It's always hard to pick a favourite looking back on previous work but this one stands out to me. The diamond was sourced from Canada 1.20ct and so unique in shape and cut. It has fleck like inclusions but is so beautifully clear. Its imperfectly perfect. Matched with a perfectly plain band & setting it just sets off this diamond ring as a true one of a kind.
Ring sizing can be a tricky business even for the professionals. It really is about finding the best fit for you. There is a lot of mixed messages and false information out there that I'm going to do my best to explain so that you can achieve the right outcome and be confident in your sizing.
As a general rule I tell all my clients you want to be able to push it on easily but then twist it off.
You will find at different times of the day your ring may be tight or lose as your body temperature fluctuates throughout the day. This means you are looking to get sized when you feel neither hot or cold to get your optimum fit.
The best thing to do is get sized from the jeweller you are getting your ring from. There are some variables on ring sizers. Next best is another jewellers - any high street shops will have ring sizing tools and usually do this free of charge. They will get you to try on metal sizers - these come in various widths and its best if you can try the width for the band you want. AKA If you know you want a thin ring - sizing from a 2mm ring sizer is best. If your looking for a thicker band sizing from a 4mm is better. You will likely be a slightly bigger size for the wider ring.
If you are getting the ring as a surprise... stealing a ring they wear is another option. If you know the ring fits well this is a safe bet. However..... I've had lots of people steal rings and they are perhaps not the best fit and so still need resized. Sometimes old worn rings are also mishapen and not a true circle so give a false reading. The other reason this doesn't always work is often your ring size is different on your dominant hand. So if your stealing a ring they wear on their right hand it can be a size bigger than their left hand if they are right handed. If your worried about stealing the ring away to get sized there is another option ... trace the inside of the band carefully on a piece of paper and measure the diameter then match to the chart below.
A last resort would be using string, plastic sizers, downloadable paper sizers etc ... these will not give you accurate results.... I would advise against this option. If you are going to go to these lengths and share this with your partner anyway, its far better to just make the time to go to your local jewellers and get sized.
It your knuckle is your widest point you will find you will have swing or movement at the base of your finger. Don't be tempted to go smaller, it is important you can take it off. I hear lots of girls joke to their partners they don't need to be able to take it off but for health reasons you should always be able to get it in on and off as you could cause yourself a serious knuckle injury and can cause arthritis in later life.
If you lose or gain weight your ring size is likely to change. If you are pregnant the fluid in your body is likely to increase also and will cause swelling in your fingers. It is probably best to wait till you feel at your "normal" weight before proceeding with ring sizing. Also advised to take any rings you do have off when pregnant if your suffering with swelling.
I offer a free resize with all my rings but the preferable option for both your and your ring is that it will not need resized and you can enjoy wearing it straight away.
It's worth considering that not all rings can be resized due to their style/ shape /condition. Full eternity set rings can not be resized and usually it is not advised not to size up or down by more than 2 or 3 sizes. Resizing will usually leave a visible solder line on white metals or rosegold. Resizing costs £50 plus postage.
Times you should avoid wearing your ring.
1. At the gym or while doing exercise - your hands are likely to swell with increased blood flow, increased temperature and become tight and cause discomfort. Contact sports can also cause injury. Metal contact with machines and equipment may damage your ring.
2. In the shower/swimming and when washing up/cleaning - soaps and grease residue will build up with ongoing exposure and moisture trapping between skin and metal can cause "ring rash". Chlorine and harsh cleaning products can also damage your jewellery or stones.
Looking after your jewellery is very important. We offer a cleaning service in house but theres some things you can do at home or consider when wearing your precious pieces.
Be considerate of your jewellery and its environment. It is advised you put your jewellery on last. It is not recommended to wear perfume when wearing jewellery but if you choose to always apply perfume first.
Do not wear your jewellery when cleaning and take jewellery off when washing and showering as soaps and cleaning chemicals can affect your jewellery and alter its outer appearance.
It is best to keep your jewellery in a box or pouch when not worn this will help reduce the tarnishing process.
Matt finishes will shine up over time and will be excelled by using a polishing cloth.
All our silver is sterling silver. Sterling silver is made up of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of other alloys. Silver is a soft metal and will show surface bruising over time and will bend on impact.
Silver does tarnish and requires cleaning from time to time. We are happy to clean any pieces for you at a small charge but you may like to invest in a silver polishing cloth which you can use yourself at home. Simply give your piece a good rub and you will see the shine reappear.
You may find your piece is gold plated. This means a layer of gold has been added to the surface of the silver. This will wear off over time so to minimise this avoid contact with hard surface and harsh chemicals that will rub against the surface. Store the gold plated pieces separately from your other pieces. We can offer to re-plate your pieces at a small additional cost subject to each piece.
Silver jewellery is recognised with the hallmark which is stamped 925.
Be considerate of your jewellery when wearing pieces that include soft stones like pearls, opals etc. They are lower on the hardness scale and will fracture on impact. Pearls in particular are porous so don't wear perfume or wash when wearing them.
Diamonds and sapphires are the hardest of gemstones but can fracture or scratch on impact especially against another diamond so care when worn is advised. They are a popular and advised choice when for engagement rings because of their hardness.
Diamonds can glow fluorescent in UV light as they contain tiny particles so do not panic if you are out and your diamond is glowing.
Diamonds attract grease so will dull if not cleaned.
You can gently rub your gemstones with a small brush and water or acquire a gemstone polishing cloth.
These two metals have very similar features. The biggest difference is Platinum is rarer than Gold and much more expensive.
They are both hypoallergenic metals and suitable for those that have highly sensitive skin.
They can both scratch but the metal will only be displaced it doesn't wear away like silver or gold.
They both usually show a hallmark of 950 but with additional information of the metal type.
Gold does not tarnish although the shine can dull. White gold is commonly rhodium plated to give it a bright white finish.
White gold does require added maintenance as the rhodium plating will wear over time. It is expected to need re-plated every 1-2 years if you look after your jewellery well. Constant exposure to soaps and chemicals will mean the plating will wear off quicker.
We are happy to clean any pieces for you at a small charge but you may like to invest in a gold polishing cloth which you can use yourself at home. Simply give your piece a good rub and you will see the shine reappear. If your piece is white gold you might be better investing in a gold dip solution which will clean the surface without being abrasive. Ensure you give your jewellery a good rinse after use and follow the instructions.
You can get 9ct, 14ct, 18ct, 22ct and 24ct Gold. We have only listed the two carats we work with and their qualities. We have also listed how you can recognise what carat your gold jewellery is.
You can get three colours of 9ct gold: yellow, white and red. Please note Mustard & Peaches does not work in 9ct red gold.
9ct gold is made up of 37.5% of gold and the other 62.5% is other alloys including copper and silver which are all varying levels to create the three colours.
Some people find that they can react to 9ct gold because of the higher copper content so if you have experienced allergic reactions to metals before 9ct gold might not be suitable for you.
9ct jewellery is recognised with the hallmark which is stamped 375.
You can get four colours of 18ct including yellow, white, red.
18ct gold is made up of 75% of gold and the other 25% alloys is usually copper, palladium, nickle etc.
18ct is most common for engagement and wedding bands and recommended because of its rich colours and hardwearing qualities.


