A three-man delegation from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), a UK- based Charity and of the Birdlife International Partnership, on Tuesday June 29, 2004, called on President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at his Hill Station Office in Freetown.
Members of the delegation, who are guests of the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone (CSSL), are in Freetown to finalize proposals with CSSL and the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, and also to present the Global Conservation Award of 2004 to the Honorary President of CSSL, Dr. Sama Banya.
Briefing President Kabbah on reasons for their visit, the leader of the visiting delegation, Mr. Alistair Gammell, Director, International Division, RSPB, said the Royal Society of the Protection of Birds (RSPB), has been working with the CSSL for over fifteen years, with special focus on the conservation of the Gola Forests and the Gola Forest Reserve in particular.
Mr. Gammell said that the Gola Forests are one of the last remaining fragments of the Upper Guinea Rain forests, which once spread from Ghana to Sierra Leone and that they are well known as a global hotspot for biodiversity.
Mr. Alistair Gammell warned that if conventional logging was allowed to continue the timber companies would make payments for about ten years and then depart, leaving both the local communities and people of Sierra Leone with no further income and a severely damaged resources. Sierra Leone would at the same time lose a unique asset which may be used in the future for tourism or bio-prospecting.
He explained that because of the importance of these forests they have been working with seven local chiefdoms, CSSL and the Forestry Department, and have developed a proposal on how to keep the forest preserved. The framework for the project was agreed to have a Conservation Concession, with the objective of preserving these forests and their assets in perpetuity. This, Mr. Gammell continued, will provide funding for the conservation of the Gola Forest Reserves and for the development of local communities. The RSPB and other donors will provide the funding.
As preserved forests, their care and conservation will be an on-going responsibility, and their funding will continue in perpetuity. Mr. Gammell requested that the forests be designated as a protected area to be managed in accord with a management plan to be agreed upon by the Forestry Department, CSSL, the local communities and RSPB.
He said that the project will deliver about 400,000 US dollars to Sierra Leone every year in perpetuity and it will also conserve a vital asset of the country and the world indeed. The project is also expected to assist Sierra Leone in the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the National Biodiversity Plan.
In his remarks, President Kabbah expressed appreciation to members of the delegation for identifying a project of this nature for our forests in Sierra Leone. He noted that terrible things have happened in other parts of the world due to forest degradation because the people concerned did not know about the things the RSPB are asking us to do. He said that there is absolute necessity to strictly preserve our major forests for posterity and that generations will not forgive us if we sit by and allow our forests to be depleted. He mentioned the Kasewe Forest Reserve, which also needs serious attention.
President Kabbah also remarked that NGOs operating in this country should try to see how they could put back on track the things that have been destroyed, like the RSPB is doing. NGOs, he said, should look at human rights issues and bring to the attention of government areas they think are not going on correctly. NGOs should not be adversaries or put themselves in confrontation with government, but they can have inputs into the policies of government in their various areas of specialization through consultation and concertation.
The President also noted that there is need to have a project where we can grow trees for fuel wood so as to reduce the pressure on our forests for fire wood.
Talking about the management plan for the project, Mr. Gammell said that there is provision for the involvement of the local people. The initial budget, he said, would train 35 forest guards who will be employed by the project. This will enable them benefit from the forest reserve. They will also assist the local communities in the use of the forests around the reserve.
The leader of the delegation, Mr. Alistair Gammell, handed the Global Conservation Achievement Award 2004 to President Kabbah, stating that as Chief Patron of the Conservation Society of Sierra Leone, it was his pleasure to request His Excellency to present the Award to Dr. Sama Banya. The Award was presented to Dr. Banya by the Birdlife International for his work in the preservation of biodiversity. Mr. Gammell praised Dr. Banya for demonstrating great leadership and commitment to conservation and biodiversity preservation. Dr. Banya is also a Global 500 Laureate of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Presenting the Award to Dr. Sama Banya, President Kabbah commended him for his commitment to the conservation of our biodiversity and encouraged him to continue the good work.


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The Dendera Light Bulbs: electricity in ancient Egypt
Dendera light bulbs are part of a bas-relief engraving in a temple dedicated to Goddess Hator. 2 oval spheres with snakes reminiscent of a bulb connected to a cable that may depict the possibility of electricity in ancient Egypt.
Electricity in ancient Egypt
Did the Egyptians use artificial light to move inside the pyramids? No remains or torch marks or lamps were found on ceilings and walls inside the tombs and pyramids.
Hathor was a very important goddess in the pantheon of ancient Egypt, embodied joy, love and motherhood, and her place of worship was in Dendera.
The city of Dendera is found about 60 kilometers north of Luxor. There is evidence of religious structures built during the reign of the pharaoh of the Ancient Empire Pepi I.
There are also the ruins of a temple built at the time of the New Empire, specifically of the 18th Dynasty. And in this temple are the famous "Dendera bulbs".
In the early 1980s, researchers Peter Krassa and Reinhard Habeck, brought to light a very revolutionary hypothesis based on the use of electric power in ancient Egypt.
The reliefs of the crypt are of cosmogony and show a snake born in a lotus flower, which is the symbol of creation.
The official explanation says that Harsomtus is the denomination that the Greeks gave to the Egyptian god Hor-sema-tauy, who takes various forms in the representations and one of them is that of a snake emerging from a lotus.
The closed lotuses from which Harsumtus is born are the supposed light bulbs. The unofficial explanation hypothesizes that the reliefs represent the use of electrical technology in Ancient Egypt.
But at the time when several supposed lamps were recorded, the Alexandria Library already existed, where the best thinkers of the Hellenic world were going and none of them recorded the existence of electricity in Egypt.
Hathor was also considered a goddess of healing. Pilgrims came to this temple to be healed by the goddess.
To do this, baths were held in sacred water, the priests gave them ointments and rooms were offered in which to sleep to those who hoped that the goddess would appear in their dreams, to help them.
The Hathor Temple was built largely during the Late Ptolemaic period, more specifically during the reigns of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra VII.
Although it was built by a dynasty of pharaohs that was not native to Egypt, it can be seen that the design of the temple is very similar to that of other temples. Do you think there was electricity in ancient times?
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Q: Default values for missing fields in a left join? In Pig, when I do left join and a row does not have row, the values are NULL:
c = join a by ($0) left, b by ($0);

if
a=((1,10),(2,20))
b=((1,30))

then
c=((1,10,30),(2,20,NULL))

I want to use a default value (say, -1) instead of NULL so that
c=((1,10,30),(2,20,-1))

How do I do that?
If that is impossible, how do I change the 3rd column of c to have the default value instead of NULL?

A: I am not aware if that can be done within the join statement, but you add add another statement:
d = FOREACH c GENERATE $0, $1, (($2 IS NULL) ? -1 : $2);

I guess it won't trigger an additional MR job.

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Багате́ль ( — маленькая изящная вещь, безделушка) — небольшая, лёгкая в исполнении музыкальная пьеса, главным образом для фортепиано.

Первая багатель
Самая первая багатель под этим же названием была создана Франсуа Купереном в его втором сборнике клавесинных пьес, в котором одно рондо было озаглавлено Les bagatelles (багатели, безделицы).

Самые известные багатели

XIX век
Вероятно, наиболее известные багатели были написаны Людвигом ван Бетховеном (1770—1827), который опубликовал три сборника: «Багатели. Опус 33», «Багатели. Опус 119» и «Багатели. Опус 126». Он также написал несколько подобных произведений, которые не были опубликованы при его жизни, включая пьесу, которая наиболее известна как «К Элизе» (багатель Опус 59, её относят к 1810 году).

Другие примечательные примеры — это:
 «Багатель без тональности» Ференца Листа (раннее исследование атональности),
 сборник Антонина Дворжака для двух скрипок, виолончели и фисгармонии (опус 47), сборник Бедржиха Сметаны,
 багатели Яна Сибелиуса.
 Антон Диабелли также написал багатель в короткой и весёлой форме.
 Камиль Сен-Санс написал шесть багателей (опус 3).

XX век
В двадцатом столетии несколько композиторов написали сборники, включая:
 Белу Бартока, который написал сборник из четырнадцати багателей (опус 6);
 Александра Черепнина.
 Антон Веберн написал шесть багателей для струнного квартета (опус 9);
 Джеральд Финци — «Пять багателей» для кларнета и фортепиано.

