I had the best experience yesterday. I'm part of the People StyleWatch StyleHunter Network, and I was invited to go behind the scenes of a People StyleWatch and Mary Kay photo shoot!
It was such a cool experience! They've been shooting all week, and on the day I was there they were doing still shots with a model. I got a chance to see how they select photos, check out the amazing wardrobe, meet everyone on the team, and take home some samples (yay!).
I also had my makeup done by the extremely talented makeup artist on the shoot, which was really fun. She also does the makeup for Beyonce's back up dancers, and the look she created for the model was seriously stunning (can't wait to see it in the magazine).
Don't I look tan? Here's what she used: CC Cream in Very Light (it looks so natural); Concealer (not sure what the color was); Mineral Cheek Color in Shy; True Dimension Lipstick in Color Me Coral (love this!); and Mineral Powder Foundation in Beige 1.
She applied the Mineral Powder Foundation last, and that's what gave me the gorgeous tan. What do you think? I loved it! I can't wait to try out some of the other makeup I received.
I'm sharing some more behind-the-scenes pics in between my favorite links from the week!
This was the studio set up. There was an area for photos to the left (you can see a bit of the backdrop on the floor) and one to the right, too. They are reviewing photos of the model on the computer.
This Carrot Cake Swirled Cheesecake from Frugal Foodie Mama combines two of my dessert favorites. I don't think I could stop at one piece.
It's almost picnic season (how much more snow can we get?). When it finally arrives, dress up your table with these cute Picnic Place Settings from Sweet Paul.
These Chocolate Caramel Surprise Cupcakes from A Dash of Sanity look so good!
I fell in love with this perforated leather top!
Personalize your home with these awesome Restoration Hardware Knockoff Vintage Industrial Letters from blue i style.
Creme de la Crumb shared a Cheesy Spinach Artichoke and Sun-dried Tomato Panini recipe. You need to see the pictures … yum!
I love this Side-Braid Ponytail that Momtrends created for her stylish workout look. Super cute!
This was the makeup area. There was another blogger there at the same time (she's in the chair), and she was getting her makeup done when I took this shot.
Animal prints are part of my everyday wardrobe. (I'm on my second pair of these inexpensive flats.) If this style staple makes you nervous, don't miss this post from Putting Me Together: Beginner's Guide: Animal Print in Small Doses.
Learn how to make Restaurant Style Salsa from Joyful Healthy Eats.
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The view from the studio was pretty amazing, too!
Finally, wish your family a happy holiday with a decadent Easter Cake Cocktail from Shake, Bake, and Party in hand. Cheers to that!
Have a great weekend! Anything fun going on?
I'm linking up with Style Elixir, Monday Mingle, More Pieces of Me, Funday Monday, Random Wednesday, Get Your Pretty On, and On the Daily Express.
Wow, Ginnie, what a fabulous experience you had! Love that you're sharing so many helpful links. The makeup looks great and very natural.
Have a Happy Easter with your family.
Thanks, Robyn! It was such a fun experience:) Have a wonderful Easter!
I've heard some amazing things about CC cream!
I love it, Kristin! It's really light and natural, but it evens out your skin (win-win!).
You're welcome, Angela! What a great project!


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Hot NewsKashmirPopular PostsTrending Now
Targeted Killings in Kashmir: Inexplicable Silence of Hurriyat and Civil Society
There are no doubts that such killings will have an adverse effect over the entire financial ecosystem in Kashmir Valley and the worst hit will be the tourism sector that is just recovering after a tourist 'drought' due to the covid pandemic
The continuing killing of minority community members and non-locals in Kashmir Valley has made it abundantly clear that this barbaric trend has the approval of those masterminding the so called 'armed struggle' here. A hitherto fore largely unknown group calling itself 'The Resistance Front' [TRF] has taken responsibility for these attacks, but it hasn't explained as to how exactly is targeting innocent people of minority communities and non-local migrants contributing to the success of their 'armed struggle'?
Why TRF is not doing so could be because it either doesn't have any logical explanation to offer or could it simply be that it doesn't consider this necessary because influential groups like the Hurriyat and Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society [JKCCS] are the least interested?
Extinguishing human lives can never be justified, no matter how grave the provocation might be –most certainly not when the victims happen to be innocent civilians who have nothing to do with the ongoing conflict and violence in Kashmir. Au contraire, while targeting people on basis of their religion or because they happen to be 'outsiders' eking out an honest living in Kashmir are undisputedly acts of terrorism, public silence on this bloody pogrom is tantamount to tacit approval. So, despite what TRF might say, the fact of the matter is that while there are no positives of such killings, its negatives are plenty.
There are no doubts that such killings will have an adverse effect over the entire financial ecosystem in Kashmir Valley and the worst hit will be the tourism sector that is just recovering after a tourist 'drought' due to the covid pandemic. Though tour operators have been giving a host of assurances, and I too had tried to play down security threat to tourists by citing past statistics, but yet I failed to convince two of my friends, who have since cancelled their upcoming Kashmir trip due to security concerns. I'm sure that due to repeated incidents of non-locals being targeted in Kashmir Valley,there must be many more who've decided to shelve their visit plans.
Secondly, by targeting minority communities, the TRF has sent out the signal that there's no place for non-Muslimsin Kashmir. Whereas the majority of Muslims in Kashmir Valley may not share this brazenly communal viewpoint, it nevertheless makes 'outsiders' wary. Anyone planning to setup an industrial unit here will perforce have to bring along non-local experts to train and guide locals in operating machinery and other production related procedures. However, since non-locals are specifically being targeted in Kashmir, this negative trend will make those desirous of setting up industrial units here think twice!
Thirdly, such targeted killings of people belonging to minority communities will surely encourage fundamentalist forces like Islamic State of Iraq and Levant -Khorasan [ISIL-K] which are desperately trying to gain entry into Kashmir Valley and turn it into a 'caliphate'. The people of Kashmir shouldn't forget that if such radical groups that follow their own skewed interpretation of Islam and sharia succeed in establishing themselves here, Kashmir will face the onslaught of sectarian violence and lose its centuries old unique cultural and social values.
Lastly, targeting of migrant workers by TRF could well generate anti-Kashmiri feelings in the states to which the victims belong and so, Kashmiris working outside the Union Territory of J&K may become unfortunate targets of retaliatory violence. As this has happened in the past, its repetition cannot be ruled out. Thus, the ultimate losers will be the people of Kashmir since they would be deprived of much-needed employment opportunities within Kashmir and not be welcome in some other parts of the country.
While TRF may wax eloquent on how it's fighting for the wellbeing and bright future of the Kashmiri people, but the reality is that by targeting minority communities and non-locals, it is doing just the opposite. How damaging such killings are is evident from the fact that even Pakistan, which otherwise keeps praising terrorists in Kashmir by referring to them as "freedom fighters" and "rebels" hasn't mentioned a word in support of TRF or its activities.
This is why the Hurriyat and JKCCS needs to take a serious note of the senseless and self-debilitating violence of targeted killings by TRF, because if this group is allowed a free run, then in the days to come, it's the people of Kashmir who will have to pay a heavy price!
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Q: Does the method argument in AJAX need to be upper case? Well basically what the title says, when making an AJAX request with JavaScript. Does the method, i.e. GET / POST, need to be upper case? Thanks in advance.
Edit: Even a yes or no will suffice.

A: You can read about it at http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#the-open-method
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When the open(method, url, async,
   user, password) method is invoked, the
   user agent must run these steps
   (unless otherwise indicated):
  ..
  3. If method is a case-insensitive match for CONNECT, DELETE, GET, HEAD,
  OPTIONS, POST, PUT, TRACE, or TRACK
  subtract 0x20 from each byte in the
  range 0x61 (ASCII a) to 0x7A (ASCII
  z).
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which means it will automatically convert it to upper case on its own ..
So it seems to have some significance (preferring uppercase), and i would suggest you use uppercase just to avoid implementation flaws (improbable).

