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Q: PHP/session - refreshing the page creates a popup So, I created this login page that works with a session. Now I have this problem whenever I hit the f5 button to refresh the page I always get a pop up that asks if I am sure that I want to resend the data ( of the session I assume ) again. How can I prevent this pop up from happening?
This is the session:
<?php
session_start();

if ( isset($_POST['user']) || isset($_POST['pass'])) {

    $_SESSION['user'] = $_POST['user'];
    $_SESSION['pass'] = $_POST['pass'];
} else {
   echo "username or password not specified";
}
    $DB_user = $_SESSION['user'];
    $DB_pass = $_SESSION['pass'];
?>

A: you are submitting the form to same page and do not redirecting to any other or same page, so it asks to post the input value again on each time you refresh the page.
you can fix this by redirect to the same page after your php stuff.
header('location:index.php');

replace index.php with your page name


It enables any standard AR to be stored and carried in a small backpack, satchel, book bag, messenger bag, or any other type of carrier that anyone wouldn't think could house such awesome firepower. Also enables you to switch barrel lengths and handguards in seconds. The DOLOs system is not compatible with some billet and non-standard upper receivers, if unsure, you can check at Pantheonarms.com.
The Dolos is a master of deception. It enables any standard AR to be stored and carried in a small backpack, satchel, book bag, messenger bag, or any other type of carrier that anyone wouldn't think could house such awesome firepower.


I'm being put on art therapy by MIND to get me socialised as I've lost the support of all my old friends and family.
Hey, Prenin! Thanks a lot!
Art is important on so many levels. Hope it will help you.
Que pases una linda jornada.
Me voy a ver tu blog y leer tus nuevos poemas!
Like usual, I have no idea who that is. But I liked the song, and your portrait is really nice.
Wellll that's no big deal. I'm just so into music so… I watch every video clips you know.
Thanks for always visiting my blog and leaving comments, Peter!!
I've missed a lot of posts on Wombania… ahhhh 😦 so sorry!!!
Have a wonderful weekend, Andro.


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Productivity Commission recommends scrapping Telstra's Universal Service Obligation funds
By Lucy Battersby
Updated December 6, 2016 — 5.48pm first published at 1.43pm
Telstra is likely to lose billions of dollars in funding over the next 20 years if the government backs a recommendation to scrap a requirement on the telco to provide "universal access" to telephone lines and payphones.
The recommendation is contained in a damning Productivity Commission review of the Telecommunications Universal Service Obligation (TUSO) that would also give other telcos a boost to their bottom line if an industry levy, worth about $200 million annually, is scrapped.
The review found the program outdated and opaque, and predicted it would become largely redundant once the national broadband network (NBN) was complete.
It recommended immediately winding back payphone obligations because "juxtaposed against the extensive coverage of mobile services across Australia, it is difficult to justify the continuation of the payphones [obligation]".
This and other challenges to Telstra's balance sheet have analysts at UBS recommending it cut the very thing that keeps it popular as an investment. Credit:Louise Kennerly
Telstra receives about $300 million annually, including $100 million from the government. In 2015-16 the industry levy collected $218 million, of which $142 million came from Telstra itself.
About $44 million a year goes towards maintaining about 16,800 payphones. The remaining $253 million goes towards supplying standard telephone services.
A Telstra spokesman said it supports several points raised by the commission's thorough report including "whether the ongoing payphone obligation is delivering the best value to Australian consumers and communities".
He noted NBN is not yet operating a truly national network capable of "good quality voice service" that could take on universal obligations.
Vodafone's chief strategy officer and corporate affairs director, Dan Lloyd, said this was the first time anyone had been able to look at what was "happening under the hood". Credit:Louie Douvis
Privatisation pledge
The TUSO is based on a program introduced during privatisation to ensure Telstra kept providing services such as payphones and telephone connections around Australia at the same price regardless of location. A new 20-year agreement with the government was written in 2011 and helped secure Telstra's co-operation with the NBN project.
The Telstra spokesman added: "The current USO agreement was negotiated in good faith with the Australian government and has been successfully delivering on a policy set by the government. Funding to deliver the USO comes from both industry and government, and Telstra is the single largest contributor of funds."
However, the commission found Telstra's contractual obligations under the TUSO lack transparency and accountability and "the basis for TUSO funding is unclear and disputed".
"In a digital age, the voice-based telecommunications universal service obligation [TUSO] – costed at $3 billion in net present value terms over 20 years and introduced when telecommunications consisted of basic telephones and payphones – is anachronistic and needs to change," the commission found.
"In an age where basic phones and payphones are rapidly becoming outdated, the lack of transparency and accountability makes the continuation of current arrangements difficult to justify from the point of view of those who contribute to its funding."
Presiding commissioner Paul Lindwall said the subsidy for payphones was an example of where the TUSO is "not fit for purpose".
"Times have changed. Technology has rolled on. Pay phone usage has declined markedly over many years ... fewer and fewer calls are made for emergency purposes through pay phones – most are made by mobiles," he said.
However, thousands of Telstra payphones have been converted to Wi-Fi hotspots for its Air network and may survive without funding, he added.
Communications Minister Mitch Fifield said "it is timely for the PC to consider, from a first principles basis, the telecommunications universal service obligation and what services it should support and how it might be structured and funded".
Meanwhile, telcos have been calling for years for a proper review of how the Telecommunications Industry Levy is spent by Telstra.
Old problem
National executive of industry and policy at Macquarie Telecom, Matt Healy, said the TUSO was a "decades-old problem" within the industry, which felt the levy was doing "nothing other than contributing to Telstra's profits".
"[The report] is calling time on the gravy train that Telstra has had in the form of the TUSO payments.
"We will be very happy to stop writing that cheque to Telstra each year for services that the Productivity Commission has finally concluded are no longer needed," Mr Healy said.
Meanwhile, Vodafone's chief strategy officer and corporate affairs director Dan Lloyd said this was the first time anyone had been able to look at what was "happening under the hood".
Vodafone's share of the levy in 2015-16 was $13.5 million, while Macquarie Telecom's share was $542,700.
If the government adopts all the recommendations, it would create "total, fundamental and immediate change", Mr Lloyd said.
"We have always said that we feel we have been funding their mobile [network] rollout.
"And this report has now revealed the mechanism by which that was happening."
The review was commissioned by Treasurer Scott Morrison earlier this year. The commission will hold six hearings in early 2017 before delivering a final report in April.
Telstra's annual $20 million contract to run the emergency call service was not within the scope of the inquiry. The Department of Communications recently announced it was for the first time putting the triple zero service out to competitive tender.
Lucy Battersby
Lucy Battersby has covered trends, technology and telecommunications since joining The Age in 2008.

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Q: SwiftUI .sheet gets reinitialised when keyboard is opened /closed
I have this .sheet which I marked in the image, which opens a new view.
The AddRoutineView(...) code is this:
struct AddRoutineView: View {
    // Here is the viewModel that is making problems
    @ObservedObject var viewModel : AddRoutineViewModel

    @State private var isCustomShedule = true

    var body: some View {
        NavigationView {
            ZStack {
                Color("ListBackgroundColor")
                    .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
                Form {
                    Section{
                        TextField("Name", text: $viewModel.name)
                        TextField("Notes", text: $viewModel.note)
                    }
                    Section{
                        DatePicker("Routine start time", selection: $viewModel.startTime, displayedComponents: .hourAndMinute)
                        Toggle("Custom Schedule", isOn: $isCustomShedule)
                            .toggleStyle(SwitchToggleStyle(tint: Color(red: 0.808, green: 0.773, blue: 0.987)))

                        if isCustomShedule{
                            withAnimation{
                                WeekdayPicker(selectedWeekday: $viewModel.inetrvalDays)
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    Section {
                        Button{
                            viewModel.saveRoutine()
                            viewModel.isAddRoutineShowing.wrappedValue = false
                        } label: {
                            ZStack {
                                RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 10.0)
                                    .foregroundColor(.black)
                                HStack {
                                    Spacer()
                                    Text("Confirm")
                                        .foregroundColor(.white)
                                        .fontWeight(.bold)
                                    Spacer()
                                }
                            }

                        }
                        .buttonStyle(PlainButtonStyle())
                        .listRowBackground(Color(UIColor.systemGroupedBackground))
                        .listRowSeparator(.hidden)
                        .listRowInsets(EdgeInsets())
                        .disabled(viewModel.isValidForm())

                        Button{
                            viewModel.isAddRoutineShowing.wrappedValue = false
                        } label: {
                            HStack {
                                Spacer()
                                Text("cancel")
                                    .foregroundColor(.black)
                                    .fontWeight(.bold)
                                Spacer()
                            }
                        }
                        .listRowBackground(Color( UIColor.systemGroupedBackground))
                    }
                }
}
            }
            .navigationTitle("new routine.")
        }
    }
}

As you can see I pass the viewModel as an ObservedObject.
Now every time I hit the return key on my keyboard, or when I tip into the text field, the view is being reinitialised, deleting all content from my viewModel.
final class AddRoutineViewModel: ObservableObject {

    @Published var name = ""
    @Published var note = ""
    @Published var interval = "Daily"
    @Published var startTime = Date.now
    @Published var inetrvalDays = [
        "Monday" : true,
        "Tuesday": true,
        "Wednesday": true,
        "Thursday": true,
        "Friday": true,
        "Saturday": true,
        "Sunday": true,
    ]

    var isAddRoutineShowing: Binding<Bool>

    init (isAddRoutineShowing: Binding<Bool>) {
        print("Initialising Add Routine Sheet...")
        self.isAddRoutineShowing = isAddRoutineShowing
    }

    func saveRoutine() {
        let newRoutine = Routine(context: PersistenceController.shared.viewContext)
        newRoutine.routineID = UUID()
        newRoutine.active = true
        newRoutine.name = name
        newRoutine.note = note
        newRoutine.interval = encodeWeekdays()
        newRoutine.startTime = startTime

        PersistenceController.shared.save()
    }

    func isValidForm() -> Bool
    /*
     Gives back true if the form is valid
     */
    {
        var hasWeekdays : Bool = false
        for (_, isActive) in self.inetrvalDays{ if isActive{hasWeekdays = true}}
        return !name.isEmpty && hasWeekdays
    }
}

This is my viewModel. I placed the print in the initialiser and it gets reinitialised every time the keyboard opens or closes. I really don't know why.. :D
Is this something about Swifts internal View Update Stuff?

