It's Boxycharm time again!! My favorite beauty subscription service has arrived!! Last month had some amazing products and I was really excited about that box, so of course my excitement spilled over into this month too and I couldn't wait to see what was inside. I'm sure y'all know the drill by now, I'll be updating you on how last month's products worked for me and then we'll get into what was in this month's box. And just as a brief reminder, or in case you've never heard of Boxycharm, it's only $21 a month and you receive about 5 full size beauty products in each box. Visit their website to find out more or sign up to start receiving boxes yourself. Now let's jump right in!
~Starlooks Lip Pencil (Charmed)~ As you may know, if you read last month's post, this product came to me empty so I wasn't able to try it. They did include another one for me in this month's box (pictures below), so I'll update on it in next month's unboxing.
~Catherine Malandrino Romance de Provence travel sprayer~ I do still really like the smell of this perfume, but it can tend to be a little on the strong side. I usually save it for days when I really need my perfume to last a long time. I don't recommend wearing it if you're gonna be in the car for a while, it gives everyone a headache!
~The BrowGal by Tonya Crooks~ I've been trying to use through another brow gel that I received in a Boxycharm months ago, so I haven't used this one yet. I very rarely set my brows since I never have a problem with them moving out of place, but I've been making an effort to use my other one every time I do my makeup.
~Ella + Mila nail polish (Pistache)~ I'll have to post an update on this one later in the coming weeks or in next month's unboxing because I actually didn't reach for this polish this month since I was having so much fun with the other colors I chose to wear instead. But needless to say, this will be in the lineup soon because I can't get through the summer months without this mint polish!
~PÜR Double Ego Dual-Ended Eyeliner (Bora Bora)~ I haven't used the liquid side of this pencil yet, probably because I'm worried about removing it after the stain it left on my hand. But the retractable pencil side of this is super smooth and takes almost no effort to apply it. The color is gorgeous and perfect for a pop with a bronzy summer look.
~Makeup Geek blush (Covet)~ I can't take my hands off of this blush! Seriously, every time I go to apply blush I can't help but reach for this one. We already know I'm completely obsessed with Makeup Geek, but this blush is so pigmented that I only have to use a very small amount to get the intensity that I want. Not to mention that these blushes do not move all day long!
So, as you can probably tell, I am still really excited about the products I received last month. I do think it was the best box I have ever gotten in my ten months of being subscribed, so this month's box had a lot to live up to. The theme for June's box is "Girls Just Wanna Have Sun." I think that name is precious and is so true for my life right now!
As mentioned before, last month's lip product - Starlooks Lip Pencil in Charmed ($19.50) - came to me broken with no product inside the tube. Boxycharm's customer service is amazing and sent me a new pencil to replace it in this month's box. I think it's a beautiful color that will look perfect and natural on the lips, and can be paired with so many different shades. It felt really smooth when I swatched it and I'm really excited to see how long this wears because it took a lot of effort to wash the swatch off.
Now to the usual products in June's box, the first item that was the biggest and sitting right on top was the Farmacy Brightening Mask. It says it's a Boxycharm exclusive product, but I definitely saw it on multiple locations online including Sephora and Farmacy's websites. It comes with 3 individually packaged sheet masks inside and retails for $24. The overall packaging of this and the actual box itself was pretty impressive. It has a ton of claims for what it will do for your skin, including: providing intense hydration, brighten dark spots and freckles, restore natural balance to the skin, even skin tone, protect and firm the skin, and improve skin's overall clarity by regulating melanin production. It's made with a lot of natural ingredients and free of parabens, formaldehyde, and artificial coloring. I'm not usually too excited about sheet masks, but I'm interested to try this one just because of all it claims to do!
Right under the masks was Ofra's Pressed Oil Control Powder. My oily skin was definitely excited to see that this was included in a summer box. Ofra has become really popular recently because of their Long Lasting Liquid Lipsticks, so I have high expectations for how this powder will perform. And because of the fact that they charge $40 for .35 oz of product! It feels just like any other powder when I swatched it, so I'm not sure what the real difference would be between using this versus a regular face powder. Silica is the third ingredient, so I'm expecting to see this filling in pores and fine lines as well.
Next is a brand I have never heard of before, but thought it looked pretty interesting. This is Cougar Beauty's Mineral Face and Body Shimmer in Diamond Kiss. It retails at $16 for .14 oz of powder. I was expecting this to have some sort of silver sparkles to it because of the name, but it is actually pretty yellow. My first thought was how great this would be for covering dark under eye circles if it wasn't full of glitter because it is a pretty intense banana yellow shade. Once it's blended out, it looks a little better. I'm interested to see how this works as a highlight since I don't think loose powders allow for much control of the placement of the product.
The fourth item for this month's box is the Girlactik Precise Eyeliner Marker in Black ($20). I've always heard good things about this brand, but haven't had the chance to try any of their products. This eyeliner pen is supposed to be waterproof, smudge proof, and easy to apply. When I swatched it, I did think it was really pigmented. However, I'm gonna have to pay attention to the waterproof and smudge-proof claims since this did wash off more easily than the lip liner.
The last item is a LVX nail polish in the shade Serene ($18). I love getting nail polishes in beauty subscriptions because that's a product that I am not very picky about when it comes to the variety of shades that I wear. This looked a lot like the Ulta color I was wearing last week, so I swatched them next to each other for a comparison. The lighter shade is the LVX polish. I've haven't looked much into this brand before, but the reference card says it's long lasting, chip resistant, and has a gel-like formula. It's free of the five toxic chemicals often found in nail polish (it didn't list the names) and is vegan-friendly.
Overall, I am pretty happy with the items in this month's box. It's definitely not one of my favorites just because I'm not sure about the highlighter or mask, and I have a ton of black eyeliner pens waiting in my collection for me to try. But you never know until you actually put the products to the test, so we'll have to see what I think about everything when I post my update in next month's unboxing! The value for this month's box is $118, super impressive as always! If you haven't tried Boxycharm yet, I definitely recommend it. They always give you the most for your money and include many high-end products (that I wouldn't otherwise purchase myself). If you did get this month's box, leave me a comment letting me know what item you're most excited about!
Bringing out another Ulta polish that I don't wear very often. This is Ulta's Celebutante and is one of the most true purple shades that I own. I've been wearing a lot of brights and pastels lately that I was craving something a little different. I always say how Ulta has great polishes and I definitely love all the ones that I have. You can get away with one coat of this polish if you needed to and it lasts a good six days with a base and top coat before it starts to chip or fade at the edges.
This looks like a nice box overall, where everything is usable/wearable. I love sheet masks so I want to try the ones by Farmacy!


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I have a project that sounds great on in MC First program, but when the file is exported the volume in the 3rd audio channel remains static. The keybands created from ducking for the background music seem to be overlooked in the export process. Has anyone else noticed this?
So I have uninstalled and reinstalled the program with no success. The thrid audio track with music has been editied to have some fades at certain points. This sounds great in the program and operates correctly. During the export all the fades and adjusments to the audio track are ignored so the background music sounds as loud as the voice over. Is this a limitation of MC First?
Try doing an audio mixdown first and check if that plays ok. If so use that to export as audio.
Seeing this, as are my students, with regular audio keyframes, not just those added by ducking. Pat's solution works - Audio Mixdown, then export that with the video. Not an especially elegant solution! Bug?
8.9.3 but I think later, also , (saw it on a second Mac yesterday). I will retest on Monday.
This still fails on Mac v8.10. Volume keyframes are ignored if doing a DNxHD or H.264 export. Do an Audio mixdown and export with that and the volume changes can be heard. Also looks like H264 exports are all mono, even if stereo is selected. I reported that bug back in the summer.


