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The French Alps are primarily served by four airports with low-cost flights (at least in winter), and seasonal bus services to various ski resorts.
Chambéry Savoie Mont Blanc Airport 10km north of Chambéry.
Geneva (Cointrin) Airport In neighbouring Switzerland; has lots of cheap flights across Europe.
Grenoble Isère Airport 45km northwest of Grenoble.
Lyon-St-Exupéry Airport 28km east of Lyon.
Geneva Airport is a convenient way to access the Jura Mountains; the region's much-smaller Dole-Jura Airport only serves a couple of destinations.
During the ski season, buses link airports and railheads with numerous ski resorts. Some services require that you make reservations 24 to 72 hours ahead.
The roads up to many popular ski stations are narrow, steep and serpentine, so in summer (July and August) or ski season (especially during French school holidays) traffic can be hellish – especially at weekends.
After a snowfall, local authorities may require that all cars have either:
Snow chains (chaînes à neige), available from car rental companies for a small charge; you can put them on at an aire de chaînage.
Winter tyres (pneus neige), available on rental cars for an extra fee. (Contact the branch directly to make sure they have winter tyre vehicles available; we've heard reports of online bookings through large operators not being honoured.)
You certainly don't want to find yourself blocked by the police from driving to your prepaid chalet so arrive in the Alps equipped – in the mountains (reasonably priced) chains can be hard or impossible to find, especially in the evening and on weekends.
The Fréjus and Mont Blanc road tunnels connect the French Alps with Italy, as do several routes over the mountains. Passes such as Col de l'Iseran and and Col du Petit-St-Bernard are blocked by snow for all but the summer months. Road signs indicate when they're open, as do official online maps:
Haute Savoie (www.inforoute74.fr)
Hautes-Alpes (www.inforoute05.fr)
Isère (www.itinisere.fr)
Savoie (http://savoie-route.fr)
These sites also have details on road delays or blockages that have nothing to do with the weather. You can also ask local tourist offices for updates on road and weather conditions.
On weekends from mid-December to early April, Eurostar (www.eurostar.com) ski trains (from €87, seven to nine hours) are a quick and environmentally friendly way to travel between London and Moûtiers, gateway to Les Trois Vallées (Méribel, Courchevel and Val Thorens), and Bourg St-Maurice, linked by bus with Val d'Isère. They're popular, so booking very early is essential to get low fares.
Within France, train services to the French Alps are generally excellent. In addition to Moûtiers and Bourg St-Maurice, important railheads include Sallanches, linked to Megève by bus, and Modane, gateway to Parc National de la Vanoise. To get to Chamonix you have to change to the narrow-gauge Mont Blanc Express at St-Gervais-Le-Fayet.
Besançon is the main railhead for the Jura Mountains, reachable on direct trains from Paris-Gare de Lyon and Dijon.


Tuesday, September 11, 2001 will never be forgotten. In tribute to the fallen, the heroes and all of America, Bret wrote the song One More Day in the days after the tragic event. The video below was created on the 10th anniversary.
This past Sunday, Bret performed the national anthem and "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" for the participants of the Nautica Malibu Triathlon. See more about the event here.
Check out the latest stories of thanks and inspiration at TeamBretMichaels.com.


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Cancer, social care and mental health lack long-term strategies, says committee
Emily Perryman 5th November 2019
Health services in Northern Ireland risk deteriorating to the point of collapse without a long-term funding strategy to support transformation, a Westminster committee has warned.
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee said services are struggling to meet the needs of an ageing population with chronic, complex conditions and are lacking adequate financial support or strategic guidance.
It said key services such as cancer, social care and mental health lack comprehensive strategies to guide their future direction and that the Department of Health must do more to demonstrate its commitment to developing long-term strategies for these services.
The committee added that the Department of Health must also take immediate action to tackle acute issues facing the health service including cancer waiting times, shortages in social care staffing and inadequate mental health funding.
Simon Hoare MP, chair of the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee, argued that Northern Ireland's health service is falling behind the rest of the UK.
"An approach to funding that simply keeps things ticking over, and an absence of over-arching strategy in key areas, has left services at breaking point and this situation must end as soon as possible," he said. "Health services need the funding and long-term security necessary to allow them to transform and innovate, to truly address the short and long term pressures they will face."
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What Is Gerrymandering?
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Only Four Candidates Had the Courage to Say "Abortion" at the Debates
The Democratic Party Isn't Helping Me Defeat an Anti-Abortion Congressman
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Ohio House of Representatives Voted in Favor of a "Heartbeat" Abortion Ban
"Anti-abortion ideologues should not attempt to insert politics between a patient and their physician."
TAMPA, FL - AUGUST 29: Protesters stand together during a Planned Parenthood rally as the Republican National Convention continues on August 29, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. The Republican party delegates affirmed Mitt Romney as the party's nominee for president August 28. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Joe Raedle
Ohio's Republican-led legislature is once again attempting to ban abortion after six weeks of pregnancy.
On Thursday, November 15, the state's House of Representatives voted 60-35 in favor of what's often referred to as a "heartbeat bill," Cleveland.com reported. The bill would ban providers from performing abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, which can occur as early as six weeks into a pregnancy — often before a woman even knows she's pregnant. After passing the House, the measure will now move to the (also Republican-controlled) Ohio State Senate, and then to the governor's desk.
This isn't the state's first attempt at such a restrictive ban. In 2016, Ohio's House and Senate passed the same bill. Governor John Kasich (R) vetoed it, reportedly because of its unlikelihood to hold up in court (according to WKYC, courts have struck down similar bans in Iowa, North Dakota, and Arkansas). According to Refinery 29, Kasich has said he will veto the bill again; but the incoming Governor-elect Mike DeWine is supportive of the measure.
"Anti-abortion ideologues should not attempt to insert politics between a patient and their physician," NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio executive director Kellie Copeland said in a statement in response to the Ohio House vote. "What we're seeing is state legislators, John Kasich, and Mike DeWine playing politics with women's lives. This abortion ban would block patients from the care they need and deserve. [...] The decision to have an abortion is not a political decision."
As Refinery 29 noted, it is possible for the legislature to override a gubernatorial veto, at which point the law would certainly be contested in court — a possibility Republican lawmakers are not only prepared, but also hopeful for. State Rep. Ron Hood reportedly said during debate that he hopes Ohio's bill will be used to challenge Roe v. Wade in the U.S. Supreme Court. While thus far, the Supreme Court has upheld the 1973 ruling, pro-choice advocates are concerned that may no longer be the case with the recent addition of conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh to the bench.
"We are gonna see a number of states, if not passing extreme abortion bans, [at least] debating them and seriously considering them in 2019," Elizabeth Nash, senior state issues manager at the Guttmacher Institute, told Refinery 29. "Most of the attention has been focused on the Supreme Court and passing restrictions that are unconstitutional right now, but could provide the court with the opening to undermine or overturn Roe. There are multiple opportunities for the courts to weigh in. It's a very dangerous time, if you support abortion rights."
Want More from Teen Vogue? Check this out: "I Was You": An Activist Remembers What Getting an Abortion Was Like 30 Years Ago
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and enjoying the great rise in temperature.
to, hopefully, catch some trout!
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with some fine trees, survivals from the Malcomson/Morley era.
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An escape room is an adventure game where the players are locked in a room and use the items present in the room to come up with solutions to the given puzzles. People who like playing the video games enjoy the escape rooms most. Escape rooms have more than one participants. A perfect escape room has the following features; attractive d?cor, a time limit, good experience and should follow a story. As a result of many people developing an interest in adventure, the escape rooms have become popular. Baltimore is one of the cities in the United States of America where escape rooms are very common. The following are benefits of escape rooms.
Participating in the Baltimore escape rooms will improve your problem-solving skills. The participants must think critically and come up with the best solutions so as to be set free. The escape rooms also have time limits, therefore, the puzzles are supposed to be solved in time. People who participate in the escape rooms are able to think quickly and accurately. Since all the students are supposed to have critical thinking and problem-solving skills, they should participate in the escape rooms. This website will enable you to choose the best escape room to improve that will improve your problem-solving skills.
Teamwork is another advantage of the escape rooms. Every participant is supposed to cooperate fully in order to solve the puzzles. Escape rooms are suitable for businesses since the employees will develop teamwork in carrying out various business activities. A Baltimore escape room will also promote good relations since participants who initially were strangers will socialize while still finding solutions to the puzzles. Discover more on how the Baltimore escape rooms will improve teamwork in your business.
A company is able to determine the best performance through the escape rooms. By dividing the employees into groups and making them play the escape room games, the company is able to identify the best performing group in solving the puzzles. Companies are also able to identify individual employees who are top performers. The leader of the group that emerges a winner is the best leader in the business. Learn more about how escape rooms can be used in identifying the high performers.
Participating in the escape rooms will motivate you. Ones gets a sense of pride after emerging a winner in the escape room, therefore, promoting morale. An escape room will motivate your workers even in the job environment.
The Baltimore escape rooms promote focus. Participants in the Baltimore escape rooms must concentrate all the attention and energy on the puzzles in order to solve them within the stipulated time as this page shows. The Baltimore escape rooms have no room for time wasters.


