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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady reacts after winning the NFC championship NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in Green Bay, Wis., Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. The Buccaneers defeated the Packers 31-26 to advance to the Super Bowl. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
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Postseason is underway as the NFC wipes slates clean and kicks off the race to Super Bowl LVI in the Wild Card round.
Do or die. Win or go home.
After 18 weeks, it's Week 1 again. Throw all the regular season records and stats out the window. They now mean nothing. It's time for the playoffs.
The 2021 #NFLPlayoffs are set! pic.twitter.com/Bv3d34ALBL
— NFL (@NFL) January 10, 2022
In the NFC, the Packers and Lambeau field hold the No. 1 seed. Ready to give Aaron Rodgers a run for his money are fellow elite quarterbacks Tom Brady, Dak Prescott, Matthew Stafford and Kyler Murray.
Here's a week-by-week look at the NFC Playoff standings, from Week 3 to the final Week of the season! 📉 📈 pic.twitter.com/jJ5EHWNHXJ
— FOX Sports: NFL (@NFLonFOX) January 12, 2022
Eagles vs. Buccaneers
Brady will be playing in is 42nd career postseason game on Sunday.
Jalen Hurts will be playing in his first.
Even so, Brady isn't laying off the gas.
"We're going to have to play our best game of the year. This is the toughest opponent all year. We're playing a team that's very talented. Very healthy"
-Tom Brady on facing Eagles in playoffs next weekend pic.twitter.com/iwMhamBzG0
— John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) January 10, 2022
Ultimately, everyone knows what Brady brings to the table: he is a seven-time Super Bowl champion. Nevertheless, you play the game for a reason.
The Philadelphia Eagles are hoping to shock the world. The key? Their ground game.
The Eagles own the No. 1 run game in the NFL. Specifically, they are the first team in NFL history to have five players with at least 50 carries all averaging over 4.3 YPC. With Miles Sanders returning from injury, the team will have their full array of attack available.
The weather is expected to be 20-30 mph winds with a high chance of rain, which slightly favors the Eagles.
49ers vs. Cowboys
Beat the Rams on the road in Week 18? No problem. Heading into the final week of the season, the 49ers had to travel to LA and beat the Rams to punch their postseason ticket: they did just that.
Needing a win to make the playoffs, the @49ers engineered the biggest comeback of the Kyle Shanahan era.
The Niners trailed 17-0 in the second quarter before surging to a 27-24 OT victory and an NFC playoff berth. #FTTB pic.twitter.com/pAkzjPPxmJ
— NFL Football Operations (@NFLFootballOps) January 13, 2022
Now, they get to travel to Dallas to take on the Cowboys.
The Cowboys have had a great year, winning the NFC East with a 12-5 record.
That said, they have notably not won a Super Bowl in 20 years.
Coming up short on Sunday would mitigate all of their seasons success: it's Super Bowl or bust.
The Cowboys will be hoping to ride Prescott's hot hand, while the 49ers will be relying on Jimmy Garoppolo to game manage and their defense to step up.
After Week 8, the Cardinals and Rams seemed like the leagues best two teams.
The Cardinals stood at 7-1, first in the NFC.
The conversation around the league was for Kliff Kingsbury as COTY and Murray for MVP.
On the other side of the ball, the Rams were also 7-1, and had just made a big move to acquire Von Miller.
Then, Murray got hurt and the Cardinals season derailed. The Rams also proceeded to drop their next three.
Now, ten weeks later, the Cardinals are 11-6 and a wild card team.
Slightly better, the Rams finished 12-5 and NFC West Champions.
The NFC West belongs to the @RamsNFL!#RamsHouse | #NFL pic.twitter.com/DjkXR1KfVj
— #SuperWildCard Weekend on NBC (@SNFonNBC) January 10, 2022
Coming from the same division, neither team has anything to hide. They split the season series, making Sunday's game all the more interesting.
In order to emerge victorious, the Rams will be need Stafford to correct his recently shaky play, and the Cardinals will need Murray to return to MVP form.
The Divisional Round will take place on Saturday, Jan. 22, and Sunday, Jan. 23. The Packers will host the winner of the Eagles. vs Buccaneers. The winner of the Cardinals vs. Rams game will advance to take on either the 49ers or Cowboys. The games are yet to be scheduled.
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Our annual analysis of the university destinations of our students always makes impressive reading. While we can't guarantee that every former NewVIc student who progresses to a degree level course will get a graduate level job in a few years' time, we can be fairly confident that they are acquiring the skills which will help them to be more competitive in the labour market.
Overall, 707 NewVIc students progressed to Higher Education in 2014. This year saw a 22% increase in the number progressing to the highly selective Russell Group institutions as well as equally selective and specialist universities such as SOAS, the Institute of Education, Ravensbourne and the University of the Arts, London. 73 NewVIc students progressed to Russell Group universities, 16 of whom were vocational students. 2 of our students progressed to Oxford University.
Of these 707 progressors, 343 had studied A levels and 364 had studied vocational courses such as BTEC Extended Diplomas. These vocational students often progress to the same degree courses as their A level peers and in some cases are better prepared for the demands of further professional study and like the young woman who progressed to a Law degree at Leeds University with a Extended Diploma in Science, they are not always bound by their vocational specialism.
Some people claim that vocational learners are ill-equipped to contribute to the economy or that somehow they are to blame for whatever skill shortages there are. This would appear to be disproved by the sheer numbers of our vocational students progressing to specialist and competitive degree level courses which will put them in a good position when they graduate.
83% of our class of 2014 are studying in the London area and will continue to live at home. Far from being a disadvantage for these students it means that they can keep their maintenance costs down and benefit from their existing support network. Many will also continue to volunteer or mentor in the local community or at their former college during their undergraduate years making a sustained commitment to community cohesion and developing their successors.
Taken as a cohort, the class of 2014 look like a team of professionals capable of running a small country. When you consider that this is just one of many East London colleges and a fairly typical year, the vital contribution of East London's post-16 education providers becomes evident.
Includes 69 engineers (aeronautical, civil, electrical, mechanical, software etc.), 52 health related (including 9 pharmacists/pharmacologists, 9 nurses, 6 podiatrists, 5 medical students, 3 radiographers and 2 optometrists), biologists, chemists, physicists, forensic scientists etc.
Includes 63 business, management and finance, 43 accountants and 15 economists as well as international business, marketing and human resources specialists.
Includes 34 studying Psychology and related degrees, 16 studying Politics, development studies and international relations, 16 historians (including 1 Egyptologist), 8 sociologists, 7 geographers, 7 studying philosophy or religion and 1 anthropologist.
16 performing artists (dance, drama, music and music technology), 15 studying digital creative media and photography, 14 studying art, fashion, illustration, textiles and graphics, 11 studying film production or editing, and 6 architects.
29 lawyers and 22 criminologists.
24 studying early years or early childhood studies, 16 education studies including special needs, 9 teaching (primary and English), 2 studying social work.
31 studying sports, coaching, PE or football studies, 15 studying tourism, airline and travel or event management.
Including 14 students studying English literature, language or linguistics, 7 journalists and 7 creative writing students and 3 language students (1 Arabic, 1 German and 1 Hispanic studies).
While we are justly proud of these students' achievements, it would be wrong to claim all the credit for their progression to university. It takes a whole education system to make an undergraduate and their primary and secondary education made a vital contribution to building their academic and social skills as one of our 2014 Oxford University progressors, Rumana, acknowledges here.
Looking at the fantastic range of degree courses our students are progressing on to it is clear that this cohort, like those before them, represents a colossal investment in the future of East London. Between them, they will be offering a phenomenal level of skill, dynamism and commitment to every sector of the economy of their city. Let's hope that economy is ready to make the most of them.
More on NewVIc students' achievements: College success with disadvantaged students. How to achieve high university progression rates. Guess what? Vocational students go to university too. London's colleges promoting social mobility. Colleges are real engines of social mobility.
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Singapore ex-civil defence chief charged with sex for favours...
The former head of Singapore's civil defence force was on Wednesday charged with accepting sex for favours in the most serious corruption case involving senior government officials in almost 20 years.
Former Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) chief Peter Lim "is accused of having corruptly obtained sexual gratification from two female vendors and one potential female vendor to the SCDF on 10 occasions between May 2010 and November 2011," said a spokesman for the city-state's anti-corruption agency.
Lim's is the most serious corruption case involving a senior official in Singapore - which prides itself on its reputation for transparency and good governance - since 1993, when Yeo Seng Teck, at the time the chief executive of the Trade Development Board, was investigated for offences dating back to 1988. Full story...
Sex and the Lion City! Scandals galore in prim and proper Singapore...
Principal in top Singapore school guilty of 'inappropriate behaviour'
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter completes 8th flight on Mars
It flew for 77.4 seconds and travelled 160 meters to a new landing spot, about 133.5 meters from NASA's Persevere rover. Ingenuity arrived at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. The helicopter is a technology demonstration with a planned test flight duration of up to 30 Martian days.
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has completed its eighth flight on Mars on Monday, according to NASA.
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It flew for 77.4 seconds and travelled 160 meters to a new landing spot, about 133.5 meters from NASA's Persevere rover.
Ingenuity arrived at Mars' Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, attached to the belly of the Perseverance rover. The helicopter is a technology demonstration with a planned test flight duration of up to 30 Martian days.
The Mars helicopter was built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters.
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Edge of the Woods Market is now hosting Seva Boutique permanently on the second floor. Located on the second floor we will be offering beautiful clothing of tops skirts tunics blouses wrap skirts, wrap pants, pants, woolen jackets, ponchos, sweaters and Men's traditional Indian shirts and pants. Also there will be bedspreads jewelry arts and crafts wall hangings embroidery paper made lamps bead boxes and many many more things.
These are the invaluable words of Sri Sri Anandamurti, the spiritual guru, philosopher and founder of Ananda Marga.
Women's Welfare Department was founded by him in May 1965 so that we, the daughters (dedicated monks) can especially help to uplift women in all the physical mental and spiritual spheres. We are addressed as"Didi's" and we teach yoga, meditation, and also do social service, run projects that are found around the world.
Some examples are schools, children's (orphanages), medical clinics, vocational training centers for women and young girls and many other activities.
The purpose of Seva Boutique is to raise funds to help those service projects in many countries that suffer financially.
We are very grateful for all sisters and brothers who help and support our effort.
And above all, our heartfelt thanks go out to Edge of the Woods Market who have graciously given us this beautiful space to sell our goods and raise money for this wonderful cause.
Didi Ananda Vibha at the Seva Boutique inside of Edge of the Woods Natural Market in New Haven in June.
NEW HAVEN >> At Seva Boutique, located on the upper level of Edge of the Woods Natural Market, there are drastic summer markdowns awaiting because there are women and children in Haiti, Nicaragua, Mexico and India awaiting financial help.
It's not the usual retail business model, but, then again, it's not your usual boutique.
At Seva Boutique, 100 percent of the proceeds go toward programs to benefit women and children in those countries through helping to fund orphanages, medical centers, schools, training programs and, sometimes, disaster relief.
Seva means selfless service in Sanskrit and the imported clothing is largely from India.
The boutique of clothing, jewelry, handbags and other accessories was started and is run by Didi Ananda Vibha, who is part of the Ananda Marga movement, a global spiritual and social service organization with a mission of self-realization and service to humanity, according to the organization's website.
Vibha said business has slowed at the end of summer and having the boutique upstairs doesn't give it much visibility, although she is appreciative of the space, donated by Edge of the Woods Natural Market's owners, as they are longtime followers of the movement. She's holding the sale to make room to put popular winter garb on the shelves and hangers, because every sale helps someone in need.
Customers who see the "store" — a cozy nook on the upstairs level of the market — love the merchandise and return, she said. Some love that they're buying to help others, she said.
Vibha said she's really trying to make it work and jump-start the new season for the good of the organizations she helps. Once the summer clearance of 20 percent to 50 percent off is over Sept. 15, she'll stock sweaters, sweatshirts, long-sleeved shirts and popular ponchos. Vibha said she is still paying back the business loan, while also sending contributions to Haiti, but she wants to do more.
A "Didi" is a title similar to what "sister" is to nun in the Catholic Church, although Ananda Marga is not religion. Didis wear orange, considered the color of sacrifice.
Vibha, who became a Didi at 16 and is originally from India, has spent decades dedicated in that role. She started the boutique about 18 months ago as a service project.
Vibha, a warm, soft-spoken woman, plays every role at the boutique: merchandise buyer, manager, salesperson, stocker, accountant, in addition to all the other leadership positions she holds in the spiritual movement.
"I can't leave without buying something," Mendez said at the time.
Vibha said customers often comment on the "peace, calm" about the place — and it's no wonder with her strong Ananda Marga presence there.
Some examples of those who benefit from the work of Didis around the world — including from the Seva Boutique — are schools, orphanages, medical clinics, vocational training centers for women and girls.
NEW HAVEN >> Tucked away on the upper level of Edge of the Woods Natural Market — somewhere above and between the coconut milk and gluten-free cupcakes — is one of the city's best kept fashion secrets: a boutique of clothes, bags and other items made mostly in India.
As with many boutiques, the blouses shirts, dresses, skirts, tunics, ponchos, handbags, sweaters, Paschimas, and more are unique, timelessly fashionable and difficult to find in mainstream fashion outlets. They also carry bedspreads, jewelry, wall hangings and paper lamps.
And, 100 percent of the proceeds at Seva Boutique go toward programs to benefit women and children in India, Haiti, Mexico and Nicaragua. Seva means selfless service in Sanskrit.
The boutique was started and is run by Didi Ananda Vibha, who is part of the Ananda Marga movement, a global spiritual and social service organization with a mission of self-realization and service to humanity, according to the organization's website. Ananda Marga translated means bath of bliss.
Didi is a title similar to what sister is to nun in the Catholic Church, although Ananda Marga is not religion. Didi's wear orange, considered the color of sacrifice.
Vibha, who became a didi at 16 and has spent decades dedicated in that role, started the boutique about 18 months ago as a service project.
She already had a connection with Edge of the Woods Natural Market's owners, as they are long-time followers of the movement. They give her the space rent-free, as well as the space to teach meditation and yoga, for which she said she is grateful.
Jessica Mendez, who discovered the boutique by accident months ago while shopping for vitamins, said she's drawn to the clothes every time she shops at the market.
Joyce James said she likes that the profits go to a good cause — and besides, the clothes are awesome.
Vibha, a warm, soft-spoken woman originally from India, plays every role at the boutique, situated in part of an upstairs lounge at the popular market, located at 379 Whalley Ave. She's the merchandise buyer, manager, salesperson, stocker, accountant, in addition to all the other leadership positions she holds in the spiritual movement.
"They feel satisfied buying here because it's for a cause," she said, noting the prices are also reasonable.
Vibha, raised in India and raised in the movement — she says bred to become a didi — has been in the United States for 26 years and a didi for 38. She also has a sister who is a didi.
"Money doesn't get you what you really need… It will buy you clothes and other things, but you cannot find infinite happiness in temporary things," she said.
She said the spiritualistic movement includes a belief in universalism — that everything on Earth was created by one entity. They don't believe in nationalism, as "We believe all humanity are indivisible," she said.
And aside from mediation and yoga being a central part of it, so is a special diet that is vegetarian, and excludes eating onion, garlic, mushrooms because they can "stir your mind" and interfere with meditation.
The spiritual guru, philosopher and founder of Ananda Marga, Sri Sri Anandamurti, founded the Women's Welfare Department of the organization in May 1965, creating the didi role, "to uplift women in all the physical mental and spiritual spheres," according to the market's website.


