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288 F. 2d 553 - In the Matter of the Arbycraft Co Appeal of Bornot Dehon
288 F2d 553 In the Matter of the Arbycraft Co Appeal of Bornot Dehon
In the Matter of the ARBYCRAFT CO., Debtor. Appeal of Bornot
DEHON, Creditor.
United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.
Reuben Singer, Philadelphia, Pa., (Meade & Singer, John R. Meade, William J. Campbell, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellant.
Nathan Lavine, Philadelphia, Pa., (Adelman & Lavine, Melvin Lashner, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for Debtor.
M. E. Maurer, Philadelphia, Pa., for Receiver.
Before KALODNER, STALEY and HASTIE, Circuit Judges.
KALODNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the reversal by the District Court of the Order of the Referee in Bankruptcy allowing as an administration expense of the Receivers a bill for repairs to a boiler on the premises leased to the debtor, and occupied by it at the time during the pendency of a Chapter XI, 11 U.S.C.A. 701 et seq., proceeding.
The Referee, in his Opinion, based his disposition on his conclusion of law that the tenant was liable for the repairs under the terms of the lease and his finding that the 'tenant' in his capacity as agent for the Receivers in the conduct of the business, had acquiesed in the making of the repairs.
The District Court reversed the Referee's Order and disallowed the landlord's claim. It premised its action on its view that the Referee had erred in concluding 'as a matter of law that the tenant (debtor) was liable under the terms of the lease for the cost of the repairs', and its further determination that the Referee had erred in his finding as to acquiescence.1
The critical facts may be summarized as follows:
In November, 1959, the Arbycraft Co. ('debtor') filed a petition for arrangement under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act. Receivers were appointed and authorization granted to them to operate debtor's business2 and to employ any of its personnel in the course of such operation. Pursuant to the authorization stated the Receivers employed debtor's executive vice-president, Girard Esayian, to operate the business.
Debtor's business was conducted in a building which it had leased in March, 1956. The lease3 in effect at the time the events pertinent here transpired, contained the following clauses:
'8(b) Lessee covenants * * * that he will * * * repair all damage to plumbing and to the premises in general; keep the same in good order and repair as they are now, reasonable wear and tear * * * excepted.'
'13(e) In the event of the failure of Lessee promptly to perform the covenants of Section 8(b) hereof, Lessor may go upon the demised premises and perform such covenants, the cost thereof * * * to be charged to the Lessee. * * *'
On January 19, 1960, the boiler in use on the leased premises failed to function and Esayian telephoned one Harry M. Rommel, who was the real estate agent of the landlord, Bornot Dehon, to acquaint him with the situation but Rommel was out of his office. Subsequently (the record does not disclose the date) Rommel returned Esayian's call.
Thereafter, Esayian engaged the Triple A Welding Service to perform such work as might be necessary to get the boiler back in operation. While the Triple A men were at work employees of C. Rodney Morris and Son, Inc., appeared and advised Esayian they had been instructed by Rommel to work on the boiler.
With reference to the foregoing incodent, Esayian testified as follows: (Hearing before the Referee, February 25, 1960).
N.T. p. 17
'Q. While these men from Triple A were working, did another company come in and tell them to go away; dismissed them because the owner of the building had instructed them to do some work on this boiler? A. Yes, sir.
'Q. And did they then do work on this boiler? A. This other company took over, yes.
'Q. And what did they do? A. They replaced all of the tubes in the boiler. * * *'
N.T. pp. 18-19
'Q. And your Company, neither you nor anyone else from your Company, ordered Rodney Morris and Company to do that work? A. To my knowledge I never heard of Rodney Morris.
'Q. And as you testified, you didn't ask the landlord to do that? A. That's right.'
C. Rodney Morris testified to the effect that the work done by his men on the boiler was in the category of 'repairs'.
The February 25, 1960 hearing was held as the result of presentation to the Bankruptcy Referee, as costs of administration, a bill of $119.60 from the Triple A Welding Service for its services; and another for $1,133.00 by the Morris firm for its work. Counsel for the debtor objected to the payment of the Morris bill as an administration expense on the grounds that (1) the work done on the boiler was not 'repairs' but a 'replacement of the essential elements of the boiler (tubes),' and accordingly the debtor (as lessee) was not liable under his lease, and (2) the landlord acted as a 'volunteer' in engaging Morris to do the work on the boiler 'and there is no provision in the lease * * * which gives the landlord the election to repair and charge it to the tenant.'
Following the hearing, the Referee rendered his Opinion and Order in which he made the fact-findings that the work done on the boiler constituted 'repairs' and that Esayian had acquiesced in their performance by Morris, and stated 'I concluded as a matter of law that the tenant would be liable under the terms of the lease for this bill.' The Referee further found that the debtor's estate was liable for the payment of the Morris bill as an expense of administration since Esayian, acting within the course of his employment, by the Receivers to manage debtor's business, had acquiesced in the performance of the repairs by Morris.
It may be noted parenthetically that no evidence was offered by the Receivers or the debtor at the hearings with respect to the Morris bill. It must further be observed that, while the Referee and the Distirct Court in their opinions referred to the Morris bill as the 'claim' of the landlord, and the parties have continued to do so on this appeal, the record discloses that the landlord never paid the Morris bill and that it was presented to the Receivers as a claim of Morris.
The District Court, in its Opinion, agreed with the Referee's finding that the work on the boiler constituted 'repairs' but reversed his allowance of the Morris bill for these reasons:
'We find no evidence here from which the Referee could have reasonably concluded that the tenant 'acquiesced' in the landlord's contractors performing his obligation to repair the boiler in the sense that he agreed to be responsible for the cost of the work. Nowhere in the record is there testimony that the tenant 'sent his workmen away' (as found by the Referee). * * * The only sense in which the debtorlessee could be reasonably said to have 'acquiesced' here is that Mr. Esayian apparently did not protest when the landlord's contractors told the Triple A men to leave.
'We think that as a matter of law the debtor-lessee's failure to protest when his repairmen were dismissed by the landlord's repairmen, or his failure to refuse to allow the landlord's contractors to finish the repairs, should not render the lessee liable for the cost of replacing all the tubes in the boiler. The lessee's failure to protect should not amount to an agreement to pay this bill, particularly in the absence of proof that the lessee agreed to the very extensive repairs performed by the landlord's contractors. The landlord cannot be permitted to arbitrarily create an obligation on the part of the tenant to pay the cost of repairs ordered by the landlord.'
The District Court, in reversing the Referee, noted that a referee's fact-findings cannot be reversed unless 'clearly erroneous' under General Order in Bankruptcy No. 47, 11 U.S.C.A. following section 53, implemented by Rule 52(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C.A.4 It stated, however, that it was not bound by the 'clearly erroneous' rule because 'we consider the issue here to be one of mixed fact and law-- namely, whether the debtor-lessee's conduct amounted to an agreement to pay the cost of the repairs performed by the landlord's contractors.'
The District Court further held that 'where findings of fact are conclusions based upon uncontradicted testimony from a witness whose credibility is not challenged, the reviewing judge can draw his conclusions from such testimony as well as the referee, and the reviewing judge need not be quite as reluctant to disturb the referee's findings.'
We are of the opinion that the learned District Court erred in substituting its 'conclusions' for the Referee's factual determination.
The Referee's determination that Esayian 'acquiesced' in the performance of the repairs made by Morris is in the nature of an ultimate finding of fact and not a determination of an issue of 'mixed fact and law'. It is, of course, well-settled that an ultimate finding of fact by a Referee may be reviewed by the District Court, or any appellate court, free of the impact of the 'clearly erroneous' rule applicable to ordinary findings of fact, In re Pioch, 3 Cir., 1956, 235 F.2d 903, 905, but that does not mean that a reviewing court may substitute its own ultimate finding of fact for that of the Referee if the evidence on which the Referee's finding is based measures up to the applicable standard of legal proof. In re Kaufhold, 3 Cir., 1958, 256 F.2d 181, 185.
Otherwise stated, it there is reasonable basis in the record for a referee's ultimate finding of fact a reviewing court cannot reverse it and substitute its own ultimate fact-finding simply because it regards its view as effecting a more desirable result than that reached by the referee.5
In the instant case the testimony of Esayian affords ample basis for the Referee's fact-finding that Esayian acquiesced in the performance of the repair job by Morris. When Morris' men, in the presence of Esayian, told the Triple A crew that it was taking over the repair job, Esayian, according to his testimony, stood by and permitted the Triple A men to depart and the Morris men to 'work on the boiler'. That this is what happened is not disputed.
It is settled law in Pennsylvania that a tenant required by his lease to keep the leased premises, or any of its appurtenances, fixtures or equipment, in 'good repair' must perform his obligations, and that when he fails to do so the landlord may make the repairs and recover their cost from the tenant. The Referee's finding here that the work on the boiler was 'repair', in not disputed on this appeal. Esayian's own testimony established that he had sought to have the landlord make the repairs and that the landlord (via his agent) engaged Morris to perform them. Assuming even that Esayian thought the landlord's performance of the repairs would relieve the debtor from the cost of making them, Esayian's misconception of his obligation to make the repairs or pay for them if made by the landord, would not operate to absolve the debtor from an obligation imposed on it by law under the terms of its lease.
We express the further view that the Referee correctly held that the Receivers were liable for payment of the Morris bill as an expense of administration on the ground that its employee Esayian, acting within the scope of his employment, asquiesced in the performance of the repairs by Morris.
For the reasons stated the Order of the District Court reversing the Referee's Order disallowing payment of the Morris bill will be reversed and the cause remanded with directions to the District Court to proceed in accordance with this Opinion.
The Opinion of the District Court is unreported
Debtor manufactured and sold kitchen ware at its place of business, 1642 Fairmount Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa
The lease was 'Form 50' customarily used in Pennsylvania
Rule 53(e)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, not adverted to by the District Court, also requires a district court to accept a bankruptcy referee's fact-findings unless 'clearly erroneous'
In Hoppe v. Rittenhouse, 9 Cir., 1960, 276 F.2d 3, at page 9, it was said with respect to the scope of review of ultimate findings of fact by a bankruptcy referee:
'Where the basic and undisputed facts are fairly susceptible of diverse inferences requiring different conclusions, the determination made by the trier of fact is conclusive on review unless that finding is 'clearly erroneous'.'


