The CA9 is equipped with a new sound system called "Piano Ambience Sound System". Two main speakers are mounted in thick wooden speaker boxes and placed in the cabinet facing front.
Together with two dome tweeters mounted in appropriate depth besides the music rack, this sound system creates natural and clear sound in a wide area in front of the piano.


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Author Chen, Y.; Cheng, M.; Su, T.; Gao, T.; Yu, W.
Title Constant light exposure aggravates POMC-mediated muscle wasting associated with hypothalamic alteration of circadian clock and SIRT1 in endotoxemia rats Type Journal Article
Year 2018 Publication Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications Abbreviated Journal Biochem Biophys Res Commun
Volume in press Issue Pages
Keywords Animals
Abstract Constant light exposure is widespread in the intensive care unit (ICU) and could increase the rate of brain dysfunction as delirium and sleep disorders in critical patients. And the activation of hypothalamic neuropeptides is proved to play a crucial role in regulating hypercatabolism, especially skeletal muscle wasting in critical patients, which could lead to serious complications and poor prognosis. Here we investigated the hypothesis that constant light exposure could aggravate skeletal muscle wasting in endotoxemia rats and whether it was associated with alterations of circadian clock and hypothalamic proopiomelanocortin(POMC) expression. Fifty-four adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were intraperitoneally injected with lipopolysaccharide(LPS) or saline, subjected to constant light or a 12:12h light-dark cycle for 7 days. On day 8, rats were sacrificed across six time points in 24h and hypothalamus tissues and skeletal muscle were obtained. Rates of muscle wasting were measured by 3-methylhistidine(3-MH) and tyrosine release as well as expression of two muscle atrophic genes, muscle ring finger 1(MuRF-1) and muscle atrophy F-box(MAFbx). The expression of circadian clock genes, silent information regulator 1(SIRT1), POMC and hypothalamic inflammatory cytokines were also detected. Results showed that LPS administration significantly increased hypothalamic POMC expression, inflammatory cytokine levels and muscle wasting rates. Meanwhile constant light exposure disrupted the circadian rhythm, declined the expression of SIRT1 as well as aggravated hypothalamic POMC overexpression and skeletal muscle wasting in rats with endotoxemia. Taken together, the results demonstrated that constant light exposure could aggravate POMC-mediated skeletal muscle wasting in endotoxemia rats, which is associated with alteration of circadian clocks and SIRT1 in the hypothalamus.
Address Department of Intensive Care Unit, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, Medical School of Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210008, China. Electronic address: yudrnj2@163.com
Author Lundberg, L.; Sienkiewicz, Z.; Anthony, D.C.; Broom, K.A.
Title Effects of 50 Hz magnetic fields on circadian rhythm control in mice Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Bioelectromagnetics Abbreviated Journal Bioelectromagnetics
Keywords Animals; mouse models; magnetic fields
Abstract Artificial light and power frequency magnetic fields are ubiquitous in the built environment. Light is a potent zeitgeber but it is unclear whether power frequency magnetic fields can influence circadian rhythm control. To study this possibility, 8-12-week-old male C57BL/6J mice were exposed for 30 min starting at zeitgeber time 14 (ZT14, 2 h into the dark period of the day) to 50 Hz magnetic fields at 580 muT using a pair of Helmholtz coils and/or a blue LED light at 700 lux or neither. Our experiments revealed an acute adrenal response to blue light, in terms of increased adrenal per1 gene expression, increased serum corticosterone levels, increased time spent sleeping, and decreased locomotor activity (in all cases, P < 0.0001) compared to an unexposed control group. There appeared to be no modulating effect of the magnetic fields on the response to light, and there was also no effect of the magnetic fields alone (in both cases, P > 0.05) except for a decrease in locomotor activity (P < 0.03). Gene expression of the cryptochromes cry1 and cry2 in the adrenals, liver, and hippocampus was also not affected by exposures (in all cases, P > 0.05). In conclusion, these results suggest that 50 Hz magnetic fields do not significantly affect the acute light response to a degree that can be detected in the adrenal response.
Address Public Health England, Chilton, United Kingdom;
Author Jurić M., Gaiduk M., Seepold R.
Title Influence of Illuminance on Sleep Onset Latency in IoT Based Lighting System Environment. Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering Abbreviated Journal
Volume 11495 Issue Pages 429-438
Keywords Human Health
Abstract The exposure to the light has a great influence on human beings in their everyday life. Various lighting sources produce light that reaches the human eye and influences a rhythmic release of melatonin hormone, that is a sleep promoting factor.
Since the development of new technologies provides more control over illuminance, this work uses an IoT based lighting system to set up dim and bright scenarios. A small study has been performed on the influence of illuminance on sleep latency. The system consists of different light bulbs, sensors and a central bridge which are interconnected like a mesh network. Also, a mobile app has been developed, that allows to adjust the lighting in various rooms. With the help of a ferro-electret sensor, like applied in sleep monitoring systems, a subject's sleep was monitored. The sensor is placed below the mattress and it collects data, which is stored and processed in a cloud or in other alternative locations.
The research was conducted on healthy young subjects after being previously exposed to the preconfigured illuminance for at least three hours before bedtime. The results indicate correlation between sleep onset latency and exposure to different illuminance before bedtime. In a dimmed environment, the subject fell asleep in average 28% faster compared to the brighter environment.
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Author Morelli, F.; Benedetti, Y.; Moravec, D.; Jerzak, L.; Tryjanowski, P.; Liang, W.; Møller, A.P.
Title Global congruence between cuckoo species richness and biodiversity hotspots Type Journal Article
Year 2019 Publication Biological Conservation Abbreviated Journal Biological Conservation
Abstract Considering loss of biodiversity a global threat, cost-effective tools for monitoring spatial distribution of species are relevant for conservation planning. The aims of this study were (a) to compare the global pattern of species richness in Cuculidae with species richness of birds, amphibians and mammals; (b) whether it is spatially congruent with hotspot areas of biodiversity at a global scale; and (c) whether the distribution of night light intensity reflecting human population density is associated with cuckoo species richness. We mapped the global distribution of all cuckoo species, classified as parasitic or non-parasitic species. Species richness was calculated at a fixed spatial scale for: Cuculidae, amphibians, birds and mammals. We applied Generalized Linear Mixed Models in order to explore the associations between species richness of each group of animals, night light intensity and hotspots of biodiversity areas at a global scale.
Worldwide patterns of species richness of parasitic and non-parasitic cuckoos reflected species richness of birds, amphibians and mammals. In addition, and importantly, species richness of cuckoos was spatially congruent with hotspot areas of biodiversity across the world. Finally, night light intensity was slightly positively associated with species richness of parasitic cuckoos. Our findings confirmed that cuckoos constitute an important surrogate of high species richness of different animal taxa at a global scale: It is easy to learn how to identify cuckoos, whereas other species of birds, mammals or amphibians can only be identified by specialists. Our findings also suggest that other parasitic cuckoo species can be used as a biodiversity surrogate in a similar way as the common cuckoo in Eurasia.
Author Rebke, M.; Dierschke, V.; Weiner, C.N.; Aumüller, R.; Hill, K.; Hill, R.
Title Attraction of nocturnally migrating birds to artificial light: The influence of colour, intensity and blinking mode under different cloud cover conditions Type Journal Article
Abstract A growing number of offshore wind farms have led to a tremendous increase in artificial lighting in the marine environment. This study disentangles the connection of light characteristics, which potentially influence the reaction of nocturnally migrating passerines to artificial illumination under different cloud cover conditions. In a spotlight experiment on a North Sea island, birds were exposed to combinations of light colour (red, yellow, green, blue, white), intensity (half, full) and blinking mode (intermittent, continuous) while measuring their number close to the light source with thermal imaging cameras.
We found that no light variant was constantly avoided by nocturnally migrating passerines crossing the sea. The number of birds did neither differ between observation periods with blinking light of different colours nor compared to darkness. While intensity did not influence the number attracted, birds were drawn more towards continuous than towards blinking illumination, when stars were not visible. Red continuous light was the only exception that did not differ from the blinking counterpart. Continuous green, blue and white light attracted significantly more birds than continuous red light in overcast situations.
Our results suggest that light sources offshore should be restricted to a minimum, but if lighting is needed, blinking light is to be preferred over continuous light, and if continuous light is required, red light should be applied.

