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Galaxy S4 Mini Duos I9192 Blue
Samsung Galaxy J1 Mini Prime (2016) Duos SM-J106H-DS White
: 100 €
Samsung Galaxy J2 Core Dual SIM 8GB 1GB RAM SM-J260F/DS Black
Blackview BV6000 Dual SIM 32GB Violet Black
Caterpillar CAT B35 Dual SIM 4GB Black
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Duos I9192 Blue
GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 SIM 1 & SIM 2
HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100 SIM 1
Available. Released 2013, July
Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
8 GB (5 GB user available), 1.5 GB RAM
HSDPA, 21.1 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
Yes, v4.0 with A2DP, LE, EDR
Infrared port:
8 MP, 3264 x 2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
Yes, 1080p@30fps
Yes, 1.9 MP
Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean), v4.3 (Jelly Bean), planned upgrade to v4.4.2 (KitKat)
Dual-core 1.7 GHz Krait
Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM, RSS
Stereo FM radio with RDS
Yes, with A-GPS support and GLONASS
Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
White Frost, Black Mist, Blue, Pink, Orange, Purple, Black Edition
SNS integration, MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player, MP3/WAV/eAAC+/AC3/FLAC player, Organizer, Image/video editor, Document viewer, Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa, Voice memo/dial/commands, Predictive text input (Swype)
Up to 300 h (3G)
Up to 12 h (3G)
Samsung Kies 2.0
The Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Duos I9192 (Blue) is a Dual sim version of the worldwide desired S4 series, a model that runs with a Micro SIM card, and a smartphone that became available for sale in July 2013. Unlike the I9195, this model does not support LTE 4G connectivity, and is equipped with a 4.3 inch Super AMOLED display which is protected by Gorilla Glass technology. The primary camera of this model is an 8MP shooter and the secondary camera sports a healthy 1.9MP, its memory is expandable by a Micro SD card up to 64GB, and the phone is equipped with 1.5GB of RAM memory. Besides its fantastic design, this Dual SIM model boasts a powerful 1.7GHz Krait Dual-core processor, and runs with the currently freshest Android v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) version of the operating system. This device features a large number of fantastic applications and, having in mind its good quality/price ratio, it could be classified as the most desirable smartphones of today!
Read more about this model on our Blog!
Our review of this device
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini Duos I9192
If we were certain of something than it would be that the mighty Samsung family will present a mini version of Samsung Galaxy S4, the Galaxy S4 Mini Duos! They call it the "dealbreaker" because it's smaller than its predecessor, it fits perfectly in the pocket, it's pretty, powerful and it has a great price!
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 MINI DESIGN AND BODY
Although the Galaxy S4 Mini was created with a smaller budget, the design has remained pretty much the same as the original version featured; a gleaming plastic construction, the on/off button is in the same position as it was on the Galaxy S4 and so are the volume button and the IR port. The light notification (RGB) is missing on this delightful smartphone, but we are sure everyone will manage to live without it.
The display remained the same, Super AMOLED, but its screen size was reduced, measuring 4.3 inches, 256 pixels per inch. The body dimensions of Galaxy S4 Mini (124.6 x 61.3 x 8.9 mm) are indicating that altough it is smaller than Galaxy S4 (136.6 x 69.8 x 7.9 mm), it does not mean it is slimmer. As far as its weight is concerned, the Galaxy S4 Mini is 23 grams ligher than the Galaxy S4 (130 g), and over 4 grams lighter than Galaxy S3 Mini (111.5 g).
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 MINI CAMERA
Samsung S4 Mini has an 8 megapixel rear camera, and a 1.9 megapixel front-facing camera. It also has many additional specifications like the HDR, Panorama, capturing 3 pics per second, Beauty Face, but what amazed us is the Sound and Shot specification.
The Sound and Shot will allow you to catch the sound while taking a picture. In that way every moment from that picture will be remembered. It also comes with a video recorder of 1080p which can save and share videos with a special application called Samsung Home Sync.
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 MINI PROCESSOR AND OTHER FEATURES
If you were wondering if you could open more than one window in the same time, we have good news for you. The Galaxy S4 Mini can handle it! Even if it supports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 instead of the chipset Exynos 5 Octa Snapdragon 600 the hardware is performing stupendous with its Dual-core 1.7 GHz Krait processor.
Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini has 2G and 3G connection, Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi dirrect and Bluetooth 4.0 connection.
The Operative System is the same as the Galaxy S4 has; Android OS, v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean), but Sony is planning to upgrade it to v4.4.2 (KitKat).
It measures a 8GB of internal memory, and a 1.5 RAM memory. The memory can be expanded with a Micro SD card up to 64 GB.
SAMSUNG GALAXY S4 MINI APPLICATIONS
What we liked about this smartphone is that it has many interesting applications, like Group Play, S Health, HomeSynk and Samsung Link. S Travel is also a well-known app where you can insert the name of the place you would like to visit in the near feature, and you will be provided with information regarding that place daily. You will also be provided with images, reviews, which will make you feel like you have a personal assistant.
To conclude, Mini S4 is nearly the same size as the Mini S3 but it's lighther and slimmer, and it has a bigger display resolution. Its dimenssiones make it easier to hold in hands, write messages with a single hand and it fits into everyone's pocket.
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Lithophone
Principle of Science: Resonance
A lithophone is a series of stones that produce sound. Sounds emanating from the lithophone are distinctly musical. How do these seemingly stationary stones make their music? Explore the relationship between the physical qualities of various stones and their pitch.
The secret, discovered in principle by the Greek Pythagoras more than 2,000 years ago, is that objects capable of oscillation (repeated movement) resonate at predictable frequencies. The factors determining the pitch of the sound emitted by the individual stones of the lithophone are based on their length, width and height, as well as mounting and placement. Most instruments depend on the principle of resonance to make music.
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LEO team member expertise is wide-ranging. Learn more about team members who support our clients.
Linda W. Braun is LEO's Principal. Over the past 25 years she has provided project management, planning and evaluation, training, and consulting services to a variety of organizations. She is experienced in the management of large-scale multi-state projects and in the facilitation of ongoing virtual communities of practice. Her strategic planning and evaluation clients include state, regional, and local organizations. Linda has a Masters of Science Degree in Library and Information Science from Simmons University and a Masters of Education from Lesley University.
Luis Gonsalez is a human-centered design practitioner who enjoys solving complex problems by implementing design thinking practices and thoughtful consideration of peoples' needs and pain points. As the Digital Media & Learning (DML) Program Coordinator, he supports The Seattle Public Library (SPL) in uplifting marginalized and non-dominate communities through equitable design and implementation of DML programs. These programs range from KidsTeam (a co-design program with children 7 – 11 years old, in partnership with the University of Washington's iSchool) to the adoption, development, and facilitation of Virtual Reality (VR) experiences (supporting SPL's Special Collections and teen mental health). He is the founder of Gonsalez Design, a design consulting company specializing in providing the value of human-centered design practices (adopted by the most ubiquitous and big-name technology companies) to small businesses and non-profits. Luis is also a co-founder and Head of Design at Little Comfy Goods; a small business focused on empowering others through graphic apparel and creative stickers. He has a Bachelor of Science in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) with a focus in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Washington.
Sandra Hughes-Hassell is a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Information and Library Science. Her research and teaching focus on equity and inclusion in youth services librarianship. She is co-creator of Project Ready, a series of free, online professional development modules for school and public youth services librarians interested in improving their knowledge about race and racism, racial equity, and culturally sustaining pedagogy. Her most recent book is Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion & Learning (ALA, 2020). Prior to becoming a faculty member, she worked in school reform in the School District of Philadelphia.
Nicole Rawlinson is a community-focused leader with several years of experience in informal education, mentorship, programs, outreach, partnerships, and engagement within libraries, museums, and community organizations. She currently works as a program manager on nationally scaled programs in a non-profit setting. Nicole has developed, supported, and facilitated training opportunities focusing on leadership, equity, diversity, and inclusion, storytelling for impact, and youth and teen services in libraries and community organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Cleveland State University and a Master of Library and Information Science from Kent State University. Her recent projects include Emerging California Library Leaders (California Library Association/California State Library/Institute of Museum and Library Services) and Transforming Teen Services (Young Adult Library Services Association/Institute of Museum and Library Services).
Lucretia Robertson serves as the Director of Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for a regional library system where she works to operationalize equity, create space for race-conscious conversations and cultivate an inclusive culture where staff and patrons feel a sense of belonging. An experienced DEI leader and strategic planner with a background in organizational development, human resources, and training, Lucretia brings proven leadership to complex workplace culture and change management issues she prioritizes the principles of collaboration, equity, and workplace wellness in her work with teams and leadership. Lucretia is the principal of Clarity Partnerships, a black-owned, women-led micro-consultancy firm providing development and mentoring to women of color (WoC) desiring to accelerate their leadership and become more effective, confident, and resilient leaders. Clarity works with organizations committed to accelerating WoC leadership. She is also the founder of Women Who Rise, a nonprofit dedicated to elevating women-powered leadership by providing WoC, in informal and formal leadership roles, access to positive mentorship, leadership development, board governance training, and tools for confident and resilient leadership.
Juan Rubio designs, develops and manages educational technology programs that incorporate a wide variety of digital media, such as games, interactive storytelling, virtual reality, and geo-locative narratives. He is the digital media and learning program manager for The Seattle Public Library. Previously, he was the Associate Director of digital learning at Global Kids, a youth development non-profit in New York City. He has designed professional development curriculum in new media for library staff and teachers with other cultural institutions such as Tribeca Film Institute, New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and Carnegie Hall. Much of his current work focuses on using participatory design principles to build equitable solutions in non-profit institutions including educational organizations and associations. He serves in the board of directors of Filmmakers without Borders. He has a Master's degree in Media Studies from the New School University in New York City and studied TV and film at Howard University School of Communications in Washington D.C.
Dr. Mega Subramaniam is a Professor at the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland. She also serves as the Co-Director of the Youth Experience (YX) Lab at the iSchool. Her research focuses on enhancing the role of public and school libraries in fostering the mastery of digital literacies among non-dominant youth. Her work brings research and practice together to enhance the skills of in-service and pre-service librarians. She has successfully led the design of multiple professional development resources and training for in-service and pre-service librarians including ConnectedLib, Safe Data Safe Families, HackHealth, Youth Experience, and IMPACT. Her research has resulted in several national recognitions, most recently including the Library Journal's 2019 Movers and Shakers award, YALSA's 2020 Outstanding Achievement Award, and the Fulbright Specialist Award. To learn more about her work, visit her website.