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using System.Linq;

namespace ReliabilityLab
{
    public abstract class DeviceFunction
    {
        public abstract bool CanGiveOutput(DeviceState state);
    }

    internal class Function1 : DeviceFunction
    {
        public Function1() : base()
        {
        }

        public override bool CanGiveOutput(DeviceState state)
        {
            return state.GetD(0) && state.GetD(2) && state.GetC(0) && state.GetB(0) &&
                   (state.GetP(0) || state.GetP(2) || (state.GetA(0) && state.GetM(0) && state.GetA(1) && state.GetP(3)));
        }
    }

    internal class Function2 : DeviceFunction
    {
        public Function2() : base()
        {
        }

        public override bool CanGiveOutput(DeviceState state)
        {
            return state.GetD(2) && state.GetD(3) && state.GetC(1) && state.GetB(0) &&
                   (state.GetP(1) || state.GetP(2) || (state.GetA(0) && state.GetM(0) && state.GetA(1) && state.GetP(4)));
        }
    }

    internal class Function3 : DeviceFunction
    {
        public Function3() : base()
        {
        }

        public override bool CanGiveOutput(DeviceState state)
        {
            return state.GetD(3) && state.GetD(4) && state.GetC(2) && state.GetM(0) && state.GetA(1) &&
                   (state.GetB(1) || state.GetB(2)) &&
                   (state.GetP(3) || state.GetP(4) || state.GetA(0) && state.GetB(0) && state.GetP(0));
        }
    }

    internal class Function4 : DeviceFunction
    {
        public Function4() : base()
        {
        }

        public override bool CanGiveOutput(DeviceState state)
        {
            return state.GetD(1) && state.GetD(5) && state.GetC(3) && (state.GetB(1) || state.GetB(2)) &&
                   (state.GetP(3) || state.GetP(4));
        }
    }

    public class TotalDeviceFunction : DeviceFunction
    {
        public TotalDeviceFunction()
        {
            _functions = new DeviceFunction[]
            {
                new Function1(),
                new Function2(),
                new Function3(),
                new Function4()
            };

        }

        private readonly DeviceFunction[] _functions;
        public override bool CanGiveOutput(DeviceState state)
        {
            return _functions.All(x => x.CanGiveOutput(state));
        }
    }
}

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Control Room Provides MSN and DirecTV Customers Three Legendary Performances in Three
Earl Bonovich
· Lifetime Achiever
Control Room Provides MSN and DirecTV Customers Three Legendary Performances in Three Weeks
Source: http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=76147
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Control Room is proud to bring music fans exclusive television and broadband access to three incredible live performances from John Legend, John Mayer and Rod Stewart.
Starting October 24, DirecTV allows television audiences to catch John Legend's "gutsy, one-off performance"(1) recorded live from London's Royal Albert Hall. This great show is also still available on-demand for Global broadband users on MSN, following its live online debut October 2nd.
On November 1, fans around the world can claim their front row seats to an intimate performance by John Mayer from New York's Webster Hall -- streaming on-demand only on MSN. This concert will also be available to DirectTV subscribers beginning November 7th.
And, on November 14th, DirecTV subscribers who are fans of Rod Stewart's chart topping new album "Still the Same ... Great American Rock Classics of Our Time" can catch his sold out concert from the Nokia Theatre in New York City. Again, the show can also be found Globally on MSN where on-demand streaming continues after its live debut on October 9th both online an in-theater.
Control Room creates virtual front row seats for worldwide music fans through its powerful global digital network including MSN.com, DirecTV and NCM Theaters. Control Room's exclusive coverage of the hottest live concerts has never been more accessible than through audience's home computer, TV or local theater.
Earl - Gotta Love Karma
DIRECTV employee since April 2008.
All comments are my own. Unless specifically stated, my views do NOT represent the views of DIRECTV
Argee
Will it be HD and 5.1?
Argee said:
Don't know...
This was the only "web" hit I could find on it this morning.
Earl Bonovich Oct 24, 2006


Welcome ! This is a great opportunity to practice reading and writing in French with your fellow Rocket French learners. So browse some of the posts, take your French reading skills for a spin and when you're ready, introduce yourself and get chatting! Don't be afraid to make mistakes - these are learners just like you and they're here to help.
None of the catetories (Play it, hear it/say it, write it, know it) have any audio in Interactive Audio Lesson 9.4 Canceling a Hotel Reservation; therefore, I cannot complete this lesson. Please fix so that I can continue with this lesson. Thank you.
In lesson 13.1, the last line of the dialogue has Anne saying: "Allez, sois courageux ! Sinon, tu vas rester vieux garçon ! " Since they are friends they are using the "tu" form throughout, so why "Allez"? Is that just a colloquial use?
How do I access "Play It" I have been taking the French course since 7/4/2018. I have a MAC, do I need Google chrome to access "Play It"?
How do I access "Play It"? I have a MAC and have been on Rocket French for 7 weeks. Do I need Google Chrome for "Play It"?
Does pronunciation of final consonant in a word sometimes depend on the following word? If so, any general rules for this?
I couldn't help notice that Claire pronounces "deux" as [de] in some instances, but when saying "Ça fait deux euros," I hear it pronounced as [dez]. Is this because the following word is "euro" and it starts with a vowel? Thanks in advance.
I am having a problem with my voice recording playback. It starts to get faster and faster until I can't understand it. So I have to stop the lesson and log in again to continue' It is really annoying.
Are there any other language programs for french besides rocket french?
Now that I am about half way through the course, I wanted to retake earlier lessons to fix these in my long term memory. I cannot find a way to delete my previous answers. Can you help?
Is there any place in Houston Texas where French speakers go to meet and practice their French?
Why doesnt the audio always work? Sometimes it does but other times I cant hear anything.
different ways to ask "what happened?"
What are 3 ways to ask someone "what happened?"
Salut tout le monde, Can anybody share the must-know common French idioms or expressions in a conversation (if any). I'd be most grateful. Thanks.
Bonjour tout le monde! Just curious, could anyone share their views on what would be the best accent for the purpose of conversation in French (if any)? Merci beaucoup.
Hello, I am looking for someone with whom to practice speaking and listening of French. Perhaps either 'pen pals' or thourgh Skype/facetime etc. I am base din SE England therefore timezone GMT. Look forward to hearing from someone!
Je avoir besoin pratiquer beaucoup. !!!! Je m'appelle Rebeca. J'ai 19 ans, et Je étudié et travaille dans ma maison. et vous?
The price of the taxi was to be only five euros. Shouldn't it be "the price of the fare or ride was to be only five euros". Is it another one of those "relaxed" conversational style? To me the statement clearly said that the price of the taxi (car) is 5 euros.
What's the difference between au fait, and a' propos.
Alors Eric, que t'arrive-t-il ? Tu as l'air bizarre ! So Eric, what happened to you? You look funny! How to say what happend to you using vous? Que vous arrivez? Can I use qu'est-ce qu'il vous etes arrivez? Thanks!
1.4 Being Thirsty -- "I do not want anything"
How could I know if Il est difficile 'a' faire qqc or 'de' failre qqc?