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Q: Ubuntu 22.04 - Accounts (including root) authenticate without a password prompt Fairly new to Linux and have inherited a few Ubuntu 22.4 servers that permit autologin for all existing accounts. How do I disable autologin?
The following are noted behaviors:
Console login - type root and press enter: No password required
Sudo from a non prived account - type sudo su and press enter: No password required
Grub menu - Drop to root: requires the account password
Password reset - type passwd and press enter: no password/confirmation prompt

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Floating a misty-cool 400 metres above the palm-fringed beaches of Kenya's glittering coastline, the Shimba Hills National Reserve offers a unique blend of wood-cloaked downs, wandering elephant, breeze-fanned hills, plunging waterfalls, liana-strung jungle and the primeval stillness of one of the last remaining coastal rainforests on earth. Famed as the only Kenyan habitat of the rare and magnificent sable antelope, this unique Reserve is within thirty minutes of the beach, commands panoramic vistas over the Indian Ocean and plays host to one of the most enchanting tree hotels in Kenya.
The Shimba Hills offer some well-sited and truly panoramic picnic sites with views stretching down the forested flanks of the escarpment to the hazy blue of the Indian Ocean. On a clear day you can also see the imposing mass of Mount Kilimanjaro rising behind the Taita Hills to the west.
Makadara picnic site: offering magnificent views down the forested slopes to the Indian Ocean.
Ocean View: A spur of land jutting out beyond the forested bluffs, this spot offers a large, stone-built picnic shelter with picnic tables and latrines. It also offers magnificent views across the undulating coastal lowlands to the Indian Ocean.
Longandani Forest: A dense tropical forest, which is also a sacred 'Kaya' of the Mijikenda people, the forest offers an idyllic shaded picnic spot.
Pengo Hill: Offering neither shelter nor seating this spot has stunning views to the west and makes an ideal 'sundowner' spot.
For the more energetic, the trail leading down through the lush woodlands to the spectacular torrents of the 21 metre high Sheldrick Falls offers a scenic walk, a plunge in the pool or a picnic by the cascades. You may also see blue monkey, buffalo and elephant on the way. Walks take place at 4pm daily and take around 30 minutes to descend and 45 minutes return. All walks must be accompanied by a KWS ranger. To join the walk, please contact KWS Headquarters on the outskirts of Kwale town.
The forests of the Reserve hold substantial numbers of African elephant, which may be seen to unique advantage against the unusual backdrop of gentle downs and leafy woodlands. Herds can be found all over the Reserve but Elephant Hill is a good place to start.
The Reserve offers sanctuary to the last breeding herd of indigenous sable antelope in Kenya. Perhaps the most beautiful of the large antelopes, the hard-to-spot, solitary, territorial males have a satin-smooth, jet-black coat and majestic sweeping horns while the dark reddish-brown females congregate in groups and are thus more easily spotted.
Although one of the smallest Reserves in Kenya, Shimba also protects the bulk of Kenya's black-and-white colobus population while providing shelter to a number of translocated Maasai giraffe and plains zebra.
More than 230 species of bird have been recorded in the Reserve, which also offers sanctuary to 13 rare or restricted bird species. The Reserve also hosts Palaearctic birds during late March – early April.
The Reserve hosts one of the largest areas of coastal forest remaining in East Africa. It is also home to some of the oldest plants on earth, many of the massively buttressed forest trees being centuries old. Older still, in origin at least, are the fern-like cycads, age-mates of the dinosaurs that first flourished on earth some 200 million years ago.
The Reserve is host to about 35% (300 species) of Kenyan butterflies including the rare Acraea aubyni and Npetis rogersi and the endemic Charaxes acuminatus shimbaensis. Butterflies are best observed in the Longomwagandi Forest and the Makadara Forest.
A total of 1,100 plant species have been recorded in the Reserve, around 280 of which are endemic to Shimba Hills and nearly one fifth of which are considered globally rare.
120-450 metes above sea level.
35 km south-west of Mombasa, on the Kenyan coast.
The normally hot and humid coastal climate is cooled by strong breezes and morning mist and cloud.
Coastal rainforest and grasslands interspersed with woodlands and coastal bush.
There are 35 species of mammal. Indigenous mammals include; antelope, buffalo, waterbuck, reedbuck, hyena, warthog, giraffe, elephant, leopard, baboon, Sykes', vervet and colobus monkey, serval, duiker, suni and bush pig. Introduced species include; Maasai giraffe, zebra and ostrich.
A total of 111 bird species have been recorded in the Reserve, of which 20 are coastal endemic.
There are 295 species of butterfly in the Reserve, which account for 35% of Kenya's total quota of butterfly species.
The bulk of the 153 km tourist circuit is well-maintained and signposted 'murram' or dirt road, which is easily accessible by 2WD vehicle.


Each year students in years 7-10 have the opportunity to participate in a Middle School camp. Camps provide students access to learning a variety of skills in different environments. Many of our students may not have experienced the different settings that our camps provide. Students gain skills in independence, leadership, teamwork and friendship in a fun and engaging environment. We aim to provide a bush experience, a river experience and a beach experience during the course of students' time in the Middle School.
Students who don't attend camp are still able to experience similar activities in a school setting that foster skills in independence, leadership, teamwork and friendship. For example non-campers have had the opportunity to experience a wildlife incursion, food preparation in the home economics classroom and excursions to Bounce, AMF Bowling and Fremantle.
School camps are heavily subsidised through classroom enterprise programs and school funds.


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News6 Investigates
Voestalpine asks state for an amendment to air permit
Most residents commenting to TCEQ are against plan
PORTLAND, Texas — Several Coastal Bend residents have asked the state not to approve an amendment to Voestalpine's air permit.
Tuesday, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality held a virtual meeting to discuss the request.
Several residents spoke at the meeting or submitted written comments regarding the issue.
Most were against any decision that would allow more contaminants into the air, saying the plant should resolve its current issues.
Voestalpine's iron ore reduction tower tops out at 450 feet.
Residents of the Portland neighborhoods Bay Ridge and North Shore County Club Estates can see it from their homes.
"And they told us we weren't going to hear it," said Kevin Burkett, a Portland resident. They were going to cover it up so it wouldn't look like raw steel. They weren't going to put any lights on it; and they weren't going to emit any dust."
Voestalpine is a global steel and technology company. The plant uses natural gas to reduce iron ore into briquettes.
At its grand opening, Voestalpine called its reduction tower a symbol of jobs, of revenue, of a good neighbor. It has since brought 275 jobs to the area, with an average salary of $60,000.
"I understand that we need industry in the area. It provides jobs," Burkett said. "It provides wages. It provides economic output. I'm for that, but if I'm your neighbor, and I'm doing things on my property that damage your private property, I'm responsible. That's my neighbor damaging my property."
Voestalpine is located in San Patricio County outside the Portland city limits. And the Port of Corpus Christi owns the land. So, Portland has no authority. Only the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality can force change.
But Portland mayor Cathy Skurow says the Port should be involved and haven't been.
"When we attempt to have real dialogue, we are dismissed," Skurow said.
KRIS 6 News requested an interview with the port but the Port didn't respond.
Shari Burkett says the Port made promises, too.
"And they showed us a plan for this big park, greenway, walking trails, berm that was supposed to be between us and them," Burkett said. "And it's never happened. Never even no mention of it happening. No plans for it to happen anytime soon."
Last fall, then Voestalpine Texas CEO Stefan Einfelt made a lengthy presentation to the Portland City Council.
In it, he outlined more than $70 million of fixes the company had already done, was in the process of doing, and had plans to do regarding fugitive dust— all while insisting that his company was only responsible for a tiny fraction of Portland's overall dust—going back some five years—when the dust complaints began.
The TCEQ has fined Voestalpine $600,000 in two separate enforcement actions over iron oxide dust and the failure to control. One action is awaiting TCEQ commissioner approval and another is being negotiated.
Even so, the company is now asking the TCEQ for amendments and modifications of their existing permits. The City of Portland points out in a letter of opposition these changes would increase levels of at least nine different air contaminants from an operation that has already, quote, "substantially interfered with living conditions (of Portland residents)."
Voestalpine officials refused our interview request; but in a statement, the company said, "Adjusting the emission limit values has no negative impact on the environment or air quality."
The Mayor and the Burkett's say they're hoping the TCEQ will force the company to finish dealing with the existing pollution before allowing it to create more.