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... and this time, it's not about the baby. Last time I updated anyone on my WoW main, she was a level 28, just a weensy little thing trying to find her way in the world. Now, she is a level 56, practically an old salt, with powers the likes of which you cannot hardly believe. In some areas, I have the ability to kill creatures with my bare hands. My herbalism and alchemy skills are as high as they can get without going to Outland, which will be happening soon -- I just need to get a little bit higher level. I spend a lot of time exploring the map on the back of "Gilda the Robochicken," a/k/a my [Red Mechanostrider]. I speak in "code" so that I know what it means when stuff is in square brackets with blue lettering, and I have not only become an Officer in my Guild, but I am also the Webmaster.
Or, in short, I have become an even bigger nerdo than ever, thanks for asking. And if not for the baby, I'd be a level 70 already: so thanks, kiddo, for saving Mommy some grief.


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Iggy to Ground
The Liberal Party of Canada's brain trust is turning to The County to help bolster the image of Michael Ignatieff.
Smarting from Tory attack ads describing Ignatieff as an elitist who is '"just visiting", Grit strategists are looking for settings in which to show their leader out among the everyday folk, happy as a clam in his native land.
"We can't show him at the Giller Prize reception or at a Toronto Film Festival opening" noted one official. "So the thinking is that we send him out to The County in a hot weekend in July. He can buy a day pass to the Sandbanks - you know, toss a Frisbee around and barbeque some wieners, then get a sunburn. First of all, of course, he'll realize he forgot the barbeque starter fluid, so he'll have to go to Canadian Tire in Picton, where he'll have a fender bender in the parking lot and get into a shouting match with his wife. And then they'll end up stopping at the Dari Dip, and get a speeding ticket on the way out of town. That will bring him to earth."
Three other events are under consideration, but all carry some element of risk of a public relations undertow.
First, there is talk of having Ignatieff visit a market stand to buy local produce. "But he'd better not ask for pomegranates", she noted ruefully.
Second, Ignatieff is penciled in to go to the Mustang Drive-In to catch the new Transformers movie. "He'd prefer to see the subtitled version of course", said the insider, "but I think we can persuade him to watch it in the original English."
Liberal plotters would also dearly love to capture Ignatieff participating in Wellington's Canada Day street dance. "Just imagine him twisting the night away to Eddie and the Stingrays," said our source. "However, I'm petrified that if they play 'Back in the U.S.S.R.' he'll break out into some sort of Cossack dance. It could kill him just like a football killed Robert Stanfield."
But the real attraction of the County is one of its unacknowledged strengths: parades. There are, apparently, more parades per year in the County than there are in any similar sized area in Canada. House of Commons veterans have long been taken with the booming, cheerful 'Hi - How are Ya" of local MP Darryl Kramp, and have put his expertise in bonhomie down to a grueling regimen of parades spanning the four seasons and at least three locales.
There's nothing like a parade to give a politician some people smarts," said the source. "It's all about positioning: get to the front of the parade, work both sides of the street, and keep your distance from horses, bagpipes and Shriners."
If some of this can rub off for the better on Ignatieff, they reason, maybe they can make use of The County as an incubator for skills training for all their would-be parliamentarians. "Just think about it for a minute", said the insider. "In Prince Edward County, they've got Legions, 4H Clubs, Women's Institutes, seniors' homes, a hospital (sort of), primary schools, churches, babies, fairs and scenery. What more could you need"?
An added benefit of the Ignatieff initiative - apart from the exposure the County will receive - will be to cater to the pressing non-public needs of the Liberal team. For example, County officials were said to be in constant contact with Liberal officials to ensure them that lifeline supplies of County Pinot Noir - to be camouflaged in root beer boxes - would be arranged for the duration of their stay. "We'll jump as high as they need us to," said one local official. "This opportunity is too good to be true".
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Izvornik: Proceedings of the 4th Croatian Congress of Food Technologists, Biotechnologists and Nutritionists / Lelas, Vesna (ur.). - Zagreb : Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology , 2001. 141-147.
The aim of this work was to investigate the influence of some technological parameters (composition of candying solutions, drying procedure) on the chemical composition, colour and sensory evaluation of candied celery. Celery was cut in the small cubes and candied in sugar solution containing 1 % citric acid. During 5 hours sugar solution concentration increases from initial 20 0Brix until reached 75 0 Brix. The sugar saving possibility has been investigated by candying in three cycles. Altogether 6 various processes that differ in sugar solution composition and in the last phase of candying have been investigated. Candied and candied dried celery were analysed for total solid matter content, acidity, pH, reducing, nonreducing and total sugars, mineral compounds and colour. The results obtained have shown that composition of sugar solution had an influence on the chemical composition, firmness, structure and colour of candied celery. Candied celery from first cycle was darker, softer and had higher content of reduced sugars compared with the samples from second and third cycle. These celery behaved better organoleptic properties than others. It was pointed out that drying process had no significant influence on the chemical composition of celery, although it effected a particular change of colour .


A Corrections Officer is introduced head to head with unreal realities. He needs to make a journey during the darkness within himself.
Wo die strahlende Lea ist, da ist das Leben – bis sie plötzlich, mit gerade dreißig, schwer erkrankt. Während ihre Freunde Weltreisen planen, aufregende Jobs antreten, heiraten, Kinder kriegen, kreisen ihre eigenen Gedanken um Krankheit und Tod. Als sie quickly die Hoffnung verliert, muss Lea an ihre Großmutter Ellis denken.
Ahead of changing into a police officer, Carol Belinda Watson, is brought to a really grownup global. a global that she's going to no longer manage to holiday from. She has a few unusual and bewildering encounters with a plethora of imprecise beings that almost all don't see. known as to the scene of a suspected holiday in, she quickly realises that every one isn't really appropriately.
Tonya was once a baby throughout the Salem witch trials. She was once working towards witchcraft with a number of ladies from the village and her instructor, Mrs. Tysbourne. in the course of a ritual for a woman named Sarah Williams, the crowd used to be stuck by means of somebody. each person ran domestic to conceal from whomever it used to be who had visible them. quickly, humans have been being wear trial for witchcraft.


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PHOTO GALLERY: Area wrestling teams compete in the Escape the Rock Wrestling Tournament on Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022, at Council Rock High School in Northampton Township.
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The Allen boys basketball team beat Pocono Mountain West 47-44 Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in a rematch of last year's District 11 Class 6A game.
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Area wrestling teams competed in the Escape the Rock Wrestling Tournament on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, at Council Rock High School in Northampton Township.
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Liberty & Co., selling clothing, hats, home decor and more inspired by the American Revolution and 18th century America, held a grand opening Oct. 23 at 116 E. Broad St. in Quakertown, adjacent to the Trolley Barn Public Market.
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Mom & Pop's General Store, offering household necessities like toilet paper and light bulbs along with a hodgepodge of collectibles, local crafts and more, opened in late November at the Palmer Park Mall in Palmer Township.
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GEORGE BENSON TO PEFORM AN "UNFORGETTABLE" QUEENSLAND DEBUT CONCERT AT QPAC THIS AUGUST
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Great news for music fans! The legendary George Benson will perform one night only in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre's (QPAC's) Concert Hall on Thursday 22 August 2013.
Described as one of the greatest guitarists in jazz history and an amazingly versatile musician, George Benson has earned an impeccable reputation as one of music's most enterprising and engaging stars.
With a career that spans five decades, more than 35 albums and ten Grammy Awards, George Benson uses his jazz roots as the foundation for a fascinating mix of pop and R&B.
Within the acoustically superb QPAC Concert Hall, George Benson will perform songs from his just released new album Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole as well as his popular classic hits, Broadway, Give Me the Night, Breezin', and Turn Your Love Around.
Perhaps best known for his contemporary popular music, Benson continues to astound audiences taking his creative expression to new heights. And his latest release Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole is an exemplary work of art, giving reverence to the legacy of jazz and a fitting tribute to an American icon.
With supreme taste, a beautifully rounded tone, amazing dexterity and always, an unquenchable urge to swing,George Benson will light up QPAC's Concert Hall for one night only. Don't miss the chance to experience this legendary artist. Tickets on sale now via qpac.com.au or phone 136-246.
Presented By QPAC and The Music House
George Benson Live in Concert
Date: Thursday 22 August 2013
Venue: Concert Hall, QPAC, Cultural Centre, South Bank, Brisbane
Tickets: Refer to qpac website for price details
Bookings: www.qpac.com.au or qtix 136 246


