• Free Children's Coat Giveaway – 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., The Salvation Army, Joliet Corps, 300 Third Ave., Joliet. Closed noon to 1 p.m. Through Jan. 27 or until coats are gone. Drop-in. For information, call 815-726-4834, ext. 215.
• Holiday Lights Drop-off – Through Jan. 31, lobbies of the County Office Building, 302 N. Chicago St., Joliet; Sunny Hill Nursing Home of Will County, 421 Doris Ave., Joliet; and the Land Use Department, 58 E. Clinton St., Joliet. Dispose of unwanted string holiday lights. For more information, visit www.willcountygreen.com.
• St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Stores – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 307 N. Chicago St., Joliet; and 9 to 8 p.m., 1820 W. Jefferson St., Joliet. Monday is 50 percent off day. Seniors receive 20 percent off on Thursdays. For more information, call 815-722-1140 (Chicago Street) or 815-729-4585 (Jefferson Street).
• R&B Line Dancing – 2 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.
• Valley View Early Childhood Center tuition-based preschool application window opens – Apply online at www.vvsd.org/VVECC.
• St. Patrick's Food Pantry – 9 to 11:30 a.m., 710 W. Marion St., Joliet. For those living in the 60436 ZIP code. For information, call the St. Patrick parish office at 815-727-4746.
• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Visit www.jobs4people.org.
• Conversational ESL – 10 a.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.
• Microsoft Word – 1:30 p.m.; also 10:30 a.m. Jan. 26, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. How to use Microsoft Word in job searches. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.
• After School Program – 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, Boys and Girls Club, 226 E. Clinton St., Joliet. Ages 6 to 18. For rates and information, call 815-723-3434.
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel – 6:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.
• Coffee and Community Conversation – 7 to 8 p.m., Troy Community Consolidated School District 30-C Administrative Center, 5800 W. Theodore St., Plainfield. Joliet Township High School Superintendent Dr. Cheryl McCarthy and Board of Education Vice President Tracy Spesia and member R. Dale Evans.
• DIY Home Automation – 7 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.
• Electronics Recycling – 6 to 11 a.m., Lockport Public Works, 17112 Prime Blvd., Lockport. For information, visit www.willcountygreen.com.
• Erin's Law child sexual abuse community forums – 9 a.m. and 7 p.m., VVSD Administration Center, 755 Dalhart Ave., Romeoville. Parents and guardians will get a firsthand look at the information children in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade will hear and also ask questions. For information, visit www.vvsd.org.
• Illinois JobLink – 10 a.m.; also 10:30 a.m. Jan. 27, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.
• Encore Resale Shop – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and the first Saturday of the month, Silver Cross Hospital Campus, 710 Cedar Crossings Drive, New Lenox. For information, call 815-300-7642 or the hospital's volunteer services at 815-300-7117.
• Career Café – 10:30 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.
• Industry Orientation – 1:30 p.m.; also 9:30 a.m. Jan. 27, Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. Register at www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.
• Electronics Recycling – 5 to 7 p.m., 57 W. Marion St., Joliet. For information, visit www.willcountygreen.com.
• Facebook – 6:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.
• Memory Clippers – 9 a.m. to noon, Manhattan Township Historical Society, 255 S. State St., Manhattan. Digitize and organize artifacts. Email manhattanhistorical@yahoo.com.
• Re-employment Workshop – 9:30 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.
• Successful Interviewing – 2:30 p.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Joliet. May schedule individual, digitally recorded mock interview. One hour. Free. For information, visit www.jobs4people.org or call 815-727-4444.
• ESL Conversation Group – 3 p.m., White Oak Library District, Crest Hill Branch, 20670 Len Kubinski Drive, Crest Hill. Call 815-552-4185 or visit whiteoaklibrary.org.
• Prom/Homecoming Dress Resale – 4 to 7 p.m., Lockport Township High School East Campus community room, 1333 E. 7th St., Lockport. Dresses accepted for resale or donation. Sellers set own price. LTHS Foundation directs 25 percent of sales to student scholarships. Student volunteers needed. Call 815-588-8121.
• Intermediate Microsoft Word – 6:30 p.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.
• Weekly Job Fair – 9 to 11 a.m., Workforce Center of Will County, 2400 Glenwood Ave., Suite 100, Joliet. Drivers, independent living coach, job coaches, light assemblers, package handlers, retail merchandiser, security officers, team leaders, warehouse loaders/unloaders and warehouse workers. For more information, visit www.jobs4people.org.
• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m., Wilmington Public Library District, 201 S. Kankakee St., Wilmington.
• English as a Second Language Conversation Club – 10 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., Plainfield Public Library District, 15025 S. Illinois St., Plainfield. Call 815-263-8145 or email thess@plainfieldpubliclibrary.org.
• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 9:30 a.m. to noon, Frankfort Public Library District, 21119 S. Pfeiffer Road, Frankfort.
• 11th Annual Soup & Sandwich Day – 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, corner of Clara and Larkin avenues, Joliet. Homemade chili, cream of broccoli, and hearty beef and wild rice soups. Italian beef and chicken salad sandwiches. Desserts and beverages: à la carte.
• Friends of the Library Winter Book Sale – 1 to 5 p.m.; and 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jan. 30, Mokena Community Public Library District, 11327 W. 195th St., Mokena. Novels, children's books, puzzles, games, DVDs, CDs. For information, call 708-479-9663 or visit www.mokenalibrary.org.
• Will County Mobile Workforce Center – 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., Mokena Public Library, 11327 W. 195th St., Mokena.
• ACT Free Practice Test – 9:30 a.m., Fountaindale Public Library District, 300 W. Briarcliff Road, Bolingbrook. Grades 9 to 12. Call 630-759-2102 or visit fountaindale.org.
• 5th Annual Prom/Homecoming Dress Resale – 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; also Jan. 29, Lockport Township High School East Campus cafeteria and gym lobby, 1333 E. 7th St., Lockport. For information, call 815-588-8121.
call 815-552-4230 or visit www.whiteoaklibrary.org.
• Breakfast Buffet – 8 a.m. to noon, St Mary Immaculate Parish gym, 15629 S. Route 59, Plainfield. Scrambled eggs, sausage, French toast, juice, coffee. Hosted by Knights of Columbus Good Shepard Council #5573. Benefits charities. Bring donation for Plainfield Interfaith Food Pantry.
• Early Childhood Education Programs open house – 2 to 3 p.m., Program Center, 10925 W. La Porte Road, Mokena. For more information, call Mokena Park District at 708-390-2401 or visit www.mokenapark.com.


