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Q: How to configure continuous integration for aws lambda with java using the services of aws aws-codebuild, codedeploy, cloudformation I am implementing a lambda function with the tool of continuous integrations of aws . CodeSource , CodeBuild CodePipeLine.
After set up all, when i test the lambda the result is
{
  "errorMessage": "Class not found: com.ad.client.App",
  "errorType": "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException"
}

Class not found: com.ad.client.App: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.ad.client.App
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)

All stage of Pipeline are succeeded(Source , Build , Deploy)
If a load the jar directly in the lambda console the result is the correct
I review the log of the build and found this:
[Container] 2019/06/13 13:09:38 Running command echo THE PATH WORK IS !!!
THE PATH WORK IS !!!

[Container] 2019/06/13 13:09:38 Running command pwd
/codebuild/output/src748698927/src

[Container] 2019/06/13 13:09:38 Running command echo The list of file is !!
The list of file is !!

[Container] 2019/06/13 13:09:38 Running command ls
Readme.md
buildspec.yml
dependency-reduced-pom.xml
ftc-client.iml
outputtemplate.yaml
pom.xml
src
target
template.yaml

[Container] 2019/06/13 13:09:38 Running command echo CODE BUILD SRC DIRECTORY
CODE BUILD SRC DIRECTORY

[Container] 2019/06/13 13:09:38 Running command echo $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR
/codebuild/output/src748698927/src

INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /codebuild/output/src748698927/src/src/main/resources

In some portion of code show me that the path src is duplicated, i don't know if it has something to related with the problem
My config files are:
template.yaml
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: Ftc-client
Resources:
  FtcClientFunction:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      Handler: com.ad.client.App::handleRequest
      Runtime: java8
      CodeUri: ./
      Events:
        MyFtcClientApi:
          Type: Api
          Properties:
            Path: /client
            Method: GET

buildspec.yml
version: 0.2

phases:
  install:
    runtime-versions:
      java: openjdk8
  build:
    commands:
      - echo Build started on `date`
      - mvn test
      - export BUCKET=my-bucket-for-test
      - aws cloudformation package --template-file template.yaml --s3-bucket $BUCKET --output-template-file outputtemplate.yaml
    finally:
      - echo THE PATH WORK IS !!!
      - pwd
      - echo The list of file is !!
      - ls
      - echo CODE BUILD SRC DIRECTORY
      - echo $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR
  post_build:
    commands:
      - echo Build completed on `date`
      - mvn package
artifacts:
  files:
    - target/ftc-client-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
    - template.yaml
    - outputtemplate.yaml
  discard-paths: yes

The source code structure is :
/fclient/src/main/java/com/ad/App.java
/tclient/buildspec.yml
/fclient/pom.xml
/fclient/template.yaml

I want to make this but with Java : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/build-pipeline.html
thank for everyone whom can give me a cue

A: This is the solution - it was necessary to unzip the jar in root of my code:
version: 0.2
phases:
  install:
    runtime-versions:
      java: openjdk8
  pre_build:
    commands:
      - echo Test started on `date`
      - mvn clean compile test
  build:
    commands:
      - echo Build started on `date`
      - export BUCKET=my-bucket-for-test
      - mvn package shade:shade
      - mv target/ftc-client-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
      - unzip ftc-client-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
      - rm -rf target tst src buildspec.yml pom.xml ftc-client-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
      - aws cloudformation package --template-file template.yaml --s3-bucket $BUCKET --output-template-file outputtemplate.yaml
  post_build:
    commands:
      - echo Build completed on `date` !!!
artifacts:
  files:
    - target/ftc-client-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
    - template.yaml
    - outputtemplate.yaml

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codebuild/latest/userguide/build-spec-ref.html


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Q: IIS 7 Permissions: How to set the correct permissions for a directory? I have added my site to IIS 7 on my local machine. It has added fine but I can't get the permissions sorted on the folder. I get the following error when trying to browse the site:
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.
Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
Does anyone know what user I should add for the site to have correct permissions?
I have tried:
Network Service
Local service
IIS_WPG
Administrator
and nothing works.
Thanks

A: Try to grant rights for "IUSR","IIS_USERS" with : Read,Execute,List.

A: If you are using windows7 login as administrator and then run your iis local server program because in administrator mode you get the required iis permissions.
Steps to be followed are:

*

*START->ALL PROGRAMS->ACCESSORIES

*Right click on "CMD" and choose "RUN AS ADMINITRATOR"

*On command prompt type "net user administrator /active:yes" and
press"enter"

*Restart system and click on adminitrator icon to login
Hope this may fix ur problem

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A Brief History of Chelsea Physic Garden in London
What is Chelsea Physic Garden?
Chelsea Physic Garden is London's oldest established botanical garden with over 5,000 species of edible, medicinal, and herbal plants.
Elisa.rolle, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Chelsea Physic Garden History
The history of this four-acre garden dates back five centuries. It was opened in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, one of the Livery Companies which play such a central role in the history of London; the Apothecaries detached themselves from the ancient Company of Grocers in 1617. Their intention was to create for the company a dedicated garden of plants for medicinal purposes. The medicines extracted from these plants could then be used to help treat the illnesses of local residents.
The Apothecaries selected a site next to the Thames with the logic that proximity to the river would produce a relatively stable micro-climate for the plants through the year: warm air currents allow various plants to exist in the same space. Sadly, however, by the end of the 17th century the gardens of the original location were sold in order to build a road on the land. Chelsea was no longer a quiet outlying village, but a fashionable area that housed the city's elite.
In the early 18th century things started to look up for the gardens. Sir Hans Sloane – physician, naturalist, collector and most famous as the founder of the British Museum – bought the adjacent Manor of Chelsea. He leased the gardens to the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries for just £5 a year. In fact, this fee is still paid by the society to the descendants of Sir Hans to this day: inflation has been kind to the Apothecaries.
Thanks to Sir Hans and his investment, the garden by the 1770s boasted one of the richest stocks of medicinal plants in the world. The unique micro-climate of its location has enabled it to grow several plants that wouldn't usually thrive in the UK. These include the famous olive tree, which remains the country's largest example of the species that bears fruit. In 1976, it yielded a record crop of 7lb of ripe olives.
Planning a trip to London? Urbs offer free self-guided walking tours of London.
A Brief History of Kew Gardens in London
A Brief History of St Dunstan-in-the-East Church Garden
What is Sky Garden in London?

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A. Ask your parents for permission to have a party. Decide what kind of party you want and whether it will be held indoors or outdoors. Send written invitations to your friends. Tell them what kind of party you are having, at what time, where, and whether or not the guests should wear costumes. Make a list of games you would like to play. Ask your mother to help you prepare refreshments. Ice cream, cake, cookies, and lemonade are good for any party.
C. It's easy to make a cake from a cake mix that you get from the grocery store. You usually add only water or milk. Cake mixes come in many flavours, such as chocolate, lemon, banana, vanilla and others. When you make a cake from a mix, always follow the directions on the package carefully. Then you can be sure that your cake will turn out right and your guests will enjoy it. Many mixes have a small envelope of powdered frosting hidden inside the flour.
E. Looking after cats is easy. They wash themselves every day and eat almost any food. Cats like to drink milk and cream. But they need to be fed on fish, beef, liver, and other kinds of meat. They need a clean, dry bed at night. You can use a basket or a cardboard box for your cat's bed. Cats like to play with a rubber ball or chase a string.
of the Democratic Party ever since. In the 1870s, newspaper cartoonists began using the elephant to stand for the Republican Party.
They __________________ wild turkey as one of the main dishes two centuries ago.