Каноническим современным примером багателей является сборник Дьёрдя Лигети, который изначально сочинил шесть багателей для фортепиано, а позднее переделал их для духовых в 1953 году («Шесть багателей для квинтета духовых»).

Уильям Уолтон также написал «Пять багателей» для гитары соло, вошедших в репертуар таких выдающихся классических гитаристов, как Джулиан Брим, Кристофер Паркенинг и Ана Видович.

Американский композитор Чарльз Вуоринен написал багатель для фортепиано соло, к которой он позднее сделал оркестровку.

Австралийский композитор Карл Вайн тоже написал пять багателей для фортепиано (1994), которые довольно часто исполняются на соревнованиях по игре на фортепиано, особенно в Австралии.

Из российских композиторов известен Эдисон Денисов, написавший в 1960 году семь пьес-багателей.

В последних сочинениях Валентина Сильвестрова главной формой становится именно багатель. Для Сильвестрова в ней таится глубокий смысл — непосредственного, спонтанного самовыражения, импровизационного высказывания. «Сущность часто может таиться в пустяках, — говорит композитор. — В пустяке содержится крупица высокого, как в капле росы отражается солнце. Мы можем обнаружить это в инвенциях Баха, прелюдиях Шопена, где видим ту же высоту, что и в больших композициях, но сконцентрированную в мгновении».

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 К Элизе

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A phenomenon which may occur when a VIP* is admitted to a major medical centre or university hospital.
In the chief syndrome, the chief of a service may be more involved in departmental administration than in hands-on practice of his specialty, and may be unfamiliar with the location of essential equipment, and out of practice with routine procedures. The chief is nonetheless pressed into service–since a VIP warrants nothing less than the best, when in fact the VIP may receive suboptimal care.


Fish and Slips is a 1962 cartoon starring Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. directed by Robert McKimson.
Sylvester and his son go fishing trip in a closed down aquarium where there are different types of fishes. It doesn't end well for Sylvester.


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2006- Senior Research Fellow/Coordinator, Centre for Energy Research, NUPI 2005-2006 Senior Advisor, Nordic Research Board (NordForsk) on Russia, the Baltic States and EU 2005 External Expert for World Bank in evaluation of Low-Income Countries Under Stress (LICUS)
Indra Overland heads the Centre for Energy Research at NUPI, and is Professor II at Nord University. He did his PhD at the University of Cambridge and has since worked extensively on the post-Soviet energy sector, including oil, gas and renewables.
He was awarded the Toby Jackman Prize for the best PhD dissertation in the year 2000, the Marcel Cadieux Prize for an article on Russia's Arctic energy policy in the International Journal in 2010, the Stuland Prize at NUPI in 2013 and co-authored the most cited article published in the Journal of Eurasian Studies.
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BRI in Central Asia: Energy Connectivity Projects
Roman Vakulchuk
Wind Power Potential of the Central Asian Countries
BRI in Central Asia: Industrial Projects
Hydropower Potential of the Central Asian Countries
BRI in Central Asia: Agriculture and Food Projects
BRI in Central Asia: Rail and Road Connectivity Projects
Renewable Energy Policies of the Central Asian Countries
BRI in Central Asia: Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, Extraction and Processing Projects
Solar Power Potential of the Central Asian Countries
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China's Belt and Road Initiative through the lens of Central Asia
Has the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by China in 2013, changed the perception of China among local actors in Central Asia? There are numerous internal problems and contradictions among the Central Asian countries and the region remains one of the least integrated in the world. This poses...
The geopolitics of renewable energy: Debunking four emerging myths
This article seeks to nip in the bud four emerging myths about the geopolitics of the rise of renewable energy and the concomitant increase in electricity usage. The article presents alternative perspectives, arguing that (1) the risk of geopolitical competition over critical materials for renewable...
Variations on Public Brainpower: Findings from Country Case Studies of Oil- and Gas-Producing Countries
This chapter sums up the 18 case-study chapters that make up the bulk of this volume and prepares the ground for the concluding chapter. It begins by reviewing and highlighting the case-study findings, followed by notes and reflections on some general challenges encountered in the preparation of the...
Did China Bankroll Russia's Annexation of Crimea? The Role of Sino-Russian Energy Relations
This chapter is an empirical analysis of energy cooperation between China and Russia, centred on the Ukrainian crisis as a defining event of the partnership. Despite China's officially neutral political stance on Crimea, the increased frequency of meetings to discuss joint energy projects and the signing...
Introduction: Civil Society, Public Debate and Natural Resource Management
The introductory chapter establishes the analytical framework for this edited volume. The literature on the resource curse and institutions is briefly discussed, along with the work on civil society and the public sphere by Almond and Verba, Dahl, Habermas and Putnam. Drawing on these classics, the...
Russia: Public Debate and the Petroleum Sector
In Russia, civil society engagement with the petroleum sector is surprisingly rich and varied for a country that is ranked low on most democracy-related indicators. This chapter finds that there is a lively and varied public debate, with business associations, research institutes, independent experts,...
Lonely Minds: Natural Resource Governance without Input from Society
This concluding chapter draws together the threads from the 18 case studies of oil- and gas-producing countries, relating them to the theoretical concept of 'public brainpower' and the arguments presented in the introductory chapter. It elaborates on the concept of public brainpower in greater detail,...
Norway: Public Debate and the Management of Petroleum Resources and Revenues
This chapter assesses the importance of civil society involvement and public debate for Norwegian petroleum governance. It finds that during the early years of the country's oil and gas development most important choices were made by a small number of decision-makers in government with little input from...


Firecracker Sugar Cookie Bars with cream cheese frosting are the perfect 4th of July treat. Candy Pop Rocks are sprinkled on top for an added surprise!
These Firecracker Sugar Cookie Bars are such a fun 4th of July treat! Kids are crazy about the Pop Rocks on top. It is like firecrackers popping in your mouth with each bite! I love making sugar cookie bars when feeding a crowd because they are just SO easy. You don't have to scoop out perfectly sized dough balls and you can bake them in just one quick batch. Also, you don't have to chill the dough at all when you are making these. You can just throw it all in the pan and bake right away. You don't need the dough to be stiff to do cut outs so chilling just isn't necessary.
If you want to make things harder on yourself and make cut outs, that is totally ok, too. If you decide to go this route, after mixing, you will want to roll the dough into a ball after mixing and allow to chill in the fridge for little while. Remove from the fridge and roll out dough onto a floured surface using a rolling pin. Don't roll them out too thin though– you want them to be chewy still. Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes (I have to admit, star shaped cookies would be SUPER cute for these). Bake at 350 for about 10 minutes. Don't overcook or they will be too hard. Frost and top with Pop Rocks just as you would in this recipe.
I used a combination of Pop Rocks, rock candy, and edible star sprinkles. If I could have found blue Pop Rocks I would have ONLY used Pop Rocks but I couldn't find them at my grocery store this time so I got rock candy instead. I know blue Pop Rocks exist because I have had them before. They are usually in stores but I was just unlucky this time.
If you plan a couple days ahead, you can order them online HERE. They are actually a really good deal online, cheaper than what I got them for at the grocery store. Plus, you can get a few extra to pass around for your 4th of July party. I'm sure you won't have any complaints. Kids love that stuff!
I found the edible star sprinkles (see above picture) at Hobby Lobby but you can also find them online HERE. Again, they are cheaper online than they were at my craft store. If I was smart and planned ahead I could have saved a little cash. Oh well, next time.
Add eggs, milk and vanilla.
Mix together until dough can hold together into a ball.
Spray a 9x13 glass baking dish.
Drop clumps of dough evenly around pan.
Press dough down evenly with hands or spatula.
Bake 15-18 minutes or until dough BARELY starts getting golden around the edges. Do not over bake!
Beat together cream cheese, butter, and vanilla. Add powdered sugar to desired consistency.
Spread over cooled cookie bars.
Cut cookies into squares and top with Pop Rocks and sprinkles.
Patriotic Poke Cake: A red, white, and blue poke cake perfect for a crowd!
Family Reunion Meal Planning Guide: Speaking of crowds, is your Family Reunion over the 4th? This meal planning guide will help you with everything you need for feeding a large group!
Top 40 Grill Recipes: Planning on pulling out the grill before the fireworks start? We have 40 awesome grill recipes for you to choose from!