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I have watched the link about Lindsey Williams and his predictions about the year 2012 on your site: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA4Pu7af58c) and he urges the people that in order to prevent heartache in the future (end of 2012) when the dollar will be worthless, the people needs to buy gold and silver now. Should we heed his advice?
Thank you for your question which I am sure looms in the mind of many folk, including Seventh-day Adventists. I have posted Lindsey Williams' videos for whatever help they might be in discovering the plans of the elitists, because he claims they have told him much about what they plan to do, but I certainly do not believe everything he and/or they say. For example, you might have noticed how he mentions we can live prosperously under the New World Order. That is a satanic lie as far as it references any true Christian at that time.
Either Lindsey Williams does not understand the Mark of the Beast, and/or he does not agree with the SDA position on it. He will most likely take the Mark to live prosperously for a time. But all who take it will get the sores that will not heal, which are part of the first plague. And, of course, they lose eternal life for their choice of temporal prosperity. Where does the Bible say Christians can live prosperously during the little and great time of trouble? Only those who take the mark will be flattered by the beast power for a short time, and then even the whore's brothel (the Vatican) is burned by the New World Order banker elitists, who constitute the beast the whore is riding upon in Revelation 17.
Let's reason this issue out. If the Bible says that man will be regulated to the point he cannot buy or sell lest he take the mark of the beast, a very foolproof means of control will have to be instituted to prevent the trading (barter) of gold and silver and other commodities on a private level. That "foolproof" means of control will most likely consist of outlawing gold, silver and any precious gem or metal and making it a death penalty to deal in such so that folk will not risk their lives by being disobedient to the law of the land. A death penalty will also need to be legislated to prevent BARTER in any other commodity. This is why the 144,000 will be totally dependent upon God.
There could be a very short window of time that some buyers of gold will be able to trade in their gold for credit, but the Lord has impressed me that there is not enough gold and silver in the world to honor all the purchases of these commodities which have occurred ON PAPER. Some would come up on the short end of the stick, and that would most likely be those who refuse to take the mark of the beast. Those who will agree to take the mark might be credited for some of their holdings.
Trade in the precious metals and gems has become a huge arena for speculation as the world bankers can and do regulate rises and falls in the value of these items and at times great losses thereby accrue to investors in these items. I know of an SDA who invested in gold and silver awhile back. I warned him what Ellen White said about speculation, and he mockingly retorted that "everything is speculation." In other words Ellen White did not know what she was talking about in all she said about speculation! And this man claims to be giving the last message via the teaching of God's love and that He does not kill anyone. He has used some of his increases in these commodities to purchase houses and land, but it will be interesting to see if the Lord takes care of him in the time of trouble considering his mocking of Ellen White on speculation.
Some have speculated that tools would be a better item to buy and sell later. But what if the government makes it a death penalty to barter? The Bible says that family members even, will be betraying one another to save their own heads. Do you think non-family folk will risk their lives to trade (barter) with ANYONE?
I have heard that it is now almost impossible to buy gold and silver that you can take possession of and be able to rely on its purity. Banks first do an assay of any gold and silver they redeem currency for. They charge a fee for this as well. It may well be a provision of God that gold and silver is now difficult to purchase! Know one thing: God will protect and feed those who are obedient and faithful to him. That is all that matters. If you are not obedient and fully serving Him out of a motive of love for what Jesus did for us, you will perish. This is the best advice I am authorized to give. Lindsay Williams proposes to instruct you as to how to protect your dinner table, but only God can do that and there are conditions for receiving that assurance, that promise. Personally, I have not an ounce of gold or silver. I realize that it is easier for some to rely on the purchase of gold and silver than sacrificing to obey God, but this decision is personal to each one of us. Thanks be to God, there is no shortage of supply on the gold He counsels us to buy in Revelation 3, message to Laodicea! And it is meted out on a non-biased, non-prejudicial basis, and FREE TO ALL who desire it! All Praise be to You Jesus, Our Mighty God and Saviour!
Just as it's harder for a rich man to enter heaven, so it would be harder for a man standing on a reliance upon gold, silver and/or precious gems to rely totally on God by self-sacrificing love for, and faith in Him. Ellen White said that Christ could have come in 1884 and 1888. Did she ever advise the purchase of gold and silver for any time of trouble that would have had to accompany either of those comings of Christ?
Consider that Lindsey Williams does not know of the Loud Cry. We would have to have gas and transportation and sustenance in order to give that cry. Were it necessary to stash gold and silver, surely God Himself would not have left us without that knowledge! And that would include God's instruction of such via the Spirit of Prophecy. But to the contrary, God says that man will cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;. So the big question is: DO YOU BELIEVE GOD?
The only gold God tells us to purchase is described in Revelation 3. That would be the gold of self-sacrificing faith in, and love for Christ, tried in the fire of obedience. You can gain an entire world of gold and silver, yet lose temporal and eternal life for lack of the gold we are instructed to buy.
The world bank sold huge sums of gold to Arabic countries and then greatly reduced the price and bought back the gold from them at the reduced price. That same thing could occur with the masses later.
I do consider it wise to store a little food ahead for crises other than the great time of trouble. During the great time of trouble, those who go through that time, the 144,000, will be totally dependent upon God for their next morsel of food and protection from the seven last plagues and other pestilences.
Financially, Ellen White did encourage savings. The best we can do is to maintain a guaranteed savings account in a reputable national bank. You will make little interest, but such an account is supposed to be guaranteed to return what you have in that account. This is the wisest course while we can buy and sell without taking the Mark. Anything else is speculation. I have outlined in my end-time vision of what to do and when to do it, exactly when we should sell all and put our money into books and other witnessing materials.
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Michael Nevin, Chair of the Student Enterprise Programme Committee with the Local Enterprise Offices said; "The Student Enterprise Programme is designed to engage and develop students' entrepreneurial drive. It gives them a flavour of business and the opportunity to bring some of their fantastic ideas to life. The 31 Local Enterprise Offices in local authorities across the country work closely with the schools but it's the enthusiasm of the students that shines though along with some amazing ideas. We have seen so many students through the programme that continue their business in the years after the programme and that's a testament to the work of the teachers involved and the programme itself."
The three winning businesses from 2018 had their products at the launch in Wesley College; Complete Caman from Presentation Secondary School, Castleisland, Kerry who won the Junior Award, Lift Arm Assist from CBS Kilkenny who won the Intermediate category and Abbey Bread from Cistercian College Roscrea, who won the Senior category.
Abbey Bread, the Senior winner, was a simple bread mix created by Cistercian College Roscrea student Manus Heenan from a 100-year-old Cistercian monks recipe. Lift Arm Assist, winners of the Intermediate category in 2018, was developed by three students from Kilkenny and is a hydraulic arm that replaces the lift arm stabiliser on the back of a tractor. The Complete Caman, developed by five teenage girls from Kerry is a specialised designed hurl that allows people of all ages or abilities to train themselves in hurling.
Since the Student Enterprise Programme began in 2003 over 175,000 students have taken part, learning key skills on how to create a business idea, start a business and grow a business. The Student Enterprise Programme also has a new website for 2018 / 2019 at www.StudentEnterprise.ie, which will feature regular blogs and houses a full range of Student Enterprise resources for students and teachers.
Others who attended today's launch were Chris Woods, Principal of Wesley College, Brian Delany, Business Studies teacher at Wesley College, Mariea Mulally of Local Enterprise Office Dun Laoghaire Rathdown and Carl Cullen of ROC Protection who won the Student Enterprise Programme in 2017.
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The punchy palette of Liberty Bank now glows from the windows of 153 College Street. The space, originally home to another bank, was retrofitted into a new home for Liberty. Laying the carpet and painting the bold colors on the walls were just small pieces of this in-depth built-out. Some of the more complex work included constructing a voice/data closet and redesigning the HVAC system. The walls of the offices not only provide a level of privacy, but also allow for beautiful natural light to shine into the main lobby. Adhering to bank's brand guidelines, everything from the tile installed in front of the teller line to the finishes and millwork are consistent with the look and feel of other Liberty branches.