Publicado por Alex en 7:17 p. m.
This week I have reached 10K visits. I would like to say thank you to everyone who have read this blog.
Also I would like to dedicate to Japanese people, and all heroes of Fukushima, without them the disaster could have been worse.
I wish I will reach 25K visits as soon as possible and I could explain it with better news.
Publicado por Alex en 8:04 p. m.
Maven Verifier Plugin, is a Maven Plugin that is used for verifying the existence of certain conditions into files content. These conditions are expressed in form of regular expression, so if regular expression is matched in defined resources content, no error is showed, if not, build fails and error message is shown indicating which file does not matches the given expression.
Why I find this plugin useful? Usually my projects have three execution environments, one for unit testing, another for integration/acceptance test and production one. As you can imagine, each one has its configuration, like database configuration. Each environment has a different database, for example unit testing has a HSQL engine, while integration and production have a PostgreSQL. For dealing with that problem I usually create three different Spring files, each one loading required properties, and depending on environment, the applicationContext is modified for importing required resources. Let's look another example, in my work, I develop planners for instruments, in integration tests, an emulator is used, while in acceptance tests and production, as you can imagine we are using a real instrument. For that reason, we must inject into our business objects, which driver to use (emulator driver or real driver), and as you can imagine two spring files are created and are imported into application context depending on the stage of building.
The problem with changing importing files in applicationContext depending on environment, resides that implies a manual human process, and because it is human, an error can occurs and delivery a version with incorrect configured application context. Meanwhile Spring Framework 3.1 is not released as stable version (Spring Profiles would resolve that problem), Maven Verifier Plugin can help us to avoid that problem.
In our Continuous Integration System, one of our steps before releasing a version is check that all configuration files are configured with correct values, keep in mind that I have showed only two examples, but some other values are changed between development environment and production environment, like time constants, file locations, log level ... Thanks of that plugin this checking procedure is executed automatically.
<verificationFile> tag is where you configure which files should be verified and which rules should be applied.
In this example we are verifying that property-placeholder defined in applicationContext.xml are loading properties from META-INF/spring and not from any other location. Same approach can be used for verifying injected beans, constants, log level ... case that any verification does not matches, the build result would be a fail.
Although I always though myself "hey men this could not happen to me", one day, and you don't know whyhappens, and you upload code not correctly configured, and when VVT department starts verifications, project starts to crash, and then all test protocol should be cancelled, you must change one line, upload one line change to repository, re-deploy all application, and start again.
Since that day, I always create a regular expression for assuring that when my code is deployed for production, all configuration files contains correct values.
When Spring Framework 3.1 sees the light all will be different, meanwhile and for legacy code, try Maven Verifier Plugin.
Publicado por Alex en 8:46 p. m.
From Wikipedia "Maven is a software tool for project management and build automation.". Most of us in our projects are using Maven as a build tool. As you probably know, the main file in Maven is POM (Project Object Model).
POM file provides all configuration for a single project, like name, dependencies, plugins to be used, ... In large projects, you divide your project in several subprojects, each one with its POM. In this case it is a good practice to create a root POM through which one can compile all the modules with a single command. Also a parent POM can be defined for common plugins or configurations.
After this brief Maven introduction I expose a recurrent problem that I had with Maven. The problem is that in each project I started, I made a copy paste of POM files from my previous project to the new one. After some copy paste projects, I decided to create three templates, one for parent POM, another for project/subprojects, and one settings.xml that although this file is computer dependent, some configuration like repository server username/password and plugins repository are specified for all computers.
Distribution Server for uploading/downloading Artifacts.
Some reports for assuring quality.
SCM configuration for some Source Control Managers.
Definition of useful Maven plugins.
settings.xml file contains elements used for defining Maven configuration.
tag <localrepository> an alternative directory for storing local artifacts rather than home directory. I really don't like use my home directory as local repository, because my personal documents are mixed with dependencies.
tag <servers> for specifying login and password for snapshot and release repository server. I use Nexus Repository Manager for uploading/downloading artifacts, and is common that each developer has its authentication data.
tag <pluginrepository> where I inform Maven where it can download plugins. In my case Nexus Repository, but an external repository can also be used. This information is present in settings.xml because you can run Maven without any project created previously (when start a project with archetypes). And in this case Maven will use settings.xml for finding where plugins should be downloaded.
POMs that extend a parent POM inherit certain values from that parent. This is useful for defining typical values that are shared across all projects. Moreover a parentPOM should acts as aggregation POM too, because of aggregation, one can release all subprojects simply goaling this file.
tag <packaging> must be pom.
tag <properties> defines servers location.
tag <build> defining directory locations for classes, resources, test classes, ... Although it is the default Maven configuration, I prefer having always present in POM files so no misunderstanding can occurs.
tag <plugins> I define 3 plugins: maven-compiler-plugin that should only compile with version 1.6, maven-deploy-plugin for deploying project, and versions-maven-plugin for managing project/dependencies versions.
tag <reporting> only one reporting is executed in each execution, and this is maven-surefire-report-plugin used for reporting why a JUnit test has failed.
tag <profiles> defines two profiles. One called source-javadoc that generates a zip file with project source files, and an archive with project javadoc too. Can be executed with option -Psource-javadoc. The other profile is called metrics. This profile executes report plugins for creating reports about Source Quality. Because it is an expensive process, I define them in a different profile rather than default, so in my Continuous Integration System, does not executed every night but once per week. Plugins are: maven-site-plugin, cobertura-maven-plugin, maven-checkstyle-plugin, maven-pmd-plugin and findbugs-maven-plugin.
tag <dependencies> I define common dependencies across all projects. As you can imagine, these dependencies are about testing, so JUnit is defined for testing, Mockito for mocking and Hamcrest.
tag <repositories> defines repositories where artifacts will be uploaded/downloaded. It is a good practice to have a central artifact repository in your company divided between Snapshots and Release jars. In our case Nexus Repository Manager is used. Tag <id>  inside  is used in settings.xml for specifying login and password of identified server.
Template POM is standard POM for all projects/subprojects. In this POM you will define specific configuration of each project, like name, version, ... and this POM is which inherits superPOM but also superPOM aggregates it using <module> tag.
In this file should be configured the groupId and artifactId with project specific configuration.
These three files are available here, feel free to download, use, and modify them. If you have any suggestion, it would be a pleasure to watch and adding to that files.
Publicado por Alex en 12:32 p. m.
Chrome Developer Tools are tools that comes with Google Chrome Browser that allows web developers and programmers deep access into the internals of the browser and their web application.
In this post I will only write about using Chrome Dev Tools for detecting performance problems, auditing problems (Chrome also suggests you how to fix them), and a possible implementation for fixing them.
For this purpose I have developed a web application with Spring Roo. It is defined by a simple Entity called Person that has only two attributes, name and age. Spring Roo is a next-generation rapid application development tool for Java developers. With Roo you can easily build full Java applications in minutes. In this case will create a website with CRUD operations for Person entity.
For accessing to Developer Tools, you should open Google Chrome Browser, and then go to Tool Icon -> Tools -> Developer Tools or Ctrl+Shift+I.
Elements: In this tab you can inspect HTML code and CSS code. When you select an element, this element is highlighted in the browser, and its CSS properties are shown. These CSS properties can be modified on-the-fly and see immediately how change is affected.
Network: In this tab, you see for each resource how much time is took between is requested and is sent. Each request is summarized in a time-line graph, and ordering by time you can see which resources are slowest to be received.
Timeline: Is the next tab that is really interesting to making a performance diagnostic. Time-line tab is more or less like Network tab, but instead of showing networking time, it shows time spent by browser like sending requests, evaluating scripts, painting components, ... Also has a sub-tab for watching memory consumption.
Profile: This tab is a typical profiler but for browsers.
Enable Gzip compression: browser has the feature of decompressing data encoded with gzip. If you are using Rest application with Spring check out this blog: http://www.oudmaijer.com/2011/02/23/spring-resttemplate-and-gzip-compression-continued/ if not, and you are using Spring MVC you can try implementing a HandlerInterceptor. The most global solution is showed in http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/filters.html where a Filter is used for compressing output. In summary what all solutions do is checking if request header (generated by browser) supports gzip Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate and if it is the case compress response stream and modifies response header to notify to web client that content is encoded in gzip Content-Encoding: gzip.
If you have any performance problem in your web application, thanks of Google Chrome you can make an initial diagnostic and see where time is lost (client or server side). Also you can take a look of what Google Chrome Audit suggests you for making your application loading faster.
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Publicado por Alex en 7:01 p. m.
Testing asynchronous systems are difficult, especially because your tests can fail because of true invalid assertion, but also because your asynchronous system has not had time to process the request and assertion fails. This scenario is typical in JMS environments. With Unit Testing you write a mock that "simulates" JMS behavior, but in case of integration tests, you use a real JMS server for validating all scenario and then some help for dealing with time problem would be welcomed.
Imagine that we have the next requirement: "when a new user is registered into application, user information should be sent to a JMS Queue".
Moreover when JMS Consumer consumes the user information, it should insert it into database.
Let's write integration tests for these requirements.
//Publish an asynchronous event to a JMS system.
Previous test could fail not because of bad code (bug), but because takes more time of publishing and inserting user into repository, than querying to repository and executing assertion.
This solution is about wating 5 seconds to give time to consumer for inserting data. It is a possible solution, but I find it hard to read, not a clean solution. In my opinion code should be "human readable", even tests (think about why Hamcrest is important).
Awaitility allows you to express expectations of an asynchronous system in a concise and easy to read manner, avoiding you from dealing with handling threads, timeouts and concurrency issues.
See that unit test is executing the same, but you agree that with Awaitility is cleaner, you can read without any doubt that at most it will wait 5 seconds until new user is added, expired that time, a timeout exception is thrown. But, what does newUserIsAdded() method? It is a simply callback.
Internally Awaitility has a polling time (100ms by default), meaning that every 100ms the callback is called, if finally returns true, polling is stopped, if not, the exception is thrown.
Awaitility also supports a waiting depending on a class attribute instead of a method call. It is like watching a flag until it changes its value. I prefer callback approach, in front of monitoring a private attribute, because of breaking encapsulation, but I will explain how to do it because it is another possibility.
And that's Awaitility, as I have already mentioned, Awaitility gives you the possibility of expressing expectations in asynchronous integrations tests.