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CALL IT WANT YOU WANT BERNIE – SOCIALISM IS DESTRUCTIVE
Socialism decries the call of the individual to excel. Those who financially excel must be punished and demonized. Those who set themselves apart from the masses in any field must be punished and demonized. Those who refuse to conform to the thoughts and dictates of the socialist elites must be punished and demonized. Socialism calls for society to retrench to the lowest common denominator. Capitalism calls for society to reach to the highest level it can imagine, a level that sets new standards with new ideas. This is why a socialist society, modified by any adjective you wish to use, is destructive for society and brings about poverty and a lower standard of living for all.
Socialists are self-delusional, believing that taking from those who would achieve will bring prosperity to all. The socialist believes that wealth is finite. Wealth is only finite within a socialist society. Wealth is infinite within a capitalist society because capitalism creates, socialism stagnates.
Yet. Bernie Sanders believes he and the Marxist/Progressive (Democrat) Party can win the White House in 2020 by "explaining socialism" to Americans voters. "I think what we have to do, and I will be doing it, is to do a better job maybe in explaining what we mean by 'socialism' — Democratic Socialism. Obviously, my right-wing colleagues here want to paint that as authoritarianism and communism and Venezuela, and that's nonsense," said Sanders, who has refused to call for Venezuelan despot Nicolás Maduro to resign.
Sanders insists that Americans can afford socialism because "in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we can provide a decent standard of living for all people. That's just the reality. That's not Utopian dreaming; that is a reality. Health care for all can be done and we can save money in doing it."
Socialism according to Marx, is the abolition of human self-alienation, the return of man as a real human being. "It is the definitive resolution of the antagonism between man and nature, and between man and man. It is the true solution of the conflict between existence and essence, between objectification and self-affirmation, between freedom and necessity, between individual and species. It is a solution of the riddle of history and knows itself to be this solution". For Marx, socialism meant the social order which permits the return of man to himself, the identity between existence and essence, the overcoming of the separateness and antagonism between subject and object, the humanization of nature; it meant a world in which man is no longer a stranger among strangers, but is in his world, where he is at home.
Lenin said that socialism should be a society where the working people control their own fate, a society organized to benefit the vast majority. This view was the foundation for Lenin's efforts in socialist construction.
The attempt to redefine Socialism has been an ongoing venture of those who would seek power and control by taking from those who would strive to excel and giving to those who believe they are victims due to their own lack of ambition and effort. You can modify socialism with the term Democratic and it still does not change the fact that socialism, by its very nature, requires an unlimited bureaucratic government that must control the individual's as it brings about the necessary elements of socialism; total conformity to the ideology of socialism and the attempt to equalize individuals who are uniquely individual with unequal characteristics, ideas, skills, and ambitions.
Socialism defies all the essentials of unique individuals and in its quest to defy human nature, it must and always does end in a society of decay and financial collapse. Yes Bernie, your socialism is socialism and Venezuela is the inevitable end.


Reading and share top 6 famous quotes and sayings about Bias Prejudice by famous authors and people.
Browse top 6 famous quotes and sayings about Bias Prejudice by most favorite authors.
1. "By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is grounded in narrative or myth, Lyotard relativizes (secular) philosophy's claim to autonomy and so grants the legitimacy of a philosophy that grounds itself in Christian faith. Previously such a distinctly Christian philosophy would have been exiled from the 'pure' arena of philosophy because of its 'infection' with bias and prejudice. Lyotard's critique, however, demonstrates that no philosophy - indeed, no knowledge - is untainted by prejudice or faith commitments. In this way the playing field is leveled, and new opportunities to voice a Christian philosophy are created. Thus Lyotard's postmodern critique of metanarratives, rather than being a formidable foe of Christian faith and thought, can in fact be enlisted as an ally in the construction of a Christian philosophy."
2. "I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want."
3. "They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressure; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves."
4. "Any of you would go around the world for the sealing ordinance if you knew its importance, if you realized how great it is. No distance, no shortage of funds, no situation would ever keep you from being married in the holy temple of the Lord.There is no bias nor prejudice in this doctrine. It is a matter of following a certain program to reach a definite goal. If you fail in following a program, you fail in attaining the goal. Even in college work, if you never registered properly, never attended your classes, never did the things which are required by the college, you would never receive your degree. Certainly you cannot expect the eternal program to be less exacting."
5. "You cannot give out one frequency, that of disrespect, and expect respect to flow toward you. Neither can you hold on to your biases, prejudices, and negative thinking toward something, and expect that something positive will return to you."
6. "A famous bon mot asserts that opinions are like arse-holes, in that everyone has one. There is great wisdom in this… but I would add that opinions differ significantly from arse-holes, in that yours should be constantly and thoroughly examined.We must think critically, and not just about the ideas of others. Be hard on your beliefs. Take them out onto the verandah and beat them with a cricket bat.... Be intellectually rigorous. Identify your biases, your prejudices, your privilege."
It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday."


About the story behind the invention of the toothbrush, history and biography of inventor William Addis.
HOW INVENTED: Incarcerated in a cell of England's Newgate Prison for provoking a riot, Addis had little to do but eat, sleep, think. He thought a good deal about some new means of making a living once his sentence was served. One morning, after washing his face, he began to clean his teeth. He cleaned his teeth as most people did in his time--he rubbed a rag against them. Going back to ancient times, this had been the accepted practice. Aristotle had advised Alexander the Great to use a rag on his teeth. George Washington's dentist had suggested a rag with some chalk on it. Now, using the same method, the imprisoned Addis considered it ineffective. By the following day, he had an idea. He saved a small bone from the meat he'd been served. He bored tiny holes in the bone, then acquired some hard bristles through his prison guard, cut them down, tied them into tufts, put glue on the ends, and wedged them into the holes in the bone. Civilization had its 1st toothbrush.
When he was released from prison, Addis went into the toothbrush-manufacturing business. His success was instantaneous.


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Q: Resolvent from solution of differential equation. Can someone maybe explain how to go from the solution of the system of differential equations to the resolvent $P(t,t_0)$ with $t_0=0$? The image below shows the answer from the Student's Manual.