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Out & About #243 | Father's Day Dinner at Diana's + Tendou Preview
I don't know about you, but I'm convinced that most dads enjoy freshly-shucked oysters with a side of beer.
The above statement then leads me to Father's Day dinner, a meal frequently booked eons in advance to secure the best table in the house for our daddies. Not unlike other children on the hunt for the ideal restaurant, I also made the effort to call Diana's two weeks prior to confirm their Father's Day menu (as their website was still displaying the set course from the previous year) and the availability of a table for three.
As some readers may recall, it was with much grief that I was unable to bring my oyster-loving guest of choice to their Grand Opening two months back due to their repetitive rescheduling of the event. While no gift coupons nor certificates had been provided to guests to prompt revisiting of the seafood bar, my will to reserve was undeterred.
Ultimately, a table was successfully booked over the phone; I even completely disregarded the unpreparedness that was the chef's indecisiveness in confirming a proper selection of items for the celebrated Sunday evening. And on Sunday, in the early evening, we made our way over in hopes of undergoing a culinary experience as exceptional as the suede-booth-and-dark-wooden-table-featuring environment indicated possible.
We pulled into Diana's just shortly before our 6:30 pm reservation, and immediately checked in with the hostesses to obtain our table. After being briefly greeted by a rather timid-looking, glasses-donning hostess, a stout, circle lens-wearing hostess guided us into the dining area.
"Here you go." She almost left us with the menus as we stared in horror at the seating arrangement being offered to us. Along with the standard tables, Diana's had opted to maximize the number of seats in the house by adding temporary tables in between each booth.
This wouldn't have been an issue, normally, though the fact that I had purposely booked a table - might I add, two weeks in advance, with the intention of enjoying a proper meal void of worrying about whether other guests entering the establishment would be brushing by us every few minutes was, indeed, a massive problem.
I wasn't about to simply settle for a temporary table awkwardly situated in the middle of the restaurant, especially not when only three chairs had been embarrassingly placed around it.
I wasn't about to settle for something mediocre; compromising to accept something of a lower standard has never been my style, nor will it ever be. Especially not on special occasions such as Father's Day.
My first reaction to the catastrophe was to request a different table from the hostess, who replied with an uninterested "This is a table for three people."
"We would like a booth." I calmly responded.
"Did you say you wanted one?"
"I booked two weeks in advance." I retorted, adding "before your chef even decided on the menu" under my breath.
"So did everyone else." she glared.
I almost lost all composure at this point, but instead heaved greatly to prevent causing a disturbance to my parental units beside me.
"We would like a booth." I restated my request simply.
The hostess tone remained unchanged, "Did you request for one when you booked?"
I returned her glare. "I wasn't given that option."
She hesitated, and eventually agreed to check whether other tables had specified a booth table, offering to yield should she fail to locate such specifications.
I nodded and watched as she clumsily trudged back to the hostess podium, being intercepted along the way by a balding, crude-looking middle-aged man dressed sloppily in slacks and a Salvation Army-esque sleeveless fleece zip-up.
"What's the matter?" he spat at us in a thick, Chinese accent.
I merely restated my request as the hostess returned, face once again devoid of apology, shame, concern, and any other acceptable customer service expressions for that matter.
"Well, did you check?" I glowered over her, eyes slowly filling with fury and exasperation.
Her next steps of action only threw me further off the edge: a silent gesture was cast in the direction of the middle-aged man whose apparel and demeanour would be unfit even for serving customers at a Pho bar. "Talk to him." she seemed to be implying. "I don't need to check because he's here."
Positively outraged at this point, I stood my ground, further expressing the need to satisfy my demand for an acceptable seating arrangement. This was no longer a matter of making a simple request, but also an absolutely repulsive encounter with a team of front-line management staff clearly unaware of the concept of customer service.
"We have over 200 people here tonight!" The middle-aged man almost threw his arms up in the air for the sake of exaggerating his already grammar-less, accent-tainted statement.
A brief moment of silence passed as I looked around.
He bitterly yammered, "What do you want?!".
"I want a booth."
"Ok, fine. Pick a booth."
I immediately walked over to one of the many empty booths, sliding into the middle table against the wall before being rudely shuffled into a corner. The impossibly rude duo waltzed away, and soon the timid-looking glasses girl re-appeared to remove one chair from our table, leaving behind nothing else but an embarrassing gap and insufficient seating area.
"Do you have a scarcity of chairs here??" My voice retained an ironic edge, clearly looking for our chair to be re-instated.
The girl hovered, evidently shaking in anxiety, before ducking away and mumbling an almost inaudible "Yes."
Well, I'll be. A restaurant like Diana's expanded to Markham, and yet management has become this stingy over the amount of chairs placed on the floor for an event such as Father's Day? My my, you aren't making much sense now, are you?
Thankfully, our evening took a quick turn for the better as a half-apron-clad staff member took action upon observing our undismissably awkward situation: she immediately brought over a chair to fill the gaping disaster that the despicable hostess-old man duo had created. A waitress with black-rimmed glasses shortly came over to take our order.
Embracing our newly-earned - why did we even need to earn it though? - seating arrangement, we took to gazing through the menu in search of exclusive menu items for the day. To our dismay, the waitress explained that, as opposed to the previous year's unique three course, the only "special" item being offered this year was a Surf 'n' Turf at a discounted price.
This wasn't to our liking, of course, so we opted for several other items instead.
< Pictured above and below: Blanch de Chambly, Kusshi oyster, Clam Chowder, Grilled Atlantic Salmon w/ Mixed Greens Salad, Lobster and Shrimp Tagliatelli, Penne Alla Vodka, and Virgin Colada >
The glasses of Blanch de Chambly and Virgin Colada made their way over fairly quickly, and was later succeeded by a basket of lukewarm bread rolls and balsamic vinegar-olive oil dressing. Six Kusshi oysters were next to arrive; I was informed that they were fresh, maintaining relatively the same standard as their Lawrence location.
The Clam Chowder, on the other hand, was a more disappointing dish. According to the conclusive agreement, the soup retained little of shellfish essence but majority of the blended potato base that had been used to create a more substantial aftertaste. Chunky and satiating in not the most satisfying manner, it was promptly compared to previously-tasted proper chowders and crossed off the list.
Our entrees, aka the highlight of our meal, was nowhere to be seen for the next hour after the departure of empty appetizer plates. This situation ensued even after reminding the waitress several times of our unceasing famine and witnessing tables that had been seated after us receive their drinks, main courses, and dessert.
By the one-hour mark, we were starving, and none too content about our dishes incorrectly landing on the adjacent table either.
The Lobster and Shrimp Tagliatelli, which was neither loaded with lobster nor even created with Tagliatelle pasta, was a decent dish. Creamy sauce and semi-firm pasta is difficult to mess up, though I found the shrimp to be slightly overcooked.
Grilled Atlantic Salmon lacked in presentation as well as vegetable variety. It was observed that the base of wilted veggies upon which the fillet rested was comprised mainly of bok choy, an economical variety of greens which are also extremely easy to obtain, and heavily salted spinach. The fish itself had been grilled and seasoned well, but wasn't memorable by any means.
My order of Penne Alla Vodka was, hands down, the most depressing dish of all. Originally depicted as pasta served with "vodka-cured salmon, double-smoked bacon, and roasted bell peppers in a vodka-dill cream sauce", the plate failed to exceed the standards of blanched penne tossed in oil and topped with bits of crisp, fatty bacon. Sickeningly greasy, I would have been unable to consume the dish had I not added a generous drizzle of the lemon juice on top. Had I not been exhausted and hungry, I probably wouldn't have touched more than two bites, though.
The waitstaff, though significantly disorganized, had managed to provide our table with decent service for the first hour of stay. Upon the heavy influx of casually-clad, local Chinese diners, efficiency and accuracy had failed to be maintained, resulting in sheer confusion and the incapability of bringing out our dishes in a timely manner.
In addition, the devastating differences between Diana's Father's Day dishes and Grand Opening event hors d'oeuvres was made noticeable in the quality and portion size of the dishes delivered. Not only was presentation lacking in many of the items we had ordered (dirty plate edges were my main concern), flavour and ingredients had also been greatly compromised amidst the chaotic atmosphere and were not nowhere near deserving of the price that was being charged.
Lastly, it is crucial to reiterate that the customer service, or rather lack thereof, provided by the two hostesses and distasteful brute of a middle-aged man was appalling and completely unacceptable. While I've experienced my fair share of horridness as a customer, this was truly taking miserable attitude to the next level. It at least made for a memorable Markham adventure, though I'm certain that I won't enjoy re-living it a second time.