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Your CRM system is the clearing house where every customer contact should be stored and made accessible to the management team, sales, ops, marketing and finance.
A good system will turn your data into information to provide insights about your customers and their habits, the market and its potential and the sales team and its performance.
But hold on a minute. The system can only analyse and report on data that has been entered in to it. If there's no data to work on, your CRM is an expensive gimmick and, unfortunately, this is all too often the case. Why?
The answer, if your CRM system is primarily used as a sales tool, is that this means relying on the sales team to update the system and, as a class, sales people hate logging information because it eats up way too much time. The information they are asked for is often nothing to do with their goal of closing the sale and to make matters worse they probably haven't even been told why this information is important to the business in the first place.
However, for any organization that wants to succeed, it is important that sales do embrace the CRM and input the data that they collect during sales calls because this information can only help the company to make better, more informed decisions. So, your sales team need to buy into why they are being asked to log this information, you have to make it easy for them to do so and, finally, there must be something in it for them.
So what do salespeople want from their CRM?
CRM tends to cater to three groups: management, marketing and sales and they each have different requirements. Managers want to know what's happening; are the sales team achieving their numbers? Marketers need to understand how, or even if, their stratagems and campaigns are working so they can constantly tweak their promotions and tactics.
Finally there's the sales team, and they just want to sell. Shiny, multi-coloured reports pulling together half a dozen different data streams may be just what the marketing doctor ordered but the sales person's heart will be unmoved. What they need is a system that is intuitive and simple and that delivers fast, usable information.
A good, correctly tailored CRM is of real value to sales. Their targets are going up, sales teams are shrinking and no other tool can make usable information available like CRM. So the challenge is to encourage sales to perceive CRM as an assistant, not an additional management shackle.
The key is to choose a CRM that automates as much as possible, for example by creating as many pre-defined fields as possible that they can complete quickly and logically after the call. A good CRM will allow you to do this, and will also let you to tweak and update these fields as often as required. In addition, you should choose a system that will allow them to access the system immediately, or even during, the call.
Management use CRM to see what is happening. Marketing use CRM to see what has happened. Sales need CRM to tell them about the future.
CRM should alert and remind sales about the next stage so they can be ready for the next contact. For them, a good CRM is one where they look-up the prospect's profile and everything they need to take the prospect forward is right there. It's all about what's next.
This is a simplistic view of course and there can be no doubt that history can teach us what went wrong and what went well but this will only work if you present the system in a way that the sales team care about; hitting target and earning money.
They want CRM for them, not you.
The best way of selling your sales people on the idea of CRM is involving them from the outset. When you're choosing a system, you should go for a supplier that builds a system around the distinct needs of all stakeholders, in other words your sales team should be involved right from the start so that their requirements can be put at the heart of the system. They can have the benefits of being structured and organized without actually having to do it themselves, but only if the CRM is built around them.
A typical off the shelf or semi-configurable system blithely assumes that all prospects will dutifully trot down the process path laid out for them by the CRM itself. Anyone with any experience of selling understands that this is an unrealistic hope with little grounding in the real world.
Sales people want a CRM that matches the process flows which they and the prospect actually use. This demands a solution that will support them without too much clerical work whilst providing enough flexibility to alter the flow as required. The best systems will allow you to offer the sales team a degree of self-customisation, within a standard level of record keeping.
The last point to note in this section is the syndrome of Death By Compulsory Fields. No-one will fill out a form that requires 25 compulsory answers; try that and I guarantee you a mutiny.
If sales people are not interested in the information they are being asked to collect they often record it incompletely, if they record it at all. However, there is no getting away from the fact that there is information that the sales team could supply that would be genuinely useful to the business and this need can only grow in the future. Perhaps then, you need to rethink your reward structure to include recognising actions taken by sales that they currently don't see any reason for taking.
For example, gamified CRMs that reward for compliance with a structured process that's known to generate results will improve the performance of staff who are behind the curve. You show a sales person a league table and he or she will immediately set to work to be at the top of it.
Your sales team have got to get used to a data-driven future where the organisation orients itself along lines dictated by massive amounts of highly-analysed customer and prospect data. They have to come around to the fact that the information they generate when they make a sale, or do anything else, is absolutely vital; they can't just shake hands and move on to the next prospect. However, if you choose the right CRM supplier, one that includes the sales department from the get go and builds to their needs and specification you can give them a tool that really is 'sales' software.


For a long time I though that being Caucasian meant that I had no culture.
"Culture" wasn't a word that I heard (or used) often growing up in Western New York; my friends, neighbors, classmates and I all shared the same ethnicity (more or less) and our foods, holidays, and day-to-day routines were all very similar. And, while this is pretty much the exact definition of culture, the sameness of our culture made it feel non-existent.
After high school (and eighteen years without much cultural diversity) I moved to the suburbs of New York City — and, that's when I first started to think about culture as more than a definition from a textbook. A freshman on a small college campus — where only twenty five percent of the student body checked "White, non-Hispanic" on their application — I was surrounded by teenagers from around the world. By the time I graduated four years later I had friends from Thailand, Greece, Nicaragua, China, Romania, Poland, and Trinidad; I had traveled outside the country for the first time; sat cross-legged in strangers' apartments listening to live Indian ragas more times than I could possibly count; and had finally mustered up the courage to eat raw fish.
I met David during my senior year of college. Like so many other people that I knew, David had deeply rooted connections to a defining set of ideas — ideas that stretched far beyond the time and place in which we existed. David's family was from the Caribbean and he grew up salsa dancing with his cousins, eating pernil (instead of turkey) on Thanksgiving Day, and greeting people with a kiss on the cheek. David had culture.
The fact that I ended up marrying David probably didn't help my cultural identity crisis; for the past ten years, I have been surrounded by people, all of whom share a common culture— a culture that has, at times, made me feel as though I don't belong. David taught me to respond "German and English" when people asked me the puzzling "what-are-you" question but it has never really felt like a good representation of the person that I am.
And then, last week, I had a thought. Like most of my illuminations, it happened in my kitchen, while I was cooking.
I was making a big batch of shakshuka and I started thinking about how similar the dish was to eggs in purgatory — both are basically eggs baked in a spicy tomato sauce; they're just seasoned a little differently. Or, how similar shakshuka is to Mexican huevos rancheros — except that huevos rancheros are served on a tortilla. Or, Turkish menemen. Or, Spanish pisto. And, on and on.
Anyhow, the point is, that all of these different regions took eggs, baked them in tomato sauce, and made a dish that has become a representation of their respective cultures. Culture is, in effect, what we make it — culture is what we choose for ourselves. Sure, most people assume much of their culture from the society in which they were raised or from the practices of their ancestors but, ultimately, they either choose to continue a certain set of practices or they choose to adopt new beliefs, customs, and ways of life.
And so, as it turns out, I have just as much culture as anyone else does; I've just been conflating culture with ethnicity. And a little bit of heritage.
That being said, shakshuka is a dish that has become written into my family's culture. We may not be of Tunisian descent but we eat a lot of vegetarian meals (and a lot of eggs) and this is something I make on a regular basis. My version is topped with goat cheese (because it's one of those ingredient that I just can't get enough of) and fresh cilantro (we always have some on hand — it's a key ingredient in Latin cuisine) but many of the other flavors in the tomato sauce are traditional: garlic, cumin, paprika, and chili pepper flakes. I like to serve it with freshly baked pita bread — it's perfect for sopping up the spicy tomato sauce.
Drizzle a small amount of oil into a large, enameled, cast-iron Dutch oven (if you don't have a Dutch oven, you can make this recipe in any oven-proof skillet but make a half batch) and heat the oil over medium-low heat. Add the onion and peppers and cook slowly, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 15 minutes.
Add the spices and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds more.
Then, add the tomatoes and all of their juices. Season with salt and pepper, stir to combine, and bring to a simmer. Allow the stew to simmer until thickened slightly, about 15 minutes.
When the stew has thickened, taste it and add more salt or pepper, if needed. Then, crumble the goat cheese and sprinkle it all over the top of the stew.
Using a spoon, make 8 indentations in the stew. Crack an egg into each of the spaces. Cover the pan and pace it in the preheated oven. Bake the shakshuka until the eggs are just set and the yolks are still runny, about 6-7 minutes.
Garnish the shakshuka with cilantro and hot sauce and serve with bread.


