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Bratsk () is a city in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located on the Angara River near the vast Bratsk Reservoir.

Etymology
The name sounds like the Russian word for "brother" ("", brat), and derives from the phrase 'bratskiye lyudi', literally brotherly people.

History
The first Europeans in the area arrived in 1623, intending to collect taxes from the local Buryat population. Permanent settlement began with the construction of an ostrog (fortress) in 1631 at the junction of the Oka and Angara rivers. Several wooden towers from the 17th-century fort are now exhibited in Kolomenskoye Estate of Moscow.

During World War II, there was an increase in industrial activity in Siberia, as Soviet industry was moved to the lands east of the Ural Mountains. After the war's end, development slowed as resources were required in the rebuilding of European Russia.

In 1947, the Gulag Angara prison labor camp was constructed near Bratsk, with capacity for up to 44,000 prisoners for projects such as the construction of the railway from Tayshet to Ust-Kut via Bratsk (now the western section of the Baikal-Amur Mainline).

The city's rapid development commenced with the announcement in 1952 that a dam and hydroelectric plant would be built at Bratsk on the Angara River. Town status was granted to Bratsk in 1955. The city of Bratsk was formed from separate villages, industrial and residential areas according to a 1958-61 masterplan. These areas were in certain cases far away from each other, leading to the large territorial area of the Bratsk municipal region, and explaining why there are unsettled areas of taiga between city districts.

The 4,500-megawatt Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station was built between 1954 and 1966, bringing numerous workers to the town. Other industries in the city include an aluminum smelter and a pulp mill.

Bratsk originally comprised the following regions, with the idea being that they would each grow, and merge, to form the city of Bratsk.

 Green Town - Named after the color of the 159 tents which were erected on the left banks of the river Angar, the Padunsky region, in 1954. The tents were originally intended to be short-term resident, but they stood for two years, before the area became built up with timber huts. Green Town eventually fell into abandonment, and in 1961 was flooded by a reservoir and ceased to exist.
 Padun - In 1956, wooden cottages began to be erected in the left bank settlement known as Pursey, then Permanent - because it was built on stable, non-flooded land, next to Green Town and the village of Padun, which were being demolished.
Bratsk Sea - Founded in 1961 and later merged into Padun. Only the train stop bearing the name 'Bratsk Sea' reminds that it was once a separate area.
Gidrostroitel - Originally called the Right Bank, construction began in 1955 and grew rapidly due to construction workers on the Bratsk hydroelectric plant being based there.
Osinovka - Originated from a peasant hut, adjoining aspen groves, and islets of fields among taiga and hayfields in the floodplain of the Angara River, which were later occupied by the settlement of Gidrostroitel. Osinovka was originally populated by residents of the village of Zayarsk and the Angarstroy administration. When the area was being connected by railway, Osinovka was classified as within the Gidrostroitel area, and thus the station was named Gidrostroitel and Osinovka was largely incorporated into that area.
 Sukhoy - Founded in 1959, during the preparation of the Bratsk reservoir. For many years a geological exploration expedition was located in Sukhoy.
 Central District - Initially built for workers of the timber industry complex (the Central District was called the LPK area), workers of an aluminum plant and residents of flooded settlements. Later it became the administrative center of the city.
Chekanovsky, Porozhsky, Stroitel regions - quickly constructed to deal with the housing shortage in the other parts of the city. They were initially built of wood, in regions of dangerous ecology of the city. The location, and construction of these developments would prove to be a problem for their future development, and often led to resettling rather than development.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Bratsk serves as the administrative center of Bratsky District, even though it is not technically a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the City of Bratsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the City of Bratsk is incorporated as Bratsk Urban Okrug.

Territorial divisions
For administrative purposes, the city is divided into three districts (populations are as of the 2010 Census):
Padunsky (), 56,205 inhabitants;
Pravoberezhny (), 38,550 inhabitants;
Tsentralny (), 151,564 inhabitants.

Residential districts of the city, some of which are separated by open country, include: Bikey, Chekanovsky, Energetik, Gidrostroitel, Osinovka, Padun, Porozhsky, Sosnovy, Stenikha, Sukhoy, Tsentralny, and Yuzhny Padun.

Politics
The current mayor of Bratsk is Sergei Vasilievich Serebrennikov. In November 2013 the city council amended the charter to institute direct mayoral elections, which had been abolished in 2011. Elected again in 2014, Serebrennikov then began his second term after previously having served as mayor between 2005 and 2009.

Culture

Theatres

 Bratsk Drama Theatre

Museums

Bratsk has multiple museums.

 Architectural and Ethnographic Museum Angarsk Village named after. O.Leonova

 Art Exhibition Hall - branch of the Bratsk City United Museum
 Museum of Light
 Museum of City History

In popular culture

The film 'Svist' was filmed in Bratsk.

Climate
Bratsk has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc). Winters are very cold and long with average temperatures from  to  in January, while summers are mild to warm with average temperatures from  to  in July. Precipitation is moderate and is significantly higher in summer than at other times of the year.

Economy and infrastructure

Bratsk is served by the Baikal-Amur Mainline railway and by the Bratsk Airport. There is a hydrofoil up the Angara to Irkutsk. Public transport includes buses and trolleybuses (only in the central district)

The city's economy is largely reliant on heavy industry, including one of Russia's largest aluminum plants, lumber mills, chemical works, and a coal-fired power station.

Higher educational facilities include the Bratsk State University and a branch of the Irkutsk State University.

In recent times, Bratsk has attracted attention due to association with the cryptocurrency industry.

Rusal operates a smelter in Bratsk.

Industry

Bratsk Reservoir has traditionally been a major employer for the city of Bratsk. Thousands were involved in its construction, and to this day the reservoir, and dam, support many jobs in the city, both directly connected to the dam itself, and secondary industries - i.e. fishing. Bratsk Reservoir is a popular tourist attraction, and due to this, Bratsk has a small, but notable, tourism industry.

Modern Bratsk is classed as a 'high-density industrial region', producing around 20% of the industrial output of the Irkutsk oblast.

In recent times, Bratsk has attracted attention due to the reported presence of bitcoin operations in the city.

Pollution

Bratsk has often attracted negative attention due to the reported pollution levels of the city. The city was among the Blacksmith Institute's "Dirty Thirty", the thirty most polluted places in the world.

Bratsk Reservoir is one of the world's largest, and has been at the centre of repeated claims about its level of pollution. According to Yuri Udodov, head of the Federal Committee on Ecology (FCE) in Irkutsk Oblast, the reservoir has "the highest rate of discharge of metallic mercury into the environment [in] all of Siberia." The extent of mercury pollution in the ground around the nearby Usolye chemical plant is equal to half the total global production of mercury in 1992.

Bratsk Reservoir is the main source of drinking water for the city of Bratsk, and surrounding area. The drinking water is drawn from the part of the reservoir categorised as 'clean'. Due to a number of factors, both man-made and natural, the quality of the water from Bratsk reservoir ranges from 'clean', down to 'dirty'.