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Coventry's pubs, bars and restaurants to get extra paving space to help with social distancing
It's to help them increase their capacity whilst adhering to social distancing guidelines
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Cafe culture could be coming to Coventry as pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes get extra paving space for seating and tables.
A new 'Pavement Licence' is expected to be passed by councillors next week (July 31) to help venues serve customers while maintaining social distancing guidelines.
Businesses will be able to place removable furniture over parts of the highway adjacent to their premises to increase their capacity.
The temporary measure has been outlined as part of the government's Business and Planning Bill 2019-21, which is expected to be approved at the end of this month.
The Bill proposes a cap of £100 on the application fee for a Pavement Licence, however Coventry City Council has said it will waive the fee to give businesses the "greatest incentive" to obtain permission and boost the local economy.
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Cllr Patricia Hetherton, cabinet member for city services, said: "We believe that it is important that we do not set a fee for the licence.
"We should be supporting venues and I am hoping we can help them make their plans to extend seating arrangements work.
"These are very extraordinary times and the licence will be provided on a temporary basis so that that the council can monitor any new arrangements to ensure that safe access is maintained for the public – where seating is on or near a footpath."
Licences will run for 12 months on a temporary basis until the end of September 2021.
The council has said the level of interest to date "has been low" with around 10 to 30 premises are expected to take it up.
Existing Tables and Chairs Licences will also be extended free-of-charge.
All licences will be open to a seven day public consultation.
Cllr Abdul Khan, deputy leader of Coventry City Council, added: "Since pubs and restaurants reopened the vast majority of venues and customers have acted responsibly.
"The licence will include conditions that protect the public and ensure that nuisance and antisocial behaviour is prevented.
"Based on our experiences so far we expect people to adhere to the rules."
Trish Willetts, director at Coventry Business Improvement District (BID), added: "We very much welcome this news and Coventry BID is fully supportive.
"It's fantastic to see Coventry proactively working on real-time solutions to not only support our city businesses as they reopen, but also create beautiful outside eating and drinking zones for us all to enjoy."
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Help! What will Omicron do to my holiday plans?
But calculating our personal tolerance for risk is distracting us from the biggest questions
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When it comes to the surging Omicron variant of COVID, just about all I'm hearing is advice about holiday planning. Should one attend a holiday party? Travel? Meet friends at a restaurant?
Much of the answer boils down to how to calculate one's tolerance for risk when so little is known about Omicron except that it spreads easily. Experts are throwing around a lot of numbers. Columnists are sharing their own personal calculations.
I understand. We're all a bit spooked and don't know exactly what to do. Calculations offer a degree of reassuring certitude.
But why does America need to turn this latest COVID surge — as we do so much else — into a question of individual risk, personal calculation, and self-concerned choice? Personal responsibility is important, of course. But I worry that this hubbub over individual risk assessment is distracting us from what we need to do now as a society to be readier for Omicron than we were for Delta or for the first COVID surge.
It also plays directly into the hands of anti-vaxxers who want to believe COVID is only about personal choice. On Friday's Fox Business, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was asked if he was getting the booster. DeSantis smirked, shook his head no, and then went into a long harangue about why people should make vaccine decisions "for themselves."
This past weekend, at Turning Point USA, the MAGA college Republican spin-off (whose founder died from COVID-19 last summer), Sarah Palin said it would be "over my dead body" that she got vaccinated (no pun intended). And Tucker Carlson (perhaps the most harmful person in America these days) railed against those who are urging vaccination, saying they just want to "punish people." Carlson then praised the "naturally immune" who "earned it."
It's too easy for the rest of us to respond to this rubbish by telling ourselves that anti-vaxxers will pay the price because they're putting themselves at much higher risk of being hospitalized and even dying. But this kind of thinking reflects the same dangerous fallacy — that each of us must make such life-or-death decisions for themselves.
On Friday, Jeff Zients, the White House COVID coordinator, inadvertently promoted this fallacy by telling reporters that while the administration will work to minimize Omicron disruption for the vaccinated, the unvaccinated should expect "a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families...."
In reality, all of us are in this together. And so far, all of us together are failing. America's rate of deaths from COVID is the highest of all advanced nations. Fewer than 62 percent of us are fully vaccinated — the lowest of all advanced nations.
Those who continue to refuse to get vaccinated are endangering the rest of us — and not just because they're increasing the risk of a "breakthrough" infection in those of us who have been fully vaccinated. As Omicron surges, the unvaccinated are likely to overwhelm hospitals throughout the land, making it harder for our entire health system to respond to all health needs and emergencies.
The unvaccinated are also incubators for the next variant.
Anti-vaxxers aside, the emphasis on individual risk is allowing us to forget the social needs that became exposed when the pandemic first hit in early 2020 — most of which are still unmet.
We're still doing almost no contact tracing compared to other advanced nations. Rapid COVID tests are still difficult to find, and too expensive. Mask-wearing is still too politicized. There's still little or no coordination among different levels of government. Biden's order that large businesses require employees to be vaccinated remains stuck in the federal courts. Hospitals in many places still don't have enough Intensive Care Units. We could once again face a shortage of ventilators.
In addition, too many workplaces are still unsafe. They're still not required to test employees and report all COVID infections. They still don't have to provide personal protective equipment. Workers still can't stay home for fear getting the Omicron variant at work because we still don't have a national system of paid leave (thanks to Joe Manchin and senate Republicans). They can't quit their jobs because extended unemployment insurance has run out.
I'm unable to advise you about whether you should attend that holiday party or cancel your travel plans. But I can assure you that what we're facing is not just a matter of personal choice or individual risk tolerance. We're facing another test of America's capacity to respond to a public-health crisis. And the safety of every one of us depends on the nation doing better this time than we did before.
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Tecnam had a strong year last year with reasonable sales of Light-Sport Aircraft plus larger, certified airplanes into the U.S. market. Around the world, according to the report released by GAMA and confirmed personally by Managing Director Paolo Pascale, Tecnam shipped nearly 200 airplanes in 2014. While ByDanJohnson.com readers are focused on recreational aircraft primarily from LSA and light kit manufacturers, more of these companies are joining Tecnam by preparing to offer what my journalist friend Marino Boric has dubbed "LSA 4.0," meaning four seat LSA-type aircraft.
I am keenly aware that regulars to this website are focused on Light-Sport, light kit aircraft, ultralights — generally, aircraft flown primarily for fun. However, an entire new legacy is being written as producers of those aircraft types are charging ahead into LSA 4.0 aircraft. Since these new aircraft are from brand names well known to me, I intend to cover what I will call "Light GA" as well.
Tecnam is leading this charge with the 2006-era Tecnam Twin that uses two Rotax 912 engines, but they have since gained regulatory approval for their single engine four seater, P2010. (Tecnam models indicate the year the design was initiated.) The company is also going further upscale with a design seating eleven and they are joined by other LSA builders in this goal but we will delve into that story later.
Recently Tecnam reported, "P2006T Twin has successfully achieved certification to enable it to carry passengers for hire." Twin is a four seater, not the larger P2012 Traveler, but they know it is certainly capable of hauling paying passengers (photo). "[We] will promote P2006T Twin for charter and air-taxi usage."
The first Tecnam P2006T Certificate for Passenger Transportation is operated by Russia-based Chelavia. Established in 2003, ChelAvia currently operates nearly 100 Tecnam aircraft and is actively engaged in training commercial pilots for some Russian airlines.
Khalid Al Khater Thani (L), of Aviation Home with Sheik Thani Al-Thani are the proud owners of the first Middle East-based Tecnam P2010. photo courtesy of Tecnam
The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation authorized Chelavia to use its fleet of Tecnam P2006T Twins for commercial activities. This approval enabled Chelavia to add the P2006T to its Air Operator's Certificate to enable it to offer the aircraft for both passenger and airfreight operations.
In single engine work, Tecnam has also gained approval for its four seat P2010 and recently delivered the first one to a customer. Registered as A7-TBA, the new P2010 joins a range of Tecnam aircraft already in service with Aviation Home, Tecnam's dealer for both the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Other Tecnam models operated by Aviation Home include Astore, P2006T Twin, plus a number of P2002JFs.