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Overview - The traditional concept that a well-defined three-dimensional structure of a protein is one of the main requirements for its function can be found in many high-school textbooks. Recent evidence, however, has shown that the lack of a stable conformation may in some cases provide functional advantages by allowing a protein to more easily adapt to different cellular stimuli. Flexible linkers in complex multi-domain proteins as well as specific protein regions that can adopt different conformations upon binding to different partners, or in particular cell compartments, provide additional examples of the biological importance of flexible, adaptable states. Therefore, while the functional importance of structural scaffolds is still well recognized, as witnessed by the steady growth in the number of the three-dimensional structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB), the highly dynamic and flexible nature of these IDPs and IDRs is now being recognized as an important feature for protein function in vivo. Current estimates suggest that as many as 25-40% of the proteins in eukaryotes are IDPs or contain IDRs. Several individual IDPs have been shown to be associated with human pathologies (cardiovascular diseases, amyloidoses, type II diabetes); the uncontrolled transition to disordered states or the aggregation of disordered protein modules leads to disease (neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and prion diseases). More recently, IDRs have also been described as a general mechanism through which cell components escape to regulatory mechanisms and may be related to the development of cancer. These findings raise questions regarding the importance of IDPs and IDRs in processes at the basis of life and disease. The relationship between intrinsic disorder and protein function, however, is still largely unclear and more investigation is required to better understand the biological role of structural disorder.
NMR spectroscopy provides a unique tool to access information at atomic resolution in different aggregation states as well as in the native-like environment of proteins in living cells. It is particularly suited to study heterogeneous and flexible macromolecules. However a strong integration of NMR with complementary techniques (other spectroscopic techniques, computational approaches, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology) is necessary to address complex systems and provide answers to biochemically and medically relevant problems.
The training program proposed here is crucial for rising a new generation of young scientists for the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries who are aware of the basic change in awareness concerning the classical structure-function relationship of proteins. This novel concept is currently not covered in mainstream textbooks on biochemistry and molecular biology, nor in standard college courses; thus, students are primarily taught the traditional concepts. Since many important proteins involved in human medical conditions or present in pathogenic microorganisms have a high level of intrinsic disorder, they cannot be fully understood unless we take account of the structural disorder. Recent results show that in many cases, novel drug candidates can be developed against binding partners of IDPs or IDPs themselves. These endeavours will require scientists trained in this novel discipline.


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Мариан Делеон Герреро Тудела (, род. ок. 1945) — политик Северных Марианских островов, занимавшая пост мэра Сайпана, столицы Содружества, с июня 2014 года по январь 2015 года. Она была назначена мэром Сайпана  Илоем Иносом, чтобы заполнить оставшийся срок полномочий мэра  после его смерти при исполнении служебных обязанностей. Тудела — первая женщина-мэр Сайпана, а также первая женщина, занявшая пост мэра любого муниципалитета Северных Марианских островов в истории.

Биография
Прежде чем заняться политикой, Тудела работала в офисе Медицинской справочной программы Содружества Северных Марианских островов в Гонолулу, Гавайи.

В 2009 году Тудела была кандидатом на пост мэра Сайпана от ныне несуществующей партии «». В многолюдной гонке, в которой участвовали восемь кандидатов, Тудела проиграла кандидату в мэры от республиканцев  7 ноября 2009 года. Флорес выиграл выборы, набрав 2392 голоса, а Тудела заняла второе место с 1620 голосами.

2 июня 2014 года действующий мэр Сайпана Дональд Флорес, тогда ещё находившийся на втором сроке, скончался при исполнении служебных обязанностей в результате инсульта. Губернатор Илой Инос назначил Туделу исполняющим обязанности мэра Сайпана 3 июня 2014 года на оставшийся срок полномочий Флореса, который истекает в январе 2015 года. Рамон Б. Камачо, председатель муниципального совета Сайпана и Северных островов, исполнял обязанности мэра до тех пор, пока Тудела не вернулась из Аризоны, чтобы принять присягу. На момент назначения Тудела жила в Аризоне, чтобы заботиться о своей правнучке. Инос назвал причиной назначения её второе место на выборах мэра 2009 года. Она пообещала сохранить весь персонал Флореса в течение своего срока.

Вернувшись с материковой части Соединённых Штатов, Мариан Тудела была приведена к присяге 8 июня 2014 года губернатором Илоем Иносом во время церемонии на курорте Coral Ocean Point Resort. Она стала первой женщиной-мэром Сайпана, а также первой женщиной-мэром любого муниципалитета Северных Марианских островов в истории.

Тудела отказалась баллотироваться на полный срок на  в том же, 2014 году. Её сменил республиканец , инаугурация которого состоялась 12 января 2015 года.

В марте 2018 года Тудела вновь выдвинула кандидатуру на пост мэра Сайпана, намереваясь бросить вызов действующему мэру Апатангу. Однако позже она вышла из кампании и поддержала Рамона Бласа «РБ» Камачо на пост мэра Сайпана. Мэр  был переизбран на второй срок в ноябре 2018 года.

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UN Hails Milestone as Timorese Police Celebrate Tenth Anniversary
New York, Mar 29 2010 11:05AM
The National Police of Timor-Leste (PNTL), which was set up by the United Nations in the wake of the country's vote for independence, has celebrated its 10th anniversary, making it one of the oldest institutions in the fledgling South-East Asian nation.
Parades and activities were held in the capital, Dili, on Saturday to mark the first decade of existence of the PNTL, established on 27 March 2000 by the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (<"http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/etimor/etimor.htm">UNTAET), set up to assist the country during its transition to independence in 1999.
"The continued development of the professionalism of the national police service is an essential element to a peaceful, stable Timor-Leste, where citizens can have trust in the rule of law," Ameerah Haq, the Secretary-General's Special Representative, said, following a ceremony attended by G
overnment officials and diplomats.
The UN has been handing over policing responsibilities to Timor-Leste as part of the gradual transfer of the security functions it assumed in 2006 after dozens of people were killed and 155,000 others -- or about 15 per cent of the population -- were driven from their homes in an eruption of violence in the newly independent country.
The current UN peacekeeping mission in the country, or <"http://unmit.unmissions.org/">UNMIT, was set up in 2006 to replace several earlier missions, including UNTAET, in the county that the world body shepherded to independence in 2002. It currently comprises nearly 1,500 UN Police (<"http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/sites/police/">UNPOL) from 38 countries.
The mission is working closely with the PNTL to set the stage for its resumption of full responsibility over Timor-Leste, Ms. Haq noted. "But this remains a careful process, to be implemented applying the criteria agreed with the Government and in a step-by step-manner."
The PNTL has already resumed responsibility over the Police Intelligence Service, the Police Training Centre and the Maritime Unit, as well as four districts. Three additional districts will be handed over in the coming weeks.
Also attending the Saturday ceremony was Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão, who praised the police force for its community-based approach. "This means that a police member must be well-integrated in the local community? in permanent contact with the populations that he is responsible to keep safe."
Last month, Ms. Haq told the Security Council in New York that although Timor-Leste has made "remarkable progress" since the violence that disrupted it in 2006, the long-term goals of recovery and development may prove even more challenging.
"Timor-Leste has reached a new stage, where there is an intensified focus on measures needed to sustain stability, deepen democracy and the rule of law, reduce poverty and strengthen institutions," she said.
The Special Representative pointed to the possibility of the country's greatest long-term challenges lying in the socio-economic realm, citing the need to fight poverty, hunger, maternal and infant mortality, and improve access to health care and education. "It is essential that the Government redouble its effort to ensure that development benefits are felt equally in rural and urban areas," she added.
Also last month, the 15-member Council voted to extend the mandate of UNMIT by an additional year until 26 February 2011.
at Tuesday, March 30, 2010


Iowa closes out its four-game homestand with an afternoon matinee against the Rockford IceHogs Monday. The meeting will be the seventh of 10 matchups between the two teams, with Iowa owning a 4-2-0-0 record against Rockford this season. Iowa sits in third in the Central Division with 51 points while Rockford is in seventh with 42.
Iowa got back in the win column with a 4-2 victory against the Ontario Reign Saturday evening, overcoming a two-goal deficit in the process. Both Sam Anas and Cal O'Reilly recorded two tallies in the contest, while goaltender Andrew Hammond stopped 26 of 28 shots in the victory.
Forward Cal O'Reilly's has six points (3g, 3a) over the weekend, the most in the AHL.
Forwards Sam Anas, Gerry Mayhew and O'Reilly all have multi-point games in back to back contests.
Forward Kyle Rau is riding a three-game point streak, recording six points (4g, 2a) during that stretch.
Goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen is 4-0-0 this season against the IceHogs, posting a 0.24 goals against average, a .992 save percentage and three shutouts.
Rockford defeated the Chicago Wolves in overtime by a score of 3-2 Saturday evening.
Forward Anthony Louis leads the IceHogs with 26 points (10g, 16a) in 43 games.
Goaltender Anton Forsberg has made 30 or more saves in seven of his last 10 outings.
Forward Graham Knott recorded the first multi-point effort of his career against Chicago Saturday.