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Uni Watch: NBA went wild, wacky in 1995-96
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Uni Watch's Friday Flashback: Wild, wacky NBA uniforms from 1995-96
Uni Watch Friday Flashback: One of the worst jerseys in NBA history (3:24)
Uni Watch's Paul Lukas looks back at the NBA jersey experiments of 1995, including the infamous Vancouver Grizzlies uniforms. (3:24)
Paul LukasESPN.com
Sports journalism's foremost uniform reporter
ESPN.com columnist since 2004
Also blogs at uni-watch.com
The new NBA season will tip off in a few weeks, which means we'll soon be running down all the season's new looks in the annual Uni Watch season preview.
But Uni Watch didn't exist 20 years ago, so we didn't have an NBA season preview in 1995. That's a shame because '95 was a doozy of a year for new NBA uniforms. Thanks to the arrival of two Canadian expansion franchises and an increasingly expansive sense of what a basketball uniform could look like, the NBA went a little nuts that season. How nuts? Let's look at five of the designs that debuted during the 1995-96 season:
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If you're an expansion team looking to make a splashy debut, this is one way to do it. Oh man, where to start? It's nice that they tried to incorporate First Nations iconography on the collar trim, armhole trim and shorts, but it looked so clunky. (Bonus points for including the symbols on the right shorts leg but not the left.) The cartoonish chest lettering didn't exactly help, the teal-based color scheme was trendy for its time but looks hopelessly dated today, and the big grizzly on the shorts was, uh, an inspired touch. There's a fine line between uniform and costume, and this design was on the wrong side of it.
The Grizzlies weren't the only Canadian expansion team looking to turn heads in 1995. Over in Toronto, the Raptors used the other trendy color of the 1990s, purple, as a background color and slapped a cartoon dinosaur on it, a combination that quickly led fans to call this uniform "the Barney design." Among other problems, this uni represented a major missed opportunity for an infinite regression: The jersey should have shown a dinosaur wearing a jersey with a dinosaur wearing a jersey with a dinosaur, ad infinitum uniformum. What a pity.
The Hawks already had a history of pushing the uni-related envelope, having previously experimented with lime green and bold diagonal type. But their 1995 design pushed more than just the envelope -- it pushed the whole file cabinet and maybe even the entire office supply store. From the hawk's laughably elongated talons to the red-to-black gradation on the shorts, the design seemed like something out of a video game. You might say that means this uniform was actually ahead of its time. Or you might just say it looked ridiculous and leave it at that.
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The Bucks had introduced a fairly sedate uniform set in 1994, but in '95, they augmented it with a new alternate design featuring a buck. The thing is, a buck is a tricky animal to use on a uniform. If you only the show the head, it looks like a wall-mounted trophy. If you show the whole body, it looks like a hunter's target. If you try to make it look ferocious or intimidating, it just ends up looking absurd. But if you don't make it look at least somewhat aggressive, it ends up looking too much like Bambi. The Bucks' 1995 solution -- show the head and a bit of the body and make it look fairly realistic, with a hint of an aggressively furrowed brow -- wasn't bad, but the green-and-purple color scheme made the whole thing look garish.
After wearing a perfectly functional uniform design for nearly a quarter-century (and winning back-to-back championships in 1994 and '95), the Rockets shook things up in 1995-96 by unveiling a new color scheme and a design that was certainly, well, unusual. As with most of the other designs from the class of '95, the overall feel was cartoonish. Whose bright idea was it to put pinstripes on a basketball uni? Seriously, of all the people on earth, do NBA players need to accentuate the vertical in order to look taller?
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In addition to all the bizarro team uniforms in 1995-96, the NBA also went with a pretty radical All-Star uniform set. The bar had already been set pretty high the previous season, which featured cactus-themed unis for the All-Star tilt in Phoenix. With the game shifting to San Antonio, the league swapped in a chili pepper while maintaining the same overall visual theme. (Also, notice anything about the colors? Purple one year, teal the next. Those two colors were everywhere in the '90s.)
There were other notable NBA uniforms in the 1990s, of course -- the Nets' "denim" design, the Pistons' flaming Pegasus and the Kings' split-personality look among them. But the class of '95 marked a pinnacle (or, if you prefer, a nadir) for the decade's unusual hardcourt stylings.
For better or worse, these uniforms didn't have much staying power. The one that survived the longest was Houston's, which was in use for eight seasons. Vancouver's was next, with five seasons, and the others lasted only four. All were replaced by more sedate, conventional designs. Twenty years later, the designs from the class of '95 have reached that sweet spot that lies somewhere between nostalgia and kitsch. Many fans can laugh about them or even embrace them as throwback uniforms, but few would want to see them brought back on a full-time basis.
Meanwhile, the basketball uniform design pendulum might be swinging back toward more innovative looks. Have you seen the Hawks' new uni set? It makes their '95 design look tame. Let's meet back here in 20 years and see how it looks with two decades' worth of hindsight, shall we?
Would you like to nominate a uniform to be showcased in a future Friday Flashback installment? Send your suggestions here.
Paul Lukas will have this year's NBA season preview sometime around Oct. 22. If you liked this column, you'll probably like his Uni Watch Blog, plus you can follow him on Twitter and Facebook. Want to learn about his Uni Watch Membership Program, be added to his mailing list so you'll know when a new column has been posted or just ask him a question? Contact him here.


A relative of a victim of the regime of former Peruvian President (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori places flowers at the "Eye That Cries" Monument in Lima on Feb. 2, 2018, to demand the annulment of a humanitarian pardon granted to him by Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski.
Victims' families turned out in both Peru and Costa Rica to show their support for a request that the Inter-American Court on Human Rights, housed in San José, Costa Rica, review the pardon for Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence. A hearing was held at the court headquarters yesterday regarding the request.


The embodiments presented herein utilize class B LoRa to avoid conflicts with Wi-SUN traffic that is on the same band. In areas covered by a LoRa edge, portions of the time slots of specific channels may be aggregated into longer time slots to adapt to LoRa spreading factors. Edge mesh nodes may use class B to pull traffic from channels of LoRa devices at the appropriate time. LoRa may be configured to operate in the appropriate channels, and any interference with Wi-SUN can be minimalized.


Bring a large pot of water with 1 tbsp. salt to a boil. Add pasta and boil until tender, 7 to 9 minutes.
Meanwhile, whirl garlic and parsley in a food processor until finely chopped. Add 1 1/2 cups peas, the ricotta, lemon juice and zest, 4 tbsp. oil, remaining 2 tsp. salt, and the pepper. Pulse to a coarse purée.
Reserve 1 cup pasta cooking water. Drain pasta and return to pot. Immediately add ricotta-pea purée and remaining 1 cup peas and stir until well mixed. Add a little pasta cooking water, if necessary, to loosen sauce.
Divide among 4 bowls. Sprinkle each with pine nuts and parmigiano, and drizzle with remaining 1 tbsp. oil.
I followed this recipe exactly. This is a good, solid recipe, but it's not worthy of a special occasion or outstanding. I think the flavors could be a little more complex. Maybe if you added some fresh oregano and thyme with the parsley when you puree everything together--that would probably lend some complexity and brighten things up a bit more. Definitely do not skip the toasted pine nuts because it adds some complexity back in. This dish is ultimately a bit sweet because of the peas, and with the richness of the ricotta cheese, you will need to serve some crisp white wine with it to cut through the heaviness. I'm not sure if I'll make it again.
This pasta turned out really tasty. I halved the ricotta, oil, and salt though. It was plenty salty as it was, and I dont like things super rich. I served with some baked chicken breast and we both loved it.


