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package de.lessvoid.nifty.effects.impl;

import de.lessvoid.nifty.Nifty;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.effects.EffectImpl;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.effects.EffectProperties;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.effects.Falloff;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.elements.Element;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.render.NiftyImage;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.render.NiftyRenderEngine;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.render.image.ImageModeFactory;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.render.image.ImageModeHelper;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.screen.Screen;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.tools.Alpha;
import de.lessvoid.nifty.tools.SizeValue;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

public class ImageOverlay implements EffectImpl {
  @Nonnull
  private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(ImageOverlay.class.getName());
  @Nullable
  private NiftyImage image;
  @Nullable
  private Alpha alpha;
  @Nullable
  private SizeValue inset;
  @Nullable
  private SizeValue width;
  @Nullable
  private SizeValue height;
  private boolean center;
  private boolean hideIfNotEnoughSpace;
  private boolean activeBeforeStartDelay; // this will render the effect even when using a startDelay value so that
  // it will already render before the startDelay

  @Override
  public void activate(
      @Nonnull final Nifty nifty,
      @Nonnull final Element element,
      @Nonnull final EffectProperties parameter) {
    Screen screen = nifty.getCurrentScreen();
    if (screen == null) {
      log.severe("Can't activate effect while there is no active current screen.");
      return;
    }
    image = nifty.getRenderEngine().createImage(screen, parameter.getProperty("filename"), false);
    if (image == null) {
      log.severe("Image not found, image overlay effect will not work.");
      return;
    }

    String areaProviderProperty = ImageModeHelper.getAreaProviderProperty(parameter);
    String renderStrategyProperty = ImageModeHelper.getRenderStrategyProperty(parameter);
    if ((areaProviderProperty != null) || (renderStrategyProperty != null)) {
      image.setImageMode(ImageModeFactory.getSharedInstance().createImageMode(areaProviderProperty,
          renderStrategyProperty));
    }

    alpha = new Alpha(parameter.getProperty("alpha", "#f"));
    inset = new SizeValue(parameter.getProperty("inset", "0px"));
    width = new SizeValue(parameter.getProperty("width", element.getWidth() + "px"));
    height = new SizeValue(parameter.getProperty("height", element.getHeight() + "px"));
    center = Boolean.valueOf(parameter.getProperty("center", "false"));
    hideIfNotEnoughSpace = Boolean.valueOf(parameter.getProperty("hideIfNotEnoughSpace", "false"));
    activeBeforeStartDelay = Boolean.valueOf(parameter.getProperty("activeBeforeStartDelay", "false"));
  }

  @Override
  public void execute(
      @Nonnull final Element element,
      final float normalizedTime,
      @Nullable final Falloff falloff,
      @Nonnull final NiftyRenderEngine r) {
    if (image == null || inset == null || width == null || height == null || alpha == null) {
      return;
    }
    if (!activeBeforeStartDelay && normalizedTime <= 0.0) {
      return;
    }
    int insetOffset = inset.getValueAsInt(element.getWidth());
    int imageX = element.getX() + insetOffset;
    int imageY = element.getY() + insetOffset;
    int imageWidth = width.getValueAsInt(element.getWidth()) - insetOffset * 2;
    int imageHeight = height.getValueAsInt(element.getHeight()) - insetOffset * 2;
    if (hideIfNotEnoughSpace) {
      if (imageWidth > element.getWidth() || imageHeight > element.getHeight()) {
        return;
      }
    }
    r.saveStates();
    if (falloff != null) {
      r.setColorAlpha(alpha.multiply(falloff.getFalloffValue()).getAlpha());
    } else {
      if (!r.isColorAlphaChanged()) {
        r.setColorAlpha(alpha.getAlpha());
      }
    }
    if (center) {
      r.renderImage(image, element.getX() + (element.getWidth() - imageWidth) / 2,
          element.getY() + (element.getHeight() - imageHeight) / 2, imageWidth, imageHeight);
    } else {
      r.renderImage(image, imageX, imageY, imageWidth, imageHeight);
    }
    r.restoreStates();
  }

  @Override
  public void deactivate() {
    if (image != null) {
      image.dispose();
    }
  }
}

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IN St. Louis, the dog days of summer give way to a fall as glorious as anywhere else on Earth: Days are warm, sometimes even hot, and nights are cool. September ushers in a long Indian summer that often lasts till Thanksgiving. It offers an ideal time to spend a week or a long family weekend in the Gateway City. Here are some of the sights and activities to consider: The Arch. The Gateway Arch, 630 feet of stainless steel towering above the grounds of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, is an ideal place to begin. Like the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, D.C., the arch's surface invites the laying on of hands. Even in midsummer, it is cool and comforting, and so is the underground museum beneath it, the exquisite Museum of Westward Expansion. Life-size displays include a teepee, a sod house, and a beaver pond. Photos, diary excerpts, and displays of clothes, tools, and weapons tell the story in the pioneers' own terms. Informative talks are given throughout the day at various focal points. The recent imposition of entrance fees to national parks includes the arch; the maximum is $3 per family. The trip up the arch by electric car costs an additional $2.50 for adults, 50 cents for children.
River trips. The park grounds outside the arch make a good place to munch lunch while watching barge traffic move along the mighty Mississippi. It's not unheard of to dip a toe into the river here, but wading is strongly discouraged.
The best way to see the river itself is by boat. The President, the city's largest river cruiser, will be in Cincinnati in October for that city's bicentennial, but three small paddle-wheeler replicas will continue cruising, and the President will be at home here during the rest of this month and again in November. All the boats make three-hour sightseeing cruises (priced at $8.50 for adults and $3.75 for children) and five-hour day or evening cruises ($27.50 and $13.50), including a buffet. The now-stationary Admiral - once the art nouveau queen of excursion boats - offers family entertainment and food by day, and music and dancing by night (no admission fee, but charges for attractions inside).
Exploring downtown. A day in the heart of the city could include a walk on the cobblestone street of Laclede's Landing, the renovated warehouse district on the original settlement site, where Pierre Laclede's birthday is celebrated throughout this month.
West of the arch and past the impressive public library building is Campbell House (admissions $2 and 50 cents), a mid-Victorian town house with the original furnishings. But children will find more excitement nearby at the renovated Union Station. Boutiques now replace trains, but there's also fun and plenty of interesting railway history. South of the arch, past the Cardinals' baseball stadium, is the boyhood home of poet and journalist Eugene Field (1850-95), which is now a toy museum ($17 and $8.50) and the departure point for open-air tram tours ($20 and $5), with stops downtown and in Forest Park.
Forest Park. This site of the 1904 World's Fair can keep visitors busy for at least a day. The institutions it contains - a zoo, art museum, and history museum - are inexpensive or free. The St. Louis Zoo abolished outdoor cages in the 1930s in favor of habitat duplication with natural barriers. Since 1970 it has continuously upgraded its display environments for birds, reptiles, small and large primates, and major cats; it has also opened a Children's Zoo (45 cents) and added a spiffy child-size railroad.
Forest Park also contains the city's art museum, a local-history museum, a floral display house, and an expanding St. Louis Science Center, definitely child-oriented.
An outdoor playground demonstrates scientific principles, and two model dinosaurs capture most kids' attention instantly. Inside, visitors find a science laboratory, star shows, and a discovery room for hands-on learning. Fees range from 50 cents to $3.
McDonnell Douglas's Aerospace Center Museum near Lambert International Airport also welcomes visitors.
Away from the center. Moving outside the downtown area, families will enjoy the Missouri Botanical Garden (Shaw's Garden), Grant's Farm, and the Jefferson Barracks Historic Park.
The garden, a gift to St. Louis by one of its early philanthropists, is the largest in the Midwest ($2 for adults, no charge for children).
Tours at Grant's Farm, a 281-acre homestead once own by Ulysses S. Grant, include refreshments, a bird show, a ride through the antelope and bison park, and a stop at Grant's ``Hardscrabble'' cabin. They are available through mid-October (no charge, but reservations are required).
Regular Wednesday-through-Saturday tours show off the restored buildings at Jefferson Barracks, an Army post that was active from 1826 to 1946.
Farther afield are unusual sites that educate as well as entertain: Laumeier Sculpture Park, Ralston Purina's Research Farm, the Shaw Arboretum (a good picnic place before or after the research farm), Cahokia Mounds (an archaeological trove of Indian prehistory), and the National Museum of Transportation.
The transportation museum is a wonderful place for children to let off steam as they scramble over and through railway history. Purina Farm, with its delightful multi-image theater, animal barn, and pet center, is en route to Six Flags Over Mid-America in Eureka, Mo.
When it's time for education to give way to recreation, try a day of pure entertainment at Six Flags, open weekends through October ($12 to $17, with discounts available). Autumn generally means smaller crowds and shorter lines.
For more details, phone the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Bureau at (314) 421-1023.