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GAS TRUCKS PROVE WORSE FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AT A CRITICAL MOMENT
30/09/2021 /in News & Info/by Walter Pisarnik
Industry claims that gas trucks are better for the climate and air quality have been dismantled by new emissions tests
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) for trucks should be kicked out of the EU's fuel infrastructure targets and attract no subsidies anywhere in the EU. That is the clear conclusion from new research commissioned by T&E, which says only emissions-free trucks like battery electric vehicles should be supported by lawmakers. The research shows that trucks powered by LNG harm the environment far more than manufacturers claim. One of the main reasons is methane emissions.
There are around half a dozen greenhouse gases (GHGs), of which CO2 makes up the majority of atmospheric emissions. As a result, the climate change focus over the past two decades has been mainly on CO2. But a recent report by the IPCC said rapidly reducing methane is crucial to avoiding catastrophic temperature rises. Methane is 84 times more powerful as a GHG than CO2 over a 20-year timeframe, but it lasts much less time in the atmosphere. The potential for reducing global warming by reducing methane emissions is therefore considerable.
This is why T&E is calling for all subsidies for LNG trucks to end, citing the research it commissioned from the Graz University of Technology. It shows high levels of methane from LNG-fuelled trucks. For example, Iveco's LNG S-Way emits 13.4% more greenhouse gases than its Stralis diesel truck over a 20-year timeframe.
Iveco and the gas industry typically claim gas trucks are cleaner in terms of both climate impact and air pollution, but both claims have been dismantled in the new research. As diesel trucks emit about half as much methane as LNG trucks, the climate impact of LNG vehicles is worse than the diesel over the first 20 years but less over 100 years (albeit just 7.5%). In tests carried out for the research, LNG trucks proved far worse for cancer-causing particle emissions in cities and rural driving, emitting 37 times more particles (PN) than those that are currently measured in official tests.
T&E's freight manager Fedor Unterlohner said: "The timing of this research is crucial. We cannot wait 100 years for greenhouse gas reductions, we need them in the next 10 years or it is too late. The short-term impact of methane means gas trucks are a dead-end for cutting emissions and will even exacerbate the climate crisis over the period we need to take deep-rooted action.
Ultimately, gas trucks are just another fossil fuel technology that can never clean up freight. It's time for gas fuelling stations to be dropped from the EU's infrastructure targets under the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure law, and for governments to stop incentivising LNG trucks. States such as Germany and Italy should also end their fleet renewal and purchase incentives for LNG trucks. Only zero-emission trucks like battery electric vehicles should be supported with state subsidies."
(Source: www.transportenvironment.org)
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Predicts improved signal peptide. Signal-3L uses a hierarchical protocol that determines the existence of a signal peptide and then prioritizes potential cleavage sites. The tool uses statistical learning rules to select a final unique site in concertation with its evolution conservation score. The signal peptide obtained in useful to understand secretory proteins.
Signal-3L 2.0: A Hierarchical Mixture Model for Enhancing Protein Signal Peptide Prediction by Incorporating Residue-Domain Cross-Level Features.
Signal-3L: A 3-layer approach for predicting signal peptides.
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Nos. 61671288, 91530321, 61603161), and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 16JC1404300).
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Anyone affected by Burnden Disaster asked to come forward ahead of club's commemorative activities
Bolton Wanderers are appealing for anyone affected by the Burnden Disaster, either directly or in-directly, to get in touch ahead of the club's commemorative activities to mark its 70th anniversary.
Wednesday 9 March will mark exactly 70 years since the disaster at the club's former stadium, Burnden Park, during which 33 supporters lost their lives during Bolton's FA Cup tie with Stoke City.
And throughout the week commencing Monday 7 March the club will be conducting a number of commemorative activities, including a special memorial service, details of which will be announced in due course.
Anyone who was affected or has any memories of the Burnden Disaster in any way is asked to contact the club via the below details.
Email: media@bwfc.co.uk


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The cookbook has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04, but should work on most platforms where Java 6 or 7 work.
A ruby environment with Bundler installed is a prerequisite for using the testing harness shipped with this cookbook. At the time of this writing, it works with Ruby 2.0 and Bundler 1.5.3. All programs involved, with the exception of Vagrant, can be installed by cd'ing into the parent directory of this cookbook and running "bundle install"
The Rakefile currently ships with an integration test task. Integration tests can also be ran with Test Kitchen cloud drivers.
Integration tests can be performed on a local workstation using Virtualbox or VMWare. Detailed instructions for setting this up can be found at the Bento project web site.
This file is used to list changes made in each version of the railo cookbook.


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Iveco delivers LNG-powered long haul truck
Published by Callum O'Reilly, Senior Editor
LNG Industry, Tuesday, 27 September 2016 10:15
Iveco has announced that it has delivered Germany's first LNG-powered long-haul truck to Ludwig Meyer GmbH & Co. KG.
The LNG-powered truck is the first of 20 Stralis NP trucks that Ludwig Meyer GmbH & Co. KG will soon be operating for the purposes of fresh food logistics and distribution in the area surrounding Berlin, Germany. Meyer Logistik is also co-ordinating the construction of a public LNG filling station on the east side of the Berliner Ring orbital motorway.
The Federal Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (BMVI) encouraged the purchase of the LNG truck fleet by donating €360 000, which has enabled the construction of the LNG refuelling station.
Rainer Bomba, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, said: "LNG is a promising alternative to conventional fuel. Funded by the BMVI pilot project with Meyer Logistics, this deal is an important contribution in the field of new and clean drives for heavy trucks and LNG as a fuel source in Germany."
Pierre Lahutte, Iveco Brand President, said: "Our customers in Spain, Italy, the UK and the Netherlands are demonstrating that LNG is an equally reliable and efficient technology that has far less of an environmental impact than other fuels. The Stralis NP not only produces cleaner emissions, but is also extremely quiet. This makes the vehicle suitable for urban use and calms residents' concerns about noise."
Edited from press release by Callum O'Reilly
Read the article online at: https://www.lngindustry.com/small-scale-lng/27092016/iveco-delivers-lng-powered-long-haul-truck-3103/