Twin towns and sister cities

Bratsk is twinned with:
 Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
 Zibo, Shandong, China

Notable people
Yevgeni Balyaikin (born 1988), association football player
Roman Bugayev (born 1989), association football player
Fedor Chudinov (born 1987), professional boxer
Alexander Kasjanov (born 1983), bobsledder
Vladimir Krasnov (born 1990), sprint athlete
Jessica Long, Paralympic gold medal winner
Marina Pankova (1963–2015), volleyball player, Olympic and world champion
Semen Pavlichenko (born 1991), luger
Valentina Popova (born 1972), weightlifter, world and European champion
Alexandra Rodionova (born 1984), bobsledder and luger
Alexandr Zubkov (born 1972), bobsledder

References

Notes

Sources

External links
Official website of Bratsk
Bratsk Business Directory
Mojgorod.ru. Entry on Bratsk

Cities and towns in Irkutsk Oblast
Populated places established in 1631
1631 establishments in Russia
Irkutsk Governorate

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A Look at the Potential Impact of Brexit on the Dutch Economy
Written by Jan Lammersen, Economist
The effects of Brexit on both individual Eurozone countries and the area as a whole remain shrouded in uncertainty. While negotiations on the United Kingdom's divorce from the European Union are still under way, Westminster has released several policy papers to date, none of which were found to be "satisfactory" by the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker. Speaking at a conference of EU ambassadors in late August, Juncker commented:
"We need to be crystal clear that we will commence no negotiations on the new relationship—particularly a new economic and trade relationship—between the UK and the EU before all these questions are resolved."
The Netherlands is one of the countries that is highly vulnerable to the economic consequences of Britain's planned exit from the EU. As the Netherlands' third-biggest trading partner, the UK accounts for roughly 3.3% of total employment and nearly 3% of nominal Dutch GDP through trade. Preliminary government studies posit that Brexit could shave between two and three percentage points off nominal GDP. Negative effects could extend, however, beyond that. The contribution of net exports to GDP growth in the Netherlands has grown over the years at the expense of private consumption (see figure 1). Private consumption, in addition, depends in large part on the performance of export-related sectors, so the economic fallout of Brexit is likely to extend beyond the loss of net export income.
Figure 1: Contributions to Growth
Source: Central Bureau of Statistcs (CBS)
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Although the UK will remain a part of the EU and its single market until at least March 2019, meaning that business should continue somewhat as normal until then, some effects are already beginning to appear. Reports have emerged that British orders and investments in the Netherlands are being postponed or cancelled, while Dutch investments in the UK are also taking a hit. The prospect of Brexit has resulted in a rapid depreciation of the pound, which continues to linger at low levels; a weak pound reduces the return on investment for Dutch firms with investments in the UK. Of all Dutch foreign direct investments, 11% are directed towards the UK. At the end of 2015, Dutch firms had EUR 454 billion invested in the UK.
The weak pound is also a detriment for Dutch exports to the UK. In the first half of the year, exports of goods to the UK fell 2%, lagging behind the rest of the EU. Furthermore, the Dutch manufacturing sector has an export dependency rate of around 70%: For every euro earned, 70 cents result from export-oriented activities. The manufacturing sector is particularly interwoven with the British economy and more vulnerable to exchange rate volatility; it also has greater export dependency than other sectors (the export dependency rate of the Dutch economy as a whole is 32%). While policymakers in Westminster speak of creating a special relationship with the EU, historical precedence dictates that in terms of trade deals with the EU, there are roughly three options.
One option would be a hard Brexit, in which the UK walks away without a deal and trade resumes under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. In this scenario, the UK would likely apply the EU's current WTO schedule of tariffs for Most Favored Nations, through a process known as rectification. Going beyond rectification, modifying the tariffs and quotas would require lengthy negotiations . The current WTO schedule assumes that the 28 members operate as a coherent economic bloc. Keeping the common external tariff of the EU while breaking free from Brussels would leave supply chains very susceptible to disruption: Every time goods or parts would move to and from the UK, they would be hit with a levy.
Goods are particularly prone to import tariffs, and roughly 60% of Dutch exports to the UK consist of goods. The simple average WTO tariff the EU uses for countries with which it does not have a trade agreement currently stands at 5.2%, although levies vary per product group . Dairy products are taxed 37.4 %, while wood and paper products are only subject to a 0.9% import tariff. In terms of net earnings, Dutch-made goods and services are more important than so-called "re-exports", accounting for 2% of nominal GDP. However, re-exports, which begin as imports before being exported to the UK, are significant in terms of export value: Nearly half of Dutch export value is derived from re-exports. Moreover, the multiplier effect is reversely applicable in the scenario of a hard Brexit without a trade deal. As trade with the UK decreases, the income of people associated with it would also fall, leading to a decrease in private consumption. There would also be less demand from exporters for products and services further down the supply chain.
A second option would be for the UK to become a European Free Trade Association (EFTA) member and retain access to the European Economic Area (EEA), akin to Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. When the UK exits the EU, and by default the single market, EFTA membership would be a prerequisite for re-accessing the single market. While most trade would continue on the tariff-free path per Article 10 of the EEA Agreement, some sectors would be excluded. Specifically, sectors such as agriculture and fisheries will be subject to levies and quotas since the EFTA does not include freedom of movement of these goods. One in ten Dutch agriculture exports are destined for the UK across the North Sea. Though a "Norway"-style agreement would soften the blow of a fall back to WTO rules, it would not be without its own pains.
The third option would be to follow the example of Switzerland: joining EFTA without joining EEA and signing multiple bilateral agreements with the EU. Switzerland signed seven sectoral agreements, which is not allowed under WTO rules, with the EU in 1999 called Bilateral Agreements I. Those agreements were followed by a second installment in 2010. Although they include freedom of movement of agricultural goods, they also include provisions for freedom of movement of people, provided they meet certain criteria. A Swiss-style EFTA deal would enable both sides to concede a bit from their firm positions.
Despite all the downside risks presented by Brexit, there could also be some benefits for the Netherlands. As the UK is adamant to take itself out of the EU, many banks wishing to continue operating in the European market will have to relocate. In early August, news broke that the Royal Bank of Scotland will move to Amsterdam to continue its post-Brexit European operations. In addition, a major Japanese bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , announced in mid-September that it plans to move to the Dutch capital following the Brexit. Two U.S. trading companies based in London, Tradeweb and MarketAxess , have also decided to move to Amsterdam after Brexit. Although luring banks and companies to the Netherlands could bring some employment opportunities, in all likelihood it would not be enough to offset the losses suffered from a hard Brexit.
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I then try the same with a different DVD player connected to a different analog TV – same results.
I then burned a Phillips blank DVD with Ashampoo and followed the same process (as above) – same results.
I can insert commercial DVDs into these DVD players and they play with no problems.
I can insert other DVDs I've burned with Ashampoo of these Memorex DVDs into both DVD players and they play with no problems.
