Oh, I like this colourway!
Orange is my favorite color Stacy. I think you should wear that scarf with your head held high and just smile at the world!
Lovely color! I definitely know what you mean about blacks and grays though, I'm the same way. It's great to break from tradition and try something new!
O this is beautiful! I'm like you and stick to the darker and more neutral colors for clothes most of the time but when I shop for yarn my eyes are drawn to the colorful skeins and balls.
Enhanced or not, I bet that color is very pretty to work with!
Beautiful scarf:) I love color! Have a blessed day my friend, HUGS!
Oh Stacy, this is a stunning colour, you are going to look beautiful wearing it!
Wow - that is beautiful! I hope you enjoy wearing it!
Very, Very pretty. And, I'm thinking it will be gorgeous with black and gray!!!
Love the colors! Is that a rotini pattern?
It is good to step out of your comfort-zone colourwise and it's made an excellent topic for the first day of blog week!


Ideas may come to you when you're sitting in a bus, boarding an airplane or visiting a hospital. For a CRM to work the data must be available and editable in any situation.
Having now dogfooded Ajatus for almost two months, I have to say this has been an important aspect. It is powerful to have all your customer and project data with you at all times, and still be able to use it via the familiar web UI.
Offline is useful. You can write your notes in every meeting, update them in train, report expenses as they incur. And most importantly, as long as your computer is running, the application is never down. And still, though replication your data will be safe with your peers or the corporate server.
This is aspect even more important when you start running the app on ultra-portable devices, or go outside the industrialized world.


Manuela Herzer will pay back $3.25 million that Mr. Redstone had given her in gifts and money over the years. The long-running dispute had challenged Mr. Redstone's mental capacity.
The Manhattan district attorney and the state attorney general want the network to turn over information from its internal investigation, according to an S.E.C. filing.
What the revamped board has planned for CBS depends on how it views media mergers and what its relationship will be with its controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone.


I'll be at Final Fridays (September 28, 2018) with some of my photos at the CBD of Lawrence Art Gallery, 843 Mass. St.. Come by and say Hi and see good art! 5-8:30ish. This Gallery is now the home of several of my pieces.
Lawrence Art Guild All Member Show, April 13 to June 29, 2018 at the Landmark National Bank, 4621 6th St., Lawrence, KS. Reception April 13 at 5:30 at Bank Lobby. Love to See You!


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Category: In the Media
Interview on India in the Indo-Pacific [Book]
September 23, 2022 Aditi MalhotraLeave a comment
"Many of us fall into the trap of traditional theories that have a predominant preference for systemic or structural factors" – Interview with Aditi Malhotra Dear Aditi Malhotra, in your book you examine India's reorienting strategic posture and describe how New Delhi's security policy in the Indo-Pacific region has evolved. Which questions do you exactly… Continue reading Interview on India in the Indo-Pacific [Book]
Podcast Interview: India's Role in the Indo-Pacific | In Conversation with Dr Aditi Malhotra
In this episode of Interlinked, we discuss the trajectory of India's role in the Indo-Pacific region. Dr Malhotra sheds light on the evolving perceptions of India's own role in the region and the multiple factors affecting it. In the conversation, Ishani and Dr Malhotra discuss the impact of China, the United States and other countries… Continue reading Podcast Interview: India's Role in the Indo-Pacific | In Conversation with Dr Aditi Malhotra
Interview: Multilateralism at the Time of COVID-19: What's Working and What's Not?
April 24, 2020 April 24, 2020 Aditi MalhotraLeave a comment
Interview for the online portal Guftagoo The global health emergency resulting from the rapidly spreading COVID-19 and the failing global markets have reignited the debates on multilateralism. Although the rise of populism in recent times had reduced the significance of multilateral institutions, the brand new challenges resulting due to an unforeseen pandemic have made many… Continue reading Interview: Multilateralism at the Time of COVID-19: What's Working and What's Not?
In the Media: Afghan Leader Knocks On India's Door After Pakistan Disappointment
April 27, 2015 November 16, 2015 Aditi MalhotraLeave a comment
Gandhara RFE/RL by Mustafa Sarwar Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has tried striking up a new relationship with neighboring Pakistan by resisting reliance on its archival India. But after Islamabad failed to deliver to the negotiating table leaders of the Afghan Taliban who are believed to be hiding in Pakistan, Ghani is in now in India to… Continue reading In the Media: Afghan Leader Knocks On India's Door After Pakistan Disappointment

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Q: is there a way where I can call an network API call on main thread in android honeycomb? I am creating a service and an app. App can call a method on a service. The method is calling an API and based on API, giving the result. Since the app is targetting android 3.0, I am getting "NetworkOnMainThreadException".
My requirement is such a way that I cannot call the method in background thread from app. Also the method on service should return a boolean based on API call.
is there a way where I can call an network API call on main thread in android honeycomb?

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I am creating a service and an app.

A service is a part of an "app". I am going to assume that you meant "activity" where you wrote "app".

My requirement is such a way that I cannot call the method in background thread from app.

Then whoever created this "requirement" is an idiot and should be fired. Then, remove this requirement. Always perform network operations on a background thread.

Since the app is targetting android 3.0, I am getting "NetworkOnMainThreadException".

That is because StrictMode is on to warn you about these things by default. While the warning is new, the problem exists on all versions of Android your code is running on.

is there a way where I can call an network API call on main thread in android honeycomb?

This should never be done in production code. Rework your application to do the network I/O on a background thread (e.g., AsyncTask).

A: import android.os.StrictMode;

StrictMode.ThreadPolicy policy = new StrictMode.ThreadPolicy.Builder().permitAll().build();
StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(policy);

A: Just a note: making synchronous calls on the UI thread is horrible programming practice for production code - you should always make asynchronous call in a background thread and never have to force a psuedo-synchronous call in the manner shown below.
In fact, I'm only posting this because I'm miffed that the API throws an exception when I make a network call using the AndroidHttpClient on the UI thread for brief functional testing before complete implementation. Ie. Testing an operation meant for a background thread without adding frivolous code to make it a background thread when you don't yet need it.
final Object lock = new Object();
new Thread(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        synchronized(lock) {
            // Perform call
            // lock.notify();
        }
    }
}).start();
synchronized(lock) {
    try {
        lock.wait();
    }
    catch{}
}

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This campsite is located around 12km from Innsbruck and is served by a regular hourly bus service. The facilities at the campsite are outstanding - the shower block has to be seen to be believed. The washing block is also very large with large sinks, places do wash one's clothes and of course washing and drying machines.
The campsite is built around the small lake Natterer See and in the summer one can swim there - where I was there in April, perhaps only the really keen would do so.
Whereas Innsbruck is close and that has to be one of the main attractions in Austria, one can also use the campsite as a base for exploring the countryside although on bicycle this is for those that are fit or have electric power!
All around there are mountain views.
An added attraction for those that are seeking organic food is that in the village which is located around 700 metres from the campsite is a fish farm where one has a choice of eight species of very fresh fish - so fresh that it is alive when you choose it. The fish farm also has fresh eggs. From a nearby farm one can also purchase fresh eggs and milk.
The campsite also has a shop and a modern looking cafeteria.