I must say, the ultimate complement is when another photographer asks you to take their portraits.
I met Juan Carlos a couple months ago and we became instant friends. He is just one of the greatest guys you'll ever meet. He's overwhelmingly generous in his affirmations of other people, he has a bright outlook on life and an infectious smile. He was born to adventure and dream and take his family on wild expeditions like deep sea diving and swimming with dolphins. When he said he wanted to include paddle boarding as part of the session I knew it would be a perfect fit for his personality.
He started The Modern Portrait Studio when film was still the primary means of professional photography, and honestly, I cannot even imagine. Not only was he great at film but he quickly adjusted when digital became primary and he had to also learn the computer and photoshop etc. He's quick at adapting to anything new and will forever be great in his field. So glad we were able to connect. Here's a few of my favorites from the day.


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fastjet has announced it will commence flights to Victoria Falls from Johannesburg on March 25th, 2016, in response to strong passenger and tour operator demand from within the South African market.
Services between Johannesburg's O.R. Tambo International Airport and Victoria Falls International Airport will operate using fastjet's modern Airbus A319 jet aircraft with seating for up to 156 passengers.
Initially operating twice a week on Fridays and Sundays, fastjet's flights will depart Victoria Falls at 12:40 and land in Johannesburg at 14:15, with a flight time of one hour 35 minutes.
The return flight from Johannesburg departs at 14:55 and lands in Victoria Falls at 16:35.
"fastjet believes that affordable air travel is key to the continued growth of tourism between Zimbabwe and South Africa, with Victoria Falls being long established as a tourism drawcard to the region," said Richard Bodin, fastjet chief commercial officer.
Bodin added: "Prior to announcing these flights to Victoria Falls, fastjet had detailed discussions with South African and Zimbabwean tour operators in order to deliver suitable flight components to include in packaged tour offerings.
The new route between Victoria Falls and Johannesburg follows closely on the success of fastjet's route launches between Harare and Victoria Falls, and its first international route from Harare to Johannesburg.
fastjet increased the frequency of its flights from Harare to Johannesburg just two weeks after the first flight took to the skies, and now connects the two cities 12 times each week.


RUSTENBURG – A teenage boy allegedly beat a 29-year-old man to death with a cricket bat in Blydeville, near Lichtenburg, North West police said on Friday.
"According to information, the victim and the suspect had an argument over the alleged theft of a cellphone. The victim was allegedly hit with a cricket bat on the head and he died on the scene," said police spokesperson Colonel Sabata Mokgwabone.
He said the 17-year-old boy was arrested on Thursday and was expected to appear in the Lichtenburg Magistrate's Court on Monday.


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The best known opposition politician in Scotland
Last summer the Pro UK cause was in trouble. The opposition leaders at Holyrood were anonymous and ineffective. Nicola Sturgeon's popularity was increasing daily due to her being on TV every day with party political broadcasts masquerading as Covid information briefings. Both the SNP and Scottish independence were comfortably ahead in the polls. Many supposedly Pro UK journalists were about ready to give up. If we surrender nicely Nicola will you let us continue to write in an independent Scotland? But one man wasn't about to give up. That man was George Galloway.
All for Unity, originally founded by Mr Galloway as Alliance for Unity was decisive in turning the mood around. The RAF roundel logo began to appear regularly on social media. The SNP was the target and a few of us began to strafe them with ever increasing accuracy. Behind the scenes a group of some of the best Pro UK thinkers began to share ideas. We encouraged each other when polling wasn't so great. We devised strategies for taking on the SNP. We were the opposition.
I began to write more as did people like Jill Stephenson, Tom Gallagher, Jamie Blackett and Mark Devlin who founded the brilliant Majority site (https://themajority.scot) which has gained such valuable publicity with its #ResignSturgeon banners and fly past. But none of us are exactly well known. We needed someone who could take on Sturgeon. That person was George Galloway.
There are two problems with the opposition leadership in Scotland. They are anonymous and useless. A year ago, Scottish Labour were led by Richard Leonard now they are led by Anas Sarwar, but not one Scot in a hundred could name both of them. The Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is more famous for being a referee than for being a politician and has done little to improve the chances of the Conservatives since taking over last year. Willie Rennie of the Lib Dems has not obviously achieved anything since becoming leader in 2016. Is it any wonder that recent polling says that George Galloway is the best-known opposition politician in Scotland?
The poll, which was conducted between 4th March and 8th March asked 1100 Scottish voters about the best known Scottish opposition politician. George Galloway came out ahead of Douglas Ross, Anas Sarwar, Willie Rennie and the others. This is all the more remarkable because All for Unity has barely been mentioned in the press or on TV since it was founded. It has been as if there has been a coordinated effort to protect the established parties or rather to protect the SNP.
Holyrood has become a cosy club where everyone has a comfortable, not too difficult job and where preserving your salary and perks appears to be more important than actually getting rid of the SNP. It is this above all that Mr Galloway wants to change. If you think Nicola Sturgeon gets a hard time in Holyrood now, just wait until you see the man who took on the US Senate and won, eat Sturgeon rather than kippers for breakfast.
Mr Galloway rightly points out that the Scottish nationalists fear him the most. It is not merely because he is still a major figure in British politics, more importantly he thinks for himself and isn't scared to voice an opinion even if it is unpopular. It is for this reason that like Tony Benn, George Galloway is liked by many who disagree with his politics. Mr Galloway believes in things. He has character and is completely unlike the clones that fill the seats in the Scottish Parliament. He is respected as someone who came from a Dundee tenement and made himself into one of the best debaters of his generation. And he's not finished yet.
Few indeed are the Labour politicians who are still active from the time when Mr Galloway first entered Westminster. They left the field to the Scottish nationalists. But put Mr Galloway on a horse and give him a lance and he might just deal with the boil that is the SNP.
Since All for Unity began, there have been those who were negative, those who wrote off its chances, those who hoped if they ignored us, we would go away. But there is a reason we are not going away. It's because All for Unity is needed to get people like George Galloway and Jamie Blackett and many others into the Scottish Parliament.
These people come from many different political backgrounds from the Left to the Right, but they share one idea. They are all willing to work with other parties so that Scotland has a chance of getting rid of the SNP and so we can all relax from the continual threat to our country that the Scottish independence poses.
I have seen a draft of the All for Unity manifesto and it contains some of the best ideas I have seen for making Scotland a better place to live. They are sensible ideas that can be shared by people from all political backgrounds and none. If only the other Pro UK parties had the guts to write such a document, but we are likely to get more of the same tedium that they have been producing for years.
If the Scottish Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems were going to get rid of the SNP, they would have done so already. The problem is not merely that they are unwilling to work together it's that most of their politicians are second rate mediocrities. It's because we need to do better that we need George Galloway and All for Unity. We can't just keep repeating the same tactics hoping that this time they will get rid of the SNP. They won't.
Lots of people ask me how to vote? Well the answer is simple.
In the constituency vote choose the Pro UK party that has the best chance of winning where you live.
In the list vote choose All for Unity.
SNP support has recently begun to fall. We can take advantage of this if we work together. Every vote for All for Unity will make it more likely that the best known opposition politician in Scotland, George Galloway, will be in Holyrood holding Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP to account. He will certainly do a better job than either Rennie, Ross or Sarwar.
Make sure your vote hits the target. Let Sir George of Galloway enter the lists and his lance will not kill dragons, but it might just skewer a sturgeon.
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October 17: Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls is a simple, but pleasingly monstrous-looking stand. According to the author, it was inspired by the appearance of a mummified monkey, and I can certainly see some monkey corpse under its biomechanical exterior. How cute is it once you know it can only say the word "goo" and that it's only about two or three inches tall, though? Sometimes, something that's both horrible and tiny is even more precious than something that's both nice and tiny. Just look at any dog under two feet long.
Goo Goo Dolls's only real ability to shrink people down to its own size, which is certainly scary on its own, sure; not only can this nasty little monkey-ghoul tear you to bits on its own terms, but you'll have to deal with all the other helplessness and disorientation that may come with a mouse-sized existence. Once more however, the true horror lies with the stand's creatively twisted user.
This user, Gwess, is introduced to us with a "pet bird" that turns out to be a shrunken-down human wearing the skin of a pet bird, which Gwess eventually kills for its inability to fly or produce the correct bird-sounds. This seems to have been a long term habit of Gwess, since she owns several other tiny animal skins and has the heroine, Jolyne, wear the skin of a rat.
The best part may be that such a demented creep is still not 100% villain. Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend, and sometimes a murderer who keeps human pets in hollowed-out animals is your friend.