> Man, I'm behind this week's email.
> cleaned up, at least before a 2.3 final release.
report here a good feedback, or we'll decide what to do for the next alpha!
official switch and that it could change in following alphas.
the next months and I would like to have a 2.3.0 final in summer 2006.


The main focus of this post is to give you some ideas and ways you can use your inmotion SCV Personal Transporter.
So you ordered an Inmotion SCV or thinking about buying a segway alternative inmotion SCV personal transporter and are wondering what can you do with it or what are you going to do with it once you get it. There are many things you can do with an inmotion scv R1 Personal Transporter.
First what is up with the Inmotion SCV and it' long tail name…. Inmotion scv r1 EX? An Inmotion SCV r1 EX is the Specific model name the manufacturer gave to the inmotion scv. The long name suggests that there may be future models of the Inmotion SCV later on.
A Segway Style Inmotion SCV transporter is a very economical and fun mini segway style personal electric transporter that can be used for many things including work and play, and doesn't come with the segway cost or segway prices. The Inmotion SCV Cost Price is only $2499.00 compared to some segways that sell for well over $5000.00 or more.
Examples of how a Segway Style Inmotion can make your life better.
Ok have you ever been to a Zoo? Lots of walking and sight seeing right? Up and down rolling hills, in an out of diferent animal themed crevices and corners, in and out, up and down, back and forth, and lets not forget the heat of a summer day all the while trying to enjoy the Animals with your kids and not getting tired. It's enough to make you tired just to think about it.
When you have an imotion SCV going to the zoo ( or anywhere as we will talk about ) is an entirely new experience. When you have an inmotion SCV personal transporter cruising you around the same zoo you will find that seeing the animals is allot more enjoyable for you and your family, for no other reason than the fact you do not have to walk up and down those hills all day long. Why walk when you can ride? We bring up zoo's because it's a very clear example of how the quality of your lifes experiences can dramtically be improved with technology. It's not just zoo's, that's just one fun example.
Lets go to a Car show or Festival without the Inmotion SCV as many of us have done. Some car shows and festivals can cover many acres of land and just seem to go on forever. Most of us get tired before we can enjoy the entire event or see all the sights. It can be Very tiresome walking around enjoying the sights and sounds of the festival especially if it's 100 degrees outside and the festival seems to go on into infinity.
Now lets get on the 35 lb highly portable inmotion scv electric personal transporter. Now were talking, No more walking, sweating and getting tired and run down. You can cruise around with the Inmotion SCV and have so much better of a time than without it. The Inmotion SCV just makes life easier and more enjoyable for everything, especially if it involves allot of constant walking and the heat of the sun.
We know the Segway Style Inmotion can be used for fun, but what about work. The Segway style Inmotion SCV Transporter could be used in Major Hospitals for one, Dr's, Nurses and Staff can and could benefit from the Inmotion SCV. If you have ever been to a major hospital before ( Like Chapel HILL, NC ) then you are aware that where you park your car can be what seems like a mile walk from where you actually want to go. For visitors of the Hostpital it's pretty self explanitory why you would want an inmotion scv, but what about the staff of the hospital?
The staff of any Hospital or Hospitality Service could easily dart around from one office in the corner of this building to the office in the corner of the next building delivering samples, paper work, or any verbal information, this will and would save an unimaginable amount of transit time and make the job much more efficient. As we all know, Sometimes time in a hospital or any medical establishment can be very critical when things need to get done right away.
The Inmotion SCV's uses doesn't stop there oh no. There are unlimited uses for the Inmotion SCV Personal Transporter as you are about to discover, and with the cost of the inmotion scv being so cheap to operate, you just can't go wrong.
Lets take a trip to the beach with the Inmotion SCV. Can you imagine how much more fun and enjoyable the Inmotion SCV can make your experience? You no longer have to walk down to the board walk or walk down that long pier to catch a fish or to take in the fresh air. You can now cruise, then stop and enjoy, cruise some more and enjoy some more without being fatigued or thinking about going back to your room for a nap or mid day break. With the Inmotion SCV acting as your legs there is no reason for you to to feel tired and run down after a few minutes because you are no longer walking everywhere you have to go.
The Inmotion SCV as you are beginning to see has many many advantages in life that can make your experiences so much more fun and enjoyable. With the Inmotion SCV being so portable and practical I cannot think of one thing the Inmotion SCV would not be great for. From simply getting out and enjoying life to making many jobs and careers more efficient and economical, the Inmotion SCV is the answer to all your Personal Transportation Needs.


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Clovis Toons
Biden to prioritise legal status for millions of immigrants 8:31 pm
Police impose curfew in sections of Norwood, St James 8:16 pm
Norway adjusts advice after vaccine deaths but isn't alarmed 7:19 pm
UN head warns of 'vaccinationalism' as virus deaths top two million 4:49 pm
Kingston residents urged to abide by building codes 4:49 pm
Heavily armed man arrested at Washington security checkpoint 4:47 pm
Pollard says Windies bowling was 'erratic' in first T20I
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (CMC) — West Indies captain Kieron Pollard said undisciplined bowling was at the heart of his side's five-wicket loss against New Zealand in the first Twenty20 International on Friday.
Ragged bowling sunk the Windies, after an explosive batting display from Pollard defied a devastating spell from Lockie Ferguson to drag them back into contention in the rain-marred contest at Eden Park.
Pollard cracked four fours and eight sixes in 75 from 37 balls to help the Caribbean side post a competitive 180 for seven from their allocation of 16 overs.
But the West Indies captain could find no consistency from the bowlers and the New Zealanders successfully chased a Duckworth/Lewis/Stern Method-revised target of 176 with four balls remaining to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.
"First, I thought it was an entertaining game for the general public, something that they have not gotten for a very long time," Pollard said.
"In terms of our disciplines and the bowling aspect of things, I thought we were a bit erratic…and in international cricket, if you bowl so many no-balls and you are so inconsistent with your execution, you are definitely going to end up on the losing side."
He added: "On this ground, what is enough? It's a bit small. Having them go at 10 or 11 runs an over at the start, you want to get a couple of wickets and put them on the backfoot, which is what we did.
"I just thought that we were not disciplined enough with our bowling to stay in the game a bit longer and carry it down to the end. Sometimes you can go at 12 or 13 very comfortably, and when it is crunch time, the pressure (gets) the better of you. Coming down to the end, a couple less boundaries and we would have been in the game."
The Windies top-order batting was undermined by consistently fast bowling from Ferguson, whose five for 21 from his allotted four overs was a career-best and made him a shoo-in for the Player-of-the-Match award.
Pollard said the fast bowler used the helpful conditions to good effect and the visitors will have to reorganise their plans to remain competitive in the series.
"When bowlers have their tails up, you have to try something sometimes," he said about his approach in his innings. "You only have to make one mistake and that's it.
"But he bowled pretty well. The rain and the nature of the pitch also helped as well. The opening bowlers were on the shorter side, but he changed his length and bowled a bit fuller, and that's why he was successful."
Pollard said: "It's a daunting task, but these are the times for which we train and the situations for which you train that when your team is in trouble, you try to get them out of it.
"We have to (reorganise our plans) in terms of the bowling aspect and try not to lose wickets in clusters. These are conversations that we continue to have, but as the game goes on, these things happen from time to time."
The series concludes with back-to-back matches this coming Sunday and Monday at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui.
Biden to prioritise legal status for millions of immigrants
Police impose curfew in sections of Norwood, St James
Norway adjusts advice after vaccine deaths but isn't alarmed
UN head warns of 'vaccinationalism' as virus deaths top two million
Kingston residents urged to abide by building codes
Heavily armed man arrested at Washington security checkpoint
Westmoreland Western MP welcomes the relaxing of curfew measures
Walsh contracted COVID in Caribbean, says Mansingh
5000 laptops for secondary students on PATH arrive in the island
NWC customer information system unavailable tomorrow
Biden recruits federal muscle for vaccine blitz
Canada buys additional 20 million Pfizer vaccine doses
USF to establish Wi-Fi hotspot in Black River
Guyana concerned about new COVID-19 strain in Brazil
RADA receives new equipment to boost farming productivity
World migration down 30% due to pandemic — UN
Semeru volcano on Indonesia's Java island spews hot clouds
Three killed in Norwood, St James
C'bean countries confirm commitment to agenda for tackling COVID-19 crisis
India starts world's largest COVID-19 vaccination drive