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Q: React not being recognized as imported - ReactNative expo app Attempting to build an expo app (on my android device) and keep running into this Can't find variable: React error
My import statement is import React, { useReducer, useMemo, useEffect, createContext } from 'react'; which seems to be correct from previous use and work. Wondering what could have triggered this problem after an admittedly long code rewrite. If you want to look at the full file I will link it in a pastebin below
https://pastebin.com/wXyhHf2v
Relevant sections I assumed would be wherever I call a subfunction of React, (like useReducer) as the React context may be needed inside the jsx, but not entirely sure how to fix this.

A: I am not sure what is happening here but it happened to me once and I just made sure that

import React from 'react'

is the first line of the file. This fixed it for me. I can hope it works for you too.

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dotnet new templates for IdentityServer4

## Important
This organization is not maintained anymore besides critical security bugfixes (if feasible). This organization will be archived when .NET Core 3.1 end of support is reached (3rd Dec 2022). All new development is happening in the new [Duende Software](https://github.com/duendesoftware) organization.

The new [Duende IdentityServer](https://duendesoftware.com/products/identityserver) comes with a commercial license but is [free](https://blog.duendesoftware.com/posts/20220111_fair_trade/) for dev/testing/personal projects and companies or individuals making less than 1M USD gross annnual revenue. Please [get in touch with us](https://duendesoftware.com/contact) if you have any question.

### dotnet new is4empty
Creates a minimal IdentityServer4 project without a UI.

### dotnet new is4ui
Adds the quickstart UI to the current project (can be e.g added on top of *is4empty*)

### dotnet new is4inmem
Adds a basic IdentityServer with UI, test users and sample clients and resources. Shows both in-memory code and JSON configuration.

### dotnet new is4aspid
Adds a basic IdentityServer that uses ASP.NET Identity for user management. If you automatically seed the database, you will get two users: `alice` and `bob` - both with password `Pass123$`. Check the `SeedData.cs` file.

### dotnet new is4ef
Adds a basic IdentityServer that uses Entity Framework for configuration and state management. If you seed the database, you get a couple of basic client and resource registrations, check the `SeedData.cs` file.

### dotnet new is4admin
Adds an IdentityServer that includes the Rock Solid Knowledge AdminUI Community Edition (open `http://localhost:5000/admin` in the browser). This gives you a web-based administration interface for users, claims, clients and resources.

The community edition is intended for testing IdentityServer integration scenarios and is limited to localhost:5000, SQLite, 10 users, and 2 clients. *The community edition is not suitable for production*.

See [identityserver.com](https://www.identityserver.com/products) for more information about AdminUI or to request a trial license.

## Installation

Install with:

`dotnet new -i identityserver4.templates`

If you need to set back your dotnet new list to "factory defaults", use this command:

`dotnet new --debug:reinit`


The different type of Mathematica graphics include Graphics, Graphics3D, SurfaceGraphics, DensityGraphics, and ContourGraphics. Mathematica allows one to easily make the following conversions on SurfaceGraphics, ContourGraphics, and DensityGraphics.
To see how simple this is consider the next cell which makes a course DensityPlot, and displays the underlying expression for the graphic. You will notice the underlying expression is simply the head DensityGraphics with a matrix of real numbers and a list of options.
In the next cell we simply evaluate SurfaceGraphics[DensityGraph] to change the above DensityGraphic to SurfaceGraphics. This cell also shows the SurfaceGraphics and returns the underlying expression of the SurfaceGraphics. Notice to the underlying expression is very similar to the one for DensityGraph. We only changed the head to SurfaceGraphics, and made some minor changes to the options. Switching between SurfaceGraphics, DensityGraphics, and ContourGraphics is trivial because the three type of graphics have the same underlying form.
In the next cell we simply evaluate Graphics3D[SurfaceGraph] to change the above SurfaceGraphics to Graphics3D. This cell also shows the SurfaceGraphics and returns the underlying expression of the Graphics3D. The result we get back has the form . While the graphic rendered below is the same we get from Show[SurfaceGraph], we could combine the Graphics3D primitives below with other primitives in ways that aren't possible with SurfaceGraphics.
In the next cell we simply evaluate Graphics[DensityGraph] to change the above DensityGraphics to Graphics primitives. This cell also shows the Graphics and returns the underlying expression. The result we get back has the form . While the graphic rendered below is the same we get from Show[DensityGraph], we could combine the Graphics primitives below with other primitives in ways that aren't possible with DensityGraphics.


Mobile Home Parks, also known as mobile home communities, manufactured home communities, or factory-built home communities, are land lease communities that allow homeowners to rent space on which to place a home. In addition to providing space, these sites often provide basic utilities such as water, sewer, electricity, or natural gas. They also include other amenities such as mowing, garbage removal, community rooms, pools, and playgrounds.
Mobile home parks range in size from 5 to over 1,000 home sites. Although most parks appeal to meeting basic housing needs, some communities specialize in certain segments of the market. These include retirement communities with age restrictions, and seasonal communities located in popular vacation destinations (or used as a location for summer homes).
Newer factory-built homes found in today's mobile home parks tend to be built to much higher standards than their predecessors and meet the building codes applicable to most areas. This has led to a reduction in the rate of value depreciation of most used units. Additionally, modern homes tend to be built from materials similar to those used in site-built homes. They're also more likely to physically resemble site-built homes.
Another recent trend within mobile home parks is that the homeowner can own the lot on which their unit is parked. Some of these communities simply provide land, but others are operated more like condominiums. These include club homes complete with swimming pools and meeting rooms that are shared by all the residents, who are required to pay membership fees and dues.
How Do We Help Mobile Home Park Owners?
The Newport Pacific Family of Companies has been providing first-class mobile home park management for over 30 years. Our team is made up of experienced professionals who have the years of experience necessary to operate any mobile home park. Our main goal is to efficiently increase the value of your community. With Newport Pacific as your property management company, we will use our expertise to improve overall operational efficacy, market presence, and client satisfaction — all while increasing property value. As a company, we help businesses with the establishment of an activities program, implementation of online reservation software, and budget preparation.


I am very interested in the fundamentals of engineering and technology. Technology is a part of my life. Learning how technical equipment function is very interesting to me. I have attained the classification as a Gifted and Talented Students within the Compton Unified School District based on my academic performance. I am a part of the Student Council at my wonderful school Ralph J. Bunche Elementary where I hold the position of the G0-Green Ambassador. I am an active member of the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic, where I play the viola. I have received top scores on my progress report. I have also received the Scholastic Achievement trophies and certificates in mathematics, English, language and Arts for 2011-2012 school year. I should be selected to this program because I will do my best. I will SUCCEED. I will also go above and beyond at all times.