Pamela Geller, head of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, speaks at a conference in New York in 2012.
Pamela Geller organized the "Draw Muhammad" contest and art exhibition held Sunday in Garland, Texas, where two gunmen opened fire before being killed by police. Geller also placed an order for subway and bus ads in New York City that linked Islamic leaders to Hitler, leading the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority to vote Wednesday for a blanket ban on "viewpoint advertising" to avoid ever having to show ads like Geller's again.
It's not a quirk of timing that places Geller at the heart of two controversies over provocative speech about Islam within a week. The little data we have shows that although anti-Islam groups have multiplied in the United States over the past several years, only a small group of people are behind many of these organizations.1 Geller is one of them.
But the simple count of anti-Islam groups can be deceptive. Growth in anti-Muslim groups seems to be driven as much by a few key leaders founding multiple organizations as by new people forming independent groups.
When Geller held her "Draw Muhammed" event, she did so under the aegis of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, of which she is the executive director. The ads that Geller ordered in New York mention the American Freedom Defense Initiative in their disclaimers but direct readers to Jihad Watch, Atlas Shrugs and Truth About Quran.
The American Freedom Defense Initiative, Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs are listed by SPLC as hate groups. Atlas Shrugs's website simply redirects to Geller's personal website, and according to tax filings, Geller is also president of Jihad Watch. Robert Spencer, the writer who runs Jihad Watch, also co-founded Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) with Geller. The website of SIOA, which is also on the hate-group list, redirects to a subsite of the American Freedom Defense Initiative.
In other words, Geller and Spencer are, between the two of them, the leaders of 17 percent (four of 24) of all the anti-Muslim groups that the SPLC tracks. Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the SPLC, explained that his organization lists each group separately because the groups may engage in different patterns of activity.
A 2014 report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) found a similar pattern of centralization among anti-Islam organizations. CAIR listed 37 active groups in the "inner core" of what it considers Islamophobia activism and 32 additional groups in an "outer core." Inner-core organizations tend to be focused particularly on Islam; outer-core groups provide financial or other supports to the inner core but may work on a wider array of issues. Board membership and funding sources frequently overlapped between nominally separate groups.
A Center for American Progress (CAP) report in 2011 — titled "Fear, Inc." — had similar findings. It identified seven top funders of anti-Islamic research and rhetoric. These groups contributed $42.6 million to "Islamophobia think tanks" between 2001 and 2009. All of these funders gave to at least three of the eight Islamophobic groups that CAP tracked.
All that money buys the appearance of a growing movement, but although Geller and a few others will continue to hold events and issue challenges, the most prominent anti-Muslim hate groups remain the product of a small group of leaders acting under many different names and logos.
I'm talking about leadership in this article, not membership.
From 2000 to 2009, the SPLC found no anti-Muslim groups in the U.S., but also did not focus on them as a specific category of hate group.


The Department of Aerospace Engineering offers graduate study leading to the degrees of Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy with an Aerospace Engineering concentration. Distance-learning options for these degrees are also available (see http://www.bcoelearning.msstate.edu). Major areas of study are include the following.
The Raspet Flight Research Laboratory operated by Mississippi State University is a unique facility for graduate aeronautical research and education and has been an integral part of the Aerospace Engineering Department activities for decades. The department is a major participant in the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) where members of this faculty provide a primary role in computational simulations. Other department facilities include a low speed wind tunnel, a blow-down supersonic wind tunnel, and a fatigue and fracture testing laboratory. Graduate research and teaching assistantships are available.
Highly qualified undergraduates in the Bagley College of Engineering are encouraged to consider applying to the Accelerated Program in Aerospace Engineering. This program permits students to earn up to 9 hours of graduate-level coursework after the completion of 85 hours of graded coursework towards their B.S. degree. Students take graduate-level courses and earn both undergraduate credit and graduate credit simultaneously. Students need to consult with the Graduate Coordinator to ensure graduate credit could be applied to a program of study for the graduate degree. Application to this program may be made when a student has completed 85 hours of graded coursework counting towards the completion of a B.S. degree in an engineering discipline. Students interested in applying to the Accelerated Program should contact the department's Graduate Coordinator for more details.
have an overall cumulative GPA of at least 3.50.
An application package consists of the following items, which must be submitted to the Graduate Coordinator of the Aerospace Engineering Department.
The Aerospace Engineering Graduate Coordinator will review applications three times a year to assess whether students possess those qualifications and interests that are indicative of successful completion of the Aerospace Engineering m.S. program.
Once the student is accepted into the combined program, the student and the advisor may select up to 9 hours that will satisfy both undergraduate and graduate requirements. These courses may be split-level (i.e., 4000-6000 level) or 8000 level classes. The student should take the courses for graduate credit (i.e., 6000-level or higher). The combination of undergraduate and graduate credit hours may not exceed 13 hours within a semester.
The student should use the Undergraduate Enrollment in Accelerated Degree Program form to (i) receive from the Office of the Graduate School a level override that enables the student's enrollment in the graduate course(s) and (ii) activate a process with the Registrar's Office to obtain both undergraduate and graduate credit for the course. After successfully completing the graduate-level class(es), the Registrar will grant credit for the undergraduate course and give the same grade as received for the graduate course. for the case of a split-level class, the transcript will show credit for both the 4000- and 6000-level. In the case of an 8000-level class, a special topics undergraduate course of the same title will be entered on the transcript to allow dual credit.
Students are permitted to opt out of the accelerated program at any time, at which point they could complete only the undergraduate portion of the program. No additional dual counting of courses would occur after the student leaves the accelerated program.
Students are expected to apply to the graduate degree program during the last semester in which they are enrolled in the bachelor's program. Application to the graduate degree program would be made through the standard application process via the Office of the Graduate School. Student's will receive the bachelor's degree once the requirements for the bachelor's degree are met. Students will be required to complete all of the requirements for both the bachelor's and graduate degrees in order to receive both degrees, and those requirements will be identical to the requirements for students enrolled in the traditional bachelor's and graduate degree programs. Students will be classified as undergraduates until they fulfill at the requirements for the undergraduate degree. At that time, upon admission to graduate school, they will be classified as graduate students and will be subject to all the guidelines pertaining to the graduate degree.
In addition to meeting the requirements discussed in the General Requirements for Admission section of this publication, the minimum requirement for regular admission to the graduate program is a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering or a closely related field, with a 3.00/4.00 GPA for the junior and senior years. An applicant with a B.S. degree from a program that is not accredited by EAC/ABET (Engineering Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) must submit GRE general-test scores. Applicants required to take the TOEFL examination (see Admission section for more details) must have a minimum score of 550 PBT (79 iBT) or an IELTS score of 6.5. Applicants for the Ph.D. program should have a M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering or a closely related field. Exceptionally qualified applicants (GPA in excess of 3.50/4.00 for junior and senior years) can apply for direct admission to the Ph.D. program.
A student whose B.S. or M.S. degree is not in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering may be granted contingent admission, depending on qualifications and experience. Typically, the contingency is removed by taking undergraduate prerequisite courses in the first few terms after admission. Specific conditions are handled on a case-by-case basis. For more information, please contact the Graduate Coordinator.
An applicant who has not fully met the GPA requirement stipulated by the University may be granted admission as a degree-seeking graduate student with provisional status. Please refer to the Provisional Admission requirements section for more details. The minimum acceptable undergraduate grade point average for admission as a provisional student is 2.75/4.00 for the junior and senior years.
all graduate courses included on the program of study.
The student has no more than one grade less than C.
If the student registers for research credits in a given term, he/she receives a Satisfactory (S) grade at the end of the term.
The student has a major advisor and a supervisory graduate committee after the first two terms of enrollment.
Should the cumulative GPA (in any of the three categories of the first criterion) be less than a 3.00/4.00 at the end of a term, the student will be placed on probation. Should the student earn a second grade less than C, the student will be terminated immediately. Should the student receive an Unsatisfactory (U) grade on research credit hours attempted, he/she will be placed on probation.
The probationary period is defined to be one term (summer counts as one term if the student is enrolled). If at the end of the probationary period the student has not remedied his/her deficiency (i.e., has not achieved a 3.00 GPA, has not scheduled research credit hours and received a satisfactory grade), then his/her program of study will be terminated. A student may appeal termination of his/her program of study to the Aerospace Engineering graduate coordinator. If the appeal at the program level is unsuccessful, the student may then appeal to the college dean. If the appeal at the college level is unsuccessful, the student may then appeal to the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.
For information about the program or financial support, contact the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Coordinator.
A thesis master's degree student must pass a final thesis defense upon completion of all course requirements.
A non-master's degree student must pass a final written/oral examination upon completion of all course requirements.
The number of course hours required of a Ph.D. student depends on each student's needs; numbers shown above are typical beyond a Master's degree. In order to be admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree, a student must pass a doctoral qualifying examination, have his/her dissertation topic approved, and sit for a candidacy examination. A final dissertation defense and an oral examination of the candidate are also required.


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Q: No retina (best) display option I have 2015 early macbook pro 13", but I can't seem to find the 2560x1600 resolution. The highest resolution I can set it on is 1680x1050. Default for display is only 1280x800.
What's the problem here? I'm using the newest Yosemite OS.
Here's the screenshot:

A: Apple will not show you the real panel resolution, only the scaled resolutions.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/macbook-pro-retina-display-faq/macbook-pro-retina-display-hack-to-run-native-resolution.html
Try this.


I falling in love again.
With David Lebovitz & his ice cream recipes.
With David Lebovitz & his super yummy absolutely delicious adult alcoholic ice cream recipes.
And this is an example of my love for him - Rum & raisin ice cream.
And the result is so good that I forgot to copy down the recipe!!!
Argh! I'll find it again and definitely going to buy that book - The Perfect Scoop!


