We have developed a simple process which allows you to purchase items that have 0% finance available (terms and conditions apply) on them. There are no forms to complete and the whole process is online.
How long does the decision process take?
Once submitted a decision is normally returned within 30 seconds. Completing the online form only takes a few minutes and there is no printing, scanning or physical forms - the whole process is online. Customers are taken through a simple online application form and are guided clearly through the pre-contract explanation before digitally signing the application with 'eSignature'.
You will receive a link to pay your deposit through the secure online payment system once you have approved for finance. Payment of your deposit triggers our warehouse team to prepare your order.
How do I start a new second application?
You will need to start a fresh application with a new email ID as your application is linked to your email ID.
What do I do if I make an error on the application?
All applications stay in the Omni portal for compliance reasons and cannot be deleted. You will need to start a fresh application with a new email ID (as your application is linked to your email ID).
Can I change my deposit once I have started my application?
No. Please be sure to use the finance calculator to develop a payment plan that is affordable and works for you. You will be prompted for the deposit amount and the length of finance when you start the application. This cannot be changed one you start the process.
Can I add extra items to my order?
Yes, but this must be done in advance of the credit application. For your information, the finance is available when an item (sewing machine or furniture) which is included in our pre-approved finance list is in your basket. The finance will then be available on the whole basket. We cannot add items after your application is approved so please be careful to get this right from outset.
When will my machine be dispatched?
We always try and dispatch machines on the same day that the deposit is paid (if this happens before 2pm). Sometimes, this can take 24 / 72 hours.
I have no email order confirmation from GUR?
Call us on 0121 359 5335 if you have any issues at any stage. Contact the number on the Omni application if you need any help or support through your application.
How do I settle my account early?
Yes - you call Omni capital directly to make early payment for your purchase. There are no penalties for early payment.


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const QStringList BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::types = {
    "hkbStateMachine",
    "hkbManualSelectorGenerator",
    "hkbBlenderGenerator",
    "BSiStateTaggingGenerator",
    "BSBoneSwitchGenerator",
    "BSCyclicBlendTransitionGenerator",
    "BSSynchronizedClipGenerator",
    "hkbModifierGenerator",
    "BSOffsetAnimationGenerator",
    "hkbPoseMatchingGenerator",
    "hkbClipGenerator",
    "hkbBehaviorReferenceGenerator",
    "BGSGamebryoSequenceGenerator"
};

const QStringList BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::headerLabels = {
    "Name",
    "Type",
    "Bound Variable",
    "Value"
};

BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI()
    : behaviorView(nullptr),
      bsData(nullptr),
      groupBox(new QGroupBox("BSBoneSwitchGenerator")),
      childUI(new BSBoneSwitchGeneratorBoneDataUI),
      topLyt(new QGridLayout),
      typeSelectorCB(new ComboBox),
      table(new TableWidget(QColor(Qt::white))),
      name(new LineEdit)
{
    table->setAcceptDrops(true);
    table->viewport()->setAcceptDrops(true);
    table->setDragDropOverwriteMode(true);
    table->setDropIndicatorShown(true);
    table->setDragDropMode(QAbstractItemView::InternalMove);
    table->setRowSwapRange(BASE_NUMBER_OF_ROWS);
    typeSelectorCB->insertItems(0, types);
    table->setRowCount(BASE_NUMBER_OF_ROWS);
    table->setColumnCount(headerLabels.size());
    table->setHorizontalHeaderLabels(headerLabels);
    table->setItem(NAME_ROW, NAME_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("name"));
    table->setItem(NAME_ROW, TYPE_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("hkStringPtr", Qt::AlignCenter));
    table->setItem(NAME_ROW, BINDING_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("N/A", Qt::AlignCenter));
    table->setCellWidget(NAME_ROW, VALUE_COLUMN, name);
    table->setItem(DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW, NAME_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("pDefaultGenerator"));
    table->setItem(DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW, TYPE_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("hkbGenerator", Qt::AlignCenter));
    table->setItem(DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW, BINDING_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("N/A", Qt::AlignCenter));
    table->setItem(DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW, VALUE_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("NONE", Qt::AlignCenter, QColor(Qt::lightGray), QBrush(Qt::black), VIEW_GENERATORS_TABLE_TIP));
    table->setItem(ADD_CHILD_ROW, NAME_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("Add Bone Data With Generator", Qt::AlignCenter, QColor(Qt::green), QBrush(Qt::black), "Double click to add a new bone switch generator bone data with a generator of the type specified in the adjacent combo box"));
    table->setCellWidget(ADD_CHILD_ROW, TYPE_COLUMN, typeSelectorCB);
    table->setItem(ADD_CHILD_ROW, BINDING_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("Remove Selected Bone Data", Qt::AlignCenter, QColor(Qt::gray), QBrush(Qt::black), "Double click to remove the selected bone switch generator bone data"));
    table->setItem(ADD_CHILD_ROW, VALUE_COLUMN, new TableWidgetItem("Edit Selected Bone Data", Qt::AlignCenter, QColor(Qt::gray), QBrush(Qt::black), "Double click to edit the selected bone switch generator bone data"));
    topLyt->addWidget(table, 1, 0, 8, 3);
    groupBox->setLayout(topLyt);
    //Order here must correspond with the ACTIVE_WIDGET Enumerated type!!!
    addWidget(groupBox);
    addWidget(childUI);
    childUI->returnPB->setVisible(true);
    toggleSignals(true);
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::toggleSignals(bool toggleconnections){
    if (toggleconnections){
        connect(name, SIGNAL(textEdited(QString)), this, SLOT(setName(QString)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(table, SIGNAL(cellDoubleClicked(int,int)), this, SLOT(viewSelectedChild(int,int)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(table, SIGNAL(itemDropped(int,int)), this, SLOT(swapGeneratorIndices(int,int)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(childUI, SIGNAL(returnToParent(bool)), this, SLOT(returnToWidget(bool)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(childUI, SIGNAL(viewVariables(int,QString,QStringList)), this, SIGNAL(viewVariables(int,QString,QStringList)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(childUI, SIGNAL(viewProperties(int,QString,QStringList)), this, SIGNAL(viewProperties(int,QString,QStringList)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(childUI, SIGNAL(viewGenerators(int,QString,QStringList)), this, SIGNAL(viewGenerators(int,QString,QStringList)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
    }else{
        disconnect(name, SIGNAL(textEdited(QString)), this, SLOT(setName(QString)));
        disconnect(table, SIGNAL(cellDoubleClicked(int,int)), this, SLOT(viewSelectedChild(int,int)));
        disconnect(table, SIGNAL(itemDropped(int,int)), this, SLOT(swapGeneratorIndices(int,int)));
        disconnect(childUI, SIGNAL(returnToParent(bool)), this, SLOT(returnToWidget(bool)));
        disconnect(childUI, SIGNAL(viewVariables(int,QString,QStringList)), this, SIGNAL(viewVariables(int,QString,QStringList)));
        disconnect(childUI, SIGNAL(viewProperties(int,QString,QStringList)), this, SIGNAL(viewProperties(int,QString,QStringList)));
        disconnect(childUI, SIGNAL(viewGenerators(int,QString,QStringList)), this, SIGNAL(viewGenerators(int,QString,QStringList)));
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::loadData(HkxObject *data){
    toggleSignals(false);
    setCurrentIndex(MAIN_WIDGET);
    if (data){
        if (data->getSignature() == BS_BONE_SWITCH_GENERATOR){
            bsData = static_cast<BSBoneSwitchGenerator *>(data);
            name->setText(bsData->getName());
            table->item(DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW, VALUE_COLUMN)->setText(bsData->getDefaultGeneratorName());
            loadDynamicTableRows();
        }else{
            LogFile::writeToLog(QString("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::loadData(): The data passed to the UI is the wrong type!\nSIGNATURE: "+QString::number(data->getSignature(), 16)).toLocal8Bit().data());
        }
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::loadData(): Attempting to load a null pointer!!");
    }
    toggleSignals(true);
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::loadDynamicTableRows(){
    if (bsData){
        auto temp = ADD_CHILD_ROW + bsData->ChildrenA.size() + 1;
        (table->rowCount() != temp) ? table->setRowCount(temp) : NULL;
        BSBoneSwitchGeneratorBoneData *child = nullptr;
        for (auto i = ADD_CHILD_ROW + 1, j = 0; j < bsData->ChildrenA.size(); i++, j++){
            child = static_cast<BSBoneSwitchGeneratorBoneData *>(bsData->ChildrenA.at(j).data());
            if (child){
                UIHelper::setRowItems(i, "Bone Data "+QString::number(j), child->getClassname(), "Remove", "Edit", "Double click to remove this bone data", "Double click to edit this bone data", table);
            }else{
                LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::loadData(): Null bone data found!!!");
            }
        }
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::loadDynamicTableRows(): The data is nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::setName(const QString &newname){
    if (bsData){
        bsData->setName(newname);
        bsData->updateIconNames();
        bsData->updateChildIconNames();
        emit generatorNameChanged(bsData->getName(), static_cast<BehaviorFile *>(bsData->getParentFile())->getIndexOfGenerator(bsData));
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::setName(): The data is nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::swapGeneratorIndices(int index1, int index2){
    if (bsData){
        index1 = index1 - BASE_NUMBER_OF_ROWS;
        index2 = index2 - BASE_NUMBER_OF_ROWS;
        if (!bsData->swapChildren(index1, index2)){
            WARNING_MESSAGE("Cannot swap these rows!!");
        }
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::swapGeneratorIndices(): The data is nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::addChildWithGenerator(){
    Generator_Type typeEnum;
    if (bsData && behaviorView){
        typeEnum = static_cast<Generator_Type>(typeSelectorCB->currentIndex());
        behaviorView->appendBoneSwitchGeneratorChild();
        switch (typeEnum){
        case STATE_MACHINE:
            behaviorView->appendStateMachine(); break;
        case MANUAL_SELECTOR_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendManualSelectorGenerator(); break;
        case BLENDER_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendBlenderGenerator(); break;
        case I_STATE_TAGGING_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendIStateTaggingGenerator(); break;
        case BONE_SWITCH_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendBoneSwitchGenerator(); break;
        case CYCLIC_BLEND_TRANSITION_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendCyclicBlendTransitionGenerator(); break;
        case SYNCHRONIZED_CLIP_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendSynchronizedClipGenerator(); break;
        case MODIFIER_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendModifierGenerator(); break;
        case OFFSET_ANIMATION_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendOffsetAnimationGenerator(); break;
        case POSE_MATCHING_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendPoseMatchingGenerator(); break;
        case CLIP_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendClipGenerator(); break;
        case BEHAVIOR_REFERENCE_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendBehaviorReferenceGenerator(); break;
        case GAMEBYRO_SEQUENCE_GENERATOR:
            behaviorView->appendBGSGamebryoSequenceGenerator(); break;
        default:
            LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::addChild(): Invalid typeEnum!!");
            return;
        }
        loadDynamicTableRows();
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::addChild(): The data is nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::removeChild(int index){
    BSBoneSwitchGeneratorBoneData *child = nullptr;
    if (bsData && behaviorView){
        if (index < bsData->ChildrenA.size() && index >= 0){
            child = static_cast<BSBoneSwitchGeneratorBoneData *>(bsData->ChildrenA.at(index).data());
            behaviorView->removeItemFromGraph(behaviorView->getSelectedIconsChildIcon(child->getChildren().first()), index);
            behaviorView->removeObjects();
        }else{
            WARNING_MESSAGE("Invalid index of child to remove!!");
        }
        loadDynamicTableRows();
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::removeChild(): The data is nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::viewSelectedChild(int row, int column){
    if (bsData){
        if (row == DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW && column == VALUE_COLUMN){
            QStringList list = {hkbStateMachineStateInfo::getClassname(), hkbBlenderGeneratorChild::getClassname(), BSBoneSwitchGeneratorBoneData::getClassname()};
            emit viewGenerators(bsData->getIndexOfGenerator(bsData->pDefaultGenerator) + 1, QString(), list);
        }else if (row == ADD_CHILD_ROW && column == NAME_COLUMN){
            addChildWithGenerator();
        }else if (row > ADD_CHILD_ROW && row < ADD_CHILD_ROW + bsData->ChildrenA.size() + 1){
            auto result = row - BASE_NUMBER_OF_ROWS;
            if (bsData->ChildrenA.size() > result && result >= 0){
                if (column == VALUE_COLUMN){
                    childUI->loadData(static_cast<BSBoneSwitchGeneratorBoneData *>(bsData->ChildrenA.at(result).data()), result);
                    setCurrentIndex(CHILD_WIDGET);
                }else if (column == BINDING_COLUMN){
                    if (MainWindow::yesNoDialogue("Are you sure you want to remove the bone data \""+table->item(row, NAME_COLUMN)->text()+"\"?") == QMessageBox::Yes){
                        removeChild(result);
                    }
                }
            }else{
                LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::viewSelectedChild(): Invalid index of bone data to view!!");
            }
        }
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::viewSelectedChild(): The data is nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::setDefaultGenerator(int index, const QString & name){
    UIHelper::setGenerator(index, name, bsData, static_cast<hkbGenerator *>(bsData->pDefaultGenerator.data()), NULL_SIGNATURE, HkxObject::TYPE_GENERATOR, table, behaviorView, DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW, VALUE_COLUMN);
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::returnToWidget(bool reloadData){
    (reloadData) ? loadDynamicTableRows() : NULL;
    setCurrentIndex(MAIN_WIDGET);
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::variableTableElementSelected(int index, const QString &name){
    switch (currentIndex()){
    case CHILD_WIDGET:
        childUI->setBindingVariable(index, name); break;
    default:
        WARNING_MESSAGE("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::variableTableElementSelected(): An unwanted element selected event was recieved!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::generatorTableElementSelected(int index, const QString &name){
    switch (currentIndex()){
    case MAIN_WIDGET:
        setDefaultGenerator(index, name); break;
    case CHILD_WIDGET:
        childUI->setGenerator(index, name); break;
    default:
        WARNING_MESSAGE("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::generatorTableElementSelected(): An unwanted element selected event was recieved!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::connectToTables(GenericTableWidget *generators, GenericTableWidget *variables, GenericTableWidget *properties){
    if (variables && properties && generators){
        disconnect(variables, SIGNAL(elementSelected(int,QString)), 0, 0);
        disconnect(properties, SIGNAL(elementSelected(int,QString)), 0, 0);
        disconnect(generators, SIGNAL(elementSelected(int,QString)), 0, 0);
        connect(variables, SIGNAL(elementSelected(int,QString)), this, SLOT(variableTableElementSelected(int,QString)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(properties, SIGNAL(elementSelected(int,QString)), this, SLOT(variableTableElementSelected(int,QString)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(generators, SIGNAL(elementSelected(int,QString)), this, SLOT(generatorTableElementSelected(int,QString)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(this, SIGNAL(viewGenerators(int,QString,QStringList)), generators, SLOT(showTable(int,QString,QStringList)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(this, SIGNAL(viewVariables(int,QString,QStringList)), variables, SLOT(showTable(int,QString,QStringList)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
        connect(this, SIGNAL(viewProperties(int,QString,QStringList)), properties, SLOT(showTable(int,QString,QStringList)), Qt::UniqueConnection);
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::connectToTables(): One or more arguments are nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::variableRenamed(const QString & name, int index){
    if (bsData){
        (currentIndex() == CHILD_WIDGET) ? childUI->variableRenamed(name, --index) : NULL;
    }else{
        LogFile::writeToLog("BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::variableRenamed(): The data is nullptr!!");
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::generatorRenamed(const QString &name, int index){
    if (--index == static_cast<BehaviorFile *>(bsData->getParentFile())->getIndexOfGenerator(bsData->pDefaultGenerator)){
        table->item(DEFAULT_GENERATOR_ROW, VALUE_COLUMN)->setText(name);
    }
    switch (currentIndex()){
    case CHILD_WIDGET:
        childUI->generatorRenamed(name, index); break;
    }
}