Fortune, superb taste, and hustle lead to the discovery of an aged Rye Whiskey stock in Alberta, Canada.
The stock was rescued from misuse as a blending whiskey, aged it in new American Oak with a bourbon barrel finish, then hand-bottled this rye on its own.
The Master Distiller for Whistlepig is one Dave Pickerell, a name you might recognise from being the Master Distiller for Maker's Mark for 14 years!
This 10 Year Old Rye is made with 100% rye and delivers a full-on flavour profile of clove, mint, barrel char, rich caramels and butterscotch.
Nose: Allspice, orange peel, anise, oak, char and caramel.
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WASHINGTON — A California man has been accused of smuggling a Byzantine-era mosaic out of war-torn Syria and hiring artists to restore it in order to sell it.
On Wednesday, the US Attorney's office for the Central District of California filed an asset forfeiture complaint seeking to retain possession of the mosaic, which is already in the government's custody. The complaint names Mohamad Yassin Alcharihi of Palmdale, California, and says he illegally smuggled the mosaic into the US.
According to the complaint, the FBI has been investigating Alcharihi since 2015 for his alleged involvement in smuggling looted items from war-ravaged countries, including Syria. Alcharihi — who has not been charged with a crime — is a Syrian national who became a US citizen in early 2010, the complaint says.
When Alcharihi had a company import the mosaic, he misrepresented the contents of the shipment, the complaint alleges, and also lied about the country of origin of the items inside. He allegedly told the shipping company, two artists who were hired to restore the piece and federal agents that he had bought the mosaic in Turkey.
After reviewing pictures of the mosaic, prior to the FBI seizure, the expert determined the style of the mosaic was "similar to the style of the Roman Empire possibly from 3rd to 4th Century AD," the complaint states.
The 1-ton mosaic is 18 feet long and 8 feet high, according to the complaint, and depicts characters from Roman mythology.
During the investigation agents found evidence Alcharihi had illegally imported the mosaic using fraudulent documents and knowingly concealed it in his home. Both are violations of federal law.
CNN was unable to reach Alcharihi for comment.
For years the US has endeavored to work with foreign countries to reduce the illegal trafficking of artifacts and antiquities taken from states devastated by war, citing the potential strain on foreign relations and the concerns of the archaeological community.
The policy has become of increased import in recent years in regards to Syria, where archaeologists and scholars have struggled to preserve ancient works of art after the reign of ISIS.
In 2015, ISIS militants allegedly destroyed ancient cultural artifacts when it took control of the Syrian city of Palmyra, including one that dated back to the second century.
But experts don't believe ISIS is doing much of the reselling. It's likely gangs that are looting the artifacts to put them on the market, though Spanish police earlier this year arrested two men accused of smuggling art looted from Libya by ISIS-affiliated groups.