Banks are finding it a struggle to raise money to provide quick loans for their customers, leading to fears of an additional credit crunch gripping the UK.
The slowdown in the worldwide economy and the eurozone credit crisis has led to British lenders having less access to funds to provide small loans to households and businesses, the Bank of England recently said. The BoE also said that even though the household finance squeeze may be ending, the UK has a 33 per cent chance of falling back into a recession – yet more people than ever are running into finance problems, with the result that they need to turn to instant short term loans to make ends meet more often than not.
The British economy will most likely be broadly flat up to about the middle of 2012, Governor Sir Mervyn King said, as the BoE pared back its inflation and growth forecasts. Dwindling growth is a threat to the Chancellor's plans to cut the record deficit piled up by years of spending and borrowing under the Labour government, and it also puts George Osborne under pressure to produce more comprehensive plans to revitalise economic growth in the end of the month Autumn Statement.
The BoE's most recent inflation report found that lenders in the UK have found it harder and harder to raise capital in the wake of the escalating eurozone debt crisis. One important funding measure – the cost of making sure UK banks were insured against default – underwent a significant rise in both August and September to higher than it was just before Lehman Brothers' crash.
The report issued a warning that if the British banking systems continues to operate under such strains, businesses and households will be hit hard as lenders scale back lending and pass on the higher costs in securing funds to prospective borrowers, which would result in chaos erupting in the UK housing market and strand millions of already capital-starved small businesses with no way to stave off collapse.
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10. Hiring the wrong consultants. Be sure that you don't pay an advertising consultant or agency on a commission basis. Commission agreements mean that the more you spend the more they make. That may lead to ill-advised recommendations. If you need to hire a consultant, be sure to check references. Find someone who is already working with a friend or colleague. Trustworthiness, integrity and intelligence can be hard, but not impossible, to find.
9. Using space advertising that is too small. Don't waste money buying space ads too small to tell your story. Buy adequate space and save money by running it less often.
One exception is: if you have a product with a strong visual, then you can get along with smaller space. For example, a company that sells bow ties via catalog runs a one inch ad in the New Yorker. The ad doesn't say much, can't - no room. But it has a line drawing of a bow tie taking up most of the space with a web address along the bottom. Great ad. One picture gets across the whole idea.
8. Not having a website. I don't care who you are or what you're selling, if you don't have a website you don't appear to be legitimate. Websites originated as sources of information for employees - the company directory, company rules, for example. Today, a website is an invaluable source of information, like a yellow pages listing with benefits.
As a potential customer, if I can't go online at my leisure and check out your business, what you sell, your location your phone number, then I'm not going to buy from you.
You don't have to have a complicated website. Just a simple site with basic information and an email address will do. It's not as expensive as it seems. Do you belong to an association? If so, see if they offer cheap website hosting. I have two websites through the Author's Guild and I only pay $9 per month for each.
7. Not capturing customer data. If you aren't compiling your customers' contact information and setting it up for email and direct mail, you are throwing away a huge opportunity for low-cost or no-cost sales. No matter how small you are, you should be communicating regularly with your customers through email. Remember the old saying, "Out of sight, out of mind."
6. Wrong kinds of communication with your customers. Are you emailing your customers regularly but not including a money-saving offer? If you are, then you may be wasting their time and yours. Never send an email to a customer that doesn't have a special offer. Making it time sensitive will make it more compelling.
5. Not keeping track of the lifetime value of your customers. Getting customers is expensive. You don't know what you can afford to pay for a customer if you don't know how much revenue you can expect each one to generate over his or her lifetime with you. This number, called the "LTV" (lifetime value) should be recalculated over time.
You should know how many times a customer will buy from you and what their average expenditure with your business will be. Then you can establish a realistic budget to spend to bring in a customer and still make a profit.
4. Not branding every message from your company. Branding means selecting a logo, color scheme, type font, tag line, overall look and other features that remain the same no matter what communication goes out from your company. Whether it's a TV commercial, newspaper ad, email communication or just a letter, every communication must uphold the image of your brand. This consistency creates awareness of your company, your products and services.
Company owners who keep changing the look of the company and product advertising and marketing confuse potential customers. Just because you're not a Fortune 500 company doesn't mean you should ignore branding.
Be completely rigid about branding. Insist on using it for every communication. You will make all your efforts work together toward brand recognition and increased sales.
3. Lack of respect for creative talent. Copywriters get discouraged with clients who listen to their well-thought-out, targeted, tightly written copy only to say, "Yes, that's good, but my cousin Bernie says we should say..."
Do you know how frustrating that is? Copywriters stop doing their best when clients ignore their advice and use copy tossed off by every idiot they know. Everyone thinks he can write copy, but it's not true.
Find a top-notch copywriter you trust and stick with his or her copy. Don't tell them how to write; they don't tell you how to run your company. Tell Cousin Bernie to come and make some sales or handle customer service, but that you've got copywriting covered, thank you.
2. Incorrect forecasting. Under buying or overbuying can kill a business. How do you know how much product will sell? There is no magic formula and mistakes do happen-that's why sales were invented. But if you use direct marketing, you should be able to read your results and project sales with reasonable accuracy. In fact, you might be able to use direct marketing results to help forecast retail sales.
For example, if the small black attaché case was a big hit in your catalog, perhaps it belongs in a highly visible spot on your sales floor? While results are not always easily translated from catalogs to retail, often they are. At least it will be an educated guess, made through proven responses and sales.
1. "I don't need advertising. I rely on word-of-mouth." Word-of-mouth is great. It makes unheard-of movies hits; it makes unknown actors stars. But you can't control word-of-mouth. Advertising is the best way to get the word out the way you want it, when you want it, about your company, products and services. Even if you can't afford a big budget, some advertising is better than none. Ignoring advertising may make your climb to success uphill all the way.


BillGuard began in 2010 as a service to alert users to hidden fees charged by their banks and credit card issuers. The company earned $3 million of funding on the strength of that product. Since then, it has expanded (and raised another $10 million) to become a nearly comprehensive fraud monitor and spending tracker. Its iOS and Android apps push warnings to your devices when something's amiss, so you don't have to worry as much about failing to diligently check all of your monthly statements. To date, BillGuard claims it has raised the red flag on over $60 million in suspect transactions for its users.
Planwise began as a general financial decision-making tool, but has pivoted to focus exclusively on real estate decisions and mortgages. The company's management found that the big real estate players, like Zillow and Trulia, were doing a bad job of closing the circle between its existing users, affiliated brokers and mortgage lenders. Planwise saw this as an opening and has now gotten its foot in the door by offering its listing platform for free. It's been adopted by brokers across the country, giving the startup a foundation it can use to take on the big dogs.
If money talks, then it says that OnDeck has hit upon a special idea. Investors have poured money into the startup, an alternative small business lender. The company has raised $180 million in equity financing and $300 million in debt. The idea is simple: OnDeck provides small business owners an alternative to banks for loans. Businesses have flocked to OnDeck because it uses a proprietary method to evaluate creditworthiness that works better than the personal credit check that banks rely on. OnDeck is also faster—loans can be processed within a day. Banks sometimes take weeks to make a decision.
Wealthfront is one of the biggest players in the growing automated financial advisory space. Founded in 2011, it now has $1 billion under the management of its proprietary algorithms. Wealthfront's CEO, Adam Nash—formerly of Greylock Partners, LinkedIn and eBay—argues that the company's growth comes from millennial investors who are accustomed to services being delivered by software and who don't buy into the idea that star managers can outperform the market. Wealthfront has competition from the likes of Personal Capital, Betterment and, as of recently, a Charles Schwab product called Intelligent Portfolios. But the company has deep coffers and momentum. Wealthfront has raised $130 million, including a $64 million round closed in October.
Another startup trying to take business from the traditional players, The Currency Cloud is gaining market share in international payments, a space that is 85%-controlled by banks. Based in London and focused on Europe, the company has been very attractive to startups because it is small, able to add new features quickly and adapt to new platforms, things that banks are notoriously bad at. The company is approaching half a billion dollars of payments a month and just got an injection of $10 million of funding to expand in the US.
The latest in a string of successes for Stripe was the announcement in September that it would become a partner of Apple Pay. Stripe is already supporting mobile and e-commerce payments for Twitter, Alibaba and a long list of startups who like the fact that its code is readily available and easy to manipulate. With a valuation of $1.75 billion, Stripe, founded in 2009 by college kids, is the real deal.
One of the youngest companies on this list, Epiphyte, founded last year, provides software and consulting to enable banks to legally deal with Bitcoin and crypto-currency platforms. As Bitcoins are increasingly regarded as an asset class, these services have been badly needed by financial institutions. Epiphyte is off to a promising start, having been selected to participate in Startupbootcamp's 2014 Fintech accelerator in London.
Credit cards are unavailable to or underused by huge parts of the emerging middle class in Brazil, China, and many other countries. AstroPay, the largest cross-border payment services provider in Latin America and a new player in China, provides a fraud-reducing payment card solution that enables merchants to more safely accept payments from individuals in high-fraud areas. The company recently completed a successful program that could enables millions in China who hitherto lack access to credit cards the ability to purchase international goods, including from the US – potentially causing an interesting reverse flow of trade.
Founded in 2006 as Plastyc, Banking Up (its name since last year), is focused on providing basic financial services to the working poor and "underbanked." At its core, the product is a prepaid debit card, but the other services it offers—like one free electronically generated check a month and mobile account access—means it can plug the gap for people that don't have access to standard banking. Recently, the startup has branched out, using its platform to enable business and financial institutions to offer customers branded accounts.
One of the most disruptive startups in any field in recent years, Square did what every Fintech company aims to: provide a simple, tech-driven solution to a widespread problem. In this case, it was the expense and hassle of processing credit card payments at points of sale ranging from food trucks to big box stores. Square sends a mobile-compatible credit card reader to anyone for free. Then all that's needed is an app and an account to start accepting payments. The transaction fees are a bit higher than market rate, but the flexibility and lack of barriers to entry led to rapid adoption. After a $100 million round in September, Square is now valued at $6 billion.
Paying hundreds or thousands of payees every week – as online ad networks, affiliate networks and marketplaces do – can be a backend nightmare. Tipalti, an international payments platform that recently raised $13 million in funding, has created SaaS technology that automates and simplifies the mass payment process, allowing payers to seamlessly transfer money to payees practically anywhere in the world and be in compliance with banking, tax, anti-terrorist and other regulations. To date, the company has processed more than $1 billion in payments with over 100 clients, including the likes of Tapjoy, Disqus, and Chartboost.
Flint is in the same game as Square. The startup, launched in 2012, offers retailers a mobile payments processing system, freeing them from desktop point-of-sale systems and the associated setup fees. The difference is that Flint tries to make the process even easier: no hardware is involved. The app simply uses a device's camera to scan credit and debit cards. Flint is still a minnow compared to Square but the company's app has been downloaded more than 150,000 times in a little over two years. Last year, the company raised $6 million in its latest round.
Formerly known as Pageonce, Check changed its name in 2013 to focus on mobile bill payments. (At its founding in 2007, the company had intended to aggregate all of a user's financial information on a single page.) Today the Check app is designed to consolidate users' bills in one app that can manage payments and make sure that unpaid balances don't fall through the cracks and start incurring late fees. The company had attracted almost $50 million in investment and 10 million users through 2013. In May 2014, it was acquired by Intuit.
The pain of many small businesses is waiting for payments. For some, minimizing receivables can be the difference between staying afloat for another month or not. Zipmark offers a solution by moving check payments online and processing them overnight. The company vets merchants and customers and then enables payments by "digital check": the customer clicks a button and the money moves directly from his account to that of the merchant. Recently, bigger businesses, including real estate companies that collect monthly rent, have also adopted Zipmark's platform.
With the backing of Y Combinator and $15 million raised early this year, WePay aims to dominate one very specific Fintech segment: online payments for platforms. The company's first product was designed to make it easier for groups to pool money and make a single payment. Today the company has put all its resources behind its payments API, which does something similar on a larger scale: it enables platforms, such as crowdfunding sites, to collect payments from a large number of customers and disburse them to a smaller number of merchants. The pivot seems to have worked. The company said that in 2013, revenue from the API (which launched in 2012) grew 600% and had been adopted by 300 platforms.


