Door Fitters Corrachree Aberdeenshire: Now and again a scenario arises when you'll need to change one or perhaps several of the doors in your house, and except if you have the required tools and are competent at DIY, you will probably be on the lookout for a local Corrachree door fitter who will be able to do the job for you. You may just want a new front door or back door, or maybe you've had some improvement work done on your house and you would like another door installed, or maybe you've decided to change all your old interior doors for new modern ones to give your home a totally new look. Whichever of these is the truth, you will need to locate a reliable Corrachree door fitter to take a peek, give you a quote and take care of the work for you.
Now, you might be asking "where can I find a trustworthy door fitter near me?". Well, finding a decent door fitter in Corrachree, Aberdeenshire may not be quite as easy as you would think, because pretty much anybody with a few basic tools can offer their services as a door fitter without really being confident in what they are doing. In general you will want to find somebody in Corrachree with some carpentry and joinery qualifications to do your door installation job for you and you would rather employ a tradesman with a proven track record whose work has been reviewed and endorsed by local Corrachree people. This might be where a visit to the Rated People website could be the best option for you. All you have to do is visit the site, pick the type of tradesman you are looking for (a window/conservatory specialist for UPVC doors or a carpenter and joiner for internal wood doors), fill out the form describing your job, and supply a rough budget that you are allocating for your door fitting task. Before too long, you will hear from two or three potential tradesmen, happy to get started on your doors.
When you have a few estimates, you can get back to the Rated People site and check out reviews and testimonials for the Corrachree door fitters who you're considering. Then you will be in a position to make a more informed choice regarding which door fitter you choose and be more confident that they'll be capable of carrying out the work properly. If you prefer not to use a website like Rated People, you could always ask relatives and friends to suggest a door fitter who they've used before.
Doors, just like door fitters, come in many sizes and shapes, therefore you should establish right from the start, exactly what it is that you want. Ask your chosen Corrachree door fitter to double check your measurements and if feasible pick up the doors for you, that way if there are any problems, they are down to him and it will be his responsibility to remedy them. This could prompt the question "what style of doors do I need?", and this is really a valid question because with there being so many styles of door to choose from, you will have to match your door fitter to your door as it were. For example, if you need a new solid oak back door, a carpenter and joiner will be your best option, if you need several wooden internal doors installed, again you should find yourself a carpenter/joiner, but if you need a replacement UPVC door fitted, you would be better off seeking assistance from a window/conservatory or double glazing specialist.
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While hitting the gym and getting proper rest are essential components of bodybuilding success, nutrition also plays an important role. Choosing healthy foods can accelerate your progress, whether you are in a mass-gaining phase or pre-competition dieting phase. Lasagna has some nutritional benefits for bodybuilding, but may not be appropriate if you are dieting. Note that different recipes have different nutritional profiles, so check nutrition facts when available.
When you are gaining muscle for bodybuilding, high-calorie foods are ideal. Lasagna is good for muscle-gain phases in bodybuilding because it combines a number of different ingredients -- beef, pasta, ricotta cheese and tomatoes -- that weightlifting website Muscle & Strength considers to be among the best bodybuilding foods. The large number of ingredients makes lasagna high in calories, as a 1-cup serving provides 260 calories. By comparison, 1cup of skim milk provides just 80 calories.
Lasagna is high in protein, which is the nutrient your body uses to build muscle. Each cup of lasagna offers 16 g of protein, which is twice that of a cup of skim milk. If you are dieting for a bodybuilding competition, you may wish to choose higher-protein, lower-calorie foods, such as chicken breast. Research published in a 2009 issue of "Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases" indicates that reduced-calorie, high-protein diets can promote more fat loss than diets lower in protein.
Carbohydrates are important for bodybuilding because they provide energy for workouts, aid in recovery and are protein-sparing, which means that consuming carbohydrates allows your body to use protein for muscle-building, rather than energy. Lasagna is rich in carbohydrates, with 26 g per cup. Lasagna provides 5 g of fiber per cup. Fiber is important because it helps reduce cholesterol levels.
Although many diets avoid fat, consuming fat can be beneficial for bodybuilders, as it is high in calories and can help you achieve the caloric surplus muscle gain requires. A 1-cup serving of lasagna offers 10 g of fat, with 5 g of saturated fat. If you are dieting for competition, you may wish to find a food with less fat, as the fat in lasagna provides 90 out of the 260 total calories in the dish.


Kaidro is a coming of age story that follows a 17-year-old girl named Ava. She discovers that she has supernatural abilities after making contact with an unknown life form. Society has been torn apart, and she discovers it is her destiny to connect with the planet's spirit and help save humanity.


The choice of Ruby on Rails is an interesting one. While Scoop, which Dailykos now runs on, is optimized for use as a Community Network Service, Ruby on Rails is a Web framework that needs a database and Web server to become active.
When newsmen think of Markos Moulitsas, they think of him as a liberal activist, maybe a blogger.
In this they are mistaken. He is, in fact, an entrepreneur, using open source to build a content business.
In doing this he has cracked puzzles that have bedevilled business schools for years. How do you make money with open source, and how do you build an Internet content business without capital? And in the political space, no less?
Markos, whose nickname is Kos, has placed himself on this page today by announcing, through a user named Hunter, that the site will soon upgrade to Ruby on Rails. Here is the note asking for programming help.
Ruby on Rails doesn't specify its database environment. It can be used with Ingres, with PostgreSQL, with mySQL, even with a proprietary database (although who would want to). Ruby itself is a programming language originally developed in Japan. It you want to meet Kos, I'm guessing he'll be at the Mountain West Ruby Conference in Salt Lake City next month.
More important is that by building on Ruby on Rails, DailyKos doesn't have to be "just" a discussion site any more. Ruby on Rails can be used for ecommerce, for file hosting, for asset management, for group chat, or for sharing audio files. No wonder Kos continues to gain market share in his niche.
What this means in practice is that DailyKos can become a sort of "AOL for Liberals," pushing into niches currently occupied by companies as diverse as CafePress and (yes, even) YouTube. It can scale into another league.
Finally consider that the company's niche, political content, is an area that has defied many, many attempts at entrepreneurship over many decades. Magazines like The New Republic and the National Review are subsidized by those who believe in them, they are not profit centers. DailyKos is a business.
And Markos Moulitsas is a businessman, a very good one.