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class Sysdig::UpdateUserNotifications < Sysdig::Request
  def real(notification)
    service.request(
      :method => :put,
      :path   => "/api/settings/notifications",
      :body   => { "userNotification" => notification },
    )
  end

  def mock(notification)
    user_notification = Cistern::Hash.slice(Cistern::Hash.stringify_keys(notification), "sns", "email", "pagerDuty")

    schema = {
      "sns"       => %w[enabled topics],
      "email"     => %w[enabled recipients],
      "pagerDuty" => %w[enabled integrated resolveOnOk connectUrl],
    }

    sliced = schema.each_with_object({}) { |(type, keys), r|
      u = user_notification[type]

      if u
        r.merge!(type => Cistern::Hash.slice(u, *keys))
      end
    }

    service.response(
      :body => { "userNotification" => service.data[:user_notifications].merge!(sliced) },
    )
  end
end

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Music is one of the few universal things alongside food and sports, that I know that can impact lives significantly. Two people from completely different and random backgrounds can connect because of music; and almost everyone you know, you included, has a favourite track, that song that makes you nostalgic and reminisce about good times. The songs that you leaned on for healing during the tough times, the songs you made your babies to (wink wink), the one that reminds you of 'that' break up, the song you had your first kiss and dance to, the wedding song, the one your entire family jives to, the favourite song of a loved one, the one that has been on repeat for the past 2 weeks, the one you sang in the shower this morning.
I have always loved music. In the Nigerian community- music is a must-have at parties- no compromise. I grew up in a home where as a child, music was always on. We were that family that sang Xmas carols during the festive season and I remember my Mum always played Xmas carols in the background when my siblings and I were home for the Xmas holidays (Boney M's Feliz Na Vidad remains a personal favourite).
I recall playing some of my Dad's highlife LPs on his turntable, I was active in school plays that involved singing in primary school. My older brothers being the teenagers they were then, played loud hip-hop music in the car when they were trusted to drive the family car (I particularly remember MC Hammer's Can't Touch This being on repeat in the car then). I recall my oldest brother and I sampling the Everly Brothers' LP (All I have To Do Is Dream is my favourite of their songs), and my eldest sister playing and singing to all ABBA's songs on the radio when it was just me and her at home after school- 'Take A Chance On Me', 'Chiquitita' and 'Thank You For The Music' were her favourites. It's been over 30-something years and I still remember these like yesterday.
I remember as a child, sitting in front of the TV with my thick eyeglasses watching Donna Summer sing 'Hot Stuff'- the woman had wavy and long curly hair. I also remember that Whitney Houston's 'I'll always love you', and Take That's 'Want You Back for Good' were released around the same time because I watched both on TV while writing a secondary school exam in 1992. I remember that my Gynaecologist listened to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It' while he was performing a Caesarean section on me in 2012 when I was about to have my daughter- that made the whole experience particularly calming and relaxing for me I must say.
I have intense nostalgic moods when certain songs are played on the radio, and I can attach good or bad memories to some songs. Music has made me cry, laugh, hopeful, empowered, high (not that type of high guys…lol), heal from emotional pain, forget my worries momentarily. It is basically a stress reliever. I've leaned on music to help me go through some of my life's difficult experiences and I have similarly danced to music when I heard splendid life-changing news. Music has been with me since day 1 and it shall be with me till the day I depart.
My favourite types of music are afro beats, Afropop, jazz, hip-hop, gospel, funk, soul, RnB, pop, highlife and dancehall to name a few. And various research articles show that music has positive benefits, 6 of which I am sharing with you in this post.
Music can help you unravel or come out of your shell. You know that one shy person who unravels when their favourite music comes on right? Or have you ever been to a music concert and connected with total strangers because you both knew how to break dance, twerk or krump to a certain song? Music can bring out your alter ego in a way you have never seen before, IF you allow yourself to be uninhibited.
Music aids child development. I don't know if child psychologists will disprove this but I have several videos of my daughter learning to take her first baby steps while trying to dance to a song. She's older now and she still dances. Ever noticed how quickly children know the lyrics to a song after listening to it a few times, meanwhile you have been listening to the same song forever but only know the chorus?
Music is a mood livener, stress reliever and can make you more productive. Relaxing at home with no TV on and the only sound is music in the background- sounds peaceful doesn't it? Or bringing it closer to home, house cleaning is less tedious for me when I have music playing. I like listening to music while studying, I play it when I need to concentrate on a serious task when I'm at work. I generally tend to drive better when I have good music on, and the likelihood of me indulging in road rage is even lower because good music just makes me happy. I can even blow a kiss at someone who cuts in front of me when I have good music serenading me in the car (lol, just kidding, I'll just smile and let them cut in for as long as they want).
Music enriches your memories. We can all associate certain songs with certain events that happened in their lives and the nostalgia that you feel when certain songs come is priceless.
Music makes going through the tough times easier. Have you listened to a particular song and told yourself that 'as long as I have life, I have hope' or that 'he's not worth my tears' or 'I will get through this'? Music can give you a different perspective when you think your life is going topsy-turvy- as it makes you hopeful.
Music can be a form of prayer. This is the most profound for me. There are times when words just fail you and the lyrics of certain songs capture the unspoken in your heart- those are moments I am so alive.
I gave up on listening to Talk radio long ago because all the discussions of politics and societal ills were low-key aggravating my stress levels. I defer to other means for knowing what's happening in the country and larger world.
I'm sorry if you think this post was going to be a 'deep conversation' that will unearth things you did not know about music. To be honest with you, I started writing about something else but veered off writing about music (don't ask me why because I honestly don't know how I ended up with this post). And because I didn't want to discard what I had written so effortlessly, this is why I'm sharing this music post with you. So I can say, consider today's post as FYI.
Thanks for reading till the end. Until we chat again, take good care of yourself and let music be your pain killer.


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Q: Computer peripherals to immediately (<5ms) detect digital input state change in C# programs The C# application I'm working on needs to be able to be able to call a function within 5 milliseconds of a digital input signal's state change (0V = off, 5V = on).
Rather than using software to repeatedly poll that input's state, I would like some hardware to simply call a software function when the hardware detects a state change (like how hardware interrupts work).
Does anyone know how to do this (what ports to use) on a standard PC tower? Or does anyone know of any hardware peripherals that allow this functionality?
Occasional latencies are fine. I need <5ms average.
I basically need to take as many samples as possible of the input digital waveform. (preferably in the C# program, rather than in a peripheral micro-controller, although I am open to suggestions).
For instance, I found out the Labjack U3 can poll its digital input in less than a millisecond. This is a valid answer to the question, but I am interesting in more answers, especially ones that don't use polling or poll faster than 1ms.
High input impedance would be nice (digital inputs).

A: Do you need to perform a specific real-time action, or just record the event?
If the former, you will never accomplish this using commodity hardware and consumer-grade interfaces. You will need both a laboratory-grade signal processor ( it will be a card that can access hardware interrupts directly) and a real-time operating system like VxWorks. A user-centric OS won't interrupt a disk write just because the USB bus wants some attention.
If the latter, get yourself a signal recorder and post-process the buffer output at your convenience.

A: If your signal does not have too much of DC (long pauses with no data), use the sound card.

A: I ended up using an Arduino Uno's Timer Input Capture Interrupt Service Routine to set data over USB to a C# SerialPort object immediately upon input capture. The SerialPort fires a serialdatareceivedeventhandler immediately upon detecting an End Of File Character (0x1A), and a new thread launches to process the input data (such as assigning a timestamp to it).
To all the neighsayers, What the Heck? Obviously you were wrong that it couldn't be done.


