceutical production," she said.
Gao noted that because CtdE works at room temperature, it will help keep chemistry "green" as well. "Hopefully, these biocatalysts will catalyze chemical reactions in a more environmentally friendly way," she said.
Postdoctoral researchers Zhiwen Liu and Fanglong Zhao of Rice and graduate student Boyang Zhao of Baylor College of Medicine are co-lead authors of the paper.
Co-authors are staff researcher Jie Yang, alumnus graduate student Biki Bapi Kundu, Yang Gao, an assistant professor of biosciences, and George Phillips, the Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor of BioSciences, of Rice; Liya Hu, an assistant professor of biochemistry, and B.V. Venkataram Prasad, the Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, at Baylor; Joseph Ferrara of Rigaku Americas Corp., The Woodlands, Texas; research scientist Banumathi Sankaran of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and co-principal investigator Tong Zhu, an associate professor at East China Normal University, Shanghai.
The National Institutes of Health, the Robert A. Welch Foundation, the Innovation Program of the Shanghai Municipals Education Commission and the National Natural Science Foundation of China supported the research.
Author: MIKE WILLIAMS
Link: https://news.rice.edu/2021/07/06/enzyme-from-fungi-shows-molecules-which-way-to-turn-2/


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2 min read Erin Jordan 2021-04-05 20:52:38
Iowa DNR approves 11,600-head cattle feedlot near Monona
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has approved the nutrient management plan of an 11,600-head open cattle feedlot near Monona.
Supreme Beef, owned by Mike Walz, Dean Walz and Jared Walz, now may complete the project started in 2017 but stalled by environmental violations, opposition from neighbors and legal wrangling with two former business partners.
Environmental groups were not happy with the decision.
"If IDNR can approve this facility, which is located in sensitive karst topography, in the watershed of an Outstanding Iowa Water and important cold water trout streams, then current Iowa laws and regulations provide no protection of the public interest and exist solely to rubber stamp livestock industry interests," Ingrid Gronstal, water program director for the Iowa Environmental Council, said in a prepared statement.
Steve Veysey, a retired Iowa State University employee and water quality advocate, said in a March 2 public hearing the computations used in the plan to show how much liquid manure from the facility can safely be applied to farm fields were inaccurate. Opponents also said the plan called for putting manure on fields 20 miles away, which they said wasn't realistic given the cost to transport the manure.
The DNR did seek some changes to the nutrient management plan, the agency noted in an April 2 letter sent to the company and provided to The Gazette. One field listed as accepting manure from the feedlot was removed from the plan and details for two other fields "were revised appropriately," the DNR noted.
Wally Taylor, conservation chair of the Sierra Club's Iowa chapter, said he felt the DNR relied on assumptions and incomplete information in the rush to approve the plan within the 60-day limit. "Instead of rejecting the NMP, DNR is approving it, hoping everything will eventually work out," Taylor said.
Back in 2017, when the Walzes and other earlier partners proposed the project, they said they planned to invest $30 million in the site that would include anaerobic digesters that would convert manure and food waste into natural gas. The new versions of the nutrient management plan do not call for digesters.
The change in plans has meant an operation once considered an industrial facility because of a waste-to-energy strategy became a large open feedlot, which has a different set of rules.
"This has put the DNR in the position of jerry rigging its review of the NMP," Taylor said.
In 2018, the DNR fined the owners $10,000 — the maximum fine the agency can impose — for stormwater runoff violations.
In 2019, the Walzes sued their former business partners, Jon Haman and Heath Kellogg, saying the men lied about having secured a loan for $15 million for the project. A judge ordered Haman and Kellogg to pay the Walzes $308,309 and ordered their firm, Feeder Creek Group, dissociate with the Walzes. The groups settled in December of 2019, court records show.
Supreme Beef submitted a nutrient management plan last summer for 11,600 head of cattle, but the DNR approved the plan for only 2,700 cows.
Comments: (319) 339-3157; erin.jordan@thegazette.com
Source: gazetteonlinelocalnews