Tecnam refers to the four seater as "P Twenty Ten." The sleek aircraft which looks like a big brother to their very similar P2008 LSA model, joins a carbon fiber fuselage with metal wings, stabilator, and rudder (just like P2008). The new aircraft won certification under Europe's EASA CS-23 program that is recognized by FAA for reciprocal Part 23 approval. Tecnam USA said American pilots will be able to examine a P2010 at U.S. airshows in 2015.
However, working on their Twin and P2010 is apparently not enough to keep everyone busy at Tecnam, so they have another fascinating project, this one with NASA in America and involving — get this! — 18 motors! That gives new meaning to the multi-engine rating.
Tecnam's P2006 Twin airframe was selected by NASA for an 18-motor experimental project. Here is some of the out-of-the-box thinking that speculates that an aircraft fitted with a long string of small electric motors can theoretically perform well.
NASA loves its abbreviations and trick phrases so the program is called LEAPtech with LEAP standing for Leading Edge Asynchronous Technology. The aim is reported as being "developing safer, more energy efficient, lower operating cost and greener General Aviation aircraft."
NASA will fit an experimental 31-foot aircraft wing with 18 electric motors placed along the leading edge onto a Tecnam P2006T aircraft frame (photos). The electric motors are powered by lithium iron phosphate batteries. American companies ESAero and Joby Aviation will manufacture and integrate wing and motors on the P2006T airframe. Tecnam said, "Researchers hope to fly the modified Tecnam P2006T piloted X-plane within the next couple years."
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Bristell USA distributes the highly-refined Bristell aircraft in North America. The Czech-built aircraft is a 5th generation design with excellent performance, wonderful handling, and a most appealing shape. Other airplanes may look similar but Bristell has gone far beyond.
US Sport Planes offers the all-composite, well-proven Jabiru line, one of the most popular Light-Sport Aircraft in America and the world. Under new leadership in Texas, the fast, handsome, and especially roomy Jabiru models are supported with exceptional service.
Kolb Aircraft is one of the most famous and successful names in light aviation. From the two-place Mark III to the Part 103 Ultralight Firefly, Kolb has some of the most charming and best flying aircraft you can afford.
Airtime Aircraft (FlyCT.com), is the nation's largest seller of Light-Sport Aircraft, focused on the: CTLS and CT Super, the top-selling LSA in America. Airtime has represented Flight Design's CT series since Day One and knows more about the model than anyone outside the manufacturer. Run by a father and son team, Tom and Tom Gutmann Sr. and Jr. are enthusiasts that can get you in the aircraft you want and can help you maintain, upgrade, or enjoy your aircraft.
SilverLight Aviation created an all-American gyroplane with modern sophistication and equipment, built by a proven expert. Gyroplanes like AR1 fly much like fixed wings but with real advantages.
Vickers Aircraft has created one of the most distinctive new LSA seaplanes yet to emerge. Powered by the 180-horsepower Titan IO-340CC by Continental Motors, their Wave model is like no other seaplane ever introduced with multiple features to set it apart from the crowd.
Flight Design USA imports CT, one of the best selling Light-Sport Aircraft in American and the world. CT is 98% carbon fiber |with superb performance, roomy cockpit, great useful load, and a parachute as standard equipment ...a market leader for many years!
AeroJones Aviation builds the very popular CT-series of Light-Sport Aircraft for Asia-Pacific markets. CTLSi is the latest version... a 98% carbon fiber design with superb performance, roomy cockpit, great useful load, and a parachute as standard equipment.
Texas Aircraft, from the Lone Star state, offers a bright new entry: Colt 100, a descendant from an established Brazilian light aircraft. Colt is a handsome, clean-sheet design built of aluminum with a steel safety cell structure, performing strongly with its Rotax 912 engine, and showing a well-equipped, modern, deluxe interior that any pilot can love.
Ekolot America represents three handsome all-composite designs that boast very attractive prices to match their handsome exterior cleanliness and beautiful interior. Built in Poland and represented in three locations around the USA, here is an affordable aircraft you'd be proud to own.
Arion Aircraft has designed and built one of the most beautiful low wing entries in the Special LSA and kit-built aircraft sector. The all-American designed and built aircraft is priced fairly and flies wonderfully ... need you search for more?
Progressive Aerodyne designed and supplies the SeaRey series, arguably the most celebrated of all light seaplanes in America. A close community of hundreds of owners offers camaraderie few other brands can match.
Aeropilot USA ends your search for a Light-Sport Aircraft that is both familiar and new. Consider L600. This 80%-sized copy of Cessna's 182 is built with modern materials and well equipped but for tiny fraction of the cost of a new Skylane.
Aero Adventure offers what is likely the lowest cost boat-hull seaplane in the light aircraft space with a kit that, complete with engine, sells for less than $50,000. Add a long history to its credit and Aventura is a seaplane worthy of a close look.
The Airplane Factory (TAF) produces the Sling series of world-circling aircraft (literally) and now this fine-flying, all-metal beauty is available in the United States as a Special Light-Sport Aircraft. Here is an LSA to follow.
North Wing is America's leading manufacturer of weight shift LSA and Part 103 ultralight trikes. The company's wing designs are so good that most other trike manufacturers use them. Aircraft prices are highly affordable by all.
Seamax Aircraft designed and manufactures a wonderful Light-Sport amphibious flying boat of the same name. Created in Brazil SeaMax is a beautifully finished, high performing aircraft, the first to win FAA acceptance as a SLSA and it sets a high standard for light floatplanes.
Evektor is Number One and always will be. The Czech company's SportStar was the number one SLSA to win approval but engineers have steadily improved the model far beyond that 2005 version that started the race.
BRM Aero manufacturers the handsome Bristell all-metal SLSA. This highly evolved, next-generation Light-Sport was carefully engineered for luxury, comfort, excellent stability, and safety while being fun, fast, and easy to fly.
SportairUSA is a pioneering LSA distributor featuring the top-performing STOL, the Savage Nomad Shock Ultra, and Z~Floats—amphibious floats for light aircraft. It is a full-line, mid-America operation providing LSA & Part 23 airframe, engine & prop maintenance, repair and avionics.
Lockwood Aircraft is the builder of two of light aviation's best-recognized flying machines: AirCam and the Drifter line. Most sport aviators already know the Lockwood brand, a leader in Rotax maintenance and aircraft services.
Alto North America has returned the Alto 912 TG to American skies after a short hiatus. Popular with flight schools, Alto is known for excellent handling qualities and superior slow flight characteristics. Students love it, of course, but so do nearly 100 other recreational pilots around the globe. Produced by Direct Fly in the Czech Republic, it is offered in the USA by Scott Rose.
CGS Hawk is much-beloved by owners, with more than 2,000 aircraft flying. With wonderful flying qualities, Hawk is available in a variety of models, including Part 103. Build a kit or buy a ready-to-fly Hawk Special LSA. An enduring pioneer among light aircraft, Hawk hails from Ohio with additional operations in Florida.
Evolution Trikes developed and continues to refine their Revo, an absolutely magnificent weight shift control aircraft (or trike). Rev is their new very affordable single place machine.
Aerotrek Aircraft imports the A240 and A220 tricycle gear or taildragger Special Light-Sport Aircraft. A finely finished aircraft at an excellent price, Aerotrek has wide, affordable appeal.
Aerolite 103 is a remarkably well priced (way below $20,000), well-equipped, Part 103 ultralight that flies beautifully. Several hundred are airborne and production has never been more solid. Here is an airplane every pilot can love and afford.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – World No. 1 Jess Lockwood was still kicking himself about his Round 2 buckoff against The King Saturday night despite answering with an 89.5-point ride on Stunt Man Ray away from his hand in the championship round of the Express Ranches Invitational.
A ride aboard The King could have had Lockwood in play for a third Unleash The Beast victory in five weeks. Instead, Lockwood (2-for-3, 290 world points) wound up finishing third overall in the event behind Ryan Dirteater and Luciano de Castro.
The performance still helped Lockwood increase his lead in the world standings on No. 2 Joao Ricardo Vieira (1-for-3) to 967.5 points.
Vieira had begun his weekend with an 82.5-point ride on Sin City in Round 1 Friday before bucking off M.A.G.A. (2.4 seconds) and Bootdaddy.com (3.1 seconds) on Saturday.
Lockwood had entered Oklahoma City in a 1-for-5 slump after winning the first two events of the season.
The 2017 World Champion got things back on track in Brick Town with 86 points on Yatesy Down Under in Round 1. He then bucked off The King in 6.95 seconds in Round 2 when The King stopped spinning to the left and took a lunge forward.
Lockwood said he was happy to come back in the championship round to cover Stunt Man Ray, who was marked 43.75 points, and not head into the 2019 WinStar World Casino and Resort Global Cup USA, presented by Monster Energy, next week in Arlington, Texas, on a buckoff streak.
The Volborg, Montana, bull rider leads the PBR with 13 qualified rides on the Unleash The Beast.
He is 3-for-4 in championship rounds in 2019.
Three of the last five bulls Lockwood has faced in all rounds have been marked 45 points or higher.
"Stunt Man Ray is as reliable of a bull you are going to get," Lockwood said. "I am glad I got that one rode. I was not having the greatest last couple of weekends. Me and (Cody) Lambert talked. Nothing is wrong. I have been drawing some rank ones. Those ones you are going to be 93 or 94 in the long round, I was a second away from riding those.