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Q: Terraform set GCP name tag Incorrect attribute value type error When I try to launch a new GCP instance with a name tag set as a variable I get this error:
terraform apply

Error: Incorrect attribute value type

  on main.tf line 32, in resource "google_compute_instance" "default":
  32:   tags = {
  33:     Name = var.instance_name
  34:   }

Inappropriate value for attribute "tags": set of string required.

This is how I have my resource defined in main.tf:
// A single Compute Engine instance
resource "google_compute_instance" "default" {
  name         = var.instance_name
  machine_type = "f1-micro"
  zone         = "us-west1-a"

  tags = {
    Name = "${var.instance_name}"
  }

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "debian-cloud/debian-9"
    }

This is how I have my variable setup in variables.tf:
variable "instance_name" {
  description = "Value of the Name tag for the EC2 instance"
  type        = string
  default     = "mysql-1"
}

What am I doing wrong?

A: tags = [var.instance_name] should work.  tags cannot be a map, see the docs.
Depending on what your goal is you could instead achieve the "tagging" via labels:
labels = {
  Name = var.instance_name
}

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GODDESSES OF INDIA
The worship of the female goddess developed into the widely practised form of devotional worship known as Tantrism. The goddess such as the Kali became the focus of worship which often involved animal and human sacrifices and ritual practices that flew in the face of wider Hindu moral and legal codes. The evidence of these practices can be still seen in the art and sculpture of some major temples. Devi, or Mahadevi is the most complex and the most powerful of the goddesses. She owes various characteristics with the combination of her descent traced back to the great Mother Goddess of the ancient times and to Shakti, the active dimension of the godhead, the divine power that underlies the godhead's ability to create the world and to display itself. Shakti is a female divinity who is often worshipped in the form of Durga. Devi or shakti assumes gentle and terrible forms. In the gentle form she displays positive roles like fertility, protection, establishment of religious order, cultural creativity, duty and material abundance. Some important examples of these forms are Lakshmi, Saraswati, Sati, Parvati and Prithvi. In the terrible form, she plays her most fundamental protective role, guardian of the cosmos in the form of a formidable warrior. Besides supplicating the goddess for the bestowal of favor, her worshippers also invoke her for active and sometimes violent assistance against demons, terrors and disasters. This contributed to the development of a group of fierce-looking female deities. Once female deities became fully independent they responded to the usual forces in Indian religion to take on different forms. They make the vehicle as simulation of non-Hindu mythology and practice in the same way as their male counterparts. While, some goddesses have strong maternal natures, some are domestic and closely identified with male deities, some are embodiment of art and culture and associated with the wild untamed fringes of civilization and have strong independent natures and are great warriors. There are large number of goddesses in Hinduism. Apart from the innumerable village goddesses there are also the geographical goddesses associated with specific regions. Some of the important groups of goddesses are the Nava-Durgas, the Sapta Matrikas and 10 Mahavidyas.
The goddess Durga is also the consort of Shiva after Parvati. She is one of the most important female deities of the Hindus. She normally has eight arms and may hold a trident, sword, snake, bell, drum, shield, cup, bow, wheel, conch-shell, mace, arrow or water pot in her hands. She is shown seated in 'sukhasana' posture on a double lotus throne or on a lion. She may wear a garland of skulls. Durga's relations with Shiva are sufficiently remote. She is referred as the 'shakti' of the impersonal absolute and as being worthy of worship for material gains in this world and spiritual advancement. Durga has nine popular forms called Nava Durgas which are worshipped during the Navratra festival. They are Shailaputri, Brahmacharini, Chandraghanta, Kushmanda, Skandamata, Katyayani, Kalaratri, Mahagauri and Siddhidhatri. Durga Puja is one of the chief festivals of India celebrated in September and October. It is celebrated in various parts of India in different styles but the basic aim of this celebration is to propitiate shakti, the Goddess in her aspect as Power. In this festival, the motherhood of God is emphasized. It is a ten-day festival, where each of the nine nights are dedicated to different aspects of goddess Durga. This festival is celebrated as the victory of the goddess Durga over Mahahasura, the demon in the form of a buffalo. In many parts of India a buffalo is sacrificed to commemorate this event.
The goddess Lakshmi is the consort of Lord Vishnu and the goddess of wealth and good fortune. She has four arms when worshipped on her own, but has two when shown with Vishnu. She holds a lotus in each of her upper hands. Gold coins can be seen dropping down from the palms of her lower two hands or one of them may be in a boon-giving posture. She is normally painted in a bright golden colour and is shown seated or standing on a lotus. In paintings she is sometimes shown with two elephants, half submerged in water, one on each side. Lakshmi was born from the churning of the oceans by the gods for amrita. Lakshmi is also associated with beauty and is one of the most popular Hindu female deities. It is due to the underlying human desire for wealth, she absorbed a large number of folk elements during her evolution into a widely accepted members of the pantheon. Some of these may be discerned in the qualities attributed to her as Vishnu's wife in several of his incarnations. As Sita, she was said to have been born from a furrow, showing her link with agriculture.
This symbol is again emphasized when she is called as the Earth (Dharani). Diwali, the festival of lamps is associated with Lakshmi and is celebrated all over India. During the festival, little lamps are lit all over the house in the belief that Lakshmi will not enter a house if it is dark. Every city, town and village is turned into a fairyland with thousand of flickering oil lamps and electric lights illuminating the homes. This is also the time when all the houses are thoroughly cleaned and freshly painted, rice-flour designs are made on the doorsteps and crackers are burst by children. The new commercial year for Hindu businessmen also begins with Diwali.
The goddess Parvati, the consort of Lord Shiva, is represented as a fair and beautiful woman. Few miraculous deeds are claimed for her. It is only when she appears as Durga, Kali, etc., that she manifests divine powers and exhibits a very different spirit. When Parvati is shown alone, she may hold a javelin and a mirror in her two hands. If she is four handed, two of her hands exhibit the protection and boon-giving position and two carries a javelin and a chisel. As Kali she became an ascetic whose severe penances were intended to attract the attention of Shiva. When Shiva teased her about her black skin, through penances she changed her color to gold and was then called Gauri. Parvati is worshipped as a minor deity in a Shiva temple. Between the 5th and the 13th centuries, from being merely the consorts of the male deities, and their active partners, female deities became independent and objects of worship in their own right in which they have a temple and were the main icons in that temple. It was around this time that Parvati became a major deity as Durga and Kali.
Saraswati, the goddess of learning and knowledge, is represented as an extremely beautiful woman with a milk white complexion. She normally wears white clothes, sits or stands on a water lily and has four arms. With one of her hands she presents a lotus to her husband, by whose side she constantly stands, and in the other hand she holds a book of palm leaves indicating learning. In one of her left hands she has a string of pearls and in the other she may hold a small vase or the hand may be in a boon giving pose. She is also represented with two arms, playing a stringed musical instrument called the Veena. She may also hold a conch, wheel, noose, skull cap, cup of ambrosia, goad and mace. She presides over and protects the arts and is credited with the invention of writing. She is also the goddess of speech, the power through which knowledge expresses itself. In the Vedas, Saraswati is described mainly as a river but in the hymns she is described as a river and deity. Her origins are obscure but it is possible that she once had something to do with the river Saraswati in Rajasthan or with water in some other way.
At all events, it seems to have been associated with the creative properties that water has for seeds and vegetation. Being the goddess of learning, she is worshipped when a child is given instructions for the first time in reading a writing. Many schools in India start classes with a mass prayer to the goddess. In the Saraswati Puja or the Vasant Panchami, the goddess Saraswati is worshipped. In this festival, the musical instruments, pens, paint brushes and books are cleaned and placed on an altar. These are worshipped as being the abode of the goddess. In the absence of an image, sometimes an ink pot or flowers are placed on a book and prayers from the scriptures are chanted.
The river Ganga is the most sacred river in India. Most of the holy cities of India like Rishikesh, Haridwar, Varanasi, Allahabad are located on the banks of the Ganga. Those who die within the specified limits of Ganga go to the heavenly world. If after cremation the ashes are thrown into the Ganga, then also the same purpose is served. No Hindu can speak a falsehood with the Ganga water (Gangajal) in his hand. The goddess Ganga is represented as a fair-complexion woman, wearing a white crown and sitting on a crocodile. She holds a water lily in her right hand and flute in her left hand. When shown with four hands she carries a water-pot, lily, rosary and has one hand in a protective mode. The story of Ganga's origin is very interesting. Sagar, a king of Ayodhya, had no children. After doing a long penance, he got sixty thousand sons. He then decided to perform a horse sacrifice. Indra, the lord of the heavens, when heard of this, got scared and stole the horse and took it to the nether region. The sixty thousand sons reached the nether region after searching him on earth and manhandled a sage by mistake, thinking he had stolen the horse. The sage got angry and cursed them and turned them to ashes. Sagar on hearing this prayed to Goddess Ganga to come down to earth with her water to bring salvation to his sons. His son and grandson also carried out the penance and it was only Bhagirath, the great grandson, who managed to propitiate Ganga. The Goddess Ganga came down on earth in a rush, but her impact was reduced after her water was carried by the Shiva's mated hair. She was led to the nether regions by Bhagirath. Hence the Ganga is divided into three parts which are Mandakini, Ganga and Bhagirathi. The Mandakini remained in the heavens, whereas the Ganga came down to earth, and the Bhagirathi flow in the nether region, and is named after the king Bhagirath.
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The Public Private Alliance for Development (PPAD) in Panama was created to improve the quality of life of employees with low income and low education levels (trade service workers, manufacturing plant machine and assembly operators, and drivers and operators of mobile machinery) from companies affiliated with SumaRSE and UN Global Compact, through the adaptation and implementation in Panama of the "Alliance for Companies Without Poverty" methodology. The intervention seeks to address situations of poverty throughout the value chains of PPAD companies caused by socioeconomic problems, and to transfer capabilities to companies to establish their own internal programs.
With regards to the capacity building process within the program, we can highlight various aspects that will contribute to the improvement of both internal processes and the quality of life of company employees. Strengthen internal administrative capacities for addressing the socio-economic needs of employees in a sustainable manner. Provide training processes concerning the approach and necessary focus for the design of programs and actions concerning human rights and gender equity in business. Contribute to the generation of social mobility of homes identified as below the line of poverty through the programs implemented by the companies. Enhance the scope and impact of corporate social responsibility programs in companies outside the PPAD, through the implementation of joint actions with companies participating in Avancemos. Create a learning space that allows the sharing of experience and best practices that each company develops as part of the initiative. Promote the participation of companies in the creation of opportunities for employees to improve their quality of life and socioeconomic condition. Provide a collaborative space for addressing social needs with employees. Additionally, the process of technology transfer will occur in regards to the use and application of the online survey platform, which is the tool used to undergo the diagnostic process of the socioeconomic status of the company employees.
The Public Private Alliance for Development (PPAD) consists of: AECID The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, SUMARSE, Panama Network of the Global Compact, UDELAS (Public University), Movimiento Nueva Generación (local NGO), plus national and multinational companies Súper Xtra, Grupo Melo, Casa de las Baterías, Felipe Motta and CEMEX.