The first item in the Messier catalogue is the famous Crab Nebula, a remnant of a supernova explosion observed and recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054. The supernova itself was brilliant and with a peak magnitude of –7 was easily visible in daylight. Today, it still rates as one of the brightest natural stellar events ever recorded. Roll on 950+ years and the initial explosive has long since faded but the aftermath - the nebula - remains visible. At mag. +8.4 and with an apparent size of 7x5 arc minutes, it's a relatively easy target under dark skies and can be spotted with a pair of binoculars.
M1 is located in the zodiacal constellation of Taurus. It's not difficult to find as it's positioned just a degree northwest of mag. +3.0 star Zeta Tauri (ζ Tau). The remnant was first observed by John Bevis in 1731. Charles Messier observed it in September 1758 and the appearance of this dying remnant inspired him to begin compiling a list of nebulae that possibly could be mistaken for comets. The list eventually became his famous catalogue. The following century, William Parsons, the Third Earl of Rosse made a drawing of M1 (around 1844) and christened it the Crab Nebula due to its wispy filamentary structure.
M1 is best seen from the Northern Hemisphere during the months of November, December and January.
When viewed through 10x50 binoculars, M1 appears as a reasonably sized oblong patch of light that's more pronounced using averted vision. Larger 20x80mm binoculars or small 80mm (3.1-inch) telescopes show some variations in brightness around the edges, especially on nights of good seeing. A 150mm (6-inch) or 200mm (8-inch) telescope displays the Crab Nebula as a large oval diffuse patch of light with fine streaks visible. A 300mm (12-inch) or larger scope shows more intricate details including twists, filaments and surface variations over the complete face. It's a tantalizing view, that hints at Lord Rosse's famous drawings.
M1 is located about 6,500 light-years from Earth and is the only supernova remnant in Messier's catalogue. It has a radius of 5.5 light-years. At the centre of the nebula is a pulsar, which is the remains of the original star. It's believed to be about 30 km in diameter and emits pulses of radiation every 33 milliseconds.


Pre-Deployment training is mandatory for all the troops deploying in UN Missions as contingent members. Based on the "Three pillars concept" of BPOTC, the purpose of pre deployment training is to enhance the capability and performance of the Nepali Peacekeepers in UN Missions. Training includes the materials and guidelines provided by the UN Integrated Training Service (ITS) and is also in line with the latest guideline and reports issued by UN such as Cruz Report 2017 about the Safety and Security of UN Peacekeepers.
Earlier in August 2018, Military training officer Major Veronica Aluoch Owuor from ITS, UN DPKO visited the center and assessed the training from 13th Aug to 31st Aug 2018 during which she observed each and every activities conducted to verify the standards of the UN Training.
The certificate issued by United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operation Jean-Pierre Lacroix is valid for four years from October 31, 2018 to October 30, 2022. After the recognition the credibility of the courses conducted in the center has been stronger than before.


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Plants for South-Facing Windows (3 Easy, Sun-Loving Favorites)
Rachel Darlington
Nov 11, 2021 6:38 PM EST
From the endearing star cactus to the glossy cape lily, here are several plants that thrive in south-facing windows.
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3 Houseplants for Sunny Windows
Today I want to share some great plants for a south-facing window sill. There are lots of houseplants that appreciate the high light conditions that a south-facing window offers, but these three are my favorites by far.
There are many kinds of star cactus, including ones with and without spines.
1. Star Cactus (Astrophytum)
Commonly referred to as a star cactus, astrophytum have become extremely popular. When viewed from above, the characteristic star arrangement is easy to see.
Besides its pleasing symmetry, this cactus may also have fine white tufts of hair and spines. The spines are absent in many varieties, such as the very popular myriostigma, making it the ideal cactus for people who don't like prickly spines.
How to Grow Star Cactus
This is an easy plant to grow in a south-facing window that gets at least six hours of sun a day.
Grow in a clay pot with cactus compost.
Only water when the mix has dried out completely.
Avoid watering altogether between September and March.
Veltheimia bracteata has gorgeous, glossy leaves and flowers reliably every year.
2. Cape Lily (Veltheimia bracteata)
Veltheimia bracteata, also known as the Cape Lily or Forest Lily, makes the perfect pot plant for a south-facing window in a cool room. This South African bulb produces glossy leaves with wavy edges and stout purple stems, each bearing a terminal raceme of pink, tubular flowers. The tips of the flowers are sometimes green.
The Cape Lily flowers reliably from February to April, but its leaves make a handsome pot plant even after that. Although the bulb does go dormant in summer, its dormancy is very brief, and this vigorous plant soon returns to growth, making it almost evergreen. Flowers require no staking.
How to Grow Cape Lily
Grow in good compost with added horticultural sand.
Repot only when congested, ensuring the neck of the bulb is just above the soil surface.
Water freely when in growth, applying liquid fertilizer every two weeks.
Cease watering when dormant.
Dracaena draco is an easy keeper with pretty red-tinged leaves.
3. Dragon's Blood (Dracaena draco)
The dragon's blood plant, or Dracaena draco, is grown for its foliage. The dragon's blood name comes from the fact that the plant exudes reddish resin from wounds and nicks. The leaves are solidly green with a narrow red edge. Healthy plants will develop a slightly reddish tinge to the leaves.
This plant is a tree in its native habitat, but will seldom grow to taller than three feet indoors.
How to Grow Dracaena
Grow your plant on a south-facing window sill.
Allow to dry out between waterings.
Pot in a well-drained mix and feed every six months with a slow-release fertilizer.
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It takes just two hours to fly to Corsica from the UK. This French island in the Mediterranean Sea is ringed by pristine beaches, crowned by jagged mountains and rich with history and culture - don't be surprised, then, to fall a little bit in love with Corsica.
Sitting to the north of the island of Sardinia and within sailing distance of the French Riviera and the thigh of Italy, the island of Corsica is a pleasure for the senses. The sweet scent of the pine trees that line the beach, the feel of sand as soft as icing sugar between your bare toes, the taste of French cuisine with a Corsican twist, the sound of yacht masts gossiping in the harbours, and the sight of sheer cliffs that plummet towards turquoise seas: all this and more will be etched on your mind after a Corsica holiday.
Of the half a dozen airports on the island, three welcome flights to Corsica from the UK.
Arrive at Ajaccio Napoleon Bonaparte Airport (AJA) to enjoy holidays in Ajaccio, the largest urban area on Corsica. Located on the west coast of the island, the city sprawls around a wide bay, where passengers pour out of cruise ships to stroll the typically Mediterranean streets in the shade of palm trees. The airport is also handy for visitors arriving for breaks in medieval Bonifacio and the beaches of Porto Vecchio, both of which are in the south of Corsica.
Calvi - Sainte-Catherine Airport (CLY) is a short distance from the northern city of Calvi, which is one of the most popular holiday hotspots on the island.
Also in the north of Corsica is Bastia - Poretta Airport (BIA), which is well located for access to the historic port city of Bastia. Break away from the city and journey towards the finger of land known as Cap Corse, where you'll find empty beaches among the nature reserves, hills and wineries.
Though direct flights are less frequent during the cooler winter months, you can find cheap flights to Corsica for departures throughout the year when you search for deals on TravelSupermarket.
Easyjet has flights into Bastia and Ajaccio from Gatwick. There's a Bastia service from Manchester.
There are also connecting services via Paris or Nice with Air France. Note that, if connecting via Paris, you may need to switch airports in Paris from Charles de Gaulle to Orly.
Several charter companies offer services from Heathrow, Manchester, Stansted and Bristol on a seasonal summer basis to Calvi, Figari or Bastia.
Public transportation is limited in Corsica; the bus services that do run do so infrequently. Airport buses operate between the terminals and most of the main holiday destinations, though they can be pricey. It can be just as cheap to pick up a taxi outside of the terminal building and be taken straight to the door of your hotel.
Car hire in Corsica is an excellent idea. You can collect your vehicle at the airport, saving on transfer costs, and then use it to get around the island and see the highlights.
From pretty villages and beach resorts to cities by the sea, each option for a Corsica stay is as appealing as the last. While hotel prices can seem high compared to those in mainland France, you can find deals if you book well in advance. So where will you stay?
Ajaccio is a rambling mass of life on the west coast of the island. The birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte, Ajaccio is an attractive holiday destination and ideal for city breaks.
Bonfacio is a two-hour journey south of Ajaccio. This place bubbles with ancient charms and cream-coloured homes perch on chalky cliffs. Porto Vecchio is also in the south. It's a lovely harbour city and home to one of the best beaches in Corsica - picture-perfect Palombaggia Beach.
The cities of the north - Calvi and Bastia - are equally charming and perfect for short breaks. Beach hotels can be found close to the outskirts of the cities, so you can choose which kind of view you want from your bedroom.
After you've booked flights to Corsica, you can find hotels on the island by using the TravelSupermarket search tool.


