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This 41-acre property is a dedicated state nature preserve located in the City of Hobart. One of the rarest ecosystems in the state, the black-soil prairie at Cressmoor is an extremely high-quality landscape, despite a history of agriculture and grazing. It harbors at least ten state-listed species of plants and five threatened species of remnant-dependent insects. The preserve is at its most impressive from late summer to early fall when prairie grasses are high and the diversity of wildflowers and butterflies is at its peak. A loop hiking trail begins at the parking lot on Lake Park Avenue and is roughly 1/2 to 3/4 miles in length.
Keith Board Nature Trail
The trail at Cressmoor Prairie has been dedicated in honor of the late Keith Board, whose legendary "botanizing" explorations resulted in the discovery and ultimately the protection of the preserve. Click here to download a copy of his 1996 dedication speech.
Acquisition Partners:
Indiana Heritage Trust, Indiana Department of Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy.
Restoration Partners:
Indiana Department of Natural Resources, NIPSCO Environmental Challenge Fund, Natural Resource Damage Assessment Fund, Lake Michigan Coastal Program, Wildlife Habitat Council, U.S. Forest Service.
Photos by Ron Trigg
From I-94, take I-65 south to Ridge Rd/E. 37th Ave. Drive east on E. 37th Ave. about 2.5 miles to Lake Park Ave. Turn right (south) on Lake Park for about ½ mile to the parking lot on the right (west) side of the road.
Click here to download the Trail Map.
View more observations near Cressmoor Prairie (Shirley Heinze Land Trust), Lake County, IN on iNaturalist.org »
Walk the trails at Cressmoor Prairie in late summer and fall and you'll know the wonder that early settlers felt when they emerged from the great eastern forest to discover the sea of grassland that stretched from here to the foothills of the Rockies. Very little of those original grasslands remains today. Cressmoor, after careful restoration, is one of the best places to see tallgrass prairie in Indiana.
Cressmoor Prairie's late-summer wildflower display is a world-class natural spectacle. Grasses reach eight feet skyward, sunflowers even higher. Spikes of purple blazing star, yellow goldenrods, pink milkweeds, blue and white asters flourish in huge abundance. Butterflies, attracted by wildflower nectar, gather in great colorful numbers. Monarchs pause here in the fall prior to their long flight to the mountains of Mexico.
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Is Best Buy Fumbling its Appliances Opportunity?
A less than stellar customer experience led me down a rabbit hole, at the other end of which emerged a barrel staring Best Buy in the face.
Time came to replace a major appliance. Sears? Bah. PC Richard & Son? Cute. Amazon? Shmazazon. Home Depot? Lowe's would feel bad. Best Buy? Why not.
Admittedly, I went in with a bit of a bias – eager for Best Buy to win my business and tell me how amazingly well they'd applied the early successes (and subsequent lessons learnt) of Geek Squad to a category – appliances – that just seemed theirs to win. I'd research everyone and if Best Buy had the product (a refrigerator in this instance) that best matched my needs, and were competitive on price, I'd go with them.
Go with them I did. Here's the tale I've lived to tell.
Search & Discovery: Make it Easier to Find Products.
As most of us do, I started my search online; armed with my preferred budget, dimensions and features. A store visit wouldn't be necessary if I was able to find a well-reviewed product that fit the criteria and was available for installation within a week.
Best Buy's default user flow is designed for someone who has already decided what type refrigerator (French Door, Bottom Freezer etc.) they want. Perhaps the assumption is research for this category will happen elsewhere for Best Buy's target persona.
The ability to view a wider assortment is tough to find on Best Buy's refrigerators landing page.
On BestBuy.com's refrigerators landing page, for instance, the navigation options that lead to a wider selection of products are presented alongside a list of refrigerator types – an inconsistency that makes these very valuable navigation paths difficult to find.
PC Richard on the other hand offers a parameterized search option on its refrigerators landing page – making it much easier to narrow the consideration set to those that fit your criteria.
PC Richard & Son's landing page is better suited to the shopper persona still researching the perfect refrigerator.
Further, once you pull up a list of products on their website, Best Buy's filtering mechanism is one-dimensional – offering categories that you select by marking off checkboxes to filter products. This works well for discrete concepts such as features ("Energy Star Compliant", "Frost-Free" etc.) and brands ("Samsung", "Maytag" etc.). For more continuous constructs such as dimensions, Best Buy's filtering method is cumbersome – forcing you to choose random ranges of width, depth or height. Again, PC Richard offers a simple but elegant minimum/maximum range in addition.
By now, PC Richard has me rethinking my pre-research bias – the overall experience has been great online. They help find the perfect product. They have a store in my neighborhood.
Then the fickle reality of the shopper hits. They can have it installed in 2 weeks. Geek Squad can have it done in 4 days. Sorry, PC Richard.
The purchase and installation confirmation email arrives from Best Buy. 2 days prior to installation I review the email to confirm the installation time and notice something off.
"218 Cu. Ft." is an obvious typo – easy to understand. What's concerning is the dimensions on the confirmation email don't match those on the website. If what's on the email is accurate, this fridge won't fit my space. The model number and SKU are both fine. Why is there a discrepancy between what's on the website and what's on this email?
"I don't have access to this information". I point out its on their website.
"I'm not an expert". We politely disagree on whether they should be or not.
I realize I could just look up the product spec elsewhere online. In the process I find a Home Depot best practice that most other retailers could learn from and improve their user experience online – clear, visual dimensions featured prominently on the product page. Most others have them buried under detailed specifications.
Home Depot's product pages draw out important information such as product dimensions through visual cues and greater prominence.
The installation window per the email is 8AM – Noon ET on Apr 4, 2017. I was told to expect a phone call the day prior to confirm installation. It is now the morning of. No phone call. I go back to the email, find the "View Order Status" button very prominently placed above the fold.
Clicking on it leads to a page that apologizes for its existence and states my order information is unavailable. Hmm. Maybe the feature is down on the website. Maybe it acts funky when you try and access it during the time of a scheduled installation. I don't know. I give Best Buy the benefit of the doubt.
Best Buy's order status page has an existential crisis.
I call Geek Squad at 10AM ET (during the delivery window) and am told the order is fine, the delivery is on schedule and the crew will call me 30 minutes before they arrive.
It is now 1PM – an hour over the delivery window. I Tweet @GeekSquad. The Best Buy Support Team (@BestBuySupport) responds immediately. Unfortunately they offer the "have you tried plugging your computer into an electrical socket" equivalent of a response.
As recommended, I call Geek Squad again and ask to be connected to dispatch. They have the crew call me in a few minutes. They are 10 minutes out.
The delay isn't a big deal (or wasn't for me in this case on this day). Here's the thing with customer experience: Setting expectations is a good thing. Having done that, failing to meet them, and worse – failing to communicate through the process, amplifies the friction points in the experience.
The crew arrives and does a walkthrough prior to installation. They determine the refrigerator won't fit the opening. How come? Well, they have the (wrong) dimensions (from the email receipt) on their paperwork. I request that they look up the actual product in the truck.
The truth, and nothing but the truth.
The rest of the installation goes smoothly. The crew is polite and efficient. They ask that I rate them well when a post-installation survey arrives. It hasn't yet. And, the order status page still doesn't work.
The Breakout Success That Hasn't Been.
Best Buy's most recent earnings announcement continues to show robust domestic US online growth (20.8% Y-o-Y), even as overall sales plateau (0.2% total revenue growth Y-o-Y) – posing the valid question of where the next wave of growth will come from.
The appliances category is a tremendous growth opportunity for Best Buy – and has been for a few years. As a relatively low percentage of their revenue mix, it is a prime candidate for driving net new growth that doesn't just cannibalize store sales. Yet, this hasn't been a breakout category for Best Buy yet.
Best Buy's appliance category revenue mix (appliance sales as a percentage of overall revenue) and comparable sales growth (Y-o-Y category sales growth) over 16 quarters.
My experience is anecdotal, however the friction points in the customer experience seem systemic. Geek Squad is failing to deliver the sort of seamless, expert delivery and installation service that is the hallmark of a vertically integrated player such as Abt Electronics.
The Best Buy stock has done exceedingly well in the past year, posting a 55% gain in the last twelve months.
The stock market is a fickle mistress, however. To continue to benefit from the solid foundations it has laid under new leadership, Best Buy will have to win in a traditionally non-core category such as appliances. And, to do so, it'll have to improve its customer experience significantly.
Disclaimer: I do not own a position in Best Buy stock or options at the time of this blog's writing.