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Gang rap feud led to shootings
Jim Herron Zamora, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
San Francisco police said that a gang feud that turned a hip-hop party into wild shootout over the weekend stems from a conflict over competing rap songs at an event six months ago on Bayview Hill.
Tensions between "Big Block" and "Full Fledged West Mob" had been simmering for years in Bayview-Hunters Point, but the latest violence between the two gangs began at a free-form rap party last November in which both groups performed in competition, police said.
The scene was an outdoor hip-hop event near the top of Bayview Hill. The show's promoter had ties to both gangs.
"Both gangs consider themselves to be rap groups," said Officer Michael Wells of the San Francisco Police Gang Task Force.
At first things were peaceful, Wells said. But Big Block didn't believe it got fair treatment, Wells said.
Fighting broke out, ending the show. A day or so later, the promoter was shot and wounded by a suspected member of Big Block.
"That shooting . . . ignited it," Wells said.
Police believe what happened at that November event was responsible for three tit-for-tat shootings in The City over the weekend, including the one at the hip-hop party, one on Kirkwood Street on Friday afternoon and the third on Northridge Road at 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
The first shooting, on Friday, left two teenagers wounded; two wounded at the hip-hop party remained in critical condition Monday night at San Francisco General Hospital and six others were recovering from less serious wounds; the third shooting, just hours after the party, wounded one person. His wounds were not life-threatening.
Police have made no arrests in any of the shootings.
Chief Fred Lau, who interrupted his vacation to be briefed on the weekend's violence, said the department is trying to stall the gang war before it gets any bloodier.
"We have a pretty good idea" of the individuals responsible for the shootings, Lau said.
But Lau said it was difficult to prosecute gang cases because witnesses fear their testimony will make them future victims of reprisals.
"We need help from the community," Lau said. "Whenever there is a series o f gang shootings, we need to really reach out to the community to be our eyes an d ears."
From November until last weekend, Wells said, there have been about 20 shootings that police believe the gangs committed. In most cases, shots were fired at rival gang members, but no one was hit. Beat cops said there have probably been other shootings but many cases aren't reported if no one is hurt.
Gangs on nearby turf
Big Block and Full Fledged West Mob are similar and their turfs are a couple of blocks apart in the same neighborhood.
The West Mob is based in the public housing projects along West Point and Middle Point roads near the top of Bayview Hill.
Big Block, which police consider the more dangerous, claims its home turf in the projects along Northridge and Harbor roads on the southeastern side of Bayview Hill.
Both groups are made up of about 30 core members whose ages range from about 14 to 25. Both draw their ranks from primarily African American men who live or formerly lived on Bayview Hill.
Aside from the turf war, both gangs have been linked to other crimes, including drug dealing, Wells said.
The latest shootings started Friday afternoon when two teenagers were wounded as they drove on Kirkwood Street near Third Street.
James Hill, 19, was stopped with his passengers, David George, 18, and another man about 4 p.m. when an unidentified gunman walked up to the car and fired several shots, wounding Hill and George.
Hill managed to drive the trio to San Francisco General Hospital, where he was treated for a bullet in his jaw. George was released after treatment for a gunshot wound in his buttocks.
George told an investigator, "I don't think they were shooting at us," according to a police report. But investigators later learned from others that the two men were members of West Mob and the shooter was from Big Block. Police haven't determined why Hill and George were targeted other than that they were m embers of West Mob.
West Mob did not wait long to retaliate.
On Saturday night, crews from both sides were among the estimated 4,000 people at a hip-hop party at the Armenian Community Center at 825 Brotherhood Way.
The event, which was supposed to be a party for only about 500, was rowdy at first, but not violent, police said. But because so many showed up, the organizers soon lost control, police said.
Wells said there was a competition for men parading in boxer shorts. Then during a "female competition in thongs . . . the pushing and shoving started in the crowd."
In the confusion, members of the rival gangs began scuffling, then one suspected gang member pulled out a gun and started shooting.
The crowd panicked. Other gang members then went for their guns. Witnesses said the groups were trading volleys in the middle of Brotherhood Way as people tried to flee.
The first police officers on the scene said that the crowd nearly erupted into a riot, with some people throwing bottles and rocks at them.
One person was shot inside the community center and three others were shot outside.
Tommy Carpenter, who police said is in his 20s, was shot in the face and remained in critical condition on Monday.
Reginald Whitley, 19, was in serious condition with a gunshot wound in the chest and three in his buttocks. He is believed to be a San Francisco resident but authorities have no current address for him.
A 17-year-old from Pittsburg was grazed by a bullet in his right temple. He was also released from the hospital.
A 20-year-old woman, Noni Galloway of Alameda, suffered a serious shoulder cut. She has since been released from the hospital, police said.
Authorities said several people admitted themselves into hospitals in Oakland, where they were treated for minor injuries.
While officers were still clearing up the mess at Brotherhood Way, police said a retribution shooting occurred on gang turf at 3:30 a.m. Sunday.
Charlie Young, 21, was walking on Northridge Road in the Bayview when he was wounded in a drive-by shooting.
"We discovered that the Northridge shooting was a retaliation shooting committed by Full Fledged West Mob," Wells said.
Police are not sure that Young is a gang member, but they believe that gang members "decided to strike out at someone in that area" as an act of retribution. <
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Austin, Texas is known as the "Live Music Capital of the World" and offers a seemingly unlimited array of music venues. Musicians play everything from Reggae and rock to classical and contemporary. People living in, attending school, and working in Austin will also find plenty of other types of activities in this Texas state capital, like the visiting the Austin Zoo and kayaking on Lady Bird Lake. Diagnostic Medical Sonographers will appreciate the fact that the Austin, Texas healthcare industry is dedicated to providing access to quality and affordable medical services to all in need.
The best Diagnostic Medical Sonography programs in Austin as of 2017 are the ones accredited through the Committee on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). The nationally recognized accreditation is proof each program meets the highest standards for training future healthcare professionals who plan on sitting for the ARDMS exams and eventually working in the field of ultrasound technology.
There are two CAAHEP accredited sonography programs in Austin in 2017 offering a variety of degrees and certifications. Austin Community College has strict minimum entrance requirements and limited enrollment so it is important to apply well in advance of the desired start date. The job placement of sonography graduates from this community college is 100%. The Virginia College Diagnostic Medical Sonography program takes 21 months to complete.
Austin is home to the University of Texas at Austin with over 46,000 students and the Austin Community College District with an enrollment of approximately 11,000 students. There are numerous smaller schools in the area, and Texas State University-San Marcos is only 31 miles from Austin and has an enrollment of over 23,000 students. Allied Health students specializing in sonography in 2017 will find that Austin host an active student population.
For school options in other cities or other states, check this sonography school directory 2017.


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Leading cancer charities have joined NICE in calling on Roche to lower the price for its advanced breast cancer drug Kadcyla (trastuzumab emtansine).
Breakthrough Breast Cancer said that NICE had gone "over and above their usual processes" to try to approve the drug, while Breast Cancer Campaign recognised the flexibility shown by NICE in its assessment of the drug.
NICE applied its flexibility for assessing the cost-effectiveness of end-of-life cancer drugs, but concluded in final draft guidance that the high price of the treatment is still unaffordable for used on the NHS.
Generally if a treatment costs more than £30,000 per quality-adjusted life years (QALY), it would not be recommended as cost-effective by NICE. In terms of Kadcyla, the QALY value was estimated at about £166,000.
Currently, the drug is being funded at its full list price of more than £90,000 per patient via the government's Cancer Drugs Fund.
Kadcyla combines Herceptin (trastuzamab) with a chemotherapy agent to treat women with HER2-positive breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, cannot be surgically removed and has stopped responding to initial treatment.
The drug has been shown to extend overall survival by around 5.8 months when compared with treatment with lapatinib and capecitabine.
It is estimated that around 1,500 women in Britain could benefit from the drug every year.
Sir Andrew Dillon, Chief Executive of NICE, said: "Although Roche proposed a discount to the full list price of Kadcyla, it made little difference to its value for money, leaving it well above the top of our specially extended range of cost effectiveness for cancer drugs.
Sir Andrew added: "Roche considers that the 2014 Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS) agreement includes an expectation that NICE will ignore the price a company asks for its product, because the agreement provides for a rebate to be paid, by the pharmaceutical industry to the NHS where expenditure on branded drugs rises above an agreed level.
Sally Greenbrook, Breakthrough Breast Cancer's Senior Policy Officer, said: "Sadly this news has not come as a shock to us - Kadcyla is a brilliant drug, but it's also incredibly expensive. NICE have gone over and above their usual processes to try to approve it but despite this, and the discount offered by the manufacturer, the revised price for Kadcyla is still too high to be considered cost effective.
"We believe all cancer patients should be able to access the best possible treatment but for this to happen within the confines of the NHS budget, prices set by the pharmaceutical industry for impressive, life-extending drugs such as Kadcyla must come down. It's impossible to put a price on life's precious moments. But it's not impossible to put a fair price on drugs.
Mia Rosenblatt, Head of Policy and Campaigns, at Breast Cancer Campaign, said: "We recognise that NICE showed flexibility in its reassessment of the drug by using its end of life criteria and that the current boundaries that control NICE's decision-making process meant that they had no option but to reject the treatment at the price offered. While there is a broader question about the existing process NICE has to work to, we believe that given the current context, much more could also be done by Roche to ensure the drug is priced at a level that ensures its availability.
Last month, the Irish equivalent of NICE – The National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE) ruled that Kadcyla is not cost-effective for use at the price submitted by Roche.
Analysts estimate that Kadcyla could generate annual peak sales of $2 billion to $5 billion for Roche.


Aly Raisman, who led the US women's gymnastics team to victory this week in Rio and four years ago in London, knew exactly where she would be today.
Raisman's timing was a little off -- it only took her nine years after camp to become an Olympic gymnast (and 13 years to do it again).
If the Olympics teach you anything, it's that if you dream of something and work really, really, really, really hard at it, you can achieve it.
It was absolutely remarkable for Raisman to make the Olympic team two times in a row. Gabby Douglas joined her in this incredible feat. Gymnasts' peak careers are characteristically short given the way their changing bodies affects performance and the propensity for injury in the sport.
But Douglas and Raisman, who are 20 and 22, respectively, beat the odds to make their second Olympic team and then beat even more odds by winning the team competition back to back.
And it's like, when quarterbacks win the Super Bowl, they don't ask them if they're done.
I've got the rest of my life to just chill back and lay back.
Raisman and casually the greatest gymnast of all time, Simone Biles, are competing on Thursday for the individual all-around in Rio.