BLS earned Gold as it was named Best School in Massachusetts #42 in the Nation by U.S. News & World Report.
Five BLS students won the Youth CITIES' L3 Innovation Challenge.
For the first time in BLS history, Girls' Cross Country team qualifies for All States.
Students earned impressive results on National Language Exams (Spanish, German, French): 33 gold medals; 81 silver; 60 bronze; 197 honorable mentions.
Two BLS students conducted 1st ever Human Library: Real People, Real Conversations at BLS as part of a Worldwide Movement for Social Change.
Concert Strings, Concert Choir, Big Band and Wind Ensemble all received Gold Medals at the State level, a 1st for BLS. A record high 37 students accepted to Senior District, 13 Students accepted to All State, Six Students accepted to All East and Roger Cawdette accepted into All-National Honor Orchestra.
BLS Junior Classical League - the largest chapter in the world - took 1st place for the Intermediate Certamen competition at 2017 Nationals and also earned two 1st place awards and two MVP honors at the Yale National Certamen Invitational.


Researchers say vinyl flooring and sofas with flame retardants can present a health risk to children.
When considering the dangers some chemicals can present to children's health, we're usually concerned with pesticides and air pollution.
But what do we do when the danger is part of our homes?
A recent study found that certain semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in furniture and flooring can present a health risk to children.
Researchers say that children in homes with sofas containing flame-retardant chemicals called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the cushions had a sixfold higher concentration of this substance in their blood.
"The goal of our study was to understand the role that specific products or building materials have in children's exposure to chemicals that are potentially hazardous or toxic," Heather Stapleton, PhD, deputy director of the Duke Superfund Research Center and lead study author, told Healthline.
The recent study also looked at 18 children who lived in public assistance homes where all of the flooring was vinyl. The children all showed phthalate metabolite levels in their urine that were 15 times higher than children living in homes without any vinyl flooring, researchers reported.
"Phthalate exposure in children has been linked with increased airway inflammation and raises concerns about the impact of these exposures on children with asthma," Dr. Stapleton said.
A U.S. Consumer Safety Product Commission (USCSPC) memo states that benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) has been linked to asthma, eczema, multiple myeloma, and reproductive disorders.
The findings were presented February 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.


"Saldus Maiznieks", Ltd., is 100% Latvian-owner company with all Latvian values inside in our hearts. That is why we think, that bread is sacred food, what can not be thrown out under any circumstances. As we are baking natural bread without any improvers, and another chemical ingredients, sometimes not all breads turn out to be perfect in looks. That's why we are giving them second chance to bring joy to our customers - we make tasty and spicy garlic bread, which is very popular not only around Midsummer festival in summer, but all year long.
Our sweet-sour garlic bread has become so popular, that we developed new package, so this product could travel to near and far places. Translation on package is in Lithuanian, English and Latvian.
"Seed bread toasts WITH TOMATOES"
It is latest product in our snack line. "Seed bread toasts with tomatoes" are made of seed bread with tomato spice. It is very delicious in combination with soups and different kind of salads. Of course, it could be used also as snack.
"Sweet-sour" garlic bread is made out of the highest quality sweet-sour bread, what is made with natural yeast and scald. We are very proud of this product, because it is one of the best export products we have, and also it is very popular in our Latvia.
"Rye Garlic bread" is made out of our best rye bread "Kurzemnieks".
Have You ever tried to find perfect solution for question, which has been driving You crazy for a long time? If yes, You will better understand how our garlic bread got its special taste.
After a long day father and son sat down for a cold beer and talked about future. Word by word, and perfect garlic bread recipe was born. The key answer is, that it has to be finest bread we have - rye bread "Kurzemnieks". The very next evening they tasted new garlic bread together with beer and understood, that perfect combination has born. This is part of life - sometimes You look for something so hard, that only thing that You have to do is wait, till it gets to you. And while You are waiting - choose perfect beer and our rye garlic bread!


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Welcome and Course Introduction (4:34)
Hot Topics in Criminal Justice
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The American criminal justice system is in need of reform. We incarcerate too many people. We pay insufficient attention to scientific advances that can help separate out the most and least culpable and dangerous. We grant the police far too much power to use force and technological surveillance. As a way of thinking about dealing with these problems, this course examines two over-arching issues: What should we do with people who have committed crime, and how should we identify who they are? On the first issue, we will look closely at the nature and causes of mass incarceration, the death penalty, the lawfulness and usefulness of preventive detention and risk assessment, and the role of the insanity defense and neuroscience in assessing responsibility for crime. On the second issue, we will explore the laws regulating the police use of force, the growing role of technology and big data in facilitating police surveillance and detection and deterrence of crime, and the remedies for police malfeasance, including the exclusionary rule and damages actions. The overall goal is to help thinking individuals assess today's criminal justice system and consider ways of making it better. After completing this course, participants should be able to: 1. Describe the mass incarceration problem in the United States and why it might exist; 2. Suggest ways of reducing incarceration; 3. Criticize risk assessment instruments and their use in preventive detention schemes; 4. Discuss the pros and cons of the death penalty, the exclusionary rule, and the insanity defense; 5. Analyze the relevance of neurological evidence in a criminal case; 6. Identify some of the reasons innocent people are wrongly convicted; 7. Elaborate on the role race plays at sentencing and in police use of force, stop and frisk and consent searches and 8. List the types of surveillance technology available to police and the constitutional principles that govern their use.
The course was planned out so well. The videos are precise and give us an insight into the criminal justice system. the readings let you know the subject more in detail.
This course gave me a good, foundational understanding of criminal justice in the US that can be used to determine areas of interest for further pursuit. Well done!
Welcome and Course Introduction (4:34)4:33
Christopher Slobogin
Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law and Director, Criminal Justice Program
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Hello. Welcome to this course on Hot Topics in Criminal Justice. My name is Christopher Slobogin and I'm a professor at Vanderbilt University of Law School. This course about criminal justice should be important to any active of citizen. For one thing, the criminal justice system directly affects a huge percentage of the population. Either as a criminal defendant, a victim or a witness, or as a friend or relative of criminals victims and witnesses. In the United States, during their lives 35 percent of the population would been arrested for a felony and 85 percent will have been the victim of a felony. Almost half for American families have had so many incarcerated. In many other countries percentages are almost as high. Many of you watching have probably been touched by the criminal justice system in some fashion because of this statistics. This course is also important because whether or not you've been affected by crime you can't be a well-informed citizen without understanding the criminal justice system. Crime and criminal justice influence just about everything; politics, the economy, and the social fabric. In most countries, crime and what they do about it are among the top concerns of the system. In the United States, elections have been won or lost because of disagreements over what to do about crime. We spend billions of dollars every year on criminal justice. In many communities, especially communities of color, have lost large segments of their youth to prison. Yet our crime rates are still not going down appreciably. Finally, this course is important because the types of issues we're going to talk about are fascinating in their own right. We're going to talk about why the United States has the dubious distinction of having the Western world's highest incarceration rates. We're also going to talk about ways to deal with offenders other than through prison both in the United States and in other countries. We're going to talk about when, if ever people can be incarcerated for what they might do as opposed to what they've done. About the new things we're learning about the human brain and whether they should affect criminal liability. About the ins and outs of the death penalty and about why it's so hard to avoid convicting innocent people. We'll talk about police use and misuse of deadly force, police stops at pedestrians and cars on the street. In many ways, police are beginning to use technology to conduct surveillance of the population as well as how the law regulates and punishes police misconduct. All of these issues will also require looking at the interaction of race and criminal justice. Now, there are vigorous debates in all of these areas and we're going to dig into all of them. This course should give you a deeper understanding of what is really going on with the criminal justice system. There'll be six lectures or modules and all to this course, covering the following topics. Mass incarceration, punishment prevented detention, insane defense and brain science, the death penalty, police use of force, and police surveillance. Each lecture or module will run between an hour and an hour and 20 minutes and be broken up into four to six 10 to minute parts or lessons. The lectures will take place in front of a small group of students who will often ask questions at the end of each segment. Most of the time I'll be looking at and talking to the students but you'll be able to hear and see everything we do. Before each lecture, you'll be asked to watch from one to three videos on YouTube that will set up the discussion. The lectures themselves will feature PowerPoint slides and you can also be transcriptions of what I say. After each lesson, there'll be either an ungraded practice quiz involving two or three questions or there'll be a discussion forum which will get you debating one another about issues raised by the lecture. At the end of the each of the six lectures, I've suggested readings for my own work which delve more deeply into the material. Additionally, after each lecture you will be asked a thought-provoking question, your answer to which will be graded by your peers. Finally, after you've watched all six lectures, you'll take a graded quiz designed to test your knowledge. I think you'll find this course highly engaging and fun. It may encourage you to get involved in criminal justice reform. At the least, it should get you thinking about the nature of crime and punishment and how government should handle both. I look forward to talking with you.


