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We are very experienced, working closely with a range of sectors, from local authorities, library organisations, healthcare and police, education, social housing, commercial organisations from small businesses to multi-national blue chip companies through to residential clients. Each need is different but access to high quality advice and skills is the same.
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Richard has over 11 years' experience within the construction industry with extensive multi-disciplinary experience which has been gained across a wide variety of sectors, Local Authorities, Police Authorities, Healthcare, Housing Associations, Commercial, Residential.
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With its anticipated release in just a few months, ATLUS has revealed some amazing extras that will come along with Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. These extras will be included in either the First Run Standard Release of the game, or in the Premium "Wild Cards" Edition Pack (limited quantity).
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, scheduled to release this fall, is the first Persona title to be on the Nintendo 3DS. Characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4 are featured, as well as two new characters in an all new adventure. The game style can be compared to the Etrian Odyssey Series, where a team will venture out into a dungeon in first person perspective, giving the players a whole new challenge ahead.


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Oblast Wolgograd (Russisch: Волгоградская область, Volgogradskaja oblast) is een oblast (bestuurlijke eenheid) van Rusland. Wolgograd is de gelijknamige hoofdstad. Andere belangrijke steden zijn Volzjski, Kamytsjin en Michailovka

De oblast ligt in het zuidoosten van de Oost-Europese vlakte, en grenst in het oosten aan Kazachstan. De Wolga en de Don stromen door het gebied, dat door een sterk landklimaat weinig neerslag kent.

Belangrijke industrieën zijn de metaalbewerking, aardolie-raffinaderij en chemische industrie. Dat leidt wel tot zware milieuvervuiling in Volgograd en omgeving.

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Marcos Diádocos (; ) foi um escritor cristão do século IV d.C. Nada mais se sabe dele, exceto que seu nome aparece no topo do "Sermão contra os arianos".

Sermão contra os arianos
Redescoberto por Wetsten em um códice manuscrito de Santo Atanásio, em Basileia, o texto foi publicado por ele no final de sua edição de Orígenes. Outra versão da mesma obra foi emprestada por Galliciollus a Galland e publicada na "Veterum Patrum Bibliotheca", V (Veneza, 1765-1781). Esta versão é a que aparece na Patrologia Graeca, de Migne. O sermão cita e expande textos comuns sobre o assunto (, , ,  e outros) e endereça alguns outros mais difíceis (, ,  e outros).

Identidade
Uma pessoa bem diferente é Diádoco, bispo de Fotique (atual Paramythia), em Epiro (Grécia), no século V, e autor de um "Sermão da Ascesão" e de uma centena de "Capítulos sobre a perfeição espiritual" , a que Victor Vitensis elogia no prólogo de sua história das perseguições vândalas. Eles são frequentemente confundidos, exatamente como Migne fez.

Ligações externas

Bibliografia
 Patrologia Graeca LXV. 1141-1212
 JUNGMANN-FESSLER, Institutiones Patrologiae (Innsbruck, 1896), IIb, 147-148;
 CHEVALIER, bio-Bibl., s.v.