void BSBoneSwitchGeneratorUI::setBehaviorView(BehaviorGraphView *view){
    behaviorView = view;
    setCurrentIndex(MAIN_WIDGET);
    childUI->setBehaviorView(view);
}

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Google used to list 7 local search results on the search engine results page. Now, in an attempt to align local search results with their mobile search results, only 3 listings will be listed.
This is a big deal for many businesses because Google used to display the top 7 local results. This will make the top 3 placements even more desirable and competitive. It just became even more important to ensure your local strategy is rife with local data.
Ensure your site is mobile friendly. This variable continues to become ever-more important as a ranking factor.
Many small businesses think the update to the local search results further alienates Google from local business owners.


This studio course will focus on the analysis of threats to Havana's heritage in the wider context of building an urban strategy. Cuba and particularly the metropolitan area of Havana are experiencing rapid change, including economic liberalization, arrival of new technologies, and global flows including tourism. Meanwhile, the cityscape of Havana has come to wide attention among architects, historians, and urban preservationists for several reasons. Firstly, it has been somewhat frozen in time since the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and has not been affected by such common urban practices as cutting highways through existing neighborhoods, or leveling deteriorated communities for the construction of out-of-scale large modern housing blocks. This has generally left intact a rich 400-year old architectural legacy reflecting the wealth accumulated while Havana was the principal embarkation point for the Treasure Fleets of Colonial Spain and later as one of the world's major sources of raw sugar. Nevertheless, the frozen cityscape has come to be an environment of severe physical hardship for the occupants of gravely degenerating structures (at least 500 buildings collapse each year) amid widely failing infrastructure. Such slum-like conditions pock-mark the cityscape. Will a wave of much-needed economic revitalization bring with it the destruction of this singular environment? Or can Havana develop policies that support concurrently its economic growth, social justice, and the conservation of its heritage? Students will learn and apply techniques to assess urban heritage and key elements such as infrastructure, spatial form, and local and neighborhood management. This course will be offered within the Cities and Social Justice concentration of the GPIA and will include visiting specialists on specific aspects of these challenges. The course will include a two week workshop in Havana in June 2018.
Registration requires permission of instructors Michael Cohen and Anthony Tung. Send an email to Michael Cohen cohenm2@newschool.edu.