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What's app-ening with iPhones?
By Paul Skelton
As the number of iPhones continues to swell, installers can now leverage the device into their businesses and streamline their operations by adopting it as a multi-functional tool.
As someone who doesn't own an iPhone, I can't help but notice that owners of the so-called 'Jesus phone' insist on showing you what the ubiquitous device is capable of.
Generally speaking, I'm not interested. But I would be lying if I didn't believe the iPhone could play a useful role in a contractor's business, just in an application that many wouldn't otherwise consider.
In the home automation sector, several control system and multi-room audio component manufacturers have launched iPhone apps that interface with their lighting control and AV systems.
This is a nifty add-on for clients that have access to an iPhone, but the biggest benefit for tradies could be in the adoption of the iPhone as a multi purpose tool for their toolbox.
David Campbell is a high-end residential builder and Control4 dealer in Sydney. Over the last six months he has developed an iPhone app for tradies called, simply enough, the Tradie's App, which consists of five programs they use on a daily basis – site surveys, variations, request for information, purchase orders and subcontractor agreements.
Using a straightforward interface with drop-down menus, the app can document everything from onsite machinery and materials to safety concerns.
"I developed this because I saw a need for it in the market," David says. "The iPhone has become such an invaluable part of my business because it helps me save time and money, so it made sense to use it for other applications.
"On a site you'd rarely see a tradesman without a phone glued to their ear, so why shouldn't it be an all-in-one device?"
For David, staying up-to-date with construction projects is one of the greatest benefits of the iPhone.
"If there's a problem onsite that needs my attention, one of the team members takes a photo with their phone and sends it to me.
"Nine times out of ten I'll be able to solve the problem then and there, instead of dropping everything I'm doing and travelling to the site.
"Further, if I'm not onsite for any reason, through the Tradie's App I can still tell a client which tradesmen turned up and exactly what work was completed on any given day.
"It has removed the need for fax machines, telephone lines and internet connections as everything I need is in my pocket. And it saves my workers and sub contractors having to finish paperwork when they get back to the office or home."
Upon entering the information into the iPhone, the Tradie's App can then interface with a PC/Mac to produce uniform documentation that maintains an accurate account of a project's particulars.
"The best part is that the older guys have had no trouble with using it. In fact, they tend to understand the logic behind it a lot better than the younger guys."
But it's not just paperwork that the iPhone can assist with. Recently developed apps allow an iPhone to double as a spirit level, stud finder and
IP network scanner. It can replace tools that traditionally cost anywhere from $20 to $200.
But are they foolproof?
"No. It's strange that people have these ridiculously high expectations for what a $6 app can do. This just isn't realistic," David says.
"But, that being said, I would have to say that I have encountered about a 90% accuracy. However, just as you would when using a desktop PC, you should always check what you've done.
"Besides, if an app doesn't work, delete it. Simple."
David's business, David Campbell Builders (DCB), is practically the poster child for iPhones in the construction industry.
With the Oz Weather app, the team is able to check weather forecasts and better schedule resources and operations.
"When we have a concrete pouring project planned, for example, we regularly check the weather to make sure conditions are ideal and won't have an impact on the job."
Even ordering supplies onsite is simplified, he says. Using the Invoice2Go app, a DCB site manager can create a purchase order on their iPhone and email it directly to the supplier.
"Using Invoice2Go, there are times when I've done a quote for a client on the spot, emailed it through, and had it immediately approved."
In the first five weeks after its launch, the Tradie's App, which costs $52.99 and is available from the iTunes Store, has proven quite popular with builders in Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and the US. Further, it is currently being adapted for the release of the new Apple iPad.
David says he also has plans for it to integrate with a business' accounting software.
So, are the construction sectors undergoing a iPhone revolution? Will more and more apps be developed for the iPhone in an effort to streamline business?
It app-ears so.
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In a world in which every single topic is now spun mercilessly in distorted manners by the mass media in the age of spin, we have created the age of stupidity in which the ignorant slander the well-educated and the mob wins debates solely not based upon facts or truth, but based upon numbers and "might makes right" and hollow, transparent strawman arguments that others in the mob are too ignorant to identify as incorrect. Because the inmates have overrun the gulag and taken control, it is nearly impossible to convince the inmates of their own ignorance unless one appeals to a source they perceive as authoritative. For example, any educated introspection of the scientific evidence about the current epidemic in regard to mortality would prove that it has been one of the least dangerous epidemics of the 188 epidemics that have occurred in the last 2,000 years of human history but is being treated around the world in lockdown mandates disproportionately and completely unaligned with scientific knowledge as if it were one of the most dangerous. However, try to convince the masses of these scientific facts, and you're likely to conjure up fair amounts of rage and unjustified anger.
For example, regarding the complete lack of scientific robustness of the PCR test as a diagnostic tool and massively high percentages of false positive tests documented in scientifically robust studies for any PCR test run above an 18 Ct (cycle threshold), national health organizations around the world completely ignored the science and recommended that tests be run at 28, 30 or even 35 Cts, Cts that completely invalidated all test results. Yet, the oligarchs presented scientifically non-robust test results riddled with "false positives" as "robust" and they used these "results" to conjure up fear and panic among the masses for the last year and a half. Furthermore, even when the most credible, authoritarian source about the PCR tests, the Nobel prize winning scientist that invented it, told the world that the PCR test was not a viral infection diagnostic test, but merely a test to identify presence of viruses, the masses around the world still ignored this authoritative source, instead foolishly waiting for their appointed health spokesperson or politician to tell them the truth, which they never did. And in fact, even when national health organizations like the CDC quietly phased out the use of the PCR test because it was never a scientifically credible diagnostic tool, the mass media, beholden to the agenda of the oligarchs, never offered a mea culpa for promoting non-science as "science" and true scientific facts as "anti-science" since the very start of global lockdowns.
So many people are sadly incapable of formulating any well-educated opinion about any topic without being told what to believe by the authorities in charge, that today, thousands of people will roundly give thunderous applause on social media to a US judge that initially stripped a mother of custody of her child because the mother was unimmunized against the virus. This, despite the US Centers for Disease Control reporting the mortality rate of the virus, including all variatns, for children the same age as her child, as 0.001237% (332 deaths/26,838,244 infections, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html). Such a mortality rate means that even were her child to become infected, he would have a 99.99876% rate of survival. Apparently, the judge thought this survival rate was too low and that the mother was endangering her child with her "irresponsible" behavior, and consequently felt that the mother's disregard for her child's own health deserved stripping the mother of her right to parent her own child. Of course, the CDC mortality and survival rates are sure to be inaccurate to some degree, because just as their assessment of the validity of the PCR test as a diagnostic tool was scientifically unsound, the definitions of infections and deaths they use to calculate mortality and survival rates are non-scientifically robust, a fact that anyone educated in scientific methodology can confirm (my academic degree is in neurobiology). Unfortunately, such widespread, systemic inability to separate fact from fiction, and embraced beliefs that even scientifically robust concepts are "anti-science" simply because journalists with no honor and integrity with no understanding of science spread such narratives, are now being regularly embraced across a diverse range of topics, including finance and economics. Let's explore how an inability to spot non-educated views has permeated the realm of finance as well in part 2 of this article.
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What kind of balance do you have in your life right now? Is your life like a foggy picture? The days tend to blend in? Do you spend time during the day with family and friends? Do you take time out for yourself? Is time running fast and furious? Do you feel like you don't have enough time during the day? Do you have a lot of stress in your life? Does your work and personal life all go into one basket? Do you have a balanced life?
1. Assess Your Life. We are like a computer, we run like software. We put stuff in and we get stuff out. If we put too much in or take on too much, you get overloaded. Then your circuit burns out. Life is similar. To restore your balance in your life, you need to look at your values. What feeds your soul? What are your values with work, home life, family, friends, spirituality, recreation, financial, and physical health? Ask yourself what are the three most stressful and unsatisfying parts or areas in each category and write them down. Next ask yourself what is your vision of what your life balance would look and feel like. By doing this simple review, you can find out which areas of your life needs balance. Even if you adjust one stressful thing by adding or eliminating that one thing. It can change your life dramatically. Balanced life is not about perfection. It's about finding what is equal in all areas of life. It allows you to feel nurtured.
2. Simplify Your Life. To live simpler is to get rid of things that are not important in your life. You choose what is important to you. Living simpler is to ask yourself, "Is this right for me?", "How does this meet my values?", "Is this in my best interest right now?".
Bring balance in to your life by making smart decisions. It is about making you aware of what makes you happy. Stress is not going to go away. It will be there. However, it is about how you deal with it.