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Q: Screen distorted when I add a subview I have a simple calculator UI in which I'm trying to add a gradient programmatically to the background of the result/output label. Problem is you can only do that using subviews if you still want to show at the front. But when I do this, the UI gets all distorted on screen.
Below are two stackoverflow threads which suggest using subviews for tasks similar to mine:
Adding a CGGradient as sublayer to UILabel hides the text of label
UILabel add GradientLayer
The code I use to add the gradient through subviews is based on the above solutions:
let gradientLayer = CAGradientLayer()
gradientLayer.frame = CGRectMake(1, 1, resultLabel.frame.width-2, resultLabel.frame.height-2) //resultLabel.bounds
gradientLayer.colors = [UIColor.greenColor().CGColor as CGColorRef, UIColor.blueColor().CGColor as CGColorRef]
gradientLayer.locations = [0.0, 1.0]

var labelBackground = UIView(frame: resultLabel.frame)
resultLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
resultLabel.frame = resultLabel.bounds
labelBackground.layer.addSublayer(gradientLayer)
labelBackground.addSubview(resultLabel)

self.view.addSubview(labelBackground)

Although it applies the needed gradient, the display is distorted heavily.
I'm using Swift 2.2 with Xcode 7.3.1
What am I doing wrong ?
Before adding gradient through subviews:

After:

A: Try this:
let labelBackground: UIView = UIView(frame: self.resultLabel.frame)
self.resultLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
self.resultLabel.frame = self.resultLabel.bounds

let gradientLayer: CAGradientLayer = CAGradientLayer()
gradientLayer.frame = labelBackground.layer.bounds
gradientLayer.colors = [UIColor.greenColor().CGColor as CGColorRef, UIColor.blueColor().CGColor as CGColorRef]
gradientLayer.locations = [0.0, 1.0]

labelBackground.layer.addSublayer(gradLayer)
labelBackground.addSubview(self.resultLabel)

self.view.addSubview(labelBackground)

A: So I managed to solve this problem myself using a different technique.
I wanted to get a UILabel with a gradient fill in it, WHILE ALSO keeping the text in the UILabel on the front.
To achieve this, I put a UIView object behind the UILabel and made sure the size and coordinates of both of them was the same. I set layout constraints that both of them be the same height and width, and both have the same distance to neighboring elements. I also made the UILabel transparent. After this, I simply added the gradient as a sublayer to the UIView, and it worked wonderfully.

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United Kingdom Plans $1.3 Billion Artificial Intelligence Push
The UK is planning a big investment in AI technologies in a deal worth nearly £1 billion, or about $1.3 billion. The U.K. government said Thursday that part of its multi-year AI investment–about £300 million, or more than $400 million–would come from U.K.-based corporations and investment firms.
Some of the U.S.-based companies involved with the U.K.'s AI deal include Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, McKinsey, and Pfizer, but the U.K. did not say how much each firm was planning to individually invest. A few of these U.S. companies helped consult on an earlier independent review on developing AI in the U.K. that the government is using as a template for its new initiative.
Antony Phillipson, the United Kingdom's trade commissioner for North America, said that the investments are part of a broader set of initiatives the U.K. government is undertaking to address several areas U.K. lawmakers believe will soon affect the country's economy and society. These include revamping the company's transportation infrastructure, investing in clean energy, and dealing with an aging populace.
Regarding artificial intelligence, Phillipson said that the rise of cutting-edge data-crunching technologies have the potential to "transform a whole host of sectors," whether they be life sciences and the development of new drugs or improved manufacturing.
As part of the deal, the Japanese venture capital firm Global Brain plans to invest about $48 million in U.K. tech startups and will open a European headquarters in the United Kingdom. The University of Cambridge will also give U.K. businesses access to a new $13 million supercomputer to help with AI-related projects.
Canadian venture capital firm Chrysalix will also open a European headquarters in the U.K. and plans to invest more than $100 million in local startups specializing in AI and robotics.
The U.K.'s investments to bolster the state of AI in the country follow recent endeavors by other nations like France and China. Advances in AI technologies like deep learning have led to feats like the ability to teach computers to quickly recognize patterns in enormous quantities of data.
Phillipson concedes that AI itself is a broad topic, and while deep learning appears to be driving much of the innovation in the research world, the U.K. will also invest in startups that are not specifically focused on that particular subset of AI. They just have to show some sort of capability in "exploiting big data" that can lead to advancements in other areas like life sciences, he said.
The U.K. will also create a "Data Ethics and Innovation" center worth about $12 million that's intended to help address some of the ethical issues arising out of AI technologies. Numerous research organizations have called for technologists, government, and companies to address some of the issues AI and increased automation could have on society, like its potential to displace jobs and lead to powerful weapons used in warfare.
Phillipson didn't provide specific details on the center's plans, but said they would include creating some sort of universal framework governing the ethical use of AI, and how that framework should be implemented. This could involve legislative measures, codes of conduct, or a more hands-off approach from government in which businesses will lead the efforts.
Regarding China and its desire to become the world's leader in AI technologies by 2030, Philipson said that "China is making a big play and investing considerable amounts of money."
"I'm not sure we're looking to compete with China on that scale," he added.
Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, deep learning, software


Friday's (8/29/14) football game at Elkhart Memorial will be "Military Appreciation Night". Students are encouraged to use social media to send pictures of friends or relatives in the military with the hashtag #redskinsforvets. These pictures and the message will be displayed on a large screen at the ball game that evening. In addition, individuals with a military ID or proof of military service will have free admission that night. Pass the word.
Boys' Tennis: The boys' Varsity/JV tennis match against Elkhart Central has been rescheduled for this Friday, August 29th at Elkhart Central at 4:30 p.m.
Girls' Golf: The girls' golf team will compete against Concord & Plymouth on Monday, September 8th at the Plymouth Country Club beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Traffic Flow: GHS is undergoing a major construction project this school year. As of Tuesday night, 8/26/14, the large parking lot to the west of GHS will be blocked off on the south side. If you are coming from the south, you will have to enter the parking lot via 10th St. Vehicles will still be able to enter the west parking lot from US 33. Please be patient with traffic in the parking lot.
Girls' Golf Make-up: The girls' golf team will be competing against Elkhart Central at Maplecrest tonight, August 26th at 4:30 p.m.
Boys' Tennis Make-up: The JV/V boys' tennis team will host Bethany Christian on Wednesday, August 27th at 4:30 p.m. This was rescheduled from last week.
Girls' Soccer Addition: The JV/V girls' soccer team has added a game on Saturday, September 6th against FW Northrop. The JV game will be played at GHS beginning at 5:00 p.m. with the Varsity game to follow.
Volleyball Addition: The Varsity volleyball team will be playing in the Westview Invitational this Saturday, August 30th. Start time is set for 9:00 a.m.
G Golf with Elkhart Central was ppd. and no make up dates scheduled.
B Soccer up 3 – 0 and currently under a weather delay.
B Tennis Vs. W Noble PPD.
The boys tennis match between W Noble and Goshen High School has been postponed for this evening. Tentative plans are to make up the match on Thursday at GMS after Goshen completes its' 4:30 match with Bethany Christian.
The C team volleyball match against Fairfield on Tuesday, September 16th has been cancelled. We have also added a C team volleyball invitational at Edwardsburg on Saturday, September 6th with a start time of 8:30 a.m.
A parent player meeting for the parents and team members of all Goshen High School fall sports, except girls golf, will be held on Thursday, 8/14 at 6:30 PM. All parents should attend with their student-athletes to learn team expectations and athletic department policies.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 PM in the GHS main gym. After a presentation about GHS athletic department policies, there will be team parent/player meetings conducted by the head coach of these sports.


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Q: How can I move a Ubuntu installation to a new drive if it has other partitions? I would like to move my hard drive Ubuntu installation to a new SSD.
The source disk has 5 partitions,
sdc1 - EFI
sdc2 - NTFS
sdc3 - Ubuntu root
sdc4 - Swap
sdc5 - Ubuntu home

I would like to move partition 1, 3, 4 and 5 to the SSD. I can resize them, and they will then fit on the SSD.
I am looking at this answer here,
How can I repair grub? (How to get Ubuntu back after installing Windows?)
It's saying that I can copy a whole drive, then mount it and install grub to fix the boot loader.
Will the same work if I copy separate partitions rather than a whole drive? I don't want to include the NTFS partition.
I think I would be doing something like this on the new SSD, set it up as GPT, copy the four partitions separately, then boot into a ubuntu live installation, mount the new installation, chroot, update-grub.
My questions are, will this work, and do I need to copy over the EFI partition? Does ubuntu add the EFI parition, or would my windows installation have added that?
I had a look at /etc/fstab and I think it has some of the answers,
# / was on /dev/sdd3 during installation
UUID=1e2e2c4b-020b-41c6-b30a-21173388e4a7 /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sdc2 during installation
UUID=F03B-8C98  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
# /home was on /dev/sdd5 during installation
UUID=9941c627-fce7-4a0c-821d-f140f2a7fa43 /home           ext4    defaults        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sdd4 during installation
UUID=c0704a89-c408-4d6d-bd08-a42127dba046 none            swap    sw              0       0

The EFI partition mentioned in there is not the EFI on that drive, it is the EFI partition from a different drive which is my windows 10 drive. Should I copy that one instead or does it not matter?