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How Women Can Chart Their Own STEM Career
by Lori Thomas
SVP, Strategic Engagement & Transformation, MetTel
Some years ago, our neighbors shared that their daughter, who was attending college at the time, had chosen to major in engineering. As a woman working in technology, I was excited to hear that a young woman I had watched grow up was proactively pursuing a STEM field for her career.
In recent years, there have been concerns about providing enough talent to fulfill the STEM pipeline, with millions of STEM jobs in the U.S. left untaken each year. Part of this can be attributed to the lack of diversity, and thanks to the widespread push for women in STEM, there have been some promising results. For example, Pew Research Center reports that women now make up nearly half of the STEM workforce (48%). However, upon closer inspection, the findings show there is more work to be done. While women are gaining more roles in life sciences and physical sciences, they remain underrepresented in engineering (15%) and computer science (25%) occupations, which have remained relatively flat since 2016.
Several years later, when I asked my neighbors about their daughter's progress, I was told she had left her position in engineering, choosing instead to work in social media management. While I don't know the specifics of why she chose a different career path, this is an all-too common occurrence. Many women like my neighbor start on STEM path, only to drop out and follow other pursuits. Research reveals the reasons why women aren't more widely found in STEM jobs are varied, from a lack of women role models, to social pressures and bias, to an unsupportive work culture to other career preferences.
Interestingly, studies also show that a misconception about careers may also play a part. According to a Microsoft study that surveyed 6,000 women and girls, 72 percent of respondents said "having a job that directly helps the world" is important and 91 percent describe themselves as creative — but just 37 percent said they thought STEM jobs could be creative or help the world. This perception issue may also be one of the easiest to fix. Microsoft reports that after being shown brief descriptions of the real-world accomplishments of engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists, the respondents' perceptions of the career characteristics changed dramatically – with some receiving a 33% positive increase.
This is an issue that I understand on a deep, personal level as a woman who has spent more than 20 years working in tech. I initially pursued a career in sales, as I wanted to work in a collaborative environment, but was always drawn to my passion for technology. As I advanced in my career, I learned how to chart my own path. Aware of the perceptions that STEM careers can often be isolating, I made sure that my position would still offer me the ability to interact and work closely with others. Today, in my role leading MetTel's Strategic Engagement & Transformation efforts, I consider myself a senior IT consultant and executive who works closely with Fortune 500 companies. While I may not write code, every day I use face-to-face interactions with clients to help them understand and strategize how to deal with IT and digital transformation challenges.
Through my two decades of experience, I have found it most rewarding to collaborate and strategize with business leaders to help them identify and meet their technology needs with the best mix of solutions and ecosystem partners. COVID was particularly challenging for our customers because they were faced with multiple, significant negative business impacts at once which no one could have planned for. They needed to accommodate the need for hundreds or thousands of employees to work remotely while maintaining their productivity as well as overall business continuity and ensuring security for employee and corporate data. This was no easy task and it was incredibly satisfying to work side by side with my colleagues and partners to ensure our customer base stayed ahead of the curve.
We brought together the best-of-breed voice, data and collaboration tools, securely, to ensure our clients' employees could effectively work with their customer base. We moved quickly to provide the extra network capacity needed to ensure the best quality of experience possible and to provide the right technological building blocks to support consumer bandwidth-driven applications. I also consulted executives from IT, Finance and Operations to help them understand how they could most effectively and securely move their data to the cloud and transform their legacy — often manual and paper-based — environments for a new flexible and digitized world. Now that we're through the height of the pandemic, the next phase for me is to evaluate their long-term plans and ensure the right solutions and/or modifications are made to enable my customers to scale to meet the needs of the fast-recovering market in this new hybrid-working environment.
If the perfect STEM career for you doesn't exist, consider building your own. Here are a few tips I recommend to women or girls who may be considering a future in STEM:
Explore the range of STEM careers. When many women hear about STEM, they immediately think of computer programmers or scientists. STEM is a broad term, and jobs in these fields similarly provide a variety of roles for many different personality types – not just introverts or for the highly technical. For example, you may consider a role as a consultant, salesperson or an advisor, which deal with technical areas, while being very socially engaging.
Know your strengths. For me, the ability to collaborate with others was non-negotiable in my career. I'm happiest when I'm brainstorming with others, instead of working by myself. Understanding this, I intentionally looked to take on responsibilities where I could do this. Instead of leaving a field where I didn't fit the mold, playing into my strengths has helped differentiate me from others, and enabled me to find a perfectly suited role.
Connect to women in those fields. One of the best ways of understanding whether you'll enjoy a particular career is by speaking to someone who is already doing the work. They can outline the pros and cons of their work, and may be able to suggest an area you hadn't thought of. Moreover, we know from the Microsoft survey that just gaining a better understanding of what women in STEM can accomplish is likely to build greater excitement for that work.
I understand first-hand the incredible personal and professional rewards that come with pursuing a career in STEM. Given the continued expected shortage of STEM talent, there is ample opportunity for a mutually beneficial outcome – one that includes STEM companies recruiting talented women to shape these industries and bring diverse perspectives, and women finding careers that they are passionate about and that support their unique needs and talents.
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Process Development & Control LLC was incorporated in 1970. This privately held company has served multiple global industrial markets as a manufacturer of butterfly damper valves and flow control components for nearly 50 years. Satisfying the global market with offices located in Pittsburgh USA and Beijing China, has given "PDC" a strong and loyal customer base.
The product line offers 2"-60" low leakage cast butterfly valves designed to meet the control needs for the air, gas and water management users. We provide an engineered product that has the capabilities to handle temperatures up to 1500º F. Our computer-aided, three-dimensional engineering design system refines our imaging, drafting and production documentation to ensure the right quality and product integrity. We complement our valves with a wide selection of valve automation to meet the requirements of our end users.
Our manufacturing experience combined with our capacity and equipment allow us to customize the individual characteristics of our valve products. We own more than 300 casting patterns that are supplemented by custom flame cut variations that support our 10 core product segments. These valves are offered with a variety of seating options and mounting bracket designs to serve specific applications.
Our customers are supported by a Marketing and Sales organization that can answer technical questions and assist in application analysis. Complete assembly drawings are available for reference. The fully integrated computer system tracks order entry, purchasing, production, inventory, shipping, billing, and accounting.
PDC serves the needs of broad-based market sectors including the furnace, compressor-blower, gas recovery, gas equipment engine, HVAC, environmental, LNG, and power. PDC valves are increasingly being applied in the "Green" alternative energy markets.
The PDC team is customer focused with the knowledge, technical competence and commitment to be a preferred supplier for cast damper butterfly valve products, associated actuators and control products.


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Sound familiar? It's the same as the others above, only a bit different. Actually I offer seven desirable traits of good project management, before going on to define what is rarely defined elsewhere: a project manager.
My first definition, is by way of a cartoon, in which the plates represent the streams of work we need to keep on target and the balls represent the relationships we need to manage.
My next definition is a little more complimentary describing a project manager as a doer, an organiser, and a succeeder.
I spent a while looking for evidence of patterns among the Big Five personality factors that characterised successful project managers. I reached some weak conclusions only. So, if you are a project manager, I would welcome you completing the following poll, in the hope I can gather some data for a future blog.
This entry was posted in Attitude, How to Manage a Great Project, project management, Project Success and tagged How to Manage a Great Project, project, project definition, project management, Project Management Institute, project manager on 2 December, 2013 by Mike Clayton.


Treat yourself to a homemade vegan Shamrock Shake this St. Patrick's Day! Packed with bananas and spinach, this recipe is a healthy spin on the seasonal favorite.
When I told Dennis that I was working on a vegan Shamrock Shake recipe for my blog, he had no idea what I was talking about. We went vegan sixteen years ago, and we both avoided fast food restaurants before that, so I wasn't surprised that he didn't know what it was. I only knew what it was from hearing coworkers talk about it years ago.
If, like Dennis, you don't know what a Shamrock Shake is, it's simply a green, minty milkshake that's available at a certain fast food chain during the month of March to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. It's not even close to being an Irish dish, so it has nothing to do with the holiday, other than the fact that it's green.
The Shamrock Shake that you'll find available for purchase at that fast food chain is made with vanilla ice cream, cream, high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup, food coloring, and some weird additives that aren't really food. Despite the fact it's now made with "low-fat" ice cream, it's a total calorie bomb and it's full of unhealthy ingredients.
My vegan Shamrock Shake uses vanilla non-dairy milk, frozen bananas, and avocado to mimic the creamy texture and taste of vanilla cows' milk ice cream. The green color comes from fresh baby spinach leaves rather than chemicals. Shamrock Shakes are usually topped with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry, but I topped mine with mint leaves and cacao nibs. Feel free to use fresh cherries and coconut whipped cream, if that strikes your fancy, though.
This Vegan Shamrock Shake is perfect for a light breakfast, it makes a great afternoon pick-me-up, and it's a tasty dessert, as well!
Treat yourself to a vegan Shamrock Shake this St. Patrick's Day! Packed with bananas and spinach, this recipe is a healthy spin on the seasonal favorite.
Mix the milk, bananas, avocado, spinach, and extracts together in a high-speed blender until smooth.
Pour into two glasses and garnish with mint leaves and cacao nibs, if using. Serve cold.
I haven't had a shamrock shake since college! This looks delicious and sooo much healthier than the original!
Oh wow – the color of this beauty is spot on, and I love how much healthier it is than the ones at fast food joints!
Loving this healthy version of a Shamrock Shake! Maybe I can convert my hubby – he loves the fast food ones – ugh!
Thanks, Jenn! I hope he likes it!
I've never had one of those other Shamrock Shakes, but yours looks absolutely delicious!