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Trope, Comedy Tropes, Truth in Television, Ceiling Banger
Ceiling Banger
Damn it Lawrence, can't you just pretend like we can't hear each other through the wall?
—Peter Gibbons, Office Space
Living in an apartment has a big issue. They aren't soundproof, so noise from one carries to the other. This is true in real life as well as in media.
And in both, a common way to deal with this is to bang on the wall/floor/ceiling, depending on the direction of the noise, in the hopes that this will quiet the offending noise. And in both, this rarely works, and may even encourage the neighbors.
One of the most commonly portrayed versions of this is an old person banging on the ceiling with a broom.
If the setting is a dormitory (again both in fiction and out), expect this to be turned Up to Eleven, since:
young and frequently inebriated college students are hardly known for their ability to remain quiet and
dorms tend to have even thinner walls and even more people in the same amount of space than an apartment building.
Right Through the Wall may induce this due to people being entirely too loud about their... business.
Compare Big "Shut Up!",
Not to be confused with the Darth Wiki page Wall Banger.
Examples of Ceiling Banger include:
Inverted in a commercial for something, where a student is studying and can hear Prozzak's 'Omabolasire' coming from upstairs. The student then bangs on the ceiling with a broom and yells "Turn it up! I can't hear the words!"
Played with in a French condom commercial, where a woman is inspecting the soundproofing of an apartment she might rent. She begins panting and moaning, getting louder and more dramatic until she hears the angry banging of the neighbors that indicates the place is not for her. here
Played with in a commercial for something: First we see the remains of a wild party, including passed-out guests. Then we see the upstairs tenant placing 50-inch speakers face-down on his floor with a sheet of plywood between them. Then he stands on the plywood, wearing cowboy boots with microphones taped to them. Cue an epic stomp-dance routine so loud it makes the downstairs furniture walk around by itself.
The first few episodes of "Welcome to The NHK" have the main protagonist, Satou, being driven half mad by his next door neighbor (next door but sharing the same wall), who keeps playing the same J-Pop song, nonstop, 24 hours a day. A number of times he angrily kicks the wall and yells for his neighbor to turn the music down.
In an episode of Shin Chan (the Gag Dub), Shin gets into a stomp competition with the landlady on the floor below. At least to him it was a competition. She was just ornery about the stomping.
An episode of My Little Sister Can't Be This Cute had Kirino Squeeing about an h-scene in the Eroge she's playing... so her brother had to slam the wall to quiet her down. Kirino is not amused.
The Wizards of Waverly Place 'Jalex'-fic 'Justin Left Stanford' is made of this trope. Central to the story is how Alex gets back at Justin for going to college in California (and leaving her) by learning how to use the 'spell locks' to ensure that during his vacation time at home, he can hear and enjoy every moment of her nightly fantasies about him.
In Life Left Behind, Draco has left the wizarding world and lives as a Muggle in New York. One day, he comes home to find a chair on his coffee table and his best friend Joel on top of that, banging the ceiling with a broomstick and screaming obscene words while the upstairs neighbor can be heard deliberately stomping around above.
In the movie Office Space, Peter's neighbor Lawrence is constantly banging on the walls and listening in on his life. He even joins in on a supposedly top-secret conversation from the other side of the wall.
Peter: "Oh, it's okay... Lawrence is cool."
In Antonia, a character known only as the Protestant, bangs on the ceiling with a broom whenever the lady above him, Mad Madonna, howls at the moon.
Reminiscent of an Ogden Nash poem which included something like:
We might love the people upstairs wonderous
If, instead of above us, they lived just underus.
An old joke / fable type thing: A man was staying in a hotel room and complained to the manager that he was kept awake all night by the guest in the room above him. They visited the room above and found a farmer who had arrived back in the hotel, exhausted, in the middle of the night. The farmer apologised and explained that he just flopped on his bed, and shoved off his boot which landed heavily on the floor. Realising his mistake and the noise, he had taken the other boot off and placed it carefully on the floor. The manager asked the original complainer, "You were kept awake all night from thump?", to which the man replied "I was waiting for the second boot to drop!"
Mentioned and averted in Fight Club. The Narrator mentions he lives in a high priced apartment for urban professionals with thick concrete walls and floors:
Narrator: Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The walls were solid concrete. A foot of concrete is important when your next-door neighbor lets their hearing aid go and have to watch game-shows at full volume. Or when a volcanic blast of debris that used to be your furniture and personal effects blows out of your floor-to-ceiling windows and sails flaming into the night. I suppose these things happen.
Used as a Meet Cute in PG Wodehouse's short story "The Man Upstairs". She's playing the piano, he knocks on the floor to quiet her down, she goes upstairs to give him a piece of her mind, and a friendship ensues. It later turns out that he moved upstairs in the first place because he wanted a chance to get her attention and did so at the first opportunity. The story ends with a Call Back in which she changes her mind about being angry at him and knocks on the ceiling to summon him downstairs.
Mr. Heckles on Friends. When he passed on, Chandler noticed that the noise from other apartments was actually loud, and did the ceiling banging himself until he realized in horror that he was acting just like Mr. Heckles (this following a number of improbable similarities from Heckles's yearbook).
The first-season episode Meadowlands of The Sopranos: Meadow and Hunter are playing music way too loud, prompting longer and louder "HEEEEYYY!"s from Tony, who pounds the wall as he shouts.
In Mork and Mindy, this trope is used for a classic gag. Mindy is complaining about a ceiling banger below her apartment and Mork suggests she make the best of it making by making a game of it. When Mindy asks how, Mork stomps on the floor and uses the ceiling banger's subsequent banging to sweep Mindy into a square dance with himself as the caller.
The Monty Python's Flying Circus episode "Sex and Violence" had a brief bit with a man banging on the ceiling with a broom. It was the transition between two sketches, with the family of the working-class playwright being shushed by Michael Palin so he could introduce man with three buttocks. "We've done that!" All right, all right! A man with... nine legs! "He ran away." Oh, bloody hell. Uh... a Scotsman on a horse! {{[[[Stock Footage]] old ladies applaud}}]
Happens in a couple of How I Met Your Mother episodes, most notably in the one where Future Ted tells his kids that they were annoyed by the loud bagpiping of the neighbors. Also referenced in another episode where Lilly tells Ted she can hear Robin's orgasms because the walls are thin.
Bernard does it in an episode of Black Books, despite the fact the couple making the noise are not actually upstairs, and causes a huge chunk of plaster to fall on a slumbering Fran in the process.
An episode of House revolves around this with the cranky neighbor below being a Canadian veteran who lost an arm in Vietnam and suffers from extremely painful phantom limb. It's eventually resolved when House breaks into his apartment, knocks him out, duct tapes him to a chair, and... cures him.
A Community episode ends with Annie banging on her floor in a vain attempt to quiet the PA sales announcements at the dildo store underneath her apartment.
"Knock Three Times" is a popular song recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn. In the song, the narrator tells his beautiful downstairs neighbor, whom he's never met, but nonetheless is in love with, that she should knock on the ceiling three times, if she wants to meet him, twice on the radiator pipe, if she is not interested.
Barenaked Ladies' rather nostalgic song, The Old Apartment, has the following line:
How is the neighbor downstairs? How is her temper this year?
I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun!
Inverted in Girls Aloud song "Sound of the Underground":
Disco dancing with the lights down low
Beats are pumping on the stereo
Neighbour's banging on the bathroom wall
He's sayin' crank the bass, I gotta get some more
Voltaire's The Man Upstairs
As far as I can tell, he juggles bowling balls
but he's not good at it.
Used a lot in recent years in For Better or For Worse because of the crabby downstairs neighbours Mike and Deanna have...and Deanna's mom provoking them for being so crabby. Subverted in that the neighbours damage the ceiling while doing this and the landlady had all the proof she needed finding the broken plaster in the trash to hit them with the bill for the repairs.
It would probably help, at this point, to point out that said crabby neighbors weren't just intolerant of noise in spite of being well aware that the people upstairs had young children-they were portrayed as horrible human beings without anything resembling a redeeming feature, so the landlady wasn't just being stingy when she slapped them with the bill, she was eagerly searching for grounds to evict them.
They also Violated the building's "No Smoking" rules. eventually, the building burns down, thanks to those awful neighbors smoking in bed
Bear in mind that in spite of all the myriad and sundry lease violations they committed before damaging the ceiling, the landlady couldn't evict them because she wasn't willing to put in the effort to document said violations so that she would have proof in case they tried to contest the eviction.
The Goon Show: In "The International Christmas Pudding", Minnie and Henry are trying to sleep in a tent when they are disturbed by banging from the tent upstairs.
The thin bedroom walls (and the requisite banging) were one of the reasons Commander Murray was so keen to move out of his parents-in-law house in The Navy Lark.
Prisoner of Second Avenue features a fight between the Edisons and their unseen Scandinavian stewardess neighbors.
Musa's upstairs neighbors in Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World do this a few times.
In the DS game Touch Detective, your first case has you visiting the main character's extremely ditzy friend in her apartment. While you're talking, she hears her upstairs neighbor comes in, excuses herself for a moment, then starts banging on the ceiling with a stick of some sort, receiving some stomps in reply. When your shocked main character asks what she's doing, she explains that she's just greeting her neighbor in morse code. The problem? As you find out when you visit the neighbor, your friend never explained this system at all, and the neighbor is just trying to get her to shut up with their "replies". You, of course, explain the mistake. It's implied that the neighbor goes along with it from then on, but it's not really brought up again, so who knows?
In The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker, there are two brothers in a house on the first island. The strong brother on the ground floor sometimes knocks things over by ramming into the wall, the smart brother on the top floor responds by banging loudly on the floor/ceiling while yelling for him to stop that.
The Sims 2 Apartment Life lets you be on either side of the equation: Your sim may have a noisy neighbor, and decide to bang on the wall, or your sim may be a noisy neighbor, and have his/her wall banged upon.
However, dorm walls in The Sims 2 University never have the same problem; a Sim can sleep in his/her dorm room even if a wild party is going on in common space.
This is the Land Of the Livid Dead's first reaction to Rayman and company's noisy dozing in Rayman Origins, causing the tree Rayman's crew is in to shake. Not only do they fail to get the message, but the shaking causes they're snoring to increase tempo.
In Super Mario RPG, one citizen of Monstro Town complains that he keeps hearing strange noises and incoherent muttering next door. Mario tries to investigate, but the door is always locked. Later in the game, Mario can open the door, and it turns out his neighbor is Culex, a powerful sorceror drawn in the normal Final Fantasy art style, and the house is actually a portal to his personal dimension, an Amazing Technicolor Battlefield. Culex was about to invade Mario's dimension when Mario arrived.
Eulice does this in one of the early strips of Ménage à 3 - with a twist: she does indeed interrupt a conversation, but not due to being bothered by the noise. Rather, it is solely to reaffirm a statement in the conversation that she will have Gary's hide in the event the rent is not paid promptly.
This Subnormality comic
Parodied in a cutaway gag on Family Guy. A guy sneezed, and that set off the woman in the apartment below. The guy sighed at this overreaction, and she threatened to call the police.
In a Cold Opening for Futurama, there are spring sounds that make it seem like the couple next door are having sex (Fry even complains that "they've been at it for hours!"). Fry bangs on the wall to tell them to shut up. Pan to the next room... where robots with springs for torsos are bouncing up and down, playing cards. One applies some oil to his springs and yells an apology. It's a robot apartment building, after all.
An animated insert on Sesame Street has an insomniac living on the second floor of a three-story apartment building. His upstairs neighbor snores and his downstairs neighbor sneezes. (Watch it here.)
In the "Dial M For Monkey" segment of Dexter's Laboratory, Magmanamus, a giant magma monster that lives in the center of earth, pounds ceiling of its room with a broom to shout the noise of the city that woke him up. When it doesn't work he gets outside.
In One Hundred and One Dalmatians, this is Nanny's standard method of gaining her employer's attention when he's working on his music in his attic workshop. Thus, it is a welcome signal to take a break instead of being one of irritation.
Done in the Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy episode "A Glass Of Warm Ed", with Sarah banging a lawnmower-toy thing on the floor.
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I am sure that you discuss dietary factors with your rosacea patients. For years, we have told them to avoid spicy food, hot food, alcohol, caffeine, preserved meats, and other known triggers. However, we do not usually discuss the fat content of the diet. A new study published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology demonstrations that a high fat diet can increase skin inflammation.
Based on findings that altering the gut bacteria of mice can increase the severity of skin inflammation, researchers hypothesized that a high-fat diet (HFD) could change gut flora in a similar way and therefore also cause skin inflammation. As hypothesized, mice that were fed a HFD experienced a massive increase of IL17+Vg6+ in the skin, signaling significant inflammation. Researchers found that this effect could be reversed using gut-specific antibiotics or by blocking IL-1 signaling.
Although further research is needed, these findings suggest that there is a strong connection between gut bacteria and the delicate microbiome of the skin. Since gut flora can be altered through diet, patients with chronic inflammatory conditions such as rosacea, psoriasis, and acne should pay close attention to the foods they eat, in addition to the topical products they use. Patients who are struggling to manage rosacea flares may benefit from limiting the fat content of their diets, while also avoiding the known triggers listed above and using a customized skin care regimen.
As these findings suggest, adding the right living organisms to the gastrointestinal tract could have a profound effect on systemic inflammation throughout the body, including the skin. We are still learning more about which probiotics to use to have this effect. Still, one study found that by effectively treating bacterial overgrowths in the gut such as SIBO and hypochlorhydria, rosacea symptoms on the skin are also positively affected.
Similar studies have found links between various oral probiotics and improvements in acne and atopic dermatitis symptoms, further emphasizing the connection between gut and skin microbiomes.
Exciting new research is being done to learn more about the relationship between the GI system and the skin. As we begin to understand more about the ways in which specific probiotics can influence gut and skin microbiota, new treatment approaches can be developed that would target the underlying inflammation associated with rosacea and other inflammatory skin conditions.
In the meantime, make sure your rosacea patients understand the unique characteristics of their skin and how to properly care for it. The Skin Type Solutions system can be an invaluable tool to help you diagnose each patient's skin type and provide them with step-by-step instructions for the proper skin care regimen. Combined with other treatment methods like trigger avoidance and new prescription medication such as Rhofade™, dietary and skin care changes could have a positive impact on overall skin health and appearance.
You can learn more about how Skin Type Solutions works to help you provide customized skin care plans on www.STSFranchise.com, or send your questions to info@stsfranchise.com.