Join us for a talk with acclaimed historian Ken Robison, who will reveal the thrilling history behind this war-weary wave of migration seeking sanctuary and opportunity on Montana's wild and scenic frontier. The Western Heritage Center is co-sponsoring this talk with BPL. During the 1860s and 70s, the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers served as natural highways, through snags and rapids, from St. Louis to Fort Benton and the Upper Yellowstone for steamboats bringing Yankees and Rebels and their families to the remote Montana territory. The migration transformed the region that became Montana from the isolation of the fur trade era to the raucous gold rush days that would keep the region in turmoil for decades and give rise to fascinating Montana legends including Yellowstone Kelly and the James Gang.


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Q: Scanf não está parando em repetição Tenho um loop while que só terminará ao ser digitado o valor 0 (zero). Tenho uma variável que irá receber uma opção de comando. Dentro do loop eu possuo um switch case onde:

*

*0) sai do programa (retorna para o while e finaliza);

*1) solicita para que seja escrito uma letra;

*2) mostra a letra escrita.

Bom, o problema esta na verdade no case 1. Segue o código feito:
arquivo: teste_while_e_switch.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
  int op=-1;
  char letra=' ';

  while(op!=0){
      printf("\n0) sair\
      \n1) digite uma letra\
      \n2) mostre a letra\
      \nOp: ");
      scanf("%d", &op);

      switch(op){
          case 0: { break; }
          case 1: { printf("letra: "); scanf("%c", &letra); break; }
          default:{ printf("opcao invalida.\n"); break; }
      }
  }
  printf("fim");
  return 0;
}

Ao rodar o programa o mesmo se comporta da seguinte forma:
0) sair
1) digite uma letra
2) mostre a letra
Op: 1
letra:
0) sair
1) digite uma letra
2) mostre a letra
Op:

Até onde meu entendimento se estende, o loop deveria mostrar a mensagem de op, aguardar até que eu digitasse uma letra e só então dar seguimento ao código mostrando novamente o menu.

A: Resolvi responder para dar um código mais limpo e dentro dos padrões:
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    char op = ' ';
    char letra = ' ';
    do {
        printf("\n0) Sair\
            \n1) Digite uma letra\
            \n2) Mostre a letra\
            \nOp: ");
        scanf(" %c", &op);
        switch (op) {
            case '0':
                break;
            case '1':
                printf("\nLetra: ");
                scanf(" %c", &letra);
                break;
            case '2':
                printf("\nLetra digitada: %c", letra);
                break;
            default:
                printf("\nOpcao invalida.");
        }
    } while (op != '0');
    printf("fim");
}

Veja funcionando no ideone. E no repl.it. Também coloquei no GitHub para referência futura.
Ainda há alguma lógica ruim nele, mas para um exercício está bom.
O uso de fgets() ainda é mais recomendado que scanf() que pode ser usado em coisas simples assim.
Se quiser se livrar do ENTER pode fazer assim:
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    char op = ' ';
    char letra = ' ';
    do {
        printf("\n0) Sair\
            \n1) Digite uma letra\
            \n2) Mostre a letra\
            \nOp: ");
        op = getchar();
        switch (op) {
            case '0':
                break;
            case '1':
                printf("\nLetra: ");
                letra = getchar();
                break;
            case '2':
                printf("\nLetra digitada: %c", letra);
                break;
            default:
                printf("\nOpcao invalida.");
        }
    } while (op != '0');
    printf("fim");
}

Veja funcionando no ideone. E no repl.it. Também coloquei no GitHub para referência futura.

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Orijen and Acana, popular pet food brands, bought by Mars Incorporated
What do Mars bars, M&Ms, Skittles, and Royal Canin all have in common?
If you're puzzled by a possible connection between popular candy brands and dog food — so are many consumers!
And now, beloved Canadian pet food brands Orijen and Acana share a connection to chocolate and candy, too.
Mars Incorporated, a global household name known for its namesake chocolate bar, has purchased Champion Pet Foods, the company behind creating some of the best-quality kibble for our Canadian fur friends.
While not a surprise to some, considering Mars owns a lot of well-known pet food brands from Whiskas to Pedigree to Greenies, this acquisition has left many Canadian retailers and pet parents with a bad taste in their mouth (and no, they didn't taste the kibble!).
The concern is that Mars Petcare, a large corporation, is focused on creating profit for its shareholders, which could, in turn, affect the quality and overall nutrition of the beloved Canadian brands pet parents — and their fur babies — have come to love and trust.
What can concerned pet parents do?
Look for Canadian-owned and Canadian-made pet food, that fully disclose where and how they source their ingredients. Don't be afraid to ask questions to truly understand what's in your pet's food.
Tom&Sawyer, for example, sources all its human-edible ingredients from Canadian restaurant suppliers and cooks food in batches in an open kitchen. Anyone can stop by during the week to see our professionally trained chefs in action. Check out our freshly made, gently cooked recipes for dogs and cats here.
Have questions? Contact us here - we'd love to talk about your pet's food!


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Donald Trump is getting all the press, but the Bernie Sanders movement is more important for the future
By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias Dec 11, 2015, 9:00am EST
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Donald Trump, as you have probably heard, is dominating national polls of Republicans who want to lead their party in the 2016 presidential election. As you have likewise probably heard, Hillary Clinton is currently crushing left-wing challenger Bernie Sanders in national polls of Democrats.
What you have probably not heard as much about is that Trump and Sanders have approximately equal levels of public support.
Here's Trump bouncing around in the mid- to low 30s:
And here's Sanders bounding around in the mid- to low 30s:
Trump right now is a few percentage points ahead of Sanders in terms of the number of Republicans backing him versus the number of Democrats backing Sanders. But because there are more Democrats than Republicans in America, Philip Bump of the Washington Post reckons that there are actually slightly more Sanders supporters in America than Trump supporters. Nonetheless, Trump has dominated media coverage of the 2016 campaign while Sanders has largely been a non-factor in coverage since Clinton started handing in solid debate performances.
The reasons for this are not exactly mysterious — Trump is ahead in the polls and might win the GOP nomination, while Sanders is losing badly and clearly won't be the Democratic candidate.
But while the media's priorities are comprehensible, the horse race fact that mainstream Democrats have consolidated around a single champion while the non-Trump Republicans remain badly divided is creating a distorted picture of the real state of the country. Wall-to-wall Trump coverage is, for example, helping boost morale at white supremacist groups, which are now benefiting from a newfound sense of momentum. But while there is clearly significance in the fact that a large minority of Republicans are willing to flock to Trump's banner and the cause of ethnic chauvinism, the reality that an equal number of people are flocking to Sanders's banner and the vision of an expansive Nordic welfare state is equally significant.
Indeed, in terms of analyzing broad trends in American life, the Sanders phenomenon is probably more significant than Trumpism. Trump's supporters, after all, are older than the average Republican, while Sanders's are younger than the average Democrat. The Trump movement is benefiting from an exceptionally chaotic situation among mainstream Republicans, while Sanders is up against the strongest non-incumbent frontrunner in American political history. In the short term, that all means that Trump is more relevant to 2016. But the values that Sanders reflects are likely to grow stronger in future cycles, while Trumpism is likely to grow weaker.
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Vaping Skyrockets, Plus News from Austin to LA
Almost 4 in 10 LGB Adults Vape
A new study found that 38% of sexual minority adults, nationally, are currently using e-cigarette products – nearly double the 19.8% of heterosexual adults who said the same. As concerns about the dangers of "vaping" grow, the researchers said that the study is evidence that new efforts to reduce e-cigarette use will need to specifically include and target the LGBT community.
Popping Up Soon Near You?
American Institute of Architects reported on the designing of a "pop-up" LGBT center that will move around Austin's 10 districts. Given Austin's large but geographically-dispersed LGBT community, its creators hope that decentralizing the idea of a community center will help more residents access services and get connected to others in their local area.
Find an LGBT center near you using Centerlink's interactive directory.
Quality of Life for People Living with HIV
Researchers called for a renewed focus on quality of life versus just viral suppression for people living with HIV, reported Bloomberg News. The move, backed by pharmaceutical companies, aims to look more at the other health issues facing people living with HIV, "such as associated mental and physical co-morbidities… financial stresses and potential HIV-related stigma."
APA Okay with "They"
LGBTQ Nation reported that the American Psychological Association (APA) has endorsed in its publication guidelines the use of "they" pronouns for people who prefer them, as well as in place of "he or she" when talking about someone hypothetical. Advocates said that the move could help ensure nonbinary binary are more visible and represented in academic literature.
Rethinking Vaginal Exams
Freethink reported on a "reinvention" of the vaginal speculum, a medical device that can be painful and, they say, particularly alienating for members of the LGBT community. The accompanying video unpacks the experiences of trans men and nonbinary folks seeking OB/GYN care, and explains how inclusive and welcoming care is necessary to advance LGBT health.
New Trans-focused Housing, Care in LA
The Los Angeles Blade reported on how the city honored Trans Awareness Week and Trans Day of Remembrance by announcing a shelter specifically for transgender women that will also provide them with trauma-informed care. The center is one of the first of its kind, and is designed to address the epidemic of violence facing trans women of color in particular.