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Лаума (, ) — в східнобалтійській міфології жіноче божество, небесна відьма. Іноді розглядається як дружина громовержця Перкунаса, іноді як повелителька кошмарів. У латиській мові веселка зберігає сенс «пояса Лауми»

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a wild toddler, and tickle fights.
If you're anything like me, you're watching time speed up and trying to grasp every moment with your children. You know that if you don't document your baby right this second you'll blink and he'll be a teenager. The traditional family photo is important to you but you want something deeper and more true to you. Not just pictures of people, but pictures that bring you back to moment. That feeling of motherhood at this stage that might feel different tomorrow. I've been there too and it's why I've built Dear Kate Studios to be a different kind of photography studio.
Dear Kate Studios is located in Loveland, Colorado and serves clients throughout Northern Colorado, including Fort Collins, Windsor, Wellington, Berthoud, Longmont, and Greeley.
"Kate has always captured our family so beautifully and naturally. She is incredible with making kids feel comfortable in front of the camera and makes getting our photos done fun! She's the best!"
We'll start out with a questionnaire so I can get to the root of who you are as a family. I'm here to help you choose wardrobes and locations and make everything super stress free and customized to you!
You'll get simple prep instructions to make sure everyone is feeling their best the day of your session. When you show up at our location, be ready to play, run and snuggle. All of the things that make family time the greatest!
Within just a few days of your session, you'll receive a gorgeous proofing gallery to choose your favorite images from! I'm here to offer advice on printing but you do receive full resolution digital images with printing rights for every image you purchase.
Ready for your stress free and fun session? Tell me what you most want to remember about your family right now and we can customize a session just for you. I'll help with everything from wardrobe and location, to making sure you and your kids have an amazing time and feel comfortable in front of the camera. Drop me a line and let's start planning!
Hi! I'm Kate! I married my high school sweet heart over 10 years ago and we have three wildly adorable and chaotic kids. We live for summers camping and playing in whatever river, lake or even puddle that's nearby. In the winter you'll find us cozied up watching movies, having dance parties in the kitchen or doing art projects together. This motherhood gig is a huge part of me and I love seeing how different motherhood looks for everyone! Can't wait to learn about you and your family too!


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Sudden cardiac deaths not on rise in Ireland
By Claire O'Sullivan
Despite a number of recent deaths, the incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) in Ireland is not on the increase, according to a leading cardiologist.
About 40 to 50 people under the age of 35 die each year from SCD in Ireland ó about one person a week. In approximately 75% of these cases, an autopsy will demonstrate the cause of death. The most common abnormal finding in these cases is narrowing of the blood vessels supplying the heart muscle, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is an inherited thickening of the heart muscle which can lead to fatal heart rhythm disturbances. In the remaining 25% of cases, the autopsy is normal and these cases are called sudden adult death syndrome (SADS) or sudden unexplained death (SUD).
In general, three quarters of people who die from SCD are male and only 10% of victims die during exertion.
The most common cause of SADS in Ireland are inherited channelopathies such as congenital long Q-T syndromes.
There have been calls in recent years for mass cardiac screening to help reduce the incidence of SCD. Such screening can consist of a simple questionnaire or may involve a medical exam.
However, there are two schools of thought on SCD screening, said Cork University Hospital consultant cardiologist Gerry Fahy.
ìThere are those who believe that all people who do competitive sport should be screened, while there are others who believe that the yield is too low, with many normal people being classed as abnormal, which causes unnecessary anxiety and that it is too costly,î said Dr Fahy.
In Italy, anyone engaged in competitive sports must undergo cardiac screening.
It is more effective, according to Dr Fahy, for all immediate relatives, siblings, parents, and children, of a person who dies suddenly to be screened.


I love yoga, as you know. It is such a boon to my overall well being.
Even just practicing the breathing techniques while riding is a start to getting back into your practice. Now that you've said it out loud I'm sure you'll do it!
It seems this is the month for "no excuses"!
Val's reaction is very interesting. SOunds like a really great ride. Good for you guys.
Sounds great, whenever I'm tense I try to do some deep breathing and it does help.
I definitely think yoga and riding are a good match. The breathing, the calmness, the flexibility! I hope you feel inspired to get back to it. Where does the time go? I can fit in a run most days, but I have no idea where yoga would fit in. Good luck with starting again!
Much like counting the rhythm of foot falls as your riding for steadiness and tempo, control of your breathing is also really crucial. I am terrible at simply remembering to breathe, so it's good for me to find a point of focus for that while I ride!
My good friend who helped me come back to riding after 20-odd years off said "breathe" to me so many times it became a joke. Over the years it has become clear to me that taking a breath is the answer to almost everything that gets sticky in the saddle.
I think there are a few practitioners who have a yoga class specifically for horseback riders. It is true that yoga can only help riding, being so much about breath. I do youga regularly and still manage to forget to breathe all the time! What a goof.
Yoga and riding go hand in hand. I yoga everyweek, love it. When jumping I try to remember to exhale as we go over the jump. It just works. Also before transistions.
I have come here from Camera-Obscura. I really like this post. I must try this for myself. Like you, I have neglected my yoga lately and feel the lack of it.


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KFF Daily Global Health Policy Report
Chicago Council Post Discusses USAID's Restructuring, Implications For USAID's Work On Food Security, Development, Conflict Prevention, Stabilization
Chicago Council on Global Affairs's "Global Food for Thought": USAID's Reorganization: Focusing on Self-Reliance and Stability
Kat Sisler, intern for government relations at the Chicago Council, discusses USAID's Journey to Self-Reliance approach to development and provides an overview of the agency's new structure. Sisler writes, "The three new Bureaus [– the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, and Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization –] exemplify understanding for the complexity of development, moving on the spectrum from conflict and unrest towards food security and stability. … Ultimately, as with all changes, there are still questions to be answered. For example, how will the Center for Nutrition interact with other Bureaus in the agency, such as the Bureau for Global Health? How will the three Bureaus under the Administrator for Relief, Response, and Resilience work together? These and many other questions will be examined as USAID roles out the new structure, which is expected to begin sometime between the end of this year and early next year" (8/1).
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Conn. Families suing over tainted raw milk
Conn. families file lawsuit over tainted raw milk
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Two West Hartford families whose young children were hospitalized in July 2008 from E. coli bacteria in raw milk are suing a dairy and Whole Foods Market Inc.
The lawsuits, filed in recent weeks at Superior Court in Hartford, seek money for medical expenses, suffering and future care.
According to the lawsuit, Evan and Grace Piccioli, then three and one-years-old, and four-year-old Emma Barringer ended up in intensive care after drinking tainted milk from Town Farm Dairy, which was purchased from a West Hartford Whole Foods store.
Town Farm Dairy closed in September 2008 and a new nonprofit group, Community Farm of Simsbury, took over the property.
Attorneys for Community Farm and Whole Foods declined to comment.