A dental flossing attachment 10 which imparts oscillatory motion to a strand of dental floss 19 inserted between the teeth. The attachment is adapted to mount on a drive shaft 14 of an electric tooth brush. The attachment has a housing 11 which contains a supply spool 18 and a take-up spool 21. An advancing mechanism is provided whereby fresh floss 19 may be positioned between two prongs 16 at the end of the housing 11 by turning a knob 22 without the need for manual threading of the dental floss through grooves or eyelets. When fresh dental floss is exhausted, the used attachment 10 is removed from the drive shaft 14 and a new attachment 10 is snapped into its place.
2381530 Aug., 1945 Dembenski 132/325.
3472247 Oct., 1969 Borsum et al.
3534745 Oct., 1970 Waters 132/322.
3592203 Jul., 1971 Johnson 132/323.
3734107 May., 1973 Thierman 132/325.
3882879 May., 1975 Lucas 132/326.
3927687 Dec., 1975 Thierman 132/325.
4307740 Dec., 1981 Florindez et al.
4518000 May., 1985 Leverette 132/325.
Assistant Examiner: Smith; Jeffrey A.
means located between a face of said take-up spool and said housing for biasing said take-up spool into engagement with said supply spool.
means for advancing dental floss from said supply spool to said prongs.
3. The dental floss attachment of claim 2 wherein said at least one projection is an integral part of said annular portion of said housing.
5. The dental flossing attachment of claim 4 wherein said biasing means comprises a plurality of spring members disposed between a non-confronting face of said take-up spool and said housing.
6. The dental flossing attachment of claim 4 wherein each of said at least one protrusion comprises a radially elongated and axially protruding rib formed on said confronting face of said supply spool and each of said at least one recess comprises a corresponding radially extending slot on said confronting face of said take-up spool.
The present invention relates to an attachment for dental flossing which is removably attached to an electric toothbrush drive shaft for oscillatory motion, and has simplified means for advancing fresh dental floss onto the working portion of the apparatus.
Proper dental hygiene requires not only brushing of the exposed surfaces of teeth but also clearing interdental spaces between adjacent teeth. Failure to clear deposits from these hidden surfaces may result in excessive tooth decay. Even worse, naturally occurring bacteria in the mouth can act on deposited food particles between the teeth causing plaque which can eventually result in destructive periodontal disease.
Periodontal disease, in many instances, may be avoided through regular dental flossing. Until recently, this was accomplished by winding a length of dental floss around one finger of each hand and inserting the span of floss held between the fingers into the interdental space. This could prove very cumbersome as it often involved insertion of parts of one or both fists into the mouth. Various floss holders or frames have been designed to address this problem. The holders or frames may be driven by electrically generated oscillatory motion. However, a compact and easy to use automatic dental flossing device having a convenient floss advancing mechanism was not available.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,235,253 which issued to Moore discloses a device having a forked end on which a short strand of fresh dental floss is tightly secured. One disadvantage of this device is that the user must manually replace the strand of floss each time he desires a fresh length.
Improvements in this general concept have included different approaches to mounting spools on the device to provide for advancement of fresh floss. The problem with many of these devices is that during initial set up or replacement of spools, the user must thread a length of dental floss through a tortuous series of enclosures, recesses and eyelets. U.S. Pat. No. 4,458,702, issued to Grollimund and U.S. Pat. No. 4,706,695, issued to Urso disclose devices having this drawback. The device disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,534,745, issued to Waters dispenses with the need for intricate floss threading but requires the user to open a small hinged door before turning a hand knob to advance the floss.
In general, all of the above prior art devices are cumbersome, and lack features necessary for effective interdental cleaning. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an effective dental flossing apparatus having a means whereby oscillatory motion may be imparted to the working section of the dental floss.
It is another object of the present invention to eliminate the need for a user to manually handle or thread a length of dental floss.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a simple one step method for advancement of fresh dental floss to the working portion of the apparatus.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a small, lightweight flossing attachment which fits easily into the user's mouth, and can access difficult-to-reach molars.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a disposable flossing attachment for improved hygiene.
The above problems are solved by the flossing attachment of the present invention. Other objects and advantages of the invention are summarized below and described with reference to the drawings.
The present invention relates to a dental flossing attachment, which mounts on any commercially available electric toothbrush power unit and comprises an elongated housing having a receptacle at the power attachment end and a pair of spaced prongs at another end. A supply spool is mounted for rotation about an axis on an intermediate portion of the housing and a take-up spool is separably connected to the supply spool for rotation about the axis independently of the supply spool. Means are provided for engaging the supply spool with the housing for preventing rotation. Means are also provided for selectively engaging the take-up spool with the supply spool and thereby preventing relative movement between the two spools. When relative rotation is desired, such as when fresh floss is to be advanced, the take-up spool is disengaged from the supply spool and rotated independently, thereby pulling floss from the supply spool and across the ends of the spaced prongs.
Further advantages and features of the present invention are described in detail in the following detailed description in view of the attached drawings.
FIG. 9 is a plan view of floss holding prongs of the present invention.
Referring now to FIG. 1, the dental flossing apparatus of the present invention is illustrated. The flossing attachment 10 includes a housing 11 having a pair of spaced prongs 16 at one end and a receptacle 12 at another end. The receptacle 12 is removably connected to a drive shaft 14. The drive shaft 14 could be any one of a number of commercially available electric toothbrush power attachments. It is preferred that the electric toothbrush has a reduced speed capability for operating in a flossing mode.
Referring now to FIGS. 2, 3, and 4, the components and general function of the flossing attachment can be more readily observed. Mounted inside the housing 11 are a supply spool 18 and a take-up spool 21. A supply of dental floss 19 is wound around supply spool 18, extends to the prongs 16 and returns to the take-up spool 21. As shown in FIG. 9, the floss 19 is constrained to follow the path of the prongs 16 by studs 20 located at various intervals along the length of each prong 16. A knob 22, connected to the take-up spool 21, advances the dental floss 19 across the prongs 16 when the user desires to replace a used length of dental floss 19 with a fresh length. When all of the floss 19 has been used and advanced to the take-up spool 21, the entire attachment 10 is removed from the drive shaft 14. Then a new flossing attachment 10, preloaded with floss 19 in the manner above described, is simply snapped onto the drive shaft 14. Because the attachment 10 is designed to be loaded with floss 19 upon delivery to the user, there is never any need for the user to manipulate the floss 19 other than by knob 22. While this is a general description of the invention, a more specific description of the construction and interaction of the components follows.
The housing 11 which supports the components of the invention is structurally rigid. It may be inexpensively molded as a single piece out of a thermoplastic material. Being formed out of plastic affords other advantages such as the ability to form snapping fits with other components which also can be made out of plastic. For example, the receptacle 12 is removably snap fitted onto the drive shaft 14 so that when fresh floss is exhausted, it is easy for the user to pull off the used housing and snap on a replacement. Replacing the entire housing 11 in this manner provides fresh floss and a clean, hygienic housing 11.
When the flossing attachment 10 is in use, it is important to maintain tension of dental floss 19. This is accomplished by selectively restraining the supply spool 18 and take-up spool 21 in the following manner. First, the supply spool 18 frictionally engages and is held motionless by a base 24. The base 24 is disc-shaped and has a beveled rim 26. Along the rim 26 are a series of tabs 28. The tabs 28 and the beveled rim 26 combine to form a V-shape at their juncture which assists in snap fitting the base to the housing 11. Base 24 has an axial annular portion 30 which interfaces with the supply spool 18. As supply spool 18 slides over the annular portion 30, projections 32 engage a channel 34 on the inside wall of the supply spool 18. When this engagement is made, the supply spool 18 is seated on the base 24 and no relative axial movement of the two parts is permitted. In addition, the pressure exerted by the projections 32 on the inside wall of the supply spool 18 prevents rotational movement of the supply spool 18 relative to the base 24. The frictional holding force of the projections 32 may be overcome by application of rotary force on the knob 22 by the user as will be explained below.
With the supply spool 18 anchored to the housing 11, the take-up spool 21 engages the supply spool in the following manner. The supply spool 18 has an axial tube 36 which can be slidingly engaged with the inner surface of the take-up spool 21. When the take-up spool 21 is fully seated on the supply spool 18, a series of radially elongated and axially extending protrusions 38 and radially extending recesses 40 become engaged and prevent relative rotational movement of the take-up spool 21 and the supply spool 18. The interlocking configuration of the spools 18 and 21 is maintained by the pressure of spring members 42 which bias the take-up spool 21 toward supply spool 18.
The above configuration will prevent relative and absolute movement of the spools 18 and 21 under most circumstances thereby maintaining tension on the dental floss 19. However, after a period of use, the user will desire to advance a fresh supply of dental floss 19 between the prongs 16. This advance is accomplished by using knob 22 to unseat the take-up spool 21 and rotate it with enough force to overcome the spring pressure of projections 32 on the supply spool 18. Knob 22 slidingly receives an axial core 44 of the take-up spool 21. Knob 22 and take-up spool 21 are snap fitted together by the engagement of bumps 46 with groove 48 located on the knob 22. This engagement prevents relative axial movement between the knob 22 and the take-up spool 21. Relative radial movement between knob 22 and take-up spool 21 is prevented by a series of interlocking flutes 52 and slots 54.
Referring now to FIGS. 4 and 5, when the user pulls on the knob 22 in the direction of arrow A, spring members 42 are compressed as the take-up spool 21 is disengaged from the supply spool 18. Once disengaged, the take-up spool 21 may be rotated relative to the supply spool 18 subject only to the frictional pressure of projections 32 which tend to hold the supply spool 18 motionless. This frictional pressure is overcome by rotating the knob in the direction of arrow B. The rotation of knob 22 is aided by a plurality of striations 49 along the periphery thereof. Two or three rotations of the knob 22 should be sufficient to place a fresh length of floss 19 across the span of the prongs 16. Disposed on the underside of the housing 11 are a series of wedges 50 which contact the spring members 42.
FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate the manner in which the spring members 42 are spaced to fit between the wedges 50. When knob 22 is rotated in the direction of Arrow B, the spring members 42 "ramp up" the sides of the wedges 50. Rotation is unidirectional because the vertical faces of the wedges 50 resist counter rotation. When sufficient dental floss 19 has been advanced to the prongs 16, the user may simply let go of the knob 22, thereby allowing the spring members 42 to once again bias the take-up spool 21 onto the supply spool 18.
The apparatus of the present invention has been described with reference to a preferred embodiment and is to be understood as being exemplary. Various changes and modifications are possible to the apparatus above within the spirit and scope of the present invention. The scope of the present invention should be determined by reference to the following claims.