Preparing gluten-free food for a guest with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity is a serious responsibility because the guest's health is at stake. Learn the importance of checking with your guest about whether or not you should cook for them, and then see safer cooking and serving methods to use.
Before you put a lot of effort into fixing gluten-free food for one of your guests, check with that guest to make sure they're comfortable eating food that's prepared by someone else. The gluten-free diet is incredibly complicated with a very steep learning curve. Many people with celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity get surprisingly sick when they eat a tiny bit of gluten. That could be an amount you can't see, but which might be stuck in the corner of your cookie sheet or in a scratch on your non-stick spaghetti pot.
To guard against hurt feelings, always ask your guest about the best way to proceed. Your gluten-free friend or family member may give you the green light to cook for her. Or, she may give you a specific brand name of the packaged food to purchase or a specific restaurant's carry-out meal to order. She might simply say she'll bring her own food.
Don't take it personally if she won't eat what you fix—it's nothing against your food. It's just something your loved one needs to do to stay healthy.
When you're eating gluten-free, you must avoid the grains wheat, barley, rye, and most oats. This is tricky because these grains and ingredients made from them are included in many packaged products. But don't be afraid. If your guest gives you the go-ahead to cook for him or her, follow these instructions to make a safe meal.
A simple, safe menu would include: plain meat or fish (grilled on a clean grill, broiled, or cooked in a pan with some olive oil or butter), a fresh salad with some olive oil and balsamic vinegar, cooked vegetables (steamed, roasted, or sautéed with olive oil), some safe starch (plain potatoes, corn, quinoa, rice, or kasha), and fresh fruit for dessert.
Cook from scratch: To avoid hidden gluten, use whole, fresh ingredients. Avoid "convenience" ingredients such as gravy mixes, soup mixes, bottled sauces, salad dressings, condiments, and seasoning mixes, since these may contain gluten-based ingredients. Check a list of gluten-free foods for safer ingredients.
Involve your gluten-free guest in your planning: Take the time to go over the menu together in advance. There may be something problematic that she can spot more easily than you can.
Only use a packaged product if it's labeled gluten-free: If your favorite ingredient is not labeled gluten-free and you're wondering whether it's safe, call your guest and let her be the judge. Note that wheat-free does not mean gluten-free.
If something's easy to make gluten-free, prepare it that way: For example, serve croutons on the side rather than putting them on the salad. Use a gluten-free soup to make your casserole.
Avoid gluten cross-contamination in your kitchen: Be careful not to prepare gluten-free foods on the same surface used to prepare foods with gluten unless that surface has been thoroughly cleaned. Make sure your utensils are cleaned after preparing gluten-containing foods. Don't use scratched or wooden cutting boards or wooden spoons to make gluten-free foods as these can harbor microscopic bits of gluten.
Beware of even microscopic amounts of gluten: For example, you can't stuff a turkey with gluten-containing stuffing and then count on feeding the "outside" meat to someone who's gluten-free. You can't add even a tiny amount of a gluten-containing seasoning mix to anything your gluten-free guest will eat. And you can't grill your guest's meat on a grill that hasn't been thoroughly cleaned, assuming you've ever used an unsafe marinade on it (or even toasted a hamburger bun).
Avoid cross-contamination at the table: For example, keep all your chips and other appetizers gluten-free, or they'll contaminate your gluten-free dip. Keep bread away from your guest's plate and away from all the serving dishes (otherwise, crumbs can fall into the gluten-free food). Plate up a fresh stick of butter and designate it solely for the use of your gluten-free guests.
Enlist your other guests: Explain that some of your food is gluten-free and needs to stay that way. No matter how carefully you prepare in advance, if one of your guests uses the spoon from the crouton-filled Caesar salad to serve himself some of the gluten-free potatoes, the potatoes are no longer gluten-free.
Give your guest a tour of the food and invite her to serve herself first: When you're ready to eat, point out what's safe and what's not to your gluten-free guest. Then, offer your guest the opportunity to take portions before the food has been accidentally contaminated by the other guests.
If your guest is a regular visitor, buy some gluten-free supplies and foods to keep around: Check with your guest to see what foods and brands are acceptable, and stash them in an upper cabinet or in the back of your freezer. That way, you've always got something gluten-free to offer. Even if it's just a frozen mac and cheese, it could be a welcome sight to a hungry guest.
Invite your gluten-free guest to bring her own food: Many people following the gluten-free diet truly fear to hurt their loved ones' feelings over food. Some will even eat food they know will make them sick, just to avoid those hurt feelings. If you can preempt this by telling your friend or family member you understand, and that she should bring her own food if that makes her more comfortable, you'll be doing both of you a favor.
Cooking for someone with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity is tricky, but it can be done with a lot of careful preparation. Following these rules can help you accommodate your friend or family member, and should make both of you more comfortable at your gathering.