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COVID-19 and the current state of palliative care in the United States
Ayobami Jadesola Sina-Odunsi 1*, Ayomide Busayo Sina-Odunsi 2,3
1 All Saints University College of Medicine, Saint Vincent and The Grenadines
2 School of Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
3 AB Global Health Initiative, Nigeria
*Corresponding Author: Corresponding Author: Ayobami Jadesola SinaOdunsi, Emails: asodunsi@gmail.com, , Email: research@ghfocus.org
Palliative care is becoming increasingly pertinent to be strengthened across health systems around the world, and the United States is not an exception. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted provision and access to palliative care among patients with serious and complex illnesses, critically ill persons, and their families in the United States. Prior to the emergence of the pandemic, the United States faced a number of challenges ranging from racial discrimination, a stressed medical workforce, a lack of passable reimbursement for palliative care, and legal barriers, among others. Unfortunately, these issues have gotten worse amid the pandemic. This further revealed the need to invest more in innovative strategies that will ensure the provision of palliative care services during public health emergencies. In this article, we comment on the current state of palliative care in the United States.
Keywords: Palliative care, Pandemics, United States, Public health, COVID-19
Submitted: 31 Mar 2022
Revision: 24 Jul 2022
Articles by Sina-Odunsi AJ
Articles by Sina-Odunsi AB


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Monica Ocpe, a shop steward and local branch secretary for the Oslo Transport Workers' Union, was dismissed on 6th May 2011 by DHL local management at the Ulven terminal in Oslo for "unexplained absences". She has maintained throughout that the real reason for her dismissal was her trade union activities. The court has upheld this in a binding verdict in her favour.
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New Trump Ad Shows 'Chaos & Violence' in U.S.—Using Photo From 2014 Ukrainian Protest
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A new advertisement from President Donald Trump's re-election campaign features an image of a policeman being attacked, designed to show "chaos & violence" in the United States—but it's actually a photo from a 2014 Ukrainian pro-democracy protest. The ad compares "public safety," shown as Trump speaking with police officials, to the "chaos & violence" of the Ukrainian protest image. Close Trump allies have reportedly seen the recent protests in the wake of George Floyd's death as a key issue in the election. Photographer Mstyslav Chernov confirmed that the photograph in the Trump ad was taken at the 2014 Ukrainian protest. "Photography has always been used to manipulate public opinion," Chernov said. "And with the rise of social media and the rise of populism, this is happening even more."
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Facebook Opens Engineering Center Inside London's Chinatown And Hires 100 New AI Specialists
Sam Shead
London has become a second home for many of Silicon Valley's tech giants. Facebook has further committed to the city today, with the opening of a quirky new office in Chinatown.
This will be Facebook's third London office, after the company ran out of space in its other two sites, which are packed with engineering, sales and marketing teams.
The new Facebook office—located on Shaftsbury Avenue, which runs through Chinatown in London's Soho district—will be used as a Facebook "engineering centre." It boasts the usual tech office furniture including a pool table and a foosball table, but there's also a wall decorated like the outside of a Chinese takeaway and another that looks like a row of Victorian houses.
And when it comes to Cantonese food, Facebook's workers will be spoiled for choice. The area nearby is packed with eateries known for freshly steamed dim sum and roast duck hanging in the windows.
Facebook had 2,300 people employed in the U.K. at the end of 2018. Now that number is expected to rise to 3,000 by the end of 2019. Of those roles, 1,800 will be tech jobs, according to the company.
One hundred of the new roles will be in the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence. Identifying and removing harmful content on Facebook's platform will be a priority for a significant number of the new hires.
"Safety is our top priority at Facebook, and over the last two years we've substantially increased our investment in this area," said Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, in a statement.
"These hundreds of new jobs demonstrate not only our commitment to the U.K. but also our determination to do everything we can to keep Facebook safe and secure."
The fact that Facebook plans to hire even more staff in London may send a shiver down the spine of recruiters at startups like food delivery service Deliveroo and virtual worlds startup Improbable. Facebook and other Silicon Valley giants are poaching staff from these fast-growing companies, often luring them away with significantly higher salaries.
The news comes as part of the London's annual Tech Week celebrations. Welcoming the news, the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said in a statement:
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It is connected in series with shunt field winding; and in a series generator, It is connected across the series field winding, As shown in figure 29.
In the series generator, The voltage regulator is known as diverter also. It regulated (controls) the series field current and hence the terminal voltage. If the diverter has a low resistance, then its current will be more and the series field current will be low, Hence the terminal voltage will be low. Similarly, for high diverter resistance The terminal voltage in high.
Different types of generator are used for different purpose.
It is used for arc-welding, arc-lighting and as a booster in the electric distribution system.
It gives a fairly constant voltage, therefore, it is used for lighting battery charging and power supply purposes. it has an advantage of a low voltage drop in its regulator.
It can maintain a constant terminal voltage over a wide range of load variations. Hence, it is used for traction loads (the load, whose value can be changed all of a sudden), e.g. cranes, trams, etc. It is used to reduce the voltage drop of a long feeder line.