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States Enrolling Newly-Eligible Inmates in Medicaid
New state laws are attempting to immediately enroll the incarcerated—the majority of whom have health conditions—in Medicaid upon reentry.
By Caitlin Owens and National Journal
Prisoners reach through the bars in the F Cellhouse at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., where they are housed in old-fashioned cells with metal bars, Friday, Jan. 18, 2008. Sometimes they use small mirrors to get a glimpse of their neighbors and the correctional officers. (AP Photo) (National Journal)
Thanks to Obamacare, there's a growing population enrolling in Medicaid upon their first opportunity: prisoners.
Under the Affordable Care Act, a large proportion of incarcerated adults have become eligible for Medicaid in states that have expanded their Medicaid program. They can't receive Medicaid benefits while behind bars, but many states are now working to ensure they are enrolled immediately upon reentering society.
Doing that, the thinking goes, will help prevent costly emergency health care and, potentially, decrease recidivism rates.
New Mexico has a new law that creates a formal Medicaid enrollment process for jail and prison inmates, signed into action by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez earlier this month.
"This is going to be a way to reduce the jail population. The revolving door has been slowed considerably by this," said Democratic state Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, the sponsor of the New Mexico law.
Illinois has a similar bill, sponsored by Democratic state Rep. Camille Lilly, currently making its way through the legislature.
Whereas Medicaid used to cover primarily the disabled, pregnant women, and children, adults with an income up to 138 percent of the federal poverty line—about $16,245 for an individual in 2015—are now eligible in states that have accepted the expansion. Newly-eligible adults include many of those in the criminal justice system, who can begin receiving coverage upon release from incarceration.
States are increasingly thinking about how to connect incarcerated people with Medicaid coverage immediately upon their release, said Aaron Larrimore, policy director with the National Association of Medicaid Directors.
"You just want to maintain continuity of care whenever you can," Larrimore said. "Otherwise, if someone has a gap in any type of medication or services that they regularly get, they could quickly end up in a situation where they could need emergency services."
Although states are all taking approaches unique to their particular needs, Larrimore said, common policies require a determination of Medicaid eligibility close to the time of reentry and attempt to make the transition into the health care delivery system seamless.
"Before, they're seeing a doctor that's in the jail or in the prison, or they're seeing a pharmacy that's in the jail or in the prison," he said. "It's about making sure they have access to care once they leave the system, in addition to having the eligibility for it."
States that have expanded Medicaid aren't the only ones passing laws to enroll incarcerated adults in Medicaid upon reentry. North Carolina, which hasn't expanded, passed a law in 2010 requiring multiple state agencies to come together to link the Medicaid eligibility system to prison inmate records.
Larrimore said that some states are also increasingly choosing to suspend Medicaid rather than terminate it when an enrollee is incarcerated, which makes the reenrollment process easier upon release.
In Illinois, an estimated 95 percent of those released from the state Department of Corrections are eligible for Medicaid—the "great majority" of whom were not previously eligible, according to a 2014 report by former Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn.
Nationally, more than half of the 730,000 federal and state prisoners who reenter the community each year will be newly eligible for Medicaid or federal subsidies as a result of Obamacare, according to a 2013 Council of State Governments report, and according to the Illinois report, 35 percent of those in the state who are newly eligible for Medicaid only will have a history of criminal justice involvement.
Adults in the criminal justice system are more likely than the general population to have significant physical and behavioral health conditions; among prisoners returning to the community, 80 percent of men and 90 percent of women have a chronic health condition. But they also often do not have health insurance or an income allowing them to afford health care.
That means they are more likely to use emergency rooms, detox centers, crisis centers, and psychiatric hospitals—making their care expensive and inefficient, according to the Illinois report.
Medicaid coverage will be especially beneficial to the mentally ill in the criminal justice system, said Mark Heyrman, a law professor at the University of Chicago. "Of the people in the criminal justice system who have a serious mental illness, a lot of them we could keep them out of the criminal justice system if we would give them mental health services," he said.
Heyrman added that securing federal Medicaid funding and reducing the number of people in the criminal justice system provide a double incentive to pass the bill in Illinois.
Larrimore said it took a couple of years for states to begin recognizing the potential benefits of the Affordable Care Act for health care upon reentry. In Ohio, the state Department of Medicaid and the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction began collaborating in early 2013 to identify Medicaid-eligible inmates and expedite their enrollment into Medicaid managed-care plans.
"A lot of states were trying to focus on the really huge pieces, so it kind of took a little while for some of this stuff to make its real presence known," Larrimore said.


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text:
package main

import (
	"database/sql"
	"fetch/adn"
	"fmt"
	_ "github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3"
	"log"
	"os"
)

var file = "data/blog.db"

func check_error_status(err error, args ...string) {
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatal(err)
	}
	if len(args) > 0 {
		log.Printf("%q: %s\n", err, args)
	}
}

func ToFromSqlite(r adn.Response, file string) ([]string, error) {

	os.Remove(file)
	db, err := sql.Open("sqlite3", file)
	check_error_status(err)
	defer db.Close()

	sqlStmt := `
	create table posts (id integer not null primary key, user text, post text);
	delete from posts;
	`
	_, err = db.Exec(sqlStmt)
	check_error_status(err, sqlStmt)

	tx, err := db.Begin()
	check_error_status(err)

	stmt, err := tx.Prepare("insert into posts(id, user, post) values(?, ?, ?)")
	check_error_status(err)
	defer stmt.Close()

	for it, p := range r.Data {
		_, err = stmt.Exec(it, p.User.UserName, p.Text)
		check_error_status(err)
	}
	tx.Commit()

	rows, err := db.Query("select id, user, post from posts")
	check_error_status(err)
	defer rows.Close()
	var values []string
	var items = 0
	for rows.Next() {
		var id int
		var user string
		var post string
		rows.Scan(&id, &user, &post)
		fmt.Println(id, user, post)
		values = append(values, "@"+user+": "+post)
		items++
	}
	rows.Close()
	fmt.Printf("%d items retrieved\n", items)

	return values, err
}

func main() {

	rchan := make(chan adn.Response)

	go func() {
		r, err := adn.GetGlobal()
		check_error_status(err)
		rchan <- r
	}()

	go func() {
		r := <-rchan
		results, err := ToFromSqlite(r, file)
		check_error_status(err)

		for _, v := range results {
			fmt.Printf("%s\n", v)
		}
	}()

	fmt.Printf("Press any key to continue...")
	var input string
	fmt.Scanln(&input)
}