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China's Sixth Generation Fighter Jet Is Finally Ready For Action, US Air Force Needs To Get There First: ACC Chief
China is at work on a sixth-generation fighter jet, meant to replace the current J-20 model
America's Chinese "frenemies" are "not having a debate over the relevance of six-gen air dominance. And I can also tell you they're on track," said Air Combat Command head Gen. Mark Kelly.
China is at work on a sixth-generation fighter jet, meant to replace the current J-20 model, shown here. (Photo by Yang Kunye/VCG via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON — With China "on track" to develop a sixth-generation fighter, the US Air Force needs to ensure it fields its own next-generation fighter first, the head of Air Combat Command said recently.
"I cannot tell you today what's going on in China except they're planning for their 20th National Party Congress [in October]. But I can tell you what's not happening. They're not having a debate over the relevance of six-gen air dominance. And I can also tell you they're on track," ACC commander Gen. Mark Kelly said during a roundtable with reporters at the Air and Space Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber conference last week.
The US Air Force needs to "make sure we get to six-gen air dominance at least a month prior to our competitors," Kelly said.
While most nations — including the United States — have divulged little information about their sixth generation fighter programs, China has been even more secretive about its efforts.
During a 2019 interview, Wang Haifeng, chief designer for the Chengdu Aerospace Corporation, stated that China was conducting pre-research on a next-generation fighter, with an eye to having a new capability ready to "protect the sea and sky" by 2035.
While Wang said little about China's design, he pointed to several elements that he believed would characterize future US fighter capability, such as being able to team with drones, the use of artificial intelligence, improvements in stealth and omnidirectional sensors. Designs could also feature "less certain" disruptive technologies, such as drone swarms, lasers and adaptive engines, he said.
Currently, the US Air Force is on track to become the first six-gen fighter user, provided it can begin fielding its Next Generation Air Dominance family of systems on time — "by the end of the decade," according to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. The service first flew a manned NGAD prototype in 2020, and Kendall has said the service could pick a manufacturer for the program in the near future.
However, the program is very complex — with a family of systems that includes a manned fighter, new weapons and likely several varieties of drones — and will be hugely expensive, with the manned NGAD fighter costing "hundreds of millions" per unit, according to Kendall. All of that could drive potential schedule delays, closing the gap between the US and Chinese timelines.
During the roundtable, Kelly said that China's conception of a sixth-generation fighter seem to mirror the United States' own.
"By and large is they see it greatly the way we see it in terms of an exponential reduction in signature and exponential acceleration in processing power and sensing, and the ability to iterate in terms of open mission systems, to be able to essentially reprogram at the speed of relevance," Kelly said. "The differences, I think, are a nuance."
For instance, China tends to slowly iterate from one fighter variant into another, such as how China morphed Russia's Su-27 and Su-30 into its domestically produced J-16, Kelly said. By contrast, American aircraft design is characterized by large jumps in capability.
"We as a nation, we tend to let go of the trapeze and kind of make a leap for the next rung. Our Chinese frenemies, they tend to iterate," he said. "That makes a little bit easier for them to grab the rung when they go off-pitch."
Although Kelly raised alarms that China could outpace the US when it comes to sixth-generation capabilities, Pacific Air Forces commander Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach had a much more muted reaction when asked about China's current fighter capabilities on Sept. 19.
China's fifth-generation J-20 is "nothing that I would worry too much about," Wilsbach told reporters. "It's their most modern aircraft. We've had a limited opportunity to assess it. Seems okay. It seems okay. It's not anything to lose a lot of sleep over, but they seem to be a building a lot of them."
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Intelligent Metasurface Imager Can Remotely Monitor People Using Radio-Frequency Probe Signals
a) An illustrative scenario for monitoring people in a typical indoor environment in a smart, real-time and inexpensive way, where the intelligent metasurface decorated as a part of wall is used to adaptively manipulate ambient Wi-Fi signals.
b) The schematic configuration of intelligent metasurface system by coming a large-aperture programmable metasurface for manipulating and sampling the EM wavefields adaptively with artificial neural networks (ANNs) for controlling and processing the data flow instantly. The intelligent metasurface has two operational modes: active and passive modes. In the active mode, the intelligent system has a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna. In the passive mode, the intelligent system has a pair of receiving antennas.
c) Microwave data processing flow by using deep learning CNNs. In (c), the microwave data are processed with IM-CNN-1to form the image of the whole human body. Then, the Faster R-CNN is performed to find the region of interest (ROI) from the whole image, for instance, the chest for respiration monitoring, and the hand for sign language recognition. Afterward, the G-S algorithm is used to find the coding sequence for controlling the programmable metasurface such that its associated radiation beams can be focused toward the desirable spot. IM-CNN-2 processes microwave data to recognize the hand sign; and the human breathing is identified by the time-frequency analysis of microwave data.
The Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber physical systems have opened up possibilities for smart cities and smart homes, and are changing the way for people to live. In this smart era, it is increasingly demanded to remotely monitor people in daily life using radio-frequency probe signals. However, the conventional sensing systems can hardly be deployed in real-world settings since they typically require objects to either deliberately cooperate or carry an active wireless device or identification tag. Additionally, the existing sensing systems are not adaptive or programmable to specific tasks. Hence, they are far from efficient in many points of view, from time to energy consumptions.
In a new paper published in Light Science & Application, scientists from the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Department of Electronics, Peking University, China, the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves, Southeast University, China, and co-workers developed an AI-driven smart metasurface for jointly controlling the EM waves on the physical level and the EM data flux on the digital pipeline. Based on the metasurface, they designed an inexpensive intelligent EM "camera," which has robust performance in realizing instantaneous in-situ imaging of full scene and adaptive recognition of the hand signs and vital signs of multiple non-cooperative people. More interestingly, the EM camera works very well even when it is passively excited by stray 2.4GHz Wi-Fi signals that ubiquitously exist in the daily lives. As such, their intelligent camera allows us to remotely "see" what people are doing, monitor how their physiological states change, and "hear" what people are talking without deploying any acoustic sensors, even when these people are non-cooperative and are behind obstacles. The reported method and technique will open new avenues for future smart cities, smart homes, human-device interactive interfaces, health monitoring, and safety screening, without causing the visual privacy problems.
The intelligent EM camera is centered around a smart metasurface, i.e., a programmable metasurface empowered with a cluster of artificial neural networks (ANNs). The metasurface can be manipulated to generate the desired radiation patterns corresponding to different sensing tasks, from data acquisition to imaging, and to automatic recognition. It can support various kinds of successive sensing tasks with a single device in real-time. These scientists summarize the operational principle of their camera:
"We design a large-aperture programmable coding metasurface for three purposes in one: (1) to perform in-situ high-resolution imaging of multiple people in a full-view scene; (2) to rapidly focus EM fields (including ambient stray Wi-Fi signals) to selected local spots and avoid undesired interferences from the body trunk and ambient environment; and (3) to monitor the local body signs and vital signs of multiple non-cooperative people in real-world settings by instantly scanning the local body parts of interest."
"Since the switching rate of metasurface is remarkably faster than that of body changing (vital sign and hand sign) by a factor of ~ , the number of people monitored in principle can be very large" they added.
"The presented technique can be used to monitor the notable or non-notable movements of non-cooperative people in the real world but also help people with profound disabilities remotely send commands to devices using body languages. This breakthrough could open a new venue for future smart cities, smart homes, human-device interactive interface, health monitoring, and safety screening without causing privacy issues," the scientists forecast.
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Replace F105 with the faster and more capable F405 including 1Mb Flash, 192Kb SRAM, ticking at 168Mhz with an ARM 32-bit M4 core. This change will allow Python and .NET to be used as well.
Add a RTC w/battery connector.
Add a SD/TF Card. I will use a 4 bit MMC version.
4 x Serial ports. 2xRS485, 2x RS232 or TTL. My first thought is 2 x RS485, 2 x RS232 and 1 x TTL, but lets see.
SPI, I2C and available pins as separate extension port. Maybe even throw in a UART TTL here.
Limit leds to 1 or 2 pin's max. We can signal through blink sequences.
I have the pins to do this, so it remains to se if the space of a Raspberry PI Hat will allow for this. I will need to use 3 sides with JST Micro connectors for this one.
PSU here will either be USB or RPI Connector, but I will add a 2 pin 5V power as well.


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Mendelssohn & Beethoven Concert
King Center for the Performing Arts and Brevard Symphony Orchestra present…
March 11, 2023 | Two performances | 2:00pm and 7:30pm
Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Sergei Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 2
George Walker Lyric for Strings
Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4 Italian
Join us for a night of favorites from some of the biggest names in music. Violinist Julian Rhee returns to the BSO to perform Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2, with this program being bookended by two titans: Ludwig van Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn.
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The History Of The Idiot's Array In The Mandalorian Chapter 10
By Eric Betts/Nov. 6, 2020 11:05 am EST
The Star Wars universe was always going to need a sabacc.
If you introduce a gambler like Lando Calrissian, and if you give Han Solo the line "Your ship? Hey, remember you lost her to me, fair and square," in The Empire Strikes Back, then the logical next question is: How did Lando lose the Millennium Falcon? Surely it wasn't just a coin flip? If the dejarik game Chewbacca and C-3PO play in A New Hope is a rough chess analogue, then what sort of gambling game would be so enticing that a player might be willing to win or lose an entire ship on it?
The answer would come to be sabacc, the blackjack-poker hybrid glimpsed briefly in chapter 10 of the Mandalorian, when Mando (Pedro Pascal) finds hangermaster Peli Motto (Amy Sedaris) in the middle of a game with the ant-like Dr. Mandible. Mando agrees to stake Mandible in exchange for information that may lead him to more Mandalorians, and the pair lose their bet when Motto reveals she's holding the highest-possible hand in the game, an Idiot's Array.
What is an Idiot's Array?
There are a lot of ways to play sabacc, but the goal of most variants is to obtain a combination of positive or negative cards closest to but not exceeding an absolute value of 23, a number that when hit exactly is known as a pure sabacc. The only hand that can beat a pure sabacc is the Idiot's Array, which is made up of the special card The Idiot, which has a value of zero points, a two, and a three: 023.
Given not just his reputation but also what audiences learned about Lando's sabacc-playing style in Solo: A Star Wars Story –– namely, he cheats –– it's perhaps not a surprise that the only hand guaranteed to win is often associated with Lando. The Idiot's Array debuted in Legends canon way back in 1983 in the novel Lando Calrissian and the Mindharp of Sharu. It was revived for the current canon by the show Star Wars Rebels, which did an episode in its first season called "Idiot's Array."
In the episode, none other than Lando uses the array to take a hand against Ghost crewmember Zeb, winning the ship's droid Chopper in the process. In exchange for the return of the droid, Lando asks the crew to assist him in a dangerous smuggling scheme. As in The Mandalorian, the hand launches the heroes of Rebels on a new adventure.
All of which begs another question: Did Peli Motto just get lucky? Or does she know a few gambler's tricks of the sort Lando has used throughout his career?


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Q: How to extract colours from UIImage using Swift I recently started to create an iOS version of my Android app and I've found myself struggling to find a method of extracting dominant colours from an image.
Over in Android there's a palette library provided by Google that allows you to do just that. (https://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/v7/graphics/Palette.html)
I'm can't seem to find any libraries that will allow me to that in iOS however.