As of late, it seems every time I run to the mailbox there is a wedding announcement awaiting me. My social media is filled with pictures of blushing brides at beautiful venues surrounded by close friends and family. I'm tender hearted, I'll admit, the sight of my friends so overjoyed to have found the love of their lives brings a little tear to my eye.
For those of you who are having similar anxiety over what to wear, especially when you are a boots and tee shirt kind of person. I've compiled a few outfit ideas below with some tips for getting through all things wedding reception and ceremony related.
Keep in mind the formality of the wedding, the venue and the time. Thankfully the weddings I attend are generally semi-casual and in an outdoor setting. The outfit ideas I suggest below reflect that. Contact me for more ideas on other looks for other settings.
Ladies we have options. It's all about harnessing your own style, and channeling it for the venue. I love boots and jeans. So for me, wearing boots is a necessity and is the starting point for my outfit.
For dressing up, I recommend tall boots like Corral Boots or Old Gringo. They cover more leg (for those of us with barrel racer bruises or a significant lack of a tan), typically have a higher heel and a rounded or pointed toe to give a more feminine shape. Ankle boots are on trend right now and can give an outfit some edge if you are looking to step away from cowboy boots.
A dress or skirt is the route most of us choose. I love to pair either look with a great belt and long necklace. Here are some great looks I pulled from Pinterest.
For hair, go with loose curls or a chic side braid or ponytail.
Headed for a casual reception? Check out 100 ways to wear the Betty to get some ideas on how to dress up your jeans.
For you, the key to pulling off a great wedding look is a pair of great fitting dark wash jeans with a tooled-leather belt, topped with a crisp button down. Clean boots and a well shaped felt hat round out the look.
So you're dressed and present. Now what?
If you're attending the actual ceremony, do everyone a favor and turn off your cell phone. No one wants to hear your phone ringing in the middle of their wedding video. Sure you want to take pictures, but that's why they hired a professional photographer. Save the photo and video taking for them. Be present in the moment and step away from the phone. Social media can wait.
Attending the reception? Sign their guest book, admire the little details, thank the parents and tell them the venue is perfect. They are the thankless group on this day and chances are they are exhausted from all the planning.
Participate. What do I mean? If they have a dance floor, DANCE. You might feel silly but the bride and groom want the guests to be enjoying their day as much as they are. Eat, drink and be merry.
Be sure to share your wedding tips and tricks.


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Rep. Charlie Dent confuses right and wrong — again
Jerry Shenk
On May 13, 2013, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on a bill to ban abortions after the fifth month of pregnancy.
The vote was scheduled to coincide with the second anniversary of the conviction of Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who ran a grisly, infamous abortion mill. Gosnell was convicted of murdering live-born children.
The bill would limit elective abortions after 20 weeks, a point more than halfway to term at which unborn babies can feel pain.
Rep. Charlie Dent voted against the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act" — only one of four Republicans to do so.
For possibly the first time since entering the House in January, Rep. Ryan Costello voted out of sync with Dent. Costello favored the bill, which passed by a vote of 242 to 180. Dent joined every Pennsylvania House Democrat but Robert Brady, who didn't vote. Only four Democrats voted for the bill.
The vote was taken only days after a New York Times article revealed that, due to medical advances, more premature babies — even those born at twenty-two weeks — can survive outside the womb with fewer health problems.
It's obscene that, today, the United States continues to be one of only seven countries to allow elective abortions at late stages in a pregnancy. In fact, the United States, China, North Korea and Canada are the only nations in the world that permit abortion for any reason after viability.
Dent's vote had nothing to do with women's "health."
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life, emphasizes the danger of late-term abortion for both babies and their mothers: "Limiting abortion at five months of pregnancy, as an unborn child becomes able to live outside the womb and as the procedure becomes even more dangerous for women, is a common sense law long overdue" "This type of legislation represents the mother-child strategy that AUL recommends because it deals directly with the ugly reality of abortion, which hurts both people exposed to an industry willing to harm people for profit."
AUL cites compelling research: After two months of pregnancy, each week, the chance of a woman dying from an abortion increases 38 percent; at five months of pregnancy, a woman is 35 times more likely to die from an abortion than during the first trimester; and after 21 weeks, a woman is at 91 times greater risk than in the first trimester.
Before the vote, the Wall Street Journal quoted Dent: "This is a lot of time and energy spent on a bill that really has no chance of becoming law."
The bill's chances of becoming law isn't the point. Some things are simply right to do. And the American people have a right to know which of their representatives have learned and understand the fundamental difference between right and wrong.
Clearly, Dent needs a remedial course.
Annville native Shenk writes from South Hanover Township. His column appears Saturdays.


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Hellersdorf is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the  line.

The station opened in July 1989, just a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The eastern extension of (what is now) line U5 was one of the last major construction projects of the former German Democratic Republic.

The station was to be called "Kastanienallee" but was changed to the current name before opening.

References

External links
 U-Bahnhof Hellersdorf page on info-marzahn-hellersdorf.de

U5 (Berlin U-Bahn) stations
Buildings and structures in Marzahn-Hellersdorf
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1989
1989 establishments in East Germany

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Q: Typeof error on jquery function I'm a little new to javascript/jquery. I'm trying to make a function that will switch from a 200x200 image to a 400x400 image on hover. Luckily, all the 200x200 images end in .200.200.jpg and all the 400x400 .400.400.jpg and are otherwise the same file path.
Here's my javascript (I switched hover to trigger for testing)
    $('.Content .ProductList li').trigger(function(){
        var ImageSRC = this.find(".productimage a img").attr('src');
        NewImageSRC = ImageSRC.replace('.200.200.jpg','.400.400.jpg');
        this.find(".productimage a img").attr('src', NewImageSRC)
    });

This is the error I'm getting on console:
TypeError: Object function (){ var ImageSRC = this.find(".productimage a img").attr('src'); NewImageSRC = ImageSRC.replace('.200.200.jpg','.400.400.jpg'); this.find(".productimage a img").attr('src', NewImageSRC) } has no method 'indexOf'

And here for reference is an abbrebiated version of the HTML I'm trying to get at:

        ...

A: keep hover, and use
$(this).find

instead of
this.find

A: Can you do an on hover event, and adjust CSS via ID?
$( ".img200pxclass" ).hover(function() {
  $(this).attr('src','400px.png');
  $(this).switchClass( "img200px", "img400px");
  $(this).css("height", "400px"); //same for width ; except, updating class might do this for you if you want
});