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People with schizophrenia do not realise or accept that they're ill. It can result. In young folks who develop schizophrenia, this phase of the disorder is known as the "prodromal" period.
There's no sure method to avoid schizophrenia. It can be hard to diagnose schizophrenia in teens. People with schizophrenia frequently do not think they are sick or that they need therapy. Despite the misconception that they don't have any chance of improvement or recovery, the reality is far more hopeful. Additionally, the majority of individuals with schizophrenia aren't violent. Schizophrenia's signs are different for everybody. There's simply one primary way to heal schizophrenia by employing the brain which is.
You might find out more about taking medications for schizophrenia. Medication alone isn't enough. Schizophrenia medications are usually medications. The key medications used as a treatment for schizophrenia are called antipsychotics.
A number of different kinds of medications are utilised to take care of health conditions. When it's time to avoid the medication, the physician will assist the patient and reduce the dose. You might discover more about medications for schizophrenia here. Because medications for schizophrenia can lead to serious side effects, individuals with schizophrenia may be unwilling to take them.
Medication isn't a cure for schizophrenia and treats a number of the signs. As an example, someone who's immune to taking medication consistently may have to be given injections rather. Your medication ought to be assessed at least one time. The medication also must be dispensed with a Medication Guide with information concerning the drug's uses and dangers. All medications can lead to sedation. They are.
If you absolutely must use medication, please be attentive to the potential side effects and discuss them with your medical care provider. After the year of therapy, the majority of people may discontinue their usage of medications, especially those where the side effects are hard to tolerate. Medications are utilized to help control the signs of schizophrenia. As with other medications, anti-anxiety medications can cause side results.
All medications should be provided at lower dosages in kids and elderly individuals and used with caution in women that are pregnant or breastfeeding. While it should not be used at the expense of your wellbeing, be patient with the process and discuss any concerns. Because medications influence each person there are various side outcomes. Antipsychotic medications may raise the risk. It is used to relieve the symptoms. You may have to try many different antidepressant medications before finding the one that enriches your symptoms and that causes side effects you can manage.
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How can cognitive-behavioral therapy benefit patients with persistent pain? The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of cognitive-behavioral treatment approaches to persistent pain. The review is divided into four sections. In the first section, we describe the conceptual background for cognitive-behavioral approaches to pain. In the second section, we describe the basic elements of a typical cognitive-behavioral treatment protocol used in pain management. In the third section, we address questions that healthcare professionals frequently ask about cognitive-behavioral treatment. In the fourth section, we discuss new clinical applications of cognitive-behavioral treatment.