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Drone management: The next frontier
Commercial drones gaining altitude with top IT vendors
IT security whiz sets sights on commercial drone management
Big IT vendors mostly mum on commercial drone plans
Reports say FAA could take very hard line on commercial drone use
By Bob Brown
Don McCullough (CC BY 2.0)
Word that the Federal Aviation Administration might take a very hard line on commercial drone use has those with designs on such activity nervous. But as for big enterprise IT vendors, it's really hard to tell what they think because they're keeping any plans in this field very hush-hush.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the FAA -- tasked by Congress with coming up with rules next year -- is very likely to require operators of commercial drones (or unmanned aerial vehicles/unmanned aircraft systems) to have actual licenses that include manned aircraft experience. Other restrictions on those who might want to use UAVs/UASs take aerial photos of real estate property, cover news events or monitor agricultural or other properties could include operation only in daylight hours, line-of-site operation and flying only below 400 feet.
MORE: 12 Drones to own
The reality is that plenty of organizations, such realtors and universities, are already using lightweight drones like those fro DJI and Parrot, for commercial purposes. Yes, they're taking a calculated legal risk. But the thinking goes that these often camera-equipped flying machines are pretty idiot-proof to operate and that the FAA really doesn't have the manpower or wherewithal to crack down on every operator.
I've reached out to about a dozen traditional enterprise IT vendors over the past couple of weeks to find out if any of them have designs on getting into the commercial drone business. Not necessarily building quadcopters or hexacopters, or even hatching ambitious plans like those of Amazon to deliver packages or Google/Facebook to extend Internet reach. But rather, leveraging their IT smarts to digest the reams of data that sensor-equipped drones will collect or extending their IT management technology to include drone controls.
I've been surprised though at the general lack of response to my inquiries. And we're talking about the types of companies -- IBM, HP, Red Hat -- that are typically eager to share their thoughts with our readers on almost any topic.
One company that did reply -- Microsoft -- surprised me by affirming that it "is not actively pursuing any projects in this area, so we can't help at this time."
MORE ON NETWORK WORLD: 15 big data and analytics companies to watch
Others, such as Cisco and Bell Labs, said they were looking into whether they have anyone to discuss the subject.
I asked former FAA trial attorney Mark Dombroff, co-chair of the UAS Practice Group at international law firm McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP in McLean, Va., if he's seen any interest by such companies in the commercial drone field. He would probably know: His firm represents organizations looking to get exemptions from the FAA to use or experiment with commercial drones (one example: a big insurance company interested in using drones for risk/catastrophe assessment).
Do you see commercial drones as a big opportunity for enterprise IT vendors?
But Dombroff says he has not heard of any such companies, aside from Google, active in this space. And he isn't sure what they are waiting for since the queue of those seeking exemptions has grown steadily, especially after a handful of movie making companies were granted permission in September.
"I have a hard time believing they don't have some sort of programs in place," he says, citing the possibilities for data collection and assessment in a business projected to be worth tens of billions of dollars over the course of the next 10 years. He notes that insurance companies aren't necessarily looking at drones as a very near-term opportunity, but rather are eyeing where they want to be positioned in 10 to 15 years. "They see this technology as something that's here to stay and not just a novelty," he says.
Dombroff says if he was working for IT companies he would be looking to get approval to research uses for UASs on their own properties and trying to figure out which industries and organizations to partner with on this front.
It's possible that the big tech companies are biding their time, with plans to snap up drone startups that have become darlings of the venture capital industry in recent years despite regulatory uncertainty. But Dombroff (who blogs here) warns that startups could fall by the wayside once they realize just how regulated an industry aviation is -- a realization that should become quite apparent over the next 24 or so months.
Bob Brown is the former news editor for Network World.

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Which Devils are going to Sochi, and When do they Play?
This post looks at which Devils players made it to their respective national teams for the Sochi Olympics and when they will be playing.
By Matt Evans SNC Feb 7, 2014, 12:00pm EST
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The Winter Olympics are underway and the New Jersey Devils will be sending a few European players over to Sochi. There are four Devils players on their roster that received the honors of playing in Sochi. Three of those players will play for the Czech Republic and one will play for Switzerland.
Damien Brunner will be travelling to Sochi to represent Switzerland. While Switzerland is not a powerhouse team, they do have a few interesting match-ups. Group C for men's hockey includes Latvia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland. Let's look at the team.
Goalies: Reto Berra (NHL), Jonas Hiller (NHL), Tobias Stephan
Forwards: Andres Ambühl, Matthias Bieber, Simon Bodenmann, Damien Brunner (NHL), Luca Cunti, Ryan Gardner, Denis Hollenstein, Simon Moser, Nino Niederreiter (NHL), Martin Plüss, Kevin Romy, Reto Suri, Morris Trachsler, Roman Wick
Defensemen: Severin Blindenbacher, Rafael Diaz (NHL), Philippe Furrer, Roman Josi (NHL), Mathias Seger, Mark Streit (NHL), Julien Vauclair, Yannick Weber (NHL)
Brunner will be surrounded with seven other NHL players on the Swiss team. Jonas Hiller is a solid goaltender, but the defense will be very susceptible past the likes of Streit and Weber. The forward corps is also somewhat thin. Nino Niederreiter and Brunner will be relied on to put up quite a few points with the surrounding cast being played mostly by players from the swiss league.
Here is the schedule for the Swiss team:
February 12th (12pm EST) vs. Latvia
Latvia is a fairly week team with no current NHL players. They do have an up and coming forward in Zemgus Girgensons, the #14 pick in the 2012 NHL Draft.
February 14th (7:30am EST) vs. Sweden
I don't really need to tell anyone about the powerhouse team that will be the Swedish National team, do I? Their roster incorporates an all star goaltender in Henrik Lundqvist, a host of star forwards including the Sedins, and arguably the best NHL defenseman in Erik Karlsson.
February 15th (12pm EST) vs. Czech Republic
This will be interesting as Brunner will face the other three Devils that will be playing in the Olympics this year.
Jaromir Jagr, Patrik Elias, and Marek Zidlicky will lead the second strongest team in group C behind Sweden. Jagr and Elias are the stars of the Czech team with a fairly sizable roster to help them try and medal this year. The Czech team is not as loaded as it has been in years past, but they will surely push for a medal this year. Their roster is below.
Goalies: Ondrej Pavelec (NHL), Alexander Salak, Jakub Kovar
Forward: Roman Cervenka, Patrik Elias (NHL), Michael Frolik (NHL), Martin Hanzal (NHL), Ales Hemsky (NHL), Jaromir Jagr (NHL), David Krejci (NHL), Milan Michalek (NHL), Petr Nedved, Jiri Novotny, Ondrej Palat, Tomas Plekanec (NHL), Vladimir Sobotka (NHL), Jakub Voracek (NHL)
Defense: Michal Barinka, Michal Rozsival (NHL), Radko Gudas (NHL), Tomas Kaberle (NHL), Lukas Krajicek, Zbynek Michalek (NHL), Ladislav Smid (NHL), Marek Zidlicky (NHL)
Czech team's schedule:
February 12th (12pm EST) vs. Sweden
February 14th (3am EST) vs. Latvia
February 15th (12pm EST) vs. Switzerland
So, now you know when to watch the Devils players during the Olympics. I'm personally excited to see Sweden play the Czech Republic in the Group C match-ups. Hopefully the Devils players enjoy their time over in Russia and make it back with little to no bumps and bruises and ready for a whirlwind end to the NHL season!


THE Carlow under-14 girls picked up their first piece of silverware of the Leinster LGFA season, winning the Leinster shield final in Coralstown /Kinnegad on Saturday.
Carlow started the better with points from Orla Woods and Ella Molloy to get themselves into a 0-7 to 0-1 lead.
With half-time approaching Louth struck for a goal. Carlow defended well in the opening half with Abbie Cooney, Hollie Sinnott and Rachel Tracey holding the last line of defence. In the half-back line Eva Doyle was excellent as was Grainne Thompson while captain Eimear Lillis marshalled the line with authority.
The second half picked up from where the first left off with some very competitive football. Louth came out with renewed vigour and the intensity of the tackles and commitment of the players belied the age group playing. Megan Townsend and Brónagh Nolan were masterful in midfield, getting through a huge amount of work. As Louth applied the pressure Carlow had no option but defend and defend they did resolutely.
As the score-line narrowed the Carlow supporters began to feel the pressure and become more vocal driving the team on. Carlow's half-forward line was the line that contributed the bulk of the scoring with player-of-the-match Orla Woods scoring 0-6 points and Ella Molloy contributing 1-2 from play. The trio completed by Ailbhe McGuire who popped up with an excellent point in the first half.
Sinead Thompson performing a supporting role for her defence was very disciplined and in the second half got through trojan work. Niamh Byrne at full forward caused lots of problems for the Louth defence, while Ellie Dowling worked really hard on and off the ball. Replacements Alannah Guerin and Sarah Curran when introduced made significant contributions in attack and also in defence when the need arose in the final minutes. Carlow goalkeeper Ella Meyler made a string of fine saves especially in the latter stages, and without whose efforts the result may have been very different.
Carlow now go into the All-Ireland series later in the month.
Carlow: Ella Meyler (Ballon); Abbie Cooney (Eire Og), Hollie Sinnott (St Andrew's), Rachel Tracey (St Brigid's); Grainne Thompson (Bennekerry/Tinryland), Eimear Lillis (St Andrew's), Eva Doyle (Bennekerry/Tinryland); Megan Townsend (0-1, Eire Og), Bronagh Nolan (Old Leighlin); Orla Woods (0-5, Bennekerry/Tinryland), Ella Molloy (1-2, Rathvilly), Ailbhe McGuire (0-1, Clonmore); Ellie Dowling (Bennekerry/Tinryland), Niamh Byrne (Eire Og), (Sinead Thompson) (Bennekerry/Tinryland). Subs: Sarah Curran (Rathvilly) for Niamh Byrne (h/t), Alanna Guerin (Bennekerry/Tinryland) for Dowling (55 mins). Rest of Panel: Hannah McCabe (Old Leighlin), Shauna Sweeney (Eire Og), Amber Kirby (Old Leighlin), Marie Cranny (Bennekerry/Tinryland), Sarah Hutton (Eire Og), Aimee Moore (Eire Og), Faye Elliot (Rathvilly), Ruby Collier (Rathvilly), Sorcha Dunne (Bennekerry/Tinryland), Molly Doyle (Bennekerry/Tinryland), Roisin Kennedy (Bennekerry/Tinryland), Ailbhe Gavin (Bennekerry/Tinryland).