If you were in Los Angeles on September 14, and looked up into the night sky, you would have seen a swarm of 300 Intel Shooting Star drones, equipped with LED lights, flying in sequence to form a huge W.
Despite initial paranoia in downtown that the display was a subliminal message from a more advanced civilization, the drones were in fact working for Warner Bros/DC Comics, promoting the home entertainment release of Wonder Woman.
Cool studio marketing stunts aside, you might have been curious to learn how drones fly in formation. That's what PCMag wanted to know, so we went to the first Multi-Robot Systems (MRS) conference at University of Southern California (USC) to grasp the science behind Borg-like UAVs.
MRS is a new initiative of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems, and it's intended to bring together researchers who are in the field of multi-robot systems (MRS) and multi-agent systems (MAS). "Typically MRS/MAS research is spread across large conferences, so the intent of this more focused conference is to bring those researchers together to highlight the best in the field and learn more from each other," said Dr. Nora Ayanian, Assistant Professor and Director of the ACT Lab at USC and MRS chair.
It was definitely an advanced academic symposium, with peer-reviewed papers presented in quick fire rounds. But the scientific principles were fascinating.
Most computer science programming is based on "if/then"—essentially procedural decision making. But in order to have true automation and AI, drones need to get modular, become self-aware, and make decisions based on experience, (i.e. like humans) in their style of problem solving.
Dr. Ayanian joined the Viterbi School of Engineering at USC's Department of Computer Science in 2013, after doing post-doc work at MIT's Distributed Robotics Lab (CSAIL). Her work focuses on end-to-end solutions for multirobot coordination, which start from truly high-level specifications and deliver code for individual robots in the system.
Source: Drone Light Shows Look Cool, But How Do They Work?


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Residents Water Polluted By Duke Energy's Coal Ash Pits
Posted By: Brendan Byrne May 6, 2015, 1:55 pm
Residents should not drink or cook with the water, which tests have shown to be dangerously contaminated. The state Department of Environment and Natural Resources stated that tests carried out on 152 wells located near Duke Energy's dumps had failed state groundwater tests, writes Michael Biesecker for The Charlotte Observer.
Dangerous levels of harmful chemicals detected
The authorities tested 163 wells in total, which means that 93% of the wells are dangerously contaminated. Further tests are expected to be carried out, but results so far have shown high levels of toxic heavy metals including lead, vanadium and hexavalent chromium.
In April the state claimed that 87 private wells situated near 8 different Duke plants had failed state groundwater tests. Last year's spill into the Dan River meant that the state passed a law requiring tests to be undertaken on all drinking wells located with 1,000 feet of Duke Energy's 32 coal ash dumps.
Coal ash is produced by power stations which burn the fossil fuel to produce electricity, and it contains a number of chemicals which are potentially harmful to humans. Among that number are those chemicals that are being detected in wells next to the coal ash dumps.
Duke Energy to plead guilty
Spokespeople for Duke Energy, the largest electricity company in the U.S., have previously claimed that the contamination could be the result of a natural phenomenon, but requests for comment on these latest findings were not returned. The company's coal ash dumps contain over 150 million tons of waste product, spread around 32 dumps at 14 power plants in the state of North Carolina.
Duke Energy was charged on 9 criminal counts related to illegal pollution, which leaked from ash dumps at 5 of the plants for many years. The company has previously stated that it will plead guilty to the charges in court next week. The agreement will see the company pay $102 million in fines and restitution.
The aftermath of the Dan River spill also saw North Carolina lawmakers pass a law under which the company must move or cap its coal ash dumps by 2029.
While studying economics, Brendan found himself comfortably falling down the rabbit hole of restaurant work, ultimately opening a consulting business and working as a private wine buyer. On a whim, he moved to China, and in his first week following a triumphant pub quiz victory, he found himself bleeding on the floor based on his arrogance. The same man who put him there offered him a job lecturing for the University of Wales in various sister universities throughout the Middle Kingdom. While primarily lecturing in descriptive and comparative statistics, Brendan simultaneously earned an Msc in Banking and International Finance from the University of Wales-Bangor. He's presently doing something he hates, respecting French people. Well, two, his wife and her mother in the lovely town of Antigua, Guatemala. To contact Brendan or give him an exclusive, please contact him at theflask@gmail.com
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Ski holidays Spindler's Mill - great skiing adventure!
Špindlerův Mlýn (Spindler's Mill) is known as the most popular winter sports resort in the Giant Mountains, due to its internationally mixed visitors. With its buildings from the 1920's the resort has kept the original atmosphere, underlined by many local traditions and cultural events which take place here regularly. The "Skiareal Špindlerův Mlýn" comprises the areas Medvedín and Svatý Petr, which stretch out from both sides of the resort. Mostly red pistes, but also some blues and blacks are available to the skiers with all levels of ability here.
Cross-country skiers will also find what they are looking for in Spindler's Mill with 91.5 km of regularly maintained tracks. The many leisure offers guarantee fun after piste time. Numerous restaurants, bars and discos lure you in for action in the evenings. More diversity is found on the 4 km long toboggan run, on the ice skating rink and the very brave may even try paragliding.
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The Giant Mountains form the largest part of the Sudetes, which lie between Poland and the Czech Republic. The Sněžka (Snow Top) is the highest peak of the Sudetes and therefore also the highest mountain in the Czech Republic, with an altitude of 1,600 m. Typical for the region are the jagged stone rims and mountain lakes. Near the peak of Mount Medvědín you can find the source of the River Elbe. The winter sports resorts in the Giant Mountain National Park offer everything necessary for a successful skiing holiday. Here you will find well prepared pistes, modern lift systems, endless cross-country ski tracks on beautiful high plateaus and a variety of leisure time and aprés ski facilities, which don't have to hide their faces from their Austrian counterparts!
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Gold Coast | Neeraj Chopra today became the first Indian javelin thrower to claim a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, pulling off a season's best effort of 86.47m in the final here.The 20-year-old former junior world champion had made the final after achieving the qualifying mark in his very first throw yesterday and today again, he was leaps ahead of the field with his very first throw."It is a very important medal for me, I wanted to touch my personal best but I missed it by a centimetre. In my desperation for that, I tried so hard that I tumbled over in my last two attempts. But I am very happy and I have lot of competitions this year to achieve the personal best," Neeraj said after his triumph.Neeraj was the favourite for gold here after his 85.94m throw during the Federation Cup National Championships last month and he achieved India's first gold in athletics in this edition of the Games.The CWG field had been depleted after Olympics and world silver-medallist Julius Yego of Kenya failed to qualify for final round, while 2012 Olympic champion and Rio Games bronze-winner Keshorn Walcott opted out of the Games.Neeraj thus became only the second javelin thrower to claim a CWG medal -- the first being Kashinath Naik, who fetched a bronze in the 2010 Delhi Games."The competition was very good here, the world champion was here but he could not qualify. It was still quite tough but I was very sure of myself," Neeraj said.Overall, Neeraj's medal is only the fifth track-and-field gold for India in the quadrennial event -- the other four being sprinter Milkha Singh (1958), discus thrower Krishna Poonia (2010), the women's 4x400m relay quartet of Manjeet Kaur, Sini Jose, Ashwini Akkunji and Mandeep Kaur(2010) and shot-putter Vikas Gowda (2014).Neeraj, a gold-medallist at the Asian Championships, simply destroyed the competition with his very first attempt today which was 85.50m.None in the field could surpass that till the very end and it was left to Neeraj to up the ante, which he did with a season's best 86.47m in his fourth attempt. He consistently crossed the 82m mark in the final, fouling two attempts in all."It makes a lot of difference when you manage to get a first throw like that. It builds pressure on others. As for me, I was not under any pressure or nerves, I was well-prepared," he said.The fun-loving youngster laughed when asked how he would celebrate the momentous occasion but did speak about the importance of letting one's hair down once in a while to escape stress."One shouldn't be too serious in life, it's good to be disciplined but you should not overdo food restrictions. A bit of enjoyment always works. One should have faith that their training is good enough. It's not healthy to just lock yourself in a room before a big competition," he advised.