Teólogos do Império Romano
Romanos antigos do século IV
Padres da Igreja


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Apple TV+'s Uneven Roar Is a Feminist Black Mirror
By Radhika Menon | April 14, 2022 | 10:17am
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Adaptations are all the rage right now; from newspaper columns to books and short stories, almost everything on TV is based on other source material. Apple TV+'s latest offering, Roar, is another spoke in that wheel. The feminist anthology series is based on the Cecelia Ahern short story collection and takes on a surrealist tone: think a female-focused Black Mirror. Ahern's book featured 30 stories, while the anthology series adapted by Glow creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch only features eight of them on screen.
Each episode includes high caliber actresses like Issa Rae, Nicole Kidman, Merritt Wever and more, and zeroes in on issues and anxieties that women face in the world today and makes them literal. After childbirth, a career-woman is literally eaten alive by her many responsibilities and guilt; a student takes up a relationship with a duck she meets at the park after a string of failed relationships, only to find out that he's not any better than his human counterparts. Each chapter examines the trauma that women often endure silently, finally holding space for females to unpack it.
For many of the stories (over eight episodes, all of which were available for review), the slip into the surreal is subtle. In the Rae-led episode, she plays an author whose book is being optioned for an on-screen adaptation. As she takes meeting after meeting with white male executives, she finds not only her ideas disappearing from the project but also her literal self, culminating in a party in which no one can see her. It's a story about agency and how women often feel in the workplace: invisible and afraid to take a stand for fear of retaliation.
Betty Gilpin's episode about a trophy wife housed on a literal shelf in her husband's office harps on fears that women are often judged based on their looks or have to reconcile their beauty with their intelligence. Gilpin plays the role note perfect, oscillating between excitement at being her husband's prized possession and boredom in no longer living a life of her own. Her magnum opus when she breaks out of her prison takes a little too long to reach its climax, but ultimately conveys the feelings of freedom that many women have felt after leaving abusive situations.
Other standout episodes delve into issues of stepping out from behind your family's shadows and feeling thankful for your partner's quirks, aided by a The Ultimatum style husband-swap. But not all of the episodes land. Kidman's vignette "The Woman Who Ate Photographs" aims for existential dread as it centers on a mother who can't connect with her teenage son nor her ailing mother, and resorts to literally eating photographs to bring her back to happier times. But the vehicle by which the issue is delivered—her photo eating habit—feels less poignant than other episodes' gimmicks and less connected to the larger story. The resolution also doesn't really indicate her character's path forward, as many of the other iterations do.
While the show brings a lot of pertinent issues into focus through its absurdist premise, it's not always actually saying something at the conclusion. There are some brief moments that hint at power shifts or peace of mind or the ability of the character to take solace in the relationships around her, but the series doesn't really offer any answers to these existential questions or add anything more to the story beyond the metaphor come to life.
So, while stylish and provocative, the series ultimately falls a little flat in its message. If a woman's plight is to suffer, then Roar doesn't end up giving its women a way out.
Roar premieres Friday, April 15th on Amazon Prime Video.
Radhika Menon is a pop culture-obsessed writer and filmmaker living in New York City. Her work has appeared in NY Post's Decider, Teen Vogue, Vulture and more, and is featured in Brown Girl Magazine's first ever print anthology. She is a proud alumna of the University of Michigan and thinks she's funny on Twitter.
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Bottom Line	The Specialized Turbo Levo Comp returns to our e-bike test with a well rounded performance that earns it our Editor's Choice Award, again.	The Bulls E-Stream Evo AM 4 is a brawler on the descents with an impressive distance range thanks to its large battery storage capacity.	The Giant Trance E+ 2 Pro is well rounded and reasonably priced earning it our Best Buy Award.	The Instinct Powerplay Alloy 50 is close to greatness but is held back by its controls and components.	The Ghost Hybride SL AMR S1.7+ looks interesting on paper but doesn't come together well on the trail.
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A sleek affordable commuter from Yamaha, a household brand name going for a balance of price, performance, efficiency, and a purist feel, for years they did their homework studying their applications on Haibike, Giant, etc, using data and analysis to make offerings of their own. The PW SE motor is smooth and very efficient, coupled with the protected PW-X display,…...
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Lots of electric bike companies love to tout their ridiculously long ranges of travel you can ride on one charge, but sometimes it's a bit too far fetched for the real world, and may leave you disappointed. Luckily, we're here to help you understand what to really expect out of your electric bike battery so that you can have an easier time selecting the right bike for you!
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You can set the maximum speed at more than 20mph (but the legal limit is 20). Also, you should not cross that limit because the Shimano 7-gear transmission system won't be able to cope up with anything higher than 22 to 23 mph. However, to the absolute joy of the thrill seekers, the huge weight of the bike can push the speed to go over 40 mph on downhill coasts. Be careful though and make sure that the road and traffic conditions allow that speed limit.
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The new and improved version of the very popular Cyclamatic Power Plus series, the CX1, stands out with its elegant design. Glossy silver finish and sleek lines of the frame make this e-bike look much more expensive than it actually costs. But besides its look, the designers of this electric bike have also focused on the convenience. Everything, from ergonomic design to easily removable battery, is created to give the rider an awesome experience. Improvements are made in motor and the battery as well, and the bike is now equipped with the 21-speed gear system.
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In fact, the manufacturers have already proven that what makes an e-MTB outstanding is not that much different to a regular MTB. Sure, there are slight differences in performance due to e-MTB's heavier frame but both types share almost similar basics covering geometry, sizing, and balance. Also, the power-supplying motor comes into the forefront instead of the suspension in these bikes.
Your friends: We all have friends we wish wanted to pedal up hills with us. Many of who might be capable of leaving us in their dust on descents. These are young and old riders; riders lacking the fitness, time, motivation, or who just aren't interested in climbing alone, at the back of the pack. You've done everything to get them back out riding with your regular crew, but pride and reluctance to hold the group back is keeping them away.
What Is The Weight Limit On An Electric Bike
That's a tough one to answer. It depends on the power of the battery (typically 24, 36 or 48V), the power of the bike (limited in the UK to 250W), the bike's battery management system, and the way you ride. Some bikes allow you to choose different levels of assist to prioritise speed or battery life, which makes predictions of battery life even more difficult.
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It's important to note that because this is an electric bike, not all trails are legally accessible. You'll need to check with the federal, state, or local land management agency in charge of the trails you want to ride to see if it's possible. You may also face some resistance from holier-than-though cyclist types. Those guys are best avoided anyway, and the glowing LEDs on the down tube should at least help you identify them quicker.
Well done! I started using hub motor 2 years ago when snow was killing my knees I am just a baby at 49pine years old. I asked my lbs guru why my knees were getting sore and he said you need to take a few days off. That was not an option so now I comute to work every day on e-bike and can still rip it up on the weekends with mykids on specialized pitch regular pedal power.I know the day will come when I need help on weekends to.
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All the models we tested are full suspension all mountain/trail bike models with relatively similar amounts of suspension travel, geometry, and wheel/tire size. The addition of a large battery and a small motor adds significant weight to an e-bike, and they generally weigh in the neighborhood of 50 lbs, approximately 20 pounds heavier than non-e-bikes, and the heavy weight of these bikes makes them more difficult to ride without the support of the pedal assist motor.
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Not many manufacturers are concerned with building lightweight ebikes because of the necessary compromises (high cost and low performance). For most manufacturers its easier to exaggerate how light an electric bike is (one common trick is specify weight without ebike battery). For example the ridiculous $88k Blacktrail Bt-01 claims to be 40 pounds (yeah right!). What we learn from this list is to build a lightweight electric bike usually takes a thin road bike, a skimpy battery pack, and a puny motor. The only thing big about these bikes is their price-tag, because they use lightweight (and expensive) components. As it turns out it is very easy to build a lightweight bike yourself if you are willing to spend the money, and if you use a small geared hub motor. Look to the home builds on this list for inspiration if you want to build one yourself. Most of these bikes have the capacity to carry larger battery packs if the owner so chooses. They are shown here in their most lightweight configurations. 3 of these bikes are Australian (Super Commuter, Commuter Booster, Solar Fixie) 8 are road bikes 2 are mountain bikes 3 are made of carbon (the Montanara Volta, the Super Commuter, and the BH eMotion) 4 are home builds. Someday we hope to make a top 10 list entirely of production electric bikes. But at the moment there are not 10 lightweight production ebikes on the market worthy of this list. 3 of these bikes are mid-drives (through the gears). Mid-drives allow a bike to use much smaller (and lighter) motors and still be capable of decent hill climbing. BH eMotion, Vivax, and Montonara Volta 2 were purpose built to be ebikes (Specialized Turbo, BH Motion Carbon), the others are conversion bikes. 1 of these bikes does not have gears (the Solar Fixie Bike) All of these bikes except for one (Cannondale) have LiPo packs.