I'm at a loss at what's going on having now wasted 6 blank DVDs.
These DVDs I burned play fine on my laptop and desktop (Windows 7 |32-bit) with built-in DVD players when I play them in VLC Media Player.
Can you please offer your thoughts/suggestions?
If you were to burn some other video content as a test right now, would it play?
Like, could it be possible something specific about the video you're burning is at fault? Is it personal footage? Or something more commercial?
Version 6 Free (see above).
It burns other media. It's a YouTube .webm file.
I used Burning Studio Free 6.
Is ashampoo_burning-studio_2016_21653.exe the free latest version?
There are lots of trial versions on their site.
Using Burning Studio Free 6 it burned a dvd watchable on a laptop and desktop DVD player but not a DVD player attached to a TV.
Are you burning it to the disc as a .webm file? Or had you converted it to something the DVD player can read?
DVD players aren't all going to be able to play just any video file you throw at it.
Yes, my DVD players work best with DVD-R. That's what I have used when ripping/burning lots of DVDs and played will in them. I burned at 4X - maybe I can adjust that - somehow? can you please share where I can adjust that to 8x?
I've never had a problem burning until I tried ripping/burning a .webm file.
Thanks so much for sharing that other forum.
until I tried ripping/burning a .webm file.
Convert it to something else.
Your burner program should have all the speeds in it. 4X is good.
First of all, you cant just burn a mp4, avi, mkv file to a dvd and expect it to play on a dvd player. It doesn't work like that. DVDs have a specific format to play like a regular DVD you buy from a store or rent from redbox. This format is .VOB files.
The easiest way is to download a program called DVD Flick which will take your .mp4 and .avi files and convert them to .vob. Then when you go into your burning software you will choose to burn DVD files and select the video_TS folder that was created by DVD Flick. Once it burns you can then put the DVD into a regular DVd player and it will load and play like a normal DVD.
The only way you can just stick a.mpeg or .mp4 on a DVD and play it on a DVD player is if the DVD player supports that format which is a data format. However, using DVD Flick doesn't take long and then you'll have a DVD that will play on any DVD player that is hooked up to a TV. You would also be able to use your PS3/PS4/XBOX as well to play the DVD.
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Perfect Pitch: To the Big Apple Hometown star Soloman Howard made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Oratorio Society of New York.
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Hometown star Soloman Howard made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Oratorio Society of New York.
By Patrick D. McCoy
Conductor Kent Tritle congratulates bass Soloman Howard after his performance.
(Photo by Patrick D. McCoy)
The Washington opera scene is all abuzz about a tall, debonair singer with a booming low voice, and this talk-of-the-town is certainly no stranger to important concert stages. Soloman Howard has already sung leading roles on the stage of the Kennedy Center Opera House as a member of the Washington National Opera Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist program. Still, there is something to be said about a concert debut at New York's Carnegie Hall, a venue that represents the pinnacle of musical achievement for many. So Washington Life took to the big apple to capture that very special moment.
Speaking with Howard made it clear this was not an opportunity he took lightly. "Carnegie Hall has to be the greatest concert hall worldwide," said Howard. "The acoustical brilliance takes the voice/instrument and gives life to its sound [and] it is definitely pleasing to know that the hall works on your behalf. I hope to be able to call Carnegie a regular stop of mine, to continue in the tradition of Carnegie's lifelong desire to present the highest quality across different musical genres."
The Oratorio Society of New York and Orchestra, under the direction of Kent Tritle, performed Felix Mendelssohn's rare secular cantata 'Die Erste Walpurgisnacht' and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 'Requiem.' Howard was joined by fellow soloists mezzo-soprano Jennifer Feinstein, tenor Aaron Blake, tenor and baritone Sidney Outlaw for the Mendelssohn cantata, which was the first half of the concert; Outlaw was the 2007 third prize winner of the Washington International Competition hosted by the Friday Morning Music Club.
For many, 'Elijah' represents Mendelssohn's shining glory to be performed in the concert hall, but Tritle may have started a trend in the sense that these smaller cantatas, such as the one performed at Carnegie, should be given their fair due. The opening overture by the orchestra was of a dark nature, punctuated by the abundance of brass and percussion, reminiscent of Franz Joseph Haydn's grand oratorio 'The Creation,' in which the orchestra depicts "The Representation of Chaos." After some brief new musical material in contrast to the opening, morsels of the opening theme reappeared, as if a new season had occurred. Feinstein offered a dramatic, resonant mezzo that filled the hall, while Outlaw, as the baritone "Priest", sang with authority and beautifully-executed vocal phrases. Blake was equally as polished, singing with a light lyric tenor, though sometimes covered by the full entrances of the chorus and orchestra. Though his solo passages as the "Druid Guard" were not long, Howard made his appearance count. Not only was his leviathan-like voice one that commanded authority, but his posture radiated nobility. The work was certainly a showcase for Tritle's chorus, using a combination of female and male voices in several contrasting combinations. It was remarkable to hear the contrast between vocal color of the commoners and the full-throated singing that represented the power of the guards. At the conclusion of the concert's first half, the audience expressed their appreciation to the cast of musicians. One could not help but to notice the roaring applause that Howard received at his bow, and Howard told WL how powerful it was to be on that stage.
Soloists L to R: Jennifer Zetlan, Aaron Blake, Jennifer Feinstein, Soloman Howard and Sidney Outlaw (Photo by Patrick D. McCoy)
"On February 13, 1893, the African American soprano Sisseretta Jones became the first Black to play Carnegie Hall," said Howard. "She gave hope for the future of an entire culture. To stand on the same stage as Ms. Jones, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Stravinsky, Benny Goodman, Martin Luther King Jr., Marian Anderson, Jessye Norman and so many other giants helps to eliminate any doubts, and reassures that you are actually doing something right."
Mozart's beloved 'Requiem' concluded the concert, at which point Tritle seemed to move the tempo along. This was most evident in the solo quartet 'Recordare' as the vocal lines usually almost mirror the pulling of rich, decadent taffy. Glowing moments of the performance were the declamatory voices of the society in the fiery 'Dies irae' and the majesty inherent in the 'Rex tremendae majestatis.' There are moments in every performance that put true artistry on display, and such a moment came in the elegiac 'Hostia et preces,' in which the choral voices showcased their ability to blend exceptionally at a softer dynamic, yet with a direct fervor. Together, soloists Jennifer Zetlan, Feinstein, Blake and Outlaw sang wonderfully together and provided a core ensemble sound that complimented the forces of the orchestra and chorus. Ending the monumental work was the recapitulation of the 'Requiem aeternam' previously heard.
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ich habe hier noch ein paar nette und weniger nette Bilder von der Sylvester Party 2002 bei uns in der Wohnung.
Here are some pictures from the New Years Eve Pary 2002 in our apartment.
Verena has finished the first round.
Jimmy: It's just me, myself and my beer.
Stefanie and Heike are talking.
Christof, Miriam, Roman and Susanne.
Jürgen read the ingredients label of a beer bottle.
I'm enjoying a glass of wine!
Being the host of a party is tiresome.
What is Stefanie trying to do?
Stefanie tries to hold a spinning gyroscope.
how to celebrate with firecrackers.
Vera and Sebastian in the flashlight.
Vera and Sebastian are sleepy.
through a book about Konstanz.
All the people look a little tired.
Jimmy and Susanne in the kitchen.