Recently my colleague and desk mate Lauren decided she had finally had enough of my desk clutter gradually creeping towards her border and declared war, giving it a thorough yet futile clean up. Shots were fired, words were exchanged and within five minutes I'd began to rebuild my empire of accumulated so-called crap.
"Don't you feel better now your desk is nice and clean?" she asked in exasperation.
Professor Kathleen Vohs and fellow researchers at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis claim that after mapping the behaviour of people working on messy and clean desks with a series of experiments, those with messy desks are more creative.
For example, participants in the study were given a choice between a new product and an established one. Those in the messy room were more likely to prefer the latest-release one – a signal that being in a disorderly environment prompts a release from conventionality.
Checkmate Lauren. Heck, even Google actively promotes a busy desk. As Business Insider explains in an interesting anecdote where former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempted to clean the office and immediately received a pretty heated response from the now current Google CEO Larry Page. Schmidt realised he'd made a mistake by trying to alter the Google employees ability to express themselves in the workplace and quickly adapted to their ethos.
There's a long list of exceptionally successful minds who had messy desks, from Albert Einstein to Mark Twain and Steve Jobs to Mark Zuckerberg and it's hard to imagine how different the world could have been if they had been forced to tidy their work place.
So next time someone tries to tidy your desk and asks how you can work like that, think back this list of geniuses, coolly laugh and carry on about your creative business.
That is unless your clutter involves old food and dirty plates. Old food bring flies and not even Einstein had time for those, plus no one wants to be the office tramp. Clean it up!
Interesting piece-I've always wondered whether clutter was conducive or disruptive to creativity and until we moved into a bigger flat, clutter/mess was often the crux of any argument between my girlfriend and I. Given your argument, I wonder whether perhaps that clutter isn't the source of the creative mind but merely the by-product of a creative person, too busy thinking about exciting connections to keep their space tidy. I am a painter and although I like to start work in a clean studio, if it has been a productive weekend-the space will end up untidy as I haven't wasted time, procrastinated by tidying every surface. I haven't read up sufficiently on the psychology behind it, but I wonder if a 'creative' person's mess is not dissimilar to a child's bedroom-where they are simply spending more time in their imagination than tidying up.
My only personal defence of neatness-would be that I have my most vivid thoughts when my eyelids are closed or staring at a blank wall, i.e. in sensory deprivation your mind is given the opportunity to explore the subconscious and create new ideas which have up until that point have remained overlooked by other visual stimuli.


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Q: How to use Ember.Select in emberjs? I have posted my code here.
I am new to ember.js and still in learning phase.Here i am trying to build simple CRUD program.
I am trying to use select in above CRUD program using Ember.Select but i am not able to use it.
      {{view Ember.Select
        contentBinding="Objtype.content"
        valueBinding="Objtype.selected"
        prompt="Please select a type"
        }}

How to use ember.select in above CRUD program to create/update record?

A: change this:
Objtype: Ember.Object.create({
  selected: null,
  content: ['1', 2]
})

to this:
objtype: Ember.Object.create({
  selected: null,
  content: ['1', 2]
})

you should notice I changed 'O' for 'o', and you also need to update your select to use the right property name


Resar R, Pronovost P, Haraden C, Simmonds T, et al.Using a bundle approach to improve ventilator care processes and reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia. Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2005;31(5):243-248.
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Just to head off any questions/concerns about the validity of our MUD (Turning Point MUD) being in the Top 10, I want to reference the post on our forums which is where we've mandated the players obey the rules of Top MUD Sites.
If the administrator of TMS provides me with any IP address/range of IP addresses of anyone running our vote tally up, I will deny any characters from those IP ranges immediately.
Just didn't want this to become a large conspiracy theory like last time.


The state of Oklahoma is widely known for the outdoor recreation and recreational activities it can offer residents and visitors. The state boasts beautiful lakes, mountains and camping areas as well as first-class museums and cultural events. Oklahoma is rich with culture, too. With several Native American reservations, the State of Oklahoma is a true cultural experience. It is within these reservations that Oklahoma casinos thrive.
The work "Oklahoma" is from the Choctaw Indian word "okla humma", which means the "land of the red people". Oklahoma is located in the western south-central United States. Kansas, Colorado and Missouri border the state to the north, Texas to the south, New Mexico to the west, and Arkansas to the east. The capital of Oklahoma is Oklahoma City, which is the center point of the state and the most heavily populated city within the state. Oklahoma ranks 28th in population in the United States and about 3.4 million people reside there.
Oklahoma offers both residents and visitors a wide range of recreational activities. The state boasts more man-made lakes than any other state in the United States. This makes outdoor sports such as boating and fishing very popular. In addition, the Arbuckle Mountains and many state parks draw visitors to outdoor activities such as camping and hiking.
In addition to the outdoor recreation that the state offers, Oklahoma is well known for its casinos. Oklahoma casinos can be found on Indian reservations across the state. While gambling is not legal outside of the reservations, the casinos within the reservations draw a large amount of tourists. With a change in gambling laws in the state, the Indian casinos are booming, since they are now able to offer gamblers Blackjack, Poker and Las Vegas-style slot machines. Craps and Roulette are still not allowed in Oklahoma casinos, but that could change.
Oklahoma casinos are located throughout the state and are expected to raise billions for the state. Oklahoma casinos offer easy gambling access to visitors that live near the state.


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The best, and rarest kind of film is the kind that you watch, sit and think about when it's over, try to figure out if you loved it or hated it, then find that three days later you're still thinking about it, which means, ipso facto, that you loved it.
Take the splatter B-film SIMON SAYS, 2006, starring Crispin Glover, available on the Netflix streamy-thingie, and added to my queue blindly, because I was in a horror film mood, and Crispin's my dream man.
Twenty minutes into the film, I thought, Christ, this film is awful!, and I walked away from it for a bit.
The nature of its awfulness drew me back, since it was so terrible, I thought it might fall into that wonderful rare category mentioned above.
What we've got at the opening is the standard 80s slasher flick setup: mismatched high school kids in their 30s headed for the woods for a debauch; creepy gas station attendant and small town folks being creepy, creepily; flashbacks that should serve as exposition but are so garbled and affected it's really just the director's moment to shine as an art film dropout. Oh, and fog machines.
This is so cliché, I thought, groaning at the motivation and lines from the "teens," all suspiciously beautiful and half undressed even in the van. But maybe it's supposed to be cliché! I dared to hope. It is, after all, a Crispin Glover film, and his strength is that you can never really tell if he's kidding or not. Just ask David Letterman.
When watched through those rose-tinted glasses, the film suddenly became a sparkling gem.
To call the characters two-dimensional is an insult to a square. As we meet the kids driving to the woods to "pan for gold," (not joking) in the stoner's VW van so plastered with hippie stickers it can only be farce, they pontificate, "What if we do strike it rich?" which leads to informative glimpses into each personality.
Stoner: I'd buy the seaquarium [sic] where Shamu lives? And make a bong out of it.
Virgin: First I'd buy a tan. Then maybe travel for a few years, buy a house, settle down…
Spoiled rich bitch: I'd save the animals.
Slut: I would buy a set of boobs, then a really hot convertible, then a bigger set of boobs.
They pull over to an abandoned gas station, meet Crispin who Crispins it up for them, freaking the kids out, meet some local gravediggers who warn them about the murders and urge them to turn around…
Creepy Crispin
…does this sound familiar? Not in a general way, but in a specific way? Ever seen CABIN IN THE WOODS, that brilliant love letter to the 80s slasher flick genre, which blatantly names each of the five archetype "teens" like this?
Well, Act I of CABIN is a direct homage to Act I of SIMON, which is an homage to the classic genre of non-camp films in the 80s.
The kills in SIMON really are imaginative. Pickaxe catapults, death by Fattie, poodle-stomping, and believe it or not, the human CD player. To up the body count, we stumble nonsensically upon some paintball warriors in the woods who serve as gore material, and there's lots of it.
I kept pausing the film to read "reviews" (mostly by trolls screaming, "THIS MOUIE IS AWEFULL!") I wondered if anyone else was seeing what I was seeing — a well done, thinly-veiled spoof. A few people got it; the unwashed masses missed the point, in their usual unwashed way. Crispin's tarted-up, over the top redneck accent is so unbelievably bad that it just has to be on purpose. There's no other credible explanation.
In fact the whole film is so unbelievably bad (yet shot so gorgeously) that, after some deliberation, I've decided I love it — perhaps because I initially hated it. And that is the rarest, most delightful kind of film.
Tags: black comedy, crispin glover, dark comedy, horror films, simon says
On December 9th, 2012 02:30 pm (UTC), scottynola commented:
Oh, I MUST see this!