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The Brose motor puts out 250 watts nominally, and can peak up to a max of 460 watts. That's around half what the 2016 Specialized Turbo S road bike we tested last year develops, but that bike's much-larger motor sits in the rear hub, which would massively compromise performance on a full-suspension mountain bike like this one. Spend up to the Expert or S-Works spec Turbo Levo and you get a motor that can peak up to 530 watts.
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If you really want to see the future take a look at the Fazua Evation, with a battery and motor this system weighs an incredible 4.7kg! The battery only has 250wh, but at 1.3kg you could easily carry a spare in a pack. The really interesting thing about this system though, is the motor and the battery can be removed from the frame, so you really do have two bikes in one.
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On what scale does the universe expand?
According to the theory (or my understanding of it), the universe is not only expanding, but speeding up.
If the galaxies are moving apart, are the solar systems within them also moving apart from one another (& the planets within them), if they are, won't the Sun be moving away from the Earth?
Does the expansion of the universe occur at all scales or just large (inter-galactic) scales?
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The short answer is: gravitationally bound system will not be ripped by the accelerated expansion.
A longer answer: The current standard model ($\Lambda$CDM model) says that everything started with the big bang. It released a lot of energy that pushed the Universe and is since then expanding. While it's expanding, gravitational attraction has been working to create the structures that we see today (planets, stars, galaxies, cluster of galaxies).
As the Universe expands, the density of matter and radiation within the Universe decreases. At about 5 billions years after the big bang, these densities became smaller than the density of Dark Energy (Dark-energy-dominated era). The strange things about Dark Energy are that, 1) its density remains a constant regardless of the expansion of the universe, and 2) it has anti-gravitational properties - it pushes rather than pulls. Once Dark Energy came to dominate the density of the universe it began to dominate its overall dynamics, and has caused the expansion of the universe to accelerate.
But in structures which have already formed, gravity is much stronger than dark energy and so they don't feel it.
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On Saturday, July 4, 2009, 10:23 AM, Felix Boniulla Salmeron wrote:
I am amased at the lack of history in the West Texas region. I am a desendent of the Benavidez-Ortiz-Bonilla families of the Van Hron, Valentine, Ruidoso, Ft Davis, Alpine Toya Kent areas. Muy Great Grandmother was born in Valentine Texas in feb 1883 and Married Antonio Bonilla in 1895. They wnet on to rais e a big family. That is only one side of the family. Nestora's parents were Juan Benavidez and Petra Ortiz whoi lived in the Van Horn area early on. We have had a long tradition of veterans from WW1, WW2,Korea, Vietnam and now in Iraq. Muyy great Grandfather owned Mules which he usedwhen he worked on the rail road to move cross ties for the rail road. His son's were leneros or wood salemen as they gathered and cut wood to seel in Ft Davis in the early 1900. Back min those days, there was no electricity to go around or fuel for heating. Everyday they would go to the mountains and gather wood for sell to the people in the Ft davis town. They later got married and started families which now reachs into the 2000 mark. I have enjoyed you information and wish that there was more on the impact that hispanics had in West Texas
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New evidence suggests Pluto started hot and contained an ocean
By Howard D. Allgood on	 July 4, 2020 Sites For Birds
By Jonny Lupsha, News Editor
The ancient planet Pluto might once have looked a lot different than it is today, CNN reported. Now a frozen planet that is reaching nearly -400 degrees Fahrenheit, the celestial body may have once been warm and welcomed bodies of water. Our knowledge of Pluto is still limited.
Launched in January 2006, the New Horizons The spacecraft went into programmed hibernation for more than seven years after receiving gravitational assistance from Jupiter, speeding up its journey to Pluto. It was not until July 15, 2015 that scientists began to receive data on Pluto. Photo by Vadim Sadovski / Shutterstock
According to CNN, Pluto as we know it today might not represent its original environment. "Using geological observations of Pluto's surface, new research suggests that Pluto actually started in a hot-forming scenario," the article says. "The researchers modeled and compared hot and cold formation scenarios and found that Pluto's surface characteristics correspond best to heat. In this scenario, the liquid ocean would slowly freeze over time, but not completely, and cause the extension faults seen in Pluto's icy crust.
This drastic change in Pluto's environment is just another example of the distance we have to travel to learn more about the planet itself.
Finding Pluto
What we know about Pluto partly comes from the date it was discovered.
"Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh," said Dr SabIdo Stanley, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. "He painstakingly spent many nights at the telescope, looking at photographic plates where the images from the telescopes were stored."
Dr Stanley said Pluto's diameter is less than 2,400 kilometers. This means that it is smaller than seven of the moons in our solar system, including Neptune's Triton moon and Earth's moon. In fact, it is 55% smaller than the moon of Jupiter Ganymede, which is the largest moon in our solar system.
"In horizontal extent, Pluto is comparable to about half of the continental United States," she said. "The average density of Pluto is around 1,900 kilograms per cubic meter. This tells us that Pluto is a mixture of ice and rock, much less dense than our Moon, and slightly less dense than Triton or Ganymede.
New Horizons Mission
Dr Stanley said that due to Pluto's elliptical orbit around the Sun, it is often much further from Earth than at other times. This makes it much harder to reach and study. Additionally, scientists believe Pluto's atmosphere may change due to its distance from the Sun, and they wanted to be able to study it while it was at its closest distance and at maximum heating effect. solar. To do this, they designed the New Horizons mission.
"The New Horizons spacecraft was launched in January 2006, "she said. "At the time, its launch speed of 10 miles per second, or over 36,000 miles per hour, made it the fastest spacecraft ever launched. About 13 months after launch, the spacecraft flew over Jupiter for gravitational assistance, which accelerated the spacecraft to about 50,000 miles per hour.
"This boost was canceled for three years New horizonis the flight time for Pluto.
According to Dr. Stanley, after the flyby of Jupiter, the New Horizons spacecraft has entered a state of programmed hibernation for more than seven years. It wasn't until July 15, 2015 that scientists started receiving data from the spacecraft just outside Pluto. Due to the spacecraft's distance from Earth, it took 15 months to receive the six gigabytes of data it captured. However, it was worth the wait. New Horizons brought us invaluable insight into the dwarf planet we could only dream of before.
Due to Pluto's distance from us, studying it is a very tedious job. However, thanks to missions like New Horizons, we continue to learn fascinating information about it.
Dr Sabine Stanley, Ph.D., contributed to this article. Dr Stanley is Distinguished Bloomberg Professor in the Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. She received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Toronto, followed by a Masters and Doctorate. degrees in geophysics from Harvard University.
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EU VAT Assistant on WordPress.org – Update 12 December 2018
13/12/2018 /3 Comments/in Announcements, Blog, News /by diego
This post is a follow-up to the one we published on the 10 December 2018, in relation to the removal of our EU VAT Assistant from the WordPress repository.
Analysing the issue with the WordPress Team
As explained in the earlier post, due to technical limitations, the WP.org repository can only be used to host plugins that don't have external dependencies. Plugins are expected to carry around a copy of all the files they need, even if this may cause conflicts with different versions of the same files, which might be installed on the site. Our EU VAT Assistant relies our Aelia Foundation Classes (or AFC, for short), which is an external framework. Due to that, it didn't match the described requirement.
We had a long discussion with the WordPress Team, during which we went into the details of the decisions behind the design for our EU VAT Assistant, as well as our other plugins. We proposed several solutions, all of which were technically valid, but they were rejected on the ground of not being fully compliant with the current policies that apply to WordPress.org. The conclusion was our solutions are highly modular (and work well that way), but the public WordPress repository, in its current form, doesn't support such architecture.
The restrictions on the WordPress repository presented a significant challenge. We spent a significant amount of time and effort to create our existing, modular architecture. All our solutions are based on it, and they have been thoroughly tested. The WordPress Team insist that all plugins should carry around their own copy of the required files, while we have enough experience and statistical data to disagree with such statement. Besides, we couldn't afford to discard years of work to go back to the required "monolithic" design, risking to introduce issues in the process.
The main hurdle came from one of the core principle on which the Aelia Foundation Classes is based. We wrote the AFC Framework with the assumption that there will always be one copy of such framework installed, at any given time. Such requirement can be easily enforced, and it allows to share the same code across multiple plugins. It also avoids having to write a convoluted logic to check if multiple copies of a framework are installed, and which one should be used. Based on our tests and experience, it's a leaner and more effective approach.
Our challenge was to find a way to reach the following targets:
Allow the EU VAT Assistant to carry around and load its own framework.
Allow plugins that rely on the shared AFC Framework to keep doing so.
Avoid substantial rewriting of any of the plugins, or the framework.
The AFC Framework as the key
After a careful analysis of our options, we realised that the AFC Framework could be the solution to the issue. Like our plugins, the framework is highly modular, and structured so that its components are loosely coupled. Although we designed the framework to be installed as a separate plugin, we were able to extract parts of it, and transform them into an "embedded framework". This was also made easier by the logic used by our plugins to find the AFC, and interact with it, which allows for good flexibility. In short, we found a way to satisfy all the requirements, while keeping our modular structure and full compatibility with our other products.
The proposed solution
We reviewed the AFC Framework, focusing our attention on its basic, core elements, and we came up with a smart, yet simple solution:
We built a smaller version of the framework, called AFC Embedded, which excludes non-essential features, as well as any feature that is not deemed "appropriate" for inclusion in the WordPress repository.
We added the AFC Embedded framework to the EU VAT Assistant.
We modified the loader logic used by the EU VAT Assistant, to perform the following operations:
When the standalone AFC Framework is active, use that one. In such case, the plugin would behave exactly as it did before.
When the standalone AFC Framework is not active, or not installed, load the embedded AFC Framework.
This approach required only minor changes in both the framework and the EU VAT Assistant, and no changes at all in our other products. It also covers the scenario where the EU VAT plugin is installed first, and the standalone framework at a later stage, e.g. after installing one of our premium WooCommerce plugins. In that case, the EU VAT Assistant switches from the embedded framework to the standalone one, transparently. Simple, yet effective!
We discussed the above solution with the WordPress Team, and they agreed that it would be within the guidelines of the WordPress.org repository. We have submitted an updated version of our EU VAT Assistant for their review, and we are waiting for their reply. If all goes well, our solution for EU VAT compliance should be back online very soon.
Any questions? Always happy to answer!
Should you have any questions about the EU VAT Assistant, or the progress with the new version, please feel free to contact us. We will be happy to answer all your questions, and give you any information you might need.
Thanks again for staying with us, we are looking forward to sharing with you some good news soon!
The Aelia Team
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The EU VAT Assistant for WooCommerce is still "alive and kicking"!
On the 9 December 2018, the WordPress Team removed our popular EU VAT Assistant from the public repository on WordPress.org. In this article, we are going to explain why they took that decision.
Preliminary note
Before explaining the reason for the removal, we would like to clarify that the EU VAT Assistant is still working fine, it's fully supported and it will be maintained for the foreseeable future. There isn't any technical issue, we're just dealing with a minor conflict with the regulations on WordPress.org.
Why the plugin was closed on WordPress.org
The WordPress Team closed the EU VAT Assistant on the 9th of December, 2018, because that plugin, like (almost) every other Aelia plugin, requires our mini-framework, called Aelia Foundation Classes (or AFC, for short). That mini-framework comes as an independent plugin, which has to be installed separately. We introduced such framework in our development cycle back in 2013, when we realised that the old approach of bundling multiple copies of the same files and libraries in each plugin was inefficient. Since WordPress didn't include a dependency management system (and still doesn't), we implemented our own, simple solution. That allowed us to get the result we were looking for:
We were able to the files and libraries common to multiple plugins to a shared framework (the Aelia Foundation Classes).
We were able to leverage the functions offered by WordPress to detect when such plugin is missing, and prompt the administrator to install it.
Thanks to the above, the EU VAT Assistant and our other plugins can detect if the AFC framework is not installed. When that is the case, they ask the administrators if they want to install it manually. To make thins even easier, our plugins also offers a convenient "one click" interface to do that installation. This is how the EU VAT Assistant always worked, ever since we released its first version, back in 2014. Apparently, now this presents an issue.
The rules for the WordPress repository indicate that a plugin can't download another plugin from sources other than WordPress.org. Since the "one click install" downloads the framework from our site, that feature is no longer allowed. Due to that, the WordPress team deemed necessary to close the plugin, and informed us about that closure right after it was performed. Unfortunately, we didn't receive an advance notice about this, or we would have informed our users about it.
As mentioned, the reason for the plugin closure is not technical. The EU VAT Assistant works perfectly fine as it is, and it's not affected by bugs or technical issues. More simply, there's a disagreement about our plugin's architecture, as the WordPress team deemed such design to no longer conform with the repository guidelines. Due to this, they decided to remove the plugin, despite its popularity and the fact that it has been running smoothly for over 4 years.
The only reported non-conformity in the EU VAT Assistant is the dependency management that the plugin uses. Our solution allows administrators to download the required AFC mini-framework from our site, which is external to WordPress.org. From a technical perspective, this could be solved easily in a few ways:
The AFC framework could be hosted on WordPress.org.
The framework could be bundled within the EU VAT Assistant, which would then take care of installing it as a separate plugin, without having to download it from an external source.
The "once click install" feature could be removed from the EU VAT Assistant, thus removing the "download from an external site" altogether.
Unfortunately, the WordPress team didn't accept any of the above:
The first solution won't be allowed by another regulation, which doesn't allow to use WordPress.org to host framework plugins.
The third solution would involve "bundling a plugin within a plugin", which is also not allowed.
The third solution won't be allowed either. Requiring a manual installation of the framework would imply that the EU VAT Assistant "doesn't work" straight out of the box (unless the framework is installed first), which is another of the requirements on WordPress.org repository to ensure a smooth user experience.
Feedback from the WordPress Team
The WordPress Team suggested that we change the the EU VAT Assistant so that it doesn't require the AFC framework, or so that the files from the framework are part of the plugin itself. Unfortunately, that won't be an option. The decision of having the framework as an external plugin was deliberate, to make our plugins modular and more robust. Such design, fairly common on other platforms, allows to keep modules lean, and greatly reduces the chance of conflicts caused by the presence of multiple copies of the same files. Our target was to move away from the obsolete "monolithic" architecture, and all the bloating that it involves, and have a single, shared framework. Other developers adopted such approach (popular themes like Genesis and Avada also use a framework plugin), and it works well.
Rewriting the EU VAT Assistant to go back to the old "bundle everything" design would be a significant step backward, and it would introduce a high risk of causing conflicts with our other plugins, which are based on current "shared framework" architecture. Regrettably, we can't redesign all the plugins we developed just to comply with a restriction on WordPress.org, which affects a single plugin.
Current status (updated 10 December 2018)
We had an extensive conversation with the WordPress Team about the removal of the EU VAT Assistant from the repository, and how it could be restored. As of the the 10th of December, we haven't reached an agreement. We proposed a few solutions that would not require a radical changes in the plugin's architecture. They would also avoid a cascade effect with other plugins based on the same design. Unfortunately, the WP Team keeps insisting that the only solution they deem acceptable by them is to rewrite the plugin and bundle the framework in it. As explained above, that's basically the only approach we can't follow. It's simply not feasible.
We are aware that this sudden change could cause alarm among the merchants who are using our EU VAT Assistant. We received several enquiries, from our customers, asking what the future of the our VAT plugin is going to be. All of them expressed their support to us, and were puzzled by such sudden decision about an established and useful solution. You can read the conversation on the plugin's public support forum, available here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-removed-from-wordpress-repository/.
As anticipated, the EU VAT Assistant is still fully functional and supported, still free and it will be maintained for the time being. We will keep checking with the WordPress Team if we can find a compromise that can allow to restore our plugin on the WordPress repository. In the meantime, the EU VAT Assistant will still be available, free of charge, directly from our website. We will also take care of serving updates for our solution directly, while the files hosted on WordPress.org are offline.
Should you have any questions about the EU VAT Assistant, please feel free to contact us. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thanks for reading this long post, and apologies for the inconvenience caused by the sudden change, which was outside our control.
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I live in Perth, Australia where I have specialised in paediatric clinical psychology for the past 30 years. The woodshop is where I go to recharge my batteries.
I am drawn to handtools, their design and use. I have machines for roughing out, however I prefer handtools for joinery, shaping and finishing, and attempt to use traditional vintage methods and techniques. Join me here in the trials and tribulations of some of my furniture builds. All my articles have been dated, so be aware that there are changes in my methods over the years.
There is some vintage tools restoration as well, along with reviews of handtools I think others may find interesting. Sharpening is an integral part of handtool use, and I've included a section for that as well.
Throughout my life I have been a compulsive tinkerer and modifier, and the articles on building tools are my opportunity to share with you some of my thoughts on design. Some are basic, some are fancy, but all the tools are intended to be used.
I hope that you will have fun and perhaps learn something new.
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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo ~ Chant For Happiness: 11 Powerful Tips for Chanting Joy-full Tozos!
Thank you so much, so refreshing!
I did share with my friends here in Sint Maarten and the world.
Thanks again well keep you posted as to the results , I has started the million campaign when I came back from FNCC but didn't know it's 1 hour minimum tozo thingy, so I will do from now on as said, thanks again!
It's me Daniela again, forgot to say you might want to add to your list, I find it very helpful , I put the Utube version Daimoku even faster or whichever one you want and surround sound connected to my TV and it's like there are so many people chanting with me and it helps a LOT!
Hi, thanks for this. Not sure what a power prayer is, can you explain please. Why is there an ad for a bank on the ipage? Hope you don't mind me asking. Debbie (I practice in London, UK).
Such an inspiration you are!
Hi....its me Anushree..... You are so inspirational..... I will try for one million daimoku..... Thank you so much for encouragement..
Will this help me apply the law of attraction better and help me with my anxiety?
I hardly get time to chant diamoku for long, so can I chant while doing my house hold work or official work.
Would that b worth and part on a million diamoku?