In 2003, David Beckham became just the third English player to join the historic Spanish outfit Real Madrid, moving from Manchester United for €35 million.
One of the Galactico-era signings alongside the likes of Luis Figo and Zinedine Zidane, Beckham was one of the more industrious members of the side who brought balance and work rate as well as quality on the ball, and the fact he spent four seasons in the side is testament to his importance at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Beckham played a total of 155 games for Los Blancos, scoring 20 goals and winning La Liga in his final campaign in Spain, before moving to LA Galaxy in Major League Soccer.
Here we look at his four seasons in Madrid, 2003/04 to 2006/07, identifying the matches that made him a success story at the end of what was an up-and-down era at one of the world's most successful and historic clubs.
Beckham couldn't really have gotten off to a better start as a new signing for Madrid. With the side having won La Liga the year previously, they opened the season with the Super Copa against cup winners Mallorca in a two-legged affair.
The new midfielder made an immediate impression, providing an assist for Luis Figo to open the scoring less than 20 minutes in.
They lost the game 2-1, but the second leg saw silverware immediately claimed with a 3-0 victory, 4-2 on aggregate, with Beckham netting the final goal of the encounter.
Beckham's league debut came soon after, and his impact was similarly impressive.
He scored less than 10 minutes into the game against Real Betis, which Madrid went on to win 2-1, and like his Super Copa strike, it wasn't really the type of goal usually associated with the Englishman.
His forceful run was an early feature of Beckham's play at Madrid, surging from deep in midfield and having a greater physical capacity to do so than the likes of Zidane, but that was later discouraged by managers Vanderlei Luxemburgo and Fabio Capello.
Still, three games in and two goals scored is not a bad start to life at the Bernabeu.
Beckham would go on to score three in his first 10 La Liga matches.
That 10th league match was notable not just for a third league goal—his fourth overall, with the fifth following three days later—but because it was the first time Beckham managed to be both scorer and creator for Madrid in the same game.
He opened the scoring, Albacete hit back minutes later, but Beckham set up Zidane for the winner 10 minutes from time to send Real Madrid top of the table in late November—the first time they'd reached top spot all season.
Real were still top in March, though they'd go on to finish fourth after a late-season collapse; before that, though, came the Copa del Rey final against Real Zaragoza and a chance for a first major trophy in Spain for Beckham.
It started well, with Beckham netting 25 minutes in, but by half-time, Real were 2-1 down. This was a defining match of Beckham's season, of Real's season but not in a positive way—they completely imploded, in this final and in the season overall.
The final went to extra time, with Real Zaragoza winning 3-2 and Madrid receiving seven bookings and one red card.
Five defeats in a row to end 2003/04 put paid to any hopes of winning La Liga, while Beckham was suspended and missed the decisive game against Monaco in the Champions League as Madrid were dumped out at the quarter-final stage.
The following season wasn't much better for Madrid, as they again won nothing of note.
Beckham put in a big performance in the Champions League last-16 first leg, setting up the goal to help his team beat Juventus 1-0—but a 2-0 reversal in the second leg meant Los Blancos were out.
Beckham, Zidane and Raul were subbed off in the second leg for Madrid—three names as big as any anywhere, any time, which indicates the levels of disappointment reverberating around the club as they fell short.
In La Liga, Real Madrid finished the season in second, four points behind winners Barcelona.
A first for Beckham in La Liga came in El Clasico in April, as Los Blancos attempted to close the gap: two assists in the same league fixture, as he helped the Bernabeu club at least take pride and hope from a 4-2 victory.
Beckham set up Brazilian striker Ronaldo and fellow Englishman Michael Owen in the rout, but it wasn't enough to prompt a collapse from Barca as the season wound down, even with Madrid winning eight and drawing two of their last 10 fixtures.
Beckham wasn't exactly a shrinking violet as a player, never afraid of a confrontation or a moment of aggression. Indeed, some of the most memorable moments over his entire career came as he received a red card: the kick on Diego Simeone for England at the 1998 World Cup, a crazy tackle against Necaxa for Manchester United at the Club World Cup.
And, for Real Madrid, against Valencia.
Real were 2-1 down and chasing the game when Beckham was booked late on for dissent; his reaction to sarcastically applaud the decision didn't go down well, and he was promptly shown an immediate second yellow and thus red.
The suspension was lifted upon appeal, but it served Beckham a reminder of how officials would react: He'd been sent off the year previous for hurling abuse at an assistant.
Another notable match tinged with regret for Beckham: His first brace scored for Real Madrid ended in a 4-3 defeat at Sevilla on the final day of the 2005/06 campaign.
A free-kick and a fine run and low finish set Madrid well on their way, two up before the half-hour mark, but Sevilla stunned Real with four goals without reply before the break.
Beckham was subbed off in the second half as Madrid ended the season empty-handed once more.
Of itself, this game was of little consequence. A disappointing 2-0 loss at Depor in January left Madrid still top of the table, though a booking for Beckham meant he'd be suspended for the next fixture.
As it happens, the suspension made no difference.
With his contract winding down and Real not having agreed a new one with him, Beckham announced in the aftermath of the match that he would leave Spain and head to L.A. Galaxy at the end of the campaign.
His manager Capello was unimpressed, telling reporters Beckham would "train with the team, but he won't play...we cannot count on him. He is not going to play again."
Fast forward little more than a month and Capello had realised his mistake; he admitted Beckham could play again if he proved his worth, and the recall came at Anoeta against Real Sociedad in February.
Madrid went a goal down in the match early on, but it was Beckham who provided the equaliser and the impetus for Los Blancos to turn things around, going on to win 2-1 as the No. 23 played the entire 90 minutes for the first time in six league matches.
Shortly after the game at Anoeta, Madrid faced Bayern Munich in Europe.
Real went out on away goals after a 4-4 aggregate draw, but the two legs highlighted the rollercoaster season that Beckham had endured.
At the Bernabeu, he was a force, involved in all three of his team's goals, setting up two of them and being labelled "world class" by Bayern goalkeeper Oliver Kahn, while Capello admitted "he played very, very well, and has done since he came back into the team."
Despite that, Beckham missed the second leg entirely—he was not in the squad—and Real crashed out in the last 16 once more.
There was still, just about, time for one last chapter in Beckham's Real Madrid adventure—and it proved the most critical of all, as finally Beckham had a major title to show for his time in Spain.
The final game of the season in La Liga saw Beckham named in the starting lineup; a win would seal the title by virtue of head-to-head against Barcelona.
Real were a goal down before the break and lost Ruud van Nistelrooy to injury early on before Beckham himself was injured. He continued initially before being subbed off for Jose Antonio Reyes, who immediately scored after coming on.
Mahamadou Diarra and Reyes again notched further strikes to seal a 3-1 win, and Beckham, at the last attempt, had a La Liga medal to celebrate as he prepared to head off to MLS.


All Jump XL parks organise all kinds of fun lessons and activities. See the list of options below!
Ever find yourself watching experienced jumpers with envy, as they do the coolest tricks on the trampolines? Want to learn how to do a 360 twist, front flip, back flip, 540 front or back full flip?
JumpScool teaches you impressive stunts and tricks on and around the trampolines under the guidance of our professional Jump Masters. JumpScool is open to anyone age 7 or older and there is no maximum age limit. All jumpers are welcome!
An intense workout with a smile on your face? It's possible! With JumpFitness, you enjoy intense group training on the trampolines. Thanks to the trampoline suspension, the various workouts are real fat burners!
Running on a treadmill puts twice as much pressure on the muscles, joints and tendons in your ankles, lower back and forehead. With each landing, your lower legs and feet sometimes have to carry as much as four times the weight of your body. G-forces have less of an impact on your body when you jump. This is because the trampoline rebounds, thereby lessening the impact of your landing. Your bones and joints are protected yet strengthened at the same time. This reduces the risk of injury. A win-win situation!
Fun fact: Did you know that ten minutes of jumping is equivalent to thirty minutes of running? Now that's a high-intensity workout!
Think that trampoline jumping is only for real daredevils? Think again! Even the youngest of kids are crazy about our trampolines. That's why we've added MiniJump to our programme especially for parents with kids ages 18 months to 6 years. It's an amazingly fun and safe way to learn to jump, roll and fall.