I think something like this could work, if you can mess with class attributes


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Since VMworld last year, I've been thinking a lot about how artists innovate compared to how we innovate in IT. My wife is an artist and for her and other artists, there is no limit to the number or variety of colors that they can create or paint with. They break rules, create new mediums and inspirational works of art are born from paint, canvas, and pure imagination. Unlike those of us in IT, artists can create without restriction or consequence. IT is often more about pragmatic innovation or innovating within an accepted number of constraints. While we may never reach the outright freedom that artists enjoy, we should strive to remove as many barriers to creativity and innovation as possible.
At VMworld 2018, we showcase a variety of new technologies and partnerships that will bring new levels of flexibility that further accelerate innovation for our customers. Anything that impedes a developer's ability to manage applications and services using native tools and APIs will only serve to limit creativity. With this in mind, it is key to our vision that we provide consistent infrastructure for applications and data, and an operational model and tools that also remain globally consistent, regardless of where an application runs. Furthermore and most importantly, we introduced examples of how you can maintain a dependable operational and security model while preserving a native developer experience.
Ultimately, our goal is to give you the flexibility to run any application anywhere, as well as the ability to build new apps and services without having to pre-determine their future based on a set of artificial constraints. Change is a constant. That app built in the cloud today may need to run at the edge across thousands of sites next year. A merger or acquisition may necessitate technology being deployed in ways or places you never even considered. It's the world we live in. We don't know what we don't know, until we know it.
Of course, saying you'd like to have the flexibility to run an application anywhere and quickly pivot as market dynamics change is easier said than done. When you consider application or data dependencies, networking, security, compliance, and performance and availability requirements, preserving flexibility is far from easy. Making it easy for you to accelerate innovation across clouds, data centers and edge sites is hard work but, if you've met a VMware engineer, you know that solving hard problems is what gets us out of bed. When you decouple your applications, data, networks and security from hardware dependencies, flexibility is no longer an aspiration, but a design element. This week at VMworld, we show you what innovating across a truly flexible fabric looks like and how you can increase the velocity at which you can deploy and manage applications and infrastructure anywhere expected (or unexpected) demands may take you. Here's what's in store.
Availability in all major geographies: Today, we announced that VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in Sydney, expanding our presence that already included four other regions: Oregon, Northern Virginia, London, and Frankfurt. In addition, expansion is also planning for Tokyo and the AWS GovCloud (US).
AWS Elastic Block Storage (EBS) integration: You can now scale storage capacity of your VMware SDDC clusters via EBS integration. Capacity can be allocated from 15-35 TB per host, in increments of 5 TB. Besides the obvious storage scale benefits, this capability is significant, because VMware vSAN is the first hyperconverged storage platform to natively integrate with AWS EBS.
50% lower entry-level pricing: Customers can now get three hosts on VMware Cloud on AWS for the price of two ($8,000/month). That makes it even easier to kick the tires and validate VMware cloud capabilities and explore the many ways that you can build hybrid services that span both VMware and native AWS environments.
Accelerated live migration: Using VMware HCX, you can live migrate VMs to VMware Cloud on AWS from any vSphere 5.0 or higher on-premises host via the public internet, AWS Direct Connect, or a WAN.
Advanced NSX: Advanced NSX fully integrates with AWS Direct Connect, providing an end-to-end high-bandwidth low-latency private network. NSX microsegmentation extends to individual VMs running on VMware Cloud on AWS. That allows you to set network and security policies based on the application, which can comprise of VM names or user-defined tags. That policy can follow the VM wherever it may run, giving you a flexible and dynamic network and security policy that is not bound to physical boundaries, such as locations and network segments.
License optimizations: You can now specify the number of CPU cores that an application requires and also apply VM host affinity to ensure that a VM remains on a specific physical server. Those two features are essential for complying with select software vendor licensing mandates.
Since the start of the joint partnership with AWS, we announced five major feature updates over the last twelve months, and we will continue to innovate at cloud-pace to meet our customers' current and future needs.
Cloud Assembly: Orchestrates and expedites infrastructure and application delivery in line with DevOps principles, using declarative and iterative infrastructure-as-code, building blueprints from a rich library of services and providing the capability to write once and deploy anywhere.
Service Broker: Aggregates native content from multiple clouds and platforms into a single catalog with role-based policies, allowing our customers and partners to create customized storefronts.
Code Stream: Speeds software delivery and streamlines troubleshooting with release pipelines and analytics and includes pre-built pipeline plugins for Wavefront, Harbor, Nexus, Enterprise PKS, Ansible and Slack.
Real-time security event detection and alerting.
Cloud vulnerability and cross-layer "connected" service threats detection.
Investigation of object metadata, change history and service relationships.
Wavefront: New Wavefront capabilities address our customer needs for large scale container monitoring as well as serverless application monitoring.
Container scalability: Wavefront can monitor up to 100,000 concurrently running containers, and has deep Enterprise PKS integrations and holistic Kubernetes metrics.
Serverless application monitoring: Wavefront includes new serverless dashboards and instrumentation with the AWS Lambda SDK, giving you insights into your Lambda functions in the AWS cloud, as well as other dependencies across your application or cloud service portfolio.
There are additional use cases where organizations want velocity, but also see control of intellectual property as a key requirement. That is one area where our digital foundation remains strategic to customers.
vSphere 6.7 Update 1: This is an important update that includes a full featured HTML 5 web client as well as vMotion and snapshot capabilities for vGPUs. Now, it's easier than ever to move workloads and conduct hardware maintenance on clusters running workloads that require GPUs.
vSAN 6.7 Update 1: There are now more than 15,000 vSAN customers, including over half of the Global 2000 organizations. vSAN updates improve the operational and management experience and also simplify resolution in support incidents. These capabilities are critical to continue to simplify our customers' operations because storage is so critical in their environments. There are also a number of public betas that you can check out, including Data Protection and File Services (NFS).
vSphere Platinum Edition: vSphere Platinum includes AppDefense, which uses machine learning and a variety of inputs to benchmark the known good state of a VM and its associated applications. AppDefense can alert or execute several automated actions based on a deviation to what is a known good state, such as increasing firewall settings or running deeper network packet inspection. The bottom line here is that security threats are increasingly dynamic and constantly evolving, and your approach to security needs to be even more dynamic. AppDefense gives you that capability.
vRealize Automation 7.5: vRealize Automation 7.5 offers many significant new capabilities, including: universal search, closed loop optimization with vRealize Operations, an enterprise-ready ServiceNow plug-in, NST-T on-premises support, configuration management integration with Ansible Tower, Kubernetes cluster management with VMware Enterprise PKS and support for Azure Managed Disk, Azure Government Cloud and Azure Germany.
vRealize Operations 7.0: vRealize Operations 7.0 further delivers on our vision of self-driving operations. Our latest release includes intent-driven continuous performance optimization. We can now automate placement or offer recommendations based on a range of factors, including performance and business intent, such as utilization, compliance and software license costs.
Dell Factory Services partnership: We have a new partnership with Dell Factory Services that enable a "ready to work" experience for VMware Workspace ONE users on their first boot of new Dell PCs with all corporate Win32 apps pre-loaded and recoverable from the cloud, eliminating long download times. The apps and configurations are installed right at the factory, before the PC or laptop even ships.
Predictive patching: Workspace ONE can now do predictive patching based on device risk and vulnerability (CVE) scores enabled in Workspace ONE Intelligence. That ensures that devices are proactively protected and remediated prior to becoming an enterprise risk.
Tech Preview of Workspace ONE Trust Network: Trust Network provides a framework of trust by taking advantage of APIs built on the Workspace ONE platform. These APIs allow a rich ecosystem of security solutions such as Carbon Black, Lookout, and Netskope to communicate with Workspace ONE and ultimately provide the aggregated view administrators want to simplify security and management.
Horizon 7 on VMC with AWS provides Horizon customers with a bridge to the cloud to support wide range of use cases including DR, app cloning and bursting.
Horizon Cloud on Azure supports new locations (Azure Government, ANZ) and VM sizes providing even more choice for desktops and apps.
New Horizon Cloud Connector allows customers to seamlessly manage on premises infrastructure from the cloud.
Support for Horizon vGPU, 4K monitors and session shadowing drives better experience across more use cases.
Update to the AirWatch agent with a new Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub app: This is a very big deal. It brings together support for bring-your-own (BYO) and corporate-owned experiences in one app experience for the entire employee lifecycle, from on-boarding to day 1 productivity and beyond. Additional capabilities include delivering notification-based actions, integrated contacts, simpler search and ability to request Win 32 app approval through ServiceNow Integration greatly improving employee onboarding, productivity and ongoing engagement.
Hybrid applications often carry the connection of being applications comprised of legacy and modern components, but why does it have to be that way? Beyond vibrant open source projects such as Kubernetes, there is also a new movement in which public cloud providers are bringing many of their key services to the edge. Since this is the case, we are reinventing what it means to build a hybrid application.
What if you could go best-of-breed and leverage application and data services or platforms from cloud providers and open source projects, running them side-by-side on a shared infrastructure platform? Since our inception, VMware enabled disparate applications to run together on shared server or desktop systems. You could easily consider cloud services to simply be a new generation of application platforms. In that case, virtualizing those services makes perfect sense. For many of our partners, infrastructure is important, but it's ultimately a means to an end. If they can run their apps and services on a VMware stack and our customers can benefit from consistent infrastructure and operations, security, tooling and telemetry no matter where those apps or services run, then that's a win for everyone.
Artists can create amazing and timeless pieces, while in IT our masterpieces—innovations that we are truly proud of—must continually evolve and periodically completely reinvent themselves. Our work as IT practitioners is far from timeless, but the legacy we build for our businesses can be. That is why everything we pursue at VMware is about giving you the flexibility to create amazing solutions.
As market needs change, so can your solutions. The app born in the cloud might need to be at the edge in two years. It's something that you may not have planned for, but we can help you get there, all without you having to change your operational or security model. Change is a constant in IT. One more constant is VMware's commitment to do everything we can to allow you to build and evolve solutions that matter to your organization, allowing you to innovate with the expectation of change as a design principle.
Best of all—even at 20 years young—at VMware, we feel that we are just getting started. The best is yet to come.
Watch the VMworld 2018 US general session to hear more about the news.