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Q: Creating a C face program, but it only takes 2 inputs instead of 3. Why? So for a class I am taking I have to learn C and one program I am trying to make is a simple print face program that takes 3 inputted characters and uses them to create a face.
However, whenever I run it, it asks for the eye character, then prints out the "Enter nose character: " but never takes any input, instead skipping right to the mouth character. I have looked over the code and cannot figure out what is causing this.
#include <stdio.h>

void PrintFace(char eye, char nose, char mouth) {

   printf("\n  %c   %c\n", eye, eye); // Eyes
   printf("    %c\n", nose);        // Nose
   printf("  %c%c%c%c%c\n",
          mouth, mouth, mouth, mouth, mouth); // Mouth

   return;
}

int main() {
   char eyeInput;
   char noseInput;
   char mouthInput;

   // Get character for eyes
   printf("Enter eye character: ");
   scanf("%c", &eyeInput);

   // Get character for nose
   printf("Enter nose character: ");
   scanf("%c", &noseInput);

   // Get character for mouth
   printf("Enter mouth character: ");
   scanf("%c", &mouthInput);

   // Print the face using the entered characters
   PrintFace(eyeInput, noseInput, mouthInput);

   return 0;
}

This is the output I get:
Enter eye character: o
Enter nose character: Enter mouth character: l

  o   o

  lllll

It seems to skip the second scan statement but I can't see why. :/

A: Because the input stream is line-buffered, you need to press Enter after typing in the character.  Now scanf reads a single character from the stream.  However, there's still a newline in the stream, and that gets picked up on the next read.
One approach is to use fgets and read a whole line of text, then pick out the first character.  However, doing this properly might be a little over the top.
It might be easier if you just use code to ignore characters up until the newline, as suggested here: C code for ignoring the enter key after input.  Also, you should consider using getchar or getc instead of scanf.  Just make a simple function to do all this stuff, and call it whenever you want to read a character.

A: The carriage return you're passing by hitting "Enter" after your first character is considered a second character input. Notice the difference in carriage returns in your output.
See the linked question at: C: function skips user input in code

A: If I remember well, scanf does not take '\n' in a string. So you put for example "dog" as a first entry but you type an enter at the end. So the second scanf take that '\n' in the buffer shiting your program. Solution? Clean up your buffer. If you are over windows fflush() can save you, using fflush(stdin) after each scanf. Over unix fflush() does not work like that and you have to do it manually. An easy way is to put a getc() or something like that that consumes that '\n'