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Sterkenburg bezeichnet folgende geografischen Objekte:

 Sterkenburg (Utrecht), ehemalige Gemeinde in der niederländischen Provinz Utrecht
 Schloss Sterkenburg, niederländisches Schloss bei Driebergen-Rijsenburg

Sterkenburg ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Erin Sterkenburg (* 2003), südafrikanische Sportklettererin
 Peter J. Sterkenburg (1955–2000), niederländischer Maler
 Piet van Sterkenburg (* 1942), niederländischer Sprachwissenschaftler

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The Facts:Scientists have discovered that feelings of gratitude can actually change your brain. Feeling gratitude can also be a great tool for overcoming depression and anxiety. Furthermore, scientists have discovered that the heart sends signals to the brain.
Reflect On:Every time we struggle with depression, why are we constantly encouraged to take prescription medication when mindfulness techniques actually show more promise?
Gratitude is a funny thing. In some parts of the world, somebody who gets a clean drink of water, some food, or a worn out pair of shoes can be extremely grateful. Meanwhile, somebody else who has all the necessities they need to live can be found complaining about something. What we have today is what we once wanted before, but there is a lingering belief out there that obtaining material possessions is the key to happiness. Sure, this may be true, but that happiness is temporary. The truth is that happiness is an inside job.
It's a matter of perspective, and in a world where we are constantly made to feel like we are lacking and always 'wanting' more, it can be difficult to achieve or experience actual happiness. Many of us are always looking toward external factors to experience joy and happiness, when really it's all related to internal work. This is something science is just starting to grasp as well, as shown by research coming out of UCLA's Mindfulness Awareness Research Center. According to them:
Having an attitude of gratitude changes the molecular structure of the brain, keeps gray matter functioning, and makes us healthier and happier. When you feel happiness, the central nervous system is affected. You are more peaceful, less reactive and less resistant. Now that's a really cool way of taking care of your well-being.
There are many studies showing that people who count their blessings tend to be far happier and experience less depression. For one study, researchers recruited people with mental health difficulties, including people suffering from anxiety and depression. The study involved nearly 300 adults who were randomly divided into three groups. This study came from the University of California, Berkeley.
All groups received counselling services, but the first group was also instructed to write one letter of gratitude to another person every week for three weeks, whereas the second group was asked to write about their deepest thoughts and feelings about negative experiences. The third group did not do any writing activity.
What did they find? Compared to the participants who wrote about negative experiences or only received counselling, those who wrote gratitude letters reported significantly better mental health for up to 12 weeks after the writing exercise ended.
This suggests that gratitude writing can be beneficial not just for healthy, well-adjusted individuals, but also for those who struggle with mental health concerns. In fact, it seems, practicing gratitude on top of receiving psychological counseling carries greater benefits than counseling alone, even when that gratitude practice is brief. (source)
Previously, a study on gratitude conducted by Robert A. Emmons, Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis and his colleague Mike McCullough at the University of Miami randomly assigned participants to be given one of three tasks. Each week, participants kept a short journal. One group described five things they were grateful for that had occurred in the past week, another group recorded daily troubles from the previous week that displeased them, and the neutral group was asked to list five events or circumstances that affected them, but they were not told whether to focus on the positive or the negative. Ten weeks later, participants in the gratitude group felt better about their lives as a whole and were a full 25 percent happier than the troubled group. They reported fewer health complaints and exercised an average of 1.5 hours more. (source)
Researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. They provided four insights from their research suggesting what causes the psychological benefits of gratitude.
Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions
Gratitude helps even if you don't share it
Gratitude's benefits take time & practice. You might not feel it right away.
Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain
The brain part is very interesting. The researchers at Berkeley used an fMRI scanner to measure brain activity while people from each group did a "pay it forward" task. During the task, the participants were given money by a "nice person." This person's only request was that they pass on the money to someone if they felt grateful.
They did this because they wanted to distinguish between actions motivated by gratitude and actions driven by other motivations like obligation, guilt, or what other people think. This is important because you can't fake gratitude, you actually have to feel it. If you don't feel grateful or practice trying to feel grateful by taking the necessary steps like keeping a gratitude journal, you may not experience as much joy and happiness.
In a world where emotions aren't really taught in school and the importance is put on striving for high grades, it's not abnormal to have difficulty feeling grateful. This is especially understandable if you've been brought up in the western world, which is full of consumerism and competition, a world where we're constantly made to feel we are lacking so we need to strive for more.
Participants were asked to rate how grateful they felt toward the person giving them the money and how much they wanted to pay it forward to a charitable cause as well as how guilty they thought they would feel if they didn't help. They were also given questionnaires to measure how grateful they felt in general.
We found that across the participants, when people felt more grateful, their brain activity was distinct from brain activity related to guilt and the desire to help a cause. More specifically, we found that when people who are generally more grateful gave more money to a cause, they showed greater neural sensitivity in the medial prefrontal cortex, a brain area associated with learning and decision making. This suggests that people who are more grateful are also more attentive to how they express gratitude.
Most interestingly, when we compared those who wrote the gratitude letters with those who didn't, the gratitude letter writers showed greater activation in the medial prefrontal cortex when they experienced gratitude in the fMRI scanner. This is striking as this effect was found three months after the letter writing began. This indicates that simply expressing gratitude may have lasting effects on the brain. While not conclusive, this finding suggests that practicing gratitude may help train the brain to be more sensitive to the experience of gratitude down the line, and this could contribute to improved mental health over time.
It's also interesting to note that a recent study just discovered a brain network that "gives rise to feelings of gratitude. The study could spur future investigations into how these 'building blocks' transform social information into complex emotions." (source)
What About The Heart?
The work and research above is great, but where do we actually experience these feelings? They are clearly not a product of our brain, they are products of our consciousness, and when we feel them the brain responds. Researchers are now discovering that the heart also responds and that it might actually be the heart that's responsible for sending these signals to the brain.
A group of prestigious and internationally recognized leaders in physics, biophysics, astrophysics, education, mathematics, engineering, cardiology, biofeedback, and psychology (among other disciplines) have been doing some brilliant work over at the Institute of HeartMath.
Their work, among many others, has proven that when a person is feeling really positive emotions like gratitude, love, or appreciation, the heart beats out a different message, which determines what kind of signals are sent to the brain.
Not only that, but because the heart beats out the largest electromagnetic field produced in the body, the Institute has been able to gather a significant amount of data.
According to Rolin McCratey, Ph.D, and Director of Research at Heartmath?)
"Emotional information is actually coded and modulated into these fields. By learning to shift our emotions, we are changing the information coded into the magnetic fields that are radiated by the heart, and that can impact those around us. We are fundamentally and deeply connected with each other and the planet itself." (source)
Another great point made below by the Institute:
"One important way the heart can speak to and influence the brain is when the heart is coherent – experiencing stable, sine-wavelike pattern in its rhythms. When the heart is coherent, the body, including the brain, begins to experience all sorts of benefits, among them are greater mental clarity and ability, including better decision making." (source)
In fact, the heart actually sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends in return. What's even more amusing is the fact that these heart signals (from heart to brain) actually have a significant effect on brain function.
Research findings have shown that as we practice heart coherence and radiate love and compassion, our heart generates a coherent electromagnetic wave into the local field environment that facilitates social coherence, whether in the home, workplace, classroom or sitting around a table. As more individuals radiate heart coherence, it builds an energetic field that makes it easier for others to connect with their heart. So, theoretically it is possible that enough people building individual and social coherence could actually contribute to an unfolding global coherence. – McCratey
So far, the researchers have discovered that the heart communicates with the brain and body in four ways: neurological communication (nervous system), biophysical communication (pulse wave), biochemical communication (hormones), and energetic communication (electromagnetic fields).
"HeartMath research has demonstrated that different patterns of heart activity (which accompany different emotional states) have distinct effects on cognitive and emotional function. During stress and negative emotions, when the heart rhythm pattern is erratic and disordered, the corresponding pattern of neural signals traveling from the heart to the brain inhibits higher cognitive function. This limits our ability to think clearly, remember, learn, reason, and make effective decisions. In contrast, the more ordered and stable pattern of the heart's input to the brain during positive emotional states has the opposite effect. It facilitates cognitive function and reinforces positive feelings and emotional stability." (source)
Gratitude and Positive Feelings Can Change The World
It gets deeper:
Every individual's energy affects the collective field environment. The means each person's emotions and intentions generate an energy that affects the field. A first step in diffusing societal stress in the global field is for each of us to take personal responsibility for our own energies. We can do this by increasing our personal coherence and raising our vibratory rate, which helps us become more conscious of the thoughts, feelings, and attitudes that we are feeding the field each day. We have a choice in every moment to take to heart the significance of intentionally managing our energies. This is the free will or local freedom that can create global cohesion. – Dr. Deborah Rozman, the President of Quantum Intech (source)