(JTA) — Two years after the murder of four Jews in Toulouse, the president of the French city's Jewish community encouraged young Jews to leave France.
Ari Bensemhoun said young Jews should move away because they cannot practice Judaism openly and without fear in Toulouse.
"I won't deny that, yes, I encourage the younger people to make aliyah [immigrate to Israel] or go elsewhere, where they can thrive in open Judaism, emancipated and without constantly fearing over what tomorrow will bring," Bensemhoun said in an interview Monday with the i24 television news channel.
On March 19, 2012, a French-born Islamist, Mohammed Merah, killed Miriam Monsonego, 8, along with Rabbi Jonathan Sandler and his two sons, Arieh and Gabriel, at the Ohr Hatorah Jewish day school.
The killings are believed to have contributed to a marked increase in the number of French Jews who immigrated in 2013 to Israel – from fewer than 2,000 in 2012 to more than 3,000 last year.
According to the SPCJ security unit of the French Jewish community, the murders triggered a wave of anti-Semitic incidents. Ninety such incidents were recorded in the 10 days that followed the shootings.


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Today we are glad to announce the official release of GenStage. GenStage is a new Elixir behaviour for exchanging events with back-pressure between Elixir processes. In the short-term, we expect GenStage to replace the use cases for GenEvent as well as providing a composable abstraction for consuming data from third-party systems.
In this blog post we will cover the background that led us to GenStage, some example use cases, and what we are exploring for future releases. If instead you are looking for a quick reference, check the project source code and access its documentation.
One of the original motivations for creating and designing Elixir was to introduce better abstractions for working with collections. Not only that, we want to provide developers interested in manipulating collections with a path to take their code from eager to lazy, to concurrent and then distributed.
While the solution above works fine and is efficient for small files, it is quite restrictive for large inputs as it loads the whole file into memory.
Another issue with the solution above is that the Enum.flat_map/2 step will build a huge list, with all the words in the file, before we effectively start counting them. Again, for a large document, this means more memory usage and a waste of processing time in building a list that will be traversed right after.
By using File.stream! and Stream.flat_map, we build a lazy computation that will emit a single line, break that line into words, and emit such words one by one without building huge lists in memory when enumerated. The functions in the Stream module just express the computation we want to perform. The computation itself, like traversing the file or breaking into words in flat_map, only happens when we call a function in the Enum module. We have covered the foundation for Enum and Streams in another article.
The solution above allows us to work with large datasets without loading them all into memory. For large files, it is going to provide much better performance than the eager version. However, the solution above still does not leverage concurrency. For a machine with more than one core, which is the huge majority of machines we have available today, it is a suboptimal solution.
That said, how could we leverage concurrency in the example above?
The idea is that Stream.async would run the previous computations in a separate process that would stream its messages to the process that called Enum.reduce. Unfortunately, the solution above is less than ideal.
First of all, we want to avoid moving data between processes as much as possible. Instead, we want to start multiple processes that perform the same computation in parallel. Not only that, if we are requiring developers to place Stream.async manually, it may lead to inefficient and error prone solutions.
If Stream.async is introducing new processes, how can we guarantee those processes are supervised?
Since we are exchanging messages between processes, how do we prevent a process from receiving too many messages? We need a back-pressure mechanism that allows the receiving process to specify how much it can handle from the sending process.
We have jumped through different abstractions trying to answer those questions until we have finally settled on GenStage.
GenStage is a new Elixir behaviour for exchanging events with back-pressure between Elixir processes. Developers who use GenStage only need to worry about how the data is produced, manipulated and consumed. The act of dispatching the data and providing back-pressure is completely abstracted away from the developers.
As a quick example, let's write a simple pipeline that will produce events as increasing numbers, multiply those numbers by two, and then print them to the terminal. We will do so by implementing three stages, the :producer, the :producer_consumer and the :consumer, which we will call A, B and C respectively. We will go back to the word counting example at the end of this post.
Note: all of the modules in the GenStage project are prefixed with the Experimental namespace. That's why the examples below and your code should alias Experimental.GenStage at the top of your files.
# emit the items 3 and 4, and set the state to 5.
# the third being the state.
# Print events to terminal.
# Sleep the configured time.
# We are a consumer, so we never emit events.
# Sleep so we see events printed.
As soon as we subscribe the stages, we should see items being printed to the terminal. Notice that, even though we have introduced a sleep command to the consumer, the producers will never overflow the consumer with data. That's because the communication between stages is demand-driven. The producer can only send items to consumers after the consumers have sent demand upstream. The producer must never send more items than the consumer has specified.
By simply starting multiple consumers, the stage B will now receive demand from multiple stages and dispatch events to those stages which are now running concurrently, always picking the stage that is able to process more items. We can also leverage concurrency from the opposite direction: if the producer is the slow stage in a pipeline, you can start multiple producers and have each consumer subscribe to them.
In order to know which consumer should receive a particular event, producer stages depend on a behaviour called GenStage.Dispatcher. The default dispatcher is the GenStage.DemandDispatcher we have briefly described above: it will collect the demand from different consumers and dispatch to the one with highest demand. This means if one consumer is slow, maybe because we increased its sleeping time to 10 seconds, it will receive less items.
One of the use cases for GenStage is to consume data from third-party systems. The demand system with back-pressure guarantees we won't import more data than we can effectively handle. The demand dispatcher allows us to easily leverage concurrency when processing the data by simply adding more consumers.
Another scenario where GenStage can be useful today is to replace cases where developers would have used GenEvent in the past. For those unfamiliar with GenEvent, it is a behaviour where events are sent to an "event manager" which then proceeds to invoke "event handlers" for each event. GenEvent, however, has one big flaw: the event manager and all event handlers run in the same process. This means GenEvent handlers cannot easily leverage concurrency without forcing developers to implement those mechanisms themselves. Furthermore, GenEvent handlers have very awkward error semantics. Because event handlers are not separate processes, we cannot simply rely on supervisors restarting them.
GenStage solves those problems by having a producer as the event manager. The producer itself should be configured to use GenStage.BroadcastDispatcher as its dispatcher. The broadcast dispatcher will guarantee events are dispatched to all consumers in a way that does not exceed the demand of any of the consumers. This allows us to leverage concurrency and having the "event manager" as a producer gives us much more flexibility in terms of buffering and reacting to failures.
Sends an event and returns only after the event is dispatched.
The EventManager works as a buffer. If there is demand but not events to be sent, we store such demand. If there are events but no demand, we store such events in a queue. If a client tries to broadcast an event, the sync_notify call will block until the event is effectively broadcasted. The bulk of the logic is in the dispatch_events/3 function that takes events from the queue while there is demand.
By implementing the event manager as a producer, we can configure all sorts of behaviours that are simply not possible with GenEvent, such as how much data we want to queue (or for how long) and if events should be buffered or not when there are no consumers (via the handle_subscribe/4 and handle_cancel/3 callbacks).
# which will automatically start requesting items.
Such guarantees that, if a supervised EventHandler crashes, the supervisor will start a new event handler which will promptly subscribe to the same manager, solving the awkward error handling semantics we have seen with GenEvent.
With the release of GenStage v0.3.0, we have reached an important milestone as GenStage can be used as both event managers and a way to exchange events between processes, often external data sources, with back-pressure.
The v0.3.0 release also includes the GenStage.stream function, which allows us to consume data from a GenStage as a stream, and GenStage.from_enumerable which allows us to use an enumerable or a stream, like File.stream!, as a producer. Closing the gap between stages and streams.
However, we are far from done!
First of all, now is the moment for the community to step in and try GenStage out. If you have used GenEvent in the past, can it be replaced by a GenStage? Similarly, if you were planning to implement an event handling system, give GenStage a try.
Developers who maintain libraries that integrate with external data sources, be it a RabbitMQ, Redis or Apacha Kafka, can explore GenStage as an abstraction for consuming data from those sources. Library developers must implement producers and leave it up for their users to configure the consumer stages.
Once we get enough feedback, GenStage will be included in some shape as part of the standard library. The goal is to introduce GenStage and phase GenEvent out in the long term.
We, on the Elixir team, have just got started too. The next milestone for GenStage is to revisit the original problem and provide developers a clear path to take their collection processing code from eager, to lazy, to concurrent (and then distributed).
As seen earlier, today we allow developers to transform eager code into lazy by introducing streams.
empty_space = :binary.compile_pattern(" ") # NEW!
File.stream!("path/to/some/file", read_ahead: 100_000) # NEW!
|> Flow.partition_with(storage: :ets) # NEW!
Flow will look at the computations we want to perform and start a series of stages to execute our code while keeping the amount of data being transfered between processes to a minimum. If you are interested in GenStage.Flow and how the computations above are spread across multiple stages, we have written some documentation based on the prototypes we have built so far. The code itself is coming in future GenStage releases. We will also have to consider how the GenStage.Flow API mirrors the functions in Enum and Stream to make the path from eager to concurrent clearer.
For the word counting problem with a fixed data, early experiments show a linear increase in performance with a fixed overhead of 20%. In other words, a dataset that takes 60s with a single core, takes 36s on a machine with 2 cores and 18s in one with 4 cores. All of those gains by simply moving your computations from streams to Flow. We plan to benchmark on machines with over 40 cores soon.
We are very excited with the possibilities GenStage brings to developers and all new paths it allows us to explore and research. So give it a try and let us know! GenStage, Flows, and more will also be the topic of my keynote at ElixirConf 2016 and we hope to see you there.
Finally, we want to thank the akka-streams and reactive-streams projects which provided us guidance in implementing the demand-driven exchange between stages as well as the Apache Spark and Apache Beam initiatives that inspire the work behind GenStage.Flow.