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Mt. Toubkal (Morocco)Tami Luckie2017-04-21T22:40:55+00:00
Mt. Toubkal – June 25th, 2016
Country/State
Toubkal
"It's not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves." Sir Edmund Hillary
Mt. Toubkal in Morocco in Northern Africa is the highest peak in the Atlas Mountains. The idea of staying in the ancient city of Marrakech built in 1062 seemed very exotic and different than any other place we were thinking to go. Tami especially wanted to hike in the Atlas Mountains because of the name connection to one of her favorite books – Atlas Shrugged (see the book club suggestion!) We also wanted to do a camel trek in the Sahara and sleep in the desert in Arabian night style tents. We'll be spending two days in the desert after the trek in the Atlas Mountains!
Mt. Toubkal is the highest peak in the Atlas Mountain Range of Northern Africa at 13,671 ft and is in the Toubkal National Park. The first official ascent by Europeans was on 12 June 1923 by the Marquis de Segonzac, Vincent Berger and Hubert Dolbeau.
Our trek for Mt. Toubkal is two days. We start the trek in the Berber village of Imlil at approximately 5,700 ft and hike about 5 hours to the basecamp for Toubkal which is at 10,500 feet. We pass by the tiny settlement of Sidi Chamharouch, which has grown around a Muslim shrine and stay at basecamp in two stone-built refuges (old Neltner Refuge and new Refuge du Toubkal). If that elevation is correct, that is a tough first day trek in terms of elevation! On Day 2, we start early to make the summit attempt of Toubkal and then return to the town of Imlil that night. Day 3-5, we travel to the Northern Sahara for a camel trek and a night in the desert.
Mt. Toubkal and Mt. M'Goun are in the Atlas Mountains which extend some 2,500km across northwestern Africa, spanning Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, separating the Atlantic and Mediterranean coastline from the Sahara Desert. Actually a series of mountain ranges with diverse terrain, climates and wildlife, the Atlas are dotted with Berber villages and riven with canyons and ravines.
Toubkal and M'Goun are in Morocco which is officially called The Kingdom of Morocco and is located in Northern Africa. It is one of only three countries (with Spain and France) to have both Atlantic and Mediterranean coastlines. It is bordered by the African countries of Western Sahara and Algeria and lies on the other side of the Strait of Gibralter from Spain. The capital is Rabat and the biggest city is Casablanca. Arabic and Berber are the official languages and French is also nationally recognized. The unit of currency is the Dirham. The official language is Islam, but Judaism and Christianity are practiced as well. The current king is Mohammed VI and the Prime Minister is Abdelilah Benkirane.
The area of present-day Morocco has been inhabited since Paleolithic times, sometime between 190,000 and 90,000 BC. North Africa and Morocco were slowly drawn into the wider emerging Mediterranean world by the Phoenicians, who established trading colonies and settlements in the early Classical period. Morocco later became a realm of the North African civilization of ancient Carthage as part of its empire. The earliest known independent Moroccan state was the Berber kingdom of Mauretania under king Bocchus I. The Roman Empire controlled this region from the 1st century BC, naming it Mauretania Tingitana. Christianity was introduced in the 2nd century AD and gained converts in the Roman towns, among slaves and some Berber farmers. In the 5th century AD, as the Roman Empire declined, the region was invaded from the north first by the Vandals and then by the Visigoths. In the 6th century AD, northern Morocco was nominally part of the East Roman, or Byzantine Empire. Throughout this time, the Berber inhabitants in the high mountains of the interior of Morocco remained unsubdued.
In 670 AD, the first Islamic conquest of the North African coastal plain took place under Uqba ibn Nafi, a general serving under the Umayyads of Damascus. The Umayyad Muslims brought their language, their system of government, and Islam to Morocco. Many of the Berbers slowly converted to Islam, mostly after Arab rule had receded. From the 11th century onwards, a series of powerful Berber dynasties arose. The Berbers are still a prominent ethnic group in Morocco and the Atlas Mountains. There are some twenty-five to thirty million Berber speakers in North Africa. In 1549, the region fell to successive Arab dynasties claiming descent from the Islamic prophet, Muhammad: first the Saadi dynasty who ruled from 1549 to 1659, and then the Alaouite Dynasty, who remained in power since the 17th century. In 1666, Morocco was reunited by the Alaouite Dynasty, who have been the ruling house of Morocco ever since.
Morocco was the first nation to recognize the fledgling United States as an independent nation in 1777. On 20 December 1777, Morocco's Sultan Mohammed III declared that American merchant ships would be under the protection of the sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage. The Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, signed in 1786, stands as the U.S.'s oldest non-broken friendship treaty.
Marrakech is the fourth largest city in Morocco after Casablanca, Fes and Tangier. Marrakesh is possibly the most important of Morocco's four former imperial cities (cities that were built by Moroccan Berber empires). The region has been inhabited by Berber farmers since Neolithic times, but the actual city was founded in 1062 by Abu Bakr ibn Umar, chieftain and cousin of Almoravid king Yusuf ibn Tashfin. Like many Moroccan cities, Marrakesh comprises an old fortified city packed with vendors and their stalls (the medina), bordered by modern neighborhoods, the most prominent of which is Gueliz. Today it is one of the busiest cities in Africa and serves as a major economic centre and tourist destination. Marrakesh has the largest traditional market (souk) in Morocco, with some 18 souks selling wares ranging from traditional Rural carpets to modern consumer electronics. The Jemaa el-Fnaa is one of the best-known squares in Africa and is the centre of city activity and trade. It has been described as a "world-famous square." Snake charmers, acrobats, magicians, mystics, musicians, monkey trainers, herb sellers, story-tellers, dentists, pickpockets, and entertainers in medieval garb still populate the square.
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this is my english classroom . it is not big and not small . we usually study in the classroom .
there is a blackboard in front of the classroom .it is not big ,but it is helpful .my english teacher usually writes some english letter .the air-conditioner is on the right in the wall .it is white .in summer ,it is cool to us .there is a clock on the behind wall .it is blue and cute .it tells us the time .there are three long desks in middle of the classroom and there are three small desks on the right in the classroom .
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FIVEaa – Biosecurity
LEON BYNER: Now that New Zealand has agreed to allow fresh pork meat into their country, that will set a precedent that an applicant who wants to bring the same pork into Australia would use against us at the World Trade Organisation. Now, Joe Ludwig [Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry] has scoffed at suggestions that we will import suspect meat into Australia automatically but he must be aware of the court decision of the World Trade Organisation that forced Australia to import New Zealand apples sprayed with streptomycin irrespective of any quarantine scientific concerns which were provable. It's been admitted in the Senate Estimates in the last day or so that some of these apples will come from trees infected with fire blight. For the Minister to write off the concern regards meat with the PRRS disease [porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus] is highly naïve because he must know that our country needs to maintain its status as the world's cleanest, greenest produce and it was admitted that no country that's had an outbreak of fire blight in a commercial orchard has ever eradicated it. Now, I understand that a negotiator who is employed by the Federal Government is now in Canada and the US trying to facilitate trade which would include BSE [bovine spongiform encephalopathy] meat, potentially with mad cow disease, entering Australia. This free trade fiasco is being tried on at every level and all the Feds can do is give glib comments about our so called stringent regulations. Mr Ludwig, do you remember Today Tonight who tested fresh and frozen produce and found that 25 per cent had bad chemicals which were withdrawn immediately? Please don't patronise the public with your hollow assurances when you've got a facilitator away helping to negotiate with exporters who want to access our market with product that may be infected with mad cow disease. You couldn't even give the public clear 'country of origin' labelling, just a sideshow with no result. Blind adherence to free trade imperatives places this country in danger of decimating industries and robs the public – that's you and me – of the right to choose. Now, any politician… this should be above politics and as far as I'm concerned it is, but the Government have an obligation to do something straight away. Bill Heffernan, you were in the Senate [Rural Affairs and Transport Committee Senate Estimates hearing] yesterday. What did you find out?
LEON BYNER: Simon Birmingham, Liberal Senator, what can you add to this?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: G'day, Leon and listeners. Look, this issue is very serious and you're right to highlight that, firstly, the direct threat may not be as first feared but the indirect threat is still there, so the direct threat that we will see this pig meat come from New Zealand does not appear to be the case and that's something we can breathe a little easier over in the short term…
LEON BYNER: It's only the case because nobody's taken to court yet. Now, we lost on the fire blight and yet there were very good quarantine sciences given but you know what? They discounted those on the basis of trade.
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: And Leon, if you can let me finish… as I said, the indirect threat is certainly as to what precedent this establishes for WTO cases – World Trade Organisation cases – or otherwise and just what the New Zealanders' decision on this may be used by other countries who want to get access to Australia. I've written to the Prime Minister asking her on three key issues to provide evidence and details of what action the Government's taking. It's clear by Minister Ludwig's refusal to speak to you this morning he's not taking it seriously and so I want the Prime Minister to. I've asked her to outline what the threat of this decision is in terms of imports to Australia, what the impact of it is in terms of World Trade Organisation negotiations and what she's doing on acting to ensure Australia's interests in those negotiations are heard and lastly on issues of labelling and ensuring that whether it's at the supermarket, deli or the butcher's or wherever, you know where the product's coming from.
LEON BYNER: Well, the Coalition has to come out through the Prime Minister, or her opposite, and say 'this is what we will do if we get into government'. You can write to Julia Gillard but Julia and Mr Emerson [Craig Emerson, Minister for Trade] are avowed free trade fundamentalists. They have already said that they will pursue unilateral free trade. That is, 'we will pursue it irrespective of what other countries do' so what the Coalition's got to do is decide its position and enunciate that to the public. When will that happen?
SIMON BIRMINGHAM: Well, Leon, the only people – aside from Nick Xenophon – the only people asking questions on these matters in the Estimates committee, that Bill Heffernan was talking about, yesterday were Liberals like Bill Heffernan or Richard Colbeck or Chris Back or Nationals like John Williams or Fiona Nash. It is the Coalition leading the cause in this regard and I can tell you that our Shadow Minister is well aware of it and that we will be working to develop policies that I'm sure you will find far more compelling than those of the Government but the threat is real and in the short term, and it may come to a head before the next election, so what's important is to get this Government acting and what's important is that it's not just Bill or I or other Liberals that you talk to, what's important is the public gets on the phone to those leaders of the Labor Government in South Australia – Penny Wong, Mark Butler, Don Farrell. Where are they on these issues? What are they doing?
LEON BYNER: Alright. Simon Birmingham, thank you.
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Episode 126 – The Fabelmans & Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
December 26th, 2022 | POSTED BY Cassidy Robinson
For this week's podcast, we review Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio and Steven Spielberg's semi-auto-biographical film, The Fabelmans. For our streaming homework, we also catch up with David Cronenberg's latest sci-fi horror movie, Crimes of the Future. Download the episode here.
Episode 100 – The Batman
March 27th, 2022 | POSTED BY Cassidy Robinson
This week, we celebrate our 100th episode with The MacGuffin. Patrick of the Consume Us Podcast helps us rank every live-action solo Batman film released since 1989, including an official review of the latest iteration – Matt Reeve's The Batman. We go into everything that…
Top 15 Films of 2019 – Allen's Picks
January 10th, 2020 | POSTED BY Allen Almachar
2019 was such an excellent year in film that I seriously debated pushing this list out to 25, maybe even 30 entries. There was such an abundance of quality work that whittling it down to a small grouping is about the equivalent of a parent…
SIFF Film Review – Landline
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As we move further and further away from the decade that defined so many of us, 90's period pieces are seeing quite an uptick in modern cinema. (The Wackness and The To Do List are the first to spring to mind.) And while it's undeniably…
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In preparation to write on Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989), I ran across an interview where Lee described being asked why he went with an ambiguous ending rather than providing straight answers to the problem of racism. Lee, understandably, responded with confusion. If…
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At 4:29 am, Sunday, 7/5/15, Jerry Jamar JOHNSON, age 33, of Lancaster, was observed driving a motor vehicle erratically and nearly causing an accident with another vehicle in the 2200 blk of Lincoln Highway East. JOHNSON was stopped by ELTPD patrol officers and exhibited symptoms of alcohol intoxication. JOHNSON placed under for DUI and refused alcohol testing. On 7/9/15, ELTPD Ofc Sam Sanger filed charges on JOHNSON of Driving Under the Influence-General Impairment (M), Reckless Driving (S), Driving on Roadways Laned for Traffic (S) and Turning Movements and Required Signals.


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Ej att förväxla med Eskilstorps socken i nuvarande Vellinge kommun.
Eskilstorp och Hemmeslövs gård var en av SCB avgränsad och namnsatt småort i Östra Karups distrikt i Båstads kommun i Skåne län. Den omfattade bebyggelse i Eskilstorp och omkring Hemmeslövs gård i Östra Karups socken i Halland. Området växte 2015 samman med tätorten Östra Karup.

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With the development of the LED industry, the rise of e-commerce channels, the promotion of the Internet +, and the slowdown of the overall environmental economy, the penetration rate of the lighting industry has been greatly improved this year.
Do you think LED production capacity is overdone? Read the data first.
LED road/tunnel lighting products, LED downlights, reflective self-ballasted LED lights and other three types of LED lighting products have not been developed for a long time.
LED packaging manufacturer Yiguang and Japan's LED manufacturer Nichia, in the past ten years in the world, including Japan, Taiwan, Germany, the United States and other places to fight patents.