A: You got $x(t)=U(t)C$. From comparing with this same parametrization at time $t=t_0$ you get $C=U(t_0)^{-1}x(t_0)$, so that in combination
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x(t)=P(t,t_0)x(t_0)=U(t)U(t_0)^{-1}x(t_0),\\
P(t,t_0)=U(t)U(t_0)^{-1}.
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Parenting >> blog >> Babycare >> Milk for my baby. Comfort for me.
I was introduced to the concept of breast pumps when my sister/best friend/colleague gave birth. Hers was a complicated C-section, due to which she was unable to move for a few days. That's when I saw her use a breast pump to express her milk, ensuring that her baby was not deprived of the right nutrition.
I didn't think too much about it after that, because it was hardly a point of discussion for me. Ironically, it became the highlight of my life when I became a mother.
Now being a modern girl, I started my research well in advance, when I was expecting. Pretty soon, I knew just about everything a new mom needs to know, from which diaper brand to buy to what are the best playschools in my locality. But I did slip up when it came to breast pumps. I mean, why, right?
Well, I realized why, not too soon after that. I still remember the feeling when my baby boy (Vivaan, 3-years-old now) was given to me for his very first drop of colostrum. And the milk just wouldn't come out! My gynecologist had to use a breast pump for the ignition to ooze out milk. At that moment, it was nothing short of magic for me.
And that feeling of magic did not pass with time. Later, as I progressed along my motherhood journey, I began to realize just how amazing this device was. It gave me the kind of freedom I hadn't thought possible post childbirth.
Yes, I strictly followed the tradition of being under house arrest for the first 40 days with my new-born. But what after that? I had to step out of my house for endless reasons – buying diapers for Vivaan, going to get grocery, giving stuff for dry cleaning, and the list can go on and on. As a new mom, I had millions of tasks at hand, which demanded my presence outside the house. And while doing all of these, I couldn't always carry my child along with me. This is when the breast pump came in handy! It helped me store milk for my boy whenever I stepped outside. I was literally going places without having to worry about Vivaan's feed.
I am pretty sure many moms will agree with me on this one. While breastfeeding, new moms often get restricted to wearing clothes of their choice. Forget about jumpsuits or one-piece dresses; without a zip - going to any dinner party was a nightmare. I still remember, it was my cousin's wedding and I chose to wear a heavily embroidered lehenga. Guess what came in as a saviour? Of course, breast pumps! I had pre-collected the milk for my son. His father fed him while I flaunted my favourite attire.
Once I had to breastfeed my baby, sitting outside a public waiting area. Although I was only concerned about my son, I was quite hesitant too. That incident inspired me to be ready with a bottle of pumped milk whenever I planned to visit such places.
My parents' home is very far from where I live now. And the best way to get there is by a train. When I travelled all the way to see my folks for the first time with Vivaan, I kept expressed milk handy. I used to store milk up to his two feeds for my convenience in the train. It was easy-peasy!
My angel was just 2 months old when I decided to opt for a professional course. Sincere thanks to my mother who helped me survive those hectic days. She helped feed Vivaan even when he got totally cranky in my absence. And no, I did not resort to formula milk. We stuck to my breast milk, and the ever faithful breast pump was there to help out. So, pumping, storing and feeding later was the routine we followed religiously.
Lastly, it isn't the best feeling in the world with your breasts bulky or swollen with milk. And the child isn't ready to feed whenever you want. That's when I looked to the breast pump to relieve my breasts of excess milk. I used to feel so fresh and relaxed after expressing, and the happiness and comfort reflected on my face. People would talk about my "glow" all the time.
In conclusion, I would only like to say that while I was aware of the benefits of breast milk for children, I had no idea of the sense of liberation a breast pump could bestow on me. That's my point in a nutshell, to all new or expecting moms. Remember, your life does not have to pause after your baby's birth. As moms, we give everything to our children. But there is no reason to think we have to suffer for it. Today, moms can aspire to have the best of both worlds. A breast pump is just one of the steps to help us bridge the gap.
So go ahead, "express" your love!
amazingly explained . well written with examples which makes it easier for one to relate to it. thanks for sharing benefits of a breast pump.