A: It seems my friend use this library: https://github.com/pixelogik/ColorCube
Take a tour, it seems that they do what you are expected.


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Q: How to filter data when calculate the average? I use this:
.DataSource(dataSource = > dataSource.Ajax()
    .Aggregates(aggregates = > {
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.UnitsInStock).Min().Max().Count();
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.UnitsOnOrder).Average();
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.ProductName).Count();
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.UnitPrice).Sum();
})
    .Group(groups = > groups.Add(p = > p.UnitsInStock))
    .Read(read = > read.Action("Aggregates_Read", "Grid"))

Now I want to calculate the sum  of UnitPrice without those price which <0 and background is not transparent(without color);I write the codes down,but it is wrong.
.DataSource(dataSource = > dataSource.Ajax()
    .Aggregates(aggregates = > {
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.UnitsInStock).Min().Max().Count();
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.UnitsOnOrder).Average();
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.ProductName).Count();
    aggregates.Add(p = > p.UnitPrice)
        .Sum(p.UnitPrice > 0 && p.background == transparent);
})
    .Group(groups = > groups.Add(p = > p.UnitsInStock))
    .Read(read = > read.Action("Aggregates_Read", "Grid"))

A: Custom aggregates are not support. You can consider defining your own template and calculate ityourself, the information you will probably will need can be retrieved from the dataSource.view() or dataSource.data() methods.
Here is a post which explains just the same.


Live Like You Are NEW!
As I write this eNote to our faithful and devoted community of radical followers of Jesus Christ, I am imagining a new me and leaving behind the memory of the old me! This new "me" is grounded in the revelation of Christ as a new creature and not resolutions about me that I simple write down. Recently, while reading a devotional, I came across this quote. "All true Christian life," writes Dietrich von Hildebrand, "involves the deep yearning to become a 'new person,' and an inner readiness for something fundamentally different." The Apostle Paul stated something similar: "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" The question is: Do we want the new or not?
New Year's resolutions can obscure the profound transformation Jesus brings: "Behold I make all things new." This obscurity of self-improvement can happen in several ways. Resolutions are generally self-referential, hence the obsession with diet and exercise. Also, most resolutions stem from a sense of guilt, thus our incessant preoccupation with staying in better touch with each other and spending more quality time with loved ones we otherwise neglect. Moreover, resolutions assume continuity with the present: improvement, but not transformation. Finally, most resolutions rest on sheer will-power, not on God's power.
So let's rethink personal resolutions this year and move to personal revelations from God to become "new" so that we can become a greater Christian community. Draw your circles really BIG around the promises of God so that without God's intervention they stay dreams and not divine disruptions and ultimately destinations!


What sort of update is this that downgrades the cypher & security level?
Unlike wpasupplicant, hostapd still respects system defaults.
I haven't looked at it too closely. We just backported the buster version to stretch, to fix issues people reported with wpa_supplicant and hostapd.
Thanks. What a mess. I'll have to check if the eduroam network I use sometimes does indeed require tlsv1.0 and level=1.
Is the following a correct assumption?
How do you apply these modified settings? Reboot? Is there a command that activates the new settings, provided the settings are indeed correct?
That was my interpretation, too, yes. However, make sure to try it first with a non-headless Pi (screen and keyboard/mouse connected) because for some reason these changes after reboot left my Pi3+ unable to connect to my home network... Very strange, because my router is less than a year old and I'm sure it implements tls1.2. I thought this was only an issue with very old equipment or PEAP authentication company networks stuck in legacy mode. Faulty implementation of the fix, perhaps.
It looks like adding the new settings wasn't very successful for this user.
Meanwhile, I've added the settings to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and rebooted. No problems sofar, but I made sure to connect to the pi, using ethernet (wired).
Still would like to know if adding the settings restore the security level.
package is upgraded with no valid configuration.
postinst script masks the hostapd.service unit on the first install.
After editing the default file, users need to unmask it themselves.
on my headless pi. Now it is not accessible anymore, and I have to drive 80+ km and climb onto a roof to get the sd card. Should I just remove those lines, or what is a safe way to make it work?
That happened to me and I removed the lines. I still get the warning but updating, upgrading and internet work.
When running some perl programs like cowsay I also see the following waring.
I seem to have fixed both my issues by changing the locale setting using rpi-config and forcing a reboot of the system. I changed languages and timezone and then set the back to the desired settings. This forced a reboot of the system.
So wpa_supplicant failed to start because of unknown lines in the config files. Seems something is broken, or where are these lines supposed to be? I have them in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf. For now, I comment them out.


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Restaurants in Tampa Bay Caught in "Farm-to-Fable" Exposé
According to a blistering exposé in the April 13 edition of the Tampa Bay Times, many farm-to-table restaurants in the Tampa area aren't telling the truth about their supposedly "local" ingredients. Or as the article's subhead reads, "At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you're being fed fiction."
The article, bearing the headline "Farm to Fable" and penned by the paper's food critic, Laura Reiley, looks at restaurants ranging from seafood eateries to sandwich shops. "At Pelagia Trattoria … the 'Florida blue crab' comes from the Indian Ocean," Reiley writes. "Mermaid Tavern … pretends cheese curds are homemade and shrimp are from Florida. At Maritana Grille … chefs claim to get pork from a farmer who doesn't sell to them."
"This is a story we're all being fed," the article continues. "A story about overalls, rich soil and John Deere tractors scattering broods of busy chickens. A story about healthy animals living happy lives, heirloom tomatoes hanging heavy and earnest artisans rolling wheels of cheese into aging caves nearby. More often than not, those things are fairy tales. A long list of Tampa Bay restaurants are willing to capitalize on our hunger for the story."
In her investigative report, Reiley revisited restaurants that she had personally reviewed—and praised—in previous articles. In the case of The Mill, located in St. Petersburg, Reiley calls out chef-owner Ted Dorsey for allegedly misleading customers about the provenance of his pork, quail and produce. She also questioned Mermaid Tavern chef Gary Moran about menu claims—no hormones, antibiotics or chemical additives, for example—that supposedly proved untrue. "The fish and chips, which the menu says uses wild Alaskan pollock, are made from frozen Chinese pollock treated with sodium tripolyphosphate, a common preservative," Reiley reports. "And although the menu says its shrimp are Florida wild-caught, they are actually farm-raised in India."
Moran didn't deny Reiley's findings, but explained, "We try to do local and sustainable as much as possible, but it's not 100 percent. For the price point we're trying to sell items, it's just not possible."
The lesson here: Don't exaggerate your farm-to-table sourcing. It's smarter—and more truthful—to admit that you're as "local as possible" without making blanket statements implying that all ingredients come from local producers.
Read the full Tampa Bay Times report here.