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Depression In Both Stroke Patients And Spouse Caregivers Influenced By Self-Esteem And Optimism
Published	 Friday 8 February 2013	 Published	Fri 8 Feb 2013
Self-esteem, optimism and perceived control influence depression in stroke survivors and their spouse caregivers - who should be treated together, according to research presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2013.
Researchers, who analyzed 112 depressed stroke survivors up to 8 weeks after hospital discharge and their spouses, found self-esteem and optimism influenced each partners' depression.
"We usually have been focused on the outcome of the stroke survivor, but we found that the self-esteem and optimism of the spouse caretaker is related to the patient's depression," said Misook Chung, Ph.D., R.N., study author and Associate Professor in the University of Kentucky's College of Nursing in Lexington, Ky. "When the spouse has a high level of self-esteem and optimism, the patient has lower levels of depression."
The impact of spouses on patients' depression has been often ignored, Chung said. "This is an innovative and early analysis that considers the stroke patients and their caretaker spouses as a unit, not individually."
Researchers drew the cross-sectional study population from four hospitals in Indianapolis. The patients were 66 percent men (average 62 years) and their caregivers were 66 percent women (average 60 years). They used four different questionnaires to assess depression, self-esteem, optimism and perceived control: Patient's Health Questionnaire, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Sale, Revised Life Orientation Test, and Sense of Control Scale.
Depression is common in stroke survivors and in their spouse caregivers, researchers said. The interdependent relationship among the pair in stroke rehabilitation means that improving depression may depend on each partner's characteristics.
"Intervention needs to be given not only to the patient but to the caregiver spouse to maximize the patient's outcome," Chung said. "Maintaining an optimistic and positive view is very important not only for the patient but for the caregiver spouse so that quality of care for the patient can be improved."
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Co-authors are Tamilyn Bakas, Ph.D, R.N.; Laura Plue, M.A.; and Linda Williams, M.D. Author disclosures are on the abstract.
The National Institutes of Health funded the study.
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How to install DMG apps on macOS
Apps for macOS come in different forms. What that means is they're not all distributed via the Mac App Store. Installing apps from the Mac App store is easy because the app handles download, installation, and updates without users having to intervene. Apps that are distributed as DMG files are a different story though. Here's how you can install DMG apps on macOS.
Install DMG apps
Download the DMG file for app. In Finder, it will appear as a mounted image which, given it's a DMG file, makes sense. Double-click the file.
When you double-click the DMG file, macOS will open it without needing any extra tools. You'll see a window showing the progress and in most cases, the file will open within a few seconds.
Once the file is open, you will see a window instructing you to drag the actual app that's inside the DMG file to the Application folder. You may, or may not, see an installer for the app appear as well. You can run the installer if you want but it's best to just drag drop the app to the Application folder. It will take a few seconds to 'install' and you will be able to use it after that.
Once the app installs, you can delete the DMG app as well as any installer that came with it.
The app can be run from Spotlight or from Launchpad.
You will likely see a prompt telling you that the app was downloaded from the internet and may not be safe to run the first time you open it. Click the Open button to run it if you're sure it's safe. If the app is still being blocked, open System Preferences and go to the Security Privacy group. On the General tab, you will see an option to run the app.
Uninstall app
You cannot uninstall apps installed via a DMG file from the Launchpad. If you click and hold on the app, no cross/close button will appear on the app's icon. To uninstall this app, you need to open the Application folder in Finder.
Make sure that you've properly quit the app and then drag and drop it from the Application folder on to the Trash can. It will take a few seconds to be moved to the trash but once it's done, the app will be uninstalled.
The installation will leave no trace of the app behind and it is identical to an app being uninstalled from the launchpad.
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New Skin, Same Beast - New look for Tuatara
Posted on Wednesday 16/11/2016
Tuatara's core range of beers have shed their old skins. But underneath the new skins, lie the same beast - our attentively crafted, delicious New Zealand craft beers.
You'll see that our Bohemian Pilsner, Bavarian Hefe, Helles Lager and Aotearoa Pale Ale not only have a new look, but also new names to better reflect the styles and personalities of each beer.
Many have said the new packaging is a bold move, but Marketing Manager, Melanie Percy, says whilst the existing Tuatara branding wasn't broken, it needed to move forward with the ever-changing landscape of the craft beer market.
"We all really loved the old branding and packaging, but we hadn't touched it for 13 years. These days there are so many craft beers to choose from, we just needed a bit of a spruce up," she says.
Melanie said the timing was right to look at refreshing elements of the brand and pull out all the really good things such as the "crafty' aesthetic with the woodcut Tuatara word mark.
Blair Harley, Tuatara National Sales Manager, had sought feedback from Tuatara's customers in the lead up to the brand refresh.
"We were consistently hearing that as well as looking for interesting beer, craft beer drinkers were also very mindful of interesting names, packaging and tap badges - a visual story.
"So as well as looking at packaging, we talked about moving away from style-based names and focusing on descriptor-names that said something about the personality of the beer.
"It's early days but we are getting fantastic feedback from customers, who were also driving the need for change and keen to see what would come out of what has been about an 18 month project all up," he says.
And while Melanie acknowledges there has been a lot of commentary about the need to rename Tuatara core range beers, she says the landscape has changed since Tuatara began.
"When Tuatara first started out, Carl was keen to educate Kiwis about really good international craft beer and where it came from. Back then, not many people knew what a Pilsner, Helles Lager or Hefeweizen was, so it was really important for us to state that boldly on the bottle.
"There were only a handful of craft breweries that were making bottled craft beers at that time, so it was really logical, and it did its job and well, they are still in the market 16 years on.
"Now, New Zealand has moved along and is one of the most engaged craft beer markets. There are so many great craft beers on offer they are buying beer that look as great as they taste.