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Analytical investigation of two different absorption modes: falling film and bubble types
Yong Tae Kang, Atsushi Akisawa, Takao Kashiwagi
The objectives of this paper are to analyze a combined heat and mass transfer for an ammonia-water absorption process, and to carry out the parametric analysis to evaluate the effects of important variables such as heat and mass transfer areas on the absorption rate for two different absorption modes - falling film and bubble modes. A plate heat exchanger with an offset strip fin (OSF) in the coolant side was used to design the falling film and the bubble absorber. It was found that the local absorption rate of the bubble mode was always higher than that of the falling film model leading to about 48.7% smaller size of the heat exchanger than the falling film mode. For the falling film absorption mode, mass transfer resistance was dominant in the liquid flow while both heat and mass transfer resistances were considerable in the vapor flow. For the bubble absorption mode, mass transfer resistance was dominant in the liquid flow while heat transfer resistance was dominant in the vapor region. Heat transfer coefficients had a more significant effect on the heat exchanger size (absorption rate) in the falling film mode than in the bubble mode, while mass transfer coefficients had a more significant effect in the bubble mode than in the falling film mode.
International Journal of Refrigeration
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Mass transfer Engineering & Materials Science 100%
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Tae Kang, Y., Akisawa, A., & Kashiwagi, T. (2000). Analytical investigation of two different absorption modes: falling film and bubble types. International Journal of Refrigeration, 23(6), 430-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-7007(99)00075-4
Analytical investigation of two different absorption modes : falling film and bubble types. / Tae Kang, Yong; Akisawa, Atsushi; Kashiwagi, Takao.
In: International Journal of Refrigeration, Vol. 23, No. 6, 09.2000, p. 430-443.
Tae Kang, Y, Akisawa, A & Kashiwagi, T 2000, 'Analytical investigation of two different absorption modes: falling film and bubble types', International Journal of Refrigeration, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 430-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-7007(99)00075-4
Tae Kang Y, Akisawa A, Kashiwagi T. Analytical investigation of two different absorption modes: falling film and bubble types. International Journal of Refrigeration. 2000 Sep;23(6):430-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-7007(99)00075-4
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Pursell, Archibald Benjamin (1865–1953)
from Sydney Morning Herald
Mr. Archibald B. Pursell, a leading Sydney insurance broker, died in Sydney yesterday, aged 88.
Mr. Pursell founded the brokerage firm of A. B. Pursell and Sons Pty. Ltd. in 1886.
He was a past president of the Sydney Y.M.C.A., and for many years was active in temperance work with the late Archdeacon Hammond.
The funeral will take place on Thursday.
Sydney Morning Herald , 29 July 1953 , p 5 (view original)
Other Obituaries for Archibald Benjamin Pursell
Courier-Mail (Brisbane), 30 July 1953, p 6
business papers, ANU Archives
Pursell, Frank Grenville (son)
Hammond, Robert Brodribb (acquaintance)
'Pursell, Archibald Benjamin (1865–1953)', Obituaries Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/pursell-archibald-benjamin-16267/text28203, accessed 21 January 2022.
Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
insurance executive
temperance advocate
YMCA (Sydney)
A. B. Pursell and Sons Pty Ltd


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Thanh Hoa geared up for National Tourism Year 2015
Northern central Thanh Hoa province is speeding up preparations for "Japan Cultural Days in Thanh Hoa" programme, which is part of a series of events to kick off the 2015 National Tourism Year.
Monday, January 05, 2015 15:28
The programme will be held between January 6 and 9 in Lam Son Theater.
Thanh Hoa was selected to host the National Tourism Year which is expected to help it earn 158.6 million USD from 5 – 5.5 million domestic and foreign travellers this year.
Over the past five years, the locality has been putting great effort to protect its key tourist attractions.
Some 400 billion VND (18.7 million USD) was invested to preserve and maintain over 200 relic sites, including World Cultural Heritage - Citadel of the Ho Dynasty in Vinh Loc district, Lam Kinh National Special Relic in Tho Xuan district, Ham Rong Culture Tourism Area in Thanh Hoa city, Cam Luong god fish stream in Cam Thuy district and Truong Le Mountain ecotourism zone.
The province has not only developed signature tours to its cultural and historical sites as well as local festivals, for instance, Lam Kinh Festival, Sam Son Beach Festival and Ba Trieu Temple Festival, but also cooperated with neighbouring Ninh Binh province to create new tours that link with its partner's popular destinations – Bai Dinh Pagoda and Trang An ecotourism complex.
Vietnam's National Tourism Year 2015 will be launched in March with the theme "Connecting World Heritage".
The event will run throughout the year across Thanh Hoa province and also attract the participation of 15 cities and provinces that house world heritage, such as Hanoi capital and Phu Tho and Quang Ninh provinces.-VNA
Da Lat aims to welcome more than 4 million visitors in 2021
The resort city of Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong aims to welcome more than 4 million visitors, including 150,000 foreigners in 2021, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Tourist arrivals to Hue monuments slump in 2020
Tourists visiting Hue monuments in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue sharply fell to over 1 million last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in revenue of more than 106 billion VND (4.6 million USD), down 72.62 percent year on year.
Vasco resumes flights connecting HCM City – Rach Gia
The Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO), a member of the Vietnam Airlines Corporation, resumes its route between Ho Chi Minh City and Rach Gia on January 18 in a bid to serve rising travel demand for Lunar New Year holiday (Tet).
Launched by Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, the tourism promotion campaign entitled "Vietnam: Travel to Love!" ("Vietnam: Di de Yeu!") was officially deployed on the YouTube digital platform from January 7, 2021.
First Vietnam's vacation exchange platform offers customers a bespoke service
The Vietnam's first vacation exchange platform, VPASS, has been officially launched after a signing ceremony of strategic cooperation between VPASS and partner resorts nationwide.