This gripping observational documentary uncovers the extraordinary journey of Judith Craig. Abandoned at birth, she bravely returns to the impoverished nation of Haiti to find her parents. From the poverty stricken parents who have given up a child to the foreign families looking to adopt one, these disparate worlds collide amid Judiths quest to solve the puzzle of her past. With the sights and sounds of a Haiti before and after the earthquake as a back drop, these intersecting lives provide a rare and intimate insight into the conditions surrounding transnational adoption.


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The settlement of Portobello was born in 60 /70 when a group of illuminated contractors, architects and artists, real precursors of the times, remain struck by the " charm" of the place and decided to preserve and enhance it, building homes, which are real sculptures in the landscape.
A bit of history. From 1962 to this day.
In 1962 , the Genoese engineer Carlo Emanuele Tiscornia and his brother in law, the university professor Franco Magliano, came, almost by chance, in the pristine corner of Sardinia known as Port Caneddi , falling in love with it at first sight. From this thunderbolt it was born the Residential Park Portobello di Gallura.
Inspired by the beauty of the local nature they chose this stretch of rugged coastline to create an ambitious project: the ideal village. The purpose was to create a setting where people can live in harmony with the surrounding nature and rediscover fundamental values such as the importance of quality of life and well-being, resulted from direct contact with the earth, the sea and their fruits.
In this view, the villas of Portobello Park have been designed. Each one is a work of art, designed to fit harmoniously into the natural surroundings. Built with natural materials and attention to detail, these dreaming homes boast lush private gardens , large panoramic verandas and enviable positions a few meters from the sea.
Among Past and Present, Tradition and Innovation
Year after year, with great passion, Tiscornia gives life to his dream.
For Portobello, Tiscornia and Magliano went the whole hog . The residential park developed along 18 kilometers of coastline according to the fundamental principle that have guided them over the years: the absolute respect for nature. The exploration of the territory was only the first step.
What the engineer from Genoa aspired for was the creation of a sort of small parallel world in which nature, in her enchanting perfection, could appear as the undisputed protagonist.
The tenacity and unconditional dedication of Tiscornia, Magliano and all the people who have been fascinated by the design of the Residential Park , have been repaid by the celebrity that Portobello have acquired in later years, becoming the flagship of the renowned and stunning area of Gallura.


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Q: What location should chose to host my webserver Digital ocean just announced their German region and it features the "fastest-ever SSDs". I have a few webservers, but they are all in New York. Where is the best location to host? If Germany is faster then New York, do I have any reason to pick New York over Germany? I would appreciate any tips from more experienced users on how to pick a location for a webserver.
I mainly host Javascript applications (Backbone, AngularJS).

A: Just some considerations without knowing your use case in detail and without being too exhaustive:

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*Put the servers close to your expected visitors. If your visitors are in Germany, place the servers in Germany.

*If you have international / worldwide visitors consider the creation or usage of a CDN with GeoDNS, placing your servers in multiple countries on multiple continents.

*Be aware that close proximity to your users does not necessarily guarantee good performance, if connectivity between your server location and your users is bad.

*Check the latency and number of hops between your users and your servers. You might use tools like ping, traceroute or mtr to check that.

*Place the servers close to a major internet exchange point, like DE-CIX in Germany. The following list might be helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_points_by_size.

*Talking about performance, make sure your web sites and applications are optimized for fast delivery. E.g. check with https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/ or http://yslow.org/.

*Check the peerings of your hosting provider, e.g. with https://www.peeringdb.com.

*While fast SSDs are nice, they might only have an impact if your applications really require fast IO. The same is true for number of CPUs and RAM. If you already operate servers check what resources you are currently using and think about the expected growth in terms of resources. Scale your servers appropriately.

*Depending on your applications rather scale out (horizontally) instead of scaling up (vertically), i.e. add further small nodes to your cluster instead of adding more resources to few servers. Check whether your hosting provider supports this (e.g. by providing access to physical or virtual load balancers, firewalls, dedicated networks)

*If you have special requirements concerning availability, security or backup check whether the data center / hosting provider fulfills your expectations.

*If privacy laws are of concern for you or your (European) users put the servers somewhere in the European Union.

Not all of the above might be advisable in each and every situation, but it might give you some hints for further thoughts.


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Thailand's government said it is "making progress" with the much-delayed high-speed Thai-Chinese rail line that is to link Thailand, Laos and China, as the three countries prepared to ink another agreement this week at Beijing's Belt and Road summit.
Thailand's state Election Commission has agreed to investigate whether the leader of a popular new political party that ran a strong third in last month's general election may not have been qualified to run as a candidate.
Thailand's Election Commission on Tuesday accused a prominent anti-junta politician of breaching the election law, moving to disqualify him from parliament almost a month after the disputed March 24 election.
The flight, bound for Bangkok, was delayed by 78 minutes while crews retrieved the coins.


Facilitated networking with partners and investors working in the industry.
The forum engaged 117 total participants—79 in-person and 39 online—from U.S. companies and U.S. Government (USG) agencies. It highlighted recommendations and insights from private sector leaders that have successfully deployed smart grid, mini-grid, and energy storage technology products and services in developing countries. It also identified the types of assistance and support offered by USG agencies to help U.S. firms assess market opportunities and enter or increase sales in developing countries.
The forum was organized by the USAID-funded CEADIR Activity, implemented by Crown Agents-USA and Abt Associates in conjunction with the Sharing Environment and Energy Knowledge (SEEK) contract implemented by Training Resources Groups, Inc. Workshop materials are available along with presentation slides below.


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War Opponents Train For Visits to Area Schools And Recruitment Centers
National Truth in Recruiting Day | ANSWER Coalition | John Judge
Michelle Boorstein | Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 17, 2007
Two days after bringing thousands of protesters to the U.S. Capitol, Iraq war opponents will begin a "week of action" today that starts with sending activists to area high schools and military recruiting centers and marching through a congressional building.
Dozens of war opponents, including some who were among the 192 arrested Saturday, spent yesterday training for this week, which will be "the most intense week" of planned actions since the Iraq conflict began, said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, which organized Saturday's rally and march and many of the other large antiwar events across the country.
Activists came to four training sessions held at George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs yesterday, many trading stories from their arrests or from clashes with several hundred war supporters who lined the march route.
They are calling today National Truth in Recruiting Day, during which war opponents will try to reach young people in particular, as well as anyone considering joining the military. Activists said yesterday that they planned to visit area recruiting centers, schools and other places young people might go and that war opponents would be doing the same in such spots across the country.
"You have to ask the right questions, find out what's motivating them, share with them the truth and dispel myths," Adam Kokesh, co-chair of Iraq Veterans Against the War, told the crowd, which included local college students as well as older activists, many of whom had traveled from outside the Distrcit. "My reasons [for volunteering] were patriotism; I wanted to put my life on the line for my country." But in hindsight, "I could have been convinced that there were better ways to further democracy in the world."
Other strategies include trying to eat up recruiters' time by calling and visiting centers and pretending to be potential recruits.
John Judge, a longtime "counter-recruiting" activist, told the audience to disseminate information about the limited rights soldiers have to leave the military or pick where they will be stationed and how much money the military provides for general education.
Others trained earlier in the day for a noon march in the Rayburn House Office Building that is planned to pass what organizers call a "hall of shame": offices of representatives who voted to support the war, Becker said.
Later in the week, war opponents will visit congressional offices across the country "and not leave until they get answers to questions about the war that satisfy them," Becker said. They also plan to visit the Pentagon to try to find out how employees feel about the war. The activism week is planned to end Friday.
According to Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman, all 192 people who were arrested Saturday for crossing a police line were released by last night. She said two officers and two protesters were injured but not hospitalized.
Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601035.html?hpid=topnews