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Q: List not filling properly So, i have this bit of code that is supposed to go through a list of products, link them up with their price and then display the product with the price as a 'display item' to the user on a webpage
for product in product_list:
    p = PricedProduct.objects.filter(proid=product)
    p.order_by('date')

    dp = DisplayProduct
    dp.proid = product.id
    dp.proname = product.productname

    print(product.productname)

    dp.proprice = p[0].value
    displaylist.insert(0,dp)

this is where i link up the item to the price the 'print' method is currently showing:
Apple
Banana
However when i run:
for dp in displaylist:
    print(dp.proname)

it shows:
Banana
Banana
Can anyone tell me why this is happening, as its causing my web page to just show 2 bananas instead of an apple and a banana

A: You do not initialize a DisplayProduct, you simply set dp to be a reference to the DisplayProduct class, and as a result, you change fields of the class directly:
for product in product_list:
    p = PricedProduct.objects.filter(proid=product)
    p.order_by('date')

    dp = DisplayProduct()  # construct a new DisplayProduct
    dp.proid = product.id
    dp.proname = product.productname

    print(product.productname)

    dp.proprice = p[0].value
    displaylist.insert(0,dp)
Note that this code is rather inefficient: by inserting at the top, you construct an algorithm with time complexity O(n2). Appending at the end of the list is usually more efficient (since it has amortized cost O(1)). In case you need to reverse the list, it is better to reverse at the end.
I would also advice to construct a proper initializer for DisplayProduct (perhaps your class already has a proper initialzier), so that we can rewrite it to:
for product in product_list:
    p = PricedProduct.objects.filter(proid=product)
    p.order_by('date')

    # might require some changes to the __init__ of DisplayProduct
    dp = DisplayProduct(
        proid=product.id,
        proname=product.productname,
        proprice=p[0].value
    )

    print(product.productname)

    # appending is more efficient than prepending
    displaylist.append(dp)

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The MUC gene family: Their role in the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric cancer
Shantibhusan Senapati, Poonam Sharma, Sangeeta Bafna, Hemant K. Roy, Surinder K. Batra
Early diagnosis of gastric cancer and its differential diagnosis from other non-malignant gastric diseases like gastritis is still a major clinical problem. Most patients are asymptomatic in the early stages of gastric cancer, and there is no reliable marker available for the early and specific diagnosis of gastric cancer. Many attempts have been made to define the biological profile of gastric cancer to improve the chances of its early diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. Several studies have shown the aberrant expression profile of mucins in different malignancies, suggesting that mucins have a great potential to be used as a diagnostic and prognostic marker in gastric cancer. In this review, we have briefly described the different types of gastric adenocarcinomas and the progression of gastric cancer. Furthermore, the role of mucins and their related carbohydrate epitope is discussed in the normal stomach and in the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric adenocarcinomas.
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Senapati, S., Sharma, P., Bafna, S., Roy, H. K., & Batra, S. K. (2008). The MUC gene family: Their role in the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric cancer. Histology and Histopathology, 23(12), 1541-1552.
The MUC gene family : Their role in the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric cancer. / Senapati, Shantibhusan; Sharma, Poonam; Bafna, Sangeeta; Roy, Hemant K.; Batra, Surinder K.
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Senapati, S, Sharma, P, Bafna, S, Roy, HK & Batra, SK 2008, 'The MUC gene family: Their role in the diagnosis and prognosis of gastric cancer', Histology and Histopathology, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 1541-1552.
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Xbox One's Ryse Gets New "Ides of March" Achievements
Three new achievements worth 250 gamerscore available now in Crytek's ancient Rome game.
By Eddie Makuch on March 27, 2015 at 8:21AM PDT
Ryse: Son of Rome
Xbox One launch title Ryse: Son of Rome has introduced three new achievements, each of which is themed around the "Ides of March," known in history as the date Julius Caesar was assassinated.
Two are available in the game's multiplayer mode, while the third is a campaign-based challenge. Below is a breakdown of the three new achievements.
"Beware the Ides of March" (100 gamerscore) -- Players must complete fifteen multiplayer executions in a single match.
"Lunacy in March" (100 gamerscore) -- Simply play seven matches on the Barbarous map to earn the achievement.
"Et Tu, Brute" (50 gamerscore) -- Save the Emperor in the first chapter and then kill him in chapter eight, all in one consecutive playthrough.
Ryse was released in November 2013 as an Xbox One launch title. In his 4/10 review, GameSpot reviewer Mark Walton praised the game's gorgeous visuals, but lamented the combat for being shallow and repetitive. The game has since been released for PC.
Developer Crytek owns the rights to the Ryse franchise and is currently considering working on a sequel for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4, though no such project has been officially announced.
For a closer look at Ryse, check out the images in the gallery below.
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Keeley Hawes (Upstairs Downstairs) stars as an intrepid widow who decamps from dreary England to a sun-dappled Greek island with her four recalcitrant children, ages 11 to 21, on this adaptation of Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its two sequels.
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SAN MARINO[edit]
(See reference map V)
LAND[edit]
62 km2; 74% cultivated, 22% meadows and pastures, 4% built on
Land boundaries: 34 km
PEOPLE[edit]
Population: 22,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.6%
Nationality: noun—Sanmarinese (sing. and pl.); adjective—Sanmarinese
Literacy: 97%
Labor force: approx. 4,300
Organized labor: General Democratic Federation of San-marinese Workers (affiliated with ICFTU) has about 1,800 members; Communist-dominated Camera del Lavoro, about 1,000 members
Official name: Republic of San Marino
Type: republic (dates from 4th century A.D.); in 1862 the Kingdom of Italy concluded a treaty guaranteeing the independence of San Marino; although legally sovereign, San Marino is vulnerable to pressure from the Italian Government
Capital: San Marino
Political subdivisions: San Marino is divided into 9 castelli: Acquaviva, Borgo Maggiore, Chiesanuova, Dogmanano, Faetano, Fiorentino, Monte Giardino, San Marino, Serravalle
Legal system: based on civil law system with Italian law influences; electoral law of 1926 serves some of the functions of a constitution; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
National holidays: 1 April, 1 October
Branches: the Grand and General Council is the legislative body elected by popular vote; its 60 members serve five-year terms; Council in turn elects two Captains-Regent who exercise executive power for term of six months, the Council of State whose members head government administrative departments, and the Council of Twelve, the supreme judicial body; actual executive power is wielded by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of State for Internal Affairs
Government leaders: since 17 July 1978 Secretary of State for Foreign and Political Affairs and for Information, Giordano Bruno REFFI (Socialist); Secretary of State for Internal Affairs and Justice, Alvaro SELVA (Communist); Secretary of State for Budget, Finance, and Planning, Emilio BALDO (Unitary Socialist)
Suffrage: universal (since 1960)
Elections: elections to the Grand and General Council required at least every five years; an election was held 28 May 1978
Political parties and leaders: Christian Democratic Party (DCS), Gian Luigi Berti; Social Democratic Party (PSDSM), Alvaro Casali; Socialist Party (PSS), Remy Giacomini; Communist Party (PCS), Umberto Barulli; People's Democratic Party (PDP), leader unknown; Committee for the Defense of the Republic (CDR), leader unknown
Voting strength (1974 election): 39.6% DCS, 23.7% PCS, 15.4% PSDIS, 13.9% PSS, 1.9% PDP, 2.9% CDR
Communists: approx. 300 members (number of sympathizers cannot be determined); PSS, in government with Christian Democrats since March 1973, formed a government with the PCS from the end of World War II to 1957
Other political parties or pressure groups: political parties influenced by policies of their counterparts in Italy, the two Socialist parties are not united
Member of: ICJ, International Institute for Unification of Private Law, International Relief Union, IRC, UPU, WTO
Principal economic activities of San Marino are farming, livestock raising, light manufacturing, and tourism; the largest share of government revenue is derived from the sale of postage stamps throughout the world and from payments by the Italian Government in exchange for Italy's monopoly in retailing tobacco, gasoline, and a few other goods; main problem is finding additional funds to finance badly needed water and electric power systems expansions
Agriculture: principal crops are wheat (average annual output about 4,400 metric tons/year) and grapes (average annual output about 700 metric tons/year); other grains, fruits, vegetables, and animal feedstuffs are also grown; livestock population numbers roughly 6,000 cows, oxen, and sheep; cheese and hides are most important livestock products
Electric power: all power is imported from Italy (1981)
Manufacturing: consists mainly of cotton textile production at Serravalle, brick and tile production at Dogane, cement production at Acquaviva, Dogane, and Fiorentino, and pottery production at Borgo Maggiore; some tanned hides, paper, candy, baked goods, Moscato wine, and gold and silver souvenirs are also produced
Foreign transactions: dominated by tourism; in summer months 20,000 to 30,000 foreigners visit San Marino every day; several hotels and restaurants have been built in recent years to accommodate them; remittances from Sanmarinese abroad also represent an important net foreign inflow; commodity trade consists primarily of exchanging building stone, lime, wood, chestnuts, wheat, wine, baked goods, hides, and ceramics for a wide variety of consumer manufactures
COMMUNICATIONS[edit]
Railroads: none
Highways: about 104 km
Civil air: no major transport aircraft
Airfields: none
Telecommunications: automatic telephone system serving 6,800 telephones (32.3 per 100 popl.); no radiobroadcasting or television facilities
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Every year, in honor of Black History Month, Upstate's Faculty and Staff Association for Diversity gives two awards: one to an employee who "lives Upstate's mission of service to our community" and one to a member of the community for "leadership in our community. " This year's award recipients are E. Geralyn (Geri) Hall, a family nurse practitioner at Upstate's University Health Care Center, and The Rev. Phil M. Turner, pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Syracuse. They receive their awards at the opening ceremony on Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Many of Hall's patients have spent decades in refugee camps and made it to Syracuse with only the clothes on their backs. Hall tries to learn to say a few words in the languages of each of her patients.
Hall works three long days a week serving patients at Upstate and teaches first-year internal medicine residents, guiding many of them through their first experiences providing basic women's health care to refugees and inner-city residents. She volunteers at the Poverello health clinic on Syracuse's northside and at health clinics for migrant farm workers in Oswego County. Hall's work with international communities began in the 1970s when she travelled to St. Lucia to rebuild housing after a devastating hurricane. In the 1980s, Hall learned Spanish in Bolivia and worked at a Somali refugee camp and with indigenous people in the mountains and slums of Peru.
Hall is married to David Pasinski, who is also devoted to issues of social justice, and is a part-time chaplain at Hutchings Psychiatric Center and Onondaga Community College. They have two teenaged children, Mariah and Micah.
Pastor Turner is profiled in another blog post.
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Meizu Pro 6 Android Smartphone is the latest Mobile Phone from a Chinese company. Although, they are not popular doesn't mean that they can't make cheap and portable smartphone.
Meizu Pro 6 is a new flagship, also comes with a deca-core processor, 10 cores. a 21-megapixel rear camera with a ring flash, 4GB of RAM, a minimum of 32GB of storage, the price is about $385.
Innovative touch technology, excellent single-handed usability, great components and high speed internet make the Meizu PRO 6 light and powerful. Likewise, other numerous Android Smartphone out there, the Meizu Pro 6 brings amazing phone quality to the table.
Meizu Pro 6 camera is wonderful, just like the Oukitel K6000 Pro 4G Android Phablets but the most interesting stuff is that Meizu's Pro 6 comes with a crazy 10-core processor. Although, Bluboo X550 LTE(4G) SmartPhone is also a match.
Anyways, the Meizu Pro 6 might be a futuritic Smartphone but the high-tech display and functions are equally amazing and eye-piercing. I wouldn't say the Meizu Pro 6 is affordable, tho the bezels and borders on the top and bottom are much more slimmer and thinner.