You can count on this wooden bead set to make a bold statement! The variety of these dramatic bead shapes, their bold colours and two extra-long laces make stringing beads extra special. Twenty-seven hand-painted beads feature 1 - 10 as numerals and as countable dots to add counting fun to this lacing activity.
• Ask the child how tall the beads can be stacked without their falling over. Count each bead as it is added to the stack.
• Point to a colour on any bead and ask the child to identify it.
• Ask the child to place the number-cube beads in a row from one to ten. Then ask he child to turn the beads over and line them up pictorially from one to ten. Repeat the activity until the child can easily identify the numbers and numeric representations one through ten.
• Ask the child to hand you a cube with a specific number or numeric representation on it.
• Ask the child to string the beads in a specific order. Describe each bead by its colour, shape or identifying marks.


Welcome, You can play Qix free online flash games On mzbox.com, now, this game have 280 total plays, have rating 0 good and 0 bad. Fun and happy day. Play Qix game, you may need to download Flash Player or Shockwave Player browser is not installed will be prompted.
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The large statue of a pecan that stands in Seguin's courthouse square is a pretty good clue about the importance of this tasty nut to the city Frederick Law Olmsted once called "the prettiest town in Texas." Grab a bag of pecans from the Pape Pecan House—and get a glimpse of thousands of nutcrackers from around the world—and enjoy the view of the Guadalupe River in Max Starcke Park.
Time your trip to show up in Luling on the last Thursday through Sunday in June (June 23-26 this year) for the Watermelon Thump, an annual celebration of the area's favorite produce. Held since 1954, the festivities include tastings, music and, yes, seed spitting contests. If you miss the juicy festival, delve into our state's black gold past at the Central Texas Oil Patch Museum. A different kind of liquid gold—BBQ sauce—has made Luling City Market a favorite choice for some of the state's best brisket, ribs and sausage.
Fellow passengers will enjoy a detour south from US-90 to Shiner, the town synonymous with the beer that bears its name. Take a tour of the Spoetzl Brewery that has churned out every bottle of Shiner Beer since Kosmos Spoetzl opened it in 1909. Beer goes best with sausages, which are made with smoke and spices at Patek's Shiner Smokehouse.
Back on US-90, the imprint of the region's European settlers (nearby towns include Praha, Moravia and Breslau) is perhaps most glorious at the Painted Churches around Schulenburg. Early pioneers had enough energy and faith to construct places of worship full of art and sculpture worthy of the old country, including St. John the Baptist and St. Mary Catholic Churches. Musical history can be heard at the Texas Polka Music Museum or in its natural environment at Sengelmann Hall, a German beer emporium with live music and a popular menu.
Take a few hours (or more) to float down the Colorado River along the 6.5-mile Texas Paddling Trail through the town of Columbus. Besides guaranteed tranquility and the chance to spy egrets and hawks, the route takes you nearby the Stafford Opera House and the Live Oak Art Center, both built in the 1800s and still active today. Canoe rentals are available at Howell Canoe Livery.
Before you reach the sprawling suburbs of Houston, take another detour south to visit the Attwater Prairie Chickens Refuge, if for no other reason than to learn exactly what a prairie chicken is. Once ubiquitous on the plains of Texas, this handsomely awkward species of grouse can still be spotted at the refuge.
Looking for another road trip? Take the road less traveled to Dallas or Austin.


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LIVE from In/Visible Talks: Making Ways Podcast
Teenage entrepreneur, art school student, risk-taker, CEO—Jesse Genet's path as a creative has been circuitous, sometimes scary, and ultimately fulfilling. We heard about how she transformed her passions into business success when Rob Goodman, Creator and Host of Making Ways, interviewed her at the 2018 In/Visible Talks conference for and recorded the conversation live for the podcast.
Jesse left her hometown of Detroit, Michigan, for Los Angeles with not much of a plan. "I wanted to create a different path from the 'drop-down menu' of careers—dentist, accountant," she says. She figured things out along the way, trusting her instincts, pursuing a "different mental challenge", and redefining "achievement". She likes to think of risk as a muscle: "You have to exercise it early and often," she says. Today Jesse runs, Lumi, a company of 25 people that re-imagines packaging for ecommerce companies.
After you've been inspired by Jesse's story, check out the rest of the amazing episodes on Making Ways. Rob interviews painters, chefs, teachers, writers, and other visionary creatives about their paths so that we can learn how to forge our own.


Welcome to the Hedgehogs website.
Established in 1959, we are a registered charity working for the benefit of the community of Farnham and the surrounding areas.
In the past 10 years we have raised over half of a million pounds for charity and work closely with other Farnham organisations involved in similar work.
Throughout the year we hold social events when members, friends and supporters can meet, and of course raise money. The organisation's running costs are paid for by members and friends so that all of the charity monies raised are used for good causes.
We are unique to Farnham and meet monthly with a membership of around fifty, and are always looking for new members. If the hedgehogs sounds appealing and you would like to find out more information, please feel free to contact us.


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Post Malone & The Red Hot Chili Peppers Rock The 2019 Grammys Stage
posted by Peyton Blakemore - Feb 10, 2019
Post Malone is living his best life.
For the second time in less than a year, the "Better Now" rapper was able to perform alongside one of his favorite rock bands. In honor of music's biggest night on Sunday (February 10), Post hit the 2019 Grammy stage with the Red Hot Chili Peppers . Before giving the people the collaboration we didn't know we needed, Post came out solo, performing his hits "Stay" and "Rockstar." He was then joined by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who performed their famous track "Dark Necessities."
Post's Grammy performance with the band marked the second time he's taken the stage with a legendary group. Back in August, the "Congratulations" rapper got to close out the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards alongside rock legends Aerosmith .
The "WOW" rapper's Grammy performance came nearly a month after he worried his fans with a message on Twitter. Post appeared to reveal that some of their mean comments were affecting his mental health. "If y'all are actually my fans and friends and love me and want me to be mentally stable, can y'all please let me live? I'm trying my best here," he wrote. "That's all I can do."
While it's still unknown what sparked Post's tweet, thousands of fans and some of his fellow artists replied to his tweet with encouraging words and messages of love.
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The Adventure Bible series has been gaining quite a lot of popularity in our home these days. Our first introduction to it was with the Adventure Bible for Toddlers. Afterwards, we received our first book in the "I Can Read" collection that helped introduce my son to the prophet, Elijah. Lately, we've been also checking out a new set of Adventure Bible books, Great Stories of the Bible, Heroes of the Bible Treasury, and the Wild About the Bible Sticker & Activity Book.
The Adventure Bible Bible Story Collection is a six book treasury of level 2 Adventure Bible I Can Read titles designed for newly independent readers and based on the Adventure Bible—the #1 Bible for kids! Read all about people in Bible times and their adventures in these well-known Bible stories.
The Adventure Bible Wild About the Bible Sticker & Activity Book comes to life with puzzles, activity pages, and 50 reusable stickers in the new Wild About the Bible Sticker and Activity Book. Featuring Bible time heroes and their adventures, activities are fun and engaging and will entertain as well as teach young children about familiar stories in the Bible.
Born and raised in Michigan, David Miles spent his childhood sloshing through creek beds, climbing trees, and creating numerous baked goods. That spirit of adventure and curiosity often finds its way into his illustrations through quirky characters and hidden surprises. After spending a decade in Philadelphia and New York pursuing his artistic dreams, David has moved back to the familiar surroundings of Michigan. Now, when he's not drawing and painting he still enjoys a good romp through the woods.
Even though he is still quite young, I enjoy reading my son the Level 2 "I Can Read" books. They're easy to follow along to and include a more engaging story line. Great Stories of the Bible and Heroes of the Bible Treasury are actually a collection of the current Adventure Bible "I Can Read" stories that have already been released. Each book contains six previously published books in the Adventure Bible series.
I've found that these books are a great way to bring Bible stories to life for your child. Plus, the illustrations are fantastic! There is so much color and detail in each drawing. Every story is also told in easy to read text, perfect for beginning readers. As children read along, they'll be introduced to some of the most popular events and people in the Bible. The awesome part about these treasury books is that they each contain six stories. There's no need to gather a bunch of books to read when you already have several in one.
Next, we got to experience the new Wild About the Bible Sticker & Activity Book!
If there is anything that I like more than an activity book for children, it's one that teaches about Bible stories. This is the best of both worlds–fun learning activities that also explore Christianity, helping to really engage little ones. In the back of the book you'll find 50 reusable stickers. Some of them can also be used to complete certain activities throughout the book. From crossword puzzles, to connect the dots, to search and find activities, this book has a lot of fun tasks to keep kids busy. The best part is there's something for a variety of different age groups.
One of the most noteworthy pages that I saw was a task relating to the Good Samaritan story. It shows a picture of the man that was robbed and left for dead. The activity asks children to pretend that they're in the good Samaritan's place and draw themselves in the picture, showing what they would do if they were in this scenario. I also really enjoy how the Wild About the Bible Sticker and Activity Book actually connects with the stories in the Adventure Bible collection, so after your child reads the books, he or she can follow up with the many activities relating to each one.
I am so happy that Zonderkidz released these new books in the Adventure Bible series. After reading Elijah, God's Mighty Prophet, I had been meaning to order more for my son. With the new treasury collection, we now have a perfect set of twelve Bible stories all wrapped up into two books, plus a neat activity book to go along with them.