We have three days left in the city before departing to Texas for the holidays. I am pleading with the weather man to bring snow, just a dribble or a blizzard.... I'm not picky. Here's the honest truth, snow in NYC is gorgeous and festive before the holidays..... snow in NYC post January 1st is just inconvenient and sloppy. The magic of the holiday season makes trekking through the snow merry and delightful. Nothing is merry, or even close to delightful, in February when the snow has turned yellow and the rock salt is ruining my leather boots. Do others agree?
- In the past year, I've gotten in touch with my inner typography nerdness.... Pinterest will vow for me. Via my super talented design friend Jeff, I recently came across this site the follows a journey in typography.
- It's like this Anthro-inspired DIY by Rebecca of 'A Daily Something' knew all of my favorite craft components -- 1 :: Easy / 2 :: Holiday themed / 3 :: Old book pages / 4 :: Inexpensive. This paper tree is one DIY everyone will love and can replicate for their own home. Rebecca is a genius!
- Is the 3rd time a charm for Brit-Brit? Lets hope!
- DALLAS :: Mark your calendars for Dec 22nd. HYPE/02 is officially one week away! Join us for photos, music and art. Be sure to RSVP to ensure admission. Hope to see you there!
- I find rearranging rooms and furniture to be such a great creative exercise. Sometimes, I get a little ahead of myself and want to start moving furniture, on my own, without really mapping things out. Three hours and a mess of things later, I come to find I liked it better the way it was! Thank goodness for the discovery of the website 'Plan Your Room'. Oh, the hours I can spend on this site will rival Pinterest!
- Google has joined in the fight against modern day slavery and human trafficking with a game-changing investment. Powerful companies doing powerful things for others is always an inspiring story. Be sure to read the article.


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5 fast Brexit facts you need this morning as Labour and Tories set for new talks
Theresa May has hinted at a big compromise over Brexit.
Now she just needs to put it into action – barely 48 hours before an emergency EU summit to delay leaving the EU.
We're meant to leave this Friday and the Prime Minister has asked EU leaders to delay that until the end of June.
But not only has Brussels said 'non' to that idea, the PM's own party is badly split.
All the while, her big gambit to earn an extension – thrashing out a compromise with Labour – isn't complete.
Talks broke down on Friday after Labour sources accused the Prime Minister of not being explicit enough in an offer of a customs union, Jeremy Corbyn's key demand.
Yesterday the PM suggested again that she'll compromise in a 'fireside chat' video filmed at Chequers.
All we need now is for her to come up with the goods.
As the clock ticks, here are 5 fast facts you need to know about Brexit at the start of yet another momentous week.
1. Theresa May is set for new compromise talks with Labour after her fireside chat
Tory and Labour teams are expected to meet again today to find a way through the Brexit gridlock.
It comes just hours before Theresa May returns to Brussels on Wednesday – to beg EU leaders for another delay.
The Prime Minister re-opened the door for a Brexit climbdown yesterday in a 'fireside chat' video 48 hours after talks with Labour broke down.
She signalled she was finally prepared to compromise on Labour's demand for a customs union.
She said there are "some things we agree on" and "as things stand", she couldn't see MPs passing her current deal.
"It'll mean compromise on both sides but I believe that delivering Brexit is the most important thing for us," she said in the hand-held video shot at Chequers.
After 1,000 days' refusal to work constructively with the opposition she added: "I think members of the public want to see their politicians working together more often."
Her words represent a shift in tone after talks between the Government and Labour appeared to be on the verge of collapse last Friday.
Mrs May is gearing up to offer a "Boris lock" which would make it harder for a Eurosceptic PM to row back after she steps down.
This would enshrine in law a guarantee, first suggested by Labour MPs, that Parliament would have the ultimate say on a final deal.
Labour's Rebecca Long-Bailey, who has played a part in negotiations, said while it was 'disappointing" the PM had not yet shifted on her red lines, she was "hopeful that will change"
2. Boris Johnson is accusing her of 'surrender'
Theresa May faces a mounting Tory rebellion over her plan to move towards a softer Brexit to get her deal through on Labour votes.
Boris Johnson today accuses her of "surrender", writing in the Daily Telegraph that she should go for a hard Brexit, a so-called "managed no deal".
He adds: "To agree to be non-voting members of the EU, under the surrender proposed by Jeremy Corbyn is completely unacceptable.
"It cannot, must not and will not happen.
MP Michael Fabricant predicted "open revolt" in the Tory party and among Leave voters if Mrs May backed the plan.
Jacob Reed-Mogg said yesterday: "Mrs May has made active choices to stop us leaving and she deserves to be held to account for that".
And Tory hardliner Priti Patel accused Mrs May of a "shocking error of judgement" that will be "another humiliation for our great country."
Just as a Tory leadership campaign hots up, she mysteriously adds: "In order to move on, what our country urgently needs now is strong leadership."
But Solicitor General Robert Buckland said it was time for compromise on all sides.
He told the BBC's Westminster Hour: "It's not perfect, but frankly in this particular hung parliament none of us can get perfection, we need to compromise.
"Something approximating a customs arrangement or customs union I think would be the most likely outcome.'
Commons leader Andrea Leadsom, a Brexiteer, added: "We can't be purist about it.
"We're now at the point of Brexit slipping away altogether. We have to face what's in front of us."
3. Labour is inching towards a decision on a second referendum
Jeremy Corbyn is under continuing pressure to demand a second referendum out of his talks with Theresa May.
So far he's said he'll request a so-called 'People's Vote', but only to avoid no deal or a bad Tory deal.
Some, including Emily Thornberry and 80 Labour MPs who wrote to Mr Corbyn yesterday, demanded he back a "confirmatory" referendum on whatever deal is agreed.
The Shadow Foreign Secretary told Politico: "I think whatever it is it will be controversial.
"And I think in those circumstances it's right for us to be saying to the British people, 'during that referendum, did you vote for this? … Is this what you want, or do you want to Remain?'
"I think we are in a situation where a confirmatory referendum is appropriate."
Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald today said he "hoped" there will not be another referendum – but suggested it is the likely outcome of Brexit talks.
He told the BBC: "My view is if our proposition was accepted in its totality I think the argument for a public vote in those circumstances reduces.
"The reality is that is not on the table, so I think we're looking at options that would warrant a PV (People's Vote) in those circumstances.
"We've got to look at the offer on the table at the moment and what we're looking at is Theresa May's deal or no deal."
Meanwhile, Sinn Fein leaders are due to hold Brexit talks with Jeremy Corbyn later on a day of meetings in London.
4. Meanwhile, the EU still need to know key details – including how long we'll delay Brexit
As it stands we're due to leave the EU this Friday.
Theresa May has asked for an extension to June 30.
But the EU is expected to grant a one year extension with the option of the UK leaving sooner if the deal gets through.
That would unleash a new round of Tory civil war with Cabinet minister Liz Truss warning the 'flextension' plan was like "purgatory".
Commons leader Andrea Leadsom said the idea of UK holding European elections because it was still in the EU was "utterly unacceptable".
She claimed that a No Deal Brexit on Friday instead would be "not nearly as grim" as many believed.
Yesterday a key ally of French president Emmanuel Macron, Alexandre Holroyd, said a "flextension" plan should be replaced by "a long extension so the UK can really figure out what it wants".
According to Politico, The EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier has cancelled a speech he was due to give in Brussels today, and will instead fly to Dublin for emergency talks with Irish PM Leo Varadkar.
At least we know one thing – we will ask for Brexit to be delayed.
Peers will tonight debate the final stages of Labour MP Yvette Cooper's Bill to officially request for an extension.
It could be wrapped up tonight – forcing Theresa May to table a Commons statement on extension tomorrow.
5. And while our politicians fiddle, everything is burning
Business optimism has crashed to its lowest level since 2012 amid continued uncertainty over Brexit, new research suggests.
Services firms drove the decline, according to a report by business advisers BDO LLP.
Record amounts of stockpiling of goods is inflating output, the study indicated.
Meanwhile a second report today warns 63% of UK charities believe that Brexit will have a negative impact on their work.
Nearly a quarter (23%) of charity leaders said that the EU withdrawal process had already had an impact, with 33% of those reporting issues with recruitment and retention of staff and 19% a loss of EU funding or projects.
Some 37% believe there will be a decrease in donations as a result of EU withdrawal, according to the Charity Landscape 2019 report by the Charities Aid Foundation.
And a third report by the Hansard Society warns Brits increasingly want a "strong leader willing to break the rules".
Growing public dissatisfaction of Britain's political system is leading people to entertain "radical solutions" which challenge the core tenets of democracy, the charity warned.
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'Number 11, Dukes Square, looks just like the other houses on the Brighton seafront: a Regency terrace with elegant sash windows, a winding staircase, and post piled up in the hall for its tenants. It might be part of the city's history, but it's also a place of brand new beginnings.
Lucy Diamond has written some fantastic novels with The Beach Café being one of my favourite books in this genre in recent years. I was very happy to have to the opportunity to receive an early copy of her upcoming novel, The House of New Beginnings, for review. After looking at the cover and synopsis, memories returned of some fantastic novels I'd read by other authors which explore the lives of different tenants (Marian Keyes and Lisa Jewell, to name two) and I hoped this novel would be equally as enjoyable.
It didn't disappoint. It may only be January but I loved this book so much I just know it's going to end up as one of my favourites of 2017. I found this novel to be uplifting, charming, moving, and thought-provoking.
Anyone who has lived in a shared house or building will know how easy it can be to shut your own door and never really get to know the neighbours despite your proximity. And behind every door is a different story, a different history. In this novel, we explore Charlotte, Georgie and Rosa's stories. I loved every character equally so the narrative switching between the three tenants worked for me. They were the perfect mix of characters for the novel. There was sadness, resentment, but also lust for life in these characters, and I loved how they came together. There are also several other engaging characters (including other tenants) that play important roles in the novel and help Charlotte and Rosa to break the monotony of their quite isolated lives.
I particularly enjoyed the character of Georgie and her adventures trying out and reporting back on local events. There were some definite laugh-out-loud moments. The elderly tenant whom Charlotte befriends is also just amazing and I was very moved by their intertwining stories.
A fantastic novel for 2017, I couldn't put it down.
This book sounds really good. Thanks for the recommendation and review!