Yorkshire-born, but raised in Suffolk, Sheeran himself described the songs with Beoga as "jammy" and "folky" in a recent interview, before offering a faintly poignant glimpse into the near-hermetic bubble inhabited by those of his ilk, when he said of the collaboration, "I've always wanted to do this, but I've never really known a really good folk band." Maybe a wee trip to Glasgow in January is in order.
Quote of the day from a certain Scottish booking agent, still recovering late this afternoon from a big final Friday night at the Festival Club: "I don't think it's a hangover as such – I think it's just that my body's starting to reject lager." Suffering similarly, perhaps 24 hours earlier, a visiting Irish musician had gone for it in such style on Thursday night that he could only face yesterday's pre-show rehearsal - in a windowless room - wearing both his hat and sunglasses.
After the twin sisters who comprise two-thirds of Vishtèn, Emmanuelle and Pastelle LeBlanc, marked their joint anniversaire last week with 2000-odd Glasgow children singing them 'Happy Birthday' at Wednesday's schools concert, such additional festivities continued after midnight last night as Siobhan Miller turned 30. After a civilised glass of fizz or two, she did definitely attempt to leave at a reasonable hour (by Celtic standards, at least), but was then surprised with a bottle of champagne from a friend – and thus was still there at least three hours later.
Discussing arrangements for a celebratory soirée/swally with pals at teatime today, Miller was also actually overheard saying, "I think there might be too much prosecco" – which, given her affection for the Italian bubbly, did raise the question of exactly what sized battleship she was planning to float. As well as the drink, though, the fabled culinary expertise of Miller's mum Jan had also been enlisted: she was due through from Penicuik this afternoon with at least one cake, a pavlova, a cheesecake and possibly some clootie dumpling – upon which one imagines Miller's pals, all chronically undernourished by this stage of the festival, falling like ravening wolves.
A little earlier on, Transatlantic Sessions co-director Jerry Douglas was spotted enjoying a well-earned cigar outside the Holiday Inn, following this year's first sellout performance – of which, when asked how it went, he said, "I think it might have been the best one yet." He's not one to say such things lightly, which – together with rapturous audience feedback – suggests that tomorrow's capacity crowd are in for a rare treat.
The sharper-eyed among you in the Holiday Inn today or tonight might notice that the pyramid of vari-sized champagne bottles that previously flanked the restaurant entrance is no longer there. A certain world-renowned fiddler, in a somewhat tired and emotional condition, stumbled into it and sent the whole thing crashing to the floor. The only silver lining, amid a sea of broken glass, was that the display bottles were empty. The culprit even had the chutzpah to act distinctly disgruntled when he was refused further service at the bar.


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Microsoft Photos now lets you 'choose a star' for your custom videos
Now you can pick someone to be the star of your custom videos created by the Microsoft Photos app.
Dan Thorp-Lancaster
The Microsoft Photos app has seen quite a bit of a change over the past year, implementing new features to help you automatically create custom stories out of your photos and videos. Now, Microsoft has announced another new feature rolling out to Photos in Windows 10 will help you zero in on the star of the show.
Fittingly called "Choose a Star," the feature lets you pick someone to be the focus of your video. You can get started by selecting the "Create" button at the top of the Photos app and choosing "Automatic video with music." After you've selected all of the photos and videos you want included, you can choose "Create video" as you normally would and let the app do its work.
Once your story is created, you'll see the option to "Choose a star" listed underneath the Story Remix option in the preview pane. Simply select who you want to be the star of the video, and Photos will automatically adjust each portion of the film to focus on that person with zoom effects and more.
According to Microsoft, "Choose a Star" should be rolling out to everyone running the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update now.
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Charting Benin – Charting Economy
Charting Benin
Part of Benin's economic profile, economic structure section gives readers useful views to understand what matters for Benin's economy.
What is the size of Benin's economy in relation to the world's major economies?
What is the size of Benin's population?
What is the demographic structure of Benin? Is it favorable for economic growth?
How much does Benin's economy rely on external trade?
What are the key regions for Benin's economy?
Economic Freedom Index: How free is Benin's economy?
Part of Benin's economic profile, this section explores Benin's competitiveness at the global level. It also covers Benin's attractiveness to foreign direct investment.
How competitive is Benin?
How are Benin's competitive factors compared to those of other countries?
How is the average wage in Benin compared to others in the region?
How has labor productivity in Benin changed over the years and in relation to comparable countries?
Is it easy to do business in Benin?
How good is Benin in attracting Foreign Direct Investment?
Part of the country's economic profile, this section explores Benin's average income and its distribution, poverty as well as other development indicators.
What is the level of income for an average person in Benin?
What is the poverty rate in Benin and how does it compare to others?
How has an unemployment rate in Benin changed over the recent years?
How is income distributed in Benin and how does it compare to others?
What is the current level of human development in Benin?
How has the quality of life in Benin changed over the years?
How many SDG has Benin achieved to date?
Part of Benin's economic outlook, this section explores Benin's recent economic growth, its key drivers and well as the growth outlook for the coming years.
What has been the growth rate of Benin's economy over the past 10 years and how does it compare with others?
What were the key growth drivers for Benin's economy in the last year?
What is the growth outlook for Benin's economy over the next 3 years and how does it compare with others?
Part of Benin's economic outlook, this section explores Benin's macro-economic risks, including inflation, financial sector, budget deficit, balance of payment and exchange rate.
What is the risk of inflation in Benin over the next 12 months?
What is the health of Benin's banking sector?
What has been the trend in Benin's fiscal budget deficit and the subsequent fiscal risk over the next 5 years?
Breaking down Benin's Balance of Payment: Where are the key risks?
How good is Benin in getting foreign exchange by the mean of commerce?
Does Benin have enough international reserves to service its debt and for import?