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"Back off and give him more space -" said the dry voice of Professor Quirrell.
"No!" interrupted the Headmaster. "Let him be surrounded by his friends."
-Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Words of distraction or encouragement
Recently, at the gym, I overheard some group of exercise buddies admonishing their buddy on some machine to keep going with each rep. My first thought was, "why are they tormenting their friend? Why can't they just leave him alone? Exercise is hard enough without trying to parse social interactions at the same time."
And then I realized - they're doing it because, for them, it works. It's *easier* for them to do the workout if someone is telling them, "Keep going! Push it! One more!"
Whereas for me, that divides my attention - I have to break off a piece of attention that was being used for willpower to move the heavy thing, and use it for processing someone else's speech and figuring out what to do about it, and damn it, they're just telling me to do the thing I was doing already, and I feel like throwing the weight at them.
This doesn't seem like social anxiety. I have friends who can't do things as well when other people are watching, but that isn't my problem. It doesn't matter if people are watching me, as long as I can safely ignore them while performing - as long as I can be sure they'll shut up, stand back, and let me work. I even benefit from fast feedback, if it's something I know how to act on, and given between sets rather than during them.
Words as performance enhancing drugs
I suspect that I find encouragements to do what I'm already doing distracting rather than encouraging, because I am trying to hold onto the integrity of my own cognitive process, and words from other people feel like a disruption of my already-sufficient will. For me, there's a lot of overhead whenever someone talks to me because I have to reallocate mental space to social interactions.
I think this is an important difference between people who are better at narrow-focus activities and people who are better at broad-awareness ones: In the narrow-focus orientation, the most natural thing to do when engaged in an activity is reallocate all one's attention to the object of overt focus, and it takes an active effort to keep unrelated mental processes going. In the broad-awareness orientation, by default a bunch of cognitive processes - peripheral perceptual awareness, social awareness - are always running, and it takes work to reallocate focus to just one thing, if it's possible at all. On this model, the sorts of people helped by admonitions are helped because it recruits energy from an otherwise unrelated task (social attention) for use in their focus task (pushing a heavy object). It acts as a bolster, strengthening them in what they already wanted to do, helping them recruit this other part of their will that they didn't have conscious access to before.
Julian Jaynes, in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, argues that verbal admonitions are closely integrated with our cognitive processes (and makes the additional claim that early human brains admonished themselves through hallucinations):
The most plausible hypothesis is that verbal hallucinations were a side effect of language comprehension which evolved by natural selection as a method of behavioral control.
Let us consider a man commanded by himself or his chief to set up a fish weir far upstream from a campsite. If he [...] cannot [...] narratize the situation and so hold his analog 'I' in a spatialized time with its consequences fully imagined, how does he do it? It is only language, I think, that can keep him at this time-consuming all-afternoon work. A Middle-Pleistocene man would forget what he was doing. But lingual man would have language to remind him, either repeated by himself, which would require a type of volition which I do not think he was then capable of, or, as seems more likely, by a repeated 'internal' verbal hallucination telling him what to do.
[...] Behavior more closely based on aptic structures (or, in an older terminology more 'instinctive') needs no temporal priming. But learned activities with no consummatorvy closure do need to be maintained by something outside of themselves.
Similarly, in fashioning a tool, the hallucinated verbal command of "sharper" enables nonconscious early man to keep at his task alone. Or an hallucinated term meaning "finer" for an individual grinding seeds on a stone quern into flour.
In Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein similarly imagines a language that does not denote objects or abstract thoughts, and is for nothing but actions:
(2) Let us imagine a language ...The language is meant to serve for communication between a builder A and an assistant B. A is building with building-stones; there are blocks, pillars, slabs and beams. B has to pass the stones, and that in the order in which A needs them. For this purpose they use a language consisting of the words 'block', 'pillar', 'slab', 'beam'. A calls them out; --B brings the stone which he has learnt to bring at such-and-such a call. -- Conceive this as a complete primitive language.
(6) We could imagine that the language of (2) was the whole language of A and B; even the whole language of a tribe. The children are brought up to perform these actions, to use these words as they do so, and to react in this way to the words of others. An important part of the training will consist in the teacher's pointing to the objects, directing the child's attention to them, and at the same time uttering a word; for instance, the word "slab" as he points to that shape.
(19) It is easy to imagine a language consisting only of orders and reports in battle.---Or a language consisting only of questions and expressions for answering yes and no. And innumerable others.-----And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.
But what about this: is the call "Slab!" in example (2) a sentence or a word? --- If a word, surely it has not the same meaning as the like-sounding word of our ordinary language, for in (2) it is a call. But if a sentence, it is surely not the elliptical sentence: "Slab!" of our language.
----- As far as the first question goes you can call "Slab!" a word and also a sentence; perhaps it could be appropriately called a 'degenerate sentence' (as one speaks of a degenerate hyperbola); in fact it is our 'elliptical' sentence.---But that is surely only a shortened form of sentence "Bring me a slab", and there is no such sentence in example (2).---But why should I not on contrary have called the sentence "Bring me a slab" a lengthening of the sentence "Slab!"?
When I hear "slab", my mind interprets this by imagining the object. A native speaker of Wittgenstein's command language, when hearing the utterance "Slab!", might - merely as the act of interpreting the word - feel a sense of readiness to go fetch a stone slab.
At the Vipassana Center silent meditation retreat, admonitions worked very well for me:
The instruction contained a lot of words of admonition and encouragement, often repeated in the exact same terms. It was emphasized that we were here to work hard, that we should start with a calm and quiet mind, that we should work diligently, patiently and persistently, and that if we did so, we were bound to be successful. This served as a substantial boost to my willpower; in private meditation sessions, if I found myself flagging, I was able to "play back" a recording of these verbal admonitions, and felt encouraged to apply myself more fully again.
I think this worked well because these were literal audio recordings, and I was expected to be silently meditating, so there was no feeling whatsoever that I had to respond. (The occasional interruption, early on, was also a welcome distraction from the considerable physical discomfort I experienced as a result of sustained sitting.)
It also helped that some brief periods were somewhat explicitly set aside for instruction, and were brief. For most of the meditation I did not feel at risk of obtrusive interruptions. Rather, I could replay that tape in my head when I felt I needed encouragement. It wasn't an external imposition - it was nothing but a tool that I could pick up and use, at my own discretion, to better regulate my own mind.
"Writing is a drug that counterfeits memory." -King Thamus of Egypt
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Microsoft to launch its cloud toolkit in March 2010, Azure IaaS too?
December 17, 2009 by virtualization.info Editors
At the last Microsoft PDC conference, the company's Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie said that customers will be able to upload their (Hyper-V) virtual machines inside the soon-to-be-launched cloud computing platform Windows Azure.
More clearly, Ozzie said that Microsoft will support the hosting mode offered by Xen-based (like Amazon EC2) and VMware-based cloud architectures, but, besides that, the company didn't provide any detail about the availability of this IaaS component or the way it works.
The only thing we know for sure is that Microsoft is preparing a toolkit to guide its customers to extend their virtual data center into the Azure cloud.
Now we also know that this toolkit is going to be available in March 2010.
The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) component of Azure will be launched January 1, 2010. Maybe Microsoft plans to announce an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) part too, and that one will arrive in March.
The impact of storage in Virtual Desktop Infrastructures
Herco van Brug, Senior Consultant at PQR, last week released an interesting paper about the storage implications in VDI environments.
The 14-pages paper, titled VDI & Storage: Deep Impact, covers an area of virtual desktop infrastructures that is not investigated enough most time:
…when implementing a VDI infrastructure certain points need to be addressed. First of all, the TCO/ROI calculation may not be as rosy as some people suggest. Secondly, the performance impact on applications, specifically multimedia and 3D applications, needs to be investigated. And finally, don't forget to check licensing aspects, as this can be a very significant factor in VDI infrastructure.
While centralized desktop computing provides important advantages, all resources come together in the data centre. That means that the CPU resources, memory resources, networking and disk resources all need to be facilitated from a single point – the virtual infrastructure.
The advantage of a central infrastructure is that, when sized properly, it is more flexible in terms of resource consumption than decentralized computing. It is also more capable of handling a certain amount of peak loads, as these only occur once in a while on a small number of systems in an average data centre.
But what if the peak loads are sustained and the averages are so high that the cost of facilitating them is disproportionate to that of decentralized computing?
As it turns out, there is a hidden danger to VDI. There's a killer named "IOPS"…
Security: RSA SecureBook for VMware View 4.0
RSA, the EMC security division acquired in June 2006, just published a recommended reading for any VMware customer interested in VDI: A Guide for Deploying and Administering the RSA Solution for VMware View.
This is a massive 110-pages paper that describes the architecture and step-by-step implementation of a VMware View 4.0 environment secured by RSA products and managed by the EMC Ionix Server Configuration Manager.
Release: Citrix Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V (with StorageLink Site Recovery)
After a couple of months in beta, Citrix releases Essentials 5.5 for Hyper-V just before the holidays.
This version of the management platform for the Microsoft hypervisor includes a new technology called StorageLink Site Recovery.
This feature allows the Hyper-V administrators to control the replication features that their SAN arrays without using multiple consoles. From the Essentials console they can test the recovery process with what-if analysis, and restore the protected VMs in isolated, test networks.
The notable thing is that StorageLink Site Recovery is available for every version of Essentials, including the Express one which is free of charge (but it won't appear there before Dec. 23).
HP announced its support for this technology a long time ago and now confirms integration with StorageWorks SANs.
Release: Cisco Nexus 1000V 1.2
Since the release in May, Cisco updated its virtual switch for VMware virtual infrastructure, the Nexus 1000V, a couple of times.
The second update arrived last week, introducing a number of key features. Most of them are security-oriented and very welcome.
The most prominent anyway is a JAVA-based GUI installer for the Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM).
The GUI allows to perform several actions like create the VMware port groups, VLANs, enable the SSH service, register the Nexus plug-in inside vCenter Server and restart the VSM.
Cisco published a video to show it in action:
Release: VMware vCenter AppSpeed 1.2
Today VMware released version 1.2 (build 41671) of its application performance analyzer AppSpeed, announced in January and released for the first time in July.
AppSpeed, acquired from B-Hive in May 2008, is a performance analyzer tool that sniffs the network traffic and learn how the applications inside virtual machines usually perform, so it can help to understand the reason of performance issues.
Release: HP Sizer for Microsoft Hyper-V R2
HP always offered a basic capacity planning tool to its customers that want to use ProLiant servers for virtualization.
In November 2005 it released one for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. In March 2007 it released one for VMware VI 3.0.
Yesterday the company released also one for Microsoft Hyper-V R2. This one is not a web tool like the previous versions, but a 50MB Windows application that customers can download and use without restrictions.
To collect data from physical servers, the Sizer tool interacts with the Microsoft Assessment & Planning (MAP) Toolkit (both 3.x and 4.x are supported) or the Windows Performance Monitor, but it can also import information from other tools.
Once data is available, this tool produces a detailed Bill of Materials (BoM) that includes servers and storage equipment, with pricing specified for the customer's country.
Release: Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1
A few Microsoft customers know that the company is offering a patch management solution for offline virtual machines since July 2008.
The tool is called Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (OVMST) and uses PowerShell, System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
Despite the importance of this product, which is released for free, so far Microsoft spent minimal effort in developing and promoting it.
Version 2.0 was released exactly one year ago. And today OVMST only reaches version 2.1, introducing support for the R2 wave of products.
This includes Hyper-V R2 (released in July for partners, in October for public), SCVMM 2008 R2 (released in August), SCCM 2007 SP2, WSUS 3.0 SP2, and Windows 7/2008 R2 guest OSes.
It's very concerning to see that Microsoft doesn't recognize the security of virtual data centers as a top priority.
The company should do much better that this to build confidence in its upcoming Azure-based private cloud offering.
Release: VMware Fusion 3.0.1
Last week VMware announced the availability of Fusion 3.0.1 (build 215242).
While it seems just a minor update, it introduces a couple of key improvements.
First of all, the Windows virtual machines gain now from 20% to 80% better performance on Mac OS X 10.6 (codename Snow Leopard) for 3D and video tasks.
It seems that part of the slowdown experienced with Fusion 3.0 on Mac OS X depends on the VMware Tools which are now improved.
Additionally, Fusion 3.0.1 introduces a brand new 64bit networking stack, which was not available when VMware launched the Fusion 3.0 64bit engine.
Finally, the new product supports Ubuntu Linux 9.10 (codename Karmic Koala) as guest OS and Parallels Desktop 5.0 virtual machines for importing.
Microsoft acquires Sentillion
With a surprising move Microsoft today announced the acquisition of Sentillion, the US startup that launched in summer 2006 the virtualization product called vThere.
The company's press announcement doesn't mention at all vThere, solely focusing on the startup presence in the healthcare industry and its solution there.
vThere is what we call here at virtualization.info a platform wrapper. It's a piece of software that integrates with a hosted virtualization platform and wraps its virtual machines in a security layer.
The wrapper enforces corporate policies defined by the administrator like the VM expiration date, the encryption of the virtual hard drive, the capability to join certain networks, etc.