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Sex and the TV: how television evolved from pregnancy scandals to 'pegging'
The proliferation of television has brought more extreme sex, the invention of sexposition and portrayals of sexuality that havent been seen before
A man lies on the floor in his boxer shorts with a gag in his mouth and his hands are hogtied. A dominatrix stands above him smoking a cigarette and tells him that hes in need of correction. She puts her cigarette out on his chest. He grimaces in pain but doesnt seem fazed.
You would think such a scene would be in a porno or on a fetish site like Kink.com. You would be wrong. It is actually the opening scene of Showtimes Billions, which stars Damien Lewis. The man being dominated is Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti. This is the very first image of the show, one that sets its stall out with extreme sex as its opening act.
Sex on television is nothing new, and there have been plenty of scandals since Lucille Ball, who was pregnant during one season of I Love Lucy, wasnt allowed to use the word pregnant on screen. Maude made headlines in 1972 when the title character had an abortion, and that was four years before Charlies Angels brought in the age of jiggle television, which was lambasted for being salacious. In the 80s a number of advertisers pulled out of a Thirtysomething episode that featured two men lying in bed together. Five years later, ABC almost pulled an episode of Roseanne where the title character kisses a woman.
The 90s saw sex on TV push more boundaries. In 1990, Madonnas Justify My Love video was banned on MTV, but three years later, NYPD Blue made it safe for some cursing and backsides to be shown on network television. The TV sex scandal of the 00s was the Super Bowl nipple heard around the world, when Janet Jackson suffered a wardrobe malfunction in 2004. Despite all the outrage at the time, CBS has never paid a fine for the incident. Now weve gotten to the point that sexposition (the combination of exposition with sex scenes) is an actual thing on Game of Thrones.
There have been all sorts of flagrante delicto happening on screen, but there is something about the sex that were seeing now that is much more extreme.
On FXs American Horror Story: Hotel, depictions of group sex in all sorts of gender configurations were about as common as one of Lady Gagas fierce outfits. ABCs Mistresses also ventured into the threeway frontier. A whole episode of Comedy Centrals Broad City revolved around Abbi really getting into pegging with her new man. On ABC, the same network that almost didnt air the Thirtysomething gay episode, How to Get Away with Murder not only shows oral sex between a man and a woman, but also explicit contact between two men. That really makes that Thirtysomething kerfuffle seem quaint, doesnt it?
And lets not forget about the more specific fetishes out there. Foxs Scream Queens had a character who was really, really into necrophilia, though we never see him carry it out. The Knick has a story that revolves around a foot fetish. And Game of Thrones most prominent couple has been committing incest before our very eyes for six seasons now.
The biggest trend [with sex on television] is the pornification of mainstream television, says Melissa Henson, a program director at the conservative Parents Television Council, which tracks images of sex and violence on broadcast television. Were seeing not only more references to pornography but more behaviors associated with pornography: threesomes, BDSM or other kinky fetishistic behavior treated as very normative.
Littlefinger is Game of Thrones sexposition specialist. Photograph: Helen Sloan/HBO
Bob Thompson, a professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University, agrees that there is more extreme sex on television than ever before. There is more sex on television because there is more everything on television. There is just more television, he says pointing not just to the rise of scintillating images on cable and premium channels like HBO, but also the original programming thats being created by Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. Also, unlike network television or even cable, all of these new places for television content dont have the same rules and restrictions about how graphic they can be.
Because of that proliferation of television, not only are the stakes higher than ever to get attention, but so is the competition. After 15 to 16 years of these great shows like The Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad, writing a TV show now and making an effort to have it stand out and doing original things is getting harder and harder to do, Thompson says. One of the ways one does that is through portrayals of sexuality that havent been seen too much before.
Dr Sari Locker, a sexuality educator at Columbia University who worked in the television industry, says that the sitcoms of the 90s like Seinfeld, Friends, and especially Sex and the City pushed the envelope. She says that when those shows went into syndication and started airing during the middle of the day, it allowed shows on later at night to be freer than ever before.
Still there has been a change since then. We went from hearing about oral to anal contact on Sex and the City, when they talk about tuckus lingus, to actually seeing it on Girls, she says, referencing a scene last season where the characters Marnie and Desi engage in an activity that isnt usually covered in a sex ed class.
Thompson points out that the change from prim sitcoms where married couples slept in separate beds to Samantha having sex in a sling on Sex in the City was pretty quick. Up until the 70s, regular human beings had way more sex than people on TV because they werent having any sex at all, he says. By the 90s people on TV were having way more sex than regular human beings.
Locker says that translates into viewers everyday sex lives. Many Americans feel their sex lives are not hot enough, they feel the need to spice up their sex lives to keep with TV sex scenes, she says. As soon as a topic is seen on TV, my email inbox is flooded with people asking questions about whether or not they should try that act. People are impacted by images they see. That is a direct effect that is occurring after every episode.
The Parents Television Council is worried that will have a negative impact on Americas youth. An unfortunate consequence is that its putting pressure on young men and women to engage in behaviors that would have been previously considered extreme and do things they may be uncomfortable with, she says. Its putting an expectation on them to do things that are distasteful or uncomfortable to them, that they have to do it in order to fit in.
But now that the cat is out of the bag (dont worry, cats in bags is not a sexual term) its going to be hard to stop the escalation of sex on television. However, once the more fringe areas are explored, its also going to be harder to push the boundaries. What we saw for the last 10 years, it was like TV sexuality was settling into a new frontier, Thompson says. What were seeing is that frontier is more populated. There are fewer empty lots.
From HBOs The Cathouse to Showtimes Gigolos, there are reality shows that are unafraid to give the audience softcore porn, if thats what theyre looking for (and occassionally, that is just what Outlander looks like as well). Its only a matter of time until one of the dramas on a subscription service or cable is just as raunchy as the Skinemax movies of old. After that, the only way to push the envelope will be to show straight-up penetration. As libertine as we might be, it doesnt seem like the American public is nearly ready for that. But if Billions gets bored with hedge funds, maybe it could become about the porn industry in season two. Theyre halfway there already.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2016/apr/27/sex-tv-television-girls-sex-and-the-city-game-of-thrones


Dr Suparna Jain is a board-certified pediatric endocrinologist. She sees the breadth of pediatric endocrinology including thyroid problems, growth disorders, puberty issues and rare problems related to hormone imbalances whether in the brain, adrenal glands,reproductive organs or pancreas. She is a consultant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she assists in the management of endocrine problems in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and on the general pediatric in-patient wards. We are very fortunate to have her experience and expertise at Tenth Street Peds.
Dr Lisa Stern spent a year training in Pediatric Hematology-Oncology at UCLA. Her experience puts her in a position to co-manage children being followed at tertiary care centers for problems related to blood diseases and childhood cancers.