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-No LED lights or glow products.
Based in Los Angeles, Drezo challenges the mainstream standard by staying true to his own powerful underground sound of house music. Through his compositions and remixes, the 24 year old aims to represent the darker and more imaginative side of EDM. With releases on OWSLA & Mad Decent, Drezo has proven that his haunting surge of originality is being accepted by the masses.


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Q: Typescript. Check if method/property exists in the variable of unknown type TS v3.x brought new type: unknown. But it's not very clear how to easily use this type instead of any.
Example: you're using some 3rd party library which has no types. And you don't have time to write those types yourself. You need to handle some data provided by that library.
Before unknown:
function handle(data: any) {
   if (data && data.arrayProp && typeof data.arrayProp[Symbol.iterator] === 'function') {
       for (let x of data.arrayProp) {...}
   }
}

With unknown:
function handle(data: unknown) {
   // this line gives TS error: `data` is unknown type
   if (data && data.arrayProp && typeof data.arrayProp[Symbol.iterator]=== 'function') {
...

Most docs in internet are using kind of instanceof ways to check what type data has. But i'm not really interested what type data has. Everything i want to know is if there's arrayProp there. that's it
How to do this with unknown type?

A: The thing with unknown is that you have to narrow its type before you can use it. You can use a custom type guard for this:
interface ArrayProp {
  arrayProp: []
}
function isArrayProps(value: unknown): value is ArrayProp {
  return !!value && !!(value as ArrayProp).arrayProp;
}

function handle(data: unknown) {
   if (isArrayProps(data) && typeof data.arrayProp[Symbol.iterator] === 'function') {
   }
}

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Rub the roast all over with the garlic halves; discard the garlic. Place the roast, fat side up, on a rack in a roasting pan; sprinkle with salt and pepper. If there is little fat on top of the roast, lay 2 slices of bacon across the top (optional).
Roast the pork, uncovered, for about 2 hours.
Combine the remaining ingredients in a bowl. Brush the glaze over the roast and continue baking for 30 to 45 minutes, or until the roast registers about 155 F on a meat thermometer inserted into the center of the meatiest part of the roast (not touching bone or fat). Let the roast rest for 10 minutes before slicing.