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Supporting students with Autism and speech and language needs, you will ensure that each student can participate in effective social communication with peers and staff whilst also attending practical and therapy sessions for their academic day.
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Q: select query to wait for insertion of other record In my application multiple requests simultaneously read record from one table and based on that insert new record in table.
I want to execute request serially so that the second request reads the latest value inserted by the first request.
I tried to achieve this using select for update query but it lock only row to be wait for update, as I can't update existing record it got same value as previous request got.
Is it possible using Oracle locking mechanism? How?

A: Dude - that's what transactions are for!
Strong suggestion:

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*Put your code into a PL/SQL stored procedure

*Wrap the select/insert in a "begin tran/commit"

*Don't even think about locks, if you can avoid it!

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Work Underway on Deep Space Atomic Clock
(Source: NASA)
Baseball legend, Yogi Berra, made this timeless quip:
"You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going because you might not get there."
Over the decades, NASA has been a milestone-making agency, known worldwide for precision "get there" navigation of spacecraft to distant worlds. But the pursuit of even more accuracy to carry out on-the-spot landings on Mars, or to dispatch a probe to an ultra-precise touchdown on an asteroid, is on the agenda for NASA's Space Technology Program.
NASA is preparing to fly a small, low-mass Deep Space Atomic Clock, or DSAC–a next-generation technology that can greatly improve deep space navigation and radio science.
While cesium and rubidium atomic clocks are in use on satellites in Earth orbit–specifically in the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation–there are no atomic clocks onboard interplanetary spacecraft.
"What this project is really about is changing the way we do our navigation," says Todd Ely, principal investigator of the Deep Space Atomic Clock Technology Demonstration at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "We're building an atomic clock that is a very small package, just a handful of kilograms in size."
The DSAC is being readied for launch into Earth's orbit in 2015. This demonstration mission would validate the very heart of the hardware: a miniaturized mercury-ion atomic clock.
Timekeeping Stability
Ely points out that the key to the DSAC is producing an extremely stable frequency and time source.
For example, a person's wristwatch that uses a quartz crystal, there's a vibration that's resonate for that particular crystal. A quartz watch runs by a battery-powered electronic movement that uses a low-frequency tuning fork. That tuning fork builds oscillation through an electrical current to create pulses that run the timepiece.
An atomic clock takes the intrinsic stability of an atomic transition from one energy state to another. The timekeeping advantage that atomic clocks have over quartz clocks is in long-term frequency stability. By measuring the transition of atoms as they move back and forth between two energy levels, atomic clocks provide an absolute reference for frequency and time.
Thanks to more than two decades of dedicated work at JPL, a space-rated, advanced prototype mercury-ion trap atomic clock is nearing its first test flight. Flying as a hosted payload on another spacecraft, the year-long investigation will make use of GPS signals to demonstrate precision orbit determination and confirm the clock's overall performance.
Ely adds that by flying DSAC on future NASA missions, the device can increase navigation and radio science data quantity by two to three times, as well as improve data quality by up to 10 times.
In addition, the DSAC can provide a cost-savings down here on Earth.
The one-way downlink communications enabled by the onboard atomic clock uses the existing Deep Space Network more efficiently than the current two-way system. Therefore, it expands the network's capacity without adding any new antennas and their associated costs.
Possible DSAC-assigned duties in the future include enabling pinpoint landings on planets, such as Mars; executing gravity mapping of planetary bodies; and providing an onboard frequency reference for both occultation measurements and solar system relativity tests.
It also has been proposed to land and operate a DSAC on an Earth-approaching asteroid. Doing so would enable tracking the space rock to determine with good statistics if the object could be a threat to our planet, Ely points out.
"Obviously, a one year experiment of the DSAC in Earth orbit isn't enough to prove out a long-life capability of the clock," Ely concludes. "But because of some of the clock's design features–there are no consumables, we are radiation tolerant–we expect the clock to have a long-life potential which makes it infusible into a number of deep space missions."
"Many NASA missions takes years of planning and development to ensure their success, and every NASA mission has been made possible by pushing the technology envelope," explains Dr. Mason Peck, NASA's Chief Technologist. "America expects boldness from NASA. We are now returning to our innovation roots, taking the long-term view of technological advancement that is essential for accomplishing our missions. America expects no less."


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by Matt Beswick 20 Jul 2012 29 Feb 2016
The history of Google Places
Guest contributor Matt Beswick on the past and future evolution of Google's localized search offerings.
In the hyper-competitive world of search, no lead remains insurmountable for very long. Even though Google currently dominates the market by a wide margin, there are plenty of rivals vying for the top spot.
For the longest time, the major search engines treated all queries equally in that they didn't take into account the location of the searcher when evaluating a keyword phrase. Today, that's no longer the case.
Nowadays, local business is the biggest growth sector when it comes to search and search-related advertising. The evolution of Google Places in recent years represents a growing trend towards the supremacy of local search data.
Google Places grew from a desire to capitalise on the lucrative local search market and to deliver better results to normal users. Launched under the moniker "Google Local" in March of 2004, it began as a way for small businesses to help local customers find them in the real world. As a natural consequence of this early focus on location, the service morphed into an adjunct to Google Maps in 2006.
Google then launched Google Places on April 20, 2010, creating a sort of Geocities-like tool for businesses looking to flesh out their public profile.
Google Places' run was ultimately a short one, ending with the birth of Google+ Local in mid-2012.
Great idea, average execution
While Google Places was a good start, there were frequent issues with the service. For one thing, the local search market evolved too quickly for Google Places to maintain its relevance for long without an overhaul.
In addition, it was plagued by problems like duplicate or inconsistent NAP data and rampant spam as illustrated by the locksmith debacle of 2011.
As with the Foursquare-esque Facebook Places, Google Places proved that achieving success in the local search arena is much harder than it looks. Clearly, Google needed to return to the drawing board and tweak their formula.
R.I.P. Google Places, long live Google+ Local
Though it was billed as a "Facebook killer," Google+ was never really intended as a direct competitor to the reigning social media powerhouse. Rather, it was designed to build on the success of Google's search advertising by incorporating social cues gradually.
Google integrates local results and user-generated reviews with raw data for a more nuanced end result. As of May 30, 2012, the merger of Google Places and Google+ into Google+ Local is a fait accompli. What began with the acquisition of Zagat ended with a more clear-cut reorganisation and consolidation of Google's local search services.
Google+ Local moving forward
At the moment, Google is maintaining their search lead and Google+ Local should help them to cement their local dominance for the time being.
However, the top brass at the world's most profitable and popular search engine are smart enough to realise that a competitive edge is often a fleeting thing. Competitors like Facebook would love nothing more than to wrench the local search market from Google's clutches.
The only thing that can be said for sure is that social media data will become an ever more powerful indicator of value when getting ahead in local search in the future.
What it all means
When the average consumer goes bargain hunting online or researching service providers, they're not just interested in the basic facts regarding a given business. They want to know how others feel about them as well. There's wisdom in crowds, given a feedback sample size that's large enough.
Local search queries currently number roughly 2 billion per month, which is a decent chunk of global search traffic. Expect that number to increase as more small businesses go online and get in the game. Compared to the available alternatives, Google+ Local is their best bet at the moment.
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Charan Bagga, a former Phd student now a professor at Calgary, June Cotte, an Ivey colleague, and myself, have a recent paper in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science on the Endowment effect. Specifically what happens to the endowment effect when you rent or borrow.
The endowment effect is where we invest an object with more value simply because it is ours. This has all sorts of implications for markets — obviously if the endowment effect is too strong it makes markets harder to make work. If I consistently value the things I own more than you do I don't want to sell them at any price you are willing to pay and no trades are made.
valuation for non-possessed or borrowed objects. Borrowed objects are not valued any differently than non-possessed objects." (Bagga, Bendle, and Cotte, 2018, page 97). Renting seems to generate the endowment effect — but borrowing doesn't for the same item.
We dug into why the effect might happen. We examined three factors, control of the item, knowledge of the item and self-investment in the item that have all previously been suggested to impact the endowment effect. We noted how changing two of these can change the endowment effect. (We didn't focus on manipulating knowledge as we assumed that borrowing and renting always generate a certain minimum level of knowledge about the object). We found that "..rented objects are not valued higher than non-possessed objects if the control or self-investment routes of psychological ownership are suppressed."(Bagga, Bendle, and Cotte, 2018, page 97). The endowment effect is an interesting phenomenon, hopefully we can help people understand it a little better.