Vincent is the graphic biography of Vincent Van Gogh. The book is published by SelfMadeHero-under its Art Masters series. Some of the other books in the series include Rembrandt and Pablo Picasso, which was reviewed here.
The graphic novel does not cover the entire life of Van Gogh , but focus mainly on his move to Provence in southern France. It sheds light into his intense artistic endeavour during that period of time, including his troubling friendship with Paul Gauguin-another Titan in Post Impressionism.
This is a superb graphic novel by Barbara Stok. She gives the reader an overview of Van Gogh's life-from his inner workings as an artist to the letters with his brother- Theo, who stoutly believes in Van Gogh. Stok delves into Van Gogh's life and creates a sensitive portrait of the artist, which connects with the reader.
The artworks is simple and effective, almost simplistic with a touch of Chris Ware's style.
There are some interesting elements that Barbara Stok used - eg, the lines will be wavy or zig-zag at times. Some of the scenes are devoid of text , with clever use of the drawings to tease out the content and the panels are very succinct and clear in terms of the story pacing.
It's a great graphic novel for anyone who wants to know more of Van Gogh's life in the annals of art history.


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Q: Asynchronous code is ignoring the calls and running my functions at the same time or even before another function called prior has run. in node.js I am creating a slack bot that accesses Spotify API to do things such as play songs, queue songs, skip songs, and report the currently playing track.
The problem is when trying to skip a song and then access the new current song and lastly report it to the slack chat. the function calls are as follows:

*

*Reacting -> skipSong()

*skipsong( accesscurrentsong( ))

*accesscurrentsong( postNewCurrentSong() )

Despite the function calls being very much in that order the app is running the functions in this order:

*

*accesscurrentsong( postNewCurrentSong() )

*skipsong( accesscurrentsong( ))

as you can probably tell this ends up posting the song that was skipped and then skipping the song. Does anyone have any idea how I can best make this synchronous?
Thank you.
reaction listener:

app.event("reaction_added", async ({ event }) => {
  console.log(event);
  const reaction = event.reaction;
  if (reaction === "hankey") {
    skipSong();
  }
});

Access current song:

const accessCurrentSong = (token) => {
const options = {
   url: "https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player",
   headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` },
   json: true,
     };
  try{
  request.get(options, function (error, response, body) {
    if (error) {
      console.error(error);
    } else {
      const { name, artists, duration_ms, album } = body.item;
      SONG = name;
     ARTISTS = getArtists(artists);
      DURATION = convertDuration(duration_ms);
      IMAGE_URL = album.images[0].url;
      RELEASE_DATE = album.release_date;
      DEVICE_ID = body.device.id;
      console.log(
        `Song Title: ${SONG} \nArtist: ${ARTISTS} \n${DURATION}
 \n ${IMAGE_URL} \n ${DEVICE_ID}`
      );
      postCurrentSong(SONG, ARTISTS, DURATION, IMAGE_URL,
RELEASE_DATE)
      }
  });
} catch {
   refreshToken();
   accessCurrentSong(ACCESS_TOKEN)
}
}

skip current song:

const skipSong = () => {
   const skipOptions = {
    url: `https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/next?
device_id=${DEVICE_ID}`,
    headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}` },
    json: true,
  };

  request.post(skipOptions, function (err, response) {
    if (err) console.log("error occurred");
    else console.log(`song skipped\n ${response}`);
  });
   accessCurrentSong(ACCESS_TOKEN)
 };

I have some console.log for testing in each function and they're being logged seemingly at the same time. even though access current song isn't called until the end of the skip function the access current song test is logged after the first skip test log and before the last skip output.


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An Oncology certified registered nurse who will provide individualized assistance to cancer patients, their families and caregivers.
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A Nurse Navigator will provide you with referrals to community resources.
It is our commitment and privilege to be with you every step of the way. We are available to help you meet your physical, social, emotional, cultural and spiritual needs.
The Cancer Information Service is the National Cancer Institute's link to the public, interpreting and explaining research findings in a clear and understandable manner. Callers also have the option of listening to recorded information about cancer 24 hours a day 7 days a week.


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When we think about purchasing a new home, one of the first things many people think about is being able to qualify for a mortgage. Most individuals automatically believe that their bank is the best place to start searching for an affordable loan. Unfortunately, most people don't even realize that several different options are available for them to be able to secure a home loan. As one of the Top Mortgage Originators throughout the region, AmeriSouth Mortgage Company has the experience and professional know-how to find the best mortgage solutions for our valued clients.
For over the last 28 years, we have been recognized as one of the Top Mortgage Originators, offering comfortable and affordable low-interest mortgage loans to thousands of individuals and families. Our impeccable reputation within the mortgage industry is no secret, which is why we're able to partner up with many of the leading mortgage brokerages, giving us several excellent opportunities to be able to secure your home mortgage. Having several options to choose from when you are acquiring a home loan can save you a significant amount of time and money.
With a full staff of experienced mortgage professionals, AmeriSouth Mortgage Company is the most well-established and dedicated mortgage originator within the entire region. It takes years of continuing knowledge and education to ensure that we find the perfect home loan for all of our valued clients. We understand that every potential homebuyer is unique in the goals, which is why we treat everyone on an individual basis.
The mortgage experts at AmeriSouth Mortgage Company are the Top Mortgage Originators within the tri-state area of NC, SC, and GA. We work with many of the country's highest-rated lending and financing companies, along with a long list of trusted mortgage brokers to present you with the most options and offers possible. Instead of a traditional loan through a bank that gives you just the one offer, we can find mortgage solutions from various sources, ensuring you the best possible investment.
Our job is to work directly with you to help you secure the most affordable mortgage for the purchase of your new home. We diligently keep in close contact with all of our partners and aggressively pursue a new way to meet your specific goals and requirements. As a trustworthy and assertive mortgage broker, we have the means and the methods of providing you with great options that offer competitive, low-interest rate mortgages.
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The Mexican film industry has been able to take advantage of streaming platforms to adapt, and even innovate, its cinematographic products, with the aim of supplying a new audience that has similarly learned to consume films outside the cinemas. In a country where nearly two hundred films are produced each year, and half of them do not make it to theaters, the emergence of digital distribution spaces emerges as an unavoidable and necessary alternative, but also as an object of debate; What kind of online content is the one that should be available? Should it be equal to what is offered in traditional distribution spaces? What is the responsibility assumed by these spaces for the national film offer?
Directed by Joseduardo Giordano and Sergio Goyri Jr., The Sleepless Club tells the story of Danny (Cassandra Ciangherotti), Santiago (Leonardo Ortizgris), and Estela (Alejandra Ambrosi), three frustrated young adults who share their sleeplessness, dreams and failures in a small mini-market where they meet every night.
Although it is unusual for a production to have more than one director, the result is far from justifying this creative commitment. Despite there are characters with clear conflicts, none of them is developed concretely, the film lacks a real climate moment, and most situations lack an outcome that leads to a satisfactory conclusion. To all this is added the fact that Giordano and Goyri Jr. themselves served as scriptwriters, giving them a largely untapped authorial freedom.
From the cast is perhaps Ciangherotti the most remarkable, that between her role as shy, resigned, and sad looking mother, as she executed in '' Timeshare (2018) '', and this movie, where she becomes a rebellious, bitter, and artistic cashier, she demonstrates her talent for mutation in front of the camera while embodying her character with masterful skill. Unfortunately, this actress is left behind by the script, which for no reason decides not to explore the dramatic possibilities of the enigmatic blue haired girl.
The biggest challenge for national productions at the moment is not how to make more movies, but how to get more movies to be seen. The diversification of the ways of watching films should also imply a diversification in the themes and their narrative proposals, otherwise only the old production models would be reaffirmed, without any discourse that favors the new platforms or question the films made under traditional schemes..


It is well known for its failures and showing symptoms such as selector movement, audible whining and grinding as well as gear or synchromesh failure.
While a new gearbox is an expensive repair, most often the gearbox can be repaired provided action is taken quickly or as soon as you notice any of the signs below.
When driving in 5th or 6th the gear stick will move backwards and forwards as you come on and off the throttle.
Whining noises can be heard while in 1st, 2nd, 5th or 6th gear. Sometimes it is more audible in certain gears than others.
If you are experiencing any of the above issues then a Full Bearing repair will most likely be all you need provided action is taken as soon as possible. Failing to repair these issues straight away will eventually lead to a bearing failure and this can break internals of the gearbox or the gearbox housing. If this happens then a new gearbox will be required.
Please call into any A1 Clutches branch for a free diagnostic check.
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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot (December 26, 1827 – April 22, 1895) was a French artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist.
He is noted for the import and release of the spongy moth into North America. The spread of the moths as an invasive species has resulted in the destruction of millions of hardwood trees throughout the eastern United States.