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FTC to Send Refund Checks to Uber Drivers as Part of FTC Settlement
consumer refunds
Franchises, Business Opportunities, and Investments
The Federal Trade Commission is mailing checks totaling $19,798,233 to drivers for Uber Technologies Inc., as part of a settlement with the Commission over allegations the ride-hailing company exaggerated the yearly and hourly income drivers could make in certain cities, and misled prospective drivers about the terms of its vehicle financing options.
In its complaint, the FTC alleged, for example, that Uber falsely claimed on its website that uberX drivers' annual median income was more than $90,000 in New York and over $74,000 in San Francisco. In fact, drivers' annual median income in those cities was actually much lower and very few drivers—less than 10 percent—earned the yearly income Uber touted, according to the FTC.
As part of a settlement with the FTC, Uber agreed to pay $20 million, which the FTC is using to send 88,799 checks to affected drivers. The average refund amount is $222.96, which is based on several factors, including how much recipients earned with Uber, in which cities and states they drove, and the total amount of money available in the settlement fund.
Epiq, the refund administrator for this matter, will begin mailing refund checks today. The checks must be cashed within 60 days, or they will become void. The FTC never requires anyone to pay money or provide information to cash refund checks. Recipients who have questions should call 1-888-506-8281.
FTC law enforcement actions led to more than $6.4 billion in refunds for consumers in a one-year period between July 2016 and June 2017. To learn more about the FTC's refund program, visit www.ftc.gov/refunds.
The Federal Trade Commission works to promote competition, and protect and educate consumers. You can learn more about consumer topics and file a consumer complaint online or by calling 1-877-FTC-HELP (382-4357). Like the FTC on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, read our blogs, and subscribe to press releases for the latest FTC news and resources.
REFUND INFORMATION FOR CONSUMERS:
CONTACT FOR NEWS MEDIA:
Juliana Gruenwald Henderson
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The alleged event appears to pre-date the Göbekli Tepe site itself by at least 1,500 years, which seems at odds with the idea that the carvings were intended as observations of it.
Ancient stone carvings confirm that a comet struck the Earth around 11,000BC, a devastating event which wiped out woolly mammoths and sparked the rise of civilisations, says the Daily Telegraph.
Experts at the University of Edinburgh analysed mysterious symbols carved onto stone pillars at Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey, to find out if they could be linked to constellations. The markings suggest that a swarm of comet fragments hit Earth at the exact same time that a mini-ice age struck, changing the entire course of human history.
Scientists have speculated for decades that a comet could be behind the sudden fall in temperature during a period known as the Younger Dryas.
But recently the theory appeared to have been debunked by new dating of meteor craters in North America where the comet is thought to have struck.
However, when engineers studied animal carvings made on a pillar – known as the vulture stone – at Göbekli Tepe they discovered that the creatures were actually astronomical symbols which represented constellations and the comet.
"Our work serves to reinforce that physical evidence. What is happening here is the process of paradigm change. It appears Göbekli Tepe was, among other things, an observatory for monitoring the night sky.
Göbekli Tepe is thought to be the world's oldest temple site, which dates from around 9,000BC, pre-dating Stonehenge by around 6,000 years.
I suppose there is the possibility that they are overinterpreting what the carvings are telling them. No difinitive evidence of anything that I can see from here.
I tried to read the telegraph article earlier and it kept crashing but it's readable here of course. I think the idea of a comet hitting at that time is very plausible and if it did, I'm pretty sure we'll find more evidence in the fullness of time. The platinum deposits seem like a fairly good smoking gun but wouldn't that imply an asteroid hit, not a comet? I don't recall seeing platinum high up on the list for comet 67P or any other of the visited comets. But asteroids have it, supposedly in abundance, hence the nascent mining industry players.
Looking at the pillar, I realise archeologists studied it for somewhat longer than the one minute I gave it, but I do wonder if anything very definitive can be inferred from it, especially if it was carved 1500 years after the event with just oral tradition handing down the story.
The supposed comet looks as if it could be the rising sun throwing up rays. The animal holding the circle (sun if not a comet) might be a proto Ra god or Nut godess.
BTW, there's also a line of 1950's cars in a traffic jam along the top, so one might interpret this pillar to be anything really.
OK, I've downloaded the paper. Looks as though they studied more than one pillar so I'm a bit less sceptical now. I'll read it later. Despite scepticism, it's very exciting. I just wish the scientists would say "this is consistent with…" rather than claiming they pretty well proved it as they do in the Telegraph article. I see this all the time with 67P papers which should be very circumspect about their results (usually modelled or just supposed based on very flimsy evidence). What they find is consistent with a certain mechanism, yes, but doesn't prove the mechanism. The next citing paper treats it as fact for their paper and the originally tentative hypothesis becomes established as an unassailable truth.
How the hell would they know they were astronomical symbols OF THAT ERA. Centuries after the possible event someone carves pictures on a stone which relate to what? Why centuries after? Chances of any accuracy at all would be small.
Send three and four pence we're going to dance.
The YD period is another 'trigger point' like previous ones, as this graph shows clearly (it already appeared on this site before, but where I ??).
That ratcheting to a trip point is unmistakable. The event, the cause, the tell-tales, etc. is ??
Not the cause because YD is not unique.
Never underestimate archaeologist's knowledge: "At the time Tiahuanaco flourished the present moon was not yet the companion of our earth but was still an independent exterior planet. There was another satellite moving around our earth then, rather close-5.9 terrestrial radii, center to center; our present moon being at 60 radii. Because of its closeness it moved around the earth more quickly than our planet rotated. Therefore it rose in the west and set in the east (like Mars' satellite Phobos), and so caused a great number of solar eclipses, 37 in one "twelfth," or 447 in one "solar year " of course it caused an equal number of satellite eclipses. These groupings (37, 447) are shown in the sculpture, with many Corroborating cross-references. Different symbols show when these solar eclipses, which were of some duration, occurred: at sunrise, at noon, at sunset.
This is despite a whole animal being binned for the purposes of their analysis. It's sitting between two others that are purported to be constellations but there's no constellation there and so they say they can't account for it and carry on.
Also, their software depiction of the constellations in 10,950 BC purports to show the sun above the wing of the eagle/vulture but it's below it if you carefully correlate it to Sagittarius in their figure 5.
Next, even if they're right on the constellations and timing of 10,950 they say themselves that the chance of it being a timing coincidence with the YD event era is a few percent based on the 500-yr error bars and the time to present. That's a lot less certain than 1: 5million. Then we have to believe we can read the minds of the stone carvers and conclude that of all the events over many centuries including wars, famine and other natural disasters that YD was the one they were referring to. It's like us putting up a weird modern-art sculpture in commemoration of the fallen in the World Wars and an archeologist of 10,000 years hence pronouncing it has to be to do with the great plague of 1349.
It's at the very best a highly tentative working hypothesis which can be left on the back-burner till more evidence comes to light. In that sense it is useful.
Where I say "constellation" I mean "asterism" as they are looking at asterisms within the well-known constellations. They make that clear in the paper so they're not trying to replicate today's exact constellations or the animals that represent them. It's more like different animals representing the most obvious chunks (asterisms) within our familiar constellations. That's fair enough as far as it goes because you'd expect them to see the same patterns we do but miss out/add in a few stars and then assign a different but similar-shaped animal to it. That does open the door for even more pseudo-interpretation though. But as they say, all that's covered by the 1 in 5 million chance they're wrong.
Whatever the carvings of Gobleki Tepe were meant to depict, they do tell something about the people and their life-style. The extent of the place; the abstract designs unrelated to the way of life; a sedentary civilisation with a constant source of feed > therefore agrarian not hunter; the terminal end – buried totally like the 'Ring of Brodgar' in ~2300bce; —– and more.
I am skeptical about the dating. C14 is troublesome on its own. Looking at the civilisations on either side – ancient Thrace and Mesopotamia, Anatolia in between would be similar. But that's my opinion.
Compare those two BC dates. The comet occurred first so how could the carvers have observed it?
From what I understand of the paper, this article, and other articles about the same paper, one of the archaeologists studying the stone pillars in the ruins recognized some of the animals depicted on the temple / observatory's stone posts as also constellations used by the Sumerians. Looking into it further, he learned that all of the animals except the snake (at the bottom) and the small fox (being carried by a person) could be linked to constellations used by various peoples who later lived in that general region. Furthermore, it turned out that the positioning of the posts – and thus the possible constellation markers on them – would place the constellations about as far apart from each other as they actually appear to be in the sky.
There were also images that could represent falling stars at the position that – if their interpretation is correct – is analogous to the Taurid meteor showers, which they believe further enhances the validity of their theory that the animals represent constellations. In addition to this there was a larger, more prominent image of a comet or of a significantly sized falling star, along with other imagery associated with it that could represent its appearance during atmospheric entry. To them, this suggesting that the builders had seen a prominently visible comet or meteor within living memory before construction of the pillars.
But from other evidence at the site, the pillars were also meant to be markers for ritual use during a solstice, so they tried to find a period in which the purported constellations on the posts would be at those positions in the sky during a solstice, and they discovered a 500 year window during which the constellations would be where the pillars depicted them, centered on 10,950 BC, +/-250 years. Thus this was the most probable time for when these stone posts of the temple / observatory were carved and placed – and therefore the time the temple itself was built, and possibly also the settlement around it.
But this time period is right on or probably before the Neolithic Revolution, which means only hunter-gatherers could have built it – something that archaeologists previously did not think they had the manpower concentration or social organization to accomplish. So they looked for any event during that time that could be the reason for such a gathering of people to building such, and they found the start of the Younger Dryas. They also learned of the impact theory regarding the Younger Dryas, and realized the images on the posts that seem to depict a significantly sized meteor falling might support this theory, especially given that some of the imagery on the posts (the headless human, etc) suggested a disaster had occurred.
That is my understanding of the situation from reading the paper and various articles about this paper.
As a final note, the 1 in 5 million figure has to do with the likelihood that the animals on the posts are the specific constellations they believe them to be, given that they are placed in such a manner that the constellations are as many degrees apart – when looking toward the sky from the observatory / temple – as they actually are in the night sky. It does not refer to the likelihood that the posts support the impact theory, only that the animals represent constellations, and therefore are an effective means of dating when the posts were constructed and placed.
Sorry, I'm noy buyin' it.
While I'm quite certain cometary bits hit during the Younger Dryas, peak clipping this interglacial when compared to prior; that stone just isn't clear at all what it is saying.
The precision and fit of the author claims can't be supported by a few animal pictures.
I haven't read the original paper. But I don't buy this either, although it may be broadly plausible. What we do know is the site is very large and excavation is not to the bottom yet. We also don't know but what those carvings are continuations of traditions on older carvings yet to be unearthed. As with many other historical issues, without a "Rosetta Stone" no one is ever going to take such things beyond speculation. Any continuity, consistency, and relevance is imposed by our own views of the past, which obviously is not science.
The claimed probability has overtones of Data on many of his "away team" exploits.
where the writer seems to imply that 'insolation' is the major 'climate change' mediator.
'UV' alters with 'sunspot activity' and its effect is diminished by continued 'insolation' of UV by the 'reactance' of Earth's atmosphere from continued UV insolation.
UVa is the wavelength that enjoys a 'greater depth to extinction' for Earth's atmosphere and oceans/seas within the UV spectra, so I would respectfully suggest that any 'enquiry/inquiry' should begin here.
IMHO 'insolation', or the lack of it, is most likely to mediate any 'step change' to a current 'climate stability' regiment. CO2 'doesn't fit the bill/change', but 'change of use' is evident in the 'anthropogenic' sense.
Whenever I read research from Archaeologists and they infer that ancient people used to worshipped whatever artefact or carvings they've found, I find it very hard to take their work serious. This doesn't seem to be the case, so well done, they seem to have made a connection between the carvings and zodiacal constellations, which is very interesting and not surprising in my opinion, There is however the issue of the snake, the original Zodiac had 13 (for sure) maybe even 14 constellations not 12. even so, I'm still not buying into this whole "event which wiped out woolly mammoths" and stone carvings do not prove that "a swarm of comet fragments" hit earth, there is no evidence to support this either. There's still the fact that the last of the woolly mammoths were flash frozen and the rest may have become prey, there is also no convincing evidence to date of an asteroid or comet striking earth around the time of the Younger Dryas period, they are propping up a failed theory, unfortunate, if a comet or an asteroid struck during the peak of the cold Younger Dryas period, what was it supposed to result in? cooling? it didn't, it warmed up from the peak of the coldest period in the last 12 thousand years, the whole premise is more than shaky, it's ridiculous.
Ray – is this the paper?
Some time ago I also wrote an article on the Younger Dryas cooling period – one in a long history of articles on this subject. In a variation on this theme I claimed that the meteor had hit the Laurentide ice sheet and sprayed 'slushballs' all over N America, which destroyed the continent. This caused the Younger Dryas cooling period, the demise of Clovis Man, and the great megafauna extinction.
There has long been much opposition to this theory from the establishment, but I am not sure why as it makes a great deal of sense. In this new paper I can see how he gets the dating, via precession, but not how he identifies the meteor. I will read the paper and find out.
As a final note, the 1 in 5 million figure has to do with the likelihood that the animals on the posts are the specific constellations they believe them to be, given that they are placed in such a manner that the constellations are as many degrees apart – when looking toward the sky from the observatory / temple – as they actually are in the night sky.
In a variation on this theme I claimed that the meteor had hit the Laurentide ice sheet and sprayed 'slushballs' all over N America, which destroyed the continent.