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Quiz: How Well Do You Know Your CoD Maps?
Call of Duty is a franchise that spans over a decade and each game has brought a plethora of multiplayer arenas.
Call of Duty has had well over a hundred multiplayer maps grace us with their presence. While some have received less than favorable reactions, a handful have become iconic gaming landmarks. These maps such as Crash, Raid, Highrise, and others are recognizable by their distinct designs and the memories they gave us.
Many of these maps are constantly recreated by fans of the series. Remakes can be found in map editors for games such as Fortnite or even in game engine editors like Unreal Engine. The nostalgia some CoD maps inspire is truly powerful and carries emotions from many of our childhoods.
So, how well do you know your Call of Duty multiplayer maps? Let's take a look at that map knowledge from over the years with a little quiz.
Before we begin, no cheating is allowed. We won't actually know if you're cheating, but you'll know and that's the worst part of cheating, isn't it that right?
So, how did you do? Tell us down in the comments or on Twitter!
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The Energy Star Rebate program, also part of the Recovery Act, provides rebates to buyers of household appliances. Appliances have to qualify as energy efficient, and there has been some debate over unacceptable appliances recently. Recent scandals involved rebate approval for green products that weren't actually green, so the state governments paying out the rebates are now paying a lot closer attention to the Energy Star rebates.
California's program for energy star rebates is called Cash for Appliances. The program begins accepting rebate applications on Earth Day and continues for a month afterward, from 4/22/2010 to 5/23/2010. Surprisingly enough, the California government allows rebate applications to be sent in as late as 6/25/2010 in case people need a month to send in the Energy Star rebate coupon. As with the Cash for Clunkers program, the California rebates only apply to the replacement of appliances. People must turn in their older, less energy efficient appliances to program participants and have them destroyed. Like the cars, destroying an appliance and purchasing a new one will cost a consumer more money than they receive through the rebate, although the consumer receives the money back over time with reduced energy bills, especially if energy prices increase in the future. The effects of Peak Oil and carbon taxes are likely to raise the cost of purchasing heating oil, propane, and other products necessary to fuel home appliances, so an opportunity to get federal subsidies is very helpful. For example, a consumer can receive a two hundred dollar rebate on a new refrigerator or a one hundred dollar rebate on a new washing machine, or a fifty dollar rebate for an air conditioner, as long as it is purchased and installed in California. The program isn't going to pay for transporting the new washing machine home or hooking it up in a consumer's house, or dragging away the old washing machine, although home improvement stores and other retailers who sell these products may offer deals there.