In 1958, the Blisses revisited the idea of a museum addition and entered into a new planning phase. On January 25, 1958, then director John S. Thacher announced to the Dumbarton Oaks Administrative Committee that the Blisses had created a fund "to make possible an addition to Dumbarton Oaks on 32nd Street, to house the Garden Library and Collections of seals, coins and textiles and Mr. Bliss' collection of Pre-Columbian art, which he is considering giving to Dumbarton Oaks." What was envisioned was a museum addition that could accommodate almost everything that was not presently on exhibition. Thacher explained that preliminary discussions had been held with an unnamed architectural firm in Alexandria, Virginia [sic for Charlottesville ?] and mentioned that the possibility of creating underground library stacks to the north of the main building was being considered. He stated that it was hoped that by the next meeting tentative plans and elevations would be ready. Minutes of the Meeting of the Administrative Committee, January 25, 1958. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, administration files, administrative committee, 1940–1959. Indeed, in February 1958, the office of the architect Milton LaTour Grigg of Charlottesville, Virginia, submitted two drawings for a proposed museum addition (figs. 5 and 6). Milton L. Grigg, "Proposed Addition to Dumbarton Oaks for Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss," elevation and plan, February 1958. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, architectural plans, Grigg, Milton. L., AR.AP.MW.GL.114-115. The elevation and plan showed what is effectively a tripartite structure located along 32nd Street between the Byzantine Collection and the Bowling Green. It was designed to accommodate a new exhibition hall, two smaller rooms for a library (on one copy this is inscribed "Pre-Col. Library") and for Byzantine coins, and a large room for the Garden Library, arranged with bookshelves at right angles to the walls in a design very similar to that which would eventually be built by the firm of Wyeth and King. The elevation was of neo-Palladian style, undoubtedly to be built of brick and limestone, with ocular windows and Georgian detailing that was likely intended to harmonize with the exterior of both the Music Room and the Byzantine Collection gallery, the new addition's nearest neighbors. However, once again, nothing came of this plan.
Almost exactly two years later, on January 21, 1960, Thacher reported to the Administrative Committee that he and the Blisses had consulted with Grigg, "a year or so ago," and with Philip Johnson of New York, "during the past summer and autumn," but that neither of these architects had submitted plans which were satisfactory either to the Blisses or to Thacher. The Blisses' consideration of both Milton LaTour Grigg, a noted Colonial Revival and preservation architect, and Philip Johnson, a noted modern architect of the "Mies van der Rohe school," is somewhat surprising, but informative. Grigg (1905–1982) was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia between 1924 and 1929. He worked for the architectural firm of Perry, Shaw, and Hepburn on the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg until 1933, the year he established his own firm in Charlottesville. Between 1937 and 1940, he was in partnership with Floyd Johnson, and both men later became fellows of the American Institute of Architects. Grigg later worked with William Newton Hale, Jr. (1920–1954) on the design of residential architecture in Charlottesville. Grigg was a noted preservation architect and did restoration work at Monticello (1936), Edgemont (1939), and other historic properties. He designed the Thomas Jefferson Inn (1951), now known as the Federal Executive Institute, and the Virginia Angus Association building (1952), both in Charlottesville. K. Edward Lay, The Architecture of Jefferson County: Charlottesville and Albemarle County (Charlottesville, 2000), 283. He concluded that the idea of the museum addition was still being studied and considered. At the same meeting, Robert Bliss announced his intention to permanently house his collection of pre-Columbian art at Dumbarton Oaks, but he stated that he wished this matter to be considered entirely confidential. Minutes of the Meeting of the Administrative Committee, January 21, 1960. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, administration files, administrative committee, 1960–1969. By the date of this meeting, Philip Johnson had submitted a plan, dated August 27, 1959 (fig. 7), Untitled plan for the museum addition. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, architectural plans, Johnson, Philip, AR.AP.MW.PC.001. The original pencil drawing study for this plan, "Study – Proposed Museum / Dumbarton Oaks," dated August 25, 1959, is preserved in the Philip Johnson section of the drawings and archives collection of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University, New York. I am grateful to Cammie McAfee for bringing this drawing to my attention. for the museum addition, three additional drawings of plans and an elevation (fig. 8), dated September 1959, Philip Johnson Associates / Architects, "Site & General Floor Plan," "Lower Floor Plan," and "Elevation," September 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, architectural plans, Johnson, Philip, AR.AP.MW.PC.002-004. and a three-dimensional model of the building (fig. 9), Foam core and other materials on wood in pasteboard and imitation leather case, 78.7 x 69.2 x 20 cm (31 x 27 1/4 x 7 7/8 in.). Dumbarton Oaks House Collection, HC.AE.1959.001. which arrived at Dumbarton Oaks in late October. The design for Johnson's curved, glass-walled building—essentially the design that would eventually be built Of note, however, are these differences: (1) the enclosed planter areas are not yet part of the program and these areas are unroofed and open to the fountain court; (2) the columns are not articulated with large-format stone revetment; and (3) the domes appear to have ocular openings rather than uninterrupted vaults. (see below)—was radically different from the designs for museum additions previously submitted by Patterson and Grigg. Johnson employed eight domed cylindrical gallery rooms, each defined by eight large-scale "columns" and glass walls, with an open-air space for a fountain and a pool in the center. Johnson sited the building to the south of the institutional entrance on 32nd Street, employing an additional cylindrical room as an off-axis entrance or connector at the northwest corner of the existing entrance pavilion. Of note is the fact that in both the first drawing and the model much of the building's exterior is sheathed by plantings of unspecified variety and height.
Thacher's avowal to the Administrative Committee in January 1960 that the submitted plans for the new museum wing were unsatisfactory may have been, at best, cautious, and very likely reflected the Blisses' continued indecision over the scope of the addition's exhibition program and its location at Dumbarton Oaks. The Blisses may well have been trepidatious about building a highly visible modernist glass structure at the west side of the front yard of the historic mansion. Nevertheless, the preserved correspondence of 1959 Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence. shows that, although Grigg's plans were no longer under consideration, Philip Johnson's plan was very much given serious discussion. On May 28, 1959, Johnson had written Thacher to thank him for sending plans of the existing architecture at Dumbarton Oaks. Johnson asked for additional detailed plans of the Byzantine museum and the Music Room and stated that it was hard "to 'dream' properly" unless he had the facts. These plans as well as photographs of the north façade of the Music Room were sent on June 6. The inclusion of the photographs of the Music Room suggests that at this point in the negotiations the proposed addition was to be located north of the Music Room and Byzantine Collection, where Grigg had sited his proposed addition. However, one month later, on July 6, Thacher sent Johnson additional photographs "taken of the Dumbarton Oaks property at the corner of 'R' and 32nd Street," the site where, eventually, the Garden Library was built. He wrote: "Several days ago we mailed to you a group of topographical plans of that area, so that now I hope you have all the information you will need to assist you in the preparation of sketch plans indicating your suggestions for the development of that area along the lines about which we have talked." John S. Thacher to Philip Johnson, July 6, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence. Having received these materials, Johnson tellingly wrote Thacher on July 7, remarking: [I]t strikes me that we will have to sit down together on the program for several more times and that I will have to see the whole collection before anything really sensible can be worked up." Philip Johnson to John S. Thacher, July 7, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence.
On August 4, 1959, Frederic Rhinelander King returned to Dumbarton Oaks and met with John Thacher at his invitation. Correspondence between John S. Thacher and Frederic R. King, July 27 and 29, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Wyeth & King correspondence. The Blisses, who were in Europe at the time, do not appear to have been involved in or consulted about this visit. As no detailed correspondence survives regarding King's return to Dumbarton Oaks, only speculation can be offered as to the nature of the visit. It is possible that Thacher wanted King to provide an alternative proposal to the one being worked on by Johnson. However, it is also possible that Thacher saw the utility of dividing the program of the new museum and creating two additions, one for the Robert Woods Bliss Collection of Pre-Columbian Art and another for Mildred Bliss's Garden Library. Indeed, this is what eventually came to be, and by September 1960, King was beginning a preliminary design phase of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Library. He wrote Thacher on September 15: "I shall be in Washington fairly often in the next month and shall make an appointment to see you when I have developed some ideas. The problem is a most interesting one and I hope we can find a satisfactory solution in due course." Frederic R. King to John S. Thacher, September 15, 1960. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Wyeth & King correspondence. His reason for being in Washington fairly often was that he had designed the Phillips Collection annex wing, which would open on November 5. A review of the new building in the April 9, 1961 issue of The Sunday Star called it a "small masterpiece of modern museum design and a rare example of quiet brilliance in the installation of art for public view." http://www.phillipscollection.org/docs/research/library/chronology.pdf (accessed August 14, 2011).
My enthusiasm about your conception of the new wing makes me terribly anxious to see at least the floor plan which you have laid out. The dimensions of the two mosaics, about which I spoke, are: a. The long strip is: 22'8" x 10'9" (6.91m x 2.87m). Dimensions taken from publication. It can be divided into three sections, as the two end sections are of geometric designs, whereas the central section consists of dolphins, putti, etc., and is very colorful. Floor Mosaic with Erotes Fishing, Late Roman, 2nd-3rd century. Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection, BZ.1940.64. This mosaics was installed in the Byzantine Courtyard Gallery in 1989. b. This mosaic is the shallow pool, the dimensions being 6.60m x 6.20 m (mosaic) (12.80m x 11.80m-pool, outside dim.) It actually belongs to the Fogg but I think we could arrange to acquire it, if it seems advisable. Thinking of mosaics reminds me of the fact that if all of the Byzantine objects are to be in the new wing, the four mosaics now in the floors of the various corridors would have to be moved. Please do not forget that we need office space terribly, particularly as we may have to sacrifice the two offices adjacent to the present entrance vestibule. Also the demands for space for scholars are such that it will be no time at all before we will be forced to create more studies. As I told you, Miss Carpenter and I could move out of our offices, which would give enough space for Fellows for some years to come. On looking at the present exhibition room again, I do not believe that a gallery would look at all well. If one could insert windows on the north side of that room, I believe it could be made into attractive offices for me and the administrative staff; the garden library would then be without a home, unless it were put into my house. This, I fear, might give the impression that the garden library was being pushed down the hill in an isolated place. We also will have to have those unattractive necessities, such as coat rooms, lavatories, a drinking fountain, switchboard, sales desk, et cetera, et cetera. I wonder if we really need the double walls on 32nd Street. If the new curved wall were pushed right up to the line of the present wall, the boundary line of the property, then the whole building could be brought several feet nearer the Street, which would help the entrance problem. P.S. The drawing See note 5. has just arrived. Many thanks! John S. Thacher to Philip Johnson, September 2, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence.
that non-exhibition facilities, such as bathrooms, had not yet been considered. On the issue of non-exhibition facilities, see infra and note 141.
After the arrival of the model, See note 7. which Mildred Bliss had been "very anxious" to see, Alberta Carpenter (secretary to John S. Thacher) to Philip Johnson, October 13, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence. sometime in late October, the Blisses and Thacher met with Johnson at Dumbarton Oaks on November 13. John S. Thacher to Philip Johnson, November 6, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence. Although no minutes of this meeting either were made or retained, its conclusion most likely brought to a temporary halt further development of the museum addition, no doubt in order to allow time for the Blisses to refine the program of any museum addition and to determine its appropriate location. Johnson signaled the conclusion of this phase when he wrote Thacher on December 9: "I hesitate to bill you. The work done to date, of course, has amounted to much more than the total billed, but I know that it is always very difficult to pay for projects that don't go ahead. Needless to say, if there is more work to be done, the amount previously paid will be credited against any further contract. Let's get together soon, in any case." Philip Johnson to John S. Thacher, December 9, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence. Thacher wrote back on the 10th: "Thank you for your letter of the 9th, enclosing your statement to date, for which I am herewith sending you our check in payment thereof. Last evening Mr. and Mrs. Bliss dined with me and we had a long talk about the building program. The situation is far from clear and as soon as any definite program is arrived at I will let you know. Mr. and Mrs. Bliss once again asked me to tell you how ingenuous [sic] and exciting your suggestions are." John S. Thacher to Philip Johnson, December 10, 1959. Dumbarton Oaks Archives, House Collection files, Philip Johnson correspondence.