"Alongside that, not only has the market moved on, but the beers themselves have changed. When Carl first brewed a Pilsner, it was based on a Bohemian Pilsner in style. Now our kiwified Pilsner is arguably a unique style in its own right; it has all home grown ingredients, and we just wanted to embrace that by having a name that is distinctively New Zealand.
"While we have focused on our core range to date, our other beers will be 'freshened up' over the coming months."
Tuatara's line-up of core range beers are:
Sauvinova (Single Hop Pale Ale) - One of the newer beers in the year-round range, the name has stayed the same but new packaging better reflects the huge bomb of Nelson Sauvin hops used in this brew. Sauvinova has proved to be one of Tuatara's most popular beers, endorsed by winning NZ's Champion Pale Ale at the 2016 Brewers Guild Awards.
Mot Eureka (Bohemian Pilsner) - This NZ Pilsner was named after the hops in the beer - all home grown in the sunny Motueka region of South Island NZ. Mot Eureka won Best in Class, in the NZ Lager category of the 2016 Brewers Guild Awards.
Helluva (Helles Lager) - The adjective you're likely to use about the day you've had preceeding the enjoyment of this crisp, clean Lager.
Weiz Guy (Hefeweizen) - A nod to the wise guys in the brew team who created this mighty good beer. Weiz Guy achieved a Best in Class trophy in the Wheat and other Grain category of the 2016 Brewers Guild Awards. Wise guys indeed!
Kapai (NZ APA) - Embracing the 100% kiwiness of our Aotearoa Pale Ale, it's only been a small evolution to better reflect the true character of this beer (oh and of course APA just happens to sit in the middle of the word. Muy Kapai!).
Tomahawk (A new American Pale Ale for Tuatara) - Doubling as the name of a missile, we wanted a name with a bit of grunt behind our new APA.
Amarillo (A new American Dark Ale for Tuatara) - This American Dark Ale was named in honour of the hop, and also for the country and western song, which our sales manager has a penchant for singing during karaoke.
Our other beers will follow with new packaging over the coming months.
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Self-Insurance: Is allowed but not through private insurers or through groups of employers.
Assigned Risk Contact Information: All work comp coverage in the State of Ohio is provided by the OBWC, Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation. To contact, see State Fund above.
Numerical Exceptions: There are no numerical exceptions. If you have any employees, you must have an active workers compensation policy to insure coverage for those employees against a workplace injury. ORC 4123.01 details the requirements for workers compensation coverage for Ohio employers.
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Election or Rejection of Coverage Form: These forms are not readily available on the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation website. Make sure you contact the BWC with any questions you may have about exclusion or inclusion in coverage for their state.
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Note: Ministers covered under a religious organization's policy are not subject to the minimum and maximum reporting requirement, and should report their actual earnings.
Individuals in any of the categories above must report a minimum and maximum payroll based on the state average weekly wage (SAWW). The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services determines the SAWW effective Jan. 1 of each year. Effective July 1, 2006, these individuals must report minimum wages equal to 50 percent of the SAWW up to a maximum of 150 percent of the SAWW.
Ohio Subrogation: Ohio state statute 4123.931 provides information about workers compensation subrogation in Ohio. Statute 4123.931 is called; TITLE XLI  LABOR AND INDUSTRY CHAPTER 4123: WORKERS' COMPENSATION [SUBROGATION] To view this statute online just use the link we've provided below. It is viewable and this is a direct link to 4123.931 for your use.
Ohio Workers Working In Other States; Other States Workers Working In Ohio, Extraterritorial, Reciprocity and Non-Compliance: When Ohio workers are working temporarily in another state, workers compensation coverage for that worker is then governed by the extraterritorial provisions found in Ohio statutes. When or if allowed it's extraterritorial provisions that allow benefits for an injured worker to apply as if the worker was in their primary state. Not all states provide Extraterritorial Provisions so it's important that an employer or insurance professional be aware of how their state responds to out of state employment. It's reciprocity that governs how Ohio workers compensation coverage responds for a worker from another state who is working temporarily in Ohio.
When exteriterritorial coveragte is provided for Ohio workers outside of Ohio temporarily any claim must be filed with the Ohio BWC. If the claim is filed in another state and decided on merits then any right to Ohio benefits for the same claim is waived.
Extraterritorial duration depends on the specific circumstances while an employee is still working temporarily outside of Ohio.
Non-Ohio employees working in Ohio can trigger recirprocity coverage under another state's work comp laws. The employee will be exempt from Ohio coverage if the other state exempts Ohio employees while working within that state.
Ohio will provide the same exemption an other state gives to Ohio employees up to a 90 day limit.
Employees hired in an other state and performing work outside Ohio may be exempt from Ohio coveage when form C-112 is filed with the OBWC.
that explains Ohio interstate issues.
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Specific Statute or Reference: Section 4123-17-23 Duties outside the state.
For More Information Contact: Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation shown below.
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Naby Keita has said that "the Premier League is a tough league", but the Liverpool midfielder is "very motivated" to be a success in English football.
The 23-year-old moved to Liverpool from RB Leipzig during the summer transfer window, and the Guinea international has appeared in all four of his new team's Premier League matches this season.
Keita, who has played in France, Austria and Germany, has said that he has felt support from 'everybody around him' as he targets a long career at Anfield.
"I think it's fair to say that the Premier League is a tough league," Keita told Liverpool's official website. "I'm very motivated to be playing in it – it's an attractive proposition – but I've been told by many people that a lot of overseas players come into the Premier League and they take time to integrate, depending on the circumstances.
"So playing in the Premier League can be difficult, but I am very motivated to play here, not just for myself and my teammates, but for the club. Everybody around me has been very supportive towards me so I am certainly giving everything I can to get settled into the team quickly."
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Q: Show user info in a hovercard I whant to display user info in a hovercard. I use a jquery plugin to for the hovercard. I call my file like this <?php include 'includes/tooltip.php'; ?> and this is my code from tooltip.php.