Ive actually not played any games at all in over half a year - which to be honest kind of surprises me. I never really thought I would ever completely stop lol.
Single player games on the PS4 only. Not got the time to invest in multiplayer online stuff now.
BFME2 1.09 isn't far away. Come and play!
Thanks Fitton. I read your first 1.09 tourny was a success. Good job!


Dry skin has always faced the brunt of the seasonal change especially during winters, which affects the dry skin the most. It is very important to take proper care of the skin on a daily basis regardless of the skin type you have however if you have dry skin in particular then you must be cautious about skincare. Chilly weather can make your skin behave in a very weird manner by drying out your skin or breaking out. So keeping your skin clean is the most important step during winters. First step towards cleansing is by using a good face wash for dry skin and today we list some of the best face wash for dry skin in India.
Himalaya Herbals Gentle Hydrating face wash: – Himalaya is a very popular Indian brand for 2 reasons. Firstly, because the product is completely natural and second, they are very reasonably priced. It is soap free therefore your skin will not face any kind of irritation. This face wash for dry skin is cream based and so is an ideal choice. It not only cleanses the skin well but leaves the skin soft and supple too. This face wash has aloe vera in it which is extremely nourishing for dry skin.
Khadi Orange & Lemongrass Face Wash: Khadi Orange & Lemongrass Face Wash is best for dry skin. This face washes moisturizes your skin well. It is herbal which means no tension of feeding your skin with chemicals. The face wash has some essential oil in it which nourishes your skin and makes it soft.
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VLCC Cacti & Litchi Gentle Hydrating Face Wash: VLCC Cacti & Litchi Gentle Hydrating Face Wash is good for the best reason that it comes from VLCC. This face wash for dry skin can make even the driest of skin soft and supple. The ingredients in this face wash for dry skin gently de-congest your skin pores of impurities, thereby making it completely clean and nourished.
Fabindia Avocado Face Wash: Fabindia Avocado Face Wash is also from a trusted brand and is specially meant for dry skin treatment. The avocado face wash has avocado that supplies required oil to the dry skin. This face wash for dry skin is meant for boosting the skin and reducing the dryness. The citric acid in the face brightens the skin too.
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Austin Challenge
Check out the Finalists
Phase: Propose Opportunity Areas: Other
Improving Mobility Using Rewards
Hytch Rewards believes we can influence transportation behavior with rewards, creating better and more connected communities.
Written by Nick Justice
We use this video when explaining to employers the benefits of having a TDM platform. We believe it gives a fun little example of how Hytch works and benefits people in all communities. Enjoy!
Hytch Rewards is a mobility platform that offers an iPhone and Android app for passengers and drivers to engage in a new concept that inspires networking for transportation. The Hytch Solution is driven by the belief that Rewards change behavior and through rewards we can inspire and engage users to share rides and to make better mobility decisions to reduce Single Occupancy Vehicles on the roads; decisions not only share rides but to use public transportation assets. By earning rewards on the Hytch Rewards platform, local citizens develop a habit of sharing rides. Whether users are taking public transportation, carpooling, or creating a vanpool group to commute to and from work, the Hytch app can track, verify and reward their behavior.
The Hytch platform also provides a community with zero emission driving and incentivizes members of the community to share rides during their commute, all daily travel or trips to any destination. Through sponsorships and targeted cash rewards funded by public and/or private contributors, any unique combination of routes, modes, origination or destination can be identified by these sponsor organizations as a desirable behavior, worthy of tracking and rewarding participants.
Every ride is validated in the application and will provide the City of Austin and the Austin Strategic Mobility Plan and the City of Austin's Strategic Direction 2023 with critical planning data. (Ride reporting data does not contain any personally identifiable information).
This information allows for planning decisions that prioritize the needs of the community and provide a user experience that can be tailored. The project is intended to be collaborative and will give project stakeholders the opportunity to meet mobility needs in near-real-time, by promoting the use of transportation modes, routes, time of day, events, etc., significantly lowering the barriers to mobility in the region.
Our idea for the Austin City: One Challenge includes launching the Hytch free mobile application platform to do the following:
Help Eastern Crescent Communities to overcome transportation barriers by incentivizing carpooling, vanpooling, and public transit trips and developing a social network of shared commuters. The incentives will also significantly lower or eliminate the costs and need for owning/operating a vehicle.
Enable residents to travel to and from Health and Social Services whether or not they have a car by having the option to share rides, in public transit assets or shared personal vehicles or other on demand options. Hytch can verify and report, use of On Demand Transportation services that are required to take and individual in the Eastern Crescent Community to and from an authorized Health or Social Services location. User can earn rewards to offset the cost of the On Demand Services. The City could also generate additional revenue by filling empty seats on their transit assets and van pools and getting valuable multimodal data.
By incentivizing and rewarding people to share rides (both the driver and passengers)and utilize public assets we help eliminate barriers to access sustainable transit options.
Tracking, verifying and rewarding multiple choices for people in Austin, Hytch can provide real time transit data to be shared with other Community Resources to help people make the best choices for their needs.
The Hytch platform will be aligned with the Opportunity Criteria to deliver a program that hits social, environmental, and economic goals of the Austin community.
What our public transportation users say about us!
What a journey in Nashville looks like for a long distance public transportation user. This same idea can be applied to multi-mode trips (carpooling to bus stop, using bus, walking to destination) or single mode trips (carpooling, biking, or on-demand services)
Transit and active modes are not viable options for many residents and commuters. Research suggests that commuters who drive alone are more open to carpooling than other modes, as they are able to maintain a perceived level of flexibility, comfort, control, and convenience. Hytch is an open platform that can be used by everyone. However, for the purposes of this project, the goal is to target communities who do not have access to Metro public transportation, have Metro public transportation distant from them, and/or are low income and do not have access to a personal vehicle. In our initial Nashville launch, 26% of users took public transportation while Hytching. When interviewing users, we found that not only did they like the rewards offered, but they loved how it improved the culture of public transportation. Hytch has added a User Journey to the attachments for a better visualization.
Ready to Scale - you have completed and expanded your pilot and are seeing adoption of your solution by your intended user
Insights from previous testing (500 characters)
Hytch has successfully deployed in Nashville TN. Through this deployment we have learned that incentives work as a tool to motivate people to share rides with friends, neighbors & coworkers and adopt modes such as public transportation. Hytch has also deployed with Goodwill of Middle Tennessee to help low income employees find rides and use public transportation in Nashville. In this instance, we learned that rewards are a great conversation starter to find others in your community to ride with.
The Hytch team is describes itself in three words: hungry, humble, smart. The team is comprised of a handful of entrepreneurs who are dedicated to making a difference in the world. A full view at our team can be seen here: https://hytch.me/team/ Our team is dedicated to reducing congestion and improving air quality in all areas we operate. Reducing the number of single occupancy vehicles in a metro area is the cheapest and best way to reduce congestion and improve air quality.
Team or Organization URL
www.hytch.me
Rough budget (500 characters)
The budget is simple would break down as follows: 75% ($75,000) used on cash rewards for the immediate community. 25% ($25,000) used for marketing the pilot to the community, program execution and reporting.
Hytch would coordinate with stakeholders to designate targeted areas to reward, and then market to those communities. This campaign would be an education and outreach effort to inform the communities of the cash rewards in place and how to earn them using the Hytch smartphone app. We would work with the same stakeholders to set the reward rate, making sure the cash rewards lineup with the desired outcomes. Examples would include higher rewards to drivers when they provide rides for a Hytch passenger that is being driven to and from an approved healthcare facility, a healthy and fresh food provider or other social services locations. All authorized locations can be geo-fenced to properly track, verify, report and reward based on the goals of the Austin Challenge Project. The best aspect of the Hytch app is that it is inherently viral and easy to use. As the pilot evolves we will continue to work with stakeholders to adjust rewards as necessary and report on progress.
The measure of success for the pilot would be the number of trips that originate from unconnected neighborhoods and end at a "hub" or other designated locations such as health, social services or designated nutritional outlets. Hytch can track in real time the number of trips occurring a day in these areas. Hytch can track and reward trips that take place in personal vehicles, public transit assets, on-demand services, walking, and biking. This ensures that all available modes can be utilized, regardless of how a user chooses to travel. Hytch provides real time tracking that is rolled up into a dashboard for easy viewing and measuring. A dashboard would be shared with stakeholders so that everyone involved could track the trips, the amount of rewards and the environmental impact of the pilot. In- app surveys can be created by the pilot's stakeholders to gain insights into how the users feel about the pilot.
Sustainability Plan (500 characters)
In Nashville, the deployment was successful and sustainable thanks to private community investment. At the end of the initial pilot phase, Hytch's market development team will be reaching out to private businesses and Austin Metro and other governmental agencies to continue to fund the rewards for this solution. Private and public entities are invested in helping these disadvantaged communities, and we would form partnerships to keep these rewards funded.
Twitter: @HytchRewards FB: www.facebook.com/HytchRewards/ Insta: www.instagram.com/hytchrewards/
Nick Justice
WeGo Case Study_LONG VERSION_FINAL_LD.pdf
This is a case study we conducted with the public transportation system in Nashville, WeGo. It shows how we have been able to help users adopt public transportation and how we partner with private and public stakeholders to solve problems.
Mark Cleveland
There are cars in these underserved communities. There are powerful community relationships and good people who help other people get around. Nobody gets "credit" for such goodwill and it is not measured either, but it can be. This is a chance to provide a comprehensive, universally accessible incentive management system that would inspire these same people to go a little bit out of their way to both ask for a ride or provide that ride. Hytch gives an organizing principal to empower these personal networks to achieve greater flexibility and provide mobility within their own trusted network. The assets are there. Imagine any person (as a passenger with identified need) who could tell their friends, "Hey, Let's Hytch and you'll earn $.50 a mile in rewards for taking me to my doctor..." knowing they also qualify for $.10 a mile when they activate their network! The point is, for the right reward, everyone additionally motivated by cash rewards will track their generous provision of mobility and support for their community - and naturally, they will do more of that. It's about community behavior change. Hytch offers Austin a uniquely new approach to inspiring self organized mobility and will generate new transit patterns and data for better, data driven decision making.