Dell brings a powerful laptop for gaming enthusiasts.
At the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Dell and Alienware have launched its Alienware Area-51m, which is touted as the world's most powerful gaming laptop. It is also the first product to reflect the new Legend brand identity.
The company claims that the reimagined Area-51m is the most upgradeable gaming laptop ever built. It marks the first and only laptop with a 9th Gen 8-core desktop processors, 64GB2 of memory, 2.5Gbps Ethernet technology, upgradeable graphics, and desktop processors, and 17" Alienware laptop with a narrow-bezel display with 144Hz. The Area-51m also has thermal and cooling technology, 50% more performance and 32% less volume than its predecessor.
Alienware's latest flagship mobile gaming experience, the new Area-51m is stuffed with an array of gaming features including the Tobii eye-tracking technology and the latest Alienware Command Center.
It is powered by the 8th-gen Intel Core i5 and i7 processors featuring dynamic CPU overclocking, thanks to elevated thermal headroom from Cryo-Tech Cooling technology.
These processors are paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series GPUs that offer features including real-time ray tracing, artificial intelligence, and programmable shading. The Alienware Area-51m with Legend design available Jan. 29th, 2019, starting at $2,549.
Besides, the G5 15 and G7 (in both 15" and 17" models) are redesigned to deliver enhanced performance with upscale features in a sleek chassis. The G5 and G7 incorporate 8th gen Intel CFL-H quad- and hex core processors and the latest NVIDIA graphics.
In addition to the option of a blazing 144Hz refresh rate and G-SYNC display panels, the G5 and G7 are offering Alienware Command Center and 4-zone RGB keyboard with customizable backlighting for the first time.
The Dell G5 15 Special Edition is also available in alpine white, with a clear panel on the bottom of the system to show off the blue fans of the cooling system. The Alienware m15 with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 Series GPU is available from January 29th, 2019, starting at $1,579.99, while the Dell G7 17 will be starting at $1,380.


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Q: Asp.net core API returning 404 when using policy based authorization on action method I am using jwt authentication and policy based authorization. When using the attribute with [Authorize(Policy = "Admin")] I get a 404 with even my jwt token contains claim with type 'RoleType'.
Here's my ConfigureServices:
 public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
 {

            #region UserLogin Lock

            services.Configure<IdentityOptions>(opts =>
            {
                opts.Lockout.AllowedForNewUsers = true;
                opts.Lockout.DefaultLockoutTimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10);
                opts.Lockout.MaxFailedAccessAttempts = 3;
            });

            #endregion

            #region API Version

            services.AddApiVersioning(config =>
            {
                config.DefaultApiVersion = new ApiVersion(1, 0);
                config.ReportApiVersions = true;
                config.AssumeDefaultVersionWhenUnspecified = true;

                config.ApiVersionReader = new QueryStringApiVersionReader("api-version");
                SwaggerConfig.UseQueryStringApiVersion("api-version");
            });

            services.AddHostedService<Worker>();
                        services.Configure<Settings>(Configuration.GetSection("Settings"));

            services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
            options.UseSqlServer(Configuration["Settings:DbConnection"]));

            services.AddIdentity<IdentityUser, IdentityRole>()
                .AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>()
                .AddDefaultTokenProviders();

            services.AddAuthentication(JwtBearerDefaults.AuthenticationScheme)
             .AddJwtBearer(options =>
             {
                 options.RequireHttpsMetadata = false;
                 options.SaveToken = true;
                 options.TokenValidationParameters = new TokenValidationParameters
                 {
                     ValidateIssuer = true,
                     ValidateAudience = true,
                     ValidateLifetime = true,
                     ValidateIssuerSigningKey = true,
                     ValidIssuer = Configuration["Jwt:Issuer"],
                     ValidAudience = Configuration["Jwt:Issuer"],
                     IssuerSigningKey = new SymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Configuration["Jwt:Key"]))
                 };
             });
            services.AddAuthorization(options =>
            {
                options.AddPolicy("Admin", policy =>
                {
                    policy.RequireClaim("RoleType", "Admin");
                });
                            });

            services.AddMvc();
            services.AddControllers().AddNewtonsoftJson(options =>
                    options.SerializerSettings.ReferenceLoopHandling = Newtonsoft.Json.ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore);

}

And here is my action method where I am using policy
        [Authorize(Policy = "Admin")]
        [HttpGet]
        [MapToApiVersion("1.0")]
        public async Task<ActionResult> GetAllCompany()
        {
            try
            {
                var resultData = await _companyService.GetAllCompany();
                if (resultData == null)
                {
                    return NotFound();
                }
                return Ok(resultData);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                _
            }
            return Ok();

        }

It is working fine with tags [Authorize(AuthenticationSchemes = "Bearer")] and [Authorize(AuthenticationSchemes = "Bearer", Roles = UserPolicy.CompanyUsersAndPatients)] but not with policy

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Welcome to Kakovatos in Ilia. Here, apart from the lush surroundings, you will enjoy a swim in the stunning sandy beach. Very close to the beach across the stadium, we have created a wonderful place built with love, absolutely quiet, overlooking the forest.
Welcome to Kakovatos in Ilia. Here, apart from the lush surroundings, you will enjoy a swim in the stunning sandy beach. Very close to the beach across the stadium, we have created a wonderful place built with love, absolutely quiet, overlooking the forest. With the tradition and experience over 20 years of our operation and certification of the European Union under the brand of Greek cuisine, we welcome you to enjoy quality and great taste to food cooked with passion and pure ingredients. You can also try the grilled and wonderful tidbits of our spit. Even accepting orders for our specialty "rooster pasta" and "corned kagiana." And whatever else is desired after the swim. The room is available for all events. Especially on the outside we can serve up to 1000 people.