Two of our favorite humans, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, became an item back in 2008 and wed in 2010. They currently share two daughters — Hazel and Violet.
Krasinski has always been open about how much he adores Blunt, once admitting on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that it was pretty much love at first sight when he met her. And while chatting with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show last night, April 3rd, the actor revealed the moment he realized he had "married up" (lol). Apparently it was all thanks to a conversation he had with a Customs agent in London.
It seems not everyone is a fan of the American Office, and Krasinski — who went to visit Blunt on the set of Mary Poppins on a regular basis — wasn't recognized by the airport employee. When he explained who he was and why he was there, the agent couldn't believe that someone like him was actually romantically involved with Blunt.
"You?!...You. You married Emily Blunt?" the guard said to him, according to Krasinski.
Krasinski said the clerk almost seemed frustrated after that. Thus, he concluded, he married up (we, of course, think there was no marrying up or down — the duo are perfect IOHO!).
Krasinski was on the show to promote his new movie, A Quiet Place. The thriller, which also stars Blunt, was directed by Krasinski, and he also has a starring role. Aside from its stellar Rotten Tomatoes score, we already know it's going to be good — because it's Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, people!


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Reverend Franklin Graham Issues Terrifying Alert To Christians! - How Long Before The Wholesale Slaughter Of Christians Comes To America?
By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine
One of the only prominent national figures that is speaking out against the atrocities and slaughter of Christians in Iraq and Syria, Reverend Franklin Graham, has taken to his Facebook page to issue an alert to Christians, shown below:
Last week a sobering report was issued to the House of Lords in the United Kingdom stating that ISIS could wipe out Christianity in Iraq in just five years. Imagine Christianity being extinct in the country where historians say the Garden of Eden was, where Abraham lived, where Noah built the ark, and where Daniel was in the lion's den! The report is named "Persecuted and Forgotten?" and Prime Minister David Cameron was not afraid to tell the truth—he said, "Every day in countries across the world, Christians are systematically discriminated against, exploited and even driven from their homes because of their faith." The goal of the Islamic State is the same in Iraq, Syria, and everywhere around the world—erase every other religion besides Islam at whatever cost. Pray for Christians trying to survive in the Middle East.
Graham highlights an article at the UK Express titled "ISIS could wipe out Christianity in Iraq in just FIVE YEARS," where they assert that Christians "could be extinct from Iraq by 2020 as bloodthirsty Islamic State (ISIS) militants continue their mission to wipe out the biblical religion."
As evidenced by the Umpqua Community College massacre, where the shooter targeted Christians for execution, there is already a "war against Christians" in the U.S. , where hatred against Christians is being stoked from mandates within Obamacare to force religious organizations to provide abortion drugs to jailing those that will not issue marriage licences to gays because of their religious beliefs, to the words Merry Christmas being changed to "Happy Holidays" and the expression "God bless you when a person sneezes" being used as justification to suspend a child from school, and Easter egg hunts at schools are being attacked because it offends Muslims.
HOW SOON BEFORE WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER OF CHRISTIANS IN AMERICA?
There is no dispute as to the slaughtering of Christians in the Middle East, targeted by Muslim extremists groups, we have seen them beheaded, women raped, a choice between converting to Islam or being executed.... horrifying accounts, images and videos produced and publicized, but many still claim it "can't happen in America."
Yes.... it can.... and the Trojan Invasion we are seeing right now, with the Obama administration bringing in thousands upon thousands of "refugees" from middle eastern locations, knowing that officials have stated they cannot vet them properly and that terror groups have actively been infilitrating the refugees in order to position themselves to attack America, will lead to more and more attacks against Christians right here in the USA.
Via Western Journalism in February 2015:
"Between 2010 and 2013, the Obama administration imported almost 300,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations — more immigrants than the U.S. let in from Central America and Mexico combined over that period… Many of the recent Muslim immigrants are from terrorist hot spots like Iraq, where the Islamic State operates. From 2010-2013, Obama ushered in 41,094 Iraqi nationals from there… House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul called the new policy "a federally sanctioned welcome party to potential terrorists."
In September 2015, Breitbart reported the following:
Muslims are the fastest growing bloc of immigrants, according to new census data published by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The report, which analyzes data from American Community Survey (ACS), finds that the foreign-born population in the U.S. hit a new record high 42.4 million in July 2014.
As Breitbart News has previously documented, every year the United States voluntarily imports more than a quarter of a million– or 280,000– Muslim migrants. This number includes 117,423 migrants who were permanently resettled with Legal Permanent Resident status, as well as an additional 122,921 temporary Muslim workers and foreign students, and 39,932 Muslim refugees and asylees. This means that each year, the U.S. admits a number of Muslim migrants larger in size than the entire population of Des Moines, Iowa.
In June 2015, The Center for Security Policy released a poll showing that "According to the just-released survey of Muslims, a majority (51%) agreed that "Muslims in America should have the choice of being governed according to shariah...."
More than half (51%) of U.S. Muslims polled also believe either that they should have the choice of American or shariah courts, or that they should have their own tribunals to apply shariah. Only 39% of those polled said that Muslims in the U.S. should be subject to American courts.
In fact, high profile Muslim extremists, such as Omar Ahmad, a founder of CAIR, have been quoted as previously stating the "Quran should be highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion." (Source)
Even more disturbing, highlighted by Breitbart "is the fact that nearly a quarter of the Muslims polled believed that, "It is legitimate to use violence to punish those who give offense to Islam by, for example, portraying the prophet Mohammed."
It is not only the Trojan invasion within America that has some worried but also what is happening across the Canadian border as it was also recently reported by The Globe and Mail that the newly elected Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is planning to move forward with his his promise to welcome 25,000 refugees from Syria by year's end.
Perhaps the most terrifying and bone-chilling part of the jihadists are that they are training children as shown in countless examples, such as "Child soldier: Shocking video surfaces of purported 4-year-old jihadist in Syria" via Fox News and "Isil jihadists show off their child 'executioner'," by The Telegraph or "ISIS Video Shows Child Jihadist Beheading Syrian Prisoner" via HNGN, or "This child is given a choice by Isis: jihadist or suicide bomber," by i100Independent.
That is just a small sample from a quick search.
Taking into account Pew Research findings that show Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the overall world population between 2010 and 2050 and, in the second half of this century, will likely surpass Christians as the world's largest religious group and that Muslims have a higher fertility rate than Non-Muslims, we are talking a matter of years before we start seeing the wholesale slaughter of Christians in America as we are witnessing in the middle east.
Inevitably cries of Islamaphobia will be screamed when reading the above facts, but each is linked to the original sources, and the recent example of Ahmed Mohamed also known as "clock boy," who brought a "home made clock" to school but a teacher thought it looked like a bomb and he was arrested, just to be used as a poster boy for "Islamaphobia," where he was invited to the White House and Google and Facebook took up his defense..... well, recent reports show that perhaps Ahmed, was indeed one of those future jihadist in the making.
But in recent days the narrative of Ahmed "Clock Boy" Mohammed has taken an alarming turn that is causing embarrassment for President Obama and other leaders who stood behind him after his September 14 arrest.
Since his arrest and release, Ahmed has traveled to Sudan to meet with one of Africa's top terrorist sponsors and war criminals, Sudan President Omar al-Bashir. al-Bashir is wanted by International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and war crimes for atrocities linked to the Darfur fighting.
More on that at The Guardian.
The bottom line is that with Rev. Grahams recent alert about Christians being wiped out in Iraq in as little as five years, America is already seeing a systematic Trojan Invasion here, which some believe will lead to the wholesale slaughter of Christians on American soil.
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Do not Let the Extremists Control All Aspects of Our Lives: Experts
How Indonesia should treat religious extremists who are taking over discussions and raising problems in the country.
by Camely Artha
The United States and Indonesia are two of the most religiously diverse countries in the world. However, religious diversity has always had the potential to be either beneficial or problematic for countries, depending upon how well the government and civil society can uphold principles of tolerance and respect among different religious groups.