A: Yes, as suggested by Charles Green, this could have worked, but what's the point.
I did go for a fresh install on the SSD and got everything I needed back up and running in a couple of hours. It has been running very well ever since, good suggestion.

A: I just did this.
I booted up using the rescue version of Ubuntu 22.04. (In this case, my rescue version was the Desktop install version). You really don't need a rescue version. But on your boot USB stick, you may be required to install gparted. Boot up using the USB stick. Don't install just try it out.
Open a Terminal.
Type sudo su
Type apt-get install gparted.
Run gparted.
Create a partition.
Copy the desired partition to the new partition. Copy then paste.
Reboot into your original Desktop.
Open a Terminal
Switch to the root user. sudo or su
Type update-grub.
When it's done, reboot, use the grub boot menu, and choose the new partition.


Things are getting exciting in our house!
A few months back my husband received a call from a professional team in England that he used to play for and perform with in the summers. The founder of the group was going to be filming for a television show and wanted to meet up with my husband to get him involved in the project. The organization is called SBX and they are creating a television series called "This Is Basketball" where they travel the world in search of the most exciting players and freestylers on the planet. Although there are not details about the show airing in the US as of yet there are hopes to do so in the near future. Regardless, this is a very well known organization in the UK, and it means a lot that my husband is being featured amongst some of the best and most talented basketball players in the world.
Some of you who have not been following my blog might have some more questions. I should take a few steps back and explain what my husband does a little better. Aside from being an awesome husband, daddy, and full-time teacher my husband also travels the globe with his ball handling and trick shows. I could try my best to articulate the skills that he possesses, but you would have a hard time getting a true picture of all of the talented things he can do. Instead, take a look at a video, or better yet his youtube channel which showcase some of the crazy skills of my favorite man.
We are leaving Friday morning and heading to The Big Apple. We decided to take a long weekend and make this filming experience a mini vacation for our family. My younger sister is tagging along as well to help with our daughter and to be my shopping companion while my husband is filming. I am super excited and have been counting down the days until our trip. I have been to New York twice before, but it has yet to lose it's appeal. There are so many things to do in the big city. I'm open to suggestions. What do you recommend that we do or check out in the NYC?
I recently found myself as an audience to over one hundred student reading presentations. The days in which the students take charge of the classroom and critique and explain the young adult literature they have chosen to read are some of my favorite days as a teacher. Sitting in the corner of the room you could find me with a rubric scoring each presentation, but also with a paper and pen with which I recorded the titles of books that sparked my interest. One such book that caught my attention was Where Things Come Back. My interest was piqued partially due to the plot of the story, but also due to the flawless demonstration from a student who so clearly enjoyed this reading experience.
Cullen Witter is about to begin his senior year and his life is falling apart. The story begins shortly after the death of his young cousin, Oslo, and while his family is still trying to deal with the grief involved with losing someone so quickly and unexpectedly. Cullen leans on his popular friend, Lucas Cader, for support and distraction during this rough period. Not long after the sudden death of Olso, Cullen's loving and intelligent brother, Gabriel, goes missing. The rest of the book is Cullen's struggle to stay positive and remain hopeful despite the time that passes after the day Gabriel goes missing.
While the Witter family is dealing with their own catastrophes the small town where they reside is overtaken by a woodpecker phenomenon. A Lazarus woodpecker which has been extinct for decades has apparently been sighted in the town and this claim brings many conservationists and wildlife preservers into the town. Cullen is tormented by the fact that it seems his town cares more about the "resurrection" of this strange bird than they do about his missing brother.
Meanwhile in a subplot the author reveals a seemingly unrelated story about an African missionary and his quest to fulfill his destiny which takes him to an Ethiopian scripture. This missionary is disillusioned and struggling to find his purpose in ministry and helping others.
As always, the two paths of these characters intertwine and what seemed to be two isolated stories being told in tandem ends up being extensions of the same story. The climax is surprising and clearly portrays one of the main themes of this novel: hope.
It's really difficult to say much else about this story without giving away some of the unpredictable plot lines.
Overall I thought this book did a great job of promoting hope and the resilience of humanity. Grief also makes us do some wild things and the author was very genuine and authentic when describing how grief can affect those left behind and the families of those who are gone.
I would recommend this quick read to anyone who enjoys contemporary young adult fiction. It definitely is true to the coming-of-age genre as well because it includes elements of romance, friendship, growing up, and self discovery. In the end, Cullen understands the importance of family and friends as he deals with some of the hardest lesson life could send his way.
Yesterday, I took part in a very motivating Professional Development session at the public school where I work. It was a collaborative meeting that focused on the transition from 8th grade Language Arts to the freshman level, which I teach. I was particularly motivated and recharged during our discussion about teaching reading.
It's true that I haven't been reading as much as I should. Life gets busy and the state mandated tests have kept my classroom time from being as devoted to reading as it should be. I left my meeting with some really awesome and practical strategies for implementing a reading environment in the classroom and reaching the relunctant or emerging readers. A lot of our conversation was based on ideas from Donalyn Miller's book, The Book Whisperer, which is now #1 on my summer MUST READ list. Below are some ideas I took away from our group discussions. (I am not taking credit for these ideas. Most of them were from 8th grade teachers and librarians in my district).
Brand yourself as a reader by making reading look as glamorous, branded, and fashionable as Kim Kardashian.
Realize that any press is good press: Any type of book conversation is a good thing whether you are talking about a book you love or how hard you've found it to read lately.
Another really neat idea I gathered for promoting reading in the classroom is a personal experience of mine. Recently, I posted a book review for The Orphan Train here on my blog. I sent a copy of my review to the author, Christina Baker Kline, and she responded to me! I shared this with my students and they thought it was one of the coolest things all year. I pulled up the email I received onto my Smartboard and they were blown away. Next year, I would love to implement an assignment where my students either send a review to the author of the book they just read or write some questions to the author.
Now that I'm super motivated to finish the two books I am currently reading I have decided to also create a summer MUST READ list. The following are five books I plan to read by the time I travel to England in late June. All photos and overviews are from Barnes and Noble.
Today was Day 1 in the new Bible study: 1+2 Timothy via the She Reads Truth App. (Sidenote: I love this app. It is an online daily devotional written by women and specifically geared toward keeping busy women in the Word everyday) Each day, the studies include a couple of short passages to read and a short lesson that goes along with the reading. I am a big fan of the daily artwork that captures the essence of the lesson. If you are using the app, you can download the artwork for free and either post them via social media or save them to your device. It is quite convenient and I love it.
Over the past couple of months it has been a true struggle to find alone time to read my Bible and pray. I've looked over my schedule and routines and tried to find the best place to insert a few minutes to read the scriptures. It has never been a matter of not wanting to read the Bible, in fact it is the exact opposite. I look forward to my time in the Word. I crave time in the Word. But sometimes a few minutes alone just doesn't happen for me.
As I reviewed my daily habits I found that one thing I do everyday without wavering is drink a cup of coffee in the morning. Alone or not I make time for coffee. Tired or not I make time for coffee. Busy or not I make time for coffee. Therein lies my solution. If I can make time every morning despite my hectic schedule and lack of sleep to drink a cup of coffee then surely I can do the same for reading the Bible. The flesh in me recognizes my own dependency on coffee and I take care of that need before moving forward with my day. EVERY DAY. How is it that I have not seen this before? Just like my physical body requires and deserves that warm, rich, liquid energy every morning, ALL of me requires and deserves some time alone in the Word.
I've begun to pair my Bible reading with my coffee consumption every morning. Some days it is as simple as completing the She Reads Truth study for the day and other days I take a longer coffee break so I read a little more. I don't know when I started treating Bible study like it wasn't a necessity. It is actually one of the MOST NECESSARY things I could ever do for myself. When I don't take the time and read God's Words I quickly lose my battle for my mind and attention. I focus on myself and my circumstances and I lose sight of who I am and why I'm here. Life isn't about all these things with which I fill my time. Life is about doing all I can to further God's Kingdom and if I don't realign my thinking everyday I tend to lose focus.
I am going to leave you with some thoughts from today's empowering scripture reading which She Reads Truth has paired with 1 Timothy 1. This particular study describes the context of 1+2 Timothy and then uses Colossians 3 as a reference to living a gospel-filled life.
Context: 1 +2 Timothy were letters written by Paul to Timothy. Timothy was a young leader in the early church. Yes, a lot of the text involves structuring and building that early church, but the emphasis is also on the importance of living life according to the gospel. Paul often speaks to Timothy in a paternal manner about making sure he is focusing on living a life that brings God glory.
Colossians 3:2- Set your mind on things above not earthly things.
Colossians 3: 10b- …put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
Colossians 3: 12- Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Colossians 3: 16- Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts toward God.
Lately, she has been pushing the limits in many areas. She is figuring out how much she can get away with and if left to fend for herself she would live on chips, cheese, and PBSkids. As parents this phase has been both rewarding as we watch our daughter gain a little bit more independence everyday and exhausting as we seem to deal with daily meltdowns and bad moods.
Goal Bedtime: 9:30pm *We are hoping to lower this time eventually, but she is still used to a pretty late bedtime most evenings so this is still a limiting time to begin with.
1. Bath time: At around 8pm bath time begins. I have even used a little bit of the lavender essential oils in the bath to help with relaxing her.
2. Snack: To avoid bed wetting incidents we have been trying to limit drinking in the evenings, but to help her sleep more soundly we have allowed our daughter a small snack right after bath time.
3. Reading time: Shortly after bath time I allow my daughter to select two books and we cuddle and read together. Lately, she has been expressing a huge interest in reading and is able to sit through longer readings. Occasionally she asks questions and responds to the stories, but more often than not she sits silently in a trance taking in every word and illustration.
4. NO ELECTRONICS after the routine begins: This is a crucial piece for the winding down process. Our daughter loves to independently select her favorite programs using the iPad, however, viewing these shows and using electronic devices is definitely counter productive to creating a sleepy atmosphere. We've learned the hard way and after many late nights fighting with her about electronics that we have to set limits which include not using electronic devices before bed.
5. NO LIGHTS ON after the routine begins: Almost as crucial as eliminating electronics is the shutting off of all lights and creating a dark and night-like atmosphere. Since infancy our daughter has responded well to darkness and is much easier to usher in to sleep when the surroundings are dark.
This is a fairly new goal in our household. I would love to hear from veteran mom's out there. What type of routines have you established for bedtime? What works? What doesn't?
Advice and positive comments are always welcome and appreciated!
None of my undergrad study could have formally prepared me for the daunting task of essay grading in a timely manner. I have been a bit of a blogging slacker over the past few days as my school post-assessment scores for the school year are due this week and have thus taken over my life. There are so many aspects of teaching which I deeply love, however, I've developed a bit of a loathe/hate relationship with grading.
Usually, I am so good about keeping my work and home separate, but there is no escape for bringing work home when you have less than a week to grade 110 essays. It also doesn't help that I'm a bit of an over-thinker. What many teachers could probably grade in two minutes I take ten. Each precious word is a morsel from the mind of one of my budding students and I hate giving those thoughts any less than my full attention and concentration.
If you haven't guessed I am in a bit of distraction mode. As I sit here updating you on my life I can feel the glare of the twenty essays that remain unread. I've created a list of ten things I would rather be doing. If doing the laundry exceeds grading on that list you know that I must harbor a strong dislike toward that activity.
The rubric terms have begun to run together. My hair has been twirled into near dreadlocks. My bright-colored grading pen is beginning to acquire bite marks. I'm sitting amongst an audience of notebook paper. These are symptoms of my excessive concentration. Twenty more to go. I can do this!
Other teachers–how do you beat the insanity undoubtedly associated with essay grading? I'm in desperate need of advice, and a second wind of motivation.
With less than seven weeks before the long awaited summer vacation my ambition is beginning to wane. I look at the calendar of end-of-year testing and I cannot shake the daunting feeling that my valuable instructional time as a teacher is coming to a close. Before long, testing mode will begin and I'm struggling with finding time to fit in all of the lessons yet to be done. Additionally, the beautiful sunshine and temperatures outside make it really hard to stay motivated. But over the past few days God has thrown me a reminder that I am currently doing what I'm supposed to do and that I'm where I am supposed to be.
Her mother could have nodded and continued her parade from store to store. She was a busy shopper with an armful of bags toting newly purchased goods. But her mother's reaction was more surprising than her daughter's. The woman left her b-line to the next shop and came right up to the play area. At first, I was astounded to see her approaching me, but when her arms went out to embrace me I was completely taken aback.
I maybe should have explained that a few months back this particular student had struggled with a personal battle and as a member of the FCA which I advise she came to me in need of some guidance. I talked with her as much as I could about what was going on and then pointed her to some of the student leaders of FCA to help her out on a deeper level than I really could as a teacher. I've prayed for her often and she updates me on the situation as well. She is a student I have grown close to and whom I enjoy very much. She has grown so much this year and it is a blessing as a teacher to see students grow both in and out of the classroom as I have witnessed with this particular student.
Anyway, the mother hugged me right in the middle of the mall. Yes, I'm sure it caused a little bit of a scene, but it touched me nonetheless. As she was hugging me she said, "You will never know how much you mean to me and my family." We both teared up. I realized then that my impact is so much bigger than I thought. I had never met this woman, but my influence had reached her. I am so thankful for this encouraging reminder that God has placed me in a position to directly influence my community. It isn't just the students I'm impacting…it is whole families and groups of people. This was such a humbling experience as well. God is taking me (someone who has my own struggles) and is using me despite my struggles to positively infect my world.
This experience got me thinking. I'm no different than any other teacher. All of us works hard to be positive role models and change the world (or at the very least change our students). Sometimes this can be a thankless job. Luckily, very few of us are into teaching for recognition. It's not necessarily that students take us for granted, but it ends up that students tend not to be as expressive as they should. They may talk about their favorite teachers at home or with their friends, but rarely do they show their appreciation directly to their teachers. So, today I asked my English students to write 1-3 paragraphs naming and describing a teacher who made a difference in their lives. After I checked their work they were to give their writing to the teacher whom they chose as their subject. My thinking is that sometimes it is nice to get that letter of gratitude or thankfulness.
In closing, I want to encourage you, readers, to remember that your influence reaches far beyond what is seen. Sometimes people spread their kind words and thoughts about you and it never returns. Just because the "thanks" isn't heard doesn't mean that it isn't there. I also encourage you to take some time to thank someone that has had a big influence in your life.