Rossi touts the Wizard as the most versatile multiple-barrel single-shot firearm made, thanks to a design that accommodates 18 different rimfire, centerfire, muzzleloader, and shotgun barrels. The same hammer strikes and fires rimfire and centerfire cartridges, shotgun shells and muzzleloader primers. Barrels can be exchanged in less than a minute, with no tools and no other adjustment needed.
The front sling swivel stud also attaches forend to barrel, and it can be turned out with fingers. Remove the forend, open the break-action, and remove the barrel. Now snap the next barrel onto the action and reinstall the forend. That's it.
We put a Leupold VX-3 4.5-14x 40mm scope on the .308 barrel, and it shot MOA groups with Federal Premium 168-grain Sierra MatchKing boat tail hollow points. The trigger broke at a crisp 4-1/2 pounds.
We swapped that barrel for a .22 LR barrel and shot that with the open fiber-optic sights that come on Wizard rifle barrels. The compact rifle handled well, and the modified Monte Carlo stock with raised cheek rest allowed fast sight acquisition shooting off-hand with open sights same as with the low-mounted scope.
Rossi sells complete Wizard rifles in .22-250, .223, .243, .270, .30-06 and .308. Other barrel options include .17 HMR, .22 LR, .22 Mag, .38-357 Mag, .44 Mag, .45-70, 7.62x39; .45 and .50 muzzleloader; and shotguns in .410, 20 and 12 gauge.
Barrels measure 23 inches; overall gun length 38.5 inches; total weight 7 pounds. Offered in a youth version with 22-inch barrels in .223, .243 and .308; overall length 36.5 inches; weight 6.25 pounds.
Hardwood stock (available in natural wood or camo finish) comes with a ventilated recoil pad. Receivers and barrels machined from carbon steel with blued finish. Fit and finish on our test gun were fine. Features include a simple yet effective built-in hammer key lock that prevents firing. The breech cannot be closed or opened when the hammer is cocked. Transfer bar mechanism and manual safety also help prevent accidental firing.


I made this, a double gate card with Climbing Roses Bundle Set.
I designed this double gate card a little differently than other's double gate card.
I made demo version of card with scratch paper.
This is how I made the base of the double gate card.
When you close the card, the finish line is like this. I intent to show the middle part.
I'm originally from South Korea. so when I see the Climbing Roses Bundle set, one of die, remind me the Korean traditional door pattern.
So I made this door with two different die cut set.
Paper used-Wood Texture designer paper.
This is how I decorated the double gate card on the base.
After coloring with Stampin Up Blenders for Rosese, die cut it and placed the both sides.
This is completed photo of the card.
When you fold the card, you can see the square size card.
You can put this card into 5*5 envelope.
When you stretching the card widely, you can see like this.
Less stretching, you can see less of the inside. like when you open the gate half way.
I enjoyed so much made this card because it remind me our old house's doors in Korea.
And open and close this card and so much fun it self.
I hope you also enjoy to see this card as well.


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Valentine's Day is less than a month away. If this is a surprise to you, don't panic! If you're looking for something other than a movie and dinner, look no more.


In the existing system, the stadium operates indifferent kind of manual processing which includes ticket processing and file maintenance. The organization depends on an individual that is employed to keep data which is done manually with the use of paper and other things. Everything that is done in the existing system are manually and not all that reliable.
The investigation of the current system was in order to obtain detailed fact about the application area to be designed in the investigation of research, the methods used were interviewing and evaluation of office files and tickets.
Oral interview was conducted with the management of the organization. Reliable data was gotten based on the questions that I asked the management. This method yield the most profitable result as it is obtained by physical contact, hence a firsthand information is gotten. The essential element of the interview is obtained directly and in a short time in other methods. Because immediate feedback is gotten, it gives the opportunity to ask questions and hence obtain a detailed response.