Conference Centre – TowersStreet - Your premier Alton Towers guide!
The Alton Towers Conference Centre is attached to both of Alton Towers Resort hotels and accessable directly from outside near the circular Alton Towers Hotel car-park. It's an extravagantly decorated facility with a handy modular design so that the conference rooms can be adapted to suit an orientation of your choice.
The lower ground state-room also has access to a secluded patio area and the whole facility is far enough away from the theme park to keep noise and interruption away.
Obviously the conference centre is not a regularly attended part of the resort for theme park enthusiasts, though we have had the pleasure of using the facilities on occasion. The centre is definitely a fantastic venue for a conference with a difference, and few other locations could boast the range of facilities on offer at a theme park. The food and service is top-quality and the theming in the centre give any event that extra touch of class.
We have had the pleasure of organising events with the corporate hospitality team and they are an incredibly helpful group of people who really make the organisation and running of an event as easy and stress-free as possible.
The Conference Centre have various facilities on offer, which the conference centre team can help you select to ensure you have the most suitable room and equipment for your event.
This is the largest room available at the centre, seating a whopping 550 people! The Stateroom is fitted with all the latest audio, video and lighting equipment there is to help add that bit of flare to your event. Being located on the ground floor it is also easily accessible if you should have any props or equipment of your own to bring with you.
Not only does the room have ample floorspace and facilities it also includes an outdoor patio, where visitors can grab a breath of fresh air, and even includes a bar area in the room, where the catering team can serve drinks from. The catering team can also serve meals in the Stateroom, by prior arrangement with the conference team.
Want to make the most of the Staterooms facilities, but are planning an event on a smaller scale? No problem! The Stateroom can be split into three smaller rooms for such occasions, offering all the same great features but with a much smaller capacity.
The Syndicate rooms are a set of smaller rooms that are ideal for splitting off into smaller groups for various activities. Each room has a theme (including some on popular rides like Nemesis, Air and Hex). All the rooms come with power and network sockets to facilitate use of computers and other devices.
Looking for something a bit smaller than The Stateroom? The Emperor's Suite is located on the ground floor of the Alton Towers Hotel, opposite the Dragon Bar, and has a capacity of 200 guests. The suite can be used for seminars, and presentations, just like the Stateroom, and can be equipped with AV equipment should it be needed.
Just like the Stateroom, the Emperor's Suite can be divided down into three smaller rooms, to offer the same experience at a fraction of the size.
Sir Algenon's Lounge can be found on the first floor of the conference centre, above the Stateroom. This area is one of the more relaxed areas of the centre, with comfy seating areas, and an open area called The Hub, which is the perfect place to start an event and get everyone ready.
For a brief period in 2012 Sir Algenon's Lounge was converted into Sir Algenon's Bar and Grill. This restaurant offered a Woodcutters style menu, and was intended as another place for hotel guests to dine in the evening. This has since closed, and the area has reverted back to its original state.
Looking for something a little more out of the ordinary? How about a conference in the Alton Towers Waterpark?! The waterpark is the perfect location for team building days and other similar events, whatever the weather. Alternatively, at night it can be the perfect place to do business in a laid back, beach party style. A brilliant way to add a twist to the event!
As well as the Conference Centre, Alton Towers also have various other conference rooms and facilities on offer in the theme park. See our On Park Conferences page for more info.
The Alton Towers Conference Centre is fortunate enough to have its own dedicated team of chefs, waiters, and bar staff, all of whom can be on hand to help quench the thirst and fill the stomachs of guests at the Conference Centre.
Dinner can be served in the Stateroom, which will seat a maximum of 430 people for a sit down lunch or dinner. Menus can be arranged with the conference centre team while making arrangements for the event. Alternatively, for a more relaxed atmosphere light refreshment can be served in Sir Algenon's Lounge, or even on the Stateroom patio where the catering team can also offer barbecues, weather permitting!
If dining in the Conference Centre is not for you, the two hotels both offer restaurants, with Alton Towers Hotel's Secret Garden Restaurant, or Flambo's Exotic Feast in Splash Landings. Both restaurants have in excess of 300 seats. The hotel bars are also available, for guests to grab a drink during their visit.
For menus and dining arrangements contact the Alton Towers Resort Conference Team on 01538 704030.
No mater what the occasion, the conference team will have the perfect plans and package to ensure success.
Both packages can be adjusted to suit the needs for each event, but there are also some extras which can be included with your event, including themepark/waterpark entry, ride hire, VIP parking, Fastrack, Early Ride Time, and more. For more information contact Alton Towers, or visit the official Alton Towers website.
Alton Towers first introduced conferencing facilities within the hotel when it first opened in 1996, though at this time the only facilities available were the Emperor's Suite, located alongside the Dragon Bar. Prior to this the park had some smaller rooms available within the theme park itself, though these were basic and only the Corporate Hospitality Suite had any notable capacity, so the addition of the new suite was a nice expansion to the offering.
However conferencing was an area of resort operations that Alton Towers were keen to expand, and so the planned addition of Splash Landings in 2003 gave the perfect opportunity to dramatically increase conferencing capacity, and so along with the opening of the new hotel and waterpark, the Alton Towers Conference Centre was born.
The massive capacity of the new Conference Centre has since allowed the resort to build up an impressive conferencing business, whilst freeing up facilities to allow expansion in other areas. As such Emperor's Suite was utilised to bring the Easter Bunny's Warren to the hotels for Chocolate Towers and Room 13 for Halloween 2006, which was such a success that it paved the way for Scarefest the following year.
Room 13 returned for it's last run in 2007, before being replaced by the Boiler House and the Emperor Suite returned to full conferencing duties once again. However by 2011, with the resort seeking to expand the catering options at the hotels, the Emperor Suite was transformed into the Emperor Grill, an occasional steak restaurant, used during peak times to satisfy guest demands, though the suite is still sometimes used for conferences. In a similar move the summer of 2012 saw Sir Algenon's Lounge in the Conference Centre become home to a pop-up restaurant, Sir Algenon's Bar & Grill, to offer more variety to the hotel's catering line-up, though the restaurant closed down again at the end of the busy summer season.


The project team consists of key professionals from both Olympic and Rimfrost with extensive experience from fishing and offshore operations of ships and associated systems. In May of this year, Magnar Førde was engaged as project manager for this initiative.
Before the end of 2015, Førde has been employed by Rolls-Royce Marine and a member of the executive management team within Offshore as head of innovation and technology. Last year as head of Ship Design and Systems.
Førde has long experience from the maritime industry as a research engineer related to ship equipment especially in marine propulsion machinery and systems. Furthermore, he has experiences from Liaaen Propulsion, Ulstein Group and Kværner both as research engineer and executive manager. Førde holds a PhD from NTH / NTNU and has been professor at this University over a period of eight years.


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Q: How to store many lists in one session? I Have ASP.NET Page with "ID" parameter:
I want to store a List of My class in the session depending on "ID" parameter,
public List<MyClass> list
{
    get
    {
        if (Session["SessionName"] == null)
        {
            Session["SessionName"] = new List<MyClass>();
        }
        return Session["SessionName"] as List<MyClass>;
    }
    set
    {
        Session["SessionName"] = value;
    }
}

I Mean:
when "ID" = 1 some values will store in the list,
when "ID" = 2 another values will store in the list
.
.
.
Why I do that?
Because end user can view the same page in many browser tabs with different "ID" values

A: Why not use a dictionary instead of a list?
public Dictionary<int, List<MyClass>> list
{
    get
    {
        if (Session["SessionName"] == null)
        {
            Session["SessionName"] = new Dictionary<int, List<MyClass>>();
        }
        return Session["SessionName"] as Dictionary<int, List<MyClass>>;
    }
    set
    {
        Session["SessionName"] = value;
    }
}

In this way you can fetch it like this:
List<MyClass> l = list[1]