Overall, this type of work suggests that human consciousness in general can change the world.
One study, for example, was done during the Israel-Lebanon war in the 1980s. Two Harvard University professors organized groups of experienced meditators in Jerusalem, Yugoslavia and the United Sates and asked them to focus their attention on the area of conflict at various intervals over a 27-month period. Over the course of the study, the levels of violence in Lebanon decreased between 40 and 80 percent each time a meditating group was in place. The average number of people killed during the war each day dropped from 12 to three, and war-related injuries fell by 70 percent. (source)
Another great example is a study that was conducted in 1993 in Washington, D.C., which showed a 25 percent drop in crime rates when 2,500 meditators meditated during a specific period of time with that intention.
This type of information is heavily correlated with quantum physics, as many experiments in that area as well as parapsychology (telepathy, remote viewing, distant healing) indicate similar findings. (source)
This holds true as far back as 1999. Statistics professor Jessica Utts at UC Irvine published a paper showing that parapsychological experiments have produced much stronger results than those showing a daily dose of aspirin helps prevent heart attacks. Utts also showed that these results are much stronger than the research behind various drugs like antiplatelets.
This type of work has statistically significant implications, yet is heavily ignored and labelled as pseudoscience simply because it conflicts with long-held beliefs we have trouble letting go of … But times are changing.
"For many years I have worked with researchers doing very careful work [in parapsychology], including a year that I spent full-time working on a classified project for the United States government, to see if we could use these abilities for intelligence gathering during the Cold War… At the end of that project I wrote a report for Congress, stating what I still think is true. The data in support of precognition and possibly other related phenomena are quite strong statistically, and would be widely accepted if it pertained to something more mundane. Yet, most scientists reject the possible reality of these abilities without ever looking at data! And on the other extreme, there are true believers who base their beliefs solely on anecdotes and personal experience. I have asked debunkers if there is any amount of data that would convince them, and they generally have responded by saying, "probably not." I ask them what original research they have read, and they mostly admit that they haven't read any. Now there is a definition of pseudo-science-basing conclusions on belief rather than data!" – Utts, Chair of the Statistics Department, UC Irvine (Dean Radin, Real Magic)
Emotions and other factors associated with consciousness have the power to transform our inner world in ways we don't fully understand yet. These findings show how consciousness can actually transform the physical/material world, and that's huge. This validates the idea that if we can change our inner world through gratitude, empathy, compassion, and meditation, we can make our outer world more peaceful.
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US doctors described the story of a man who tried to relieve depression with psilocybin mushrooms in an unconventional way. He injected an intravenous infusion of mushrooms, causing the mushrooms to continue to multiply in his blood and cause multiple organ failure. The case was reported in the Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry.
Many drugs that people traditionally use as psychedelics are increasingly becoming the focus of medical attention. Some of them have already been repurposed and started clinical trials: for example, micro-doses of LSD have proven to be at least safe in the case of Alzheimer's disease, and psilocybin has helped patients with migraines and depression. Often in such experiments we are talking about microdosing – that is, the mass of the substance is not enough for a psychoactive effect.
The story of an American who decided to experiment on his own was described by doctors led by Curtis McKnight of Creighton University School of Medicine. According to relatives, the 30-year-old American suffered from bipolar disorder, but shortly before the incident stopped taking his prescribed medications and suffered from alternating states of mania and depression.
When he stumbled upon research on the potential benefits of psychedelics, he boiled psilocybin mushrooms and injected the filtered solution into his vein. A few days after this experiment, relatives found him in a lethargic state with jaundice, diarrhea and bloody vomiting and took him to the hospital.
Doctors discovered the patient had a problem with multiple organs at once: acute renal failure, liver damage, tachycardia, and low blood saturation and ionic imbalance. He was prescribed droppers to normalize the composition of the blood, vasoconstrictors to raise blood pressure, antibiotics and antifungal drugs. Despite this, he developed septic shock and DIC (excessive blood clotting) and needed plasmapheresis. Only eight days later he was discharged from the intensive care unit, and at the time of publication of the article he had already been in the hospital for 22 days.
In the patient's blood tests, in addition to the Brevibacillus bacteria , there were also Psilocybe cubensis fungi – the same ones from which he injected himself intravenously. Apparently, due to insufficient filtration of the solution, the fungi entered the bloodstream and multiplied there, causing intoxication and multiple organ failure.
The authors of the work note that this is not the first such case – at least in the 80s of the 20th century, doctors already described a patient with similar symptoms after an intravenous injection. Therefore, McKnight and coauthors warn their colleagues: since psychedelics are increasingly used as a medicine (at the end of 2020, they began to legalize it in the United States), it is important to remind patients of the inadmissibility of self-therapy. Intravenous administration can be dangerous – doctors still do not know if it has the same psychoactive effect as the classical methods of administration.
A new method of scanning the human brain has produced amazing results. It turns out that in every person there is a certain part of his essence, which accompanies him all his life from the moment of birth to death.
Scientists believe that this is the core of a person's self-awareness. It combines memories of the past with fleeting sensations of reality and provides a basis for anticipation of events in the future.
It turned out that a certain part of a person's consciousness is consistent as they grow older and older.
For centuries, scientists and philosophers have been interested in the question: can this sense of "personal self" be stable throughout life? A new psychological study with the results of a brain scan made it possible to conclude that a certain part of a person's consciousness really accompanies him throughout his life.
It is consistent as it gets older and older. Miguel Rubianes, a neuroscientist at the Complutense University of Madrid, says the aim of the study was to answer the question: Are we the same person throughout life? In combination with the results of other studies, scientists have concluded that there is a certain component that remains stable from birth to death.
The other part of consciousness remains susceptible to current changes. The scientists recognized independence as the basis of identity. And every time a person uses the word "I", he means a thread that connects together all the events and experiences that have occurred in life.
Experience gained over the years changes a person, changes the components of his identity. Each case associated with personal experiences, a broken heart, a successful career step, expected or unexpected failure lead to the fact that a person compares himself to himself before and after these events. It is a neurological programming scheme that involves visual self-knowledge as an indicator of connection with your impressions of yourself.
This effect makes it possible to cope with memories and recognition of information when it is associated, for example, with one's own photograph of an infant. Although this principle has a lot of evidence, scientists believe that the very mechanism of the brain involved in this remains a mystery.
This study was published in the journal Psychophysiology.
In the hustle and bustle of everyday life, we sometimes do not notice how time flies past us, what miracles surround us. We do not have time to listen to the rustle of leaves in the wind and we miss those minutes when the crimson moon hangs at the very horizon.
Below are 10 films that reflect the beauty and diversity of our world. You watch such a movie and forget about everything.
7 fairy tales-ballads based on Czech folklore are filmed colorfully and poetically.
They endure a time when people were closer to nature, believed in miracles and the spirits of the forest, when the terrible and the beautiful were merged together.
Ashes and snow
Gregory Colbert's documentary has no plot, but it attracts with its stunning, unrestrained beauty, reflecting the unity of man with nature.
The film was shot for 13 years in the most exotic corners of our planet: Burma, Ethiopia, India, Antarctica, Sri Lanka, Tonga islands and many other picturesque places.
The fountain
The main character Thomas tries to find a cure for his wife Isabelle. Every day she gets worse, and he cannot be near, because he puts experiments in the laboratory. In his soul, love, the desire to be with Isabelle and the desire to extend her life are fighting.
Darren Aronofsky's philosophical drama was filmed in vivid colors, despite the fact that the director did not use computer special effects.
This is a beautiful one and a half hour trip to the most amazing places on the planet.
Director Ron Fricke showed the inextricable connection of all people and events on earth, the cycle of death and birth, the versatility of our world, where beauty coexists with nondescriptness, and the end means the beginning.
The story of a bear cub that lost its mother and nailed to a large wounded bear. Together they have to go through many trials, the worst of which is meeting the hunters.
The wonderful plot of the film is combined with stunning music that helps you immerse yourself in the world of nature and feel it with your whole body.
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
The harsh Siberian nature, untouched by man, the majestic Yenisei River and the small village of Bakhta with a simple way of life.
People live and survive in these parts, rely only on themselves and also ask only themselves. Four seasons – four lifestyles for each of them.
Young musician August Rush does not know his parents, but he really wants to find them and for some reason is sure that if he plays, they will hear and recognize him by his music.
Mesmerizing music permeates the entire film and works wonders to dispel the evil spell of separation.
A documentary masterpiece, a philosophical essay accompanied by superb cinematography and music, goes without words. The only and main actor here is life in all its diversity and unity.
The gaze of a monkey sitting in a hot pond is equal to all the depths of cold space, and the dances of the aborigines are synchronized with the movements of the forest.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
This is a beautiful and unhurried philosophical parable about a wheel of time moving into infinity. Each time, with the beginning of a new cycle of rotation, life on earth is renewed, and everyone has the opportunity for a new rebirth.
The film by Korean director Kim Ki-dook tells about two monks – a teacher and his student – and the obstacles that must be overcome on the way to finding harmony.
The main characters of the documentary narration are cultural and historical monuments.
They absorbed the life of the people who created them, and have remained for centuries as an imprint of bygone eras.