When a Singapore company specializing in built-in kitchen appliances. Our products include gas & , electric cook tops, built-in ovens / microwave ovens, range hoods, built-in refrrigerators / washing machines / dishwashers.
We seek a slogan for the Kenya market where we distribute our prodcust through our own retail centre, kitchen cabinet makers & building projects. Our products are priced mid-range and have a high image. We understand that customers are attracted to our product because it is perceived to be TRENDY.
Here, we need a slogan that can appeal to our customers in the Kenya market. This slogan will be used in conjection with our logo and brand name - NEWMATIC.
I can get you that slogan a good one. And you should have post a contest instead of project. Just inbox me if you need my creative skills.
My first thought was, it has to be local customers friendly.
Hi, I have go through this project and I am interested in participate in this project. I have a wide experience to execute this project. I am a creative person and I am loaded with new idea. I am ready to get hired.
I love making Slogans (probably heard that before) but i can assure you that i will not waste your time if selected because with my slogan I'll sell your product.
Hello! My name is Oksana. I have over 9 years experience in marketing. I can help you with slogan that appeals to your customers in Kenya market.
Experienced Copywriter with a good headline and slogan track record.
What makes me the best candidate for the job? The fact I already have written down your perfect slogan should be reason enough. My slogan embraces your company's products' functionality and stylistic bent.


Houston and many other municipalities and counties will start rounding up people with outstanding warrants. For more information read the following article.
If you or a family member currently have an arrest warrant, please do not hesitate to call Jose Orihuela, Attorney at Law. I can help you post a bond.