Biography

Trouvelot was born at Aisne, France. During his early years he was apparently involved in politics and had republican leanings. Following a coup d'état by Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte in 1851, he fled with his family to the United States. They settled in the town of Medford, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, at the address of 27 Myrtle St. There he supported himself and his family as an artist and astronomer.

Trouvelot had an interest as an amateur entomologist. In the U.S., silk-producing moths were being killed off by various diseases. Trouvelot was very interested in Lepidoptera larvae including native North American silk moths which he believed could potentially be used for silk production. For reasons that remain unknown, Trouvelot brought some spongy moth egg masses from Europe in the mid-1860s and was raising spongy moth larvae in the forest behind his house. Unfortunately, some of the larvae escaped into the nearby woods. There are conflicting reports on the resulting actions. One states that despite issuing oral and written warnings of possible consequences, no officials were willing to assist in searching out and destroying the moths. The other notes that he was aware of the risk and there is no direct evidence that he contacted government officials.

Shortly following this incident, Trouvelot lost interest in entomology and turned again to astronomy. In this field he could put his skills as an artist to good use by illustrating his observations. His interest in astronomy was apparently aroused in 1870 when he witnessed several auroras.

When Joseph Winlock, the director of Harvard College Observatory, saw the quality of his illustrations, he invited Trouvelot to join the staff there in 1872. In 1875, he was invited to use the U. S. Naval Observatory to use the 26-inch refractor for a year. During the course of his life he produced about 7,000 quality astronomical illustrations. Fifteen of his most superb pastel illustrations were published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1881. He was particularly interested in the Sun, and discovered "veiled spots" in 1875. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1877.

Besides his illustrations, he published about 50 scientific papers.

By 1882, Trouvelot had returned to France and joined the Meudon Observatory where he worked with photography and became engaged in a bitter rivalry with his boss, the astronomer Jules Janssen. This was a few years before the magnitude of the problem caused by his spongy moth release became apparent to the local government of Massachusetts. He died in Meudon, France. The spongy moth was considered a serious pest and attempts were underway to eradicate it (ultimately these were unsuccessful). To this date, the spongy moth continues to expand its range in the United States, and together with other foliage-eating pests, cause an estimated $868 million in annual damages.

Awards and honors
 Valz Prize by the French Academy of Sciences
 The crater Trouvelot on the Moon is named after him.
 The crater Trouvelot on Mars is named after him.

See also
 Spongy moths in the United States
 Camille Flammarion

Gallery

References

External links

 Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings at the NYPL Digital Gallery
 Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images at the NYPL Digital Gallery
 Trouvelot: Moths to Mars
 AAS biography
 Gypsy Moth In North America
 Trouvelot Astronomical Prints Collection, Princeton University Library, 2004
 Pictures of electric sparks and lightning bolts, chromolithographies of the Sun kept at the Library of Paris Observatory

1827 births
1895 deaths
19th-century American astronomers
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
19th-century French astronomers
French illustrators
Animal artists
19th-century American painters

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Diving Otter sculpture by wildlife artist, Bill Prickett.
This hand carved birch plywood otter shows how beautiful plywood sculptures can be if the right subject is chosen and the material is handled in the correct way. The sculpture shown here has been sold, but it can be commissioned. The price will depend on a variety of factors including the size of the carving along with the style and material of the plinth, etc. Please feel free to contact us to discuss a commission. For further information about sculptures carved from birch plywood, please click here.
"I have spent many hours studying otters in Scotland and they are still one of my favourite subjects, here I have tried to capture the beautiful fluidity of the otter as it dives and twists under water forming a helix shape. Two of these otters can be linked together to form a pleasing double helix".
If you are interested in purchasing Bill's work, please get in touch.
Bill Prickett is an established sculptor whose work is held in collections worldwide. He is a previous winner of the David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year – Wildlife in 3D Award.


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Biografia
Per la sua eleganza fuori dal campo Aldo Boffi gli diede il soprannome Fiordaliso.

Dopo la carriera sportiva ha vissuto a Palermo. Col contratto firmato che aveva firmato con il club rosanero comprò un albergo nella natìa Salsomaggiore Terme. Sposò Liliana Pitruzzella, Miss Palermo.

È il padre del pittore Francesco De Grandi.

Caratteristiche tecniche

Giocatore
Era un mediano sinistro con un ottimo controllo di palla e in grado di fornire assist in maniera precisa, così come era abile nei compiti di marcatura delle mezze ali avversarie e nella regia difensiva.

Mentre militava nel Milan, Gianni Brera lo definì il quarto svedese, poiché gli altri tre erano i componenti del Gre-No-Li.

Allenatore
Il suo stile di gioco era offensivo.

Carriera

Giocatore
Giocò con Salsomaggiore, ,  e  prima di passare al , con cui esordì in Serie A il 20 novembre 1949 e vinse uno scudetto e una Coppa Latina nella seconda delle due stagioni in rossonero (1950-1951).

Nel 1951 passò al Palermo. Per la stagione 1954-1955 venne prestato alla , quindi chiuse la carriera con la società rosanero dopo la stagione 1956-1957, nella quale non fu mai impiegato.

In carriera ha totalizzato complessivamente 121 presenze e 9 reti in Serie A.

Allenatore e dirigente
Allenò lo  nel 1964-1965 venendo esonerato a stagione in corso.

Nel 1970-1971 è inizialmente allenatore in seconda del , squadra nella quale aveva militato da calciatore. Nel gennaio 1971 subentra a campionato in corso prendendo il posto dell'esonerato Carmelo Di Bella, suo primo tecnico, sollevato dall'incarico in seguito alla sconfitta per 1-0 contro la . Ottiene la salvezza portando la squadra dal penultimo al 13º posto; confermato anche per la stagione successiva, ottiene la promozione in Serie A dopo aver lottato a lungo per il primo posto e averne ottenuto il terzo finale. Nonostante ciò lasciò i rosanero, dopo che alcune sue richieste di mercato non furono esaudite. Venne sostituito da Umberto Pinardi.

Dopo brevi esperienze sulle panchine del  (subentrato ed esonerato), della Turris e del Bolzano, tornò sulla panchina del Palermo nel 1975-1976, ma questo ciclo fu meno fortunato del primo. Nella stagione successiva divenne direttore sportivo della società rosanero.

È stato anche Direttore Tecnico e osservatore in varie squadre siciliane. A partire dal 2003 ha commentato per alcuni anni le partite del Palermo su TGS.

Palmarès

Giocatore

Club

Competizioni nazionali

Milan: 1950-1951

Competizioni internazionali

Milan: 1951

Note

Bibliografia

Collegamenti esterni

Dirigenti del Palermo F.C.


The Zion Concert Band performs under the direction of Brian Klinger. The band has become very popular, particularly its Veteran's Day Service. The band consists of musicians from youth to senior adults. They perform several times a year during the Traditional Service. Practices are dependent on upcoming performances and are usually on Saturday mornings.
If you presently play an instrument or even if you haven't played since high school or college, you are welcome to join in on the fun!
Men of Zion is made up of men from the choir and congregation. They have practices a few times a year on Wednesday nights and sing 3 times a year usually in December, March, and June.
Sisters of Zion is also made up of women from the choir and congregation. They practice a few times during the year on Wednesday nights and sing in November and May, and for one of the Wednesday Lenten services.
Zion's Senior Choir provides special music for the 9:00 service from September to the beginning of June. They rehearse on Wednesday night at 7:30. Capability to read music is beneficial.
The King's Kids singers range in age from 4 to 8 years old. They practice every Wednesday at 6:45 to 7:15 but usually have off the Wednesday night after they have sung. They sing once a month at the 9:00 service from September to May.
The Senior Handbell Choir is directed by Kim Potocny. All youth to adults are welcome. They perform several times a year and practice each Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM. Previous experience is not necessary.
The Joy Ringers are directed by Alex Stehman.
The Praise Singers are comprised of youth to adults that enjoy singing contemporary Christian music.They are directed by Jody Lynch. Capability to read music is not necessary. If you simply love singing contemporary Christian music, you are welcome to join! The Praise Singers provide music several times during the year at both the Traditional and Contemporary Services. They practice every Sunday Evening at 6:00 PM.
The Praise Worship Team under the direction of Johnathan Shuey, provides special music and music leadership during the Contemporary Service. If you play an instrument or enjoy singing contemporary Christian music, you are welcome to join. Practices are every Wednesday at 5:45 PM.