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Russia wins Hungary's support for gas pipeline
Thursday, 12th March 2009
Russia won Hungarian support on Tuesday for its South Stream pipeline to deliver gas to Europe, while Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said a rival project to supply Caspian region gas would need Iran's support.
Russian gas export monopoly Gazprom signed a deal with state-owned Hungarian Development Bank to build part of the South Stream pipeline, a 10 billion euro (Dh26.6 billion) project that would bypass Ukraine in delivering gas to Europe.
Moscow supports the project, saying it would lower the risk of supply disruptions similar to those that followed its dispute with Ukraine over gas payment in January.
Russia, supplier of a quarter of Europe's gas, and some customers in Europe want to accelerate the construction of gas supply routes to bypass Ukraine. Some consumers are also eyeing alternatives that would cut dependence on Russian gas.
Putin, announcing the deal after a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, told reporters Russia had sufficient gas reserves to meet its own growing demand and that of Europe for about 100 years.
He said the rival Nabucco project, which would bypass Russia in pumping up to 31 billion cubic metres of gas from the Caspian Sea region to Europe, would not be possible "without the participation of Iran in the project."
Nabucco has so far received scant financial commitment and has only a fifth of the gas commitments needed to be viable.
Iran, as well as ex-Soviet states Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, is a potential supplier of gas to the pipeline, but the standoff between Washington and Tehran over Iran's nuclear programme makes this awkward for Nabucco's European backers.
Hungary's prime minister said the country was interested in diversifying its energy sources.
"Hungary is not interested in there being one gas pipeline or one oil pipeline," Gyurcsany told reporters.
(Reuters & Gulf News)


The new airport of Istanbul Arnavutköy, inaugurated on October 29, 2018, is the new international airport replacing the old airport of Ataturk. It is scheduled to operate domestic flights and international flights around the world and over 2019 will be moving the airlines from old Ataturk to the new airport. Its contruction was planned to handle in the future up to 200 millon passengers per year, being one of the biggest in the world.
Number of Terminals - 1 - Divided in five concourses lettered A, B, D, F, G. Concourse G, which is located in the southeast, is reserved solely for domestic flights, as well as the eastern side of Concourse F which is directly to the north of Concourse G. Concourses A, B, and D are used for international flights. The C and E concourses are connect directly to the main terminal and are therefore not independent concourses.
Tel: +90 212 444 1442. Information desks and tourism offices are available Throughout the enclosure there are also touch screens with information.
The new airport is at the intersection of roads to Arnavutköy, Göktürk, and Çatalca, north of the Istanbul city centre and between the Black Sea coast towns of Yeniköy, Tayakadın and Akpınar The airport is about 54 km (33.6 miles) from istanbul city center.
All car rental offices are located at the domestic terminal, to the landside at the arrivals floor.
YOTEL, will be responsible for operating the new airport hotel in the main terminal building, conveniently located on the departures level and right next to passport control. The new hotel will be ideal for both business and leisure travellers, as well as airline crew and other businesses within the airport and local environment.
The airport has banks, ATMs, currency exchange bureaus, post offices, mobile phone services, charging stations, Wi-Fi access, fast-track points, meet & greet services, VIP lounges, buggy services.
Shopping- The Duty Free area has a total sales area of 55,000 square meters. In addition, there are local and international fashion brand stores around the airport (domestic and international concourses) to enable passengers to meet their needs for accessories, jewellery and watches, kids wear and toys, home textile, electronics and so on.
Other Services- prayer rooms, car wash, travel agencies, playing areas.
Taxis - Taxi service is offered at the Istanbul Airport 24/7, thereby covering both flight times as well as all periods outside of flight schedules. Three types of taxis are utilized for this service, comprised of black "E" type, blue "D" type, and orange "C" type taxis.
Passengers desiring to use the taxi service can access these vehicles at the main stations located in the Plaza Section's Domestic and International Arrivals areas, as well as the Departures floor and the Other Arrivals floor. The journey time to Istanbul city centre is about 1 hour.
IETT (of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality) and Istanbul Otobüs A.Ş. (private) provide public transport services for passengers and visitors of Istanbul Airport.
The car park has a capacity up to 40.000 vehicles, providing valet and vehicle maintenance services beyond the service level standards of international airports.
Multi-storey car park: It has a capacity up to 18,000 vehicles and consists of 5 blocks. One block is formed of 3 floors and 4 blocks are formed of 7 floors.
There are 3 Valet Car Receiving points in total: one for each at departures floor of domestic and international terminals, and one at CIP.
There are 2 Valet Car Delivery Points between Plaza Venue and Car Park, one for each at domestic and international terminals.
Central Services include car wash and detailing, tire change and tire bank, mini maintenance, fuelling and Authorized Services.
Mobile Payment, Automatic Payment, QR Code and NFC payment options.
The airport has tactile surfaces and proper signage, moving walkways, escalators, designated parking spaces, induction loops, adapted restrooms with automatic doors and lighting, especially designed seats, handrails, ramps, accessible public telephones and counters. Passengers requiring special assistance or wheelchairs should inform their airline about their needs 48 hours prior the flight.


Metal Supply & Machining Inc. is proud of the fine reputation we have built in the community and in the construction industry. Architects, engineers and contractors know that when they delegate their projects and ideas to us, not only will they get desired results, but they will also receive it on time, every time. In fact, that is why much of our business comes from word-of-mouth referrals. Here at Metal Supply & Machining Inc., we sell raw materials consisting of all types of metal, not limited to aluminum, stainless, high temp, brass, bronze, copper and mild steels. We also offer services such as Blanchard grinding, sawing, plasma and water jet cutting, flame cutting and machining. Our full-service machine shop offers CNC as well as manual machines to meet any required number of parts from prototype to production. In addition to that, we also have a full-service welding and fabrication facility. This allows us to handle all manners of fabrication ranging from simple railings to custom fabrication and design. Miami-Dade-approved aluminum hurricane panels are also produced on site. We stock all necessary hardware and accessories as well. If you need help with a product or service that we have not listed here, give us a call at 561-276-4941, and we may be able to assist you.


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Q: unable to fetch data from mongodb Am working on nestjs and i want to fetch data from the collection on the basis of 'name' value.But i got output like this:

code of services:
async find_one(name):Promise<Usersinterface>{
    const data=this.usersmodel.find(name).exec()
    return data;
}

code of controller:
@Get('getitem')
async getitem(@Body()name):Promise<any>{
    return this.usersService.find_one(name)
}

A: you should pass an object as a filter to the find method
so in the service, the query should look something like
find({ name: name })

the key (the first name) is the name of the property in your collection
the value (the second name) is the value you passed to the function
async find_one(name):Promise<Usersinterface> {
    const data = this.usersmodel.find({ name: name }).exec()
    return data;
}