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Richmond's Eviction Diversion Program announces first quarter progress
Mayor Stoney's new partnership has prevented 76 evictions and is on pace to meet its annual goal
In its first three months, the City of Richmond's Eviction Diversion Program has diverted 76 evictions and is on track to meet its goal to divert 300-500 evictions in its first year.
The program, which launched last October, provides Richmond tenants with pro bono legal assistance, financial counseling and literacy services and referrals to supportive services while ensuring landlords receive past-due rent payments.
As of January, the program is over one third of the way towards its goal of providing 300 tenants with financial literacy and money management education.
Studies show that housing instability can impact school outcomes, employment and mental health. Evictions particularly affect families with children, who are evicted at twice the rate of families without children. Single parent, female-led homes and communities of color are disproportionately impacted.
The Richmond Eviction Diversion Program provides a holistic solution to the city's eviction challenges, having established goals to not only reduce the displacement of low-income individuals and families but also to address the social inequity, chronic school absenteeism and lingering financial burden that accompany an eviction.
"We still have a long way to go in ensuring everyone has access to quality, stable housing, but the Eviction Diversion Program has already allowed 76 families and individuals to stay in their homes," said Mayor Stoney. "That's a huge step in the right direction."
The city's Eviction Diversion Program partners include:
City of Richmond Circuit Court Judges
City of Richmond General District Court Judges and Clerks
Firms in Service
Greater Richmond Bar Foundation
Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia
McGuire Woods
Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia
Office of Mayor Levar Stoney
Office of the City's Chief Administrative Officer
Richmond City Council
Richmonders Involved to Strengthen Our Communities
Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development
Virginia Housing Commission
Virginia Legislative Black Caucus
For background information on the Eviction Diversion Program, click here.
For more information on the Eviction Diversion Program, contact Osita Iroegbu, Mayor's Senior Policy Advisor, at Osita.Iroegbu@richmondgov.com.
El Programa de Alternativas al Desalojo de Richmon...
Richmond's Eviction Diversion Program announces fi...


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The Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Bạc Liêu will step up investment in shrimp farming and broodstock using advanced techniques to improve yield and quality and sustainably exploit its natural fisheries resources.
VinaCapital open-ended funds report outstanding returns in 2021 Open-ended funds from VinaCapital Fund Management Joint Stock Company achieved among the highest returns in their respective categories last year.
Ministry works to ensure warm Tết for social policy beneficiaries The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has devised specific solutions to ensure a warm Tết (Lunar New Year) festival for social policy beneficiaries, and support those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
YSL Group cooperates with Savills Vietnam to develop Nam Bình Xuyên IP YSL Group, the South Korean investor of the Nam Bình Xuyên Green Park, will cooperate with Savills Vietnam to develop this industrial park.
Project gains significant results in improving access to innovative breast cancer therapies A project on improving access to innovative therapies for high-risk breast cancer patients has gained remarkable results in Việt Nam despite the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year, participants heard at a conference in Hà Nội on Friday.
The Launch of MoroccoTech seeks to establish Morocco as one of the Best Digital hub in Africa The Launch of MoroccoTech seeks to establish Morocco as one of the Best Digital hub in Africa
Foreign Minister receives Special Envoy of UN Secretary General on Myanmar Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn had talks with Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General on Myanmar Noeleen Heyzer late Friday.
Time to make bold decisions for businesses
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyễn Minh Vũ spoke at the opening ceremony of the 14th Annual Việt Nam Economic Scenario Forum 2022 on Friday.
Viettel Military Industry and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) has cooperated with the Architecture Magazine of the Vietnam Association of Architects to organise a design contest for the Viettel Thăng Long building.
Textile firms urged to go green to attract more credit While textiles is one of the key industries in Việt Nam with high export revenue, it is also among industries that pose a high environmental and social risk, according to Nguyễn Quốc Hùng, general secretary of Việt Nam Bankers Association.


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author: slowe
comments: true
date: 2008-10-28 23:03:29+00:00
layout: post
slug: hyperspaces
title: Hyperspaces
wordpress_id: 1004
categories: Review
tags:
- Macintosh
---

I have long had a "love/hate" relationship with virtual desktops on Mac OS X. In late 2005, I discovered Desktop Manager, a then-great application to provide virtual desktops. In early 2006, I switched to Virtue (later to become VirtueDesktops) and continued to use that up until I purchased my MacBook Pro in late 2006. At that time, VirtueDesktops was having a bit of a challenge making the transition to a Universal binary, so I settled for using Exposé instead of virtual desktops.

VirtueDesktops ceased development due to the introduction of Spaces in Leopard, but the developer---Tony Arnold---later unveiled that he would create an application to enhance Leopard's Spaces. That application, [Hyperspaces](http://hyperspacesapp.com/), is now available as a public preview.

I had high hopes for Hyperspaces, having worked extensively with VirtueDesktops. I was disappointed. I suppose I shouldn't have expected so much, given that this is a preview of the 1.0 release. I had been hoping for a bezel pop-up similar to Quicksilver and VirtueDesktops, but instead we have a menu item and an attached pager. There's no moving windows between desktops without reverting to the standard Spaces interface, and none of the very cool special effects that graced VirtueDesktops---like the cube effect---are present.

I strongly imagine that Tony will greatly enhance and expand the functionality of Hyperspaces over time. Until then, I'll stick to Exposé.


Work-life Balance does not exist and aiming for it sets you up for feelings of anxiety and failure. There, I said what you have been thinking all along. I would like, instead, to propose a different paradigm: Work-life allocation.
Allocation is not a fleeting instant that you struggle to hold onto or recapture. No, allocation is deliberate and done with forethought and planning. Allocation puts you firmly in control of how you choose to spend your time. You can go through a process and decide what your top priorities are, and how you will spend your valuable time. Your allocations will change over time depending on your priorities.
And balance? Balance is transient. Balance takes place between here and there. Actual balance can be measured in seconds – sometimes minutes – but never over the longer term.
Balance also might imply that you should be giving equal weight to everything, which is often impossible.
Consider this example: When you are launching a product, friends and even family may take a backseat temporarily – and that is OK. You made a conscious choice to allocate more time to certain priorities for a specific timeframe. You allocated your time appropriately, given what was going on in your business and your life.
After your product is launched, taking care of yourself and recharging may become your top priority. At that point, some other aspects of your life may have to wait. How you choose to allocate your time is much different now.
I like the concept of allocation because it is fluid and will change over time, will be different for everyone, and puts you firmly in control. I think all of us would like to feel that we have some control over our lives because much of what happens is out of our control, and we need to be OK with that too.
So what do you think? Does this concept feel better to you? I would love you hear your thoughts in the comments below.
Getting lots of comments on Facebook. What do you think? Does Work-Life Allocation feel better than Balance to you?
Good thoughts here. This is a probably a better way to think about time management too.
Thank you, Miguel. I am glad to hear this concept works for you. And you are right that it is a great technique for time management as well. The two definitely go hand in hand. Allocating self time is CRITICAL for everyone, but especially entrepreneurs.
Thank you for your thoughts, Tommy! I appreciate your insights.
Hi Catherine, I came here after seeing your post on USA Today (Plus the blog post title caught my eye). You made a lot of valid points in your post, namely setting realistic expectations. The results from this work-life balance survey: http://bit.ly/1awvKy8 show that most small business owners aren't experiencing all of the perks of being their own boss. But with a few tweaks in approach and (as you mention) allocation, things can get better for the entrepreneurs and their families.
Thank you, Jason. I think that being your own boss is a lot of work. Sometimes I daydream about how awesome it would be just to have to implement someone else's plan. When you own your own business, especially as a solopreneur, you wear so many hats – and many of them aren't that glamorous… But I agree that with some tweaks, there can be a lot of perks.