Position Openings (Dublin & Signal Hill offices): Environmental Consultants, QISP Certified Consultants, Sales Representative.
Chemical Data Management Systems is an environmental and safety compliance consulting firm seeking an experienced EH&S professional to join our Dublin and Signal Hill ( Long Beach), CA offices.
CDMS provides project and ongoing compliance support services to businesses to assist in meeting EH&S regulatory requirements. We have assisted companies, primarily in California, for over 25 years in many aspects of compliance.
Duties will include addressing specific regulatory projects for clients as well as facilitating on going compliance support for clients. The Senior Consultant will meet with clients, interface with regulatory agencies, prepare documentation, and address other activities to facilitate client compliance needs.
This position can lead to a managerial position.
This position requires a college degree and experience in the environmental field, and FLUENCY IN SPANISH is preferred.
We offer a benefit package including medical and will provide training.
Qualified applicants please submit resume by email. Learn more about Chemical Data Management Systems at www.cdms.com.
Chemical Data Management Systems (est. 1988) an environmental and safety consulting company with offices in Signal Hill and Dublin, California is seeking an outgoing individual with a 4-year college degree and 2 years of selling experience to fill this professional sales position in Dublin office.
The firm specializes in assisting companies that use chemicals to meet environmental & safety regulatory requirements.
We offer medical and will provide training.
Chemical Data Management Systems (est. 1988) is an environmental and safety consulting company with offices in Signal Hill and Dublin, California. The firm specializes in assisting companies that use hazardous materials, to stay in compliance with environmental & safety regulations at the local, State and Federal levels.
CDMS assists clients to compile with Air Quality, Wastewater, Hazardous Waste, Hazardous Material, Storm Water, Safety and many other requirements.
We prepare compliance plans, conduct employee training, prepare agency reports, conduct compliance audits, conduct sampling and monitoring, and much more to assist our clients in meeting requirements.
As an Environmental Specialist you will assist companies with their environmental compliance requirements through on-site visits, working with regulatory agencies, and inspecting client's sites to help them maintain compliance.
This position requires a college degree and experience in the environmental field.
We offer a benefit package including medical and a 401k plan and will provide training.


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Q: Number value not displaying properly on Bar chart?
The data of date is not displaying properly, I am using stacked now, because I want 3 values to display, the name, the date, the amount on the bar, and this is my code:
 Morris.Bar({
 element: 'graph2',
 data: [
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    $query = mysql_query("select * from product_transaction");
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
    {
    $pdt=$row['product_name']."<br>".$row['trans_date'];

    $pdt_name = $row['product_name'];
    $trans_date = $row['trans_date'];
    $pdt_price = $row['product_price'];
    ?>
  {x: '<?php echo $pdt_name; ?>', y: '<?php echo $trans_date; ?>', z:   '<?php echo $pdt_price; ?>'},
    <?php
    }
    ?>
],
xkey: 'x',
ykeys: ['y', 'z'],
labels: ['Y', 'Z'],
stacked: true
});

why is the date not displaying the full date, only the first number? are they executing division? the format of my date is like this 07/28/2015 . what am i doing wrong?

A: As per the documentation, the date provided must be in the following format: yyyy-mm-dd and you are giving mm/dd/yyyy.
Set your date according to the format provided in the documentation and you would be good to go.


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Do you like good music...?
If your answer to the title of this post is yes, then you probably already know the band that is the topic of today's post, after all, music doesn't get much better than them. :)
If there is one thing that we can thank "Dancing on ice" for besides entertaining nights of television, it's introducing us to The Overtones. Well, we should say introducing our sister Jen to them, for then she passed on her new found favourites to yours truly. I clearly remember the day four years ago when we were sat in the car and she played some of their songs, we were instantly impressed with what we heard. Five albums and four live shows later, our love for this five piece vocal harmony group has only grown stronger. Which is why today I wanted to encourage you to download, buy or youtube their songs, by giving you five reasons why The Overtones are a group you should be listening to! :)
1) The classics like "Do you love me?" "Saturday Night at the Movies," "River Deep, mountain high," and "Why do fools fall in love?" never sounded so good! We have grown up listening to so many of the amazing songs that The Overtones have covered, which to us just makes listening to them nowadays, with their modern day twist, that much more special.
2) There's nothing like a proper gentleman...or five and really who doesn't love a man in a suit? Timmy, Mark, Mike, Darren and Lachie are bringing suave back and it's a welcome sight.
3) An evening with The Overtones is quite possibly the best night out ever. It involves so much singing and dancing and is just the epitome of a feelgood time. I guarantee you won't want the night to end!
4) They are a band the whole family can enjoy. There is no sight more wonderful than seeing the smile and happiness on our Mum's face when The Overtones are onstage. It truly is priceless. To put how awesome they are in perspective, our Mum has never ventured to a concert with us and rarely even comes with us to the cinema or out for "fun" in general, so for her to have seen The Overtones not once but, wait for it, five times...yes she's seen them more than me, is nothing short of a miracle. She even asks me when they are playing again and gets excited at the mere mention of going to see them.
5) We all know the classic Christmas songs are the best. No modern day attempt at a Christmas song has ever come close to becoming a new classic that will be played year after year.....that is until...you guessed it...The Overtones bought out (finally) their own Christmas album last year, with not one but two original tracks that are the best Christmas songs we have heard in years!! They nailed it! Just listen to "Good Ol' Fashioned Christmas" and "This Christmas" for proof!
Make sure you check them out now! Seriously, you will not be disappointed. No matter how I am feeling, the sound of Timmy's voice never fails to make me smile. They are all extremely talented men, who are great fun to watch. I can't wait for what's next from them as they just keep getting better and better!! Role on Christmas! :)
Follow them on Twitter @The_Overtones
Are you already a fan? Let me know and tell me what song or album you love the most! :)
Love Kelly
Katie June 2, 2016 at 6:49 AM
You know what....I have never heard of this little band! But I'm all up for modern twists on new classics and you're right - who doesn't like men in suits?! I'm sold!
Katie.
xx ♥ La Coco Noire
The Blossom Twins June 2, 2016 at 10:40 AM
Aww yay, that's awesome! Please do check them out, you will love them, truly fantastic! :) And they pull off suits like no other! ;) xx


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Roman Fricke (Bremen, 23 maart 1977) is een Duits hoogspringer. Hij is viervoudig nationaal kampioen op dit onderdeel.

Fricke manifesteerde zich voor de eerste maal op een groot internationaal toernooi, toen hij in 2003 deelnam aan de wereldkampioenschappen in Parijs, waar hij bij het hoogspringen als dertiende eindigde. Een jaar later nam hij deel aan de Olympische Spelen van Athene, maar hier geraakte hij niet door de kwalificatieronde.

Titels
Duits kampioen hoogspringen - 2003, 2004
Duits indoorkampioen hoogspringen - 2004, 2006

Persoonlijke records

Outdoor

Indoor

Palmares
2003:  EK indoor - 2,24 m
2003: 5e Europa Cup - 2,20 m
2003: 13e WK - 2,20 m
2004:  Europa Cup - 2,27 m
2004: 13e in kwal. OS - 2,20 m
2005: 5e Europa Cup - 2,24 m
2006: 16e WK Indoor - 2,15 m

Duits atleet
Duits olympisch deelnemer
Hoogspringer

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Christchurch: This walking group walks at the pace of the slowest walker. Morning tea is enjoyed at Antigua Boatshed Café mid walk. Summer 10.00 am, Winter 11.00 am, leaving from the Botanic Gardens (on the bridge by the tea rooms and car park).
Rangiora: A walk followed by coffee at the Artisan Café at 10.30 (18 High St, Rangiora): summer and winter walking schedules vary. Please contact Catherine on 03 379 5835.