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In this final post on DfOperation classes, I will touch on a few advanced topics.
If you want a little more control over the execution of an operation, you can execute each operation one step at a time and check for errors along the way. To execute operations step-wise, replace the DfOperation.execute() method call with the following code snippet.
Now you are acquainted with the actual steps of the DfCopyOperation.
A cool thing you can do with all of the DfOperation classes is attach a monitor to them. This is, for example, how Webtop displays the progress bar while objects are being copied/moved/imported/exported/deleted. Unfortunately, the DFC DfOperationMonitor class does not offer much to work with (the Webtop operations monitor class is much better). Here is an example of how to use monitoring in a DfOperation and an example of a class to monitor progress.
I suspect this is not the output you expected from the CopyMonitor class. Look how the operation and step complete percents jump around. I included a better monitor class with the code archive mentioned at the end of this post.
Most operations can be rolled back after they complete, but before the operation object is destroyed, or if an error occurs during processing. This is a really handy feature to help clean up after an error, but also to implement the notion of "cancelling" an operation. The code below augments the error checking we have used previously to implement an abort() and roll back the operation.
That's all there is to it. The DfOperation class will take care of undoing all of the steps of the operation. Pretty cool, eh?
In general, I like the DfOperation classes and use them whenever I can. As mentioned previously, there are some great benefits to using DfOperation classes instead of coding these operations yourself. In addition to the benefits, I hope you have seen how easy they are to implement, and you get the bonus of having built in undo methods and monitoring classes.
You cannot create and insert steps into an operation. For example, I would like to add a step to the Copy operation so that before the copy is done, the operation checks a value in a registered table.
You cannot extend the existing operations. I would love to extend the DfExportOperation class to do deep folder exports.
You cannot write your own DfOperation classes. I think it would be useful to create some custom operations like synchronizing metadata with an external data source.
Finally, working examples of all of the operations I have presented in this series are available here.


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You do quite a job here relating history!
The artifacts "want to speak" and I hope that I can help them tell their story. It is an honor to be the steward of such artifacts while I still am able.


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Utilising old maps and historical documents the artworks portrays the globe-trotting story of the Oxford shoe from its birth in the Highlands and Ireland to full scale production in Victorian Northamptonshire to mass manufacture in the East.
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Grace: Could you share your daily life routine and busyness as an MD?
Grace: How do you integrate Christian spirituality and your work as an MD?
Alex: My first calling is to God and to grow into Christ-likeness. My second calling is to be an MD. I see no dichotomy between the two. I am called to grow to become like the Son through my services to help and treating sick children. I pray a lot in my daily work because I believe healing comes from the Lord. I believe that God will use his human agents, like me, to effect this healing. I am a witness for the Lord to my patients, their parents and family, and to the rest of the world. My workplace becomes my mission field. My witness is that those who come into contact with me see Christ.
Grace: What's your definition and understanding of Christian spirituality (in connection with question no. 2)?
Alex: Christian spirituality is living out a life glorifying the Father through the work of the Son and empowered by the Holy Spirit. It means that everything I do is Christian spirituality. Everything I do is sacred, not secular, because of Christ in me.
Grace: Why Christian in the marketplace should also learn theology like what you did?
Alex: Theology helps us to know more about God. Our God is a self-revealing God who wants us to know him and love him. It is not enough just to know about him. We must develop a personal relationship with him through the application of theology and Christian living.
Grace: How many books have you written on Christian spirituality, especially in its integration with life in the marketplace?
Alex: All my books deal with Christian spirituality in the marketplace. Only I do not approach it directly but indirectly. Emily Dickerson in a poem wrote, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant…". What she meant was that sometimes it is easier for people to receive the truth indirectly. My books deal with the integration of Christian living as a medical doctor: Random Musing from a Doctor's Chair; A Good Day to Die and Live and Let Live deals with euthanasia and biomedical technology from a Christian perspective; Tales from the Monastery, Spiritual Formation on the Run, and Into the Depths of Living Water is all about developing an integrated spiritual life in wherever you find yourself to be-be it marketplace, homemaking, or ministry work.


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package com.apixandru.rummikub.model;

import com.apixandru.rummikub.api.Card;
import com.apixandru.rummikub.api.Color;
import com.apixandru.rummikub.api.Rank;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

/**
 * @author Alexandru-Constantin Bledea
 * @since Sep 16, 2015
 */
@SuppressWarnings("static-method")
public final class CardGroupTest {

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testTooFewCards2() {
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final Card blue1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLUE, Rank.ONE);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(black1, blue1));
        assertFalse("Less than three cards is always invalid", group.isValid());
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testRepeatedColorGroup() {
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final Card blue1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLUE, Rank.ONE);
        final Card blue1again = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(black1, blue1, blue1again));
        assertFalse("Cannot have the same color twice in a group", group.isValid());
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testBadRankGroup() {
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final Card blue1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLUE, Rank.ONE);
        final Card red2 = TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.TWO);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(black1, blue1, red2));
        assertFalse("A group must have different colors", group.isValid());
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testValidGroup() {
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final Card blue1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLUE, Rank.ONE);
        final Card red1 = TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE);
        final Card yellow1 = TestUtils.card(Color.YELLOW, Rank.ONE);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(black1, blue1, red1, yellow1));
        assertTrue("Should be valid", group.isValid());
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testValidGroupJoker() {
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final Card blue1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLUE, Rank.ONE);
        final Card red1 = TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(TestUtils.joker, black1, blue1, red1));
        assertTrue("Should be valid", group.isValid());
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testValidRun() {
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final Card black2 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.TWO);
        final Card black3 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.THREE);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(black1, black2, black3));
        assertTrue("Should be valid", group.isValid());
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testRunOverflow() {
        final Card black12 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.TWELVE);
        final Card black13 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.THIRTEEN);
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(black12, black13, black1));
        assertFalse("Should be valid", group.isValid());
    }