hope it helps

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The instructional schedule for the district has changed this year. Every school in the district will be on the same time schedule. Listed below are the new start and release time.
8:45 a.m. - 12:45 p. m.
Kindergarten 8:45 a.m. - 12:55 p.m.
Grades 1-5 8:45 a.m. - 12:55 p.m.
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The purpose of training should be to make you function better, not break you down, writes personal trainer Sarah Cremen.
WHEN YOU HAVE a specific goal in mind — be it to get fitter, faster, stronger or leaner — the last thing you want is injury, stiffness or pain to stop you dead in your tracks.
The purpose of training should be to make you function better, not break you down.
Smart, effective training will prepare your body for the physical demands of life, but unfortunately, due to the unpredictable nature of life, sport and the human body in general, injuries are never completely avoidable — but there are ways of reducing the risk of occurrence.
Prevention is better than cure and good mobility, balanced programming and smart progressions can go a long way to helping you stay strong, healthy, pain free and moving ever closer to your goals.
As far as range of movement is concerned, if you don't use it, you lose it.
Pretty much every new client I meet has an injury history and as a result, compensations that have become habitual patterns influence their ability to move and exercise safely and effectively.
Health and functionality is built on a foundation of strength and mobility, but can be far too easily lost through inactivity.
Mobility is a sort of umbrella term that encompasses soft tissue work, flexibility and joint mobility but specifically refers to the ability to move a limb or joint through full range of movement with control.
The more mobile you are, the more able you will be to easily and freely execute desired tasks, but it is something that requires constant attention.
Most frequently, restrictions occur in the shoulders, thoracic spine, hips and ankles, but if you are unsure, take the time to seek out an experienced professional who can assess and guide you in the right direction.
While a lot can be said for exercising moderation and caution with training, you also need to actually train and work hard.
Increasing your overall movement capacity through mobility work is great, but ideally it should supplement a solid, balanced strength training regime.
Physiological changes occur in bones, muscles and connective tissues when dynamic loads are placed on the joints during resistance training, so include carries, hip hinges, squat variations, pulling, pushing, rotation and anti-rotation exercises to build a body that is healthy, strong, functional and powerful.
While it may look impressive, the presence of a six pack has very little correlation to how strong your core actually is or how well it functions.
Beyond the six pack is a network of deep stabilisation muscles; the epicentre from which all movement and force transfer is initiated.
Core control is essential to stability, force production, injury prevention and thus, athletic performance.
While training compound strength exercises like squats and deadlifts will give you incidental benefits, if you're not specifically training your core in different planes of movement, you may be doing your body a disservice.
Programming exercises or "anti" exercises, alongside breathing techniques and re-positioning activities, is an important part of understanding optimal breathing patterns, addressing imbalances and alignment issues and ultimately remaining injury free.
Check out a previous article I wrote on this here and here.
Training your posterior chain needs to be a priority if you want to increase your strength and athleticism and stay significantly less injury prone.
The most influential group of muscles when it comes to strength and power, they stabilise you with an anterior load or direct downward pressure, preventing you from falling forward and drive you upwards when lifting heavy loads.
Sedentary lifestyles that subject us to excessive forward flexion have ultimately resulted in suboptimal muscular activation patterns in the posterior chain — ever heard of "glute amnesia"?
Thanks to endless hours of sitting, our glute max, one of the most powerful hip extensors in the human body, is more often than not in holiday mode, essentially taking a break from performing its function and allowing synergistic or "helper" muscles pick up the slack.
The result? You end up with dysfunctional movement patterning, positioning and at a mechanical disadvantage that increases your risk of injury.
While the posterior chain includes some of the biggest and most powerful muscles in the body, it's often unintentionally neglected as it lacks the aesthetic appeal of the "mirror muscles".
While I'm not suggesting you abandon all anterior exercises (remember…balanced programming), aiming for a minimum of 2:1 ratio of pulling (think hip hinges and row variations) : pushing (think bench press, overhead pressing) exercises will benefit your body in the long run.
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Over the last few years, new buzzwords have cropped up in conference rooms across the world as a result of the oceans of data that new and improved technologies can capture. Cloud analytics. Big data. Hadoop. These words are often used to broadly define solutions for unlocking the secrets that monumental amounts of data can hold. You've either been in those meetings (heck, you probably used some of those words yourself without fully understanding their meanings), or you have some new work cut out for you as a direct result of those meetings. But really — what do all those phrases actually mean?


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SharePoint Conference Keynote: Releases and Roadmap #SPC14
By Jennifer Mason | Mar 3, 2014
There's anticipation about the keynote at every SharePoint Conference. Will there be news related to releases? Will there be a change in direction in how things are done today? The expectation for today's keynote was no different. There was the usual questions about what would be covered, but I wish I had a $1 for every time I heard "What does Bill Clinton have to do with SharePoint?"
Clinton started the keynote with a message focused on the impact and transformational possibilities of technology, including how it is expanding the voices of people worldwide.
Jared Spataro, general manager of product marketing for Microsoft Office, followed Clinton. He focused on the vision and goals shaping the future of Microsoft.
We believe the future of work is all about working as a Network.
We believe in personal insights that can be heard when you cut through the noise.
We believe in the power of an open development platform and a robust ecosystem.
We believe that the future of work is only possible when people can work anywhere on any device where organizations can still manage them securely.
These goals frame the future releases of products and services within Office365 and were the basis of all of the new technologies put on display during today's keynote session.
First up was social and the social experience that users have when working with solutions. Most of the focus today was on the ability to work using one common set of things across all elements. To demonstrate this, Spataro showed enhanced group features that allow you to create a group once that can then be used in Yammer, Outlook and SharePoint. The groups are centrally managed and allow you to manage content that can be accessed from multiple places in different formats.
This is a huge improvement to the current separated groups that exist between Yammer and SharePoint. In addition to the groups, there is now a way to work within Office documents and still maintain connection to your discussions related to the content. This will give users access to content and Yammer threads in one place, allowing for better collaboration with coworkers on building content.
A new app was shown to pull it all together. Oslo, named after the development team's location, is a new way to search for relevant content. Oslo is a search application that feels much like Flipboard: You can see content that is relevant to you without having to gather the information. Information is pushed to you based on who you are and what you do within the organization. Oslo maintains privacy to help ensure that you only have access to content that you should. The application is focused on natural language queries and is built with the everyday user in mind. From the design and layout it is clearly meant to be an application that becomes the lifeline of the everyday work experience.
The focused switched next to developers and the message was "we heard you" and "we need you." Based on this Microsoft is moving forward with tools and features that will make development easier within SharePoint. A new set of APIs and development tools will allow for the quick development of additional tools. One particular thing in the focus was the new visibility of apps that allows for the addition of apps anywhere in Office. This contextual app feature allows users to work seamlessly within applications while they are accessing data from other elements within the environment. An example of this is pulling data from a SharePoint site within Outlook that then pushes a notification to the Windows phone.
Proposed Roadmap
The roadmap is much like it has been for the past year -- leading with Office365 and following up with an on premises release. Microsoft announced today that the next versions of SharePoint and Exchange will be released in 2015. These server releases will have a subset of the features available in the Office365 offering as not all things will apply to an on premises implementation. The approach remains the same in that Office365 will provide you with the most up to date feature set and will allow you to take full advantage of the complete set of Office products.
While Microsoft is continuing to provide server releases, it stands behind the promise that it can do better in the cloud. This helps solidify that the future approach for Microsoft is to focus first on building powerful tools and features that are first with the cloud. Great things are coming from the folks at Microsoft and I am eager to see the impact that the tools can bring in the next year or so in the hopes that these tools can help transform the way organizations work.
Jennifer Mason is a SharePoint Server MVP who has spent the past several years providing consulting services around SharePoint Technologies. She is currently working with the team at Rackspace Hosting. Her focus has been on strategy, planning, governance and best practices for implementing business solutions using SharePoint Technologies. She is the author of "Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing Real World Projects," a resource for no-code solutions for SharePoint.
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The original packet is transparently encrypted by the IPSec layer before being sent and decrypted on the receiving side. An eavesdropper capturing packets in any intermediate node will not be able to recover the original contents of the packet (or, at least, he should not be able to do it in a reasonable amount of time).


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Q: SQL Cast quirkiness I have always used CONVERT (and not CAST), as I assumed the former would recognize types and do an appropriate conversion where as the latter is simply trying to interpret a stream of bytes differently. But just learned that CAST=CONVERT for most purposes!
But can someone explain why the following happens. CAST produces different results for the same value (101), but represented differently - decimal (101) and hexadecimal (0x65) representations.
select cast(0x65 as varchar(5))
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select cast(101 as varchar(5))
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101

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The query was run from SSMS.

A: I assume you are using SQL Server (where the confusion between the two functions would make sense).
That is simple.  0x defines a binary constant.  101 is a numeric constant.  These are not the same thing.
When you convert a binary constant to a string, it attempts to interpret the constant as a character.  When you convert a number to a string, SQL Server converts the decimal representation.
You can learn more about constants in the documentation.

A: You are trying to convert to completely different values. As Gordon mentioned, one is binary representation while the other is numeric.
But you need to note that there is some differences between CAST and CONVERT:

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*CAST is part of the ANSI-SQL specification; whereas, CONVERT is not.  In fact, CONVERT is Microsoft SQL Server implementation specific.

*CONVERT differences lie in that it accepts an optional style
  parameter which is used for formatting.