Located on the near northside of Indianapolis in the heart of Butler University's campus, the gardens encompass twenty acres of hillside overlooking a small manmade lake and the historic Indianapolis Central Canal. The gardens were designed in 1949 by James Holcomb, a Trustee of Butler University, and Arthur Lindberg, then superintendent of buildings and grounds for the campus. Construction of the gardens was completed by 1950.
Accessible via pedestrian bridge from the Canal Towpath, the Holcomb Gardens are composed of thousands of trees, shrubs, and other native flora of the Central Indiana region. The grounds contain a lake, waterfalls, garden house, gazebo, the poets' corner (a niche of stone benches inscribed with quotations by famous poets), and the philosophers' bench (a similar area with philosophers' quotations). Central to the landscape is a 500-foot-long grass mall running parallel to the canal, flanked on its eastern and western sides with three lengths of hedges and allées of trees. The mall terminates on axis with a raised, octagonal pool, featuring a statue of Persephone by French sculptor Armand Toussaint atop a raised plinth at its center. To the south of the mall, a circuitous road leads to the Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium that crowns a wooded knoll, and affords panoramic views to the main campus and neighborhood surrounds. The gardens also contain the Mrs. James Irving Holcomb Memorial Carillon Tower designed by Holcomb and Lindberg, which was dedicated in 1959 as a memorial to Holcomb's wife Musetta, who died in 1957. The tower, composed of three 130-foot Indiana limestone pillars, accommodates a broad stairway descending to the edge of the lake below.


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The Clark air Crawler model CA-1 widely known as the Clark CA-1 was a small airborne bulldozer designed for improvement of runways in World War II by the United States Armed Forces.

Design and production

In 1942, the United States military created a new engineering unit that would be extremely mobile; this could only be done with light equipment. The military began looking for new bulldozer small and light enough to be flown in the Douglas C-47 and the Waco CG-4A. When the parameters were set the military looked for a company to create such a machine. They were to draw inspiration from the US Forestry Service's "trail tractor" (a small tractor for use in small clearings and fields within the forest).

In 1942, the Clark Machine Company took the contract. Clark initially built 14 operational dozers and conducted extensive tests at their facilities. Once proven, the military ordered 800 more and eventually extended that figure. The War Department worked with Clark Machine over the course of the years 1942 and 1943 ordering many CA-1s by the end of World War 2. It is estimated that there were more than 2,500 produced.

Operation

The Tractor was flown in by either a C-46 or C-47 or transported by a glider, which landed on an unimproved runway or a possible runway. Once dropped off, the engineers used the tractors to construct a paved or improved landing strip. The CA-1 would be used predominantly to tow graders and pan scrapers. This style of construction was fast and relatively efficient which gave the United States a reasonable strategic advantage in the Pacific campaign of World War 2 due to the island hopping tactic that required many new airfields. After the war a new community of people eager to restore these small and light tractor emerged.

More than 1,500 CA-1s were used by the US Army.

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HOME > About Wayo > History of Excellence
Wayo has received recognition for its excellence in women's education since it was founded.
In an era when education was not open to women, Chiyo Horikoshi founded Wayo Sewing Women's Institute in 1897. The Institute focused on teaching both Japanese dressmaking and western dressmaking, which was new at that time in Japan. The Institute's educational goal was to teach sewing skills for domestic life and to groom women to teach. As a result, Wayo produced many excellent home economics teachers, some of whom later became the founders and presidents of women's universities, which is one of Wayo's greatest contributions to Women's education.
The sewing institute grew into a technical college that aimed to prepare women to be independent and play vital roles in modernizing Japan.
In 1949, Wayo Women's University was organized under the new Japanese educational system. Wayo started to expand into new educational areas. Of all the universities in Japan, Wayo is one of the 150 that have met the new, rigorous standards of the Japan University Accreditation Association. Over its long history, Wayo has graduated many leaders and outstanding women.
For these reasons, Wayo has been appreciated in Japanese women's education since it was founded over 110 years ago.
Logo Mark
To commemorate the 110th anniversary of Wayo Women's University, the logo mark of the university was renewed.
The stately frame expresses tradition and education philosophy, which is the basic foundation unshaken by the changes of time. On the other hand, the shape of a flower inside the frame, represents the initial for Wayo, and expresses innovation and flexibility, which is the mission statement of the university. The flower also symbolizes students who grow up to be adults with a sense of gentle hospitality and the ability to communicate which will allow them to contribute to society in many ways.
The combination of straight and soft lines, the stately frame, and the gentle flower is related to the spirit of the university "Japanese virtues and Western learning." Wayo Women's University has strongly wished to educate women who can communicate on an equal footing with people all over the world while having pride and confidence as Japanese women.
The color pink was chosen after the name of a flower, "the pink," to express the gentleness and strength of women educated in such traditions, and the innovation of the university is symbolized by a darker pink frame.
Wayo Sewing Women's Institute was founded in Iidabashi, Tokyo by Chiyo Horikoshi. At that time, Wayo only taught dressmaking.
Founder Chiyo Horikoshi
Wayo Sewing Women's School became Wayo Women's Vocational School.
The school was relocated to Konodai Campus in Ichikawa because all buildings were destroyed by WWII air raids in Tokyo.
Wayo Women's University was organized under the new Japanese educational system. It consisted of the School of Home Economics only.
Wayo Women's Junior College was organized. Its Department of Home Economics included a teacher-training course for home economics and health.
Wayo was designated as a dietitian training institution.
Meiji era Alumni
The Department of Japanese Literature was added to the junior college.
The Department of English was added to the university and the name was changed to the School of Literature and Home Economics of Wayo Women's University.
The Department of Japanese Literature was added to the university.
The Department of English was added to the junior college.
The university was designated as a management dietitian training institution.
The Museum of Wayo Women's University was opened.
Wayo celebrated its centennial anniversary.
The Centennial Anniversary ceremony
The university was reorganized into the Faculty of Humanities with the departments of English, Japanese Literature, and International Social Studies and the School of Home Economics with the departments of Costume and Art, Health and Nutrition, and Life and Environment. The junior college was reorganized to include the departments of Japanese Literature, English Language and Cultural Studies, Costume and Human Life, and Food and Nutrition.
Wayo's junior college stopped admitting new students.
Wayo Graduate School was established to offer master's degrees in English Language and Literature, Japanese Literature, and Human Life Science. The Faculty of Humanities added the Department of Human Development and the Department of Life and Environment added social welfare studies.
The Department of Human Development was added to the Faculty of Humanities.
The Wayo Women's University Library and the Information-processing Center was unified.
The South Building
The East Building
The West Building
Wayo celebrated its 110th anniversary.
110th Anniversary International Symposium was held.
Wayo was reorganized into a new integrated academic structure with two schools, 6 departments, 9 majors and 8 specializations. To facilitate expanded research capabilities, faculty members are also assigned to one of 13 separete research groups.
Wayo was accredited by the Japan University Accreditation Association.
Wayo was designated as a hursery teacher training institution.
Wayo Graduate School was established to offer doctoral Program in Human Ecology Department.