SAF has national committees that have been established by SAF's Board of Directors to help lead the organization.
This committee evaluates and periodically reviews forestry programs at colleges and universities across the country, and makes decisions concerning SAF's accreditation of such programs.
This committee evaluates and periodically reviews forestry programs at technical schools throughout the United States and makes decisions concerning SAF's accreditation of such programs.
This committee develops the program outline for the annual SAF National Convention, including the Call for Presentations.
This committee oversees the creation and issuance of national awards, including the solicitation of potential candidates and the nomination submissions process.
This committee monitors all aspects of professional and technical forestry and natural resources education, including the SAF accreditation standards and procedures, and advises the Board of Directors on such matters.
This Committee is responsible for hearing and investigating charges against SAF's Code of Ethics.
This committee advises SAF's Board of Directors on policy issues in forestry and natural resources.
This committee oversees the call for nominations and supplements petitions with other nominations of persons eligible to hold elective office.
This Committee advises and assists the Board of Directors and SAF members in the development and implementation of international programs and activities.


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Cold coming, but nothing like region's flash-freeze
Curriculum changes on horizon
State lawmakers propose taxpayers pay for first two years of
Instructor spends years designing airplanes
Slideshow: Pittsfield vs. Greenfield-NW girls' basketball
Slideshow: South County girls' basketball vs. Brussels
Games postponed at Winchester Invitational Tournament
Cox scores 34 points to lead West Central past Calhoun in
Commentary: Gone with the Windsors
Letter to the editor: Actions won't ease Iran tensions
Commentary: N. Korea talks ignore human rights
Commentary: Consequences of surviving motherhood
Strawn offers winter-spring class schedule
SAA film fest takes French turn
Mitchell 103rd
Kauffman birthday
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/A-queen-and-a-representative-13996060.php
A queen and a representative
Toby Giganti steps into role as new Miss Sangamon County Fair
Samantha McDaniel-Ogletree, smcdaniel@myjournalcourier.com
Published 4:51 am CDT, Friday, June 14, 2019
Toby Giganti, the new Miss Sangamon County Fair, talks to Emma Buckles, 12, of Rochester about cattle and livestock that are ornery during showing Thursday at the Sangamon County Fair.
NEW BERLIN — For 18-year-old Miss Sangamon County Fair Toby Giganti, getting an opportunity to participate in the pageant was a dream come true as she followed the lead of family members who have participated before her.
"I watched my sister do (the pageant) in 2014 and watching as a kid, the girls were always a role model for me and my friends," Giganti said. "I wanted to get up there and be that role model for the kids younger than me."
Giganti, the daughter of Becky and Adam Giganti of Chatham, took the title of 2019 Miss Sangamon County Fair Queen Tuesday night, stepping into the role of representative for the fair and the county.
Her sister isn't the only family member to have participated in the queen pageant. In 1972, one of her aunts won the competition, while another aunt also took part in a past pageant.
"It goes so far back with all these amazing women," Giganti said. "I wanted to stand up there next to them."
This week at the fair and the next year will be about representing Sangamon County to the best of her ability.
"I'll be a role model for our community," she said. "I hope to represent the county well."
While her role this week will include a lot of appearances at the fair, Giganti will also make appearances at other fairs and represent the county at events, and compete in the state pageant.
"I'll be a representative of our county and myself," Giganti said. "I'll have to put my best foot forward, build relationships with the people of our county."
Giganti will be going into her sophomore year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she is an English major with plans to pursue a law degree.
Along with her crown, Giganti received a $2,000 scholarship that she will use to help cover school expenses.
After college, Giganti wants to go to law school, pass the bar, establish a practice and possibly become a different kind of representative — a public defender.
"I want to come back to this community and leave my mark," Giganti said.
The Sangamon County Fair will continue through Sunday. A list of events is available on the fair's website.
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Options for now-sold factory site being explored
Jacksonville schools closing earlier than planned
Ag teacher chosen award finalist


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Fetch group representing all fields.
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Clears the set of fetch group names to use wen loading data.
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Gets the current retrieve mode for data cache.
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Deprecated. cast to FetchPlanImpl instead. This method pierces the published-API boundary, as does the SPI cast.
Affirms if extended path lookup feature is active.
Return the fetch batch size for large result set support.
Returns the names of the fetch groups that this component will use when loading objects.
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Get the hint value for the given key.
Get the hints and their values currently set on this receiver.
The lock scope to use for locking loaded objects.
The number of milliseconds to wait for an object lock, or -1 for no limit.
The maximum fetch depth when loading an object.
Return whether or not query caching is enabled.
The number of milliseconds to wait for a query, or -1 for no limit.
The lock level to use for locking loaded objects.
The lock level to use for locking dirtied objects.
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Resets the set of fetch groups to the list in the global configuration.
Sets the current retrieve mode for data cache.
Sets the current storage mode for data cache.
Sets extended path lookup feature.
Set the fetch batch size for large result set support.
Set the hint for the given key to the given value.
Control whether or not query caching is enabled.
Return the fetch batch size for large result set support. Defaults to the openjpa.FetchBatchSize setting. Note that this property will be ignored under some data stores.
Set the fetch batch size for large result set support. Defaults to the openjpa.FetchBatchSize setting. Note that this property will be ignored under some data stores.
Return whether or not query caching is enabled. If this returns true but the datacache plugin is not installed, caching will not be enabled. If this returns false, query caching will not be used even if the datacache plugin is installed.
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Returns the names of the fetch groups that this component will use when loading objects. Defaults to the openjpa.FetchGroups setting.
Clears the set of fetch group names to use wen loading data. After this operation is invoked, only those fields in the default fetch group (and any requested field) will be loaded when loading an object.
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Clears the set of field names to use wen loading data. After this operation is invoked, only those fields in the configured fetch groups will be loaded when loading an object.
value - the value of the hint.
name - the name of the hint.
empty map if no hint has been set.
null if the key has not been set.