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Establishing a personal brand is essential, as it helps you to stand out and gain recognition in a crowded field of competitors and solidifies your reputation among peers and clients. As a real estate attorney, my credentials, accomplishments, work ethic, and industry leadership are the foundation of a substantive brand that reinforces what I have to offer clients and colleagues in the real estate industry.
I try to keep my inbox under 300 and to be as responsive as possible to the influx of emails. My goal is to respond immediately if I can and if I can't, I let people know I'm on it and will get back to them soon. Certainly by the end of the day I will have responded to all emails for that day.
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I know, I know – no one likes junk mail, whether in electronic or mailbox-jamming form. But hear me out for a sec.
Even when the country is not in an economic recession most of us appreciate the value of a good deal. From coupons to savings clubs, most stores offer some sort of discount program for their customers. But who really has the time to be at every store to take advantage of every deal? Depending on how often you visit your local grocery store, you could end up missing some great money-saving specials on things you regularly use. This is why paying attention to those super-annoying mailers that come in the mail can come in very handy.
There are fantastic sales and specials happening at almost every store at any given time of the year. Holidays and special events like the Super Bowl, etc., will bring about even better deals because stores are counting on the public to be buying more for these events. But even the everyday deals can be spectacular if you just take the time to skim over those piles of junk mail that end up in your mailbox on a weekly basis. I recently spotted some crazy deals on produce that were being offered by my favorite Mexican grocery store, La Superior: $0.69 cantaloupes (price per melon, not per pound!), key limes for just $0.79/2 lbs., Roma tomatoes for just $0.89/lb., etc. My eyes continued to bulge out of my skull when I kept looking and saw they had chicken drumsticks on sale for just $0.79/lb, as well as some other incredible meat & cheese deals. These are prices that beat practically any other store I frequent! Because I don't go to La Superior that often due to its location, I am not always aware of weekly specials that I could definitely take advantage of, so their little mailer makes for a great reminder to go there instead of someplace like Safeway (or even my beloved Trader Joe's) for certain items. Is it a bit out of my way? Sure. But the small amount of extra effort is totally worth savings like the ones I mentioned above, especially when you're dealing with a very small budget. A 10 minute bus ride that can save me about $10 or more on food I eat regularly is well worth it to me.
Grocery stores aren't the only ones that offer great deals. Though I'm guilty of ignoring the drugstore circulars most of the time, when I do look at them I find some amazing specials on things that I definitely use, even if they're not food related. Specials on paper products, cat food, and even random food deals like $0.25 cans of tuna are not uncommon in my weekly Rite Aid or CVS mailers. For those who like to entertain or have that nightly glass of red wine, these annoying little drugstore flyers can be a great money saving resource, as there are sometimes amazing sales on brand name wine and liquor.
Let's not forget the restaurant mailers either! Though I generally advocate for cooking at home to save money and gain a better appreciation for food, I still enjoy having someone else cook for me from time to time. Though a lot of the coupons you find in some of these mail circulars are for fast food, other money saving publications like the Penny Saver will feature wonderful specials from sit down restaurants. I often find deals like "Buy One Entrée & Get the 2nd at 50% Off", or "Free Dessert with Purchase", etc. Though times are tough for everyone right now, it is always nice to go out to eat, and these little deals can make things a little more delicious and relieve some of the guilt of going out when you're strapped for cash.
Now, I'm not saying that you should go shopping or go out to eat just because there's a great deal in a mail circular. That kind of mentality never saved anyone any money or time. In fact, it does the exact opposite, forcing you to spend money you could probably use for something else simply because there's a fabulous sale on a particular product. So the first thing to keep in mind when going through these mailers is to exercise some restraint and focus only on the things you would actually use. For example, the "Buy Two Get One Free" special on some flavored coffee creamer may be a great deal for those who drink a lot of coffee, but for someone like me it would make no sense to take advantage of this offer because I only drink one cup of coffee a day. I'd be drowning in creamer if I bought so many! In this case, it's simply better for me to get the one creamer I will use and save myself that extra $3 or so. One should also take stock of what one already has to make sure you're not buying in excess before using what's already available. You all know how I feel about tomatoes, but even at the crazy $0.58/lb that Safeway is currently offering Roma tomatoes for, there's simply no need for me to get anymore when I already have about 15 tomatoes in my fridge. Sure, I could turn those tomatoes into a million different things, but it would also be using money that I need for other stuff. There will always be another time to purchase said tomatoes, even if the deal is not as incredible.
But Poor Girl, what if I just don't have the time to look through all of this junk? Though it doesn't take that much time to skim through all of these offers, it can be hard to remember to look through them every single week. I'm actually very guilty of this; most of the time I just file all of this stuff, Penny Saver included, right in the recycling bin, mentally smacking myself later for not having checked out what deals were being offered that particular week. Fortunately we live in the age of the blogger, and there are some fantastic blogs out there that share both local and national specials with their readers. Sites like Thrifty Florida Mama, Coupon Geek, and my newest favorite, Bounty and Savings, are all wonderful resources for the latest in online coupons and in store deals. They do most of the work for you and if you subscribe to their feed, this info is simply delivered to your email inbox for you to access whenever you can.


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I had never heard about that. Great story.
Hey, it is lunch time, at least in my timezone - I wonder if I can find some beans and cornbread around here?
This is a great little detail. I'm totally going to use that in a story I'm writing about STS-1.


The passenger ship Gneisenau (not to be mismatched with the battlecruiser Gneisenau ) of the North German Lloyd line was one of the three passenger ships which should be converted to auxiliary carriers in 1942 (Project Jade). It was originally used for passenger cruises to the far east, after the start of World War II it was used as a troop transport. Detailed studies started initially after the conversion was decided on 13.05.1942, it was planed to used the Kriegsmarine Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven for later that year. Because of the lack of stability and the high fuel consumption, the project was stopped on 25.11.1942 without any modification done.
It was planed to modify the ship to a troop transport able to carry and unload 80t tanks, but this project was also stopped. On 02.05.1943, the Gneisenau capsized after hitting a mine in the Baltic Sea, the wreck was broken down in 1950.
The sister ship of the Gneisenau , the passenger ship Scharnhorst was converted into a aircraft carrier - by the Japanese. At the outbreak of the war, the Scharnhorst was in Japan. In July 1942, the ship was sold to Japan and modified into an aircraft carrier. Now named Jinyo , the ship entered service in December 1943 and sunk by the US submarine Spadefish northeast of Shanghai on 17.11.1944.


Here are some of the most common questions we're asked and our no-nonsense answers.
What does Smart Property do?
How do you help property investors?
How are you different from all the other property investment companies?
Why do you focus on data-driven property investment?
Will your recommendations interfere with what I'm currently doing?
Do you tend to work with new or established property investors?
What's your process for working with a new potential client?
Smart Property is a new kind of property research and property investment firm that works with both regular and SMSF investors to create and execute a data-driven property investment strategy, tailored to your current situation, goals and risk profile.
Most property investment companies are little more than commission-based salespeople for developers – often the developers who pay the most commission.
Smart Property is different – we're not allied to any one developer or project, but instead scour the Australian marketplace for the best properties available to suit your situation.
We help investors build a sound, tax-efficient property investment strategy. Then we help you execute on your strategy by acquiring high-performance investment properties according to your plan.
The right structure: the correct ownership structure is often much more tax efficient, lower-cost and flexible than alternatives. By contrast, buying property in the wrong structure can be extremely costly and inconvenient to unwind.
The right funding: almost all property investors use debt funding to help build their portfolio. The right funding approach can be more tax efficient, more flexible and much cheaper in the long run.
The right property: most investment properties are, by definition, average. We use a broad range of data analysis tools and approaches to help locate properties that we believe are likely to outperform the broader market and deliver outsized returns to investors.
some subscribe to only a single strategy (e.g. "positive cash flow", "negative gearing" or "renovation" — and shoe-horn all clients into that strategy, regardless of whether or not it is appropriate for their circumstances.
others only sell properties for certain developers… which may be the developers that pay the most sales commission, leading to over-inflated prices.
still others provide advice or strategies, but they really only deal with one piece of the puzzle because they can't actually connect the dots toward property with a strong prognosis to outperform the market as a whole.
we do not subscribe to any single property investment strategy. Rather, we choose the strategy to fit your situation and goals.
while we do hand-pick properties for the consideration of investors in order to save you time and money, you are not limited to properties already known to us – in fact, we give you access to any property on the market in Australia via our buyer's agency service.
we provide you with professional structuring and finance advice to ensure your entire property strategy is optimal. The right property in the wrong structure can deliver a poor result.
Some property investment advocates say, "just buy property – it always goes up in value".
We don't subscribe to this view. Some property may be an extremely poor investment. For example, if you bought apartments in mining towns at the peak of the mining boom, you may never recoup your investment.
So it's not enough to just "buy property". You have to buy property with the highest chance of outperforming the market as a whole.
To identify such property, we don't rely on gut feel – we employ a range of data sources to identify, shortlist and validate our assumptions with the goal of helping our clients buy property that outperform median house price growth by at least 2% p.a.
We do all the number-crunching for you, and present you with our findings so you can reap the benefits.
Already like property as an investment class: most of our clients feel some affinity for property already. They're not looking for us to "convince" them they should invest in property – they're looking for the right way to go about it.
Time-poor: many of our investors are business owners or busy professionals who spend a lot of time and energy on their careers, with too little focus on building wealth and real assets.
Feel they pay too much tax: Australia's tax system is very hard on highly productive people – with a top marginal income tax rate of 49%. The right property investment strategy can significantly ease your tax burden and get your money working for, not against, you.
Our clients are based from all over Australia, plus Australian residents living abroad. We are used to liaising with clients via phone and email, as well as face to face.
We offer a range of services, with differing fee structures.
Where we act as a property investment advisor and introduce appropriate property(s) to you as the investor, we are paid by the property vendor according to standard industry rates.
Where we act as buyer's agent, we charge a percentage fee based on your search instructions and success criteria.
Where we act as development manager for prospective investors who want to manufacture equity, we charge a development management fee and/or success fee.
We disclose all fees and charges up front in a completely transparent way.
Far from interfering, we aim to align with and enhance your existing investment strategy. However in many cases we find that clients either don't have an active wealth creation strategy in play, or they are have a sub-optimal strategy that needs revising.
Whatever your situation, we aim to help you reach your goals in the most efficient and effective way possible.
We work with both new and established property investors.
For new investors, often the biggest hurdle is taking the first step. We're here to walk you through the process and make it easy, lucrative and fun.
Existing investors may have more complex situations and/or a different set of concerns and challenges. In this case we look to build on what you already have, and potentially offer you more in the way of property investment and development options.
We always start with a low-key exploratory chat to discuss your situation and what you're looking to achieve. We'll answer any questions you may have, and if we think we may be a good fit, explain more about how we might be able to help you.
Then if you're happy for us to do so, we arrange for you to speak with a property structuring specialist who is also a chartered accountant, and also speak to our finance specialist to determine borrowing capacity and the optimal funding strategy.
Once we've done these things, we shortlist potential investment properties that align with the outcomes of your structuring and finance discussions.
Then once you're completely happy with what we propose, we execute what we have agreed in an efficient and hassle-free manner.
Ready to find out more? Contact us for a free, no-obligation exploratory chat.