Aura Color Meanings - What Do The Colors of an Aura Say?
What do aura colors mean? All humans are vibrating energy fields constantly pulsating life force. This energy that emanates from your body can be seen in colors, hence the word "aura colors". Depending on your physical and mental state of being, the aura will change colors. Let's take a closer look at the different aura colors and their meanings!
The aura colors generally reflect the colors of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, which are also the colors of the seven chakras. However there are many other color shades and tones that can be detected in the aura, which may change accordingly to a persons physical, mental and emotional state. An aura color guide or chart allows for easy interpretation of the aura colors, but for a more in depth evaluation it is advisable to seek advice from an aura color-reading expert.
The following aura color guide will help you to interpret the colors of your aura.
Red – This color have the slowest vibrational frequency and does often relate to the physical body. It is also the the color of passion, fiery emotions, anger and determination. Too much red in the aura can indicate a person that is stubborn or slow to change. It can be both positive and negative.
Deep Red – This is the color of the base chakra symbolizes being grounded, balanced and down to earth.
Orange – An orange aura color signifies power, vitality, health, strength and creativity. Murky or dull orange can suggest ill health, stress, or emotional imbalances.
Orange Red – Signifies an individual with confidence, strong will power, energy and creativity.
Yellow – A yellow aura generally suggests a bright, cheerful and positive person. However, depending on the shade of yellow other meanings can come to light, for example pale yellow points to psychic abilities while bright yellow can signify power issues. Dull yellow aura color can signal a person that is over analytical and stressed.
Green – Representing the color of nature is the green color, which indicates change, growth and balance. A green aura points to a social person that loves being in nature and easily adapts to change. However a dull or murky green aura color implies low self-esteem, insecurity and a lack of responsibility.
Emerald Green – If you emanate an emerald green color in the aura, it reveals a loving individual with natural healing powers.
Yellow Green or Lime Green – This shade of green denotes an outgoing, sociable personality and creativity.
Royal Blue – This shade of blue illustrates a spiritual, generous and kind person. It can also indicate clairvoyance.
Indigo – If indigo is present as one of the colors of an aura, it implies a sensitive person who is spiritual in nature. The color resonates with intuitive gifts.
Violet/Purple – A wise, intuitive person that is idealistic, visionary and in touch with their psychic powers. They vibrate on a high frequency and very much in touch with their inner being.
Turquoise – This aura color alludes to an honest communicator, someone that is open, caring and trustworthy.
Pink – If pink is present as one of the aura colors, it points to a loving, sensitive and creative person. However too much pink can indicate that the person is needy and overly sensitive.
Pastels – Lighter shades of colors can indicate sensitivity, compassion and a need for peace and time for oneself.
Gold – Gold highlights enlightenment, inner wisdom, spirituality and divine power. Also seen as a protective energy within the aura.
White – White in the aura signifies purity, protection and clarity of mind. It is a spiritual color and is also associated with awakening and connection to the divine. White points of light or flashes seen around a person can be a sign of their guardian angel beside them.
Black – Black denotes grief, holding resentment or unforgiveness. It can also represent illness depending on the location within the aura.
Grey – Dull or dark grey can point to blockages, fears and insecurities. It can also be an indication of silver in the aura, which can be seen by some clairvoyantly as a light grey.
Brown – Earth tones in the aura indicate a connection to the earth and are often seen in those working outdoors such as farmers or gardeners.
What is the definition of "Aura Colors"?
The aura or energy field, is the body of energy that lies in and around the physical body. An aura color definition of the human body could be "the energy from a person, formed by subtle color radiances surrounding the physical body". These color vibrations can be perceived or "seen" clearly by clairvoyant psychics.
Can the colors of an aura change?
Yes! It is important to remember that while a person can exhibit certain aura colors at the time of a reading, the colors present later that day or on another day can vary significantly. Like water, the energy field is constantly flowing and changing, as are the aura colors. The description of the aura colors is meant as a guideline and while they can provide great insight, an individual must also use their own intuition to interpret the aura colors and their meanings. Furthermore, the aura colors can also change after a healing session, see picture.
Can anyone see the aura colors?
Most people can not see the colors of the aura, but there are many that have developed clairvoyance (clear seeing) that enables them to see energy vibrations through the third eye that are not normally visible through normal sight.
How does aura color photography work?
For people who can't see the different aura colors, there is another method of portraying the energy field around individuals – by photographing the aura colors. The most famous aura photography method is called the "Kirlian Photography".
Aura color photography enables the energy field to be "seen" by sensing the electrical currents detected in the fingertips to depict the life force energy surrounding the body. The resulting aura image reflects the physical and emotional state of the person. Through this method of aura photography, colors of auras can be seen and read by an expert who usually offers feedback and advice on the state of the energy field. However, it's important to note that the aura colors are constantly changing depending on a person's mood. In general there is one overriding color that is more predominant than others, but an array of colors can also be seen depending on the individual.
What do the colors of an aura mean if several colors are present?
To answer this question, it is important to understand that there are many different shades within a color family, and the interpretation depends on the exact color tone. Interpreting aura colors may not be that easy when several colors are present as the combination can mean different things. You can always seek expert advice and contact an aura color reader.
Where can I learn more about what aura colors mean?
A good tip to learn more about aura colors and what they mean, is to get yourself a good book that covers that topic. There are quite a few books out there and they do not cost much. Search for them here.


Economic recessions can have detrimental impacts on individual and family wellbeing. Previous research indicates that recessions increase stress due to unemployment and reductions in income. The uncertainty or anticipation of losing a job also causes stress. Stress tends to have negative effects on physical health, and increase risky or health-compromising behavior, like smoking or binge drinking. In contrast, other data has found positive relationships between unemployment and health, because individuals engage in more healthful behaviors when they have more free time at their disposal or because they have less money to purchase unhealthy substances like Cigarettes or alcohol.
New research by Janet Currie of Princeton University and Valentina Duque of Columbia University uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS, see text box) to assess how the Great Recession affects the health of fathers with young children. They examine physical health (i.e. general health status and work-limiting health conditions) and health behaviors (i.e., binge drinking, smoking, and drug use). The analysis on fathers yields two main findings: 1) High unemployment was associated with declines in physical health but little change in health-compromising behaviors; 2) Changes in physical health were concentrated among fathers in the lower end and middle of the education distribution. In a related set of findings using FFCWS data, Currie, Duque, and Irwin Garfinkel of Columbia University study whether the Great Recession led to changes in mothers' physical health and substance use, and they found that the increase in the unemployment rate was associated with substantial declines in mother's physical health and an increase in substance use among the most disadvantaged. The results indicate that economic recessions and related unemployment rates have differing effects on mothers and fathers, at least in terms of binge drinking and drug use.


Corner is a program for calculating odd corners made from sheetmaterials like aluminium, steel, or glass. It could be the corners of aluminium- or steelfacades - or perhaps strangely-shaped fishtanks... Useful if when you need it.
Student Response Network is a powerful ?virtual Clicker? student response system designed for use in school computer labs or with wireless laptop groups. It replaces the need for personal handheld ?clicker? devices with a software-only solution for use with networked Windows PCs/laptops.


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simian.interface, and filler puzzles as phenomenology.
simian.interface, by Vested Interest, is a game that never tells you the controls or how to play or what your goals are, but you'll immediately intuit all of those things just by interacting with it. In this sense, it's very toy-like: you're just playing with this thing, tossing it and turning it over in your hands. No instructions, hardly any rules.
Nominally, it's also a "puzzle game", but it really doesn't fit into the popular sense of a puzzle game. There's this concept of "filler puzzles" among puzzle games, where puzzles that don't demand any new skill or understanding from the player are not as valuable as more novel puzzles. You can be assured that in a Stephen Lavelle puzzle game, for example, every single puzzle has been consciously constructed and filtered and curated over the course of dozens of playtests. Same thing in Jelly No Puzzle: there's always a bit of additional new lateral thinking that trips you up.
In this sense, simian.interface is an awful puzzle game because it is made almost entirely of filler puzzles -- you're just doing the same thing over and over, and the shapes change a little bit. Most levels take about 15 seconds to complete.
... Except it's a puzzle game where the formal novelty of the puzzles doesn't matter?
That's because simian.interface is a puzzle game that isn't really about this sense of analytical "understanding" -- it's more interested in perception and brief but powerful moments, which I guess is a very different kind of understanding -- a tactile unspoken understanding of "feel."
The philosopher Martin Heidegger distinguished between two different attitudes of "being" along those lines: there's vorhandenheit ("present at hand") which is like a distanced analytical orientation to something, like you're studying it as a disinterested researcher -- and then there's zuhandenheit ("ready to hand"), which is like when you get "in the zone" when you're doing something, and that feeling / phenomenon defies description, and you don't really even notice what's happening. Heidegger talks through these concepts by imagining a hammer: sure, you could say the hammer's made of metal and wood and so on, but that's not really what a hammer "means" in the same way that it feels in your hand, or the way that a master carpenter might strike a nail perfectly without thinking. In this way, we usually regard zuhandenheit as truer, as more authentic, the attitude of being that wise masters have toward their craft: they don't think about it, they just "are."
Which isn't to say that players don't develop zuhandenheit when playing English Country Tune or Jelly No Puzzle -- I'm sure some players do, and both games are very toy-like. However, I'd argue that these puzzles games' awareness and avoidance of "filler" betrays their difference from simian.interface, and their differing attitudes toward being.
simian.interface argues that "being" is not something to think about, but rather something to feel about.
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NICKY Shorey had a watching brief from the bench after answering Hungerford's squad call earlier than expected and seeing his new team-mates claim a draw.
Shorey saw his new team-mates hit the woodwork three times and miss a number of chances. "But we've played well and got another away point," said Wilkinson.
Stefan Brown's stunning volley had given Hungerford the lead inside 20 minutes, and they dominated for long spells before Elliot Buchanan responded in kind with a superbly struck free kick in the 54th minute before Hungerford took charge.
Luke Williams and James Clark had the crossbar shaking in quick succession and Harry Goodger and Matt Day went close before the final moments saw Buchanan and Nicholas Bignall miss clear chances at either end.