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A 1961 USSR-DPRK mutual assistance and military cooperation treaty meant that a number of MiG-19S Farmer-C supersonic fighter-bombers were delivered to the DPRKAF. At least 15 MiG-19Ss, and possibly more than twice that number, were delivered. It is possible that further batches of MiG-19s were supplied to North Korea. In 1983, 30 MiG-19s were transferred to Iraq. All aircraft included in this transfer are believed to have been Farmer-Cs, as no Shenyang F-6s had reached North Korea at this juncture. In 1997, 120 MiG-19/Shenyang F-6 reportedly remained in service. It may be presumed that all Russian-built MiG-19s have been withdrawn from service. Also see Shenyang F-6.
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19: The Soviet Union's First Production Supersonic Fighter (Yefim Gordon)
See other operators of the Mikoyan-Gurevitch MiG-19 'Farmer'
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Gerard Butler Regrets Getting High at Pal Barbra Streisand's Concert
Gerard Butler attempted to avoid Barbra Streisand at one of her concerts because he was "so stoned".
The Scottish actor and the music superstar have become firm friends after they were sat next to each other at the Governors Ball following the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010 and discovered they share a mutual interest in architecture.
But even though Gerard is a big fan of Barbra he really didn't want to bump into her at a show, as he hadn't yet responded to an invitation to visit her home, and had consumed a baked good infused with cannabis prior.
"I was at her concert and my friend gave me a bite of a cookie and it turned out it was a little bit of a hash cookie, and I hadn't really eaten hash cookies. I got so stoned," he recalled during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday night (15Jan18).
Gerard then shared how he became red-faced when he ended up coming face to face with the Funny Girl star, as she called him out for his lack of response to her invite.
"So, I ran into her at the concert and I was trying to get away because I don't know what to say because I'm stoned. There's a bunch of people looking at me and she looks at me and says, 'You didn't call.' So, I thought, 'O.K. I'm going to get out of this really brilliantly,' and I said, 'I know'. That was my answer," the 48-year-old laughed.
During his interview, Gerard also discussed his new movie Den of Thieves, which also features Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson. And he explained that he struggles to get a word in edgeways during press tours because 50 Cent loves to chat.
"You don't share the spotlight with 50, it's 50's spotlight. We've been doing a lot of intros and he does love to take the mic and just give it the 50 show. But to be honest, it's been awesome. He's so funny, it's hard to follow that," he added.
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Starcraft Thermycup 2: More than €1000 prize money!!
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In addition to the prize money that can be won by ending up in the top 6 of the competition, there are DSCL points to be earned to qualify for the DSCL at the end of the year!
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Grateful Shred featuring Mad Alchemy Liquid Lights with Garcia Peoples – Tickets – Gypsy Sally's – Washington, DC – February 28th, 2019
Relix and All Good Presents...
Grateful Shred featuring Mad Alchemy Liquid Lights with Garcia Peoples
Garcia Peoples
Thu, February 28, 2019
Ticket sales online end at 5 pm day of show. Tickets available at the door unless listed as sold out.
Grateful Shred
Wait – I know what you're thinking. Another fucking Grateful Dead cover band?
The thing is, Los Angeles-based Grateful Shred manage to channel that elusive Dead vibe: wide-open guitar tones, effortless three-part vocal harmonies, choogling beats, and yes, plenty of tripped out, Shredded solos. The look, the sound, the atmosphere. It's uncanny. "It's more of a 'take' on the Dead than a tribute band," says bassist Dan Horne. "We end up sounding almost more like the Dead because we approach it in this free-spirited way."
Founded one night in 2016, the band came about almost by accident. Singer/guitarist Austin McCutchen had a residency at The Griffin in Atwater Village; his band was out of town, so he drafted some friends to play a set of Dead covers, and the four founding members (Austin, Sam, Clay, and Dan) have been together ever since. Sam Blasucci and Clay Finch (of country-folk revivalists Mapache) handle vocal and guitar duties, rounded out by bassist Dan Horne (of Cass McCombs, Jonathan Wilson, and the estimable Circles Around The Sun, who provided the incidental music for 2015's "Fare Thee Well" concerts, the last shows played by the living members of the Dead ). Add a rotating cast of drummers (like Richard Gowen of he Growler) and keyboardists (like Lee Pardini of Dawes and Jerry Borgé of Ziggy Marley), and you've got the essential formula.
Far from being a historical re-enactment, Grateful Shred's laissez faire vibe infuses the band with a gentle spirit, warmth, and (dare we say it) authenticity. From their killer merch game to their eminently watchable YouTube channel, they're clearly having a rad time and spreading the love. Strangely enough, in a world overflowing with wax museum nostalgia and Deadly sentimentalism, we need the Shred, now more than ever.
US rock band from Rutherford, New Jersey.
Originally a quartet featuring Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki on guitars, Cesar Arakaki on drums, and Derek Spaldo on bass, the group has expanded to a quintet by adding PG Six on keyboards.


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Library Invictus Paired Texts
Paired Texts > Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
9th Grade Interview 1140L
The Destinies of Two Men Who Share One Name
Melissa Block and Michele Norris
In this informational text, the topics of destiny and fate are explored when two men with similar backgrounds and the same name find themselves to be in two very different places in life.
Pair "Invictus" with "The Destinies of Two Men Who Share One Name" and ask students to compare the similar themes of both texts. How does William Ernest Henley's opinion on how one overcomes adversity and forms their identity, compare to Wes Moore's experiences?
BirdBrain History
In the short story "Feudal Japan", a rice farmer explains to his son the class system of Feudal Japan and why he cannot be a samurai.
Pair "Invictus" with "Feudal Japan" and ask students to discuss how one takes charge of their identity. How does the quote "I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul" from "Invictus" apply to the rice farmer's son's dream of becoming a samurai (Lines 15-16)?
8th Grade Non-Fiction 920L
Healing 'Brick City': A Newark Doctor Returns Home
NPR Staff
A physician who overcame a difficult upbringing meditates on the nature of his career and the relationship between medicine and public service.
Pair "Healing 'Brick City': A Newark Doctor Returns Home" with "Invictus" and ask students to think about how the poem represents the ideas discussed by Dr. Davis in the article. How does the form of the poem contribute to its meaning? How does the poem's presentation of the themes of resilience and self-determination mirror the trajectory of Dr. Davis's life, particularly in view of the way in which some of his childhood acquaintances succumbed to the circumstances that defined their upbringing? What enables people to succeed in spite of challenging conditions?
8th Grade Poem
Sea Fever
In John Masefield's poem "Sea Fever," the speaker discusses his desire to return to the sea.
Pair "Invictus" with "Sea Fever" and ask students to discuss how the two poems explore fate. Who controls the speakers' fate in the two texts? How does the reference to captaining a ship in "Invictus" compare to the reference to steering a ship in "Sea Fever?" How do they provide different perspectives on fate?
Nikki Grimes
In Nikki Grimes' poem "Truth," a speaker compares the possibilities of a new day to a storm.
Pair "Invictus" with "Truth" and ask students to discuss how the two speakers approach life. Do they consider themselves in control of their futures? How do the tones of these two poems compare?
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
In Robert Herrick's poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time," the poet urges his audience to "gather ye rosebuds while ye may."
Pair "Invictus" with "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" and ask students to discuss how the two poets' views on fate compare. What degree of control do the poets suggest readers have over their fate? How does one take control of their fate?
7th Grade Folktale 970L
The Keys of Destiny
Neil Philip
"The Keys of Destiny" is the 1001 story from the classic collection One Thousand and One Nights. In this story, a woman tells a king a story about how a man came to be imprisoned due to the greed of others.
Pair "Invictus" with "The Keys of Destiny" and ask students to discuss how both texts explore the notion of fate. How are fate and free will presented in the two texts? How do students think William Ernest Henley would respond to King Shahryar's final sentiments?
To a Mouse
In Robert Burns' poem "To a Mouse," a speaker encounters a mouse as he is plowing a field.
Pair "Invictus" with "To a Mouse" and ask students to discuss the speakers' approaches to life in the two poems. What are the speakers' attitudes toward the difficult things that happen in their lives? How do they approach the future?
9th Grade Short Story 1210L
The Leap
In Louise Erdrich's short story "The Leap," a narrator describes the life and important experiences of their mother, a retired trapeze performer.
Pair "Invictus" with "The Leap" and ask students to discuss how the narrator portrays their mother making decisions and living her life in "The Leap." How does the speaker in "Invictus" describe encountering obstacles? How does this compare to how the narrator's mother faces her problems? Do students think that the narrator's mother would agree with the sentiment "I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul"?


The viewership ratings of Padam Padam… The Sound of His and Her Heartbeats eventually exceeds 2%.
According to AGB Nielsen Media Research on December 20th, 2011, the nationwide rating of episode 5 of Padam Padam broadcast on December 19th, 2011 is 2.151%. The rating is 0.655% higher than 1.496% from the fourth episode.
The ratings of Padam Padam have been easily rated over 1% since debut. Even the rerun of the Padam Padam on the weekend has rated over 1%. The drama has received much attention due to excellent project and acting of actors.
In the episode of the day, Kang Chil kissed Ji Na after confessing his heart to Ji Na. But Ji Na was feeling confused. The change of their relationship in future has drew curiosity of the viewers.
Meanwhile, Channel A drama "Color of Woman" rated 0.610%.


1. A manual unit designed to remove Super Tag and Ultra Gator Series hard tags from merchandise.
2. Tough plastic makes the detacher durable& lightwight, while a lanyard prevents unauthorized removal from store.
3. Provide a channel on the base of the handle that can be used to straighten bent tacks on hard tags.
4. Batteries or electrical power source are not required.