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Q: Annuity Future Value Factor Question:  How much money will you have at the end of four years if you deposit $1,000 a year (at the end of each year) into a bank account paying 10% interest?
We could answer this by calculating the future value of each individual deposit:
$$1000 *( 1.1^0 + 1.1^1 + 1.1^2 + 1.1^3 ) = 4641 = 1000 * \sum_1^T (1+r)^{T-1}$$
We will have a total of $4,641 in the bank at the end of four years.
Then we also know:
Future Value  = Annuity Cash Flow * Future Value Annuity Factor
Future Value Annuity Factor = $\frac 1r[(1+r)^n -1]$
So
Why  $\frac 1r[(1+r)^n -1] = \sum_1^T (1+r)^{T-1}$ ??
How can we deduce from left side term to the right side term??
Thanks a lot.

A: If I recall you can use geometric series.
$\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}C(1+r)^k$. Note that this is a geometric series. If the cash flow is constant then this is
$\\ C\displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}(1+r)^k=C\left[\frac{1-(1+r)^n}{1-(1+r)}\right]=C\left[\frac{1-(1+r)^n}{-r}\right]=C\left[\frac{(1+r)^n-1}{r}\right]$


Patrick Von Dohlen holds a sign protesting abortion in front of a Planned Parenthood facility in the Medical Center.
The pro-family and anti-abortion San Antonio Family Association on Tuesday sent out a "call to action" urging San Antonio City Council members not to appoint Dr. Junda Woo as the local health authority for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District.
Woo served as medical director for Planned Parenthood South Texas before taking the position as Metro Health's medical director in 2015. The local health authority position is mandated by the State to diagnose, investigate, and monitor community health hazards and enforce laws and rules that protect community health.
The proposed ordinance will be presented to the mayor and City Council on Thursday.
The Family Association issued a call for pro-life advocates to speak out against the appointment of Woo, repeatedly labeling her an "ABORTIONIST" in capital letters throughout the email to organization supporters.
Woo previously was pegged to serve as local health authority in 2015, but her appointment was rescinded following comments from public interest groups made before then-Mayor Ivy Taylor and City Council during Citizens to be Heard in August 2015. The role then defaulted to Dr. Lillian Ringsdorf, director of the Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Region 8.
Metro Health Director Colleen Bridger told the Rivard Report that the City health department began a search to fill the position when she became department head in 2017. The local health authority position requires a medical doctor to complete state reports for infectious disease and medication distribution programs, and Woo had been overseeing these programs for San Antonio since being appointed the medical director. Out of the pool of candidates, Woo was the best person to fulfill the role, Bridger said.
Metro Health has been using the regional health authority on an interim basis for more than three years. Texas Public Health Region 8 borders the Rio Grande and Mexico to the west and the Gulf Coast to the east and includes 28 counties of South-Central Texas.
Bridger said given the size of Bexar County, it is unconventional for the local jurisdiction not to have a locally appointed person who communicates with the Department of State Health Services (DSHS).
"The essential job function of a local health authority is to be the physician who interacts with the court system and [DSHS] to ensure that if there is a communicable disease risk in the community, [Metro Health] can use appropriate legal remedies to address that," Bridger said.
She also noted that those duties would be added to Woo's current role as medical director, thereby eliminating the need for the $75,000 salary budgeted for the position.
Von Dohlen said appointing Woo as local health authority to save money is not in the interest of public health. He also expressed concern over programs she has worked with during her tenure with Metro Health, including Project Worth, which promotes the health and well-being of Bexar County children and teens, and the Tobacco 21 initiative, which also worked directly with teens to advocate for raising the legal smoking age from 18 to 21.
"She certainly shouldn't have access to young females who are vulnerable, potentially in crisis, and may be persuaded to do something," Von Dohlen said. He called into question whether Woo has referred people to Planned Parenthood or other "abortion businesses" during her time with Metro Health.
"This gives [Woo] a position of prominence and prestige that condones her illicit, immoral, and downright evil killing of unborn human babies," Von Dohlen said, noting that nothing has changed since her appointment was rescinded in 2015 other than there being a new mayor and City Council members who may more readily support her appointment.
The Family Association said a vote for Woo by any member of City Council would "state where they stand on abortion and place them at odds with the majority of San Antonio voters who are Catholic, Christian, and Pro-life." Its members will hold a rally in front of the City Council Chambers at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 15, ahead of the Citizens to be Heard meeting at 6 p.m.
If appointed, Woo would serve a two-year term effective Oct. 1, 2018, and ending Sept. 30, 2020.
It's sad that a non-health group personally attacks an individuals character for simply an appointment to a job. I am not sure if this is article worthy. This behavior isn't new. Thanks, RR for covering it though. I don't condone the personal attacks. I am not sure if I would give it air.
I agree – way too much coverage of Von Dohlen, this immoral fanatic, and not enough explanation of why Woo is qualified for the job. I don't think so many of his personal attacks should've made it to the story, but I can say it motivated me to educate more young people and warn against the dangerous rhetoric of the "SA Family Association". I'll back our council on this appointment whole-heartedly.
Send Bockhurst to the woodshed for a long overdue spanking! I volunteer! Bad boy!
????? I missed it, what does Brockhurst have to do with this?
Sounds like Patrick Von Dohlen might be mentally unstable.
You don't have to be a fanatic to see that's wrong.
Enjoy the Dr Gosnell movie….
Patrick Von Dohlen, president of the San Antonio Family Association, said appointing Woo as local health authority "is like appointing Michael Vick to be the animal control authority." Bad analogy. Von Dohlen should know that since his release from federal prison in 2009, Vick has worked with the Humane Society to help stop dogfighting. And he helped get the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act passed in Congress. Vick lobbied for H.R. 2492, the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act, which would establish federal misdemeanor penalties for spectators of illegal animal fighting. It would also make it a felony for adults to bring children to fights. Recently, Vick made a trip to the Pennsylvania statehouse to support a bill that would give police more authority to rescue pets left in hot cars. Regardless how one feels about abortion, we should leave Vick alone. He did his time and paid his fine. Since his rehabilitation, the former NFL quarterback has done more than most people to reduce cruelty to animals.