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Washington state assault law provides a simple assault (aka Assault in the Fourth Degree), the lowest serious level criminal assault, by striking or hitting, touching, attempting to harm or injure another person. It also is committed if you place another person in reasonable fear for their own safety by a physical action. Of all the assaults I handle, about 85 – 90 % are 4th Degree assaults, which are misdemeanors, and of those approximately 95% are also accompanied by the dreaded "DV tag," meaning they are DV – Domestic Violence Assaults. Both DV and non-DV 4th degree Assaults are gross misdemeanors, but obviously the DV ones are more serious and have worse impact upon the client's reputation, criminal background checks whether for job application or retention, school, immigration purposes, travel to Canada and other countries, housing and student loan applications, etc.
If the assault results in serious ("grievous") bodily harm to the victim, is committed against court staff, attorneys practicing law, prosecutors, judges, law enforcement officers or certain statutorily specified other government employees, etc. who have special enhanced statutory protection under the RCW's, or if the assault is committed on a child victim under 13 years of age, such assaults, whether DV or non-DV, are FELONIES. Felony assaults in Washington State are the worst, most serious one – assault in the First degree, or Assault in the Second Degree or Third Degree. Assault 2 or 1 if they are DV are so-called "strikes" (get three and you receive life without parole – the defendant will live their remaining natural life in and die in jail – no way out.
In Washington, a person commits the crime of simple assault (4th Degree assault) by intentionally touching or striking another person, in a harmful or offensive way; attempting to inflict injury on another, when the defendant has the apparent ability to do so; or by committing any act that intentionally places another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harm. RCW 9A.36.041.
Washington assaults become DV (Domestic Violence) assaults if the alleged victim is a family member or household member, which includes spouses, former spouses, people who have children together, people related by blood or marriage, adults who live together or have lived together, and people who are or have been in a dating relationship. RCW 10.99.020.
Assault in the 4th Degree carries a maximum punishment of 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine. There are many defense approaches to these complicated scenarios and severely sanctioned crimes of assault, especially those that are also DV assaults.
I have gotten many of these cases dismissed or reduced. Call me to go over your unique case. I will do all I can do to help and will formulate a viable, effective defense strategy and set of options for your consideration. My job is to advise and protect you.
The term "assault" can be used to describe a wide range of situations. The most common involve intentional or attempted harm to another person with or without a weapon.
There are four degrees of assault and the penalties range from gross misdemeanor up to three classes of felony. Consequences for first-, second-, third- and fourth-degree assault vary and are dependent on several factors including the use of a weapon, severity of the injury (if one occurred) and criminal history of the accused (if applicable).
Assault charges are often brought together with other criminal accusations such as Harassment or Malicious Mischief. In some cases, they can also be designated Domestic Violence (DV). If your assault charge has been labeled DV, visit Domestic Violence for more information.
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Q: Regex that makes IPV6 addresses shorter For example, i have a dozen of IPV6 addresses, with 8 parts which are seperated by ":".
If the first few characters are null in these parts then i wanna remove them with a simple regex.

Input:
1034:0123:0000:2100:3120:0000:0022:0001
Output:
1034:123::2100:3120::22:1

Is it possible?

A: You can use python's socket module to get
>>> socket.getaddrinfo('1034:0123:0000:2100:3120:0000:0022:0001', 0, socket.AF_INET6)
[(10, 1, 6, '', ('1034:123:0:2100:3120:0:22:1', 0, 0, 0)), (10, 2, 17, '', ('1034:123:0:2100:3120:0:22:1', 0, 0, 0)), (10, 3, 0, '', ('1034:123:0:2100:3120:0:22:1', 0, 0, 0))]

>>> socket.getaddrinfo('1034:0123:0000:2100:3120:0000:0022:0001', 0, socket.AF_INET6)[0][4][0]
'1034:123:0:2100:3120:0:22:1'

As you can see, the resulting IPv6 address has all the excess zeroes stripped out.

A: Talked about it in the comments, but it works now so here's the answer.
/(^|:)0{1,4}/g

That regex should work.

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About Symposium
ABORM Exam & Prep
The Top 5 Reasons Why Practitioners Love the Integrative Fertility Symposium
Never Say Never To Improving Egg Quality
Debra Minjarez, MD, CCRM, Jane Gregorie L.Ac, FABORM
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This lecture will be co-presented by Dr. Debra A Minjarez MD from CCRM and Jane Gregory M.S, L.Ac., FABORM
This lecture will discuss an integrative approach between a successful reproductive endocrinology clinic and the holistic principles of TCM to enhance egg quality and outcomes for women. Therapies utilizing antioxidants, supplements, acupuncture and dietary changes will be reviewed. Case studies will be presented in addition to data supporting the use of these practices in assisting women who have been given a poor prognosis.
Review interpretation of hormonal testing associated with a poor prognosis for pregnancy.
Discuss the role of antioxidants, supplements and Chinese herbs to enhance egg quality.
Describe acupuncture protocols to enhance egg quality and improve blood flow.
Present case studies where women were given no possibility of conceiving and overcame these barriers.
Debra Minjarez, MD, CCRM
Dr. Debra A. Minjarez joined the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine in 2001 and she is a Board Certified Reproductive Endocrinologist. She received her medical training at Stanford University and completed her residency at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in 1997. She then completed a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. As a fellow, she received the prestigious ACOG Ortho-McNeil Award for her research in several areas of reproductive medicine. From 1997 to 2000 she also held a faculty appointment as Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. Minjarez has lectured extensively and coauthored several chapters on various gynecology topics. In addition to her interest in infertility, Dr. Minjarez focuses on the management of patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome, pediatric and adolescent gynecology and congenital abnormalities of the genital tract. Dr. Minjarez is bilingual in Spanish and welcomes the opportunity to assist Spanish-speaking couples. Dr. Minjarez is the perfect choice for women who prefer a female for their reproductive care.
Jane Gregorie L.Ac, FABORM
Jane Gregorie, M.S., L.Ac., Dipl.Ac., Dipl.C.H., FABORM received her Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She completed her undergraduate degree at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, where she majored in Religious Studies. She also studied Japanese at Middlebury College in Vermont and Kansai Gaidai in Osaka, Japan. In addition to her formal education, she has spent time in Nepal, India, and Tibet, and has had been deeply influenced by her extended travel experiences. Jane began her practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1999, but accepted a position to practice acupuncture and Oriental medicine at an integrative medical clinic in Savannah, Georgia in 2001. There she built a thriving practice where she treated a wide variety of cases and specialized in women's health. She also pioneered an acupuncture program that served a rural HIV health system in Southeast Georgia. In addition, she offered free treatments at a homeless medical clinic and drug treatment program. After relocating to Colorado in 2003, she opened Acupuncture Denver and also started an acudetox program at Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Jane is National Board (NCCAOM) certified as a Diplomate of both Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology, holds a Colorado state acupuncture license, and is Board Certified as a Fellow of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM). In addition, she is certified as an Acudetox Specialist by the National Acupuncture Detoxification Association (NADA). She is also a professional member of Acupuncture Association of Colorado, the American Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, Resolve, and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. She is also a certified yoga instructor and the founder of Fertile Ground Yoga.
Since founding Acupuncture Denver in 2003, Jane and her associates have helped countless couples conceive and have happy, healthy pregnancies. Jane has worked closely with her mentor, Dr. Randine Lewis, since 2004 and integrates The Fertile Soul's body-mind-spirit based approach into her clinical care. Having gone through her own fertility struggles and pregnancy losses, she is also passionate about bringing women together in a safe space to create connection, healing and hope. For this reason, she founded Fertile Ground yoga in 2005 and continues to offer free support groups, classes and workshops in addition to clinical TCM fertility care. Her work has been featured in Alternative Medicinemagazine and on Fox31 news. When not in clinic, she can be found reading, camping and hiking in the beautiful mountains of Colorado with her two sons, husband and a long-haired Chihuahua named Peaches.
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Eight Steps to a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis
Both HIPAA auditors and anecdotal reports from around Texas indicate many practices are failing to complete basic HIPAA-required tasks, such as conducting a risk analysis and giving out a Notice of Private Practices.
The HIPAA Security Rule, which protects electronic protected health information (ePHI) requires a security risk analysis. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights (OCR) lists several elements (PDF), your risk analysis must incorporate:
Identify the scope of the analysis. You should take into account all ePHI your practice creates, receives, maintains, or transmits. Electronic media could range from a single workstation in a small practice to networks in practices with multiple locations.
Gather data. Gather information about how the ePHI is stored, received, maintained, or transmitted. For example, a solo practice with paper medical records may be able to identify all its ePHI by analyzing how it uses its billing software. Be sure to also consider any portable electronic media you use, such as an iPhone or iPad.
Identify and document potential threats and vulnerabilities. To start, list natural, environmental, and human threats, the latter probably being your greatest concern. Potential human threats range from employees (the most common source), ex-employees, and visitors to hackers and criminals. Anyone who has the access, knowledge, and/or motivation "to cause an adverse impact" on your practice can act as a threat. Then note your practice's vulnerabilities to the threats you've identified. Your vendors can help you identify system vulnerabilities.
Assess current security measures. These can be both technical and nontechnical. Technical measures are part of information systems hardware and software, such as access controls, identification, authentication, encryption methods, automatic logoff, and audit controls. Nontechnical measures are management and operational controls, such as policies, procedures, standards, guidelines, accountability and responsibility, and physical and environmental security measures.
Determine the likelihood of threat occurrence.
Determine the potential impact of threat occurrence. The most common outcomes include but are not limited to unauthorized access to or disclosure of ePHI, permanent loss or corruption of ePHI, temporary loss or unavailability of ePHI, or loss of cash flow.
Determine the level of risk. Use what you wrote down for steps 5 and 6 to do this step. You might create a risk level matrix using a high, medium, and low rating system. For example, a threat likelihood value of "high" combined with an impact value of "low" may equal a risk level of "low." Or a threat likelihood value of "medium" combined with an impact value of "medium" may equal a risk level of "medium."
Identify security measures and finalize documentation. The Security Rule does not require a specific format for your analysis. You could write a report that outlines your analysis process, records the result of each step, and initially identifies security measures needed. Actually implementing the measures is a process separate from the risk analysis.
OCR's Security Rule Educational Paper Series gives insight into the Security Rule and help with implementing the security standards. No. 6, "Basics of Risk Analysis and Risk Management," (PDF), explains the above eight measures in more detail.
NOTICE: The Texas Medical Association provides this information with the express understanding that 1) no attorney-client relationship exists, 2) neither TMA nor its attorneys are engaged in providing legal advice and 3) that the information is of a general character. This is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. While every effort is made to ensure that content is complete, accurate and timely, TMA cannot guarantee the accuracy and totality of the information contained in this publication and assumes no legal responsibility for loss or damages resulting from the use of this content. You should not rely on this information when dealing with personal legal matters; rather legal advice from retained legal counsel should be sought.
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Taking Privacy to a New Level: Texas Lowers Reporting Threshold for Security Breaches
Federal requirements have not changed, but starting Jan. 1, breach notification requirements will become even more stringent for Texas physicians or medical entities. The Texas Legislature dropped the threshold for breach reporting from 500 patients to 250. House Bill 4390 also requires medical entities to report breaches to the Texas attorney general's office within 60 days of the breach. Read More