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Eradicating a Democracy Movement
Mass arrests in Hong Kong show both the power of an organized opposition and the authorities' fear of it.
By Timothy McLaughlin
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The days in Hong Kong have recently been bookended by two numbers, neither of them comforting. One, the day's COVID-19 infections, is announced at a set time by health officials, and despite the city's relatively low numbers compared with Europe and the United States, remains stubbornly high compared with some regional neighbors.
The other is compiled more chaotically and is in many ways more worrying. Beginning in the early morning, alerts land on social media, normally in the form of a note written by a trusted associate on a prodemocracy politician's Facebook page, alerting the public that the politician has been taken by police. In some cases, the arrests are filmed, shaky clips that capture the moment a group of officers descends on a sleepy suspect whose alleged crimes might be as minor as shouting a few words, but whose punishment may be as severe as life in prison. News of the first arrest is almost always followed by news of others, the tally ticking upward through the day.
Even with this now-familiar rhythm, buttressed by tightening political repression and persistent sickness, this morning was stunning. Before 7 a.m., reports of the first arrest landed in the familiar form, but unlike days before, when the number of suspects would settle at a handful or even a dozen, for the next few hours the number rose sharply. In total, 53 prodemocracy politicians, activists, lawyers, and academics were arrested, police said. (The number was more than double the 25 new COVID-19 cases announced.)
The arrestees were rounded up for allegedly committing subversion, a violation of the national-security law imposed last year by Chinese authorities and an offense that carries the possibility of a life sentence. They allegedly took part, to varying extents, in an unofficial primary election held last summer by prodemocracy groups. The primary was part of a plan based on laam caau, an idea adopted by the most fervent protesters that roughly translates to "burn with us," a philosophy of mutual destruction meant to punish Beijing. China's intention appears to be different: to reshape Hong Kong's political system into one that maintains the veneer of a democracy, which sets the city apart from the mainland, but is completely devoid of meaningful opposition, eliminating the unwanted surprises and embarrassing public rebukes of the past two years.
Those taken spanned the political spectrum, and generations of Hong Kong's prodemocracy movement. They included an American lawyer, a social worker, and dozens of younger, more radical activists who rose to prominence during the 2019 protests. Officers from the police's national-security unit also visited the newsrooms of three media outlets, demanding that staff turn over materials to authorities within a week, and raided the office of a well-known law firm. No longer satisfied with simply stifling Hong Kong's boisterous opposition, the authorities have sought to eradicate the prodemocracy camp and anyone even loosely affiliated with it. The future of Hong Kong's already stunted democratic system looks gravely imperiled.
Read: A newsroom at the edge of autocracy
The breadth of the authorities' response today pointed to the surprising success of what at first appeared to be a wildly optimistic effort to sustain Hong Kong's democracy effort. The primary contest, organized by the former law professor Benny Tai, was meant to select candidates who would then run in legislative elections scheduled for last September. Tai, who was instrumental in coordinating the 2014 Umbrella Movement and was subsequently jailed for his role, envisioned prodemocracy candidates taking their struggle inside the halls of power by winning a majority of seats in an assembly whose electoral system heavily favors Beijing's preferred candidates. They could then use their newfound power to upend the legislative process, possibly forcing the city's chief executive to resign. If Beijing interfered, or used the chief executive to do so, the fallacy of the "one country, two systems" framework under which Hong Kong is governed would be on full display.
The idea was bold, but prodemocracy figures were coming off a resounding victory in local elections months prior and the government—in Hong Kong as well as in Beijing—continued to ignore many demands and renege on promises. Over a sweltering weekend in July, people waited for hours at businesses that had been turned into temporary polling stations—a budget lingerie shop, sympathetic restaurants, and a vintage bus among them—to cast their ballots. The event was orderly and ran without a hitch, factors that perhaps made it more alarming to authorities, running counter to the image they had hoped to portray of protesters as a motley crew of violent, foreign-funded radicals intent on destroying the city.
The vote went ahead despite the national-security law's enactment 11 days earlier and warnings from officials and pro-Beijing media that it might violate the new law, among them Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive—and someone who has never won a popular election herself. In total, some 610,000 people cast ballots, far exceeding expectations and breathing an air of reality into Tai's idea. (Shortly afterward, a number of candidates who won the primaries were disqualified from the September election, and the polls themselves were postponed because of the pandemic.) Still, warnings from the authorities were not followed up with actions, and in the subsequent months, the polls were largely relegated to memory, until this morning.
Police said about 1,000 officers took part in the operation, arresting 53 people. These people—for organizing themselves and attempting to win an election, then planning to use the power granted to them by voters to reject government proposals—are "suspected to be involved in the crime of overthrowing or interfering seriously to destroy the Hong Kong government's legal execution of duties," Secretary for Security John Lee said. At a press conference, police unveiled a flow chart highlighting the steps that led to the alleged offense, including "announced to hold [sic] a primary election in July" and "publicized at [sic] social media."
The individuals arrested weren't just election winners or high-profile political figures. Among them, local media reported, was Lee Chi-yung, who campaigned on a platform of increasing accessibility for people with disabilities, an issue he was drawn to after his severely disabled daughter found it difficult to make her way around the city when she was alive. Lee received just 304 votes. Another, according to a Facebook post, was Jeffrey Andrews, regarded as the city's first ethnic-minority social worker, who assisted refugees and campaigned for a more inclusive Hong Kong, work that drew accolades from Manchester United and Cathay Pacific. John Clancey, an American lawyer who has lived in Hong Kong for more than two decades and was involved with the group that organized the primaries, said that he hoped people would continue to work for democracy and human rights in Hong Kong as he was slowly led away by police, a crutch tucked under his arm. It is unclear if and when those arrested will be formally charged.
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Last year's postponed legislative elections are now slated to be held this September, but it seems unlikely that the vote will resemble anything close to the semi-democratic contest it was in the past. Many of the most popular candidates could be behind bars and, even if they are not, disqualification of prodemocracy supporters is now the norm. Furthermore, today's arrests show that any organized challenge to the authorities carries the possibility of violating the national-security law. The moves all but ensure that the city's unpopular pro-Beijing parties will avoid the type of humiliating rout faced during November's local elections. "It was clear that Beijing was not going to let them be embarrassed like that again," a senior Western diplomat told me.