Tensions between religious majority and minority groups have always been present in both countries. In both the US and Indonesia in the past year, political campaigns have successfully used messaging against minority religious groups to mobilize society and gain political support.
A number of non-profit institutions of Indonesia and the United States held an open forum titled Relations between Religions Majorities, Minorities, and the State in United States & Indonesia: Current Trends and Issues at Jakarta Design Center in July 31.
The event was initiated by USINDO, Indonesia - US Council on Religion & Pluralism, SETARA, and Wahid Institute.
The seminar featured Prof. Brett Scharffs from Brigham Young University USA, Yenny Wahid from Wahid Institute, Dr. Ferimaldi representatives of the Ministry of Religious Affairs, and Febi Yonesta Head of Organizational Development Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (YLBHI).
At the forum, the speakers discussed various issues such as religious life and their relations with the state, frictions between majority and minority religions, sentiments of radicalism and extremism, religious politicization, pluralism and tolerance, and discrimination and violence against believers.
"Indonesia has the highest ranking, according to one of the global survey, on the importance of religion in a society. So, for Indonesians, religion is one of the key things in life. That's how deep people feel about religious sentiment here," said Yenny.
The daughter of the late President Abdurrahman Wahid also explained that in Indonesia, religion is vulnerable to be exploited by several groups as a tool to achieve certain political goals.
Wahid Institute's survey in 2015, 0,4 percent of Indonesian have committed radical action, while 7,7 percent, which is equal to 11 million people, are willing to do radical acts in the future.
"I am often asked about the Ahok case, and I think Ahok case is almost the same as the US Election in 2016. When populist sentiments and religious sentiments are used for political purposes, the blasphemy case is only a mechanism related to the political dynamism that occurs in a country," explained Yenny.
"It's easy to understand why religion then managed to be used in such a way for political purposes. And in my opinion, this will not be the last case of religious issue for political purpose. Ahok's case serves as a wakeup call to the large society. It's time for the silent majority to make noise," she added.
Yenny also explained that based on a Wahid Institute's survey in 2015, 0,4 percent of Indonesian have committed radical action, while 7,7 percent, which is equal to 11 million people, are willing to do radical acts in the future.
Sense of deprivation and alienation have strong influence. Exposure to hateful acts also influence tendency to be radical.
"Radicalism can happen anywhere. So if you feel that something has to be corrected in the system, then you've got a tendency to do something," she said.
Meanwhile, in the US context, according to Prof. Brett Scharffs, the issue of religious life in the US is dominated by three main issues, namely the struggle of minority religious groups, government policies targeting minority religious groups, and friction between the human rights community and religious communities.
Donald Trump's US Travel Donations Policy is the centerpiece of attention to the relationship of religious life with the State. The country has banned citizens from certain Muslim-majority countries from coming to the United States.
"Such sentiments were used by Trump in the last election, but Trump is not aware of the real issue of Muslims. If he associates Muslims with terrorism, the projection is not correct. There are many other solutions that are far better than Travel Ban to face the issue of religion and terrorism," explains Scharffs.
"In the US there are also frictions between human rights groups, especially gay rights activists, and a number of religious communities, as well as debates and oppositions related to freedom of expression and freedom of religion," he added.
To deal with a number of these problems, Yenny and Scharffs offer a number of ideas as solutions.
"The most important thing is that all individuals and groups of the majority must do away with the attitudes and desires to dominate the minority. This is the root of discrimination, violence and hatred among people that can trigger radical and extremist attitudes," explained Yenny.
"Related to radicalism and extremism, do not let them control all aspects of our lives in Indonesia. Do not give them space to move and make them a center of attention. We also have to keep the youths from being influenced by that understanding," she said.
"And last, we need political cost and effort from the government to deal with these issues," Yenny added.
Meanwhile, in a more general context, solutions offered by Scharffs include responsible freedom, socialization of tolerance and pluralism, to maintaining ethics in religious life.
"We need socialization among religious people, we must also exercise responsible freedom, do not abuse that right," said Scharffs.
"Every religious believer should respect and keep their ethics to others, treat others as you would like to be treated. If you do not like your religion to be shamed, then do not despise the religion of others," added the professor.
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It should really be a given at this point that a full 90% of what comes out of Hillary Clinton's mouth is probably going to be factually incorrect. That's a polite way of saying she's a chronic liar.
With the bombshell report from CNN last week that the FBI has interviewed Clinton's top aides regarding the criminal investigation into her private email server, it's glaringly apparent that she has been lying once again.
According to several U.S. officials, Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators.
Via CNN:
Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email server nears completion, U.S. officials briefed on the investigation tell CNN. The investigation is still ongoing, but so far investigators haven't found evidence to prove that Clinton willfully violated the law the U.S. officials say.
There are indications that multiple aides have been interviewed over the last few weeks, some more than once.
In addition to that, Evan Perez, Justice Reporter for CNN admitted that the FBI has been "working on setting up" an interview with Hillary.
The question is, how can this be? How could it possibly be true that Clinton's aides have been contacted by the FBI over several weeks? And how could it possibly be true that the FBI has been quietly working with the Clinton campaign to set up an interview with the Democrat frontrunner?
After all, it was just a few days ago that Clinton told Andrea Mitchell that neither she, nor her representatives, have been contacted by the FBI:
Ian Prior, spokesman for American Crossroads, blasted Clinton for yet another lie.
"If lying is an art, then Hillary Clinton is Picasso, da Vinci, and Van Gogh wrapped into one," Prior jabbed.
"Clearly the FBI is working with her representatives to set up an interview about her unauthorized use of private server, yet Hillary went on national TV and lied to the American people," he said. "Again."
Lying is just the Hillary way.
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Frank Carcharodon
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Frank Carcharodon otherwise known as The Punfisher is a shark who is waging a one man war on crime in Antarctica. He lost his family when he was crossed in a gang war and seeks to "punfish" all criminals in the world for revenge. He is wanted by many government organizations for his actions, but manages to evade them, despite being a ten foot sea creature.
Frank was a shark who lived in Club Jellyfish. He joined the Jellyfish military and helped them fight a war against the crabs. As the crabs lived on land, he was trained to be able to walk on land well and hold his water long enough to stay there for a prolonged period of time, and learned to melt and breathe in snow. Frank killed and ate many crabs during the war, but the Jellyfish eventually lost and surrendered.
After the war, Frank found a family and had children. He loved his family very much, but still kind of missed the glory and action of his war days. One day, a gang war between the Underground PWN Mafia and some pirates occurred near his home. It was very bloody, and Frank and his tried to escape. However, his wife and children were caught in the crossfire and sadly died. Frank was filled with rage, and tried to kill the criminals, but was stopped by MadCap, who was trying to take out both sides.
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He really, really, really dislikes MadCap.
Despite his ruthlessness, he will never kill an innocent person, and only goes after murderers, torturers, traffickers, and members of organized crime.
He is a parody of the Marvel Comics character Punisher
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Mohamed Shaker, the minister of electricity and renewable energy, noted that Egypt has allocated 7,650 square kilometers of unused lands to new and renewable energy projects
He said that Egypt is the largest holder of electrical capacities in the MENA region and has the capacity to produce up to 90 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity
Egypt is looking to increase the share of renewable energies to over 42 percent by 2035, after the country reached 2022's target for boosting renewables to 20 percent early this year.
Mohamed Shaker, the minister of electricity and renewable energy, noted that Egypt has allocated 7,650 square kilometers of unused lands to new and renewable energy projects, during a meeting with CEO of Lekela Power, Chris Antonopoulos.
He said that Egypt is the largest holder of electrical capacities in the MENA region and has the capacity to produce up to 90 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity, citing Wind Atlas.
The meeting was held to support and enhance cooperation between Egypt's electricity sector and the company, which boasts high expertise in the field of wind energy power plants.
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