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Campus holds final governor's debate
Candidates discuss social issues, health care
Riley Guerzini, News Editor|October 26, 2016
Junior political science and economics double major, Rachel Johnson has a microphone put on her dress minutes before channel 14 News aired Midday with Mike Tuesday morning in the Performance Center. Johnson and Vergilio Paulino a junior political science and philosophy double major with a pre-law minor spoke about the election and talked about the advice they would give to the presidential candidates.
The University Performance Center hosted the third and final gubernatorial debate Tuesday night.
Libertarian candidate Rex Bell, Democratic candidate John Gregg and Republican candidate Eric Holcomb squared off in the final debate before voters go to the polls Nov. 8 to pick the next Indiana governor.
The debate focused on health and social issues with the previous debates centering on Education and the Economy.
The moderator for the debate, Mizell Stuart III, is a news executive with Gannett and the USA Today Network. He was an editor at the Evansville Courier & Press from 2007 to 2012.
The debate began with Stewart and the candidates commending each other on the civility of the previous debates and the campaigns.
It quickly delved into a policy debate as questions were taken from audience members on community health and social issues affecting the state.
"My plan for Indiana is to get government out of the way," Bell said.
Bell, whose two children graduated from the university, said much of the social issues are up to society to change and not the government.
Bell's carried this same demeanor into his disapproval of Indiana's decades-old ban on Sunday carryout alcohol sales.
"I've always maintained that anything that is legal on Saturday should be legal on Sunday," he said.
Bell's opponent, John Gregg, holds a similar approach to government involvement on social issues.
Gregg said he supports the legalization of medical marijuana and believes drug abusers should not be thrown in jail but be given rehabilitation treatment.
Gregg said he identifies as a pro-life democrat on a personal level, but will continue to support abortion laws and Planned Parenthood.
"Our plan is based on what is best for Indiana, not ideology," he said.
Gregg said at a post-debate press conference that he did not understand why there were no specific questions asked regarding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which "prohibits a governmental entity from substantially burdening a person's exercise of religion."
The law has come under scrutiny by people who view it as a law which suppresses the rights of members of the LGBT community.
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Gregg also challenged republican candidate Holcomb for not having a clear, specific policy on infrastructure.
Holcomb responded to the allegations, saying Gregg is a hypocrite for saying he has no specific plans for infrastructure policy. He said they went from talking about infrastructure to building infrastructure as Lieutenant Governor.
Holcomb also responded to Gregg's call to repeal the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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Holcomb said he has confidence in the security and fairness of the election despite reports about names and birth dates being changed for online voter registrations.
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Motives[ edit ] Firms may have several motives for divestitures: For example, Eastman KodakFord Motor CompanyFuture Group and many other firms have sold various businesses that were not closely related to their core businesses. Divestitures generate funds for the firm because it is selling one of its businesses in exchange for cash.
For example, CSX Corporation made divestitures to focus on its core railroad business and also to obtain funds so that it could pay off some of its existing debt. In other words, the sum of a firm's individual asset liquidation values exceeds the market value of the firm's combined assets.
This encourages firms to sell off what would be worth more when liquidated than when retained. Philipsfor example, divested its chip division - NXP - because the chip market was so volatile and unpredictable that NXP was responsible for the majority of Philips's stock fluctuations while it represented only a very small part of Philips NV.