One of the areas we are most proud of is our network of Support Specialist who are based within NHS Trusts around the UK.
All our Specialists are highly qualified professionals with a background in either nursing, social work or occupational therapy. The network has grown and developed both in terms of size and knowledge of Neurofibromatosis.
The value of the network is demonstrated every day in the unique work of the Specialists with individuals, families, health professionals, schools, other voluntary organisations and a range of other professionals.
To see if there is a Support Specialist in your area, please see the map below or call 020 8439 1234.
Carolyn qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1986 and is based at the Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Carolyn has a wide variety of experience including high dependency, community and research nursing. Carolyn has worked in genetics since 1994 on a project with Birmingham University and Diabetes UK trying to identify genes for Type 1 Diabetes. Carolyn started working for the charity in 2000 and has a particular interest in learning difficulties associated with NF1.
Ruth's background is in oncology, but it was in her last job as a lymphoedema practitioner that she first came across NF1 and saw the multiple issues that people can face with this condition. She is based in Leeds and works within the regional genetics service boundaries supporting clinics and liaising with other specialists. She has now been working as a Specialist Advisor for the charity for the past 5 years and hopes to continue to do so for many years into the future.
Sam qualified as a learning disability nurse in 2001, she has been community-based since then, working with children and adults in many different specialities. Sam also has substantial experience working as an LD nurse within CAMHS. Furthermore, Sam will be working with adults and children with NF1 and NF2. In addition to being an NF nurse, she is also an ASD specialist practitioner at Alder Hey Hospital – assessing autism in children and young people.
An Occupational Therapist who has completed post-graduate training in Family Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Helen always looks to provide holistic care for her patients. She is based at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth and supports people with either an NF1 or NF2 diagnosis in the counties of Devon and Cornwall.
Rachel Beaufort-Jones joined us in October 2013. She has a background in Paediatric Nursing and spent many years working in Critical Care. Throughout her clinical experience, she has nursed, supported, counselled and educated children and their families with a diverse range of diseases, disabilities, life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses. Rachel completed an MSc at Newcastle University, which involved an in-depth study of chronic conditions. Rachel works Tuesday to Friday and is based at the Genetics Institute at the Centre for Life in Newcastle working together with Rebecca Rennison. She also works on a Monday for the charity's helpline.
Rebecca joined the charity recently in 2018. She joins Rachel at the Genetics Institute at the Centre for Life in Newcastle.
Melanie Murrell currently works at Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, working with adults and children who have NF1. Melanie wanted to focus on her career and wanted a new challenge that she thought could apply all her knowledge and experience to that she has gained over the last 23 years.


Mix all ingredients in a bowl except tomatoes and parsley, spread out on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 200 degrees (400F°) for 20 minutes.
Remove the veggies from the oven and mix with tomatoes and parsley before you serve them on two plates.
Check the oven after 10 or 15 minutes to prevent that the veggies get burned.
The smaller your slices are, the quicker they'll be soft.
You can vary the veggies you use for this meal. I love to roast e.g. broccoli, aubergine, mushrooms and zucchini.
As I already mentioned in my recipe for vegan curry fried rice, it's very important to vary the ingredients and recipes you use. Your body won't be happy about oatmeal, bread and carrot salad each and every day. The key to receive all essential substances is variation! I really hope you'll find some various inspirations for your daily meals. Of course there are ingredients I use more often than others. Broccoli, spinach, tomatoes, oranges and banana are fruits and veggies I could eat every day and there are some I prefer less, e.g. beetroot and kidney beans.
The right combination of food is very important too. Corn + beans together contain e.g. even more proteins than an egg. But don't worry that you have to eat these two together in one meal. It's still effective if you eat them during one day, corn in a salad for lunch and beans in a curry for dinner.
Guess who inspired me to prepare oven roasted veggies again? It's been Izzy from Sweden that I'm following on Instagram, because she shares lots of great posts. Her plates are usually filled with potatoes, veggies, greens and hummus. If you take a closer look at her feed, you notice that she varies a lot and that she listens to her body and eats exactly what she currently wishes for. That's great! Don't stress yourself to much on healthy eating. It's quite important to feel relaxed and to enjoy your meals!


A farmer in Tanzania asks to borrow twenty-five dollars, to plant peppers in his yard in order to feed his family. Six months later, you receive repayment and an email update – the peppers are growing so well that elephants have begun invading the field and stealing them. You lend the farmer the twenty-five dollars again, and he's able to build a fence around his field to keep the elephants out. Within months, you receive your money back again, and learn that the farmer has successfully produced enough peppers to sell to his neighbors – he's now running a successful agricultural business.
Certainly by now, you're familiar with Kiva, the online lending portal that allows donors to make person-to-person loans to support entrepreneurial endeavors of the working poor. Not only has Kiva revolutionized giving by connecting donors with individuals and their specific, concrete goals – but it has given philanthropy rapidly renewable resources; when a microloan is paid back, donors can reinvest the same funds in another project… which means your twenty dollars can cycle through several entrepreneurs and projects each year – or back and forth between you and one man while he reaches new milestones as a pepper farmer.
Phal An, a rice winemaker in Cambodia, used a $700 Kiva loan to purchase more rice to meet the demands of ten wine distributors who sell her wine across the country. She uses the rice byproducts from the winemaking process to feed the family's pigs, and has recently been able to turn a profit on excess pig feed.
Grace Ayaa, a peanut butter manufacturer in Uganda, used a $475 Kiva loan to finance a refrigerator for storing extra inventory. Her business now successfully supports a family of fifteen (six biological, and nine adopted) children.
Petronilla Shivachi, a grocer in Kenya, used a $500 Kiva loan to stock new products in her store, including cold soda and mobile phone cards. The phone cards alone attracted 70 new customers in just four days. Since then, her business has been so profitable that she has opened and staffed two additional stores and a restaurant.
Kiva is certainly one of the most impactful innovations we've seen in the world of philanthropy. The thrill of making a difference can be addictive! Check it out now at Kiva.org.
Its good to hear that there are still some people who are concerned and willing to lend money to others. I wish them all the blessings.
How would you define microloans, are they loans that has limit or small amount loans on different persons or lending companies? I think that is quite not good specially if you are thinking of the interest of the loan.


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News Bit: 505 Games Announces its first Showcase coming this week
Developer and publisher 505 Games has announced a surprise digital showcase on Twitter that will be held later this month. The company has evolved into a game publisher over the years where its acquired publishing deals with a range of studios.
The announcement from 505 Games doesn't reveal anything about what we can expect from its first digital showcase. It's previously published games such as Control, Death Stranding on PC, Payday 2 and Dead by Daylight. While we know the company is also publishing Gunfire Reborn on console, it's not clear what games will be included during its showcase.
505 Games will be holding its Spring 2022 showcase on May 17th next week at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET / 06:00 PT. It will be live-streamed on YouTube this coming Tuesday.
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Massive demonstrations in Jordan against Israel gas deal
The former army chief has also come out in favour of Donald Trump's 'deal of the century' being released ahead of March election Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz said on Tuesday that he would seek to annex the Jordan Valley – located in the eastern occupied West Bank – if elected prime minister in an upcoming election, Israeli media reported. Gantz …
The Israeli Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday that it had approved the creation of seven new Israeli nature reserves in Area C of the occupied West Bank. According to the Jerusalem Post, the move — which also includes the expansion of 12 existing nature reserves — is the first time since the Oslo Accords that an approval of its kind …
Citing the lack of Israeli-issued building permits, the Israeli authorities demolished or seized eight structures in Area C of the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, displacing 26 people and affecting 29 others, according to the biweekly Protection of Civilians Report covering the period between 24 December 2019 and 6 January 2020 published by the United Nations Office for the …
Israel's highest court yesterday dismissed a petition brought by Palestinian landowners, thus effectively greenlighting the state's master plan for a major settlement in the occupied West Bank. As reported by the Times of Israel, the Supreme Court – sitting as the High Court of Justice – rejected the Palestinians' claims, in a major boost for the residents of Ofra settlement. …
Israeli occupation forces dismantle nine Palestinian structures in Jordan Valley
Israeli occupation forces dismantled today nine Palestinian-owned residential structures and seized them in the Jordan Valley town of al-Ouja, to the north of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, according to Salah Freijat, head of al-Ouja municipality. He said that soldiers dismantled nine inhabited structures out of 70 slated for demolition within a week. The structures, he said, were …
Israeli authorities approve 2,000 new settlement units in Jerusalem, West Bank
The Israeli Civil Administration is set this week to approve the construction of 2,000 new settlement units in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank, Haaretz revealed on Sunday. The Civil Administration is the Israeli occupation body operating in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The 2,000 new settlement units will be built in isolated settlements. The approval, according to Haaretz, came in …
Israel halts Jordan Valley annexation ahead of ICC probe
Israel's plans to annex the occupied Jordan Valley have been frozen following the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to launch a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories, reports Ynet News. The first Israeli ministerial team meeting to discuss the plans for annexing the Jordan Valley, scheduled to take place last week, was cancelled last minute due …
Israeli occupation forces demolish two residential structures in Hebron
Israeli forces today demolished two Palestinian residential structures in the southern West Bank district of Hebron. Coordinator of the Anti-Wall and Settlement Committees Rateb Jabour said that Israeli occupation forces escorted a bulldozer into Maghayer al-'Abeed area near Masafer Yatta, where the heavy machinery demolished a room belonging to Ibrahim Shehadeh. On December 5, four residential structures were torn down …
Israeli army to grab Palestinian-owned lands to build parking lot
The Israeli occupation army on Tuesday notified Palestinian citizens of its intent to seize their lands in Jab'ah village, west of Bethlehem. According to local sources, Israeli forces stormed the area near a military checkpoint called Hala and put up a notice informing the landowners of the Israeli decision to appropriate four dunums of their land there. The notice said …
Israeli occupation forces demolish Palestinian building near Bethlehem
Israeli occupation forces today demolished a Palestinian coffee shop in the southern West Bank village of Battir, near Bethlehem, according to a local official. Battir mayor, Tayseer Qattoush, said that Israeli forces escorted a bulldozer to the village to tear down the coffee shop owned by Wisam Oweinh purportedly for being built in Area C, which is under full Israeli …