<?php if ($comment->user_id) {$userdata=get_userdata($comment->user_id);
echo ''. $userdata->display_name . '';
echo ''. $userdata->user_description .'';
echo ''. $userdata->twitter.'';
echo ''. $userdata->facebook .'';
echo ''. $userdata->google .'';
}?>

I use this code for extra fields in user profile google twitter etc..
function new_contactmethods( $contactmethods ) {
$contactmethods['twitter'] = 'Twitter'; // Add Twitter
$contactmethods['facebook'] = 'Facebook'; // Add Facebook
$contactmethods['google'] = 'google'; // Add google
unset($contactmethods['yim']); // Remove YIM
unset($contactmethods['aim']); // Remove AIM
unset($contactmethods['jabber']); // Remove Jabber
return $contactmethods;

}
add_filter('user_contactmethods','new_contactmethods',10,1);

The problem is with guests, their name is not displayed and the twitter, google, facebook fields are displayed for all users even for guest. Can any one tell me is my approach good. Is there another way to retrive user info ?
This is a photo whith the hovercard and what I whant to achive.
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A: Jetpack for Wordpress has hover cards for authors with gravatars. You could check for presence of data before echoing out the icon.

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Coming out of the Ontario Airport, travelers can see just beyond the railroad tracks a vast stone building with arched windows and the skeletal remains of a wooden roof. Nearby are smaller buildings wrapped incongruously in shiny white plastic, wrapped tight, even the chimneys, like some piece of modern art. Lemon trees full of bright yellow fruit stand here and there, the only survivors of what were once backyards.
I've been seeing that place in the distance for several years, and recently when I dropped off my daughter at the airport, I drove north across the tracks on Haven Avenue and turned left onto Guasti Road. I remembered it immediately - my father taught me to drive amid the acres of vineyards that still covered some of Rancho Cucamonga and Mira Loma and Guasti back in the 1970s.
But now Guasti is a startling contradiction in landscape, a convergence that happens over and over in Southern California. The road heads through CentreLake, an industrial park of buildings with white walls and blue glass that house for-profit colleges and businesses. And then, you see the Guasti Post Office, and an old brick schoolhouse, and across from there, one of the loveliest churches I've ever seen. Anywhere in the world.
San Secondo d'Asti is a Catholic church as beautiful as any of the famous missions of California. Visit it and decide. Coming upon it by accident that day was a gift, and now I have gone back three times.
Once, it was the center of life for hundreds of Italians from the Piedmont region, in the mountains of northern Italy. The surrounding land was planted in vineyards, grapes famous for sacramental wines, communion wines, and a world-famous dark red port. The Italian Vineyard Company was the largest vineyard in the world in 1917, with 5,000 acres of grapevines which produced five millions gallons of wine a year, vintages sent all over the world.
Secondo Guasti had bought the first acres of sandy earth in what is now Rancho Cucamonga in 1900. An immigrant from the Piedmont mountains, he came to Los Angeles first, and when he saw this flat plain below the San Gorgonio range, he believed grapes would thrive. He built an entire world here, with a town named for himself. Guasti had a school, firehouse, post office, hundreds of homes for workers, its own narrow gauge railroad that ran twenty-two miles along the vineyards so that workers could send the harvest to the huge stone packing houses where barrels of wine were produced and stored.
In 1924, Guasti and his wife decided to build this church, to replicate a 17th century church from his native village in Asti, Italy, for the residents of his town. He brought woodworkers and stonemasons from Mexico and Italy to work for two years. It feels as if those two countries are alive in the stone courtyard lined with rock walls, in the garden where white statues and roses are vivid against the surreal backdrop of a huge electrical tower.
And inside, the sanctuary is cool and dark, and the visitor may well imagine being in mountainous Italy. The carved wooden beams hold chandeliers like I've never seen, copper reliefs decorate the brown plastered walls, and the stained-glass windows show the martyred St. Secundus, beheaded in Asti, Italy during Hadrian's rule.
You might imagine that this church is like a silent museum, then, an isolated spot of history. But no. Each time I came, the sanctuary and grounds were bustling with worshippers. In fact, this church register lists 900 families, and many people finished praying and told me their stories.
One afternoon, I went with my father, who remembers Guasti from the 1950s, when most of the Italian workers had been replaced by Mexican immigrants who lived in small wooden houses throughout the area. My father's brother-in-law sold televisions to these men, who tended the vineyards, and my father told one parishioner the story in the parking lot. That man comes daily from his nearby job to pray at lunch - he has done so for 30 years, he says. Inside, a young woman finished lunchtime prayers as well. Jesenia was born in La Puente, moved to Riverside, had a young son, and was trying to get her life on track by attending the nearby college. But she said her spiritual life had dimmed until she found San Secondo one day while walking, and now she comes every day, and attends Mass with her family on the weekends. "No other church feels like this," she told me, gazing around the dark wooden pews.
Phyllis Schabow | Photograph by Douglas McCulloh
Yesterday, an elderly woman was leaving the sanctuary, her hair draped with a small black lace scarf. Her life was like the much more wonderful version of a James M. Cain novel. Phyllis Schabow was born in Chicago, came to California at 18, and was working in a coffee shop at Lake Gregory when a group of firemen came in. Off-duty, they all wore red sweatshirts and blue jeans. Her manager told her she had to treat firemen well, and to serve them free breakfasts. She did. Just after they left, one more man came in, wearing the same outfit. She served him a free breakfast, and he must have thought she had an instant crush. He was not a fireman. His attire was a coincidence. She married him shortly afterward, and in the parking lot of San Secondo, she laughed and said, "What if he'd been wearing a green sweatshirt!"
He'd been born five miles from her birthplace, in a different Chicago neighborhood, and raised by a Czech grandmother, "baptized at Saint Procopius," she said, and so when the couple retired fourteen years ago and moved to Fontana, they were looking for a traditional Catholic church.
"There are rumors about this church!" she said. "It's extremely strong in faith. People come all the way from Palmdale, from Los Angeles, from miles away for the 6:30 Latin Mass on Saturday." Schabow sings in the Latin Mass Choir on those Saturdays, and comes to 8 a.m. Mass every weekday without fail.
In the sanctuary as she spoke were lunchtime worshippers, and a group of developmentally disabled young adults, Latino and Vietnamese and white. People of every hue went inside to pray. In the rear, a large group of children were playing after a religious class. The parking lot always holds cars.
But Guasti has an actual population of one. One man. Father Louis Marx, who has lived here since 1997.
As Schabow told me, "Nobody who comes to this church is a resident. Father Marx is the only resident of Guasti - he's the mayor, the fire captain, he's everything."
The post office is still there, in a modular building, the sign reading "Historic Guasti." But the beautiful stone buildings are empty, the others wrapped in protective white, because while a developer bought the remnants of the town, and is planning a restaurant/retail complex, along with some homes, the economic downturn means the business future of Guasti is on hold.
But its faith feels strong as ever.
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In this course, you'll learn how to use the exciting new features of Microsoft Office 2013 using step-by-step, easy-to-follow instructions. Before you know it, you'll be using each Office program with ease, and working more efficiently with cloud computing!
You'll explore Word, where you'll get experience using the new Start screen, templates, and Ribbon commands. In Excel, you'll learn to speed up your work using the Quick Analysis tool, Flash Fill, and some great new chart features. In PowerPoint, you'll discover new ways to make presentations look better than ever, including themes, graphics, shapes, colors, and animation. In Access, you'll get acquainted with databases you can put online and share with others. You will also discover the new features of the email program Outlook. In addition, you'll explore the often-overlooked note-taking program OneNote, as well as the easy-to-use page layout program Publisher. Finally, you will discover how to build your integration skills and use some of the Office programs together.
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Once again it's time for Language Lessons from the App Store, a periodic feature that helps you see that writing code is not the same as writing sentences.
Let's start by jogging down some notes. For those of you who have trouble writing while running, there's now an app for that.
If you're a Mac user and have been waiting for a CamCam, please note that it will soon currently be supported yet. Currently not yet, but soon. We promise.
If you are after 3D wallpaper, don't waste your time by getting others crappy 3D wallpaper app. Get this one. Both quality and satisfaction is ensured. You needn't to look anywhere else. It has the best astonishing and comprehensible collection. Get it?
You'll find lots of hubris at the App Store. Consider this app, which is so good you won't need a help file. Ever. Some writers I've known have said the same thing about dictionaries. Some lost drivers I've known have said the same thing about maps. Some tightrope walkers I used to know said the same thing about nets.
Of course, some app developers write quite well but choose head-scratching names for their apps. Consider Penultimate. Undoubtedly the makers of the app thought they were being clever and hinting that this was the ultimate pen for the iPad. Of course, penultimate means next to last. Bragging that an app is almost the worst available doesn't exactly inspire confidence. And the idea of Penultimate Support makes me want to run screaming.
We'll end with Procreate, another attempt at cleverness infused with hubris.
I'd suggest discretion with shouting out the name of the app while using it, though.
I'll let you figure out how that ends.
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Iloprost is artificial prostacylin that is mainly used for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. This drug works by opening up the blood vessels in the lungs which allows it to carry more blood, reduce chances of blood clotting by reducing clumping of red blood cells and reduces the number of unhelpful cells in broken blood vessels.
Iloprost belongs to a class of drugs known as cardiovascular agents and may also be used to treat other conditions aside from pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Iloprost should be taken by anyone who gets the right prescription.
Iloprost is not advised to be taken by pregnant women as the effects of this to an unborn baby are unknown. Since this could pass onto breast milk in small amounts, breastfeeding mothers should also avoid taking this drug. If there are any concerns with pregnant or lactating women taking this drug, doctor's advice should be sought.
Some conditions such as low blood pressure, kidney, liver and heart disease, COPD, cough and asthma should be considered heavily by the doctor if the patient would be taking iloprost.
Iloprost should only be used exactly as specified by the doctor. This should only be used with the Prodose AAD system and never with any other types of nebulizers.
Generally, the first dosage of iloprost to be inhaled would be 2.5mcg. If this dosage can be handled easily by the patient, then it could be increased to 5mcg and maintained at that amount. Iloprost is generally taken around 6 to 9 times a day depending on the tolerability and needs of a patient. It was said in a clinical study that maximum dosage of iloprost per day would be 45mcg.
If a dose is missed, take a dose as soon as remembered but if it is remembered when the schedule for the next dosage is close, forfeit that dosage and just take the scheduled dosage. This drug should never be used on double dosages.
An overdose of iloprost is very unlikely to happen but if ever the patient would suspect it or would feel unlikely symptoms after taking this drug, seek medical attention immediately.
Serious side effects are not likely to be caused by iloprost however; there are a handful of mild side effects that a patient might experience that could be bothersome. If these mild side effects do not go away in time, seek medical help.
Some of the side effects that could possibly be brought about by iloprost would include throat irritation, coughing, hoarseness of the voice, headache, nausea, dizziness, dryness in certain parts of the face, jaw tightness and jaw pain.
There could also be other side effects not mentioned here.
Iloprost is not a very sensitive drug however, the doctor should still be aware of what other drugs the patient may be taking even vitamins, supplements, minerals and herbal products.
Iloprost should only be taken exactly as the doctor would recommend it. If anything is not clearly understood about dosages and on how to take this drug, do not hesitate to ask pharmacists, doctors or any medical professional.
Inhaling iloprost may cause dizziness and fainting in some cases. With that, make sure to be careful when moving out of a chair or a bed when taking this drug. The reason for this is because iloprost would lower blood pressure significantly.