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Choose your Player of the Season
Rovers supporters are invited to choose their standout player of the 2018/19 campaign, who will be crowned the club's official Player Of The Season.
It has been a memorable season for Rovers, who sit in the play-off places heading into the final game of the Sky Bet League One season and reached the fifth round of the Emirates FA Cup.
There have been standout performances across the pitch, but only one player will be crowned Player Of The Season and that person will be selected by the most important people at the club - the fans.
To cast your vote in the poll simply email supporterservices@clubdoncaster.co.uk with the name of the player you believe deserves the award. Whomever has the most votes at 5pm on Tuesday will be crowed winner and collect the trophy at Sunday's glittering awards ceremony held at the Keepmoat Stadium.
Places are still available for the ceremony, which will be held in the Legends Club at the ground from 7pm on Sunday May 5, where fans can mingle with the first-team squad to celebrate the campaign.
Attendees will enjoy a luxurious three-course meal, with music and dancing until late following the conclusion of the awards.
Spaces cost £50+VAT per person, or £500+VAT for a table of 10. The dress code is black tie. Places can be booked by calling the Club Doncaster commercial team on 01302 764665 or emailing commercial@clubdoncaster.co.uk.


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PRODUCT REVIEW: Blackburn's Atom SL cyclometer an affordable electronic marvel
Cyclometers I've owned over the years compared to the Blackburn Atom SL.
As I begin this review of the Blackburn Atom SL 5.0 cyclometer, let me take you for a quick trip down Memory Lane.
I worked for Palo Alto Bicycles mail order in 1984 and we were the first to ship the groundbreaking Avocet cyclometer. After clearing up some early problems with the gate array chip, it went on to be a huge success and was the cyclometer of choice in the Tour de France peloton in the late 1980s.
Since then, cyclometers have matured and we have at least a dozen models and brands. Still, I'm seeing innovation in the Blackburn Atom SL cyclometer.
I bought my first full-featured wireless cyclometer similar to the Atom in 2003 — the Specialized Speedzone Pro. The Atom SL 5.0 (6.0 has cadence) follows that kind of cyclometer, where altitude is measured.
One selling point stands out about the Atom SL 5.0 — price. It's about $60, 70 percent less than what I paid for the Specialized cyclometer and the VDO. A great value!
Atom SL 5.0 features: Speed – current, average (up/down arrows), maximum; Odometer; Trip distance; Ride time; Time of day; Wheel size; Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA); Temperature; Altimeter; Slope; Total Altitude gain; Maximum altitude gain; 2nd bike setting.
Materials that come with the Atom SL cyclometer.
Distance: We expect an accurate cyclometer and Atom SL 5.0 does not disappoint. It recorded exactly the same distance — 62.5 miles — as my Garmin 500 on a ride. The altimeter is also precise, within 10 feet of a climb to 2,625 feet on Hwy 9.
Slope is accurate as well, but as with all cyclometers measuring gradient on a steady climb, your numbers will shift as you climb. It's a quirk that I don't fully understand, but after a while you'll know which number is accurate: usually the first one or two results.
Accuracy greatly depends on wheel/tire measurement. This measurement varies with body weight, tire pressure and tire wear.
The manual describes how to get the best measurement by rolling out the wheel for one circumference, but you can do more. Sit on the bike while doing the roll-out. Body weight reduces the rolling distance by 0.5 to 1 inch. Measure several times for the best accuracy.
Entering the measurement in millimeters calls for closely following manual instructions. Note that if you reset the cyclometer, you reset the wheel size to its default of 2150. (My tire setting came in at 2115 mm for a 700×28 tire while seated.)
Altitude: Don't expect accurate readings at high altitudes. I've seen variances of 1,000 feet and more in cyclometers, which I call a "feature." However, the Atom SL altimeter is 99 percent accurate at lower altitudes (up to 5,000 feet or so), remarkable considering it's an affordable consumer device.
Bike cyclometers use a tiny built-in barometer where the analog reading is converted to a digital electronic signal. It's incredibly complicated stuff.
Meanwhile, atmospheric pressure changes by the hour, even minute. Set your altitude before a ride to ensure the best accuracy. Even then, if there's a change in the weather during your ride, the altitude will be off. However, the number we care about most — cumulative altitude — will be mostly accurate.
Temperature: All cyclometers heat up when exposed to direct sunlight and hot plastic invariably affects the reading by up to 10 degrees. In cool weather or shade, the Blackburn Atom SL temp gauge is as accurate as any cyclometer I've used. It displays temperature to tenths of a degree.
Font size is great for speed and satisfactory for other readings, even for my aging eyes. The displays are appropriately spaced. What stands out about this unit, over other cyclometers I've used, is Scan mode. In scan mode all of the cyclometer's readings cycle through in about 25 seconds. You will still manually push the Set button for each reading to cycle through those readings listed in the manual under Bike mode and Altimeter mode.
Scan mode is an improvement in usability because there's no constant button pressing to see a particular reading, or squinting to read tiny type. If you think the Atom SL's text is small, some other brands have even smaller text.
The manual describes cyclometer settings, but as with any electronic device, it takes practice to master (remember) the functions. Some cyclometer owners express frustration over changing settings. That frustration is common to all electronic devices, not just cyclometers. Be patient and take time to understand how the settings work. Most importantly, remember that "Set" is the left button and "Mode" is the right button.
The manual's type is small, typical for most bike cyclometer manuals, but at least there's a printed manual! When was the last time you saw a smartphone come with a printed manual? If you're having difficulty reading the manual, go online to see it in a large-font PDF.
The batteries last about a year, typical for CR2016 (wireless transmitter)/2032 (wireless receiver) 3-volt lithium. Four Phillips-head screws must be removed to access the receiver's battery compartment.
Mounting is a breeze and you have options. It can be mounted on the stem or the handlebar. I like the mount because it uses a convenient Velcro strap that holds securely. While not explained, the strap goes on a certain way. My photo shows how it mounts.
A close-up showing how the strap mounts to the handlebar.
The transmitter takes two pull ties that wrap around the fork, while the magnet screws onto a spoke. Be sure the transmitter is no more than 22 inches from the cyclometer (receiver) for the best accuracy.
If you're someone who will be riding in hills and don't want the hassle of constantly charging batteries, the Blackburn Atom SL 5.0 is an outstanding value.
PROS: Best value for the price, every function you could ever want, excellent mount, accurate, scrolls through features, small.
CONS: Lacks explanation for mounting the Velcro strap, small type in instruction manual, prefer showing trip mileage instead of altitude on the main screen.
Check the Blackburn website for shops selling the Atom SL:
Addendum: (7/21/2015) The speedometer function stopped working, probably from a bad transmitter. Disappointed. If it happens to you, be sure to return under the lifetime warranty.
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2 Responses to "PRODUCT REVIEW: Blackburn's Atom SL cyclometer an affordable electronic marvel"
June 25, 2015 at 11:10 pm | Reply
I'm current using a Garmin 200 (their entry level model) and do you know if it uses a barometer to track total climbing? I think it really overstates total climbing.
In the early '90s I have the Avocet Vertech and I had to call the PA airport before rides to get the current barometric pressure and enter that into the device. I think it measured climbing in increments of 10 feet so that very slight ups and downs wouldn't be recorded. I liked that. I recall that the total climb it gave me doing a Mt. Hamilton loop from the country club (using Foothill Road) was about 7,800 feet.
I had that original Avocet that I bought at PA bikes. I may check this one you've reviewed out sometime for my second bike.
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They have a barometer. It could be a digital aneroid barometer or a MEMS barometer, but more likely aneroid. Here's some info on how it works: http://tinyurl.com/q3tyn93. MEMS – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46nmq8vz6FQ