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Working for a Peaceful World for Humans, Animals and the Environment
Clarification on IDA's Wild Horse Roundup Lawsuit
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org
In Defense of Animals (IDA)
On May 24, 2010, In Defense of Animals (IDA) announced that U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman dismissed our lawsuit to stop the Calico Mountain Complex wild horse roundup on a legal technicality. As you may recall, IDA, joined by renowned ecologist Craig Downer and noted children's author Terri Farley, filed a lawsuit against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to stop the largest roundup of wild horses in years — the Calico Mountain Complex roundup in Nevada.
We'd like to clarify the outcome of this litigation, further explain why the judge dismissed the lawsuit, and describe why we believe that this groundbreaking case bodes very well for any future litigation.
Judge Friedman's dismissal of the lawsuit (the ruling can be read here) was based on plaintiffs' lack of standing – the legal right to issue a lawsuit. Judge Friedman's dismissal had nothing whatsoever to do with the merits of the case. In his December 23, 2009 opinion denying plaintiffs' request for a Preliminary Injunction (decision is here), Judge Friedman did rule, pending further briefing, that BLM's practice of holding wild horses in long-term holding was likely illegal. He stated that "BLM's use of long-term holding facilities runs counter to the statute's mandate that the agency's management of wild horses occur at 'the minimal feasible level.' 16 U.S.C. § 1333(a). Long-term maintenance of thousands of horses in holding pens constitutes intensive management that was not contemplated by Congress when the Wild Horse Act was passed." The Judge further wrote, "BLM's proposed confinement of hundreds or thousands of horses from the Calico Mountains Complex in long-term holding facilities in other states thus appears to contravene the unambiguous intent of Congress as expressed in statutory text and legislative history." His opinion relied on the statute's clear, unambiguous prohibition on relocating wild horses and burros to areas of the public lands where they did not exist in 1971 (the year the statute became law).
In light of this Judge Friedman wrote that "the agency's best option might be to postpone the gather," although he did go on to elucidate the potential problems with such a postponement. As we know, that postponement did not happen and today over 1,800 Calico wild horses are confined at a BLM facility in Fallon, Nevada. Over 100 horses have died as a result of the roundup and more than 40 heavily pregnant mares had spontaneous abortions – the vast majority died at the Fallon facility.
It's important to note that Judge Friedman's May 24, 2010 final ruling "assumes, without deciding, that plaintiffs' rather conclusory allegations suffice" for legal standing in regards to the roundup and removal of the Calico horses, but that plaintiffs had not established standing with regards to the relocation to long-term holding of the horses. Because the Judge did not issue an injunction stopping the roundup and removal of the horses from Calico and that these actions had already occurred, he determined the roundup and removal issues were moot. The judge determined plaintiffs had not satisfactorily established standing regarding long-term holding, stating that "Their [plaintiffs'] asserted injury results from the removal of wild horses from the Complex, not from the placement of removed horses in long-term holding facilities." He further stated that "plaintiffs' asserted injuries are not sufficiently connected or 'traceable' to the agency action in question," which was the long-term holding issue. These are the reasons for the Judge's decision to dismiss the case – mootness for a roundup that the Court refused to enjoin, and the Court's finding that plaintiffs had probably established standing for roundup and removal, but not for relocation to long-term holding.
It is significant that the Court assumed that plaintiffs' allegations were sufficient for legal standing on the roundup and removal aspects of the litigation. Because the Judge did not address the merits at all in his May 24, 2010 ruling, his preliminary finding in his December 23, 2009 opinion that relocation to long-term holding is likely illegal indicates that the arguments put forth by plaintiffs in this litigation will be successful in any future lawsuit – especially since we fervently believe that the additional briefing requested by the Judge greatly strengthened plaintiffs' arguments. This case was filed pro bono and we remain extremely grateful for the tremendous generosity of lead attorney William Spriggs, his legal team and law firm Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney.
IDA is determined to continue to fight the BLM's ill-conceived plans to continue removing wild horses from their homes on the range and stockpiling them in long-term holding.
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Take a trip down memory lane and recall the projects you have been involved in the last five years. Now give yourself a minute and list the three requirements your team missed, or think about the three things everyone wished you had spent more time on. This is an interesting question that, perhaps surprisingly, typically has similar answers across the industry. My answers would be Performance, Scalability, and Security followed very closely with Interoperability and Maintainability. If you did a market survey I am sure you would get similar answers from many development teams.
Time-to-market and features are not the only selling points. I work for an Enterprise Software Development company which is selling products to large and mid-sized enterprises. After we sell our product to the LOB (Line of Business) folks we next need to get past the IT hurdle. The questions the IT folks ask us are: how well does your product perform, how easy is it to scale your application to my growing user population, which security standards do you comply with, how easy is it to integrate your product with the rest of my IT eco system, and how expensive is it to maintain your product. These questions all target one area, how good are the "enterprise characteristics" of the product. If you want to continue selling products they better be darn good.
This article concentrates on how to improve the performance of your ASP.NET applications through the use of two tools: NProf and Microsoft's Application Center Test (ACT). We'll start with a high-level discussion on quantitatively measuring performance, and then dive into using NProf and ACT.
In my years of experience I have learned to treat performance and any other enterprise characteristic as a feature. Clearly state the goal and provision resources and time to be assigned against it. Furthermore, it is just as important that you quantitatively define the goals for performance. That is, stay away from defining an acceptable level of performance as having the application "responding quickly," or "has fast load times, even over a slow internet connection." You can't measure such subjective metrics as these, and engineers are like scientists, they want to measure it or it is meaningless. How do you measure whether the application is slow? You can put the application on a PII 400MHz and access it with two users and it might be lightning fast but use a Xeon 2GHz with two thousand users and the application is crawling along.
"In my years of experience I have learned to treat performance and any other enterprise characteristic as a feature. Clearly state the goal and provision resources and time to be assigned against it."
For example, imagine that you wanted to reduce the response time from ten seconds to five. You can accomplish this by reducing the number of concurrent users you need to support, or by adding hardware, or maybe by tuning your application to make it faster. Or it can be a combination of any of these.
Determining the number of concurrent users your system can expect is part mathematics, and part guesswork. Oftentimes, you'll know, or have a good idea, of the total number of potential users that you need to support; for example, if you are developing an intranet application for your company and there are 4,000 employees in your company, then there are 4,000 potential users.
The "supported users per hour" calculates given in an hour how many slots to you have to serve users. In our example a user typically uses the system for 15 minutes so we end up with four slots per hour the system can use to serve users. This formula indicates that your application, on average, needs to support 18 concurrent users. Every application has peak usage, of course. Email systems, for example, have peak usage in the morning when everyone comes in and checks his/her emails. For other applications it might be in the late afternoon before employees leave for the day. Find out from your LOB folks or customer what this peak usage is.
When calculating the peak usage numbers, I typically assume that peak usage rates are 300% higher than average usage rates, meaning I multiply the average concurrent usage number by three to get the estimated peak usage number. In our sample that would come out to 54 concurrent users at peak time. After all of these calculations, I now know that I need to tune my application and hardware to support 54 concurrent users.
Typically the number of concurrent users is hard to measure for engineers. Engineers don't deal in terms of how many users will use the system, or the average number of users per hour. Rather, the metrics engineers work with include how many requests/sec the site will expect, and the maximum response time for the application. Given the requests per second and how long the average user will be using the application, an engineer can calculate the number of concurrent users.
We already defined how long users will use the application - in our example 15 minutes per session. But that does not mean that in these 15 minutes users will be constantly requesting new pages from your application. Users will click on a link or button, wait for the page to render in the browser, then read or scan the information on the page before clicking on another link or button. Industry standards claim that it should not take longer then five to ten seconds for your page to process and render in the browser and that users need about five to fifteen seconds to understand what is displayed on a page before they click the next link or button. Taking this information you can say that a user will issue a page request every ten to 25 seconds. Plugging these numbers into the formulas below, you can compute the concurrent user metric.
This is a measurable number which every engineer can measure using Microsoft's Application Center Test (ACT) or any of the other performance testing tools on the market. Given the concurrent number of users you can use back of the envelope calculations to determine what hardware your application will need to run on in order to meet the required performance criteria. We'll look at these pieces in Part 2 of this article.