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Q: How to retrieve Data from curser I am trying to retrieve the content of a cursor.
The code for the cursor is as follows:
 cursor = helper.getReadableDatabase().rawQuery( "select _id from x where Name = ?", new String[] {str2});

Now, it says about everywhere I have to work with getString and getColumnIndex.
But how do I KNOW the name of the column, and so, the argument to give getColumnIndex?
I just want the first (and in this case only) entry in the curser.
Or is the name of the column in this case "_id"?

A: What would work in this case is to get the first value of the cursor like this
cursor.getInt(0);

though a much better approach is to get the columnIndex via the columnName like this. (In more complex queries this is more or a less a must):
cursor.getInt(c.getColumnIndex("_id"));

And just as a note: Don't forget to call cursor.moveToFirstPosition() or cursor.moveToPosition(position) before doing something like cursor.getInt(int), cursor.getString(int) etc.


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Marlon Humphrey working toward joining Ravens' defensive greats
Updated: Jun. 17, 2021, 11:14 a.m. |
Published: Jun. 17, 2021, 11:14 a.m.
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey works at practice on June 8, 2021, in Owings Mills, Md.AP Photo/Julio Cortez
During a press conference on Wednesday, Baltimore cornerback Marlon Humphrey was asked about being considered as a possible successor in the line of Ravens defensive greats such as Ray Lewis and Ed Reed. But the former Alabama All-American spent most of his time with reporters talking about what he's doing to improve before the 2021 NFL season.
"Any time you're compared to the Ray Lewises and the Ed Reeds, it's definitely always an honor," Humphrey said. "I can't say I've heard that too many times, but if that's what's being talked about, that's definitely a huge honor. I know those guys got some Defensive Player of the Year (awards), so I probably need to get one of those in order to really try to be one of those cornerstone pieces. But, definitely, it's always an honor to be compared to those guys. This organization is defense, defense, defense, and with those defenses, you've got a lot of guys that you think of when you think of those great defenses."
Humphrey earned his second straight Pro Bowl selection in 2020. He had been a first-team All-Pro pick in 2019.
Last season, Humphrey led the NFL with eight forced fumbles. He also reached a career high with 82 tackles, intercepted one pass and had 11 passes defended. He collected 2.5 sacks in 2020 after having none in his first three seasons.
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"I guess something I'm trying to focus on this year going into the season is really just trying to get the ball more, as far as interceptions," Humphrey said, "and mainly clean up different things with knowing where my help is, using that more, to where I can be a little more aggressive here, a little less aggressive here depending on different things. …
"What (secondary) coach Chris (Hewitt) keeps telling me is: 'Have a game plan when you get to the line.' That's something that I think I'm going to take into the season. I think that's the quote that I'm going to use. Every time you line up, you want to have a game plan. You never just want to line up and kind of just be not in a stance, kind of just all over the place. You want to get the call, know the call. Once you get all that -- all the pre-snap stuff -- figure out your game plan, how you're going to do what you need to do and have it to where it's so in-tune that it just comes natural."
Humphrey should have the opportunity to join Lewis and Reed as Ravens' defensive icons, if his play merits it, because he signed a five-year, $97.5 million contract extension on Oct. 1 that could keep him in Baltimore through the 2026 season.
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Humphrey has been working this week in Baltimore at the Ravens' mandatory minicamp, which wrapped up the team's offseason program with Thursday's practice. He also attended the voluntary Phase III practices commonly called OTAs (for organized team activities).
"As far as OTAs, some guys come, some guys don't -- it's an optional thing," Humphrey said. "But for me, I just wanted to get back, get some sessions in, get with my coach, work on a couple things. It's a long offseason, and I was ready to get to work -- work with some of these guys. And so, I enjoyed it.
"I feel like I wanted to see how our draft picks looked, how some of the guys have been working in the offseason. I really wanted to see how I was -- just with my training, see how it worked up with some of the guys, so it was a good OTAs and minicamp, and it was really good to see everybody all together the past two days to get some good work in."
During the offseason work, Humphrey noted the "major energy change" for Baltimore's wide receivers, now working under coach Tee Martin, a former Williamson High School star in Mobile.
The Ravens added to their wide-receiver corps this offseason by signing Sammy Watkins in free agency and drafting Minnesota's Rashod Bateman in the first round and Oklahoma State's Tylan Wallace in the fourth round.
"The best thing for me is when you've got really good wide receivers that are doing good things in practice, it makes training camp that much more realistic because that's the work we need," Humphrey said. "We try to pride ourselves on being the best secondary, and it's hard to be a really great secondary when you've got two or three good wide receivers. You want to have it to where you've got five and six and seven wide receivers, to where it makes it really tough on what wide receivers you pick. It seems like in the past, it was like these three guys, these four guys are for sure going to make it, and then we don't know about this guy. I feel like this year, it'll be a really tough decision to figure out who's going to make it, because we've got some serious stuff."
"I think the coaches over there -- the new coaches -- are really pushing them to be great."
The Baltimore players are scheduled to report for training camp on July 27. The Ravens play the New Orleans Saints on Aug. 14, Carolina Panthers on Aug. 21 and Washington Football Team on Aug. 28 in preseason games before kicking off the regular season against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sept. 13.
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I have lived in Forest Park for the past four years and am a very proud resident. I am a history graduate from Huddersfield University, a former teacher and now a Sports Coach for schools in the area. I am passionate about inspiring children to take up sports such a cricket and football, making sure all children have the same chances to achieve success in their chosen sport. I have run junior cricket teams at Crowthorne and Crown Wood and last year we won the U13s Berkshire Central league. I have also worked for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Marie Curie cancer Care and fundraised by running half marathons for the Babies in Buscot Support Charity -associated with the Royal Berks Hospital.
I enjoy living in Bracknell but feel it could be even better. I believe Councillors should involve residents in decision making, contacting them regularly with face to face discussions. Handing real power to communities in the form of co-operatives is a passion of mine. The provision of 'affordable' housing would also be a priority.
Having lived in Bracknell Forest for 19 years, I want to support the community that has supported me. I work for a children's charity based in Forest Park, and am involved in campaigns on issues that matter, including street lighting, public transport, local shops and the state of our green areas.
I am Danielle Turner and I have lived in many parts of Bracknell Forest for most of my life.
I have lived in Crown Wood for the past 10 years and my two youngest children are current pupils at Crown Wood Primary School.
I would like to be your council representative because I truly believe that Crown Wood and Forest Park is a beautiful area. I am committed to ensuring this continues for future generations through community litter picks and fighting for much needed bins in the area.
As a fellow resident I too am concerned about the street lighting or lack of, the increase in Van/car crime over the last year and the increase in parking issues.
I am also passionate about our children's services, community services and affordable housing.
If elected I will ensure that I do everything I can to give a voice for our residents and take the much needed action to improve this.
With over 20 years' previous experience in sales and marketing I am now a Product, Process and Service trainer in the funeral industry. The most important thing I have learnt thought my career is that to understand the problems you have to not only see, but also listen! Only then can you truly understand and take the right steps towards a positive solution for all.