All four LMP1 manufacturers: Audi, Porsche, Toyota and Rebellion, were on track this morning, utilizing the extra running time to prepare for the 24 Hours of Le Mans in less than two weeks' time.
All three Audi R18 e-tron quattros were seen on track, as well both Toyota TS040 Hybrids and the two Porsche 919 Hybrids.
The No. 12 Rebellion R-One Toyota returned to action following Nick Heidfeld's accident in the final minutes of testing on Sunday. The ORECA-built car was heavily damaged in the shunt at the Porsche Curves, but no tub damage was reported.
Other teams to have turned lap this morning include Signatech-Alpine, OAK Racing Team Asia and G-Drive Racing.
The purpose of this test, for many of the teams, is to bed in race components, such as engines and gearboxes, to ensure their functionality before warmup next Saturday. Teams will typically use a different set of components for practice and qualifying.


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Kiara Advani Excited About 'Lust Stories'
Published on May 20, 2018 12:31 am IST
Kiara Advani, who was recently seen in Bharat Ane Nenu, is quite excited about the response which the trailer of her upcoming anthology film Lust Stories has received. The actress will be seen as a newly married woman and she is paired opposite Vicky Kaushal in her segment in the film which has been directed by Karan Johar.
The actress, who has been part of films like MS Dhoni and Machine, is kicked about playing a totally different role in this film and she says that it is going to be quite entertaining too. Talking about the film's concept and theme, Karan Johar said, "It's not just a man's right to lust. It is equally a woman's. Just like love, lust is also an emotion. It is also a primal, as natural as any other emotion."
The Netflix original film, which brings together Karan Johar, Zoya Akhtar, Anurag Kashyap, and Dibakar Banerjee who have different four different segments in the film, will be out on June 15.


In their continuous strive for innovation, HGH have extended their IRCOL range of off-axis parabolic mirror collimators to suit entrance pupil dimensions of the various optronic sensors on the market. Standard aperture diameters can reach up to 400mm and HGH have the ability to design customized collimators up to 600mm aperture.
The IRCOL optronic test benches include collimator, blackbody and test software.
HGH Systèmes Infrarouges have been awarded the "SafeAround" R&D project financed by the French State. The objective is to come up with an original system for perimeter surveillance of sensitive areas. With designated partners, HGH is to develop and manufacture a high resolution camera for visible and infrared, with a hemispheric field of view.
This new sensor will enlarge the current HGH range of Vigiscan infrared panoramic surveillance cameras.
HGH now propose a software extension for 3D visualisation of rotary kiln shell temperatures for the cement industry. The device also enables 3D display of brick and coating thickness. The operator can now move virtually inside the kiln !


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Cowboys Record 41-6 Road Win in 6A Football Playoffs
By Craig Olson, 10/26/19, 4:30PM CDT
Breckenridge ran for 463 yards and compiled 504 yards of total offense on Saturday afternoon as they crushed Walker-Hackensack-Akeley by the score of 41-6 in Section 6A semifinal playoff action.
Jacob Vizenor led the ground attack with 147 yards on just 7 carries. Jack Aigner ran for 124 yards on 6 attempts and Chris Nieto had 86 rushing yards on 8 carries. As a team the Cowboys averaged over nine yards per carry on the day. Cooper Yaggie completed 3-of-5 passes for 41 yards.
The Cowboys held W-H-A to just 132 yards of offense, 61 coming on the ground. The Breckenridge defense came up with four interceptions on the day, three by Jace Jensen and one by Jacob Vizenor.
Breckenridge scored a pair of first quarter touchdowns as they jumped out to a 12-0 lead. Vizenor scored on a 57 yard run and Nieto on a 3-yard run.
In the second quarter, Vizenor broke loose for a 47 yard TD run and Aigner scored from 30 yards out. Carson Hought booted both extra points, giving the Cowboys a 26-0 halftime advantage.
Daniel Erlandson scored on a 6-yard run and added the two-point conversion run in the third to put the score at 34-0, before the home team finally got into the end zone on a one yard run by Riley Welk. Vizeor scored his third touchdown of the day on a 28 yard run and Hought was once again successful on the extra point kick to end the third quarter with the score at 41-6. The teams played a scoreless fourth quarter.
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Chlorella is a great addition to your diet when pregnant.
Can I Take Chlorella While I'm Pregnant?
Absolutely. Chlorella is a green fresh water algae superfood often taken as a supplement to provide additional nutrients to the body, and it's a great addition to your diet when pregnant. Chlorella contains chlorophyll, protein, Vitamins A , D and C, folate, active B12, and iron. Chlorella also acts as a detox agent, binding with heavy metals and helps carry them outside the body.
Chlorella is a great digestive aid. It may help prevent constipation, bloating and stomach cramps, which are common occurrences for pregnant women. Chlorella contains prebiotics. As you may know, prebiotics (healthy bacterial) are highly effective in improving digestive health. Chlorella provides your intestines with a much needed healthy bacterial and nutritional boost, allowing digestion to run more quickly and smoothly.
Keeping your cholesterol in check while pregnant is very important. There are multiple studies that show adding chlorella to your diet may support normal cholesterol levels. The fiber content of chlorella, and vitamin A and B help to actively fight to lower your bad cholesterol levels.
The cholesterol is cleared from your digestive tract, and reabsorption in the digestive tract is prevented as it passes through the body.
Chlorella has also been shown to support normal blood sugar levels. A rising concern among doctors today is the amount of women getting diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Besides the possible complications that gestational diabetes presents to the child, it can also later affect the mother and become full fledged diabetes.
As cholesterol levels lower, your blood sugar levels may also go down. It also helps support your body work with the natural insulin it produces.
Chlorella helps support normal blood pressure levels. One of the reasons why chlorella is so effective in reducing blood pressure is that it reduces stiffness in the arteries. Chlorella also contains antioxidants, including carotenoids and lutein, and is involved in aorta collagen and elastin metabolism.
Chlorella has rich nutritional value, causing a lot of people to label it a superfood and is often referred to as the king of superfoods . Your body relies heavily on protein to create hair and nails, build and repair tissues, and make hormones and enzymes. Protein also is essential to the creation of blood, skin, muscles, cartilage, and bones. Your body doesn't store protein (like it does fats), so we constantly need a good source of protein in our diets.
Another big benefit of taking chlorella as a supplement is that chlorella supports body detoxification by removing dioxins (toxins) and heavy metals like mercury. Most of the time, the heavy metals we're exposed to are through drinking water, food, or other sources that aren't enough to be concerning.
Dioxins and heavy metals have been linked to reproductive and developmental problems, autoimmune disorders, hormone disruption, and reduced breast milk production. Chlorella may help reduce the amounts of dioxins in the mother's body, and may also help prevent the transfer of heavy metals and dioxins to the baby.
In addition to help decreasing the heavy metals and dioxins that can cause immune system disorders, chlorella has been shown to give an added boost to the immune system by increasing the number of immune cells and helping increase interferon, a powerful immune chemical. Chlorella also has anti-inflammatory properties that help boost immunity and help your body become resistant to infection. Additionally, nursing mothers who take chlorella have increased levels of Immunoglobulin A in their breast milk, an important antibody that plays a crucial role in immune function.
It's always important to talk to your doctor before beginning any new supplement or diet. While chlorella hasn't been shown to provide any added risk, it's important to check with a doctor.A great way to catch your reader's attention is to tell a story. Everything you consider writing can be told as a story.