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RAMIRES: RESPECTING THE REDS
Ramires has warned Benfica must be afforded plenty of respect as he aims to overcome his former club in the Europa League final on Wednesday.
The Brazilian spent a year in Lisbon during the 2009/10 campaign alongside David Luiz, and remains friendly with a number of the Benfica side, but will be putting those ties on hold at the Amsterdam Arena as he competes in his first European final.
'I have a lot of affection for Benfica when they are playing in their own competitions, but on the pitch I am a Chelsea player and I don't want to think about Benfica or anybody else,' said the midfielder. 'Before the game you talk to everybody and joke with your friends, you wish them well because they are your opponents, but once you start playing your mind is only on winning the game, you don't remember anything else.
'In this final I will be doing everything I can for Chelsea to win, and it's easy to separate these feelings. Whoever is in your way, it doesn't matter.
'Of course I still have friends like Luisao, Maxi Pereira, Oscar Cardozo and Pablo Aimar,' he continued. 'They're very good players and what I can tell you is they are a very good team, well organised and dangerous. They score goals, don't have a doubt about that.
'In a game like this you have to keep attention on all the 11 players. If you focus on one player who might give you trouble, one of the others could do something special and leave you in a difficult situation. No player wins anything alone, so we have to be at our best throughout the team. We must give them plenty of respect, which they deserve because a lot of them are internationals and they have been playing together a long time.'
We of course eliminated Jorge Jesus's side on our way to lifting last season's Champions League. The Munich final remains a special memory for Ramires, even though suspension prevented him from taking part after picking up a yellow card in the semi against Barcelona. It was a fate awaiting him once more had he been booked in the second leg against Basel this year.
'My only concern was helping the team get to the final,' he smiled. 'It was different this time because I knew if I got a yellow card it would make me suspended, but I didn't take my foot off the pedal. I did everything I would normally do and didn't hold back.
'I wanted to play in the final, but first you have to win the semi. At the end I was quite relieved that I could play in the final though! For the Champions League I didn't know I would be suspended until after the Barcelona game, and watching in Munich was so nerve-wracking.
'It was horrendous. I couldn't sit still. For the last penalty when we won I completely forgot I didn't play, it was an amazing feeling.'
A year on, it is hard to imagine the Chelsea midfield without the energetic, driving Ramires. He admitted it is pleasing to receive such plaudits.
'I am really happy for any recognition,' he said. 'You try to do the best job you can and to be recognised is fantastic. It motivates you more, not that you need more motivation, you don't play for the praise, but when you get it, it makes you feel bigger.
'It is nice to hear from other people you are doing well, that your contribution is good. I am happy if people feel like that, it's the best feeling in the world.'
If he helps his current side lift a European trophy against his former employers on Wednesday, he might reassess that final thought.
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By the end of the mission, the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crews had picked up more than 250 residents and vacationers. This feat set a state record for the number of victims rescued in two days.
"[The Black Hawk] kind of looked like Noah's Ark in the back," said Army Staff Sgt. Ian Weiger.
Army Capt. Daniel Purcell said the effort was a record-breaker. "There is no way in our aviation history in this state that we've saved or rescued that many people at once," he said. "Certainly a record, as far as rescues go. We were just doing what we were trained to do."
The July 27 helicopter crew consisted of pilots Purcell and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charles Boehler, along with their flight crew, Weiger and Sgt. 1st Class Greg Holmes.
Hundreds of residents and vacationers were stranded due to the swift rise of the Rio Ruidoso, which runs through the town of Ruidoso, southeast of Albuquerque. The rushing river tore through 14 bridges, engulfed roadways and continued to create more rivers, all of which prevented people from escaping.
Crossing the river was impossible, as even the trees cut down by rescue workers to act as bridges were unsafe to use. The high waters completely encircled one campground, creating an island that was the only dry ground for the vacationers.
Before the campers had a chance to panic, the Black Hawks were hovering overhead and lowering a hoist and crew to help transport them to safety.
This mission was performed by using a jungle penetrator, which is a seat suspended from the helicopter by a sturdy cable. Crew members strapped in victims one at a time for the ride of their life from the ground up to the hovering aircraft. Crews were then able to lift them into the safety of the helicopter.
Some of the 57 people hoisted from the ground on July 27 were picked up well after sunset, but the helicopter crews are well versed in night operations with the jungle penetrator. They have performed extensive training using night-vision goggles to see in the dark.
The focus, Purcell said, "was to get the elderly, women and children out first and then come back for the rest."
Over the next three days, crews would continue to airlift stranded residents and vacationers in addition to dropping water and food to those still on the ground.


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Q: union bit mapping of BOOL and WORD I'm tryng to map some bit in a single word , but I see for the compile the size of bool is equal to an byte. When I see the code in execution every BOOL is 8 bit size. How can I specify a bit field in struct or union?
That is my code:
TYPE FAULT_CODE:
STRUCT
fault1,falut2,fault3: BOOL;

END_STRUCT
END_TYPE

TYPE U_fault :
UNION
    faultCode: FAULT_CODE;
    in: WORD;
END_UNION
END_TYPE

A: Answer
The ST datatype that you are looking for is the BIT

*

*BOOL: 8 Bit

*BIT: 1 Bit

You can only use the data type BIT for individual variables within structures or function blocks. The possible values are TRUE (1) and FALSE (0).

A BIT element requires 1 bit of memory space, and you can use it to address individual bits of a structure or function block using its name. BIT elements, which are declared sequentially, are consolidated to bytes. This allows you to optimize memory usage compared to BOOL types, which each occupy at least 8 bits. However, bit access takes significantly longer. Therefore, you should only use the data type BIT if you want to define the data in a specified format.

Example
TYPE st_Flags :
STRUCT
    Bit1  : BIT;
    Bit2  : BIT;
    Bit3  : BIT;
    Bit4  : BIT;
    Bit5  : BIT;
    Bit6  : BIT;
    Bit7  : BIT;
    Bit8  : BIT;
END_STRUCT
END_TYPE

TYPE u_Error :
UNION
    _Byte   : BYTE;
    _Flag   : st_Flags;
END_UNION
END_TYPE

A: Referring to the example of Steve, personally I use also this more compact form, by extending the bitstructure with a union
TYPE u_Error EXTENDS st_Flags :
UNION
    _Byte   : BYTE;
END_UNION
END_TYPE

So to have this in output:
VAR
    uError : u_Error ;
END_VAR

uError._Byte;
uError.Bit1;
uError.Bit2;
uError.Bit3;
...

Instead of
uError._Byte;
uError._Flag.Bit1;
uError._Flag.Bit2;
uError._Flag.Bit3;
...

A: You should avoid the BIT datatype, since Beckhoff PC-Based Control does not have the memory constraints that small embedded systems or older PLC-Systems have.
In the Beckhoff documentation is stated that BIT access operations take way longer than normal BOOL access operations.
CPU-Time is a more important resource to take into account, since a faster CPU is way more expensive than a RAM stick (and with a 4gb of RAM you can allocate a lot of BOOLs).
That said, if you want to evaluate a WORD because you want to extract the fault code from it, use a CASE OF statement.
Every CASE is then a type of ERROR which can also be declared as an ENUM Type.
Example for the ENUM:
TYPE E_Error :
(
    eNO_ERROR := 0,
    eGENERAL_ERROR,
    eMOTION_ERROR,
    eSAFETY_ERROR
);
END_TYPE

Example for the CASE OF statement:
CASE wError OF
    eNO_ERROR:
        ;
    eGENERAL_ERROR:
        ;
    eMOTION_ERROR:
        ;
    eSAFETY_ERROR:
        ;
END_CASE

A: To add to Steves' answer, you can also use Bit Access to Variables forgoing the need to create a custom data type!
If your variable is of an integer type (SINT, INT, DINT, USINT, UINT, UDINT, BYTE, WORD, DWORD), then you can access it's individual bits like so:
VAR
    myWord: WORD;
END_VAR

myWord.0 := FALSE;
myWord.1 := TRUE;
myWord.2 := FALSE;
myWord.3 := TRUE;
myWord.4 := FALSE;
myWord.5 := TRUE;
// And so on

And just as Filippo Boido mentioned above, BOOL is inherently much faster, thus unless you are low on memory, or need to pass data in a WORD through a bus, using a BOOL array is preferred.


These modern recessed shower grates look sleek and minimalist, perfect for improving any modern bathroom. Choose any design from several styles of shower grates that will match your bathroom interiors.
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Q: Access files in commonMain resources directory with OKIO - Kotlin Multiplatform I wanted to include into my app (Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile) iOS + Android a .json file to be parsed and saved into Realm DB on the first launch using .initialData{}.
I use expect/actual pattern and try to access file in /resources/initialdata.json
I'm trying to use OKIO library (supposed to be ready to work with Kotlin Multiplatform): https://square.github.io/okio/recipes/
I have issues with accessing file from src/commonMain/resources what get is IO error path not found:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: src/resources/initialdata.json: open failed: ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Realm Config with .initialData looks as follows:
        val config =
            RealmConfiguration.Builder(schema = schema)
                .name("boardDb-local")
                .initialData{
                    val jsonString = FileResourceParser().parseInitialFile()

                    val list: List<Exercise> = Json.decodeFromString(jsonString)

                    val realmList: RealmList<Exercise> = realmListOf().also { it.addAll(list)}
                    for (item in realmList) {
                            copyToRealm(item, UpdatePolicy.ALL)
                        }
                }
                .log(LogLevel.ALL)
                .schemaVersion(1)
                .build()

//Class with method with platform specific logic to get a file from resources and parse it.
expect class FileResourceParser() {
    fun parseInitialFile(): String
}

//and in androidMain Module logic to read the file using OKIO

actual class FileResourceParser {

    val json = FileSystem.SYSTEM.read("src/resources/initialdata.json".toPath()) {
        //Read UTF8 logic
    }
       //some other manipulation
        return json

    }
}

Question: who to define path to commonMain resource folder. I'm confused.
Thank you!