Though unofficial, the primaries may well have been Hong Kong's last free vote, an act of resistance that—while lacking the violent flourishes of Molotov cocktails or water cannons that helped garner worldwide attention for much of 2019—showed both the potential power of an organized opposition wielding even limited clout in a system tipped steeply against it, and the authorities' extreme fear of it.
Claudia Mo, a former prodemocracy lawmaker who resigned from the legislature in protest along with her colleagues last year, told me recently that she was exhausted by the past two years. Officials, she said as her aides packed up the contents of her office, were working to build an atmosphere of fear. "They are trying to create this sensation of the high walls of the authorities closing in on you," she said, "and you should be feeling suffocated."
Mo was arrested today as well.


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1.Xinxin Li, Xuan Wang, Lin Yao. Conversion between Dependency Structures and PhraseStructures Using a Head Finder Algorithm. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering ,(IEEE NLP-KE'10) 2010:1-6.
2.Buzhou Tang, Xiaolong Wang, Xuan Wang, Bo Yuan and Shixi Fan. A Cascade Method for Detecting Hedges and Their Scope in Natural Language Text. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL-ST2010:13-17.
3.Li, Xinxin,Wang Xuan Qi Shuhan. Coreference Resolution with Loose Transitivity Constraints. Proceedings of the Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning: Shared Task. 2011:107—111.
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5.Buzhou Tang, Lu Li, Xinxin Li, XuanWang, XiaolongWang, A Joint Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Parsing System based on Maximum Entropy Models, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2009: 109–113.
6.Lu Li, Shixi Fan, XuanWang, XiaolongWang. Discriminative Learning of Syntactic and Semantic Dependencies.Manchester, England :Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, August 2008: 219-222.
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If you are using a smartphone than I am pretty sure that you will have the Instagram app installed and linked with your account on your smartphone. It is because Instagram has become one of the most popular social media platforms and still getting plenty of users with every passing day. The use of the Instagram application is really simple. You can follow anyone on Instagram and by following someone on Instagram you will be able to see their posted images and videos at any time with ease and the people who are going to follow you will be able to do the same thing.
If you are not owning a private account then everyone on Instagram will be able to see your posts. There is no difference on Instagram than other social media platforms in terms of your popularity. It is because, on Instagram, your popularity depends on the number of followers you have on Instagram. There are a lot of people who are marketing their services and products through Instagram and almost more than 60 % of the business owners are using Instagram for getting more audience.
How people are getting more followers on Instagram, Instagram bots are one of the way being used for this purpose. Let's have a look at the things you need to know about Instagram bots:
Instagram bots
Instagram bots are services which allow any company or any Instagram account holder to get more followers on their Instagram accounts. There can be a number of ways which are being used by people to get more views, likes, comments, and followers on their Instagram accounts. Instagram is being used by different businesses to promote their business and to reach more people. As the success rate of any company is being checked by the number of followers which they have on Instagram. Therefore, people are trying different ways like Instagram bots to get plenty of followers on Instagram and to give a more appealing look to their Instagram profile with ease. Instagram allows the businesses to share their information with the people in the form of images and videos and let the world explore them easily.
How do Instagram bots work?
The very first thing that you must keep in mind is that an Instagram bot is just a computer program. That is why you can never expect from an Instagram bot to do, for which you have not asked them before. There are three main things for which Instagram bots can be used and their purposes are likes, followers and comments. The working of an Instagram bot depends on the preference of the user who wants to use its services. An Instagram bot can perform all these things easily and you can also get them only for one service too.
The way in which these Instagram bots are working is when the user will upload the post the Instagram bots will associate that post with each possible hashtag which can relate that post and other trending and popular hashtags too which are being used currently. This will help you to get as much traffic and engagement as possible from different places with ease. By having more likes, the chances of your post (either video or image) to get featured on different community places will be increased. And this entire process will be feasible for you to get more followers on your Instagram account.
How can I select better targets for my Instagram bots?
There are some things which you have to do while setting the targets of your Instagram bots:
Know your audience first. Try to understand the fact that who is your potential audience and for what product or services you want to target them.
If you want to target more audience then it will better to find out the things in which people are more interested for example, the hashtags which are being used by them the most.
Setting the targets can be beneficial for you. It is because you are interacting with the people who are already interested in the content you are sharing and through these people, it will be easier for you to get more consumers.
Why people are using Instagram bots?
Instagram bots are being by people for too many different purposes such as to get more likes, comments, and followers on their Instagram accounts. But the following are some general advantages which anyone can avail with the use of Instagram bots:
The most common advantage that you can get by using Instagram bots is that by making the online interactions of your Instagram account automated, it will become easier for your profile to get attention. It is because Instagram bots can visit as many profiles as possible related to the conditions that you have set up.
By using Instagram bots, you will be able to get immediate followers on your Instagram account.
If you are using Instagram bots, it will make sure that the bots are visiting actual accounts. So, as a result, whichever follower you will get are real.
Instagram bots are efficient and fast. And the use of Instagram bots on your Instagram account will help you to save you're a lot of time with ease.
Instagram bots are versatile. If you are unaware of how to program an Instagram bot, then you can avail the services from any service provider to automate your Instagram account. Instagram bots are cheaper and by far known as the most robust and versatile Instagram tool being used by a lot of people.
Instagram bots can sound better to automate your Instagram profile and these can help you to save your time that you may have to spend on scrolling your Instagram feed, liking others content and commenting on the posts. By taking the services like Instagram bots, you can boost the presence of your brand on Instagram and target more audience with ease.
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works at Lithuanian Energy Institute. She is junior researcher at Laboratory for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency. R. Griksaite participated in 4 international projects and had more than 30 publications. Her research interests are sustainable energy, renewable energy, data analysis, statistics, mathematical modeling, physics, simulations, energy policy.