Examples include disinvestment from South Africa in the former era of apartheid now endedand more recent calls for fossil fuel divestment in response to global warming.
Divestment for financial goals[ edit ] Often the term is used as a means to grow financially in which a company sells off a business unit in order to focus their resources on a market it judges to be more profitable, or promising.
Sometimes, such an action can be a spin-off.
In the United States, divestment of certain parts of a company can occur when required by the Federal Trade Commission before a merger with another firm is approved. A company can divest assets to wholly owned subsidiaries. It is a process of selling an asset.
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Whether or not you are familiar with Wabi-Sabi, it is a difficult concept to fully understand.
From a design point of view, it is easy to see why Wabi-Sabi is often confused with both minimal and natural aesthetics; both of which are disciplines separate in their own right. However, the tangible aspects are conceivably easier to grasp than its intangible elements, which is suggested by the popularity of Wabi-Sabi inspired decor in many restaurants, shops and homes. However, in many instances even this goes underappreciated due to either misrepresentation or lack of understanding for both the designer and the consumer.
Keeping this in mind, the following imagery captures Wabi-Sabi in various settings within Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, located in the heart of Honshu. This exploration focuses on the visual aspect of this age old Japanese philosophy, while offering insight on how to appreciate certain nuances. Kyoto has an abundance of temples, shrines and cultural references, all of which encapsulate both explicit and subtle details of Wabi-Sabi. We travelled to several places in the area, including the outskirts of the Yamashiro basin, searching for five locations that embody this ancient way of life.
Ginkaku-ji is a Zen temple renowned for its sand garden, designed specifically to serve as a place for rest and solitude. Upon entering the temple, its natural aromas and lush state of overgrowth immediately grabs your attention. In the context of Wabi-Sabi, moss represents an important cornerstone, the aforementioned aging process which interestingly leads you to analyze and appreciate the slow growing plant in a new light.
The entire Ginkaku-ji experience engages your senses and once you are able to divert your attention to the rest of the sand garden, you'll come across standout features like the sand mound that symbolizes Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan.
Before stepping through the doors of this tea house, the simplicity of its name already sets the tone. This small establishment allows you to experience a Japanese tea ceremony built on tradition, spirituality and appreciation for handcrafted tea cups, pots and utensils. Commonly serving Nihon-cha, the entire experience has a Wabi-Sabi undertone that runs through the traditional methods of preparation up to the point of enjoying the tea's subtle, refined flavors.
Ryōan-ji is one of the most famous Zen temples in Kyoto, in large part because of its well looked after rock garden. The garden's asymmetrical rock formations and meticulously raked pebbles offer a tranquil environment that can be appreciated from many perspectives. In addition, Wabi-Sabi's link to Zen Buddhism gives the temple distinct qualities that allow you to focus on the simple natural objects and escape from stressful distractions.
Situated in the middle of a rich and vibrant forest, Genko-an temple sits in a beautiful, secluded garden. Similar to the other Zen temples featured, Genko-an allows visitors to breakaway from unnecessary distraction and shift focus on enlightenment. This all stems from its outlook on a different arm of Zen Buddhism. Through the lens of a simple square and circular window, dubbed "The Window of Confusion" and "The Window of Enlightenment" respectively, the temple allows individuals to look over the same garden but with different perspectives. This simple effect highlights the essence of Wabi-Sabi and is designed to give people cause to think about how they approach situations in their own lives.
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Thyridachne es un género monotípico de plantas herbáceas de la familia de las gramíneas o poáceas.  Su única especie, Thyridachne tisserantii C.E.Hubb., es originaria de África tropical.