Although Wikipedia should be avoided when citing references on papers you write, it still is a great place to get a basic understanding of an area of knowledge. The software engineering section has some valuable information that will at least give you a conceptual framework that lessons can be mapped to in your head as you learn them.
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More, True Confessions of a Pinterest Artist | I'm Annette!
It was a rumor floating around, while I attended the University of South Carolina, in the late seventies. Supposedly, sometime during the three semesters (1947-1948) that Jasper Johns attended the land of the Gamecock, he presented a unique piece of artwork in class one day. Bringing a live chicken into the classroom, Jasper Johns proceeded to lob off the unlucky poultry's head, in the presence of his astonished instructor and peers, presenting this bizarre demonstration as his assigned art project.
I know, this is a photo of ducks. I did not have a photo of a terrified chicken!
Sixty-seven years later, Jasper Johns is still creating art, albeit of a more tangible nature, and very profitably so. Probably best known for his 1954 pop art piece, Flag, and the (around)* twenty more subsequent Flag-themed paintings created in the years to follow, Mr. Johns' net worth is currently estimated at $300 million dollars today! I am the first to admit that I do not fully comprehend why Johns's pieces, although interesting, command such an exorbitant amount. At auction in 2010, the late Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton's beloved Flag (1960-66), by his artist friend Jasper Johns, commanded a cool $28.6 million dollars!
From the master to the novice, I enter apprehensively into the esoteric world of abstract/pop art. Although, a novice about this art genre, I do know what I like. And that is, I like art that makes me happy. A tour throughout our home in Maryland, (I am currently living overseas), exhibits photos of our precious family, fun art prints, mixed with a smattering of colorful travel posters of places we've lived and visited. Also, adorning my walls, a few special pieces created by my artist friend, Jodi Perry, but up until this point, nothing of the abstract variety.
It was this piece, which provided the impetus to changing the decor our house. For 30+ years our home had been decorated in the country style, but after acquiring this print, our entire house has been slowly transforming into, what I call, a "Pottery Barn look with a taste of mid-century".
Boutwell's use of watercolor in this piece amazes me!
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. I love going to this restaurant!
I like the art deconess (Is that even a word?) of this reproduction vintage railroad ad. This poster reminds me of a wonderful week that Dale and I spent in beautiful Banff (Canada), on a business trip, in 1996.
the first time I stumbled upon it online. I eventually bought the print.
Tremewen's artwork is all so colorful and happy.
I like the simplicity and lines of this piece!
A special gift from my friend and artist, Jodi Perry.
with the woman dressed in red, who looks like Jodi!
I LOVE my poster of Summer Daydream, by Jodi Perry!
For more on this piece, and how I met Jodi, click below.
It is said that desperate times call for desperate measures. I found myself living overseas, in a rented apartment with rented furniture, complete with a couple of crushed velour couches, and bare walls. With nary a Target, Home Goods, or Pier One in the vicinity, desperation dictated. I would have to tap into my (hopefully) hidden artistic skills, if I wished to decorate my generic off-white walls. I had been pleased with the results of my first artistic attempt a few months earlier (you can read about it here- https://annettehoffman.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/true-confessions-of-a-pinterest-artist/), and scoured Pinterest once again, for another source of inspiration.
I found it in this piece.
The Pinterest inspiration for my most recent painting.
Here is the process I went through, below, just in case you may wish to create your own piece of art.
Place down a drop cloth.
I set the canvas up on four glasses to dry.
Using chalk, I sketched out the design that I wanted.
I painted white inside the circles that I had sketched,leaving space to paint the black outline. It took several coats of white before it covered to achieve the look that I wanted.
and "swept" away the chalk marks from the canvas.
I then used black paint to outline the circles, making sure that the circles all touched one another.
And, using the small paintbrush, I signed my name at the bottom.
My painting inspiration, on the left, and my painting, on the right.
A funny thing happened when the apartment workmen came to assist me in hanging my new painting. (The walls here are concrete, so it takes a drill to hang anything on these walls!) After the workmen had held up the painting for my approval, then measured, marked and leveled where the painting should go; they proceeded to hang it up; upside down. It took a of couple minutes, due to the language barrier, and a couple of other tries on their behalf, before we got my painting, Happy, hung up the way it should be. The whole time, I kept thinking that this was just like in Pillow Talk (I love that movie!), and I'm Doris Day, telling the deliverymen how to correctly hang this painting!
Doris Day, as Jan Morrow, instructs deliverymen on the correct placement of a painting for Tony Randall/Jonathan Forbes's office.
Pillow Talk art information and photos courtesy of The Art of Film blog.
I am a big fan of this blog, which investigates artwork in the movies.
For more information about the art in Pillow Talk, click on the link below.
My friend, Jodi Perry, gave me some artist painting pointers and encouragement, via email, prior to the beginning of this piece. (The first paint stroke, getting started, was the hardest part!) I sent her a photo upon completion, and Jodi was very kind in her assessment of my attempt. Thank you, Jodi!
The Flintstones, his favorite cartoon! :o) I told my hubby that I was going for a more primitive look, so I would take that as a compliment! Actually, I can see Dale's point. The circles in my painting are shaped in a similar fashion to the many boulders that show up on the cartoon, in the architecture of Bedrock, and the aqua background is the same color as Fred Flintstone's perennial tie. Could there be some deep, unconscious, psychological meaning, pertaining to The Flintstones in my painting?! Nah.
Note the shape of the boulders in the fence, and the color of Fred's tie.
Are these similarities to my painting just a coincidence?
I attempt to post my blog bi-monthly.
I will talk to you again around September 15.
A Yabba Dabba thank you to all of my blog followers!!!
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Very good Annette, looks as though we had spent the same time painting and sharing it with one another.. looks good.. and loved your blog..
Thank you very much, Barb! You did a good job on your painting. Yes, Jodi has quite a talent!
Very neat ! Thanks for the art lessons. Great job!
Thank you, Betty, for reading!!!!
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More Game Upgrade Kits by Meeple Source!
Premium upgrade kits for Orléans, Puerto Rico, Dead of Winter, Targi, Mice & Mystics, Glass Road, Arkham Horror, Brew Crafters, & more!
1,153 backers pledged $77,611 to help bring this project to life.
Upgrade your board games with Premium Resource Bits!
This project is the natural follow-up to our successful Kickstarter project last year (link) that also featured upgrade kits for popular games. Many of you supported us then as well, and provided tons of valuable feedback for future upgrade kits. We can't thank you enough!
UPDATE ABOUT INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING: We have just arranged with BackerKit (who we use for the end-of-project surveys) a way to cap the international shipping charge at $45, regardless of number of add-ons. This is great news for our backers from abroad with large orders!
We implemented a custom pledge calculator during our first Kickstarter project in 2014 (Character Meeples!), and again in 2015 (Game Upgrade Kits & Character Meeples for Popular Games!), with great success. It is very handy for backers to calculate the total pledge for your desired games!
PLEASE NOTE: The upgraded resources will not fit in the designated spots on the original boat and trading house tiles from the game. If you only buy the add-on for just the resources ($18), we cannot guarantee that we will have extra boat sets later to resolve this for you.
Some players may not realize that money in Orléans is limited. You should be using a total currency value of 252 for a 5-player game (this upgrade pack is exactly that). For games with fewer than 5 players, pull out 4 tens for a total currency value of 212.
If you've played Orléans, you will remember that each player starts with one Farmer, one Craftsman, one Boatman, and one Trader. Those tokens (now Character Meeples) cannot be lost (or voluntarily sent to the "Beneficial Deeds" board via the Town Hall). Although the face of the original tokens are designed with a bit of the player's color, this isn't necessary, but they do need to be distinguished in some way, even if only discreetly.
There are many different ways to distinguish the "initial meeples" from the ones acquired during gameplay, here are a few good suggestions that will be very easy for you to do.
1. Mark a dot on the bottom of the meeple (under the feet) with white-out, or a black marker for the farmers. When standing upright on the board, it won't be visible at all.
2. Paint the entire bottom of the feet a contrasting color, for a less subtle approach that is still discreet when the meeple is upright.
3. Paint the entire outer edge a contrasting color to mark it is a "starting meeple". Each player's meeples can have the exact same modification (even color), as once setup is complete, the meeples never leave the possession of that player. This marking method would be impossible to "miss", but may detract from beauty of the pieces for some people.
If you have another good idea, let us know in the comments!
NOTE: Caylus has pink "food", which was originally only offered here as berries, but now includes a pink pig option as well (we already make pigs for other games, so no big deal). Each backer for this set will be able to choose for themselves, berries or pigs, in BackerKit at the end of the project. Also, some versions have orange meeples instead of yellow meeples, so that choice will be available for you in BackerKit as well.
It's been requested that we give backers the option of an "all runners" set, instead of having a mix of runners and batters. Although the main set won't be changing, we will allow backers of the set (either as a pledge level or add-on) to choose between those two configurations in BackerKit (after the project is over).
UPDATE AS OF FEBRUARY 11th: We have just arranged with BackerKit (who we use for the end-of-project surveys) a way to cap the international shipping charge at $45, regardless of number of add-ons. This is great news for our backers from abroad with large orders!
Most of these recent sets are available (some very limited) right now on MeepleSource.com. Click the pictures to get a closer look and place an order if you wish. Unless specifically noted (Power Grid), these cannot be simply added to this pledge, as some will sell out before these orders ship. Some may be reprinted at some point, but many will not, in favor of completely new products. Thanks for seeing what we can do!
Cynthia Landon and Chris Landon are the sibling duo that is MeepleSource, which was started after we discovered euro gaming. What began as a part-time hobby business has slowly developed into thriving endeavor in a community that we love. We are incredibly grateful to all of our fellow gamers who have helped us get this far.
2015 was a big year for us, with two successful Kickstarter projects (both completely shipped), as well as our first visits to Origins and Gen Con as vendors. We also returned to Dice Tower Con in Orlando and BGG.CON in Dallas, which are always great for us. Thank you to everyone that came by and supported us!
We started making full-color, detailed Character Meeples and Premium Resource Bits in 2011. In 2014, we ran three successfully funded Kickstarter projects to create many more Character Meeples. 2015 brought two more Kickstarter projects, one for game upgrade kits (similar to this project, but for completely different games) and another for a premium Character Meeple set for Tiny Epic Kingdoms Heroes' Call by Gamelyn Games.
All of our Kickstarter projects to date have fully shipped, and offered the same satisfaction guarantee that this project does, although it has only been utilized in a few total cases.
One problem that we have experienced in the past is a delay in production, but typically only when attempting to produce a high number of detailed Character Meeples at once. The Orléans Character Meeples are actually already in production, in order for this not to be the case with this project. This is also why those pledge levels are limited to only 80 total sets.
Lastly, we personally perform all of the necessary quality control, package and ship all orders, and manage customer service inquiries. If we do encounter any delays (or other problems), we will certainly let you know. We are very proud of our customer service reputation, to which our past backers and website customers can attest!
Thank you for your support! You can now receive project updates, make comments in the forum, and vote for new upgrade kits!
U.S. backers - Choose this option (and add the amount for your desired add-ons) if you want to make a pledge that ONLY consists of add-ons. The $4 of the base pledge covers the U.S. shipping cost.
International backers - Choose this option (and add the amount for your desired add-ons) if you want to make a pledge that ONLY consists of add-ons. PLEASE use the Meeple Source pledge calculator to determine total pledge amount, including international shipping costs.


Za'atar chicken, (pronounced saatir), is an Arabic herb, which transforms the most average of meat dishes, into something wonderful. Served in jar, in makes a more exciting lunchtime option, that rather plain sandwiches. With a bright green and purple carrot salad, this is a wonderful, colourful dish, made for kids who are partial to a little colour in their meals.
Place the chicken in a large pyrex dish, add the seasoning and oil and cook for 30 minutes in the oven.
Remove the chicken from the oven and add the peppers.
Chop the tomatoes into chunks.
Add the kale, carrot and tomatoes to a jar and drizzle with oil.
Remove the chicken dish from the oven.
Add the chicken and peppers to the jar and enjoy.