First Challenge of 2015 Results.
One of the topics for each Challenge will be divided into 2 categories, one for beginners and one for more advanced photographers (Snow and Ice). The winner of each subcategory would win a $20 gift card from Henry's.
Participation in Challenges will be made less intimidating.
Images will still be judged using the CAPA system, but scores will no longer be shown at the club presentations. Instead only the winner and runner-up images will be announced.
Names of all participant photographers will be kept confidential as in the past.
Will make the file size submission requirements less onerous.
Deadline is February 27 and the results night is March 20.
Images will still be judged using the CAPA system, but scores will no longer be shown at the club presentations. Instead only the winner and runner up images will be announced.
Please find theme definitions and the rules in the attached document in the Files section on the left.
Results of the judging will be presented at the Dec. 4 club meeting. For Challenge Rules and Definitions of the Challenge Categories, look under the Program Calendar Pull down menu at the top of this page and click Challenges.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO WED MAR 7th at 6pm!
Submission deadline for images: 5-March-18 (New).
Judging results will be presented at the 26-Mar-18 club meeting.
Look under the Program Calendar Pull down menu above to find information on the challenge topics and for the challenge rules, under the Challenges dropdown selection.
Judging results will be presented at the Dec. 3, 2018 club meeting.
NOTE: In view of the minimal amount of snow we have had, the original theme "Minimalistic Winter Landscape" will be moved to a later date.
Submission deadline for images: March 6, 2019.
Judging results will be presented at the March 25, 2019 club meeting.


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People start to get very nervous about "bathing suit season" when the weather starts to turn warm. I think you are all perfect little angel babies just like you are, of course, and if the spring thaw inspires you to leave your houses and move your bodies, then more power to you. The thing about leaving your house, though, is that you're going to need to do it with a bag that you feel comfortable stuffing in a gym locker.
Most gym bags are heinous nylon things made for men who want to telegraph to those around them that they Definitely Do Sports, but I will have none of that. Instead, I took to the Internet to find some significantly less fugly options, and I think you'll be pleased with my results. If you're not into the gym, a lot of them will also do admirable double duty as weekend travel bags or carry-ons.


Kantar Consulting's Andrew Curry has won an award from the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) for "Most Significant Futures Works". APF recognises the most significant futures works to identify and reward the work of professional futurists and others whose work illuminates aspects of the future. Andrew's paper, titled; 'The City, The Country, and the New Politics of Place' was awarded under the 'Analyse a Significant Future Issue' category.
The City, The Country, and the New Politics of Place published in 2017 in the Journal of Futures Studies, looks at the rise of populism through the lens of the economics of cities in the age of the service economy.
Most Significant Futures Works (MSFW) Awards were announced at the Annual Reception and Recognition ceremony at the APF Pittsburgh Gathering, October 4, 2018, at the Kimpton Monaco Hotel.
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I've recently discovered a weird InstallShield 2010 setup.exe behavior while doing some extensive testing for a client's installer. Basically on a Windows 7 (x64) machine that I knew should need several redists, only one of the redists would show as needing to be installed. When I ran the setup.exe again all three would show up as needing to be installed.
Funny, I've never installed this prereq. I did some googling and found a thread over on InstallShield Community where another user was seeing a similar behavior.
Now the machine I was testing on was a VM snapshot. And it was only this one snapshot that I could reproduce the problem on. I started thinking about how this could be and I think I've figured out the scenario that surfaces this design defect. I had created a build for my customer that had several prereqs and used that to create the snapshot. My customer then added additional dependencies to the application so I created a new build that added a couple more prereqs and I scheduled them to be run before some of the prexisting prereqs. In doing so I think I stumbled into a situation where InstallShield keeps some information around and incorrectly figures it's installed something before that it hasn't.
So just be aware, if your doing setup prereq work and using snapshots for performance / productivity purposes while testing edge cases with setup prereqs that you might come across this problem. To be extra safe, always author AppSearch / LaunchConditions to make sure the problem isn't swallowed and resurfaced when you try to run the application.
2) Build setup.exe v2 with prereq A and prereq B. Sequence prereq B to run before A.
3) Create a VM and create snapshot 1.
4) Run setup.exe v1 on the VM against snapshot 1 to install prereq A.
7) Run setup.exe v2 again on the vm. You'll see prereq b in the list and skipping emitted from the log.
8) Apply snapshot 1 and run setup.exe v2. You'll see prereq a and b in the list.
9) Apply v2 and repeat steps 6 and 7. It should be very predictable.
Were you able to workaround this issue?