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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
LQ: 9.8
Brain grade: 9.6
Fun score: 10
Game Type: Action ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+ Platform/Console: Nintendo Wii LWK Recommended Age: 10+ Other Requirements: Wii Motion Plus / Wii Remote Plus Thinking Skills Used: Focus, Planning, Self-Control Academic Skills Used: Reading
Set in the soaring world of SkyLoft, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword follows the adventures of a young knight named Link, who must take to the skies on his Loftwing and sail down to the world below in search of the missing Princess Zelda. Using his trusty sword and an array of tools and gadgets Link must battle enemies, solve puzzles, and explore several dungeons in search of the missing princess.
The game uses "Wii Motion Plus" to deliver realistic swordplay, enabling 1:1 motion tracking, meaning Link will hold his sword however the Wii Remote is held, enabling the player to determine the angle and direction of each sword swing. Due to mild fantasy violence, moderate difficulty, and some required reading, the game is recommended to players ages 10 and up.
Make it Work
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The ability to control one's actions and manage emotions.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's main gameplay mechanic is swordplay, which revolves around highly accurate motion controls that let the player directly control how Link uses his sword. Whichever way the player swings, Link will do the same. Enemies will try to block attacks from a certain angle, requiring smooth, precise attacks from the player. If the player becomes frustrated or panicky, his swings will become less accurate, making the game much harder to play. By controlling his emotions and keeping his actions smooth and controlled, the player will have a much easier time making it through this adventure.
Aside from sword play, the game also features a slew of motion controlled segments, such as soaring through the air on Link's "LoftWing" bird, shooting arrows and controlling Link's "Beetle," a gadget that can fly through the air to activate far off switches and collect distant items. All segments in the game require the player to use simple, yet controlled motions to operate, further instilling the need to make fluid movements and avoid becoming flustered.
Starting a task and maintaining attention and effort until it's done.
When starting a battle with an enemy, the player must keep a close eye on how he positions himself. Enemies will try to block his attacks by positioning swords and shields above, below, or to the side of their body. The player must attack from the opposite side to inflict damage, requiring him to stay intently focused on enemies' positioning until they are defeated.
Dungeons -- the "stages" of the game -- also flex the player's focus skills. Each dungeon is filled with numerous environmental puzzles to solve, some of which can be quite challenging, requiring the player to stick to the task at hand until he figures out the solution and can move on. "Boss battles" -- the final enemy of each dungeon -- are a whole different story. These unique enemies require specific strategies to defeat, usually involving the item Link acquired in that specific dungeon. In order to decipher the correct strategy, the player has to pay close attention to the boss' body and movements in order to locate weak spots and opportunities to attack.
Furthermore, there are a slew of side-quests for players to complete apart from the main quest that reward the player with valuable treasure. They each have specific goals to complete, so players must persistently follow through until the side quest is complete, working through distractions presented by the game's overwhelming amount of content to explore.
Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.
There are a variety of shops for Link to peruse, enabling him to buy items to aid in his quests and upgrade his equipment. Therefore it is important for Link to stock up on important goods -- such as healing potions -- before heading into a dungeon. Link's equipment, like his shield for instance, will deteriorate over time, but can be repaired or even upgraded to increase durability. To do so however, the player needs to collect a set amount of money and seek out specific materials, requiring the player to complete multiple steps before relieving an upgraded shield. To improve equipment and progress to a more difficult section of the game, the player is best served to seek out the required goods before advancing to the next dungeon.
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Skills Used: Flexibility, Working Memory, Reading
A Dark Room
LQ: 9.05
Skills Used: Focus, Planning, Mathematics, Reading
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Pocky and Rocky: Reshrined
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Bakery Story
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Our enterprise periodically needs to access cold data from Amazon Glacier. How long does it take to retrieve data, and what are other infrequent data access options?
and developers move selected items to Glacier. Within Glacier storage, users can retrieve only a directory -- a list of the archive's contents -- not the archived data itself.
To retrieve data stored in Amazon Glacier, the desired objects must be temporarily restored to Simple Storage Service (S3); archived data is accessible from the temporary S3 copy. Restores can take three to five hours, and the copy is only accessible for the amount of time a developer stipulates when making a restore request. AWS charges for S3 and Glacier storage while the archive copy is available.
While the Glacier data restoration process seems confusing, it's similar to legacy tape-based backup and restoration paradigms. IT teams can only view and manage Glacier objects through Amazon S3, and object restores occur through the Amazon S3 console. Admins can also use the console or an S3 API to track the progress of a restoration.
What concerns you most about Glacier's long restoration times?


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Sheriff: Traffic stop leads to passenger's drug arrest
Published 10:24 am Thursday, July 23, 2020
Marcus Raine
A Bogalusa man was arrested Wednesday on drug charges, after a deputy stopped a vehicle for a traffic stop, according to Chief Deputy Mike Haley of the Washington Parish Sheriff's Office.
Haley said that WPSO patrol deputy Dalton Manning was patrolling north of Bogalusa on Wednesday, when he observed a motor vehicle violation. The driver of the vehicle was issued a citation, and her passenger ultimately went to jail.
"Due to the strong odor of marijuana present, both the driver and passenger were asked to exit the vehicle," Haley said. "Sgt. David Cupp arrived to assist and he and Deputy Manning did a pat-down search of each person.
"The search of the passenger, Marcus D. Raine, 35, a resident of Fordham Road in Bogalusa, revealed he was in possession of more than 25 grams of marijuana and other illegal drugs."
Raine was transported to the Washington Parish Jail and booked on a third-offense felony charge of marijuana and possession of other illegal drugs. His bond was set at $3,500.
"Another drug arrest, more drugs out of our community — that's what it's all about," Washington Parish Sheriff Randy Seal said. "Our narcotics officers, our detectives and our patrol deputies are active in our local quest to rid Washington Parish of as much illegal drugs as possible.
"Any person involved with illegal drugs should be constantly looking over their shoulders for the next available law enforcement officer to give them a free ride to the parish jail."
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— полуостров на острове Хонсю, Япония. Расположен на юго-востоке области Канто. На территории полуострова находится большая часть префектуры Тиба. На западе полуостров омывают Токийский залив и пролив Урага, на западе — Тихий океан, он отделяет Токийский залив от Тихого океана. Его длина (север-юг) составляет 130 км, ширина — 106 км, площадь — 51192 км².

Самой высокой точкой острова является гора  с высотой в 408,2 метра. На северо-западе полуострова находится город Тиба, который является частью крупной промышленной зоны . Город Кисарадзу на полуострове префектуры Тиба связан с городом Кавасаки префектуры Канагава 14-километровым мостом-тоннелем . На северо-востоке полуострова располагается национальный парк .

Название
Полуостров получил название по элементам кандзи исторических провинций располагавшихся на полуострове: Ава (安房), Кадзуса (上総) и Симоса (下総).