Descripción
Es una planta anual con tallos herbáceos. Hoja lineal; estrecha, no pseudopeciolada; sin venación. La lígula membranosa. Plantas bisexuales, con espiguillas bisexuales; con flores hermafroditas. Las espiguillas todas por igual en la sexualidad.

Taxonomía
Thyridachne tisserantii fue descrita por Charles Edward Hubbard y publicado en Kew Bulletin 4: 364. 1949.
Etimología
Thyridachne: nombre genérico que deriva de las palabras griegas thyridos (ventana) y achne (paja), aludiendo su lema inferior peculiar.

Sinonimia
 Tisserantiella oubanguiensis Mimeur

Referencias

Enlaces externos

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 Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 en adelante). Thyridachne tisserantii. En: GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora. (consultado el 16 de marzo de 2010) (en inglés)
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Flora de África tropical
Plantas descritas en 1949
Plantas descritas por C.E.Hubb.

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Napier Miles Road, Kingsweston, Bristol, Bristol, BS11 0UT
Kingsweston School
Until August 2022
3rd December 2021 09:05 AM
Contract type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: Until August 2022
Contract – Fixed term, - August 2022
Monday - Friday 8.30am - 15.30pm
Are you passionate about working with SEND students?
Are you a team player?
Have you got TA experience in working with students with ASC, SLD and complex needs?
We are looking for 6 Teaching Assistants to join our staff team at Kingsweston School. Kingsweston School works in a supportive multi-professional team approach, with the student at the centre of everything we do. You will have a good sense of humour and plenty of energy to engage students.
You will be committed to supporting students, in all areas, to be as independent as possible.
Kingsweston School is a large and diverse specialist provision in the north-west of Bristol operating from four sites and catering for pupils with ASC and complex and severe learning difficulties.
Our school operates in 3 strands. The SLD strand (severe learning difficulties) and the ASC strand (autism spectrum condition). We also have a small, but significant provision for young people who need a fully bespoke educational package, called The KEEP.
Our SLD strand caters for children and young people aged 3 - 19, many who are in the very early stages of communication. All have a severe learning difficulty, many have an autism spectrum condition alongside their learning need.
You will have excellent professional development opportunities linked to Appraisal and CDP.
Closing Date – 4th December 9.00am
Interview date – 10th December
Kingsweston School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and all appointments will be subject to appropriate vetting, including an enhanced DBS disclosure check
At Kingsweston School we value having a workforce as diverse as the city and surrounding areas we work with. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.
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To Dupe or Not to Dupe?
I know it's been a while since I last updated my blog (one month and a half to be precise) but truth be told, I briefly fell out of love for blogging, Instagram and YouTube in 2017, I stupidly let other less important matters get in the way of my focus, which resulted in a decline of content. Also I never once owned a DSLR camera throughout my blogging journey and was getting increasingly annoyed with relying on photographers to shoot blog posts and always using my iphone 7 to shoot Instagram posts. I may write a separate post about this in more detail in the future. Anyway long story short, I finally decided to invest in a DSLR last week (Canon 800D) and I am absolutely blown away with the results! Definitely my best investment of the year so far! So expect to see more regular content coming up!
No matter how hard you try, you cannot escape from inspired fashion trends off the runway. Everything from handbags, shoes, prints, fabrics and textures are inspired from the latest offerings by the hottest fashion designers. Truth be told I only realised the impact that runway fashion had on high-street fashion when I started blogging. Before then, I was absolutely clueless!
You all know about my obsession with luxury accessories but does that translate into clothing as well? The answer? NO! I neither have the funds or the desire to fill my wardrobe up with designer clothing when the turnover in fashion trends is so high. No matter how in demand a certain trend is, I guarantee you can find a dupe (similar item) on the high-street for a fraction of the price.
I've had a lengthy obsession with Dolce and Gabbana for quite a few years but haven't made the leap to invest in anything yet and if I did, it would definitely be the dreamy Sicily handbag! Since I can't be a #D&Ggirl just yet, I decided to opt for the next best thing, an inspired Dolce and Gabbana print dress from Light in the box. The first dress I'm wearing today is a dupe (a very good dupe if I say so myself) of the blue and yellow majolica print. This dress is a real summer head turner, perfect for any upcoming formal occasions and best of all it retails for under £25!
The second dress is another amazing find from Light in the box, a beautiful Needle and Thread dupe! This sheer blue embroidered maxi dress really does have the wow factor! When I was shooting this dress, I was turning heads left, right and centre! It really is a stunning statement piece, one that would go down very well at a wedding or a formal occasion such as the polo. Once again it's a bargain, retailing for under £35!
So the next time you're drooling over a ridiculously over-priced designer dress/skirt/top etc, think about an affordable alternative. Trust me you won't regret it!
Welcome back to blogging, it will be a good read on a post on that dip you had in your blogging journey, and I am glad you are happy with your investment in a DSLR camera! Love these dresses the prints and bold colours are right up my street!
Welcome back! You look so gorgeous in both of these! I often don't pay designer prices for dresses, but I did just buy my first designer bag second hand and I love it!
Thanks Amy! It feel SOOO good to be blogging again! Don't get me started on designer bags, they'll be the death of me!
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