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Prince Charles is having a great big green party and TreeHugger was there; along with a few thousand others, to be honest. HRH was holding it in the garden of his house, Clarence House and two neighbouring magnificent historic houses. It was a celebration and appreciation of all things green, done on a royal scale.
A Garden Party To Make A Difference is part of the Prince's START initiative to help people across the UK lead more sustainable lives. For 12 days, and the price of a ticket, the hoi polloi can check out the booths and entertainment and watch some green celeb's get in on the action. So what's to see and do...
The party took place in the gardens of three historic homes: Lancaster House, Clarence House, and Marlborough House. In Lancaster House, the majestic Earth Pavilion was built in contrast to the neo-classical Georgian building. It was modelled after an award-winning building in South Africa, was built out of earth and clay tiles. They were made by tile vaulting; an ancient technique of pressing an earth and clay mix into bricks (using the machine in the bottom right hand corner of the photo) and do not require firing or baking and use very little carbon. The vault shape gives structural strength and keeps it cool inside. This one was built in just two weeks.
At Marlborough House, a gorgeous 18th century brick creation designed by Christopher Wren, there was another ecological construction material on display. This was Polli-Brick structural block; the world's first and only 100% recycled polymer from post consumer bottles. They can be used as curtain walls and roofs because they have incredible thermal and sound insulating characteristics in addition to a good strength to weight ratio. Not widely available yet, but they are being used for a pavilion in Taipei.
Morsbags are carrier bags, made on the spot. There were sewing machines and a down loadable pattern available on site, so visitors could make and take away their own carrier bag. Yards of old drapery material from the Prince's house was available, for a bag with that extra bit of provenance
Prince Charles is very keen to encourage the use of wool as a fashionable and eco-friendly fabric for clothes. It is a natural insulator and is naturally fire retardant and is completely biodegradable. And it retains warmth and is recyclable. These woolly coffins for people and pets were on display...
B&Q; (like Home Depot) was a big sponsor of the event. While we loved these woolly sheep climbing a ladder, as an ad for recycled plastic loft insulation, we couldn't quite get over the giant pigs covered in plastic green grass...
There was barely the time or the energy to check out the Tesla (of course) and the first DAF 44 Shell Fuel-cell car from 1967, and the farmers' market, gardening tips, and food demo's, but more on those tomorrow.
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Explore 50 historic restaurants and 150 of the restaurants' customer-favorite recipes in Pennsylvania's Historic Restaurants and Their Recipes cookbook.
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket, 204 pages.
Publisher: John F. Blair
Author: Dawn O'Brien and Claire Walter
Description: Pennsylvania's historic restaurants offer opportunities to experience a wonderful variety of culinary delights in an exciting range of settings, from the Moravian-style Sun Inn in Bethlehem, with its stone walls and red tile roof, to the Mediterranean-style Hotel Hershey.
Authors Dawn O'Brien and Claire Walter visited 50 restaurants located in historic buildings. Some of the restaurants, such as The Cameron Estate Inn in Mount Joy, once served as private residences. Others originally functioned as stagecoach stops, general stores, railroad stations, post offices, taverns or hotels.
While visiting the dining rooms and kitchens of each establishment, the authors learned many fascinating legends and stories. The ghosts of former owners and other spirits are said to inhabit Ye Olde Limeport Hotel, Red Rose Inn, Alfred's Victorian and Stokesay Castle.
Famous personalities in U.S. history once dined at several of the restaurants: the Head House Inn hosted many Revolutionary statesmen, and members of the Second Continental Congress frequently gathered for a dinner of steaming venison washed down with tankards of ale at The City Tavern in Philadelphia.
This book includes a pen-and-ink drawing of each restaurant, plus a few of each establishment's most tantalizing recipes. More than 150 are presented here, with clear, step-by-step instructions. The authors have carefully tested and adapted every recipe for home use so that you can reproduce the gourmet delights of Pennsylvania's historic restaurants in your own kitchen.
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Whenever I preach, I am conscious of my unworthiness, for the words that I preach are not my own. No, they are words of Christ and thus reflect a matchless degree of holiness. The same is true for anyone who bears witness to Christ; if our testimony to Christ is honest, it must include our ongoing need for conversion. Conscientious parents also understand this. It is one thing for us to point out to young people what is right and good and quite another thing always to choose what is right and good ourselves. What about supervisors and managers? It's their duty to hold their co-workers to a high standard. But honest supervisors know that they too sometimes miss the mark.
In our fallen humanity there is a gap between what we say and what we do, between the ideals and values we hold to be important and the way we lead our lives. Some people are aware of this but do nothing about it; others try to narrow the gap and succeed only to one degree or another; still others seem unaware that their ideals and behaviors are mismatched. Falling short of one's ideals and values is so much a part of daily life that we are truly delighted when we meet people who practice what they preach.
With that in mind, let us enter into the world of the Twelve Apostles whom we meet on this Holy Thursday evening in the Upper Room. The Apostles came of age at a time when the Scribes and Pharisees held sway. As you recall, Jesus often accused the Scribes and Pharisees of hypocrisy. Scripture portrays a big gap between what they taught and how their lived. On the whole, they were smug, self-righteous, and pretentious.
By contrast, Jesus entered the scene as one who taught with authority. Many found Jesus' words to be authentic and they were attracted to him because they sensed there was no gap between who Jesus was and what he said. When he said "Blessed are the poor in spirit, the Kingdom of God is theirs", Jesus stood before them as "the Son of Man who [had] nowhere to lay his head". When he said that the humble will be exalted, Jesus was in their midst "as one who came not to be served but to serve, to give his life as a ransom for many". There was absolute identification between who Jesus was and what he taught: Jesus did not merely teach the Word of God; He was and is the Word made flesh.
he Lord's closest followers were continually astonished by all of this. We see it tonight as Jesus kneels down to wash the feet of his disciples. Before a group who had argued among themselves about who was most important, Jesus stooped to wash their feet and dried them with a towel. He did what slaves usually did: he washed life's grime and filth from their feet.
Peter was appalled, of course, but Jesus would have none of it, because, kneeling there, he wasn't putting on an act. Jesus wasn't pretending to be humble or staging a morality play. Kneeling there, washing their feet, drying them: that is who He is and who God is. Jesus' humility was not a human guise that the Son of God donned to hide his divinity. Rather Jesus' way of living, his words and his deeds, especially his death on the Cross reveal what St. Bonaventure called "the humility of God" – a God who was not content to live in solitary splendor but who poured out his love upon us his creatures and sought our love in return. It is a self-giving love that prompts God to stoop down, to pursue us in spite of rejection, to share our life, our poverty, and our death, so that we might share in his eternal life and glory. Kneeling there, Jesus revealed God's humble love for sinful humanity.
The bread and wine which Jesus gave the Apostles was not bread and wine at all; rather, it was Himself – it contained his identity as the Son of God made man; it embraced his saving words and deeds with their radical newness; it anticipated the death and resurrection he was about to undergo. Jesus did not hand his disciples "a thing" but rather his very self: he offered his Body and poured out his Blood, his Soul, his Divinity. Under the appearances of bread and wine, the Eucharist encapsulates the totality of Jesus' self-giving love and reveals the ultimate origin of this love.
During the Supper, Jesus added these words: "Do this in memory of me". With these simple words, Jesus institute the Most Holy Eucharist the banquet of his sacrifice to be celebrated until the end of time.
Jesus did so because he wills to draw us all into his self-giving love. In the Mass we share in the sacrifice of the Cross; we share in Christ's self-giving love; we are drawn into the reality of being loved by God so we may love others in return. This is how we become equipped and committed to live the same charity that is so evident in all that Christ said and did. This is the food which, if we receive it worthily, transforms us inwardly, strengthens us against the onslaught of sin and temptation, makes us credible witnesses to Jesus and to the Gospel before unbelievers, and sends us forth in loving service to our neighbor. From the Eucharist we derive the love to kneel and wash the feet of those in need.
The more devoutly we participate in Holy Mass & receive the Blessed Eucharist; and the more time we spend praying before the Blessed Sacrament reserved, the narrower will be the gap between our daily lives and our identity as Christians and between the way we live and the faith we profess. By receiving Our Lord and by spending time with him in prayer, we absorb his love. His love is woven into the fabric of our lives: our homes, our work, our relationships.
Sharing in Christ's Self-Giving Love through the Priesthood Finally, our hearts are filled with gratitude for another gift Jesus gave us this night. During the Last Supper, he instituted the ordained priesthood, again with the simple words, "Do this in memory of me!" Jesus did this so as to remain with us, to continue his sacrifice of love for all time.
Your priests have been called and sacramentally ordained as the Lord's instruments to draw us into the one sacrifice of Jesus that takes away the sins of the world. Through Holy Orders, priests speak and act in the very Person of Christ. They utter the words, "This is my Body" and "This is my Blood" in the name and in the Person of Jesus Christ, Head and Shepherd of the Church.
Thus it is especially important that we, your priests, live the mystery we celebrate, that the gap be narrowed between our priestly identity and our manner of life. How important that we be credible witnesses to the love we sacramentally re-present. So on this night when Christ instituted the Mass & the priesthood in the same breath, I invite you to pray for your priests, to thank them for their ministry, and to pray intently for an increase of priestly vocations in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
On this holy night I also ask that you pray earnestly that through our devotion, sincerity and holiness of life people all around us throughout the Archdiocese will rediscover the beauty and truth of the Eucharist, so much so, that they will never again want to absent themselves from Mass on Sunday. May Christ's Eucharistic love fill our hearts and transform us into images of his glory. God bless us and keep us always in his love!