With the pioneering efforts of administration in enumerating homesteadless single women, 648 single women got land at Jashipur tehsil in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district today. The pattas were distributed by Debesh Biswal, sub collector, Karanjia.
With this, Mayurbhanj district has distributed a total of 1172 pattas to single dispossessed women including widowed, divorcee, abandoned, destitute and never-married through the Women Support Centre (WSC) programme implemented in the district with support from Landesa, a global non-profit working for securing land rights for the poorest people. Efforts are on to include these women in various livelihood and social security programmes.
Speaking about Women Support Centres (WSC), Mayurbhanj collector Rajesh Prabhakr Patil said the Women Support Centre programme is an empowering institutional mechanism where community support is built into the process of identifying women and securing their land and livelihood so that they can lead a dignified life. "Anganwadi workers have been playing a crucial role in identifying single women in the villages through door-to-door survey," he said..
"Besides, the revenue officials have been orientated through a series of training programmes to prioritise the cases of single women. Computerised Management Information System (MIS) has been introduced to create tehsil-wise data base of all single women. Unique Access Codes have been assigned to the tehsil and block office for accessing soft-data to process land and social security entitlements respectively," Patil said.
Despite the state's pioneering efforts to provide land to the landless, land rights of women, particularly single women, have remained an area of critical concern needing focused attention. Since the state's land settlement Acts mandate that only a homesteadless 'family' is eligible to get land from government's land programmes, single women are mostly excluded in the enumeration process. While woman-headed households are counted as a 'family'; single women living with parents or relatives are not counted. Their land rights are subsumed within the rights of the overarching family and these women are not considered eligible to get land. The Women Support centre programme has introduced a robust 'participatory women-focused enumeration method' to count the 'invisible' single women as 'family units'.
A recent World Bank study on Gender Inclusive Land Governance in Odisha claims that only 3.3%of land in the state is owned by women. Besides, as high as 54 % (46, 61, 262) rural households in Odisha are landless, 43.35 % derive a major part of their income from manual causal labour and there are 10.6 lakh woman-headed households (SECC, 2011). There is no official data available about the number of single women without homestead in the state.
Women support Centre programme is successfully operating in four districts – Ganjam, Mayurbhanj, Koraput, and Kalahandi with 76 exclusive cells – one from each tehsil. As per survey by Anganwadi workers in these four districts, single women constitute 12% of the total rural women population.
Government of Odisha enacted the pioneering State Policy for Girls and Women, 2014 which clearly mentions that government would allocate homestead land to single vulnerable women. Besides, the state has recently decided to enumerate all homesteadless based on the revised income ceiling of Rs 40,000/- and allocate homestead land to them by 31st October.
However, unless the state adopts a standard 'participatory women- focus enumeration method' as used by the Women Support Centre programme model, the state's on-going drive to enumerate the homesteadless is likely to miss the single women, experts say.


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Synthetic grass tennis courts are becoming ever increasingly popular with both athletic fields and homeowners. Homeowners prefer tennis courts that are easier to take care of, but also that look as natural as possible, and which will play just like grass. Recreational venues generally prefer synthetic grass tennis courts because of the convenience and low maintenance costs.
There is never a change in thickness or pile height of synthetic grass, which ensures that the surface remains consistent, regardless of how many times it is used, or on how drastic weather conditions become. It is extremely important that the texture of the grass is at the same level at all times during play, especially when the player is trying to avoid any injury and improve their game quality.
Because the game of tennis requires that the ball is played on a particular surface, the texture of the court is vital for uniformity and consistency. Players rely on the correct bounce of the ball after each shot. This enables the player to prepare their strategy for each consecutive shot. Maintaining ball control enables the players to keep the ball in play for as long as possible.
One of the great benefits of synthetic grass tennis courts is that the line markings will not fade or smear in any way. It is designed to hold its shape and markings regardless of vigorous use and weather conditions. The paint or powder applied to natural grass courts will fade rather quickly, which can make many calls during the game difficult, as the caller relies on how definitive the lines appear.
Tennis players are constantly moving on the court with precision, which can weaken natural grass and wear it away. Imperfections will appear on natural grass over time, which can lead to the player injuring themselves. Synthetic grass tennis courts are more hard wearing and resilient, which prevents the wear and tear that can be seen on natural grass.
Synthetic grass tennis courts are more or less maintenance free. There will be times when all that is required is the in-fills retouching or the blades to be brushed up, but other than that they look after themselves. Synthetic grass tennis courts can be used both indoors and outdoors, and the cost of the product is well worth the investment.