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Paul McCartney at the O2 London - What a Night!
by Adam Kennedy December 17, 2018
Last night was a once in a lifetime evening for the Art of the Movies Team. We were lucky enough to see Paul McCartney live, at the O2 in London.
What can we say? A M A Z I N G does not do it justice.
With a career of well over fifty years (and his latest album 'Egypt Station' riding high in the charts), he has an astonishing catalogue to choose from and he didn't disappoint. Opening with "A Hard Day's Night", "Junior's Farm" and "All My Loving", a set of over 3 hours included 40 songs from The Beatles, Wings and McCartney's solo career.
Not at all bad for a rocker in his 70s (even a legendary one)!
Particular highlights for us, in the order they were played, were...
"A Hard Day's Night" is a great way to start a show, especially with clips from the movie playing on a huge screen behind the band.
"Maybe I'm Amazed" has always been an astonishingly powerful song written to Linda McCartney in the throes of the Beatles' break-up.
"Blackbird" is a beautiful, deceptively simple song played superbly last night on acoustic guitar.
"Something" brought tears to our eyes. Frank Sinatra (who covered the song) allegedly called it the "the greatest love song of the last 50 years". Last night, the opening was played on a ukulele given to McCartney by George Harrison (who wrote the song) before the full band joined him, all with images of Harrison floating behind them. Astonishingly good.
"Band On The Run". The band on the stage were really hitting their stride at this point and this one really took us back to our youth and summer holidays in the 1970s.
"Live and Let Die" exploded (quite literally) on the stage with some of the most amazing pyrotechnics we've seen at a gig. (Probably better than the ones used in the Bond films!)
"Hey Jude" saw the entire auditorium singing "Na, Na Na, NaNaNaNaaaa"!
"Get Back" was a very special moment. With Ringo Starr joining McCartney to play a song they played together at the last Beatles gig, on the Apple Corp roof top at Saville Row. This musical reunion appeared to be a genuinely spontaneous event with both ex-Beatles appearing moved by the experience.
"Wonderful Christmas Time" was a seasonal addition to the tour setlist, complete with a youth choir to sing along and fake snow falling from the sky. :-)
"Golden Slumbers" / "Carry The Weight" / "The End" brought an incredible night's entertainment to a close. A night that we will never forget.
We hope you all have a Wonderful Christmas Time.
Adam and the Art of the Movies Team.
P.S. For fans of the fab four, we have a fantastic blog post on "The Films of The Beatles" out at the end of January. Check back then, we think it's a great read!
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François Couplan is an ethnobotanist and French writer, specializing in traditional uses of wild and cultivated plants, which he has studied on five continents.
A graduate of the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, knight of the Ordre du Mérite Agricole, and holder of a doctorate of the Musée National d'histoire Naturelle de Paris, he has given workshops on the study of wildlife since the seventies in first the United States then Europe. It was his work with French chef Marc Veyrat that inspired him to work more closely with edible plants.
Francois has gone on to author over fifty published books on plants and nature, including two encyclopedias on edible flora, plus some 600 articles in various magazines.
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BOROUGH Councillors have been falling over themselves to emphasise 'nothing has been decided' on the planned demolition of the district centres in Winyates and Matchborough.
Back in January the Redditch Standard revealed options being mooted include just one single centre being built to serve both areas.
And at Tuesday night's council executive meeting Councillor Greg Chance (Lab, Central) told Conservative councillors 'the cat's out of the bag' as he waved our front page in the air detailing that story.
Planning officer Paul Spooner had earlier told the meeting that four developers had responded positively to creating a partnership with the council to revamp Matchborough and Winyates centres.
However he told members several developers had acknowledged retaining two centres would be more costly.
He suggested specific proposals for scheme – which could also see more than 400 news homes built – could be ready by June with a contract for the work being put out to tender in July.
Labour group leader Coun Bill Hartnett (Church Hill) emphasised his party's support for keeping both centres separate and urged members to start consulting with the public now, if only to explain the position of the authority.
"The situation is very unclear and we should do something to dispel the myths that are circulating around this," he said.
He also hit out at the number of private meetings which have already been held on the issue without input from local ward members.
He called for 'meaningful consultation' with those councillors and 'consistent consultation' with local residents and stakeholders 'from this point forward'.
Coun Tom Baker-Price (Con, Headless Cross and Oakenshaw) added: "It's really important that the public are included as much as possible.
Coun Hartnett's amendment was lost but members backed a second amendment from council leader Matt Dormer (Con, West) which inserted the word 'shape' in asking members of the local community, among others 'to develop, shape and agree a comprehensive regeneration scheme for Matchborough and Winyates' when officers report back with specific proposals.


Barmouth RNLI provides Public Access Defibrillator for the community.
The volunteer crew of Barmouth Lifeboat Station have gifted a Public Access Defibrillator to the community.
The defibrillator went live at 9am on Tuesday 25 July 2017 will be initially available between 9am and 5pm until the installation of a cabinet outside the station.
Once installed in its cabinet, the defibrillator will be accessible to the public 24 hours a day.
The new Automated External Defibrillator (AED) which was supplied by Achub Calon Y Dyffryn is extremely easy to use and requires no training. This ease of use means any member of the public can safely use one under the guidance of both the AED itself and the 999 call handler. When the need for an AED is required, the call handler will issue a code which can be used to unlock the cabinet.
The new device joins a number of other defibrillators in town, meaning nobody in Barmouth is ever far from one when needed.


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