Machinedrum - Human Energy. Vinyl LP, CD. Bleep.
Machinedrum's Travis Stewart finds new spirituality on his first solo album since 2013's Vapor City: Human Energy, which arrives on Ninja Tune like its predecessor, takes inspiration from esoteric and new age concepts. Stepping into his great grandfather's footsteps who was a healer, Stewart explores music's power of invigorating energy. Less dreamy, but more lively than Vapor City, his detailed drum'n'bass-led synth arrangements follow bold, catchy melodies – which he caters for with a long list of contributors. Frequent collaborator Dawn Richard lends her modern voice to the soulful 'Do it 4 U', while Beyonce affiliate MeLo X accounts for the vocal chops on 'Angel Speak', a true banger with its HudMo-like brass sounds.
With its frantic elements, the first single 'Dos Puertos' with Brooklyn rapper and Rihanna collaborator Kevin Hussein recollects Stewart's earlier jungle style, but overall Human Energy has a more digital aesthetic to it. Its beats are accentuated and radiate the Californian sunshine Stewart injected into his production after his recent move there – which also explains some of the healing energy's origin. A fresh and bold record that glimmers in the sun ready to move and energise you.


Playtech's Greek mythology series continues with the Age of the Gods Furious 4 online slot. If you're familiar with the series then you'll know it's connected to Playtech's ever popular progressive jackpot, which is divided between four different prizes. Each game in the series can trigger these random prizes, all you have to do is play. In this case we'll be looking at the Furious 4 slot. Even though it's based on the same concept, the bonus features have a different spin so-to-speak.
The four gods in this slot game are Apollo, Atlas, Hephaestus and Pandora. They are also the high value symbols. The lower value symbols come in the form of high cards. Within the base game there is a huge jackpot that can be won through the Wild symbol, which is a big 4. If you get 5 of the wild symbols on a pay-line you stand to win x100000 times your bet. As for the Scatter symbol, it's represented by a golden throne.
As can be expected from a reputable developer such as Playtech, the graphics are nothing short of breathtaking. The game truly captures the authenticity one would associate with Greek mythology and even the sounds suit the slot perfectly. But the true magic of the game lies in the free spins round.
So you've got the jackpot option in the base game, but it's definitely not the only big money you can win. The bonus feature had been divided into four different Free Spin variations. In order to trigger the free spins round you'll need 3 or more scatter symbols. If you do get 3 or more scatters you'll immediately be rewarded with 12 free spins. However, the game will take a dramatic turn once you land a stack of gods on the third reel. How you'll be rewarded depends on the stacked god.
We've already covered the base game jackpot, but here is a little more info regarding the progressive jackpot that connects all the games in the series. It can only be triggered by random, but if your bets are relatively high then you stand a better chance of landing one of the four. They are divided between Ultimate Power, Super Power, Extra Power and Power. If triggered you'll be taken to a grid with coins. Here you'll choose coins that will reveal symbols. When you get three matching symbols your prize will be awarded accordingly and a win is guaranteed.


Africa's leading entrepreneurship focused philanthropy, Tony Elumelu Foundation, TEF, is set to launch the world's largest digital platform for African entrepreneurs and the African entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Known as TEFConnect, the platform will be unveiled at this year's TEF Forum, taking place on October 25, 2018, at Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.
Harnessing and building on the success of Africa's largest entrepreneurship catalyst, the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Programme, which has attracted over 300,000 African entrepreneurs as applicants and trained and funded 4,460 to date, the Foundation is further democratising access to opportunity. TEFConnect is an open source platform, which will provide bespoke tools and content to catalyse business development for millions across the continent, through technology and directly applicable content.
The Founder of TEF, Tony O. Elumelu, also stated: "In the four years, since the launch of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, we have shown that entrepreneurship can change a continent – we have invested in people and processes. We have already helped create business successes and brought policy makers into the entrepreneurial dynamic. But in many ways, we are scratching the surface. This year we are broadening our scope, taking the conversation to where interaction is increasingly occurring – the digital realm. By connecting African entrepreneurs globally on TEFConnect, we are further unleashing the true potential of our entrepreneurs and transforming the continent".
The 4th TEF Forum will convene Africa's entrepreneurial ecosystem, including the broad investor community, government and policymakers, leading developmental organisations, private sector representatives, the media and partners.
This year's Forum will also feature an interactive dialogue between the President of Ghana, HE Nana Akufo-Addo and President of Kenya, HE Uhuru Kenyatta, moderated by TEF Founder, Tony Elumelu.


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ip_range_pods_name = attribute('ip_range_pods_name')
ip_range_services_name = attribute('ip_range_services_name')

control "subnet" do
  title "gcp subnetwork configuration"
  describe command("gcloud compute networks subnets describe #{subnet_name} --project=#{project_id} --region=#{region} --format=json") do
    its(:exit_status) { should eq 0 }
    its(:stderr) { should eq '' }

    let!(:data) do
      if subject.exit_status == 0
        JSON.parse(subject.stdout)
      else
        {}
      end
    end

    it "#should have the correct secondaryIpRanges configuration for #{ip_range_pods_name}" do
      expect(data["secondaryIpRanges"][0]).to include(
        "rangeName"   => ip_range_pods_name,
        "ipCidrRange" => "192.168.0.0/18"
      )
    end

    it "#should have the correct secondaryIpRanges configuration for #{ip_range_services_name}" do
      expect(data["secondaryIpRanges"][1]).to include(
        "rangeName"   => ip_range_services_name,
        "ipCidrRange" => "192.168.64.0/18"
      )
    end

  end
end


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The U.S. State Department issued a warning on the risks of traveling to Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Department of State urges U.S. citizens to remain mindful of security factors when planning travel to Israel and the West Bank and to avoid all travel to the Gaza Strip, which is under the control of Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization. American citizens in Gaza are advised to depart immediately.
The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt allows for some passenger travel, though coordination with local authorities is required and could take days or weeks to process. Travelers who enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing from Egypt must also exit through the Rafah crossing. The Israeli authorities do not permit such travelers to exit through the Erez crossing into Israel except in situations of extreme humanitarian need. Travelers entering the Gaza Strip may not be able to depart at a time of their choosing. Delays of days or weeks are common. U.S. citizens should be aware that as a consequence of a longstanding prohibition on travel by U.S. citizen employees of the U.S. government into the Gaza Strip, the ability of consular staff to offer timely assistance to U.S. citizens there is extremely limited, including the provision of routine consular services.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) strictly controls the crossing points between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The security environment within Gaza, including its border with Egypt and its seacoast, is dangerous and volatile. U.S. citizens are advised against traveling to Gaza by any means, including via sea. Previous attempts to enter Gaza by sea have been stopped by Israeli naval vessels and resulted in the injury, death, arrest and deportation of U.S. citizens. U.S. citizens participating in any effort to reach Gaza by sea should understand that they may face arrest, prosecution, deportation and the confiscation of their personal items by the government of Israel. The government of Israel has announced its intention to seek 10-year travel bans to Israel for anyone participating in an attempt to enter Gaza by sea. On May 31, 2010, nine people were killed, including one U.S. citizen, in such an attempt. The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem are not able to provide consular assistance in Gaza or on the high seas or coastal waters.
Small clashes continue to occur along the boundary of the Gaza Strip. Rockets and mortars are still fired into Israel from Gaza, and Israel continues to conduct military operations inside Gaza, including air strikes. Israel has also declared an exclusion zone inside Gaza along its boundary with Israel and has taken lethal measures against individuals who enter it. Israeli authorities have maintained a heightened state of alert along Israel's border with Egypt since an Aug. 18, 2011, terrorist attack that killed eight and injured nearly 40 along Route 12 north of Eilat. As a result of the heightened threat in the area, U.S. government personnel must notify the Regional Security Office if they plan to travel south of Be'er Sheva.
The Department of State also urges U.S. citizens to exercise caution when traveling to the West Bank. Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces are now deployed in all major cities and other limited areas within the West Bank. As a result, violence in recent years has decreased markedly throughout the West Bank. Nonetheless, demonstrations and violent incidents can occur without warning. Vehicles have also been the target of rocks, Molotov cocktails, and gunfire on West Bank roads.
The IDF continues to carry out security operations in the West Bank. Israeli security operations, including incursions in Palestinian population centers, can occur at any time and lead to disturbances and violence. U.S. citizens can be caught in the middle of potentially dangerous situations. Some U.S. citizens involved in demonstrations in the West Bank have sustained serious injuries in confrontations with Israeli security forces. The Department of State recommends that U.S. citizens, for their own safety, avoid demonstrations.
The Department of State also urges U.S. citizens to remain vigilant while traveling throughout Jerusalem, including in commercial and downtown areas of West Jerusalem. Spontaneous or planned protests within the Old City are possible, especially after Friday prayers. Some of these protests have led to violent clashes. Travelers should exercise caution at religious sites on holy days, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Isolated street protests and demonstrations can also occur in areas of East Jerusalem, including around Salah Ed-Din Street, Damascus Gate, Silwan and the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. U.S. government employees are prohibited from entering the Old City on Fridays during the month of Ramadan due to overall congestion and security-related access restrictions. U.S. citizen employees of the U.S. Embassy and Consulate General and their families are prohibited from using public transportation networks, including buses and light rail services, and their associated terminals.
Israeli authorities remain concerned about the continuing threat of terrorist attacks. U.S. citizens are cautioned that a greater danger may exist around restaurants, businesses and other places associated with U.S. interests and/or located near U.S. official buildings, such as the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem. U.S. citizens are also urged to exercise a high degree of caution and to use common sense when patronizing restaurants, nightclubs, cafes, malls, places of worship, and theaters, especially during peak hours. Large crowds and public gatherings have been targeted by terrorists in the past and should be avoided to the extent practicable. U.S. government personnel have been directed to avoid protests and demonstrations and urged to maintain a high level of vigilance and situational awareness at all times. U.S. citizens should take into consideration that public buses and their respective terminals are off-limits to U.S. government personnel.
Since December 2009, two U.S. citizens have been murdered in separate incidents while walking in the woods in the Beit Shemesh area near Jerusalem. Israeli authorities characterized the murders as terrorist attacks. A bomb blast near the Central Bus Terminal in Jerusalem on March 23, 2011, injured several U.S. citizens. There are live land mines in many areas of the Golan Heights, so visitors should walk only on established roads or trails. Near the northern border of Israel, rocket attacks from Lebanese territory can and have occurred without warning. A terrorist attack on two commercial buses and two private vehicles on Route 12 north of Eilat killed eight and injured nearly 40 on Aug. 18, 2011.