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The Brunswick Crown Triple Tote Roller is perfect for those that need a lighter weight roller. This bag is awesome for traveling or for tournaments. This bag features the transparent top view so you can see your bowling equipment and features a small accessory opening on the front side of the bag.
After the bag has been filled, it will be around 47 lbs.
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In this section: Environmental Contaminants in Food
Environmental Contaminants in Food
Arsenic in Food and Dietary Supplements
Lead in Food, Foodwares, and Dietary Supplements
Mercury in Food and Dietary Supplements
Closer to Zero: Reducing Childhood Exposure to Contaminants from Foods
Perchlorate
Radionuclides in Domestic and Imported Foods
Dioxins & PCBs
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Combination Metals Testing
Chemical Contaminants & Pesticides
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The FDA's work to reduce the use of lead in cans combined with the phaseout of lead in gasoline resulted in a dramatic decline in lead exposure from foods by the mid-1980s.
Lead may be present in food because it is in the environment where foods are grown, raised, or processed. Lead that is in the soil, air, and water may be present naturally and from human-activities. Levels of lead in the environment can vary depending on the geographical makeup of local areas and proximity to current or past pollution, for example, from the widespread use of lead in a variety of products, such as plumbing materials, paint, and gasoline. While many commercial and industrial uses of lead have been phased out, there are still some products made in the U.S. that contain lead and it is still used in products made in other countries.
Lead in the environment can settle on or be taken up by plants, including fruits, vegetables and grains, as well as be ingested by animals. It is more common in certain foods and in foods grown in geographical areas with higher levels of lead. The use of lead pipes can also contaminate water used in food production and lead used in pottery or other food contact surfaces can leach into foods.
Lead is toxic to humans and can affect people of any age or health status. The FDA monitors and regulates levels of lead in foods, including dietary supplements, and cosmetics. While it is not possible to prevent or remove lead entirely from foods, the levels in food can be reduced. By law, food manufacturers have a responsibility to implement controls as needed to significantly minimize or prevent exposure to chemical hazards—including lead.
To determine if the level of lead in a food is a potential health concern, we consider the toxicity of lead and exposure based on the level of lead measured in the food and consumption. We also may consider specific population groups (e.g., very young children). If the agency finds that the level of lead causes the food to be unsafe, we take action, which may include working with the manufacturer to resolve the issue and taking steps to prevent the product from entering, or remaining in, the U.S. market.
The FDA's goal is to limit consumer exposure to lead, with a focus on protecting the very young, through developing regulations, action levels, and advice to consumers. The agency considers the health effects of the 'whole food,' which includes the potential harmful health effects of specific contaminants that may be present, as well as the food's nutrients that are vital to growth and development for babies and small children and help promote health and prevent disease throughout our lifespan.
For more information about our specific activities to reduce exposure to arsenic, lead, mercury, and cadmium from foods consumed by babies and young children please visit the FDA's Closer to Zero page.
Information for Consumers
The FDA's goal is to limit consumer exposure to lead, with a focus on protecting the very young, through developing regulations, action levels, and advice to consumers.
Consumers are advised that:
Eating a variety of age-appropriate nutrient-dense foods across and within the main food groups of vegetables, fruits, grains, dairy, and protein foods, including foods intended for infants and young children, is good for nutrition and for food safety.
Ensure your child has good nutrition—this not only supports their health and development but can also help to protect them from the effects of contaminants.
Caregivers do not need to throw out processed or packaged baby foods or stop feeding certain foods to babies and children. Eliminating entire food groups from a children's diet may result in nutrient deficiencies and potential poor health outcomes.
Lead that gets into or on plants cannot be completely removed by washing or other food processing steps.
Making homemade baby foods is not likely to reduce the levels of lead in food since the lead in plants and animals from the environment generally occurs during the growing process. It also could result in higher levels of lead in the homemade version, since baby food manufacturers have a greater ability, compared with consumers, to implement strategies, such as testing ingredients used in final products or sourcing fresh fruit and vegetables from areas with lower levels of lead.
Resources from the FDA:
To Help Protect Children from Environmental Contaminants, Healthy Food Choices for Your Baby Aged 6-12 Months
What You Can Do to Limit Exposure to Arsenic and Lead from Juices
The Key to a Well-Balanced Diet is Eating a Variety of Healthy Foods
Resources from Other Federal Government Agencies:
United States Environmental Protection Agency - Lead
United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Lead is toxic to humans and can affect people of any age or health status.
The long-term adverse health effects from consuming lead vary depending on the level in the food or water, length of time of exposure, age of the consumer, and other exposures happening at the same time—either to lead from other sources, or other contaminants or to beneficial nutrients.
Fetuses, infants, and children are particularly vulnerable to the potential harmful effects from lead exposure because of their smaller body sizes, metabolism, and rapid growth.
Exposure to high levels of lead during times of active brain development can lead to neurological effects such as learning disabilities, behavior difficulties, and lowered IQ.
For adults, chronic lead exposure is associated with kidney dysfunction, hypertension, and neurocognitive effects.
Lead exposure is measured by testing for the level of lead in a person's blood. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses a blood lead reference level of 3.5 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL) to identify children with blood levels that are higher than most children's levels.
FDA Monitoring and Testing
The FDA monitors lead levels in food to enforce FDA regulations and inform agency guidance to industry and advice to consumers. Testing may be targeted to a specific category of food, such as foods commonly eaten by children under 2 years of age, or to a specific food or food group. Testing may also be conducted in response to reports of elevated lead levels in certain foods. Testing may occur at the FDA laboratories or at state laboratories as part of our cooperative agreement with states.
The FDA tests for environmental contaminants, including lead, through:
the Total Diet Study;
the FDA's Toxic Elements in Food and Foodware, and Radionuclides in Food compliance program; and
Other surveys, which may be conducted annually or in response to reports of elevated contaminant levels in certain products or to focus on a specific food or food group.
In addition, the FDA has been conducting research to optimize testing methods to measure increasingly smaller amounts of these environmental contaminants.
Interim Reference Level
The FDA has calculated a maximum daily intake for lead from food, termed the interim reference level (IRL), to help us assess if the level of lead found in food may be a health concern. The IRL is based on the blood reference level of 3.5 micrograms of lead per deciliter of whole blood (ug/dL) identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The blood reference level is the level at which the CDC recommends clinical monitoring of lead exposure in children. The IRL includes 10x safety factor which means that it is nearly ten times less than the actual amount of lead intake from food that would be required to reach the CDC's blood reference level. The calculated IRLs are 2.2 micrograms (µg) per day for children and 8.8 µg per day for females of childbearing age. The level for females of childbearing age is to protect against possible fetal exposure in women who are unaware that they are pregnant and to protect against infant exposure during nursing.
Scientific Articles and Reports
Articles and reports authored by FDA researchers.
A survey of toxic elements in ready to eat baby foods in the US market 2021 (2022)
Updated interim reference levels for dietary lead to support FDA's Closer to Zero action plan (2022)
FDA Total Diet Study (TDS) FY2018-FY2020 Elements Report and Data (2022)
Perspective on Cadmium and Lead in Cocoa and Chocolate (2020)
Lead exposures in older children (males and females 7-17 years), women of childbearing age (females 16-49 years) and adults (males and females 18+ years): FDA total diet study 2014-16 (2019)
Children's exposures to lead and cadmium: FDA total diet study 2014-16 (2019)
Cadmium and lead in cocoa powder and chocolate products in the US Market (2018)
Lead in Food Intended for Babies and Young Children Sampling Results
The FDA has conducted routine surveillance and targeted surveys for lead in foods, including those commonly consumed by babies and children under 2 years of age. The data in the tables below helped to inform FDA's development of action levels for lead in foods intended for babies and young children.
Analytical Results for Lead in Baby Foods - TEP (FY2008-FY2021) in PDF, in XLSX
Sampled under the FDA's Toxic Elements in Food and Foodware, and Radionuclides in Food – Import and Domestic Compliance Program, Posted January 2023
Analytical Results for Lead in Food Intended for Babies and Young Children (FY2020-2021) in PDF, in XLSX
Sampled as part of an FDA survey of toxic elements in foods intended for babies and young children, Posted January 2023
Lead in Juice Sampling Results
The FDA has conducted routine surveillance for lead in juice. The data in the table below helped to inform FDA's development of action levels for lead in juices.
Analytical Results for Lead in Juice -TEP FY2005-FY2018 - PDF, in XLSX
Sampled under the FDA's Toxic Elements in Food and Foodware, and Radionuclides in Food – Import and Domestic Compliance Program, Posted April 2022
FDA Regulations, Guidance, and Other Standards for Industry
FDA regulations require industry to meet certain safety guidelines. It is the legal responsibility of companies that produce and grow foods and manufacture products sold in the U.S. and intended for food use to comply with FDA regulations and with the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The FDA issues guidance to industry to help them meet their legal responsibility.
Lead, if present in food, is a contaminant. The FDA regulations and guidance seek to limit the amount of lead that can occur unintentionally in food, foodware, cookware, and packaging. There are no FDA authorized uses of lead as a color additive or food additive (including as a food contact substance).
For some contaminants, the FDA has issued guidance to industry on action levels when a certain level of a contaminant is unavoidable. Guidance on action levels inform industry on the levels of contamination at or above which the FDA may regard certain foods as adulterated (i.e., that it violates the law). Action levels do not establish a permissible level of contamination. If the agency finds that the level of a contaminant causes the food to be unsafe, we take action, which may include working with the manufacturer to resolve the issue and taking steps to prevent the product from entering, or remaining in, the U.S. market.
Bottled Water Regulation
The FDA, through its regulatory authority under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, limits the level of lead (as well as other contaminants) in bottled water by establishing allowable levels in the quality standard for bottled water. For lead, this level is set at 5 ppb. This level is below the 15 ppb allowed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for lead in public drinking water, as the tap water standard takes into account lead that can leach from pipes.
Tableware Regulation and Action Levels
To limit the amount of lead that may leach into foods from tableware, the FDA issued a policy with maximum leaching levels for glazed ceramic pottery (for use in serving, storing and preparing foods) and silver flatware and tableware and established labeling requirements for ornamental and decorative ceramicware containing lead. These ceramicwares must contain a specific label identifying the danger of using it with food.
The FDA also issued Guidance for Industry: The Safety of Imported Traditional Pottery Intended for Use with Food and the Use of the Term "Lead Free" in the Labeling of Pottery; and Proper Identification of Ornamental and Decorative Ceramicware in response to mislabeled traditional pottery imported from Mexico. In addition, FDA's Food Code, which represents the agency's best advice for a uniform system of provisions that address the safety and protection of food offered at retail and in food service, includes limits for lead in tableware, serviceware, and food contact surfaces.
Food Intended for Babies and Young Children Action Levels
The FDA has issued draft guidance to industry on recommended maximum levels of lead in food intended for babies and young children.
Draft Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Lead in Food Intended for Babies and Young Children
Juice and Candy Action Levels
The FDA has issued guidance to industry on recommended maximum levels of lead in candy and juice, as they are more likely to be consumed by small children. For guidance and supporting documents, please see:
Draft Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Lead in Juice
Draft Supporting Document for Establishing FDA's Action Levels for Lead in Juice
Guidance for Industry: Lead in Candy Likely to Be Consumed Frequently by Small Children
Guidance for Industry: Juice HACCP Hazards and Controls Guidance First Edition
Import Alerts and Enforcement
The FDA has also taken actions to identify foods or food contact articles that may pose an increased risk for lead exposure. The FDA has issued several import alerts that provide information about certain imported products that may be detained without physical examination based on their history of high lead levels.
To view recent Import Alerts for lead, please see:
Import Alert 99-42 for heavy metal (including lead) contamination of foods
Import Alert 99-12 for lead solder in cans
The FDA has the authority to take enforcement action on a case-by-case basis where foods, including dietary supplements and spices, are found through routine or targeted testing to have levels of lead that may pose health concerns.
International Scientific Activities
FDA experts participate in the international standard-setting body, Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex). The purpose of Codex is to protect the health of consumers and promote fair trade practices by adopting scientifically based standards, guidelines, and codes of practice across all areas of food safety and quality. Its work includes reviewing the scientific data concerning contaminant levels in foods. These international discussions can lead to recommendations for standards individual countries may adopt.
Recommendations from Codex about reducing lead in foods can be found in the Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Lead Contamination in Foods.
Rules and Guidance Documents
21 CFR Part 129 - Processing and Bottling of Bottled Drinking Water
21 CFR Part 165.110 - Bottled Water
21 CFR Part 189.240 - Lead solder
The FDA Food Code
The Food Code is a model for adoption by state, local, tribal, territorial regulatory agencies for regulating the retail and food service segment of the industry (restaurants and grocery stores and institutions such as nursing homes).
Guidance for Industry by Date Issued
Draft Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Lead in Food Intended for Babies and Young Children January 2023
Draft Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Lead in Juice April 2022
Letter Concerning the Withdrawal of "Guidance for Industry and FDA: 1991 Letter to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Regarding Lead in Wine" January 2017
Guidance for Industry: The Safety of Imported Traditional Pottery Intended for Use with Food and the Use of the Term "Lead Free" in the Labeling of Pottery; and Proper Identification of Ornamental and Decorative Ceramicware November 2010
Guidance for Industry: Lead in Candy Likely To Be Consumed Frequently by Small Children: Recommended Maximum Level and Enforcement Policy November 2006
Supporting Document for Recommended Maximum Level for Lead in Candy Likely To Be Consumed Frequently by Small Children November 2006
Compliance Policy Guide (CPG) Sec. 545.450 Pottery (Ceramics); Import and Domestic – Lead Contamination November 2005 (Updated)
Guidance for Industry: Juice HACCP Hazards and Controls Guidance First Edition March 2004
Guidance for Industry: Action Levels for Poisonous or Deleterious Substances in Human Food and Animal Feed August 2000
Guidance for Industry: Letter to Manufacturers, Importers, and Distributors of Imported Candy and Candy Wrappers June 1995
Chemical Contaminants, Metals, Natural Toxins & Pesticides Guidance Documents & Regulations


Saint Germain Des Pres Café return with edition number 13 in a double CD box set, the first side the usual collection of uber cool tunes with a couple of NZ artists featured in Isaac Aesili and Ladi 6.
The 2nd CD a vintage mix by Bart and Baker covering music from Ella Fitzgerald to Sonny Rollins to Louis Armstrong.
The name originates from the cafes in Paris where the existentialism movement started. The music is carefully selected to continue the tradition of the Des Pres Café ethos and yet again they bring us what is sure to be another best seller.
Smith Ballew - Why Do You Suppose ?


WANT SOME FUN WITH YOUR FRIENDS THIS HOLIDAY? WHY NOT HAVE YOUR OWN MAKE AND TAKE PARTY?
Wouldn't it be fun to get some of your friends over and show them how easy it is to make their own DIY products. Here are exact instructions and some amazing recipes you can easily throw together on the night. So much fun!