    /**
     *
     */
    @Test
    public void testTooManyInGroup() {
        final Card black1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLACK, Rank.ONE);
        final Card blue1 = TestUtils.card(Color.BLUE, Rank.ONE);
        final Card red1 = TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE);
        final Card yellow1 = TestUtils.card(Color.YELLOW, Rank.ONE);
        final CardGroup group = new CardGroup(Arrays.asList(black1, blue1, red1, yellow1, TestUtils.joker));
        assertFalse("A group can have at most 4 cards", group.isValid());
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsAscendingRanks() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE), TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.TWO), TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.THREE));
        assertTrue("Cards should be in ascending order", CardGroup.isAscendingRanks(cards));
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsAscendingRanksWithJoker() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE), TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.THREE));
        assertTrue("Cards should be in ascending order", CardGroup.isAscendingRanks(cards));
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsAscendingRanksWithJokerBad() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE), TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.FOUR));
        assertFalse("Cards should not be in ascending order", CardGroup.isAscendingRanks(cards));
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsAscendingRanksBad() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.TWELVE), TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.THIRTEEN), TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE));
        assertFalse("Cards should not be in ascending order", CardGroup.isAscendingRanks(cards));
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsAscendingRanksDoubleJoker() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.THREE));
        assertTrue("Jokers should map to 1 and 2", CardGroup.isAscendingRanks(cards));
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsAscendingRanksDoubleJokerBad() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.card(Color.RED, Rank.ONE));
        assertFalse("Jokers should map to 1 and 2, third card cannot be 1", CardGroup.isAscendingRanks(cards));
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsSameColorJokers() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.joker);
        assertTrue("Jokers are actually 'the same' color", CardGroup.isAllSameColor(cards));
    }

    @Test
    public void testIsSameRankJokers() {
        final List<Card> cards = Arrays.asList(TestUtils.joker, TestUtils.joker);
        assertTrue("Jokers are actually 'the same' color", CardGroup.isSameRanks(cards));
    }

    @Test(expected = IllegalArgumentException.class)
    public void testInvalidConfiguration() {
        TestUtils.card(null, Rank.EIGHT);
    }

}

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Artists For Humanity
Alumni Stories: "Where Are They Now?"
Edition 27 — Nyviana Colon
A Ripple Effect
Colon pictured as an adult.
One day in class, Nyviana Colon observed the Tweety Bird printed on the front of her agenda book. Bored with the lesson at hand, she decided to try drawing it. Her sketch came out better than she'd expected — she'd discovered that she had a knack for duplicating what she saw in life onto paper. As a theater major at Boston Arts Academy, Colon was already an artist, but AFH helped to expand her abilities.
"I'm an all around multi-purpose artist… Any form of art, if I put my mind to it, I'm going to kill it — no matter what it is. I've always been creative."
Colon heard about AFH through friends from school, and remembers the first time they brought her to the studio so she could introduce herself and sign up for the program. When they got there, Colon spotted Painting Studio Director/Co-Founder Rob Gibbs among cans of paint in the back of the studio. "Rob had dreads and he was on a ladder," she fondly recalled, "And I was told, 'Have your mother sign the paperwork and you can start tomorrow!'"
What drew Colon to AFH was how colorful and diverse it was. "Everybody there was different, so when I was there I didn't feel different. I felt like it was the place for me," she said. "There's a freedom to be yourself and a freedom to express your true self, and it was nice to be around like minded folks."
"AFH is a welcoming and freeing environment that I've learned to keep with me."
Though Colon had doodled and sketched before, her first time painting was in AFH's Painting Studio. She remembers her very first piece. "It was a joker splashing cards," she said. "And the way it came out, it was like, wow I did that? That came from me? And then I continued painting and everything just got better."
Colon's first piece from the Painting Studio at AFH.
While Gibbs was her official mentor, Colon enjoyed learning from all the mentors at AFH. "When I was there there was SWAT [Jason Talbot], Ferb [Damon Butler], Rob… Even though you had your mentor, all of them mentored you," she explained. "If Ferb walked by and he saw me struggling, he would help me and he would guide me. It was really dope to learn different techniques from each and every one of them."
"[Without AFH], I don't even know where I would be, to be honest. And it's not just AFH and what they provided, it was the people that helped to provide it. That made a difference in my life."
"[AFH] focuses on working with inner city kids and giving us the things that we are not normally exposed to," Colon reflected. "Being around people… that were born and raised in situations like yourself — it was easier for me to stay around and learn from people who I can relate to." Colon was grateful that the program was available to her and others in similar situations as otherwise it would be extremely difficult for parents to afford special after school classes for their kids. "To have this nonprofit be centered around inner city kids is amazing."
When Colon graduated high school in 2003, things were difficult for her. "I had a child in the ninth grade, and I didn't really have too much guidance from my parents or anything like that," she said. "So right after high school, I jumped into adulthood. My kid was about four years old and I had my first apartment at 19." As a young adult, Colon really missed her time at AFH and the freedom it gave her to explore. She felt like she was missing a sense of balance and direction in her life. That was until Colon returned to AFH in her young 20s.
A self-portrait by Nyviana Colon.
Through a previous AFH program for adults, Colon got her life back on track. "The program as an adult really did a great number on me. It really structured my life for the better," she said. The adult program, which paid an hourly minimum wage, continued to hone Colon's art skills and taught her other professional skills such as making connections and networking. Not only that, but it also reinvigorated Colon's belief in herself.
"Learning punctuality, time management, financial literacy, and all the things I unfortunately did not learn at home, stemmed from AFH."
Colon reminisced on an art exhibition the adult program had set up for them. "The self-portraits that I created and the people who came and supported me by seeing the art was my proudest moment," she said. With the confidence and talents she developed at AFH, Colon still occasionally takes out paint and a canvas to create. "If I feel a great attachment to somebody or a situation, I'll paint something for them."
Through the AFH adult program, Colon also learned about Year Up, an organization with a mission to provide the skills and support young adults need to reach their potential. "After I did AFH and Year Up, it really structured and guided my life for the better," Colon said. "I had more support, I had more guidance, I had more people to talk to and more people saying, 'Hey, I'm proud of you.' It changed my life!"
"Ever since I did AFH and then I went on to Year Up, it's just been success after success, accomplishment after accomplishment."
Now, Colon works at Brigham and Women's Hospital as an Equipment Secretary and Unit Coordinator, having recently reduced her hours to part time to give her children more focus. Colon has also opened up an LLC to teach aerial yoga. "I turned my living room into a private studio," she said. "When COVID hit, it was perfect because it was all one on one, and then when we were able to do groups, I did groups of five." Colon has also begun traveling to teach in other states and hold pop up classes.
Colon believes that AFH's possibilities are truly endless and that the organization has the ability to manifest greatness. "It's wonderful," she said regarding AFH's 30 year anniversary.
"I can't wait till they say it's the 60 year anniversary of AFH, or that it's been around for 200 years."
"Everyday was a favorite memory," Colon said, reminiscing on her time at AFH. "It was that whole era … everything that you love is all around you."
If Colon could go back in time, she'd tell her teen self, "Stick with it, stay connected, and use your resources. Don't be fooled by people who aren't heading in the same direction you see your life going. Know that people in that building are there for you, they're there to help." As she spoke, Colon paused and sniffled. "I wish I didn't have a gap between graduating high school and then going back to [AFH] in my 20s, but I'm grateful for that moment."
One of Colon's works from the Painting Studio at AFH.
"I think the whole experience was important for someone like myself to go through," Colon remarked. "I appreciated it." As the interview drew to a close, Colon had one final thing to say. "Susan [Rodgerson, Founding Executive/Artistic Director], thank you," she laughed, "SWAT, Ferb, Rob continue being great. And everybody who has learned from them — you know its a ripple effect — keep it flowing!"
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Mark Loves History!
Tag: centennial
Nothing Lives Long. Except the Earth and the Mountains. -Death song of Chief White Antelope, age 75
Today in History, November 29: 1864 –
The Sand Creek Massacre.
As the morning was dawning the sleepy village, Chief Black Kettle saw them approaching, and hoisted the Stars and Stripes above his Tipi as a sign of brotherhood and peace. And then the blue coated soldiers began firing.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho of Colorado had settled in for the winter along a bend in Sand Creek in eastern Colorado. Resources in the barren area were in short supply and they expected a harsh time. 900-1,000 people in hundreds of Tipis, although many were out hunting buffalo that morning.
The Civil War raged further east, and in Colorado and New Mexico a few months previous. Colonel John Chivington of the Colorado Volunteers had fought in those battles, but now was looking for a new fight. After a family of settlers was killed, allegedly by Arapaho or Cheyenne, the Governor tasked Chivington with raising a regiment to defend against hostile Indians.
But his regiment's enlistment was nearly up and he hadn't found any hostile Indians. So he took over 700 troops to attack the peaceful village along Sand Creek.
After the attack on the settlers, the white authorities told the peaceful Indians to encamp at military forts and facilities where they would be protected. Chief Black Kettle had spoken to the commander of a nearby fort seeking to comply. He was told to keep his people at Sand Creek until the commander received further orders, and they would be safe.
Hundreds of women and children dropped to their knees in front of the soldiers that morning, imploring them for mercy. There was no mercy given as the women and children were shot down or had their skulls caved in. Many then ran for the creek where they sought cover, or fled north. For the next several hours Chivington's soldiers chased them down and killed as many as they could.
Seeing what was happening, Chief White Antelope approached the soldiers, folded his arms, and began singing his death song, "Nothing lives for long. Except the Earth and the Mountains."
Chief Black Kettle carried his wounded wife and fled north towards another band of Cheyenne. He would make his way to Oklahoma, where he led his people to again attempt peaceful existence. He would live two days shy of four years more…when he and his wife would be chased down and killed by soldiers of George Custer's command at the Massacre along the Washita River.
One of the Union officers present that day refused to follow commands and ordered his company not to fire; and tried to save some of the victims. Captain Silas Soule was career Army and recognized the cowardly acts being carried out. The next day he wrote a letter to a Major friend of his back east, telling of the horrific behavior of Chivington's "mob". He told of women and children having their brains bashed in. He said that Chiefs had their ears and genitals cut off as trophies, and all those killed were scalped. The crazed killers cut out many of the women's genitalia as souvenirs.
Chivington would escape court martial by resigning from the Volunteers. But even during the Civil War, the government and the people were aghast at the atrocities carried out at Sand Creek, and Congressional hearings were held in 1865, during which Captain Soule testified at against Chivington.
For his trouble he was gunned down in the street in Denver a few months later. His murderers were never prosecuted.
The assault was supposedly intended to force peace for the nascent settlements in Colorado. It had exactly the opposite effect, as the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers and others fought a decade's long war with the settlers, their trust of the white people destroyed.
The story was eventually all but forgotten, and was a touchy subject when it was spoken of. However Colorado eventually began to come to terms with this dark part of its history, and in 2007 the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site was established, run by the National Park Service.
Many visit the site in homage to the approximately 200 Native Americans who died that day.
Several of the sites I read in preparation for this posting indicated the subject was not covered much until the 2000's. However if you read (or watch) James Michener's "Centennial", you'll find that he covered the events very well, just with a change in names.
Author markloveshistoryCategories History, UncategorizedPosted on November 30, 2017 Leave a comment
Today in History, July 31: 1976 – The Big Thompson Canyon Flood. While Colorado was celebrating its Centennial, a highly unusual thunderstorm broke out high in the mountains, near the source of the Big Thompson Canyon in northern Colorado. The storm deluged the canyon with the equivalent of 3/4's of the area's annual rainfall in a matter of hours. It sent a wall of water 20 feet high racing down the canyon, filled with deadly debris.
Residents and tourists miles away from the storm near the mouth of the canyon had no idea there was a storm higher up, much less a torrent of flood water headed their way. 144 died.
Colorado State Trooper Sgt. W. Hugh Purdy and Estes Park Officer Michel O. Conley were advised of the approaching flood. Remember that this before cell phones and other mass media, most of which wouldn't have worked in the canyon anyway. These men drove their patrol cars up the canyon, telling people to flee using their public address systems, with full knowledge of what they were doing….until they met the water and were killed.
Author markloveshistoryCategories History, UncategorizedPosted on July 31, 2017 Leave a comment