I should say that I'm embarrassed with how my friend, Mer, and I ran to each other and squealed as she met me outside of airport security, but I feel no shame. After a day of long travel, though, there was some concern about staying awake and being ready to tour around. But thank goodness for the preflight shot of tequila and a little dose of NyQuil—those got me through the trauma of almost being choked by my pillow. I was completely jazzed and ready to go.
We took a saunter around town to check out the Necropolis which was an eerily beautiful combination of detailed stone work and history of loss. Working up an appetite on our tour, Mer showed me her favorite vegetarian place, Flying Duck. I'm not the picky, tell-everyone-I'm-vegetarian-at-all-moments type of vegetarian, but it makes me happy when I can have a fellow veggie show me where the good food is. A solid tofu sandwich and a smooth pint of stout was all I needed to prep for our night on the town.
With my smeared airplane makeup, we headed out to the bars to meet all the friends I had only heard about in stories. Placing names to faces was wonderful, but it was also a great time to discover where the different Scottish accents came from. But I suppose most of the focus turned to how much better Guinness tastes in Scotland than in the United States. I hung my head in shame as the people around me were shocked and disappointed in my vocalized distaste of the beer, but then they placed one in front of me. The first sip was pleasantly smooth and better than what I originally tasted in the States. As for the rest of the evening, it was just as smooth.
Struggling to wake up to our over-eagerly timed alarm, Mer and I guzzled some coffee and caught a train to Edinburgh. As the man checking tickets approached us, my friend scrambled to find hers which had been lost in the sea of her purse. I was expecting him to be frustrated and whip out some New York accent saying "move it along, now." The man patiently waited for Mer to find her ticket, and he then apologized to us. We were taking up his time, but he found it pertinent to say sorry. Nearly everyone I met seemed to have this level of politeness. It was refreshing, but I was taken slightly aback.
Seeking out graveyards became more important to us, so we found Grey Friar's Bobbie and went from there. Grey Friar's Bobbie was the Friar's dog, back in the day, that essentially laid on his master's grave until he too passed away. We bypassed all the tours around us in the graveyard and beelined it for the most intricate headstone we could find. Clearly the aura of the graveyard came over me and I was caught looking nearly possessed (as seen below). Soon after I scared everyone with my face (I've heard that's a normal thing for me apparently?), we hopped on the train back to Glasgow for a night in with the show Outlander. With semi-accurate Scottish history and attractive people in kilts, how can you go wrong?
I left my friend in Glasgow and caught a small tour van from Edinburgh in hopes of maneuvering through the rural areas of Scotland without being part of an obnoxiously loud and boisterous tour group. Success. Rabbie's tour group was the perfect combination of fulfilling the tourists' dreams of visiting beautiful sites and the wannabe-local travelers who wish to understand more about the people and culture. We stopped by places such as the Duone Castle (where Monty Python, Game of Thrones and Outlander were filmed), Loch Lubnaig and fields full of sheep.
Through blustery winds and pockets of torrential downpour, our van made it to Skye's town of Portree. I was the only one from our tour staying at one of the local B&Bs. As I came in through the door of the cute tucked away place, the owner said "so you're the single woman we've been waiting for." Is it weird to spend some quality time with numero uno (aka myself) at a cozy bed and breakfast? I don't know about you, but some time with freshly brewed tea and a hot bath is all I need at night. Plus, no one can make fun of me for laying on the floor and putting my feet up the wall for fifteen minutes. It's a practice I keep for rejuvenation and to decrease inflammation in my feet after a long day of walking or travel.
In the morning, I had the chance to strike up a conversation with the B&B owner—a woman who has lived on the Isle of Skye for around 30 years. She described her favorite spots on the Northern edge of the island. Her face glowed as she spoke, and I got to meet her adventure pal, Kiwi the dog. It was great to see the pair get excited about the island (I assume from all the tail wagging that Kiwi was stoked).
As for our day of traversing across the island, it was combined with a bit of sun, buckets of rain and around 60 mph winds. On the top of the Quiraing, it was so incredibly blustery that I couldn't even stand still enough to snag a normal picture of myself (sorry, mom). Some volunteers fixing the trail on the top of the hill were nearly blowing around like tumbleweeds in the wind and eventual hail. Somehow, though, our little van seemed to find the small spots of sun throughout the day. We paused at the Old Man of Storr, Kilt Rock, Stein Inn (the oldest serving inn on Skye), Fairy Glen and the Fairy Pools.
I figured the Fairy Pools were just a Pinterest stereotype where the overly photoshopped pictures cannot compare to the duller real-life version. To my surprise, the pools were so clear that you could see the various colored stones on the bottom, and it was all wedged between mountains. Being in that valley was humbling as you realize how much knowledge and time the Earth around you had seen. I was fascinated by the sun setting behind me and the rainbow that appeared as I was hiking back up to our parking spot. I could easily say that being at the Fairy Pools was one of my favorite moments of the Skye tour. Not to get weird or anything, but If I could have just plopped myself on the ground and stayed there staring at the mountains for a few days I would have.
On the drive back to Edinburgh, we had a more relaxed vibe. We stopped at Loch Ness which was not too much of anything without the legend attached, but the mushroom pie I ate was worth the stop. We had the chance to tour the Eilean Donan Castle. A fully restored 13th century castle that was beautifully placed amid three conjoining lochs. It was a wonderful picture to have in my mind on the last leg of the van journey.
Back with my Mer, we met up one of her friends for a classic UK brunch: eggs with beans, spinach and sweet potatoes. It was the perfect way to refill and recharge from my trek on the island. It was good to have something in my stomach before we headed to a pub for a bit of whiskey tasting.
One of the people we joined at the pub plays the Scottish pipes which he brought to the pub. Some man sitting next to us looked at the elongated case and said "Well, I hope that's not loaded." Not thinking, I told him it was because obviously the case was full of something (you know, like pipes). I didn't realize that he meant a loaded gun until his eyes nearly popped out of his head and he scooted away and out the door of the pub. I may have just caused that man an unnecessary stressful evening.
The day was very relaxed and mostly spent with me catching up on homework as I stared out the window into the rainy streets of Glasgow. My friend had rehearsals and sound check for her performance to happen that evening.
The traditional Scottish music performance was fabulous. Not just because everyone was talented, but because you could see the happiness and excitement in each performer's eyes. I wanted to smile because they were smiling, and it made the music that much better.
Day 8 was my flight home. I was reluctant to leave the beautiful place, and I am going through a little bit of the post-travel blues. Luckily, I know I have fond memories built up and my next adventure starts in May.
Brilliant! I love your style of writing and I do love Scotland! I'll go again a year from now! Here's to more adventures!
Thank you! Jealous you're going back–have fun on your adventure!!
Hi Cat, We really enjoyed your post! And we were really happy to hear that you enjoyed your Rabbie's tour to Skye and your time in Scotland. Really funny to hear what they said to you at the B&B! In our opinion, not weird at all to travel by yourself. We get a lot of solo travellers!!
Thanks! Your tour was great, and I hope I can find my way back to one of them again sometime!
Great post and love your writing! Glad you enjoyed Scotland so much – I have not yet managed to visit and I am from London! I definitely need to do it soon, especially after reading posts like yours. Edinburgh sounds amazing and visiting Skye would be a definite highlight. Thanks for sharing your experience!
The mysterious and gorgeous Scotland. What a traveler's paradise! Must be a inspiration for such an amazing post!
Awesome post! We are also new to blogging within the past few months 🙂 I would love to check out the fairy pools and all beautiful Scotland has to offer.
Hahaha. Love the spin on the travel pillow. Scotland is on our bucket list. Loved this post! Bookmarked.
I know that feeling when the travel pillow tries to kill you. I already have 2 years in London and I managed to visit just Edinburgh in Scotland, hopefully soon I will visit the rest of the amazing places that you mentioned in this post.


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Q: How can I display text when a input field from a while loop is clicked? What I want is when i click a input field to display a div below that input.I managed to display the div with javascript, but it only works for the first input from the loop.
How can I display that div for every intput that is clicked?
Thanks!