Concordia University Texas hosted the ActivaTeen STEM program this summer.
Before Concordia's halls will fill with students ready for another school year, the university was recently host to a different kind of academia. Teens from six different school districts, including Leander ISD, collaborated together for from July 9 - 27 to apply their gaming skills toward social awareness and well being in a summer pilot program called ActivaTeen, which seeks to combine integrated technology and leadership.
For their final week in the pilot, the teens used prototypes of Minecraft to simulate dangerous catastrophes and demonstrate disaster preparedness.
Concordia University allowed students to utilize its many resources during this STEM program including morning hikes and mindfulness exercises at the edge of the Balcones Canyonlands. They also were able to use the university's own entrepreneurial space IncubatorCTX, providing access to state-of-the-art technology including gaming laptops and Oculus Rifts.
Participating students also learned directly from Concordia's global public health program professor, Dr. Glendene Lemard-Marlow, who spoke to the teens about social and economic factors during disasters that would further expand the theme of disaster preparedness.
Cedar Park Middle School student Devin Schupbach, 14, said the pilot has taught her how to use various technologies and hone her creativity.
Schupbach's said her goal when she gets older is to find a position in digital design at Google or a similar company.
ActivaTeen is a collaboration between the business and academia that addresses the growing skills gap in artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, augmented reality as well as building emotional and relationship skills. For this summer pilot, industry experts from IBM, CognitiveScale, Data.World and NeuroGenius joined local educators from Austin ISD and Pflugerville ISD to provide instruction.
Youth mentors from Southwestern University, University of California San Diego and The University of Texas have also helped the teens.
"The natural setting at Concordia University combined with the ease of access to IncubatorCTX and staff was exactly what we needed for our pilot program," said Selvakumar. "The convergence of technologies and the external socio, economic and political terrain is disrupting business models. We recognize that today's teenagers are hyper-connected in today's digital world, yet they are increasingly isolated. Our summer pilot focuses on emerging technologies and integrates critical social and emotional development through mindfulness practices, environmental awareness and relationship development."
ActivaTeen is a new educational venture that is affiliated with BraveCenter LLC. It is a blended program for teenagers that combines technology with emotional wellbeing.
Through gaming, teens learned how to use practical artificial intelligence applications and data, understand digital and design tools and utilize social media effectively as well as building on soft skills including mindfulness, anxiety-prevention and methods for better relational and socio-emotional wellness. For more information, visit http://activateen.com and follow ActivaTeen on social media @activateen for regular updates.


Yoga has been taken to the next level in St. Charles County. Yoga-lovers can take a class with cats or strap themselves to a wall to improve a pose.
Five Acres Animal Shelter has invited its resident kitty cats to participate in monthly yoga classes called Cat Yoga.
Lauren Borgmeyer, development director at Five Acres Animal Shelter, had originally seen Cat Yoga on Facebook done in Canada.
Cat Yoga is simply yoga with the adoptable cats at Five Acres Animal Shelter.
While none of the yogis have returned to adopt the kitties yet, many have returned to the shelter to volunteer.
"Yoga is a great way to relax and treat your mind and body, but it's also a fantastic workout for anyone, no matter your abilities. Add in some adorable cats, and it's even more enjoyable," said Borgmeyer.
Sometimes yoga classes can be very serious and quiet—not Cat Yoga.
Cat Yoga sessions are beginner classes, and anyone is welcome.
"We do ask that anyone between the ages of 13 and 15 comes with an adult," said Borgmeyer.
Five Acres Animal Shelter offers Cat Yoga classes the first Monday of every month in its Katy Favre Kitty Cottage. The cost is $12 per person and reservations can be made online at www.fiveacresanimalshelter.org/events.
Jane's House of Well Being in St. Charles offers Wall Yoga where participants can deepen their poses utilizing a belt which is attached to a wall.
"The belts support the students and places the joints into an aligned position to deepen the stretch as well as give the students the opportunity to feel the resistance and enjoy the time held in postures," said Robin Buck, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT, Director of Jane's House of Well Being.
Wall yoga provides resistance as the body weight moves away from the wall into the belt and so it creates a "traction" to the joints.
While the class has been offered since 2009, Buck said it's gaining more attention and once it is experienced, students love it. The class, which is open to all levels of yoga-lovers, is held on Wednesdays at 9:15 a.m.
New Students are offered two weeks of unlimited classes at Jane's House of Well Being for $20. Beyond that, class cards—that have a one-year expiration date—are available for 5 classes for $60 or 10 classes for $108. Students can also purchase an unlimited 30-day card for $92. There are no membership fees, and Jane's House offers student and senior discounts.
For more information on Wall Yoga, or other yoga options, visit www.janeshousestudio.com.


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USC's Sam Darnold vs. Penn State's Saquon Barkley will spark Heisman, NFL Draft debates
Bill Bender | Sporting News (Source MSN)
Sam or Saquon?
That's the question for early 2017 Heisman debates, and it will continue into the 2018 NFL Draft. USC quarterback Sam Darnold and Penn State running back Saquon Barkley are the top two picks in Sporting News' first NFL mock draft for 2018, and with good reason.
The last time we saw Darnold and Barkley, they put on a show in the 2017 Rose Bowl. Darnold passed for a Rose Bowl record 453 yards and five TDs. Barkley rushed for 194 yards, added 55 yards receiving and scored three TDs. USC beat Penn State, 52-49, but the carry-over effect of that amazing show for both teams has brought on anticipation for the sequel with Darnold and Barkley.
There's a long way to the NFL Draft, but they'll be visible throughout the year. Here's what Darnold and Barkley have working in their favor heading into 2017:
National title contenders
USC and Penn State were the hottest teams in the country at the end of last season and expectations will be high in the fall.
Sporting News' post-spring Preseason Top 25 is out, and we have the Trojans ranked No. 2 and the Nittany Lions ranked No. 6. Penn State won the Big Ten championship last season, and USC beat Pac-12 champion Washington. Both teams will be ranked in the Top 10 across the board in the preseason polls.
Heisman contenders
Westgate Las Vegas released its early Heisman odds last week, and Darnold is the early favorite at 5/1. The first eight players listed are quarterbacks. Barkley is the first running back listed at 20/1, the same odds as Alabama's Bo Scarbrough.
If Darnold and Barkley can keep their teams in the championship hunt, then there's more than just a good chance they'll be in New York as Heisman Trophy finalists.
Highlight reels
Let's go back to that Rose Bowl. Here's Darnold throwing a TD pass between three defenders:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/3nScCw2aav4
Now, here's Barkley weaving through a few more defenders:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5oJDqvlwpI0
Both will fill up Twitter and YouTube with several more highlights during the 2017 season. That's a promise.
NFL Combine hype
Darnold is part of a quarterback class that also includes UCLA's Josh Rosen, Louisville's Lamar Jackson and Wyoming's Josh Allen. Darnold will have to separate himself from those three and others, and that's always an unpredictable science. Who thought Mitchell Trubisky and Patrick Mahomes II would go ahead of Deshaun Watson at this time last year?
Barkley, meanwhile, is a physical freak whose combine performance will be must-see TV. We've already seen him squat 495 pounds seven times and run a 4.33 in the 40-yard dash. This might be more entertaining than watching Leonard Fournette this year. That's saying something.
Mock stock
That mock stock will fluctuate during the season, but here's what SN contributor Eric Galko wrote about Darnold:
"Projected to the be the top quarterback in the 2018 NFL Draft, Darnold's Rose Bowl performance against Penn State has already won over NFL decision makers. As long as he continues to improve, he'll be the first quarterback selected."
Here's what Galko wrote about Barkley:
"Barkley is a special talent who may grade as high as, if not higher than, Leonard Fournette and Ezekiel Elliott."
Team needs and draft order will dictate that process, but Darnold and Barkley will have top-five consideration unless something drastic happens.
Draft track record
USC's quarterback and Penn State's running back are timeless glamour positions in college football, and Darnold and Barkley are simply the next ones.
Since 2000, former USC quarterbacks Carson Palmer (2003), Matt Leinart (2006) and Mark Sanchez (2009) have been taken in the first round. Darnold will be compared to those three throughout the process.
Same thing with Barkley. Former Penn State running backs Curt Warner (1983), Blair Thomas (1990), Ki-Jana Carter (1995) and Curtis Enis (1998) have been selected with top-five picks since 1980. There are a few busts in there, but Larry Johnson, who was taken with the No. 27 pick in 2003, went on to an excellent career. Those are names Barkley will be compared with over the next year along with top-five picks in Elliott and Fournette.
Enjoy the show. Darnold and Barkley are tremendous playmakers with bright futures in the NFL, but we want to see them for at least one more year on the college level first. Who knows? We might even see a head-to-head sequel during bowl season.
We can't wait to find out.
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Q: Indicate if a commenter downvoted the post they're commenting on
"I didn't downvote, but... "

I'm kind of getting tired of that phrase...
If you don't want to expose the down-voter, that's fine. But at least expose him when he comments the post he down-voted. That way, the other people who comment wouldn't have to explicitly state that they didn't down-vote, because the mere fact that their comment "passed" (wasn't exposed), would denote that they're not the down-voters.
Update:
May I propose the abbreviation IDDB for this purpose...