August 22, 2014 - The 2014 International Society of Automation (ISA) Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium drew more than 170 attendees, 30 expert speakers and 27 exhibitors to Orlando, Florida, USA in early August to explore and confront the varied challenges associated with automation and instrumentation in the municipal water and wastewater sectors.
The three-day, highly targeted event—focusing entirely on the needs of automation professionals—included an extensive program of technical presentations; an interactive panel discussion; poster presentations; a tour of a local wastewater treatment plant; a vendor exposition; and two sold-out training classes—one on industrial cybersecurity and the other on troubleshooting instrumentation and control systems.
The 2014 ISA WWAC Symposium was organized by the ISA Water/Wastewater Industries Division in collaboration with the Florida Section of the American Water Works Association (FSAWWA), the Florida Water Environment Association (FWEA), the Water Environment Federation (WEF) Automation and Info Tech Committee and the Instrumentation Testing Association. In addition, 15 corporate sponsors supported the event.
A strong emphasis was placed on identifying opportunities and challenges faced by clean water agencies and pinpointing forward-looking solutions, some of which are being implemented today.
Don Lovell, of ISA, who discussed the importance of troubleshooting in daily plant operations.
Michael Sweeney, deputy executive director of the Toho Water Authority and long-time member of the American Water Works Association, who reviewed the current news and trends in the municipal drinking water sector.
Tom DeLaura, vice president of Eramosa International and chair of the Water Environment Federation's Automation and Info Tech Committee, who highlighted the current news and trends in the wastewater sector.
Bryan Singer, principal investigator for Kenexis Security, who outlined the most effective ways to conduct industrial security vulnerability assessments, and separated out what cyberattackers can and can't do.
Given the increasing risks posed by cyberhackers, cybersecurity was a hot topic. In his presentation, Singer helped attendees better understand the real threats posed by cyberattack and showed how owners and operators of critical infrastructure can better defend and protect industrial control systems (ICS). He pinpointed the most common techniques hackers use to exploit vulnerabilities and gain system and network access.
Utilizing modern ICS cybersecurity standards and engineering skills, Singer emphasized, can contain and limit the risk of significant network and system damage as a result of cyberwarfare.
In addition, a forum session on the Role of Automation within the Utility of the Future was held. Moderated by Tom DeLaura, the session examined how the evolving operating challenges of utilities will influence the need for automation. Panel members discussed that water utilities, for instance, are increasingly regarded as producers of a highly valued commodity, and that they will require significant operational improvements in order to be cost efficient.
Forum session panel members included: Tom Sigmund, P.E., Chair, NACWA Utility and Resource Management Committee & Executive Director, NEW Water; Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, Ph.D., Dean, University of South Florida, Patel College of Global Sustainability; Barry Liner, P.E., Director, Water Science & Engineering Center at WEF; Zdenko Vitasovic, Ph.D., Senior Engineer, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; and Mike Sweeney, Ph.D., P.E., Florida Section of the AWWA & Deputy Executive-Director, Toho Water Authority.
Adding to the value of the symposium were the two training courses, the networking and professional development opportunities, and the continuing education credits (CEUs and PDHs). The credits, provided by ISA and the Florida Section of the AWWA, can be used toward continuing education requirements for various state-issued water operator, wastewater operator and engineering licenses.
"It's great to know that the symposium is getting better and better and larger and larger," emphasized attendee Charles Aycock of the city of Roseville, California, USA.
Presented by the ISA Water and Wastewater Industries Division, the ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls (WWAC) Symposium helps professionals in the water and wastewater industries understand how instrumentation, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) and automatic control applications are vital to the treatment and distribution of water, the collection and treatment of wastewater, and the management of storm water.


This ice cream has a mouthful of a name. I didn't want to leave out any part of the name because each component has its own vital role. It is chock full of many yummy treats.
One day when I have more room to store kitchen gadgets, I would like to own an ice cream maker. Until then, no-churn ice cream is an amazing substitute. I have made a few no-churn ice cream recipes in the past, and I have always been impressed with the results.
All the no-churn recipes I have seen require sweetened condensed milk. I'm not sure, but I think the sweetened condensed milk keeps the ice cream smooth and ice free.
Sweetened condensed milk comes from cow's milk. To make sweetened condensed milk, water is removed and sugar is added. If it is canned properly, it can last for years. In the 13th century, Marco Polo wrote that the Tartars condensed milk. It's got a long history!
The chocolate no-churn ice cream recipe came from the Food Network. The egg-less chocolate chip cookie dough came from another food blog site called Center Cut Cook.
The ingredients for the edible chocolate chip cookie dough are 1/2 cup softened butter, 3/4 cup packed brown sugar, 2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 cup all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons milk, and 1 cup mini chocolate chips. The other ingredients are 1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk, 1/2 cup cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, pinch of salt, 2 cups heavy cream, 7 ounces marshmallow creme, and 1 cup mini peanut butter cups.
For the cookie dough, I creamed the sugar and butter together.
I mixed in the vanilla extract.
I stirred in the salt and flour.
I mixed in the milk and then the mini chocolate chips. I set this aside in the fridge until the ice cream base was finished.
For the ice cream base, I mixed the sweetened condensed milk, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and salt together.
I whipped the cold cream for a few minutes. Stiff peaks formed after a few minutes.
I folded in a cup of the whipped cream into the sweetened condensed mixture.
I then gently folded in the lightened sweetened condensed mixture into the remaining whipped cream.
I added gobs of the cookie dough. I added all of the cookies dough. It was pretty decadent.
I added the marshmallow cream and the mini peanut butter cups.
I gently folded the ice cream together. I wanted the cookie dough, marshmallow fluffy, and peanut butter cups to be evenly incorporated throughout the ice cream.
I put the ice cream into freezer safe tupperware. I placed my ice cream in the freezer for over 24 hours, but the recipe says three hours is sufficient time.
This ice cream was decadent and rich.
It was chock full of sweet treats.
The peanut butter cups, marshmallows, cookie dough were not hard from being frozen. The marshmallow cream was pillowy and soft.
The cookie dough was smooth and buttery. The peanut butter cups were sweet and rich. The chocolate ice cream was fantastic too. It was creamy and rich.
I have made a few ice cream recipes on my site, but I think this one is my favorite. It was very decadent and a little overboard. I give it two thumbs up!