Примечания

Префектура Тиба
Полуострова Хонсю

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Interaction potentials accounting for effective forces in complex fluids can be quite different from those typical of atomic fluids~\cite{Likos}. In particular, while in elementary fluids the short-range interaction is always infinitely repulsive due to excluded-volume effects, in complex fluids the effective interactions obtained by averaging over microscopic/internal degrees of freedom may result in a bounded repulsion, thus allowing full particle interpenetration. For example, polymers in a good solvent form highly penetrable coils and the repulsion between their centers of mass is finite at all distances, decaying rapidly beyond the radius of gyration of the coils. For self-avoiding polymers, the effective pair potential is reasonably well represented by a Gaussian whose width is of the order of the radius of gyration whereas its value at zero separation is roughly $2k_BT$~\cite{Louis}.

A bounded repulsion may be combined with an attractive tail. For instance, in polymer solutions depletion (e.g. Asakura-Oosawa) forces give rise to a weak attraction between two polymers~\cite{Likos}. However, a pair potential with a bounded repulsion and an attractive component may be thermodynamically unstable. The issue of thermodynamic stability in the context of the penetrable-sphere potential supplemented by a square-well attraction has been recently discussed by Giacometti and coworkers~\cite{Fantoni1,Fantoni2}. As first pointed out by Fisher and Ruelle~\cite{Fisher}, if the potential is not sufficiently repulsive to discourage particles overlap, the system collapses into a small volume and no thermodynamic limit exists. Fisher and Ruelle derived sufficient conditions for a bounded pair repulsion with an attractive tail to lead to thermodynamic equilibrium.

In the present paper we investigate the phase behavior of a model fluid with a bounded interparticle repulsion and a longer-ranged attraction. In particular, both the repulsion and the attraction are given a Gaussian shape. Our purpose is to investigate the effect of a weak attraction on the melting behavior associated with the Gaussian repulsion. The strength of the attraction is chosen small enough so that the double-Gaussian fluid is everywhere thermodynamically stable. Moreover, the center of the attractive well is displaced from the repulsive core in order that the strength of the repulsion be roughly unaffected by the attraction. This makes it possible to compare the phase behavior of the system investigated here with that of the popular Gaussian-core model (GCM) fluid~\cite{Stillinger,Lang,Prestipino1,gcm2d,gcm1d}.

The outline of the paper is the following. After introducing the double-Gaussian model and briefly describing the simulation method in Section II, our results are presented in Section III. Thanks to these calculations, the characteristics of the phase diagram of the system are uncovered to their finest details. Some concluding remarks are given in Section IV.

\section{Model and method}
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We are going to explore how the phase diagram of the three-dimensional GCM fluid is being modified when a shallow attractive well is added, at medium-range distances, to the repulsive Gaussian core. Clearly, a prominent effect of the attraction will be to provide the original GCM system with another (liquid, as distinct from vapor) fluid phase, although we also expect important changes in the solid sector of the phase diagram, at least for pressures low enough that the average distance between two neighboring particles in the system is much larger than the core size.

To be concrete, let the following pair potential be considered:
\begin{equation}
u(r)=\epsilon\exp\{-r^2/\sigma^2\}-\epsilon_2\exp\{-(r-\xi)^2/\sigma_2^2\}\,,
\label{2-1}
\end{equation}
where $\epsilon$ and $\sigma$ are arbitrary energy and length units, respectively. The potential (\ref{2-1}) defines what will be called the general double-Gaussian model (DGM). As far as we know, no thorough study of the phase behavior of the DGM potential has hitherto been performed, nor even for $\xi=0$. Aiming to perturb the GCM phase diagram only slightly, we shall take, quite arbitrarily, $\epsilon_2=0.005\,\epsilon,\sigma_2=\sigma$, and $\xi=3\sigma$ (see Fig.\,1). With this choice, the inner particle core is almost unchanged with respect to the GCM with the same $\epsilon$ and $\sigma$, thus suggesting very similar GCM and DGM high-pressure behaviors; moreover, considering the closeness of $\epsilon_2/k_B$ to the maximum GCM melting temperature $T_{\rm max}$, we expect the critical temperature $T_c$ of the DGM fluid to be of the order of $T_{\rm max}$ too.

As anticipated in the Introduction, a problem of stability may arise for a system of particles interacting through a repulsive potential that is finite at the origin when it is augmented with an attractive tail. If the added attraction is too strong, a thermodynamic catastrophe occurs in that, in the infinite-size limit, all system particles eventually concentrate in a {\em finite} region of space; should this happen, no clearly-defined thermodynamics would be possible for the system. In order to figure out whether this be the case or not for the DGM potential hereby considered, we resorted to a pair of criteria originally put forward by Ruelle (see Propositions 3.2.4 and 3.2.7 of Ref.\,\cite{Ruelle}), which have been recently revived by Heyes and Rickayzen (Theorems 1 and 2 of Ref.~\cite{Heyes}). Denoting $\widetilde{u}(k)$ the Fourier transform of the potential, a sufficient condition for instability is $\widetilde{u}(0)<0$. Conversely, if we are able to prove that $\widetilde{u}(k)\ge 0$ for all $k$ then the system is stable. For the interaction potential in Eq.\,(\ref{2-1}), the Fourier transform can be formally evaluated in terms of the error function of complex argument. For $\sigma_2=\sigma$ and $\xi=3\sigma$, we find $\widetilde{u}(0)<0$ for $\epsilon_2>0.026315\,\epsilon$. Below exactly the same threshold $\widetilde{u}(k)$ is positive definite. Hence, we were able to decide on the stability of the system for all values of $\epsilon_2$: for $\sigma_2=\sigma$ and $\xi=3\sigma$, the DGM system is stable for $\epsilon_2<0.026315\,\epsilon$; above this value, it is actually unstable and thus $u(r)$ cannot serve as an interaction potential of stable matter.

Once the stability of the DGM system has been established, the next step is to find the relevant crystalline structures at low temperatures, so as to provide the necessary input to the simulation of the system in the solid sector of the phase diagram. This was accomplished through exact $T=0$ total-energy calculations for a set of candidate structures comprising Bravais and non-Bravais lattices with at most one internal parameter (see the complete list of such structures in Ref.\,\cite{Prestipino2}). This list also included clustered fcc and bcc crystals with two particles per lattice site~\cite{gcm1d}.

Table 1 reports the $T=0$ phase boundaries for those solids whose chemical potential turned out to be lowest over a range of pressures (any other crystalline phase is much far above in chemical potential to be considered relevant for non-zero temperatures). We see that there are two distinct $P$ intervals where the bcc phase is thermodynamically stable at $T=0$. In particular, a bcc solid is expected to occur at very low pressures. Although we can easily envisage the existence of a subtle competition between this dilute solid and the fluid phases, this question can only be settled by accurate free-energy calculations.

\begin{table}
\caption{Zero-temperature phases of the DGM system under study. For each pressure range in column 1, the thermodynamically stable phase is indicated (column 3) together with its values of the number density $\rho$ (column 2).}
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$P$ range ($\epsilon\,\sigma^{-3}$) & $\rho$ range ($\sigma^{-3}$) & stable phase \\
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0-0.00013 & 0.0677-0.0710 & bcc \\
\hline
0.00014-0.01162 & 0.0781-0.1361 & fcc \\
\hline
0.01163-0.03386 & 0.1364-0.1752 & hcp \\
\hline
$\ge 0.03387$ & $\ge 0.1761$ & bcc \\
\hline
\end{tabular*}
\end{table}

The phase diagram of the DGM model was carefully investigated by Monte Carlo (MC) simulation in the $NPT$ (isothermal-isobaric) ensemble (Section III). In order to trace the liquid-vapor binodal line, we made use of Gibbs-ensemble simulations~\cite{Panagiotopoulos}. Systems of about 1000 particles (with periodic repetition of the simulation box) are perfectly suitable for investigating bulk properties and for determining phase boundaries; for such sizes, there is no advantage in employing cell linked lists in the simulation. Typically, as many as $10^5$ sweeps/cycles were generated at equilibrium for every $(T,P)$ point along a simulation path, which proved sufficient to obtain accurate statistical averages for the volume and the energy per particle. Much longer runs of $5\times 10^5$ sweeps each were performed for the calculation of the chemical potential in the fluid phase by Widom's particle-insertion method~\cite{Widom}. The location of the melting transition was determined through thermodynamic integration along isobaric and isothermal paths (see e.g. Ref.~\cite{Saija}), combined with ``exact'' free-energy calculations for some selected states. While in the fluid sector of the phase diagram the reference state was a dilute gas, in the solid region we chose a low-temperature crystal (a different one for each solid phase) as the starting point of a MC trajectory. In any such state, the excess Helmholtz free energy per particle was computed by the Einstein-crystal method~\cite{Frenkel,Polson}.

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We display in Fig.\,2 the overall $P$-$T$ phase diagram of the DGM system as derived from our numerical free-energy calculations. To improve the visibility of the low-pressure region, we have unevenly stretched the pressure scale by reporting the fourth root of $P$ rather than $P$ itself on the horizontal axis. The same phase diagram but in the $\rho$-$T$ plane is shown in Fig.\,3, so as to highlight the coexistence regions. Finally, in Fig.\,4 a zoom is made on the extremely-low-density region, which is where the main novelties over the GCM case are concentrated. In the appendix, the ``exact'' transition lines are compared with those derived by a number of (necessarily approximate) theoretical approaches.