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Q: Blocking Database access from test server to production database and vice versa We have setup two sites and two databases on Azure. A test site and a production site.
We had an issue recently where a developer made a mistake and deployed code to our production website with a connections string pointed to our test SQL server.
I am wondering if it is possible to limit access to the production SQL Server so that it only accepts connections from the production web site. And limit the test SQL Server so that it only accepts connections from the test web site.
I would ultimately like to configure it so that if this happens again, the site just wouldn't work because it would not authenticate correctly.
I am in the process of creating an additional set of configuration files so that we have a set that points to test related settings, and one for production, but how do you prevent somebody from screwing up and deploying the wrong connection string to the wrong environment? All database activity on the site is going through a WEB API.


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Client Google Drive able to work as a service (no logged user) under Windows Server 2003 (2008)?
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House committees planned to begin voting on the 123-page legislation Wednesday, launching what could be the year's defining battle in Congress and capping seven years of Republican vows to repeal the 2010 law. Though GOP leaders expect a boost from the backing of the Trump administration, divisions remain and GOP success is not ensured.
The plan would repeal the statute's unpopular fines on people who don't carry health insurance. It would replace income-based subsidies the law provides to help millions of Americans pay premiums with age-based tax credits that may be skimpier for people with low incomes. Those payments would phase out for higher-earning people.
The bill would continue Obama's expansion of Medicaid to additional low-earning Americans until 2020. Beginning then, states adding Medicaid recipients would no longer receive the additional federal funds the statute has provided.
In perhaps their riskiest political gamble, the plan is expected to cover fewer than the 20 million people insured under Obama's overhaul, including many residents of states carried by President Donald Trump in November's election. Republicans said they were chiefly focused on reducing costs and increasing choice for consumers.
Republicans said they don't have official coverage estimates yet, but aides from both parties and nonpartisan analysts have said they expect those numbers to be lower. Trump has said his goal is "insurance for everybody," and numerous GOP governors and members of Congress have demanded that people not lose coverage.
"Republicans have decided that affordable health care should be the privilege of the wealthy, not the right of every family in America," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
More ominously for Republican leaders, there were signals galore that they faced problems within their own party, including from conservatives complaining that the measure is too timid in repealing Obama's law.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, wouldn't rule out changes by his chamber, where moderate Republicans have grumbled that the measure could leave too many voters uncovered.
"We have a right to look it over and see if we like it or don't," Hatch told reporters.
They complained that an earlier, similar draft "does not provide stability and certainty for individuals and families in Medicaid expansion programs." Signing were Sens. Rob Portman of Ohio, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Cory Gardner of Colorado and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski.
Republicans said they'd not received official estimates on the bill from the Congressional Budget Office. That nonpartisan office's projections on price tag and coverage could help win over recalcitrant Republicans or make them even harder to persuade.
Tax increases on higher-earning people, the insurance industry and others used to finance the Obama overhaul's coverage expansion would be repealed.
In a last-minute change to satisfy conservatives, business and unions, Republicans dropped a plan pushed by Ryan to impose a first-ever tax on the most generous employer-provided health plans. Instead, a similar tax imposed by Obama's law on expensive plans, set to take effect in 2020, would begin in 2025.
Popular consumer protections in Obama's law would be retained, including insurance safeguards for people with pre-existing medical problems and parents' ability to keep adult children on their insurance until age 26.


.. an original South Tyrolean tavern ..
Nestled in one of Italy's most picturesque settings, we welcome you in Santlhof, an original South Tyrolean farm!
From this privileged position on the slope above Cortaccia, well known for its wines, you can enjoy the view above the entire valley. You can also take place around a massive table in the wine cellars, which are dating back to the fifth century, and where you will see many old objects and tools used in the past by farmers and craftsmen.
Inside or outside, we serve Tyrolean dishes, including Speck, Schlutzkrapfen (filled pasta), cheese dumplings, dumplings .... and vegetables from our garden. As a grand finale you can taste the typical strudel or Kaiserschmarrn (scrambled pancake with jam).
Of course, you willl have the possibility to taste our home-produced wines. In autumn instead, you are invited to the typical "Törggelen" with roasted chestnuts and new wine.


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How To Select The Perfect Australian Streaming TV Movie Services
Frederique Bros
Are you growing tired of free-to-air television programs? Or maybe you are sick of watching so many commercials between your favourite series? There is an alternative: streaming TV movies. Here's my guide on how to select the perfect Australian streaming TV movie services.
First, let's explain what is streaming. It is watching a movie or a TV show on the Internet via your computer, tablet or smartphone. But with so many services out there, how do you know which one is legal in Australia to subscribe to?
Whether you're a movie buff or a TV junkie to help you find the service that best suits your needs here are my picks.
Content: YouTube hosts just about everything that isn't porn. Sure, there's a lot of junk and downright weird stuff on here, but the site also boasts a healthy library of both free and paid-for movies.
Price: YouTube is mostly free, but if you use the site's video on demand service, you can expect to pay anywhere from $0.99 to $3.99 for each flick you rent. You can also purchase movies from YouTube and have access to them forever.
Availability: Absolutely everywhere. If it has a color display and can connect to the Internet, chances are good that it can play YouTube videos.
Content: iTunes has a solid selection of titles for purchase, including most current TV shows and a good selection of new releases.
Price: TV show rentals are $0.99 and movie rentals start at $2.99. TV show rentals are 48 hours, movies are 24 hours. Most content can also be purchased.
Availability: You need to create a free iTunes account, if you have a PC you will need to install iTunes free software.
Fetch TV
Content: You can record your favourite shows and series. Plus over 1700 movies available to rent including the latest new releases.
Price: Fetch TV box starts from $10 a month.
Availability: You can get Fetch TV direct from iiNet, Optus and more. To do this you will need a box to plug it into your TV. With the Fetch TV app, you can enjoy your movies on your phone and tablet. https://www.fetchtv.com.au/
QuickFlix
Content: An unlimited DVD and Blu-Ray rentals delivered to you and unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows to your devices such as TV, Xbox and PlayStation.
Price: Free 3 week trial and after $24.99 a month.
Availability: No strings attached. There are no contracts, late fees or postage fees. https://www.quickflix.com.au/
Content: Perfect for cult, arty and black and white movies. This movie streaming service is for the Sony PlayStation Network.
Price: You can try MUBI for free and watch a great film each day for $4.99 per month.
Availability: People with a PlayStation can subscribe monthly. https://mubi.com/
Content: You can have access to movie trailers before renting or buying, reviews, similar movies and additional information (language, rental periods, casting, run time and rating).
Price: Rent from $1.99 or buy from $5.99
Availability: Anyone can watch the movies on most Android devices and compatible Tv's. https://play.google.com/store
Enjoy the movie or TV of your choice to watch on your own terms and don't forget the popcorn.
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What it's not: Sealed growth chambers for genetically engineered holiday lights.
What it is: S14L LED cluster lamps, which hide solid-state technology under incandescent dressings. With an Edison screw and a hard polycarbonate globe that's tougher than frosted glass, these lamps from LEDtronics can go anywhere standard light bulbs can and even a few places they can't. And despite their little light source — 18 LEDS sprout from a center stalk — these surprisingly bright lights provide up to 56 lumens. Use them for signage or daylighting, but forget stringing them on the Christmas tree.