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package com.sample.tests.pages.banking;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import com.sample.framework.kdt.Alias;
import com.sample.framework.ui.FindBy;
import com.sample.framework.ui.Page;
import com.sample.framework.ui.controls.Control;
import com.sample.framework.ui.controls.SelectList;

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public class CustomerCommonPage extends Page {

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    }

    @Alias("Balance")
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Q: TypeError: util__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_4___default(...) is not a function I have a server.js file that opens a database with node. I'm trying to import this into an index.js file through a lib directory and I have two files in it:
// App.js
import React from 'react';
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function App() {
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I didn't think it would make much of a difference, but on line three of the App.js file I added two curly brackets to make it import {addName} from "util";.
This then gives me the error: TypeError: Object(...) is not a function. Both of these are pointing to line 13 of App.js, await addName(name);. Now, I'm exporting the addName(name) function from `util.js, so I don't understand what this error is.
When I googled the errors, it seemed to lead me to answers that didn't really work for my situation.

A: With
import addName from "util";

you're importing the default export from util. But what you exported was a named export here:
export function addName(name) {

Either use a default export instead:
export default function addName(name) {

Or import the named one instead:
import { addName } from 'util';


The SSAB series rotary broom sweeper is hydraulically powered and mounts on skid steer plates that are quick attach compatable. The broom is 32 inches in diameter and available in widths of 6 ft., 7 ft. and 8 ft.. The unit comes standard with manual angle left or right and can be converted to hydraulic angling. Brooms are available with all poly brushes or brushes with poly and wire sections alternated for heavy duty cleaning on paved surfaces.
The SSAB series York Broom is designed for use by contractors, landscapers, municipalities, institutions, farmers, and others needing a heavy duty commercial sweeper to mount on their skid steer. The SSAB can be used for general cleaning sweeping dirt and debris, as well as for snow removal. Landscaping contractors can also use SSAB models with all poly brushes for dethatching lawns. The sweeper is a standard style sweeper where you windrow the material into one line for pile for picking up with a vacuum, loader, or other means. For skid steer loaders we also have the SSPU series that mounts on the bucket instead of the quick attach plate giving you a container to hold the material. For the SSAB series, look at the information on this page, for the SSPU series that mounts to your skid steer's bucket, click on the link at the bottom of the page.
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Discussion in 'iPad Help' started by DeniseB, Jul 12, 2011.
Hi. Has anyone had success importing photos from an SD card via the Camera Connection kit? I have tried with a micro SD (using adaptor, of course) and with regular SD card, but neither Camera nor Photo app open immediately, and when I go into them, I don't see an option for importing photos. It looks like this was really easy to do on an iPad, but maybe challenging on iPad2?
already discussed and discussing, please search forum.
unless you are not jailbroken, and this is just an issue you are having.
Hi Denise - as already posted, there are many previous threads & posts on this topic - so, you may want to do some searching.
Also, provide some additional information concerning the SD cards being used, i.e. are these taken directly from a digital camera or are these cards onto which you have loaded JPEG images?
On a standard camera card, a DCIM folder stores the images plus other formatting may be needed for the Camera Connection Kit to recognize that the storage card contains images from a digital camera.
I find this a PITA myself in that I can get the SD cards from my cameras to bring up the images, but pics stored on other non-camera SD cards (even if I create a DCIM folder) do not work!
Thank you! I have started looking but was frightened by some of the notes I was reading that referred to a 'Jailbreak' action (which I don't really want to do).
The pictures are from my cell phone, and I know that they're not in a DCIM folder at this moment, which is perhaps why they are not being detected.
Thank you, I will try to move them to a DCIM directory and see what happens!
I am curious to see if you can make that work. I was trying to do the same but didn't think of moving them to the DCIM folder. However I can read from my point and shoot by either USB connection or from the SD card with the CCK.
If the phone has a micro-USB port, try using the CCK and a micro-USB to USB cable to plug the phone into the iPad. This works for some phones, and should not hurt anything to try.
I tried that with my Atrix and it gave an error message of requiring too much power.
DeniseB, sorry didn't mean to hijack your thread.
So... I found a card that had been formatted by a camera and it worked like magic.... So I just have to figure out how to get my cell phone pics into the right folder.
The name of the pics need to be named img_9999 format under dcim folder. 9999 can represent any 4digit#.
Denise - I transferred some images via my Vista laptop to the DCIM folder of a camera SD (the computer has an SD slot - used Windows Explorer) - once in the folder, I simply looked at the other pics there and renamed the added ones w/ the same type labeling just changing the last number - these imported into the iPad w/o a problem - kind of a pain but it did work!


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RNLI's Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboat called to assist fisherman, amid strong winds caused by Storm Brendan
By Federica Stefani
- federica.stefani@hnmedia.co.uk
The Kyle RNLI lifeboat in action (stock image). Picture: RNLI.
A FISHERMAN was rescued by a lifeboat after getting trapped on his vessel due to the adverse weather conditions near Kyle of Lochalsh.
The RNLI lifeboat in Kyle of Lochalsh were called out at 11.11am to assist the man, whose fishing vessel was safe on a mooring near Ratagan, on the shore of Loch Duich, but was unable to move as the boat wouldn't have been able to face the stormy weather.
A coastguard spokesperson confirmed the man is safe and made it back on land.
The call-out came amid deteriorating weather conditions across Ross-shire as Storm Brendan approaches the Highlands.
A yellow weather warning is currently in effect across the whole of Wester Ross, and a fallen tree has caused travel disruption on the A87 near Loch Duich.
CalMac ferry services have also been heavily impacted by the storm.
A further weather warning, this time for snow and ice, has also been issued for Tuesday morning.