A: Okio is indeed multiplatform, but that doesn't mean it can access files from resources using regular paths like this. You shouldn't try to access resources by their path among your source files - they won't be here when you run your program elsewhere.
On JVM, such resources are placed in the compiled JAR, so you would need to access them via the regular Java facilities. For example, SomeClass::class.java.getResource("/some-file.txt") to access a file initially located in the source at src/commonMain/resources/some-file.txt, from a class located anywhere in src/jvmMain/kotlin/*. Maybe to read it from Okio you could use getResourceAsStream() instead and then convert the stream to whatever Okio provides.
On JS platform, you might need some extra webpack config + require() call to get them. See Embed resources in kotlin js


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Short Story to Novella? Ellie Barker on Tour @EllieBa3 #MFRWAuthor #LGBT
August 2, 2018 Tags: Erotic crime comedy, erotic romance, LGBT, Spies, Undercover
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Short story to novella?
So how did I manage to get from a short story to a three-novella storyline? As with everything, it started with two people meeting, and a spark…
Miss Blue Hair (published in the Sinful Press anthology "Sinful Pleasures") started with a meeting between Sky, with her sky-blue hair and snarky humour, and Nikolas – sarcastic, charming, bisexual, flirty and oddly straightforward for someone who should be double-crossingly devious. As soon as I put him on the page, I knew that I wanted to write him – and I knew that his character meant his backstory wasn't going to be straightforward. He's a policeman, a mole who can't quite leave the underworld behind, but refuses to be part of it: he's torn between two worlds, and it makes for a very fun character to write.
But the novellas also started with a wider backstory. I knew that Nikolas had seen Sky before, and realised that it was during a failed theft – or, at least, a failed theft for him, when the documents that he wanted had escaped the building despite the latest security. If Sky had also been there, was she responsible? And if so, who was behind the theft, and what did her patron want with the information that Nikolas had failed to gain? I knew that even if he tried to question Sky, tipping her to the point of pleasure and back to get the truth, that it wouldn't help him. He'd need to meet someone else.
And that brought the Queen into the game. Sky's boss, with a penchant for secrets – and for sex, especially when she can manipulate other people using it. Nikolas was up for playing her game – and even when he found out the information he wanted to know, that led him even deeper into Sky's world of secrets and spies.
Excerpt from the Undercover Lovers Trilogy:
I pulled out my phone.
Bear answered within two rings. "Nikolas! This is a pleasant surprise."
"I changed my mind about that nightcap, if the offer's still open," I told him.
"Why the change of heart?" He sounded a bit surprised.
"I can't stop thinking about you." And actually, it was true. I wanted to know what he was like in bed. How far down that beard went. What was under that suit. What he looked like when he came.
"I thought you didn't do one-offs?"
"Sky wants to hear all about it afterwards."
I heard the bellow of laughter down the phone, and then he came back on the line, still chuckling. "Well, I can't disappoint her, can I. When?"
"What's wrong with now?"
Forty-five minutes later, I was getting out of a taxi at the foot of a tower block. Ten minutes had been picking up a bottle of wine that I liked, wondering if he'd like it, checking with Sky—who told me she didn't have a fucking clue and I'd just got her killed, which meant she was playing something with Benny—and going back to my original choice. And now I was here, looking up at the lit windows above me and thinking about Tanya's exhibitionism.
I'd wondered about getting a hotel room, but Bear had invited me over and I'd accepted. It meant if there was a trap I was walking into it, but then a hotel room had a veneer of anonymity that I didn't necessarily like. Sky knew where I was going, and had offered to come and rescue me if needed—and that meant she could potentially bring both the Queen and Tanya's resources down on someone's head. Tanya Mardos didn't care about much in the world, but I figured she'd probably have something to say if her current sex toy wasn't available on demand.
And so I headed for the main door and pushed the button for the flat intercom.
"Yes?" Bear's voice said almost immediately.
"Nikolas."
"Come on up."
Ellie Barker's Undercover Lovers trilogy: the complete set.
Secrets and Spies
When Nikolas Jinsen, police mole, meets an unusual woman named Sky, he thinks he's just in for a night of pleasure. But he's soon pulled into a world of mafia dealings, stolen documents, hacked computers and kidnappings – not to mention a woman with a taste for exhibition, a Queen who demands payment in pleasure, and Sky herself; unusual, intoxicating, and wanting more than Nikolas may be willing to give.
In Bed with the Enemy
Nikolas Jinsen, police mole and mafia odd-job man, is given an ultimatum; stop seeing his girlfriend, or lose his job. When a hasty attempt to keep both goes wrong, he does the only thing he can think of: he lies. But with his new roommate a member of the elite gang that Nikolas has been tasked to look into, and his assignations with his girlfriend constantly interrupted by calls on his services as a lover, Nikolas finds that work isn't all fun and games.
For Queen and Country
Nikolas Jinsen, police mole and mafia odd-job man, is usually pretty easy-going – both at work and in the bedroom. But there's one thing he doesn't forgive, and when an opportunity for revenge comes up against the woman who insulted his girlfriend, Nikolas is in… even if the woman in question is the powerful mafia boss who is currently retaining Nikolas' services as a lover. Revenge is best served hot – and steamy.
Undercover Lovers is a fun LGBT erotic crime comedy novella trilogy.
Amazon Buy links:
Secrets and Spies (Book 1): http://smarturl.it/SaSKindle
In Bed with the Enemy (Book 2): http://smarturl.it/IBWTEkindle
For Queen and Country (Book 3): http://smarturl.it/FQaCKindle
Undercover Lovers Trilogy Paperback: http://smarturl.it/ULPrint
Ellie mostly writes short'n'dirty flash fiction and short erotic fiction in any genre going. She prefers vampires over werewolves, and is always hot for a rainy night.
You can find out more about Ellie over at http://elliebarker.co.uk/, or follow her on Twitter as @EllieBa3