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That way, the other people who comment wouldn't have to explicitly state that they didn't down-vote

They don't have to. And when they do, it just reinforces the whole "folks who comment voted" idea.
I'm tired of that phrase too, and the "+1/-1" prefixes, and "why the downvotes?" comments. But the solution isn't to tie voting and commenting together more tightly... It's to focus on leaving clear, constructive comments that address the content of the post and nothing more.

A: Voting is supposed to be anonymous so people feel free to express their own opinions without fear of retaliation. Your proposal would undermine this principle, because we encourage downvoters to express why they downvoted so corrections and improvements can be made.
Remember, it's the commentor's choice to put that phrase in front of their comment. And in any case, people can lie **gasp**!
Yes, I did downvote this proposal. I don't care about being anonymous. :D


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Q: Component styles not working properly - Vuetify I am using Vuetify as the component framework of my Vue 2 app. While some styling such as with the v-card component and properties like elevation work, some components do not have the correct styling.
For example, in the following code I am using a simple v-chip.
<v-chip style="background-color:rgb(181 240 152);padding: 8px;">
   Group {{ groupNo }} ({{ group.length }} Participants)
</v-chip>

I added some in-line styling for development, which works. However, none of the Vuetify component properties, which can be found here, used to style the chip work. The chip itself just displays as a rectangular box no matter what Vuetify properties I use.
I don't know why some of the styling works and some doesn't. If anyone has any ideas I'd much appreciate it.
EDIT
I have found the following in the console css:
.theme--light .v-chip.v-chip {
    border-radius: 0;
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: thin;
}

So, the boder-radius is defaulting to 0. I can use the above css classes to manually add the border-radius back to the v-chip by adding this to the component css:
  .theme--light .v-chip.v-chip {
    border-radius: 10px !important;
   }

But it feels very hacky to me. I am not sure why it defaults to 0 when the border-radius is a key part of the v-chip styling.


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import alchemy.result.Executable;

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Dr. Meg Kalady has a doctorate in audiology and is licensed in the state of South Carolina. She is board certified in audiology by the American Board of Audiology, a fellow and academy scholar of the American Academy of Audiology, and a member of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology. Dr. Kalady stays current on new products and solutions for her patients.
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Thread: Making side money or full time 3d printing?
I am new to the world of 3d printing, still searching for my first 3d printer even. I am looking into getting one to help building some specific things for my wood shop. However, I figured if I was doing that I could maybe figure out a way to make the machine and material pay for itself. Not looking to retire and become a 3d printing company though, but a small Etsy shop or something along those lines wouldnt be bad.
So I was curious from the people who are making money off this, what are you selling? A little bit of everything? Niche things? etc etc.
personally I'd say it's damn near impossible to make money from an fdm 3d printer.
You need either to be a marketing genius or come up with a specific niche design that nobody else has.
Or be really artistic and make cosplay gear.
Making money implies that the cost of the facility cost (rent), design time, equipment, power used, material used, your set up time, machine run time, post print clean up time, packing and shipping time, customer communication time etc etc, are all covered, plus another 40% profit on top of that for each item you make..


Day 2 takes us too a number of farms. Today we are looking for the small high quality koi.
As you can probably tell from the picture there is no shortage of high quality koi.
We have managed to secure some really outstanding fish here are a few examples from today's buying.
Some amazing koi will be coming home with us from this farm. Tancho Goshiki, Kumonryu , Beni Kumonryu Kujaku and Doitsu Ochiba/soragoi are amongst the varieties we have selected.
Tomorrow we will be visiting Madan Koi to select some Jumbo Koi.


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// *** Filename: U3Temp.c
// *** Purpose: Read both the internal and Ext temperature
//			From the EI-1034 sensor and return it
//			to a function.
//			Many of the functions are extracted from
//			The u3Feedback.c file to communicate with the sensor
// *** Date: 11-30-2016

#include <unistd.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include "u3.h"

static struct termios termNew, termOrig;
static int peek = -1;

//
// *** Prototypes
//
int feedback_setup_example(HANDLE hDevice, u3CalibrationInfo *caliInfo);
int feedback_loop_example(HANDLE hDevice, u3CalibrationInfo *caliInfo, int isDAC1Enabled);
void readU3Temp(double *tempdata);

void setTerm();
int kbhit();
void unsetTerm();

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    HANDLE hDevice;
    u3CalibrationInfo caliInfo;
    int dac1Enabled=0;

    //setting terminal settings
    setTerm();

    //Opening first found U3 over USB
    if( (hDevice = openUSBConnection(-1)) == NULL )
        goto done;

    //Getting calibration information from U3
    if( getCalibrationInfo(hDevice, &caliInfo) < 0 )
        goto close;

    if( feedback_setup_example(hDevice, &caliInfo) != 0 )
            goto close;

   // Get the measurements and display them
    if( feedback_loop_example(hDevice, &caliInfo, dac1Enabled) != 0 )
            goto close;

close:
    closeUSBConnection(hDevice);

done:
    printf("\nDone\n");

    //Setting terminal settings to previous settings
    unsetTerm();
    return 0;
}

//Sends a Feedback low-level command that configures digital directions, states,
//timer modes and DAC0 for this example.  Will work with U3 hardware versions
//1.20, 1.21 and 1.30 LV.
int feedback_setup_example(HANDLE hDevice, u3CalibrationInfo *caliInfo)
{
    uint8 sendBuff[32], recBuff[18];
    uint16 checksumTotal;
    int sendChars, recChars;

    sendBuff[1] = (uint8)(0xF8);  //Command byte
    sendBuff[2] = 13;  //Number of data words (.5 word for echo, 8 words for
                       //IOTypes and data, and .5 words for the extra byte)
    sendBuff[3] = (uint8)(0x00);  //Extended command number

    sendBuff[6] = 0;  //Echo

    sendBuff[7] = 13;  //IOType is BitDirWrite
    sendBuff[8] = 130;  //IONumber (bits 0 - 4) is 2 and Direction (bit 7) is
                        //output

    sendBuff[9] = 13;  //IOType is BitDirWrite
    sendBuff[10] = 3;  //IONumber (bits 0 - 4) is 3 and Direction (bit 7) is
                       //input

    sendBuff[11] = 11;  //IOType is BitStateWrite
    sendBuff[12] = 2;  //IONumber (bits 0 - 4) is 2 and State (bit 7) is low

    sendBuff[13] = 43;  //IOType is Timer0Config
    sendBuff[14] = 0;  //TimerMode is 16 bit PWM output (mode 0)
    sendBuff[15] = 0;  //Value LSB
    sendBuff[16] = 0;  //Value MSB, Whole value is 32768

    sendBuff[17] = 42;  //IOType is Timer0
    sendBuff[18] = 1;  //UpdateReset
    sendBuff[19] = 0;  //Value LSB
    sendBuff[20] = 128;  //Value MSB, Whole Value is 32768

    sendBuff[21] = 45;  //IOType is Timer1Config
    sendBuff[22] = 1;  //TimerMode is 8 bit PWM output (mode 1)
    sendBuff[23] = 0;  //Value LSB
    sendBuff[24] = 0;  //Value MSB, Whole value is 32768

    sendBuff[25] = 44;  //IOType is Timer1
    sendBuff[26] = 1;  //UpdateReset
    sendBuff[27] = 0;  //Value LSB
    sendBuff[28] = 128;  //Value MSB, Whole Value is 32768

    sendBuff[29] = 34;  //IOType is DAC0 (8-bit)

    //Value is 1.5 volts (in binary form)
    getDacBinVoltCalibrated8Bit(caliInfo, 0, 1.5, &sendBuff[30]);
    sendBuff[31] = 0;  //Extra byte

    extendedChecksum(sendBuff, 32);

    //Sending command to U3
    if( (sendChars = LJUSB_Write(hDevice, sendBuff, 32)) < 32 )
    {
        if( sendChars == 0 )
            printf("Feedback setup error : write failed\n");
        else
            printf("Feedback setup error : did not write all of the buffer\n");
        return -1;
    }