Bardiya National Park, Bardiya, Nepal. 170m. 2 May, 2013. Photo: Ashish Shrestha.
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Let's talk feathers. Light as a feather, feather in your cap, feathered pillows, feathered hair. I've been collecting bird feathers since 1984. I find them on long walks through the woods; I find them in the sidewalk cracks along city roads.
Feathers have been used in every culture since the beginning of time. In South American headdresses, feathers are a status-symbol, worn on ceremonial or ritual occasions. The head is to be protected and respected. It's where the Soul or Spirit resides.
The Fool archetype in the Waite-Smith Tarot deck sports a red feather. In many Native American cultures, feathers are sacred, a universal symbol of Spirit and flight. And feathers adorned headdresses, Talking Sticks, and pipes.
Quetzalcoatl, the god of human sustenance, penitent, self-sacrifice, and re-birth was portrayed as a snake covered with the iridescent-green feathers of the quetzal bird. These feathers also made up the insignias of Mexican kings. In some depictions, he wore a headdress made of black crow and red macaw feathers, a reference to the Night or Dead Sun. Each feather in the headdress signified an act of bravery.
In Wiccan culture, different colored feathers represent different magical qualities. Green feathers symbolize money, prosperity, and growth. Red are for vitality and courage. The eye on the end of the peacock tail feather stimulates clairvoyant vision. The rooster's two prominent tail feathers (called sickles) are symbols of the God and Goddess.
It was pharaoh's job to uphold Maat. When a pharaoh died, Maat was lost and the world was flung into chaos. Only the coronation of a new pharaoh could restore Maat.
The Egyptians believed Ieb, the heart, was the center of all consciousness, even the center of life itself. When someone died it was said that their "heart has departed." It was the only organ that was not removed from the body during mummification. In the Book of the Dead, it was the heart that was weighed against the Feather of Maat to see if an individual was worthy of joining Osiris in the afterlife.
Many writers tells stories of feathers. In the children's book Dream Feather by Viento Stan-Padilla, a little Indian boy hears a song drifting down from the sun. Ancient stone etchings on cave walls foretold that a feather would be his guide. If he followed it, he would return to the Source. And if you have read Mary Oliver's book Owls and Other Fantasies: poems and essays, you have seen the delicate and detailed photographs of feathers taken by Molly Malone Cook.
What do feathers mean to you? Do you pick them up when you see them, recognize the polka dots of a Flicker feather, brush them away when they fly out of an old down comforter? Have you ever been in love and felt light as a feather?
Did your grandmother wear hats with feathers? Do you insist on sleeping on a feather pillow. Have you ever studied a feather's design while holding it up to the sun, seen an ostrich feather in your family coat of arms, stuck a feather in your cap and called it macaroni?
The last time I saw a feather….
If you get stuck, remember what a feather looks like floating on the wind. Go to one of the many feather links in this Topic post to jog your imagination. Or make a point to notice the cardinal at the afternoon feeder, pecking at a black oil seed. And the way her tufts blow in the winter wind.
Shield Of Courage, art by QuoinMonkey, all photographs Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2007, photos © 2008 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Courage shield was created out of handmade paper, bent red willow, feathers, bone, brass, wood. I was told the skull was cormorant by the person who gave it to me. Feathers are Canadian Geese and Wild Turkey. The art was created in the early 1990's for a papermaking class. The paper was made by hand out of the brown bladelike leaves left on Minnesota Day Lilies in the Fall.
I always pick up found feathers..I once read that is a gift.
Thank you for your sharing your gifts with us!
gypsy-heart, I'm so glad you leave your notes for us! Found feathers are a huge gift. I've got quite a few rare ones. When I first started collecting them, they started appearing everywhere along my walking path. And people would find them and give them to me.
When I was really into it, a friend of mine's dad went on a trip to Africa and while he was there, he collected the feathers that he saw for me. I couldn't believe how many there were, and some rare bird feathers, too.
He said once he started opening his mind to looking for them, they just started appearing everywhere. I think that was true for me, too. It's so easy to walk along and not notice the little things in nature that are presenting themselves to us as gifts.
A person on red Ravine recently commented on having seen a hawk devouring a jay (like in the Galway Kinnell poem I did a post on last year). The feathers were flying. And I often see places along trails full of feathers from foxes, owls, hawks, and other raptors killing their prey. Anyone who has never felt the down of an owl feather is sure missing out on something amazing!
LB, wow, a necktie out of feathers. Now that's something I haven't seen before. I was very inspired by the links in this post, all the ways different cultures use feathers. And these were only the tip of the iceberg. For many, feathers are sacred territory.
What's great about found objects in nature, like rocks, feathers, and bones, is that they can be so inspiring for a person's art and writing. When I find these little gifts, I bring them home and keep them by my writing spot or my computer for a while. To see what they have to teach me.
I only did one of the three writing practices suggested in the post. I plan to do the others.
I also didn't click on any of the many context links provided, which I think will be helpful in getting juices flowing. Quetzalcoatl is especially intriguing to me — I studied this mythology when I was a student of Latin American Studies.
QM, is your Shield of Courage hanging in your home? It has held up well given its age and the fact that it's so hard to keep sculptural art well-preserved.
Hey ybonesy, weren't you going to scan some of your feathers and post them? If you are able to do that, I'd love to see how the scanner treats the details of them. I've photographed feathers sometimes. It's difficult to capture their true essence without the right light.
Yes, I plan to write more about feathers in the future. Or maybe do some postings of images of them. It would be cool to read a post on Quetzalcoatl. I am curious about your interpretation of the mythology after your Latin American Studies classes.
The Shield of Courage was something I created early in my art school years. I knew very little about art history or the Fine Arts when I started school that year. I came from a Media Arts background and knew a little about Fine Art Photography. But had a lot to learn about the rest of the Visual Arts.
There were so many art students who seemed way ahead of me when I first went to art school. I was just learning to draw and just beginning to study art history. I created the shield and they added to it to give me strength and courage. It was a cool thing. We all kind of supported each other in that way. Community.
I photographed the turkey feathers that were out front stuck in the TURKEYS FOR SALE sign, but I didn't scan them. Scanning would be pretty cool. I'll have to give that try. I wish I had some other feathers to scan, but for now the only ones we have in abundance are turkey.
I don't save feathers. They seems so light and meant to let go, so even the girls' peacock feathers, which we put into vases around the house for a few weeks or months eventually get let loose outside. Maybe it's my upbringing — that notion that objects found in nature should stay outside in nature. Maybe I'm just making up the excuse that feathers look like they want to fly in the wind outside 8) .
I have to say, Jim and the girls will bring indoors rocks, pieces of metal, feathers, wood, old cactus spines — just about anything. We were always in battles where I insisted all the natural items stay outside, and we finally settled on creating rock gardens here and there around the yard. To me, all that nature indoors, on tables or windowsills, feels like clutter.
Yes, it sure can create a lot of clutter. I think that's why I keep most of it in boxes right now. I'm trying to decide what to do with it. I got rid of a lot when I moved. But what do you do with the spiritual gifts that people have given you or you've collected over time.
I've got fetishes from New Mexico that I'd like to put out. Those I won't be letting go of. And a few of the rare feathers I will keep. But some of the other – I need to go through it all.
There is something to be said for keeping nature outside where it comes from. I sure don't think you are alone in that. Hey, I like your idea of letting the feathers go back to the wind. Maybe when I let go of some of my feathers, I'll do that over a cliff or out over the rivers here. I like thinking about all those feathers floating back into the sky.
If I were to keep found objects, I'd probably organize them in a shadow box. I love to see multiples of one type of object. You can actually get found objects framed at certain places in that way, although it's probably pretty pricey and you can do it yourself, I'd think.
If you use them in art, keeping them in bins in your studio would be a great option.
Our rock gardens are fun to create. We place really cool rocks, shells, wood in it. Pretty glass.
I've bought fetishes for the girls over the years, and when I used to travel to places like South Africa or China or India, I always tried to bring back something carved from stone or wood from there. Even displaying those is a challenge. They get knocked over and break easily. If you find a great way to display your fetishes, let me know.
A shadow box is a good idea. I think you're right about displaying found objects – a plan is needed in order to have it not look like clutter.
The rock garden is the way my two friends are going in their yard, too (they are the ones with the yard by the pond in the circle haiku post). One of them is a mad rock collector. So they finally created a rock garden outside and now they put their faves there.
On the fetishes, I'll keep you posted. I have a friend who displays hers on a high window sill in her entry way. Fetishes can be shy and sometimes like to be a little out of sight. The rest of her things she has arranged in a built-in buffet. They are common in the older homes here.


I am attempting to create an ArcGIS Server geoprocessing service that exports a map. The service runs a python script that uses the arcpy.mapping module to modify map extent, visible layers, layout elements, etc. of an existing mxd, then export the map. I have run into a problem, though, if the mxd has one of the ESRI hosted basemaps and I run the script through the service. If I run the script locally on the server, it works fine. If I run the script through the service, the code hangs when I call ListDataFrames.
esriJobMessageTypeError: Execution of job je327da53fea846d184109dd21edd85d4 failed because of crash or termination of the server object.
What more is curious is that in a separate log where I have timestamps, the code will get to the ListDataFrames function quickly and sit there for the 5 minute service timeout. Then in a fraction of a second, the rest of the script will be logged and the map will be generated. This could be related to the logger, but the create timestamp of the exported file coincides with the timestamp in the log for when it says it exports.
I'd love to see the code!
Here is the code in full.
Did you ever figure this out? I have something very similar happing with an arcpy.mapping script. Works on the server but will not run through the service. Same error message as well.
I'm having a similar problem with the ESRI basemaps. If I run the export locally, it works, but through the service ("Submit Job")...it exports a map, but the ESRI basemaps (i.e. "World_Street_Map") will not display. Anyone have suggestions?