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DJ Qualls Beat Up by Cop 'For No Reason'
By Larry Putzgerald September 26, 2011
DJ Qualls, the shy virgin from such films as Road Trip and The New Guy and who's not really a DJ, tweeted over the weekend that he had his ass kicked by a Vancouver police officer in an unprovoked attack. "Before it hit the news, just gout out of the ER, Was beaten by a Vancouver Police Officer for no reason. Got stitches and released," Qualls wrote.
In Vancouver filming an episode of Supernatural, Qualls explained that he witnessed a fight and tried to point out a man who hit a woman. He told the cop but "He said if I didn't get out of there, he's arrest me, I asked why and he tackled me, busted my face and handcuffed me. Then taunted me for 1/2hr b4 the ambulance came. I was held, no calls, no attorney. AND I had to pay an $800 ER bill. Free healthcare, Canada?"
According to Qualls, he told the cop he was an actor in town doing a shoot. Turns out the cop didn't care. "Was not arrested b/c was innocent. I was handcuffed and bleeding while the cop kept saying to me, "you think youre fucking better than me?" Well, ya, but just a little.
Qualls eventually got his badge number and name, which he's since tweeted. A spokesperson for the police department told the Vancouver Sun, "Obviously we're aware of the complaint that he's made via the media and we've reached out to him. Despite not hearing from him we've proactively started an investigation." A complaint wasn't filed because the department was closed for the weekend, says Qualls. He did manage to film his ep of Supernatural.
In the officer's defense, DJ Qualls looks nothing like an actor so how was he supposed to know not to beat his ass? Maybe next time start out with, "You may recognize me from such films as…" People love hearing how famous you are.
#dj qualls
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Wednesday 22nd Oct (London) - The CCAA meeting with Owners, HVRC, Newfound and the Court Monitor was very well attended with approx 150-170 people!
1. "... shambolic way HVR was run ... I've never seen anything like it ... on behalf of the new management, we're sorry!"
2. The sale of Strawberry Hill got just one offer. There was shock at the value offered, ("significantly less than $1M")!!
5. The Plan (all of which requires a lot more detail, and then approval) includes making the resort infrastructure part of Pasadena, to bring in an hotel operator to build in the driving range area, and to develop the Phase2 expansion area (another golf course and 2nd hotel) with some profit to be returned to a creditors pool.
6. The importance of the agreement to The Plan, of all stakeholders including the provincial government.
7. The Plan will be voted on by the end of Dec-08, however Newfound & Aglio will not vote.
As always "The devil is in the detail" ... however we now know a lot more than before, and the options for the future. There are many people hurting right now, and there are a large number of issues to work through - but now are we seeing a light at the end of the tunnel? ... or is someone just shining a torch in our face? Only time & detail will tell !!!
The resort was looking for extension through to 5th Dec-08 ... which with various caveats ... was granted. There was various debate about the salaries (and extra payments) made to staff that have retained their positions. The punchline being, they keep their pay and agreed extra payments.
Maxim were providers of golfing equipment to the resort, and had an amazing $900k of kit on resort, which they are trying to recover - to no effect as far as the Honourable Justice Robert Hall was concerned! They will have to wait like the rest of us!
The punchline of the session, though with several specific statements and actions, did actually give Humber Valley Resort Corporation (and the other HVR companies) an extension through to 5th December 2008.
Now the HVRC (the resort) needs to present their "plan" ... and get all creditors to accept it.
ALL the key players are in London on Wednesday 22nd and Dublin on 23rd for a presentation by the CCAA Monitor, Derrick White and Jayne McGiven ... (see you there?) ... of the plan and the future ... It would be fair to say the week ahead - is ULTRA IMPORTANT to the future of the resort!
More after the London meeting!
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Credit crunch ... and the wife?
"This is worse than divorce.
I've lost half my net worth, and I still have a wife!"
So what is the impact of the credit crunch on Humber Valley Resort?
So Strawberry Hill was for sale - not for sale - and then for sale again. Originally on for $6.7M CAD in March-08, Strawberry Hill resort was offered by tender as part of the CCAA process.
The tender period closed this week ... so we now have to wait and see what happens next. However the strong rumours are that atleast two parties were actively interested.


We are purchasing an ex council house to let and would like to turn it into a HMO. We have been in touch with the council to get the restrictive covenant varied and they have come back with a price including legal fees. How does the process work when purchasing with a mortgage. I am assuming the lender will want the deeds changed before lending. What happens if we get this changed and the sale falls through? Also does the conveyancing solicitors have to do any work for this process?
The solicitors acting for you will not only need to liaise with the seller's solicitors but also the council's solicitors with regards to the removal of the covenant. You should check if the house in an area where article 4 direction has been made preventing HMOs, your local search by your solicitors will identify this.
The sale is not legally binding until exchange of contracts so this will need to be taken into account when liaising with the council and I'd suggest that nothing is completed with the council until exchange, and then completion can be set once the deed has been completed with the council to enable the lenders requirements to be satisfied.
Your conveyancer will probably charge an extra fee for this work.


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This beautiful new leatherbound edition of the Dragonlance Chronicles saga marks the first time this story has ever been available for purchase in a premium format. A leather, embossed cover and gilt-edged pages bring a new level of sophistication to the three titles collected inside: Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning. This annotated edition will display beautifully on any shelf and marks the Chronicles trilogy as one of the true classics in fantasy literature.
The Companions are back! In an untold story from the War of the Lance, the companions have saved the refugees of Pax Tharkas and led them to a hidden valley. For a time, they are safe, but the forces of the Dragon Army are in pursuit. As Tanis and Flint seek out a haven in the dwarven kingdom of Thorbardin, the rest of the companions face their own challenges. Raistlin is strangely drawn to the haunted fortress known as Skullcap. Sturm seeks the legendary Hammer of Kharas, the forging tool of the fabled dragonlances, while Tika Waylan must make a perilous journey to rescue those she loves from certain death.
Following on from the excellent Anotated Chronicles, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have revisited the Legends trilogy, compiling notes, comentary, and original source material, and adding their observations to a new volume which is a must-have for serious Dragonlance fans.
Wizards of the Coast have released a beautiful new boxed set of the complete Dragonlance Legends series: Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins. A must for any serious Dragonlance fan.
This book features artwork from Dragonlance novels, games, calendars, and other materials created over the past ten years. With pieces from artists such as Brom, Matt Stawicki, Mark Zug, Todd Lockwood, Larry Elmore, and more, this collection highlights some of the best fantasy art published over the last decade.
Weis & Hickman's epic War of the Souls trilogy is now complete, and the face of Krynn will never be the same again.
The Dragonlance Chronicles, to roots of where it all started. These new editions of the classic novels have wonderful new cover art. Amazon says think of these "... as A New Hope for the world of Dragonlance: Sure, maybe it's a little rough around the edges, maybe it's got one cliché too many, but this baby is pure magic."
This sequel to Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home contains all new material about Krynn during the Fifth Age, edited and collected by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. More Leaves from the Inn of the Last Home compiles songs, poems, gnomish machines, and kender taunts. It details mythic people, scary monsters, legendary places, plus recipes and a Krynn almanac.
The beginning of the epic story that has won the hearts of more than sixteen million readers worldwide. Now Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have added to Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night and Dragons of Spring Dawn notes, commentary, and original source material and offer observations of the fifteen-year phenomenon that is the Dragonlance saga.
Finally one of the most popular Dragonlance source books is being reprinted. All of the Dragonlance artists discuss their work and the world of Krynn. The artwork is nothing short of amazing. Forward by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman.
The original Dragonlance AD&D modules (DL1-15) are re-released in this marvelous volume, which Tracy Hickman calls "... a remarkable, fresh and lovingly crafted retelling of the original adventure game."