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1902 Encyclopedia > Babylon
BABYLON (the modern Hillah) is the Greek form of Babel or Bab-ili, "the gate of god" ) (or, as it is sometimes written, "of the gods"), which, again, is the Semitic rendering of Ca-dimirra, the ancient name of the city in the Turanian language of the primitive Accadian population of the country. It is doubtful whether the god meant was Merodach or Anu, Merodach being the patron divinity of Babylon in the Semitic period, and Su-Anna, "the valley of Anu" (Anammelech), being one of its oldest names. Another synonym of the place was E-ci, "the hollow," in reference to its situation, and it was also known, down to the latest times, as Din-Tir, "the house of the jungle," though this seems properly to have been the designation of the town on the left bank of the Euphrates. Under the Cassite dynasty of Khammuragas, it received the title of Gan-Duniyas or Gun-Duni, "the Fortress of Duniyas," which was afterwards made to include the neighboring territory, so that the whole of Babylonia came to be called by this name. Sir H. Rawlinson has suggested that it was he origin of the Biblical Gan eden, or "Garden of Eden" to which a popular etymology has given a Hebrew form. However this may be. Babylon figures in the antediluvian history of Berosus, the first of his mythical monarchs, Alorus, being a native of it. The national epic of the Babylonians, which grouped various old myths round the adventures of a solar hero, knows of four cities only-Babylon, Erech, Nipur (Niffer) or Calneh, and Surippac or larankha; and according to Genesis x., Babylon was a member of the tetrapolis of Shinar or Sumir, where the Semite invaders of the Accadians first obtained permanent settlement and power. It seems however, to have ranked below its three sister-cities. Among which Ereck took the lead until conquered by the Accadian sovereigns of Ur. It was not until the conquest of Khammuragas that Babylon became a capital, a position, however, which it never afterwards lost, except during the Assyrian supremacy. But it suffered severely at the hands of its northern neighbors. Tiglath-Adar drove the cassi fromit, and established an Assyrian dynasty in their place; and after being captured by Tiglath-Pileser I. (1130 B.C.) and Shalmaneser (851 B.C.) it became a dependency of the Assyrian empire in the reign of the son of the latter. The decline of the first Assyrian empire restored Babylon to independence; but it had soon afterwards to submit to the Caldai, and from the reign of Tiglath-Pileser II. to the death of Assur-banipal, it was a mere provincial town of Assyria, breaking now and then into fierce revolt under the leadership of the Caldai, and repeatedly taken and plundered by Sargon, Sennacherib, and Assur-bani-pal. Sennacherib, indeed, razed the city to its foundation. After the defeat of Suzub (690 B.C.), he tells us that he "pulled down, dug up, and burned with fire the town and the palaces, root and branch, destroyed the fortress and the double wall, the temples of the gods and the towers of brick, and threw the rubbish into the Araxes," the river of Babylon. After this destruction it is not likely that much will ever be discovered on the site of Babylon older than the buildings of Essar-haddon and Nebuchadnezzar. It was under the latter monarch and his successors that Babylon became the huge metropolis whose ruins still astonish the traveler, and which was described by Greek writers. Of the older city we can know but little. The Babylon of nebuchadnezzar and his father, Nabopolassar, must have suffered when taken by Cyrus; but two sieges in the reign of darius Hystaspis, and one in the reign of Xerxes, brought about the destruction of the defences, while the monotheistic rule of Persia allowed the temples to fall into decay, Alexander found the great temple of Bel a shapeless ruin, and the rise of Seleucia in its neighborhood drew away its population and completed its material decay. The buildings became a quarry, first for Seleucia and then for Ctesiphon, Al Modain, Baghdad, Kufa, Kerbelah, Hillah, and other towns, and our only cause for wonder is that the remains of the great capital of babylonia are still so extensive.
The principal of these lie on the left bank of the Euphrates, and consist of three vast mounds – the Babi; or Mujellibe, the Kasr, and the Amram, which run from north to south; two parallel lines of rampart east and west of then; and an isolated mass, together with a series of elevations separated by the river westward of the Kasr, the whole being surrounded by a triangular rampart. Our two chief authorities for the ancient topography of the city are Herodotus and Ctesias; and though both were eye-witnesses, their statements differ considerably. The city was built, we are told, on both sides of the river, in the form of a square, and enclosed within a double row of high walls. Ctesias add s third wall, but the inscriptions refer only to two, the inner enceinte, called Imgur-Bel, and its salkhu or outwork, called Nimitti-Bel. Ctesias makes the outermost wall 360 stades (42 miles) in circumference, while according to Herodotus it measures 480 stades (56 miles), which would include an area of about 200 square miles! Pliny (N.H., vi. 260 follows Herodotus in his figures, but Strado (xvi. 1, 5) with his 385 stades, Qu. Curtius (v, 1, 26) with his 368 stades, and Clitarchus 9ap. Diod. Sic.,, ii. 7) with 365 stades, agree sufficiently closely with Ctesias. Even the estimate of Ctesias, however, would make Babylon cover a space of about 100 square miles, nearly five times the size of London. Such an area could not have been occupied by houses, especially as these were three or four stories high (Hdt., i. 180). Indeed q. Curtius asserts (v. 1, 270 that even in the most flourishing times, nine-tenths of it consisted of gardens, parks, fields, and orchards. According to Herodotus, the height of the walls was about 335 feet, and their width 85 feet; while Ctesias makes the height about 300 feet. Later writers give smaller dimensions, but it is clear that they have merely tried to soften down the estimates of Herodotus (and Ctesias); and we seem bound, therefore, to accept the statement of the two oldest eye-witnesses, astonishing as it is. But we may remember that the ruined wall of Nineveh was 150 feet high, even in Xenophon's time (Anab., iii. 4, 10, and cf. ii. 4, 12), while the spaces between the 250 towers irregularly disposed along the wall of Babylon (Ctes, ap. Diod., ii. 7) were broad enough to allow a four-horse chariot to turn (Hdt., I 179). The clay dug from the moat had served for the bricks of the wall, which was periced with 100 gates, all of brass, with brazen lintels and posts. The two inner enclosures were faced with coloured brick, and represented hunting-scenes. Two other walls ran along the banks of the Euphrates and the quays with which it was lined, each containing 25 gates, which answered to the number of the streets they led into. Ferry-boats plied between the landing-places of the gates; and a movable drawbridge (30 feet broad), supported on stone piers, joined the two parts of the city together. At each end of the bridge was a palace; the great palace of Nebuchadnezzar on the eastern side (the modern Kasr), which Herodotus incorrectly transfers to the western bank, being the most magnificent of the two. It was surrounded, according the Diodorus (ii. 8, 4), by three walls, the outermost being 60 stades (7 miles) in circuit. The inner walls were decorated with hunting-scenes painted on brick, fragments of which have been discovered by modern explorers. Two of its gates were of brass, and had to be opened and shut by a machine; and Mr Smith has found traces of two libraries among its ruins. The palace, called "the Admiration of Mankind' by Nebuchadnezzar, and commenced by Nabopolassar, overlooked the Ai-ipur-sabu, the great reservoir of Babylon, and stretched from this to the Euphrates on the one side, and from the Imgur-Bel, or inner wall, to the Libil, or eastern canal, on the other. Within its precincts rose the hanging Gardens, consisting of a garden of trees and flowers on the topmost of a series of arches at least 75 feet high, and built in the form of a square, each side measuring 400 Greek feet. Water was raised from the Euphrates by means, it is said, of a screw (Strab, xvi. 1, 5; Diod., ii. 10, 6). Some of the materials for the construction of this building may have been obtained from the old ruined palace of the early kings, now represented by the adjoining Amram mound. The lesser palace in the western division of the city belonged to Neriglissar, and contained a number of bronze statues.
The most remarkable edifice in Babylon was the temple of Bel, now marked by the Babil, on the north-east, as Professor Rawlinson has shown. It was a pyramid of eight square stages, the basement stage being over 200 yards each way. A winding ascent led to summit and the shrine, in which stood a golden image of Bel 40 feet high, two other statues of gold, a golden table 40 feet long and 15 feet broad, and many other colossal objects of the same precious material. At the base of the tower was a second shrine, with a table and two images of solid gold. Two altars were placed outside the chapel, the smaller one being of the same metal. A similar temple, represented by the modern Birs Nimrud, stood at Borsippa, the suburb of Babylon. It consisted of seven stages, each ornamented with one of the seven planetary colors, the azure tint of the sixth, the sphere of Mercury, being produced by the verification of the bricks after the stage had been completed. The lowest stage was a square, 272 feet each way, its four corners exactly corresponding to the four cardinal points, as in all other Chaldean temples, and each of the square stages raised upon it being placed nearer the south-western than the north-eastern edge of the underlying one. It has been partly built by an ancient monarch but, after lying unfinished for many years, like the Biblical tower of Babel, was finally completed by Nebuchadnezzar.
The amount of labor bestowed upon these brick edifices must have been enormous, and gives some idea of the human force at the disposal of the monarch. If any further illustration of this fact were needed, it would be found in the statement made by Nebuchadnezzar in one of his inscriptiuons (and quoted also from Berosus), that he had finished the Imgur-Bel in fifteen days. The same monarch also continued the embankment of the Euphrates for a considerable distance beyond the limits of Babylon, and cut some canals to carry off the overflow of that river into the Tigris. The great reservoir, 40 miles square, on the west of Borsippa, which had been excavated to receive the waters of the Euphrates while the bed of its channel was being lined with brick, was also used for a similar purpose. The reservoir seems to have been entered by the Arakhtu or Araxes, "the river of Babylon," which flowed through a deep wady into the heart of Northern Arabia, as Wetzstein has pointed out. Various nomad tribes, such as the Nabathaeans or the Pekod, pitched their tents on its banks; but, although it is not unfrequently mentioned in early Babylonian history, we hear no more of it after the time of Nebuchadnezzar. It is possible, therefore, that it was drained by the western reservoir. (A. H. S)
The above article was written by Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce, M.A., LL.D., D.D., Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; Professor of Assyriology, Oxford; one of the Old Testament Revisors, 1874-84; Deputy Professor of Comparative Philology, Oxford, 1876-90; Hibbert Lectures, 1887; Gifford Lectures, 1900-01; author of Assyrian Grammar for Comparative Purposes; Translations in Records of the Past, 1st series; Lectures on the Assyrian Language and Syllabary; The Lost Monuments of the Hittites; The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotus; etc.


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Carrots are full of nutritional goodies such as beta carotene, dietary fibre, potassium, folic acid, manganese. Sulphur, copper, carotenes, pectin, Vitamin K and zinc. It's the beta carotene that gives the carrot its bright orange hue and our bodies convert this into Vitamin A in the liver. It's the Vitamin A that is transformed in the retina, to rhodopsin, a purple pigment necessary for night vision, so yes carrots do help us see in the dark.
Beta carotene has also been proven to protect against macular degeneration and senile cataracts. Those people in the study who ate the most beta carotene saw their chances of cataracts drop by 40%.
Did you know: The brighter the colour of the carrot, the more beta carotene it contains Beta Carotene helps to slow down the ageing of cells, acting as an antioxidant. Want to retain that youthful glow? Dig out the bright orange carrots. Don't eat too many though or you will look like an extra from the only way is Essex!
The Vitamin A and antioxidants also protect the skin from Sun damage so eat plenty along with applying a good SPF for fabulous skin. In fact Vitamin also prevents acne, dry skin, pigmentation, blemishes, and uneven skin tone.
Studies have shown that the carotenoids in Carrots are also associated with a lower risk of heart disease and that regular consumption of carrots can reduce cholesterol as the soluble fibres bind with bile acids.
If you struggle with healthy lunch box fillings Carrots are the perfect sweeter treat for children. Aside from all the obvious benefits the high fibre and fluids are good for constipation, whilst their astringent properties also help with diarrhoea. Both gentle effects are really effective for children and keeps them happy in the toilet department!
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If you favour the occasional detox, carrots should be on the menu. Vitamin A assists the liver in flushing out the toxins from the body. It reduces the bile and fat in the liver. The fibres in carrots help clean out the colon and help you go to the loo.
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Carrots are a versatile vegetable and can be eaten raw, juiced, steamed, boiled, roasted and even the young leaves can be enjoyed on soups or salads, being rich in minerals.
An 80g portion of carrot contains 19 calories, 2g of fibre and 15mg of beta carotene (75% RNI of vitamin A) supporting skin, bones, eyes, hair, immunity and so much more. Aim for carrots around 2-3 times per week and enjoy the benefits.
As a salad simply grate 500g of carrots and mix with the juice of an orange and lemon with a pinch of salt (and chilli if desired). Leave to chill.