By a first glance at Fig.\,2, one immediately realizes how complete and congruous is the thermodynamic picture emerging from our simulations. Except for the vapor-bcc coexistence locus, which is confined to such an extremely small neighborhood of $P=0$ that it could not be analyzed in detail, all the other transition lines in Fig.\,2 are smooth enough and well characterized to allow us to resolve the most minute details of the DGM phase diagram with precision. On the low-pressure/high-temperature side of Fig.\,2 we see the liquid-vapor coexistence line, which was traced by reporting the common value of the pressure in the two simulation boxes at the end of the Gibbs-ensemble runs. By the usual extrapolation procedure~\cite{Frenkel}, we locate the critical point at $\rho_c=0.02295$, $T_c=0.00767$, and $P_c=0.000046$ (from now on, all quantities will be given in reduced units). The liquid-vapor coexistence region is shown in Fig.\,3; interestingly enough, it fairly coincides with the region within which the hypernetted-chain (HNC) equation~\cite{Hansen} could not be solved.

Another expected feature of the DGM phase diagram is the reentrant melting of the high-pressure bcc phase, which occurs similarly as in the GCM: upon increasing $P$, the nearest-neighbor (NN) distance in the bcc solid becomes more and more blurred, due to an increasingly easier penetration of the first-shell particles into the finite repulsive core, until the coordination shells all crumble together at the melting point. Compared with the GCM, the maximum $T_{\rm max}$ of the DGM melting temperature is slightly larger whereas the pressure $P_{\rm max}$ in the same point is a little smaller.

The range of stability of the hcp crystal narrows upon heating, until the hcp phase ceases to exist as a stable phase at a temperature slightly smaller than 0.0045. Beyond this point, a fcc-bcc coexistence line starts, which seems the continuation of the hcp-bcc transition line towards higher temperatures; the fcc-bcc locus eventually terminates with roughly zero slope at the confluence with the melting line, which occurs slightly below $T=0.0050$ (this feature is vaguely reminiscent of the fcc-bcc coexistence line in the GCM, where however the point of maximum temperature falls within the solid sector of the phase diagram).

Let us now focus on the low-pressure region of the phase diagram, where according to our calculations a number of unconventional features occur for the DGM. To begin with, we have the indisputable evidence of a tiny region of bcc stability at low pressure. In this dilute crystal the average NN distance is close below the ``center'' of the attractive well, $\xi$. Moreover, the slope of the melting line is negative. On the low-density side the bcc-liquid coexistence locus meets the liquid-vapour line at a triple point; on the high-density side it merges with the fcc-liquid line at another triple point, which also represents the lowest-temperature state where the liquid exists as a stable phase. The bcc density along the sublimation line was estimated through $P=0$ simulations of the crystal (the actual coexistence pressures are indeed smaller than $10^{-6}$).

The DGM phase diagram of Fig.\,3 is also reproduced in part in Fig.\,4, showing a magnification of the low-density/low-temperature region. The most curious feature emerging from this picture has to do with the nature of the bcc-liquid equilibrium, which unexpectedly sees the bcc phase on the low-density (rather than on the high-density) side. Upon compression, and before the fcc crystal becomes relevant (which only occurs beyond a certain pressure), the NN distance in the bcc crystal is pushed increasingly farther away from $\xi$, with the effect of destabilizing the bcc phase with respect to the liquid phase. The net result will be a second reentrant-melting line (besides the one existing at high pressure), ending at a bcc-liquid-fcc triple point. Another explanation of this anomaly underscores the effect of pressure on the ``degree of rigidity'' of the dilute bcc phase, which in the pressure range under focus becomes progressively smaller with increasing compression (see Fig.\,8 in the appendix).

One aim of the present study was to ascertain the nature of the liquid phase in presence of a bounded repulsion between the particles. For example, in Fig.\,5 we plot the radial distribution function (RDF) of the DGM system for a number of temperatures, for $P=0.002$ (i.e., a typical value for the liquid). For comparison, also the RDF of the GCM fluid is plotted along the same isobar. There is clearly more structure in the DGM liquid than in the GCM fluid of same $T$ and $P$, owing to the stabilizing effect of the attraction which enhances the local density and overall improves the spatial definition of the coordination shells around a particle. At the chosen pressure of 0.002, there would anyway be little influence of the inner potential core on the RDF, other than providing a barrier against system collapse; in other words, particles would be blind to the exact shape of the inner core, i.e., to whether it is soft or hard, since the average separation between neighboring particles is close to $\xi$.

Finally, we explore how the phase diagram of the double-Gaussian fluid changes when $\epsilon_2$ and $\xi$ are slightly modified from the values hereby considered (for simplicity, we only admitted the fcc, bcc, and hcp crystals as candidate solids). Since there is no space for a detailed study here, we shall make use of the HNC equation in association with the melting criterion of Ref.\,\cite{Prestipino3}, which is shown in the appendix to predict very carefully the topology of the phase diagram for the case $\epsilon_2=0.005$ and $\xi=3$. Looking at the phase portraits of Figs.\,6 and 7, we soon realize that (i) a deeper attractive well will increase the size of the liquid-vapor coexistence region, with repercussions also on the sequence of stable solids with pressure (for example, for $\epsilon_2=0.015$ and 0.020 the bcc crystal is the only zero-temperature stable phase); (ii) as $\xi$ is increased, the nature of the anomalous melting becomes more complicated, with significant modifications in the shape of the melting line (for $\xi=4$, the fcc crystal is stable at $T=0$ in a range of densities between roughly 0.16 and 0.21; this is apparently confirmed also for non-zero temperatures). Focusing on Fig.\,6, we see that, as the strength of the Gaussian attraction becomes larger and larger, the liquid-vapor line extends to increasingly higher pressures and temperatures until it eventually passes over the point of maximum $T_m$ (this would occur for $\epsilon_2\approx 0.020\epsilon$ --- remember: the values of $T_m$ in Fig.\,6 would be overestimated by roughly $100\%$). If a suitably small hard core is added to this potential, a bcc-fcc phase transition will be induced at higher pressure, with likely little influence on the low-pressure part of the phase diagram. The overall phase portrait would now be reminiscent of that of water, with the bcc-fcc coexistence line mimicking the locus of points separating ice-I from ice-III in water. Also the waterlike anomalies would be located at the right place, i.e., above the unique reentrant-melting line. The actual effectiveness of this approach to generating an isotropic potential with a phase behavior reminiscent of water is currently under investigation.

\section{Conclusions}

In this paper, we carefully analyzed the phase behavior of a system of particles interacting through an isotropic two-body potential combining a Gaussian repulsion with a much weaker Gaussian attraction. A weak attraction at medium distances would be a generic trait of the pair interaction between fully interpenetrating polymer chains in a solution, whence the importance of understanding the effects of small attractive forces on the thermodynamic behavior of softly repulsive particles. We found that even a modest attraction is able to change the phase diagram of the GCM in important ways. First of all, a different solid polymorphism shows up in the DGM system, with novel hcp and bcc phases. Of these, the (low-density) bcc phase shows a form of reentrant melting which has a completely different origin from the anomalous melting of the other (high-density) bcc phase. While the latter GCM-type melting is ultimately determined by the boundedness of the repulsive core, it is the shallow potential well that plays a leading role in the weakening of crystal coherence upon compression observed in the low-density bcc phase. In simpler terms, on approaching the bcc-fcc transition pressure at $T=0$, the rigidity of the bcc crystal progressively reduces as a result of the increasing detuning of the nearest-neighbor distance from the center of the attractive well.

We have finally noted that a promising approach to building up an isotropic water-type fluid would be to first increase the strength of the Gaussian attraction and then supplement it with a suitably chosen hard core. The feasibility of this scenario will be the subject of a future study.

\section*{Acknowledgements}
We gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with Ezio Bruno and Dino Costa.

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Italy wants Europe's border agency to stop migrants in transit countries before they board boats rather than working in the Mediterranean, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said on Tuesday.
ROME: Italy wants Europe's border agency to stop migrants in transit countries before they board boats rather than working in the Mediterranean, Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said on Tuesday.
His comments come as the new populist government closed its ports to rescue ships, one of which was forced to disembark more than 600 migrants in Spain at the weekend, and as migration again moves to the top of the EU agenda.
Pressure from Italy and Germany has helped prompt the EU to agree next week to look into creating disembarkation platforms in north Africa and elsewhere to decide asylum requests before claimants get to Europe, according to a draft statement ahead of an EU summit.
The EU border agency, Frontex, runs an operation off the coast of Italy called Themis that works closely with the local coast guard to patrol with 10 ships, two planes and two helicopters.
Since the end of 2013, hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing violence and poverty - mostly in Africa and the Middle East - have travelled to Libya to then try to reach Europe by boat. Thousands have died during the crossing.
While not exclusively a rescue mission, Frontex has picked up thousands of migrants sent out on unsafe boats by Libya-based people smugglers. This year it has helped rescue 3,200 migrants, while a similar sea operation by Frontex last year recovered 21,500.
All of the rescued migrants were brought to Italy.
"We don't want anymore sea rescues by Frontex if the European agency then finds itself with no choice but to bring those rescued to Italian ports," said Toninelli, who oversees the coast guard.
"The battle that we are waging ... is to move Frontex onto solid ground in transit countries," he said at a conference organised in Rome by the EU's anti-human trafficking operation Sophia. "The political objective is to not allow them to leave in the first place."
"We continue to work in accordance with the current operational plan agreed with Italy," a Frontex spokeswoman said.
The one-year Themis mission began in February after being agreed with the previous Italian government.
While details about the EU's possible "disembarkation platforms" are still not known, the United Nations refugee agency already operates a "transit centre" in Niger where asylum seekers can request resettlement in Europe or elsewhere. Another such centre is due to be opened in Tripoli soon.
"Our transit centre in Tripoli is almost ready," Vincent Cochetel, the U.N. agency's special envoy central Mediterranean, said on Twitter. "Resettlement from Libya & Niger now needs to work much faster."