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Patients With Access to Their Physicians' Notes May Have a Better Sense of Control Over Their Health
By Mike Mitka on October 1, 2012
Patients with access to their physicians' notes may gain a better sense of control over their health care. (Image: lionvision/iStockphoto.com)
Results from a pilot study suggest that patients who have online access to their physicians' electronic notes may be more engaged and understanding of their health and become more reliable in taking medications as prescribed. The findings appear today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study involved 105 primary care physicians who volunteered to give their patients online access to personal medical records for a 12-month period. The study was conducted in a major urban hospital in Boston, an integrated health system in rural Pennsylvania, and a county hospital in Seattle and involved physicians who participated in OpenNotes, a program primarily funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
The researchers surveyed 5391 patients who opened at least 1 note. About 77% to 87% of these patients (across the 3 sites) said that having access to their physicians' notes made them feel more in control of their care, and 60% to 78% of those taking medication reported they became more consistent in taking their medication as prescribed.
Historically, physicians have been reluctant to share their writings with patients for a variety of reasons, but concerns about doing so may be overblown. Only 1% to 8% of patients reported that the notes caused confusion, worry, or offense. Few physicians reported longer visits (0% to 5%) or spending more time addressing patients' questions outside of visits (0% to 8%) because of note sharing. Most of the surveyed physicians said they did not need more time to write their notes (0% to 21%).
The researchers concluded that widespread adoption of open notes seems a worthy goal. Caroline Lubick Goldzweig, MD, MSHS, Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, in an accompanying editorial, acknowledged that a revolution is occurring in health care documentation but cautioned that more data are needed before sharing notes with a patient becomes a standard of medical care. Goldzweig wanted to know whether note sharing with patients might change physician-to-physician communication, whether it might impair the ability of other physicians to manage patients appropriately, whether it might be most useful in certain patient populations, and whether it might have a significant effect on outcomes.
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The Núpsstadur Jeppi
1953 CJ-3B, Núpsstadur, Iceland
It first appeared in Jeeps in Iceland on CJ3B.info in 2002, and over the next 10 years this Jeep at Núpsstadur Farm on the southern coast of Iceland, became perhaps the web's most-photographed CJ-3B, appearing in many travelogues, photographers' galleries, and stock photo libraries.
Since the death of the elderly brothers who owned the farm, the Willys is gone, but this Jeppi (pronounced "yeppi" in Icelandic) will live on in perhaps thousands of photos taken by tourists and professional photographers, many of which can be found on the web.
This 2005 picture by Ingibjorn Gudjonsson from Sweden clearly shows why the colorful Jeep nestled below the rocks was so appealing to photographers, but the story behind the Jeep is as unusual as its paint job.
License plate Z221 is an old-style pre-1989 Iceland plate, with the "Z" indicating Skaftafell district, where there were only 221 vehicles at the time the Jeep was originally registered.
The Nupsstadur Farm
Núpsstadur is located not far from the towering cliffs of Mt. Lómagnúpur, about 320km (200 miles) east of Reykjavik, and just west of Skaftafell National Park (see a map of Iceland, 200K JPEG).
Chris Holland wrote to CJ3B.info in 2002, "I am stationed in Iceland as part of the US Air Force contingent here, and I found this 3B in Núpsstadur. It appears to be in running condition as the vehicle's registration is current."
Chris also commented, "As you can see, being just a few kilometers from the ocean, the salt water has taken its toll on the body. The body has obviously been altered to create a seamless hardtop with doors, and whoever did it appeared to do a good job. I didn't even realize what they had done until I had walked all the way around it."
The CJ-3B was a 1953 model, and is likely what is known in Iceland as an "Israelsjeppi" -- one of the Jeeps assembled by Kaiser-Ilin Industries in Israel and traded to Iceland for fish between 1953 and 1955 (see Israel Jeeps on CJ3B.info.) The steel hardtops were installed by the Willys dealer in Reykjavik. Fifty years later this one was clearly suffering from corrosion, but it had been kept repaired and painted.
After seeing Chris' photos, Magnus Sigurjonsson went on a family excursion to look at the Jeep in 2003. He photographed it in its beautiful setting, in front of some of the turf and stone farm buildings which make Núpsstadur a rare surviving example of a pioneer farm on the Icelandic frontier, dating back to the 17th century. Magnus reported the farm and the Jeep belonged to two elderly brothers over 90 years old, one of whom still occasionally drove the Jeep.
Inside one of the buildings seen here is a blacksmith shop (170K JPEG, photo by Andrew Lavigne, 2012.)
The farm is also the home of one of the few remaining turf churches in all of Iceland, dating from the mid-1600's and now maintained by the National Museum. The tiny chapel (130K JPEG, photo by Erik De Keyser, 2009) has belonged to the farm since the mid-1700's.
Mt. Lómagnúpur, seen in the distance behind Magnus and the Jeep, is a peak of only 765 meters (2500 feet), but because 670 meters (2200 feet) of that height is a vertical cliff rising from sea level, it's a dramatic landmark.
Lómagnúpur is mentioned in Njáls Saga , the longest and most famous of the medieval Icelandic sagas. In the story, written around around 1280 AD, the mountain is the home of a giant who carries an iron staff. He can be seen on Iceland's coat of arms as one of Iceland's four guardian spirits (see the map of Iceland, 200K JPEG).
In the background here is the chapel, and the new farmhouse built in 1929 by Hannes Jónsson, on the farm which his mother's family had owned since 1730. Hannes was also the local postman, and a guide to the rivers and glaciers in the area, and he and his wife Póranna Póraarinsdóttir had ten children. Two sons, Eyjólfur and Fillipus Hannesson, stayed to work the farm after Hannes died in 1968 at the age of 88.
Eyjólfur and Fillipus would have been in their forties when the Jeppi arrived, if it was purchased new in the early 1950s.
The two brothers lived their entire lives at Núpsstadur Farm. Eyjólfur Hannesson (left) died in 2004 at the age of 97, and Fillipus Hannesson (right) died in 2010 in his 101st year. They were both buried in the family cemetery behind the chapel (550K JPEG, photo by Andrew Lavigne, 2012.) This small poster in the window of the white farmhouse commemorates the "last farmers at Nupsstadur."
A rare picture is this beautiful late-afternoon shot of Eyjólfur and the Willys together, with Lómagnúpur in the background, taken by Sigurdur Stefnisson in 2002.
From a 2004 interview with the Hannesson brothers at Icelandic news site mbl.is:
"'You both have a valid driver's license?' I ask.
'Yes, but it must be renewed annually; they need to measure vision and more,' says Eyjólfur.
'They are afraid to ask, they just renew,' says Fillipus."
Gunnar Nikulásson captured what I believe is a unique photo of the Jeppi in action, driven by Fillipus.
In a 2006 interview with Iceland Review Online, Fillipus commented that he was not afraid of driving on his own, because the roads were good and the weather was much better than it used to be. He said the wind from the north was now getting warmer as the ice was disappearing from the glaciers.
A portrait of Eyjólfur (right) appears in the book Faces of the North by acclaimed Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelsson.
In a 2004 obituary his niece Gudrun Ómarsdóttir wrote, "Eyjólfur was a unique man, cheerful and playful, probably one of the few remaining who at eighty years old would run in the last game with the kids. I will always remember my uncle with great warmth and gratitude for the kindness and endless attention he showed us. He taught us to respect nature and animals, large and small, and laughed heartily at my fear of spiders.
"I'm so accustomed to talking about the brothers in a single word, and it saddened me greatly to think that this will end nearly a century of Eyjólfur and Fillipus living together."
The Final Years
In 2008, Dan Pinson wrote to CJ3B.info: "We just completed a trip to Iceland in June and while there photographed a 3B in sad shape. I then noticed you have pictures of the Jeep we photographed. Thought you might be interested in an update."
It unfortunately appeared that the Willys was no longer being driven, now that Fillipus was 99 years of age. Dan's front view photo (280K JPEG) showed the extent to which the distinctive hardtop had rusted away to reveal the wooden frame underneath, as well as the 2005 inspection sticker remaining on the windshield, indicating that Z221 was no longer on the road.
Also from 2008 is a distinctive winter shot by the UK photographer known as 13 Days. Although the winters are long in Iceland, most photos at Núpsstadur are taken during the summer tourist season.
Incidentally, the brothers put studded tires on the Jeep for the winter, and in the later years the changeover was a challenge for them.
Eyjólfur and Fillipus' older sister, Margrét Hannesdóttir, died in Reykjavik in 2011 at the age of 107, at the time the second-oldest person in Iceland (wikia.com).
Since Eyjólfur Hannesson died in 2010, the Jeep had not been seen or mentioned in articles about the farm, and I was not able to confirm what happened to it. But in 2016 I received a note from Istvan Takacs, who had looked into one of the sheds during a visit to the farm, and found the Willys sitting inside, waiting. Istvan took these photos, including a unique interior shot revealing some green paint.
I still have some hope that one day the Jeppi at Núpsstadur will be restored so it can once again be seen in the Icelandic landscape, as in this 2008 photo by Elva Jonasardottir:
Thanks to Dan Pinson, Magnus Sigurjonsson, Chris Holland, and the other photographers. -- Derek Redmond
See also a CJ-3B in an Icelandic Movie, Children of Nature ( Börn náttúrunnar ), 1991.
Return to the Index of Unusual Photos on CJ3B.info.
See also Jeeps Around the World.
https://cj3b.info/Finds/FindsIcelandNupsstadur.html


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Q: How can I store user data? I'm working on an Android app and I'd like to store user data (like name, city, state, email, etc.), a global scoreboard for everyone to see, and some geography data (to keep track of how many users are coming from which cities). I noticed that Android's built-in SQLite is really for local, on-device use, and not designed to keep global records on the back end. Is there a way to move the database onto a web host and use it on the back end instead of just for one device? Or do Android developers normally just go with a different language entirely?

A: Yes, SQLite is more ideal for storing local, on-device information. You don't want to store information for all of your users on each user's phone. You'll need a backend service, and there are many options.
Amazon AWS is a popular option.
Parse is much simpler than Amazon AWS, although you might find yourself limited if your app grows very large. For smaller apps, though, Parse takes care of all your backend headaches and provides a nice API for you to use.
If you want to do a lot of the work yourself you'll need a server to host it, some kind of server-side language to deal with requests from users, and a database (mySQL, Oracle, etc). This will be an enormous amount of work if you don't already know what you're doing, and I'd suggest going with a BaaS.
Here is a list of other BaaS (backend as service) options.

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Stevtech approached our team to create a series of videos to educate potential customers.
We created a series of videos for StevTech – a new drone company servicing the Agriculture Industry.
The creation process included an onsite video shoot in Central West NSW. We engaged with the founder of Stevtech to gain product information, complete some scripts and also gather footage.
Once onsite we filmed some extra drone footage and aerial photography to patch into the Stevtech videos. This was done with a mix of drones to get various effects.
After capturing the raw video we went into the edit suite. We sourced music and licensed it for the videos and also created special effects using Adobe After Effects. Colour grading was also completed to help the footage from different drones and cameras have a consistent look and feel.
The final product is a professionally produced video series of 5 videos for the Stevtech business.
These service explainers have helped users and potential clients engage with the brand. And as a result, this has increased lead generation for the business.
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