    //Reading response from U3
    if( (recChars = LJUSB_Read(hDevice, recBuff, 18)) < 18 )
    {
        if( recChars == 0 )
        {
            printf("Feedback setup error : read failed\n");
            return -1;
        }
        else
            printf("Feedback setup error : did not read all of the buffer\n");
    }

    checksumTotal = extendedChecksum16(recBuff, 18);
    if( (uint8)((checksumTotal / 256 ) & 0xFF) != recBuff[5] )
    {
        printf("Feedback setup error : read buffer has bad checksum16(MSB)\n");
        return -1;
    }

    if( (uint8)(checksumTotal & 0xFF) != recBuff[4] )
    {
        printf("Feedback setup error : read buffer has bad checksum16(LBS)\n");
        return -1;
    }

    if( extendedChecksum8(recBuff) != recBuff[0] )
    {
        printf("Feedback setup error : read buffer has bad checksum8\n");
        return -1;
    }

    if( recBuff[1] != (uint8)(0xF8) || recBuff[2] != 6 || recBuff[3] != (uint8)(0x00) )
    {
        printf("Feedback setup error : read buffer has wrong command bytes \n");
        return -1;
    }

    if( recBuff[6] != 0 )
    {
        printf("Feedback setup error : received errorcode %d for frame %d in Feedback response. \n", recBuff[6], recBuff[7]);
        return -1;
    }

    return 0;
}

//Calls a Feedback low-level call to read AIN0, AIN1, FIO3, Counter1(FIO6) and
//temperature.  Will work with U3 hardware versions 1.20, 1.21 and 1.30 LV.
int feedback_loop_example(HANDLE hDevice, u3CalibrationInfo *caliInfo, int isDAC1Enabled)
{
    uint8 sendBuff[32], recBuff[28];
    uint16 checksumTotal;
    int sendChars, recChars;
    long count;
    double  voltageT,    // Voltage to store the temperature for the Temp Sensor */
            temperature, // Internal sensor Temperature
            TempData[2]; // both internal and external temperature array

    sendBuff[1] = (uint8)(0xF8);  //Command byte
    sendBuff[2] = 13;  //Number of data words (.5 word for echo, 12.5 words for
                       //IOTypes)
    sendBuff[3] = (uint8)(0x00);  //Extended command number

    sendBuff[6] = 0;  //Echo

    sendBuff[7] = 1;  //IOType is AIN
    sendBuff[8] = 0;  //Positive channel (bits 0-4) is 0, LongSettling (bit 6)
                      //is not set and QuickSample (bit 7) is not set
    sendBuff[9] = 31;  //Negative channel is 31 (SE)

    sendBuff[10] = 1;  //IOType is AIN
    sendBuff[11] = 1;  //Positive channel (bits 0-4) is 1, LongSettling (bit 6)
                       //is not set and QuickSample (bit 7) is not set
    sendBuff[12] = 31;  //Negative channel is 31 (SE)

    sendBuff[13] = 1;  //IOType is AIN
    sendBuff[14] = 0;  //Positive channel (bits 0-4) is 0, LongSettling (bit 6)
                       //is not set and QuickSample (bit 7) is not set
    sendBuff[15] = 1;  //Negative channel is 1 (FIO1)

    sendBuff[16] = 1;  //IOType is AIN
    sendBuff[17] = 1;  //Positive channel (bits 0-4) is 1, LongSettling (bit 6)
                       //is not set and QuickSample (bit 7) is not set
    sendBuff[18] = 0;  //Negative channel is 0 (FIO0)

    sendBuff[19] = 1;  //IOType is AIN
    sendBuff[20] = 0;  //Positive channel (bits 0-4) is 0, LongSettling (bit 6)
                       //is not set and QuickSample (bit 7) is not set
    sendBuff[21] = 30;  //Negative channel is 30 (Vref)

    sendBuff[22] = 1;  //IOType is AIN
    sendBuff[23] = 1;  //Positive channel (bits 0-4) is 1, LongSettling (bit 6)
                       //is not set and QuickSample (bit 7) is not set
    sendBuff[24] = 30;  //Negative channel is 30 (Vref)

    sendBuff[25] = 10;  //IOType is BitStateRead
    sendBuff[26] = 3;  //IO number is 3 (FIO3)

    sendBuff[27] = 55;  //IOType is Counter1
    sendBuff[28] = 0;  //Reset (bit 0) is not set

    sendBuff[29] = 1;  //IOType is AIN
    sendBuff[30] = 30;  //Positive channel is 30 (temp sensor)
    sendBuff[31] = 31;  //Negative channel is 31 (SE)

    extendedChecksum(sendBuff, 32);

    printf("Running U3Temp calls in a loop:\n** Press any key to stop **\n");

    count = 0;
    while( !kbhit() )
    {
        count++;
        printf("Iteration %ld\n", count);

        //Sending command to U3
        if( (sendChars = LJUSB_Write(hDevice,  sendBuff, 32)) < 32 )
        {
            if( sendChars == 0 )
              printf("Feedback loop error : write failed\n");
            else
              printf("Feedback loop error : did not write all of the buffer\n");
            return -1;
        }

        //Reading response from U3
        if( (recChars = LJUSB_Read(hDevice, recBuff, 28)) < 28 )
        {
            if( recChars == 0 )
            {
                printf("Feedback loop error : read failed\n");
                return -1;
            }
            else
                printf("Feedback loop error : did not read all of the expected buffer\n");
        }

        if( recChars < 10 )
        {
            printf("Feedback loop error : response is not large enough\n");
            return -1;
        }

        checksumTotal = extendedChecksum16(recBuff, recChars);
        if( (uint8)((checksumTotal / 256 ) & 0xFF) != recBuff[5] )
        {
            printf("Feedback loop error : read buffer has bad checksum16(MSB)\n");
            return -1;
        }

        if( (uint8)(checksumTotal & 0xFF) != recBuff[4] )
        {
            printf("Feedback loop error : read buffer has bad checksum16(LBS)\n");
            return -1;
        }

        if( extendedChecksum8(recBuff) != recBuff[0] )
        {
            printf("Feedback loop error : read buffer has bad checksum8\n");
            return -1;
        }

        if( recBuff[1] != (uint8)(0xF8) ||	recBuff[3] != (uint8)(0x00) )
        {
            printf("Feedback loop error : read buffer has wrong command bytes \n");
            return -1;
        }

        if( recBuff[6] != 0 )
        {
            printf("Feedback loop error : received errorcode %d for frame %d ", recBuff[6], recBuff[7]);
            switch( recBuff[7] )
            {
                case 1: printf("(AIN(SE))\n"); break;
                case 2: printf("(AIN(SE))\n"); break;
                case 3: printf("(AIN(Neg. chan. 1))\n"); break;
                case 4: printf("(AIN(Neg. chan. 0))\n"); break;
                case 5: printf("(AIN(Neg. chan. Vref))\n"); break;
                case 6: printf("(AIN(Neg. chan. Vref))\n"); break;
                case 7: printf("(BitStateRead for FIO3)\n"); break;
                case 8: printf("(Counter1)\n"); break;
                case 9: printf("(Temp. Sensor\n"); break;
                default: printf("(Unknown)\n"); break;
            }
            return -1;
        }
        // Use FIO0 as the analog input to connect the EI-1034 Temp Sensor
        getAinVoltCalibrated(caliInfo, isDAC1Enabled, 31, recBuff[9] + recBuff[10]*256, &voltageT);

        //printf("AIN0(SE) : %.3f volts\n", voltageT);

        // This is the Internal Sensor Temperature in Kelvin
        getTempKCalibrated(caliInfo, recBuff[26] + recBuff[27]*256, &temperature);

        //printf("Temperature : %.3f K\n", temperature);

        // Get the voltage value and convert this to Farenheit degrees
        // Per manual, Volts * 100 = Farenheit degrees
        // printf("Temperature Sensor: %.2f Farenheit\n", (voltageT*100));
        // printf("Temperature Sensor (K): %.2f Kelvin\n\n\n\n", ((55.56*voltageT) + 255.37));

        TempData[0] = ((1.8)*(temperature-273))+32.0; /* convert K to F */
        TempData[1] = voltageT*100;
        readU3Temp(TempData);

        sleep(1);
    }
    return 0;
}

void readU3Temp(double *tempdata)
{
    printf("Temperature Int Sensor : %.2f Farenheit\n", tempdata[0]);
    printf("Temperature Ext Sensor : %.2f Farenheit\n", tempdata[1]);

}

void setTerm()
{
    tcgetattr(0, &termOrig);
    termNew = termOrig;
    termNew.c_lflag &= ~ICANON;
    termNew.c_lflag &= ~ECHO;
    termNew.c_lflag &= ~ISIG;
    termNew.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
    termNew.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;
    tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &termNew);
}

int kbhit()
{
    char ch;
    int nread;

    if( peek != -1 )
        return 1;

    termNew.c_cc[VMIN] = 0;
    tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &termNew);
    nread = read(0, &ch, 1);
    termNew.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
    tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &termNew);

    if(nread == 1)
    {
        peek = ch;
        return 1;
    }

    return 0;
}

void unsetTerm()
{
    tcsetattr(0, TCSANOW, &termOrig);
}


Home / Shop / Bookshop / Travel / Pacific & Voyages / GREY, James Gratton..
and away in the far north. A narrative of travels in that part of the colony north of Auckland.
At the offices of the New Zealand Times, Wellington, 1879.
Descriptive of Sir George Grey's residence and of a visit to the Bay of Islands and Hokianga. Illustrated by Mr Gibbs.
First edition. 8vo., 54, [i],pp., text in double columns, illustrated with 9 albumen photographs, mounted as issued, small stamps of London University at beginning and end, original violet cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, spine faded.


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