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September 27th, 20210 DEARBORN — Mansour Sharha, who is currently serving as a Library Commissioner, is campaigning to earn one of nine seats on the Charter Revision Commission. Sharha, a husband and father of four, has lived in Dearborn for more than 17 years with his family and is an activist, leader and mentor to young professional groups, including...
Whitmer's approval rating has fallen, poll finds
September 24th, 20210 A survey by Lansing-based Glengariff Group shows Michigan voters are split in their approval of Governor Whitmer's performance in office, an approval that has fallen over time. The poll was commissioned by the Detroit Regional Chamber. It shows about 48 percent of voters approve of the Democratic governor's performance and 46...
Traffic Commission member Gail Walls looking to earn a seat on the Charter Revision Commission
September 19th, 20210 DEARBORN — Having experience on one city commission already, Gail Walls is looking to bring her experience to the Charter Revision Commission. Walls, who has lived in Dearborn for the past 33 years, has worked and raised her family in the city. She has worked for Ford Motor Company for 34 years in purchasing as a buyer and a...
Mark Dawdy announces candidacy for the Charter Revision Commission
September 14th, 20210 DEARBORN — Mark Dawdy, a lifelong resident of Dearborn and a Fordson High School alumni, has announced his candidacy for the Charter Revision Commission. Dawdy has been married to his wife, Diane, for 32 years and has two children through adoption. After graduating from Fordson, Dawdy went on to Henry Ford College before...
Hussein Hachem looking for a seat on the Charter Revision Commission
September 11th, 20210 DEARBORN — Hussein Hachem, the founder and CEO of Educare Student Services and the What's Up Media Network, is vying for a seat on the Charter Revision Commission. Voters approved the creation of the Charter Revision Commission during the Aug. 3 primary and now have to pick nine members in the Nov. 2 general election. Hachem,...
Cheryl Hawkins seeks a seat on the Charter Revision Commission
September 11th, 20210 DEARBORN — Cheryl Hawkins, a resident for more than 35 years and a mother of two, is looking to earn a seat on the Charter Revision Commission. With bachelor's and master's degrees in occupational therapy and a PhD in education, Hawkins considers herself a life-long learner. Hawkins recently retired from Schoolcraft College...
Hassan Abdallah announces candidacy for Dearborn's Charter Commission
September 4th, 20212 DEARBORN — With voters approving the development of a Charter Revision Commission, community activist Hassan Abdallah wants to give back to the city that has always been home. Abdallah's father immigrated to Dearborn from Lebanon in the 1950's in pursuit of the American dream and Abdallah is one of 11 children. Being a...
Elizabeth Bailey looking to earn a position on the Charter Revision Commission
August 28th, 20210 DEARBORN — Community member, artist, activist and researcher Elizabeth Bailey has announced her candidacy for the Dearborn Charter Revision Commission. Residents voted in the Aug. 3 primary for the establishment of a Charter Revision Commission and now will have to select nine commissioners in the Nov. 2 general...
Westland voters choose Mayor Bill Wild and Councilwoman Tasha Green to face off in November
August 5th, 20210 WESTLAND — Voters hit the polls on August 3 and decided they wanted their current mayor and a City Councilwoman to face off in November. Of the four candidates, incumbent Mayor Bill Wild and Councilwoman Tasha Green will be going head-to-head for the mayor's seat. Wild, who has been mayor since 2007, is looking to serve his...
Historic victory for Abdullah Hammoud; he and Gary Woronchak look forward to a competitive race for mayor
August 3rd, 20210 DEARBORN — With all votes counted, both State Rep. Abdullah Hammoud and Gary Woronchak say they are ready for a competitive race for mayor. "Dearborn, we won," Hammoud said in a Facebook post. "Tonight's results showed that Dearborn residents are demanding change from City Hall. I'm honored and humbled with today's victory, and I...