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Home | Culture | A Mediaeval Greek Dynasty Saga
A Mediaeval Greek Dynasty Saga
Culture | 24 Jan 2019
A fascinating read on an oft-ignored facet of Greek history – the role of the influential Komnene dynasty in the Byzantium's battle for survival. John Carr's latest work, published by Pen and Sword, is as engaging as it is enlightening.
In case you were all wondering why our very own John Carr has been absent from these pages lately, the answer is that he has been doing some "serious" writing for a change.
This past half-year saw the release of his latest work under the Pen & Sword imprint, "The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival, 1057-1185." Its title may be a tad on the dry side, but the 224-page hardback, graced with colour plates, is a good, fast-paced read in the Carr style, casting a torchlight into a little-known nook of Greek history and coming up with material worthy of several historical thrillers (not to mention soap operas).
The Komnene Dynasty book cover
After the initial obligatory period of infatuation with ancient Greece common to almost all writers in this clime, Carr has looked deeper into Greek history. "The Byzantine era still hasn't really received the recognition it deserves," he told this reviewer. "In fact, the Byzantine, or Late Roman, Empire lasted 1,100 years – longer than the whole span of ancient Greek history. In my research I came up with astounding human interest material."
The pages bulge with it. On another level Byzantium had the dual task of keeping alive classical Greek culture and language along with Christianity. The two did not always agree. But somehow the balancing act was kept, which is why, in Carr's view, "modern Greece owes far more to Byzantium than it does to some Western mental construct of what 'ancient Greece' actually was."
And true, it's a refreshing change from the diet of "Homer, Plato and Co" to read about what the Greeks were doing in mediaeval times. The dynasty of the Komnenes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries waged simultaneous and long-term warfare against both the Muslims in the east and south, the Normans in the west and various pagan tribes such as the Bulgars in the north.
This warfare nourished leaders like the tireless and fabled Alexios I Komnenos, equally at home on the battlefield and in the comforts of the palace at Constantinople. There is his fascinating daughter Anna Komnene, the author of the acclaimed Alexiad and power in her own right, who was not above employing a form of sexual torture as revenge against a politically uncooperative husband. There is Andronikos I Komnenos, one of those rulers to whom the term monster can be applied without exaggeration, yet who held the utmost fascination for women. There's even a chapter on the Vikings and Anglo-Saxons who fled the Norman conquest of England in 1066 to serve Alexios I as a devoted personal guard.
History isn't just about ideas and trends and what revisionist theorists define as "process." As John Julius Norwich, the doyen of modern Byzantinists, asserts, history is as much about people as processes. Carr, schooled in journalism, follows this model in that the people aspect is brought out more. The motives of Alexios I, Anna and others are personalized to a degree that some scholastic purists may find misleading. But reading this fine book leaves us with little doubt that this mediaeval Greek dynasty all but ignored by the West has given us the ingredients of a very good and fast-paced read.
The Komnene Dynasty: Byzantium's Struggle for Survival, 1057-1185. Published by Pen and Sword Website. Available at all leading international bookstores in Greece and on amazon.co.uk
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Jenkins Marine's Dredging equipment has been kept busy this summer working near Fleetwood. 30m x 9m Backhoe Dredger 'Doreen Dorward' fitted with our 48t long reach excavator, and self propelled 300m3 capacity split hopper barge 'NAB' have been working for Specialist Marine Civil Engineering Firm 'J. Murphy' to provide dredging assistance for the installation of a large wastewater outfall in Anchorsholm.
Both vessels have been working 24/7 from May through to Early August to get the project completed on schedule. The project has had some problems prior to Jenkins' arrival. Last summer when the final section of outfall had been installed severe weather came in and caused extensive damage, and moving the position of the newly installed outfall. Due to the nearshore working environment, the work vessels are very sensitive to weather, and the decision was made to postpone repair work until after the winter.
After a winter's weather washing over the outfall the first task this year was to use the Doreen Dorward to uncover the 620m long damaged inshore section of outfall where buried. The outfall was some 2m diameter and weighed down with 26t saddle weights at regular 5.5m spacings. A submersible 'Bell pump' was fitted to our excavator and used to dredge around the weights, without the risk of damage from the excavator bucket, to enable use of divers to unbolt the 24 saddle weights from this section of pipe. This technique was also used to uncover the flange joint s on the outfall where connections had to be released and re-made. To enable the precise positioning of the dredger on the job a 3D RTK GPS Prolec dig system was installed to the excavator. Other works included the re-dredging of the trench once the damaged section of outfall had been removed to restore the original design profile of the trench, which was 5m below seabed level, and the re-burring the outfall following installation.
Spit barge 'NAB' was used to take spoil away from the outfall during dredging operations, and place spoil back on top of the outfall during backfill operations. To facilitate backfill operations a precision GPS survey spread was installed on the NAB to ensure the barge was exactly over the outfall prior to discharging the hopper over the outfall.


FAIRPORT, NY – [October 01, 2015]- First American Equipment Finance today announced that Janice Schawillie has joined the company in the role of Vice President, Capital Markets.
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Pension triple lock rebellion as retirees erupt at broken promises: A national shame!
Pensions triple lock scrapped for millions of Brits
The life peer attacked the Government for forcing pensioners to "choose between heating and eating" by failing to honour its tripe lock manifesto pledge. In their 2019 election manifesto, the Conservatives promised to increase state pensions each by 2.5 percent, average earnings, or inflation.
However, the lock was suspended for the 2022-23 financial year due to fears the end of the furlough scheme had led to an artificial spike in the rise in average earnings.
Pensions are now set to rise by 3.1 percent from next April, calculated in accordance with September's inflation rate, even though prices are set to spike by as much as five percent come next spring.
Lord Sikka told a rally of dozens of pensioners outside Parliament this afternoon: "Despite the triple lock, 2.1 million pensioners, that is about 18 percent of the pensioners, live in poverty and 1.25 million out of these are women.
"The poverty rate amongst pensioners has increased in the past decade."
He added: "The Government finds it so easy to inflict damage on senior citizens and we are going to say 'no, no more, this is not acceptable."
His intervention came on the same day new figures from the Office of National Statistics warned there were more than 60,000 excess winter deaths in England and Wales last year.
He warned with fuel prices continuing to surge this year, and the suspension of the triple lock, there was a real danger of more pensioners being plunged into poverty and forced to make tough decisions on whether to use their money for food or heating.
He said: "The proportion of our elderly citizens now living in severe poverty is now five times what it was in 1986.
"It is the largest increase in any major European country and it really should be a matter of national shame.
"Every year some three million people are treated for malnutrition or undernutrition and 1.3 million of these are over 65s.
"Again a matter of national shame.
"So rather than lifting retirees out of poverty, the Government has now suspended the triple lock."
He added: "The suspension of the triple lock for just one year means that pensioners would be deprived of £30.5billion of payments and there is no other section of the community which has been inflicted with such damage by the Government.
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"Low state pension now forms a lower base for future increases. That means retirees never ever catch up.
Ministers say they remain committed to the state pension triple lock and the mechanism will be reimposed next year.
In September the Government launched a £500million support fund to help vulnerable households through the winter.
The money was made available for local councils to distribute to those most in need from October.
At the time, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said: "Everyone should be able to afford the essentials, and we are committed to ensuring that is the case.
"Our new Household Support Fund will provide a lifeline for those at risk of struggling to keep up with their bills over the winter, adding to the support the government is already providing to help people with the cost of living."
The extra funding is on top of other support funding already available.
The Warm Home Discount provides a £140 rebate on energy bills each winter to low-income households and the Cold Weather Payment provides £25 extra a week for poorer households when the temperature is consistently below zero.
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Jun 1, 2017 Steven J. Klees explains why technocrats' most important tool is all but useless for making sound policy choices.
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Former teachers often find themselves nostalgic for the rewarding and fulfilling nature of teaching (although less so for some aspects of the American educational system). Whether you are retired or have left the teaching field because of the high stress of the American educational system and are thinking of going back to teaching, you might want to consider teaching English abroad.
As a former teacher, you are a great candidate for earning your TESOL Certificate (Teaching English as a Second Language) and finding the perfect job overseas. You already have the knowledge and expertise to take your skill set to the next level. Teaching English abroad is a highly rewarding experience that broadens your horizons and introduces you to and immerses you in a foreign culture.
Teaching English abroad has a multitude of advantages that former teachers benefit from. Unlike teaching in the States, teachers abroad enjoy flexibility and have the freedom to choose their schedules, contracts, and teaching locations. This leaves plenty of free time to travel, soak in the culture, or just kick back and relax. Teacher schedules are not nearly as rigid as they are in the States.
It is not uncommon for teachers in the United States to be required to teach multiple subjects. With so many different curriculums and materials this can become hectic. Teaching abroad is a lot less stressful as you are only teaching one subject: English (unless you choose to teach additional subjects). In general, teachers abroad are highly respected and students are highly motivated to learn English in order to improve their lives or careers.
Lastly, former teachers enjoy the job security associated with teaching English abroad. Unlike in the American education system, there are plenty of jobs for former teachers available abroad. There is a high demand for English teachers in foreign countries.
For more information on teaching English abroad or jobs for former teachers, don't hesitate to reach out to us!