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Ewert and The Two Dragons is an Estonian indie-rock band whose line-up consists of vocalist Ewert Sundja, guitarist Erki Pärnoja, drummer Kristjan Kallas, and bassist Ivo Etti.
Their distinctive name came from a movie that Sundja was a fan of and although the name states that there are three people in the group, the band describes "one of the dragons to have two heads". The group members are friends who dreamed of rock stardom from an early age, while listening to and being influenced by the likes of Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, The Police, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Blur and others. Ewert Sundja, Erki Pärnoja and Kristjan Kallas first started playing together in 2008 and in 2009 recorded their debut album The Hills Behind The Hills over three days at the summer cottage of Ewert Sundja's in-laws in Estonia. Soon afterwards the bassist Ivo Etti joined the band and the follow-up album Good Man Down followed in 2011. The band quickly gained recognition, first in Estonia and Latvia, and futhermore in Finland, Netherlands and France.
The Dragons recently embarked on a European tour, which has taken them to woo the audiences in Finland, Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany and Britain. In Germany they played at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, while in the UK they dominated the stage this week at the Borderline in London – a venue which has played a host to Amy Winehouse, Belle & Sebastian and Pulp among others in the past. Futher concerts will take Ewert and the Two Dragons to Toronto in Canada and Denver, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Washington, New York and Los Angeles in the US.


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Tax incentives for 'wealthy' self-employed should be cut, says think-tank
The government should reduce the tax incentive for people to become self-employed, a think-tank has said.
The Resolution Foundation said the rapid rise in self-employment in recent years has been driven by those in higher-paying, privileged sectors such as advertising and banking, who want to take advantage of tax perks, rather than by those participating in the 'gig economy'.
It argues the government should reduce the incentive for people to be self-employed "given the risks to the public finances, to productivity and to those that may not want such precarious work".
Self-employed workers in higher paid sectors have benefitted from considerable tax advantages over employees with the think-tank calculating that a high-earning self-employed worker costing a firm £100,000 enjoys more than a £7,000 tax advantage over a similarly expensive employee.
National Insurance contributions
The Resolution Foundation said that one of the key reasons behind the tax advantages enjoyed by the self-employed is their exemption from employer National Insurance contributions.
It shows that lower National Insurance contributions by and for the self-employed are set to cost the Treasury more than £6bn a year by 2020, a 20% increase on its current cost. Nearly 60% of that tax benefit goes to the 'privileged' sectors.
The think tank said the significant revenues raised from narrowing the gap in the tax treatment of employees and the self-employed could be used to target support at lower income households.
Adam Corlett, economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: "Rising self-employment has been the biggest jobs story of the last decade, accounting for almost half of all employment growth since the financial crisis.
"This growth has been controversial at times, with several companies finding themselves in court as workers try to address the insecurity that often comes with self-employment.
"But behind the headlines the real recent growth area for the self-employed has been in lucrative sectors such as advertising and banking. This rise is driven in part by a very favourable tax treatment worth thousands of pounds a year to higher earners – just one element of which is set to cost the Treasury £6bn a year by the end of the parliament."
Corlett said with the number of self-employed workers approaching five million, the challenges it brings need to be addressed.
"This should include more security for workers at the bottom end of the market, but reforms should also reduce the unfair tax advantages that the wealthy self-employed particularly benefit from," he said.
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Anyone who runs a web server with database intensive web sites and applications knows how hard it can be to tame this beast and end up with just the right MySQL configuration for your circumstances. This is especially true if you're not a full time Linux server administrator, or a database expert, but do run your own web sites on your own server.
There are many variables to consider each of which can have an effect on your database performance. A badly configured database server can often be the number one performance bottleneck on your system.
For a long time you had two basic options. First is to hire an expert to take a look at your configuration and help you tailor it to your needs and circumstances, which is a combination of your available resources, the types of sites you run, the traffic you get, the number of databases and their tables, and so on.
The second is to continuously tweak and test until you reach the optimal configuration. There are some tuning scripts that can help you with that, like MySQLTuner-perl, but they aren't perfect and they are only effective after you've had your MySQL running and under typical load for a while.
However, there are a couple of relatively quick and easy things you can do to significantly optimize your database performance. One is to switch to a MySQL compatible drop-in replacement like MariaDB and Percona Server, and the other is to use the Percona Configuration Wizard for MySQL to produce what is likely to be the most optimal configuration that you can get without spending a lot of time tweaking and testing.
Since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and with it MySQL (originally an independent company) the MySQL community, including some of its original developers, worried about the direction Oracle will take with it, and whether it will preserve its open source licensing. This led to the founding of MariaDB by the same developer who founded the original MySQL. MariaDB is meant to be a fully API compatible drop-in replacement while adding some important enhancement.
Since then many server administrators switched to MariaDB motivated both by its arguably more trustworthy stewardship and its enhancements. MariaDB contains more storange engines, a number of additional features, and most importantly performance improvements.
Percona was founded in 2006 by two MySQL support engineers to offer MySQL consulting services. They maintain the MySQL Performance Blog that is chok full of very useful insights and benchmarks. They offer their own fork of MySQL called the Percona Server which is basically MySQL Community Edition with their own optimizations added and including their XtraDB storage engine.
Both MariaDB and Percona Server will likely offer greater performance than stock MySQL, and both are fully compatible with MySQL so you can easily switch to either. Probably the main differences between them is that Percona Server is more focused on improving InnoDB table performance whereas MariaDB makes improvements to both InnoDB and InnoDB tables. MariaDB also includes XtraDB storage engine from Percona so it might be the best bet for most people who don't have the needs that specifically match what Percona is focusing on.
Installing MariaDB is pretty easy. Some Linux distributions are even starting to include it by default. Otherwise you can use the MariaDB Repositories tool to get all the instructions you need to get it installed. Once you have it just restarting your MySQL server will be all you need to start using MariaDB.
Getting Percona Server is similarly simple. Check the Percona Software Repositories page for information and links to how to get the repository added and install Percona Server. Alternatively you can go to Percona Downloads, click the Download button on the latest version and choose your distribution. Then you can download and install each package.
Now that you've got a speedier version of MySQL you can use The Percona Configuration Wizard to help you create the most optimal configuration.
It is a great and elegant tool that will ask you some key questions about your server resources, workload, use cases and so on. Based on the information you provide it will generate an optimal my.cnf configuration file that you can simply copy to your server, besides any custom modifications you might have (like directory paths). The configuration values it generates are tuned to your specific needs while utilizing the Percona's well acclaimed best practices.
The configuration file it generates is very elegant and easy to read, and will probably be way better than whatever you ended up with after endless customizing and testing of your own configuration.
It's possible that some of the questions it asks will mention concepts you might not be familiar with, but it briefly explains each of them in a relatively easy to understand way.
To get your configuration file you will need to register, but that has the benefit of saving the generated configuration for future reference.
And that's the fastest and easiest way to fix up your database server performance. A better more optimized version of MySQL + a clean, optimized, and tailored configuration file generated in accordance to best practices and expertise.


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