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Hani Furstenberg Quotes
Enjoy the top 5 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Hani Furstenberg.
"I hope the English-speaking world can see that Im not only an Israeli actress."
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"When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20."
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"I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress."
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"For Americans I'll always be Israeli, and for Israelis I'll always be American. But I really have no need for definitions."
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Wed, 23 May 2018 at 5:47 pm
Anne Winters Opens Up About Her Most Difficult Scene To Film in '13 Reasons Why'
Anne Winters is opening up more on her storyline in 13 Reasons Why season two.
The 23-year-old actress opened up to Cosmopolitan about her most difficult scene to film – and if you guessed THAT scene, you're right.
The scene in question begins with Anne's character, Chloe making out with Bryce on the couch. The scene progresses to show him initiating sex, however, she says no. But, locks the door behind her and she reluctantly resumes.
"I feel like if you've had sex with someone, in a guy's mind, that means whenever is fine. But I think Chloe represents also the girls that are [like], 'No, if I don't want to, I shouldn't,'" Anne says. "It shouldn't be an obvious thing, ever, no matter what…You don't know if it's right or wrong and I don't think she does either, but that's why it's just… uncomfortable."
While the scene was difficult for Anne, working with Justin Prentice, was not.
"Every time the camera would cut, we would move on, joke around, have fun, and just know that we're getting to portray these really real characters and at the same time, it's not our lives," she recalled. "We leave it on set and that's it."
Anne says that Justin is definitely not anything like Bryce in real life.
"Justin was a god send," she adds. "He's the funniest person in the world and he's so, literally, a million times the opposite of his character. It was really nice to work with him. He was always making sure I was comfortable, everything felt very home-y and safe, so not stressful at all. It was amazing."
13 Reasons Why is streaming now on Netflix.
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Med School Weighs Commitment to CRT in Admissions Process
'This residency interview scoring system should worry all Americans who may require healthcare... '
By Molly Bruns
Medical workers check a chart. / PHOTO: AP
(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) The University of New Mexico School of medicine has added new qualifications for applicants to their OBGYN residency and will now be weighing students's contributions to anti-racism and diversity in the admissions process.
According to the Daily Caller, interviewers for the med school awarded coveted spots for OBGYN residency based on their "experience and interest" in "equity, anti-racist and diversity, equity and inclusion practices."
Applicants obtain points for their activity in the area based on an interviewing rubric created by the college.
Applicants can earn extra points for being gay, African American, "Latinx," or Native American.
"This residency interview scoring system should worry all Americans who may require healthcare," said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of watchdog group Do No Harm. "The only alphabet letters that are important in a physician are three A's- ability, availability and affability. This is what prospective physicians should be judged on."
In addition to their intersectional qualities, potential residents can earn additional points for being multilingual. Students can also acquire more points if they explain how they "hope to integrate anti-racism" in their residency.
University of New Mexico Medical school is not the only institution integrating Critical Race Theory standards into their application process.
The University of San Diego School of Medicine even shifted its entire curriculum to work towards "dismantling racism" in 2020.
The Association of American Medical Colleges also released equity and inclusion guidelines encouraging students to consider their "identity, power and privilege," in their upcoming career.
"To downgrade the role of academic and intellectual qualifications in favor of particular political and social ideologies puts the quality of healthcare at real risk," Goldfarb said.
"To focus on skin color or gender as the prime basis for entry into training programs corrupts the system and denies the centrality of patient welfare that should be the focus of all medical care."
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The seasons are officially changing! You can feel it in the air… We are excited to announce what's on and upcoming for Realwheels in OUR new season!
Realwheels is thrilled to produce SEQUENCE by Arun Lakra as part of Presentation House Theatre's 2017-18 season.
SEQUENCE is an extraordinary piece of Canadian playwriting that explores questions of determinism vs. free will via two stories that interweave like a strand of DNA. Get ready for razor sharp, cerebral dialogue and an edge-of-your-seat story!
We welcome submissions from outside of Vancouver.
One of Canada's celebrated playwrights, Janet Munsil, is currently writing ACT OF FAITH for Realwheels' 2018-19 season.
Inspired by a story that baffles the medical/scientific community, arouses conflicting emotions in the disability community, and is celebrated by the religious community to which 'Faith' belongs, we guarantee you'll be jazzed and challenged by ACT OF FAITH's subject matter, and excited by the unique theatrical vocabulary we're developing for production.
CLICK HERE to view a short video capturing the residency held at The Cultch this past July.
Our next community-based Wheel Voices project is WHEEL VOICES POWER PLAY.
WHEEL VOICES POWER PLAY is rooted in our eagerness to scrutinize and challenge questions of identity and marginalization. With a group of 12-18 community participants, we'll be offering a six (6) day intensive, applying Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed methodology, and culminating in a public presentation. Special guest Tom Scholte will facilitate.
Community round tables / info sessions will be scheduled for spring 2018, followed by a two-hour "Rainbow of Desire" introductory workshop. The six-day intensive will follow.
We're committed to creating a healthy, safe environment. WHEEL VOICES POWER PLAY is open to anyone who self-identifies with disability. No theatre experience necessary. Workshop is fully subsidized and is offered free of charge. Space is limited.
Please contact info@realwheels.ca if you would like to participate, or attend an info session.
We proudly announce the completion of Phase 1 of our Cultural Infrastructure Project.
Realwheels partnered with Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture and the Social Planning and Research Council of BC (SPARC BC) to address the limited number of theatre venues that are truly and fully accessible for artists/performers, theatre technicians, and patrons with disabilities.
Throughout the spring and fall of 2016, SPARC BC conducted a Needs Assessment of Accessible Performance Spaces in the City of Vancouver, which included a review of leading practices and feedback from the broader community. We asked: What is currently working well? What are the gaps and challenges in regards to accessible theatre venues? We created an accessibility audit checklist, after which our multi-disability audit team undertook a thorough audit of one theatre venue.
Below is the final report, which encapsulates our findings and includes the accessibility audit checklist, along with the details of our audit of the Firehall Arts Centre.
The long-term goal of this project is to increase accessibility at theatre venues for artists, technical staff, and patrons with disabilities.
We invite you to read this report and most importantly to use it, share it and open up dialogue around issues of accessibility in our city.
We gratefully acknowledge the funding support of the City of Vancouver and Canada Council for the Arts.
Want to find out what Realwheels has been up to this past year? Join us on December 3rd!
(1) The society shall have two classes of members: legacy members and general members.
(2) Any member of the society who was a member before January 1, 2015, and whose membership has not ceased under Bylaw 8, 9, or 10 is a legacy member.
(3) Any member of the society who is not a legacy member is a general member.
MOTION to renumber Bylaws 6 through 10 as Bylaws 7 through 11.
(1) The amount of the first annual membership dues must be determined by the directors.
(2) Legacy members must not be charged membership dues.
(3)The annual membership dues of general members may be set by the directors at least two months before any annual general meeting, and are effective from the date of that annual general meeting until changed by the directors or by resolution of the membership.
(4)The directors may exempt any general member from payment of annual membership dues on the recommendation of a director or officer of the society.
MOTION to renumber Bylaws 10 (1) through 61 as Bylaws 12 through 63.
On being admitted to membership, each membership is entitled to, and, upon request, the society must give the member without charge, a copy of the constitution and bylaws of the society.
Attending a Realwheels AGM is a great way to show that you value the arts in BC!
Realwheels' production of Whose Life is it Anyway? has been nominated for six Jessie awards, including Outstanding Production!
The nominations for the 32nd annual Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards were announced last night at the Vancouver TheatreSports League Improv Centre on Granville Island.
Congratulations to the entire company of Whose Life is it Anyway? We are SO proud of and grateful to EVERYONE who contributed their talents, expertise, and love to this project.
We also congratulate our fellow nominees in the Small Theatre category. So much theatre talent to celebrate in our city!
It was Realwheels Founding Artistic Director James Sanders' longtime goal to produce Whose Life is it Anyway? Although medical issues prevented James from playing the lead role, his vision and his ongoing commitment to deepening audiences' understanding of the disability experience informed this production every step along the way.
Final awards will be handed out June 23 at the Commodore Ballroom. Click here to view the complete list of nominees and congratulations to all!
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Childhood and adolescent obesity are rapidly approaching epidemic status. In North Carolina, one in every four children is seriously overweight and the prime culprits are physical inactivity and poor nutrition habits.
Like adults, overweight and obese adolescents have a multitude of health problems, from diabetes to joint pain, menstrual irregularities and depression. Obesity also aggravates already existing chronic conditions, such as asthma.
Adolescents who are obese face psychological consequences. The prejudice associated with obesity is intense and young people are often humiliated and suffer permanent emotional scars. Weight loss is about skills, not will. Children lack the skills to eat less and exercise more in a society that teaches them to do just the opposite. It is a different skill set – much like learning to play the piano or driving a car.
Parents are the key to ensuring that their children start taking their physical health serious. By encouraging healthy eating habits and regular physical activity, parents can help ensure that their children achieve a balanced lifestyle. At the Novant Health Maya Angelou Women's Health & Wellness Center, we work with parents and teens to develop healthy eating plans and fun, energy-filled exercise routines. We teach adolescents and their parents about how to adopt healthier lifestyles, choose healthy snacks and lunches, track calorie intake, portion-control and about the importance of exercise.
For more information about adolescent weight management programs, contact the Maya Angelou Women's Health & Wellness Center at 336-718-3780 or call toll-free 1-888-218-1234.


1. Department of Physiology Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Introduction: Ketone bodies (KB) are oxidative fuel substrates and metabolic signals produced in response to starvation or a high fat, low carbohydrate diet. KB may provide a superior fuel source to athletes . We developed a ketone ester (KE) that, when consumed as a drink, rapidly increased circulating KB . Ketone salt (KS) drinks are an alternative to achieve nutritional ketosis . However, the comparative efficacy of KE and KS drinks to raise blood KB is unknown. The aim of this study was to compare blood KB levels after body-weight adjusted, equimolar amounts of KB were consumed in KE and KS drinks. Methods and Results: Following favourable ethical review, healthy, non-obese volunteers (n = 5) completed a 4-armed randomized, cross-over study. Following an overnight fast, volunteers consumed a weight-adjusted dose of β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) (low- 1.6 mmol/kg OR high- 3.2 mmol/kg) in KS or KE, artificially flavoured and made up to 300 ml using water. Blood samples were obtained via an IV catheter at baseline (BL) and at regular intervals post-drink. Samples were analyzed for D-BHB. Volunteers completed questionnaires to record any GI/systemic symptoms experienced. D-BHB values are means ± SEM. Symptoms are number reported per 100 possible reports. Repeated measures ANOVA with Tukey Post Hoc corrections were performed. Significance was taken at p<0.05. Consumption of both KE and KS drinks increased the blood levels of D-BHB. Peak D-BHB concentration (D-BHB Cmax) was significantly greater following the high dose of KE (3.0 ± mM) vs. low dose KE (1.5 ± mM) and vs. both high (1.2 ± mM) and low (0.9 ± mM) doses of KS. There were no significant differences in D-BHB Cmax between low dose KE, and low and high doses of KS. D-BHB uptake (AUC) was significantly higher following high dose of KE (417 ± 62 mM.min) vs. all other groups, but there were no differences between low dose KE (166 ± 24 mM.min), and low (117 ± 21 mM.min) and high (170 ± 7 mM.min) doses of KS. GI symptoms reported were significantly higher with high dose of KS (10/100 possible) than low doses of both KS (2.6/100 possible) and KE (3.4/100 possible), however there were no significant differences between the high dose of KE (6.5/100 possible) and all other groups. Conclusions: Increasing KE dose results in greater D-BHB Cmax and AUC; however this is not seen following KS drinks. Long term KS consumption may result in clinical complications due to the inorganic ion load in each drink , furthermore we saw that high doses of KS cause a greater incidence of GI symptoms. Therefore we conclude that KE drinks are a more effective method to elevate D-BHB in athletes than KS drinks, with fewer acute side effects.