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New Zealand Targets Trade Partners, Hacks Computers in Spy Operations
Ryan Gallagher Nicky Hager
Ryan Gallagher, Nicky Hager
New Zealand is conducting covert surveillance operations against some of its strongest trading partners and has obtained sophisticated malware to infect targeted computers and steal data, newly released documents reveal.
The country's eavesdropping agency, Government Communications Security Bureau, or GCSB, is carrying out the surveillance across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond as part of its membership in the Five Eyes, a spying alliance that includes New Zealand as well as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
The documents, revealed on Tuesday by the New Zealand Herald in collaboration with The Intercept, expose more details about the scope of New Zealand's involvement in the Five Eyes, and show that the agency's reach extends far beyond its previously reported eavesdropping on at least ten small South Pacific nations and territories.
According to secret files from the National Security Agency, obtained by The Intercept from whistleblower Edward Snowden, GCSB is targeting about 20 different nations and territories in total and sharing the intercepted data with the NSA. A top-secret document dated from April 2013 notes that the New Zealand agency "provides [the NSA with] collection on China, Japanese/North Korean/Vietnamese/South American diplomatic communications, South Pacific Island nations, Pakistan, India, Iran, and Antarctica."
Aside from eavesdropping on communications through traditional interception methods, such as by capturing signals as they are passing between satellites or phone cables, the New Zealand agency has also become directly involved in more aggressive methods of spying and cyberwar.
The newly revealed documents show that it has obtained a malware tool that is part of a platform named WARRIORPRIDE, used by the NSA and other Five Eyes agencies to hack into computers and smartphones, infect them with a bug, and then steal data. The documents note that GCSB "has a WARRIORPRIDE capability that can collect against an ASEAN target." ASEAN, or Association of Southeast Asian Nations, may be a reference to New Zealand's operations targeting Vietnam.
The surveillance being conducted by the GCSB shines light on a secret variant of New Zealand's foreign policy that contrasts with its official public foreign policy.
Vietnam, for instance, has friendly relations with New Zealand and is a growing trading partner. The New Zealand government describes its relationship with Vietnam as having "flourished in the last 15 years." The country poses no security or terrorist threat to New Zealand, the traditional explanation for GCSB operations given to the public. Yet its government is still on the GCSB spying list and its diplomatic communications have been eavsedropped on, likely in violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention of Diplomatic Relations, an international treaty ratified by New Zealand that says diplomats' correspondence is "inviolable."
Other targets, such as Japan and India, are publicly lauded as close and valued New Zealand partners. The New Zealand government says that Japan is "a major bilateral and regional partner of New Zealand" and describes having "a long-standing and warm relationship" with India. But each of these countries, too, is still being targeted for surveillance.
Another operation that sits uneasily with New Zealand's official policy is GCSB's monitoring of nations working in Antarctica. New Zealand is a signatory to the Antarctic Treaty; the country's trade ministry says "involvement in Antarctica offers New Zealand the opportunity to play a constructive and influential role in a region … which is managed according to principles of international cooperation."
The Antarctic eavesdropping takes place from New Zealand's Waihopai base, a surveillance station that can intercept Antarctic satellite links. More than 20 nations have year-round scientific research bases in Antarctica, most of which use the same few satellite links to communicate: Intelsat, Inmarsat and Iridium phones.
A more predictable-sounding target is Iran, which has been a major target of American and British intelligence agencies for decades. However, in public, New Zealand has adopted a different long-term foreign policy with respect to Iran than has the United States and the United Kingdom.
Iran is a valuable export market for New Zealand agricultural produce and New Zealand has not joined in sanctions or confrontation with the Tehran government. But the GCSB has carried out secret intelligence operations, monitoring Iran presumably on behalf of the Five Eyes allies.
Similarly, China, which is New Zealand's top export destination for goods and services, has also been targeted. In 2012, John Key launched a strategy to bolster New Zealand's relationship with China and last year he praised the "the strength of the bilateral relationship between our two countries" during a speech in Beijing.
GCSB declined to comment on the latest revelations. In a statement issued to The Intercept and the New Zealand Herald late Monday, the agency's acting director, Una Jagose, said: "The GCSB exists to protect New Zealand and New Zealanders. We have a foreign intelligence mandate. We don't comment on speculation about matters that may or may not be operational. Everything we do is explicitly authorised and subject to independent oversight."
A spokesman for prime minister Key said the government would not respond to "claims made from documents stolen by Edward Snowden." He added: "New Zealand's intelligence agencies have been, and continue to be, a significant contributor to our national security and the security of New Zealanders at home and abroad."
NSA spokeswoman Vanee' Vines said in a statement that the agency would not comment "on specific, alleged foreign intelligence activities." Vines added: "The National Security Agency works with foreign partners to address a wide array of serious threats, including terrorist plots, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and foreign aggression. NSA's activities with foreign partners comply with U.S. laws and the applicable laws under which our partners operate."
Photo of New Zealand's prime minister John Key, left, meeting with Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, in 2014. (Greg Bowker/AP)


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Elsa, Atlantic season's first hurricane, batters Caribbean
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Elsa strengthened into the first hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic season Friday, battering the eastern islands of the Caribbean.
As of 8 p.m. Eastern time, the center of the fast-moving Category 1 hurricane, which had sustained winds of 85 mph, was moving through the eastern Caribbean Sea, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm was about 475 miles southeast of Isla Beata in the Dominican Republic and was moving west at 30 mph.
"It is moving fast," said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesperson for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. "We don't see any significant strengthening during the next 36 to 48 hours."
A hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica and southern portions of the Dominican Republic and Haiti. A hurricane watch, in which hurricane conditions are possible but are not expected, was in effect for various Cuban provinces.
The storm was expected to continue moving across the eastern Caribbean Sea on Friday evening, nearing the southern coast of Hispaniola late Saturday. By Sunday, the storm is expected to move toward Jamaica and the eastern provinces of Cuba, and then toward the island's central and western provinces Monday.
A tropical storm warning was in effect for the northern coast of Haiti and the southern coast of the Dominican Republic.
Rainfall of up to 15 inches, which could lead to isolated flash flooding and mudslides, was forecast for parts of the Caribbean.
Elsa could also affect the Florida Keys and other parts of Florida early next week, the center said. The storm was being watched closely in South Florida, where it could potentially complicate rescue work at the site of the collapsed condominium building near Miami.
On Thursday, Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, said, "I want to assure you: The state will continue to support their local partners in the Surfside response."
Guthrie said some of his top deputies would remain at the condo site even if he had to travel elsewhere in the state to respond to Elsa. He added, "We are accustomed to running three or more disasters at the same time."
Feltgen said there was "a lot of concern" because the cone of the hurricane's projected course included the entire Florida Peninsula.
"Impacts are going to be inside and outside that cone," he said. "There is a lot of uncertainty."
He added that people in Florida should "monitor the latest updates and check your hurricane supplies."
Elsa, the fifth named storm of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, formed as a tropical storm Thursday.
Ana became the first named storm of the season May 23, making this the seventh year in a row that a named storm developed in the Atlantic before the official start of the season, June 1.
The links between hurricanes and climate change are becoming more apparent. A warming planet can expect to experience stronger hurricanes over time and a higher incidence of the most powerful storms — though the overall number of storms may drop because factors like stronger wind shear might keep weaker storms from forming.
Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast that there would be 13-20 named storms this year, 6-10 of which would be hurricanes, and 3-5 major hurricanes of Category 3 or higher in the Atlantic.
Last year, there were 30 named storms, including six major hurricanes, causing meteorologists to exhaust the alphabet for the second time and move to using Greek letters.
It was the highest number of storms on record, surpassing the 28 storms in 2005, and included the second-highest number of hurricanes on record.
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Two earthquakes strike Afghanistan, killing at least 27
An island nation covered in ash now worries about a COVID intrusion


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I am popping in today with a really quick (I hope) post for the CAS(E) This Sketch #172 Challenge designed by Leigh Penner. I am not going to link the supplies I used in my blog post today but there is a link to the Papertrey Store on the sidebar of my page.
I love how crisp her colors look and I'll be off to try a few more color combinations shortly.
Everything on my card is the same things I've been using for the past week, so nothing new there. You can go to my home page and scroll down through the posts of the past week.
Today's card uses Stamper's Select White, Lovely Lady and Vintage Jadeite Cardstock, all from Papertrey Ink. The inks are also a variety from Papertrey Ink in Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz, Sweet Blush, Berry Sorbet, New Leaf, Mint Julep and Lovely Lady. The bouquet definitely takes some practice to get it lined up, but this one was not bad enough for the trash can.
You have a never ending array of colors to use with the stamps and dies for nearly unlimited color combinations. I also have stitched square dies and one of them is the perfect size to go behind this window if you choose to cut it out or there is the one that came with this kit. I have been using it both ways.
The tiny little banner also came from the Color Pop Butterflies Kit. I'm thinking I need to stamp some extra butterflies from that kit to go with the Don't Forget to Write Kit.
So there you have it; A short quick post. Thanks so much for checking out my card and I treasure each and every comment that you make.
What a great take on the sketch and a gorgeous card!
So pretty--I love the colors!


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