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Reebok athletic shoes on display in 2019. The sportswear industry has become more competitive since Adidas acquired the brand. Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Chromat
Sportswear company Adidas said Monday it's considering a sale of the Reebok brand it acquired for about 3 billion euros some 15 years ago.
Corey Kupfer, a mergers and acquisitions lawyer in New York, said there are basically two kinds of M&A deals.
"One are financial buyers, which is like private equity firms, that kind of stuff. And then the other is this kind of deal, which is a strategic deal," he said.
When Adidas bought Reebok, it was trying to compete with Nike in the U.S. and wanted to leverage Reebok's established relationships with professional sports leagues.
After a reboot in 2016 that ushered in endorsement deals with singer Ariana Grande and rapper Cardi B, Reebok turned a profit in 2018, but the success was short-lived.
Shawn Grain Carter, professor of fashion business management at the Fashion Institute of Technology, said nowadays there's so much competition in the sportswear and athletic leisure space that Reebok has become a drain on Adidas' resources.
"With so much opportunity to sell so many different types of products in this category, you've got to have sharp marketing so your customer is really clear about why they should remain loyal to you and continue to purchase your particular product," she said.
Reebok will also have to invest in research and development to stand out from the others.
But Stephen Shapiro, professor of sports and entertainment management at the University of South Carolina, said there's still considerable brand equity there. Reebok just has to decide exactly what it wants to be.
"I think there is an opportunity for them to be successful and maybe more of that niche market and not have to feel that Reebok's trying to compete as they historically were trying to do with a Nike or an Adidas," he said.
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Does this have an official name and rule set?
At work during lunch break, me and my colleagues often play a game using a cup and poker dice. We use five poker dice, which have the traditional faces (9, 10, jack, queen, king, ace). Contrary to liar's dice, each player does not have a cup and dice. There's only one set. The rules are very much like Mia, but instead of using two regular dice, the five poker dice are used. The rules are roughly as follows:
The first player shakes the cup and looks at the combination under it without revealing it to other players.
This player passes it onto the next player (can be clockwise or counter-clockwise, established before the start of the game) and announces a combination. For example, a pair of kings.
The receiving player may choose to believe this by looking at the dice under the cup (again, covertly) or not believing it by lifting the cup and showing what's under it.
If the receiving player called a bluff and lifted the cup, he/she wins if the shown combination is of a lower value than that called by the passing player. He/she loses if it matches the value or is higher.
If the receiving player accepted, they can do a number of things. They're allowed to take one or more dice from under the cup and roll those openly on the table. Or, place one or more dice from under the cup on the table without changing their value and then shake the cup. They're allowed to look at what's under it before passing it on. If there's dice on the table already, combinations are possible. For example, rolling those on the table in addition to one from under the cup, or placing some on the table from under the cup, putting others back and shaking.
The receiving player, after taking an above action (they don't have to, they may just pass things on without changing the situation) will then pass the cup onto the next player while announcing a new combination. It must be higher than what he/she received. We're then back at step 3.
The combinations used are those from poker: high dice, pair, double pair, low straight, three of a kind, full house, high straight, four of a kind, five of a kind (not really a poker combo but possible with dice). You're allowed to stay with the same combination but of a higher value. So for example, two pair of aces and nines will beat two pair of kings and jacks. A dice not forming the combination can be used as a kicker (there may even be two or three, like in a single pair). In that respect it's like liar's dice, but played more in the style of Mia.
Looking around at dice games I'm not finding anything exactly like this. Mia is the closest in rules. Is there an official name and/or rule set for this game? Is it a commonly played game or did someone cook it up and it got passed onto my colleagues via playing?
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Not sure about an official ruleset, but my family used to play liar's dice with almost exactly these rules you have described, and with one set of 5 dice. Poker dice have the same basic "values" as dice with 1-6 dots, so I would imagine there could be quite a variety of dice styles that would qualify as "Liar's dice". – TBowman Mar 2 '18 at 19:36
You're talking about Liar's Dice, an individual hand variant, which is also covered in the Wikipedia entry you shared:
In "common hand" liar's dice games, each player has a set of dice, all players roll once, and the bids relate to the dice each player can see (their hand) plus all the concealed dice (the other players' hands). In "individual hand" games, there is one set of dice which is passed from player to player.
Spanish and French versions of this game only cover the individual hand variant, as reflected in their own Wikipedia entry:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3ker_mentiroso
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poker_menteur
Spanish rules establish losing when reaching 9 points, as those are the number of letters for the word liar in Spanish: mentiroso. While French rules fixes the losing points up to five (has nothing to do with French word for loser this time, as its menteur).
As it seems to be a game without any official organization behind it, there isn't such a thing as an official ruleset, despite in Spain is very common in universities and seems to exist some tournaments there.
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College World Series 2013: Top 5 Starting Pitchers Preview
Posted by Joshua Vadeboncoeur on Jun 13th, 2013
The starting pitcher is the individual who delivers the first pitch of a baseball game and in certain cases is the individual to deliver the last. Starters are relied upon to lead the defense and set the tempo for the game ahead, serving as the "field general" that leads the charge towards victory.
As the 2013 College World Series commences on Saturday, teams will send out their staff aces to lead the charge in Omaha, setting the tone and establishing whether their respective team is capable of moving forward with the determination and talent to capture the NCAA title.
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Below we have ranked the top 5 starting pitchers that will appear in the College World Series. In ranking each starter, we considered all encompassing factors that have and would contribute to the success of that pitcher in Omaha, such as season-long success, recent performances, and overall pitching ability/talent.
1. Carlos Rodon, LHP, NC State
NCAA Tournament Stats: GS: 2, W-L: 1-0, ERA: 1.56, IP: 17.1, ER: 3, BB: 2, K: 19
2013 Stats: GS: 17, W-L: 9-2, ERA: 3.19, IP: 118.1, ER: 42, BB: 42, K: 170, AVG: .201
Simply put, Carlos Rodon has been the class of the field this season along with Stanford's Mark Appel and Oklahoma's Jonathan Gray (Stanford failed to make the postseason while OU was swept by LSU in the super regionals). In two starts this postseason, Rodon has dazzled for the Wolfpack.
In game two of the Raleigh Regional against William & Mary, Rodon pitched a compete-game shutout and struck out 10 batters in a 1-0 victory for NC State. Rodon brought a no-hitter into the sixth inning and struck out the side in the ninth to end the game.
Rodon was once again effective in game one of the Raleigh Super Regionals against Rice, going 8 1/3 innings and surrendering three runs, while striking out nine. In leading the Wolfpack to a 4-3 victory, Rodon has now struck out eight or more batters in all but one of his 17 starts this season.
Everything has been in-sync for Rodon this postseason, as his fastball, cutter, and slider have been overwhelming pitches with plus movement and velocity. Expect Rodon to continue his dominance in Omaha.
2. Aaron Nola, RHP, LSU
NCAA Tournament Stats: GS: 2, W-L: 2-0, ERA: 0.00, ER: 0, BB: 3, K: 12
2013 Stats: GS: 16, W-L: 12-0, ERA: 1.68, IP: 118.0, ER: 22, BB: 17, K: 117, AVG: .187
Aaron Nola has been lights out this season for the Tigers, dominating college hitters with his superb command and control of his pitch arsenal, comprised of a low-mid 90s fastball and solid breaking ball combo that he can paint across the lower part of the plate. His dominance continued into the postseason, as he helped lead the Tigers through a sweep of both regional and super regional play.
Despite surrendering five runs (all unearned) in the first inning of game two of the Baton Rouge Regional against Sam Houston State, Nola buckled down and held the Bearkats scoreless for the next six innings en route to an 8-5 victory for the Tigers.
Nola pitched masterfully in the Baton Rouge Super Regional opener against Oklahoma, pitching a complete-game shutout and allowing just two base runners in a 2-0 victory for LSU.
Nola will get the nod against UCLA in the College World Series opener on Sunday, June 16 in Omaha and will look to shut down the Bruins' offense.
3. Andrew Moore, RHP, Oregon State
Class: Freshman
2013 Stats: GS: 16, W-L: 14-1, ERA: 1.36, IP: 119.0, ER: 18, BB: 26, K: 70, AVG: .194
Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and recently named First-Team All-American by Baseball America, Andrew Moore has been a great addition to the Oregon State starting rotation this season alongside fellow southpaw Matt Boyd and Ben Wetzler.
In game two of the Corvallis Regional against UC Santa Barbara, Moore pitched eight innings and surrendered two runs (one earned), holding the Gauchos scoreless for five straight innings following the third en route to a 3-2 victory for the Beavers.
Moore would provide the Beavers with another deep-inning effort, working eight innings of three-run ball and striking out nine batters. The Beavers would win game two of the super regionals 12-4 against the Wildcats, following up with a 4-3 victory to oust Kansas State and advance to the College World Series.
Look for Moore to be an innings eater in Omaha whose poise on the mound will be key for crucial games.
4. Adam Plutko, RHP, UCLA
Class: Junior
NCAA Tournament Stats: GS: 2, W-L: 1-0, ERA: 0.64, ER: 1, BB: 2, K: 6
2013 Stats: GS: 17, W-L: 8-3, ERA: 2.35, IP: 111.0, ER: 29, BB: 27, K: 77, AVG: .212
Adam Plutko has been the face of consistency and reliability for the UCLA Bruins over the past three seasons, taking on the role of staff ace with the departures of Gerrit Cole and Trevor Bauer after the 2011 season.
In game one of regional play against San Diego State, Plutko pitched seven innings of two-run ball, fanning four and walking just one in a 5-3 victory for the Bruins.
Plutko would follow up with a dominating performance against Cal State Fullerton in the Fullerton Super Regional opener, going seven strong innings and surrendering one unearned run in a 5-3 UCLA victory. The game would go to extra innings following a Titans comeback in the eighth, costing Plutko what would have been his sixth straight postseason victory in six career starts.
Plutko appeared poised and at ease in his two starts this postseason, mixing his pitches effectively and locating the ball with precision. He is a workhorse with sound mechanics and smooth demeanor. The Bruins will lean on Plutko to set the tempo for a championship run in Omaha.
5. Jeff Thompson, RHP, Louisville
Jeff Thompson has been a warrior and a workhorse for the Louisville Cardinals this season, anchoring a starting rotation that has become one of the best in college baseball this spring.
Thompson held the Miami Hurricanes to just one run on three hits over six strong innings in game two of the Louisville Regional, cementing a 6-4 victory for the Cardinals.
Thompson would follow up with another dominating performance, this time against the number two ranked team in the nation, the Vanderbilt Commodores. In seven innings of work, Thompson surrendered just one run and struck out nine batters en route to a 2-1 victory and the Nashville Super Regional, leading the Cardinals to their second College World Series in school history.
Although Louisville has typically used Thompson in their number two slot, they may wish to start him in the CWS opener against a hot-hitting Indiana on Saturday, June 15.
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