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President of Huawei Middle East, Charles Yang has claimed that as we approach 2020, the growth of 5G-based enhanced mobile broadband networking applications will skyrocket. In a compelling interview, Yang offers his insights into why he believes the rise of 5G is causing such a seismic shift globally in the ICT industry, addresses the challenges in deploying the next-generation technology - and predicts what impact 5G will have in the Middle East.
30 percent of Europe's mobile connections will be 5G by 2025
More than 30 percent of Europe's mobile connections will be running on 5G networks by 2025, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 Europe edition of the GSMA's Mobile Economy series, forecasts that there will be 214 million 5G connections in Europe by 2025, establishing the region as one of the largest 5G markets in the world by that point.
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The revolutionary potential of 5G is not yet fully understood by the public. While the switch from 3G to 4G was mostly a matter of increased speed, the rise of 5G will unlock the potential of a flood of new technologies. From self-driving cars to virtual reality, from Internet of Things to drones, 5G has the power to propel the Middle East forward on its path to digitalization.
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5G, one of the most prominent modern leaps in emerging technology, brings with it the promise of efficiency and real-time services. This highly anticipated 5G wireless network technology is expected to be so powerful that it will enable the mass production of highly anticipated autonomous cars, virtual reality in real time, download speeds which are ten times faster than what we are used to and the list goes on.
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Australian operator tests 5G-enabled Wi-Fi in Gold Coast
Australian telecommunications incumbent Telstra has announced that it is testing 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots on two streets in Gold Coast in an effort to give users a taste of 5G as it evaluates its next move in relation to next-generation mobile technology.
China forecasted to lead global 5G adoption by 2023
China has been projected to lead the global adoption of 5G technology by 2023, according to research compiled by CCS Insight. CCS Insight have claimed that the country's booming market will ensure and facilitate that 5G is quicker out of the starting blocks than any other previous mobile technology.
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WATCH: St. Cloud State captain previews series vs. UNO, brother
Senior defenseman Jimmy Schuldt gives a status update on his No. 1/2-ranked Huskies, who play host to the Mavericks in an NCHC series. He also talks about growing up in a home with 4 defensemen.
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St. Cloud State's Jimmy Schuldt
ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- Jimmy Schuldt takes a look at how the St. Cloud State men's hockey team played last weekend in two ties with Miami and previews this weekend's series against Nebraska-Omaha.
It will be a big weekend for the Schuldt family. Jimmy's younger brother, John, is a freshman defenseman for the Mavericks.
Jimmy, who is 6-foot-1 and 205 pounds, gives a scouting report on his largest brother, talks about the battles on his family's backyard rink in Minnetonka growing up, who his funniest sibling is and how many tickets his family has to get for the series.
The Schuldts' parents, Sheri and Steve, are both St. Cloud State graduates. His father played football for the Huskies and his mother was recruited to play softball for St. Cloud State. Jimmy has other relatives who graduated from St. Cloud State. Does that give him favored status at home?
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Probe deepens: Police step up investigations in massive ammo find
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The police High Command is still searching for answers to several questions as it continues to probe the massive gun and ammunition find on Munster Road in eastern St Andrew on Thursday.
But even as the investigators seek answers, acting Commissioner Owen Ellington is threatening tough action against members of the police force involved in the suspected theft of guns and ammunition from the armoury.
A police sergeant has already been arrested in connection with the seizure, and even though Ellington is yet to confirm that the 19 guns and almost 11,000 rounds of ammunition were from the police armoury, he is preparing to act.
"Our investigations are being conducted with a view to taking criminal action where it is appropriate, and serious departmental action where that is appropriate," Ellington told journalists at a media briefing yesterday.
security breached
The acting commissioner defended the security arrangements at the armoury even as he accepted that dishonest persons could have breached the system.
"The security procedures at the armoury and stores are adequate for the guidance of honest and responsible people. What is appearing is that there was a breach of trust and there was a severe lapse in terms of attention to duty."
But Ellington was unable to provide the country with any assurance that the 19 guns, almost 11,000 rounds of ammunition and several bullet-proof vests seized so far were all that had been stolen.
"We will commence an audit as soon as the forensic experts are finished with the stores, but we would never be in any position to attempt to answer any such question before that is done," said Ellington.
He had called the briefing to provide an update on the gun and ammunition find.
no new info
However, it was clear that there was not much more that the commission could add to what had been said on Thursday in the immediate aftermath of the find.
What Ellington could say was that of the 11 persons arrested in connection with the find, four women and three men had been released.
Still in custody up to yesterday were a police sergeant, the owner of the house on Munster Road, and two civilians attached to the police armoury.
Ellington also used the opportunity to reject claims that more than 19 guns had been found and that the police were involved in a cover-up.
dispelling rumours
"I would, at this stage, dispel rumours that have been circulating in the media that the actual gun find was 60. It is not 60, it's 19. Every aspect of the operation was recorded by our scene-of-crime expert under the watchful eye of people from the Criminal Investigation Bureau, the Anti-Corruption Branch and the Major Investigations Task Force," Ellington declared.
The acting commissioner also announced that the armoury remained under lockdown as it was being preserved as a crime scene, with an audit to be conducted after a forensic investigation was done.
"The armoury was audited as recently as last year. It is a regular occurrence in our management of weapons and stores," said Ellington.
He also announced that the police had seized $787,000 from the house on Munster Road in eastern St Andrew where the guns and ammunition were found.
11,000 rounds of ammunition and several bullet-proof vests seized so far were all that had been stolen.
However, it was clear that there was not much more that the commissioner could add to what had been said on Thursday in the immediate aftermath of the find.


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Q: Minimum length of lines needed Suppose we have a set of N points on the cartesian plane (x_i and y_i). Suppose we connect those points with lines.
Is there any way like using a graph and something like a shortest path algorithm or minimum spanning tree so that we can reach any point starting from any point but minimizing the total length of the lines??
I though that maybe I could set the cost of the edges with the distance of a graph and use a shortest path algorithm but I'm not sure if this is possible.
Any ideas ?

A: I'm not 100% sure what you want, so I go for two algorithms.
First: you just want a robust algorithm, use dijkstras algorithm. The only challange left is to define the edge cost. Which would be 1 for neighboring nodes, I assume.
Second: you want to use heuristics to estimate the next best node and optimize time consumption. Use A*, but you need to write a heuristic which under estimates the distance. You could use the euclidean distance to do so. The edge problematic stays the same.