Read more here: https://www.essentialsql.com/what-is-the-difference-between-cast-and-convert/


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Jarvis Jones vs. Dion Jordan: Best pass rusher in NFL Draft?
Published: March 25, 2013 at 02:28 p.m.
Updated: March 25, 2013 at 06:07 p.m.
By NFL.com
Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks debate the tough draft-related issues.
» The best pass rusher in this class is ...
» Will Matt Barkley be a first-round pick?
» Who's the best player in the draft?
In today's pass-happy NFL, there's always a premium placed on guys who can get to the quarterback. The 2013 NFL Draft is littered with intriguing pass rushers of different shapes, sizes and playing styles, but there isn't much consensus on a prospect pecking order.
Some people love the raw athleticism of Dion Jordan, Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah or Barkevious Mingo, while others appreciate the elite production of Jarvis Jones, Bjoern Werner or Damontre Moore. (Take a quick glance at the various first-round projections at our Mock Draft Central to get a taste of the differing opinions on this front.) Most -- if not all -- of these guys will come off the board in the first round of next month's event, but who is the cream of the crop?
Former NFL scouts (and NFL draft veterans) Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks take on this all-important question: Who is the best pure pass rusher in the 2013 draft class?
Jeremiah: Jordan built for NFL
Dion Jordan is the best pass-rushing prospect in this draft. He has every tool you look for when projecting a successful NFL edge rusher: ideal height/length, an explosive first step and the ability to bend around the edge. Jordan also flashes the ability to turn speed into power, though that part of his game is still a work in progress as he continues to get stronger.
The only knock on Jordan is that he lacks "elite" sack production (posting just five in 2012). But Jordan was a hybrid defender in Oregon's scheme, forced to drop into coverage on a considerable number of plays. I researched all of the top pass rushers in the NFL, and it was interesting to check out each player's sack total from his final college season. Jordan stacks up favorably with several of them: Aldon Smith (5.5), Cameron Wake (1), Clay Matthews (4.5), Geno Atkins (3) and Chris Clemons (1). All of those players lacked top-shelf production but possessed pass-rushing traits that translated at the next level.
I like Jarvis Jones as a prospect, but his poor pro-day workout has NFL brass concerned. Those who defend Jones' lackluster showing point to his statistical success in the SEC, where he set the pace in sacks in each of the past two seasons. That motivated me to do some research and figure out how previous sack artists from this conference have fared in the NFL. Check out the SEC sack leaders before Jones, along with their highest single-season sack totals in the NFL (listed in parentheses):
2005: Willie Evans, Mississippi State (0).
2006: Jamaal Anderson, Arkansas (3), tied with Derrick Harvey, Florida (3.5).
2007: Marcus Howard, Georgia (1.5), tied with Greg Hardy, Mississippi (11) and Wallace Gilberry, Alabama (7).
2008: Carlos Dunlap, Florida (9.5), tied with Eric Norwood, South Carolina (1).
2009: Antonio Coleman, Auburn (0).
2010: Nick Fairley, Auburn (5.5).
It's pretty obvious that college sack production -- even in the nation's premier conference -- doesn't necessarily translate to NFL success.
Jordan's skill set makes him a much better fit for the NFL game.
Brooks: Jones dominated SEC
Jarvis Jones is the best pass rusher in the 2013 draft class. He totaled 28 sacks and 44 tackles for loss over the past two seasons in the SEC, which is considered the best college football conference by coaches and scouts around the NFL. Jones' dominance in this league is not only indicative of his remarkable skills as a pass rusher, but it also suggests that he will have a similar impact as a pro, due to the fact that he produced at an All-American level against top-notch competition. Back in my scouting days, I always looked at how elite prospects fared against the toughest competition they faced. Jones tallied 11 of his 14.5 sacks in 2012 against SEC competition: Missouri (2), Vanderbilt (1), South Carolina (1), Florida (3), Auburn (2) and Alabama (2). Additionally, he performed very well in the Bulldogs' biggest conference showdowns (against Alabama, Florida and South Carolina), which tells me he has the moxie to handle the pressure of playing on the big stage. Not to mention, two of his sacks came against Nebraska as part of a brilliant effort in the Capital One Bowl, his final college game.
From a talent perspective, Jones displays exceptional first-step quickness and snap-count anticipation. This allows him to routinely blow past blockers on the edge with dip-and-rip maneuvers. Furthermore, Jones plays with a relentlessness that allows him to pile up sacks through effort and hustle.
Now, I know Jones' underwhelming physical dimensions (6-foot-2, 245 pounds), speed (4.92 seconds in the 40-yard dash) and overall athleticism lead to questions about his potential impact at the next level. And despite a positive report earlier this month, there are still lingering concerns about his health, going back to a spinal stenosis diagnosis in his freshman season at USC. (Jones transferred to Georgia when USC doctors would not clear him to continue playing.) However, I place a greater emphasis on his performance and production over the past two seasons. Jones was clearly the best defensive player in college football's toughest conference in 2012, and I believe that experience will translate into outstanding production at the pro level.
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Wentworth Prison's Allie has revenge on her mind – and a possible role for her friend Rebel Wilson
Kate Jenkinson talks plotting to bring down the Freak and calls for her pal Rebel to join her behind bars in an exclusive interview ahead of season five of the cult drama
By Johnathon Hughes
Tuesday, 23rd May 2017 at 6:00 am
Wentworth Prison returns to UK screens on Tuesday night for a fifth season. Beginning in 2013, this reimagining of cult favourite Prisoner: Cell Block H set in a women's prison has surprised critics with it's hard-hitting drama, shocking violence and uncompromising performances, while delighting fans of the original show with several nods to it's lineage and a clever contemporary updating of the concept and characters.
But the latest series starts without one of its most iconic creations – top dog Bea Smith, played by Danielle Cormack, who was sensationally killed off at the end of season four after goading psychotic inmate and ex-governor Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson into murdering her, by way of revenge for Ferguson killing Bea's girlfriend Allie Novak… except in a cruel twist, Allie survived.
In an exclusive interview, Kate Jenkinson, who plays Allie, tells RadioTimes.com that she, like many fans of the show, was concerned about continuing without the legendary Bea manning the steam press.
"To begin with I feared for the relevance of my character after the loss of Bea, but I quickly learnt that was a naïve way of looking at things as her death opens things up for Allie.
"Instead of being this happy girl in love she becomes a furious, distressed, distraught woman on the edge of losing her mind and hellbent on revenge. Obviously that's a much more interesting character to play.
"As she returns to the prison in the first episode she's in that crazed state of mind you only get in extreme levels of stress. The death of her lover has thrown her into a maniacal state and she has one agenda and that's to tear the Freak apart in any way she can."
Allie's attack on Ferguson in the prison yard during the season five premiere provides one of those moments of graphic but gripping violence the show has become famous for, literally pulling no punches.
It's not just the physical violence that keeps things so compelling though, but also the psychological layers of prison politics, as Jenkinson reveals: "Allie's first attempt at dealing with Ferguson is not the smartest move and fails dismally. She needs to go beyond just using brute strength so has to go back to the drawing board and think of a far more clever way of getting close to the Freak if she wants to bring her down.
"Allie is driven to the point of mania, her need for revenge is like a drug she wants it so badly. She's going to spend most of this season working out how to bring the Freak down, and hopefully she'll succeed…"
Having become one of Australia's most successful TV exports in years, Wentworth Prison has joined the global trend for gritty dramas set in womens' prisons – and the likes of Orange is the New Black and Locked Up arguably owe a debt to the original Prisoner.
Does Jenkinson have any theories as to why womens' prisons have become such a popular setting? "We talk about this all the time on our show, what is it about this very specific genre that's so popular? I think interesting drama comes from stories about power and a prison is a power struggle. Also survival and losing your humanity are a huge themes in prison – they're epic material for a drama so it all adds to the stakes.
"Any human is capable of making a mistake and what's interesting about characters in jail is it shows how mistakes can make your life unravel. What a character like Bea Smith went through, with an abusive partner and being pushed to kill to protect your family, I think lots of women can relate to.
"The choices she made and the experience she had could happen to anyone under different circumstances. That's thought-provoking for audiences."
The dark, disturbing drama of women at rock bottom is a far cry from Jenkinson's background in comedy and collaborations with fellow Aussie star Rebel Wilson, with whom she shares a long personal and professional history.
"We've known each other for 12 years. I was lucky enough on my first TV job to be cast with her in a sketch comedy called The Wedge. I was fresh out of drama school and we've remained friends ever since.
"She cast me in her first self-written comedy for Australian TV, Bogan Pride, and when she went to the US and did a network sitcom (Super Fun Night which ran for one season on ABC in 2013) she cast me in that too.
"She's completely hilarious, lovable, warm, kind, generous, quirky… everything you imagine she is on screen. Rebel is a joy to work with and I love her."
What are the chances of the Pitch Perfect star turning up as a prisoner in Wentworth Correctional Centre one day?
"We've actually discussed this! I'm not sure if she has time in her very busy schedule, and we've been trying to figure out who she'd play, maybe Boomer's sister! But I'd love for her to be in the show."
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